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There still isn't a TV on the market (that I know of) that is obsolete after a year, not even five years. As long as the inputs (hdmi, dvi, RCA) work then the TV is not obsolete. It may not have the newest features (4k, "smart" connectivity) but it is every bit as usable (and many of the smart features can be added with a ROKU, Apple TV or the like).

Video and Films are my business and my TV is a nearly 5 year old LG plasma that still performs great. And I only bought it because my ex kept the Panasonic plasma after the break-up or I'd probably be using an 8 year old TV.

Are there any reports of smart TVs not working completely (inputs stop working) because the "smart" connected features stop working?

Maybe Stillwater, OK with the first UAS graduate program will vie for that title.

https://unmanned.okstate.edu

I work in a creative field (commercial post-production) so those social interactions at work often influence the work we do individually. It often starts with asking for a critique on what someone is working on or help solving a problem that rolls into a social conversation or vice-versa ("since you're here, take a look at this").

Bouncing ideas off co-workers is what I miss most about working in an office.

I am an introvert and occasionally miss the forced socialization of working in an office. After long periods of working from home, I'm usually ready for some office work.

As a freelancer I'm devoted to my task of maximizing the amount of leisure time.

Davinci Resolve is what Company 3 uses (The Martian, Spectre, Jurassic World, etc). It's available on Mac and Linux, but the big shops use the Linux version as they can expand it allowing for more real time nodes.

Baselight is another major platform for color grading that runs on Linux.

I'm with you except for the complaint about the price of the clothing. The cheaper a piece of clothing the more likely it was made with slave or underpaid labor in horrible conditions.

American Apparel's manufacturing was the one good thing it had going for it, US based garment factory and above industry average wages was a step towards reversing decades of overseas sweatshop production in the fashion industry.

Yes, it's a lot of work, which is one reason, even on a short you'll see a long list of credits (specialization definitely improves the product). You can make a film for nearly nothing and occasionally someone will have the idea and talent to put together a film on a shoestring budget that cuts through (Pi, Primer, This Is Martin Bonner, Paranormal Activity, etc). And shoestring budget has different definitions for different people, everything from couple hundred bucks to low millions. The Duplass Brothers made a short for nearly nothing, whatever camera they had and an answering machine that launched their career (following it up with the micro-budget feature The Puffy Chair). Robert Rodriquez shot El Mariachi for $7500 (couple hundred thousand was poured into after it was bought to make it ready for theatrical release). It's easier now with so many great digital cameras and editing software. But first and foremost, filmmaking is a collaborative art. If you're trying to do it all by yourself, you're doing it wrong (unless it works, then you're doing it right) and people cost money, especially talented well trained people.

Yes, if everything was available online, it would take out the exclusivity of the major festivals (which also act as markets for films without distribution). Why brave Park City in January if you can just fire up the web browser and see everything. But this also works into the filmmakers favor if they make it into these festivals; over a week or weekend they can make some very important connections face to face even if their film isn't picked up, as well as gain valuable audience reaction that can be used to revise and tweak before release.

And there's really nothing like spending a week watching 3-5 films a day with enthusiastic crowds.

Yeah. I agree, there should be some signal when looking through searches what is paywall content vs what is free. I'd be for Google punishing sites that don't differentiate (at least without putting to much thought into the subject).

The one issue I have with that thought (without putting much thought into it myself) is the conflict of interest. By punishing Wired, Google is saying that the only approved (by Google) income stream is through advertising (Google's main revenue stream) and that other types of creative partnerships may lead to websites being downlinked (and downranking past the 1st or 2nd page is almost equivalent to delisting).

That line of thinking also begs the question whether only freely accessible information should come up on web searches, which would rule out any links to many professional journals which survive by subscription and/or fees per article. If you're punishing Wired for putting articles behind walled garden then it makes sense to punish all walled gardens and Google search becomes a search engine cataloging only free articles.

Those bits of interest have become more mainstream and the same content can be found in more detail elsewhere. 10-20 yrs ago Wired was often the first place to get that information (or at least the first without digging).

Penalize the site or the story? Should Google keep it out of search until it shows up on the "greater" web or are you advocating punishing the whole site because they have some content exclusively walled for a certain amount of time?

Just waiting for one of these companies to create a "Hack the Promotion" promotion. Customer who devises the most efficient hack wins (maybe double/triple miles?).

Apple does allow this, they just have to be in the correct format and loaded into iTunes on you computer. If your computers iTunes and the AppleTV are on the same network you can watch whatever video you have loaded. I do this all the time. It's probably not as easy as the Roku (I assume the Roku allows the playback of a larger variety of codecs) but for me it works perfect as I encode everything in h264 anyway to use for pitches, mood boards, etc as an editor working in advertising (where the majority of creative uses macs).

Plenty of corporate drones, upper middle class, millionaires and billionaires have done the devil's work with 12hr+ work days, they just do it on such a grand scale and under the protection of corporations they are rarely punished.

While moving to a basic income might require a shift in society's values, it's no more likely to cause criminal behavior than the ever increasing income disparity here in the U.S. A basic income would also likely usher in a new age of entrepreneurship once members of all economic classes can entertain the thought of doing work they love rather than forced to take any work they can get.

But I guess it's better to just quote a folklore and pretend the idleness is bad (of course Donal Trump got an education because he could readily afford it, didn't make him less wrong).

Or at the back of the rotation, maybe even playing for the farm team rather than the Show.

Is Banksy a he?

http://www.citylab.com/design/2014/11/why-banksy-is-probably...

I prefer the theory that it's a collective of artists lead by a woman.

From your comments you don't seem worried about anyone paying their debts, believing rather they all made stupid choices.

STEM PhD is currently at around 2.4 percent. But unemployment rate doesn't speak to income, they may be employed or underemployed and still having a touch time paying back student loans.

But nice to pick out one tiny figure from four articles to try to prove an irrelevant point. Let me remind you, your point was that people learning something useful to society won't have trouble finding jobs and paying off debt. But you've failed to provide any evidence backing your position, unless your position is everyone must get PhD's in STEM to be gainfully employed. Problem still stands that if everyone moves to that tract we will still have more candidates for jobs than actual jobs available.

It's more accurate to ask how many are learning something that the parts of our society that control the money find useful. Do we really need more computer science graduates making time wasting apps or on demand laundry start-ups? There's plenty of STEM grads having a tough time finding jobs even though they've studied subjects very useful to society (cancer research, neuroscience, etc).

And reality can change quickly. I seem to recall back in 1991, as I was starting a Computer Science degree, reading articles about the coming glut of CompSci grads and shortage of jobs. Of course the internet came along and changed that rather quickly.

Your position that everyone just needs to major in the right degree is bullshit. If everyone moved to the top 10 in demand degrees then there would be a glut of job candidates and the problem would basically be the same, people just graduating being told their degree is useless and they made the wrong choice.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/us-pus... http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/02/the-phd-... http://www.cbsnews.com/news/a-shortage-of-scientists-and-tec... http://www.popecenter.org/commentaries/article.html?id=2701

possibly, but most parents I know would clean up after their toddlers immediately in a bathroom that isn't in their own home. Maybe if the child is old enough to go by himself, but that didn't seem to be the case here.

On the other hand, I've dealt with landlords who wouldn't even hesitate to use (abuse?) the power to throw someone out to get negotiate something like that.

purely anecdotal.

I was thinking something similar. Seems the daycare industry might be ripe for "disruption" (or preferably, innovation).

Sounds like it was very tight financially, it might have made more financial sense for her to integrate childcare into her daily life at YC than for him to pay for daycare/babysitting while he's at work. Seems it worked out fine for the most part, but it's also possible that if she had to do it over again, different choices would have been made.

No, dignity is not being the same person regardless of the situation. An asshole who is always an asshole doesn't have dignity, he's just an asshole.

On a bit of a tangent, check out the novella Sleep Donation by Karen Russell. A short sci-fi tale about viral insomnia.

There have been several game changers in the last decade, the RED camera being one. It's price was low enough and quality high enough that they have become somewhat ubiquitous, creating relatively low rental prices and creating a whole new generation of cinematographers that were able to skip the typical slow apprenticeship track (for better or worse). An equally large game changer was the rise of the DSLR, opening the bottom of the market to a look previously unreachable for the price.

I love Blackmagic (have the pocket camera myself), but the difference in quality and cost between current DSLRs, the various REDs and the Ursa 4.6 is not great enough to categorize as a game changer.

I'll probably pick up the new Ursa myself, but at this point the visual quality of the picture is the least of a filmmakers worry (check out Upstream Colour which was shot on a $1k GH2). Shooting on a cheap DSLR and spending more money on art direction will have a greater impact on the quality of a film than picking up the best camera and lenses.

esata is less ubiquitous than both USB and Thunderbolt (and firewire before it). External ports have never been standard on any macs and I don't ever remember them being standard on any of the HP machines we used (the majority of big budget editorial, i.e. feature films, tv, and commercials, are cut on macs, although fx leans heavily toward Windows and Linux). We use to install esata ports on some of our machine room systems, as the speed difference was definitely useful. I wish esata would have become more common but at the moment Thunderbolt makes it unnecessary (and USB3 seems to have stifled it's standard adoption across non-Apple systems).

Also, aside from the G-Raid, we also use 1 and 2tb SSD's (more for portability than the extra speed).

That's nice in theory but every post house I've worked at still needs plenty of thunderbolt and usb drives. The footage isn't shot at the post house, it has to be transported and copied over to the SAN, and everything is on a tight deadline so it needs to be done yesterday. Or rather than using the in house colorist (or fx artist) the client decides to go with someone else, so that often means copying footage for that delivery. And the client wants two copies of it, one for archive and one because the creative director wants to dick around with it. Or the post house is over-booked and the only edit station is an imac not connected to the SAN, so copy it over to a drive so someone can start working. Plus with everything shot on digital it's not unheard of to get 20 or more hours of footage for a campaign. On a RED or ARRI, that takes up a lot of space.

Half my work now is out of my home now, I don't need a SAN, instead clients ship me a thunderbolt raid (typically a G-Raid) that I ship back once the project is finished. And I know more and more editors and motion graphic artists who are doing the same, less work in edit suites, more work at home. Fast, portable drives makes that possible (and efficient high quality codecs like ProRes and h264).

I've been doing this for 20 years, we'll still need fast, portable storage for many years to come and right now, for video editing, Thunderbolt is the best choice.

I don't think it will ever be as ubiquitous as USB, but it doesn't have to be useful. I'm a video editor and thunderbolt has saved me enough time copying files that i'll gladly pay the price. The cost typically gets passed along to clients and at rates of $100/hr or more for a single editor they'll happily pay the extra cost of the drives if it saves a few hours over the life of a project.

As a video editor that deals with terabytes of footage, in practice thunderbolt is much faster than USB3. It's common that i have to copy 1-4 terrabytes onto several drives for editors, fx artists, archival, etc usually on deadline. I don't care that thunderbolt isn't as ubiquitous as usb, but like firewire before it, I'm glad it's there and common enough.