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From: Eeyore on 15 Nov 2006 23:19 JoeBloe wrote: > Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> Gave us: > >jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > >> <lucasea(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote: > >> > >> >Well, Eeyore, this would belie the assertion that she lives too far from a > >> >population center to get decent DSL. > >> > >> I live in a town. There is no DSL line strung. > >> You people are starting to get really annoying. > > > >DSL comes down an ordinary telephone line ! > > > >Graham > > Wrong. > > ADSL REQUIRES a minimum of an ISDN switched POTS line. Not here it doesn't. > That means that the customer's first switch has to be ISDN for his > area to be an ASDL capable area. THEN his Plain Old Telephone Service > line will do DSL. http://adslguide.org/howitworks/ Graham
From: Eeyore on 15 Nov 2006 23:25 JoeBloe wrote: > Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> Gave us: > >lucasea(a)sbcglobal.net wrote: > >> "T Wake" <usenet.es7at(a)gishpuppy.com> wrote in message > >> > >> > As a side note,what sort of surface area would a 4 bedroom house in the US > >> > have? > >> > >> NB she said 4 rooms, not 4 bedrooms. That would typically mean bedroom, > >> kitchen, living room and bathroom. That's probably on the order of 1000 sq > >> ft. > > > >LOL. My house has that area and it has 7 rooms. > > > > It is funny that you guys pack seven rooms into 1000 sq ft of area. How big does a room *need* to be ? I've no family to worry about. Graham
From: lucasea on 15 Nov 2006 23:26 "unsettled" <unsettled(a)nonsense.com> wrote in message news:205e3$455bc0a8$49ecf7a$21517(a)DIALUPUSA.NET... > Don Bowey wrote: > >> On 11/15/06 4:11 PM, in article >> 93461$455ba9e7$4fe75f7$21090(a)DIALUPUSA.NET, >> "unsettled" <unsettled(a)nonsense.com> wrote: >> >> >>>Jonathan Kirwan angrily proclaims: >>> >>>snip >>> >>> >>>>The specific case should not have happened. Imperfect as humans may >>>>be admitted as being, this particular case is a simple failure that >>>>didn't even have to happen and wouldn't have, in other existing >>>>systems in place and operating already, today. >>> >>>>Excusing the specifics by moving to a useless extreme that applies to >>>>anything and says nothing doesn't help us progress at all. >>> >>>Fact remains we'll never achieve zero defects. >>> >>>As I said before, I empathize. The reality is terrible >>>things can happen to any of us. In your case it was >>>a close call, too close for comfort. There was, fortunately, >>>enough of a failsafe system in place to overcome stupidity, >>>which has no cure. >>> >>>Try talking to Lucas, Eeyore, and Wake about whether >> >> ^ >> and Bowey > > If you insist. > >>>or not the woman denying service to your brother should >>>have been in that position. Their Marxist socialist >>>humanism would have given her the opportunity to hold >>>down that job and given her raises because human beings >>>should be paid "a living wage." > >> That's a really bad lapse of both knowledge and logic. > > No matter how much you wiggle and wriggle and blather, > you can't alter the basic issue in this case. > > Your denial that the situation arose out of ordinary > stupidity, which has no cure, disqualifies you from > further attention on this subject, or any other for > that matter. Yeah, you told me the same thing. And yet, strangely, you continue to pay attention to what I say...you're just too immature to do it directly, but rather back-door it through a reply to someone else's post, so you can make a big show of the "lalalalalalalalaI'm not listeninglalalalalalalala" thing that 5-year olds do on the playground. I never realized I was so rivetting. Eric Lucas
From: Eeyore on 15 Nov 2006 23:28 "Michael A. Terrell" wrote: > I can pick up a used lathe at an auction for a couple hundred dollars. > Some of them don' even sell. I have friends who can haul it for gas > money, or a little computer work. I could buy a new mini mill/late for > about $500. making the tooling is no big deal. Yup I can believe that. As the west continues to de-industrialise these things can be had for pocket money. The real problem is having the space to put it. Graham
From: lucasea on 15 Nov 2006 23:27
"Eeyore" <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message news:455BCDB2.3C8CA8BD(a)hotmail.com... > > > T Wake wrote: > >> "Eeyore" <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message >> > jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: >> >> "T Wake" <usenet.es7at(a)gishpuppy.com> wrote: >> >> ><jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote in message >> >> >> >> >> I don't want bells and whistles. I want pure, unadulterated >> >> >> comm service. All the fluff is a waste of CPU cycles and my >> >> >> time. >> >> > >> >> >Yet you can not access the web. Not really a working communications >> >> >service, >> >> >is it? >> >> >> >> I run software on my computer that cannot salivate and chew gum at >> >> the same time. As a result of this lack of computing ability, >> >> it crashes because of buffer overruns. >> > >> > Do you have an aversion to upgrading ? >> > >> > Ppl are giving away lower end Pentiums now ! >> > >> > There's an auction on ebay uk that ends in 5 hours for no less that >> > *five* >> > Pentium 600 PCs - ok they've had the hard drives and memory removed but >> > these are >> > inexpensively replaced and the current high bid is...... >> > >> > 99 pence ! for five computers >> >> Hmmm. I always wanted to build a cluster.... :-) > > They finally went for ?16. That's ?3.20 ea ! I guess TWake's experiment at massively parallel processing will just have to wait. :^) Eric Lucas |