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To: straight life who wrote (18544)	11/19/1998 2:30:00 AM
From: jpbrody	Respond to of 152472

Off Topic : Funny story about Nokia/Wall Street from COMDEX This is from a piece by John Dvorak in The Wall Street Journal (I don't like to post the whole article, for copyright reasons.) I was impressed by the thinking that went into an 18-inch LCD flat panel that Nokia was showing. Apparently one of the company's marketing people was confronted by a stock trader who complained about the flat panel's delicacy. This trader demonstrated by throwing a phone violently against an LCD monitor, cracking it in front of the Nokia representative. Nokia then added a piece of protective glass in front of the LCD screen, so the panel could withstand this kind of abuse -- which, I am told, is epidemic among traders, who apparently get mad easily and throw things at their computer screens. The Nokia representative showing me the LCD panels demonstrated this protective barrier by flinging a computer mouse against the panel. It seems apparent that all desktop panels will eventually adopt this idea, especially the ones being sold to Wall Street trading desks. -- Jim water-cooler.com