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I'm a filmmaker and killing Hollywood is the best thing you can do. It is burning to the ground and Nero plays the White House. But they cannot stop it since WE are remaking it. I worked pretty much my whole live in the entertainment industry, writing directing, plays, tours you name it I have done it, to a very high level. In 2007 I released a film and within a day it was on torrents and I was so MAD. Mad at everyone IRL but the internet. Why because before I'd released the film I had build the biggest game online at the time to promo the movie http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/334475. It was kinda popular. I'd built a site to support the film which got massive and all I wanted to do but put the film online because I knew it was the biggest way to promote it, it was already happening. But the investors and the sales company would NOT allow the film to go online for free, they just didn't get how big it could have been. They spurned the millions of viewer and plays we were getting daily to delay the release by going through the bullshit analogue route taking months to get it onto Amazon. It is something that taught me a lot. NOW I am building two start ups to rip a fucking huge hole in Hollywood. one is going to be a live performance/entertainment site open to anyone anywhere to enjoy live global talent to rise to the top and the other will be a live investment site. If you code if you're good and if you want to work with me hit me up mrsimoncathcart@googlemail.com I will respond to you message.
It's more cat and mouse, as complexity grows with computing power, there is a gap between the state of the art, and commodity systems that are sold for profit in global markets. Because UNIX works so close to the hardware, it is especially prone to novel methods of attack if left unattended.
I downloaded "oh my zsh", never looked back. Of course, I only made it look exactly like fish, which is what I was using, but it's less buggy than fish.
Will it be big? I think so and I think minecraft will be the enabler which really lets it flourish, there are already people out there making custom minecraft maps which these guys play. I could envisage a situation not far from now when they're actively commissioning maps with certain aspects which make watching them being played through even more entertaining.

Ultimately I think minecraft will be the ultimate world/set building tool and these guys will use it to make great entertainment.
The reason I put the question mark there was that I wasn't sure if the example I was looking at was a full demo. I forget now which page - but it was definitely doing something with JS on empty divs - pretty sure it was the display examples on the front page; looking at them with inspect element on FF... although perhaps they just look like empty divs ...
I was also pretty surprised they asked for only $500 million. They usually calculate the damage into tens of billions or even trillions of dollars:

http://www.pcworld.com/article/223431/riaa_thinks_limewire_o...

Maybe they finally realized how ridiculous they sounded when asking for that much. Still, this only makes me think that the damage is much lower still than the $500 million number.
I have professionally worked both as a COBOL and Java programmer for many years. I understand procedural and OO reasonably well.

While working as a COBOL programmer I was mainly concerned with business logic. All my thinking time was utilised in thinking about the business need, if I needed any clarification I'd talk to the business people who requested the work and they could understand a lot of the terminology I used. I would also do all the testing required.

As a java programmer I would spend a lot of time reading about and understanding various frameworks and have little time left to understand business logic. It is ok because the real testing would be done by other teams. Business people won't even approach me.
Okay, you started out very sensible and then took a pretty sharp left turn with targeting CAA and SAG. I was hoping to ask if you could elaborate on your thought process to help us better understand your viewpoint.
VestedContributors harm the community.

> The vested contributor is someone who believes they are entitled to a degree of indulgence or bending of the rules because of the duration and extent of their past contributions. In some cases, this view may be shared by other community members. The indulgence of vested contributors undermines FairProcess and the WikiNow. It is demoralizing to those who have made less widely recognized contributions, and to recent arrivals. An inside club or "cabal" can arise where there are a number of vested contributors who mutually reinforce.

(http://meatballwiki.org/wiki/VestedContributor)
In Europe this analogy has also been used by politicians (ones that are actually sitting in parliaments and not accused of crimes).

I'd also consider it a form of peaceful protest. Well, actually it's just data, nobody gets physically harmed so it's always peaceful. Anyways, you are not stealing data and you are not permanently harming the system. You basically do something the site is made for (serving requests). If you consider that a crime you could also consider telling a huge people to phone a company and complain about something a crime. I mean this certainly leads to a denial of service, because it makes it virtually impossible for others to use that service.

I for myself am a bit lazy for these kinds of protests. I actually prefer informing people so they draw their own conclusion, but I would never call something like that a crime. IMO it should be treated like a freedom. I know this can cause financial damage, but it's still not harming people. I mean every news article, every kind of information and just saying something like "Nike is child slavery" or "fast food from McDonalds is unhealthy" can make people not buy stuff there and therefore cause financial damage. In first place it's about an institution and we shouldn't consider an institution something that has human rights, because it devalues natural people.
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You need filming equipment, a good script, stage infrastructure, well-performing or/and good-looking actors, repetition until they get it right, sound-tracks (with composers, interpreters, instruments & instrument people), editing, post-processing and maybe animation/special effects.

And it's an industry where profits are made at the high end of the market (you'd rather pay Tom Cruise $100 millions for the statistical guarantee of $200+ millions in Mission Impossible box-office openings rather than medium-quality people for no guarantee at all).

You can attack script-writing with software, or replace actors with computer animation done by software engineers, but you end up with poor low-end results or even more expensive budgets (that only make sense for computer-animated fans, see Toy Story).

The attack vector implied by pg was not necessary to make film-making cheaper but rather to make entertainment better and probably different. E.g.: video games took off in the last two decades, and their business model worked because every time you play a game you get at least slightly a different entertaining experience without any additional costs from the producers.
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За да започне една крава лактация (да дава мляко), тя трябва първо да се отели. Юниците достигат полова зрелост на 7 или 8 месеца, но обикновено не се заплождат, преди да станат на 15–18 месеца. Бременността трае 265–300 дни, в зависимост от породата. Юницата ражда първото си теле на възраст около 2–2,5 години.
Totally agree.

I used to think that yes, Apple makes neat things, but it's still evil because it locks us down. But consider, for example, how trivial it is to install OS X on a PC. There certainly are many ways Apple could go to prevent that, but they don't and will even give away updates for such installations.

This makes me think that Apple has consciously made its top priority delivering the smooth experience and working device/software. For that, Apple chose to sacrifice breadth for the sake of depth—focusing on fewer use cases, but better working them through. This means fewer features and poorer extensibility. We tend to perceive that as restrictions, but it limits the non-technical users' ability to shoot themselves in the foot, and allows for better quality.
I can't say I agree. That said, I'm not quite sure what you mean by "a more efficient production cycle, from artist to consumer". And I'm not sure how "[reducing the] cycle time between artist conception of an entertainment pitch and consumers evaluating it" is related to distribution. Could you elaborate?
There is already lots of Indy product. Distribution and audience seem to be the hard bits. If you can make money, the product will come, people want to make this stuff...
> "[...]which is also inconsistent with the concept of private storage."

Megaupload wasn't private storage, it was public storage. A musician wanting to distribute songs for free can either buy bandwidth or can host the file on MegaUpload. Joe Sixpack (in Alabama) can host the Christmas family videos for his sisters in Australia and England.

But I'd really want to see figures for how much material was copy vio vs non copyvio. And I want to be prepared for how that information is going to be presented; byte size? number of files?
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Which is why the state of the art in Machinima is only a couple of years behind the state of the art in cinematic CGI.

(What you're pointing to is a problem that can be solved by adding cpu cores. Because movies aren't shown in real time during rendering. Yet.)
I'm unfamiliar with "King of Chicago". But now that you've pointed it out, I'm going to try and correct that. Thanks, vidrh!
Bash has had this for ages too. Debian comes with it in the "bash-completion" package, for example. People get all excited about trivial enhancements for Bash for the same reasons they don't know about Zsh: The pain isn't great enough for them to actively seek out alternatives.
The real problem is, that the US has no real democracy. When the government did something similar to SOPA in Germany, the "Piraten Partei" got more votes and the bigger parties rethought their plans because of this.
But small parties do not have a chance in the US system.
Weak vote for B. It's clearer at a glance to me what day I'm looking at. The space doesn't feel wasted.

But I'd prefer some grid layout, with huge numbers, and lots of space for writing.

Someone needs to setup an OKCupid "MyBestFace" style website where you can upload things for testing. But please use many more votes than OKC's MBF uses - 20 is paltry.
We'd clearly have to spend money at first and advertise, perhaps even commission some trailers. My first port of call would be film schools and private production companies.

The secret is to keep our word and make the first movies according to the rules even if they aren fairly amateur. As soon as the professionals see stuff being funded that they can better, the trailers would pour in.
So it sounds like the healthcare industry?
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Trailer Pitch would remain executive producer to try to prevent such tactics (and plain stupidity).
Maybe there is a solution in making the financial situation about a creator more transparent. Then I would pay if their minimum is being threatened; or only consume if they are wealthy enough.
"If you use their music, EMI will have the power to approve your app, publish it themselves, and take a huge cut of any profit your app makes. Sound familiar?"
Yes. Replace music with platform and EMI with Apple. Problem?
I'm afraid this is highly unlikely, and there are multiple reasons. Firstly, mobile operators are gatekeepers in the space, and they want to profit on any value-added service. Secondly, take a look at mobile TV[1], which is a solved problem from the technical point of view, but still didn't get enough traction.

Instead of grafting an old idea to a different platform ("faster horse"), make something that works in the world where mobile operators are just dumb pipes providing access to the internet.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_television
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Quite poor usability on touch screens like iPad.
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I used nginx and lighttpd in the past, but I came across cherokee, which seems to work pretty good. I mainly changed because I realized all these cross-server DoS attacks/techniques that worked with nginx, apache, lighttpd always listed cherokee as an exception.

It also is a tiny bit faster on some occasions (while slower on others).

Somehow people don't seem to like it, because it has a pretty and optional(!) web interface that can be started to get things up and running quickly.

Well, no ad, but I always ask whether anyone knows a real benefit of other web servers. The only benefit I see in nginx is lua scripting, but seriously I would most likely not use that or use it for stuff I don't need to script on my own using cherokee.
How much of a problem is "Hollywood accounting"?
I see many strange statements in your text. The choices of a freshman aren't permanent. You can always go back an change your degree program; it just may take longer. A friend of mine in college decided in his 5th year of engineering (it's a 5 year program there) to switch to physics, so he was in school for about 8 years. Even if UW says that you cannot change majors (very unlikely), you could always switch colleges. The question of course is where your money comes from, but you didn't say that was a big issue, only a parenthetical one.

Second, you didn't say anything about getting a minor in CS; why not? What's preventing you from taking CS courses anyway? Even after you fulfill the CS minor requirements, take a couple of extra. That would also indicate to prospective employees that you are interested in learning things even when it isn't required.

Third, I took too much math in college. My math department let people fulfill either the pure track or the applied track. I did the pure and most of the applied. I can say that the calculus of variations has never ever been useful for anything I did later, and what I learned most from Principles of Real Analysis II was that I wasn't interested in pursuing real analysis as a career. Oh, and "Groups, Rings, and Vector Spaces" was the only C I got in college. Taking that class could have been useful if I decided to go into particle theory in physics grad school. I instead went into biophysics.

In some sense we are all autodidacts, it's just some of us have more direct help than others. Sure, you could figure out most of this on your own, but it really helps to get help from others when you are stuck, or to get a sense of which problems are important, and to learn what's new vs. what's well-known.

As for working at Google, MS, etc - you do realize there are many positions at those companies, right? A friend of mine dropped out of school as a film major, did some work helping out with local GIS companies, moved to the Bay Area to work with a GIS software provider, then GIS at Autodesk, and is now Lead UI Designer at Microsoft Games. What you major in can help you advance faster on your career path, but that's only if you know what you want to do. As you don't, figure out what it is you want to do, and in the meanwhile, finish off your BS in math/CS minor while talking to people about options.

Hint: "work at Google" is not a good career goal. After all, what are you going to do after you are hired by Google? Another hint: don't you have an advisor you can talk with?
Quite poor usability on desktop as well, not really the best advertising how to use HTML5...
There's collaborative movie producing site Wreck A Movie http://www.wreckamovie.com/ which is currently used to produce Iron Sky among other films.

I think Iron Sky will be so good that Wreck A Movie might gain some serious traction, checkout the trailer here http://www.ironsky.net/
But to take that photo you still need to find the perfect tree or building, then drag some cameras out and take pictures of it. Then once it's uploaded, set up light and do some manual adjusting because that branch is just a few degrees off. And that's just one tree or building, you need thousands for a movie.

Indie movies will upload their back yard or buy stock trees, and it will show. That's what separates big budget from small budget - perfectionism and meticulous attention to the tiniest details. Computers doesn't understand beauty or emotion, so you need fine grained human control every step of the way.

It's the composition that is expensive and not the ability to perfectly reproduce reality.
Sometimes it's a problem, but sometimes it isn't. I rather see it as an opportunity grabbing mechanism. You can see (especially large) productions hunting tax incentives for movie productions in various countries around the world for example. In studio productions there are 1-5 ratio of successful projects, they're hunting every opportunity to guard their investments. Now imagine if you're an indie production where all eggs (yours and your investors) are in a single bucket. It's scary, every single project is like a new startup - but not with couple of tens of thousands of dollars, but several millions and up.
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How Anonymous took down the DoJ, RIAA, MPAA and Universal Music Websites
Here's what I would love to see. And I'm 90% sure there are companies already thinking & working on this.

I'd love to see a service that offers various "channels" of video content. These channels would be genres, like food, home, comedy, action, etc. The content would be a mix of amateur videos (like home videos), semi-pro videos (like amateurs who've worked hard to create near-professional quality videos), and professional videos (created in formal studios with a full staff).

I could subscribe to particular shows within a genre, or just let a channel play random shows for me. Shows could also be recommended to me in a Pandora-like manner that uses my previous viewing behavior + my active ratings to determine my tastes. Most popular shows could also be shown somewhere, in case I wanted to browse what's hot right now.

As an example, my wife loves cooking shows. She's found a few amateur/indie chefs on YouTube that seem just as good as "professional" chefs with their own produced TV shows. It would be great to view both types of videos in one place.

I love sci-fi and action movies. And you know what? Twitch.tv is pretty damn cool too. As are some cinematic game trailers. I'd love to see all of that in this service too.

This service would come with integrated hardware, much like Roku. In a way, this idea is like Roku, but with YouTube videos bundled together. Plus, a "video genome," a Pandora for videos. Oh, and a much better UI.

To the people who are already thinking & working on this, please hurry. I can't wait to give you my money and subscribe to your service.
What are your thoughts on something like Kickstarter?
How about a way of opening up financing to the public? Ideas get pitched, and the public can invest - kickstarter for movies?

We've had fan-fiction, this would fan-financing.
I'm not saying that I want CAA and SAG taken down - SAG in particular was formed to protect performers from exploitation - but rather giving examples of monolithic, nigh unto impenetrable structures on the internal side of the current Hollywood system that would likely have to be disrupted to alter the Hollywood of today.

I'd much rather paint a giant target on the MPAA's back. But disrupt Hollywood and you disrupt the MPAA. Make them toothless.
I definitely think this kind of law should be debated and balanced, and I know what you mean. Originally, I was thinking of giving these people the power to "veto" the bills. But then I quickly realized what you are saying. Heck, even the majority of population shouldn't have that kind of power too often (except national referendums) because that would mean "real direct democracy" and that system is definitely worse than the republic system.

I'm just saying we need some light direct democracy influences in the republic, to have more checks and balances against the representatives.

Maybe 6 months is too much. Maybe 100,000 is too low. I'm sure we could find a balance. And I'm only asking to postpone the bill and have set-up some kind of open debate process - like multiple hearings with the public or civil liberties organizations involved - anything like that, as long as they don't rush it through Congress.
Browsers will always be at different points on feature support. If they weren't they would all be stagnating and I don't think that is a great future either.
You're right, there is zero logic in it. The whole paragraph is a total muddle really.

For better or worse there are international laws that protect copyright. They're essentially unenforceable. That these industries clamor for more laws and enforcement when the old ones don't work shouldn't surprise anyone.
Wasn't "Sky Captain and the World Of Tomorrow" filmed like this? I remember hearing that it was a difficult form of acting. Location shooting, or even sets, have side effects on the actors.
Yes, it can work. In most cases it works like this - you produce a trailer out of your own pocket and pitch the idea to investors and studios (or studios finance trailer and pitch to investors)... so you'd replace investors here with crowd. Studios bring security to investors because they have measurable projections of what would work what wouldn't and secure channels of distributions. But, tell me how could a kickstarter like project work for high budget projects ($200+ million?)... even low budget ($10-20 million, with or without marketing, however you want to account)? I've never heard of anyone raising that kind of money anywhere online from crowd.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3493349
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Yes, this is why asking a national referendum for anything is not the answer. You need a minority group of say 1 million, who is very knowledgeable about the issue to know that it's a terrible bill, and which has the initiative to act against it.

But of course this could be easily abused, too, if not done carefully. That's why they shouldn't be able to veto the bill - but only postpone it and force Congress to hold a public debate about it over a number of months.

The only threat to this is getting this happening way too often, and making Congress very inefficient (not that it's extremely efficient now) by postponing everything. This is why it needs to be thought through a little bit, and as soon as there are signs of this, the numbers should be altered to balance the law.
Agreed. I've always been 'rolling my own', even before I stopped coding. Now, things like thinking up a new app, spec-ing out the UI/UX, iterating, marketing and promotion etc. also provide a lot of thrill but all the same, the ghost of 'hand coding thrill' comes back to haunt from time to time. :)
Wait, this has detected now? Not seen the bullshit that has been published by hollywood over the last years? The stuff that promotes false images and militaristic views? Hollywood looks like an extension of the department of defense for a decade now. Now that the industry wants to control this output in the digital age, people are waking up? I hope it's not to just defend the possibility to copy the war movies for free.