On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 4:31 PM, Constance Warner cawar...@his.com wrote:
If you'll read reviews on cellphone performance in the National Capitol
area, you'll find lots of places [including some in the District] where the
cellphones of various providers just don't work.
Getting a cell signal
On Feb 11, 2010, at 12:12 AM, Eric S. Sande wrote:
I know it's not a thing that liberals want to believe, but it costs
real
money to deploy that technology. Go ahead and vote for it, I know
how to do it. But it is going to cost real money to implement on a
wide scale.
Last time I checked
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 11:35 AM, tjpa t...@tjpa.com wrote:
I continue to be amazed that the folks on this list would expect a tech
leader to introduce a new product and fill it with old technologies.
Please remember the cardinal rule. Never buy version 1.0 of anything.
Steve
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 11:56 AM, tjpa t...@tjpa.com wrote:
Science Friday recently had an interesting segment on facial recognition.
What caught my attention was a digression about other uses for recognition
technology. They spoke of pointing your smart phone at a building and
getting the
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 12:12 AM, Eric S. Sande esa...@verizon.net wrote:
You want private telecom to deliver universal broadband in the US,
you are going to have to pay for it.
My main complaint in this area is that there seems to be little money spent
to refresh technology.
The hardest
Depends on what database is used to check the face; if FaceBook, I can
see an iPhone app for that.
Thank you,
Mark Snyder
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On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 11:56 AM, tjpa t...@tjpa.com wrote:
Science Friday recently had an interesting segment on facial
recognition.
snip And
One of the problems with Cell service is that it is hostage to
environmental conditions and topography.
Go into a hilly area and you have dropouts of cell service. Hills,
and stuff cut signal. Cities also have problems with buildings
causing drop offs. Many cell companies have to increase
On Feb 11, 2010, at 11:29 AM, John DeCarlo wrote:
So now it is Boo hoo, we don't have multi-terabit optical switches
anywhere, and it would cost us money to upgrade all at once just for
consumers to get more bandwidth. Boo hoo, give us more money.
Interesting commentary at
On Feb 11, 2010, at 10:57 AM, phartz...@gmail.com wrote:
Please remember the cardinal rule. Never buy version 1.0 of anything.
I'm really impressed by the size of the disinformation campaign that
has been launched against Apple. My version 1.0 iPod was amazing and I
only recently replaced
Ironically those wild claims probably came from Apple itself. Keeps them in
the news longer if they leak little bits at a time.
On Feb 11, 2010 10:31 AM, tjpa t...@tjpa.com wrote:
On Feb 11, 2010, at 10:57 AM, phartz...@gmail.com wrote: Please remember
the cardinal rule. Nev...
I'm really
Gee, you can't plan ahead *four hours*
BTW, what is the resolution and time duration of this four-hour download?
760p? two hours?
Who is your ISP?
On Cox Cable in Annandale, VA I get 20 mbs if the server can provide it, i.e.,
on occasional downloads.
Fred Holmes
At 11:40 PM 2/10/2010,
If you took all of the corporate bonuses and threw them in a pot, it would be
minuscule in comparison with the deficits governments are running.
While I have a problem when corporate managers get bonuses from failing
companies, I have no problem with bonuses from successful companies. We do a
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 12:27 PM, tjpa t...@tjpa.com wrote:
On Feb 11, 2010, at 10:57 AM, phartz...@gmail.com wrote:
Please remember the cardinal rule. Never buy version 1.0 of anything.
I'm really impressed by the size of the disinformation campaign that has
been launched against Apple.
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 12:55 PM, Fred Holmes f...@his.com wrote:
The liberals just want to make everyone equally miserable.
Or, perhaps just more equally situated and hopefully happy, referred
to as Communism in some circles.
Steve
And the NeoCons spread BS and fear-mongering to keep us all ignorant and
afraid of the liberals.
Thank you,
Mark Snyder
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If you took all of the corporate bonuses and threw them in a pot, it
would be minuscule in comparison with the deficits governments are
running.
On Feb 11, 2010, at 12:49 PM, Fred Holmes wrote:
Gee, you can't plan ahead *four hours*
NO!
When you click on a web link are you oaky with the page appearing 4
hours later?
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On Feb 11, 2010, at 12:55 PM, Fred Holmes wrote:
If you took all of the corporate bonuses and threw them in a pot, it
would be minuscule in comparison with the deficits governments are
running.
Magicians call this technique misdirection.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misdirection_(magic)
FYI:
From Lauren Weinstein's Blog
(http://lauren.vortex.com/archive/000681.html), there's a long posting
about the Windows Activation Technologies Update for Windows 7 that
begins and ends as follows:
-begin-
February 11, 2010
Who Owns Your PC? New Anti-Piracy Windows 7 Update Phones
On Feb 11, 2010, at 1:16 PM, phartz...@gmail.com wrote:
I should have said, Never RUSH OUT and buy version 1.0 of
anything.
I got my iPod 1.0 just a few weeks after it was introduced. It was
absolutely amazing. For a few months I was the only one on Metro with
white earphones. Then little
On Feb 11, 2010, at 2:06 PM, Andy Gallant wrote:
perpetual anti-piracy surveillance regime embedded within already
purchased consumer equipment -- is entirely unacceptable.
And don't omit mention of...
Security patch results in BSOD, stops Windows from booting
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 2:06 PM, Andy Gallant a...@agallant.com wrote:
Any comments or perspectives?
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I suspect you already know what at least half a dozen people on this site
will say.
And how likely it is that you will get technical answers and comments on
this list.
--
John DeCarlo,
The liberals just want to make everyone equally miserable.
Like this...
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/02/11/france.quality.life/?hpt=T2
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On Feb 11, 2010, at 2:41 PM, John DeCarlo wrote:
And how likely it is that you will get technical answers and
comments on
this list.
More misdirection. It is not a technical question so technical answers
would be irrelevant.
It is a business question. Does anybody want to risk their
On 2/11/2010 2:41 PM, John DeCarlo wrote:
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 2:06 PM, Andy Gallant a...@agallant.com wrote:
Any comments or perspectives?
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I suspect you already know what at least half a dozen people on this site
will say.
And how likely it is that you will get technical answers
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 2:42 PM, tjpa t...@tjpa.com wrote:
Like this...
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/02/11/france.quality.life/?hpt=T2
It often surprises me that the Internet does not really seem to have
done all that much to broaden how well a lot of people in the United
States
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 2:40 PM, tjpa t...@tjpa.com wrote:
It is all about the quality of the engineering.
To a great extent, yes. However, there are other considerations as
well. Sometimes there may be an item or a feature that has been
omitted in a brand new product that would have been
On Feb 11, 2010, at 3:38 PM, phartz...@gmail.com wrote:
We are not the top dog in many areas that are commonly used to
determine quality of life, yet so many in the United States continue
to maintain that we are.
Well the robber barons don't care. They are sitting in their mansions
counting
I don't give much credence to picks by judges. The judges generally give
different weighting factors to the quality of life attributes. What's the
relative emigration / immigration between the U.S. and France?
Fred Holmes
At 02:42 PM 2/11/2010, tjpa wrote:
The liberals just want to make
It is not unprecedented. It exists in Japan, Korea, and other places I'm not
going to look up.
I'm not going to cite numbers on how small physically Japan and Korea
are. Compared to the US.
Finland is also building a national network. It has lots of empty spaces
and more weather
On Feb 11, 2010, at 3:52 PM, phartz...@gmail.com wrote:
I saw that you got the iPod a few weeks after initial release. I
will suppose that you did some research prior to buying it, or at
least took note of comments made by folks who were already using
iPods.
I had been shopping for a MP3
I don't know how to evaluate it, but it's often been said that the quality of
life statistics are apples and oranges among different countries. The classic
example is that most countries simply let preemies die, they don't try to save
them. Since they die at birth, the are _not_ recorded as
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 4:51 PM, b_s-wilk b1sun...@yahoo.es wrote:
Perhaps the new networks should be owned by the public, as it is where it
works, instead of waiting and waiting and waiting for private companies to
expand the networks, often with assistance through public grants and tax
I'm happy to have the republicans own their deficits, how long till both
sides realize there is a third invisible party from both sides driving this
up and up and now its just Obama at the helm now.
On Feb 11, 2010 3:26 PM, b_s-wilk b1sun...@yahoo.es wrote:
The liberals just want to make
On Feb 11, 2010, at 4:51 PM, b_s-wilk wrote:
Finland is also building a national network. It has lots of empty
spaces and more weather challenges for installers than in the US--
including this week's eastern US blizzards.
It should be considered a strategic resource, much like the National
At 05:22 PM 2/11/2010, tjpa wrote:
viz. previous comment on brainwashing. Why did you not bring up death
panels? That's the surest way to keep costs down.
The death panel is a Democratic Party concept. Only the name came from the
Republicans. The Democrats had the concept buried in the
On Thu, 11 Feb 2010, Fred Holmes wrote:
The death panel is a Democratic Party concept. Only the name came from
the Republicans. The Democrats had the concept buried in the Health
Care bill in very obscure language, but they didn't succeed in hiding it
from the public.
Wow! Does _everyone_
WTH is an engine log?
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 5:05 PM, Q. Fisher quentin.fis...@verizon.netwrote:
After jumping through all of Intuit's hoops, thought I could get my taxes
done today while the snow melts (ha!). After a few hours of data entry the
program crashes with an error 25300 that
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 6:14 PM, Fred Holmes f...@his.com wrote:
At 05:22 PM 2/11/2010, tjpa wrote:
viz. previous comment on brainwashing. Why did you not bring up death
panels? That's the surest way to keep costs down.
The death panel is a Democratic Party concept. Only the name came from
On Feb 11, 2010, at 1:16 PM, phartz...@gmail.com wrote:
I should have said, Never RUSH OUT and buy version 1.0 of
anything.
Many of us are quite happily running Windows 7 V1.0. Of course, many
will say this is Windows Vista V3.0 :-)
Perhaps the new networks should be owned by the public, as it is where it
works, instead of waiting and waiting and waiting for private companies to
expand the networks, often with assistance through public grants and tax
breaks. Once the networks are created with public money, they could be
At 06:48 PM 2/11/2010, John DeCarlo wrote:
You used to occasionally try to keep close to reality.
I'm getting to old to worry about that any more.
Fred Holmes
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At 07:46 PM 2/11/2010, Steve at Verizon wrote:
On Feb 11, 2010, at 1:16 PM, phartz...@gmail.com wrote:
I should have said, Never RUSH OUT and buy version 1.0 of
anything.
Many of us are quite happily running Windows 7 V1.0. Of course, many will say
this is Windows Vista V3.0 :-)
Nah! It's
For those who may be experiencing the BSOD that some have acquired after
applying Tuesday's WinXP patches, there is a discussion of how to uninstall
these patches using the Recovery Console at:
Steve -
You can't taste the food on the Internet. You can't appreciate the
special French love of beauty and nature on the Internet. You can't feel
the excitement of colors and scents at the weekly outdoor markets on the
Internet. Most of all you can't appreciate the wonderful French sense of
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