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  • 10-21-2010, 07:24 PM
    Anonymous User
    On Tue, 07 Sep 2010 07:39:22 -0700, John Navas
    <[email protected]> wrote:

    >>The FCC should try again now that we have a normal person as president.

    >
    >For all his rhetoric Obama has turned out to be little better than Bush:
    > * Net Neutrality languishes in a feckless FCC
    > * No public option in health care
    > * Same old Geithner and Summers instead of real financial reform
    > * Bailout Wall Street but not Main Street
    > * Economy and jobs still a mess
    > * Gitmo still open
    > * Wars (open and secret) rage on with no real end in sight
    > * More offshore drilling
    > * No climate change action
    > * Little real change in foreign policy
    >etc. etc.


    Wow. You are way off the deep-end uber-left wacko, but your ex-wife
    was/is HOT... :^)
  • 10-09-2010, 12:19 PM
    SMS
    On 10/9/2010 9:09 AM, nospam wrote:
    > In article<[email protected]>, SMS
    > <[email protected]> wrote:
    >
    >> I've also been on international flights with the EmPower connector, but
    >> that doesn't seem to have caught on.
    >> "http://www.magellans.com/store/Adaptor_Plugs___Converters___Airline_Power_AdaptorsEA270".

    >
    > it has on other airlines. most (all?) airline adapters come with both
    > types of plugs.


    On one flight I was on to Taiwan on Singapore Airlines in business class
    I had an EmPower to cigarette lighter socket converter and a cigarette
    lighter three-way splitter. I had my laptop, cell phone, and PDA all
    plugged in and charging.

    Ah for the glory days of Silicon Valley when they let even lowly
    engineers fly business class rather than back in the cattle car. Or we
    could take a $1500 payment for flying coach.
  • 10-09-2010, 10:09 AM
    nospam
    In article <[email protected]>, SMS
    <[email protected]> wrote:

    > I've also been on international flights with the EmPower connector, but
    > that doesn't seem to have caught on.
    > "http://www.magellans.com/store/Adaptor_Plugs___Converters___Airline_Power_AdaptorsEA270".


    it has on other airlines. most (all?) airline adapters come with both
    types of plugs.
  • 10-09-2010, 10:02 AM
    SMS
    On 07/10/10 11:31 AM, nospam wrote:

    > yea, fll is a pain. you didn't say what terminal you were in but the
    > american airlines terminal there are a couple near one of the vendor
    > kiosks, but it's behind the kiosk and sort of hidden. i think that's
    > about it. outside security they're few and far between and most of them
    > are either dead or too loose to hold a power cord.


    I don't remember the number, but I've been to the terminals for Jet
    Blue, Virgin, and Continental in the recent past. And I did see an
    outlet behind a vendor kiosk, and _one_ other outlet that was being
    used. Their vacuum cleaners must have really long cords. I grew up in
    that area, and I can't believe how huge that airport has become. Used to
    be one small terminal, and you had to go to MIA most of the time,
    especially for most non-stop flights.

    > american airlines has seat power in all of first& business class. for
    > coach, it's just about all rows forward of and including the exit row
    > and every couple of rows aft of the exit row. they use a standard
    > cigarette plug adapter, except for one version of the 737 which has ac
    > power. i've found the ac power is flakier though.


    Yeah, even when I'm not in a "power row" on American, I put the cable
    under the seat in front of me and ask the person there to plug it in.

    I've also been on international flights with the EmPower connector, but
    that doesn't seem to have caught on.
    "http://www.magellans.com/store/Adaptor_Plugs___Converters___Airline_Power_AdaptorsEA270".

  • 10-08-2010, 08:23 PM
    Dirk Bieber
    David wrote:

    > Check out the average IQ of German residents compared with
    > other countries before you attribute correlation to
    > causation.


    It's not the average IQ. ;-)

    Probably it's the education.

    Cheers Dirk

    X'Post and F'up2poster (off-topic)
  • 10-08-2010, 08:14 PM
    Dirk Bieber
    Seth wrote:

    > "Dirk Bieber" <[email protected]> wrote in message
    > news:[email protected]...
    > > Seth wrote:
    > >
    > >> Just the same as the transition from analog to digital TV.

    > >
    > > What is the trade-off between analog/digital TV?
    > >
    > > You get much more programs, but you have to buy a new TV
    > > or a set-top-box?

    >
    > And typically (at least the implementation here in the US as I've observed)
    > shorter "usable" range (where you could get watchable signal for say
    > 50miles/80km where I live on certain stations it now goes to not enough
    > signal/blue screen at 2/3 of that distance).


    Okay, so you're talking about terrestian receiption.

    With cable/satellite/IPTV, there's almost no trade-off. ;-)
    Except free programs are encrypted now (in digital) and you have
    to pay an additional fee. Not the case here though.

    Cheers Dirk
  • 10-08-2010, 04:04 PM
    Richard B. Gilbert
    On 10/7/2010 11:55 AM, David wrote:
    >
    >
    >> "Paul Miner" wrote in message
    >> news:[email protected]...

    >
    >> On Thu, 07 Oct 2010 07:14:21 -0700, SMS <[email protected]>
    >> wrote:

    >
    >>> I remember staying in Motel 6 decades ago where they charged extra to
    >>> use the TV. The TV had a key-operated switch in the side and for 50
    >>> cents a night you got a key.

    >
    >> I remember when a night at a Motel 6 was $6 and a night at Super 8 was
    >> $8. I also remember passing up a Motel 6 and staying at a family-owned
    >> motel because it was cheaper (only $4.50) and I was on a tight budget.

    >
    >> --
    >> Paul Miner

    >
    > I will date myself, but remember traveling years ago and seeing a motel
    > that advertised "free TV". In those days most motels had coin operated
    > TV sets. I asked how much a room was and they said $16.00. I said what
    > is the price for a room without free TV. The answer was $14.00. I took
    > that room. Even in those days, there was no free lunch.
    >
    > David
    >


    There never was a "free lunch". You couldn't get it unless you bought
    a beer.


  • 10-07-2010, 12:32 PM
    nospam
    In article <[email protected]>, Todd Allcock
    <[email protected]> wrote:

    > Here in Denver at some of the gates they've put in counters you can sit
    > at with both electrical outlets and USB 5V power outlets to directly plug-
    > in charge/sync cables.


    i've seen those, and they're often full of people. sometimes they even
    have ethernet, although it doesn't work that well most of the time.
  • 10-07-2010, 12:31 PM
    nospam
    In article <[email protected]>, SMS
    <[email protected]> wrote:

    > I always bring along a triple tap (with outlets on three sides, i.e.
    > "http://i51.tinypic.com/vg1wtv.jpg") when I travel now because the
    > available outlets in airports are so in demand. No one minds sharing the
    > outlet when I ask.


    i do that too.

    > Now I also often bring an extension cord, since
    > sometimes the outlets aren't close to the seats. I was at FLL and they
    > had free Wi-Fi but they had almost no outlets.


    yea, fll is a pain. you didn't say what terminal you were in but the
    american airlines terminal there are a couple near one of the vendor
    kiosks, but it's behind the kiosk and sort of hidden. i think that's
    about it. outside security they're few and far between and most of them
    are either dead or too loose to hold a power cord.

    > I like Virgin America since they have AC power at every seat (and
    > they're one of the only two non-stop airlines between the two airports I
    > was using the most).


    american airlines has seat power in all of first & business class. for
    coach, it's just about all rows forward of and including the exit row
    and every couple of rows aft of the exit row. they use a standard
    cigarette plug adapter, except for one version of the 737 which has ac
    power. i've found the ac power is flakier though.
  • 10-07-2010, 11:57 AM
    SMS
    On 10/7/2010 10:34 AM, Todd Allcock wrote:

    > Here in Denver at some of the gates they've put in counters you can sit
    > at with both electrical outlets and USB 5V power outlets to directly plug-
    > in charge/sync cables.


    I always bring along a triple tap (with outlets on three sides, i.e.
    "http://i51.tinypic.com/vg1wtv.jpg") when I travel now because the
    available outlets in airports are so in demand. No one minds sharing the
    outlet when I ask. Now I also often bring an extension cord, since
    sometimes the outlets aren't close to the seats. I was at FLL and they
    had free Wi-Fi but they had almost no outlets.

    I like Virgin America since they have AC power at every seat (and
    they're one of the only two non-stop airlines between the two airports I
    was using the most).
  • 10-07-2010, 10:17 AM
    SMS
    On 10/7/2010 8:55 AM, David wrote:

    <snip>

    > I will date myself, but remember traveling years ago and seeing a motel
    > that advertised "free TV". In those days most motels had coin operated
    > TV sets. I asked how much a room was and they said $16.00. I said what
    > is the price for a room without free TV. The answer was $14.00. I took
    > that room. Even in those days, there was no free lunch.


    But was there free Wi-Fi?
  • 10-07-2010, 10:15 AM
    SMS
    On 10/7/2010 8:55 AM, David wrote:

    <snip>

    > I will date myself, but remember traveling years ago and seeing a motel
    > that advertised "free TV". In those days most motels had coin operated
    > TV sets. I asked how much a room was and they said $16.00. I said what
    > is the price for a room without free TV. The answer was $14.00. I took
    > that room. Even in those days, there was no free lunch.


    Hmm, that must have been like in the late 1950's or early 1960's. The
    only motel I can remember where TV cost extra was Motel 6, back in the
    1960's and 1970's. Wikipedia says they had coin operated TVs but I
    remember that the front desk gave you key for the TV. It was a B&W TV.
    Society has progressed. We got an upgraded room in Reno a couple of
    years ago and there was flat screen TV in the bathroom.

    I don't find Motel 6 much of a deal anymore. In most areas I've found La
    Quinta to offer a better deal. Even Embassy Suites often has special
    deals that bring the price down to close to the Motel 6 level, and you
    get the free cocktails, a free good breakfast, a suite, and an indoor pool.

    I had to spend two weeks at a Holiday Inn Express for work in June. It
    wasn't great and it wasn't cheap, but I didn't get to choose the hotel.

    To digress, about eight years ago I got a call at work from my 8 y.o.
    daughter who was having some problem with the satellite TV. She said
    "the screen is all black and white, but not like black and white TV when
    you were a kid."

  • 10-07-2010, 09:55 AM
    David


    >"Paul Miner" wrote in message
    >news:[email protected]...


    >On Thu, 07 Oct 2010 07:14:21 -0700, SMS
    ><[email protected]>
    >wrote:


    >>I remember staying in Motel 6 decades ago where they charged
    >>extra to
    >>use the TV. The TV had a key-operated switch in the side and
    >>for 50
    >>cents a night you got a key.


    >I remember when a night at a Motel 6 was $6 and a night at Super
    >8 was
    >$8. I also remember passing up a Motel 6 and staying at a
    >family-owned
    >motel because it was cheaper (only $4.50) and I was on a tight
    >budget.


    >--
    >Paul Miner


    I will date myself, but remember traveling years ago and seeing a
    motel that advertised "free TV". In those days most motels had
    coin operated TV sets. I asked how much a room was and they said
    $16.00. I said what is the price for a room without free TV. The
    answer was $14.00. I took that room. Even in those days, there
    was no free lunch.

    David

  • 10-07-2010, 09:31 AM
    SMS
    On 10/7/2010 8:21 AM, Paul Miner wrote:
    > On Thu, 07 Oct 2010 07:14:21 -0700, SMS<[email protected]>
    > wrote:
    >
    >> I remember staying in Motel 6 decades ago where they charged extra to
    >> use the TV. The TV had a key-operated switch in the side and for 50
    >> cents a night you got a key.

    >
    > I remember when a night at a Motel 6 was $6 and a night at Super 8 was
    > $8. I also remember passing up a Motel 6 and staying at a family-owned
    > motel because it was cheaper (only $4.50) and I was on a tight budget.


    In 1978, between my junior and senior year of college I had driven to
    California from Florida to look around at companies in Silicon Valley.
    Going back east, I found someone on the ride sharing board at UC
    Berkeley, and she asked where we would stay along the way. I said "Motel
    Six, it's only $10 a night," then I hastily added, "and there's two beds
    in each room," to which she replied, "Do you think we can trust each
    other?" Nothing happened. The important thing was that she could drive a
    manual transmission car.

  • 10-07-2010, 09:21 AM
    Paul Miner
    On Thu, 07 Oct 2010 07:14:21 -0700, SMS <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    >I remember staying in Motel 6 decades ago where they charged extra to
    >use the TV. The TV had a key-operated switch in the side and for 50
    >cents a night you got a key.


    I remember when a night at a Motel 6 was $6 and a night at Super 8 was
    $8. I also remember passing up a Motel 6 and staying at a family-owned
    motel because it was cheaper (only $4.50) and I was on a tight budget.

    --
    Paul Miner
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