On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 1:13 PM, b_s-wilk b1sun...@yahoo.es wrote:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/06/AR2009030603057.html
I do not understand why developers of software do not make the
system requirements a prominent feature on their websites. The
website where
On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 5:24 PM, Tom Piwowar t...@tjpa.com wrote:
I do not understand why developers of software do not make the
system requirements a prominent feature on their websites.
Well the first sentence of the write up says it is based on IE code and
IE only runs on Windows. So that is
On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 3:56 PM, mike xha...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm not saying the assumption is correct, but it is understandable. World
wide market share for os x is hovering around 3% so assuming a user who
comes to your site is running windows is correct 97% of the time.
Perhaps so, but
On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 6:09 PM, Tom Piwowar t...@tjpa.com wrote:
I figured the browser was for Windows, but there could have been
versions for other platforms, is that not correct?
Well, no. If the browser is built on MS's IE code base it is going to be
Windows only.
Well, fine. However,
On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 10:39 PM, Tom Piwowar t...@tjpa.com wrote:
Well, fine. However, and back to my main point, I still think it
would be helpful for developers to make it readily apparent on their
sites what machines can use their products.
Developers often don't know and do everyone a
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 8:45 PM, Tom Piwowar t...@tjpa.com wrote:
Latest crop of MS TV ads are less sad sack than the previous ones and the
ones before those, but they still can't get around their ultimate
inferiority complex. Their primary point is that you should get a Windows
PC because it
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 9:45 PM, betty b1sun...@yahoo.es wrote:
I looked at the video. Lauren didn't go into the Apple Store at all. She
walked to the door, turned around and walked away. Same guy is walking past
in both scenes.
An astute observation. You are absolutely correct. The ad
On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 10:14 AM, mike xha...@gmail.com wrote:
She's an actress...it's...um...fake. It's not real. It's just an advert
:) It's kinda like justin long isn't *really* a mac...he's actually a human
being POSING as a mac.
Well, in the ad she says she went into the store and
On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 11:05 AM, mike xha...@gmail.com wrote:
Blah...the bald guy was just wandering around out front...took me about 22
seconds last time I was in an apple store to see I didn't want to spend 2k
on a laptop
Sure. There are plenty of folks who would NEVER spend more than
On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 11:20 PM, Chris Dunford ch...@covesoftware.com wrote:
What you can't dance around, and what not a single one of you have been able
to admit, is that if you want a 17 notebook and all you have is a thousand
bucks, you can choose between dozens of Windows laptops or
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 10:06 AM, Matthew Taylor
taylorsmatt...@gmail.com wrote:
You can pay a little more up front to save big in the long run, or you can
pay less up front at a long term cost.
It is likely that for the most part Macintosh machines are of higher
quality in terms of
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 1:11 PM, mike xha...@gmail.com wrote:
I don't see any advantage, but I'm no expert.
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 12:57 AM, db db...@att.net wrote:
Is CD and DVD - R or + R media advantageous for burning data on a new iMac?
DVD-R is compatible with a wider range of DVD
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 1:09 PM, Jeff Wright jswri...@gmail.com wrote:
Of course, they have ~90x more users. When I go into an Apple store
[shudder], the *cough* Geniuses all seem to be very busy with Apple
owners having problems.
You are right, and most of those troubles are with iPods
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 6:30 PM, mike xha...@gmail.com wrote:
well if apple made heavier laptops i would have bought one...
Over 90% of the defendants who appear on the Judge Judy Show are
Windows users! I'll be checking the stats for the Jerry Springer
Show shortly.
Steve
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 11:01 AM, Steve at Verizon stevet...@verizon.net wrote:
Actually, MS is in no way touting their operating system in this commercial,
which is aimed at an audience which is indifferent to operating systems
(hard to believe for this newsgroup there are so many of them out
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 11:46 AM, Rev. Stewart Marshall
popoz...@earthlink.net wrote:
That is called branding.
When was the last time you watched a Movie? I mean really closely.
Notice how many different brands are noticeable either with the characters
using them or the Logo being front and
On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 9:56 AM, db db...@att.net wrote:
Not true IMHO.
A set of Pro-Logic Dolby Surround speakers (a left and a right and a
woofer unit) by Altec Lansing or other manufacturers will rival serious
audiophile systems.
That depends upon what the meaning of serious is.
Steve
Just saw another new Windows ad on TV. No Lauren. A guy this time.
He says that Macs are all about esthetics, not computing power. He
wants a Windows machine because he is picky. He is an elitist.
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On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 1:17 PM, Jeff Wright jswri...@gmail.com wrote:
Mike, the reason you don't understand his thinking is because you
aren't thinking lilke a MFB. He obviously gets brand new Macs,
complete with the latest hardware, for free.
Either that, or elves magically upgrade his old
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 3:09 PM, Jeff Wright jswri...@gmail.com wrote:
Wait, I keep forgetting, is competition and choice good or bad with
you? My money is on bad.
In the Windows world, the competition is between the makers of the
machines that run the OS. Apple makes its machines, so there
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 4:50 PM, mike xha...@gmail.com wrote:
Macs are sexy and have fantastic aesthetics...and I don't say that
sarcastically at all. He is making two points, A: they are sexy and B: they
have little computing power. I took this as little computing power for the
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 5:39 PM, Jeff Wright jswri...@gmail.com wrote:
I use Windows because it's what I have used the most over time and it
does what I need it to do. I've used Macs and they have some definite
advantages over PCs, but none that are compelling to me. I roll my
own at home and
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 7:48 PM, Tom Piwowar t...@tjpa.com wrote:
Definitely. A significant percentage of Windows buyers are motivated by low
self esteem. This is a well-known phenomenon.
In some cases perhaps.
When I speak of what type of computer one wants, I am speaking of
personal
On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 10:55 AM, Eric S. Sande esa...@erols.com wrote:
A zombie! Lock and load, gentlemen.
Actually they weren't that great at their height, it
seems pointless.
I pretty much agree with you. I found their employees to be
relatively unknowledgeable about the products they
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 3:57 PM, Tom Piwowar t...@tjpa.com wrote:
Microsoft says that, for February, Live Search and Google had roughly
equal share, at around 48 percent apiece, with little search traffic
going to Yahoo or any of the other search players.
If Google doesn't stop informing me
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 3:36 PM, Richard P. richs...@gmail.com wrote:
It looks like the AntiVirus companies are attempting to profit from
Conficker worm. Both Webroot and Zone Alarm are telling me that I'm
not protected from Conficker and that only they can save me.
On April 2, the day
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On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 11:45 AM, Reid Katan ka...@his.com wrote:
You'd think if Apple was all that upset about people installing OSX on
crappy PC hardware, they'd put more of an effort into shutting down those
hackintosh sites.
I think they secretly like the unwashed masses using their OS.
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 10:57 AM, Jeff Wright jswri...@gmail.com wrote:
And yet, millions of professional companies, including many in the
Fortune 500 range, manage to get their work done and accomplish their
goals using Windows.
These are the same companies that totally screwed up our
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 12:33 PM, mike xha...@gmail.com wrote:
We still have them running the economy so lets keep em on the same
computers...why not?
Hey, they'll never switch just like they'll never change any of
their ways of doing business.
Steve
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 9:45 AM, Rev. Stewart Marshall
popoz...@earthlink.net wrote:
My brother has a BS in engineering. Has worked IT for many many, years and
uses Windows. He has also used proprietary systems from the airline
industries. He still uses windows at work and at home.
Ditto
Digital camera folks! Which manner of viewfinding do you use
and/or prefer? Camera held out in front of you at arms length as you
stand or walk about looking like a zombie, or to use the actual
viewfinder if your camera has one?
I'm a viewfinder person myself if for no other reason than any
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 2:25 PM, Tom Piwowar t...@tjpa.com wrote:
We know the about caps and metered usage plans that the cable companies
are trying to institute. This story goes a little further to speculate
why.
I have a cap because I use HughesNet. The cap is about 480 or so
megabytes
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 4:13 PM, mike xha...@gmail.com wrote:
What kind of speed do you get with that?
I just checked my speed. Down is 1.42 Mbps, up is 134 Kbps. These
figures change from time to time. I guess it is about the same as DSL
for the most part.
Steve in Fauquier County, VA
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 4:25 PM, Tom Piwowar t...@tjpa.com wrote:
My daily average is about double your cap so I'm happy to be downtown.
Thus far I have not exceeded the cap on any day. They will
penalize me by inducing slowness for 24 hours following any cap
infraction. FWIW, the only
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 7:31 AM, Mike Sloane mikeslo...@verizon.net wrote:
I am neither technophobic nor a Luddite, but I am underwhelmed by some of
these advances in technology.
Total agreement with you here. More crap available to distract and
misdirect what we should be looking at.
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 8:37 AM, Snyder, Mark - IdM (IS)
mark.sny...@ngc.com wrote:
Apple has always aspired to satisfy a demanding clientele; so I don't
think elitist is appropriate.
I agree completely. Why would McIntosh, that's the high-end audio
amplifier maker, not the computer maker,
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 9:56 AM, Rev. Stewart Marshall
popoz...@earthlink.net wrote:
A similar question was asked of Paul Kliptsch who made only high end
speakers. (Came out with a bookshelf model named heresy)
Because that is where the market is.
A portion of the market.
If Apple wants
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 10:26 AM, Snyder, Mark - IdM (IS)
mark.sny...@ngc.com wrote:
My company provides most employees with laptops. We are pressed to take
them home, 'tho I usually leave mine behind unless I need to take it
home. We all attach one or two LCD screens in the office. Tell
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 10:17 PM, mar...@netaxs.com wrote:
On Apr 25, 2009, at 9:50 PM, Allen Firstenberg wrote:
They've solved all the problems I've had, although it often took some
work to find the right person who could solve it.
So what kind of problems were they?
My best friend has
Saw the new MS Laptop Hunters ad last night on the TV. Besides
the norm of making the point the WIndows computers are cheap, I was
struck by what is obvious, yet to me questionable about the
correlation about being concerned about price while still spending an
awful lot on a kid. In the ad,
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 8:16 AM, Chris Dunford seed...@gmail.com wrote:
In the ad, the mom is out with her son, shopping
for a gaming computer for what appears to be maybe
a thirteen/fourteen year old. Her budget is $1,500.
Is this the norm these days for expenditures on the
whims of
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Last night, one of the local TV stations informed viewers by way of
scrolling text across the screen that in June, after the digital
transition, their current digital channel will change. Their advice
was to rescan all channels in order to find their new one. If you had
any questions, their
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 8:56 AM, John Duncan Yoyo
johnduncany...@gmail.com wrote:
Another thing to remember is that the power levels are expected to change
after the switch over and the signals should get stronger.
I don not know if the output power levels are expected to change,
but moving
Here is an older story from about about a year ago, but it is
related directy to the current story about how the private snooping
company has been found to be essentially running a portion of Great
Britain's internet spying operation. Phorm is apparently also working
with the government of the
The brother of a good friend of mine wants to purchase his very
first computer. This fellow just had his 48th birthday. I was asked
to look into the question of what he should get, primarily just for
e-mail, but who knows what he will eventually want to use it for over
time. Being a Mac user,
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 6:55 PM, John Duncan Yoyo
johnduncany...@gmail.com wrote:
Didn't Amazon just announce that they would no longer accept Phorm cookies
in GB?
I don't know about Amazon, but Wikipedia says they will not deal with
Phorm at all. Wikipedia views it as an integrity issue.
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 7:33 PM, Tom Piwowar t...@tjpa.com wrote:
When spammers, Phormis, etc. abuse the system we all lose.
It is governments as well. The EU is demanding answers from the
British government as to why they have entered into this spying
arrangement with Phorm in order to
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 9:04 AM, Jeff Wright jswri...@gmail.com wrote:
FWIW, my experience is polar opposite of yours. I recommend Dell to those
who ask and often I'm asked about Macs. I tell them to use what they're
comfortable with; a computer is a tool, not a fashion statement or position
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 9:17 PM, chrper...@aol.com chrper...@aol.com wrote:
We have also tried replacing our home-made antenna (a la the YouTube
instructions) with an RCA super antenna. Same results whichever antenna we
used, so the RCA antenna, with booster, goes back to Walmart tomorrow. No
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 7:24 PM, b_s-wilk b1sun...@yahoo.es wrote:
Is the choice of antenna something we'll just have to wait to see what the
signals will be like in June when analog signals are turned off? Channels
will move. Frequencies and power will change. A box or antenna that is so-so
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 8:49 PM, Tom Piwowar t...@tjpa.com wrote:
I have it and much regret the purchase. Poor sensitivity. Crummy remote.
Slow to change channels. Poor display of program info. Suspect they paid
for good reviews or the other boxes must be really bad. The RCA box we
have works
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 11:13 AM, Tom Piwowar t...@tjpa.com wrote:
Take him to an Apple store. Check the schedule for the free classes they
hold there. Get info on the one-on-one training (see posts here on that).
Show him the Genius bar. Ask one of the store staff to explain Apple's
support
2009/5/8 John Mealey III john.meal...@verizon.net:
My wife has requested photo editing software for her new computer.
I am at a loss at the moment having just tanked on the CCNA exam and
could use a good suggestion to get this purchased and off my
'honey do' list for this weekend.
It does
On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 7:16 AM, chrper...@aol.com chrper...@aol.com wrote:
A friend recently posed the following question. Since I know nothing about
this subject, I'm hoping for an answer from some of our forum geeks and
guru's. - TIA!
Question: Blank (writeable) CDs can be purchased either
On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 12:48 PM, John Mealey III
john.meal...@verizon.net wrote:
So we have:
GIMP
Picasa
Corel Paint Shop Pro
Adobe Elements
Nikon Software with her camera
We do not know what OS is involved in this query about photo editing
software. For the Mac, there is Graphic
On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 11:05 AM, Tony B ton...@gmail.com wrote:
I think you're confusing the topic by introducing talk of serious
commercial audio formats. Most people are quite happy with .mp3's.
The masses have been conditioned to accept lower standards both in
the sonic quality of
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 5:02 AM, Jeff Miles jmile...@charter.net wrote:
Graphicconverter is great. And it doesn't take a half minute to open.
I'm still using it in nonpaid mode and it only takes about 10-15secs. to
open. Due to Graphic Converter I've pretty much stopped using Photoshop,
I just cannot stand out-of-sync audio and video. It drives me nuts.
I have written, yet again, to the leader of the pack of out-of-sync
broadcasters in the Washington DC area, WETA television. I had asked
them about this problem nearly a year ago, and their answer to me was
basically a
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 7:50 AM, Chris Dunford seed...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm not familiar with GraphicConverter, and I don't see a copy of the
shareware license on the GC site, but my *hunch* is that this nonpaid mode
is actually a violation of the license agreement after a certain allowable
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 8:44 AM, John Duncan Yoyo
johnduncany...@gmail.com wrote:
There is an add on called X-Marks formerly Foxmarks that will back up your
bookmarks to the cloud and allow you to share them between machines. It
looks like they use the bookmark information in the aggregate to
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 9:13 AM, Chris Dunford seed...@gmail.com wrote:
I have run across a number of shareware apps over
time that are actually fully functional and completely
unrestricted in any way even if a fee is not paid.
Right, but even if the software is fully functional, the user
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 9:16 AM, John Duncan Yoyo
johnduncany...@gmail.com wrote:
The failure of audio sync is due to the separate processing of audio and
video. Apparently there is nothing to tie the two streams together.
Come now. Surely there must be something to tie them together.
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 9:36 AM, MrMike6by9 mrmike6...@gmail.com wrote:
When I started with my first LCD TV a receiver, I read of complaints about
audio/video being out of sync. One solution that seems to work is to ensure
that both the audio and video signals go through the AV receiver that
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 10:30 AM, Chris Dunford seed...@gmail.com wrote:
I have an image processing app that was a trial demo, and when it
opens it tells me that images saved will be watermarked. However, I
have discovered that only the JPG saves get watermarked, not the TIFF
saves. I use
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 12:20 PM, Richard P. richs...@gmail.com wrote:
There is equipment that they can use to manually synch up the signals.
It requires the signals to be monitored by a person and adjusted as
needed. Because of the human cost, they will probably never do this.
I understand
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 11:14 AM, Tom Piwowar t...@tjpa.com wrote:
I have found that I can sometimes fix this by powering my digital
converter box off and on.
I have never found that to be the case. I have three different
converter brands, a Zenith, an Apex and for my computer, EyeTV, which
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 3:07 PM, Rich Schinnell
richnrockvi...@gmail.com wrote:
No you are not a criminal, just a free loader.
Eh, not exactly. This is an older application and I never even ran
across it until the original author had apparently sold the rights to
the app to another party that
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Jeff Wright jswri...@gmail.com wrote:
I can bet you that if someone were able to make money off of
widespread use of solar, they would have done it by now.
Up until sometime in the 70s or 80s, and perhaps even later, a
number of natural gas utilities,
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 4:12 PM, Richard P. richs...@gmail.com wrote:
There is a standardized approach but they have chosen not to implement
it throughout the production line due to costs.
In their reply to me onthis issue, WETA says that there is no
standardized approach to the problem of
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 11:09 AM, Tom Piwowar t...@tjpa.com wrote:
I too have noticed this over the past month. Don't know if there's
been a change in Google or Firefox which is causing this.
Me too. Quite annoying. Firefox Mac and Windows.
I do not see these messages when accessing Gmail?
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 7:03 PM, Roger D. Parish
rogerd.par...@gmail.com wrote:
Another data point: I was watching WETA this afternoon on DirecTV, and the
video lagged the audio by nearly a second. They are obviously feeding
DirecTV with their digital signal.
Now, WETA says that there is
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 9:03 AM, Snyder, Mark - IdM (IS)
mark.sny...@ngc.com wrote:
Who makes them? If only a few models out there, we could google the
instructions and send to WETA?
I firmly believe that the issue is that unless there is some FCC
requirement, or stations begin to lose
On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 8:30 AM, Chris Dunford seed...@gmail.com wrote:
I think this whole question is real simple. When others did this to OUR
servicemen, we thought it was torture. What else really needs to be said?
Those who support physically abusive interrogation techniques, AKA
torture
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 3:00 PM, mike xha...@gmail.com wrote:
Anyone out there on a politics list? Do they ever break out into computer
subjects?
Absolutely. Let me say this about computers and politics and why
they are linked. The old Mac versus Windows/DOS/PC flame wars have
always
.
On May 18, 2009, at 3:27 PM, phartz...@gmail.com wrote:
The old Mac versus Windows/DOS/PC flame wars have
always been, in great part, about conservatives and liberals. The
conservatives, politically, have always been perceived to be Mr. I'm
A PC, while the liberals, politically, have always been
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 7:10 PM, Chris Dunford seed...@gmail.com wrote:
If you still think Like Mac = Liberal then you have not been paying
attention on this forum.
Well, if this were actually true, MS's 90% market share (or whatever it is)
would mean that ~90% of the electorate is
Anyone ever notice how every so often a DTV channel assignment will
shift from displaying the channel number to displaying the channel
frequency instead? For instance, yesterday DTV Channel 4 in the
Washington DC metro area would not come up as Channel 4, but rather as
Channel 48, which is
On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 9:08 AM, Chris Dunford seed...@gmail.com wrote:
All I'm getting at is that I don't believe we can say Liberals use Macs and
conservatives use PCs. That perception may be a side effect of the image
created by Apple's marketing (cool people are always liberal, of course),
On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 9:21 AM, John Duncan Yoyo
johnduncany...@gmail.com wrote:
The old channel numbers are now just a label. That label will stick with
the stations; although, the transmission channel used may be something
else. 4 is in the low section of the VHF band and will not be used
On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 11:07 AM, Tom Piwowar t...@tjpa.com wrote:
How are you seeing this? When I press 4 on my DTV converter's remote I
get NBC in DC. Do you have to press 48 to see NBC? When you press the
next and previus channel buttons do you not get the stations in the usual
order?
On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 1:58 PM, Vicky Staubly vi...@steeds.com wrote:
As I understand it, the label is a piece of data carried inside the
digital TV signal. If your TV sees this label data, it will display it.
Presumably, the data may have been missing or corrupted at times, and
so your TV
On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 4:14 PM, Alvin Auerbach
alvin.auerb...@verizon.net wrote:
I think that for now I'm better off using NeoOffice 3.0 rather than
OpenOffice 2.4, and that when I get an iMac Intel, evaluate switching from
NeoOffice X.Y to OpenOffice X.(Y+1). Opinions?
Use what will work
On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 12:52 PM, Julie Kubal julieku...@yahoo.com wrote:
ah, didn't think of that. Any recommendations on where to buy?
See if Apple has any refurbished units available. I have had very
good luck and results with their refurbed units. Same warranty as a
new machine and they
On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 2:16 PM, Jeff Wright jswri...@gmail.com wrote:
Crucial makes their own memory, which is Micron, the parent company. I've
bought it for desktops, laptops and servers.
Micron has a plant located in Manassas, VA. A truly HUGE operation
that covers many acres, and they
On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 1:55 PM, Julie Kubal julieku...@yahoo.com wrote:
Originally, I was considering a 15 MBP plus a separate large monitor for my
photo work, but I began leaning towards the 17 because I do a lot of photo
slideshow presentations at clients' homes where a bigger, portable
Seen yesterday on the rear of an SUV I was following. License
plate: MACMAVN (Mac Maven). On rear window a couple of Apple logo
stickers.
Steve
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On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 1:59 PM, mike xha...@gmail.com wrote:
I read a couple of articles after listening to said podcast. Netbooks it
seems are not falling in sales, but the half dozen articles from different
sources did seem to list a high return rate...of the linux based laptops.
Time
On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 1:55 PM, Jeff Wright jswri...@gmail.com wrote:
I take this as a tacit admission that you won't be buying any more Macs.
I have been using Macs ever since the Mac Plus with System 7, and
with a couple of Atari ST machines thrown in. I have never had a
failure with any
On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 2:31 PM, Tom Piwowar t...@tjpa.com wrote:
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Before I respond I have to know if this is computers or politics.
It can be classified under Compolitics or perhaps Computics, or
anything else that you might come up
On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 2:43 PM, Rev. Stewart Marshall
popoz...@earthlink.net wrote:
Products that are fads tend to die out after a year or two.
I am not saying that netbooks are nothing but a fad. However, it is
quite likely that if manufacturers slightly redesign them and slap a
different
On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 6:10 PM, Tom Piwowar t...@tjpa.com wrote:
OMG you are right.
I just pressed the 4 button on my remote and the screen displayed no
signal. I had to press 48 to get WRC-HD.
Thanks to your heads up I knew what to do.
It does appear as though some aspects of this move
On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 6:13 PM, Tom Piwowar t...@tjpa.com wrote:
Reminder from the MPAA: DRM trumps your fair use rights
Hopefull they will go after the MPAA after they finish with the credit
card cartel.
I fear not. Hollywood has long seemed to have a stranglehold over
Washington DC
On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 8:58 PM, b_s-wilk b1sun...@yahoo.es wrote:
I had an iBook with a matte screen. Now I have a MacBook with a glossy
screen. Neither has a problem with glare. The display on the MB is much
clearer and has a wider viewing range. My iMac has a glossy screen, but has
almost
On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 6:10 PM, Tom Piwowar t...@tjpa.com wrote:
OMG you are right.
I just pressed the 4 button on my remote and the screen displayed no
signal. I had to press 48 to get WRC-HD.
It is currently 9:35 in Washington DC and DTV channels 7 (ABC) and 9
(CBS) have vanished from
On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 10:05 PM, tjpa t...@tjpa.com wrote:
Feeling like Charlton Heston taking a walk on the beach?
Huh? I'm not up on Charlton Heston movies. At any rate, 7 is back,
but still no 9. I am going to suppose that neither channel will ever
acknowledge or explain their sudden
On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 7:35 AM, John Duncan Yoyo
johnduncany...@gmail.com wrote:
It is very annoying now that they put a computer between us and watching TV.
It is very annoying now that they put a computer between us and the
cars we drive.
Steve
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