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Gross Misunderstanding: Forget about the box office
Box office only accounts for 20% of film revenues. The other 80% is from DVD, TV, etc. On average, the prints and ads for a film cost more than the box office. This doesn’t even count the cost of making the film
H.264 changes everything … again
More H.264 demonstrations
Incredible H.264 demonstrations. At 256 kbps, The West Wing looks better than TiVo! This is incredible. This is only twice the bit-rate of the common 128 kbps mp3’s on the net.
junxion
This box from Junxion lets you set up Wifi/Ethernet hotspots using cellular data services for the uplink.
VCs & Their Missing Sleeves
“In most places you can’t simply hang out a shingle and hope fully-formed venture-fundable teams trip through the doorway… the amount of capital floating around is such that the investment immediately turns into an auction…”
Google’s Singularity machine
Implies that Google awards special bonuses to employees so they don’t leave to join startups. Also, “that they are building a platform designed to do the kinds of parallel, layered computation that modern neural computation models use…”
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