Re: [CGUYS] Will iPhone Kill Radio?

2008-08-01 Thread Tom Piwowar
I have to ditto Tom here.  I used to have every TV in the house on  
all day. Now there is just one on for 'noise' for my parrots.  I have  
very few TV shows I bother to watch. 

Potentially giving new life to your TV... I just set up my Tivo and 
noticed it offers a list of video podcasts for download. It also has an 
option that will accept a URL for downloading, something I will need to 
experiment with.

It would be nice if it had a Web browser.


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Re: [CGUYS] Will iPhone Kill Radio?

2008-07-29 Thread Jeff Wright
 Two free applications for the iPhone and iPod Touch, and another
 program
 that costs only $4.99, make it possible to listen to live radio on the
 iPhone from anywhere, including a moving car...

No, radio (and the NAB) will kill radio.  Who cares what you can listen to
it on, the product is just as god-awful.


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Re: [CGUYS] Will iPhone Kill Radio?

2008-07-29 Thread John covici
I will check, as I recall, there is no install charge.

on Tuesday 07/29/2008 Snyder, Mark (IT CIV)([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote
  I get my news from the Post (paper) and from NPR.  I don't listen much
  to commercial radio, except the occasional baseball game.  I don't watch
  TV at all.  I get mostly tech news from the web.  I have an iPod, but
  have never gotten news from it (my iPod is before the Touch model).
  News paper circulation shrinks every year.  If radio shrinks too, where
  will you all get your news?
  
  Thank you,
   
  Mark Snyder
  -Original Message-
   Two free applications for the iPhone and iPod Touch, and another
   program
   that costs only $4.99, make it possible to listen to live radio on the
   iPhone from anywhere, including a moving car...
  
  No, radio (and the NAB) will kill radio.  Who cares what you can listen
  to
  it on, the product is just as god-awful.
  
  
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Re: [CGUYS] Will iPhone Kill Radio?

2008-07-29 Thread John covici
Sorry for the incorrect posting.

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Re: [CGUYS] Will iPhone Kill Radio?

2008-07-29 Thread Tom Piwowar
I have an iPod, but
have never gotten news from it (my iPod is before the Touch model).
News paper circulation shrinks every year.  If radio shrinks too, where
will you all get your news?

There are more podcast feeds than I can keep up with. Some of the best 
are from NPR, CBC, BBC, and some local stations. iTunes keeps filling up 
with more and more good stuff. I especially like APM's Future Tense. 
These are short, 5-minute programs that often inform me of tech events 
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Re: [CGUYS] Will iPhone Kill Radio?

2008-07-29 Thread Tom Piwowar
But there's a difference between mentioning problems and taking random,
gratuitous potshots.

Should it be my problem that some folks have no sense of humor? Should we 
all be required to dial down to low level gloom to accomodate the most 
morose among us? Should we be denied a good laugh at the folly of the 
ultra rich? I think not!

P.S. I don't do smileys. Smileys are depressing.


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Re: [CGUYS] Will iPhone Kill Radio?

2008-07-29 Thread Jeff Wright
 Should it be my problem that some folks have no sense of humor? Should we
 all be required to dial down to low level gloom to accomodate the most
 morose among us? Should we be denied a good laugh at the folly of the
 ultra rich? I think not!

I thought the squirting commment was fairly droll for Tom.  It made
me chuckle.

Give credit where credit is due!


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[CGUYS] Smileys Are Insulting (was RE: [CGUYS] Will iPhone Kill Radio?)

2008-07-29 Thread Michel Lowe
Does anyone else find Smileys to be insulting?
I mean, a little :-) at the end of a comment to explain that you meant it
humorously/ironically/sarcastically implies the recipient isn't capable of
getting the joke in the first place.
Or maybe I should just switch to decaf today... ;-)

__ 
Michel David Lowe 


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 From: Computer Guys Discussion List [mailto:COMPUTERGUYS-
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Piwowar
 Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 10:49 AM
 To: COMPUTERGUYS-L@LISTSERV.AOL.COM
 Subject: Re: [CGUYS] Will iPhone Kill Radio?
 
 But there's a difference between mentioning problems and taking random,
 gratuitous potshots.
 
 Should it be my problem that some folks have no sense of humor? Should we
 all be required to dial down to low level gloom to accomodate the most
 morose among us? Should we be denied a good laugh at the folly of the
 ultra rich? I think not!
 
 P.S. I don't do smileys. Smileys are depressing.


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Re: [CGUYS] Smileys Are Insulting (was RE: [CGUYS] Will iPhone Kill Radio?)

2008-07-29 Thread Rev. Stewart Marshall
It all depends.  In the latest release of Eudora actually done by 
Eudora, they turn into icons.


The Icons actually let you know there is something else 
there.  Otherwise I have a hard time deciphering all the punctuation 
marks, and it reminds me of reading Hebrew!


Stewart


At 10:23 AM 7/29/2008, you wrote:

Does anyone else find Smileys to be insulting?
I mean, a little :-) at the end of a comment to explain that you meant it
humorously/ironically/sarcastically implies the recipient isn't capable of
getting the joke in the first place.
Or maybe I should just switch to decaf today... ;-)

__
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Rev. Stewart A. Marshall
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Re: [CGUYS] Smileys Are Insulting (was RE: [CGUYS] Will iPhone Kill Radio?)

2008-07-29 Thread Roger D. Parish

At 11:23 AM -0400 7/29/08, Michel Lowe wrote:


Does anyone else find Smileys to be insulting?
I mean, a little :-) at the end of a comment to explain that you meant it
humorously/ironically/sarcastically implies the recipient isn't capable of
getting the joke in the first place.
Or maybe I should just switch to decaf today... ;-)


Since getting the joke is in the eye of the beholder, and not 
guaranteed, that's why smileys (or emoticons) were invented in the 
first place. One's innocent little jibe might be misinterpreted by a 
reader who had not switched to decaf that day. ;-)


I, for one, don't find them insulting. I had never thought of them 
that way until you just brought it up...

paranoia
hmm, what did they really mean by that???
/paranoia

:-)
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Re: [CGUYS] Will iPhone Kill Radio?

2008-07-29 Thread mike
That's what I was thinking, more creative then the usuall MS comment...I had
to laugh too.

Mike

On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 8:12 AM, Jeff Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

  Should it be my problem that some folks have no sense of humor? Should we
  all be required to dial down to low level gloom to accomodate the most
  morose among us? Should we be denied a good laugh at the folly of the
  ultra rich? I think not!

 I thought the squirting commment was fairly droll for Tom.  It made
 me chuckle.

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Re: [CGUYS] Smileys Are Insulting (was RE: [CGUYS] Will iPhone Kill Radio?)

2008-07-29 Thread Allen Firstenberg
The problem is that often there just isn't enough context to realize
that the person is trying to be humorous/ironic/sarcastic.  In
traditional print, you'd have lots and lots of written words to
realize this.  In realspace, you can judge the body language of the
person making the statement.  In brief email exchanges, sometimes you
need substitutes for those cues - and thats the purpose of the smiley.

I don't think the assumption is that the person won't get the
joke... its to make sure that people realize it _is_ a joke.

On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 11:23:38AM -0400, Michel Lowe wrote:
 Does anyone else find Smileys to be insulting?
 I mean, a little :-) at the end of a comment to explain that you meant it
 humorously/ironically/sarcastically implies the recipient isn't capable of
 getting the joke in the first place.
 Or maybe I should just switch to decaf today... ;-)
 
 __ 
 Michel David Lowe 
 
 
  -Original Message-
  From: Computer Guys Discussion List [mailto:COMPUTERGUYS-
  [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Piwowar
  Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 10:49 AM
  To: COMPUTERGUYS-L@LISTSERV.AOL.COM
  Subject: Re: [CGUYS] Will iPhone Kill Radio?
  
  But there's a difference between mentioning problems and taking random,
  gratuitous potshots.
  
  Should it be my problem that some folks have no sense of humor? Should we
  all be required to dial down to low level gloom to accomodate the most
  morose among us? Should we be denied a good laugh at the folly of the
  ultra rich? I think not!
  
  P.S. I don't do smileys. Smileys are depressing.
 
 
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Re: [CGUYS] Will iPhone Kill Radio?

2008-07-29 Thread Chris Dunford
 But there's a difference between mentioning problems and taking
 random, gratuitous potshots.
 
 Should it be my problem that some folks have no sense of humor? Should
 we all be required to dial down to low level gloom to accomodate the most
 morose among us? 

Ain't nothing wrong with my sensayuma. 

I saw some true-crime show the other night about a guy who tried to hire a
hit man to rub out his inconvenient wife. When the cops confronted him with
a surveillance tape, he said, Hey, it was a joke! I was only joking!
Reminds me of your shots that are now supposed to be funny...

 Should we be denied a good laugh at the folly of the ultra rich?

Now I'm confused. I was under the impression that the glitterati use Macs,
and only busboys and their ilk use Windows.


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Re: [CGUYS] Smileys Are Insulting (was RE: [CGUYS] Will iPhone Kill Radio?)

2008-07-29 Thread Chris Dunford
 The problem is that often there just isn't enough context to realize
 that the person is trying to be humorous/ironic/sarcastic.  In
 traditional print, you'd have lots and lots of written words to
 realize this.  In realspace, you can judge the body language of the
 person making the statement.  In brief email exchanges, sometimes you
 need substitutes for those cues - and thats the purpose of the smiley.
 
 I don't think the assumption is that the person won't get the
 joke... its to make sure that people realize it _is_ a joke.

Yes, I think this is exactly right. Email, forums, listserv posts, IMs, and
the like lack the cues and/or the space to ensure that the reader knows
you're joking.  I resisted emoticons for many years before I came (somewhat
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Re: [CGUYS] Will iPhone Kill Radio?

2008-07-29 Thread Snyder, Mark (IT CIV)
I use both WPC and Mac.  I am neither. 

Your comment shows minimal attention, or is just gratuitous. 

Thank you,
 
Mark Snyder
-Original Message-
 Should we be denied a good laugh at the folly of the ultra rich?

Now I'm confused. I was under the impression that the glitterati use
Macs,
and only busboys and their ilk use Windows.


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Re: [CGUYS] Will iPhone Kill Radio?

2008-07-29 Thread Tom Piwowar
Now I'm confused. I was under the impression that the glitterati use Macs,
and only busboys and their ilk use Windows.

But I was referring to those who *make* Windows not those who *use* Windows. 
Note that those who make Windows made themselves fantastically rich by over 
charging their customers (viz. DOJ vs. MS) and forcing them into careers as 
pearl diversÝ. Those who make Macs became only moderately rich and empowered 
their customers to become moderately well off too.

Ý pearl diver. Slang. Person who washes the dishes at a restaurant.


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Re: [CGUYS] Will iPhone Kill Radio?

2008-07-29 Thread Tom Piwowar
Okay I regret the remark because it sucked the air out of the discussion 
of a really interesting and important topic. 

This week we have Serious and XM merging because the market for their 
services was not as large as they expected. When they first arrived on 
the scene I said (on air) that I wouldn't invest any $ there. The iPod 
was going to make a big dent in their customer base. 

Now we have the the iPod Touch and the iPhones able to provide a mobile 
connection to the 'net. This is a delivery method that nobody was 
anticipating. It could change the whole ball game not just for satellite 
broadcasters, but for conventional broadcasters too.

This is a big deal.


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Re: [CGUYS] Will iPhone Kill Radio?

2008-07-29 Thread Rev. Stewart Marshall

Yes and no.

Where I think the Satellite radios have it over Internet radio is sports.

The way sports events are licensed you will not find them on 
conventional internet radio.


I am a big Nascar fan and would like one of the satellite radios to 
catch races when in the car.  (There is no station that has bought 
into the radio broadcasts locally)


Plus there are a few other venues which I do not listen too to make a 
difference.


NPR has a good presence on satellite radio also.  However again down 
here coverage is spotty.  Yes that is where an Internet radio again 
can offer good alternative but it depends on coverage once 
more.  There is too little coverage in some parts of the country for 
it to be a killer, instead it just dies because of lack of 
support.  However satellite because of its universal coverage is a big plus.


So for you on the east coast and in the city it might be the radio 
killer, but for us in the rest of the US satellite will still win 
hands down.  (just for the record I do not have a satellite radio, I 
have been waiting for this deal to happen and them to consolidate 
equipment before I take the plunge)


Stewart



At 01:20 PM 7/29/2008, you wrote:

Okay I regret the remark because it sucked the air out of the discussion
of a really interesting and important topic.

This week we have Serious and XM merging because the market for their
services was not as large as they expected. When they first arrived on
the scene I said (on air) that I wouldn't invest any $ there. The iPod
was going to make a big dent in their customer base.

Now we have the the iPod Touch and the iPhones able to provide a mobile
connection to the 'net. This is a delivery method that nobody was
anticipating. It could change the whole ball game not just for satellite
broadcasters, but for conventional broadcasters too.

This is a big deal.


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Re: [CGUYS] Smileys Are Insulting (was RE: [CGUYS] Will iPhone Kill Radio?)

2008-07-29 Thread John DeCarlo
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 12:20 PM, Chris Dunford [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:

  The problem is that often there just isn't enough context to realize
  that the person is trying to be humorous/ironic/sarcastic.  In

 Yes, I think this is exactly right. Email, forums, listserv posts, IMs, and
 the like lack the cues and/or the space to ensure that the reader knows
 you're joking.  I resisted emoticons for many years before I came (somewhat
 reluctantly) to this conclusion.


I mostly resisted emoticons because of the need to memorize them and their
interpretations.

So for years I did things like this:  wink, grin, rant mode onrant
mode off.

I still prefer that approach, but no one likes to type any more.

Agree that icons make it a little easier, but they go overboard, too - what
does the smiley face with a hat on at a rakish angle mean about the text
just preceeding it?

angry old curmudgeon mode off

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Re: [CGUYS] Will iPhone Kill Radio?

2008-07-29 Thread John DeCarlo
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 12:15 PM, Chris Dunford [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:

  That's what I was thinking, more creative then the usuall MS
  comment...I had to laugh too.

 OK, yeah, maybe it was marginally less annoying than the usual comments.
 But
 I'm just so tired of it, y'know?


OMG, someone is annoyed!!

I suggest you just ignore anything that annoys you so - you will be much
better off.

BTW, gratuitous insult is an oxymoron when applied to Microsoft.


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Re: [CGUYS] Smileys Are Insulting (was RE: [CGUYS] Will iPhone Kill Radio?)

2008-07-29 Thread Allen Firstenberg
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 02:38:09PM -0400, John DeCarlo wrote:

 Agree that icons make it a little easier, but they go overboard, too - what
 does the smiley face with a hat on at a rakish angle mean about the text
 just preceeding it?

That the author is trying, and failing, to be cute.


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Re: [CGUYS] Will iPhone Kill Radio?

2008-07-29 Thread Tom Piwowar
OMG, someone is annoyed!!

Quick..

Go feed the fishes!

Go feed the fishes!

Inhale, exhale.

Repeat.


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Re: [CGUYS] Will iPhone Kill Radio?

2008-07-29 Thread Constance Warner
Will the iPhone kill radio?  Not for awhile yet--for lots of reasons.

You can get a really groovy short-wave set that will fit in a purse or
the small zipper compartment of a knapsack for around $20.  There's no
subscription charge, and the reception is pretty good.  It runs on
batteries that I get in CVS or Giant, and it will also use rechargables.
Until you can get an iPhone (or equivalent) for $20, and until satellite
radio is free, and until computer batteries are cheap and recharge in 5
minutes, I'm not worried that over-the-air radio is going to disappear.

With radio, you don't have as many choices as you would with satellite
or internet radio, but then lots of people have limited choices (and
limited budgets).  What I can get on my mini-shortwave set around town
beats anything we had when I was growing up.  (What I would really like,
a station that plays early music 24/7, isn't available anywhere anyway.)

I might buy an iPhone-type device some day, because I love cool gadgets.
But for now: Should I pay hundreds of dollars to get an iPhone, and
switch phone services to a service that doesn't work very well in this
area (and that will lock me into a two-year contract), just so I can
listen to RADIO? I don't think so.  I don't think too many other people
will, either.

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Re: [CGUYS] Will iPhone Kill Radio?

2008-07-29 Thread mike
Not with users like we have.


On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 11:42 AM, John DeCarlo [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:



 BTW, gratuitous insult is an oxymoron when applied to Microsoft.


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Re: [CGUYS] Will iPhone Kill Radio?

2008-07-29 Thread Tom Piwowar
I might buy an iPhone-type device some day, because I love cool gadgets.
But for now: Should I pay hundreds of dollars to get an iPhone, and
switch phone services to a service that doesn't work very well in this
area (and that will lock me into a two-year contract), just so I can
listen to RADIO? I don't think so.  I don't think too many other people
will, either.

I'm thinking the iPod Touch may have a better future than the iPhone. The 
Touch can hook in to WiFi and WiFi is steadily growing. I'm expecting 
that WiMax will turn out to be the best way to get the 'net out to fringe 
areas. WiMax may eventually replace cell networks by provideing more 
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Re: [CGUYS] Will iPhone Kill Radio?

2008-07-29 Thread John Duncan Yoyo
TechDirt has a story on ATT cutting off users of P2P software on thier 3g
network.  http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20080729/0135151823.shtml  Can
Pandora be far behind?

Radio is broadcast more listeners cost nothing while internet traffic is
narrow cast every listener ads a little bit of cost.  Radio is safe.

On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 4:03 PM, Tom Piwowar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 I might buy an iPhone-type device some day, because I love cool gadgets.
 But for now: Should I pay hundreds of dollars to get an iPhone, and
 switch phone services to a service that doesn't work very well in this
 area (and that will lock me into a two-year contract), just so I can
 listen to RADIO? I don't think so.  I don't think too many other people
 will, either.

 I'm thinking the iPod Touch may have a better future than the iPhone. The
 Touch can hook in to WiFi and WiFi is steadily growing. I'm expecting
 that WiMax will turn out to be the best way to get the 'net out to fringe
 areas. WiMax may eventually replace cell networks by provideing more
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Re: [CGUYS] Will iPhone Kill Radio?

2008-07-29 Thread Paula Minor

There are more podcast feeds than I can keep up with. Some of the best
are from NPR, CBC, BBC, and some local stations. iTunes keeps  
filling up

with more and more good stuff. I especially like APM's Future Tense.
These are short, 5-minute programs that often inform me of tech events
that are important but not covered elsewhere,

I have to ditto Tom here.  I used to have every TV in the house on  
all day. Now there is just one on for 'noise' for my parrots.  I have  
very few TV shows I bother to watch.  Radio offers nothing unless I  
can get an occasional program off XM when in the car.   But iTunes  
keeps me so busy with a multitude of informative and educational  
programs that I have a hard time choosing what to listen to first.  I  
download dozens of podcasts every day and find myself looking for  
excuses to work at something that allows me to also listen to my  
mp3 player.  Podcasting is the future of media. It will just take  
some time to get the masses educated as to how to access them.  I can  
listen to my favorite NPR show and my Photoshop tutorials and Mike  
Malloy and Thom Hartmann shows when it's convenient for me and not  
have to be glued to a tv or radio at their chosen time.


Paula
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Re: [CGUYS] Smileys Are Insulting (was RE: [CGUYS] Will iPhone Kill Radio?)

2008-07-29 Thread Paula Minor

Does anyone else find Smileys to be insulting?
I mean, a little :-) at the end of a comment to explain that you  
meant it
humorously/ironically/sarcastically implies the recipient isn't  
capable of

getting the joke in the first place.
Or maybe I should just switch to decaf today... ;-)

Yep, you should switch.  Smiley's don't bother me at all.  It's way  
too easy to misread someone's intent when they are using 'dry'  
humor ,etc, because you can't see their body language.  The smiley's  
do help keep the intent clear.


Paula
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[CGUYS] Will iPhone Kill Radio?

2008-07-28 Thread Tom Piwowar
I have opined before that changes in distribution will make us much less 
beholden to people with transmitters (like WAMU) that redistribute 
various national feeds. Instead we'll use the Internet to go right to the 
source.

Smary guy, Larry Magid asks: Can The New iPhone Revolutionize Radio?
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/07/14/scitech/pcanswer/main4256999.shtm
l?source=search_story

The new Apple 3G iPhone has received a lot of attention, but the more 
important story isn't the new hardware, but Apple's application store and 
the many programs that run on the new phone. Thanks to a few of those 
programs there's an even larger story - the iPhone may fundamentally 
change the way people listen to the radio when they're in their cars or 
otherwise on the go.
Two free applications for the iPhone and iPod Touch, and another program 
that costs only $4.99, make it possible to listen to live radio on the 
iPhone from anywhere, including a moving car...

(Or I guess you can sit around squirting people with your Zune.)


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Re: [CGUYS] Will iPhone Kill Radio?

2008-07-28 Thread Chris Dunford
 (Or I guess you can sit around squirting people with your Zune.)

Congratulations on reaching your 17,500th gratuitous MS potshot.


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Re: [CGUYS] Will iPhone Kill Radio?

2008-07-28 Thread Tom Piwowar
Congratulations on reaching your 17,500th gratuitous MS potshot.

17,501 coming soon. Fewer potshots at Apple, 12,374 I think.


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Re: [CGUYS] Will iPhone Kill Radio?

2008-07-28 Thread mike
I don't recall you having one potshot at Apple...funny or FUD.

Mike

On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 4:37 PM, Tom Piwowar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Congratulations on reaching your 17,500th gratuitous MS potshot.

 17,501 coming soon. Fewer potshots at Apple, 12,374 I think.


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Re: [CGUYS] Will iPhone Kill Radio?

2008-07-28 Thread Tom Piwowar
I don't recall you having one potshot at Apple...funny or FUD.

Selective recall.

I take shots at both, but you only remember the ones aimed at your 
beloved.


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Re: [CGUYS] Will iPhone Kill Radio?

2008-07-28 Thread John DeCarlo
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 7:46 PM, mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 I don't recall you having one potshot at Apple...funny or FUD.

 Mike


Probably because you don't pay attention.   And you have certain blinders
on.

-- 
John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own


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Re: [CGUYS] Will iPhone Kill Radio?

2008-07-28 Thread Chris Dunford
  I don't recall you having one potshot at Apple...funny or FUD.
 
  Mike
 
 
 Probably because you don't pay attention.   And you have certain
 blinders on. 

He does indeed post about Apple problems. That's fine. As is pointing out MS
problems--when it's relevant. 
But there's a difference between mentioning problems and taking random,
gratuitous potshots.


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