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To: Scrapps who wrote (13479)	3/7/1998 1:32:00 PM
From: Elroy	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 22053

OFF TOPIC: Apologize because I know the thread has discussed the product at length, but to date I've skipped those posts, but... I'm going to go buy one of the Palm Pilots this afternoon. Any quick suggestions of which one to buy - and reasons why - would be greatly appreciated. And should I ask for/buy anything beyond the basic product? Elroy

To: Scrapps who wrote (13479)	3/7/1998 3:04:00 PM
From: Moonray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 22053

scrapps, sure hope this story about TXN is not about x2 chips. As if the Semis/Market did not have enough to contend with (INTC, MOT, CPQ...) now we have this: TI Says Asia Took Big Bite Out of Chip Market DALLAS (Reuters) - The Asia crisis has taken at least a $6.5 billion bite out of the global semiconductor market and is hurting near-term profits, executives at Texas Instruments said. Chief Financial Officer Bill Aylesworth said the industry would grow 10 percent this year and that its long-term prospects remained strong, but weak chip orders "across the board" at the end of 1997 were pressuring some key markets. The TI executives spoke a day after Intel, the world's largest maker of computer chips, stunned Wall Street with a warning of a first-quarter earnings shortfall, citing weaker- than-anticipated demand for its microprocessors. "Late in the fourth quarter, customers concerned about the whole Asian situation seemed to be hesitant to place re-orders, " TI's Aylesworth told Reuters. "While order rates have resumed to generally more normal patterns from that, it is still a reason to be cautious in the near-term." He said the global chip market should grow 10 percent to $150 billion in 1998, up from 4 percent last year but still way below the long-term 15-20 percent range that the Dallas-based semiconductor giant had set for the industry. Texas Instrument's chief economist, Vladi Catto, said the global semiconductor market would have grown between 15 percent and 17 percent this year if it not for the Asia crisis. In dollar terms, that means the chip market will grow only about $13.5 billion this year, instead of between $20 billion and $23 billion. "It is a significant impact, but it is not huge, it is not a disastrous impact," Catto said. He also painted a bright picture for 1999, saying renewed economic growth in Asia and capacity reductions caused by the region's recent problems would boost demand and help a recovery in the prices of common memory chips, which have been battered by excess production over the last two years. "If we expect the semiconductor market to grow 10 percent in 1998, then we should expect the industry to grow between 20 and 35 percent in 1999," Catto said. "We can't wait to get through 1998," he added to laughter from industry analysts gathered for a meeting with Texas Instruments executives in Dallas. His one worry for Asia was whether the Japanese government would take firm enough steps to spark a recovery. He said the government so far had "done nothing to reflate the economy" but that he expected it to make the move in coming months. U.S. technology stocks took a battering on Thursday after Intel warned of weaker-than-expected earnings amid falling prices and slowing demand for personal computers. o~~~ O

To: Scrapps who wrote (13479)	3/7/1998 3:20:00 PM
From: Moonray	Respond to of 22053

S.F. proposes free shopping carts for homeless SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- A city official has proposed giving homeless San Franciscans free, personalized shopping carts to protect their belongings and cut down on pilferage. ''We could have designated areas for people to park their carts, and have them locked,'' Supervisor Amos Brown said. The issue came up Wednesday at a committee meeting called by Brown to discuss the plague of abandoned carts on city streets. He emphasized that the issue was not a thinly disguised attack on the homeless. Representatives of two big grocery chains, Safeway and Lucky, told the Housing and Neighborhood Services Committee that the homeless constitute a small portion of the cart problem. Mostly, it is caused by shoppers who walk off with the $100 carts to carry their groceries home, and then just leave them out in the street. ''The shopping cart issue is the No. 1 operating difficulty we have in the city,'' said Lucky representative Bruce Qualls. Safeway's Debra Lambert said her company spends $100,000 a year in the city retrieving wayward carts. In addition to store clerks, the chains hire shopping cart roundup firms and also pick up carts from the city's Department of Public Works. Lambert agreed with a suggestion from the San Francisco Coalition on Homelessness that old shopping carts be touched up, removing all store markings, and turned over to homeless people. This would end the cycle of police cart seizures from the homeless. Qualls said Lucky would look into the idea as well. o~~~ O

To: Scrapps who wrote (13479)	3/7/1998 4:38:00 PM
From: mr.mark	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 22053

"Is SI slllooowwwwwwwwwwwwwwww for anyone other than me?" yes, scrapps, for me too. but not for the last two days (knock on monitor). prior to that i was encountering lots of "cannot retrieve" error messages at SI. sometimes i could load the home page, but could not login. other times i could not reach the bookmark page. or clicking "next" would result in "cannot retrieve". very intermittent, but often lasting a whole evening. and i never thought it was my pc cause i was going everywhere else with ease. i emailed jill and once she replied "no problems here", (which seemed a bit incomplete). subsequent emails to her on 3/4 detailing the problem have gone unanswered. someone on the thread mentioned needing bandwidth. whatever. but the last couple days have been better. are you just experiencing the slllooowwwww-ness here at SI? good luck, mr.mark

To: Scrapps who wrote (13479)	3/7/1998 8:08:00 PM
From: Moonray	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 22053

Newsflashes - March 6, 1998 Brian McWilliams of PC World reports that users are discovering connection problems with 3Com's V.90 modems when dialing into ISPs that are using older x2 code. According to a 3Com representative, the problem goes away when the ISP's firmware is upgraded. This is as good a time as any to say that if ain't broke, don't fix it. If you're happy with your connections, don't upgrade your firmware to early V.90 code. There are bound to be bugs in any new protocol. Let someone else find them. Until your ISP upgrades to V.90, you won't be able to establish V.90 connections anyway. 56k.com O~~~ O