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That clip is from part 3 of Moon Machines:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_Machines

Western Digital's WDTV Live can play any file you throw at it. http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.aspx?id=330

It supports many online services as well, but unfortunately no Prime Instant Video. I have yet to see a box that offers everything I want: Local and network media playback, Netflix, Prime.

However, I wish the WDTV had better specs and UI - it can be a little clunky.

I'm on the verge of doing the exact same thing. On that plan are you able to use any of that data for tethering or mobile hotspot? A customer service rep said you can use all of your "up to 5GB" 4G data for tethering if you want, but I found that a little hard to believe.

I see very highly rated negative reviews all the time. They even make a point to show you helpful critical reviews.

Tangent: How on earth do product blogs not have a link to their product page? Nowhere is there a link to feedly.com in their header or sidebar, I have to manually edit the URL. Ridiculous.

That 25/month for one year on the free plan is only for 5Mb down, 1Mb up... not Gb speeds.

Well, that depends on your ISP and where you live. I pay $160/month for a higher-tier internet (Blast) and basic cable from Comcast.

Even if Apple was the first company ever to have a disappearing scroll-bar on a mobile device, I'm amazed something like that can be patented. To me it seems like a common sense evolution when shrinking things down to mobile proportions.

"You know there isn't much screen real estate here, so lets get rid of the bar, and only show the scroll head when you are scrolling. Good idea!" Why should someone be allowed to patent that?

It's like the first website ever to say, "We really have a lot of menu items here... I know, let's group them into sub-menus that 'drop-down' when you mouse over them?" Boom, drop-down menus are now patented, pay up if you want to use them in your website. Sure there were drop-down file menus on computers before this, but I'm the first one ever to do it on a website.

Can someone explain why the two are nothing alike and I'm an idiot for feeling this way?

I think he was referencing the Office Space comparison and Smykowski defending his job by saying he was good with customers.

This jacks up the header for me in Chrome.

When text spans multiple columns, the translation renders off the page: http://i.imgur.com/c7xWZ.jpg

I started using Everything (http://www.voidtools.com/) to help mitigate XP's slow searching and still use it today, even with Win7's much improved search functionality.

Everything Search only indexes file names, so you can't search via date modified or anything like that, but it is super-fast and supports regular expressions. Need to find a word doc that begins with 'ca'? Just type '^ca.*\.docx?', instant results.

It was bad form to just post a link without any background...

There is a well-known usability bug in Win7 explorer that the engineers are aware of but don't seem to care about.

Bug report: http://connect.microsoft.com/WindowsServerFeedback/feedback/...

More discussion: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-f...

I'm irritated because it seems the only attention given to Win7 is critical/security fixes, while any non-critical bugs will be ignored and the answer will be to simply buy the next version of Windows if you want the problem to go away. IMO a lack of attention to detail and caring about your users.

Thanks for that... Hadn't noticed HN automatically truncates long URLs.

Great, but I wish they'd fix this first: http://goo.gl/KzQBG

I agree with the OP that all his examples were a poor use of no-reply addresses. My point is that they do serve a purpose sometimes - my example being notifications, reminders, and other inherently one-way messages.

If it is a message I am not expecting nor am I immediately aware of why it is being sent, then I think the reply-to address should be a real address capable of handing my response.

True, if it is a relatively small support operation. This would be harder to do with larger companies that had separate addresses for billing questions, service problems, troubleshooting, etc. If every outbound message had a singular live reply-to email address, then you'd need someone to sift through all those and route to the appropriate department.

I consider the no-reply address a courtesy to me to know that I won't end up writing a reply to an address that isn't monitored. Things like bank notifications and alerts are designed to be one-way communications, so the no-reply address makes sense. Usually the body or footer of the message contains the proper contact methods/addresses. It does not hurt my feelings to have to click on an email address within the message vs. clicking the 'reply' button in my client.

That being said, I agree that a no-reply address sends the wrong message for start-ups, welcome messages, signup confirmations, etc. I think they are good for recurring message that are inherently one-way, and when the user knows the preferred contact info for the company.

I really like the new look of explorer with the ribbon: http://www.itworld.com/sites/default/files/HyperV-11-600.png

Wish I could get that on Win7.

Maybe I'm a luddite, but I would never give something access to my facebook profile or contact list without ever actually using the service.

Thanks for replying. I can understand how someone who puts tons of time and effort into something can sometimes mistake questions and confusion for criticism. I plan on using Fuel for something soon, and if I have any questions I'll check out the IRC channel.

I've been following Fuel's commits ever since they were on GitHub, and it's been impressive watching it all come together. The only concern I have is with the overall tone of the project, influenced mainly by Dan.

There was one comment here about namespaces... Phil gave a detailed answer; Dan says 'if you don't like it, don't use the framework'. Someone brought up the HTML class... Phil explains why it's there and that it isn't loaded unless you want to use it; Dan says the same thing, but adds 'stop whining'. I think Dan is incredibly talented, but I've seen he is very quick to use the words dumb, idiot and retard in his Twitter stream.

As a mid-level developer that uses mainly CodeIgniter, there is a lot about Fuel that is new to me and I don't fully understand. If I were to start using Fuel and had maybe a dumb question about how something worked, part of me wonders if I'd be berated publicly or called an idiot. That doesn't make me want to rush out and start learning something new.

I'm really grateful to all the Fuel devs for busting their asses to release this framework, the one criticism I have is one of PR, and the supposed 'community-driven' aspect of it.

What happens if your phone is in a poor reception area, or without internet connection? Then you can't listen to music? Can the app manage which songs you'd also like to have stored locally on the phone?

Is this meant to supplement your old ways of syncing music to the phone or replace it?

Neat. I tried viewing a note in IE7 and it didn't display right. http://i.imgur.com/pKdJG.png

Worked great for me, good job. I'd be interested in a PHP binding too, and knowing what the eventual cost will be.