Moore's Law

Moore’s law is the concept of how technology is progressing astronomically is such short periods of time. For example, to have an MP3 player smaller than a credit card with multiple gigabytes of memory ten years ago was absolutely ridiculous, not even computers could be though of with that kind of memory. Now, we have iPods with thousands of applications, Internet, video, youtube, 180 gigabytes and all sorts of stuff.

The average teenager now days have lived to see the inventions of the iPod, DVD, plasma screen TV. digital cameras and video cameras. If you tried to sale someone a car, how likely would it be to sale them a 1992 Cadillac escalade (the year I was born) apposed to a 2010 Cadillac escalade with 400 horse power, heated steering wheels and seats, onstar, traction control, satellite radio, back up camera, parking assist and all these other crazy gizmos and gadgets all while getting 20 mile to the gallon on the freeway? Whoever had the money to get a 2010 escalade I can almost guarantee that they would buy it over a 1992 escalade, unless they were crazy.

It doesn’t even come close to stopping with the auto industry. In the military, they have designed new BDU’s (battle dress uniforms). Apposed to the traditional looking BDU’s with the jungle camo they have designed a digital camo that cannot be detected by enemy military cameras!

The first computer ever made was released in 1981 and had 16 kiB-256 kiB of memory. KiB is the smallest form of memory I could find. Now we have computers with hundreds of gigabyte and even terabytes! To put this into scale…1 gigabyte is equal to about 8 trillion bits which is even bigger than a kibibyte (kiB). Ipods are even starting to catch up with our modern day computers! I am typing this report on an aluminum cased Macbook that is only a year old. It is already outdated. This computer has 160 gigabyte of memory while iPods have 180! I am downloading a new form of iTunes as I am writing this as well.

This will affect not only me or you but the entire world! Imagine if they take hybrid cars to a whole new level such that they are running off of some other fuel than gasoline. The production of gasoline will then stop and everyone left with a car that runs on gasoline will either have to convert their car to run off of that fuel or they will have to buy a brand new car. With the military having this new camo that can’t be detected my enemy cameras then that could prevent attacks on military personnel and potentially save very many lives.

In accordance to moores law, there is absolutely no way that this could affect nobody. It’s literally impossible. With the way that technology is progressing, the rest of the world has no choice but to progress with it. Some say that it could eventually lead to our own destruction and some say that nothing could be better. I don’t know where this kind of progression will take us; all I know is that when we take one step, the system takes two.

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The website I am going to do my critique on is going to be http://www.springfield-armory.com/. The two main reasons I am critiquing this website is because one, I am a gun nut, and two, I have spent a lot of time on this website and I like how it is set up, the effects they use and how organized all of it is. But not to worry, I will go in depth with all of this jazz.
This website is obviously an armory website. The first thing I would like to talk about is the home page. The home page set up is dark and then it has their newest award winning product in the center of the page and in a lighter contrast bringing your attention to that and making you want to go further into the website. Another thing I like about the home page as well as the rest of the site is that it is very organized. There is no secret or hidden anything, everything is where it can easily be found so that way you aren’t driving yourself nuts trying to find what you need to find.
Another thing I like about this website is that they have photos and information about every product they sale. What is so frustrating to me is when I am looking for information, photos ect, and I cant find them. So I really appreciate when a website can make things easy and normal. Along with being organized and having information at hand, it doesn’t stop with their main products. They also have at the top right hand corner, customer service, extras, shooting tips, links and an about us link. I like that these tabs are here cause again, they are easy to find, and they give you more information about the company, contact information with mail, e-mail, phone and fax numbers, and also offer assistance with things you want to gain knowledge on (shooting tips). I really like how they put the “links” tab at the top. This, to me, shows that instead of the company being focused on hogging all the business, they are more concerned about the kind of business they are in.
Another thing I like about this website is that it has a store where you can buy about anything you need (for their product of coarse). If you need any parts, accessories, gear or even clothes you can purchase that stuff right off of their website.
One thing that I do not like about this website is that they do not go into near as much detail on their brand new product as they do on their older products. It seems like they really promote it on their home page but that’s about all they do. All they other guns you can go to each individually and read about them but with the new one all you can do is look at a 3D model which is an awesome idea, don’t get me wrong, but I think they should go into a little more detail. They should also add more pictures and possibly even some videos of them operating the gun and maybe even get some testimonials about the gun. Anyway for the most part, I really like this website, I think they did a great job constructing it and it’s a website that I would really study for ideas if I were going to create my own website.

The Second Amendment

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.