gotta drive further along the road to get to the darn'ed thing.
and don't tell me about no world view. World view my ass, no trees in MY area means that _I_ can't breath
It's OK. When you hit the edge of one of those imaginary pockets of carbon dioxide near your house your car would stop functioning, saving you from suffocating.
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well, they could have sold all the long-term calls they wanted, efectively locking in the current stock price. Yes, that means they don't participate in any further gains for the portion they lock in, but anyone who was suddenly worth many tens of millions and didn't protect the first few million in this way deserves what they get.
The first few million is worth more than the next 50 million, in the sense that the first millions give permanent financial freedom. that means working on only what interests you, having as much time as you like for your family, and so on. The next 50 means more cool toys, but doesn't profoundly change your life the way the first few do.
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Some readers may even find The Economist to be a more learned journal than Slashdot and therefore more likely to deliver a balanced review.
Yes. Why pay attention to facts when we can instead rely on reputation? What fools we are.
is in the order of 135 years ahead of current public technology
Anytime you hear some specific "fact" like 135 years ahead your baloney detector should go off. It sounds good, but what does it mean? Did a couple of Smart Guys looked at all this "top secret" technology and had a conversation like this?:
Smart Guy #1: Wow - look at this technology! It's really advanced.
Smart Guy #2: Yeah, It's like 150 years ahead of current technology!
#1: Yup... Hang on - look at this scoogily-boog; it doesn't have a mobius flange. I'd say this is more like 125 years ahead.
#2: Good point. It does have an inverted reverser, though. I'd say that makes it about 135 years ahead.
The Register cannot be trusted. They are fanatics and 90% of the time they get the story wrong or sensationalize it to the point that it is completely wrong.
Ninety percent? It looks like your the one who sensationalizes.
Years ago I wrote a Mac shareware program (of which Andrew was a registered user) and with the second release I crippled it just slightly and put up a nag screen. I got more registrations in the first two weeks than I had for the entire first release. Overall the increase was more than tenfold.
We found that of all planets just reaching the dawn of their personal computing era, more than half of them have a whiney guy in glasses writing letters to magazines complaining about people not paying for his BASIC interpreter.
What I find interesting about your post, and probably the majority of those here, is that you are saying there is no need to attempt to prove or disprove this. This closed mindedness is disturbing.
I'm sorry that it disturbs you, but there is no need. It has nothing to do with "close-mindedness," but disproving something like this takes time and effort. If this guy truly has strung together some spare parts and a couple of batteries and produced a perpet - sorry I mean a "self-sustaining unit which at the same time provides surplus electrical energy" - then it will soon become evident. In the mean time, people have real work to do.
Just because something is "not scientific" it doesn't by itself mean it doesn't exist, or isn't true. Whether or not you were born on 11/6/79 has nothing to do with science, but you're still here.
(And FWIW I could play with the ambiguity of 11/6/79 and say that you were not born on that date. If you show me proof of November 6th I could weasel out by saying you wrote June 11th.)
Of course, upcoming quarterly reports may tell us otherwise, or prove that amazon.com is fueling a money engine in hopes to not only dominate their market, but to also pay back the venture capitalists.
The venture capitalists got their money out long, long ago. This is quite an achievement, though. Most likely they will not turn in consecutive profitible quarters, but I suspect that (and I can't believe that I'm saying this, having been a huge doubter) in a few years they will be solidly profitable and will be considered to have shown the way, and become a case study in entreprenurism.
Thanks for the reply. So you're saying that I could program it to record at a certain time, but then it would be difficult to later retrieve it for viewing? What about ReplayTV? Any experience there?
I'm surprised no one has tried to reach the market of those who want all the fancy features, but don't want (or can't make use of) the program guide. I realize it would cost more, but why not offer it? There are people all over the world in market too small to support setting up a guide service, but who love to have the latest gadgets. Heck, the video rental store bought a flatscreen sony LCD TV for US$9,000 and stuck it on their wall. No reason for that except the urge to buy and show off something no one else in the country had.
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and don't tell me about no world view. World view my ass, no trees in MY area means that _I_ can't breath
It's OK. When you hit the edge of one of those imaginary pockets of carbon dioxide near your house your car would stop functioning, saving you from suffocating.
well, they could have sold all the long-term calls they wanted, efectively locking in the current stock price. Yes, that means they don't participate in any further gains for the portion they lock in, but anyone who was suddenly worth many tens of millions and didn't protect the first few million in this way deserves what they get.
The first few million is worth more than the next 50 million, in the sense that the first millions give permanent financial freedom. that means working on only what interests you, having as much time as you like for your family, and so on. The next 50 means more cool toys, but doesn't profoundly change your life the way the first few do.
Yes. Why pay attention to facts when we can instead rely on reputation? What fools we are.
Yeah, paranoia will do that to you.
Anytime you hear some specific "fact" like 135 years ahead your baloney detector should go off. It sounds good, but what does it mean? Did a couple of Smart Guys looked at all this "top secret" technology and had a conversation like this?:
Smart Guy #1: Wow - look at this technology! It's really advanced.
Smart Guy #2: Yeah, It's like 150 years ahead of current technology!
#1: Yup... Hang on - look at this scoogily-boog; it doesn't have a mobius flange. I'd say this is more like 125 years ahead.
#2: Good point. It does have an inverted reverser, though. I'd say that makes it about 135 years ahead.
#1: OK then. Lunch?
-Abaraham Lincoln
It was Benjamin Franklin, and he said essential liberty.
I feel sorry for all you guys with nothing to hide. You should get out more.
To beat a dead horse, I think that should be "All your datum are belong to us."
That's hear hear, not here here. Hear?
It's in the laws of thermodynamics
This is a troll, right? surely you don't truly believe that's what the laws of thermodynamics imply.
Ninety percent? It looks like your the one who sensationalizes.
Years ago I wrote a Mac shareware program (of which Andrew was a registered user) and with the second release I crippled it just slightly and put up a nag screen. I got more registrations in the first two weeks than I had for the entire first release. Overall the increase was more than tenfold.
Yeah right. Like you never pick your nose.
Whatever happened to doing something interesting just because you can?
No agenda, no deep reason - just the simple pleasure of having figured it out.
Yes - look for Jobs to get caught smuggling cocaine sometime next week.
Interesting assertion. Do you base it on what's happened before? (snicker)
Room to spare - so then angels don't actually get booted off, they just have to dance over in the corner.
I'm sorry that it disturbs you, but there is no need. It has nothing to do with "close-mindedness," but disproving something like this takes time and effort. If this guy truly has strung together some spare parts and a couple of batteries and produced a perpet - sorry I mean a "self-sustaining unit which at the same time provides surplus electrical energy" - then it will soon become evident. In the mean time, people have real work to do.
(And FWIW I could play with the ambiguity of 11/6/79 and say that you were not born on that date. If you show me proof of November 6th I could weasel out by saying you wrote June 11th.)
Even so, it's not going to be sorted out by some guy in his backyard with spare washing machine parts and a couple of batteries.
So that would be what, hcxEegna 0200?
Well now they're offering free US shipping on orders of $99+.
The venture capitalists got their money out long, long ago. This is quite an achievement, though. Most likely they will not turn in consecutive profitible quarters, but I suspect that (and I can't believe that I'm saying this, having been a huge doubter) in a few years they will be solidly profitable and will be considered to have shown the way, and become a case study in entreprenurism.
Thanks for the reply. So you're saying that I could program it to record at a certain time, but then it would be difficult to later retrieve it for viewing? What about ReplayTV? Any experience there?
I'm surprised no one has tried to reach the market of those who want all the fancy features, but don't want (or can't make use of) the program guide. I realize it would cost more, but why not offer it? There are people all over the world in market too small to support setting up a guide service, but who love to have the latest gadgets. Heck, the video rental store bought a flatscreen sony LCD TV for US$9,000 and stuck it on their wall. No reason for that except the urge to buy and show off something no one else in the country had.