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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> On Behalf Of Tomas L. Byrnes
>> Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2008 4:13 PM
>> To: Gregory Hicks; [email protected]
>> 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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>> On Behalf Of Gregory Hicks
>>> Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2008 12:26 PM
>>> To: [email protected]
>>> 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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