I would love to read your reply but all I see is a wall of text. Learn to use paragraphs please.
Fixed it for you:
As a Boxee Box owner from almost day 1 of its release, I would say they finally made it out of the alpha stage and into the beta.
While I love it, it is still riddled with bugs and poor design choices. Plus, as a non US resident (like the other 90% of the planet), Hulu (which btw, doesn't exist on Boxee), Netflix and Vudu mean nothing to me.
I originally bought the Boxee Box because I believed it would be more open (ie. the firmware being open to hacking), as opposed to the other options where they are based off closed sourced code exclusively.
Sadly this isn't the case. While I'm able to download the source for Boxee and fix the bugs, I'm unable to apply these fixes to my Boxee Box to make sure they are working 100%. This disappoints me. I can understand their need to make the content providers like Netflix and Vudu feel safe, but what about the other 90% of the market that has no access to these features? Why not go the Chrome route where you have one official build that supports the American content, and then still allow the Chromium builds that exclude the propriety stuff for a more community driven endeavor?
I actually see the with rage when I hear the Boxee team praising their support for American video service X. So what? Many other devices on the market already have that... it isn't anything new. They are only diverting resources and alienating non US based residents to support the minority. And don't even get me started on them supporting new devices when they can't even get their flagship product working properly...
Some of the newer "telephones" are so bad at making calls you should really call them computers...
You have a telephone and then put a computer in it, what do you get? A computer that can make calls. You have a car, and you put a computer in it, what do you get? A computer on wheels.
Yes of course they are... every time I want to go to youtube I accidentally type redtube.com instead, or tube8.com or xtube.com. The keys are so close....
And when I want to go to disney.com I type bangbus.com instead.
Kids should learn to type, or their parents should block the content if they don't monitor their childs Internet usage already.
WTF, Solar should be placed on every roof in all of california... then you wouldn't have a problem since everyone would contribute during the daytime (when most power is needed, since you use the AC all the time) and then at night when you turn the AC off the power plants will suffice...
New nuclear plants, ok. But Coal plants? are you out of your mind?
The Swedish Company SP Fönster (SP Windows) tried to set up the site www.sp-windows.se in the 90:ies but got sued (or something like it) by MS Windows because it was to similar to www.windows.com.
Microsoft makes an operating system called Windows.. SP Fönster makes actual windows...
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I think he meant that 1 mile (for Swedes at least) are 10 km and thus 200 miles is a long way
Rotate your screen to portrait mode.
Have you piloted all three?
I own a Transformer with a dock and I use it about as much or more than my colleagues use their iPads.
It's the second tablet that is both price and feature superior to the iPad/2.
The first transformer was the first one, this is the second one..
The iCar will only be able to drive on iRoads, sadly there aren't many iRoads but those few that exist look really sleek.
I would love to read your reply but all I see is a wall of text. Learn to use paragraphs please.
Fixed it for you:
As a Boxee Box owner from almost day 1 of its release, I would say they finally made it out of the alpha stage and into the beta.
While I love it, it is still riddled with bugs and poor design choices. Plus, as a non US resident (like the other 90% of the planet), Hulu (which btw, doesn't exist on Boxee), Netflix and Vudu mean nothing to me.
I originally bought the Boxee Box because I believed it would be more open (ie. the firmware being open to hacking), as opposed to the other options where they are based off closed sourced code exclusively.
Sadly this isn't the case. While I'm able to download the source for Boxee and fix the bugs, I'm unable to apply these fixes to my Boxee Box to make sure they are working 100%. This disappoints me.
I can understand their need to make the content providers like Netflix and Vudu feel safe, but what about the other 90% of the market that has no access to these features?
Why not go the Chrome route where you have one official build that supports the American content, and then still allow the Chromium builds that exclude the propriety stuff for a more community driven endeavor?
I actually see the with rage when I hear the Boxee team praising their support for American video service X. ... it isn't anything new.
So what?
Many other devices on the market already have that
They are only diverting resources and alienating non US based residents to support the minority.
And don't even get me started on them supporting new devices when they can't even get their flagship product working properly...
At least Canada has a Canadian version of Netflix..
Nothing except for youtube works in the BoxeeBox that is sold in Sweden...
In Sweden the maximum speed limit on a road is 110km/h
Cars/Trucks that weigh over 3.5 Metric tons are limited to 90Km/h.
If you are going 200km the gain from driving 100km/h versus 90km/h is 13 minutes. That's nothing considering you are driving for nearly two hours.
Why would you want to overtake one of these things?
They will follow the speed limit so you won't have any reason what so ever to overtake them, besides not following the speedlimit yourself.
What's moronic about 2+1 roads?
Some of the newer "telephones" are so bad at making calls you should really call them computers...
You have a telephone and then put a computer in it, what do you get? A computer that can make calls.
You have a car, and you put a computer in it, what do you get? A computer on wheels.
Yes of course they are... every time I want to go to youtube I accidentally type redtube.com instead, or tube8.com or xtube.com. The keys are so close....
And when I want to go to disney.com I type bangbus.com instead.
Kids should learn to type, or their parents should block the content if they don't monitor their childs Internet usage already.
Well, I had a car analogy first but it didn't work out... :)
No, you still only read one book (maybe 2-3) at a time.
Why would I want 4500 books in my pocket?
Can you use three of those 4500 books as doorstops for three doors at the same time?
The fourth guy seems to be a landscape photographer.
I got my key a few seconds after I confirmed the purchase with paypal.
WTF, Solar should be placed on every roof in all of california... then you wouldn't have a problem since everyone would contribute during the daytime (when most power is needed, since you use the AC all the time) and then at night when you turn the AC off the power plants will suffice...
New nuclear plants, ok. But Coal plants? are you out of your mind?
The Swedish Company SP Fönster (SP Windows) tried to set up the site www.sp-windows.se in the 90:ies but got sued (or something like it) by MS Windows because it was to similar to www.windows.com.
Microsoft makes an operating system called Windows..
SP Fönster makes actual windows...
Taking the notion of the RED planet a bit far aren't you?
You didn't have to be the one either...
"Sorry sis, you didn't do what I told you and now I wont fix your computer. Take it to someone who charges money for it..."
What was the purpouse of this summary?
Just make a http://flattr.com/ button so people can donate easily.
Links to such cases?
If you are going to throw around words as "well known fact" you had better back them up. /living in Sweden
Have you tried The Battle for Wesnoth?
http://wiki.wesnoth.org/Description
I'm waiting for the StarCraft 1 re-make in the StarCraft 2 graphics engine. That's something I'd buy.
World in Conflict did this... well not the raping and pillaging... but attacking the U.S.A.