He's a genius. He took a very simple idea, pulled in a huge amount of media attention and within a couple of hours I'm sure he will have reached the magical $1 million mark.
I'm still amazed that he got this idea to work. I think I thought about creating a similar site about 2 years ago but I thought it would be impossible, I believed noone would be interested in paying a lot for a link/image/pixel/...
Probably the most amazing thing are his marketing skills. He managed to gain the attention of lots of huge websites, newspapers, TV shows and other media. That was the hardest part and it's also why imitators won't succeed. The original version from Alex Tew gets it, and the copycats will barely get any media attention.
I believe if Alex handles smart now he'll be set for life. One million dollar at his age should be more than enough for the rest of his life, if he spends and invests it the right way.
Anyway, I think he should try to milk out the idea as much as possible. Maybe he should create a second page, or another 1,000,000 at the same page, for only 75 cents a pixel or something like that;-) When he reaches the 1 million mark he'll get a huge amount of media attention, it would be a shame if he didn't do anything with it.
Now that's one of the advantages of E-books. They are a little bit less comfortable but you should be able to update them to include the latest scientific developments!
It's a dupe but I'm still wondering how that guy got his Ph.D in computer science when he can't even get his computer spyware free? My teenage sister owns a PC, I installed a few tools to protect her and she has never been infected with spyware.
My first PC was a 386 and I have never had a virus, trojan or whatever. OK I'll admit I once had some spyware problems but that was caused by my little sister who used my PC when I was away for a few days.. It only took me a few minutes to clean the crap.
I heard that most current fuel cells use platinum. This rare metal is more expensive than gold and each fuel cell needs about 60g platinum. Although researchers expect this may shrink to 15g.
But with the current world supply of platinum and each fuel cell using about 60g we can't even replace all cars and trucks!
Space travel has is quite dangerous and because of all the negative publicity (crash of the Columbia) I understand that NASA absolutely wants this mission to be a success.
Launching it now and having another accident might have nasty consequences for manned space travel.
I'd rather have textbooks as they are way more convenient than notebooks. I just can't imagine having to study for hours while watching a notebook display. I guess many of the students will just print out all of their study material at home.
I still remember that we had to learn a bunch of cultural components at high school. He had both the textbook and the digital version of the subject matter. He just give us the CD ROM and almost everyone from our class either printed all of the pages or asked him for the textbook.
Also I think it will lead to much more distraction as notebooks also offers much more interesting things such as playing games, watching movies, internet,...;)
France Telecom's wireless unit, Orange SA, will soon roll out a new mobile video service that will let cellular phone subscribers view TV, movies, photos and broadband Internet content with a big screen viewing effect using Kopin®-enabled video eyewear from U.S.-based MicroOptical Corp. Kopin Corp. (Nasdaq: KOPN - News), the largest U.S. manufacturer of microdisplays for mobile consumer electronics and military applications, has received an order for CyberDisplay® 230K microdisplays from MicroOptical for this application.
Orange SA, one of the world's leading wireless companies with 52 million customers in 16 countries, will bundle a MicroOptical binocular video eyewear with Samsung's SGH-D600 cell phone as part of its new "Orange World" wireless multimedia service. The bundled package, unveiled in June 2005 at the European Research and Innovation Exhibition in Paris, is scheduled to be available to Orange subscribers in October 2005.
MicroOptical's video eyewear contains two of Kopin's full-color, QVGA-resolution (320 x 240) CyberDisplay 230K microdisplays. The sleek eyewear allows users to privately view large-size video or pictures equivalent to a 12-inch screen as seen from three feet away, yet simultaneously view their surroundings thanks to the small size of the frame and MicroOptical's patented optics which allow the user to see around the screen. Europe's AFP news wire service called the bundled technology "a sure fire hit," saying that the eyewear's "big screen effect" is stunning, especially when combined with built-in stereo earpieces.
"Kopin CyberDisplays are becoming the standard microdisplays of choice for mobile video applications thanks to their ability to provide the highest video quality in the smallest footprint and with very low power consumption," said Dr. Mark Spitzer, MicroOptical's founder and CEO. "We are very happy with our partnership with Kopin and really excited about being a part of Orange's multimedia wireless service. We are ramping up the production to meet the initial customer demand."
"The mobile video revolution is unfolding in the cellular phone market as we speak," said Dr. John C.C. Fan, Kopin's president and CEO. "Consumers want to be able to watch movies, music videos and TV, browse the Web and check their e-mail on their cell phones on the go. But the phone's small screen has inhibited widespread consumer adoption. MicroOptical's innovative video eyewear is enabling the big screen capabilities that consumers demand, and yet is very lightweight and similar to eyeglasses."
The Kopin CyberDisplay 230K's tiny size (0.24-inch diagonal) enabled MicroOptical to design a featherweight (2.5 oz.), comfortable and stylish video eyewear solution for Orange SA. MicroOptical's binocular video eyewear delivers crisp, full-color video with a 17-degree field of view. The eyewear is connected to a cell phone through a thin cable, and allows up to five hours of video with three AAA batteries. Since it accepts composite video input (NTSC or PAL), the eyewear can be plugged into other devices with composite video outputs such as portable DVD players.
Built with nanotechnology, the CyberDisplay 230K with approximately 230,000 pixel dots in 0.24 diagonal is the highest resolution transmissive display of its size. In addition to displaying standard text and graphics, the display operates at traditional video speeds and consumes only five milliwatts of power. Kopin's power-efficient CyberDisplay 230K is ideal for a range of portable consumer and industrial applications such as video eyewear and viewfinders for digital cameras and camcorders.
AMD Fab 36 is expected to be in volume production in 2006. The new facility is expected to require approximately 1,000 employees, most of them highly skilled engineers and technicians.
Well AMD's production capacity isn't as big as Intel's - that's one of the big issues. AMD has an agreement with Intel to use x86, but this means that AMD may only outsource a limited amount of its production to foundries. But the new fab in Dresden, Germany will soon be opened to boost AMD's production capacity.
Intel also has big deals with huge system builders such as Dell and HP.
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He's a genius. He took a very simple idea, pulled in a huge amount of media attention and within a couple of hours I'm sure he will have reached the magical $1 million mark.
;-) When he reaches the 1 million mark he'll get a huge amount of media attention, it would be a shame if he didn't do anything with it.
I'm still amazed that he got this idea to work. I think I thought about creating a similar site about 2 years ago but I thought it would be impossible, I believed noone would be interested in paying a lot for a link/image/pixel/...
Probably the most amazing thing are his marketing skills. He managed to gain the attention of lots of huge websites, newspapers, TV shows and other media. That was the hardest part and it's also why imitators won't succeed. The original version from Alex Tew gets it, and the copycats will barely get any media attention.
I believe if Alex handles smart now he'll be set for life. One million dollar at his age should be more than enough for the rest of his life, if he spends and invests it the right way.
Anyway, I think he should try to milk out the idea as much as possible. Maybe he should create a second page, or another 1,000,000 at the same page, for only 75 cents a pixel or something like that
Here's a list of most reviews of the Radeon X1K family.
The iPod nano looks pretty amazing. I was stunned when I saw the first picture of it. I hadn't expected such a thin player.
I think Apple has a new hit.
Now that's one of the advantages of E-books. They are a little bit less comfortable but you should be able to update them to include the latest scientific developments!
More details regarding the included accessories with both models and the exact pricing can be found here.
Wow, great and easy to use feature.
;)
Another aim at Yahoo's portal
But.. it has even more ads than the site from the parent article! ;)
It's a dupe but I'm still wondering how that guy got his Ph.D in computer science when he can't even get his computer spyware free? My teenage sister owns a PC, I installed a few tools to protect her and she has never been infected with spyware.
My first PC was a 386 and I have never had a virus, trojan or whatever. OK I'll admit I once had some spyware problems but that was caused by my little sister who used my PC when I was away for a few days.. It only took me a few minutes to clean the crap.
He already posted a new blog regarding this Slashdot in which he clarifies some issues, misunderstandings and other things.
b logger-slashdotted/
http://www.problogger.net/archives/2005/07/17/pro
Another example of military technology that could serve well for normal civilians.
But this is pretty old news as the article is dated 03.25.03
Yes, you're right.
;)
Hydrogen is found all over the universe, except where we live
I heard that most current fuel cells use platinum. This rare metal is more expensive than gold and each fuel cell needs about 60g platinum. Although researchers expect this may shrink to 15g.
But with the current world supply of platinum and each fuel cell using about 60g we can't even replace all cars and trucks!
Space travel has is quite dangerous and because of all the negative publicity (crash of the Columbia) I understand that NASA absolutely wants this mission to be a success. Launching it now and having another accident might have nasty consequences for manned space travel.
It was already known when Apple announced the switch that it wouldn't mean a huge financial loss for IBM.
;)
The demand from Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo is a lot higher so IBM doesn't need to cry
I'd rather have textbooks as they are way more convenient than notebooks. I just can't imagine having to study for hours while watching a notebook display. I guess many of the students will just print out all of their study material at home.
... ;)
I still remember that we had to learn a bunch of cultural components at high school. He had both the textbook and the digital version of the subject matter. He just give us the CD ROM and almost everyone from our class either printed all of the pages or asked him for the textbook.
Also I think it will lead to much more distraction as notebooks also offers much more interesting things such as playing games, watching movies, internet,
I just found out about two new features in Longhorn. The first one is WinSat, a benchmark tool which can also be used to optimize game performance.
The second tool will finally take away the need to reinstall Windows from scratch when you install a new motherboard in your PC.
It's also claimed that during the beta cycle Microsoft will present some surprising new features..
Big Screen Viewing Effect For Mobile Phone Videos
France Telecom's wireless unit, Orange SA, will soon roll out a new mobile video service that will let cellular phone subscribers view TV, movies, photos and broadband Internet content with a big screen viewing effect using Kopin®-enabled video eyewear from U.S.-based MicroOptical Corp. Kopin Corp. (Nasdaq: KOPN - News), the largest U.S. manufacturer of microdisplays for mobile consumer electronics and military applications, has received an order for CyberDisplay® 230K microdisplays from MicroOptical for this application.
Orange SA, one of the world's leading wireless companies with 52 million customers in 16 countries, will bundle a MicroOptical binocular video eyewear with Samsung's SGH-D600 cell phone as part of its new "Orange World" wireless multimedia service. The bundled package, unveiled in June 2005 at the European Research and Innovation Exhibition in Paris, is scheduled to be available to Orange subscribers in October 2005.
MicroOptical's video eyewear contains two of Kopin's full-color, QVGA-resolution (320 x 240) CyberDisplay 230K microdisplays. The sleek eyewear allows users to privately view large-size video or pictures equivalent to a 12-inch screen as seen from three feet away, yet simultaneously view their surroundings thanks to the small size of the frame and MicroOptical's patented optics which allow the user to see around the screen. Europe's AFP news wire service called the bundled technology "a sure fire hit," saying that the eyewear's "big screen effect" is stunning, especially when combined with built-in stereo earpieces.
"Kopin CyberDisplays are becoming the standard microdisplays of choice for mobile video applications thanks to their ability to provide the highest video quality in the smallest footprint and with very low power consumption," said Dr. Mark Spitzer, MicroOptical's founder and CEO. "We are very happy with our partnership with Kopin and really excited about being a part of Orange's multimedia wireless service. We are ramping up the production to meet the initial customer demand."
"The mobile video revolution is unfolding in the cellular phone market as we speak," said Dr. John C.C. Fan, Kopin's president and CEO. "Consumers want to be able to watch movies, music videos and TV, browse the Web and check their e-mail on their cell phones on the go. But the phone's small screen has inhibited widespread consumer adoption. MicroOptical's innovative video eyewear is enabling the big screen capabilities that consumers demand, and yet is very lightweight and similar to eyeglasses."
The Kopin CyberDisplay 230K's tiny size (0.24-inch diagonal) enabled MicroOptical to design a featherweight (2.5 oz.), comfortable and stylish video eyewear solution for Orange SA. MicroOptical's binocular video eyewear delivers crisp, full-color video with a 17-degree field of view. The eyewear is connected to a cell phone through a thin cable, and allows up to five hours of video with three AAA batteries. Since it accepts composite video input (NTSC or PAL), the eyewear can be plugged into other devices with composite video outputs such as portable DVD players.
Built with nanotechnology, the CyberDisplay 230K with approximately 230,000 pixel dots in 0.24 diagonal is the highest resolution transmissive display of its size. In addition to displaying standard text and graphics, the display operates at traditional video speeds and consumes only five milliwatts of power. Kopin's power-efficient CyberDisplay 230K is ideal for a range of portable consumer and industrial applications such as video eyewear and viewfinders for digital cameras and camcorders.
No, they design their own mobile OS!
Yes, but it may still take two or more months before the R520 will be available.
And I guess that NVIDIA will start shipping a new faster G70 chip by the time that ATI will launch its R520.
I think it is ridiculous. I hope the court charges her a few ten thousand bucks for abusing the system.
Not really interesting.
Cedaga costs $44.95 and you also need Linspire Five-0 which costs $49.95 so that's almost $95.
I'd rather have a dual-boot system with Windows than some sort of emulation software that may not boot a quarter of my games.
AMD Fab 36 is expected to be in volume production in 2006. The new facility is expected to require approximately 1,000 employees, most of them highly skilled engineers and technicians.
Source: http://www.amd.com/us-en/0,,3715_10023,00.html
That's almost 360km/h - pretty fast for a train.
Well AMD's production capacity isn't as big as Intel's - that's one of the big issues. AMD has an agreement with Intel to use x86, but this means that AMD may only outsource a limited amount of its production to foundries. But the new fab in Dresden, Germany will soon be opened to boost AMD's production capacity.
Intel also has big deals with huge system builders such as Dell and HP.
http://www.dvhardware.net/article5557.html
A list of all FX-57 reviews, more will be added when I spot them.