The biggest reason I like the Brighthouse DVR is because when I click the down arrow, it goes down immediately, not 1/2 second later like it does on my TiVo (hence, the SLOOOOOOW part).
That, and the TiVo interface is really counter-intuitive. You can't be at the bottom of a list click down one more time and be taken to the top (or vice versa, and side to side). I just get a number of irritants with my TiVo overall.
I happen to have a Series2. It is SLLLOOOOOOW. I have to buy MyDVD if I want to burn my recorded shows to DVD (or buy thier TiVo with the DVD burner). If I want to transfer files to my computer it literally brings the TiVo to a halt and I can no longer watch any TV until I restart the system.... which takes at least 5 minutes.
I don't know what cable service provider you have, but down in Florida we have Brightouse (formerly Time-Warner). The DVR system they have is VASTLY superior to my TiVo.... I'm saying this, and I HATE BrightHouse, with a passion.
The only thing I really do like about the TiVo is the suggested shows that it records.
All urinals, at least in Florida, are individual porcelain, and very very very rarely do you see one that comes all the way down to the floor, most just, basically, hang there.
Retail stores don't usually make much of any proffit on computers and such (consoles included) if any at all. They basically sell them at cost, and then charge you out the rear for accessories, extended warantees (Best Buy especially), etc...
Not to mention that Microsoft is paying a lot less for a products than the guy who wrote the article would get. Also, Microsoft is manufacturing a lot of stuff in-house, so that makes it even less.
Interestingly, the original goal for the 1st X-Box was for Microsoft to just make the OS and APIs, specific design specs, etc... and then sell the software to hardware manufacturers to build the actual consoles based on those specs (plus other stuff). Nobody wanted to do it though.
Lemons will always exist as long as people are still working on the last day of the work week.(Forever)
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SO the hardware which is sold for hundreds less what it costs to make should be more stable than that few hundred dollar piece of stand-alone software?
Anyone remember how BAD the original NES was? You tap the system the wrong way and it crashes.
I didn't inject any political views into that, yet you come off blowing smoke out of your ass?
During WW2, every single factory in the US was manufacturing military equipment. The war was MUCH different. Also, to even compare the spending budge for WW2 to that of the war in Iraq is absolutely absurd.
Also, how can we downsize the military when we are already short on troops as is? I said nothing about the end of America as a super-power. Though, thank God you aren't in office, as you seem awfully quick to use nukes.
Furthermore, I didn't say NASA needed to be privatized. I didn't even say I think it should be privatized. I also didn't say that NASA had a huge budget, or even too much budgeted towards it. I 3 the space program.
We did, actually, pay off most of that debt from WW2 (We were a huge creditor before during, and after the war). Most of the debt from today probably comes from Reagan, though, it has built up over several decades (I would say '70s til now).
In reality, war does cost a lot, and you do rack up the debt... during the war, but afterwards you get all of it back and then some. In the end, economically, war is profitable.
Now to me, it seems, the only way to pay off the debt we currently have would be to privatize. Perhaps even privatize the biggies like NASA, allow the some gov. grants, but let them live in the corp. world. Give defense stuff that NASA does back to the USAF (or start Starfleet?) Not saying that this is all a good idea. There are many downsides, it's just about the only way I can see, right now, to get the debt down...... besides starting WW3.
Well, is this being developed by NASA, or is being developed by some company, such as Northrop-Gruman, or the like?
Also, how does NASA do things these days? Do they award entire contracts to one company? Would it not be better to have different companies work on sperate pieces?
I would like to see something more than the heavily underpowerd processor currently in it.
An interface that doesn't clutter up your already low-res TV.
Boot-up time of less than 5 minutes.
Thing I like the least about my TiVo S2 is how absolutely PATHETIC the system performance is. I've had the system come to a near hault to the point where it would show about 1 frame per second on the TV, if I had been transfering shows to my PC over night. Only way to fix the problem is to reboot the system, which takes about 5 mins. Not to mention how slowly the menus and such work in general.
Perhaps the ability to record a show on one channel and watch another. Probably isn't possible because of just how bad the hardware is.
A built-in ethernet adapater (even if it is just a wired one) would be nice.
I just got my TiVo, but I was thinking about getting a Media Center Extender because of how bad the system performs.
Ummm, look at the graphics difference between COD2 on the 360 and The Big Red One on the original Xbox (there is no COD2 because the original can't handle the graphics!)
1) A top of the line graphics card alone costs $500 (which is equal to in performance to that of the 360, if not less). Consider the whole system cost. You said that the 360 costs a whole lot more than a modern day computer.... I've got news for ya. Just the graphics card alone is more than the entire Xbox, with controllers, etc....
2) These are first gen games, which were really made the hardware that is currently available (and lower). Of course you aren't going to see anything mind blowing. Although, with all the settings turned up on COD2 demo, the 360 looked sooooo much better than the PC. I don't know if the PC Demo is limited in that for not, but I litterally said that COD2 looked exactly like COD1's graphics. However, that changed when I played it on the 360 at CompUSA.
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You want good 2D (GREAT 2D), get a Matrox card.
I don't know what college you went to, but all my books were 5x that size.
If the pictures of the as yet unreleased video ipods are real, then I'd hold off and get one of those.
Don't forget Lucent Technologies (which was once Bell Labs, the most important research facility of all time).
2003 just tells me I need admin rights.
Being foreced to get 2006 (for the payroll service) as they are retiring 2003. Hopefully they will have fixed the issue.
Then the said 3rd party software maker is all of a sudden getting a competitive edge that the start-ups and other companies do not.
Acrylic is NOT a Photoshop clone, not even close to the same at all.
If anything, Acryllic competes with Illustrator, as it is a vector drawing application, not a photo and image manipulation app.
Meanwhile, THG has been accused outrightly of being biased to AMD.
I guess it just depends on who YOU are biased to.
I've seen a couple of AMD commercials.....
They suck... big time.
I'm glad they don't do the whole commercial thing.
VIA bought Cyrix and is basically just doing low-power stuff with them.
Putting them in micro and nano ATX boards, etc...
The biggest reason I like the Brighthouse DVR is because when I click the down arrow, it goes down immediately, not 1/2 second later like it does on my TiVo (hence, the SLOOOOOOW part).
That, and the TiVo interface is really counter-intuitive. You can't be at the bottom of a list click down one more time and be taken to the top (or vice versa, and side to side). I just get a number of irritants with my TiVo overall.
How, exaclty, is TiVo superior?
I happen to have a Series2. It is SLLLOOOOOOW.
I have to buy MyDVD if I want to burn my recorded shows to DVD (or buy thier TiVo with the DVD burner).
If I want to transfer files to my computer it literally brings the TiVo to a halt and I can no longer watch any TV until I restart the system.... which takes at least 5 minutes.
I don't know what cable service provider you have, but down in Florida we have Brightouse (formerly Time-Warner). The DVR system they have is VASTLY superior to my TiVo.... I'm saying this, and I HATE BrightHouse, with a passion.
The only thing I really do like about the TiVo is the suggested shows that it records.
I wish I hadn't pre-paid for a year of service.
All urinals, at least in Florida, are individual porcelain, and very very very rarely do you see one that comes all the way down to the floor, most just, basically, hang there.
Retail stores don't usually make much of any proffit on computers and such (consoles included) if any at all. They basically sell them at cost, and then charge you out the rear for accessories, extended warantees (Best Buy especially), etc...
Not to mention that Microsoft is paying a lot less for a products than the guy who wrote the article would get. Also, Microsoft is manufacturing a lot of stuff in-house, so that makes it even less.
Interestingly, the original goal for the 1st X-Box was for Microsoft to just make the OS and APIs, specific design specs, etc... and then sell the software to hardware manufacturers to build the actual consoles based on those specs (plus other stuff). Nobody wanted to do it though.
I believe they call these things "lemons".
Lemons will always exist as long as people are still working on the last day of the work week.(Forever)
SO the hardware which is sold for hundreds less what it costs to make should be more stable than that few hundred dollar piece of stand-alone software?
Anyone remember how BAD the original NES was? You tap the system the wrong way and it crashes.
You are a bleeding heart liberal.
I didn't inject any political views into that, yet you come off blowing smoke out of your ass?
During WW2, every single factory in the US was manufacturing military equipment. The war was MUCH different. Also, to even compare the spending budge for WW2 to that of the war in Iraq is absolutely absurd.
Also, how can we downsize the military when we are already short on troops as is? I said nothing about the end of America as a super-power. Though, thank God you aren't in office, as you seem awfully quick to use nukes.
Furthermore, I didn't say NASA needed to be privatized. I didn't even say I think it should be privatized. I also didn't say that NASA had a huge budget, or even too much budgeted towards it. I 3 the space program.
We did, actually, pay off most of that debt from WW2 (We were a huge creditor before during, and after the war). Most of the debt from today probably comes from Reagan, though, it has built up over several decades (I would say '70s til now).
In reality, war does cost a lot, and you do rack up the debt... during the war, but afterwards you get all of it back and then some. In the end, economically, war is profitable.
Now to me, it seems, the only way to pay off the debt we currently have would be to privatize. Perhaps even privatize the biggies like NASA, allow the some gov. grants, but let them live in the corp. world. Give defense stuff that NASA does back to the USAF (or start Starfleet?)
Not saying that this is all a good idea. There are many downsides, it's just about the only way I can see, right now, to get the debt down...... besides starting WW3.
Well, is this being developed by NASA, or is being developed by some company, such as Northrop-Gruman, or the like?
Also, how does NASA do things these days? Do they award entire contracts to one company? Would it not be better to have different companies work on sperate pieces?
I would like to see something more than the heavily underpowerd processor currently in it.
An interface that doesn't clutter up your already low-res TV.
Boot-up time of less than 5 minutes.
Thing I like the least about my TiVo S2 is how absolutely PATHETIC the system performance is. I've had the system come to a near hault to the point where it would show about 1 frame per second on the TV, if I had been transfering shows to my PC over night. Only way to fix the problem is to reboot the system, which takes about 5 mins. Not to mention how slowly the menus and such work in general.
Perhaps the ability to record a show on one channel and watch another. Probably isn't possible because of just how bad the hardware is.
A built-in ethernet adapater (even if it is just a wired one) would be nice.
I just got my TiVo, but I was thinking about getting a Media Center Extender because of how bad the system performs.
performance impact
Ummm, look at the graphics difference between COD2 on the 360 and The Big Red One on the original Xbox (there is no COD2 because the original can't handle the graphics!)
"There's only so much you can do to the graphics, until the gamer realizes hey this is the same thing! Except I paid a whole lot more money!"
What about the graphics? You are the one that brought up the graphics, I'm just responding to you.
The 360 can be used as a Media Center Extender.
Two things
1) A top of the line graphics card alone costs $500 (which is equal to in performance to that of the 360, if not less). Consider the whole system cost. You said that the 360 costs a whole lot more than a modern day computer.... I've got news for ya. Just the graphics card alone is more than the entire Xbox, with controllers, etc....
2) These are first gen games, which were really made the hardware that is currently available (and lower). Of course you aren't going to see anything mind blowing. Although, with all the settings turned up on COD2 demo, the 360 looked sooooo much better than the PC. I don't know if the PC Demo is limited in that for not, but I litterally said that COD2 looked exactly like COD1's graphics. However, that changed when I played it on the 360 at CompUSA.