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Unwinding Cisco's Not-So-Simple Beginnings
saridder writes: "There's a saying that behind every fortune is a crime, and
as we have learned with Apple, Microsoft, and others, Cisco is no
different. The SJ Mercury
has an article outlining and debunking the myth of Cisco's
founding."
the fp that is?
but this company started with a crime.
I know it's trendy to bash Apple, but there's rivalry and then there's libel.
I don't really care how they got started, they should ban that damn thong song!
Let me see that thong, thong, tha, thong, thong, tha, thong... t
mp3's are only for those with bad memories
A typical geek just like you and I is being investigated by the Secret Service, for a comment he made on a discussion forum, the US is entering one of its most repressive eras in history... and you people have the gall to be discussing a fucking networking company?
The thousands of political prisoners that are sure to be taken in the next few years really don't give a damn about any of the ways you are "getting on with your lives".
Pathetic.
What a way to Rip Off BBSPOT Interviews and articles(Serveral hours later) What ru going to call the site Slashspot.org!! HAHAHA... For NEWER news check out BBSPOT NEWS Give a little Credit where credit is diservered. All the Sites Founder Brian Briggs had to say was, "Its a Sad day for Open Source when something as Attroicious as this can occur. Bill Gate would be Happy."
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Why are you all calling it a scooter? I'd say that's a bit of an understatement.
I think all the people who are saying "electric scooter, big whoop. $3,000, yeah right" are slightly missing the point. Yeah, it's kind of wimpy for the price tag. Yeah, it's kind of expensive, and it's questionable who would want to use it.
But this is just the first model. It's more sort of a proof of concept--a demonstration that the scooter can work, and looks as neat as all get-out in motion. As time goes on, the performance will improve and the price will fall.
Look at the Palm (Pilot). The first model was, what, 128K? With no backlight, no infra-red, or anything? And how high was the price tag? And now the Visor Deluxe, which was at one time the wet dream of anybody who even looked at a Palm, is only $130 brand new.
Look at the DVD player. The original models were expensive enough, the first bunch of discs were glitchy enough, that a lot of people scoffed and made snide remarks. But the DVD went on to become the fastest-adopted new consumer technology ever.
So here we have a relatively slow, electric-powered self-stabilizing scooter, for $3,000. Are very many of us going to buy it? Do very many of us have the money to sink into that sort of gee-gaw? No and no. I know I'm not going to be spending three grand on something like that myself, either. Nor would I be likely to spend two grand, or even one grand.
shut it, you steenky foreign hippy
And that's why we hate red hat.
me theenk-a you-a-steenky foreign hippy
I'm doing the same thing right now! Maybe I'll be a millionaire in a few years! However I'm a socialist at heart so nothing is really stealing.
I think we have a winner!
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