does anyone know how hard it would be to unlock this thing and run with - for instance - an orange SIM when in the UK and CDMA when in the USA ?

if you are not using your comcast subscription then cancel it and rent stuff from Netflix. Come on guys - its not that hard.

Stephen and Brdystyls,

you two are hilarious. you must live among unicorns.

you may not like the cable companies, but that is what they are offering. Go check their annual results to see if you think that their return on investment is unfairly high. However, I doubt any sane person would supposrt you in saying they should provide you with unlimited, fast bandwidth so that you can go get all of the content you want for free.

Tell me. What things in life do you think are worth paying for? I have to assume that you don't live in a hole in the road, so you have already attached a value to where you live. You wear clothes... you can see where this is going.

You do have choice. If you want a superfast connection to the internet so you can find all you want for free why dont you pay someone to come connect your computer to tthe internet's backbone.

I am well aware of how the internet started. My point is that content in NOT meant to be free. People put a huge amount of time, effort and money into making it and you value that you should be prepared to pay for it. What you are saying suggests that you attach NO value to this content as you don't think its worth anything. Wrong.

Stephen,

BULLSHIT. Do some sums. The networks have jumped into HULU because they are scared. Lets look at where we agree:

TV on cable - despite YOU not watching ads - manages to pay for itself the way its run with a mixture of us paying cable subscriptions and advertising. Your comment about how did TV used to work is ill founded and ignorant. It worked because there were only 3 channels to choose from so a fuck of a lot of people watched everything.

So Hulu have discovered that people like to pay nothing, watch fewer spots per hour and - on top of that - advertisers will only pay less per eyeball online than they do on TV.

Are you beginning to think that this might not add up.... are you getting it yet.

The whole notion that the web should be free - content and news want to be 'free' - is a ridiculous hippy concept that was born of the left coast long hairs who put the internet together. Go explain to the people who make content for a living that in fact what they make wants to be 'free'.

While you are at it, next time I come in to buy a burger from you, how about if I tell you that it wants to be 'free'.

You sir are a dumbass. This 'free' internet will not last and if you value what you contribute to society - ie. the notion that your time is worth something and you deserve to be paid for it - you will agree.

wow - read all of the comments above. While I don't disagree with what people are saying, you are all missing something fundemental. Who is paying for new content to get made? How do you square this awesome deal you have all jumped on? Stuff is not free and I don't think we REALLY want it to be either.

i have a kindle 1 - first edition? - with which i used to subscribe to the nyt. i gave up because the online version updates during the day as 'new' news comes in and the kindle one you pay for doesn't.

the navy shelled out 7 million dollars to two companies????? Is that all? What are they hoping for? a new screwdriver? surely not a new weapons system.....

ummm, 27 million !!??? what are they expecting for that? to help design the rear tailgate ? If that is all it takes to make a meaningful contribution to developing a car, we should be waist deep in new cars.

audiophile!! if you are an audiophile you wont be using a shuffle with apples horrible ear buds in the first place. Get real. Audiophile/mp3/apple ear buds are fundamentally at odds. Dumbass! Perhaps you would like to enlighten us further as to the composition of apple's wire too !! unbelievable...

you are much mistaken. the FCC defined HD over 10 years ago when the primary way users understood TV was by resolution rather than bit rates. The FCC defined 37 different 'forms' of HD. 480P being one of them.