From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 21 22:27:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gargoyle.apana.org.au (gargoyle-xl0.apana.org.au [210.215.3.53]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 615EB37B71B for ; Wed, 21 Mar 2001 22:27:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by gargoyle.apana.org.au (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f2M6Rte79670; Thu, 22 Mar 2001 16:27:55 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au) Received: from bryden.apana.org.au(203.3.126.129), claiming to be "bryden" via SMTP by gargoyle.apana.org.au, id smtpd6kjMUj; Thu Mar 22 16:27:51 2001 Message-ID: <018101c0b299$2609f0e0$8300a8c0@apana.org.au> From: "Doug Young" To: "Ted Mittelstaedt" , , References: <002b01c0b295$9815a340$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> Subject: Re: dialup modem (some off topic stuff) Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 16:27:15 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > What do you expect from a product designed to be cheap? > Me nothing ..... unfortunately some people appear to believe otherwise. > The problem with cell phones is that people don't understand d^&k about > radio. To get any kind of clear reception and transmission you need to > have a good antenna, and a good antenna is a large antenna in a clear > field. > Thats OKas far as it goes, however other manufacturers don't appear to have problems building itty bitty devices with a functional arial inside. > They also want - COLORS! (Check out the "decorator" phones on > Nokia's website) it's like the old joke about Apple Macintoshes that > goes "This year the new Wintel machine increased it's processing power > tenfold. This year the new Macintosh has .... drumroll..... COLORS!!) > doesn't seem that Ted is an AppleMac fanatic :) :) :) There must be a use for them ....... (well the Queensland State Police recently upgraded from G3s to iMacs but after a few weeks they were thrown out in favor of something with Intel CPUs) ... dunno where they all went but it WASN'T the public schools because they switched to Wintel years ago. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message