Re: [CGUYS] Bootup problem running vista basic sp2

2010-03-01 Thread mike
Also try to restore back to a date you believe it was running properly. On Mar 1, 2010 2:03 PM, Terry Kilburg kilb...@iowatelecom.net wrote: Probably the last 20 times I've booted-15 of those had to use system restore to complete the process. Two of those boots gave a message after going thru

[CGUYS] charlie miller speaks (he's the security expert taking macs and windows down at pwn2own)

2010-03-01 Thread mike
http://gizmodo.com/5483024/security-expert-flash-is-the-root-of-browser-insecurity-oh-and-ie8-isnt-so-bad Highlights from the interview: Win 7 is harder to hack into than os x. Linux really isn't a fortress either depending on distro. Firefox on windows is less safe than IE 8 or Chrome. You want

Re: [CGUYS] Apple Co(r)p...

2010-02-28 Thread mike
I keep wondering about this myself...who in Apple is doing this and why? Are they going to start banning certain sites on the phone also? On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 12:17 PM, phartz...@gmail.com phartz...@gmail.comwrote: Why doesn't Apple Corp. develop a means of either preventing or making it

Re: [CGUYS] Apple Co(r)p...

2010-02-28 Thread mike
Apple isn't ensnared, they are doing this themselves. Apple is bar far the most controlling tech company out there, controlling their customers, controlling themselves.. On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 5:55 PM, phartz...@gmail.com phartz...@gmail.comwrote: On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 6:43 PM, tjpa

Re: [CGUYS] FCC head calls for broadband availability

2010-02-28 Thread mike
It's frightening to think there are some out there who believe all regulation is inherently good. On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 6:03 PM, phartz...@gmail.com phartz...@gmail.comwrote: On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 2:16 PM, Jeff Miles jmile...@charter.net wrote: Maybe it's just me, but I believe regulation

Re: [CGUYS] FCC head calls for broadband availability

2010-02-28 Thread mike
Of course...like the patriot act that neocon Obama just extended. Damn neocons! On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 6:34 PM, tjpa t...@tjpa.com wrote: On Feb 28, 2010, at 8:10 PM, mike wrote: It's frightening to think there are some out there who believe all regulation is inherently good. No body

Re: [CGUYS] FCC head calls for broadband availability

2010-02-28 Thread mike
Give him some of yours, you have to have several laying about. On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 6:35 PM, tjpa t...@tjpa.com wrote: On Feb 18, 2010, at 2:16 PM, Jeff Miles wrote: I believe he must have meant to type deregulation and his fingers missed the de keys. Anyone with eyes can see that

Re: [CGUYS] Evil people [Was: Re: [CGUYS] FCC head calls for broadband availability]

2010-02-28 Thread mike
Except sometimes the regulation is used to do the screwing. On Feb 28, 2010 8:12 PM, Reid Katan ka...@his.com wrote: Quoting Rev. Stewart Marshall popoz...@earthlink.net: OK I come from this on both sides. As a theologian I view mankind through both eyes. He is basically good, but there is

Re: [CGUYS] Apple Co(r)p...

2010-02-28 Thread mike
...@gmail.comwrote: On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 8:08 PM, mike xha...@gmail.com wrote: Apple isn't ensnared, they are doing this themselves. Apple is bar far the most controlling tech company out there, controlling their customers, controlling themselves.. I think that Apple has taken this approach

Re: [CGUYS] FCC head calls for broadband availability

2010-02-28 Thread mike
...@charter.net Join my Mafia http://apps.facebook.com/inthemafia/status_invite.php?from=550968726 On Feb 28, 2010, at 5:10 PM, mike wrote: It's frightening to think there are some out there who believe all regulation is inherently good. On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 6:03 PM, phartz...@gmail.com

Re: [CGUYS] FCC head calls for broadband availability

2010-02-28 Thread mike
has that taken? Legality is one thing, changing a mindset is something completely different. Jeff Miles jmile...@charter.net Join my Mafia http://apps.facebook.com/inthemafia/status_invite.php?from=550968726 On Feb 28, 2010, at 5:43 PM, mike wrote: Of course...like the patriot act

Re: [CGUYS] FCC head calls for broadband availability

2010-02-28 Thread mike
And the Constitution is a specific lack of regulation. Madison didn't even want a bill of rights for fear it would weaken the individual by enumerating specific rights, thus perhaps conversely weakening the power of citizens by the absence of other rights. On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 11:07 PM,

Re: [CGUYS] Evil people [Was: Re: [CGUYS] FCC head calls for broadband availability]

2010-02-28 Thread mike
Sounds like one of the arguments the CEO of Sprouts? was making...make people *pay* for their health care and they might not go for every sniffle...they might take care of themselves better. If we all had grocery store insurance we'd be buying steak every day of the week instead of ramen noodles

Re: [CGUYS] Evil people

2010-02-28 Thread mike
How about the health care bill? Unions got a sweetheart deal to be free from the higher taxes of the more expensive health plans thus screwing would be smaller businesses wanting to give their employees good plans. In general, do you really think all the lobbying by multinational/multibillion

Re: [CGUYS] FCC head calls for broadband availability

2010-02-28 Thread mike
Miles jmile...@charter.net Join my Mafia http://apps.facebook.com/inthemafia/status_invite.php?from=550968726 On Feb 28, 2010, at 10:18 PM, mike wrote: And the Constitution is a specific lack of regulation. Madison didn't even want a bill of rights for fear it would weaken the individual

Re: [CGUYS] Evil people [Was: Re: [CGUYS] FCC head calls...]

2010-02-28 Thread mike
True, we agree..but when you have lobbyists for those big corporations writing the very regulations isn't that a problem? Which representative was it that laughed when a reporter asked if he had read the bill he was voting for? On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 11:22 PM, b_s-wilk b1sun...@yahoo.es wrote:

Re: [CGUYS] Evil people [Was: Re: [CGUYS] FCC head calls...]

2010-02-28 Thread mike
Just remembered, it was John Conyers. On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 12:07 AM, mike xha...@gmail.com wrote: True, we agree..but when you have lobbyists for those big corporations writing the very regulations isn't that a problem? Which representative was it that laughed when a reporter asked if he

Re: [CGUYS] FCC head calls for broadband availability

2010-02-28 Thread mike
/status_invite.php?from=550968726 On Feb 28, 2010, at 10:30 PM, mike wrote: Yes the R's would have said he was soft on pick your poison, but I think there is a vast middle who doesn't like the broad stroke control measures of that specific law. And it would have been the right thing to do. On Sun

Re: [CGUYS] Evil people [Was: Re: [CGUYS] FCC head calls for broadband availability]

2010-02-28 Thread mike
://apps.facebook.com/inthemafia/status_invite.php?from=550968726 On Feb 28, 2010, at 10:29 PM, mike wrote: Sounds like one of the arguments the CEO of Sprouts? was making...make people *pay* for their health care and they might not go for every sniffle...they might take care of themselves better. If we all

Re: [CGUYS] Help - computer seems infected, going crazy!

2010-02-26 Thread mike
Yes, this is one of the nastiest ones out there. They come by many names and take a crowbar and blowtorch to remove. This is one of the reasons you keep good backups. XP wasn't as easy, but now running 7 I can reinstall a new OS in about 20 minutes...have most my programs I use installed in

Re: [CGUYS] Thunmb Vs. DVD [Was: Help - computer seems infected, going crazy!]

2010-02-26 Thread mike
I have all my installers on an internal one tb drive. I keep nothing on my os drive for very long, everything I keep is moved to another internal drive and mirrored with an external. On Feb 26, 2010 12:07 PM, Reid Katan ka...@his.com wrote: Quoting mike xha...@gmail.com: needed...I keep my

[CGUYS] windows phone 7

2010-02-24 Thread mike
http://gizmodo.com/5471805/windows-phone-7-series-everything-is-different-now Didn't get the coverage the press gave it's darling Apple, but not much less significant is MS finally did what looks like the right thing completely rewrote a new phone os. They also did the wrong thing in admitting

Re: [CGUYS] windows phone 7

2010-02-24 Thread mike
They aren't too thrilled with iphone either. The place ms needs to gain some share is general consumer, this phone might do it. On Feb 24, 2010 3:58 PM, tjpa t...@tjpa.com wrote: On Feb 24, 2010, at 10:53 AM, mike wrote: Didn't get the coverage the press gave it's darling Ap

[CGUYS] fantastic software for your ipod touch to control your pc or mac

2010-02-24 Thread mike
http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/494/6367hub=1cl=us,en?section=downloadsbit=osid=14 So I was looking for something to control my pc behind my tv that would be inexpensive and easy. I use the freeware XBMC for a media center front end, it's an awesome piece of software. I came across a little

Re: [CGUYS] Apple App Store Gets Really Silly

2010-02-23 Thread mike
I know with your ideological bent you'll never admit a dem can do anything less than pure but for anyone else.. Google Tipper Gore and video game violence. On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 7:20 AM, tjpa t...@tjpa.com wrote: AppleInsider | Swimwear seller hit by Apple's removal of 'sexual' apps

Re: [CGUYS] Creepy or what?

2010-02-21 Thread mike
To be blunt it doesn't matter what you think is going on, it matters what happened. And that was spying on minors in their own homes. On Feb 21, 2010 8:27 AM, John Duncan Yoyo johnduncany...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 1:18 AM, phartz...@gmail.com phartz...@gmail.com wrote: On

Re: [CGUYS] Creepy or what?

2010-02-21 Thread mike
This entire incident is not an accident. It was thought out, planned and executed from start to finish. It is not possible someone by pure accident connected to a students system and then decided on a whim to keep watching and then report him for drugs (candy), call him into the office and try

Re: [CGUYS] This is worth a look

2010-02-21 Thread mike
I'll take my sad sack DSL over that choice. On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 12:43 PM, phartz...@gmail.com phartz...@gmail.comwrote: On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 2:19 PM, Eric S. Sande esa...@verizon.net wrote: http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Our-National-Broadband-Plan-Is-A-Bland-Boring-Mess-106979

Re: [CGUYS] FCC head calls for broadband availability

2010-02-21 Thread mike
It's funny how both sides end up talking about each other the same way, I suppose ideologues are more similar even when they perceive themselves to be on opposite sides. As long as we have guys like Tom to continue the game for the politicians, they'll love us. On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 11:13 AM,

Re: [CGUYS] Anybody else find all tom's post in gMail spam?

2010-02-21 Thread mike
nope... On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 2:22 PM, John Duncan Yoyo johnduncany...@gmail.comwrote: I just found the last couple of days worth of Tom's posts in the gMail Spam folder. Both the tjpa and the t.piowar email addresses were there. I thought Tom was being unusually quiet. -- John Duncan

Re: [CGUYS] FCC head calls for broadband availability

2010-02-20 Thread mike
You should look around your neighborhoods, DC is the epitome of badly run Dem stronghold. Face it, government doesn't do much of anything right..or left. The larger the government, the smaller the citizen. On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 3:00 PM, tjpa t...@tjpa.com wrote: On Feb 19, 2010, at 2:31 PM,

Re: [CGUYS] FCC head calls for broadband availability

2010-02-20 Thread mike
Yeah..trouble is the guys who should have been watching Madoff are still in charge under Obama, indeed they have been promoted in some cases. These two parties just pit the public against one another to keep us from watching what they are doing. On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 3:29 PM, tjpa

Re: [CGUYS] FCC head calls for broadband availability

2010-02-20 Thread mike
Too bad Dems have been in charge for years, and still it doesn't get done...hmm..interesting. On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 3:44 PM, tjpa t...@tjpa.com wrote: On Feb 20, 2010, at 5:26 PM, mike wrote: You should look around your neighborhoods, DC is the epitome of badly run Dem stronghold. Face

Re: [CGUYS] Creepy or what?

2010-02-20 Thread mike
Anyone involved in this scam should be fired, simple. On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 4:00 PM, phartz...@gmail.com phartz...@gmail.comwrote: On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 10:33 AM, John Duncan Yoyo johnduncany...@gmail.com wrote: Apple offers the ability to take a picture remotely if your laptop is

Re: [CGUYS] FCC head calls for broadband availability

2010-02-20 Thread mike
I love you Eric, you naive son of a gun! :p On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 4:46 PM, Eric S. Sande esa...@verizon.net wrote: I'm not in it for the money. Although it's good, I could make more elsewhere. I'm in it for the vision. I think most people are as well.

Re: [CGUYS] FCC head calls for broadband availability

2010-02-20 Thread mike
You have no idea...I have qwest, it's a miracle it works at all. On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 5:13 PM, Eric S. Sande esa...@verizon.net wrote: I love you Eric, you naive son of a gun! :p Don't kiss me now, mike, just be glad your freaking phone works

Re: [CGUYS] FCC head calls for broadband availability

2010-02-20 Thread mike
Why would we expect the Fed to audit Madoff when they won't audit themselves. On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 7:09 PM, Fred Holmes f...@his.com wrote: At 05:29 PM 2/20/2010, tjpa wrote: Actually I think the term conservative has been hijacked by people with entirely different interests. They want low

Re: [CGUYS] FCC head calls for broadband availability

2010-02-19 Thread mike
The tenth doesn't give much leeway. We strayed greatly and long ago. On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 12:31 PM, b_s-wilk b1sun...@yahoo.es wrote: We, the people, are the government of the United States. Yes, that's the way it is **supposed** to be. But it isn't, really. The federal government

Re: [CGUYS] Just what is a computer anyway?

2010-02-19 Thread mike
So is the innovator the one who came up with 'app phones' or the one who popularized them? On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 11:53 PM, t.piwowar t...@tjpa.com wrote: On Feb 17, 2010, at 7:22 PM, phartz...@gmail.com wrote: Both of my co-workers most decidedly use their cell phones more often for

Re: [CGUYS] What's wrong with Android

2010-02-18 Thread mike
This reviewer is just being argumentative. He thinks hitting a button on the iphone screen is a wonderment...while hitting a button below the screen on an android phone is laborious. Sorry, hitting one button to do something, as opposed to hitting one button to do something isn't much of a

Re: [CGUYS] Win 7 and Office 2003

2010-02-18 Thread mike
Should work fine...try it and see. On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 8:50 AM, Joe Tseng joe_ts...@hotmail.com wrote: My wife is now the owner of a new notebook with Win 7 Home preloaded. She wants to use Office 2003 Pro but we've read it doesn't work with Win 7 Home - is that true? Do we have to get

Re: [CGUYS] LABS GALLERY: 25 Decade-Shaping Technologies - IT Management from eWeek

2010-02-18 Thread mike
Virtualization in general should have been in there, there is more than one company making serious advances in this area especially now with multicore cpus. On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 8:48 AM, b_s-wilk b1sun...@yahoo.es wrote: eWEEK Labs analysts picked the 25 Technologies that Changed the Decade.

Re: [CGUYS] LABS GALLERY: 25 Decade-Shaping Technologies - IT Management from eWeek

2010-02-18 Thread mike
I'm interested too, I would dread at this time to go back to XP from 7. On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 9:03 AM, Chris Dunford seed...@gmail.com wrote: I'll even give a nod to Windows XP, even though I got a message to confirm with M$ for the first time last week on a system I've been using for 5

Re: [CGUYS] What's wrong with Android

2010-02-18 Thread mike
either platform to know any better than what you are told and being an idealogue you will always believe the apple guy even when it makes no sense. On Feb 18, 2010 11:54 AM, tjpa t...@tjpa.com wrote: On Feb 18, 2010, at 11:09 AM, mike wrote: This reviewer is just being argumentative. He thinks

Re: [CGUYS] What's wrong with Android

2010-02-18 Thread mike
And Tom would know since it is his most common MO. On Feb 18, 2010 3:04 PM, tjpa t...@tjpa.com wrote: On Feb 18, 2010, at 2:56 PM, chad evans wyatt wrote: OK, and I'll ask you to come clean: for yo... The question was simple. The answer was simple, and correct. You try to change the question

Re: [CGUYS] What's wrong with Android

2010-02-18 Thread mike
just activate the screen. He also ignores the fact that every setting isn't a simple button on the iphone screen, you may hit one button for six others and then you get into what you need. On Feb 18, 2010 3:04 PM, tjpa t...@tjpa.com wrote: On Feb 18, 2010, at 4:10 PM, mike wrote: Right

Re: [CGUYS] What's wrong with Android

2010-02-18 Thread mike
Damned if you do, damned if you don't. MS made the right decision here, WM 6.x series was horrid and should have been taken out back and shot years ago. This isn't to say the new completely new WM will be better, but lets face it, it can't be much worse. As far as leaving users high and dry,

Re: [CGUYS] What's wrong with Android

2010-02-18 Thread mike
the app again, go to general settings in your iphone and then find mediamote and input the settings there and then go back and open mediamote again. Ease of use as he speaks of in the article is far, far from universal in the iPhone. On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 3:30 PM, mike xha...@gmail.com wrote

Re: [CGUYS] What's wrong with Android

2010-02-18 Thread mike
There are videos of mobile 7 in action, it looks promising. On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 8:13 PM, Rev. Stewart Marshall popoz...@earthlink.net wrote: The article I read said that they are working closely with providers (Cell phone companies) and manufacturers. Will be interesting to see when it

Re: [CGUYS] Cell phone nos.

2010-02-17 Thread mike
Did you ask them? On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 12:23 PM, One Man one911...@yahoo.com wrote: Having sent my motorola razor through the wash and dry, I can't get it to work. Now att wants to replace my cell no. as well as the phone. what gives?

Re: [CGUYS] Just what is a computer anyway?

2010-02-16 Thread mike
We've been calling the one in our cars computers for decades, what else would it be? No keyboard, no mouse...no monitor. And you can 'tinker' with an iPad or a car computer, it just takes more tinkering know how. On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 6:54 AM, tjpa t...@tjpa.com wrote: Interesting (and

Re: [CGUYS] Yeah, but can you do *this* on an iPad?

2010-02-15 Thread mike
Stuff like this is why I think Tom is just playing us all, being the troll to get the list going, no one is this obtuse and can still function out in the world. On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 9:04 AM, Chris Dunford seed...@gmail.com wrote: Did anyone notice that most drawing programs are operated

Re: [CGUYS] Yeah, but can you do *this* on an iPad?

2010-02-14 Thread mike
The problem is you can't *see* the detail you are drawing if you have a big fat finger trying to do it. On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 12:17 PM, b_s-wilk b1sun...@yahoo.es wrote: YES, you CAN do that on an iPhone/Touch. iPad too? Probably. Don't need a stylus. I'd lose a stylus, and don't plan to

Re: [CGUYS] Yeah, but can you do *this* on an iPad?

2010-02-14 Thread mike
Apparently your good results and my good results are two different results. On Feb 14, 2010 1:27 PM, b_s-wilk b1sun...@yahoo.es wrote: The problem is you can't *see* the detail you are drawing if you have a big fat finger trying to... Use your little finger instead. You can see the detail with

Re: [CGUYS] Yeah, but can you do *this* on an iPad?

2010-02-14 Thread mike
Yeah, Tom draws with a parallel port all the time. On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 2:10 PM, tjpa t...@tjpa.com wrote: On Feb 14, 2010, at 3:22 PM, phartz...@gmail.com wrote: Exactly, Mike. Seems like this aspect needs a lot of explaining to get across. This is, in part, why pencils were invented

Re: [CGUYS] win7 to phone home - comments?

2010-02-14 Thread mike
I didn't realize participating in Stalin's or Mugabe's regimes was voluntary, who knew? You cheapen real terror with your silliness. All this does is make those who don't know better that these idiots weren't real villains, or perhaps it's just that you don't know it. Take your Che tshirt off

Re: [CGUYS] Yeah, but can you do *this* on an iPad?

2010-02-14 Thread mike
example? On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 3:41 PM, John DeCarlo johndeca...@gmail.com wrote: P.P.S. Especially when there are artists who draw very detailed drawings on an iPhone with their fingers. -- John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own

Re: [CGUYS] Yeah, but can you do *this* on an iPad?

2010-02-14 Thread mike
Still waiting for that example of fine brush work on an iphone.. On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 5:51 PM, b_s-wilk b1sun...@yahoo.es wrote: Fat fingers are no excuse. You can either draw, or you can't draw. No big deal. No excuses.

Re: [CGUYS] Yeah, but can you do *this* on an iPad?

2010-02-14 Thread mike
This is true, a stylus really can't be employed. I think the larger point is Betty thinks you can draw fine detail with a finger, and those of us who have tried are just saying you can get FINER detail from a pointier object like a stylus. Betty's NY'er covers are examples of what you can get

Re: [CGUYS] New SIM, but improved?

2010-02-14 Thread mike
Try reading the thread again, have someone sound out the big words for you, get back to us when you figure out what is going on. On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 11:21 AM, tjpa t...@tjpa.com wrote: On Feb 2, 2010, at 11:06 AM, mike wrote: I read fine, Mark. I don't think you fully understand

Re: [CGUYS] Yeah, but can you do *this* on an iPad?

2010-02-14 Thread mike
I know, I keep letting silly things like facts and actual examples get in the way... On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 8:01 PM, t.piwowar t...@tjpa.com wrote: On Feb 14, 2010, at 8:06 PM, mike wrote: Still waiting for that example of fine brush work on an iphone.. There goes Mike again. Of course

Re: [CGUYS] Snow Removal and disposal.

2010-02-13 Thread Mike Sloane
. Mike Rev. Stewart Marshall wrote: When I lived in Canada they did pick up the snow. he banks would get too high and they would then cut down the banks and use a huge show blower to load it up in trucks and haul it to an empty field where it cold stack over winter, and then melt off in Summer

Re: [CGUYS] popoz...@earthlink.net has shared: Apple iPad's Tiny SIM Is Just There to Mess With You

2010-02-11 Thread mike
Ironically those wild claims probably came from Apple itself. Keeps them in the news longer if they leak little bits at a time. On Feb 11, 2010 10:31 AM, tjpa t...@tjpa.com wrote: On Feb 11, 2010, at 10:57 AM, phartz...@gmail.com wrote: Please remember the cardinal rule. Nev... I'm really

Re: [CGUYS] Gigabit Broadband To Your House?

2010-02-11 Thread mike
I'm happy to have the republicans own their deficits, how long till both sides realize there is a third invisible party from both sides driving this up and up and now its just Obama at the helm now. On Feb 11, 2010 3:26 PM, b_s-wilk b1sun...@yahoo.es wrote: The liberals just want to make

Re: [CGUYS] Bill Gates saves the world...well some of it

2010-02-08 Thread mike
Actually knife the baby came from Tevanian in court, he said it in regards to Quicktime. On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 8:40 AM, Snyder, Mark - IdM (IS) mark.sny...@ngc.com wrote: Chris, Knife the baby. Was a direct quote from Bill Gates, who said it when a startup told him they would not agree to a

[CGUYS] os concept

2010-02-08 Thread mike
http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/08/locus-os-concept-video-shows-the-future-of-computing-right-no/ Good clean looking OS model, looks a bit android, a bit iphone but also more. * ** List info, subscription management, list

Re: [CGUYS] Apple iPhone reads SD cards with ZoomIt accessory

2010-02-08 Thread mike
Can't imagine this thing won't go down in price, a usb card reader is ten bux or less... On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 6:23 PM, Rev. Stewart Marshall revsamarsh...@earthlink.net wrote: That's OK I am sure Tom does not want to see the Cnet report about a poll Retrevo did about the expected demand for

Re: [CGUYS] The Other Digital: Radio

2010-02-07 Thread Mike Sloane
Read the sentence again: the audio is still analog, but there is a digital data stream along with it that is used for station ID/playlist/etc. information. This is different from digital TV, where the entire signal is digital. Mike Art Clemons wrote: I think you are under a misunderstanding

Re: [CGUYS] Google: evil, indifferent or disorganized?

2010-02-07 Thread mike
This could be google's big weakness...a fragmented os distribution. We are going to have phones floating around with 1.5, 1.62.0 etc. Some with multitouch, some not...although all of them are capable. I know sprint is going to offer the 2.1 update when it's cooked, but will verizon? Who

Re: [CGUYS] Google: evil, indifferent or disorganized?

2010-02-07 Thread mike
Windows almost never let you upgrade the OS on your phone, of course the updates were very few and very far between. On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 10:52 AM, John Duncan Yoyo johnduncany...@gmail.comwrote: On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 11:46 AM, mike xha...@gmail.com wrote: This could be google's big

Re: [CGUYS] popoz...@earthlink.net has shared: Apple iPad's Tiny SIM Is Just There to Mess With You

2010-02-07 Thread mike
*It appears increasingly likely that this decision was driven not by space considerations (after all, the iPad is much larger than the iPhone), but rather by ATT’s business strategy. This way, they can charge customers twice for 3G wireless data: Once for the iPhone, and once for the iPad.*

Re: [CGUYS] apple-stanza-usb

2010-02-05 Thread mike
They have been noting that for years. On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 1:04 PM, Rev. Stewart Marshall revsamarsh...@earthlink.net wrote: It is interesting to note that Apple has changed its name to Apple Inc. and dropped computer.

Re: [CGUYS] apple-stanza-usb

2010-02-05 Thread mike
It's crazy stuff like this that makes it impossible to believe anything you say. You've admitted you don't use an iPhone or any kind of smartphone yet you are full of 'facts'. Then when you may actually have a point, we are left to wonder id its true or just more Tom troll. On Feb 5, 2010

Re: [CGUYS] apple-stanza-usb

2010-02-05 Thread mike
Back up what you are talking about. A link..something. On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 6:41 PM, t.piwowar t...@tjpa.com wrote: On Feb 5, 2010, at 5:02 PM, mike wrote: It's crazy stuff like this that makes it impossible to believe anything you say. You've admitted you don't use an iPhone or any

[CGUYS] NYT's op ed about MS future...but the author seems to get he past wrong

2010-02-04 Thread mike
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/04/opinion/04brass.html?th=emc=thpagewanted=all * AS they marvel at Apple’s new iPad tablet computer, the technorati seem to be focusing on where this leaves Amazon’s popular e-book business. But the much more important question is why Microsoft, America’s most

Re: [CGUYS] apple-stanza-usb

2010-02-04 Thread mike
The logical conclusion of all this is bad for the consumer. Will we need an e-reader for each publishing house? If I have a kindle, can I transfer those book to an iPad? I'd guess not...which means I never bought books...I bought a right to read them on an e-reader. Are we headed to the same

Re: [CGUYS] apple-stanza-usb

2010-02-04 Thread mike
Well it's hardly a paradigm change, Jobs is doing what other devices have already done before him..and some would argue better. The kindle comes with free wireless, you can download books anywhere for free. Apple is simply doing what they have done for years, take existing products and trying to

Re: [CGUYS] apple-stanza-usb

2010-02-04 Thread mike
And some of us will brave the big bold outside world and get out of Apple's walled garden. And we are rewarded. On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 12:40 PM, tjpa t...@tjpa.com wrote: On Feb 4, 2010, at 1:34 PM, b_s-wilk wrote: Apple is making their portable devices more closed than their computers by

Re: [CGUYS] apple-stanza-usb

2010-02-04 Thread mike
I sort of agree with the storage aspect, but that is relative also...to some 4 gigs is enough, others want 64 gigs and that still isn't enough. With cloud based services many things can be left on the net and accessed as needed from an iphone or android etc. I keep a lot of pictures on sugarsync

Re: [CGUYS] apple-stanza-usb

2010-02-04 Thread mike
I think Apple has been smart to stay away from big productions about Apple being 'safer' than windows even if they are. It presents a bad image and negativity overall. I think it is implied in their ease of use advertising etc. Tom is really the only one using fear to try and drive Apple sales.

Re: [CGUYS] apple-stanza-usb

2010-02-04 Thread mike
Well it's a good thing logic never stops you, we are all entertained the more for it. On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 4:54 PM, tjpa t...@tjpa.com wrote: On Feb 4, 2010, at 6:31 PM, mike wrote: Tom is really the only one using fear to try and drive Apple sales. Mike will say just about anything

Re: [CGUYS] Microsoft’s Creative Destruction

2010-02-04 Thread mike
Lucky for MS, they don't have unions sucking them dry...it's just their own lack of creative force. Or how about even *trying* to play catch up? How long since the iphone came out? And still we are looking at the craptastically bad windows mobile. On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 5:33 PM, tjp

Re: [CGUYS] apple-stanza-usb

2010-02-04 Thread mike
. http://twitpic.com/u7kyz On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 10:09 PM, b_s-wilk b1sun...@yahoo.es wrote: On Thu, 04 Feb 2010 13:24:55 -0800, mike escribió: I sort of agree with the storage aspect, but that is relative also...to some 4 gigs is enough, others want 64 gigs and that still isn't enough

Re: [CGUYS] apple-stanza-usb

2010-02-04 Thread mike
it will play out, but I will be watching to see what Apple does and how they do it. I am not dismissing it, as you seem to be Mike, because I think watching will be fun and I will learn from it. Thank you, Mark Snyder -Original Message- Well it's hardly a paradigm change, Jobs is doing what

Re: [CGUYS] apple-stanza-usb

2010-02-03 Thread mike
Or you could say he likes facts instead of hyperbole. On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 10:21 PM, t.piwowar t...@tjpa.com wrote: That just shows that you are less interested in discussing technology than you are in scoring debating points.

Re: [CGUYS] Wireless vs. wired, just a thought to chew on

2010-02-02 Thread mike
Where are you getting this? I haven't seen anything about this. On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 7:43 AM, phartz...@gmail.com phartz...@gmail.comwrote: For years, computer makers and makers of products that interface with computers such as flash drives and hard drives have worked hard and long to

Re: [CGUYS] New SIM, but improved?

2010-02-02 Thread mike
Mark, given you statement, why aren't home receivers smaller? We aren't talking about circuit boards, we are talking about electronics you will have to handle and move etc. Home receivers should be the size of a walkman by now but aren't. I'm reminded of the scene in Zoolander where he pulls

Re: [CGUYS] Wireless vs. wired, just a thought to chew on

2010-02-02 Thread mike
:03 AM, phartz...@gmail.com phartz...@gmail.comwrote: On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 10:09 AM, mike xha...@gmail.com wrote: Where are you getting this? I haven't seen anything about this. This has been talked about for years. Right here, for a recent example: http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story

Re: [CGUYS] New SIM, but improved?

2010-02-02 Thread mike
...@gmail.com phartz...@gmail.comwrote: On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 10:14 AM, mike xha...@gmail.com wrote: Mark, given you statement, why aren't home receivers smaller? As in stereo receivers? You are not going to get 100 watts out of something the size of a pack of cigarettes. Steve

Re: [CGUYS] New SIM, but improved? [was: You Saw the Demo?...]

2010-02-02 Thread mike
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/01/ipad-mini-sim/?utm_source=feedburnerutm_medium=feedutm_campaign=Feed%3A+wired%2Ftechbiz+%28Wired%3A+Tech+Biz%29 On Feb 2, 2010 9:55 AM, Reid Katan ka...@his.com wrote: Quoting mike xha...@gmail.com: Tmo US or overseas? I just read an article today

Re: [CGUYS] New SIM, but improved?

2010-02-02 Thread mike
So how do I connect my blu ray and media center to my hd tv if not hdmi or component? On Feb 2, 2010 12:12 PM, tjpa t...@tjpa.com wrote: On Feb 2, 2010, at 11:16 AM, mike wrote: Even if you did, it's kinda hard to have 3 HDMI ports, ... There you go again. Clinging to all those cables. I'm

Re: [CGUYS] What'll they try next?

2010-02-02 Thread mike
Least they could have picked a better phone than the HTC magic. On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 6:35 PM, phartz...@gmail.com phartz...@gmail.comwrote: Holy Mackerel! Now they're marketing cell phones as collector's items. T-mobile's Fender special edition. Are they signed and numbered?

Re: [CGUYS] What'll they try next?

2010-02-02 Thread mike
This is like the long fabled yellow submarine edition ipod packed with the beatles catalog. On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 7:02 PM, Rev. Stewart Marshall revsamarsh...@earthlink.net wrote: Sure wish, the Eric Clapton edition, does it come with Layla pre installed? Stewart At 07:35 PM 2/2/2010,

Re: [CGUYS] You Saw the Demo? Are you impressed?

2010-02-01 Thread mike
Try some facts? Got any? On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 8:15 PM, t.piwowar t...@tjpa.com wrote: On Jan 31, 2010, at 6:53 PM, mike wrote: Name someone in the US that is using them. Anyone? I'll give you a hint, it's the maker of a GPS tracker for kids. That's it. I never said anything

Re: [CGUYS] New SIM, but improved?

2010-02-01 Thread mike
Apple is going to shrink the ipad next year to subatomic..MAC fan bois will still love it though they can't see it or use it. On Feb 1, 2010 2:12 PM, tjpa t...@tjpa.com wrote: On Feb 1, 2010, at 1:15 PM, chad evans wyatt wrote: For some, change=improvement. Get a life. ... Tell us you have

Re: [CGUYS] New SIM, but improved?

2010-02-01 Thread mike
By contrast Tom's hands are those of a delicate child of four. On Feb 1, 2010 4:58 PM, tjpa t...@tjpa.com wrote: On Feb 1, 2010, at 4:24 PM, Allen Firstenberg wrote: While key internal parts may get smaller,... You must have very large gorilla hands. The new SIM is half the size of an old SIM.

Re: [CGUYS] New SIM, but improved?

2010-02-01 Thread mike
You are funny little man, Tom. Almost daily you make me chuckle. On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 6:22 PM, tjpa t...@tjpa.com wrote: On Feb 1, 2010, at 7:03 PM, mike wrote: By contrast Tom's hands are those of a delicate child of four. You have become our own Party of No. You disagree with anything

Re: [CGUYS] Apple monitor issues

2010-02-01 Thread mike
It will address one of the known issues...at least that's the plan. The first update they put out didn't go so well so this is the second one. Apple halted production on the 27 line until all the issues are resolved. These are beautiful machines, so hopefully this will fix them. On Mon, Feb 1,

Re: [CGUYS] You Saw the Demo? Are you impressed?

2010-01-31 Thread mike
Thanks for the link. I usually assume Tom is just making stuff up because he never provides links when he's in all out carpet bombing mode as he has been. Perhaps morons was too strong a word, but my point remains. Apple usually takes a path that takes choices away from consumers to better

Re: [CGUYS] You Saw the Demo? Are you impressed?

2010-01-31 Thread mike
I believe that the great masses of mac users believe cost is not a consideration. You may also be right, people stick to what they are used to. They stick to what their friends have. They use things that their friends can help them fix if something goes wrong. The thing is, mac users do the

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