I think that it was settled decades ago: no substantiated risk.
Thank you,
Mark Snyder
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I'm having trouble using cwRsync (from itefix) on Vista to keep local
copies of some remote directories. The files are out there, but I can't
write them to my local drives. The same commands used to work on XP.
I've Googled, checked itefix, and tried a few things, but so far I've
failed.
I currently have Cox internet and analog cable TV service (basic and expanded
lineup) and when I purchased a digital TV at the beginning of the year and
installed it, I was able to watch the HD version of the local broadcast
stations as well as the regular signal fed through with the analog
Here they lure you in with cheap/free phones and stick you with the
service contract. Over in many other countries you pay mucho bucks
up front for the phone then shop for your plan
I guess that is why it is so desirable to have poor schools. If people
could do some rudimentary math they
They do not have a multitude of carriers, and usually have a
government monopoly, or one that is heavily subsidized by the government.
Interesting logic. First we promote the nutty right-wing mantra that
government is bad. Then we let the nutty process run for a couple of
decades and discover
But here we are wiser. Taking cues from Microsoft, US businesses have
learned the benefits of incompatibility. The best way to retain clients
is to make them fearful of using any system but yours.
Well played! Nice job of working a gratuitous potshot at MS into a
conversation that has no
I told him that I could also just put in an antenna and a switch and get
the channels OTA.
Getting a digital TV tripled the OTA programming I was getting. Any
thoughts about paying for cable quickly vanished.
However I did notice a seasonal variation in reception. My reception is
considerably
Well played! Nice job of working a gratuitous potshot at MS into a
conversation that has no relation whatsoever to anything that MS does.
Not my fault if you are not paying attention. The strategy of
incompatibility was not invented by the telcos.
This is going to be tough for the WFBs to swallow...
http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/microsoft/archives/141821.asp
Long email from B. Gates (Yes, that B. Gates). Boils down to: I am quite
disappointed at how Windows Usability has been going backwards and the
program management groups don't
Given M$'s history they probably got the strategy from someone else as well.
On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 11:00 AM, Tom Piwowar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well played! Nice job of working a gratuitous potshot at MS into a
conversation that has no relation whatsoever to anything that MS does.
Not my
Who is attacking their system?
It is not always a bad idea for a monopoly.
I am not a right wing nut either.
Ever hear of socialized medicine?
Government monopolies also yield some pretty good airlines. Ever
heard of Lufthansa.
Stewart
At 08:59 AM 7/1/2008, you wrote:
They do not have
Ever hear of socialized medicine?
Most of my relatives live in Europe. Some are doctors. They are very,
very happy with their socialized medicine. Health care is their #1 reason
for not wanting to live in the US. They are amazed how easily Americans
are brainwashed by greedy insurance
Interestingly, in Belgium if I use up the PayGo card to zero, people can
still call me inasmuch as the caller pays and the recipient does not!! Here
in the USA they sell AIR twice; they've got us commin'goin' !! If the
caller is on the same company as I had (Proximus), then nobody pays on
Ever hear of socialized medicine?
Most of my relatives live in Europe. Some are doctors. They are very,
very happy with their socialized medicine. Health care is their #1 reason
for not wanting to live in the US. They are amazed how easily Americans
are brainwashed by greedy insurance
Oh yeah eh. The Canadian Health Care System is a model of efficiency
too. A friend's doctor ordered a MRI for a concern about a possible
heart ailment. The appointment was made with super efficiency for 6
months later. The 6 months goes by, they go to the appointment, only to
find the tech
Not just Europe, but also Canada. My in-laws are retired and have
free health care and prescription coverage. Could not understand why
my daughter had a quite wedding to secure health care coverage and
then plan a big wedding later.
My first child was born in Canada and had sever congenital
WHOA Do you know anything about the Canadian health care system
besides that???
The problem is that the hospitals are not funded enough. The problem
is rationing which heaven forbid we do not want.
If it is critical and an emergency they will treat. Otherwise you
need to wait in line.
Wisconsin Farm Bureau?
On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 8:07 AM, Tom Piwowar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This is going to be tough for the WFBs to swallow...
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The super-duper efficient eh Canadian Health Care system saved
themselves the cost of a MRI. He died 3 months later. Amazingly
enough, from a heart attack.
Yep...that's just what we need. Good ol' soh-she-ah-lized medicine.
Yes, our system is way better.
From Bill himself:
During his farewell event at Microsoft this morning, Gates referred to this,
and poked a little fun at us: One of the newspapers had some e-mail that I
sent about how maybe Windows could have been better at something, and they
said, 'This is a shocking e-mail. Shocking!' And I
As a matter of fact, yes. I am pretty well versed in the pluses and
minuses of the much heralded Canadian Health Care System.
I wasn't questioning the lack of doctors or the skills of said doctors.
I understand there are funding and rationing issues.
But the age-old question is who
Oh yeah eh. The Canadian Health Care System is a model of efficiency
too. A friend's doctor ordered a MRI for a concern about a possible
Certainly tragic, but what is the screw-up rate at US hospitals? Would it
have been better to not provide MRI in the region because it was too
sparsely
Oh. Wow. I see your point. Our system just sucks so badly that we
should abandon it.
While I feel sorry for this woman and her family for their loss, I'm
sure we can find lots of examples of how any system sucks.
So because of this, you don't really expect me to say, I will warmly
embrace
Wisconsin Farm Bureau?
Windows Fan Bois
I was thinking WFB might not give them as much heart burn.
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Ronald Regan trick?
Geez.. you had to dig deep for that one didn't you.
This is just one incident I know all too well, but there are lots of
others too.
But I'm not about to take your bait - as feeble as it is - and go into
this with you.
I think I'll take the high road here and just
During his farewell event at Microsoft this morning, Gates referred to this,
and poked a little fun at us: One of the newspapers had some e-mail that I
sent about how maybe Windows could have been better at something, and they
said, 'This is a shocking e-mail. Shocking!' And I said, 'What do you
I am a doctor, in the US, and I just spent more than an hour of my morning
on the phone with three different insurance companies to get a required
medication for one of my patients..
But we do not call it rationing. What is the job title for an MBA who
makes life and death medical decisions
Interestingly, in Belgium if I use up the PayGo card to zero, people can
still call me inasmuch as the caller pays and the recipient does not!! Here
in the USA they sell AIR twice; they've got us commin'goin' !! If the
caller is on the same company as I had (Proximus), then nobody pays on
What a laugh. How quickly they forget!
Bill Gates DID bail out/buy Apple in the 90's. Correct me if I'm wrong, but
doesn't he still own like 49% of the stock - more than anyone else?
Like vultures picking at a dead horse, I guess you intend to rant about Bill
Gates forever? It's almost worse
Oh. Wow. I see your point. Our system just sucks so badly that we
should abandon it.
Not my point at all. My point was that neither healthcare system is without
serious flaws.
If I have the money, then the US system can't be beat (let's admit it, if
this woman had had enough money, she'd
BSD UNIX is widely recognized as one of the most stable, secure,
robust OS's out there.
I am sorry if you can't find a GUI built on top of CP/M.
Matthew
On Jul 1, 2008, at 1:04 PM, Tom Piwowar wrote:
OS X sucks because it is based on BSD
Unix, which sucks.
You know, if you watch the ER video you will see someone walk by and ignore
the woman lying on the floor. It's a little fuzzy, but I'm pretty sure it
was Gates.
I think I'll take the high road here and just blame MS for it.
Obviously all the ills of the world are the fault of MS.
Until very recently the Feds counted everyone in a zip code as having
broadband if ONE had broadband. I believe they also don't count anything
1.5 and lower as broadband now.
This reason below is probably partly why I sit at 1.3mbit and will according
to a Qwest rep, sit there forever. There is
Thanks, Tom. I wander away for half a day, suddenly we're onto Canadian
medicine.
Everyone should understand that each country over there has several telcom
companies, competing in the marketplace - hardly socialised. It's just that
they agree to use the same standard - and multiband -
Okay. He doesn't completely agree with me. He knows Windows sucks, but
mistakenly thinks he can apply band aids to make it better.
Guess you haven't been keeping up to date on Singularity/Midori.
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OK here is how it works very often.
I live in LA (Lower Alabama) on the east side. Last year they came
through and repaved the main north south artery. One intersection
was supposed to be fixed. It did not get done in conjunction with
the paving job. Now this is a multi million dollar fix
Or he knows that after MS announced this developers went apesh*t and MS
backed off and said it was just a concept.
Mike
On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 10:35 AM, Chris Dunford [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Okay. He doesn't completely agree with me. He knows Windows sucks, but
mistakenly thinks he can
What is wrong with the UI apple built around it?
Mike
On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 11:59 AM, Tom Piwowar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
BSD UNIX is widely recognized as one of the most stable, secure,
robust OS's out there.
With a user interface that is over 30 years old.
It is a highly dangerous intersection. The
fix had been approved and funded and at the last minute they pulled
the funding, why? So they could give it to another part of the state
to lure a business into the area!
Yeah this stuff happens all the time and the criteria stinks
You mean
Ah yes... Tom is the overseer of all that is good or bad...
Sorry Charlie.. I mean Tom, if you didn't like my example. Next time I
want to make a point, I'll be sure to site multiple areas of concern.
I do think the discussion on health care is a little bit out of
bounds, so I'll gladly drop
Have and have nots? When did broadband become a fundamental right?
You are coming from a strange place. Broadband is not a fundamental
right, but it is fundamental to the operation of a modern technological
society. With crappy broadband the US falls further and further behind.
If we want to
No what it did was let us subsidize a project in Mobile while we got nothing.
Mobile is a fast growing area and has way more industry than we
do. Our tax base is very low. (Low industry) We constantly try and
lure industry here, but because the politicians have not put the
roads here we
Interchangable parts doesn't mean interoperability. The guns you refer to
were interchangeable only as far as the same model/manufacturer. When I ran
mac os pre X, after a clean install I ususally made copies of my finder and
system suitcase, I could then given strange problems later on, replace
I got my info from a podcast where Paul Thurrott was discussing the concept
OS and the reaction of developers who feared MS was going to make it more
then just concept.
Mike
On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 12:51 PM, Chris Dunford [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Or he knows that after MS announced this
I agree, but the studies were for adults. I don't believe the safety of rf
exposure to young children over time is settled science. Wouldn't you be
loath to accept such exposure as a PZB member only to find out 20 years down
the road those kids are sick from it ??
My understanding was that it was an Apple patent infringement by the
Win95 GUI. And MS sweetened Apple's willingness to negotiate a
compromise by threatening to discontinue MS Office for Mac.
db
David K Watson wrote:
You are so wrong. First, it was Microsoft and not Gates who
purchased the
I agree, but the studies were for adults. I don't believe the safety
of rf
exposure to young children over time is settled science. Wouldn't you
be
loath to accept such exposure as a PZB member only to find out 20 years
down
the road those kids are sick from it ??
No, I would loathe to
Don't you JOKE about odd socks! It's a serious matter.
On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 2:44 PM, Jeff Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
the road those kids are sick from it ??
No, I would loathe to tremble in the corner in fear every time some
crackpot
gets a soapbox and announces that they
Ah yes... Tom is the overseer of all that is good or bad...
Ah yes, when you can't prevail on the merits switch to personal attacks.
I certainly would.
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Interchangable parts doesn't mean interoperability. The guns you refer to
were interchangeable only as far as the same model/manufacturer.
It was the first step. Before then each individual rifle was a unique
item. Then the benefits of uniformity within a plant were discovered.
Then uniformity
My point was that certain people would sooner sleep on bed of hot coals than
acknowledge that MS is quite well aware of Windows's shortcomings AND might
be trying to do something about it. He says that [Gates] knows Windows
sucks, but mistakenly thinks he can apply band aids to make it better. The
According to the physicists, they settled it without the need for any
medical trials at all. The root cause of cancer is the disruption of
molecular bonds, and radio waves aren't energetic enough to do that.
I'm no physicist, but Bob Park (Voodoo Science) is, and that's what he
says...
Ok, old wise ones.
About a year or so ago I posted a problem about my now 4 year old HP 4300
series laptop, and the fact that it was taking up to 15 minutes from time I
signed in before I was finally able to do anything and then on many
occasions, it was as if something was running in the
Sounds like a thermal issue to me.
I wish I had seen this message back then. I would have suggested that
then and waved you off the reformat of the hard drive.
On a laptop - I used to use a 4300 back when I was at Netscape - look at
the vents on the sides and back (and bottom?) of the case
Tom, I don't think you are entirely correct here. The
iPod has three distinct UI's on the hardware side (classic,
shuffle and touch) and all are doing well. The other side
of the UI, iTunes, has evolved considerably as well.
Their common feature throughout all their iterations is that
Apple
Another possibility is that the CPU heat spreader has come loose. Not very
likely, but CPU overheating is the quickest way to initiate a shutdown on
many computers, after throttling the CPU down, which could explain the poor
performance.
BTW, I once had to completely disassemble an older HP
Does anyone know anything about the security of Amazon's
S3 service - how secure is it? If you lose the password,
are you up a creek?
Similar question about other on-line services. I don't
actually think Google docs has any security - they want
to scan your documents to offer you ads, etc. I'm
which costs money, and raises the total cost of healthcare in the U.S.
On Jul 1, 2008, at 5:00 PM, rlsimon wrote:
That's why most medical offices have an employee to do all that!
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Does anyone know anything about the security of Amazon's
S3 service - how secure is it? If you lose the password,
are you up a creek?
Amazon is trying to sell S3 and its processors as a computing platform.
If they had poor security it would scuttle the entire business. So I
would expect Amazon
I have my gripes with OS X (I miss Location Manager, for
example), but it doesn't suck, IMO.
Next time you have lots of time on your hands just Google FTFF and read
on.
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