Hmmm - my TiVo has no trouble recording one show while playing back another. If there's a co-processor to handle the compression for the video it ought to be easily done.
But... that X-Box is going to need a MUCH bigger hard drive if it's going to be useful as a PVR.
The 'why' part is obvious (to me). The perception in the eBay community has been that the wholesalers are taking over and pushing the independent sellers out. eBay is attempting to stem a revolt and/or mass migration to another auction site.
It may seem like 1K/month in sales is a lot but compared to the liquidators who sell there, it isn't. eBay needs those 80,000 Power Sellers to be able to keep selling too.
My guess is that this arrangement won't cost eBay much, if any, money from their own pocket. I saw no mention that they are going to co-pay for the insurance. But, they've made it possible for the full-time eBay dealer to get decent group insurance. Not a bad incentive to stay with eBay.
It's not 'forced recording'. If you're watching something else or have scheduled something else to record at that time, the TiVo content will not be recorded.
Besides, it uses a reserved portion of the disk so it's not like you're losing space for your recordings.
Personally, since I never look through the showcases and other cruft in the TiVo Central menu, I never even know what (or if) it recorded on its own.
would auto insurance premiums change? You still have to insure the sucker to put it on the street, but if you don't use it as often, odds of an accident should go down. Whether rates would go down is a differnt story.
So many people think insurance companies charge whatever they wish but it isn't true. Insurance is a heavily regulated industry that (in most states) is told what they are allowed to charge - both at the upper and lower range.
Having said that, the insurance company I work for would happily lower their rates to be more competitive if they were sure their losses due to claims would go down as well.
Our company requires strong passwords, changed every 45 days. I suspect that there are a lot of cubicles scattered around where you could find passwords jotted on a scap of paper placed under keyboards, in desk drawers, etc.
What would be cool, since we all have to wear (stinking) badges anyway, would be to have a card reader at each workstation and use the badge. Probably cost-prohibitive but it would make life a lot simpler.
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Don't know but that was a fun read on a Sunday morning. This guy could fill in for Mr Cranky.
I always thought I was just doing it because I needed to goof off that last half hour of the week but I guess I wasn't goofing off after all!
The absolute worst offender has to be phones though. If your phone gets used by anyone but you, you're well advised to disinfect the mouthpiece, especially during the cold/flu season.
It could be a lot of things - not all of them related to broken hardware.
The 400 is a tank but bad things can happen. Most notably, they shut themselves down when the run (almost) out of disk space. We had a user write a recursive query that created a file that ate all the disk of one of our 400's. It took most of a day to recover but nothing was lost.
Chances are, they just need someone who knows how to bring it up in a restricted mode and troubleshoot.
I am planning to do something like this to one of the original iMacs. I just happen to have one that was never used but missing the logic board, CD and hard drives.
I expect it'll be a much, much easier mod than a classic Mac conversion, but it'll also be more useful when I'm done.
I built about 50 of the things over the years using acrylic instead of glass. Sold them, gave them away, kept a couple. I still have 40 or so old Macs in the garage but about half of them are shells only.
Then there was the black Bell & Howell Apple II+ from the pre-Macintosh days. It came complete with black floppy drives. I've got one of those out in the garage awaiting the day they're worth something on eBay.
Slashdot Mirror
Using a browser other than IE is voting for an open, interoperable internet.
There are many millions of AIM users that are not AOL users.
Hmmm - my TiVo has no trouble recording one show while playing back another. If there's a co-processor to handle the compression for the video it ought to be easily done.
... that X-Box is going to need a MUCH bigger hard drive if it's going to be useful as a PVR.
But
The 'why' part is obvious (to me). The perception in the eBay community has been that the wholesalers are taking over and pushing the independent sellers out. eBay is attempting to stem a revolt and/or mass migration to another auction site.
It may seem like 1K/month in sales is a lot but compared to the liquidators who sell there, it isn't. eBay needs those 80,000 Power Sellers to be able to keep selling too.
My guess is that this arrangement won't cost eBay much, if any, money from their own pocket. I saw no mention that they are going to co-pay for the insurance. But, they've made it possible for the full-time eBay dealer to get decent group insurance. Not a bad incentive to stay with eBay.
It's not 'forced recording'. If you're watching something else or have scheduled something else to record at that time, the TiVo content will not be recorded.
Besides, it uses a reserved portion of the disk so it's not like you're losing space for your recordings.
Personally, since I never look through the showcases and other cruft in the TiVo Central menu, I never even know what (or if) it recorded on its own.
And I say they own zero percent of Apple.
Do you have a source for your assertion?
It'll be hard to lie about it since the first troubleshooting step would be to plug the iPod into a Mac and reload the iPod software.
IIRC it took about 10 or 12 minutes to fill my iPod to (4.6GB formatted) capacity the first time I plugged it in.
a big chunk of apple is owned by our friends at MS
Stupidest post ever.
Okay, not the stupidest but still not even remotely true.
would auto insurance premiums change? You still have to insure the sucker to put it on the street, but if you don't use it as often, odds of an accident should go down. Whether rates would go down is a differnt story.
So many people think insurance companies charge whatever they wish but it isn't true. Insurance is a heavily regulated industry that (in most states) is told what they are allowed to charge - both at the upper and lower range.
Having said that, the insurance company I work for would happily lower their rates to be more competitive if they were sure their losses due to claims would go down as well.
They're allowing some of their apps to be hidden or made not the default, not removed completely.
Our company requires strong passwords, changed every 45 days. I suspect that there are a lot of cubicles scattered around where you could find passwords jotted on a scap of paper placed under keyboards, in desk drawers, etc.
What would be cool, since we all have to wear (stinking) badges anyway, would be to have a card reader at each workstation and use the badge. Probably cost-prohibitive but it would make life a lot simpler.
Don't know but that was a fun read on a Sunday morning. This guy could fill in for Mr Cranky.
the poop stains will prompt even the most lazy cleaning lady to do something
Yeah, like quit her job!
I always thought I was just doing it because I needed to goof off that last half hour of the week but I guess I wasn't goofing off after all!
The absolute worst offender has to be phones though. If your phone gets used by anyone but you, you're well advised to disinfect the mouthpiece, especially during the cold/flu season.
I'm not sure Excel arrived in '84 - Microsoft had a version of Multiplan for the Mac before they came up with Excel.
But the point remains. The first Mac shipped with MacWrite which surely did have a toolbar.
It could be a lot of things - not all of them related to broken hardware.
The 400 is a tank but bad things can happen. Most notably, they shut themselves down when the run (almost) out of disk space. We had a user write a recursive query that created a file that ate all the disk of one of our 400's. It took most of a day to recover but nothing was lost.
Chances are, they just need someone who knows how to bring it up in a restricted mode and troubleshoot.
I am planning to do something like this to one of the original iMacs. I just happen to have one that was never used but missing the logic board, CD and hard drives.
I expect it'll be a much, much easier mod than a classic Mac conversion, but it'll also be more useful when I'm done.
I built about 50 of the things over the years using acrylic instead of glass. Sold them, gave them away, kept a couple. I still have 40 or so old Macs in the garage but about half of them are shells only.
My Macquariums
If you're going to correct people, correct them correctly.
The third Mac was the 512kE.
D'oh! You are correct.
Then there was the black Bell & Howell Apple II+ from the pre-Macintosh days. It came complete with black floppy drives. I've got one of those out in the garage awaiting the day they're worth something on eBay.
Actually the only black Mac was the Mac TV which used the same case plastic as the 5xx series.
It wasn't much of a computer, but I made a dandy fishtank out of one!
In don't think they are stupid but I haven't seen one yet that I want to use on my iPod.
I guess it will be since that's the only browser I can consistantly make work with Passport.
OMG - funniest ... comment ... all day!
This old fart knows it's funny because it's true.