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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (22003)	9/5/2007 3:49:38 PM
From: carranza2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218110

thanks for the kind words, mq. i'm on my treo because my internet connection is on the fritz so please don't blast me for apostrophe or punctuation or spelling errors. ok, not bunk, but I was not serious, simply taunting a bit. but not definitively established truth, either. perhaps good enough for gov't work as we say here. when investing, intuition, guesswork, and other intangibles get mixed in with cold, hard analysis. I suspect you are very good at this. I am not half bad at it myself, though I often fail to execute on my best ideas.

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (22003)	9/6/2007 2:38:44 AM
From: energyplay	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218110

Re: CDMA - Looks like there is a strong trend to OFDM, based on the ability to assign a single channel to the mobile or remote units, and thus operate at much lower power, meaning longer battery life. OFDM is part of the new WiMax specs. OFDM also seems to work much better with MIMO multiple antenna schemes, which allow for frequency re-use by nulling out some signals adjusting the phase recieved from multiple antennas. You get 3 or more antennas, null out signal A, then use the reciever for signal B. Another reciever gets tunned to null out B, and recieve A. Nice thing is the nulling is done in DSP, so one set of hardware, and multiple virtual recievers.

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (22003)	9/6/2007 2:45:20 AM
From: energyplay	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218110

I wrote my post before I read your latest on OFDM. Where is Qcom on OFDM ? Who do you expect to be the leaders ?

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (22003)	9/6/2007 7:46:13 AM
From: Moominoid	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218110

No, you are right that the Earth has been through at least two of these cycles where carbon in the atmosphere first goes up and then down. The two cycles each lasted 250 million years. Seems the previous one ended with the break up of Pangea. Ruddiman's work shows how people have helped prevent another ice age by putting methane and carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. But our efforts are not puny at all. And now they are much to strong to keep the climate balanced the way people have adapted to it. And the way that now highly fragmented nature can adapt to. I've said this time and again. You are right on the first part but wrong on the second.

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (22003)	9/6/2007 10:07:52 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 218110

Negotiators praise Iraq agreement based on Northern Ireland peace process STOCKHOLM, Sweden: Sunni and Shiite delegates made unexpected progress at secret peace talks in Finland, but their Northern Ireland-inspired agreement must be endorsed by Iraq's top leaders to succeed, negotiators said Tuesday. "And at the end of our discussions, we had a tremendous breakthrough," said Sinn Fein deputy leader Martin McGuinness, one of the Northern Ireland politicians attending the talks. "All of the participants committed themselves to work towards a robust framework for a lasting settlement," he told The Associated Press. The four-day meeting at an undisclosed location in Finland brought together high-level delegates from the feuding groups to study lessons learned from successful peacemaking efforts in South Africa and Northern Ireland, organizers said. The talks ended Monday with all parties agreeing on a list of principles to start negotiations to end sectarian violence. Today in Europe Police arrest 3 in German terror plot Serbia threatens to use force if West recognizes Kosovo Norwegian and British fighters scramble to monitor 8 Russian bombers "What matters is not that that agreement was reached, but what happens now with that piece of paper," said Padraig O'Malley, a University of Massachusetts, Boston, professor who took the initiative for the talks. The Iraqi participants were not identified for security reasons, but O'Malley said they carried "considerable clout" and were hand-picked by Sunni Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi and Shiite Vice President Adil Abdul-Mahdi. "What happens next depends on a multitude of variables, the most important is the seriousness with which the two vice presidents take the recommendations," O'Malley said. The Iraqi delegates agreed on a list of 12 recommendations and nine political objectives, ranging from the disarmament of armed groups during peace talks to the establishment of an independent commission to "deal with the legacy of the past." They also included sending coalition troops home — once Iraqi security forces are ready to replace them. "There was across the board unanimity for the occupation of Iraq to end," O'Malley said. "That was tempered by the realization that if all coalition troops left tomorrow morning there would be a power vacuum that probably would result in a bloodbath." The U.S. or other governments were not involved in the talks because the Iraqis did not want outside interference, he said. O'Malley said insurgent groups did not participate in the talks, but efforts were being made to involve them in a second round of negotiations. The deal in Finland was based on pledges agreed to in Northern Ireland — including the rejection of violence — before peace talks began in 1997. McGuinness said the Iraqis were impressed by the recent power-sharing agreement between major Catholic and Protestant parties in Northern Ireland. "We are now hopeful that this process will continue," he said. "I think that the quality and quantity of people there indicate to us that a very serious attempt is going to be made by political parties, and others in Iraq, to bring the conflict to an end." Protestant lawmaker Jeffrey Donaldson and Billy Hutchinson, a former member of the Ulster Volunteer Force, also participated in the meetings. South Africa was represented by members of Nelson Mandela's first unity government following the end of apartheid, including African National Congress activist Mac Maharaj and National Party reformer Roelf Meyer. The Crisis Management Institute, overseen by former Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari, provided logistical support for the meetings, but Ahtisaari was not directly involved.