PS - I didn't get any stinking Bush tax cut. I'm not rich enough. Repeal the damn thing already!
Bullshit. Pure bullshit. If you have a job and are above the poverty line, you got - at least - $300 in tax cuts going back a few years.
And it's not one "damn thing", it's multiple tax cuts. Death taxes, capital gains taxes, etc. There were lots of taxes that have been cut so you can't just "repeal the damn thing". You have to repeal lots of damn things.
Your post makes me think you have absolutely no idea what you are talking about.
So, am I missing something here? Basically, the article is saying, "media is less consolidated now with the advent of the internet".
No duh. Not unlike the invention of the printing press, the internet allows MANY more people to publish than it's predecessors. Not exactly a huge revelation so I am wondering if I missed something in the article.
I guess Microsoft is now in the Linux support business. Like Oracle. Like RedHat. Like IBM. And many others...
It's only a matter of time before the "divide and conquer" strategy rears it's head, no? They'll slowly corrupt, pollute, and confuse the marketplace and slowly but surely diminish the public's perception of Linux and all its flavors. The method isn't obvious right now but history suggests this will be their strategy. You and I know the real deal, but the genreal public doesn't. And the general public listens to Microsoft. Since they are now associated with Linux, they gain greater power over Linux - while still maintaining their own competing product.
I don't think you want Linux to be associated with China as your "marketing plan" to get people to switch.
Perception is not always the same as reality. So to the layman, if Linux = China - he'll stay away because he doesn't want a "Chinese" version of Windows.
Sad, but this is the level of understanding you are dealing with.
At library or movie theatre? no problemo, phone goes in silent mode automatically.
Bad idea. I don't want my phone doing ANYTHING that I don't want it to do "automatically". I miss enough calls as it is because my phone doesn't vibrate hard enough for me to feel it in my pocket - and now you want to automatically move MY phone to silent mode without telling me?
I agree that phones in quiet places are a problem. But this is not the solution.
Ruby Ridge? Waco? Why yes, there was a response from a concerned citizen to those events. I can't say whether he was left or right but he most definitely responded.
(sidenote: I hate to even have to disclaim this but I am not promoting this as an APPROPRIATE response, rather, I am just telling you that these events were responded to)
And, as I said in a previous post, the quality difference between a download from iTunes and a CD is not a problem for me
Fair enough. But I'd like to point out that there IS a quality difference. It might not be large enough to matter (to you and others) but it IS present. That's all I was trying to say. So, if your ultimate goal is to get out from under the DRM (and make MP3's), then buying iTunes and converting them to mp3's (via burned CD) is a poor choice when compared to buying a REAL CD and converting it to mp3. The real CD will have substantially better quality, especially if ripped to 192 or 320 mp3. Why? Because you are starting with a cleaner source.
And for the record, I didn't call anyone an idiot. I was quoting the previous poster.
RE: your apple iTunes songs....
I burned them to standard CD format (removing the DRM) and I used a program to legally strip off the DRM restrictions using my valid key, and thus not breaking any encryption (no DMCA issues)
Question for you-
Is the quality of your burned CD the same as the one you bought at the store? No.
Now, you can argue I am being picky, but I think that matters and relates to the GP's post about "starting" at MP3. The mp3's you re-rip from your burned album are, relatively speaking, low quality when compared to a 192 or 320 ripped from a store bought CD. Correct, no?
You don't get all of the Siruis channels online when you buy a subscription to Sirius. They only offer a few channels online - mostly music. In fact, I don't think there is a single talk channel available.
So, with this, you get ALL the Sirius channels online. That's cool. But, it's $13/mo. That's not cool.
Since you are a hemophiliac, I'd like to know if you can use a styptic pencil in this situation?
I am not quite sure how it works but I was curious because I used one successfully on a fairly major leg wound -- and it worked like a charm. It hurt like hell but it DID stop the bleeding, eventually.
(sidenote: I was in a pinch and didn't have other options at my disposal)
You know, I just about took your comment at face value until I started thinking about it. Is spam over IM, really, a big deal? I ask because I genuinely don't know.
I use all of the major IM clients (Yahoo, MSN, AOL, Trillian) and to date, I have never received spam over IM. Not one. Ever. I do have my accounts setup so I can accept/deny friends but other than that, I have not done anything outside of the default setup.
I realize that my anecdote does not speak to the general trend so I have to ask. Please, someone enlighten me as to the SCALE of this problem.
Because the scale of the problem determines if I am comfortable allowing Yahoo to remove links at their whim. In principle alone, I am very much against this practice.
I just tried this with a friend. I use Trillian. He uses Yahoo.
We could both send Youtube links back and forth with no problem. We tried about 30 different times both with youtube.com as well as deep links directly to videos. No problems whatsoever.
Is anyone else able to reproduce this? Until so, I am calling bullshit.
It's not imaginary value. It's REAL value. As in, you can exchange your shares for real, actual currency. That isn't imaginary at all. Arbitrary (in pricing), yes. Imaginary, no. Stocks are no more imaginary than the dollar bills sitting in your wallet. Both are subject to others placing "value" on them and both are "worth something" as long as people believe they are worth something.
Anyway, the point the GP was making is this: They "spent" 1.5% of their worth and received back 5% of their worth when the stock moved up (as measured by the market capitalization)
This happens all the time in the stock market, especially with lawsuits. You see that a company is being sued for $1B. If they paid it - in cash - tommorrow, it would make the company $1B less valuable, right? Right. Except, when you check the stock the next day, you see it went down $10B in value (amount of daily change x number of shares outstanding).
The smarter ones of us, profit from this difference on a regular basis. Often, in the stock market, perception is MUCH worse than reality. Of course, sometimes, perception is much better than reality (Enron) so do your homework and see how it looks to you. Yea for capitalism and differing viewpoints! Without them, there'd be nobody to bet against you.
Well, for one thing, I sure as hell wouldn't turn the "media" industry into a government regulated industry, like you suggest, where some un-elected body gets to dole out the compulsary licensing money to the "copyright holders". $25 would VERY quickly turn to $30...and on and on it would go. Before you know it, we'd have big wankfest's here on/. whining about our yearly fee for content and how expensive it has become over the years.
No, compulsary license is not the way to fix copyright law. You don't fix copyright by creating MORE bureaucracy.
I won't even respond to the rest of your jaded post. It speaks for itself. But you should realize that there is nothing endemic or systematic about "sales" that forces one to be a liar. By your rationale, ALL salesman are liars. As in any career, there are people who do things right...and people who do things wrong. Your entire post only addressed one-half of that equation.
Hey, thanks for saying what I've thought for quite a while. All this time, I've been feeling guilty for "liking" O'Reilly. He's guy that I think has been reasonably fair on most issues. Yes, he's conservative, but at least he's honest about who he is shilling for.
Compared with Hannity or Rush, it's not even close. Now, THOSE guys are definitely nothing more than Republican talking arms. Just listen - it's ridiculously easy to see that.
Anyway, thanks for the Bill comment. I think he unfairly gets lumped in with Hannity and Rush and I find he's not nearly that bad.
I am not sure I agree with your black/white characterization of the world.
If I am describing an issue to you and I describe it using MY terms, then I have framed the debate in my terms. That's not lying unless I *knowingly* withhold critical information or I frame the debate so badly as to not even address the issue (more common with politicos).
It kind of like sales: you will always sell your product on the positives. Nobody goes into sales and says "Well, Mr Customer, here are some things my product CAN'T do". So are you lying by doing that? No, you are framing the discussion in the most positive light you can, without being dishonest about your claims.
Your customer, if he is smart, will ask you whether your product can do this or that -- and you must be truthful with you answers. But it's not up to the framer to cast skepticism. It's up to the receiver of that information. If YOU don't question, then nobody is going to volunteer negative information that puts them or the product in a bad light. That doesn't mean they are, necessarily, lying.
All in all, there is a very fine line between lying, dishonesty, spin, omitting information, and the truth. Making sweeping generalizations about liars does not help you parse truth from fiction. And don't even get me started on interpreting "intentions". That's a black hole of mental masturbation....
In my grad program, I had an econ professor who came in one day and wrote out a "proof" that lawyers were 100% non-value added to the economy as a whole.
So yes, China going and doing this is an openly aggressive act. It's not as aggressive as cutting a cable would be, or landing soldiers in Hawaii, but don't think it's somehow innocent.
Get a grip. The US most certainly takes countersurveillance measures against other's satellites. You just don't hear about it. Spying is a dirty game. It goes both ways and every nation knows that. So do the people involved.
All you can say, as a normal citizen (you aren't in SIGINT are you?), is that you hope it doesn't get out of control and lead to bigger things.
Pwned came from the word owned. That much is clear. But I have a little update to add based on my own experience. I have no idea if this theory is correct but I think it might add a little context and might explain the origins of pwned, with a "p". I can only tell you about when I first saw it.
...and it's not "owned with a stick" as a previous poster mentioned, which is clever - but wrong.
I have played computer games a long time. A really long time, in fact. And the first time I remember seeing pwned with a "p", was back in the early counterstrike beta days. Yea, as in Half Life 1 - Counterstrike (beta). Like when we had the good ole days of "gun running" (stealing all your enemies guns and "running" them back to your own base). At the time, there were really good CS players (those that had DSL) and really bad CS players (those on dial-up). Obviously, lower latency gave those with DSL a major advantage. And remember, this was the early days of FPS multiplayers so there were still hiccups and imbalances so yes - latency made a major difference. Anyway, on almost every occasion, the low-ping-bastards (LPB) would absolutely destroy the high-ping-bastard (HPBs).
If you look at your keyboard, you will see that "o" is right next to "p", in most cases. The non-word "pwned" originially came from DSL players trying to type between kills. They just hit the wrong damn button. And then some newb (who didn't know what it meant), kept it going as he started "pwN1ng joo".
Why doesn't anyone run campaigns saying 'Candidate X voted for 20 bills that restrict individual freedom in the last session?'
Simple: Because, contrary to slashdot, very few people really care. They are much more scared of the boogeyman than losing some ambiguous "individual right". Anyone that sounds weak on crime/terrorism in favor of individual rights is doomed.
I don't agree but that's the reality of the situation.
Allow me to explain. I sell instrumentation, valves, etc for pipelines. And we have a lot of pipelines in Oklahoma so I am well versed in their operating procedures and their systems.
This idea of sending a waveguide down the pipeline is crazy. There is so much instrumentation on the pipes that there WILL be interference. Pressure transmitters, Water monitors, H2S monitors, temp transmitters, control valves, and a whole host of other equipment. In fact, I can think of several products that USE waveguides - such as the flow meters they use to "count" their product.
If you think the pipeline companies are going to take a chance that it will "just work", you are kidding yourself. They will not sacrifice ANYTHING that might affect the safety of that pipeline. And those instruments I just laid out are critical to them running the pipeline safely and efficiently.
And I am not even delving into the DOT (dept of transportation) issues. The DOT regulates transmission pipelines (the big pipes). I can only imagine the red-tape you will encounter if you want to change how those operate. You don't have a chance in hell of pushing that through the DOT.
In other words, pipeline companies don't just go out and try new things. They test, test, test, certify, study, and re-test before they even think of making a change. And really, that's a good thing for all of you, lest you deal with a pipeline explosion in your neighborhood.
If you want to record Hi-Def shows, you can buy a Mac mini + EyeTV + extra RAM for a total of about $1000
So you can record the HD version of Sopranos on HBO? Or the movie of the week on TNT-HD? Or the latest game on ESPN-HD?
The answer is: no. You can't do that with your Apple. Why? Because you can't put a CableCard in your apple (or your PC, for that matter).
Read and understand this ppl: To record (most) HD programming over your cable system, you NEED a cablecard. OTA channels are nice (ABC, NBC, CBS) but they are a small subset of the HD channels available. And for most of us, we want to record ALL of our HD channels. And to do that -- you need a cablecard from your cable company (or their DVR)
This is the same non-story posted long ago. Lots of talk about DIY and set top boxes but very few ppl understand why those are non-starters. I would LOVE to have a MythTV box but I am not going to waste my time until there is somekind of CableCard implementation that will allow me to DVR -ALL- of my HD channels.
I am glad that Tivo has "announced" their Tivo3 box. But at this point - it's already been announced ad nauseum. We've rehashed this cablecard/tivo/dvr question many times already. Wake me up when we have a solution.
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PS - I didn't get any stinking Bush tax cut. I'm not rich enough. Repeal the damn thing already!
Bullshit. Pure bullshit. If you have a job and are above the poverty line, you got - at least - $300 in tax cuts going back a few years.
And it's not one "damn thing", it's multiple tax cuts. Death taxes, capital gains taxes, etc. There were lots of taxes that have been cut so you can't just "repeal the damn thing". You have to repeal lots of damn things.
Your post makes me think you have absolutely no idea what you are talking about.
So, am I missing something here? Basically, the article is saying, "media is less consolidated now with the advent of the internet".
No duh. Not unlike the invention of the printing press, the internet allows MANY more people to publish than it's predecessors. Not exactly a huge revelation so I am wondering if I missed something in the article.
I guess Microsoft is now in the Linux support business. Like Oracle. Like RedHat. Like IBM. And many others...
It's only a matter of time before the "divide and conquer" strategy rears it's head, no? They'll slowly corrupt, pollute, and confuse the marketplace and slowly but surely diminish the public's perception of Linux and all its flavors. The method isn't obvious right now but history suggests this will be their strategy. You and I know the real deal, but the genreal public doesn't. And the general public listens to Microsoft. Since they are now associated with Linux, they gain greater power over Linux - while still maintaining their own competing product.
Smart move.
I don't think you want Linux to be associated with China as your "marketing plan" to get people to switch.
Perception is not always the same as reality. So to the layman, if Linux = China - he'll stay away because he doesn't want a "Chinese" version of Windows.
Sad, but this is the level of understanding you are dealing with.
At library or movie theatre? no problemo, phone goes in silent mode automatically.
Bad idea. I don't want my phone doing ANYTHING that I don't want it to do "automatically". I miss enough calls as it is because my phone doesn't vibrate hard enough for me to feel it in my pocket - and now you want to automatically move MY phone to silent mode without telling me?
I agree that phones in quiet places are a problem. But this is not the solution.
Ruby Ridge? Waco? Why yes, there was a response from a concerned citizen to those events. I can't say whether he was left or right but he most definitely responded.
Here is the wiki about that response. Scroll down to the part about motivations....
(sidenote: I hate to even have to disclaim this but I am not promoting this as an APPROPRIATE response, rather, I am just telling you that these events were responded to)
And, as I said in a previous post, the quality difference between a download from iTunes and a CD is not a problem for me
Fair enough. But I'd like to point out that there IS a quality difference. It might not be large enough to matter (to you and others) but it IS present. That's all I was trying to say. So, if your ultimate goal is to get out from under the DRM (and make MP3's), then buying iTunes and converting them to mp3's (via burned CD) is a poor choice when compared to buying a REAL CD and converting it to mp3. The real CD will have substantially better quality, especially if ripped to 192 or 320 mp3. Why? Because you are starting with a cleaner source.
And for the record, I didn't call anyone an idiot. I was quoting the previous poster.
RE: your apple iTunes songs....
I burned them to standard CD format (removing the DRM) and I used a program to legally strip off the DRM restrictions using my valid key, and thus not breaking any encryption (no DMCA issues)
Question for you-
Is the quality of your burned CD the same as the one you bought at the store? No.
Now, you can argue I am being picky, but I think that matters and relates to the GP's post about "starting" at MP3. The mp3's you re-rip from your burned album are, relatively speaking, low quality when compared to a 192 or 320 ripped from a store bought CD. Correct, no?
If you win $100 million, you get the whole $100 million, right now. And you don't owe any tax on it. Yay, Canada!
Dude, that's like $1.87 US. I wouldn't be bragging...
You don't get all of the Siruis channels online when you buy a subscription to Sirius. They only offer a few channels online - mostly music. In fact, I don't think there is a single talk channel available.
So, with this, you get ALL the Sirius channels online. That's cool. But, it's $13/mo. That's not cool.
Since you are a hemophiliac, I'd like to know if you can use a styptic pencil in this situation?
I am not quite sure how it works but I was curious because I used one successfully on a fairly major leg wound -- and it worked like a charm. It hurt like hell but it DID stop the bleeding, eventually.
(sidenote: I was in a pinch and didn't have other options at my disposal)
You know, I just about took your comment at face value until I started thinking about it. Is spam over IM, really, a big deal? I ask because I genuinely don't know.
I use all of the major IM clients (Yahoo, MSN, AOL, Trillian) and to date, I have never received spam over IM. Not one. Ever. I do have my accounts setup so I can accept/deny friends but other than that, I have not done anything outside of the default setup.
I realize that my anecdote does not speak to the general trend so I have to ask. Please, someone enlighten me as to the SCALE of this problem.
Because the scale of the problem determines if I am comfortable allowing Yahoo to remove links at their whim. In principle alone, I am very much against this practice.
I just tried this with a friend. I use Trillian. He uses Yahoo.
We could both send Youtube links back and forth with no problem. We tried about 30 different times both with youtube.com as well as deep links directly to videos. No problems whatsoever.
Is anyone else able to reproduce this? Until so, I am calling bullshit.
It's not imaginary value. It's REAL value. As in, you can exchange your shares for real, actual currency. That isn't imaginary at all. Arbitrary (in pricing), yes. Imaginary, no. Stocks are no more imaginary than the dollar bills sitting in your wallet. Both are subject to others placing "value" on them and both are "worth something" as long as people believe they are worth something.
Anyway, the point the GP was making is this: They "spent" 1.5% of their worth and received back 5% of their worth when the stock moved up (as measured by the market capitalization)
This happens all the time in the stock market, especially with lawsuits. You see that a company is being sued for $1B. If they paid it - in cash - tommorrow, it would make the company $1B less valuable, right? Right. Except, when you check the stock the next day, you see it went down $10B in value (amount of daily change x number of shares outstanding).
The smarter ones of us, profit from this difference on a regular basis. Often, in the stock market, perception is MUCH worse than reality. Of course, sometimes, perception is much better than reality (Enron) so do your homework and see how it looks to you. Yea for capitalism and differing viewpoints! Without them, there'd be nobody to bet against you.
If you could, what would you do to fix copyright?
/. whining about our yearly fee for content and how expensive it has become over the years.
Well, for one thing, I sure as hell wouldn't turn the "media" industry into a government regulated industry, like you suggest, where some un-elected body gets to dole out the compulsary licensing money to the "copyright holders". $25 would VERY quickly turn to $30...and on and on it would go. Before you know it, we'd have big wankfest's here on
No, compulsary license is not the way to fix copyright law. You don't fix copyright by creating MORE bureaucracy.
unsuccessful Sales people are liars, in general.
Fixed that for you.
I won't even respond to the rest of your jaded post. It speaks for itself. But you should realize that there is nothing endemic or systematic about "sales" that forces one to be a liar. By your rationale, ALL salesman are liars. As in any career, there are people who do things right...and people who do things wrong. Your entire post only addressed one-half of that equation.
Hey, thanks for saying what I've thought for quite a while. All this time, I've been feeling guilty for "liking" O'Reilly. He's guy that I think has been reasonably fair on most issues. Yes, he's conservative, but at least he's honest about who he is shilling for.
Compared with Hannity or Rush, it's not even close. Now, THOSE guys are definitely nothing more than Republican talking arms. Just listen - it's ridiculously easy to see that.
Anyway, thanks for the Bill comment. I think he unfairly gets lumped in with Hannity and Rush and I find he's not nearly that bad.
I am not sure I agree with your black/white characterization of the world.
If I am describing an issue to you and I describe it using MY terms, then I have framed the debate in my terms. That's not lying unless I *knowingly* withhold critical information or I frame the debate so badly as to not even address the issue (more common with politicos).
It kind of like sales: you will always sell your product on the positives. Nobody goes into sales and says "Well, Mr Customer, here are some things my product CAN'T do". So are you lying by doing that? No, you are framing the discussion in the most positive light you can, without being dishonest about your claims.
Your customer, if he is smart, will ask you whether your product can do this or that -- and you must be truthful with you answers. But it's not up to the framer to cast skepticism. It's up to the receiver of that information. If YOU don't question, then nobody is going to volunteer negative information that puts them or the product in a bad light. That doesn't mean they are, necessarily, lying.
All in all, there is a very fine line between lying, dishonesty, spin, omitting information, and the truth. Making sweeping generalizations about liars does not help you parse truth from fiction. And don't even get me started on interpreting "intentions". That's a black hole of mental masturbation....
In my grad program, I had an econ professor who came in one day and wrote out a "proof" that lawyers were 100% non-value added to the economy as a whole.
And it was VERY detailed.
I think he was on to something there....
Dude, most funds are transmitted electronically these days. Those boxes of money prolly do get heavy, though. :)
So yes, China going and doing this is an openly aggressive act. It's not as aggressive as cutting a cable would be, or landing soldiers in Hawaii, but don't think it's somehow innocent.
Get a grip. The US most certainly takes countersurveillance measures against other's satellites. You just don't hear about it. Spying is a dirty game. It goes both ways and every nation knows that. So do the people involved.
All you can say, as a normal citizen (you aren't in SIGINT are you?), is that you hope it doesn't get out of control and lead to bigger things.
This is routine. It always has been...
Pwned came from the word owned. That much is clear. But I have a little update to add based on my own experience. I have no idea if this theory is correct but I think it might add a little context and might explain the origins of pwned, with a "p". I can only tell you about when I first saw it.
...and it's not "owned with a stick" as a previous poster mentioned, which is clever - but wrong.
I have played computer games a long time. A really long time, in fact. And the first time I remember seeing pwned with a "p", was back in the early counterstrike beta days. Yea, as in Half Life 1 - Counterstrike (beta). Like when we had the good ole days of "gun running" (stealing all your enemies guns and "running" them back to your own base). At the time, there were really good CS players (those that had DSL) and really bad CS players (those on dial-up). Obviously, lower latency gave those with DSL a major advantage. And remember, this was the early days of FPS multiplayers so there were still hiccups and imbalances so yes - latency made a major difference. Anyway, on almost every occasion, the low-ping-bastards (LPB) would absolutely destroy the high-ping-bastard (HPBs).
If you look at your keyboard, you will see that "o" is right next to "p", in most cases. The non-word "pwned" originially came from DSL players trying to type between kills. They just hit the wrong damn button. And then some newb (who didn't know what it meant), kept it going as he started "pwN1ng joo".
Anyone remember seeing it earlier?
Why doesn't anyone run campaigns saying 'Candidate X voted for 20 bills that restrict individual freedom in the last session?'
Simple: Because, contrary to slashdot, very few people really care. They are much more scared of the boogeyman than losing some ambiguous "individual right". Anyone that sounds weak on crime/terrorism in favor of individual rights is doomed.
I don't agree but that's the reality of the situation.
This idea is dead-on-arrival.
Allow me to explain. I sell instrumentation, valves, etc for pipelines. And we have a lot of pipelines in Oklahoma so I am well versed in their operating procedures and their systems.
This idea of sending a waveguide down the pipeline is crazy. There is so much instrumentation on the pipes that there WILL be interference. Pressure transmitters, Water monitors, H2S monitors, temp transmitters, control valves, and a whole host of other equipment. In fact, I can think of several products that USE waveguides - such as the flow meters they use to "count" their product.
If you think the pipeline companies are going to take a chance that it will "just work", you are kidding yourself. They will not sacrifice ANYTHING that might affect the safety of that pipeline. And those instruments I just laid out are critical to them running the pipeline safely and efficiently.
And I am not even delving into the DOT (dept of transportation) issues. The DOT regulates transmission pipelines (the big pipes). I can only imagine the red-tape you will encounter if you want to change how those operate. You don't have a chance in hell of pushing that through the DOT.
In other words, pipeline companies don't just go out and try new things. They test, test, test, certify, study, and re-test before they even think of making a change. And really, that's a good thing for all of you, lest you deal with a pipeline explosion in your neighborhood.
If you want to record Hi-Def shows, you can buy a Mac mini + EyeTV + extra RAM for a total of about $1000
So you can record the HD version of Sopranos on HBO? Or the movie of the week on TNT-HD? Or the latest game on ESPN-HD?
The answer is: no. You can't do that with your Apple. Why? Because you can't put a CableCard in your apple (or your PC, for that matter).
Read and understand this ppl: To record (most) HD programming over your cable system, you NEED a cablecard. OTA channels are nice (ABC, NBC, CBS) but they are a small subset of the HD channels available. And for most of us, we want to record ALL of our HD channels. And to do that -- you need a cablecard from your cable company (or their DVR)
This is the same non-story posted long ago. Lots of talk about DIY and set top boxes but very few ppl understand why those are non-starters. I would LOVE to have a MythTV box but I am not going to waste my time until there is somekind of CableCard implementation that will allow me to DVR -ALL- of my HD channels.
I am glad that Tivo has "announced" their Tivo3 box. But at this point - it's already been announced ad nauseum. We've rehashed this cablecard/tivo/dvr question many times already. Wake me up when we have a solution.