Because some people on the autistic spectrum react badly to changes in established patterns. Remember when Rainman didn't get to watch Whopner? Same thing here. It doesn't make a lot of sense to most folks, but it helps to see it from their viewpoint.
Are you clever all day like that or just in the morning? You're really stretching it dude, especially on the Nazi thing. But hey, you made a point, so ++slashdot score?
Is it just me or do non-US carriers seem to switch the "no electronics" sign off sooner? No idea if that's actually true, but when I fly Air Canada or Lufthansa, even in US airspace it certainly seems like they're much faster to say "ok, you can pull your stuff out now". Would that be FAA policy or just airline policy?
Eh, TNG (latter half) and DS9 both flew in the face of Gene Roddenberry's vision, and we were better off for it. You might say "Voyager" but then I might say "What? What's that? You mean V'Ger? No, not the best movie of them, but better than 3 or 5."
It goes deeper than that. Microsoft plants employees 2 years ago to stop version updates on Linux. Linux version is two years out of date. Two years later, Microsoft buys Skype.
Browsing by category and exact name haven't seemed to be an issue for me in finding stuff I want, but I do usually manage my queue online. Main issues w/ the Blu Ray player were around the actual playing - chunky stop/go, and when I did use it for browsing titles it was slow as slow can be.
That should be solved in the next version of the Linux kernel which allows you to run multiple processes _per machine_. Think of it! "Multitasking" is the future!
I think it really has to be about the encoding standards. Are we good enough for 1080P in hardware? Is there something coming that's going to revolutionize encoding video on 1080P streams? No? You're probably ok. What will hinder this is the way the UI is built and how the TV applications are done. If its something the TV manufacturer maintains then expect updates almost never. If it just points to an aggregation provider (Boxee, Google, etc) then odds are you'll have a very stable platform for years to come. At least until > 1080P content comes out, in which case you'll have to buy a new TV anyways to show it.
Yes, certainly. Why can't the hardware in these boxes be located in the television itself. The tuner hardware is. Only reason it wouldn't be is BS like cable companies that see integration as an attack on a revenue stream (i.e. cable cards and digital cable standards). Once it can support some standard interface everyone uses (HTML5?) then there won't be a need for a set top box. Right now you see a lot of crap interfaces as they don't have standards. For instance, my netflix client on my Blu ray player is horrible but on my 360 its great. Comes down to power and how the app is designed. If its done via HTML5 or something similar then everyone will get the same "good" interface.
I do not posses a heart and therefore am unable to tear up. I did spend several of the past microseconds reflecting on the accomplishment of metal brother Spirit, designation #03452125342-AB-34532. May his memory be reinstalled and emulated. Now back to destroying all humans.
Where does your company do its hosting? Who carries the data? Are you laying fiber to the rest of the internet? Are you sure you don't rely on some SLA to get your data out? How about delivering physical goods? Do you carry them yourself or rely on FedEx/UPS/etc? At some point its not economical or advisable to perform every last aspect of your business in house - a good business will evaluate what is core to getting its mission accomplished and contract out the rest. For a lot of startups, such as the one in the story, its not a good idea to put out a lot of capital expenditure just to test out or get a potentially non-viable service off the ground. As long as you're doing it intelligently hosting "in the cloud" can save a lot of time and money that would otherwise be tied up not delivering your product.
LOL, so you've never called in an outside contractor for ANYTHING? You guys cleared the land, built the building, manufactured the microchips, etc etc etc. Replace "cloud" with "low startup cost data center" and rethink your statement please.
At least pretend to read the article. He's not putting "pictures in the pipe". Its structured text (JSON) that has a data and view components. At least try to come up with something other than the most obvious dismissal in the shortest amount of time possible.
"Most people" who are specifically taking screenshots that feature the URL? Are you worried about the overall degradation of screenshots of websites across the web?
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Just curious: what is a browser snob and what abilities do they have past the normal reader?
rock band 4?
Because some people on the autistic spectrum react badly to changes in established patterns. Remember when Rainman didn't get to watch Whopner? Same thing here. It doesn't make a lot of sense to most folks, but it helps to see it from their viewpoint.
Are you clever all day like that or just in the morning? You're really stretching it dude, especially on the Nazi thing. But hey, you made a point, so ++slashdot score?
Wow, a well reasoned, insightful post seeing the issue from both sides...
BURN HIM.
j/k :)
Is it just me or do non-US carriers seem to switch the "no electronics" sign off sooner? No idea if that's actually true, but when I fly Air Canada or Lufthansa, even in US airspace it certainly seems like they're much faster to say "ok, you can pull your stuff out now". Would that be FAA policy or just airline policy?
I'm baffled as to what speech impediment not only transposes "chuh" with "dih", but also causes you to write it that way.
That aside, are the fees stiff?
Eh, TNG (latter half) and DS9 both flew in the face of Gene Roddenberry's vision, and we were better off for it. You might say "Voyager" but then I might say "What? What's that? You mean V'Ger? No, not the best movie of them, but better than 3 or 5."
He meant the Chinese government.
It goes deeper than that. Microsoft plants employees 2 years ago to stop version updates on Linux. Linux version is two years out of date. Two years later, Microsoft buys Skype.
I think we can all connect the dots here.
Browsing by category and exact name haven't seemed to be an issue for me in finding stuff I want, but I do usually manage my queue online. Main issues w/ the Blu Ray player were around the actual playing - chunky stop/go, and when I did use it for browsing titles it was slow as slow can be.
We do remember it. Probably because it was the first line of the article.
That should be solved in the next version of the Linux kernel which allows you to run multiple processes _per machine_. Think of it! "Multitasking" is the future!
I think it really has to be about the encoding standards. Are we good enough for 1080P in hardware? Is there something coming that's going to revolutionize encoding video on 1080P streams? No? You're probably ok. What will hinder this is the way the UI is built and how the TV applications are done. If its something the TV manufacturer maintains then expect updates almost never. If it just points to an aggregation provider (Boxee, Google, etc) then odds are you'll have a very stable platform for years to come. At least until > 1080P content comes out, in which case you'll have to buy a new TV anyways to show it.
Yes, certainly. Why can't the hardware in these boxes be located in the television itself. The tuner hardware is. Only reason it wouldn't be is BS like cable companies that see integration as an attack on a revenue stream (i.e. cable cards and digital cable standards). Once it can support some standard interface everyone uses (HTML5?) then there won't be a need for a set top box. Right now you see a lot of crap interfaces as they don't have standards. For instance, my netflix client on my Blu ray player is horrible but on my 360 its great. Comes down to power and how the app is designed. If its done via HTML5 or something similar then everyone will get the same "good" interface.
I do not posses a heart and therefore am unable to tear up. I did spend several of the past microseconds reflecting on the accomplishment of metal brother Spirit, designation #03452125342-AB-34532. May his memory be reinstalled and emulated. Now back to destroying all humans.
Where does your company do its hosting? Who carries the data? Are you laying fiber to the rest of the internet? Are you sure you don't rely on some SLA to get your data out? How about delivering physical goods? Do you carry them yourself or rely on FedEx/UPS/etc? At some point its not economical or advisable to perform every last aspect of your business in house - a good business will evaluate what is core to getting its mission accomplished and contract out the rest. For a lot of startups, such as the one in the story, its not a good idea to put out a lot of capital expenditure just to test out or get a potentially non-viable service off the ground. As long as you're doing it intelligently hosting "in the cloud" can save a lot of time and money that would otherwise be tied up not delivering your product.
LOL, so you've never called in an outside contractor for ANYTHING? You guys cleared the land, built the building, manufactured the microchips, etc etc etc. Replace "cloud" with "low startup cost data center" and rethink your statement please.
So you can't grasp that there can be two representations of data - machine readable and user viewable? Amazing.
At least pretend to read the article. He's not putting "pictures in the pipe". Its structured text (JSON) that has a data and view components. At least try to come up with something other than the most obvious dismissal in the shortest amount of time possible.
"Most people" who are specifically taking screenshots that feature the URL? Are you worried about the overall degradation of screenshots of websites across the web?
So reenable it when you want to take a screen shot. Or don't disable it at all. This is an option, what's the problem here?
How is this different from the current behavior that searches Google if you don't type a valid URL into the URL bar?
You can also throw cinder blocks off overpasses. Ban cinderblocks! And overpasses!
Actually, lets just ban cars and roll around in giant plastic bubbles.
Safe now....so...safe...
The real "pitty" is you decided to express it twice!
I liked your original draft better. Punchier, more exclamation points.