If this is what happens then you aren't doing it right. Common courtesy is very easy to distinguish from sarcasm or indifference. Make eye contact, smile, etc. It is worth it.
I'll be making lots of babies so that all your work towards spreading mankind instead of breeding ends up spreading MY genes instead of yours.
Win-win.
Atlantis is the "Emergency Rescue" shuttle for the last 2 missions, so it is possible she could fly up and recover astronauts stranded due to tile damage in one of the last 2 missions.
And do you really think it is good practice to plug directly into the internet like you did or should you be behind a soho router like a cheapo $40 linksys? Something as simple as being behind a NAT router prevents what you are describing.
Ah, the old "rooting for inefficiency with my dollars" shtick. (The Amish should have patented that.)
I try very hard to not shop at Walmart either, but it isn't because of prices. I've found that buying clothes from walmart that they wear out much faster than buying from Kohls. I don't know if they use thinner threads or what, but I get holes in walmart clothes while they are still in relatively new condition.
As for Groceries, I could probably save a bit of money buying from walmart as opposed to Wegmans, but I have made a choice to vote with my wallet on business practices. Wegmans has been voted into the FORTUNE top 100 companies to work for every year from 1998-2010, with a first place posting in 2005 and 2010 was voted third. I am pretty sure most of those years were in the top10, but am not going to do the research.
Walmart on the other hand specifically hires part time workers and keeps their hours low so they do not have to provide benefits to them. Source.
The clip used is less than 4% of the total film. Well within fair use. Putting a joke subtitle under a similarly short IronMan clip is fair use as well.
Maintainer? More like a "It hasn't crashed? YAY!"-er. You've been getting warnings for a long time saying that the scanner was out of date and how can you justify running an out of date virus scanner and calling yourself a maintainer?
I am not going to take sides here, but it is well known that Nervous Laughter helps people work through stress. These weren't belly laughs on this film, it came across to me as nervous laughter. I am certainly no expert though, having never been in the military nor in any situation anywhere near this.
What does Survival of the fittest care? I said it originally tongue in cheek, I think smoking is a horrid habit, never smoked but both my parents did (My father quit smoking a longass time ago when he went to buy a pack and they were 75 cents, pissed him off so he quit. My mother smoked up until 3-4 years ago when I put my foot down and didn't let my kids go into the house if people had been smoking inside it, she finally used that ultimatum to get herself to quit).
Yeah, maybe the kid *can't* move out, but that is the point of survival of the fittest. People live long lives so they can raise their children and grandchildren, they don't die immediately when they have offspring like some species.
I suppose my point is that while I was joking, it is still an example of survival of the fittest if the kid dies due to parental neglect. What matters in this instance is due to the weakness of the parent, their offspring doesn't survive. Mother Nature is a harsh mistress.
I bought $400 worth of essential goods (clothes) this weekend. I paid $432 for it because there is an 8% sales tax. Does that suddenly not count? Income tax != 100% of your tax burden.
$200 quite a lot? My family of 4 coverage costs my employer $1100/mo. $254/week. My employer covers 100% of medical. If I didn't have a family I would most definitely NOT have insurance and instead opt for the pay raise. (I will admit that my daughter needed a lot of medical coverage in the first 2 years of her life, to the tune of just shy of $200,000 total, so I can't complain *that* much about premium costs. It was something that was *CURED* though, so her medical bills since then have been all preventative cheapo stuff.)
If you like the idea, what is so bad about being told who came up with it? Yes, it is a plug for them. My sig is a plug for Gentoo. This sentence is a plug for Bachelor chow. When google comes out with a new product and it gets mentioned along with their name or when there is a blood drive and it says red cross on the sign are you against those plugs as well?
It is a luxury item. a $15/mo payment to the cable company for their DVR is more affordable *now* for the average household than a $900 Tivo purchase that will take 4.5 years to even out vs the rented one. I am not saying otherwise.
What would the cost end up being for that type of hardware? It would have be hugely undercut the existing services to find a niche. Tivo is ~$250. A lot of people will ignore the monthly fee when they purchase it, so this device needs to be less expensive than that.
The problem is that you can't cut the cost down much. There needs to be a way for the device to change channels for you (To record what you want like a VCR), so some type of interoperability with your current cable box is needed. IR remote plugged into the back of the device and controlling the TV.
Needs to be HDCP compatible (Otherwise you won't get a signal from your cable box).
I just can't see it. I think people who only want what you're looking for there are best off building something basic themselves. There isn't a huge market for dumb DVR's IMO. Of course 640k should be enough for anyone so what do I know?
My series 2 lasted 7 years of non-stop use for me, and is currently working at my brother's house since this last christmas. I upgraded because I wanted HD and multiple channel recording. As for disk failures, if you think it is easy to fix a PC then you can very likely fix a Tivo. If backing up your recordings is important you can do so to your PC (automatically too BTW). My series 2 had multiple disk failures. First one was 3 years in I was able to copy the data off it using the "freeze the drive" method and put in a 160GB drive. Shortly there after I upgraded with another 80GB drive I had sitting around. A couple years after that the 80GB started giving me problems, so I yanked it, copied the data to another 160 and it has been working fine since.
The series 3 has the same capabilities. If the drive goes I am confident I can replace it.
The Tivo HD XL supports any external USB 2.0 drive you want to install, so adding storage is a non-issue.
Better UI? I have yet to see a DVR with a better UI than Tivo.
Can the PS3 do the rest the Tivo can? Record TV, Season Passes, Suggestions, etc? You can point to things that do one thing the Tivo does well. But add all the features together and the Tivo is the best product.
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If this is what happens then you aren't doing it right. Common courtesy is very easy to distinguish from sarcasm or indifference. Make eye contact, smile, etc. It is worth it.
I'll be making lots of babies so that all your work towards spreading mankind instead of breeding ends up spreading MY genes instead of yours. Win-win.
Atlantis is the "Emergency Rescue" shuttle for the last 2 missions, so it is possible she could fly up and recover astronauts stranded due to tile damage in one of the last 2 missions.
And do you really think it is good practice to plug directly into the internet like you did or should you be behind a soho router like a cheapo $40 linksys? Something as simple as being behind a NAT router prevents what you are describing.
In my case I blame Stumbleupon. Found an article about it under Society -> Bizarre Oddities a few months back.
Ah, the old "rooting for inefficiency with my dollars" shtick. (The Amish should have patented that.)
I try very hard to not shop at Walmart either, but it isn't because of prices. I've found that buying clothes from walmart that they wear out much faster than buying from Kohls. I don't know if they use thinner threads or what, but I get holes in walmart clothes while they are still in relatively new condition.
As for Groceries, I could probably save a bit of money buying from walmart as opposed to Wegmans, but I have made a choice to vote with my wallet on business practices. Wegmans has been voted into the FORTUNE top 100 companies to work for every year from 1998-2010, with a first place posting in 2005 and 2010 was voted third. I am pretty sure most of those years were in the top10, but am not going to do the research.
Walmart on the other hand specifically hires part time workers and keeps their hours low so they do not have to provide benefits to them. Source.
The clip used is less than 4% of the total film. Well within fair use. Putting a joke subtitle under a similarly short IronMan clip is fair use as well.
Maintainer? More like a "It hasn't crashed? YAY!"-er. You've been getting warnings for a long time saying that the scanner was out of date and how can you justify running an out of date virus scanner and calling yourself a maintainer?
Climb over the guys hood. I HATE people who block crosswalks, and I never use crosswalks.
You originally couldn't think of one, he named twice the number you mentioned and that isn't enough? Sheesh, Take your handout and be happy.
I am not going to take sides here, but it is well known that Nervous Laughter helps people work through stress. These weren't belly laughs on this film, it came across to me as nervous laughter. I am certainly no expert though, having never been in the military nor in any situation anywhere near this.
What does Survival of the fittest care? I said it originally tongue in cheek, I think smoking is a horrid habit, never smoked but both my parents did (My father quit smoking a longass time ago when he went to buy a pack and they were 75 cents, pissed him off so he quit. My mother smoked up until 3-4 years ago when I put my foot down and didn't let my kids go into the house if people had been smoking inside it, she finally used that ultimatum to get herself to quit).
Yeah, maybe the kid *can't* move out, but that is the point of survival of the fittest. People live long lives so they can raise their children and grandchildren, they don't die immediately when they have offspring like some species.
I suppose my point is that while I was joking, it is still an example of survival of the fittest if the kid dies due to parental neglect. What matters in this instance is due to the weakness of the parent, their offspring doesn't survive. Mother Nature is a harsh mistress.
I bought $400 worth of essential goods (clothes) this weekend. I paid $432 for it because there is an 8% sales tax. Does that suddenly not count? Income tax != 100% of your tax burden.
How can a child with a smoker for a father not follow a fool?
How is this example *not* survival of the fittest?
That's easy, #0: Expect competent programmers.
And you never wondered why?
$200 quite a lot? My family of 4 coverage costs my employer $1100/mo. $254/week. My employer covers 100% of medical. If I didn't have a family I would most definitely NOT have insurance and instead opt for the pay raise. (I will admit that my daughter needed a lot of medical coverage in the first 2 years of her life, to the tune of just shy of $200,000 total, so I can't complain *that* much about premium costs. It was something that was *CURED* though, so her medical bills since then have been all preventative cheapo stuff.)
The north invaded our lands, killed many of our people, and destroyed most of our infrastructure. Who are they to judge us?
The victor.
If you like the idea, what is so bad about being told who came up with it? Yes, it is a plug for them. My sig is a plug for Gentoo. This sentence is a plug for Bachelor chow. When google comes out with a new product and it gets mentioned along with their name or when there is a blood drive and it says red cross on the sign are you against those plugs as well?
It is a luxury item. a $15/mo payment to the cable company for their DVR is more affordable *now* for the average household than a $900 Tivo purchase that will take 4.5 years to even out vs the rented one. I am not saying otherwise.
What would the cost end up being for that type of hardware? It would have be hugely undercut the existing services to find a niche. Tivo is ~$250. A lot of people will ignore the monthly fee when they purchase it, so this device needs to be less expensive than that.
The problem is that you can't cut the cost down much. There needs to be a way for the device to change channels for you (To record what you want like a VCR), so some type of interoperability with your current cable box is needed. IR remote plugged into the back of the device and controlling the TV.
Needs to be HDCP compatible (Otherwise you won't get a signal from your cable box).
I just can't see it. I think people who only want what you're looking for there are best off building something basic themselves. There isn't a huge market for dumb DVR's IMO. Of course 640k should be enough for anyone so what do I know?
My series 2 lasted 7 years of non-stop use for me, and is currently working at my brother's house since this last christmas. I upgraded because I wanted HD and multiple channel recording. As for disk failures, if you think it is easy to fix a PC then you can very likely fix a Tivo. If backing up your recordings is important you can do so to your PC (automatically too BTW). My series 2 had multiple disk failures. First one was 3 years in I was able to copy the data off it using the "freeze the drive" method and put in a 160GB drive. Shortly there after I upgraded with another 80GB drive I had sitting around. A couple years after that the 80GB started giving me problems, so I yanked it, copied the data to another 160 and it has been working fine since.
The series 3 has the same capabilities. If the drive goes I am confident I can replace it.
The Tivo HD XL supports any external USB 2.0 drive you want to install, so adding storage is a non-issue.
Better UI? I have yet to see a DVR with a better UI than Tivo.
Cheaper to rent for first 4.5 years, then just gets more and more expensive. Don't know about you but I plan on having a TV still in 4.5 years.
I am confident that pure on demand content is more than the 5 years out it'll take for my Tivo to "pay for itself".
Can the PS3 do the rest the Tivo can? Record TV, Season Passes, Suggestions, etc? You can point to things that do one thing the Tivo does well. But add all the features together and the Tivo is the best product.