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  • The SlingBox is the coolest invention ever.

    It "place-shifts" content from your tv, vcr, dvr, cable, satellite or whatever...It will broadcast from your tv over the internet, and you can view it from anywhere you have an internet connection...

    I love TiVo, and depend on it like most depend on running water, electricity, and high speed internet. I come home from a long day of work, and watch my favorite programs with the trigger finger on…
    "Mal nommer les choses, c'est accroître le malheur du monde" - Camus (thanks Davout)

    "I thought you must be dead ..." he said simply. "So did I for a while," said Ford, "and then I decided I was a lemon for a couple of weeks. A kept myself amused all that time jumping in and out of a gin and tonic."

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    What a pathetic life you must lead to need this.

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    • #3
      Verto....let me give you an example. I like to travel. I just got back from south america. I also like sports. In Argentina, where i was living, we couldn't get the spurs games. I wanted to watch the spurs games. This would have facilitated that. How, exactly, is that pathetic?
      "Mal nommer les choses, c'est accroître le malheur du monde" - Camus (thanks Davout)

      "I thought you must be dead ..." he said simply. "So did I for a while," said Ford, "and then I decided I was a lemon for a couple of weeks. A kept myself amused all that time jumping in and out of a gin and tonic."

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      • #4
        owned
        Despot-(1a) : a ruler with absolute power and authority (1b) : a person exercising power tyrannically
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        "...but what sane person would move from Hawaii to Indiana?" -Dis

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        • #5
          I would just consider my life to be fairly dismal if I couldn't live without seeing some TV show while visiting a foreign country or whatnot. I went a month in Germany without accessing the Internet for more than 3 times, all of which consisted of checking my email(for flight info. mainly) and posting once on Eventis. I can't imagine needing something like this, as I like to think that when I'm on vacation, I don't need TV for entertainment.

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          • #6
            This is cool. I could be watching the ball game that is on right now while I'm at work. Maybe not $250 cool, on the other hand.
            I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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            • #7
              Kaak's non-pathetic life


              Verto's uncalled-for insult
              A lot of Republicans are not racist, but a lot of racists are Republican.

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              • #8
                to be fair, i was meaning to speak in general terms, and not kaak in particular. but then i had to make a response, and then i ate some quesadillas

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by Verto
                  to be fair, i was meaning to speak in general terms, and not kaak in particular. but then i had to make a response, and then i ate some quesadillas
                  Right, so the word "you" in that deragatory post of yours did NOT refer to Kaak but to people in general who would appreciate the Slingbox.

                  Either way -- insulting Kaak or insulting people in general just because they might appreciate something like the Slingbox makes you look like a jerk in this instance.
                  A lot of Republicans are not racist, but a lot of racists are Republican.

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                  • #10
                    It is common to use "you" in the place of "one" or "man". For example:

                    Joe: How do you get to Canada?

                    Bill: You go north.

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                    • #11
                      anyway, no harm done somethings just can't be missed vert, IE, the sports games. It just isn't the same watching the superbowl after it happened also, i have a little lap top that i take with me when i travel, so i can get online pretty much anywhere. thank god for wifi
                      "Mal nommer les choses, c'est accroître le malheur du monde" - Camus (thanks Davout)

                      "I thought you must be dead ..." he said simply. "So did I for a while," said Ford, "and then I decided I was a lemon for a couple of weeks. A kept myself amused all that time jumping in and out of a gin and tonic."

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                      • #12
                        MrFun

                        uncalled-for insults
                        ~ If Tehben spits eggs at you, jump on them and throw them back. ~ Eventis ~ Eventis Dungeons & Dragons 6th Age Campaign: Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 4: (Unspeakable) Horror on the Hill ~

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                        • #13
                          MrGrump was outraged, I think.
                          I'm consitently stupid- Japher
                          I think that opinion in the United States is decidedly different from the rest of the world because we have a free press -- by free, I mean a virgorously presented right wing point of view on the air and available to all.- Ned

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