The new HBO Go ads are pretty entertaining. They certainly indirectly capture the core appeal of HBO to me back when I was 14yo. (No original programming back then, but a heavy diet of R-rated movies...)
Fragile Rock may not have been "original" but it was "exclusive" ...
Speaking of "A periodic roundup of relevant news", if I recall properly, there was some odd news item in the last day about all US citizens now being required to offer up their first-born child to Comcast.
The freakiest thing about the announcement was that I initially thought it was about solving the peering dispute, (which I prefer to refer to as the "first-mile" issue. Can all humans agree to accept that terminology?) But I was wrong! It actually has nothing to do with "first-mile", and is only about establishing "last-mile" paid access. You contract for and pay your ISP for a certain "last-mile" bandwidth speed, but you can't actually get what you contracted and paid for unless the server pays too. Zounds.
From the WSJ, my favorite pullquote:
One top cable executive said, "I have to say, I'm pleased."
And the real beauty part of this clusterf*ck is that it seems to get Comcast out from the promise it made to get the NBC/Universal purchase approved that it would conform to Net Neutrality until 2018 no matter what happened in the courts...
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The new HBO Go ads are pretty entertaining. They certainly indirectly capture the core appeal of HBO to me back when I was 14yo. (No original programming back then, but a heavy diet of R-rated movies...)
Fragile Rock may not have been "original" but it was "exclusive" ...
Speaking of "A periodic roundup of relevant news", if I recall properly, there was some odd news item in the last day about all US citizens now being required to offer up their first-born child to Comcast.
The freakiest thing about the announcement was that I initially thought it was about solving the peering dispute, (which I prefer to refer to as the "first-mile" issue. Can all humans agree to accept that terminology?) But I was wrong! It actually has nothing to do with "first-mile", and is only about establishing "last-mile" paid access. You contract for and pay your ISP for a certain "last-mile" bandwidth speed, but you can't actually get what you contracted and paid for unless the server pays too. Zounds.
From the WSJ, my favorite pullquote:
And the real beauty part of this clusterf*ck is that it seems to get Comcast out from the promise it made to get the NBC/Universal purchase approved that it would conform to Net Neutrality until 2018 no matter what happened in the courts...