Big businesses are run by their marketing departments so your scenario is highly unlikely. But I see you are an idealist - and it is A Good Thing. I hope I could be, as I was. But speaking about phones, I would like to see a phone with buttons about the size of normal fingers. That would be an useful feature - but not a sexy one. All the best! Raimo K Personal photography homepage at: http://www.uusikaupunki.fi/~raikorho
----- Original Message ----- From: "frank theriault" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2004 9:41 PM Subject: Re: Film vs Digita, was: lRe: Pentax is Dying? > --- frank theriault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Speaking about useless technology, I always thought it > would be nice if huge faceless corporations, once a > product has been developed to a point that further > development is simply gimmicky, said to the R&D > department, "Instead of beating a dead horse, take a > couple of months, and see what you can do to solve > world hunger (or 3rd World > transportation/communications issues, or implement a > cheap way to filter water so millions don't die every > year from contaminated wells, etc.)" > > I know it can't happen, but when one sees these > technological wonders we have nowadays, one can't help > but think that we have the brainpower to solve pretty > much any problem in the world. > > There's just no will to do it. > > Rant over. Sorry if I got political or overly OT. > > cheers, > frank > > ===== > "The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true." -J. Robert Oppenheimer > > ______________________________________________________________________ > Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca >
