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join:2002-01-02
Fleeting | Gambling Only a matter of time before gambling addicts have to deal with $4,000 cable bills. I'm sure that's just what they need. | |
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join:2002-07-24
San Jose, CA
| Gambling is Illegal said by Minister  :Only a matter of time before gambling addicts have to deal with $4,000 cable bills. I'm sure that's just what they need. Can't happen. Online gambling is illegal. Cable companies are not going to be offering it, it's against Federal law. | |
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Minister
join:2002-01-02
Fleeting | Re: Gambling is Illegal I'll bet my pants that law is changed. Especially if states or the feds can tax that revenue. | |
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slcpd6469
join:2003-09-25
Saint Louis, MO | Not My DVR Please dont take my DVR away. I dont know if I can live without it. | |
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RadioDoc
58ef2c0
Premium,ExMod 2000-03
join:2000-05-11
 ·AT&T Midwest
| Is that John Malone behind the curtain? This sounds very familiar. In fact, didn't then-TCI Godfather John Malone make a similar speech to the same people almost 13 years ago touting an interactive '500-channel universe' he couldn't deliver and nobody wanted anyway? We're still waiting for that one.
One thing you won't hear at the National Cable Show is anyone talking about how to reduce the exorbitant charges cable companies bilk from their customers. Quite to the contrary:Meanwhile, Bingham Gordon, executive vice president and chief creative officer at Electronic Arts, predicted that the typical consumer will pay an average of $150 per month for various internet services within the next 10 years -- much of that potentially over cable lines. Are you really ready for this? Prepare for a new round of "looting the consumer" as the MSOs attempt to leverage this into yet another "content cost" excuse to raise rates. | |
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LinuxJunkie
join:2005-01-19
Cyberspace
| Re: Is that John Malone behind the curtain? Only way to decrease these prices is by regulation and allowing Brand-X competition over the same lines. That's the only way we're ever going to get rid of this insanely stupid system of community-based monopolies.
I would love to meet the genius that thought giving a single cable company the only rights to an entire area is a good way to promote competition and prevent monopolies. Apparently the idiot had no idea what a monopoly really is. | |
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ReVeLaTeD
Premium
join:2001-11-10
San Diego, CA
| localized servers.. Does that mean they intend to record ALL shows, ALL time, so a person would just request to see a show?
While that's great and all, what about delays in watching recorded shows? I have 5 shows I plan to keep (because they're downright hilarious, wish I had a way to redflag them or otherwise isolate them from newly recorded shows), and I continuously record about 10 shows a day. I need to ensure I will always get those 10 shows - at least until I'm tired of them. This localized server concept does not tell me I will be able to do that. | |
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ITGuy72
Permanently Disco
Premium
join:2001-11-01
New York | Re: localized servers.. The concept calls for individual stores or for each subscriber. How and when this will be implemented remains to be seen but apparently Time Warner and Cablevision are looking at trials in the very near future. | |
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Taranis
join:2001-12-06
Mount Vernon, WA
| Keep it up Yeah, this is all I need - to play cards on my TV - gimme a break. And with this new "feature", I'll be charged an extra $60 a year, right?
This is why I'm building my own PVR/HTPC - so I can do what I want with the signal I pay for instead of what Moneybags Inc. wants to force me to do. | |
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Titus Pullo
I came, I saw, I slept
join:2004-06-26
·Embarq
| Re: Keep it up My evolution will be to the local DSL provider; there's enough crap coming in and a lot of $$ going out as it is -- 'feature creep' won't hit this drop. 
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envoid
join:2002-12-21
Duluth, GA
| Re: Keep it up What the FCC or whomever did with analog cable boxes (making the cable co allow a customer to use their own,personal compatible box) needs to be done for digital cable boxes. But that will most likely never happen. That means there won't be anymore TVs like we know them. Soon we'll be buying monitors for our computer/tv/dvd/entertainment center with all these device connections once everything merges together (20-30yrs?). | |
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MichaelBoltn
Enjoy Your Stay
Premium
join:2005-03-31
Vishnuland
| Texas Hold Em? Pshhh That game is about the player, not the cards. Anyone who'd play any type of poker over the internet (or any way in which they're not in the physical presence of their competitors) is an idiot. Then again, I guess only idiots can't play poker the right way. 
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join:2004-12-10
Danvers, MA | Re: Texas Hold Em? Pshhh all the pros play online.
look at www.fulltiltpoker.com or www.mastersofpoker.com
online poker gives people an opportunity to learn the game with out losing their shirt. | |
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MichaelBoltn
Enjoy Your Stay
Premium
join:2005-03-31
Vishnuland
| Re: Texas Hold Em? Pshhh You can learn the game online. That's fine.
I just don't believe any pros play online. The game is not about the rules or what cards you have. It's about making the other guy think he can't win. You can't do that online.
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| Re: Texas Hold Em? Pshhh my buddy plays PartyPoker and makes 2-7 grand a month off it, he plays like 24/7 ...
so it seems like a serious thing, I, personally, would never do it, though.
but, again...buddy can lie, I have not actually looked at his bank statements to see how much he deposits every month... or I could be way too stoned to understand correctly, so don't take my word for it... | |
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join:2004-12-10
Danvers, MA
| Online poker has opened up "poker" to the masses, look at the last 2 WSOP Champs, Moneymaker and Raymer were both players who learned and practiced the game online... so many pros have turned to Online games to get practice while they aren't in a Casino... Hate it or Love it online poker is a major component of Today's poker world. | |
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The Evolution of the Cable Box
