Roku is not to be trusted:
Their HD media player never lived up to the claims they made for it on the thing's own packaging. It's a wonder no one's slapped them with a class action suit.

(For example: They actually sold the thing with iTunes visualizer-like graphics shown on the side of the box--in actuality, it was a bit more like an old (malfunctioning) arcade game, Qix.)

Their customer service also has a disturbing tendency to disconnect tech support callers with troublesome questions.

Roku--words like shady, sleazy, and unethical come to mind.

Buyers, beware.

1) It's hogging my bandwidth terribly. It's been crunching away on a 150 gig backup of my MacBook Pro for 2 days now, wrestling for bandwidth with the AppleTV, the MacBookPro. It'll probably work much better after the initial backup is done, but it's klunky right now.

2) Set-up for me became infuriating because (I found out from the Apple phone support tech 2 hours later) the TC doesn't like sharing the network with an AiportExtreme unless the TC is the dominant station and the Extreme is only used as a repeater, or extender, whatever you call it. Caused all kinds of crazy problems, the utilities started hanging, etc. Now it works fine, but their set-up protocol needs to be more aware of all the different possible network environments the thing is being introduced to. (I mean, it's probably not much of a stretch to figure a TC might be bought by someone who also happens to have an AirportEtreme, no?)

fly me

You look great for your age!

As an apartment dweller, I'm compelled to use DirecTV... and I loathe them. They have been super slow to upgrade my building to the new dish necessary for MPEG4 HD channels, they've been jacking around with channel selection and now I don't even get all the channels I had a year ago and last but not least: THE COMPRESSION!!! Who cares if it's HD when all you see are compression artifacts dancing on your screen--annoying unsightly little cubes are unsightly at ANY resolution, thanks.

yes, please!

Pretty please! Gimme, gimme, gimme!

Kinda sexy--but the USB bank should be on the side--if I'm going all neat and fussy, I'm going all the way!

Battlestar Galactica joke I just thought of:

When the ragtag fleet finds Earth, Starbuck takes her viper down to Earth to make contact, landing in Berlin...

Q: What's the first thing she says to the onlooking crowd of Germans as she climbs out of her ship?

A: Frakkin' zie Deutsch?

Any mouse suggestions for 3d on a Mac?

ANy good TRUE 3-button mice? (I don't like using a scroll wheel as a 'Y-axis' button, never have.)

Ages ago when I learned Alias and Maya on SGI I used a mouse that had just three simple buttons on the top--all other bells and whistles were accomplished w/ modifier keys. Even the Wacom pad I had back then came with a mouse of three simple topside buttons neatly corresponding to X,Y,Z.