Who cares, I don't buy their products either. ;) Making a x2 or x3 profit, a lot of companies do that. But this is cheap plastic* we're talking about. It's...
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Jameson OConnor
rubiksguy
Jul 1, 2008 7:20 am
After a few weeks, I think that they will drop their prices when the market settles. I doubt that they will permanently go out of business. Maybe just ...
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Jameson OConnor
rubiksguy
Jul 1, 2008 7:23 am
i mean, are there any other cubing digests that I can subscribe to IN ADDITION to this one? Jameson I want to learn more and have more cubing reading material....
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Stefan Pochmann
stefan_pochmann
Jul 1, 2008 9:02 am
... we're ... pop, ... markup. ... Oh, so you know how to get worldwide patents as well as the production machinery for free? Dipshit. Stefan...
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d_funny007
Jul 1, 2008 9:34 am
In addition to what Stefan said, you somehow don't think they deserve such profits given that they had to spent years inventing these things to begin with. The...
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Tyson Mao
psycho_tycho
Jul 1, 2008 12:05 pm
I was pretty much going to say something along the lines of Stefan, but he said it pretty well. I should probably clarify one part of his post though: Cheers!...
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Frank Morris
ephem825
Jul 1, 2008 12:55 pm
Stefan rules. ... From: Tyson Mao <tyson.mao@...> Subject: Re: [Speed cubing group] Re: Will V-CUBES go out of business? To:...
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Stefan Pochmann
stefan_pochmann
Jul 1, 2008 1:24 pm
... This here is a digest? ... Check this out: http://www.rubiks.com/Forum.aspx Cheers! Stefan...
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Tyson Mao
psycho_tycho
Jul 1, 2008 1:29 pm
And really, I think they could charge higher. You get ripped off every time you pay a dollar for a bottle of water... when it's free from the tap. ... ...
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varkmaster
Jul 1, 2008 2:11 pm
Bart's ideas about profit margin and opportunity cost are interesting. I spoke to my buddy who owns an injection molding plant in Honeyee Falls, NY about it....
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bryanlogancube
Jul 1, 2008 3:01 pm
... I'm guessing you never eat out or buy soda? ... My kids have a bunch of plastic toys. They're kind of bendy and soft. However, I think if I had a cube made...
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Bart
banaticus
Jul 1, 2008 3:16 pm
None of us are likely to chew on these cubes, right? So they don't have to be made out of the same plastic as a kid's toy. As to the other replies, you have...
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James Stuber
uberstuberizzle
Jul 1, 2008 3:49 pm
I'm trying to figure out if you buy *anything*. ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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Ryan Heise
r_h_e_i_s_e
Jul 1, 2008 4:14 pm
... This is an international forum, by the way. -- Ryan Heise...
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Tyson Mao
psycho_tycho
Jul 1, 2008 4:20 pm
1 AUD = 0.9550 USD Probably a few more months and it'll reach parity, but I don't think it will stay there. On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 12:14 PM, Ryan Heise...
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Oliver Wolff
mannnnn_ej
Jul 1, 2008 4:46 pm
Hi all, I recived my cubes today (1x6 and 1x7) and I must say that the 7x7 turns smoother than any 3x3 I ever had or have today. The 6x6 however is horrible,...
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bladez740
Jul 1, 2008 6:53 pm
... You can have the emails sent to you as a "daily digest" rather than one per message, yes....
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Eric Brunson
ericbrunson
Jul 1, 2008 7:00 pm
... I have an algorithm to fix that. ;-) e....
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Stefan Pochmann
stefan_pochmann
Jul 1, 2008 7:21 pm
... Hmm, you're right, Yahoo does call it that. I thought of "digest" as something like this: http://vdict.com/digest,6.html So that at least all the stupid...
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Shelley Chang
aznseashell
Jul 1, 2008 7:27 pm
Ok, so if V-cubes are so cheap to produce, why don't you make some yourself and save money? ... That's right....
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danix800
Jul 1, 2008 7:28 pm
I'm a big rubik's cube fan. It's well know that for a normal Rubik's cube the cube group has its maximum element order 1260, say, the maneuver UR'UF'D2 needs...
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bladez740
Jul 1, 2008 7:35 pm
... Generally a "digest" is a collection of articles/letters/etc published together, as in the magazine Reader's Digest. "Any collection of articles, as an...
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d_funny007
Jul 1, 2008 8:12 pm
I haven't thought about it or read up on it recently, but those figures sound believable. If you need to "prove" that a certain element in a group has a...
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Bruce Norskog
bruce_norskog
Jul 2, 2008 6:01 am
(Deleted/reposted twice to fix some errors) The order of a cube group element is the least common multiple (LCM) of the lengths of all the sticker cycles. ...
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mackymakisumi
Jul 2, 2008 9:42 am
Meh, I would have typed this up earlier, but I didn't have access to a computer. We don't need to generate all the cycle types. After making the observations...
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mackymakisumi
Jul 2, 2008 9:47 am
The table, second try: Factor_____Corners_______Edges___ __7___________7____________7_____ __5___________5_________5 or 10__ _3^2______3*3 or 3*6_______9_____ ...
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Stefan Pochmann
stefan_pochmann
Jul 2, 2008 10:21 am
... cycle") ... I'd just like to point out that this is incomplete, nonobvious, and cumbersome. Incomplete because you rely on definitions of orientations that...
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Ben Jones
ozaru_yafoo
Jul 2, 2008 2:07 pm
Hi all, A quick message to anyone in the UK who can view Channel 5: there will be an item about the cube on the news at 7 p.m. tonight (July 2). Appearing will...
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Duncan Dicks
duncandicks
Jul 2, 2008 3:26 pm
Hi Ben Channel 5 phoned me this morning to ask me if I'd do it - I appeared for them a couple of years ago! I couldn't make it unfortunately but gave him a...
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Bart
banaticus
Jul 2, 2008 4:20 pm
Where can I find a site on cube math? What's a corner cycle? What's parity?...
