In article ,
Dave Hinz wrote:

On Tue, 11 Dec 2007 19:30:13 -0800, Jon Anderson
wrote:

Which is worse, not having a good idea in the first place,
or having one and not following through with it???

/me: raises hand for "industrial noise sound cancellation using
microphones, an invertor, and speakers".

30 years ago.

Me to son around 1988 or so: "Wouldn't it be a great idea to make a
computer printer out of a Xerox machine somehow? You wouldn't be talking
about characters-a-second, you'd be talking about pages-a-minute or even
more."