Cass,
there is a reason I recommended that sequence to help your DVR. I had to do that to mine!
Spike: Taking up smoking, are you? Harmony: I am a villain, Spike. Hello!
Spike/Harm ,'Help'
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le nubian - Aug 13, 2012 10:05:04 am PDT #20686 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Cass - Aug 13, 2012 10:34:30 am PDT #20687 of 25501
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
I also suggest unplugging the DVR for about 30 seconds and plugging it back in before rebooting, for maximum rebootage.
Well, that was what I'd tried a few times before contacting them.
there is a reason I recommended that sequence to help your DVR. I had to do that to mine!
And le nubian for the total win. It was magic.
Jon B. - Aug 13, 2012 12:43:05 pm PDT #20688 of 25501
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
ND is me.
P-C: That sounds exactly right. I've always had way too much music on my iTunes to synch everything, so I've always used the playlist route.
Polter-Cow - Aug 13, 2012 12:49:59 pm PDT #20689 of 25501
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
So if I am listening to my Nano on Shuffle, is there an easy way for me to listen to a specific song or songs and then go back to the Shuffle list? From what I can tell, if I go play a specific song, then it gets stuck in that Artist list, and I have to start over and Shuffle Songs again (meaning that I could listen to songs I just listened to).
Typo Boy - Aug 13, 2012 12:59:06 pm PDT #20690 of 25501
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Century Link also gives worse service than Comcast. When CL took over my phone company it only took me two months to get so sick of them that I switched to Comcast for phone too. Which saved money compared to CL but also provided better sound quality better service and more reliable voice selection. Yeah and old fashioned phone system works all the time, even when electricity is out - until someone who takes it over who won't do maintenance and then it goes out for 48 hours every time it rains. Which in Olympia WA means we were without phone service more often that we had it. In a few years Comcast may be left as the best service around, not because they are good ,but because everyone else ends up being so much worse.
flea - Aug 13, 2012 1:48:03 pm PDT #20691 of 25501
information libertarian
Why do these companies get away with being so crap? I thought capitalist competition was supposed to mean excellence, right? Do they have local monopolies, or is there some kind of poor-service conspiracy, like price-fixing but for bad customer service?
Typo Boy - Aug 13, 2012 1:51:52 pm PDT #20692 of 25501
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Well in my area comast or century link are the only two choices. In a city you have more choices. But yeah competions is mostly a joke. And really markets are a lousy way to get infrastructure, cause competion will be limited even in the best cases. There is a reaons for the concept "public good".
meara - Aug 13, 2012 2:28:24 pm PDT #20693 of 25501
They have local monopolies, often. In my neighborhood, our options for internet and cable are:
1) CenturyLink for phone and DSL, with DirecTV as cable (if you can have a satellite) 2) "Wave Broadband" for cable, cable internet, and VoIP phone
Comcast is available in other parts of the city, but there's a city agreement that our neighborhood gets "Wave" (formerly Broadstripe) and the rest get Comcast. I would LOVE to have Comcast back.
le nubian - Aug 13, 2012 2:31:52 pm PDT #20694 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
yeah, there is functionally no competition in most areas. For example, I would love to have Verizon FIOS, but no cookie as it isn't in this area.
So if I want high speed Internet, it is TW. Verizon is proud of its DSL, but it isn't fast enough for the Internet traffic we need at times.
omnis_audis - Aug 13, 2012 2:41:29 pm PDT #20695 of 25501
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
Why do these companies get away with being so crap? I thought capitalist competition was supposed to mean excellence, right? Do they have local monopolies, or is there some kind of poor-service conspiracy, like price-fixing but for bad customer service?Very much so. IIRC from Communications class in college, a company says "it will cost $x to install the infrastucture to provide cable service to your community. In order to break even on that project, we need xx% of the population to be subscribers. In order to obtain that, we need a monopoly." So, you will find larger cities will segment the city, so the north side get TW and the south side gets Comcast. Then Dish came along, and changed things. So the cable companies went to congress and got a law passed saying that the satellite companies can't provide local over-the-air programming. And there was some crazy law that if a residence had cable within the past (I forget time period) they couldn't get dish, or pay a fee, or some such. I think that has been over turned. But it greatly slowed the development of the dish subscribers. Fiber changes things, as it's data, that can do video. Just like cable is video that can do data. And there was legislation restricting what various companies are allowed to offer, in order to maintain the monopoly.
All that is gross over simplification. And I confess, may be slightly inaccurate, as I am recalling info taught in college 15-20 years ago. But, it gives you an idea of how the bullshit got started.