I can't believe that people are actually getting worked up or bothered by this.
People look for every reason they can to be offended these days.
Grow up.
Yes, the frequencies are different. Technically, there is a gap of frequency ranges between channel 6 and channel 7 on broadcast TV, but cable TV doesn't have that restriction and can use those frequencies.
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You totally stole that from the movie With Honors:
Simon: "Which door do I leave from?"
Professor: "At Harvard, we do not end our sentences with prepositions."
Simon: "Ok. Which door do I leave from, asshole."
Actually... I used to do tech support for Microsoft *ducks*.
And we got a TON of calls from owners of any and all brands of computers, wanting help when a virus crashed their system, and we helped them.
Though, our number one call generator was AOL. They'd tell them that it was the OS's fault that they could not get on the interenet, and disconnect the customer after 7 minutes (often just haning up on them). Talk about being stuck between two evils.
If Sirius and XM radio are actually causing problems to ClearChannel, more power to them!
I have had a grudge against ClearChannel ever since they bought the FunkyMonkey in Tacoma. Before CC, FunkyMonkey played the coolest songs, had very few commercials, and NO MORNING SHOW AT ALL!!! It was the greatest... no annoying dj's, and killer music. Now, they have 'Lex and Terry in the Morning' and though they still only have 'one commercial break an hour,' they still have liners every two songs, half of them about a contest sponsored by such and such, which is basically a commercial.
Sorry about the rant, but CC is definitely on my sh*t list.
Oh, and an added bonus, look at the webiste for a similar CC station, KFLY. Look at all the crap links above and below the pages...
Clumsy, no. Short on features, who cares. It uses waaaaaaaay less resources than either McAfee or Norton AV, and seems to catch more. Updated nearly every day, and has never broken a software install for me (when I was in tech support, you would not believe how many software installs were broken by Norton or McAfee sticking their noses into the process and screwing up the file writing or settings). Nice context menu option, easy integration to CLI. AVG is getting pretty close on to perfect... if it was not free, I would probably buy it. (Highest praise I can think of)
I don't know if anyone knows this, but there is a movie called Casshan: Robot Hunter (anime) that is basically the story of the series, only much shorter (kinda like the Vision of Escaflowne was for Escaflowne). It was a pretty cool movie. Was the movie that got me into anime in the first place, actually.
They finally got it on to DVD a few months ago. Very cool indeed.
Actually, the coins are out of weight. US coins are a little heavier on the heads side. It may not be much, but out of balance is out of balance. And flipping car batteries is a whole other ball of wax, cuz they have liquid inside, and the inertia will screw everything up...
I'm afraid I am going to have to stop you on this one.
Just because someone is 'conservative' does NOT mean that they are idiotic, nor foolish. I would be considered quite conservative, and I consider the Patriot Act to be an insult to everything this country was founded on and has stood for all these years. Just because some conservatives in office do horrible things, don't place the blame on all of us.
After all, just because President Clinton was a flaming imbecile doesn't mean that I think that all 'liberals' are.
As to the topic: This did take place in Australia, and their laws are different from ours. But, I can easily see this happening here. Get ready for the USSA.
Peer-to-Peer is a type of networking that does not require a domain controller. If the government makes Peer-to-Peer illegal, a lot of small business networks are screwed.
AAAAA! No more sharing the cable modem? My roommates and I may kill each other.
At the moment, I have Comcast digital cable. Whoopee. For one, the basic cable box that they give you (in my area) is crappy. No S-Video out, no digital sound. AND, you cannot preset shows to watch, in case you will not be home, or want to record things on different channels while you are on vacation. Now, I thought that would be a standard, no-brainer feature. I mean, since the first time I got DirecTV 8 years ago, that was a standard feature. With DirecTV, if you want to set something to watch later, you look at it in the program guide and click on it. A checkmark appears, viola! Timed programming. Oh, and comcast is charging several dollars a month for every other cable box in the house (what the hell for?), whereas DirecTV no longer does.
Picture quality. Comcast heavily compresses their video. So much so that when I am watching a movie on HBO, and there is a scene that takes place in the dark, black isn't black. It has ghosts and compression errors and color bands. Which show up really strongly on my 27" Trinitron. My analog channels don't do that, though, go figure. DirecTV uses mpeg2 compression, very similar to that of DVD, very high quality. The DirecTV box has S-Video standard, and the last box I had had optical audio out.
Reliability. In the 11 months that I have had Comcast, I have had 10 times as much outage than I did with 8 years of DirecTV. I lived in an area that quite often had inclement weather, lots of snow, wind, etc. For one thing, those commercials that the cable companies have about DirecTV are just BS. (Like the one where the guy had to put it on a pole, so he duct taped it to a stick. Hey buddy, you're an idiot! You're too stupid to own DirecTV. Mounted mine to a pole that I mounted to the house, and put a small bit of concrete (about the size of a coffee can) as an anchor, and it never moved.) The only time I had signal loss was when we had lots of heavy, wet snow that coated the dish. Then I went outside with a broom and brushed it off - signal was back. Often these days, with Comcast, the signal will just go out for no reason, or all of a sudden all the channels become the TV Guide channel. Or, somehow the box will start begging for the parental control password (there isn't one) or telling me that I need to subscribe to every channel that I am subscribed to.
In conclusion, I would have to say that for the most part, DirecTV is vastly superior to Comcast Digital Cable. (Oh yeah, the channels even change faster with DirecTV!) The only thing Comcast has going for it is Broadband Internet.
Oh, you may be wondering why I have Comcast at all? It's because the roommates I moved in with already had it - and the broadband internet. Oh, well, I guess I'll have to deal.
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No, because your conclusion had no merit.
Umm, you're a moron. Welcome it and move on? You need to get in touch with the real world.
You're really not very perceptive, are you?
...I mean, Al Gore was behind that science spoof, 'An Inconvenient Truth'
I can't believe that people are actually getting worked up or bothered by this. People look for every reason they can to be offended these days. Grow up.
That is a special kind of evil...
That is a classic prank...
Yes, the frequencies are different. Technically, there is a gap of frequency ranges between channel 6 and channel 7 on broadcast TV, but cable TV doesn't have that restriction and can use those frequencies. More here
It's merely the first provision of the Patriot Act III. They just figured out a nifty delivery system.
The second provision will make AV illegal.
Oh dear, they are reading this now... Is that a helicopter I hear?
Actually... I used to do tech support for Microsoft *ducks*.
And we got a TON of calls from owners of any and all brands of computers, wanting help when a virus crashed their system, and we helped them.
Though, our number one call generator was AOL. They'd tell them that it was the OS's fault that they could not get on the interenet, and disconnect the customer after 7 minutes (often just haning up on them). Talk about being stuck between two evils.
this is one of those times where I wish there was a (Score:6, ROFLMAO)
Actually, I do believe that some auto makers did try to sue some third party auto parts manufacturers, but were smacked down in court.
If Sirius and XM radio are actually causing problems to ClearChannel, more power to them!
I have had a grudge against ClearChannel ever since they bought the FunkyMonkey in Tacoma. Before CC, FunkyMonkey played the coolest songs, had very few commercials, and NO MORNING SHOW AT ALL!!! It was the greatest... no annoying dj's, and killer music. Now, they have 'Lex and Terry in the Morning' and though they still only have 'one commercial break an hour,' they still have liners every two songs, half of them about a contest sponsored by such and such, which is basically a commercial.
Sorry about the rant, but CC is definitely on my sh*t list.
Oh, and an added bonus, look at the webiste for a similar CC station, KFLY. Look at all the crap links above and below the pages...
Clumsy, no. Short on features, who cares. It uses waaaaaaaay less resources than either McAfee or Norton AV, and seems to catch more. Updated nearly every day, and has never broken a software install for me (when I was in tech support, you would not believe how many software installs were broken by Norton or McAfee sticking their noses into the process and screwing up the file writing or settings). Nice context menu option, easy integration to CLI. AVG is getting pretty close on to perfect... if it was not free, I would probably buy it. (Highest praise I can think of)
NIGHT COURT!!!!
I don't know if anyone knows this, but there is a movie called Casshan: Robot Hunter (anime) that is basically the story of the series, only much shorter (kinda like the Vision of Escaflowne was for Escaflowne). It was a pretty cool movie. Was the movie that got me into anime in the first place, actually.
They finally got it on to DVD a few months ago. Very cool indeed.
Hail Black King!
Actually, the coins are out of weight. US coins are a little heavier on the heads side. It may not be much, but out of balance is out of balance. And flipping car batteries is a whole other ball of wax, cuz they have liquid inside, and the inertia will screw everything up...
Hey now, no bashing on those Star Trek li... oooh, 100 things to do if you are Tribble...*trails off*....
"The little lights aren't twinkling Clark..."
"I know Art... and thanks for noticing"
(xmas vacation)
Ha!
I really wish I had mod points right now, because that is hilarious!
you know what else is fun? playing in traffic...
I'm afraid I am going to have to stop you on this one.
Just because someone is 'conservative' does NOT mean that they are idiotic, nor foolish. I would be considered quite conservative, and I consider the Patriot Act to be an insult to everything this country was founded on and has stood for all these years. Just because some conservatives in office do horrible things, don't place the blame on all of us.
After all, just because President Clinton was a flaming imbecile doesn't mean that I think that all 'liberals' are.
As to the topic: This did take place in Australia, and their laws are different from ours. But, I can easily see this happening here. Get ready for the USSA.
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Mr. Praline: A pallendrome? The pallendrome of Bolton would be NOTLOB!!!
(for those of you that watch the flying circus)
Isn't P2P Person-to-Person, NOT Peer-to-Peer?
Peer-to-Peer is a type of networking that does not require a domain controller. If the government makes Peer-to-Peer illegal, a lot of small business networks are screwed.
AAAAA! No more sharing the cable modem? My roommates and I may kill each other.
Well, here's my $.02 and personal experience.
At the moment, I have Comcast digital cable. Whoopee. For one, the basic cable box that they give you (in my area) is crappy. No S-Video out, no digital sound. AND, you cannot preset shows to watch, in case you will not be home, or want to record things on different channels while you are on vacation. Now, I thought that would be a standard, no-brainer feature. I mean, since the first time I got DirecTV 8 years ago, that was a standard feature. With DirecTV, if you want to set something to watch later, you look at it in the program guide and click on it. A checkmark appears, viola! Timed programming. Oh, and comcast is charging several dollars a month for every other cable box in the house (what the hell for?), whereas DirecTV no longer does.
Picture quality. Comcast heavily compresses their video. So much so that when I am watching a movie on HBO, and there is a scene that takes place in the dark, black isn't black. It has ghosts and compression errors and color bands. Which show up really strongly on my 27" Trinitron. My analog channels don't do that, though, go figure. DirecTV uses mpeg2 compression, very similar to that of DVD, very high quality. The DirecTV box has S-Video standard, and the last box I had had optical audio out.
Reliability. In the 11 months that I have had Comcast, I have had 10 times as much outage than I did with 8 years of DirecTV. I lived in an area that quite often had inclement weather, lots of snow, wind, etc. For one thing, those commercials that the cable companies have about DirecTV are just BS. (Like the one where the guy had to put it on a pole, so he duct taped it to a stick. Hey buddy, you're an idiot! You're too stupid to own DirecTV. Mounted mine to a pole that I mounted to the house, and put a small bit of concrete (about the size of a coffee can) as an anchor, and it never moved.) The only time I had signal loss was when we had lots of heavy, wet snow that coated the dish. Then I went outside with a broom and brushed it off - signal was back. Often these days, with Comcast, the signal will just go out for no reason, or all of a sudden all the channels become the TV Guide channel. Or, somehow the box will start begging for the parental control password (there isn't one) or telling me that I need to subscribe to every channel that I am subscribed to.
In conclusion, I would have to say that for the most part, DirecTV is vastly superior to Comcast Digital Cable. (Oh yeah, the channels even change faster with DirecTV!) The only thing Comcast has going for it is Broadband Internet.
Oh, you may be wondering why I have Comcast at all? It's because the roommates I moved in with already had it - and the broadband internet. Oh, well, I guess I'll have to deal.