From: Robert Baer on
Tim Williams wrote:
> <quiettechblue(a)yahoo.com> wrote in message news:tisv36ltdo6miuiqpqm81cu41d9j57vv07(a)4ax.com...
>> This is a kind of cyclical thing in electronics. Specsmanship gets
>> quoting ever more unreasonable values driven by things like "infinite
>> heat sinks". Eventually there are too few old dogs to keep the punks
>> from believing the spurious ratings. Failures and then lawsuits
>> follow like Nemisis following Hubris. Then the specs get more
>> realistic again for a while, then sales critters insist on bending
>> them again. There is a deficit of memory in the beauracracies that
>> causes this oscillation.
>
> Hmm, I wonder if that oscillation is in phase with the "component shortage" oscillation.
>
> Tim
>
Not correlated; "component shortage" variations are randumb (pun
intended).
From: quiettechblue on
On Fri, 16 Jul 2010 06:43:01 -0500, "Tim Williams"
<tmoranwms(a)charter.net> wrote:

><quiettechblue(a)yahoo.com> wrote in message news:tisv36ltdo6miuiqpqm81cu41d9j57vv07(a)4ax.com...
>> This is a kind of cyclical thing in electronics. Specsmanship gets
>> quoting ever more unreasonable values driven by things like "infinite
>> heat sinks". Eventually there are too few old dogs to keep the punks
>> from believing the spurious ratings. Failures and then lawsuits
>> follow like Nemisis following Hubris. Then the specs get more
>> realistic again for a while, then sales critters insist on bending
>> them again. There is a deficit of memory in the beauracracies that
>> causes this oscillation.
>
>Hmm, I wonder if that oscillation is in phase with the "component shortage" oscillation.
>
>Tim

From what i have seen component shortage is on a shorter cycle by in
large.