Re: JAWS, authorization & free markets
- From: trouble <trouble1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 19:00:58 -0500
you got to be kidding jaws for under $100? Don't make me laugh!
As long as the government and sheep pay the price it will never come down
in fact its went up!
At 04:00 PM 12/31/03 -0600, you wrote:
>Hi Listers,
> While Freedom Scientific is not guiltless in their approach to their
>customer base, there is no justification for circumventing the
>authorization system because two wrongs do not and never have made a
>right.
> As the general populous becomes more and more illiterate hardware and
>software manufacturers will continue to make more and more things speak
>because folks just can't read. Cars talk to tell you of problems, VCRs
>speak to you, cameras speak to tell you some basic information,
>refrigerators hook to the internet to provide information to the
>"housewife" and so on.
> Cast your memory back to when a few libraries had the magic machine
>which would read a book and cost more than $32,000 in 1969 dollars.
>Today you can purchase the same capability for under $1,600 or so in
>2003 dollars. What would $1,600 be in 1969 dollars? Maybe $800?
> There will come a day when you can purchase the JAWS like ability for
>under $100. You can get the ability to reliably scan a document for
>under $100 today. Sure, it does not have all of the bells and whistles
>of some select market software but it is affordable to those of us who
>do not have the luxury of having our hardware and software provided to
>us by some governmental agency.
> Thanks for all of the valuable tips and hints I have gotten from the
>List this year. Wishing all of you a most profitable and peaceful New
>Year. CYS...
>
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Tim
trouble
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