Re: [CGUYS] Flush With Cash and Fearing Rules, Major Carriers Tell Rural America to Get Lost

2009-08-19 Thread mike
Vacation? The mind boggles. On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 4:42 PM, phartz...@gmail.com phartz...@gmail.comwrote: On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 7:10 PM, TPiwowart...@tjpa.com wrote: Where did all this money come from that they can so cavalierly pass on $4.7 billion. Are we being overcharged? Of

Re: [CGUYS] Flush With Cash and Fearing Rules, Major Carriers Tell Rural America to Get Lost

2009-08-19 Thread phartz...@gmail.com
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 2:34 AM, mikexha...@gmail.com wrote: Vacation?  The mind boggles. Yeah, well, in relation to the subject of paying too much for internet connectivity, I was only providing a clear cut example of just how much these big corporations are able to have their way with both

Re: [CGUYS] Zune HD TV Interface Makes It a Media Center For Your Pocket

2009-08-19 Thread TPiwowar
On Aug 18, 2009, at 9:21 PM, Chris Dunford wrote: A failure that hasn't been released yet? Interesting point of view. Perhaps we should wait just a bit. You have to be smart enough to come in out of the rain to understand the concept. Standing there until you are soaked and sneezing is not

Re: [CGUYS] LISTSERV

2009-08-19 Thread TPiwowar
Continuing its effort to differentiate its online applications from Microsoft Office though collaborative capabilities, Google (NSDQ: GOOG) on Tuesday made it possible to share calendars, documents, and sites among Google Groups members. Google Enables Document Sharing Among Groups

Re: [CGUYS] Zune HD TV Interface Makes It a Media Center For Your Pocket

2009-08-19 Thread mike
Yeah, come in from the rain and start making stuff up where it's warm and dry. Truth holds no value just blast those neomicrosofticons. On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 6:52 AM, TPiwowar t...@tjpa.com wrote: On Aug 18, 2009, at 9:21 PM, Chris Dunford wrote: A failure that hasn't been released yet?

Re: [CGUYS] Computer gadgets in cars

2009-08-19 Thread TPiwowar
iPhone tries to make everybody happy... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlzoL-wQwio * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at

Re: [CGUYS] Consumer Level Rechargeable Battery Technology

2009-08-19 Thread b_s-wilk
The important info on NiMH batteries is mAh, milliampere-hour--the charge that a battery will hold. An 850 mAh battery will hold a charge for much less time than a battery labeled as 2600 mAh. I keep a variety of brands for AA and AAA batteries--Duracell Ray-o-Vac, Radio Shack, EverReady,

Re: [CGUYS] Flush With Cash and Fearing Rules, Major Carriers Tell Rural America to Get Lost

2009-08-19 Thread b_s-wilk
Where did all this money come from that they can so cavalierly pass on $4.7 billion. Are we being overcharged? Of course we are being overcharged. I am sure that you already know that. To wit, we pay, on average, five times what users in the Netherlands pay, and our broadband bills are

Re: [CGUYS] Flush With Cash and Fearing Rules, Major Carriers Tell Rural America to Get Lost

2009-08-19 Thread phartz...@gmail.com
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 12:40 PM, b_s-wilkb1sun...@yahoo.es wrote: Plus, when broadband-neglected communities try to roll their own broadband [example: Lafayette, LA, http://lafayetteprofiber.com], the Telcos fight it tooth and nail, secretly funding no socialism campaigns (much like the

Re: [CGUYS] Flush With Cash and Fearing Rules, Major Carriers Tell Rural America to Get Lost

2009-08-19 Thread b_s-wilk
Plus, when broadband-neglected communities try to roll their own broadband [example: Lafayette, LA, http://lafayetteprofiber.com], the Telcos fight it tooth and nail, secretly funding no socialism campaigns (much like the health insurance industry is now doing nationally.) All the more evidence

Re: [CGUYS] drupal for only 10 million

2009-08-19 Thread John Duncan Yoyo
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 9:29 PM, TPiwowar t...@tjpa.com wrote: On Aug 17, 2009, at 8:12 PM, John Duncan Yoyo wrote: John C. Dvorak was going off about this on the No Agenda podcast he does with Adam Curry. Curry is a little too tinfoil hat for my tastes but can be amusing in his paranoia.

Re: [CGUYS] drupal for only 10 million

2009-08-19 Thread TPiwowar
On Aug 19, 2009, at 5:30 PM, John Duncan Yoyo wrote: Dvorak was more annoyed with the quality of the school he went to. U Md has a very good Computer Science program. It is the best in this area, which has lots of schools with CS departments. Kundra has also demonstrated the ability to

Re: [CGUYS] drupal for only 10 million

2009-08-19 Thread mike
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 3:19 PM, TPiwowar t...@tjpa.com wrote: On Aug 19, 2009, at 5:30 PM, John Duncan Yoyo wrote: Dvorak was more annoyed with the quality of the school he went to. U Md has a very good Computer Science program. It is the best in this area, which has lots of schools with