On 25/08/05, Geoffrey S. Mendelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > They invested $100,000,000 in BPL, which will destroy all long range > radio communictions including shortwave radio, ham radio, VHF lowband > television and all of the IDF communitcaions where you see the long > antennas.
Too bad it will go down the drain - it's my personal belief BPL (Broadband over Power Lines) will never see the light of day. > A friend of mine from the U.S. pointed out that Google Earth uses > the Arabic names for places in Israel that have both Hebrew and > Arabic names. This has caused quite a stir in the Jewish community > in Silicon Valley. Well, I just checked. Not true. The place names layer has the Hebrew name for all Israeli cities that I checked, including Ariel settlement and places in the Golan Height. There is also a layer of locations specified by users on the web forum, where you can find Hafa' near Haifa and Acre near Akko, but the name layer Google provides has the current, modern, Hebrew names. > They are planing on blanketing the world with free wifi, putting out > of business the small business that are doing the same thing, and > preventing places that offer wifi such as coffee houses from turning > it off when they want customers to come and buy drinks, not use free > wifi and buy nothing or stay for hours keeping other customers out. Sorry, but this is the meaning of competition. It's much like Linux is putting (or will put) the commercial OS makers out of business because it's free. And if the coffee shops don't like freeloaders, they can kick them out. If you come into a coffee shop and read a book for hour you will also be kicked out, wifi or no wifi. > The New York times has an article about how their hiring practices > have destoyed the job market in that area for startups. Personaly > I think that's good, maybe more people will invest in startups here > instead. Can you enlighten us? I can't imagine how a company's hiring practice may destroy the job market in this area. I live in Palo Alto now, and I don't really see it happening. -- Arik ================================================================To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
