> I'm pretty confident FOTR would have made a lot more money if it had only been 2 hours long, because it could be shown five times a day per screen, rather than three.
Actually, the only thing that would have boosted all that much was first weekend sales(which in this stupid industry are a big deal:-P). More or less(probably slightly more) the same amount of people would have gone to see the movie itself, but they would have seen it on the opening weekend, or the weekend after that. The more times a movie gets played on opening weekend, the faster its sales fall off. As an example, Austin Powers 2 which was like 1:30 long, had(at my rinky-dink theatre) 5 showings a day on 2 screens. Suffice it to say, after the first 30 showings of opening weekend, most people who were going to see it saw it. The weekend immediately after, sales were not even 1/4 of what they were opening weekend, and the weekend after that were even more bleak. So in the end, FOTR probably would not have made much more money, it would have just made the same amount alot faster...
Likewise, movies now are made more for a "formatted for television" style than they used to be. Most directors now shoot shots such that the 30% of the shot can be cut without losing too much in the way of content. They also tend to shoot/edit movies such that they fit nicely(or can be editted nicely) into the hour and a half timeslots. It just goes to show you that as post-theatre mediums become popular, directors begin to take them into account when making the film...
With microsoft's desire to squelch competing open source software, making your authentication scheme dependant on MS might leave you SOL if they decide to patent some part of authentication, and deny licenses to free software os's.
Well, imho, the games of the mario era were less distracting. When a game tries to make its characters look "real", its very hard not to be distracted by how strange the people look. However, when you played something like Mario/Zelda, the characters weren't trying to be real. They were trying to be cartoon-like. So when I played those games, I wasn't thinking "Sheesh, mario looks strange. His body is so out of proportion", I was playing the game. Now, when I play wwf [something or other] on my friend's ps2, all i can think is "damn the 3d clipping is bad. Those people look incredibly strange. The head is a square?!?", etc. The more they try to make these characters look real, the more it becomes apparent(and comical) that they aren't.
Well, if you need an argument for widescreen, just tell them that 30% of the picture(more or less) gets hacked off so that it can fit in the television ratio. They add pans and cuts if need be so you are watching a hacked apart version of the film. If you watch the hustler, there are a couple scenes that make little sense because of how the 30% that got hacked off was decided.
> They should make things for movietheaters that block all kinda wireless shit when in theater.
I've actually talked to the manager at the movie theatre i used to work at about this topic. According to him, the higher-ups have qualms about doing this because of legal issues e.g. what happens if someoone needs to get in touch with someone else who happens to be in a movie theatre, but the movie theatre has disabled wireless devices? Depending on the severity of the blocked call, would the patron have the right to sue you? -Aaron
Well, for best bets, you should reorder the boot order so that it boots from the hard drive first. Also, you should password protect lilo so that they can't type 'linux single' or its variants at the lilo prompt, and then you should chmod/etc/lilo.conf 600 so that no one else can read it. Beyond that, your best bet is to keep the packages up to date security-wise.
-Aaron
Note: I use LIDS at work, but am not an expert in it.
LIDS among other things can be used to protect or hide files(which is a big reason why we use it at work), protection of processes(so an intruder couldn't kill necessary processes), allow certain programs to have certain capabilities(e.g. servers can bind to protected ports but can't do anything else), etc.(note: this is not an exhaustive list, its just what we use at work). However, it likes to send mail to the other administrator whenever ANYTHING violates those rules. So, if a user did not know you were running LIDS and decided to do system modifications, you'd get a nice email about it, and it would prevent it from happening. Also, it can detect port scans and will send email to the administrator, and a number of other things. However, as to being an IDS like Snort, it is not.
-Aaron
well, having worked in an architectural firm, i can tell you that AutoDesk is a pretty major proponent of the BSA. They make a lot of money off of catching people who pirate AutoCAD, etc. Especially in Florida, Texas and California(iirc). The company I worked for never received a letter from the BSA while I was there, but one of the partnering architectural firms did, and ended up settling with AutoDesk for around 75,000 dollars(it might've been more, but that number is sticking in my head for some reason).
-Aaron
if you are going to reference a movie about companies putting toxins in the ground, at least make it a good movie like A Civil Action. Infinitely better movie.(if anyone else has good movies of this genre, i'd be very interested in hearing about them.)
-Aaron
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well, if we're going to show the "amazing 'punishment'" that the Japanese got. We might as well show the amazing punishment that the people of Korea, China, the Phillipenes, and countless other Asian countries received from the Japanese. Any time you're looking at a war, attrocious things happen. Just because we like to focus on those events that injured us doesn't make us wrong. I'm sure the residents of Japan, Germany, Britain, and etc are more likely to see dramatic movies about what happened to them, than what they did to their enemies(i only speculate on the last fact, but if i'm wrong, i'm sorry for assuming).
-Aaron
I'll have to go find the article, but essentially what it boils down to is that companies like ibm, et al. want the pc to be the dominant platform on which things like movies and music are distributed and used so that they can sell more units. In order to do this, it requires that the record industry and movie industry feel comfortable with the platform. They will not feel secure until there is some sort of copyright protection built into the machines(to avoid another napster fiasco, etc). So its not really surprising that a company like IBM supports things like CPRM and the generic functionality.
-Aaron
as an addendum to the above, i want to know how they plan to insure that the consumer still has fair use of copyrighted materials that require the SAP.
If i recall correctly, things like "under God", etc got added to their respective areas during the Eisenhower administration as sort of an anti-communist backlash since communism is atheist
-Aaron
McFarlane(sp?) toys just came out with an Ash Action Figure. For those of you who don't know, Ash is a character in the Evil Dead/Army of Darkness series. He's the guy with a chainsaw for a hand and a shotgun. Also, many of the quotes from Duke Nukem were taken from Army of Darkness or Evil Dead 2(I forget which now). Either way, its a toy i've been wanting for years!
-Aaron
was it because it wanted food? or perhaps, because it needs to cut down the mightiest tree in the forest in order to see the enchanter who lives beyond the woods? -Aaron(up all night, and feeling demented)
i think as a general rule most of the people who are beginning to use the web don't know much about computers. Most of the people i know who started using computers as the trend appeared can't do much other than turn on their PC and use IE/games/MS Office. Katz makes the statement that women are coming onto the internet and not really caring about what runs it(or something akin to that). I don't think that statement is limited to women; Its people in general. Look at the new generation of people on the Internet. Most of the people i know don't know a whole heck of alot about computers, the internet, technology in general. They are more interested in what the technology can do for them. My father doesn't have a clue what to do other than startup AOL, and go searching for stuff on architecture. My uncle just goes searching for stuff on car racing. They are just taking what they want to do/learn about into a new medium. They don't care how that medium works(neither have a clue what a web server is nor do they care). On the note that women use the internet as a forum to talk with people, so do men! most of the teenage guys i know who use the internet(just as with teenage girls) use it to talk with friends using AOL(or AIM). They also use it for researching papers, and looking for information about topics of interest, but mainly for communicating with friends. I think much of what Katz said may be true of a number of women who have started using the Internet but it is not exclusively so. -Aaron
i have met a number of friends online(both male and female)... i still get together with my friends that i met online(i'm going to see a Nine Inch Nails show on the 17th with a few of them)... I have gone to movies, restaraunts, and generally hung out with my 'online' friends... while i don't agree with the statement you are replying too, i don't agree that few men get together and hang out with friends they met online(a number of my male friends have met people that they first got to know over the computer). I know people who are scared to meet anyone in real life that they met online(both male and female)... its really dependent on the person not necessarily the sex -Aaron
The conservatives i know are for less government when it comes to things that don't have an effect on them... for example, most republicans i know(my girlfriend included) want less money spent on the social causes that don't affect them... e.g. less on medicare, medicaid, welfare and things like that... However, when it comes to things that involve them or they perceive as involving them, more government does not bother them...
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> I'm pretty confident FOTR would have made a lot more money if it had only been 2 hours long, because it could be shown five times a day per screen, rather than three.
:-P). More or less(probably slightly more) the same amount of people would have gone to see the movie itself, but they would have seen it on the opening weekend, or the weekend after that. The more times a movie gets played on opening weekend, the faster its sales fall off. As an example, Austin Powers 2 which was like 1:30 long, had(at my rinky-dink theatre) 5 showings a day on 2 screens. Suffice it to say, after the first 30 showings of opening weekend, most people who were going to see it saw it. The weekend immediately after, sales were not even 1/4 of what they were opening weekend, and the weekend after that were even more bleak. So in the end, FOTR probably would not have made much more money, it would have just made the same amount alot faster...
Actually, the only thing that would have boosted all that much was first weekend sales(which in this stupid industry are a big deal
Likewise, movies now are made more for a "formatted for television" style than they used to be. Most directors now shoot shots such that the 30% of the shot can be cut without losing too much in the way of content. They also tend to shoot/edit movies such that they fit nicely(or can be editted nicely) into the hour and a half timeslots. It just goes to show you that as post-theatre mediums become popular, directors begin to take them into account when making the film...
> and Yarrow [counterpane.com] for PNG. :)
;)
Confused the hell out of me. I thought for a second bruce had gotten into computer graphics.
(for those who don't know, he meant PRNG or Psuedo-Random Number Generator)
> check out winbind from samba.
With microsoft's desire to squelch competing open source software, making your authentication scheme dependant on MS might leave you SOL if they decide to patent some part of authentication, and deny licenses to free software os's.
Well, imho, the games of the mario era were less distracting. When a game tries to make its characters look "real", its very hard not to be distracted by how strange the people look. However, when you played something like Mario/Zelda, the characters weren't trying to be real. They were trying to be cartoon-like. So when I played those games, I wasn't thinking "Sheesh, mario looks strange. His body is so out of proportion", I was playing the game. Now, when I play wwf [something or other] on my friend's ps2, all i can think is "damn the 3d clipping is bad. Those people look incredibly strange. The head is a square?!?", etc. The more they try to make these characters look real, the more it becomes apparent(and comical) that they aren't.
Well, if you need an argument for widescreen, just tell them that 30% of the picture(more or less) gets hacked off so that it can fit in the television ratio. They add pans and cuts if need be so you are watching a hacked apart version of the film. If you watch the hustler, there are a couple scenes that make little sense because of how the 30% that got hacked off was decided.
> They should make things for movietheaters that block all kinda wireless shit when in theater.
I've actually talked to the manager at the movie theatre i used to work at about this topic. According to him, the higher-ups have qualms about doing this because of legal issues e.g. what happens if someoone needs to get in touch with someone else who happens to be in a movie theatre, but the movie theatre has disabled wireless devices? Depending on the severity of the blocked call, would the patron have the right to sue you?
-Aaron
No, its not the gtk hack. GLib 2.0 supports full anti-alias support.
> A Beowulf cluster of ... Ahh nevermind.
Would that by a computer symphony?
Well, for best bets, you should reorder the boot order so that it boots from the hard drive first. Also, you should password protect lilo so that they can't type 'linux single' or its variants at the lilo prompt, and then you should chmod /etc/lilo.conf 600 so that no one else can read it. Beyond that, your best bet is to keep the packages up to date security-wise.
-Aaron
Intel's compiler can compile both C and C++.
Note: I use LIDS at work, but am not an expert in it.
LIDS among other things can be used to protect or hide files(which is a big reason why we use it at work), protection of processes(so an intruder couldn't kill necessary processes), allow certain programs to have certain capabilities(e.g. servers can bind to protected ports but can't do anything else), etc.(note: this is not an exhaustive list, its just what we use at work). However, it likes to send mail to the other administrator whenever ANYTHING violates those rules. So, if a user did not know you were running LIDS and decided to do system modifications, you'd get a nice email about it, and it would prevent it from happening. Also, it can detect port scans and will send email to the administrator, and a number of other things. However, as to being an IDS like Snort, it is not.
-Aaron
well, having worked in an architectural firm, i can tell you that AutoDesk is a pretty major proponent of the BSA. They make a lot of money off of catching people who pirate AutoCAD, etc. Especially in Florida, Texas and California(iirc). The company I worked for never received a letter from the BSA while I was there, but one of the partnering architectural firms did, and ended up settling with AutoDesk for around 75,000 dollars(it might've been more, but that number is sticking in my head for some reason).
-Aaron
if you are going to reference a movie about companies putting toxins in the ground, at least make it a good movie like A Civil Action. Infinitely better movie.(if anyone else has good movies of this genre, i'd be very interested in hearing about them.)
-Aaron
well, if we're going to show the "amazing 'punishment'" that the Japanese got. We might as well show the amazing punishment that the people of Korea, China, the Phillipenes, and countless other Asian countries received from the Japanese. Any time you're looking at a war, attrocious things happen. Just because we like to focus on those events that injured us doesn't make us wrong. I'm sure the residents of Japan, Germany, Britain, and etc are more likely to see dramatic movies about what happened to them, than what they did to their enemies(i only speculate on the last fact, but if i'm wrong, i'm sorry for assuming).
-Aaron
its part of the extra lives code(99 lives? 30 lives? i can't remember exactly) from contra... doesn't everyone know that? ;)
-Aaron
I'll have to go find the article, but essentially what it boils down to is that companies like ibm, et al. want the pc to be the dominant platform on which things like movies and music are distributed and used so that they can sell more units. In order to do this, it requires that the record industry and movie industry feel comfortable with the platform. They will not feel secure until there is some sort of copyright protection built into the machines(to avoid another napster fiasco, etc). So its not really surprising that a company like IBM supports things like CPRM and the generic functionality.
-Aaron
as an addendum to the above, i want to know how they plan to insure that the consumer still has fair use of copyrighted materials that require the SAP.
the site is at: http://www.linuxorbit.com/features/interview3.php3
If i recall correctly, things like "under God", etc got added to their respective areas during the Eisenhower administration as sort of an anti-communist backlash since communism is atheist
-Aaron
McFarlane(sp?) toys just came out with an Ash Action Figure. For those of you who don't know, Ash is a character in the Evil Dead/Army of Darkness series. He's the guy with a chainsaw for a hand and a shotgun. Also, many of the quotes from Duke Nukem were taken from Army of Darkness or Evil Dead 2(I forget which now). Either way, its a toy i've been wanting for years! -Aaron
was it because it wanted food? or perhaps, because it needs to cut down the mightiest tree in the forest in order to see the enchanter who lives beyond the woods? -Aaron(up all night, and feeling demented)
i think as a general rule most of the people who are beginning to use the web don't know much about computers. Most of the people i know who started using computers as the trend appeared can't do much other than turn on their PC and use IE/games/MS Office. Katz makes the statement that women are coming onto the internet and not really caring about what runs it(or something akin to that). I don't think that statement is limited to women; Its people in general. Look at the new generation of people on the Internet. Most of the people i know don't know a whole heck of alot about computers, the internet, technology in general. They are more interested in what the technology can do for them. My father doesn't have a clue what to do other than startup AOL, and go searching for stuff on architecture. My uncle just goes searching for stuff on car racing. They are just taking what they want to do/learn about into a new medium. They don't care how that medium works(neither have a clue what a web server is nor do they care). On the note that women use the internet as a forum to talk with people, so do men! most of the teenage guys i know who use the internet(just as with teenage girls) use it to talk with friends using AOL(or AIM). They also use it for researching papers, and looking for information about topics of interest, but mainly for communicating with friends. I think much of what Katz said may be true of a number of women who have started using the Internet but it is not exclusively so. -Aaron
i have met a number of friends online(both male and female)... i still get together with my friends that i met online(i'm going to see a Nine Inch Nails show on the 17th with a few of them)... I have gone to movies, restaraunts, and generally hung out with my 'online' friends... while i don't agree with the statement you are replying too, i don't agree that few men get together and hang out with friends they met online(a number of my male friends have met people that they first got to know over the computer). I know people who are scared to meet anyone in real life that they met online(both male and female)... its really dependent on the person not necessarily the sex -Aaron
The conservatives i know are for less government when it comes to things that don't have an effect on them... for example, most republicans i know(my girlfriend included) want less money spent on the social causes that don't affect them... e.g. less on medicare, medicaid, welfare and things like that... However, when it comes to things that involve them or they perceive as involving them, more government does not bother them...