If Allen's fine with the way things worked out, why second-guess him? They say the best revenge is living well, and it certainly seems like Allen's doing that.
Gotta recommend the Experience Music Project in Seattle, which I believe was one of his pet projects. I visited about 4 or 5 years ago, and it was a great time.
If the question regards benefit to the consumer, then by all means release simultaneously, giving consumers the maximum opportunity to choose their viewing experience.
That ain't the question, however. The real question is how do film producers and distributors maximize their profit - and the theater chains are simply the tail getting wagged by the dog on this one. If they want to thrive, they need to emphasize the "experience" that they purport to offer, which for starters, would mean:
1) Rationalize the pricing for snacks, 2) If the movie claims to start at 7:00, start the upcoming feature trailers no later than 7:05 - if you want to show lots of other ads, do it before 7:00 with the lights still partially up. 3) Some theaters already do this, but summertime morning "freebies" that get moms and their kids into the theater are a great way to build that next generation of theater goers.
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A major question is how something like this could even be implemented effectively. Here in the US, I used to have a job with a regional distribution center for a Swedish-owned multinational, and most internet sites identified us as browsing from Sweden (even though our traffic went through a proxy in Virginia). That meant getting lots of ad banners in Svenska, and not being able to access W's re-election website back in the 2004 campaign...
If you're concerned that much about having Google in your S&P 500 mix, you can hedge against it by shorting Google (or using a proxy like long term put options) to the extent that they are represented in your S&P 500 holdings. If Google goes up, your S&P 500 holding goes up, but the hedge goes down, and vice versa in case Google tanks. For small accounts (under $25K) this might be clumsily achieved due to the impact of transaction costs, but for decent size accounts this is a readily available risk management method.
Another thing I like to use on Yahoo is to pull Real-Time ECN info for several stocks at once, to keep tabs on a watchlist. I don't see similar functionality in the Google page. Try the following:
While the analogy is a bit of a stretch, the Cuban embargo is still a collosal failure. It hasn't achieved its objective, and doesn't show any signs of doing so in the forseeable future. Why not end it? Just to avoid giving Castro the satisfaction and PR? That's an awfully petty reason to keep a neighbor impoverished.
I would think that free trade and closer US/Cuba ties would help the anti-totalitarian interests there in the long run.
To sum up: there are winners, and losers, as the result of international trade. The body of evidence over time has shown that the winners outnumber the losers, and the losers usually do fine after a transition period.
The argument that a middle class is rising throughout Asia is quite valid, as hundreds of millions of people get lifted out of poverty and can start to afford luxuries like imported food, entertainment, and education.
I'm just tired of all the whining about the Olympics!
Frankly, I don't think NBC has done near as many "athlete profile" pieces as they've done in the past, and have done a better job at showing more events in a given evening. If you really want your curling fix, try USA, MSNBC, or CNBC. And the IOC has probably done a good a job as any sports organization of taking a hard line on doping and drug use by athletes.
I'll be up bright and early tomorrow morning for the Sweden/Finland hockey final, which should be a dandy. I'll go with the Swedes, 3-2...
Or maybe it's just another marketing campaign masquerading as "research". Is it really suprising to have a study that says technology gets in the way of productive work, when it's "conducted for Day-Timers, a maker of organizational products"
They should just have a template title for articles like this:
Study funded by maker of Widgets points to pressing need for more Widgets
Nothing like taking things to the absurd extreme, eh?
I find it really amusing how many IT types get worked up over the threat that outsourcing presents to their current job, when in fact IT has driven change in other labor markets for the last several decades. How many secretaries have been put out of work due to the advent of word processing and email, and how many switchboard operators have been unemployed due to the rise of automated switches? Now the worm has turned and telecommunications now allows the opportunity to coordinate systems development activity across continents.
What the IT industry has done* to other workers has now come full circle to threaten many IT workers themselves. Boo hoo!
*And what it has done is an incredibly good thing. Productivity is soaring, and that's the key.
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I'm surprised to find out there even is a 6th largest RPG company...
I thought after the first few it was pretty much guys self-publishing their home game campaigns, unlike the good old 80's when variety thrived.
If Allen's fine with the way things worked out, why second-guess him? They say the best revenge is living well, and it certainly seems like Allen's doing that.
Gotta recommend the Experience Music Project in Seattle, which I believe was one of his pet projects. I visited about 4 or 5 years ago, and it was a great time.
two bits... wow, that IS old school! My first computer had an 8-bit processor, and that was back in 1979...
'Play!' and 'Videogames Live' are competing for the musical soul of a nation, with different takes on the genre.
Thanks, Slashdot. I just shot Pepsi out my nose after reading that one. That'll teach me to drink and surf...
Yeah, but Brokeback would have made more money if those devoted fans didn't keep coming through the back door...
sorry, just couldn't resist that one.
If the question regards benefit to the consumer, then by all means release simultaneously, giving consumers the maximum opportunity to choose their viewing experience.
That ain't the question, however. The real question is how do film producers and distributors maximize their profit - and the theater chains are simply the tail getting wagged by the dog on this one. If they want to thrive, they need to emphasize the "experience" that they purport to offer, which for starters, would mean:
1) Rationalize the pricing for snacks,
2) If the movie claims to start at 7:00, start the upcoming feature trailers no later than 7:05 - if you want to show lots of other ads, do it before 7:00 with the lights still partially up.
3) Some theaters already do this, but summertime morning "freebies" that get moms and their kids into the theater are a great way to build that next generation of theater goers.
Your arm? Now that sounds a bit wierd. I prefer to have members of the opposite sex attached somewhere a little more fun...
I think the story is, "CNET is desperately trying to fill space."
Leaving a dump in the can is fine, but I would think that taking someone else's dump would clearly be biopiracy...
Wrong on all counts...
(hint) it's not a consumer-products company, so forget anything with a retail outlet.
My /. journal is hereby wide open for political discourse, with articles sold to the highest bidder! You want a heartfelt piece on the passion in "Compassionate Conservatism", or a call to arms to support the interests of your favorite disenfranchised minority through progressive legislation? Just open the checkbook and we'll work something out. No job too big, no job too small! Order today!
A major question is how something like this could even be implemented effectively. Here in the US, I used to have a job with a regional distribution center for a Swedish-owned multinational, and most internet sites identified us as browsing from Sweden (even though our traffic went through a proxy in Virginia). That meant getting lots of ad banners in Svenska, and not being able to access W's re-election website back in the 2004 campaign...
Is a dupe not a dupe when the dupe is a comment and the story got posted a few days ago?
I don't know what the big deal is, the Missing Link has been up in Canada all this time...
Perhaps they meant "dog year"....
Well yeah, unless you have a heisenberg compensator!
Those are the ones that generate anti-gravity by swinging a dead (or alive?) cat at high speeds, right?
If you're concerned that much about having Google in your S&P 500 mix, you can hedge against it by shorting Google (or using a proxy like long term put options) to the extent that they are represented in your S&P 500 holdings. If Google goes up, your S&P 500 holding goes up, but the hedge goes down, and vice versa in case Google tanks. For small accounts (under $25K) this might be clumsily achieved due to the impact of transaction costs, but for decent size accounts this is a readily available risk management method.
If you just want to check real-time numbers from work (with firewall restrictions), then Yahoo's better than nothing...
Another thing I like to use on Yahoo is to pull Real-Time ECN info for several stocks at once, to keep tabs on a watchlist. I don't see similar functionality in the Google page. Try the following:
, goog,jnpr,tsai
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/cq?d=e&s=ge%2Ctsn%2CMO
While the analogy is a bit of a stretch, the Cuban embargo is still a collosal failure. It hasn't achieved its objective, and doesn't show any signs of doing so in the forseeable future. Why not end it? Just to avoid giving Castro the satisfaction and PR? That's an awfully petty reason to keep a neighbor impoverished.
I would think that free trade and closer US/Cuba ties would help the anti-totalitarian interests there in the long run.
Nonsense, that first message was simply the Designer's way of testing your faith...
/., I hesitate to use the phrase Intelligent Designer)
(note that with
To sum up: there are winners, and losers, as the result of international trade. The body of evidence over time has shown that the winners outnumber the losers, and the losers usually do fine after a transition period.
The argument that a middle class is rising throughout Asia is quite valid, as hundreds of millions of people get lifted out of poverty and can start to afford luxuries like imported food, entertainment, and education.
I'm just tired of all the whining about the Olympics!
Frankly, I don't think NBC has done near as many "athlete profile" pieces as they've done in the past, and have done a better job at showing more events in a given evening. If you really want your curling fix, try USA, MSNBC, or CNBC. And the IOC has probably done a good a job as any sports organization of taking a hard line on doping and drug use by athletes.
I'll be up bright and early tomorrow morning for the Sweden/Finland hockey final, which should be a dandy. I'll go with the Swedes, 3-2...
Or maybe it's just another marketing campaign masquerading as "research". Is it really suprising to have a study that says technology gets in the way of productive work, when it's "conducted for Day-Timers, a maker of organizational products"
They should just have a template title for articles like this:
Study funded by maker of Widgets points to pressing need for more Widgets
Nothing like taking things to the absurd extreme, eh?
I find it really amusing how many IT types get worked up over the threat that outsourcing presents to their current job, when in fact IT has driven change in other labor markets for the last several decades. How many secretaries have been put out of work due to the advent of word processing and email, and how many switchboard operators have been unemployed due to the rise of automated switches? Now the worm has turned and telecommunications now allows the opportunity to coordinate systems development activity across continents.
What the IT industry has done* to other workers has now come full circle to threaten many IT workers themselves. Boo hoo!
*And what it has done is an incredibly good thing. Productivity is soaring, and that's the key.