Apparently, if you use a hard drive image from a 50xx machine on a 55xx machine, it works just as a 50xx machine, with Commercial Skip and Internet Video Sharing.
It will continue to work unless you set it to restore the factory defaults. I am considering trying this on my 5504 model soon. Just an FYI.
Your wrong. I'm an engineer that works for the government. I'm asked to "test", or in reality, compromise my morals all the time. I simply choose not to.
I may not be known as one of the good ol' boys, but I am respected in my field as a good engineer that does good work. If my work required me to let things slide, I would be out looking for another job. I refuse to look the other way because I feel threatened that I would lose my job.
Losing my job is not a threat. I make sure to have my financial situation so that I do not depend on this week's paycheck. I might depend on July's paycheck instead (if I lost my job today that is).
You are partially right, however, in that I could easily get another engineering job anywhere if I were to lose my current employment. There are not many black lists, except that I would probably not be able to work for the government anymore. At least I wouldn't feel like a con artist.
You are now saying that fraud is nearly impossible to detect, after you originally said you could detect it, but weren't allowed to blow the whistle because you would lose your future paycheck. Evidently you have already gotten pretty good at those 180 turns.
Yes, we blame accountants. We expect you to do your job and actually audit.
Thats like the police saying its not their job to catch criminals... after all they aren't the ones breaking the laws.
You're there to hold them accountable. If you aren't doing your it you should be out of a job anyway because your job is pointless. If you get turned down because you pointed out the fraud... be sure to mention it very loudly before their new accountants stockholder press release. Stand up for whats right and quit blaming others for your actions.
It would take a week (at most) to learn how to use a slim jim on the models of cars you are looking for. It took a locksmith about 30 seconds to open up my car door and that was with him being careful not to scratch it.
Actually, I have had a 2001 Chevy Impala for about a month now. Its been very nice so far. I would probably be more likely to consider a Japan/Germany/whatever car if they made one for someone 6'6" like myself.
While I realize you are just trolling. My opinion still remains that the Onstar in my car is big and bulky.
Since it is disabled in my own car anyway, if it is just sitting there consuming my gas mileage (I realize it is a very small percentage of my car's total weight) it should be removed.
Unlike the OnStar in my car, the gasoline serves a purpose. If I were extremely anal and hand an unlimited amount of time on my hands, your comment would make sense. However, since I am a lazy american, I wait until my tank is running on fumes before I refill it. I hate stopping at the gas station, and if my car had a 100 gallon tank, I would still fill it up all the way, and use it until it was empty.
So, I'm looking at the pictures of the onstar unit, and the most surprising part (to me) was how big those units are. And they're all metal. How much do they weigh? If that thing is over 10 lbs I am removing it from my car.
Yes, because making a hack to open a car with information you can't get (until your inside it) is so much easier than just breaking the window and opening the door.
I have a great job and make a great living... but on the way to work thursdays (trash day) I pick up old computers and electronics. I just love fixing them.
I sit at a desk job all day long. And a repairman doesn't make crap for wages. So I satisfy my "fixing" habit thru my neighbors garbage. If its too expensive to fix, it goes back in the trash. If I can fix it cheap, I either give it to a buddy, or sell it for cheap at work.
Free stuff is the best, and it doesn't end up in a landfill for another couple years.
"Doing some rough math, if they had 20,000 units in the retail channel (a fair guess), it would have cost the struggling Replay unit a $6 million dollar charge."
This isn't even remotely true, unless you work for the RIAA. It is only a 6M loss if 20,000 people walked in the store to buy the unit for $150+300 service fee, and then only ended up paying $150 dollars.
I saw this deal on Fatwallet, so I went and picked one up. I would NOT have otherwise.
The only way this could possibly be considered a $6M loss is if it literally costs them $300 to provide guide data to all those ReplayTV boxes for 3 yrs.
-The remote works about 2 feet away from the receiver. no further -the TV tuner works fine. for simple viewing, quality is worse than a 13" TV though. -It's the PVR stuff that disappointed me, lots of features... tons of bugs. ATI never fixes any of them. Time shifting is use-able, not reliable. -Video Quality of captures is way worse than a VCR. -Guide Plus software is also buggy. (mouse pointer disappears) and updates to the schedule are manually done... they work %90 percent of the time and take 3-4 minutes.
This same thing happened to me with an I/OMagic DVD-Rom. Got 5 replacements. Each time they told me that they couldn't believe it wasn't working since it was one of their "better products". After 12 months of me paying to ship their broken crap back to them, they refused to replace it once my "Warrantee" was up.
My Lite-On DVD-Rom I bought to replace it has been working nicely for about 2 years now.
I learned the hard way that warrantees are only as good as the company that issues them.
Great, so let me get this straight: I can buy a machine that will record LOTS of shows I don't want to watch, only to delete them later. That way I have more "choices". Where do I sign up?
Slashdot Mirror
I hope you have cube/office walls between you and your coworkers then... multiple IR keyboards is a frustrating joke that can be played.
I use a shift key to spell NASA... see I just did it. Sometimes I even use the correct shift key (opposite hand).
"I think we should have some sort of official voting process to decide who gets chosen for these missions."
Wow, I think you just thought up a new Reality show... I'm going to go promote it to CBS before Mark Burnett does
Apparently, if you use a hard drive image from a 50xx machine on a 55xx machine, it works just as a 50xx machine, with Commercial Skip and Internet Video Sharing.
It will continue to work unless you set it to restore the factory defaults. I am considering trying this on my 5504 model soon. Just an FYI.
Doing quite well with one exception: Bait and Switch
You keep cats in your computer case?
how often do you have to change the kitty litter?
Your wrong. I'm an engineer that works for the government. I'm asked to "test", or in reality, compromise my morals all the time. I simply choose not to.
I may not be known as one of the good ol' boys, but I am respected in my field as a good engineer that does good work. If my work required me to let things slide, I would be out looking for another job. I refuse to look the other way because I feel threatened that I would lose my job.
Losing my job is not a threat. I make sure to have my financial situation so that I do not depend on this week's paycheck. I might depend on July's paycheck instead (if I lost my job today that is).
You are partially right, however, in that I could easily get another engineering job anywhere if I were to lose my current employment. There are not many black lists, except that I would probably not be able to work for the government anymore. At least I wouldn't feel like a con artist.
You are now saying that fraud is nearly impossible to detect, after you originally said you could detect it, but weren't allowed to blow the whistle because you would lose your future paycheck. Evidently you have already gotten pretty good at those 180 turns.
<>
Yes, we blame accountants. We expect you to do your job and actually audit.
Thats like the police saying its not their job to catch criminals... after all they aren't the ones breaking the laws.
You're there to hold them accountable. If you aren't doing your it you should be out of a job anyway because your job is pointless. If you get turned down because you pointed out the fraud... be sure to mention it very loudly before their new accountants stockholder press release. Stand up for whats right and quit blaming others for your actions.
Keep it Simple Stupid.
It would take a week (at most) to learn how to use a slim jim on the models of cars you are looking for. It took a locksmith about 30 seconds to open up my car door and that was with him being careful not to scratch it.
Actually, I have had a 2001 Chevy Impala for about a month now. Its been very nice so far. I would probably be more likely to consider a Japan/Germany/whatever car if they made one for someone 6'6" like myself.
I couldn't fit ONE of my legs in a ford focus
While I realize you are just trolling. My opinion still remains that the Onstar in my car is big and bulky.
Since it is disabled in my own car anyway, if it is just sitting there consuming my gas mileage (I realize it is a very small percentage of my car's total weight) it should be removed.
Unlike the OnStar in my car, the gasoline serves a purpose. If I were extremely anal and hand an unlimited amount of time on my hands, your comment would make sense. However, since I am a lazy american, I wait until my tank is running on fumes before I refill it. I hate stopping at the gas station, and if my car had a 100 gallon tank, I would still fill it up all the way, and use it until it was empty.
So, I'm looking at the pictures of the onstar unit, and the most surprising part (to me) was how big those units are. And they're all metal. How much do they weigh? If that thing is over 10 lbs I am removing it from my car.
Yes, because making a hack to open a car with information you can't get (until your inside it) is so much easier than just breaking the window and opening the door.
I have a great job and make a great living... but on the way to work thursdays (trash day) I pick up old computers and electronics. I just love fixing them.
I sit at a desk job all day long. And a repairman doesn't make crap for wages. So I satisfy my "fixing" habit thru my neighbors garbage. If its too expensive to fix, it goes back in the trash. If I can fix it cheap, I either give it to a buddy, or sell it for cheap at work.
Free stuff is the best, and it doesn't end up in a landfill for another couple years.
Speaking of loopholes your 60 hour DVR can be converted to an 80 hour DVR by just reformatting the hard drive.
ReplayTV only formatted the 80GB hard drive in your unit as 60GB so they had an "in-between" model. You could get 20 extra hours for free.
Too bad you are against those loopholes.
"Doing some rough math, if they had 20,000 units in the retail channel (a fair guess), it would have cost the struggling Replay unit a $6 million dollar charge."
This isn't even remotely true, unless you work for the RIAA. It is only a 6M loss if 20,000 people walked in the store to buy the unit for $150+300 service fee, and then only ended up paying $150 dollars.
I saw this deal on Fatwallet, so I went and picked one up. I would NOT have otherwise.
The only way this could possibly be considered a $6M loss is if it literally costs them $300 to provide guide data to all those ReplayTV boxes for 3 yrs.
Not to mention... how hard it is to find bumpers that large.
Thats like going to the grocery store to buy food for your family and only coming home with strychnine...
because all the foods there were too similar.
mine came with an analog converter. and a remote.
-The remote works about 2 feet away from the receiver. no further
-the TV tuner works fine. for simple viewing, quality is worse than a 13" TV though.
-It's the PVR stuff that disappointed me, lots of features... tons of bugs. ATI never fixes any of them. Time shifting is use-able, not reliable.
-Video Quality of captures is way worse than a VCR.
-Guide Plus software is also buggy. (mouse pointer disappears) and updates to the schedule are manually done... they work %90 percent of the time and take 3-4 minutes.
I have an AIW 7500. The word I would most use to describe it is: Disappointing
Yes, so I can't spell. Thanks for taking the time to care for my grammer. If I gave a dime, I would have probably spell checked it to begin with.
"That's not entirely true." How can any part of my post not be true? It was a timeline my real world experience. IOMagic=HiVal=Crap
This same thing happened to me with an I/OMagic DVD-Rom. Got 5 replacements. Each time they told me that they couldn't believe it wasn't working since it was one of their "better products". After 12 months of me paying to ship their broken crap back to them, they refused to replace it once my "Warrantee" was up.
My Lite-On DVD-Rom I bought to replace it has been working nicely for about 2 years now.
I learned the hard way that warrantees are only as good as the company that issues them.
IOMAgic=HiVal=CRAP Tell the world!!!
Great, so let me get this straight: I can buy a machine that will record LOTS of shows I don't want to watch, only to delete them later. That way I have more "choices". Where do I sign up?
Of course, in the automotive market, there are no Glurnmobiles.
What market ARE they in?