My player, the GoVideo D2730, claimed to do DivX and XVid too. But the support is limited to streaming from a server -- you can't play a DVD containing DivX/XVid files.
I can't tell if the Gateway has the same limitation from reading this review.
With the GoVideo, their PC server software is transcoding the video to MPEG2 on the fly, since the player only has an MPEG2 chip inside. Result: dropped frames, and messed up aspect ratios if you play any video that's not 4:3. Their playlist support is weak too.
Anyway, when they say "streaming" support -- don't get too excited until you actually try it.
A better solution is to make companies display a simplified licensing agreement (EULA), which non-lawyers can easily read and understand. Saying that all users should spend 10 minutes trying to reverse engineer the EULA is crazy! I want a EULA that my dead Grandma (RIP) can understand.
Perhaps we should require EULAs to conform to the same privacy policy summary guidelines as the W3C's Platform for Privacy Preferences (P3P). This would give users a fighting chance to understand what the software is doing under the surface. Granted, the P3P stuff could use some enhancements.
It's like those ads that drug companies run in magazines -- with a full page of fine print. Or like reading US tax forms. We need a Plain English (or language of your choice) summary of what the software claims to do.
I think some private companies tried to make a business out of summarizing overly-long EULAs -- but they probably went out of business (eg: Enonymous). Maybe a W3C P3P-type solution is the answer.
There are studies that show that people become much less productive as they work beyond 60 hours a week.
Any manager who thinks working 80-100 hours a week (for more than a few weeks during the final stretch) is a pointy haired Dilbert-esque manager.
I've also seen people who surf the Internet for 6 hours a day, then spend another 6 hours writing wicked code. Yeah, they spend all day at work, but do they have to? Nope.
I'd say it all depends on your manager more than anything.
I work at a startup. Our engineering manager has kids. He is very reasonable. Yes, we work hard, but we also go home at 7pm, not midnight about 95% of the time.
Small companies are better, too, in that they can provide flexible hours -- I can work at home 1-2 days a week, and/or work a 4x10 schedule vs. 5x8. Try that at a large corporation.
But you will still find that it's hard to see your kid(s). They tend to sleep from 7pm to 7am. Me, I see mine in the morning before work, but not in the evening, since I work ~10am-7pm.
Working from home a few days a week is great -- try that. But make sure you have an office where you can close the door and ignore the knocking! Your kids will demand every ounce of attention they can get.
What a bunch of whiners. It's a free feature. How is this so terrible?
Yes, Yahoo! has "come out of the closet" and said that they, too, are a commercial company, intent on making money off us Internet users. Whoa -- what a surprise! And Google too? Dang!
If you hate commercial companies, just use someone else's toolbar.
And don't forget to sell your Yahoo stock and avoid the Google IPO.
If 10 of my friends all have GMail, and I e-mail them, Google is now caching MY messages on their servers forever!
Without this law, Google is not required to ever delete my e-mails, even after I mark them for deletion -- or cancel my account.
I love google, and their 100,000 servers, but I love some privacy too. You say "don't sign up" -- but what if all my friends sign up? Now everything I write is cached on Google forever, almost like a newsgroup!
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Say your DSL is $35/mo. Say you make $35/hour ($70k/year).
Pick 1 Friday every month and go home 1 hour early. Or, if that's too obvious, shave 3 minute of work off the end of each day.
Even better -- spend an extra 3 minutes reading Slashdot every day. There! Very bold! Feels great, huh?!!
BTW, try unlocking the taskbar and moving things around -- move that QuickLaunch bar somewhere else -- ahhh, much better.
I think you are talking about the System Tray now, right? Not the TaskBar. XP's TaskBar has grouping. XP's System Tray has auto-hide and hidden icons.
I can't tell if the Gateway has the same limitation from reading this review.
With the GoVideo, their PC server software is transcoding the video to MPEG2 on the fly, since the player only has an MPEG2 chip inside. Result: dropped frames, and messed up aspect ratios if you play any video that's not 4:3. Their playlist support is weak too.
Anyway, when they say "streaming" support -- don't get too excited until you actually try it.
A better solution is to make companies display a simplified licensing agreement (EULA), which non-lawyers can easily read and understand. Saying that all users should spend 10 minutes trying to reverse engineer the EULA is crazy! I want a EULA that my dead Grandma (RIP) can understand.
Perhaps we should require EULAs to conform to the same privacy policy summary guidelines as the W3C's Platform for Privacy Preferences (P3P). This would give users a fighting chance to understand what the software is doing under the surface. Granted, the P3P stuff could use some enhancements.
It's like those ads that drug companies run in magazines -- with a full page of fine print. Or like reading US tax forms. We need a Plain English (or language of your choice) summary of what the software claims to do.
I think some private companies tried to make a business out of summarizing overly-long EULAs -- but they probably went out of business (eg: Enonymous). Maybe a W3C P3P-type solution is the answer.
Hi Bill! Is this your first posting to slashdot? Welcome! You will be assimilated. :)
Any manager who thinks working 80-100 hours a week (for more than a few weeks during the final stretch) is a pointy haired Dilbert-esque manager.
I've also seen people who surf the Internet for 6 hours a day, then spend another 6 hours writing wicked code. Yeah, they spend all day at work, but do they have to? Nope.
I work at a startup. Our engineering manager has kids. He is very reasonable. Yes, we work hard, but we also go home at 7pm, not midnight about 95% of the time.
Small companies are better, too, in that they can provide flexible hours -- I can work at home 1-2 days a week, and/or work a 4x10 schedule vs. 5x8. Try that at a large corporation.
But you will still find that it's hard to see your kid(s). They tend to sleep from 7pm to 7am. Me, I see mine in the morning before work, but not in the evening, since I work ~10am-7pm.
Working from home a few days a week is great -- try that. But make sure you have an office where you can close the door and ignore the knocking! Your kids will demand every ounce of attention they can get.
Yes, Yahoo! has "come out of the closet" and said that they, too, are a commercial company, intent on making money off us Internet users. Whoa -- what a surprise! And Google too? Dang!
If you hate commercial companies, just use someone else's toolbar.
And don't forget to sell your Yahoo stock and avoid the Google IPO.
If 10 of my friends all have GMail, and I e-mail them, Google is now caching MY messages on their servers forever!
Without this law, Google is not required to ever delete my e-mails, even after I mark them for deletion -- or cancel my account.
I love google, and their 100,000 servers, but I love some privacy too. You say "don't sign up" -- but what if all my friends sign up? Now everything I write is cached on Google forever, almost like a newsgroup!