Really? How do you explain your answer?
'It seems as safe as ever' can mean it isn't safe at all, because it never was but your opinion hasn't changed.
The original poll is *NOT* asking how safe you think it is...
Actually its not that far form golf... but with larger targets. A game that involves moving an object over a distance while avoiding obstacles to hit a target is far from innovative. It's been around (in RL) for at least seven hundred years... and simulated in games since the earliest home computers.
And before the days of mobile phones many school kids played a game something like Angry Birds on the Wood&Elastic platform... sometimes even building the gaming device themselves.
To be truly innovative you need to come up with something new and not just copy something and add 'on a mobile phone' or 'on a computer' to the paten^h^h^h^h game.
You got that wrong... they use SuperRand()...
defrag the disks!
A lot of the UK Tivo users were sold a 'lifetime' subscription which, costing more than the box itself, entitled the user to 'program information for the life of your Tivo' (from the original documentation). The original service agreement was worded significantly different from the current one but was changed bit by bit over the years.
That was YOUR Tivo and not what it was later twisted into 'as long as we can be bothered and don't want to use it as a stick to force you to sign up to a cable company service plan for a box you won't own'.
The 'subscription free' part is meaningless when you don't pay the subscription.
I love/hate how people don't get it.
Most people DON'T use them to record crappy analogue broadcast TV, it wouldn't be worth it for just 5 channels. We use them to record TV from Cable and Satellite set top boxes via scart cables as the Tivo has a built in system to change channels on the STB. Even ignoring the ability to record the Tivo EPG was years ahead of the cable/satelite versions (and is STILL better than the Virgin Media EPG 8 years on as well as being better than most 'new' Digital TV PVRs).
It's also now possible (with a little hacking) to use series 1 Tivos with (specific) Freeview STB so they are far from obsolete due to the analogue switch off.
Shame that isn't the case...
I'm one of the loyal UK Tivo customers... I currently have cable service from VM. I was considering updating purely so I could get HD channels, however since they announced the termination of the old service not only am I going to stick with my SD box, I'm going to downgrade my TV package to the 'free with other services' one, and actively discourage people I know from getting the VM Tivo. Since I'm the 'tech guy' amongst my group of friends/co-workers I guarantee Tivo/VM will lose out on some sales... and I guarantee that most other UK Tivo owners are in a similar situation.
There are already issues with the cable service as they only have a fraction of the *good* channels available from satellite and how they have treated the series 1 customers is just one more reason to switch...
I love how they clearly breached copyright law on page 170 of the PDF and made a duplicate of the floppy disk before giving the original back...
What *doesn't* have a processor these days?
The kitchen sink?
My quick Google came up empty (closest match was an intelligent water filtration system) but I'm sure someone will come along with a link to a smart sink in a minute...
I counted just the hard drives I have since they have microprocessors on the controller board... and got over 20.
I really should get around to archiving, securely wiping and disposing of some of the old inactive/retired/failed ones.
We are taking damage! The ODN relays on deck 8 have overloaded!
Its fine when the choice of irreversible consequence is obvoiusly so...
It can be very annoying when you are give the choice of 'Go now' or 'wait a bit longer' and you chose the latter thinking you need to upgrade your armour before you go, spend half an hour at the vendor buying your bling just to find out that 'wait a bit longer' actually meant 'Never!' You missed your chance... you have to go do something else that doesn't fit they way you are playing the character.
Then you realise that after buying stuff you saved over the entirety of today's efforts... and faced with having to play several hours over or go down a story path you don't like you stop playing and sell the game on eBay.
Insurance doesn't give you protection from theft... Locked doors and laws relating to the ownership of property and restricted access to private property do that (when enforced by the police).
Insurance provides you with financial compensation for when the above protections failed to protect your house and belongings. If you fail to have basic protections such as locked doors then your insurance won't pay you a penny.
However now that I think about it, copyright and patents are more like insurance than a protection...
-1, Pedantic. ?
There's the issue of WiFi having quite complex propergation patterns. Whereas with visible light to can easily tell where the coverage area and confine it to specific rooms without needing exotic building materials.
Not really... visible light can be as unpredictable... light reflects off walls and floors and can propagate quite far... you can be upstairs in bed and notice the downstairs light is still on since there is a faint light visible around the edges of the closed bedroom door...
Thus spake the master programmer: "After three days without programming, life becomes meaningless." -- Geoffrey James, "The Tao of Programming"
