In San Francisco, we've fixed this problem by banning most left turns on major streets. If you need to go left, follow Gallagher's advice: Two wrongs don't make a right--three rights make a left.
Though, this doesn't really work for cities that don't sit on a grid-like street system. In suburbia you'd be hard pressed to find any sort of frontage road nowadays.
This piece of chicken in my hand, is arguably solid state as there are no [longer any] moving parts. However, when I apply heat to it, it begins to degrade to a point where it is no longer tasty.
This would work really well in environments that are pretty clear. I only studied a little astronomy but, what if we were to:
- Use radio from the ground to orbit? I think this is pretty common already. Lasers as we know suffer more from weather than radio. - Use laser from Earth orbit to furthest possible point without a significant signal loss. - And then, use radio from that point on?
Imagine you're trying to send a signal from a clear area, through a forest, to another clear area. Laser wouldn't work through the forest, but radio would. I also think that laser would require more power than radio, making it more feasible to have laser power outside of Earth orbit, then using radio for further away.
You think it's going to be any better at home? Kids want attention, they want food and they want their needs to be cared for. While they probably don't have cell phones, they do kick things and talk, cry and scream A LOT.
Granted you can pause the DVD, rewind or whatever, but every stop or rewind is just going to make you one step closer to not understanding, or not liking the DVD.
You make a good point... sure free Wifi will "bridge the digital divide between the Internet haves and have-nots" but will it bridge the divide between the computer haves and have-nots?
Unfortunately this agreement between Google-Earthlink and the City of SF is only helping those many unemployed people get wifi access whose local coffee shop are to cheap to provide wifi access for their customers.
Is this agreement going to increase computer accessibility to the poor? Are there going to be more computers at the public library branches located throughout the city? Don't push your luck.
What you've just listed are things that will make the Theater Industry most definitely go out of business.
>> 1. Pay the workers more than min wage. That way they're be cheerful and friendly to me.
While Henry Ford did this with his employees, movie ushers have a really laid back job. I was an usher for over 2 years, and a good portion of that time was spent sitting back watching movies and chatting with the other employees, or even the manager. What would I do if I had made more money there? I'd ask for more hours, and screw around even more.
>> 2. Don't make me pay insane prices for food/drink.
This is how theaters make their money to pay for their employees. They make absolutely nothing on the ticket prices so, unless you want the ticket prices to go up [which would lower demand, and ultimately cause corporate HQ to shut you down], the price of concessions will stay the same.
>> 3. Start to use digital projectors. (Make the experience better with better looking films.)
Film buffs prefer the look of film. It's much more natural unless of course you're watching something that is made entirely of CGI [Ice Age, Matrix, Star Wars, etc], the best look is from film. Anyways, the price of digital projectors is ASTRONOMICAL. Go own your own digital projector and ask a distributor if you could rent a copy of a digital movie. They will say no, hands down. Too much of a risk letting an individual get ahold of a superb digital quality picture.
>> 4. Show better films. (Talk to your friends in Hollywood, tell them to spend less of their budgets on marketing and more on the script.)
Show better films you say? Vote with your dollars. If you don't like the movie, don't see it. If you do like it, go see it. There's a bathtub graph comparing the Stupidness of the Movie and the Success of the Movie.
>> 5. Move the seats further apart. Make it a comfortable experience.
If you're a hefty fellow, I can understand. We had lotsa hefty fellows at our theater, but they survived. Look at the majority of theaters throughout the world. Look at the ones in the past. Movie theaters have survived with the spacing of the seats. If you're afraid your best friend is gonna put your arm around you well, you should talk to him about it.
>> 6. Fewer commericals. (More trailers instead.)
This is the only part that I agree on. The theater that I most frequent has a live organist playing music before the main show. It's terrific and its fun.
The links that you provided do not imply that the UN is a for-profit organization. Bribery != profit. Profit implies investment, which implies stockholders. This is not the case.
I believe that this technology can scale much better than cell phones and advertising. Think televisions!
Right now we have heavy CRT projection TVs, very hot plasmas, and very small LCD screens. This electronic paper, made so thin, could reduce the weight of a television so much, it could be mounted to a wall without attaching it on a stud. Energy consumption would be kept at a minimum, while retaining intense color. It would be great for airports that air CNN or any other news station with the news ticker.
Or it could be as easy as signing for it from the FedEx guy, and walking out. Seriously, it has happened in the past in the theater that I had worked at. But it was alright, we got another can o' film the next day.
Adding RAM to sound cards would be great! Imagine loading 1GB of soundclips into your soundcard, relieving much stress off of your system RAM. That would be great for DJs and electronic and techno artists.
... the FBI, for a short time, became mysteriously more productive within the span of 12 hours. Some say that their coffee was spiked with a new secret uber-caffeine, while others say a lack of spam in their e-mail boxes allowed them to work more freely.
Not only that, but personnel over at the Central Intelligence Agency as well as the National Security Agency have also become more friendlier. One employee was noted saying, "Thank God! I was so fucking tired of those guys sending me pics of Goatse!"
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In San Francisco, we've fixed this problem by banning most left turns on major streets. If you need to go left, follow Gallagher's advice: Two wrongs don't make a right--three rights make a left.
Though, this doesn't really work for cities that don't sit on a grid-like street system. In suburbia you'd be hard pressed to find any sort of frontage road nowadays.
I agree.
This piece of chicken in my hand, is arguably solid state as there are no [longer any] moving parts. However, when I apply heat to it, it begins to degrade to a point where it is no longer tasty.
WTF?! My piece of chicken should last decades.
This would work really well in environments that are pretty clear. I only studied a little astronomy but, what if we were to:
- Use radio from the ground to orbit? I think this is pretty common already. Lasers as we know suffer more from weather than radio.
- Use laser from Earth orbit to furthest possible point without a significant signal loss.
- And then, use radio from that point on?
Imagine you're trying to send a signal from a clear area, through a forest, to another clear area. Laser wouldn't work through the forest, but radio would.
I also think that laser would require more power than radio, making it more feasible to have laser power outside of Earth orbit, then using radio for further away.
What do you think?
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I don't know about you, but my neighbors would have a heart attack if they saw a 50-foot tall spinning torch in my backyard.
Unless of course I attached an American flag to it.
Your Segway gets that far? Mine tells me I need to download Segway Genuine Advantage before I can install any more updates.
I guess we'll be seeing Pierre Bernard on Conan again... he's gonna be PISSED!
You think it's going to be any better at home? Kids want attention, they want food and they want their needs to be cared for. While they probably don't have cell phones, they do kick things and talk, cry and scream A LOT.
Granted you can pause the DVD, rewind or whatever, but every stop or rewind is just going to make you one step closer to not understanding, or not liking the DVD.
Perhaps it should be called "The Next iPod Killer Killer".
Doctor: "Okay... time to check if we left any tools inside. I will need the RFID scanner."
Nurse: "Uh... I can't find it."
Doctor: "What? Oh shit..."
America's Army in Real Life
Pvt. Trevor has been mortally wounded.
Medic Jones: "Hurry! We need to freeze him ASAP!"
*** 2 HOURS LATER ***
Pvt. Trevor: "Dude I respawned!"
You make a good point. I hear more about people dying for "freedom" than for science.
You make a good point... sure free Wifi will "bridge the digital divide between the Internet haves and have-nots" but will it bridge the divide between the computer haves and have-nots?
Unfortunately this agreement between Google-Earthlink and the City of SF is only helping those many unemployed people get wifi access whose local coffee shop are to cheap to provide wifi access for their customers.
Is this agreement going to increase computer accessibility to the poor? Are there going to be more computers at the public library branches located throughout the city? Don't push your luck.
What you've just listed are things that will make the Theater Industry most definitely go out of business.
>> 1. Pay the workers more than min wage. That way they're be cheerful and friendly to me.
While Henry Ford did this with his employees, movie ushers have a really laid back job. I was an usher for over 2 years, and a good portion of that time was spent sitting back watching movies and chatting with the other employees, or even the manager. What would I do if I had made more money there? I'd ask for more hours, and screw around even more.
>> 2. Don't make me pay insane prices for food/drink.
This is how theaters make their money to pay for their employees. They make absolutely nothing on the ticket prices so, unless you want the ticket prices to go up [which would lower demand, and ultimately cause corporate HQ to shut you down], the price of concessions will stay the same.
>> 3. Start to use digital projectors. (Make the experience better with better looking films.)
Film buffs prefer the look of film. It's much more natural unless of course you're watching something that is made entirely of CGI [Ice Age, Matrix, Star Wars, etc], the best look is from film. Anyways, the price of digital projectors is ASTRONOMICAL. Go own your own digital projector and ask a distributor if you could rent a copy of a digital movie. They will say no, hands down. Too much of a risk letting an individual get ahold of a superb digital quality picture.
>> 4. Show better films. (Talk to your friends in Hollywood, tell them to spend less of their budgets on marketing and more on the script.)
Show better films you say? Vote with your dollars. If you don't like the movie, don't see it. If you do like it, go see it. There's a bathtub graph comparing the Stupidness of the Movie and the Success of the Movie.
>> 5. Move the seats further apart. Make it a comfortable experience.
If you're a hefty fellow, I can understand. We had lotsa hefty fellows at our theater, but they survived. Look at the majority of theaters throughout the world. Look at the ones in the past. Movie theaters have survived with the spacing of the seats. If you're afraid your best friend is gonna put your arm around you well, you should talk to him about it.
>> 6. Fewer commericals. (More trailers instead.)
This is the only part that I agree on. The theater that I most frequent has a live organist playing music before the main show. It's terrific and its fun.
Didn't you read? That's a feature, not a flaw.
Don't worry there's a lot of female virgins out there just like you.
AMEX, NYSE, etc. apply to the trade of securities.
MercExchange's patent only applies towards auctions, and was quite apparent in the parent poster.
The links that you provided do not imply that the UN is a for-profit organization. Bribery != profit. Profit implies investment, which implies stockholders. This is not the case.
What's so funny about the parent post?
They really do.
I believe that this technology can scale much better than cell phones and advertising. Think televisions!
Right now we have heavy CRT projection TVs, very hot plasmas, and very small LCD screens. This electronic paper, made so thin, could reduce the weight of a television so much, it could be mounted to a wall without attaching it on a stud. Energy consumption would be kept at a minimum, while retaining intense color. It would be great for airports that air CNN or any other news station with the news ticker.
Or maybe the jury will leave with a new 60GB iPod Photo, of course if they decide Apple is innocent.
Hell, I wouldn't mind jury duty--I'd look forward to it--if I knew I was going to get an iPod!
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One Night in Leia
Or it could be as easy as signing for it from the FedEx guy, and walking out. Seriously, it has happened in the past in the theater that I had worked at. But it was alright, we got another can o' film the next day.
Adding RAM to sound cards would be great! Imagine loading 1GB of soundclips into your soundcard, relieving much stress off of your system RAM. That would be great for DJs and electronic and techno artists.
... the FBI, for a short time, became mysteriously more productive within the span of 12 hours. Some say that their coffee was spiked with a new secret uber-caffeine, while others say a lack of spam in their e-mail boxes allowed them to work more freely.
Not only that, but personnel over at the Central Intelligence Agency as well as the National Security Agency have also become more friendlier. One employee was noted saying, "Thank God! I was so fucking tired of those guys sending me pics of Goatse!"