Because in English we have 3 options for sex, male, female, and unspecified. It's not like Spanish where everything takes on a gender. A company is obviously neither male, nor female, so you refer to it as "it".
I would have to agree with you on this one. Even if the router were only serving a 1.5Mbit T1, that's still 1.5 million bits per second. I have a hard time believing that an LED can blink fast enough to reliably recreate that data.
Oh, I see... so if something might have an illegal use, it should be banned [slashdot.org], right?
That's an extreme case. I should have worded my first post differently. 2.5xtreme is used almost exclusively to steal service. I don't think it should be banned, but there's no denying it has very few uses that are legitimate.
If you've ever used a DirecTV system, you would realize that DTV provides about two weeks of guide data no matter what receiver you use. Meaning that Tivo's "service" gives you... surprise! nothing you're not already paying for.
TiVo takes the guide data and indexes it into a format that allows for you to find and record shows quickly and easily. It allows you to tell TiVo to record 24 on Fox every week, and it does it. The guide data comes from DirecTV, but the massive sorting and indexing is done by TiVo. This is what you pay for. To use TiVo, you are required to have a subcription, bar none. If you are using the service without paying for it, you are stealing.
It is true that xtreme does not, in and of itself, steal DirecTV. However, if someone where trying to steal DirecTV on a DirecTiVo, it is a component, since it allows the daily calls to be disabled.
Neither unit forces you to pay for service (with the Tivo, just load 2.5xtreme and turn on "SubTest"). However, the Replay units are sold at a significant markup and the Tivo units are sold below cost. I'm no market analysist, but three guesses which one is better for consumers?
This is innaccurate. In fact, if you follow the instructions above, you are stealing TiVo service. TiVo requires a subscription, either 9.95/monthly or 249/product lifetime. The sole purpose of 2.5xtreme (this has been debated, but no one is going to change my mine) is to facilitate the theft of TiVo service and of DirecTV.
Shit, as soon as people gotta start worrying about additional fees, they'll dump that service. People want to know how much they're going to pay.
Good, let them. That means more bandwidth for me. We need to get some of these 14-year-olds that just use their broadband connection as a constant music-stealing pipe to get back on dialup.
Actually, if anything else, this would skewer the results away from the ads. People who own TiVo don't waste our time watching commercials. I wanted to watch the ads, but many times had to back up because I reflexively hit the skip button as soon as the break started.
The simple fact is, if you are that paranoid, you can opt out of it. It has been verified from various third parties that once you have expressed that you do not want your data to be collected, the TiVo does not upload it. I see no reason to get up in arms about this.
I'll agree to that. MSI is actually quite cool. Especially if you can manage a fully AD/Win2000 environment. MSI has very nice tools for deploying software to users/computers with group policy.
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Here's a CNET review that explains it pretty well.
I'm sure TIVO wishes they could get the hardware price down as well, but I don't think they have quite enough volume yet to convince those HW manufacturers to take a smaller profit margin.
TiVo is in the hardware business in about the same way as nVidia is in the hardware business. TiVo creates the reference designs and the software, then contracts the work out to 3rd parties. TiVo even grants subsidies to its hardware manufacturers to keep the price of the units as low as they are. TiVo actually loses money on the sale of its PVRs, expecting to recoup the losses in subscriptions.
TiVo has introduced a new form factor with the DirecTiVos and the new AT&TiVo box that is being sold through AT&T Broadband. This new form factor is much cheaper to produce. Consequently, you can find DirecTiVos for under $100, sometimes less than $50. The AT&TiVo box is still around $300 for a 40-hour, but this is still quite a bit cheaper than what you would pay for a 40-hour standalone under the old form factor. The new box also has USB ports, so future networking upgrades are a (although somewhat distant) possibility.
Give it up already. People have to pay the bills. Bandwidth isn't free you know. Sheesh people. Just because you don't pay for it, doesn't mean nobody else has to.
TiVo has already been granted several patents. I don't know exactly what they entail, but it is entirely possible that Replay's patents detail a different type of PVR than TiVo uses. The systems have a similar application, but are vastly different in their implementation. My understanding of patents is that the way you do something can be just as patentable as the application itself, so the two may not even be related.
This isn't my usual style of game, but man, is it addictive. A definite must-buy... especially if you have a GameCube.
Agreed. I was a huge fan of the orriginal, and just picked up Tricky a few days ago. Man, this game is awesome. Even though only two of the tracks are completely new, the old tracks are so drastically different, you'll barely recognize them. Snowdream in paticular doesn't look a thing like it did in the first game. The new characters rock, the soundtrack is better than ever, the graphics have been slicked up a notch, and the game is even more addictive than its predecessor. Another cool thing EA did was include a "DVD Extras" portion on the disc, which is basically a collection of making-of documentaries like you would expect to see on a movie DVD. Overall, the game is incredible. Go buy it, now.
I'm playing the PS2 version though, according to IGNCube's review the Cube version has some graphical and control issues. You might want to pick it up for the PS2 if you have the choice between platforms.
Well, not exactly. But if you are installing this in cubes at an office, I can see that happening qutie a bit.
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I feel that the SNES was the peak of console gaming. The visuals and audio were such a huge step ahead of everything out there (Genesis included) it blew me away. And the games were revolutionary. To this day I love to play games like Super Metroid, A Link to the Past, and Donkey Kong Country. After the SNES, it has all gone downhill IMO.
I don't see how this is news worthy. Sure, RR hasn't trained their staff yet, so they don't support it. It's new software, these things take time. Why this warrants a story I do not understand.
I've had a Linux router working on my RR connection for months, and one of my machines is running XP RC2. As long as you can get an IP from DHCP and pass IP packets to a gateway, there's nothing else to support.
It works, but just not very intuitively. You have to highlight the icon first, then Shift-Right click. I've seen this a lot before, but cannot accurately recreate under what situations you have to highlight the icon first then Shift/Right click. Using 2k SP2 it works fine without highlighting, but I've seen it not work on several occasions on various different versions of the Windows GUI.
Mine were both OEM, only a static bag, no padding otherwise when I received them, so I'm wondering if shipping is doing something nasty to the drives, or if some other problem NOT related to the manufacturing is the cause.
We've been having these same discussions on the TiVo Forum about Maxtor 80 and 100GB drives. We seem to be getting a lot of Maxtors that are DOA or die shortly. Personally, I've had 2 go out on me in 3 months. Your point about packaging may very well be valid though. Both of mine that died were from cut-rate Pricewatch vendors who just shipped the drives in a static page and packing peanuts. Considering the amount of media attention that has been cited, it looks like there may be something going on with the IBM drives. Packing and shipping certainly could be playing a part.
Heat can be another issue as well. 7200 RPM drives put out a LOT of heat. If your case isn't properly ventillated, that could conceivably cause a failure.
Absolutely. Trackman Marbles are awesome. For gaming, I liked the non-wheel variety better since the middle button is easier to press. I only game about 20% of the time though, so I wouldn't give up my wheel for scrolling in other apps.
FWIW, LanParty.com has had a hosting guide up for something like 3 or 4 years. It is a bit dated, but the info is still good.
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Because in English we have 3 options for sex, male, female, and unspecified. It's not like Spanish where everything takes on a gender. A company is obviously neither male, nor female, so you refer to it as "it".
Actually, I'm sorry, I screwed up. There IS a Real/TiVo deal, with the Series2, I was reading too quickly and for some reason read Replay.
TiVo and Real have announced a partnership similar to the one that Moxi has (had). You'll see that on TiVo in the future, too!
Unless he's joking, this guy doesn't know what he's talking about. No such deal between Real and TiVo exists.
Exactly, someone mod this up.
I would have to agree with you on this one. Even if the router were only serving a 1.5Mbit T1, that's still 1.5 million bits per second. I have a hard time believing that an LED can blink fast enough to reliably recreate that data.
Oh, I see... so if something might have an illegal use, it should be banned [slashdot.org], right?
That's an extreme case. I should have worded my first post differently. 2.5xtreme is used almost exclusively to steal service. I don't think it should be banned, but there's no denying it has very few uses that are legitimate.
If you've ever used a DirecTV system, you would realize that DTV provides about two weeks of guide data no matter what receiver you use. Meaning that Tivo's "service" gives you ... surprise! nothing you're not already paying for.
TiVo takes the guide data and indexes it into a format that allows for you to find and record shows quickly and easily. It allows you to tell TiVo to record 24 on Fox every week, and it does it. The guide data comes from DirecTV, but the massive sorting and indexing is done by TiVo. This is what you pay for. To use TiVo, you are required to have a subcription, bar none. If you are using the service without paying for it, you are stealing.
It is true that xtreme does not, in and of itself, steal DirecTV. However, if someone where trying to steal DirecTV on a DirecTiVo, it is a component, since it allows the daily calls to be disabled.
Neither unit forces you to pay for service (with the Tivo, just load 2.5xtreme and turn on "SubTest"). However, the Replay units are sold at a significant markup and the Tivo units are sold below cost. I'm no market analysist, but three guesses which one is better for consumers?
This is innaccurate. In fact, if you follow the instructions above, you are stealing TiVo service. TiVo requires a subscription, either 9.95/monthly or 249/product lifetime. The sole purpose of 2.5xtreme (this has been debated, but no one is going to change my mine) is to facilitate the theft of TiVo service and of DirecTV.
Shit, as soon as people gotta start worrying about additional fees, they'll dump that service. People want to know how much they're going to pay.
Good, let them. That means more bandwidth for me. We need to get some of these 14-year-olds that just use their broadband connection as a constant music-stealing pipe to get back on dialup.
Actually, if anything else, this would skewer the results away from the ads. People who own TiVo don't waste our time watching commercials. I wanted to watch the ads, but many times had to back up because I reflexively hit the skip button as soon as the break started.
The simple fact is, if you are that paranoid, you can opt out of it. It has been verified from various third parties that once you have expressed that you do not want your data to be collected, the TiVo does not upload it. I see no reason to get up in arms about this.
I'll agree to that. MSI is actually quite cool. Especially if you can manage a fully AD/Win2000 environment. MSI has very nice tools for deploying software to users/computers with group policy.
Here's a CNET review that explains it pretty well.
- I'm sure TIVO wishes they could get the hardware price down as well, but I don't think they have quite enough volume yet to convince those HW manufacturers to take a smaller profit margin.
TiVo is in the hardware business in about the same way as nVidia is in the hardware business. TiVo creates the reference designs and the software, then contracts the work out to 3rd parties. TiVo even grants subsidies to its hardware manufacturers to keep the price of the units as low as they are. TiVo actually loses money on the sale of its PVRs, expecting to recoup the losses in subscriptions.TiVo has introduced a new form factor with the DirecTiVos and the new AT&TiVo box that is being sold through AT&T Broadband. This new form factor is much cheaper to produce. Consequently, you can find DirecTiVos for under $100, sometimes less than $50. The AT&TiVo box is still around $300 for a 40-hour, but this is still quite a bit cheaper than what you would pay for a 40-hour standalone under the old form factor. The new box also has USB ports, so future networking upgrades are a (although somewhat distant) possibility.
Yeah, except they must have used the cheapest floppies they could get their hands on. Those things were going bad constantly.
Give it up already. People have to pay the bills. Bandwidth isn't free you know. Sheesh people. Just because you don't pay for it, doesn't mean nobody else has to.
TiVo has already been granted several patents. I don't know exactly what they entail, but it is entirely possible that Replay's patents detail a different type of PVR than TiVo uses. The systems have a similar application, but are vastly different in their implementation. My understanding of patents is that the way you do something can be just as patentable as the application itself, so the two may not even be related.
This isn't my usual style of game, but man, is it addictive. A definite must-buy... especially if you have a GameCube.
Agreed. I was a huge fan of the orriginal, and just picked up Tricky a few days ago. Man, this game is awesome. Even though only two of the tracks are completely new, the old tracks are so drastically different, you'll barely recognize them. Snowdream in paticular doesn't look a thing like it did in the first game. The new characters rock, the soundtrack is better than ever, the graphics have been slicked up a notch, and the game is even more addictive than its predecessor. Another cool thing EA did was include a "DVD Extras" portion on the disc, which is basically a collection of making-of documentaries like you would expect to see on a movie DVD. Overall, the game is incredible. Go buy it, now.
I'm playing the PS2 version though, according to IGNCube's review the Cube version has some graphical and control issues. You might want to pick it up for the PS2 if you have the choice between platforms.
Well, not exactly. But if you are installing this in cubes at an office, I can see that happening qutie a bit.
I feel that the SNES was the peak of console gaming. The visuals and audio were such a huge step ahead of everything out there (Genesis included) it blew me away. And the games were revolutionary. To this day I love to play games like Super Metroid, A Link to the Past, and Donkey Kong Country. After the SNES, it has all gone downhill IMO.
I don't see how this is news worthy. Sure, RR hasn't trained their staff yet, so they don't support it. It's new software, these things take time. Why this warrants a story I do not understand.
I've had a Linux router working on my RR connection for months, and one of my machines is running XP RC2. As long as you can get an IP from DHCP and pass IP packets to a gateway, there's nothing else to support.
It works, but just not very intuitively. You have to highlight the icon first, then Shift-Right click. I've seen this a lot before, but cannot accurately recreate under what situations you have to highlight the icon first then Shift/Right click. Using 2k SP2 it works fine without highlighting, but I've seen it not work on several occasions on various different versions of the Windows GUI.
Mine were both OEM, only a static bag, no padding otherwise when I received them, so I'm wondering if shipping is doing something nasty to the drives, or if some other problem NOT related to the manufacturing is the cause.
We've been having these same discussions on the TiVo Forum about Maxtor 80 and 100GB drives. We seem to be getting a lot of Maxtors that are DOA or die shortly. Personally, I've had 2 go out on me in 3 months. Your point about packaging may very well be valid though. Both of mine that died were from cut-rate Pricewatch vendors who just shipped the drives in a static page and packing peanuts. Considering the amount of media attention that has been cited, it looks like there may be something going on with the IBM drives. Packing and shipping certainly could be playing a part.
Heat can be another issue as well. 7200 RPM drives put out a LOT of heat. If your case isn't properly ventillated, that could conceivably cause a failure.
In this case, it is both. Methane, a gas, is being used as a fuel.
Actually, from a technical standpoint, the methane being used in this application is not a gas. It has been compressed into liquid form.
Absolutely. Trackman Marbles are awesome. For gaming, I liked the non-wheel variety better since the middle button is easier to press. I only game about 20% of the time though, so I wouldn't give up my wheel for scrolling in other apps.
FWIW, LanParty.com has had a hosting guide up for something like 3 or 4 years. It is a bit dated, but the info is still good.