The department plotted the location of every person on probation as a dot on a map.
Imagining yourself as a dot of light on a screen is oddly reassuring.
But will consumers recall the commercial assault as a dot-comedy of errors or as a turning point for dot-coms on the road to respectability?
He is aware of every marking, and understands what that marking means - what Schubert marks as a dot and what Mozart marks as a dot isn't always the same thing.
"When people heard us referred to as a dot-com, they worried we were on our way out of business".
She has said as much herself, it is true, but she also speaks of herself as a dot lost in a milling universe of dots.
You would not expect to look deep into these masterpieces of 20th-century art and see a sharp edge, an outline or anything as concise as a dot.
"If your business exists only as a dot-com, it's already generic," said Ms. Goodgold, the chief executive of the Nuancing Group, a brand consulting firm in San Diego.
These are based on a modular unit that is the diagonal of the small square serving as a dot in certain letters of the Arabic alphabet.
CNet and his early investment in Salesforce.com earned him fame as a dot-com wunderkind and a fortune estimated at several hundred million dollars.
