No, and No. Comcast--at least here in Lansing, MI--offers teh first cablecard for free, and the second one for like $1.99. When I had digital cable installed, I specifically told them I wanted a multi stream card that way I wouldn't have to pay the fee for the second card.
Well, here it's free for the first card and over $2 a month for each additional card.
May not seem like a lot, but having service for a couple years I'm already out $50. If I could just buy the card from some 3rd party for $25 a piece or something, then I'd pretty much be even. But no I'll continue the $2 per month fees I have.
I think the point is she wants the market open so she could buy a cable box from any company not just Comcast.
Sort of like telephones way back when. You had use to have to rent your phone from the phone company. The laws changed that tying arrangement too so now you go to K-Mart or BestBuy or wherever and buy any phone you want.
Can anybody imagine a renting a phone these days from your phone company in order to use the service you pay for?
Sir Lancelot: We were in the nick of time. You were in great peril. Sir Galahad: I don't think I was. Sir Lancelot: Yes, you were. You were in terrible peril. Sir Galahad: Look, let me go back in there and face the peril. Sir Lancelot: No, it's too perilous. Sir Galahad: Look, it's my duty as a knight to sample as much peril as I can. Sir Lancelot: No, we've got to find the Holy Grail. Come on. Sir Galahad: Oh, let me have just a little bit of peril? Sir Lancelot: No. It's unhealthy. Sir Galahad: I bet you're gay. Sir Lancelot: Am not.
Bestbuy has a pretty good deal on an LCD HDTV for under $300. Might want to get one for the bathroom incase you have to 'poop' as they're about to announce the winner. Just sayin'...
Wouldn't really matter. Hence the "Pull" part. There would just be a data base of BestBuy, Wal-Mart, and Target UPCs and they could easily be linked to the standard product UPC.
Then the same data would be pulled, same review info, and you'd still find out where it is cheaper.
I buy it all. Hey I still use Amiga. But I bought both Blu-Ray. (Yes I was in front of BestBuy for a PS3 when they came out). Got HD-DVD too.
That doesn't change the fact that I don't think they are going to take over DVD. I like to own the newest stuff and yes I owned many LaserDisc palyer (even the a Pioneer that played both sides of the disc), but I live in reality.
Blu-Ray is not going to take over DVD for the U.S. masses or the rest of the world guys.
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No, and No. Comcast--at least here in Lansing, MI--offers teh first cablecard for free, and the second one for like $1.99. When I had digital cable installed, I specifically told them I wanted a multi stream card that way I wouldn't have to pay the fee for the second card.
Well, here it's free for the first card and over $2 a month for each additional card.
May not seem like a lot, but having service for a couple years I'm already out $50. If I could just buy the card from some 3rd party for $25 a piece or something, then I'd pretty much be even. But no I'll continue the $2 per month fees I have.
I think the point is she wants the market open so she could buy a cable box from any company not just Comcast.
Sort of like telephones way back when. You had use to have to rent your phone from the phone company. The laws changed that tying arrangement too so now you go to K-Mart or BestBuy or wherever and buy any phone you want.
Can anybody imagine a renting a phone these days from your phone company in order to use the service you pay for?
Hmm, do you have to pay a montly "rental" fee for that card from Comcast though or can I get the card anywhere?
"The Earth's magnetic field has been found to have two large holes that are making Earth's surface vulnerable to solar winds"
I am wondering what is between the two large holes?
April 1981 was the first space shuttle flight.
The Delorean they used in Back to the Future wasn't even made yet.
It wasn't till a year later, August, 1982, that the Commodore 64 with 64kilobytes of ram came out.
I know the space shuttles have been upgraded, but still... It's old.
I am I the ONLY one that see this as a "good" thing?
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I mean, if you ban emoticons then only crminals will have emoticons.
Think how much cherrier prisons would be!!
hmmm... or more dangerous...
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What? I'm on my C64 with a 300bps modem downloading a 16 color porn GIF from a BBS at the same time as I posted that and I still beat you?
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/just kidding Apple fans don't punish me too bad!! :-)
Yeah, might be time to get the "new" iPhone. It's "3"g
...for bathrooms everywhere I go. I mean 21Mbps? That's crazy! "More porn in more places."
http://www.mobiledia.com/phones/lg/chocolate-3.html
It has a digital FM transmiter on screen. On the display you can just go through the stations digitally that you want to transmit on 88.1 - 107.x
Kinda cool...
These article always seem to miss OWB for AmigaOS 4.1.
:-)
http://strohmayer.org/owb/
It gets 100/100 on ACID3, check the screen shots on the site.
Geez!!
... to the 5th grade class that I teach. It's unanimous, NASA should go to Uranus and look for Klingons.
Some things never change.
Not at all. They could be carried.
It could grip it by the husk!
Sir Lancelot: We were in the nick of time. You were in great peril.
Sir Galahad: I don't think I was.
Sir Lancelot: Yes, you were. You were in terrible peril.
Sir Galahad: Look, let me go back in there and face the peril.
Sir Lancelot: No, it's too perilous.
Sir Galahad: Look, it's my duty as a knight to sample as much peril as I can.
Sir Lancelot: No, we've got to find the Holy Grail. Come on.
Sir Galahad: Oh, let me have just a little bit of peril?
Sir Lancelot: No. It's unhealthy.
Sir Galahad: I bet you're gay.
Sir Lancelot: Am not.
I have a Levitron and it's cool. Think I'd rather have a Diamagnetic Levitation Device at that age though. Plenty of plans to make your own. Fun project.
A little more, but so much cooler. Levitating Globe
I'm gonna bore my Grandkids to death like my Granparents did to me...
Me: Yep, back in my day we used to walk!
Kids: Grandma! Grandpas making up stories again!
Bestbuy has a pretty good deal on an LCD HDTV for under $300. Might want to get one for the bathroom incase you have to 'poop' as they're about to announce the winner. Just sayin'...
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=8987475&type=product&id=1218006548849
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Yeah, can Android run Quake this fast on a 15 year phone??
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ao7haFa2iQk
>>Last I checked, OGO was 8x the price of this iKit thing.
??? The OGO is priced around $99-$129 in most countries. You can buy them without contract a lot of places as well.
You can already get a much better version of this all over Europe for sometime. Just can't seem to get it in the US.
http://www.ogo.com/en/
Check out the OGO clips, those are cool.
Wouldn't really matter. Hence the "Pull" part. There would just be a data base of BestBuy, Wal-Mart, and Target UPCs and they could easily be linked to the standard product UPC.
Then the same data would be pulled, same review info, and you'd still find out where it is cheaper.
There's already sweet music here free! ;-)
You have the right to carry a gun too.
But there might be consequences if you just go around shooting people.
I buy it all. Hey I still use Amiga. But I bought both Blu-Ray. (Yes I was in front of BestBuy for a PS3 when they came out). Got HD-DVD too.
That doesn't change the fact that I don't think they are going to take over DVD. I like to own the newest stuff and yes I owned many LaserDisc palyer (even the a Pioneer that played both sides of the disc), but I live in reality.
Blu-Ray is not going to take over DVD for the U.S. masses or the rest of the world guys.
I'm still sticking with my formula:
Blu-Ray is to DVD as LaserDisc was to VHS
A cool toy for those movie buffs.