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To: lurqer who wrote (1556)	1/27/2001 10:07:12 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Respond to of 104191

Nice try, but all you did was send me snow. Thanks a bunch. TK

To: lurqer who wrote (1556)	1/28/2001 7:34:55 AM
From: Clappy	Respond to of 104191

Just be careful and get the right amino acids. Where do I get 'em? and what do the wrong ones look like? <g> Seriously though, which food are high in amino acids? I assume meat. Correct? Are they found in legumes? ...or would I need to seek a supplement. I'm glad to see you survived your electrical problem. It's definitely not fun working on the stuff when it's wet outside or if there is high humidity. I've had my share of electrical emergencies in wet locations. For some strange reason they tend to put electrical service rooms in the basements of buildings. Not a very good place when an unexpected flood occurs. One time one of our accounts had a water main break inside their building. The entire office building/warehouse was under a foot of water. The scariest part of it was when I had to go in and shut the main power off in the building. The dude from Con Edison held the flash light as I searched for the proper switch to throw before the water level got too high. Luckily the water had not reached the level of the top of the rubber boots I was wearing... We saw a few rats swimming around and one floating on top of a plastic Xerox toner cartridge as if it was a boat... After the water was pumped out of the building, it took a lot of work to vacuuml the rest of water out of the underground conduits. What a mess. It happened on a Thursday night and had them back in business by Monday morning. (At least to a point where they could still ship product and handle some of the daily office functions.) We restored power to one section of the building at a time. Occasionally we would be working and could hear the slight sound of water sizzling inside an electrical pipe. Ever see water pour out of a PC? Way cool. It seems that nearly everyone stored their PC on the floor below their desk. Not too many of them started up afterwards... They must have lost 150 machines. We helped their techs open up the PC boxes and dry them out using hair dryers and fans. I sure had a lot of spare parts to build my own machines after that... Wet hard drives make good lawn sprinklers... Some of those PC's sure made cool sounds when we tried to restart them. Their insurance covered a good deal of their Y2K computer expenses. Many of their machines were going to have to be replaced soon because of the Y2K fears. I'm sure some of the dry older machines got purposely dunked before the adjusters had arrived...<g> Well, I have to go upstairs now and take a shower using my Dell shower head massage unit. Either that or I could hop into my Gateway powered jacuzzi. My Compaq ice machine should get a good workout during the Super Bowl today. My in-laws are headed over. I hope they like the vegetarian spread we are putting out. My wife is making a bunch of good stuff. Pizza using some sort of soy cheese product... Pigs-in-a-blanket using vegie dogs... and some other surprises. Actually they aren't that bad. I just hope she doesn't try making any hot Buffalo style Tofu-wings. <g> I'm lucky she is a good cook who has the patience to put up with my picky tastebuds. Hope everyone has fun watching the big game. LET'S GO GIANTS!!! -ClappyTheWet220VoltTofuEatingGiantFan P.S. RAM chips and CPU's make a delightful cup of tea. Try it some time. <Clappy goes and tries to search the internet if circuit boards are high in amino acids...>

To: lurqer who wrote (1556)	1/28/2001 10:08:45 AM
From: Clappy	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 104191

I posted this over on Greg's thread as a reply to something he wrote. I was wondering if any of you had thoughts about it... --------- In regards to the internet being a full-motion-clickable/voice-activated-fluid entity, I've been trying to figure which companies stand to make the greatest strides in the near future. Several of the areas in bandwidth, storewidth, and B2B that you mentioned have already been showing tornado like growth. Where will the next growth spurt come from? I've been trying to figure who is going to provide the means to capitalize off of the massive, newly enhanced, streaming data about to roll out as the high speed backbone progresses? The way I see it, those content providers need to find a way to protect themselves from the sharing of that data like it is being shared within Napster's network. If companies are to profit from their digital media, they need to have it protected, encoded, or metered in some way that when some one views it, they are billed in some manner. Otherwise, one person buys it and makes perfect copies that are easily shared. I think this area of Digital Rights Management is going to be highly profitable. The problem is trying to figure out who has the edge over the competition and if there have been any barriers to entry that have been formed. There are a handfull of smaller companies without much revenues in this field. I have noticed that RNWK has been leaning further in that direction. And now IBM has entered the game with a plan of their own. (I've noticed IBM becoming more and more like basket covering many areas of the internets growth.) Intel recently took a step in the DRM direction as well. I'm guessing that the metering of this all this content will be neccessary before anything and everything begins streaming to us. Some of the small start ups in this area are: ITRU - Intertrust WAVX - Wave Express Xerox's Content Guard DMRC - Digimarc CYBS - Cybersource DRIV - Digital River PRVW - Preview Systems LQID - Liquid Audio RNWK - Real Networks RSAS - RSA Security (I'm looking for any of these to team up with Napster.) I notice that AOL has a deal with ITRU. I haven't done enough DD to even begin to think they are the leader. Certainly seeing IBM entering the field makes it a viable area to study further. Anyone have anything to lend to this effort? Reply here or PM me. Thanks. -Clappy