I too have been hit by the faulty logic board in ibooks. I've actually had two go bad: a G3 & G4 (god only knows why I bought the G4). The G3's logic board died under warrenty, so we were able to get that fixed. I ended up selling/giving it to my brother in-law and it has recently completely died. Same symptoms, the screen won't come on, which was preceded by horizontal lines going accross the screen randomly.
The G4's harddrive died, which I was able to RMA with toshiba. However, shortly after that it started exhibiting the same symptoms that the G3 had, however this time it died out of warrenty and thus Apple wanted around $600-700 to fix it. Needless to say I ended up buying a new Compaq. It's unbelievable that they knew about this problem in the G3 and didn't fix it in the G4.
I also have a 1G ipod that is barely ever used, but I frequently have to reinstall the os software on. It becomes corrupted constantly.
I don't know if these necessarily fall into customer service issues, however my only experience with apple products has shown that they are of substandard quality. There's absolutely no reason I should have 2 laptops litterally die on me in 3 years.
Um, maybe it "sucked" because Sci-fi isn't in HD yet. If you're watching an SD source upconverted on a HD set then any imperfaction in the picture is going to be magnified. Directv looks great on my 32" SD CRT (although I do see some artifacting, but I'd much prefer that to the snow that cable offers me). Don't expect to throw it on a big expensive HD set and have it look great. That's exactly why I didn't spring for HD. I'll revisit it in a couple of years though once they bring HD locals to my market and expand their HD programming offering.
Of course you can keep your aim name. Just make sure you register it as an aim name before you cancel aol. I did this as at one point I did have aol, but haven't for years and my aim name has continued to work.
Mail is another matter though. You won't still have access to that. But the easy solution is to just use 'aolname'@gmail.com or whatever else and let people know you've changed email addresses.
I like that, "Longhorn is bound to be a new WindowsME by all the signals." I hadn't thought about it like that before, but you're probably correct.
I'm pretty sure this is an upgrade I won't be making. I'm perfectly happy with XP and see no reason to upgrade (many said this about 2k). I really dont' like the fact that their preliminary stated minimum requirements are 1GHz 512MB RAM. Yes my computer exceeds that, but that will pretty much mean I'll be on the lower end of the spectrum requirements-wise. I don't want to take a step back, and I certainly don't want to have to purchase a new computer to just to run a new OS that doesn't offer me all that much.
I am hoping to buy a mac at some point though. I just need to wait until I get some other things taken care of and my job situation stabelizes. I've had my eye on a powerbook for a while, and now Tiger is making me go to www.apple.com even more than normal.
I agree with this. Cable is going to kill satellite when it comes to HD. Satellite in the end might have more total capacity, but most if it is going to be wasted in the replication of the same content around 300 times (1500 local channels).
Cable doesn't have to provide 1500 local channels, they have to provide around 6. This leaves them plenty of room for actual HD content. My local cable company already offers me all of my locals in HD plus about 10 more HD channels than either sat company offers.
Actually, no they couldn't have. For one reason. Bandwidth. They are completely maxed out right now. They couldn't have added 1 more HD channel, let alone 1500 additional HD channels. Each HD channel is something like 15 SD channel.
The only reason they are able to do this is because they are going to be transmitting using a different band - KA. The current DirecTV sattelites transmit in the KU band. So they'll be using their existing orbital slots 101, 110, & 119 to broadcast on a different wavelenght.
Unfortunately this is going to be mean a larger dish will be required. Google dish network superdish for an idea of how big it is. Dish Network already does broadcast some local channels in KA band.
I will confirm that a software update will not allow an HDTiVo to decode MPEG-4. TiVos are very low powered devices, and thus use hardware decoder chips, not software decoding. So they have an MPEG-2 decoder chip to complement a comparibly underpowered CPU. They can't simply push a new codec down to the TiVo to decode MPEG-4.
How long until Episodes 1-3 are re-released in theaters digitally remastered with new scenes and completely recut so that his original vision comes through?
Directv is switching to MPEG-4 encoding this year with the launch of the spaceway sats. I'm sure there will be a transition period so your HDTiVo should work for a while, but there will come a point where you will have to upgrade.
Yeah, everytime I go home, my brother's computer is so damn infested with spyware it's ridiculous. I've probably spent a collective 5-10 hours cleaning it.
Yesterday my mom said you'll have to look at your brother's laptop again at Thanksgiving, he said it restarts every ten minutes after he turns it on. I told her I was kind of getting tired of doing this, I keep cleaning it up and he keeps messing it up. She asked me, how does it get like this? I said, hmmm....I don't know. I didn't really want to tell her that he's probably surfing ridiculous ammounts of pRon.
Spyware sure is a problem, especially when people use IE and surf less than legitmate sites. However, if you use firefox and keep your websurfing clean, you rarely encounter any spyware.
GRRRR....I really hate being the "IT" person in my family. I spend half my time at home fixing computers.
I just went there and didn't get a pop-up. Infact Firefox told me it blocked on. Is it when you click on links there? I'm not into bittorrent stuff, so I wouldn't know.
Although, I've noticed that Drudgereport manages to give me a popup if I click on one of his headlines. That's really the only site I've seen that has been able to get around FF's popup blocker.
I think as sites come up with new wasy to throw pop-ups, mozilla will come up with new ways to block them. (Maybe I should submit a bug report to mozilla about drudge)
It's a good thing that Mozilla isn't under a BSD license then.
Mozilla uses a tri license - MPL/GPL/LGPL http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/
Basically it boils down to that if someone uses their source code, changes it and distributes it, they too have to provide the modified source code free of charge. I believe I also read something about not being able to change or remove logos. Much different than the BSD license you describe.
Microsoft is free to come out with their own Mozilla variant, but they would have to provide the source code, something I doubt they'd do.
Also, what motiviation do they have to mess with mozilla code? They have a lot invested in IE, which is actually pretty fast and renders pages in many cases (see broken code) better than firefox. All they need to do is add tabbed browsing and fix some security holes and they can say hey look, we don't suck as much anymore.
Holy $hit. That's crazy. They just had a HMO demo, but wow it's actually included? Discounted monthly rates are awsome too. I almost might consider picking up another one now. Thanks for the heads up on this.
For any doubters here's a link: http://www.tivo.com/1.12.asp
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I too have been hit by the faulty logic board in ibooks. I've actually had two go bad: a G3 & G4 (god only knows why I bought the G4). The G3's logic board died under warrenty, so we were able to get that fixed. I ended up selling/giving it to my brother in-law and it has recently completely died. Same symptoms, the screen won't come on, which was preceded by horizontal lines going accross the screen randomly.
The G4's harddrive died, which I was able to RMA with toshiba. However, shortly after that it started exhibiting the same symptoms that the G3 had, however this time it died out of warrenty and thus Apple wanted around $600-700 to fix it. Needless to say I ended up buying a new Compaq. It's unbelievable that they knew about this problem in the G3 and didn't fix it in the G4.
I also have a 1G ipod that is barely ever used, but I frequently have to reinstall the os software on. It becomes corrupted constantly.
I don't know if these necessarily fall into customer service issues, however my only experience with apple products has shown that they are of substandard quality. There's absolutely no reason I should have 2 laptops litterally die on me in 3 years.
Um, maybe it "sucked" because Sci-fi isn't in HD yet. If you're watching an SD source upconverted on a HD set then any imperfaction in the picture is going to be magnified. Directv looks great on my 32" SD CRT (although I do see some artifacting, but I'd much prefer that to the snow that cable offers me). Don't expect to throw it on a big expensive HD set and have it look great. That's exactly why I didn't spring for HD. I'll revisit it in a couple of years though once they bring HD locals to my market and expand their HD programming offering.
Nobody will ever need more than 640k.
Of course you can keep your aim name. Just make sure you register it as an aim name before you cancel aol. I did this as at one point I did have aol, but haven't for years and my aim name has continued to work.
Mail is another matter though. You won't still have access to that. But the easy solution is to just use 'aolname'@gmail.com or whatever else and let people know you've changed email addresses.
I don't think searching is a problem for google.
http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/04/28/ 2214245&tid=123&tid=179&tid=3
I like that, "Longhorn is bound to be a new WindowsME by all the signals." I hadn't thought about it like that before, but you're probably correct.
I'm pretty sure this is an upgrade I won't be making. I'm perfectly happy with XP and see no reason to upgrade (many said this about 2k). I really dont' like the fact that their preliminary stated minimum requirements are 1GHz 512MB RAM. Yes my computer exceeds that, but that will pretty much mean I'll be on the lower end of the spectrum requirements-wise. I don't want to take a step back, and I certainly don't want to have to purchase a new computer to just to run a new OS that doesn't offer me all that much.
I am hoping to buy a mac at some point though. I just need to wait until I get some other things taken care of and my job situation stabelizes. I've had my eye on a powerbook for a while, and now Tiger is making me go to www.apple.com even more than normal.
I agree with this. Cable is going to kill satellite when it comes to HD. Satellite in the end might have more total capacity, but most if it is going to be wasted in the replication of the same content around 300 times (1500 local channels).
Cable doesn't have to provide 1500 local channels, they have to provide around 6. This leaves them plenty of room for actual HD content. My local cable company already offers me all of my locals in HD plus about 10 more HD channels than either sat company offers.
Actually, no they couldn't have. For one reason. Bandwidth. They are completely maxed out right now. They couldn't have added 1 more HD channel, let alone 1500 additional HD channels. Each HD channel is something like 15 SD channel.
The only reason they are able to do this is because they are going to be transmitting using a different band - KA. The current DirecTV sattelites transmit in the KU band. So they'll be using their existing orbital slots 101, 110, & 119 to broadcast on a different wavelenght.
Unfortunately this is going to be mean a larger dish will be required. Google dish network superdish for an idea of how big it is. Dish Network already does broadcast some local channels in KA band.
I will confirm that a software update will not allow an HDTiVo to decode MPEG-4. TiVos are very low powered devices, and thus use hardware decoder chips, not software decoding. So they have an MPEG-2 decoder chip to complement a comparibly underpowered CPU. They can't simply push a new codec down to the TiVo to decode MPEG-4.
HD DirecTiVos will be obsolete next year.
How long until Episodes 1-3 are re-released in theaters digitally remastered with new scenes and completely recut so that his original vision comes through?
This is BS. Pretty much any computer you buy will come with all of the software you need to do all of the things you listed.
MS Office is included with most computers and if the computer has a DVD drive it most certainly comes with a dvd application.
The only thing that might not be there by default is browsing the internet risk free.
Your VCR doesn't set itself? But yeah I don't use my VCR to actually record anything, but my TiVo doesn't have a clock so I keep the VCR around.
Directv is switching to MPEG-4 encoding this year with the launch of the spaceway sats. I'm sure there will be a transition period so your HDTiVo should work for a while, but there will come a point where you will have to upgrade.
A couple of good sites to find more info are:
http://www.dbsforums.com
http://www.dbstalk.com
http://www.tivocommunity.com
I guess there's a reason why I've always had an enormous respect for how classy Browns fans are.
If the Steelers lose on Sun (23rd), the 24th will be one of the most miserable days of the year for sure.
Here We Go Steelers, Here We Go!
Did you really tell your daughter to RTFM?
Yeah, everytime I go home, my brother's computer is so damn infested with spyware it's ridiculous. I've probably spent a collective 5-10 hours cleaning it.
Yesterday my mom said you'll have to look at your brother's laptop again at Thanksgiving, he said it restarts every ten minutes after he turns it on. I told her I was kind of getting tired of doing this, I keep cleaning it up and he keeps messing it up. She asked me, how does it get like this? I said, hmmm....I don't know. I didn't really want to tell her that he's probably surfing ridiculous ammounts of pRon.
Spyware sure is a problem, especially when people use IE and surf less than legitmate sites. However, if you use firefox and keep your websurfing clean, you rarely encounter any spyware.
GRRRR....I really hate being the "IT" person in my family. I spend half my time at home fixing computers.
I just went there and didn't get a pop-up. Infact Firefox told me it blocked on. Is it when you click on links there? I'm not into bittorrent stuff, so I wouldn't know.
Although, I've noticed that Drudgereport manages to give me a popup if I click on one of his headlines. That's really the only site I've seen that has been able to get around FF's popup blocker.
I think as sites come up with new wasy to throw pop-ups, mozilla will come up with new ways to block them. (Maybe I should submit a bug report to mozilla about drudge)
It's a good thing that Mozilla isn't under a BSD license then.
Mozilla uses a tri license - MPL/GPL/LGPL
http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/
Basically it boils down to that if someone uses their source code, changes it and distributes it, they too have to provide the modified source code free of charge. I believe I also read something about not being able to change or remove logos. Much different than the BSD license you describe.
Microsoft is free to come out with their own Mozilla variant, but they would have to provide the source code, something I doubt they'd do.
Also, what motiviation do they have to mess with mozilla code? They have a lot invested in IE, which is actually pretty fast and renders pages in many cases (see broken code) better than firefox. All they need to do is add tabbed browsing and fix some security holes and they can say hey look, we don't suck as much anymore.
I completely agree. It's ridiculous that they're making us buy new tv's. I will not until I absolutely have to.
I hate it when I 'loose' things.
Wow, that is freaking scary. This should be on the front page of slashdot. Big Brother is coming... I can't believe that people willingly do this.
Holy $hit. That's crazy. They just had a HMO demo, but wow it's actually included? Discounted monthly rates are awsome too. I almost might consider picking up another one now. Thanks for the heads up on this.
For any doubters here's a link: http://www.tivo.com/1.12.asp
Ha, no that's just it, it's the original AIW Radeon, no number (actually i think its a 7000 or something).