> I should have a rule never to argue with anonymous > people on the internet. [Added to the list of famous quotes] >> WiMAX Is in the Microwave range and your >> cell phone is a microwave transmitter. The body, being mostly water, is a microwave receiver. Actually, "Test load" might be more accurate. J Sent from my iPod. ...because my other device is a BB Storm. On Aug 20, 2010, at 1:55 AM, Mike Miller <mbmiller+l at gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, 19 Aug 2010, r j wrote: > >> I am saying television is worthless. It has been years sense I have >> owned a television. > > Are you saying that you don't like television? It isn't an objective > statement about the value of television because we know that > millions of > people pay tens of dollars per month for cable and satellite feeds to > their televisions. If television were worthless, they would pay > nothing > and they wouldn't even have televisions. > > Does this mean that you are crazy, wasting my time with a lot of > complete > b.s.? Probably. I should have a rule never to argue with anonymous > people on the internet. > > >> I have not had a telephone line for longer than that. I would say the >> telephone is long dead as well. > > I don't know what you mean. Telephone as on POTS, not cellular, is > "long > dead"? I got rid of mine in about 2003, but strangely, I just got > back > into it because I'm sick and tired of my cell phone (Sprint) not > working > in my house. So now I'm using VoIP. With Google Voice helping out, I > think I might drop the cell phone and save $75/mo. I can still have a > handheld device that takes photos/videos, does WiFi, etc., all for > $0/month. > > >> With convergent technologies your cell phone is a computer and your >> phone call is wireless data. WiMAX Is in the Microwave range and your >> cell phone is a microwave transmitter. > > I look forward to that, probably. It will depend on how much I have > to > pay. > > Mike > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list