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Comment Re:tivo premier blows them both away (Score 1) 403

Let me guess, you have an TiVo S3 (the one with the OLED display showing what is recording)? The fact that you have used 3 different drives leads me to believe you have had it for a while and the S3 is the oldest HD capable model. If so that explains it. Tivo locked down the external storage after the S3. Only certified drives work out of the box for the TiVo HD and TiVo Premiere.

Comment Re:Simple. (Score 1) 263

A few reasons:

So when you leave the company or get fired you won't lose the phone # and have to tell everyone you know your new #? If you are fired hopefully you wrote down all of your personal numbers from your phone book before security takes it away.

So your employer doesn't have access to a record of every call you make. If someone higher up is looking for a reason to fire you, they may start looking at your call activity and suddenly that phone call to a friend that works at a competitor will get you in trouble.

Comment Re:Verizon isn't "3G" (Score 3, Informative) 115

By what standard does 3G mean "GSM Network"? None that I have ever heard of. 3G is a term used to describe a variety of technologies that meet certain requirements established by the ITU. Verizon's 3G technology is EVDO. Which is the same 3G technology that Sprint uses for 3G. So even if you were correct is saying that CDMA carriers aren't 3G, then why would the post reference Sprint's 3g network?

Comment Re:Difference between natal and wiimote/PS3 Move (Score 1) 156

I wasn't even talking about the Wii Motion Plus. Wii Motion Plus is useless w/o a wiimote to attach it to.

Even using the $10 price for the wii motion plus it would cost $160 ( 3 additional wiimotes at $40 each + 4 wii motion pluses X $10 each) in addition to the cost of the console to play 4 player games. And thats not even adding in the cost of the wii nunchuck.

The primary difference is that Nintendo has broken up the cost of the peripherals across multiple add-ons. As you pointed out, this allowed them to bundle accessories with games. In addition most people have grown their wiimote & accessory collection over time. So there isn't an issue of sticker shock. But quite a few people I know have been surprised at the total cost when they add up all of the accessories.

Comment This doesn't apply to pandora (Score 2, Informative) 278

Gizmodo had an update concerning that:

http://gizmodo.com/5469042/warner-music-doesnt-much-care-for-this-free-internet-music

Edgar Bronfman's comment on the Warner conference call was addressing free on-demand services such as Spotify that are directly licensed. Pandora operates under a different licensing structure and won't be impacted by Warner's apparent decision with respect to free, on-demand services.

Comment Huh? (Score 1) 278

What is so magical about the iPhone interface? The same people I see struggle with windows or OS X struggle with the iPhone when they get it. The difference is they tend to use the iphone more on a daily basis than their desktop and are therefore more proficient at specific tasks. Ask them to do something they are unfamiliar with and they struggle. Heck I knew one guy that had an iphone for 3 months and still didn't know how to install an app. I'd guess its more of a generational thing than anything else. My experience has shown that anyone over 55 or so is more likely to struggle when it comes to anything computer related. Under that usually are more proficient with computers (and/or specific programs). So I believe the "iphone ui revolution" had more to do with the timing being right with a large percentage of the population being more computer friendly.

Comment Re:What wired equivalent means (Score 1) 274

Last time I saw a residential property with Faraday cage equivalent shielding... well, I never have. Even aluminum siding doesn't seem to keep me from seeing WiFi from the curb in most cases.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB126221116097210861.html

Apparently it used to be pretty common to put chicken wire in plaster walls. So some older buildings work effectively as faraday cages.

Comment Re:What's the point? (Score 1) 117

I must be way ahead of the curve because I already have a device that can stream netflix, run boxee, xbmc, act as a media server, etc. It's called a computer. You can get one for very little money these days, even with hdmi output for use as a htpc. They do a lot of cool stuff!

A) Netflix HD streams are not current available for computers. Sure they are low bitrate HD streams, but they are better on larger TVs than the SD streams
B) Buying a PC for each TV in my house (5) is much more expensive than buying these lower end boxes and using a central storage server. Plus its much cheaper on the electricity bill.
C) HTPCs tend to take time to setup correctly, more so than these inexpensive dedicated boxes. While I would probably enjoy making these tweaks (as would most of slashdot), I enjoy spending time with my family more or making money by working and billing my clients.
D) Dedicated boxes like this tend to have a simpler UI and therefore a much higher WAF (wife acceptance factor).

Just a few points off the top of my head.

Comment Re:Too bad we don't have rules to deal with this (Score 1) 839

Except that if Driver A treats the intersection as a "4 way stop" the expectation is that driver B will stop, so driver A shouldn't need to wait in that situation. Obviously it would be correct to wait to see Driver B slow down, but a slow down could be caused by a red light that turns green prior to Driver B reaching the intersection. I think it is more accurate to say that if a street light is obscured, you should treat it as a stop sign. Not a "4 way stop", since that has an expectation of other drivers behavior. Not sure what the law specifically say in this situation, but I would treat the obscured light as a stop sign, not a "4 way stop".

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