Gillette is practically giving away the razors, but the price on the blades borders to extortion
Gillette did give away razors. I got their new Triple-Trac (or whatever) with my newspaper one morning and I've bought refills that were really expensive. The razor and razor blade story is the classic example of losing money on one thing to make a bundle on a related item.
I've heard the Chinese embassy bombing wasn't a mistake. What I heard was that the Chinese were selling satellite and intelligence data to the Serbs. They were repeatedly warned by the US to stop. When they did not stop the US waited until the embassy was empty and then bombed it to send a little message.
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They put speed-limits on the newscasters' units
It seems to me that the computers could detect a beginner by the frequency and severity of balance corrections required and then do the speed limiting by itself.
I like the logos too! I get annoyed with the networks that don't have a logo. I always thought they were just too cheap to spring for the logo technology.
I'd like for all the networks to have logo's (until I get an updated TV that displays the network name/logo elsewhere).
I have a feeling they may not make too many of these and will try to get them only to the truly paranoid. By patenting something like this they can keep it out of the hands of mass market fear mongers and perhaps keep hysteria down a bit.
The density of Ruthenium is 12.45 grams/cc. If Ru is $30/gm then 1000 gallons would cost $1.4 billion (if you could somehow hold the price at $30 even as it becomes more and more scarce).
At this density and with a molecular weight of 101.07 grams/mole then a 3.5 inch disk 3 atoms thick would require 0.0000552 grams of Ruthenium. IBM could make a million disks for $1700 worth of Ruthenium
Hey! Don't forget the original secure box - The Apple Macintosh. Look what happened there. People started figuring out how to open up the boxes and make changes. Apple finally had to give access to the box.
Your assumption is that the customer is stupid and will be duped by the closed box. But, if it doesn't sell and open boxes do then they'll drop it for awhile. If it sells and people like it then maybe there's a market there and companies should make them. But there will always be people who will want the open box and companies that will want to make money by selling them. Free markets work!
Now we base our gasoline ratings on octane number, which is a combination of how large the hydrocarbons are and how many are olefins (double bonds) or not; a large number of long-chained hydrocarbons or olefins increases the octane number. If you try to remove all the sulfur before you distribute the gas, the octane number will drop terribly, and the gas will be worse than with the sulfur in it, as there's a better chance of CO production and reduced feul efficiency from low octane gas. So there's a practical balance between the effective sulfur removal levels, and the quality of gasoline that we get.
Octane has nothing to do with molecule length. Octane is simply a measure of the tendency of a fuel to cause an engine to knock. Octanes are measured on big one cylinder engines with variable compression ratios. The engine's compression ratio is adjusted until it starts knocking and is then compared to a standard made from a known octane.
Some very small molecules have very high octane ratings, methane for example, while larger molecules may have low octane. Heptane has an octane of zero and iso-octane has an octane of 100. Methanol, another small molecule, has a very high octane - over 100.
Octanes are measured with two engines, a research engine and a motor engine. The research engine runs the fuel under cooler more ideal conditions and the motor runs under hotter more car-like conditions. The final gasoline octane is an average of the two: R+M/2.
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Gillette did give away razors. I got their new Triple-Trac (or whatever) with my newspaper one morning and I've bought refills that were really expensive. The razor and razor blade story is the classic example of losing money on one thing to make a bundle on a related item.
I've heard the Chinese embassy bombing wasn't a mistake. What I heard was that the Chinese were selling satellite and intelligence data to the Serbs. They were repeatedly warned by the US to stop. When they did not stop the US waited until the embassy was empty and then bombed it to send a little message.
It seems to me that the computers could detect a beginner by the frequency and severity of balance corrections required and then do the speed limiting by itself.
I like the logos too! I get annoyed with the networks that don't have a logo. I always thought they were just too cheap to spring for the logo technology.
I'd like for all the networks to have logo's (until I get an updated TV that displays the network name/logo elsewhere).
I have a feeling they may not make too many of these and will try to get them only to the truly paranoid. By patenting something like this they can keep it out of the hands of mass market fear mongers and perhaps keep hysteria down a bit.
At this density and with a molecular weight of 101.07 grams/mole then a 3.5 inch disk 3 atoms thick would require 0.0000552 grams of Ruthenium. IBM could make a million disks for $1700 worth of Ruthenium
Your assumption is that the customer is stupid and will be duped by the closed box. But, if it doesn't sell and open boxes do then they'll drop it for awhile. If it sells and people like it then maybe there's a market there and companies should make them. But there will always be people who will want the open box and companies that will want to make money by selling them. Free markets work!
Octane has nothing to do with molecule length. Octane is simply a measure of the tendency of a fuel to cause an engine to knock. Octanes are measured on big one cylinder engines with variable compression ratios. The engine's compression ratio is adjusted until it starts knocking and is then compared to a standard made from a known octane.
Some very small molecules have very high octane ratings, methane for example, while larger molecules may have low octane. Heptane has an octane of zero and iso-octane has an octane of 100. Methanol, another small molecule, has a very high octane - over 100.
Octanes are measured with two engines, a research engine and a motor engine. The research engine runs the fuel under cooler more ideal conditions and the motor runs under hotter more car-like conditions. The final gasoline octane is an average of the two: R+M/2.