Word: pulling
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...order to simulate being on the road, I connected a Verizon Wireless BroadbandAccess card to my laptop, and dialed up to the carrier's highspeed mobile network. Connecting to the Internet via cellular modem, I was still able to pull up the cable box in my home, even though we could have been a continent apart. Connecting remotely did cost a lot of bandwidth however: at 300 Kbps, South Park and The Colbert Report were watchable, but game highlights from a Tino Martinez retrospective on the Yankees' YES network were wracked with digital blur...
...Sling newest addition is its SlingPlayer Mobile software for PDA phones ($30, but there?s a free trial). Using Sprint's UTStarcom PPC 6700, operating on a highspeed data network similar to Verizon's, I could pull up the cable box - live shows and ones I had already recorded. My only complaint is that the virtual remote control gets in the way of the on-screen program guide, so you can't see what you're trying to select. My clumsy solution was to keep toggling the remote...
...covered by non-restrictive licenses, allowing for reuse in future works by other artists. Maybe Viswanathan should look into this license for her next novel, to keep future generations of literary borrowers from running into the legal and publicity problems she now faces. Or just pull a Diddy and give Ms. McCafferty a fat stack of Benjamins.—Staff writer Will B. Payne can be reached at payne@fas.harvard.edu...
...further parallels between Viswanathan’s book and two works by Salman Rushdie and Sophie Kinsella. Viswanathan said in a statement last week that the novel would be revised “to eliminate any inappropriate similarities.” Three days later, Little, Brown asked bookstores to pull “Opal Mehta” off their shelves, waiting until yesterday to announce that the book would not be returning.Random House, which published the novels by McCafferty and Kinsella, declined to comment on Little, Brown’s latest statement. “With Little, Brown having voluntarily...
Americans have resigned themselves to an inexorable fate. With a sigh and a shrug, they pull the gas pump off its handle, swipe their credit card, and cringe as the price meter climbs so fast that the dollar digit seems stuck at eight. Frustrated at their bills, they might rant to their friends, or perhaps even call their congressman...