Maybe you missed the part where I said "Someone needs to build a nice small XBoxMC replacement".
XBMC is already ported to Linux, OS X, and Windows. It's a project that's been refined over the last 4.5 years. All it needs is someone to come in and create a 4"x4"x2" device designed just to use it.
Someone just needs to build a nice small XBMC replacement. Something the size of Popcorn or Apple TV. Donate some engineers / money to the XBMC guys to get it to work with your chipset. Maybe some 1080p hardware decoding.
My XBOX is starting to show its age, but XBMC hands down beats every single one of those players hands down.
I'm not old enough to remember all the promises of '95/'98, etc (More like I didn't care). But I'm already seeing the same XP/Vista/7 cycle start over..
Microsoft is setting themselves up for another round of the same old shit. Vista had favorable reviews from pre-releases and leaked alphas.... and then features started to drop to meet the continually moving release date.
Microsoft is going to have to sever all backwards compatibility at some point if they want a fresh start. Microsoft BOUGHT an Emulator/Virtualizer (Virtual PC), how hard would it be to make a seamless sandboxed XP install?
Not to sound to fanboyish, but Apple has done this TWICE in the last 10 years. First OS 9 -> OS X. Sandboxed everything in Classic. Not everything worked perfect, but it bridged the gap. Then again with the release on Intel If you already had your Apps in XCode all it took was 1 checkmark in a config. That's it. Complete new binary for a new architecture. And if that didn't work you still had Rosetta, which like classic, wasn't perfect but it works. On my laptop I seamlessly run PPC code on an Intel machine with less problems than most people have had with just trying to run Vista.
Not just GUI apps either. I can compile something like coreutils on a PPC machine and run it on an Intel machine, not ideal but it works.
Microsoft is supposedly the 800# gorilla in the corner but it can't figure out how to cut all ties to the past and move on.
Next July 4th, get 1 gallon of gasoline and pour it on some yard scrap. Wait 10 minutes. Walk right up to where you pored and strike a match...
Gasoline tanks won't explode Hollywood style, but if you leak a large amount of gas on a large day, it will vaporize. Any sparks or other ignition sources in the area and you're proper fucked.
There was Napster, but the centralized servers shut it down. Then there was Kazaa, but it was a crap fast. Then there was Bittorrent, shared bandwidth by all.
Our school tried to block BitTorrent too (back 2004-2005 era). One of my friends wrote a simple proxy server than injected a fake HTTP header into every new connection. Went straight through the 'firewall'. You block BitTorrent, it'll move to port 80 and look like HTTP traffic, or port 443 and then you won't know what the hell it is. Maybe it'll look like VOIP next. Maybe all of them.
"Strike Me Down and I Will Become More Powerful Than You Can Possibly Imagine".
If we can't get people upset and up in arms about trampling of the Constitution, Bill of Rights, Police SWAT teams acting like mini-Army battalions, what the hell makes you think they'll get motivated enough to top buying Apple stuff?
Like or hate social networking. Facebook has gone a long way in showing how well PHP can be made to scale. They also contribute quite a bit back to the PHP project and PHP related projects.
5 years ago if anyone came along saying they were going to build a website in PHP./ would be up in arms calling them idiots of all sorts and saying they NEED to go with compiled C or Perl.
That explains why a fair number of my graduating ME class went to work for Toyota in the states. They still engineer stuff in Detroit. Industrial Engineers still work in Alabama, TN, Indiana, etc. And those Engineering jobs aren't in China or India. Toyota, Honda, etc are in Japan. VW, BMW, Porsche, etc are in Germany.
I don't get where./ers are convinced that India and China are full of brilliant engineers that are going to take all of our jobs. There's an Indian at work that came over from India. If you bring this subject up to him he'll explain to you that all the jobs we 'outsource' are just a step above what we give interns to do. Running electrical lines in ProE, etc.
That's for people that can actually get it. My parents live in a semi-rural area and 56k is the only option. It's faster to send them DVDs of what I'm doing than to try and send them a Gallery link. 756k would be just fast enough to get them what they need.
In Jan 1999 Apple announced that it would be $1 per port. As far as I know it's always been $1 per port. Now I don't know of any devices with 10 ports on them (Making the licensing fee $10). Here's a CNET article from the same time.
Both were before USB2.0 was released and considerably less than what you claim.
The agreement essentially brings patents held by these companies into a single portfolio that can then be licensed by manufacturers for a single fee. That fee is US$.25 per system that includes FireWire ports, regardless of the number of patents used or the number of FireWire ports implemented. This is a dramatic decrease from the US$1 per port per device (see "Apple To Charge 'Per-Port' Licensing On FireWire") that Apple originally announced it would charge for its own patents.
The FCC already has 'filtered' frequencies, that doesn't prevent alternatives to operate nearly everywhere. It's called broadcast TV. It's free. It's limited (4-5 channels per locale). It's filtered (7 words you can't say on TV). You still have 2 Satellite companies and Cable.
I would STILL pay for cable internet, as would a large portion of who do right now. But free internet would be wonderful for my parents or when I'm on the road. I'm not asking for 10Mb connections to every house, but 512K would be useful. Filter it, I don't care. But I'd be able to actually send my parents pictures of the newborn or almost anything else. It would also force 'paid for' alternatives to actually have competition. My cable bill for JUST cable is $65 a month. That's stupid, but dial-up is not an alternative. A good portion of the people on 'high speed' lines today could easily get by with 512Kb/s. Cable/DSL companies would have to do something to get those customers back.
56K is absolutely worthless now days. You can't even call what you're doing surfing. Back when I first got internet at my parents home most sites were designed for modems.
GPS is one way. You could easily set up a "Push" technology. It's the way the Atomic clocks work along with some areas that have weather delivered by a certain frequency.
Problem is everyone would have to be watching the SAME thing all the time.
And as far as "Pull" technologies, look how much satellite phones cost.
With this thinking nothing will ever be a viable "alternative" fuel. Every little bit helps. If oil really is running out, then we are in trouble. But say in 50 years we have: 1% of BioD from Coffee 5% from Hemp 8% from Switch Grass 9% from Soybeans 10% from Human Excrement. 10% from Animal Excrement. 15% from GTL....
Nothing alone is going to replace this magical black liquid made from millions of years of compressing carbons into a very energy dense medium.
Fleshlight's technology still doesn't seem to be used for illumination purposes. I'm sure they could harness that and power most large metropolitan areas.
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The AppleTV is woefully underpowered and too expensive.
And "Interface" is just a matter of what skin you have installed, my XBMC looks gorgeous as is.
Maybe you missed the part where I said "Someone needs to build a nice small XBoxMC replacement".
XBMC is already ported to Linux, OS X, and Windows. It's a project that's been refined over the last 4.5 years. All it needs is someone to come in and create a 4"x4"x2" device designed just to use it.
Someone just needs to build a nice small XBMC replacement. Something the size of Popcorn or Apple TV. Donate some engineers / money to the XBMC guys to get it to work with your chipset. Maybe some 1080p hardware decoding.
My XBOX is starting to show its age, but XBMC hands down beats every single one of those players hands down.
I'm not old enough to remember all the promises of '95/'98, etc (More like I didn't care). But I'm already seeing the same XP/Vista/7 cycle start over..
Microsoft is setting themselves up for another round of the same old shit. Vista had favorable reviews from pre-releases and leaked alphas.... and then features started to drop to meet the continually moving release date.
Microsoft is going to have to sever all backwards compatibility at some point if they want a fresh start. Microsoft BOUGHT an Emulator/Virtualizer (Virtual PC), how hard would it be to make a seamless sandboxed XP install?
Not to sound to fanboyish, but Apple has done this TWICE in the last 10 years. First OS 9 -> OS X. Sandboxed everything in Classic. Not everything worked perfect, but it bridged the gap. Then again with the release on Intel If you already had your Apps in XCode all it took was 1 checkmark in a config. That's it. Complete new binary for a new architecture. And if that didn't work you still had Rosetta, which like classic, wasn't perfect but it works. On my laptop I seamlessly run PPC code on an Intel machine with less problems than most people have had with just trying to run Vista.
Not just GUI apps either. I can compile something like coreutils on a PPC machine and run it on an Intel machine, not ideal but it works.
Microsoft is supposedly the 800# gorilla in the corner but it can't figure out how to cut all ties to the past and move on.
Bittorrent ignores them.
News flash, Europe and US use different 'thousands' separator.
Next July 4th, get 1 gallon of gasoline and pour it on some yard scrap. Wait 10 minutes. Walk right up to where you pored and strike a match...
Gasoline tanks won't explode Hollywood style, but if you leak a large amount of gas on a large day, it will vaporize. Any sparks or other ignition sources in the area and you're proper fucked.
There was Napster, but the centralized servers shut it down.
Then there was Kazaa, but it was a crap fast.
Then there was Bittorrent, shared bandwidth by all.
Our school tried to block BitTorrent too (back 2004-2005 era). One of my friends wrote a simple proxy server than injected a fake HTTP header into every new connection. Went straight through the 'firewall'. You block BitTorrent, it'll move to port 80 and look like HTTP traffic, or port 443 and then you won't know what the hell it is. Maybe it'll look like VOIP next. Maybe all of them.
"Strike Me Down and I Will Become More Powerful Than You Can Possibly Imagine".
If we can't get people upset and up in arms about trampling of the Constitution, Bill of Rights, Police SWAT teams acting like mini-Army battalions, what the hell makes you think they'll get motivated enough to top buying Apple stuff?
Apathetic indeed
He can refuse to answer (Our 5th Amendment), he cannot lie (It's perjury under oath)
Then the rest of what you say is irrelevant.
It's the same argument I've heard over and over from "Mac Haters" until they actually sat down and used a Mac.
Ok. I got it to work. Any way you could forward some of that savings from overpay on to me? me@nigeria.com.
Here are the instructions. I tried to make it simple
sudo apt-get install fuse-utils fusesmb unionfs-fusentfs-3g.
For some additional support I'll try to get other file systems.
Like or hate social networking. Facebook has gone a long way in showing how well PHP can be made to scale. They also contribute quite a bit back to the PHP project and PHP related projects.
5 years ago if anyone came along saying they were going to build a website in PHP ./ would be up in arms calling them idiots of all sorts and saying they NEED to go with compiled C or Perl.
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SAIC Motor this week opened a $425 million assembly plant here as part of an effort to lead China's growing market for domestic brands.
And it signed an agreement to buy bit player Etsong (Qingdao) Vehicle Manufacturing Co. Ltd and convert it into a plant that will begin building mini-vehicles by the second half this year, with an initial annual capacity for between 60,000 and 70,000 units.
GM has spent $263 million on this plant that will be used for manufacturing engines for the minicars that GM is selling in China.
"China is a natural" place to produce cars and components less expensively, Wagoner said in a interview in Shanghai, though he added that building GM cars in China for the US market would be a "relatively low priority".
That explains why a fair number of my graduating ME class went to work for Toyota in the states. They still engineer stuff in Detroit. Industrial Engineers still work in Alabama, TN, Indiana, etc. And those Engineering jobs aren't in China or India. Toyota, Honda, etc are in Japan. VW, BMW, Porsche, etc are in Germany.
I don't get where ./ers are convinced that India and China are full of brilliant engineers that are going to take all of our jobs. There's an Indian at work that came over from India. If you bring this subject up to him he'll explain to you that all the jobs we 'outsource' are just a step above what we give interns to do. Running electrical lines in ProE, etc.
That's for people that can actually get it. My parents live in a semi-rural area and 56k is the only option. It's faster to send them DVDs of what I'm doing than to try and send them a Gallery link. 756k would be just fast enough to get them what they need.
Again, bull shiat. Use google before stating "recent developments."
USB 2.0 was released in April 2000.
Those licensing fees were announced in May 1999.
In Jan 1999 Apple announced that it would be $1 per port. As far as I know it's always been $1 per port. Now I don't know of any devices with 10 ports on them (Making the licensing fee $10). Here's a CNET article from the same time.
Both were before USB2.0 was released and considerably less than what you claim.
100% Bull Shiat. Google for the Firewire licensing fees.
The agreement essentially brings patents held by these companies into a single portfolio that can then be licensed by manufacturers for a single fee. That fee is US$.25 per system that includes FireWire ports, regardless of the number of patents used or the number of FireWire ports implemented. This is a dramatic decrease from the US$1 per port per device (see "Apple To Charge 'Per-Port' Licensing On FireWire") that Apple originally announced it would charge for its own patents.
$10 is not in licensing fees.
Like Firewire has been able to do since day 1?
The FCC already has 'filtered' frequencies, that doesn't prevent alternatives to operate nearly everywhere. It's called broadcast TV. It's free. It's limited (4-5 channels per locale). It's filtered (7 words you can't say on TV). You still have 2 Satellite companies and Cable.
I would STILL pay for cable internet, as would a large portion of who do right now. But free internet would be wonderful for my parents or when I'm on the road. I'm not asking for 10Mb connections to every house, but 512K would be useful. Filter it, I don't care. But I'd be able to actually send my parents pictures of the newborn or almost anything else. It would also force 'paid for' alternatives to actually have competition. My cable bill for JUST cable is $65 a month. That's stupid, but dial-up is not an alternative. A good portion of the people on 'high speed' lines today could easily get by with 512Kb/s. Cable/DSL companies would have to do something to get those customers back.
56K is absolutely worthless now days. You can't even call what you're doing surfing. Back when I first got internet at my parents home most sites were designed for modems.
GPS is one way. You could easily set up a "Push" technology. It's the way the Atomic clocks work along with some areas that have weather delivered by a certain frequency.
Problem is everyone would have to be watching the SAME thing all the time.
And as far as "Pull" technologies, look how much satellite phones cost.
With this thinking nothing will ever be a viable "alternative" fuel. Every little bit helps. If oil really is running out, then we are in trouble. But say in 50 years we have:
1% of BioD from Coffee
5% from Hemp
8% from Switch Grass
9% from Soybeans
10% from Human Excrement.
10% from Animal Excrement.
15% from GTL....
Nothing alone is going to replace this magical black liquid made from millions of years of compressing carbons into a very energy dense medium.
Fleshlight's technology still doesn't seem to be used for illumination purposes. I'm sure they could harness that and power most large metropolitan areas.
Oh, good ole TH. Please tell me you didn't go to ISU from CA. Given the ./ demographic I'd say no.
Bashing, the locals, the antics.