On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 03:03:55AM -0700, Arik Baratz wrote: > 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.
It will in the U.S. The FCC is for it and with the money Google put behind it, it will be done, even if they only spend the money on lobbyists. > 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. Thank you, I'll let him know. > 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 problem is that it will kill competition, see my other posting. > Can you enlighten us? I can't imagine how a company's hiring practice > may destroy the job market in this area. I have no idea. I saw the /. article and read the feedback, but did not read the NYT article as I am not signed up. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel [EMAIL PROTECTED] N3OWJ/4X1GM IL Voice: (077)-424-1667 IL Fax: 972-2-648-1443 U.S. Voice: 1-215-821-1838 Support the growing boycott of Google by radio users and hobbyists. It's starting to work, Yahoo has surpassed Google. ================================================================= 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]
