Bob La Quey wrote:
>
> But follow this too far and we will end up talking about Hitler, which
> will kill the thread.
No! That is not Godwin's Law! Godwinnever stated that a thread would die
at the mention of the Third Reich.
Godwin's law (also known as Godwin's Rule of Nazi Analogies)[1] is an
adage formulated by Mike Godwin in 1990. The law states:[2][3]
As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a
comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.
That's all. Nothing about thread death or anything like that. Very
similar to the oft-ill-qupoted Moore's Law:
In 1965, Moore examined the density of transistors at which cost is
minimized, and observed that, as transistors were made smaller through
advances in photolithography, this number would increase at "a rate of
roughly a factor of two per year".
Nothing about performance, nothing about absolute density. Just the
min/max of cost/transistor doubling every _two_ years.
-john
Squashing Internet Rumors since uhm well, never I guess.
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