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You still don't get it. Its not the cable companies that is the major road block, its the broadcasters. They force the cable (and satellite) companies to bundle these channels together. Again, the old roadblock was analog tv making it too cumbersome to provide a la carte, but going all digital...

People need to understand that the cable companies have two things preventing them from a la carte. The first is old analog technology. With say 60 analog channels it would be impossible to provide a la carte as they would need a filter for each channel. If you wanted say 10 channels of those 60...

No, they don't. More than likely you family was having issues that caused the streaming quality either on the modem side or the home network side. I've had no problems streaming on my service from any site.

Actually, I doubt they will be bought out. Cox Communications is only part of Cox Enterprise. They also hold several radio station and local tv stations, own Manhaim and AutoTrader, and other small entities. And they can not be the victim of a hostile take over as they are a privately held...

First and foremost, I work for a cable company (have it posted in my bio). While I will say I disagree totally with the bait and switch, that tactic has been used by phone, tv, cell, etc for decades. The only companies that don't use that are the utilities which have a solid monopoly in their...

Didn't think they still counted as birthdays after your dead :)

No, will check it out <edit> Ok, Aida confirmed it, CPU is running between 28-29 idle, so 49-50 is my max. Very not bad for a stock AMD HSF! With these temps I won't need to get an aftermarket cooler...

Keep the room around 72-73 F, and yes played both borderlands 2 and minecraft. Max temp was 49c. And I don't know when AMD changed their stock heatsink, but this one instead of the fins being all straight up from the surface, they were horizontal from the center. Maybe AMD wised up and gave out...

From their website it looks like its specific to Intel proc's. The only thing it mentions for AMD is GPU support, not CPU or APU.

Ok, did some more digging and found that HWmonitor does not read the APU properly (dunno if its the APU or this motherboard, hence why I posted in the mobo section). From what I've read I should ignore the package temp and go with TMPIN0 for cpu, TMPIN1 for gpu and TMPIN2 for case temps. Well...

Ok, a very gracious friend gave me a computer upgrade (he felt bad I was running a 5 year old system). Its a MSI FM2-A75MA-E35 mobo and a AMD A6-6400K. Right now my budget is tight and after spending a bit of money I did have on a different case I didn't have the money to buy an aftermarket HSF...

Frog legs anyone? Just a warning, might have a slight chemical taste....

Its just proof that the human mind is extremely fucked up....

Most of the bigger ones, especially since they get into bulk accounts for places like nursing homes that over analog cable as part of their resident package. Trust me, I would love to be done with analog cable, it takes up a HUGE chunk of our spectrum, and most is in the lower frequencies which...

You all are crazy! Cable is the best thing out there!... j/k Had to throw it out since I work for a cable company. And trust me, we know the high rates are driving people off. I, myself, would be happy if a la cart was introduced, as long as it was digital only. With almost 50 channels of...

The only feature that Dish has over cable is the automatic skip of commercials. The record all primetime feature is kinda lame, IMO. Cox is the only cable company that has a dvr to rival Dish or DirecTv. Their record 6 whole home dvr has a 6 tuner dvr that you can pair with either clients or up...

Watch them say they were using windows server and thats why it was hacked :rolleyes:

Wow, thats even worse than PNY treated me a long time ago. Had a retail Ti-something (been too long) that was 128bit, 128meg memory. When I finally got my replacement (close to 4 months later) I got a OEM 64bit, 64meg card. Called back and told them that this was not what I sent in, they told me...

As long as Netflix stays by itself, oh well. Now, watch the price for Hulu plus to skyrocket just like DirecTv's programming costs do.

I wonder how many of you actually read the article before posting some asinine slam on the Ohio state government? The internet cafe's that actually just provide internet and phone minutes will still stay in business. What they will run out of the state are the ones that are there to do nothing...

This is impossible on cable lines, just FYI.

Actually, he is not wrong. Over the last 20 or so years the FDA has shown it is more interested in treating than curing. Look at all the drugs that have come out, found to be dangerous, then sued for all the other medical problems they "helped" with. If you want further proof, look at how the...

As I, and many others, have explained, right now thats currently impossible. Even IF you could get the content providers to split up the channels, because analog cable service is still in use you could not do al-a-carte. The only ones that could do al-a-carte are those that require a box per tv...

I love how people want regulation on cable companies. What kind of regulation? The two biggest things I hear are sharing of lines and al-a-carte channels, both of which are impossible. First, cable companies can not share lines, its impossible. Phone companies can because the line that runs to...

As a cable tech I won't post a flamming response like I want to. I will say that I take customer satisfaction very seriously. Not only because I wan't the customers I see to be happy, but my job performance in regards to customer satisfaction is measured and I'm held accountable for it. But you...

Buying a MBP because of its looks is like marrying a dumb blonde beauty and trying to have a meaningful conversation with her. I'm more for function over glitzy form. For the price of a MBP I can get a windows laptop that would run circles around the mac. And there is no arguing with that, mac's...

So, I buy $800 worth of computer equipment and a $1000 case? And people wonder why knowledgeable people stick with windows....

To those that have had no problems with Belkin, your lucky. Their main fare are their cheap, sub $50 routers at wal-mart and they are the junk of junk. I've been to so many houses that blamed cable for slow speeds, I bypass their belkin pos and presto, speed is back. Then have to explain to them...

Hrm, a mac book pro running Windows, isn't that a girl getting a sex change, then dressing up like a tranny?

It really is a vicious circle. The broadcasters set the rules, charge x amount for 20 channels. The customers want maybe 2 of those 20 but have to pay the price the cable/sat company charges to pay the broadcasters and make a profit. I read a while back that all the cable co's wanted the FCC to...

Dunno if anyone said this yet (too lazy to read all the posts), but all I can say is: Bing: All your base are belong to us!

Ok, installed the vista drivers, and no change. I guess until (or if I should say) updated drivers come out for my wireless card I'm sol. Don't get me wrong, 15 Mbit/sec isn't bad, and not like I use my laptop for netflix or anything, but still a bit of a letdown that it dropped my download...

I got Vista on a Dell Inspiron I won from work and didn't care for it. At the time 2gig of memory was enough, but Vista previous to SP2 was slow and clunky. SP2 helped a lot, but it was too late. Right now I'm on the said laptop with Win8Pro and it runs much faster than Vista. Still, it doesn't...

Only problem is that Dell never made drivers for win7, highest they went was Vista 64bit. I tried to switch to those, no avail. I didn't think to look for win7 drivers for that wireless card, might try that later.

Ok, I bit the bullet and bought win8pro while it was on sale. Not wanting to use it on my main rig I put it on my aging laptop. So far, metro aside, I've been pretty impressed. Most everything is running faster (probably due to going from Vista home prem 32bit to Win8pro 64bit) with the lone...

Doesn't surprise me one bit. Every single company that received bailouts from the government gave their CEO's and other big wigs bonuses after getting those bailouts. Here in America we are now giving rewards for failing as well, how else do you explain welfare recipients at an all time high? I...

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Bleh, he lost me when he tried to compare apple products to sex and pizza. When will these fanboys learn that Apple never innovate? They simply redesign/re-image something and sell it to the wannabe snobs of society for a ridiculous amount.

Man, I've have seen some expensive setups in my day (had a guy almost have a heart attack because I had to get behind his rack system to find an amp, he kept telling me to be careful about every 5 seconds) and I still do not understand the need for that much "clarity". If you are doing nothing...

How do you think they share T1 services? You obviously do not fully understand rf transmission. In modern cable plants the last mile is all coax (it actually could be a couple of miles worth, but you get the idea). On that coax you have a set spectrum of frequencies. Take in mind that each...