Well, unless peter jackson had totally lost his mind by the time they shot the 3rd movie, gollum helps in the destruction of the ring. I really hope he was still sane at the time the did it.
Although the film was a "zero budget" production, the final cost of the movie (combining personal expenses of cast and crew such as investment into costumes, transport costs, food etc) has reached upto approximately $1000 NZ (or $400-$600 US).
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Prohibitive? $/MB cost is more or less comparable to CD, I'd think.
But more people can afford to shell out $150 and get a cd burner. Most people simply can't afford to pay well over $1000 for a dvd burner, regardless of weather its cheaper per MB
...how many bombs have been dropped in Iraq in the last 12 days, id find it hard to believe they still have the working technology left to eavesdrop these phones anyway.
'MakeBelieve software employed its first female programmer last week. At around the same time, male co-workers were seen being taken to hospital by ambulance. High level sources tell us the shock of a female in such close proximity caused a wave of fainting, dizzyness and stuttering. Doctors we contacted remained tight lipped, only saying that the men were barely coherant and were being kept under close observation'
Link back up at time of posting, but in case the hordes destroy their server again:
Permanet, Nearlynet, and Wireless Data
For most of the past year, on many US airlines, those phones inserted into the middle seat have borne a label reading "Service Disconnected." Those labels tell a simple story -- people don't like to make $40 phone calls. They tell a more complicated one as well, about the economics of connectivity and about two competing visions for access to our various networks. One of these visions is the one everyone wants -- ubiquitous and convenient -- and the other vision is the one we get -- spotty and cobbled together.
Call the first network "perma-net," a world where connectivity is like air, where anyone can send or receive data anytime anywhere. Call the second network "nearly-net", an archipelago of connectivity in an ocean of disconnection. Everyone wants permanet -- the providers want to provide it, the customers want to use it, and every few years, someone announces that they are going to build some version of it. The lesson of in-flight phones is that nearlynet is better aligned with the technological, economic, and social forces that help networks actually get built. The most illustrative failure of permanet is the airphone. The most spectacular was Iridium. The most expensive will be 3G.
"I'm (Not) Calling From 35,000 Feet"
The airphone business model was obvious -- the business traveler needs to stay in contact with the home office, with the next meeting, with the potential customer. When 5 hours of the day disappears on a flight, value is lost, and business customers, the airlines reasoned, would pay a premium to recapture that value.
The airlines knew, of course, that the required investment would make in-flight calls expensive at first, but they had two forces on their side. The first was a captive audience -- when a plane was in the air, they had a monopoly on communication with the outside world. The second was that, as use increased, they would pay off the initial investment, and could start lowering the cost of making a call, further increasing use.
What they hadn't factored in was the zone of connectivity between the runway and the gate, where potential airphone users were physically captive, but where their cell phones still worked. The time spent between the gate and the runway can account for a fifth of even long domestic flights, and since that is when flight delays tend to appear, it is a disproportionately valuable time in which to make calls.
This was their first miscalculation. The other was that they didn't know that competitive pressures in the cell phone market would drive the price of cellular service down so fast that the airphone would become more expensive, in relative terms, after it launched.
The negative feedback loop created by this pair of miscalculations marginalized the airphone business. Since price displaces usage, every increase in the availability on cell phones or reduction in the cost of a cellular call meant that some potential users of the airphone would opt out. As users opted out, the projected revenues shrank. This in turn postponed the date at which the original investment in the airphone system could be paid back. The delay in paying back the investment delayed the date at which the cost of a call could be reduced, making the airphone an even less attractive offer as the number of cell phones increased and prices shrank still further.
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This is the general pattern of the defeat of permanet by nearlynet. In the context of any given system, permanet is the pattern that makes communication ubiquitous. For a plane ride, the airphone is permanet, always available but always expensive, while the cell phone is nearlynet, only intermittently connected but cheap and under the user's control.
The characteristics of the permanet scenario -- big upfront investment by few enough companies that they get something like monopoly
Wait till they introduce autoaim to the american military, then we can save a bundle on military funding by sending CS/Q3/UT cheaters to fight for us =D
Fine, call them idiots everytime a new security issue is found. Instead, you are insinuating that they PURPOSELY include holes PREMEDITATED before the release of the product under the ASSUMPTION that it will not be found until AFTER they release the latest greatest product.
With the amount of bugs in many microsoft products, you would have to wonder how often their programmers see a bug and just pass over it, worrying more about the deadlines than fixing something that may be seen as trivial.
The US may be gadget crazy, but Japan and Korea are even crazier. They could probably sell more of these in a single day in Japan than they could in a month in the US.
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We even have broadband, despite how expensive Mr Richard Alston might have thought it was.
Well, unless peter jackson had totally lost his mind by the time they shot the 3rd movie, gollum helps in the destruction of the ring. I really hope he was still sane at the time the did it.
Penny Arcade says it best =)
Thats because owning a girl is often more maintenance than its worth
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I KNEW they had their finger in evey pie! (and some things not even pie related).
At least its not April Trolls day...or does that happen everyday?
I like apirl 1 =)...how many bombs have been dropped in Iraq in the last 12 days, id find it hard to believe they still have the working technology left to eavesdrop these phones anyway.
...isnt there enough crap on TV already? Last thing i want is seeing spam while im watchin tv.
I personally cant wait to hear the reaction of the RSPCA when you tell them your hacking your pet to see if you can make it run faster.
I can see it now:
'MakeBelieve software employed its first female programmer last week. At around the same time, male co-workers were seen being taken to hospital by ambulance. High level sources tell us the shock of a female in such close proximity caused a wave of fainting, dizzyness and stuttering. Doctors we contacted remained tight lipped, only saying that the men were barely coherant and were being kept under close observation'
So THAT explains all the british casualties!
Wait till they introduce autoaim to the american military, then we can save a bundle on military funding by sending CS/Q3/UT cheaters to fight for us =D
The US may be gadget crazy, but Japan and Korea are even crazier. They could probably sell more of these in a single day in Japan than they could in a month in the US.
Actually, they have been trying...
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