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Living Room / Re: Where do you get your news from?
« on: September 11, 2008, 07:40 PM »
This is where I get mine.

http://www.reuters.com/
http://www.nytimes.com
http://www.wsj.com         

Lew 

127
Living Room / Re: A tool to help "Get Me Out of Here"
« on: September 05, 2008, 01:03 PM »
I always just lit a cigar.  That had the effect of ending the meeting.

In June of  1984 we were 42 % of 1983 in meetings.


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General Software Discussion / Re: Google Chrome -- a new browser coming (in beta) in a few hours
« on: September 02, 2008, 03:33 PM »
Here is Walt Mossberg's take from the WSJ

http://online.wsj.co...hps_us_editors_picks

Lew


edit by jgpaiva: fixed url

129
Living Room / Re: Cortex Command Giveaway
« on: August 27, 2008, 02:04 PM »
Back to my day job at Hormel Foods Corp.

Please send me some SPAM.  I love it.

Lew

130
Living Room / Re: Skimp or splurge?
« on: August 05, 2008, 06:38 PM »
Vodka   on the other hand      The largest quantity possible for the least price possible

131
Living Room / Re: Skimp or splurge?
« on: August 05, 2008, 06:11 PM »
Cognac :Thmbsup:

If you are going to buy it  don't skimp    splurge  buy the best There IS a difference.

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Living Room / Re: Skimp or splurge?
« on: August 02, 2008, 08:28 PM »
I have a $ 600.00 fishing reel on an $ 297.00 fishing rod which I use while wearing my $ 10.99 shorts and my $ 5.99 T- shirt and my $ 9.997 sneakers. I don't know about my underwear -  my wife buys it.

Lew

133
Living Room / Re: The Long Tail and it's Doubters
« on: July 20, 2008, 11:18 AM »
 In my view the vast majority of sales, whether "brick and morter" or through the web are for  actual physical things.  Thus the theory that shelf space limits what is available doesn't hold water.  The web based retailer has to buy  inventory  and store and ship the " thing" . The only credible part to the theory that I see is that the web based seller  MAY be able to buy less of an item since the web based retailer has only one location ( say he sells only 24 pcs per year ) while the chain store needs 6 per store x 1000 stores.  Thus there are some slow sellers , ( generally niche items ) availalble only on the web but they account for only a very small portion of total sales and profits.  When  and if content and services start to account for more sales than 
"things "  the long tail theory may become valid.

And in 40 years in the retail business I never heard of the 80 / 20 rule.

134
Living Room / Re: Would anyone want a free DonationCoder.com bumper sticker?
« on: July 18, 2008, 08:23 AM »
mouser

I got my bumper sticker yesterday. :up:   Thank you. !   Here is the picture.

Lew


edit by jgpaiva: removed license plate

135
Living Room / Re: Show us your (physical) desktop
« on: July 16, 2008, 09:32 PM »
CleverCat
Is that your Old English Sheepdog :up: ? 

Lew

136
Living Room / Re: Show us your (physical) desktop
« on: July 16, 2008, 06:24 PM »
So I'm a slob.  But I'm a nice slob. :-*

Lew

137
Living Room / Re: Show us the View Outside Your Window
« on: July 16, 2008, 06:15 PM »
We moved to Virginia from NY in December.  Here is out my back door.  It's one of the reasons we bought the house.
 These pics are from December.   now the trees are green
Lew

138
Living Room / Re: Thank You, DonationCoder Community!
« on: July 12, 2008, 01:46 PM »
I read the DC Forum several times every day. :up: I don't post much but I learn a bunch.

DC Forum rocks.

Lew

139
Living Room / Re: PC Mag's Top 100 Web Sites - Vote for your Favorite (DonationCoder.com Love?)
« on: June 06, 2008, 09:10 AM »
+1

140
Living Room / JOTT - a new cell phone service
« on: June 05, 2008, 02:49 PM »
From David Pogue's New York Times column.  I tried Jott and I think it's great.  When you are out without a pen and pencil you make a call and dictate a note etc.  Then it is sent as an e-mail to yourself.
Here are the links.  Pogue's Posts   http://www.nytimes.c..._r=1&oref=slogin

http://jott.com/

What do you do when you get an idea you want to remember? A brainstorm, a to-do item, a reminder you want to set for yourself? Writing it down is the only solution — so most of the time, you don’t, because you’re driving, or you have no pen, or you’re away from your computer.

Meet Jott, your personal transcription service. You sign up at Jott.com by providing your cell number and e-mail address.

Lew

141
General Software Discussion / Re: Warning - AVG 8 problems with install/uninstall/upgrade
« on: June 01, 2008, 09:50 AM »
I had no problem upgrading to AVG 8.0 free  from 7.5 free on two XP computers and one Vista computer.  I also run Zone alarm on all three.

When the install asked about the tool bar I said NO.  It does take forever to scan.

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Living Room / Re: satellite radio
« on: May 30, 2008, 09:14 AM »
Thank you Allen.  That was an interesting article. I found ( on Amazon) a Pioneer receiver for XM that seems to fit the bill.

Doing further research I am reading that reception on these portables is hit or miss without a separate aerial. That would limit it's useability .  Is this true ?  If I need a wired aerial then I guess I will need a stationary table type radio.



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Living Room / satellite radio
« on: May 29, 2008, 06:32 PM »
I  have recently moved to Williamsburg, Va and found that regular broadcast radio reception is, well, poor would be a step up.  Thus I am looking to satellite radio as a solution. I want, ( my wife wants  :-*)to get major league baseball (Yankees)

 A nice portable battery operated radio  is the ideal as I want to use it in the house and on the deck.   Sirrus or XM ?
A particular model? Any suggestions from users will be most appreciated.

Thanks

Lew

144
Living Room / Re: Shutdown Day!
« on: May 02, 2008, 08:32 PM »
I think it's cheating if you take the RAM with you!   ohmy

I SHEEP ishly agree.

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Living Room / Re: Shutdown Day!
« on: May 02, 2008, 06:16 PM »
No problem.  I'm leaving at 6:00AM tomorrow to go to a Sheep & Wool festival.  I won't be back until Sunday afternoon.  At least 32 hours !!!!

146
Living Room / Re: Phone Interview with Microsoft!
« on: April 30, 2008, 02:53 PM »
I'm 64 yrs old and retired,  I will tell you from  long experience.  NEVER think that you are NOT as smart or as good as the other guy. You are just as good and just  smart as anyone else. 
 The other interviewees are worried about YOU .
Good luck

Lew




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Living Room / Re: How Do You Use Your USB Flash Drive(s)?
« on: April 21, 2008, 03:01 PM »
I have  all my passwords  ( Portable Roboform )  on a 1 GB Sandisk Cruzer flashdrive alon with  Portable FF and Portable Thunderbird for when I'm not on my own computer. I also had Good Sync on it which I used to sync my e-mails between home and work.  A terrific tool.

Lew

148
Living Room / Re: Best forums for....
« on: April 14, 2008, 08:26 PM »
I have found that >  http://forums.techguy.org  is a great forum.  I am sure I have asked some
" dumb " :-[ questions but have never been made to feel like a dope and I have always gotten
answers that helped me a lot. Lot's of times just a search will find a thread that answers a question or solves my problem.

Lew

149
Living Room / Re: BEAT THIS! ;)
« on: April 06, 2008, 08:03 PM »
f0dder

Renegade and you at least have a  semi -plausable excuse. ;D

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Living Room / Re: BEAT THIS! ;)
« on: April 06, 2008, 06:43 PM »
Are you CRAZY ?????

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