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When we are serious about disrupting the industry we need insiders, the whole Hollywood network is very powerful.

They have a very weird scheme, with production companies who always make a loss and agencies who make enormous amount of money with the whole star system. It's very complex, but totally artificial. Look at South Korea, they made a star system out of computer games.

This scheme works only in combination with media, what gives them the ability to make marketing and stars at the same time. The big cycle is:

Make a movie -> your newspapers write about the movie or the actors -> people watch the movie, actors become stars -> make money with print

This is the whole reason these conglomerates exist, there are not many synergy effects in print. It would be totally decentralized/commoditized, but when you sell your PR as content.... big profits.

These big schemes have always have flaws, but we need insiders who know where to find them. I am interested in this topic, but all i know are from very few sources. Most of them books, or public funded contend. When i think about it right now, it's totally obvious.
I have two friends doing content in new ways:

* The New Kind - CG Television show, created by a global group of artists with the development posted to Facebook day-by-day:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/THE-NEW-KIND-series/246243672...
https://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=127971893907947

* "'One Day On Earth' is the documentary new media project about the amazing diversity, conflict, tragedy, and triumph that occurs in one 24-hour period on this planet. More than a film, 'One Day on Earth' is a multi-platform participatory media project. The flagship of this project is a documentary to be released theatrically. Through a creative commons we will establish a community that not only watches but participates.'
https://www.facebook.com/onedayonearth
http://www.onedayonearth.org

Both community created on a global scale, they could only exist in the internet age.
I love this topic, because you always have to take the side of those that ARE working and end up having to distribute the fruits of their labors to the non working.

Until we get self sufficient factory farms and power plants (so let us think futuristic here, say 50 years) where robots generate carbon through some means, pattern it into amino acids, and use 3d printing technology to generate plant and muscle matter that is most tasty and nutritious for us to eat, whenever we want. And simultaneously, your power is generated by robots controlling massive solar arrays surrounding the planet siphoning off the suns energy output to power the entire planet, and no human is involved there.

All that is there is an upfront cost. And after singularity, we don't even need to worry about developing the new technologies or knowing how to repair what is already there.

But who do you pay to get there? Who gets the right to say "everything you eat and everything you do is powered by my creation". That is another great question to ponder.

But we will never have a capitalist system where people can consume without producing and expect to be a viable economy. It is actually the reason America is failing so badly right now - as a nation, percentage wise, very few of us actually "produce" anything. Too many are middle men trying to leech off the system through a mirth of means (including myself, as a college student at this time I eat food and make nothing useful yet).
Yeah, there might be a few cases were null terminated strings work okay but mostly they are just a recipe for buffer overflows. Seriously, how many years is this going to take to figure out?
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This is a great idea too. I replied above but I had forgotten that Id software open sourced the Doom 3 engine.
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More cynically, companies donate hoping to recoup the favor. They don't donate to a candidate unless they think there's a good chance the candidate will be in a position to pay back the favor.
What are the advantages in using a remote service for this vs. hosting them yourself? I'm somewhat averse to taking out additional dependencies on other services if no compelling reason exists.
The root flaw in Marxism is the labour theory of value. It just doesn't lead to a workable theory of economics. That wasn't clear at the time he wrote Das Kapital, because the leading summation of economics was Smith (which I believe Marx worked from), and Smith got it wrong also.

The concept of repeated crises of capitalism leading inexorably to socialism relies entirely on a slender reed that turns out to be broken.

Nevertheless, whether socialism is, regardless of inevitability, possible, is a matter of hot debate. Mostly down to which side of the calculability/use-of-knowledge debate you fall on.

Red Plenty is an interesting book for the days when it seemed as though the Soviet Union really was going to usher in heaven on earth. As for China, Mao: The Unknown Story is a terrifying account.
I find that oversimplified. Personally, I game to relax and I watch movies to be mentally (and emotionally) challenged.

The problem with games is that they, by their very nature, have problems for the storyteller:

First, they take away his control from (at least) one of the characters, since it has to be given to the player. This means that either certain stories can't be told as they should, since you can't force the player to have the same motivations as the character, especially if they're supposed to be revealed only later.

Second, plenty of great movies would make shitty games. Dialog driven movies (12 Angry Men), for example. You'd need to put the player on rails and limit his movements to a minimum - and to do that, why make a game at all?

Third, game play can distract from the story. There's a reason why people tend to make more mistakes when they're recalling a situation where they were participants instead of passive viewers.
I didn't say we needed to. I like TV and movies. I just don't like Hollywood's political agenda.
You know, I've seen another industry that had droves of aspiring, creative artists clamoring to get into the industry and fulfill their dream. These were creatives who were willing to hand over their rights to the syndicate just to get a shot at getting published.

It's been ten years since the last time I heard of someone who still wanted into the newspaper comic industry. There are still those who dream, but it turned out that the hundred-year newspaper system wasn't really a part of that dream. Maybe we'll discover the same thing about Hollywood.
That's true too, but the web hasn't introduced that. The RoR of big budget movies is potentially much greater than low-budget movies. Hollywood invests where any VC would invest, where the potential reward is greatest. I'm not sure that a VC would or could change anything here.
I guess so. If you could steal the deeds to Harry Potter, then tell the publishers to deposit royalty checks in your account, that would be IP theft. You would have stollen the right to control publication, which is the real IP.

If you copy a movie, that's not the theft of the IP (i.e. the underlying copyright), it's infringement.

Piracy isn't like the theft of a piece of land, it's like trespassing. You don't say someone squatting in your lawn is stealing your lawn, you just say he's a trespasser.
The term capitalism doesn't mean much when applied to today's world. Originally, its defining characteristic was that the economy was controlled by those who owned the means of production.

The typical reader of this article works in front of a computer at a desk in an office block. He or she probably does not know who owns any of these things. It is quite likely that each is owned by someone different – a pension fund, a property company or a leasing business – none of whom is their employer. (http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/86667196-3afc-11e1-b7ba-00144...)

The strange thing is, in school we still learn Marx's critique of the old capitalism. I guess it's because there's nothing politically sensitive about critiquing a system that doesn't exist anymore. Today's business world is run by a professional management class.

Modern titans derive their authority and influence from their position in a hierarchy, not their ownership of capital. They have obtained these positions through their skills in organisational politics, in the traditional ways bishops and generals acquired positions in an ecclesiastical or military hierarchy.

Not only is control completely different, but spreading ownership of the means of production to the masses has become a conservative cause, in the form of privatization of social security and other individual account schemes where citizens use tax-privileged savings accounts instead of services provided directly by the government.
> The heart of Hollywood is in its aspiring stars, not its execs.

This is like arguing that we have to keep on fighting wars because army bases are valuable to the economy.

> War is rarely the solution.

PG is talking about competition, not war. The word "war" never appears in PG's essay

> Entertainment and art are relative.

Good- Then Hollywood can keep attracting customers, even if there is competition from elsewhere. What are you worried about?
Ad sponsors from the third world countries themselves have no problem paying for advertising in their own countries.

Here in Portugal (not third world, I know) I get plenty of AdWords from national companies, much more than from international ones.
If you see a film that no one else has seen, you'll spend all your time telling others about it, and to go see it. Despite film viewing being a largely solitary experience, even when holding a girlfriend's hand watching a movie... It's still important in a communal aspect. Just like great songs; they always make us think about other people or our interactions with them.

That's why games will eat film's lunch. One day, they'll master that.

If I had a startup capital? I'd focus an mmo-like server based game on small communities. Maybe base them around a few hundred players, so you KNOW the people you game with. And your actions have consequences to people you know. The fun of Skyrim, the familiar face of FarmVille, without the crass exploitation of metrics like Zynga, with the heart of Team Ico.

Hey, a guy can dream.
Francis Ford Coppola has a site that is a "virtual studio" called Zoetrope (http://www.zoetrope.com/). I haven't visited in a few years but it was a lot of aspiring screenwriters at the time.

I'm currently working on a collaboration tool for filmmakers and am hoping to launch it in a month or two.
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Deficiencies in strl aside, most C programmers do not realize the target-padding that is going on with the strn family. Discussion is always good, but it will be much more of an uphill battle to introduce new routines than it would be to get strn users to use strl. I've seen too many people bitten by declaring something like:

char buf[65536]; /* 64k is enough for everything! */

and using strncpy w/ sizeof(buf) to populate it.
My favourite in this field was SiCortex, who were killed by a cashflow interruption at the start of the GFC.
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Ya good question :) I built the marketing site before the service was finished. I wanted to launch quickly, so decided to use images instead of the font so I could focus on getting the app finished. Also, I sell the icons as PNGs and vectors, so it's showing customers that as well. Thanks!!
Nope :) There is no JS involved. Its a straight CSS file. Browser detection is done on the server by checking the headers. it's lightning fast :)
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My monitor is calibrated properly, so I checked.

The color yellow in that screenshot is very faint. It's HTML color #fef5e4, which is 10% yellow and little else.

Then I compared it with the ad background on a live SEPR, which was rendered as #fff, aka 100% white.

Sounds like the author was right.
Am I wrong, or is this a terrible rip off? Anybody who has the need for this should be able to host a single $19 file on their site for minimal cost.
>thanks to technology, movies can be made for tens of thousands.

I was laughing until I realized you were serious. Of course it's possible to make a movie for a few thousand dollars. But most movies at that budget aren't worth watching. Quality (especially the talent) is expensive, and that is fact in every field.
Yes it's very true. All the customers in that list are people who have purchased my icon sets. Some of them use then in internal tools, some use them for their public website or mobile apps. Thanks!
Portrait for all reading based activities...web browsing, twitter, Facebook, books, etc.

Landscape only for games.

I don't understand why you would use landscape for any text based viewing.
If you click the "See Examples" button, you can view the font being used. Thanks!!
I said pirate, not private. Private trackers may be where the most hardcore pirates hang out, but theyre still only a fraction of all pirate sites. What you're saying here is precisely cognate to the No True Scotsman fallacy.
It's a platform not an application. Nothing needs to be reinvented. We simply reuse what's already been invented and tested. But we do it in a "new" and useful way.
Everything is cached and served very quickly. The main advantage is you can change the icons on the fly at no additional cost. If you update your interface, add new icons or remove some, you can make those changes in that app and you don't even need to grab a new code snippet.

If you want to serve them yourself, that option is there as well. Thanks!!
Well move semantics were only introduced in C++11. So until C++11 is supported natively everywhere you can't build something like:

std::map<std::string, int>

without paying for a extra copy of the string on insertion. How many years since C++ has existed before they finally allowed for a single copy? Everything is relative. You might never have had a need to worry about that double copy, but there are other people who have.
"It could be the biggest IPO in the history of capitalism"
I don't get your point. What tyranny of the minority? "Killing", in the context of the post, means "finding ways that people prefer". If new businesses (startups or not) compete and win the market from Hollywood, it's because the majority prefers them, no?
If you're talking about inputs that aren't arbitrarily huge, you should try measuring performance using alloca instead of malloc.
But they're already arguing exactly that, using garbage statistics. So what would we be losing?

Keeping your economic adversary content and well-funded kinda doesn't seem like a great strategy to me.
if you only want two files of the entire set, its better for your bandwidth and the clients speed to have a custom font that only includes those two icons. It is fairly trivial with fontforge, but a lot of people don't have the time and/or ability to do it.
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Of course, note that Reddit is not the only site that participated. But ultimately I think it is the press coverage resulting from it that ended up being the major force.
Pixar is part of Disney now, which is about as Hollywood as you can get.

Will that impact the quality of their titles? Well, their last film was Cars 2... not exactly a high water mark for them by any measure.
A large an interesting part of being a philosopher involves logic in its purest sense, but it wouldn't right to claim that this is all philosophy is.
How in the world does the article end where it does? It finally gets interesting and then it cuts off.
Yes, this. Alloca should only be a couple of instructions on most modern systems, and there is no needed call to free, which is likely the slower of the two calls..
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You quoted him saying tens of thousands and then responded to him as if he said "a few thousand."

Further, you have no vision. Today there are few mega rich actors, few moderately rich actors and tons of poor actors. What's wrong with acting becoming more like a normally distributed profession?
Exactly. You get content only. Do you want to read, or do you want to click on stuff? Most ads (stuff you click on) are javascript driven. Most content (e.g. text, like what you're reading now) is not. Articles on news sites like HN or other similar sites render just fine without javascript. Converting them to nicley formatted text is easy once the effects of javascript are eliminated. Let the downvotes begin!
Usually it just winds up being a single instruction.
i loked hard for any arguments in the linked article from your comment,sadly i could not find any. yeah, the long tail is about distribution and about filters. the long tail is not about bocoming a mainstream hit withot effort, its not about the lack of hits in the future.

there is a great book called "he long tail" -it`s a hihly recommended read. p.s. the example about video games is outdated, there is a long long long til of videogames now (please see your iphone or android market for references )
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That's assuming the studios have a perfect process that can't be further optimized. It might be that they need to spend lots of money for a good return of investment because they have problems in certain areas that prevent them from obtaining those same returns with cheaper movies.

I'm talking out of my ass since I don't know much about the industry, but it seems foolish to assume that the peak of innovation has been achieved.
Proposing to destroy Hollywood will also destroy the livelihoods and the dreams of these entertainers and the crews, writers and creatives that support them. That is irresponsible.

I think it's "irresponsible" that in 2012 we still have a "spot" for entertainers and artists to make a living. That's nonsense. By progressing from horse to car, a lot of horse-related jobs declined. But literally an entirely new paradigm of societal structure emerged, arguably, for the better overall (Just an illustration, I know it's rough but bear with me). Maybe if Hollywood collapses many Hollywood folks will suffer, and I understand that pain. But an open Internet acts as a stage beyond any geographical limits and can create, again, an entirely new open frontier for artists and entertainers all over the planet...and the necessary staffs and execs for them individually.

Hollywood doesn't support the Internet. Even the "young execs" who "get it" and "embrace" the thing they supported the censorship of only support it in the sense of trying to build walled gardens to preserve their last chance of money-grabbing. That's it. They support the Internet that helps them, but if something happens to zig where they want to zag, well...we know their reactions by now.
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Don't be fooled. The article is fair and good, but the arguments inside are empty at best. Fuck Hollywood.
It seems to me that the most effective solutions might well be not very splashy at all.

If people can easily find content they would like (that are controlled by those that are not bent on attacking the people - so like the crazy behavior we see supported by the large hollywood distributors) they will watch it. They will substitute it for content they would watch that funds the anti-society behavior now funded by those watching "Hollywood" and big label music.

I am not so anti-Hollywood that I will not watch some great show (yet). But I would certainly favor content that isn't paying for anti-society efforts.

If there were good ways to discover content I would like and note what is managed by those that respect society instead of those that don't I would use it. I would pretty easily just chose to try out stuff that is not going to support those that will use income to attack society. I doubt I would boycot anything from those anti-society organization (yet). But even if we just carve off a portion and build up those that produce entertainment for society while respecting us that is a good thing. And I believe if it started the power would build upon itself. Those engaging in bad behavior would lose in the marketplace and likely adjust behavior. Maybe they wouldn't - in which case as we build up good alternative entertainment we can just drop dealing with their organizations altogether.
OK, off topic, and I got down-voted last time I asked this question, but here goes...predetermined occurs twice in this post, so what is it, determinism or free will?
>I don't really understand the obsession with
>using HTTP methods.

If I could break it down to the simplest form:

GET requests can be cached, any other method should be processed.
* Actors can act in non-Hollywood movies and TV shows. In fact, they can act in Creative Commons-licensed stuff, too. Why is that a problem?

* Progress? Hulu and Vevo place the same digital content we were once able to own and manipulate into chains. We are no longer even allowed to watch it at our leisure.

* Great works still happen without big industry.

I think this author doesn't understand that YC isn't attacking the idea of movies and TV shows--they're attacking the moronic copyright-related actions of the industry.
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I'm always being called an asshole

If you are fair, then most people don't care if you are an asshole. Most people can tolerate a straightforward person so long and they are ethical and fair. If you embody other negative traits like deception or hypocrisy being an asshole will amplify them. History is full of examples of men that where not the most pleasant but are still respected for there adherence to ethics. In fact in some situations being an asshole is required to adhere to an ethical standard. For me personal I would take a deep internal look at why people have that perception, if it is due to negative attributes I would strive to correct them, if not I would not be overly concerned about them.

As for a first hire, it is always the most difficult, it's kind of like a hump once you get over it the next hire becomes easy. The easiest way to do it is to just commit to it in your mind as if it already happened, this will help you get past the sacrifice mentally. Then, look for people that have delivered, delivery is the most important factor for a small company and a employee that can deliver means more products / features to market or more servicing capacity. In which case the hire will pay for themselves.
Come to think of it, I have a friend with some tech based around the ability to communicate and stream video of and within various games. Maybe this is the kind of thing that would allow you to transition easily from playing watching your friends play (before you drift off to sleep).
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It's the second strlen plus the memcpy right after it that I would consider replacing (with a loop that fuses both). (Though since you say it doesn't matter, never mind...)
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The parent question was if it was created by hobbyists - Android and Chrome are by Google, FireFox is funded into hundreds of millions of dollars by Google. Eclipse was founded by IBM and funded by its members, including gold sponsors Amazon, Intel, IBM and Cisco, Novell. JQuery is sponsored by Mozilla Corp.

Not really hobbyists, any of them.