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Hewlett-Packard To Offer Linux-based Media Hub
Sammy at Palm Addict writes "According to the New York Times, Hewlett-Packard is to offer a new digital media hub based on Linux," excerpting "Hewlett-Packard will introduce a new device this fall meant to record and play back television as well as organize digital media, including photos, music and video, the company said yesterday. Hewlett already offers similar devices based on Microsoft's Windows Media Center Edition. The device, called the HP Media Hub, will be based on the Linux operating system." Since HP also sells self-branded iPods, it would be great if they'd make such a box iPod friendly.
Which new evil HP? Did HP used to be good? Has HP always been evil? What makes HP evil now? I might be out of the loop...
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"What makes HP evil now? I might be out of the loop..."
Simple really.
Good==do whatever slashdotters agree is good.
Evil==slashdotters don't like whatever your doing.
Now I better get a patent on it, while I can.
It is a different HP, the old godly HP is a brown spicey sauce that British members of parliament enjoy in their bacon and egg sarnies.
For some reason I hear Cosmo from "Fairly Odd Parents" saying "Yeah, but it runs linux!". That's what happens when you watch TV with a 4 year old.
If ya were a real computer person, you'd want the HP16C. I bought one 22 years ago, and liked it so much, I bought 3 more so I would alway have one...22 years later, the first one is still going strong...
There is no God, and Dirac is his prophet.
Given today's earlier post http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/01/05/021 6220&tid=126&tid=218,
is it Y10K ready, or do I lose almost 8000 years of my music downloads when New Year's comes around?
Hewlett-Packard To Offer Linux-based Media Hub
Don't we hate HP? I thought that we did...
But not if that Media Hub is designed around Carly Fiorina's head on a stick!
You just tweak her nose to adjust the volume.
Opinions on the Twiddler2 hand-held keyboard?
While we're already offtopic, how about the band Live? They made it a bit difficult to talk about "the Live concert I went to this weekend." (insert Abbot & Costello remark here)
Note: I'm not bashing the band.
What's that smell? Ah, that's my karma burning...
You're way wrong, no way that HP can have taken so many disastrous steps.
They are way improved over just five years ago. What used to be a company dominated by silly, market-ignorant, idealistic engineers and the HP way has now become the market driven, best practices, outsourcing MBA laden HP we know and the markets love
That just goes to show that for all her faults Carly has a pretty good grasp of marketing.
Yeah, but any PC box doesn't look like a set top, nor does it come with software support or the HP brand confidence.
A young pupil of mine named Carly Fiorina killed the old Compaq and helped hunt down the last of the good ones. Search your feelings, you know this to be true.
"Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart, he dreams himself your master."