Second, I don't think that people are out to screw me personally. At least most people that is. But I do believe that humans take the path of least resistance.
Are you considering suing as a mechanism to change the path of least resistance? Or would it be an attempt to recover some of the income lost to piracy. Changing the path of least resistance sounds like an immense amount of work. And the latter option sounds like a very difficult way to make a living.
If your eyes can handle it, I highly recommend this!
For me, the eBook app on the iPhone is worth the price of the device alone. I love to read, but I love my other time consuming hobbies even more so. However, my day is full of 15 to 30 minute intervals where I can enjoy my book. I've just finished reading Cryptonomicon and it was great. Ultimately, it's about being able to get lost in your book and in that respect my experience reading on the iPhone was no different than a paperback. It's a better experience than most realize.
You must not have gigged very much or with many people. Tuning is not just a pre-gig ritual. The act of playing your guitar for an hour or two will cause your strings to loosen at different rates. Couple that with another guitarist and a bassist and you'll soon figure out that tuning is something you have to do pretty much after every couple of songs. If you don't, everything gets very slightly out of tune and it all soon sounds like mud.
Next time you see a rock band live, notice how often in between songs the guitarist is staring at the floor in front of him and tweaking the tuning keys. When you're the lead singer as well, that's not a very entertaining thing to be doing between songs.
Adding new channels can be very expensive, especially if a headend is old and is reaching its limit in terms of bandwidth. Switched Cable allows a large set of MPEG transport streams (services) to be dynamically allocated to smaller set a channels. For example, if no one in your neighbourhood is watching the 'House Cleaning Network' and you tune to it, that service will be redirected to a chosen special channel if one is available. Your settop will tune to it seamlessly. This action requires two way communication and can introduce a significant amount of overhead. Since this degrades the user experience significantly, it is only done on headends whose hardware needs to be upgraded. So it doesn't actually free up an assload of bandwidth, it just better reallocates it so a few more channels can be added.
If you think about it, switched cable is a temporary solution to a hardware upgrade. This feature is for the cable company, not the end user.
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Second, I don't think that people are out to screw me personally. At least most people that is. But I do believe that humans take the path of least resistance.
Are you considering suing as a mechanism to change the path of least resistance? Or would it be an attempt to recover some of the income lost to piracy. Changing the path of least resistance sounds like an immense amount of work. And the latter option sounds like a very difficult way to make a living.
If your eyes can handle it, I highly recommend this!
For me, the eBook app on the iPhone is worth the price of the device alone. I love to read, but I love my other time consuming hobbies even more so. However, my day is full of 15 to 30 minute intervals where I can enjoy my book. I've just finished reading Cryptonomicon and it was great. Ultimately, it's about being able to get lost in your book and in that respect my experience reading on the iPhone was no different than a paperback. It's a better experience than most realize.
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You must not have gigged very much or with many people. Tuning is not just a pre-gig ritual. The act of playing your guitar for an hour or two will cause your strings to loosen at different rates. Couple that with another guitarist and a bassist and you'll soon figure out that tuning is something you have to do pretty much after every couple of songs. If you don't, everything gets very slightly out of tune and it all soon sounds like mud.
Next time you see a rock band live, notice how often in between songs the guitarist is staring at the floor in front of him and tweaking the tuning keys. When you're the lead singer as well, that's not a very entertaining thing to be doing between songs.
Adding new channels can be very expensive, especially if a headend is old and is reaching its limit in terms of bandwidth. Switched Cable allows a large set of MPEG transport streams (services) to be dynamically allocated to smaller set a channels. For example, if no one in your neighbourhood is watching the 'House Cleaning Network' and you tune to it, that service will be redirected to a chosen special channel if one is available. Your settop will tune to it seamlessly. This action requires two way communication and can introduce a significant amount of overhead. Since this degrades the user experience significantly, it is only done on headends whose hardware needs to be upgraded. So it doesn't actually free up an assload of bandwidth, it just better reallocates it so a few more channels can be added.
If you think about it, switched cable is a temporary solution to a hardware upgrade. This feature is for the cable company, not the end user.