Live Mesh service update

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Ocean — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 19:26:54 GMT

>>We still use IE on our PC's. I just feel more secure with MS products than 3rd party [FF]<<

That's an interesting sentiment.

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DRWAM — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 13:33:25 GMT

That's coll sub,I'm outnumbered at my own home where my 3 daughters [7,7 and 8] and true Windows fangirls. They laughed at the Apple logo at startup, pointing and saying someone took a bite from an Apple. They search for IE when using it, and actually found IE 5, which transfered over from the migration asst, which transfers everything, even the desktop icons in the same place. It sorta takes the fun out of doing it yourself. We still use IE on our PC's. I just feel more secure with MS products than 3rd party [FF], and IE worked better with Flash addons.

Peace Bro.

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subzerohitman721 — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 09:00:21 GMT

DRWAM, I agree.

I learn a lot here. On very rare occassion, from the petty bickering. But the articles, blogs, and responses can be useful. I still say though Mr. Ghazi's article and website are pretty handy as well. I just wish we were could disagree in here without being so disagreeable in her. Not you Doc, its been fun debating with you in here.

Peace.

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DRWAM — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 19:20:57 GMT

This is EXACTLY why I am at this site. I learn so much about things that I would never know about if I did not read here. Live Mesh will be so useful to me that other methods can be backups to the Live Mesh service, such as when we could lose internet access at our office or the hospital. You guys got me to fully use Exchange's features, install Vista, etc...

Thanks,

Doc

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Ocean — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 16:39:52 GMT

I'll give you points for a valiant, but failed, rebuttal.

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mikegalos@msn.com — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 09:34:07 GMT

Ocean

See. That wasn't hard but your example was ironic in that it showed why it wasn't ironic when trying to show it was.

Any thread where someone complains things have gone off topic is one where things have gone off topic so it isn't contradictory, it's definitional. Exactly the opposite.

As the old saying goes, "That isn't ironic, it's sarcastic. But it's ironic that you didn't know the difference."

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Ocean — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 03:14:46 GMT

>>an outcome of events contrary to what was, or might have been, expected. <<

dictionary.reference.com/.../irony

Example: Complaints of >>meaningless off-topic<< material in a thread ostensibly dedicated to Live Mesh...

...and then the following action:

>>The insanity of the Palin choice...<<

Would you prefer this word: http://tinyurl.com/nycl4 ?

Good night. :)

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mikegalos@msn.com — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 23:48:52 GMT

Ocean

Perhaps it would help if you looked up the definition of the word irony.

I do not think it means what you think it means.

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Ocean — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 23:41:58 GMT

I'm kinda laughing at how ironic it is that this topic is littered with OT posts. :)

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DRWAM — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 17:57:08 GMT

Mike, you're just as good and probably better than most on CCN and Larry King Live. I watch and get nauseated at how an answer to Larry question just gets dodged and becomes a political ad, mostly full of rhetorical BS. You should submit a /résumé.

Also, Hotmail premium for $20 with Live mesh and the calender beats the price of MobileMe at $99. That's 5 years vs one yr subscription, and that's if you just want to use the mail app on the iPhone like any other email service, otherwise it's free.

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mikegalos@msn.com — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 17:30:25 GMT

Shark47

"no one was talking about the democratic convention after about 10AM ET yesterday."

True, managing the news cycle is important but I'm not sure muffled laughter is really what the RNC wanted.

Of course, today the topic of conversation no matter who the pick had been will switch over to the evacuation of New Orleans before Hurricane Gustav (which was just upgraded to Category 4) makes landfall.

And the topic of conversation during the Republican convention is whether the new levees hold under an expected 15-18' storm surge while everybody's minds slip back to the national horor and disgrace of 3 years ago.

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mikegalos@msn.com — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 16:48:03 GMT

@subzero

My rebuttal to your rebuttal (Still wildly OT)

The insanity of the Palin choice (assuming it was actually meant to improve the McCain ticket chances in November) is not the ethics investigation. That's bad but it'll be spun as "going a little over the line to defend your family is the kind of ethics we should reward rather than attack"

The insanity is that undecided women voters who formerly supported Senator Clinton will jump ship to back:

A woman who feels the role of government is to aid the oil companies

A woman who is on the radical fringe in favor of federal government intervention in reproductive choices

A woman whose response to drowning polar bears is to sue the DFW to have polar bears taken off the endangered species list.

A woman whose major experience consists of governing a town smaller than most apartment complexes and a partial term as governor of a state with less people than a medium size city. (Alaska has less than 650,000 people)

A woman who was only known to McCain by one short phone call before she was short-listed.

A woman who openly lied about her position on "the Bridge to Nowhere" in her first national campaign event. (Apparently she didn't realize that with the Internets people could read her inteview with the Anchorage paper from 2006 where she praised the congressional team for getting Alaska the project and called for more use of earmarks while they still had power to do it)

So, the investigation's the least of the RNC's worries with her.

On the other hand:

She probably will move Alaska's 3 electoral votes from "swing" to "solid R"

She'll be effective in getting last ditch funding for the RNC war chest from the extreme right wing of their base which can be used for congressional campaigns and held for 2012

She'll be usable to keep Biden toned down in the VP debate so it doesn't look like he's "picking on a girl"

We now return you from politics to something rational like whether the "I'm a Mac" commercials are funny.

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DRWAM — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 16:34:11 GMT

Actually Sub, the article is purely anecdotal. There are no stats to prove anything that anyone has said there and the Journalist totaly LIED [:)], as Nullriver states right at their website that Apple indeed did respond to emails, but Nullriver's email filtered them out. All the Journalist had to do was read the same page where he could have gotten the info, but he obviously never checked at all, which totally destroys his credibility forever:)

Here's the proof which you can see was posted on 8/4/08

http://www.nullriver.com/

It's funny how my iPhone hasn't had a single problem or dropped call, and my hard drives aren't crashing in my Macs, but did in my PC's, but neither Apple, MS , Dell or any other computer reseller actually makes their own hard drive. In fact, I've never seen any of Dell RAID 1 config's ever work in numerous friends. Hmmm, strange complaint isolated to Stevo [I heard that he died]. Also, my friends constantly complain about their Dell products, but keep ordering from them. I would say that it fits to this 'unconditional' loyality that the author is suggesting may be unique to Apple [ but even I agree with him on this:) ]

Any way, back OT. Mesh is great and can be used just with the browser and without the software. Live Mesh software adds more functionality. Just right click on a file or folder after it's installed on your jaw may drop. Let it sync and go to another computer and logon and baddabing, complete access, even without the software installed, even on a Mac. I have not tried to edit, but you can still add [UL] to your folders, from a Mac too. Comcast had a file locker which is buggy, now just called storage. But MS made it much easier...and it's still beta! I will use it for storing documents to view when my techs need the protocols [although they are all printed in a book at the offices, which tends to get misplaced. Also, other files for work will be synced to my folders. This is just too sweet. Again, why pay for MobileMe? I mean, Live Mesh beta seems to work better than MobileMe retail, given what I've read that is.

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subzerohitman721 — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 15:53:30 GMT

@shark47,

My Rebuttal (Sorry, O/T but I had to respond.)

Palin is currently under ethics investigation in her state. Attempting to fire a state trooper for potentially personal reasons isn't the professionalism of any governor. Plus she also taxed the oil companies, that will not sit well with conservatives who railed against the windfall profits tax that a democrat proposed. It was a cheap pander to women and actually drops my respect for McCain. The electoral map isn't there for McCain and this pick didn't do him any favors.

Peace.

Back on the topic: The reviews of Mesh are quite promising. I'm still trying to figure out how I'd use it practially.

Paul, I think like the TweakGuides site, perhaps this forum could use moderated forums instead of it being so open ended. And if we had off topic discussions, we could do that there instead of here. Just a thought.

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shark47 — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 15:25:45 GMT

I apologize for the O/T post or if this is construed as flamebait, but this is a pretty good article on CNN: