Why would they care that you're bringing a hard drive? Why would they bother to look at it, let alone make you turn your computer on, attach it to the hard drive and look at its contents?
Are you new here or something? They want to know what's on the hard drive to make sure it's not loaded with kiddie porn, and they want you to boot up the PC to make sure it's a real computer and all those electronic innards they see on the X-ray aren't the makings of a bomb in a laptop casing.
What do you think of the people who claim to be sensitive to wifi? They could give the same line you are.
Not taking sides on whether the GP is being hurtful, or the submitter really is in that much pain, but I feel there is a certain point where scientifically we should be able to say "no, you're just being a hypochondriac".
This adapter is often a device that must match the type of cable system your provider runs
I was under the impression that this was under the umbrella of the CableLabs OpenCable spec, which means, in theory, it'd be a standard.
Experience says that they would have to be built to interface with the type of headend the provider is using, because for all intents and purposes they are the up-link portion of your standard cable receiver lobotomized and put in a smaller package. And you can't hook a Motorola box up to a Scientific-Atlanta (Cisco) system with most providers, and vice versa.
And, hey, what about (I should think twice before mentioning this, but here goes nothing...) True2Way?
True2Way has to be adopted by your cable provider, and considering it took an Act of Congress (literally) to get them to offer cable cards in a consumer-friendly way, I think you can see what the chances of that happening are.
Besides, practically speaking, building a better infrastructure won't give me anything I don't have now, except a higher cable bill.
Snarky Answer: It will give you a cable experience without the SDV communicator you hate so much. * It will allow your provider to offer higher speed Internet service. * It will improve the reliability of the video service you have now, and keep it running well for years to come.
Note: Your thinking is mirroring the what people complain about utilities neglecting system upkeep. "Why not defer this maintenance construction on our network? It will only cost us money now and the service is still working okay with how things are."
The Government will just say the spying program and information about the reasons for the data requests are a matter of national security and that will be the end of it.
Isn't attempting to flood a market with a device being charged at sub-standard pricing to subvert a competitor, like, illegal? I thought this was covered by anti-dumping laws.
3) Integrate the "tuning adapter" for switched digital video to inside the Tivo. The fact that I need such a thing in the first place is ridiculous.
This adapter is often a device that must match the type of cable system your provider runs. Similar to how you must lease cablecards from your cableco, a tuning adapter often needs to be supplied by them when it applies. These devices require provisioning on the provider's end just like a cablecard does, so TiVo isn't going to be able to build a device like that into their boxes. Their purpose is to provide two way communication between the TiVo and the cableco's head end so it can tell the system to change channels for your feed.
Btw, the fact that you even need one pretty much confirms your cable system is crap. They don't have good enough infrastructure to support streaming all the channels over the lines at the same time as normal, so this system lets them get away with only having to stream the ones in use. The alternative for them is likely replacing miles of lines (or simply carrying fewer channels).
--former Cox video support for rural Louisiana and many other locations
They want their new boxes because chances are the new boxes will have a higher monthly rental rate than the old ones, justified by the extra features they have and sleeker design.
Even if so, it could be worth building things without rebar, imitating this recipe, if you want something that'll stand for thousands of years instead of 50....
Good for art and such, or any building meant to be impressive or to be used for a long time.
Why would a modern construction company want to make a building that lasts for a long time? There's no repeat business in that.
People's tastes are too fickle now to want to use a building with the same appearance that long anyway. Have you ever watched the landcaping of business parks? They plant trees that are a joke for the first three years because they're still tiny plantings, and by the time they really start to branch out and get some girth on the trunk they're ripping them out because they want to redo the appearance of the property.
Which is why Facebook is owned by Google, which in turn is owned by Microsoft, which in turn is owned by IBM, which.... oh wait.. nevermind. You can only buy if someone is willing to sell to you, no matter the size of your purse...
When you're a publicly-traded company you're always for sale, in one way or another. If someone offers enough money your shareholders will force you to sell regardless of what you want.
...Additionally, the bill requires a cable box or set-top device to notify consumers when the monitoring technology is activated and in use by posting the phrase "We are watching you" across their TV screens.
Yeah... that's not gonna happen. If the entertainment Industry's lobbyists are unable to get this legislation stopped that will be the first provision to be removed. It's simply too creepy and will have most people taking their STB back to the local office to get an older one with no camera.
Considering the vast majority of consumers use their routers for one thing: connecting multiple devices to their Internet service, upgrading in general is a waste of money unless you need better range because you have a large house. The 1 Gbps only does you good on communications between different devices on the local network, but most people don't use their network to talk to other PCs in the house, everything is talking to stuff outside the network where you're limited to the speed of you Internet service (so less than 20 mbps for most U.S. people).
I'm still plugging away on a WRT54G, and the only reason I'm considering upgrading is issues doing DLNA streaming from my PC in the bedroom to the blu-ray player in the living room because the blu-ray is getting too low a connection speed over wifi. This doesn't effect Netflix and other online services because of their lower (700-1500 kbps) stream requirements, but when things are having to get transcoded to MPEG2 on the PC sometimes bitrates can push past 20 mbps for the stream.
The surprise isn't really that proxies have been added to the blocklist, but that the music industry and ISPs are failing to disclose which sites are being banned.
Unless there's some law saying they have to disclose it why would they? Really, there's no surprise here. If you were running an ISP would you make a big deal of announcing all the sites your customers can't access on your service?
I received an email a week ago about a settlement on optical drives. Apparently it is about drive manufactures colluding to keep the disc drive prices artificially high. The email was sparse on details of the settlement and did not have details on claim amounts or how to redeem yet.
The question I had was how they determine the amount. The settlement includes PC component drives and consumer electronics devices that have drives built into them. As someone who has built a personal computer and purchased two blu-ray players in the specified period I would think I'm entitled to three times the settlement amount.
Either the device is doing work four times more consuming, your device can stand by four times longer, or your device's battery is approximately four times lighter. Sure, retarded marketing drones are going to figure out a way to stuff four times the amount of adware onto a new laptop, but let's face it, they were going to do that regardless.
I predict they will follow Apple's lead and use the new battery technology to make devices unnecessarily thinner with no additional run time.
That 10% discount is almost as much money as you could save by forgoing Windows for something useable and free.
It's also as much (or less than) you could save by simply shopping around at other computer retailers online instead of buying from Microsoft's partners in this I bet.
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Why would they care that you're bringing a hard drive? Why would they bother to look at it, let alone make you turn your computer on, attach it to the hard drive and look at its contents?
Are you new here or something? They want to know what's on the hard drive to make sure it's not loaded with kiddie porn, and they want you to boot up the PC to make sure it's a real computer and all those electronic innards they see on the X-ray aren't the makings of a bomb in a laptop casing.
bah, stupid sign got removed.
2400 is less than 6000000
That would have been a standard 2400 baud modem.
2400 6000000, so I don't think you were getting better than the FCC's definition.
to try to avoid being outsmarted by technology.
The humanity can, of course, ban all machines that are smarter than humans.
Yeah, because if there is one thing that will stop something from happening, it's making it against the law.
Ah, one of those overachieving types putting forward twice the effort, are we?
What do you think of the people who claim to be sensitive to wifi? They could give the same line you are.
Not taking sides on whether the GP is being hurtful, or the submitter really is in that much pain, but I feel there is a certain point where scientifically we should be able to say "no, you're just being a hypochondriac".
This adapter is often a device that must match the type of cable system your provider runs
I was under the impression that this was under the umbrella of the CableLabs OpenCable spec, which means, in theory, it'd be a standard.
Experience says that they would have to be built to interface with the type of headend the provider is using, because for all intents and purposes they are the up-link portion of your standard cable receiver lobotomized and put in a smaller package. And you can't hook a Motorola box up to a Scientific-Atlanta (Cisco) system with most providers, and vice versa.
And, hey, what about (I should think twice before mentioning this, but here goes nothing...) True2Way?
True2Way has to be adopted by your cable provider, and considering it took an Act of Congress (literally) to get them to offer cable cards in a consumer-friendly way, I think you can see what the chances of that happening are.
Besides, practically speaking, building a better infrastructure won't give me anything I don't have now, except a higher cable bill.
Snarky Answer: It will give you a cable experience without the SDV communicator you hate so much.
* It will allow your provider to offer higher speed Internet service.
* It will improve the reliability of the video service you have now, and keep it running well for years to come.
Note: Your thinking is mirroring the what people complain about utilities neglecting system upkeep.
"Why not defer this maintenance construction on our network? It will only cost us money now and the service is still working okay with how things are."
We want to transition to an IP company.
Then we only have to employ lawyers and executives, and save ourselves the trouble of all that making stuff.
Why would they "get blown out of" court exactly?
The Government will just say the spying program and information about the reasons for the data requests are a matter of national security and that will be the end of it.
Isn't attempting to flood a market with a device being charged at sub-standard pricing to subvert a competitor, like, illegal?
I thought this was covered by anti-dumping laws.
3) Integrate the "tuning adapter" for switched digital video to inside the Tivo. The fact that I need such a thing in the first place is ridiculous.
This adapter is often a device that must match the type of cable system your provider runs. Similar to how you must lease cablecards from your cableco, a tuning adapter often needs to be supplied by them when it applies. These devices require provisioning on the provider's end just like a cablecard does, so TiVo isn't going to be able to build a device like that into their boxes. Their purpose is to provide two way communication between the TiVo and the cableco's head end so it can tell the system to change channels for your feed.
Btw, the fact that you even need one pretty much confirms your cable system is crap. They don't have good enough infrastructure to support streaming all the channels over the lines at the same time as normal, so this system lets them get away with only having to stream the ones in use. The alternative for them is likely replacing miles of lines (or simply carrying fewer channels).
--former Cox video support for rural Louisiana and many other locations
It is for the MSOs.
They want their new boxes because chances are the new boxes will have a higher monthly rental rate than the old ones, justified by the extra features they have and sleeker design.
Even if so, it could be worth building things without rebar, imitating this recipe, if you want something that'll stand for thousands of years instead of 50. ...
Good for art and such, or any building meant to be impressive or to be used for a long time.
Why would a modern construction company want to make a building that lasts for a long time? There's no repeat business in that.
People's tastes are too fickle now to want to use a building with the same appearance that long anyway. Have you ever watched the landcaping of business parks? They plant trees that are a joke for the first three years because they're still tiny plantings, and by the time they really start to branch out and get some girth on the trunk they're ripping them out because they want to redo the appearance of the property.
Which is why Facebook is owned by Google, which in turn is owned by Microsoft, which in turn is owned by IBM, which.... oh wait.. nevermind. You can only buy if someone is willing to sell to you, no matter the size of your purse...
When you're a publicly-traded company you're always for sale, in one way or another. If someone offers enough money your shareholders will force you to sell regardless of what you want.
...Additionally, the bill requires a cable box or set-top device to notify consumers when the monitoring technology is activated and in use by posting the phrase "We are watching you" across their TV screens.
Yeah... that's not gonna happen.
If the entertainment Industry's lobbyists are unable to get this legislation stopped that will be the first provision to be removed. It's simply too creepy and will have most people taking their STB back to the local office to get an older one with no camera.
Considering the vast majority of consumers use their routers for one thing: connecting multiple devices to their Internet service, upgrading in general is a waste of money unless you need better range because you have a large house. The 1 Gbps only does you good on communications between different devices on the local network, but most people don't use their network to talk to other PCs in the house, everything is talking to stuff outside the network where you're limited to the speed of you Internet service (so less than 20 mbps for most U.S. people).
I'm still plugging away on a WRT54G, and the only reason I'm considering upgrading is issues doing DLNA streaming from my PC in the bedroom to the blu-ray player in the living room because the blu-ray is getting too low a connection speed over wifi. This doesn't effect Netflix and other online services because of their lower (700-1500 kbps) stream requirements, but when things are having to get transcoded to MPEG2 on the PC sometimes bitrates can push past 20 mbps for the stream.
To the NSA, the content of your email may be less important than with whom you are communicating.
Bah, it's like the job market all over again! It's not about what you do, but who you know.
Unless there's some law saying they have to disclose it why would they? Really, there's no surprise here. If you were running an ISP would you make a big deal of announcing all the sites your customers can't access on your service?
Pssst.
That whooshing noise isn't from the Cloud.
We are talking about Bloomberg here, the guy who blames large cups for obesity.
Large cups don't cause obesity.
People hoarding large cups for their own personal use is what causes obesity.
We all know two girls can easily share one cup.
I received an email a week ago about a settlement on optical drives. Apparently it is about drive manufactures colluding to keep the disc drive prices artificially high. The email was sparse on details of the settlement and did not have details on claim amounts or how to redeem yet.
The question I had was how they determine the amount. The settlement includes PC component drives and consumer electronics devices that have drives built into them. As someone who has built a personal computer and purchased two blu-ray players in the specified period I would think I'm entitled to three times the settlement amount.
Either the device is doing work four times more consuming, your device can stand by four times longer, or your device's battery is approximately four times lighter. Sure, retarded marketing drones are going to figure out a way to stuff four times the amount of adware onto a new laptop, but let's face it, they were going to do that regardless.
I predict they will follow Apple's lead and use the new battery technology to make devices unnecessarily thinner with no additional run time.
That 10% discount is almost as much money as you could save by forgoing Windows for something useable and free.
It's also as much (or less than) you could save by simply shopping around at other computer retailers online instead of buying from Microsoft's partners in this I bet.
I don't think that non-word means what you think it means.
I went to high school in the 70's. We had to push the damned bus uphills. Both ways.
But then the oil embargo ended and the school district could afford to fuel it again, right?