I tried to watch Game of Thrones and this is what happened
Posted: February 21, 2012 Filed under: Random | Tags: comic, content, drm, Game of Thrones, Oatmeal, piracy Leave a comment »Great comic on the Oatmeal.
This is ten times worst if you don’t live in the U.S.
(Not) working from home
Posted: February 13, 2012 Filed under: Random | Tags: autopost, Foursquare Leave a comment »
Working at the local college. These library cubicals are really helping my concentration. Props Paolo for the awesome Foursquare -> WordPress ifttt recipe.
How France’s Free will reinvent mobile
Posted: January 10, 2012 Filed under: Random Leave a comment »
Updated: Xavier Niel, the maverick founder of Iliad, the company behind Free.fr broadband service, is about to redefine the mobile landscape, perhaps as early as tomorrow, when he launches the much-talked about Free Mobile. In doing so, he will redefine what the idea of a carrier in the 21st century is, thanks to a radical new approach. Utilizing a blend of Wi-Fi, HSPA+ 3G, femtocells and its all-fiber backbone, Free will offer unlimited voice, texting and data over the mobile networks; just bring your own …
TV Recommendation – Black Mirror
Posted: December 31, 2011 Filed under: Random | Tags: black mirror, technology, tv Leave a comment »I recently watched the 3 part british mini-series called “Black Mirror“. Each part is a different brilliant simulation of a dark technological future. Just fantastic – don’t miss it.
Via Yuval Dror (Hebrew)
Enough with the non-existing digital frontiers: Louis CK experiment a tremendous success
Posted: December 14, 2011 Filed under: Random | Tags: content, drm, louis ck, piracy Leave a comment »“I have a profit around $200,000 (after taxes $75.58)”
https://buy.louisck.net/statement
Louis CK is selling a professionally produced show for $5 with no DRM or regional restrictions. Success.
I steal content when I’m not allowed to buy it legally. If I can, I make the effort to connect through a proxy to buy some music, or change the country setting of my phone to buy an app, but if it takes more than 5 minutes to work around some stupid rules, I’ll just get the torrent.
This experiment is yet another example of how “Piracy” is about convenience, not price or moral values or whatever media execs say it is.
Sell me you stuff, with no stupid rules. I’ll buy it.
The Quicksort Algorithm, Hungarian Style
Posted: December 12, 2011 Filed under: Random | Tags: dance, programming Leave a comment »A rendition of the Quicksort Algorithm with Hungarian folk dance:
And there’s more.
Hat tip: Jorge
‘Game of Thrones’ new season 2 teaser trailer
Posted: December 12, 2011 Filed under: Random Leave a comment »
The Game of Thrones season 2 teaser trailer is here! Title: “The Cold Winds Are Rising.” That gravel-voiced narrator is Stannis Baratheon (Brit actor Stephen Dillane) — King Robert’s stern brother, who is first introduced in the upcoming season. We also get glimpses of most of the major characters. (Also: If you’re a Boardwalk Empire fan, tonight’s finale is must-see amazing. Check out our coverage here). Here’s the trailer: …
The Future
Posted: November 30, 2011 Filed under: Random | Tags: android, qr code, the future, xbmc Leave a comment »
So we bought this fairly difficult to assemble product the other day, and on the package was a big QR Code. I scanned the code with my phone, and Android detected a link to a YouTube video and offered a few choices for playing it. One of those was “Play on XBMC”, thanks to the XBMC remote app (XBMC is the software that runs on our living room HTPC).
Instantly, assembly instructions a crappy promotional video started playing on the TV. This is the future? (A proper how to video would have made this story so much better!)
Yoav Farhi, 30. Father and geek, generating happiness at 
How Do People Use Apple TV?
Posted: December 12, 2011 | Author: Yoav | Filed under: Random | Tags: apple, apple tv, comments-for-blogs-with-no-comments, john gruber, open source, xbmc | 2 Comments »John Gruber:
From How Do People Use Apple TV?.
Well, in most countries movies and TV shows aren’t even available in iTunes. We (I) just use the AppleTV to run XBMC, my 2nd favorite open source project.
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