The problem isn't the new shows, or the old shows. It is production companies that aren't really SciFi fans... There have been lots of good things dropped after one season because the producers did not understand the product or the market.
Do you know the publishers of the CD's you listen to?
After the Sony rootkit game, I think a lot more people are aware of this. But since people still click on the "change you face book profile" e-mail link, I would guess Sony and EA can still get by.
One more reason to avoid any game that depends on its publisher's servers. If I want to play Quake online I still can, and that came out well over ten years ago.
4x4 Evo2 came out 10 years ago and uses private servers. But they publisher let the community take them over and it still works. But EA doesn't understand that kind of loyalty, and would never do it. It is why they will never get my money.
I have seen that "lockdown" so many times, and it never works. There are no technical solutions to personnel problems. I always use this analogy; "You can make a car very secure by removing the battery and putting it up on blocks. It just doesn't make for a very good car."
No hatespew. I just personalized the argument. Nathreal was saying that there was a difference between murder and accidents. You implied that there was no effective difference. I stated that you might feel differently with a you as the target. No hate. Just pointing out that murder is quite personal when you know the people involved.
Dude, that is some serious forward planning you got there. I mean you signed up for the username a looong time ago and now you are talking about shitting on a plane!
So anyway, hope you don't mind if I ask. This is the scenario.. you are on the plane and there is 30 mins to go before you are allowed to get up. The flight attendents say that you may not leave your seat but you really really need to go. What do you choose.. let it go in your pants or drop the pants and shit on the floor?
Its a serious question too
I just had a truly terrifying thought... "Two girls, one coach seat." No, dear god, no!
However, it may not matter what I want. It may just be what will work when I am at a friends house (or library, or Kinkos) and need to transfer files. Sometimes you just need it to work, and NTFS does work everywhere.
With your solution, you have to expose every device to the internet at large, and then filter. With VPN, you do not even know what is behind it. So they are not the same.
Yes, capitalism is the only place where a stronger party tries to take advantage of a weaker party. It never happens in fascism, or communism, or at the local playground.
I have several system with more than 10 cameras, with uptimes in the range of several months. And the timeline search function rocks. But it is not terribly intuitive to set up...
You misunderstand me: I wasn't able to find anyone who could provide those specifications, at *any* price level. I was saying, 'Here are our requirements, what will this cost?' And the answer I was getting back was, 'We can't meet your requirements, period. Ask someone else.' The word 'cheap' also never appeared in the specifications.:)
Now to be totally honest, that was not what I said. I offered to architect a high availability solution that would eliminate single points of failure (other than the actual camera, but including cabling) and a best effort on repair, with 24x7x365 phone access. But occasionally I am in a car, and more than 15 minutes from the net.:) The problem is that those of us with the knowledge and the ability are geographically separate. Perhaps we should try and get together for shift exchanges...
You've got it the wrong way around - once D-Link contrives a Linux solution for Netflix streaming, then we'll be able to stream Netflix to any Linux platform we like.
Yes, it's not possible now, but the Netflix streaming overlords might be more persuaded by a potential corporate partner than they are by the unwashed masses. I wish D-Link the best of luck in this effort!
Roku and Tivo both have Netflix on Linux. But it is not open source, so we still do not have it...
1). BoxeeBox uses Linux.
2). Linux doesn't run Silverlight.
3). You need Silverlight to run Netflix
Now fill in the missing word:
Therefore, BoxeeBox will never be able to run ____________.
Roku runs Linux, and does Netflix. Now... Doesn't do much of anything else, but it does run Netflix.
The truth is that I've given up on standard Linux distros when it comes to multimedia. It simply isn't as good as Windows or Mac OS X. For about a year, we tried to run Mythbuntu, then Ubuntu w/ MythTV and Boxee. It simply never worked very well. Incompatibility issues with drivers and configuration problems drove us up the wall. When Windows 7 came out, we "upgraded" to Windows 7. (Why not?, it was originally a Windows Vista box).
I have Linux on several personal PCs, my media center, lots of systems at work, and some provate clients. Other than WiFi, I have no driver issues, and other than Netflix, no multimedia issues. While DVR functionality is lacking, if you are having multimedia problems, you are having problems, not Linux.
The problem I see with the Boxee Box is that it is competing against HDTVs that can connect with Netflix right out of the box. Plus, these HDTVs are better at displaying video than what Boxee will be able to do.
Boxxee can do 1080p. What TV do you have that can do better? The rest of your comment is dead on... Assuming it eventually gets netflix, even...
Don't get me wrong. I use Linux (Fedora Distro) at work. In fact, I installed it at work over my Windows box and am running Windows under VirtualBox on the machine. I prefer to do my development on Linux because it is faster, and it comes with all the development tools I need. Plus, it is two to three times faster running Subversion and Eclipse than Windows.
However, I have that Windows under VirtualBox instance if I have to read email (our corporation uses Exchange and Evolution is an awful Exchange client). I also use my Windows side if I have to display a video or a Flash application. If I can get Flash to work on Linux, it is splotchy at best, MP4s look awful, and don't even try to run in full screen mode. Linux based Android is much better, but that's because Google isn't shy about adding a few proprietary pieces to get things to work.
You do know that Outlook can run in WINE, right? And I have no problems with flash on my systems. This goes back to my point above... You may want to look at what you are doing with codecs.
Boxee is a nice concept, but they're concentrating too much on cool and not enough on getting things to work at a consumer level.
Which is why human intelligence is much more useful than signal intelligence (data mining).
Exactly. If people can't sift through the mass of information (and misinformation) we have today, what hope does a computer have? Just look at how hard it is to find "The Truth" in todays news, or on the Internet...
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The problem isn't the new shows, or the old shows. It is production companies that aren't really SciFi fans... There have been lots of good things dropped after one season because the producers did not understand the product or the market.
It will boost them and people with a system for one DRM method will want to watch content from the other. Ooops...
Do you know the publishers of the CD's you listen to?
After the Sony rootkit game, I think a lot more people are aware of this. But since people still click on the "change you face book profile" e-mail link, I would guess Sony and EA can still get by.
If you should have known something, you deserve what you get for not knowing it.
Will you still feel this way when your car gets broken into? Remember that the bad guy is the criminal (EA) not the victim. (Customer)
There is a difference between deserving something and expecting something. While it was forseeable, it was not right.
one more reason to avoid EA games.
One more reason to avoid any game that depends on its publisher's servers. If I want to play Quake online I still can, and that came out well over ten years ago.
4x4 Evo2 came out 10 years ago and uses private servers. But they publisher let the community take them over and it still works. But EA doesn't understand that kind of loyalty, and would never do it. It is why they will never get my money.
I have seen that "lockdown" so many times, and it never works. There are no technical solutions to personnel problems. I always use this analogy; "You can make a car very secure by removing the battery and putting it up on blocks. It just doesn't make for a very good car."
Wrong kind of "locked." I want to know if I can change/mod the software.
Is it locked? That is really the "killer app" point for me. A commercially sold phone that is hacker friendly from the start.
When you said this, I immediately thought of the BMW 1 series, which is very close to the 3 series of 10 years ago. Hmmm...
No hatespew. I just personalized the argument. Nathreal was saying that there was a difference between murder and accidents. You implied that there was no effective difference. I stated that you might feel differently with a you as the target. No hate. Just pointing out that murder is quite personal when you know the people involved.
Dead's dead.
And we all die anyway, so why not just kill you now?
So there is a difference?
Dude, that is some serious forward planning you got there. I mean you signed up for the username a looong time ago and now you are talking about shitting on a plane!
So anyway, hope you don't mind if I ask. This is the scenario.. you are on the plane and there is 30 mins to go before you are allowed to get up. The flight attendents say that you may not leave your seat but you really really need to go. What do you choose.. let it go in your pants or drop the pants and shit on the floor?
Its a serious question too
I just had a truly terrifying thought... "Two girls, one coach seat." No, dear god, no!
Or the first person with a small bladder wets him/herself and sues/gets on Oprah. As for me, I am driving.
However, it may not matter what I want. It may just be what will work when I am at a friends house (or library, or Kinkos) and need to transfer files. Sometimes you just need it to work, and NTFS does work everywhere.
With your solution, you have to expose every device to the internet at large, and then filter. With VPN, you do not even know what is behind it. So they are not the same.
Welcome to Capitalism.
Yes, capitalism is the only place where a stronger party tries to take advantage of a weaker party. It never happens in fascism, or communism, or at the local playground.
"It's one... In a million...
Chance... Of a Lifetime..."
What?
What do you mean, "public performance?"
Nah, the real money's in owning that sound. Then you can sue every iPhone programmer to make an app, and Apple.
And can we get ASCAP to stop public performances?
I have several system with more than 10 cameras, with uptimes in the range of several months. And the timeline search function rocks. But it is not terribly intuitive to set up...
You misunderstand me: I wasn't able to find anyone who could provide those specifications, at *any* price level. I was saying, 'Here are our requirements, what will this cost?' And the answer I was getting back was, 'We can't meet your requirements, period. Ask someone else.' The word 'cheap' also never appeared in the specifications. :)
Now to be totally honest, that was not what I said. I offered to architect a high availability solution that would eliminate single points of failure (other than the actual camera, but including cabling) and a best effort on repair, with 24x7x365 phone access. But occasionally I am in a car, and more than 15 minutes from the net. :) The problem is that those of us with the knowledge and the ability are geographically separate. Perhaps we should try and get together for shift exchanges...
:)
Bet you never thought I would see this...
You've got it the wrong way around - once D-Link contrives a Linux solution for Netflix streaming, then we'll be able to stream Netflix to any Linux platform we like.
Yes, it's not possible now, but the Netflix streaming overlords might be more persuaded by a potential corporate partner than they are by the unwashed masses. I wish D-Link the best of luck in this effort!
Roku and Tivo both have Netflix on Linux. But it is not open source, so we still do not have it...
moonlight is a linux implementation of silverlight. It has at least some support from microsoft.
But it has none of the MS DRM, so it will not do any secure Silverlight stuff, like NetFlix.
Doesn't Netflix use SILVERLIGHT?
Let's see:
1). BoxeeBox uses Linux. 2). Linux doesn't run Silverlight. 3). You need Silverlight to run Netflix
Now fill in the missing word:
Therefore, BoxeeBox will never be able to run ____________.
Roku runs Linux, and does Netflix. Now... Doesn't do much of anything else, but it does run Netflix.
The truth is that I've given up on standard Linux distros when it comes to multimedia. It simply isn't as good as Windows or Mac OS X. For about a year, we tried to run Mythbuntu, then Ubuntu w/ MythTV and Boxee. It simply never worked very well. Incompatibility issues with drivers and configuration problems drove us up the wall. When Windows 7 came out, we "upgraded" to Windows 7. (Why not?, it was originally a Windows Vista box).
I have Linux on several personal PCs, my media center, lots of systems at work, and some provate clients. Other than WiFi, I have no driver issues, and other than Netflix, no multimedia issues. While DVR functionality is lacking, if you are having multimedia problems, you are having problems, not Linux.
The problem I see with the Boxee Box is that it is competing against HDTVs that can connect with Netflix right out of the box. Plus, these HDTVs are better at displaying video than what Boxee will be able to do.
Boxxee can do 1080p. What TV do you have that can do better? The rest of your comment is dead on... Assuming it eventually gets netflix, even...
Don't get me wrong. I use Linux (Fedora Distro) at work. In fact, I installed it at work over my Windows box and am running Windows under VirtualBox on the machine. I prefer to do my development on Linux because it is faster, and it comes with all the development tools I need. Plus, it is two to three times faster running Subversion and Eclipse than Windows.
However, I have that Windows under VirtualBox instance if I have to read email (our corporation uses Exchange and Evolution is an awful Exchange client). I also use my Windows side if I have to display a video or a Flash application. If I can get Flash to work on Linux, it is splotchy at best, MP4s look awful, and don't even try to run in full screen mode. Linux based Android is much better, but that's because Google isn't shy about adding a few proprietary pieces to get things to work.
You do know that Outlook can run in WINE, right? And I have no problems with flash on my systems. This goes back to my point above... You may want to look at what you are doing with codecs.
Boxee is a nice concept, but they're concentrating too much on cool and not enough on getting things to work at a consumer level.
Agreed...
Which is why human intelligence is much more useful than signal intelligence (data mining).
Exactly. If people can't sift through the mass of information (and misinformation) we have today, what hope does a computer have? Just look at how hard it is to find "The Truth" in todays news, or on the Internet...