[geeks] can't wait for Vista

Sandwich Maker adh at an.bradford.ma.us
Mon Nov 6 14:19:52 CST 2006


" From: Patrick Giagnocavo <patrick at zill.net>
" 
" On Nov 6, 2006, at 3:00 PM, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:
" 
" > I wrote:
" >
" >>> Google is IMHO and experience even worse.
" >
" > On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 02:15:12PM -0500, Charles Shannon Hendrix 
" > wrote:
" >> No, not really.
" >>
" >> Bad, yes, but not worse.  It's hard to top Microsoft in that 
" >> department.
" >
" > Yes, they are. They spent $100,000,000 dollars to support BPL 
" > (broadband
" > over powerlines), a worthless technology that will disrupt medium and
" > long range communications around the world. Every country that tried it
" > found that it interfered with legal and necessary communications and 
" > banned
" > it.
" 
" If it doesn't work , it won't get deployed long-term.  So what are you 
" worried about?

it does work as a networking carrier.  radio disruption is an
irrelevant side effect and not their problem as far as they're
concerned.
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