Yes there is a function to do that. You need to log onto member services (yes, registration is needed). In that area, there is a page where you can transfer the lifetime product subscription from one service number to another. Since service numbers are in the BIOS (not on the harddrive), each unit has a unique service number.
Now, as to whether that allows you to transfer from a series 1 to series 2, I don't know. I haven't had to use it yet (and I'm holding on to my series 1 until some major advantages come out for the series 2.)
Paying $12.95 a month for 20 months (better known as 1 year 8 months) is $259. So, if you plan on having your Tivo longer than 20 months, the product lifetime option is better. (throw that whole thinking out the window with DirecTivo, since they're $4.95 a month, it'd take about 53 months... 4 years 5 months... to break even)
I had the same opinion (buy monthly, a new product is going to be forced on you every two years), and kept going monthly for my first 10 months. Then they had the monthly price increase, and let me buy at $199 lifetime. About 3 months ago I broke even, and am saving monry every month.
That, and I believe on their site they have the option to transfer a lifetime sub onto another box (does this work for transferring a sub from a series 1 standalone to a series 2 standalone?)
I've seen SciFi westerns (Star Trek: Original Series had one call Spectre of the Gun, which was a re-creation of Showdown at OK Corrall.
I've seen Sci-Fi football (Starship Troopers had a football game in it, set about 150 years in the future.)
I've seen SciFi Elvis (Quantum Leap: Sam leapt into Elvis in one of the last few episodes.)
But never one that combined the three. Of course, Quantum Leap touched on each topic at least once (yes, Sam leapt into a football player once, and he played a Doc out on a ranch in the west once)
New Twilight Zone is UPN, not SciFi. Maybe you're thinking of the new Outer Limits... which originally was made by Showtime, then after about 4 years Sci-Fi bought it.
SG-1 was also oiginally made by Showtime... and bought by Sci-Fi after about 5 years.
I think Lexx was originally an HBO series, bought by Sci-Fi.
I never watched Lexx, but I watched Outer Limits and SG-1 before and after Sci-Fi. Anyone notice that after Sci-Fi buys something that's still in production (not something in reruns like Lost in Space or Forever Knight), the quality of the show decreases dramatically?
Another example: Sliders. Was orignally a FOX show. It was a good show in it's 1st season, then Fox's execs demanded it be turned to crap, which of course got it cancelled. Sci-Fi bought it, and REALLY screwed it up.
I think the quality of Sci-Fi's writers also hinges on the fact that:
1) they're not a premium network. They make money off commercials and a few product placements, not off monthly subscriptions and product placements. 2) they're owned by USA, which is also known for tons of crap.
I think it's about 70% number 2, 20% number 1, and the rest just general faults of these shows (certain premises last longer than others, and you can only do so many plots on the same general building blocks.)
I disagree. Of those, the biggest selling point is Season Passes. You no longer have to worry about complex VCR programming, week after week, especially when the airing date or time changes. Better yet, you don't have to keep spending money on VHS tapes at all.
I know that I'm going on vacation to relatives for a few weeks at Christmas. Yes, they have TV at their house (no Tivo). However, they don't have the same viewing preferences as I do (I like Sci-Fi, they like Westerns, football, and Elvis). I don't have to worry, though, because my Tivo at home will catch all the episodes I miss. Try doing that with a VCR, especially with about 15-20 hours of content.
Of course, I'll be watching TV for a while, at my leisure, after I get back, but you'd be doing the same with a VCR.
Yes. There's actually a section about Holodeck functionality in the Star Trek next Generation Tech manual, where they show the person standing in the middle of the holodeck at all times.
Always made me wonder, how many people could you really fit in the holodeck at a time? In Next Generation, Holodeck was a meeting hall, probably 60x60 feet, with a height of 40 feet or so. In DS9, the holosuites were 20x20, at 20feet high. How did they ever fit seven or more people in there without the people seeing each other all the time? There were quite a few episodes where the whole senior staff were in the holosuites, including the whole last half of 7th season when Vic's Vegas Lounge was running non-stop.
Like I'm really gonna post my real IP so all the anon cowards can get it... It's bad enough that if you know what you're doing, you can get the IP I submitted this from (which is a PPPoE pool IP, so I can change it if I have to, so don't get any smart ideas...)
----------------------- net send 127.0.0.1 ILoveYou! Kindly read the attached popup from me to you.
a.bat ----------------------
It'll just run itself over and over again. Doing it from home (384k DSL) to here (typical college maxed out T1) got about 3 per second... your results may vary.
I would think that a lot of the major news sites like CNN and MSNBC, as well as Slashdot itself, would have some info as to how they held up on Sept 11, 2001. If anything was a Slashdot effect, that day was. (BTW, Slashdot seems to have been the site that best withstood the increased traffic that day... the other major ones crumbled.)
That said, people have written about the same thing, researching the Slashdot effect on their own sites, and posted logs here on Slashdot. I'm too lazy right now, but you may want to search the archives for some info.
Do not, whatever you do, read the phrase "Hunt the Wumpus" while dead tired... I got a bad picture of "Hump the Wumpus" in my head for a moment...
Oh, for the days of typing in BASIC games. I remember in Freshman year High School ('93), going to the school library, pulling a BASIC book off the shelf, then sitting at the never used C-64 and typing in a whole game over a week or two, then playing it. People would walk by and say "Cool, where'd you buy that game?" They could only play "Carmen Sandiego" on the 486/50's running Novell Netware.
Then, 2 years later, I finally got my own computer, and realized just how pathetically behind the school's computer system was. I don't even want to go there now and see what they've got, for fear I'd end up laughing myself to death.... I don't know which would be funnier... the ancientness of their systems, or playing "Hump the Wumpus"...
Of course, the horse has AI (actual intelligence)...
When will we get vehicles in the consumer market at a reasonable price that have basic AI? I've seen news the past 10 years about successful tests run, so why isn't there at least a high priced version available on consumer market?
Right movie, wrong reference. You're thinking of "Mr Fusion", the thing Doc threw trash (banana peels, beer, and the can itself) into to power the Delorean.
Flux Capacitor was inside the car, in the back seat area, and was shown as a Y shape.
The glass door is probably there for 2 reasons: aesthetics, and keeping the ambient noise level of the room to a minimum by attempting to keep noise inside the cabinet.
My suggestion: Cut a small hole in the backing of the cabinet and put in a small fan (standard 80mm case fan might work, but ya might want to find something a little larger to move more air.) It'll increase the noise level of the room by the noise level of the fan, but that will be less volume than taking the glass door off.
Now, I'm expecting someone to come along and respond to my post about how evil fans are and that he should be using water cooling...
Another suggestion, but this will increase the room noise and cut off any IR capabilities, is to put shuttered wood doors on the cabinet. These will allow at least some exchange of air, but unfortunately will block any IR remotes.
FYI: Link points correctly... stupid Slashdot rendering of typed text however displays a space between the e and n of Tolkien, so if you're copy pasting, take note.
In Letters from Tolkien, he hints very strongly to the Shire being based on England, and at some point (I don't remember where exactly) says "if fiction were to be dropped, the Shire would be someplace around Northwestern Europe".
Now, looking at the Middle Earth maps, and trying to figure out the scale, would that put Lonely Mountain soewhere near Berlin, and Mt Doom somewhere around Belgrade?
Of course, after I wrote all this, I did a simple search, and came up with this map, which centers Hobbiton on Oxford, England. It indeed places Mt Doom near Belgrade, but puts Mt Doom somewhere in Western Poland.
Of course, I've seen some other pages where they skew distances a bit further, and try to place Lonely Mountain near Moscow, and Mount Doom near Jerusalem.... and another page with someone even saying that Mt Doom, accounting for millenia of continental drift, is near modern day Baghdad.
Slashdot Mirror
Yes there is a function to do that. You need to log onto member services (yes, registration is needed). In that area, there is a page where you can transfer the lifetime product subscription from one service number to another. Since service numbers are in the BIOS (not on the harddrive), each unit has a unique service number.
Now, as to whether that allows you to transfer from a series 1 to series 2, I don't know. I haven't had to use it yet (and I'm holding on to my series 1 until some major advantages come out for the series 2.)
Paying $12.95 a month for 20 months (better known as 1 year 8 months) is $259. So, if you plan on having your Tivo longer than 20 months, the product lifetime option is better. (throw that whole thinking out the window with DirecTivo, since they're $4.95 a month, it'd take about 53 months... 4 years 5 months... to break even)
I had the same opinion (buy monthly, a new product is going to be forced on you every two years), and kept going monthly for my first 10 months. Then they had the monthly price increase, and let me buy at $199 lifetime. About 3 months ago I broke even, and am saving monry every month.
That, and I believe on their site they have the option to transfer a lifetime sub onto another box (does this work for transferring a sub from a series 1 standalone to a series 2 standalone?)
AAAAAHHHH!
I've seen SciFi westerns (Star Trek: Original Series had one call Spectre of the Gun, which was a re-creation of Showdown at OK Corrall.
I've seen Sci-Fi football (Starship Troopers had a football game in it, set about 150 years in the future.)
I've seen SciFi Elvis (Quantum Leap: Sam leapt into Elvis in one of the last few episodes.)
But never one that combined the three. Of course, Quantum Leap touched on each topic at least once (yes, Sam leapt into a football player once, and he played a Doc out on a ranch in the west once)
Obligatory:
3)?????
4)Profit!!!
(which goes right in line with what I just wrote...)
New Twilight Zone is UPN, not SciFi. Maybe you're thinking of the new Outer Limits... which originally was made by Showtime, then after about 4 years Sci-Fi bought it.
SG-1 was also oiginally made by Showtime... and bought by Sci-Fi after about 5 years.
I think Lexx was originally an HBO series, bought by Sci-Fi.
I never watched Lexx, but I watched Outer Limits and SG-1 before and after Sci-Fi. Anyone notice that after Sci-Fi buys something that's still in production (not something in reruns like Lost in Space or Forever Knight), the quality of the show decreases dramatically?
Another example: Sliders. Was orignally a FOX show. It was a good show in it's 1st season, then Fox's execs demanded it be turned to crap, which of course got it cancelled. Sci-Fi bought it, and REALLY screwed it up.
I think the quality of Sci-Fi's writers also hinges on the fact that:
1) they're not a premium network. They make money off commercials and a few product placements, not off monthly subscriptions and product placements.
2) they're owned by USA, which is also known for tons of crap.
I think it's about 70% number 2, 20% number 1, and the rest just general faults of these shows (certain premises last longer than others, and you can only do so many plots on the same general building blocks.)
I disagree. Of those, the biggest selling point is Season Passes. You no longer have to worry about complex VCR programming, week after week, especially when the airing date or time changes. Better yet, you don't have to keep spending money on VHS tapes at all.
I know that I'm going on vacation to relatives for a few weeks at Christmas. Yes, they have TV at their house (no Tivo). However, they don't have the same viewing preferences as I do (I like Sci-Fi, they like Westerns, football, and Elvis). I don't have to worry, though, because my Tivo at home will catch all the episodes I miss. Try doing that with a VCR, especially with about 15-20 hours of content.
Of course, I'll be watching TV for a while, at my leisure, after I get back, but you'd be doing the same with a VCR.
Yes. There's actually a section about Holodeck functionality in the Star Trek next Generation Tech manual, where they show the person standing in the middle of the holodeck at all times.
Always made me wonder, how many people could you really fit in the holodeck at a time? In Next Generation, Holodeck was a meeting hall, probably 60x60 feet, with a height of 40 feet or so. In DS9, the holosuites were 20x20, at 20feet high. How did they ever fit seven or more people in there without the people seeing each other all the time? There were quite a few episodes where the whole senior staff were in the holosuites, including the whole last half of 7th season when Vic's Vegas Lounge was running non-stop.
I think it has something to do with Klingons
That, and Valenti is MPAA, not RIAA
Or he could have been on a terminal server session, and the server administrator sent the popup message to his session.
I like your theory better though.
Like I'm really gonna post my real IP so all the anon cowards can get it... It's bad enough that if you know what you're doing, you can get the IP I submitted this from (which is a PPPoE pool IP, so I can change it if I have to, so don't get any smart ideas...)
Arwen?!?! I wanna see the Balrog!
He's so hot!
yes. Make a recursive batch file called a.bat:
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net send 127.0.0.1 ILoveYou! Kindly read the attached popup from me to you.
a.bat
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It'll just run itself over and over again. Doing it from home (384k DSL) to here (typical college maxed out T1) got about 3 per second... your results may vary.
I would think that a lot of the major news sites like CNN and MSNBC, as well as Slashdot itself, would have some info as to how they held up on Sept 11, 2001. If anything was a Slashdot effect, that day was. (BTW, Slashdot seems to have been the site that best withstood the increased traffic that day... the other major ones crumbled.)
That said, people have written about the same thing, researching the Slashdot effect on their own sites, and posted logs here on Slashdot. I'm too lazy right now, but you may want to search the archives for some info.
Do not, whatever you do, read the phrase "Hunt the Wumpus" while dead tired... I got a bad picture of "Hump the Wumpus" in my head for a moment...
... I don't know which would be funnier... the ancientness of their systems, or playing "Hump the Wumpus"...
Oh, for the days of typing in BASIC games. I remember in Freshman year High School ('93), going to the school library, pulling a BASIC book off the shelf, then sitting at the never used C-64 and typing in a whole game over a week or two, then playing it. People would walk by and say "Cool, where'd you buy that game?" They could only play "Carmen Sandiego" on the 486/50's running Novell Netware.
Then, 2 years later, I finally got my own computer, and realized just how pathetically behind the school's computer system was. I don't even want to go there now and see what they've got, for fear I'd end up laughing myself to death.
Oh, I'm pretty sure it'll pop-up or pop-under sometime, just you wait...
Watch out for the shrink-wrap version of this EULA, though. "By entering this stall, you agree to the contents listed herein on this EULA."
Of course, you can't read this EULA until after you enter the stall, but that's the whole point.
Of course, the horse has AI (actual intelligence)...
When will we get vehicles in the consumer market at a reasonable price that have basic AI? I've seen news the past 10 years about successful tests run, so why isn't there at least a high priced version available on consumer market?
Right movie, wrong reference. You're thinking of "Mr Fusion", the thing Doc threw trash (banana peels, beer, and the can itself) into to power the Delorean.
Flux Capacitor was inside the car, in the back seat area, and was shown as a Y shape.
The glass door is probably there for 2 reasons: aesthetics, and keeping the ambient noise level of the room to a minimum by attempting to keep noise inside the cabinet.
My suggestion: Cut a small hole in the backing of the cabinet and put in a small fan (standard 80mm case fan might work, but ya might want to find something a little larger to move more air.) It'll increase the noise level of the room by the noise level of the fan, but that will be less volume than taking the glass door off.
Now, I'm expecting someone to come along and respond to my post about how evil fans are and that he should be using water cooling...
Another suggestion, but this will increase the room noise and cut off any IR capabilities, is to put shuttered wood doors on the cabinet. These will allow at least some exchange of air, but unfortunately will block any IR remotes.
Google Pics.... it's an old pic, but a goodie. It's listed about 7 or 8 times on the first match page.
Links, man! Provide some links!
And how many degrees of separation is this from Kevin Bacon?
FYI: Link points correctly... stupid Slashdot rendering of typed text however displays a space between the e and n of Tolkien, so if you're copy pasting, take note.
Now, looking at the Middle Earth maps, and trying to figure out the scale, would that put Lonely Mountain soewhere near Berlin, and Mt Doom somewhere around Belgrade?
Of course, after I wrote all this, I did a simple search, and came up with this map, which centers Hobbiton on Oxford, England. It indeed places Mt Doom near Belgrade, but puts Mt Doom somewhere in Western Poland.
http://people.wiesbaden.netsurf.de/~lalaith/Tolkie n/Grid.html
Of course, I've seen some other pages where they skew distances a bit further, and try to place Lonely Mountain near Moscow, and Mount Doom near Jerusalem.... and another page with someone even saying that Mt Doom, accounting for millenia of continental drift, is near modern day Baghdad.
I prefer the theory of the page I linked to....