I'm not sure you seem to understand the point of this. It's for use IN THE HOUSE.

For example, at my house, if I stand outside my front door, I can get full bars on my phone.

If I go inside, I get from 2 bars down to 0 with no signal. No matter how many towers Verizon decided to erect around my house, my signal would still suck inside the house.

Why do you think Atari-era gamers don't know about lots of buttons?

Did we forget about the keypad controller for the 2600? Or the standard Atari 5200 controller? Or the Colecovision and Intellivision controllers? Lots and lots of buttons.

It's NES-era gamers that were afraid of buttons!

I'll keep it all for my kids since they don't have a lot of cool gadgets yet.

"Other movies that were filmed in HD (or whatnot) look *ridiculously* crisp. "

Movies aren't "filmed in HD." They're filmed on film, which is a much higher "resolution" than 1920x1080. Some movies are now "filmed" on digital cameras, but still at a higher resolution than HD.

When the Star Wars Trilogy was transferred from film stock to digital, they mastered the movies at 4000 lines, while HD is only 1080 lines, and the Star Wars DVD's that were put out are only 480 lines.

The crispness comes from the source material. Did they digital remaster an old film for DVD or HD, or did they already have a digital copy of the movie such as the Star Wars prequels or Pixar movies. It really doesn't have much to do with how it was filmed.

Yeah, those stickers can't possibly be peeled off, it's ruined forever!

I think people tend to use frivolous to mean a lawsuit that is asking for obscene amounts of money that will only really benefit the lawyers. And in this case, the City of LA. Even though that is not the definition of frivolous, many people believe that to be a frivolous lawsuit.

And really, if LA wins this money, they're not going to give it back to the customers of TWC that are affected. They're going to use it to cover their overspending. And the cost of the lawsuit will be covered as TWC raises rates, further hurting the consumer, and even increasing LA's money intake as well, since they get a percentage per subscriber under their franchise agreements with TWC in the first place.

The lawsuit should be to force TWC to fix problems and upgrade the network, not to fine them money that will do the end customer no good at all.

Yeah... one off customer issues are not why LA is suing. They are suing because of the amount of customers affected by the same issue.

I live in NC and have had only 2 or 3 outages in the last 6 years I've been a TWC customer. And know many others that don't have issues. Anyone that I know that had an issue it was with the coax in or to their house, that TWC replaced and fixed their issues.

If the issues were more "global" then I'd expect NC or the local cities/counties they serve to be suing.

But to think your issues are what the majority of people experience is just not logical.

Obviously you'll always see people complain more than you see praise for a company. Especially a company that you send $100+ to a month. Who would go out of their way to praise a company for doing what they're paid for? But certainly an individual would complain when they're not getting what they paid for.

Come now, class actions lawsuits benefit only the lawyers.

Customers will get a free month of service or RoadRunner at a discounted rate for 12 months or some crap.

Lawyers will be the only ones seeing the real cash.

And if the City of LA gets any cash from it, what are they going to do with it? Certainly not give it back to tax payers or the customers affected.

Your water heater BOILS 50 gallons of water in 10 minutes?!

What kind of freak water heater do you have?

"There is a rule in business - if the product is not bought, the price drops. So don't buy SSDs just yet :)"

That's not really how it works. The price goes down because they are bought, not because they aren't. Not in electronics.

Eventually, they get to the point where R&D is paid for and they starting making more profit or a break through occurs.

If something is not selling, they tend to not make it anymore if the R&D is not being returned.