I won't go find an attendant. I'll just refuse to move. THEY can go find an attendant and miss the first ten minutes of the movie. But I admit that I don't care if the people around me hate me; I'm RIGHT after all.
Digital projection has allowed theaters to adopt much more flexible screening times. I have seen cases where each of the four or five screening times is a different film. Once you have loaded all the films and their associated decryption keys into the server, it's just a matter of pushing one button to make the system show another movie.
You also had that back in the days of multiple reels that were actively changed by projectionists. But it was lost in the era of gigantic platters that hold an entire film. Most theaters with platter systems only had one platter per screen, so once it was set up that screen was going to be showing nothing but that one film for a week. Some fancier theaters had two platters so it was possible to switch between the two films, so you might get something family friendly for the matinees and an R-rated film for the late shows.
Setting up those platters was a lot of work. The films weren't shipped that way; you still got them on individual reels. All those reels had to be transferred to the platter and spliced together, and when the run was over you had to take the film back apart and put it back on the reels before returning it. Transferring a DCP file to a server is much easier.
Whether you can take the drinks into the theater depends on local law. Around here you can certainly bring in your beer or wine; haven't tried it with the spirits.
Hugo. That's another movie that got 3D right. And it's also a wonderful film.
Computer animated films always do 3D well, which isn't surprising since they're made from 3D data models. But Up is the only one I've seen where watching in 3D added much to the experience.
I rather liked how the 3D in Tim Burton's take on Alice in Wonderland worked out. That was a conversion from 2D, and in the live action scenes in the real world it looked unconvincing. But in Wonderland, where all the backgrounds were computer generated, it worked really well. It had the paradoxical result that Wonderland looked more real than the real world did, which was effective in the context of the film.
That's all I've got. 3D can enhance a film if it's done well and if the film is something that calls for it. Otherwise it's mostly a waste of time. It's not going to bring much to the table if you're making a character-driven film; what would be the point of making Moonlight or Manchester by the Sea in 3D?
The Sony 4K projectors are excellent for 2D movies. They're better to my eyes than the equipment that is currently in most IMAX theaters. (The few with the frickin' laser beams are the exception.) But they are marginal for 3D because they don't put out enough light.
You have a legitimate high end sound system that can compete with the best of theater sound setups. The only thing you don't yet have is elevated surrounds for Dolby Atmos, and there aren't many films that take advantage of that yet. And your 4K OLED screen produces a better image than any current theater technology. Most people don't have equipment like that, so a well equipped theater is likely to have an edge.
The one thing you can't compete with, aside from the dubious advantage of the crowd, is sheer size. You can fill your vision as thoroughly with your OLED screen by sitting at an appropriate distance. But the bigness of the theater screen has an impact on the brain that is not just about filling your visual field, and you can't duplicate that in a living room.
Most movie previews are available on YouTube. If you want previews with your movie, put together a suitable playlist and watch them first.
Theaters around here have been adding real bars; they can match or exceed your at-home drink selection unless you have a really well equipped bar. But your home bar is much more affordable, and it has your favorite brands even if they are obscure.
The bragging rights thing is mostly about seeing it first. If we get same-day home viewing that will largely go away. But I suspect that the Thursday night preview showings will remain a theater thing for now; same-day will probably mean that the viewing window will open at noon on Friday.
A final question remains for this at-home thing: how good an image will they offer? If they want to match the quality of the theater image they're going to have to deliver a BIG file - perhaps 100GB or more. (It won't have to be as big as the DCP because the data compression used in that format is inefficient by current standards.) If they stick to the data rates that are currently being used for 4K streaming (15-25 Mbps, which adds up to a bit over 20GB for a two hour movie) you're going to see more compression artifacts than you see in the theater.
IP tracking might help them sort out home networks. But entire office facilities are often behind NAT, and so everybody at the company appears to have the same IP address. Punishing employee A on a search for vacation travel because employee B also looked for the same dates wouldn't be very fair or popular.
In a unionized business with standardized employment contracts, the main way to get improvements is to change the standard contract. That requires multiple companies to cooperate in the formation of a new contract. In most cases, a strike or the threat of a strike is the only way to get all the parties to the table at the same time.
One fix that seems fairly simple and would make the life of the writers easier: limit the scope of exclusivity deals. A series that only runs for a short season of 10 or 12 episodes should not trigger a full year of exclusivity. It's reasonable to expect that a staff writer should be able to work for two or three short season shows per year (depending on episode count and length) or combine one short season with a few freelance writing gigs for other programs. (Some shows use people who are not staff writers for some or all of their episodes.)
Another problem that the writers face is that the average pay rate for people working in television, not just writers, is going down. Back when there were just the big three or four networks they paid top dollar for their people. The CW, cable networks, and streaming services don't pay as much, and that drags the average down. There isn't any simple cure for that, and the increased number of opportunities is a counterbalance to falling pay: it may be harder to make a good salary but more people get an opportunity to make some kind of living at writing.
Now that the audiences of the big networks are declining they're also going to be making cuts in pay. I doubt we will ever again see actors who get a million dollars per episode of any show that is not already on the air. The three leads of The Big Bang Theory get that much; nobody else comes close. Lauren Graham and Alexis Bledel got $750,000 for each of the four Gilmore Girls revival episodes but they're double length (1.5 hours each). Next closest is Mark Harmon, who gets $525,000 for NCIS. Source: http://stylecaster.com/highest...
You appear to be talking about an office that is open among the members of the team, not a full-on open plan office where everybody in the company is in one huge pit. Very different thing.
The book has already been written - Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams, by Tom DeMarco and Tim Lister. It should be required reading for anybody who manages technology workers. Or manages anybody else for that matter.
Good point. It's a deal breaker unless your personal computer really IS a personal computer that nobody else uses. A few Chromebook models can be hacked to remove the wipe prompt, but that's WAY beyond what a computer newcomer could be expected to do.
Microsoft still hasn't released a full NTFS document, and their source code isn't available except to limited numbers of people under an NDA. But there is a full read-write implementation of it in Linux, so that source code should reveal a lot about how NTFS works.
Non-compete agreements that limit the ability of people to take jobs at competing companies are standard operating practice in tech and media companies. But Netflix and the TV division of Fox are based in California, a state that bans most such agreements. California labor law should therefore in effect, and under that law those contracts are indeed "unlawful and unenforceable".
The corporate offices of Fox are in New York, so they are presumably trying to claim that their contracts are based on New York law. But I expect them to lose that battle because Ms Flynn worked in California, for a division of Fox that is based there.
It's not necessary that everybody become an advanced user. But Linux advocates feel strongly about there being a path for everyone to become an advanced user if they want to. One of the fails of macOS is that it's easy to be a casual user, but then you have to climb a cliff to reach the next level. The result is that few people do, and most Mac users are thus dependent on a small population of gurus if something goes wrong. On Linux (or Windows for that matter) the first level is a bit harder to reach, but from there it's a trip of smaller steps up until you eventually achieve mastery.
You can run regular Linux apps on a Chromebook by using Crouton. That installs a full Ubuntu userspace in a chroot alongside ChromeOS. (You're still using the ChromeOS kernel, not an Ubuntu kernel.) You can even run Linux applications or an Ubuntu desktop in ChromeOS windows now, or run the Ubuntu desktop fullscreen and use hotkeys to switch.
It's a bit outside the realm of newcomer-friendly things, though. You have to put your Chromebook into developer mode and do some command line stuff to make the magic happen.
The downmodding was likely for the unnecessary use of the N-word. If the AC had instead said something like "motivated by racial separatism" it wouldn't have been treated the same way.
People who live in cities are likely to get better medical care. Importantly, they get better emergency care because they live closer to hospitals. In the case of heart disease that's crucial; if you are treated right away for a heart attack you are far less likely to die.
Batman v Superman also had a problem that is inherent to its premise. Lots of us have no interest in seeing the good guys fight each other. Batman and Superman teaming up against villains would have been an easier sell.
A lot of the demographic fluctuation year to year is likely a result of what is showing that year. For example, we saw a significant jump in African-American moviegoing in 2016 (after a steady decline from 2012 to 2015) because of the large number of films telling stories that are centered on their experiences, including the Best Picture winner and two additional nominees. Nearly all of the box office for Hidden Figures came this year and Get Out has also been a hit, so I expect African-American moviegoing numbers will also be strong in 2017.
We have clear laws on Presidential succession due to the Twenty-Fifth Amendment. Alas, that would give us President Orrin Hatch, which I'm not sure is an improvement. (Mike Pence and Paul Ryan would be ineligible.) I find many of Hatch's positions distasteful but I don't think he qualifies for the other N-word.
Australia (2.97 million square miles) and the contiguous United States (3.12 million) are nearly the same size. Canada (3.86 million) is significantly larger than either of them.
The Pi 3 has hardware divide. Though the software won't take full advantage of it if you use any of the standard OS builds because they're designed to be compatible across the entire range of models; you'll need a built that is made specifically for that model, and if you develop your own software you'll have to choose to generate code specifically for it. The other shortcomings remain.
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I won't go find an attendant. I'll just refuse to move. THEY can go find an attendant and miss the first ten minutes of the movie. But I admit that I don't care if the people around me hate me; I'm RIGHT after all.
Digital projection has allowed theaters to adopt much more flexible screening times. I have seen cases where each of the four or five screening times is a different film. Once you have loaded all the films and their associated decryption keys into the server, it's just a matter of pushing one button to make the system show another movie.
You also had that back in the days of multiple reels that were actively changed by projectionists. But it was lost in the era of gigantic platters that hold an entire film. Most theaters with platter systems only had one platter per screen, so once it was set up that screen was going to be showing nothing but that one film for a week. Some fancier theaters had two platters so it was possible to switch between the two films, so you might get something family friendly for the matinees and an R-rated film for the late shows.
Setting up those platters was a lot of work. The films weren't shipped that way; you still got them on individual reels. All those reels had to be transferred to the platter and spliced together, and when the run was over you had to take the film back apart and put it back on the reels before returning it. Transferring a DCP file to a server is much easier.
Whether you can take the drinks into the theater depends on local law. Around here you can certainly bring in your beer or wine; haven't tried it with the spirits.
Hugo. That's another movie that got 3D right. And it's also a wonderful film.
Computer animated films always do 3D well, which isn't surprising since they're made from 3D data models. But Up is the only one I've seen where watching in 3D added much to the experience.
I rather liked how the 3D in Tim Burton's take on Alice in Wonderland worked out. That was a conversion from 2D, and in the live action scenes in the real world it looked unconvincing. But in Wonderland, where all the backgrounds were computer generated, it worked really well. It had the paradoxical result that Wonderland looked more real than the real world did, which was effective in the context of the film.
That's all I've got. 3D can enhance a film if it's done well and if the film is something that calls for it. Otherwise it's mostly a waste of time. It's not going to bring much to the table if you're making a character-driven film; what would be the point of making Moonlight or Manchester by the Sea in 3D?
The Sony 4K projectors are excellent for 2D movies. They're better to my eyes than the equipment that is currently in most IMAX theaters. (The few with the frickin' laser beams are the exception.) But they are marginal for 3D because they don't put out enough light.
You have a legitimate high end sound system that can compete with the best of theater sound setups. The only thing you don't yet have is elevated surrounds for Dolby Atmos, and there aren't many films that take advantage of that yet. And your 4K OLED screen produces a better image than any current theater technology. Most people don't have equipment like that, so a well equipped theater is likely to have an edge.
The one thing you can't compete with, aside from the dubious advantage of the crowd, is sheer size. You can fill your vision as thoroughly with your OLED screen by sitting at an appropriate distance. But the bigness of the theater screen has an impact on the brain that is not just about filling your visual field, and you can't duplicate that in a living room.
Most movie previews are available on YouTube. If you want previews with your movie, put together a suitable playlist and watch them first.
Theaters around here have been adding real bars; they can match or exceed your at-home drink selection unless you have a really well equipped bar. But your home bar is much more affordable, and it has your favorite brands even if they are obscure.
The bragging rights thing is mostly about seeing it first. If we get same-day home viewing that will largely go away. But I suspect that the Thursday night preview showings will remain a theater thing for now; same-day will probably mean that the viewing window will open at noon on Friday.
A final question remains for this at-home thing: how good an image will they offer? If they want to match the quality of the theater image they're going to have to deliver a BIG file - perhaps 100GB or more. (It won't have to be as big as the DCP because the data compression used in that format is inefficient by current standards.) If they stick to the data rates that are currently being used for 4K streaming (15-25 Mbps, which adds up to a bit over 20GB for a two hour movie) you're going to see more compression artifacts than you see in the theater.
IP tracking might help them sort out home networks. But entire office facilities are often behind NAT, and so everybody at the company appears to have the same IP address. Punishing employee A on a search for vacation travel because employee B also looked for the same dates wouldn't be very fair or popular.
In a unionized business with standardized employment contracts, the main way to get improvements is to change the standard contract. That requires multiple companies to cooperate in the formation of a new contract. In most cases, a strike or the threat of a strike is the only way to get all the parties to the table at the same time.
One fix that seems fairly simple and would make the life of the writers easier: limit the scope of exclusivity deals. A series that only runs for a short season of 10 or 12 episodes should not trigger a full year of exclusivity. It's reasonable to expect that a staff writer should be able to work for two or three short season shows per year (depending on episode count and length) or combine one short season with a few freelance writing gigs for other programs. (Some shows use people who are not staff writers for some or all of their episodes.)
Another problem that the writers face is that the average pay rate for people working in television, not just writers, is going down. Back when there were just the big three or four networks they paid top dollar for their people. The CW, cable networks, and streaming services don't pay as much, and that drags the average down. There isn't any simple cure for that, and the increased number of opportunities is a counterbalance to falling pay: it may be harder to make a good salary but more people get an opportunity to make some kind of living at writing.
Now that the audiences of the big networks are declining they're also going to be making cuts in pay. I doubt we will ever again see actors who get a million dollars per episode of any show that is not already on the air. The three leads of The Big Bang Theory get that much; nobody else comes close. Lauren Graham and Alexis Bledel got $750,000 for each of the four Gilmore Girls revival episodes but they're double length (1.5 hours each). Next closest is Mark Harmon, who gets $525,000 for NCIS. Source: http://stylecaster.com/highest...
Where are those mod points when you need them? This deserves a funny.
You appear to be talking about an office that is open among the members of the team, not a full-on open plan office where everybody in the company is in one huge pit. Very different thing.
The book has already been written - Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams, by Tom DeMarco and Tim Lister. It should be required reading for anybody who manages technology workers. Or manages anybody else for that matter.
Good point. It's a deal breaker unless your personal computer really IS a personal computer that nobody else uses. A few Chromebook models can be hacked to remove the wipe prompt, but that's WAY beyond what a computer newcomer could be expected to do.
Microsoft still hasn't released a full NTFS document, and their source code isn't available except to limited numbers of people under an NDA. But there is a full read-write implementation of it in Linux, so that source code should reveal a lot about how NTFS works.
Non-compete agreements that limit the ability of people to take jobs at competing companies are standard operating practice in tech and media companies. But Netflix and the TV division of Fox are based in California, a state that bans most such agreements. California labor law should therefore in effect, and under that law those contracts are indeed "unlawful and unenforceable".
The corporate offices of Fox are in New York, so they are presumably trying to claim that their contracts are based on New York law. But I expect them to lose that battle because Ms Flynn worked in California, for a division of Fox that is based there.
That said, the attitude of some Linux users is unnecessary. Belittling people who want to learn more is counterproductive.
It's not necessary that everybody become an advanced user. But Linux advocates feel strongly about there being a path for everyone to become an advanced user if they want to. One of the fails of macOS is that it's easy to be a casual user, but then you have to climb a cliff to reach the next level. The result is that few people do, and most Mac users are thus dependent on a small population of gurus if something goes wrong. On Linux (or Windows for that matter) the first level is a bit harder to reach, but from there it's a trip of smaller steps up until you eventually achieve mastery.
You can run regular Linux apps on a Chromebook by using Crouton. That installs a full Ubuntu userspace in a chroot alongside ChromeOS. (You're still using the ChromeOS kernel, not an Ubuntu kernel.) You can even run Linux applications or an Ubuntu desktop in ChromeOS windows now, or run the Ubuntu desktop fullscreen and use hotkeys to switch.
It's a bit outside the realm of newcomer-friendly things, though. You have to put your Chromebook into developer mode and do some command line stuff to make the magic happen.
That's Medicaid. One of the programs that the Republican health care bill was going to slice to ribbons.
The downmodding was likely for the unnecessary use of the N-word. If the AC had instead said something like "motivated by racial separatism" it wouldn't have been treated the same way.
People who live in cities are likely to get better medical care. Importantly, they get better emergency care because they live closer to hospitals. In the case of heart disease that's crucial; if you are treated right away for a heart attack you are far less likely to die.
Batman v Superman also had a problem that is inherent to its premise. Lots of us have no interest in seeing the good guys fight each other. Batman and Superman teaming up against villains would have been an easier sell.
A lot of the demographic fluctuation year to year is likely a result of what is showing that year. For example, we saw a significant jump in African-American moviegoing in 2016 (after a steady decline from 2012 to 2015) because of the large number of films telling stories that are centered on their experiences, including the Best Picture winner and two additional nominees. Nearly all of the box office for Hidden Figures came this year and Get Out has also been a hit, so I expect African-American moviegoing numbers will also be strong in 2017.
We have clear laws on Presidential succession due to the Twenty-Fifth Amendment. Alas, that would give us President Orrin Hatch, which I'm not sure is an improvement. (Mike Pence and Paul Ryan would be ineligible.) I find many of Hatch's positions distasteful but I don't think he qualifies for the other N-word.
Australia (2.97 million square miles) and the contiguous United States (3.12 million) are nearly the same size. Canada (3.86 million) is significantly larger than either of them.
The Pi 3 has hardware divide. Though the software won't take full advantage of it if you use any of the standard OS builds because they're designed to be compatible across the entire range of models; you'll need a built that is made specifically for that model, and if you develop your own software you'll have to choose to generate code specifically for it. The other shortcomings remain.