Sometimes cookies are good. Like it would be great if the UPS web site would remember my freakin country selection. I'm getting really tired of selecting it all the time...
I still don't get why people like Battlestar Galactica. I found it to be incredibly boring. I tried giving it a chance and watched 3 or 4 episodes. 3 or 4 hours of my life wasted. It was so boring I could hardly stand it. I thought maybe if I watched a few and got to know the characters and story it would be good. But I couldn't find a story and the characters are about as un-memorable as possible. I don't get it...
Now Star Trek Enterprise and Andromeda were good shows...
"I'd say the biggets problem with this is making sure the plastic in all the components is oil-compatible, i.e. doesn't degrade or dissolve. The bottoms of most shoes do, as anyone knows who stepped in a puddle of oil in a garage."
WTF is a drivers license law doing in an Iraq spending bill anyway? There needs to be a law against combining unrelated laws to drag one through on the heels of another that is sure to pass.
The one unique thing that I have found that Tivo offers and nobody else seems to is reliability. In the 3.5 years I've had a Tivo, it has failed to record a show that I expected it to record only 3 times, not counting things out of it's control like power outages at programming conflicts. My XP Media Center system seems to have a problem at least once a week. Stupid errors like "Recording failed to start." The Media Center system has lots of features that my Tivo doesn't, but I still use the Tivo most because it works.
Ok, my comment that "Gateway used to make quality products" was more directed at the desktop PCs than the laptops.
My only experience with laptops were the ones I had at work. One was a 200ARC and the hinges got weak so the screen would fall down if it was leaned back too far. Otherwise I liked it.
I used to work at Gateway too. Until eMachines took over and decided that about four fifths of the company was not necessary.
Here's my understanding of the situation. Before Microsoft's big legal case with half the states in the country, they could make manufacturers sign an agreement that they wouldn't sell systems with any other OS. But that was ruled anticompetitive and is no longer allowed. But that doesn't prevent MS from including a clause in their agreements with manufacturers that says they can't sell a system with no OS, because that isn't preventing the installation of a competitors product.
At one point there was talk of selling systems with Linux but I think that was shot down because they figured they shouldn't sell systems with an operating system that the tech support people were not able to offer support on.
Gateway used to make quality products. Now that eMachines has taken them over, you are just getting eMachines systems with Gateway printed on them instead.
Oh, one more thing. I never got told real numbers, but at one point I was told that a copy of Windows XP Home was the second most expensive component in a Gateway system, second only to the processors. Microsoft gets more for Windows than Intel gets for the motherboard.
What TiVo can do, and does, is provide reliability. I don't know about cable company PVRs, but I have a TiVo and two XP Media Center Edition computers. The MCE computers can do things the TiVo can't like burn DVDs and record from two cable channels at once. But I continue to pay TiVo the monthly fee and use my TiVo for one reason. Reliability. In the last three years or so it's only failed to record a show I expected it to record 2 or 3 times. The MCE PCs are far less reliable. If I come home and find my PVR hasn't recorded 24 or Lost, I might give it the benefit of the doubt the first or second time. The third time, it goes in the trash and I go back to the TiVo.
Maybe I just don't get it, but I've found the Battelstar Galactica episodes I have seen so far incredibly boring. I've tried to give it a chance, but it's so boring I have a hard time even paying attention to the show. On the other hand, I like Star Trek Enterprise...
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Watching grass grow is probably slightly more interesting than watching paint dry.
Sometimes cookies are good. Like it would be great if the UPS web site would remember my freakin country selection. I'm getting really tired of selecting it all the time...
The Walmart photo Nazi's don't deserve anyone's busness when they have an guilty until proven innocent attitude.
No pictures for you!
I for one welcome our new injested nanorobot overlords.
With a .cx on the end of that URL I was expecting a picture.
Now I remember! The engines don't move the ship, they move the universe around the ship!
I still don't get why people like Battlestar Galactica. I found it to be incredibly boring. I tried giving it a chance and watched 3 or 4 episodes. 3 or 4 hours of my life wasted. It was so boring I could hardly stand it. I thought maybe if I watched a few and got to know the characters and story it would be good. But I couldn't find a story and the characters are about as un-memorable as possible. I don't get it...
Now Star Trek Enterprise and Andromeda were good shows...
"I'd say the biggets problem with this is making sure the plastic in all the components is oil-compatible, i.e. doesn't degrade or dissolve. The bottoms of most shoes do, as anyone knows who stepped in a puddle of oil in a garage."
Or anyone who works in a fast food place.
I for one welcome our new self replicating overlords.
WTF is a drivers license law doing in an Iraq spending bill anyway? There needs to be a law against combining unrelated laws to drag one through on the heels of another that is sure to pass.
Am I the only one who thought at first that it said "16bps Broadband Service...?"
The one unique thing that I have found that Tivo offers and nobody else seems to is reliability. In the 3.5 years I've had a Tivo, it has failed to record a show that I expected it to record only 3 times, not counting things out of it's control like power outages at programming conflicts. My XP Media Center system seems to have a problem at least once a week. Stupid errors like "Recording failed to start." The Media Center system has lots of features that my Tivo doesn't, but I still use the Tivo most because it works.
Ok, my comment that "Gateway used to make quality products" was more directed at the desktop PCs than the laptops.
My only experience with laptops were the ones I had at work. One was a 200ARC and the hinges got weak so the screen would fall down if it was leaned back too far. Otherwise I liked it.
I used to work at Gateway too. Until eMachines took over and decided that about four fifths of the company was not necessary.
Here's my understanding of the situation. Before Microsoft's big legal case with half the states in the country, they could make manufacturers sign an agreement that they wouldn't sell systems with any other OS. But that was ruled anticompetitive and is no longer allowed. But that doesn't prevent MS from including a clause in their agreements with manufacturers that says they can't sell a system with no OS, because that isn't preventing the installation of a competitors product.
At one point there was talk of selling systems with Linux but I think that was shot down because they figured they shouldn't sell systems with an operating system that the tech support people were not able to offer support on.
Gateway used to make quality products. Now that eMachines has taken them over, you are just getting eMachines systems with Gateway printed on them instead.
Oh, one more thing. I never got told real numbers, but at one point I was told that a copy of Windows XP Home was the second most expensive component in a Gateway system, second only to the processors. Microsoft gets more for Windows than Intel gets for the motherboard.
What TiVo can do, and does, is provide reliability. I don't know about cable company PVRs, but I have a TiVo and two XP Media Center Edition computers. The MCE computers can do things the TiVo can't like burn DVDs and record from two cable channels at once. But I continue to pay TiVo the monthly fee and use my TiVo for one reason. Reliability. In the last three years or so it's only failed to record a show I expected it to record 2 or 3 times. The MCE PCs are far less reliable. If I come home and find my PVR hasn't recorded 24 or Lost, I might give it the benefit of the doubt the first or second time. The third time, it goes in the trash and I go back to the TiVo.
Maybe I just don't get it, but I've found the Battelstar Galactica episodes I have seen so far incredibly boring. I've tried to give it a chance, but it's so boring I have a hard time even paying attention to the show. On the other hand, I like Star Trek Enterprise...