The CPU Eric would dream of owning : Bling Bling CPU wafer. Yeah...a CPU made out of heat resistant (relatively anyway) diamonds. ICY HOT!

[G-man Joe]

<div style='font: 11pt "Fine Hand"; text-align: left; '><b>Link:</b> <a href="http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.0 ... nd.html</a>

The CPU Eric would dream of owning : Bling Bling CPU wafer. Yeah...a CPU made out of heat resistant (relatively anyway) diamonds. ICY HOT!</div>

[Tessian]

<div style='font: 11pt Dominion; text-align: left; '>very interesting article, I think anyone would be interested in seeing DeBeers lose their monopoly</div>

[SineSwiper]

<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>Amazing stuff.</div>

[Flip]

<div style='font: 12pt "Cooper Black"; text-align: left; '>Wow, i would have bought a bigger 'cultured' diamond for my wife's engagement ring...</div>

[G-man Joe]

<div style='font: 11pt "Fine Hand"; text-align: left; '>Yeah really. If a diamond dealer from Antwerp can't tell the difference....how can she?</div>

[G-man Joe]

<div style='font: 11pt "Fine Hand"; text-align: left; '>Did you guys read Page 4???? Yikes! I knew De Beers took advantage of South Africans in the late 1800's but they're still ruthless today!</div>

[SineSwiper]

<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>The Microsoft of diamonds. Even worse; I dare say.</div>

[Tessian]

<div style='font: 11pt Dominion; text-align: left; '>a LOT worse than MS. MS doesn't hold an entire market under tight control to keep prices high</div>

[Kupek]

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>Last I heard from Amnesty International, a lot of the diamonds on our market are mined from African countries with brutal regimes that use what is basically slave labor.</div>

[G-man Joe]

<div style='font: 11pt "Fine Hand"; text-align: left; '>I wonder what the domino affect would be should more people start buying man-made diamonds and hurt the "real" diamond industry.</div>