offering a secret space that one can retreat to, the intimate shelter was influenced by the client's passion for children's literature and mythologies.
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UPDATE: The clip has been pulled from the site that was hosting it—apparently, HBO didn’t want this out in the wild just yet.
Much like Detective Rust Cohle, True Detective can’t help but take another look back at the most important case of its career and obsessively wonder if it missed something important. Only a few days removed from the season finale of HBO’s hit anthology crime series, we’re getting what is presumably a glimpse at the DVD extras. A deleted scene offers some intriguing clues about one of the show’s unsolved mysteries. Was there a second Yellow King? Was Cthulhu somehow involved? Did that guy with the Maserati get his car fixed?
Okay, this deleted scene actually doesn’t answer any of those questions (or does it?), but it does reveal how Rust broke up ...
Neil deGrasse Tyson - the internet's favorite science guy (who isn't Bill Nye, that is). And he's hosting the reboot of Carl Sagan's science series Cosmos (airing tonight at 9 PM on Fox, FX, FXX, and National Geographic). But instead of waiting around to watch him blow your mind on TV, you could just follow him on Twitter, where he's blowing people's minds ALL THE TIME.
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In the wake of California resident Dorian Nakamoto's denial that he invented Bitcoin, some have voiced concerns about his exposure to possibly undue media scrutiny.
Add Nassim Taleb to that list.
In a new series of Tweets, Taleb, the best-selling author of books about how he thinks markets and society work, goes after Newsweek reporter Leah McGrath Goodman, the author of the piece alleging Nakamoto invented the digital currency; and journalism in general, using his signature lexicon about probability and skin in the game.
He's really angry:
Violation of Nakamoto's privacy by Goodman @truth_eater shd be reciprocal: journos should also have their privacy in jeopardy #skininthegame
— Nassim N. Taleb (@nntaleb) March 8, 2014
Aside from cluelessness about "forensics", Goodman's treatment of Nakamoto marks the conflation of reporting with voyeurism @truth_eater
— Nassim N. Taleb (@nntaleb) March 8, 2014
Can't figure out why I am so upset abt Nakamoto's privacy. Centuries of legal evolution based of burden of evidence. Sympathy for the man.
— Nassim N. Taleb (@nntaleb) March 8, 2014
.@felixsalmon ETHICS: If .1% probability of error/harming yourself, you wouldn't take the risk. Why did she harm Nakamoto? #skininthegame
— Nassim N. Taleb (@nntaleb) March 10, 2014
@SpireSec @felixsalmon Severe invasion of privacy even if she is right. Unlike artists/polititicians he did not ask to have a public life.
— Nassim N. Taleb (@nntaleb) March 10, 2014
.@truth_eater @SpireSec @felixsalmon Ms Goodman, there is something despicable about you and your profession. Voyeurism is not journalism.
— Nassim N. Taleb (@nntaleb) March 10, 2014
.@truth_eater @SpireSec @felixsalmon Your profession of violating people's privacy for profit? You call that journalism or voyeurism?
— Nassim N. Taleb (@nntaleb) March 10, 2014
The latest development in the hunt for Satoshi is that someone identifying themself as Arthur Nakamoto, Dorian Nakamoto's brother, posted a lengthy item on reddit denouncing the press blitz in language similar to that used in BI's brief interview with him Friday. Interestingly, the post does not address what exactly Newsweek got wrong. The reddit user did not respond to a message we left with hiim at the site.
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Just like the CPU in your computer, the human brain has an optimal temperature where it runs best. But unlike a computer's CPU, there's no built-in fan to chill the brain when it starts to run hot. Which is why researchers now believe that yawning is actually the body's physiological way of keeping the brain nice and cool.
    
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For those who have long wondered what drives Judd Apatow to such prolific heights as a writer, director, and producer, the answer is it’s the same thing that drives every single one of us: an unslakable thirst for revenge. Last night, Apatow told a Paley Center audience, “Everything I’ve done, in a way, is revenge for the people who canceled Freaks And Geeks. It’s really demented, but it’s just like ‘you were wrong about that person, and that person and that person. And that writer and that director.’ And I really should get over that.” In the meantime, he’s managed to turn that vendetta into some fairly tidy profits, even if it meant repeatedly dragging his own wife and daughters into the fray. Meanwhile, your own quest for revenge has yielded nothing but irreparably damaged lives. Which is funny, yes, but not $148 million domestic ...
It will surely go down as one of the great CEO quotes of 2014. Netflix’s visionary CEO, Reed Hastings, was asked about his counterpart at HBO, Richard Plepler, who had recently said he was not concerned about people sharing passwords for HBO’s online service, HBO Go.
“So I guess Plepler, the CEO of HBO, doesn’t mind me sharing his account information. So it’s Plepler@hbo.com and his password is Netflixbitch” remarked Hastings.
The apparent tension between Netflix and HBO, the two iconic companies behind some of America’s most loved shows (and Americans do love their television) has captivated the media, ourselves included. It’s not difficult to understand why. In many ways, it symbolizes the classic 21st-century business story: an upstart challenger from Silicon Valley disrupting an incumbent with a compelling and well-priced product, underpinned by impressive technology.
But the rivalry is grounded less in reality than in clever marketing.
Last year was by any measure a resoundingly successful one for Netflix, which added a 6 million paying users, a 25% increase, in the US market. But how many did HBO lose over the same period? None. In fact, it added 2 million subscribers, its best performance in 17 years. Media analyst Rich Greenfield earlier this year dismissed (registration required) the notion that Netflix’s growth was coming at the expense of premium channels like HBO. “We believe over-the-top video households are among the most passionate about video content—meaning you subscribe to HBO and Netflix, not HBO or Netflix,” he wrote.
The best evidence that this is not a zero-sum game comes from viewing patterns. A survey of nearly 10,000 households by TiVo last year found that those that watched the first season of Netflix’s political drama, House of Cards, watched 85% more HBO content than non-Netflix households did. HBO itself publicly argues that it does not compete directly with Netflix, often describing it as a complementary service.
So why does Hastings keep on fanning the rivalry? According to a report by the New York Times media columnist David Carr (which Netflix has never denied), Hastings has privately told executives at Time Warner that the “comparison benefits Netflix” and that he sees the banter as “harmless mischief.”
But it also serves a subtler purpose.
Americans love HBO shows—the channel’s hits over the past two decades include The Sopranos, The Wire, Game of Thrones and this year’s True Detective. But they also hate their cable companies, who force them to pay for expensive bundles of hundreds of channels in order to get the few, like HBO, that they actually watch. And the cable firms do this because media companies like Time Warner, HBO’s parent, make more money if their channels are all bundled. So the Netflix boss’s quips at HBO are also part of a broader narrative that resonates with almost all Americans: their dissatisfaction with how the pay TV industry works.
A Netflix spokesman describes the rivalry between the two as being like that between baseball’s New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox (“We push each other to do great work”). But as businesses, at least, HBO and Netflix are very different beasts, and that doesn’t look like it’s about to change. At an investor briefing last week, Plepler was again asked whether the company would consider selling HBO Go on a standalone basis, which would make it a lot more like Netflix. (Currently, only subscribers to HBO on cable can use its online service). “We have the capacity to do it. We have the ability to pivot, and if we think that makes sense, we’re going to do it,” he said. “But right now, there are four billion reasons or so to do it the way we’re doing it [now]“. (HBO generated $4.4 billion in revenue last year).
There are, of course, ways the two companies compete directly. They have both tried to acquire the same content in the past: Netflix outbid HBO for House of Cards. They compete for critical acclaim, although at this juncture, HBO retains a commanding lead. But as Jeffrey Katzenberg, the CEO of Dreamworks, succinctly summarized the situation to the New York Times last month. “I think there’s a fiction here that somehow Netflix gains are HBO losses.” And it’s a fiction that Netflix seems quite happy to sustain.
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Rumors have been swirling that Google is going to jump into the home game console market with a set-top box. According to Pando Daily, Google has just snapped up a gaming company called "Green Throttle Games," the producer of a gaming controller for Android.
Green Throttle was created by some well-known players in the technology world. The founder of the company is Charles Huang, who also co-founded RedOctane (developer of the Guitar Hero series). The other two key employees were Matt Crowley and Karl Townsend, both long-term Palm employees. Green Throttle mysteriously shut down in November of last year, but judging by the LinkedIn profile timelines of Crowley and Townsend, the Google acquisition was the reason for the closure. According to Pando, the deal includes Green Throttle's staff, but Huang won't be joining Google, and he retains the rights over the Green Throttle business.
It's unclear what Google wants with the company. Green Throttle's product basically boiled down to an Xbox 360 controller clone and a game store app. One of the biggest features of the Green Throttle controller and app was that you could connect up to four controllers simultaneously to a smartphone or tablet. While the Bluetooth spec allowed for a connection to up to eight devices at once, Android can normally only connect to one Bluetooth device of each type.
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THIS is why you take the medical illustration class
This piece of code is from the first episode “Computer Studies”, of a famous anime called Golden Boy (ゴールデンボーイ) made in 1995. In this episode the main character Kintaro Oe, try to work for a software company in Japan, but he doesn’t quite fit the job.
Probably the identified source code, was written especially for this anime because I couldn’t find it anywhere. But it looks like some bash configuration file.
You can find here the whole episode: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuhE9vmQ03s
Believe me, I highly suggest you to watch it, is quite funny :D
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It's called "Snake" and it's being compared to another alleged state-run virus, Stuxnet. And yes, all evidence points to Russia.
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No I didn’t start crying at this point shut up
Marvel
unveiled their long awaited adaptive audio feature yesterday at SxSW, and it has proven much more interesting than I had expected.
Adaptive audio, which was initially announced at SxSW last year under the codename Project Gamma, adds an audio element to Marvel’s digital comics. Described last year as a way to add an “adaptive, non-repetitive score” to digital comics, Project Gamma was intended to a background soundtrack which changed as a reader read the comic. The sound track was keyed to certain panels, and it was also supposed to respond to the speed at which the reader turned the page.
Or at least that’s what Project Gamma was supposed to do when it was announced last year; how well does it perform now?
If you like, you can find out for yourself. The new feature is available in the Marvel Unlimited app. This is a free download, and all of the titles that have the new audio are available as free samples. You’ll only get a part of each volume, but it’s enough to at least give you an idea of how the soundtrack adds to the reading experience.
I tried the new feature on my iPad, and I think the soundtrack improves upon the original comic. The sounds ranged from music clips that set the mood to sounds that were tied to specific events in the story, and in general they improved upon the story.
Should I encounter new titles from Marvel that include audio I might buy them. But I won’t be buying any of the several titles released so far.
Marvel debuted the adaptive audio by adding it to comics originally published 10 years ago. Captain America: Winter Soldier is the inspiration for the movie that is coming out in April, so this move makes sense, but unfortunately the original comics are so old that they do not translate well to Marvel’s digital format.
The latest trick in comics is to avoid showing an entire page at once, and instead show each panel in sequence. This introduces time as a story telling element, which can add a lot to the reading experience.
The CA:WS comics I read are so old that they were not created as high definition digital files, and that is blindingly obvious when I tried to read them. Have you ever zoomed in on an image to the point that it was started getting fuzzy? That is what I frequently saw with the CA:WS comics.
This is regrettable because it detracts from the new audio feature. It also tells us that Marvel is only making a half-hearted effort to convert and sell their backlist, but that’s a tale for another post.
But in spite of Marvel’s early stumbles, they could have a real winner here – if it is used correctly. But if Marvel treats it like another gimmick and adds it to old titles simply to try to get you to buy them again, then they’ll ruin it. Let’s hope that doesn’t happen.
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LIVR é um aplicativo e rede social que gira em torno daquela bebedeira casual, onde os usuários que compartilham deste mesmo momento podem se reunir para continuar – ou apimentar – a festa.
LIVR é uma comunidade de pessoas que querem se divertir e viver a vida honestamente.
Fundado por Kyle Addison e Avery Platz, a diferença de LIVR de outros apps com o mesmo foco é a sua exclusividade: só conseguem acessá-lo aqueles usuários que estiverem bêbedos. O nível de álcool é medido através de um bafômetro que pluga no celular e se conecta com a rede.
Depois de entrar, o usuário tem acesso a uma lista de recursos como: um mapa que indica aonde outros usuários estão bebendo e curtindo, e qual o nível de álcool deles; a brincadeira “Truth or Dare” de forma crowdsourced, onde usuários mandam dicas de perguntas e desafios a serem cumpridos; e a ligação “Drunk Dial”, que conecta o usuário a outro de forma aleatório.
E, para aqueles que foram longe demais e não querem deixar rastros, existe o botão “Blackout”, que apaga tudo o que o usuário fez e utilizou naquela noite. Um recurso que ajuda os usuários a se sentirem mais confiantes e a se divertirem sem preocupações com o dia seguinte.
Enquanto outras redes sociais estão repletas de postagens de uma vida perfeita e certinha, LIVR foca em uma comunidade que quer ser honesta sobre suas noites divertidas mas, ao mesmo tempo, não está afim de compartilhar suas histórias de bebedeiras com os pais nem com o chefe.
LIVR está buscando investimento e tem previsão de lançamento nos próximos meses.
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Arrested Development’s Mitch Hurwitz recently appeared on Dan Harmon’s Community, a quid pro quo exchanging of cameos between the creators of two beloved, perpetually endangered comedies that most probably assumed would be the end of their collaboration. But much like Koogler turning your class into a kegger, news that refuses to play by your rules has unexpectedly popped up in Harmon’s (also interesting for numerous other reasons) new Rolling Stone interview, where he says the two are combining forces on another secret project. Naturally, he’s not too forthcoming about it, saying, “I could lay it out in one sentence, but then it'll be on the Internet and I'm worried that that'll somehow ruin it”—adroitly sidestepping any chance that this will be on the Internet.
Still, he did offer some vague details, using words that suggest he’s already been at SXSW for ...
Em seu último discurso o apóstolo Waldemiro Santiago proibiu seus discípulos de comprarem, consumirem ou até mesmo chegar perto de uma famosa e tradicional marca de maionese.
Como substituta ele pediu que seus seguidores usassem formas alternativas para substituir a tal maionese.
Valdemiro alerta para o nome da maionese que numa tradução livre ” Homem do Inferno” ela invoca o obscuro, o inominável o capeta. Precisamos estar atentos, a tentação está em todo lugar, até na prateleira do supermercado, e cada vez que você ouve esse nome a sua alma está sendo condenada, e como o próprio nome da maionese diz, se você levar um vidro desse pra sua casa, você é mais um homem no inferno.
E questiona: ” você passaria o satanás no seu pão? Colocaria ele na sua salsicha ou comeria ele na sua salada com a sua família?”
A assessoria do bispo não quis dar maiores detalhes, mas disseram que após um pequeno intensivo de inglês o bispo está traduzindo algumas marcas e decifrando códigos ocultos nas mesmas.
Fonte: Sacizento
E o curso de inglês do Valdemiro vem dando resultados reveladores!
I love that Picard would just drop these existential truth bombs when he really means “Data, shut up and focus.”
#data is like I AM NOT ABSOLUTELY PERFECT THEREFORE I QUIT AT LIFE#and picard is like no dude srsly get to your post#and data is like NO I’M HORRIBLE THAT’S AN EMPIRICAL FACT#and picard is like jfc this is why i never had children and now i have a robot child with the strength of ten men#look at your life jean-luc look at your choices#and then pat yourself on the back because you are the captain of the motherfucking flagship good job
All of this is correct.
