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From: larry@tsd.arlut.utexas.edu (Larry Maturo)
Subject: Re: Smart-Ring (was: Caller-ID modem)
Organization: Applied Research Labs, The University of Texas at Austin
Distribution: tx
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 14:48:37 GMT

In article <1993Jan6.074913.160@ondec.lonestar.org> d_north@ondec.lonestar.org (David G. North, CCP) writes:
>In article <1993Jan5.125854.16974@montagar.com>,
> davidc@montagar.com (David L. Cathey) writes:
>> 	And duplicating a service which can perform the same function, called
>> "Smart-Ring"...  And you don't even have to buy a separate box to know if it
>> is a friend or not!
>Perhaps there are others, like myself, who would like a brief explanation
>of this 'smart-ring'?
>
>Thanks.
>-- 
>David G. North, CCP
>d_north@ondec.lonestar.org {...!texsun!montagar!ondec!d_north}
>onDEC systems                                 "Everyone's crazy but you & me...
>P.O.Box 795848, Dallas TX  75379-5848          and come to think about it, I'm
>(214)985-1316 ... (214)902-3957                not so sure about you either!"

You can order several phone numbers (up to 3 I believe).  They all ring your
phone, but each with a different ring sound (2 shorts and a long for example).
All but one can be unlisted.  You give friends and family one of the unlisted
numbers and let the answering machine answer the listed number.  It works great
to miss all those exciting sales calls and pleas for money.  You would be
suprised how few messages sales people leave on an answering machine.

Hope this helps.

-- Larry Maturo
Newsgroups: austin.talk
From: amym@oakhill.sps.mot.com (Amy Moseley Rupp)
Subject: Re: Sunday's Austin A-S Sports Page
Organization: Motorola Inc., Austin Tx.
Distribution: austin
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 22:49:27 GMT

In article <1993Jan11.173050.25338@titan.tsd.arlut.utexas.edu> conditt@tsd.arlut.utexas.edu (Paul Conditt) writes:
>In article <5127@execu.execu.com> iris@execu.execu.com (Iris Strey) writes:
>>Did you happen to catch John Maher's article in Sundays paper?
>>He states that the No-Pass-No-Play rule and the Proposition 48
>>(college athletes have to score at least 700 on the SAT) are not
>>working because there are so many football players this year who
>>have been hurt by the rule!!!!!!  He thinks the RULE is the problem

>Yes, he's for real.  Don't you know that high school athletics exists for
>the sole purpose of creating athletes for college athletics which exists
>for the sole purpose of creating athletes for professional sports?  It's
>really just a big farm system that the pro teams would hate to disturb
>because it might end up costing them money.  Who cares if these guys have
>a rudimentary knowledge of the basics?  They don't need to know how to
>speak - the media will interview them, anyway.  And they don't need to
>know how to count all that money, either, cuz they can hire accountants to
>do that for them.  As long as they can sign their name or some semblance
>thereof, that's all the education they need.

Just to play devil's advocate here---what about the kid who is NOT mentally
talented but rather physically talented.  Do we say, in essence, that you
MUST be an average student to express yourself in physical talent?  do we
close off what could be someone's best career?

I do think that Texas is too football crazy, that there's too much
emphasis on it, and too much $ there as opposed to other programs.
BUT if you look at it on an individual level, what about that kind
of kid?  Obviously if someone's a bright student and just neglecting
studies to play football, something has to be done.  But what about
the seriously non-bright student who's a wonderful football player?
Unfortunately academics and football are in a strange marriage where
football uses schools as its farm system.  Too bad it is not more 
like baseball where collegiate sports are not required to play major
leagues.  But THEN you'd get cases like Todd Van Poppel, who skipped
college to sign a pro baseball contract.  Everyone howls about him
being lured out of a college education.  Sigh.  You just can't win.
It is insulting to have a 'student' who happens to play football make
it into UT with, say, a 700 SAT, and another who plays chess and can't
make it in with an 1100, for example.  
-- 
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amym@oakhill.sps.mot.com		born 11/4/92 
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From: dewey@vpdbox.austin.ibm.com (Dewey Coffman)
Subject: Re: Cable Boycott
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 20:36:45 GMT
Distribution: austin
Reply-To: dewey@vpdbox.austin.ibm.com
Organization: IBM, Austin, TX. US of A.

In article <86218@ut-emx.uucp>, captain@tigger.cc.utexas.edu (Bran Muffin) writes:
|>                               I'm curious, though, why don't the neighbor-
|> hoods just get together, buy a sattellite dish, and run a "local cable"
|> company co-op?  

	You'd need multiple dishes to point on the different Satellites,
	and multiple "receivers" on each dish to get different Channels 
	from each Satellite. This would get expensive pretty quick, and
	access to telephone poles to run the cable is not given easily AND
	FINALLY, there is probably a anti-compete clause in the Austin
	CableVision Charter.

	-dewey
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Consulting @ IBM			dewey@ctci.com
11400 Burnet Rd				All opinions are mine.
Austin, TX 78758-3493, USA		(512) 823-6463
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From: ray@unisql.UUCP (Ray Shea)
Newsgroups: austin.talk
Subject: Re: Arroyo Seca->Arroyo Seco
Date: 8 Jan 93 18:42:47 GMT
Distribution: austin
Organization: UniSQL, Inc., Austin, Texas, USA

In article <C0JM9y.14u2@austin.ibm.com> johniac@austin.ibm.com (John Iacoletti) writes:
>
>Yeah, but they still don't know how to pronounce "Guadalupe"! :-)

That's nothin', you should hear the tourists in New Orleans try to pronounce
"Carondelet" or "Chartres".



-- 
Ray Shea                                      
UniSQL, Inc.                             Sometimes I feel like a blue dog.
unisql!ray@cs.utexas.edu                                     -- The Blue Dog
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From: cathyf@is.rice.edu (Catherine Anne Foulston)
Subject: Re: Cable Boycott
Organization: Rice University
Distribution: austin
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 00:46:34 GMT

In <some articles> some people write:

Stuff about multiple dishes and auto tracking if a dish were shared
over a neighborhood.

Perhaps the problem the original poster was thinking of is that if
you are watching a show from satellite A at your house, nobody in the
neighborhood can watch a show from satellite B at the same time,
because the antenna can't point at both satellites at once.
-- 
Cathy Foulston + Rice University + Network & Systems Support + cathyf@rice.edu
off to see the lizard
From: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: Caller-ID modem (was Re: repost from comp.dcom.telecom
Organization: Taronga Park BBS
Distribution: tx
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 12:46:22 GMT

In article <1993Jan5.125854.16974@montagar.com> davidc@montagar.com (David L. Cathey) writes:
>	And duplicating a service which can perform the same function, called
>"Smart-Ring"...

You mean distinctive ringing?

Hardly the same service, unless your telephone switch houses an artificial
intelligence.
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From: srin@cs.utexas.edu (Srinivas Nedunuri)
Newsgroups: austin.talk
Subject: Re: Ground-source Heat Pumps
Date: 10 Jan 1993 20:59:47 -0600
Organization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin
NNTP-Posting-Host: priddy.cs.utexas.edu

In article <1993Jan9.145534.15755@rpp386> jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F. Haugh II) writes:
> <stuff deleted>

>There is no evidence that the ozone in the stratosphere is being depleted
>by CFC's.  To know that it is being "depeleted" we'd have to know how much
>is supposed to be there and how much the CFC's are destroying.

Well then there's no problem :-) I don't know, but I have seen NASA pictures
going back about 10 years that show a growing ozone hole over the South Pole.
This could  be due to natural processes but then again it might not be.
To me its a simple matter of precaution. Suppose that CFC's are responsible for 
ozone destruction. (And there is reasonable suspicion that they might be since 
it has been shown that CFC's *could* damage the ozone layer and they are 
produced in sufficient quantities to do so). Then the consequences of doing 
nothing about it would clearly be disastrous. Suppose it could be shown that 
they are not, then its a relatively simple matter to revert to using them. I 
know which option I would prefer. Its the same principle that is used by 
pharmacuetical companies testing drugs. As long as there is reasonable doubt 
that a new experimental drug could have harmful side effects on humans it is not
marketed. Only when it can be shown, beyond reasonable doubt, that the drug 
is not harmful is it released for sale. To do anything else would be grossly 
irresponsible. 

--srin

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From: dewey@vpdbox.austin.ibm.com (Dewey Coffman)
Subject: Re: SF Cahnnel
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 16:27:51 GMT
Distribution: austin
Reply-To: dewey@vpdbox.austin.ibm.com
Organization: IBM, Austin, TX. US of A.
Keywords: SF Channel	No, Nyet

In article <C0C4Fs.FLy@austin.ibm.com>, garyk@austin.ibm.com () writes:
|> 
|> Is Austin going to get the SF channel?
|> Gary
|> 
	Austin CableVision has said they don't have the Channel to
	put it on(yeah, we really need more that one shopping channel)
	and they might upgrade their equipment in the spring and we'd
	get it then... Maybe.

	I heard CableMax was not going to carry it either, but that is
	second hand information.

	Call and ask for it from your cable company.

	-dewey
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Consulting @ IBM			dewey@ctci.com
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From: alan@auntbea.austin.ibm.com (Alan R. Weiss)
Subject: Re: Cable Boycott
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 00:13:59 GMT
Distribution: austin
Organization: (speaking only for myself from Austin, Texas)

In article <C0G99A.GJA@austin.ibm.com> dewey@vpdbox.austin.ibm.com writes:
>In article <86218@ut-emx.uucp>, captain@tigger.cc.utexas.edu (Bran Muffin) writes:
>|>                               I'm curious, though, why don't the neighbor-
>|> hoods just get together, buy a sattellite dish, and run a "local cable"
>|> company co-op?  
>
>	You'd need multiple dishes to point on the different Satellites,
>	and multiple "receivers" on each dish to get different Channels 
>	from each Satellite. This would get expensive pretty quick, and
>	access to telephone poles to run the cable is not given easily AND
>	FINALLY, there is probably a anti-compete clause in the Austin
>	CableVision Charter.
>
>	-dewey

I thought the real problem was cost - most services cost money,
and its illegal to pirate signals off a satallite without paying
for it.  Or is it?

Another question:  don't modern dishes have automatic tracking,
including automatic tracking of different sats?

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From: dewey@vpdbox.austin.ibm.com (Dewey Coffman)
Subject: Re: Cable Boycott
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 16:59:59 GMT
Distribution: austin
Reply-To: dewey@vpdbox.austin.ibm.com
Organization: IBM, Austin, TX. US of A.

In article <C0GJBB.LL4@austin.ibm.com>, alan@auntbea.austin.ibm.com (Alan R. Weiss) writes:
|> 
|> I thought the real problem was cost - most services cost money,
|> and its illegal to pirate signals off a satallite without paying
|> for it.  Or is it?
	I "*think*" the idea that pirating a signal that beamed towards
	you was overturned legally a few years back. Check rec.satellite.video
	FAQ for exact status of that. Most of the Pay Channels are scrambled
	and you have to tell them what your received id is in order to get
	it descrambled.
|> 
|> Another question:  don't modern dishes have automatic tracking,
|> including automatic tracking of different sats?

	I don't understand what you mean here. The dishes will go
	to the correct Satellite automagically, but is that what your
	talking about. The Satellite are Geo-synchronous, so I'm not
	sure what tracking you're talking about.

	-dewey
	Disclaimer: I don't own a dish, yet.
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Consulting @ IBM			dewey@ctci.com
11400 Burnet Rd				All opinions are mine.
Austin, TX 78758-3493, USA		(512) 823-6463
===============================================================================
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From: durway@mpd.tandem.com (Lindsey Durway)
Newsgroups: austin.talk
Subject: Eyebeam comic:  where to find?
Date: 8 Jan 93 15:52:13 GMT
Organization: Tandem Computers, Inc.

Where do I find Eyebeam comic books in Austin?  
A friend of mine from North Carolina is looking for
them and asked me to help.  He claims that the comic
originated in Austin.

Thanks,
Lindsey
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This image consists entirely of recycled half-spin gauge bosons.
Newsgroups: austin.talk,tx.general
From: doug@seas.smu.edu (Doug Davis)
Subject: Re: Caller-ID modem (was Re: repost from comp.dcom.telecom
Organization: SMU - School of Engineering & Applied Science - Dallas
Distribution: tx
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 16:03:34 GMT

In article <1993Jan5.125854.16974@montagar.com> davidc@montagar.com (David L. Cathey) writes:
>	And duplicating a service which can perform the same function, called
>"Smart-Ring"...  And you don't even have to buy a separate box to know if it
>is a friend or not!

Smart-Ring(TM) is only effective on phones that don't develop their own ring
signals, and then only a limited number of identifiable incoming numbers.
From: captain@tigger.cc.utexas.edu (Bran Muffin)
Newsgroups: austin.talk
Subject: Re: Cable Rates going up.
Date: 6 Jan 93 10:09:26 GMT
Distribution: austin
Organization: UT Austin Computation Center, Unix Services
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

Douglas H. Steves (dhs@cs.utexas.edu) wrote:
: The only real solution is competition.
: DirecTV (the Hughes/Thomson satellite venture) should be on the air
: in late '93. Assuming that most homeowners can install a 20" flat dish,
: we should start seeing improvements at ACV in early '94.

Actually, there already exists in Austin some competition, albeit small, 
called Cablemaxx (346-6299).  No, I don't have any affiliation with them.
I just looked it up in the yellow pages.  No, I don't work for SWBell either.

--
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Newsgroups: austin.talk
From: alan@auntbea.austin.ibm.com (Alan R. Weiss)
Subject: Re: Cable Boycott
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 20:35:19 GMT
Distribution: austin
Organization: (speaking only for myself from Austin, Texas)

In article <C0Htvz.AIx@austin.ibm.com> dewey@vpdbox.austin.ibm.com writes:
>In article <C0GJBB.LL4@austin.ibm.com>, alan@auntbea.austin.ibm.com (Alan R. Weiss) writes:
>|> 
>|> I thought the real problem was cost - most services cost money,
>|> and its illegal to pirate signals off a satallite without paying
>|> for it.  Or is it?
>	I "*think*" the idea that pirating a signal that beamed towards
>	you was overturned legally a few years back. Check rec.satellite.video
>	FAQ for exact status of that. Most of the Pay Channels are scrambled
>	and you have to tell them what your received id is in order to get
>	it descrambled.

OK, so its legal to receive signals.  Some firms scramble,
but I can watch a scrambled picture as well :-)

Are those fancy decoders that unscramble signals legal?
Probably not, but worth asking about.

 
>|> Another question:  don't modern dishes have automatic tracking,
>|> including automatic tracking of different sats?
>
>	I don't understand what you mean here. The dishes will go
>	to the correct Satellite automagically, but is that what your
>	talking about.

Yes, that's it.  You answered it.  Thanks.

>	-dewey
>	Disclaimer: I don't own a dish, yet.


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From: captain@tigger.cc.utexas.edu (Bran Muffin)
Newsgroups: austin.talk
Subject: Re: Cable Rates going up.
Date: 6 Jan 93 10:04:06 GMT
Distribution: austin
Organization: UT Austin Computation Center, Unix Services
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

Johan van Zanten (johan@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu) wrote:
: I still have no Cable television.  I habitually snort and mutter
: invectives when i get the obnoxious Austin Cablevision advertisements in
: the mail, and then crumple them up and throw them in the trash.
: 
Rather than throw out the ads, why don't you do what I do?...take advantage
of the free installation, and the money back guarantee.  Then after the
free month, cut off your cable, and be sure to tell them exactly why you
want your money back (e.g.: exorbitant prices, and mediochre quality).

Of course I guess you have to me a non-tv-addict to handle the 11 months
between these acts of capitalistic sabbotage.

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From: brian@natinst.com (Brian H. Powell)
Newsgroups: austin.talk
Subject: Re: Arroyo Seca->Arroyo Seco
Date: 11 Jan 1993 13:31:11 -0600
Organization: National Instruments, Austin, TX
Distribution: austin
NNTP-Posting-Host: natinst.com

    [Some people wrote...]
>>That's nothin', you should hear the tourists in New Orleans try to pronounce
>>"Carondelet" or "Chartres".

>Right, but the difference is that the folks doing the mispronouncing here
>aren't the tourists -- they're the natives!  ;-)

     I think tourists in New Orleans are more likely to pronounce things the
"proper" way than the natives.  Ever heard a N.O. native pronounce
"Terpsichore" or the names of some of the other Muses?
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From: dewey@vpdbox.austin.ibm.com (Dewey Coffman)
Subject: Re: Arroyo Seca->Arroyo Seco
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 17:52:24 GMT
Distribution: austin
Reply-To: dewey@vpdbox.austin.ibm.com
Organization: IBM, Austin, TX. US of A.

In article <DCAMPBEL.93Jan8113641@timshel.austin.ibm.com>, dcampbel@timshel.austin.ibm.com (David L. Campbell) writes:
|> >|> 	to the grammatically correct "Arroyo Seco" making the adjective 
|> >|> 	consistent in gender to the noun.
|> >|>      . . . 
|> >|> 	For once, I agree with a decision made by the City Council ;-)
|> >
|> >Yeah, but they still don't know how to pronounce "Guadalupe"! :-)
|> 
|> Nor "San Jacinto," nor "Manchaca," nor ......
|> 
	At LEAST we all know how to say Burnet Rd. it's like Durnit, so
	Learn it, not Burnette

	-dewey
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From: johniac@austin.ibm.com (John Iacoletti)
Subject: Re: Sunday's Austin A-S Sports Page
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 00:22:26 GMT
Distribution: austin
Organization: IBM Advanced Workstations and Systems, Austin, TX
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]

In article <1993Jan11.173050.25338@titan.tsd.arlut.utexas.edu>, conditt@tsd.arlut.utexas.edu (Paul Conditt) writes:
|> Actually, there was an interesting comment made in the article that has
|> some validity.  One of the coaches was quoted as saying that by the time
|> the athletes get to the point of taking the SAT, it's too late to teach
|> basics.

Exactly!  And amazingly enough, elementary schools have no athletic programs.
Funny that.  This is why no-pass, no-play will never work.

--
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 halibut?"
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From: alan@auntbea.austin.ibm.com (Alan R. Weiss)
Subject: Re: Arroyo Seca->Arroyo Seco
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 20:28:03 GMT
Distribution: austin
Organization: (speaking only for myself from Austin, Texas)

>>Yeah, but they still don't know how to pronounce "Guadalupe"! :-)
>
>Nor "San Jacinto," nor "Manchaca," nor ......
>

... nor "Mueller", nor "Burnet", nor "Llano", nor ....

Pasadena, California has its own Arroyo Seco, which contains
a very nice park (on the two smogfree days a year you can 
*see* it) and the Rose Bowl.  The Jet Propulsion Lab is
also in (that) Arroyo Seco.

Now if we can only get the City Council to stop sending
people to Colorado .... oh, nevermind.

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From: cb@wixer.cactus.org (Cyberspace Buddha)
Subject: Re: Sunday's Austin A-S Sports Page
Organization: Real/Time Communications
Distribution: austin
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 08:39:34 GMT

conditt@tsd.arlut.utexas.edu (Paul Conditt) writes:
>Actually, there was an interesting comment made in the article that has
>some validity.  One of the coaches was quoted as saying that by the time
>the athletes get to the point of taking the SAT, it's too late to teach
>basics.  The basics should've been learned in elementary school, not the
>jr. and sr. years of high school.  He said that maybe we should be paying
>the elementary school teachers the most.  Interesting thought.

Hear Hear!  although I suppose I'm biased, since I happen to like
a kindergarten teacher a whole bunch. ;)

I had an odd idea recently: have entrance exams for pre-school.
Of course, such an idea will never be put into action.  Too
many parents would realize that would mean they'd actually have
to educate their kids some.  The same parents also whine about
how horrible the school system is, yet they don't do a damned
thing about their own kids education at home.
 
>Austin, Texas <----- the most wonderful place in Texas to live

Aye!  The *only* place in Texas that's safe for freaks like me. ;)

cb
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