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The best thing at CES was Netflix's promotion of their new series "Altered Carbon." https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/10/16874692/netflix-altered-carbon-stunt-ces-2018 "Netflix’s idea was to construct an elaborate faux-serious campaign, including a partnership with the drama’s fictional company Psychasec, and the collaborative booth they’re presenting at CES is a pretend exhibition area for Psychasec’s “sleeve” products. A sleeve, in the Altered Carbon universe, is a spare body you can transfer your consciousness into — because, as the tagline smugly proclaims, “no body lives forever.” They also had hired faux protestors outside the CES halls protesting Psychasec. Pics I took:
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# ¿ Jan 11, 2018 07:52 |
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# ¿ Mar 29, 2024 01:35 |
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Punkin Spunkin posted:How long have you been working for Netflix sir Funny thing about your comment is that the company I'm working on now, is currently building a product whose website/app will have a "Netflix Feel." The other thing I'd say about CES (and no, I don't work for them either) is that Amazon Won. There are tons of "Alexa Enabled" products. Shows the value of an open API, and lots of developer resources (including free hardware).
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# ¿ Jan 11, 2018 20:58 |
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shrike82 posted:There's no real point setting up a platform for small time content creators that have demonstrated they don't generate enough ad dollars to bother about. Yeah. I drank the "Long Tail" Koolaide in 2006 and launched a content portal where independent artists could post and sell video clips, wallpapers and ringtones to mobile phones (shortcodes and all). Even creating stuff so they could sell on MySpace etc. Almost all the sales was one artist selling Christian Rap and only because he was the one artist who self promoted.
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# ¿ Jan 21, 2018 21:05 |
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incoherent posted:There is a very good reason why Bachman always uttered "those loving AWS fees" or swapped it with "azure bill is killing me" on silicon valley. Its loving e x p e n s i v e. AWS has CDN and video delivery tools already but you need to ensure you have a lot of money to burn to create content on to stop the bleeding. Which is why you want to build a distributed system via IPFS or some sort.
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# ¿ Jan 22, 2018 17:18 |
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Steve French posted:Uhhhh hey everyone can't the distribution and payment problems be trivially solved here by just throwing blockchains at them??? Not unless you solve the problem that people hate ads and don't want to pay for content.
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# ¿ Jan 23, 2018 05:35 |
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Warbadger posted:People have been incredibly willing to pay for content. Subscription based streaming video services and digital distribution are massive. People even pay to poo poo post on this forum. The problem I have is that while I am willing to subscribe to the NYT, I am unwilling to subscribe to the WaPo just to read one article. Hence the reliance on really annoying ads on most sites.
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# ¿ Jan 24, 2018 00:15 |
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BarbarianElephant posted:It’d be nice if the papers got together and created some sort of news iTunes, so you could pay a small fee per premium news article read (say 10c.) It gets added up and charged once a month. Even the biggest news junkie can’t afford to subscribe to 3 papers. The Guardian has huge influence due to no paywall. This would solve a lot of problems, but there's still a good segment that believes "everything on the internet should be free" and I believe over 50% of people are now running Ad Blockers.
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# ¿ Jan 24, 2018 00:23 |
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Warbadger posted:Yes, because ads are generally annoying, harmful, and actively hinder access to content. Liking ads or not has nothing to do with an unwillingness to pay for content. That is correct but the reason websites rely on the ads is the lack of a decent micropayment system and users willing to use it. This has been an issue for decades.
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# ¿ Jan 24, 2018 00:55 |
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Analytic Engine posted:my man, have you heard the good news In 1999 I was the CTO Of Save.com. So yes. And Beenz.
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# ¿ Jan 24, 2018 19:32 |
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Arsenic Lupin posted:It's even worse than that. You're taxed at vesting. If you got your options for free or almost nothing, that's a big hit, because your cost basis is nearly zero. If stocks vest, you hold them, and they then fall in value (not uncommon) you wind up having to pay taxes on money you never actually had. This was a loving disaster in 2000/2001.
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# ¿ Jan 28, 2018 01:34 |
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As a daily cyclist, I welcome our attentive robotic driving masters. The reported issues with bicycles namely effect curb huggers, which is a bad idea anyway. Seriously most drivers are distracted and overrate their own abilities.
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# ¿ Feb 13, 2018 16:59 |
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fishmech posted:The child of mutli-millionaires is never self-made. Also true for upper middle class children like me who parents could afford the tuition at an Ivy or similar. Musk went to the same school I did (UPENN). I’m smart enough to realize the advantages I had.
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# ¿ Feb 14, 2018 05:00 |
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mycomancy posted:Solution: never take VC money. It keeps the vampyres out. This is one reason for the rush to ICO's. Many of which are absolute bullshit, but the overall % of good ones isn't much different than the VC picks. And you avoid the VC nonsense. Note: I have run companies that were VC funded. Not a big fan of it.
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# ¿ Feb 18, 2018 08:20 |
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Weatherman posted:The overall rate of "good ICOs" is 0% and the scam rate is 100%. Hope this helps Like this one? https://thesunexchange.com Buy solar cells and lease them to schools and businesses in the sunniest places on Earth. Mainly Africa. The Sun Exchange arranges your monthly lease rental collection and distribution. Get paid in local currency or Bitcoin.
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# ¿ Feb 19, 2018 08:15 |
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Goa Tse-tung posted:if there is no C then this isnt a ICO Ok, there are a bunch of solar blockchain things. Here's another. https://solardao.me Reduce risks and costs while surpassing technical barriers of investing in PV solar plants across the globe. Own solar assets freely, safely, and anonymously. $443,340 value of tokens sold in ICO And: https://solarbankers.com By creating a freely accessible marketplace for renewable energy trading, Solar Bankers is challenging the dominance of the large energy companies. With Solar Bankers, consumers can produce their own electricity and sell any excess at competitive prices to their neighbors via local marketplaces. But Solar Bankers is more than just a marketplace, we also supply cutting-edge photovoltaic devices that are able to produce clean energy at some of the lowest costs in the market. Their ICO: https://icoholder.com/en/suncoin-2328
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# ¿ Feb 20, 2018 22:47 |
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Kobayashi posted:Again, what value does blockchain add here? In some cases a way of funding the initial operations. In addition, a low overhead way of billing (NOT BTC).
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# ¿ Feb 21, 2018 00:18 |
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T-man posted:My idea is a ICO that's inversely valued on all other stupid bitcoin clones, call it FailureCoin. It can only go up uP UP! https://ponzicoin.co/home.html
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# ¿ Feb 21, 2018 22:13 |
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Talked to a Blockchain company this AM in the finance space that is self-funded and is NOT doing a ICO. They are simply using it for tracking the supply chain and transactions. That was a surprise.
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# ¿ Feb 22, 2018 17:54 |
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NightGyr posted:But, why? Immutability mainly. Transactions, secondarily.
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# ¿ Feb 22, 2018 20:38 |
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Avenging_Mikon posted:Merkle Trees, motherfucker, do you know of them? Yes, I know of this. I have even seen discussions centered around "how do we speed up this slow crap" that focused on applying this tech.
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# ¿ Feb 22, 2018 22:49 |
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Avenging_Mikon posted:A blockchain is not going to go faster than a merkle tree. If it does it's not a blockchain. Exactly. The idea was to use Merkle Tree and DB's as a better solution.
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# ¿ Feb 23, 2018 01:34 |
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fishmech posted:Imgur is still used a ton on reddit. Photobucket broke at least a million posts on various web forums when they decided to block image charing from free accounts. Stuff posted years ago suddenly has the dreaded Photobucket 'upgrade or else' notice. How'd that work out for them>=?
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# ¿ Feb 26, 2018 22:25 |
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fishmech posted:It's called just giving up on all the tertiary boxes you don't use anymore after buying a new TV. Works great. There's basically just two inputs on my TV as far as I'm concerned: over the air channels, and HDMI 1 with the xbonex on it to handle any streaming I need. And if a streaming/purchase service ain't on there I ain't using it. Required Reply: http://bgr.com/2011/06/30/open-letter-to-blackberry-bosses-senior-rim-exec-tells-all-as-company-crumbles-around-him/ To the RIM Senior Management Team: I have lost confidence. While I hide it at work, my passion has been sapped. I know I am not alone — the sentiment is widespread and it includes people within your own teams. Mike and Jim, please take the time to really absorb and digest the content of this letter because it reflects the feeling across a huge percentage of your employee base. You have many smart employees, many that have great ideas for the future, but unfortunately the culture at RIM does not allow us to speak openly without having to worry about the career-limiting effects. ....
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# ¿ Feb 27, 2018 21:47 |
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Help Im Alive posted:Was there ever a point where Google + stood a chance Google+ launched without a mobile client or an API to allow mobile apps to use Google+ as a social graph. Must have sucked not to have a mobile software development team available.
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# ¿ Feb 28, 2018 18:55 |
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Cicero posted:I wasn't at Google back when they launched but apparently around that time getting an offer from Facebook was a surefire way to get a very generous counteroffer from Google. I think Google just viewed Facebook as a massive threat and wanted to try to beat them at their own game. I believe that too, and given where Facebook is with advertising revenue, that fear was justified. At the time Google+ was launched I was an exec (CCO) of a mobile game publisher. There were several issues that mystified me. 1. Zynga had an exclusive with Facebook on some of their games, but Google had ZERO interest in working with publishers to publish alternatives on Google+. I had meetings at Casual Connect with "Ian" and others and it felt like they didn't care about games. 2. There was NO API (at launch and for some time afterward) to access the Social Graph for games and other apps. ... and the biggie. 3. No Google+ mobile app (for years). It's as if Android didn't even exist in the minds of the Google+ team. Not to mention that Google was also a leading publisher on iOS. My guess is that the company was serious "stove-piped" at the time. Examples include the lack of coordination between the Chromebook and the Android teams.
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# ¿ Mar 1, 2018 19:32 |
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suck my woke dick posted:all three of these seem like pretty major oversights to me, a dumb user. We can't grasp the genius of the executives who made these decisions. We're not worthy to question their superior wisdom.
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# ¿ Mar 2, 2018 01:22 |
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fishmech posted:There is still no reason for Chrome OS to exist, since it turned out Android did get popular on smartphones and there was no need for the browser-only backup platform. This is one area where I think Google got it right. Chromebooks won in the educational markets. They are ubiquitous in classrooms. In 2010 I was hawking a plan to launch an educational software company to launch apps on iPads with a evolution to management stuff for the classroom. Instead, I closed a poker license deal and ended up selling a social game company and taking a position as a CCO of the NewCo. I thought Apple would own the K-12 market, but Chromebooks won. Easy to admin. Companies like Powerschool and Age Of Learning have done quite well here. I bought a decent 15" Chromebook for a daughter in grad school and with Google Docs (which I love) it's totally adequate. The problem is more, in my opinion, that Android didn't support the Chrome web apps properly. They should have been encapsulated and offered on Play.
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# ¿ Mar 2, 2018 02:32 |
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fishmech posted:That's quite a bit of an exaggeration, there's tons of classrooms that use Windows or whatever. But Chrome OS itself contributes none of the appeal - if Google simply stopped gimping the Android version of Chrome, running Android instead of their other custom Linux distribution behind Chrome OS would work just as well. It really seems like the ongoing existence of Chrome OS is tied into some executive not wanting to give up a fiefdom, as I said before it should have been folded into the Android umbrella long ago - this was obvious even at the point when the Cr-48s were starting to be issued long ago before there were commercial Chromebooks. It's far easier and cheaper to admin a bunch of Chromebooks than say. tablets running Android. Chromebook priced laptops running Android would have the same admin workload as say, Macbooks.
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# ¿ Mar 2, 2018 18:04 |
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Owlofcreamcheese posted:As someone who manages 1000+ of chromebooks in schools I can say you are absolutely wrong and chromeOS unique cloud based design is extremely appealing to schools and blows anything else out of the water for most tasks. Nothing else compares to the dumb terminal style of a chrome book where each kid simply has an account and all their programs and settings and desktop simply instantly appear on whatever computer they are using that second. Both from the perspective of the kid where they can use 4 different computers and have a consistent experience and from the perspective of the school where when some new standardized test comes out they can just one click add it to every computer without the complexity or overhead of doing some MDM package install on a mac or some group policy on windows. Better said than I. Thank you.
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# ¿ Mar 2, 2018 18:05 |
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FilthyImp posted:My school used to run a dedicated server (the long rackmount looking one, not a G2 aluminum tower or whatever) just to handle student accounts and whatever monitor minder Apple sold in 2008. This is been a recurring theme with Apple for decades. In the 1990's I was at quite possibly the largest educational software (for schools) in history. We started with Apple settop boxes (British Telecom was the cable co. using them) and MPEG equipped Mac's (this was 1994 so software MPEG wasn't ready). In 1995 Apple says (mind you, we had spent $60m on curriculum by then): "Apple is not in the business to build machines for Lightspan". So we just switched to the Playstation. IPO in 2000.
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# ¿ Mar 2, 2018 19:21 |
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fishmech posted:You said they are Gentoo. They are not Gentoo, although the initial versions of Chrome OS over 5 years ago were based on Gentoo. Don't ignore the lower cost admin with Chromebooks. And personally, I prefer Google Docs to Office 365.
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# ¿ Mar 2, 2018 23:36 |
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fishmech posted:Everyone. It could easily be replaced by Android. What part of “easy to administer for schools and businesses ” did you not understand?
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# ¿ Mar 4, 2018 02:25 |
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fishmech posted:There is absolutely no inherent reason it can't be, especially if many years hadn't been wasted building that for "Chrome OS" instead. How is an downloaded app based platform as easy to administer as a web based system? We even had a school IT Administrator explain this. At this point you’re doing the Android version of “Argument Clinic.”
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# ¿ Mar 4, 2018 02:46 |
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fishmech posted:You can already lock down a phone or a computer or whatever. Next! Try updating a curriculum system across 1000+ android tablets. This is silly.
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# ¿ Mar 4, 2018 02:47 |
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Trabisnikof posted:Grooming partners as children has been a thing forever, being upset about this seems really weird. Pretty much every picture in the whole article shows a family with a little kid. What a weird thing to be angry about. I loved your movie Manhattan. Great cinematography.
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# ¿ Mar 5, 2018 19:51 |
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Baronash posted:From a risk management standpoint, a 2,000lb vehicle whose failure mode is stopping is better than a 75lb vehicle whose failure mode is falling out of the sky. Why not a small, robotic wheeled vehicle? If no one is going to be inside it, what are the regs on weight/size? Sort of a self-driving trike.
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# ¿ Mar 6, 2018 19:53 |
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Panfilo posted:Because teenagers would be kicking them over to get at their soft pizza innards. EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE!
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# ¿ Mar 6, 2018 20:10 |
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Oh wait ...
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# ¿ Mar 6, 2018 20:11 |
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Barudak posted:The autonomous pizza delivery vehicle is flipped over, but youre not helping. Why arent you helping? Nice reference.
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# ¿ Mar 6, 2018 21:57 |
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# ¿ Mar 29, 2024 01:35 |
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Paradoxish posted:.... It would suck less if the wages had kept up with inflation: "truckers wages averaged $38,618 annually in 1980. If adjusted to 2015 dollars, that would be over $111,000 a year" https://www.overdriveonline.com/trucker-pay-has-plummeted-in-the-last-30-years-analyst-stays/ Gee, what changed in 1980? Could it be UNIONS?
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