I normally don't care about news of this nature. I like film to a point but what normally qualifies as geek film does little for me. Anyway, from the blurb...
Are commercial pressures catching up with one of our most inventive movie companies?
Please. As much as I understand that Pixar is a beloved entity around here let's be honest. The way that this is stated acts like "commercial pressures" are exterior and actively destroying Pixar. Pixar has a choice in the way their company goes and what it does and does not put out. If Pixar bows to the fast buck that's their decision and if it lowers the to the same level as whomever is putting out these god awful Saturday morning cartoons I see anymore than so be it. I just hate to see people act like some mysterious force is at play here. If Pixar sells out they should get the same respect as Disney seems to get around here.
Actually, I'd rather see someone step down (not nessacerily kill themselves) when they're in above their head instead of floundering around and taking up precious time that might be used to reverse the course of a business gone out of control. Sticking with it when you know you're not up to the task is letting a lot of other people down when you know better.
They are much less selective than 4-year schools and the programs tend to be more vocational in nature.
They only appear to be more vocational in nature because that's the general impression of associates degrees. Anyone not aspiring to a bachelor's degree or higher would be an idiot for going anyplace other than a community college. I went to a community college but my professors normally taught at universities. I felt that community college was second rate too until I really looked around. I had a professor from CMU who told us that the course he was presenting was the same as he would present for one of his Carnegie Mellon classes. My Astronomy 101 professor was an actual professional astronomer and not just some academia with a big head. My sociology teacher had a doctorate from Yale, also studied in Berlin and Moscow and taught at Pitt. I look back now and see that there was a lot of quality education that went on and any "dumbing down" that was done was more so from the aspect of the students than the teaching staff. As much as college is a way to filter out the dead weight it's no different than public schools in that you get out of it what you put into it.
That said, taking some things like composition or entry-level mathematics tends to be the same regardless of whether you take it at a community college for $40/hour or at a university for $200/hour.
You're right, the current numbers from my CC (CCAC) to PSU was roughly 95 dollars a credit from CCAC to nearly 500 USD a credit at Penn State. These numbers are for a part time student. As a full timer YMMV.
Some of the stuff the kid took won't be worth anything anywhere, but he'll have a good chunk of his general education requirements knocked out at whatever university he gets into.
If this is true than it's his own fault. PSU gladly sent me their transfer sheet for CCAC. All in all I think I took 7 credits that didn't transfer and 4 of those were for a sub-100 course I took just to get back into the swing of things after not having been in a classroom for over a decade. A student at CCAC could take all the courses they need to at 1/5th the price and put themselves in the same arena as a second semester junior at Penn State. I don't think that's a bad step to take for a student unless they have grants and scholarships that require that they be enrolled at a university level institution.
Sorry if parts of this sounded like a rant. I just feel that students shouldn't downplay a community college if they don't have what it takes financially to get into a big school. Maybe I went to an extraordinary community college but my experience is that with a little research and planning a student can get a really great step towards a better education at a discount price and the vast majority of it should transfer. I was in a situation where I simply couldn't afford even the second rate universities when I graduated high school and I let that hold me back because I had a bad taste in my mouth when someone mentioned community college. Like I said, I got out of it what I put into it and I'm grateful that it was there.
Really? One of the things I can say about this is that it sounds like you're going to a chain record store. I don't know if many of them still exist at this point but go to a mom and pop shop that doesn't seem to have too much of an genre bias and you'll probably find someone who knows more about music than you know about everything else put together.
One of the reasons that you have such a good experience at the comic store is that AFAIK there are no chain comic book stores. The people involved got involved because of an interest in the product more than just the interest in the paycheck.
And you should understand that once you get past genre bias there is so much going on in music that it's near impossible to know everything. It's hard to as a 50-something cashier with a Grateful Dead shirt on if he's heard the latest Lesbians on Ecstasy album or to ask the 22 year old with a green mohawk what he thinks might be good to someone who's big into Area Code 615.
Because of this I would say your analogy is pretty unfair. One that would be closer to the truth is like going to Sam Goody (or whatever it is today) and trying to find someone who's hip or going to a Borders and finding someone who knows about comic books.
It's a big link in our current communication chain for one.
The relative weightless environment lends itself to certain experiments.
Considering where we are going as a race is going to be important soon since we're starting to drain a lot of resources on Earth.
It's also not a good idea to keep "all of our eggs in one basket." Stepping off to other planets will not only give us access to a whole new set of resources but could be important if there was a mass extinction event on Earth.
And the funding for space R&D often finds it's way back to the homes of the tax payers just as military R&D does. The vast majority of all technology around you was funded by wars and man's desire for exploration.
Do yourself a favor and run it in a VM. It will give you plenty of chances to poke and prod at it without having to do endless reinstalls every time you flub it up.
The movies are mostly generic action movies (although I think T2 stands out).
Really? You see, I've been hearing a lot of people say this and I just don't understand it. My take on the series (I've only seen the first two in all honesty) is that the first was a really great film with a sci-fi theme that I felt played well and that the second was eye candy with a fictional technology that didn't play out well logically. Aside from the "no fate" part of the story line it just seemed like a lot cheesy rehashed memes from the first and a bunch of over-the-edge action. I'm just not hip to that.
I felt that the morphing metal guy(tm) did a lot of things that an advanced technology like that wouldn't have done. I know that it was done for the sake of the story line but I also feel that's part of what's wrong with sci-fi. When this fantastic technology makes it so there are plot holes that means the writers got sloppy. I've heard that Larry Niven spoke of this at one point. He said that the technologies that he used in his writings were getting so fantastic that they were making it hard for him to write a story that was scientifically logical but at the same time not leaving giant plot holes where the technology could trump any problem.
If I were a writer I would take that to heart... keeping technology limited enough that it made the human side of the story compelling. Otherwise you end up with T2; a technology that is so fantastic but it's actions are dumbed down so that it's a 2 hour movie instead of a 10 minute short. I think this is the same reason that JRR Tolkien wasn't too keen to make magic so powerful in his stories.
I'd be happy to see this as an option with a potential owner lockout to keep the teens from speeding along in Dad's turbo whatever. Or even as an idiot device for a lead footed driver.
My only problem is if someone decided not to make it with an over ride. Who's to say it's not a medical emergency? I can only imagine the kinds of lawsuits that would be filed if someone died trying to get to a doctor.
I think that maybe this article cross that line far too much. It really should have focused on technologies of false promise (virtual reality, voice recognition, biometrics) instead of products. Some of the ideas were interesting when they limited themselves to the technology over the product. So what if the Zune fails? It's not the end of a technology.
And for fucks sake, can we please stop beating on 10+ year old technology? I'm sick of hearing retards go on and on about Apple Lisa, Microsoft Bob and a bunch of morons who have to make a 640k joke because they don't understand anything more than that. These are the same asshats who've probably never even touched a machine with less than 128 megs of ram.
And that is why the rest of the world doesn't understand baseball terminology.
Yeah, I meant it to be eccentric. While I'm at it I'll learn to type in Chinese since so that I can hit the largest audience on the face of the planet... Or are you going to bitch because it's in a language that YOU don't know and have to open your yap about it too?
The general gist of this is true. It looks great to be able to claim victory in any arena as a special interest group. It's what gets supporters to write checks to your cause.
Even celebrities like to wave the flag of victory when they really have no say so but simply state their opinion. If their opinion is in line with future movement of any type they like to claim they played a part. We know that it's hardly true, any one of use who isn't blind seen the momentum that ensured a victory before some of these people ever got involved.
It's like betting on the baseball game when it's 12-0, bottom of the 9th and 2 men out.
Just like there are guys who truely like working under the hood of a car and can appreciate it's engineering there are plenty of guys who just want a car that is loud and goes fast. The same is true with women, there are going to be women who really use a machine to it's fullest function and don't need to be pandered to and there are the Jill Sixpacks who want something that matches their fashion motif.
Having a focus on a niche market like that isn't a bad concept as long as you don't try to push the stereotype onto the entire demographic.
I think part of what you're missing in the 007 example is that home viewing wasn't a reality in 1962. So fans went to the movie house. Welcome to the age to digital media in the home... I wanted to see "There will be blood" but I really don't enjoy the movie house scene too much so I waited for it to come out on DVD (and have since bought the BluRay after I got my BR player). In my case I have lowered the box office numbers by not seeing it in the theatre but have increased the overall profits by actually purchasing it.
How many people who haven't seen the latest Bond film on the big screen will buy it at 10-20 dollars?
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Sorry you didn't understand... This *IS* their plan to fix the economy.
I normally don't care about news of this nature. I like film to a point but what normally qualifies as geek film does little for me. Anyway, from the blurb...
Are commercial pressures catching up with one of our most inventive movie companies?
Please. As much as I understand that Pixar is a beloved entity around here let's be honest. The way that this is stated acts like "commercial pressures" are exterior and actively destroying Pixar. Pixar has a choice in the way their company goes and what it does and does not put out. If Pixar bows to the fast buck that's their decision and if it lowers the to the same level as whomever is putting out these god awful Saturday morning cartoons I see anymore than so be it. I just hate to see people act like some mysterious force is at play here. If Pixar sells out they should get the same respect as Disney seems to get around here.
I think you forgot a few digits... it's about 93 billion light years across.
Actually, I'd rather see someone step down (not nessacerily kill themselves) when they're in above their head instead of floundering around and taking up precious time that might be used to reverse the course of a business gone out of control. Sticking with it when you know you're not up to the task is letting a lot of other people down when you know better.
They are much less selective than 4-year schools and the programs tend to be more vocational in nature.
They only appear to be more vocational in nature because that's the general impression of associates degrees. Anyone not aspiring to a bachelor's degree or higher would be an idiot for going anyplace other than a community college. I went to a community college but my professors normally taught at universities. I felt that community college was second rate too until I really looked around. I had a professor from CMU who told us that the course he was presenting was the same as he would present for one of his Carnegie Mellon classes. My Astronomy 101 professor was an actual professional astronomer and not just some academia with a big head. My sociology teacher had a doctorate from Yale, also studied in Berlin and Moscow and taught at Pitt. I look back now and see that there was a lot of quality education that went on and any "dumbing down" that was done was more so from the aspect of the students than the teaching staff. As much as college is a way to filter out the dead weight it's no different than public schools in that you get out of it what you put into it.
That said, taking some things like composition or entry-level mathematics tends to be the same regardless of whether you take it at a community college for $40/hour or at a university for $200/hour.
You're right, the current numbers from my CC (CCAC) to PSU was roughly 95 dollars a credit from CCAC to nearly 500 USD a credit at Penn State. These numbers are for a part time student. As a full timer YMMV.
Some of the stuff the kid took won't be worth anything anywhere, but he'll have a good chunk of his general education requirements knocked out at whatever university he gets into.
If this is true than it's his own fault. PSU gladly sent me their transfer sheet for CCAC. All in all I think I took 7 credits that didn't transfer and 4 of those were for a sub-100 course I took just to get back into the swing of things after not having been in a classroom for over a decade. A student at CCAC could take all the courses they need to at 1/5th the price and put themselves in the same arena as a second semester junior at Penn State. I don't think that's a bad step to take for a student unless they have grants and scholarships that require that they be enrolled at a university level institution.
Sorry if parts of this sounded like a rant. I just feel that students shouldn't downplay a community college if they don't have what it takes financially to get into a big school. Maybe I went to an extraordinary community college but my experience is that with a little research and planning a student can get a really great step towards a better education at a discount price and the vast majority of it should transfer. I was in a situation where I simply couldn't afford even the second rate universities when I graduated high school and I let that hold me back because I had a bad taste in my mouth when someone mentioned community college. Like I said, I got out of it what I put into it and I'm grateful that it was there.
Really? One of the things I can say about this is that it sounds like you're going to a chain record store. I don't know if many of them still exist at this point but go to a mom and pop shop that doesn't seem to have too much of an genre bias and you'll probably find someone who knows more about music than you know about everything else put together.
One of the reasons that you have such a good experience at the comic store is that AFAIK there are no chain comic book stores. The people involved got involved because of an interest in the product more than just the interest in the paycheck.
And you should understand that once you get past genre bias there is so much going on in music that it's near impossible to know everything. It's hard to as a 50-something cashier with a Grateful Dead shirt on if he's heard the latest Lesbians on Ecstasy album or to ask the 22 year old with a green mohawk what he thinks might be good to someone who's big into Area Code 615.
Because of this I would say your analogy is pretty unfair. One that would be closer to the truth is like going to Sam Goody (or whatever it is today) and trying to find someone who's hip or going to a Borders and finding someone who knows about comic books.
It's a big link in our current communication chain for one.
The relative weightless environment lends itself to certain experiments.
Considering where we are going as a race is going to be important soon since we're starting to drain a lot of resources on Earth.
It's also not a good idea to keep "all of our eggs in one basket." Stepping off to other planets will not only give us access to a whole new set of resources but could be important if there was a mass extinction event on Earth.
And the funding for space R&D often finds it's way back to the homes of the tax payers just as military R&D does. The vast majority of all technology around you was funded by wars and man's desire for exploration.
iTunes is much much more than just something that syncs media with a player.
31 USD is the set up fee, not the cost of the album.
Used to be called mp3.com.
Aside from that indies have been around forever.
I've always said that artists who cry about this have options but they're too lazy/too talentless to do it for themselves. Oh well.
Do yourself a favor and run it in a VM. It will give you plenty of chances to poke and prod at it without having to do endless reinstalls every time you flub it up.
A power user and system support are two different beasts.
The movies are mostly generic action movies (although I think T2 stands out).
Really? You see, I've been hearing a lot of people say this and I just don't understand it. My take on the series (I've only seen the first two in all honesty) is that the first was a really great film with a sci-fi theme that I felt played well and that the second was eye candy with a fictional technology that didn't play out well logically. Aside from the "no fate" part of the story line it just seemed like a lot cheesy rehashed memes from the first and a bunch of over-the-edge action. I'm just not hip to that.
I felt that the morphing metal guy(tm) did a lot of things that an advanced technology like that wouldn't have done. I know that it was done for the sake of the story line but I also feel that's part of what's wrong with sci-fi. When this fantastic technology makes it so there are plot holes that means the writers got sloppy. I've heard that Larry Niven spoke of this at one point. He said that the technologies that he used in his writings were getting so fantastic that they were making it hard for him to write a story that was scientifically logical but at the same time not leaving giant plot holes where the technology could trump any problem.
If I were a writer I would take that to heart... keeping technology limited enough that it made the human side of the story compelling. Otherwise you end up with T2; a technology that is so fantastic but it's actions are dumbed down so that it's a 2 hour movie instead of a 10 minute short. I think this is the same reason that JRR Tolkien wasn't too keen to make magic so powerful in his stories.
How many are killed from gun-related shootings?
As offset by the non-gun-related shootings? I really don't know. I'll have to investigate that.
I'd be happy to see this as an option with a potential owner lockout to keep the teens from speeding along in Dad's turbo whatever. Or even as an idiot device for a lead footed driver.
My only problem is if someone decided not to make it with an over ride. Who's to say it's not a medical emergency? I can only imagine the kinds of lawsuits that would be filed if someone died trying to get to a doctor.
I think that maybe this article cross that line far too much. It really should have focused on technologies of false promise (virtual reality, voice recognition, biometrics) instead of products. Some of the ideas were interesting when they limited themselves to the technology over the product. So what if the Zune fails? It's not the end of a technology.
And for fucks sake, can we please stop beating on 10+ year old technology? I'm sick of hearing retards go on and on about Apple Lisa, Microsoft Bob and a bunch of morons who have to make a 640k joke because they don't understand anything more than that. These are the same asshats who've probably never even touched a machine with less than 128 megs of ram.
And that is why the rest of the world doesn't understand baseball terminology.
Yeah, I meant it to be eccentric. While I'm at it I'll learn to type in Chinese since so that I can hit the largest audience on the face of the planet... Or are you going to bitch because it's in a language that YOU don't know and have to open your yap about it too?
The general gist of this is true. It looks great to be able to claim victory in any arena as a special interest group. It's what gets supporters to write checks to your cause.
Even celebrities like to wave the flag of victory when they really have no say so but simply state their opinion. If their opinion is in line with future movement of any type they like to claim they played a part. We know that it's hardly true, any one of use who isn't blind seen the momentum that ensured a victory before some of these people ever got involved.
It's like betting on the baseball game when it's 12-0, bottom of the 9th and 2 men out.
Just like there are guys who truely like working under the hood of a car and can appreciate it's engineering there are plenty of guys who just want a car that is loud and goes fast. The same is true with women, there are going to be women who really use a machine to it's fullest function and don't need to be pandered to and there are the Jill Sixpacks who want something that matches their fashion motif.
Having a focus on a niche market like that isn't a bad concept as long as you don't try to push the stereotype onto the entire demographic.
But I can't watch my DVDs while riding my non-stationary bike. In either case, I think you've missed the point.
I ride my stationary bike while I watch DVDs. Should I get a tax credit because I bought exercise equipment to offset a tax that assumes too much?
I think part of what you're missing in the 007 example is that home viewing wasn't a reality in 1962. So fans went to the movie house. Welcome to the age to digital media in the home... I wanted to see "There will be blood" but I really don't enjoy the movie house scene too much so I waited for it to come out on DVD (and have since bought the BluRay after I got my BR player). In my case I have lowered the box office numbers by not seeing it in the theatre but have increased the overall profits by actually purchasing it.
How many people who haven't seen the latest Bond film on the big screen will buy it at 10-20 dollars?
Hell, I refuse to read.
You'll do well around here, young non-reader.
Neptune was not discovered via direct observation. It was discovered by abnormalities in Uranus' orbit.
I was kinda being a jerk myself. It's what I excel at.