All versions of standalone Tivo have had the ability to work with satellite systems, assuming your satellite receiver uses either IR or serial connection to change the channel.
Satellite receivers have the same A/V outputs as cable boxes. Otherwise, they wouldn't work with anyone's TV. The Tivo just goes between the sat/cbl box and the TV. Optionally, you can stick a VCR in between the Tivo and TV.
Tivo comes with an "IR blaster". The Tivo unit has an output jack which the IR blaster plugs into, and the other end has two IR transmitting LED's. Mount one to the top and one to the bottom of the cable box with double-sided tape (in front of the IR receiver, of course) and tell the Tivo what kind of box you have (so it knows what codes to transmit for each function).
I agree that a standalone Tivo is not necessarily better than an integrated one. However, it is more flexible in application (use it in different setups). Since analog cable generally sucks as far as quality anyway, and you aren't doing digital-analog-digital conversion, it's not a huge issue. With digital cable and satellite you should at least strongly consider an integrated PVR. I've heard great things about DirecTivo, decent things about DishPVR, and mediocre things about cable DVRs.
TiVo will work, but to my knowledge, you need one specifically for satellite (i.e., standard store bought one for cable won't work).
This isn't true. A standalone Tivo will work anywhere - cable, sattelite, antenna, whatever else somebody can come up with. I personally have used my series 1 Tivo with both analog cable and Dish sattelite with zero compatibility problems with either.
Having a monopoly doesn't mean much without customers. Blockbuster has customers. That's why they're still in business.
There are still lots of mom-n-pop rental shops. Not as many as there used to be, but they are definitely still around.
Actually, I have used Netflix.;)
I was just listing a few reasons why Blockbuster (and other video stores) is still around. Netflix doesn't work for everyone, so there is still a place for brick-and-mortar video stores, just as there is still a place for brick-and-mortar bookstores even with the success of Amazon.com.
Some reasons that Blockbuster is still in business:
1) There is still a "digital divide". Not everyone has or wants a computer with web access at home; unfortunately this is usually for financial reasons. Netflix is not a viable option for them.
2) People want to be able to pick up a movie on the way home from work on Friday night. They don't want to have to plan spontaneous movie night a week in advance (to account for shipping time).
3) New releases can be had the day of release at Blockbuster. With Netflix, you're lucky to get it a week later. Not a big deal for the patient, but some people want it ASAP.
4) Not everyone rents enough movies every month to make the $20 worthwhile.
Skipping the other obvious misinformation (WinXP being a rewrite, Netscape 4 being any good, etc), he doesn't see the value of CSS. The FONT tag sucks. Ever try using a different font in a table? Every single TD tag needs it's own FONT specifier. It sucks. What happens when you (or your client) want to change the font? What if your back-end coder and your design guru aren't one and the same?
And XML does not and was never meant to replace HTML. XML = data. HTML = presentation. Data != presentation. That's the friggin point!
One step: drag the item into the trash can. It would only delete the shortcut (not the file/app it points to). Since the trash can is on the Dock anyway (another of Tog's complaints), it's not too far away.
Xbox's launch titles were a lot better than PS2's. Halo alone blows away anything PS2 had (has?).
Backwards-compatibility might have been a selling point, but only temporarily. If you wanted to play old & busted games, you didn't need to spend $300 to do it on a fancy new PS2.
802.11b would be more than fine for casual web surfing. G/A at this point would be an unnecessary expense, although the prices are so low it's almost a moot point.
So we're NOT taking casualties in Iraq? Tell that to the families of the soldiers who are coming home for Christmas... in a box.
Do you honestly think that if we were to invade Cuba, that Cuba could win?
An OS that worked (with arguable reliability, but I never had major problems) for 6+ years and only recently became "unsupported" (98SE still is to some extent) is pretty f'ing impressive, when you consider the original cost of said OS.
That said, there's no way in hell I'm going to pay $200 for a copy of XP Home.
You really should never bury/disable/hide warnings. Even if the code compiles and works with warnings, it probably won't be portable to other compilers/platforms. This may or may not be a concern (usually isn't) but you never know who will want to borrow some of your GPL'd code.
Besides, there are ways around the "unused variable" warning. The most common is something like this:
int x = 0;// init it, instead of just "int x;"
or... in cases where an init isn't viable:
DataType x;// simple declaration
x;// it's "used" (referenced), but not to do anything
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All versions of standalone Tivo have had the ability to work with satellite systems, assuming your satellite receiver uses either IR or serial connection to change the channel.
Satellite receivers have the same A/V outputs as cable boxes. Otherwise, they wouldn't work with anyone's TV. The Tivo just goes between the sat/cbl box and the TV. Optionally, you can stick a VCR in between the Tivo and TV.
Tivo comes with an "IR blaster". The Tivo unit has an output jack which the IR blaster plugs into, and the other end has two IR transmitting LED's. Mount one to the top and one to the bottom of the cable box with double-sided tape (in front of the IR receiver, of course) and tell the Tivo what kind of box you have (so it knows what codes to transmit for each function). I agree that a standalone Tivo is not necessarily better than an integrated one. However, it is more flexible in application (use it in different setups). Since analog cable generally sucks as far as quality anyway, and you aren't doing digital-analog-digital conversion, it's not a huge issue. With digital cable and satellite you should at least strongly consider an integrated PVR. I've heard great things about DirecTivo, decent things about DishPVR, and mediocre things about cable DVRs.
This isn't true. A standalone Tivo will work anywhere - cable, sattelite, antenna, whatever else somebody can come up with. I personally have used my series 1 Tivo with both analog cable and Dish sattelite with zero compatibility problems with either.
Having a monopoly doesn't mean much without customers. Blockbuster has customers. That's why they're still in business. There are still lots of mom-n-pop rental shops. Not as many as there used to be, but they are definitely still around.
Actually, I have used Netflix. ;)
I was just listing a few reasons why Blockbuster (and other video stores) is still around. Netflix doesn't work for everyone, so there is still a place for brick-and-mortar video stores, just as there is still a place for brick-and-mortar bookstores even with the success of Amazon.com.
Some reasons that Blockbuster is still in business:
1) There is still a "digital divide". Not everyone has or wants a computer with web access at home; unfortunately this is usually for financial reasons. Netflix is not a viable option for them.
2) People want to be able to pick up a movie on the way home from work on Friday night. They don't want to have to plan spontaneous movie night a week in advance (to account for shipping time).
3) New releases can be had the day of release at Blockbuster. With Netflix, you're lucky to get it a week later. Not a big deal for the patient, but some people want it ASAP.
4) Not everyone rents enough movies every month to make the $20 worthwhile.
I'm sure there are other reasons.
Simple solution: Create an account at http://www.tradegamesnow.com and start swapping with other gamers.
Wow! You could really make a fortune doing this!
And then you can make ANOTHER fortune selling motivational tapes telling other people how THEY can do it!
Skipping the other obvious misinformation (WinXP being a rewrite, Netscape 4 being any good, etc), he doesn't see the value of CSS. The FONT tag sucks. Ever try using a different font in a table? Every single TD tag needs it's own FONT specifier. It sucks. What happens when you (or your client) want to change the font? What if your back-end coder and your design guru aren't one and the same?
And XML does not and was never meant to replace HTML. XML = data. HTML = presentation. Data != presentation. That's the friggin point!
One step: drag the item into the trash can. It would only delete the shortcut (not the file/app it points to). Since the trash can is on the Dock anyway (another of Tog's complaints), it's not too far away.
I'm sure that'll be in the top, oh, 10 million or so downloads.
Xbox's launch titles were a lot better than PS2's. Halo alone blows away anything PS2 had (has?).
Backwards-compatibility might have been a selling point, but only temporarily. If you wanted to play old & busted games, you didn't need to spend $300 to do it on a fancy new PS2.
I think that you could correlate cooperation between developers with cooperation between those same developers and their user community.
Once developers get into team mode, they are more likely to seize the momentum it can provide. The end result can be improved user friendliness.
Savvy consumers went with DVD+/-Jon. The unfortunate ones went with RAM-DVD-Jon.
802.11b would be more than fine for casual web surfing. G/A at this point would be an unnecessary expense, although the prices are so low it's almost a moot point.
Yeah, like Bible-pushing is going to achieve goals.
Are you also suggesting that marriages by non-Christian citizens are not legal? Or marriages performed by a Justice of the Peace?
So we're NOT taking casualties in Iraq? Tell that to the families of the soldiers who are coming home for Christmas... in a box. Do you honestly think that if we were to invade Cuba, that Cuba could win?
The reason for invading Iraq was not because they didn't have WMD. Cuba doesn't have any either, and we're not invading them.
There were other reasons for the invasion.
"Iraq was invaded because the administration knew it had no WMD." I don't follow. The reason for the invasion was because Iraq had no WMD? Huh?
Not that you'd find a lot of respect for Rumsfeld around here, anyway...
Stupidest. Apostrophe. Ever.
You need to set up like a 5 mile long slip-n-slide!
I agree with the parent.
An OS that worked (with arguable reliability, but I never had major problems) for 6+ years and only recently became "unsupported" (98SE still is to some extent) is pretty f'ing impressive, when you consider the original cost of said OS.
That said, there's no way in hell I'm going to pay $200 for a copy of XP Home.
Besides, there are ways around the "unused variable" warning. The most common is something like this:
or... in cases where an init isn't viable:
Heh, I'm still trying to figure out what a "pure schmuck" is. I guess it would be the opposite of an impure scmuck, but that doesn't really help.