Buy with what money? When you can replicate all the food, clothing, shelter, weaponry, medicine, entertainment, and all the general goods you will ever need, what, exactly, is the point of money? Without scarcity, money ceases to exist in ALL it's forms... With a replicator, the entire CONCEPT of economics will go the way of the feudal system; just another quaint idea you can read about in your replicated bookery.
What about land? That will still be scarce. You still need somewhere to put your replicated shelter. What about the raw material used by the replicator?
Because it's too high. I believe Titanic is still the most expensive single film at US$200M. Lord of the Rings comes in somewhere over US$300M, but that's for 3 films. Given that the studio only receives about 50% of the ticket gross King Kong would have to gross in excess of US$800M world wide to make a profit - it would need to be one of the top 10 highest grossing films of all time. Far more likely that the $400M originates from a non-US news source that had converted the cost to local currency.
I thought the number was based on the studio that was making it. Even though the LOTR's movies were made in NZ, it was still an American company and its american dollars that went into the francize.
Usually a reporter will convert to local currency. For example most reports in NZ quote both grosses and budgets in NZ dollars. Sometimes they'll also report the US figure.
I think he's talking about the fan community and probably also the very large number of New Zealanders who had some involvement with making the films. I don't think he means the general community in this case.
Notable is Jackson's remuneration for King Kong: $20M + 20% of gross. It upset a few industry people as it's unusally large in terms of up front payment for that level of gross points. Here's a report: http://www.hollywood.com/news/detail/article/17247 07.
He already bought in hundreds of millions of dollars directly with the movies and probably billions in tourist revenue over the next 20 years. Don't think he's done his bit?
Wouldn't that mean that Geneva has a very high proportion of gun owners who have received extensive training in a military environment (with the usual strict discipline)? Also, in what circumstances are the mandatory weapons permitted to be used in Geneva? And while guns may be illegal in Washington DC, they are still easily obtained. It would be more relevant to compare a city in a country where guns are difficult to obtain to a city with high gun ownership. In fact the best comparisons (and probably the only really useful ones) need to be of a single area over time as the gun controls have changed.
If all the high-traffic web sites on the Internet are running IIS...
But that's not what Port80 are showing with their methodology. They're only showing what Fortune 1000 companies are running. So they are not looking at what (for example) Google run - one of the highest-traffic sites. Instead they are looking at what Dow Chemical are running. Now how often do you think web users visit www.dow.com? IMHO Port80's methodology is at least as flawed as Netcraft's, if not more so (since they're implying that their methodology is more relevant).
Using the tm symbol in the press release is consistent with their position because they're saying that they have become associated with the name 'Fedora'. They can have a trademark claim to the word even when they haven't registered it.
True, however they only started using the tm symbol after RedHat did. Ultimately a court will need to decide. In the meantime the USPTO is unlikely to reject RedHat's application.
Where I live (Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada), they've recently finished draining the lake/creek in town. The radio reported that the lake was draining at a rate of one stove per second.
I propose that for volumes less than one Library Of Congress, we measure volumes in household appliances.
The problem is that the world's agriculture tends to be focused in the areas that are currently best suited climatically. Any climate change is going to disrupt that and cause economic problems. That is the primary argument for doing what we can to keep the climate constant.
He likely would not have liked Pixar's pushy behaviour, however.
Pixar would probably be less "pushy" if Disney hadn't screwed them over Toy Story 2. The Disney/Pixar deal is for 5 films, but Disney claim Toy Story 2 doesn't count because it's a sequel and not novel material. After pulling that Disney shouldn't (and won't) be expecting any favours.
That's all very well if you consider those five factors to be equally important. I suspect very few people do though. Personally I don't care much about the heat or noise but value for money is key. Interesting too that you don't consider support (including driver updates) to be relevant.
Have you considered the cost of producing these extras? If they did a single release the cost to the consumer would have to be higher and then people would complain about that. Some people want to pay for all those extras and some don't.
Peter Jackson was contractually obligated to deliver movies that were only 3 hours in length
I've heard that too but I heard the contractual agreement was 2.5 hours and Jackson just ignored it (anyone got a reference?). Whether it's 2.5 or 3 hours it's out the window with RotK as it's reported to be 3.5 hours long.
My favorite line in that article: "A period of relative calm is now expected on the solar surface. But another round is possible."
Reads as: We have no fucking idea what's going on.
Very droll, but you've misunderstood what they are saying. Sunspot AR10486, the source of the flares we've experienced over the last two weeks has now rotated around to the other side of the sun and we can no longer see it. Thus "a period of relative calm is now expected" (it's possible some other sunspot will start flaring in a similar way, but unlikely). However in two weeks time AR10486 will be back on our side of the sun and may still be very active, so "another round is possible".
In assuming that a correlation implies a causation. It doesn't. There is no argument that temperatures have been rising in recorded history (a short period actually) nor is there an argument that human output of CO2 has risen since the IR. However that those two happened together does not mean that one caused the other, that is a seperate issue.
You're right that it is not yet clear if the increase in tempteratures seen so far is caused by our increased CO2 emissions, but the mechanism is undisputed: increased CO2 concentration in the atmosphere will cause higher temperatures, all other things being equal.
Backing store would become compulsory, and a "compositing manager" would be added that would allow customisation of how a window would be combined with its parent. Did you RTFA?
Correct, as you can see by looking at the cached version of those page "These terms only appear in links pointing to this page: to be or not to be". The way to get Google to ignore pages that are only linked from pages with the search terms is to preface the query with "allintext:". Unfortunately this disables phrase searching so in this case there is still one page in the top 10 which doesn't have the phrase.
Not true. IBM has sold their disk drive business to Hitachi who are promising microdrives up to 4GB this year. They're expecting them to be faster than solid state drives too.4GB for $489 (not yet available), 2.2GB $230 (available now).
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I think he's talking about the fan community and probably also the very large number of New Zealanders who had some involvement with making the films. I don't think he means the general community in this case.
Notable is Jackson's remuneration for King Kong: $20M + 20% of gross. It upset a few industry people as it's unusally large in terms of up front payment for that level of gross points. Here's a report: http://www.hollywood.com/news/detail/article/17247 07.
Which is interesting because Games Workshop apparently have managed to get full rights to all the Lord of the Rings book material for their wargame.
If you watch carefully you'll notice that Gimli grabs (and shatters) the axe of the dwarf sitting next to him. He's one smart dwarf, that Gimli.
He already bought in hundreds of millions of dollars directly with the movies and probably billions in tourist revenue over the next 20 years. Don't think he's done his bit?
Where did you get the $400M figure? Sounds like it was probably not US dollars.
Wouldn't that mean that Geneva has a very high proportion of gun owners who have received extensive training in a military environment (with the usual strict discipline)? Also, in what circumstances are the mandatory weapons permitted to be used in Geneva? And while guns may be illegal in Washington DC, they are still easily obtained. It would be more relevant to compare a city in a country where guns are difficult to obtain to a city with high gun ownership. In fact the best comparisons (and probably the only really useful ones) need to be of a single area over time as the gun controls have changed.
Peter Jackson already said it was going into the extended edition.
The problem is that the world's agriculture tends to be focused in the areas that are currently best suited climatically. Any climate change is going to disrupt that and cause economic problems. That is the primary argument for doing what we can to keep the climate constant.
That's all very well if you consider those five factors to be equally important. I suspect very few people do though. Personally I don't care much about the heat or noise but value for money is key. Interesting too that you don't consider support (including driver updates) to be relevant.
Have you considered the cost of producing these extras? If they did a single release the cost to the consumer would have to be higher and then people would complain about that. Some people want to pay for all those extras and some don't.
Correct, as you can see by looking at the cached version of those page "These terms only appear in links pointing to this page: to be or not to be". The way to get Google to ignore pages that are only linked from pages with the search terms is to preface the query with "allintext:". Unfortunately this disables phrase searching so in this case there is still one page in the top 10 which doesn't have the phrase.
Not true. IBM has sold their disk drive business to Hitachi who are promising microdrives up to 4GB this year. They're expecting them to be faster than solid state drives too.4GB for $489 (not yet available), 2.2GB $230 (available now).
If you'd read the linked article you'd know that they are solid state, not microdrives.