He's the head of the project, which makes him a figurehead and basically a "community relations representative" as you put it. He's not just some nameless developer that no one ever hears from.
I tried using DLNA with the damn thing too, running every DLNA server I could find for Linux (including minidlna which a lot of people here seem to like). No luck.
I wish Netflix would release some kind of binary for XBMC and MythTV. I don't care about it being open-source, I just want something to run on those platforms so I can use those instead of a buggy proprietary player.
The right wingers say they're opposed to amnesty and want stronger border protection, but when they're in power they don't actually follow through with it, because cheap farm labor is important to many of their big donors in the ag industry. Bush's track record on border protection wasn't very good.
For Netflix, I have a Sony Bluray player with built in applications (Netflix, Pandora and Youtube are the only ones I regularly use. It also has Hulu Plus and Amazon Video). I bought this $100 player and a dumb TV instead of a smart TV. It also has DLNA support, and I run minidlna on the server, sharing the same media files as with the XBMC Apple TV client. Sony's interface is not nearly as polished as XBMC, but occasionally I will run across a file that doesn't cooperate with XBMC, at which point I can switch over to the Sony.
I have one of these Sony players to. It's a total piece of shit. It frequently locks up, starting up Netflix usually takes three tries (the first time it says the network is down, the second time it just dies and goes back to the home screen, the third time it works usually), it plays from USB sticks but is incredibly picky about what it'll play. It won't play.avi files, but if I rename them to.m4v, then they'll usually play. It's very hit-and-miss with.mkv files; some work, others don't. Frequently when playing.mkv files, it'll crash back to the home screen for no apparent reason in the middle of a movie, and I'll have to manually try to fast-forward to the spot where it crashed. Back to that.avi/.m4v problem; when I first got it, it was like that, but then they did an automatic firmware update and it could play.avi files without renaming. But later, they did another automatic update and it went back to not recognizing.avi files. Of course, there's zero control over the firmware updating so you can't stick with an older version if you want. Fuck that player; the only reason I still use it is I haven't bothered to look for a replacement, and have no faith that any competing Blu-Ray player (with similar capabilities) would be any better. An open-source player like MythTV would be great, except that Netflix support is my #1 requirement.
Hahahahahahaha, funny. So, that means that big business leans liberal??? Hahahahahahahaha
No, it means that in America, there's not much difference between "liberal" and "conservative", esp. when you look at the politicians on both sides.
The Democrats push for "immigration reform" and lax policies because their constituents have been brainwashed into thinking unlimited immigration is a great thing somehow ("we need to reunite families!!!"), and push for this when they have power, but their real motivation is to help big corporations import cheap labor. The Republicans speak publicly against "immigration reform" to their constituents usually, because they're generally more anti-immigration, but then when they're in office they push for easier immigration and laxer policies, because their real motivation is to help big corporations import more cheap labor, but then they blame it on the Democrats. This of course is exactly what the Democrats do for other issues, where they do the same thing as the Republicans, to help their corporate masters, but then blame the Republicans for it. So we have two parties, doing mostly the same thing, and screwing over middle-class Americans, while keeping us distracted with a divide-and-conquer strategy so we won't vote for anyone outside these corrupt parties, because then "the wrong lizard may get in".
It's not hard to deal with border disputes on maps. Even paper maps have been doing this for as long as I can remember; there used to be a rhombus-shaped zone on the border of Iraq and Saudi Arabia (it's not on Google Maps now, so maybe the dispute has been resolved), which showed the territory as disputed. Maps normally showed that portion of the border with dotted lines, maybe coloring the disputed area in a different color. These days, most maps have to do this with the border of India and China, which is similarly disputed.
Citation needed. The ACLU is a civil liberties supporter, and providing an informational service alleging that some neighborhoods are dangerous is clearly an exercise of freedom of speech, which falls squarely under the 1st Amendment, and should be something anyone who cares about civil liberties would back, even if they don't personally like the content of the message.
Carjackings are very common in certain locales. It's not idiotic to worry about such things. Things aren't quite as bad as the 70s and 80s now, but if you're the wrong color, it can be extremely dangerous to drive through certain neighborhoods at certain times.
Hey, that's a good idea. I got a speeding ticket in Marion, VA 20 years ago at 3AM, and I'm still pissed about that. Maybe I'll delete that shitty little town from the map!
Because there is no catchy pejorative coined for right-wing billionaires pushing their own policy preferences?
Increased immigration ("immigration reform") is usually associated with the "liberals" in this country. The right-wingers are generally associated with anti-immigration sentiments.
Not only have you made some completely incorrect assertions
Bullshit. Nothing I wrote was incorrect.
but your tone would do nothing to make a newcomer want to be involved with anything to do with Linux
The OP wasn't a newcomer, he was obviously some kind of shill or anti-Linux activist. People like that need to be slapped down when they write obvious lies. True newcomers don't run around bashing Linux for some perceived fault.
than trying to go through the file system, loading each file and parsing the meta data out like some programs did.
Did they do this continuously, or just once? If they did it over and over, that's pretty stupid, but I'm not sure how a database would make anything faster in this regard, compared to scanning for this data once (or when new songs are added) and storing the data in a dedicated file (like an.rc file or.ini file or whatever), instead a database. The main advantage of a DB for storing data like this is that you effectively "outsource" this part of the program to another program, instead of having to have a module to deals with reading and writing configuration data or metadata, and the potential pitfalls there. But for a single-user program where there's no concurrent access, this usually isn't that difficult.
Too bad it isn't getting much interest from the developer community. If they wanted Mono to be popular on Android (and other platforms), maybe they should have thought about this before engaging in a patent war. Now anyone who isn't on an MS platform wants nothing to do with MS technologies, because you never know when they're going to find some way to screw you over.
The distros that 99.9% of linux users use have package managers, those which don't have users who prefer to compile their own anyway, and the distant past is not relevant to today. There's no demand for precompiled binaries for Linux when everyone just uses the repos. Fuck off, idiot.
For most things, this really isn't an issue. Some things, like web browsers, you want the most up-to-date version available because of security, but any decent distro usually does provide this for Firefox and the like. A music player? Unless it's undergoing heavy development, this shouldn't be an issue.
Projects can't so easily provide binaries for Linux anyway, unless they statically-link everything which gives you a bloated executable and takes up a lot more RAM; distros are all different, use different shared-library versions, etc. More importantly, very few Linux users would want such pre-compiled versions, when it's so easy to just use their distro's repositories, so the effort put into making them would be wasted. And for things where you do want an up-to-date version (heavy development which the distros aren't keeping up with, and it's not as high-priority as Firefox), they frequently DO provide PPAs for the more popular distros, so all you have to do is add those to your apt.sources (or equivalent on RPM distros).
So what? A night out with a bunch of badly-behaved people texting and talking isn't a great way to spend a date. Surely your date would rather stay at home with your home theater.
And they don't have the sense of scale of a real cinema.
Yes, actually, they do. You can get 60-80 inch screens now for not that much money. At the distance you'd sit from them, they take up as much of your view as a movie screen in most of the seats of the theater. And, you get to sit wherever you want, instead of having to sit on the side somewhere because it was too crowded, or worse, having to sit too close.
And they don't have the positive side of the group feeling of seeing a film in public.
Who the fuck cares about that? Sure, if you were sitting in the company of civilized people, that'd be a nice little bonus, but if you're stuck with a bunch of noisy teenagers and assholes who text or talk during the movie, or noisy crying little children who their idiot parents brought to a violent movie suited for adults, not being in public is definitely preferable.
Yes, theaters might still have some charm, in a nice European country where people are still civilized and behave well in public, but here in America it's like visiting the trailer park. Why bother?
They will if they see people with popcorn or drinks that weren't purchased in the cinema! I've seen it.
Maybe at some places. Most places I've been, they don't have any employees inside the theater at all after the lights go down, so they're not going to know there's a problem (or someone with smuggled-in food) unless someone comes out and tells them about it.
Choose your cinema, and choose the time of the showing. Some houses are terrible for bad behaviour, some are fine.
So I need to spend a bunch of time trying out different places to find one that's decent? No thanks, I'll just stay at home and get a DVD (or Blu-Ray even) from Netflix. With Blu-Rays and today's giant LCD screens and home theater setups, why bother with $10+/ticket (plus much more for concessions) for a regular theater where you have a good chance of having a crappy experience? For two people, you're easily looking at $40-50 for a movie, and lots more if you have kids. (If you say "you don't need to buy concessions" here, in my home theater, I can bring in whatever food I want for next to nothing, so you have to add that in for a fair comparison. Moreover, at home I can, again, bring in ANY food I want, not just whatever shit they serve at the theater, so if I want a bison burger or gluten-free pasta, I can have it at home as long as I don't mind cooking it myself; this isn't available in any theater anywhere.)
Face it, theaters are obsolete, and have blown their chance at sticking around for a while.
Sort of. The real deal is we have two "sides", who are both right (from the perspective of someone outside the US). The way they truly differ, significantly, is in which industries they're beholden to. The "right" is in bed with the oil & gas industries and defense industries, while the "left" is in bed with the media and telecom industries. They're both in bed with the finance industry.
So, if you want legislation which doesn't favor the MPAA and RIAA, you need to vote for the Party which wants to ban contraception. Great choice we have here....
You're an idiot. Linux software isn't normally downloaded (in executable form) from websites, it's distributed through your distro's repositories. Just "sudo apt-get install nightingale". The only reason you'd go to a website for Linux software is if you just want to read about the project, or if you want to download the source code from the project maintainers directly.
you play a song and it auto-fetches the lyrics & opens the wikipedia page of the band
The newest version seems to do that just fine.
For large music collections, you could use a real DB like MySQL or Postgres so it's performance blew everything out of the water.
I've never tried this, but why on earth would you want this? Are you talking about storing the music files themselves in the DB, or just other data (like how many times you've played the song, etc.)? RDBMS systems aren't optimal for handling very large files; I believe the threshold is maybe 500K - 1MB; above this, you're better off just storing the data on the filesystem. Songs are generally significantly larger than this.
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He's the head of the project, which makes him a figurehead and basically a "community relations representative" as you put it. He's not just some nameless developer that no one ever hears from.
I tried using DLNA with the damn thing too, running every DLNA server I could find for Linux (including minidlna which a lot of people here seem to like). No luck.
I wish Netflix would release some kind of binary for XBMC and MythTV. I don't care about it being open-source, I just want something to run on those platforms so I can use those instead of a buggy proprietary player.
The right wingers say they're opposed to amnesty and want stronger border protection, but when they're in power they don't actually follow through with it, because cheap farm labor is important to many of their big donors in the ag industry. Bush's track record on border protection wasn't very good.
For Netflix, I have a Sony Bluray player with built in applications (Netflix, Pandora and Youtube are the only ones I regularly use. It also has Hulu Plus and Amazon Video). I bought this $100 player and a dumb TV instead of a smart TV. It also has DLNA support, and I run minidlna on the server, sharing the same media files as with the XBMC Apple TV client. Sony's interface is not nearly as polished as XBMC, but occasionally I will run across a file that doesn't cooperate with XBMC, at which point I can switch over to the Sony.
I have one of these Sony players to. It's a total piece of shit. It frequently locks up, starting up Netflix usually takes three tries (the first time it says the network is down, the second time it just dies and goes back to the home screen, the third time it works usually), it plays from USB sticks but is incredibly picky about what it'll play. It won't play .avi files, but if I rename them to .m4v, then they'll usually play. It's very hit-and-miss with .mkv files; some work, others don't. Frequently when playing .mkv files, it'll crash back to the home screen for no apparent reason in the middle of a movie, and I'll have to manually try to fast-forward to the spot where it crashed. Back to that .avi/.m4v problem; when I first got it, it was like that, but then they did an automatic firmware update and it could play .avi files without renaming. But later, they did another automatic update and it went back to not recognizing .avi files. Of course, there's zero control over the firmware updating so you can't stick with an older version if you want. Fuck that player; the only reason I still use it is I haven't bothered to look for a replacement, and have no faith that any competing Blu-Ray player (with similar capabilities) would be any better. An open-source player like MythTV would be great, except that Netflix support is my #1 requirement.
Hahahahahahaha, funny. So, that means that big business leans liberal??? Hahahahahahahaha
No, it means that in America, there's not much difference between "liberal" and "conservative", esp. when you look at the politicians on both sides.
The Democrats push for "immigration reform" and lax policies because their constituents have been brainwashed into thinking unlimited immigration is a great thing somehow ("we need to reunite families!!!"), and push for this when they have power, but their real motivation is to help big corporations import cheap labor. The Republicans speak publicly against "immigration reform" to their constituents usually, because they're generally more anti-immigration, but then when they're in office they push for easier immigration and laxer policies, because their real motivation is to help big corporations import more cheap labor, but then they blame it on the Democrats. This of course is exactly what the Democrats do for other issues, where they do the same thing as the Republicans, to help their corporate masters, but then blame the Republicans for it. So we have two parties, doing mostly the same thing, and screwing over middle-class Americans, while keeping us distracted with a divide-and-conquer strategy so we won't vote for anyone outside these corrupt parties, because then "the wrong lizard may get in".
It's not hard to deal with border disputes on maps. Even paper maps have been doing this for as long as I can remember; there used to be a rhombus-shaped zone on the border of Iraq and Saudi Arabia (it's not on Google Maps now, so maybe the dispute has been resolved), which showed the territory as disputed. Maps normally showed that portion of the border with dotted lines, maybe coloring the disputed area in a different color. These days, most maps have to do this with the border of India and China, which is similarly disputed.
Citation needed. The ACLU is a civil liberties supporter, and providing an informational service alleging that some neighborhoods are dangerous is clearly an exercise of freedom of speech, which falls squarely under the 1st Amendment, and should be something anyone who cares about civil liberties would back, even if they don't personally like the content of the message.
Carjackings are very common in certain locales. It's not idiotic to worry about such things. Things aren't quite as bad as the 70s and 80s now, but if you're the wrong color, it can be extremely dangerous to drive through certain neighborhoods at certain times.
Hey, that's a good idea. I got a speeding ticket in Marion, VA 20 years ago at 3AM, and I'm still pissed about that. Maybe I'll delete that shitty little town from the map!
Because there is no catchy pejorative coined for right-wing billionaires pushing their own policy preferences?
Increased immigration ("immigration reform") is usually associated with the "liberals" in this country. The right-wingers are generally associated with anti-immigration sentiments.
Dean Kamen is a cool rich guy, and like most rich guys, can afford to advocate things that don't impact him.
The term "limousine liberal" comes to mind.
Try this first:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nightingaleteam/nightingale-release
It does look like they screwed up by not putting that right on their downloads page since they're apparently too new to be in the main repos.
Not only have you made some completely incorrect assertions
Bullshit. Nothing I wrote was incorrect.
but your tone would do nothing to make a newcomer want to be involved with anything to do with Linux
The OP wasn't a newcomer, he was obviously some kind of shill or anti-Linux activist. People like that need to be slapped down when they write obvious lies. True newcomers don't run around bashing Linux for some perceived fault.
than trying to go through the file system, loading each file and parsing the meta data out like some programs did.
Did they do this continuously, or just once? If they did it over and over, that's pretty stupid, but I'm not sure how a database would make anything faster in this regard, compared to scanning for this data once (or when new songs are added) and storing the data in a dedicated file (like an .rc file or .ini file or whatever), instead a database. The main advantage of a DB for storing data like this is that you effectively "outsource" this part of the program to another program, instead of having to have a module to deals with reading and writing configuration data or metadata, and the potential pitfalls there. But for a single-user program where there's no concurrent access, this usually isn't that difficult.
Too bad it isn't getting much interest from the developer community. If they wanted Mono to be popular on Android (and other platforms), maybe they should have thought about this before engaging in a patent war. Now anyone who isn't on an MS platform wants nothing to do with MS technologies, because you never know when they're going to find some way to screw you over.
The distros that 99.9% of linux users use have package managers, those which don't have users who prefer to compile their own anyway, and the distant past is not relevant to today. There's no demand for precompiled binaries for Linux when everyone just uses the repos. Fuck off, idiot.
For most things, this really isn't an issue. Some things, like web browsers, you want the most up-to-date version available because of security, but any decent distro usually does provide this for Firefox and the like. A music player? Unless it's undergoing heavy development, this shouldn't be an issue.
Projects can't so easily provide binaries for Linux anyway, unless they statically-link everything which gives you a bloated executable and takes up a lot more RAM; distros are all different, use different shared-library versions, etc. More importantly, very few Linux users would want such pre-compiled versions, when it's so easy to just use their distro's repositories, so the effort put into making them would be wasted. And for things where you do want an up-to-date version (heavy development which the distros aren't keeping up with, and it's not as high-priority as Firefox), they frequently DO provide PPAs for the more popular distros, so all you have to do is add those to your apt.sources (or equivalent on RPM distros).
But they aren't a night out
So what? A night out with a bunch of badly-behaved people texting and talking isn't a great way to spend a date. Surely your date would rather stay at home with your home theater.
And they don't have the sense of scale of a real cinema.
Yes, actually, they do. You can get 60-80 inch screens now for not that much money. At the distance you'd sit from them, they take up as much of your view as a movie screen in most of the seats of the theater. And, you get to sit wherever you want, instead of having to sit on the side somewhere because it was too crowded, or worse, having to sit too close.
And they don't have the positive side of the group feeling of seeing a film in public.
Who the fuck cares about that? Sure, if you were sitting in the company of civilized people, that'd be a nice little bonus, but if you're stuck with a bunch of noisy teenagers and assholes who text or talk during the movie, or noisy crying little children who their idiot parents brought to a violent movie suited for adults, not being in public is definitely preferable.
Yes, theaters might still have some charm, in a nice European country where people are still civilized and behave well in public, but here in America it's like visiting the trailer park. Why bother?
They will if they see people with popcorn or drinks that weren't purchased in the cinema! I've seen it.
Maybe at some places. Most places I've been, they don't have any employees inside the theater at all after the lights go down, so they're not going to know there's a problem (or someone with smuggled-in food) unless someone comes out and tells them about it.
Choose your cinema, and choose the time of the showing. Some houses are terrible for bad behaviour, some are fine.
So I need to spend a bunch of time trying out different places to find one that's decent? No thanks, I'll just stay at home and get a DVD (or Blu-Ray even) from Netflix. With Blu-Rays and today's giant LCD screens and home theater setups, why bother with $10+/ticket (plus much more for concessions) for a regular theater where you have a good chance of having a crappy experience? For two people, you're easily looking at $40-50 for a movie, and lots more if you have kids. (If you say "you don't need to buy concessions" here, in my home theater, I can bring in whatever food I want for next to nothing, so you have to add that in for a fair comparison. Moreover, at home I can, again, bring in ANY food I want, not just whatever shit they serve at the theater, so if I want a bison burger or gluten-free pasta, I can have it at home as long as I don't mind cooking it myself; this isn't available in any theater anywhere.)
Face it, theaters are obsolete, and have blown their chance at sticking around for a while.
Sort of. The real deal is we have two "sides", who are both right (from the perspective of someone outside the US). The way they truly differ, significantly, is in which industries they're beholden to. The "right" is in bed with the oil & gas industries and defense industries, while the "left" is in bed with the media and telecom industries. They're both in bed with the finance industry.
So, if you want legislation which doesn't favor the MPAA and RIAA, you need to vote for the Party which wants to ban contraception. Great choice we have here....
You're an idiot. Linux software isn't normally downloaded (in executable form) from websites, it's distributed through your distro's repositories. Just "sudo apt-get install nightingale". The only reason you'd go to a website for Linux software is if you just want to read about the project, or if you want to download the source code from the project maintainers directly.
you play a song and it auto-fetches the lyrics & opens the wikipedia page of the band
The newest version seems to do that just fine.
For large music collections, you could use a real DB like MySQL or Postgres so it's performance blew everything out of the water.
I've never tried this, but why on earth would you want this? Are you talking about storing the music files themselves in the DB, or just other data (like how many times you've played the song, etc.)? RDBMS systems aren't optimal for handling very large files; I believe the threshold is maybe 500K - 1MB; above this, you're better off just storing the data on the filesystem. Songs are generally significantly larger than this.
No, it's "Jersey". No one speaks like that here. It's the people on Staten Island (New York) who talk like that.
I don't care what political stripe you are, fucking with the traffic patterns to seek retribution against a political foe makes you an asshole.
Um, aren't "politician" and "asshole" synonymous?
Because New Jersey is one of the most corrupt states in the nation (behind Illinois of course).