RE: 6 Ridiculous Lies You Believe About the Founding of America

2012-05-27 Thread Eric Roberts
The Eskimos had something that was like an outrigger. I forget the term used for it offhand -Original Message- From: Larry C. Lyons [mailto:larrycly...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, May 27, 2012 7:16 PM To: cf-community Subject: Re: 6 Ridiculous Lies You Believe About the Founding of Americ

RE: 6 Ridiculous Lies You Believe About the Founding of America

2012-05-27 Thread Eric Roberts
That is a possibility -Original Message- From: Larry C. Lyons [mailto:larrycly...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, May 27, 2012 7:13 PM To: cf-community Subject: Re: 6 Ridiculous Lies You Believe About the Founding of America there's evidence that the innuit traded with the Greenlanders. Toys

Re: Going to the MAC side

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Re: 6 Ridiculous Lies You Believe About the Founding of America

2012-05-27 Thread Larry C. Lyons
Not sure about that Eric, I've been in umiaks and while they float I wouldn't want to have to paddle more than a few miles across open water in one of them. BTW wrong culture, outriggers are asian not inuit. On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 7:10 PM, Eric Roberts wrote: > > Yes...the Inuit's go to the At

Re: 6 Ridiculous Lies You Believe About the Founding of America

2012-05-27 Thread Larry C. Lyons
there's evidence that the innuit traded with the Greenlanders. Toys and trade goods have been found in sites as far west as Victoria Island in the central Arctic. But those probably have been traded hand to hand from Greenland. On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 7:10 PM, Eric Roberts wrote: > > Yes...the I

Re: 6 Ridiculous Lies You Believe About the Founding of America

2012-05-27 Thread Larry C. Lyons
I don't think the innuit went that far south. but Newfoundland has about 10 distinct tribes, not including those that were wiped out, like the Beothuks. But the area was lush enough to support a lot of people. Moreover the Vikings didn't just stay in one place, L'Anse aux Meadows was just the fir

RE: 6 Ridiculous Lies You Believe About the Founding of America

2012-05-27 Thread Eric Roberts
That is very possible. Europe was quite as populated as it was when Columbus made his journey, There wasn't the population pressures that really spurred the explorations of the 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries. With lower populations there was also less disease. -Original Message- From:

RE: 6 Ridiculous Lies You Believe About the Founding of America

2012-05-27 Thread Eric Roberts
Yes...the Inuit's go to the Atlantic coast and would have had capable craft. The coastal tribes would have subsisted on marine mammals and would have had boats, more than likely outriggers that would have had the stability to be on the ocean and would have been able to make to the islands. -O

RE: 6 Ridiculous Lies You Believe About the Founding of America

2012-05-27 Thread Eric Roberts
They did encounter them and the Norse called the Skraelings. They also apparently did not meet on good terms either... -Original Message- From: Dana [mailto:dana.tier...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, May 27, 2012 2:20 PM To: cf-community Subject: Re: 6 Ridiculous Lies You Believe About the F

Re: 6 Ridiculous Lies You Believe About the Founding of America

2012-05-27 Thread LRS Scout
I wonder if the diseases that ended up killing so many had mutated by the point that the vikings were there. It's possible that the diseases simply didn't exist yet. On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 6:03 PM, Dana wrote: > > micmac and beothunk people on the island of newfoundland apparently,so that > l

Re: Homeowner's Insurance

2012-05-27 Thread Greg Morphis
Thanks for the references, I called USAA and unfortunately my parents didn't have an active policy and that's the only way children of servicemen are eligible. Thanks! On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 4:30 PM, Larry C. Lyons wrote: > > children of people who served I believe are now eligible. > > On Sun

Re: Going to the MAC side

2012-05-27 Thread Cameron Childress
Whoops - yeah - sorry... On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 6:47 PM, Maureen wrote: > > er,,not Dana. We don't even look alike. > > On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 3:07 PM, Cameron Childress > wrote: > > > > I second Dana's comments on Best Buy and the Geek Squad. Avoid them - buy > > Apple Care. IIRC, you have

Re: Going to the MAC side

2012-05-27 Thread Dana
uh, that was maureen. But I don't have a very good impression of them either. On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 3:07 PM, Cameron Childress wrote: > > I second Dana's comments on Best Buy and the Geek Squad. Avoid them - buy > Apple Care. IIRC, you have one year after buying the device of laptop to > buy A

Re: Going to the MAC side

2012-05-27 Thread Maureen
er,,not Dana. We don't even look alike. On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 3:07 PM, Cameron Childress wrote: > > I second Dana's comments on Best Buy and the Geek Squad. Avoid them - buy > Apple Care. IIRC, you have one year after buying the device of laptop to > buy AppleCare for it.  I *think* this is t

Re: Going to the MAC side

2012-05-27 Thread Cameron Childress
I second Dana's comments on Best Buy and the Geek Squad. Avoid them - buy Apple Care. IIRC, you have one year after buying the device of laptop to buy AppleCare for it. I *think* this is true. Not 100% sure. -Cameron On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 12:02 PM, Bruce Sorge wrote: > > Thanks Cameron. >

Re: 6 Ridiculous Lies You Believe About the Founding of America

2012-05-27 Thread Dana
micmac and beothunk people on the island of newfoundland apparently,so that lack of population would not have been the reason. Maybe it happened but was not recorded, or the history was lost. On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 2:42 PM, Dana wrote: > yeah I got that part. What I was thinking about was whic

Re: pandora annoyance

2012-05-27 Thread Cameron Childress
I've been using Rdio, which is $9.99/mo and seems to work better than Spotify's spotty performance and crappy support. It doesn't do music discovery the same way that Pandora does, but you can access a ton of music and make some pretty easy (and legal) playlists of virtually anything on the fly.

Re: 6 Ridiculous Lies You Believe About the Founding of America

2012-05-27 Thread Dana
yeah I got that part. What I was thinking about was which indigenous peoples were around to get infected in the first place. Did the Inuit go that far east? The Cree? Did they have boats capable of getting there from the mainland? Just thinking out loud. On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 2:34 PM, Larry C.

Re: 6 Ridiculous Lies You Believe About the Founding of America

2012-05-27 Thread Larry C. Lyons
Its on the island of Newfoundland. According to current theory it was more of an exploration base rather than the Viking settlement. Moreover the climate then was warmer, very similar to what they were used to in Greenland and Iceland. On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 3:19 PM, Dana wrote: > > Don't know.

Re: Homeowner's Insurance

2012-05-27 Thread Larry C. Lyons
children of people who served I believe are now eligible. On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 1:56 PM, LRS Scout wrote: > > I second USAA, and you don't have to be military yourself, they have opened > up membership some.  Not sure of the exact rules,. > > On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 11:10 AM, Larry C. Lyons wr

Re: Going to the MAC side

2012-05-27 Thread Maureen
Just FYI, Best Buy may have good prices, but their support sucketh, especially on Macs. Usually if you have a problem, the Geek Squad will just tell you they have to send it to Apple to fix, and you have to wait weeks to get it back. So don't let them talk you into the Geek Squad service contrac

Re: 6 Ridiculous Lies You Believe About the Founding of America

2012-05-27 Thread Dana
Don't know. There's quite a bit of information here if anyone wants to read it -- don't have time to do more than skim today myself, tho I'm interested in an academic way: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinland An alternate theory is that there may not have been many Native American settlements ri

Re: pandora annoyance

2012-05-27 Thread Dana
yeah, I suppose if i have no ads that takes care of that On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 12:36 AM, Eric Roberts < ow...@threeravensconsulting.com> wrote: > > I pay for it since I use it a lot. It for a year, so it really isn't that > expensive and it is worth it to not have ads. > > -Original M

Re: Homeowner's Insurance

2012-05-27 Thread LRS Scout
I second USAA, and you don't have to be military yourself, they have opened up membership some. Not sure of the exact rules,. On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 11:10 AM, Larry C. Lyons wrote: > > btw if you'r eligible (ex military) USAA - > ( > https://www.usaa.com/inet/pages/insurance_home_condo?wa_ref

Re: Going to the MAC side

2012-05-27 Thread Bruce Sorge
Thanks Cameron. I need a new machine more like yesterday than later. I live near COlorado Springs but I am getting the machine at Best Buy because they are having a huge sale. I think that I have parallels from an older Dell purchase I made many years ago, I'll have to go see. Also I have ever

Re: Going to the MAC side

2012-05-27 Thread Larry C. Lyons
one thing I forgot to mention, download Virtual Box and set up a windows instance on it. On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 11:45 AM, C. Hatton Humphrey wrote: > >> >> This is really for all the MAC users out there, MAC haters need not >> reply, haha. >> > > I'm neither a mac user or lover, but I've had to

Re: Going to the MAC side

2012-05-27 Thread C. Hatton Humphrey
> > This is really for all the MAC users out there, MAC haters need not > reply, haha. > I'm neither a mac user or lover, but I've had to support them for my bosses in the past. Transferring data to your mac, and even back from it, should be fairly painless. One annoyance we had was with Excel

Re: Going to the MAC side

2012-05-27 Thread Larry C. Lyons
nice machine. first thing upgrade it to 8 gig. I just did that with my new MacBookPro, I bought an 8 gig kit from Tiger Direct for about $50, much cheaper than the Apple price of $200. You may fine this exchange from last November useful. I just got a Macbook from work: http://www.houseoffusion.c

Re: CF question

2012-05-27 Thread Larry C. Lyons
CFBuilder2 is nicer than Builder1. The real impressive parts of builder are the extensions and server additions. You can transfer your snippets from CFEclipse to CFBuilder easily. There are a lot of other small stuff that help as well, although the keyboard shortcuts take getting used to. One nice

Re: CF question

2012-05-27 Thread Cameron Childress
CF10 is so new that I think the jury's still out. But I have faith. The Developer version is free, so it's really no bother to give it a shot. I'd also give Railo a look. It's come a long way. CFBuilder isn't worth the money IMHO. As Eric said, it's a little crashy and slow. Unless you are goin

Re: Going to the MAC side

2012-05-27 Thread Cameron Childress
A few things I'd say here. First, if it's n emergency, go ahead and buy it but if it's not, you may want to wait a few more months. Rumor is that Apple may be renewing the MacBook Pro line later this summer/fall and the new MacBooks may have a slimmer profile similar to the Air model. They may ha

Re: 6 Ridiculous Lies You Believe About the Founding of America

2012-05-27 Thread Larry C. Lyons
I was thinking that Greenland had regular contact with Norway and Denmark, not exactly the most isolated of areas. I would have expected that mainly after the settlement of the vinland theree would have been some outbreak. On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 2:16 PM, Dana wrote: > > no epidemics going on th

Re: Going to the MAC side

2012-05-27 Thread Tony
no real explanations needed on anything bro. just get one, it's all intuitive. very well though out machine. On Sunday, May 27, 2012, Bruce Sorge wrote: > > This is really for all the MAC users out there, MAC haters need not > reply, haha. > Anyway, my Acer has outlived it's usefulness as a dai

Re: Homeowner's Insurance

2012-05-27 Thread Larry C. Lyons
btw if you'r eligible (ex military) USAA - (https://www.usaa.com/inet/pages/insurance_home_condo?wa_ref=pub_global_products_ins_homeowner) has some pretty good rates. On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 3:09 AM, Gruss Gott wrote: > > Check this out, might help: > > http://www.insure.com/home-insurance/basi

Going to the MAC side

2012-05-27 Thread Bruce Sorge
This is really for all the MAC users out there, MAC haters need not reply, haha. Anyway, my Acer has outlived it's usefulness as a daily computer and I am moving up to a new Mac book pro with the Intel i7 processor, 17" display, 4GB memory and a 750GB hdd. Is this good to start with. I am new

RE: pandora annoyance

2012-05-27 Thread Eric Roberts
I pay for it since I use it a lot. It for a year, so it really isn't that expensive and it is worth it to not have ads. -Original Message- From: Dana [mailto:dana.tier...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, May 26, 2012 5:12 PM To: cf-community Subject: pandora annoyance Anyone know where it s

RE: CF question

2012-05-27 Thread Eric Roberts
I haven't played with 10 yet...but the description seems like it has a lot of great features. As far as an IDE...i didn't like cfbuilder at all. It has some good features, but overall I found it slow and buggy. I use CFEclipse. -Original Message- From: Bruce Sorge [mailto:sor...@gmail.c

RE: 6 Ridiculous Lies You Believe About the Founding of America

2012-05-27 Thread Eric Roberts
That would be my guess. It was a pretty small group, but on the other hand...Leif was the first generation not from mainland Europe(I am not even 100% sure that he was born in Iceland or not without looking it up). His father, Eric the Red, was exiled for murder, so I would think they would stil

Re: Homeowner's Insurance

2012-05-27 Thread Gruss Gott
Check this out, might help: http://www.insure.com/home-insurance/basics.html On May 26, 2012, at 5:18 AM, Greg Morphis wrote: > > I've got to pick out a Homeonwer's Insurance company, yah! :\ > Anyways I called State Farm who I have Auto Insurance with and was > given a quote of 150 a month.