You miss the entire point of a TiVo, or any other PVR.
It is not designed to replace a VCR. It is not intended for long term storage like VCR tapes. Its greatest benefit is to free you from having to watch shows when the networks want you to watch them. It lets you decide what shows you are interested in, and then watch them at your convenience. Of course, you could still do this with a VCR, but it is far more convenient to do so with a TiVo.
Also, the complaints that it is difficult to set up are strange. You can hook it up in as simple a setup as you would your VCR. In fact, if you simply plug the power in, and plug the video into your TV, it will show you how to do the rest, and tell you when everything is working correctly.
They also did a great job in packing enough cables (coax, s-video, rca, optical, etc...) to hook up to any configuration
My first love was programming, though. I still have my trusty C-64 with an external 7-1/4" disk drive (with an ice-pack on top of it) hooked up to an old tv as a monitor. Ah, those were the days...
If you think freedom of speech exists in the US and not in Europe, then explainto to us why we don't see naked bodies anywhere on American network TV (unlike in Europe). Explain to me why the government can't stop me from calling for the murder of people of one particular color, but Microsoft can stop me from publishing benchmarks of their SQL server, and my ISP can regulate what I can put on my web page.
Microsoft does not explicitly stop you from publishing benchmarks of their SQL server. They prevent you, through the software license agreement, from using their software for the purpose of generating benchmarks. They are able to do so because they own the software and are controlling your use of that.
Likewise, the ISP owns the server that your web page is on. You are renting this space from them. It is no different than not being able to paint a rented apartment strange colours without approval of the owner. Would you consider that a violation of free speech?
And once again, the government claims ownership of the broadcast spectrum and therefor has the right to deem how it is used. Cable companies do not fall under this, so they have greater freedom.
We are able to give up some of our rights through agreements with others, but it must be through mutual agreement. Others, including the government, cannot come and take away our rights.
Actually, reading over the article it seems that they would not be responsible for any inadvertent damage caused to your system while trying to delete your mp3 files. So having the mp3s on CD or DVD wouldn't help all that much. Sure, you would have your mp3s... but that might be it.
Actually, it is not illegal to kill a deer in that fashion... it is illegal to discharge a gun within a certain distance of the road. So the action of shooting the robot deer is still illegal.
They were referring to the Earth/Sun Lagrange points, not the Earth/Moon Lagrange points. Also, it is L1, not L5 that would be between the two bodies (either Earth and Moon or the Earth and Sun). And it is not an equidistant point, it is the point where the gravities are equal.
Back Orifice also has the ability to hide the daemon withing a standard executable. Then when the arbitrary executable is run, the daemon (invisibly) installs itself on the system and (if configured to do so) notifies its creator.
Does that sound like a legitimate use of a remote administration tool?
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For many years Steve Jackson Games and FASA were probably my two favorite companies in the world. I remember being back in junior high pulling out those handy little cases that Ogre and Battlesuit came in... trying to get in a few good games during lunch. Or selecting which Mechs we were going to have battle each other.. usually going with the Wolverine because I loved jumping around like a madman... But my favorite always was Car Wars. We had so many battles on the streets of Midville... so much destruction on Kazango. Those are some of my fondest memorier (and often the only ones) of my junior high years.
I think the best thing about Car Wars was spending hours and hours designing cars.. sharing the Uncle Al's catalogs between 4 of us... and then finally playing and having all be over in 30 minutes... Those were great days.
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You miss the entire point of a TiVo, or any other PVR.
It is not designed to replace a VCR. It is not intended for long term storage like VCR tapes. Its greatest benefit is to free you from having to watch shows when the networks want you to watch them. It lets you decide what shows you are interested in, and then watch them at your convenience. Of course, you could still do this with a VCR, but it is far more convenient to do so with a TiVo.
Also, the complaints that it is difficult to set up are strange. You can hook it up in as simple a setup as you would your VCR. In fact, if you simply plug the power in, and plug the video into your TV, it will show you how to do the rest, and tell you when everything is working correctly.
They also did a great job in packing enough cables (coax, s-video, rca, optical, etc...) to hook up to any configuration
When did commodore have a 7-1/4" drive?
huh... and I always thought interpreted languages like that were not as efficient as compiled ones...
Not to question your wisdom... but as I recall, the space shuttle never landed on the moon...
Microsoft does not explicitly stop you from publishing benchmarks of their SQL server. They prevent you, through the software license agreement, from using their software for the purpose of generating benchmarks. They are able to do so because they own the software and are controlling your use of that. Likewise, the ISP owns the server that your web page is on. You are renting this space from them. It is no different than not being able to paint a rented apartment strange colours without approval of the owner. Would you consider that a violation of free speech? And once again, the government claims ownership of the broadcast spectrum and therefor has the right to deem how it is used. Cable companies do not fall under this, so they have greater freedom. We are able to give up some of our rights through agreements with others, but it must be through mutual agreement. Others, including the government, cannot come and take away our rights.
Man... that brought back memories..
As I was reading your post it sounded strangely familiar, but I couldn't place it for a moment. I've probably not read that for almost twenty years...
Thanks for making me laugh
Actually, reading over the article it seems that they would not be responsible for any inadvertent damage caused to your system while trying to delete your mp3 files. So having the mp3s on CD or DVD wouldn't help all that much. Sure, you would have your mp3s... but that might be it.
It does 6 teraflops per second... but only runs for 1.5 seconds at a time... then has to restart. Everything evens out eventually
I think that is an understatement.
Boeing alone was cutting 20,000 - 30,000 workers.
Yeah yeah yeah... but just imagine a beowulf cluster of these things!
Actually, it is not illegal to kill a deer in that fashion... it is illegal to discharge a gun within a certain distance of the road. So the action of shooting the robot deer is still illegal.
You say that you usually type them in letter by letter? What exactly do you do the other times?
Well I think that says it all... Quake still isn't running correctly... thus the system is useless, right?
They were referring to the Earth/Sun Lagrange points, not the Earth/Moon Lagrange points. Also, it is L1, not L5 that would be between the two bodies (either Earth and Moon or the Earth and Sun). And it is not an equidistant point, it is the point where the gravities are equal.
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Then does it really matter?
Don't you remember 1i0n, butcher, ramen, etc... that were running around a little while ago? Those were not MS worms
Bruce Sterling and William Gibson are two separate people, and Richard Bachman is the pen name of Stephen King, not Bruce Bachman.
Back Orifice also has the ability to hide the daemon withing a standard executable. Then when the arbitrary executable is run, the daemon (invisibly) installs itself on the system and (if configured to do so) notifies its creator.
Does that sound like a legitimate use of a remote administration tool?
For many years Steve Jackson Games and FASA were probably my two favorite companies in the world. I remember being back in junior high pulling out those handy little cases that Ogre and Battlesuit came in... trying to get in a few good games during lunch. Or selecting which Mechs we were going to have battle each other.. usually going with the Wolverine because I loved jumping around like a madman... But my favorite always was Car Wars. We had so many battles on the streets of Midville... so much destruction on Kazango. Those are some of my fondest memorier (and often the only ones) of my junior high years. I think the best thing about Car Wars was spending hours and hours designing cars.. sharing the Uncle Al's catalogs between 4 of us... and then finally playing and having all be over in 30 minutes... Those were great days.