I used to use XBMC on Xbox. Switched to Boxee on a Mac Mini a couple of years ago.
If Boxee's dead what next? I actually liked Boxee (thought not the bugs)
Every time I try XBMC it dies or is missing features. I just downloaded it right now (v 10.1 for OSX). I like several of the Boxee Apps (ted, vimeo, escapist,...) so I download the Ted app for XBMC. I run it. First thing I notice. It's not nearly has nice as the Boxee app. Simple list, no descriptions, no style. I click the first link, XBMC is now locked. It's been locked for 10 minutes now.
So, I'm sad to hear that boxee is going away. It's pretty clearly better than XBMC for my use cases at least.
Features I'm hoping for in whatever replaces Boxee no particular order
1) Shows Facebook new stream youtube videos (boxee does this on home screen)
Does XBMC have this built in or as an add on as slick as Boxee? Note: Picking some model script it NOT the solution
2) Has nice skinned apps to major sites (on boxee I use Ted, The Big Picture, Vimeo, The Escapist, Pandora and a few other apps)
are there good skinned apps in XBMC?
3) Has FULL Samba client support built in
Full = works with passwords XBMC has this. Not sure any of the other solutions do.
4) Has instant FF and REV
XBMC has this. Popcorn hour does not. Not sure about others but if I can't skip around in my media fast it's not a solution for me.
5) Has "post" to social media features throughout
I like being able to watch a video on youtube or vimeo in Boxee and click "Loved" and have that posted to Facebook.
6) Supports all the same formats or more
Both XBMC and Boxee support a lot of formats. Lots of other solutions I've tried support less. Of course supporting more would be good. I have to switch out of XBMC for certain types of files.
7) Can be controlled smoothly with an Apple 6 button remote
Boxee did this well. XBMC not so sure. Others? My Popcorn hour sucks here. Their remote has ton of buttons and its not responsive
8) Handles non English
Neither old XBMC nor Boxee were all that good here. Basically you had to configure them, copy in new fonts and other BS. Maybe current XBMC handles this?
9) Auto downloads subtitles
Boxee does this. I didn't see it in my 5 minute test of current XBMC (after I force closed it from the lock above)
I'm sure there's a lot more. Calls above that Boxee sucks, XBMC rules don't seem to fit with my experience though. XBMC is fine at playing already downloaded movies but I haven't had much luck with XBMC providing all the other features I loved in Boxee.
Sorry but I'm not understanding why you guys separate programmers from everyone else. If you write a GPLed word processor, why don't you require everyone to GPL every document they create with it? If you write a photo editing program, why don't you require every photo edited with it to be GPLed?
Person A uses your work to create thing B and you're fine with them not GPLing it. Person C uses your work to creating thing D and you're not fine with it.
Why do you single out programmers but not anyone else?
It's fine if you want to use the GPL to force PROGRAMMERS to pay you back with their changes. Of course it's unclear to me why you don't also expect USERS to pay you back was well and only single out PROGRAMMERS.
BSD is for people to like to give things away. I like to give my friends and family presents at Christmas. I don't require that they pay me back. I like to give donations to my favorite charities and organizations whether it's the EFF, PBS, NPR, ACLU, Red Cross, etc. I don't expect them to pay me back. I like to throw parties and invite my friends. I buy all the food and spend all day cooking. I don't require my anyone to pay me back.
It's perfectly reasonable of me to BSD my code in the same spirit of giving. Giving breeds giving. Sure a few people night not give back. So what. I don't care. Even if no one gave back I'd still do it.
Fortunately people do give back without being forced. Apache, Python, PHP, Lua, zlib,libjpeg, libpng, and thousands of other projects are doing just fine BSDed.
My iPhone 3GS crashed all the time. It crashed while browsing the net. It crashed while trying to answer a phone call. It locked while trying to dial a phone number while driving down the freeway requiring holding the power button for 5 seconds to force a shutdown and reboot. So much for not being distracted while driving. It would randomly disable all downloaded apps until I downloaded 1 new one again. Since that time I've had a Nexus One and a Nexus-S. They are every bit as crappy as my iPhone 3GS was. I haven't owned a smart phone that's stable.
And you framed it wrong as well. The correct question is:
"Assuming we think is best that trash is sorted what's the best way to achieve that goal?"
1) Try to get hundreds of thousands to millions of people to each sort their trash correctly
Monitor all each of them individually and penalize them if they get it wrong
2) Hire a company (or companies) to sort the trash
Monitor just a few companies and penalize them if they get it wrong.
I don't know about you but to me #2 sounds like it is far more likely to achieve the goal of "sorting the trash" than #1. #2 requires monitoring and training far few entities. #1 is like trying to boil the ocean. You will never get everyone to do it correctly.
Requiring sorting by citizens is stupidly inefficient and problem ridden.
If the company sorts it then there is only one place that needs to be checked to see if the stuff is being sorting correctly and one entity to deal with to get them to do it right if not. VS, hundreds of thousands of places things might not be sorted correctly and hundred of thousands of people to attempt to train to do it correctly.
I hope you are right. Tokyo has 40 train lines not counting the Shinkansen. I don't know how many Nagoya, Kyoto and Osaka have but SF has like 4 and LA has 3? 5?
It's one thing to build this high speed train but it's quite another for it to be useful. Since neither city has good public transportation they're going to need to be lots of car rentals and lots of parking, something not available at any current train stations. Let's hope they plan that.
Another thing, the Shinkansen runs as often as every 10 minutes. It doesn't seem likely the SFLA train will get anywhere near that convenient anytime soon.
Third, nothing you wrote contradicted what I wrote. Corona and iLuaBox are running user entered Lua scripts, not JavaScript. Therefore they are breaking the rule above that "No interpreted code may be downloaded or used..." download OR used. They are using user entered interpreted code in Lua, not JavaScript. User entered code is forbidden. Only code in the app's package is allowed to be run period, native or interpreted. The only exception to any code not included in your apps package is JavaScript.
One more time.
Native Code embedded in app = ok Interpreted code embedded in app = ok JavaScript NOT embedded in app (downloaded, user entered,...) = ok Interpreted code NOT embedded in app (downloaded, user entered, etc...) = NOT ok
The agreement mentions downloading but it explicitly forbids executing ANY CODE NOT IN YOUR APP's PACAKGE except JavaScript running in WebKit
That means Corona and iLuaBox are breaking the license. Of course Apple has never been consistent in enforcing their rules. Maybe as along as the scripts are relatively trivial they'll look the other way but the rules they laid out are clear.
For systems like this in order to log into any website you have to send your username and password to Opera or Silks servers so it can login as you and then send the page back.
I found that out the hard way. My company's IT dept monitors logins and send out "change your password immediately and don't use Opera Mini" service when it sees logins from services like that
I don't think I'll be using Silk for the same reason.
Native Client (NaCl) is an environment for running native code. That means you can run any language you want. There is already a version of Mono for NaCl, Python, and others.
I would be happy to pay $20-$30 for Animal Crossing or Zelda Spirit Tracks. Something of that of that quality of design.
As for $50. $50 is a bogus number anyway. Developers only get like 10-15% when they go through publishers.
A $50 game at Gamestop translates to $22 wholesale. If the developer got 15% that means they only get $3.30 a game. They don't need to be selling the game on mobile at $50 to make back their money.
This seem unlikely to pass. SF is the most dog friendly city I know. People take their dogs everywhere. On buses, on the Muni. There are parks all over the city with dog walkers in all of them. I can't imagine they would let this pass.
Netflix is one of the only big companies that still uses POPUPS and POP-UNDERS to advertise. We despised all companies that used those in the past. Why support them now?
A typical developer gets 10% of NET profits from the publisher. A $60 game is sold to retail at wholesale for $28. 10% of $28 is $2.80 per unit at best. Of course the publisher usually subtracts several other things.
The $1 app is not killing the game industry. The game industry is killing itself by not moving on. There are several top games on iOS that sell for $5 to $10. Sword and Sworcery was $4.99 and in the top 10. The Sims 3 was $9.99 and in the top 10.
In other words based on the iOS business model you can still make AAA games. The developer gets the same or MORE money.
It isn't slightly correlated; it's directly causal.
If that's so, explain why some vegans can eat 4000 calories a day of nuts and not gain any weight even with little to no exercise.
It's because of the measure of calories has nothing whatsoever to do with the actual ability of the body to absorb those calories. This is why calories is such a bogus number.
I agree with you that American's need to eat less but we still need to know some real numbers on our food and not these "calories" that really mean nothing.
It's not that simple. Calories is the measure of how much the temperature of water is raised by burning a substance. Gasoline burns pretty hot. So does Magnesium. Eating lots of Gasoline and Magnesium will not make your fat even though they are high calorie. Similarly many foods are high in calories when burnt to test their calorie content but the body can't digest them easily therefore they don't make you fat.
I would be nice if we could find some other way of measuring how fat a food is likely to make you than this only slightly correlated measurement of heat called calories.
Dude, you must be high. $20 a month for 100 gig!?!? There's no way Dropbox is going to work as a backup solution for photos. My camera was adding 4-16 gig every month and that was before I started using RAW which is 10x larger.
A 2TB HD is $80 internal, $110 external on amazon. http://www.amazon.com/Western-Digital-Elements-External-WDBAAU0020HBK-NESN/dp/B002QEBMCI/
On top of that, backing up all that data over the net could take quite a while on slow USA upload speeds, not to mention that the largest ISP, Comcast, has a 250GB cap. That's total meaning both up and down. Could take months to get your data back because they shut you off when you hit the limit.
I'm a fan of the original and although the original is not perfect it's still overall a good movie.
The same can't be said of Tron:Legacy.
"""spoilers""""
The storytelling / writing was just awful. The hippy / new age quips from Flynn were out of place. Zeus was clearly a poor copy of the Merovingian from the Matrix.
Why the F are ISOs special? How will they save humanity?
The light cycle sequence had zero feeling of speed, tension or energy. Compare to the original which is full of speed, tension and energy.
In the original Flynn can play light cycles because he was good on the outside. He barely played the Jai alai game and he never played the discs game. Tron did that.
In Legacy, for no reason what-so-ever we are supposed to believe that Sam Flynn is an expert at all of these things.
Finally the ending has a continuity error with the original. In the original, standing in beam of light and holding the disc above your head is how you communicate with your user. It is NOT how you escape from inside the computer.
Other quibbles: Food. In the original they drank energy liquid that even Flynn craved. While food can be rationalized it wasn't worth the distraction of "wait what food?... pull self out of movie to think of reason why food might exists inside the computer... get back to movie distracted".
Same with the real world like things in Flynn's place. The victorian mirror in Quorra's room caused the same reaction.
I really wanted to like this movie. I didn't expect it to be as good as the original but I hoped it wouldn't outright suck. But sadly, except for Olivia Wilde there's really nothing to recommend this stinker.
Stop repeating this FALSE story. The close button may not work in a few elevators but they work in plenty of others. The close buttons work just fine in all in the elevators at my company in Mountain View.
Try getting out of your building once in a while. EVERY ELEVATOR IN JAPAN the doors close IMMEDIATELY when pressing the button. Also, Japanese elevators generally don't have light based censors to detect if the door is blocked. They only have the pressure switches.
and to the people that think the walk buttons don't work. They PROVABLY DO WORK at MOST intersections. They may or may not work at downtown intersections but they most certainly work in most suburbs where often the lights always stay green in one direction unless there is some reason for them not to (like a car in the other direction or someone pressing the walk button).
And unless there is funding and or people behind LibreOffice it will die. Many of the top open source projects only survive because some large commercial organizations are funding development.
If the LibreOffice people can find a funding or a funding model maybe it will continue. If not it's dead.
Note: I'm assuming Sun was the major funder, contributor after they bought it. Just as Webkit would die without Apple and Google. Firefox would die without Mozilla. etc...
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I used to use XBMC on Xbox. Switched to Boxee on a Mac Mini a couple of years ago.
If Boxee's dead what next? I actually liked Boxee (thought not the bugs)
Every time I try XBMC it dies or is missing features. I just downloaded it right now (v 10.1 for OSX). I like several of the Boxee Apps (ted, vimeo, escapist, ...) so I download the Ted app for XBMC. I run it. First thing I notice. It's not nearly has nice as the Boxee app. Simple list, no descriptions, no style. I click the first link, XBMC is now locked. It's been locked for 10 minutes now.
So, I'm sad to hear that boxee is going away. It's pretty clearly better than XBMC for my use cases at least.
Features I'm hoping for in whatever replaces Boxee no particular order
1) Shows Facebook new stream youtube videos (boxee does this on home screen)
Does XBMC have this built in or as an add on as slick as Boxee? Note: Picking some model script it NOT the solution
2) Has nice skinned apps to major sites (on boxee I use Ted, The Big Picture, Vimeo, The Escapist, Pandora and a few other apps)
are there good skinned apps in XBMC?
3) Has FULL Samba client support built in
Full = works with passwords XBMC has this. Not sure any of the other solutions do.
4) Has instant FF and REV
XBMC has this. Popcorn hour does not. Not sure about others but if I can't skip around in my media fast it's not a solution for me.
5) Has "post" to social media features throughout
I like being able to watch a video on youtube or vimeo in Boxee and click "Loved" and have that posted to Facebook.
6) Supports all the same formats or more
Both XBMC and Boxee support a lot of formats. Lots of other solutions I've tried support less. Of course supporting more would be good. I have to switch out of XBMC for certain types of files.
7) Can be controlled smoothly with an Apple 6 button remote
Boxee did this well. XBMC not so sure. Others? My Popcorn hour sucks here. Their remote has ton of buttons and its not responsive
8) Handles non English
Neither old XBMC nor Boxee were all that good here. Basically you had to configure them, copy in new fonts and other BS. Maybe current XBMC handles this?
9) Auto downloads subtitles
Boxee does this. I didn't see it in my 5 minute test of current XBMC (after I force closed it from the lock above)
I'm sure there's a lot more. Calls above that Boxee sucks, XBMC rules don't seem to fit with my experience though. XBMC is fine at playing already downloaded movies but I haven't had much luck with XBMC providing all the other features I loved in Boxee.
Is there something else that comes closer?
Sorry but I'm not understanding why you guys separate programmers from everyone else. If you write a GPLed word processor, why don't you require everyone to GPL every document they create with it? If you write a photo editing program, why don't you require every photo edited with it to be GPLed?
Person A uses your work to create thing B and you're fine with them not GPLing it.
Person C uses your work to creating thing D and you're not fine with it.
Why do you single out programmers but not anyone else?
BSD doesn't have a problem.
It's fine if you want to use the GPL to force PROGRAMMERS to pay you back with their changes. Of course it's unclear to me why you don't also expect USERS to pay you back was well and only single out PROGRAMMERS.
BSD is for people to like to give things away. I like to give my friends and family presents at Christmas. I don't require that they pay me back. I like to give donations to my favorite charities and organizations whether it's the EFF, PBS, NPR, ACLU, Red Cross, etc. I don't expect them to pay me back. I like to throw parties and invite my friends. I buy all the food and spend all day cooking. I don't require my anyone to pay me back.
It's perfectly reasonable of me to BSD my code in the same spirit of giving. Giving breeds giving. Sure a few people night not give back. So what. I don't care. Even if no one gave back I'd still do it.
Fortunately people do give back without being forced. Apache, Python, PHP, Lua, zlib,libjpeg, libpng, and thousands of other projects are doing just fine BSDed.
My iPhone 3GS crashed all the time. It crashed while browsing the net. It crashed while trying to answer a phone call. It locked while trying to dial a phone number while driving down the freeway requiring holding the power button for 5 seconds to force a shutdown and reboot. So much for not being distracted while driving. It would randomly disable all downloaded apps until I downloaded 1 new one again. Since that time I've had a Nexus One and a Nexus-S. They are every bit as crappy as my iPhone 3GS was. I haven't owned a smart phone that's stable.
I too wish the bar was set higher.
And you framed it wrong as well. The correct question is:
"Assuming we think is best that trash is sorted what's the best way to achieve that goal?"
1) Try to get hundreds of thousands to millions of people to each sort their trash correctly
Monitor all each of them individually and penalize them if they get it wrong
2) Hire a company (or companies) to sort the trash
Monitor just a few companies and penalize them if they get it wrong.
I don't know about you but to me #2 sounds like it is far more likely to achieve the goal of "sorting the trash" than #1. #2 requires monitoring and training far few entities. #1 is like trying to boil the ocean. You will never get everyone to do it correctly.
Requiring sorting by citizens is stupidly inefficient and problem ridden.
If the company sorts it then there is only one place that needs to be checked to see if the stuff is being sorting correctly and one entity to deal with to get them to do it right if not. VS, hundreds of thousands of places things might not be sorted correctly and hundred of thousands of people to attempt to train to do it correctly.
I hope you are right. Tokyo has 40 train lines not counting the Shinkansen. I don't know how many Nagoya, Kyoto and Osaka have but SF has like 4 and LA has 3? 5?
It's one thing to build this high speed train but it's quite another for it to be useful. Since neither city has good public transportation they're going to need to be lots of car rentals and lots of parking, something not available at any current train stations. Let's hope they plan that.
Another thing, the Shinkansen runs as often as every 10 minutes. It doesn't seem likely the SFLA train will get anywhere near that convenient anytime soon.
First, yes I have read the agreement.
Second, that version of the agreement is old.
Third, nothing you wrote contradicted what I wrote. Corona and iLuaBox are running user entered Lua scripts, not JavaScript. Therefore they are breaking the rule above that "No interpreted code may be downloaded or used..." download OR used. They are using user entered interpreted code in Lua, not JavaScript. User entered code is forbidden. Only code in the app's package is allowed to be run period, native or interpreted. The only exception to any code not included in your apps package is JavaScript.
One more time.
Native Code embedded in app = ok ...) = ok
Interpreted code embedded in app = ok
JavaScript NOT embedded in app (downloaded, user entered,
Interpreted code NOT embedded in app (downloaded, user entered, etc...) = NOT ok
The agreement mentions downloading but it explicitly forbids executing ANY CODE NOT IN YOUR APP's PACAKGE except JavaScript running in WebKit
That means Corona and iLuaBox are breaking the license. Of course Apple has never been consistent in enforcing their rules. Maybe as along as the scripts are relatively trivial they'll look the other way but the rules they laid out are clear.
Mac's still cost 3x. Best Buy has 40 computers in their $200-$299 price range. 53 in the $300-$399 price range.
Mac's are only cheap if you massively restrict the selections. It's like saying a BMW is a cheap car. It's not and neither is a Mac a cheap computer.
For systems like this in order to log into any website you have to send your username and password to Opera or Silks servers so it can login as you and then send the page back.
I found that out the hard way. My company's IT dept monitors logins and send out "change your password immediately and don't use Opera Mini" service when it sees logins from services like that
I don't think I'll be using Silk for the same reason.
What about iOS, Android, WebOS, OperaMini, OperaMobile, etc etc etc. Do they all need to be updated?
Native Client (NaCl) is an environment for running native code. That means you can run any language you want. There is already a version of Mono for NaCl, Python, and others.
I would be happy to pay $20-$30 for Animal Crossing or Zelda Spirit Tracks. Something of that of that quality of design.
As for $50. $50 is a bogus number anyway. Developers only get like 10-15% when they go through publishers.
A $50 game at Gamestop translates to $22 wholesale. If the developer got 15% that means they only get $3.30 a game. They don't need to be selling the game on mobile at $50 to make back their money.
At the time of this positing no one has claimed responsibility for the attack. It could just as easily be another Timothy McVeigh.
It's irresponsible to label the bombing with "terror" or "attack" until the purpose is known
This seem unlikely to pass. SF is the most dog friendly city I know. People take their dogs everywhere. On buses, on the Muni. There are parks all over the city with dog walkers in all of them. I can't imagine they would let this pass.
I don't just want it to tell me what's wrong. I want it to show me cool images inside my body like this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ry3w6fbT7rY&feature=related
Netflix is one of the only big companies that still uses POPUPS and POP-UNDERS to advertise. We despised all companies that used those in the past. Why support them now?
A typical developer gets 10% of NET profits from the publisher. A $60 game is sold to retail at wholesale for $28. 10% of $28 is $2.80 per unit at best. Of course the publisher usually subtracts several other things.
The $1 app is not killing the game industry. The game industry is killing itself by not moving on. There are several top games on iOS that sell for $5 to $10. Sword and Sworcery was $4.99 and in the top 10. The Sims 3 was $9.99 and in the top 10.
In other words based on the iOS business model you can still make AAA games. The developer gets the same or MORE money.
It isn't slightly correlated; it's directly causal.
If that's so, explain why some vegans can eat 4000 calories a day of nuts and not gain any weight even with little to no exercise.
It's because of the measure of calories has nothing whatsoever to do with the actual ability of the body to absorb those calories. This is why calories is such a bogus number.
I agree with you that American's need to eat less but we still need to know some real numbers on our food and not these "calories" that really mean nothing.
Calories in > calories out == fat bastards.
It is that simple.
It's not that simple. Calories is the measure of how much the temperature of water is raised by burning a substance. Gasoline burns pretty hot. So does Magnesium. Eating lots of Gasoline and Magnesium will not make your fat even though they are high calorie. Similarly many foods are high in calories when burnt to test their calorie content but the body can't digest them easily therefore they don't make you fat.
I would be nice if we could find some other way of measuring how fat a food is likely to make you than this only slightly correlated measurement of heat called calories.
Dude, you must be high. $20 a month for 100 gig!?!? There's no way Dropbox is going to work as a backup solution for photos. My camera was adding 4-16 gig every month and that was before I started using RAW which is 10x larger.
A 2TB HD is $80 internal, $110 external on amazon.
http://www.amazon.com/Western-Digital-Elements-External-WDBAAU0020HBK-NESN/dp/B002QEBMCI/
On top of that, backing up all that data over the net could take quite a while on slow USA upload speeds, not to mention that the largest ISP, Comcast, has a 250GB cap. That's total meaning both up and down. Could take months to get your data back because they shut you off when you hit the limit.
I'm a fan of the original and although the original is not perfect it's still overall a good movie.
The same can't be said of Tron:Legacy.
"""spoilers""""
The storytelling / writing was just awful. The hippy / new age quips from Flynn were out of place. Zeus was clearly a poor copy of the Merovingian from the Matrix.
Why the F are ISOs special? How will they save humanity?
The light cycle sequence had zero feeling of speed, tension or energy. Compare to the original which is full of speed, tension and energy.
In the original Flynn can play light cycles because he was good on the outside. He barely played the Jai alai game and he never played the discs game. Tron did that.
In Legacy, for no reason what-so-ever we are supposed to believe that Sam Flynn is an expert at all of these things.
Finally the ending has a continuity error with the original. In the original, standing in beam of light and holding the disc above your head is how you communicate with your user. It is NOT how you escape from inside the computer.
Other quibbles: Food. In the original they drank energy liquid that even Flynn craved. While food can be rationalized it wasn't worth the distraction of "wait what food? ... pull self out of movie to think of reason why food might exists inside the computer... get back to movie distracted".
Same with the real world like things in Flynn's place. The victorian mirror in Quorra's room caused the same reaction.
I really wanted to like this movie. I didn't expect it to be as good as the original but I hoped it wouldn't outright suck. But sadly, except for Olivia Wilde there's really nothing to recommend this stinker.
Stop repeating this FALSE story. The close button may not work in a few elevators but they work in plenty of others. The close buttons work just fine in all in the elevators at my company in Mountain View.
Try getting out of your building once in a while. EVERY ELEVATOR IN JAPAN the doors close IMMEDIATELY when pressing the button. Also, Japanese elevators generally don't have light based censors to detect if the door is blocked. They only have the pressure switches.
and to the people that think the walk buttons don't work. They PROVABLY DO WORK at MOST intersections. They may or may not work at downtown intersections but they most certainly work in most suburbs where often the lights always stay green in one direction unless there is some reason for them not to (like a car in the other direction or someone pressing the walk button).
And unless there is funding and or people behind LibreOffice it will die. Many of the top open source projects only survive because some large commercial organizations are funding development.
If the LibreOffice people can find a funding or a funding model maybe it will continue. If not it's dead.
Note: I'm assuming Sun was the major funder, contributor after they bought it. Just as Webkit would die without Apple and Google. Firefox would die without Mozilla. etc...