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Date:      Thu, 22 Mar 2001 16:27:15 +1000
From:      "Doug Young" <dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au>
To:        "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com>, <freebsd@sysmach.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: dialup modem (some off topic stuff) 
Message-ID:  <018101c0b299$2609f0e0$8300a8c0@apana.org.au>
References:  <002b01c0b295$9815a340$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>

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> 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.




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