Re:Great idea, but will it ever really make it?
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Air-Powered Cars
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In reality, a car like this succeeding is unfortunately unlikely. They've got a HUGE battle to fight against:
1.Big Oil companies
2.Current big car manufacturers (don't want to change out those assembly lines)
3.Governments of large oil producing companies
4.Politicians who are controlled (oops I mean lobbied) by the oil companies
5.Car parts manufacturers (have to start making parts they may be unfamiliar with)
And the list just goes on...
6. Laws of physics (the big corporations won't let our government pass better laws of physics)
I found out more on the scam at this site. They aren't selling cars, they're only selling potential rights to manufacture cars.
Regarding dealership: MDI has created a unique business model in the Car industry. Instead of building a large centralized facility to manufacture 150,000 to 200,000 vehicles, we intend to build 100's of small facilities that will produce 2,000 vehicles per shift near the point of consumption which are the large cities as our vehicles are for urban application. These factories will be doing their own selling direct to customers and/or via the internet.
MDI has been selling to investors a right of priority for the setting-up of a facility to manufacture zero pollution vehicles as per MDI patents. The right of priority is for a given territory. A population of 2.5 million people defines a territory. For example a city of 5 million people, there will be two facilities. The same investor can purchase the two facilities but shall always be the subject of a separate contract for a definite territory.
The right for a specific zone costs US $ 300,000. This amount will give you the right to hold up to 30% of equity for a specific plant. Each plant will cost US $10 million. MDI Inc. will hold the other 70%. By the time we will start building the plant, you will have to invest an additional US $ 2,700,000 to cover your 30% of the US $ 10 million do investment.
If you are interested, you can send you a copy of our Reservation of Zone contract for our turnkey factories together with our business plan. For Individual investors who are interested to participate in our project, we have devised another investment vehicle. The minimum investment is 10 000 dollars at 100 dollars a unit which will equal to 1/10th of 1% of each individual plant. (Each plant will issue 100,000 units) The units will be issued to no specific site, which will be decided based on best opportunities at the time of the construction. Based on our estimates, for every 1/10% of 1% of one production unit, the investment will be paid back in year 4 and thereafter a yearly revenue stream of over US $ 7,000 representing an IRR of over 40%.
Shiva Vencat MDI Inc-Zero Pollution Motors 48 East 57th Street, 5th floor New York, NY 10022 Tel (212) 906-0175 Fax (212) 906-0176
It also stated in the article that a standard air pump at a filling station could fill up the tanks in under 3 minutes.
The car is a scam. "Travel 120km for 30 cents." Scam scam scam.
blessings,
Re:Price-Performance of "iCubes" and other Macs
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X On OSX Now Free
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A 17 inch monitor from their store costs 500 dollars. If you buy a computer and monitor, then you get a 300 dollar rebate which makes the price of the monitor good, but that still leaves you paying 1,800 for the computer.
Wow! $500 for a 17" monitor... There's a stockholder born every minute!
Authoritarian hypocrite,
secret luxury house,
owned by the trial lawyers' lobby,
just another politician,
busted a union among his workers,
abuses workers,
amassing millions of dollars and playing the stock market with it,
secrecy and stonewalling,
vindictive toward critics,
forced contributions to his college PIRG groups.
I could have pointed to the website of evidence, realchange.org but it is swamped. Nader is a phoney. He buys put options in companies he's going to sue. He funnels funds to his sister's 'non-profit' which then buys things like luxury houses, etc.
He's a major slime ball. In fact, the US's Green Party is nothing like the Euro greens. They have exceptionally weak environmental policy. They are just a club for the tired Old Left (used to be called the New Left, but that was 35 years ago.)
I predict the opposite. All rests on the application developers, who aren't doing cocoa apps. They're carbonizing all their apps and carbon apps will run on the old-style OS9+.
This is so because the OS9+ compatibility libs suck a lot of memory and speed.
ALso, the user interface takes up too much screen real estate, making the iMac line unusable combared to OS9+.
Apple's OSX only runs on Apple computers. Not the best use of money, especially for the business world.
All in all, I believe OS X will pave the way for more Linux on the desktop. I wonder is anybody is developing an open-sourced Carbon lib for UNIX?
In conclusion, and to repeat myself, the Itanium processor executes IA-32 applications in silicon with complete compatibity with current IA-32 processors.
And that's the #1 reason why the Itanium is a Sick Little Monkey.
Stephen King IS rich enough to be independantly wealthy, but like so many other rich folk, just doesn't get it. I know he enjoys writing. Why not just give it away? Probably because he feels like he doesn't have enough money.
I mean, if Stephen King had billions and billions of dollars wouldn't he still write, even just for the pleasure of writing? At what point does he or anybody else not need more money?
They had a 70% no-show rate at their recent election. It is really sad that the only reason to go to the pools is to PREVENT some gorilla from hurting us.
But if you vote, you're just giving assent and acceptance to the cage of control which you're in... just giving the government the key to your door.
Government sucks. Devotion to governance only begets more government. We'd be a lot better off if Congress would take a long, long vacation and stop passing laws.
Since when has Apple advertised on the rumor sites?
Since when does Apple advertise on the net at all?
Go check out zdnet's several non-rumor websites starting with Macweek. Not a single Apple ad on any of their Mac web magazines. Kinda weird since they just had a product launch (new ibooks) and last month had other big product launches.
I agree. The price UPS charged was way too high. And they scammed him into thinking he had to have an account when you could have just sent it from a walk up counter.
Sending it through the US Postal service would have been a lot cheaper. Also, having the recipient pay customs insures a safer delivery. Customs agents want their money, and if it is paid in advance they won't protect the contents as well.
I sell things on ebay from time to time and have had good luck selling to foreign countries. But when I price delivery, UPS never wins.
Hear hear. I've never had much luck using rpm. I'm sure i missed something somewhere (rpm -yesIReallyWantToInstall --initDBforSure --forceExceptforMonthsWithAn_R_InTheName). Maybe it's my tendency to make typos.
The problem is not that I don't have 128M... the problem is that I don't think any OS should require that much.
It's because of the Classic compatibility kludge. Classic runs in its own memory space. The old MacOS doesn't do malloc the way other OSs do, so a huge fixed(?) memory partition is going away to house Classic (at least 64mb).
Since there are so few Carbon or Cocoa apps, most everything out of the gate has to run in the Classic virtual machine.
As far as posting the code to USENET in such a manner, doing so obviously isn't going to give the right impression on major corporations that is needed.
Haven't you had enough of being impressed by major corporations? Wouldn't you rather be free? Do you believe that major corporations will hand you your freedom just because you're nice?
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1.Big Oil companies
2.Current big car manufacturers (don't want to change out those assembly lines)
3.Governments of large oil producing companies
4.Politicians who are controlled (oops I mean lobbied) by the oil companies
5.Car parts manufacturers (have to start making parts they may be unfamiliar with)
And the list just goes on...
6. Laws of physics (the big corporations won't let our government pass better laws of physics)
blessings,
blessings,
The car is a scam. "Travel 120km for 30 cents." Scam scam scam.
blessings,
Wow! $500 for a 17" monitor... There's a stockholder born every minute!
blessings,
I think you've hit the nail on the head! Apple needed an iCube a lot more than they needed the the Steve Cube.
Apple's own market needs an iMac with an external monitor, which is exactly what the Cube is (minus the glamor price).
blessings,
Don't worry! Bush has a plan to export our surplus internet freedom to China! (mp3)
I can't imagine why anyone who enjoys Slashdot would think GW Bush would make an OK president.
blessings,
Authoritarian hypocrite,
secret luxury house,
owned by the trial lawyers' lobby,
just another politician,
busted a union among his workers,
abuses workers,
amassing millions of dollars and playing the stock market with it,
secrecy and stonewalling,
vindictive toward critics,
forced contributions to his college PIRG groups.
I could have pointed to the website of evidence, realchange.org but it is swamped. Nader is a phoney. He buys put options in companies he's going to sue. He funnels funds to his sister's 'non-profit' which then buys things like luxury houses, etc.
He's a major slime ball. In fact, the US's Green Party is nothing like the Euro greens. They have exceptionally weak environmental policy. They are just a club for the tired Old Left (used to be called the New Left, but that was 35 years ago.)
blessings,
It is a republic.
blessings,
This is so because the OS9+ compatibility libs suck a lot of memory and speed.
ALso, the user interface takes up too much screen real estate, making the iMac line unusable combared to OS9+.
Apple's OSX only runs on Apple computers. Not the best use of money, especially for the business world.
All in all, I believe OS X will pave the way for more Linux on the desktop. I wonder is anybody is developing an open-sourced Carbon lib for UNIX?
blessings,
blessings,
Well, that nonsense is over. So are Corel's commercial Linux apps.
Microsoft doesn't like competition, and Corel is about the only company doing commercial apps that run on Linux.
This is Microsoft's strategy to keep Linux off the desktop.
blessings,
And that's the #1 reason why the Itanium is a Sick Little Monkey.
blessings,
Stephen King IS rich enough to be independantly wealthy, but like so many other rich folk, just doesn't get it. I know he enjoys writing. Why not just give it away? Probably because he feels like he doesn't have enough money.
I mean, if Stephen King had billions and billions of dollars wouldn't he still write, even just for the pleasure of writing? At what point does he or anybody else not need more money?
blessings,
But if you vote, you're just giving assent and acceptance to the cage of control which you're in... just giving the government the key to your door.
Government sucks. Devotion to governance only begets more government. We'd be a lot better off if Congress would take a long, long vacation and stop passing laws.
blessings,
Since when does Apple advertise on the net at all? Go check out zdnet's several non-rumor websites starting with Macweek. Not a single Apple ad on any of their Mac web magazines. Kinda weird since they just had a product launch (new ibooks) and last month had other big product launches.
blessings,
Sending it through the US Postal service would have been a lot cheaper. Also, having the recipient pay customs insures a safer delivery. Customs agents want their money, and if it is paid in advance they won't protect the contents as well.
I sell things on ebay from time to time and have had good luck selling to foreign countries. But when I price delivery, UPS never wins.
blessings,
blessings,
Slack is very comfortable for me.
blessings,
blessings,
blessings,
blessings,
It's because of the Classic compatibility kludge. Classic runs in its own memory space. The old MacOS doesn't do malloc the way other OSs do, so a huge fixed(?) memory partition is going away to house Classic (at least 64mb).
Since there are so few Carbon or Cocoa apps, most everything out of the gate has to run in the Classic virtual machine.
blessings,
blessings,
Haven't you had enough of being impressed by major corporations? Wouldn't you rather be free? Do you believe that major corporations will hand you your freedom just because you're nice?
blessings,
The Christian right in the US wants to take away your freedom. Plain and simple. Anytime religion and politics cozy up, we have trouble.
blessings,