A former customer of one of those shysters, here.
My internet bill was around $100/mo, due to cap; they then increased the maximum cap, so it went to $150/mo

I've switched to Teksavvy; $64.95/mo for 38mbit cable w/no caps + no "overage" charges, plus they're actually fighting for our rights (Look around @ OpenMedia.ca)
Vote with your dollar, mate

240p is 240fps just as much as 1080p is 1080fps, i.e. not at all.
240p means a 240-line image, progressively scanned (i.e. full-frame, instead of interlaced half-frame scans).
Take a look here, and be informed.

Unfortunately someone already beat you to it.
Way to sneak in the reference, though!

I did the same recently as well
In addition, they match charitable donations to OpenMedia.ca, highly publicized by Michael Geist

SB has its own indexer for episodes (SBIndex, it's in the config).
As for "the like", however, if you can find a free/premium provider still around (look around on this thread, and you'll probably find a couple) that support the same arguments in their search as NZBmatrix does (there are a few), then you can get by with adding your own providers

Except that right now, in conjunction with the release of Big Picture, Steam has opted to put 30 games on sale that are fully playable with a controller, many of them were (at one time) major steam titles (L4D 1/2, Counterstrike, etc)
Further, Steam is starting to put in icons as to the control method used for games (i.e. multitouch-screen, controller, M/K).

Most major studios don't make PC games controller compatible because gamers don't have controllers for their PCs, having opted for the more "traditional" M/K UI years ago.

Until gamers start getting controllers for their PCs (e.g., if a major game provider starts serving a 10' UI that gains traction, wink-wink, nudge-nudge), games won't start being controller-compatible or playable.

The old UI is still there, but, personally, I dislike having my keyboard on a tray at my couch for my HTPC, and would prefer a few wireless gamepads, a la XBox/PS3

No problems, other than having to use a mouse to pick which game they wanted to play, and, potentially, having to sit closer to the screen to see the list (unless they upped their font-sizes).

This is a different UI for Steam
It's geared towards the 8' or 10' user (sitting on the couch), and accessible via Remote Control or Gamepad, instead of mouse.
It essentially cleans up your coffee table (removing the kb/mouse from being needed, unless the game you choose requires it)

I, as a person looking for a similar frontend to emulators (that is easy to use and will do the scraping of my collection for me, like Sick Beard and EmberMM did for TV/Movies), welcome this new UI, and might start using Steam more again (lately have not been playing too many PC games)

Unless, of course, they have Vegan Super Powers
Oh, you didn't know?

Definitely a Hadoken...
Blackmage made those things absolutely devastating, ask Lefein

Sickbeard drops torrents fine into any blackhole, such that uTorrent, Transmission, or most other current torrent downloaders can pick up, then can grab the resultant file from wherever your torrent app downloads it.

To the GP/Sibling; while it's true that XBMC is not TiVo, parent's note about "checking unwatched shows on XBMC" relates to the fact that XBMC can automatically pick-up the sorted downloads managed by SB+Transmission/SAB
Process is akin to this:

Configuration:
1. Configure blackhole + download path in torrent client, or SAB
2. Define usenet host/torrent blackhole in SB (match [1])
3. Define download path from SAB/Transmission/uTorrent to search for "new" downloaded shows (match [1])
4. Define output path in SB to place scraped + sorted (by show/season) shows
5. Define XBMC library path to match [4]
6. Define "show" in sickbeard (or multiple shows)

[automated part]

1. SB downloads show information (ep guide, air dates, etc) from internet (tvdb)
2. SB starts searching news feeds or torrents for "missing" shows
3. SB either queues DL in SAB (usenet) or downloads a torrent and places it in black-hole (torrents)
4. SAB/Torrent client downloads show to downloads folder
5. SB identifies new show in downloads folder, parses filename + scrapes against internet for all requested metadata, moves file + writes metadata to library path
6. XBMC identifies new (fully scraped) media file in library path, adds to library DB, flagged as "Unwatched"

And you get TV shows, usually within hours of their airing, appearing automatically for you.
SB also has reports on Missed and Upcoming episodes, (i.e. it's already looking ahead to start downloading next-week's ep of current-running, or next-season's start of on-hold shows)

Just like ED-209 only exercised the force required, and did not in any way overreact.

I prefer the Fermi anyways; the Bose have issues with condensation

How awesome dinosaurs are

In his house at R'lyeh, dead Cthulhu lies dreaming

He is both quite dead, and, at the same time, functioning
Altered reality can do that for you, too.

That, and this is /.; we're geeks not "pro-sports guys"
Even if we tried throwing things at him, we'd miss... he's better off standing where he is, instead of moving (and then potentially getting hit by a stray shot)