[mythtv-users] Hauppauge HD PVR (A bit more info for those starved for it)

[Mike Perkins]

eric wrote:
> Mike Perkins wrote:
>> Eric Martin wrote:
>>> John Drescher wrote:
>>>     
>>>>>  Yeah.  We on this list are still using e-mail.  We haven't switched to
>>>>>  Google's new "standard" that tries to change the way e-mail works...  ;)
>>>>>
>>>> Its a lot better than how Outlook works. When I use that at work the
>>>> software makes it difficult to bottom post and so every one top posts
>>>> and I get people confused when I bottom post...
>>>>
>>> There's a place for each.  I support a primarily windows network during
>>> the day, and of course we use exchange / outlook.  Everybody top posts
>>> because that's what everybody knows.  While bottom posting makes more
>>> sense, try explaining that to your boss (or his/her boss).
>>>
>>>     
>> Is this another example of how a large software corporation (possibly based in 
>> Redmond, WA) has managed to distort standards which have existed in the network 
>> community since forever?
>>
> Quite possible, but I have another idea.  A lot of the people who use
> M$  crap don't know any better.  It's like AOL; aol catered to the
> masses and involved the masses.  After that the irc channels were flooed
> w/people who didn't understand.  This is the same thing and
> unfortunately the unwashed masses won.
> 
That's implicit in what I said. It seems m$ never bothered to look around and 
see what already existed before they 'innovated' their pile of poo. The only 
things they ever got right were M80 and the earlier versions of Visual Studio. 
And the latter they stole from Borland.

Mike Perkins