I was under the impression that Miramax's entire point of existence was to do just that, make movies for adults still under Disney's profit umbrella but NOT under Disney's name.
If you look at our past two-three years of local and state level elections it's been doing it's damnedest to become a hardcore conservative state. I am rather proud and surprised at both campaigns though that her sexual preference wasn't made an issue of in the race because there were some seriously nasty attack ads floating about. Me and most of my co-workers didn't even know that until after the election was over.
Hell I was more shocked when put the words public transportation and outside of the city in the same sentence. Round these parts if you can even SEE the city border you're out of luck for public transport. Ahh the joys of midwestern united states...
Don't lose hope, he's been through the wastelands of Iowa in the past (Sioux City during the Bad Hair Day tour in mid the 90's and played the Spencer County Fair back in '02 or '03). I'm sure he'd brave it again someday.
Unless Mega Blocks stepped up their game in the last decade quality was always the biggest justification for the price difference between the two. With LEGO unless someone/thing had been chewing on or intentionally deforming the bricks you could be almost certain that two randomly selected bricks from your pile would fit together well. Mega Blocks on the other would be lucky to have them fit together at all let alone stay together.
I think Duckman would be great to rip-off lines from...
"What the hell are you staring at?"
There are so many good lines in that show but I haven't watched it on comedy central for at least three months now....
I'm your average college student who happens to work part-time(20+ hours) in the IT department for a university in Iowa(figure out the name yourself) and I must say that they idea of student employees in the department is a great idea. The only problems that arise from this plan are:
1. Respect, most professors and staff are HIGHLY biased against students fixing...well anything that involves computers. I've had professors that have had me in many of their classes hang up on me when I wasn't able to transfer them to a "non-student" techician becuase there was not one available at the time. Most other students don't believe the amount of time we put in here plus 15+ credit hours of class and treat us accordingly, aka badly. Many don't believe that we have better things(like homework or actually having a life) to do then try to re-enable their network becuase they violated our mass-upload by using Napster.
2. Trust, most of the full-time employees in the department are paranoid of us. We are not even allowed to have keys to our work areas when we spend 95% more time there than any of our full-time staff who have keys. Network admin privalages rotate more than a merry-go-round becuase of this too. In the course of two weeks we had full privs to the student-account server than none, then a half-priv mix that we could barely change passwords with all in the name of "Security". Combine that with a total lack of communication from the upper levels of management and the student help leads to frantic running of the switchboard during "Server-reboot and network switch disconnect hour"
3. Pay, basically for all intents and purposes we are slave labor. As someone elses post pointed out there is a high turnover rate here so no one gets to confortable since the longest you will be there is five years. I myself with the hours I work should be entitled to the colleges part-time employee benifits however I've not tested this for fear of being cut in hours, which at the pay I'm at would be unacceptable.
4. Inter-office politics, The politics played out in our department would make a proffesional politiction blush. All of the students are distrustfull of the full-time staff due the large number of broken promises and bad policies and even the students are factioned themselves. The Server admins don't like the helpdesk people and vice versa. Combine that with our new "Student Leadership" intitative which basically makes all of the compatant technicians tolerate a micro-manageing incompatant leader who is also a student just like them, except really friggin annoying. leads to more unhappiness and distrust of the management system. Most students who work here either quit or fall into one of our three quasi-groups that the students have segregated into, all loyal to a different full-time staffer.
5. Defeat, most employees after tolerating the system we have in place after four to five months do one of four things: quit, get fired, stop caring, or transfer. Any ideas put for by the non-management students are either ignored, ignored (non-typo), or claimed as their own by management.
In conclusion the idea is a great idea except for the fact that it creates the most hostile workplaces imaginable, especially for college students who are MIS or CS/MATH majors who don't need that crap to begin with.
You know really it's not THAT difficult. I just recently took an Interim course at my University that did just the same thing. The class was composed of both CS and non-CS people and mostly everyone in the class had virtually no LINUX experiance, and definitely no experience with Beowulf-ing. Point is we all managed to get our four nodes up and crunching in less than three days (working for roughly two hours a day). This was not even taking into account the misleading instructions from the instructor and the daily errata updates to the whole setup process. The most diffuclt thing we encountered in the class was LINUX's constant problems with actually being used(not flame bait so don't reply becuase I DON'T CARE!). Matter of fact I'm probably risking my own life by adding this but the only people who really had any difficulty with the class in setting up the clusters etc. were the two LINUX "guru's" because they were too busy setting up cron jobs to open/close the CD-ROM every fifteen minutes (no joke either...) and show off how many supposedly "neat" things they could do with LINUX. One of them ran around showing off to everyone about how with LINUX he could run two X Window sessions at the same time. Needless to say the first person he showed this newfound ability to replied "Why? I mean really did this ability help your productivity any...I think not, why you were doing that we managed to get the last two projects done." Sadly becuase of this LINUX became a four-letter word by the end of the course...
As for Dude I've got this to say:
First off I would like to warn everyone that I might let slip a few spoilers here....
(Spoiler Space..not much but better than nothing)
Personally I kinda liked the movie IMHO, for the average person to like it they would have had to enjoy the same kind of mindless humor contained in "American Pie" and "Road Trip". While the movie was not as funny such classics as "Spaceballs", or "From dusk till Dawn"(Ok I've got strange movie tastes so lets move on) I am glad to have seen it. On the plot, personally I found the idea of two stoners(p.c.: the Herbally unchallenged) coming into possesion of the most mysterious device in the universe "whose mystery is exceded only by it's power" frightening at best. Once you get past that concept the movie is not all that bad. You can certainly identify at least midly with chester and jesse on the basis of knowing what it feels like to wake in the morning and have no idea where you are or what you did last night. Basically if you found all the movies I mentioned before ("American Pie","Road Trip","Spaceballs", or "From dusk till Dawn") hilarious I suggest you go see this movie, if they were moderatly amusing wait for the cheap theatre or rent it cable etc. , anyone else who found those totally unfunny save your money, you won't get much out of it.
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I was under the impression that Miramax's entire point of existence was to do just that, make movies for adults still under Disney's profit umbrella but NOT under Disney's name.
If you look at our past two-three years of local and state level elections it's been doing it's damnedest to become a hardcore conservative state. I am rather proud and surprised at both campaigns though that her sexual preference wasn't made an issue of in the race because there were some seriously nasty attack ads floating about. Me and most of my co-workers didn't even know that until after the election was over.
Hell I was more shocked when put the words public transportation and outside of the city in the same sentence. Round these parts if you can even SEE the city border you're out of luck for public transport. Ahh the joys of midwestern united states...
And I'd much rather sit through his recap of Episode 1 then to try and watch it again.
Don't lose hope, he's been through the wastelands of Iowa in the past (Sioux City during the Bad Hair Day tour in mid the 90's and played the Spencer County Fair back in '02 or '03). I'm sure he'd brave it again someday.
Unless Mega Blocks stepped up their game in the last decade quality was always the biggest justification for the price difference between the two. With LEGO unless someone/thing had been chewing on or intentionally deforming the bricks you could be almost certain that two randomly selected bricks from your pile would fit together well. Mega Blocks on the other would be lucky to have them fit together at all let alone stay together.
pff we'll just design a larger self-replicating 3D printer to destroy them that will solve everything...
I think Duckman would be great to rip-off lines from...
"What the hell are you staring at?"
There are so many good lines in that show but I haven't watched it on comedy central for at least three months now....
Ahh a quote from "They Live" haven't seen that movie for years....
1. Respect, most professors and staff are HIGHLY biased against students fixing...well anything that involves computers. I've had professors that have had me in many of their classes hang up on me when I wasn't able to transfer them to a "non-student" techician becuase there was not one available at the time. Most other students don't believe the amount of time we put in here plus 15+ credit hours of class and treat us accordingly, aka badly. Many don't believe that we have better things(like homework or actually having a life) to do then try to re-enable their network becuase they violated our mass-upload by using Napster.
2. Trust, most of the full-time employees in the department are paranoid of us. We are not even allowed to have keys to our work areas when we spend 95% more time there than any of our full-time staff who have keys. Network admin privalages rotate more than a merry-go-round becuase of this too. In the course of two weeks we had full privs to the student-account server than none, then a half-priv mix that we could barely change passwords with all in the name of "Security". Combine that with a total lack of communication from the upper levels of management and the student help leads to frantic running of the switchboard during "Server-reboot and network switch disconnect hour"
3. Pay, basically for all intents and purposes we are slave labor. As someone elses post pointed out there is a high turnover rate here so no one gets to confortable since the longest you will be there is five years. I myself with the hours I work should be entitled to the colleges part-time employee benifits however I've not tested this for fear of being cut in hours, which at the pay I'm at would be unacceptable.
4. Inter-office politics, The politics played out in our department would make a proffesional politiction blush. All of the students are distrustfull of the full-time staff due the large number of broken promises and bad policies and even the students are factioned themselves. The Server admins don't like the helpdesk people and vice versa. Combine that with our new "Student Leadership" intitative which basically makes all of the compatant technicians tolerate a micro-manageing incompatant leader who is also a student just like them, except really friggin annoying. leads to more unhappiness and distrust of the management system. Most students who work here either quit or fall into one of our three quasi-groups that the students have segregated into, all loyal to a different full-time staffer.
5. Defeat, most employees after tolerating the system we have in place after four to five months do one of four things: quit, get fired, stop caring, or transfer. Any ideas put for by the non-management students are either ignored, ignored (non-typo), or claimed as their own by management.
In conclusion the idea is a great idea except for the fact that it creates the most hostile workplaces imaginable, especially for college students who are MIS or CS/MATH majors who don't need that crap to begin with.
You know really it's not THAT difficult. I just recently took an Interim course at my University that did just the same thing. The class was composed of both CS and non-CS people and mostly everyone in the class had virtually no LINUX experiance, and definitely no experience with Beowulf-ing. Point is we all managed to get our four nodes up and crunching in less than three days (working for roughly two hours a day). This was not even taking into account the misleading instructions from the instructor and the daily errata updates to the whole setup process. The most diffuclt thing we encountered in the class was LINUX's constant problems with actually being used(not flame bait so don't reply becuase I DON'T CARE!). Matter of fact I'm probably risking my own life by adding this but the only people who really had any difficulty with the class in setting up the clusters etc. were the two LINUX "guru's" because they were too busy setting up cron jobs to open/close the CD-ROM every fifteen minutes (no joke either...) and show off how many supposedly "neat" things they could do with LINUX. One of them ran around showing off to everyone about how with LINUX he could run two X Window sessions at the same time. Needless to say the first person he showed this newfound ability to replied "Why? I mean really did this ability help your productivity any...I think not, why you were doing that we managed to get the last two projects done." Sadly becuase of this LINUX became a four-letter word by the end of the course...
As for Dude I've got this to say: First off I would like to warn everyone that I might let slip a few spoilers here....
,"Road Trip","Spaceballs", or "From dusk till Dawn") hilarious I suggest you go see this movie, if they were moderatly amusing wait for the cheap theatre or rent it cable etc. , anyone else who found those totally unfunny save your money, you won't get much out of it.
(Spoiler Space..not much but better than nothing)
Personally I kinda liked the movie IMHO, for the average person to like it they would have had to enjoy the same kind of mindless humor contained in "American Pie" and "Road Trip". While the movie was not as funny such classics as "Spaceballs", or "From dusk till Dawn"(Ok I've got strange movie tastes so lets move on) I am glad to have seen it. On the plot, personally I found the idea of two stoners(p.c.: the Herbally unchallenged) coming into possesion of the most mysterious device in the universe "whose mystery is exceded only by it's power" frightening at best. Once you get past that concept the movie is not all that bad. You can certainly identify at least midly with chester and jesse on the basis of knowing what it feels like to wake in the morning and have no idea where you are or what you did last night. Basically if you found all the movies I mentioned before ("American Pie"