More or less, yes. I want Windows 7 Media Center without having to use a Windows 7 desktop install. Or MythTV without the PITA setup and configuration. Or a Tivo without the monthly fee. Or a Boxee or XBMC install with a DVR that I can run on Linux but also be able to watch Netflix and other online streaming channels.
A GoogleTV appliance should be able to do these things.
It would be nice if they'd take bits of sageTV and package it into a GoogleTV software package that I could install myself. I would love to put together a quiet SFF PC for the living room with my own specs, OTA tuners, and be able to use Android DVR and Media Center apps to have everything all in once nice web-enabled box.
This. I have an original Droid, which beat the graphics specs of the 3GS. Then the 4 comes out with their retina display crap, and we're still seeing Android phones with the same screen specs of the first Droid X! Are manufacturers just that blind or are there limitations on the Android software that don't support higher resolutions? Seems like one of the selling points of Ice Cream Sandwich was the HD resolution...maybe that's the fix? Just seems like 2 years after the Droid debut we should have much better hardware. Motorola, HTC, Samsung...you want to have a compelling selling point over the iPhone? Give me an HD screen, great battery life, and fast and quality camera hardware. Not a 6.5" screen on a phone with 2 year old resolution and a 50 megapixel piece of crap camera that's slow.
So if I got a GTV at $99 now, it will be able to be upgraded to Honeycomb when it comes out? It was a nonstarter at 250 for something with unknown value, but I’d consider it at 99. Can I play media that is on my network via the GoogleTV, too?
You know what I want out of GoogleTV?
I want the media center capabilities of a Boxee or XBMC. I want the android market and internet prowess and ability to browse with a full-on browser a la the current GoogleTV.
And I want it in a box with a Cablecard where I can hook up an external or NAS drive and use it for a DVR. Or at least an OTA tuner. Android DVR app anyone?
*That* I would pay $250 for. A living room Youtube player? No.
I signed up for an invite and it came the other night. I immediately signed up to check it out, went to add the mobile app and found that it required a Premium membership. Immediately uninstalled. I didn't really get the premise in the first place but thought I'd give it a chance to see what all the buzz is about. But I'm not going to use it on a desktop - I can't stream at work which is where I spend most of my computer time anyway. There, or at home I'm likely to use my phone. It seems like if I want a specific song and have to pay for it, I'll buy it on Amazon. If I want to listen to random music I'll use Pandora or Slacker Radio or any number of thousands or Shoutcast streams, or streams of terrestrial radio via TuneinRadio. All for free.
What am I supposed to do with Spotify? And why would I ever pay for it as well?
FWIW, try to find a phone number to call Netflix, or even an email address to submit suggestions on netflix.com. There aren't any.
It must have changed since I last looked, but way back the only way you could contact them was *only* a phone number. I remember trying to find some contact info to send some suggestions and they had some blurb about not wanting impersonal email and instead wanted you to phone them. .
Why is it that whenever these types of articles come up it's next to impossible to find the actual list of offending apps, if at all. So which are the 11 apps that send SMS out without permission?
Ouch. 18% of Android users defecting to iPhone is considered "loyal"? I guess it is considering 41% of RIM users say they're moving to iPhones.
Isn't that saying that 82% of Android users intend to stay on the platform and would not consider an iPhone? What's the turnover rate on any phone model/brand?
What tax breaks do married couples get? After we got married the government bent us over backwards each year until we figured out that married couples really only get tax benefits if we lived in the 1950s and had a single earner with the other partner being a bum and staying home. If you've got two educated people each with reasonable professional jobs, they get married and the government screws them.
Reboots are a normal part of usage, a reboot app is one of the most popular.
This. My wife was complaining about having to pull the battery on her Storm 2 recently. I told her to just shut it off (i.e., hold the power button until it shuts down) and to a full reset. She said she couldn't - it just comes back up. I didn't believe it until I looked it up. Pulling the battery is apparently a long time accepted practice for BBs, and like you note - all of the suggestions to do it without pulling the battery were for a reboot app. What the heck??
The thing is, they wouldn't replace state sales taxes with a federal sales tax/VAT. You'd get a shiny new federal sales tax, PLUS your existing state/county/local taxes. Oh, and don't forget to tax whomever the in vogue boogeyman is at the time, too.
That'd be great, but which competitor is going to offer it? Hulu? They're neutered. Amazon? I can't play that on nearly the devices I can with Netflix. Cable companies with on demand? You're still stuck to cable/satellite then.
Streaming really should be the way of the future but the content companies are killing it off as much as they can. Someone really needs to buy one of the content companies, make the stuff available and lead the way.
I've got the 2-at a time currently (plus unlimited streaming), at 14.99/mo. My account page says it'll jump to $19.98 come Sept 1. Looks like the breakdown of that will be 11.99 for the DVDs (2), and 7.99 for the streaming. Says 3 DVDs will be 15.99/mo. for just DVDs, 23.98 for 3 at a time plus streaming. So basically 5 bucks more a month?
Opt out by not using them? Don't you opt-in by initiating or accepting a video chat in the first place? Wouldn't it work the same as opting out of Skype video chats?
When do we get the new Slashdot feature to block all 'I don't use Facebook because it's stupid / don't have any friends I want to connect with / whatever other high-horse reason' posts so you can actually discuss new relevant to one of the largest online applications in the world?
Can you send me: current employer, your residences for the last 10 years, your home and/or cell number, all currently used email addresses (plus password! the FB special), photos of you and friends, vacation schedule, where you like to eat/shop, your sexual preferences and anything else I missed... Thanks!
You don't have to put any of that on FB, and by no means make any of that public that you don't want to either. I never entered my employment info (past or present), didn't want my cell phone out there just in case, don't have my personal address or email address there. Sure, I post links and pics occasionally and interact with my friends but the things I post on my account those in my network of friends can see. If I post something on someone else's profile I'm fully aware that other people might see that. If I stick a sign in my friend's yard that says 'hey let's get drunk tonight' why the hell would I think that would be private?
Facebook isn't that fucking hard, but by reading Slashdot you'd think otherwise.
So what *is* the TCO over say 10 years for a gas vs electric? And might as well bump that up to 30 mpg for the gas as you can easily get a smaller sedan at that range for 20-30k.
The thing is, how does the public, judiciary, and executive know this affects them? The public will continue to buy its shiny toys not caring who makes them or how. The courts will readily continue to process patent suits and not care. And how will the people making the laws/rules care if their public and the people trying the cases don't care?
I'm pretty sure they've always grandfathered plan changes like this...if you have unlimited now you should have it for the duration of the contract. It sounded like it was up in the air as to whether if you renew a grandfathered contract you would continue to have unlimited data or not, but I guess we'll see. Hopefully there are some good controls to measure your data usage and projections.
I've wondered about this for even a local network. At my last job we'd have desktop machines with gobs of free hard drive space. Wouldn't it be nice if you could capture that free space on each machine and pool it all as sort of a local distributed network storage? Heck, build it into the OS and you'd be set.
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More or less, yes. I want Windows 7 Media Center without having to use a Windows 7 desktop install. Or MythTV without the PITA setup and configuration. Or a Tivo without the monthly fee. Or a Boxee or XBMC install with a DVR that I can run on Linux but also be able to watch Netflix and other online streaming channels.
A GoogleTV appliance should be able to do these things.
It would be nice if they'd take bits of sageTV and package it into a GoogleTV software package that I could install myself. I would love to put together a quiet SFF PC for the living room with my own specs, OTA tuners, and be able to use Android DVR and Media Center apps to have everything all in once nice web-enabled box.
This. I have an original Droid, which beat the graphics specs of the 3GS. Then the 4 comes out with their retina display crap, and we're still seeing Android phones with the same screen specs of the first Droid X! Are manufacturers just that blind or are there limitations on the Android software that don't support higher resolutions? Seems like one of the selling points of Ice Cream Sandwich was the HD resolution...maybe that's the fix? Just seems like 2 years after the Droid debut we should have much better hardware. Motorola, HTC, Samsung...you want to have a compelling selling point over the iPhone? Give me an HD screen, great battery life, and fast and quality camera hardware. Not a 6.5" screen on a phone with 2 year old resolution and a 50 megapixel piece of crap camera that's slow.
So if I got a GTV at $99 now, it will be able to be upgraded to Honeycomb when it comes out? It was a nonstarter at 250 for something with unknown value, but I’d consider it at 99. Can I play media that is on my network via the GoogleTV, too?
You know what I want out of GoogleTV?
I want the media center capabilities of a Boxee or XBMC. I want the android market and internet prowess and ability to browse with a full-on browser a la the current GoogleTV.
And I want it in a box with a Cablecard where I can hook up an external or NAS drive and use it for a DVR. Or at least an OTA tuner. Android DVR app anyone?
*That* I would pay $250 for. A living room Youtube player? No.
I signed up for an invite and it came the other night. I immediately signed up to check it out, went to add the mobile app and found that it required a Premium membership. Immediately uninstalled. I didn't really get the premise in the first place but thought I'd give it a chance to see what all the buzz is about. But I'm not going to use it on a desktop - I can't stream at work which is where I spend most of my computer time anyway. There, or at home I'm likely to use my phone. It seems like if I want a specific song and have to pay for it, I'll buy it on Amazon. If I want to listen to random music I'll use Pandora or Slacker Radio or any number of thousands or Shoutcast streams, or streams of terrestrial radio via TuneinRadio. All for free.
What am I supposed to do with Spotify? And why would I ever pay for it as well?
FWIW, try to find a phone number to call Netflix, or even an email address to submit suggestions on netflix.com. There aren't any.
It must have changed since I last looked, but way back the only way you could contact them was *only* a phone number. I remember trying to find some contact info to send some suggestions and they had some blurb about not wanting impersonal email and instead wanted you to phone them. .
Why is it that whenever these types of articles come up it's next to impossible to find the actual list of offending apps, if at all. So which are the 11 apps that send SMS out without permission?
Ouch. 18% of Android users defecting to iPhone is considered "loyal"? I guess it is considering 41% of RIM users say they're moving to iPhones.
Isn't that saying that 82% of Android users intend to stay on the platform and would not consider an iPhone? What's the turnover rate on any phone model/brand?
What tax breaks do married couples get? After we got married the government bent us over backwards each year until we figured out that married couples really only get tax benefits if we lived in the 1950s and had a single earner with the other partner being a bum and staying home. If you've got two educated people each with reasonable professional jobs, they get married and the government screws them.
Reboots are a normal part of usage, a reboot app is one of the most popular.
This. My wife was complaining about having to pull the battery on her Storm 2 recently. I told her to just shut it off (i.e., hold the power button until it shuts down) and to a full reset. She said she couldn't - it just comes back up. I didn't believe it until I looked it up. Pulling the battery is apparently a long time accepted practice for BBs, and like you note - all of the suggestions to do it without pulling the battery were for a reboot app. What the heck??
If you still have any I'd take one :-)
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The thing is, they wouldn't replace state sales taxes with a federal sales tax/VAT. You'd get a shiny new federal sales tax, PLUS your existing state/county/local taxes. Oh, and don't forget to tax whomever the in vogue boogeyman is at the time, too.
That'd be great, but which competitor is going to offer it? Hulu? They're neutered. Amazon? I can't play that on nearly the devices I can with Netflix. Cable companies with on demand? You're still stuck to cable/satellite then.
Streaming really should be the way of the future but the content companies are killing it off as much as they can. Someone really needs to buy one of the content companies, make the stuff available and lead the way.
I've got the 2-at a time currently (plus unlimited streaming), at 14.99/mo. My account page says it'll jump to $19.98 come Sept 1. Looks like the breakdown of that will be 11.99 for the DVDs (2), and 7.99 for the streaming. Says 3 DVDs will be 15.99/mo. for just DVDs, 23.98 for 3 at a time plus streaming. So basically 5 bucks more a month?
Great! Let me change my wiring and/or local power utility so I can get the most potential out of my light bulbs!
Opt out by not using them? Don't you opt-in by initiating or accepting a video chat in the first place? Wouldn't it work the same as opting out of Skype video chats?
When do we get the new Slashdot feature to block all 'I don't use Facebook because it's stupid / don't have any friends I want to connect with / whatever other high-horse reason' posts so you can actually discuss new relevant to one of the largest online applications in the world?
Can you send me: current employer, your residences for the last 10 years, your home and/or cell number, all currently used email addresses (plus password! the FB special), photos of you and friends, vacation schedule, where you like to eat/shop, your sexual preferences and anything else I missed... Thanks!
You don't have to put any of that on FB, and by no means make any of that public that you don't want to either. I never entered my employment info (past or present), didn't want my cell phone out there just in case, don't have my personal address or email address there. Sure, I post links and pics occasionally and interact with my friends but the things I post on my account those in my network of friends can see. If I post something on someone else's profile I'm fully aware that other people might see that. If I stick a sign in my friend's yard that says 'hey let's get drunk tonight' why the hell would I think that would be private?
Facebook isn't that fucking hard, but by reading Slashdot you'd think otherwise.
So what *is* the TCO over say 10 years for a gas vs electric? And might as well bump that up to 30 mpg for the gas as you can easily get a smaller sedan at that range for 20-30k.
What else does your magical crystal ball show? Who's going to win the next 5 Super Bowls so I can bet on the winner?
So efficiency is a crime now? You're tired argument is irrelevant.
The thing is, how does the public, judiciary, and executive know this affects them? The public will continue to buy its shiny toys not caring who makes them or how. The courts will readily continue to process patent suits and not care. And how will the people making the laws/rules care if their public and the people trying the cases don't care?
I'm pretty sure they've always grandfathered plan changes like this...if you have unlimited now you should have it for the duration of the contract. It sounded like it was up in the air as to whether if you renew a grandfathered contract you would continue to have unlimited data or not, but I guess we'll see. Hopefully there are some good controls to measure your data usage and projections.
Plus you can easily share a dropbox folder with another user, and collaborate on those files. And everything stays in sync there, too.
I've wondered about this for even a local network. At my last job we'd have desktop machines with gobs of free hard drive space. Wouldn't it be nice if you could capture that free space on each machine and pool it all as sort of a local distributed network storage? Heck, build it into the OS and you'd be set.