>>> The programmers anticipate this and keep large groups of channels together in all-or-nothing packages
+ 1. That is the EXACT problem. And I don't know the solution. There's nothing illegal about NBC or ABC/disney or Viacom bundling 15-20 channels as one single unit. It doesn't violate Antitrust law, nor does the FCC have jurisdiction over private lines, so the government can't do anything. The best way to make change is to vote with your dollar (cancel the CATV, or deliberately pick lowcost options like $25 Dish).
>>> I'd rather watch PBS Kids than just about anything else on cable. Educational/Entertainment programming designed for 6 year olds insults my intelligence less, than what usually passes as entertainment for mature adults.
I just found my new facebook status. Perfect. Dont watch Qubo though. I get it free off my antenna and tried watching it a few times, but it's pretty dumbed down (like toddler level).
>>>pretty popular channels such as nickelodeon and MTV.
I visited the DirecTV website last night, and they were providing alternate ways to watch your favorite channels. Basically a list linking to hulu and amazon. As I looked over the list, I found I really don't miss ANY of the channels. I watch iCarly on Nick, and that's about it. (And MTV's shows are rather sucky.)
Also this is why Viacom pulled the shows off their websites. They didn't want DirecTV viewers to be watching the channels, even after they had been yanked. (Now I'm curious if they restore them or not.)
>>>If I buy cable TV and it includes ESPN, does that mean I want ESPN? No.
LOL! And ESPN charges 3-4 dollars per home each month. What a rip. I thought this part of the article was insightful: "I recently witnessed HTC's official Twitter account proudly retweeting a couple of folk who claimed theyâ(TM)d managed to get a full day's use out of their HTC One X phones, as if this were some kind of epic win. Wow! A whole day without a trip to the charger! I'm sorry, but in my book a full day is the absolute minimum one should expect from a smartphone..."
Agreed. My old Nokia may be "dumb" but it lasts the entire workweek (5 days...sometimes 6). Who want a phone that dies partway through the day? You would miss incoming calls.
Yeah but arent they tired of carrying around a big 4 or 5 inch slab hanging off their hip? My phone measures a measley 2.5 x 1" and I already get annoyed having to carry* it around all the time.
* *Still haven't found a good case. The snap-on kind pops off & falls to the ground, and the belt-type doesn't work when I have no belt.
As I said in my original post, I compared an EQUIVALENT diesel Jetta to a gasoline Jetta with the same trim, equipment, et cetera. You did not. The difference is only ~1000. (Ditto the difference between a gasser Beetle/Gulf and a diesel Beetle/Gulf).
>>>In the title bar at the top, right-click on the space to the right of the "Open a new tab" button [+]. Click on "Menu Bar" in the context menu.
Yeah I did but still doesn't look the same as the older interface my brother had on Firefox 4. So I went to the LTS version (10) with 2 years of support & the same look he wanted.
You're right. My Insight's lifetime MPG is actually 89.something, not 80, because I drive it like I'm playing a videogame (trying to get the highest score).
The MPG is very variable depending upon HOW you drive it..... if I drove it like a sportscar wtih rapid starts and stops, I'd have it down near 40mpg. ALSO THAT WOMAN had her Insight modified by Honda, whereas mine is still on the original programming that had been rated 70mpg by the US-EPA.
>>>Interesting. So it's ok for you to sell to others a "damaged product" as "like new", but it isn't ok for others to do the same to you.
The Apple Mac box is a SHIPPING BOX. Nobody expects it to arrive in perfect-mint condition (and if they do, then they should tell me in advance, and give me an extra $10, in order to fulfill their special needs).
>>>That Republicans and Tories are all cold-hearted?
What is TRULY cold-hearted is bossing people around as if they were puppets (or too stupid to make their own decisions). The pro-big government types fit that model perfectly. Example:
You WILL buy hopsital insurance, and you WILL buy complete coverage even for piddly $100 doctor visits, because we've arbitrarily decided that catastrophic/high deductible insurance is outlawed (true under both Romney and Obamacare). In fact "cold hearted" is probably too weak a term. "Dictatorial" is probably better. Though they'd probably describe themselves as "parents" over the citzens (who they consider dumb like children).
My dad used to clean offices, and I'd help. The office used Wang computers. There were jokes all over the office BY women to other women about how Lisa's husband loves his Wang, or Julie needs at leat 8 hours a day with her wang to feel satisfied.
I doubt the men at this engineering office had any objections. (Else they would have stopped it.)
>>>Independently owned stores pay better and treat their employees better than walmart.
That's a nice religious belief you have there, but not true. I worked for a local "independent" store and it never did pay me for my last week of work. I entered my time in the timecard, but the manager never apprroved it, so no paycheck was ever issed. POINT: Independent stores can be just as evil as Walmart, and because they are low-profile, get away with it.
"failure to comply with a lawfully issued National Security Letter interferes with the United States' vindication of its sovereign interests in law enforcement, counterintelligence, and protecting national security."
Vindication??? That's an odd choice of words. Almost like revenge. (shrug). I would argue that the NSL violates the U.S. Constitution's requirement of a judge-issued search warrant, and an individual's right to be secure in his person, papers, and effects. Therefore the letter is null-and-void from the date of its creation. It is as if the letter never existed, because it has zero force of law.
I always hear a lot of negative things about Walmart, but I have no problem with them. They don't do anything that other stores are not equally guilty of. So if I boycotted Walmart for being "evil" then I'd have to boycott all the stores, and have nowhere left to shop.
The man who founded Walmart wanted to provide good products at a low price, so the low-income people in rural America could afford to live a middle-income lifestyle. James Cash Penney had a similar mission when he was a young man (his first store was called The Golden Rule... referencing the bible). After these men died both of their stores made mistakes, but they still follow the same root goal: Provide products at reasonable prices which people can afford to buy. Jeans for $15, shirts for $10, TVs for $100, food at 10-20% less than other stores, and so on.
Not me. I'm buying a new PC/laptop NOW while it still comes with Windows 7, versus getting stuck with Vista Part 2 (Win8).
Oh and not everything is bright & shiny. The article continues: "The charge was an acknowledgement that the companyâ(TM)s struggling online services division is a significant financial drag on the company, losing nearly $2 billion over the past year in addition to the $6.2 billion writedown. Microsoft is still pouring money into runner-up search engine Bing, but it only has a fraction of the market share rival Google enjoys. "It brings into question Microsoftâ(TM)s ability to compete on the advertising-driven web and suggests this is a market segment that is beyond Microsoft, creating long-term doubts over Bingâ(TM)s future," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, said via email."
I took technical writing in college, and we had a female professor teaching the class: Dana Witmer. One of my lab partners got the bright idea to name the technical file "dirtydana" which I have to admit was funny, but I stopped laughing when they told me they *handed it in* with that name.
About a week later the professor met with all the students and commented that our filename was "interesting" and then started giggling. Not all women are uptight over trivial stuff.
As for WHY women don't like engineering/programming, I think it's because they are smart. They are smart enough not to go into such a boring field where the managers or HR treat you like low-level employees to be shoved into basement offices & worked 50 hours w/o overtime pay.
I'm Republican. I can honestly say that's it's been extremely hot these last two summers. HOWEVER I can also honestly say that's it's been extremely cold these last three winters. One of our yard squirrels froze solid.
So maybe we're experiencing both global warming and cooling at the same time! (Or maybe the earth got thrown off its axis and is doomed..... ala the Hugo Nominated movie The Day the Earth Caught Fire.)
What is TRULY cold-hearted is bossing people around as if they were puppets (or too stupid to make their own decisions). The pro-big government types fit that model perfectly. Example:
You WILL buy hopsital insurance, and you WILL buy complete coverage even for piddly doctor visits, because we've arbitrarily decided that catastrophic/high deductible insurance is outlawed (true under both Romney and Obamacare). In fact "cold hearted" is probably too weak a term. "Dictatorial" is probably better. Though they'd probably describe themselves as "parents" over the citzens (who they consider too dumb to rule themselves).
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>>> The programmers anticipate this and keep large groups of channels together in all-or-nothing packages
+ 1.
That is the EXACT problem. And I don't know the solution. There's nothing illegal about NBC or ABC/disney or Viacom bundling 15-20 channels as one single unit. It doesn't violate Antitrust law, nor does the FCC have jurisdiction over private lines, so the government can't do anything. The best way to make change is to vote with your dollar (cancel the CATV, or deliberately pick lowcost options like $25 Dish).
>>> I'd rather watch PBS Kids than just about anything else on cable. Educational/Entertainment programming designed for 6 year olds insults my intelligence less, than what usually passes as entertainment for mature adults.
I just found my new facebook status.
Perfect.
Dont watch Qubo though. I get it free off my antenna and tried watching it a few times, but it's pretty dumbed down (like toddler level).
>>> if I'm paying for cable and the cable company is paying other companies for their content, shouldn't it be ad free?
The channels get most of their money from 20 minutes of ads each hour. The subscriber fees of ~50 cents per home/month are just an extra bonus.
>>>my parent are paying something nuts, like 180USD/mo, for a bundled cable package, in rural Maine.
That's higher than normal. Most people pay around $100/mo for TV + internet + phone. Add $7 or $10 for every extra TV.
I live near 2 major cities, so I just use antenna for 40 channels. i.e. Free. Add the internet and phone, and my total is about $30 a month.
>>>pretty popular channels such as nickelodeon and MTV.
I visited the DirecTV website last night, and they were providing alternate ways to watch your favorite channels. Basically a list linking to hulu and amazon. As I looked over the list, I found I really don't miss ANY of the channels. I watch iCarly on Nick, and that's about it. (And MTV's shows are rather sucky.)
Also this is why Viacom pulled the shows off their websites. They didn't want DirecTV viewers to be watching the channels, even after they had been yanked. (Now I'm curious if they restore them or not.)
>>>If I buy cable TV and it includes ESPN, does that mean I want ESPN? No.
LOL!
And ESPN charges 3-4 dollars per home each month. What a rip. I thought this part of the article was insightful: "I recently witnessed HTC's official Twitter account proudly retweeting a couple of folk who claimed theyâ(TM)d managed to get a full day's use out of their HTC One X phones, as if this were some kind of epic win. Wow! A whole day without a trip to the charger! I'm sorry, but in my book a full day is the absolute minimum one should expect from a smartphone..."
Agreed. My old Nokia may be "dumb" but it lasts the entire workweek (5 days...sometimes 6). Who want a phone that dies partway through the day? You would miss incoming calls.
>>>Correction, they want big screens
Yeah but arent they tired of carrying around a big 4 or 5 inch slab hanging off their hip? My phone measures a measley 2.5 x 1" and I already get annoyed having to carry* it around all the time.
*
*Still haven't found a good case. The snap-on kind pops off & falls to the ground, and the belt-type doesn't work when I have no belt.
As I said in my original post, I compared an EQUIVALENT diesel Jetta to a gasoline Jetta with the same trim, equipment, et cetera. You did not. The difference is only ~1000. (Ditto the difference between a gasser Beetle/Gulf and a diesel Beetle/Gulf).
>>>In the title bar at the top, right-click on the space to the right of the "Open a new tab" button [+]. Click on "Menu Bar" in the context menu.
Yeah I did but still doesn't look the same as the older interface my brother had on Firefox 4. So I went to the LTS version (10) with 2 years of support & the same look he wanted.
You're right. My Insight's lifetime MPG is actually 89.something, not 80, because I drive it like I'm playing a videogame (trying to get the highest score).
The MPG is very variable depending upon HOW you drive it..... if I drove it like a sportscar wtih rapid starts and stops, I'd have it down near 40mpg. ALSO THAT WOMAN had her Insight modified by Honda, whereas mine is still on the original programming that had been rated 70mpg by the US-EPA.
>>>Interesting. So it's ok for you to sell to others a "damaged product" as "like new", but it isn't ok for others to do the same to you.
The Apple Mac box is a SHIPPING BOX. Nobody expects it to arrive in perfect-mint condition (and if they do, then they should tell me in advance, and give me an extra $10, in order to fulfill their special needs).
>>>That Republicans and Tories are all cold-hearted?
What is TRULY cold-hearted is bossing people around as if they were puppets (or too stupid to make their own decisions). The pro-big government types fit that model perfectly. Example:
You WILL buy hopsital insurance, and you WILL buy complete coverage even for piddly $100 doctor visits, because we've arbitrarily decided that catastrophic/high deductible insurance is outlawed (true under both Romney and Obamacare). In fact "cold hearted" is probably too weak a term. "Dictatorial" is probably better. Though they'd probably describe themselves as "parents" over the citzens (who they consider dumb like children).
My dad used to clean offices, and I'd help. The office used Wang computers. There were jokes all over the office BY women to other women about how Lisa's husband loves his Wang, or Julie needs at leat 8 hours a day with her wang to feel satisfied.
I doubt the men at this engineering office had any objections. (Else they would have stopped it.)
>>>Independently owned stores pay better and treat their employees better than walmart.
That's a nice religious belief you have there, but not true. I worked for a local "independent" store and it never did pay me for my last week of work. I entered my time in the timecard, but the manager never apprroved it, so no paycheck was ever issed. POINT: Independent stores can be just as evil as Walmart, and because they are low-profile, get away with it.
The Congress can do no such thing. The Supreme Court's juris diction includes all cases, per the constitution.
"failure to comply with a lawfully issued National Security Letter interferes with the United States' vindication of its sovereign interests in law enforcement, counterintelligence, and protecting national security."
Vindication???
That's an odd choice of words. Almost like revenge. (shrug). I would argue that the NSL violates the U.S. Constitution's requirement of a judge-issued search warrant, and an individual's right to be secure in his person, papers, and effects. Therefore the letter is null-and-void from the date of its creation. It is as if the letter never existed, because it has zero force of law.
I always hear a lot of negative things about Walmart, but I have no problem with them. They don't do anything that other stores are not equally guilty of. So if I boycotted Walmart for being "evil" then I'd have to boycott all the stores, and have nowhere left to shop.
The man who founded Walmart wanted to provide good products at a low price, so the low-income people in rural America could afford to live a middle-income lifestyle. James Cash Penney had a similar mission when he was a young man (his first store was called The Golden Rule... referencing the bible). After these men died both of their stores made mistakes, but they still follow the same root goal: Provide products at reasonable prices which people can afford to buy. Jeans for $15, shirts for $10, TVs for $100, food at 10-20% less than other stores, and so on.
Not me. I'm buying a new PC/laptop NOW while it still comes with Windows 7, versus getting stuck with Vista Part 2 (Win8).
Oh and not everything is bright & shiny. The article continues: "The charge was an acknowledgement that the companyâ(TM)s struggling online services division is a significant financial drag on the company, losing nearly $2 billion over the past year in addition to the $6.2 billion writedown. Microsoft is still pouring money into runner-up search engine Bing, but it only has a fraction of the market share rival Google enjoys. "It brings into question Microsoftâ(TM)s ability to compete on the advertising-driven web and suggests this is a market segment that is beyond Microsoft, creating long-term doubts over Bingâ(TM)s future," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, said via email."
>>>makes them billions of dollars
Doesn't Apple give-away lots of free apps? (Like how B&N and amazon give-away lots of free kindlebooks.)
I took technical writing in college, and we had a female professor teaching the class: Dana Witmer. One of my lab partners got the bright idea to name the technical file "dirtydana" which I have to admit was funny, but I stopped laughing when they told me they *handed it in* with that name.
About a week later the professor met with all the students and commented that our filename was "interesting" and then started giggling. Not all women are uptight over trivial stuff.
As for WHY women don't like engineering/programming, I think it's because they are smart. They are smart enough not to go into such a boring field where the managers or HR treat you like low-level employees to be shoved into basement offices & worked 50 hours w/o overtime pay.
I'm Republican. I can honestly say that's it's been extremely hot these last two summers. HOWEVER I can also honestly say that's it's been extremely cold these last three winters. One of our yard squirrels froze solid.
So maybe we're experiencing both global warming and cooling at the same time! (Or maybe the earth got thrown off its axis and is doomed..... ala the Hugo Nominated movie The Day the Earth Caught Fire.)
What is TRULY cold-hearted is bossing people around as if they were puppets (or too stupid to make their own decisions). The pro-big government types fit that model perfectly. Example:
You WILL buy hopsital insurance, and you WILL buy complete coverage even for piddly doctor visits, because we've arbitrarily decided that catastrophic/high deductible insurance is outlawed (true under both Romney and Obamacare). In fact "cold hearted" is probably too weak a term. "Dictatorial" is probably better. Though they'd probably describe themselves as "parents" over the citzens (who they consider too dumb to rule themselves).
I've always preferred 0x5MA11B00B5 myself.
Why Firefox?
Yeah like I care. What are they going to do? Complain to ebay? "They got a scratch on the Apple Mac cardbaord box!!!" Ebay would just laugh at them.