I just went and saw this movie last night. It was definately worth the cash to go see it in the indie theatre.
My friends and I wound up having an interesting discussion of the film on the way to the pub. My theory was that the film was not a horror, nor, despite the amusing parts, was it a comedy. It was a tragedy.
The vampire read Dracula and realized how low his unlife had come. His commentary about how sad a novel Dracula was really highlights this. He's mourning the loss of his golden years and sees himself as fallen farther than Dracula had. As well, he falls in love with the romantisized ideal of an undead as presented by Stroker. He agrees to do the film, as it allows him to, however briefly, live this romantic ideal of what a vampire is to be.
Another good one was/is You Don't Know Jack, the Webshow. The game's broken up into segments and there's a couple of commercials between each segment. The game's great and the ads fit in well with the gameshow atmosphere.
I'm kinda worried too. I'm taking a computer security course and in the course of this course, we learn all about computer security vulnerabilities. I've got a couple of books and a lot of notes on how to break into and harden computer systems.
If anybody really wanted, I'm sure they could come up with a reason to have me incarcerated based on that..
I saw this movie last night and was pleasantly surprised. I didn't really know what to expect going in (martial arts/action/romance?), so I think the fact that I had no expectations other than an interesting movie helped.
The friends I went to see it with and I were talking afterwards and we were discussing the parallels between the action in the movie to that in some anime, particularly Ranma 1/2. Flying across rooftops, fast martial arts action, one girl beating up on a lot of armed guys (episode one?).
Nevertheless, it was a very good story. I think if the ending of the movie had been different, it would have lessened the movie. I felt it was well worth the time and money spent.
I recommended it to a friend and she said that already 4 others had recommended it to her in the last 3 days. I think that the lack of advertising (at least up here in Edmonton - I haven't seen many ads for this movie) is going to be made up for by word of mouth.
I worked the 2300 to 0700 shift myself, right out of college, but I don't quite remember this shift bonus you're talking about. You see, my emloyers were too cheap to pay the sole midnight cashier extra, yet wondered why they had trouble finding people to work that shift.
Luckily, I went back to school and no longer have to worry about work..
I grew up an hour's drive from the nearest city (Edmonton, Alberta). Cable was a novel thing that I got to view when I went to visit my grandparents. When I was in HS, the coolest thing ever was dialing up to a BBS in a neighbouring town (the one BBS with no long-distance charges tacked on) and downloading files at 9600 baud. Since I've left for university, my parents upgraded the home system and now my youngest brother dialups at 33.6.
He really likes the idea of ADSL access from the country. As well, my father runs a home business, and is looking forward to expand the amount of work he does over the 'net.
Now I'm living in the city (Edmonton), leeching ADSL off my roommate, and the only things I watch on TV are Discovery and TLC.
From his account, (to continue with your analogy a bit) he saw the building, poked around a bit, found the spraypaint & the ladders used, picked 'em up, sorted through them, etc.
All while there's a security guard watching the scene.
Go to Clairview matinees.. $5 cdn and you get to
see new movies in a nice theatre with less of a crowd.
Plus www.edmovieguide.com lets you shop around before you see a movie.
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To all those who are complaining about the quality, this is a quote from the dndmovie.com website about the trailer:
Was It Unauthorized?? You betchya! Are the effects unfinished? Yup. Are those only temp sound effects? Right again. Truth is, it was never supposed to be posted on the net, because it shows the movie in an unfinished state. But it's done now and it can't be taken back, so we might as well wallow in it..heh heh.
Somebody mentioned this earlier: the average maximum age is 76.
You can't vote until you're 18. That means that if you've over 40, you appeal/can relate to a greater segment of the population.
As well, with an shorter average lifespan, maybe the point of having people over 40 was that if they did decide to turn the country into a dictatorship, there was a very finite amount of time they'd be in power.
I'll have to agree. Computers don't belong in a classroom.
Case in point - I'm in class now, not paying attention to the lecture. When class gets boring, I tend to hit the 'net (usually slashdot). I think I'd be better off without the computer, but because it's here, I use it.
And, before anybody mentions it, no, I don't have any willpower..
There are only TWO really web-safe colors - black and white.
Wait.. on old monochrome monitors those'll be black and some other color, which may not be white..
I guess the only websafe color is black.
-Dexx
I was wondering when somebody would mention this one. One of my friends managed to get the entire series at once. After the first week, even those of us who'd only caught a couple of episodes kept coming back to see what happened next. It's got a very engrossing plot line (or at least we thought, after watching the 11th straight tape), despite the above mentioned problems with the main character. (she's a bit of a twit) -Dexx
"On one hand, I'm concerned that the rampant downloading of my copyright-protected material over the Internet is severely eating into my album sales and having a decidedly adverse effect on my career. On the other hand, I can get all the Metallica songs I want for FREE! WOW!!!!! " -Wierd Al from www.wierdal.com, faq page
"What is Chumbawamba's opinion on mp3's?" "I need to buy an mp3 player, they're coming down in price so I think I'll get a Mac-compatible one soon. Thanks for reminding me." -Chumbawamba from www.chumba.com, faq page
From what I've read, most of the posts are pointing out the problems with this study. I'm just curious: Is it possible to design a better study? If so, how? Is there anybody out there willing to do so?
Just idle early-morning musings from a guy with not enough sleep.
Nope, it's not just you. I've been looking for work in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada for (crud! I just realized how long!) over three months now. I've spent a lot of money (bus tickets, long distance phone calls) on interviews, but nothing has materialized.
The most entertaining interview was where the person doing the hiring said that my work could be "done by a housewife who downloaded a program over the weekend" without checking any of the source behind it, just the result. He'd seen the front web pages, which were rather plain - no fancy JavaScript or rollover images - so I wasn't qualified. He missed the fact that most of the pages were dynamically generated using PERL.
The ad for this job: "Wanted: webmaster for company. Must be dedicated to excellence in design." Or something like that. What they wanted: Windows NT/*NIX sysadmin with network (LAN) experience as well as the ability to handle all internet aspects of the company. Which is fine if you've got the experience, but to a new grad, the ad was really misleading.
I finished my schooling 3 months ago. It's been 3 months of solid job searching for me. Guess what - I'm still unemployed. I have experience, both from volunteer work and employment, in the areas I'm looking for work in. I have all the classes for my 3 year degree in Computing Science and I graduate in May. I had good marks, but not exceptional. I'd prefer work in my area of the world (Edmonton, Canada), but I'm not picky and have been applying all over. But I'm getting rejected by people like McDonalds & Wendy's.
I put out about 5-10 resumes a day. My resume's been on Dice for 2 months. (it got me one of my 2 interviews) I don't have the years of experience that everybody wants, so I'm unqualified for IT jobs. I'm finished my degree and I've worked as a technician and a webmaster, so I'm unqualified for other jobs.
I recently applied for a web designer job and recieved an interview. At the interview, they asked to see the pages I'd previously created. The person doing the interview made the comment that '..any housewife could download a program and make pages like that in a weekend..'. He further pointed out my lack of flash animations, javascripts, rollover images, etc.
The websites I displayed had been created exactly as the people I was doing them for had wanted. In fact, there had been a few comments about there being too much graphics, etc due to bandwidth restrictions.
When you combine this with the article on slashdot a while ago (2-3 weeks?) about how most people are still using 56k dialups or slower, making glitzy websites for potential customers seems like a really silly thing to do. Why would a customer be impressed with your company if your company's website takes 15 minutes to load and requires the installation of 2 new plugins?
As well, I agree with an earlier post that consulting the HTML coding of a page can tell you a thing or two about the person who designed it. I spoke with one 'webmaster' whose idea of a well-designed page was one done with the program arachnophilia. They knew only a few things about HTML and nothing about JavaScript/Perl or other languages. Yet they were in charge of the organization's website. Myself, I usually use a graphical webpage building program (I'm liking Macromedia Dreamweaver right now..), but I always view the HTML code of what I'm working on and tweak it a bit as I go.
-Dexx "..and ten billion sushi dinners cried out for vengeance.." -Good Omens
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Interesting how all of Canada has less than some states. Probably because virii can't handle the cold weather.
The motivation here is to help the State as well. By removing the dissadents, the state is better off.
I think there's more of a paralell here.
Hollywood isn't even about advertising. It's about making money. Advertising helps this, but it's not the end goal.
I just went and saw this movie last night. It was definately worth the cash to go see it in the indie theatre.
My friends and I wound up having an interesting discussion of the film on the way to the pub. My theory was that the film was not a horror, nor, despite the amusing parts, was it a comedy. It was a tragedy.
The vampire read Dracula and realized how low his unlife had come. His commentary about how sad a novel Dracula was really highlights this. He's mourning the loss of his golden years and sees himself as fallen farther than Dracula had. As well, he falls in love with the romantisized ideal of an undead as presented by Stroker. He agrees to do the film, as it allows him to, however briefly, live this romantic ideal of what a vampire is to be.
-Dexx
Another good one was/is You Don't Know Jack, the Webshow. The game's broken up into segments and there's a couple of commercials between each segment. The game's great and the ads fit in well with the gameshow atmosphere.
I'm kinda worried too. I'm taking a computer security course and in the course of this course, we learn all about computer security vulnerabilities. I've got a couple of books and a lot of notes on how to break into and harden computer systems.
If anybody really wanted, I'm sure they could come up with a reason to have me incarcerated based on that..
"In Canada, had a politician claimed that, he would have dragged to the Arctic cirlce and left to die."
Ralph Klein, premier of Alberta.
His campain platform was cutting goverment jobs. Twice.
Just figured I'd throw my two cents in.
I saw this movie last night and was pleasantly surprised. I didn't really know what to expect going in (martial arts/action/romance?), so I think the fact that I had no expectations other than an interesting movie helped.
The friends I went to see it with and I were talking afterwards and we were discussing the parallels between the action in the movie to that in some anime, particularly Ranma 1/2. Flying across rooftops, fast martial arts action, one girl beating up on a lot of armed guys (episode one?).
Nevertheless, it was a very good story. I think if the ending of the movie had been different, it would have lessened the movie. I felt it was well worth the time and money spent.
I recommended it to a friend and she said that already 4 others had recommended it to her in the last 3 days. I think that the lack of advertising (at least up here in Edmonton - I haven't seen many ads for this movie) is going to be made up for by word of mouth.
-Dexx
I worked the 2300 to 0700 shift myself, right out of college, but I don't quite remember this shift bonus you're talking about. You see, my emloyers were too cheap to pay the sole midnight cashier extra, yet wondered why they had trouble finding people to work that shift.
Luckily, I went back to school and no longer have to worry about work..
I've gotta put my 2 cents in here too.
I grew up an hour's drive from the nearest city (Edmonton, Alberta). Cable was a novel thing that I got to view when I went to visit my grandparents. When I was in HS, the coolest thing ever was dialing up to a BBS in a neighbouring town (the one BBS with no long-distance charges tacked on) and downloading files at 9600 baud. Since I've left for university, my parents upgraded the home system and now my youngest brother dialups at 33.6.
He really likes the idea of ADSL access from the country. As well, my father runs a home business, and is looking forward to expand the amount of work he does over the 'net.
Now I'm living in the city (Edmonton), leeching ADSL off my roommate, and the only things I watch on TV are Discovery and TLC.
-Dexx, just 'cause
From his account, (to continue with your analogy a bit) he saw the building, poked around a bit, found the spraypaint & the ladders used, picked 'em up, sorted through them, etc.
All while there's a security guard watching the scene.
nice...
That does sum up MUDding rather well..
Go to Clairview matinees.. $5 cdn and you get to
see new movies in a nice theatre with less of a crowd.
Plus www.edmovieguide.com lets you shop around before you see a movie.
To all those who are complaining about the quality, this is a quote from the dndmovie.com website about the trailer:
Was It Unauthorized?? You betchya! Are the effects unfinished? Yup. Are those only temp sound effects? Right again. Truth is, it was never supposed to be posted on the net, because it shows the movie in an unfinished state. But it's done now and it can't be taken back, so we might as well wallow in it..heh heh.
(it came from here)
Somebody mentioned this earlier: the average maximum age is 76.
You can't vote until you're 18. That means that if you've over 40, you appeal/can relate to a greater segment of the population.
As well, with an shorter average lifespan, maybe the point of having people over 40 was that if they did decide to turn the country into a dictatorship, there was a very finite amount of time they'd be in power.
Or maybe I'm wrong.
I know a company that's got a few billion to spare:
Get Microsoft to sponser the car.
Nice car with big, prominant, flashy MS logos on the side. It'll do great things for the company image when the car hits the wall at 200+mph.
Hm.. that could add a new chapter to the Linux vs MS benchmarking - which OS runs a better on a F1 car.
I'll have to agree. Computers don't belong in a classroom.
Case in point - I'm in class now, not paying attention to the lecture. When class gets boring, I tend to hit the 'net (usually slashdot). I think I'd be better off without the computer, but because it's here, I use it.
And, before anybody mentions it, no, I don't have any willpower..
There are only TWO really web-safe colors - black and white. Wait.. on old monochrome monitors those'll be black and some other color, which may not be white.. I guess the only websafe color is black. -Dexx
Great timing on the review, /.
I just had my interview this afternoon for a Java coding job!
-Dexx
I was wondering when somebody would mention this one. One of my friends managed to get the entire series at once. After the first week, even those of us who'd only caught a couple of episodes kept coming back to see what happened next. It's got a very engrossing plot line (or at least we thought, after watching the 11th straight tape), despite the above mentioned problems with the main character. (she's a bit of a twit)
-Dexx
"On one hand, I'm concerned that the rampant downloading of my copyright-protected material over the Internet is severely eating into my album sales and having a decidedly adverse effect on my career. On the other hand, I can get all the Metallica songs I want for FREE! WOW!!!!! "
-Wierd Al from www.wierdal.com, faq page
"What is Chumbawamba's opinion on mp3's?"
"I need to buy an mp3 player, they're coming down in price so I think I'll get a Mac-compatible one soon. Thanks for reminding me."
-Chumbawamba from www.chumba.com, faq page
From what I've read, most of the posts are pointing out the problems with this study.
I'm just curious:
Is it possible to design a better study?
If so, how?
Is there anybody out there willing to do so?
Just idle early-morning musings from a guy with not enough sleep.
-Dexx
Nope, it's not just you.
I've been looking for work in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada for (crud! I just realized how long!) over three months now. I've spent a lot of money (bus tickets, long distance phone calls) on interviews, but nothing has materialized.
The most entertaining interview was where the person doing the hiring said that my work could be "done by a housewife who downloaded a program over the weekend" without checking any of the source behind it, just the result. He'd seen the front web pages, which were rather plain - no fancy JavaScript or rollover images - so I wasn't qualified. He missed the fact that most of the pages were dynamically generated using PERL.
The ad for this job: "Wanted: webmaster for company. Must be dedicated to excellence in design." Or something like that.
What they wanted: Windows NT/*NIX sysadmin with network (LAN) experience as well as the ability to handle all internet aspects of the company. Which is fine if you've got the experience, but to a new grad, the ad was really misleading.
-Dexx
I finished my schooling 3 months ago. It's been 3 months of solid job searching for me. Guess what - I'm still unemployed. I have experience, both from volunteer work and employment, in the areas I'm looking for work in. I have all the classes for my 3 year degree in Computing Science and I graduate in May. I had good marks, but not exceptional. I'd prefer work in my area of the world (Edmonton, Canada), but I'm not picky and have been applying all over. But I'm getting rejected by people like McDonalds & Wendy's.
I put out about 5-10 resumes a day. My resume's been on Dice for 2 months. (it got me one of my 2 interviews) I don't have the years of experience that everybody wants, so I'm unqualified for IT jobs. I'm finished my degree and I've worked as a technician and a webmaster, so I'm unqualified for other jobs.
-Dexx
I recently applied for a web designer job and recieved an interview. At the interview, they asked to see the pages I'd previously created. The person doing the interview made the comment that '..any housewife could download a program and make pages like that in a weekend..'. He further pointed out my lack of flash animations, javascripts, rollover images, etc.
The websites I displayed had been created exactly as the people I was doing them for had wanted. In fact, there had been a few comments about there being too much graphics, etc due to bandwidth restrictions.
When you combine this with the article on slashdot a while ago (2-3 weeks?) about how most people are still using 56k dialups or slower, making glitzy websites for potential customers seems like a really silly thing to do. Why would a customer be impressed with your company if your company's website takes 15 minutes to load and requires the installation of 2 new plugins?
As well, I agree with an earlier post that consulting the HTML coding of a page can tell you a thing or two about the person who designed it. I spoke with one 'webmaster' whose idea of a well-designed page was one done with the program arachnophilia. They knew only a few things about HTML and nothing about JavaScript/Perl or other languages. Yet they were in charge of the organization's website. Myself, I usually use a graphical webpage building program (I'm liking Macromedia Dreamweaver right now..), but I always view the HTML code of what I'm working on and tweak it a bit as I go.
-Dexx
"..and ten billion sushi dinners cried out for vengeance.." -Good Omens