I do not, and do not plan to have children, but I still have two cell phones as well. I'm also moving to a small town and have already met lots of people. It's a very friendly neighborhood and I'm sure in an emergency they would let me use their phones.
I don't know about you, but in my hometown the polls were put in by the electric company who also pay tax to the town for the property they use. They then lease that to the telephone and cable companies that pay to have the lines run on those polls.
That's fine and good.. But I have Japanese friends, who's parents came to the US from Japan. I talk to them from time to time about the bomb and the impact on their family. Their whole family came from Nagasaki. They have lived there for generations.
Strangely enough, we don't get into emotional things like family members, with the exception of pointing out that my wife's grandfather watched the bomb drop on Nagasaki, while my friend's grandfather was IN Nagasaki.
Well I'm moving to an area with a suck ass telco and no chance of DSL.
Right now (at my current place) I have DSL from a local place (mv.com). They are fantastic but they only offer ADSL, so I have to keep a local phone line. I never use it.. I pay $15/month for nothing.
Now that I can't even get DSL I'm not going to get phone service, no reason to. My wife and I each have cell phones. Even if I do need it for whatever reason I'll get VoIP.
Point is, if they cut off the local DSL provider where I currently live, I'd do the same thing. So rather then getting $15/month from me, plus the fee they're charging my ISP, they would get $0.
The problem was this was during a time of carpet bombing. There were no smart bombs. Planes would fly over and just drop bombs over everybody.
Also, Japan would NOT give up.. it took -TWO- atomic bombs to get them to give up. Without them the war probably would have went on for a LOT longer. This probably would have created more deaths/casualties on both sides in the long run.
This is very true. Just pick up some stuff someday and look, most stuff has a patent number on them. From paper bags to bottle caps to different types of paper cups. It's silly.
Yah, because they don't do anything else...
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DirecTV doesn't want to use TiVo anymore, they are developing their own "Home Media System" or something like that to replace the HDDirecTiVos. It is of course not released yet.
But the new sat is for spot beams (locals). So if you have the new DirecTV DVR (the multiroom one that is not released yet), you'll be able to get all the same programming you can get now.
Can you record your OTA HD channels with the HDTiVo?
In order for that to work then the signal would have to be the same, and it's not.
I had a SA TiVo on cable for a while. I had the old style box with an IR Blaster and it worked fine, never missed a show or had any issues with it.
Most digital cable boxes can be controled with the serial cable from the TiVo to increase speed and reliablility.
The DirecTiVo units record the stream from the sats, so they are incompatible for that reason. But they give you PERFECT quality, something the SA TiVo's can't do.
The signals will probably always be different between cable and sat, so I don't know what they could do. I see a future where cable companies use different encoding for their streams, making the cablecard worthless anyway:(
DirecTV is coming out with their own DVR that will be some kind of home entertainment thing. You'll have one "master" system that will do all the recording and then other systems hooked up to other TVs that will get the information from the master system. It will also allow streaming from your computer for music and pictures.
There is only two "formats" of TiVo for DirecTV, the normal ones that record the stream from the sat, and the new HDTV TiVo's that cost a grand. So I don't see why you would have to buy a new one every "6-8 months" as you suggest.
If you call them now and inquire about a DVR they direct you to the new home entertainment unit that will be coming out soon
This is silly.. if you don't like the cable company, work to change it.
EVERY cable company must have a contract with the local city/town to operate.
I worked at a public access TV station in a small town during this. They are usually 3-7 year contracts, the cable comittee is usually made up of people from the town/city.
Our managed to get MediaOne (at the time) to give free cable modems to all the schools, as well as free cable service, on top of what they were required to give the public access TV station. They also had to agree to offer high speed access across the entire town in 2 years or less.
It came VERY close to dumping them and going with Adelphia.. if that happened then everybody in the the town would switch to Adelphia and MediaOne (now Comcast) would have been OUT.
Also, you can get Earthlink service over cable via Comcast..
" But does the DRM have anything to do with the fact that my older CD players will not play any CD where I burn a mix from a playlist? I'd really like an answer to this one:) If so, I may check out DVDJon's program.
I think that has more to do with your older CD player not liking burnt discs then the fact that the file was DRM'd. Do you not have issues playing burnt discs that have non-drm'd tracks on them?
"and the ability to continue to have a full functioning stand alone DVR (i.e. no "unrecordable content", etc.)"
How so? I figured this would be like the DirecTiVo's that you can get from DirecTV. They don't work as standalone, they just save the digital feed from the dish.
"To create a rewriteable CD (CD-RW), you need a dye layer that can be changed back and forth between opaque and transparent. This page discusses the special material that CD-RW's use. The material has the property that it can change its transparency depending on temperature. Heated to one temperature, the material cools to a transparent state; heated to another temperature, it cools to a cloudy state. By changing the power (and therefore the temperature) of the writing laser, the data on the CD can be changed, or "rewritten.""
Exactly, this wasn't put in place for security reasons (M1/ATTBI blocking port 80 during the code red outbreak). Or for policy reasons for service (Verizon blocking port 25 on consumer DSL).
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To bad, they should have read it. They no longer have rights to the music the wrote and recorded, it belongs to Sony now
I do not, and do not plan to have children, but I still have two cell phones as well. I'm also moving to a small town and have already met lots of people. It's a very friendly neighborhood and I'm sure in an emergency they would let me use their phones.
That's fine and good.. But I have Japanese friends, who's parents came to the US from Japan. I talk to them from time to time about the bomb and the impact on their family. Their whole family came from Nagasaki. They have lived there for generations. Strangely enough, we don't get into emotional things like family members, with the exception of pointing out that my wife's grandfather watched the bomb drop on Nagasaki, while my friend's grandfather was IN Nagasaki.
Well I'm moving to an area with a suck ass telco and no chance of DSL.
Right now (at my current place) I have DSL from a local place (mv.com). They are fantastic but they only offer ADSL, so I have to keep a local phone line. I never use it.. I pay $15/month for nothing.
Now that I can't even get DSL I'm not going to get phone service, no reason to. My wife and I each have cell phones. Even if I do need it for whatever reason I'll get VoIP.
Point is, if they cut off the local DSL provider where I currently live, I'd do the same thing. So rather then getting $15/month from me, plus the fee they're charging my ISP, they would get $0.
The problem was this was during a time of carpet bombing. There were no smart bombs. Planes would fly over and just drop bombs over everybody. Also, Japan would NOT give up.. it took -TWO- atomic bombs to get them to give up. Without them the war probably would have went on for a LOT longer. This probably would have created more deaths/casualties on both sides in the long run.
This is very true. Just pick up some stuff someday and look, most stuff has a patent number on them. From paper bags to bottle caps to different types of paper cups. It's silly.
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Why after 100 similar slashdot stories where this is said, people still don't get it
Adblock blocks flash.. Why would you need both?
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Can you record your OTA HD channels with the HDTiVo?
I had a SA TiVo on cable for a while. I had the old style box with an IR Blaster and it worked fine, never missed a show or had any issues with it.
Most digital cable boxes can be controled with the serial cable from the TiVo to increase speed and reliablility.
The DirecTiVo units record the stream from the sats, so they are incompatible for that reason. But they give you PERFECT quality, something the SA TiVo's can't do.
The signals will probably always be different between cable and sat, so I don't know what they could do. I see a future where cable companies use different encoding for their streams, making the cablecard worthless anyway :(
There is only two "formats" of TiVo for DirecTV, the normal ones that record the stream from the sat, and the new HDTV TiVo's that cost a grand. So I don't see why you would have to buy a new one every "6-8 months" as you suggest.
If you call them now and inquire about a DVR they direct you to the new home entertainment unit that will be coming out soon
Also, you can have free access, but still require a login for tracking of usage.
There are a number of wireless hotspots that offer free, or free for some ammount of time access, that still require a login.
This is silly.. if you don't like the cable company, work to change it.
EVERY cable company must have a contract with the local city/town to operate.
I worked at a public access TV station in a small town during this. They are usually 3-7 year contracts, the cable comittee is usually made up of people from the town/city.
Our managed to get MediaOne (at the time) to give free cable modems to all the schools, as well as free cable service, on top of what they were required to give the public access TV station. They also had to agree to offer high speed access across the entire town in 2 years or less.
It came VERY close to dumping them and going with Adelphia.. if that happened then everybody in the the town would switch to Adelphia and MediaOne (now Comcast) would have been OUT.
Also, you can get Earthlink service over cable via Comcast..
I think that has more to do with your older CD player not liking burnt discs then the fact that the file was DRM'd. Do you not have issues playing burnt discs that have non-drm'd tracks on them?
So if it's shown on a US TV network/channel then it has been paid for.
How so? I figured this would be like the DirecTiVo's that you can get from DirecTV. They don't work as standalone, they just save the digital feed from the dish.
That's the way to go anyway, much higher quality.
Where did you hear that?
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"To create a rewriteable CD (CD-RW), you need a dye layer that can be changed back and forth between opaque and transparent. This page discusses the special material that CD-RW's use. The material has the property that it can change its transparency depending on temperature. Heated to one temperature, the material cools to a transparent state; heated to another temperature, it cools to a cloudy state. By changing the power (and therefore the temperature) of the writing laser, the data on the CD can be changed, or "rewritten.""
This was done specifically to block competition.