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To: KeepItSimple who wrote (29956)	4/27/2000 7:30:00 PM
From: Archie Meeties	Respond to of 42523

Improved technology has made possible many things there which were unimaginable 10 years back Like playing Doom while at work without affecting productivity in the slightest. That's the true productivity advantage of 600mhz processor - that and it can add your spreadsheet numbers soooo much faster. If you work for an internut co. and the spreadsheet doesn't require the use of real data, you can just program the spreadsheet to randomly generate data, and no one is the wiser. The only thing that matters is that you make no money and that there's enough of a short position on your companies stock to be squeezed higher. At which point you split, grant a few more options, play some more Doom. Ho Ho I just got the breath squeezed out of me today. The bull has left it's horn print on my forehead. Warning, do not short a stock unlocking. You will get slaughtered!

To: KeepItSimple who wrote (29956)	4/27/2000 7:47:00 PM
From: KyrosL	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42523

<The fact remains that the productivity numbers use the MHZ of a cpu as the MAIN technology variable. This is simply insane. People are not 100 times more productive from 1982 when the average CPU speed was around 7 MHZ.> What are you talking about ??? The hedonic pricing model for computers does not involve the work people do on computers. It only affects the worth of the computer itself. The model says that this year's computers are worth more than last year's because they are faster and have more memory. Since they cost about the same, the computer component of the CPI is negative and, incidentally, the productivity of computer manufacturing is higher.