There's a light at the end of the tunnel for sufferers, however -- one that doesn't require light-box therapy (see: right) or moving to Bermuda.
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Peter Sealey, an adjunct professor of marketing at Claremont Graduate University's Drucker School and a former Columbia Pictures executive, acknowledges that the show has trouble when the nominees, however noteworthy, aren't big box-office successes.
Wink's service is free to the consumer and doesn't require another set-top box, as does WebTV.
Wink's service is free to the consumer and doesn't require another set-top box, as WebTV does.
At the same time, early positive buzz doesn't always translate to box-office success.
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You can't get a truly hot-rodded box from this outfit, but you can get a special Doom 3 PC to fully experience the hit game.
And the fact that you can put some distance between the left and right speakers gives them an expansiveness that compact single-box models just can't match.
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The only trouble we initially ran into was that our original no-frills Freeview box wasn't listed on SlingPlayer's IR code database, and since the SlingBox couldn't be trained using our own remote control, we had to procure a compatible Freeview box.
And luckily, lifting our spirits doesn't depend on finding YouTube miracles in our in-box. (Well, not entirely.) For the most part, it's up to us.
At first launch, obviously you'd need to put in your Sling Media account credentials, and then the app will let you choose one of the SlingBoxes associated with your account -- don't be alarmed, since each box only allows one live connection.
The "hotties" security site HotCaptcha.com, for example, blends plain and exceptionally good-looking people from the Web site "Hot or Not" with a spam-defying secure password box--pick the good-looking people (something computers can't yet do) and you prove you're a person, not a spam software program.
Nickerson says he called Arista and found out his keyboard had been sent in a FedEx (nyse: FDX - news - people ) box that hadn't been opened.
As they unpack the brand-new sneakers, canned ham, chocolates and packages of Top Ramen noodles, it's clear that what Lance and Virgil really want for Christmas won't fit in a 20-by-20-inch cardboard box.
The main reason is because these high end shops, don't always carry the same brands as the big box stores -- for business reasons -- and these brands like Denon, Marantz, and Onkyo don't make players (yet) for either format.
Even supposing the 35% of the population who say they don't want extra channels had been persuaded to buy a set-top box, there is still the little problem of all those second and third televisions that end up in bedrooms and kitchens.
Robin Mount, interim director of the Office of Career Services at Harvard University, said that given the current job market, she thinks students feel more free to explore "out-of-the-box options, " or jobs they wouldn't have considered if more traditional ones were available.
The focused sharing space keeps data both private and accessible offline, while free accounts limit the costs to the hub and a 2.5-inch hard drive, if it isn't already in the box.
The first thing we noticed was how much smaller the box was -- comes in handy when there isn't much room behind the TV -- but we quickly said who cares when we learned that WiFi was built-in.
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But without a digital TV tuner, or a cable or satellite set-top box that can convert a digital signal, consumers won't get any TV at all by 2009.
You're greeted with a solid plastic box that holds your documents, a branded mousepad, toolkit, T-Shirt and a hand-written quality-assurance sign-off sheet from the person who tested and set up your gear.
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Because Monty's choice was not random (he didn't open just any box, he revealed a goat) the remaining probability of two-thirds gets squeezed, as it were, into the third box.
"If Google develops an operating system, it won't limit itself to the handset--it will look to get on the set-top box and beyond, " says D.
In a perspective published online Monday night in The New England Journal of Medicine, Nissen lays out his case that drugs such as Ritalin, Concerta and Adderall may cause potential risks to the heart that many patients don't appreciate--and that these risks should be spelled out in a clear, black-box warning for consumers.
Out of the box, the system doesn't look so different a 3.5-pound base station that could pass for a slightly longer, curvier Wii.
The FCC let it be known last week in a Memorandum Opinion and Order that a single standard wasn't actually required, as long as the IP interface on the cable box used an industry standard -- the Commission did bless the DLNA Premium Video Profile as a suitable example.
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The mega-corp has been adamant about undercutting big box retailers, and while you aren't likely to walk into a Wally World electronics section and find the clean, uncluttered, and well-stocked shelves that a next door neighbor may have, you're likely to stomach the environment for a few minutes in order to save a few Benjamins.
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Even if you don't see that as a security risk, a system crash could lock the BlackBerry out of your in-box.
Keep the box for 10 years (if you can pull it off -- and don't mind not having HD support), and that's all you'll pay.
Opponents of same-sex marriage said winning at the ballot box in strongly Democratic states like Maine doesn't prove a shift in national opinion on the issue.
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