From: "Rich Gauszka" 


"John Beamish"  wrote in message
news:op.trvwpuhbm6tn4t{at}dellblack.phub.net.cable.rogers.com...
> No hints.
> OK ... 1:  watch the vid
>
> http://tinyurl.com/395wgr



Linux is the Consumer Reports of Operating systems as both the  Linux
device drivers and Consumer Reports reviews usually aren't  for current
products

I did manage to find a good url for totally wrong predictions

http://www.permanent.com/quotes.htm

The world potential market for copying machines is 5000 at most."

-- IBM , to the eventual founders of Xerox, saying the photocopier had no
market large enough to justify production, 1959


"That is the biggest fool thing we have ever done [research on]... The
bomb will never go off, and I speak as an expert in explosives."

-- William D. Leahy, U.S. Admiral, advising President Truman on atomic
weaponry, 1944


"Professor Goddard does not know the relation between action and
reaction and the need to have something better than a vacuum against which
to react. He seems to lack the basic knowledge ladled out daily in high
schools."

-- New York Times editorial about Robert Goddard's revolutionary rocket
work, 1921
(note that the day after Armstrong walked on the moon in 1969, the New York
Times printed a short boxed item on page 2. It read in full: "Errata:
It has now been conclusively demonstrated that a rocket ship can travel
through the vacuum of space. The Times sincerely regrets the error.")

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