Re:ChaCha CEO Has Pretty Damn Sweet 8-Monitor Computer
by RyanGWU82 on Monday January 19, 2009 @05:40AM
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MTV Teen Cribs aside, this guy's house is really, really sweet. Ridiculously over-the-top, but sweet. There's a whole site dedicated to the house at http://www.scottajones.com/index.php?q=residence .
How can he afford all this? Scott Jones is better known as the inventor of voicemail. (!) His company built one of the earliest voicemail systems (1986) and he holds a bunch of patents related to it. So he can afford an extravagant house, especially since it's in Indiana.
For example: His master bathroom has a "waterfall shower" that streams 300 gallon per minute. Normal home showers are restricted to 2.5 GPM. But "because this is a high-tech home, not an ounce of water is wasted. It is sanitized by an ultraviolet-light disinfecting system, stored in a holding tank in the basement and then recycled." (http://www.forbes.com/2002/05/17/0517home.html)
Re:ChaCha CEO Has Pretty Damn Sweet 8-Monitor Computer
by sokoloff on Monday January 19, 2009 @11:45AM
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That slide is bad-ass.
And somehow I suspect the house is no longer connected to the 'net by just a single "T1 line, which allows connection to the Internet at lightning speed."
How can he afford all this? Scott Jones is better known as the inventor of voicemail. (!) His company built one of the earliest voicemail systems (1986) and he holds a bunch of patents related to it. So he can afford an extravagant house, especially since it's in Indiana.
For example: His master bathroom has a "waterfall shower" that streams 300 gallon per minute. Normal home showers are restricted to 2.5 GPM. But "because this is a high-tech home, not an ounce of water is wasted. It is sanitized by an ultraviolet-light disinfecting system, stored in a holding tank in the basement and then recycled." (http://www.forbes.com/2002/05/17/0517home.html)