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Freedom! (cue George Michael earworm)
As of July 1, cable providers are required to offer new digital subscribers equipment that works with what's known as a CableCARD, a wafer-thin card that tells your TV what programming you have purchased. It's revolutionary because it can be used with a variety of devices, not just the set-top boxes traditionally leased by cable operators such as Comcast and Time Warner.
Not actually sure how that'll affect my life in the short run if I don't get one of the new TiVos, but it's a start.
The more I read able CableCard, the more confused I get. I'm sure that's exactly how the cable companies want it.
Check out this article, for instance.
The FCC can set all the deadlines they want, but the cable companies and 3rd party manufacturers are just going to keep pointing fingers at each other.
Dear Treo,
Your repeated failure this morning to send picture text messages accompanied by your random restarting is really not helping your case for not being traded in for an iPhone. Don't push your luck.
Love,
Your human master
I'm pretty sure I signed a new contract with Sprint last fall, but according to Sprint's website, my contract expired in 2005.
Hmmm....
Strange thing here. I have an Access table that swears the column type is integer, but there are text values in it. But this means I can't use it in a WHERE clause of a SELECT statement.
On the one hand, I'm trying to work out how it got that way. In the meanwhile--anyone seen anything like that? I need that query, dammit.
eta: Never mind. Something's linked weird so that browsing the table doesn't show you the integer value--instead it shows you the text value cross-referenced from another table. Huh. I didn't know you could do that.
Just to help the case I'm loving my iPhone.
How's the stripped down OSX, ND?
It works really well. It is OS X but it is all locked down so the user can't get to any of the os bits.
Maybe I'll go to the Apple Store today and see if I can play with one. I can't afford it and I'm still under contract with Verizon, but....want.
ION, I'm having an issue with Google apps (Gmail and Reader). At some point in the past week or so they've stopped automatically opening external links in new tabs, which was a feature I really appreciated. I can't find a setting to switch it back in any of the help menus. Anyone else having this problem and fixed it? (Or could it be a Firefox issue and not a Google one?)
