Had another 48hr game jam this weekend...

[Nick Sabalausky]

On Mon, 02 Sep 2013 13:25:49 -0700
Walter Bright <newshound2 at digitalmars.com> wrote:

> On 9/2/2013 8:06 AM, deadalnix wrote:
> > For real. Just imagine that most countries are as bad as Australia,
> > but not English speaking, and you get the idea. I experienced
> > France and Denmark, and both are worst (Netherland seems better).
> 
> Well, here we don't get Danish TV shows, either, in any manner.
> 
> And I find it baffling as to why. They're just leaving easy money on
> the table by not doing it. Ditto for the TV shows from every other
> country. Wouldn't it be great if in Seattle you could tune into the
> Moscow Evening News, or the Rwanda TV station? Why the heck not?
> 
> Recently, PBS started a Roku channel where they show PBS shows for
> free. I eagerly signed up for it, and was very disappointed that
> there's only a handful of shows on it. Even worse, when they add a
> new show, they expire an older one.
> 
> Fer gawd's sake, why not put their entire freakin' back catalog on it?
> 
> For example, there's a "sampling" of a few of Julia Childs' shows
> from the 60's. Why not put them all on?

Yea. Shortly before we ditched cable, our provider had a two-month
promotion where we got NHK <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NHK> without
having to upgrade to the super-duper-ultra-$$$-deluxe tier (or whatever
TWC's marketing dept called it). I could barely understand a word, but I
loved it, easily my favorite station (American network TV is mostly
just unwatchable shit - all manic directing and brooding melodramas). I
miss Somewhere Street and Hirubura. Another NHK show (some talk show, I
forget the name) is how I found out about Keiko Matsui - one of the
best smooth jazz musicians out there IMO. About the main consolation
for no longer having NHK now is that I'm far more productive without
it ;)