For #1, check out TVersity (free). There's a decent step-by-step here.
I've had it running on my setup (xbox 360 wired in, Vista RTM on a laptop connected wirelessly) for a while now... works flawlessly for streaming audio, pictures, video... if you've got the codecs, TVersity will stream it.
It replaces the Media Player-based media sharing... not sure how it will affect your MCE setup.
Sure, they've never been very deep (or even always entirely correct) in their explanations of stuffs' workings, but at least there was a time when most of their articles prompted a "hey, yeah, I did always kind of wonder how that worked" response from me. This one, on the other hand, just seems to come totally out of left field... had *anybody* even *heard* of this thing before hsw.com wrote their article, let alone wondered how it worked?
I guess, to be fair, the site is not named howstuffpeopleactuallycareaboutworks.com... but sheesh, they're really scraping the bottom of the barrel here.
If you haven't RTFA, at least take a look at the picture of the Goomba on the "Reality Check" page for an example of how sad this really is. From what I can tell, that is their best, most-completed bit of interactive scenery.
Unless... as somebody said above, the whole thing is a joke... in which case, the fact that howstuffworks seems to have fallen for it is even more pitiful. Unless the howstuffworks article is also a joke, which I guess just makes all the rest of us even *more* pitiful for falling for that. Bleh.
you could step through a pile of starving babies while eating a Big Mac and not have a moral obligation to do anything other than try not to get any of it on your shoes... Morality being subjective as it is.
Is it?
I can't believe that there is any sane human who could do what you describe and not have the feeling, at least upon reflection, that maybe he had behaved badly.
"Moral obligation," no... but I think we definitely share a set of instincts that form the foundation of what we call morality.
We may, based on our own rationalizations, decide not to help Mr. Wilson. However, I suspect that at least we would all agree on some level that there might be something not quite right about a dying man being kicked out onto the street.
You know, your sig just reminded me of some insomnia-induced ponderings I experienced recently.
The Infinite Monkeys factoid (An infinite number of monkeys typing randomly on typewriters would eventually produce a copy of Hamlet (at least that's how I originally heard it)) is a gross understatement.
Given that Monkeys would take a fixed amount of time per keystroke (one second, for example), and that Hamlet is N characters long, you would get an *infinite* number of copies of Hamlet at exactly the N second mark, and an infinite number of copies again *each second* thereafter.
But these monkeys would certainly not be limited to Hamlet... you would also get infinite copies of every edition of every thing that has ever or *could* ever be written down.
Overall an interesting read... but I'm upset by the way the author glossed section 4.1, "How to Stay Motivated."
His advice seems to be "To stay motivated, work on things that are motivating." At the same time he admits that programmers often end up working on things that are not motivating. Thus he leaves the big question unanswered: How do we stay motivated when working on things that are not motivating?
Anybody have any thoughts on that? Favorite tactics? A few years ago, a good response would have been "Just quit and find a new job that's more fun." That's not so appropriate these days, it seems.
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I've had it running on my setup (xbox 360 wired in, Vista RTM on a laptop connected wirelessly) for a while now... works flawlessly for streaming audio, pictures, video... if you've got the codecs, TVersity will stream it.
It replaces the Media Player-based media sharing... not sure how it will affect your MCE setup.
I guess, to be fair, the site is not named howstuffpeopleactuallycareaboutworks.com... but sheesh, they're really scraping the bottom of the barrel here.
If you haven't RTFA, at least take a look at the picture of the Goomba on the "Reality Check" page for an example of how sad this really is. From what I can tell, that is their best, most-completed bit of interactive scenery.
Unless... as somebody said above, the whole thing is a joke... in which case, the fact that howstuffworks seems to have fallen for it is even more pitiful. Unless the howstuffworks article is also a joke, which I guess just makes all the rest of us even *more* pitiful for falling for that. Bleh.
Is it?
I can't believe that there is any sane human who could do what you describe and not have the feeling, at least upon reflection, that maybe he had behaved badly.
"Moral obligation," no... but I think we definitely share a set of instincts that form the foundation of what we call morality.
We may, based on our own rationalizations, decide not to help Mr. Wilson. However, I suspect that at least we would all agree on some level that there might be something not quite right about a dying man being kicked out onto the street.
Or is it the other way around...
The Infinite Monkeys factoid (An infinite number of monkeys typing randomly on typewriters would eventually produce a copy of Hamlet (at least that's how I originally heard it)) is a gross understatement.
Given that Monkeys would take a fixed amount of time per keystroke (one second, for example), and that Hamlet is N characters long, you would get an *infinite* number of copies of Hamlet at exactly the N second mark, and an infinite number of copies again *each second* thereafter.
But these monkeys would certainly not be limited to Hamlet... you would also get infinite copies of every edition of every thing that has ever or *could* ever be written down.
My brain hurts.
Stupid evil monkeys.
His advice seems to be "To stay motivated, work on things that are motivating." At the same time he admits that programmers often end up working on things that are not motivating. Thus he leaves the big question unanswered: How do we stay motivated when working on things that are not motivating?
Anybody have any thoughts on that? Favorite tactics? A few years ago, a good response would have been "Just quit and find a new job that's more fun." That's not so appropriate these days, it seems.