Cox

[nathanm]

Four letters: XBMC.

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Four letters: XBMC.

I do the HTPC/AppleTV route so I loaded that and found out it supported basically nothing I used. Not even a working netflix plugin. Worthless.

[Hoss]

I do the HTPC/AppleTV route so I loaded that and found out it supported basically nothing I used. Not even a working netflix plugin. Worthless.

WDTV Live

http://wdc.com/en/products/products.aspx?id=330

[nathanm]

I do the HTPC/AppleTV route so I loaded that and found out it supported basically nothing I used. Not even a working netflix plugin. Worthless.

There was once a working Netflix plugin, but Netflix has actively taken steps to block it. Sometimes they fix it before Netflix kills it again. Hulu works, as does Amazon, YouTube, most of the TV network sites, and a whole host of other things, including some that I'd rate more highly than Netflix. I don't know whether they work on the AppleTV, but they work on my Ubuntu box. I haven't tried recently on Windows.

[DolfanBob]

Cox fellow showed up and made everything work, so I'm happy for the moment. Apparently, it's not great to have water in your drop from the pole.

It seems to cause a rusted out center conductor in the fittings. Same thing will happen with Satellite if you don't use the propper fittings.

How is the Apple T.V. working out for you that have it. I was always a Windows user until recently getting a Apple Mac here at the office. And I love it. Of course a few things have not worked exactly as a PC but as little as that may be, I have no idea why everyone does not use a Mac.

[Conan71]

It seems to cause a rusted out center conductor in the fittings. Same thing will happen with Satellite if you don't use the propper fittings.

How is the Apple T.V. working out for you that have it. I was always a Windows user until recently getting a Apple Mac here at the office. And I love it. Of course a few things have not worked exactly as a PC but as little as that may be, I have no idea why everyone does not use a Mac.

I resisted forever going Mac.  Everything felt really foreign at first, but once you get used to it, you are right: you wonder why anyone still uses Windows.

[nathanm]

you wonder why anyone still uses Windows.

It runs all the idiotic software I'm made to use. And the computers that run it are well under half the price.

A Mac Pro equivalent to what I'm typing this on (3.2ghz quad core, 12GB memory) runs about $3,000. That $2,000 difference bought me a 46" LCD TV, a 32" LCD TV, a 17" LCD monitor, a bunch of Williams pinball machine parts, assorted other computer-related stuff, an LEDWiz LED controller, a button-keyboard interface, a couple of sheets of birch plywood, and the beer necessary to get some folks to help me build a pinball cabinet so I'd have somewhere to put all that stuff. 

[Conan71]

It runs all the idiotic software I'm made to use. And the computers that run it are well under half the price.

A Mac Pro equivalent to what I'm typing this on (3.2ghz quad core, 12GB memory) runs about $3,000. That $2,000 difference bought me a 46" LCD TV, a 32" LCD TV, a 17" LCD monitor, a bunch of Williams pinball machine parts, assorted other computer-related stuff, an LEDWiz LED controller, a button-keyboard interface, a couple of sheets of birch plywood, and the beer necessary to get some folks to help me build a pinball cabinet so I'd have somewhere to put all that stuff. 

Spendthrift.

I would have wisely spent that $2000 on a carbon fiber bicycle frame. 

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Spendthrift.
I would have wisely spent that $2000 on a carbon fiber bicycle frame.  

350 to 400 gallons of Avgas

[nathanm]

Both of those seem like excellent choices. Maybe not for me, in the case of the avgas, because I have no plane to put it in. It wouldn't make a lot of sense to go buy 400 gallons of gas and pump it onto the ground. 

[Conan71]

Both of those seem like excellent choices. Maybe not for me, in the case of the avgas, because I have no plane to put it in. It wouldn't make a lot of sense to go buy 400 gallons of gas and pump it onto the ground. 

Yeah, but your Honda would have loved it!

[patric]

They may bite me. I am tired of them not showing up and using the excuse that they "tried to call". They were perfectly capable of calling me at 11 this morning to try to come early, but when it comes to calling me to actually show up at my house during the appointment window, no dice. 
It's almost as bad as the UPS guy who "can't find the address" on the days he's running particularly late.
(Also, it would be great if they could figure out what buttons they need to press to make CableCARDs work without sending a person out)

They just bought two TV stations here in town, so at least their economy is improving.

[sgrizzle]

It runs all the idiotic software I'm made to use. And the computers that run it are well under half the price.

A Mac Pro equivalent to what I'm typing this on (3.2ghz quad core, 12GB memory) runs about $3,000. That $2,000 difference bought me a 46" LCD TV, a 32" LCD TV, a 17" LCD monitor, a bunch of Williams pinball machine parts, assorted other computer-related stuff, an LEDWiz LED controller, a button-keyboard interface, a couple of sheets of birch plywood, and the beer necessary to get some folks to help me build a pinball cabinet so I'd have somewhere to put all that stuff. 

Mac Pros are for software developers and graphic designers, not for a PC

[carltonplace]

Spendthrift.

I would have wisely spent that $2000 on a carbon fiber bicycle frame. 

Marshalls (obligatory reference)

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Marshalls (obligatory reference)

Which flavor?