You missed my point... the problem is not to whom this shit is sent; it's that the shit is sent at all. I "rat out" spammers as I'm sure most people do. Having worked for an ISP (as alot of readers do/have), I can assure you at least one person will report each incident of spam.
Yes, most respectable ISPs will delete accounts that send out spam. However, it's not hard for a person to create a new account -- even with the same ISP. The real problem is with people new to the ways of the internet who simply don't think about what they are doing -- they "don't know no better." (I've dealt with too many of these people.) Most of the "professional spammers" have disappeared -- it's just too expensive and much more likely to make your car explode (with you in it.)
Yes, "bar.com" is registered -- and has been for a long time. Mike used to read the mail flying in for "foo@bar.com", but he stopped that a few years ago (like 4 or 5 years) as "the internet has no sense of humor."
It's not a problem of "I don't want to see it in my mailbox". It doesn't matter which file ($MAIL or/dev/null) the junk is sent. Your machine still had to process it; it still had to cross your internet link; it still cost a measurable amount of money to *gasp* ignore a message.
How much of the "push for fatter pipes" is the result of ever increasing worhtless shit flying around the internet? (and of course, the resulting emailed complaints) I would venture a guess that 40% of the bits flowing around the globe shouldn't be... from spam to badly written, uncachable HTML to lame-ass streamed media that cannot be cached.
As someone's signature said... Who are you? Where are you taking me? And why am I in this basket?!
While it is true that electronic mail has been aforded the same protections as regular ol' US postal mail for some time, there is an agreement between you and Yahoo!, or you and your ISP, or you and your employer which can (and in many cases does) negate that law. Of course you can sue them when they read your email -- this is America after all... Many people have unsuccessfully sued their employers for such close monitoring.
And while it is also true that your employer cannot go into your office and read your external/private email while you're out to lunch or in a meeting, etc. (i.e. "away from your desk"), there are an alarming number of exceptions to this. For example, you read your "private" Yahoo! email from work via netscape on your company owned workstation. Your employer's perimeter firewall/web cache/proxy not only logs your browsing activities, but caches the pages you are viewing -- including your web based email. Additionally, netscape will store a copy in its cache on a company owned hard drive in your company owned workstation. Your employer is well within their rights to look at your browsing habits while on company time, inspect the contents of the perimeter web cache, and even read whatever is on their hard drive(s). (They can also inspect every packet inside their network.) Anything entering or leaving the company can be subject to inspection. (sad isn't it.)
Remember this next time you're doing something at work you'd rather your employer not know about.
First off, Top9 is smoking weed if they think a lazy redirect is "capturing" a browser. They have obviously never gone to a porno website and seen what "capture" really is. (Note: disable everything before going on a porno walk-about.)
Personally, I find all the lame-ass javascript and meta-refresh redirects a serious pain in the ass. It's ranked just below setting the expiration tags on pages to before you download the page. And a recent addition (landing at number three) is the "neat trick" some assholes put in their page(s) to resize the browser to the size of your screen. (This little "feature" has forced me to make fvwm an absolute nazi.)
Yes, actually, that is being "social". You are interacting with other people. I used to play Marathon with helpdesk on Saturday mornings while running backups. Or set in the helpdesk area and chat with the (often bored) network techs and helpdesk toadies. And we hardly ever talked about work.
However, you are correct in saying girls avoid most geeks. Geeks speak a different language. And there's the stereotype of geeks not being overly preoccupied with personal hygene -- there are elements of truth to it (eg. I hate to shave.)
I would have to say girls avoid geeks because they know where our priorities are... I carried a pager for four years. I was sans pager for a total of two weeks in those four years! (I answered a page in the middle of Christmas dinner once.) "I'll be home in an hour" means "I'll be home when I get home."
Well, sure, it's possible to build your own TiVo. However, it will take far longer than walking to the Best Buy in a City two states away and cost far more than the price of several TiVo's.
Anyone who's seen the insides of a TiVo -- and actually understands computer hardware -- knows there's a great deal of work inside that box. While there are several common components -- various Philips video in/out chips, sound processing chips, and even a standard IBM MPEG2 decoder chip -- there are two notable non-common chips: a TiVo custom ASIC, and a Sony "thing". And we've not even gotten to the software (or the remote.)
NTFS has had this capability for years. And I use it daily -- altho' there are some things that don't like being compressed (clearcase dynamic view storage for one which makes me even more suspect of those nuts) and it does trade cpu cycles for drive space.
You have to keep in mind per-file FS based compression is almost never as good as a zip file, tar.gz, or tar.bz2... The FS compression is designed to minimize random access overhead.
Who said it was TDM? That system uses DWDM as well.
TDM doesn't do squat to increase bandwidth -- if your hard drive is 4.5G, how you partition it isn't going to give you any more than 4.5G. Light travels at a certain speed through glass fiber. One can turn that light on and off only so fast. In order to increase bandwidth, one would have to either turn the light on/off faster (very difficult) or start using more than one light in the same cable.
DWDM has practical limits in the photoreceivers. If the receiver cannot differentiate 730nm from 740nm... as selectivity increases, bandwidth increases proportionally.
If you read closely (or the right document), you'll see the "trick" being used: DWDM. This thing is using on the order of 400 different frequencies of light over the same cable. Alot of people do this type of thing already -- to the tune of 4 lambda.
As for distance, I'm sure there is some practical limit just like every thing else. Yes, there are optical "repeaters" -- technically, it's not repeating anything; it's just boosting intensity. I've had the device explained to me twice, but I've never seen one. It really doesn't make sense, but it was explained as sorta bridging a pure white light source into the end of the fiber to boost the signal(s). [don't bother asking, I don't understand it well enough to explain it any better.]
Unless you compiled the code yourself and typed the bit-level machine level code into a binary file editor, then you've still created a dirivative work from your source code -- albeit asm code. Very few people can "just write binary". [I used to be able to do that with a 6809, but it's been far too many years ago...]
standard house current 120 volts is enough to mess you up but not kill you
WRONG. It's people like you that end up killing themselves changing a light bulb. If you can feel the shock then it has the potential to kill you. You feel something because there is current crossing nerve endings. Prolonged exposure (more than a few seconds) to 120VAC can (and does) cause second and third degree burns on and under the skin (electrolysis and boiling of the water in the blood and flesh) as well as nerve and tisue damage.
If the current flow crosses vital organs, there can be serious organ damage -- including perm. heart arythmia due to pacemaker damage and/or heart muscle nerve damage, kidney failure, reduced lung capacity, and the ever popular "walking funny"... I've had more than enough "training" on the hazards of working with and around electrical devices from my days in high school. (Seeing an idiot "jump" over a set of workbenches after saying "What's th[at?]" while trying to point to an exposed high voltage cap on a color tv picture tube, you come to appreciate some things. Yes, the area was clearly marked and we did tell him to keep the f*** away from it. He was rapidly static-charged to about 30kV (much along the lines of a VanDeGraf generator) -- of course, I was laughing too hard to help him. He was unconscious for a few minutes and his hand and fore-arm was numb for a few hours. Afterwards there was the requisit three tons of paperwork -- the school board can be so demanding when a student almost kills themselves.)
Your skin offers a certain amount of resistance to the flow of electricity. There isn't any "more rapidly" to it... it either goes through your skin or it doesn't -- humans aren't inductors (not much anyway.) 1.5V isn't sufficient to move any current (and it's the current that kills you.) 12V might be enough to notice. 120V AC is very noticable. 220/240V AC freakin' hurts. 440V AC will knock you off the ladder:-)
It only takes a few milli (yes, MILLI) amps to kill you. 100 or so nanoamps can cause serious nerve damage. Your skin usually provides enough resistance to protect you from the occasional causual shock.
The frequency of AC power affects how badly it can hurt you. Less than 100Hz tends to penetrate the skin rather well. Higher frequencies penetrate less -- the current flows over the surface instead of through the flesh. Have you ever played with a Tesla coil? Ever touched a "plasma globe"? I, personally, have touched 37,000V sources (at 25kHz mind you.)
There are already "leakage" areas around the country. Back home here in NC, there's once spot in Cleveland county where you can literally feel it in the air standing under the transmission lines. We cannot get any cattle to go anywhere near them.
There's an "urban myth" of a guy stealing power by placing several large coils in his back yard under a primary transfer line... The power company eventaully sued him.
You obviously haven't tried to build a nuclear power plant lately. As far as I am aware, Duke Power was the last ones to try to get a license for a new plant in Cherokee, SC. Duke abandoned the site after a few years of red tape and public lunacy. Earl Oensby bought the site and filmed the Abyss in the flooded reactor building (which was already half built.)
As of fall 1989, no new nuclear plant had been granted an operating license since 1974. The NRC grants 30 year licenses after which the reactor is supposed to be decommisioned -- all fuel is removed, the core is drained and the containment building housing the core is filled with cement. However, the NRC, is what I've long thought to be the stupidest thing in the world, has relicensed several of the >30yr old reactors. [After 30yrs of exposure to high levels of neutron and other radiation, the reaction vessel is no longer steel.]
So, has anyone explained exactly how an AVI is infecting people's machines? Assuming everyone is talking about windows, explorer uses the file's extention (.avi) to know to hand the file to some media player (which one wins the war is often unpredictable.) Check my spelling here, but avi's don't carry any executable code that a player would execute. Even if I renamed format.exe to foo.avi, clicking on it isn't going to run it.
Has the media just "got it wrong" again? Or is the system infected in some known permiscous way and then ends up with some virus/trojan lurking as a <randomly named>.avi?
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Re: American Beauty... Modern medican calls that a "mid-life crises". And it is fairly true. I know a family that's very much like that movie (aside from the ending.) [No, it's not my family.]
As you get older, you "mellow"... some better than others; some faster than others. I'm 28 and I'm already (thanks primarily to working for an ISP for several years -- and watching everything I'd poured my life into destroyed in short order) well across the "ah, f*** it" line. [insert life story here.]
It's hard to document "common sense" but lawyers make it a requirement. Most people -- one would assume -- know their coffee is hot. So when you sterilize yourself in a hideous coffee accident, you get to sue McDonalds because they didn't put a flashing neon sign on the cup to the effect of "Hey, dumbass! This coffee is freakin' hot." (Of course, if they get a cold cup of coffee, they bitch just as loud.)
In this day-and-age, one must assume people have a negative IQ. If most lawyers weren't the evil little spawns of satan that they are, maybe we wouldn't have to think like this... (there are very few Perry Mason's in the world.)
One could purchase OC-768 too. My point it one of cost. 4xT1 will cost a few thousand dollars per month and a few more thousand to setup and install. T3/OC-3... add another zero to the monthly cost.
Let's also "do the math" for the aggregate bandwidth for all the theaters around... one studio sending to one theater isn't a big deal. However, one studio sending to 2000 theaters adds up (quickly.)
Just some tariff numbers for your enjoyment:
************ Tariff Query Results ************ Tariff Vendor: Use Preferences
FROM: npanxx 909614 lata 730 central office CHINO , CA clli WLNTCAXFDS0
TO: npanxx 617334 lata 128 central office SO BOSTON , MA
INTRA-COUNTRY - 909614, UNITED STATES, to - 617334, UNITED STATES, (2561 miles)
[Line Speed: 15440001 (T1)] [FTS SPRINT] Lata to Lata Transport charge..0.00..2343.00 [FTS SPRINT] Source access charge........1100.00...746.00 [FTS SPRINT] Destination access charge...1100.00...732.00 ............ TOTAL.......................2200.00..3821.00
[Line Speed: 447360001 (T3)] [FTS ATT]................ Lata to Lata Transport charge..0.00..72000.00 [GTE - CA]............... Source access charge........1800.00...1598.82 [MCI METRO ATS INC. - MA] Destination access charge....998.00...4365.92 ......................... TOTAL.......................2798.00..77964.74
***********************************************
[Disclaimer: Those are 1999 FCC tariff charges. They almost never match what the telco charges.]
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To say Fuji "doesn't get it" is a laughable understatement. At minimum, they could require sites to give proper attribution to Fuji's copyrighted materials. These fan sites are perfectly legal under "fair use" and any lawyer worth paying by the hour knows this.
Note to Fuji: You are aware people have to pay to see your show? (Iron Chef isn't on any broadcast network.) How much market share would you have if the food channel stopped showing Iron Chef or cable/sat. networks stopped carrying the channel?
Ok, and to send a 50+G movie to the theater in anything near usable speed, you'd need a VERY expensive connection. At 2k$ per physical print, it doesn't cost anything to Fedex it across the country -- plus, you can make the money back by selling the frames. [You'd need about 5Mbps to transfer a 50G movie in one day -- that's about 4 T1s.]
Personally, I like the idea of digital movies. However, it'll be hard to match the image quality of film without having to own part of Seagate, Quantum, AND IBM.
Actually, I think "Lucas, George" gets the prize for being "first"... Star Wars, Episode one was mastered digitally and shown digitally in some limited spots -- there just aren't many places with digital projection gear.
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You missed my point... the problem is not to whom this shit is sent; it's that the shit is sent at all. I "rat out" spammers as I'm sure most people do. Having worked for an ISP (as alot of readers do/have), I can assure you at least one person will report each incident of spam.
Yes, most respectable ISPs will delete accounts that send out spam. However, it's not hard for a person to create a new account -- even with the same ISP. The real problem is with people new to the ways of the internet who simply don't think about what they are doing -- they "don't know no better." (I've dealt with too many of these people.) Most of the "professional spammers" have disappeared -- it's just too expensive and much more likely to make your car explode (with you in it.)
Yes, "bar.com" is registered -- and has been for a long time. Mike used to read the mail flying in for "foo@bar.com", but he stopped that a few years ago (like 4 or 5 years) as "the internet has no sense of humor."
It's not a problem of "I don't want to see it in my mailbox". It doesn't matter which file ($MAIL or /dev/null) the junk is sent. Your machine still had to process it; it still had to cross your internet link; it still cost a measurable amount of money to *gasp* ignore a message.
How much of the "push for fatter pipes" is the result of ever increasing worhtless shit flying around the internet? (and of course, the resulting emailed complaints) I would venture a guess that 40% of the bits flowing around the globe shouldn't be... from spam to badly written, uncachable HTML to lame-ass streamed media that cannot be cached.
As someone's signature said... Who are you? Where are you taking me? And why am I in this basket?!
While it is true that electronic mail has been aforded the same protections as regular ol' US postal mail for some time, there is an agreement between you and Yahoo!, or you and your ISP, or you and your employer which can (and in many cases does) negate that law. Of course you can sue them when they read your email -- this is America after all... Many people have unsuccessfully sued their employers for such close monitoring.
And while it is also true that your employer cannot go into your office and read your external/private email while you're out to lunch or in a meeting, etc. (i.e. "away from your desk"), there are an alarming number of exceptions to this. For example, you read your "private" Yahoo! email from work via netscape on your company owned workstation. Your employer's perimeter firewall/web cache/proxy not only logs your browsing activities, but caches the pages you are viewing -- including your web based email. Additionally, netscape will store a copy in its cache on a company owned hard drive in your company owned workstation. Your employer is well within their rights to look at your browsing habits while on company time, inspect the contents of the perimeter web cache, and even read whatever is on their hard drive(s). (They can also inspect every packet inside their network.) Anything entering or leaving the company can be subject to inspection. (sad isn't it.)
Remember this next time you're doing something at work you'd rather your employer not know about.
First off, Top9 is smoking weed if they think a lazy redirect is "capturing" a browser. They have obviously never gone to a porno website and seen what "capture" really is. (Note: disable everything before going on a porno walk-about.)
Personally, I find all the lame-ass javascript and meta-refresh redirects a serious pain in the ass. It's ranked just below setting the expiration tags on pages to before you download the page. And a recent addition (landing at number three) is the "neat trick" some assholes put in their page(s) to resize the browser to the size of your screen. (This little "feature" has forced me to make fvwm an absolute nazi.)
Yes, actually, that is being "social". You are interacting with other people. I used to play Marathon with helpdesk on Saturday mornings while running backups. Or set in the helpdesk area and chat with the (often bored) network techs and helpdesk toadies. And we hardly ever talked about work.
However, you are correct in saying girls avoid most geeks. Geeks speak a different language. And there's the stereotype of geeks not being overly preoccupied with personal hygene -- there are elements of truth to it (eg. I hate to shave.)
I would have to say girls avoid geeks because they know where our priorities are... I carried a pager for four years. I was sans pager for a total of two weeks in those four years! (I answered a page in the middle of Christmas dinner once.) "I'll be home in an hour" means "I'll be home when I get home."
Well, sure, it's possible to build your own TiVo. However, it will take far longer than walking to the Best Buy in a City two states away and cost far more than the price of several TiVo's.
Anyone who's seen the insides of a TiVo -- and actually understands computer hardware -- knows there's a great deal of work inside that box. While there are several common components -- various Philips video in/out chips, sound processing chips, and even a standard IBM MPEG2 decoder chip -- there are two notable non-common chips: a TiVo custom ASIC, and a Sony "thing". And we've not even gotten to the software (or the remote.)
NTFS has had this capability for years. And I use it daily -- altho' there are some things that don't like being compressed (clearcase dynamic view storage for one which makes me even more suspect of those nuts) and it does trade cpu cycles for drive space.
You have to keep in mind per-file FS based compression is almost never as good as a zip file, tar.gz, or tar.bz2... The FS compression is designed to minimize random access overhead.
Who said it was TDM? That system uses DWDM as well.
TDM doesn't do squat to increase bandwidth -- if your hard drive is 4.5G, how you partition it isn't going to give you any more than 4.5G. Light travels at a certain speed through glass fiber. One can turn that light on and off only so fast. In order to increase bandwidth, one would have to either turn the light on/off faster (very difficult) or start using more than one light in the same cable.
DWDM has practical limits in the photoreceivers. If the receiver cannot differentiate 730nm from 740nm... as selectivity increases, bandwidth increases proportionally.
If you read closely (or the right document), you'll see the "trick" being used: DWDM. This thing is using on the order of 400 different frequencies of light over the same cable. Alot of people do this type of thing already -- to the tune of 4 lambda.
As for distance, I'm sure there is some practical limit just like every thing else. Yes, there are optical "repeaters" -- technically, it's not repeating anything; it's just boosting intensity. I've had the device explained to me twice, but I've never seen one. It really doesn't make sense, but it was explained as sorta bridging a pure white light source into the end of the fiber to boost the signal(s). [don't bother asking, I don't understand it well enough to explain it any better.]
Unless you compiled the code yourself and typed the bit-level machine level code into a binary file editor, then you've still created a dirivative work from your source code -- albeit asm code. Very few people can "just write binary". [I used to be able to do that with a 6809, but it's been far too many years ago...]
One can do that already...
Those aren't the CD standards...
- standard house current 120 volts is enough to mess you up but not kill you
WRONG. It's people like you that end up killing themselves changing a light bulb. If you can feel the shock then it has the potential to kill you. You feel something because there is current crossing nerve endings. Prolonged exposure (more than a few seconds) to 120VAC can (and does) cause second and third degree burns on and under the skin (electrolysis and boiling of the water in the blood and flesh) as well as nerve and tisue damage.If the current flow crosses vital organs, there can be serious organ damage -- including perm. heart arythmia due to pacemaker damage and/or heart muscle nerve damage, kidney failure, reduced lung capacity, and the ever popular "walking funny"... I've had more than enough "training" on the hazards of working with and around electrical devices from my days in high school. (Seeing an idiot "jump" over a set of workbenches after saying "What's th[at?]" while trying to point to an exposed high voltage cap on a color tv picture tube, you come to appreciate some things. Yes, the area was clearly marked and we did tell him to keep the f*** away from it. He was rapidly static-charged to about 30kV (much along the lines of a VanDeGraf generator) -- of course, I was laughing too hard to help him. He was unconscious for a few minutes and his hand and fore-arm was numb for a few hours. Afterwards there was the requisit three tons of paperwork -- the school board can be so demanding when a student almost kills themselves.)
Your skin offers a certain amount of resistance to the flow of electricity. There isn't any "more rapidly" to it... it either goes through your skin or it doesn't -- humans aren't inductors (not much anyway.) 1.5V isn't sufficient to move any current (and it's the current that kills you.) 12V might be enough to notice. 120V AC is very noticable. 220/240V AC freakin' hurts. 440V AC will knock you off the ladder :-)
It only takes a few milli (yes, MILLI) amps to kill you. 100 or so nanoamps can cause serious nerve damage. Your skin usually provides enough resistance to protect you from the occasional causual shock.
The frequency of AC power affects how badly it can hurt you. Less than 100Hz tends to penetrate the skin rather well. Higher frequencies penetrate less -- the current flows over the surface instead of through the flesh. Have you ever played with a Tesla coil? Ever touched a "plasma globe"? I, personally, have touched 37,000V sources (at 25kHz mind you.)
There are already "leakage" areas around the country. Back home here in NC, there's once spot in Cleveland county where you can literally feel it in the air standing under the transmission lines. We cannot get any cattle to go anywhere near them.
There's an "urban myth" of a guy stealing power by placing several large coils in his back yard under a primary transfer line... The power company eventaully sued him.
You obviously haven't tried to build a nuclear power plant lately. As far as I am aware, Duke Power was the last ones to try to get a license for a new plant in Cherokee, SC. Duke abandoned the site after a few years of red tape and public lunacy. Earl Oensby bought the site and filmed the Abyss in the flooded reactor building (which was already half built.)
As of fall 1989, no new nuclear plant had been granted an operating license since 1974. The NRC grants 30 year licenses after which the reactor is supposed to be decommisioned -- all fuel is removed, the core is drained and the containment building housing the core is filled with cement. However, the NRC, is what I've long thought to be the stupidest thing in the world, has relicensed several of the >30yr old reactors. [After 30yrs of exposure to high levels of neutron and other radiation, the reaction vessel is no longer steel.]
So, has anyone explained exactly how an AVI is infecting people's machines? Assuming everyone is talking about windows, explorer uses the file's extention (.avi) to know to hand the file to some media player (which one wins the war is often unpredictable.) Check my spelling here, but avi's don't carry any executable code that a player would execute. Even if I renamed format.exe to foo.avi, clicking on it isn't going to run it.
Has the media just "got it wrong" again? Or is the system infected in some known permiscous way and then ends up with some virus/trojan lurking as a <randomly named>.avi?
Re: American Beauty... Modern medican calls that a "mid-life crises". And it is fairly true. I know a family that's very much like that movie (aside from the ending.) [No, it's not my family.]
As you get older, you "mellow"... some better than others; some faster than others. I'm 28 and I'm already (thanks primarily to working for an ISP for several years -- and watching everything I'd poured my life into destroyed in short order) well across the "ah, f*** it" line. [insert life story here.]
In the immortal words of Shatner... GET A LIFE!
It's hard to document "common sense" but lawyers make it a requirement. Most people -- one would assume -- know their coffee is hot. So when you sterilize yourself in a hideous coffee accident, you get to sue McDonalds because they didn't put a flashing neon sign on the cup to the effect of "Hey, dumbass! This coffee is freakin' hot." (Of course, if they get a cold cup of coffee, they bitch just as loud.)
In this day-and-age, one must assume people have a negative IQ. If most lawyers weren't the evil little spawns of satan that they are, maybe we wouldn't have to think like this... (there are very few Perry Mason's in the world.)
One could purchase OC-768 too. My point it one of cost. 4xT1 will cost a few thousand dollars per month and a few more thousand to setup and install. T3/OC-3... add another zero to the monthly cost.
Let's also "do the math" for the aggregate bandwidth for all the theaters around... one studio sending to one theater isn't a big deal. However, one studio sending to 2000 theaters adds up (quickly.)
Just some tariff numbers for your enjoyment:
[Disclaimer: Those are 1999 FCC tariff charges. They almost never match what the telco charges.]
[PS: I would kill for a <pre> tag.]
To say Fuji "doesn't get it" is a laughable understatement. At minimum, they could require sites to give proper attribution to Fuji's copyrighted materials. These fan sites are perfectly legal under "fair use" and any lawyer worth paying by the hour knows this.[Reader's Digest(TM) Condensed version]
F*** off!
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Note to Fuji: You are aware people have to pay to see your show? (Iron Chef isn't on any broadcast network.) How much market share would you have if the food channel stopped showing Iron Chef or cable/sat. networks stopped carrying the channel?
Yeah, like AOL trying (unsuccessfully) to shutdown aolsuck.com...
Ok, and to send a 50+G movie to the theater in anything near usable speed, you'd need a VERY expensive connection. At 2k$ per physical print, it doesn't cost anything to Fedex it across the country -- plus, you can make the money back by selling the frames. [You'd need about 5Mbps to transfer a 50G movie in one day -- that's about 4 T1s.]
Personally, I like the idea of digital movies. However, it'll be hard to match the image quality of film without having to own part of Seagate, Quantum, AND IBM.
Actually, I think "Lucas, George" gets the prize for being "first"... Star Wars, Episode one was mastered digitally and shown digitally in some limited spots -- there just aren't many places with digital projection gear.