Movie ticket prices have sky rocketed over the last couple years - 8$ where I am now. (you can buy some DVDs for this price...and OWN the movie)
Movie theatres have not increased the quality in service that they provide - we still have projection based movies, in stadium (at best) style seating.
Movie makers spend millions on marketing for many movies, including the ones mentioned in the article above - posters, TV spots, talk show host appearances, toys, food, and many more.
Conflict:
Given these facts, it is safe to extrapolate that movie goers have a lot to put up with in order to see a movie.
Final conclusion: spending X million dollars on marketing does NOT ensure a block buster hit, when you take into consideration other factors of the movie going experience.
Recommendations:
Lower the ticket price
Remove ads from movies that received negative test screen results
Create more consistently "better" movies (certainly a moving target here)
I still have my pre-sensored version of the Maniac Mansion cart. This was one of my all-time favorite games since it allowed you to explore a large area somewhat freely, as opposed to the level hopping like most games of that time. I still load this cart up just to blow up the hampster in the microwave!!!
This game has always had me stumped on one thing though: There is a key in the living room on the first floor that sits on top of the chandeleer: how do you get this key?? I have a hunch that its for the dungeon, which would be great because once you lose one kid to the dungeon, you will always have only two (since one kid has to push the lose brick to get the other out).
My biggest annoyance right now is wireless for linux. I run linux on my laptop, and I love my wireless access (when I dual boot over to XP) but I cannot for the life of me get it to work - in that its certainly not even a download tar,./configure; make; make install type of procedure - you have to read like books full of info to figure it out, and, sorry I dont have time for all that...I wish there was an easy way to do THAT!!!
Does that task belong more to the linux community of developers, or the wireless hardware manufacturers? Probably a bit of both.
That makes perfect sense - is it legal for them to hold an entire community hostage over that much code? Because like people were saying in the redhat post earlier today, if we knew where the code was, the OSS community would just rip it out and replace it with honest-to-goodness GPL code. There was no malicious intent here by anyone (other than SCO), and the community wants to make it right (like WE want proprietary code in the kernel - shaw!!), but SCO won't let anyone! That has GOT to be illegal. And how in the world could they put a pricetag on those few lines of code that would have been replaced if ANYONE knew about it!! A sensible judge would see through all the BS here. Why do I get the feeling we are all about to get a communal shaft though.
"us$2.5k (about eu2000 or so) - hardly big bucks. "
Mwahahahahaha. Go ahead and toss me a few hundred or so if you have SO much lying around! I love macs. But Apple charges more than they are worth. Hence, I vote with my wallet.
I would LOVE to use iTunes - I used to have an iBook (before the store) and I thought it was one of the slickest programs ever. Now that I don't have a mac, my options have been reduced to piracy or buying CDs and ripping them (which I refuse to do since I loathe the RIAA). I wish I could justify the huge pricetag on those Apple's, but they are just too $$$ for what they give you. I hear they are coming out with iTunes for PC though, and I will be one of the first in line!!
I agree with you - Linux can usually DO these things...it is more a matter of it can sometimes take an act of God to get them to work! And sometimes..they go in just as smoothly as a windows program. So the thing here is that it is a crapshoot whether or not it will work in the first place. I love linux, and wish I could run it on the desktop full time. My personal solution was to buy two nice nearly identical computers, then get a nice flat LCD monitor and a KVM. Problem solved! Use linux for what it does best, and MS for what it does best! (Apps that dont work or dont exist on linux).
No. Placing your number on the National Do Not Call Registry will stop most, but not all, telemarketing calls. Some businesses are exempt from the national registry and still can call you even if you place your number on it. Exempt businesses include:
* long-distance phone companies
* airlines
* banks and credit unions; and
* the business of insurance, to the extent that it is regulated by state law.
Uhm...yea the exempt list manages to get exempt just about 80% of all my telemarketing calls. woohoo! Not to mention the local paper (Times Dispatch) that calls every week, but manages to also tie in your subscription to a charity. I guess I'll go get a fake email addy and sign up anyway.
I would have loved to go to a highschool offering programs like this. It really would have given me something to do other than being a marching band dork. On the other hand, band was one giant orgy, so maybe its best that I stayed away from computers at that point in my life.
And one time... in band camp... we hacked the white house and asked GWB if he was out of TP.
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I find my self constantly trying to elliminate these nickel and dime plans from my budget - they are more difficult to manage and easily stack up before you even realize it. There is no way I would rather do this as opposed to just buying the CD I wanted. Or, more realistically, just downloading license free music. (mp3.com has a bunch)
HA! THat wouldnt work. Remember, these people's JOBS is supposed to be that of representing YOU (and we pay them for this already btw). The fact that they dont do that now only shows that if you go give them more money, they will still take their other contributions and vote against you, the people. Think this is a democracy? Think again - there is a word for rule like this. Oddly enough it starts with the name of a planet....
That is like saying that people who are really great at math and numbers make more money as accountants so we need to make sure that math is easy to do, or that being an accountant is easy. There are many resources out there to become a great accountant from books to classes, and there are many great resources out there to be a good web designer, again, from books to classes to just plain practice. Sure you could give them a nice WYSIWYG editor or something (and Microsoft has done some of this...) but it has been shown that these tools do not actually make great code (leaving in bad code, or simply using tags that arent generally accepted by all browsers, W3C compliant). As with anything, if you want to be able to make a living with it, you will need to actually LEARN something to do it well.
Sorry if this is not exaclty what the article says...but thats how it is when/. posts articles on sites that impose logins etc.
Could you please ellaborate on why RedHat is getting worse? Is it blucurve or something else? I find that RedHat is one of my favorite distros because it has been around for a while, and seems to follow the most standards for their config stuff, (even though sometimes they add crappy shortcuts, like the redhat-config stuff) but I HATE the new bluecurve junk - which is why I stick with WindowMaker or E.
No degree is worthless man - you could have a degree in just about anything and if it is from a reputable accredited college it is worth something - it means you chose a goal and stuck with it. And the fact that it is computer science seems even moreso. Even if programming as a job is dead (which is debatable for sure) then there will be SOMETHING computer related in which it will be highly applicable to have a degree for.
I REALLY really, and I mean REALLY dont understand why this is such a big deal. REALLY. This whole file sharing business about copyrighted files is so simple-- I agree that the product (content / music) in this case belongs to the publisher (RIAA). Therefore it is illegal to give away (publish) to untold thousands of other people. Now the whole p2p thing is a completely different issue - those are legal entities as proven by the earlier court case. But lets say the RIAA ticks you off right, and you want to listen to music. There are tons of good bands out there that will offer their music for free download (check mp3.com for one example) or for quite cheap on CD (5-9$ which is reasonable IMO). I have not purchased a CD in 2 years because of this whole mess - it is so easy to live without "popular" music, because it is HONESTLY not any better than the music that is not "popular". Oh, but do whatever people. I'll just sit in this corner with my indie music, safely away from the fanning flames.
Actually I think cell phones are handled differently - obviously if that happened and people knew about it on their cell phone they would cancel the phone because they are paying to hear telemarketers talk to them - not acceptable. So verizon wouldnt jeapordize that. But people dont care as much when the line is free and all they have to do is hang up.
I agree- every time I call Verizon I get a nice message in a soothing voice telling me that they respect my privacy. Yet I know they sell my number to telemarketers because I don't give that number to anyone else but personal friends! Then they will sell me some telemarketing blocking technology, and sell the telemarketers anti-telemarketing technology technology and so forth. I don't see how this email stuff will be different...but then again Im completely jaded.
Thats why I am glad I use speakeasy. They don't care if you run servers, or if you have a home network, if you run linux, and you can get extra static IPs for cheap. (I get two static IPs, and still use NAT) I am not an employee or anything, but they are the BOMB for an ISP. Of course they arent as big as Comcast etc, so they are not as available as those other ISPs.
the only problem is that there's a huge installed user base that'd be forced to upgrade in order for a new e-mail protocol to work. It's gonna take something silly like this to get out of hand for that to happen.
I agree that spam is awful, and the scourge of the earth. But realistically I dont think I have ever had nearly as many problems as most slashdot story posters have...and I am not sure why.
Perhaps it is because I dont use a yahoo or hotmail account (they will sell you out in a heartbeat) and perhaps it is because I am VERY careful about giving my email address out...(the phone company asks for your email address? well I told them it was devnull@mydomain.com..). I think that if you are just a little careful (you dont have to be all "conspiracy theory" in order to have a clean inbox) , you can keep the spam fairly low, meaning only having to spend about one minute per day clicking delete on the few that make it though. Does anyone else feel this way, or is it just really much worse than that?
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Now...I'm not saying anyone should kill Mr. McBride...but lets just say, I'd understand.
Facts:
- Movies now have approx 20 minutes of previews.
- Movie ticket prices have sky rocketed over the last couple years - 8$ where I am now. (you can buy some DVDs for this price...and OWN the movie)
- Movie theatres have not increased the quality in service that they provide - we still have projection based movies, in stadium (at best) style seating.
- Movie makers spend millions on marketing for many movies, including the ones mentioned in the article above - posters, TV spots, talk show host appearances, toys, food, and many more.
Conflict: Given these facts, it is safe to extrapolate that movie goers have a lot to put up with in order to see a movie. Final conclusion: spending X million dollars on marketing does NOT ensure a block buster hit, when you take into consideration other factors of the movie going experience. Recommendations: Lower the ticket price Remove ads from movies that received negative test screen results Create more consistently "better" movies (certainly a moving target here)Im TOTALLY going to play the game again just for that. THANKS!
I still have my pre-sensored version of the Maniac Mansion cart. This was one of my all-time favorite games since it allowed you to explore a large area somewhat freely, as opposed to the level hopping like most games of that time. I still load this cart up just to blow up the hampster in the microwave!!!
This game has always had me stumped on one thing though: There is a key in the living room on the first floor that sits on top of the chandeleer: how do you get this key?? I have a hunch that its for the dungeon, which would be great because once you lose one kid to the dungeon, you will always have only two (since one kid has to push the lose brick to get the other out).
My biggest annoyance right now is wireless for linux. I run linux on my laptop, and I love my wireless access (when I dual boot over to XP) but I cannot for the life of me get it to work - in that its certainly not even a download tar, ./configure; make; make install type of procedure - you have to read like books full of info to figure it out, and, sorry I dont have time for all that...I wish there was an easy way to do THAT!!!
Does that task belong more to the linux community of developers, or the wireless hardware manufacturers? Probably a bit of both.
That makes perfect sense - is it legal for them to hold an entire community hostage over that much code? Because like people were saying in the redhat post earlier today, if we knew where the code was, the OSS community would just rip it out and replace it with honest-to-goodness GPL code. There was no malicious intent here by anyone (other than SCO), and the community wants to make it right (like WE want proprietary code in the kernel - shaw!!), but SCO won't let anyone! That has GOT to be illegal. And how in the world could they put a pricetag on those few lines of code that would have been replaced if ANYONE knew about it!! A sensible judge would see through all the BS here.
Why do I get the feeling we are all about to get a communal shaft though.
"us$2.5k (about eu2000 or so) - hardly big bucks. "
Mwahahahahaha. Go ahead and toss me a few hundred or so if you have SO much lying around! I love macs. But Apple charges more than they are worth. Hence, I vote with my wallet.
Thanks!
I would LOVE to use iTunes - I used to have an iBook (before the store) and I thought it was one of the slickest programs ever. Now that I don't have a mac, my options have been reduced to piracy or buying CDs and ripping them (which I refuse to do since I loathe the RIAA). I wish I could justify the huge pricetag on those Apple's, but they are just too $$$ for what they give you. I hear they are coming out with iTunes for PC though, and I will be one of the first in line!!
I agree with you - Linux can usually DO these things...it is more a matter of it can sometimes take an act of God to get them to work! And sometimes..they go in just as smoothly as a windows program. So the thing here is that it is a crapshoot whether or not it will work in the first place. I love linux, and wish I could run it on the desktop full time. My personal solution was to buy two nice nearly identical computers, then get a nice flat LCD monitor and a KVM. Problem solved! Use linux for what it does best, and MS for what it does best! (Apps that dont work or dont exist on linux).
No. Placing your number on the National Do Not Call Registry will stop most, but not all, telemarketing calls. Some businesses are exempt from the national registry and still can call you even if you place your number on it. Exempt businesses include:
* long-distance phone companies
* airlines
* banks and credit unions; and
* the business of insurance, to the extent that it is regulated by state law.
Uhm...yea the exempt list manages to get exempt just about 80% of all my telemarketing calls. woohoo! Not to mention the local paper (Times Dispatch) that calls every week, but manages to also tie in your subscription to a charity. I guess I'll go get a fake email addy and sign up anyway.
I would have loved to go to a highschool offering programs like this. It really would have given me something to do other than being a marching band dork. On the other hand, band was one giant orgy, so maybe its best that I stayed away from computers at that point in my life.
And one time... in band camp... we hacked the white house and asked GWB if he was out of TP.
Well said!
I find my self constantly trying to elliminate these nickel and dime plans from my budget - they are more difficult to manage and easily stack up before you even realize it. There is no way I would rather do this as opposed to just buying the CD I wanted. Or, more realistically, just downloading license free music. (mp3.com has a bunch)
HA! THat wouldnt work. Remember, these people's JOBS is supposed to be that of representing YOU (and we pay them for this already btw). The fact that they dont do that now only shows that if you go give them more money, they will still take their other contributions and vote against you, the people. Think this is a democracy? Think again - there is a word for rule like this. Oddly enough it starts with the name of a planet....
That is like saying that people who are really great at math and numbers make more money as accountants so we need to make sure that math is easy to do, or that being an accountant is easy. There are many resources out there to become a great accountant from books to classes, and there are many great resources out there to be a good web designer, again, from books to classes to just plain practice. Sure you could give them a nice WYSIWYG editor or something (and Microsoft has done some of this...) but it has been shown that these tools do not actually make great code (leaving in bad code, or simply using tags that arent generally accepted by all browsers, W3C compliant). As with anything, if you want to be able to make a living with it, you will need to actually LEARN something to do it well.
/. posts articles on sites that impose logins etc.
Sorry if this is not exaclty what the article says...but thats how it is when
Could you please ellaborate on why RedHat is getting worse? Is it blucurve or something else? I find that RedHat is one of my favorite distros because it has been around for a while, and seems to follow the most standards for their config stuff, (even though sometimes they add crappy shortcuts, like the redhat-config stuff) but I HATE the new bluecurve junk - which is why I stick with WindowMaker or E.
No degree is worthless man - you could have a degree in just about anything and if it is from a reputable accredited college it is worth something - it means you chose a goal and stuck with it. And the fact that it is computer science seems even moreso. Even if programming as a job is dead (which is debatable for sure) then there will be SOMETHING computer related in which it will be highly applicable to have a degree for.
I REALLY really, and I mean REALLY dont understand why this is such a big deal. REALLY. This whole file sharing business about copyrighted files is so simple-- I agree that the product (content / music) in this case belongs to the publisher (RIAA). Therefore it is illegal to give away (publish) to untold thousands of other people. Now the whole p2p thing is a completely different issue - those are legal entities as proven by the earlier court case. But lets say the RIAA ticks you off right, and you want to listen to music. There are tons of good bands out there that will offer their music for free download (check mp3.com for one example) or for quite cheap on CD (5-9$ which is reasonable IMO). I have not purchased a CD in 2 years because of this whole mess - it is so easy to live without "popular" music, because it is HONESTLY not any better than the music that is not "popular". Oh, but do whatever people. I'll just sit in this corner with my indie music, safely away from the fanning flames.
Actually I think cell phones are handled differently - obviously if that happened and people knew about it on their cell phone they would cancel the phone because they are paying to hear telemarketers talk to them - not acceptable. So verizon wouldnt jeapordize that. But people dont care as much when the line is free and all they have to do is hang up.
I agree- every time I call Verizon I get a nice message in a soothing voice telling me that they respect my privacy. Yet I know they sell my number to telemarketers because I don't give that number to anyone else but personal friends! Then they will sell me some telemarketing blocking technology, and sell the telemarketers anti-telemarketing technology technology and so forth. I don't see how this email stuff will be different...but then again Im completely jaded.
Thats why I am glad I use speakeasy. They don't care if you run servers, or if you have a home network, if you run linux, and you can get extra static IPs for cheap. (I get two static IPs, and still use NAT) I am not an employee or anything, but they are the BOMB for an ISP. Of course they arent as big as Comcast etc, so they are not as available as those other ISPs.
Please don't take away my comfortable sterotype! I will have to live to a higher social standard if jocks start to play EQ.
;-)
*cry*
the only problem is that there's a huge installed user base that'd be forced to upgrade in order for a new e-mail protocol to work. It's gonna take something silly like this to get out of hand for that to happen.
Like IPv6?
The icon for the matrix is lame.
Take two and call me in the morning.
I agree that spam is awful, and the scourge of the earth. But realistically I dont think I have ever had nearly as many problems as most slashdot story posters have...and I am not sure why.
Perhaps it is because I dont use a yahoo or hotmail account (they will sell you out in a heartbeat) and perhaps it is because I am VERY careful about giving my email address out...(the phone company asks for your email address? well I told them it was devnull@mydomain.com..). I think that if you are just a little careful (you dont have to be all "conspiracy theory" in order to have a clean inbox) , you can keep the spam fairly low, meaning only having to spend about one minute per day clicking delete on the few that make it though. Does anyone else feel this way, or is it just really much worse than that?