Oddly, I can find anything I want on line...and often the regular TV shows are streamed BY THE NETWORK, not any "arr" type websites.
You can don eye-patch and watch anything you want, though.
I don't care about sports, which is what this is probably really about.
I always hope I bought a bolt on the international space station.....but I'm afraid I paid a millionaire agribusiness not to grow food.
Sometimes, in and amongst all the nonsense, waste and cynicism, something good happens.
Thank you Scott, for showing us what CAN happen.
We have tried, oh how we have tried. VZ is NOT interested. We got caught in the "no further rollout" pinch. Our village would negotiate a franchise today, we've made written formal requests....there aren't any terms offered, period.
Verizon won't turn the TV on for the FiOs system here in Croton on Hudson, NY. The system works for phone and internet, but they won't turn on TV. Towns next door have TV, but VZ won't return phone calls about our little village.
We are an anomaly , though. We have DOCSIS 3.0 and FiOs on the same street, so they have to compete, which isn't good for anyone except the consumer. VZ made a deal with the Cable Companies, than in exchange for the cable company wireless spectrum, VZ would stop selling "cable tv". VZ is clearly keeping their end of the (collusive) bargain.
BB blew it when BB Desktop Manager began to crash my Apple...I wasn't the only one,
I suspected renegade Apple employees undercover in BB.
BB never fixed it. Desktop Manager is the only program which consistently crashed the Apple.
I counted down the days till my second BB went off contract....and got an iPhone...and I'm not a fanboi
I just wanted my device to synch again...like my Palm.
Pity too, but I guess there is unemployment insurance in Canada. Failing to fix something as simple as getting an Apple to work is unforgivable.
I have two SD sets. They are getting a downconverted HDTV feed. Each is an old school trinitron fed RGB.
At the distances I watch, they put out a way better picture than most HDTV with incorrect aspects or bleeding channel 3 feeds.
The 21 inch set is a 2006-probably the last off the line. It has blacks that most HD sets can only dream of.
Close. The whole purpose of HDMI is so that everyone is forced to comply with HDCP. I've now replaced two components which failed HDCP so I have an ax to grind. My Onkyo receiver pooped the HDMI board, so is useless now as a Video receiver. Works ok in the office for music, though.....but I agree, defective by design.
You license HDMI. You are forced to use HDMI. If you don't play nice, they sue you. All under licensing. This enforces all the DRM nonsense that goes with it. This is why we don't yet have that cheap Chinese HDMI recorder deck yet.....
I do Assigned Counsel work with poor folks here in NY. Let us see if I can do this in less than the study in TFA....
You have no money. You need to get to work. You drive there in a borrowed car. The car has an expired inspection. You get pulled over. The car is towed and you end up with misdemeanor tickets for the lack of registration and insurance the car didn't have-you didn't know this, you just thought you were lucky enough to talk your neighbor in letting you use the car and not have to bus to work that day. The car's registration is suspended.
Now you have to go to Court. This wastes a day each time, and your employer has very limited sympathy. While there, a few other open, but minor, traffic tickets come up....you didn't have the money to pay those either which is why you ignored them.
Now you have to pay the whole lot off, so you can get a plea deal....or if you can't, you plea "as charged" and eat a misdemeanor, which goes on your real "permanent record", meaning you have to answer "yes" to "have you ever been convicted of a crime" on the next job application...
All for an amount of money (three figures, very low four figures) that most folks reading this could pay with minor hassle....I have two folks now who have about a $1k in fines to pay DMV, for minor traffic offenses...they won't ever come up with the money, and be able to get a clear license. You can't make a client "have money", so they will end up with a plea as charged, but a lower fine. The underlying problem won't get fixed, the snowball is too big.
Without that, the rest falls rapidly. Legislatures pass Driver Assessments, and these "super fines", designed to raise revenues, serve to hammer the poor. Michigan and NY are examples.
I see a lot of legal problems with the poor which aren't strictly legal issues.....debt collection, divorces where lack of money (and child support) are issues. Some is "the fault" of the individual, but oft it is the overall situation. No one has much money. If you have stable housing (public) you have real wealth, simply because it is stable. When your relative loses a job, surprise ! You are now "doubled up" when they move in. You don't want them but you know there's no where else to go. I've had landlords with six unit properties with twelve families...and in NY you can't get eviction for that.
I do not understand why we as a society cannot have a minimum wage that one can modestly live on, real health care, and some investment in education......
Good Jobs mean stability. Decent housing. Marriage, not "baby daddy" nonsense. Thriving businesses that aren't exploitative. A lack of jobs gets up what we have now.
I don't watch sports. How about I get a refund for all the espn I've been forced to watch...or can I split my cable bill and slingbox espn to someone who cares ? eff the tos.
Most importantly, can't move documents or music files. I like my iPhone, but when I hit this, I knew I was in the land of "defective by design". Whatever. Unlike my 9930 BB, at least the Iphone synchs properly and doesn't crash the Mac doing so.
Do I need a print scanner for my phone ? How does this help me ?
I ended up adding adblock, flashblock and noscript to all of my machines. Blame Club Med. I searched for a vacation online, and for the next two months, got endless ads for Club Med. "hat lady" became a joke in the house
Dumped cookies, etc. Now I search vacations or other products on a netbook pre wiped and cookie dumped. I haven't seen a banner ad in weeks.
Thank you Club Med...oh, I went there years back, had a great time....but the marketing has turned me off to your brand.
Banks used to need to rent your money, hence interest. You cannot compete against the Fed who has a printing press and literally gives it away. (OK, they are buying bonds and such that aren't likely to be repaid, but..)
If you ever made a bad investment, and the government didn't bail you out, why not ?
FOR PEOPLE WITH A BANK ACCOUNT...many of these folks don't..they don't have any minimum balance-in the old days a store or the bank the company uses would cash the checks for 100 cents on the dollar. Today, you can't get a bank to cash a check drawn on that bank without another account for the bank to draw on if it bounces. This is a no-go for lots of folks.
Making someone pay a fee to get paid is unconscionable even for a industry that gets free money from the Fed and lends it to you at 18%.
A long time ago, I worked in an immigration law firm. It is a minor art form to write the adverts you need to run to justify a foreign hire. You write them so only your proposed applicant can pass. If you see a want ad that is highly specific and almost impossible, you can bet it is a dummy ad so that an employer can justify to INS that "there is no one who fits my job description".
Oh, and yes, as nice as individuals may be, the employer does OWN the foreign hire.
You tech guys just got royally done by Congress. Sorry. The same folks who thought it a great idea to do fabrication off shore also think importing the low wage scale economy here is a good idea.
Really ! R2-D2 is the only character in all the movies. He has a long life. He is proven to be sapient but hides it well. He does NOT follow orders.
Except for the fact only C3P0 and other droids (and occasionally Luke) can understand him, he's the most important character in the Trilogy, and those other three movies.
I live in one of the few places the media cartel has messed it up. We have both Docsis 3.0 cable AND FiOS on my street. They actually compete, so I get mid level CATV, three phone lines, and 20/5 Internet (observed) for $150 per month. I had FiOS up until two years ago but it was almost twice the price, and they don't bring TV into my system. (When the collusive deal was made between FiOS and Cable providers, we ended up with internet and phone by fiber. A few blocks over, the same system carries TV too, but not in our Village. We've asked Verizon but they aren't interested...even though the system is fully installed and TV is a few keystrokes away.) The FiOs connection was 30/5, but I think you can get 50 now. My Fios bill (with three landlines at full price plus taxes) was in the $220 range...and then I had to use satellite for TV (plus $65).
Compare this to my inlaws, in a small city with only one provider. They get the same DOCSIS package but it is about $30 per month more...no competition and too far for OTA TV. FiOs isn't a possibility, nor will it ever be for them.
My parents in NYC have FiOs, and a near $300 per month bill. The last mile there is a few feet.
Verizon, meanwhile is putting up cell towers, but as VZ wireless is not the same as VZ FiOs, we can't locally squeeze them to turn on TV.
I'm not complaining. We have competition, which means both systems keep things working and our pricing is limited. Exactly what the big guys don't want.
My experience with Cablevision has been good. I need a cable card....sure, sir....clerk returns, gives it over.
Plug in. Call company. After minor shuffling, get a rep. Nice conversation. Card activated.
The Scientific Atlanta DVR they rent is utter garbage, but my TiVo, and before that, my Sony HDD 250 boxes,(Before Sony and Rovi executed them) had no issues with Cablecards.
There are Blu Ray burners in Japan.
You only get what the HDCP consortium (big media) wants you to have. The way we are all controlled by licensing the crappy HDMI plug/format is amazing and brilliant in its evil.
Sony HDD 250 was a great recorder. Tivo sued, Sony stopped making them, and last month, Rovi killed the listing service.
Hell yes, they need competition. DVR outside the US are commonly available.
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WriteNow 4.0....It hasn't gotten better since then, and for most wordsmiths who don't work in a corporate environ, it has only gotten worse.
Oddly, I can find anything I want on line...and often the regular TV shows are streamed BY THE NETWORK, not any "arr" type websites. You can don eye-patch and watch anything you want, though. I don't care about sports, which is what this is probably really about.
I always hope I bought a bolt on the international space station.....but I'm afraid I paid a millionaire agribusiness not to grow food. Sometimes, in and amongst all the nonsense, waste and cynicism, something good happens. Thank you Scott, for showing us what CAN happen.
We have tried, oh how we have tried. VZ is NOT interested. We got caught in the "no further rollout" pinch. Our village would negotiate a franchise today, we've made written formal requests....there aren't any terms offered, period.
Verizon won't turn the TV on for the FiOs system here in Croton on Hudson, NY. The system works for phone and internet, but they won't turn on TV. Towns next door have TV, but VZ won't return phone calls about our little village. We are an anomaly , though. We have DOCSIS 3.0 and FiOs on the same street, so they have to compete, which isn't good for anyone except the consumer. VZ made a deal with the Cable Companies, than in exchange for the cable company wireless spectrum, VZ would stop selling "cable tv". VZ is clearly keeping their end of the (collusive) bargain.
BB blew it when BB Desktop Manager began to crash my Apple...I wasn't the only one, I suspected renegade Apple employees undercover in BB. BB never fixed it. Desktop Manager is the only program which consistently crashed the Apple. I counted down the days till my second BB went off contract....and got an iPhone...and I'm not a fanboi I just wanted my device to synch again...like my Palm. Pity too, but I guess there is unemployment insurance in Canada. Failing to fix something as simple as getting an Apple to work is unforgivable.
WOW ! a "Record In" jack. Is it 1982 again ?
Every recorder must be individually addressable and killable....this is why the Sony HDD 250 was killed.
I have two SD sets. They are getting a downconverted HDTV feed. Each is an old school trinitron fed RGB. At the distances I watch, they put out a way better picture than most HDTV with incorrect aspects or bleeding channel 3 feeds. The 21 inch set is a 2006-probably the last off the line. It has blacks that most HD sets can only dream of.
Close. The whole purpose of HDMI is so that everyone is forced to comply with HDCP. I've now replaced two components which failed HDCP so I have an ax to grind. My Onkyo receiver pooped the HDMI board, so is useless now as a Video receiver. Works ok in the office for music, though.....but I agree, defective by design. You license HDMI. You are forced to use HDMI. If you don't play nice, they sue you. All under licensing. This enforces all the DRM nonsense that goes with it. This is why we don't yet have that cheap Chinese HDMI recorder deck yet.....
I do Assigned Counsel work with poor folks here in NY. Let us see if I can do this in less than the study in TFA.... You have no money. You need to get to work. You drive there in a borrowed car. The car has an expired inspection. You get pulled over. The car is towed and you end up with misdemeanor tickets for the lack of registration and insurance the car didn't have-you didn't know this, you just thought you were lucky enough to talk your neighbor in letting you use the car and not have to bus to work that day. The car's registration is suspended. Now you have to go to Court. This wastes a day each time, and your employer has very limited sympathy. While there, a few other open, but minor, traffic tickets come up....you didn't have the money to pay those either which is why you ignored them. Now you have to pay the whole lot off, so you can get a plea deal....or if you can't, you plea "as charged" and eat a misdemeanor, which goes on your real "permanent record", meaning you have to answer "yes" to "have you ever been convicted of a crime" on the next job application... All for an amount of money (three figures, very low four figures) that most folks reading this could pay with minor hassle....I have two folks now who have about a $1k in fines to pay DMV, for minor traffic offenses...they won't ever come up with the money, and be able to get a clear license. You can't make a client "have money", so they will end up with a plea as charged, but a lower fine. The underlying problem won't get fixed, the snowball is too big. Without that, the rest falls rapidly. Legislatures pass Driver Assessments, and these "super fines", designed to raise revenues, serve to hammer the poor. Michigan and NY are examples. I see a lot of legal problems with the poor which aren't strictly legal issues.....debt collection, divorces where lack of money (and child support) are issues. Some is "the fault" of the individual, but oft it is the overall situation. No one has much money. If you have stable housing (public) you have real wealth, simply because it is stable. When your relative loses a job, surprise ! You are now "doubled up" when they move in. You don't want them but you know there's no where else to go. I've had landlords with six unit properties with twelve families...and in NY you can't get eviction for that. I do not understand why we as a society cannot have a minimum wage that one can modestly live on, real health care, and some investment in education...... Good Jobs mean stability. Decent housing. Marriage, not "baby daddy" nonsense. Thriving businesses that aren't exploitative. A lack of jobs gets up what we have now.
I don't watch sports. How about I get a refund for all the espn I've been forced to watch...or can I split my cable bill and slingbox espn to someone who cares ? eff the tos.
"how conveeeneit".... Legislator plates are license to speed and courtesy if we smell alcohol but you aren't smashed......
The version for toasters and heaters has nicer looking copper.
Most importantly, can't move documents or music files. I like my iPhone, but when I hit this, I knew I was in the land of "defective by design". Whatever. Unlike my 9930 BB, at least the Iphone synchs properly and doesn't crash the Mac doing so. Do I need a print scanner for my phone ? How does this help me ?
I ended up adding adblock, flashblock and noscript to all of my machines. Blame Club Med. I searched for a vacation online, and for the next two months, got endless ads for Club Med. "hat lady" became a joke in the house Dumped cookies, etc. Now I search vacations or other products on a netbook pre wiped and cookie dumped. I haven't seen a banner ad in weeks. Thank you Club Med...oh, I went there years back, had a great time....but the marketing has turned me off to your brand.
Banks used to need to rent your money, hence interest. You cannot compete against the Fed who has a printing press and literally gives it away. (OK, they are buying bonds and such that aren't likely to be repaid, but..) If you ever made a bad investment, and the government didn't bail you out, why not ?
FOR PEOPLE WITH A BANK ACCOUNT...many of these folks don't..they don't have any minimum balance-in the old days a store or the bank the company uses would cash the checks for 100 cents on the dollar. Today, you can't get a bank to cash a check drawn on that bank without another account for the bank to draw on if it bounces. This is a no-go for lots of folks. Making someone pay a fee to get paid is unconscionable even for a industry that gets free money from the Fed and lends it to you at 18%.
A long time ago, I worked in an immigration law firm. It is a minor art form to write the adverts you need to run to justify a foreign hire. You write them so only your proposed applicant can pass. If you see a want ad that is highly specific and almost impossible, you can bet it is a dummy ad so that an employer can justify to INS that "there is no one who fits my job description". Oh, and yes, as nice as individuals may be, the employer does OWN the foreign hire. You tech guys just got royally done by Congress. Sorry. The same folks who thought it a great idea to do fabrication off shore also think importing the low wage scale economy here is a good idea.
Really ! R2-D2 is the only character in all the movies. He has a long life. He is proven to be sapient but hides it well. He does NOT follow orders. Except for the fact only C3P0 and other droids (and occasionally Luke) can understand him, he's the most important character in the Trilogy, and those other three movies.
I live in one of the few places the media cartel has messed it up. We have both Docsis 3.0 cable AND FiOS on my street. They actually compete, so I get mid level CATV, three phone lines, and 20/5 Internet (observed) for $150 per month. I had FiOS up until two years ago but it was almost twice the price, and they don't bring TV into my system. (When the collusive deal was made between FiOS and Cable providers, we ended up with internet and phone by fiber. A few blocks over, the same system carries TV too, but not in our Village. We've asked Verizon but they aren't interested...even though the system is fully installed and TV is a few keystrokes away.) The FiOs connection was 30/5, but I think you can get 50 now. My Fios bill (with three landlines at full price plus taxes) was in the $220 range...and then I had to use satellite for TV (plus $65). Compare this to my inlaws, in a small city with only one provider. They get the same DOCSIS package but it is about $30 per month more...no competition and too far for OTA TV. FiOs isn't a possibility, nor will it ever be for them. My parents in NYC have FiOs, and a near $300 per month bill. The last mile there is a few feet. Verizon, meanwhile is putting up cell towers, but as VZ wireless is not the same as VZ FiOs, we can't locally squeeze them to turn on TV. I'm not complaining. We have competition, which means both systems keep things working and our pricing is limited. Exactly what the big guys don't want.
The Sony HDD 250 also did this, before TiVo squashed it like a bug.
My experience with Cablevision has been good. I need a cable card....sure, sir....clerk returns, gives it over. Plug in. Call company. After minor shuffling, get a rep. Nice conversation. Card activated. The Scientific Atlanta DVR they rent is utter garbage, but my TiVo, and before that, my Sony HDD 250 boxes,(Before Sony and Rovi executed them) had no issues with Cablecards.
There are Blu Ray burners in Japan. You only get what the HDCP consortium (big media) wants you to have. The way we are all controlled by licensing the crappy HDMI plug/format is amazing and brilliant in its evil.
Sony HDD 250 was a great recorder. Tivo sued, Sony stopped making them, and last month, Rovi killed the listing service. Hell yes, they need competition. DVR outside the US are commonly available.