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A specification for consumer hard drive connections that boosts the data transfer rate up to 150MB/second. In addition, it changes IDE/ATA from a parallel interface requiring 40 separate wires to connect components to a serial interface requiring only 6 wires. 2x and 4x versions of Serial ATA double and quadruple the speed of Serial ATA.
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Serial ATA - Neal McLain wrote:Regarding the comment about high construction costs -- our cable companywas able to quickly replace its coax with fibre system wide withouttoo much trouble. It ran into some neighbor objections by placinglarge junction boxes in unwanted locations -- it easily could've workedwith the community (it did with us) for better locations. I'm sure you've heard this a hundred times before, but here it is again: the primary reason for rising prices for cable (and satellite) service is the increase in the wholesale cost ("license fee") for programming. To cite the extreme case, ESPN has risen 20% per year for the past few years, and now costs well over $2.00 per sub per month ($2.61 according to one reader's post here a year or so ago).Would there be any resource to look at the wholesale costs of variouscable shows? I'm curious as to what things like Nick, TV Land, A&E,Hist, VH1, MTV, Family, Disney, CNN, FoxNews, etc cost. (A lot ofthese are owned by the same company).I'm also troubled by high wholesale costs because all of thesechannels liberally include commercials.What about TCM (Turner Classic Movies)? They're commercial free.
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