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Technology Stocks : Applied Materials No-Politics Thread (AMAT) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Cary Salsberg who wrote (4611)	12/26/2002 11:03:39 AM
From: Dr. Mitchell R. White	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25522

Yes, it's clear I've reached a "flat spot" in my own technology requirements curve. I don't yet get much music or video down the pipe. I tried Napster for a bit, wasn't satisfied; then it went away. I've tried KaZaA, just to see what it's like. Bad, very bad. Did a test on 50 files (audio); had 11 viruses, and 43 of the 50 files weren't what the label said they were. I bailed on that rather quickly. <g> I suspect that by the end of 2004 I'll be back in replacement mode for computers, and I'll have to go through the whole house and get them all. I have a couple of machines on the network that won't support XP, and I won't be able to get machines without XP, so I guess I'll have to do a "global refresh." Hope you had a great Christmas... Mitch