Put another way, the US has to wire up 3,798 Luxembourgs. :)
This is such silly logic that it is hard to respond.
Compare the difficulty of burying fiber in an urban area to doing the
same in a rural area. In the city they are lucky to bury a couple hundred
feet in a day. In rural areas the
Lest I remind you that most of these enterprises are government
controlled and government funded enterprises.
Do you refuse to drive on any roadway that was not privately built?
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Wireless is fine but so far it is a sub-optimal technology in terms
of speed and reliability.
Do you really want a system that drops out whenever it rains?
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I have FIOS at home and a shared T1 at work. Talk about a let down.
Why would anyone use T1 today? T1 is 1.5 Mbps. That was considered fast
10 years ago, but is crappy even by US standards.
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Applying a second round of lossy compression to a file that is already
compressed using lossy compression produces a horrid result.
If your cable provider is doing this I would argue that they are not
selling you what they claim to be selling you. It is an adulterated
product. Like the
I find it strange how many of us will tolerate all sorts of technological
eyesores on our streets: power lines, telephone poles, traffic lights,
mailboxes, street lights, lines for phones and cable, satellite dishes,
cars, trucks, roads, etc, but lose all rationality when it comes to cell
towers.
I just read that iPhone service plans with unlimited data start at $24
USD in Hong Kong. That is about 1/4 of the lowest US price.
That's what we mean by being losers.
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Here they lure you in with cheap/free phones and stick you with the
service contract. Over in many other countries you pay mucho bucks
up front for the phone then shop for your plan
I guess that is why it is so desirable to have poor schools. If people
could do some rudimentary math they
They do not have a multitude of carriers, and usually have a
government monopoly, or one that is heavily subsidized by the government.
Interesting logic. First we promote the nutty right-wing mantra that
government is bad. Then we let the nutty process run for a couple of
decades and discover
I told him that I could also just put in an antenna and a switch and get
the channels OTA.
Getting a digital TV tripled the OTA programming I was getting. Any
thoughts about paying for cable quickly vanished.
However I did notice a seasonal variation in reception. My reception is
considerably
Well played! Nice job of working a gratuitous potshot at MS into a
conversation that has no relation whatsoever to anything that MS does.
Not my fault if you are not paying attention. The strategy of
incompatibility was not invented by the telcos.
This is going to be tough for the WFBs to swallow...
http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/microsoft/archives/141821.asp
Long email from B. Gates (Yes, that B. Gates). Boils down to: I am quite
disappointed at how Windows Usability has been going backwards and the
program management groups don't
Ever hear of socialized medicine?
Most of my relatives live in Europe. Some are doctors. They are very,
very happy with their socialized medicine. Health care is their #1 reason
for not wanting to live in the US. They are amazed how easily Americans
are brainwashed by greedy insurance
Oh yeah eh. The Canadian Health Care System is a model of efficiency
too. A friend's doctor ordered a MRI for a concern about a possible
Certainly tragic, but what is the screw-up rate at US hospitals? Would it
have been better to not provide MRI in the region because it was too
sparsely
Wisconsin Farm Bureau?
Windows Fan Bois
I was thinking WFB might not give them as much heart burn.
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During his farewell event at Microsoft this morning, Gates referred to this,
and poked a little fun at us: One of the newspapers had some e-mail that I
sent about how maybe Windows could have been better at something, and they
said, 'This is a shocking e-mail. Shocking!' And I said, 'What do you
I am a doctor, in the US, and I just spent more than an hour of my morning
on the phone with three different insurance companies to get a required
medication for one of my patients..
But we do not call it rationing. What is the job title for an MBA who
makes life and death medical decisions
Interestingly, in Belgium if I use up the PayGo card to zero, people can
still call me inasmuch as the caller pays and the recipient does not!! Here
in the USA they sell AIR twice; they've got us commin'goin' !! If the
caller is on the same company as I had (Proximus), then nobody pays on
It is a highly dangerous intersection. The
fix had been approved and funded and at the last minute they pulled
the funding, why? So they could give it to another part of the state
to lure a business into the area!
Yeah this stuff happens all the time and the criteria stinks
You mean
Have and have nots? When did broadband become a fundamental right?
You are coming from a strange place. Broadband is not a fundamental
right, but it is fundamental to the operation of a modern technological
society. With crappy broadband the US falls further and further behind.
If we want to
Ah yes... Tom is the overseer of all that is good or bad...
Ah yes, when you can't prevail on the merits switch to personal attacks.
I certainly would.
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Interchangable parts doesn't mean interoperability. The guns you refer to
were interchangeable only as far as the same model/manufacturer.
It was the first step. Before then each individual rifle was a unique
item. Then the benefits of uniformity within a plant were discovered.
Then uniformity
My point was that certain people would sooner sleep on bed of hot coals than
acknowledge that MS is quite well aware of Windows's shortcomings AND might
be trying to do something about it. He says that [Gates] knows Windows
sucks, but mistakenly thinks he can apply band aids to make it better. The
Does anyone know anything about the security of Amazon's
S3 service - how secure is it? If you lose the password,
are you up a creek?
Amazon is trying to sell S3 and its processors as a computing platform.
If they had poor security it would scuttle the entire business. So I
would expect Amazon
I have my gripes with OS X (I miss Location Manager, for
example), but it doesn't suck, IMO.
Next time you have lots of time on your hands just Google FTFF and read
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It is both a good thing and a bad things as this will be a toll road
and it will cost the public to use it until it is paid for.
Next we outsource police, fire, and courts. It will be nice to simply pay
to have my noisy neighbor arrested and more efficient to try cases by
auction.
Do you really want a system that drops out whenever it rains?
So what is the problem? If you have bad service on
my network my people will fix it. I know that parts of
the network are old and up for replacement.
Looks like I touched a raw nerve.
People with wireless data plans should know
I'm no authority, but I can't help wondering if
the first tech put a
filter on the line, either on the pole or
somewhere on or in your house.
If I were you I'd look at all the connectors you
can see for tubular
connector a couple inches long, and remove it.
It's just a possibility.
Yes it
Can anyone recommend a biometric (thumb print preferably), flash drive
that they've had experience with?
I have read reports that these are not hard to defeat. I recall something
about crazy glue and jello.
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Check out antennaweb.org for a chart of what you can expect to receive
from your location with an outdoor antenna.
They list 29 stations, but some of the listed stations have 3 or 4 feeds.
Some of the additional feeds are just weather, but some, like for PBS,
offer a full compliment of
I see Apple has released a Security Update 2008-004 for Tiger. Any
comments?
It provides the same updates as X.5.4. I'm not seeing any serious
complaints, but it is a bit too soon to tell.
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This is precisely why my antenna installer said he is not installing
UHF-only antennas. He said If I did you would be mad at me when the
stations refuse to move.
How does a broadcaster get to go back and use his old VHF assignment? I
thought that all VHF TV was being killed so that those
That is what we all thought, wasn't it? It is not the case.
Looks like we were not reading the fine print. While they will all go
digital in February, it appears that at least some of them will remain on
VHF. Antenna Web reports that in DC channels 4, 5, 7, and 9 will continue
on VHF.
You have done way too much to claim just very basic Mac knowledge.
Kernel panics are almost always hardware problems. The Apple Hardware
Test may find a problem, but it ain't enough to rule out hardware
problems. I usually track these down by removing all suspects. Unplug all
peripherals and
Okay--Thanks, Tom. Guess I have my weekend entertainment right here.
Windows has not cornered the market on home e*n*t*e*r*t*a*i*n*m*e*n*t!
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Interesting AP story on stealing $1,000,000s by hacking bank's back-end
systems to harvest ATM PINs.
http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2008/07/02/atm-citibank.html
Hackers are targeting the ATM system's infrastructure, which is
increasingly built on Microsoft Corp.'s Windows operating system...
I don't know any compelling technical reason
why a OS9 not UI could be implemented on top of BSD
(even on top of *nix, X-Windows based technology).
There are multiple problems. Grafting a GUI on top of a CLI is a stupid
thing to do (as proved long ago by early versions of Windows). GUI logic
I've found that most corporate management is inclined to devalue
in-house programmers, and to assume that anything developed by the big
players must be superior. I remember, decades ago, informing my
department head that I'd fixed an error in a commonly used routine
that had been supplied by IBM.
Or you could ask...
www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com
Unfortunately they report that cguys.org is down, but I can access it
just fine.
So much for high tech.
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Study says more than 10,000 laptops go missing at US airports each week
Actually 10,000 PCs. Most were not lost, they were abandoned.
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So, how in the hell does one go about forgetting their computer,
especially as many times at it apparently occurs? And then to make
so little effort to retrieve it? Have we, as a society, actually
developed that much of a throw away attitude toward relatively
expensive things? If so,
Computer #1 cannot even see computer #2 - Access denied error # 0x80070005.
Is this correct? Access denied is a response to a connection request. I
don't see how you could get to access denied if #1 did not see #2, try
to connect, and then get told to buzz off.
An suggestion where to start? I
I thought Tom's recent post was even more derisive than normal. It
felt to me, as if it touched some sort of nerve with him.
My writing that Mac owners are more emotionally attached to their
computers and therefore less likely to be careless with them was hardly
inflammatory, unless one were
Where do I look for those log files, and what do I look for in them?
Right-click on MyComputer and select Manage. You should see several
different logs under System Tools. Start with the Security log.
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I also didn't realize Mac owners would be emotionally attached to their
computers. In my job, I use both Macs and PCs (yeah, I know... I've
never 'fessed up that I'm a Mac person too). But I don't feel any more
emotional attachment to the Macs that I use than I do to my PC. I see
them both as
i presume that a very high percentage of the computers hauled thru
airports are by business persons. very few companies by mac laptops for
their employees.
Then you haven't been paying attention...
Dell takes huge hit as Apple laptop sales soar
SP3 might be listed as a critical update - I'd pass on installing that
in looking for a remedy for this problem.
Running a major update on a malfunctioning computer can make matters
worse because installers assume they are patching a computer that is
working properly. Most posts cursing MS or
When you ran the Doxpara test, what IP address did it report? For me, it
reported a different IP address than either of the two (primary and
secondary) that we are supposed to use for OpenDNS (208.67.222.222 and
208.67.220.220). Rather, it reported 208.69.32.13. Is there some sort of
If he'd compared low end macbook to low end HP, the HP would have won out by
about 200 bux. I can drive down to Fry's right now and get a HP configured
with twice the memory, 2 inches larger screen, larger HD all for about 200
less then if I buy the macbook they sell next to it. As is said,
I know that someone earlier today performed an internet search on my
wife's full name, which will be a very rare search term.
I was curious to see what they found so I did the same.
The first site Google listed executed a screen capture type attack from
the well-known virus-onlinescanner.com
Agreed. However, that does not mean that a significant number of
those purchases are being made by corporations for use by their
employees
Looks like a fine post for FlatEarthSociety-L.
Why is it so important for you to deny the prevalence of Macs? Macs,
especially Mac laptops, are quite
to pass around a room of attendees to sign in their information or fill
out a form, what would you choose?
What is wrong with a piece of paper?
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How did you find that they had searched for your wife's name?
The old fashioned way: They told her and she told me.
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Thinking about this while I write this out, maybe the thing
to do is check the settings for the printer in the control
panel.
That's right. This is often the case. The printer has to know that the
paper it is feeding matches the paper being requested.
My point was that it should not be assumed that a goodly number of those
lost computers were Macs that were owned by businesses and dedicated
to business use.
Why do you think a businesses should not care about the productivity and
happiness of its workers? Why do you think managers are
I think one thing that's hurting Apple's sales (to some extent) is
people have gotten used to Apple's historically higher prices. But as
Tom's attempting to point out, the price points are getting remarkably
close.
Macs have always been a bargain.
Also the Mac version doesn't have a place where you can adjust the
speed of the upload to lessen the pressure on the computer resources
so I'm stuck with the way they have it set. I've emailed their tech
support (3 days ago) but have gotten no response.
I'm going to check out the links you
Everyone's had their say about the missing laptop study. And 94-98% of
the world still buys Windows computers and probably will for the rest
of our lifetimes. Give it a rest already.
We are not off course. You just want to censor the message.
If more people valued their expensive laptops fewer
A polygraph for who? I like the way you cut and pasted that quote from
cnet...at first glance it looks like 20,000 google employees have macs.
Sorry, corrected it reads...
Google has long had a fondness for the Mac, with upwards of 6,000 of
its... 20,000 current employees opting to use the Mac
Tom's answer was witty, but it ignores some concerns.
That was a very serious answer (though I never object to being called
witty).
If the organization holds a lot of meetings, then this means shoving said
sheet of paper into an ever-expanding folder in a drawer somewhere.
Paper is cheap.
Your question could be more easily answered had it not contained
the phrase productivity and happiness, as if they are somehow
connected to one another in a way that suggests that if you have one,
you'll automatically have the other.
See, there is the IT manager as slave master mentality
What I'm envisioning is one of our recruiting presenters gathering the
information on a wireless PC, and then uploading it through a wireless
connection onto a server that stores it.
If you must, I would go with an under $100 Palm device. You could get
software to create a custom form or just
Here's an alternate solution (if it's any good, it's probably already been
implemented. If not, then it's probably a lousy idea):
Or you could become one of those progressive companies that requires all
employees to have an RFID tag surgically implanted.
This would have the added benefit of
Don't you mean *doesn't* reinforce my long-held beliefs about IT
management?
No. It reinforced my long-held beliefs by demonstrating that good IT
management is possible and can quickly turn around a bad situation to
everyone's benefit. It was a good controlled experiment because nothing
This camera will replace a Nikon Coolpix 4500 which has been great,
but which is getting a bit dated. The Nikon was originally purchased
to take close-ups of small items, for which it is great, but I'm
interested to know what's out now.
Since you are taking pictures for posting online you
no parsimonious lectures on not buying on ebay, or one gets what one pays
for, etc, please. i have purchased thousands of items on ebay, and was
last burned in 2000 or 2002.
Sellers can reject bids. This is supposed to protect the seller from
buyers with poor ratings. This may be what they
The major
problem is that it focuses, and then refocuses inappropriately,
sometimes when I'm taking close-ups of ceramics and porcelain marks.
Autofocus depends on having a vertical line in the frame, which you won't
have with such a close up. Try using a piece of colored tape to add one
to
Frankly, unless you *have* to have XP, it's not worth the trouble to
downgrade.
Even Tom agrees with that.
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Actually, autofocus depends upon having areas of substantially
differing contrast adjacent to each other within the focusing area.
Cameras will vary, but you try it on a field of sharply drawn horizontal
lines and see what happens.
Cameras will vary, but you try it on a field of sharply drawn horizontal
lines and see what happens.
Correction: I just read that vertical focus sensors are best at detecting
horizontal lines. So please rotate my comments 90°.
I also read that a low to midrange digital camera will have one
But their vault is thru S3 and it
would cost me $99/month for less data than if I went directly thru S3.
An external drive with that much storage costs under $150 and affords a
much better data transfer rate. I have been doing this for many years,
rotating three drives between office and
No I'm not providing a link. I'm just exclaiming.
I just renewed my candy-bar Nokia 6010 for a year. So no I'm not besotted.
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I still have that model and, would like to get rid of it. The
SAR(Specific Absorption Rate) on that phone is .937, my LG KG800 is much
lower on the SAR scale, as far as the SAR rating goes.
I only use it while wearing my tin foil hat. If I don't wear it the
voices in my head make it difficult
And by the way...this HP which sells for less then 1k, is FAR FAR away from
the 'cheapest' HP. However, that 1199 macbook is the cheapest one for
Apple. So in point of fact, i was allowing Apple to set cheapest components
while paying more for them. HP, Toshiba, Asus, Lenova..Apple..they may
Yes but how many were activated? I understand that there were many
many problems with getting them activated and they are still working it out.
Apple has never been good at managing servers. They crashed early in the
day. However I read that everything was working fine later in the day.
Apparently Treo came out with a new phone that will compete with the
Iphone. It is a Sprint 800W and it has Wi-Fi that comes
It runs Windows, uses almost half its area for keyboard buttons, and uses
the Sprint network. The screen is 320 x 320, which is what my ancient
Palm PDA has. One would
I am interested in knowing the name of your current cell phone
company, and why you made the switch (assuming that renewed
indicates that you switched, not that you purchased a year's worth of
time), and details of your plan (unless of course, you consider my
request unseemly prying).
foxpro and iTunes do not conflict with anything on my pc with xp.
Me too with FireFox. My PC is about the same vintage as yours. In this
case the fact that MS did not produce a new version of Windows for so
many years is an advantage because your old OS is still quite up to date
(assuming you
1) I am not an Apple hater.
I was not referring to you specifically.
I suspend your sentence and you may now depart the gulag.
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I don't understand Tom. You say $75/ yr. for 1150 mins. from T-Mobile.
Don't you mean $75/ mo.?
I say what I mean and I mean what I say. $75 per year.
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http://www.t-mobile.com/shop/plans/
That be the one. They call it Pay As You Go. It is the best deal I have
seen.
T
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No comments on this issue, eh? I suppose you'd have to be a serious OS X
geek to know about something like this.
No geeks here, just fan bois and glitterati.
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I guess that Macs have always been seen as appealing to folks of a
countercultural nature or to those who would be different, as the
Mac ads say. I also think that is a big reason that many steer clear
of Macs.
You will also see lots of Macs used by scientists. If you watch science
programs
I fully comprehend and understand all of what you are saying and
did so from the outset of my observations. Indeed, almost all of the
computers were Dells. The point remains that however it is
accomplished and for whatever the reason, Windows systems remain
hugely dominant in the
Going forward, I predict we'll see a decline in market share of both Windows
and Apple in this area, in favor of open-source *nix OSs (linux,etc.).
There's absolutely no advantage to a proprietary OS in a turnkey system.
One would think so. The most trouble-free piece of equipment I have here
in
Where do you get this stuff?
You need to get out more.
Expand your reading beyond Microsoft Security Bulletins.
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Well that's proof. Tv. lol.
Mike thinks those Macs you see on Nova are CGIs.
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How about being so protective of your hardware that you are willing to go
to jail to keep others from molesting it? This is a fascinating story...
The Story Behind San Francisco's Rogue Network Admin
Last Sunday, Terry Childs, a network administrator employed by the City
of San Francisco, was
FUD doesn't work. If your work bright and shiny on a mac good for you. Others
have just as much productivity on windows or linux or solaris...whatever tool
that works for them.
The point was made the Xnix would be a far better platform for POS than
either Mac or Windows. To which I heartily
The real interesting bit out of this is Apple's use of windows ce as their
POSgosh that's funny isn't it?
Not really. There is no alternative PDA POS. The only thing that is funny
is your expectation that they would do something stupid.
I just got my eeepc. High five!
Do we get a review?
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Actually, the most productive people are those who don't get sucked into
another one of Tom's or John's silly, adolescent pissing matches, yet again.
WFBs get so emotional as Microsoft slips into irrelevance. They would
play ostrich while significant changes are occurring in the computer
You are correct, but no these types of bozos haven't disappeared yet.
Bozos like the Washington Post. It is sad that the best newspaper in the
area has such backward online management. All that Post seems to be able
to do these days is round after round of staff cuts.
Steve, good point. I agree that getting someone to switch from one thing to
another is generally difficult. That's where Microsoft makes their money.
Microsoft Office is a good example - I run into businesses that say they
don't like Office that much, but they have to have it for compatibility
Or, like me, happy with what they have and see no need to go to another
platform.
Mac sales up by a whopping 41% year over year.
iPhone sales up by a whopping 300% year over year.
Not bad during a major recession.
iPod sales up by a 12% year over year.
Not bad for a market considered saturated.
Has anyone else seen this? Firefox's improvements and undocumented
features are starting to make Internet Explorer look like a better
choice :-(
Most people run FF with Always clear my private data when I close
FireFox enabled. Won't this suffice for you?
Thanks for checking, but did you try Satellite mode?
No matter what zoom level I try, it gives me the we don't have that zoom
level message.
Nice and clear. I can even count the windows in my office building.
I only get blocked when I zoom in on the nude beach.
Are you really trying to say that you have never, in
your vast experience, come across the acronym FUD
or any of the many things Microsoft has done that
this label has been applied to?
Are you implying that Windows is the preferred platform for the grossly
uninformed? I certainly hope not. That
Get a video card with a digital output, and use the digital cable to
connect the LCD monitor to the video card. The color fringing is almost
certainly caused in the part of the circuitry where the signal is analog.
Could even be caused by a poor quality analog (VGA) video cable.
I am
The LCD has a native resolution of 1440 x 900.
However, when connected via the DVI cable, that
resolution was not available in the display
preferences, only 1280 x 960 and one or two
other, smaller resolutions (I didn't write them
down; sorry). When using the VGA cable, however,
I have
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