Your idea of a piece of paper is particularly funny. He can simply do that now, with the individual remotes. Unless your argument is that your plan involves a shorter crib-sheet.
I envy you your lack of the grossly technically uninclined. Were I so blessed, I would have many Saturday afternoons back for myself.
Neither are you to mention the remote with the LCD that tries to remember your settings...
I find that to be easier to explain than non-, poorly-, or misleadingly-labled, miniscule buttons with no tactile feedback on modern remotes.
I'm sorry, and here I thought I was discussing the VL900 specifically.
No, I did solve his problem. When I said "or as indicated, just the DVD -> AMP steps," I meant to suggest that he needs to
1) separate all the given functionality he'd like to achieve with his remote into individual programs (i.e. switch to DVD, switch to VCR, switch to PVR, turn on/off everything--the latter of which, if you didn't know, are pre-programmed macros in the VL900). 2) read the manual to figure out how to program those individual functions onto the remote. 3) teach his wife how to use the remote--a piece of paper with instructions on an end table will do wonders--where one- or two-button combinations will allow her to do anything she wants to do.
It's quite simple with the remote in question. You just need to think about it differently.
According to the manual, you can set the DVD button to run that entire sequence of codes if you press and hold the DVD button for a few seconds, or as indicated, just the DVD -> AMP steps.
I love my VL900s (I have one for the bedroom and one for the living room). All of the LCD-screen monstrosities don't have the comfortable form factor that the VL900 does, and it's capacity to learn other remotes and macros are invaluable.
Everyone keeps saying that Yahoo has the best spam filtering--I agree on their back-end system, but their user-defined system could use some help--I've wanted to define a wildcarded filter in their system for a while (since I only have 15 filters available to me), and I can't seem to find a way to say "send all messages with the text '(rd.cgi|uns.php|unsubscribe.php)?(e|email)=[myadd ress])' to the trash" in a single filter.
I think the question is the quality of the entertainment. Spend your life in front of a tv and you'll never know that richer more rewarding types of entertainment, like reading for one, are available.
I watched Mythbusters last night. I got far more reward from that one hour than from a day or so of reading a Nicholas Sparks novel. Sturgeon's Law applies to books, too...
I'm a bit partial to Star Wars: Suffering Leads to Sequels, as suggested by The Brunching Shuttlecocks, but in absence of that (and Star Wars: An Old Hope), I thought
Anakin to Padme: "I don't like sand. It's rough. Not soft and smooth like you."
Oh come on... Compare that line to the dialogue from two critically acclaimed movies:
"Sand is overrated. It's just tiny rocks."
--Joel, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Or
"When there was no meat, we ate fowl. When there was no fowl, we ate crawdad. When there was no crawdad to be found, we ate sand" "You ate what??" "We ate sand." "You ate sand??" "That's right." -- H.I. and a chatty cellmate, Raising Arizona
Actually, you're right. Neither of those movies had someone riding on big turd-cows.
I know now how to say "Fuck everyone in the universe to death!", "Shut up," and my favorite, "Holy mother of God and all her wacky nephews!" in Mandarin Chinese.
If you want something more complicated (i.e. all transponders+local OTA channels coming in on a single line of coax), then you might need a stacker/deStacker combo, but if you just want to have more odd+even lines, you should be able to get by with a multiswitch.
The men and women who play the stock market on a regular basis are no fools and something unknown to Slashdot readers made the SCO stock price rise by 2.4%, on December 26th, over half a days trading. If someone buys a stock they expect the price to rise, so what have WE forgotten that could be good news for SCO investors?
Apart from what could be genuine and valid concerns about the SCO case, the meteoric rise of VA Linux stock to approximately 254 points on the day of the IPO clearly shows that the people who play the markets are quite seldom wise.
Didn't you see the text scroll on the screen saying "If you want to know what happens, read the book"?:)
Actually, when I saw it last night, the movie cut out right when Aragorn faced off against a troll in front of the Black Gate. After about 20 minutes and a theater employee apologizing, it came back on.
Not the foggiest idea what that has to do with the discussion.
Oh, sorry. I would have surmised that someone who can so readily spot a red herring fallacy also has the knowledge of what a straw man attack is. My mistake.
Points which are not contradictory and can exist independently of each other.
Indeed. I'll ask then, why you must place so much importance on originality (and indeed, eschew perceived unoriginal productions) if there are far better measures of a production's value. Since most of the questions that I've posed have been cut away unanswered, however, I suspect I might have to insert the same question in a subsequent followup.
Incidentally, George Lucas has publically stated that Star Wars is, apart from its setting, a grand retelling of your average, common Greco-Roman hero myth.
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Your idea of a piece of paper is particularly funny. He can simply do that now, with the individual remotes. Unless your argument is that your plan involves a shorter crib-sheet.
I envy you your lack of the grossly technically uninclined. Were I so blessed, I would have many Saturday afternoons back for myself.
Neither are you to mention the remote with the LCD that tries to remember your settings...
I find that to be easier to explain than non-, poorly-, or misleadingly-labled, miniscule buttons with no tactile feedback on modern remotes.
I'm sorry, and here I thought I was discussing the VL900 specifically.
No, I did solve his problem. When I said "or as indicated, just the DVD -> AMP steps," I meant to suggest that he needs to
1) separate all the given functionality he'd like to achieve with his remote into individual programs (i.e. switch to DVD, switch to VCR, switch to PVR, turn on/off everything--the latter of which, if you didn't know, are pre-programmed macros in the VL900).
2) read the manual to figure out how to program those individual functions onto the remote.
3) teach his wife how to use the remote--a piece of paper with instructions on an end table will do wonders--where one- or two-button combinations will allow her to do anything she wants to do.
It's quite simple with the remote in question. You just need to think about it differently.
No, it doesn't. My suggestion was to just program the DVD and Amp steps and leave the turning on of the TV to the user.
But perhaps that is expecting too much of people.
According to the manual, you can set the DVD button to run that entire sequence of codes if you press and hold the DVD button for a few seconds, or as indicated, just the DVD -> AMP steps.
If you read manuals, that is.
I love my VL900s (I have one for the bedroom and one for the living room). All of the LCD-screen monstrosities don't have the comfortable form factor that the VL900 does, and it's capacity to learn other remotes and macros are invaluable.
Everyone keeps saying that Yahoo has the best spam filtering--I agree on their back-end system, but their user-defined system could use some help--I've wanted to define a wildcarded filter in their system for a while (since I only have 15 filters available to me), and I can't seem to find a way to say "send all messages with the text '(rd.cgi|uns.php|unsubscribe.php)?(e|email)=[myadd ress])' to the trash" in a single filter.
If you go into options, you can set your view to show up to 200 messages at one time (under "General Preferences").
It was a well-known poker quote before the movie came out...
And for God's sake, stop playing with yourself.
I think the question is the quality of the entertainment. Spend your life in front of a tv and you'll never know that richer more rewarding types of entertainment, like reading for one, are available.
I watched Mythbusters last night. I got far more reward from that one hour than from a day or so of reading a Nicholas Sparks novel. Sturgeon's Law applies to books, too...
But...but...then I can't mock the turd-cows!
I'm a bit partial to Star Wars: Suffering Leads to Sequels, as suggested by The Brunching Shuttlecocks, but in absence of that (and Star Wars: An Old Hope), I thought
Star Wars: Beating a Dead Tauntaun
might be ok.
Oh come on... Compare that line to the dialogue from two critically acclaimed movies:
Actually, you're right. Neither of those movies had someone riding on big turd-cows.
Unfortunately, Eudaemonic Pie has been out of print for a while...
Everyone in the industry knows that Toshiba hasn't made small hard drives, they've bred huge people
Actually, "Smile Time" was the brainchild of Ben Edlund, creator of The Tick.
Psst. His name is spelled "Joss."
I know now how to say "Fuck everyone in the universe to death!", "Shut up," and my favorite, "Holy mother of God and all her wacky nephews!" in Mandarin Chinese.
;)
You misspelled 'mispronounce'...
Sounds to me like you need a multiswitch. You might find a good overview at this thread at TivoCommunity.
If you want something more complicated (i.e. all transponders+local OTA channels coming in on a single line of coax), then you might need a stacker/deStacker combo, but if you just want to have more odd+even lines, you should be able to get by with a multiswitch.
Oops--1997, back when C|Net Central (with Richard Hart and Daphne Brogdon) was on late Saturday mornings, and I was still in grad school.
TiVo got the patent in 1998, which means they applied for the patent well before. I recall seeing CNet reports on TiVo before 1996.
The men and women who play the stock market on a regular basis are no fools and something unknown to Slashdot readers made the SCO stock price rise by 2.4%, on December 26th, over half a days trading. If someone buys a stock they expect the price to rise, so what have WE forgotten that could be good news for SCO investors?
Apart from what could be genuine and valid concerns about the SCO case, the meteoric rise of VA Linux stock to approximately 254 points on the day of the IPO clearly shows that the people who play the markets are quite seldom wise.
Didn't you see the text scroll on the screen saying "If you want to know what happens, read the book"? :)
Actually, when I saw it last night, the movie cut out right when Aragorn faced off against a troll in front of the Black Gate. After about 20 minutes and a theater employee apologizing, it came back on.
Pretty much all of the children of Rohan and Gondor and the Shire look like the offspring Peter Jackson.
Coincidence, OR FATE!???
Not the foggiest idea what that has to do with the discussion.
Oh, sorry. I would have surmised that someone who can so readily spot a red herring fallacy also has the knowledge of what a straw man attack is. My mistake.
Points which are not contradictory and can exist independently of each other.
Indeed. I'll ask then, why you must place so much importance on originality (and indeed, eschew perceived unoriginal productions) if there are far better measures of a production's value. Since most of the questions that I've posed have been cut away unanswered, however, I suspect I might have to insert the same question in a subsequent followup.
Incidentally, George Lucas has publically stated that Star Wars is, apart from its setting, a grand retelling of your average, common Greco-Roman hero myth.