Now everyone wants to feel like being hired from Google and/or Amazon, sort of.
Our highly trained monkeys here at work, found out this exclusive game (not really a game, a way of life I’d might add) just for your pleasure!
The relevant funding – preorder site of the game developers is :
Have fun!
Credit: The one , the only , Stefan!
Sources: the telegraph , kotaku
Made me want to get stuff I knew I could not.
One of them was this, “The Hoverboard”
Back then, no matter how badly I wanted it, deep inside I knew that there were limitations due to the technology (thats why I was fascinated by the idea of going to the Future)!
But now we simple folks can get one! Take a look at the video:
Another thing I wanted also, was the Talkboy. The portable tape recorder “Kevin” used to get around things:
With the Talkboy, “Kevin” used it as a slower than normal play speed, lowering the pitch and making him sound as a grown man. This was quite useful because he managed to get stuff a child could not, whereas an adult could:
Source: Endgadget
One thing that iTunes, Netflix, Amazon and Hulu have proven is that content makers can fight piracy by providing a better, easier service to paying customers. But what happens when piracy fights back with something just as convenient?
A new app called Popcorn Time raises that very question. Available for Windows, Mac and Linux, Popcorn Time lets you stream the latest movies — including American Hustle, Gravity and Frozen – with just a couple clicks. The software uses BitTorrent to find and download movies, but eliminates the usual hassle of wading through sketchy torrent sites and waiting for the file to finish downloading. (Clarification: Popcorn Time does not use BitTorrent to find files, but finds its movies through YTS, a website that indexes movie torrent files.)
Basically, it’s the version of Netflix that you’ve always wanted — and maybe have been willing to pay extra for — but that Hollywood may never allow. It’s also a flagrant enabler of copyright violation, at least in the United States.
Popcorn Time’s creators are quick to acknowledge the legal dangers. A disclaimer, warning that it may be illegal in your country to download copyrighted material, appears on the Popcorn Time website and again in the app itself. Movie studios have been known to monitor torrent traffic and sue individual file sharers, so Popcorn Time isn’t necessarily safe unless you’re using a virtual private network to mask your whereabouts.
But the creators aren’t particularly worried about the movie industry hounding them. “We don’t expect legal issues,” a developer named Sebastian told TorrentFreak. “We don’t host anything, and none of the developers makes any money. There are no ads, no premium accounts, and no subscription fees or anything like that. It’s an experiment to learn and share.”
I have a feeling Hollywood will try its best to attack Popcorn Time, but as a free, open-source project, it’s going to be tough to take down. The developers have shown that movie piracy can be intuitive and user-friendly. If movie studios can’t break down the release windows and old business models that prevent new movies from being available on-demand, they should be very afraid of apps like Popcorn Time.
source : Times
