But since we're talking about one guy taking over another guy's TV show, I'm not sure that "internet relevance" is particularly relevant to this story.
Am I the only one who, as a foreigner, has no idea who David Letterman is ? I've seen plenty of clips of gifs of Colbert on the 'Net though. He certainly is a lot more relevant than whoever Letterman is/was.
You've no idea who Letterman is, but you're certain that Colbert is more relevant?
During Johnny Carson's three decades of near stranglehold on late night TV in the US, CBS threw a little of everything (fortunately that included The Avengers and The Prisoner and Adderly) against the wall to see if something would stick. Near the end, Pat Sajak had a talk show for a little over a year.
Limbaugh filled in one night near the end of the run.
I hate to defend Comcast, but I had to get a CableCard from them for my HDHomeRun Prime tuner and it was very easy. I went to the local Comcast office, handed over my DVRs, and told them I wanted a CableCard. They verified that I was looking for an "M" card (some older Tivo models only support "S" cards apparently, so they keep both on hand), then gave me a card and updated my account/billing information. When I got home I plugged the card into my tuner, called Comcast support, and in under 30 minutes had everything working perfectly fine.
The original Series 3 TiVo (the TCD648250), on the box of which TiVo placed the letters HD rather conspicuously, was released before the specs of the M cards were absolutely completely ironed out and nailed down, so when the M card did come out, it was the same deal as the old "Pentium Ready" 486 motherboards--they built to a spec that got changed on them after it was too late to accommodate the change.
So the original S3 can use 2 S cards, one in each slot, or 2 M cards, one in each slot, but it can't use just one M card to service both tuners.
So it doesn't fully support the M card (though to be fair it would be more accurate to say the M card doesn't fully support it), but can use one the same way it would use an S card.
The later Series 3 models--and here TiVo created all kinds of confusion by calling one (the TCD652160) the HD (and the slightly fancier version the HD XL)--can use 2 S cards or one M card.
Those who have TiVo questions can find knowledgeable and helpful TiVo owners at tivocommunity.com
Why does everyone blame the Republicans for this? They're just tools here.
The Republicans are being controlled by the Fred Birch Society who are in turn controlled by the Fiendish Fluoridators with help from the Boy Sprouts and the Moonies. At the centre of this web lie the Gnomes of Zurich who are well on their way to hoarding a hundred and fifty megabucks and winning the game.
Dude, you left out the Illuminazi, the Nights Simpler, the Rosacrustaceans, and the PerryMasons.
Perhaps because s/he is now retired after a successful career that started long enough ago that s/he was in on the ground floor of working out the proper way to do this stuff?
Man, standards here at Slashdot sure have gone down.
Next thing you know someone will suggest that no one should post about hot grits unless they're actually relevant because the the article is actually about Al Green.
...that the tech industry doesn't so much discriminate against certain groups of people just because they are those groups, but that being in those groups produces a tendency on the part of a large number of that group's members to discriminate against the tech industry by not preparing themselves to be qualified to fill positions in it.
If the tech industry adjusted its standards downwards as far as what they expect hirees to know and be able to do, it wouldn't be the tech industry anymore, and pretty soon everybody working there would no longer have jobs no matter how much the requirements had been relaxed.
that relatives called 4 hours after the plane was reported late makes this thing very suspicious. This plane is intact and will be used for something at a later date
When you call someone, the "ringing" you hear is not a signal being sent back by their phone, it's something generated at the Central Office or the cell phone equivalent.
"As soon as the money left your hand. If you can't hold it, you don't have it."
got it right.
As soon as that $5,000 is handed over to the bank, the OP goes from having 5 grand to having a promise to repay, because what he has done is really to have lent that money to the bank, and as with any loan, you no longer have the money unless and until you get repaid.
Ah, a gun hater misrepresenting stand your ground. Who would have thought?
I don't know (and am not going to make assumptions about) how they feel about firearms, but I suspect them of probably having been motivated to misrepresent SYG by a case in which SYG was never a factor.
This has a lot less to do with the cable monopolies than it does with the broadcast monopolies.
Remember, the law the broadcasters were pushing for back in the early to mid-80s would have forced cable to carry all broadcast channels in the area, whether the cable customers had any interest in them or not, and forced the cable companies to pay the broadcasters for that "privilege".
The cable companies objection is that Aereo isn't forced to inflate prices to cover payments to broadcasters the way the cable companies are.
The antenna question and the some DVR other than a TiVo question are two separate issues.
Although the TiVos I mentioned do offer the flexibility of OTA or cable or both, with the ability to record two programs simultaneously while watching a third while also copying a previously recorded show from another TiVo on the same account or from a PC.
Actually, the OTA broadcasts that cable receives and "re-transmits" aren't being stolen because the cable companies have to pay those local broadcasters (which of course really means the cable subscribers do).
And the viewers via cable are just as much a part of the ratings as the OTA viewers, so ad rates reflect that higher number.
That's just the tip of the "capacitor plague" iceberg.
I had more than one Pentium II, BX chipset era motherboards flake out on me because of the caps in the voltage regulation for the CPU circuits, and don't even get me started on Series 2 and Series 3 TiVo power supplies.
Although the TiVo supplies are actually a fairly easy fix once you know that that's the problem.
Aereo is a public performance of copyrighted material. You cannot do that. You will get slapped.
A public performance?
You have every right to receive, for free, at no additional cost, any broadcast TV signal your antenna can bring in, and to record it on a DVR, and to have the DVR send it to the TV via Ethernet if you want to.
This is just subcontracting the antenna, DVR, and Ethernet part out to someone else.
A Series 3 platform TiVo would let you record digital OTA for $12.95 per month maxium, but that figure is for the entire TiVo service which includes a license to use the software as well as the guide info, and they've always sold the hardware cheap with the idea of making up the loss on selling the service.
In fact, you can probably pick up a used S3 or S3 HD or HD XL with Product Lifetime Service for $300 or less (check area Craigslists), then another $100 for a 2TB WD20EURS to slip into it and $10 -$15 for Low ESR 105 degree rated capacitors to replace the ones in the power supply pro-actively, and the only monthly cost will be the electricity.
Lurk at tivocommunity.com for a while.
You'll also find discussion of Myth and WMC there as well.
When you're paying for Aereo, you're paying as much as anything to have somebody else worry about providing you with an outdoor antenna.
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But since we're talking about one guy taking over another guy's TV show, I'm not sure that "internet relevance" is particularly relevant to this story.
If by chosen you mean self-selected, then yeah, probably so.
I expect it took CBS by surprise, though.
Am I the only one who, as a foreigner, has no idea who David Letterman is ? I've seen plenty of clips of gifs of Colbert on the 'Net though. He certainly is a lot more relevant than whoever Letterman is/was.
You've no idea who Letterman is, but you're certain that Colbert is more relevant?
More relevant in what context?
During Johnny Carson's three decades of near stranglehold on late night TV in the US, CBS threw a little of everything (fortunately that included The Avengers and The Prisoner and Adderly) against the wall to see if something would stick. Near the end, Pat Sajak had a talk show for a little over a year.
Limbaugh filled in one night near the end of the run.
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How do you know that they aren't only posting the clips of their worst work and not their best?
So much so that one suspects collusion.
I hate to defend Comcast, but I had to get a CableCard from them for my HDHomeRun Prime tuner and it was very easy. I went to the local Comcast office, handed over my DVRs, and told them I wanted a CableCard. They verified that I was looking for an "M" card (some older Tivo models only support "S" cards apparently, so they keep both on hand), then gave me a card and updated my account/billing information. When I got home I plugged the card into my tuner, called Comcast support, and in under 30 minutes had everything working perfectly fine.
The original Series 3 TiVo (the TCD648250), on the box of which TiVo placed the letters HD rather conspicuously, was released before the specs of the M cards were absolutely completely ironed out and nailed down, so when the M card did come out, it was the same deal as the old "Pentium Ready" 486 motherboards--they built to a spec that got changed on them after it was too late to accommodate the change.
So the original S3 can use 2 S cards, one in each slot, or 2 M cards, one in each slot, but it can't use just one M card to service both tuners.
So it doesn't fully support the M card (though to be fair it would be more accurate to say the M card doesn't fully support it), but can use one the same way it would use an S card.
The later Series 3 models--and here TiVo created all kinds of confusion by calling one (the TCD652160) the HD (and the slightly fancier version the HD XL)--can use 2 S cards or one M card.
Those who have TiVo questions can find knowledgeable and helpful TiVo owners at tivocommunity.com
which is not an "official" TiVo, Inc website.
Why does everyone blame the Republicans for this? They're just tools here.
The Republicans are being controlled by the Fred Birch Society who are in turn controlled by the Fiendish Fluoridators with help from the Boy Sprouts and the Moonies. At the centre of this web lie the Gnomes of Zurich who are well on their way to hoarding a hundred and fifty megabucks and winning the game.
Dude, you left out the Illuminazi, the Nights Simpler, the Rosacrustaceans, and the PerryMasons.
Don't you know anything about real conspiracies?
Former.
Gee, I wonder why.
Perhaps because s/he is now retired after a successful career that started long enough ago that s/he was in on the ground floor of working out the proper way to do this stuff?
So they should like RTFA?
Man, standards here at Slashdot sure have gone down.
Next thing you know someone will suggest that no one should post about hot grits unless they're actually relevant because the the article is actually about Al Green.
Actually, that's a pretty good analogy.
For an analogy.
...that the tech industry doesn't so much discriminate against certain groups of people just because they are those groups, but that being in those groups produces a tendency on the part of a large number of that group's members to discriminate against the tech industry by not preparing themselves to be qualified to fill positions in it.
If the tech industry adjusted its standards downwards as far as what they expect hirees to know and be able to do, it wouldn't be the tech industry anymore, and pretty soon everybody working there would no longer have jobs no matter how much the requirements had been relaxed.
that relatives called 4 hours after the plane was reported late makes this thing very suspicious. This plane is intact and will be used for something at a later date
When you call someone, the "ringing" you hear is not a signal being sent back by their phone, it's something generated at the Central Office or the cell phone equivalent.
Actually, the AC above you who said
"As soon as the money left your hand. If you can't hold it, you don't have it."
got it right.
As soon as that $5,000 is handed over to the bank, the OP goes from having 5 grand to having a promise to repay, because what he has done is really to have lent that money to the bank, and as with any loan, you no longer have the money unless and until you get repaid.
Ah, a gun hater misrepresenting stand your ground. Who would have thought?
I don't know (and am not going to make assumptions about) how they feel about firearms, but I suspect them of probably having been motivated to misrepresent SYG by a case in which SYG was never a factor.
Guilt by association was one of their primary tools.
How can you disprove intelligent design?
Go find a proponent of it and seize them with both of your hands.
Now slap them silly with your third hand.
Who calls what theft from the public?
Did you used to be Will in Seattle?
This has a lot less to do with the cable monopolies than it does with the broadcast monopolies.
Remember, the law the broadcasters were pushing for back in the early to mid-80s would have forced cable to carry all broadcast channels in the area, whether the cable customers had any interest in them or not, and forced the cable companies to pay the broadcasters for that "privilege".
The cable companies objection is that Aereo isn't forced to inflate prices to cover payments to broadcasters the way the cable companies are.
The antenna question and the some DVR other than a TiVo question are two separate issues.
Although the TiVos I mentioned do offer the flexibility of OTA or cable or both, with the ability to record two programs simultaneously while watching a third while also copying a previously recorded show from another TiVo on the same account or from a PC.
"Cable companies steal my free TV broadcasts
Is anyone doing anything about that?"
Actually, the OTA broadcasts that cable receives and "re-transmits" aren't being stolen because the cable companies have to pay those local broadcasters (which of course really means the cable subscribers do).
And the viewers via cable are just as much a part of the ratings as the OTA viewers, so ad rates reflect that higher number.
That's just the tip of the "capacitor plague" iceberg.
I had more than one Pentium II, BX chipset era motherboards flake out on me because of the caps in the voltage regulation for the CPU circuits, and don't even get me started on Series 2 and Series 3 TiVo power supplies.
Although the TiVo supplies are actually a fairly easy fix once you know that that's the problem.
The same Justice Department officials will soon leave to work for the various broadcast networks.
Yeah, too bad there aren't some in there planning to go to work for the cable giants to act as a counterbalance to them.
Aereo is a public performance of copyrighted material. You cannot do that. You will get slapped.
A public performance?
You have every right to receive, for free, at no additional cost, any broadcast TV signal your antenna can bring in, and to record it on a DVR, and to have the DVR send it to the TV via Ethernet if you want to.
This is just subcontracting the antenna, DVR, and Ethernet part out to someone else.
A Series 3 platform TiVo would let you record digital OTA for $12.95 per month maxium, but that figure is for the entire TiVo service which includes a license to use the software as well as the guide info, and they've always sold the hardware cheap with the idea of making up the loss on selling the service.
In fact, you can probably pick up a used S3 or S3 HD or HD XL with Product Lifetime Service for $300 or less (check area Craigslists), then another $100 for a 2TB WD20EURS to slip into it and $10 -$15 for Low ESR 105 degree rated capacitors to replace the ones in the power supply pro-actively, and the only monthly cost will be the electricity.
Lurk at tivocommunity.com for a while.
You'll also find discussion of Myth and WMC there as well.
When you're paying for Aereo, you're paying as much as anything to have somebody else worry about providing you with an outdoor antenna.