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Strategies & Market Trends : 2026 TeoTwawKi ... 2032 Darkest Interregnum -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TobagoJack who wrote (7873)	7/29/2006 6:07:04 PM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 219674

Your ancestors fight the moors out of Iberia? Did they stop them after they entered France? That thing is not a Turkey because of the Spanish and the Portuguese. :-)

To: TobagoJack who wrote (7873)	8/3/2006 7:15:00 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 219674

TJ, of course the royalty didn't show on the invoice. You don't get a separate bill for the cutlery when you go to a restaurant. But you assuredly paid for it. <As to wireless broadband, the service was offered by Orange, and I am not sure of the technology, didn't seem to matter, and was fast in all cases, without a dime of royalty on the invoice.> If fast, it was absolutely W-CDMA. Fast doesn't exist in mobile cyberspace other than in CDMA [a few wifi and other methods in minor networks notwithstanding]. If you think GPRS and EDGE are fast, then you have had a sad existence until now. I remember when dial-up modems reached 56 kbps and wow they were fast. Sadly, they were not fast and the information highway was really an expensive dirt track through bush. It's possible it was an EDGE connection as that's a big seller in Orange, but EDGE is not fast. You would not want to upload your photos from your cyberphone. I will be happier when you outright buy a CDMA device, complete with QCOM ASIC and BREW and all mod cons, bells and whistles and spend your time cerfing cyberspace on it. We won't be going through Paris and a money museum would be a bit boring for me I think. I'd rather wait until I get to a library in New Zealand where there will be loads of books on the subject, or simply have a look in cyberspace, where there will be more information than I care to read. Money is not like a machine where seeing it in 3D gives a better idea of size and mechanism. I have been very lazy and haven't developed my Qi cybermoney much at all while loafing around in the heat, consuming delicious fruits, baguettes, fromages etc. I can see why the inventive countries are temperate, even cold, and the tropical countries are useless. Full tummy and hot air leads to lethargy. Also, some supporting technologies are not really ready yet. Meanwhile, Tarken-san has nearly got zenbu.net.nz into commercial operation after spending 30 hours hacking a firewall to eliminate a glitch in the system which would have allowed no-cost high speed downloads and uploads. Cheap can only be achieved if it's done right. Hayes arrives back in NZ today with worn-out mother [I am sure worn-out after a week of travel and time zone reversal]. Now, off to the baguette shop. Another demanding daughter, Emily-na, [age 25] arrived a few days ago and is bleating for baguette. Qi can wait. Euro will have to do for now, dodgy and doomed though it is. Next week, I find out whether Big Ben announces more Happy Meals for my USD deposit or whether 5.25% is enough. It seems too cheap to me. A doomed currency should offer greater returns. I feel like I'm playing pass-the-parcel and it's the Q-Bomb [as in the "Mouse that Roared"] and I'm holding it, while I peel off the last layer of wrapping, which will set it off. For my next death-defying stunt ... Mqurice