doh! Forgot to multiply by number of showings per day. I shouldn't try to be all smart with numbers right after crawling out of bed. I also should try to get up earlier than 2PM.
Either way, the whole metric is stupid and irrelevant. There are too many other factors in play.
For example, I've seen the movie twice, once while at school and again at home with some friends. The screen I saw it on the first time was a huge digi-screen in a huge megaplex. The second time I saw it in a small theare which was close to 1/4 the size of the first one. So different screens bring in different amounts of revenue. Additionally, the price of a movie at school is $10, while at home it's only $7.50. If a movie shows on 150 screens, at 150 people each, at $7.5 per ticket in one region, thats 150*150*7.5 = $168,750 per day If in another region it opens on only half as many screens, but in theatres which are on average 3 times as big, at at $10 per ticket 75*3*150*10 = $337,500 per day (twice as much) Also, consider differences in time, in which a slightly shorter movie can be shown a few extra times per day on the same number of screens. One could argue that since two movies open across the same theatres, the differnces should affect both films equally. However, two million movies goers paying 6 or 7 dollars each in the midwest may, in general, have different tastes than 12 million people paying 10 dollars each in the northeastern metropolitan areas.
As I think someone mentioned in an earlier story, box office grosses are mainly just marketing tools. There's little consistency in how the data is gathered
A friend of mine who's a judge joked about how they should approve the death penalty for the writer of Melissa back during its heyday. The really funny and/or worrisome part is that now he's a State Supreme Court Justice in VA.
Here's a useful (and fun!) way to evaluate web design.
1. Obtain one (1) bottle of your favorite 80+ proof liquor. 2. Drink past tolerance limits. 3. Load website. (you may wish to do this step before #2) 4. Try to navigate.
If you can easily navigate and find content, it's pretty solid design.
You laugh, but it really is a useful metric. Try it and load amazon.com. To many blocks of test, it's cluttered and thousands of pathways. Now compare to something like slashdot. There's still a large amount of content, but it's still easy to find the important stuff.
Plus its give you an excuse to get hammered at work.
Of course, after shipping it will be discovered that the calculator will only be able to display 128 shades of grey.
In the great HP tradition of innovation...
Re:These kids never saw a recession
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There was an excellent program on PBS I saw one night when I couldn't sleep. It was called Surviving the good times, done by Bill Moyers. It follows two working class families, (one white, one black) from '91 through around '98 or '99. What I found most interesting about it was that once The the rose colored glasses of Dow figures, IPOs, and Forbes articles were removed, I realized that most of this "great boom" is bullshit. The rich got really rich, and everyone else got a few more measley bucks.
If you can find it (copies of PBS shows can be difficult to locate), go ahead and watch it. Sure they don't talk about tech, but that's not everything.
Netstat: Standard inclusion in both windows and *nix, spits out a summary of all the netowork connections that are currently active, and where they're going. Downside, won't detect dormant programs.
Samspade: excellent network tools suite, from simple pings to remote port scans (use responsibly, of course!). Web based and downloadable version
Starup Manager. Freeware software for windows that scans all your startup menu and registry entires so you can see every things that has been told to start with your computer. Enable/Disable/remove them ect.
Wintop. (Part of the MS kernel toys pack). Windows version of the *nix "top" program, shows everything currently running on your computer. useful for finding the little hidden programs that don't want you to know they're there.
I noticed on your website that you were going to offer free services for websites and organizations that:
"promote free speech, promote human rights, [or] give a voice to minority and oppressed groups that otherwise may not be heard"
My questions are, who will be making the decisions about who qualifies, and how? How many have applied so far? How many are you planning to offer services to?
I'm using IDcide on IE 4 in win98. With it "enabled" none of the sites work. Once I click on "disable IDcide" from the hat menu, I can retrieve some of my cookie file.
>The required laser power of a less than 1mW is comparable with that of a laser pointer.
So probably not, because no matter how fast you spin it, it's still only generating 1 J of heat every 1000 seconds in the tape. I would think the majority of the heat from hard disks and cd-roms comes from the motors spining those massive things so fast and consistantly. If all you have to spin is a light-weight mirror (the tape remains stationary), then the heat would be significantly reduced. Heat might arise from the "energy release" when writing, but not from rapid reading
Re:To the 0wn3rz go the ComSats
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Just a long as the satalites don't grow sentient and try to destroy Earth several hundred years in the future, a la v'ger.
Just as a related note, the Amazon 1-click patent is soon going to get much more messy.
I say this because people I know who work at HP have told me, quite reliably, that they plan to develope their own "1-click" software to sell printer pins to customers on AOL. As far as amazon is concerned, they really don't believe Amazon can win the lawsuit, and have the lawers/money to fight it out.
Whether you pay attention to rumors or not, and if this thing ever materializes, an Amazon-HP-AOL battle over software patents could turn real interesting, real fast.
So there [karma whore|I] was, happily noding along on [everything2], great [speed] and response time, when, without warning, the server just sort of [froze]. It took 3 minutes for it to stop saying "Server contacted; Waiting for reply", and It's [still] doing that!! So, finally, I decide to give up and head off in [search] of some [dinner]. Several hours later, I come back and check/. again. Hey! there's a blurb about [E2]!
...wait a second...(i think)
Posted by [Hemos] on Saturday February 05, @05:45PM
A ha! that would be just about the [time] it happened!...... but then... that means... I just saw a [server] get [/.'ed] RIGHT BEFORE MY VERY [EYES]!
*shivers and [shudders]*
(and fellow noders will know what the [ and ] mean;-P)
just as a side note, he said that they choose to use windows because it had support for UDF. I found a great little kernal module for reading UDF the other day when I wanted access a DirectCD disc I had (also UDF).
Everyone remember the infamous "White Bronco Chase" that led to the stupidest media frenzy of the century?
Well it started with tracking his cell phone when he called a friend. This is nothing new, so if the men in black want to track you, they're already doing it. Get over it, or don't get a cell phone.
ummm... I really don't know that much about complex application design, but isn't open sourcing everything "above API" kind of like calling happy hour a soup kitchen?
maybe they want to push this as a standard so they can sell add-ons or consulting
Ding! Thats exactly it, all the brains of the company jumped ship to Agalent (sp?), which AFAIK will make most of the technology and R&D while HP gets more into a "e-services" (translated: an army of consultants) type business. You see, if all your big brains leave, you now have a corporation filled with MBAs and marketing people. IMNSHO, a truope of trained monkeys could do a better job of steering a high tech company.
Also, on a more humorous note, remember all the press they got about their new CEO? Strange little fact is her education was in Midevil History, which kinda gives new meaning to the Dilbert cartoon where he says "...And I hear we'll all be reclassified as serfs!"
I don't really have a point, but if one hour a day playing a video game is really that bad, 2 hours 46 minutes in front of the tv is twice as worse.
Reminds me of a story I read about the guy who invented television. (Phil something.. anyone wanna help me out?). Anyway, the most memorable part of it was that he refused to let his own children watch TV because he thought it was filled with crap. He actually said something to the effect of "If I had known thats what they were going to use it for, I would have never invented it!" He must be doing sumercircles in his grave right now over the FOX network alone (excluding the Simpsons, of course). Reminds me of a similar parrallel, a quote from Tim Berners-Lee, about his invention, "It's not supposed to be glorified television!"
Slashdot Mirror
Well Slate told them they weren't cool anymore so they all stopped.
doh! Forgot to multiply by number of showings per day. I shouldn't try to be all smart with numbers right after crawling out of bed. I also should try to get up earlier than 2PM.
Either way, the whole metric is stupid and irrelevant. There are too many other factors in play.
For example, I've seen the movie twice, once while at school and again at home with some friends. The screen I saw it on the first time was a huge digi-screen in a huge megaplex. The second time I saw it in a small theare which was close to 1/4 the size of the first one. So different screens bring in different amounts of revenue. Additionally, the price of a movie at school is $10, while at home it's only $7.50.
If a movie shows on 150 screens, at 150 people each, at $7.5 per ticket in one region, thats
150*150*7.5 = $168,750 per day
If in another region it opens on only half as many screens, but in theatres which are on average 3 times as big, at at $10 per ticket
75*3*150*10 = $337,500 per day (twice as much)
Also, consider differences in time, in which a slightly shorter movie can be shown a few extra times per day on the same number of screens. One could argue that since two movies open across the same theatres, the differnces should affect both films equally. However, two million movies goers paying 6 or 7 dollars each in the midwest may, in general, have different tastes than 12 million people paying 10 dollars each in the northeastern metropolitan areas.
As I think someone mentioned in an earlier story, box office grosses are mainly just marketing tools. There's little consistency in how the data is gathered
The thing's the size of a fucking hand vac. Good god make these people stop! Make it stop!
A friend of mine who's a judge joked about how they should approve the death penalty for the writer of Melissa back during its heyday. The really funny and/or worrisome part is that now he's a State Supreme Court Justice in VA.
Here's a useful (and fun!) way to evaluate web design.
1. Obtain one (1) bottle of your favorite 80+ proof liquor.
2. Drink past tolerance limits.
3. Load website. (you may wish to do this step before #2)
4. Try to navigate.
If you can easily navigate and find content, it's pretty solid design.
You laugh, but it really is a useful metric. Try it and load amazon.com. To many blocks of test, it's cluttered and thousands of pathways. Now compare to something like slashdot. There's still a large amount of content, but it's still easy to find the important stuff.
Plus its give you an excuse to get hammered at work.
Well this sucks, I have dental surgery on the 7th, and then I'm slated to be full of heavy duty pain killers after that.
Why Blizzard, why?!?!
There real question here is, does the seller except payment by paypal? ;)
Of course, after shipping it will be discovered that the calculator will only be able to display 128 shades of grey.
In the great HP tradition of innovation...
There was an excellent program on PBS I saw one night when I couldn't sleep. It was called Surviving the good times, done by Bill Moyers. It follows two working class families, (one white, one black) from '91 through around '98 or '99. What I found most interesting about it was that once The the rose colored glasses of Dow figures, IPOs, and Forbes articles were removed, I realized that most of this "great boom" is bullshit. The rich got really rich, and everyone else got a few more measley bucks.
If you can find it (copies of PBS shows can be difficult to locate), go ahead and watch it. Sure they don't talk about tech, but that's not everything.
I noticed on your website that you were going to offer free services for websites and organizations that:
"promote free speech, promote human rights, [or] give a voice to minority and oppressed groups that otherwise may not be heard"
My questions are, who will be making the decisions about who qualifies, and how? How many have applied so far? How many are you planning to offer services to?
I'm using IDcide on IE 4 in win98. With it "enabled" none of the sites work. Once I click on "disable IDcide" from the hat menu, I can retrieve some of my cookie file.
>The required laser power of a less than 1mW is comparable with that of a laser pointer.
So probably not, because no matter how fast you spin it, it's still only generating 1 J of heat every 1000 seconds in the tape. I would think the majority of the heat from hard disks and cd-roms comes from the motors spining those massive things so fast and consistantly. If all you have to spin is a light-weight mirror (the tape remains stationary), then the heat would be significantly reduced. Heat might arise from the "energy release" when writing, but not from rapid reading
Just a long as the satalites don't grow sentient and try to destroy Earth several hundred years in the future, a la v'ger.
Just as a related note, the Amazon 1-click patent is soon going to get much more messy.
I say this because people I know who work at HP have told me, quite reliably, that they plan to develope their own "1-click" software to sell printer pins to customers on AOL. As far as amazon is concerned, they really don't believe Amazon can win the lawsuit, and have the lawers/money to fight it out.
Whether you pay attention to rumors or not, and if this thing ever materializes, an Amazon-HP-AOL battle over software patents could turn real interesting, real fast.
Hey, how about free internet access for hamburglers!
Download, browse, chat..
ruble ruble ruble!!
So there [karma whore|I] was, happily noding along on [everything2], great [speed] and response time, when, without warning, the server just sort of [froze]. It took 3 minutes for it to stop saying "Server contacted; Waiting for reply", and It's [still] doing that!! So, finally, I decide to give up and head off in [search] of some [dinner]. Several hours later, I come back and check /. again. Hey! there's a blurb about [E2]!
... ... but then ... that means ... I just saw a [server] get [/.'ed] RIGHT BEFORE MY VERY [EYES]!
;-P)
...wait a second...(i think)
Posted by [Hemos] on Saturday February 05, @05:45PM
A ha! that would be just about the [time] it happened!
*shivers and [shudders]*
(and fellow noders will know what the [ and ] mean
just as a side note, he said that they choose to use windows because it had support for UDF. I found a great little kernal module for reading UDF the other day when I wanted access a DirectCD disc I had (also UDF).
http://trylinux.com/projects/udf/
Everyone remember the infamous "White Bronco Chase" that led to the stupidest media frenzy of the century?
Well it started with tracking his cell phone when he called a friend. This is nothing new, so if the men in black want to track you, they're already doing it. Get over it, or don't get a cell phone.
Ummm...let me be the first to say
What the HELL was that?
ummm... I really don't know that much about complex application design, but isn't open sourcing everything "above API" kind of like calling happy hour a soup kitchen?
Well, someone commented that the patch was rather large, 1390 kb, the biggest to date for 2.2,
yet...
just out of curiosity, I loaded up "voices from the Hellmouth" from hof, and the grand total was 1783kb..
maybe they want to push this as a standard so they can sell add-ons or consulting
Ding! Thats exactly it, all the brains of the company jumped ship to Agalent (sp?), which AFAIK will make most of the technology and R&D while HP gets more into a "e-services" (translated: an army of consultants) type business. You see, if all your big brains leave, you now have a corporation filled with MBAs and marketing people. IMNSHO, a truope of trained monkeys could do a better job of steering a high tech company.
Also, on a more humorous note, remember all the press they got about their new CEO? Strange little fact is her education was in Midevil History, which kinda gives new meaning to the Dilbert cartoon where he says "...And I hear we'll all be reclassified as serfs!"
Reminds me of a story I read about the guy who invented television. (Phil something.. anyone wanna help me out?). Anyway, the most memorable part of it was that he refused to let his own children watch TV because he thought it was filled with crap. He actually said something to the effect of "If I had known thats what they were going to use it for, I would have never invented it!" He must be doing sumercircles in his grave right now over the FOX network alone (excluding the Simpsons, of course). Reminds me of a similar parrallel, a quote from Tim Berners-Lee, about his invention, "It's not supposed to be glorified television!"