26-07-2005 23:50									#31
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Ah, true enough. It wasn't successful though.

Sony had one a year after:


The first successful transistor radio was from Sony a year later:


Followed by:

	26-07-2005 23:50									#32
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$50. What's that in modern parlance. About as much as an iPod?

	26-07-2005 23:56									#33
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Assuming a 4% average inflation rate, compounded annually, about $350.00.

	27-07-2005 00:27									#34
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quote: Originally posted by Winston I predict an awful lot of Solitude being played in China's "domestic consumer electronics market".

You mean Solitaire?

	27-07-2005 00:28									#35
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quote: Originally posted by MikeH Being Canadian I assume you've seen what a glacier does to a valley...

... over millenia.

	27-07-2005 00:39									#36
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Didn't a Chinese company buy up big chunks of IBM recently?

	27-07-2005 00:40									#37
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IBM sold its Thinkpad line to Lenovo, which was already manufacturing them for IBM anyway.

	27-07-2005 00:40									#38
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Lenovo bought IBM's PC business and moved its headquarters to New York and named an American as its CEO (a former IBM VP).

Primary design work will continue to be done in Raleigh, North Carolina like before.

	27-07-2005 06:19									#40
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quote: Originally posted by Kuciwalker You mean Solitaire?

I mean Solitaire.

	27-07-2005 09:03									#41
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quote: Originally posted by Asher

I am not sure if they have something as powerful in the space shuttle...

	27-07-2005 09:05									#42
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You bring up a terrible, useless, perplexing point.

	27-07-2005 09:12									#43
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I'd probably use another word than 'point'. It may give him the idea that he's done something good.

	27-07-2005 09:53									#44
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quote: Originally posted by Asher

I had on of those.

	27-07-2005 12:10									#45
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quote: Originally posted by Asher You bring up a terrible, useless, perplexing point.

In all likelihood, it went over your head like a fleet of UFOs.

	27-07-2005 12:42									#46
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That ad earlier in the thread said the radio took a 22.5v battery?

	27-07-2005 18:50									#47
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quote: Originally posted by Urban Ranger In all likelihood, it went over your head like a fleet of UFOs.

The opposite is what happened, which is why you completely missed the point and posted something irrelevant.

	28-07-2005 01:06									#48
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Communism is a myth.

	28-07-2005 07:08									#49
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So lets get this straight- a country that still has well over 30% of the population as farmers, that 16 years ago was faily poor and very backwards, is now only 10 years behind countries that were 16 years ago already stinking rich?

And this is supposed to have us laugh at the Chinese?

Its like when they put a man in space- people saying :"welcome to the 60's". Yet only 3 states have put a man into space with their own technology- the US, the ex-USSR, and China. So again, China does something only the superpowers did, and we laugh?

That's very, VERY strange.

	28-07-2005 07:17									#50
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The 60's were the height of space exploration, we really haven't made any progress since. An editorial in a local paper had a line that went something like this: "If we can put a man on the moon, we ought to be able to - wait, we can't put a man on the moon anymore."

	28-07-2005 07:23									#51
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Just out of curiosity - what generation of CPU's are NASA using in their equipment or for that sake any other space organization ?

	28-07-2005 08:28									#52
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quote: Originally posted by GePap So lets get this straight- a country that still has well over 30% of the population as farmers, that 16 years ago was faily poor and very backwards, is now only 10 years behind countries that were 16 years ago already stinking rich? And this is supposed to have us laugh at the Chinese? Its like when they put a man in space- people saying :"welcome to the 60's". Yet only 3 states have put a man into space with their own technology- the US, the ex-USSR, and China. So again, China does something only the superpowers did, and we laugh? That's very, VERY strange.

Why is it strange, Taiwan has had no problem keeping up with chips. Russia, too.

The point is they're not "10 years behind countries", it takes them 10 years to clone a chip it's pretty laugh-worthy.

	28-07-2005 09:16									#53
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The fact that they are making an unlicensed copy of a 10 year old design is a pretty big indictment of China's industrial espionage capabilities. You figure they would be able to steal something a bit more recent.

	28-07-2005 22:58									#54
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Yes, apparently it is far easier stealing warhead designs from LLL than chip designs from IBM...

	28-07-2005 23:00									#55
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quote: Originally posted by Straybow Yes, apparently it is far easier stealing warhead designs from LLL than chip designs from IBM...

LLL? Or LLNL?

I'm the compiler focal point for LLNL and IBM cooperation.

	29-07-2005 06:30									#56
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quote: Originally posted by Asher Why is it strange, Taiwan has had no problem keeping up with chips. Russia, too. The point is they're not "10 years behind countries", it takes them 10 years to clone a chip it's pretty laugh-worthy.

Russia was never as far behind as China, and Taiwan is much richer.

	29-07-2005 07:34									#57
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However, Taiwan and China started at the same point before WW2. Could it be that capitalism is superior to communism? Nah, that couldn't be it.