How does one successfully balance the art of moviemaking with the business of moviemaking?
The largest grossing movies have consistently been G, PG or PG-13, probably due to the larger available audience and the fact that people may attend good movies more than once. It is more difficult to find viable scripts that will can be kept in that rating range, than R or higher ratings?
In your opinion, how much of script selection is luck versus skill versus whatever else impacts it?
When activated, the ribbon also enables your webcam, so the RedOffice interface crew can monitor your "user experience." The goal, of course, is to improve useability. This begs the questions "of what?" and "for whom?"
Why the Alaska Science Forum would be concerned even remotely with bananas? They appear to be waaaay ahead in global warming preparations. Either that or they've gone bananas.
I can't find the link. This methodology was proposed for a student film. A group of university students proposed that they re-enact the same scenes at over 50 CC cameras then blend the films in a surreal effort to get ~ real time out of 3-5 FPS samples. The background would shift between frames, but careful staging would maintain the basic scene. I've no idea if it was ever carried out, but it does sound interesting.
According to Banana.com there are over 300 different species of bananas, not all edible. I'm fairly certain that not all the edible species will be susceptibe to the blight. This might actually be a good thing in the long run as different species have different flavors and textures. They may even be better for us from a nutritional perspective than the Cavendish. The growers will need to adapt if the blight can't be stopped or contained.
Most supercomputers are optimized to perform 32 or 64 bit floating point operations. Currently broaching the petaflop boundary. The reason is that most established uses of supercomputers rely on mathematical computation: Fourier Transforms, Linear Algebra, etc., which utilize floating point operations. Visualization and imaging have been done on GP supercomputers, but not very economically. There's constant buzz in the HPC community about FPGAs and GPUs, but CPUs remain the most flexible hardware to do the core job of HPC which is floating point computation.
I wouldn't be surprised to see HPC centers adding (as budgets permit) GPU based solutions for vizualization, imaging, ray tracing, etc. FPGA solutions appear, IMHO, to be a bit farther away from use. The biggest hold up for both will be the programming interfaces. HPC programming interfaces are just emerging for GPU solutions. It remains to be seen which will succeed.
The guys explain the eight NVIDIA GPUs deliver the same performance for their work as more than 300 Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4GHz processors.
Pardon the italics, but I was impacted by the killer slant of this posting.
For specific kinds of calculations, sure, GPGPU supercomputing is superior. I would question what software optimization they had applied to the 300 CPU system. Apparently, none. Let's not sensationalize quite so much, shall we?
IMHO, most long term successes in business have balanced profit and citzenship. Look at businesses that have been around for 30+ years and you'll find that most try to balance their profit with philanthropy. One example that comes to mind is Target (formerly Dayton Hudson). Both corporately and at each retail store they have a policy of supporting worthy causes. WalMart also has a similar policy, but doesn't seem to apply it to it's own employees. ~
One may argue the motives of corporate philanthropy, but it does seem to help healthy businesses stay in the fight over the long haul.
When Jim Elliot flew a small, single engine yellow airplane over an "uncontacted" tribe, they began to call it a big bee. I quoted uncontacted because they had contacted other tribes, to kill them.
These new chips, previously codenamed Silverthorne and Diamondville, will be manufactured on Intel's industry-leading 45nm process with hi-k metal gate technology. The chips have a thermal design power (TDP) specification in 0.6-2.5 watt range and scale to 1.8GHz speeds depending on customer need. By comparison, today's mainstream mobile Core 2 Duo processors have a TDP in the 35-watt range. From Intel's web site.
It appears Via has a decent product, but nothing that will cause Intel to break the crease in their designer jeans.
Allow me to add Qatar, Kuwait, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan, Italy and Germany to the list of places where switched outlets are used. I've seen the switches primarily on high current outlets for major appliances, such as washers and dryers.
I'd postulate that the switch at EVERY outlet in the UK may be related to WW II air raids and blackouts.
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I think we found our volunteer astronauts for Mars! They'll love the conditions and we'll save loads of money on transportation!
Thanks for agreeing to this unorthodox interview.
How does one successfully balance the art of moviemaking with the business of moviemaking?
The largest grossing movies have consistently been G, PG or PG-13, probably due to the larger available audience and the fact that people may attend good movies more than once. It is more difficult to find viable scripts that will can be kept in that rating range, than R or higher ratings?
In your opinion, how much of script selection is luck versus skill versus whatever else impacts it?
Best wishes in making and selling good movies.Steel, yes, but only one really big one. :(
IMO, this "hole" discussion is flat and hollow. :b
It would be music of the sphere. Singular. Sounds much less enchanting for some reason. Must be an innate preference for plurality.
I'd certainly be willing to offer my meager talents to the effort for THAT kind of battery life. Will an ITIL metrics slide help? :/
Just take it as a mildly funny oxymoron (e.g., military intelligence, honest politician) and get on with life.
Will it run on Linux?
More like, "Who's going to write a backward compatible driver for yet another standard?"
When activated, the ribbon also enables your webcam, so the RedOffice interface crew can monitor your "user experience." The goal, of course, is to improve useability. This begs the questions "of what?" and "for whom?"
Why the Alaska Science Forum would be concerned even remotely with bananas? They appear to be waaaay ahead in global warming preparations. Either that or they've gone bananas.
Not to mention a Banana.org
I can't find the link. This methodology was proposed for a student film. A group of university students proposed that they re-enact the same scenes at over 50 CC cameras then blend the films in a surreal effort to get ~ real time out of 3-5 FPS samples. The background would shift between frames, but careful staging would maintain the basic scene. I've no idea if it was ever carried out, but it does sound interesting.
According to Banana.com there are over 300 different species of bananas, not all edible. I'm fairly certain that not all the edible species will be susceptibe to the blight. This might actually be a good thing in the long run as different species have different flavors and textures. They may even be better for us from a nutritional perspective than the Cavendish. The growers will need to adapt if the blight can't be stopped or contained.
Lovely bird, the Norwegian Blue. Beautiful plumage.
It's my goal to die laughing, just not today.
Most supercomputers are optimized to perform 32 or 64 bit floating point operations. Currently broaching the petaflop boundary. The reason is that most established uses of supercomputers rely on mathematical computation: Fourier Transforms, Linear Algebra, etc., which utilize floating point operations. Visualization and imaging have been done on GP supercomputers, but not very economically. There's constant buzz in the HPC community about FPGAs and GPUs, but CPUs remain the most flexible hardware to do the core job of HPC which is floating point computation.
I wouldn't be surprised to see HPC centers adding (as budgets permit) GPU based solutions for vizualization, imaging, ray tracing, etc. FPGA solutions appear, IMHO, to be a bit farther away from use. The biggest hold up for both will be the programming interfaces. HPC programming interfaces are just emerging for GPU solutions. It remains to be seen which will succeed.
Pardon the italics, but I was impacted by the killer slant of this posting.
For specific kinds of calculations, sure, GPGPU supercomputing is superior. I would question what software optimization they had applied to the 300 CPU system. Apparently, none. Let's not sensationalize quite so much, shall we?IMHO, most long term successes in business have balanced profit and citzenship. Look at businesses that have been around for 30+ years and you'll find that most try to balance their profit with philanthropy. One example that comes to mind is Target (formerly Dayton Hudson). Both corporately and at each retail store they have a policy of supporting worthy causes. WalMart also has a similar policy, but doesn't seem to apply it to it's own employees. ~
One may argue the motives of corporate philanthropy, but it does seem to help healthy businesses stay in the fight over the long haul.
Not when drunk from a jug in large quantities! Yee Haw! Joe Bob, quit huggin' yer cousin.
I think they're mostly holding federal jobs now. ~
When Jim Elliot flew a small, single engine yellow airplane over an "uncontacted" tribe, they began to call it a big bee. I quoted uncontacted because they had contacted other tribes, to kill them.
How about the trusty Royal Manual, now there was a bulletpoof keyboard. Lacking in interface choices, though. Scanner only.
It appears Via has a decent product, but nothing that will cause Intel to break the crease in their designer jeans.
Allow me to add Qatar, Kuwait, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan, Italy and Germany to the list of places where switched outlets are used. I've seen the switches primarily on high current outlets for major appliances, such as washers and dryers.
I'd postulate that the switch at EVERY outlet in the UK may be related to WW II air raids and blackouts.Fpanels turn off the backlight after a period of inactivity, typically 15 minutes. They must to earn an energy star symbol.