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Comment: Why do people like this thing? (Score 1) 335

by Manuscript Replica (#26814837) Attached to: Build a BoxeeBox and Wean Yourself From Cable
I tried Boxee once on my iMac, but I really couldn't figure out what exactly people love about it so much. I'm having trouble recalling details, but essentially, it seemed to have "channels" of which the only interesting one was content from Hulu. Since I can already access Hulu with a browser, without having to install this media app with a goofy UI, I was a bit nonplussed.

Boxee also installed a daemon that took over the input from my Apple remote, which I was sorta pissed about.
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Merrill Lynch: 30% of U.S. Households to Own Wii b

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njkid1 writes "According to a report in the Financial Times, the Wii's sales momentum is so strong that some analysts have upgraded their long-term outlooks for the console. Nintendo's new console just came off a very strong performance in January, easily selling more consoles than either the Xbox 360 or Sony's PS3. http://biz.gamedaily.com/industry/feature/?id=1530 9&ncid=AOLGAM000500000000022"
Operating Systems

ESR gives up on Fedora

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greginnj
greginnj writes "Noted Linux evangelist Eric S. Raymond (ESR) has publicly announced that he is giving up on Fedora and switching to Ubuntu: http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2 007-February/msg01006.html Not content to alert RedHat alone, it appears he has also sent out press releases to alert the media: http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/02/21/13402 37 . The announcement has already drawn smackbacks from David Cantrell of RedHat and Alan Cox."
The Almighty Buck

What is the cost of using hosted applications?

Submitted by foniksonik
foniksonik writes "I work at a small company, less than 30 people, and yet the leadership refuses to consider using hosted applications for ANY purpose. They won't consider going to Gmail as a POP email provider, or using Basecamp for Project Management or Harvest for timesheets, Salesforce for CRM. etc. even though these hosted applications would save them a lot of effort/grief as well as time = money.

They claim that there is a huge downside to not 'owning' their own data in these areas and that it far outweighs the savings from not having to manage, maintain and support those tools internally. SO we have created a hodgepodge of opensource versions of the tools (dotProject, timesheet, Sugar) which don't interoperate well together either AND take a lot of time to set up, deploy, configure and customize for our needs. We have competent developers and a team in India we contract to for time intensive troubeshooting... but he time they spend on these apps takes away from time they could be devoting to PAID projects.

What do you think Slashdot? Are hosted apps a money loser, does not having ultimate control of your operational business data (as opposed to your code or other proprietary data) keep you from considering them as a time = money saver? If your company has already made the leap to hosted apps for business use, what are your experiences — good and bad?"

Ah, the Tsar's bazaar's bizarre beaux-arts!