gtCameron

Could not agree more. You are not thinking of firing your co-founder, you are thinking of divorcing him.

No matter what its going to be messy, and you need to be absolutely sure its worth going down that road before you do it.

Not only that, but its not intended to be answered by lawyers either. For a bar exam that question wouldn't be a good one, for a test to see if someone grasps the general concepts of how America works, it seems perfectly reasonable.

The best part of this article is the quote from Microsoft spokesman Frank Shaw when asked to comment about what Bloomberg is reporting:

"We appreciate Bloomberg’s foray into fiction and look forward to future episodes"

It's a high bar to clear in today's media, but I think this might be the dumbest article I have ever read.

I guess the original headline "Rich guy in big house doesn't want close neighbors" didn't generate enough Internet Outrage (tm).

To put some actual numbers to it from a quick Google search

Number of US Households from 2010 census - 114,800,000

Times $30k per household - $3.4 trillion

Total US Federal Government Revenue 2010 - $2.163 trillion

Total US Federal Government Spending 2010 - $3.456 trillion

FTA - "For his trans-Atlantic crossing, the basket in which he was riding was actually a lifeboat that could have been used if he ditches in the ocean."

If Manning had just released documents related to specific illegal activities this would be a different conversation. That's not what he did though, in your doctor analogy what he did would be releasing the medical files of all 200 of his patients because he saw evidence of child abuse in one of them.

There is not different pricing for Australians, there is different pricing for people who are located in Australia. Big difference.

Comparing regional pricing schemes to racial discrimination is quite a leap.

To continue that analogy, its roughly equivalent to keeping $200k cash in a briefcase the floor of your apartment instead of in a safety deposit box at the bank.

ISP: ATT Business Fiber

Location: Atlanta, GA

Ok, I'll bite. Lets go through these one by one

1) Weather - The similarities are that they both use white text over an image that somewhat represents current conditions. The alignment is different, and its not even presenting the same information.

2) Answer Call - They look the same because instead of a picture of a tree you have a picture of a person, that is not an IOS7 design change. The other similarity is that they squared off the buttons.

3) Multitasking cards - Pretty much the same, but they both took that from WebOS, mostly because its been recognized as the best way of presenting that information.

4) Lock screen - Almost identical to the IOS6 lock screen, but with the black backgrounds removed from the top and bottom. Completely different from the Windows Phone one except that the background images are similar, which again is a user selected thing, not the OS.

So these screenshots "prove" that Apple has copied the concept of designing a weather app with text over a picture (also known as how 90% of the weather apps currently in the app store work) and that they took the idea of multitasking cards from WebOS. Oh, and they made some buttons square instead of round.

The horror

The NSA or Hacker News?

The UI was fairly complete in previous betas, but it was also largely the same as the last major version.

I don't think any of us know how the beta as it sits today is going to compare to the final release, but saying that it won't change because previous betas didn't change doesn't seem like a fair comparison.

Playing with the beta right now and the control panel is by far my favorite feature. It does look kind of busy at first with so many actions available, but the layout is well done and its easy to find what you are looking for.

One of the most interesting things about how they are handling this is that they claim they are not lowering admission standards, they are just allowing people who meet those standards but can't participate in the regular program due to having a full time job, inability to move to Atlanta for 3 years, or whatever the reason is.

It will be interesting to see how the market reacts to this degree. Will it be regarded as a masters degree from a top 10 program, or will it be seen as a cheap online degree that doesn't hold the same esteem?

The piece of paper isn't to validate your self worth, its to validate to your prospective employers that you are worth more money.

My quick Google search pegs the increase in starting salary going from BS to MS at $18,200 a year [1]. Being able to make that leap for $7k seems like a pretty good deal to me.

[1] http://www.naceweb.org/Press/Releases/Payoff_for_Master_s_De...

Yes, profit centers. Notice how all but one of the coaches on that map coach Football or Basketball.

Athletic departments as a whole aren't profitable because the ridiculous amounts of profits earned by basketball and football can't subsidize the losses incurred by supporting the other sports.

I don't care how good the music is at the time, I still turn it off and roll down the windows every time I drive my M5 through a tunnel.

Ironically, I use IFTTT to read the RSS and push sites like what he is describing into Instapaper. You lose the by-site organization of it, but if you don't overdo it you end up with a nice small selection of things to read every day when you fire up Instapaper.

Leo segment starts at 14:45

I agree. We have been trying to scale our Wowza on EC2 setup for live video streaming, but after looking at our options it was about the same price to just go with a VDN like Edgecast that managed the server complexity for us.

If Amazon could support live streaming through Cloudfront I think they could undercut the existing VDNs on pricing and have a big opportunity in that market.

I have been using Zencoder in our product for about 2 years and have loved it. Super easy to setup through their API and I have run into very few issues over the last couple years.

However, we are running 10k minutes a month through there and cutting our monthly encoding bill in half is pretty hard to pass up. AWS definitely has less features, but the feature set they do support is exactly what we are using Zencoder for. Probably going to wait a couple months to see if Zencoder decides to lower their pricing and if not take a look at switching.

That line makes the whole article worth the read.

Bookmarked. Thank you!

What it looks like to me is that YouTube refuses to play the role of the judge.

The role of YouTube in this dispute has been simply to provide a platform for the parties to work it out. YouTube is not the organization that is denying the fair use claim, Lionsgate is.

If you were the defensive coordinator on the opposing team, knowing the answer to "run or pass" with a high degree of certainty would give you a pretty large advantage.

The lack of imagination coming from Facebook today in terms of the monetization of their products is disappointing.

Is there really no way that they can make money without pissing of their users? It seems like at that scale there should be new ways that they can try to make money other than simply following the tried and true method of shoving adds down everyone's throat.

That's why I'm a casual pirate. I'm not arguing that it works for everyone, I'm saying that they do exist.

I have cable because I watch a lot of sports, as soon ESPN lets me pay for streaming without a cable subscription I will drop it, but unfortunately live sports is the one thing than can not be pirated easily, consistently, and in high quality.

I am a casual pirate. The last time I pirated stuff was torrenting some HBO shows, which promptly got me an email from my ISP.

At that point I could have done one of two things

1) Start spending $10 a month or so on an SSL Usenet provider, a VPN, or any of the other various tools that would allow me to keep pirating without getting caught

2) Start spending $10 a month or so on HBO, and watch it from the comfort of my couch on my flat screen without messing around with any of that stuff.

There are always going to be ways around whatever system they put in place, but the more obstacles they put in the way the more people will decide its no longer worth the effort.

My guess is that they aren't artificially limiting it, they are using HLS[1] which is only supported by certain browsers/devices. Stream isn't up yet to test but it should work on a newer (4.0+) Droid as well as in VLC if you can find the stream url.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_Live_Streaming