They don't look at it as treating you badly. They look at it as "giving you a glimpse into hollywood's current product line." Those trailers, and sometimes ads, help subsidize the theatre. Your ticket price seems high, but it probably be worse without those.
So, what would you rather do: A theater with no ads or trailers, and your single ticket is $22, or watch the adds and pay $11? If your answer is $22, I bet there are a lot of people like you, and you might be able to open a competiting theatre that would do very well. Infact, maybe you could have it both ways - one tick price for ads, one for no ads. The drawback is having the same movie take up two of your screens.
One thing that always works for me is showing up late. I'm sort of naturally like that anyway. Show up 10, 15 minutes late, and usually the movie is almost starting - then you get the cheap price, and you don't waste time seeing ads. Of course, you might get a lousy seat.
Doesn't the initial investment of a home theatre system need to be figured in here? Yes, $20 for a dvd, $24 bucks for tickets, yada yada. How about $1800 for a nice starter home theatre system? I think you have to watch a LOT of movies, make a lot of homemade popcorn, and drink a lot of bottled coke before that fixed cost starts to become less present.
It's really fun, and if you do like it, I do recommend buying it - the retail version adds SO MANY MAPS, and the community adds a lot to it too - I played one user map with speedboats, there are others that add new kinds of tanks, and modifications to exisiting maps that you can't have in the demo. (Torlan in the winter with Leviathans!!)
We all know we'll be able to get a thsirt with a penguin on it here, but what about some penguins for the top of my tv?:-)
I vote for AOL as a cost effective solution.
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I for one feel easily produced, low priced CDs of linux would be much more appropriate as frisbees than $260 copies of Windows XP Pro. However, the rest of the world seems to have a surplus of AOL Cds, maybe we could recycle those by sending those to Iraq as toys.
Of course, 4 years down the road when the electricty works and people actually have computers, I rather have them have Linux than AOL!
The RIAA will settle a class action lawsuit pending against them, that alledges pricing fixing in the record industry, by dumping employee excrement into existing pig farms.
A bajillion distributed clients, decoding radio waves from the stars, that contains an alien transmission of Beowulf picked up by sentient extratrestrial beings and transmitted back to say "hello humankind"!
I am upset at this blatant censoring of worthwhile marketing literature. I guarantee you, despite popular consensus, those penis enlargment pills really do make me think my penis is bigger.
Because of hotmail, millions of users will now fear what they knew all along! That they are average sized!
What about our rights not to have to deal with this scumware?"
I think I missed that clause in the bill of rights.
Of course, I missed the clause that guarantees me clean air too, but states still pass non smoking laws.
Probably both spyware laws and smoking laws are good, in my mind. However, has anyone actually verified that the company challenging this law, is actually one of the publishers of this stupid, malicous crap that makes my windoze PC run so horribly? Perhaps there objection is that they AREN'T the spyware we all know and hate, yet the law includes them too due to the wording of the law. There are a lot of things I consider as annoying as the spyware we all think of, that I might agree to install to be able to use a piece of software. (Like, like it or not, the crap that comes with Kazaa).
BUT, terrorists are terrorists and spyware is spyware! Lets bomb everything.
1.)DMCA law makes it illegal to circumvent encryption, companies use it to prosecute people who make mod chips for Xboxes, free DVD players for Linux, remanufactured toners for printers, etc. Slashdot rating - EVIL!
2.) RIAA sues people who write software that could possibly be used for pirating material they protect - EVIL!
3.)Company sues people who make add ons to a product they have because at times use of product can be inconvient to some in the community, even though the afore mentioned programs probably contain no intellectual property of the company in question. - GREAT!
Really, thank god there is no town called Slashdot, because living with you people would probably mean no smoking in or around bars, a town ordinace requiring you to mow your lawn once a week, and requiring landlords to finish cellars of their apartment buildings so that when you moved out of your parents house at 35, you can find a suitably dark apartment that won't hurt your eyes that never see the light of day.
Oh, there's cheaters on counter strike servers! You poor little players! Seriously people, this is not really a good thing. What if someone out there made a MOD for half life, with a theme or some sort of controversial content? Does Valve have the right to sue you to stop you distributing that too?
It's not too optimistic at all, it just won't be done by NASA. Everyone who has seen Star Trek knows we will have to have a 3rd world war first, and then a drunken scientist resembling James Cromwell will invent warp drive in an alcoholic haze. Then of course, Starfleet will be borne, and we will all want to shag either that vulcan girl and that hot african communications lady.
I wonder what Star Trek model is represented in DryDock? I'm hoping for the NCC-1701-A, that was an amazing model, and in the first movie, it was really painted out of this world, with also those varying applications of laquer all over the hull. Does anyone know what happened to this model?
Imagine if they had the original HAL ship from Space 2001??? I bet that would take up the whole museum... I read it's 60 feet long!
I for one welcome our new Sony PVR Console overlords!
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1.) Get a 'high-falootin' title (PHD, MSCE, etc). 2.) Paraphrase information freely available on the net. 3.) Blow college professors and get them to use it as a text book for their class! 5.) PROFIT!!
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This happened in a Renault Vel Satis??
Could it be he was driving a car that looked like one but was really...
THE KNIGHT AUTOMATED ROVING ROBOT!
KARR!!!!!!
Maybe KARR with laringitis so the driver couldn't hear him talking??
I can hear you people now. "That was a TV show dude." Well let me live in my fantasy world!
C to 7of9! Beam me up for some hot love!
Now if they can just add nicotine to it too I can have all my vices in ONE CAN!
I can get a frame and a half a minute on my 486/dx2 with 16 megs of Ram!
Your local neighborhood bar.
Your local neighborhood coffeeshop.
Other than that, I met a lot of people, and one I actually went on a date with, on yahoo! personals.
They don't look at it as treating you badly. They look at it as "giving you a glimpse into hollywood's current product line." Those trailers, and sometimes ads, help subsidize the theatre. Your ticket price seems high, but it probably be worse without those.
So, what would you rather do: A theater with no ads or trailers, and your single ticket is $22, or watch the adds and pay $11? If your answer is $22, I bet there are a lot of people like you, and you might be able to open a competiting theatre that would do very well. Infact, maybe you could have it both ways - one tick price for ads, one for no ads. The drawback is having the same movie take up two of your screens.
One thing that always works for me is showing up late. I'm sort of naturally like that anyway. Show up 10, 15 minutes late, and usually the movie is almost starting - then you get the cheap price, and you don't waste time seeing ads. Of course, you might get a lousy seat.
Doesn't the initial investment of a home theatre system need to be figured in here? Yes, $20 for a dvd, $24 bucks for tickets, yada yada. How about $1800 for a nice starter home theatre system? I think you have to watch a LOT of movies, make a lot of homemade popcorn, and drink a lot of bottled coke before that fixed cost starts to become less present.
It's really fun, and if you do like it, I do recommend buying it - the retail version adds SO MANY MAPS, and the community adds a lot to it too - I played one user map with speedboats, there are others that add new kinds of tanks, and modifications to exisiting maps that you can't have in the demo. (Torlan in the winter with Leviathans!!)
Al Qaida wants Kerry too!
Oh wait, that's not news, Cheney already said that!
Questions about spyware, hackers... are these really things to burden the president with? Thats someone elses problem.
We all know we'll be able to get a thsirt with a penguin on it here, but what about some penguins for the top of my tv? :-)
I for one feel easily produced, low priced CDs of linux would be much more appropriate as frisbees than $260 copies of Windows XP Pro. However, the rest of the world seems to have a surplus of AOL Cds, maybe we could recycle those by sending those to Iraq as toys.
Of course, 4 years down the road when the electricty works and people actually have computers, I rather have them have Linux than AOL!
The RIAA will settle a class action lawsuit pending against them, that alledges pricing fixing in the record industry, by dumping employee excrement into existing pig farms.
A bajillion distributed clients, decoding radio waves from the stars, that contains an alien transmission of Beowulf picked up by sentient extratrestrial beings and transmitted back to say "hello humankind"!
Fast, clear graphical interface. It's great. It's what all windowed applications should be.
I am upset at this blatant censoring of worthwhile marketing literature. I guarantee you, despite popular consensus, those penis enlargment pills really do make me think my penis is bigger.
Because of hotmail, millions of users will now fear what they knew all along! That they are average sized!
Comdex cancelled , yet geeks dressed up like mr spock live on at star trek conventions. God really is cruel.
I bet Duke Nukem Forever will be out right after Doom III!
What about our rights not to have to deal with this scumware?"
I think I missed that clause in the bill of rights.
Of course, I missed the clause that guarantees me clean air too, but states still pass non smoking laws.
Probably both spyware laws and smoking laws are good, in my mind. However, has anyone actually verified that the company challenging this law, is actually one of the publishers of this stupid, malicous crap that makes my windoze PC run so horribly? Perhaps there objection is that they AREN'T the spyware we all know and hate, yet the law includes them too due to the wording of the law. There are a lot of things I consider as annoying as the spyware we all think of, that I might agree to install to be able to use a piece of software. (Like, like it or not, the crap that comes with Kazaa).
BUT, terrorists are terrorists and spyware is spyware! Lets bomb everything.
1.)DMCA law makes it illegal to circumvent encryption, companies use it to prosecute people who make mod chips for Xboxes, free DVD players for Linux, remanufactured toners for printers, etc. Slashdot rating - EVIL!
2.) RIAA sues people who write software that could possibly be used for pirating material they protect - EVIL!
3.)Company sues people who make add ons to a product they have because at times use of product can be inconvient to some in the community, even though the afore mentioned programs probably contain no intellectual property of the company in question. - GREAT!
Really, thank god there is no town called Slashdot, because living with you people would probably mean no smoking in or around bars, a town ordinace requiring you to mow your lawn once a week, and requiring landlords to finish cellars of their apartment buildings so that when you moved out of your parents house at 35, you can find a suitably dark apartment that won't hurt your eyes that never see the light of day.
Oh, there's cheaters on counter strike servers! You poor little players! Seriously people, this is not really a good thing. What if someone out there made a MOD for half life, with a theme or some sort of controversial content? Does Valve have the right to sue you to stop you distributing that too?
It's not too optimistic at all, it just won't be done by NASA. Everyone who has seen Star Trek knows we will have to have a 3rd world war first, and then a drunken scientist resembling James Cromwell will invent warp drive in an alcoholic haze. Then of course, Starfleet will be borne, and we will all want to shag either that vulcan girl and that hot african communications lady.
I thought that the original 1701 was permanantly on display at the smithsonian giftshop?
Could this one here be a reproduction? Or perhaps the one greg jein built for that DS9 episode (i forget the name)....
PS - Next Generation effects (at least of capital ships),were not CGI. They were model shots on film, then transferred to video for compositing.
I wonder what Star Trek model is represented in DryDock? I'm hoping for the NCC-1701-A, that was an amazing model, and in the first movie, it was really painted out of this world, with also those varying applications of laquer all over the hull. Does anyone know what happened to this model?
... I read it's 60 feet long!
Imagine if they had the original HAL ship from Space 2001??? I bet that would take up the whole museum
this text here because the lameness filter thinks i'm lame:Reason: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING.
my message:
DIY PVR IMO. FU PS2/PVR DRM. STFU. MOO!
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I for one welcome our new Sony PVR Console overlords!
1.) Get a 'high-falootin' title (PHD, MSCE, etc).
2.) Paraphrase information freely available on the net.
3.) Blow college professors and get them to use it as a text book for their class!
5.) PROFIT!!