It's the channels not DirecTV that is doing that and some time the channels run HD lite / SD wide on them / sd upped to HD. Also some stuff mostly local stuff is in HD but does not have the HD ICON.
Some of the directv on demand is in SD, WIDE SCREEN and HD.
Go to scifi hd right now stargate atlantis is in HD.
And PHBs / TPS report driven offices are just as bad when you spend more time doing BS paper work then doing real work. And It takes a long time just to get updated installed, software that you need for your job installed and so on. People then end just siting on butt waiting for the PHB do to there job so you can do yours.
If the boss said that you had to give the necessary keys and passwords to homer simpson or we will look at firing you what would you do? and this is after saying many times that homer simpson is have hard time picking up what you have been telling him how to run things.
this may be like Stephen Heller the Diebold Whistle blower where they charged him with a felony for being a Whistle blower.
This may be like that the IT guy finds out about some thing the PHB find out and try to can him and then when they do that tell him to work for free to give up the network passwords and config.
AMD had the better CPU and intel bullied there p4 in to the OEM's at the time and that was bad for amd and that give intel the time to come out with there better cpu.
apple will continue to suffer lost sales and profits in till they come out with a real desktop mid-tower and they update the mini it is a joke at the price that it is at right now.
The mac pro is ok for it's price but the video card in a $2300 needs to be a little better.
Where is the system that is priced at the $1200 to $2100 power mac g4 and g5 levels?
Why dose a $1500 laptop come with a 13" screen and intel GMA video?
Why do you have pay $2000 for a 15" screen and $2800 for a 17" screen?
The imacs need to have more screen choice with out be forced to pay more for other parts just to get a bigger screen / better screen.
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Find a way to put the earth in to hyperspace for a short time to skip over it. Like they did in star gate sg1
There are just ziped dirs with the exe files in them no installers.
I was saying don't put PHB who mange IT and don't know much about it in the jury but put the real IT techs, admins and so on in there.
I have The first episode of Season 5 of Stargate Atlantis. on my DirecTV HD DVR and it looks very good.
It's the channels not DirecTV that is doing that and some time the channels run HD lite / SD wide on them / sd upped to HD. Also some stuff mostly local stuff is in HD but does not have the HD ICON.
Some of the directv on demand is in SD, WIDE SCREEN and HD.
Go to scifi hd right now stargate atlantis is in HD.
We need to get some real IT guys on the jury not PHB IT guys.
And PHBs / TPS report driven offices are just as bad when you spend more time doing BS paper work then doing real work. And It takes a long time just to get updated installed, software that you need for your job installed and so on. People then end just siting on butt waiting for the PHB do to there job so you can do yours.
How about backdoor that can't be turned off? That was put in by the guy who build the system.
Is Heath Ledger on that list and can his ticking be giving away? Dose the family have to pay the death tax on there cost?
Hacking a satellite to get free TV is as bad as hacking electrical plants?
How will they work it for Dialup and sat internet where they don't have the bandwidth / ping times for this to work good?
If the boss said that you had to give the necessary keys and passwords to homer simpson or we will look at firing you what would you do? and this is after saying many times that homer simpson is have hard time picking up what you have been telling him how to run things.
this may be like Stephen Heller the Diebold Whistle blower where they charged him with a felony for being a Whistle blower.
This may be like that the IT guy finds out about some thing the PHB find out and try to can him and then when they do that tell him to work for free to give up the network passwords and config.
nuclear reactors are controlled by the NRC and not some PHB who is clueless.
Do you want a gun that is more likely to jam or one that works good?
person on the other end may still be paying roaming fees so they may be a bad thing for them even more so if they are over seas.
There was this one guy who rigged up a window unit ac in his truck useing a 12Vdc to 120Vac inverter.
Wait to winter time when there is less sun to see how much you save at that time.
It's tied to a 2 year high cost lock in.
and the sad thing is this guy may go to jail for leaking this as he broke the law by doing so.
AMD had the better CPU and intel bullied there p4 in to the OEM's at the time and that was bad for amd and that give intel the time to come out with there better cpu.
M$ made OEM's not put BEOS on systems and that killed them.
Dos may work well as well as windows 3.11 or windows 98.
A CF based disk will boot fast as well as a ssd.
Will direct tv use this for there on demand any time soon?
apple will continue to suffer lost sales and profits in till they come out with a real desktop mid-tower and they update the mini it is a joke at the price that it is at right now.
The mac pro is ok for it's price but the video card in a $2300 needs to be a little better.
Where is the system that is priced at the $1200 to $2100 power mac g4 and g5 levels?
Why dose a $1500 laptop come with a 13" screen and intel GMA video?
Why do you have pay $2000 for a 15" screen and $2800 for a 17" screen?
The imacs need to have more screen choice with out be forced to pay more for other parts just to get a bigger screen / better screen.