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Re: [AVR-Chat] Hoaxes in general

2004-08-07 by Kathy Quinlan

Graham Davies wrote:

> --- In AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com, David VanHorn <dvanhorn@c...> wrote:
> 
> 
>>... It could be that you are being
>>used to lend credibility to this
>>thing, to dupe investors ...
> 
> 
> Yes, that's going to be the motive, isn't it. Check out ZeoSync, who 
> back in 2002 went after 40 million to develop "standard setting 
> compression/encoding technology". Today they don't even have a Web 
> site up. It was all a rip-off.
> 
> And what about storing arbitrary amounts of data in a single 128-bit 
> word? Here's someone who apparently still thinks this is possible:
> http://www.karenware.com/newsletters/2002/2002-07-12.asp
> Someone pulled that hoax off in the UK in the early 80s.
> 
> Not to mention cold fusion.
> 
> Kat, the human mind does not store data in text format. Haven't you 
> ever had an idea that is really, really hard to put into words? You 
> can't emulate the human thought process by matching up chunks of 
> text, no matter how much text you have and how fast you match it. How 
> would you deal with music or math? We may not know how the mind works 
> but I think we know how it doesn't.
> 
> Graham.

Exactly, so it will be fun finding out :)

I know you all seem to think this is a hoax, but right now it is 
providing me money to live on and no one else has any paying projects, 
so I do what needs to be done to make some money.


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