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).

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To make the light travel enormous distances, thousands of volts of electricity are sent through the cable's copper sleeve to power repeaters, each the size and roughly the shape of a bluefin tuna.

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As well as the island's power station, Guernsey imports electricity from the French grid via cable links between France and Jersey and between the islands.

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Assuming there would be room at the top with Comcast's Steve Burke, the likely candidate to run the combined company (See "Casting Hollywood's New Power Player"), Zucker will have to hope that his cable successes outweigh his broadcast flops in the eyes of his prospective new bosses.

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To supplant cable and DSLthe power companies have to offer a service that's vastly cheaper and faster.

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Connect and plug in the power adapter and then hook up the optical cable, and it's pretty much ready to go -- save for some pairing woes that required us to unplug everything.

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To supplant cable and DSL the power companies have to offer a service that's vastly cheaper and faster.

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