I was going to mod you up, but I want to add to and reinforce what you said.
Now if you were Amazon and needed your own hydroelectric plant for your cloud then it is more valuable and it is more of an asset and it would even make you money bordering a profit center.
On the Planet Money podcast last year (title was "When Money got Weird") they spoke to a finance guy who worked for an airline. The CEO came to him and told him to figure out how to save money and keep the airline in business. He did two things. The first was some basic accounting "tricks" to reclassify costs, liabilities etc. The second was to start hedging on things like fuel. He ended up turning his accounting department into an internal investment bank. He turned a cost center (the accounting department) into the largest profit center in the company. They made more money hedging against fuel prices than they did selling airline seats.
If you work for a company making fish sticks (example), . . . But I.T.? What value does that provide to the customer? Zero. They are paying for fish sticks....... Unless you can think of a magical way companies can increase their sales or cut their cost from your ideas? Have any?
I used to be the IT guy at a sushi company. The department consisted of me and one support person, but we both reported into the CFO and spent more than half our time doing accounting work. My value-add turned out to be BI and business process development. After implementing an ERP system I used it to create a myriad of reports for management. When I tried to get better resources, whether it be replacing 4-5 year old computers, monitors over 15", security cameras, etc. I would always get shot down. But they dropped well over $100k on the ERP system and related add-ons and support because it helped them run the business more efficiently. It's harder to make that case to replace a desktop or get a new printer.
Why don't you invest your money in an insurance company that will invest your funds in paying for every amputee to have the top notch prosthetics and offers zero ROI. I hear those stocks do really well on the market.
Congratulations. You just identified why the medical services industry should not be solely profit motivated.
It sounded to me like GP thought FP discs forced you to sit through the ads. They don't.
I agree that it's a silly Marketing brand name who's sole purpose is to get you to have your kids sit through those ads. Personally I take the extra half minute to save them and me the agony. It's the least I can do if I'm going to abdicate my parental responsibility to a DVD for 30 minutes anyway. I've also taught my 4 year old how to skip the commercials when watching DVR'd content, though he prefers to watch them to see what the cool new toys are.
Because I'm a pricing analyst for a major post production company and I've recently submitted DVD/BD RFPs to two major studios.
Now, I don't have as much insight into the replication side, but I would expect that the cost differences would be much smaller, so for an A title where they are expecting to sell 100s of thousands of discs the cost of the "master" should amortize nicely.
Having a small child myself, I freaking hate most of the DVDs targeted to them. Especially Disney DVDs, with their either 10 or 25 minutes (your choice, you have to hit the button shortly after inserting the disc) of unskippable ads before it starts the movie. Fastplay my ass.
What? FastPlay just means the movie starts automatically after the ads, so you can just put the DVD in and walk out of the room, and you kid won't come bother you to start the movie in 5-7 minutes.
But all the FastPlay discs we have have the option of going directly to the main menu, so I just wait about 10-20 seconds for the FastPlay menu to come up and manually start the feature.
Jonathan Coulton selff-produced/distributed his last album. IIRC, he said he made about the same as he did on an earlier album that he did the traditional way. But, he had much more control over the process. He was on the Planet Money podcast last year.
You are holding up rare anomalies as examples of how people make it? For every video that goes "viral" (which still does not guarantee you make any money from it) there are hundreds of thousands that don't.
That simply speaks to the signal:noise ratio. The model works. Look at Jonathan Coulton. True, being on the Portal soundtrack was a big kickstart, but he never had the huge marketing machine behind him. With the internet, unknowns now have the chance to get out there and be discovered by the public directly. The fact that more of them don't become megastars just means that there aren't that many people with talent and broad appeal. There is still plenty of "success" to be found in the long tail though.
Which is the opposite of the BD-DVD situation. I know the "mastering" costs are much higher for BD. I think it's a pretty safe assumption that the replication costs are higher too, though probably by not as high a margin.
No it won't. Each frame is still 1/24 of a second apart in time. The object you are filming will have changed position by the same amount, regardless of how fast the shutter opens and closes.
The shutter is only open for some time less than the time between images, perhaps 1/100 or 1/500 of a second. It's probably not quite that fast, as I'd imagine that they use a fairly low speed film to get the best quality image.
I mean really, who actually needs an Internet-connected TV?
Me. I have a Sony IP TV with Netflix, Hulu, Vudu, Crackle and a host of other apps. I pretty much only use the Netflix app, but I use it a lot. It saves me the time and heat/expense/hassle of having to turn on my PS3. I just wish I could get HBO Go on it.... hmm.. maybe that's available on the PS3.
Two things. Film movie cameras are quickly disappearing. I think I heard that the last manufacturer has stopped production. 2nd, film movie cameras may capture 24 frames per second, but that doesn't mean their exposure time is 1/24th of a second. It is significantly less.
Congresswoman Pelosi, can you tell me where in the Constitution it gives Congress power to provide government hospitals?
"The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States."
The fact is that if a boy is brought up int he average school, he is given nothing, and excuse my language, but chick lit to read.
Yeah, I couldn't stand being forced to read all that Chick Lit, like "A Separate Peace," "Catcher in the Rye," "Lord of the Flies," "Huckleberry Finn," or "The Great Gatsby."
You can go on and on about privacy and it's supposed sacredness, but at the end of the day, everything Google knows about me is information I freely gave them using services they provided to me for no financial cost. And what do they do with this information? They collate it to both better serve me and also to better generate revenue through advertising that is more meaningful to me than the advertisements I would have otherwise gotten.
They also share it with the government.
Part of the problem is that the average person does not understand the amount of digital breadcrumbs they leave behind when they use a computer and surf the net. All of these things we do - email, status updates, liking, +1ing, clicking on links, visiting websites, apps we buy - all of that information is slowly (or not so slowly) accumulating. Google has a pile, Facebook has a pile, Apple has a pile, your ISP has a BIG pile, and the NSA, DHS, CIA and FBI all have piles.
You may not care too much about this "freely shared" information (though in fact not all of it is truly "freely shared") today. But if something ever happens in your life that makes some official in some agency sit up and take notice of you, you can be sure that those piles of breadcrumbs will be pored over very carefully.
A business in the US can't refuse service to someone because they are black. Should an IP owner be allowed to refuse to license their IP to a business that is minority owned?
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I was going to mod you up, but I want to add to and reinforce what you said.
Now if you were Amazon and needed your own hydroelectric plant for your cloud then it is more valuable and it is more of an asset and it would even make you money bordering a profit center.
On the Planet Money podcast last year (title was "When Money got Weird") they spoke to a finance guy who worked for an airline. The CEO came to him and told him to figure out how to save money and keep the airline in business. He did two things. The first was some basic accounting "tricks" to reclassify costs, liabilities etc. The second was to start hedging on things like fuel. He ended up turning his accounting department into an internal investment bank. He turned a cost center (the accounting department) into the largest profit center in the company. They made more money hedging against fuel prices than they did selling airline seats.
If you work for a company making fish sticks (example), . . . But I.T.? What value does that provide to the customer? Zero. They are paying for fish sticks. ......
Unless you can think of a magical way companies can increase their sales or cut their cost from your ideas? Have any?
I used to be the IT guy at a sushi company. The department consisted of me and one support person, but we both reported into the CFO and spent more than half our time doing accounting work. My value-add turned out to be BI and business process development. After implementing an ERP system I used it to create a myriad of reports for management. When I tried to get better resources, whether it be replacing 4-5 year old computers, monitors over 15", security cameras, etc. I would always get shot down. But they dropped well over $100k on the ERP system and related add-ons and support because it helped them run the business more efficiently. It's harder to make that case to replace a desktop or get a new printer.
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I see what you did there.
Why don't you invest your money in an insurance company that will invest your funds in paying for every amputee to have the top notch prosthetics and offers zero ROI. I hear those stocks do really well on the market.
Congratulations. You just identified why the medical services industry should not be solely profit motivated.
Would it be possible to make a "Remote Brick" app? Not that Apple would let it in the store, but maybe it'd work for Android.
Of course, would you install such an app without being very sure about the developer?
It sounded to me like GP thought FP discs forced you to sit through the ads. They don't.
I agree that it's a silly Marketing brand name who's sole purpose is to get you to have your kids sit through those ads. Personally I take the extra half minute to save them and me the agony. It's the least I can do if I'm going to abdicate my parental responsibility to a DVD for 30 minutes anyway. I've also taught my 4 year old how to skip the commercials when watching DVR'd content, though he prefers to watch them to see what the cool new toys are.
That's a nice assertion there. How do you figure?
Because I'm a pricing analyst for a major post production company and I've recently submitted DVD/BD RFPs to two major studios.
Now, I don't have as much insight into the replication side, but I would expect that the cost differences would be much smaller, so for an A title where they are expecting to sell 100s of thousands of discs the cost of the "master" should amortize nicely.
Having a small child myself, I freaking hate most of the DVDs targeted to them. Especially Disney DVDs, with their either 10 or 25 minutes (your choice, you have to hit the button shortly after inserting the disc) of unskippable ads before it starts the movie. Fastplay my ass.
What? FastPlay just means the movie starts automatically after the ads, so you can just put the DVD in and walk out of the room, and you kid won't come bother you to start the movie in 5-7 minutes.
But all the FastPlay discs we have have the option of going directly to the main menu, so I just wait about 10-20 seconds for the FastPlay menu to come up and manually start the feature.
Jonathan Coulton selff-produced/distributed his last album. IIRC, he said he made about the same as he did on an earlier album that he did the traditional way. But, he had much more control over the process. He was on the Planet Money podcast last year.
You are holding up rare anomalies as examples of how people make it? For every video that goes "viral" (which still does not guarantee you make any money from it) there are hundreds of thousands that don't.
That simply speaks to the signal:noise ratio. The model works. Look at Jonathan Coulton. True, being on the Portal soundtrack was a big kickstart, but he never had the huge marketing machine behind him. With the internet, unknowns now have the chance to get out there and be discovered by the public directly. The fact that more of them don't become megastars just means that there aren't that many people with talent and broad appeal. There is still plenty of "success" to be found in the long tail though.
Which is the opposite of the BD-DVD situation. I know the "mastering" costs are much higher for BD. I think it's a pretty safe assumption that the replication costs are higher too, though probably by not as high a margin.
I can tell you from direct experience that the costs to create the master BD is much higher than for DVD.
Think about what you just said, and then tell my why you're obviously wrong.
They have the power to deposit money and withdraw it from my bank account.
Is that a statutory power, or did you voluntarily give it? What if they calculate that you owe more than what is in your account?
No it won't. Each frame is still 1/24 of a second apart in time. The object you are filming will have changed position by the same amount, regardless of how fast the shutter opens and closes.
The shutter is only open for some time less than the time between images, perhaps 1/100 or 1/500 of a second. It's probably not quite that fast, as I'd imagine that they use a fairly low speed film to get the best quality image.
The American money supply is based on a zero-reserve banking system.
No it isn't.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reserve_requirement#United_States
http://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/reservereq.htm
I mean really, who actually needs an Internet-connected TV?
Me. I have a Sony IP TV with Netflix, Hulu, Vudu, Crackle and a host of other apps. I pretty much only use the Netflix app, but I use it a lot. It saves me the time and heat/expense/hassle of having to turn on my PS3. I just wish I could get HBO Go on it.... hmm.. maybe that's available on the PS3.
Movie cameras operate at 1/24th of a second.
Two things. Film movie cameras are quickly disappearing. I think I heard that the last manufacturer has stopped production. 2nd, film movie cameras may capture 24 frames per second, but that doesn't mean their exposure time is 1/24th of a second. It is significantly less.
You haven't read the classic, "Princess Leia and the Seven Jawas?"
Congresswoman Pelosi, can you tell me where in the Constitution it gives Congress power to provide government hospitals?
"The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States."
The fact is that if a boy is brought up int he average school, he is given nothing, and excuse my language, but chick lit to read.
Yeah, I couldn't stand being forced to read all that Chick Lit, like "A Separate Peace," "Catcher in the Rye," "Lord of the Flies," "Huckleberry Finn," or "The Great Gatsby."
Well, 1-900 numbers were pretty big before the internet came along and undercut them on price.
You can go on and on about privacy and it's supposed sacredness, but at the end of the day, everything Google knows about me is information I freely gave them using services they provided to me for no financial cost. And what do they do with this information? They collate it to both better serve me and also to better generate revenue through advertising that is more meaningful to me than the advertisements I would have otherwise gotten.
They also share it with the government.
Part of the problem is that the average person does not understand the amount of digital breadcrumbs they leave behind when they use a computer and surf the net. All of these things we do - email, status updates, liking, +1ing, clicking on links, visiting websites, apps we buy - all of that information is slowly (or not so slowly) accumulating. Google has a pile, Facebook has a pile, Apple has a pile, your ISP has a BIG pile, and the NSA, DHS, CIA and FBI all have piles.
You may not care too much about this "freely shared" information (though in fact not all of it is truly "freely shared") today. But if something ever happens in your life that makes some official in some agency sit up and take notice of you, you can be sure that those piles of breadcrumbs will be pored over very carefully.
A business in the US can't refuse service to someone because they are black. Should an IP owner be allowed to refuse to license their IP to a business that is minority owned?
How many bits should we use for encryption now?
More.
picosecond pulses of green laser light are used to vaporize the toner, or ablate in scientific terms
So all that toner gets vaporized and is now floating around in the air of your office? What could go wrong?