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1. If Sony claims this handheld will have PS2 quality graphics, why would anyone buy a PS2 when this comes to market? The handheld would cannibalize PS2 sales. This was exactly the reason why Sega brought out the Game Gear first instead of the Nomad, because the Nomad would've eaten into Genesis (cough cough, Mega Drive) console sales. 2. Price. The Gameboy has always been popular because of its price, not because of killer features. Nintendo's Gameboy series has always been inferior to each of its competitors (Atari Lynx, NEC TurboExpress, Sega GameGear, Sega Nomad) but price, combined with long battery life and a lock-up of third-party developers have slain all of the Gameboy's challengers. 3. Unit manufacturing cost. This handheld is going to cost a pretty penny to manufacture and it will definitely be a loss-leader throughout its life. Compare that to Nintendo making money on the Gameboy machines themselves (or with Sony making a profit on the PS2 console). Sony will not shout-out "ramming speed" and tell Scotty to set the engines to Warp9 while losing money hand-over-fist trying to drive Nintendo from the marketplace. Only Microsoft has shown courage (some courage when you have $50 billion in the bank) to execute such a normally suicidal temporary business model losing so much money per console sold. If Sony wants to put the nails into the coffin of Nintendo, they should go at this in a joint-venture with Microsoft. That way they both can shoulder the burden of driving Nintendo into the category where it should be; a third-party developer.
Since Governor Davis is being accused of losing $38 billion from California's coffers and is facing a recall, why can't we do the same to the RIAA? They themselves have lost billions in the past few years simply because they couldn't (or wouldn't) come up with a sound distribution model for downloading music. Perhaps the EFF and other groups online should start purchasing shares in each of the RIAA member megacorps and then seek out aid from the large pension funds like CalPERS in order to unseat the boards of directors and replace them with progressives? Sticking Steve Jobs on the AOL Time Warner, BMG, Vivendi, Sony, and EMI boards sure couldn't hurt matters...
Interestingly enough, Windows (98) will not operate in the year 2100 AD. My BIOS somehow got messed up and was reporting the year as 2100 (before Y2K happened). This was after I reformatted my hard drive. I kept on trying to re-install Windows98, but it simply would not work. Two days of frustration later, I finally broke down and called Microsoft customer support and spent $25 for them to figure out what was going on. They figured out it was the BIOS and the year 2100 problem. Just something to ponder.
I don't believe it [the statistics]. IE6 is gaining market share from the other versions of IE out there due to simple sales of new machines bundled with WinXP/IE6.
I was just thinking about this based upon a comment posted arguing that if life evolved on another planet similar to Earth and they developed fire, the wheel, etc. millions of years before us then they'd most likely have the radio as well. But if that's the case, then they would have had a Bill Gates figure exploiting their own ancient tech boom. So they too would have progressed to digital radio transmission, and their own music distribution industry would have insisted on protecting the content and then their Mr. Gates would've pioneered the march to encrypting their radio transmissions. So in all likelihood, what are the chances that a lot of those radio signals we are picking up that do not make any sense are encrypted signals being distorted to protect content? Or, what if their computer systems evolved off their own native versions of the Atari ST and Commodore Amigas versus Windows? (we'd be screwed!) And, if there are multiple spacefaring species out there, they too probably have defense strategies and they would definitely encrypt their broadcast transmissions. Just some points to ponder duing the wee hours here in Pacific Standard Time today...
Thanks for clarifying this. I cannot believe I lived my childhood through such a stupid period. Renting telephones from MaBell... Looking upon that whole set-up from a 21st Century perspective sure makes it look ridiculous. Then again, I rent my cable box so I guess I shouldn't be throwing any stones!:)
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Now let's assume that Atlantis is under the 3 miles of ice of present-day Antartica. If some strange incident tipped the earth off its axis and caused massive climate change enough to cause the pile-up of ice on Atlantis 12,000 years ago, wouldn't the pressure of that ice and erosion ruin anything left beneath it? That's what bugs me about the whole possibility of Atlantis under that ice; the physical evidence is probably toast. Its a pitty because after seeing that arial based map of the world the allies found in WWI that showed exactly what the continent of Antartica looks like under the ice I've thought something was fishy about the place (and I don't mean the penguins either!)... Then again, maybe I've read too much from Charles Berlitz...
SBC was once Southwestern Bell. They are trying to put MaBell back together. California used to be under Pacific Bell, but their management sold out. Like all the other BabyBells, they failed to grasp the importance of ISDN and botched offering that service to consumers. (my Atari 1040ST had ISDN capabilities supported in the OS back in 1986 but PacBell didn't start offering service until 1994/95 and it was too expensive). PacBell also botched another of their strategies. In the cellular market, they decided to get rid Pacific Bell Wireless thinking that if they kept that division, it would place them at a competitive disadvantage in restrictions on the amount of PCS licenses they could grab at the FCC auction. So they spun off Pac Bell Wireless (or mobile, whatever they called it) and that became Airtouch Communications. Airtouch became a major competitor and Pac Bell failed to grab as many PCS licenses they thought they would gain from the spinoff. Airtouch later merged into Verizon Wireless. After the failure of grabbing as many PCS licenses, Pac Bell management proper then decided to sell the company to SBC. SBC operated the company for a few years while acquiring other Baby Bells before deciding to rebrand everything under "SBC" and then hired Tommy Lee Jones to be their voice in their feel-good commercials. Spending a fortune on commercials while laying off 5,000 employees. They also hired William Daley to be their chairman. That's William Daley of the Chicago Daley clan. He was a bigshot in the AFL-CIO, then became the Democratic Party Chairman, then the Secretary of Commerce under Clinton, and now the chairman of SBC (or president). Funny to go from a bigwig in the unions and now is employed by a company's board of directors famous for being anti-labor to the extreme...
If you don't want to support SBC at all, then make sure your cell phone (why can't we call them "mobile phones" like the British since PCS is not cellular?) is not through Cingular. SBC owns the majority of Cingular stock... Use AT&T Wireless until they merge with Cingular if that ever happens...
1969? Then the ruling wasn't being enforced that well. I caught an episode of "Kolchak the Night Stalker" on Sci-Fi a month ago, and it was made in 1975. Kolchak called in a bogus repair service call to MaBell to pick the brain of one of the line techs for some reason. The tech figured out that it was a bogus service call and then threatened to turn in the office for having illegal telephones on the premise. Kolchak then was yelled at by his boss because the boss did not want the contraband telephones (not owned by MaBell) confiscated after spending good money acquiring them in the first place.
SBC drove Covad into bankruptcy a little over a year ago and then acquired a large stake in the restructured company. So when you talk Covad's dirty trix, you actually mean SBC...
Does your company support OS X as well? Just remember that Mac customers tend to have the extra discretionary income to purchase all sorts of Firewire and USB goodies... Be a sport and advocate for a multi-polar OS environment, Win32, OS X, and Linux... I relinquish control of the soapbox...
How about a sim where you are the French President? I can see lots of fun possibilities. You could authorize a strike on the terrorist organization known as Greenpeace. You could instruct your UN Ambassador to block every single U.S. initiative at the Security Council level. You could test nuclear weapons 20 years behind U.S. weaponry on some South Pacific dependency over the protests of the natives who worship airplanes. You could appoint a cultural minister whose only purpose is to ban all English words (nevermind how many French words are in the English language) from daily use in France. You could block French citizens from bathing daily in order to preserve French cultural distinction from Anglo-American influence. You could take bribes, excuse me, "campaign contributions" from dictatorships in the Middle East. You could sell weaponry and other goods to the same dictatorship(s) in the Middle East despite UN sanctions to the contrary. When said Middle Eastern dictatorship is invaded by the Anglo-Americans, you can authorize your embassy to issue passports to fleeing members of the deposed regime for a substantial profit, or in exchange for documents exposing previously mentioned gun-running to be shredded in France proper. And the rest of your game playing time could be spent appointing old guard members of your government to cushy positions in the European Union bureaucracy... Sign me up! I swear, the Bonapartes, the Burbons, and the Orleanists must be turning in their graves...
I realize that Infogrames aka "Atari" is not the Atari of old, but let's put it in perspective. I went through 30 cartridges of "Air Sea Battle" on my Atari 2600. That game never worked on my system. Then on the Atari 7800, "Impossible Mission" lived up to its name to the tee; there was a bug in the game that prevented you from beating it. I guess that means there was no issue of false advertising. Come to think of it, same goes for the Matrix. Can you seriously complain about that title when the movie specifically states there are glitches in the Matrix itself? In this case, the game is living up to the movie(s). Besides, people who spend $50 so they can be Jada Pickett-Smith in a videogame should have their heads examined...
The Wendy's chain experimented with robots flipping the burgers on the grill to increase efficiency. This was covered briefly in an *Insight* magazine at the time. Although the urban legend explaining why robots didn't replace all the flipper jobs stated the robots wouldn't pick up the burger patties that fell on the floor whereas the human flipper/cook would put them back on the grill. Personally, I would love robots to replace just about everyone in McDonald's (especially in the drive thru). I'd rather a robot help me than someone with very little comprehension in the English language messing up my order...
If you haven't noticed, the Japanese government will allow just about anything to fly lately. Nissan, after all, is owned (minority stake) by Renault (of all people, the French!). The best scenario is Bill Gates telephones W. in the White House and pledges a large amount of money for campaign contributions for the 2004 election and mentions it would be great for W. to remind the Japanese Diet [their parliament] about the importance of the U.S. Armed Forces in preventing a nuclear attack on Japan by those freaks in North Korea. Sony is acquired without opposition by the Japanese government. But Microsoft would then want to break up Sony into different pieces to quickly recupe *shareholder value* and increase their influence in certain market categories. Sony Ericsson would be merged into another mobile phone manufacturer, but with Microsoft a very large shareholder in the company in order to influence the switching from Symbian to whatever M$ calls their next version of the StinkerOS. The Clie division would be merged into an existing PocketPC manufacturer (think HP). Come to think of it, the entire PC (Vaio) division would be merged with a loyal Microsoft OEM. In the videogame market, Microsoft would have to commit to spinning off this division (Sony Computer Entertainment) as a condition for the acquisition of Sony; both the FTC and the European Commission would see to that. However, Microsoft would probably license the PS2 platform (since they would consider it maturing/dying, etc.) to other Japanese manufacturers to further erode SCE's future PS2 sales and reduce their cash outlays for the PS3. The exclusive licensing of GTA and other titles would end. Microsoft could force SCE to license the PS2 architecture to M$ so that the Xbox2 could also sport PS2 compatibility (via an adapter). Microsoft would keep Sony's online division; they'd want to retain the monthly subscription revenues (and online know-how) for EverQuest and Star Wars Galaxies in order to further improve the Xbox Live platform. And then we get to the other entertainment divisions. Microsoft would IPO Sony Pictures (then renamed "Columbia Pictures") on the condition that the new company supported Microsoft's own digital cinema platform as well as the pseudo HDTV Windows Media system in future DVD releases. Sony Music would also go by the wayside, and of course Microsoft would want a guarantee for supporting a future Microsoft version of the Apple Store. And finally, what is left of traditional Sony would be sold off to Sony's historic rival known as Matsushita. Now, doesn't that all make sense? Steve Balmer couldn't come up with a better strategy plan than that...
Microsoft guaranteeing they will shield their customers from IP infringement suits is nothing but hot air unless Microsoft ever decides to sue itself. Its like Cal Worthington saying in his television ads "I could sell you a car for a dollar if I wanted to."
I think the MPAA's advertising campaign is going to backfire on them in a way they didn't realize. Just think about the masses out there that still lack a computer. They'll see these commercials and realize how easy it is to pirate movies and they'll head down to the local Wal-Mart after their welfare check cashes next month and download Kazaa after their 10 year old shows them how to do it (because "Billy" learned how on his school's computer)...
and that's my beef right there. Comcast owns shares in TiVo and has since the beginning yet they won't deploy a set-top box with it built-in, but they will use a DVR system designed by someone else. The same can be said for Time Warner Cable. It boggles the mind...
This takes the cake. Comcast is a shareholder in TiVo yet they won't release a digital set-top box with TiVo built in. But they will "test" the Microsoft software. Perhaps they have some contract with M$ that they have to at least deploy it in a test market before wholly rejecting it. Hopefully, Comcast will still get its $400 per set top box like the early Best Buy/MSN sign up rebate in California...that was funny...everyone got $400 in store to use and they could cancel right when they got home...
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Dear DARPA: I would like to request a $3 million grant to set up an online system of futures trading for predicting the probability and time of Mr. Poindexter's (and cohorts) next conviction. This is scientifically feasible. For contact information, please go to AOL Keyword: Taxpayer Waste.
1. If Sony claims this handheld will have PS2 quality graphics, why would anyone buy a PS2 when this comes to market? The handheld would cannibalize PS2 sales. This was exactly the reason why Sega brought out the Game Gear first instead of the Nomad, because the Nomad would've eaten into Genesis (cough cough, Mega Drive) console sales. 2. Price. The Gameboy has always been popular because of its price, not because of killer features. Nintendo's Gameboy series has always been inferior to each of its competitors (Atari Lynx, NEC TurboExpress, Sega GameGear, Sega Nomad) but price, combined with long battery life and a lock-up of third-party developers have slain all of the Gameboy's challengers. 3. Unit manufacturing cost. This handheld is going to cost a pretty penny to manufacture and it will definitely be a loss-leader throughout its life. Compare that to Nintendo making money on the Gameboy machines themselves (or with Sony making a profit on the PS2 console). Sony will not shout-out "ramming speed" and tell Scotty to set the engines to Warp9 while losing money hand-over-fist trying to drive Nintendo from the marketplace. Only Microsoft has shown courage (some courage when you have $50 billion in the bank) to execute such a normally suicidal temporary business model losing so much money per console sold. If Sony wants to put the nails into the coffin of Nintendo, they should go at this in a joint-venture with Microsoft. That way they both can shoulder the burden of driving Nintendo into the category where it should be; a third-party developer.
Since Governor Davis is being accused of losing $38 billion from California's coffers and is facing a recall, why can't we do the same to the RIAA? They themselves have lost billions in the past few years simply because they couldn't (or wouldn't) come up with a sound distribution model for downloading music. Perhaps the EFF and other groups online should start purchasing shares in each of the RIAA member megacorps and then seek out aid from the large pension funds like CalPERS in order to unseat the boards of directors and replace them with progressives? Sticking Steve Jobs on the AOL Time Warner, BMG, Vivendi, Sony, and EMI boards sure couldn't hurt matters...
...just ask Jesus...
Interestingly enough, Windows (98) will not operate in the year 2100 AD. My BIOS somehow got messed up and was reporting the year as 2100 (before Y2K happened). This was after I reformatted my hard drive. I kept on trying to re-install Windows98, but it simply would not work. Two days of frustration later, I finally broke down and called Microsoft customer support and spent $25 for them to figure out what was going on. They figured out it was the BIOS and the year 2100 problem. Just something to ponder.
I don't believe it [the statistics]. IE6 is gaining market share from the other versions of IE out there due to simple sales of new machines bundled with WinXP/IE6.
I was just thinking about this based upon a comment posted arguing that if life evolved on another planet similar to Earth and they developed fire, the wheel, etc. millions of years before us then they'd most likely have the radio as well. But if that's the case, then they would have had a Bill Gates figure exploiting their own ancient tech boom. So they too would have progressed to digital radio transmission, and their own music distribution industry would have insisted on protecting the content and then their Mr. Gates would've pioneered the march to encrypting their radio transmissions. So in all likelihood, what are the chances that a lot of those radio signals we are picking up that do not make any sense are encrypted signals being distorted to protect content? Or, what if their computer systems evolved off their own native versions of the Atari ST and Commodore Amigas versus Windows? (we'd be screwed!) And, if there are multiple spacefaring species out there, they too probably have defense strategies and they would definitely encrypt their broadcast transmissions. Just some points to ponder duing the wee hours here in Pacific Standard Time today...
Thanks for clarifying this. I cannot believe I lived my childhood through such a stupid period. Renting telephones from MaBell... Looking upon that whole set-up from a 21st Century perspective sure makes it look ridiculous. Then again, I rent my cable box so I guess I shouldn't be throwing any stones! :)
Now let's assume that Atlantis is under the 3 miles of ice of present-day Antartica. If some strange incident tipped the earth off its axis and caused massive climate change enough to cause the pile-up of ice on Atlantis 12,000 years ago, wouldn't the pressure of that ice and erosion ruin anything left beneath it? That's what bugs me about the whole possibility of Atlantis under that ice; the physical evidence is probably toast. Its a pitty because after seeing that arial based map of the world the allies found in WWI that showed exactly what the continent of Antartica looks like under the ice I've thought something was fishy about the place (and I don't mean the penguins either!)... Then again, maybe I've read too much from Charles Berlitz...
SBC was once Southwestern Bell. They are trying to put MaBell back together. California used to be under Pacific Bell, but their management sold out. Like all the other BabyBells, they failed to grasp the importance of ISDN and botched offering that service to consumers. (my Atari 1040ST had ISDN capabilities supported in the OS back in 1986 but PacBell didn't start offering service until 1994/95 and it was too expensive). PacBell also botched another of their strategies. In the cellular market, they decided to get rid Pacific Bell Wireless thinking that if they kept that division, it would place them at a competitive disadvantage in restrictions on the amount of PCS licenses they could grab at the FCC auction. So they spun off Pac Bell Wireless (or mobile, whatever they called it) and that became Airtouch Communications. Airtouch became a major competitor and Pac Bell failed to grab as many PCS licenses they thought they would gain from the spinoff. Airtouch later merged into Verizon Wireless. After the failure of grabbing as many PCS licenses, Pac Bell management proper then decided to sell the company to SBC. SBC operated the company for a few years while acquiring other Baby Bells before deciding to rebrand everything under "SBC" and then hired Tommy Lee Jones to be their voice in their feel-good commercials. Spending a fortune on commercials while laying off 5,000 employees. They also hired William Daley to be their chairman. That's William Daley of the Chicago Daley clan. He was a bigshot in the AFL-CIO, then became the Democratic Party Chairman, then the Secretary of Commerce under Clinton, and now the chairman of SBC (or president). Funny to go from a bigwig in the unions and now is employed by a company's board of directors famous for being anti-labor to the extreme...
DLS? Dyslexic perhaps?
If you don't want to support SBC at all, then make sure your cell phone (why can't we call them "mobile phones" like the British since PCS is not cellular?) is not through Cingular. SBC owns the majority of Cingular stock... Use AT&T Wireless until they merge with Cingular if that ever happens...
1969? Then the ruling wasn't being enforced that well. I caught an episode of "Kolchak the Night Stalker" on Sci-Fi a month ago, and it was made in 1975. Kolchak called in a bogus repair service call to MaBell to pick the brain of one of the line techs for some reason. The tech figured out that it was a bogus service call and then threatened to turn in the office for having illegal telephones on the premise. Kolchak then was yelled at by his boss because the boss did not want the contraband telephones (not owned by MaBell) confiscated after spending good money acquiring them in the first place.
SBC drove Covad into bankruptcy a little over a year ago and then acquired a large stake in the restructured company. So when you talk Covad's dirty trix, you actually mean SBC...
Does your company support OS X as well? Just remember that Mac customers tend to have the extra discretionary income to purchase all sorts of Firewire and USB goodies... Be a sport and advocate for a multi-polar OS environment, Win32, OS X, and Linux... I relinquish control of the soapbox...
How about a sim where you are the French President? I can see lots of fun possibilities. You could authorize a strike on the terrorist organization known as Greenpeace. You could instruct your UN Ambassador to block every single U.S. initiative at the Security Council level. You could test nuclear weapons 20 years behind U.S. weaponry on some South Pacific dependency over the protests of the natives who worship airplanes. You could appoint a cultural minister whose only purpose is to ban all English words (nevermind how many French words are in the English language) from daily use in France. You could block French citizens from bathing daily in order to preserve French cultural distinction from Anglo-American influence. You could take bribes, excuse me, "campaign contributions" from dictatorships in the Middle East. You could sell weaponry and other goods to the same dictatorship(s) in the Middle East despite UN sanctions to the contrary. When said Middle Eastern dictatorship is invaded by the Anglo-Americans, you can authorize your embassy to issue passports to fleeing members of the deposed regime for a substantial profit, or in exchange for documents exposing previously mentioned gun-running to be shredded in France proper. And the rest of your game playing time could be spent appointing old guard members of your government to cushy positions in the European Union bureaucracy... Sign me up! I swear, the Bonapartes, the Burbons, and the Orleanists must be turning in their graves...
I realize that Infogrames aka "Atari" is not the Atari of old, but let's put it in perspective. I went through 30 cartridges of "Air Sea Battle" on my Atari 2600. That game never worked on my system. Then on the Atari 7800, "Impossible Mission" lived up to its name to the tee; there was a bug in the game that prevented you from beating it. I guess that means there was no issue of false advertising. Come to think of it, same goes for the Matrix. Can you seriously complain about that title when the movie specifically states there are glitches in the Matrix itself? In this case, the game is living up to the movie(s). Besides, people who spend $50 so they can be Jada Pickett-Smith in a videogame should have their heads examined...
I meant *your* name... :) Don't ask me why they flamebaited you on this discussion; I felt it was a valid point.
The Wendy's chain experimented with robots flipping the burgers on the grill to increase efficiency. This was covered briefly in an *Insight* magazine at the time. Although the urban legend explaining why robots didn't replace all the flipper jobs stated the robots wouldn't pick up the burger patties that fell on the floor whereas the human flipper/cook would put them back on the grill. Personally, I would love robots to replace just about everyone in McDonald's (especially in the drive thru). I'd rather a robot help me than someone with very little comprehension in the English language messing up my order...
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If you haven't noticed, the Japanese government will allow just about anything to fly lately. Nissan, after all, is owned (minority stake) by Renault (of all people, the French!). The best scenario is Bill Gates telephones W. in the White House and pledges a large amount of money for campaign contributions for the 2004 election and mentions it would be great for W. to remind the Japanese Diet [their parliament] about the importance of the U.S. Armed Forces in preventing a nuclear attack on Japan by those freaks in North Korea. Sony is acquired without opposition by the Japanese government. But Microsoft would then want to break up Sony into different pieces to quickly recupe *shareholder value* and increase their influence in certain market categories. Sony Ericsson would be merged into another mobile phone manufacturer, but with Microsoft a very large shareholder in the company in order to influence the switching from Symbian to whatever M$ calls their next version of the StinkerOS. The Clie division would be merged into an existing PocketPC manufacturer (think HP). Come to think of it, the entire PC (Vaio) division would be merged with a loyal Microsoft OEM. In the videogame market, Microsoft would have to commit to spinning off this division (Sony Computer Entertainment) as a condition for the acquisition of Sony; both the FTC and the European Commission would see to that. However, Microsoft would probably license the PS2 platform (since they would consider it maturing/dying, etc.) to other Japanese manufacturers to further erode SCE's future PS2 sales and reduce their cash outlays for the PS3. The exclusive licensing of GTA and other titles would end. Microsoft could force SCE to license the PS2 architecture to M$ so that the Xbox2 could also sport PS2 compatibility (via an adapter). Microsoft would keep Sony's online division; they'd want to retain the monthly subscription revenues (and online know-how) for EverQuest and Star Wars Galaxies in order to further improve the Xbox Live platform. And then we get to the other entertainment divisions. Microsoft would IPO Sony Pictures (then renamed "Columbia Pictures") on the condition that the new company supported Microsoft's own digital cinema platform as well as the pseudo HDTV Windows Media system in future DVD releases. Sony Music would also go by the wayside, and of course Microsoft would want a guarantee for supporting a future Microsoft version of the Apple Store. And finally, what is left of traditional Sony would be sold off to Sony's historic rival known as Matsushita. Now, doesn't that all make sense? Steve Balmer couldn't come up with a better strategy plan than that...
Microsoft guaranteeing they will shield their customers from IP infringement suits is nothing but hot air unless Microsoft ever decides to sue itself. Its like Cal Worthington saying in his television ads "I could sell you a car for a dollar if I wanted to."
I think the MPAA's advertising campaign is going to backfire on them in a way they didn't realize. Just think about the masses out there that still lack a computer. They'll see these commercials and realize how easy it is to pirate movies and they'll head down to the local Wal-Mart after their welfare check cashes next month and download Kazaa after their 10 year old shows them how to do it (because "Billy" learned how on his school's computer)...
and that's my beef right there. Comcast owns shares in TiVo and has since the beginning yet they won't deploy a set-top box with it built-in, but they will use a DVR system designed by someone else. The same can be said for Time Warner Cable. It boggles the mind...
This takes the cake. Comcast is a shareholder in TiVo yet they won't release a digital set-top box with TiVo built in. But they will "test" the Microsoft software. Perhaps they have some contract with M$ that they have to at least deploy it in a test market before wholly rejecting it. Hopefully, Comcast will still get its $400 per set top box like the early Best Buy/MSN sign up rebate in California...that was funny...everyone got $400 in store to use and they could cancel right when they got home...