Because Gore was involved in a bipartisan cable deregulation effort eight years earlier?
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Telecommuting is a great deal when it works, and only became possible in my part of the state with the arrival of cable modems about eight years ago.
City officials acknowledge that the open air cable cars, which ply only eight miles of track, produce a disproportionate amount of accident-related costs.
For one, it's a battery hog (that, or the battery's too small), lasting about three hours in my tests before going back to the cradle or having to run plugged in (the power cable's reasonably long at eight feet).
Until recently, by the time they reached the cable stations, they were six to eight years old.
Pairing the n9 with four Niveus Digital Cable Receivers, an external, dual CableCARD tuner device, allows cable subscribers to simultaneously view and record eight standard definition or HD programs.
ENGADGET: Niveus says "never enough," adds support for eight CableCARDs / ten Extenders
Its screen resolution is 720p, but the machine is capable of playing out games and video in the 4k standard - which offers eight times the detail - on compatible TVs via an HDMI cable.
Tapping into a surge of sentiment against President George W. Bush during the Iraq war, Olbermann's "Countdown" redefined MSNBC as cable's leading liberal outlet and boosted its ratings for eight years.
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Over the next seven weeks, Sprint will phone-cast the eight games that are televised solely on the NFL Network, the league's cable channel.
But on Jan. 11 of that year, television in America turned a technological corner when eight stations on the East Coast and seven Midwestern stations were linked via the first long-distance coaxial cable.
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Starting with satellite, but moving on to cable and over-the-air broadcasting, the ability to transmit television programmes will thus become eight to 12 times greater and the number is rising.
But five of the eight most valuable teams--the Yankees, Red Sox, Dodgers, Braves and Cubs--own cable channels or are owned by companies that also own cable networks, letting them reduce revenue sharing and market themselves without having to show the value on their balance sheets.
"Niveus has nurtured the digital cable functionality and compatibility since early 2007 and is proud to be one of the first to support both eight CableCARDS and ten extenders, " states Tim Cutting, Niveus CEO and Co-Founder.
ENGADGET: Niveus says "never enough," adds support for eight CableCARDs / ten Extenders
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