Nail on the head here. I used to watch Hulu on Boxee through my Apple TV, until Hulu killed it. So when I had guests over earlier in the week and we wanted to watch a show on hulu, I simply plugging the DVI out from my laptop into a DVI->HDMI changer, right into my TV. A few seconds later, I had Hulu playing in full-screen on my TV in the living room.
So what did they accomplish except annoying me? Absolutely nothing. They also seem to have forgotten that the lines between computer monitors & TVs are becoming blurred all the time. I have friends using 42" displays as their monitors, with a PC right in the living room. Hulu (and by extension, Fox, NBC, etc.) just don't seem to get it here. If they're making their content available for free online, people will find ways to watch it when & how they want. Constantly trying to work around that will only serve to piss off your user base.
No, trust me, the freakin' programmers and IT people make it impossible.
Riiiiiight.
Sorry, but you're wrong. Honestly, we just want to get the code written and have you leave us alone. But we can't do that.
Instead, we have to follow the rules implemented by management, usually non-IT management. So while the code change itself might be all of 10 minutes, we have to follow Six Sigma, or have all changes go through 3 weeks of requirements gathering, or have to follow some horrible process workflow like the Waterfall model because they read about it in CEO Magazine.
It's management who make your life more difficult. And oddly enough, almost all of them have MBAs...
How on earth would IE 8, a browser with a UI not written in XUL, be able to "flawlessly" use a Firefox plugin like Tab Mix Plus? Unless IE 8.1 embeds all of Gecko, plus XUL, XPCom, the XPI to install the plugins, you couldn't install or run a plugin on it. And why on earth would Microsoft suddenly give in and embed other rendering engines? That's not something the dominant browser does, that's something that a low-share browser does to help with compatibility, ala Netscape 7.
I don't buy it. Furthermore, the article is light on details, has some dubious screenshots, and was published just before April Fools' Day.
P.S. If you want to use Firebug in non-Firefox browsers, then use the Lite version. It works great in IE.
Maybe, just maybe, someone calling a small laptop "cute" is not a reflection on your sexual identity or masculinity. And maybe you should take it as a compliment, because that's likely how it's intended!
This is like asking how to make a small, fluffy puppy look intimidating. Anything you do to it will only serve to make it more comical, particularly to the opposite sex. Stop being so insecure and enjoy your freaking laptop! If someone says its cute, just say, "Yeah, it is, thanks!"
Oh, and if you really need a line, next time someone says its cute, respond with, "Yeah, it's a 10-incher, just like my cock." Problem solved!
Called "sexting" when it's done by cell phone, teenagers' habit of sending sexually suggestive photos of themselves and others to one another is a nationwide problem that has confounded parents, school administrators and law enforcers.
Really? Teenagers having sex and taking naked pictures of themselves is now a nationwide problem?!
No. Millions of people losing their jobs is a nationwide problem. Teenagers taking naked pictures of themselves is a non-issue. These aren't exploited kids being molested or stripped against their will. And I guarantee you at least one of these prosecutors streaked, went skinny-dipping, etc. in their youth. This is just ridiculous. Don't we as a nation have better things to be worried about than a teenager getting naked for another teenager?!
Keep in mind that although they have finally shown the world their new saloon car, it won't be available for purchase until Q3-Q4 of 2011. Which means we have almost three full years before this car will actually be rolling out onto a street at all.
Think about any concept car you've ever seen, and then think about all of the nifty conceptual bits that weren't there 2-3 years later when the car actually went to production.
All of that said, I like the look of the car, but I'd prefer something smaller and not quite so heavy. Then again, as a single male, I'm not the target demographic for a large saloon that seats seven. I wish they'd produce something like the Roadster for the price point of this car.
Public schools & government buildings are built using taxpayer dollars. Churches do not pay taxes and are thereby subsidized by taxpayer dollars.
Therefore, I see no reason why we shouldn't be able to view the rooftops of the buildings for which we essentially paid. If I think the church down the street from me has an architecturally-brilliant roof and I want to look at it, I see no reason why I shouldn't be able to do so.
Of course, there's also arguments to be made about security through obscurity, security theatre, etc. Tim McVeigh didn't need Google Earth when he parked a truck bomb in front of a federal building...
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Don't come into this expecting 300: This is a crime thriller, not a beat-em-up movie.
Are you sure about that? Because the film that I saw had loads of slow-motion wire-fighting and unnecessary gore that was very, very close to the way 300 was presented, and not at all like the book.
This film gets a C- or D from me, depending on how annoyed I get. I don't mean to sound so pedantic, but, well, here are some examples of what bugged me:
In the book, Rorschach's rescue from jail was relatively quick, because Dan used the Archie screechers to deafen everyone and get them out of the way. In the film, this was a 10 minute wire-fighting slow-motion sequence with SS and Night Owl fighting off a few dozen prisoners.
When Rorschach finishes off Big Figure, they actually panned the camera back to the bathroom to show blood coming out along the floor. Do we need to be beat over the head like this? I think we can figure out that he's dead! About as subtle as rape, that scene.
Speaking of lost subtlety, why did Dr. Manhattan have to tell Laurie that her dad was The Comedian? I'm fairly certain we could have figured this out from the preceding context! Again, beating us over the head.
Silk Spectre jumping through the roof of the on-fire building, only to...wait for it, open a window and escort people onto Archie. Why did she even bother going in? They couldn't open the window themselves?
Archie doesn't have screechers or a water tank, but does have a 16-barrel minigun.
Janey Slater actually shows up at the TV studio when Roth starts accusing Manhattan, revealing that she's lost most of her hair, and is seemingly in on the plot to frame Jon, instead of coming across like another pawn in Adrian's scheme.
They just couldn't keep the Hollywood out of it. Gone is wit and character development. And frankly, I don't know why they changed the ending. They could have easily kept it in. And don't tell me it was for time constraints, because they could have got back almost 30 minutes by cutting out the unnecessary martial arts in slow motion!
Meh. That about sums it up. If you were really into the graphic novel, you're probably not going to like it very much. I honestly wouldn't even recommend seeing it, that's how little I enjoyed it. They took Watchmen and turned it into The Matrix Part IV.
I guess I simply won't be upgrading anytime soon.:(
Boxee is great for pulling my TV shows & Movies ripped from my DVD collection off of my NAS, but I can't tell you how many times I've had people over and just found something on Hulu to watch, like the latest episode of 30 Rock or American Dad. This move kills one of the biggest reasons to use boxee for me.
There are loads of bugs in it that I want fixed, but if there's no more hulu, then what's the point?
If you want or need to take a picture/video discreetly? Now you're stuck holding it way out in front of you, giving away the fact that you're filming/taking photos?
I've snapped photos and video before by keeping the phone up against my ear like I was on the phone, but aiming the lens at the subject and tapping the button on the side of the phone. I know other people have done the same to film their local police using a taser on someone. If the cops know you're filming, they're likely to try to take your cell.
The issue with a screen over the front of the engine is drag.
It's been looked into extensively already, any screen fine enough to prevent smaller birds from getting sucked into the engine has a massive effect on the engine's performance.
The major problem that I run into with running Boxee on AppleTV is that the AppleTV's specs are too weak to handle some of the good stuff from Boxee. For example, Boxee supports Netflix on the OS X release, but not on AppleTV. 720P content is often choppy (at least when played wirelessly, my ATV only has 802.11g, not n-draft), etc.
Plus there's the whole issue of firmware updates breaking Boxee.
The one reason I want the AppleTVs though is that they're now supported as AirTunes speakers, which means that with an AppleTV in my living room & bedroom, I can play music through most of the house just by telling iTunes to use multiple speakers. They kill two birds with one stone.
I just wish I could make them faster...maybe a new processor and a dedicated cooling solution, I'd have to crack it open to see the internals.
Except for one thing, namely the Union League & Leadership Philadelphia giving out individual copies of the book.
I'm not quite the Luddite you make me sound, how would you give out copies of the book otherwise, for immediate markup/use? Certainly the Kindle isn't ubiquitous enough, a PDF on CD/DVD might work, provided we all had laptops with us. No eBook solutions would work quite as well for that situation as a paper book.
I'm not fully discrediting eBooks, but for me, I'm going to pass on them for now.
I was considering buying one of these once the new version came out. One of the media release photos, meant to show the slimness of the device, has the Kindle leaning up next to a copy of pop-sociologist Malcolm Gladwell's new book, "The Outliers."
A few days ago, I was invited to the Union League in Philadelphia to see Mr. Gladwell speak to a group of roughly 550 local leaders, CEOs, etc. We were all provided with a "free" (in quotes because there was an entrance fee on all tickets, so the book was paid for by that cost) copy of his latest book and breakfast, and then afterward Mr. Gladwell did a Q&A session followed by a book signing.
It was the collaboration at the event, with people scribbling notes in the margins of the book, discussing certain paragraphs, and having the author sign each copy, that made me relish having the hardback with me. (Even if I do find his work a bit trite at times.)
In the end, I've opted not to buy this gadget, because ultimately, it's just not as satisfying or lasting as having a book. I have books given to me by my grandparents that they had as teenagers, what do you think the odds are that a Kindle or the formats it supports will last even two decades? I'm going to stick to my dead trees, thank you.
Here's a man giving away his money and trying to fight problems in the third world, and all you can ramble on about is whether or not this constitutes assault in an overly litigious society.
So, here's a suggestion...How about you and everyone else who thinks like you grows up, stops being such a goddamned wuss, and realizes that there was absolutely no harm done here in any form or fashion? Then we can move on to actually getting things accomplished.
The major issue I have with Hulu, South Park Studios, and this in Pandora, is not the existence of the ads themselves, but rather how the ads are presented in relation to the program.
I'm more than willing to accept the fact that to subsidize royalties, bandwidth, etc., we may have to hear/see an advert every so often. Fine, no problem. But for fuck's sake, can you at least NORMALIZE the blasted thing first?!
People don't like sudden, unexpectedly loud noises. If you're not going to normalize your ads to match the volume of the surrounding shows, then you're going to turn people off. My experience with Pandora's ads thus far haven't been good, considerably louder than the music before or after. I'm wearing in-ear headphones, it hurts when that happens.
At home, I'll be watching something on Hulu through Boxee on my AppleTV, I have the volume all set for the episode I'm watching, and then an advert comes on at literally twice the volume of the TV show, and now I'm diving for the remote control to hit the mute button because a sonic boom was just created in my living room.
South Park Studios is particularly bad about this, their ads for GT4 or whatever racing game are so loud and obnoxious that I now instinctively mute my TV the second its time for a commercial break. I'm not watching or listening to the ad now, because their volume control (or lack thereof) has turned me off for good to their ad stream.
Back in the early days of Firefox, when it was still Phoenix/Firebird, the first plugin I ever installed was "Nuke Flash", a handy little thing that removed a flash object from the page. Why did I do this? Because some cock got it in their head that a banner advert should play MUSIC or obnoxiously loud sound effects when you accidentally mouse over it! And if someone sends me to a website that starts talking/playing music the second I arrive, I'm never going back there again.
So fine, if you must have ads in Pandora/Hulu, etc., please make them so it doesn't sound like Al Pacino is yelling into my ears with a bullhorn. Thanks.
Saranko indicated that authorities decided to file the child pornography charges to send a strong message to other minors who might consider sending such photos to friends.
"It's very dangerous," he said. "Once it's on a cell phone, that cell phone can be put on the Internet where everyone in the world can get access to that juvenile picture. You don't realize what you are doing until it's already done."
Wait, what? First of all, no, the cell phone isn't put on the internet, the photos might be, but whatever, that's nit-picking. The real issue is that first statement. They're going to make these kids register as sex offenders to "send a strong message to other minors"?!
These kids didn't do anything wrong. They're teens, they're full of hormones, and they're going to have sex with each other. And it's not the state or federal government's place to stop them. This has gotten far out of hand when 15 year olds willfully showing their bodies to 16 year olds can be prosecuted as child porn.
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Nail on the head here. I used to watch Hulu on Boxee through my Apple TV, until Hulu killed it. So when I had guests over earlier in the week and we wanted to watch a show on hulu, I simply plugging the DVI out from my laptop into a DVI->HDMI changer, right into my TV. A few seconds later, I had Hulu playing in full-screen on my TV in the living room.
So what did they accomplish except annoying me? Absolutely nothing. They also seem to have forgotten that the lines between computer monitors & TVs are becoming blurred all the time. I have friends using 42" displays as their monitors, with a PC right in the living room. Hulu (and by extension, Fox, NBC, etc.) just don't seem to get it here. If they're making their content available for free online, people will find ways to watch it when & how they want. Constantly trying to work around that will only serve to piss off your user base.
Riiiiiight.
Sorry, but you're wrong. Honestly, we just want to get the code written and have you leave us alone. But we can't do that.
Instead, we have to follow the rules implemented by management, usually non-IT management. So while the code change itself might be all of 10 minutes, we have to follow Six Sigma, or have all changes go through 3 weeks of requirements gathering, or have to follow some horrible process workflow like the Waterfall model because they read about it in CEO Magazine.
It's management who make your life more difficult. And oddly enough, almost all of them have MBAs...
Bravo!
I smell bullshit.
How on earth would IE 8, a browser with a UI not written in XUL, be able to "flawlessly" use a Firefox plugin like Tab Mix Plus? Unless IE 8.1 embeds all of Gecko, plus XUL, XPCom, the XPI to install the plugins, you couldn't install or run a plugin on it. And why on earth would Microsoft suddenly give in and embed other rendering engines? That's not something the dominant browser does, that's something that a low-share browser does to help with compatibility, ala Netscape 7.
I don't buy it. Furthermore, the article is light on details, has some dubious screenshots, and was published just before April Fools' Day.
P.S. If you want to use Firebug in non-Firefox browsers, then use the Lite version. It works great in IE.
I was not being serious about that last line, it was tongue-in-cheek!
Maybe, just maybe, someone calling a small laptop "cute" is not a reflection on your sexual identity or masculinity. And maybe you should take it as a compliment, because that's likely how it's intended!
This is like asking how to make a small, fluffy puppy look intimidating. Anything you do to it will only serve to make it more comical, particularly to the opposite sex. Stop being so insecure and enjoy your freaking laptop! If someone says its cute, just say, "Yeah, it is, thanks!"
Oh, and if you really need a line, next time someone says its cute, respond with, "Yeah, it's a 10-incher, just like my cock." Problem solved!
Really? Teenagers having sex and taking naked pictures of themselves is now a nationwide problem?!
No. Millions of people losing their jobs is a nationwide problem. Teenagers taking naked pictures of themselves is a non-issue. These aren't exploited kids being molested or stripped against their will. And I guarantee you at least one of these prosecutors streaked, went skinny-dipping, etc. in their youth. This is just ridiculous. Don't we as a nation have better things to be worried about than a teenager getting naked for another teenager?!
Tesla claim the battery replacements will "well under $5000", or so says Elon Musk.
Interesting thing, the car will only have 160 mi range on the base model. Getting 300 mi on a charge requires 2 battery upgrades.
Keep in mind that although they have finally shown the world their new saloon car, it won't be available for purchase until Q3-Q4 of 2011. Which means we have almost three full years before this car will actually be rolling out onto a street at all.
Think about any concept car you've ever seen, and then think about all of the nifty conceptual bits that weren't there 2-3 years later when the car actually went to production.
All of that said, I like the look of the car, but I'd prefer something smaller and not quite so heavy. Then again, as a single male, I'm not the target demographic for a large saloon that seats seven. I wish they'd produce something like the Roadster for the price point of this car.
Public schools & government buildings are built using taxpayer dollars. Churches do not pay taxes and are thereby subsidized by taxpayer dollars.
Therefore, I see no reason why we shouldn't be able to view the rooftops of the buildings for which we essentially paid. If I think the church down the street from me has an architecturally-brilliant roof and I want to look at it, I see no reason why I shouldn't be able to do so.
Of course, there's also arguments to be made about security through obscurity, security theatre, etc. Tim McVeigh didn't need Google Earth when he parked a truck bomb in front of a federal building...
Are you sure about that? Because the film that I saw had loads of slow-motion wire-fighting and unnecessary gore that was very, very close to the way 300 was presented, and not at all like the book.
This film gets a C- or D from me, depending on how annoyed I get. I don't mean to sound so pedantic, but, well, here are some examples of what bugged me:
They just couldn't keep the Hollywood out of it. Gone is wit and character development. And frankly, I don't know why they changed the ending. They could have easily kept it in. And don't tell me it was for time constraints, because they could have got back almost 30 minutes by cutting out the unnecessary martial arts in slow motion!
Meh. That about sums it up. If you were really into the graphic novel, you're probably not going to like it very much. I honestly wouldn't even recommend seeing it, that's how little I enjoyed it. They took Watchmen and turned it into The Matrix Part IV.
The American dream used to be a house in the country. Now it's citizenship in another country.
Fixed that for you.
Can we pass a law that prevents lawmakers from coming up with bills that have contrived acronyms in them? The USA PATRIOT Act was bad enough.
Unless it's a situation where Hulu blocks all the requests from Boxee, in which case I'm fucked either way.
I guess I simply won't be upgrading anytime soon. :(
Boxee is great for pulling my TV shows & Movies ripped from my DVD collection off of my NAS, but I can't tell you how many times I've had people over and just found something on Hulu to watch, like the latest episode of 30 Rock or American Dad. This move kills one of the biggest reasons to use boxee for me.
There are loads of bugs in it that I want fixed, but if there's no more hulu, then what's the point?
If you want or need to take a picture/video discreetly? Now you're stuck holding it way out in front of you, giving away the fact that you're filming/taking photos?
I've snapped photos and video before by keeping the phone up against my ear like I was on the phone, but aiming the lens at the subject and tapping the button on the side of the phone. I know other people have done the same to film their local police using a taser on someone. If the cops know you're filming, they're likely to try to take your cell.
Here's a little screen shot to mark the occasion.
Happy 23:31:30 UTC everyone! (Oddly a 13th Friday!)
(I swear I didn't check the AC box, weird.)
The issue with a screen over the front of the engine is drag.
It's been looked into extensively already, any screen fine enough to prevent smaller birds from getting sucked into the engine has a massive effect on the engine's performance.
The major problem that I run into with running Boxee on AppleTV is that the AppleTV's specs are too weak to handle some of the good stuff from Boxee. For example, Boxee supports Netflix on the OS X release, but not on AppleTV. 720P content is often choppy (at least when played wirelessly, my ATV only has 802.11g, not n-draft), etc.
Plus there's the whole issue of firmware updates breaking Boxee.
The one reason I want the AppleTVs though is that they're now supported as AirTunes speakers, which means that with an AppleTV in my living room & bedroom, I can play music through most of the house just by telling iTunes to use multiple speakers. They kill two birds with one stone.
I just wish I could make them faster...maybe a new processor and a dedicated cooling solution, I'd have to crack it open to see the internals.
Except for one thing, namely the Union League & Leadership Philadelphia giving out individual copies of the book.
I'm not quite the Luddite you make me sound, how would you give out copies of the book otherwise, for immediate markup/use? Certainly the Kindle isn't ubiquitous enough, a PDF on CD/DVD might work, provided we all had laptops with us. No eBook solutions would work quite as well for that situation as a paper book.
I'm not fully discrediting eBooks, but for me, I'm going to pass on them for now.
I was considering buying one of these once the new version came out. One of the media release photos, meant to show the slimness of the device, has the Kindle leaning up next to a copy of pop-sociologist Malcolm Gladwell's new book, "The Outliers."
A few days ago, I was invited to the Union League in Philadelphia to see Mr. Gladwell speak to a group of roughly 550 local leaders, CEOs, etc. We were all provided with a "free" (in quotes because there was an entrance fee on all tickets, so the book was paid for by that cost) copy of his latest book and breakfast, and then afterward Mr. Gladwell did a Q&A session followed by a book signing.
It was the collaboration at the event, with people scribbling notes in the margins of the book, discussing certain paragraphs, and having the author sign each copy, that made me relish having the hardback with me. (Even if I do find his work a bit trite at times.)
In the end, I've opted not to buy this gadget, because ultimately, it's just not as satisfying or lasting as having a book. I have books given to me by my grandparents that they had as teenagers, what do you think the odds are that a Kindle or the formats it supports will last even two decades? I'm going to stick to my dead trees, thank you.
Here's a man giving away his money and trying to fight problems in the third world, and all you can ramble on about is whether or not this constitutes assault in an overly litigious society.
So, here's a suggestion...How about you and everyone else who thinks like you grows up, stops being such a goddamned wuss, and realizes that there was absolutely no harm done here in any form or fashion? Then we can move on to actually getting things accomplished.
The major issue I have with Hulu, South Park Studios, and this in Pandora, is not the existence of the ads themselves, but rather how the ads are presented in relation to the program.
I'm more than willing to accept the fact that to subsidize royalties, bandwidth, etc., we may have to hear/see an advert every so often. Fine, no problem. But for fuck's sake, can you at least NORMALIZE the blasted thing first?!
People don't like sudden, unexpectedly loud noises. If you're not going to normalize your ads to match the volume of the surrounding shows, then you're going to turn people off. My experience with Pandora's ads thus far haven't been good, considerably louder than the music before or after. I'm wearing in-ear headphones, it hurts when that happens.
At home, I'll be watching something on Hulu through Boxee on my AppleTV, I have the volume all set for the episode I'm watching, and then an advert comes on at literally twice the volume of the TV show, and now I'm diving for the remote control to hit the mute button because a sonic boom was just created in my living room.
South Park Studios is particularly bad about this, their ads for GT4 or whatever racing game are so loud and obnoxious that I now instinctively mute my TV the second its time for a commercial break. I'm not watching or listening to the ad now, because their volume control (or lack thereof) has turned me off for good to their ad stream.
Back in the early days of Firefox, when it was still Phoenix/Firebird, the first plugin I ever installed was "Nuke Flash", a handy little thing that removed a flash object from the page. Why did I do this? Because some cock got it in their head that a banner advert should play MUSIC or obnoxiously loud sound effects when you accidentally mouse over it! And if someone sends me to a website that starts talking/playing music the second I arrive, I'm never going back there again.
So fine, if you must have ads in Pandora/Hulu, etc., please make them so it doesn't sound like Al Pacino is yelling into my ears with a bullhorn. Thanks.
Nicely done, thank you!
Wait, what? First of all, no, the cell phone isn't put on the internet, the photos might be, but whatever, that's nit-picking. The real issue is that first statement. They're going to make these kids register as sex offenders to "send a strong message to other minors"?!
These kids didn't do anything wrong. They're teens, they're full of hormones, and they're going to have sex with each other. And it's not the state or federal government's place to stop them. This has gotten far out of hand when 15 year olds willfully showing their bodies to 16 year olds can be prosecuted as child porn.