Re: [CGUYS] illegal search warrant?

2010-05-03 Thread David K Watson
Not quite sure what your point is here, 1 suicide in a population of 300 is a suicide rate of 1/300 and 3 suicides in a population of 900 is still a rate of 1/300, etc. We were talking about suicide _rates_, not raw numbers, and as I said, densely populated areas have lower suicide rates than

Re: [CGUYS] M$ Cancels Courier - Lost their Way?

2010-05-03 Thread Snyder, Mark - IdM (IS)
Source, Mike? Thank you, Mark Snyder -Original Message- Keep in mind, Apple's markup is about 50%...so HP could come in under. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** **

[CGUYS] XP -- indexing of external USB hard / flash drives

2010-05-03 Thread Fred Holmes
How does one turn off *absolutely* (or so that it only occurs on demand, and never by default) the process that starts indexing any USB-attached external hard drive or flash drive in Windows XP? It is never useful to me; I am always looking for an explicit file that I know how to find, or I'm

Re: [CGUYS] M$ Cancels Courier - Lost their Way?

2010-05-03 Thread mike
Yes, I'm playing a little fast with the 50% remark but this area of margins has been talked about in articles many times, here is one. The PC vendors typically have much much smaller margins due to competition amongst themselves.

Re: [CGUYS] M$ Cancels Courier - Lost their Way?

2010-05-03 Thread mike
http://blogs.wsj.com/marketbeat/2010/02/01/apple-ipad-to-deliver-50-margin-says-analyst/tab/article/ On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 4:43 AM, Snyder, Mark - IdM (IS) mark.sny...@ngc.com wrote: Source, Mike? Thank you, Mark Snyder -Original Message- Keep in mind, Apple's markup is about

Re: [CGUYS] M$ Cancels Courier - Lost their Way?

2010-05-03 Thread Snyder, Mark - IdM (IS)
Okay, but that reference is for iPods and is a year old. You were talking about PCs. Why are you crossing devices to compare? The iPod actually took so much market share competing with its rivals that many of them are gone or marginal. Your assertion is as suspect as your method. Thank you,

Re: [CGUYS] M$ Cancels Courier - Lost their Way?

2010-05-03 Thread mike
Sorry for the double post, forgot the URL. http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pcpop.com%2Fdoc%2F0%2F527%2F527783.shtmlsl=zh-CNtl=enhl=ie=UTF-8 On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 7:26 AM, mike xha...@gmail.com wrote: This unit would be considered I think competition for the iPad,

Re: [CGUYS] M$ Cancels Courier - Lost their Way?

2010-05-03 Thread mike
This unit would be considered I think competition for the iPad, it's about 300 bux. The biggest benefit of course for the iPad is the app store, makes entering this market near impossible for anyone. On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 4:43 AM, Snyder, Mark - IdM (IS) mark.sny...@ngc.com wrote: Source,

Re: [CGUYS] M$ Cancels Courier - Lost their Way?

2010-05-03 Thread tjpa
Tough competition... Apple said it sold one million iPads as of Friday, just 28 days after the touch-screen tablet computers went on sale in the U.S. Demand is such that consumers looking to purchase one of the devices face wait times of up to a week or more.

Re: [CGUYS] M$ Cancels Courier - Lost their Way?

2010-05-03 Thread mike
Weird...I walked into an Apple store and saw them ready for buying. And yes..almost impossible competition. On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 10:50 AM, tjpa t...@tjpa.com wrote: Tough competition... Apple said it sold one million iPads as of Friday, just 28 days after the touch-screen tablet computers

[CGUYS] Apple Anti-trust App

2010-05-03 Thread mike
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/an_antitrust_app_buvCWcJdjFoLD5vBSkguGO I was hoping Apple wouldn't get a pass on this deal, this control issue Apple has is BS from top to bottom. If MS did something like this we'd never hear the end of it, virtual silence since Apple implemented this.

Re: [CGUYS] M$ Cancels Courier - Lost their Way?

2010-05-03 Thread John Duncan Yoyo
On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 10:46 PM, mike xha...@gmail.com wrote: What's next? Fusion Garage is still promising JooJoo delivery in a few months. Anybody want to wager on that? (On a side note, what't up with that name? I can understand changing it from CrunchPad, you don't want the word

[CGUYS] Thoughts on Flash

2010-05-03 Thread tjp
Have you read Job's essay on Flash? It really is well reasoned. And today M$ announced that they agree. http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash/ Flash was created during the PC era – for PCs and mice. Flash is a successful business for Adobe, and we can understand why they want to

Re: [CGUYS] Apple Anti-trust App

2010-05-03 Thread tjpa
The iPhone is now the top selling phone in the US. That is certainly going to get Apple a kind of legal attention it never had before. However, I expect that after Apple is finished explaining its actions the Feds will agree that Apple's actions are reasonable and not anti- competitive.

[CGUYS] Missing/delayed posts [Was: illegal search warrant?]

2010-05-03 Thread David K Watson
I sent this Saturday evening, and it's just now showed up. Some other emails seem to have never made it to the list at all. Is there anything I can do to improve the likelihood that my posts are received and on time? I'm willing to switch to another email account if it will help. On

Re: [CGUYS] Apple Anti-trust App

2010-05-03 Thread mike
This has zero to do with enforcing quality. On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 6:42 PM, tjpa t...@tjpa.com wrote: The iPhone is now the top selling phone in the US. That is certainly going to get Apple a kind of legal attention it never had before. However, I expect that after Apple is finished

[CGUYS] Pennsylvania webcam spying

2010-05-03 Thread phartz...@gmail.com
A just-released report into the Webcamgate scandal has found that Lower Merion School District officials knew that Harriton High School sophomore Blake Robbins had taken his school-issued laptop home. Yet, they decided in October 2009 to activate a controversial program that secretly captured

Re: [CGUYS] Pennsylvania webcam spying

2010-05-03 Thread mike
As said on first blush, this had nothing to do with security or getting a laptop back and more about control and voyeurism. On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 7:43 PM, phartz...@gmail.com phartz...@gmail.comwrote: A just-released report into the Webcamgate scandal has found that Lower Merion School

Re: [CGUYS] M$ Cancels Courier - Lost their Way?

2010-05-03 Thread David K Watson
Ah, that makes a lot of sense. Furthermore, it's something I should have known, since my son was very fond of the Tak video games and Nickelodeon series, Tak and the power of Juju. Just about all the jujus in the series were ridiculous in pretty gross ways, that can't help the JooJoo's

Re: [CGUYS] Thoughts on Flash

2010-05-03 Thread mike
While most agree flash is a PITA to develop for etc, here is another view. http://www.betanews.com/joewilcox/article/Steve-Jobs-Thoughts-on-Flash-is-just-smoke/1272565882 On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 6:25 PM, tjp t...@tjpa.com wrote: Have you read Job's essay on Flash? It really is well reasoned.

Re: [CGUYS] Missing/delayed posts [Was: illegal search warrant?]

2010-05-03 Thread Eric S. Sande
I sent this Saturday evening, and it's just now showed up. Some other emails seem to have never made it to the list at all. It seems to be an inconsistent delay. I'll usually see them all eventually, but it's disconcerting to see replies quoted to a post that's a reply to a post I made! And

Re: [CGUYS] Thoughts on Flash

2010-05-03 Thread phartz...@gmail.com
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 9:25 PM, tjp t...@tjpa.com wrote: Have you read Job's essay on Flash? It really is well reasoned. And today M$ announced that they agree. http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash/ Flash was created during the PC era – for PCs and mice. Flash is a successful

Re: [CGUYS] Thoughts on Flash

2010-05-03 Thread t.piwowar
On May 3, 2010, at 10:41 PM, mike wrote: While most agree flash is a PITA to develop for etc, here is another view. The reader comments were more insightful than the blogger's own... If you compare Flash and HTML5 then HTML5 wins every time so why bother supporting old technology, it just

Re: [CGUYS] Missing/delayed posts [Was: illegal search warrant?]

2010-05-03 Thread t.piwowar
On May 3, 2010, at 10:11 PM, David K Watson wrote: I sent this Saturday evening, and it's just now showed up. Some other emails seem to have never made it to the list at all. Your email moved quickly from server to server except for one hop: lserv-m02.elist.aol.com got it Sun, 2 May 2010