Except for the June 2006 "Dapper Drake" release. I believe it was their first LTS release. They should delay this LTS release too. Who the heck wants a buggy, memory leaking X.org version, or an outdated version of GLX? Some advice Ubuntu devs: Wait. Get the bug fixed. Get it right, then release. The world won't end if Ubuntu is two months late.
If you have any of the current generation console gaming systems (xbox 360, PS3, or Wii) you can use those as a frontend to a Playon server and can stream a vast variety of web content including Hulu, Netflix, Comedy Central (the latest Playon build pulls Daily Show and Colbert Report episodes from Comedy Central since these shows were dropped from Hulu on March 9), and much much more through the use of scripts and plugins.
The solution is for everyone to pull money out of Chase bank and cancel their accounts. Granted, like any boycott is may not be very effective, but that's about all the individual can do. See the website move your money for more information http://moveyourmoney.info/
Yes, there's no reason you couldn't hardware decode Ogg/Theora on a mobile device, but all the existing deivices don't have the capability to do so. So if html5 adpot Theora as the standard, all existing smartphone users would be left out in the cold. I'm not saying they shouldn't adopt Ogg/Theora, in fact I think they should, but there are drawbacks.
Thanks, but the E71x is different than the E71 -- it has S60v3 Feature pack 2 instead of Feature Pack 1 among other differences. I don't think this would work for the E71x.
AT&T's customized version of Symbian on the E71x sucks eggs. They have taken away a lot of the great features of Symbian, such as the ability to use the Ovi store, Nokia maps, and simple things like the ability to set up an imap mail account. It's like At&t was paid off by Blackberry to make Symbain a failure in the US smartphone market. I've worked around most of these limitations on my device, but would be interested to know if announcement might lead to the ability to reload the E71x's firmware with a stock Symbian build.
Please folks the rules are you can not get on live if you mode your box. You still have your XBox you just can not play it on line anymore.
Not true. http://www.gamespot.com/pages/forums/show_msgs.php?topic_id=27102710 Microsoft is not allowing banned xbox to connect to media center either. This isn't just about disabling the ability to game on xbox live. They are trying to kill the used xbox 360 market with this move.
And it's problematic if you do like editing config files. At least when I was using it (Suse 10.0 or 10.1?) before I switched to Kubuntu, Yast didn't play well with config files I had hand-edited and tended to overwrite my changes. Package management was god-awful in the Suse 10 release too, but I'm assuming that's been fixed by now.
Any device that uses DRM to limit what the user can do after they have purchased it has already lost, in my opinion. The Amazon Kindle 1984 deletion debacle is a good example of why giving the manufacturer control of the content on the device is a very bad thing.
I like to OWN the things that I buy, not license them. Why does Barnes and Noble have the right to decide that I can only loan MY book to someone else for 14 days?
BS. Auto air conditioning does not reduce mileage very much, according to the article here: http://abcnews.go.com/2020/Autos/story?id=1274541
"As for using the air conditioner, go ahead. It has little impact on gas mileage." So unless you are starting your car and leaving it running in the driveway with the A/c at full blast for five minutes before you drive off, there shouldn't be much of an impact on mileage.
It really depends on the CFL bulb. I have 3 GE G40 bulbs that come on at almost full brightness instantly in my bathroom vanity. The fourth bulb in the fixture is a G40 CFL from Costco that takes about 3 minutes to come up to full brightness. It's a dull red color for several minutes compared to the bright white of the GE bulbs. I also had 3 of these Costco CFL bulbs burn out after only about 4 months of usage too. Cheap Chinese junk.
The freely available x360mediaserver http://sourceforge.net/projects/x360mediaserve/ will send streaming internet radio to the xbox360. It runs on any PC with java (Linux or windows). I haven't tried it with last.fm, but I assume it would work. If it doesn't, run the Lastfm stream through LastFMProxy http://vidar.gimp.org/?page_id=50 and connect to the proxied stream with x360mediaserve.
QT is probably the best GUI toolkit in history, in my opinion. Since it's now available under the LGPL license, I have to assume that the development project the whiner from Google is talking about was done before the LGPL QT 4.5 version was released or is not written in C++. Standardization is fine and all, but please, please don't standardize on GTK. Take a look at the hideously ugly GTK file picker for an example of why the usability of GTK UIs leaves something to be desired.
So don't pay a yearly fee to Microsoft to watch Netflix then. Buy MediaMall's Playon server for a one-time $40 fee and stream Netflix, Hulu, CBS, etc. content to the xbox. It's windows-only, but it does run fine in a VBOX Windows XP virtual machine on a linux host. To hell with Xbox Live. Who needs it?
How about lowing (or even removing) taxesd on things that are likely to help keep you fit.
Or how about we stop using the tax code to coerce people into whatever behavior the political class wants to encourage this month. Just have a flat tax with no exemptions and be done with it.
Well, the Atom 270 and 280 processors they are using for most netbooks don't have VT-x. I assume they left the feature off these chips to save on power draw.
Can someone please tell me why Fox News is always singled out on Slashdot? Is CNN and MSNBC any better? If so, explain.
Fox News tends to have a right wing agenda. Fox was on when I was at the gym yesterday afternoon. They were interviewing some ex-mayor from someplace in New Jersey who was advocating closing the US/Mexico border and was basically claiming that we needed to crack down on illegal immigration because, you see we have hundreds of thousands of these Mexicans sneaking into our country and they would be the biggest threat to the US in spreading the swine flu. Fox News idea of fair and balanced is to give voice to this xenophobic racist crap. That is why many here don't care for Fox News.
That's the advantage of swapping, some one else is worrying about battery replacement. Kind of like your BBQ propane tank, they get old, but its not your problem.
Yes, it would be your problem. Say that I have a brand new car with 150 miles on the battery. I go to one of these battery exchange stations and my new battery gets swapped out for a battery with 200,000 miles on it. That to me would be a big problem (and is why I have only used the BBQ propane exchanges when I have had very old tanks).
If the customer is only billed for the 13 "real" watts used per the summary, then this is a non-issue. I paid for a 13 watt bulb advertising $x in saving on my electric bill, and I get $x in saving on my electric bill. I make my purchasing decisions based on the cost to me, not on the cost to the power company.
The content providers just don't want you using Hulu on your actual TV.
But most TVs sold over the past few years, at least the HDTV LCD and Plasma ones (but not my SDTV unfortunately) have at least one DB15 (vga) or HDMI input. There really isn't much to stop even a fairly clueless tech user from hooking a laptop up to their TV and watching Hulu on the TV. I do think you are right, oracleguy01, that the content providers are trying to make a distinction between TV and PC, but the with the way these things are converging I think they are going to lose on this one. A laptop (which most people already have) and a $16 vga cable from RadioShack http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2261573&tab=techSpecs is really all that is needed to watch the likes of Hulu on a modern TV.
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Except for the June 2006 "Dapper Drake" release. I believe it was their first LTS release. They should delay this LTS release too. Who the heck wants a buggy, memory leaking X.org version, or an outdated version of GLX? Some advice Ubuntu devs: Wait. Get the bug fixed. Get it right, then release. The world won't end if Ubuntu is two months late.
If you have any of the current generation console gaming systems (xbox 360, PS3, or Wii) you can use those as a frontend to a Playon server and can stream a vast variety of web content including Hulu, Netflix, Comedy Central (the latest Playon build pulls Daily Show and Colbert Report episodes from Comedy Central since these shows were dropped from Hulu on March 9), and much much more through the use of scripts and plugins.
The solution is for everyone to pull money out of Chase bank and cancel their accounts. Granted, like any boycott is may not be very effective, but that's about all the individual can do. See the website move your money for more information http://moveyourmoney.info/
Yes, there's no reason you couldn't hardware decode Ogg/Theora on a mobile device, but all the existing deivices don't have the capability to do so. So if html5 adpot Theora as the standard, all existing smartphone users would be left out in the cold. I'm not saying they shouldn't adopt Ogg/Theora, in fact I think they should, but there are drawbacks.
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Thanks, but the E71x is different than the E71 -- it has S60v3 Feature pack 2 instead of Feature Pack 1 among other differences. I don't think this would work for the E71x.
AT&T's customized version of Symbian on the E71x sucks eggs. They have taken away a lot of the great features of Symbian, such as the ability to use the Ovi store, Nokia maps, and simple things like the ability to set up an imap mail account. It's like At&t was paid off by Blackberry to make Symbain a failure in the US smartphone market. I've worked around most of these limitations on my device, but would be interested to know if announcement might lead to the ability to reload the E71x's firmware with a stock Symbian build.
Please folks the rules are you can not get on live if you mode your box. You still have your XBox you just can not play it on line anymore.
Not true. http://www.gamespot.com/pages/forums/show_msgs.php?topic_id=27102710
Microsoft is not allowing banned xbox to connect to media center either. This isn't just about disabling the ability to game on xbox live. They are trying to kill the used xbox 360 market with this move.
And it's problematic if you do like editing config files. At least when I was using it (Suse 10.0 or 10.1?) before I switched to Kubuntu, Yast didn't play well with config files I had hand-edited and tended to overwrite my changes. Package management was god-awful in the Suse 10 release too, but I'm assuming that's been fixed by now.
If you know of any ways to capture Hulu streams (either via webpage or their desktop app), I'd love to know.
I would think that the Hauppauge.com HD PVR http://www.hauppauge.com/site/products/data_hdpvr.html would do the trick, as long as you have a video card that supports component output.
Any device that uses DRM to limit what the user can do after they have purchased it has already lost, in my opinion. The Amazon Kindle 1984 deletion debacle is a good example of why giving the manufacturer control of the content on the device is a very bad thing. I like to OWN the things that I buy, not license them. Why does Barnes and Noble have the right to decide that I can only loan MY book to someone else for 14 days?
Is the N900 locked down via something like Symbian Signed? I know it's not a Symbian device, but given Nokia's history with Sybmian Signed...
BS. Auto air conditioning does not reduce mileage very much, according to the article here: http://abcnews.go.com/2020/Autos/story?id=1274541 "As for using the air conditioner, go ahead. It has little impact on gas mileage." So unless you are starting your car and leaving it running in the driveway with the A/c at full blast for five minutes before you drive off, there shouldn't be much of an impact on mileage.
It really depends on the CFL bulb. I have 3 GE G40 bulbs that come on at almost full brightness instantly in my bathroom vanity. The fourth bulb in the fixture is a G40 CFL from Costco that takes about 3 minutes to come up to full brightness. It's a dull red color for several minutes compared to the bright white of the GE bulbs. I also had 3 of these Costco CFL bulbs burn out after only about 4 months of usage too. Cheap Chinese junk.
Good to know. Thanks AC!
The freely available x360mediaserver http://sourceforge.net/projects/x360mediaserve/ will send streaming internet radio to the xbox360. It runs on any PC with java (Linux or windows). I haven't tried it with last.fm, but I assume it would work. If it doesn't, run the Lastfm stream through LastFMProxy http://vidar.gimp.org/?page_id=50 and connect to the proxied stream with x360mediaserve.
QT is probably the best GUI toolkit in history, in my opinion. Since it's now available under the LGPL license, I have to assume that the development project the whiner from Google is talking about was done before the LGPL QT 4.5 version was released or is not written in C++. Standardization is fine and all, but please, please don't standardize on GTK. Take a look at the hideously ugly GTK file picker for an example of why the usability of GTK UIs leaves something to be desired.
So don't pay a yearly fee to Microsoft to watch Netflix then. Buy MediaMall's Playon server for a one-time $40 fee and stream Netflix, Hulu, CBS, etc. content to the xbox. It's windows-only, but it does run fine in a VBOX Windows XP virtual machine on a linux host. To hell with Xbox Live. Who needs it?
Hence the success of the netbook market segment. Unfortunately for Dell, netbooks have lower profit margins than standard laptops.
How about lowing (or even removing) taxesd on things that are likely to help keep you fit.
Or how about we stop using the tax code to coerce people into whatever behavior the political class wants to encourage this month. Just have a flat tax with no exemptions and be done with it.
Well, the Atom 270 and 280 processors they are using for most netbooks don't have VT-x. I assume they left the feature off these chips to save on power draw.
Can someone please tell me why Fox News is always singled out on Slashdot? Is CNN and MSNBC any better? If so, explain.
Fox News tends to have a right wing agenda. Fox was on when I was at the gym yesterday afternoon. They were interviewing some ex-mayor from someplace in New Jersey who was advocating closing the US/Mexico border and was basically claiming that we needed to crack down on illegal immigration because, you see we have hundreds of thousands of these Mexicans sneaking into our country and they would be the biggest threat to the US in spreading the swine flu. Fox News idea of fair and balanced is to give voice to this xenophobic racist crap. That is why many here don't care for Fox News.
That's the advantage of swapping, some one else is worrying about battery replacement. Kind of like your BBQ propane tank, they get old, but its not your problem.
Yes, it would be your problem. Say that I have a brand new car with 150 miles on the battery. I go to one of these battery exchange stations and my new battery gets swapped out for a battery with 200,000 miles on it. That to me would be a big problem (and is why I have only used the BBQ propane exchanges when I have had very old tanks).
If the customer is only billed for the 13 "real" watts used per the summary, then this is a non-issue. I paid for a 13 watt bulb advertising $x in saving on my electric bill, and I get $x in saving on my electric bill. I make my purchasing decisions based on the cost to me, not on the cost to the power company.
The content providers just don't want you using Hulu on your actual TV.
But most TVs sold over the past few years, at least the HDTV LCD and Plasma ones (but not my SDTV unfortunately) have at least one DB15 (vga) or HDMI input. There really isn't much to stop even a fairly clueless tech user from hooking a laptop up to their TV and watching Hulu on the TV. I do think you are right, oracleguy01, that the content providers are trying to make a distinction between TV and PC, but the with the way these things are converging I think they are going to lose on this one. A laptop (which most people already have) and a $16 vga cable from RadioShack http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2261573&tab=techSpecs is really all that is needed to watch the likes of Hulu on a modern TV.