You may as well ask why we code or why we breath! We do it because we can, because we have to. We do it because it DOESN'T Say TiVo or Replay or Phillips or whatever on it. It's a plain beige or silver or purple or neon green box with OUR parts in it. The ones we selected, running the software with the features that WE want. If we want a terabyte of storage so we can capture our HDTV in in TP streams and leave them in TP streams, we CAN! When the we have problems or run into limitations in the software, we can ask 'WHY' and not have to call 'tech support'. We can email the developer directly and ask 'WHEN' it will it be fix? CAN I test the beta? I can use Open Source, you can use commercial, we can use whatever we want.
Our HTPCs live and die by OUR hands, with the features we want. They are not decided by committee or some tech-stunted marketing/PR puke who is listening to the results of some focus group from Dubuque or Hackensack or Omaha. We the TiVos of the world surpass our humble HTPCs some day? I hope they do. I hope they look at what we are doing with our PCs and say "that's a cool feature, let's steal it."
Why don't you just ask why Woz built the Apple I or why Linus decided to hack minux. Why indeed.
After using many other email clients, I still prefer Outlook. But, I don't know sneaky stuff like web bugs. So, if you want to read your email in the preview pane and not open it, you can prevent web bugs (and any other autolaunched filetypes) using the Chilton Preview.
I have used it for years, currently with Outlook 2000. I don't know if it works with Outlook XP or 2003. You can find it here, and it's free (as in beer.)
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Peaks/8392/
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I lost control, and while trying to decide what to do, the ground came up and hit me.
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I replaced my roomates harddrive with one that boots up DOS 6 and Windows 3.1! I wish I could be there when he boots it up this afternoon!
GRIZZ
You may as well ask why we code or why we breath! We do it because we can, because we have to. We do it because it DOESN'T Say TiVo or Replay or Phillips or whatever on it. It's a plain beige or silver or purple or neon green box with OUR parts in it. The ones we selected, running the software with the features that WE want. If we want a terabyte of storage so we can capture our HDTV in in TP streams and leave them in TP streams, we CAN! When the we have problems or run into limitations in the software, we can ask 'WHY' and not have to call 'tech support'. We can email the developer directly and ask 'WHEN' it will it be fix? CAN I test the beta? I can use Open Source, you can use commercial, we can use whatever we want.
Our HTPCs live and die by OUR hands, with the features we want. They are not decided by committee or some tech-stunted marketing/PR puke who is listening to the results of some focus group from Dubuque or Hackensack or Omaha. We the TiVos of the world surpass our humble HTPCs some day? I hope they do. I hope they look at what we are doing with our PCs and say "that's a cool feature, let's steal it."
Why don't you just ask why Woz built the Apple I or why Linus decided to hack minux. Why indeed.
GRIZZ
After using many other email clients, I still prefer Outlook. But, I don't know sneaky stuff like web bugs. So, if you want to read your email in the preview pane and not open it, you can prevent web bugs (and any other autolaunched filetypes) using the Chilton Preview. I have used it for years, currently with Outlook 2000. I don't know if it works with Outlook XP or 2003. You can find it here, and it's free (as in beer.) http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Peaks/8392/