Escape U.S. law and go the way of the online casino: to the Caribbean Ocean!
I seriously believe this would be a viable option. Especially if a number of webcasters teamed up to build a server farm on some island already having an established infrastructure and a good net connection.
Not everyone might be able to move their operations to Sealand, but there are plenty of other little islands out there!
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not quite, they didn't make a profit by fudging numbers (pro forma), but they didn't make a profit by selling product, either.
amazon has a large amount of cash on hand. they moved this around in the financial markets last quarter, and happened to make quite a killing. if this weren't factored in, they still lost money.
so yes, Amazon.com made money from good business practices, but not from selling coffee table books.
Well, it IS a movie. You know, there wouldn't have been much of one if they just returned to base in the beginning. A friend of mine spoke a phrase when entering a movie theater: "Suspend Your Disbelief." Star Wars? That's realistic? Yeah, okay, Behind Enemy Lines is loosly based on actual events, buy you have to allow the directors some latitude.
What I thought was great were the enemy. They weren't some clownish ultra-evil goons, but semi-evil, following-orders types. I was relieved (for the movie's sake) when the pilot was killed, rather than seeing the film turn the co-pilot into some sort of rambo super battle dude. Cause he's just an aviator. He's got basic combat training, so the level of conflict they put him in as a downed pilot was appropriate.
And those cuts and arty-mcfarty camera work were great. No tired Matrix camera-swirlies, but lots of speed switches and stuff. Now I totally hated John Woo's Mission Impossible 2... I thought half of it was in slo-mo. But this film made great use of special effects. And, now this blew me away... THEY USED MINATURES!!! Why people complain A New Hope looked better than Phantom Menace? Because minatures STILL look better than CG for the most part. Witness the rag doll, plastic-faced CG models on broomsticks in Harry Potter.
Oh, and no doubt that the message of this film is straight propaganda from the Feds. Hollywood following orders. But sit back and enjoy the unbridled patriotism!
though it is tempting, hold off on any gift subscriptions to certain athletic member-ships.Technology is progressing so fast in this area, that the upgrades purchased by early-adopters today may become obsolete quickly.
try searching Google for the first eight numbers (or fewer) of your credit card... these are the numbers that indicate the bank, and therefore can be quite common... ex: XXXX XXXX (space in between)...
i found a page with transaction data from some small web merchant. it utilized the unfathomably secure method of Black Text on Black Background. something any Neo who's surfing Source Code could pick up.
i always hear about problems with ghosting and such on LCDs... i've got one of the first LCDs that Apple came out with three years ago (15", analog) and have NO PROBLEM with Quake3, DeusEx, etc. The display and refresh are beautiful.
Does anyone know who actually supplies Apple with the raw LCD panels?
right! The Cray-1, introduced in 1976, had 200,000 freon-cooled ICs and could perform 100 million floating point operations per second (100 MFLOPs) so, um, i don't think my Visor can do that, but is anything close?
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Escape U.S. law and go the way of the online casino: to the Caribbean Ocean! I seriously believe this would be a viable option. Especially if a number of webcasters teamed up to build a server farm on some island already having an established infrastructure and a good net connection. Not everyone might be able to move their operations to Sealand, but there are plenty of other little islands out there! ----------------
amazon has a large amount of cash on hand. they moved this around in the financial markets last quarter, and happened to make quite a killing. if this weren't factored in, they still lost money.
so yes, Amazon.com made money from good business practices, but not from selling coffee table books.
What I thought was great were the enemy. They weren't some clownish ultra-evil goons, but semi-evil, following-orders types. I was relieved (for the movie's sake) when the pilot was killed, rather than seeing the film turn the co-pilot into some sort of rambo super battle dude. Cause he's just an aviator. He's got basic combat training, so the level of conflict they put him in as a downed pilot was appropriate.
And those cuts and arty-mcfarty camera work were great. No tired Matrix camera-swirlies, but lots of speed switches and stuff. Now I totally hated John Woo's Mission Impossible 2... I thought half of it was in slo-mo. But this film made great use of special effects. And, now this blew me away... THEY USED MINATURES!!! Why people complain A New Hope looked better than Phantom Menace? Because minatures STILL look better than CG for the most part. Witness the rag doll, plastic-faced CG models on broomsticks in Harry Potter.
Oh, and no doubt that the message of this film is straight propaganda from the Feds. Hollywood following orders. But sit back and enjoy the unbridled patriotism!
Kick ass movie!
though it is tempting, hold off on any gift subscriptions to certain athletic member-ships.Technology is progressing so fast in this area, that the upgrades purchased by early-adopters today may become obsolete quickly.
i found a page with transaction data from some small web merchant. it utilized the unfathomably secure method of Black Text on Black Background. something any Neo who's surfing Source Code could pick up.
Does anyone know who actually supplies Apple with the raw LCD panels?
At the least, we have *Crays* on our desks...