[NTLUG:Discuss] Anyone for a Linux port on this thing?

[Peter A. Koren]

On Thu, 2005-09-08 at 14:16 -0500, lonny.dahl at verizon.com wrote:
> MadHat wrote on 09/08/2005 10:36:15 AM:
> 
> > On Sep 8, 2005, at 10:06 AM, Chris Cox wrote:
> > > Peter A. Koren wrote:
> > >> On Wed, 2005-09-07 at 12:31 -0500, Chris Cox wrote:
> > >>> http://atomchip.com/_wsn/page4.html
> > >>>
> > >>> Don't press on the last tab on the disk properties :)
> > >>>
> > >>> Looks interesting...
> > >> Shouldn't they have waited for April 1. This sure has the stink of a
> > >> hoax all over it.
> > > It's actually been out there for awhile, but it made its way
> > > onto Slashdot again... figured some might not have seen it.
> > >
> > > I ordered 3,531 units from them, and never heard back.
> >
> > yeah, that sounds legit and worth a callback on. </sarcasm>
> >
> > So what about CES?
> > http://cesweb.org/attendees/show_floor/product_locator/
> > product_details.asp?prodid=5420
> >
> > I am not saying it is a hoax or not, I just see that some people
> > think it is, but I have not found anyone being able to prove it.  And
> > if it is a hoax, that is a lot of effort for a lame hoax.
> >
> 
> What would lead one to believe the CES site is bogus?  I couldn't find
> anything to indicate it's anything other than legit.  Now the Atomchip
> PC...to quote Will Smith from Independence Day, "I have GOT to get me one
> of THESE!"  :o)
> 
> Wayne Dahl

While I started the "hoax" charge on this group, I have no proof -- only
a deep suspicion based on a number of factors. Steve Baker quickly
jumped in with the reasons for believing that it is a hoax. Steve pretty
much covered the subject. Claiming several spectacular breakthroughs in
parallel and an upcoming product introduction of a super high tech
device just is not believable. Being based on new technology, where are
the multi billion dollar factories to churn this stuff out? And with all
of these Nobel prize size breakthroughs, where are the scientists claims
-- papers, patents, etc? It just does not pass the smell test.

-- Pete