I gave my wife a dell laptop that has a stylus pen and a touch screen. When she hasn't been using it, my two year old has been for a few months. Her favorite site is starfall.com. She does the alphabet games on there and even has graduated to some of the spelling games.
She's not using the keyboard or the mouse, but it was surprising how quickly she learned how to click, drag and move items on the screen using the pen.
"you can eat very expensive steak, while being entertained by a Max Headroom stylized recreation of David Hasselhoff, and groped by Hentai-motivated space-whores."
Actually, forget the steak, Hasselhoff and the elevator...
Ladies and gentlemen, uh, we've just lost the picture, but what we've seen speaks for itself. The Roaches have apparently been taken over -- 'conquered' if you will -- by a master race of giant space wasps. It's difficult to tell from this vantage point whether they will consume the captive earth men or merely enslave them. One thing is for certain: there is no stopping them; the wasps will soon be here. And I for one welcome our new insect overlords. I'd like to remind them that as a trusted TV personality, I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground honey caves.
I have a license that allows you to give me donations for my software project. I call it a Give Me Money license. Open Source Projects have no license like this one either.
You are obviously not a tivo owner (and no I don't work for tivo). The fact that I own three tivos means I probably watch less tv than you. I watch what I want when I want, anywhere in the house.
And I haven't lost any control over my recordings. In fact, thanks to improvements in the service, I can watch a program on any tv, regardless of what tivo recorded the program originally.
And I highly doubt there will not be tivo service in less than a year, but even then, that's a year longer than any other solution on par with Tivo's.
The $150 charge is only for those that get a new tivo unit at $150 off the reg price. So if you buy one, then decide that you don't want to continue the contract, then they can impose any penality they wish. IMHO, their penality is not bad at all, considering you bought the hardward at a discount.
Second, buy a lifetime contract. I have three tivos, all with lifetime contracts. For $299, the service is available for the life of the unit. And that doesn't mean that once the HD fails you are out. You can send a failed unit back to tivo, pay a mere $150 in repair/replacement costs, they will replace the tivo for you and they will transfer your lifetime subscription to the new unit. You can do this for up to 10 failures. If a HD fails every 2 years, this means you have up to 12 years for a single subscription. Do you have any piece of technology in your house that carries this kind of lifecycle promise? How often does your HD fail?
Anyone who wants to claim that there is a better alternative out there is wrong. The service improves constantly, the help desk at TIVO is one of the best out there (probably only topped by GIECO), and the attitude of the company in response to hacking the unit it great (I've got a 640+ hour hacked unit).
As for the broadcast flag comments, anyone who wants to archive their shows should go out and buy a decent tv capture card. Tivo was actually smart in granting the limited access to download shows from the unit directly, but preventing people from (easily) distributing the shows. This satisfied the MPAA and the like by adding copy protection, but still allowed the basic user at home to store shows on his/her computer. If you were really planning to distribute video over the internet you already own a capture card and didn't need tivo anyway.
All in all, this is not much of a change for Tivo users, and people should not consider this a reason not to own one. I love my tivos, and I still recommend them to my friends.
But you are also forgetting that bipedal jogging/running allows different breathing patterns. Four leggers need to exhale when the front legs contract and inhale when the front legs extend. Two leggers don't have any restrictions on their breathing, making the exchange of O2 much easier for two leggers.
Also, most of your land animals are furry, meaning they cool themselves by sweating through their tongue only. Humans (as people in my office can readily prove) sweat all over, making them excellent distance runner. Check out the book by Scott Carrier for an indepth first hand viewpoint of chasing down antelope in the Utah/Nevada desert.
I've got the latest version of Trillian (2.0) and I can't maintain a connection. It connects, then instantly disconnects. I am behind a firewall, but previous versions of Trillian worked fine. There tech support tells me that it is probably due to the fact that 2.0 uses a protocol that is very recent, and that they are working on a solution to this, although they can't replicate the problem themselves.
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I gave my wife a dell laptop that has a stylus pen and a touch screen. When she hasn't been using it, my two year old has been for a few months. Her favorite site is starfall.com. She does the alphabet games on there and even has graduated to some of the spelling games.
She's not using the keyboard or the mouse, but it was surprising how quickly she learned how to click, drag and move items on the screen using the pen.
"you can eat very expensive steak, while being entertained by a Max Headroom stylized recreation of David Hasselhoff, and groped by Hentai-motivated space-whores."
Actually, forget the steak, Hasselhoff and the elevator...
Quick, copy this URL and email it to all your co-workers, with your irony level set to full.
Ladies and gentlemen, uh, we've just lost the picture, but what we've seen speaks for itself. The Roaches have apparently been taken over -- 'conquered' if you will -- by a master race of giant space wasps. It's difficult to tell from this vantage point whether they will consume the captive earth men or merely enslave them. One thing is for certain: there is no stopping them; the wasps will soon be here. And I for one welcome our new insect overlords. I'd like to remind them that as a trusted TV personality, I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground honey caves.
I have a license that allows you to give me donations for my software project. I call it a Give Me Money license. Open Source Projects have no license like this one either.
You are obviously not a tivo owner (and no I don't work for tivo). The fact that I own three tivos means I probably watch less tv than you. I watch what I want when I want, anywhere in the house.
And I haven't lost any control over my recordings. In fact, thanks to improvements in the service, I can watch a program on any tv, regardless of what tivo recorded the program originally.
And I highly doubt there will not be tivo service in less than a year, but even then, that's a year longer than any other solution on par with Tivo's.
The $150 charge is only for those that get a new tivo unit at $150 off the reg price. So if you buy one, then decide that you don't want to continue the contract, then they can impose any penality they wish. IMHO, their penality is not bad at all, considering you bought the hardward at a discount.
Second, buy a lifetime contract. I have three tivos, all with lifetime contracts. For $299, the service is available for the life of the unit. And that doesn't mean that once the HD fails you are out. You can send a failed unit back to tivo, pay a mere $150 in repair/replacement costs, they will replace the tivo for you and they will transfer your lifetime subscription to the new unit. You can do this for up to 10 failures. If a HD fails every 2 years, this means you have up to 12 years for a single subscription. Do you have any piece of technology in your house that carries this kind of lifecycle promise? How often does your HD fail?
Anyone who wants to claim that there is a better alternative out there is wrong. The service improves constantly, the help desk at TIVO is one of the best out there (probably only topped by GIECO), and the attitude of the company in response to hacking the unit it great (I've got a 640+ hour hacked unit).
As for the broadcast flag comments, anyone who wants to archive their shows should go out and buy a decent tv capture card. Tivo was actually smart in granting the limited access to download shows from the unit directly, but preventing people from (easily) distributing the shows. This satisfied the MPAA and the like by adding copy protection, but still allowed the basic user at home to store shows on his/her computer. If you were really planning to distribute video over the internet you already own a capture card and didn't need tivo anyway.
All in all, this is not much of a change for Tivo users, and people should not consider this a reason not to own one. I love my tivos, and I still recommend them to my friends.
But you are also forgetting that bipedal jogging/running allows different breathing patterns. Four leggers need to exhale when the front legs contract and inhale when the front legs extend. Two leggers don't have any restrictions on their breathing, making the exchange of O2 much easier for two leggers.
Also, most of your land animals are furry, meaning they cool themselves by sweating through their tongue only. Humans (as people in my office can readily prove) sweat all over, making them excellent distance runner. Check out the book by Scott Carrier for an indepth first hand viewpoint of chasing down antelope in the Utah/Nevada desert.
Does anyone have the HOWTO for upgrading my tivo with one of these? I really need 1250 hours of capacity.
I've got the latest version of Trillian (2.0) and I can't maintain a connection. It connects, then instantly disconnects. I am behind a firewall, but previous versions of Trillian worked fine. There tech support tells me that it is probably due to the fact that 2.0 uses a protocol that is very recent, and that they are working on a solution to this, although they can't replicate the problem themselves.