Regardless of how you feel about Plex "proprietary streaming" is a bit of stretch. Yes, the Plex server code is closed-source (which annoys me), but the streams are MP4-via-HTTP and are accessible via a documented API as well as DLNA.
Which is important, because the "full code XBMC" still doesn't offer server-client operation, or transcoding, which makes it quite difficult to use directly on low-power machines or in any situation with more than one playback device. XBMC was a great start as one of the first programs to put a TV-friendly GUI on mplayer, and to provide lots of extensibility around that GUI to allow the creation of a variety of video services without the need to re-spin all the complicated bits of playback. And at a time when the only way to get video from a hard drive to TV was via physical DVD or direct connection of a computer (or hacked console) to the screen that's all they needed to provide. But these days XBMC is out-of-date and it needs to embrace centralized (and/or distributed) storage and transcoding to be compatible with non-general-purpose computers that most people use to play video.
/ It's also worth noting the Ouya is supporting Plex as well as XBMC
Except for the you-must-give-RIM-your-email-password-to-get-email bit, sure. And that's ignoring all the limitations of their email system.
I really did like my BlackBerry in terms of the control provided to the subscriber -- as opposed to the retarded model on Android/iOS where the app developer decides what permissions are necessary -- but I don't see how trusting RIM is more secure than trusting Apple/Google/etc.
Which is great if you only have one card per brand-name issuer and completely useless in any case where that isn't true -- and it's certainly not true for me. Whereas the chances of the last few digits of your account number matching any other account for the same customer are exceedingly small. It may still be a bad idea, but "card issuer" is certainly not a reasonable replacement.
You could always just pay the real duty on it. Just send CBP a check for the difference and all is well -- you are only held responsible for the taxes, not for the proper labeling of the item (unless you conspired with the sender).
Do people want "controls" on their LCD besides brightness? What do you do with them? Given the fully digital signal path I don't understand what I'd want the monitor to do other than display the pixel stream and let me change the backlight brightness.
No, fast food is a replacement for slow food. "Fast food" is simply the modern marketing term for "cafeteria food", which has been around for a good long time. What any of that has do with children, parenting or planing is not clear to me.
He's not American. And McDonalds sells high-fat, high-sugar food, not rat poison. You're welcome to not like it and not eat there, but an occasional bit of fried chicken from a fast food joint is not tantamount to child abuse.
Clearly anyone eating a single meal ever at McDonalds is an unfit parent and gastronomical philistine.
It's not even possible that they just wanted some quick, familiar food on their way home after a full day experiencing whatever you think qualifies as "real" Paris.
Actually rail lines aren't a problem -- they are stretched when installed so that when the air temperature is ~100 degrees there's no stress on the line.
It's a technology problem for all the places that will let you have multiple account holders/users but only one user for the account management system. That sort of password sharing is a hassle even when you're both alive and in the same room, let alone when someone dies.
Temporarily, yes, there's sometimes a tactical justification for secrecy. But there's no reason to keep most of those secrets for more than a few days or weeks, let alone years or decades, which is the status quo for the vast majority of this information.
You mean SecureBoot. UEFI is a very good thing, finally bringing PCs into the 1980s in terms of pre-boot environments. Decrying UEFI because you don't like SecureBoot is like decrying encryption because you don't like DRM.
Beside the prolonged inaccuracy in civil time keeping (which may or may not be important for your application) some years require more than one leap second. So unless you want to double up on December 31 you need a second date on which we can add a second.
But most users have no need for Google's level of availability and redundancy, particularly for the store-and-forward protocol used in mail delivery. Yes, it's annoying if email is down, but spending 3 hours migrating your mail host image from provider A to provider B every couple of years is probably not a big problem for the average mail user, nor is are the few hours a year of downtime from the then-current VPS host.
The electrical system in my house has a hard time replicating the availability and redundancy of Google's data centers, but I sure wouldn't let Google monitor my power usage just to avoid 7 minutes of downtime a year.
And the drone builders -- who also build traditional airplanes -- totally forgot to install the dead reckoning and internal guidance packages that they include in all their other autopilot designs? Because they thought this more-automated plane needed less navigational data than a human pilot?
How? If it's currently illegal for a person to distribute some set of data how does claiming "the computer has free-speech rights" make the regulation any less effective? Why would free-speech protection apply only to a computer and not people doing the same thing.
Or right, it wouldn't, and that bit is blatantly false hype intended to rile up interest in this story. If congress can make laws regulating the actions of people they can make laws regulating the actions of computers.
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Regardless of how you feel about Plex "proprietary streaming" is a bit of stretch. Yes, the Plex server code is closed-source (which annoys me), but the streams are MP4-via-HTTP and are accessible via a documented API as well as DLNA.
Which is important, because the "full code XBMC" still doesn't offer server-client operation, or transcoding, which makes it quite difficult to use directly on low-power machines or in any situation with more than one playback device. XBMC was a great start as one of the first programs to put a TV-friendly GUI on mplayer, and to provide lots of extensibility around that GUI to allow the creation of a variety of video services without the need to re-spin all the complicated bits of playback. And at a time when the only way to get video from a hard drive to TV was via physical DVD or direct connection of a computer (or hacked console) to the screen that's all they needed to provide. But these days XBMC is out-of-date and it needs to embrace centralized (and/or distributed) storage and transcoding to be compatible with non-general-purpose computers that most people use to play video.
/ It's also worth noting the Ouya is supporting Plex as well as XBMC
Except for the you-must-give-RIM-your-email-password-to-get-email bit, sure. And that's ignoring all the limitations of their email system.
I really did like my BlackBerry in terms of the control provided to the subscriber -- as opposed to the retarded model on Android/iOS where the app developer decides what permissions are necessary -- but I don't see how trusting RIM is more secure than trusting Apple/Google/etc.
Which is great if you only have one card per brand-name issuer and completely useless in any case where that isn't true -- and it's certainly not true for me. Whereas the chances of the last few digits of your account number matching any other account for the same customer are exceedingly small. It may still be a bad idea, but "card issuer" is certainly not a reasonable replacement.
If I only wanted the 1080p available from TV screens I wouldn't be looking for a 27" or 30" monitor.
You could always just pay the real duty on it. Just send CBP a check for the difference and all is well -- you are only held responsible for the taxes, not for the proper labeling of the item (unless you conspired with the sender).
Do people want "controls" on their LCD besides brightness? What do you do with them? Given the fully digital signal path I don't understand what I'd want the monitor to do other than display the pixel stream and let me change the backlight brightness.
So how do you propose that a group of 3 or more people buy a building in which to conduct their business?
No, fast food is a replacement for slow food. "Fast food" is simply the modern marketing term for "cafeteria food", which has been around for a good long time. What any of that has do with children, parenting or planing is not clear to me.
He's not American. And McDonalds sells high-fat, high-sugar food, not rat poison. You're welcome to not like it and not eat there, but an occasional bit of fried chicken from a fast food joint is not tantamount to child abuse.
Clearly anyone eating a single meal ever at McDonalds is an unfit parent and gastronomical philistine.
It's not even possible that they just wanted some quick, familiar food on their way home after a full day experiencing whatever you think qualifies as "real" Paris.
Are you suggesting they speak Canadian French at McDonalds in Paris?
If a taxi could drive itself, why would you staff it at all? Why not just outfit it with a touch-screen map and a credit card reader?
That's only relevant if you're dead-set on having the chairs face the forward edge of the vehicle.
And if you're looking for high-G handling I don't know why the chairs wouldn't simply rotate to accommodate the current local acceleration profile.
No one said the chairs have to remain perpendicular to the surface of the earth.
Actually rail lines aren't a problem -- they are stretched when installed so that when the air temperature is ~100 degrees there's no stress on the line.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail_stressing
It's a technology problem for all the places that will let you have multiple account holders/users but only one user for the account management system. That sort of password sharing is a hassle even when you're both alive and in the same room, let alone when someone dies.
Maildir is OS specific? And by that same standard, mbox isn't?
Temporarily, yes, there's sometimes a tactical justification for secrecy. But there's no reason to keep most of those secrets for more than a few days or weeks, let alone years or decades, which is the status quo for the vast majority of this information.
You mean SecureBoot. UEFI is a very good thing, finally bringing PCs into the 1980s in terms of pre-boot environments. Decrying UEFI because you don't like SecureBoot is like decrying encryption because you don't like DRM.
Beside the prolonged inaccuracy in civil time keeping (which may or may not be important for your application) some years require more than one leap second. So unless you want to double up on December 31 you need a second date on which we can add a second.
But most users have no need for Google's level of availability and redundancy, particularly for the store-and-forward protocol used in mail delivery. Yes, it's annoying if email is down, but spending 3 hours migrating your mail host image from provider A to provider B every couple of years is probably not a big problem for the average mail user, nor is are the few hours a year of downtime from the then-current VPS host.
The electrical system in my house has a hard time replicating the availability and redundancy of Google's data centers, but I sure wouldn't let Google monitor my power usage just to avoid 7 minutes of downtime a year.
And the drone builders -- who also build traditional airplanes -- totally forgot to install the dead reckoning and internal guidance packages that they include in all their other autopilot designs? Because they thought this more-automated plane needed less navigational data than a human pilot?
They shouldn't, at least not from their employers. Why would you want to be trapped in one job for your whole life?
How? If it's currently illegal for a person to distribute some set of data how does claiming "the computer has free-speech rights" make the regulation any less effective? Why would free-speech protection apply only to a computer and not people doing the same thing.
Or right, it wouldn't, and that bit is blatantly false hype intended to rile up interest in this story. If congress can make laws regulating the actions of people they can make laws regulating the actions of computers.
Probably not malicious -- probably just using bad software, or putting in ridiculous settings because they don't understand how NTP works.