buying a computer for dummies (2004)

... digital-cable-ready (DCR) — just as regu-lar analog TVs have been built as cable-ready for analog cable for years. These TVs have a QAM tuner built-in, and also have a slot for a “smart card” called the CableCARD.ߜ ... these neat digital-cableservices. If you have an HDTV set-top box from your cable com-pany, you probably already have a box that can take advantage ofdigital cable. (There are usually only a few ... decide on an HDTV provider. For example, for Pat (actually, for his wife, who is a huge baseball fan) it was a no-brainer — he wanted satellite, but then his local cable companystarted broadcasting...

... a replacement. You have, or are about to get a digital camera on yoursmartphone, a point-and-shoot,or a dSLR. You have a familiarity with theweb and are reasonablycomfortable using basicservices ... visualmemories of your travels with yourcamera.What You Can DoIn A DayAs part of the In A Day For Dummies series, I designed this book to containabout a day’s reading (or a couple daysif ... electronic formats and byprint-on-demand. Not all content that isavailable in standard print versions ofthis book may appear or be packaged...

... variable?” 94Variable names verboten and not 95Presetting variable values 96The old random-sampler variable program 98Maybe you want to chance two pints? 99Multiple declarations 100Constants ... .265Bombs Away with the BOMBER Program! 265Will the dual variable BOMBER.C program bomb? 267Adding some important tension 267How We Can All Share and Love with Global Variables 269Making a global ... .133An All-Too-Brief Review of the Basic C Mathematical Operators 133The old “how tall are you” program 135Unethical alterations to the old “how tall are you” program 136The Delicate Art of...