"Jason Howell\n Co-hosts: Molly Wood & Brian Tong"@en . "Jason Howell"@en . . "Just another outage Monday"@en . "2009-10-12"^^ . "2160.0"^^ . . . . "none"@en . . "Hi Guys and Girls This new Lightpeek standard sounds awesome but when you\u2019re heads down, bum up in a dark corner because one cable is too short and the network, monitor, mouse and keyboard cables all look the same I think I\u2019ll want to strangle someone. There\u2019s a certain elegance in having a network cable that looks completely different to a DVI cable because my monitor doesn\u2019t understand TCP/IP and my switch won\u2019t go 1080p. Cheers Hello Buzzies! First: Happy Canadian Thanksgiving, and Happy American Columbus Day! On another note however I would like to say why the Amazon Kindle sucks overseas. Don\u2019t get me wrong I love the idea of the Kindle, built in 3G, buy books as you go and it works everywhere! However if I would like one in the Netherlands (and Europe for that matter) I have to buy it from Amazon.com and I have to pay in American Dollars. Which isn\u2019t to bad, heck the Euro/Dollar exchange rate is awesome at the moment. But here come the terrible parts: Although Amazon says it works overseas you have to keep this in mind: - Ships with American Plug/adapter - 20$ Shipping - 60$ import costs - Works through ATT Roaming partners, but you don\u2019t have any roaming costs (that is what Amazon says, they say US customers overseas pay 1.99$, but say other countries are free). In reality though, the books (which you also have to pay in American $) are more expensive in the European Kindle store than in the US kindle store. - Newspapers are full price, but don\u2019t get delivered with Images and charts (saving bandwidth) - The blogs feature is disabled (couldn\u2019t care less) - The experimental browser is disabled (yes this does suck) The part that hurts most is the \u2018premium\u2019 on books even though Amazon says no roaming fees (and don\u2019t give the \u2018tax\u2019 excuse, because if that is the case, there would be a Kindle store for every country, instead of just for Europe. And the part that if I want a newspaper I don\u2019t get the pretty images and graphs. What\u2019s the point of a newspaper if they can\u2019t show me any Pie charts? Amazon did a lousy job, and wants to be easy by making a deal with ATT Worldwide instead of making deals with carriers in every country. What they probably should have done was introduce a Wi-Fi Kindle. And release Kindles with 3G when they had deals in those countries. I also came across another artist that is spreading his music through the Radiohead model, 'pay what you want $0 is good too'. The artist name is 'Yellowgold' never heard anything about him, but his new album 'The Mellower' is awesome! You can find it here: . Good stuff! Just my 2 cents! Barnes and Noble creating an android based e-book reader? More like Barnes and Noble creating the first Android based tablet. Google not only gets it\u2019s hand into the e-book market after they have digitized books, but they also get the ability to test and review their android software on non-phone hardware. You can almost guarantee this device will not only read books but allow users to listen to mp3s, browse the Internet via wifi/chrome, and download all apps from the android marketplace. Knowing Google, they will also include you-tube functions as well as the ability to post on blogs and subscribe to rss feeds."@en . "Episode 1082"@en . "Hi Guys and Girls This new Lightpeek standard sounds awesome but when you\u2019re heads down, bum up in a dark corner because one cable is too short and the network, monitor, mouse and keyboard cables all look the same I think I\u2019ll want to strangle someone. There\u2019s a certain elegance in having a network cable that looks completely different to a DVI cable because my monitor doesn\u2019t understand TCP/IP and my switch won\u2019t go 1080p. Cheers Hello Buzzies! First: Happy Canadian Thanksgiving, and Happy American Columbus Day! Although Amazon says it works overseas you have to keep this in mind: . Good stuff!"@en . "1082"^^ . .