assbot: The Big List Of Indie Game Marketing | PixelProspector - the indie goldmine ... ( http://bit.ly/1PeG1I9 )
mircea_popescu: these results specifically : http://www.pixelprospector.com/the-big-list-of-indie-game-marketing/
mircea_popescu: and right now, im doing (atypically) a foray into discussions of a topic im not particularly familiar with (indie game devel). i read upwards of fifty pages, i did not use google at any point throughout. because, here's the snatch : you try googling something to get you these results.
mircea_popescu: in short, google may perhaps maintain the illusion of utility for as long as the needs are superficial and stay that way.but if you're mostly looking for specific stuff and tend to go beyond the surface of things, it doesn't actually do anything whatever.
mircea_popescu: (and btw, i found it by typing se in myaddress bar which took me to search.bitcoin-assets.com/ rather than typing anything into google. because THIS always works and is way faster)
mircea_popescu: see the thing that started this discussion. http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=05-10-2015#1291886
PeterL: search google, click on what you want is two steps; go to site, search, maybe their search function works the way you expect is at least three steps
mircea_popescu: anwyay, google as bookmark organizer, which is what you're describing, is about as useful as that goes, sure. could just as well use any other
mircea_popescu: tho i have homebrew talent, you know those people who know ALL THE ACTORS and ALL THE SONGS etc ?
PeterL: another example, I am watching a movie and I want to know who the actor is. I google "cast of movie whatever", most likely it links to IMDB, I could have gone straight to IMBD, but it is easier to just start all searches from one place rather than trying to start at each individual site depending on the search
mircea_popescu: there's a difference between these two classes of questions, you know, like in tech support.
mircea_popescu: (i rarely ask "gimme the recipe", because i'm actually sa pretty good cook. usually i ask "is this white sauce or what did you do ?!"
mircea_popescu: ah, sure. it can. it can also send them to paycoin, just as well.
mircea_popescu: but see, the only reason i could conceivably be interested in is because a woman made them and i liked. then i ask her, such as my mom, or the chick in the cofee shop, or whoever. i don't think i ever wanted to make a random item.
PeterL: think from the other perspective, you say you are the example for things, how do people find your example to copy? Something like google can link them to you
PeterL: another example, I wanted to try to make homemade bagels, I type in the box "bagel recipe", and it gives me several sites with recipes to try. Clearly, these are not all of the same quality, but I only have to look through a couple to find one wotrh trying
mircea_popescu: i simply do not care what those examples may be, i expect to be the example for them.
mircea_popescu: i don't think i've used style templates in the past twenty years. conceivably this may be a difference of style.
PeterL: okay, today I wanted to refresh my memory on writing a letter of resignation. I type in the box "how to write a letter of resignation", and 3 of the first four links had nice examples
PeterL: Usually I find what I search for in the first page of google
PeterL: the places it takes you to are to be evaluated separately from google
mircea_popescu: how do you know the places google takes you to have any info ?
PeterL: you don't get information from google, you just use google to get to the places with the info
PeterL: I find google useful as a starting point for finding things on the web
mircea_popescu: do you now go through life with the notion in your head that chicken broth is a fuel oil ?
mircea_popescu: but in general, what sort of information do you obtain by putting words in a box ? suppose you search for "chicken broth" and they explain to you it's a heavy fuel oil. do you believe that ?
mircea_popescu: if it's some pop cult reference i either ask someone in the know or else ud/tvtropes. if it's some actual thing i usually know enough to know what to read.
PeterL: so on the occasion when you do want to search web, what do you use?
mircea_popescu: i dunno, i'm not the sort of hayseed that needs to search the web. but i assume there isn't, because it's a hard problem. there not being, however, does nothing for google, imo.
mircea_popescu: "this pressed shit gun doesn't work" "is there an alternative ?"
assbot: Logged on 05-10-2015 04:25:32; mircea_popescu: does anyone seriously propose the "google is useful" myth anymore even ?
cazalla: i have another week old one but cannot remember pwd
mircea_popescu: punkman the article is very carefully engineered to bilk, which is why i linked it.
mircea_popescu: (very often these numbers are fudged, it's not x people, it's two famblies. sort of like swining, except they don;t fuck.)
punkman: oh and they can't live on 70k a year?
mircea_popescu: 5, they said.
mircea_popescu: the 360k kickstarter.
mircea_popescu: "We ended up operating for five months without money or payments to the team here. It was a difficult period, where some of us were awkwardly standing in front of cashiers having our credit cards declined, drawing from any possible savings, and borrowing money from our friends and family. But we made it to the other side!"
trinque: been shedding the notion that people can be improved without force for a while
trinque: right on the mark.
trinque: I will think on this further as I settle in
trinque: it's the criteria used
trinque: moved to portland the first time in 08, second time in 2012
cazalla: trinque, ya lived there before or is this your first day?
trinque: it is probably as simple as that it's more common here for people to rank and judge each other
trinque: I don't think I've yet articulated precisely what it is that I find redeemable here, as there is plenty to criticize.
trinque: mircea_popescu: feels like home. perhaps someday there'll be a place outside the states I like more, but for now, this'll do
pete_dushenski: https://www.facebook.com/289334207795128/videos/vb.289334207795128/970956059632936/?type=2&theater << "The Su-30 carries the single-barreled Gryazev-Shipunov GSh-30-1 cannon, which fires a 30X165mm cartridge at around 1,500 to 1,800 rounds per minute."
trinque: going to say the second one needs more butts.
pete_dushenski: https://www.flickr.com/photos/projectapolloarchive/albums << and sicne we're up in the air, some space ships for good measure
mircea_popescu: the mutatis mutandis equivalent of this nonsense has existed for a longtime. doesn't even need that much mutation.
pete_dushenski: and if other derps see you reading the label of your inspiration tin at the cool kids cafe, then maybe they'll instagram you and your business will win all kinds of phree exposure !
mircea_popescu: the intellectual decay, over two short generations, is fucking awesome.
mircea_popescu: I used to play a lot of complicated games like Dungeon Keeper " oh come the fuck on. dungeon keeper's main appeal was that is simplicity incarnated.
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu godin is more 'inspirer' than practical or pragmatic anything. he's the archetype of the popular 'business' genre
assbot: Logged on 05-10-2015 00:34:46; gabrielradio: thanks, i'm gonna be lurking in the #b-a irc yeshiva for a while
mircea_popescu: that's the guy's entire shtick. if your paradigm is stupid enough to not allow useful statements to be made, its inconsistency can not be proven. !godel approach to linguistic production.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski to me he's seriously another timecube.
mircea_popescu: In fact death isnt mentioned at all. Neither is failure. Death in the traditional video game sense is absent."
assbot: Logged on 04-10-2015 23:02:38; mircea_popescu: omfg seth godin still exists. http://sethgodin.typepad.com/icn.seths.head.png now a visibly old man, trying to stick to the orange background in a green shirt. practically speaking a parody of itself (not that it didn't start off as a parody - but by now it's not even intentional anymore).
pete_dushenski: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=04-10-2015#1291746 << he most certainly exists. i read a few of his books in the last few years. wasn't terribly offended by them either.
mircea_popescu: "Pennys hatred of losing is legendary in the Hall household. Every time there was a possibility of her losing a game, shed close the app and toss the phone away. Every time a game threatened to kill her she would quit. Immediately."
pete_dushenski: and this, the fiat millionaires, not thousandaires on reddit
pete_dushenski: nah, i don't think we're anywhere near the "please oh pretty please sell to me" phase yet. still much closer to "why would i need something other than the dollar?"
mircea_popescu: anyway, the ever more feverish pitch of desperation is lulzy. "sell bitcoin to me". dude... why the fuck would i be selling anything to you ? fuck you, your approval is not required, your desires don't matter, you're not being persuaded here. you're being raped. nobody gives a shit about your consent, let alone excitement to use bitcoin. you'll use it to survive, and marginally at that.
mircea_popescu: might be a while, but hey, until then, more psycho material to examine will be produced.
mircea_popescu: anyway, he's to that day when sec/cftc/etc figure out that if they wanna play, they gotta behere, and play by the rules. and when academitards figure out that if they wanna play, they... gotta be here. and play by the rules. and when random tard etc.
pete_dushenski: aha. the ol' plastic cover under the sheets trick. (with an electric pump and a hose feeding back overhead)
mircea_popescu: the part where the bed was made to piss you right in the forehead right back hasn't yet sunk in
pete_dushenski: "A woman goes to the gynecologist for an exam. She puts her feet into the stirrups and the doctor begins his exam. After a moment, he says, "You have an unusually deep vagina." The woman replies, "You don't have to say it twice." The doctor says, "I didn't."
mircea_popescu: so now they're "stress testing" aka if you won't care about my screaming im going to wet the bet.
mircea_popescu: but after the massacre they got for their hopes this year, everything's tumbleweed city. r/bitcoin like r/buttcoin, the ever more numerous forums etc.
mircea_popescu: it's funny what impotence does to people. they'd like to be part of bitcoin, EXCEPT not on bitcoin terms. they wanna do it on their own terms. originally they hoped that derping on social media might do it,
assbot: Logged on 04-10-2015 17:49:14; mircea_popescu: check out bizarro tx rewriting. i issued fca843c0b40a1755eee073a719c856baa7fbf5ac28db84804a44a91f52638632 which worked as expected, but apparently there's a 5269a0e862876040db21706a7849ffd1b7d63e72d6dd61b1d2431a51698bb007 restatement of it
pete_dushenski: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=04-10-2015#1291607 << fuck is this prototype game currency ever a ball of yarn. but hey, what else is there ?
pete_dushenski: trinque fight the fog !
trinque: got pretty far on the buy/sell board this eve but it'll be a couple more days. colorado's attempt at murder slowed down my travels
assbot: Logged on 04-10-2015 14:49:43; ascii_field: perhaps it was a case of 'soviet elephants are the biggest elephants'
pete_dushenski: and i've been digging for names or connections on that wem chick but nothing's turned up. though it's entirely possible that she was visiting from out of town. the mall is a tourist trap extraordinaire.
pete_dushenski: yes, gizmodo property, should be burned, but from what i know of eulora, it seems to tick the 5 boxes
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pete_dushenski: http://www.kotaku.com.au/2015/09/the-five-rules-of-australias-most-successful-game-creator/ << found via sandbaydev's twatter
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mircea_popescu: ly couldnt believe it. I couldnt believe it. Finally, I felt redeemed. This was a path that was more than a dozen years in the making, but I had finally made it."
mircea_popescu: "On October 8th, 2013, just a few days shy of one year since CSD officially launched, the game landed on Steam. And in just one day, I had made nearly $15,000 in gross sales, which was almost as much as I made in the entire last year on PC/Mac/Linux for CSD. In two days, I surpassed it. In one week, I had made over $50,000 in gross revenue
more than I did in the last three years as a game maker and barista. My fami
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mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2015/time-to-rehash-that-old-strategic-superiority-discussion/#comment-115521 << i let it through because mildly curious if the shilled "titan miner firmware upgrade" has a rootkit or something in it
mircea_popescu: "i have a little around the edges"
mircea_popescu: romanian peasant asks other romanian peasant : yo, gheo, you got any aids yo ?
ascii_field: grep his book (on my www warez dir, in the logz)
mircea_popescu: it's pretty cool. not really translucent. a little around the edges.
mircea_popescu: does anyone seriously propose the "google is useful" myth anymore even ?
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mircea_popescu: lol milk. no there isn't milk. it's a futile act.
mircea_popescu: "here's this new gasoline, it has no caloric power" "what does it have then ?" "strong odor, slightly carcinogenic, stains..."
ascii_field: when suckling a toe... is there: milk?
mircea_popescu: there is that. pretty much my objection to reddit is "all the stupid i stomp out on a daily basis minus the toe suckling and etc"
ascii_field does not deal with teenz in any capacity whatsoever. they may as well be penguins or kangaroos.
trinque: and the implication that "if this doesn't work it is not my fault"
trinque: you will find people here that give a shit about their name
trinque: the "my work is such shit" offends me more
BingoBoingo: But I'm discussing the people. Far more texan than Texans are
BingoBoingo: Missouri has two rivers and the Ohio river terminus. Vast amounts of bulk goods constantly moving
trinque: the port matters
BingoBoingo: <trinque> and I maintain that there's something far better about these people than any other state in the US, such that it stands a hair of a chance to survive it << I'm telling you Missouri is even more Texan than Texas
trinque: and I maintain that there's something far better about these people than any other state in the US, such that it stands a hair of a chance to survive it
trinque: *there
trinque: who said their was?
ascii_field: betcha the filling station in anchorage is sterile
trinque: obviously not the only factor
trinque: nobody there
ascii_field: why not alaska then ?!
trinque: Amarillo's a pretty boring town and even the gas station was spotless, workers there were goddamn on point and asking me what I needed, sir
trinque: turns out when you let people keep more of their own goddamn money the thing just sorts itself
trinque: as soon as I hit the TX border, industry!
ascii_field: ^ neither loads here
mircea_popescu: "i remember 30 years ago used to get 150 bumps to the yard. y u no make road like used to!"
mircea_popescu: my theory is that the bumps are from aged female nostalgia for their earlier time in a car. which a male owned, like he owned their teenaged ass.
mircea_popescu: punkman that's pretty stupid. the only reason they even have the half a shot they have currently is the rape.
assbot: Muslims Say They Will Make It Legal to Rape White Christian Women When They Take Over Europe - Freedom Outpost ... ( http://bit.ly/1Z26jSf )
punkman: http://freedomoutpost.com/2015/10/muslims-say-they-will-make-it-legal-to-rape-white-christian-women-when-they-take-over-europe-2/
mircea_popescu: the one "innovation" that cooled me off the "civilised" world were the fcucking speed bumps.
mircea_popescu: while its true that security contraptions never deliver any security, it is nevertheless the case that they do require a rent. because everything that exists des.
ascii_field: the interlock thing is actually a rather harsh punishment, as i understand - for instance, it sometimes demands a blow... while the car is moving
punkman: they might upgrade to buttplug alcohol sensor on driver's seat, that might be tricky
punkman: pet racoon it is then
assbot: Logged on 05-10-2015 03:25:16; mircea_popescu: hint : you can always blow your lighter into the damned thing. it doesn't measure oxygen output
ascii_field: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=05-10-2015#1291770 << saw this up close once, recently - the new ones are trickier, they require the victim to make sounds into the orifice while blowing, even.
mircea_popescu: hint : you can always blow your lighter into the damned thing. it doesn't measure oxygen output
gabrielradio: thanks, i'm gonna be lurking in the #b-a irc yeshiva for a while
assbot: Concerned with Prosecution/Investigation/etc. rather than DQ after Interview ... ( http://bit.ly/1iXijn1 )
mircea_popescu: omfg seth godin still exists. http://sethgodin.typepad.com/icn.seths.head.png now a visibly old man, trying to stick to the orange background in a green shirt. practically speaking a parody of itself (not that it didn't start off as a parody - but by now it's not even intentional anymore).
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mircea_popescu: in other news, from the first, biggest and still better reddit, http://digg.com/video/denmark-travel-do-it-for-mom
mircea_popescu: btcdrak kinda what we've been doing. VC circus got bled to death, i very much wish to see if they're still going to keep the tail up and we dun has to do what told bs next year, after the massacre.
gribble: The operation succeeded.
btcdrak: there's a real reason why a nasty and sustained crash in the bitcoin price would be good for Bitcoin, it would flush out all these idiot companies and their VCs.
btcdrak: mircea_popescu: LOL, what has litecoin's spam handling got to do with tx malleability? maybe they paid for a fiverr extra for that gem.
mircea_popescu: http://cointelegraph.com/news/115374/the-ongoing-bitcoin-malleability-attack << the quality of the writing reads exactly like the shit fiverr delivers.
better: they are mine
mircea_popescu: yes but which of the half dozen or so single bitcent bets is yours. right click on the date to get the url.
ascii_field: (re: involuntary 'fishermen' and their leaky boats)
ascii_field: ever see the (quite terrible..) film 'waterworld' ?
ascii_field: --'why do you go there?' --'i am a fisherman.'
mircea_popescu: this needs explaining ? "oh i spend most of my time fishing bailing the water out" "so why do you go there ?" "huge fish in that lake!"
ascii_field: i, for instance, spend perhaps most of my conscious time, just on keeping the sea out.
mircea_popescu: then not everyone has bizarre tastes.
ascii_field: except that not everyone ~is~ the sea.
mircea_popescu: that the examples are spurious. these are africans, born and bred, who think themselves above the africa that THEY ARE.
ascii_field: 'i do not want to breathe vacuum' while surrounded by it
mircea_popescu: folks wishing to express "i do not want to live in zimbabwe" while IN ZIMBABWE have other issues than what laws to pass.
mircea_popescu: or moreover, it's a consequence of the bizzaro uncivilised yet hypocritical nature of the us.
ascii_field: as it is, folks in usa have ~no way~ to express 'i do not want to live in zimbabwe' other than by 'this town bans trailers'
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: the 'war on trailers' is a consequence of the 1960-70s upheaval and the prohibition of filtering people on any variable other than 'how much can he afford to pay for house'
mircea_popescu: anyway. i'm not old enough either, if it makes you feel better. and the idea, while it has certain merits, is also not old enough.
ascii_field: as it is, i can only suggest things to other people.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: ah then i don't expect to do this even if i were to live for a thousand years.
mircea_popescu: enough power to push the changes through.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: re: 'camping': the thing in question is part of a campaign by just about every half-respectable usa jurisdiction to squeeze out 'trailer trash'
mircea_popescu: once you're old enough to stand on your own you're more than free to make your own. but so far, not there yet. working at it, yes.
mircea_popescu: <ascii_field> and i'm supposed to respect it because the gods smiled and pissed some money on it. << you're supposed to respect it because you're not old enough yet.
mircea_popescu: <punkman> didn't the first best new very strict DERP encoding solve that one? << mno.
gribble: The operation succeeded.
ascii_field: (as if there were any shortage of symptoms of this)
ascii_field: btw 'malleability' of the ecdsa sig proper is all the proof anyone needs that ecc is retarded
ascii_field: and i'm supposed to respect it because the gods smiled and pissed some money on it.
punkman: even if it did, couldn't you still diddle the signature?
ascii_field: (one CAN use openssl to sign a string of bits in the customary way)
ascii_field: the whole 'malleability' thing had no plausible excuse for even hinting at existing, EVER
ascii_field: mircea_popescu et al: ~this~ is one of the things proving bitcoin was designed by a tard
punkman: https://blockchain.info/tx/fca843c0b40a1755eee073a719c856baa7fbf5ac28db84804a44a91f52638632 161 conf on the original hash?
punkman: didn't the first best new very strict DERP encoding solve that one?
mircea_popescu: check out bizarro tx rewriting. i issued fca843c0b40a1755eee073a719c856baa7fbf5ac28db84804a44a91f52638632 which worked as expected, but apparently there's a 5269a0e862876040db21706a7849ffd1b7d63e72d6dd61b1d2431a51698bb007 restatement of it
mircea_popescu: http://petapixel.com/assets/uploads/2015/08/jebbushmailer.jpg << for the record, "jeb" is gypsy for pocket. that pic is so very lulzy.
mircea_popescu: in unrelated news : http://33.media.tumblr.com/ebb056f9b9afc1252f6b361281505ec4/tumblr_nj788gFgyZ1shsytco1_400.gif << pick out the incompetent, untrained women among their competent, well trained peers. what gave it away ?
punkman: "The bombing took place despite the fact that MSF had provided the GPS coordinates of the trauma hospital to Coalition and Afghan military and civilian officials as recently as Tuesday 29 September, to avoid that the hospital be hit. "
mircea_popescu: and in other news, http://40.media.tumblr.com/788c4ba150a742bccf3f7a9b4da0e63a/tumblr_njfgsrtlV91tahqnlo1_1280.jpg
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mircea_popescu: you weren't in the right group.
ascii_field: 'The piecemeal approach of requiring individual borrowers to apply for loan forgiveness seemed unacceptably burdensome. “The right thing to do would be to issue a classwide discharge and understand that this happened to a group of people,” says Ann Larson, 41, one of the organization’s leaders.' << win !
ascii_field: what next? 'there is little evidence of being a wolf having consistent earnings from hunting'
assbot: Logged on 04-10-2015 06:47:27; pete_dushenski: there is little evidence of “successful” criminals or consistent earnings from theft." << because only loser criminals waste their time on derpy 'scientific studies'. self-selecting much ?
mircea_popescu: not so. see the sit on pineapple comment.
assbot: Logged on 04-10-2015 06:32:54; pete_dushenski: "After the release of iOS 9.0.2 on Wednesday, which fixed a number of bugs including a lock screen exploit, Apple stopped signing iOS 8.4.1 and iOS 9.0 firmware for compatible devices, prohibiting users who updated from downgrading." << no going backwards !
ascii_field: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=04-10-2015#1291337 << they could attach spikes, or an arse dildatron that must be inserted to enable function, and folks will still buy it. because MONOPOLY.
mircea_popescu: i can't be the only one who went fuck this, im making my own.
ascii_field: apparently (and this is not widely known, i think) - the tolerances for a 'correctly feeling' lego brick are astonishingly low.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla aha. artwork is massively helped by the thing.
ascii_field: you need the precision of a $1M injection molder.
mircea_popescu: neighbourhood kids pitch together buy a printer, make all the legos they';ll ever need, on the cheap.
mircea_popescu: what WOULD be pretty cool is if they managed to get it to where you canmake lego pieces out of it.
ascii_field: kakobrekla: so long as you don't actually care about the shape - this almost works.
ascii_field: the kind of which your keyboard is made.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: the most common filler is ordinary 'abs' plastic
mircea_popescu: (my curiosity on the topic so far was assuaged by breakingapart some 3d printed matter and reading a little on the chemistry of the "ink")
mircea_popescu: but basically, the "3d printer" redditard thinks about is this "plastic hanger injection device", glorified.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: there are several other types, such as liquid-resin (fused by laser) and sintered powder - but they are uncommon, at least in 'jungle' settings
ascii_field: but they mostly reduce to 'need plastic bracket to hold pcb, in a hurry, don't care how ugly, no one will see it'
ascii_field: there ~are~ constructive uses for '3d printer', we even have one here, in a closet, at $rupturefarms
ascii_field: in a hypothetically sane future, '3d printer' will have vaguely unsavory connotations, just like the term 'patent medicine' does today
ascii_field: such as the razor handles
ascii_field: also it is a (solely psychiatrically!) interesting cargo cult. for instance, the most successful scams had video posted of a '3d printer' going, going...
mircea_popescu: sorta like how derps looking for the perfect soulmate are unfucked. this works.
kakobrekla: just live it how the lazor authors have huge beards.
mircea_popescu: or is the plan ultimately to obtain sphere shaped heads ?
mircea_popescu: what would make the laser follow your face and how would it do it ?
mircea_popescu: im not sure what is going on there, mentally. conflating the sharpness of a blade with the sharpness of a laser is not unlike confusing "strict discipline" in a bdsm setting with the strict discipline of the woodchipper cutters.
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punkman: hmm, the little flashes of light seem out of place
assbot: Logged on 30-09-2015 18:52:13; ascii_field: addendum now has film of the sc4mz0r burning his skin with what is - bet your arse - a hot nichrome wire
assbot: Logged on 04-10-2015 06:10:56; mircea_popescu: derps shouldn't get a vote srsly. whosever can't appreciate the scent of diesel is neither a man nor allowed to discuss cars.
ascii_field: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=04-10-2015#1291275 << 'Do not disparage the diesel cycle. Napalm may smell like victory, but diesel evokes big trucks, heavy equipment, iron ships; hot oil, spanners the height of a man, 1" drive socket sets, and no stinking Kettering ignition systems.' (uncle al schwartz)
ascii_field: perhaps it was a case of 'soviet elephants are the biggest elephants'
ascii_field: punkman: the 'laser shaver' folks ~did~ - 2.3M last i saw
mircea_popescu: the magic is that a) you don't need it everywhere and b) people move a lot.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: recall the 'freezer air conditioner' kickstarter ?!