"Excuse me, sir. Seeing as how the V.P. is such a V.I.P., shouldn't we keep the P.C. on the Q.T.? 'Cause if it leaks to the V.C. he could end up M.I.A., and then we'd all be put out in K.P."
I am for now. But that is because IE is what the DoD has standardized on here in the Sandbox.
However, I did notice recently that we do have Firefox 1.5 sitting in our Workgroup Managers' directory. So, I am going to install it soon for my general browsing and use IE only for stuff here on base that requires it.
I think the GP was referring to the EULA. But, and if you will pardon my gratuitous usage of the "fuck word", when it comes to protecting your system and/or network, fuck the EULA. Do whatever you need to do since your OS vendor won't take responsibility for their product.
Ugh. I misread your post and just realized too late that I essentially repeated what you already said. Disregard my reply to it. (Blame sleep deprivation.)
Well, I just thought that each channel the cable companies carry gets a piece of that monthly subscription fee regardless of how many subscribers watch any specific channel. For instance, say I am away from home for a month and don't watch any TV. I'm still paying my cable bill for that month. So since I didn't watch any shows on any channels, how is my money I paid to the cable company being divided up?
It's not like they have any way to actually monitor my viewing or lack of viewing habits and sending that info back to some big database to determine which channels get their share of my subscription.
Well if you think your $50 a month to comcast et al pays the channels enough money to produce shows Like BattleStar Galactica or even shows on Discovery and History you are on Crack.
You're right. A mere $50 per month would not cover all those production costs. However, that $50 million per month multiplied by however many millions of cable subscribers there are in the U.S., Canada, and elsewhere should more than cover it.
Wasn't one of the original appeals of cable television the ability to view programming without being interrupted by annoying ads in exchange for paying a subscription each month?
"Twenty years ago, geologist Gudmundur Omar Friedleifsson had a surprise when he lowered a thermometer down a borehole. 'We melted the thermometer,' he recalls. 'It was set for 380C; but it just melted.'"
He should have known better than to try to take a volcano god's temperature rectally.
This is a complete guess (since there is insufficient data for an actual analyzis), but it might be that the manager of the theater with 3 screens is fighting desperately for survival
In other words, the manager of the smaller theater realizes that whether he charges $5 or $12 per ticket, the percentage of those ticket sales he gets to keep are so slim that it doesn't matter one way or the other. So, draw the customers in with a low admission price, and hope that enough people will go ahead and buy food and drinks at their usual inflated rates to help them at least break even, if not turn a profit.
I suspect that most people aren't aware that this is how theaters operate. I myself do try to enlighten others on this when they start to complain about high concession prices. As an example, last year when Revenge of the Sith came out, I was visiting my family in Eastern Oregon and me, my dad, and my nephews decided to go see it at the only theater in town (the same one where he took me to see the original Star Wars back when I was around 7 or 8.)
Anyway, after grumbling about how expensive movie tickets and snacks have become since he was little ($7.50 there now if I remember right), I first pointed out that things have changed, and the theaters have sound now.
Then I also explained how the studios take most of the ticket sales from the theaters and that they have to make up for it with concessions. With that in mind, he had no problem with dropping another $20 or so for the usual big popcorn to pass around, sodas, and boxes of candy. (I offered to cover some of the costs, but he would not hear of that.) So anyway, there's one person I have been eble to enlighten on the ways of the theaters. This next time around though, when I make the trip back that way for the 4th of July, I am going to return the favor (if we decide to catch a movie there, that is) and give my financial support to the theater that was a major part of my youth.
So they are actually going to be selling beer in the movie theater for sports?
The cinemas brought in vendors to stroll the aisles with hot dogs, peanuts and beer
Will the prices be the same as at the ball park?
They shouldn't have to charge stadium prices for the concessions, since no studios will be taking away the majority of the theater's ticket sales, which is why the theaters usually charge those horrendous prices for snacks. That is where their earnings mostly come from.
Hopefully, the NFL and other sports associations will negotiate a truly fair agreement with the theater owners instead of following the studios' lead.
I'm not familiar with DC or Marvel's comics, but are there any characters that only have praeternatural powers, not supernatural ones?
From Google:
define: praeternatural
Definitions of praeternatural on the Web:
Supernatural, or inexplicable by ordinary means. www.poestories.com/wordlist.php
The preternatural or praeternatural labels things or events which appear outside (Latin praeter) the bounds of nature as currently understood. One could consider that such matters belong in science's "too-difficult" basket. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Praeternatural
Since it seems that praeternatural and supernatural are synonyms, the more appropriate question would be "Are there any characters with praeternatural powers instead of superhuman powers?" Superhuman would most likely be any powers that don't draw from the realm of the supernatural (like from another planet, or due to mutations, or whatever.)
In that light, I can think of at least three Marvel characters who have praeternatural powers:
I thought that Tigra, my favorite of the Marvel denizens (who I would love to see as the basis for a live action Marvel flick) had supernatural origins, but it looks like she is a mutant type after all: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tigra
Do these security measures prevent customers from dropping the movies into their shared directories and letting others access them via P2P? Or do they prevent the customer from ripping the actual DVD to an mpeg or whatever and emailing it to anyone?
And why would someone want to send a huge movie via email anyway when there are more effivient ways to share?
Considering the underwhelming rate that people adopted XP without buying new hardware, the anti-Spyware companies should be pretty safe for a while if they just continue to focus on supporting XP, 2K, and 9x.
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Speaking of The Onion, I just had a look and was surprised to see that they didn't post any real news stories for April Fools' Day.
The proper response to that would have been to give her the one-finger salute without you even looking away from your screen.
And just off the record...
I for one welcome our magical little equine overladies from Dream Valley.
So, I take it he has developed ICBCs? (Inter-Continental Ballistic Chairs)
I am for now. But that is because IE is what the DoD has standardized on here in the Sandbox.
However, I did notice recently that we do have Firefox 1.5 sitting in our Workgroup Managers' directory. So, I am going to install it soon for my general browsing and use IE only for stuff here on base that requires it.
I think the GP was referring to the EULA. But, and if you will pardon my gratuitous usage of the "fuck word", when it comes to protecting your system and/or network, fuck the EULA. Do whatever you need to do since your OS vendor won't take responsibility for their product.
And even more important than whether or not they date /.'ers...
Do they run Linux?
Ugh. I misread your post and just realized too late that I essentially repeated what you already said. Disregard my reply to it. (Blame sleep deprivation.)
Well, I just thought that each channel the cable companies carry gets a piece of that monthly subscription fee regardless of how many subscribers watch any specific channel. For instance, say I am away from home for a month and don't watch any TV. I'm still paying my cable bill for that month. So since I didn't watch any shows on any channels, how is my money I paid to the cable company being divided up?
It's not like they have any way to actually monitor my viewing or lack of viewing habits and sending that info back to some big database to determine which channels get their share of my subscription.
A software product like WoW doesn't need protection using patents. It already has protection, a little thing called copyright.
You're right. A mere $50 per month would not cover all those production costs. However, that $50 million per month multiplied by however many millions of cable subscribers there are in the U.S., Canada, and elsewhere should more than cover it.
Wasn't one of the original appeals of cable television the ability to view programming without being interrupted by annoying ads in exchange for paying a subscription each month?
This could put the Synaptic Package Manager in a whole new light.
Will it run Linux? And if so, just imagine a beowulf cluster of these organic computers!
He should have known better than to try to take a volcano god's temperature rectally.
This one, perhaps?
http://badgerbadgerbadger.com/
In other words, the manager of the smaller theater realizes that whether he charges $5 or $12 per ticket, the percentage of those ticket sales he gets to keep are so slim that it doesn't matter one way or the other. So, draw the customers in with a low admission price, and hope that enough people will go ahead and buy food and drinks at their usual inflated rates to help them at least break even, if not turn a profit.
I suspect that most people aren't aware that this is how theaters operate. I myself do try to enlighten others on this when they start to complain about high concession prices. As an example, last year when Revenge of the Sith came out, I was visiting my family in Eastern Oregon and me, my dad, and my nephews decided to go see it at the only theater in town (the same one where he took me to see the original Star Wars back when I was around 7 or 8.)
Anyway, after grumbling about how expensive movie tickets and snacks have become since he was little ($7.50 there now if I remember right), I first pointed out that things have changed, and the theaters have sound now.
Then I also explained how the studios take most of the ticket sales from the theaters and that they have to make up for it with concessions. With that in mind, he had no problem with dropping another $20 or so for the usual big popcorn to pass around, sodas, and boxes of candy. (I offered to cover some of the costs, but he would not hear of that.) So anyway, there's one person I have been eble to enlighten on the ways of the theaters. This next time around though, when I make the trip back that way for the 4th of July, I am going to return the favor (if we decide to catch a movie there, that is) and give my financial support to the theater that was a major part of my youth.
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Mmmmm... Katerina Witt or Michelle Kwan in 3D on the big screen... I'd be a regular theater patron for that.
They shouldn't have to charge stadium prices for the concessions, since no studios will be taking away the majority of the theater's ticket sales, which is why the theaters usually charge those horrendous prices for snacks. That is where their earnings mostly come from.
Hopefully, the NFL and other sports associations will negotiate a truly fair agreement with the theater owners instead of following the studios' lead.
And here in DurkaDurka^WAfghanistan as well. At least tomorrow's my day off and I can sleep in.
From Google:
define: praeternatural
Since it seems that praeternatural and supernatural are synonyms, the more appropriate question would be "Are there any characters with praeternatural powers instead of superhuman powers?" Superhuman would most likely be any powers that don't draw from the realm of the supernatural (like from another planet, or due to mutations, or whatever.)
In that light, I can think of at least three Marvel characters who have praeternatural powers:
Dr. Strange: http://www.marveldirectory.com/individuals/d/drst
Scarlet Witch: http://www.marveldirectory.com/individuals/s/scar
Thor: http://www.marveldirectory.com/individuals/t/thor
I thought that Tigra, my favorite of the Marvel denizens (who I would love to see as the basis for a live action Marvel flick) had supernatural origins, but it looks like she is a mutant type after all: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tigra
Yeah yeah, whatever. Error was caught a half a second too late. BFD.
Do these security measures prevent customers from dropping the movies into their shared directories and letting others access them via P2P? Or do they prevent the customer from ripping the actual DVD to an mpeg or whatever and emailing it to anyone?
And why would someone want to send a huge movie via email anyway when there are more effivient ways to share?
Count me in on this matey! 'Tis much too perilous for one person to go it alone.
We can call this campaign Operation Grail-Shaped Beacon.
Considering the underwhelming rate that people adopted XP without buying new hardware, the anti-Spyware companies should be pretty safe for a while if they just continue to focus on supporting XP, 2K, and 9x.