Buttons are so 1995. Put that crap on the screen in context menus. Also
my phone is the best remote for the fire tv if I'm not playing
Hearthstone. I have remote apps to control the TV, the Fire and to a
limited extent the PS4.
James C Snyder
I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.
Augusten Burroughs
On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 3:30 PM, Ryan Hawley <ryan.hawley@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I have a Harmony One and a 900, I love them. I've heard good things about
the new 'smart' version:
http://slickdeals.net/f/8049311-refurbished-logitech-915-000194-harmony-smart-control-with-smartphone-app-universal-remote-69-95-w-fs-neweggflash-com
On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 2:51 PM, Loren John Bailey <beetle.loren@xxxxxxxxx
wrote:
OH, that's a great idea. I think if I buy a remote for this I will get a
harmony.
On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 2:41 PM, Ryan Hawley <ryan.hawley@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
I have a few Harmony remotes that control the xbox 360 beautifully
On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 2:32 PM, Loren John Bailey <
beetle.loren@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Yes, they have one. I haven't bought it yet but I need to. But, my
lazy self usually browse by voice command because the controller is waaaaay
at the end of the couch anyway.
On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 2:30 PM, James Theunplesant <
neonghost@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Does the xbone has a regular media remote? PS4 is still controller
only and that's bawls.
James C Snyder
I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good
intentions.
Augusten Burroughs
On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 2:27 PM, Loren John Bailey <
beetle.loren@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I would bet you that if you used the apps on xbox one, you'd find
that there is more available to you than you thought. The OnDemand stuff
is so terribly laid out and difficult to search for that you don't know
what you really have available. When I started using the apps, I can
find
all kinds of things that never showed up and stream beautifully.
On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 2:24 PM, James Theunplesant <
neonghost@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Yeah cable/dish aren't even trying. Using xfinity at my mothers
house is awful. The interface sucks, it's slow as hell, the search
doesn't
work, it's near impossible to tell what is and isn't ppv vs included
streaming. But at least it cost 100+ a month. Oh and once you do spend
30min looking for something to watch you realize your selection is about
the same as Netflix and Prime anyway.
James C Snyder
I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good
intentions.
Augusten Burroughs
On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 2:19 PM, James Theunplesant <
neonghost@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Live tv is for chumps, and dads. luckily I don't have my own kids
so suck it..... Shit I gave myself the sads.
James C Snyder
I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good
intentions.
Augusten Burroughs
On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 2:16 PM, Loren John Bailey <
beetle.loren@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Back to confusing email...who hates Microsoft but they have the
best product available. Bi-polar is my official diagnosis.
When I was using it as my media center, everyone had this boner
for SageTv so I tried it. If that was it's best competitor, MS had
nothing
to worry about. The Xbox One has the best media delivery on the
market.
No question. Their HBO, Showtime etc apps are second to none. The
DirecTv
and Dish receivers, whose sole job is to deliver that content, are
still
stuck in the '90s. The Xbox One is the best purchase I have made in
the
last 5 years and I don't even really game on it. A few kids games and
that's about it.
On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 2:12 PM, Ryan Hawley <
ryan.hawley@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Eff you, JC. Media center is
AWESEOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
There is no better DVR that exists. At all.
I use an xbox 360 extender to get live and recorded tv to my
downstairs, good to know that still exists on the xbone.
PS: Eff you, JC.
On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 2:09 PM, Loren John Bailey <
beetle.loren@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I use google now on my phone. It's soooo far from being real
time it's insane. I just don't use it because it will feed me info
that is
yesterday's weather, articles that trended last week. It's useful
if it's
not timely. Also, IT decides what it feeds me. With a live tile, I
pin/unpin my interests. Google just suggests crap and more often
than not,
I don't want what they are suggesting.
On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 2:06 PM, James Theunplesant <
neonghost@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Google Now beats the crap out of tiles imho. But I just
figured out that if I unpin all the tiles I can resize the start
menu to
delete that waste of space.
Now If I can get the all apps section to go in it's place I
might not hate it.
James C Snyder
I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good
intentions.
Augusten Burroughs
On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 2:02 PM, Loren John Bailey <
beetle.loren@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I use the tiles for things I am not going to go open a page
for. Weather, headlines etc. I don't have to go to the full web
page
because I was already going to start for something else and got a
quick
update. It's more efficient for me. I wouldn't have thought to
go see the
information that I use it for but now I have it. If it is that
important,
I just click the tile and it gives me more info.
On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 1:58 PM, James Theunplesant <
neonghost@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The tiles are stupid. They only make sense as live tiles
showing web information. And as I said I already have a
browser.open.all.the.time. Why would I go to start to go back
to the
browser I was just in? And so if they are for static
applications they
jsut take up to much space.
James C Snyder
I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with
good intentions.
Augusten Burroughs
On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 1:53 PM, Martin Brownell <
marty.brownell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Go to all apps. It took me a while to get used to but I
really do like it. Your tiles are your most frequently used.
You can change
it to what ever you like and group them differently.
On Aug 17, 2015 1:47 PM, "James Theunplesant" <
neonghost@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Half of the start menu is live tiles full of things I get
in on the web. It's jsut a scam to get me to use the shitty
MS Browser and
services.
And trying to find something in the all app view is just
annoying. Maybe it's the letters like I don't know how the
alphabet works
or something. I like normal folder structure, it works. It's
why I spend
most of my windows time in file explorer.
James C Snyder
I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with
good intentions.
Augusten Burroughs
On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 1:42 PM, Loren John Bailey <
beetle.loren@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
What is it that you don't like about the start menu? What
was more useful in Windows 7?
On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 11:38 AM, James Theunplesant <
neonghost@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
So got 10 running on gaming pc this weekend. Fresh
installed after it activated. The new nvidia win10 drivers
seem to work
for me in sli np. My sound is still dead so I ordered a
xonar card (and
not a new mobo/cpu combo like I came close to doing).
Con's so far;
Cortana is worthless. It's bing desktop search, so it
barely works.. File Explorer search is faster and actually
finds things.
Still tons of fighting stupid little "We know best" crap
like auto reboots.
The new MS Browser the HMS Shittastic!
Tons of MS bloatware BS. MS Fitness, MS News, MS Get
Office now (even though you already ahve office isntalled).
I still don't like the new start menu. It's far better
than 8, but still less useful than 7.
When creating new install Media the langue defaults to
Chechen (I think). Not really MS's fault, but be warned if
you create a
Chechen install USB you cannot change it to English during
the install.
Pro's;
MS seems to have pulled video drivers from autoupdate. I
got "basic MS Video Driver" that never updated. I could
install the
Geforce experience for Win10 and then drivers from that with
no problems.
half a dozen reboots and a few check for updates and MS
never tried to F
me.
Almost all my other drivers installed with windows.
Really the install media process self updates so I had
everything up to
date on the first boot almost. It was only missing my sound
driver and the
software portions of my network/BT/Sata drivers. All of
that and my
Chipset, intel video and even my addon extra USB3 card
worked fine on the
first boot.
James C Snyder
I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together
with good intentions.
Augusten Burroughs
On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 4:33 PM, James Theunplesant <
neonghost@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Cheerio you old so and so.
JC Snyder
On Aug 16, 2015 12:53 PM, "Loren John Bailey" <
beetle.loren@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Yeah, install more spyware to get rid of spyware.
Thanks ole chap!
On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 12:46 PM, James Theunplesant <
neonghost@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I should mention that you need to select custom
install to skip the BS addon software. This should be a
no brainier, but I
know you idiots. :)
James C Snyder
I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together
with good intentions.
Augusten Burroughs
On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 12:39 PM, James Theunplesant <
neonghost@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
http://pxc-coding.com/portfolio/donotspy10/
James C Snyder
I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together
with good intentions.
Augusten Burroughs
