On Oct 20, 2009, at 9:11 PM Oct 20, Mark A. Metz wrote:
http://gizmodo.com/5385625/dungeons--dragons-on-the-microsoft-surface
I assume this can be currently purchased for a reasonable amount of
money? Or is it more M$ vaporware?
On Oct 21, 2009, at 11:20 AM Oct 21, Chris Dunford wrote:
Yes, it can be purchased now, but it's not intended for personal
use and is expensive ($12,500). So, no, it is not more M$ vaporware.
Will we see Lauren running out of a Best Buy with one in the next
edition of Laptop Hunters?
Comcast Unveils Comprehensive “Constant Guard” Internet Security Program
http://www.comcast.com/About/PressRelease/PressReleaseDetail.ashx?
PRID=926
As part of this effort, starting today in Denver, CO, Comcast will
begin to trial an in-browser notification “Service Notice”, which
will
http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/techbeat/archives/2009/10/
finland_broadba.html
People need broadband connections to live normal lives
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XP had the unfortunate habit of setting the read-only flag of files
copied to CDs. Copying such files back to the hard drive left the
read-only flag set. I had to go to Properties to uncheck the read-
only box before I could edit the files.
Today I did same with Vista. Again the problem
On Sep 17, 2009, at 6:42 AM Sep 17, Snyder, Mark - IdM (IS) wrote:
I think Tom's point is that mighty M$ has a major marketing failure on
their hands. David Pogue also said: All right, then: so why
sympathy?
Thank you Mark, that is precisely my point.
Equally remarkable is the inability of
On Sep 17, 2009, at 6:27 AM Sep 17, Snyder, Mark - IdM (IS) wrote:
They are just two-dimensional; plain x-y axis: just expectations
mapped
over time to wide-spread adoption. They did not prove to be very
useful
and I always took these charts with a large grain of salt.
I was quite
On Sep 17, 2009, at 3:21 PM Sep 17, Fred Holmes wrote:
If one doesn't like what the faceless corporate bureaucrat decides,
one can drop the insurance and go with someone else. With
government, there is no choice -- no place to escape to.
I can think of lots of places. Have you been denied
http://www.newscientist.com/data/images/ns/cms/dn17705/dn17705-1_671.jpg
Cool graphic that takes a bit of work to figure out. Plots the hype
level (expectations) vs time vs time to adoption. I'm not sure I get
the 2 time scales yet. Anybody got an insight here?
At the very peak of the hype
On Sep 15, 2009, at 11:41 AM Sep 15, Jordan wrote:
I'm looking into a better spell checker than the one that comes on
the Mac. Sometimes the one on the Mac does a lousy job of guessing
what I'm looking for.
http://www.rainmakerinc.com/
Should I be polite and refrain from saying I told you so.
Great photo here...
http://technologizer.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/zuneyard.png?
w=320h=246
http://www.pcworld.com/article/171348/
microsoft_to_drop_all_zunes_except_for_hd_model.html
Microsoft said it will continue to offer the
On Sep 13, 2009, at 2:20 PM Sep 13, Chris Dunford wrote:
A headline worthy of Fox Nation. Any reasonable person would have
written, Microsoft To Discontinue Older Zune Models.
What would you be saying if Apple were to dump its entire line,
except for one model?
Of course you want to focus
On Sep 13, 2009, at 7:26 PM Sep 13, Chris Dunford wrote:
Well, if there were a new iPod that rendered the older ones
entirely obsolete, I guess I'd say something like, That makes sense.
Except that is not the case. Other than that, you are fine.
On Sep 12, 2009, at 7:13 AM Sep 12, Chris Dunford wrote:
Like what? I'm not trying to be a smart-ass, it's a serious
question. I've yet to read about any really important research that
is going on in the space station and that couldn't be done any
other way.
Isn't this just another
On Sep 11, 2009, at 12:06 PM Sep 11, Steve at Verizon wrote:
But this is White House projections!!! See:
That is a projection of the debt. What is the GDP increase expected
to be over the same period?
I'll give you a hint: What is one divided by one, genius?
About the only thing this
On Sep 11, 2009, at 9:15 AM Sep 11, mike wrote:
Socialism is a word like any other, a construct of humans and
governments.
Neither good nor bad, Tom is being mighty ignorant here since both
the nazi
and soviets called themselves and acted in great part in a
socialistic way.
Another
On Sep 11, 2009, at 11:44 AM Sep 11, Steve at Verizon wrote:
t.piwowar wrote:
Nonesense. What are you comparing that number to? Your pay check?
Properly you look at it as percent of GDP. A proper analysis is
here: http://zfacts.com/metaPage/lib/National-Debt-GDP-L.gif
This was the Bush
On Sep 6, 2009, at 12:53 AM Sep 6, chrper...@aol.com wrote:
Looking at my accounts, though, I find that one runs through May of
2010, and the other through October of 2010, so it may be a bit
before I actually make a switch. But I want to be sure, before I
switch, that I only have to do
On Sep 6, 2009, at 8:52 AM Sep 6, Rev. Stewart Marshall wrote:
DHL is the three letter name you are looking for German and has
closed up shop for a lot of things. (If I remember they are the
ones who closed up shop on an Ohio town?)
DHL is going out of business because it was doing a
On Sep 6, 2009, at 8:50 AM Sep 6, phartz...@gmail.com wrote:
The finger biter should be thankful that Mr. Rice was not one of the
numerous anti-reform types who carry firearms to these events.
65-year-old William Rice, who is covered under the Medicare program,
was taken to an area hospital.
On Sep 6, 2009, at 3:11 AM Sep 6, Jeff Miles wrote:
Why do people insist on defending these mafioso type companies that
do nothing but steal from them and then turn and complain about the
government wasting money? This kind of thought just baffles the
shit out of me.
It baffles the shit
On Sep 6, 2009, at 3:04 AM Sep 6, Jeff Miles wrote:
Does anyone really stop and think what the post office does on a
daily basis? I have yet to find a privet company that has worked as
efficiently and consistently. And, being governmentally run, the
post office's goal isn't to make a
On Sep 6, 2009, at 11:45 AM Sep 6, mike wrote:
If gov't programs aren't supposed to make money, can we at least
ask they
don't LOSE so much?
Simple. Just raise taxes.
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On Sep 5, 2009, at 9:42 AM Sep 5, chrper...@aol.com wrote:
I am very unhappy with my current webhost. They have no phone
access when problems arise, and lately they've been causing
problems with mail list access and web host issues as well.
To be fair you need to tell us the host you find
On Sep 5, 2009, at 11:22 AM Sep 5, chad evans wyatt wrote:
Not sure where you are, here in the DC area, Heller Information
Services is responsive, consistent, reliable. http://info.his.com/
Not what it once was. They seem to have outsourced their support. I
get too many I don't knows and
I'm currently troubleshooting email non-delivery for a client. One of
their important vendors can't send them email reliably. I found the
vendor's host's email server blacklisted by backscatter.org. Vendor
reports spending hours on the phone with GoDaddy with no resolution.
Before
On Sep 5, 2009, at 12:32 PM Sep 5, Tony B wrote:
Good point. Mail issues are often not your host's fault at all.
Rather, some overactive spam filter somewhere. We've been banned from
AOL longer than we've been allowed.
My meaning was completely the opposite. Badly-run email servers are
the
On Sep 5, 2009, at 4:49 PM Sep 5, chrper...@aol.com wrote:
When I asked for help with this via a trouble ticket, it took
about 5 1/2 hours to get the lists accessible again.
I would not consider that to be bad service. To get a report sent in
by email fixed within a few hours is good. There
On Sep 5, 2009, at 5:18 PM Sep 5, Marcio wrote:
Well... he has been quite helpful to me...
Don't bother arguing with this bunch. What they have inflicted on
this List in recent months is much like what the USA has had
inflicted on it in recent weeks of wild attacks against rational
On Sep 3, 2009, at 8:22 PM Sep 3, Mike wrote:
Sorry, i went by what you wrote in your post, next time I won't
just take your word for it. Bad MS, bad.
Sometimes good (e.g. mice). Usually not (e.g. Vista). Why are you so
afraid to see things clearly?
On Sep 4, 2009, at 9:02 AM Sep 4, Art Clemons wrote:
Too many people rely on them, even when it doesn't make sense to do
so.
Someone (not me) came to work very tired last Monday morning. They
had made a long trip. Halfway back to home someone had fiddled with
the GPS and the infernal
On Sep 4, 2009, at 9:17 AM Sep 4, Chris Dunford wrote:
Has anyone run across seen an IE add-on (or a separate product)
that will look for text in the pages that are in the history list?
I found one (History Search), but it hasn't been updated in a long
time, the publisher has vanished, and
On Sep 3, 2009, at 8:20 PM Sep 3, Mike wrote:
Might want to actually read the link you posted, it gave fairly
detailed and valid reasons for not switching. Unless no application
support on the mac for the companies main business isn't validi
suppose they could change what they do for a
On Sep 1, 2009, at 2:51 PM Sep 1, db wrote:
We all ... most of us anyway ... just wish you would do the easy
and more inexpensive thing by leaving that boat anchor on the
bottom where it now rests and belongs for all eternity and just get
a computer off the shelf that is current and works.
On Sep 1, 2009, at 10:06 AM Sep 1, Rev. Stewart Marshall wrote:
Depends on what he is comfortable with.
I just wiped a drive this a.m. and reinstalled M$'s latest good OS:
Win XP.
Why provide Apple with more fodder for its commercials?
M$ is making its usual promises for the next OS, but
On Sep 1, 2009, at 11:40 AM Sep 1, Jordan wrote:
We've had 8 years, really many more since it started before Reagan,
of tearing down regulations. It doesn't work.(like we didn't
already know that) Look where we are now. We need freedom for
people, not freedom of corporations to take
As usual, a hoot!
http://movies.apple.com/media/us/mac/getamac/2009/apple-mvp-
top_of_the_line-us-20090824_480x272.mov
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On Aug 29, 2009, at 1:14 PM, mike wrote:
Apple continues to rely on the honor system for Mac OS X. Not only
does Snow Leopard not
require the entry of any serial numbers...
We leave the thieving, lying, cheating to our WFBs.
Have you seen the latest ad/demo of Mac's moral superiority?
On Aug 25, 2009, at 10:15 PM, Arnold Kee wrote:
Are there gremlins out to get me?
Yes!
all of a sudden, it now acts really slowly and fails to connect
with my wireless network consistently
Have you cleared the browser's cache files? A corrupt cache happens
suddenly and will slow things
On Aug 26, 2009, at 5:55 PM, Tony B wrote:
In fact, I asked about this on the list a while back. How can I
ensure that PAE is turned on so I know my WinXP is using all 6gb of my
ram. It was only much later I discovered the consumer versions of
Windows don't include PAE, and so are limited to 4gb
On Aug 26, 2009, at 7:49 AM, Jeff Wright wrote:
And Windows has been 64-bit for several years now. The problem has
been in
driver support and app compatibility, no surprise there.
Precisely. Apple knows that some drivers won't work right with the 64
kernel, but it doesn't know if you have
On Aug 26, 2009, at 12:43 PM, Mark A. Metz wrote:
I have a Vista 64 machine that runs Photoshop CS4 at 64 bit. It
runs Photoshop 7 at 32 bit. It even runs older apps at 16 bit, I
think. So even though the OS is 64 bit, and I realize that means I
can run 64 bit apps., it doesn't limit my
On Aug 26, 2009, at 7:30 AM, Snyder, Mark - IdM (IS) wrote:
Not sure why you're flailing on this. Mac OS 10.6, Snow Leopard,
can be
set to load 64-bit, every time, if desired, or left to the default, to
load the 32-bit kernel. Windows users must install one or the other.
This is not a huge
This explains a lot. Some things run in 32 bit, some in 64 bit. It
all depends.
http://www.ahatfullofsky.comuv.com/English/Programs/SMS/SMS.html
There is a lot of confusion about the fact that Snow Leopard starts
by default with a 32-bit kernel even though nearly everything else is
64-bit
On Aug 25, 2009, at 11:54 AM, Tony B wrote:
Now I see - basically because the OS is still 32 bit itself.
You don't see all that well (why am I not surprised?).
OS X.6 is set to run a 32-bit kernel as the default. It can be set to
run a 64-bit kernel or you can just press the 6 and 4 keys
On Aug 25, 2009, at 11:34 AM, mike wrote:
Was someone asking?
Then butt out. You are not invited to this conversation.
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On Aug 25, 2009, at 11:04 AM, Rev. Stewart Marshall wrote:
Not too far I already have pre-orders in for a few copies.
Yes I saw, M$ wanted to be paid 3 months ahead on the promise of
delivering an operating system and the faithful got their credit
cards out.
On Aug 25, 2009, at 1:45 PM, mike wrote:
You are kicking me off the list for asking? Nice.
Cue the violins.
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On Aug 25, 2009, at 1:00 PM, rleesimon wrote:
I just had a 4 min conversation with
their customer service and with that ...as I rarely if ever text, I
got that
off halving my internet monthly charge, dropped to 550min/mo reducing
another chunk, was able to retain my more that 5000 minutes of
http://www.parallels.com/news/id,19860
Parallels Desktop Switch to Mac Edition Offers Lifeline to Frustrated
PC Users
Switching from PC to Mac is on the rise: analyst reports on
operating system market share show that Mac OS X market growth comes
at the expense of Windows’ market share.
On Aug 25, 2009, at 2:52 PM, Tony B wrote:
So now you're saying the only difference is the new Mac OS will
combine both 64 and 32 bit versions in the same package, and the
installer must choose 64 bit manually. Win7 will come in two different
binaries, and the installer must use the correct one.
On Aug 25, 2009, at 4:36 PM, Rich Schinnell wrote:
http://www.infoworld.com/d/windows/snow-leopard-just-cheap-
windows-7-knockoff-798
Oh pleeese! A half-baked WFB spouting about the wonderfulness of
Vista plus claims that X.6 is somehow a copy of M$'s yet to be
released OS. Tell us about
On Aug 25, 2009, at 3:42 PM, mike wrote:
MS has not because no that they are running 64bit or
32bit.
Got it. Official M$ line is that 64-bit is useless, something that
no one would notice.
You think we are stupid?
On Aug 25, 2009, at 3:35 PM, Tony B wrote:
So you're saying if I install OSX 32 bit today, then change my mobo
and CPU, I can simply switch to 64 bit next year? Just throw a switch
and no OS reinstall will be required? Nice, if true.
The OS loads either the 32 or 64-bit kernel at startup.
On Aug 24, 2009, at 1:07 PM, Tony B wrote:
Actually, that's $8.33/mo the first year. Hard to say how long you
could
keep renewing minutes after that as the networks change and to get the
better coverage you may need a new phone.
Need to read the fine print on the plan and ask questions. With
On Aug 22, 2009, at 9:50 PM, Jordan wrote:
My 2 year old intel iMac won't boot. I got a grey kernel crash
screen yesterday, but it restarted and ran fine in the evening so I
didn't take any time to investigate. This evening it started
strangely, displayed properly, but would not run Eye TV.
On Aug 22, 2009, at 8:23 PM, b_s-wilk wrote:
Their argument sounds oddly plaintive: Apple spent a lot of time and
effort developing their phone interface, so they don't like that
Google
replac[es] the iPhone's core mobile telephone functionality and Apple
user interface with its own user
On Aug 22, 2009, at 11:44 PM, db wrote:
Currently he has no use whatsoever for iChat (he's just learning to
mouse about, read emails etc... he hasn't even sent an email
yet...) and I'd like to make sure his computer and iChat are secure
and impervious to more of the same.
On Aug 23, 2009, at 8:14 AM, Reid Katan wrote:
How else would he have iChat and AIM accounts going?
iChat uses the AIM network. So no surprise there.
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On Aug 22, 2009, at 4:40 PM, mike wrote:
Everything is the fault of those damn neomircrosofticons eh? How
you manage
to bring your made up boogey men into everything is amazing.
On Aug 22, 2009, at 5:58 PM, Jeff Wright wrote:
You first feign outrage over Google Voice and then almost
On Aug 23, 2009, at 1:35 PM, Mike wrote:
So you know google is lying...how do you know that?
The issue is not Google or Apple lying. It is you trying to insert
misinformation into the account of what transpired.
GV was not rejected by Apple. It was not approved. The two are not
the same.
On Aug 23, 2009, at 10:33 AM, Reid Katan wrote:
What I was wondering is, basically, do Macs come with iChat/AIM
accounts set up? That seems like something he would have to enable.
I've had my iBook for about a year so far (bought refurbed with OSX.
4 from Geeks.com) and no one has tried to
On Aug 23, 2009, at 10:50 AM, Jordan wrote:
I think I had tried that at one point last night, but in any case,
it didn't start it just now when I did it.
That suggests that it is probably not a hard drive problem.
I don't know if I dreamed it up or read it somewhere but I just
held down
On Aug 23, 2009, at 11:00 AM, Alvin Auerbach wrote:
Your message cannot be distributed to the COMPUTERGUYS-L list
because it
exceeds the maximum message size of 225 lines. The size of your
message was 350
lines.
Congratulations on being the first to be so rejected. This limit has
On Aug 23, 2009, at 3:21 PM, Jordan wrote:
db or anyone else, how did the logmein work for you, and are there
any other programs like that, that work for the Mac?
Screen sharing is part of OS X.5 (Leopard). Works over the local
network or with a VPN or MobileMe.
It is truly strange to see the WSJ arguing the benefits of a free
market.
This is, of course, another manifestation of the network neutrality
debate. It is bad for society to allow the carriers to impose bizarre
restrictions on what devices can generate data packets on their
networks and
On Aug 22, 2009, at 2:12 PM, Tony B wrote:
No, you will have a hard time convincing me a fan of any type could
vibrate
enough to cause an r/w error on a drive. But be aware - cosmic rays
*can*
cause errors. Not as many as 'normal' causes, but surely it
happens. Anyway,
that's what chkdsk is
Apple's response to the DOJ inquiry looks a lot more plausible than
the explanations proffered by the conspiracy theorists. In a
nutshell, adding Google Voice to an iPhone significantly changes the
operation of the iPhone. It replaces so many of the iPhone's
functions that it left Apple
On Aug 20, 2009, at 9:04 AM, Jordan wrote:
I think Google is doing the a good job of making its Groups, on-
line apps, and other tools accessible and easy to use, but as the
article suggests, control and security are difficult and complicated.
Is that fair? The article says In other words,
On Aug 20, 2009, at 1:50 PM, mike wrote:
It wasn't just the degree that set
Dvorak off, it was also Kundra's behavior during an appearance at I
believe
was in front of some senators. His basic point being the guy was
full of BS
web 2.0 doubletalk that makes no sense when actually analyzed.
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
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
iPhone tries to make everybody happy...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlzoL-wQwio
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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
Looks like the price tag ($18M) is for 5 years of work with an
ambitious mission statement and new content constantly added. Our
cons/neocons had made it sound like it was for a weekend's work. They
lied to us for 8 years and I guess it is hard to break a habit.
Agencies are starting to
On Aug 18, 2009, at 12:41 PM, John Settle wrote:
Anyone have any charger/battery technology (Brand) combinations
that work well?
LSD NiMH...
Sanyo Eneloop http://www.amazon.com/Sanyo-Eneloop-Pre-Charged-
Rechargeable-Batteries/product-reviews/B000IV2YLY
Rayovac Hybrid
Kodak Pre-Charged
On Aug 18, 2009, at 11:18 AM, Tony B wrote:
I guess what I'm saying is this explanation doesn't make sense to me.
Do you have a link for further reading? Or is this just another reason
not to use Acronis?
Nothing wrong with Acronis. Different methods of copying are
appropriate in different
On Aug 18, 2009, at 2:41 PM, Tony B wrote:
Maybe I'm just misunderstanding, but I think you're wrong here. In
the old
days disk imaging may have done bit for bit clones, but these days
they use
compression, and they ignore empty spaces on the disk. So they have no
trouble copying a partition
Looks like rural America will get to keep its guns and religion, but
it ain't gonna get no DSL.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/13/
AR2009081302433.html?wpisrc=newsletterwpisrc=newsletter
The Obama administration made a national priority of spreading high-
Another perspective on why Zune HD is a failure...
Bad Idea #5. Go one better. As the rise and fall of Friendfeed
indicates, copying the basic functionality of a successful
application (Twitter, in this case) and adding a few new features --
doing the same thing slightly better from some
On Aug 18, 2009, at 7:30 PM, Eric S. Sande wrote:
In case you missed this:
http://www.upi.com/Business_News/2009/05/13/Verizon-Frontier-agree-
to-86B-sale/UPI-64691242244299/
Wow I did!
Approximately 11,000 Verizon employees will switch to working for
Frontier, Verizon said.
Verizon is
TWO OUT OF TWO TOMS AGREE...
The comment is derived from a general consensus by analysts that
Microsoft's portable media player missed its mark, and doesn't look
to gain any ground in its battle against Apple's iPhone and iPod
Touch anytime soon.
The market reception for Zune is so
OKAY WFBs, EDUCATE ME. CAN THE ZUNE HD DO THIS TOO?
With TomTom for iPhone, millions of iPhone users can now benefit
from the same easy-to-use and intuitive interface, turn-by-turn
spoken navigation and unique routing technology that our 30 million
portable navigation device users rely on
On Aug 17, 2009, at 12:57 PM, Fred Holmes wrote:
Can anyone tell me whether Verizon FIOS (or DSL) service does
this? (in Annandale / northern VA)
I use port 25 on Verizon DSL and do not use their SMTP server. It is
not blocked.
With some other ISPs I use port 26 or 587.
On Aug 17, 2009, at 4:35 PM, mike wrote:
Yeah open source...free. Half the work was already done for them.
Not only
was this company taking an existing website and merely rebuilding
it, they
are using pre built tools to do it. What are they doing exactly
for ten
million? Oh that's
On Aug 17, 2009, at 6:39 PM, Jeff Wright wrote:
I believe I already stated that both mfrs make exaggerated claims
on battery
life, at least that's what I've seen from reports of field testing the
battery life on the Touch.
The old argument Everybody's doing it so why can't I?
In truth,
On Aug 17, 2009, at 8:05 PM, Chris Dunford wrote:
The software infrastructure for the web site. The web site wasn't
the whole project. Unless I misunderstand what drupal provides,
aren't you leaving out the whole rest of the project?
Of course they are leaving out the majority of the
On Aug 17, 2009, at 5:48 PM, mike wrote:
It's not with drupal, it's the fact they are using prebuilt systems
for
their website...should be SAVING money...what this website would
have cost
25 million otherwise?
Precisely, using high-quality open-source frameworks like drupal is
going to
On Aug 17, 2009, at 9:17 PM, Allen Firstenberg wrote:
I'm not Tom, but I'll give the #1 reason to avoid drupal: PHP
And they do have serious problems with it. Very serious problems.
PHP is a
security nightmare of epic proportions.
That is a bunch of crap. Product of the same propaganda
On Aug 17, 2009, at 6:49 PM, Jeff Wright wrote:
Seriously? You're comparing a product with an established
ecosystem (thanks
largely to the iPhone, not the Touch) to one that isn't even for
sale yet?
You completely ignore the question I asked and substitute a straw-man
in its stead. Quite
On Aug 15, 2009, at 8:55 PM, Chris Dunford wrote:
As you know, he has been asked repeatedly for this information. I
asked him at least three times in the last Zune thread to provide
reasons why Zune is vastly inferior and got no response beyond
the usual. This is a question that won't be
On Aug 16, 2009, at 1:18 PM, Eric S. Sande wrote:
It would be good to see what you object to specifically with Zune,
not that I generally care about mass market crap, anyway.
Someone else said it, but I will repeat it once again because it is
so brilliantly succinct...
M$ is skating to
On Aug 16, 2009, at 3:51 PM, Eric S. Sande wrote:
But I'm pretty experienced and I can tell if what I'm hearing is a
pony
versus a pile of pony crap.
Are you denigrating MP3 or iPods? Have you listened to an Apple
lossless file on an iPod?
Apple's lossless compression makes iTunes an
Nice informative article in the NY Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/13/technology/personaltech/13basics.html
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On Aug 15, 2009, at 10:18 AM, Bill Wajert wrote:
Not really, as all of her games were gotton by downloading the free
game of the day. This means that as long as you are willing
to put up with a few ads while playing you can play these games
forever, but you onlyhave that one day to download.
On Aug 14, 2009, at 8:04 PM, Fred Holmes wrote:
I'm looking for an external keyboard, for a notebook computer, that
would sit on top of the notebook computer's keyboard, instead of
in front of the notebook computer. The keyboard might have
pedestals on each end to support it over the
On Aug 14, 2009, at 11:34 PM, Chris Dunford wrote:
Wow.
Hooks up to the TV, just like my wife's 3-year old iPod. Wow indeed.
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On Aug 14, 2009, at 9:47 PM, Jeff Wright wrote:
Pretty friggin awesome. Very zippy. Very smooth.
A thought. They hope to win market share by undercutting Apple's
current price, but are introducing a model that is technically
several years behind Apple's current models. Taking that into
On Aug 14, 2009, at 11:34 PM, Chris Dunford wrote:
Wow.
http://rantsandstuff.com/2009/06/01/nitpicking-the-zune-hd/
It’s the little things like this that make me wonder what else did
they not pay that much attention to? They couldn’t have dropped the
menu font just a tad to make it fit on
On Aug 15, 2009, at 1:40 PM, mike wrote:
Where is the zune HD behind on the touch?
One of the commentators hit the nail squarely on the head...
M$ is skating to where the puck was, not where it will be.
Bravo!
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