Now what?

Craig S

Menace to Sobriety

posted: 3/10/2010 at 9:40 AM

http://finance.yahoo.com/tech-ticker/cisco-says-new-router-to-%22forever-change-the-internet%22-the-question-is-%27when%27-438818.html?tickers=CSCO,T,VZ,S,QQQQ,GOOG,^IXIC

If this thing really works, I'm going to have to find another way to waste time at work.

Janie, today I quit my job. And then I told my boss to go f*** himself, and then I blackmailed him for almost sixty thousand dollars. Pass the asparagus.

Doug B

posted: 3/10/2010 at 9:44 AM

"It enables the entire printed collection of the Library of Congress to be downloaded in just over one second"

I'm calling BS.

The McDLT said the hot side could be kept hot and the cold side kept cold. That was a leap in technology I could believe in. But even that failed.

2012 goal = 4:59 for 1,500 meters. (before then just get healthy)

Doug B

posted: 3/10/2010 at 9:46 AM

I enjoyed this reply...

"But what if I need the entire printed collection of the Library of Congress in half a second ?"

2012 goal = 4:59 for 1,500 meters. (before then just get healthy)

Trent

We've Got Big Hills

posted: 3/10/2010 at 9:48 AM

In what way did the McDLT fail? It succeeded in keeping the hot side hot. And in keeping the cold side cold. Geenyus, I tell you. We were just not ready.

I'm running somewhere tomorrow. It's going to be beautiful. I can't wait.

Poor baby

henryc

Player

posted: 3/10/2010 at 11:01 AM

Quote from Doug B on 3/10/2010 at 9:44 AM:

"It enables the entire printed collection of the Library of Congress to be downloaded in just over one second"

I'm calling BS.

The McDLT said the hot side could be kept hot and the cold side kept cold. That was a leap in technology I could believe in. But even that failed.

It kept the COOL side cool (supposedly). I loved the total waste of packaging too.

srlopez

No offense.

posted: 3/10/2010 at 11:08 AM
modified: 3/10/2010 at 11:10 AM

If wiki is to be believed, that waste of packaging and the desire to be green is why McDonalds did away with the McDLT (although it sort of came back under other names). They got rid of all their styrofoam-y packaging, and that was the McDLT's whole gimmick.

(edited to add: I'm gonna guess that cost savings was a bigger deal than the desire to be green... not just the packaging cost but also the shipping cost for a big container of bigmac, mcdlt, etc stryofoam containers versus a container of paper wrappers)

Ultima tastes like failure.

Doug B

posted: 3/10/2010 at 11:11 AM

amazing how a discussion about a potential huge change to Al Gore's internet can be replaced by a discussion of Bill Clinton's McDLT.

2012 goal = 4:59 for 1,500 meters. (before then just get healthy)

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