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  1. ledow

    Cost. Ouch

    I've always wondered what it has cost, on average, to make a single Pandora.  I don't mean design, parts, assembly, etc. but what number you get if you take all the donations, investors, sales, etc. and divide it by the number of Pandoras that were produced by it. I'm pretty sure it'd be quite...
  2. ledow

    It's the Final Countdown - ED's Queue Cleared - OP GmbH have 0 outstanding pre orders!

    ...expensive, beds last year to go into my new house.  They were identical and arrived together.  One was perfect, intact, had all the bits and thus I *KNEW* what was supposed to be in the box.  The other was missing 38 components (out of 138 in total) yet showed no sign of damage or theft from...
  3. ledow

    I think Craig has a plan

    ...(and, to be honest, if you used a credit card to pay, the credit card company would reimburse you in almost all countries).  Also, because of the *deliberate* separation of other companies run by the owners from OP Ltd., the company owners would actually not lose out except in terms of...
  4. ledow

    A further update on preorders (18th of November 2012)

    I see now why PayPal have clauses against taking pre-orders. If they'd allowed the initial PayPal payments to go through all those years ago, they'd have ended up having to refund lots of people's money, years after the event, through no fault of their own.
  5. ledow

    Right, let's start recovering this?

    ...that may draw attention to the scheme's existence. Community resilience? Every pyramid scheme is filled with people just trying to get *their* result and even bouying up the scheme with additional funds if they think it helps them get a result for themselves. Shipped products? Every...
  6. ledow

    1GHz units, Classic units, repairs and TV-Out Cables (2012-08-24)

    Welcome to the reverse-Ponzi scheme, otherwise known as OP. Never seen a business like it in my life.
  7. ledow

    Faster delivery upgrade-Information (2012-03-06)

    ...what it cost if someone had paid all these optional "upgrades", donations, extra accessories, etc. and whether it would be possible that they *still* wouldn't have a Pandora today after doing all that. 100€ to pay for yours (and someone elses) old pre-order to actually be fulfilled before...
  8. ledow

    One week to go... and so much work to do (2012-02-10)

    ...fair enough, but still hardly a good business, 3) you just can't be arsed. In the first month? Sure. In the next 6 months? Okay, bit odd. In *three years* and repeated calls for more info, merging of two customer lists that you have to handle, etc. and a MONTH'S backlog of email (most...
  9. ledow

    2 Months..... umm, weeks to go (2012-02-06)

    What would that be, rounded to the nearest integer? :rolleyes:
  10. ledow

    2 Months..... umm, weeks to go (2012-02-06)

    I refer you to forums posts dated 2008/9 where everyone posits the same question and receives answer along the lines of "No, we don't have adequate access to our own customer/finance database to do that". I don't think the situation has or will change that much.
  11. ledow

    2 Months..... umm, weeks to go (2012-02-06)

    ...week or so delay it caused (only in air shipping) didn't really put a huge dint in the economy of businesses country-wide. And almost all of the *real* problems were somehow down to mismanagement, cutting corners, failing to check details, etc. OP is plagued more by communication and...
  12. ledow

    Writing a Game in C

    QuakeC was one of my early forays into C-like languages when I was younger. I remember coding my own mod to fix something-or-other in Co-op but can't remember exactly what it was - my brother and I played multiplayer mods and it was something to do with the way you picked up weapons, I think...
  13. ledow

    ODBII software

    http://obdcon.sourceforge.net/2010/05/hello-world/#more-1 I've never used it but there are a few OBD-II tools out there that will work on Linux. Scantool.net used to publish their source code too, but they used Allegro libraries and a horrible serial library and I could never be bothered to...
  14. ledow

    Script-based on-demand wifi a possibility?

    Back in the days of modems and PPP, it was easy to have a Linux machine only dial out when necessary (i.e. when a packet for an external network was sent or a socket opened, rather than anything that would be handled by "localhost"). Dial-on-demand was standard fare in internet connection...
  15. ledow

    E-Cat LENR Device

    *COUGH* http://blog.newenergytimes.com/2011/10/30/noble-aspirations-are-not-enough/ *COUGH* (Strangely there's been no update to many of the news or front pages that were raving about this test beforehand!) If you have created cold fusion (i.e. one of the most sought-after advances in...
  16. ledow

    E-Cat LENR Device

    ...proper ones who are willing to put their name against it, have cropped up with a million and one tests that need to be done before they confirm *anything* about the device actually producing more energy than it absorbs (which is the problem in 99.9% of these cases, and is a spin-off of the...
  17. ledow

    The plan a bit more detailed (2011-09-27)

    It is. You just have to specify your usage. In the 70's, 640Kb of RAM was enough for anybody. In the early 80's, 640Kb of RAM was enough for your main memory. In the late 80's, 640Kb of RAM was enough for your video memory. In the early 90's, 640Kb of RAM was enough for your USB stick...
  18. ledow

    Business Plan sent to interested investors (2011 - 09 - 20)

    ...other emulators on things as low as a 486 - some of the older emulators that you've never heard of did that for individual games - but to run them *accurately* can require more processor power than even the most powerful desktop has - it's always a trade-off, even on seemingly ancient games)...
  19. ledow

    Business Plan sent to interested investors (2011 - 09 - 20)

    ...paid back. You won't get any profit share after that anymore, that should be clear." So, if someone invested 160,000 EUR now, then in a year they *MIGHT* make 40,000 EUR (which they would probably be able to make in savings-account interest in that time anyway with zero risk), and in two...
  20. ledow

    Quotations, Production speed and the future (2011-09-01)

    So, basically, everyone is back to where they were in 2007 (that's the earliest post I could find on GP32x discussing the "new handheld console"), except they're now listening to those who said "Don't use the cheapest company!" at the time, except for a handful of people who have a device that...
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