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Comment Journal (Score 3, Informative) 379

I been writting a journal since age 12, and all I been using is pen and paper. Going through the pages is faster than rewinding with a digital device. When you read through memorable moment many years later you will notice the the memories will flood back in, and even the smells of the moment will make it back. You don't even have to read the whole to thing you wrotem just a few snipets and your brain will fill in the blanks. Also written journals are more collectible than digital files, so if your family does not read it after you pass some stranger will.

Comment Re:I speak very good English (Score 1) 330

From experience. I have noticed that anglophones, specially the ones in USA choose not to understand if the accent differs. And if they understad you then they might mock your accent. My coworker claims he can't understand black peoples english and needs subtitles when watching a movie with black actors.

Comment Re:PVR (Score 1) 146

What are you using for tuners?

I am using 1 HDHomerun Prime and a HDHomeRunDUal I have the cablecard connected in cardsharing mode. I had to modify of VDR-SC to share the cablecard with both devices, but it works much better than in default mode because all my tuners(5) can decode the channels I subscribe to, and it get rids of the copy once flag and I am able to playback in any device I want.

Comment Re:PVR (Score 4, Informative) 146

The live TV/PVR "functionality" is still dogshit, apparently shoehorned in at the last minute. I've used it with NPVR and MythTV backends and it doesn't do the most basic things like pause or rewind. Other than that it's lovely.

I think you're doing something wrong. I been running frodo in a raspberrypi using mythtv backend, and I can rewind, fast forward, pause and schedule recordings. I even returned the cable boxes to my cable provider, 4 of boxes and now comcast refunds me $3 per month for not renting their cable box. I could not do any recordings if the backend was tvheadend but it works just fine with mythtv and VDR.

Comment Re:Now to fix Android remotes... (Score 2) 146

..that haven't been working since at least RC2.

This annoys me because the interface is such a f*ck*rse to operate with the mouse.

Man, sounds like you're paying for their product I hope you're donating something at least. The remote was fixed long time ago. Just install one of the nightlies apk's from their website trying doing some goggling next time

Comment Re:Ironic (Score 2) 514

Isn't it considered racist to refer to someone as "Oriental"? It's an adjective for objects not people.

Is only aproblem with USA Orientals, and I think is because they do not know what the word means. In USA the word Asian is reserved only for people you know the different eye, sorry I could not find a better description. In the UK asian is reserved for Indians. example when offer food from that area they could say "do you want Asian or Chinese food" Where they say asian they meant Indian food. Oriental is just latin for eastern and western is occidental

Comment Diesel's can do that (Score 1) 1184

I think this is a job for Diesel's. MY VW passat does better than 54.5US gallons when in the hwy. My friend has a ford fiesta diesel that gets even better mileage around 70mpg (US gallons). And I am sure a diesel hybrid should be even better. I can't go back to driving gasoline autos. The torque in a diesel vehicle is just awesome. Trident is coming out with a diesel sports car that will do 0-60mph in 3.7 seconds and a fuel economy of 57.4mpg and that car's engine is built by GM.

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