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...
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 ...
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....
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...
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!...
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. ... ...
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....
... 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...
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...
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...
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,...
... 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...
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...
... 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...
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...
(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. ...
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...
The table, second try: Factor_____Corners_______Edges___ __7___________7____________7_____ __5___________5_________5 or 10__ _3^2______3*3 or 3*6_______9_____ ...
... cycle") ... I'd just like to point out that this is incomplete, nonobvious, and cumbersome. Incomplete because you rely on definitions of orientations that...
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...
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...
