>We have two propane heaters--no electricity, no natural gas lines.
>Glow-Warm 18,000 BTU, Comfort Glow 15,000 BTU. Can be vented or
>unvented. Ours are unvented since they're so small and low-power.
Doesn't unvented fill the house with noxious fumes? I have read that even
cooking with gas has
>The telcos NEVER made money from residential dialtone, and
>it remains heavily regulated. We have no choice but to provide
>it but it remains a cost of doing business.
So are you are saying that without regulation to "redistribute wealth,"
many (most?) residential customers would have no teleph
No. Even if there's a malfunction, the pilot lights are cleverly
designed so that if the oxygen levels in the room lower, they go out.
But normally gas burns pretty much completely, only leaving a bit of
moisture in the air. It's said that after many, many years you can
detect a darkening in a room
I am not sure where Betty lives, but if a Tornado or Hurricane comes
through this area, we can all end up going a week or maybe less
without power. During the summer it is just stifling.
If I could afford Solar I would do it, it just makes sense down
here. But I do have a gas water heater so
twice!
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From: Tom Piwowar [mailto:t...@tjpa.com]
Sent: Friday, February 27, 2009 9:00 AM
To: rleesimon
Subject: RE: MS Sues TomTom for Using Linux
>wow, TomTom, you must be pissedpissed
Should I sue for use of my name?
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The telcos NEVER made money from residential dialtone, and
it remains heavily regulated. We have no choice but to provide
it but it remains a cost of doing business.
Broadband is a different story but even in that arena franchise
agreements have to be negotiated with entities as small as
countie
When AT&T was AT&T they made money on the long distance portion of
your Bill. That was always the money end. They also make money on
Business users.
Our church pays twice as much as a residential customer because we
are a business. Yet we use it a lot less than a residential phone.
Plus t
>The stick would only be used on companies that
>take the incentives without producing desired results.
The telcos did that recently, but there was no stick. We got stuck with a
charge on our monthly phone bills for something that never happened.
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>I'd always go for the carrot [incentives] first before considering the
>stick [regulations or punishment].
Then why do folks get so upset when someone proposes paying rewards to
students who get good grades?
Often the problem with rewards is that people expend huge resources
finding ways to g
Many small farmers do not like dealing with subsidies as they find
they take too much paperwork, and often do not pay enough for what it is worth.
Most small businesses and people are like this. How many rebate
forms have you filled out the past 12 months?
My wife is a stay at home empty nes
I'm curious, what size rebate do you have in mind? A $25 rebate would seem
enough to justify the paperwork even if you're busy, money is money
(especially nowadays when investments are nothing to write home about).
I have to add that, since it has generally become possible to check the
status of
It recall that Microsoft licensed QDOS in 1981 from a Seattle company to
pitch Microsoft to IBM as the best provider of the PC operating system.
Gates renamed it MS-DOS.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/86-DOS
QDOS (aka 86-DOS) copied CP/M's naming convention for portability of
applications, theref
Yes it has, but I still see rebates of 10-15$.
I just finished sending out a rebate of $15 for a motherboard.
Stewart
At 01:30 PM 2/27/2009, you wrote:
I'm curious, what size rebate do you have in mind? A $25 rebate would seem
enough to justify the paperwork even if you're busy, money is mon
Last I knew DRDOS was owned by Novell.
Stewart
At 03:07 PM 2/27/2009, you wrote:
It recall that Microsoft licensed QDOS in 1981 from a Seattle
company to pitch Microsoft to IBM as the best provider of the PC
operating system. Gates renamed it MS-DOS.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/86-DOS
QDOS
Well, $15 will buy you at least 2 decent meals where I live.
This gives me an idea (I'm serious about this). If anybody knows a young
person who wants an idea for a service project of some sort, perhaps
volunteering to help working folks apply for rebates would qualify.
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 4
Don't laugh it would make great money for the seniors and much
appreciated work for the youngsters.
Stewart
At 03:41 PM 2/27/2009, you wrote:
Well, $15 will buy you at least 2 decent meals where I live.
This gives me an idea (I'm serious about this). If anybody knows a young
person who wants
Why not get a voip line like what I have and use that for the bulk of your
talk and if you want keep the pots for emergencies at the lowest possible
rate ...I got phonepower.com ...when I got it they had a deal 10%off
whatever your 1st bill was ...so I signed up for a year which sold for $200
and t
> Digital Research was created in the 70's to market
> CP/M, and should hold the first patent for that
> convention... if they had the foresight to patient such
> a benign aspect of their creation!
The article doesn't say specifically, but I strongly suspect that the
patents are not on 8.3 file
>Now, are there third party solar backups for FIOS? Or DC powered backups
>coupled with generators?
FIOS will only need a few milliamperes. You could put the 2 cats on a
treadmill hooked to a small generator.
*
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>The article doesn't say specifically, but I strongly suspect that the
>patents are not on 8.3 filenames per se. I suspect that the patents have to
>do with the mechanisms by which an OS with long filenames supports legacy
>software that only understands 8.3 names.
Why would any rational system de
So are you are saying that without regulation to "redistribute wealth,"
many (most?) residential customers would have no telephone service?
No, I'm saying that it's a cost of doing business. State tariffs normally
cap rate of return, set prices and define, strictly, performance
standards. If I
>We have two propane heaters--no electricity, no natural gas lines.
>Glow-Warm 18,000 BTU, Comfort Glow 15,000 BTU. Can be vented or
>unvented. Ours are unvented since they're so small and low-power.
Doesn't unvented fill the house with noxious fumes? I have read that even
cooking with gas has
BTW, if telcos never made money from residential service, how
did they pay my dividends for so many years, including 2008?
Residential service is a drop in the revenue bucket (one that
is getting smaller by the day, by the way). A maintenance or
installation truck roll costs virtually the same
Years ago a friend put one of the ventless heaters in a small trailer
she was renting. When she got home on a cold winter day, everything
was soaked inside from the water vapor. Obviously, it wasn't a good
fit for that type of installation.
Richard P.
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 7:00 PM, b_s-wilk wr
Whether individual households use this service or not isn't important. The
benefits to nonusers from businesses, schools and communities >being more
connected, resourceful and efficient will affect them >positively even if
they don't use broadband themselves.
Well, that has not been my experie
> Why would any rational system designer think they still
> need to support 8.3?
A) Relevance to the MS lawsuit, please?
B) Not so very long ago you mentioned that you couldn't use (or knew people
who couldn't use) Vista because it did not support certain legacy apps that
you (or they) need. But
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