[ARC5] How delivery services treat our radio packages

[Tom Lee]

I've never used Windows Media Player. The freeware SMPlayer plays just 
about anything, and does not "phone home" with data about you and your 
media. WMP, as I understand it, does.

--Tom

-- 
Prof. Thomas H. Lee
Allen Ctr., Rm. 205
350 Jane Stanford Way
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-4070
http://www-smirc.stanford.edu

On 5/11/2020 12:45, Hubert Miller wrote:
> Some years back, my work location was receiving shipments of telecom  equipment, fiber optic muxes and many, many expensive cards
> and plugins. One plug in of some kind arrived with almost an "exoskeleton" of pieces of a resilient packing. I knowr this is hard to describe,
> but it seemed these "long pieces" extensions and corners snapped together almost like some kind of Lego kit around the item. Didn't
> cover the item 100%  totally but more like a cage about an inch deep which suspended the item off the outer box walls. I thought then,
> this is pretty cute. "Someone" should maybe sell kits of such pieces that you can just ( cut to length ?? ) snap together to make a cage for
> your particular item.
>
> A couple nights ago while correcting  DVD drive problems on this computer, I watched the movie "Cast Away".  ( BTW, I learned that MS
> has deleted DVD player software from Win 10 Media Player, so you can buy the DVD player separately from them.  One smart  person on
> a MS "knowledge base" website nailed it perfectly when he said MS decided this can become  yet another income stream for them. )
> Anyway my warm & cozy feelings for Fedex definitely increased vastly from watching this movie. And I'm not a big stack of movies to
> watch person.
> -Hue Miller
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