Why do LEDs generate heat? (2025 Update)

Replay was too good. It gave the people what they want in a recorder and got sued out of existence by the TV people.

Yes. Some people do use Replays, even though there hasn't been a new model for well over a decade, no HD support.

RTV became pretty much a novelty when they stopped updating the guide and even then it was only good for a cable/Sat box that output NTSC (like the 722 Dish box). I know you can get a guide from somewhere using 3d party software but most people are not playing whack a mole with this problem.

Then if I was your doctor I simply wouldn't contact you. The mobile was invented in the 90s. Texts are so much easier than calls for your doctor to send to 1000s of people.

What about the telco that's allowing the source of the robocalls? For example, if I tried to send 50,000 emails out as a spam message, your ISP wouldn't know I'd sent it to 50,000 people, but mine would. Mine should take action against me.

I hope 1000s of people don't show up for my appointment or at the same time I pick up my prescriptions.

No if you had 50,000 CCs on your message, my ISP would stop it. In fact the cutoff seems to be around 15 or 20 unless I specifically white list the sender.

My main email internet gets over a dozen of spam messages every day filtered to a spam folder. If the ISP knows anyting about it, they seem to do very little. The Yahoo email gets more than that.

Nothing will ever stop pirates. I'm old enough to remember Macrovision, which was supposed to stop you copying a VHS tape. For about £20 I bought a device that was sold to "clear up poor quality signals" on a SCART connection, what amused me is they said in the advert "may also remove Macrovision copy protection, but this is not its intended use and to do so would be breaking the law." - i.e. "This is a device for removing Macrovision".

The shape does not dictate the size.

Do you have electricity yet?

Your phone company must know where it came from.

You may be doing worse than me and that address up top is real. I get about 10 a day that AOL calls spam and several more in my mailbox that I know why I get. (done business with them and didn't tell them to stop). Usually the stuff that comes from a real company will go away if you unsubscribe. If you answer the nigerian prince at all it just tells him you are reading his mail and that attracts more.

But it does dictate what they make. The world is going 16x9 and guys like us are just dinosaurs. Most PCs are rapidly becoming multimedia devices. The people who do still "compute" will buy a 16x9 32" for $100 and double up the pages on the screen.

I quit using NTSC outputs because of the way the box insisted on letterboxing, which looked bad when the video was shown on a widescreen TV. I use the HDMI output with a converter that cost about $20.

There's also an online service, although it's internet only not POTS (there was POTS access for awhile, but it was stopped for lack of interest). I actually do use that software since I like to be in control. Also there is a good multi-Replay scheduler. The software is only a little more difficult to use than the old ReplayTV server.

It may also be possible to mount a monitor vertically, so you'd have

My RTV is sitting on a shelf in the shop and I am not sure what I am going to do with it.

My stand rotates. It takes about 10 seconds to rotate the display and change the orientation in windows. It is handy when you are doing word processing type things since it looks more like a printed page. The old dedicated WP systems used a vertical monitor.

BTW if you are not dyslexic, change the orientation before you rotate the monitor. Running the mouse on a sideways screen is tough for normal folks. (up is right, right is down)

"suck on a government tit" - I like that phrase!

I've never understood people living in cities. I live on the edge of a town of 2000 people. My house is the same size as a house in a city of a million people, costing 5 to 10 times as much, with more noise, more pollution, more people. Less garden space to yourself, more congestion of traffic. What on earth could be the advantage?

I doubt they'd erect one of those just for that. A cell tower is just that, a big f****ng tower. Without the tall pole, it wouldn't pick up the signal to re-radiate it to the workman.

When I were a lad, we had a rented TV about 18". It kept breaking, the guy was out every month sorting it. My dad gave up on them and bought a 16", which we used for several years until he bought a 25" and gave me the 16" for my bedroom. Nowadays I would never consider buying a TV under 40", but I do remember 50" (which is now about £500 and in almost half of houses) when they first came out about 7 years ago were £50,000! I used to use a projector to make a 90" TV on a plain white wall. Looked quite cool when there was one or two people in closeup, their heads were huge!

Yip, 16:9 is too bloody skinny. Even then, when you watch a film it's in cinemascope which is even wider!