But a Tivo requires a subscription to their service.
What part of Tivo not requiring you to have a subscription to their service requires you to subscribe to their service? The only reason you would want to pay for the service is to get the listings (and the reason I bought the lifetime subscription a month after getting my Tivo) and all the automatic things related to the listings, like subscriptions and wishlists. If you don't want that stuff and want to manually record showtimes, you can do that.
And you want to pay a $100 premium and spend all sorts of unneeded time to build some box? Jeez, people are weird.
statistics of small numbers -- a close relative of observational
selection (e.g., "They say 1 out of every 5 people is Chinese. How
is this possible? I know hundreds of people, and none of them is
Chinese. Yours truly." Or: "I've thrown three sevens in a row.
Tonight I can't lose.")
Oh yes, we all know that Hewlett and Packard are hardly ever used as peoples' last name anymore. It is also highly unique to stick them together. Would you object to a company named AppleOrange?
Slashdottians are NOT the majority of the population. Remember this before you make any ridiculous "1% of the people" statements in the future. Thank you.
Ah, but there's a reason Carl Sagan sued (or threatened to sue) when they used his name as a code name. I don't remember which name went to which, but the original three Power Macs, the 6100, 7100, and 8100, were codenamed Piltdown Man, Cold Fusion, and Carl Sagan. Two are famous hoaxes, one is a famous astronomer.
If I were Mr. Sagan I'd be miffed too, and not just because I'd be dead.:)
Yeah yeah, I'm OT, but it's something I've been thinking about for a while.
I think you have it backwards. You're equating good with popular. Sometimes the two go hand-in-hand; "The West Wing" is usually both good and popular. But often they're opposed to one another.
Not that I don't agree about the shows, but what if stuff like Britney Spears, Survivor, and the WWF - er, WWE - really are good because they're popular? Who are we to say what's good just because we like it and what's not just because we don't? What's vapid to us is great entertainment to others. It just seems pretty elitist to me, and it's the same elitism exhibited by the jocks and heathers we bemoan all the time: "We're better than you because we say so, so there."
I guess all I'm trying to say is give it a bit of thought.
Had you read the article, you would have seen that they mentioned "TiVo thinks I'm [something embarrasing]" subplots being in both King of Queens and The Mind Of The Married Man.
If the *story submitters* would do the research and the searches before they even clicked the Submit button, the editors wouldn't have to deal with repeats. But of course, we all hate the editors (don't we?), so we must blame them instead!
OK, apparently this is just some guy walking into a British theater with a camcorder then distributing that. But let's assume that it was a real leak direct from the studio to the internet that the MPAA is complaining about, like other movies have been.
In that case, the "piracy" is not the cause, it's the symptom of SOME GUY THE STUDIO IS PAYING MONEY TO dumping years of work onto the internet. If they would take responsibility and find these paid employees who are (let's play along here) screwing the industry, they wouldn't have a problem, or at least less of one.
But instead they continue to battle something that is a result of their own idiocy. Typical.
I've heard the same thing about vegetable oil in diesel cars. What I want to know is if it will mix with regular diesel. IE, you have a big tank of vegetable oil at home that you use to top off every day or two, but what happens on long trips further than a tank away from your house? Can you just fill up at any gas station that has diesel then go back to the home brew once you get back or do you have to keep barrels of it in your trunk and hope you don't drive further than that?
Your father *is* one of that 1%. The majority of truck/SUV drivers use their gas guzzler for the same things you use your Echo for. It's idiots like these that Listen Up was talking about, not your father.
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Meh, so some guy made a shitty (functionally and aesthetically)...
Apart from form and function, what other qualities to something (any thing, not just this one) are there?
If they utilize the tools available, don't break the rules governing it, and produce a good usable product, why not support them?
Because we're irrational slashdotters! Linux gud, Winders evil! Stealing is OK as long as it doesn't make baby Linus cry!
Good idea. Then it would only be $400 more than buying a regular non-service Tivo instead of just $100 more.
:) (I hope...)
And yes, I know you were being facetious.
But a Tivo requires a subscription to their service.
What part of Tivo not requiring you to have a subscription to their service requires you to subscribe to their service? The only reason you would want to pay for the service is to get the listings (and the reason I bought the lifetime subscription a month after getting my Tivo) and all the automatic things related to the listings, like subscriptions and wishlists. If you don't want that stuff and want to manually record showtimes, you can do that.
And you want to pay a $100 premium and spend all sorts of unneeded time to build some box? Jeez, people are weird.
You can get OnStar (if that's what you're thinking of) with just about any model of car.
Entertainment is a "pedestrian" computing need? Cognative dissonance at work, people! :)
My CD made me buy both a Mac and a Windows PC. Best of both worlds, no dual booting.
I am invoking Carl Sagan's Baloney Detection Kit on your post. Specifically:
statistics of small numbers -- a close relative of observational
selection (e.g., "They say 1 out of every 5 people is Chinese. How
is this possible? I know hundreds of people, and none of them is
Chinese. Yours truly." Or: "I've thrown three sevens in a row.
Tonight I can't lose.")
TYVM. HTH. HAND.
Oh yes, we all know that Hewlett and Packard are hardly ever used as peoples' last name anymore. It is also highly unique to stick them together. Would you object to a company named AppleOrange?
Please refer to this person's great post.
Slashdottians are NOT the majority of the population. Remember this before you make any ridiculous "1% of the people" statements in the future. Thank you.
Ah, but there's a reason Carl Sagan sued (or threatened to sue) when they used his name as a code name. I don't remember which name went to which, but the original three Power Macs, the 6100, 7100, and 8100, were codenamed Piltdown Man, Cold Fusion, and Carl Sagan. Two are famous hoaxes, one is a famous astronomer.
:)
If I were Mr. Sagan I'd be miffed too, and not just because I'd be dead.
Yeah yeah, I'm OT, but it's something I've been thinking about for a while.
I think you have it backwards. You're equating good with popular. Sometimes the two go hand-in-hand; "The West Wing" is usually both good and popular. But often they're opposed to one another.
Not that I don't agree about the shows, but what if stuff like Britney Spears, Survivor, and the WWF - er, WWE - really are good because they're popular? Who are we to say what's good just because we like it and what's not just because we don't? What's vapid to us is great entertainment to others. It just seems pretty elitist to me, and it's the same elitism exhibited by the jocks and heathers we bemoan all the time: "We're better than you because we say so, so there."
I guess all I'm trying to say is give it a bit of thought.
No it doesn't. Did you even click the link? Troll.
Man, this does have TV show written all over it.
Had you read the article, you would have seen that they mentioned "TiVo thinks I'm [something embarrasing]" subplots being in both King of Queens and The Mind Of The Married Man.
If the *story submitters* would do the research and the searches before they even clicked the Submit button, the editors wouldn't have to deal with repeats. But of course, we all hate the editors (don't we?), so we must blame them instead!
...didn't they think everyone was a Soviet spy back then?
Once their market researchers told them that the people didn't care anymore...
Oh, you mean in 1946?
C'mon, this is Slashdot we're talking about. Everything is about the internet... isn't it?
OK, apparently this is just some guy walking into a British theater with a camcorder then distributing that. But let's assume that it was a real leak direct from the studio to the internet that the MPAA is complaining about, like other movies have been.
In that case, the "piracy" is not the cause, it's the symptom of SOME GUY THE STUDIO IS PAYING MONEY TO dumping years of work onto the internet. If they would take responsibility and find these paid employees who are (let's play along here) screwing the industry, they wouldn't have a problem, or at least less of one.
But instead they continue to battle something that is a result of their own idiocy. Typical.
I picked up an ATI Radeon 9700 at 5pm on Friday. Thank dawg for leaked Alphas on payday :P :)
:P
And by the time it's released you're gonna need a Radeon 10700.
I don't know about Europe, but here (or at least Australia) hackers are dangerous!
Does that mean I can call the FBI and have them kick the door in with guns drawn if someone steals my car stereo? Or keeps prank calling me?
:D
Wanna test that? My number is (555) 293-2842...
Nobody that I know personally drives a truck or SUV. Perception does not always equal reality.
I've heard the same thing about vegetable oil in diesel cars. What I want to know is if it will mix with regular diesel. IE, you have a big tank of vegetable oil at home that you use to top off every day or two, but what happens on long trips further than a tank away from your house? Can you just fill up at any gas station that has diesel then go back to the home brew once you get back or do you have to keep barrels of it in your trunk and hope you don't drive further than that?
The engine of which is, as someone else mentioned, made by Isuzu.
Your father *is* one of that 1%. The majority of truck/SUV drivers use their gas guzzler for the same things you use your Echo for. It's idiots like these that Listen Up was talking about, not your father.