HBO sticking with cable and satellite, won’t offer streaming service
Kessler explained he thinks cord cutting is more of a temporary phenomenon that will go away when the economy improves, and that partnering with cable and satellite providers allows it to avoid transaction costs.
Let me get this straight. You have a rabid fan base who are pirating your hit show at record levels. Instead of figuring out how to engage that audience you’re going to wait for them to conform to your expectations because you want to avoid “transaction costs”? An intelligent person would recognize those “transaction costs” as a worthwhile investment to own your product from ship to stern.
Spielberg on Kubrick (1999)
This is the uncut version of an interview with Steven Spielberg about Stanley Kubrick. It originally aired on British television, excerpts from it were used on the Eyes Wide Shut DVD.
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When people want a native app, they are asking for an app user experience, which is more complex than the web experience. For instance, users want apps to load immediately. That requires a client side cache, which is inherently more complex than a stateless client. There are no silver bullets to solve essential complexity. Trying to abstract away essential complexity only makes things more complex.
Ben Sandofsky: Shell Apps and Silver Bullets
Based on my own experience and recent discussions with many of my peers, I think this is a very under appreciated point right now in the startup world. Many web-centric managers and engineering organizations are confronting the “essential complexity” of native app development for the first time since Netscape ushered in an age of lightweight clients, and the response is often to try to force native app development »
Freshwater eel, known as unagi, is one of the most popular items in the American sushi industry. It is generally grilled and served with a dark kabeyaki sauce. Unfortunately, our consumption of eel is a tremendous problem from an environmental standpoint.
Wild eel populations around the world are in severe decline. These population crashes stem from habitat alteration, overexploitation, climate change, pollution, and disease. Even as stocks plummet, however, the demand for freshwater eel continues to grow. As wild stocks have diminished, aquaculture has taken over. About ninety percent of the eel consumed in the United States is produced in farms, mainly in China, Taiwan, and Japan. Unfortunately, eel aquaculture tends to be sloppy and has a number of serious problems.
Fish meal: Eels are carnivorous. When these fish are kept in captivity, »
Map of the sub-section of The Shining’s Hedge Maze that was built for the film. It was first built as an exterior set on the MGM Elstree Studios back lot, and consisted of pine boughs stapled to a plywood frame. The maze set was later rebuilt inside a sound stage at EMI Elstree Studios, with two feet of dairy salt on the floor and styrofoam “snow” crusted to the walls.
Have you ever eaten sushi? If so, the phenomenal growth in demand for sushi has come at a cost: overfishing has led to depleting fish stocks, which in turn has threatened the balance of the ocean’s ecosystems. Is the current sushi trade sustainable? What can be done to ensure that the prized Blue Fin Tuna exists for future generations to come? This timely documentary – winner of the Special Jury Prize at the 2011 Seattle International Film Festival and the Audience Award at the 2012 San Francisco Green Film Festival – poses some important questions that all sushi lovers should give thought to before placing their next order of sushi.
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“We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a living.
We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed at some kind of drudgery because, according to Malthusian-Darwinian theory, he must justify his right to exist. So we have inspectors of inspectors and people making instruments for inspectors to inspect inspectors.
The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.”
– Buckminster Fuller: architect, »
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Seems like IKEA are really shaking things up this year. In addition to the previously announced TV set, they’re also going to release a digital camera made of cardboard called Knäppa (“Snap”). It’ll hold 40 photographs at a time and plugs directly into your USB port. While it’s not the prettiest camera the world has ever seen, I do love the idea of a screen-less digital camera that brings people back to the wait-and-see days of film.
I want one.