"An XBox 360 is the wrong tool for anything but gaming..."
Seriously you don't know what your taking about. I've spent years playing with front ends to put video on the TV. The best I've come across, if you don't need hd output, is an xbmc modded xbox. If you want hd use the 360. Go into your videos section and link it to your shared media. Or even better, use the 360 as an extender to your pc so you can play mkv etc.
Now the original post wanted streaming tv straight from the 360 and that, probably, makes the 360 a horrible choice.
"the content creators DO have a right to limit your access to content they create"
Ummm, no. The goverment has a "right to limit your access" because we as a people (USA in this case) choose to give up our right to do what we want. But at no time does a creators right trump my right.
I'm not sure you should be touting the general purpose computer market as anything but niche. There are far more embedded processors then desktop/laptops/servers.
Yes, it was a pep-talk. He was talking about how close MS was to falling. Do you really think he believes the day is close when MS dies? Give me a break! He knows it's not going away.
Who do you think he was trying to persuade? He was talking to an MS exec (and it's not important if the person was a direct MS employee or another vendor working for MS). The OTHER "person" he was talking to was me. Guess it wasn't you, but then I'd lay dollars to donuts that you already had your mind made up about him long before this.
You said
That wasn't evangelism.
Really? What was it. If you'd like, we can call him a zealot. In the context that "evangelism" is was used for these comments I don't think there would be alot of difference. So I'll give it to you. BUT I'd ask that you go back to all the other posts and correct them too.
No I bet he meant the FOSS evangilests that are smart enough to take advantage of a easy attack.
Next you say that he's
...giving their "enemies" perfect ammunition...
But later you said
...so freaking delusional that he thinks he singlehandedly talked the Fortune 500 into examining open source?
So which is it? Is he important enough to talk the F500 to go with GNU/Linux or is he a nobody that no exec is going to listen too?
Then you say
...so self-absorbed that they dismiss the work of the entire OS community and take credit for their work...
ummm, where did he say/imply that? Was it before he mentioned RMS or Linus (and if you look at what he said, he seems to be impling that they are even HIGHER on the Gnu/Linux food chain then him. Pretty egotisitical of him, no?). Or are you saying he hasn't wrote ALOT on this whole open source thing?
As for
...singlehandedly talked the Fortune 500 into examining open source?
Do you really think F500 companies do things just because their employee's think it's a good idea? Maybe, as an outside source he really was in a position to influence them?
And finally (since I have work to do)
...if this is an example of a FOSS evangelist...
UMM DUH! What the heck do you think an "evangelist" does? He got a 2 for 1 here... he got a free swipe at MS AND he got to give a peep talk to the troops.
So I say to you..
Are you the kind of person who's just so ignorant they can't think this thru OR are you a MS fangirl?
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"An XBox 360 is the wrong tool for anything but gaming..."
Seriously you don't know what your taking about. I've spent years playing with front ends to put video on the TV. The best I've come across, if you don't need hd output, is an xbmc modded xbox. If you want hd use the 360. Go into your videos section and link it to your shared media. Or even better, use the 360 as an extender to your pc so you can play mkv etc.
Now the original post wanted streaming tv straight from the 360 and that, probably, makes the 360 a horrible choice.
left hand, right hand, gripping hand? NO it's not a porn reference!
"the content creators DO have a right to limit your access to content they create"
Ummm, no. The goverment has a "right to limit your access" because we as a people (USA in this case) choose to give up our right to do what we want. But at no time does a creators right trump my right.
I'm not sure you should be touting the general purpose computer market as anything but niche. There are far more embedded processors then desktop/laptops/servers.
nice one!
Who do you think he was trying to persuade? He was talking to an MS exec (and it's not important if the person was a direct MS employee or another vendor working for MS). The OTHER "person" he was talking to was me. Guess it wasn't you, but then I'd lay dollars to donuts that you already had your mind made up about him long before this.
You said Really? What was it. If you'd like, we can call him a zealot. In the context that "evangelism" is was used for these comments I don't think there would be alot of difference. So I'll give it to you. BUT I'd ask that you go back to all the other posts and correct them too.
Next you say that he's
But later you said So which is it? Is he important enough to talk the F500 to go with GNU/Linux or is he a nobody that no exec is going to listen too?Then you say
ummm, where did he say/imply that? Was it before he mentioned RMS or Linus (and if you look at what he said, he seems to be impling that they are even HIGHER on the Gnu/Linux food chain then him. Pretty egotisitical of him, no?). Or are you saying he hasn't wrote ALOT on this whole open source thing?As for
Do you really think F500 companies do things just because their employee's think it's a good idea? Maybe, as an outside source he really was in a position to influence them?And finally (since I have work to do)
UMM DUH! What the heck do you think an "evangelist" does? He got a 2 for 1 here... he got a free swipe at MS AND he got to give a peep talk to the troops.So I say to you.. Are you the kind of person who's just so ignorant they can't think this thru OR are you a MS fangirl?
-Smalltime Linux evangelist