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Futuristic version in next 10 years definitely will have a layer of micro-bubbles like a LCD matrix where you could programatically create shapes. I would guess the biggest challenge would be how to send air/fluid to particular chambers. creating channels would require 3D modelling, which means there would be certain thickness involved.

Needless to say, a touch of real buttons is something I truly miss sometimes (switching from Blackberry to iPhone). Kudos to someone (tactus?) that will come up with an iPhone screen shield that will imitate buttons well enough.
I get that television is, compared to most other art forms, a pretty new industry -- and that it's one with which many people are dissatisfied.

Stuff like this is dumb, in my opinion. Television's a medium and its here to stay for quite a long time. I'm not saying cable is -- I'm not saying network television is -- but audiovisual vignettes, the process of producing something for it to be watched, are going to be here for a while.

"We now expect interaction rather than passivity."

This, in my opinion, is silly. The engagement of interaction and the engagement of presentation are two different experiences.

I think the author makes a good point with regards to the barrier to entry decreasing; as a result, we're seeing more 'auteur' television, both on networks and on YouTube. Think back to the Renaissance, the shift from poets and great writers seeking patronage to the development of mass publishing -- we are seeing this within the video industry as well.

"Why would big players like Dick Wolf and Jerry Bruckhiemer jump through hoops for major networks when they can distribute their content directly to consumers."

Marketing, and the fact that the last Jerry Bruckheimer-produced film (On Stranger Tides) had a budget of $200 million.
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This would be a killer feature for me if the buttons had some kind of depression, so I could feel the button before actually pressing it. Without that feature it's just a bumpy touch screen which isn't all that much better than a flat one in my opinion.
GoT is absolutely huge in Australia - I am continually surprised at the people I know who are well outside the target demographic and watch it. Monday is Game of Thrones night, where everyone watches it, and then talks about it with their mates, which seems to be a significant part of the experience (I'm not a fan of the show personally).

A week later is one week too late - you need to be looking at hours after screening. Australia has a huge pirated TV culture because of how awful our free to air is (pay TV is only really starting to catch on due to exclusive sports licenses, and in terms of getting US content it is almost as terrible as free to air), and everyone just torrents what they want to watch.
buy the dvd, leave it in its box, and pirate the show. everyone wins.
I'd be willing to pay a lot more than that. If they wanted to charge me what Brits pay that would be fantastic but considering that is not currently an option I'd settle for paying more too.
This is actually going to be the topic of my next blog post. Reading through the Associates Program Operating Agreement (https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/gp/associates/agreement...), it seems like there is a decent chance Philanthropist would be in violation of something. However, that agreement is for associates, so I'm not sure if those rules would apply to a browser extension.

Also, I mostly built the extension for myself so I could easily support one of my favorite podcasts. There are only about 10 other users and since I don't really plan on advertising the extension, I doubt the user-base will ever get big enough to warrant concern from Amazon.
Surely Ocaml also has its warts - in the end my feeling is that of Simoni "you must create a programming language, or be enslav'd by another man's."
(http://axisofeval.blogspot.com.br/2010/06/letter-to-young-pl...)

And for now use whatever gets the job done.
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One of the sites that helped me find great name suggestions was http://www.squadhelp.com. I got 400+ domain name suggestions in 2 days. They engage people across the world who submit ideas – and the best idea wins the award amount. It sure beats the time and energy I would have spent myself to come up with names. You might want to check them out
What's relatively late? The 2600 vs Ford fuckgeneralmotors.com lawsuit dates back to 2001, more or less predating "serious" web apps (I don't have a better date for the end of the swearing ban, but it's been at least ten years).
We definitely were NOT browsing Google maps on our smartphones a decade ago.
Nice try, HBO.
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The most popular show on HBO will get cancelled because people are pirating it? Definitely disagree. It's not just critically acclaimed, it's among the most popular HBO original show in the network's history.

Pirating, of course, won't change their business. But even if I really want to watch the show (I don't watch it), I wouldn't sign up for Cable TV, and sign up for HBO on top of it just for one show. I see this as less of an ultimatum and more of a "hey your business model is fucked so you're not getting my money" thing.
Cool. Thanks!! I'm a little nervous about using a whiteboard to code on =\ never really done it before. i just start hammering stuff out in gedit lol.

Thanks everyone for all the wonderful tips!
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Yep, shame they went for the Faux-Matrix-Morpheus voice over.
It is cheaper if your TV is black and white. You also get a reduced price if you are legally blind, although I am not sure how much of a discount you get.

Overall, I think the TV license is brilliant considering it provides us with an ad-free TV and news network.
Plus, you only actually need a license if you watch TV "as it is aired." I.E. DVDs, recordings etc. don't require a license. It's less of a TV license, more of a live TV license.
It always struck me as odd however that watching streamed live foreign TV on your computer counts under that however, and you need a TV license for that, to help fund the BBC.
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> has the innate right to take whatever they want

You aren't taking it. You are copying it. The only reason not to be allowed to copy it is if it damages the copyright owner.

But since the product has zero economic value to the owner from you (they refuse to sell it to you), you are not causing them any damage, and therefor you can not make any argument about why it's wrong. (i.e. it makes no difference to the owner whether you copied it or not.)

One of the criteria for fair use is "the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work".

And if you also include "the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes" you have met 2 out of 4 of the criteria for fair use, so you could make a strong argument that it's actually fully legal.
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You're exactly right - there is a vocal set of people that want a third option. My point is, however, no business has to offer the "third option". Just because they don't offer the third option doesn't make downloading them for free OK.
Does that IPv6 address change? I know Comcast changes your IPv4 address periodically unless you pay for a static one.
Yes.

They forced a bad deal on competing networks via those networks' own customers. The prize was capturing margin and exporting cost of business.

The language about controlling the examples that consumers use as a frame of reference is telling. This is a business that has mastered the game of baiting 1st parties against 2nd parties while negotiating price as a 3rd party.
"That's an absurd price cut"

Groupon is advertising and needs to be evaluated as advertising not as a price cut.

"for the businesses for what's really an email campaign ... something a business could technically do for free or cheap"

No that's not a real option that is either free or cheap anymore then you can replace traditional advertising by having the owner's family pass out fliers and/or stand around with a sandwich board.
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Simply tweeting the intention is an empty gesture. How about setting up a publically auditable escrow account with the recipient set to be HBO/Time Warner. Deposit $20 (or whatever is fair compensation) and then go ahead an acquire a copy of the video. That's what I thought this would be when I saw "Take my money, HBO": a realizable offer of money.

Is there any legal precedent for this, i.e. attempting to pay for a product or service, being ignored and then paying and taking it anyway?
Well, this season of GoT was 9 episodes. If you wanted HBO over the whole run so you could watch them live - you would need it for 3 months. However, if you're willing to hold off until last month, you could get by with waiting for the last episode to come out, buy one month, watch all episodes, then cancel.
I am with you on this!! I can't believe everyone isn't ready this!!
Graham doesn't think Mr. Market is always reasonable to begin with. But I'm not sure it's fair to attribute that valuation to "the market" as a whole. It was set by the underwriters, who might have been expecting a flood of "greater fool" buyers as in the late 1990s. They did exist (I'm sorry to say I know a few), but obviously not in sufficient numbers to generate the classic "pop"...
Wow, I hadn't read that; such a great post. Thank you.
Before I looked at your comment history I honestly thought you were trying to do this: http://xkcd.com/966/
On a BlackBerry, when it is put in the charger, it goes into Bedside Mode, and the clock application is shown. The user can set up the profile to be used during this state (i.e. what notifications to allow, etc.). It can also be programmed to only enter bedside mode during certain hours.

I know it's not exactly what you're asking for, but it's something they've done for several years, and done quite well. I'm hoping they extend it, and keep it in BlackBerry 10.
Guess we'll find out next week if it's the screening time because season 2 just finished. So from next Monday will there be a drop in Australian GoT torrents because the show is equally available on iTunes? It'd be interesting to see the stats.

The other thing is that on iiNet (Australia's #2 ISP), iTunes downloads aren't counted against download quota. So there's some incentive to buy for people on the basic plans.
My point was that copyright is not a matter of rights, it is a matter of business.

If I am going to spend a year of my life developing something I intend to sell, I should make sure it's a good idea not only to make it, but also to try and sell it in a form like a fat client. If I do it anyway and no one buys it, regardless of the reason it was bad business.

Nobody weeps for the carriage makers because we like our cars. No one will weep for the media makers who couldn't adapt to the new market forces.

Treating piracy as anything other than a force of nature will only leave you drowned when the DRM dam breaks. All the examples you cite of being willing to pay content distributors are examples of businesses who have adapted to the new realities of the market.

I don't think businesses should be forced to give away things for free, I just think they don't need artificial monopolies in order to profitably contribute to science and the useful arts.
Let me get this straight because I think this is what other sources are implying: HBO sells a license to their channels to the cable companies for a flat fee. The cable providers then recoup this by selling subscriptions to HBO or pushing more customers to subscribe to cable. In that way, cable providers actually pay more than the cable providers collect from consumers for HBO subscriptions. This really makes the question not would you pay the same price as HBO costs on cable for Game of Thrones access, but would you pay more? The cable provider's contracts may even preclude directly collecting from consumers. If this is true, I think the community needs to realize this remains a lost cause and instead encourage Netflix's model of creating high quality content directly for streaming.
But why? Why couldn't they have just made a good Blu-Ray boxed set? Why does disc three have nothing but one episode on it (no extra features... everything I click while using disc3 says "please enter disc 5", while disc 4 has three episodes on it? Why do I have to sit through an FBI warning when I dont even live in the states? Why do I have to see ads for other HBO shows when I put in disc 1?

I spent good money on the fucking thing? Why couldn't they have given me a BETTER experience than the people who steal it?
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All due respect Ryan, but were those life changing dollar amounts for the acquisitions? I seem to remember DropSend being sold on your blog, and Carsonified was a consulting company or something from what I can remember? Not to take anything away from your accomplishments and I 100% agree that money will never make you happy, but if you had gotten say $500 million from your acquisitions would the story be any different?
I do want to learn lots of different technologies, including PHP! That's part of the reason I read Hacker News in the first place.

But I'm doubtful of its real-world application these days. Most news I see never mentions it, but Ruby and Python are mentioned near constantly.

I'm sure working at Facebook would be amazing. I mean, it's Facebook. But if I also got internship offers at Google and other high-tech companies, then the language I use at work will factor in.

And PHP doesn't seem nearly as significant as these other languages, so then why take a job where I'll learn and use it in-depth for months when there are other languages?
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> The earth itself would probably be fine though

I giggle at your ethnocentrism and hubris.
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It's the late part. See an example in the gaming industry here: http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/114391-Valves-Gabe...
Not watching game of thrones isn't really an option for anybody I know...
HBO's cut is very small (< $3 I think). But the cable and satellite cos pay a fixed fee per base cable/sat sub to HBO but then upsell their own customers and recoup that cost. Using the $20 as a proxy for about what HBO gets, even though it's a lot more complicated than that in reality.
I never said anything about turning off the phone.
Everyone who writes code at Facebook has "uncommonly large responsibilities"? Really? How does that work?
So you're anti-entitlement to very easily copyable things? Why?

To assure you I'm not trolling... take a look at this discussion before replying: http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/114391-Valves-Gabe...
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I don't believe that this is an egregious error.
Try reading critically. To process 1 yottabyte of data assuming you have 128 bit registers you would need 100,000,000 petaflops.(See http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%2810%5E24+bytes+%2F+12...) Therefore, there must be a great deal of preprocessing using classifiers to basically eliminate a great deal of useless information. Just because you store it doesn't mean you will listen to it.
He works for Mozilla. (As do I)

"writing a browser" is a little bit of an exaggeration, since it's just all the chrome being implemented, and HTML rendering is handled by gecko. But, it's still a browser being implemented in js. It's pretty sweet.

I'm working on a tcpsocket API for js for the same project. It's being used to implement an imap client in js. It's all part of the boot 2 gecko project. It's quite fun!
Why not?

To assure you I'm not trolling... read this first: http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/114391-Valves-Gabe...
Going into the billions must be a completely different story - it's world-changing money, not just life. The things he talks about still don't change, but you have the power to achieve much greater goals.
No, it says "everyone is finding a way to watch it whether it is on HBO or by pirating, so why don't you figure out how to enable everyone to watch it without infringing on copyright and make some money in the process?"
"Nah, I'm not really into Pokemon."

http://xkcd.com/178/

(Am I the only one who still doesn't give two fucks about four fucks about television shows?)
Or if you absolutely can't offer it standalone; what about as an option off service(s) more reasonable and likely to already be in my pocket, as an anti-cable viewer. For example, why can't I get some premium options off the back of my Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, Xbox Live, etc service(s)?

There are mentions of HBO having to foot the infrastructure if going away from Big-TV providers, but the above can handle that now. Charge an extra $5 over Big-TV, if these other services want you to foot some of their transport bill; I'd be willing to pay more, while still paying less than needing a cable sub.

I'm already paying those other guys. Are they not playing ball? Tell us so, and we can start focusing some of our internet hate at those greedy suits, as well.
His statement was on a per-gram basis, which seems pretty much obviously true (since it basically says that fat is more energy-dense than carbs).

Nonetheless, like jcheng I'm interested in what you've learned from your research. I've also been looking into low-carb/ketogenic diets, and a friend does intermittent fasting (IF), and there are a host of clashing opinions and studies of varying quality on everything. Taubes, Lustig, Aragorn...my conclusion is that we still know very little about the effects of diet composition.

I've switched mostly to sugar substitutes and reduced my carb intake because it seems like something most would agree upon. My IFing friend claims IF/caloric restriction is one of the few things actually shown to significantly prolong lifespans in animals. Do you have any knowledge of these things, or of better-done studies I should be reading? Thanks.

edit: I've just been reading Guyenet and what he says is quite interesting
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Unfortunately, the market works in such a way that unless you build a mechanism for people to pay a reasonable price for a game at launch (see Steam vs Piracy), then you lose out. Example: http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/114391-Valves-Gabe...

Even a trial run, like pay $5 and watch S03E01, would be a really great test to see if the market is telling the truth here. (But the availability could NOT lag behind HBOGo or broadcast, it'd have to be simultaneous.)
Amusingly even if the Comcast LAN prefix is static most operating systems by default will cycle your address anyways. In IPv6 a dynamic address is now a Feature!

Whether or not the Comcast LAN prefix changes is a good question though. I've seen no evidence that they plan to deliberately change them. My Comcast IPv4 address stays static pretty much until I reset my modem and even then it often grabs the same v4 address again.

I did a bit of really basic testing earlier today and no amount of modem resetting seems to cycle the IPv6 prefix I am getting delegated.

In the end though, dynamic DNS does a very good job of dealing with the occasionally changing prefix and IPv6 gets rid of the need to do port forwarding so maintaining dns records with public addresses to machines on your home network is actually possible now. I am happy to report that (with the proper firewalls in place) it is downright awesome to have IPv6 at home and at work and on your phone. I can't wait to see what sort of new home cloud tech this will enable.
Out of idle curiosity, who are some other big name programmers working at Facebook?
It's not cheap, really. HBO costs <$20 on DirectTV. Source: http://www.directv.com/DTVAPP/content/premiums/hbo
At least it's opt-in.
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Reminded me of this recent item:

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Just curious as to how folks get the word out about their start-ups/websites once they're finished. I'm extremely new to all of this, and as such I really don't know anything about this topic! What works? Press releases? Emails to bloggers?

Thanks guys!
I might be late to this thread here but my question is: how do you go about selling your company for low 7 figures? I'm not asking how to make it worth that, my question is assuming that's a reasonable price for someone to buy your company for.

Do you mark it as for sale? Are they mostly private offers? Go through a broker?

Basically, I'm interested in how to actively put up for sale a company that is too big for something like flippa.com for instance
But SSDs that cost the same as a 15K disk do not have anywhere near the life time of the spinning disk due to write endurance limits.

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Well if Comcast only assigns you a /128 then you're kinda stuck :) Good to know, thank you.
"On Tuesday, the website Gawker reported that an anonymous hacker had signed into Romney’s personal Hotmail account."

Hopefully he changed his AOL Instant Messenger password in time...
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No, but as we don't really have anything to say on this topic, we don't. Selection bias.

I can't disagree this is relevant to HN's interests, as a specific instance of a broader trend that gets talked about a lot here.
Why, thank you. If I can manage to be ethnocentric and hubristic, while simultaneously putting forward the idea that we are unimportant on a long timescale and that giant intelligent spiders might eventually be the dominant form, then I must be doing especially well, even by the exceptional standards of our particular group of apes.
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Not going to work IMHO. HBO is partly so successful because of its exclusivity. It is THE premiere channel to get, and will give that away only when the fall of traditional TV is apparent.
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comcast assigns a /64 if you plug in a router that supports DHCPv6. You get a /128 if you plug your macbook air straight into the modem. =)
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