Generally the really expensive broadband stories come from people that live in small towns...
Care to back that up? I live in rural northeastern Kansas, and I pay $29.95 each month for broadband cable Internet (no cable TV). No gimmics. No special rate for 6-months. And I know I'll be paying this same rate for the 12 months after I signed up.
Last October I moved from another smaller small town in the vicinity and paid the exact same with a different provider. Both providers are excellent. I currently get between 4-5 Mbps download, which is much much much more than what my parents got in the SF Bay Area from a phone/DSL company that rhymnes with 'hell'.
I supposed I could shop at..gulp.. worst buy even though they treat their employees like dirt and seem to be the walmart of the tech industry.
I happened to stop by Best Buy tonight just to take a look around. I was hounded by no fewer than 6 employees who *all* mentioned that I shouldn't worry because they didn't work on commission. I almost felt so bad for them.
I work in a high school with wireless and laptops, and it all depends on how the teacher lets the students use the laptops. We had parent-teacher conferences a few weeks ago, and on a pass around the room, I noticed that 75% of them were playing freecell or some flash/java game or listening to yahoo radio.
And certain teachers use the laptops to entertain the class, rather than to actually instruct. This is the real problem. You have educators at all levels who do not know how to effectively turn off technology in the classroom, or know when to use it.
Whoa... I never said anything was stolen. I just said I didn't pay for it.
TiVo online scheduling works just fine, like I said. But to improve WAF (wife acceptance factor), complete integration with Yahoo would be a very cool thing.
Oh TiVo knows. On the menu where you can edit your channel lineup, you can see something like "2 WCBS (AIR)" "261 ESPN (SAT)". It makes it clear through which input that it is.
I'd be crazy to pay for both satellite and cable.:-)
I see your point. My local cable provides two sets of broadcast channels from the two local markets, but they are through the same provider. Looking back over my post, my question wasn't very clear.
With TiVo, you can choose multiple TV providers (eg satellite and cable, or broadcast for that matter). You can edit the list of channels for each of them. TiVo online scheduling allows you to see exactly the channels you specified.
With Yahoo TV, it assumes that you only have one provider (just satellite or cable). So I cannot add channels from local cable and from my satellite provider through their interface, even though my TiVo does get these channels.
So what about sports stadiums? The San Francisco Giants changed their stadium's name from Pac Bell Park to SBC Park (announcer Jon Miller refuses to call it either). But now what? AT&T Park?
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If you're looking at that many levels of nesting, maybe you should look at macros? Maybe they'd even cut down on the size of your spreadsheet.
You get much better throughput sending "one file" (the tar) rather than read file send file, read file, send file.
For those who didn't know, that was the secret message decoded from A Christmas Story.
... and I for one welcome our new Mac OS X x86 installing overlords
Generally the really expensive broadband stories come from people that live in small towns...
Care to back that up? I live in rural northeastern Kansas, and I pay $29.95 each month for broadband cable Internet (no cable TV). No gimmics. No special rate for 6-months. And I know I'll be paying this same rate for the 12 months after I signed up.
Last October I moved from another smaller small town in the vicinity and paid the exact same with a different provider. Both providers are excellent. I currently get between 4-5 Mbps download, which is much much much more than what my parents got in the SF Bay Area from a phone/DSL company that rhymnes with 'hell'.
"...is a movie theater"
If the owner of the cell phone is a movie theater, then we have worse problems!
>> Copying Netflix movies is like bringing a doggie bag to an all-you-can-eat buffet.
> No, it'd be like bringing a copying machine to an all-you-can-eat buffet.
Yes, because everyone loves seeing pictures of almost-decent food!
Ali? Ali? Ali's sister?
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Come back Ali! Come back Ali's sister! You mean everything to me!
...scientists predict that 2006 will be the coldest year on record (at E3).
Awesome. Nice reference to a classic.
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MOD THIS PARENT UP!! Nobody gets this! To ID or not to ID is not about religion or science, but politics!
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easy, they downloaded it off bittorrent, of course!
I supposed I could shop at ..gulp.. worst buy even though they treat their employees like dirt and seem to be the walmart of the tech industry.
I happened to stop by Best Buy tonight just to take a look around. I was hounded by no fewer than 6 employees who *all* mentioned that I shouldn't worry because they didn't work on commission. I almost felt so bad for them.
Well then. I'll take my Freedom Software and go home.
I work in a high school with wireless and laptops, and it all depends on how the teacher lets the students use the laptops. We had parent-teacher conferences a few weeks ago, and on a pass around the room, I noticed that 75% of them were playing freecell or some flash/java game or listening to yahoo radio.
And certain teachers use the laptops to entertain the class, rather than to actually instruct. This is the real problem. You have educators at all levels who do not know how to effectively turn off technology in the classroom, or know when to use it.
Yeah... Children's Hospital in Oakland, CA (my mom used to work there) also needs 30 copies of the best of the Hanson's Live!!!
Whoa... I never said anything was stolen. I just said I didn't pay for it.
TiVo online scheduling works just fine, like I said. But to improve WAF (wife acceptance factor), complete integration with Yahoo would be a very cool thing.
Oh TiVo knows. On the menu where you can edit your channel lineup, you can see something like "2 WCBS (AIR)" "261 ESPN (SAT)". It makes it clear through which input that it is.
:-)
I'd be crazy to pay for both satellite and cable.
I see your point. My local cable provides two sets of broadcast channels from the two local markets, but they are through the same provider. Looking back over my post, my question wasn't very clear.
With TiVo, you can choose multiple TV providers (eg satellite and cable, or broadcast for that matter). You can edit the list of channels for each of them. TiVo online scheduling allows you to see exactly the channels you specified.
With Yahoo TV, it assumes that you only have one provider (just satellite or cable). So I cannot add channels from local cable and from my satellite provider through their interface, even though my TiVo does get these channels.
Make more sense?
"Ah yes, the Intelligent Designer who didn't realize that Adam would need a mate."
Maybe he wanted to give Adam some time to realize that he (Adam) needed a mate?
On Yahoo! TV you cannot add channels from two sources, such as satellite and cable, even though you can with the Tivo online scheduling service.
I was going to show this Yahoo! thing to my wife to show her how to record shows by herself, but not anymore!
So what about sports stadiums? The San Francisco Giants changed their stadium's name from Pac Bell Park to SBC Park (announcer Jon Miller refuses to call it either). But now what? AT&T Park?
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do you go around with shampoo in your hair often?