I actually use it for british sitcoms and some older stuff that's hard to find, I just find it a bitter pill to swallow when they lure you in and then degrade your service. I was hesitant to begin with because I didn't want YAMF (Yet Another Monthly Fee) to deal with, but the free trial was great. Then it began taking progressively longer to get my next movie. Now the $17/month isn't so great.
Well let's do the math. 11 rentals at the "3 DVDs out at a time" plan works out to be about $0.61 per rental.
Wait, $17.99 (3-at-a-time plan)/11 = $0.61? How about $1.64? Still, not a bad deal, until you realize you can't get new releases for the first two months because you're sent to the back of the line, or it takes three to four days (it often takes 5-7 days for me) to get the next title on your list.
Which is it, data sharing between two OSs or dual booting? Because I can dual boot just fine with current products and still not be able to share data. Not until NTFS for linux makes some more progress, anyway.
I understand. But wouldn't a product that offers BOTH be a better fit?
And I am not trying to beat you up because I was in your exact shoes less than 8 months ago. I relented and wound up getting the Cable co DVR (motorola) and it just barely works. But it does fast-forward and skip ahead reasonably well (ie: no better/worse than my Tivo).
Hell, I even have a CableCard in my TV right now. In theory, if Tivo had their box available tommorrow -- I could use a Series 3 Tivo.
Oh, I'm right there with you. I'd much rather have an HD TiVo, but when the choice is one or the other, well, I've had slightly fuzzy TV for years, it's really not a hardship. Not being able to watch an hour-long show in 32 minutes *whenever I want to*, however...
The only problem I have with cable's HD in general and with CableCard in particular is that if you have an HD-TV (i.e. one with an HD tuner in it), you still don't get all your channels in true end-to-end digital, much less hidef. I finally got the cable company to admit that going to digital cable wouldn't give me anything more than my current basic cable + my hi-def tuner. Why pay the extra $20/month? Movie channels? Feh. Maybe if they'd play something besides the same 7 movies over and over all month. Netflix works just fine for me, and it's always in DVD quality.
That said, I run one cable into the HD tuner and one to the Tivo. For those rare occasions when I want to see something that might actually be broadcast in hidef (not just up-converted analog), I can switch to the TV's tuner.
I like Tivo+DirecTV, I just never liked the pricing structure (didn't want to pay an extra $5 per receiver in addition to TiVo's fees. TV's not worth $100+/month), and ever since their relationship started going south, well...
Uh-huh. You must have standard def TV, huh? Wait until you go high-def.
I said the EXACT same thing - until I moved to HD. See my post above.
I have Hi-def. I occasionally watch it on the other tuner, but if I have to make a choice between TiVo and Hi-Def, there isn't even a contest. It's all about commercial skip and timeshifting at my house.
20 minutes into the future, he'll be replaced by Sanity Claus. He breaks into your house in the middle of the night and tests your children for nonconformist thought. Any deviation from the norm results in abduction for "re-education".
And exactly why would you ask scientists and engineers in MICHIGAN to test the effect of a DESERT environment?
Err...because that's where the automotive engineers are? You do know that the Big Three are based in Detroit, right? And don't forget, Warren used to be home of the 900,000 sq. ft. Warren Tank Plant. General Dynamics Land Systems Division, as well as many other military contractors, are still based there, too.
Side note: We used to have to use bicycles to get around that place. It was HUGE!
I was just telling my wife that I wasn't sure if it was the lack of food (no lunch, no dinner) or fatigue (still at work) but for some reason, those bubbles made me extremely happy (especially the blue ones). Good to know it's not just me.:-)
Allegedly due out in February (not Real Soon Now) according to the article. Check out the awesome video on their website. (coral cached. Actual site is http://www.zubbles.com/
I had a neighborhood near the county courthouse in San Francisco highlighted yesterday and asked for the bail bondsman in the area. It didn't understand that request.
Thankfully I wasn't in jail and looking for one at that time.
I'm guessing that internet access for prisoners is not a high priority at the local lockup.
Universal internet for hurricane victims comes dead last on my list. These people were knocked back to the 1800s. Let bring them back to indoor plumbing before we go all crazy with teh intarweb.
Access to information enables rescue workers and survivors to work efficiently to bring back necessary services as quickly as possible. Access to emergency databases (like FEMA's) allows families to find each other (Can you imagine losing your children in a flood and not knowing if they're dead or alive? I'd forgo food, shelter, and sleep until I found my daughter.) and for survivors to possibly find paying jobs if their old job no longer exists. Don't just assume that the rescue workers are just trying to entertain the survivors with online porn, solitaire, and Fark.com.
Also, you'll note that these labs are all set up at the shelters which implies that at least the roof and the food are already taken care of.
Oh, man I remember playing that *as* a youngin'. I don't know how or why I had access to it, but I vaguely remember you had to type "BANG" to hunt and the faster you managed to type it, the more likely you were to hit.
I just played through SC: Chaos Theory and it had a lot of ads in it as well. They were portrayed as soda machines, wall posters, etc. They were obtrusive in that the non-ads were blurry and out of focus. For example, two soda machines side-by-side, one was a Sprite machine, the other one apparently sold "a suffusion of yellow". So instead of contributing to the immersion by making the virtual world more "real", it just called attention to the fact that it was a product-placement ad and annoyed me instead. I would have preferred two Sprite machines, or perhaps one Sprite and one Coke or something.
One in-game ad I *did* like, though, was the brightly-lit Axe cologne neon billboard that you had to sneak across while several guards wandered about. I had to shoot the neon out to make it dark enough...;)
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but why can't there be legislation that FORCES pornographic websites to use such a suffix from now on?
Who decides what constitutes "pornography"? You? Congress? What if Iran got to decide? They have internet access, too, remember.
A simple litmus test could be that the obscenity rules that apply to broadcasters being the yardstick against which.xxx compulsory domain naming apply
Yeah, the FCC has done such a great job of applying random, inconsistent rules to broadcasters. Skin is immoral and dangerous to our children, but extreme violence is perfectly fine? Also note that radio broadcasters have *much* more stringent rules than over-the-air television broadcasters do.
it's a win-win situation according to me... what am i not getting?
Government-mandated morality is not a good thing because it relies on one subset of the population's interpretation of "morals". This is not to say that the TLD is a bad idea, but it needs to be voluntary, not compulsory.
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I actually use it for british sitcoms and some older stuff that's hard to find, I just find it a bitter pill to swallow when they lure you in and then degrade your service. I was hesitant to begin with because I didn't want YAMF (Yet Another Monthly Fee) to deal with, but the free trial was great. Then it began taking progressively longer to get my next movie. Now the $17/month isn't so great.
Well let's do the math. 11 rentals at the "3 DVDs out at a time" plan works out to be about $0.61 per rental.
Wait, $17.99 (3-at-a-time plan)/11 = $0.61? How about $1.64? Still, not a bad deal, until you realize you can't get new releases for the first two months because you're sent to the back of the line, or it takes three to four days (it often takes 5-7 days for me) to get the next title on your list.
Infinite rentals? Infinite up to 11 per month when they start throttling your deliveries, you mean. Not such a good deal now, is it?
Which is it, data sharing between two OSs or dual booting? Because I can dual boot just fine with current products and still not be able to share data. Not until NTFS for linux makes some more progress, anyway.
I understand. But wouldn't a product that offers BOTH be a better fit?
And I am not trying to beat you up because I was in your exact shoes less than 8 months ago. I relented and wound up getting the Cable co DVR (motorola) and it just barely works. But it does fast-forward and skip ahead reasonably well (ie: no better/worse than my Tivo).
Hell, I even have a CableCard in my TV right now. In theory, if Tivo had their box available tommorrow -- I could use a Series 3 Tivo.
Oh, I'm right there with you. I'd much rather have an HD TiVo, but when the choice is one or the other, well, I've had slightly fuzzy TV for years, it's really not a hardship. Not being able to watch an hour-long show in 32 minutes *whenever I want to*, however...
The only problem I have with cable's HD in general and with CableCard in particular is that if you have an HD-TV (i.e. one with an HD tuner in it), you still don't get all your channels in true end-to-end digital, much less hidef. I finally got the cable company to admit that going to digital cable wouldn't give me anything more than my current basic cable + my hi-def tuner. Why pay the extra $20/month? Movie channels? Feh. Maybe if they'd play something besides the same 7 movies over and over all month. Netflix works just fine for me, and it's always in DVD quality.
That said, I run one cable into the HD tuner and one to the Tivo. For those rare occasions when I want to see something that might actually be broadcast in hidef (not just up-converted analog), I can switch to the TV's tuner.
I like Tivo+DirecTV, I just never liked the pricing structure (didn't want to pay an extra $5 per receiver in addition to TiVo's fees. TV's not worth $100+/month), and ever since their relationship started going south, well...
Uh-huh. You must have standard def TV, huh? Wait until you go high-def.
I said the EXACT same thing - until I moved to HD. See my post above.
I have Hi-def. I occasionally watch it on the other tuner, but if I have to make a choice between TiVo and Hi-Def, there isn't even a contest. It's all about commercial skip and timeshifting at my house.
You keep using the word 'boxen' the opportunity to remove your TiVO may be sooner then you would like.
;-)
Hey, at least I don't keep using 'M$'. Cuz, you know, that dollar sign in place of the 'S' is SOOOO clever...
You'll get my TiVo boxen when you pry them from my cold, dead hands. Just sayin'.
Leaking tanks of high-level bombmaking waste have made a huge area undevelopable. The animals are pleased as punch with this state of affairs.
Except the ones that died of radiation sickness, cancer, or non-viable mutation, of course. They're not so happy about it.
20 minutes into the future, he'll be replaced by Sanity Claus. He breaks into your house in the middle of the night and tests your children for nonconformist thought. Any deviation from the norm results in abduction for "re-education".
And exactly why would you ask scientists and engineers in MICHIGAN to test the effect of a DESERT environment?
Err...because that's where the automotive engineers are? You do know that the Big Three are based in Detroit, right? And don't forget, Warren used to be home of the 900,000 sq. ft. Warren Tank Plant. General Dynamics Land Systems Division, as well as many other military contractors, are still based there, too.
Side note: We used to have to use bicycles to get around that place. It was HUGE!
I was just telling my wife that I wasn't sure if it was the lack of food (no lunch, no dinner) or fatigue (still at work) but for some reason, those bubbles made me extremely happy (especially the blue ones). Good to know it's not just me. :-)
Allegedly due out in February (not Real Soon Now) according to the article. Check out the awesome video on their website. (coral cached. Actual site is http://www.zubbles.com/
Despite my badassly low UID
Wow, you *are* a badass! wait a minute...
Still missing exit numbers on the expressways, though...
I had a neighborhood near the county courthouse in San Francisco highlighted yesterday and asked for the bail bondsman in the area. It didn't understand that request.
Thankfully I wasn't in jail and looking for one at that time.
I'm guessing that internet access for prisoners is not a high priority at the local lockup.
that someone should organize
Someone, eh? Why not you? Why are you waiting for "someone"?
Universal internet for hurricane victims comes dead last on my list. These people were knocked back to the 1800s. Let bring them back to indoor plumbing before we go all crazy with teh intarweb.
Access to information enables rescue workers and survivors to work efficiently to bring back necessary services as quickly as possible. Access to emergency databases (like FEMA's) allows families to find each other (Can you imagine losing your children in a flood and not knowing if they're dead or alive? I'd forgo food, shelter, and sleep until I found my daughter.) and for survivors to possibly find paying jobs if their old job no longer exists. Don't just assume that the rescue workers are just trying to entertain the survivors with online porn, solitaire, and Fark.com.
Also, you'll note that these labs are all set up at the shelters which implies that at least the roof and the food are already taken care of.
Oh, man I remember playing that *as* a youngin'. I don't know how or why I had access to it, but I vaguely remember you had to type "BANG" to hunt and the faster you managed to type it, the more likely you were to hit.
RIP Clippy
Shouldn't that be RITITBFOH* Clippy?
*Rest in torment in the burning fires of Hell
I was using www.blackholes.us for awhile to help construct my ACL's. Now that it's MIA, anyone got an alternative?
how to click & install Napster
I remember Napster. Wasn't that used to trade music or something a few years ago?
Where's the CHA?
I just played through SC: Chaos Theory and it had a lot of ads in it as well. They were portrayed as soda machines, wall posters, etc. They were obtrusive in that the non-ads were blurry and out of focus. For example, two soda machines side-by-side, one was a Sprite machine, the other one apparently sold "a suffusion of yellow". So instead of contributing to the immersion by making the virtual world more "real", it just called attention to the fact that it was a product-placement ad and annoyed me instead. I would have preferred two Sprite machines, or perhaps one Sprite and one Coke or something.
;)
One in-game ad I *did* like, though, was the brightly-lit Axe cologne neon billboard that you had to sneak across while several guards wandered about. I had to shoot the neon out to make it dark enough...
but why can't there be legislation that FORCES pornographic websites to use such a suffix from now on?
.xxx compulsory domain naming apply
Who decides what constitutes "pornography"? You? Congress? What if Iran got to decide? They have internet access, too, remember.
A simple litmus test could be that the obscenity rules that apply to broadcasters being the yardstick against which
Yeah, the FCC has done such a great job of applying random, inconsistent rules to broadcasters. Skin is immoral and dangerous to our children, but extreme violence is perfectly fine? Also note that radio broadcasters have *much* more stringent rules than over-the-air television broadcasters do.
it's a win-win situation according to me... what am i not getting?
Government-mandated morality is not a good thing because it relies on one subset of the population's interpretation of "morals". This is not to say that the TLD is a bad idea, but it needs to be voluntary, not compulsory.