Thanks for your reply. One thing I'll mention though -
$700 is way beyond the pale. The Sony unit ought to be able to actually read your mind for that price
The Sony receiver isn't $700 on it's own - the eliptical dish with the dual thinggie makes up about $200 of that price. Although Audio Kind are price gougers.
First off, I don't think that $12.95 a month is a lot worse than $9.95 a month. When I get a TiVo I will happily pay that much.
The OT part: I want to get a DirectTV thing with a DirectTiVo thing. The local stores either have NO iea what I'm talking about (Best Buy) or think I should spend $750 on special dishes and receivers (Audio King). Not to mention I need to add a few HDDs (;
You can get DirectTV for practically free after rebates if you get just the standard receiver and a standard dish - the receiver+dish cost $50 anyway and there's free installation. I understand that a DirectTiVo setup would cost more - but $700 more?
The only DirectTiVo receivers I saw anywhere are the pretty expensive Sony ones at Audio King, who are known for price-inflation. Best Buy had 'Ultimate TV' which they claim is the same thing as TiVo, but (A) Says 'Microsoft' on it, and (B) lacks features I want and contains features I don't need.
I see a lot of comments from people mentioning DirectTiVo - what's the deal with the thing? Any decent online resources (TiVo.com didn't help much)? Is it REALLY that expensive?
I'm more than willing to believe D.C. Fontana came up with a lot of the Vulcan stuff. She's a script writer, though, and I don't know that she wrote any books. Her scripts and/or notes might've been the basis for Diane Duane's work.
Rick Berman seems to have pissed off a lot of the Original Roddenberry people, so yeah, I doubt they'll bring D.C. Fontana back to write for Enterprise. Did she do any work at ALL on any Rick Berman Trek (DS9/Voyager)? I know she wrote three scripts for Babylon 5...
I think it's more the projector is digital, using digital media, rather than good ol' film. Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones were filmed in full digital.
I wasn't around time before last; was everyone worrying that their nerdy news site would be toppled by the non-event of Y2K?;)
No. We all spent most of the previous 3+ years fixing all the would-be y2k problems, only to get yelled at by non techies for causing hysteria, because, since we fixed everything for them, nothing happened. Bloody ingrates.
let's put speed governers in everyone's car so nobody can drive too fast.
My car ('99 Pontiac Grand Prix) has that 'feature' built in!
When you try to go over 108MPH, the chip in the engine won't let you. Why on Earth they chose 108MPH is beyond me, and you can go and get someone to reprogram the thing, but still.
In Pine, it it REALLY, REALLY hard to move a lots of messages from one folder to one other folder. Basically, you have to sit there and hit "S <ENTER>" 200 times.
Or, you could hit ":" on messages you want to select, and then use the (A)pply command to save them to a different folder.
Or you can use the Search-select key, ";", tell it to select by text in the from, to, subject or body of the Email, and then use the (A)pply command. For example, to get all the ones with "Festical" in the Subject line, you'd go ";ssFestivalENTER>"
I guess I should've, as usual, elaborated more on the Outlook thing. The Save Messages isn't the ONLY thing that bothers me -it was just the first thing that came to mind.
I just tried it - I hit CTRL-SHIFT-V and nothing happens.
I take that back - Outlook is now hung. I don't know if you were serious or if I feel for it (;
Here's the thing though - in PINE, "S <ENTER>" has already saved it to the default mailbox based on the name or nickname of the sender - no need to arrow-key around to the mailbox you want. That's what I'm looking for - I'm not anti-mouse, I'm for "it takes.01 seconds" rather than "it takes 2 seconds".
Oh, I got your keyboard shortcut to work - it defaults to INBOX.
Selecting all the messages I want is still annoying, when in PINE you can do that with a handful of keystrokes rather than scrolling through a whole lot of messages (200 is actually very, very low, I'm usually in the 500s before I notice how horrible it is).
As for rules - I don't like my mail going into many different boxes BEFORE I read it, so that's out. I DID create a whole lot of rules - about 50 - for all the people/programs/groups whom I usually receive mail from, and occasionally I'd go into the Rules Wizard thing, choose "Run Now" and let 'er rip.
Problem - it doesn't work. It'll move SOME of the messages, but not all. I find no rhyme or reason for this. I've asked the local 'experts' and they have no idea.
To this day I've never heard anyone talk about Outlook and say "This is an excellent mail client", or even "This is a good mail client" or heck, "It's decent." Why people put up with it is beyond me.
Ok, scrolling through 200+ messages, and ctrl-clicking all the ones you want, and then dragging them - sure, that'll work.
It's still faster in PINE ( ; t f <text> <ENTER> a s <mailbox-name> is the complicated way).
The thing is, with PINE if you're saving individual messages, it'll default to a mailbox name based on the sender's name or alias you defined - no need to 'drag' as it were - which is the real time saver. If you have seevral hundred saved-message boxes, you don't need to start looking for them. mail from "Anonymous@Coward.com" will always, by default, go into the same box when you hit "S <ENTER>" - that's what I'm missing in Outlook which is making my INBOX so cluttered.
Yeah, that's what I was trying to say. Actually I was going the other way round though. It seems to me that the only 'integration' Evolution has that PINE doesn't is that it has the same look'n'feel as Outlook, and that's a disadvantage to me (though obviously not to everyone).
I use PINE for my Exchange integration Email work. Works perfectly - apparently PINE is as much integrated with Exchange as Evolution is, until they start selling their component that'll connect to the calendar.
The calendar is the only reason I keep Outlook around, really.
My real problem with Evolution is, it looks like Outlook. I cannot use Outlook for Email. I find the interface to be completely horrible, unintuitive and hard to keep organized. The whole "Rules" thing just does not work. With PINE, if you want to save a message to a different mailbox, you hit "S <ENTER>". With Outlook you have to Drag'n'Drop. Imagine that for 200 messages.
Maybe it's because I've been using PINE for god-knows how long, but GUI mail clients just don't work for me.
I've worked at one or two jobs where they told me I could move on into Programming or other interesting areas after I've worked at Tech Support for a while and maybe gotten some certifications. I hope this uy has something in writing or he may be stuck in tech support for longer than he thinks.
Am I the only person who, upon reading this, thought what the hell kind of Ask Slashdot question is this?
You probably are, since this is actually not an Ask Slashdot. It's an article with a headline that happens to be phrased as a question.
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You know, I might actually buy a CD with Linux ports of all the ol' Apogee games. Maybe if they had the graphics updated a bit. I think that'sa wonderful idea.
Ever heard the actors in Xena or Hercules talk off camera? Or Marina Sirtis' real accent (or perhaps a lack of one, depending on where you live)? It really throws your brain for a loop, doesn't it?
Yeah, I know that - the Marina Sirtis thing is just totally dumb (they didn't want to have TWO characters with a british accent).
The Xena people seem to fake an American accent a lot better - on Farscape they don't try, which I think is great. I honestly wasn't complaining about it, I do find it funny that even Chrichton's father has an Australian accent.
I've been hearing a lot about Farscape, but never watched it because I didn't want to jump in in the middle.
Thankfully SciFi started re-airing it and this time I caught it. I think Season 2 just started on the reruns. Can anyone tell me what they're up to in the 'real' ones? I want to start watching those but I don't know where exactly they're at (Season 3 somewhere?)
I'd have taken notice of Farscape a LOT earlier if someone had told me Jim Hanson's Creature Shop was involved. The look & feel of the alien muppets beats the living daylights out of the "Nose Of The Day Department" who seems to do Star Trek. Then again when Farscape does have Human-Like aliens it's usually "Different Skin Colour" aliens.
I also love how everyone except Crichton has an Australian accent. And how badly they're trying to hide it. Yes, I know it's because the show's filmed there.
Plotwise, it's ok. The first season did have quite a few "Standard SciFi Plot #42" episodes, and some corny stuff (Scorpius? I mean... come on...), but I still like it. The characters are a lot more real than in Trek.
I don't see any mention of the most important side effects - this thing messes up pagers and cellphones.
To be on the safe side, I wrapped my cellphone and pagers up in tinfoil and left them in the trunk of my car, the most radiation resistant location I could think of.
I don't know if I'd call WinXP "a polished Windows 2000". More like "Windows 2000 with a lot of shiney plastic tacked on." In fact, I'm sure that if there was a software way of doing it, Windows XP would turn your machine casing translucent.
I gave it a whirl a while ago and gave up on it for one reason - drivers.
Sure, it autodetected my GeForce2GTS, and it worked fine - to a degree. No TVOUT and no Video Capture support. The maker of the card (ASUS) haven't released a WinXP driver yet. Installing the Win2K drivers made the machine hang on boot (worth a try though).
Also, it detected my SBLive. And that played the System Beeps very well. However, it totally chokes on anything complicated, like games. Max Payne turned into Max Hedrom ("It's P-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-payne!"). No games were actually playable, and the graphics seemd strained, too.
To be fair, Windows 2000 has the exact same problems on my machine, even with the Official Drivers installed, which may be a worse problem than it sounds like.
It's back to WinME for my Gaming Needs, and Win98SE for my Video Capture needs. Trible-boot, the only way to go.
I have to agree. This is the first Font Technology where I can actually see the difference. Antialiased fonts do nothing for me, really, but this ClearType thing is wonderful.
Or was before I nuked WinXP and put Win2K back on. And then nuked Win2K and put WinME back on. Apparently Win2K doesn't like my SBLive.
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The Sony receiver isn't $700 on it's own - the eliptical dish with the dual thinggie makes up about $200 of that price. Although Audio Kind are price gougers.
Hey,
First off, I don't think that $12.95 a month is a lot worse than $9.95 a month. When I get a TiVo I will happily pay that much.
The OT part: I want to get a DirectTV thing with a DirectTiVo thing. The local stores either have NO iea what I'm talking about (Best Buy) or think I should spend $750 on special dishes and receivers (Audio King). Not to mention I need to add a few HDDs (;
You can get DirectTV for practically free after rebates if you get just the standard receiver and a standard dish - the receiver+dish cost $50 anyway and there's free installation. I understand that a DirectTiVo setup would cost more - but $700 more?
The only DirectTiVo receivers I saw anywhere are the pretty expensive Sony ones at Audio King, who are known for price-inflation. Best Buy had 'Ultimate TV' which they claim is the same thing as TiVo, but (A) Says 'Microsoft' on it, and (B) lacks features I want and contains features I don't need.
I see a lot of comments from people mentioning DirectTiVo - what's the deal with the thing? Any decent online resources (TiVo.com didn't help much)? Is it REALLY that expensive?
Answer my own question: she did write for DS9. My god, she wrote for lots of stuff. Take a look.
I'm more than willing to believe D.C. Fontana came up with a lot of the Vulcan stuff. She's a script writer, though, and I don't know that she wrote any books. Her scripts and/or notes might've been the basis for Diane Duane's work.
Rick Berman seems to have pissed off a lot of the Original Roddenberry people, so yeah, I doubt they'll bring D.C. Fontana back to write for Enterprise. Did she do any work at ALL on any Rick Berman Trek (DS9/Voyager)? I know she wrote three scripts for Babylon 5...
I have read this book, and once you get past the really boring and tedious first half or so, you do get some interesting Vulcan history.
However, it was written by Diane Duane, rather then D.C. Fontana (who wrote some of the best Trek episodes.
I think it's more the projector is digital, using digital media, rather than good ol' film. Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones were filmed in full digital.
You paid $45 for a volume knob with an LED on it?!??
Or you can use the Search-select key, ";", tell it to select by text in the from, to, subject or body of the Email, and then use the (A)pply command. For example, to get all the ones with "Festical" in the Subject line, you'd go ";ssFestivalENTER>"
I guess I should've, as usual, elaborated more on the Outlook thing. The Save Messages isn't the ONLY thing that bothers me -it was just the first thing that came to mind.
Really? I use Outlook with that turned off (:
You can always submit a request to the PINE wishlist thing, but I think they all want to keep PINE in a 1-pane thing (:
I just tried it - I hit CTRL-SHIFT-V and nothing happens.
.01 seconds" rather than "it takes 2 seconds".
I take that back - Outlook is now hung. I don't know if you were serious or if I feel for it (;
Here's the thing though - in PINE, "S <ENTER>" has already saved it to the default mailbox based on the name or nickname of the sender - no need to arrow-key around to the mailbox you want. That's what I'm looking for - I'm not anti-mouse, I'm for "it takes
Oh, I got your keyboard shortcut to work - it defaults to INBOX.
Selecting all the messages I want is still annoying, when in PINE you can do that with a handful of keystrokes rather than scrolling through a whole lot of messages (200 is actually very, very low, I'm usually in the 500s before I notice how horrible it is).
As for rules - I don't like my mail going into many different boxes BEFORE I read it, so that's out. I DID create a whole lot of rules - about 50 - for all the people/programs/groups whom I usually receive mail from, and occasionally I'd go into the Rules Wizard thing, choose "Run Now" and let 'er rip.
Problem - it doesn't work. It'll move SOME of the messages, but not all. I find no rhyme or reason for this. I've asked the local 'experts' and they have no idea.
To this day I've never heard anyone talk about Outlook and say "This is an excellent mail client", or even "This is a good mail client" or heck, "It's decent." Why people put up with it is beyond me.
Ok, scrolling through 200+ messages, and ctrl-clicking all the ones you want, and then dragging them - sure, that'll work.
It's still faster in PINE ( ; t f <text> <ENTER> a s <mailbox-name> is the complicated way).
The thing is, with PINE if you're saving individual messages, it'll default to a mailbox name based on the sender's name or alias you defined - no need to 'drag' as it were - which is the real time saver. If you have seevral hundred saved-message boxes, you don't need to start looking for them. mail from "Anonymous@Coward.com" will always, by default, go into the same box when you hit "S <ENTER>" - that's what I'm missing in Outlook which is making my INBOX so cluttered.
Yeah, that's what I was trying to say. Actually I was going the other way round though. It seems to me that the only 'integration' Evolution has that PINE doesn't is that it has the same look'n'feel as Outlook, and that's a disadvantage to me (though obviously not to everyone).
I use PINE for my Exchange integration Email work. Works perfectly - apparently PINE is as much integrated with Exchange as Evolution is, until they start selling their component that'll connect to the calendar.
The calendar is the only reason I keep Outlook around, really.
My real problem with Evolution is, it looks like Outlook. I cannot use Outlook for Email. I find the interface to be completely horrible, unintuitive and hard to keep organized. The whole "Rules" thing just does not work. With PINE, if you want to save a message to a different mailbox, you hit "S <ENTER>". With Outlook you have to Drag'n'Drop. Imagine that for 200 messages.
Maybe it's because I've been using PINE for god-knows how long, but GUI mail clients just don't work for me.
I've worked at one or two jobs where they told me I could move on into Programming or other interesting areas after I've worked at Tech Support for a while and maybe gotten some certifications. I hope this uy has something in writing or he may be stuck in tech support for longer than he thinks.
You know, I might actually buy a CD with Linux ports of all the ol' Apogee games. Maybe if they had the graphics updated a bit. I think that'sa wonderful idea.
The Xena people seem to fake an American accent a lot better - on Farscape they don't try, which I think is great. I honestly wasn't complaining about it, I do find it funny that even Chrichton's father has an Australian accent.
I've been hearing a lot about Farscape, but never watched it because I didn't want to jump in in the middle.
Thankfully SciFi started re-airing it and this time I caught it. I think Season 2 just started on the reruns. Can anyone tell me what they're up to in the 'real' ones? I want to start watching those but I don't know where exactly they're at (Season 3 somewhere?)
I'd have taken notice of Farscape a LOT earlier if someone had told me Jim Hanson's Creature Shop was involved. The look & feel of the alien muppets beats the living daylights out of the "Nose Of The Day Department" who seems to do Star Trek. Then again when Farscape does have Human-Like aliens it's usually "Different Skin Colour" aliens.
I also love how everyone except Crichton has an Australian accent. And how badly they're trying to hide it. Yes, I know it's because the show's filmed there.
Plotwise, it's ok. The first season did have quite a few "Standard SciFi Plot #42" episodes, and some corny stuff (Scorpius? I mean... come on...), but I still like it. The characters are a lot more real than in Trek.
It's still not Babylon 5, but hey.
WinME boots faster. (;
I don't see any mention of the most important side effects - this thing messes up pagers and cellphones.
To be on the safe side, I wrapped my cellphone and pagers up in tinfoil and left them in the trunk of my car, the most radiation resistant location I could think of.
I don't know if I'd call WinXP "a polished Windows 2000". More like "Windows 2000 with a lot of shiney plastic tacked on." In fact, I'm sure that if there was a software way of doing it, Windows XP would turn your machine casing translucent.
I gave it a whirl a while ago and gave up on it for one reason - drivers.
Sure, it autodetected my GeForce2GTS, and it worked fine - to a degree. No TVOUT and no Video Capture support. The maker of the card (ASUS) haven't released a WinXP driver yet. Installing the Win2K drivers made the machine hang on boot (worth a try though).
Also, it detected my SBLive. And that played the System Beeps very well. However, it totally chokes on anything complicated, like games. Max Payne turned into Max Hedrom ("It's P-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-payne!"). No games were actually playable, and the graphics seemd strained, too.
To be fair, Windows 2000 has the exact same problems on my machine, even with the Official Drivers installed, which may be a worse problem than it sounds like.
It's back to WinME for my Gaming Needs, and Win98SE for my Video Capture needs. Trible-boot, the only way to go.
I have to agree. This is the first Font Technology where I can actually see the difference. Antialiased fonts do nothing for me, really, but this ClearType thing is wonderful.
Or was before I nuked WinXP and put Win2K back on. And then nuked Win2K and put WinME back on. Apparently Win2K doesn't like my SBLive.