And still at 1/4 the cost of the iPad deal? That's my point, not that it can't. Personally I don't really care what they use, but trying to compare oranges to a five course meal is a bit disingenuous.
Or the Russians will kill him and blame the CIA. They score a black eye against the US (who would NOT believe the CIA did it) and they avoid any consequences for harboring him. Win-win! Well, unless you're Snowden.
I think it's more along the lines of six big tent pole movies failing, which should be a clue as to the part of the problem: How many big movies came out this year? Seriously, I lost count. Hollywood, to its detriment, has become very conservative about the movies it makes these days. They don't want to make something that won't be a world-wide hit. That's one of the reasons you see so much of the same crap over and over, they are afraid to take any chances. I think the point here (and I'm speculating) is that this may shake their belief system up. They thought these movies (well, some of them) would be huge, franchise founding blockbusters and they fizzled, or worse (Lone Ranger. Seriously, $210 million?!) That, of course, now means they may try to retool and [background deity #4 with coffee and trident] knows what the hell they will come up with. Worse (and most likely) case they will get even more conservative about the movies they make going for just the absolute sure things.
I think that Slate article is putting way too much stock in the influence of that one book. Those"formulas" have been around for ages, and they are not set in stone. If you want a good inside view of that industry, I'd suggest checking out the Scriptnotes podcast. Those guys (both established screenwriters who are not trying to sell you a book or course on screenwriting) are pretty good at debunking some of this stuff. I'd also suggest it to anyone who's interested in the inside baseball of the movie business, especially their early episodes.
It's not even analytics, it's just the way big studio's have worked for ages. Just look at their reaction to 90's when indie films took off. They gobbled them up, tried to replicate them, and failed. In the process they absorbed and killed a bunch of great smaller studios. Blair Witch Project comes out (worst movie but best marketing ever) and makes an unbelievable amount of money for virtually no production costs. Bam! Found footage is the new rage! Everyone makes found footage horror pics. Pixar, Saw, Gross-out comedies, comic book movies, horror-comedies, zombies, vampires, moody sparkly vampires.... The list goes on and on and on. It's the never ending cycle of Hollywood that everyone (including those in Hollywood) knows happens but no one can seem to stop it from happening again.
White House Down is in week 4 with under $92 million. Remember, the gross is not profit, it's ticket sales, so you have to take out the theater's cut which varies greatly depending on theater chain, studio, film, and if they are forced into a progressive (studio cut starts big and gets smaller week over week) deal on box office. Also, a big budget film like this can spend half again or more it's production budget on promotion. A movie these days needs may need to make over 2x its production budget to break even. If you are counting international revenues, then things get tricky. Did the studio distribute internationally or did they sell the international distribution? If they sold it, they get a smaller cut of the revenues. And all this is before the "Hollywood accounting" kicks in to screw over the people owed points
In the end, when it's down to the DVD sales and broadcast rights it will probably eek out a small profit, but it's not going to be a hit in any sense of the word.
The Lone Ranger is in even worse shape, with a $210 Million ($20 more than Pacific Rim, how the fuck!?) budge and weak foreign box office. The studio may actually be looking at losing real money on that one.
Now compare those to Despicable Me 2, which is three weeks in and sitting at over half a billion on a budget of $76 million. Or Iron Man 3 at 1.2 billion on a $200 milllion budget ($10 less than Lone Ranger, did they just burn piles of cash for lighting on that movie!?)
Pacific Rim's failure was in marketing. Seems crazy, right? I'm sure most/. readers have known about the film for the past year. Going into the opening weekend the studio was freaking out because the movie's Q score was way below where it needed to be for a movie of its size. Essentially, the general public wasn't really aware of the film. Geeks and movie buffs were, but that's not nearly enough. Add that to the fact that there were so many summer "blockbusters" this year and you end up with Pacific Rim coming in #3 on its opening weekend.
I wouldn't worry too much about it though, it's international numbers, which account for over 60% of it's current total gross, are doing better than domestic. It won't lose money.
Your non-lethal rotavirus killed almost half a million children under 5 in 2008 alone. This does not include hospitalizations or cases of series side effects (severe dehydration, seizures, etc), just deaths.
I suspect that this is my issue with ebooks, or at least part of it. So far all I've used is various tables and I hate it. It's not nostalgia, it's just that I've always found it uncomfortable after even a short time. I think I'm going to pick up a Kindle paperwhite soon and try that.
Yes, they are. Now if you would be so kind as to inform the person who created the cell phone implementation of EAS that would be swell! Because I have received all three of those alert types since AT&T pushed this out. My current choices for those wireless EAS alerts are Weather Alerts On or Weather Alerts Off.
Yea, I really wish the weather alert controls were a bit more granular. I don't want to be woke up for a severe thunderstorm warning or flash flood warning (If my particular home floods, you better have an ark ready to go). I do want to be woke up for more urgent things like tornado warnings. Being woke up by an actual tornado (had this happen) is not pleasant.
So we find the biomarkers and then we start a public registry of people who have them. That way they can be monitored closely and the communities they live in can take steps to make themselves safe! Ban them from owning weapons, learning martial arts, participating in certain sports, holding certain (postal) jobs, keep them away from schools, require constant counseling.
I don't know about you but I would feel much safer.
I still have nightmares from dealing with their NAS product at one customer. Multiple failures, firmware issues out the ass. The customer was a few hours from literally haul it to the curb and telling Sun either they or the equipment shredder could come get it when Sun came in and replaced everything. Then it failed again. Awesome products.
A product can be profitable without being a direct revenue source if it drives profits in other areas of the business. Sun made money from java because it helped drive their business by promoting their platform and driving sales of their commercial products/services/licensing revolving around that platform.
On the flip side a product can be important, useful, etc and still be a money hole for a company. If that's the case, more than likely the company will eventually ditch it.
I'd argue that in this case most of the products being discussed fall into neither category. Outside of virtual box (which, again, is not being dropped), none of these products were ground breaking, important, or popular.
I doubt they would be killing them off if they were profitable. I do a lot of work in the virtualization and VDI space (not all of it by choice, mind you) and I have never run into anyone even asking about Oracle in those regards. AFAIK the only thing that could be considered really successful is Virtual Box and it's sticking around, thank [omnipotent bearded deity #4].
I think they are talking about it only being available from local farmers certain times of the year. Most of the time I would imagine it's imported from somewhere globally where it's currently in season.
I've been asking the same question lately. A colleague was looking at getting one and when I asked him why, he really couldn't answer. I don't see a killer use case for consumers for these yet. Not saying there isn't one but if there is I wish someone would clue me in.
Now, if someone would come out with a desktop 3D CNC mill for $1200 I'm in!
The GP also said mass shootings. Your link had 5 incidents, 6 deaths: Two homicides, three suicides, and one accident. In the other link, they were at a private range and they were the only people there. Even so, it was two homicides in that incident. Not what I would call a mass shooting.
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So did you submit the story about Canonical? No? Well them part of the problem you are.
And still at 1/4 the cost of the iPad deal? That's my point, not that it can't. Personally I don't really care what they use, but trying to compare oranges to a five course meal is a bit disingenuous.
Does that higher spec'ed Nexus 7 include all of the Pearson curriculum and electronic textbooks that the iPads are coming with?
Or the Russians will kill him and blame the CIA. They score a black eye against the US (who would NOT believe the CIA did it) and they avoid any consequences for harboring him. Win-win! Well, unless you're Snowden.
I think it's more along the lines of six big tent pole movies failing, which should be a clue as to the part of the problem: How many big movies came out this year? Seriously, I lost count. Hollywood, to its detriment, has become very conservative about the movies it makes these days. They don't want to make something that won't be a world-wide hit. That's one of the reasons you see so much of the same crap over and over, they are afraid to take any chances. I think the point here (and I'm speculating) is that this may shake their belief system up. They thought these movies (well, some of them) would be huge, franchise founding blockbusters and they fizzled, or worse (Lone Ranger. Seriously, $210 million?!) That, of course, now means they may try to retool and [background deity #4 with coffee and trident] knows what the hell they will come up with. Worse (and most likely) case they will get even more conservative about the movies they make going for just the absolute sure things.
I think that Slate article is putting way too much stock in the influence of that one book. Those"formulas" have been around for ages, and they are not set in stone. If you want a good inside view of that industry, I'd suggest checking out the Scriptnotes podcast. Those guys (both established screenwriters who are not trying to sell you a book or course on screenwriting) are pretty good at debunking some of this stuff. I'd also suggest it to anyone who's interested in the inside baseball of the movie business, especially their early episodes.
It's not even analytics, it's just the way big studio's have worked for ages. Just look at their reaction to 90's when indie films took off. They gobbled them up, tried to replicate them, and failed. In the process they absorbed and killed a bunch of great smaller studios. Blair Witch Project comes out (worst movie but best marketing ever) and makes an unbelievable amount of money for virtually no production costs. Bam! Found footage is the new rage! Everyone makes found footage horror pics. Pixar, Saw, Gross-out comedies, comic book movies, horror-comedies, zombies, vampires, moody sparkly vampires.... The list goes on and on and on. It's the never ending cycle of Hollywood that everyone (including those in Hollywood) knows happens but no one can seem to stop it from happening again.
Maybe someone should make a movie about it...
White House Down is in week 4 with under $92 million. Remember, the gross is not profit, it's ticket sales, so you have to take out the theater's cut which varies greatly depending on theater chain, studio, film, and if they are forced into a progressive (studio cut starts big and gets smaller week over week) deal on box office. Also, a big budget film like this can spend half again or more it's production budget on promotion. A movie these days needs may need to make over 2x its production budget to break even. If you are counting international revenues, then things get tricky. Did the studio distribute internationally or did they sell the international distribution? If they sold it, they get a smaller cut of the revenues. And all this is before the "Hollywood accounting" kicks in to screw over the people owed points
In the end, when it's down to the DVD sales and broadcast rights it will probably eek out a small profit, but it's not going to be a hit in any sense of the word.
The Lone Ranger is in even worse shape, with a $210 Million ($20 more than Pacific Rim, how the fuck!?) budge and weak foreign box office. The studio may actually be looking at losing real money on that one.
Now compare those to Despicable Me 2, which is three weeks in and sitting at over half a billion on a budget of $76 million. Or Iron Man 3 at 1.2 billion on a $200 milllion budget ($10 less than Lone Ranger, did they just burn piles of cash for lighting on that movie!?)
Pacific Rim's failure was in marketing. Seems crazy, right? I'm sure most /. readers have known about the film for the past year. Going into the opening weekend the studio was freaking out because the movie's Q score was way below where it needed to be for a movie of its size. Essentially, the general public wasn't really aware of the film. Geeks and movie buffs were, but that's not nearly enough. Add that to the fact that there were so many summer "blockbusters" this year and you end up with Pacific Rim coming in #3 on its opening weekend.
I wouldn't worry too much about it though, it's international numbers, which account for over 60% of it's current total gross, are doing better than domestic. It won't lose money.
Your non-lethal rotavirus killed almost half a million children under 5 in 2008 alone. This does not include hospitalizations or cases of series side effects (severe dehydration, seizures, etc), just deaths.
http://www.who.int/immunization_monitoring/burden/rotavirus_estimates/en/
I suspect that this is my issue with ebooks, or at least part of it. So far all I've used is various tables and I hate it. It's not nostalgia, it's just that I've always found it uncomfortable after even a short time. I think I'm going to pick up a Kindle paperwhite soon and try that.
Yes, they are. Now if you would be so kind as to inform the person who created the cell phone implementation of EAS that would be swell! Because I have received all three of those alert types since AT&T pushed this out. My current choices for those wireless EAS alerts are Weather Alerts On or Weather Alerts Off.
Yea, I really wish the weather alert controls were a bit more granular. I don't want to be woke up for a severe thunderstorm warning or flash flood warning (If my particular home floods, you better have an ark ready to go). I do want to be woke up for more urgent things like tornado warnings. Being woke up by an actual tornado (had this happen) is not pleasant.
It's a B2B site for (mostly) Asian suppliers. While there is a lot of junk on there it is a legit site. For example: need a few dozen tons of rice?
So we find the biomarkers and then we start a public registry of people who have them. That way they can be monitored closely and the communities they live in can take steps to make themselves safe! Ban them from owning weapons, learning martial arts, participating in certain sports, holding certain (postal) jobs, keep them away from schools, require constant counseling.
I don't know about you but I would feel much safer.
I still have nightmares from dealing with their NAS product at one customer. Multiple failures, firmware issues out the ass. The customer was a few hours from literally haul it to the curb and telling Sun either they or the equipment shredder could come get it when Sun came in and replaced everything. Then it failed again. Awesome products.
A product can be profitable without being a direct revenue source if it drives profits in other areas of the business. Sun made money from java because it helped drive their business by promoting their platform and driving sales of their commercial products/services/licensing revolving around that platform.
On the flip side a product can be important, useful, etc and still be a money hole for a company. If that's the case, more than likely the company will eventually ditch it.
I'd argue that in this case most of the products being discussed fall into neither category. Outside of virtual box (which, again, is not being dropped), none of these products were ground breaking, important, or popular.
If the police, who would benefit greatly from this technology, don't trust it why should anyone else?
I doubt they would be killing them off if they were profitable. I do a lot of work in the virtualization and VDI space (not all of it by choice, mind you) and I have never run into anyone even asking about Oracle in those regards. AFAIK the only thing that could be considered really successful is Virtual Box and it's sticking around, thank [omnipotent bearded deity #4].
Oracle just wants to destroy everything that was good about the Sun.
Oh, so they are staying in the storage business then.
I think they are talking about it only being available from local farmers certain times of the year. Most of the time I would imagine it's imported from somewhere globally where it's currently in season.
Don't trust them to what? Keep your info safe, deliver the product, not pee in your pool?
We're going to need a massive advancement in umbrella technology first.
I've been asking the same question lately. A colleague was looking at getting one and when I asked him why, he really couldn't answer. I don't see a killer use case for consumers for these yet. Not saying there isn't one but if there is I wish someone would clue me in.
Now, if someone would come out with a desktop 3D CNC mill for $1200 I'm in!
The GP also said mass shootings. Your link had 5 incidents, 6 deaths: Two homicides, three suicides, and one accident. In the other link, they were at a private range and they were the only people there. Even so, it was two homicides in that incident. Not what I would call a mass shooting.