Agreed. The "modern" theater experience does need to die. The theater business does not necessarily need to die along with it, but it does need to contract/re-balance somewhat. Having first-run movies available at home should give the mainstream public an alternative to showing up at the theater. Decreased theater demand should then lead to lower prices, which inevitably will lead to fewer theaters. However, I believe there will always be people who want to see "Theater Movies" in an actual theater, and there will be businesses who can provide that service to those people profitably, but not the insane levels of profit that the major studios are raking in today.
Raleigh is on the list which I assume means RTP. And a lot of the people who popularized that expansion of the acronym were the ones who came to Raleigh when the RTP office was built.
I know, right? Half the cars in Florida are driverless now. My favorite is what I call the Florida Turn Signal. To make a lane change, a car starts edging over the line slowly. If no horns are blown, then they come the rest of then way. The Florida Turn Signal is "When I'm two feet into your lane, you know I'm coming over."
However, native Floridians do get a bad rap. The real problem is all the retired Yankees who move down there.
A non-programmer friend of mine came to me all wound up about an idea he had for a mobile app. We went through all the gyrations of writing up a simple agreement and signing it, so he could tell me the idea without me being able to shut him out. The idea was for a mobile passport app to facilitate checking in at Customs in the airport. I went to the app store and found one in about 30 seconds.
If we had an article for every security vulnerability/backdoor found in a Microsoft product, it'd be impossible to find anything else on Slashdot.
What's newsworthy in this case is that the vulnerability remains unpatched since 1997. That is older than some of my kids. That's almost old enough to drink.
This creates the ability to isolate your chair from the vision of all other movie-goers.
I already have something that does that. It's called my living room. The point of seeing a movie in a theater is that it is a shared experience, and that you are not isolated from other people. Participating in this shared experience requires everyone to adhere to the terms of the same social contract: don't talk, don't smoke, don't yell "FIRE", keep your feet off the seat in front of you, and turn off your damn phone.
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Agreed. The "modern" theater experience does need to die. The theater business does not necessarily need to die along with it, but it does need to contract/re-balance somewhat. Having first-run movies available at home should give the mainstream public an alternative to showing up at the theater. Decreased theater demand should then lead to lower prices, which inevitably will lead to fewer theaters. However, I believe there will always be people who want to see "Theater Movies" in an actual theater, and there will be businesses who can provide that service to those people profitably, but not the insane levels of profit that the major studios are raking in today.
Tradition.
The Texas Defense: "The sumbitch needed killin."
Wonder what the women in the group think..
You must be new here.
Raleigh is on the list which I assume means RTP. And a lot of the people who popularized that expansion of the acronym were the ones who came to Raleigh when the RTP office was built.
I know, right? Half the cars in Florida are driverless now. My favorite is what I call the Florida Turn Signal. To make a lane change, a car starts edging over the line slowly. If no horns are blown, then they come the rest of then way. The Florida Turn Signal is "When I'm two feet into your lane, you know I'm coming over."
However, native Floridians do get a bad rap. The real problem is all the retired Yankees who move down there.
A non-programmer friend of mine came to me all wound up about an idea he had for a mobile app. We went through all the gyrations of writing up a simple agreement and signing it, so he could tell me the idea without me being able to shut him out. The idea was for a mobile passport app to facilitate checking in at Customs in the airport. I went to the app store and found one in about 30 seconds.
He was disappointed.
Forward-slash in Firefox here. I habitually hit Ctrl-S to do an emacs incremental search, but that doesn't work in any browser that I know of.
Except maybe emacs.
Came here to post that. Glad I searched first!
You must be new here.
But he pays those people with Apple Pay, so his statement holds up.
It's not an expensive experiment
Clearly, you have not priced theme park tickets recently, especially not in Orlando.
No, the log flume is an entirely different ride.
Never has a sig been more on topic.
That "Halt and catch fire" is only an expression, and not supposed to mean that the phone should literally explode and burn.
The expression has an origin story with a kernel of truth.
Surely you wouldn't pass on immortality just for 1 grand, right?
But before I fork over that cash, I'm going to need a lifetime guarantee.
Where is 575 when we need him?
If we had an article for every security vulnerability/backdoor found in a Microsoft product, it'd be impossible to find anything else on Slashdot.
What's newsworthy in this case is that the vulnerability remains unpatched since 1997. That is older than some of my kids. That's almost old enough to drink.
And you'll never complain about Comcast censoring the internet because it's ok when it's not a government doing it.
Complain all you want. If Comcast is censoring your internet, they are censoring you. No one will ever hear you.
It's the only way to be sure.
This creates the ability to isolate your chair from the vision of all other movie-goers.
I already have something that does that. It's called my living room. The point of seeing a movie in a theater is that it is a shared experience, and that you are not isolated from other people. Participating in this shared experience requires everyone to adhere to the terms of the same social contract: don't talk, don't smoke, don't yell "FIRE", keep your feet off the seat in front of you, and turn off your damn phone.
... that Facebook bought Whatsapp. Whatsapp has been using this verification scheme for years.
Toe May Toe
Toe Mah Toe
Mater.
Which is why most Slash dotters insist on using emacs.
FTFY.
Step 4: PROFIT!