On Tue, 17 Feb 2015 16:07:09 -0800, Tom Brennan wrote: >You made me look - >http://www.amazon.com/Minder-Wink-App-Enabled-Smart-Tray/dp/B00GN92KQ4 >I can't believe it :) > Hauntingly reminiscent of: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~coke/history_long.txt ... perhaps even a patent conflict.
And somewhere, perhaps in the Amazon reviews, someone questioned the reason for 14 compartments when eggs come in modules of 12. I had simply assumed that allowed sending the re-order notification before the tray was entirely empty. >But I do somewhat agree with the shipping culture. I've created some >small applications myself for various people, and if you initially ask >them "What do you want?", they can't tell you. But if you show them >something - anything - then they start to get ideas and you can go from >there. > I have long felt that if only the Wright Brothers had enjoyed the counsel of an MBA they could have become the world's leading franchiser of bicycle repair shops. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
