Comment Re:Netflix (Score 1) 138
Tivos runs Linux. Tivos support Netflix. Therefore, BoxeeBox might just be able to run Netflix.
It's still ugly, though. Maybe someone will offer a 3rd party case for it.
Pirates as a Marketplace 214
John Riccitiello, the CEO of Electronic Arts, made some revealing comments in an interview with Kotaku about how the company's attitudes are shifting with regard to software piracy. Quoting:
"Some of the people buying this DLC are not people who bought the game in a new shrink-wrapped box. That could be seen as a dark cloud, a mass of gamers who play a game without contributing a penny to EA. But around that cloud Riccitiello identified a silver lining: 'There's a sizable pirate market and a sizable second sale market and we want to try to generate revenue in that marketplace,' he said, pointing to DLC as a way to do it. The EA boss would prefer people bought their games, of course. 'I don't think anybody should pirate anything,' he said. 'I believe in the artistry of the people who build [the games industry.] I profoundly believe that. And when you steal from us, you steal from them. Having said that, there's a lot of people who do.' So encourage those pirates to pay for something, he figures. Riccitiello explained that EA's download services aren't perfect at distinguishing between used copies of games and pirated copies. As a result, he suggested, EA sells DLC to both communities of gamers. And that's how a pirate can turn into a paying customer."
FreeNAS Switching From FreeBSD To Debian Linux 206
dnaumov writes "FreeNAS, a popular, free NAS solution, is moving away from using FreeBSD as its underlying core OS and switching to Debian Linux. Version 0.8 of FreeNAS as well as all further releases are going to be based on Linux, while the FreeBSD-based 0.7 branch of FreeNAS is going into maintenance-only mode, according to main developer Volker Theile. A discussion about the switch, including comments from the developers, can be found on the FreeNAS SourceForge discussion forum. Some users applaud the change, which promises improved hardware compatibility, while others voice concerns regarding the future of their existing setups and lack of ZFS support in Linux."
Comment Re:Pagers were working? (Score 1) 309
They might have used satellites to relay messages through the pager network, but the pagers themselves were talking to local towers.
Comment Re:Cincinnati's Union Terminal! (Score 1) 435
We took our 4yo to Cincinnati's Museum of Natural History & Science this past weekend, and came out a little disappointed. I'm not a huge fan of natural history museums in general, but this felt particularly stale, as though most of the exhibits were designed in the 70's/early-80's and hadn't been updated much since. I suppose a dead animal is a dead animal... but overall, I wasn't impressed, and our son was quite bored (though four years old might not exactly be the target audience!).
We didn't get a chance to do the other two museums (it was late on Sunday, and had free admission to the natural history museum, so free won), but the children's museum looked pretty cool, and Union Terminal itself was gorgeous.
