On 3/7/2012 11:36 AM, Warp wrote:
>    It's a common phenomenon that things like hard drive sizes, RAM sizes
> and processor speeds tend to grow at a superlinear rate over time in
> home computers. (I won't say "exponential" because someone recently
> complained about that, and I don't have hard data to back up that claim.)

Yay! My complaining finally had an actual effect on things!  Although as 
far as I'm aware you would have been correct in using the term 
exponential here.  If I recall correctly the growth of many computer 
components has been following a roughly exponential growth pattern.  You 
can see some examples here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore's_law#Other_formulations_and_similar_laws

>
>    Monitor screen sizes do not seem to follow this trend, however, and
> seem to grow a lot more linearly.

Interestingly, the above page lists monitors as also improving 
exponentially as measured in pixels per dollar.  I wouldn't have guessed 
this though, since my intuition on the matter was the same as yours.

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