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To: Hal Campbell who wrote (5483)	2/14/1999 6:30:00 PM
From: Michael Olds	Respond to of 17679

Food for Thought [From: Soros, The Crisis of Global Capitalism, PublicAffairs, New York, pp 49] The fundamentals [of a stock] that matter are in the future. It is not last year's earnings, balance sheets, and dividends that stock prices are supposed to reflect but the future stream of earnings, dividends, and asset values. That stream is not given; therefore it is not an object of knowledge but of guessing. The important point is that the future, when it occurs, will have been influenced by the guessing that has preceded it. The guessing finds expression in the stock prices and stock prices have ways of affecting the fundamentals. . . . A company can raise capital by selling stock and the price at which it sells will influence earnings per share. The price of the stock also has an influence on the terms at which the company can borrow. The company can also motivate its management by issuing options. There are other ways in which the image of the company as represented by its stock price can affect the substance. Whenever that happens, the possibility of a two-way reflexive interaction arises . . .

To: Hal Campbell who wrote (5483)	2/14/1999 7:21:00 PM
From: B. A. Marlow	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 17679

Don't let Steve get away, Hal. We need a summary of Steve's xDSL/cable broadband experience. Priceless bird's eye view of what's goin' on out there... BAM

To: Hal Campbell who wrote (5483)	2/15/1999 1:10:00 AM
From: flickerful	Respond to of 17679

Lockheed Martin Cancels Launch of Communications Satellite Mon, 15 Feb 1999, 1:01am EST Bethesda, Maryland, Feb. 14 (Bloomberg) -- Lockheed Martin Corp., the world's second-largest aerospace and defense company, said it canceled the launch of the JCSAT-6 communication satellite because instrument readings on the Atlas rocket were off. The readings were recorded on the rocket's fuel tank pressure and propellant utilization systems, said Julie Andrews, spokeswoman for Lockheed Martin International Launch Services. The launch has tentatively been rescheduled for between 7:45 p.m. and 9:14 p.m. local time tomorrow at Cape Canaveral Air Station, Florida. The delay is one of many that have kept the satellite earthbound. The most recent delay was in late January because of bad weather and technical problems. The JCSAT-6 launch was originally set for July. The satellite will be sent into orbit on an Atlas rocket and will provide television, voice, data, multimedia and Internet services to Japan, the Asia-Pacific region and Hawaii. Lockheed Martin is also scheduled to launch a second satellite, called Telstar 6, on a Proton rocket. The satellite will broadcast video and data communications to the U.S., Puerto Rico, the Caribbean, and parts of Canada Latin America. It's scheduled to be launched from Baikonur, Kazakhstan, at about 10 a.m. Monday local time. The JCSAT-6 satellite, which was made by El Segundo, California-based Hughes Electronics Corp., is for Japan Satellite Systems Inc. Bethesda, Maryland-based Lockheed Martin has already launched two other JCSAT satellites for the Japanese company. The Telstar 6 satellite was made by New York-based Loral Space & Communications Inc. The satellite is part of Loral's Skynet unit, which provides satellite services around the world.

To: Hal Campbell who wrote (5483)	2/15/1999 2:03:00 PM
From: B. A. Marlow	Respond to of 17679

Hey, Hal. Hope Dave Gardy didn't take the day off... This piece found on YHOO by SI's Sea Hunter; posted to BCST board. Source unknown. BAM *** Anyone see this... Broadcast.com Plans Do-It-Yourself Webcasts By Louis Trager, February 15, 1999 We're still waiting for interactive television's 500-channel future, circa 1994. But now, you can brace yourself for, say, a 500,000-channel future. Broadcast.com is readying plans that will enable everyone from affinity groups to individual Internet users to cheaply narrowcast audio and video programming via the Web. Mark Cuban, the company's president and co-founder, disclosed Broadcast.com's plans to a keynote audience at the IP [Internet Protocol] Multicast Summit last week in San Jose. Broadcast.com intends to announce - around the end of the month - an alliance with MSN Internet Access and another, unspecified national online provider, that will allow the partners' users to readily distribute streaming multimedia content, using multicast technology only, Cuban said. The service should be available this spring, he said. Got it off the Yahoo board. Great news if confirmed. Comments? Also anyone see the AOL deal to provide content via cable connections? Possible competition? Good luck all, SH

To: Hal Campbell who wrote (5483)	2/15/1999 10:34:00 PM
From: Stephen W. Leahy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17679

Hal, First off, I am addicted to the high-speed access. I can't even imagine using a modem anymore. You still get frustrated at individual website delays though. I did get bot DSL and Cable modem. I trade stocks actively full-time for my own account and need a reliable connection. I have found both DSL and cable to lose their connection a number of times each during the trading day whereas my Netcom dial-up rarely ever went down. When I lose the connection from one I change over to the other. I use NT and am able to change my network settings without rebooting. I am glad I have both and will keep both for reliability. In fact I plan on getting a second NIC and having both up at the same time. Not sure how this will work but am going to try it. For regular home users I would go with the cable modem from @Home. It is faster and cheaper. As far as it relates to Ampex, I think Bramson's vision makes sense. High-Speed access is just so much better than dial-up. It will allow all kinds of services that don't work under dial-up.