After reading their 'about us' section it really does make sense. Most theaters are only at 20% occupancy - if even that - when you adjust for all the time slots. You just automate the hell out of the process, do online ticketing, market, get publicity from Hollywood crybabies, and profit.
Now why the crap is this business technique only working in Europe? Don't we churn out more MBAs and consultants than any other country.
There's got to be American demand for this sort of thing. Professional sports? Collegiate sports? Rental businesses - like rollerblade parks or classic rollerskate rinks? Fitness centers? Museums? I NEED MORE EXAMPLES I'VE GOT TO START ONE OF THESE!!!
The road to the top of the bell curve is paved with mediocrity
yes this has been featured in numerous other postings, but every time it is mentioned in a theoretical capacity. what i would like to see is a practical approach to this problem via transparent java clients.
I looked vigorously for a java based client that can be employed in a distributed setting. I found ONE person working on this about a year ago. But it was not maintained. I would love to see java code extended to a distributed.net client and then embedded inside certain web sites that support distributed.net.
For instance, you go to distributed.net and click 'contribute resources now' bam a java client kicks in and you're crunching keys.
The main barrier to parallel acceptance is in the ease of contribution. Many people don't want to install a client and configure it correcly. Java (even javascript) is now mature enough to handle parallelism inside the browser. Where is it?!
"Then came the night of the first falling star. It was seen
early in the morning, rushing over Winchester eastward, a
line of flame high in the atmosphere. Hundreds must have
seen it, and taken it for an ordinary falling star. Albin described it as leaving a greenish streak behind it that glowed
for some seconds."
first, the guys at att research (the same cats who brought you vnc) have an indepth review of reiser vs ext2 with 1TB linux. They also include raid5 vs JBOD analysis, and promise controllers vs the escalade 8 channel controller. It is extremely helpful: http://www.research.att.com/~gjm/linux/ide-raid.ht ml
I actually met Dr. Tom Furness, one of the gentleman who pioneered much of the work in this area at a Medicine Meets Virtual Reality seminar in California. His speeches were fascinating and basically summed up the points of the article, but one story really grabbed my attention.
After their first 'virtual retina display' was prototyped, they had visitors in their lab looking at the device. One gentleman placed his right eye onto the scanner and went through the demonstration. When he was asked if he was thoroughly impressed with the demonstration, he replied, "Yes, but not with the demonstration itself, but rather the fact that I saw the demonstration with my blind eye."
The man only had the ability to use 5-10% of his optic nerves in his right eye. So he was partially blind but amazing nonetheless.
Slashdot Mirror
124 is not prime, must be wrong.
After reading their 'about us' section it really does make sense. Most theaters are only at 20% occupancy - if even that - when you adjust for all the time slots. You just automate the hell out of the process, do online ticketing, market, get publicity from Hollywood crybabies, and profit.
Now why the crap is this business technique only working in Europe? Don't we churn out more MBAs and consultants than any other country.
There's got to be American demand for this sort of thing. Professional sports? Collegiate sports? Rental businesses - like rollerblade parks or classic rollerskate rinks? Fitness centers? Museums? I NEED MORE EXAMPLES I'VE GOT TO START ONE OF THESE!!!
The road to the top of the bell curve is paved with mediocrity
If it indeed turns out to be a genuine meteor, then how much is it worth?
I've looked all over google and google groups, hell, even ebay, but can't find a good answer.
http://progressive.stream.aol.com/wbonline/reloade d_teaser_1_640.mov
yes this has been featured in numerous other postings, but every time it is mentioned in a theoretical capacity. what i would like to see is a practical approach to this problem via transparent java clients.
I looked vigorously for a java based client that can be employed in a distributed setting. I found ONE person working on this about a year ago. But it was not maintained. I would love to see java code extended to a distributed.net client and then embedded inside certain web sites that support distributed.net.
For instance, you go to distributed.net and click 'contribute resources now' bam a java client kicks in and you're crunching keys.
The main barrier to parallel acceptance is in the ease of contribution. Many people don't want to install a client and configure it correcly. Java (even javascript) is now mature enough to handle parallelism inside the browser. Where is it?!
The War of the Worlds
by H. G. Wells
and dont forget that ext2 has a 1TB limit.
Lets put that $100,000 speech on Napster!
"The road to the top of the bell-curve is paved with mediocrity." - collin brack
After their first 'virtual retina display' was prototyped, they had visitors in their lab looking at the device. One gentleman placed his right eye onto the scanner and went through the demonstration. When he was asked if he was thoroughly impressed with the demonstration, he replied, "Yes, but not with the demonstration itself, but rather the fact that I saw the demonstration with my blind eye."
The man only had the ability to use 5-10% of his optic nerves in his right eye. So he was partially blind but amazing nonetheless.
Here are other articles on the subject: an older zdnet story and '98 discover technology award
-sal terre
huge list of other patches and rom hacks