A browser presents the contents using various presentation layers, i.e. HTML, XHTML, flash, Sivlerlight, etc. It does not just, "connect" to the "content". Boxee just uses a different presentation layer than your other browsers.
Please try to understand the technology before posting. As Abraham Lincoln said, "it is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open ones mouth and thereby remove all doubt."
As a 20+ year IT veteran, I can tell you your rant is retarded. When the bone-head nukes his machine, you tell him why and fix it. That's what you get paid for. When the bone-head nukes it AGAIN, you tell his boss why and you fix it. When he nukes it YET AGAIN, you tell everybody (bosses, co-workers, etc) why, and you fix it. Pretty soon, he's nukeing computers at another work place.
Slowing or stopping a user from doing his job make you the bad guy, and leaves a bad taste in everyone's mouth. Be the martar, take it on the chin, but COMMUNICATE, and everyone will appreciate you.
"never memorize what you can look up"
— Albert Einstein
Also, Nina, cars are just self-propelled wheeled vehicles. They are tools. They solve more problems than they cause, by themselves. It's what car manufacturers and society in general have made of cars which is so bad.
20 years ago, before CD's became popular, I could buy new music for $8 and album. Once an album was out for a while, the price would drop to $5, $3, or even $1 if it was a one-hit wonder. Now, albums sell at $13 bucks a pop, regardless. If sales are down, shouldn't the prices be going down?
I guess that's what the anti-trust lawsuit is about...
You're right, Jake. And, it should be obvious that if someone borrows your car, it would be very easy for them to get in an accident or run down a pedestrian. Therefore, you should be held responsible should such an event happen. The same is true of people selling knives, guns, and toenail clippers. If you made it available, you are culpable for any and all legal infractions.
Your post shows a complete ignorance of how software patents work, and the software marketplace in general. Software patents tend to be extremely general. Look at the Eolas patent: it patented the automatic activiation of an object on a web page. Not a specific implementation of automatic activiation, but any automatic implemenation. That's why you had to manually click on controls to get them to work for a while - Microsoft's route-around-a-bogus-patent.
Also, software development is measured in days, weeks, and months, not years. If you have a feature that will take 2 years to implement, it is completely useless, as the entire computing world will have changed by then.
I think you have a bad case of future-shock, compounded by a lack of experience with software patents and software development. Perhaps you should read up on the subject, starting with the LZW-compressed GIF fiasco. Then read a couple of software project management books, and after that, you should be a little more knowlegeable about the subject. Right now, you just sound like an ignorant noob.
Ah, I see you use the term "piracy" for copyright infringement. That must mean you are a consumer molester. Actually, let's just shorten it to, "molester."
From now on, I dub thee, "Anti-Mike the Molester."
But on the subject, no one made people buy unsafe cars in the '70s, did they? You pays your money and you takes your chances.
Or, to put it another way, the DVD region scheme was supposed to keep new movies available in one region from being released in another region where the movie was still in theaters. Why, then, were the 25 classic DVDs that Pres. Obama gave Simon Jeffery region-encoded?
If you bothered to look at the site, you would see that she wrote an article. She did not submit a comment. She has a contract with Tourism Vancouver, which she says would be violated by handing the article to NBC. (check her comments in the link above.) RTFA, THEN comment.
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Parody
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Re: well matt
In other words, is it even possible to opt out, or is all performance subject to these clowns?
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Sorry, this cracka couldn't resist...
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Please try to understand the technology before posting. As Abraham Lincoln said, "it is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open ones mouth and thereby remove all doubt."
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Be fair...
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Slowing or stopping a user from doing his job make you the bad guy, and leaves a bad taste in everyone's mouth. Be the martar, take it on the chin, but COMMUNICATE, and everyone will appreciate you.
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A better quote from a smarter person
— Albert Einstein
Also, Nina, cars are just self-propelled wheeled vehicles. They are tools. They solve more problems than they cause, by themselves. It's what car manufacturers and society in general have made of cars which is so bad.
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A better quote from a smarter person
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Basic Economics
I guess that's what the anti-trust lawsuit is about...
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Re: Higher Margins in Printed books?!?!?
Hardback: $25-$5 = $20 margin
E-Book: $10 - $0 = $10 margin
Please refrain from posting until AFTER you have PASSED elementary school.
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/sarcasm
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What the...
Where are you, codergod TAM?
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Also, software development is measured in days, weeks, and months, not years. If you have a feature that will take 2 years to implement, it is completely useless, as the entire computing world will have changed by then.
I think you have a bad case of future-shock, compounded by a lack of experience with software patents and software development. Perhaps you should read up on the subject, starting with the LZW-compressed GIF fiasco. Then read a couple of software project management books, and after that, you should be a little more knowlegeable about the subject. Right now, you just sound like an ignorant noob.
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Re: Scare tactics 101
From now on, I dub thee, "Anti-Mike the Molester."
But on the subject, no one made people buy unsafe cars in the '70s, did they? You pays your money and you takes your chances.
Or, to put it another way, the DVD region scheme was supposed to keep new movies available in one region from being released in another region where the movie was still in theaters. Why, then, were the 25 classic DVDs that Pres. Obama gave Simon Jeffery region-encoded?
Once again, the facts play against you. Molester.
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Your logic remains flawed.
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Re: NBC Olympics
Seriously? You post this two-liner and everything is all better?
Oops, I'm probably offending the Imperial Leadr.
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Re: Re: Re: Toursim Vancouver terms, interesting!
If you bothered to look at the site, you would see that she wrote an article. She did not submit a comment. She has a contract with Tourism Vancouver, which she says would be violated by handing the article to NBC. (check her comments in the link above.) RTFA, THEN comment.
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Love to know the name of the artist, and the name of the work. This should be free press for the artist, but the news people f*%ked it up.
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Thought you'd like to know...
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