If the lobby is clear (all of the customers have gone into the auditorium), then immediately after I start the movie I walk into the auditorium and stand behind the last row of seats for a while, generally for the length of the previews. (I usually play two or three previews, then the feature starts.)
During the time that I'm standing at the back, I watch for things like people talking, cell phones, people with their feet up on the seat backs, and anything else that needs attention.
It also gives me a chance to make sure that my picture and sound are perfect, and that the cues (lights down, etc) worked right.
To answer your question: Yes, I do enforce my cell phone policy during previews. People want to see those too, and they don't need someone waving a bright light around in a dark room while they're trying to do that.
I have simply grabbed a cell phone away from a kid who is using it during the show if his parents aren't around. Then I keep it at my front counter until the parents come and ask for it back when the show is over. That's happened two or three times over 20 years, so it's pretty rare. I've done the same with little flashlights, laser pointers, and chemical glow sticks, too, and probably more often.
As far as your "good riddance" comment... yeah, that's pretty much it. It's my theatre, my personal property in fact, and my rules apply. If you don't like my rules, you're welcome to go to any other theatre. I suspect that some people do exactly that, and it's absolutely fine with me. Really.
The teenagers here know how things work -- I occasionally overhear one telling the other to turn his or her phone off.
I own and operate a "mom and pop" movie theatre in a small town and have done so for 20 years, long before cell phones were an issue.
I've never really had much of problem with "thugs"; if I ask you to leave and you refuse for whatever reason I could always phone the police for assistance. But that has never actually happened.
I really only throw people out for using a cell phone maybe once per year or even less than that; it's not that big of an issue, usually.
In my movie theatre, that's exactly what I do. I have a "turn cell phones off" sign in my lobby, and I play a policy trailer saying the same thing (within a little cartoon) before every show. After that, if I see the light from your phone I'll ask you once to turn it off. The second time I'll ask you to come to the lobby with me, and will show you the door when you get there.
I have very little trouble with cell phones in my theatre.
You kick your foot under the back bumper to make the liftgate open. A convenient feature if you have a bunch of stuff in your hands at the time, but if you're spraying water under the vehicle, the sensor might open the liftgate.
It makes sense, but I didn't think of that until I saw it in the manual.
I just bought a new truck last week and I've been reading the manual ever since. It does a ton of stuff that I wouldn't know how to use if I didn't read the manual. Automatic headlights and windshield wipers, and voice commands to do everything from turning the air conditioner on to changing the station on the radio or making a phone call. I just noticed tonight that it says to keep the remote key far away from the rear of the truck when washing it because splashing water could cause the automatic power liftgate to open if it sees a key nearby.
I've never had a vehicle that has all of these features before, so yes, I have indeed been reading the manual and learning how to use them.
Why is a man who suffers from epilepsy being allowed to drive in the first place?
Epilepsy is a "reportable condition" here, along with some other medical conditions that can lead to blackouts and/or disorientation. If you are diagnosed with something like that, your drivers license is revoked and you're not allowed to drive at all.
I use a mouse pad because it has a wrist support built-in. It also allows the mouse to move smoothly without slipping or moving when I don't want it to move.
I personally know a (now retired) man who started out as a maintenance man/janitor at a hospital and ended his career as the CEO of the entire health district.
As far as I know he didn't have any special connections or "pull". Just a really smart guy. Nice fellow, too.
Many commercial banks charge a fee for cash deposits, but to the best of my knowledge credit unions don't.
I moved my business account from a bank to a credit union about fifteen years ago and the fee that I was paying for banking services went from about $75 to $12.50. It went back up to about $18 over the next several years, but I switched to paying most of my suppliers via Internet banking last year and now I'm back to paying just under $10 per month.
Talk to your local credit union. Moving my account there was one of the smartest things that I ever did.
I don't exactly sit through the movie as such, I actually sit in my lobby and read (and sell the odd popcorn and drink while the show is on). But I can see if there is a picture on the screen and I can hear the sound I can also see a light in the seats where it doesn't belong...
How do you handle it when the theatre is near full and the offender is in the middle of a row?
That's usually not a problem since the people around him/her will tell that person to turn the phone off. If not, I'll "excuse me" past the crowd in that row and do it myself. 45 seconds of disruption from me going in and out is better than the rest of the movie with a light shining in that row.
How do you handle it when the customer declines to get up out of his chair and leave the theatre at your request?
That's never actually happened, but if it did I suppose I would either call the police to come and help that person find the exit, or maybe just stop showing the movie for a few minutes until he left, depending on the exact circumstances at that time. Of course, the offender would then be permanently barred from entering my theatre ever again, and since I have the only theatre in town he probably wouldn't want that to happen.
Your ticket can always be revoked by "the management" and I'm the management.
I own and operate a movie theatre. I have policy trailers that I play before every show telling you to turn your cell phone off. If I see a light from a cell phone while the show is on, I'll go in and ask you to turn it off until the show is over. If I see your light again, I'll ask you to come to the lobby with me, and when you get there I'll tell you to go home.
Since I have been doing this for years, ever since cell phones existed, I have very little problem with cell phones here.
Consistent enforcement is the answer. I have to tell maybe one or two people a month to turn their phones off, sometimes I can go a few months without having to do it once. And I can't remember the last time I threw someone out for that -- it's been at least a couple of years.
Case sensitivity is fine. But SPACES in filenames are another matter completely.
How many otherwise simple shell scripts and the like have either broken or end up being twice as long due when you have to account for spaces in filenames...
I read ebooks on my computer. When I'm sitting in front of my desktop computer, I use that. When I'm sitting in front of my netbook, I log into my desktop from there and read on that. That way the page that I left off at is always synchronized.
The computer holds the book for me so all I have to do is sit back and read -- hit the space bar once in a while to turn the page.
If I find a reference that I want to follow up on (what in the world is a medieval chatelaine?) I can immediately look it up and research that as much as I wish to.
What's not to like?
I can't remember the last time I read a book on paper. It's been at least a few years...
I own a small business. My New Year's Eve celebration consists of taking inventory. (Yes, I know that I could do it tomorrow instead, but I like to get it over and done with since it's such a tedious job.)
I'm currently on my second Acer Aspire One. (The first one had the T key quit after a couple of years.) I've always got the Windows version and re-formatted it to run Centos since I have no use for Windows. It works great and I like it a lot for what I use it for. I use it mostly for reading books and logging into another computer to make entries on a (Libreoffice) spreadsheet.
The article indicates that the extension's author has included his affiliate id in the application as the default, so I guess it's a way for him to make a buck. (You can apparently change the affiliate id to something else after installing the application, but how many people are actually going to do that?)
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If the lobby is clear (all of the customers have gone into the auditorium), then immediately after I start the movie I walk into the auditorium and stand behind the last row of seats for a while, generally for the length of the previews. (I usually play two or three previews, then the feature starts.)
During the time that I'm standing at the back, I watch for things like people talking, cell phones, people with their feet up on the seat backs, and anything else that needs attention.
It also gives me a chance to make sure that my picture and sound are perfect, and that the cues (lights down, etc) worked right.
To answer your question: Yes, I do enforce my cell phone policy during previews. People want to see those too, and they don't need someone waving a bright light around in a dark room while they're trying to do that.
I have simply grabbed a cell phone away from a kid who is using it during the show if his parents aren't around. Then I keep it at my front counter until the parents come and ask for it back when the show is over. That's happened two or three times over 20 years, so it's pretty rare. I've done the same with little flashlights, laser pointers, and chemical glow sticks, too, and probably more often.
As far as your "good riddance" comment... yeah, that's pretty much it. It's my theatre, my personal property in fact, and my rules apply. If you don't like my rules, you're welcome to go to any other theatre. I suspect that some people do exactly that, and it's absolutely fine with me. Really.
The teenagers here know how things work -- I occasionally overhear one telling the other to turn his or her phone off.
I own and operate a "mom and pop" movie theatre in a small town and have done so for 20 years, long before cell phones were an issue.
I've never really had much of problem with "thugs"; if I ask you to leave and you refuse for whatever reason I could always phone the police for assistance. But that has never actually happened.
I really only throw people out for using a cell phone maybe once per year or even less than that; it's not that big of an issue, usually.
In my movie theatre, that's exactly what I do. I have a "turn cell phones off" sign in my lobby, and I play a policy trailer saying the same thing (within a little cartoon) before every show. After that, if I see the light from your phone I'll ask you once to turn it off. The second time I'll ask you to come to the lobby with me, and will show you the door when you get there.
I have very little trouble with cell phones in my theatre.
I haven't used gtk+ much (for my own programming, that is) but I do use glib. A lot. God's gift to C programmers: glib.
You kick your foot under the back bumper to make the liftgate open. A convenient feature if you have a bunch of stuff in your hands at the time, but if you're spraying water under the vehicle, the sensor might open the liftgate.
It makes sense, but I didn't think of that until I saw it in the manual.
I just bought a new truck last week and I've been reading the manual ever since. It does a ton of stuff that I wouldn't know how to use if I didn't read the manual. Automatic headlights and windshield wipers, and voice commands to do everything from turning the air conditioner on to changing the station on the radio or making a phone call. I just noticed tonight that it says to keep the remote key far away from the rear of the truck when washing it because splashing water could cause the automatic power liftgate to open if it sees a key nearby.
I've never had a vehicle that has all of these features before, so yes, I have indeed been reading the manual and learning how to use them.
Why is a man who suffers from epilepsy being allowed to drive in the first place?
Epilepsy is a "reportable condition" here, along with some other medical conditions that can lead to blackouts and/or disorientation. If you are diagnosed with something like that, your drivers license is revoked and you're not allowed to drive at all.
I have never yet found a library to write an odt (ods, etc) file from a C program.
You're doing something wrong.
I have this on my Centos 6 desktops (including the computer that I'm typing on right now): flash-plugin-11.2.202.262-release.x86_64
It was downloaded from the adobe repository via yum, and it works fine with youtube videos. And other stuff.
Colossal Cave Adventure
Space Invaders
Sargon chess
Leaderboard Golf
I use a mouse pad because it has a wrist support built-in. It also allows the mouse to move smoothly without slipping or moving when I don't want it to move.
I personally know a (now retired) man who started out as a maintenance man/janitor at a hospital and ended his career as the CEO of the entire health district.
As far as I know he didn't have any special connections or "pull". Just a really smart guy. Nice fellow, too.
Many commercial banks charge a fee for cash deposits, but to the best of my knowledge credit unions don't.
I moved my business account from a bank to a credit union about fifteen years ago and the fee that I was paying for banking services went from about $75 to $12.50. It went back up to about $18 over the next several years, but I switched to paying most of my suppliers via Internet banking last year and now I'm back to paying just under $10 per month.
Talk to your local credit union. Moving my account there was one of the smartest things that I ever did.
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I don't exactly sit through the movie as such, I actually sit in my lobby and read (and sell the odd popcorn and drink while the show is on). But I can see if there is a picture on the screen and I can hear the sound I can also see a light in the seats where it doesn't belong...
How do you handle it when the theatre is near full and the offender is in the middle of a row?
That's usually not a problem since the people around him/her will tell that person to turn the phone off. If not, I'll "excuse me" past the crowd in that row and do it myself. 45 seconds of disruption from me going in and out is better than the rest of the movie with a light shining in that row.
How do you handle it when the customer declines to get up out of his chair and leave the theatre at your request?
That's never actually happened, but if it did I suppose I would either call the police to come and help that person find the exit, or maybe just stop showing the movie for a few minutes until he left, depending on the exact circumstances at that time. Of course, the offender would then be permanently barred from entering my theatre ever again, and since I have the only theatre in town he probably wouldn't want that to happen.
Your ticket can always be revoked by "the management" and I'm the management.
I own and operate a movie theatre. I have policy trailers that I play before every show telling you to turn your cell phone off. If I see a light from a cell phone while the show is on, I'll go in and ask you to turn it off until the show is over. If I see your light again, I'll ask you to come to the lobby with me, and when you get there I'll tell you to go home.
Since I have been doing this for years, ever since cell phones existed, I have very little problem with cell phones here.
Consistent enforcement is the answer. I have to tell maybe one or two people a month to turn their phones off, sometimes I can go a few months without having to do it once. And I can't remember the last time I threw someone out for that -- it's been at least a couple of years.
Case sensitivity is fine. But SPACES in filenames are another matter completely.
How many otherwise simple shell scripts and the like have either broken or end up being twice as long due when you have to account for spaces in filenames...
You can finally have a real wood-burning computer!
I read ebooks on my computer. When I'm sitting in front of my desktop computer, I use that. When I'm sitting in front of my netbook, I log into my desktop from there and read on that. That way the page that I left off at is always synchronized.
The computer holds the book for me so all I have to do is sit back and read -- hit the space bar once in a while to turn the page.
If I find a reference that I want to follow up on (what in the world is a medieval chatelaine?) I can immediately look it up and research that as much as I wish to.
What's not to like?
I can't remember the last time I read a book on paper. It's been at least a few years...
Without movie theatres, the movie studios would merely be television stations without a channel.
I own a small business. My New Year's Eve celebration consists of taking inventory. (Yes, I know that I could do it tomorrow instead, but I like to get it over and done with since it's such a tedious job.)
I'm currently on my second Acer Aspire One. (The first one had the T key quit after a couple of years.) I've always got the Windows version and re-formatted it to run Centos since I have no use for Windows. It works great and I like it a lot for what I use it for. I use it mostly for reading books and logging into another computer to make entries on a (Libreoffice) spreadsheet.
The article indicates that the extension's author has included his affiliate id in the application as the default, so I guess it's a way for him to make a buck. (You can apparently change the affiliate id to something else after installing the application, but how many people are actually going to do that?)