In the UK, one of the biggest cinema chains in the country - CineWorld - already do a subscription pass that lets you in to any film any number of times, while still using the old distribution model for normal customers.
The problem is that, while yes, you can get in to see any film any time, you still have queue to get a ticket from the desk, and you *cannot* purchase on line ahead of time. Normal paying customers can, so for big blockbuster films on opening night (or opening week depending on how popular it is) it can be nigh on impossible to actually get in for a card holder without having to pay *anyway* just to book ahead.
My mum runs a film group and about 60% of their members have this card, and they're pretty much always treated like second class citizens, with one cashier even outright stating that they don't really care about card holders because they don't bring in any money for them. That card holders tend to be more money savvy and as such won't buy the overprices drinks and popcorn from the stalls.
Then, down the road, there's the smaller, more indie, cinema. Doesn't show as many blockbusters, quite a few indie films, focuses on the smaller, but popular films. Like Life of Pi, Mostly the focus on really good events. I went to see the original cut of Alien and Aliens in there, using the original reels. I missed it, but they also had James Earl Jones taking a Q&A once. They're showing Spirited Away later this month, and I think February is shaping up to be Studio Ghibli month. It has a really nice bar area (that you wouldn't mind visiting outside of watching a film), and they let you take alcohol into the showing (in plastic glasses), infact, all the smaller cinemas around here do that kind of thing. They don't have over-priced stalls, but they will offer you popcorn from behind the bar. And they're doing quite well.
It's not the pricing model that's failing, it's knowing your core audience and catering for them. If your in a city you can pick and choose your core audience (as exampled above by a giant conglomorate cinema company co-existing 4 streets away from one of the oldest cinemas in the city), however if you're in a small town, or the middle of nowhere, if your core audience doesn't want to go see films, no alternate pricing models are going to fix that. What you need to do is remind them there's a cinema there. Throw some events. Find out what films your patrons want to see and put those films on, even if they're 20 or 30 years old, hell, even if it's from before there was sound, if they want to see it, get a hold of it and put it on.
There seems to be this crazy notion that people only go to the cinema to see new films.
Bullshit. People go to see films in the cinema because watching films in the cinema is fun.
This has been a standard for Mobile internet for a long time. I remember getting a Pay-as-you-go 3G dongle that was opt-out filtering, but it filtered a hell of a lot more than just pornography.
It filtered Reddit, it filtered 4chan, it filtered b3ta, it filtered a fair few web comics too. And they wouldn't unlock it over the phone unless you had a credit card (I only had a debit card and they wouldn't accept it, go figure), so you had to take the dongle into the store and ask them to unlock it, and take proof of age with you.
If the proposed filter is in any way similer to the current mobile one - and it's opt out - expect there to be a right shitstorm regardless of the ethics of the filter in the first place.
Maybe he's on about the artists who only sing the songs, as opposed to the artists who write it for them?
Most of the Boy/Girl bands out there have their songs written by professional songwriters so if you're going to throw them a buck, you have to decide which party to donate to.
As a web developer that thought makes me physically ill... I begrudge doing that with sites I set up myself and *trust* the content on, let alone random-ass third parties.
That way lies security nightmares.
There are three reasons why remote-hosting adverts (and user-generated content) on a seperate domain is a good thing: 1) Shares the bandwidth load between two servers 2) An extra seperation between Content and Application makes for simpler updates 3) Malicious Injected content can't pretend to be from my own domain and is sandboxed by modern browsers.
Make it a Green issue. All that importing half-way across the world must burn alot of Jet Fuel. I'm sure they'll sit up and listen when they figure out that over-inflated prices are destroying the Great Barrier Reef.
That map also lists Ireland and Italy, two of the most Catholic nations on Earth.
Just because they don't officially support one religion or another doesn't mean the population, or indeed the people making up the government, are irreligious.
Also, the UK as "Ambiguous or without Data", is only Ambiguous because of the status of Scotland, and even then it's funny.
Scotland's official religion is the Church of Scotland, and England/Wales is the Anglican, yet I would hardly say any of the people in either parliament are particularly religious, even though parliament is opened with prayers and MPs must swear by God on the bible when voted in. BOTH Scotland and England are technically non-secular states, so the whole UK is a non-secular state, but made up of 2 religions.
"Unfortunately, in early October automated systems at ServerBeach spotted a copy of the disputed blog entry stored in the working memory of software Edublogs uses to make sure web pages are displayed quickly."
IE, there was still a version stored in the server's cache, and that's why they took the site down.
I know it's against/. ettiquete to read the fucking article, but it does help some times.
"The copy of the blog entry was in this memory store - only visible internally - because of the way Edublogs readies web pages for display. When Edublogs did not respond within 24 hours to emails alerting it to the allegedly infringing content, ServerBeach shut down the entire site."
People keep calling Redstone Torches NOT Gates because they forget that they're actually 5-input NOR gates (4 sides plus bottom, with top as an output)
It's even funnier than that, read his Twitter feed, he keeps posting his programming whoospies he discovers while programming 0x10c. I understand now why Minecraft was in such a terrible state.
I found when I was at school (oh god, that was over 10 years ago) that there was *alot* of overlap between my classes
We learned basic circuitry in Physics, we learned basic Programming and Physics in Tech Studies (that mainly taught us Electronics, through Breadboards, PICMicros and low level programming), and we learned about 6502 Assembler in Computing Studies (although we were told we were the *last* class to learn assembly in CS that year)
And in each of those three we learned about Combination Logic to varying degrees. While Tech Studies (what you focus on when you want to do Electrical engineering) taught us most, CS, which didn't teach us it until a year after Tech studies did, but was pretty thorough and introduced it the context of computing (and actually taught us Binary Mathematics, which Tech Studies didn't), and Physics, which kind of half-arsedly taught us Binary Maths, and spent about 2 weeks on plugging pre-made circuits together to make a light come on.
So I feel you don't really *need* to know circuit design to get a handle on Combinational Logic, but it can help seeing it in a different context to the one you'll be focusing on.
I was lucky I got exposed to it in the way I did, at school, from age 13 to 18, with Tech Studies doing it first I might add, but dicking around with breadboards is - perhaps - slightly overkill to suggest *everyone* who wants to go into IT be required to do it.
Except, ofcourse, as an exaggeration of the other issues that Apple's map software currently has.
The whole feed until that images has been humor based on truth.
No, the whole feed until that image has been Humorous Truths. Now we have a Humorous Exaggeration. And, as sibling post said, pull the stick out your arse and laugh once and a while.
Slashdot Mirror
In the UK, one of the biggest cinema chains in the country - CineWorld - already do a subscription pass that lets you in to any film any number of times, while still using the old distribution model for normal customers.
The problem is that, while yes, you can get in to see any film any time, you still have queue to get a ticket from the desk, and you *cannot* purchase on line ahead of time. Normal paying customers can, so for big blockbuster films on opening night (or opening week depending on how popular it is) it can be nigh on impossible to actually get in for a card holder without having to pay *anyway* just to book ahead.
My mum runs a film group and about 60% of their members have this card, and they're pretty much always treated like second class citizens, with one cashier even outright stating that they don't really care about card holders because they don't bring in any money for them. That card holders tend to be more money savvy and as such won't buy the overprices drinks and popcorn from the stalls.
Then, down the road, there's the smaller, more indie, cinema. Doesn't show as many blockbusters, quite a few indie films, focuses on the smaller, but popular films. Like Life of Pi, Mostly the focus on really good events. I went to see the original cut of Alien and Aliens in there, using the original reels. I missed it, but they also had James Earl Jones taking a Q&A once. They're showing Spirited Away later this month, and I think February is shaping up to be Studio Ghibli month.
It has a really nice bar area (that you wouldn't mind visiting outside of watching a film), and they let you take alcohol into the showing (in plastic glasses), infact, all the smaller cinemas around here do that kind of thing. They don't have over-priced stalls, but they will offer you popcorn from behind the bar. And they're doing quite well.
It's not the pricing model that's failing, it's knowing your core audience and catering for them. If your in a city you can pick and choose your core audience (as exampled above by a giant conglomorate cinema company co-existing 4 streets away from one of the oldest cinemas in the city), however if you're in a small town, or the middle of nowhere, if your core audience doesn't want to go see films, no alternate pricing models are going to fix that. What you need to do is remind them there's a cinema there. Throw some events. Find out what films your patrons want to see and put those films on, even if they're 20 or 30 years old, hell, even if it's from before there was sound, if they want to see it, get a hold of it and put it on.
There seems to be this crazy notion that people only go to the cinema to see new films.
Bullshit. People go to see films in the cinema because watching films in the cinema is fun.
Also, Sing-along Grease night
This has been a standard for Mobile internet for a long time.
I remember getting a Pay-as-you-go 3G dongle that was opt-out filtering, but it filtered a hell of a lot more than just pornography.
It filtered Reddit, it filtered 4chan, it filtered b3ta, it filtered a fair few web comics too. And they wouldn't unlock it over the phone unless you had a credit card (I only had a debit card and they wouldn't accept it, go figure), so you had to take the dongle into the store and ask them to unlock it, and take proof of age with you.
If the proposed filter is in any way similer to the current mobile one - and it's opt out - expect there to be a right shitstorm regardless of the ethics of the filter in the first place.
'tis 'tisn't it
I think what he means is that 10% of bread is Dark Matter
Torchlight 2.
Diablo 2, and Diablo 3.
People do, that's why no-one tells you it.
Maybe he's on about the artists who only sing the songs, as opposed to the artists who write it for them?
Most of the Boy/Girl bands out there have their songs written by professional songwriters so if you're going to throw them a buck, you have to decide which party to donate to.
As a web developer that thought makes me physically ill...
I begrudge doing that with sites I set up myself and *trust* the content on, let alone random-ass third parties.
That way lies security nightmares.
There are three reasons why remote-hosting adverts (and user-generated content) on a seperate domain is a good thing:
1) Shares the bandwidth load between two servers
2) An extra seperation between Content and Application makes for simpler updates
3) Malicious Injected content can't pretend to be from my own domain and is sandboxed by modern browsers.
Hanshotfirstatops
That's greengrocers' apostrophe, dumbass'.
FTFY
yes, and by 2050 we'll all accept Paedos and Immigrants and we'll be oppressing Rapists and Furries...
Make it a Green issue. All that importing half-way across the world must burn alot of Jet Fuel. I'm sure they'll sit up and listen when they figure out that over-inflated prices are destroying the Great Barrier Reef.
That map also lists Ireland and Italy, two of the most Catholic nations on Earth.
Just because they don't officially support one religion or another doesn't mean the population, or indeed the people making up the government, are irreligious.
Also, the UK as "Ambiguous or without Data", is only Ambiguous because of the status of Scotland, and even then it's funny.
Scotland's official religion is the Church of Scotland, and England/Wales is the Anglican, yet I would hardly say any of the people in either parliament are particularly religious, even though parliament is opened with prayers and MPs must swear by God on the bible when voted in. BOTH Scotland and England are technically non-secular states, so the whole UK is a non-secular state, but made up of 2 religions.
"Unfortunately, in early October automated systems at ServerBeach spotted a copy of the disputed blog entry stored in the working memory of software Edublogs uses to make sure web pages are displayed quickly."
IE, there was still a version stored in the server's cache, and that's why they took the site down.
I know it's against /. ettiquete to read the fucking article, but it does help some times.
"The copy of the blog entry was in this memory store - only visible internally - because of the way Edublogs readies web pages for display. When Edublogs did not respond within 24 hours to emails alerting it to the allegedly infringing content, ServerBeach shut down the entire site."
People keep calling Redstone Torches NOT Gates because they forget that they're actually 5-input NOR gates (4 sides plus bottom, with top as an output)
It's even funnier than that, read his Twitter feed, he keeps posting his programming whoospies he discovers while programming 0x10c. I understand now why Minecraft was in such a terrible state.
I found when I was at school (oh god, that was over 10 years ago) that there was *alot* of overlap between my classes
We learned basic circuitry in Physics, we learned basic Programming and Physics in Tech Studies (that mainly taught us Electronics, through Breadboards, PICMicros and low level programming), and we learned about 6502 Assembler in Computing Studies (although we were told we were the *last* class to learn assembly in CS that year)
And in each of those three we learned about Combination Logic to varying degrees. While Tech Studies (what you focus on when you want to do Electrical engineering) taught us most, CS, which didn't teach us it until a year after Tech studies did, but was pretty thorough and introduced it the context of computing (and actually taught us Binary Mathematics, which Tech Studies didn't), and Physics, which kind of half-arsedly taught us Binary Maths, and spent about 2 weeks on plugging pre-made circuits together to make a light come on.
So I feel you don't really *need* to know circuit design to get a handle on Combinational Logic, but it can help seeing it in a different context to the one you'll be focusing on.
I was lucky I got exposed to it in the way I did, at school, from age 13 to 18, with Tech Studies doing it first I might add, but dicking around with breadboards is - perhaps - slightly overkill to suggest *everyone* who wants to go into IT be required to do it.
Mine gave me NOR Gates, Diodes and things to Craft
Mouse Trap: XTREME
It's time like these I'm glad Scotland has the "Not Proven" verdict, aka "Guilty, and don't do it again".
also, the secret ingredient in Irn Bru is Martian soil.
Mars is Ginger isn't it?
(full disclosure: I'm Scottish, and not ginger)
Based on, but not necessarily true.
Except, ofcourse, as an exaggeration of the other issues that Apple's map software currently has.
No, the whole feed until that image has been Humorous Truths. Now we have a Humorous Exaggeration.
And, as sibling post said, pull the stick out your arse and laugh once and a while.
The question is whether or not it's "The biggest moon rock ever" or "The biggest moon rock ever to be auctioned"
Talk to Ben Goldacre http://www.badscience.net/category/electrosensitivity/