Why not? How else is it supposed to work? Besides, with a PVR, you're not going to channel surf any more, so who cares how it changes channels?
My Tivo is built into my DirecTV box. It is the cable box. No messy IR, complete integration with the TV Guide. That's how it's supposed to work. When every cable box comes with a PVR, that's when they'll really take off.
I would agree to the parent. I have three Hotmail accounts. One address I give out when I'm signing up for anything public, and the other two I keep pretty quiet. I get no spam on one, next to none (maybe one or two a week?) on the other, and tons and tons on the one I have been giving out for 5 years. I don't think Microsoft has given out the addresses, or I would be getting tons of spam in the other accounts as well.
My landlord and I both bought DirecTivo at the same time, from Hughes. Theirs worked for a week, then crapped out. They had to wait for a month to get a new one. So far, so good with that one.
Mine, on the other hand, has been hacked to death. Extra 80GB hard drive (an IBM Deskstar, no less -- how's that for tempting fate?), lots of other warranty voiding type activity, and no problems yet, for over a year.
I personally use Sprint for eight Frame-Relay WAN links across the US with a hub in New York, and I find their service and support to be awesome, although my sales representative is helpless and I find them changing TAC's on me constantly. However, when I have a problem with my service, their management center usually calls me before I even know that it's down.
One downfall to all this? Price. I also pay about $10,000 a month for the luxury of nearly 100% uptime. That's a lot of cash for a non-profit like ourselves, but well worth it.
Whoa...I don't know what kind of crappy turntable and records you were listening to, but many people (including myself) would say the exact opposite. A clean record, a decent turntable and a decent amp will sound much deeper, richer, and full of life. Just look at Sony's new SACD, their attempt to emulate what vinyl does to music -- breathe life into it that doesn't exist on regular CD's.
Does anyone remember the Univeral Studios attraction that starred the A-Team van as a prop? I haven't been in about 10 years, so I don't know if it's still there, but it was an A-Team van that you could lift up (yes, it was *light*) and have your picture taken with. So cool...I wish I could find the picture...
I've found http://www.windrivers.com to be a valuable resource for drivers that are still available. It's a subscription service, I believe it runs about $30 a year.
Damn...I upgraded out of the Netflix 2 at a time program a couple of weeks ago because I knew I'd be wanting more than that for a little while, expecting that I could always go back. Sure enough, the option is no longer there to switch back...
Hmmm...says here "Netflix will require any company that wants to send e-mail touting the Netflix service to sign up directly with Netflix, so that Netflix can ``exercise direct control over the program and can verify that the partner is following non-abusive e-mail practices.''
I hate spam as much as the next person, but every message I've ever received from Netflix has a "remove" link in the content. That means that it's not technically SPAM, right?
You can actually find the units that contain 60 - 70 NES games on the street in Manhattan for about 30 - 40 dollars. I'm taking orders, with the usual 20 dollar markup ; )
Where?! Do you realize how much business they could drum up just by advertising that fact? I remember going to Europe and one of the highlights of the trip was getting to have a beer while I watched a movie in the theater. I'm still wondering when the US is going to be as progressive...
Eh? No way! Any normal person can tell the difference between 128k and CD quality on a stereo with real speakers. On my walkman, even. I dare you to burn a CD with a 128k track and a WAV rip of the same track and tell me you can't hear the difference. Sure, some parts will sound fine, until your drums and bass turn to mush during the fast part of the song.
Check out the "Quality" page of R3mix.net for a little more information.
I wonder if a computer has ever been programmed with *only* one grandmaster's moves -- in effect, trying to replicate the way one specific (possibly dead?) grandmaster might play. Not very useful when trying to beat Kasparov, but interesting to see just how closely a computer could mimic the specific style of a single player.
It certainly depends on the user and what they happen to have installed on their machine. I know plenty of people who hardly know what a.zip file is, let alone what other compression formats are available. If they're using XP then they've got ZIP built right into the system, so that's probably what they're using.
I often make photocopies of the text I'm working on and hang them next to my monitor on one of those old fashioned page supporters, like many secretaries use.
Too bad the law won't pass until Congress is in session again next year. Let's just hope that the Democrats win a majority again this year -- they've been much more sensitive to technology issues than the Republicans.
I've done lots of burning on my USB 2.0 24X CD-RW and now on my USB 2.0 2.4X DVD+RW. Very rarely have I gotten coasters -- seems like a fine solution to me.
Sadly, no...once you bless a hard drive (run the program to marry it to the other disks in the TIVO), it's pretty complicated to get it back out. Even then, your primary hard drive may not recover -- you'd have to restore the system from a backup image.
I'm not so sure about that -- I've installed an extra hard drive on my DTIVO (using bless-tivo) and I've read through lots of forums that point out hacks that work on both TIVO and DTIVO. Plus, he said it works on DTIVO...the extra drives just don't fit due to space restrictions. : )
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Why not? How else is it supposed to work? Besides, with a PVR, you're not going to channel surf any more, so who cares how it changes channels?
My Tivo is built into my DirecTV box. It is the cable box. No messy IR, complete integration with the TV Guide. That's how it's supposed to work. When every cable box comes with a PVR, that's when they'll really take off.
I would agree to the parent. I have three Hotmail accounts. One address I give out when I'm signing up for anything public, and the other two I keep pretty quiet. I get no spam on one, next to none (maybe one or two a week?) on the other, and tons and tons on the one I have been giving out for 5 years. I don't think Microsoft has given out the addresses, or I would be getting tons of spam in the other accounts as well.
Just to add another anectode to this thread:
My landlord and I both bought DirecTivo at the same time, from Hughes. Theirs worked for a week, then crapped out. They had to wait for a month to get a new one. So far, so good with that one.
Mine, on the other hand, has been hacked to death. Extra 80GB hard drive (an IBM Deskstar, no less -- how's that for tempting fate?), lots of other warranty voiding type activity, and no problems yet, for over a year.
Knock on wood...
I personally use Sprint for eight Frame-Relay WAN links across the US with a hub in New York, and I find their service and support to be awesome, although my sales representative is helpless and I find them changing TAC's on me constantly. However, when I have a problem with my service, their management center usually calls me before I even know that it's down.
One downfall to all this? Price. I also pay about $10,000 a month for the luxury of nearly 100% uptime. That's a lot of cash for a non-profit like ourselves, but well worth it.
Whoa...I don't know what kind of crappy turntable and records you were listening to, but many people (including myself) would say the exact opposite. A clean record, a decent turntable and a decent amp will sound much deeper, richer, and full of life. Just look at Sony's new SACD, their attempt to emulate what vinyl does to music -- breathe life into it that doesn't exist on regular CD's.
Does anyone remember the Univeral Studios attraction that starred the A-Team van as a prop? I haven't been in about 10 years, so I don't know if it's still there, but it was an A-Team van that you could lift up (yes, it was *light*) and have your picture taken with. So cool...I wish I could find the picture...
The results are *definitely* better than I would expect. James Bond, anyone?
I've found http://www.windrivers.com to be a valuable resource for drivers that are still available. It's a subscription service, I believe it runs about $30 a year.
And I saw one just last week (Fleet Bank) loading the NT 4.0 bootstrap running SP2. Yikes! Time to change banks?
I asked if having a remove link technically meant it's not SPAM. I didn't ask you how you felt about it.
I quote, from the Unsolicited Electronic Mail Act:
"Specifically, the new bill would:
* Require accurate return addresses on unsolicited commercial email;
* Make it illegal to continue spamming someone after they have requested
to be removed from a distribution list"
Hence, once these are included, the electronic communication is no longer SPAM.
Damn...I upgraded out of the Netflix 2 at a time program a couple of weeks ago because I knew I'd be wanting more than that for a little while, expecting that I could always go back. Sure enough, the option is no longer there to switch back...
Hmmm...says here "Netflix will require any company that wants to send e-mail touting the Netflix service to sign up directly with Netflix, so that Netflix can ``exercise direct control over the program and can verify that the partner is following non-abusive e-mail practices.''
I hate spam as much as the next person, but every message I've ever received from Netflix has a "remove" link in the content. That means that it's not technically SPAM, right?
You can actually find the units that contain 60 - 70 NES games on the street in Manhattan for about 30 - 40 dollars. I'm taking orders, with the usual 20 dollar markup ; )
Where?! Do you realize how much business they could drum up just by advertising that fact? I remember going to Europe and one of the highlights of the trip was getting to have a beer while I watched a movie in the theater. I'm still wondering when the US is going to be as progressive...
Eh? No way! Any normal person can tell the difference between 128k and CD quality on a stereo with real speakers. On my walkman, even. I dare you to burn a CD with a 128k track and a WAV rip of the same track and tell me you can't hear the difference. Sure, some parts will sound fine, until your drums and bass turn to mush during the fast part of the song.
Check out the "Quality" page of R3mix.net for a little more information.
I wonder if a computer has ever been programmed with *only* one grandmaster's moves -- in effect, trying to replicate the way one specific (possibly dead?) grandmaster might play. Not very useful when trying to beat Kasparov, but interesting to see just how closely a computer could mimic the specific style of a single player.
It certainly depends on the user and what they happen to have installed on their machine. I know plenty of people who hardly know what a .zip file is, let alone what other compression formats are available. If they're using XP then they've got ZIP built right into the system, so that's probably what they're using.
Sometimes people do need to transfer files from PC to Mac, and often Zip is the only compression scheme available to those PC users.
I often make photocopies of the text I'm working on and hang them next to my monitor on one of those old fashioned page supporters, like many secretaries use.
Too bad the law won't pass until Congress is in session again next year. Let's just hope that the Democrats win a majority again this year -- they've been much more sensitive to technology issues than the Republicans.
I've done lots of burning on my USB 2.0 24X CD-RW and now on my USB 2.0 2.4X DVD+RW. Very rarely have I gotten coasters -- seems like a fine solution to me.
Wait, what are you saying? Then who made my "Dell, by Microsoft" mouse? Dell? Microsoft? Nintendo? Who?
He's right -- DirecTIVO is the bomb. You can get it here which is where I got mine. It's a pretty good deal and so worth it.
Sadly, no...once you bless a hard drive (run the program to marry it to the other disks in the TIVO), it's pretty complicated to get it back out. Even then, your primary hard drive may not recover -- you'd have to restore the system from a backup image.
I'm not so sure about that -- I've installed an extra hard drive on my DTIVO (using bless-tivo) and I've read through lots of forums that point out hacks that work on both TIVO and DTIVO. Plus, he said it works on DTIVO...the extra drives just don't fit due to space restrictions. : )