Re: [CGUYS] Torchwood (Was Re: [CGUYS] MS Yahoo!)

2008-02-11 Thread Paul Meyer
Some of the really good writing in T'wood gets thrown away maybe because C.J. is as authorative as the Doctor (e.g. his explanation of Torchwood's 1,2 4) I read that T'wood was in part inspired by the success of Buffy/Angel but particularly the latter. I can definitely see that but what is

Re: [CGUYS] MS Yahoo!

2008-02-09 Thread Paul Meyer
Any Doctor Who fans following Torchwood? (I know it's OT but what about all that indecipherable obscureness about Philadelphia and a (?) pig. I am not even going to ask what an iggle is.) --- katan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 4 Feb 2008 22:56:19 -0800, Paul Meyer wrote: Is that a

Re: [CGUYS] MS Yahoo!

2008-02-09 Thread John Duncan Yoyo
I'm about three quarters of the way through Torchwood season 1 . I thought they were better as the series goes on Some of the earlier ones had these sex oriented plot twists that felt like an HBO comedy where they used to have a topless women in the shot for no particular reason. I liked the

Re: [CGUYS] MS Yahoo!

2008-02-09 Thread Tom Piwowar
Iggle = Eagle in Philadelphian. and we did not even get to the tough stuff... How do you respond to Wid or widout? * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em

Re: [CGUYS] MS Yahoo!

2008-02-09 Thread Sue Cubic
At 06:57 AM 02/09/2008 -0800, Paul Meyer wrote Any Doctor Who fans following Torchwood? (I know it's OT but what about all that indecipherable obscureness about Philadelphia and a (?) pig. I am not even going to ask what an iggle is.) I think an iggle is a type of bird only found in PA. :)

[CGUYS] Torchwood (Was Re: [CGUYS] MS Yahoo!)

2008-02-09 Thread Reid Katan
Quoting Paul Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Any Doctor Who fans following Torchwood? Me me me. I don't like it as much as Dr Who. Cap'n Jack was so much better in his couple of Dr Who episodes. He's too serious now. I liked the one where them three people came through the rift from WWII era.

Re: [CGUYS] MS Yahoo!

2008-02-09 Thread Sue Cubic
At 10:49 AM 02/09/2008 -0500, Tom Piwowar wrote Iggle = Eagle in Philadelphian. and we did not even get to the tough stuff... How do you respond to Wid or widout? Definitely Wid! My husband used to mow the lawnd every week also. Sue

Re: [CGUYS] MS Yahoo!

2008-02-07 Thread Paul Meyer
Is that a Doctor Who quote? --- katan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 3 Feb 2008 00:59:34 -0500, Michael Fernando wrote: This particular public will certainly be migrating to the Google product. I've spent a *lot* of time avoiding Microsoft products except for OSes because I'm too

Re: [CGUYS] MS Yahoo!

2008-02-05 Thread katan
On Mon, 4 Feb 2008 22:56:19 -0800, Paul Meyer wrote: Is that a Doctor Who quote? Why yes. Yes it is. From the Face of Evil. -- katan The very powerful, and the very stupid have one thing in common. They don't alter their views to fit the facts. They alter the facts to fit their views. Which

Re: [CGUYS] MS Yahoo!

2008-02-04 Thread katan
On Sun, 3 Feb 2008 00:59:34 -0500, Michael Fernando wrote: This particular public will certainly be migrating to the Google product. I've spent a *lot* of time avoiding Microsoft products except for OSes because I'm too lazy to learn Linux and too cheap to buy a Mac. Well, certain Linux

Re: [CGUYS] MS Yahoo!

2008-02-02 Thread Jeff Wright
I wonder what would be left of Yahoo! if MS did gobble it up. The services offered by Yahoo! and MSN are for the most part identical. It would make no sense to offer identical services for very long. So MS would be paying $45 Billion to merely eliminate a competitor. When that happens would

Re: [CGUYS] MS Yahoo!

2008-02-02 Thread Tom Piwowar
The head on today's NY Times story is A Giant Bid That Shows How Tired the Giant Is and it reads like an obituary. Curiously, Google is not always my first choice for search. Many times I go to Wikipedia instead. In my book Wikipedia is #2 in search.

Re: [CGUYS] MS Yahoo!

2008-02-02 Thread Michael Fernando
When that happens would the public and advertisers migrate to the MSN product or the Google product? This particular public will certainly be migrating to the Goolge product. I've spent a *lot* of time avoiding Microsoft products except for OSes because I'm too lazy to learn Linux and too

[CGUYS] MS Yahoo!

2008-02-01 Thread Tom Piwowar
I wonder what would be left of Yahoo! if MS did gobble it up. The services offered by Yahoo! and MSN are for the most part identical. It would make no sense to offer identical services for very long. So MS would be paying $45 Billion to merely eliminate a competitor. When that happens would

Re: [CGUYS] MS Yahoo!

2008-02-01 Thread mike
I personally don't see much difference between yahoo or msn. If anything it sounds like they would buy them out to shut them down. Mike On Feb 1, 2008 7:57 AM, Tom Piwowar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wonder what would be left of Yahoo! if MS did gobble it up. The services offered by Yahoo!

Re: [CGUYS] MS Yahoo!

2008-02-01 Thread Reid Katan
Well that didn't work as planned. What I *meant* to say was: Quoting Tom Piwowar [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I wonder what would be left of Yahoo! if MS did gobble it up. The services offered by Yahoo! and MSN are for the most part identical. It would make no sense to offer identical services for very