The interesting part was that I was able to watch hulu content being fed from fancast. They just redirected the video stream, didn't even bother rebranding. So to be clear:
All other flash video and apps seem to work fine (youtube, flash heavy sites and games).
Hulu's video stream works fine when viewed via another site or hulu's desktop client using the same flash plugin.
The only place it doesn't work is in the browser, at hulu.com.
The only answer I come up with is that they're blacklisting linux x64 on the site. The only sense I can make of that is that they're going to migrate to a desktop client only model (to lock out other sites and devices like boxee and playon) And they're starting with the smallest portion of their users. Add this to all the talk about subscriptions and it sounds very plausible...
Of course I could be wrong and there could be a benign explanation.
Except you have to have the recovery console installed first... And the instructions are to install from the CD (before your OS BSOD's of course) which most users don't have, and if anything like my last 3 systems (HP, Acer, Lenovo), attempting to access the recovery partition where those files might be results in explorer.exe crashing.
Time to boot onto a live CD, copy important files onto usb stick or nas and decide if you really want to reinstall windows so you can have the privilege of doing it all again next patch tuesday.
You're already booted to the live CD and there's an icon right there that says "Install"...
The milking of the cash cow started 2 seconds after New Hope hit theaters. Empire and Jedi were merely grabs for cash, although maybe not quite as blatant as ep. 1-3. Lucas is the Wachowski Brothers of the seventies, except he may have actually written the original movie.
Multiplayer is free, I couldn't care less. I don't want "Early access to content" or the like, I just want to fire up Street Fighter and get my ass handed to me. I don't want "Exclusive themes" or access to psone games I played a decade ago; I just want to be able to virtually shoot a guy in the face once in a while...
He doesn't want Toyota to fix his car, he wants them to resolve the issue. And since his model is not covered by the recall, a dealer may not be as helpful as you think.
Also left out "On top of what you already paid for the device you supposedly own."
Seriously, Apple is so generous that they only charge you an annual fee to do whatever you want to your own iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad? And yet I can already do whatever I want with my android phone and even develop apps and distribute them to other people without either of us bowing to some overlord and paying a hipness tax.
As far as downtown SLC goes, there's now quite a few more bikes on the road. It really exploded in the last two years, and isn't slowing down. As far as hostility towards cyclists, I haven't seen any; people tend to just go around, and there's some spacious bike lanes on a few major streets as well. We're not quite Portland, but we're getting there.
Of course outside the city center in the burbs, I'm sure there's still some yokels who pull that kind of stuff...
Also in the repos is RawStudio. It uses dcraw to do conversions, but inside a lightroom-lite (as in it only has the basic abilities you actually use) interface. Unfortunately the "export to gimp" menu option is broken, but it still opens images faster, makes adjustments faster and exports to jpeg faster than lightroom under windows on the same hardware.
Including the non-existence of networking? Remember how they'd all have stacks of the things and have people actually delivering them about the ship? And yes, I'd buy one too. Guess the Tricorder app from the android market will have to do for now...
It wasn't so much the fact that they pushed the service on me when I bought a laptop there, it was the fact that I was at the second store as the first had refused to sell me the laptop without the "optimization". At the time the fee was truly ridiculous, $129.99. The second store did end up selling me the laptop at the advertised price, but only after handing me a clipboard with the "service request" form on it and instructing me to sign it. Without any explanation of what it was. I had to ask what they wanted me to sign three times before getting a straight answer, and was walked to the checkout like a potential thief while they told the checker "This man would like to buy just the laptop", with a sneer. My need for a new machine and the insanely good price are all that made me complete the transaction. Definitely put me off doing business with them. Except now if I want parts or whole machines local, I have my choice of them or the local mom and pop scam-shops run by hicks who know even less than the BB saleskids. Thank god for Newegg and my newfound patience...
Agreed. I saw Transformers in the theater, but I didn't like it enough to buy the disc or download it. And the experience was bad enough that I didn't bother with GI Joe or the second Transformers movie. On the flip side, I saw Star Trek in the theater, loved it, immediately downloaded it and watched a couple more times before buying the Blu-ray when it came out. Did I just put a grip out of work? I think not.
And when I look at those two lists, I see "New hot exciting titles that everyone is talking about" countered by "Mediocre games that just aren't selling well, pick 'em up cheap"... I especially liked the little synopsis of why the offending games were bad. MW2? Isn't the opening scene all about gunning down civilians? I guess that's OK as long as you're not some filthy terr'ist.
I like being up to date, but I do not like unchecking "Automatically check for updates" during the install and still having an updater app run at boot time. Why can't the apps (chrome, picasa) just check themselves when they run like firefox? Why do I need yest another process always running to do it?
The point is, why have the ballot in the first place? If MS wants to include a browser in their OS, let them. Nobody complains that Apple includes their own browser as a default on every mac sold. That's a monopoly, right? Only on one type of hardware, but still a monopoly. How is it fair to other browsers that only Firefox is installed by default in Ubuntu? I didn't see a ballot when I installed 9.10 the other day.
It's seriously time to get the hell over "M$". I mean I'd rather people use Firefox, but it's not my place or the governments place to tell MS what they can and cannot include in their product.
Bottom line: If you don't want a PC preloaded with Windows, ask for it. If the shop won't do it, take your business elsewhere.
And if life really was like the movies, some introverted genius hacker would have those two sentences superimposed over Glenn Beck the whole time he's pointing to nonsense on a blackboard trying to look smart. And the general public would suddenly all understand and peace and love would break out and the hacker gets the girl.
But real life isn't like that. Most people aren't that good at critical thinking and are comforted by the TV telling them they're right, and get very angry when it makes them feel dumb. And that hacker is busy furiously posting to a message board about how the entire GTK+ toolkit is the worst thing since Windows for Workgroups.
I see it leading to website "certification". And you'll only need one guess as to who gets certified. Big business. Start your own blog on a home server? Well you obviously aren't certified, so you must be doing something nasty and trying to hide it. You're using some sort of "Hacked together community created" software? You are obviously trying to get around the laws of our great nation which require strict DRM black-boxes created by respectable companies (Gov. certified of course) in order to access the net. You filthy commie pirate scum! You're infringing upon the rights of mega corporations to extract as much money as possible from you!
Back on topic, I think this guy should fight and make as big a spectacle of it as possible. Especially by playing up the bit about how this could happen to anyone looking for porn...
Of course the most radar invisible super secret stealth aircraft are still vulnerable to the "Put a guy on a hill and have him look up" line of defense. The next pass over that hill will find 20 more guys with stinger missiles (and whatever else we gave them). Eventually one's going to be shot down and we're going to look just as bad as the Russians and their "Great Soviet Helicopters of Awesome"...
But on the other hand, deploy enough unmanned vehicles (make them cute like wall-e so as to not scare the locals), pull out all the troops and run the war from home for the next 20 years. Make a hit MMORPG out of it and let the teenage outcasts do all the work...
Since I watch sports usually with a 30-60 minute buffer (to FF through ads), I'd prefer this: Drop the price on league pass by $100 and integrate it into the xmb on my ps3. And let me record it as well in actual HD. I'd definitely pay $50 a year for that. Everything else on cable (worth watching) is on hulu/netflix or OTA broadcast.
You don't mention if a floppy is accessible, but if it is, here you go. DSL is just about the most minimal functioning distro I have found. Of course there is always slack, but you'll have to go a few versions back to install using floppies and network. And there's always a way to get usb but I doubt you'd be able to boot from it...
I'm still fuzzy on how they can't go after the uploaders. Most torrent clients show IP's and seed ratios. Connect some super torrent client to a database and start collecting info. Let it run for a few months and they would probably have enough to start suing the top seeders. I would think super popular torrent sites would be their best weapon...
Maybe, but I think it's more to do with support. MS doesn't want to walk granny though downloading an.iso (over dialup), finding and installing a program capable of burning it (not included in XP or Vista), and then running through the installer (big long unpaid support call). Remember, most people who buy OEM PC's don't even know what an.iso is. That's why they had to include "Is downloading the same as installing?" on their FAQ.
Then there's the extra buck or two they make off mailing media. And if it goes through an OEM too, they want their buck or two as well. As with all things, this can be chalked up to "save/make an extra buck or two, put it through some imaginary math, and hey look at that sweet bottom line for next quarter!"
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The only answer I come up with is that they're blacklisting linux x64 on the site. The only sense I can make of that is that they're going to migrate to a desktop client only model (to lock out other sites and devices like boxee and playon) And they're starting with the smallest portion of their users. Add this to all the talk about subscriptions and it sounds very plausible...
Of course I could be wrong and there could be a benign explanation.
Except you have to have the recovery console installed first... And the instructions are to install from the CD (before your OS BSOD's of course) which most users don't have, and if anything like my last 3 systems (HP, Acer, Lenovo), attempting to access the recovery partition where those files might be results in explorer.exe crashing.
Time to boot onto a live CD, copy important files onto usb stick or nas and decide if you really want to reinstall windows so you can have the privilege of doing it all again next patch tuesday.
You're already booted to the live CD and there's an icon right there that says "Install"...
The milking of the cash cow started 2 seconds after New Hope hit theaters. Empire and Jedi were merely grabs for cash, although maybe not quite as blatant as ep. 1-3. Lucas is the Wachowski Brothers of the seventies, except he may have actually written the original movie.
Wait, I thought Linux was supposed to be difficult and time consuming for no good reason...
Multiplayer is free, I couldn't care less. I don't want "Early access to content" or the like, I just want to fire up Street Fighter and get my ass handed to me. I don't want "Exclusive themes" or access to psone games I played a decade ago; I just want to be able to virtually shoot a guy in the face once in a while...
I really don't want to even think of 300 typical slashdotters in typical spartan attire. Ever.
He doesn't want Toyota to fix his car, he wants them to resolve the issue. And since his model is not covered by the recall, a dealer may not be as helpful as you think.
Also left out "On top of what you already paid for the device you supposedly own."
Seriously, Apple is so generous that they only charge you an annual fee to do whatever you want to your own iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad? And yet I can already do whatever I want with my android phone and even develop apps and distribute them to other people without either of us bowing to some overlord and paying a hipness tax.
As far as downtown SLC goes, there's now quite a few more bikes on the road. It really exploded in the last two years, and isn't slowing down. As far as hostility towards cyclists, I haven't seen any; people tend to just go around, and there's some spacious bike lanes on a few major streets as well. We're not quite Portland, but we're getting there.
Of course outside the city center in the burbs, I'm sure there's still some yokels who pull that kind of stuff...
Also in the repos is RawStudio. It uses dcraw to do conversions, but inside a lightroom-lite (as in it only has the basic abilities you actually use) interface. Unfortunately the "export to gimp" menu option is broken, but it still opens images faster, makes adjustments faster and exports to jpeg faster than lightroom under windows on the same hardware.
Including the non-existence of networking? Remember how they'd all have stacks of the things and have people actually delivering them about the ship? And yes, I'd buy one too. Guess the Tricorder app from the android market will have to do for now...
And here I thought basic/essential functionality is a phone that doesn't crash...
Oh be reasonable, he at least gets to carry the purse...
It wasn't so much the fact that they pushed the service on me when I bought a laptop there, it was the fact that I was at the second store as the first had refused to sell me the laptop without the "optimization". At the time the fee was truly ridiculous, $129.99. The second store did end up selling me the laptop at the advertised price, but only after handing me a clipboard with the "service request" form on it and instructing me to sign it. Without any explanation of what it was. I had to ask what they wanted me to sign three times before getting a straight answer, and was walked to the checkout like a potential thief while they told the checker "This man would like to buy just the laptop", with a sneer. My need for a new machine and the insanely good price are all that made me complete the transaction. Definitely put me off doing business with them. Except now if I want parts or whole machines local, I have my choice of them or the local mom and pop scam-shops run by hicks who know even less than the BB saleskids. Thank god for Newegg and my newfound patience...
Agreed. I saw Transformers in the theater, but I didn't like it enough to buy the disc or download it. And the experience was bad enough that I didn't bother with GI Joe or the second Transformers movie. On the flip side, I saw Star Trek in the theater, loved it, immediately downloaded it and watched a couple more times before buying the Blu-ray when it came out. Did I just put a grip out of work? I think not.
And when I look at those two lists, I see "New hot exciting titles that everyone is talking about" countered by "Mediocre games that just aren't selling well, pick 'em up cheap"... I especially liked the little synopsis of why the offending games were bad. MW2? Isn't the opening scene all about gunning down civilians? I guess that's OK as long as you're not some filthy terr'ist.
I like being up to date, but I do not like unchecking "Automatically check for updates" during the install and still having an updater app run at boot time. Why can't the apps (chrome, picasa) just check themselves when they run like firefox? Why do I need yest another process always running to do it?
The point is, why have the ballot in the first place? If MS wants to include a browser in their OS, let them. Nobody complains that Apple includes their own browser as a default on every mac sold. That's a monopoly, right? Only on one type of hardware, but still a monopoly. How is it fair to other browsers that only Firefox is installed by default in Ubuntu? I didn't see a ballot when I installed 9.10 the other day.
It's seriously time to get the hell over "M$". I mean I'd rather people use Firefox, but it's not my place or the governments place to tell MS what they can and cannot include in their product.
Bottom line: If you don't want a PC preloaded with Windows, ask for it. If the shop won't do it, take your business elsewhere.
And if life really was like the movies, some introverted genius hacker would have those two sentences superimposed over Glenn Beck the whole time he's pointing to nonsense on a blackboard trying to look smart. And the general public would suddenly all understand and peace and love would break out and the hacker gets the girl.
But real life isn't like that. Most people aren't that good at critical thinking and are comforted by the TV telling them they're right, and get very angry when it makes them feel dumb. And that hacker is busy furiously posting to a message board about how the entire GTK+ toolkit is the worst thing since Windows for Workgroups.
I see it leading to website "certification". And you'll only need one guess as to who gets certified. Big business. Start your own blog on a home server? Well you obviously aren't certified, so you must be doing something nasty and trying to hide it. You're using some sort of "Hacked together community created" software? You are obviously trying to get around the laws of our great nation which require strict DRM black-boxes created by respectable companies (Gov. certified of course) in order to access the net. You filthy commie pirate scum! You're infringing upon the rights of mega corporations to extract as much money as possible from you!
Back on topic, I think this guy should fight and make as big a spectacle of it as possible. Especially by playing up the bit about how this could happen to anyone looking for porn...
Of course the most radar invisible super secret stealth aircraft are still vulnerable to the "Put a guy on a hill and have him look up" line of defense. The next pass over that hill will find 20 more guys with stinger missiles (and whatever else we gave them). Eventually one's going to be shot down and we're going to look just as bad as the Russians and their "Great Soviet Helicopters of Awesome"...
But on the other hand, deploy enough unmanned vehicles (make them cute like wall-e so as to not scare the locals), pull out all the troops and run the war from home for the next 20 years. Make a hit MMORPG out of it and let the teenage outcasts do all the work...
Since I watch sports usually with a 30-60 minute buffer (to FF through ads), I'd prefer this: Drop the price on league pass by $100 and integrate it into the xmb on my ps3. And let me record it as well in actual HD. I'd definitely pay $50 a year for that. Everything else on cable (worth watching) is on hulu/netflix or OTA broadcast.
You don't mention if a floppy is accessible, but if it is, here you go. DSL is just about the most minimal functioning distro I have found. Of course there is always slack, but you'll have to go a few versions back to install using floppies and network. And there's always a way to get usb but I doubt you'd be able to boot from it...
I'm still fuzzy on how they can't go after the uploaders. Most torrent clients show IP's and seed ratios. Connect some super torrent client to a database and start collecting info. Let it run for a few months and they would probably have enough to start suing the top seeders. I would think super popular torrent sites would be their best weapon...
Maybe, but I think it's more to do with support. MS doesn't want to walk granny though downloading an .iso (over dialup), finding and installing a program capable of burning it (not included in XP or Vista), and then running through the installer (big long unpaid support call). Remember, most people who buy OEM PC's don't even know what an .iso is. That's why they had to include "Is downloading the same as installing?" on their FAQ.
Then there's the extra buck or two they make off mailing media. And if it goes through an OEM too, they want their buck or two as well. As with all things, this can be chalked up to "save/make an extra buck or two, put it through some imaginary math, and hey look at that sweet bottom line for next quarter!"