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Boxee Hack Restores Hulu Support (Sort Of)
DeviceGuru writes "Boxee has restored support for Hulu, along with several other enhancements, to its free media center platform for PCs and Macs. The modification, a hack to Boxee's RSS feed functionality, involves having Boxee users enable the support themselves by cutting/pasting URLs from Hulu's RSS feed page into their account on Boxee's website. It works, but one can't help wondering how it's really different from Boxee's original — superior — Hulu support. Oh, the games media companies play!"
Until the networks use this as an excuse to force Hulu to shut down its RSS feeds.
The Boxee guys claimed they were removing Hulu support in an act of good will toward Hulu (I'd guess hoping to maintain good relations with a content provider they wanted to get back). Now they're completely negating the good-will-effect by helping users work around it while still making it more of a pain for their users. Genius.
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But does plimplinkplonkplinkplonko support bwabbabingbang?
See, I can make up goofy, uninspired Web 2.0 names too. Slashdotters, I invite you to join me in my new startup: Jizzogle!
(-1, Raw and Uncut is the only way to read)
Dear American liberals, leftists, social progressives, socialists, Marxists and Obama supporters,
We've stuck together since the late 1950s, but the whole of this latest election process has made me realize that I want a divorce. I know that we tolerated each other for many years for the sake of future generations, but sadly this relationship has run its course. Our two ideological sides of America cannot and just will not ever agree on what's right. So let's just end it right now while we can do it on friendly terms. We can smile, shake hands, chalk it up to irreconcilable differences and each go our own way.
So here's a model separation agreement.
Our two groups can equitably divide up the country by land mass, each taking a portion. That's going to be the difficult part, but I'm sure our two sides can come to a friendly agreement. After that, it should be relatively easy. Our respective representatives can effortlessly divide other assets since both sides have such distinct and disparate taste. We don't like redistributive taxes so you can have those. You are welcome to the liberal judges and the ACLU. And since you hate guns and you hate war, we'll take the firearms, the cops, the NRA and the military. You can keep Oprah, Michael Moore and Rosie O'Donnell. But you are going to be responsible for finding a biodiesel vehicle big enough to haul them around.
We'll keep the capitalism, the greedy corporations, the pharmaceutical companies; we will keep Wal-Mart and Wall Street. You can have the homeless, the homeboys, the hippies and illegal aliens. We will keep the hot Alaskan hockey moms, the greedy CEOS and all of the rednecks. We'll keep the Bibles and we'll let you have NBC and Hollywood.
You can be nice to Iran and Palestine and we'll retain the right to invade and hammer anybody that threatens us. You can have the peaceniks and the war protesters. When our allies or our way of life are under assault, we will provide them with security. You won't have to worry about it. We will keep our Judeo-Christian values. You are welcome to Islam, Scientology, Humanism and Shirley Maclaine. You can also have the UN, but we will no longer pay the bill.
We will keep the SUVs, the pickup trucks and the oversize luxury cars. You can have the compacts, the subcompacts and every Subaru station wagon you can find. You can give everybody healthcare, if you can find any practicing doctors. We will continue to believe that healthcare is a privilege and not a right. We will keep "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" and the national anthem, and I am sure you will be happy to substitute in their place "Imagine." I'd like to teach the world to sing "Kumbaya" or "We are the world." We will practice trickle-down economics and you can give trickle-up poverty your best shot. And since it so offends you, we will keep our history, our name and our flag.
Would you agree to this? If so, please pass it along other like-minded liberal and conservative patriots. And if you do not agree, just hit delete. In the friendly spirit of parting, I'll bet you ANWAR which one of us will need whose help in about 15 years.
Sincerely,
John J Wall
Law student and an American
P.S. You can also have Barbara Streisand and Jane Fonda
XBMC now offerers VDPAU hardware acceleration in one of their more stable branches under Linux. you can now watch Hi-Def video using a dual core ATOM CPU with one of these. CPU requirements fell off a cliff with this and it was mostly all done by ONE GUY who deserves much credit. But no one makes a big deal out of it? Is Hulu's SD content really that exciting?
Boxee and PLEX are BOTH XBMC at their core, why not more credit for the Open Sourced project that spawned them?
Ok so it won't run on your appleTV, but plex certainly has a hulu 'app' that works, and presumably that means XBMC has or can have one too...
Why all the love/whining for boxee and total ignorance of the others?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yavx9yxTrsw
the xbmc guys wrote a plugin which fixes the broken hulu support for xbmc - it uses adobe's (linux available) air sdk and works without a hitch.
too bad for boxee users. xbmc seems to be more mature as a project.
I'd mod you up if I had points ;-) Maybe it is just advancing age (I'm 38, for crying out loud), but sometimes tech discussion do sound like that to me.
By the way, your new startup sounds like a slightly dirty cross between a social site and a search engine... I would like to throw money at you for some reason.
For those Linux users who want to brave compiling Boxee from source, I was able to get the previous release (0.9.8.4880) working in Gentoo using this thread: http://forum.boxee.tv/showthread.php?t=2309
I plan to give the new release (0.9.9.5324) a go this weekend rather than waiting for Boxee to come out with their Ubuntu version later this month. If I can get it to work, I'll post back to that thread.
Sadly, PS/2 was yet another victim of USB, which doesn't care what you plug into it, the electrical slut.
it's great to read this stuff. I'm a first time visitor and am trying this out.
Oh, the games media companies play!"
What was that about the games media companies? Huh?
Oh, you mean the games that media companies play. Wow, you guys really know how to turn a phrase.
Free Martian Whores!
Does the xbox version of xbmc support this again?
It did for about a week and was great! I would even take the ads as long as it all worked.
Hey, stop that!
Hulu and Boxee are perfectly cromulent product names.
Nuff said.
"Kittens give Morbo gas!"
Jizzogle!
I'm afraid I can't get excited about your fantasy, your meteoric rise. You're going to have a hard time penetrating the already-saturated "jizz ogle" market.
...wait, what?
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Boxxy is our queen
Boxxy is our queen
Boxxy is our queen
This is just a badly worded blatant rip off of this classic from San Fran Craigslist:
""Dear Red States..." A Letter From The Blue!
Date: 2005-06-24, 11:54AM PDT
Dear Red States...
We've decided we're leaving. We intend to form our own country, and we're taking the other Blue States with us.
In case you aren't aware, that includes Hawaii, Oregon,Washington, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois and all the Northeast. We believe this split will be beneficial to the nation, and especially to the people of the new country of New California.
To sum up briefly: You get Texas, Oklahoma and all the slave states. We get stem cell research and the best beaches. We get Elliot Spitzer. You get Ken Lay.
We get the Statue of Liberty. You get Dollywood.
We get Intel and Microsoft. You get WorldCom.
We get Harvard. You get Ole' Miss.
We get 85 percent of America's venture capital and entrepreneurs. You get Alabama.
We get two-thirds of the tax revenue, you get to make the red states pay their fair share.
Since our aggregate divorce rate is 22 percent lower than the
Christian Coalition's, we get a bunch of happy families. You get a bunch of single moms.
Please be aware that Nuevo California will be pro-choice and
anti-war, and we're going to want all our citizens back from Iraq at once. If you need people to fight, ask your evangelicals. They have kids they're apparently willing to send to their deaths for no
purpose, and they don't care if you don't show pictures of their
children's caskets coming home. We do wish you success in Iraq, and hope that the WMDs turn up, but we're not willing to spend our resources in Bush's Quagmire. "
More at: http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/sfo/80714812.html
The difference this is actually funny and not bitter and awkward like your post above. It seems the regressive right can't even do a rip off with any style and grace. Love your favorite slashdot commie, pinko tofu eater.
Tired of all the isms, don't exploit people as an employer, or a government, mmmmK?
stand anymore, other members in BSD machines community. The archiTecture. My 'superior' machine. the mundane chores YES! the future holds haapiness Another
Thats why I use Plex. It is by far the most stable of the XBMCs, plus it has Hulu, Youtube, plays 1080p files from blu rays.
It lacks the hardware acceleration that Windows and Linux provide, but OSX has much better remote and optical sound support than Linux currently does.
With a fast enough mac mini, its the best media center on the planet.
What are the Terms of Service? Even with a public RSS feed, the Terms of Service may not allow certain types of access.
Do you need to sign up for an account with Hulu to use it? I don't live in the US so I don't know, but I was under the impression you didn't. If you don't need an account, they can't make you agree to terms of service, then how can they enforce them?