So, I was logged in and didn't get to see the beta so I just checked it out. I have to ask something. Why oh why has light grey on lighter-grey become the new trendy style for UI? Do people no longer wish to be able to read the shit that is on a page and just mindlessly stare at a whitewashed screen? You do realize that some contrast is OK right? There is a reason that people use black type on paper. The Kindle isn't coming out with a light grey on white version to make it cooler. Fuck! It was bad enough when I first opened my iOS 7 mail on my company iPhone. Now I have to see the same shit mimicked on the last semi-intelligent website on the internet? First Yahoo fucks up my homepage that I've been using for the last decade and now Slashdot has to go and screw up my favorite website since 90's. Damn you guys! Keep this shit readable! New for the sake of "new" is not better!

I'm in almost the exact same situation as you. What is worse is that I only live in a 10 home sub-division. We have all tried to commission Time Warner who is right on the main road but they keep saying no. I believe they will do it if we pay them and even informally quoted us at some point (several thousand or tens of thousands of dollars if I recall). It's very frustrating to be able to practically see the line from my house and not be able to tap into it. We just moved here so to say that going from 50Mbps on TW or WOW (both in my previous area) to 5Mbps on a good day through Centurylink is frustrating is an understatement. Luckily I packaged with DirecTV for one year to get the fantastic deal of $30/month for the internet portion. Next year it goes to $60/month. $60/month for 5Mbps down and 0.5Mbps up! Now THAT is a monopoly!

The HDMI output port will produce video and the audio output jack will, in fact, produce audio. Welcome to the 21st century!

I believe a lot of this comes from frustration of the environment. Fellow employees/students that simply do not agree with you, nor understand what you do and who you are. A lot (maybe most) of SMART people are horribly introverted and poor communicators. Have you ever had to give tech support and got more and more angry as the conversation continued? Have you ever had to explain yourself rather than just saying, "I'm right. Go look it up." A lot of people simply give up, go in their corner and code/develop/engineer. You appear to be one step ahead in that you are already self-aware. Not everybody is built the same. Try not to get frustrated and realize that not everybody has the same genetic makeup and education as you do. But that doesn't make you better. It just means you are talented in your area of expertise. Make sure that reflects respect and not contempt.

Think those pirates dun lost their mind.

So, I guess this is what happens when you have a CEO with the 100% of the EGO/CONTROL issues as Steve Jobs yet 0% of the VISION. Seems too bad for HP.

We do it all the time in schools and it is really easy. First, choose how many channels you want to modulate through the facility. Let's say 10 for the sake of discussion. You would then get 10 cable boxes. You would run these cable boxes into multiple modulators then through a combiner and out to the rest of the system. Each TV can tune to any of the 10 stations you selected. If you need to modify one of the channels (2-10), simply re-tune the cable box. Blonder Tongue has a plethora of modulators, demodulators, and converters to suite your needs. I would use the MICM-45 modulators http://www.tonercable.com/index.php?id=3&ProdID=229. They go into a chassis (MIRC-12V) w/ a power supply (MIPS-12C) and you can house up to 12 in 2 Rack units.