too much risk. that's it. he controls the healthcare that the corp would buy for their employees. he controls which things can be in the HC pkg and he controls costs. he can hire and fire. he can make company policy.
too much power for a bigot and an openly bigot at that.
I could not have said it any better than your 2nd paragraph.
repeating:
n the wrong side of history. No one gives you credit for standing up for what you believe in, all they think about is how you're the kind of douchebag who would take away something that costs you nothing but makes so many people so happy.
pat 'the nazi' buchannon? not anti-gay? what planet are you on??
he's as republican as it gets. and yes, this is relevant as it speaks to eich's character. I was not aware he was a buchannon supporter. that's even WORSE than being anti-gay.
face he, he does not represent progressive attitudes, which mostly are what exists in the bay area for software and hardware folks.
his views are hateful and repressive and I'm glad he got kicked out on his ass. very glad when a bigot gets shown the door, so to speak.
easy to get around. you have supported (by amazon) formats and you have 'plugins' that users write to support, uhm, things amazon would get slapped down for, for supporting.
that way you have freedom.
if you insist, make the drm path not go thru the user plugins. fine.
but allow user plugins.
no user extension, no buy from me. I already went thru the popcorn hour (2 of them) years ago and got tired of the lack of user extensibility (in any true sense, since the decoder was hardware based and NOT open).
why would I need yet another service? I have smb and nfs for disk sharing. the media files play on VLC and so they don't need to be messed with; they are fine media files.
why should I have to BUY or configure a damned thing more?
seriously. I have a NAS that exports files (that's all it does and all I ever want it to do; its a small tiny nas box with no HP to recode and recoding is NOT a fileserver's job!).
I simply want a media player that is fanless, plays everything the pure software-based players play and don't DRM me to death or nag me about bullshit. no 'on the public internet' requirement, no phone home, no register on someone's website. NONE OF THAT IS NEEDED OR WANTED.
so what's the deal with plex, then? why should someone like me run yet another service and yet another box?
millions of products are designed by idiots for idiots.
what exactly are you trying to prove, here?
any experienced UI designer (for things like cars, planes, boats, etc) knows that TACTILE is important and not something you give away. pressing on glass is the worst you can get in tactile.
only an idiot designs those for cars.
yes, I called musk an idiot. in this area, he let idiots design a UI that had no business doing it. he is clearly appealing to other rich idiots who don't really want a good UI design. they mostly buy the car for a fashion statement.
iirc, that had a ton of user submitted photos and they were funny as hell. looks like amazon took the user photos down. too bad, it really gave context to the 'reviews' on that product.
forcing people to give each other the same rights.
you really love to twist words around, don't you?
killfiles are meant for people like you. there's no reasoning with you, that much is clear. you mention obama like it even is relevant here.
I know your mindframe. those 'icky gays' are just wrong, aren't they? we can't have them enjoy the same rights as god fearing men and women! yeah, brother. amen and pass the wafer.
no usb port. no way to play truly local content. and you have to transcode, it seems, to meet the player's profiles. the player should play EVERY format, but this one does not. in this day and age, to release a player that has limits seems pretty braindead to me.
I'd like a fast fanless media player to replace my fan-based pc but not until I can 100% replace it and play everything IT did.
amazon: you lose again. I know, you want to leverage this for Prime movies. that's just not enough for us, can't you see that?
I hope this fails. anything this limited deserves to fail.
it was close to 50/50. how do you see that as anything other than 'some agree, some don't ?
if it was 60/40 or 70/30 or 80/20, sure, call it 'convincingly' but when its noise level around 50/50, uhm, that's pretty uncertain to me. all that says is that its evenly split and therefore, no clear mandate either way.
you DO realize that the web would be a far better place if we didn't have JS. JS is more often used by those trying to do bad things (ie, push ads at us or spy on us).
the whole idea of running CODE on the browser was a bad idea from the start. the web would be trivial to lock down if we got rid of mobile code (remotely running code).
the younger crowd already 'gets' it and they will replace the older crowd, over time.
history is being made. over the last 20 or so years, individual rights are slowly increasing. sometimes a few steps forward and some back, but there is a net gain and its not going to go backwards on the long-run.
folks who are on the wrong side of history will deny it to the end. nothing can be done to change their minds. just feel sorry for them. and try to minimize how much power they have, so their intolerant views don't spillover to decent society too much. if you 'contain' the bigots, their effect on the rest of us is minimized.
when said religious belief is being forced on everyone else (via funding that prop.) and its being made law of the land, you betcha!
they should not be allowed to force their views on everyone. those 2 people, over there, being married or not should not matter one bit to you, mr. eich. its none of your business; why should YOUR views, entirely based on religion and nothing else, be the law of the land here in the US?
he can act like a decent human being or he can help fund hate groups. he made his choice, now he gets what comes with it.
its not 'america', its a small tech section of it.
and this guy's views are offensive to any thinking person. only old hold-backs are still refusing to grant equal rights to everyone.
all he has to do is stop supporting bad behavior. ie, the bad behavior is the *active suppression* of other peoples' rights. its that simple. stop trying to limit what person A and B can do, just because your personal views think 'its icky!' or that your god says its wrong.
to be worthy of a ceo position, its not asking too much that the person not be an embarasment. and, sorry to say, his views were a total embarasment. I would not want a KKK supporter or a neo-nazi supporter to be in a position of power, either.
no one in modern times (in a western world) would think its ok to underpay women just because they are women. no one would think its ok to pay less based on skin color. why is it 'just another way to think' when its about giving (or more accurately, denying) equal rights to same-sex couples?
its wrong to deny people basic rights based entirely on religion,.
I feel happy that people have pushed such a backward thinking person out of a position of high power. good for mankind! yay! there's still some hope for us, yet.
players should play any format and play it well. if a movie is encoded in a format, it took time and effort and to just re-encode again on top of that is so wrong I can't begin to explain..
this is what keeps me using software players like vlc. whatever encode was used, it does not matter, vlc (and others like it) can play it. hardware based players (that rely mostly on bluray based video decoders and hdmi encoders) often work well when the format is to their liking, and badly in all other cases.
I have not found this answer yet (have not tried too hard, though): can it mount nfs and smb shares and play back from NAS; or is this 'streaming (from wan) only'?
if its streaming only, then I have 0 interest in this. streaming is nice but the must-have is to be able to properly mount and play smb and nfs content and also not care about how the content was encoded (some hardware playback devices only play certain settings-enabled content; if the encoder was using 'odd' parameters, quite a lot of hardware players will have problems).
if this can fully replace my win7 box or linux box using vlc, that's great. to play amazon prime HD, an atom cpu is not going to cut it (I get lots of pauses) and a core 2 duo is the very minimum to play HD over amazon; and even then, the laptop fan spins very loud during playback.
a nice fanless hardware player would be welcome but only if it can fully replace my software based player.
a single rich guy in the left lane with a sticker on his car helps exactly HOW, again, in terms of road congestion?
we really don't care about carbon footprint. we are doing essentially nothing to make a serious dent in the world's pollution levels. the carpool lane was really about making better use of the roads in terms of reducing the # of cars on it. a free pass to the left lane for electric vehicles does nothing to reduce the car count on the highways.
they should just get rid of it. I know of no one who truly carpools. there were a few times, as kids, that we'd have our parents carpool us to and from school but for those who drive to work, I've never heard of a carpool being more an a curiosity, at best. people at work have their own schedules and it does not happen in any real sense that people share rides to/from work.
the carpool lane is a waste. then again, cops can sit there and watch the lane and 'make money' if they catch single occupant, non-sticker cars there. that's probably the only real reason they are still around, to be honest. the social experiment of carpooling has failed and does not justify wasting a whole lane when you may only have 3, total, on some highways.
the overly large and gawdy lcd 'laptop screen' in the console.
deal-breaker for me.
can't get beyond it. hate hate HATE the whole idea of it.
other than that, car is fine. way too many of them in the bay area, though, so it totally lost its exclusive appeal (locally, at least).
it seems that a lot of rich guys bought them (I'm guessing) mostly for ego/show status and also for the commuter lane sticker. the rich guys just CANNOT stand to be in the non-diamond lanes like the rest of us and so they pay extra for a car that can get the diamond lane sticker and zoom by us on the way to work. buying your way into a carpool lay seems quite WRONG to me, but its how its done, now. the rich aren't like us; they really hate to wait....
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too much risk. that's it. he controls the healthcare that the corp would buy for their employees. he controls which things can be in the HC pkg and he controls costs. he can hire and fire. he can make company policy.
too much power for a bigot and an openly bigot at that.
we did well by removing such a person from power.
I could not have said it any better than your 2nd paragraph.
repeating:
n the wrong side of history. No one gives you credit for standing up for what you believe in, all they think about is how you're the kind of douchebag who would take away something that costs you nothing but makes so many people so happy.
pat 'the nazi' buchannon? not anti-gay? what planet are you on??
he's as republican as it gets. and yes, this is relevant as it speaks to eich's character. I was not aware he was a buchannon supporter. that's even WORSE than being anti-gay.
face he, he does not represent progressive attitudes, which mostly are what exists in the bay area for software and hardware folks.
his views are hateful and repressive and I'm glad he got kicked out on his ass. very glad when a bigot gets shown the door, so to speak.
easy to get around. you have supported (by amazon) formats and you have 'plugins' that users write to support, uhm, things amazon would get slapped down for, for supporting.
that way you have freedom.
if you insist, make the drm path not go thru the user plugins. fine.
but allow user plugins.
no user extension, no buy from me. I already went thru the popcorn hour (2 of them) years ago and got tired of the lack of user extensibility (in any true sense, since the decoder was hardware based and NOT open).
plex? I don't know much about yet (yet).
why would I need yet another service? I have smb and nfs for disk sharing. the media files play on VLC and so they don't need to be messed with; they are fine media files.
why should I have to BUY or configure a damned thing more?
seriously. I have a NAS that exports files (that's all it does and all I ever want it to do; its a small tiny nas box with no HP to recode and recoding is NOT a fileserver's job!).
I simply want a media player that is fanless, plays everything the pure software-based players play and don't DRM me to death or nag me about bullshit. no 'on the public internet' requirement, no phone home, no register on someone's website. NONE OF THAT IS NEEDED OR WANTED.
so what's the deal with plex, then? why should someone like me run yet another service and yet another box?
millions of products are designed by idiots for idiots.
what exactly are you trying to prove, here?
any experienced UI designer (for things like cars, planes, boats, etc) knows that TACTILE is important and not something you give away. pressing on glass is the worst you can get in tactile.
only an idiot designs those for cars.
yes, I called musk an idiot. in this area, he let idiots design a UI that had no business doing it. he is clearly appealing to other rich idiots who don't really want a good UI design. they mostly buy the car for a fashion statement.
10baseT and 100baseT do not have 'auto cable reversing' but gig-E does.
if your switch is gig-e or your nic is, then the cable wont' matter.
but if you are all 'fast ether' the cable does still matter (cross or straight).
iirc, that had a ton of user submitted photos and they were funny as hell. looks like amazon took the user photos down. too bad, it really gave context to the 'reviews' on that product.
forcing people to give each other the same rights.
you really love to twist words around, don't you?
killfiles are meant for people like you. there's no reasoning with you, that much is clear. you mention obama like it even is relevant here.
I know your mindframe. those 'icky gays' are just wrong, aren't they? we can't have them enjoy the same rights as god fearing men and women! yeah, brother. amen and pass the wafer.
so, according to your maths, 52 to 48 is 'convincingly' a mandate?
where on earth did you go to school?
just wow. a 50/50 split being a convincer to you. its clear where your bias is!
yes, mess for sure.
no usb port. no way to play truly local content. and you have to transcode, it seems, to meet the player's profiles. the player should play EVERY format, but this one does not. in this day and age, to release a player that has limits seems pretty braindead to me.
I'd like a fast fanless media player to replace my fan-based pc but not until I can 100% replace it and play everything IT did.
amazon: you lose again. I know, you want to leverage this for Prime movies. that's just not enough for us, can't you see that?
I hope this fails. anything this limited deserves to fail.
quite convincingly
it was close to 50/50. how do you see that as anything other than 'some agree, some don't ?
if it was 60/40 or 70/30 or 80/20, sure, call it 'convincingly' but when its noise level around 50/50, uhm, that's pretty uncertain to me. all that says is that its evenly split and therefore, no clear mandate either way.
man with 2 atomic clocks is a foolish man; the same money could be spent on a gps receiver that disciplines the atomic clock.
(yes, I'm actually serious)
this is a clock, with uncertainty at both the front and back. therefore, it could be a front-door for the NSA.
and if its a quantum clock, it could be both (or neither) at the same time!
clone tools exist and no one needs to 'ask MS'.
worst case, you find a copy of windows 'loader' and you're done.
you talking about javascript?
you DO realize that the web would be a far better place if we didn't have JS. JS is more often used by those trying to do bad things (ie, push ads at us or spy on us).
the whole idea of running CODE on the browser was a bad idea from the start. the web would be trivial to lock down if we got rid of mobile code (remotely running code).
that, alone, makes me want to strangle the guy.
those that don't understand, never will.
the younger crowd already 'gets' it and they will replace the older crowd, over time.
history is being made. over the last 20 or so years, individual rights are slowly increasing. sometimes a few steps forward and some back, but there is a net gain and its not going to go backwards on the long-run.
folks who are on the wrong side of history will deny it to the end. nothing can be done to change their minds. just feel sorry for them. and try to minimize how much power they have, so their intolerant views don't spillover to decent society too much. if you 'contain' the bigots, their effect on the rest of us is minimized.
when said religious belief is being forced on everyone else (via funding that prop.) and its being made law of the land, you betcha!
they should not be allowed to force their views on everyone. those 2 people, over there, being married or not should not matter one bit to you, mr. eich. its none of your business; why should YOUR views, entirely based on religion and nothing else, be the law of the land here in the US?
he can act like a decent human being or he can help fund hate groups. he made his choice, now he gets what comes with it.
its not 'america', its a small tech section of it.
and this guy's views are offensive to any thinking person. only old hold-backs are still refusing to grant equal rights to everyone.
all he has to do is stop supporting bad behavior. ie, the bad behavior is the *active suppression* of other peoples' rights. its that simple. stop trying to limit what person A and B can do, just because your personal views think 'its icky!' or that your god says its wrong.
to be worthy of a ceo position, its not asking too much that the person not be an embarasment. and, sorry to say, his views were a total embarasment. I would not want a KKK supporter or a neo-nazi supporter to be in a position of power, either.
complete and utter intolerant bullshit.
its not wrong to be intolerant of intolerance.
no one in modern times (in a western world) would think its ok to underpay women just because they are women. no one would think its ok to pay less based on skin color. why is it 'just another way to think' when its about giving (or more accurately, denying) equal rights to same-sex couples?
its wrong to deny people basic rights based entirely on religion,.
I feel happy that people have pushed such a backward thinking person out of a position of high power. good for mankind! yay! there's still some hope for us, yet.
transcode? no thanks. that's not any way forward.
players should play any format and play it well. if a movie is encoded in a format, it took time and effort and to just re-encode again on top of that is so wrong I can't begin to explain..
this is what keeps me using software players like vlc. whatever encode was used, it does not matter, vlc (and others like it) can play it. hardware based players (that rely mostly on bluray based video decoders and hdmi encoders) often work well when the format is to their liking, and badly in all other cases.
I have not found this answer yet (have not tried too hard, though): can it mount nfs and smb shares and play back from NAS; or is this 'streaming (from wan) only'?
if its streaming only, then I have 0 interest in this. streaming is nice but the must-have is to be able to properly mount and play smb and nfs content and also not care about how the content was encoded (some hardware playback devices only play certain settings-enabled content; if the encoder was using 'odd' parameters, quite a lot of hardware players will have problems).
if this can fully replace my win7 box or linux box using vlc, that's great. to play amazon prime HD, an atom cpu is not going to cut it (I get lots of pauses) and a core 2 duo is the very minimum to play HD over amazon; and even then, the laptop fan spins very loud during playback.
a nice fanless hardware player would be welcome but only if it can fully replace my software based player.
a single rich guy in the left lane with a sticker on his car helps exactly HOW, again, in terms of road congestion?
we really don't care about carbon footprint. we are doing essentially nothing to make a serious dent in the world's pollution levels. the carpool lane was really about making better use of the roads in terms of reducing the # of cars on it. a free pass to the left lane for electric vehicles does nothing to reduce the car count on the highways.
they should just get rid of it. I know of no one who truly carpools. there were a few times, as kids, that we'd have our parents carpool us to and from school but for those who drive to work, I've never heard of a carpool being more an a curiosity, at best. people at work have their own schedules and it does not happen in any real sense that people share rides to/from work.
the carpool lane is a waste. then again, cops can sit there and watch the lane and 'make money' if they catch single occupant, non-sticker cars there. that's probably the only real reason they are still around, to be honest. the social experiment of carpooling has failed and does not justify wasting a whole lane when you may only have 3, total, on some highways.
students and alumni?
or, has the model of 'students pay to atten' no longer enough to keep the uni's afloat?
given how much textbooks cost these days, you'd think they'd all be rolling in money and not need to sue companies.
then again, any time a company of large size is sued, god saves the life of a puppy. so there's that going for it; which is nice.
the overly large and gawdy lcd 'laptop screen' in the console.
deal-breaker for me.
can't get beyond it. hate hate HATE the whole idea of it.
other than that, car is fine. way too many of them in the bay area, though, so it totally lost its exclusive appeal (locally, at least).
it seems that a lot of rich guys bought them (I'm guessing) mostly for ego/show status and also for the commuter lane sticker. the rich guys just CANNOT stand to be in the non-diamond lanes like the rest of us and so they pay extra for a car that can get the diamond lane sticker and zoom by us on the way to work. buying your way into a carpool lay seems quite WRONG to me, but its how its done, now. the rich aren't like us; they really hate to wait....