Well television is one of those rights delineated in the constitution
right?
Not exactly. But ideas didn't move slowly in Colonial America,
they had media too. And the rights of free speech and assembly
are delineated specifically.
Public discourse happened then via broadsheets, newspapers,
a
If the government is going to mandate this changeover than they should
similarly intervene to mitigate the problems this will cause, regardless of
whether those problems are truly profound. By an admittedly stretched
analogy, if the government intervened to, say, make drinking or smoking
illegal,
Well television is one of those rights delineated in the constitution right?
What simply amazes me is that America is one of the richest poor
nations in the world.
Stewart
At 09:12 PM 1/23/2009, you wrote:
I think I should reiterate, we are talking about just televsion.
On Fri, Jan 23, 20
Are you saying that if you suddenly woke up one day - say Feb 17 - and had
no tv reception, you wouldn't be very bothered? True, some of us may be
more "addicted" to tv than others. I don't watch a lot, but would be tough
to get used to NO tv.
Randall
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 10:12 PM, mike wro
$50 for a converter is a lot for some of us, particularly if you have more
than 1 tvs. One should not jump to assumptions to readily - I, for
instance, have 2 tvs (one in living room and one in bedroom) which I didn't
pay for; one being given by a family member, another recently acquired from
Free
The wife takes her laptop to work where she must enable DHCP to
connect to the network next door. Then she comes home and I have DHCP
disabled, so she must dig out her cheatsheet and reconfigure her
tcp-ip settings.
Is there a way in Vista to have it automatically connect to these two networks?
I think I should reiterate, we are talking about just televsion.
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 7:42 PM, Tom Piwowar wrote:
> >I agree the coupon program should never have been implemented. Even
> >the poorest of people can't be all _that_ poor if they own a TV. Not
> >like the $50 is going to break
>I agree the coupon program should never have been implemented. Even
>the poorest of people can't be all _that_ poor if they own a TV. Not
>like the $50 is going to break them.
Spoken like a rich capitalist. $40 will pay for a week of food.
***
I was repeating what I heard on NPR!
I understand that a lot of this bandwidth they are reserving for
public use, not private.
Stewart
At 07:37 PM 1/23/2009, you wrote:
The claims that police and emergency departments need the bandwidth
is bogus. Their biggest problem is having existing
>From a technical standpoint, there's really no argument - the switch
*is* necessary. Digital is just that much more efficient.
The much bigger problem is that now the switch has taken so long to
implement, the _next_ generation is already upon us, and we're going
to be stuck with this mpeg-2 type
> I'm not missing any point. You need to recalibrate. You are too
> accustomed to fawning stories in fanzines and propaganda produced by MS
> itself. You get all hyped up when you read something that is even-
> handed and contains good analysis of what MS is up to. When the Times'
> Pogue or the Po
> Delaying the mandatory switch is going to cost TV stations millions
> of dollars as they will continue to have to double transmit. (many
> have been ramping up for this and have had two transmitters running,
> expensive) Also the bandwidth that the police and emergency
> departments have been w
Sounds like a story (and others here) that the new Administration would want
to hear about, assuming they genuinely want input and to do things in a new
way, with the public interest in mind, if not paramount. What was the
rationale for this entire forced switch, anyway? If they go ahead with th
I'm not missing any point. You need to recalibrate. You are too accustomed to
fawning stories in fanzines and propaganda produced by MS itself. You get all
hyped up when you read something that is even-handed and contains good analysis
of what MS is up to. When the Times' Pogue or the Post's Peg
Look, I admit to procrastinating on this (as I typically do, admittedly) but
it seems like they are not really ready for this, for various reasons (see
the Post article in, I believe, yesterday's business section). Running out
of funding for the coupons is not the fault of those who waited. As al
Quoting Tom Piwowar :
Okay, Tom, it's time to take off the Apple-colored glasses. . .
Post a link to the ad that people are saying they're "just a generic PC".
I saw it on microsoft.com and later on network TV. There was a good
amount of press about how it was replacing the terrible Seinfeld a
Hey, tom, where can I get somma dem cool apple colored glasses ?? ...lemme
see !!
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From: Reid Katan [mailto:ka...@his.com]
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2009 9:48 AM
Subject: Re: Win 7: A Clear-Eyed Review
Quoting Tom Piwowar :
>> A clear-eyed review from AppleInsider.
Ya'know ...I have similar experience here ...I am 1h drive from Philly and
up over a pond over which my antenna points from a 40' tower with pre-amp
and amp and still got very little ...my sis is 20mi from NYC on LI with
antenna on garage roof about 20' up and got 60+ channels ...the cliff is the
c
Sorry to say, why didn't you put the exp date on your blackberry as a
reminder and just use it in time ...d'oh!
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From: Brian Jones [mailto:wjone...@carolina.rr.com]
Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2009 11:55 PM
Subject: Re: Will Obama delay switch to HD?
I got mine last ye
They sold it because it was to the businesses advantage to buy it (read
cheaper and predictable) rather than rent it and they were elected as
shills for business ... business provided the funds that enabled them
to run for office.
db
John Duncan Yoyo wrote:
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 11:28 P
Or tell them to enter the local zip code.
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 3:13 PM, John Duncan Yoyo
wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 1:30 PM, Chris Dunford >wrote:
>
> > > It might be RS and not the USG. Years ago RS demanded my phone number
> > > when I tried to pay cash for some batteries. I said no
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 1:30 PM, Chris Dunford wrote:
> > It might be RS and not the USG. Years ago RS demanded my phone number
> > when I tried to pay cash for some batteries. I said no. I think they
> > still try to collect Zip codes.
>
> I was going to say the same thing. RS is very nosy.
>
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 11:28 PM, Rev. Stewart Marshall <
popoz...@earthlink.net> wrote:
> Could it be that they had to find a way to spend all those dollars they
> accumulated by fining networks and TV stations for many a sundry reasons.
>
> I believe that coupons were ultimately funded with a f
That offer for $59.95 reappears from time to time.? (If not, close the app &
reopen it).
On the main screen, click Menu and then Help for some help.
On that help screen there is also a Customer Care/Live Person link.
I don't think you can port your Vonage number to MagicJack, but I may be
wrong.
almost every machine is not allowed to leave the building, and most machines
are not allowed to leave a given office. why do they need laptops? they are
less cost efficient than desktops, and not particularly superior in a desktop
environment.
At 02:37 PM 1/23/2009, you wrote:
>I feel their p
> One set of rumors has Win7 running on a netbook - time
> will tell.
If you have two gigs of memory in many netbooks, Win7 appears to walk.
Its rating system though will make it a "1" or less and many features
won't be available. That being said, it's a major improvement over
Vista which can so
Ya. Captioning can be a bitch.
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 2:37 PM, Tom Piwowar wrote:
> I feel their pain.
> scarce, assigned to only a few people in the West Wing. The team was left
> struggling to put closed captions on online videos."
***
> You cut off the rest of my sentence so I would appear unreasonable.
Sigh.
Fine, here's the full quote:
> "Herding users" is not "charged language", it is an
> even-handed, accurate description. That is what vendors
> do. Apple does it. Google does it. Macy's does it. MS
> does it. To deny i
I feel their pain.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/21/AR200901210
4249.html
"If the Obama campaign represented a sleek, new iPhone kind of future,
the first day of the Obama administration looked more like the
rotary-dial past."
"The team members, accustomed to wo
You just got entered into Radio Shacks database of customers
There was no reason for them to see the letter. That is like asking
for the letter you get with your credit card.
The store simply scanned the card and would file with the feds to be
reimbursed for the $40 discount they gave yo
> It might be RS and not the USG. Years ago RS demanded my phone number
> when I tried to pay cash for some batteries. I said no. I think they
> still try to collect Zip codes.
I was going to say the same thing. RS is very nosy.
> One set of rumors has Win7 running on a netbook - time
> will tell.
I can also confirm that it runs fine on a Dell netbook (1GB RAM, 16GB
drive).
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I am 10-15 miles line-of-sight from the transmitters in a elevated
location with a very large outdoor antenna with a rotor and I'm having
a lot of trouble getting the digital signals consistently. Apparently
there is a lot of reflection in the UHF signals which is causing the
dropouts, even though
Leo is running his on a netbook, no rumor needed. Runs fine.
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 10:13 AM, Wayne Dernoncourt wrote:
>
>
> One set of rumors has Win7 running on a netbook - time
> will tell.
>
>
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It might be RS and not the USG. Years ago RS demanded my phone number
when I tried to pay cash for some batteries. I said no. I think they
still try to collect Zip codes.
-Andy
Ralph wrote:
I hope I'm not muddying the water but I suspect the government, in
it's infinite wisdom, checks to m
Tom Piwowar
>>Okay, Tom, it's time to take off the Apple-colored
>>glasses. . . Post a link to the ad that people are
>>saying they're "just a generic PC".
> I saw it on microsoft.com and later on network TV.
> There was a good amount of press about how it was
> replacing the terrible Seinfeld ad
>> Google is offering new mapping software for cell phones without gps using
>> triangulation via the cell towers. Has anyone tried this? How was it if
>> so?
I have read that the map makers (now owned by GPS companies) are trying
to restrict how their maps are used with cell phones. I think th
>> "Herding users" is not "charged language", it is an even-handed,
>
>I give up. If you think this is an objective, unbiased, even-handed review
>there is nothing left that I can say.
You cut off the rest of my sentence so I would appear unreasonable.
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> "Herding users" is not "charged language", it is an even-handed,
I give up. If you think this is an objective, unbiased, even-handed review
there is nothing left that I can say.
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It works great. Within three meters a lot of the time.
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From: "mike"
To:
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 6:45 PM
Subject: Re: [CGUYS] GPS [was: Windows & Active X]
Google is offering new mapping software for cell phones without gps using
triangulation via the
>It is beyond understanding how you can think that a review loaded with
>charged language like "herding users" is even-handed, or how you can think
>that a review containing glaring errors is "knowledgeable". It is neither,
>as you would have to admit if you hadn't totally ignored the content of th
>Okay, Tom, it's time to take off the Apple-colored glasses. . .
>Post a link to the ad that people are saying they're "just a generic PC".
I saw it on microsoft.com and later on network TV. There was a good
amount of press about how it was replacing the terrible Seinfeld ads.
Have you erased th
>he's just wrong when he says that you can't launch from the taskbar.
True, he got that wrong. One small detail that you will harp on forever.
He may have missed it or his computer may have a problem.
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I've heard of some people who, for whatever reasons, ended up with coupons
they didn't need. I see no reason why they shouldn't be able to pass these
along to others who do need them. Perhaps selling them should and is
prohibited, but not giving them away.
Randall
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 10:28
> "The Taskbar handles half of the features of the Mac OS X Dock;
> actually launching an app or document still requires navigating the
> Start Menu."
>
> How about Desktop icons. How about Quicklaunch icons (which are
> actually pictured *right above this statement*. How about keyboard
> shortcut
I hope I'm not muddying the water but I suspect the government, in
it's infinite wisdom, checks to make sure no one uses anyone elses
coupon. When I handed my coupon to the Radio Shack clerk, she asked
for the letter that came with it and appeared to copy the address into
her register/computer...
Tom should try hearing a real clear eyed review, Leo Laporte has some good
points both positive and negative on win7 on his various podcasts. This guy
is a *serious* mac user too, not a WFB, whatever that is. I think Tom
called a mac user a WFB earlier so I'm not too clear.
This reviewer from Ap
> This is good reading for WFBs because it demonstrates what a
> knowledgeable, even-handed review looks like. Of course they will
> scribble all over it trying to turn a sow's ear into a purse.
It is beyond understanding how you can think that a review loaded with
charged language like "herding u
Quoting Tom Piwowar :
A clear-eyed review from AppleInsider. Right. You can practically smell the
objectivity in this sentence: "Microsoft has to herd more PC users into the
latest version of Windows ... so it can actively leverage its monopoly
position to prevent competition" Sentences lik
>In our neck of the woods it basically means people are going to lose
>90% of their channels, as the digital signals just won't penetrate up
>here.
Not just the woods. Here in DC I am 120 feet off the ground and line of
sight to many transmitters. The DTV signal quality is not as good as
analog.
> As always, those who will be most adversely affected are the poor, disabled
> and maybe throw in those living in rural areas.
There is a "compromise" bill in for a 4-month delay and a refunding of
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>I think this is the issue that Obama is addressing... The program should
>have been properly funded (or not offered at all).
>The governemt forced the issue, so I suppose that they should cover the
>consumer costs for screwing with the free market system.
But the government was too busy fighti
>A clear-eyed review from AppleInsider. Right. You can practically smell the
>objectivity in this sentence: "Microsoft has to herd more PC users into the
>latest version of Windows ... so it can actively leverage its monopoly
>position to prevent competition" Sentences like that are the hallma
> This is why you shouldn't get reviews of MS products from people who
> don't actually use the product
Yeah. Here's another one I noticed late last night, where he's talking about
the taskbar: "... actually launching an app or document still requires
navigating the Start Menu."
No, it doesn't. H
LOL! The first amendment is free speech and the 2nd is bearing arms.
So, you must be advocating the right to shooting one's mouth off?
Thank you,
Mark Snyder
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While admire you as an avid Mac supporter, your a wimp on this
issue.
You are hardly an authority on l
What I don't get is...you don't have to look for a review backing up your
beliefs, you can just try it yourself...for FREE!
I switched a laptop over to it a little over a week ago..no issues yet.
Then this is beta, so I do expect something to crop up.
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 11:06 PM, katan wrot
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