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Living on Internet Time... Like Thomas Edison Did

Posted by chrisd on from the love-the-automatic-hammer dept.

securitas writes: "If you think that dotcommers are the first people to live on Internet time, then take a trip to the 19th century (NYT Story, here's a Yahoo link). Thomas Edison had 10,000 researchers and scientists working at his Menlo Park labs, who slept on their desks, and had the same problems pleasing the investment community as today's tech companies. The result? Over 1000 patents and many inventions that we take for granted today."

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  1. Re:My experiences with Windows XP Professional by Cenam · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    ok, you felt like ranting, but it isn't microsofts fault that dell fucked up or that you had to change to a decent os(i meen if you were running mandreake or red hat i might understand the neglecting to switch..but openbsd..please)..

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  2. Patents by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    You guys are fucked, patents are good... fuck RMS and his socialist idealism... its only a pipedream

  3. this is Microsoft's fault by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Yet another example of Micro$oft's evilness. Everyone knows that .NET is inferior. M$ != cool. I really like to use Linux, and Bill Grapes^H^H^H^H^HTapes^H^H^H^H^H^HShades^F^FD^F^EG^ EHE^G^DSG^ERWG^WEG^DSG^SG^FS^G^FSG^F^S^GS^G^SFG^DS G^_Gates_ can suck my dick.

    I tried running Windows once but it crashed. Don't buy an XBox unless you want to see the Blue Screen of Death on your TV.

    Oh, and remember M$ BOB?? HAHAHAHhhahahahaha.

    Please mod this post up.