Re: One billionth mouse...

["Paul M. Moriarty" <pmm () igtc com>]

The number of people is a lot smaller than that.  I stopped counting at 
20 when I started thinking about how many logitech mouses I've owned.

- Paul -


Drsolly wrote:
> I find it hard to believe that one in six people on this planet has a 
> Logitech moune.
>
> The mouse's days are not numbered.  I still use an IBM keyboard!
>
> On Wed, 3 Dec 2008, Alex Eckelberry wrote:
>
>   
> > Yes, yet another bozo idiotic prediction from a firm that is only
> > capable of accurately predicting its own cashflow -- from the vendors
> > that pay to get on its magic quadrants.  Gartner is quite simply the
> > most patently awful analyst firm I have ever dealt with as a vendor --
> > rude doesn't even approach a description of this awful firm.  
> >  
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: funsec-bounces () linuxbox org [mailto:funsec-bounces () linuxbox org]
> > On Behalf Of Tomas L. Byrnes
> > Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2008 4:13 PM
> > To: Gregory Hicks; funsec () linuxbox org
> > Subject: Re: [funsec] One billionth mouse...
> >
> > Hmm, mice on topic ;-)?
> >
> > Gartner, that analyst firm that predicted, in 2003, that IDS would be
> > dead by 2005?
> >
> > http://www.esecurityplanet.com/views/article.php/2228631/IDS-is-Dead----
> > Long-Live-IDS.htm
> >
> > Dunno about the rest of you, but my little piggies are humming along
> > nicely.
> >
> >
> >     
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: funsec-bounces () linuxbox org [mailto:funsec-bounces () linuxbox org]
> > > On Behalf Of Gregory Hicks
> > > Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2008 12:26 PM
> > > To: funsec () linuxbox org
> > > Subject: [funsec] One billionth mouse...
> > >
> > > From the BBC:
> > >
> > > * Firm makes one billionth mouse *
> > >
> > > A Silicon Valley company has hailed as a major landmark the production 
> > > of their one billionth computer mouse.
> > >
> > > Logitech's description comes at a time when analysts claim the days of 
> > > the mouse are numbered.
> > >
> > > "It's rare in human history that a billionth of anything has been 
> > > shipped by one company," said Logitech's general manager Rory Dooley.
> > >
> > > "Look at any other industry and it has never happened. This is a 
> > > significant milestone," he told the BBC.
> > >
> > > But sounding the death knell for the device is Gartner analyst Steve 
> > > Prentice who said "the mouse will no longer be mainstream in three to 
> > > five years."
> > >
> > > [...snip...]
> > >
> > > Full story: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/1/hi/technology/7751627.stm
> > >
> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > Gregory Hicks                           | Principal Systems Engineer
> > >                                        | Direct:   408.569.7928
> > >
> > > People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men 
> > > stand ready to do violence on their behalf -- George Orwell
> > >
> > > The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.  -- Thomas Jefferson
> > >
> > > "The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they 
> > > be properly armed." --Alexander Hamilton
> > >
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