Light years ahead of Tivo before corporate blackmailing made them cripple the ability to share recordings with friends and even cripple the intra-LAN sharing/streaming around your own house. Not to mention what I consider to be a superior interface. Tivo just had a cuter/"friendlier" look to its interface and a catchy bottle cap noise of approval plus a mutant TV-with-legs logo. Years after my 5040, using my HD Tivo (albeit, it's the drastically more crippled HR10-250 which seems to be a severely retarded Series 2) really sucks donkey nads in comparison. The memories have faded over the years, but I deeply miss even the most basic features of my 5040.
*Fully networked out of the box to the point of making it tough to miss a show, even if you did originally miss recording the show *Timed jumps (instantly skip back/forward a specified amount minutes you desire at any time) *Commercial break detection (sometimes flaky, but usually good) *Can still playback recorded shows while surfing your list of recorded shows or the channel guide *It knew how to delete things based on retention settings (combine this with Tivo's subscription priority list and it would be pure platinum...instead Tivo just mostly-quitely stops recording stuff instead of deleting lower priority subscriptions) * Deeply customizable recording schedules...ah, watching TV on my 5040 kicked ass. An occasional playback performance hiccup or a rare, but highly dreaded out-of-sync-audio recording, but it was totally awesome otherwise. Now I almost feel like taking it out of the closet and giving it a hug. I remember switching to Tivo and thinking "THIS is what won the DVR wars?!" I guess Tivo didn't get beat up quite as badly in the TV/cable backlash simply b/c they didn't do **** compared to the Replays. It's amazing how often it seems that laws are being created (or re-interpreted) in ways that drastically slow down or even drastically rewind the progress of invetiveness/technology or limit freedoms (even to simply watch TV how/where you like). Restriction (except as it relates to your privacy and should be mandatory) is the hot new feature of almost every new electronics product.
The sad thing is that at this point in history and the dip in space conquest, there are no large landmasses to flee to (or take over...whatever). Meanwhile, the seemingly accelerated backwards progress of the U.S. as it tries to piss away everything that made it an awesome alternative. Yeah, I just finished reading some YRO posts too. For years, I've honestly just hoped that I'm dead before the whole thing falls apart. The past ~8 years have been a surprisingly accelerated decay though.
...like a sieve and crashes if you dare use tabbed browsing too much, I'm not too amazed that there would be other major security flaws. I already suspect that half of the flash things on the web are spying on me in some form anyway.
So if we can agree making a mass marketable, consistent, one-for-all OS that supports a vast hardware base is extremely hard and neccessitates compromises, maybe some Linux people will stop constantly giving Microsoft such a hard time?
"Want a real immersive FPS experience ? - drop $100 and spend a weekend out in the bush shooting paintball and come back with plenty of welts, and scrapes looking like you took a lot of wrong turns at Doors-R-Us after your hopper/loader jammed up at the wrong time or ate it because you didn't see that slight falloff ahead of you."
"Want a real immersive flightsim ? drop $100 and spend a weekend learning to hang-glide, and get a feel for what flying is all about as you get a bad gust and smack into the side of a cliff and (almost?) shit your pants"...okay, to be fair the guy I know that happened to is a parasailer...although his wing/sail catching on the cliff is what allowed him to be saved.
"Want an immersive and memorable porn experience ? - drop $100, go out clubbing listening to generic dance-friendly tracks, meet dozens of attractive(???) drunk people, have real lame conversions, get probably-fake phone numbers, and... enjoy the fact that none of them would probably talk to you or call you back again since they've already drank $100 worth of booze that you and some other dumbasses just paid for."
Yeah, there's no room for personal entertainment of any sort...
Joking aside, I go out plenty, but I'm not sure where you get the illusion that it's so much cheaper or always a better experience. Not to mention, a bit of escapism can be nice...or maybe you're a strictly non-fiction guy. Some days/nights out, one could easily come home thinking "I should have stayed home and saved my time/money [playing some PGR | watching TV | listening to CDs | jerking off]." Plus, the last time I went powersliding my car through downtown and picked up a hooker, the cops were really NOT amused for some reason...go figure.
Any hobby/hobbies can be really expensive, but one of the things enjoyed in the current digital age is that when you feel like it, you can have a personalized, cheap, and convenient experience that's pretty satisfying. That statemnt probably sums up most of the benefits of modern life and progress. Also, you've never probably wrecked a vehicle at a track day. Life is always expensive, it's just a matter of where you want to spend (arguably "waste") your time/money.
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Light years ahead of Tivo before corporate blackmailing made them cripple the ability to share recordings with friends and even cripple the intra-LAN sharing/streaming around your own house. Not to mention what I consider to be a superior interface. Tivo just had a cuter/"friendlier" look to its interface and a catchy bottle cap noise of approval plus a mutant TV-with-legs logo. Years after my 5040, using my HD Tivo (albeit, it's the drastically more crippled HR10-250 which seems to be a severely retarded Series 2) really sucks donkey nads in comparison. The memories have faded over the years, but I deeply miss even the most basic features of my 5040.
...ah, watching TV on my 5040 kicked ass. An occasional playback performance hiccup or a rare, but highly dreaded out-of-sync-audio recording, but it was totally awesome otherwise. Now I almost feel like taking it out of the closet and giving it a hug. I remember switching to Tivo and thinking "THIS is what won the DVR wars?!" I guess Tivo didn't get beat up quite as badly in the TV/cable backlash simply b/c they didn't do **** compared to the Replays. It's amazing how often it seems that laws are being created (or re-interpreted) in ways that drastically slow down or even drastically rewind the progress of invetiveness/technology or limit freedoms (even to simply watch TV how/where you like). Restriction (except as it relates to your privacy and should be mandatory) is the hot new feature of almost every new electronics product.
*Fully networked out of the box to the point of making it tough to miss a show, even if you did originally miss recording the show
*Timed jumps (instantly skip back/forward a specified amount minutes you desire at any time)
*Commercial break detection (sometimes flaky, but usually good)
*Can still playback recorded shows while surfing your list of recorded shows or the channel guide
*It knew how to delete things based on retention settings (combine this with Tivo's subscription priority list and it would be pure platinum...instead Tivo just mostly-quitely stops recording stuff instead of deleting lower priority subscriptions)
* Deeply customizable recording schedules
The sad thing is that at this point in history and the dip in space conquest, there are no large landmasses to flee to (or take over...whatever). Meanwhile, the seemingly accelerated backwards progress of the U.S. as it tries to piss away everything that made it an awesome alternative. Yeah, I just finished reading some YRO posts too. For years, I've honestly just hoped that I'm dead before the whole thing falls apart. The past ~8 years have been a surprisingly accelerated decay though.
...like a sieve and crashes if you dare use tabbed browsing too much, I'm not too amazed that there would be other major security flaws. I already suspect that half of the flash things on the web are spying on me in some form anyway.
I've got a shipment of 10,000 vacation videos coming in on FedEx. :)
Nerds Gone Wild...on shelves soon.
So if we can agree making a mass marketable, consistent, one-for-all OS that supports a vast hardware base is extremely hard and neccessitates compromises, maybe some Linux people will stop constantly giving Microsoft such a hard time?
:)
Nah...where's the fun in that.
Seems a little biased.
Let me clean that up for you..
...okay, to be fair the guy I know that happened to is a parasailer...although his wing/sail catching on the cliff is what allowed him to be saved.
... enjoy the fact that none of them would probably talk to you or call you back again since they've already drank $100 worth of booze that you and some other dumbasses just paid for."
"Want a real immersive FPS experience ? - drop $100 and spend a weekend out in the bush shooting paintball and come back with plenty of welts, and scrapes looking like you took a lot of wrong turns at Doors-R-Us after your hopper/loader jammed up at the wrong time or ate it because you didn't see that slight falloff ahead of you."
"Want a real immersive flightsim ? drop $100 and spend a weekend learning to hang-glide, and get a feel for what flying is all about as you get a bad gust and smack into the side of a cliff and (almost?) shit your pants"
"Want an immersive and memorable porn experience ? - drop $100, go out clubbing listening to generic dance-friendly tracks, meet dozens of attractive(???) drunk people, have real lame conversions, get probably-fake phone numbers, and
Yeah, there's no room for personal entertainment of any sort...
Joking aside, I go out plenty, but I'm not sure where you get the illusion that it's so much cheaper or always a better experience. Not to mention, a bit of escapism can be nice...or maybe you're a strictly non-fiction guy. Some days/nights out, one could easily come home thinking "I should have stayed home and saved my time/money [playing some PGR | watching TV | listening to CDs | jerking off]." Plus, the last time I went powersliding my car through downtown and picked up a hooker, the cops were really NOT amused for some reason...go figure.
Any hobby/hobbies can be really expensive, but one of the things enjoyed in the current digital age is that when you feel like it, you can have a personalized, cheap, and convenient experience that's pretty satisfying. That statemnt probably sums up most of the benefits of modern life and progress. Also, you've never probably wrecked a vehicle at a track day. Life is always expensive, it's just a matter of where you want to spend (arguably "waste") your time/money.