After reading all the articles about the MPAA, I think I can explain the $80.2 million discrepancy.
It's the post-production costs of the accountants tracking the revenue and the salary paid to the studio execs and MPAA execs to dissipate said revenue in support of the industry (read bonuses and wild parties) that suck up all the profit. Can I be a Hollwood consultant now (or do I know too much)?
How about Mad Max Beyond the Balding Dome? I'm not dissing Gibson. I'm a big Mad Max fan. I saw the first one as soon as it came out (hot rod AMXs were pretty funny in the US at the time). But really, Mel and I are of the age we need to drive something a little more conservative - like a beige hummer (or a Suburban, the true urban assault vehicle).
Completely infactual, outright lies and trolls are modded up if they're pro-linux.
infactual - You just made that up, right?
Which Slashdot have you been reading? Every anti-MS-bashing comment gets modded up. I'm beginning to think Bill is paying the boys and girls in Redmond overtime to patronize Slashdot.
Good point! I was surprised by the shortness of Shatner's answers, especially from someone who supposedly writes books. Apparently, Slashdot does not pay by the word.
Hmm. Not sure about your sexism with regards to computers, but computers don't do memory management. You have to trust the language to do GC if you're so inclined, which is slow and error-prone. Real programmers can manage memory and do it well. Others use sissy languanges like VB. Yeah, it's flamebait, but it's true, so what?
Too bad he doesn't use a language with efficent control structures predebugged and optimized.
If you're talking about Visual Basic, then that's hilarious, especially since the the buffer exploits are generally MS-specific. Someone mod that up +FUNNY. Get a real machine. Get a real language. Get real. BTW, how are wages these days at MS?
I still have yet to write a single useful C program that I couldn't have done in Perl.
Well, yeah, you can do the same thing as C code in Perl more slowly and less efficiently. Conversely, Perl is my language of choice for some tasks. The right tool for the right job. You obviously don't do any systems programming.
There are only 11 new episodes. The negotiations for the shortened 13 episode season failed. The extra two shows would have give a small chance for some sort of ending to the series.
C'mon now, we did a bad thing. . . I didn't see a mention of magazines anywhere in the article. Didn't anyone think to set him up with some house warming gifts from Publisher's Clearing House?
The Arpanet was built with multiple redundant paths to withstand normal, mundane disasters, like fires, local power outages, construction backhoes digging up communications cables, not nuclear attack.
Yet you hear well-educated people, who should know better, repeat this nonsense all the time. I guess it makes too good a story.
Actually, there does seem to be some basis for the story. Michael Swaine's column in the Jan. issue of DDJ is mostly a review of Linked: The New Science of Networks. He explains that the DOD did commission RAND to design a communications network that would survive a nuclear attack. However, the government never used the analysis or design.
The whole place is full of Brits! Grab yer muskets (or your gun if you don't have a firearm). Remember, it's one if by LAN and two if by HTTP . . . I think that's how it worked.:)
Just guessing, at high RPM with the throttle wide open, a good deal of fuel/air mixture went into the exhaust system when the wire came loose. Either something in the exhaust was hot enough to ignite it, or the wire made momentary contact, and it backfired. And yes, it's a dumb design.:)
Yeah, why would any one name a rocket after an animal that doesn't even fly.
The armadillo may not fly, but it can "launch" very well. Its defense mechanism is to jump straight up when frightened, and adults can jump three to four feet into the air. This, and its habit of wandering down roads at night, has made it a major cause of highway fatalities in Texas IIRC. It's not like having a dragonfly hit the windshield at 70 mph - more like an armor-plated bowling ball.
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After reading all the articles about the MPAA, I think I can explain the $80.2 million discrepancy.
It's the post-production costs of the accountants tracking the revenue and the salary paid to the studio execs and MPAA execs to dissipate said revenue in support of the industry (read bonuses and wild parties) that suck up all the profit. Can I be a Hollwood consultant now (or do I know too much)?
Then Mad Max XI: Beyond the Nursing Home
How about Mad Max Beyond the Balding Dome? I'm not dissing Gibson. I'm a big Mad Max fan. I saw the first one as soon as it came out (hot rod AMXs were pretty funny in the US at the time). But really, Mel and I are of the age we need to drive something a little more conservative - like a beige hummer (or a Suburban, the true urban assault vehicle).
Completely infactual, outright lies and trolls are modded up if they're pro-linux.
infactual - You just made that up, right?
Which Slashdot have you been reading? Every anti-MS-bashing comment gets modded up. I'm beginning to think Bill is paying the boys and girls in Redmond overtime to patronize Slashdot.
Good point! I was surprised by the shortness of Shatner's answers, especially from someone who supposedly writes books. Apparently, Slashdot does not pay by the word.
You didn't read the original posts?
I can't trust the computer to manage his memory!
Hmm. Not sure about your sexism with regards to computers, but computers don't do memory management. You have to trust the language to do GC if you're so inclined, which is slow and error-prone. Real programmers can manage memory and do it well. Others use sissy languanges like VB. Yeah, it's flamebait, but it's true, so what?
Too bad he doesn't use a language with efficent control structures predebugged and optimized.
If you're talking about Visual Basic, then that's hilarious, especially since the the buffer exploits are generally MS-specific. Someone mod that up +FUNNY. Get a real machine. Get a real language. Get real. BTW, how are wages these days at MS?
Lisp! I'm not gonna do all my Lisp jokes about parens here. I've sworn off. Really!
The humor was lost on you? Sorry.
Please provide a link to something substantial. There was a recorded chat on SciFi where Ben Browder said they had taken chain saws to the set.
SciFi wouldn't have any say in the matter, since the production company had the authority.
I'd really like to be proven wrong on this one. And rebuilding the set would be no small expense, blueprints or not.
LOL. Normally, I wouldn't respond to an AC post, but I thought it was FUNNY, not flamebait. Well, okay, maybe both.
I still have yet to write a single useful C program that I couldn't have done in Perl.
Well, yeah, you can do the same thing as C code in Perl more slowly and less efficiently. Conversely, Perl is my language of choice for some tasks. The right tool for the right job. You obviously don't do any systems programming.
The subject will keep most slashbots away. If you had written a howto on securing IE, then you'd get a slashdotting. :)
Damn true, using C for other thing than low-level stuff really is a bad habit.
Oh, God, another Visual Basic user who writes code with a mouse. Spare me.
Use The One True Brace Style. All others are heretical crap.
As long at that's my brace style (K&R), you are correct.
There are only 11 new episodes. The negotiations for the shortened 13 episode season failed. The extra two shows would have give a small chance for some sort of ending to the series.
It's not coming back. They took chainsaws to the set. Moya is in a landfill. :(
C'mon now, we did a bad thing. . . I didn't see a mention of magazines anywhere in the article. Didn't anyone think to set him up with some house warming gifts from Publisher's Clearing House?
The Arpanet was built with multiple redundant paths to withstand normal, mundane disasters, like fires, local power outages, construction backhoes digging up communications cables, not nuclear attack.
Yet you hear well-educated people, who should know better, repeat this nonsense all the time. I guess it makes too good a story.
Actually, there does seem to be some basis for the story. Michael Swaine's column in the Jan. issue of DDJ is mostly a review of Linked: The New Science of Networks. He explains that the DOD did commission RAND to design a communications network that would survive a nuclear attack. However, the government never used the analysis or design.
The whole place is full of Brits! Grab yer muskets (or your gun if you don't have a firearm). Remember, it's one if by LAN and two if by HTTP . . . I think that's how it worked. :)
I'm guessing you have never used emacs or vi.
Pssst! Keep your head down. All those posters are Microsofties.
Just guessing, at high RPM with the throttle wide open, a good deal of fuel/air mixture went into the exhaust system when the wire came loose. Either something in the exhaust was hot enough to ignite it, or the wire made momentary contact, and it backfired. And yes, it's a dumb design. :)
When you put it like that, I think you're right. :)
Yeah, why would any one name a rocket after an animal that doesn't even fly.
The armadillo may not fly, but it can "launch" very well. Its defense mechanism is to jump straight up when frightened, and adults can jump three to four feet into the air. This, and its habit of wandering down roads at night, has made it a major cause of highway fatalities in Texas IIRC. It's not like having a dragonfly hit the windshield at 70 mph - more like an armor-plated bowling ball.
Let's see you get your ass off the ground with 500,000 slashbots hanging from it. :)