yes but those ads imply most of it's over the internet; it's not. I had my identy stolen in 1995, when i was a college student -- taken from a job application in NYC. The worst part was, after i found out, and the bank had me fill out an affidavit of fraud, my student loans were cancelled for bad credit. I called and explained the situation, and they restored my loans at a higher interest rate because now i was a "credit risk" due to my credit report having to be cleansed. I wish i could have hunted down the guy and smacked him around some
naw 10-10 isn't all voip, it just designates to the Call Agent what long distance provider you want to use other that the default (that you selected). You can even use it to use AT&T or Verizon if you wanted
don't take it apart! It sends traps upstream to let people know when you do it. It's in your cable agreement not to do it. Very draconian, but there is no way I see to prevent it from sending the signal
I have both the DVR (since January in Syracuse) and 2 tivos. The FF speed on the TW offering is much much slower than the Tivo one, so you do see commercials, albeit at high speed. No programming skip buttons there. They did a study and found people still get the gist of commercials played at high speeds.
There are channels you can not record (on demand, and some pay per views) and they do have flags to prevent you from recording regular digital channels, but all are disabled so far. It also does get much slower with the more programs you record.
I would say the only adventage over tivo is the ability to record 2 channels at once. Other than that, tivo rocks it's world
Unless you are in a Time Warner Cable area -- they are required to have multiple ISP lines in every market they are in -- which means you can have RoadRunner, Earthlink, AOL, and whatever other people asked to be on the lines
Eh? RoadRunner/TWC is a seperate ISP from Earthlink. Earthlink and AOL are 2 of the 3 main "multiple ISP's" Time Warner has to offer due to it's merger with AOL. If you have earthlink, you can get AOL or RoadRunner as well
The quality on the screener is very good, has dolby 5.1. The only problem is "For Your Consideration" pops up at key points in the movie...makes me feel like i was watching the frree HBO preview
This service has to be the worst I have seen PVR wise as well... it has bugs where "season pass" of certain shows disappears after the guide data expires for the week, or it just randomly deletes scheduled recordings out. I have both the Tivo and the TW PVR, and the difference is like having a Luxury Sports Sedan (tivo) and a Skateboard with 3 wheels (Time Warner). If you come in to the middle of a recording (like coming home at 6:15 and trying to watch the 6pm simpsons) you can not say "skip back to the begining" -- you must rewind at 4 X all the way back. The time warner service will NEVER skip commercials tho -- AOL Time Warner and a bunch of other media companies don't like the fact that you can do it now with ReplayTV (and they pretend not to know tivos can be hacked to do it)
Also, the DSL companies have the "old world" copper per minute charge mentality still. It's why i still get charged per minute on my long distance, but companies like vonage do "all you can eat" bills for one flat fee a month. They charge what consumers will pay, not what actually gives them profit (to an extent)
I had a thinkpad 600e model 2645-EU The interesting thing is that it a 3 year warranty on the whole, but the battery itself had only 1 year. When the battery failed on me the first year i had the laptop, I called IBM support and they said "yeah we had a problem with one run of the batteries and it's fixed now", I got an RMA'd one, it worked for 2 years, and now it's dead too. We even tried here at work to 'fool' IBM by trying to RMA a whole laptop -- they sent us a refurbished 600e... sans the battery, with the instructions "use your old batter"
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yes but those ads imply most of it's over the internet; it's not. I had my identy stolen in 1995, when i was a college student -- taken from a job application in NYC. The worst part was, after i found out, and the bank had me fill out an affidavit of fraud, my student loans were cancelled for bad credit. I called and explained the situation, and they restored my loans at a higher interest rate because now i was a "credit risk" due to my credit report having to be cleansed. I wish i could have hunted down the guy and smacked him around some
he later stated that linus chose a new license a couple months later, enabling companies such as Red hat to exsist. Read the whole article
besides that, @home was saddled with the purchase of excite
naw 10-10 isn't all voip, it just designates to the Call Agent what long distance provider you want to use other that the default (that you selected). You can even use it to use AT&T or Verizon if you wanted
don't take it apart! It sends traps upstream to let people know when you do it. It's in your cable agreement not to do it. Very draconian, but there is no way I see to prevent it from sending the signal
I have both the DVR (since January in Syracuse) and 2 tivos. The FF speed on the TW offering is much much slower than the Tivo one, so you do see commercials, albeit at high speed. No programming skip buttons there. They did a study and found people still get the gist of commercials played at high speeds. There are channels you can not record (on demand, and some pay per views) and they do have flags to prevent you from recording regular digital channels, but all are disabled so far. It also does get much slower with the more programs you record. I would say the only adventage over tivo is the ability to record 2 channels at once. Other than that, tivo rocks it's world
I would vote for the musical tones from "Close Encounters of the Third Kind".. you know, "doo dee doo boo bah" ;)
Well now it will reward people who have A+++++++++++++++A+++++++++ great tranaction WOULD USE AGAIN in their profile
Obligatory quote "There's nary an animal alive that can outrun a greased Scotsman"
eh i was just fishing for +1 funny lines but i didn't get crap ... aww well
But as a regular reader of slashdot, I had presumed that BSD was dying? ;)
Unless you are in a Time Warner Cable area -- they are required to have multiple ISP lines in every market they are in -- which means you can have RoadRunner, Earthlink, AOL, and whatever other people asked to be on the lines
Eh? RoadRunner/TWC is a seperate ISP from Earthlink. Earthlink and AOL are 2 of the 3 main "multiple ISP's" Time Warner has to offer due to it's merger with AOL. If you have earthlink, you can get AOL or RoadRunner as well
The quality on the screener is very good, has dolby 5.1. The only problem is "For Your Consideration" pops up at key points in the movie...makes me feel like i was watching the frree HBO preview
He is just trying to use the rule of comedic thirds.
This service has to be the worst I have seen PVR wise as well... it has bugs where "season pass" of certain shows disappears after the guide data expires for the week, or it just randomly deletes scheduled recordings out. I have both the Tivo and the TW PVR, and the difference is like having a Luxury Sports Sedan (tivo) and a Skateboard with 3 wheels (Time Warner). If you come in to the middle of a recording (like coming home at 6:15 and trying to watch the 6pm simpsons) you can not say "skip back to the begining" -- you must rewind at 4 X all the way back. The time warner service will NEVER skip commercials tho -- AOL Time Warner and a bunch of other media companies don't like the fact that you can do it now with ReplayTV (and they pretend not to know tivos can be hacked to do it)
I press ctrl-X ctrl-S That way it saves it even if I am in EMAC
Also, the DSL companies have the "old world" copper per minute charge mentality still. It's why i still get charged per minute on my long distance, but companies like vonage do "all you can eat" bills for one flat fee a month. They charge what consumers will pay, not what actually gives them profit (to an extent)
is man -k really apropos ? ;)
don't forget Embiggens -- a perfectly cromulent word
I had a thinkpad 600e model 2645-EU
The interesting thing is that it a 3 year warranty on the whole, but the battery itself had only 1 year. When the battery failed on me the first year i had the laptop, I called IBM support and they said "yeah we had a problem with one run of the batteries and it's fixed now", I got an RMA'd one, it worked for 2 years, and now it's dead too. We even tried here at work to 'fool' IBM by trying to RMA a whole laptop -- they sent us a refurbished 600e... sans the battery, with the instructions "use your old batter"