It's actually very interesting from an evolutionary point of view. The smaller peppers, which are most likely to be eaten by birds, have the most capsaicin. When birds eat the peppers they tend to scatter the seeds far and wide. Mammals, not so much. Natural selection caused them to develop something that makes mammals not want to eat them.
Coincidently, the chemical used to give an artificial grape flavoring to food items such as grape soda does have a similar effect on birds as capsaicin has on humans.
You are forgetting the theater owners, distrubutors, distribution costs, etc. For a movie to be profitable it needs to take in 4x it's production cost at the box office.
I have no doubt that King Kong will eventually make a profit. It may have already due to licensing deals, and if not the DVD realease will put it over the top. However, when you are an investor looking at giving money to make a movie. If you have a one with a 10 million budget that can make 30 million in profit, you are going to pick that over the 200 million dollar budget that can return up to 100 million in profit.
I have to say that the PS2 games by far appealed to me the most. GTA, Guitar Hereo, DDR (although now it's multi-platform), and Gran Turismo. Of course, I'm not a fan of 3rd person shooters on a console, so nothing for the XBox was really appealing to me that I couldn't get on the PS2. I did want super monkey ball, but had to resort to playing it on a freind's game cube.
Almost every HDTV sold in the last few years has the right content protection, and I don't think you can buy one now that doesn't.
I start to notice the difference at 27" and at 32" the difference is HUGE. That's why I'm buying a 32" HDTV to replace my 32" SDTV.
But AAC is proprietary. AAC is actually part of MPEG-4. MPEG may be a standard, but that doesn't mean it isn't proprietary. You want to have your device play it, well then just purchase a license!.
Disney already owns the rights to Pixar's back cataloug. That's part of the reason Pixar is having trouble finding a new distributer to replace Disney. If you sign on to distribute Pixar's next film, there is nothing stopping Disney from releasing Finding Nemo 3 or Toy Story 7 at the same time. That cuts into your bottom line quite a bit.
Dowtown Seattle has an extra sales tax to help pay for the stadiums they built. It would be theoretically possible for you to be in that zipcode, but not be in the affected downtown region.
PETA knows they are a joke. It's just that they feel that any publicity for their cause is worth pursuing. They've discovered by doing really stupid things they can get tons of publicity.
you do know that you can open things in a new window or a new tab. Depending on the site, I do both. I like to have the choice. What reason could you possibly have to be against tabbed browsing as long as they let you open things in a new window as well?
You don't think the culture of a large city has anything to do with it? I grew up in a small town in Oklahoma (30,000 people) that was the headquarters of a large corporation. They still keep the majority of their workers there because the costs are much cheaper than some place like Houston. However, I live in a big city (Seattle) now. Why? The first reason I moved was school. My wife wanted to go to graduate school, and it just so happens that more of the best schools in this country are near major population centers.
But then, why didn't we move back to Oklahoma when she finished? It's because the city has more things to offer us. Farmers markets, theaters, museums, clubs, bars, public transportation, the ability to walk to many places, better stores and restraunts, proximity to interstates and airports, etc. In Bartlesville you had to drive to Tulsa to experience most of that, and even then Tulsa doesn't compare to a place like Seattle or Dallas.
I think the majority of people who experience living in a city, like it. And since many of the top schools are in cities, much of the top talent wants to live there. Therefore to attract the top talent companies move to large cities.
I used to love the black eyed peas too. Their first to albums are really quite good. Of course then they fired the girl who used to sing and hired someone who looked pretty, and sold out to everyone who would give them a dollar. Quite sad. I'm so sick of them I don't even listen to my old records of theirs.
You should try to support Clap Your Hands Say Yeah then. They recorded their record themselves, they put it out themselves, and they distributed the first 50,000 copies themselves. They still haven't signed with a label in the United States (although they recently allowed one to handle their distribution) and most interviews with the band make it seem like they don't need one. If a band like that we're to sell half a million records and start getting radio air play (besides KEXP.org) it would be a huge wakeup call to a lot of people.
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It's actually very interesting from an evolutionary point of view. The smaller peppers, which are most likely to be eaten by birds, have the most capsaicin. When birds eat the peppers they tend to scatter the seeds far and wide. Mammals, not so much. Natural selection caused them to develop something that makes mammals not want to eat them.
Coincidently, the chemical used to give an artificial grape flavoring to food items such as grape soda does have a similar effect on birds as capsaicin has on humans.
You are forgetting the theater owners, distrubutors, distribution costs, etc. For a movie to be profitable it needs to take in 4x it's production cost at the box office.
I have no doubt that King Kong will eventually make a profit. It may have already due to licensing deals, and if not the DVD realease will put it over the top. However, when you are an investor looking at giving money to make a movie. If you have a one with a 10 million budget that can make 30 million in profit, you are going to pick that over the 200 million dollar budget that can return up to 100 million in profit.
I have to say that the PS2 games by far appealed to me the most. GTA, Guitar Hereo, DDR (although now it's multi-platform), and Gran Turismo. Of course, I'm not a fan of 3rd person shooters on a console, so nothing for the XBox was really appealing to me that I couldn't get on the PS2. I did want super monkey ball, but had to resort to playing it on a freind's game cube.
Except for the entire ignoring the DNA evidence that native americans are not a lost tribe of israel.
Americans spend more on cat litter than digital music. More songs are sold on CD's in one month then iTunes has ever sold.
Almost every HDTV sold in the last few years has the right content protection, and I don't think you can buy one now that doesn't. I start to notice the difference at 27" and at 32" the difference is HUGE. That's why I'm buying a 32" HDTV to replace my 32" SDTV.
While that is true, there are very few TV's that accept a 1080p single, so I'm using 1080i as a much more likely scenerio.
How is 480i 99% of the quality of 1080i?
You're paying double for the movie in 1080i. So you aren't buying the same thing.
But AAC is proprietary. AAC is actually part of MPEG-4. MPEG may be a standard, but that doesn't mean it isn't proprietary. You want to have your device play it, well then just purchase a license!.
Disney already owns the rights to Pixar's back cataloug. That's part of the reason Pixar is having trouble finding a new distributer to replace Disney. If you sign on to distribute Pixar's next film, there is nothing stopping Disney from releasing Finding Nemo 3 or Toy Story 7 at the same time. That cuts into your bottom line quite a bit.
It's copied and pasted from ali g's website where he is playing a character named Borat.
I don't think you can tax the shipping... but you could tax the handling!
Remember though, you're paying shipping when you buy local too. Products just don't appear on the store shelves. They just build it into the price.
Dowtown Seattle has an extra sales tax to help pay for the stadiums they built. It would be theoretically possible for you to be in that zipcode, but not be in the affected downtown region.
PETA knows they are a joke. It's just that they feel that any publicity for their cause is worth pursuing. They've discovered by doing really stupid things they can get tons of publicity.
his name was Jane.
But what if he got caught GIVING a blow job? That would make heads explode!
you do know that you can open things in a new window or a new tab. Depending on the site, I do both. I like to have the choice. What reason could you possibly have to be against tabbed browsing as long as they let you open things in a new window as well?
hit ctrl-h? right click and say show hidden files? Works for me.
It was a joint venture between sony and philips. The same way that Blu-Ray is a joint venture between them.
Don't forget about the CD... oh wait, that one worked out pretty good.
You don't think the culture of a large city has anything to do with it? I grew up in a small town in Oklahoma (30,000 people) that was the headquarters of a large corporation. They still keep the majority of their workers there because the costs are much cheaper than some place like Houston. However, I live in a big city (Seattle) now. Why? The first reason I moved was school. My wife wanted to go to graduate school, and it just so happens that more of the best schools in this country are near major population centers.
But then, why didn't we move back to Oklahoma when she finished? It's because the city has more things to offer us. Farmers markets, theaters, museums, clubs, bars, public transportation, the ability to walk to many places, better stores and restraunts, proximity to interstates and airports, etc. In Bartlesville you had to drive to Tulsa to experience most of that, and even then Tulsa doesn't compare to a place like Seattle or Dallas.
I think the majority of people who experience living in a city, like it. And since many of the top schools are in cities, much of the top talent wants to live there. Therefore to attract the top talent companies move to large cities.
I used to love the black eyed peas too. Their first to albums are really quite good. Of course then they fired the girl who used to sing and hired someone who looked pretty, and sold out to everyone who would give them a dollar. Quite sad. I'm so sick of them I don't even listen to my old records of theirs.
You should try to support Clap Your Hands Say Yeah then. They recorded their record themselves, they put it out themselves, and they distributed the first 50,000 copies themselves. They still haven't signed with a label in the United States (although they recently allowed one to handle their distribution) and most interviews with the band make it seem like they don't need one. If a band like that we're to sell half a million records and start getting radio air play (besides KEXP.org) it would be a huge wakeup call to a lot of people.