I don't know what you're talking about. PVRs haven't been on the market here for a good, oh maybe five years. I had them all, from the first generation that recorded onto DVD-RWs, then some HDD models, and then you couldn't buy them anymore. I looked into building my own, but the tuner cards will not work the encrypted feeds. Hell, I can't even get the audio channels on my TV and it's got the tuner to handle it.
I might be able to order something online, but who knows if it would work?
It's the Cabco box or nothing. That's literally it, and I mean literally in the proper English (not Internet English) use of the term.
You have to, without question, use the cable company's box. No other box will work. Let's put aside the question of cost, and further, let's assume that it costs me $0 for cable service including the box.
The DVR that my provider game me would start and stop at a few minutes before or after a show. It couldn't be predicted, but about 10% of the time I'd miss the start or the end of the show.
Sometimes I wouldn't get any sound on the recording. That was about once a week. It's tricky at best to watch a show without sound.
Other times the recording would be pixelated. Sometimes it was for a second, sometimes it was for a few minutes. Not really a deal-killer.
About once every couple of months the DVR would erase every recording I'd ever made. So if I hadn't had a chance to watch a show, I could never watch it.
It was pretty bad and the cable company gave me a $100 a month credit for a year to compensate me for their crappy system. Now let's get rid of that cost assumption -- it wasn't $0, it is close to $100 a month to get a box that doesn't record and an encrypted feed that gives up. I'd guess that about 25%-35% of the time the show was unwatchably corrupted or just gone. (There were no problems watching a show "live", just when recording.)
Which meant I had to rent the shows... ooh, wait, there's no rental place that has them. Okay, I can buy the DVD... oh, it won't be out for a year and I'd have to buy the whole season for $150... Does the library have a copy to loan me? No.
There is one alternative...
I've never had a problem when renting from the famous Swedish library. Never once have I had a bad video, missing audio, or anything else. What you have is a free system that provides error-free and convenient watching of shows. The other option is expensive, error-ridden, and a pain in the ass.
I'd suggest that their equivalent of a Prime Directive is to treat new species as they themselves would want to be treated.
Since we don't help out all the starving people, all the people in jail for religious or political reasons, since we're willing to let people die...... they'll just sit and watch us die. I'm sure there are some whose heart (or equivalent thereof) breaks at it, but that's how we treat ourselves, so that's how they treat us.
Let's say your fridge can figure out what you like to eat, how much is in stock, and when and where the stuff is on sale.
"Good morning. There are two english muffins left. Peanut butter is on sale. I have compiled a list of groceries. Please say 'yes' to have them delivered tomorrow morning."
You think the US is bad? Canada is worse, although our CR law is somewhat saner.
Netflix has about 1/10th the stuff you guys get in the States because the 2 content owners also own the telcos, so they surprisingly don't want to sell the IP to Netflix.
Vudu won't play in Canada. Neither will Amazon Instant. We don't have Redbox. We can get some movies from the library though.
Honestly, if they'd set up for-pay streaming / downloading music for money back in 1999, I doubt I've have ever pirated any movies or music. I used to buy a lot of CDs, sometimes stuff just to see what it sounded like.
It's still easier to pirate in some countries (e.g. Canada) than just buy stuff. I've started buying more movies now because my home theater shows the limits of the ripped movies (mostly sound, there's not much ranger in the ripped versions)
And most (90%) of my music is legit indie rock lists.
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Actually, I have an HDMI port built into the wall so it connects to my home theatre and through that to my TV.
It's just that the BR player and the Media Box both have remotes so it's easier to use a thumb drive and then be able to pause with the one remote.
The remote also controls the lights in the living room.
I don't know what you're talking about. PVRs haven't been on the market here for a good, oh maybe five years. I had them all, from the first generation that recorded onto DVD-RWs, then some HDD models, and then you couldn't buy them anymore. I looked into building my own, but the tuner cards will not work the encrypted feeds. Hell, I can't even get the audio channels on my TV and it's got the tuner to handle it.
I might be able to order something online, but who knows if it would work?
It's the Cabco box or nothing. That's literally it, and I mean literally in the proper English (not Internet English) use of the term.
Burned DVD? My BR player plays MKV from a thumbdrive. ;)
I used to record shows... or try to.
You have to, without question, use the cable company's box. No other box will work. Let's put aside the question of cost, and further, let's assume that it costs me $0 for cable service including the box.
The DVR that my provider game me would start and stop at a few minutes before or after a show. It couldn't be predicted, but about 10% of the time I'd miss the start or the end of the show.
Sometimes I wouldn't get any sound on the recording. That was about once a week. It's tricky at best to watch a show without sound.
Other times the recording would be pixelated. Sometimes it was for a second, sometimes it was for a few minutes. Not really a deal-killer.
About once every couple of months the DVR would erase every recording I'd ever made. So if I hadn't had a chance to watch a show, I could never watch it.
It was pretty bad and the cable company gave me a $100 a month credit for a year to compensate me for their crappy system. Now let's get rid of that cost assumption -- it wasn't $0, it is close to $100 a month to get a box that doesn't record and an encrypted feed that gives up. I'd guess that about 25%-35% of the time the show was unwatchably corrupted or just gone. (There were no problems watching a show "live", just when recording.)
Which meant I had to rent the shows... ooh, wait, there's no rental place that has them.
Okay, I can buy the DVD... oh, it won't be out for a year and I'd have to buy the whole season for $150...
Does the library have a copy to loan me? No.
There is one alternative...
I've never had a problem when renting from the famous Swedish library. Never once have I had a bad video, missing audio, or anything else. What you have is a free system that provides error-free and convenient watching of shows. The other option is expensive, error-ridden, and a pain in the ass.
Why not just use your root access and write a program that puts a different value on the accelerometers?
Let's see if someone can hit the Apollo 11 landing site.
How do you think I feel?
I work for an engineering company and we've got Xerox workstations, so this basically has "long day" written all over it.
It would be great if they had a few test sheets we could run.
I don't take electronics into the bathroom at all.
*ploop*
That's the sound of having to get a new phone.
I've been shaving since 2004. Can't change my handle.
I'm pretty sure I'm a dude.
Electric razors give me a rash. I can only shave every two days as it is.
My outlets at home provide all the current my device could hope for.
I'd suggest that their equivalent of a Prime Directive is to treat new species as they themselves would want to be treated.
Since we don't help out all the starving people, all the people in jail for religious or political reasons, since we're willing to let people die... ... they'll just sit and watch us die. I'm sure there are some whose heart (or equivalent thereof) breaks at it, but that's how we treat ourselves, so that's how they treat us.
Just check it before you sit down.
I check every time and I have never been caught wanting paper in my life.
Let's say your fridge can figure out what you like to eat, how much is in stock, and when and where the stuff is on sale.
"Good morning. There are two english muffins left. Peanut butter is on sale. I have compiled a list of groceries. Please say 'yes' to have them delivered tomorrow morning."
My takeaway from this means that they can isolate each of the responsible mutations. This is a tenfold increase in precision, is it not?
And when think about it, a guy who knows lots of stuff about the way the NSA spies on its citizens would be pretty useful to the PRC.
Everyone will win, except a few senators who'll end up with egg on their faces.
Nah, missiles are millions of bucks each.
"We don't have drones, and we certainly don't have drones that can fire weaponry."
Seems legit.
My cardiologist told me to add a little salt to my diet.
Hmm, maybe that would work as a parole condition. You'd have to get a distinct colour for your car from then on.
Oh wait, kidnapping is almost always a relative. Never mind, I guess it wouldn't work.
Then filter out any email with the word "unsubscribe" and whitelist the stuff you do want.
In real life, you still have to take out the garbage and recycling.
Diebold.
You think the US is bad? Canada is worse, although our CR law is somewhat saner.
Netflix has about 1/10th the stuff you guys get in the States because the 2 content owners also own the telcos, so they surprisingly don't want to sell the IP to Netflix.
Vudu won't play in Canada. Neither will Amazon Instant. We don't have Redbox. We can get some movies from the library though.
Honestly, if they'd set up for-pay streaming / downloading music for money back in 1999, I doubt I've have ever pirated any movies or music. I used to buy a lot of CDs, sometimes stuff just to see what it sounded like.
It's still easier to pirate in some countries (e.g. Canada) than just buy stuff. I've started buying more movies now because my home theater shows the limits of the ripped movies (mostly sound, there's not much ranger in the ripped versions)
And most (90%) of my music is legit indie rock lists.
Assuming Florida applies their ingenious law in a race-neutral manner, of course -- hahahaha.
Oh, totally:
Mom sentences to 20 years for firing warning shots at abusive ex who was violating a peace bond.
Huh, I guess Florida just plain doesn't like black people.
Shh, he's on a roll.