To also convey a sense of luxury, he built very large bathrooms, rooms with slanted corners so they don't resemble boxes and stairways lighted from underneath that give a more flattering glow to the house.
If you want a Web presence but don't care about e-mail boxes and don't have much of a budget, there's no shortage of free domain hosting services.
But even people who say they don't want to be a dumping ground for Americans' used clothing understand that what's inside these boxes isn't as important as the idea of them: connecting family members far away.
You kept it to two pages and you didn't do anything crazy like putting boxes and diagrams in there - they are the kind of things that don't work well when you upload your CV to an applicant tracking system.
Set-top boxes don't have enough memory or fast-enough processors to deal with it.
So the first Apple TV boxes couldn't tap the millions of new YouTube clips posted each month--in contrast, Apple's new iPhone made YouTube a special opening-screen feature.
The 36-year-old Mr. Scanlon, whose film includes scenes of freshman orientation, Greek "Scare Games" and dormitories strewn with empty pizza boxes, didn't himself have a traditional college experience.
Beyond that, we don't have anything -- it could be 3G or WiFi-only (though the fact that this is on a Sprint slide gives us hope that they'll leave EV-DO enabled), it could launch next month or next year, and for all we know, it only works with boxes that aren't even out yet.
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Of course, any 1080p support at all is a plus over the 720p-only Apple TV, but we'd be remiss if we didn't note that the Xbox 360 offers instant-on 1080p Zune video rentals -- Roku doesn't provide the content and its boxes are cheaper, yes, but it's something to think about if you're in the market.
Comcast isn't opening up its set-top boxes (UI and all) in the way we'd like, but it has established a reference spec (RDK) for potential hardware partners to build their own versions of its next generation setup.
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It doesn't come equipped with sheiks in the owners boxes or Russian oligarchs buying and selling superstars on a whim.
It would take a brave government to tell voters that it was making anything up to 50m television sets obsolete and a pretty silly one to spend billions on handing out free set-top boxes to people who don't feel like buying them.
With technologies like direct injection, cylinder on demand and seven-speed gear boxes, "you don't have to sacrifice, " says Mr. Hoch.
And yes of course I have a couple of boxes with all the issues, my t-shirts and my Mac the Knife mug.
And we couldn't pick out, we couldn't improve on the formula by un-checking the boxes that we thought would do better.
She helps rearrange and stack the boxes of seafood in the freezer but can't make it all fit.
Other cable companies like Time Warner Cable are said to be interested in RDK hardware, which could spur the development of new and better set-top boxes -- we can hope, can't we?
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Those products include comic books, T-shirts, scrapbooks, trading cards, games, lunch boxes, dolls, toy cars, magnets, greeting cards and DVDs where their images appear on the box covers.
Better yet for the manufacturers, they don't have to deal with support costs on a lot of these boxes because the gamers gleefully break their warranties in pursuit of the most tricked-out, custom hot-rod-PC money can buy.
It provides Sprint, Verizon, T-Mobile, various retailers and other organizations with postage-paid boxes.
Those boxes can download video from Amazon, but they can't download much else.
Pictures taken of the boxes from a public sidewalk with a digital camera weren't good enough to pick up shipping labels or any other telling details.
As of the end of 2012, Google said Motorola had 11, 113 employees, which didn't include the Motorola Home business, which makes television set-top boxes and was sold to Arris Group Inc.
Men and women in red T-shirts, bearing the legend Republican Leadership Conference are striding around carrying boxes and chairs.
"At first we used to go out and get liquor store boxes to pack our orders, until we were told we couldn't do that, " Mr. Gottehrer recalled.
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Some regret that the nation didn't build on its technological lead, but most French folks will probably remember the boxes nostalgically, knowing that they beat the internet by almost 20 years.
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