'RFduino' joins open-source RF movement

[Phil]

Great list Karl, but you left one out:

"Guitar bands are on the way out." - Decca Records executive on being offered a contract with a band called "The Beatles", ca. 1962.

Phil M1GWZ



On 22 Mar 2013, at 19:28, Karl W4KRL wrote:

> This poor deluded fellow thinks you can actually do something with an Arduino. He must not read the Tacos reflector.
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> http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1608192864/rfduino-iphone-bluetooth-40-arduino-compatible-boa?ref=discover_pop
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> http://www.eetimes.com/design/microwave-rf-design/4409923/RFduino-joins-open-source-RF-movement
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> "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." -- Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943.
> "Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and weigh only 1.5 tons." -- Popular Mechanics, 1949
> "I have traveled the length and breadth of this country and talked with the best people, and I can assure you that data processing is a fad that won't last out the year." -- The editor in charge of business books for Prentice Hall, 1957.
> "But what...is it good for?" -- Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968, commenting on the microchip.
> "There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home." -- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977.
> "640K ought to be enough for anybody." -- Attributed to Bill Gates, 1981, but believed to be an urban legend.
> "This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us." --Western Union internal memo, 1876.
> "The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys." -- Sir William Preece, chief engineer of the British Post Office, 1876.
> "The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?" -- David Sarnoff's associates in response to his urgings for investment in the radio in the 1920s.
> "While theoretically and technically television may be feasible, commercially and financially it is an impossibility." -- Lee DeForest, inventor.
> "The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible." -- A Yale University management professor in response to Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service. (Smith went on to found Federal Express Corp.)
> "Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?" -- H. M. Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927.
> "I'm just glad it'll be Clark Gable who's falling on his face and not Gary Cooper." -- Gary Cooper on his decision not to take the leading role in "Gone With the Wind."
> "A cookie store is a bad idea. Besides, the market research reports say America likes crispy cookies, not soft and chewy cookies like you make." --Response to Debbi Fields' idea of starting Mrs. Fields' Cookies.
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