> unfortunately, many, many worth while enterprises are very, very poorly > funded, and funding is not always easy to get, even with a brilliant > idea. $1500 is very reasonable, to an established company, for a start > up it's a significant cost even with financing. i've worked for small As near as I can tell, one of the biggest causes for startups to fail is lack of financing. If a USB id is a cost of doing business, it should be in the business plan. -- D. Jay Newman ! DCX - it takes off and lands base first, jay@sprucegrove.com ! as God and Robert Heinlein intended. http://enerd.ws/robots/ ! -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.