"Unless something really serious happens (I have no idea what) to make it plainly obvious to everyone that copyright law needs to be fixed in favor of the people and not the big media companies, it's not going to happen in our lifetimes, unless there's some revolution and a totally new government and system of law is created."
Revolution, you say?
Totally new government, you say?
The second *tuner* is built into the receiver. If you're asking about whether extra *receivers* cost more, each receiver is $5 per month, and if one of them is a TiVo, a $5 charge is also added to the bill. So it's something like this:
I have 3 receivers. If they are all DirecTV DVRs, I pay $20 month($5*3)+$5, which is a better deal than Dish Network lists on its website.
The standard hard disk is 40GB, but given the hundreds of dollars you save over the dual-tuner Dish DVR's, you could easily upgrade to the full capacity and still have money left over.
1.) Doesn't it cost $5 more a month (not including the DVR fee of $5/month) for the second tuner? At any rate, Dish does have a dual-tuner PVR, but the "standard" one (which is free with a one year contract) comes with just one tuner. Works fine for me though, and it's extremely well designed. Plus it holds 100 hours of video...
A flat $5/month covers TiVo service for every DirecTV DVR in the house. If you have 30 DirecTV DVRs, the fee for TiVo service is still $5/month, or if you get Total Choice Premier, it's waived. You can also upgrade the DirecTV DVR's hard drive to 256GB very easily with some cheap hard drives from ebay and a disk image(even one from a standalone).
Higher picture quality than the standalone, since it stores the video in the format which DirecTV broadcasts, rather than re-encoding a cable signal to MPEG2
As for DirecTV's vs. Dish, all I know are these few things:
My DirecTV HDVR2 has dual tuners which record at the same time. I have heard that Dish Network's DVR only has one tuner.
My neighbors, who are currently with Comcast, say they used to have Dish Network, and really hated the customer service.
I have always been very happy with DirecTV's service. The video quality is good, the cost is low, and the customer service has always been great. In fact, DirecTV ranks #1 in customer satisfaction among cable and satellite customers.
I'm pretty sure that city would be a great place to live, with the lack of crime and all.
What's that? Why's there no crime?
There's a diving board outside of the courthouse. And no one wants to risk a guilty verdict.
It seems to me that a lot of the parents who believe their kids "have" ADD/ADHD are the same parents who think video games are making their children into violent killers.
I think a lot of these parents don't pay enough attention to their kids, and they'll do anything to make sure that they don't have to.
Okay, so regardless of what new hardware you get, it's going to be fast. If it take me.000000000001 seconds more to do something in Photoshop, I don't think it's a big deal.
What I would like to see is an in-depth comparison of operating systems. *Not* the programs that run on them- the operating systems themselves. Maybe now people will realize that it's just as important for a system to be easy to use as it is for a system to be fast.
Not only that, but unlike with a ReplayTV, with a TiVo, you don't have to go to the trouble of setting up a network with your computer and transferring the files over your network to your computer to burn DVDs.
Although I have to wonder, if the hill is *that* steep, why didn't the coffee spill forward? That's steep. It's definitely that steep. When I was younger, riding my bike to school, I used to ride to the top of that hill and take off, because after I took off from there, I could coast for several blocks. What I assume is that she tilted the cup back to keep it from spilling forward, and then when she tried to pull the lid off, the cup probably jerked and fell completely back into her lap.
"What happened to this woman was completely her own fault."
Mostly true, which is why the courts reduced the damages. What it came down to was that McD, according to their policy, keeps their coffee at a temp which can cause serious burns very quickly. Yes, she put the coffee in between her knees. But in most cases, if you spill hot coffee in your lap, it's just gonna be uncomfortable and embarrassing, and not require time in the hospital for skin grafts. It's measures of what you can expect as far as consequences. Most people do not equivocate a cup of coffee with a cup of near-boiling water, because in 99% of cases (i.e. non-McDonalds), it isn't. Keep in mind, the judgement was also because of the other 700 reports of burns. Someone in my family spilled homemade coffee(from a coffee maker) in her lap and got the same kind of burns as this woman. She also had to get skin grafts. She was given silver sulfadiazine, which is pretty strong stuff, for the pain. If that can happen because of coffee made in a coffee maker, then I don't really think McDonald's did anything wrong in this case.
I live just 2 blocks from the McDonald's in question, and before the incident, I had coffee there several times. I never got burned. The coffee was never too hot.
I love to hear people who say that they only want everyone to know the facts in the case. Well, here's a fact that no one seems to know. That McDonald's drive through is at the top of a very steep hill(greater than 45 degrees).
Everyone with any common sense would know that you don't open hot coffee between your knees when your car is headed down a steep hill. What happened to this woman was completely her own fault. I don't think McDonald's should have had to pay her anything.
No, he took the initiative in creating the internet, meaning he was instrumental in getting the funding for the network and the computers which were used to make a little program you may have heard of, called NCSA Mosaic.
Gore did not say he invented the internet. He didn't even say he created it. He did, however, do a hell of a lot to enable its creators.
Because of mouse acceleration, the mouse tracks at a faster speed if being moved over long distances. This makes it very simple to move my mouse up to the corner very quickly, and my tracking speed is set to less than 1/2 of the maximum. If I'm moving my mouse a short distance, I can have all of the accuracy I need, but if I'm moving the mouse a long distance, the mouse movement speeds up.
Your brain may be able to read 5 words faster than I can move my hand two inches, but I seriously doubt that you can locate the menubar, read 5 words and then move your hand an inch to the last one before I can move my hand 2 inches, repeating a simple movement I can do with my eyes closed.
My point is not just that the Mac's Preferences always appear at the top of the screen. My point is that they always appear in the exact same place.
I mentioned this in a previous post, but I *have* used KDE before, and do know that KDE can put the menu bar on top of the screen. However, that does not mean that settings will always be in the same place. Settings will always be *at the top*, but they will always be *at the top* and "somewhere over on the right". No matter how fast you may believe you can point a mouse, I can always move my mouse to the upper left corner and get to Preferences on a Mac in the time it would take to read the names of the menus on the right looking for "Settings". I have the mouse motion "memorized". I know exactly where my mouse needs to go, and I can do it with my eyes closed.
You may hate that behavior, but it is easier to memorize. If you're having trouble moving your mouse up quickly enough, you can change the tracking speed(That is, if you can find the preferences).
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If they hold a full, uncompressed movie, they're good enough.
"Unless something really serious happens (I have no idea what) to make it plainly obvious to everyone that copyright law needs to be fixed in favor of the people and not the big media companies, it's not going to happen in our lifetimes, unless there's some revolution and a totally new government and system of law is created." Revolution, you say? Totally new government, you say?
Mass suicides?
I hate to tell you this, but there are more than one person who think that's a cup holder. I talked to three during just 6 months as a tech support.
I have 3 receivers. If they are all DirecTV DVRs, I pay $20 month($5*3)+$5, which is a better deal than Dish Network lists on its website. The standard hard disk is 40GB, but given the hundreds of dollars you save over the dual-tuner Dish DVR's, you could easily upgrade to the full capacity and still have money left over.
A flat $5/month covers TiVo service for every DirecTV DVR in the house. If you have 30 DirecTV DVRs, the fee for TiVo service is still $5/month, or if you get Total Choice Premier, it's waived. You can also upgrade the DirecTV DVR's hard drive to 256GB very easily with some cheap hard drives from ebay and a disk image(even one from a standalone).
Stand-alone TiVo:
- $149 recorder, then $12.95/month, or $299 lifetime subscription
- Home Media Option, which lets you share video and music to other rooms
or DirecTV DVR:- $39 recorder if new customer, $89.95 recorder if current customer(sometimes much less if you order over the phone), then $4.99/month(per household, not per receiver)
- Dual tuners, so you can record two shows at once
- Higher picture quality than the standalone, since it stores the video in the format which DirecTV broadcasts, rather than re-encoding a cable signal to MPEG2
I chose the DirecTV DVR.As for DirecTV's vs. Dish, all I know are these few things:
Speaking of which, isn't this the first anniversary of the Information Purification Directive?
I'm pretty sure that city would be a great place to live, with the lack of crime and all. What's that? Why's there no crime? There's a diving board outside of the courthouse. And no one wants to risk a guilty verdict.
I was thinking my college had sued Microsoft.
And then I find out it's just another company from California suing over some ridiculous patent.
Sheesh...
Well as a Mac user, I'd like to be the first to say *fuck* the Lion King 7.
It seems to me that a lot of the parents who believe their kids "have" ADD/ADHD are the same parents who think video games are making their children into violent killers.
I think a lot of these parents don't pay enough attention to their kids, and they'll do anything to make sure that they don't have to.
It's like the business version of six degrees of Kevin Bacon.
I can't think of a better comparison than comparing the RIAA to mad cow disease.
You're doing it wrong.
What I would like to see is an in-depth comparison of operating systems. *Not* the programs that run on them- the operating systems themselves. Maybe now people will realize that it's just as important for a system to be easy to use as it is for a system to be fast.
You can just buy a TiVo and burn with the built-in DVD burner.
CD->OGG->MP3->OGG is probably not going to sound as good as the mp3s you currently have.
Now I know the truth.
It's definitely that steep. When I was younger, riding my bike to school, I used to ride to the top of that hill and take off, because after I took off from there, I could coast for several blocks. What I assume is that she tilted the cup back to keep it from spilling forward, and then when she tried to pull the lid off, the cup probably jerked and fell completely back into her lap.
"What happened to this woman was completely her own fault."
Mostly true, which is why the courts reduced the damages. What it came down to was that McD, according to their policy, keeps their coffee at a temp which can cause serious burns very quickly. Yes, she put the coffee in between her knees. But in most cases, if you spill hot coffee in your lap, it's just gonna be uncomfortable and embarrassing, and not require time in the hospital for skin grafts. It's measures of what you can expect as far as consequences. Most people do not equivocate a cup of coffee with a cup of near-boiling water, because in 99% of cases (i.e. non-McDonalds), it isn't. Keep in mind, the judgement was also because of the other 700 reports of burns.
Someone in my family spilled homemade coffee(from a coffee maker) in her lap and got the same kind of burns as this woman. She also had to get skin grafts. She was given silver sulfadiazine, which is pretty strong stuff, for the pain. If that can happen because of coffee made in a coffee maker, then I don't really think McDonald's did anything wrong in this case.
I love to hear people who say that they only want everyone to know the facts in the case. Well, here's a fact that no one seems to know. That McDonald's drive through is at the top of a very steep hill(greater than 45 degrees).
Everyone with any common sense would know that you don't open hot coffee between your knees when your car is headed down a steep hill. What happened to this woman was completely her own fault. I don't think McDonald's should have had to pay her anything.
Gore did not say he invented the internet. He didn't even say he created it. He did, however, do a hell of a lot to enable its creators.
Because of mouse acceleration, the mouse tracks at a faster speed if being moved over long distances. This makes it very simple to move my mouse up to the corner very quickly, and my tracking speed is set to less than 1/2 of the maximum. If I'm moving my mouse a short distance, I can have all of the accuracy I need, but if I'm moving the mouse a long distance, the mouse movement speeds up. Your brain may be able to read 5 words faster than I can move my hand two inches, but I seriously doubt that you can locate the menubar, read 5 words and then move your hand an inch to the last one before I can move my hand 2 inches, repeating a simple movement I can do with my eyes closed.
I mentioned this in a previous post, but I *have* used KDE before, and do know that KDE can put the menu bar on top of the screen. However, that does not mean that settings will always be in the same place. Settings will always be *at the top*, but they will always be *at the top* and "somewhere over on the right". No matter how fast you may believe you can point a mouse, I can always move my mouse to the upper left corner and get to Preferences on a Mac in the time it would take to read the names of the menus on the right looking for "Settings". I have the mouse motion "memorized". I know exactly where my mouse needs to go, and I can do it with my eyes closed.
You may hate that behavior, but it is easier to memorize. If you're having trouble moving your mouse up quickly enough, you can change the tracking speed(That is, if you can find the preferences).