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I watched Terriers last night and have to say it was better than I expected.  The name sounds like it belongs on Animal Planet, and I was on the fence after seeing the previews, but I found myself getting into it.   I think it has potential.

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I watched Terriers last night and have to say it was better than I expected.  The name sounds like it belongs on Animal Planet, and I was on the fence after seeing the previews, but I found myself getting into it.   I think it has potential.

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Personally, I never pay too much attention to the unboxing portion of a review anyway.  99.99% of the time it really doesn’t matter to me how the thing is packaged.  I’m more interested in the product itself.

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Personally, I never pay too much attention to the unboxing portion of a review anyway.  99.99% of the time it really doesn’t matter to me how the thing is packaged.  I’m more interested in the product itself.

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[quote=”autoboy”]
The fact that it will run on iphone hardware makes it easy to build apps for it in the itunes store.
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I haven’t seen anything that indicates you’ll be able to run apps on it.  Engadget seems to think that’s not a feature: http://www.engadget.com/2010/09/01/appletv-vs-the-competition-how-does-it-stack-up/

If it could run apps I would probably give it a try just to see what it can do.  Their $.99 TV show rental fee will never fly in my house (maybe if it had the capability to download and store them).  Good luck getting Hulu or any of the network sites on it.

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[quote=”autoboy”]
The fact that it will run on iphone hardware makes it easy to build apps for it in the itunes store.
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I haven’t seen anything that indicates you’ll be able to run apps on it.  Engadget seems to think that’s not a feature: http://www.engadget.com/2010/09/01/appletv-vs-the-competition-how-does-it-stack-up/

If it could run apps I would probably give it a try just to see what it can do.  Their $.99 TV show rental fee will never fly in my house (maybe if it had the capability to download and store them).  Good luck getting Hulu or any of the network sites on it.

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[quote=”Skirge01″]
To be fair, the fastload and super snapshot cartridges did allow for shortcuts to be used, so if you had one of those, you may have pressed a two key combo in order for it to type out LOAD “*”,8,1 for your lazy arse.  😉  I had super snapshot personally and remember typing $ to see the directory of disks, rather than LOAD “$”,8.  I wouldn’t have remembered that stuff had I not watched that video I linked to.  BTW, if you didn’t watch it through to the end, you missed the funniest parts, as the guy gets ticked off at himself and the Commodore keyboard layout!
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OK, I went and watched the video.  It starts kind of slow but the end is funny.  He’s cheating and using an emulator, though, which is probably why he as so much trouble with the keyboard.

Ah, the poke command.  I used to have the memory map memorized.

I had a quick load cartridge back in the day also.  I soldered a reset switch into it so I wouldn’t fry the computer shorting pins on the back with a paper clip any more (yes, I used to do that.  It worked great the first 20 times, but that last one…)

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[quote=”Skirge01″]
To be fair, the fastload and super snapshot cartridges did allow for shortcuts to be used, so if you had one of those, you may have pressed a two key combo in order for it to type out LOAD “*”,8,1 for your lazy arse.  😉  I had super snapshot personally and remember typing $ to see the directory of disks, rather than LOAD “$”,8.  I wouldn’t have remembered that stuff had I not watched that video I linked to.  BTW, if you didn’t watch it through to the end, you missed the funniest parts, as the guy gets ticked off at himself and the Commodore keyboard layout!
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OK, I went and watched the video.  It starts kind of slow but the end is funny.  He’s cheating and using an emulator, though, which is probably why he as so much trouble with the keyboard.

Ah, the poke command.  I used to have the memory map memorized.

I had a quick load cartridge back in the day also.  I soldered a reset switch into it so I wouldn’t fry the computer shorting pins on the back with a paper clip any more (yes, I used to do that.  It worked great the first 20 times, but that last one…)

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[quote=”shadymg”]
you guys are showing your age…i used the C64 a ton but i don’t remember any of those special keys 😛 guess i was too busy using the joystick 🙂
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I guess it would really show my age if I told you that I wrote most of my papers in college on a C64 then 🙂   

Of course I also played Gunship when I should have been studying for finals 😉

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[quote=”shadymg”]
you guys are showing your age…i used the C64 a ton but i don’t remember any of those special keys 😛 guess i was too busy using the joystick 🙂
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I guess it would really show my age if I told you that I wrote most of my papers in college on a C64 then 🙂   

Of course I also played Gunship when I should have been studying for finals 😉

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Pretty cool, but I think the keyboard layout will be  a problem for most users (Where’s the key?)  Of course, the press release doesn’t mention the OS, but connecting a mouse to a C64 would just feel wrong.

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Pretty cool, but I think the keyboard layout will be  a problem for most users (Where’s the key?)  Of course, the press release doesn’t mention the OS, but connecting a mouse to a C64 would just feel wrong.

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[quote=”Matt”]
To sucessfully pass the Digital Cable Advisor tool aren’t you required to have 4GB of RAM?
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I believe the items on that page are recommendations and not requirements.

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[quote=”Matt”]
To sucessfully pass the Digital Cable Advisor tool aren’t you required to have 4GB of RAM?
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I believe the items on that page are recommendations and not requirements.

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To get audio from the DVI port on your video card (assuming your card supports that) you’ll need the adapter made specifically for that card, a standard DVI to HDMI adapter won’t work since audio isn’t part of the DVI standard, so different manufacturers have different schemes to make that work. 

Beyond that, I’d think it should be possible to have both outputs active (as if you have two monitors), but it would probably take some tweaking of settings. 

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