That's because TVs supporting CableCard or Tru2Way don't actually exist. If you'd succeeded in getting the distributor to ship you one, it would have turned out to be one of those fake plastic ones furniture stores use, filled with used pinball machine parts.
He does not realize he can BUY D2A boxes off the shelf and save the rental fee.
If you talk to Comcrap, they'll tell you that you CAN'T buy D2A boxes, and instead HAVE to rent them. After all, who's to say Comcrap would deign to authorize the third-party boxes even if you did buy them?
This situation is exactly the same as 40 years ago, when AT&T forced customers to rent telephones and disallowed connecting any other device to the network. The only difference is, Comcrap is getting away with it. And that needs to stop!
only reason people stuck with analog is the ability to use pirated boxes that get every channel
Or because they don't want a fucking box at all, and instead would like to use the perfectly good tuner their TV came with instead!
My TV has a QAM tuner. Why the fuck should I have to pay $5/month to Comcrap just because it feels like encrypting its QAM signal? The answer is "because Comcrap can get away with it," which is asinine. This bullshit needs to be stopped!
What really pissed me off is that their sign said "$29 a night" but they charged $45 instead. I asked why and they said "Oh that's our weekly rate. $203 if you stay the whole week." That's called false advertising.
That's a situation where I'd try getting a chargeback on the credit card I'd booked the room with.
BROADCAST, fucker! The FCC is concerned with BROADCAST! CABLE, which is transmitted over a CABLE, is not the same as BROADCAST! Comcrap can run whatever the fuck it wants over its CABLE (as far as the FCC is concerned), because there's no such thing as "cell phones" or "spectrum" with CABLE.
Nobody has a CableCard-capable TV. They were vaporware a few years ago, and now they're superceded by Tru2Way, which is also vaporware. Cable Labs (run by -- guess who -- Comcast, among other cable companies) gives lip service to developing these things, but really tries to avoid it as much as possible because the assholes in charge would rather everyone have to rent boxes.
Besides, even cable cards, which still entail a per-TV rental fee, are asinine compared to simply shutting off the fucking encryption and letting everybody use the perfectly good QAM tuners they already have!
No it wouldn't. The Constitution says that Congress shall have the power to establish post offices and post roads, not that it is required to do so. Congress is free to choose not to exercise that power.
the problem is that if you could prove what the mod could do, you could also prove software to be bug free... and sadly thats simply not really possible...
Yeah, but that's Apple's problem, since the burden of proof is on it to prove the mod did cause the malfunction, not on you to prove that it didn't.
The real issue here is that it's not worth taking Apple to court over.
It means she has actually studies eduction or Social security.
Huh?
She is someone just echoing what her party says, and not someone who actually understands or thinks.
Since when did the Republican party support states' rights or small government or any of the other 'crackpot ideas' you're accusing her of? I wish the Republican party were like that...
She's a crack pot. She uses checks and balances as an excuse to stop things she doesn't like, but doesn't want them when they get in the way of what she wants.
This places a natural limit on the rate you can extract heat energy from a geothermal well, thus making it unsuitable for high population density areas like cities.
Unless you build your city on top of Yellowstone, or something. Of course, that probably wouldn't end well...
The Washoe County Commission in 1992 rejected fluoridation, and Angle said the Legislature should not approve fluoridation in her county without a vote of its people.
All that indicates to me is that she supports checks and balances between state and local governance, not that she opposes fluoridation.
Her website itself plainly states she wants to eliminate the department of education and social security.
Does that mean she's philosophically opposed to education and safety nets for the poor, or -- more likely, I think -- does it mean she supports decentralization of government (i.e., where the state or local governments would control education and provide social safety nets)?
I don't know anything about this person beyond what I've just read in this thread (and not being a citizen of Nevada, I don't particularly care), but she sounds merely like a supporter of [federalism|checks and balances|states' rights], not a crackpot.
If you are using a mac mini for only streaming video/music you'll be much cheaper off (~1/5th) with a media streamer. Plug in HDMI and the network and you're done.
By now, if you're interested in that kind of thing you almost certainly already have a device to do it -- Wiis can do it (with homebrew software), PS3s can do it, Xboxes can do it, many Blu-ray players can do it, even half the new TVs this year can do it! Every home theater-type device is evolving to stream video from a network, in the same way that every business-type device evolves to read email.
The problem -- which has been endemic to Apple for years -- is that there is no Mac Mini with comparable specs to the $250 Zino, which is what pretty much everybody here complaining about the price actually wants.
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That's because TVs supporting CableCard or Tru2Way don't actually exist. If you'd succeeded in getting the distributor to ship you one, it would have turned out to be one of those fake plastic ones furniture stores use, filled with used pinball machine parts.
Show me a TV (not a TiVo or something) that's a current model and actually available to buy that supports CableCard (or Tru2Way). I dare you.
"Balk," you mean. They're not chickens, after all (and suggesting as much is an insult to chickens!).
If you talk to Comcrap, they'll tell you that you CAN'T buy D2A boxes, and instead HAVE to rent them. After all, who's to say Comcrap would deign to authorize the third-party boxes even if you did buy them?
This situation is exactly the same as 40 years ago, when AT&T forced customers to rent telephones and disallowed connecting any other device to the network. The only difference is, Comcrap is getting away with it. And that needs to stop!
Or because they don't want a fucking box at all, and instead would like to use the perfectly good tuner their TV came with instead!
My TV has a QAM tuner. Why the fuck should I have to pay $5/month to Comcrap just because it feels like encrypting its QAM signal? The answer is "because Comcrap can get away with it," which is asinine. This bullshit needs to be stopped!
I think what the GP is trying to say is that encryption by cable providers should be illegal!
That's a situation where I'd try getting a chargeback on the credit card I'd booked the room with.
BROADCAST, fucker! The FCC is concerned with BROADCAST! CABLE, which is transmitted over a CABLE, is not the same as BROADCAST! Comcrap can run whatever the fuck it wants over its CABLE (as far as the FCC is concerned), because there's no such thing as "cell phones" or "spectrum" with CABLE.
Do you understand now?!!
Maybe instead of thinking in terms of "TV channel," you should instead be thinking in terms of "Shoutcast stream" or "DLNA server."
Isn't the answer to "now what" simply "select whatever you want to watch next from the list?" I don't understand how that's a problem.
Nobody has a CableCard-capable TV. They were vaporware a few years ago, and now they're superceded by Tru2Way, which is also vaporware. Cable Labs (run by -- guess who -- Comcast, among other cable companies) gives lip service to developing these things, but really tries to avoid it as much as possible because the assholes in charge would rather everyone have to rent boxes.
Besides, even cable cards, which still entail a per-TV rental fee, are asinine compared to simply shutting off the fucking encryption and letting everybody use the perfectly good QAM tuners they already have!
If you want to do that, petition Congress to issue you a Letter of Marque instead.
Aspire to what? A washed out and static-y picture?
The point of sealing a house is to have adequate ventilation, but through a heat exchanger. The way your house was built doesn't make any sense.
No it wouldn't. The Constitution says that Congress shall have the power to establish post offices and post roads, not that it is required to do so. Congress is free to choose not to exercise that power.
Because the carriers' pricing strategies are fucked up in such a way as to make SMS data orders of magnitude cheaper than regular data, that's why.
That'll end quick once the carriers catch on to this scheme, of course.
Because the FCC is run by a combination of ineffective pussies and telecom industry insiders. The people in charge support the cartel pricing!
I bought, set up, and used a Wii, and I never saw that EULA. Therefore, it has no legal validity.
Yeah, but that's Apple's problem, since the burden of proof is on it to prove the mod did cause the malfunction, not on you to prove that it didn't.
The real issue here is that it's not worth taking Apple to court over.
Huh?
Since when did the Republican party support states' rights or small government or any of the other 'crackpot ideas' you're accusing her of? I wish the Republican party were like that...
Can you give an example?
Conversely:
5) You might potentially cause a future eruption if you are stupid about the design of the piping system.
Unless you build your city on top of Yellowstone, or something. Of course, that probably wouldn't end well...
All that indicates to me is that she supports checks and balances between state and local governance, not that she opposes fluoridation.
Does that mean she's philosophically opposed to education and safety nets for the poor, or -- more likely, I think -- does it mean she supports decentralization of government (i.e., where the state or local governments would control education and provide social safety nets)?
I don't know anything about this person beyond what I've just read in this thread (and not being a citizen of Nevada, I don't particularly care), but she sounds merely like a supporter of [federalism|checks and balances|states' rights], not a crackpot.
What are you talking about?! id was the first company to get 3D games right, with a PC game you might have heard of called Doom.
By now, if you're interested in that kind of thing you almost certainly already have a device to do it -- Wiis can do it (with homebrew software), PS3s can do it, Xboxes can do it, many Blu-ray players can do it, even half the new TVs this year can do it! Every home theater-type device is evolving to stream video from a network, in the same way that every business-type device evolves to read email.
The problem -- which has been endemic to Apple for years -- is that there is no Mac Mini with comparable specs to the $250 Zino, which is what pretty much everybody here complaining about the price actually wants.