Tivo can handle basic cable automatically just shove the wire into the back of the box. But if you have digitial cable, you still need the tuner.
However it isnt a PITA, because tivo can control the cable box automatically, so it can change the channel on demand. Thus you can record a show at 7 on channel 1, and 7:30 on channel 2 with no user intervention.
I have used both. Ultimate TV has the nice feature of being able to record two shows at once. And I like the grid style tv guide better. But Tivo is GREAT with suggestions, and the season pass manager is the best of all of the PVRs out there. Letting you set up conflicting season passes makes life WAY easier to get the shows you always want, and fill in the gaps with other shows.
If tivo added a second tuner, it would rock my world.
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I'm totally not saying that KDE isnt a good thing, and an amazing acomplishment. But you can't compare the groundbreaker to the follower in terms of time. Now, if KDE surpasses the alternatives (and some of you may argue that, with some validity!) then the tables get turned entirely.
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Windows 2005 perhaps? (Just a guess)
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A) There are way less users of KDE than of windows
B) Users of KDE tend to be the admins of their own machine C) Installs of KDE tend to be highly isolated compared to the mass installs you will find of windows at a corporation
Anyone who does custom work on their own (especially when there is OSD dogma pushing them forward) will of course upgrade as soon as possible. Corporations always move slower.
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This is a really unfair comparison. Windows made the trek first (ok, so they stole everything from Mac and Xerox). KDE is reimplementing ideas which already were hashed out. They never had to try out the stupid designs, because other people had already tried the stupid designs and failed. This is not to say that KDE isnt a great acomplishment. But you can't say that KDE moved this fast solely because it was OSD. It got to ride on the bootstraps of everyone who came before.
Lawrence berkely labs uses unix extensively for simulation. Particle accelerator simulation and weather simulation are huge there. Its running on a nice speedy cray. No Linux tho:)
Just because the ad gets downloaded, does not mean the ad gets displayed. That is what the advertisers care about.
Also, AOL wouldn't let a rougue client get used, as it could potentially cause problems on the systems performance wise. Additionally it would contribute to the dilution of AOL's brand and potentially their image (if the alternate clients suck)
The reason they won't let this slide : not all of AOL's revenue comes from subscription. They have lots of ads. And alternate clients could nix the ads, hence no ad revenue.
Nor for that matter does any website not published FROM australia. When Joe Kangaroo gets his info from the DJ website, he takes a trip to america, picks up the site, and goes back. By the logic used in this case, somebody vacationing in the US from down under, could buy a paper in the US, take it home, read it, and sue under libel.
In actuality the guy should sue himself, for importing libellous materials.
I use my Ipaq with my Samsung phone from sprint all the time. I got the nice data cable from sprint, and the activesync serial cable from Compaq. Plug the two cables together, and shove it into the ipaq and phone. No drivers etc. required, just type in the phone number for my ISP (and sprint is its own ISP if you have wireless web service) and you are on your way.
Only downside is that the cables are kinda lng, I wrapped up all up and tied em together to make it short. I may chop em up and splice them together to make it shorter as well.
Additional downside : Sprint only offers modem service at 14.4k at the moment. This is a limitation of their infrastructure, not the phone, and not the iPaq
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Tivo can handle basic cable automatically just shove the wire into the back of the box. But if you have digitial cable, you still need the tuner.
However it isnt a PITA, because tivo can control the cable box automatically, so it can change the channel on demand. Thus you can record a show at 7 on channel 1, and 7:30 on channel 2 with no user intervention.
Only for sattelite peeps tho (Which is true for ultimate TV as well.)
Someone needs to make a dual cable tuner PVR.
I have used both. Ultimate TV has the nice feature of being able to record two shows at once. And I like the grid style tv guide better. But Tivo is GREAT with suggestions, and the season pass manager is the best of all of the PVRs out there. Letting you set up conflicting season passes makes life WAY easier to get the shows you always want, and fill in the gaps with other shows.
If tivo added a second tuner, it would rock my world.
I'm totally not saying that KDE isnt a good thing, and an amazing acomplishment. But you can't compare the groundbreaker to the follower in terms of time. Now, if KDE surpasses the alternatives (and some of you may argue that, with some validity!) then the tables get turned entirely.
Windows 2005 perhaps? (Just a guess)
A) There are way less users of KDE than of windows
B) Users of KDE tend to be the admins of their own machine
C) Installs of KDE tend to be highly isolated compared to the mass installs you will find of windows at a corporation
Anyone who does custom work on their own (especially when there is OSD dogma pushing them forward) will of course upgrade as soon as possible. Corporations always move slower.
This is a really unfair comparison. Windows made the trek first (ok, so they stole everything from Mac and Xerox). KDE is reimplementing ideas which already were hashed out. They never had to try out the stupid designs, because other people had already tried the stupid designs and failed. This is not to say that KDE isnt a great acomplishment. But you can't say that KDE moved this fast solely because it was OSD. It got to ride on the bootstraps of everyone who came before.
Lawrence berkely labs uses unix extensively for simulation. Particle accelerator simulation and weather simulation are huge there. Its running on a nice speedy cray. No Linux tho :)
Just because the ad gets downloaded, does not mean the ad gets displayed. That is what the advertisers care about.
Also, AOL wouldn't let a rougue client get used, as it could potentially cause problems on the systems performance wise. Additionally it would contribute to the dilution of AOL's brand and potentially their image (if the alternate clients suck)
The reason they won't let this slide : not all of AOL's revenue comes from subscription. They have lots of ads. And alternate clients could nix the ads, hence no ad revenue.
Nor for that matter does any website not published FROM australia. When Joe Kangaroo gets his info from the DJ website, he takes a trip to america, picks up the site, and goes back. By the logic used in this case, somebody vacationing in the US from down under, could buy a paper in the US, take it home, read it, and sue under libel.
In actuality the guy should sue himself, for importing libellous materials.
Maybe YOU have -10 IQ DUE to your total lack of education, and generally small brain pan.
I use my Ipaq with my Samsung phone from sprint all the time. I got the nice data cable from sprint, and the activesync serial cable from Compaq. Plug the two cables together, and shove it into the ipaq and phone. No drivers etc. required, just type in the phone number for my ISP (and sprint is its own ISP if you have wireless web service) and you are on your way.
Only downside is that the cables are kinda lng, I wrapped up all up and tied em together to make it short. I may chop em up and splice them together to make it shorter as well.
Additional downside : Sprint only offers modem service at 14.4k at the moment. This is a limitation of their infrastructure, not the phone, and not the iPaq