I guess you weren't on the east coast of the US during the blackout last August. Most cell phones didn't work - probably due to overload. But POTS worked (at least in NJ), but not if you had only cordless phones. God help anyone who had an actual emergency during the blackout.
Call me confused. I thought Donner Party was a reference to the group of mormons settlers who died in a freeze in the 1800's. I don't think it was a reference to Jeffrey Dahmer, the cannibal serial killer.
Have you tried DVD2PPC (handango.com)? It does exactly that to be run on your pocketPC. I imagine it wouldn't be hard to do this for this device either. I don't recall anyone saying that the video format was proprietary either.
I'm soon to turn 35, I had a bunch of the Lego "Expert Builder" sets when I was about 10 or 11. The auto chassis set that I had was a front-engine, rear-wheel drive car with a two-speed transmission. I believe the part number was 956 - back when the sets only had 3 digits. Also had a farm tractor, sky copter, bulldozer, fork lift and a bunch of the space sets. Still have most of the pieces in a suitcase upstairs, including some lights that I bought on a family trip to Europe. I wish I still had the instruction manuals and the "idea books" that they published. I, too, was completely put off by over-specialization of pieces. I think they jumped the shark with the planetary gear differential. But you gotta admit, making a working rack&pinion steering set with those spinner 4x4 plates was kinda cheesy. Good luck to Lego on the retro move. I hope it saves their bacon - I can't imagine a world for my kids without Lego.
Older (and now the really new) ReplayTVs have automatic commercial skip. The technology detects the brief black screen before and after the commercial breaks and skips over them automatically. For me, it works most of the time. The times it doesn't is typically during shows with a lot of black gaps like 24 and Law & Order.
Just because it's listed in a circular doesn't mean that there's any sale price. We are just conditioned to believe that. I haven't seen ipods for anything less than MSRP at any B&M either, probably due to the demand being so high.
Only Discovery and Endeavour had the gear required for connection to the ISS. Columbia did not in order to keep its cargo bay large enough for bigger payloads. A mission to try to get all 7 astronauts to the ISS could have been more dangerous than risking the landing. Keep in mind, nobody new beforehand that the astronauts were gonna die so it would have been a matter of weighing risks. The choice would have been taking a known high risk or an unknown risk.
Look, time is just another dimension. There are more than three spatial dimensions, and don't tell me there aren't just because your brain can't picture it. Yes, we live in a 3-D universe but that doesn't mean that there aren't other spatial dimensions out there.
The ReplayTV series was purchased by Denon & Marantz (makers of higher-end A/V receivers), a company with greater resources that SonicBlue ever had. So really they are better off now than they were before. Buy with confidence.
If you're no longer worried about the bankruptcy thing, then why not still consider a replaytv? Because they might, in the future, remove a feature that Tivo doesn't even have today? If you have a broadband ethernet connection, then you can get a Replay. No warranty-voiding hacks required (as it would be for a series 1 Tivo).
I read somewhere that WorstBuy is dropping the whole vprMatrix line. Probably explains why I was able to get the 17" LCD monitor for $300 after rebate. I've been trying to buy another LCD for the past two months and can't find them. In fact, the store doesn't seem to have much vprMatrix stuff at all.
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I guess you weren't on the east coast of the US during the blackout last August. Most cell phones didn't work - probably due to overload. But POTS worked (at least in NJ), but not if you had only cordless phones. God help anyone who had an actual emergency during the blackout.
This may not apply to the slashdot crowd, but if you want to see all the NFL games, only DirecTV has NFL Sunday Ticket.
Call me confused. I thought Donner Party was a reference to the group of mormons settlers who died in a freeze in the 1800's. I don't think it was a reference to Jeffrey Dahmer, the cannibal serial killer.
Gilligan was Bob Denver. Denver Pyle was the guy on The Dukes of Hazzard who played Uncle Jessie.
Have you tried DVD2PPC (handango.com)? It does exactly that to be run on your pocketPC. I imagine it wouldn't be hard to do this for this device either. I don't recall anyone saying that the video format was proprietary either.
RTFSS. It was originally designed to have the roto engine, but technical problems forced them to use a conventional engine.
Am I the only one who had to re-read this several times to figure out a non-sexual meaning?
I'm soon to turn 35, I had a bunch of the Lego "Expert Builder" sets when I was about 10 or 11. The auto chassis set that I had was a front-engine, rear-wheel drive car with a two-speed transmission. I believe the part number was 956 - back when the sets only had 3 digits. Also had a farm tractor, sky copter, bulldozer, fork lift and a bunch of the space sets. Still have most of the pieces in a suitcase upstairs, including some lights that I bought on a family trip to Europe. I wish I still had the instruction manuals and the "idea books" that they published. I, too, was completely put off by over-specialization of pieces. I think they jumped the shark with the planetary gear differential. But you gotta admit, making a working rack&pinion steering set with those spinner 4x4 plates was kinda cheesy. Good luck to Lego on the retro move. I hope it saves their bacon - I can't imagine a world for my kids without Lego.
Older (and now the really new) ReplayTVs have automatic commercial skip. The technology detects the brief black screen before and after the commercial breaks and skips over them automatically.
For me, it works most of the time. The times it doesn't is typically during shows with a lot of black gaps like 24 and Law & Order.
Are these things passe now? Useful or not, I think they're cool.
They became doubly cool after President Bush face-planted on one.
Just because it's listed in a circular doesn't mean that there's any sale price. We are just conditioned to believe that.
I haven't seen ipods for anything less than MSRP at any B&M either, probably due to the demand being so high.
Only Discovery and Endeavour had the gear required for connection to the ISS. Columbia did not in order to keep its cargo bay large enough for bigger payloads. A mission to try to get all 7 astronauts to the ISS could have been more dangerous than risking the landing. Keep in mind, nobody new beforehand that the astronauts were gonna die so it would have been a matter of weighing risks. The choice would have been taking a known high risk or an unknown risk.
Look, time is just another dimension. There are more than three spatial dimensions, and don't tell me there aren't just because your brain can't picture it. Yes, we live in a 3-D universe but that doesn't mean that there aren't other spatial dimensions out there.
The ReplayTV series was purchased by Denon & Marantz (makers of higher-end A/V receivers), a company with greater resources that SonicBlue ever had. So really they are better off now than they were before. Buy with confidence.
If you're no longer worried about the bankruptcy thing, then why not still consider a replaytv? Because they might, in the future, remove a feature that Tivo doesn't even have today? If you have a broadband ethernet connection, then you can get a Replay. No warranty-voiding hacks required (as it would be for a series 1 Tivo).
I read somewhere that WorstBuy is dropping the whole vprMatrix line. Probably explains why I was able to get the 17" LCD monitor for $300 after rebate. I've been trying to buy another LCD for the past two months and can't find them. In fact, the store doesn't seem to have much vprMatrix stuff at all.
Can't let a little thing like the truth get in the way of your Linux/Tivo/Anti-MS crusade. There is nothing Microsoft in the ReplayTV OS.