...but in France, that freedom of speech is only guaranteed if it is spoken in French... Now to me, if the European Union is serious about European Unity, that all the countries must have the same basic laws and currency, shouldn't they all speak the same language? English perhaps? I wish the British would just adopt the Euro and then the tabloids could campaign for everyone in the country to call it the Euro-Pound... Or the *Sterlo* (sterling/sterile euro??)...
don't forget that the BJP also persecutes Christians (all denominations). They aren't happy that the Roman Catholic Church has the intention of converting all 300 million of the *untouchables* caste because the Hindus believe the untouchables were ordained into their misery by their previous existence...
Wait....the Replay engineers hang out in the online forums? You mean SonicBlue didn't ship them to India when they packed up the Customer Support call center and sent them to that third world country? Wow. TiVo has a whole online community that knowledgeable owners and employees hang out at, and TiVo's Customer Support call center is located in New Mexico. Beat that...
Replay is "da bomb." The product tanked the original company, then SonicBlue purchased the remains, and lo and behold, they are now out of business. And 100,000 subscribers to Tivo's 700,000+. You definitely described the situation accurately!
My posting shouldn't have been modded down as a troll. I gave useful information on the last time there was any attempt at a Constitutional Amendment to abolish the Electoral College. I was surprised when nobody (Ross Perot?) picked up the mantle in 2000 over this issue...
Tuba Dude,
I only singled out the Dems because that is who the previous poster was siding with. I personally felt Bush should've stepped aside after losing the popular vote and then set back, campaigned to abolish the Electoral College, and then returned in 2004 with a landslide election victory. But that didn't happen. I just like to point out that the Dems had 50 years where they could've taken a stand and abolished the Electoral College before we ever got to the unnecessary election crisis of 2000, but they didn't. Its a shame it always takes an emergency to get the U.S. to do anything... Civil War, Pearl Harbor, 9-11, etc.
You must have Time Warner Cable... its the only PVR from a cable company that can actually record two shows at once. But you don't have commercial skip or fast forward, or anything like TiVo's Season Passes. Just remember, you get what you pay for.
The operating system that runs the TiVo hardware is Linux...just so you know... It is TiVo's value added UI and program guides that make it the premium service that it is. Just like Apple with OS X...
Why have a ceremonial President who does nothing? The whole point of a president is to have an elected (well, not all the time) non-hereditary monarch (ie. "executive") for a fixed amount of time that exerts control over the representative body and keeps them in check. If the President does nothing, then you might as well have a ceremonial monarch. This goes for Ireland and Israel as well. Then again, I wish the British Monarchy would exert some of their remaining constitutional powers...I would not be content with ribbon cutting ceremonies at shopping malls when *B* and *C* list celebrities can do that instead...
You are an idiot. Why don't you mention how the Democrats drove vans around gathering up homeless people with promises of buying them cigarettes to vote for Gore? What about illegal aliens casting votes for Gore? What about the (Democratic Party controlled) judicial system in Florida that kept on changing their definitions of what constituted a cast vote? Our President was elected fairly based upon the requirements of the Constitution. If the Democratic Party didn't like the Electoral College so much, they should've put forth a serious Constitutional Amendment to abolish the Electoral College during their 50 year *reign* in Congress. But they didn't. The last time there was a laughable attempt at putting forth such a Constitutional Amendment was back in 1976, during the previously mentioned *reign* of the Democrats. It failed miserably. So if you are going to critique American politics, you might want to actually learn about the mechanics of our government first instead of aping what is fashionable in the ill-informed European press...
...drop Replay itself and exchange its intellectual property with Tivo in exchange for a Tivo hardware/software license and a stake in the company. In the end, they'll save themselves a lot of legal problems and they can carve themselves out a profitable niche for more advanced Tivo hardware...better that than spend a ton of money trying to educate consumers why their Replay TV system is *better* than the prevailing Tivo and Dish Network DVR platforms... Last time I heard, Replay had less than 100k customers, Tivo had over 700k, and Dish has 1 million PVR customers...
All too true...
However, it would be much better if Apple could hype the marketing point that you could transfer music from a Mac to an iPod at 800mbps whereas all the other competitors in PC land could only do it at 480mbps at best (and we all know USB 2.0 falls far short of the 480mbps mark)...
Getting all Macs at Firewire800 and the simplicity of using iMovie and iDVD would work wonders on the digital video camcorder market and keep those companies from dropping Firewire (albeit IEEE1394a) and adopting the more prevalent USB 2.0 ports...
And on a sidenote, I myself would like to see a Firewire (400 or 800) based scanner from HP (or others) at the $150 price mark... The more Apple does to cement the Firewire800 *standard* the sooner that will become a reality...
Where's the disclaimer for "this film has been modified from its original format; the film has been modified to fit your CRT screen." I smells me a Ted Turner behind this conspiracy!
MacDaffy...that's cool that you were able to do that, but what about eMac and iMac owners? Unless the chip company Apple bought the USB controllers from on a particular day offered USB 2.0 support, those (eMac and iMac) owners will not be able to reap the benefit of the extra speed. Apple isn't going to tell the customers that either. The customer will have to open up their machine, peer into it and write down the chip code and check it online and then get some type of driver to enable the speed. [I'm going to go out on a limb and assume that most PowerMac owners are competent and have enough confidence in their abilities to install an add-on PCI card that will give them such an upgrade on their own] Its as lame as Intel making a single chip and crippling the clock speed to sell the same exact chip at different price structures. The other point to my argument is if Apple wants Firewire800 to take off (which it deserves to) quickly, it needs its entire product lines to have it; not introduce it in the tiered fashion they are currently chosing to do. While Apple isn't hurting with its iTunes downloads, just imagine if Apple's platform from top to bottom used Firewire800 for connecting the iPods. Until Apple can match GHZ to GHZ with the PC world, they need to stand up on a soapbox and yell to anyone willing to listen to all the other features Apples have that beat the PC world.
Thanks for the info. I work for a state agency in the world's 5th/6th largest economy and our legal department made us keep hardcopy records because they erred in stating digitized copies could not be used as evidence in future cases...guess that simply means that government rarely hires the sharpest tools in the shed...:)
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...but in France, that freedom of speech is only guaranteed if it is spoken in French... Now to me, if the European Union is serious about European Unity, that all the countries must have the same basic laws and currency, shouldn't they all speak the same language? English perhaps? I wish the British would just adopt the Euro and then the tabloids could campaign for everyone in the country to call it the Euro-Pound... Or the *Sterlo* (sterling/sterile euro??)...
don't forget that the BJP also persecutes Christians (all denominations). They aren't happy that the Roman Catholic Church has the intention of converting all 300 million of the *untouchables* caste because the Hindus believe the untouchables were ordained into their misery by their previous existence...
Wait....the Replay engineers hang out in the online forums? You mean SonicBlue didn't ship them to India when they packed up the Customer Support call center and sent them to that third world country? Wow. TiVo has a whole online community that knowledgeable owners and employees hang out at, and TiVo's Customer Support call center is located in New Mexico. Beat that...
Replay is "da bomb." The product tanked the original company, then SonicBlue purchased the remains, and lo and behold, they are now out of business. And 100,000 subscribers to Tivo's 700,000+. You definitely described the situation accurately!
yes, but Virgin Records *is* owned by EMI! :)
My posting shouldn't have been modded down as a troll. I gave useful information on the last time there was any attempt at a Constitutional Amendment to abolish the Electoral College. I was surprised when nobody (Ross Perot?) picked up the mantle in 2000 over this issue...
Tuba Dude, I only singled out the Dems because that is who the previous poster was siding with. I personally felt Bush should've stepped aside after losing the popular vote and then set back, campaigned to abolish the Electoral College, and then returned in 2004 with a landslide election victory. But that didn't happen. I just like to point out that the Dems had 50 years where they could've taken a stand and abolished the Electoral College before we ever got to the unnecessary election crisis of 2000, but they didn't. Its a shame it always takes an emergency to get the U.S. to do anything... Civil War, Pearl Harbor, 9-11, etc.
You must have Time Warner Cable... its the only PVR from a cable company that can actually record two shows at once. But you don't have commercial skip or fast forward, or anything like TiVo's Season Passes. Just remember, you get what you pay for.
The operating system that runs the TiVo hardware is Linux...just so you know... It is TiVo's value added UI and program guides that make it the premium service that it is. Just like Apple with OS X...
Sky + is licensed TiVo under the Sky brand...
...yeah, sure they would. They'd be mad we freed the slaves and gave the right to vote (not to mention drive automobiles!) to women...
Why have a ceremonial President who does nothing? The whole point of a president is to have an elected (well, not all the time) non-hereditary monarch (ie. "executive") for a fixed amount of time that exerts control over the representative body and keeps them in check. If the President does nothing, then you might as well have a ceremonial monarch. This goes for Ireland and Israel as well. Then again, I wish the British Monarchy would exert some of their remaining constitutional powers...I would not be content with ribbon cutting ceremonies at shopping malls when *B* and *C* list celebrities can do that instead...
You are an idiot. Why don't you mention how the Democrats drove vans around gathering up homeless people with promises of buying them cigarettes to vote for Gore? What about illegal aliens casting votes for Gore? What about the (Democratic Party controlled) judicial system in Florida that kept on changing their definitions of what constituted a cast vote? Our President was elected fairly based upon the requirements of the Constitution. If the Democratic Party didn't like the Electoral College so much, they should've put forth a serious Constitutional Amendment to abolish the Electoral College during their 50 year *reign* in Congress. But they didn't. The last time there was a laughable attempt at putting forth such a Constitutional Amendment was back in 1976, during the previously mentioned *reign* of the Democrats. It failed miserably. So if you are going to critique American politics, you might want to actually learn about the mechanics of our government first instead of aping what is fashionable in the ill-informed European press...
tell that to *the untouchables* and I don't mean the cast from that particular movie either!
my sentiments exactly...Great job on articulating that so clearly... I fear D&M will sell out to Microsoft...
read it here: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=49 4&ncid=763&e=3&u=/ap/20030523/ap_en_tv/earns_t ivo
someone had to say it...
and how many times has Replay gone under or taken their parent company under? Quick, lemme count that out...
Too bad Nvidia does not have a solid gold pair enabling them to open source that API...
...drop Replay itself and exchange its intellectual property with Tivo in exchange for a Tivo hardware/software license and a stake in the company. In the end, they'll save themselves a lot of legal problems and they can carve themselves out a profitable niche for more advanced Tivo hardware...better that than spend a ton of money trying to educate consumers why their Replay TV system is *better* than the prevailing Tivo and Dish Network DVR platforms... Last time I heard, Replay had less than 100k customers, Tivo had over 700k, and Dish has 1 million PVR customers...
All too true... However, it would be much better if Apple could hype the marketing point that you could transfer music from a Mac to an iPod at 800mbps whereas all the other competitors in PC land could only do it at 480mbps at best (and we all know USB 2.0 falls far short of the 480mbps mark)... Getting all Macs at Firewire800 and the simplicity of using iMovie and iDVD would work wonders on the digital video camcorder market and keep those companies from dropping Firewire (albeit IEEE1394a) and adopting the more prevalent USB 2.0 ports... And on a sidenote, I myself would like to see a Firewire (400 or 800) based scanner from HP (or others) at the $150 price mark... The more Apple does to cement the Firewire800 *standard* the sooner that will become a reality...
Where's the disclaimer for "this film has been modified from its original format; the film has been modified to fit your CRT screen." I smells me a Ted Turner behind this conspiracy!
MacDaffy...that's cool that you were able to do that, but what about eMac and iMac owners? Unless the chip company Apple bought the USB controllers from on a particular day offered USB 2.0 support, those (eMac and iMac) owners will not be able to reap the benefit of the extra speed. Apple isn't going to tell the customers that either. The customer will have to open up their machine, peer into it and write down the chip code and check it online and then get some type of driver to enable the speed. [I'm going to go out on a limb and assume that most PowerMac owners are competent and have enough confidence in their abilities to install an add-on PCI card that will give them such an upgrade on their own] Its as lame as Intel making a single chip and crippling the clock speed to sell the same exact chip at different price structures. The other point to my argument is if Apple wants Firewire800 to take off (which it deserves to) quickly, it needs its entire product lines to have it; not introduce it in the tiered fashion they are currently chosing to do. While Apple isn't hurting with its iTunes downloads, just imagine if Apple's platform from top to bottom used Firewire800 for connecting the iPods. Until Apple can match GHZ to GHZ with the PC world, they need to stand up on a soapbox and yell to anyone willing to listen to all the other features Apples have that beat the PC world.
Thanks for the info. I work for a state agency in the world's 5th/6th largest economy and our legal department made us keep hardcopy records because they erred in stating digitized copies could not be used as evidence in future cases...guess that simply means that government rarely hires the sharpest tools in the shed... :)
I thought courts would only admit hardcopies and not scanned documents. Seems like Sun is wasting money to scan those old documents...