I didn't get the 6.3 HR10-250 upgrade last night!

[Fahtrim]

I was amazed.

:eek: :p :)

[thepackfan]

Too bad. It works great. ;)

[fjwagner]

Not sure why we need a new thread for this well worn topic. Almost 600 posts in one just started a few days ago. However, will look forward to the upgrade.

http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?t=306758

[ebonovic]

It was an attempt to be funny... kinda like a stress relief post.

[jmorgis]

You mean get excited on an update that was coming since last year? Sorry I lost all excitement long ago.

[JimSpence]

I was also amazed that I didn't get the upgrade yet. :)

[TyroneShoes]

I'm still amazed there are so many waiting with baited breath for it. It'll get here when it gets here, and it probably won't really amount to a hill of beans in the grand scheme of things even then. Those 600 posters were probably also the same zipperheads waiting in line overnight at COMPUSA for the release of Windows 98.

[phox_mulder]

Of course we didn't get the upgrade last night, it was only the 18th.

Next Wednesday however, being that Tuesday is the 25th. :D


phox

[Rowsdower]

I'm still amazed there are so many waiting with baited breath for it.Fish have baited breath. We have bated breath. ;)

[clorox]

Can the mods close this thread? I like 6.3 threads as much as the next one, but it's getting out of control and I am sure there are many hungry trolls like abfabmag with baited or bated breath waiting to eat this thread.

[tbb1226]

Those 600 posters were probably also the same zipperheads waiting in line overnight at COMPUSA for the release of Windows 98. :D :up: :up: :D

How long was that line, TS? (6 of the 600 posts were yours, after all ;) )

[cheer]

I'm sorry to say that I actually did wait in line for Windows 95 (not 98)...not overnight, mind you.

[smimi10]

Those 600 posters were probably also the same zipperheads waiting in line overnight at COMPUSA for the release of Windows 98.

It's "propeller head" thank you very much. :-D

Mike

[Fahtrim]

Not sure why we need a new thread for this well worn topic. Almost 600 posts in one just started a few days ago. However, will look forward to the upgrade.

http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?t=306758
Lighten up Francis.

[Markman07]

I didn't even plug my unit in and I made sure I wasn't connected to my Directivo via my laptop's PPP connection and I still didn't get the upgrade! GEEEZ What GIVES!?

/sarcasm version 8.99 off

[Billy Bob Boy]

I am too amazed at not getting the upgrade! But what is even more amazing is that I don't even own a hr10-250 :D




seriously though if these upgrades are real why is D* even bothering to upgrade something that they no longer want to deal with. If they indeed are ending the tivo relationship whats the point of all these upgrades. I realise that they will support the tivo platform for years to come. I wish i could read the minds of the execs to figure out why they are putting themselves in a potential CSR Nightmare(from possible bugs and what not) on essentially obsolete (in the future) equiptment. Something is definitely going on here. Is it possible they are finding out that their own dvr is not making it and they want to keep the options open. Or did tivo demand they upgrade. A real head scratcher.


Wait i figured it out. These upgrades are designed to be buggy forcing tivo owners machines to blow up and force us to use the D* equiptment. THOSE DIABOLICAL FIENDS!!! :p

[NJChris]

Fish have baited breath. We have bated breath. ;)

But what if you just ate some fish???? Then it's gets confusing.

[harley3k]

seriously though if these upgrades are real why is D* even bothering to upgrade something that they no longer want to deal with. If they indeed are ending the tivo relationship whats the point of all these upgrades. I realise that they will support the tivo platform for years to come. I wish i could read the minds of the execs to figure out why they are putting themselves in a potential CSR Nightmare(from possible bugs and what not) on essentially obsolete (in the future) equiptment. Something is definitely going on here. Is it possible they are finding out that their own dvr is not making it and they want to keep the options open. Or did tivo demand they upgrade. A real head scratcher.


Wait i figured it out. These upgrades are designed to be buggy forcing tivo owners machines to blow up and force us to use the D* equiptment. THOSE DIABOLICAL FIENDS!!! :p

I bet it has something to do with their recent reconcilliation and announcement that they are continuing their support relationship.... D* realized that the grass wasn't all that greener going it on their own, so they drunk dialed Tivo and asked for more support.... Tivo felt nostalgic and threw them a bone. How sweet.

-h

[jsirota]

seriously though if these upgrades are real why is D* even bothering to upgrade something that they no longer want to deal with.

Could it be because the Tivo Series3 is just around the corner, finally offering a Tivo-based DVR solution to HDTV viewers that doesn't involve DirecTV?

DirecTV is afraid of a mass exodus of customers to the cable companies. Once the series3 is out, they're going to have to do everything they can to keep their HDTV-DVR customers happy.

[gquiring]

:confused: :confused: What upgrade? :confused: :confused: :confused:

[JimSpence]

...
seriously though if these upgrades are real why is D* even bothering to upgrade something that they no longer want to deal with. Well, DirecTV did send an upgrade down for the series 1 TiVos. Totally unexpected. And you could say they don't want to deal with them any longer either with the R15 out there.

[Billy Bob Boy]

Well, DirecTV did send an upgrade down for the series 1 TiVos. Totally unexpected. And you could say they don't want to deal with them any longer either with the R15 out there.My point exactly !! Why!! just wondering!!

Edit: And Hoping!!

[HDTivoDesire]

GIMME BACK MY 6.3!!!!!!!!!!

[DeDondeEs]

Not sure why we need a new thread for this well worn topic. Almost 600 posts in one just started a few days ago. However, will look forward to the upgrade.

http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?t=306758


Yea then after this eagerly anticipated upgrade installs there will be 600 post threads on how the upgrade sucks, and how it ruined people's systems. Then when that dies down, there will be all kinds of speculation and rumor as to when the 6.4 upgrade is coming, and how Dtv sucks because they don't upgrade their equipment. It is really cyclical. As long as my Tivo records tv and plays it back with the ability to pause and fast-forwared I don't care what version I have or when I get a new one.

[TomB]

Agreed, DeDondeEs. Probably a diabolical plan by DirecTV to send us a bug filled upgrade to get us all to move to THEIR DVR...

But I would like the interface speedup..... (sigh)

[Adam1115]

I was amazed.

:eek: :p :)

Do you have your phone line connected?

[fjwagner]

Lighten up Francis.

Cant help it if my Great Great whatever was Francis Scott Key :( Hard to go through life being called Francis, but toughened me up enough to wait out 6.3 :)

However, my closest friends call me Fred.

[MichaelK]

Cant help it if my Great Great whatever was Francis Scott Key :( Hard to go through life being called Francis, but toughened me up enough to wait out 6.3 :)

However, my closest friends call me Fred.


I have a cousin Francis. He's sort of like the guy in stripes "my mother called me Francis...ONCE!" - goes by Frank. Also- like the guy in stripes, he has spent his fair share of time in the pokey.

His father, my uncle, was also Francis. Also went by Frank. (no Jail time, but only becasue that was a differnt era...)

But here's the kicker, my grandmother AND her twin brother were also Francis. Go figure!

[fjwagner]

I have a cousin Francis. He's sort of like the guy in stripes "my mother called me Francis...ONCE!" - goes by Frank. Also- like the guy in stripes, he has spent his fair share of time in the pokey.

His father, my uncle, was also Francis. Also went by Frank. (no Jail time, but only becasue that was a differnt era...)

But here's the kicker, my grandmother AND her twin brother were also Francis. Go figure!

... and to think some guy named "Fahtrim" was making fun of the name Francis. :)

[TyroneShoes]

Fish have baited breath. We have bated breath. ;)
Damn! And of course spell check would not catch that. I guess that makes you smarter than both me and the forum software put together. :)

[TyroneShoes]

:D :up: :up: :D

How long was that line, TS? (6 of the 600 posts were yours, after all ;) )
A cheap shot, and a bald-faced lie, pardner. I posted briefly, a grand total of once in that thread, and unlike the other 643, did not whine at all about not having it yet, or about when we might have it. Yes, I want it, but I'm perfectly happy without it, and am patiently waiting, and would not be surprised if it never comes. Folks in hell want icewater, too.

And being exclusively a Mac OS devotee since 1983, you would not catch me dead or alive anywhere near that line. :)

[fjwagner]

Fish have baited breath. We have bated breath. ;)


Q] From Steve Gearhart: “Where does the term baited breath come from, as in: ‘I am waiting with baited breath for your answer’?”

[A] The correct spelling is actually bated breath but it’s so common these days to see it written as baited breath that there’s every chance it will soon become the usual form, to the disgust of conservative speakers and the confusion of dictionary writers. Examples in newspapers and magazines are legion; this one appeared in the Daily Mirror on 12 April 2003: “She hasn’t responded yet but Michael is waiting with baited breath”.

It’s easy to mock, but there’s a real problem here. Bated and baited sound the same and we no longer use bated (let alone the verb to bate), outside this one set phrase, which has become an idiom. Confusion is almost inevitable. Bated here is a contraction of abated through loss of the unstressed first vowel (a process called aphesis); it has the meaning “reduced, lessened, lowered in force”. So bated breath refers to a state in which you almost stop breathing through terror, awe, extreme anticipation, or anxiety.

Shakespeare is the first writer known to use it, in The Merchant of Venice: “Shall I bend low and, in a bondman’s key, / With bated breath and whisp’ring humbleness, / Say this ...”. Nearly three centuries later, Mark Twain employed it in Tom Sawyer: “Every eye fixed itself upon him; with parted lips and bated breath the audience hung upon his words, taking no note of time, rapt in the ghastly fascinations of the tale”.

Reference http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-bai1.htm

[TyroneShoes]

It's "propeller head" thank you very much. :-D

Mike
Not to cast aspersions, but in my world (and it is my world, after all) "propeller-head" is simply a tech nerd, while a "zipper-head" is someone who blindly unzips his skull whenever the "next great thing" comes along so that he can change his mind on a whim about what's cool or trendy or desirable. I'm sure you don't qualify as the latter, because you would never be caught posting in "that" thread, like I was. :)

[TyroneShoes]

...The correct spelling is actually bated breath but it’s so common these days to see it written as baited breath that there’s every chance it will soon become the usual form...http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-bai1.htm
So I guess that makes me a forward-thinking poster, completely ahead of the curve. :) C'mon, all you laggards, get with the program! Misspell stuff like we trendy folks do!

[fjwagner]

given we have beaten 6.3 to death, we have divirged to the propar use and spelling of English! My interist in this thred has picked up!

[cheer]

we have divirged to the propar use and spelling of English! My interist in this thred has picked up!
Irony, thy name is fjwagner.

[kbohip]

Yea then after this eagerly anticipated upgrade installs there will be 600 post threads on how the upgrade sucks, and how it ruined people's systems. Then when that dies down, there will be all kinds of speculation and rumor as to when the 6.4 upgrade is coming, and how Dtv sucks because they don't upgrade their equipment. It is really cyclical. As long as my Tivo records tv and plays it back with the ability to pause and fast-forwared I don't care what version I have or when I get a new one.

Umm, then what are you doing reading this thread, or this forum for that matter?

I don't know why this threads here anyway. The 6.3's already out. I got it last night on my machine. The only thing is my Now Playing List has been replaced by pigs flying. The nice thing is they can be sorted by size and put in folders. Actually all I see when I turn on the tv are pigs flying. They're in the menus and even on during live tv. :confused: Is this normal for the 6.3 software?

Tyrone, I made the same mistake on another forum by using the term "baited" breath. I was wondering if anyone would catch it here.

[Deacon West]

I'm still amazed there are so many waiting with baited breath for it. It'll get here when it gets here, and it probably won't really amount to a hill of beans in the grand scheme of things even then. Those 600 posters were probably also the same zipperheads waiting in line overnight at COMPUSA for the release of Windows 98.

Where have I been? When did Win 98 come out? Darn technology, it just keeps changing.

[Billy Bob Boy]

Q]

It’s easy to mock, but there’s a real problem here. Bated and baited sound the same and we no longer use bated (let alone the verb to bate)[/url] Who says we dont use bate anymore? I am the master of the word bate :eek: :D :p :cool:

[Billy Bob Boy]

Where have I been? When did Win 98 come out? Darn technology, it just keeps changing.What!!! They have computers with bigger than 2 gig hard drives with more than 50 megs of ram now. You mean It takes less than an hour to download a .5 meg file. WOW!!! I better grab my 6000 dollars and head to the Ye ole computer store!! :p

[wmcbrine]

I'm sorry to say that I actually did wait in line for Windows 95 (not 98)...not overnight, mind you.Sucker. I'd already been enjoying the superior power of OS/2 for a year. :D

[cheer]

Sucker. I'd already been enjoying the superior power of OS/2 for a year. :DActually I started with OS/2 back when 1.0 came out. Sadly, unless one was interested in running 16-bit Windows apps, REXX scripts, Lotus SmartSuite, or multiple copies of chkdsk, it wasn't terribly useful. :)

[Rowsdower]

It’s easy to mock, but there’s a real problem here. Bated and baited sound the same and we no longer use bated (let alone the verb to bate), outside this one set phrase, which has become an idiom.That's no excuse! Those who misuse the English language must receive their just deserts! :D

[TyroneShoes]

That's no excuse! Those who misuse the English language must receive their just deserts! :D
Mmmmmmmmm!

Desert!

I'll just have the fudge brownie with vanilla ice cream!

[Rowsdower]

Mmmmmmmmm!

Desert!

I'll just have the fudge brownie with vanilla ice cream!Joking aside, the phrase in question actually is "just deserts (http://www.snopes.com/language/notthink/deserts.htm)."

[ECEGatorTuro]

So I have a question, when will my machine get the upgrade? My Tivo still hasn't upgraded and I have forced it to call D* a few times. I'm pretty new to the whole Tivo/D* thing so I've never experienced an upgrade. Any info? thanks!

[Arcady]

It isn't out yet. Try reading the threads before replying to them.

[jhimmel]

The correct spelling is actually bated breath but it’s so common these days to see it written as baited breath that there’s every chance it will soon become the usual form, to the disgust of conservative speakers and the confusion of dictionary writers.

It's like the word "anyway". So many people say "anyways" now that I believe most people think this is correct.

[cheer]

The one that annoys me is "irregardless." You mean "regardless," folks. Or writing "loose" instead of "lose." Or...gahhhhh.

[fjwagner]

The one that annoys me is "irregardless." You mean "regardless," folks. Or writing "loose" instead of "lose." Or...gahhhhh.

... and lie versus lay. I cringe when I hear "I am going to lay" down. The ghost of my English teacher Grandmother continues to haunt!

[Adam1115]

The one that annoys me is "irregardless." You mean "regardless," folks. Or writing "loose" instead of "lose." Or...gahhhhh.

Irregardless IS in websters...

http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org/definition/irregardless

[JimSpence]

Irregardless: a nonstandard or humorous usage of regardless.

It may be in the Dictionary, but it doesn't make it any more acceptable.

Many words have been added because of their excessive misuse.

Now back to the subject at hand.
Oh yeah, still waiting for the 6.3 upgrade. :)

[Rowsdower]

The one that annoys me is "irregardless." You mean "regardless," folks.It's an illogical combination of "regardless" and "irrespective."

Or writing "loose" instead of "lose."...and by extension, "looser" instead of "loser."



... and lie versus lay. I cringe when I hear "I am going to lay" down.I'll add:


"it's" instead of "its"
"there" instead of "their" or "they're"
"to" instead of "too" (but usually not "two," for some reason)
"who's" instead of "whose"
"your" instead of "you're"
apostrophes for plurilization ("We saw some nice house's.")
"less" instead of "fewer" (common in advertising)
"was" instead of the subjunctive "were" ("If I was to do that tomorrow...")
"which" instead of "that" (in a restrictive relative clause)

Many more come to mind, but I'll stop there.

[jamesbobo]

Don't forget "good" instead of "well".

[Deacon West]

It's like the word "anyway". So many people say "anyways" now that I believe most people think this is correct.

I thought everyone said anywho now.

[cheer]

And, of course, a favorite of a certain long-time TCF member whose first name rhymes with furl: using "where" instead of "were." E.g., "They where going to release the update but pulled it due to problems." :)

[TyroneShoes]

My favorite is the increasing use of "ironic" in reference to what would really be merely "coincidental". I. E., "After avoiding her for weeks, I ran into her last night at a 7-11. Isn't that ironic?" No, that's not ironic in the least. What it is, is coincidental. They mean quite opposite things.

Of course, being brought up in a certain part of the midwest, I still catch myself using "loan" as a verb in place of "lend".

[Adam1115]

Don't forget "good" instead of "well".

And off-topic, don't forget about that...

[Capmeister]

My favorite is the increasing use of "ironic" in reference to what would really be merely "coincidental". I. E., "After avoiding her for weeks, I ran into her last night at a 7-11. Isn't that ironic?" No, that's not ironic in the least. What it is, is coincidental. They mean quite opposite things.

Of course, being brought up in a certain part of the midwest, I still catch myself using "loan" as a verb in place of "lend".

Loan actually preceded lend in the language as a verb.

"The verb loan is well established in American usage and cannot be considered incorrect. The frequent objections to the form by American grammarians may have originated from a provincial deference to British critics, who long ago labeled the usage a typical Americanism. Loan is, however, used to describe only physical transactions, as of money or goods; for figurative transactions, lend is correct: Distance lends enchantment. The allusions lend the work a classical tone."

http://www.answers.com/topic/loan

[pesos]

One of my biggest pet peeves is "I could care less."

Well, if you COULD care less, why don't you? Sigh.

[pdawg17]

My favorite is the increasing use of "ironic" in reference to what would really be merely "coincidental". I. E., "After avoiding her for weeks, I ran into her last night at a 7-11. Isn't that ironic?" No, that's not ironic in the least. What it is, is coincidental. They mean quite opposite things.

Of course, being brought up in a certain part of the midwest, I still catch myself using "loan" as a verb in place of "lend".

Ever since that Alanis song "Isn't It Ironic" came out, it drives me crazy...every example she uses in that song is nothing but coincidence or just plain bad luck...nothing ironic about any of it...

[MichaelK]

... Or writing "loose" instead of "lose." Or...gahhhhh.


in my defense that's frequently just spelling ignorance not bad grammer. :)



I have bad grammer too- but no one seems to teach lose, loose or then and than to us spelling challanged. I've been out of elementray school for a couple decades and my wife just finally explained than and then to me a couple years ago so i could remember. THan is used for comparions- like math- "it's less than" and in math we Add so that's when you use the A in that word.

[Fahtrim]

It isn't out yet. Try reading the threads before replying to them.
Zing!

[Fahtrim]

One of my biggest pet peeves is "I could care less."

Well, if you COULD care less, why don't you? Sigh.
I couldn't care less.

[MichaelK]

I couldn't care less.

well I could!


(ducks and runs-LOL)

[GregA]

I have bad grammer...

Me, too, but she's getting better.

[slocko]

so let me get this straight, our hd-tivos are getting Win 98 installed this week????

[Sir_winealot]

in my defense that's frequently just spelling ignorance not bad grammer. :)



I have bad grammer too- but no one seems to teach lose, loose or then and than to us spelling challanged. I've been out of elementray school for a couple decades and my wife just finally explained than and then to me a couple years ago so i could remember. THan is used for comparions- like math- "it's less than" and in math we Add so that's when you use the A in that word.

Or perhaps even bad grammar?

You were just sitting back and waiting for that, yes? :D

[slocko]

as it where, their is an irony huh? :D

[dmwierz]

as it where, their is an irony huh? :D

As it WERE, THERE is an irony.......

[MichaelK]

Or perhaps even bad grammar?

You were just sitting back and waiting for that, yes? :D

actually not-

but you made me laugh any way!

:D

[JimSpence]

Let's get back on topic here.
http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?t=309589
:):D