qpup, ah, nothing (with the possible exception of napalm) as likely to generate a little kennel venom like an AM post from tero, tora, tora! Keep those molars sunk deeply into the Nordic infidels pooch--like to help, but I can't find my asymtotes from my erlangs, and this tero dude sounds like he may know his way around the frequency spectrum. Michael, engineer: unsheath your slide rules, the heathen are at the gates. Attack without mercy. (You guys oughta try this--pulse rate is absolutely zooming.) An innocent question in the midst of this war zone. After we kindly obliterated Japan in WWII, those ingrates promptly built new steel mills based on hot stuff '50's technology while we were still sporting Carnegie's finest from the first part of the century. Next thing you know, those dudes were making better steal at a fraction of the price that the Yanks could offer, and promptly buried us with vastly consequential, multi-hundred billion effects that lasted for 30 years or more. Catch my drift? Could it be that by being first to the plate with GSM, that the Europeans have unwittingly found themselves invested in yesterday's news whilst the stumbling, fumbling, chaos of the nutty gringos gave Jacobs and Viterbi time to cook up the Holy Grail? So now maybe we're in the cat bird's seat as a result of historical accident and a, god forgive me, paradigm shift, and I'm gonna be richer than Croesus cuz I mortgaged the Hobie to buy the Q? That's it--no more French Roast--just tell me if any portion of this caffeine induced diatribe tracks with reality. Surfer Mike |