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Re:Pinterest Raises $100 MM at $1.5Bn Valuation on Thursday May 17, 2012 @01:00AM (#3985515)
Anyone have any insight on what they're gonna spend it on?

I don't know anything about valuations but why would a company like Pinterest need 100 million dollars cash?

Re:Nonfree DRM'd Games on GNU/Linux: Good or Bad? on Wednesday May 16, 2012 @10:43PM (#3985107)
Just to be clear, when he says "nonfree" he means free as in speech, not free as in beer, right?
Re:Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss are now VCs on Friday April 27, 2012 @10:23PM (#3901820)
Money is the great equalizer. I don't imagine they'll have any trouble getting start-ups to take their money. Then again, 65 million seems like a lot of money but if these guys don't know what they're doing it won't last them very long.
does Kickstarter post stats on these kind of things? Like what percentage of funded projects are delivered?

if not, why not?

Re:Tupac image performs at Coachella [video] on Monday April 16, 2012 @03:15PM (#3848861)
Definitely, but I think it is a question of scale.

It's one thing to construct some ad-libs, but to actually create a piece of art (i.e. an entire verse) is a whole different ball game. It would be like if someone took fragments of Picasso paintings, constructed an entirely new painting, and called it a Picasso.

I suppose it's conceivable that someone might try to do it, and it's apparently technically possible, but I think it would be roundly rejected.

Re:Tupac image performs at Coachella [video] on Monday April 16, 2012 @02:21PM (#3848588)
I'm confused as to how they got him to say "Coachella". Had he performed there in his lifetime or did they have to create that word from old voice recordings?
Re:Tupac image performs at Coachella [video] on Monday April 16, 2012 @02:18PM (#3848578)
I'm not sure if this is what you're suggesting, but I can't imagine we will ever see someone producing entirely new Tupac songs based on his phoneme library.

It would be in such bad taste that even the American recording industry wouldn't go near it. People already get upset that they use old entire recordings to produce new songs, and those are actually his lyrics and his voice.