solid rock?
Not true at all. see and here: translated wikipedia page

I see your point, but I think LCD has been used for Liquid Crystal Display by so many now that it's LCD for short. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_crystal_display for example.

I meant LC Displays

And who says how many segments there are - let's say for LCD displays or cars?
Price fixing is stupid.

So if I want less quality because I cannot afford the quality - I'm SOL?
And if the price is fixed, how do I innovate? Or rather, why should I?

It's really all you need to know. (Discl.: I am Swiss)

Having too many meetings has nothing to do with technology.
As parent said, it's more efficient to send all the participants the same email who then only have to click 1 button - and if they do want to say anything besides accept/decline, they still can! That way you get a nice list where you can see all the answers, versus 20 mails where you have to read first if it's a yes or a no.
And: It's not a requirement that you actually respond, in that respect there is no difference to regular email of course.
I'm not sure why I'm writing this, it's so obvious, I think you're trolling.