Doesn't matter if most DVRs do it, it still sucks. A couple years ago I lost my cable on a thursday, this is when I realized I couldn't watch recorded shows when cable is down). A tech was out friday, spent 10 minutes outside somewhere, my cable worked again. Tech left, 10 minutes later my cable died again. Called em up, as monday was a holiday nobody could come out until next tuesday.
IMHO, this is bovine manure. It's not my fault the cable went out, nor that the first guy didn't fix it right. I'm paying, I have plenty of stuff recorded, let me watch my danged shows.
That said, I've been pretty happy with my Uverse. Had Cox when I first moved here, their DVR sucked so hard I returned it after 6 weeks. My ex-wife's Tivo died so she got Time Warner DVR. She lasted 2 weeks before getting Uverse. She's happy with it.
Came to say this, you said it better. 2 more points. The burgers will be more consistent with robots making them. Second, you can have a lot more variety in your menu. Want a fish sandwich with horseradish, bbq sauce, sweet pickles, and hold the tomato? There's an app for that.
I usually think of a phrase, take the first letter of each word, and leetify some of the letters. "My what a lovely unicorn with no horn you have" becomes MwalUwnHuh which then becomes Mw@lUw!Huh.
My phrases are generally song lyrics, and yes I do need to write them down until I've used them 3-4 times.
No, we need to invest in something that we KNOW works and is relatively cheap and painless. When we import 0 barrels of oil then we can work on stuff like bio-diesel and solar.
We need to get our fracking industry going full bore, convert all semi's to use it, and get to where we import 0% oil from anywhere. Let China and Russia keep the straights of Hormuz clear. Let the Saudies fall back into the decrepit 3rd world pit it deserves to be.
When I write Linux device drivers I have a machine running Linux. I don't write Linux device drivers at home. At home I play games, surf the web, read email.
My last 2 computers had the obligatory Linux partition on the HDD, yet I never loaded Linux on either. Why? Cygwin. I can work in a *nix environment and game in a Windows environment.
So even though I first used Unix in '84, Linux in '94, and have written a handful of Linux device drivers, I don't see the need to run Linux at home.
Some 20 years ago I married an Interior Designer. One day I came home from work and she was excited "come look at what I did!". Head into the office and my 2 large bookcases had been reorganized by book size and color:(
Took me about 3 months to get them back in their proper order, and she never understood why I didn't like her method.
[quote]Mitt was a dreadful choice for a conservative presidential candidate. [/quote] Don't blame me, I live in California. The primaries were long over before we got to vote. For me, Rmoney was 4-5th down the list.
So you're saying Obama is better than Bush was at respecting privacy, civil rights, and not murdering foreign citizens overseas?
Hell, the guy can't even close gitmo.
Face it, when it comes to the growing police state both Elephants and asses are wrong.
My problem is I'm a fiscal conservative but social liberal. Up to now my preference for low taxes/small gov'ment and gun rights has overshadowed the Repub asshattery. But I can't overlook said asshattery anymore, not to mention the ass party grows the gov'ment as much if not more than the dems.
Off the top of my head I've got 15-20 accounts (2 brokerages, bank, slashdot, fark, ars, metacritic, couple junk emails, etc etc etc). If, god forbid, I get labeled as a SO then they want *all* those logins? Makes a person mighty easy to track if you wanna, I dunno, drain some accounts here and there.
I'm snotnose in about 2/3 of those accounts. Where I'm not it's because snotnose was already taken. Hate to have a S.O. using snotnose on some site paint me with an awfully ugly brush. Oh, different accounts you say? You really think the kind of dumass that worries about this kind of thing will bother verifying the entire domain, as opposed to just remembering 'snotnose'.?
Not buying it. Bush completely ignored constitutional protections. Bush started killing people in other countries via drones. Bush never saw a bureaucracy that wouldn't be better if it was bigger. Bush drove spending through the roof. Bush stuck his head in the sand when science didn't match the bible.
Obama hasn't stuck his head in the sand re: the bible. But on every other issue, Bush has been a piker. Obama is Bush on steroids without the religious nutjob background.
Ask yourself. How would you feel if Mexico ran drones across the US, shooting hellfires at "drug smugglers". Killing several innocent civilians for every "drug smuggler" killed, a large percentage who are kids?
How do you feel about pissing away a trillion dollars on "shovel ready" projects, where all those projects turned out to be stinky horse effluvia?
How do you feel about the Fed spending trillions to keep interest rates low? You on a fixed income? Need that CD money for food and rent?
It's clear by now Obama lied about the Libya killings. That make you feel good?
The problem isn't that Obama is a lying, cheating, sneaky, murderous power hungry asshole. The problem is the country isn't sure if Rmoney would have been more or less than a LCSMPHA.
I can see Santorum getting the Republican nomination. I can also see a bigger landslide than the McGovern mess.
Santorum is a 100% asshole who stands for everything that is wrong with the R party. If the R's can't figure that out in the next 2 years, then the hell with em. We'll be effectively a 1 party country, so say we all.
That's pretty much the crux of the problem. The only reason I voted for Rmoney was because Obama is a disaster. I'm not saying Rmoney would have been better, but he hadn't yet been given a chance to muck things up.
The problem is, no matter which major party gets in, the country loses.
If they can't beat Obama in this economy, with his results, they really need to stare at their navels and figure out why people hate them so much. They can start with GWB, one of the worst presidents in history, move on to what they think of rape, and then figure how much they need the religious nutjobs that forms their so called base. Their anti-science, anti-women BS is driving the country away from them.
I'll admit I voted for Rmoney. Not because I like that finger in the wind flip flopper, but I think Obama's policies are disastrous.
Why not implement a 20% federal and 10% local tax on all election spending? After all, the politicos are always trying to squeeze money out of us. Seems like the voters win 2 ways. First, more money into government coffers that didn't make a pit stop in my wallet. Second, fewer @$@!*%^ misleading ads and mailers.
As for voting, like I have for the past 15 years or so, I mailed the turkey in a couple weeks back.
Love watching the bozos with their surge in last minute spending when I, and almost everyone I know, has already mailed it in.
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This. It's how I did it. Self taught, got a job, worked full time whilst going to college part time with the company paying the bills.
Doesn't matter if most DVRs do it, it still sucks. A couple years ago I lost my cable on a thursday, this is when I realized I couldn't watch recorded shows when cable is down). A tech was out friday, spent 10 minutes outside somewhere, my cable worked again. Tech left, 10 minutes later my cable died again. Called em up, as monday was a holiday nobody could come out until next tuesday.
IMHO, this is bovine manure. It's not my fault the cable went out, nor that the first guy didn't fix it right. I'm paying, I have plenty of stuff recorded, let me watch my danged shows.
That said, I've been pretty happy with my Uverse. Had Cox when I first moved here, their DVR sucked so hard I returned it after 6 weeks. My ex-wife's Tivo died so she got Time Warner DVR. She lasted 2 weeks before getting Uverse. She's happy with it.
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Came to say this, you said it better. 2 more points. The burgers will be more consistent with robots making them. Second, you can have a lot more variety in your menu. Want a fish sandwich with horseradish, bbq sauce, sweet pickles, and hold the tomato? There's an app for that.
I usually think of a phrase, take the first letter of each word, and leetify some of the letters. "My what a lovely unicorn with no horn you have" becomes MwalUwnHuh which then becomes Mw@lUw!Huh.
My phrases are generally song lyrics, and yes I do need to write them down until I've used them 3-4 times.
2012: http://basicinstructions.net/
2011: http://www.explosm.net/
2010: http://xkcd.com/
Brian diarrhea on html formatting at the moment :(
Basically there is a big difference in banning someone from "My Little Pony Online" vs "Call of Duty Modern Bang Bang."
Not to mention games aimed at adults, like Call of Booty, Bang Bang ur mom.
This always bothered me. Tell me what the homework is and when the tests are. Let me decide if your lectures are worth attending.
When I was a student I noticed the only professors who cared about attendance were the ones who couldn't teach worth a damn.
Any kind of encryption? Or would running wireshark for the flight give lots of interesting info?
I'm guessing about half the population doesn't like this idea. But that half can't vote so who cares about them.
No, we need to invest in something that we KNOW works and is relatively cheap and painless. When we import 0 barrels of oil then we can work on stuff like bio-diesel and solar.
We need to get our fracking industry going full bore, convert all semi's to use it, and get to where we import 0% oil from anywhere. Let China and Russia keep the straights of Hormuz clear. Let the Saudies fall back into the decrepit 3rd world pit it deserves to be.
When I write Linux device drivers I have a machine running Linux. I don't write Linux device drivers at home. At home I play games, surf the web, read email.
My last 2 computers had the obligatory Linux partition on the HDD, yet I never loaded Linux on either. Why? Cygwin. I can work in a *nix environment and game in a Windows environment.
So even though I first used Unix in '84, Linux in '94, and have written a handful of Linux device drivers, I don't see the need to run Linux at home.
Some 20 years ago I married an Interior Designer. One day I came home from work and she was excited "come look at what I did!". Head into the office and my 2 large bookcases had been reorganized by book size and color :(
Took me about 3 months to get them back in their proper order, and she never understood why I didn't like her method.
[quote]Mitt was a dreadful choice for a conservative presidential candidate. [/quote]
Don't blame me, I live in California. The primaries were long over before we got to vote. For me, Rmoney was 4-5th down the list.
So you're saying Obama is better than Bush was at respecting privacy, civil rights, and not murdering foreign citizens overseas?
Hell, the guy can't even close gitmo.
Face it, when it comes to the growing police state both Elephants and asses are wrong.
My problem is I'm a fiscal conservative but social liberal. Up to now my preference for low taxes/small gov'ment and gun rights has overshadowed the Repub asshattery. But I can't overlook said asshattery anymore, not to mention the ass party grows the gov'ment as much if not more than the dems.
Off the top of my head I've got 15-20 accounts (2 brokerages, bank, slashdot, fark, ars, metacritic, couple junk emails, etc etc etc). If, god forbid, I get labeled as a SO then they want *all* those logins? Makes a person mighty easy to track if you wanna, I dunno, drain some accounts here and there.
I'm snotnose in about 2/3 of those accounts. Where I'm not it's because snotnose was already taken. Hate to have a S.O. using snotnose on some site paint me with an awfully ugly brush. Oh, different accounts you say? You really think the kind of dumass that worries about this kind of thing will bother verifying the entire domain, as opposed to just remembering 'snotnose'.?
Better to put them 100 meters out and learn how to shoot your rifles.
Anyone think congress will get their shiat together to avoid this mess? Me neither. So Obama gets to preside over another recession.
Not buying it. Bush completely ignored constitutional protections. Bush started killing people in other countries via drones. Bush never saw a bureaucracy that wouldn't be better if it was bigger. Bush drove spending through the roof. Bush stuck his head in the sand when science didn't match the bible.
Obama hasn't stuck his head in the sand re: the bible. But on every other issue, Bush has been a piker. Obama is Bush on steroids without the religious nutjob background.
Ask yourself. How would you feel if Mexico ran drones across the US, shooting hellfires at "drug smugglers". Killing several innocent civilians for every "drug smuggler" killed, a large percentage who are kids?
How do you feel about pissing away a trillion dollars on "shovel ready" projects, where all those projects turned out to be stinky horse effluvia?
How do you feel about the Fed spending trillions to keep interest rates low? You on a fixed income? Need that CD money for food and rent?
It's clear by now Obama lied about the Libya killings. That make you feel good?
The problem isn't that Obama is a lying, cheating, sneaky, murderous power hungry asshole. The problem is the country isn't sure if Rmoney would have been more or less than a LCSMPHA.
I can see Santorum getting the Republican nomination. I can also see a bigger landslide than the McGovern mess.
Santorum is a 100% asshole who stands for everything that is wrong with the R party. If the R's can't figure that out in the next 2 years, then the hell with em. We'll be effectively a 1 party country, so say we all.
That's pretty much the crux of the problem. The only reason I voted for Rmoney was because Obama is a disaster. I'm not saying Rmoney would have been better, but he hadn't yet been given a chance to muck things up.
The problem is, no matter which major party gets in, the country loses.
If they can't beat Obama in this economy, with his results, they really need to stare at their navels and figure out why people hate them so much. They can start with GWB, one of the worst presidents in history, move on to what they think of rape, and then figure how much they need the religious nutjobs that forms their so called base. Their anti-science, anti-women BS is driving the country away from them.
I'll admit I voted for Rmoney. Not because I like that finger in the wind flip flopper, but I think Obama's policies are disastrous.
Why not implement a 20% federal and 10% local tax on all election spending? After all, the politicos are always trying to squeeze money out of us. Seems like the voters win 2 ways. First, more money into government coffers that didn't make a pit stop in my wallet. Second, fewer @$@!*%^ misleading ads and mailers.
As for voting, like I have for the past 15 years or so, I mailed the turkey in a couple weeks back.
Love watching the bozos with their surge in last minute spending when I, and almost everyone I know, has already mailed it in.