Moore's Law: "The observation made in 1965 by Gordon Moore, co-founder of Intel, that the number of transistors per square inch on integrated circuits had doubled every year since the integrated circuit was invented. Moore predicted that this trend would continue for the foreseeable future. In subsequent years, the pace slowed down a bit, but data density has doubled approximately every 18 months, and this is the current definition of Moore's Law, which Moore himself has blessed. Most experts, including Moore himself, expect Moore's Law to hold for at least another two decades." (read source [webopedia.com])
Metcalfe's Law: "A theory argued by Robert Metcalfe, inventor of Ethernet, which states that the power of a network increases by the square of the number of nodes connected to it. For example, where X is the number of nodes, the power of the network is X squared.
Metcalfe observed that new technologies are valuable only when large numbers of people use them -- consider how less valuable the telephone would be if only two people in the world used them. The network becomes more valuable the more nodes that are connected to it." (source [webopedia.com])
Too bad no one seems to really know what Moore's law is. Slashdot approximations of Moore's law include:
Every 18 months [computer component]s get cheaper Every 18 months [computer component]s get faster Every 18 months computers get bigger Every 5 days Timothy posts a story he already posted
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Moore's Law & Metcalfe's Law defined (Score:5, Informative)
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Every 18 months [computer component]s get cheaper
Every 18 months [computer component]s get faster
Every 18 months computers get bigger
Every 5 days Timothy posts a story he already posted