"Let's just put this out there: the Droid Incredible is the best Android device that you can purchase in America right now. It's better than the Droid, better than the Nexus One, and certainly beats the pants off of any previous generation handsets like the Eris, myTouch, or Cliq. It's not just a very, very good Android phone (though it is); it's also an excellent smartphone no matter how you cut it."
- Amit Patel
from Bookmarklet
Just how much more awesome is it than the Nexus One? Cause if I was in the market for a new Android phone right now I would be leaning towards the N1 just because I suspect Google would be better about issuing OS updates for it.
- Andrew C (✓)
Photo Tagger: Stop tagging on Facebook, let our amazing face recognition app do it for you - automatically! & Photo Finder: A powerful app for finding lost photos of you and your friends on Facebook ~ Umm how bout a powerful FB app for untagging and burying those pictures you don't want found :) http://www.face.com/
Yup, I just added it on FB, didn't try it out, but click on either takes you straight to FB to add it as an app, with a bookmarklet to autotag, {so not sure how accurate it is?}
- The Real sofarsoShawn
Thanks, just added it. Pretty useful, but I'm almost certain it'll eventually be more of a blessing than a curse by allowing me to obsess over people (read: girls) I should probably forget. But that's a risk I'm willing to take. Thanks :)
- LANjackal
from IM
Just tried it - not very accurate though... but it's a nice idea
- See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
Things I learned while I was away #2: You can't ever delete anything from the Internet, even if you want to really bad. - http://friendfeed.com/joshhal...
"6* (that's six stars). This is a product that is really easy and intuitive to use resulting in productive work."
- Erhan Erdoğan
from Bookmarklet
You could also use Gliffy and Lovelycharts.com. But lovelycharts uses flash-based drawing interface. Is creately dynamic HTMl based or Flash based?
- TrafficBug
"As things got really out of control, I saw a looter on the roof of the store they'd broken into throw what I think was part of a concrete block into the crowd. It hit a small boy in the head. I saw him collapse. More chunks of concrete were being thrown at the looters on the roof. The injured boy couldn't get up. He'd try and then collapse again. Blood was pouring from his head. He was conscious but had no control over his body. I was afraid someone on the roof would see him lying there and throw another cinder block piece onto him. I was afraid he'd get killed. No one seemed to be helping him."
- AJ Batac :)
from Bookmarklet
Anderson Cooper, you sexy, compassionate man. Can we clone him?
- ωαřмaiden ☆TeamOtto☆
I just want to borrow him for like five minutes of good solid motorboating. Then y'all can have him back (but I still get to look at him, yes?).
- Hookuh Tinypants
Now taking bets as to how soon this will be used in a political campaign. Anderson Cooper for ... Senate? Congress?
- LANjackal
@ahmet ne rekabetinden bahsediyorsun? o biteli oldu epey, apple'i aldı m$.
- güney
gcg. "Apple'i aldi MS" dediginiz seyi Microsoft'un 150 milyon dolarlik ve oy hakki olmayan hisse almasi oldugunun farkindasiniz umarim. Sirketin kacta biri yapar, varin onu da siz hesaplayin.
- Ozgur Demir
Özgür, eğer mevzu senin bahsettiğin kadar hafif olsa idi, satın alınma işlemi öncesi ve sonrası bu kadar farklı olmazdı. Apple bilgisayarların windows yüklü gelmesi, intel ile anlaşma, senede bir güncelleme. logo dışında her özelliğin kaybetti apple
- güney
ahah abi bezdim artık şu elma armut tartışmasından.. bi numarası yok artık apple'ın da.. mikrosoftun hiç olmadı zaten...
- Batu
gcg. ha butun dunyadan gizli [ama sizden kacmamis] yapmislar oyle mi? 150 milyon dolar diyorum yahu, var mi otesi? Apple'in toplam degerinin %1'inden az. Apple bilgisayarlarin windows yuklu gelmesi ne demek hem? yok oyle bir sey. Intel ile anlasma nasil Microsoft etkisi oluyor onu da anlamis degilim, adamlar powerpc den x86'ya gectiler, Microsoft marka CPU almiyorlar. "Senede bir guncelleme" ne demek, Microsoft ile nasil bir ilgisi var orasini allah bilir ancak.
- Ozgur Demir
Görünüşe göre 150 m $ lık hisseyi de 2004 e gelene kadar elinden çıkarmış M$. Ama yıllar boyu ppc mimarisinde direten apple intel'e geçiş yapıyor. Ve sadece intel mimarisi için hazırlanmış olan işletim sistemi m$ windows da apple bilgisayarlara kurulabilir hale geliyor. iki tarafında ekonomik çıkarı varken 10 sene güncel kalabilen kaliteli apple bilgisayarlar yerini apple logolu, yüksek fiyatlı standart özellikli bilgisayarlara bırakıyorlar
- güney
"Skiff Reader: The Ultimate E-Reader | If you bought an Amazon Kindle DX in 2009, prepare for a heavy dose of buyer’s remorse. The Skiff Reader has overtaken the Amazon Kindle DX as the largest e-reader on the market, but its size isn’t what makes the Skiff so special. The Skiff Reader brings two new technologies to the large-scale e-reader market: a touchscreen e-ink display and “silicon thin-film-transistors on a flexible steel substrate”. The Skiff Reader pushes the e-reader standard by featuring a full touchscreen display spanning 11.5-inches. The Amazon Kindle DX and smaller Kindle models don’t feature touchscreen e-ink, neither does that Barnes and Noble Nook (while the latter has an LCD touchscreen below the e-ink portion). This provides a new, finger-friendly world of navigation as you flip pages, highlight and select content modules and skim through your favorite ebooks."
- AJ Batac :)
from Bookmarklet
Wow, if that's for real, I'm super jazzed. I've wanted a large high-res ebook reader for ages.
- Joel Webber
Nice. You could fit that inside the case of a MacBook air. I wonder what the update rate on that e-ink screen is though. [edit] Oh... it's not e-ink, it's TFT. Does that mean real-time updates? Wow X 2.
- Matt M (inactive)
Morgan's question is most important, followed immediately by what content can you get on it?
- The original Kevin
i'm sitting here ready to buy this sexy beast. but i need to know how muchee. I'm guessing that Amazon.com ain't gonna offer it anytime soon.
- Morgan
Looks like they're setting up their own store: http://www.skiff.com/skiff-s.... So could be yet another proprietary format to add to Kindle/Sony/etc. Ugh on that.
- Jandy
As long as it reads PDF, .mobi and HTML formats without extra charge, I'd be OK with whatever proprietary junk they throw on it.
- Matt M (inactive)
I'm pretty sure this will not be available up north till you all in the US have it. :(
- AJ Batac :)
Rumor has it that the company making this thing is owned by the Hearst Corporation, who refer to this cryptically, as the device they expect will save the newspaper publishing industry from being destroyed by free news on the Internet. Expect plenty of DRM. Additionally, the software on the device will allow advertising to be "injected" into content. I am not sure if that means that if...
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- April
Mmmm.. Thanks for the rumors April. But I think they'll crack that baby up (as almost ANYTHING digital or firmware based) in no time after launch, just for me 8)
- Zu from AOD
That puts the Crunchpad to shame. If they'd come out with one of these that was in color and foldable it would be uber!
- Lindsay
The only company that's really managed to share DRM across technology platforms is Microsoft I think. Even then, the 'plays for sure' program didn't really last that long. I guess when you have the dream of ultimate control over your end-user's usage, sharing that with others isn't really something people like to do.
- Matt M (inactive)
Metal screen is very promising. I'm still curious about refresh rate, cost, DRM, etc. It looks like an awesome e-reader, but it doesn't look like a general purpose computing device (and it really ought to be)
- Jason Wehmhoener
This doesn't seem to use e-ink though - it's a TFT LCD screen, from the specs. Might mean that it's got an impressive refresh rate, but possibly worse sunlight readability.
- Matt M (inactive)
refresh rate for e-ink varies quite a bit from one ereader to another. i bring it up because i have doubts about e-ink as a viable technology, frankly.
- Jason Wehmhoener
Then I guess I'll wait for the next thing after eInk. I looked at a Sony reader the other day, and it took almost as long to refresh the page as it did to read the page (only a slight exaggeration, seriously). I read books on my iPhone and there's no refresh at all. It's right there. Why can't they use that?
- Jandy
Regardless, this thing just looks cool :)
- Jan Ole Peek
Jandy, exactly. The only reason people are buying the kindle is because they want cheaper books and they don't own an iphone, think the iphone screen is too small, or don't realize you can use an iphone to read kindle books. e-ink has nothing to do with the popularity of the kindle. ereaders were not considered as a going concern when sony was doing this. the difference is Amazon and...
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- Jason Wehmhoener
I'm not saying an iPhone is a direct competitor to a Kindle or Sony reader, just that the time I've spent reading books on it was more enjoyable than the time I spent testing a Sony reader (granted, not that long, but long enough to be dismayed by the screen blinking at me for three or more seconds between pages). Plus, if I were to buy something like this, I would absolutely want it to...
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- Jandy
Jason, I think you missed my point. The kindle is popular because kindle books are cheap. Period. No other reason.
- Jason Wehmhoener
Well we're getting there with these e-readers but his one is not colour and still too big. Cut it in half!
- Kol Tregaskes
In fact if there was some way of expanding/collapsing the size then that would be ace! This bendy feature would be good though, it would last longer if I used it. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
The size of a paperback reading book is what I'm thinking. That's where I would like to use it (as well as browse the net - if possible - or read newspapers, etc.).
- Kol Tregaskes
It would even be nice if it folded in half or something. That way, you could turn it landscape and read two smaller (approximately paperback-sized) pages or you could turn it portrait and read a single PDF-type letter-sized document. Fold it in half and put it in your bag to carry it around.
- Curdy G
If it's crippled with DRM'd and doesn't support popular open formats, it'll be another pass for me. I actually don't mind minimal DRM too much for purchased books, but I shouldn't be restricted in any open formats I wish to view and there definitely shouldn't be any passing of data back to the mothership.
- Phil Ashman
The Daily Drop Cap is an ongoing project by typographer and illustrator Jessica Hische. Each day (or at least each WORK day), a new hand-crafted decorative initial cap will be posted for your enjoyment and for the beautification of blog posts everywhere. To use a Daily Drop Cap on your site or blog, follow the instructions in each post and read about the usage limitations. Enjoy!
- zeroinfluencer
from Bookmarklet
I have been so confused over these movies.....I had some geek friends explain it to me REAL SLOW....
- Just Katie
A few months ago, blogs I read were up in arms about the casting of Avatar (the movielization of the TV show), so I assumed Avatar was that movie. Very confused.
- Betsy
I don't know you Josh, but I completely love Aang and feel as you do... WHY INDEED did James Cameron have to choose THAT title! Hex on him and his movie! LOL
- Lennie
I remember that, Betsy! That's probably what had me so confused about this movie.
- Penguin
I had no idea the two were not related. Shows how much attention I've paid.
- Curdy G
I figured the blue people were in the episodes I hadn't watched yet.
- Betsy
“...your demand that I retract my statements is a demand that I do further unwarranted and costly damage to a reputation you have already deliberately tarnished. Demanding an apology adds insult to this injury. Obviously, neither of these will be forthcoming.”
- Anthony Citrano
from Bookmarklet
Too bad this shit storm has affected you this way. I presume you have engaged an attorney?
- Brian Sullivan
Ouchie is right. Nice work on the vids.
- Cole Jolley
thanks all. now i am going to turn off my phone and hide
- Anthony Citrano
Comprehensive and to-the-point. Hard to see how they can gain anything from pursuing it further - and let's hope an apology from the other side is forthcoming (though I wouldn't hold my breath for that).
- WoH: Minding her Steves
I cannot believe these assclowns are suing you and have actually coerced written statements from publishers and photographers that photos which appeared in print are not retouched in any way. They should have their tongues cut out.
- Adam Turetzky
I have just submitted this to Digg because I hate to see people threatened for telling the truth: http://digg.com/celebri... The only way they will drop this is if they are caught in the act of bullying and are called out for it.
- WoH: Minding her Steves
I think you're handling yourself brilliantly, Anthony. Don't let 'em get you down...
- Brent
Lets hope they drop it and quickly too else this will end up being another 'Streisand effect'.
- Mel Buckpitt
Wow - what a great example of the wrong way to handle bad PR. Don't they know this is just going to make a bigger, worse story for her? How stupid.
- Ciaoenrico
@Ciaoenrico - you know, this is actually one of the reasons why I hesitated and spent a few days thinking and seeking some sanity checks/counsel. I mean, one of the first thoughts that occurred to me when I got the letter was: these people are either way dumber than I am - or way smarter. And I didn't want to presume the former.
- Anthony Citrano
Why does it say "Ouchie" by her thumb, when the missing part was her upper thigh? And why are they mad at you? They should be mad at the Photoshop "artist."
- Kimber Scott
I just read the letter they sent again - talk about a reality gap! I'm not sure they are even in the same universe when it comes to the truth. Now, if only you could get the rights from Shakira so you could use "Hips don't Lie" for your videos...
- WoH: Minding her Steves
I read the beginning of the article where you got a letter from Moore's attorney and then I clicked the link that led to the original article where you spoke about the chunk of hip missing. I guess I'll go back and read more... I thought I'd gotten the gist of it. I just didn't understand where the thumb came in. Will report back soon...
- Kimber Scott
Ok. Now, I get the thumb. I still don't get their attitude. Silly people. You've got the evidence on your side. I'm anxious to see how this plays out.
- Kimber Scott
well written well reasoned and sadly that it was even necessary but good luck in getting the right outcome
- WarLord
Of all the people I know on FriendFeed that might be sent threatening letters from a Hollywood star's attorney, Anthony was not in my first group. Go figure.
- WoH: Minding her Steves
Unfortunately civil actions often have nothing to do with logic, what is right or even the law.
- Brian Sullivan
As far as I can tell you've proven your point well enough that any counter point would have to have twice the proof. The claims of "no retouching" are obviously not just incredible but discredited. Good job on the vids. :)
- <3Heather<3
wow, that retouching is super obvious. Look at the line between the leg and hip - doh! Lame attorneys. The photoshop hack needs a new job, errr correction, new career.
- Susan Beebe
This whole issue could be settled in two seconds if the photographer would simply post the original RAW file from the photo shoot.....
- Jeff P. Henderson
Let's all write to Demi and tell her we would have no beef if she wasn't trying to cover up something that isn't honestly about her (cuz it's just about the retouching). And write to W saying we will never sub to them if they force celebs to take the defensive for their publication.
- <3Heather<3
Still alive but the momentum and will to live is gone -- and the sale and virtual abandonment was like shutting out the lights in the middle of a party -- a signal for everybody to go home.
- Brian Sullivan
TBH, I feel like I use FF much more now that before the acquisition. So for me, yes, it's very much alive and kicking. 8^D
- Chieze Okoye
The Google real-time announcement certainly didn't hurt!!!!
- Charlie Anzman
Honestly, it's not that much different -- plenty to chat about, and plenty to chat with -- and it's still storing all my web finds perfectly. There's an extremely considerate and passionate community. So... sure!
- Christopher Galtenberg
It is to me - it all depends on what you make of it
- Jesse Stay
Who is here is replying "yes". Who's not here any more just won't reply. The fact is few weeks ago you wouldn't have asked :) [ah, this means it is not kicking as in the past]
- Markingegno - Donato
from Android
I would say yes. It had a slump period for me for a couple of months, but now I'm putting more in it and getting more from it in return.
- Rasmus Lauridsen
Tricky question. Nothing else out there has this feature-set, and AFAIC that's the killer, I use FF because it's the best platform. Maybe some people drifting away since the sale, but OTOH there are new people joining. My buddies Nat and Brent from Calgary both joined around the time of the sale and have both really gotten into it. I have more discussions here than on Twitter, and I think that's true for a lot of people.
- Louis Simoneau
And @Scoble: the fact that you don't get 12 000+ followers on FF makes it less attractive to social media marketing types, which actually makes it BETTER as a platform for meeting and interacting with real people. I have 'friends' on Twitter that I've back-and-forthed with a few times but couldn't really tell you much about, whereas here, I feel like I really KNOW people like Derrick, Jandy, Monique, etc.
- Louis Simoneau
And regarding Robert's statement, OF COURSE a founder of Google will get thousands people who click the follow button. Then what? I look forward to Eric having 12,000 individual conversations this week, so someone ping me when that happens :) I've gleaned more valuable insights into the thought process and perspective of Google/Googlers from being in and around the conversations started by DeWitt on Friendfeed than I have in any other way.
- Micah
I have to excuse myself for not being very active for quite a while: I was being busy organising the Dutch Bloggies. I do think FriendFeed is still alive, but I sure wished there were more Dutch people to keep up a conversation with. It's making it difficult, now I'm out of organising for a week, to start up being involved again. I'm jealous at the Egyptian & Italian people, who seem to have a whole community here.
- Ton Zijp
Friendfeed is immortal, perfect, the best. Friendfeed will never die. ... in fact, the end of behemoths like Facebook and Twitter will be tweeted on Friendfeed.!
- pb:
Just got back into using FF more heavily and find it much more enjoyable to any of the Twitter clients I've found. I can actually engage with the people that I "follow" and learn more about them and find interests instead of just trying to separate the wheat from the chaff like I feel I do on Twitter
- Ian Rudy
"Besides that, we just had to make a post on Iron Man, because Tony Stark is this really awesome billionaire drunken stud with a power cell instead of a heart, that builds a freaggin' flying armored suit. Talking like that, it kind sounds absurd, but absurd is not enjoying these illustrations. So, after checking them, you should really visit each author's page for more! Cheers. ;)"
- AJ Batac :)
from Bookmarklet
"Hundreds of photos of BSODs arranged into the visage of Steve Ballmer, a stabbing, probing, flicking tongue protruding from the gaping maw in the center. Here's the tongue—oh God—up close, so you can see some of the photos:"
- arnaldostream
from Bookmarklet
Yesterday, I watched a horror movie and wasn't scared once. Today, my bagel popped out of the toaster and nearly gave me a heart attack. http://mylifeisaverage.com/story...
This coin’s exceptional design reveals just how immense the jaws of this formidable predator were—it’s an amazing find that any coin collector, nature lover and dinosaur hunter would be proud to call their own.
- AJ Batac :)
Am I *that* transparent? :P :) That is a really cool image. I'll give it away... Micah guessed right. I had to use a new technique (new to the sketchbooks, anyway) to capture this image...
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
How about a CC (or other copyleft) license so we can use and cite this in presentations?
- Chris Lasher
I guess we now know where some of the Matrix style came from in real life, eh? @Curtiss: That old handle of yours sounds so cyberpunk that I'll probably have to use it as the title of a cyberpunk novel... ;)
- Dennis Jernberg
for me at first glace it looked like the MCP from maybe Tron 2
- Shawn McCollum
It looks like the birthplace of Skynet.
- TrafficBug
@Dennis - In case you weren't aware, the handle Crash Override is from the movie Hackers with Jonny Lee Miller, Matthew Lillard and Angelina Jolie (with Fisher Stevens as the evil corporate hacker and Penn Jillette in a small role as his assistant). Although much of it was ridiculous from a technology perspective, it was still a really fun movie with a fantastic soundtrack (the soundtrack itself actually has two sequels).
- Curdy G
@Curtiss Grymala - Hackers! great movie! the "Rainbow Books" HA!
- shayne catrett
you mean like this? : "Here is a Scissors to use in Mafia Wars. Can you help me by sending a gift back? Together we can become the top players. Block This Application | Ignore All Invites From This Friend" - notice the "Block This Application" link ;)
- George Moga
"While sites like YouTube, Facebook, and Digg inch closer to dropping support for IE6 and Microsoft itself urges customers to upgrade, a coalition of Web sites organized under the moniker IE6 No More has already decided not to waste any more effort on the ancient browser: "As any web developer will tell you, working with IE6 is one of the most difficult and frustrating things they have to deal with on a daily basis, taking up a disproportionate amount of their time. Beyond that, IE6's support for modern web standards is very lacking…." Or as IEEE Spectrum Twitter follower The GT put it: "Loathe IE6 with a passion. As a web developer, too much time & $ wasted on IE6 hacks & security precautions. Bad for Web 2.0.""
- imabonehead
from Bookmarklet
IE6 occupies the brains and minds of web developers by generating them nightmares of support. But there simply is no chance that IE6 is going to go away anytime soon. Because many corporates in America are still using it for their intranet browsing.
- TrafficBug
"Three days later, at an all-company meeting in the same amphitheater, Hastings announced that there would be no Netflix Player. Instead, he would spin off the device, letting developer Anthony Wood take the technology and his 19-person team to a small company Wood had founded years earlier called Roku. But Netflix, which had already begun streaming movies to users' PCs, was hardly giving up on the idea of streaming them to televisions as well. Instead, the company would take a more stealthy—and potentially even more ambitious—approach. Rather than design its own product, it would embed its streaming-video service into existing devices: TVs, DVD players, game consoles, laptops, even smartphones. Netflix wouldn't be a hardware company; it would be a services firm. The crowd was stunned. In half an hour, Hastings had completely reinvented Netflix's strategy."
- Thomas Hawk
from Bookmarklet
It's fun to dream of a day when cable companies and satellite content providers are out of business. I've been really impressed with Netflix's Watch Now service. The breadth of content available is impressive and combined with newer release TV and films via DVD mail the service is powerfully poised to replace cable and satellite.... one of these days hopefully.
- Thomas Hawk
It's endless though -- if cable and satellite companies go out of business or are no longer in the content supply business -- there will be a new evil supplier.
- Brian Sullivan
Look at it another way: if cable companies go out of business, who provides the pipe to deliver the content? The vast majority of people in this country get broadband via cable. Replacing them would require a huge infrastructure investment from somebody. Who's going to do that? Phone companies? Maybe, but they're shilling their own content services and aren't interested in being dumb pipes for everyone else's content.
- The original Kevin
@ Kevin Pedraja: Electric companies if they can get approvals. I think there are a lot of lawsuits right now trying to block the powerline companies saying it's unfair competition.
- ChiliMac
Netflix and TIVO with over the air content has made me very happy. Yes, I miss ESPN and I miss seeing some Cubs games that are on ComCast sports but I can go to bars for that. I LOVE not sending ComCast $100 a month.
- ChiliMac
@Cristo good point. Personally I've got CNBC all day at the office so that's less important to me, but I suppose much of the info from CNBC could be gotten via the Web, even their website. In terms of Monday Night Football, that one's easy for a big chunk of America (although not all). Do like I did and buy a cheap OTA HDTV antenna and then capture the signal via your Media Center PC or TiVo. As a bonus you get to skip all the commercials.
- Thomas Hawk
Kevin, if the cable companies go out of business then they sell the pipes to someone else who can more intelligently manage them. Personally I'm using AT&T's uVerse offering right now for internet and it's much faster than cable anyways. Maybe by the time they go out of business their pipes will be antiquated technology as well.
- Thomas Hawk
The ecosystems of networks gets larger: netflix is a network. Realtime is next.
- Cliff Gerrish
from iPhone
Thomas, but that's sorta my point. AT&T is an alternative, but they're not interested in being a dumb pipe. They want you to pay for UVerse. And do you think their prices wouldn't go up if they weren't competing with cable? The bottom line is that selling bandwidth isn't a good business. Companies make money from all the services they layer on top of it.
- The original Kevin
And an antenna is great if all you want to watch is broadcast network TV. How many people do that nowadays? Not many.
- The original Kevin
Christo, Ah, good point. I don't watch sports generally speaking so I wasn't even aware that they were on ESPN, last I remember Monday Night Football was on ABC. I think businesses will still have a need for specialty programming like CNBC. But like the Bloomberg terminal that sits on my desk, I suspect that those offerings will become increasing tailored for specific business customers...
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- Thomas Hawk
AT&T is more than just a dumb pipe in terms of what I pay them. It's an obscene amount of money between my fiber internet, 2 iPhones in the house and a landline that we sort of have to keep alive for now so that the kids or babysitter can phone us from home if need be.
- Thomas Hawk
Cristo, agree on uVerse. But it's coming. Fiber is the future not cable.
- Thomas Hawk
Cristo, exactly. And in lots of cities and towns, cable providers have negotiated deals with municipal governments that effectively make them local utilities. There's no direct competition by mutual agreement.
- The original Kevin
So Thomas, essentially you just traded DirecTV for AT&T?
- The original Kevin
Cristo, I thought it was illegal to ban dishes, or is that just for single family dwellings? I wouldn't want Uverse personally, for a variety of reasons including that they already see too much of my traffic ;)
- Tinfoil 2.0
@Kevin. Well, yes, I traded DirecTV for uVerse, but the bill is lower and I get fast internet service with it. Plus I was able to cancel my DSL service that I was formerly paying for. I'm not sure exactly what I pay for uVerse, but it's a heck of a lot less than I used to pay for DirecTV and slower DSL internet service combined.
- Thomas Hawk
Good question Cristo. I'll have to check at home tonight and report back.
- Thomas Hawk
@Cristo: Yes I have internet. Not with Comcast.
- ChiliMac
They advertise lower, but I think when all is said and done it's about $50-60 for basic cable and Internet.
- The original Kevin
Despite how crappy their internet service is, my dad is still willing to stick to Time Warner because of League Pass and the ability to watch every single NBA game during the season. Time Warner even provides his telephone service. I still think it's going to be a while before cable dies.
- Victor Ganata
I tell you what I don't miss with Netflix though is commercials. I've become so spoiled from watching TV series via Netflix with no commercials that I'm finding myself bummed out these days even having to push the fast forward button on the Media Center remote for the OTA content. Even having to listen to 3 or 4 seconds of an ear splitting commercial before I quickly push the fast forward button feels like a pain compared to how fluid the commercial break transitions via Netflix.
- Thomas Hawk
That's a Huge point Thomas. Commercials (and lower quality) are exactly the reasons I don't watch much TV and movies on the Internet.
- Tinfoil 2.0
I actually like fast forwarding through the commercials and occasionally seeing one I find entertaining.
- ChiliMac
@Matt: Dude, that's what God event sports bars for! :D
- ChiliMac
@ChiliMac Heh, that won't work for my dad, he doesn't drink.
- Victor Ganata
Hey Matt, not to be nitpicky or anything, but Weeds, Dexter and the Wire were on Showtime and HBO. So they were always commercial-free. ;)
- The original Kevin
"Fox crams 18 commercials into every Sunday night airing of The Simpsons, earning 54 cents per viewer. But, according to research firm Sanford C. Bernstein, Fox airs just three commercials for the same show on Hulu--a site it co-owns with NBC Universal and Disney--earning a measly 18 cents per viewer." - Huh, I had no idea Hulu was already doing that well, relatively speaking, in per-viewer revenue.
- Andrew C (✓)
30 second advance is the bomb. I had a terrible time with Dollhouse last year though because my fingers were trained to hit the button four-five times, not two.
- Andrew C (✓)
that's great and wonderful. but US only. I know there's rights issues but until then being one country only is limiting them.
- Terry O'Fee
what do you mean limiting them, they work in the only country they do business in. Why don't you ask why they don't deliver discs overseas too?
- Richard Lawler