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To: Earlie who wrote (75520)	2/10/2000 1:29:00 AM
From: Freedom Fighter	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

Earlie, Is this the Qwests and Level3s of the world? Wayne

To: Earlie who wrote (75520)	2/10/2000 9:37:00 AM
From: BSGrinder	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

Earlie, Thanks for the DRAM news. Herb Greenberg has been talking about flim flam from the speech recognition technology company LHSP that sounds pretty suspicious. Does your research extend to this area? Thanks, /Kit

To: Earlie who wrote (75520)	2/10/2000 10:32:00 AM
From: Knighty Tin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

Earlie, the bandwidth scam reminds me of railroads building tracks parallel to one another. As long as Wall Street wanted to throw its money into a hole, the scamsters were willing to take it. You know the end is near when natural gas companies start advertising their bandwidth products on television. <g>

To: Earlie who wrote (75520)	2/10/2000 2:02:00 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 132070

With respect to bandwidth, I have to respectfully disagree with the glut projections, over the long term, anyway. I think it's analogous to building superhighways - they don't really relieve traffic congestion, because new traffic starts using them. The technology that uses wide band internet traffic can't really develop because the bandwidth isn't available. Try watching Bloomberg on your computer - I've got cable internet and the RealPlayer window is small, the picture quality is grainy and jerky. Same with QuickTime. And that's "push" technology - the dream is "pull" technology. If you're happy with text-based internet, you probably don't care, but those of us who want video-on-demand aren't. And I don't mean motion pictures only - video cameras in classrooms, operating rooms, factories, offices, video conferencing, all are waiting for wide bandwidth to really be worthwhile.