Are you renting or leasing that TiVo from the cable co, or did you buy it outright?
If the latter, then you aren't paying a monthly fee for the box, you're paying for the piece of hardware which you own outright to be able to use the TiVo Service, which is a combination of a month by month license to use the proprietary part of the software, and the listings service (unfortunately not as good with the switch from Tribune Media Services/Gracenote to their new overlords Rovi), and some other "intellectual property" type stuff.
Do you have to pay anything for the cable card or is the first one "free"?
(and yes "the first one is free" *is* classic pusher technique)
The removal of the word "news" will, hopefully, help draw a sharper line between Google's human-vetted Google News product, and its main search product.
Google's main product is advertising and user info (to better target advertising), not search.
Google's main product is our eyeballs, which they sell to the advertisers.
We don't pay anything to Google the way a new Chevy rolling off of the assembly line doesn't pay anything to General Motors. They get their money when someone buys the Chevy.
...and search engines to be search engines, and both to know that neither is the other, and when I'm typing something on the screen I expect it to remain on that part of the screen and not jump somewhere else.
And I'd really like to be able to right-click on a link and have an "Open with..." option that offers my choice of all the browsers I have installed, and I'd like to be able to highlight and right click and be offered my choice of search engines.
No, we're talking about the popular vote. 55% Hillary vs 43% Bernie. That's a 12 point gap, nothing the DNC did could possibly have shifted that many votes. It's time for Bernie supporters to get over their butt-hurt and act like grown ups.
The scheduling of the debates was designed to limit exposure to the public of all the Democratic candidates, thus denying them free publicity early on, leaving HRC with the then superior name recognition she already had.
If he wrote the check on a closed account, rather than just one without enough in it to cover the check, that might, in some jurisdictions, have resulted in a more serious fraud charge.
No, because I can go exchange my cable box or modem to time warner any time it breaks or a new one comes out
If I buy and it breaks I have to buy another one. And 30 years of open windows and Android has shown me that open standards mean slow performance
My experience with TWC cable boxes makes me appreciate my TiVos all the more.
When TWC started charging rent on cable modems, I bought one which is about the same quality/level of performance as what I'd be paying rent on, and for what I would have paid in rent I can buy a new one every year and break even. But I don't need a new one every year, so basically what I saved the first year repaid what I spent, so it's like I got it for free.
I think they're engaging in Dice-like thinking, that they want the site to work and to be a certain way (that involves lots of buzzwords), and they're finding it terribly inconvenient that the users, who are also the content providers who attract each other to the site, want something entirely else
....how about on the stories that are not yet "official" but are available to logged in users (grey title bar instead of green), let them comment, if they wish, and then if the story makes it to the official front page, just move it there, comments and all, instead of re-posting it and losing those comments in the process.
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...by Laura Petrie on "The Dick Van Dyke Show".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
15:50
The other, less dead, batteries forcing current through it will cause it to heat up.
It's like electrical friction.
The more internal resistance a device has, the more it's going to heat up when current is forced through it.
If it heats up enough, it might be an ignition source.
Every time I heard "plasma something" on Star Trek, the hardware in question ended up exploding.
Plasma TV? No thanks.
Just keep reversing polarity on the warp coils and you'll be fine.
Are you renting or leasing that TiVo from the cable co, or did you buy it outright?
If the latter, then you aren't paying a monthly fee for the box, you're paying for the piece of hardware which you own outright to be able to use the TiVo Service, which is a combination of a month by month license to use the proprietary part of the software, and the listings service (unfortunately not as good with the switch from Tribune Media Services/Gracenote to their new overlords Rovi), and some other "intellectual property" type stuff.
Do you have to pay anything for the cable card or is the first one "free"?
(and yes "the first one is free" *is* classic pusher technique)
The removal of the word "news" will, hopefully, help draw a sharper line between Google's human-vetted Google News product, and its main search product.
Google's main product is advertising and user info (to better target advertising), not search.
Google's main product is our eyeballs, which they sell to the advertisers.
We don't pay anything to Google the way a new Chevy rolling off of the assembly line doesn't pay anything to General Motors. They get their money when someone buys the Chevy.
There is no strong, competent woman mentioned in this thread, only Hillary.
So she got the nomination of a major political party by being weak and incompetent?
...and search engines to be search engines, and both to know that neither is the other, and when I'm typing something on the screen I expect it to remain on that part of the screen and not jump somewhere else.
And I'd really like to be able to right-click on a link and have an "Open with..." option that offers my choice of all the browsers I have installed, and I'd like to be able to highlight and right click and be offered my choice of search engines.
If you were in Chicago, would you say you were on the Dan Ryan or that you were on Dan Ryan?
Orient was used a a verb long before orientate came along.
http://www.grammarphobia.com/b...
Frankly, orientate sounds like someone was trying to make themselves sound more educated and important than they were.
Sort of like what's happened to the language used by police departments at press conferences over the last 4 or 5 decades.
I've got no problem with the Los Angeles colloquial highway naming style, though. Some things should have regional flavor.
11/8 Clinton/Kaine
11/9 Bernie 2020
No, we're talking about the popular vote. 55% Hillary vs 43% Bernie. That's a 12 point gap, nothing the DNC did could possibly have shifted that many votes. It's time for Bernie supporters to get over their butt-hurt and act like grown ups.
The scheduling of the debates was designed to limit exposure to the public of all the Democratic candidates, thus denying them free publicity early on, leaving HRC with the then superior name recognition she already had.
If he wrote the check on a closed account, rather than just one without enough in it to cover the check, that might, in some jurisdictions, have resulted in a more serious fraud charge.
Was this a small local bank?
One where there might have been someone who knew both you and your parents?
Sounds like they kept you out of some legal hot water.
Was there enough money in the account on which you actually wrote the checks to cover the checks you wrote?
Or did you write the checks on an account that had already been closed?
No, because I can go exchange my cable box or modem to time warner any time it breaks or a new one comes out
If I buy and it breaks I have to buy another one. And 30 years of open windows and Android has shown me that open standards mean slow performance
My experience with TWC cable boxes makes me appreciate my TiVos all the more.
When TWC started charging rent on cable modems, I bought one which is about the same quality/level of performance as what I'd be paying rent on, and for what I would have paid in rent I can buy a new one every year and break even. But I don't need a new one every year, so basically what I saved the first year repaid what I spent, so it's like I got it for free.
If cable companies can't have all of the money, it seems that they don't want any of it.
Provided no one else gets it, either.
Like when they don't want to wire an area, but go to great lengths to keep anyone else, especially local governments, from being allowed to do it.
I've been saying this for years but no one ever listens to me.
Of course not, the batteries in their hearing aids are dead.
Japan is also much more densely populated than the United States.
I dunno, this election season has me thinking maybe we're the ones who're more dense.
When I installed WoW it downloaded the client at 100MB/s, 19GB went so fast I thought I already had it installed previously.
Obligatory: "I live in Australia - our ISP's cache (not pronounced "cash") too.
So you're saying that in Australia the ISPs don't know the proper pronunciation of "cache" ?
For most of the one hundred years covered by the poem that would have been the King's English.
I can't tell if you're being ever so droll, or not, but I'm going to assume the former.
Firehose isn't all that new, it showed up back when Taco was still here.
Just off the top of my head I'd say it's been about a decade.
I think they're engaging in Dice-like thinking, that they want the site to work and to be a certain way (that involves lots of buzzwords), and they're finding it terribly inconvenient that the users, who are also the content providers who attract each other to the site, want something entirely else
....how about on the stories that are not yet "official" but are available to logged in users (grey title bar instead of green), let them comment, if they wish, and then if the story makes it to the official front page, just move it there, comments and all, instead of re-posting it and losing those comments in the process.