Sorry, between my cold medicine intake and dealing with cantankerous video cards, it seems my Freudian slip was showing. Corrected message below. Laughs, Maitri --- maitri venkat-ramani <maitriv@yahoo.com> wrote: I don't see the usefulness of comparing our growth to Moore's Law as even recent advances in computing is rendering this Law obsolete. Take my world of geological visualization, for instance. As explained by one of the specialists at Landmark Graphics, "With Linux 64-bit, you can have an unlimited volume of RAM on the system. The historical limit for the 32-bit system was around 2GB. Now, we're seeing systems that have 16GB of memory. No longer does compute power double every 18 months at the same price ... when things scale by 10 times, it's no longer just faster - you're in a different world." Granted, my system is not going to run at full spec speed at any given time owing to bandwidth quirks, etc., but it sure outdoes Moore's Law nowadays. If we need something to which to compare our growth rates, we should define our own new baseline curve and see how our growth proceeds from there. Since I personally don't know how to create one of these benchmarks, I will stop here and let someone else recommend. Maitri __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Easier than ever with enhanced search. Learn more. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250