Re: [CGUYS] Roger Ebert's Voice

2010-03-02 Thread Reid Katan
Quoting "phartz...@gmail.com" : He is also blessed by virtue of having a huge number of hours of his voice available from having been recorded for all those years that he hosted that movie review show, That is what made the synthesis possible to the best of my knowledge. That means of synthe

Re: [CGUYS] Mac Market Share At 11%

2010-03-02 Thread Tony B
More accurately, some specific subset of web use share. If they've got a single mac-centric website in the mix like 2-pop then all the figures could be skewed. All current figures I've seen show Mac holding at around 5%, and I just checked my own AWstats and that's still pretty much the case with 4

Re: [CGUYS] Evil people [Was: Re: [CGUYS] FCC head calls for broadband availability]

2010-03-02 Thread mike
Shepard Smith is also know for going off on Republicans, not Democrats during his show. He just did it again the other day. On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 8:01 PM, Steve at Verizon wrote: > I know the name of the channel is Fox News, but there are two distinct > components. Commentary and news. Commenta

Re: [CGUYS] Evil people [Was: Re: [CGUYS] FCC head calls for broadband availability]

2010-03-02 Thread Steve at Verizon
I know the name of the channel is Fox News, but there are two distinct components. Commentary and news. Commentary includes the very conservative Hannity, the populist O'Reilly, the libertarian Beck, and the running-for-president Huckabee. I don't live on their planet. News, for me, consists

Re: [CGUYS] Evil people [Was: Re: [CGUYS] FCC head calls for broadband availability]

2010-03-02 Thread tjpa
On Mar 2, 2010, at 8:20 PM, Steve at Verizon wrote: Could you please be specific in what is wrong with the analysis in this article. Read the comments. One in particular explains it quite clearly. * ** List info, subscr

Re: [CGUYS] Mac Market Share At 11%

2010-03-02 Thread mike
Shouldn't it be web usage share? On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 6:27 PM, tjpa wrote: > http://blog.quantcast.com/quantcast/2010/02/os-share.html > > Also note the plot of "Windows gradual decline." > > > * > ** List info, subscrip

Re: [CGUYS] Evil people [Was: Re: [CGUYS] FCC head calls for broadband availability]

2010-03-02 Thread tjpa
On Mar 2, 2010, at 8:34 PM, mike wrote: I don't see how you can live on this planet and not pay attention to the arguments on both sides of important issues. Fox reports the news of a different planet. I don't live there. *

Re: [CGUYS] Evil people [Was: Re: [CGUYS] FCC head calls for broadband availability]

2010-03-02 Thread mike
Apparently you haven't met Mr. Piwowar, ideologue extraordinaire and sometime poker to keep the list hot. I don't see how you can live on this planet and not pay attention to the arguments on both sides of important issues. ***

[CGUYS] Mac Market Share At 11%

2010-03-02 Thread tjpa
http://blog.quantcast.com/quantcast/2010/02/os-share.html Also note the plot of "Windows gradual decline." * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and

Re: [CGUYS] Evil people [Was: Re: [CGUYS] FCC head calls for broadband availability]

2010-03-02 Thread mike
OK. What altruist is going to come in and run health care? On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 5:19 PM, tjpa wrote: > On Mar 2, 2010, at 6:48 PM, mike wrote: > >> What altruist is going to come in and run health care...this is a false >> argument since there are none. >> > > You live in a sad, sad world. Mo

Re: [CGUYS] Evil people [Was: Re: [CGUYS] FCC head calls for broadband availability]

2010-03-02 Thread Steve at Verizon
Could you please be specific in what is wrong with the analysis in this article. And, yes, my view of the world comes from Fox News, along with CNN, CNBC, MSNBC, the New York Times, the Washington Post among others. I don't see how you can live on this planet and not pay attention to the argume

Re: [CGUYS] Roger Ebert's Voice

2010-03-02 Thread Rev. Stewart Marshall
On NPR last week on what I believe is Tech Friday show? they interviewed spokespeople from the company in Scotland and they discussed this. It was neat. Stewart At 07:01 PM 3/2/2010, you wrote: On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 4:41 PM, tjpa wrote: > As some of you may know, movie critic Roger Ebert

Re: [CGUYS] Roger Ebert's Voice

2010-03-02 Thread phartz...@gmail.com
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 4:41 PM, tjpa wrote: > As some of you may know, movie critic Roger Ebert lost his voice to cancer > about 8 years ago. Today he was on Oprah showing off his new synthesized > voice that sounds a lot like his old voice. Quite an emotional moment. > > He writes about it here

Re: [CGUYS] charlie miller speaks (he's the security expert taking macs and windows down at pwn2own)

2010-03-02 Thread Wayne Dernoncourt
tjpa > On Mar 2, 2010, at 10:30 AM, Judy Cosler wrote: >> what is the issue with Flash? > Probably because it is not Silverlight. That would be > consistent with the rest of his comments. > Not that I want to defend either Flash or Silverlight. > HTML5 will go a long way to making them both super

Re: [CGUYS] Evil people [Was: Re: [CGUYS] FCC head calls for broadband availability]

2010-03-02 Thread tjpa
On Mar 2, 2010, at 6:04 PM, Steve at Verizon wrote: http://emac.blogs.foxbusiness.com/2009/08/26/medicare-more-efficient-than-private-insurance/ If your view of the world comes from Fox News you are not living on this planet.

Re: [CGUYS] Evil people [Was: Re: [CGUYS] FCC head calls for broadband availability]

2010-03-02 Thread Rev. Stewart Marshall
Try and shut down a hospital. The feds have no controls over hospitals except for VA and military. It is all state. And the best they can do is to pull Medicaid funding from a hospital. (Feds can pull Medicare funds, but only if they really screw up.) Down here most hospitals are not comm

Re: [CGUYS] Evil people [Was: Re: [CGUYS] FCC head calls for broadband availability]

2010-03-02 Thread tjpa
On Mar 2, 2010, at 6:48 PM, mike wrote: What altruist is going to come in and run health care...this is a false argument since there are none. You live in a sad, sad world. Most of the rest of us don't. * ** List info,

Re: [CGUYS] Evil people [Was: Re: [CGUYS] FCC head calls for broadband availability]

2010-03-02 Thread Rev. Stewart Marshall
You are right there are no true altruists (sounds contradictory) However there those who can run a business or agency who are not heavily influenced by one side or the other. Most medical clinics are run by whom? Doctors mostly. A good insurance company will be run by someone who is paid a f

Re: [CGUYS] Evil people [Was: Re: [CGUYS] FCC head calls for broadband availability]

2010-03-02 Thread Steve at Verizon
At least in Medicare, there are quite a few costs which go into the overhead of private insurance which are not counted in Medicare. See: http://emac.blogs.foxbusiness.com/2009/08/26/medicare-more-efficient-than-private-insurance/ Analysis in this article demonstrates that the overhead is actua

Re: [CGUYS] Evil people [Was: Re: [CGUYS] FCC head calls for broadband availability]

2010-03-02 Thread mike
What altruist is going to come in and run health care...this is a false argument since there are none. On Mar 2, 2010 4:31 PM, "tjpa" wrote: On Mar 2, 2010, at 4:36 PM, Fred Holmes wrote: > > I suspect that the government overhead is not pro... Why do you expect people who are solely motivated b

Re: [CGUYS] Evil people [Was: Re: [CGUYS] FCC head calls for broadband availability]

2010-03-02 Thread Rev. Stewart Marshall
Do not think our folks run the latest and the greatest either. Non profits are usually the last to upgrade their equipment as they do not get to depreciate their stuff, but have to justify all their expenses. So far I have covered most of my own computer expenses in my church even to the poin

Re: [CGUYS] Evil people [Was: Re: [CGUYS] FCC head calls for broadband availability]

2010-03-02 Thread tjpa
On Mar 2, 2010, at 4:36 PM, Fred Holmes wrote: I suspect that the government overhead is not properly counted, e.g. the real estate occupied by the program administrators, etc. If it really is only 3%, no wonder government health care is so bad. Why do you expect people who are solely motiv

Re: [CGUYS] Evil people [Was: Re: [CGUYS] FCC head calls for broadband availability]

2010-03-02 Thread tjpa
On Mar 2, 2010, at 4:39 PM, Fred Holmes wrote: And the _government_ is going to do a better job of closing down bad doctors and hospitals? And why would they not? Do you say mockingly "And the _police_ are going to arrest bank robbers and murderers?" You bet they do. The government can fun

Re: [CGUYS] Evil people [Was: Re: [CGUYS] FCC head calls for broadband availability]

2010-03-02 Thread tjpa
On Mar 2, 2010, at 5:00 PM, Rev. Stewart Marshall wrote: Part of it is lower overhead. It is why some charities devote over 90% to the clients instead of 60-70 % I know this is going to sound biased but Lutheran World Relief, and Bethesda (both Lutheran Charities) have very low overheads. Wh

Re: [CGUYS] Evil people [Was: Re: [CGUYS] FCC head calls for broadband availability]

2010-03-02 Thread Rev. Stewart Marshall
Part of it is lower overhead. It is why some charities devote over 90% to the clients instead of 60-70 % I know this is going to sound biased but Lutheran World Relief, and Bethesda (both Lutheran Charities) have very low overheads. Why? Lower staff costs. The directors of our charities hav

Re: [CGUYS] Evil people [Was: Re: [CGUYS] FCC head calls for broadband availability]

2010-03-02 Thread Fred Holmes
At 07:18 PM 3/1/2010, tjpa wrote: >If bad doctors and hospitals were closed down, insurance rates would >go down (provided that the insurance companies did not simply pocket >the money). And the _government_ is going to do a better job of closing down bad doctors and hospitals? They could do

Re: [CGUYS] FCC head calls for broadband availability

2010-03-02 Thread Rev. Stewart Marshall
Let me put it this way. We often act it. Moses oft uttered complaint was that they were a stiff necked people. Think it describes us pretty accurately sometimes. Stewart At 03:29 PM 3/2/2010, you wrote: At 05:06 PM 3/1/2010, Robert Michael Abrams wrote: >And, since we don't live in a cultur

[CGUYS] Roger Ebert's Voice

2010-03-02 Thread tjpa
As some of you may know, movie critic Roger Ebert lost his voice to cancer about 8 years ago. Today he was on Oprah showing off his new synthesized voice that sounds a lot like his old voice. Quite an emotional moment. He writes about it here http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/art

Re: [CGUYS] Evil people [Was: Re: [CGUYS] FCC head calls for broadband availability]

2010-03-02 Thread Fred Holmes
I suspect that the government overhead is not properly counted, e.g. the real estate occupied by the program administrators, etc. If it really is only 3%, no wonder government health care is so bad. What is there about government administration that is so marvelous that the private sector can'

Re: [CGUYS] FCC head calls for broadband availability

2010-03-02 Thread Fred Holmes
At 05:06 PM 3/1/2010, Robert Michael Abrams wrote: >And, since we don't live in a culture that's wandering in the desert for 40 >years, Are you sure of that? * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives,

Re: [CGUYS] FCC head calls for broadband availability

2010-03-02 Thread tjpa
Well it looks like the availability of free broadband is not as well distributed across the country as I had thought. I stand corrected. Does anybody know which of their top-10 competitors also offer free WiFi? http://www.weathersealed.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/alliance.jpg *

Re: [CGUYS] Help - computer seems infected, going crazy!

2010-03-02 Thread Reid Katan
Quoting Ranbo : Thanks much for the advice. Before I do reformat and reload my operating system as you suggest, want to be sure I have to go through this. For past 3 days, computer suddenly seems to be working normally, except maybe that I couldn't launch a new anti-malware program (run error)

Re: [CGUYS] Evil people [Was: Re: [CGUYS] FCC head calls for broadband availability]

2010-03-02 Thread Stewart Marshall
If he were a government worker? Most of the systems do not employee doctors. They still work the exact same way doctors here work. Fee for service. The problem comes in when a doctor tries to pad his fees by trying to opt for hi profit, hi income procedures without review. I am not talking

Re: [CGUYS] Evil people [Was: Re: [CGUYS] FCC head calls for broadband availability]

2010-03-02 Thread mike
And I said if this guy was a government worker it would be much harder to get rid of him. Thankfully we aren't and you can tell him to bugger off. On Mar 2, 2010 11:40 AM, "Snyder, Mark - IdM (IS)" wrote: Mike, what are you talking about Government health care for? This was a referral from my p

Re: [CGUYS] Evil people [Was: Re: [CGUYS] FCC head calls for broadband availability]

2010-03-02 Thread Snyder, Mark - IdM (IS)
Mike, what are you talking about Government health care for? This was a referral from my primary doctor (get this checked by a specialist) under a for-profit health plan. The doctor wanted to perform surgery when it was unnecessary so he could line his pocket. Sheesh, peel-back the tin foil occa

Re: [CGUYS] Evil people [Was: Re: [CGUYS] FCC head calls for broadband availability]

2010-03-02 Thread Ellen Rains Harris
Then cowboy up and buy the Globe and Mail article. It's even more horrifying., - Original Message - From: "tjpa" To: Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2010 12:04 PM Subject: Re: [CGUYS] Evil people [Was: Re: [CGUYS] FCC head calls for broadband availability] On Mar 1, 2010, at 9:51 PM,

Re: [CGUYS] charlie miller speaks (he's the security expert taking macs and windows down at pwn2own)

2010-03-02 Thread tjpa
On Mar 2, 2010, at 10:30 AM, Judy Cosler wrote: what is the issue with Flash? Probably because it is not Silverlight. That would be consistent with the rest of his comments. Not that I want to defend either Flash or Silverlight. HTML5 will go a long way to making them both superfluous.

Re: [CGUYS] charlie miller speaks (he's the security expert taking macs and windows down at pwn2own)

2010-03-02 Thread mike
Apparently it's bug ridden. On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 8:30 AM, Judy Cosler wrote: > what is the issue with Flash? > > On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 1:03 AM, mike wrote: > > > > > > http://gizmodo.com/5483024/security-expert-flash-is-the-root-of-browser-insecurity-oh-and-ie8-isnt-so-bad > > > > Highlights

Re: [CGUYS] Evil people [Was: Re: [CGUYS] FCC head calls for broadband availability]

2010-03-02 Thread mike
Much harder to get rid of this guy under government health care than free market health care...just look at how hard it is to fire teachers. On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 5:57 AM, Snyder, Mark - IdM (IS) wrote: > The way this country privatizes everything seems to provide a perverse > incentive for doc

Re: [CGUYS] Help - computer seems infected, going crazy!

2010-03-02 Thread Ranbo
*Brian, Thanks much for the advice. Before I do reformat and reload my operating system as you suggest, want to be sure I have to go through this. For past 3 days, computer suddenly seems to be working normally, except maybe that I couldn't launch a new anti-malware program (run error) suggested

Re: [CGUYS] Evil people [Was: Re: [CGUYS] FCC head calls for broadband availability]

2010-03-02 Thread tjpa
On Mar 1, 2010, at 9:51 PM, Ellen Rains Harris wrote: Read the article. Bonnie has already died. Unfortunately it is in the ultra kooky National Review. It is hard to accept the case they make for anything. * ** List

Re: [CGUYS] charlie miller speaks (he's the security expert taking macs and windows down at pwn2own)

2010-03-02 Thread Judy Cosler
what is the issue with Flash? On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 1:03 AM, mike wrote: > > http://gizmodo.com/5483024/security-expert-flash-is-the-root-of-browser-insecurity-oh-and-ie8-isnt-so-bad > > Highlights from the interview: > > Win 7 is harder to hack into than os x. > Linux really isn't a fortress e

Re: [CGUYS] Evil people [Was: Re: [CGUYS] FCC head calls for broadband availability]

2010-03-02 Thread Snyder, Mark - IdM (IS)
The way this country privatizes everything seems to provide a perverse incentive for doctors inclined to profit as their primary motive. A 'specialist' I went to a couple years ago sent me to get expensive diagnostic scans, x-rays and MRI. When I went for follow-up, he could not find the x-rays.