You can't wait for it to die because it hurt your feelings? Boo hoo. Hulu is just a means to an end: getting videos to customers in a target market while minimizing distribution costs. Advertisers wouldn't want to pay for European ad-hits, since some of the products aren't available there. They're minimizing their cost by not using bandwidth on the users that their advertisers won't pay to display to.
It's not arbitrary. To make it worth their while to stream outside of the US, Hulu would have to make advertisement deals with companies in various other countries to play while the videos run. They'd still have to filter out countries where the material isn't licensed (in order to avoid violating their own copyrights). The companies that make up Hulu are American companies. It makes the most sense that they would cater to an American audience, and minimize their expenditures in places that they wouldn't earn money from.
Copyright licenses are bitches, aren't they? If I can get my Doctor Who from torrents (they modify the episodes when they run them on Sci-Fi channel), then you can get your |insert US show| from torrents as well. Life just isn't always fair *shrug*
I ditched KDE a long while ago. Brasero has issues....apparently neither GnomeBaker nor K3b do. Use one of those. I've never had trouble with the screensaver, or with one program causing another one to close.
Linux works just fine for me. I use it just like I do Windows. Stuff "just works". Setting up my dual displays was a pain in the ass, but that was a 1-time annoyance. If you are having such big problems with Ubuntu, then why are you still running it?? Why not go back to another OS? And why didn't you use a spare drive to assess potential problems before (apparently) wiping out your old system?
I vote that Emacs doesn't count as an editor. It's basically an OS on its own...I mean, do you ever say "My favorite text editor is Linux!" No? Didn't think so!
Of course there's such a thing as an "HD antenna". I see them sold as such all the time, despite the fact that there's absolutely no difference between it and an "analog antenna". It's all just marketing.
They're starting to sell them at Wal-Mart, and it's a known trick there to claim that you're buying the phone "as a gift", and that the recipient will set it up with their current plan. I don't know if they have a different policy for the iPhone.
A clever engineer *could* do that, if some signal handler were set up to take input from the lines that run to the headphones. I don't think that's the case, although I'm guessing that it must be, in the 2nd gen ones. No matter how talented the engineer, if there isn't something listening for the signal, it'll be for naught.
I don't think the first gen's headphone plug works with a mic. One can find them around though. They plug in through the port on the bottom of the device.
People have built things to plug into the bottom to act as a microphone. I don't know if anyone sells professionally manufactured ones, but I know you can buy peoples' basement-hacked-together things.
You're confusing "limited" and "acceptable". Limited is true about this mod. Heck, it's true about any communication device: It's limited to functioning when it has a valid connection. "Limited" varies device by device. "Acceptable" varies person to person.
I'm hoping that this is some sort of software that you'd install on the device (an app for iPhone, a java applet for most other things, etc). What other method does Google have to get the information? I'm assuming that the Latitude server is talking to some software on the device that can retrieve the relevant location data. I can see people writing modified versions of the Google software that *hides* and can be used as a covert tracking device, without the bother of contacting the person's cell provider. Frankly, the whole thing bothers me too, and not just in that theoretical kind of way that DRM does...
You're an outlier. It's only been since about 2003 or 2004 that Linux has been good enough for me to consider using it exclusively. That's just for software quality, and completely discounting software configuration, which can be a nightmare to do from scratch, given the state of documentation for some programs. I wouldn't expect the average computer user to be *capable* of configuring a Linux system from scratch, let alone wanting to, and finding the time to do so. As Linux continues to mature, it becomes a feasible OS for more and more people....but there will always be *some* program that keeps *some* segment of the population from being able to use the OS that you have smugly called home these past 14 years.
I like rabbit better, although deer steaks are pretty tasty too. Then again, the cook making the rabbit did it fancier than the cook that made the deer....
References to Windows are one of the only times I see geeks proudly proclaiming their ignorance....It's just an OS by a company, not some insane enemy to be avoided at all cost =/
Some sites are set up to redirect only iPhone traffic to a different version of the site...some places generalize that into a mobile version. Regardless, it's perfectly valid, and even helpful, to specify thta you're talking about the apple device in particular.
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You can't wait for it to die because it hurt your feelings? Boo hoo. Hulu is just a means to an end: getting videos to customers in a target market while minimizing distribution costs. Advertisers wouldn't want to pay for European ad-hits, since some of the products aren't available there. They're minimizing their cost by not using bandwidth on the users that their advertisers won't pay to display to.
It's not arbitrary. To make it worth their while to stream outside of the US, Hulu would have to make advertisement deals with companies in various other countries to play while the videos run. They'd still have to filter out countries where the material isn't licensed (in order to avoid violating their own copyrights). The companies that make up Hulu are American companies. It makes the most sense that they would cater to an American audience, and minimize their expenditures in places that they wouldn't earn money from.
Copyright licenses are bitches, aren't they? If I can get my Doctor Who from torrents (they modify the episodes when they run them on Sci-Fi channel), then you can get your |insert US show| from torrents as well. Life just isn't always fair *shrug*
I ditched KDE a long while ago. Brasero has issues....apparently neither GnomeBaker nor K3b do. Use one of those. I've never had trouble with the screensaver, or with one program causing another one to close.
Linux works just fine for me. I use it just like I do Windows. Stuff "just works". Setting up my dual displays was a pain in the ass, but that was a 1-time annoyance. If you are having such big problems with Ubuntu, then why are you still running it?? Why not go back to another OS? And why didn't you use a spare drive to assess potential problems before (apparently) wiping out your old system?
I vote that Emacs doesn't count as an editor. It's basically an OS on its own...I mean, do you ever say "My favorite text editor is Linux!" No? Didn't think so!
Oh, crap! I'd better tell my employers that we've been wasting our time on a toy OS! Thanks a ton, AC!
I had a computer of my own to install programs on at 14. I don't see that as anything unusual in the least.
Of course there's such a thing as an "HD antenna". I see them sold as such all the time, despite the fact that there's absolutely no difference between it and an "analog antenna". It's all just marketing.
A Modest Proposal indeed!
They're starting to sell them at Wal-Mart, and it's a known trick there to claim that you're buying the phone "as a gift", and that the recipient will set it up with their current plan. I don't know if they have a different policy for the iPhone.
A clever engineer *could* do that, if some signal handler were set up to take input from the lines that run to the headphones. I don't think that's the case, although I'm guessing that it must be, in the 2nd gen ones. No matter how talented the engineer, if there isn't something listening for the signal, it'll be for naught.
I don't think the first gen's headphone plug works with a mic. One can find them around though. They plug in through the port on the bottom of the device.
People have built things to plug into the bottom to act as a microphone. I don't know if anyone sells professionally manufactured ones, but I know you can buy peoples' basement-hacked-together things.
You're confusing "limited" and "acceptable". Limited is true about this mod. Heck, it's true about any communication device: It's limited to functioning when it has a valid connection. "Limited" varies device by device. "Acceptable" varies person to person.
I guess it's more the idea of it that creeps me out than anything.
I'm hoping that this is some sort of software that you'd install on the device (an app for iPhone, a java applet for most other things, etc). What other method does Google have to get the information? I'm assuming that the Latitude server is talking to some software on the device that can retrieve the relevant location data. I can see people writing modified versions of the Google software that *hides* and can be used as a covert tracking device, without the bother of contacting the person's cell provider. Frankly, the whole thing bothers me too, and not just in that theoretical kind of way that DRM does...
In California, they have diesel power backup for the cell towers. No loss of service during a power outage (provided it lasts under a few hours)
You're an outlier. It's only been since about 2003 or 2004 that Linux has been good enough for me to consider using it exclusively. That's just for software quality, and completely discounting software configuration, which can be a nightmare to do from scratch, given the state of documentation for some programs. I wouldn't expect the average computer user to be *capable* of configuring a Linux system from scratch, let alone wanting to, and finding the time to do so. As Linux continues to mature, it becomes a feasible OS for more and more people....but there will always be *some* program that keeps *some* segment of the population from being able to use the OS that you have smugly called home these past 14 years.
In most states? Yes. 33 of the states seem to have 70-80mph speed limits on rural highways.
I can't even run games in DX10 on XP...anything that requires Vista, I tend to get the 360 version.
Actually, yes! Cyberlink seems to have a Linux version, the first version of which was announced sometime in 2006.
I like rabbit better, although deer steaks are pretty tasty too. Then again, the cook making the rabbit did it fancier than the cook that made the deer....
References to Windows are one of the only times I see geeks proudly proclaiming their ignorance....It's just an OS by a company, not some insane enemy to be avoided at all cost =/
Some sites are set up to redirect only iPhone traffic to a different version of the site...some places generalize that into a mobile version. Regardless, it's perfectly valid, and even helpful, to specify thta you're talking about the apple device in particular.
Well, yes...I read it as racist because of the repeated use of words like "Niggerbuntu"