No, the Slashdot crowd is picking their battles. mplayer is to a point where you can reasonably excercise your fair use rights and the patent mongers are no longer chomping at the bit to shut you down. It's kinda like those ancient 'no spitting on the sidewalk' laws on the books in most cities. You could run around with your hair on fire bitching about them but as long as noone else cares then why should you?
I guess if I came up with some technobabble name for it and claimed that NASA had something to do with it's construction it'd sell big.
That's the old way of making a piece of crap cool. Now you just paint it white and put a half eaten apple on it. Then the prentitious will flock to it like bees on honey... I'm just bitter 'cause I can't afford an iBook.
More like a 'first impressions' or a 'steaming pile of subjective blabber.' He drones on and on rarely talking about the actual device. He fails to compare to other 'PMC's like the Lyra or Archos. No mention of Divx, mp4, ogg, And the whole time he sounds like he's plugging DRM, monthly subscription licensing, and WMP of all things. Either he is truely a cool-aide drinkin' fanboy or he's getting a paycheck.
As for being a geek, he didn't try to take it apart because he didn't have a small enough screw-driver? What? He couldn't even get it to turn on!
NPR makes almost all of their shows available online.
Seriously, though. After Betamax and TiVo lawsuits, what makes them thing they're so special? Hell, you can't even use the DMCA in this case as he's only grabbing the analog of the broadcast.
I call BS. Real easily has Apple beat in the "worst behaved Windows installs of a media utility in well, pretty much ever" category. But we'll give them a close second.
They're actually pushing out retail copies with SP2 on 'em? The same SP2 that many companies (including the one I work for) advise against installing? The same SP2 that breaks scores of 3rd party software?
Fair enough... put an old RedHat system on the net and have a go. I bet you get more than 20 minutes before a forced restart. Add to that the fact that many (most?) XP owners have the old edition and aren't about to go buy a new one just because it has SP2 pre-installed.
The tall and skinny of it is this: Joe User has a copy of XP. He can't even run that copy long enough to get patched. He's not going to(nor should he have to) spend cash on an updated version of 'XP' that is actually usable. Same Joe User has RedHat 8 lying around. While there's a slight chance some haxor could nab him he probably has the time to type the 3 commands necessary to upgrade his box to the latest Fedora Core release.
I guess that depends on what you mean by "have to". An out of the box Fedora Core 2 system will work and play just nicely with your email, office, internet, graphics, video, etc. An OOB Windows XP install will only last 20 minutes once connected to the internet.
Actually, if you even jump in the middle of the series you're kinda going to be lost. I started watching it about a year ago by renting the DVDs from netflix in order. My netflix account expired so now I'm only catching the reruns and with a plethora of new characters, sub-plots, and storylines I'm decently confused. Hell, the last episode had a new character I've never seen on the ship, no Moya or Pilot, a dead guy invading the mind of the main character, and 2 good guys trying to kill each other in a cartoon?
Let's hope they have some kind of summation before they really get into it.
the next technological slugfest where there are no rewards for second place.
So who exactly won the first +/- slugfest? Seems that now dual format drives are all the rage and most places sell both media side by side. Personally, I'm a fan of the -Rs as they seem to be slightly cheaper however most of my co-workers prefer their +Rs cause that's all a few of their DVD players will handle.
Stop selecting what you're going to open the source on based on what has the least market impact. Stop opening source under licenses that noone would accept. Stop using open source as an advertising gimick rather than development and community way of life. Open source welcomes alternative competing projects while MS does everything in its power to prevent them. You can't just open the source for 'goofy rarely used tool' and expect developers to turn their cheek.
I applaud Josh and what he's trying to do but he's fighting MS's entire business model and as soon their jaunts into open source no longer look profitable, you can bet they'll drop the initiatives like a bad habit.
If noone clues ol' Mark in he might run off to the MPAA with the 'just make the movies a terabyte' business and maybe they'll leave technology the hell alone!
After seeing "The Hulk" and "Daredevil" Lucas though "hey, my ignorant slop doesn't look half bad. I can make money off that."
Seriously, this man should be sued for robbing the world of what could've been extremely valuable pieces of culture that positively influenced the lives of youths as much as the original did decades ago. I don't really care if he's coming out with 3 more. In my eyes, there will only ever be 3 starwars movies.
I always thought 'innocent until proven guilty' was somewhat dominant idea of US justice system.
You're kidding right? For decades now it's been "innocent until broke." At least back in the day the legislators tried to pretend like they had the people's interests in mind. Now it's quite obvious they're bought and paid for as well.
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Alternate reviews indicate it only plays WMV, MPEG1, and MPEG2. No divx/xvid.
there are a number of superior devices readily available:
Archos AV3xx
Archos AV4xx
iRiver PMP-1xx
RCA Lyra 27xx
All of the above at LEAST play mpeg 4 video. Most can record Audio, some video, and one is ever a PVR. Educate thyself, consumer.
And if you're a linux nut, I believe both the Archos and iRiver are Linux based however neither appear hacked to any great degree.
No, the Slashdot crowd is picking their battles. mplayer is to a point where you can reasonably excercise your fair use rights and the patent mongers are no longer chomping at the bit to shut you down. It's kinda like those ancient 'no spitting on the sidewalk' laws on the books in most cities. You could run around with your hair on fire bitching about them but as long as noone else cares then why should you?
I guess if I came up with some technobabble name for it and claimed that NASA had something to do with it's construction it'd sell big.
That's the old way of making a piece of crap cool. Now you just paint it white and put a half eaten apple on it. Then the prentitious will flock to it like bees on honey... I'm just bitter 'cause I can't afford an iBook.
I thought in the Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back DVD extra material Kevin Smith was retiring the characters? Not that I'm disappointed.
Apple had originally made ambitious plans for Copland
In all fairness I think it was Stallone's acting that did it in.
He still has no teeth and the doctors claim he can get a set next year.
They're waiting for a shoulder to open up.
...he's a CEO that knows *something* about technology. That's an improvement.
More like a 'first impressions' or a 'steaming pile of subjective blabber.' He drones on and on rarely talking about the actual device. He fails to compare to other 'PMC's like the Lyra or Archos. No mention of Divx, mp4, ogg, And the whole time he sounds like he's plugging DRM, monthly subscription licensing, and WMP of all things. Either he is truely a cool-aide drinkin' fanboy or he's getting a paycheck.
As for being a geek, he didn't try to take it apart because he didn't have a small enough screw-driver? What? He couldn't even get it to turn on!
NPR makes almost all of their shows available online.
Seriously, though. After Betamax and TiVo lawsuits, what makes them thing they're so special? Hell, you can't even use the DMCA in this case as he's only grabbing the analog of the broadcast.
Screw that... If it's a diebold a slightly creative person could get who everyone voted for and change them right there on the spot.
Integration of Access in a Diebold machine is a much more serious offense than integration of IE in a WinAMP.
I call BS. Real easily has Apple beat in the "worst behaved Windows installs of a media utility in well, pretty much ever" category. But we'll give them a close second.
They're actually pushing out retail copies with SP2 on 'em? The same SP2 that many companies (including the one I work for) advise against installing? The same SP2 that breaks scores of 3rd party software?
Fair enough... put an old RedHat system on the net and have a go. I bet you get more than 20 minutes before a forced restart. Add to that the fact that many (most?) XP owners have the old edition and aren't about to go buy a new one just because it has SP2 pre-installed.
The tall and skinny of it is this: Joe User has a copy of XP. He can't even run that copy long enough to get patched. He's not going to(nor should he have to) spend cash on an updated version of 'XP' that is actually usable. Same Joe User has RedHat 8 lying around. While there's a slight chance some haxor could nab him he probably has the time to type the 3 commands necessary to upgrade his box to the latest Fedora Core release.
Interesting box that must've come in. You aren't Joe user.
I guess that depends on what you mean by "have to". An out of the box Fedora Core 2 system will work and play just nicely with your email, office, internet, graphics, video, etc. An OOB Windows XP install will only last 20 minutes once connected to the internet.
I'd love to be in the room when the "brains" behind the RIAA finally say "screw it - we lost."
I believe it would sounds something like this:
Chimp 1: Ooga Boog
Chimp 2: Eee Eee Eee Eee
Chimp 1: Oobooga Ooga Ooga
Chimp 2: Eee Eee...
Chimp 1: *sigh* Ooga
Exit stage left.
Actually, if you even jump in the middle of the series you're kinda going to be lost. I started watching it about a year ago by renting the DVDs from netflix in order. My netflix account expired so now I'm only catching the reruns and with a plethora of new characters, sub-plots, and storylines I'm decently confused. Hell, the last episode had a new character I've never seen on the ship, no Moya or Pilot, a dead guy invading the mind of the main character, and 2 good guys trying to kill each other in a cartoon?
Let's hope they have some kind of summation before they really get into it.
the next technological slugfest where there are no rewards for second place.
So who exactly won the first +/- slugfest? Seems that now dual format drives are all the rage and most places sell both media side by side. Personally, I'm a fan of the -Rs as they seem to be slightly cheaper however most of my co-workers prefer their +Rs cause that's all a few of their DVD players will handle.
Stop selecting what you're going to open the source on based on what has the least market impact. Stop opening source under licenses that noone would accept. Stop using open source as an advertising gimick rather than development and community way of life. Open source welcomes alternative competing projects while MS does everything in its power to prevent them. You can't just open the source for 'goofy rarely used tool' and expect developers to turn their cheek.
I applaud Josh and what he's trying to do but he's fighting MS's entire business model and as soon their jaunts into open source no longer look profitable, you can bet they'll drop the initiatives like a bad habit.
If noone clues ol' Mark in he might run off to the MPAA with the 'just make the movies a terabyte' business and maybe they'll leave technology the hell alone!
After seeing "The Hulk" and "Daredevil" Lucas though "hey, my ignorant slop doesn't look half bad. I can make money off that."
Seriously, this man should be sued for robbing the world of what could've been extremely valuable pieces of culture that positively influenced the lives of youths as much as the original did decades ago. I don't really care if he's coming out with 3 more. In my eyes, there will only ever be 3 starwars movies.
I always thought 'innocent until proven guilty' was somewhat dominant idea of US justice system. You're kidding right? For decades now it's been "innocent until broke." At least back in the day the legislators tried to pretend like they had the people's interests in mind. Now it's quite obvious they're bought and paid for as well.
In a fair world the price of software would be proportional to the difficulty and cost of its creation as well as its usefulness.
Odd world where Linux is free and Windows is expensive, eh?
But they come in pink! Damnit... slashdotters never learn.