Isn't it true that library scraping and image retrieval is super slow for XBMC on the Raspberry Pi? That's what I've heard. Everyone I know who's tried XBMC on the Pi is a non-library user. For me, half of the enjoyment of XBMC is the browsing the collection artwork. I'd love to hear that the library works great on Raspberry Pi. Anybody know?
Well, I plugged the thing in this morning for the first time, pushed the voice button, said "Little Bear", and two seconds later my son was watching Little Bear. Half an hour later, my wife pushed the button and said "Cooking Shows", and she got a list of cooking shows. She watched one. Streaming quality was great. I don't know you're basing your expectations on or comparing against. The voice search seems to work fine. I wouldn't dream of trying to sort by price. What for? This box's main function is to play Prime video. Did you think it was a web browser?
ROCKIN' GOOD NEWS, Jeff! That is exciting. I was going to leave mine in the box till tomorrow, but now I'm way to stoked to let it sit. I've been wanting a tiny XMBC box for cheap for a while. I passed on Ouya because I didn't have confidence, and Raspberry Pi because of the DIY time commitment I couldn't afford. It was the hardware specs that really sold me this box, and XBMC was in the back of my mind when I pulled the trigger.
You said: "But such a thing could know wham an app it is not integrated with is open, and issue an alert that it does not work in that app." What, you want to compare running apps, or even the foreground app, against a list of Amazon Fire-specific apps? The overhead would be a terrible waste. Then you said searching Amazon is "literally the least likely thing I want to do." Two strikes there. One, you reveal yourself to have no use whatsoever for Amazon's library, which means you are likely to be so invested in someone else's DRM that you find Amazon entries redundant and wasteful. So, you hate this device no matter what. Two, you did the incorrect colloquial "literally" thing. I promise you, life has an infinite number of options that are worse. Unless you're hard wired to die when you search Amazon video, there is no way it's "literally" the least likely thing you want to do. I'm done with you now, SuperKendall. And don't think I haven't noticed how you and Clark Kendall are never around at the same time. Go wham an app.
Without having seen it yet, I'm going to hazard a guess that the voice search button is tied to an app that has no integration to installable apps. Just like Android's magnifying glass button only brings up one search app.
It's a VOICE SEARCH button. It connects to an app. Amazon's app. Amazon's device.
I'm tired of this. If you want to hate on Amazon, fine. But you can't tell me it's not just another brand of the same stuff. Apple pulls the same kinds of tricks all day long. I wanted that optical audio port.
....which would be a legitimate complaint, the Netflix search function were broken. But it's not. This guy is complaining that the Amazon voice search app doesn't give Netflix results. That's like complaining that Google search doesn't return Bing results.
...hilariously biased article. This guy obviously prefers AppleTV. Does Apple plan to have a cross-vendor search function for streaming? I doubt it. I was in for one on the FireTV because I like the hardware and audio output options. I'm tired of vendors pushing HDMI audio at me.
The account security is not important. The facial recognition logging who was in the room at what times and storing it in a coded blackbox style log is what's important. User account security is not significant. We are not the customers
Can't the disinformation crowd Cowards at least get some fake identities for us to pick on? I know, you're trying to bore us into submission, but even you must get tired of it sometimes.
I have a hard time believe the FTC will follow through with reviewing and verifying the contents of these security audits. This is a non-punishment. Not even a slap on the wrist. They should have gone for a stiff monetary fine. That said, I don't know how likely such an outcome would have been for the FTC. However, fining till it hurts is the only thing I am certain businesses will respond to.
I bought this bundle even though I already had half the games, because the platforms deserve the help. You're able to gift the Steam versions individually, so the redundancy isn't a waste if you have friends on Steam.
From the comments others have been making, it's apparent that he's always sort of a jerk. I wasn't aware of that. I still don't think his use of the "being on antidepressants" phrase makes him a jerk though. A whole bunch of other things do.
Ah. Yes. Well, I'm not going to argue with that. It's not like he's a friend of mine or something. Self-promotion does get old...especially if you're a fan of the work.
I'm not sure that repeating a colloquial joke qualifies as being a jerk. I do agree that colloquialisms can and do perpetuate myths and stereotypes. Unless they're coined on the Internet, in which case we call them "memes" and think they are not only funny, but define a new paradigm of reality that is better than the lives being lived by an imaginary group of non-Internet using folks. I digress. Anyway, my point is that the headline is at fault, and we should criticize the poster for using the comment out of context to get a non-controversial story promoted from the firehose, rather than act like Peter Molyneux is guilty of being insensitive when he simply accuses Microsoft as being oblivious.
I see that repeating an inaccurate simile that's in common usage is all it takes to ruin a lifetime of hard work. Thanks for perpetuating the Slash-hole myth, my loving, charming fellow/.ers.
It's not fair that prisoners get to read paper books that don't report the amount of time spent researching topics into the indelible event log of recorded history, while free and ignorant law-abiding citizens get their interests tracked and logged under the premise of protecting copyrights and giving convenience.
You know what's a nice deal if you can get it, Mr. Cicconi? Exclusive rights to use the copper wires connecting the residents in any particular district. AT&T and Comcast can start talking about nice deals when we see a free and open market for each physical media type in each region. Now go back to your copper-squatter's meetings and plot against your customers the way you do every day. Sorry Netflix beat you to the punch on the streaming licensing deal. Maybe if AT&T had believed in the future of broadband customers the way Netflix did, you wouldn't be embarassing yourself like this.
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Isn't it true that library scraping and image retrieval is super slow for XBMC on the Raspberry Pi? That's what I've heard. Everyone I know who's tried XBMC on the Pi is a non-library user. For me, half of the enjoyment of XBMC is the browsing the collection artwork. I'd love to hear that the library works great on Raspberry Pi. Anybody know?
Well, I plugged the thing in this morning for the first time, pushed the voice button, said "Little Bear", and two seconds later my son was watching Little Bear. Half an hour later, my wife pushed the button and said "Cooking Shows", and she got a list of cooking shows. She watched one. Streaming quality was great. I don't know you're basing your expectations on or comparing against. The voice search seems to work fine. I wouldn't dream of trying to sort by price. What for? This box's main function is to play Prime video. Did you think it was a web browser?
ROCKIN' GOOD NEWS, Jeff! That is exciting. I was going to leave mine in the box till tomorrow, but now I'm way to stoked to let it sit. I've been wanting a tiny XMBC box for cheap for a while. I passed on Ouya because I didn't have confidence, and Raspberry Pi because of the DIY time commitment I couldn't afford. It was the hardware specs that really sold me this box, and XBMC was in the back of my mind when I pulled the trigger.
You said: "But such a thing could know wham an app it is not integrated with is open, and issue an alert that it does not work in that app." What, you want to compare running apps, or even the foreground app, against a list of Amazon Fire-specific apps? The overhead would be a terrible waste. Then you said searching Amazon is "literally the least likely thing I want to do." Two strikes there. One, you reveal yourself to have no use whatsoever for Amazon's library, which means you are likely to be so invested in someone else's DRM that you find Amazon entries redundant and wasteful. So, you hate this device no matter what. Two, you did the incorrect colloquial "literally" thing. I promise you, life has an infinite number of options that are worse. Unless you're hard wired to die when you search Amazon video, there is no way it's "literally" the least likely thing you want to do. I'm done with you now, SuperKendall. And don't think I haven't noticed how you and Clark Kendall are never around at the same time. Go wham an app.
Without having seen it yet, I'm going to hazard a guess that the voice search button is tied to an app that has no integration to installable apps. Just like Android's magnifying glass button only brings up one search app. It's a VOICE SEARCH button. It connects to an app. Amazon's app. Amazon's device. I'm tired of this. If you want to hate on Amazon, fine. But you can't tell me it's not just another brand of the same stuff. Apple pulls the same kinds of tricks all day long. I wanted that optical audio port.
....which would be a legitimate complaint, the Netflix search function were broken. But it's not. This guy is complaining that the Amazon voice search app doesn't give Netflix results. That's like complaining that Google search doesn't return Bing results.
...hilariously biased article. This guy obviously prefers AppleTV. Does Apple plan to have a cross-vendor search function for streaming? I doubt it. I was in for one on the FireTV because I like the hardware and audio output options. I'm tired of vendors pushing HDMI audio at me.
The account security is not important. The facial recognition logging who was in the room at what times and storing it in a coded blackbox style log is what's important. User account security is not significant. We are not the customers
Not exactly earth-shattering in scope. Look: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/....
makes me giggle.
Can't the disinformation crowd Cowards at least get some fake identities for us to pick on? I know, you're trying to bore us into submission, but even you must get tired of it sometimes.
Any interesting non flattering questions get modded down and not presented to the interviewee.
I have a hard time believe the FTC will follow through with reviewing and verifying the contents of these security audits. This is a non-punishment. Not even a slap on the wrist. They should have gone for a stiff monetary fine. That said, I don't know how likely such an outcome would have been for the FTC. However, fining till it hurts is the only thing I am certain businesses will respond to.
....makes me giggle.
I bought this bundle even though I already had half the games, because the platforms deserve the help. You're able to gift the Steam versions individually, so the redundancy isn't a waste if you have friends on Steam.
From the comments others have been making, it's apparent that he's always sort of a jerk. I wasn't aware of that. I still don't think his use of the "being on antidepressants" phrase makes him a jerk though. A whole bunch of other things do.
Ah. Yes. Well, I'm not going to argue with that. It's not like he's a friend of mine or something. Self-promotion does get old...especially if you're a fan of the work.
I'm not sure that repeating a colloquial joke qualifies as being a jerk. I do agree that colloquialisms can and do perpetuate myths and stereotypes. Unless they're coined on the Internet, in which case we call them "memes" and think they are not only funny, but define a new paradigm of reality that is better than the lives being lived by an imaginary group of non-Internet using folks. I digress. Anyway, my point is that the headline is at fault, and we should criticize the poster for using the comment out of context to get a non-controversial story promoted from the firehose, rather than act like Peter Molyneux is guilty of being insensitive when he simply accuses Microsoft as being oblivious.
I see that repeating an inaccurate simile that's in common usage is all it takes to ruin a lifetime of hard work. Thanks for perpetuating the Slash-hole myth, my loving, charming fellow /.ers.
Tut-tut. Grammar counts!
This was a wise move, and really the only way forward. Oculus now comes with the most obvious trojan in history.
It's not fair that prisoners get to read paper books that don't report the amount of time spent researching topics into the indelible event log of recorded history, while free and ignorant law-abiding citizens get their interests tracked and logged under the premise of protecting copyrights and giving convenience.
I mean they should drop DRM from the store and make DRM-free a feature, the way gog.com does.
The best they can hope for is to become a darling of the libre crowd. As a market, they're done.
You know what's a nice deal if you can get it, Mr. Cicconi? Exclusive rights to use the copper wires connecting the residents in any particular district. AT&T and Comcast can start talking about nice deals when we see a free and open market for each physical media type in each region. Now go back to your copper-squatter's meetings and plot against your customers the way you do every day. Sorry Netflix beat you to the punch on the streaming licensing deal. Maybe if AT&T had believed in the future of broadband customers the way Netflix did, you wouldn't be embarassing yourself like this.