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I just might have to do this. I purchased the D15 at bestbuy The software blows... I hit rewind... Then when I hit play - no audio... I checked the manual... It is such a known problem that they advise users, IN INK IN A MANUAL - that if audio does not work, to pause the TV and restart it... Bugs are part of life, accepting them and putting the workaround in the manual SUCKS.

Hughes dual tuner DirecTV TiVo DVR, about 2 to 3 years old... The thing about the hard drive... It looks like I can get a new DVR for $99 with rebate.... It is more expensive to put in a new hard drive - and since my hard drive is crashed, I would have to download the OS from someone, because all the tools I have seen online to hack assume the OS is good on the old drive...??? Do you know anything about the R15? Is it worth the money to keep the legit TiVo OS?

I live in a building (that I am the president of the HOA for) that has DirecTV... When I moved in - it is all they had... Now we have Comcast, Highspeed internet, and Dish... And I still like DirecTV the best... But then again, all I watch is some mythbusters and the local stations. Now that you mention it, maybe I should go without the TV for a while....

So - DirecTV's 1st DVRs were TIVO powered... Now they are selling their own DVRs with their own operating system. My TiVo unit died, and I need a new DVR. Anyone used the DirecTV version and the TiVo version and can tell me what you think of them? Travis

The way I do this with people I am working with... I rear float and give a freefly arm exit count. They are inside diving. We go at the same time... If they tumble, they get a large distance on both horizontal and vertical axis. If the exit nicely and are too close for the learning, I backslide/fall fast until I like the gap from a learning perspective. That way I have more control of the gap...

Bump - to bring this up to the morning crowds attention...

Then vote 1.... I did not forget - for some reason it did not make it. I wonder if the code does not allow "0" because the software reads it as "null" or "nothing" when converting it to a string??? Geek talk I guess.

In a conversation with some friends we were talking about the Kinsey Scale tonight, and we all quizzed each other where we were on the scale... Please don't bash anyone or any group of people - because all types read these forums. But, where would you say you are on the scale? Poll options above. You need not post, so you will remain anonymous if you just vote... Of course you may post, but if you do, this was not meant to be a speakers corner thread... EDIT: The "0" option did not make it, so the scale is 1 to 6 instead of 0 to 6. Oh well...

you mean like this (when there were 334 users) http://web.archive.org/web/19991013120647/http://dropzone.com/ edit: the copyright on that is

You could reply a lot to this thread and get there, the old fashion American way, of cheating. Oh sh*t - I should not be posting this then myself...

If you look right below your picture (avatar) you have 8297 posts.

I clicked a few of those names, and followed the link to "show user's posts"... Just to see what the content was like. They are still active, which is good... I learned about one of their mom's favorite food's that way... Something about chicken....

Squirrel, as in the rodent? Am I the only one asking about this?

http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?do=user_list;sb=user_posts;so=DESC; And some of my friends called me nasty things, but 20,000 posts? How? EDIT: 30,000!

Cool... Nice screws too.

Since Tofu is really tasteless without seasonings - it is whatever you want it to be. Last night I had my favorite yet... I took onion, bell peppers, and mushrooms and chopped them up... Then cut the tofu into squares about the size of dice. I poured Stonewall Kitchen Curried Mango Grille Sauce (Thanks Whole Foods Store) on the veggies and tofu as I stir fried it... I put a lid over the pan and cooked all the veggies until the onions started to caramelize. Over some brown rice, it was to die for... I also like it fried in a super hot pan with a touch of olive oil, on top of spaghetti noodles, with fresh cut tomatoes and some fresh grated cheese. I also have one that is weird... I take some mayo and some non-fat plain yogurt and mix it with some ginger and curry powder... Pour it over cooked chicken and tofu - after the chicken and tofu are completely cooked, in a hot pan... Let it simmer until it becomes a sauce, serve over rice. The taste is pretty good, but it is more on the "healthy" side, meaning not to die for in the taste department, than some other curry dishes... But I am experimenting a lot and making things better, learning what is too much when adding things like ginger or garlic.

Yep Vegas is the only show that's different too. Caught them in Beantown and Vegas. Vegas one was seriously kick ass. Beantown was awesome too, but after Vegas it was very apparent how much better the Vegas one was. Blues, Ian OH NO - You did not say Vegas was better than Boston? The show is the same script, plus or minus some things... But the Boston show was definitely lower budget - which MADE IT BETTER... 1) More intimate 2) Less commercial 3) More raw Granted, I saw them a few years ago in each city, so they might have made changes... There is this scene that they show the modern sewage system on the video screen - with comedic dialog. In Boston, the video projector was an old three gun CRT, not converged real well. Basically, the image was fuzzy with green halos on one side, red on the other... The theatre was kind of dirty and old, with character. I just liked it so much better in that atmosphere, it made the show raw and personable - not perfected and sculpted... Like a live concert, with human characteristics. Vegas was still very good, but kind of covered in the commercialism that you would expect with a casino that, like all do, fine the theatre company if the show runs long and the patrons are not at the gaming tables... I would buy a ticket to Boston just to see the show there again. I think I am going to go play some Blue Man music now...

Considering my sexuality, it will hurt A LOT when it comes out.

I never knew my eating habits would cause so much flame on these forums... I went a little out of my comfortzone... I just got back from Noodles and Company where I had the Japanese Pan Noodles - with Tofu.

Is it wrong that I crave Tofu morning, noon, and night? Tofu Teriyaki stur-fry Tofu Pud Thai Tofu Pasta Fresca Tofu Mango Curry stur-fry This craving, for the last month or so, just won't go away.

Some of my favorite skydiving footage is the high quality stuff I have downloaded from this site... I guess there could be a compression engine that recompresses files on the site - and offers compressed for free, and high res for a nominal fee (the cost of the bandwidth). I would not mind paying seven cents to download a file - I bet a few dollars a month in download fees could add up...

I triple that! I am a loyal fan. I have attached a photo of Bram - which makes me ask... How many students smile when they are on their back? Also - for those who have been around Bram - you know his accent... On the first day, we asked what his accent was... He said in the PERFECT AUSTIN POWERS GOLDMEMBER DUTCH accent, "Holland, ye know; Amsterdam; Wooden Shoes". He also said, in a way you will have to use your Goldmember imagination of a Dutch accent to make it funny as it was: "Ye never know, you might have a schmart cookie, but by the end of the day the cookie might crumble." He is just such a cool guy. Nothing but respect from me... For an example, I lost the dummy ripcord (I stuffed it in my jumpsuit and it fell out somewhere over zhills). I demanded that I pay for it... He looked at me and said when I make $100,000 a year he will accept half of everything I make, but until then, he would cover the loss. His sense of humor is great... Another candidate left a tandem rig out unpacked. Bram and Elly had to run to the hospital to visit a friend and I did not want to leave it out. They walked up as I was trying to put it away, never handling a tandem rig and all that fabric myself before. They watched in silence for a good minute as I was fumbling around with all the canopy and lines - getting a good (silent) laugh as I was trying to keep it super neat... Another candidate finally could not resist - and started quoting the movie Goldmember by the end of the week... I think Bram even replied to us once, "Schmoke and a pancake." He just made the rating evaluation course the most fun I ever have had in skydiving - it was truly an awesome experience.

I guess I look at it differently... Someone with 1 or 10,000 jumps might know something I don't... So I will hear what anyone has to say - and decide for myself if I agree with what they are saying or if their idea merits further research - and I accept nothing on face value without further justification. If I question the advice, I won't ask, "how many jumps do you have" - instead, I might ask, "where did you learn that" or "how do you know that to be true" or "have you tested your theory" or "I was taught X, why do you think Y is better?" These questions might cause both people to learn something, and pre-qualify the information so you can do further research... If someone with less experience than I, maybe 20 jumps, just comes back from a Brian Germain canopy class, it would be foolish for me not to hear what they have to say. They might not disclose their training if I don't ask, and if I just ask how many jump they have, I might never learn that they just sat with a canopy guru... It is foolish to think that someone with less jumps than you might not have tidbits of great info... I learn so much from people with less jumps than I... And more jumps than I... The key is to hear what they have to say, to think about it, and to determine how to qualify if what was said is possibly correct - without just believing, "he has 1000 jumps more than I, what he says is gospel." Some people think the worst part of this sport is the "unsolicited advice." I think the worst part of this sport is people who don't keep their minds and ears open and consider the wealth of knowledge that is out there and think that they can't learn from others will less experience or statistics - or believe that jump numbers alone make someone's words more accurate than other people's words...

Get the booties... I have coached pre-aff guys in the tunnel - and they wore booties on borrowed suits or their own suits they purchased (although we told them that when they did their AFF that their instructors would not let them wear them, and we made them tuck them in until they could fall controlled in the tunnel without.) I have taken a handful of students up, with 15 or so jumps, and we have both worn booties... Basically, as long as I know the student can, and will, be able to pull for themselves (typical non-AFF jump) I am a-ok with the booties, and I started wearing them myself when I had 15 or so jumps on suits my coaches let me borrow. So, basically what I am saying is - get them and tuck them in if your instructor does not want you to wear them... BTW... Here is a video link of a "student" that I am particularly proud of, wearing booties on his 2nd and 3rd jump after AFF with just a handful of tunnel minutes... He is in the yellow grippers... We took him up for a series of coach jumps (we are all good friends, so two AFF-I/Coaches with one Student). www.indigox.com/coltonZhillsTrip.wmv... I would say, outfacing turns and all - the booties were not such a bad thing for him.

This reminds me of a trip I made to ZHills with my friends... We were on the plane, and it appeared that one guy (macho big guy with a small rig swooping) had his reserve cable and ball stuck in the velcro that holds the reserve handle. This can cause, from real world experience, a premature reserve deployment if the yoke is streched just right. My friend, who has rigging training, said, admittedly in a tone that sounded a bit "know it all", although the tone was an accidental expression, "you know, that can be dangerous" - while pointing to it... The guilty jumper and his friend said, "That is why I am getting out of this sport, people like him" and "What the hell do you know?" Egos, they are going to kill... (B.T.W. - my 4way mentor who has 10,000 jumps still asks me for a gear check, so all hope is not lost for the experienced guys.)