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NOG/N -NickG

Looks like the EPG shows all channels normally after Jan. 1. In other words Nick Games is stil on the air and Noggin/N still share a channel
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I know I may be in the minority here, but I for one would love to have Nick GAS kept in its pack and Noggin and The N in the lower pack below that. I know they show lots of repeats and no new shows, but those are shows from my childhood and I really still get into a few of them. I know I'm a dork, but if Nick GAS isn't talking like ESPN or MTV contract rates or anything, I say it should stay.
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if Nick GAS isn't talking like ESPN or MTV contract rates or anything, I say it should stay.
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The whole point...Viacom doesn't want ANY money for Nick GAS. They don't want it to exist! It's not supposed to exist!

If it hadn't been already automated, it wouldn't still be here. The whole channel is probably just a server in a closet. The channel went off the air. Then DISH raised a stink (about money and tiers, not Charlie's love for "Get The Picture") and Viacom said "Fine" and fired it back up.

This is how much Charlie sucks- they'd rather keep a whole channel on the air than deal with his crap. Everytime you watch GAS, you're watching Viacom flip Charlie the bird. (Or at least, that's how I have interpreted the situation.)

BTW, I would totally dig some kind of Classic Nick channel that showed all kinds of old stuff, not just the game shows. Maybe they could do a block on Noggin from Midnight to 4am.
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M Sparks said:
The whole point...Viacom doesn't want ANY money for Nick GAS. They don't want it to exist! It's not supposed to exist!

If it hadn't been already automated, it wouldn't still be here. The whole channel is probably just a server in a closet. The channel went off the air. Then DISH raised a stink (about money and tiers, not Charlie's love for "Get The Picture") and Viacom said "Fine" and fired it back up.

This is how much Charlie sucks- they'd rather keep a whole channel on the air than deal with his crap. Everytime you watch GAS, you're watching Viacom flip Charlie the bird. (Or at least, that's how I have interpreted the situation.)

BTW, I would totally dig some kind of Classic Nick channel that showed all kinds of old stuff, not just the game shows. Maybe they could do a block on Noggin from Midnight to 4am.
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umm its called a contract..there prolly is a lot to the story we don't know
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juan said:
umm its called a contract..there prolly is a lot to the story we don't know
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There's definitely a lot we don't know, but it's not that hard to figure out. The contract doesn't have anything to do with Nick GAS remaining on the air...it has to do with Viacom just expecting everyone to replace it with another channel.

Do you really think a provider could use a contract to force a channel to stay on the air? Let's say it's a small indie channel and it just runs out of money. Do you think DISH can just say "Sorry, we have a contract, you have to keep the lights on." Of course not. You can bet every contract says that it's void if the channel goes off the air.

And look at it this way. Let's say Viacom just wants to kill a channel, say VH1 Classic. Don't you think DISH would love to save the money? They'd be happy to let it die. Let's say it costs 2 cents a month, and 6 million people subscribe. That saves DISH almost $1,500,000 a year.

But Viacom just expected providers to switch from one to another. Now, they do this all the time. There's a Discovery channel that has changed names & formats like 4 or 5 times.

But in this case, they were essentially turning 1 channel into 2...basically spreading the same programming thinner.

My guess is that Charlie had one of two thoughts... 1) Here's a chance to save $1,500,000 or 2) Hey, that's not fair! You're giving us less actual programming for the same amount of money. (I suppose it's also possible that they asked for more money for "The N" than they did for GAS, but I doubt it...you would have seen other disputes.)

Option #2 is also supported by the fact that they continue to split the channels. DISH probably said "You are under contract to provide X amount of programming for $0.XX per subscriber. By pulling "The N" programming off of Noggin, you have effectively decreased the programming significantly."

On top of that, Noggin and GAS are on different tiers. It's possible that Viacom expected them to move "The N" to the lower tier, increasing costs. Or, maybe DISH just didn't want to deal with the phone calls when "The N" disappeared from the lower tier.

But no matter what the issue with Noggin/N is, GAS remaining on is 100% up to Viacom. If they turn it off, the contract would be void. They made the choice to turn it back on. And I'm 99% sure it was a "you don't want to play it our way? Well, we're going to hold you to the other part of our contract as well."

DISH and Viacom would both love to see GAS gone, but for different reasons.
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M Sparks said:
There's definitely a lot we don't know, but it's not that hard to figure out. The contract doesn't have anything to do with Nick GAS remaining on the air...it has to do with Viacom just expecting everyone to replace it with another channel.

Do you really think a provider could use a contract to force a channel to stay on the air? Let's say it's a small indie channel and it just runs out of money. Do you think DISH can just say "Sorry, we have a contract, you have to keep the lights on." Of course not. You can bet every contract says that it's void if the channel goes off the air.

And look at it this way. Let's say Viacom just wants to kill a channel, say VH1 Classic. Don't you think DISH would love to save the money? They'd be happy to let it die. Let's say it costs 2 cents a month, and 6 million people subscribe. That saves DISH almost $1,500,000 a year.

But Viacom just expected providers to switch from one to another. Now, they do this all the time. There's a Discovery channel that has changed names & formats like 4 or 5 times.

But in this case, they were essentially turning 1 channel into 2...basically spreading the same programming thinner.

My guess is that Charlie had one of two thoughts... 1) Here's a chance to save $1,500,000 or 2) Hey, that's not fair! You're giving us less actual programming for the same amount of money. (I suppose it's also possible that they asked for more money for "The N" than they did for GAS, but I doubt it...you would have seen other disputes.)

Option #2 is also supported by the fact that they continue to split the channels. DISH probably said "You are under contract to provide X amount of programming for $0.XX per subscriber. By pulling "The N" programming off of Noggin, you have effectively decreased the programming significantly."

On top of that, Noggin and GAS are on different tiers. It's possible that Viacom expected them to move "The N" to the lower tier, increasing costs. Or, maybe DISH just didn't want to deal with the phone calls when "The N" disappeared from the lower tier.

But no matter what the issue with Noggin/N is, GAS remaining on is 100% up to Viacom. If they turn it off, the contract would be void. They made the choice to turn it back on. And I'm 99% sure it was a "you don't want to play it our way? Well, we're going to hold you to the other part of our contract as well."

DISH and Viacom would both love to see GAS gone, but for different reasons.
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cnn international died, cnnsi died the list goes on and on ..If viacom wanted to kill this channel it would be dead and E* would not neccesarily provide a replacement..there obviously was a deal worked out
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well, here I sit .... 2009 .... still have GAS and no Noggin 24/7... just as I expected.
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juan said:
cnn international died, cnnsi died the list goes on and on ..If viacom wanted to kill this channel it would be dead and E* would not neccesarily provide a replacement..there obviously was a deal worked out
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CNN International didn't die...it's still on FIOS (and overseas, of course, though I think the US version is different.)

Now, CNN-FN died, or maybe it was replaced by CNN-SI and it died, can't remember. Anyway, all you're doing is making my point...a contract doesn't force a channel to stay on the air.

I really don't think it's a "deal". I think DISH refused to split Noggin, so Viacom refused to kill GAS. But who knows.
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M Sparks said:
CNN International didn't die...it's still on FIOS (and overseas, of course, though I think the US version is different.)

Now, CNN-FN died, or maybe it was replaced by CNN-SI and it died, can't remember. Anyway, all you're doing is making my point...a contract doesn't force a channel to stay on the air.

I really don't think it's a "deal". I think DISH refused to split Noggin, so Viacom refused to kill GAS. But who knows.
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Face facts Viacom ALLOWED e* not to split noggin/N We will find out what the real deal is when E* adds the viacom HD channels hopefully later this month
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doogie said:
well, here I sit .... 2009 .... still have GAS and no Noggin 24/7... just as I expected.
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Told you so. I was right. I wished all last year that Nick GAS would just die and I still do but I know it will still be on forever.
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Face facts Viacom ALLOWED e* not to split noggin/N We will find out what the real deal is when E* adds the viacom HD channels hopefully later this month
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How can I "face facts"? We don't know what the facts are. And I doubt we'll ever find out the "real deal." Even if things get fixed then, it won't prove or disprove my theory.

I have been quite clear that everything I said was my opinion, and gave logical reasons as to why those were my opinions. You follow each one with a poorly punctuated, poorly capitalized, poorly worded, and poorly thought out "argument".

"ummm, it's called a contract"...how is that a response? Particularly to a post where I was explaining what I believed to be the terms of the contract?

You could be right and I could be wrong. We'll likely never know, and I really don't care.

There are no facts to face, other than I constantly allow myself to get sucked into arguments with people who don't have the mental faculties to argue properly. Why do I do this to myself? I don't even watch these channels! I'm just interested in the way the business works. I studied cable programming and management in college, and even though I went in down a different career path, I've always kept up on it as a hobby. Screw it. I'll keep it to myself, and keep people who never have anything useful or interesting to say on ignore.

Geez, what will I do with all this extra free time...:D
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Also I bet you that by February we won't even have the Viacom HD channel and our rates are going up. Charlie can stuff it.
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brittanygarden
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Are you experiencing an issue with your 3rd party remote since the newest Hopper update?

Please post your remote make/model here and any details of your issue. We are looking to collect as many examples as possible. I may reach out to you for your receiver number, but please do not post it here.

If you've already reported this to me, please repost it here so I can track all instances in one thread.

Thanks!
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I have a solution that is guaranteed to work.
All Hopper developers are required to turn in their RF Hopper remotes and use only IR remotes.

I guarantee you that the bug will be fixed in two days!
Try it; it will work! They will work 24 hours a day to fix it when the WAF goes into the toilet!
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bookworm370 said:
I have a solution that is guaranteed to work.
All Hopper developers are required to turn in their RF Hopper remotes and use only IR remotes.

I guarantee you that the bug will be fixed in two days!
Try it; it will work! They will work 24 hours a day to fix it when the WAF goes into the toilet!
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Excellent suggestion.
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Excellent suggestion.
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Yea, I've only been a CIO for the last 30 years! :)
Trust me, when something important breaks, they get to own it!
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Loaded H713 software on my Hopper 3 last week. Have not seen any change in the IR/RF remote issues with my Harmony 700.
Has Dish acknowledged this is a problem and are they committed to fixing it?
I'd be happy to roll back to last July.
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Astroman3427 said:
Loaded H713 software on my Hopper 3 last week. Have not seen any change in the IR/RF remote issues with my Harmony 700.
Has Dish acknowledged this is a problem and are they committed to fixing it?
I'd be happy to roll back to last July. <-----|
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Absolutely!!!---------------------------------------------|
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Astroman3427 said:
Loaded H713 software on my Hopper 3 last week. Have not seen any change in the IR/RF remote issues with my Harmony 700.
Has Dish acknowledged this is a problem and are they committed to fixing it?
I'd be happy to roll back to last July.
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I got 713 a few days ago and nothing has changed concerning the IR/RF remote issues.
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My Hopper 3 updated itself to H713 last week and the IR issue is worse now. On H711, I could be on an SD channel for several hours and the IR side of my H3 would still be responsive without my having to tap the View button on my Pronto Pro every 15 minutes. Now, if I stay even on an SD channel without tapping the View button at least once an hour, it becomes unresponsive to my Pronto Pro without tapping the View button at least 5-20 times, just like on the HD and 4K channels. So, H713 actually made the issue worse. :(

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Song Name Game Part 3!

Sometimes a thread gets so many posts in it that is can cause issues for the server so that why today we introduce The Song Name Game Part 3!

So let the game continue!

The last song was added by Bobby who posted...

One Meat Ball - Andrews Sisters

CONTINUE ON AND HAVE FUN! WELCOME HOME TO SATELLITEGUYS.US!

Here are the original rules for the game as posted by WebbyDude back in 2006. http://www.satelliteguys.us/threads/68645-Song-Name-Game

Just name a song title and the band who performed it. The next person does the same thing, but needs to list a song title or band name which includes a word from the previous entry. Pick songs from any genre.

Example:

Long Live Rock and Roll -- Rainbow

Rainbow in the Dark -- Dio

Another example:

Ride the Lightning -- Metallica

Lightning Strikes -- Ozzy Osbourne


Get it?


An additional note: we all know that song titles, sometimes, use profane words. Because this is a family friendly website it is advised that you clean up that title up a bit. This is accomplished by using something like sh!t instead of the real word. Thanks....
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You Belong To The City - Glenn Frey
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osu1991
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USA Healthcare Costs are Ridiculous

:mad::mad::mad::mad:

Pissed off at the crappy healthcare costs

My health Insurance renewal for 2027 just came in. Going from $827 a month to $1,187 a month. Deductible going up a $1k to $9,350. Max out of pocket also going up $1k to $11,000. Doctor co-pay of $40. Urgent Care co-pay $50. ER 50% coinsurance after deductible. That's all in network. Out of network is double, should it be needed.

Have to think about this. I'm really tempted to just go without now. I only go to the doctor once or twice a year. I pay out of pocket for Tirzepitide and can do without the Rosuvastatin (crestor) now. Really tired of spending over $10k a year and getting nothing out of it.

After years with Blue Cross I switched last year to Ambetter as my Blue Cross premium was going from $1200 to $1800 for a Silver plan and the Bronze plan was still going to be $1300 at BCBS. Ambetter was $827 for the same coverage with a Bronze plan. Didn't think it would jump this much so soon.

I'm guessing a Silver plan is probably over $2,000 a month for 2027.
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Such a scam. Healthcare.gov shows me cheaper individual plans available for 2027 from ambetter that ambetter doesn't show on their website. Looked it up. I've spent $68,000 in premiums the last 5 years and got nothing out of it except a few doctors visits and labs. 😡
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osu1991 said:
I've spent $68,000 in premiums the last 5 years
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That's why I cancelled ours and just started saving the money. We're about to do the same thing with our home insurance.....not cancel it outright but do away with the portion which covers wind damage. We're paying over $5k right now and that is AFTER I dumbed things down...and it keeps going up. Got a couple trees I want to have taken down first before I do that however. After we do that, it will knock about $3k off our annual premium.
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dishstaller said:
That's why I cancelled ours and just started saving the money. We're about to do the same thing with our home insurance.....not cancel it outright but do away with the portion which covers wind damage. We're paying over $5k right now and that is AFTER I dumbed things down...and it keeps going up. Got a couple trees I want to have taken down first before I do that however. After we do that, it will knock about $3k off our annual premium.
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Our home and auto insurance has been stable so I'll continue with it but I'm going to have see what I can do about medical insurance. The biggest impact would be an ER visit.
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My wife and I use the same Medicare Advantage plan from United Healthcare. (Yes I have heard the horror stories about Medicare Advantage plans but we have used it for the last 5 years). We are both pretty healthy so it works for us. It costs $0.00 per month for both of us and it pays part of our Medicare part B premium. Next year it will be paying $170 per month of the $220 monthly part B premium for both of us. We also each get $90 per quarter to use on OTC products. $0.00 copay for Dr. visits and $55 copay for specialists. Includes dental and hearing coverage. Never have had an issue with it although I don't really use mine other than for the dental, Part B payments and the OTC benefit as I am a veteran and use the VA for all of my medical needs. I just had a kidney that had a cancer mass removed last month and they allowed me to use a non VA surgeon at a non VA hospital through the VA Community Care program. For all of the doctors visits, exams, tests, surgery, hospital stay, meds etc…was around $60,000 and the the VA paid for it entirely. I did have to pay $16 for the Oxycodone pain pills when I left the hospital that I got from my local CVS instead of waiting for a week for the VA to ship them to me from the VA pharmacy.
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They're pushing our high deductible plan pretty hard at work, including a couple thousand to seed a HSA. Covering my wife and 4 kids though that feels like a mistake and I'd rather the peace of mind and the potential higher cost via the PPO plan payroll deductions.
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b4pjoe said:
$0.00 copay for Dr. visits
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And THAT is one of the big issues causing a lot of the problems. If the minimum copay for Dr. visits was at least $100 then a LOT of folks would opt out of those visits. If it cost the individual nothing then why should they care. All of my older family members are constantly going to doctor visits.....to them it is an adventure.....an outing that allows them a reason to go out to eat at a restaurant. IF they had to pay one cent out of their own pockets a lot of that crap would stop asap.

Sorry...rant off.
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dishstaller said:
And THAT is one of the big issues causing a lot of the problems. If the minimum copay for Dr. visits was at least $100 then a LOT of folks would opt out of those visits. If it cost the individual nothing then why should they care. All of my older family members are constantly going to doctor visits.....to them it is an adventure.....an outing that allows them a reason to go out to eat at a restaurant. IF they had to pay one cent out of their own pockets a lot of that crap would stop asap.

Sorry...rant off.
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You're not wrong that some people treat free visits like a social outing. But it has to be a balance. Put a $100 barrier on a doctor visit and people don't just skip the pointless ones, they skip the important ones too. Then the stuff that would've been a cheap catch at a checkup shows up later in the ER, sicker and way more expensive. The shift we need is from sick care to actual healthcare.
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Saved OTA list on Dish can't be appended

I have Dish with Hopper3. I choose to get local channels OTA and had a "guide list" established at my previous home. Having moved a few miles away, I wanted to update the list by appending a couple new stations via a rescan. As many would know, some stations come in with the UHF/VHF antenna aimed in one direction, while others come in better with a different direction.

Unfortunately, when a scan is done (bringing in 25-30 stations for that particular antenna aim), the dialog screen does not present the established guide list; it presents an empty field to the right that the scanned stations may be selected one by one and added to the empty guide. But because of antenna aim, some stations originally saved are missing, and would have to be retrieved with a different antenna aim. But as I explain, if a 2nd​ scan is done with a different antenna aim, the stations saved from the first scan are lost.

It troubles me that Dish didn't develop software that would allow a user to simply append only 1 or 2 channels to the established list. :mad:

Any thought on this? Has anyone experienced this or heard of this from others?
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I hear complaints from customers each and every day. I chose not to install OTAs with a doggle for a reason.

BTW, I like your user name


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New Laptop?

After having continuing trouble with my eight+ year old Dell Inspiron laptop I am looking to hopefully catch a good deal on new one. My options to buy is Costco and Sam's Club. It seems like a lot of new laptops are 2 in 1 which I do not need. I use the laptop to mainly surf the web and keep up with my finances, money and bills. I would like to have at least a 15" screen and having a touchscreen is a plus. The keyboard would need to lighted also. I don't game any. It would have to be Windows instead of and not Mac. The brands I see the most are Asus, Dell and HP. My two last laptops has been Dell's. Of these brands are there any standouts over the other brands. My budget (hopefully) is $600+-. Also while researching I noticed that do not have ethernet ports.
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EarDemon
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Why not do a CTO directly through the manufacture? Get exactly what you want. Plus It's quite common to find 10%% (or higher) discount codes for Dell and HP.

Backlit keyboards are pretty much standard, and in the constant effort to try to make devices and thin and dainty as possible ethernet ports are becoming rarer, if not a normal ethernet port, you may be able to find a laptop with drop-jaw style one.
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Dell and HP are usually heavily discounted during Black Friday sales. I picked up a Dell from Best Buy for 50 percent off. I ordered it online and picked it up locally at the store. Black Friday deals are just a couple of weeks away.
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Can't really help with an exact set of suggestions. I can say that if you have a set budget. And $600 these days wont get you much. One thing I can say is check out Dell Refurbished.
I've suggested and even configured, ordered a few for friends who were a bit iffy in deciding what they needed and wanted.
Refurbished doesn't mean that they came back defective and were repaired. Companies and organizations who order quantities of the same computers often cancel or modify their requirements.
Dell builds usually on demand. Their direct refurbished line will be brand new, unused. Perhaps not exactly the "today" specifications of the latest-greatest. And you can get a nice pc for quite a bit less with full warranty.
Just a suggestion.
"I use the laptop to mainly surf the web and keep up with my finances, money and bills. I would like to have at least a 15" screen and having a touchscreen is a plus".

As far as Asus, HP goes. And others you may consider. I'd think $600 (new) would get you a laptop. A quality, long lasting one? Not so sure. Now. If you could get a $1000 lappy for $600. Good deal, don't you think?
Surf the web doesn't need a killer Nvidia graphics chip. Nor a pinnacle, top of the line Intel, AMD processor.
12-16 gigs of memory will get you by just fine.
I'm personally an Asus fan. Brands aside. The one thing is the batteries. We discussed that here someplace else.
I repair these critters. Batteries. Cheap laptops have cheap batteries. Asus suggests that you don't keep the charger plugged in all of the time to make them last. Like you see on phones where 85% vs full charge is suggested to preserve battery life.
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EarDemon said:
Why not do a CTO directly through the manufacture?
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Because there are fewer economies of scale with custom products. Savings come from giant contracts with major retailers.

RAM and GPUs make buying a computer now financial suicide. In 2023, I bought two 16GB RAM modules for my lone Windows machine. The cost was under $100. Now that equivalent RAM goes for $260.

One can opt for an on-CPU GPU, but you can't opt out of RAM. While Microsoft goes on and on about Windows 11 eventually being happy with 8GB of RAM, we know how that always ends.
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GB is the new MB (remember when Windows used to be happy with 8 MB of RAM?)

I had great experiences with Dell's Refurbished systems in the past. I ended up getting Business desktops instead of the Home PCs since they didn't come loaded with bloatware and the one Desktop I got for Mrs. Foxbat even had a license for MS Office Professional included.
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Don't mess with Mama's baby....

Dang female lions don't mess around when it comes to their kiddos....aka whelps.


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Apple Event September 2026

Apple Fall Hardware Event takes place today, September 9, 2026, at 10:00 a.m. PT / 1:00 p.m. ET. It marks the debut of new CEO John Ternus and the expected reveal of Apple's first foldable phone.
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harshness
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Gone are the days when Apple "perfects" what debuted years earlier on an Android phone.
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Gone are the days when Apple "perfects" what debuted years earlier on an Android phone.
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Or better yet, innovate something "completely revolutionary!"
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Or better yet, innovate something "completely revolutionary!"
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when was the last time they innovated something:rolleyes:
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slow_poke_pete said:
when was the last time they innovated something:rolleyes:
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I'd probably say when they came up with their M-series of processors with integrated memory. That allowed Apple to get away from the inefficient Intel CPUs that were limiting their notebook computers.
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2026-27 NCAA College Football

Really excited for this season with Kentucky having a new coach and some really exciting recruits. Probably won't last long, but here's hoping this season is great.
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:mad:..I hate playing in Ames.
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:mad:..I hate playing in Ames.
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I hate playing in LA ... :oldmad
Buckeyes had 2 weeks off and came out and looked absolutely terrible ... broke in a new Freshman Qb, but that wasn't the worst part ... undiscipline play, at last count they had 10 penalties.
Freshman in the end of the game trying to play catch up, had a lot of Over throws ... Bucks lose ...

#1 Miami struggled but pulled away in the end beating North Carolina by 3 ...

Tuesday the CFP brings out thier Playoff Top 12 again ... Buckeyes should drop from #2 to about #22 (they won't) had they had thier Starting QB, it would have been a different game ...

They could lose the rest of thier games at this point.
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:mad:..I hate playing in Ames.
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My in-Laws came from Iowa, she was a graduate of ISU. Unranked Iowa teams beat the #24 and #25 teams on Halloween.

And I heard that your QB made a poor choice after scoring the tying touchdown, leading to a fifteen yard penalty on the ensuing kickoff. The Cyclones were then able to take advantage of the resulting field position to get close enough to score the winning field goal.

In a NCAA Football season of bizarre endings, this has to rank right up there.
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My in-Laws came from Iowa, she was a graduate of ISU. Unranked Iowa teams beat the #24 and #25 teams on Halloween.

And I heard that your QB made a poor choice after scoring the tying touchdown, leading to a fifteen yard penalty on the ensuing kickoff. The Cyclones were then able to take advantage of the resulting field position to get close enough to score the winning field goal.

In a NCAA Football season of bizarre endings, this has to rank right up there.
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Yep, but wasn't the QB. Was WR. Offense had a great game but defense didn't show up at all. I don't think they were even in the State.
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Wireless Joey4 (Android TV)

I had an old Wireless Joey replaced by a Wireless Joey 4 (Android TV) - still have a Hopper 3 without the Hopper Plus. What do I have to do to get the EPG to show channel logos instead of "Dish"? This is annoying as hell and it's been this way for over a month…
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That kind of crap annoys me to no end.
That is one reason I haven't switched to h3and the same wireless joey 4
Hope you get it resolved.
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Dish Bankruptcy - Business as Usual

Looks like dish is Bankrupt. Filling tomorrow Tuesday June 30th
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Correct me if I'm wrong but Dish borrowed lots of money to start a wireless company that was most likely doomed from the beginning. They bought spectrum at any cost to acquire enough bandwidth to achieve their goal. They signed leases and bought equipment and borrowed more money. They held onto the spectrum as long as possible. They then sold most of it to different companies and made a lot of money. Then they started to screw the companies that were installing and leasing the equipment and cell towers. Now they are going to claim bankruptcy under the Dish Network part of Echo Star while they have billions of dollars. So Dish basically took everyone's money that was involved in the financial part of this transaction made a huge profit is screwing everyone over from the banks to the little guy working on the towers and infrastructure.
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They note that the Dish Wireless radios at issue support the 2GHz and 800MHz spectrum SpaceX is acquiring from EchoStar and Grain.

"Buying compatible equipment already installed on towers could give SpaceX a head start on its wireless terrestrial network build and throw a big bucket of cold water on Verizon's four-to-six-year timeline and $300-$500 billion estimate for SpaceX's buildout," said the analysts."
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Correct me if I'm wrong but Dish borrowed lots of money to start a wireless company that was most likely doomed from the beginning. They bought spectrum at any cost to acquire enough bandwidth to achieve their goal. They signed leases and bought equipment and borrowed more money. They held onto the spectrum as long as possible. They then sold most of it to different companies and made a lot of money. Then they started to screw the companies that were installing and leasing the equipment and cell towers. Now they are going to claim bankruptcy under the Dish Network part of Echo Star while they have billions of dollars. So Dish basically took everyone's money that was involved in the financial part of this transaction made a huge profit is screwing everyone over from the banks to the little guy working on the towers and infrastructure.
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i heard charlie went to dubai begging for money. but he didn't get none... that should have raised red flags.
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They note that the Dish Wireless radios at issue support the 2GHz and 800MHz spectrum SpaceX is acquiring from EchoStar and Grain.

"Buying compatible equipment already installed on towers could give SpaceX a head start on its wireless terrestrial network build and throw a big bucket of cold water on Verizon's four-to-six-year timeline and $300-$500 billion estimate for SpaceX's buildout," said the analysts."
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Back when Dish was installing antennas everywhere for their internet service I mapped several of the tower locations around me. One is less than a mile away from me and several more about three miles away in several different directions. If SpaceX does something with these I may be in a prime spot.
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Amazon to acquire Globalstar and expand Amazon Leo satellite network

Globalstar satellites, radio frequency spectrum, and operational expertise will enable Amazon Leo to add Direct-to-Device (D2D) services to future generations of its low Earth orbit satellite network.
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SpaceX reportedly seeks 80,000 cell sites to become a wireless carrier | Fox News

SpaceX is reportedly pursuing 80,000 cell sites to turn Starlink into a wireless carrier that could compete with Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile for cell coverage.
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