With regard to not being able to erase bit of a tape, all I have to say is how much time can your TiVO store? Tapes are cheap, reusable and there's no limit to how many I can use.
Once the TiVO's drive is full, then what?
I suspect you know, but once the drive is full you either stop recording anything or delete things to make room.
How much time a Tivo can store is subject to how much drive space you have. Some have put 2 160 gig drives in them for roughly 300 hours of storage. For some people who have huge movie collections that might not be enough, but for the average consumer that would likely be more than they'd use in a long time.
What is the latest "safe" version of Windows Media Player, anyway? I've kept with 6.4 for fear of privacy/DRM problems with later versions.
Should I upgrade?
Media Player 6.4 won't play all of Microsofts media files anymore. WMA or ASF files created with the latest version of Media Player won't play on ver 6.4, it won't download the codecs for all of them. Subtle way for them to get people to upgrade, isn't it.
Seriously, what's wrong with a VCR? You can even record the tapes digitally
Compared to a Tivo:
You have to switch tapes
They only hold 8 hours
You have to rewind them
It's a pain to find that 30 min show in the middle of the tape
They're louder (at least mine is) when FF and Rewinding
Tivo has automatic scheduling
I'm sure there are other advantages, those are just off the top of my head.
Tapes have the advantage of being portable and everywhere so you can take what you recorded to your buddies house, but overall Tivo or some other similar DVR blows the VCR away.
I'm wondering how pro athletes can manage to make so much money and at the same time taxpayers of major cities are more than eager to fork over their own money as well as their neighbors to have a stadium built for a team that quite blunty sucks, and then still have no problem paying $10 for a beer once it opens
In Seattle the taxpayers voted to NOT build a new stadium, but the liberals in charge decided to raise taxes and do it anyway.
Naah, this'd be more like an addon to a dam outflow or something..
Maybe, my thought was they could use this to generate electricity from tidal motion, which is already being done in more conventional fashion but maybe this new way is more efficient.
Interesting. My first thought when seeing the photos is that it looked like the Thors hammer used as a religious symbol, with the head up rather than down as it's usually displayed today. These symbols are apparently much older than most people think of for the viking mythology, but maybe the mythos are older than we know.
We already have that with private healthcare today. At least trying a national program can get rid of the waste we have with finger pointing and non-uniform criteria and paperwork. Give it a chance, I say.
Switch to a government run program to eliminate waste and finger pointing??? You must live in a different country than the US.
Think about it, you piss him off he bombs your country.
Key words being "you piss him off". If you don't want to be bombed don't attack the US, don't fund people who attack the US, don't harbor people who attack the US, don't give support of any kind to people who attack the US.
The US is done standing by while terrorists attack our people here and abroad.
Why should someone who goes to a club automatically be assumed to drink to much, be reckless or irresponsible? Many clubs have live bands I'm sure there are at least SOME people who go there who don't drink, yet you would still lable them as irresponsible drunks simply because they entered a bar and were logged into the system.
Or what if there's another Windows virus like CIH that gets the bios overwritten. Will this new system prevent it, recover from it or still be just as vulnerable as any other unpatched/secured Windows box? Questions that Intel will hopefully ask and answer before they ship the new processor.
Think of how excellent your boxen could be running OpenBSD on CPU#1 for security, Windows XP on CPU#2 for gaming, FreeBSD on CPU#3 for desktop and coding, and Linus on CPU#4 for continuous recompiling of the kernel.
I'd think that Windows exploits that potentially give others control over the system or allow them to shutdown/reboot them could still cause problems for the other operating systems running.
If you haven't patched XP in the last day or so and someone finds that latest exploit and shuts down the PC is it going to shut down only that instance, or power off the entire system?
The sequels just seemed like sequels for sequels sake
Or sequels for the bank accounts sake. As popular and successful as the first movie was a sequel was going to make them a ton of cash no matter how poorly done.
How many spammers do you report either to the law or to blacklist orgs a month, sparky? What are YOU doing to prevent it? Written your congressman or senator lately? Contacted your attorney general? If not STFU.
I haven't simply because it's not worth it. My brother however has done it many times. Filed numerous complaints with the attorney general, and filed claims in small claims court and still gets as much spam as anyone else and has yet to collect a dime.
Anti-spam law failing to squelch junk e-mail
A similar law in Washington, with a $500 fine per eamil, hasn't stopped or slowed down the spam I get I doubt it will really have a significant impact on the residents of Ca either.
Mozillas junk mail filter is the best solution I've found.
Until somebody shows me some real compelling proof, I highly doubt that any of that stuff actually existed.
A little off the subject here, but what would be compelling proof to you? Better video of it? That could just be a higher quality hoax. Sending you there in person? There will always be those who refuse to belive. I'm not flaming you, just curious - what would it take to convince you?
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It's a reference to War chalking where people would mark sidewalks with chalk to show open wireless access points.
Once the TiVO's drive is full, then what?
I suspect you know, but once the drive is full you either stop recording anything or delete things to make room.
How much time a Tivo can store is subject to how much drive space you have. Some have put 2 160 gig drives in them for roughly 300 hours of storage. For some people who have huge movie collections that might not be enough, but for the average consumer that would likely be more than they'd use in a long time.
Should I upgrade?
Media Player 6.4 won't play all of Microsofts media files anymore. WMA or ASF files created with the latest version of Media Player won't play on ver 6.4, it won't download the codecs for all of them. Subtle way for them to get people to upgrade, isn't it.
Wether that's worth upgrading for is up to you.
Compared to a Tivo: You have to switch tapes They only hold 8 hours You have to rewind them It's a pain to find that 30 min show in the middle of the tape They're louder (at least mine is) when FF and Rewinding Tivo has automatic scheduling
I'm sure there are other advantages, those are just off the top of my head.
Tapes have the advantage of being portable and everywhere so you can take what you recorded to your buddies house, but overall Tivo or some other similar DVR blows the VCR away.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?Fa milyID=7C404E8E-5513-46C4-AA4F-058A84A37DF1&displa ylang=EN
Still from Microsoft, and so Windows only, but doesn't require you to have Office installed.
It doesn't run at all with the current version. Or at least the Knoppix distro didn't when I tested VPC last week.
In Seattle the taxpayers voted to NOT build a new stadium, but the liberals in charge decided to raise taxes and do it anyway.
Which describes people who go to movies instead of reading books perfectly.
That, and go on to receive government grants and get paid to study equally worthless "research" like how fast ketchup flows.
Maybe, my thought was they could use this to generate electricity from tidal motion, which is already being done in more conventional fashion but maybe this new way is more efficient.
Interesting. My first thought when seeing the photos is that it looked like the Thors hammer used as a religious symbol, with the head up rather than down as it's usually displayed today. These symbols are apparently much older than most people think of for the viking mythology, but maybe the mythos are older than we know.
For obvious reasons
Fair, but man do you have an uphill battle fighting that perception.
If you were ordered to pay over $500 million because of a patent infringement wouldn't you start patenting everything in site too?
Switch to a government run program to eliminate waste and finger pointing??? You must live in a different country than the US.
Key words being "you piss him off". If you don't want to be bombed don't attack the US, don't fund people who attack the US, don't harbor people who attack the US, don't give support of any kind to people who attack the US.
The US is done standing by while terrorists attack our people here and abroad.
Why should someone who goes to a club automatically be assumed to drink to much, be reckless or irresponsible? Many clubs have live bands I'm sure there are at least SOME people who go there who don't drink, yet you would still lable them as irresponsible drunks simply because they entered a bar and were logged into the system.
It's more of a civil liberties issue, sheep.
Or what if there's another Windows virus like CIH that gets the bios overwritten. Will this new system prevent it, recover from it or still be just as vulnerable as any other unpatched/secured Windows box? Questions that Intel will hopefully ask and answer before they ship the new processor.
I'd think that Windows exploits that potentially give others control over the system or allow them to shutdown/reboot them could still cause problems for the other operating systems running.
If you haven't patched XP in the last day or so and someone finds that latest exploit and shuts down the PC is it going to shut down only that instance, or power off the entire system?
Huh, just like The Thirteenth Floor (1999). Should be interesting to see how they play it out in Revolutions.
Or sequels for the bank accounts sake. As popular and successful as the first movie was a sequel was going to make them a ton of cash no matter how poorly done.
How many spammers do you report either to the law or to blacklist orgs a month, sparky? What are YOU doing to prevent it? Written your congressman or senator lately? Contacted your attorney general? If not STFU.
Or this example of someone who has spent $10,000 so far going after a spammer, and has yet to receive anything more than a court settlement but he's still out 10 grand. http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/ texis.cgi/web/vortex/display?slug=spam11&date=2003 0911&query=spam
Don't be bitter just because Gore lost the election.
Mozillas junk mail filter is the best solution I've found.
A little off the subject here, but what would be compelling proof to you? Better video of it? That could just be a higher quality hoax. Sending you there in person? There will always be those who refuse to belive. I'm not flaming you, just curious - what would it take to convince you?