[lbo-talk] Re:flop'n shop

[frank scott]

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>For computers, speed is ... measured in "flops" -
>floating point operations per second, or the number of calculations a
>machine can complete in a second. Back in the 1970s... machines could achieve speeds of
>several million flops.Since then, computers, even home PCs, have raised their speeds at an astonishing rate. Most home computers now achieve speeds of several
>billion flops.(guardian 7/26)
>
does this mean we'll be able to buy stuff even faster than our credit 
limits are overdrawn?

 or maybe enable consumers to become over extended so fast that our 
debts  will never catch up with reality?

will capitalism?

fs