> From: "Geo." 
> "Adam Flinton"  wrote in message
> news:609359.5a2a33{at}harborwebs.com...
>> That's coz you yanks live in the dark ages of wireless . Here the
> higher
>> population density & I suppose cultural conditions make the mobile the
> piece of
>> electronics everyone has. I myself no longer wear a watch coz I use my
> phone to
>> tell the time because it has a clock & I always have it.
> Everyone has a cel phone here as well, but they are always talking on it so
> not much time to use it to play games.

That's coz they ain't part of your life.....My dogs catch furry things. I
still play games with them. 

My niece has games etc & it's her mp3 player.

My nokia has tetris & counterstrike & a number of others (very
usefull while bored on a train).

>> In a way but now it's the same wrt DVD'es such that in the "spinning
> silver
>> disk" category there are still at least 2+ formats (CD &
DVD) & that
> doesn't
>> even begin to tackle CD/RW, DVD-R, DVD+R DVD+RW etc.etc.
> I think DVD fragmentation has been done on purpose by content industry. But
> now with DVD burners becoming more consumer level devices we are starting to
> see some standardization. Go to the store and look at what formats are
> available in blank media, you can easily tell which sells the most. But the
> standard is still emerging, it's not quite there yet.

Yes & no. The point remains that there are & will be a min of 2
stds - the CD & the DVD.

>> On linux I can assume that. It's just solaris as each Unix tends towards
> one of
>> the shells. I seem to remember that on AIX it's KSH.
> On AIX the shell is called smit 

Bah humbug 

Adam

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