OS/2 Warp would be nice, and it does run a lot of ATM's, but if the film industry was thinking clearly they would pay someone to create a protected MPEG4 implentation in C++ for Intel's new programmable bios. Three second reboot,
If the market for the number of digital screens is just equal to the number of US theartres showing Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets during it's opening weekend, and each of which was charged 200 dollars for this bios program, you stand to make 700,000 dollars. Worldwide, and with a distribution system allowing you to make a cut on fixed hardware sales, you stand to make millions.
Sound like a pretty good deal. It would be non-trivial to implement a THX certified sound system, but the rewards would outweigh the drawbacks.
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When I see a developing country without a stable economic base pirating software I see support going into creating a future trading partner. The argument that a person who cannot afford a piece of software wouldn't pay anyway holds a lot more weight when that person cannot afford a flushable toilet. 500$ for MS office is high here, but for a person that earns that much in six months it is ludicrous.
Many people who have programmed for many years have the nagging knowledge that what they do does not directly grow food, build houses, or provide emotional support. Tolerating a little piracy in developing nations can be a way to provide some kind of aid.
I expect that those %40 Warezed programs show up on %5-10 of the computers, as it is a lot easier to install every program out there if you don't plan on paying for any of it.
How often does the tape get chewed up in a modern projector. I go to the movies every other week, and in the past four years there have been two movies stopped due to projector failure. This isn't the ISS, people won't die if the projector needs to take a 5 minute break. And honestly, Windows XP does run very reliably and stably for the first two hours, and clearing a theartre takes a lot longer than rebooting XP (Windows 98, no. XP...).
Windows has been running for years in many display kiosks around town and info-screens at the airport. You know it's Windows, because NT will pop up every now and then with a bluish happy little screen. But these things are left on all of the time, all day. If all a machine had to do was boot, display a WM9 file, and reboot, XP should be fine.
Honestly, I'd expect fewer people will be dissappointed with the projection than with the content when the next digitally-projected Star Wars comes out.
Such a system will probably be initially implemented for long-range sniper teams. Such a team using this particular weapon could move into an abandoned house nearly 3 times as far away as current sniper rifle's maximum range, could fire more quietly, and hopefully would have the distance and confusion to get away. In addition, this weapon prototype is tuned to replace the m-16 as a rapid-fire battlefield meat and potatoes weapon... lazers are more likely to begin its life as a stationary or semi-stationary weapon like machine guns in WW1 or grenade launchers. As an assassination tool, tuned to fire once but be hidden in a pair of guitar cases, it could be quite effective and available quite soon.
Replacing the M-16 seems like the wrong way to begin down the technology curve... More specialized applications like a cartridge-based sniper rifle, truck-mounted anti-aircraft lazers, or bridge / encampment defense lazer positions seem like a more useful... use. Their strength lies in distance, not power, and that is what they should be used for.
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There have been many, many comments along these lines here at slashdot (why would I expect more?), and it is just wrong.
Twenty-three obviously represents a two in the second order digit and a three in the first order digit. In addition, our language has an implied base 10 marker, though not an inherent one. We did not name 2^6 number of sticks as "si-cs-ti-for", like we did a "pair" of sticks, we constructed that number out of a shared understanding of a base 10 numerical system.
If you ask someone to write down "one, two, three, and four" and they do so as "1,10,11,100," that would be a conversion between bases. The proper way to read that back would either be "one binary, one zero binary, one one binary, one zero zero binary" or "binary one, ten, eleven, one hundred," depending upon whether the person you are speaking to ties colloquial number abbreviations to base 10 or not.
If someone asked you to read the hexadecimal "23" (or in computer terms 0x23), the proper way is to say "twenty-three." If you had just said "thirty-five," the base-10 equivalent, you would not have communicated the number effectively: you would need to say "thirty-five base ten," at which point your friend would probably say he needed the hexidecimal, thank you.
Any numbers you see or speak have an explicit or an implied base, whether you can see it or not.
Don't be out to make the "best game in the world," that is an amorphous target that will always move, and will never be achieveable in the time you have alotted.
Instead, try to make the best-selling game in the world, preferably within the constraints of your budget.
Don't you mean "There are 11...those who know binary, those that don't, and those whose knowledge of binary cannot be copied without the express written consent of the Mathematics Professors Association of America."
The forums at Silent PC Review would be a great place to pose this question. I go by seishino there, but anyone will be able to help.
External? The asus in front of me shipped with a 3 foot cable... that's definitely long enough to take outside of the case, but that wouldn't quiet the problem. There are some amazingly expensive fanless solutions available if you look (200$+), but for most people replacing the fan is good enough. There are also water-cooled psus, but they are also too expensive realistically for college use. Pick up a low-flo panaflos (L1A) from one of the places listed in the "hot deals" section (if you are near boston, I can get one to you), and put that in place of your fan. That is enough to cut sound down noticably.
The meat of this article seems to be that you have 3 different OS's running, presumably as virtual machines, with a host that handles balloting of responses. So, in order to achieve security of outgoing responses, you have 4 times the infrastructure. However, for the military's purposes, they want to hide secrets and limit access to the machine... a problem that will be compounded when 3 different sets of vulnerabilities are placed on the internet. Apparently another set of machines will be needed to store data on a private network, lest someone hack into one of the secured machines. Ignoring what must be greatly reduced response per second times, you have now 8x the infrastructure. Somehow this seems like a solution only the Army would come up with.
The person who left their network wide open chose to do so. The idea that an average person can't pick an even mediocre 8 byte password and copy that to any device they want to access the network with is ludicrous. Leaving a wireless network completely unsecured is a sign that they want to share their bandwidth with people who need it. You obviously needed it. It's like electrical outlets left unprotected in public spaces, or the piles of books people leave in the subway: if they didn't want it to be used publically, they would have hit the "password enable" checkbox on their router setup program.
Now, whether or not that person was stealing from their ISP by giving you access is a different issue... I know our ISP has setup an open wireless network as a test program for people on this block, but many feel differently. Still, contract clauses are not the same thing as rights or ownership, and I wouldn't expect the ISP was paying by the bit, nor their backbone provider.
Sleep well, young skywalker... the commons is not stealing, despite what AOLTimeWarner may say...
Game testing is a lot more fun than many other jobs out there, but you have to enjoy bug hunting more than playing games. You have to have a sadistic desire to bring the whole project to a hault for a day during crunch time, and make everyone pissed at you, or you won't do any good.
The best thing to do if you are having trouble getting in, is to beta test as much as possible, and put that on your resume. Keep your resume concise and to the point, showing efficient literacy. And let them know how much you know about gaming and what faqs you have written / how methodical you are about playing.
Finally, never take a job from a recruiter like Excell... the pay is miserable enough without someone taking 10-40%. Look for a listing of game companies in your area or places you are willing to move to, find which ones need testers, and submit resumes and samples.
The companies offer you phones for free but make up for it with higher overall prices once you are locked in. It makes sense for them to tie you into hardware, as American phones are carrier-specific anyway.
Expect that nokia which you got for free to cost you 100 dollars now. If you figure the phone company is gouging you to the tune of 10 dollars per month due to effectively creating a monopoly pricing market, over the two-year upgrade cycle you have lost 140 dollars on the deal. If you upgrade every 3 years, that's 260 dollars down the tube.
They wouldn't do it if it wasn't financially advantageous to them. As I mentioned however, the US is a seething pile of mixed signal standards, and will likely remain so for many years keeping people locked in to the hardware as before... When and if this finally gets implemented and you are really itching to run, like when a phone company drops your night and weekend minutes and charges you 300 dollars in a single billing cycle, you can switch without upsetting business contacts which may be worth significantly more than the cost of a phone.
Sorry, when congress has to delay bills because it cannot convince a quorum to show up, and when legislation sneaks through because nobody significant bothered to read the bill, one must question the dedication of congress to satisfying their mandate. Perhaps I should rephrase the statement as, "good luck finding 3 congressmen with enough time to read the bill, especially when they must raise one thousand dollars per day every day for the length of their term to have enough funds to be re-elected"
Of course I'll complain when things don't go my way... how else can one be heard in this democracy? Perhaps I will be ignored as fringe because I have long hair, an alternative lifestyle, and a tiny car, but it would be disingenuous for anyone to cloak themselves in the clothing of the mainstream in order to sway opinion on the general public's beliefs.
This was talked about, at one time, for the president to stop this paticular problem...but has not happend. If it did then it would be pointless to add the extras because they would be dropped more than accepted.
The line item veto was enacted by congress (amazingly) in 1996, and was used by clinton 82 times on 11 bills to save 2 billion dollars over the course of the year before it was declared unconstitutional. More info here, or through your friendly google affiliate.
For example, any site that registers slash.com, slashdo.org, lashdot.org, or any variant thereof should have a valid use for that name. I'm personally somewhat offended by the people who register porn names as a trivial misspelling of a popular site, but I am equally offended when brought to a site such as domaincollection.com (who owns the lashdot.org and com domains) or that horrible "SEARCH THE INTERNET!" page at www.yaho.com.
Anywhere else this would be considered a misleading business practice. MacDowells serving Big Mic's? yaho.com running a search engine? Revoke their business licences, or throw the creeps in jail. This isn't a bad practice of porn sites, this is a bad practice.
Every proposed piece of legislation must receive *three* full readings out loud *in parliament* before it can be voted on and passed through to the upper house.
Broadband users are worried about MP3's, sharing video, and clients who mail them 100MB zip files of photoshop documents. Surfing faster? Sure, it would be *nice*, but it is by no means the reason to have broadband.
Earthlink is right, this is a step towards a better dialup but with no risk of taking a chunk out of their Comcast DSL market.
I can't think of any reason why HTML compression and intelligent caching can't be used in a broadband connection to make that 1 second reload of slashdot a.5 second reload.
The reviewer apparently forgot the MAMED digital camera port of the Multi Arcade Machine Emulator. If the G3 is like Canon's other cameras, it runs a version of dos on an x86 compatible chipset.
With the potential for mame, and that high-res display, the G3 could be the better gaming machine than the gameboy advanced sp for only ummm... 5x the money.
In order to stop the illegal distribution of music for people who don't pay, the industry has gone out of their way to harass and annoy those who actually do pay.
This must be some sort of Hudsucker Proxyesque scheme. Paul Newman would be proud.
Come to think of it, Paul Newman might be in on it.
Is this the answer to cutting the mountain of chargers I have to carry all the time?" God wouldn't that be a dream come true?
The reason there are so many different chargers is intentional incompatibility. Splash Charge themselves shows evidence of this, as they intend to charge "between 25 and 50 dollars" when this ships. How much does a replacement AC adapter cost you? About 10 - 20 dollars in a normal device. How much does it cost the company? Pennies.
Besides voltage settings (12 volts would be pretty even), there is no reason why device manufacturers couldn't have standardized on an 4-mm sized center positive 1.0 Amp plug by now. The ability to charge multiple devices at once is interesting, though one has to wonder how strong such a device could be with a reasonably sized wall wart.
The technology is very cool and I look forward to using it someday. But I expect once that day comes, it will be a propreitary charging pad, able to fit only a specific device thanks to some unnecessary plastic tabs.
The upstairs neighbor bought one with an above-average refresh time last week. He returned it within three days, unsatisfied with the trailing during intense WC3 matches.
Do you even use these things, or are you going on conjecture?
So, what's the problem? I know his back needs to be fully healed, but if it's in the final stages of healing, why not delay production until it's healed?
Because then nobody else will be available for at least another year, probably two to get everyone from Rami, to Kierstun, to the cinematographer, to the musicians, etc, etc, etc. You would have to re-rent studio time, orchestrations, catering, gaffe, grip, assistants, transportation, post-production, promotion...
Waiting until the star is healed is not really an option. And Tobey in a wheelchair for the rest of his life isn't a good option either. And cutting the production schedule from 8 weeks to 4 won't cut it...
Best to hope for the best with the new actor. He's very good. And unlike batman, nobody else will have changed.
Has anyone even watched what the director did to the colors, the theme, the riddler? Batman went from a deep, dark, brooding near killer to a vehicle to sell breakfast cereal and toys due to pressure from Kenner and parents groups. Keaton left, but so did Burton, Elfman, and a host of other talents who contributed greatly to the overall feel of the first two movies.
Batman was too popular to not get sunk by special interests. Keaton jumping ship didn't really matter: Clooney played a wonderful batman in "From Dusk till Dawn," and Kilmer fit the strong silent persona rather well. But the movie they were starring in, and in fact the role they were written, had intentionally lost the edge which made the series popular in the first place... Companies didn't like parents having to explain to children why catwoman was electrocuting the bad guy with a tazer while putting her tongue down his throat on the cover of batman cereal.
Star Wars suffered the same fate. What made it great was the collaboration of people working to it's strengths, but once it became legend external considerations (such as enormous egos) got in the way of quality filmmaking.
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OS/2 Warp would be nice, and it does run a lot of ATM's, but if the film industry was thinking clearly they would pay someone to create a protected MPEG4 implentation in C++ for Intel's new programmable bios. Three second reboot,
If the market for the number of digital screens is just equal to the number of US theartres showing Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets during it's opening weekend, and each of which was charged 200 dollars for this bios program, you stand to make 700,000 dollars. Worldwide, and with a distribution system allowing you to make a cut on fixed hardware sales, you stand to make millions.
Sound like a pretty good deal. It would be non-trivial to implement a THX certified sound system, but the rewards would outweigh the drawbacks.
When I see a developing country without a stable economic base pirating software I see support going into creating a future trading partner. The argument that a person who cannot afford a piece of software wouldn't pay anyway holds a lot more weight when that person cannot afford a flushable toilet. 500$ for MS office is high here, but for a person that earns that much in six months it is ludicrous.
Many people who have programmed for many years have the nagging knowledge that what they do does not directly grow food, build houses, or provide emotional support. Tolerating a little piracy in developing nations can be a way to provide some kind of aid.
Quick! We must pirate this report! Who has a hacked e-book version, for my copy of Kazaa with the commercials cut out?
I expect that those %40 Warezed programs show up on %5-10 of the computers, as it is a lot easier to install every program out there if you don't plan on paying for any of it.
How often does the tape get chewed up in a modern projector. I go to the movies every other week, and in the past four years there have been two movies stopped due to projector failure. This isn't the ISS, people won't die if the projector needs to take a 5 minute break. And honestly, Windows XP does run very reliably and stably for the first two hours, and clearing a theartre takes a lot longer than rebooting XP (Windows 98, no. XP...).
Windows has been running for years in many display kiosks around town and info-screens at the airport. You know it's Windows, because NT will pop up every now and then with a bluish happy little screen. But these things are left on all of the time, all day. If all a machine had to do was boot, display a WM9 file, and reboot, XP should be fine.
Honestly, I'd expect fewer people will be dissappointed with the projection than with the content when the next digitally-projected Star Wars comes out.
Such a system will probably be initially implemented for long-range sniper teams. Such a team using this particular weapon could move into an abandoned house nearly 3 times as far away as current sniper rifle's maximum range, could fire more quietly, and hopefully would have the distance and confusion to get away. In addition, this weapon prototype is tuned to replace the m-16 as a rapid-fire battlefield meat and potatoes weapon... lazers are more likely to begin its life as a stationary or semi-stationary weapon like machine guns in WW1 or grenade launchers. As an assassination tool, tuned to fire once but be hidden in a pair of guitar cases, it could be quite effective and available quite soon.
Replacing the M-16 seems like the wrong way to begin down the technology curve... More specialized applications like a cartridge-based sniper rifle, truck-mounted anti-aircraft lazers, or bridge / encampment defense lazer positions seem like a more useful... use. Their strength lies in distance, not power, and that is what they should be used for.
There have been many, many comments along these lines here at slashdot (why would I expect more?), and it is just wrong.
Twenty-three obviously represents a two in the second order digit and a three in the first order digit. In addition, our language has an implied base 10 marker, though not an inherent one. We did not name 2^6 number of sticks as "si-cs-ti-for", like we did a "pair" of sticks, we constructed that number out of a shared understanding of a base 10 numerical system.
If you ask someone to write down "one, two, three, and four" and they do so as "1,10,11,100," that would be a conversion between bases. The proper way to read that back would either be "one binary, one zero binary, one one binary, one zero zero binary" or "binary one, ten, eleven, one hundred," depending upon whether the person you are speaking to ties colloquial number abbreviations to base 10 or not.
If someone asked you to read the hexadecimal "23" (or in computer terms 0x23), the proper way is to say "twenty-three." If you had just said "thirty-five," the base-10 equivalent, you would not have communicated the number effectively: you would need to say "thirty-five base ten," at which point your friend would probably say he needed the hexidecimal, thank you.
Any numbers you see or speak have an explicit or an implied base, whether you can see it or not.
Don't be out to make the "best game in the world," that is an amorphous target that will always move, and will never be achieveable in the time you have alotted.
Instead, try to make the best-selling game in the world, preferably within the constraints of your budget.
Don't you mean "There are 11...those who know binary, those that don't, and those whose knowledge of binary cannot be copied without the express written consent of the Mathematics Professors Association of America."
The forums at Silent PC Review would be a great place to pose this question. I go by seishino there, but anyone will be able to help.
External? The asus in front of me shipped with a 3 foot cable... that's definitely long enough to take outside of the case, but that wouldn't quiet the problem. There are some amazingly expensive fanless solutions available if you look (200$+), but for most people replacing the fan is good enough. There are also water-cooled psus, but they are also too expensive realistically for college use. Pick up a low-flo panaflos (L1A) from one of the places listed in the "hot deals" section (if you are near boston, I can get one to you), and put that in place of your fan. That is enough to cut sound down noticably.
The meat of this article seems to be that you have 3 different OS's running, presumably as virtual machines, with a host that handles balloting of responses. So, in order to achieve security of outgoing responses, you have 4 times the infrastructure. However, for the military's purposes, they want to hide secrets and limit access to the machine... a problem that will be compounded when 3 different sets of vulnerabilities are placed on the internet. Apparently another set of machines will be needed to store data on a private network, lest someone hack into one of the secured machines. Ignoring what must be greatly reduced response per second times, you have now 8x the infrastructure. Somehow this seems like a solution only the Army would come up with.
The person who left their network wide open chose to do so. The idea that an average person can't pick an even mediocre 8 byte password and copy that to any device they want to access the network with is ludicrous. Leaving a wireless network completely unsecured is a sign that they want to share their bandwidth with people who need it. You obviously needed it. It's like electrical outlets left unprotected in public spaces, or the piles of books people leave in the subway: if they didn't want it to be used publically, they would have hit the "password enable" checkbox on their router setup program.
Now, whether or not that person was stealing from their ISP by giving you access is a different issue... I know our ISP has setup an open wireless network as a test program for people on this block, but many feel differently. Still, contract clauses are not the same thing as rights or ownership, and I wouldn't expect the ISP was paying by the bit, nor their backbone provider.
Sleep well, young skywalker... the commons is not stealing, despite what AOLTimeWarner may say...
Game testing is a lot more fun than many other jobs out there, but you have to enjoy bug hunting more than playing games. You have to have a sadistic desire to bring the whole project to a hault for a day during crunch time, and make everyone pissed at you, or you won't do any good.
The best thing to do if you are having trouble getting in, is to beta test as much as possible, and put that on your resume. Keep your resume concise and to the point, showing efficient literacy. And let them know how much you know about gaming and what faqs you have written / how methodical you are about playing.
Finally, never take a job from a recruiter like Excell... the pay is miserable enough without someone taking 10-40%. Look for a listing of game companies in your area or places you are willing to move to, find which ones need testers, and submit resumes and samples.
Good luck!
The companies offer you phones for free but make up for it with higher overall prices once you are locked in. It makes sense for them to tie you into hardware, as American phones are carrier-specific anyway.
Expect that nokia which you got for free to cost you 100 dollars now. If you figure the phone company is gouging you to the tune of 10 dollars per month due to effectively creating a monopoly pricing market, over the two-year upgrade cycle you have lost 140 dollars on the deal. If you upgrade every 3 years, that's 260 dollars down the tube.
They wouldn't do it if it wasn't financially advantageous to them. As I mentioned however, the US is a seething pile of mixed signal standards, and will likely remain so for many years keeping people locked in to the hardware as before... When and if this finally gets implemented and you are really itching to run, like when a phone company drops your night and weekend minutes and charges you 300 dollars in a single billing cycle, you can switch without upsetting business contacts which may be worth significantly more than the cost of a phone.
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Sorry, when congress has to delay bills because it cannot convince a quorum to show up, and when legislation sneaks through because nobody significant bothered to read the bill, one must question the dedication of congress to satisfying their mandate. Perhaps I should rephrase the statement as, "good luck finding 3 congressmen with enough time to read the bill, especially when they must raise one thousand dollars per day every day for the length of their term to have enough funds to be re-elected"
Of course I'll complain when things don't go my way... how else can one be heard in this democracy? Perhaps I will be ignored as fringe because I have long hair, an alternative lifestyle, and a tiny car, but it would be disingenuous for anyone to cloak themselves in the clothing of the mainstream in order to sway opinion on the general public's beliefs.
This was talked about, at one time, for the president to stop this paticular problem...but has not happend. If it did then it would be pointless to add the extras because they would be dropped more than accepted.
The line item veto was enacted by congress (amazingly) in 1996, and was used by clinton 82 times on 11 bills to save 2 billion dollars over the course of the year before it was declared unconstitutional. More info here, or through your friendly google affiliate.
For example, any site that registers slash.com, slashdo.org, lashdot.org, or any variant thereof should have a valid use for that name. I'm personally somewhat offended by the people who register porn names as a trivial misspelling of a popular site, but I am equally offended when brought to a site such as domaincollection.com (who owns the lashdot.org and com domains) or that horrible "SEARCH THE INTERNET!" page at www.yaho.com.
Anywhere else this would be considered a misleading business practice. MacDowells serving Big Mic's? yaho.com running a search engine? Revoke their business licences, or throw the creeps in jail. This isn't a bad practice of porn sites, this is a bad practice.
Every proposed piece of legislation must receive *three* full readings out loud *in parliament* before it can be voted on and passed through to the upper house.
Good luck finding 3 US congressmen who can read.
Broadband users are worried about MP3's, sharing video, and clients who mail them 100MB zip files of photoshop documents. Surfing faster? Sure, it would be *nice*, but it is by no means the reason to have broadband.
.5 second reload.
Earthlink is right, this is a step towards a better dialup but with no risk of taking a chunk out of their Comcast DSL market.
I can't think of any reason why HTML compression and intelligent caching can't be used in a broadband connection to make that 1 second reload of slashdot a
The reviewer apparently forgot the MAMED digital camera port of the Multi Arcade Machine Emulator. If the G3 is like Canon's other cameras, it runs a version of dos on an x86 compatible chipset.
With the potential for mame, and that high-res display, the G3 could be the better gaming machine than the gameboy advanced sp for only ummm... 5x the money.
In order to stop the illegal distribution of music for people who don't pay, the industry has gone out of their way to harass and annoy those who actually do pay.
This must be some sort of Hudsucker Proxyesque scheme. Paul Newman would be proud.
Come to think of it, Paul Newman might be in on it.
Is this the answer to cutting the mountain of chargers I have to carry all the time?" God wouldn't that be a dream come true?
The reason there are so many different chargers is intentional incompatibility. Splash Charge themselves shows evidence of this, as they intend to charge "between 25 and 50 dollars" when this ships. How much does a replacement AC adapter cost you? About 10 - 20 dollars in a normal device. How much does it cost the company? Pennies.
Besides voltage settings (12 volts would be pretty even), there is no reason why device manufacturers couldn't have standardized on an 4-mm sized center positive 1.0 Amp plug by now. The ability to charge multiple devices at once is interesting, though one has to wonder how strong such a device could be with a reasonably sized wall wart.
The technology is very cool and I look forward to using it someday. But I expect once that day comes, it will be a propreitary charging pad, able to fit only a specific device thanks to some unnecessary plastic tabs.
The upstairs neighbor bought one with an above-average refresh time last week. He returned it within three days, unsatisfied with the trailing during intense WC3 matches.
Do you even use these things, or are you going on conjecture?
So, what's the problem? I know his back needs to be fully healed, but if it's in the final stages of healing, why not delay production until it's healed?
Because then nobody else will be available for at least another year, probably two to get everyone from Rami, to Kierstun, to the cinematographer, to the musicians, etc, etc, etc. You would have to re-rent studio time, orchestrations, catering, gaffe, grip, assistants, transportation, post-production, promotion...
Waiting until the star is healed is not really an option. And Tobey in a wheelchair for the rest of his life isn't a good option either. And cutting the production schedule from 8 weeks to 4 won't cut it...
Best to hope for the best with the new actor. He's very good. And unlike batman, nobody else will have changed.
I wish people would stop saying that.
Has anyone even watched what the director did to the colors, the theme, the riddler? Batman went from a deep, dark, brooding near killer to a vehicle to sell breakfast cereal and toys due to pressure from Kenner and parents groups. Keaton left, but so did Burton, Elfman, and a host of other talents who contributed greatly to the overall feel of the first two movies.
Batman was too popular to not get sunk by special interests. Keaton jumping ship didn't really matter: Clooney played a wonderful batman in "From Dusk till Dawn," and Kilmer fit the strong silent persona rather well. But the movie they were starring in, and in fact the role they were written, had intentionally lost the edge which made the series popular in the first place... Companies didn't like parents having to explain to children why catwoman was electrocuting the bad guy with a tazer while putting her tongue down his throat on the cover of batman cereal.
Star Wars suffered the same fate. What made it great was the collaboration of people working to it's strengths, but once it became legend external considerations (such as enormous egos) got in the way of quality filmmaking.