Have you looked at the (free) USB Media Channel? This allows you to play audio and video files from a USB device plugged into the back of the Roku. You can also use it to show photographs.
The interface is a little bare bones, but it works well for me. Plays ripped DVD content and legally downloaded videos. The combination of streaming and local files in a $99 box is near perfect.
I have an N900 too. Yes is is awesome and open. Real Linux, beautiful screen, decent speakers, IRDA, two cameras, WiFi, etc (and runs Flash).
However, the e-mail client sucks. Slow, badly designed (new message notifications confuse rather than inform) and crucially lacking spell check. I use the N900 most of the time, and the supplement this with an iPod Touch for e-mail, Twitter, apps, etc. Joikuspot on the N900 provides Internet access to the N900.
The combination of iPad and N900 will work pretty well for me. Looking forward to using a great closed device with a great open device.
I have a N900 'phone. I love it - basically it is Linux in your pocket, with proper web browsing and a telephone. I think anyone who works with computers should consider looking into buying one.
However, as a "business" 'phone it sucks. The basic requirements of a business 'phone are:
1) Push e-mail with integrated spellcheck (you don't want typos in the e-mail back to the boss or important client)
2) Easy to use calendar (which syncs with desktop data)
3) Easy to use address book (which syncs with desktop data)
4) Easy to use 'phone (one-handed dialing, quick-lookup in address book, etc.)
The N900 does not compete well with either the Blackberry here, and to a lesser degree the iPhone. Fix those four points and the N900 becomes a serious contender for a business phone (since the business can install any damn application on the device).
Also, the Ovi Maps application for the N900 is currently underpar - hopefully this will improve later this year.
I really hope Maemo takes off. This is the platform for Slashdot readers. The N900 is a great device to tinker with.
I agree. The N900 is pretty much the ideal 'phone for the Slashdot crowd. I was pretty surprised that there was not more commentary on the N900 here - it is more open than the Nexus One or the Milestone, with more features than you can shake a stick at.
I agree with the Pulse Pen. What is more, you have an instant archive (paper) along with the digital audio recording and digitization of what you write.
Works very well for my purposes.
If you are backpacking you want to take something that you deal with loosing or breaking. You want something that you can keep in an ordinary pocket. My advice would be a smart GSM ‘phone with Bluetooth (and maybe WiFi).
I choose a Sony Ericsson P910. The camera is good enough for blogging. I can type away e-mails on the keyboard. GSM works most places in the world. T-Mobile offers a $5 a month data plan that lets me surf the web (slowly) from all over the globe.
Plug in a memory card and you have a device you can read ebooks on (travel guides and books you meant to read that never got round to). Carry a bluetooth GSM device and your ‘phone now is every map you would need to bring.
Get a USB thumb drive that also works with your memory cards. That way you can easy transfer data from your ‘phone to PCs in a Internet café.
Ideally choose devices that charge from USB ports. This cuts down on the number of chargers you need.
I eat bananas on a regular basis and have noticed that this keeps rogue alligators away from me. The victims of rogue alligator attacks never have bananas on their person. I strongly advise those who are worried about rogue attack from alligators to eat bananas.
DC Comics pulled a similar stunt on Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons with Watchmen badges ("pins" to the American audience). The badges were sold in comic stores and used the iconic designs that Moore had envisioned and Gibbons had illustrated. DC Comics happily cashed the proceeds but did not send any of the profits to Moore and Gibbons since these were "promotional items." Alan Moore did not react well to this....
You might want to check out BBC Radio 4's webpages -
the new series of the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy (Quandary Phase) starts
Tuesday 3rd May. You can listen online using Real Audio, or wait for the Beeb
to sell you a CD later in the year. More info on BBC Radio 4's Hitchhikers
pages.
And we also have War Rocket Ajax from the movie Flash Gordon....
General Kala, Flash Gordon approaching
- What do you mean Flash Gordon approaching?
- Open fire - all weapons
- Dispatch war rocket Ajax to bring back his body
Cue intellectual song lyrics by Queen:
Flash - Aha - Saviour of the universe Flash - Aha - He'll save every one of us Flash - Aha - He's a miracle Flash - Aha - King of the impossible He's for every one of us Stand for every one of us He'll save with a mighty hand Ev'ry man ev'ry woman ev'ry child With a mighty Flash
To celebrate Darwin Day (12th February) two academics have performed extracts
from The Origin of Species in dub (hybrid form of reggae) as the Genomic
Dub Collective. The BBC has an informative
piece about the inspiration for doing
this.
The aim is to create a new musical genre, Genomic Dub, that celebrates
recent successes in the field of genomics and evolutionary biology. They
also aim to highlight common threads that link current scientific, artistic
and social issues with the past (e.g. the Darwins' involvement in the anti-slavery
movement), and to explore the potential for encoding macromolecular (protein
and DNA) sequence data into dub music.
Samples of the Origin of Species in Dub can be downloaded from
the Genomic Dub Collectives web
site, or a CD can be ordered by sending
an e-mail to m.pallen@bham.ac.uk
The more interesting part of the Van Riper story (according to Gladwell's book) was that this war game was used as a test of concept to see if the US could invade Iraq successfully utilizing technology to remove the fog of war.
Van Riper (playing for Iraq) utilized (what seemed to the military brass to be) unorthodox methods and won. The military brass found this to be unacceptable and changed the rules of the war game midway, so that Van Riper lost. Then the US invaded Iraq.
Basically a case of "if the results of the test do not coincide with what we are looking for, change the test."
I would pay for individual shows. At the moment I watch about a hour a week of television - most programs insult the intelligence of the average viewer, the adverts that fill 15 minutes of the hour are crass and bombastic. If there is a good quality show then I watch it through NetFlix. On my schedule, and without the adverts (although the "previews" on DVDs that you cannot skip are starting to annoy the hell out of me).
However, what would make my life more convenient is if there was something like iTunes (iTV?) where for a small fee (50 cents a show, possibly a dollar) I could download and burn the show of my choice.
Admittedly I could use P2P to find the show for free, but I would rather have the convenience of a sophisticated search interface and quick downloads.
I wonder how the US networks will react when the BBC finally posts it's huge archive of shows on the web.
According to most predictions we were meant to be enjoying lives of leisure by this point - working a 5-hour week in the paperless office, and driving to work in our hovercars.
The reason it does not have a DVD burner is that the educational market (for which this eMac was designed) requested not to have that option available. That way schools and universities don't have to worry about illegal downloads being seamlessly downloaded and burnt by their students.
Much easier targets for the author to rail against here.........
Ever been to a subtitled foreign language movie where you know and understand the foreign language? You will notice quite often that what is said differs from what is translated.
Which may explain why "It is easier for a rope to pass through the eye of a needle" makes more sense than "It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle."
Good decisions are based on good intelligence - trusted information from a diverse number of sources. A good way to test the veracity of information is read widely, comparing news and commentary from sources with opposing political slants.
Where do you get your news and information from?
What sources would you recommend to the American people for informing their decisions?
Slashdot Mirror
Have you looked at the (free) USB Media Channel? This allows you to play audio and video files from a USB device plugged into the back of the Roku. You can also use it to show photographs.
The interface is a little bare bones, but it works well for me. Plays ripped DVD content and legally downloaded videos. The combination of streaming and local files in a $99 box is near perfect.
My vote is for Zach Galifianakis to play rms when "Richard Stallman - The Movie" is filmed.
I have an N900 too. Yes is is awesome and open. Real Linux, beautiful screen, decent speakers, IRDA, two cameras, WiFi, etc (and runs Flash).
However, the e-mail client sucks. Slow, badly designed (new message notifications confuse rather than inform) and crucially lacking spell check. I use the N900 most of the time, and the supplement this with an iPod Touch for e-mail, Twitter, apps, etc. Joikuspot on the N900 provides Internet access to the N900.
The combination of iPad and N900 will work pretty well for me. Looking forward to using a great closed device with a great open device.
I have a N900 'phone. I love it - basically it is Linux in your pocket, with proper web browsing and a telephone. I think anyone who works with computers should consider looking into buying one.
However, as a "business" 'phone it sucks. The basic requirements of a business 'phone are:
1) Push e-mail with integrated spellcheck (you don't want typos in the e-mail back to the boss or important client)
2) Easy to use calendar (which syncs with desktop data)
3) Easy to use address book (which syncs with desktop data)
4) Easy to use 'phone (one-handed dialing, quick-lookup in address book, etc.)
The N900 does not compete well with either the Blackberry here, and to a lesser degree the iPhone. Fix those four points and the N900 becomes a serious contender for a business phone (since the business can install any damn application on the device).
Also, the Ovi Maps application for the N900 is currently underpar - hopefully this will improve later this year.
I really hope Maemo takes off. This is the platform for Slashdot readers. The N900 is a great device to tinker with.
I agree. The N900 is pretty much the ideal 'phone for the Slashdot crowd. I was pretty surprised that there was not more commentary on the N900 here - it is more open than the Nexus One or the Milestone, with more features than you can shake a stick at.
Looks like the unfortunately named iPad application will be changing it name: http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/business/ipad.html As of the time of writing, this was the only result searching for iPad on Apple's site.
I agree with the Pulse Pen. What is more, you have an instant archive (paper) along with the digital audio recording and digitization of what you write. Works very well for my purposes.
If you are backpacking you want to take something that you deal with loosing or breaking. You want something that you can keep in an ordinary pocket. My advice would be a smart GSM ‘phone with Bluetooth (and maybe WiFi).
I choose a Sony Ericsson P910. The camera is good enough for blogging. I can type away e-mails on the keyboard. GSM works most places in the world. T-Mobile offers a $5 a month data plan that lets me surf the web (slowly) from all over the globe.
Plug in a memory card and you have a device you can read ebooks on (travel guides and books you meant to read that never got round to). Carry a bluetooth GSM device and your ‘phone now is every map you would need to bring.
Get a USB thumb drive that also works with your memory cards. That way you can easy transfer data from your ‘phone to PCs in a Internet café.
Ideally choose devices that charge from USB ports. This cuts down on the number of chargers you need.
I eat bananas on a regular basis and have noticed that this keeps rogue alligators away from me. The victims of rogue alligator attacks never have bananas on their person. I strongly advise those who are worried about rogue attack from alligators to eat bananas.
DC Comics pulled a similar stunt on Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons with Watchmen badges ("pins" to the American audience). The badges were sold in comic stores and used the iconic designs that Moore had envisioned and Gibbons had illustrated. DC Comics happily cashed the proceeds but did not send any of the profits to Moore and Gibbons since these were "promotional items." Alan Moore did not react well to this....
Why Software Sucks Book Sucks
There is a handy use for the blank space on the iMac: Perfect for post-it notes. Works well for me...
So why isn't Adobe expected to sue Apple? Print to PDF is an integral part of OS X.
Coming soon from the same people who correctly discovered Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, balanced the budget and solved Medicare.....
Your privacy problems fixed.
You might want to check out BBC Radio 4's webpages - the new series of the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy (Quandary Phase) starts Tuesday 3rd May. You can listen online using Real Audio, or wait for the Beeb to sell you a CD later in the year. More info on BBC Radio 4's Hitchhikers pages.
When Knights of the Old Republic was released it was arguably the best Star Wars tale told since the end of the original trilogy
arguably
You are on Slashdot here, everything here is arguable including statements like:
And we also have War Rocket Ajax from the movie Flash Gordon....
General Kala, Flash Gordon approaching
- What do you mean Flash Gordon approaching?
- Open fire - all weapons
- Dispatch war rocket Ajax to bring back his body
Cue intellectual song lyrics by Queen:
Flash - Aha - Saviour of the universe
Flash - Aha - He'll save every one of us
Flash - Aha - He's a miracle
Flash - Aha - King of the impossible
He's for every one of us
Stand for every one of us
He'll save with a mighty hand
Ev'ry man ev'ry woman ev'ry child
With a mighty Flash
Flash - Aha
Flash - Ah - He'll save every one of us
Flash! He saved everyone of us!
(And a Ska band by the same name)
To celebrate Darwin Day (12th February) two academics have performed extracts from The Origin of Species in dub (hybrid form of reggae) as the Genomic Dub Collective. The BBC has an informative piece about the inspiration for doing this.
The aim is to create a new musical genre, Genomic Dub, that celebrates recent successes in the field of genomics and evolutionary biology. They also aim to highlight common threads that link current scientific, artistic and social issues with the past (e.g. the Darwins' involvement in the anti-slavery movement), and to explore the potential for encoding macromolecular (protein and DNA) sequence data into dub music.
Samples of the Origin of Species in Dub can be downloaded from the Genomic Dub Collectives web site, or a CD can be ordered by sending an e-mail to m.pallen@bham.ac.uk
The more interesting part of the Van Riper story (according to Gladwell's book) was that this war game was used as a test of concept to see if the US could invade Iraq successfully utilizing technology to remove the fog of war.
Van Riper (playing for Iraq) utilized (what seemed to the military brass to be) unorthodox methods and won. The military brass found this to be unacceptable and changed the rules of the war game midway, so that Van Riper lost. Then the US invaded Iraq.
Basically a case of "if the results of the test do not coincide with what we are looking for, change the test."
I would pay for individual shows. At the moment I watch about a hour a week of television - most programs insult the intelligence of the average viewer, the adverts that fill 15 minutes of the hour are crass and bombastic. If there is a good quality show then I watch it through NetFlix. On my schedule, and without the adverts (although the "previews" on DVDs that you cannot skip are starting to annoy the hell out of me).
However, what would make my life more convenient is if there was something like iTunes (iTV?) where for a small fee (50 cents a show, possibly a dollar) I could download and burn the show of my choice.
Admittedly I could use P2P to find the show for free, but I would rather have the convenience of a sophisticated search interface and quick downloads.
I wonder how the US networks will react when the BBC finally posts it's huge archive of shows on the web.
According to most predictions we were meant to be enjoying lives of leisure by this point - working a 5-hour week in the paperless office, and driving to work in our hovercars.
The reason it does not have a DVD burner is that the educational market (for which this eMac was designed) requested not to have that option available. That way schools and universities don't have to worry about illegal downloads being seamlessly downloaded and burnt by their students.
Much easier targets for the author to rail against here.........
Nice story, but the postern gate being the "eye of the needle" is a myth.
m
http://www.biblicalhebrew.com/nt/camelneedle.ht
http://www.debunker.com/texts/needleye.html
Read the bible? Which one? In what language?
Ever been to a subtitled foreign language movie where you know and understand the foreign language? You will notice quite often that what is said differs from what is translated.
Which may explain why "It is easier for a rope to pass through the eye of a needle" makes more sense than "It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle."
Good decisions are based on good intelligence - trusted information from a diverse number of sources. A good way to test the veracity of information is read widely, comparing news and commentary from sources with opposing political slants.
Where do you get your news and information from?
What sources would you recommend to the American people for informing their decisions?