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Built-in FM Modulator (87.7, 87.9, 88.1, 88.3, 88.5, 88.7, 88.9 & 89.1 Mhz)
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And this is why your cable bill is so high. You are paying for channels whether you watch them or not.
Regarding a la carte: You feel you're subsidizing everyone else, but everyone else is subsidizing you too. Everyone asking for a al carte thinks they are going to be the ones that pay less.
Here's how it would play out. A less popular cable station gets only $.20/household. When 19 of 20 households can drop them, they'll need $4/subscriber to make ends meet. Will the remaining N people pay $4? No? Then they'll need to charge even more or chop programming. Death spiral until it's off the air.
This will happen to the more popular stations as well, but the numbers will be different. You'll have vastly fewer channels when it's done (or vastly more info-mercials).
OTOH, the cable companies are getting bundles pushed on them by the content providers.
Maybe the best thing the cable companies could do would be pass through the bundles forced on them. Give us an ABC/ESPN/etc. bundle and see who buys it.
There are 3 major disadvantages to space stations: gravity, temperature regulation, and atmospheric pressure. These problems don't exist on Venus City.
Gravity is a "disadvantage" when you have to keep your city 50km in the air. The other 2 are disadvantages when you don't.
If Paul's fiscal policies were implemented (e.g. going back to the gold standard), the US (and possibly, the world) economy would be shot to hell. They're going to be shot to hell anyway. Might as well take the yucky medicine.
At this point, I just hope she's just trying to strong-arm the VP spot. She may be considering and independent run. She's clearly self-centered enough to split the dem vote and get McCain elected.
Her non-concession was shameful and all about her. Obama's speech praised Hillary and so did hers.
A graceful concession might have lead to a VP invitation. She could deliver some key states after all. But forcing it makes Obama look weak. He has to say no. Now she needs the biggest possible threat to force it.
Also, if Hillary is VP, I would fear for the president's life.
Everything she does makes me prefer Obama. Imagine the reverse situation. Would he have clung to the hope of power for so long? Would her team be absolutely *howling* about the classless lack of a concession speech?
What I'd really like to skip the PDA. Instead just take a page of say 100 one-time passwords. It's a challenge/response system. You need something to calculate the response.
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I've also seen poster advertisements for his books in the London tube stations. I can't think of any SF book advertisements in the states outside SF mags. (excepting Harry Potter)
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As for his lack of explanations, I really don't agree. Part of the appeal is that you're being dropped in the middle of a completely alien environment, and that is often the predicament his characters find themselves in too - you have to learn about the environment together with the character, and constantly have your assumptions challenged.
Exactly! This is what I love about this kind of SF.
You're figuring out the universe while you're figuring
out the characters and their motivations.
I live in Rochester, NY. it's 16 degrees outside this morning, and there is 2 feet of snow on the yard(as measured by the fire hydrant). yet most of the roofs are clear of snow. a few days of sun, with proper insulation in the roof keeps them that way.
Actually, proper insulation keeps the snow on the roof. You can tell the well insulated houses that way.
Then again, you probably have a lot of very steep roofs there, which would cause less snow to accumulate.
Limited Access Highways: They all run to/from NYC. If you want to go a different direction, you're on a much smaller road. Lots of traffic, but moving fast except during rush hour or accidents.
Smaller Highways: The Jersey barrier -- the Jughandle -- no left turns allowed. Strip malls galore. Stop lights. Totally bogged down with traffic. *Common* to sit through three red light sessions getting through a single light.
Tiny Highways & county roads. Two lanes, no shoulders, curvy, no visibility. Wouldn't be called a highway anywhere else. These are probably from horse and buggy trails -- no planning. Too much traffic for their size. Very possible to take three consecutive rights or lefts on the way somewhere.
And, that is exactly how to genuinely increase your winnings in the lotto lottery. Don't play number combinations with high 'meaning' and do play combinations with low 'meaning'.
Actually, some meanings are seen as a pattern and therefore unlikely. Whenever I tell someone I'm playing 1,2,3,4,5,6 they invariably say "That could never happen".
The book contains nothing about anarchist political beliefs or history. There is no mention of... the Anarcho-Syndicalists of the Spanish Revolution (specifically, the anarcho-syndicalist organization and administration of Catalonia)...
We're an Anarcho-Syndicalist commune. We take it in turns to be a sort of executive officer for the week. But all the decisions of that officer must be ratified at a special bi-weekly meeting....
Never mind being unable to read each new version's new document format, Microsoft Office doesn't like OO.o documents either. Honestly, if you're worried about document interoperability, choosing Microsoft products is like shooting your foot off to stave off tinea. OO.o's document formats have been a lot more stable over time.
Many of us don't have the luxury of working about that.
If you work in a large corporation or almost any office,
the overriding issue is being able to read things from
and create things for
the MS products that everyone else is using.
I constantly get PPT and Word docs sent to me that look
like ass in OO. On the rare instances I have to create
something in these formats, I boot Windows and run MS Office.
Anything else is a waste of time.
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Destructive testing. You only have one shot.
Al la carte, please.
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And this is why your cable bill is so high. You are paying for channels whether you watch them or not.
Regarding a la carte:
You feel you're subsidizing everyone else, but everyone else is subsidizing you too. Everyone asking for a al carte thinks they are going to be the ones that pay less.
Here's how it would play out. A less popular cable station gets only $.20/household. When 19 of 20 households can drop them, they'll need $4/subscriber to make ends meet. Will the remaining N people pay $4? No? Then they'll need to charge even more or chop programming. Death spiral until it's off the air.
This will happen to the more popular stations as well, but the numbers will be different. You'll have vastly fewer channels when it's done (or vastly more info-mercials).
OTOH, the cable companies are getting bundles pushed on them by the content providers.
Maybe the best thing the cable companies could do would be pass through the bundles forced on them. Give us an ABC/ESPN/etc. bundle and see who buys it.
There are 3 major disadvantages to space stations: gravity, temperature regulation, and atmospheric pressure. These problems don't exist on Venus City.
Gravity is a "disadvantage" when you have to keep your city 50km in the air. The other 2 are disadvantages when you don't.
At this point, I just hope she's just trying to strong-arm the VP spot. She may be considering and independent run. She's clearly self-centered enough to split the dem vote and get McCain elected.
Her non-concession was shameful and all about her. Obama's speech praised Hillary and so did hers.
A graceful concession might have lead to a VP invitation. She could deliver some key states after all. But forcing it makes Obama look weak. He has to say no. Now she needs the biggest possible threat to force it.
Also, if Hillary is VP, I would fear for the president's life.
Everything she does makes me prefer Obama. Imagine the reverse situation. Would he have clung to the hope of power for so long? Would her team be absolutely *howling* about the classless lack of a concession speech?
Cute.
Accused: Murder?! You don't even have a body!
Accuser: Clearly it's hidden well, so you must have planned it. First degree murder!
Java Cell Phone impl.
Python impl.
...let me try the link I got in that e-mail.
Thanks :)
I've also seen poster advertisements for his books in the London tube stations.
I can't think of any SF book advertisements in the states outside SF mags.
(excepting Harry Potter)
She may be able to remember a "nonsense" word she made up
better than a random string.
Marketing. Bigger numbers look better.
Then again, you probably have a lot of very steep roofs there, which would cause less snow to accumulate.
Limited Access Highways: They all run to/from NYC. If you want to go a different direction, you're on a much smaller road. Lots of traffic, but moving fast except during rush hour or accidents.
Smaller Highways: The Jersey barrier -- the Jughandle -- no left turns allowed. Strip malls galore. Stop lights. Totally bogged down with traffic. *Common* to sit through three red light sessions getting through a single light.
Tiny Highways & county roads. Two lanes, no shoulders, curvy, no visibility. Wouldn't be called a highway anywhere else. These are probably from horse and buggy trails -- no planning. Too much traffic for their size. Very possible to take three consecutive rights or lefts on the way somewhere.
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That's sort of the point.
Buy a TV or TiVo that takes CableCARDs.
How does it compare to Tribes2?
...is for anyone to hear our clients music!
That'll mess up the stats. They'll think they got X/2 per sale not X. But maybe if they focus on the total....
mentions "that Canada has run a budget surplus in each of the last 10 years".
Hmmm.