You realise they probably hired a $200/hr contractor to put up that site, and chose an 'authorized' web host/registrar that cost 5 times more than average.
And they probably have 10 volumes of documentation on this filed somewhere.
I think a more fundamental problem is how stupid MCWHORTLE.COM sounds! Their 'logo' on the building is so ugly.
If I was stupid enough to invest in places I don't know about, I would also be the type of person who would NOT invest in a place because their logo isn't pretty and their name sounds silly.
Most scams I remember have cool sounding names and buzzwords in its title.
I agree Neil and his friends were more than eager to respond to any threats from BS than maybe the rest of us (who would have just sent and email to abuse and pressed delete).
But poor Mr BS could have ended it at any time by just dropping it. This is not the electronic equivalent of a lynching. It's like he goes the next town to find people to lynch him.
And if I sent my resume to 1 single stranger who wasn't listed as a HR contact on a corp. website, I would expect all my personal info in that resume to no longer be private.
If you have a licence, I think you should be able to buy extra physical media whenever you want for only the cost of the media, regardless of the state of the original!
Assume we did have perfectly working exoskeletons.
In heavy lifting, how would the weight be transferred from arms to feet? It looks like the arms module is separate from the feet module, which does not touch the ground. So would the soldier's spine be able to cope with the weight? Would his feet?
Now the superhuman running. Would the soldier's knees and other joints be able to move fluidly at high speed for the extended time?
does anyone know the difference btwn the blue MemoryStick and the 'MagicGate' MemoryStick?
I know the MagicGate costs more and the sales persons said MagicGate can be used to hold data files (what the hell is everyone storing on the blue ones if it's not data?). If the sales people can't explain the difference...
Several people already host their own root servers with non-ICANN-approved TLDs. The problem is getting ISPs to point to those servers to see the domains.
Of course, China prolly has an advantage that it can force all ISPs to point to its servers...
More importantly, most work computers don't have DVDs as standard, and admins don't allow installation of unauthorised software. (it's really important, I need it so I can play my audio CD?)
So they're cutting out the portion of their customers who have jobs then?
Well, it's quite simple. Manufacturers have fixed costs (eg rent) and variable costs (raw materials).
In the short term, if the price they sell their chips at is greater than their variable costs, they will continue production.
Each chip they sell will cover all variable costs, and a part of their fixed costs. This is better than letting it all sit there and just having fixed costs and no variable costs.
In the long term, since they are making a loss, they will exit the industry. This is exactly what they are doing here.
Maybe if you had read the article, you would know that they wish to first mass produce the technology on simple write once memory, before moving onto more complex designs.
You would also know that they claim to have produced the more complex DRAMs and EEPROMs in the labs successfully.
A cloth chimney a km high, held up by a kite powered by the exhaust? Sounds like a perpetual motion machine to me. Do you know how heavy that much cloth would be, even using the thinnest available and ignoring strength factors?
Ignoring that we have to consider how to keep this chimney's shape in the strong winds up there, free from twists and folds...
all those claims may sound good now, but if it will take/at least/ 8 years before production begins, I wonder by that time if we could have made enough advances to already reach that performance level.
it's very unusual for companies to research on things they don't plan to produce within 5 years...
I worked at the 2000 olympics. From what I understand, all the sponsors give their services and all they get in return are signage rights and hopefully enough publicity to generate enough increase in sales to make up the money.
It's amazing that so many companies compete to give their time and money away for coverage like this.
it's OK to grow human bits in animals (or animal bits in humans) but cloning human cells are not OK?
what kind of reasoning could accept the former and not the latter? Surely cloning human cells would bring more immediate medical benefits than trying to get the same to grow in a different animal?
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making such good use of the web?
You realise they probably hired a $200/hr contractor to put up that site, and chose an 'authorized' web host/registrar that cost 5 times more than average.
And they probably have 10 volumes of documentation on this filed somewhere.
I think a more fundamental problem is how stupid MCWHORTLE.COM sounds! Their 'logo' on the building is so ugly.
If I was stupid enough to invest in places I don't know about, I would also be the type of person who would NOT invest in a place because their logo isn't pretty and their name sounds silly.
Most scams I remember have cool sounding names and buzzwords in its title.
This sounds like a wart.
Funny you should talk about movie theatres.
For some reason, when a movie pans in a theatre it always seems blurred, like watching a movie on an old laptop.
The same movie released on TV doesn't blur.
I thot theatres were supposed to have high res and all that crap.
Anyone experience this as well?
You see, consumer-grade recordable DVD has been around the corner for about 5 years, now, only now there are half a dozen formats to choose from.
Plus it has been noted current DVDs cannot store enough to do HDTV.
Even with CDs, how many people do you know who have bought CDR stereos?
Ppl mostly use CDR drives in their computers. It hasn't replaced the record button for the cassette in their stereos.
I think that while DVHS will flop like DAT, DVD(+RW/-RW/-RAM) will be in 10 years like CDRW drives today: mostly in computers.
Well, given it's pure water and how dry aircraft are, I think you'd drink it.
You've just said that concrete is a composite, which is correct.
You note that concrete is a specialised form of composite (particulate composite).
This doesn't their definition is wrong.
Might be a bit general tho. Most people expect the coarse aggregate in concrete to be gravel and the fine aggregate to be sand.
I agree Neil and his friends were more than eager to respond to any threats from BS than maybe the rest of us (who would have just sent and email to abuse and pressed delete).
But poor Mr BS could have ended it at any time by just dropping it. This is not the electronic equivalent of a lynching. It's like he goes the next town to find people to lynch him.
And if I sent my resume to 1 single stranger who wasn't listed as a HR contact on a corp. website, I would expect all my personal info in that resume to no longer be private.
If you have a licence, I think you should be able to buy extra physical media whenever you want for only the cost of the media, regardless of the state of the original!
in other words they don't even pay for it? given all the cash they make
Assume we did have perfectly working exoskeletons.
In heavy lifting, how would the weight be transferred from arms to feet? It looks like the arms module is separate from the feet module, which does not touch the ground. So would the soldier's spine be able to cope with the weight? Would his feet?
Now the superhuman running. Would the soldier's knees and other joints be able to move fluidly at high speed for the extended time?
does anyone know the difference btwn the blue MemoryStick and the 'MagicGate' MemoryStick?
I know the MagicGate costs more and the sales persons said MagicGate can be used to hold data files (what the hell is everyone storing on the blue ones if it's not data?). If the sales people can't explain the difference...
Hmm. So the first moment a manufacturer says they will one day drop an old product in favour of a new one, you stop all development?
It's not like I'm seeing any users suddenly burning all their PDAs just be cause a new product is coming out.
Several people already host their own root servers with non-ICANN-approved TLDs. The problem is getting ISPs to point to those servers to see the domains.
Of course, China prolly has an advantage that it can force all ISPs to point to its servers...
what I don't understand is why AMD decides to limit their chips to the performance of the top Intel chip.
If the tech exists to produce a 2.2GHz chip, then shouldn't AMD be able to produce a chip at that speed?
for a moment there I thought u were saying we should make pyros walk thru the fires they lit... while they were burning!
I wonder what will happen to MD sales once nobody can record from CDs to them anymore...
I mean, the studios don't even sell MDs of most CDs, and the basic idea of MDs are that you record from a CD optical out.
I wonder how Sony feels since it's in all these fields...
I thought they made $ licensing games and lost $ on the actual hardware...
More importantly, most work computers don't have DVDs as standard, and admins don't allow installation of unauthorised software. (it's really important, I need it so I can play my audio CD?)
So they're cutting out the portion of their customers who have jobs then?
Well, it's quite simple. Manufacturers have fixed costs (eg rent) and variable costs (raw materials).
In the short term, if the price they sell their chips at is greater than their variable costs, they will continue production.
Each chip they sell will cover all variable costs, and a part of their fixed costs. This is better than letting it all sit there and just having fixed costs and no variable costs.
In the long term, since they are making a loss, they will exit the industry. This is exactly what they are doing here.
ECON100 pays off. :)
I tried it. Unfortunately, my spam comes in on Lotus Notes, which also mangles the headers up so much that spamcop can't understand them :(
Maybe if you had read the article, you would know that they wish to first mass produce the technology on simple write once memory, before moving onto more complex designs.
You would also know that they claim to have produced the more complex DRAMs and EEPROMs in the labs successfully.
A cloth chimney a km high, held up by a kite powered by the exhaust? Sounds like a perpetual motion machine to me. Do you know how heavy that much cloth would be, even using the thinnest available and ignoring strength factors?
Ignoring that we have to consider how to keep this chimney's shape in the strong winds up there, free from twists and folds...
all those claims may sound good now, but if it will take /at least/ 8 years before production begins, I wonder by that time if we could have made enough advances to already reach that performance level.
it's very unusual for companies to research on things they don't plan to produce within 5 years...
I worked at the 2000 olympics. From what I understand, all the sponsors give their services and all they get in return are signage rights and hopefully enough publicity to generate enough increase in sales to make up the money.
It's amazing that so many companies compete to give their time and money away for coverage like this.
it's OK to grow human bits in animals (or animal bits in humans) but cloning human cells are not OK?
what kind of reasoning could accept the former and not the latter? Surely cloning human cells would bring more immediate medical benefits than trying to get the same to grow in a different animal?