After having been a part of the beta "testing" of Hulu Plus, I feel that the limited benefits they provide don't outweigh the costs just yet. For one thing, you still are having to sit through commercials (which have increased to 2x 60-second commercials at times); combine that with the fact that a good chunk of the shows I'd want to watch from Hulu.com aren't even available through the PS3 app nor on my iPhone, and I felt I wasted the two months I spent on the service.
Sure, the fact you're not limited to 5 episodes back is a good feature, but it definitely isn't worth the $15 they're asking for. I know I could pick up PlayOn for a similar experience, but it really irks me that they can't provide several of these shows through their Hulu Plus apps but are perfectly capable of having them on Hulu Desktop.
You know, I wouldn't normally be retentive about this...but "Rock Band" isn't a company, it is HARMONIX that developed this single game, and they acquired the licensing for the rights to the Beatles music. They have more of a hand in this than MTV Games, who is merely the publisher to the game.
Not only that, but the game isn't even to be branded as a "Rock Band" game, just that it will be identical. Just show the developer some respect man!:P
I can semi-answer this for them: Warcraft, Starcraft, Diablo, just about all of Blizzard's IP has been programmed with both Windows and MacOS compatibility, moreso than quite possibly any other gaming company out there to be perfectly honest.
The difference between what I said what you said is based entirely on GPL vs non-GPL. Whereas Asus has made the code publicly available as stated by the GPL itself, your scenario violates the EULA of Vista and would therefore lead to prosecution since it doesn't have any mention of public distribution in that agreement.
Again, I point to the timeframe and also to the other users whom have cited error of forgetting to provide the source of their own codes as far as reasonable acceptance that they weren't out to 'destroy the GPL'. Though the clean-up may be questionable, it's still in compliance with the license.
The EeePC has only been available publicly for a few weeks now. It was purely speculation that they were willingly holding back the code for asus_acpi and the other crap, and now they've corrected that mistake. Those 'critics' need to calm down sometimes, not every large corporation out there is trying to destroy the 'sanctity of GPL' at every opportunity.
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After having been a part of the beta "testing" of Hulu Plus, I feel that the limited benefits they provide don't outweigh the costs just yet. For one thing, you still are having to sit through commercials (which have increased to 2x 60-second commercials at times); combine that with the fact that a good chunk of the shows I'd want to watch from Hulu.com aren't even available through the PS3 app nor on my iPhone, and I felt I wasted the two months I spent on the service. Sure, the fact you're not limited to 5 episodes back is a good feature, but it definitely isn't worth the $15 they're asking for. I know I could pick up PlayOn for a similar experience, but it really irks me that they can't provide several of these shows through their Hulu Plus apps but are perfectly capable of having them on Hulu Desktop.
You know, I wouldn't normally be retentive about this...but "Rock Band" isn't a company, it is HARMONIX that developed this single game, and they acquired the licensing for the rights to the Beatles music. They have more of a hand in this than MTV Games, who is merely the publisher to the game. Not only that, but the game isn't even to be branded as a "Rock Band" game, just that it will be identical. Just show the developer some respect man! :P
I can semi-answer this for them: Warcraft, Starcraft, Diablo, just about all of Blizzard's IP has been programmed with both Windows and MacOS compatibility, moreso than quite possibly any other gaming company out there to be perfectly honest.
The difference between what I said what you said is based entirely on GPL vs non-GPL. Whereas Asus has made the code publicly available as stated by the GPL itself, your scenario violates the EULA of Vista and would therefore lead to prosecution since it doesn't have any mention of public distribution in that agreement.
Again, I point to the timeframe and also to the other users whom have cited error of forgetting to provide the source of their own codes as far as reasonable acceptance that they weren't out to 'destroy the GPL'. Though the clean-up may be questionable, it's still in compliance with the license.
The EeePC has only been available publicly for a few weeks now. It was purely speculation that they were willingly holding back the code for asus_acpi and the other crap, and now they've corrected that mistake. Those 'critics' need to calm down sometimes, not every large corporation out there is trying to destroy the 'sanctity of GPL' at every opportunity.