Re: [CGUYS] Healthcare

2009-07-26 Thread Fred Holmes
Absolutely wrong. There must always be choices. The customer must always have somewhere else to go when the service he is currently receiving is unsatisfactory. Single payer is tyranny. And the customer (patient) must always have the right to seek medical care (and the provider have the righ

Re: [CGUYS] Mac's True Market Share is 91%

2009-07-26 Thread Mike
The guru bar will be equipped with a large magnet embedded in the counter...your problems will be fixed as soon as you put your computer down. Sent from my iPod On Jul 26, 2009, at 7:26 PM, "phartz...@gmail.com" wrote: On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 1:49 PM, Jordan wrote: Can you imagine th

Re: [CGUYS] Health care debate

2009-07-26 Thread Marcio
I have been in Canada many times. Ask the Canadians if they want the US Sstem... You make sense! Marcio -Original Message- >From: b_s-wilk >Sent: Jul 26, 2009 10:06 PM >To: COMPUTERGUYS-L@LISTSERV.AOL.COM >Subject: Re: [CGUYS] Health care debate > >Did you like the Canadian system when

Re: [CGUYS] Health care debate

2009-07-26 Thread Marcio
Ayn Rand is wrong. "The Market" will never solve health care. Everione must share and everyone have access. Out wth iinsurance companies and greed dctors. I am a doctor. Marcio -Original Message- >From: "t.piwowar" >Sent: Jul 26, 2009 5:15 PM >To: COMPUTERGUYS-L@listserv.aol.com >Subje

Re: [CGUYS] Health care debate

2009-07-26 Thread Marcio
Of course: less care...more profits... Marcio -Original Message- >From: db >Sent: Jul 26, 2009 5:40 PM >To: COMPUTERGUYS-L@LISTSERV.AOL.COM >Subject: Re: [CGUYS] Health care debate > >I think people's health interests and a insurance company's profits are >counter opposed. > >There is n

Re: [CGUYS] Health care debate

2009-07-26 Thread Marcio
If you want a health system for the American people,tell this representive that he just lost your vote. Marcio -Original Message- >From: Jordan >Sent: Jul 26, 2009 4:04 PM >To: COMPUTERGUYS-L@LISTSERV.AOL.COM >Subject: Re: [CGUYS] Health care debate > >If he is against the public option

Re: [CGUYS] Mac's True Market Share is 91%

2009-07-26 Thread phartz...@gmail.com
On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 1:49 PM, Jordan wrote: > Can you imagine the nightmare of an MS guru bar!? They'll likely fix most problems the way that so many other places fix Windows problems. Wipe the hard drive. That oughta do it, right? Quick and easy. You did see that option on the work orde

Re: [CGUYS] Wish m luck...

2009-07-26 Thread Marcio
Yes, after pondering and pondering... I may do just that. Will lose my Windows Vista (that will have no use) and start wth Windows 7. Perhaps I will nor buy a new drive, just format this one... Thanks to you all Marcio -Original Message- >From: Tony B >Sent: Jul 25, 2009 10:02 PM >To:

Re: [CGUYS] iTunes problem

2009-07-26 Thread Steve at Verizon
I use my iPods almost exclusively for audiobooks. My method for ensuring proper sequencing is: In iTunes preferences, for the When insert CD option, I chose Show CD (instead of start importing). Then if the CDDB database doesn't have the tracks and/or disks differentiated, I select all and, wi

Re: [CGUYS] Healthcare

2009-07-26 Thread Marcio
I am a physician, I may say a atypical physician. Americans will do the right thing after trying everything else. I have no doubts: the Single Payer is the wau to go. www.pnhp.og Marcio -Original Message- >From: Jordan >Sent: Jul 26, 2009 10:28 AM >To: COMPUTERGUYS-L@LISTSERV.AOL.COM

Re: [CGUYS] iTunes problem

2009-07-26 Thread Mike
Might want to learn about tagging, it would solve many of your issues with your library. Sent from my iPod On Jul 26, 2009, at 6:16 PM, Jordan wrote: I have old fashioned filing habits on the computer. I do not use and know nothing of tags. But I do know where stuff is. Now that I know to

Re: [CGUYS] iTunes problem

2009-07-26 Thread b_s-wilk
Back up your iTunes library: File-->Library-->Back up to Disk, and Export Playlist Move and rename the original iTunes library file [database]. Then reimport your music. The easiest way to do this is to drag and drop the iTunes music folder into the Music library in the program. Don't do all

Re: [CGUYS] iTunes problem

2009-07-26 Thread Jordan
I have old fashioned filing habits on the computer. I do not use and know nothing of tags. But I do know where stuff is. Now that I know to join the tracks I'm pretty happy. Except, I have messed with everything in all the iTunes files I can find this afternoon and still no dates. Sent from m

Re: [CGUYS] Health care debate

2009-07-26 Thread b_s-wilk
Did you like the Canadian system when you lived there? Have you contacted your congessman to show support for public/private system? Which company 'owns' him? Countries that have the best health care systems have universal health care with a combination of public and private [nonprofit] insur

Re: [CGUYS] iTunes problem

2009-07-26 Thread Mike
There are mass mp3 tagging tools out there that makes all of this easier. I'm surprised itunes didn't tag as you were ripping. Sent from my iPod On Jul 26, 2009, at 5:18 PM, Jordan wrote: I have loaded books on CDs into iTunes. Many of them have dozens or even a hundred tracks on each CD,

Re: [CGUYS] iTunes problem

2009-07-26 Thread Jordan
I have loaded books on CDs into iTunes. Many of them have dozens or even a hundred tracks on each CD, and a book might be 10 or 15 CDs long. These audio files typically have a name like Track 1, Track 2, and so on, there are no differentiating titles, up to 25 or 99. So when I first loaded up a

Re: [CGUYS] iTunes problem

2009-07-26 Thread t.piwowar
On Jul 26, 2009, at 4:30 PM, db wrote: Why do these programs have to be so mysterious and self governing? Welcome to the future. Over the decades I've watched both hardware and software get smarter and smarter. Ways I used to use to trick them no longer work. What you are seeing in the late

Re: [CGUYS] iTunes problem

2009-07-26 Thread mike
Just wondering, why do you want to know added and mod dates? I've never shown either of these columns in itunes, but today I did. Date added of course is the date added to itunes..but date mod is the date my system modified the file, not itunes. Seems odd. On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 6:37 AM, Jorda

Re: [CGUYS] Health care debate

2009-07-26 Thread db
I think people's health interests and a insurance company's profits are counter opposed. There is no such thing as too being too healthy and well cared or too much profit. Since less benefits means more profits they really aren't decent bedfellows. One benefits at the expense of the other an

Re: [CGUYS] iTunes problem

2009-07-26 Thread Jordan
t.piwowar wrote: On Jul 26, 2009, at 2:53 PM, Jordan wrote: But when I tried it, instead of rebuilding the library from the xml file it changed the xml file to match the empty library file. (no empty text file needed. It creates a new itunes file, and did nothing to a text file named iTunes Li

Re: [CGUYS] iTunes problem

2009-07-26 Thread db
Why do these programs have to be so mysterious and self governing? Makes us users into sleuths in order to do anything other than day to day operation... bah humbug! db t.piwowar wrote: On Jul 26, 2009, at 2:53 PM, Jordan wrote: But when I tried it, instead of rebuilding the library from th

Re: [CGUYS] Health care debate

2009-07-26 Thread t.piwowar
On Jul 26, 2009, at 2:35 PM, Rev. S Marshall wrote: The final product must be bipartisan, and it must use a market- based approach to address current problems in our nation’s health care. If I were getting campaign contributions from insurance company executives who were paying themselves $

Re: [CGUYS] iTunes problem

2009-07-26 Thread t.piwowar
On Jul 26, 2009, at 2:53 PM, Jordan wrote: But when I tried it, instead of rebuilding the library from the xml file it changed the xml file to match the empty library file. (no empty text file needed. It creates a new itunes file, and did nothing to a text file named iTunes Library) I thin

Re: [CGUYS] Mac's True Market Share is 91%

2009-07-26 Thread Jordan
t.piwowar wrote: On Jul 26, 2009, at 1:49 PM, Jordan wrote: Can you imagine the nightmare of an MS guru bar!? But maybe if they had free drinks...? That would only encourage fist fights. Its a good thing that the NRA didn't get its gun slinger bill passed. Now you're talking about a rea

Re: [CGUYS] Health care debate

2009-07-26 Thread Jordan
If he is against the public option then he is against the people of this country and for the greedy corporations that make the costs so high. These costs are born by everyone now, including the small businesses and individuals he claims to be concerned about. But I suspect you know this. Rev.

Re: [CGUYS] iTunes problem

2009-07-26 Thread Jordan
The iTunes support instructions suggest pretty much what you said. But when I tried it, instead of rebuilding the library from the xml file it changed the xml file to match the empty library file. (no empty text file needed. It creates a new itunes file, and did nothing to a text file named iTu

[CGUYS] Health care debate

2009-07-26 Thread Rev. S Marshall
On the recent health care comments. I got this from my congressman this weekend. Note he is one of those blue dog democrats mentioned frequently on TV. ---quote To be clear, I would vote against the bill if it came to a floor vote in its current form. I hav

Re: [CGUYS] Mac's True Market Share is 91%

2009-07-26 Thread t.piwowar
On Jul 26, 2009, at 1:49 PM, Jordan wrote: Can you imagine the nightmare of an MS guru bar!? But maybe if they had free drinks...? That would only encourage fist fights. Its a good thing that the NRA didn't get its gun slinger bill passed.

Re: [CGUYS] iTunes problem

2009-07-26 Thread Jordan
Something else happened a couple months ago and maybe they are related. A .DS_Store file started appearing. I've read about what it does, but I don't know why it started appearing. I just did a verify disk and everything seem to be OK. I'll try the iTunes rebuild. Thanks t.piwowar wrote: On

Re: [CGUYS] iTunes problem

2009-07-26 Thread Jordan
Perhaps I'll trash iTunes and it's support files and start over. There are 3 iPods I serve with this iTunes, but they are totally stocked. Then I can add to library or import as needed. I keep my audio files well organized. Everything except the last year is also on my iMac running iTunes 7 and

Re: [CGUYS] Mac's True Market Share is 91%

2009-07-26 Thread Jordan
"Microsoft stores to mimic Apple's with 'Guru Bars'" http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/07/24/microsoft_stores_to_mimic_apples_with_guru_bars.html "A leaked presentation has exposed Microsoft's tentative plans for its retail stores -- and the high degree to which they'll imitate Apple s

Re: [CGUYS] iTunes problem

2009-07-26 Thread t.piwowar
On Jul 26, 2009, at 12:56 PM, Jordan wrote: In iTunes Library.xml dates and times are there. I presume you mean the Date Added and Date Modified are in the xml file. You can force the iTunes Library file to be rebuilt from the iTunes Library.xml file. Maybe that will give you what you need.

Re: [CGUYS] Mac's True Market Share is 91%

2009-07-26 Thread t.piwowar
On Jul 26, 2009, at 1:01 PM, Jeff Wright wrote: My banker calls it smart. Fine, except that your banker is the Cash Point store. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calm

Re: [CGUYS] Mac's True Market Share is 91%

2009-07-26 Thread t.piwowar
On Jul 26, 2009, at 1:01 PM, Jeff Wright wrote: You're so stuck in monolithic thinking, and god knows I've tried to help you out of that before, but my empathy well has run dry for you on that matter. Blissfully flail away. Here is somebody else in need of help with monolithic thinking...

Re: [CGUYS] iTunes problem

2009-07-26 Thread Jordan
Thanks Tom: t.piwowar wrote: On Jul 26, 2009, at 9:37 AM, Jordan wrote: OK iTunes fans, I've got a question for you. I've got my audio tracks showing in a list and Date Added and Date Modified are headings in the list. But of the 11047 "songs" in the list, there is not 1 date shown in those co

Re: [CGUYS] Mac's True Market Share is 91%

2009-07-26 Thread Jeff Wright
> Some people can't tell the difference and apparently you are one. Oh, I can alright. That's why my life is largely Apple free and will be so for the foreseeable future. I have plenty non-boutique products that don't cost me a chunk of my soul and work great. I just have to bear the crushing w

Re: [CGUYS] Mac's True Market Share is 91%

2009-07-26 Thread Jeff Wright
> No. I look at quality and worry about the price later. Looks to me > like you start with price and then try to scrounge up something that > is not terrible. I'll admit that sometimes this works. Does Muffy take this approach with the gardeners? I'll bet the help steals from you anyway. **

Re: [CGUYS] iTunes problem

2009-07-26 Thread t.piwowar
On Jul 26, 2009, at 9:37 AM, Jordan wrote: OK iTunes fans, I've got a question for you. I've got my audio tracks showing in a list and Date Added and Date Modified are headings in the list. But of the 11047 "songs" in the list, there is not 1 date shown in those columns. iTunes stores this

Re: [CGUYS] Mac's True Market Share is 91%

2009-07-26 Thread t.piwowar
On Jul 26, 2009, at 10:28 AM, Jeff Wright wrote: There's a fallacy in your theory: you presume that all things of the same price are of equal quality and that nothing of a lower price can be of equal or greater quality. No. I look at quality and worry about the price later. Looks to me l

Re: [CGUYS] Mac's True Market Share is 91%

2009-07-26 Thread t.piwowar
On Jul 26, 2009, at 1:45 AM, Jeff Wright wrote: What you call poverty, normal people call frugality and thrift. Those are positive values, in case you were wondering. Some people can't tell the difference and apparently you are one. For example, such people think that getting a pay-day loan

Re: [CGUYS] Mac's True Market Share is 91%

2009-07-26 Thread Jeff Wright
> Sorry, but that's just wrong. Those who are frugal and thrift buy > things that last. Those who think they are being frugal and thrift > shop for slightly underpriced things with even less value. Then they > buy it again, and again. There's a fallacy in your theory: you presume that all t

[CGUYS] Healthcare

2009-07-26 Thread Jordan
I hope your mother has recovered well. Ten years ago I joined the PA Farm Bureau so I could get group rate Blue Cross through them. I don't recall exactly, but the cost then was about $350 per quarter, per person. Three or four years later it had gone to $1000 per month for my wife and I. Seve

[CGUYS] iTunes problem

2009-07-26 Thread Jordan
OK iTunes fans, I've got a question for you. I've got my audio tracks showing in a list and Date Added and Date Modified are headings in the list. But of the 11047 "songs" in the list, there is not 1 date shown in those columns. Some have been in iTunes for years, and some were added in recent

[CGUYS] Oops.

2009-07-26 Thread katan
Sorry about the double post. My (non-MicroSoft) email client borked on me as I sent the first one, and it didn't show up in my "Sent Mail" folder, and I guess I didn't wait long enough for it to show up on The List. Oh well. -- R:\katan The

[CGUYS] Customer service [Was:Re: [CGUYS] Mac's True Market Share is 91%]

2009-07-26 Thread katan
On Sat, 25 Jul 2009 19:21:02 -0500, Rev. Stewart Marshall wrote: >I think there is no question that Apple has figured out that Customer >Service (Good customer service) is one way of keeping customers brand loyal. > >Would that many other companies would follow suit. > >Hats off to Apple for show

[CGUYS] Customer Service [Was:] Re: Mac's True Market Share is 91%

2009-07-26 Thread katan
On Sat, 25 Jul 2009 19:21:02 -0500, Rev. Stewart Marshall wrote: >I think there is no question that Apple has figured out that Customer >Service (Good customer service) is one way of keeping customers brand loyal. > >Would that many other companies would follow suit. > >Hats off to Apple for show

Re: [CGUYS] Mac's True Market Share is 91%

2009-07-26 Thread Jeff Miles
Sorry, but that's just wrong. Those who are frugal and thrift buy things that last. Those who think they are being frugal and thrift shop for slightly underpriced things with even less value. Then they buy it again, and again. Another anecdotal story, but I have more then a few friends who