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To: Rich Wolf who wrote (3300)	5/24/2001 11:43:08 AM
From: Sir Auric Goldfinger	Respond to of 3376

Uh dude, ya sound a bit bitter, but given your losses, that's understandable. The pikers on this thread have lived in denial the entire time. FYI: When one has 68% gains in a six month period (as our affililate did per the Forbes stock picking contest-didja notice he beat Byron Wien of Morgan Stanley?!?), one does not give up the short. While one may box the short, the tactic of delaying taxes for a year far outweighs the negligible cost of financing a boxed borrow. So the answer is yes, we still have the borrow. As for the large short interst, well perhaps our astute analysis has not escaped notice by others. This one is a BK! Seen how much cash is left versus the burn rate? Think Paul Allen is gonna save ya? At best, he dilutes the livin' crap outta you. Someday you'll wake up and learn that debt is a VERY BAD thing for most tech companies and deadly for those that do not have positive cash flow. Back up your Tonka truck and buy more, I need the upticks.

To: Rich Wolf who wrote (3300)	5/25/2001 1:46:30 PM
From: rrufff	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3376

Nice publicity for the R2 service on CNET today under Music on your Handheld. Play music on your handheld Playing music on your handheld makes lots of sense. After all, both portable MP3 players and PDAs use the same sort of flash memory to store 1s and 0s, whether those digits represent an Eminem MP3 or a business presentation about M&Ms. Adding music playback to a handheld cuts down on the number of devices you need to carry around, making those cargo pants slightly less bulky. Palm misses a trick for once Sony CLIE PEG-N710C If using a PDA for music playback is such a good idea, why hasn't Palm--the leader in handheld sales--ever made a device with a headphone jack? Frankly, we have no idea; that's just one of the mysteries of our time. It took a Windows CE device, the Casio Cassiopeia E-100, to put a stereo headphone output into a PDA. Palm, despite doing almost everything else right, continues to drop the ball on digital audio. In fact, the first device running the Palm OS to offer a stereo headphone jack is the recently released Sony CLIE PEG-N710C. You can easily drag and drop your MP3s onto this handheld without encrypting the files, saving CLIE owners from the draconian antipiracy software that doomed Sony's earlier efforts at MP3 players. Once you buy a larger Memory Stick to upgrade your CLIE's memory well past the standard 8MB, this handheld takes on MP3 playback duties with aplomb. Handspring's many Visor models also offer an elegant way to listen to music, thanks to the famous Springboard expansion slot. You can choose one of two MP3 modules that can add 64MB of MP3 playback to your Handspring. We prefer the Good Technology SoundsGood AudioPlayer to the Innogear MiniJam because of the SoundsGood's smaller size. Jukebox in the sky--for real this time Wireless music at last! In heavy contrast to Palm users, Windows CE aficionados have enjoyed an ability to download music files to their handhelds for a while now. Once the files are on your Windows CE or Pocket PC handheld, they can be played using any number of digital audio software players. All you need is a standard set of headphones. But we're really excited about the first wireless, PDA digital-music delivery system, offered by the Internet radio broadcaster Live365.com. (You can sample the service here.) It's still a fairly bare-bones affair: You have to use the volume control in the System Settings on your handheld rather than that found on the application, and there's no song-title display or access to presets at this point. You also need a Ricochet wireless account to use this service, since that's the only way to get a fast enough wireless connection on your PDA. But the bottom line is that Live365 lets you listen to your uploaded MP3s wirelessly, for free. That's something that people have been dreaming of doing ever since wireless networks went up. Of course, you can only stream music when you can access your Ricochet service. In our tests, we found that we were able to listen to a high-quality Live365 channel without skips, as long as our Novatel Wireless Merlin for Ricochet modem reception was in the Excellent range. Nevertheless, we'd advise anyone wishing to try the service to set up a high-, medium-, and low-speed channel on Live365.com. That way, you can access your tunes no matter how your Ricochet connection's doing. computers.cnet.com

To: Rich Wolf who wrote (3300)	6/26/2001 3:55:48 PM
From: Sir Auric Goldfinger	Respond to of 3376

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