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What should I get instead of all these Propeller chips?

ElectricAyeElectricAye Posts: 4,561
edited 2008-09-25 16:32 in Propeller 1
Instead of 132,802,125,000 Propeller chips (That's more than 18 Propeller chips for every man, woman, and child on the planet), I could get:

1,000,000,000,000 freshly printed US 1 dollar bills.

8,333,333 kidney transplants (I don't need one, but you never know...)

4,000,000 homes in the USA of average value. (That might be overkill - I only need 8.)

About 200 Space Shuttles. (These I could find a use for.)

11 cures for cancer, 9 for schizophrenia, 3 for diabetes, maybe 2 cures for stupidity, and 1 for greed.

2 breakthrough fusion energy programs.

Or 12 happy bankers.

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  • Ken PetersonKen Peterson Posts: 806
    edited 2008-09-25 13:08
    That's a lot of Propeller chips. How long would it take for Parallax to make that many?

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  • parskoparsko Posts: 501
    edited 2008-09-25 13:30
    How about:

    1 Trillion dollar bill owned by Mr. Burns?

    What are you talking about here anyway? Is this mocking our $700,000,000,000 transfer of wealth to the rich, er I mean "bailout"?
  • Paul BakerPaul Baker Posts: 6,351
    edited 2008-09-25 16:22
    Okay guys, any form of political talk is OT regardless what forum you post in. I'm leaving the thread open for now, but if people keep posting to it I will lock it. I'm quite political in my views too, so I'm sympathetic, but this is not the place for it.

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    Paul Baker
    Propeller Applications Engineer

    Parallax, Inc.
  • ElectricAyeElectricAye Posts: 4,561
    edited 2008-09-25 16:30
    Paul,
    My apologies for starting this. You're right, it's completely off topic. I promise not to post anymore to it. But I am kinda curious: I wonder what sort of economies of scale one would see if we ordered more than 100 billion Propeller chips? I mean, orders of 5000 or more go for about 8 dollars. So for orders in excess of 100 billion.... think we could get it down to 22 cents?

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  • Paul BakerPaul Baker Posts: 6,351
    edited 2008-09-25 16:32
    No it doesn't work that way, there is a material value floor.

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    Paul Baker
    Propeller Applications Engineer

    Parallax, Inc.
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