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Comment: Re:Creepy, but it used to be more common (Score 3, Insightful) 354

by Born2bwire (#39079933) Attached to: How Companies Learn Your Secrets

That isn't what they want to do here. What they want to do is become the prime retailer for a set of products that people start buying at certain stages in their lives. Like how Gillette will send out free razors to people when the turn 18 to try and make them Gillette consumers for their life's supply of shaving products. Target here is trying to predict people who are pregnant and have reached the stage where they are ready to buy the associated baby products and providing incentives for these people to buy the products at Target. Then, the customers will be predisposed to continue buying these products at Target.

They aren't trying to convince them to buy products they don't need, they are trying to convince them to buy a new range of products that they will need or want to buy from a specific retailer.

Comment: What does NASA have to do with this though? (Score 1) 556

by Born2bwire (#38710286) Attached to: Can NASA Warm Cold Fusion?

The worst thing about this summary is that it attempts to link Rossi to the far more legitimate research being conducted by NASA. The linked NASA materials make no reference to Rossi from what I can find. But it is this repeated implied associations that Rossi relies on to get people to buy in on what only screams snakeoil.

Comment: Re:It's been 7 years! (Score 1) 50

by Born2bwire (#37662726) Attached to: Graphene 'Big Mac' — One Step Closer To Microchips

The transistor was developed in 1947. If you're going to say that the transistor was invented in 1925 then you should also say that graphene was invented 1962. It wasn't until the late forties that they actually created a transistor just like it wasn't until 7 years ago that graphene was actually created.

Comment: BSNES? Well there's your problem. (Score 1) 229

by Born2bwire (#37351762) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Passively Cooled Hardware For Game Emulation?

BSNES would make a supercomputer beg for mercy. The author of the program even wrote an article entitled, "Why Perfect Hardware SNES Emulation Requires a 3GHz CPU." Just use SNES9X as it is pretty efficient and it doesn't suffer from some of the... errors... that the BSNES author harps on again and again in his defense of BSNES.

http://www.tested.com/news/why-perfect-hardware-snes-emulation-requires-a-3ghz-cpu/2712/

Comment: Re:And the Cost Reflects This (Score 1) 674

by Born2bwire (#36915178) Attached to: Why Your Dad's 30-Year-Old Stereo Sounds Better Than Yours

I don't know about you, but I don't buy my speaker equipment using gold, I use USD (when in the proper country). If we look at the change in the strength of the dollar due to inflation, the price in 2011 is only 3.5 times the 1978 price. ($4571.35). So it's actually cheaper than the current flagship model. Seriously, given that the rate of inflation is usually around 4% on average, do you really think that after 33 years the dollar would drop to a seventh of its value?

http://www.dollartimes.com/calculators/inflation.htm

Not that I totally trust the above but if we allow 4% constant inflation it's not too far off.

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