It obviously isn't for you. The thing's capabilitis in terms of software/firmware were very carefully considered in light of its target demographic.
Certainly true and certainly sounds reasonable. But in the bigger picture, these sort of locks are the kind of things the corporations that be would like to implement in all hardware/software. Is it really a service to the developing world to provide them computers where only the manufacturer has the root password?
If they can get a zillion of these systems out to the developing world and get them in use, don't you think they will provide a way to install more "approved" software via something similar to Linspire's Click-n-Run system? If so, will they use their lock-in to extract more than market price for their wares?
Of course, you or I could figure out a way to load Gentoo or something on it and do whatever we want. What you or I do wouldn't make much difference, though. The target for these is the emerging worldwide n00b market-- just a few billion non-affluent users who should be using free in every sense software for reasons too many to list here.
A wide stance 3 wheel (2F/1R) would be a lot more stable, even standing.
No way, not standing. Not unless you're talking about a reaalllly wide (and long) stance that would make it unmaneuverable.
Segways don't usually fall unless something goes dramatically wrong. I would argue that many elderly people would be far more likely to fall walking than when cautiously riding a Segway.
Frankly, if it was my relative I'd encourage them to use a powered chair
There are millions of people with impaired mobility who are not so impaired that they need to use a chair. Segway gives those persons a nice means of getting around.
Plus, there's the collision factor: an elderly person who isn't too steady and who has slower reaction times than the norm is more likely to hit an obstacle that suddenly appears in his path and/or fall off as a result of the resulting sudden stop.
Well, yeah. Any type of transportation should match the person's physical condition and the user should exercise judgment and care in it's use. Why is this specific to the Segway?
Segway appears to be a great way for mildly disabled persons to get around. It's sorta halfway between walking and a wheelchair. Highly maneuverable, with a greater range and lower cost than a wheelchair.
My understanding is that there are no mechanical gyroscopes in a Segway. The Segway is balanced dynamically; the computer senses forward or backward motion, acceleration, center of gravity, etc., and maintains verticality by rapidly and almost imperceptibly turning the wheels to counteract tipping forces.
GWB tried to get on when the thing was not turned on. See http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/technolog y/maney/2003-06-17-segway_x.htm
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11b's reach is measured in feet and wimax is measured in kilometers
Then it isn't going to work in the US. Americans have been very resistant to the metric system.
That's because you use logic and care about America's standing among the nations and peoples of the world.
The whole 'global test' controversy grows from the right's fear of a global government. They are making, in my view, a tactical error when they try to use this right wing nut job argument at this stage of the race, where the only votes up for grabs are the hardcore undecideds.
Clinton was a master of this game, shoring up the base with some good liberal talk during the early going, then concentrating on middle of the road and even conservative issues once the race was down to the wire.
Anyone who thinks that the UN is an anti-American force for evil is already in Bush's corner. The debates everything else from Oct 1 on should be aimed at getting the undecideds, independents, and moderates of the opposing party. You cannot win without the middle.
The small town of Riverside, Iowa has long billed itself as the birthplace of James T. Kirk.
Be sure to clear your calendars for the Riverside Trekfest always held the last Saturday in June! Party in the future birthplace of Capt. James T. Kirk!
In 1982-83 when compact discs were introduced, it was like an epiphany for us audio folks. For the first time, consumers could purchase a recording in a medium whose dynamic range exceeded that of $20,000 professional tape machines. Now I know that there are vinyl-philes who still swear that LPs sound better than CDs. But right now I'm talking about signal-to-noise ratio and dynamic range. Putting aside the arguments about the analogue digital conversion process, I don't think anyone can make a convincing case that an LP (or a cassette for that matter) has a dynamic range that comes within 20 db of that available on a CD.
CD's are not lossless compared with vinyl, it's still a digital format whereas vinyl is basicically analog..
I am not a sound engineer, but LP's were pretty noisy and had much less dynamic range than cd's. Different types of loss, but still a loss. Think of the sound you would hear as the needle rode in the groove before the music started. That sound was always there. There were many other quality issues with LP's, so I gladly switched to cd. It was a night and day difference in sound and convenience.
I know there are LP zealots out there who love the warm rich tones of vinyl, but I for one welcome our cd overlords. LP's sucked.
My point is that once again, people are viewing Linux through Windows-trained eyes.
If the goal is to have an OS/distro that will compete with Windows and OSX, then the OS/distro will have to accommodate the millions (or Billions, even) who will view Linux through Windows-trained eyes.
I spent months following wickedly obscure and time consuming instructions for compiling apps for Mandrake before I discovered the magic of the MCC gui for URPMI, then another couple months finding reliable mirrors.
Now, when a new version of my favorite app come out I have to wait until someone comes along to make an rpm for me, but when the same app releases an update for Windows, all I gotta do is download and click Next a few times. I have seriously broken my Mandrake install trying to install software via means other than URPMI, so I have pretty much quit trying.
Don't tell me to RTFM either, because I have R'd several FM's but they don't help much because of the two dozen different ways the authors and the distros deal with installing software. Although I'm a clueless newbie among the slashdot Gnu/Linux elite, the rest of the world thinks I'm some sort of computer genius. I've been fiddling and reading and making and breaking Linux installs for almost four years now and I still get frustrated with the process.
Meanwhile, my main reason for becoming interested in Linux has evaporated--Windows no longer sucks. In fact, WindowsXP is a pretty darned good OS--better than I could have imagined when suffering with the infernal abomination of WindowsME.
I guess I just get tired of the slashdot mindset that appears every time there is a thread that suggests that maybe just maybe there could be some improvements in the area of user-friendliness of Linux distros. It usually starts with, "Just open a terminal window and..."
The more Unix-y and less Windows-ish or Macintoshy the solution, the longer it will be before any distro makes serious inroads among average users.
I'm willing to spend my hobby time fiddling with and learning about my OS because I have enjoy it, but most people are afraid to click anything they haven't been approved to click.
Um, Google own Blogger.com who already do this and have been doing it for years. Furthermore I think any Gmail bandwidth will be dwarfed by the Google search engine bandwidth.
Notice I said "GMail's business model", not Google Corp's business model.
Also, if you were the owner,employee, or a manager of blogger.com, would you want your other business entities to be leeching business from other departments?
Google has massive bandwidth, but each bit must be paid for, one way or another. If Google is going to provide me free email, free search, and free blogging, without intrusive advertising or other annoyances, I feel it is not too much for them to ask that I use blogger.com for blogging, gmail.com for email, and google.com for searching.
Google has earned my respect and my business. They are single handedly making the internet a better place every day.
You really have no idea how cheap storage is (and is getting) and how much advertisers are willing to pay for googles targeted ads.
The question is not the storage, I would think, as much as the bandwidth. GMail's business model does not include the idea of, say, 10k people accessing a single gmail account to view content, which may or may not include Google's adverts.
The tool *is* available, you can probably find it for under $20. Most every hardware store will have one. They're used in construction to do exactly what the name implies; cut bolts:)
Actually, bolt cutters aren't very good at cutting cables. What you need are cable cutters, which have more of a hooked scissors or shears type of head. The head of a cable cutter resembles the beak of a predator bird, actually; probably for a good reason.
Bolt cutters are designed to cut a single solid piece of metal, so they are not effective at cutting the many strands of a cable. The cable kinda squashes and the individual strands are too flexible for a bolt cutter.
Bolt cutters will work, eventually, but the right tool for the job is a cable cutter.
if your stock drops 30% in one day, isnt that a sure sign to sell out? if its been dropping 1% each day for 90 days, isnt that sign to jump?
No and no. You should know ahead of time what you believe a fair value for a company is. If the stock drops 30% for reasons unrelated to your analysis of the value of that company, then a 30% drop in price is good time to buy more shares. It's like they're selling dollar bills for 70 cents.
If china wants 100m cars which would equal to 3 americas being created and causing 10x more oil demand, isnt that a financial market analysis to show you the sign to 'buy oil futures' or energy / resource companies?
Yes it is a market analysis, it is not a technical analysis, which is what the granparent post was talking about.
A technical analysis cares not whether there are 100m cars being built, nor what total oil demand is. Technical analysis tries to read and make predictions based on the price fluctuations only. Betting your dollars based on technical analysis is a fools game. Betting your dollars based on a logical analysis of all factors affecting the market you are entering, balanced with healthy skepticism and measured risk-taking, is the opposite of technical analysis.
Technical analysis of markets is a waste of time. When a pattern is found, it is exploited by many, which changes whatever "meaning" the pattern had before.
But even worse, as I also predicted in this thread if F911 was a financial success, the cash in crowd in hollywood is already rushing more of this crap through the pipeline. It will mean another major decline in American moviemaking. Just when you thought it couldn't get worse than Jerry Bruckhiemer [sp].
Agreed. There is nothing worse than the copycat drivel that follows a surprise success, such as Jaws, Airport, Die Hard, etc..
To paraphrase from the Charles Schwab commercial, you just can't put lipstick on a pig and expect people to kiss it. Moore's movie hasn't been out a week and it's already running out of steam.
When the numbers are available, this link will show us the chart for next weekend (July 2/3/4). Let's see where it is then.
Who's trying to put makeup on pigs now? Your link for the 4th of July holiday weekend shows that F911 was 2nd only to Spiderman 2.
Today, another week later, F911 is playing in more theatres than ever, over 2000. It looks like the peak is past, but on Friday, July 9, F911 was the still the 4th most popular movie in the country during the height of the summer popcorn movie season, and is closing in on $100M gross.
I finally saw the movie yesterday afternoon. The 4pm matinee was nearly sold out. Most interesting to me was the crowd. Probably 70% of the people were in their 60's or older. At first I thought I was in the wrong theatre because there is an Alzheimer's movie (The Notebook) playing in the same complex. F911 is not just playing to the "Deaniacs".
Yes, the initial showings filled due to the ABB/Deaniac crowd so they will use these numbers to justify pushing it onto several thousand screens. Where I predict it will be a $250/screen turkey by next weekend.
On June 27 when you made this prediction, F911 was playing in 868 theatres.
One week later it was playing in 1,725.
Today, July 11, it is playing in 2011.
If I understand the boxofficemojo.com tables, it is averaging about $1,500 per day, per screen.
$72M and counting, currently equals the total of the next 8 or 9 highest grossing documentaries combined
Looks like it's going to be a few more weeks before it's a "$250/screen turkey". It also looks like $100M gross is inevitable. That's remarkable, regardless of your political persuasion.
Hell, I've heard demo-tapes from the 70's that sound better than actual albums. But the catch was, you could have a KILLER tape, but no way to distribute it.
So so so true. I've been saying this for several years on/. when these topics come up. Usually, the focus is on copyright and the lock the major content providers have on copyright law through their bought and paid for congress-critters. The fix is definitely in.
But there is hope, because the copyright really belongs to the artist, as long as the artist doesn't sell it.
In the past, major content providers (news, music, movies) have had near monopolies because they controlled two things--
1. What got produced 2. What got distributed
Making good recordings was very expensive. You had to have special studios with special equipment for every step of the process.
Besides the costs of recording, there were the costs of actually producing the physical media. Vinyl LP's were pressed in factories where the initial setup was such that you had to press a LOT of copies to justify the setup costs.
And finally, you had to have a distribution channel to get the finished product out into record stores.
That's all gone now-- A guy in his mother's basement could do it all with a $1k computer. Studio, cd factory, worldwide advertising via his website, free samples, downloadable songs, fan club, book tour dates, the works. One single modest computer can do it all.
I could record a song this morning at this desk, mix it, and distribute it free worldwide by this afternoon. In 1990 that would have been incomprehensible science fiction.
Given the complete unreal nature of the whole event I do not find finishing the reading of a very short book to a class to be an unreasonable action.
My god that's the saddest apology for the president I've heard yet. The President is supposed to be the Leader of the Free World, not the front man for a bunch of handlers. Sitting in a classroom and hanging around for photos in an elementary school in FL while Americans are jumping out of skyscrapers in NYC is not leadership. (and remember he knew about the first plane before even entering the classroom).
It probably wouldn't have changed anything if Bush had actually made a decision to get off his ass and out of that classroom, but the image of him sitting there waiting for his next instructions makes me nauseous.
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No it's not. It only drew in about $8 million on Friday night.
Which made it in one single day of wide release the 5th highest grossing documentary in history.
As of now on boxofficemojo.com, F911 is showing $16M gross for two days, which now brings it up to 2nd highest grossing documentary in history.
This movie will certainly now gain much wider release than the 868 theatres in which it is showing now. F911 has a very wide release for a documentary, but the nearest showings are a two hour drive for me.
Will it still be in the theater after a couple or three weeks? I doubt it.
Are you seriously that self-deluded that you think F911 is going to just go away?
I sincerely hope you go to see the movie. Sounds like you could use a reality check.
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Don't confuse communism with totalitarianism --
Dont' confuse Marxism with Communism.
IANA political scientist, but I would argue that Communism is totalitarian form of Marxism.
Whatever you call it, Soviet Communism was simply imperial dictatorship with a rhetorical patina of Marxist platitudes.
informative?!?! wtf?!?! that's insightful!
Bulls--t!! It is "interesting".
It obviously isn't for you. The thing's capabilitis in terms of software/firmware were very carefully considered in light of its target demographic.
Certainly true and certainly sounds reasonable. But in the bigger picture, these sort of locks are the kind of things the corporations that be would like to implement in all hardware/software. Is it really a service to the developing world to provide them computers where only the manufacturer has the root password?
If they can get a zillion of these systems out to the developing world and get them in use, don't you think they will provide a way to install more "approved" software via something similar to Linspire's Click-n-Run system? If so, will they use their lock-in to extract more than market price for their wares?
Of course, you or I could figure out a way to load Gentoo or something on it and do whatever we want. What you or I do wouldn't make much difference, though. The target for these is the emerging worldwide n00b market-- just a few billion non-affluent users who should be using free in every sense software for reasons too many to list here.
A wide stance 3 wheel (2F/1R) would be a lot more stable, even standing.
No way, not standing. Not unless you're talking about a reaalllly wide (and long) stance that would make it unmaneuverable.
Segways don't usually fall unless something goes dramatically wrong. I would argue that many elderly people would be far more likely to fall walking than when cautiously riding a Segway.
Frankly, if it was my relative I'd encourage them to use a powered chair
There are millions of people with impaired mobility who are not so impaired that they need to use a chair. Segway gives those persons a nice means of getting around.
Plus, there's the collision factor: an elderly person who isn't too steady and who has slower reaction times than the norm is more likely to hit an obstacle that suddenly appears in his path and/or fall off as a result of the resulting sudden stop.
Well, yeah. Any type of transportation should match the person's physical condition and the user should exercise judgment and care in it's use. Why is this specific to the Segway?
Segway appears to be a great way for mildly disabled persons to get around. It's sorta halfway between walking and a wheelchair. Highly maneuverable, with a greater range and lower cost than a wheelchair.
modified with larger, and more stable, gyroscopes
g y/maney/2003-06-17-segway_x.htm
My understanding is that there are no mechanical gyroscopes in a Segway. The Segway is balanced dynamically; the computer senses forward or backward motion, acceleration, center of gravity, etc., and maintains verticality by rapidly and almost imperceptibly turning the wheels to counteract tipping forces.
GWB tried to get on when the thing was not turned on. See http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/technolo
11b's reach is measured in feet and wimax is measured in kilometers
Then it isn't going to work in the US. Americans have been very resistant to the metric system.
It's not clear to me why this is controversial.
That's because you use logic and care about America's standing among the nations and peoples of the world.
The whole 'global test' controversy grows from the right's fear of a global government. They are making, in my view, a tactical error when they try to use this right wing nut job argument at this stage of the race, where the only votes up for grabs are the hardcore undecideds.
Clinton was a master of this game, shoring up the base with some good liberal talk during the early going, then concentrating on middle of the road and even conservative issues once the race was down to the wire.
Anyone who thinks that the UN is an anti-American force for evil is already in Bush's corner. The debates everything else from Oct 1 on should be aimed at getting the undecideds, independents, and moderates of the opposing party. You cannot win without the middle.
The small town of Riverside, Iowa has long billed itself as the birthplace of James T. Kirk.
Be sure to clear your calendars for the Riverside Trekfest always held the last Saturday in June! Party in the future birthplace of Capt. James T. Kirk!
Pop-up blocking, annoyance killing is *the* selling point of firefox.
Be sure to show newbies how to use tabs and find-as-you-type! IE will soon be blocking popups.
From: http://georgegraham.com/compress.html
In 1982-83 when compact discs were introduced, it was like an epiphany for us audio folks. For the first time, consumers could purchase a recording in a medium whose dynamic range exceeded that of $20,000 professional tape machines. Now I know that there are vinyl-philes who still swear that LPs sound better than CDs. But right now I'm talking about signal-to-noise ratio and dynamic range. Putting aside the arguments about the analogue digital conversion process, I don't think anyone can make a convincing case that an LP (or a cassette for that matter) has a dynamic range that comes within 20 db of that available on a CD.
CD's are not lossless compared with vinyl, it's still a digital format whereas vinyl is basicically analog..
I am not a sound engineer, but LP's were pretty noisy and had much less dynamic range than cd's. Different types of loss, but still a loss. Think of the sound you would hear as the needle rode in the groove before the music started. That sound was always there. There were many other quality issues with LP's, so I gladly switched to cd. It was a night and day difference in sound and convenience.
I know there are LP zealots out there who love the warm rich tones of vinyl, but I for one welcome our cd overlords. LP's sucked.
My point is that once again, people are viewing Linux through Windows-trained eyes.
If the goal is to have an OS/distro that will compete with Windows and OSX, then the OS/distro will have to accommodate the millions (or Billions, even) who will view Linux through Windows-trained eyes.
I spent months following wickedly obscure and time consuming instructions for compiling apps for Mandrake before I discovered the magic of the MCC gui for URPMI, then another couple months finding reliable mirrors.
Now, when a new version of my favorite app come out I have to wait until someone comes along to make an rpm for me, but when the same app releases an update for Windows, all I gotta do is download and click Next a few times. I have seriously broken my Mandrake install trying to install software via means other than URPMI, so I have pretty much quit trying.
Don't tell me to RTFM either, because I have R'd several FM's but they don't help much because of the two dozen different ways the authors and the distros deal with installing software. Although I'm a clueless newbie among the slashdot Gnu/Linux elite, the rest of the world thinks I'm some sort of computer genius. I've been fiddling and reading and making and breaking Linux installs for almost four years now and I still get frustrated with the process.
Meanwhile, my main reason for becoming interested in Linux has evaporated--Windows no longer sucks. In fact, WindowsXP is a pretty darned good OS--better than I could have imagined when suffering with the infernal abomination of WindowsME.
I guess I just get tired of the slashdot mindset that appears every time there is a thread that suggests that maybe just maybe there could be some improvements in the area of user-friendliness of Linux distros. It usually starts with, "Just open a terminal window and..."
The more Unix-y and less Windows-ish or Macintoshy the solution, the longer it will be before any distro makes serious inroads among average users.
I'm willing to spend my hobby time fiddling with and learning about my OS because I have enjoy it, but most people are afraid to click anything they haven't been approved to click.
Um, Google own Blogger.com who already do this and have been doing it for years. Furthermore I think any Gmail bandwidth will be dwarfed by the Google search engine bandwidth.
Notice I said "GMail's business model", not Google Corp's business model.
Also, if you were the owner,employee, or a manager of blogger.com, would you want your other business entities to be leeching business from other departments?
Google has massive bandwidth, but each bit must be paid for, one way or another. If Google is going to provide me free email, free search, and free blogging, without intrusive advertising or other annoyances, I feel it is not too much for them to ask that I use blogger.com for blogging, gmail.com for email, and google.com for searching.
Google has earned my respect and my business. They are single handedly making the internet a better place every day.
You really have no idea how cheap storage is (and is getting) and how much advertisers are willing to pay for googles targeted ads.
The question is not the storage, I would think, as much as the bandwidth. GMail's business model does not include the idea of, say, 10k people accessing a single gmail account to view content, which may or may not include Google's adverts.
The tool *is* available, you can probably find it for under $20. Most every hardware store will have one. They're used in construction to do exactly what the name implies; cut bolts :)
Actually, bolt cutters aren't very good at cutting cables. What you need are cable cutters, which have more of a hooked scissors or shears type of head. The head of a cable cutter resembles the beak of a predator bird, actually; probably for a good reason.
Bolt cutters are designed to cut a single solid piece of metal, so they are not effective at cutting the many strands of a cable. The cable kinda squashes and the individual strands are too flexible for a bolt cutter.
Bolt cutters will work, eventually, but the right tool for the job is a cable cutter.
if your stock drops 30% in one day, isnt that a sure sign to sell out? if its been dropping 1% each day for 90 days, isnt that sign to jump?
No and no.
You should know ahead of time what you believe a fair value for a company is. If the stock drops 30% for reasons unrelated to your analysis of the value of that company, then a 30% drop in price is good time to buy more shares. It's like they're selling dollar bills for 70 cents.
If china wants 100m cars which would equal to 3 americas being created and causing 10x more oil demand, isnt that a financial market analysis to show you the sign to 'buy oil futures' or energy / resource companies?
Yes it is a market analysis, it is not a technical analysis, which is what the granparent post was talking about.
A technical analysis cares not whether there are 100m cars being built, nor what total oil demand is. Technical analysis tries to read and make predictions based on the price fluctuations only. Betting your dollars based on technical analysis is a fools game. Betting your dollars based on a logical analysis of all factors affecting the market you are entering, balanced with healthy skepticism and measured risk-taking, is the opposite of technical analysis.
Technical analysis of markets is a waste of time. When a pattern is found, it is exploited by many, which changes whatever "meaning" the pattern had before.
But even worse, as I also predicted in this thread if F911 was a financial success, the cash in crowd in hollywood is already rushing more of this crap through the pipeline. It will mean another major decline in American moviemaking. Just when you thought it couldn't get worse than Jerry Bruckhiemer [sp].
Agreed. There is nothing worse than the copycat drivel that follows a surprise success, such as Jaws, Airport, Die Hard, etc..
To paraphrase from the Charles Schwab commercial, you just can't put lipstick on a pig and expect people to kiss it. Moore's movie hasn't been out a week and it's already running out of steam.
When the numbers are available, this link will show us the chart for next weekend (July 2/3/4). Let's see where it is then.
Who's trying to put makeup on pigs now? Your link for the 4th of July holiday weekend shows that F911 was 2nd only to Spiderman 2.
Today, another week later, F911 is playing in more theatres than ever, over 2000. It looks like the peak is past, but on Friday, July 9, F911 was the still the 4th most popular movie in the country during the height of the summer popcorn movie season, and is closing in on $100M gross.
I finally saw the movie yesterday afternoon. The 4pm matinee was nearly sold out. Most interesting to me was the crowd. Probably 70% of the people were in their 60's or older. At first I thought I was in the wrong theatre because there is an Alzheimer's movie (The Notebook) playing in the same complex. F911 is not just playing to the "Deaniacs".
Yes, the initial showings filled due to the ABB/Deaniac crowd so they will use these numbers to justify pushing it onto several thousand screens. Where I predict it will be a $250/screen turkey by next weekend.
On June 27 when you made this prediction, F911 was playing in 868 theatres.
One week later it was playing in 1,725.
Today, July 11, it is playing in 2011.
If I understand the boxofficemojo.com tables, it is averaging about $1,500 per day, per screen.
$72M and counting, currently equals the total of the next 8 or 9 highest grossing documentaries combined
Looks like it's going to be a few more weeks before it's a "$250/screen turkey". It also looks like $100M gross is inevitable. That's remarkable, regardless of your political persuasion.
i like a shoe horn
the kind with teeth
A shoehorn with teeth?
You know there's no such thing.
Hell, I've heard demo-tapes from the 70's that sound better than actual albums. But the catch was, you could have a KILLER tape, but no way to distribute it.
/. when these topics come up. Usually, the focus is on copyright and the lock the major content providers have on copyright law through their bought and paid for congress-critters. The fix is definitely in.
So so so true. I've been saying this for several years on
But there is hope, because the copyright really belongs to the artist, as long as the artist doesn't sell it.
In the past, major content providers (news, music, movies) have had near monopolies because they controlled two things--
1. What got produced
2. What got distributed
Making good recordings was very expensive. You had to have special studios with special equipment for every step of the process.
Besides the costs of recording, there were the costs of actually producing the physical media. Vinyl LP's were pressed in factories where the initial setup was such that you had to press a LOT of copies to justify the setup costs.
And finally, you had to have a distribution channel to get the finished product out into record stores.
That's all gone now-- A guy in his mother's basement could do it all with a $1k computer. Studio, cd factory, worldwide advertising via his website, free samples, downloadable songs, fan club, book tour dates, the works. One single modest computer can do it all.
I could record a song this morning at this desk, mix it, and distribute it free worldwide by this afternoon. In 1990 that would have been incomprehensible science fiction.
Given the complete unreal nature of the whole event I do not find finishing the reading of a very short book to a class to be an unreasonable action.
My god that's the saddest apology for the president I've heard yet. The President is supposed to be the Leader of the Free World, not the front man for a bunch of handlers. Sitting in a classroom and hanging around for photos in an elementary school in FL while Americans are jumping out of skyscrapers in NYC is not leadership. (and remember he knew about the first plane before even entering the classroom).
It probably wouldn't have changed anything if Bush had actually made a decision to get off his ass and out of that classroom, but the image of him sitting there waiting for his next instructions makes me nauseous.
No it's not. It only drew in about $8 million on Friday night.
Which made it in one single day of wide release the 5th highest grossing documentary in history.
As of now on boxofficemojo.com, F911 is showing $16M gross for two days, which now brings it up to 2nd highest grossing documentary in history.
This movie will certainly now gain much wider release than the 868 theatres in which it is showing now. F911 has a very wide release for a documentary, but the nearest showings are a two hour drive for me.
Will it still be in the theater after a couple or three weeks? I doubt it.
Are you seriously that self-deluded that you think F911 is going to just go away?
I sincerely hope you go to see the movie. Sounds like you could use a reality check.