It's this kind of sloppy writing that makes the rest of us have to
learn useless new words. I've never in my life heard the word
wireline before today, and really can't see the need when landline
works so well. Unless maybe we're talking about wired lines in the
air? Even underwater lines lay on
Amen, Tony
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From: Tony B ton...@gmail.com
Subject: [CGUYS] a new word?
To: COMPUTERGUYS-L@listserv.aol.com
Date: Tuesday, January 5, 2010, 11:45 AM
It's this kind of sloppy writing that makes the rest of us have to
learn useless new words. I've
We are considering moving to a new bank, one small reason to do this is
because our bank doesn't support mint.com, there are other larger reasons
for the move but don't involve the tech side of things. So...anyone have
thoughts on mint.com specifically and or banks they use to interface with
A factoid, FWIW - The Wireline Competition Bureau is part of the current
structure of the FCC.
According to its website (http://www.fcc.gov/wcb/):
The Wireline Competition Bureau develops and recommends policy goals,
objectives, programs and plans for the Commission on matters concerning
On Jan 4, 2010, at 11:39 PM, chad evans wyatt wrote:
Curious that no mention here of the passing of PC Magazine, crossed
over after the January issue into digital only. As Mac-centric, I
nonetheless value the opinions and information from a great
publication, now left hardcopy after 20
On Jan 5, 2010, at 11:45 AM, Tony B wrote:
It's this kind of sloppy writing that makes the rest of us have to
learn useless new words.
Tech folks need more words that non-tech folks because they need to
make precise distinctions. E.g. Eskimos have dozens of words for what
we just call
On Jan 4, 2010, at 8:47 PM, Tony B wrote:
It works, but oddly, it seems particularly useless.
Windows 7? Yes indeed.
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At 11:45 AM -0500 1/5/10, Tony B wrote:
It's this kind of sloppy writing that makes the rest of us have to
learn useless new words. I've never in my life heard the word
wireline before today, and really can't see the need when landline
works so well. Unless maybe we're talking about wired lines
Now that MINT is part of Intuit, I would presume more banks will be
supporting the program...
Eschew Obfuscation
This is a reply from:
Roy A. Ackerman, Ph.D., E.A.
Financial, Managerial, and Technical Services
for the Professional, Non-Profit, and the
On Jan 5, 2010, at 2:47 AM, Roy A. Ackerman, Ph.D., E.A. wrote:
Now that MINT is part of Intuit, I would presume more banks will be
supporting the program...
And fewer of us may be interested in signing up with mint.com. I was
about to check them out and that news stopped me dead in my
Right. I was afraid I'd give the impression I was switching JUST for mint,
but I'm not. I was trying to simply keep it in line with our subject matter
in that the two main reasons I'm switching are not directly related to what
we try to discuss here.
I've never used Mint as my credit union
It's this kind of sloppy writing that makes the rest of us have to
learn useless new words.
Tech folks need more words that non-tech folks because they need to
make precise distinctions. E.g. Eskimos have dozens of words for what
we just call snow.
You're right in general, but Eskimos
Tom, that is unmitigated, but often-perpetuated, BS. Please list some
of these extra words for snow. Also, tech-folks do not need extra
words, unless they mean different things that we need to be able to
differentiate to be clear.
Thank you,
Mark Snyder
-Original Message-
Tech folks
Chris, thanks for a more informative response.
Thank you,
Mark Snyder
-Original Message-
You're right in general, but Eskimos having many words for snow is
something of a myth. The Eskimo languages are polysynthetic, which
means, more or less, that multiple words are combined into one
wireline n: a slender, rodlike or threadlike piece of metal usually small in
diameter, that is used for lowering special tools (such as logging sondes,
perforating guns, and so forth) into the well. Also called slick line.
Ellen H who once worked in the oil patch
- Original Message -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireline_(networking)
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It's this kind of sloppy writing that makes the rest of us have to
learn useless new words. I've never in my life heard the word
wireline before today, and really can't see the need when landline
works so well.
In general usage wireline is equivalent to landline or POTS.
There are subtle
A friend of mine used Mint for a bit but grew to hate it. He had hoped
to eliminate the need for posting receipts to Quicken (or a similar)
application but complained that they often took days to post
transactions or failed to include details like the vendor names for
debit transactions. As a
That was similar to my reaction the first time I heard someone use the
term soft copy
Subject: a new word?
It's this kind of sloppy writing that makes the rest of us have to
learn useless new words. I've never in my life heard the word
wireline before today, and really can't see the
This is not totally correct, but it seems as though the WAMU
Computer Guys show in the DC area that Tom used to be on has somewhat
devolved more accurately into the Cellphone Guys show. They really
like to get heavily into discussion of all the latest cell phones.
almost at times to the
This actually makes a degree of sense. I never really thought of what
to call FIOS. Obviously we can't call it wireless, even though it
really has no wires. We can't call it a landline because it has no
wires. And now we can't call it wireline because it has no wires.
Wait. I'm still confused.
PS
Try calling it fiber optic communications.
Stewart
At 09:56 PM 1/5/2010, you wrote:
This actually makes a degree of sense. I never really thought of what
to call FIOS. Obviously we can't call it wireless, even though it
really has no wires. We can't call it a landline because it has no
wires.
In Tom's absence, that monthly show has devolved into comfort food wallpaper.
More about smooth talk than about true help. But that's what the station admin
and public want, I listen only with half an ear...
--- On Tue, 1/5/10, phartz...@gmail.com phartz...@gmail.com wrote:
From:
When the power goes out, you have no phone, like during a lightning storm, very
common here in Texass. Hence the reason we no longer use earthlink phone,
vonage phone, timewarner phone, skype phone, etc. Of course your cell will
work if it's charged :) All of these computer based phones are
Quoting phartz...@gmail.com phartz...@gmail.com:
This is not totally correct, but it seems as though the WAMU
Computer Guys show in the DC area that Tom used to be on has somewhat
devolved more accurately into the Cellphone Guys show. They really
Gee. Not unlike this very list, eh? We seem
That is indeed possible.
Each device evolves to a point where it is superceded by another device.
Plus circumstances dictate changes.
Stewart
At 10:17 PM 1/5/2010, you wrote:
Gee. Not unlike this very list, eh? We seem to spend freakish amounts
of time talking all things cell phone.
Is it
Computing has changed from an activity done while stationary to
mobile computing. Devices have had to evolve.
15 years ago email was emerging. Today it has become common place.
Just read an article today of ten items/devices you might not need
this year. Landline phone was listed, along
Well, they could talk about technologies that aren't widely available to the
general public. I'd be happy to discuss high bandwidth solutions.
That's not exactly their mission, though. It's a fact that they aren't
going to discuss what I offer. It's way too expensive for anyone but big
We have a bad habit, in this country, of writing off old technologies
as soon as something a little more advanced has been adopted by a
small percentage of the American public.
And when a larger percentage of the population has started to use the
new technology, we forget that the older
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