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You mean Linux One? :-)
[ducks for cover]

Looks like all those warnings have proven true. They obviously have cut back like the rest of the Linux vendors. Looks like they can only afford an email account now ;-)

About the only market segment who would find them useful are gamers, and gamers have no need for the slim, chic design that the eShades boast.

Let's get a few good laughs by reading their marketing BS:

eShades consume less than 1/4 of the power of a typical laptop display, so plugging eShades into your laptop and turning the laptop screen off can increase its battery-life by over 25%.

Because these glasses apparently make it difficult or impossible to read, write, or drink a beverage while using the computer (which I often do all at once while using a laptop), I really don't think a 25% power savings is worthwhile. Not to mention the fact that the only place I'd feel comfortable using such freaky glasses is in my home or office... where I have AC power anyway.

A large, colorful SVGA (800x600 pixels) display, featuring Inviso's unique OptiScape technology.

Holy shit, that must be some pretty hot tech to give me 800x600. I run 1024x768 on 15" monitors, for God's sake. On the "visual equivalent of a 19-inch desktop monitor", I expect a maximum resolution of no less than 1600x1200.

. . .their stylish, low-profile, ergonomic design make eShades look similar to popular sunglasses.

I guess I don't get out too much. I had no idea that today's popular sunglasses made people look like Geordi Laforge (sp?) with a hearing aid.

They'll probably sell a pair to this guy. And to a half dozen major corporations to make Powerpoint presentations "come alive". And they'll probably be bought in bulk by the Federal government for some obscure research project they want to waste taxpayer money on, and then pretty much fade away into LinuxOne-esque obscurity.

Timothy, that was a misleading story title. It sounds like the link has to do with 19" laptop screens, which would actually be useful.

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All generalizations are false.

So who is at LinuxOne.com?
I sure saw the stupid logo with the mailto.

Mostly, the bad guys online give themselves away with everything they do. They try and hide it, but... you can just smell it. The lack of feeling for what a community is. The money-oriented thinking. The Microsoftisms in their HTML. Look at the Linux One pages for an example: the stench of ignorant corporate greed and personal small mindedness is hard to ignore.

Well, LinuxTECH Uruguay may be evil for all I know, but... they sure don't smell bad. They come across like one of us. Their site design is nice and clean and quick. The biggest giveaway is their huge collection of links - the bad guys don't link outside their own site in case you might reach another side of the story. Their news page even includes a link to a Slashdot story - and often refers to GNU/Linux.

I'm just convinced that these people are on our side. I hope this can be resolved to everyone's satisfaction soon.
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Does anyone know who owns www.linuxone.com? If you surt there you get the message:

This page is not here yet.

(with due credit to Transmeta in the source :) )

Linuxone has www.linuxone.net, so who's got linux.com?

Another mysterious start-up? Another soon-to-be IPO?

Dana

• Patent everything. If you can use a mouse with it - patent it.
• If your product sucks, blame Microsoft. Even if it doesn't, Microsoft is the reason nobody knows about it.
• Use atleast seven of the following buzzwords in any promotional material. Super PHBs comb for this stuff via keywords, and you DO want your website to show up, right? Paradigm, proactive, "think outside the box", revolutionary, third-wave, interactive, multimedia, 3D, any word with i, e, or x in it. For example: iBrain, e-data, or Xtreme.
• Your HTML code should suck - amazon.com, microsoft.com, networksolutions.com, yahoo.com - all their HTML sucks. Yours should too.
• Get vulture capital, and then immediately go to IPO (see this example) without creating a product. Claim your business is riding the 'bleeding edge' of technology, and products are obsolete - you sell ideas, not products!
• Run linux. Hey, with Microsoft on the out-and-out, it helps to run an OS loved by millions. Try to get it linked to slashdot too. Get an interview if they won't post it and convince them you have a new "open source" methodology to designing websites!
• Marketing, marketing, marketing. You can't go wrong with huge banners proclaiming you're THE hip business to do business with on the 'net. Just don't claim you invented the internet unless you're running for president. Everything else is 'OK'.
• Whatever you lack in content - make up for it in huge flashing banner ads and broken HTML that only renders correctly once in a blue moon. Web surfers love to see people using technology so new they can't even view it!

But they do give credit to the original page designers provided you look in the right place. (hint: secret messages)
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