And historically, some forward looking companies not only allow, but require employees to spend some percentage of their time in research independent of their normal job. Everyone knows the evolution of 3M Post-it notes. When I worked at 3M Central Research Laboratories, I was required to spend 15% of my time on independent research (I was a college student) and the only requirement was that I inform the Technical Director what things I was looking into. I could even spend that time talking to *anyone* in the Lab including a guy so intelligent he reported to no one except when he wanted to. I only managed to patent a special version of magnetic screwdriver. The man in the lab next to me was around 10 years older and had 20+ patents for 3M. The last one I know he did was a very accurate and efficient way to measure blood clotting. The medicos and hospitals desperately wanted that one. So many things can happen when you unfetter your people! On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 12:17 PM, Stephen wrote: > This is how new technology is discovered. with to much free time and > really high end tech. what do they do find a use for said tech and maybe > make some new tech to go along with. > > > On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 10:18 AM, Michael Havens wrote: > >> gee.... it reminds me of the game 'pong' >> :-)~MIKE~(-: >> >> >> On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 9:46 AM, Eric Cope wrote: >> >>> IBM has too much free time: >>> >>> http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/40970.wss >>> >>> Eric >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > > > > -- > A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from > rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. > > Stephen > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- Dazed_75 a.k.a. Larry Please protect my address like I protect yours. When sending messages to multiple recipients, use the BCC: (Blind carbon copy). Remove addresses from a forwarded message body before clicking Send.