Sure there is...to keep you from installing that one copy you purchased on 1,000,000,000 computers. Steam does that.
You can debate if it is a good thing or not but that is why they do it and it is, for them, a VERY good reason.
Since allofmp3.com is selling the same music for far, far less it seems like Apple is giving the music industry a big pay day.
How much marketing money will have to be spent to get people to pay $.99 for iTunes vs. allTunes for $.09? And, with these 'gray market' services you can get your music in the format YOU want including native MP3 with no DRM of any kind.
If you are having to reenable the 30-second skip a lot this means your unit is rebooting. A reboot every so often is a sign of a software update being rolled out but if you are getting this more than a few times a year your unit is likely starting to fail.
I would suggest starting to look for sources to replace your HD and/or otherwise service your unit.
Not the case at all. There is no requirment that all POTS lines be live and able to dial 911. Try calling your phone company and disconnecting service and see if you can still dail 911...they physically disconnect your copper from the grid.
If I purchase a new TiVo under the old pricing plan and keep it for four years and it is working at the end of that time I would end up paying about...
80 hours S2 TiVo: $250 Lifetime sub: $300 Resale value at EOL including sub: $(300) TOTAL COST OF OWNERSHIP: $250 or $5.21/month
Even at three years you end up with a total cost of only $6.94/month.
Under the new plans you end up with a total cost of
$469 (pre-pay for 3 years) = 11.64/month if you stop at 3 years/w $50 resell $203 (16.95 * 12 months - see note below) $(50) Resale value - best guess TOTAL COST OF OWNERSHIP: $622 or $12.96/month
IMO, this just sucks for the average TiVo owner who can afford the upfront costs of the box + lifetime service.
NOTE: This is my best guess about the cost of the sub. after your 'contract' period is up. Could be less or more.
I really have not seen the point of the current and comming versions of Windows. Win2k was stable, fast, secure (or could be made so with the needed software/hardware), and ran all of the software I run today.
Yes, XP made some nice UI improvements but that could have been offered as a 'power pack' for 2k.
And now Vista...Why? In its place I would like to see a stable and fast 64 bit Windows available as an upgrade and a 'low profile' Windows for smaller systems with limited memory and disk.
Series2 units still have the 30 second skip. And, it rocks, if I may say.
You do have to hit Select-Play-Select-3-0-Select after your TiVo reboots due to a service update. This happens to us about 2-4 times a YEAR so it is no problem.
If you are having issues with power you should really get a UPS for your Tivo (and likely the rest of your AV equiptment). It will save you a lot of money in the long term as power dips, drops, and spikes will fry a computer rather quickly.
The DNC list work really well for us. We went from 2-6 calls each evening on our home land line to ~2 per month.
The DNC list is one gov. program that really works for us.
Yes, there is. Images take up bandwidth and add no value to the ads other than to 'trick' users into looking at them.
Text only ads provide very rich content that a reader can quickly digest. And, when the ads are worth looking at user will.
-D
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Sure there is...to keep you from installing that one copy you purchased on 1,000,000,000 computers. Steam does that. You can debate if it is a good thing or not but that is why they do it and it is, for them, a VERY good reason.
Since allofmp3.com is selling the same music for far, far less it seems like Apple is giving the music industry a big pay day. How much marketing money will have to be spent to get people to pay $.99 for iTunes vs. allTunes for $.09? And, with these 'gray market' services you can get your music in the format YOU want including native MP3 with no DRM of any kind.
By the time your boss paid for all these new displays he would be out of business so don't worry too much. -D
If you are having to reenable the 30-second skip a lot this means your unit is rebooting. A reboot every so often is a sign of a software update being rolled out but if you are getting this more than a few times a year your unit is likely starting to fail.
I would suggest starting to look for sources to replace your HD and/or otherwise service your unit.
-D
Not the case at all. There is no requirment that all POTS lines be live and able to dial 911. Try calling your phone company and disconnecting service and see if you can still dail 911...they physically disconnect your copper from the grid.
Old news. The 360 can alredy make great toast on top of its power supply.
If I purchase a new TiVo under the old pricing plan and keep it for four years and it is working at the end of that time I would end up paying about...
/w $50 resell
80 hours S2 TiVo: $250
Lifetime sub: $300
Resale value at EOL including sub: $(300)
TOTAL COST OF OWNERSHIP: $250 or $5.21/month
Even at three years you end up with a total cost of only $6.94/month.
Under the new plans you end up with a total cost of
$469 (pre-pay for 3 years) = 11.64/month if you stop at 3 years
$203 (16.95 * 12 months - see note below)
$(50) Resale value - best guess
TOTAL COST OF OWNERSHIP: $622 or $12.96/month
IMO, this just sucks for the average TiVo owner who can afford the upfront costs of the box + lifetime service.
NOTE: This is my best guess about the cost of the sub. after your 'contract' period is up. Could be less or more.
But, you have to spend a few hunderd million dollars to build that fab and thoes costs have to go into each chip.
I really have not seen the point of the current and comming versions of Windows. Win2k was stable, fast, secure (or could be made so with the needed software/hardware), and ran all of the software I run today.
Yes, XP made some nice UI improvements but that could have been offered as a 'power pack' for 2k.
And now Vista...Why? In its place I would like to see a stable and fast 64 bit Windows available as an upgrade and a 'low profile' Windows for smaller systems with limited memory and disk.
-D
My guess is that one of the folks getting things setup slid in one of thoes Sony CDs...who knows that that rootkit would do when it saw a HD DVD.
Series2 units still have the 30 second skip. And, it rocks, if I may say.
You do have to hit Select-Play-Select-3-0-Select after your TiVo reboots due to a service update. This happens to us about 2-4 times a YEAR so it is no problem.
If you are having issues with power you should really get a UPS for your Tivo (and likely the rest of your AV equiptment). It will save you a lot of money in the long term as power dips, drops, and spikes will fry a computer rather quickly.
-D
The DNC list work really well for us. We went from 2-6 calls each evening on our home land line to ~2 per month. The DNC list is one gov. program that really works for us.
Yes, there is. Images take up bandwidth and add no value to the ads other than to 'trick' users into looking at them. Text only ads provide very rich content that a reader can quickly digest. And, when the ads are worth looking at user will. -D
This is the LAST thing we need. Now I will have to purchase "AdSubtract - Supermarket Edition" just to buy bread and eggs without excessive cr*p. -D
The bottom line is that people use Google because it works and they can trust them. Do you trust MS or AOL/TW?