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There is a reason that Apple (not Napster) killed the physical CD. To digitize the TV distribution network we need someone with the legal team to properly negotiate these licenses. BitTorrent is already here, it already distributes TV and the networks will never use it.

The future of TV first involves someone like Apple or Google working with the content providers and the ISPs to provide a solution that everyone can agree with (probably with DRM). This is what happened with music, it will happen again with TV.

What his really provides is a way for two generations from now to steam media, but it's dilusional to think that this technology is what people will be using that far into the future.
Wouldn't institutions just ask players to sign a waivers to indemnify them? Aren't there enough kids in the pipeline dreaming of stardom that will sign such a waiver without thinking twice?
As hollerith said, Canonical just needs to create a strong default desktop experience such that everything the normal user wants fits into The Ubuntu Way. Weirdos like me will still be allowed to install Ubuntu, put Window Maker on it, and happily ignore The Ubuntu Way even as we take advantage of driver support and large and fairly up-to-date package repos.
It's always funny to read about P2P TV being sold as the cutting edge in the western world, when in fact China has been using P2P TV since 2004. I've used both PPLive and SOPCast to varying degrees of success in the 'states and according to wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PPLive) PPLive reported 105 million monthly active users in december 2010, so it's no small phenomenon. The interesting question is which components of the media environment in China allowed for the growth of such technology well ahead of western users.
The marginal cost to produce a nights worth of stadium use is nonzero -- staff, performers, and depreciation if nothing else. So the users should pay that.

The marginal cost to produce data (or software) is almost nil -- hence the price should go to nil as well. THe only reason for a society to force the cost to be non-zero via licensing is to incentivize the creation of the data, but the government is going to do that anyway, since they need the data to function.

(The marginal cost thing is why we need copyright and patents -- we need to impose non-market controls, because otherwise price and profit go to nothing and there is no incentive to create things which have marginal costs of nothing like sheet music and new molecular compounds. Yes, there is some irony whenever a capitalist argues for intellectual property -- save my market by non-market rules!)
However, if you want to go truly distributed (much more so than any website I know of) there are open source projects you can learn from:

http://freenetproject.org/

http://amule.org (or http://mldonkey.sourceforge.net/Main_Page if you're into functional programming)

http://www.torproject.org (especially the hidden services stuff)

And you probably want to read this: http://pmg.csail.mit.edu/papers/osdi99.pdf
Did they get some kind of permission by Google or by the authors, or do they just hope that no-one will sue them for copyright infringement?
I'm not sure. Sleaze tends to correlate with easy money. Before 1997 or so most of the people I knew that were in tech were in it primarily for love but when all the easy capital started flowing in suddenly the quick buck hucksters started coming out of the woodwork. Very few of the latter stuck around after the first dotcom crash.

Right now a lot of dumb money is pouring into tech because there's nowhere else for it to go. I'm seeing a lot of the same kinds of low class opportunists popping up as a result.
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More people die mining coal each year than have died in Nuclear power plant accidents in the entire history of Nuclear power.
Just noting that to fairly compare apples to apples, you should compare stats of coal mining deaths and accidents to uranium mining deaths and accidents.
Definitely. To a level that surprised me. I'm a YC alum and I immediately rushed to see if I was on the chart :> I remember passing on talking to a FC reporter about the alumni network, I guess this is the result.
"Just to play devil's advocate, if the county builds a stadium for the local high school team, are citizen's entitled to free admission?"

Obviously you are missing the point, going to the stadium is the result of something being on show there, the "content". Therefore, it would not be free. What should be free (excluding maintenance costs which would need to be payed) is the usage of the stadium and actually it most likely is.

I know that in the UK I think there is a data liberation act or something similar, where you can request for data to be made available in public which was payed for with tax money. I think, however, that you shouldn't even need to ask.

If they don't want to publish the data, then don't pay for it with tax money...
Just chill, hang out, get to know the people and places around you. Don't worry about doing everything perfectly.
The parent told you he was using Linux and the Mac the same way.
My repost from FC.

Congrats and Thank you Paul - for helping out the passionate inventors push their ideas to the next level - what Paul has done to the startup community in the Bay Area, is what Jim Harbaugh did to the bay area for football :)
I honestly can't tell if you're serious or not :)
I actually laughed out loud when the author said, "Heck, just getting rid of fantasy football probably saves American companies hundreds of millions of dollars annually." Yeah, fantasy football might disappear, but that doesn't mean that the phenomenon of fantasy sports would disappear too. It'd just be replaced with other fantasy sports.
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But hasn't the public also been paying for low level data as well. Or is that provided by a 3rd party company who only licenses access to data in a strict and limited way (as a service) to the govt?
The US would finally pay attention to soccer, like the rest of the world? That's practically the only other thing we can use the stadiums for, and since we've collectively invested billions of dollars in public funds to build the damn things it wouldn't make much sense to just demolish them.

Maybe without football, we'd be closer to finally decoupling youth sports from the education system.
FTA: "One of the biggest winners would be basketball. To the extent that fans replace football with another sport (instead of meth or oxy), high-octane basketball is the natural substitute. On the pro level, the season can stretch out leisurely, ticket prices rise, ratings rise, maybe the league expands (more great athletes in the pool now), and some of the centers and power forwards will have more bulk. At the college level, March Madness becomes the only game in town."
Google Chrome is much better than xmms because you can turn the client-side window decoration and custom colour schemes off.

Still not as attractive as Firefox, to my mind, but that's opinions for you.
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I see. I wasn't aware wsgi file wrapper might use sendfile.

http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0333/#optional-platform-s...

That's environment specific; the wsgi server should define a environ['wsgi.file_wrapper'] if it needs to provide specific file handling functionality. I don't think you have an issue with Linux kernel - 2.2 and beyond will always have sendfile. It's more likely that your wsgi server isn't defining environ['wsgi.file_wrapper'] to something that uses sendfile.

If you see the flask send_file code, it's using werkzeug.wsgi.wrap_file, which in turn either uses environ['wsgi.file_wrapper'], or uses simple Python code to read the file and send the contents.

https://github.com/mitsuhiko/werkzeug/blob/master/werkzeug/w...

Reading file and sending the contents in your python code is a bad idea. You can either set debugging points and see if wsgi server is defining environ['wsgi.file_wrapper'] properly. Or more conveniently, you can just set 'USE_X_SENDFILE = True' in your flask settings, and then directly use send_file.
>However, that's not how it's been enforced, and I don't see the admins using it to remove those things

This is a new rule. There is no "how it's been enforced".
http://www.reddit.com/r/dailyprogrammer

http://www.reddit.com/r/programmingchallenges
What about a pizza hotbox sized robot that can climb stairs. In a place where citizens don't break things on the street that would be a pretty quirky and highly plausible restaurant idea. You wouldn't even need incredible driving AI, you could just outsource the delivery jobs to somewhere cheaper.
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Another hard as nails platformer that gets mentioned is "I want to be the guy."

I believe all of them require you to have pixel level accuracy on your jumps and landings.

Spoiler for IWTBTG:
In IWTBTG, the ending credits are also lethal and you can still lose the game.
Try interviewing, every 2 or 3 years the interviewing crowd has been influenced by their day's generational thinking (not a bad thing just something to be aware of); I for one always welcomed people who have passed through amazing experiences. Apparently from recent interviewing I was/am in the minority. Oh, I meant the gauntlet of experience, learning under fire; I'm not a college graduate.

Perhaps I need to use hair coloring.
+1 for Jansson here too. Lightweight and works really well.
Plenty of other contact team sports exist (Rugby, AFL etc) - how is American Football different? How does an American Football player get tackled differently to say a Rugby Union player?
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Interesting. What's odd, though, is the road layout. If you look at the interactive map, you'll see that it deletes major roads before deleting minor roads. If you go over by 23rd/11th and zoom in to the point where the transition between no-buildings and buildings occurs, you'll see the west side highway. Then, zoom out. The access roads to the indoor Chelsea Piers parking lots show up, but the the 6-lane highway disappears.

Odd. This happened the last time there was an article about make-your-own maps, too.
Had a fellow developer not pushed me to just get on Twitter and install TweetDeck, I'm not ever sure I would've ever "gotten" it. Just like I hesitated trying Facebook because it seemed like a fancier MySpace, which itself wasn't (conceptually, to a non-user) different than when we built our own homepages by hand.

I'm glad I did get on it, though...I don't get as much utility socializing on it as some of my colleagues do, but it's been a great way to connect to random people whom I likely never would've reached/been reached by. It's also taught me the lesson to "just try it" for every promising service. Pinterest doesn't seem like anything much different than Tumblr + the masonry.js plugin, but the details in its implementation are worth appreciating, and only noticeable when maintaining your own account.
And this is a click-bate title I'm not going to click out of principle.
It's all going to come down to two things: are the workers any good, and do they give a shit.

Just like everything else.
How can we be like the successful ones and not like we are: tired, confused, scared, not-rich? Just tell us the secret. There is a secret, right? There must be. They make it look so easy.

I see this a lot in weight training. My hobby is Olympic-style weightlifting.

Everyone is looking for the One True Training Method. But there isn't one, not really. There are a few major "schools" of thought (the Russians, the Bulgarians, the Chinese), but when transplanted from their original context they tend not to produce exciting results.

There is no secret to Olympic weightlifting. Consistent practice, attention to detail, control of your emotions and the willingness to be prepare are the basis of the sport. It's also the basis of other sports and, by loose analogy, business and life itself. Then, of course, "time and chance happeneth to them all".

The best weightlifters and coaches got that way by thinking for themselves, by experimentation, by observation -- not by rigidly following someone else's plan.
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It isn't, but this is:

""My goal is to kill off television" Cohen said during the SF MusicTech demo session I hosted."
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They are not worth even this comment.
This article is so laughably bad, I had to doublecheck and make sure I wasn't reading The Onion.
I stopped reading it two years back, but still get linked to that website. Whenever I land over there, the post contains some or other of BS.

It's no co-incidence. Techcrunch is the same as it was 2 years back, probably venom from Siegler has increased
I doubt football will end anytime soon, but it should.

Especially thinking about universities -- to me, college football is not much more than a tragic exploitation system. Kids are recruited from age 14 and get promised the moon by coaches/staff, spend 5 years getting banged up (concussions etc) for life, and most wind up scraping through with a useless degree if they graduate at all. A tiny percentage go pro and the rest are left out to dry with few career prospects having missed out on their education. Most pros don't make that much during their career and don't have great quality of life after it's over (run out of money, lack of marketable skills, head damage).

The big media companies love it, and heads of universities like the "school spirit" and brand appeal (even though most schools lose money on football). But for the players involved, it's basically a scam. Even though they're getting a free education.

You might make similar arguments for other college sports (not sure how I feel about that having been part of one), but for football I think it's the most clear-cut.
I go to school at Mississippi State, and I've been to a lot of at-home football games. It's definitely tightly ingrained in the culture down here, and not just for the lower classes- game days are major social events for a large portion of the students and alumni. Some people spend thousands of dollars a season to drive up every weekend, socialize with friends and family, grill out, and tailgate (more like a picnic, actually.) Some of my friends' families don't bat an eyelash at dropping upwards of $500 a weekend if you add in the cost of tickets, gas, food, and alcohol.

I think the big draw of football, though, especially among low-income people, is that it's an accessible way for your average fan to engage in analysis without actually being responsible for failure.
I don't think football is going away. It's by far the most popular sport in the USA and it's gaining fans all over the world.

All my friends in the UK are obsessed with the NFL.

Concussions are a major concern. This will lead to better helmets and more rules changes to protect player's heads. It will not mean the end of football.
You know I did notice that the Seattle sounders bring a lot of fans to their games. Maybe that is the reason.
But if that really is the only rule needed, then that should be very easy to add to a linter.
+1 to the team weight limit. That would really cut the near-universal steroid use that is just as dangerous as the more famous concussions.
As I understand it there are limitations to the way firebug (as an extension) works that would make continued development and adding new features problematic. I don't know enough about Firefox's dev tools work to say whether or not it even makes sense to make use of firebug's code base and whether or not that sort of thing will happen in the future. It would be a huge failure if the firefox devs couldn't even manage to match the functionality of firebug, but it's more than a little too early to say that that will be the case.

As to the development team, there's a difference between surviving and thriving. Especially as the pace of firefox development has been accelerating I think bringing dev tool support in house is the only rational choice.
The authors cover this twice. Once when they briefly mention soccer, may perhaps, take more prominence among Americans, and much more thoroughly, when they posit that the collapse of football would most benefit basketball, as it would be the next substitute.

But regardless, their points about the potential resulting benefits outside of the sporting world still has merit in my eyes. For example, there are large universities that derive much of their funding and student enrollment based heavily on the marketability of their football programs. Schools like Ohio State, Oklahoma, Alabama, and LSU come to mind. Without the marketing strength of their football teams, perhaps the schools would be forced to put more effort into enhancing and promoting academic achievement.
American football actually evolved from rugby, which was always more or less separate from soccer. Though basketball was probably more influenced by soccer.

MLS is growing fast in most of the metropolitan areas that have it, average attendances for MLS exceed those of the NBA, and TV ratings for the UEFA Champions League final last year almost doubled over the year before.
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There is. They didn't introduce the rule without enforcing it. The initial subreddits removed are evidence of their enforcement of said rule.
JS's syntax is influenced by C via its pretensions of being somehow related to Java, but I think it's a stretch to call it a "C-based language".
Yeah, I don't know why anyone would downvote you for you telling your experiences. In the future, I would email them, that is what I did.
I went to UCSB as an undergrad for 2 years. I can guarantee if you ask -- and really listen! -- to women at UCSB, every single one would find this unwelcoming. Sexism isn't a 'culture' it is disgusting. Way to go 'bro'.
Maybe you can have the Internet Archive delete it. But I seriously doubt that the Archive Team would respect your request. They work together sometimes, but they are not the same group.
>> But for the players involved, it's basically a scam. Even though they're getting a free education.

Sure, universities make money off college football, but let's not call this a "tragic exploitation system."

The players aren't forced to play. They 'love' football. That's why they're playing.

The far majority of college players (in all sports) know that they're not going to be playing professionally. But yet they still play. Because it's their dream to play.
In American Football the tackler uses his body more as a missile, typically leading with the head. In Rugby the tackler leads more with the shoulder, making sure the head is out of the way, and it's more of a "wrap-up" technique.

Also, I would think that the velocities and masses involved in American Football are higher - it is more of an anaerobic sport due to the short play duration, frequent breaks between plays, and frequent player substitutions.
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Thanks for teaching me a new word.

My initial hurdle was figuring out how to turn the page. Clicked in a bunch of different places to no avail. Fiddled with the little dots. Finally discovered the arrow keys work. Duh!

What followed was reasonable, but hardly remarkable, advice.

However, an ordinary blog post or a PDF would have worked much better than that cute but stupid skeuomorphism.
Find a chair liquidator. They buy supplies in bulk from companies moving or going out of business. You should be able to get a steelcase leap v1 for $250. A quick google search finds these guys in SF http://officecomforts.com/. I got great deals from these guys in NY wbofficefurniture.com

Best of luck.
The schools you named have it good -- the football revenues in some cases help fund academic programs.

But for most universities, the opposite is true. The football team runs a big deficit and is subsidized by the university (as are most sports, but football is by far the most expensive). Those smaller or less successful schools are the ones really hurting themselves by devoting so many resources to football.
Sorry that last part was a mis-stated. A lot of .NET is Windows desktop programming.

A lot of the "web" stuff is XBAP or whatever which is basically desktop packaged to go in IE.

Sure there is plenty of ASP.NET development going on, and that is over the web.

But come on, you can't say that most .NET software is not closed source. Sure, some of it is being 'opened up', but for the most part, ASP.NET and C# libraries and components are not open source. Especially when you compare the ratios to other platforms.
There are significant differences. In Rugby there is no forward pass so it is very hard to get the kind of high speed collisions you get in the NFL.
Very neat game, congrats. The GF was loving it
Watching this vid http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhmMU6afIHo
Not sure if those are legal tackles but the number of head high hits, coathangers etc is pretty astounding.
That would see you sent off in Australia with a multiple match ban and other punishment.
Oh... My... God.... Lyons is a fucking god. As a journalist in the valley, I can just say that the first paragraph he's written here hits the nail right on the fucking head.

---"It’s tough being a journalist, especially if you’re covering technology and living in Silicon Valley, because it seems as if everyone around you is getting fabulously rich while you’re stuck in a job that will never, ever make you wealthy. What’s worse is that all these people who are getting rich don’t seem to be any brighter than you are and in fact many of them don’t seem very bright at all. So of course you get jealous. And then you start thinking maybe you could find a way to cash in on this gold rush. But how do you make gobs of money when your only marketable skill involves writing blog posts?"

I feel this way all the time! But there's a distinct difference between acting on these feelings and just feeling them. Arrington would be just fine and above reproach, these days, if he'd keep his fucking mouth shut now that he is ludicrously compromised and un-objective.

If he'd quite being a "journalist" he'd not look like such a douche...

Perhaps this is why I haven't jumped the fence yet... I don't think I could give up the journalism. It just gets in your blood. And once it's in, the thought of compromising yourself is sickening. Unless you're Arrington.