The whole issue of taxes is complicated if you dig into it very deeply.
At dinner last night, the only known McCain voter at the table, the
part owner of a custom manufacturing business, was complaining
bitterly that high taxes were destroying the entrepreneurial spirit in
our country.
Assuming the information on this site is accurate, I would say it goes
a long way towards answering my question.
What I mean is, (some) big corporations are able to dodge their tax
responsibility, whereas Joe in Manufacturing from last night is
probably paying every cent, because he is a little
Are Comcast's business customers experiencing the same problem?
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 9:30 AM, Paula Minor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My main email is my comcast mail.and today I cannot get my mail because
they have somehow managed to change my password without telling me AND can't
give me
In the early days of Comcast (originally @Home) I think a lot of
people used their Comcast e-mail just to let people know they had it,
because it was the only broadband available.
When I got it 5 years ago, it seemed natural to start using it for
strictly personal e-mail, although I continued to
We have gone for a while with no contract, just monthly payments (at
full freight). I would like to set up a contract, but before doing
so, I would like to know what would happen if our current box were to
fail or become woefully obsolete (I am assuming it can't handle HD)
before the end of the
To be fair, you are overlooking:
1.) Nuclear
2.) Wind
3.) Solar*
and with regard to transmission loss, don't forget that home solar
power generators are already becoming practical, it wouldn't surprise
me to see them in widespread use within 10 years.
*see
So if I replace the box, I can stay within the existing contract, even
if I go to HD? Sorry if my original question was not well phrased.
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 10:28 AM, Rev. Stewart Marshall
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You are responsible for the box.
I have two series 2's.
TiVo most definitely works with Comcast. I just got a new set-top box
(non-HD) from Comcast and set up our existing TiVo to work with it. I
had previously done the same at a friend's house.
Two things to know:
1.) You will need to attach two IR transmitters to your Comcast box
which allow the
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 11:29 AM, Michael Drabick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Home Solar panels have to be manufactured in a plant that emits polluntants
into the atmosphere
Is the degree of pollution produced in the manufacture of a solar
panel significant when you consider the amount of power
Apparently some set-top boxes provided by satellite companies accept a
serial connection from the TiVo by which they can be tuned. Why
satellite supports this, but not cable, I don't know (some subtle
difference in the business model?).
I don't know about FiOS, however I believe the DVR comes
I don't follow. As I would envision it, the car merges into the
outermost lane of the highway. While in this lane, the system that
controls traffic on the highway takes over, and the driver
relinquishes control. The system will then move the car into the
inner lanes according to some algorithm.
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 9:05 AM, Snyder, Mark (IT CIV)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
They will start out with huge safety advantages and convenience (eat
breakfast or nap while the car drives itself). (Please read the article
before commenting. It is speculative by necessity, but the ideas it
We have had a TiVo DVR a couple of years. It was connected directly
to Comcast cable using cable in. Now we want to connect it to a
digital set-top box.
I tried to connect the TiVo to the digital box with a coax using the
same connection that had been used to connect directly to cable. This
is
I found out about the Online Photo Album, also known as Galleries
section of Picture Video Messaging, from reading the manual,
although the information in the manual was somewhat misleading. But
basically, if you're just dealing with one or more individual photos,
you have the option to send
to use its
Photo Downloader to retrieve the photos. It says No Device Found.
Do I need the VCast Music Manager to do this? Should I try some other
software besides Adobe Photoshop Album Starter Edition?
Thanks!
--John Emmerling
On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 11:45 AM, Steve Rigby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sep 17, 2008, at 9:44 AM, Tom Piwowar wrote:
Why should some fat cat who pays himself $1,000,000/day not be held
[responsible?]
snip!
The pit bull with lipstick is gonna roll into DC and correct all of this
with
Dude, the actual number is 7.5 per cent, or 24,600 jobs.
http://triad.bizjournals.com/triad/stories/2008/09/15/daily19.html?ana=yfcpc
Although I can recall hearing on the radio that most of these would be
in the US.
On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 1:45 PM, rlsimon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I admit I
The on-air personalities seem to have trouble pronouncing Tom's name.
On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 11:40 PM, Robert Michael Abrams [EMAIL
PROTECTED]wrote:
http://www.inews3.com/topstory.php?id=546f6d7c5069776f776172
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I would have assumed her name was pronounced the same as Michael Palin's. I
hope she's as funny as he.
On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 11:11 AM, Chris Dunford [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
The on-air personalities seem to have trouble pronouncing Tom's name.
Not surprising. They weren't sure how to
What is the latest Safari version that will run under MacOS v10.3?
The computer in question has Safari 1.x. It is unlikely the OS can be
upgraded anytime soon.
*
** List info, subscription management, list rules,
I bought my computer in February 2004, which makes it roughly 4.5 years old.
I currently run 2 OSes on it, Windows SP2 and Ubuntu 8.04.
Since buying the computer, I have never had an OS upgrade for which I needed
to pay anything.
Compared to the computer I use at work (I am a J2EE developer) it
Assuming it is germane to this discussion, It happens there is alternate
software available to put plain-vanilla mp3s on an iPod. I have used
Yamipod for this purpose. I even used it on Linux with some success.
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** List
This takes some getting used to and is easy to forget about if you post
infrequently.
On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 9:31 AM, Tom Piwowar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We should remind folks who use GMail that they will not see their post to
the list until somebody replies. There is good logic to what
Another approach is to check these archives:
http://marc.info/?l=computerguys-lr=1w=2
If the list is truly down (which has happened at least once this year) the
lack of recent posts should be obvious.
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 2:32 AM, mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We could always do the
Robert,
As a fellow secularist, I have to point out that this type of
confrontational arguing serves to discredit us in the eyes of most US
citizens. Please try a different approach.
--JE
On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 1:04 AM, Robert Michael Abrams [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
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On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 12:46 PM, Chris Dunford [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
Nevertheless I want youall to know that I am a moderate. For example I
did not post Time Spent Using Zune
http://graphjam.wordpress.com/files/2008/07/15.png
Now, this just pisses me off.
However, studies have
There are many reasons for a large business to use mainframes. I don't
think that being committed to a legacy COBOL code base is an important one
of these. In fact, the need to maintain COBOL applications (legacy or
otherwise) presents a problem because new COBOL programmers are not being
To my understanding, supercomputers are not mainframes, and are generally
used for different purposes. I quickly found a blog entry that seems to
confirm my general understanding, here is a quote:
supercomputers generally focus on problems which are limited by calculation
speed while
Going forward, I predict we'll see a decline in market share of both Windows
and Apple in this area, in favor of open-source *nix OSs (linux,etc.).
There's absolutely no advantage to a proprietary OS in a turnkey system.
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 9:42 AM, Steve Rigby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On
In my experience, Apple computers are the choice of those who are strongly
opinionated. Doesn't matter which part of the political or cultural
spectrum.
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 5:38 PM, Rev. Stewart Marshall
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
OK so what does that say when Rush Limbuagh is a Mac
I would assume the OP means Safari. It seems to get installed as part of
the package when you install or upgrade iTunes.
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 5:43 AM, Tony B [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I had nothing but trouble with iTunes the last time I tried it. But it
uninstalled nicely.
No question
Tom's answer was witty, but it ignores some concerns. Sure, passing a piece
of paper around is easy/simple, but consider why you need to do this. If
there is a formal requirement to maintain attendance records, then the piece
of paper will have to be put somewhere that it can be found if the
I agree about the hand-held electronic device.
Here's an alternate solution (if it's any good, it's probably already been
implemented. If not, then it's probably a lousy idea):
Where I work, most important meetings include some attending remotely (by
phone in our case, but other voice channels
I just googled. These are ATI files left over from an ATI update. I would
try downloading the latest version of your graphics driver, etc. and
(re)installing. Is your laptop is under warranty? You might want to report
the problem to the vendor.
On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 11:18 PM, Rob Fleetwood
Most likely, if you don't know what it is, you don't have it.
However, if you work from home and have to enter a login id and password to
access your company's internal network, then you are probably using a VPN
(although I believe there are other products that have similar
functionality).
On
In my case, I don't work on my office computer when using the VPN. The
VPN software is installed on my home computer. Basically it puts me inside
the corporate firewall. I could work on my office computer if I had the
software necessary to remote to it, which I do not.
It makes sense from a
Does computer #2 have VPN software installed? I had a similar problem. It
turned out that the VPN requires a security driver to be installed which
can be disabled when editing connection properties (but then the VPN won't
work).
On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 10:57 PM, John DeCarlo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
and proud of it.
On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 4:00 PM, Chris Dunford [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Tom is a fan BOI, not boy. Glitterati are bois, not boys.
I stand corrected. It also explains why PC users are mostly busboys and not
busbois.
The latest Ubuntu version supports non-Intel Macs.
On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 2:39 PM, Steve Rigby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Jun 6, 2008, at 2:11 PM, Steve Rigby wrote:
Apple is said to be planning to make the latest upgrade, 10.6, of their
Leopard OS an Intel ONLY version, cutting out the
Me parece que el problema se corrigió.
On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 3:00 PM, b s-w [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I can't send email through the Yahoo! SMTP servers in any of my
accounts. I've changed the settings for SSL, and it still doesn't work.
Has Yahoo made changes and not told their customers?
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