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

[Eric S. Sande]

What's wrong with making a buck off of a war, people do this.

I'm afraid you haven't got the message.  I know there's a lot of
great companies that have done this.  Bell Labs, for one.

Messerschmitt for another. Mitsubishi. Ford. General Motors.

Name the ones that haven't profited from war.

It's hard to do.  They ALL make money from death and destruction.

Luckily "our guys" may have saved more lives overall.

But listen to me, Daddy Warbucks, it ain't a free ride.  There's an
open market for souls on this planet and corporations are the biggest
whores on the block.

Sorry for the imagery.  I wish I could call it another way but I can't.

As far as Bill Gates, the court finds him not guilty.

"Complicit enabling" is not a crime,


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

[Chris Dunford]

> > "Knife the baby"??! Good Lord, he must be doing
> > something I haven't heard about. He's a war profiteer,
> > maybe? He's been selling munitions to terrorists?
>  
> 
> This is a reference from the antitrust trial.  See
> http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0CGN/is_3533/ai_53185748/
> for ... the details.

Yes, I know. My point was that Gates was being explicitly compared to people 
who made the money they gave away from war profiteering and the like. Gates 
sells computer software.


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[CGUYS] CNET News.com: FCC: iPad use could further strain AT&T 3G - CNET News

[Rev. Stewart A. Marshall]

This email was sent from popoz...@earthlink.net

Message from sender: 
More concerns

FCC: iPad use could further strain AT&T 3G - CNET News
URL: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10448679-37.html

If the 3G version of Apple's iPad tablet proves to be as popular as analysts 
are predicting, AT&T will face increased network congestion problems, warns a 
blog post by two agency directors.


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Re: [CGUYS] apple-stanza-usb

[chad evans wyatt]

Agree with the Nokia comment, and also suggest another obscure place where 
network reception surpasses by far anything in the US.  Worth a thought..
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=walbrzych,+poland,+europe

--- On Sat, 2/6/10, b_s-wilk  wrote:

From: b_s-wilk 
Subject: Re: [CGUYS] apple-stanza-usb
To: COMPUTERGUYS-L@LISTSERV.AOL.COM
Date: Saturday, February 6, 2010, 1:47 PM


Also depends on your phone. If you're not using a Nokia phone, you'll probably 
find more places with little or no reception.

There's no perfect network, and few in the US come close to the amazing 
coverage I get here, http://is.gd/7Poni, or even here, http://is.gd/7PprD.


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Re: [CGUYS] The Other Digital: Radio

[MrMike6by9]

I have the Logitech Squeezebox Boom while a friend of mine has the
Pandora Radio by Livio. These sets are quite appropriate for news and
talk programs from the likes of NPR, PRI, and BBC. Their audio
fidelity is quite acceptable for tabletop radio. Just about any
broadcast radio station you'd fancy has an internet presence. I often
listen to west coast NPR feeds, for example, since they don't delete
as much (if you time it right) for local content/stories. My radio can
access my Napster playlists as well as Pandora and Last.FM. My
friend's radio is especially configured for the ease of use for the
"thumbs up and "thumbs down" for Pandora playlists. I can go to sleep
just about any night of the week listening to "Echoes", for example. I
have an XM sub and there is supposedly a way to stream their content
on the Squeezebox but I haven't played with it yet since I've only had
the Box since Xmas.

YMMV

> Subject: Re: The Other Digital: Radio
>
> Constance,
>
> We have something that we enjoy a great deal: a wifi internet radio.  It
> looks like a regular tabletop radio, but plays anything that streams from
> the internet, about 17,000 stations worldwide.  In addition, it also plays
> all our Sirius stations, Pandora music and podcasts.
>
> We have two of them, both Grace brand, less than $150.
>


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Re: [CGUYS] The Other Digital: Radio

[Art Clemons]

I think you are under a misunderstanding. HD radio is NOT "digital". It is a 
proprietary format analog signal with a digital adjunct. See: 



Both IBOC signals are truly digital although on AM, it's a Hybrid 
Digital system.  Please note that your quoted source to rebut the claim 
that HD is digital states:


"HD Radio is the trademark for iBiquity's in-band on-channel (IBOC) 
digital radio technology used by AM and FM radio stations to transmit 
audio and data via a digital signal in conjunction with their analog 
signals.'



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Re: [CGUYS] Laptop flicker and dying battery

[Reid Katan]

Quoting Tony B :


I suppose it depends how you define 'flicker'. I imagined it to look more
like a loose wire - a random jumping of the picture. Anyway, we know film
doesn't flicker at 24fps so it would have to be set lower than that, and I
doubt that's possible.

Could it be that in his display properties, he managed to set the refresh

rate(?) really low? Like 60Hz (or less?). That would cause a flicker.


Depends on how long the picture between the "dark spots" last. At 24  
FPS, the light on the movie screen lasts close to 1/24th of a second,  
and is refreshed before it fades. No flicker.


I suspect if you flashed a light that went dark immediately (LED, a  
strobe light) at 24Hz, you'd see it flicker.



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Re: [CGUYS] Laptop flicker and dying battery

[Tony B]

I suppose it depends how you define 'flicker'. I imagined it to look more
like a loose wire - a random jumping of the picture. Anyway, we know film
doesn't flicker at 24fps so it would have to be set lower than that, and I
doubt that's possible.

Could it be that in his display properties, he managed to set the refresh
> rate(?) really low? Like 60Hz (or less?). That would cause a flicker.
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Re: [CGUYS] Laptop flicker and dying battery

[Reid Katan]

Quoting John Emmerling :


The only other explanation that occurs to me is that the problem was due to
a corruption of the BIOS or the boot sector, and somehow the installer
cleaned it out.


Could it be that in his display properties, he managed to set the  
refresh rate(?) really low? Like 60Hz (or less?). That would cause a  
flicker. I don't remember if this was a laptop or desktop with a LCD  
monitor, or even what the effect would be on LCD of setting the rate  
low.


Just a thought.


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

[John Duncan Yoyo]

On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 10:39 PM, t.piwowar  wrote:

> On Feb 5, 2010, at 3:05 PM, David K Watson wrote:
>
>> Also, because of the many Android OS versions and hardware
>> models, there is no guarantee that any particular Android app will work on
>> any given Android phone.  People like choice, sure, but they also need a
>> degree of certainty to base their choices on.
>>
>
> You must consider that Google is new to consumer hardware and Apple has had
> decades of experience in this arena. Google is going to have to learn many
> important lessons via the school of hard knocks.
>
> The story I heard on one of the Twit shows this was Apple asked Google not
to enable multi-touch on the Droid.  Apple believed it's patent was weak on
multitouch and they did't believe it would survive a challenge.  That
doesn't make tons of sense but but lots of patent law applied to software
doesn't.  In addition there are multi touch capabilities in the Android OS-
the shift key for one.


-- 
John Duncan Yoyo
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Re: [CGUYS] apple-stanza-usb

[Eric S. Sande]

The area is a couple of miles north of there, closer to where RI Av merges 
with Baltimore Av, in a residential neighborhood.


No problems with access on R.I. Ave NW, I'm at 15th and R.I. in
the District.  My only issue is no satellite TV, due to line of sight, and
no FiOS. I'm not likely to get FiOS soon anyway.  All of the cable is
in underground conduit which is lovely from an appearance perspective
(none of my utilities went off in the snowstorm) but lousy from an
upgrade perspective.

As far as wireless I'm not an expert on that.  Every wireless device I
have here works to spec.

And that would be very few wireless devices.  A phone, and that's it.

I know you may not credit this, but as far as technology I'm a very
conservative person.  I prefer tested state of the art solutions vice
things that only work part of the time.

And that is what you are talking about.  Things that only work part of
the time.  It has to work all the time for me to accept it.




- Original Message - 
From: "b_s-wilk" 

To: 
Sent: Saturday, February 06, 2010 5:02 PM
Subject: Re: [CGUYS] apple-stanza-usb


 > I have T-Mobile... There's another DC dead zone, I think along 
Rhode Island Avenue.


Curious. I also have T-Mobile. My office is on Rhode Island Ave. No dead 
zone.


The area is a couple of miles north of there, closer to where RI Av merges 
with Baltimore Av, in a residential neighborhood.



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

[Eric S. Sande]

There aren't any dead babies. A little perspective would be nice.


It isn't as bad as it looks.  It's an OS, not a war crime.

Sure, a lot of people don't like it.  A lot of people don't like a lot
of things.  That doesn't invalidate Windows.

As far as the strategies, that's business.

Why agonize over something you can't do anything about.

The bottom line is that the OS does, with some tweaking, the task.

It may not be elegant but it does the job.


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Re: [CGUYS] apple-stanza-usb

[Jordan]

b_s-wilk wrote:
 > I have T-Mobile... There's another DC dead zone, I think along 
Rhode Island Avenue.


Curious. I also have T-Mobile. My office is on Rhode Island Ave. No 
dead zone. 


The area is a couple of miles north of there, closer to where RI Av 
merges with Baltimore Av, in a residential neighborhood.

Oh, way out there? Tom thinks that is the boonies.


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

[Wayne Dernoncourt]

Chris Dunford
>>  Doesn't justify how they got that money.  And Gates
>> goes from "Knife the baby" to savior...

> "Knife the baby"??! Good Lord, he must be doing
> something I haven't heard about. He's a war profiteer,
> maybe? He's been selling munitions to terrorists?
 

This is a reference from the antitrust trial.  See
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0CGN/is_3533/ai_53185748/
for ... the details.

-- 
Take care  | This clown speaks for himself, his job doesn't
Wayne D.   | supply this, at least not directly
Psychoceramics: The study of crackpots.


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Re: [CGUYS] The Other Digital: Radio

[Art Clemons]

WHAT I DON'T KNOW  is whether the signal is actually usable in large parts of 
the National Capitol area, which is why I asked this question.  I sort of 
figured that the signal wasn't very good, or I would have heard of it; but it 
would be nice if it did work.


Finding a working portable HD radio is tricky.  In car radios, one of 
the repeating refrains is that the HD part drops out all too frequently, 
which isn't a problem if you're listening to the HD1 signal (most radios 
drop back to the analog signal which is also NORMALLY the HD1 signal) 
but is if you happen to be listening to HD2 or HD3.


The portable versions like the Insignia or the Zune with HD both also 
suffer from dropouts as you move about, just as you would in a car.


For home listening, my favorite is the Sony XDR-F1HD Tuner with HD but 
note that it's just an FM/AM HD tuner, you need to connect the tuner to 
an audio amplifier or receiver with audio inputs.


For use in an office, or use in a bedroom  I'ld suggest the Radiosophy 
HD100 which is a radio with speakers included.


The Sony Tuner and Radiosophy radio both would adequately serve in 
Washington in a fixed location (for that matter so would the Zune and 
Insignia portables).  The signal levels should be more than high enough, 
looking at one of the sites that gives AM and FM signal strengths.

http://www.v-soft.com/ZipSignal/default.htm

Please note I'm not in DC, but I used the Capitol zip code and then 
extrapolated what the predicted FM HD signal should be.


Please note that if you want AM HD while moving around, you'll really 
suffer, because the Hybrid Digital format from Ibiquity doesn't cope 
with movement well at all.

If the technology is not truly digital, I wouldn't know why the broadcasters 
call it digital; but, as  you see from the example above, they do.


It is digital or hybrid digital, of course the US might have been better 
off adopting the European system instead.  Because it's an in band 
system on both FM and AM, compromises had to be made to allow standard 
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Re: [CGUYS] Bill Gates saves the world...well some of it

[Chris Dunford]

>  Doesn't justify how they got that money.  And Gates goes from "Knife
> the baby" to savior...

"Knife the baby"??! Good Lord, he must be doing something I haven't heard 
about. He's a war profiteer, maybe? He's been selling munitions to terrorists? 
Peddling tainted infant formula to Third World
countries? Selling cars that he knows to be unsafe at any speed? Charging 
exorbitant rents for rat-infested tenements and kicking orphans out onto the 
street? 

Do you actually picture the guy like he's in some flickering silent movie, 
twirling his mustaches and tying Nell to the railroad track?

Come on. He made an OS you don't like, and his company has engaged in some 
aggressive and occasionally questionable business practices that aren't 
significantly different from what thousands of other
businesses have done--or would if they could. 

There aren't any dead babies. A little perspective would be nice.


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Re: [CGUYS] apple-stanza-usb

[Rev. Stewart Marshall]

How often do you wander over 60 miles from your home base?

Stewart


At 11:49 AM 2/6/2010, you wrote:

On Feb 6, 2010, at 12:52 AM, Constance Warner wrote:

Does it matter what provider?  I don't have underground service and
I can't afford to switch.
It's not a huge loss--I certainly don't lose any sleep over it.  The
main point is that cell/wireless service isn't as good or as
universally available as it's cracked up to be, even in an area
that's wired to the gills and that has lots of affluent customers
willing to pay for high-end service.


My point is that you have to pick a pretty extreme case to prove your
point. I'm paying about $5 a month, hardly an "affluent" price for
"high end service." I rarely encounter a dead zone. I'm more likely to
have no service because I forgot to recharge my cell phone.


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Re: [CGUYS] apple-stanza-usb

[b_s-wilk]

 > I have T-Mobile... There's another DC dead zone, I think along 
Rhode Island Avenue.


Curious. I also have T-Mobile. My office is on Rhode Island Ave. No dead zone. 


The area is a couple of miles north of there, closer to where RI Av 
merges with Baltimore Av, in a residential neighborhood.



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Re: [CGUYS] The Other Digital: Radio

[Allen Johnson]

Heard all three in NE Washington at Christmas. (Near Kennedy Stadium).




> The following is what I mean by digital
radio, also called HD radio,
> from the WAMU website:
>

> "WAMU 88.5 provides digital channels as options for our
listeners.
> 
> "WAMU's Bluegrass Country is
available in HD at 88.5-2 - it's a full-
> stereo, comprehensive,
"real" radio station! You'll hear all your
> bluegrass
favorites and live-hosted programs featuring Katy Daley,
> Ray
Davis, and Lee Michael Demsey. This station continues to be heard
> online at bluegrasscountry.org, which has served the full-time
> bluegrass listener since 2001. WAMU's Bluegrass Country is among
the
> first in the nation to offer live programming exclusively
for HD Radio.
> 
> "Our third channel, WAMU-3, in HD
at 88.5-3, serves the dedicated
> public radio news listener with
programming not available on the
> flagship channel, including
extended BBC news coverage and NPR's Talk
> of the Nation. Our
groundbreaking partnership with AAA-public station
> WTMD
continues on WAMU-3, where we air WTMD's funky, eclectic blend
>
of rock, country rock, blues, folk, and world music, weekdays from
> midnight to 5 a.m., and weekends from 7 p.m.-5 a.m."
>

> WHAT I DON'T KNOW  is whether the signal is actually usable in
large
> parts of the National Capitol area, which is why I asked
this
> question.  I sort of figured that the signal wasn't very
good, or I
> would have heard of it; but it would be nice if it
did work.
> 
> If the technology is not truly digital, I
wouldn't know why the
> broadcasters call it digital; but, as  you
see from the example
> above, they do.
> 
> On Feb
6, 2010, at 1:12 PM, Mike Sloane wrote:
> 
> 
>> I think you are under a misunderstanding. HD radio is NOT
>> "digital". It is a proprietary format analog signal
with a digital
>> adjunct. See:

>>
>>
The only "digital radios" are either satellite (Sirius/XM)
which
>> requires a paid subscription, special receiver, and an
external
>> antenna or "internet radios" that access
radio stations' audio
>> streams by connecting to the internet.
In these two cases, the
>> quality of the sound is generally
mediocre compared to high quality
>> analog sources like CD,
tape, LP, etc.
>>
>> Mike
>>
>> Constance Warner wrote:
>>> With all this
discussion of digital communication frameworks, real
>>> and
potential, there's one medium that hasn't yet been mentioned:
>>> digital radio.
>>> I'd like to know what
experience, if any, list members have had
>>> with digital
radio.  I've heard that digital radios have come down
>>> in
price to something halfway reasonable--possibly as low as $50.
>>> The advantage: once you have the set, the signals are free;
no
>>> subscription charges.  Just turn the set on, like
those other old-
>>> fashioned over-the-air broadcast media.
 The disadvantage: digital
>>> radio broadcasting isn't
nearly as common as FM or AM stations.
>>> (It would be no
fun to take your shiny new digital radio out of
>>> the box,
turn it on, and get---static.)
>>> So does anybody out there
have a digital radio--or do your friends
>>> have them--and
if so, what's your/their experience?
>>> I'm especially
interested in the presence (or absence) of digital
>>> radio
broadcasting in the National Capitol Area.
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Warner
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Re: [CGUYS] apple-stanza-usb

[t.piwowar]

On Feb 6, 2010, at 1:47 PM, b_s-wilk wrote:
I have T-Mobile... There's another DC dead zone, I think along Rhode  
Island Avenue.


Curious. I also have T-Mobile. My office is on Rhode Island Ave. No  
dead zone.



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Re: [CGUYS] Laptop flicker and dying battery

[John Emmerling]

An update:

The flicker mysteriously went away during the process of reinstalling
Windows (which included a thorough reformatting of the C: drive). It was
evident while in BIOS setup as well as during the initial text based phases
of Windows installation (including reformatting), but then during the
installation proper, I noticed the flicker had gone away.  I can't see how
this could have been a consequence of the computer "warming up", as my son
leaves it on pretty much all the time.

The only other explanation that occurs to me is that the problem was due to
a corruption of the BIOS or the boot sector, and somehow the installer
cleaned it out.

It would be wonderful if, by some miracle, the computer has actually been
cured!

On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 7:28 PM, Tony B  wrote:

> Unlikely, but then I'm not sure exactly what you mean by a "flicker" -
> presumably a video problem. Anyway, if it's plugged in what difference
> would it make. Also, you don't need to reinstall the OS to test for a
> video problem - simply sitting in the BIOS might tell you, or a disk
> based OS like Ubuntu.


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Re: [CGUYS] The Other Digital: Radio

[Constance Warner]

The following is what I mean by digital radio, also called HD radio,  
from the WAMU website:


"WAMU 88.5 provides digital channels as options for our listeners.

"WAMU's Bluegrass Country is available in HD at 88.5-2 - it's a full- 
stereo, comprehensive, "real" radio station! You'll hear all your  
bluegrass favorites and live-hosted programs featuring Katy Daley,  
Ray Davis, and Lee Michael Demsey. This station continues to be heard  
online at bluegrasscountry.org, which has served the full-time  
bluegrass listener since 2001. WAMU's Bluegrass Country is among the  
first in the nation to offer live programming exclusively for HD Radio.


"Our third channel, WAMU-3, in HD at 88.5-3, serves the dedicated  
public radio news listener with programming not available on the  
flagship channel, including extended BBC news coverage and NPR's Talk  
of the Nation. Our groundbreaking partnership with AAA-public station  
WTMD continues on WAMU-3, where we air WTMD's funky, eclectic blend  
of rock, country rock, blues, folk, and world music, weekdays from  
midnight to 5 a.m., and weekends from 7 p.m.-5 a.m."


WHAT I DON'T KNOW  is whether the signal is actually usable in large  
parts of the National Capitol area, which is why I asked this  
question.  I sort of figured that the signal wasn't very good, or I  
would have heard of it; but it would be nice if it did work.


If the technology is not truly digital, I wouldn't know why the  
broadcasters call it digital; but, as  you see from the example  
above, they do.


On Feb 6, 2010, at 1:12 PM, Mike Sloane wrote:


I think you are under a misunderstanding. HD radio is NOT  
"digital". It is a proprietary format analog signal with a digital  
adjunct. See: 


The only "digital radios" are either satellite (Sirius/XM) which  
requires a paid subscription, special receiver, and an external  
antenna or "internet radios" that access radio stations' audio  
streams by connecting to the internet. In these two cases, the  
quality of the sound is generally mediocre compared to high quality  
analog sources like CD, tape, LP, etc.


Mike

Constance Warner wrote:
With all this discussion of digital communication frameworks, real  
and potential, there's one medium that hasn't yet been mentioned:  
digital radio.
I'd like to know what experience, if any, list members have had  
with digital radio.  I've heard that digital radios have come down  
in price to something halfway reasonable--possibly as low as $50.   
The advantage: once you have the set, the signals are free; no  
subscription charges.  Just turn the set on, like those other old- 
fashioned over-the-air broadcast media.  The disadvantage: digital  
radio broadcasting isn't nearly as common as FM or AM stations.   
(It would be no fun to take your shiny new digital radio out of  
the box, turn it on, and get---static.)
So does anybody out there have a digital radio--or do your friends  
have them--and if so, what's your/their experience?
I'm especially interested in the presence (or absence) of digital  
radio broadcasting in the National Capitol Area.

--Constance Warner
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Re: [CGUYS] apple-stanza-usb

[b_s-wilk]

Does it matter what provider? I don't have underground service and I can't afford to switch. It's not a huge loss--I certainly don't lose any sleep over it. The main point is that cell/wireless service isn't as good or as universally available as it's cracked up to be, even in an area that's wired to the gills and that has lots of affluent customers willing to pay for high-end service. 

My point is that you have to pick a pretty extreme case to prove your point. I'm paying about $5 a month, hardly an "affluent" price for "high end service." I rarely encounter a dead zone. I'm more likely to have no service because I forgot to recharge my cell phone. 


I have T-Mobile. Walking around the middle of DC with my son, there were 
plenty of places where I had either no reception or almost no reception, 
probably because of the frequency and large buildings. He has an iPhone. 
He often drives to/from friends places in Georgetown or Alexandria, and 
calls me along the way [hands free]. I can tell exactly where he is from 
the times his phone drops calls. It's in exactly the same place each 
time. There's another DC dead zone, I think along Rhode Island Avenue.


Also depends on your phone. If you're not using a Nokia phone, you'll 
probably find more places with little or no reception.


There's no perfect network, and few in the US come close to the amazing 
coverage I get here, http://is.gd/7Poni, or even here, http://is.gd/7PprD.



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Re: [CGUYS] The Other Digital: Radio

[Ellen Rains Harris]

Constance,

We have something that we enjoy a great deal: a wifi internet radio.  It 
looks like a regular tabletop radio, but plays anything that streams from 
the internet, about 17,000 stations worldwide.  In addition, it also plays 
all our Sirius stations, Pandora music and podcasts.


We have two of them, both Grace brand, less than $150.

Ellen

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To: 
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Subject: Re: [CGUYS] The Other Digital: Radio



On Feb 6, 2010, at 12:28 PM, Constance Warner wrote:
So does anybody out there have a digital radio--or do your friends  have 
them--and if so, what's your/their experience?


From time to time I encounter somebody with a digital radio and they 
consistently tell me they gave up on it. In contrast those who have 
satellite radio love it. I've run into people who got both and they  use 
satellite a lot and digital hardly at all.


You talk about dead spots for cell phones. From what I've been told  from 
folks who tried to use digital in their cars, the dead spots make  it 
unlistenable.



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Re: [CGUYS] The Other Digital: Radio

[Mike Sloane]

I think you are under a misunderstanding. HD radio is NOT "digital". It 
is a proprietary format analog signal with a digital adjunct. See: 



The only "digital radios" are either satellite (Sirius/XM) which 
requires a paid subscription, special receiver, and an external antenna 
or "internet radios" that access radio stations' audio streams by 
connecting to the internet. In these two cases, the quality of the sound 
is generally mediocre compared to high quality analog sources like CD, 
tape, LP, etc.


Mike

Constance Warner wrote:
With all this discussion of digital communication frameworks, real and 
potential, there's one medium that hasn't yet been mentioned: digital 
radio.


I'd like to know what experience, if any, list members have had with 
digital radio.  I've heard that digital radios have come down in price 
to something halfway reasonable--possibly as low as $50.  The advantage: 
once you have the set, the signals are free; no subscription charges.  
Just turn the set on, like those other old-fashioned over-the-air 
broadcast media.  The disadvantage: digital radio broadcasting isn't 
nearly as common as FM or AM stations.  (It would be no fun to take your 
shiny new digital radio out of the box, turn it on, and get---static.)


So does anybody out there have a digital radio--or do your friends have 
them--and if so, what's your/their experience?


I'm especially interested in the presence (or absence) of digital radio 
broadcasting in the National Capitol Area.


--Constance Warner


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Re: [CGUYS] The Other Digital: Radio

[t.piwowar]

On Feb 6, 2010, at 12:28 PM, Constance Warner wrote:
So does anybody out there have a digital radio--or do your friends  
have them--and if so, what's your/their experience?


From time to time I encounter somebody with a digital radio and they  
consistently tell me they gave up on it. In contrast those who have  
satellite radio love it. I've run into people who got both and they  
use satellite a lot and digital hardly at all.


You talk about dead spots for cell phones. From what I've been told  
from folks who tried to use digital in their cars, the dead spots make  
it unlistenable.



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Re: [CGUYS] apple-stanza-usb

[t.piwowar]

On Feb 6, 2010, at 12:52 AM, Constance Warner wrote:
Does it matter what provider?  I don't have underground service and  
I can't afford to switch.
It's not a huge loss--I certainly don't lose any sleep over it.  The  
main point is that cell/wireless service isn't as good or as  
universally available as it's cracked up to be, even in an area  
that's wired to the gills and that has lots of affluent customers  
willing to pay for high-end service.


My point is that you have to pick a pretty extreme case to prove your  
point. I'm paying about $5 a month, hardly an "affluent" price for  
"high end service." I rarely encounter a dead zone. I'm more likely to  
have no service because I forgot to recharge my cell phone.



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[CGUYS] The Other Digital: Radio

[Constance Warner]

With all this discussion of digital communication frameworks, real  
and potential, there's one medium that hasn't yet been mentioned:  
digital radio.


I'd like to know what experience, if any, list members have had with  
digital radio.  I've heard that digital radios have come down in  
price to something halfway reasonable--possibly as low as $50.  The  
advantage: once you have the set, the signals are free; no  
subscription charges.  Just turn the set on, like those other old- 
fashioned over-the-air broadcast media.  The disadvantage: digital  
radio broadcasting isn't nearly as common as FM or AM stations.  (It  
would be no fun to take your shiny new digital radio out of the box,  
turn it on, and get---static.)


So does anybody out there have a digital radio--or do your friends  
have them--and if so, what's your/their experience?


I'm especially interested in the presence (or absence) of digital  
radio broadcasting in the National Capitol Area.


--Constance Warner


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Re: [CGUYS] print simple list of albums with artist name without folderol !! ...sheesh!

[b_s-wilk]

I have xphomesp3 and wmp10 and would like to print a simple list of albums
and artist name without folderol .sheesh!  I put on winter 2003 fun pack
which contains media exporter which neatly does it but lists every song and
every track and belches forth 114 pages to print .all I want is 1 or 2 page
list with album name and artist .is that too much to ask ??
.sonya-henny's-toutou !!  .that billgates must be laughin'


VLC can export a simple playlist as HTML or XML. iTunes...


Sorry, forgot that iTunes doesn't do Windows media files--everything 
else though. Too bad. If your audio is MP3, AAC, AIFF, etc., but not 
WMA, you can use iTunes to print the album list. Otherwise try VLC. It 
will export an album list, without 114 pages of details.


Isn't there any freeware to do that?


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Re: [CGUYS] Digital humanity (was: apple-stanza-usb)

[John Duncan Yoyo]

On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 9:56 PM, Eric S. Sande  wrote:

> Actually the Russian space agency provides this service at lower cost  and
>> greater accuracy (because it has not been deliberately dumbed
>> down by the generals).
>>
>
> Don't get too confused on this.  GPS is a strategic necessity.  Or
> something like it is.  The US doesn't depend on the Russians for strategic
> necessities.
>

The Clinton ordered US Military stopped fuzzing the numbers on the civilian
system in 2000 when GPS became an economic engine.  There is nothing to stop
them from doing so again except a ton vital civilian uses like airplane
navigation.

The Russians could also mess with the satellite signals if they had a
reason.

>
> What goes on at NASA is for public consumption.  What goes on
> in the military arena is a totally different kettle of fish, IMHO.
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