December 2009
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(=Windows 7)
WatchWhy was Avatar 3D great? Because it was collaborated with Ubisoft, a gaming company.
(Gaming is the driving force of entertainment.)
“Never steal in Greece. The Greek government hates competition!”
– kkoolook
Watch#Hybrid, #Videos, #Hatchback, #Chevrolet, #GM, #Celebrities, #Electric
(2011 chevrolet volt)
“…
• He could read two facing pages simultaneously, one with each eye.
•...”
– Afew days ago died someone called Kim Peek(58).
(Normal, Mediocre Twitterers read about him.)
“What is the problem? The problem is that our American partners are building an...”
– Vladimir Putin’s comments about the US’s NEW plans to build a missile defense in the sea.
(Right on.)
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“A lot of big companies are about endless meetings. Massive bureaucracy....”
– From Apple’s Jobs section.
(We hate suits)
“Life is cruel.
Why should the afterlife be any different?”
– Davy Jones, Pirate from the Pirates of the Caribbean Film.
“So, here’s the $64,000 question, uh, make that the $64 billion question....”
– @mbrookec
(If the iSlate Apple tablet is transparent (and of course exists), runs on the iPhone OS and NOT the desktop version of the Mac OS X, I will need one.)
“A January demo may seem like curious timing: One reason Apple supposedly pulled...”
– The clouds of war between Apple and Google are gathering.
(I think that now that the App Store has finally relaxed the rules (secret live recording API is now not off-hands), the tablet “rumor” might finally be true.)
Best Games of the 00s decade
The Sims (2000) — The Rise of the Casuals “Why It Was Influential: For us traditional gamers, The Sims provided the opportunity to screw around with digital people, building rooms without doors (or bathrooms) and watching the digital nervous (and digestive) system break down. It was a science experiment without any controls or psychological repercussions. But for the millions of people...
Most Downloaded Movies on BitTorrent, 2009
1 Star Trek 10,960,000 $385,459,120
2 Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen 10,600,000 $834,969,807
3 RocknRolla 9,430,000 $25,728,089
4 The Hangover 9,180,000 $459,422,869
5 Twilight 8,720,000 $384,997,808
6 District 9 8,280,000 $204,570,836
7 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 7,930,000 $929,359,401
8 State of Play 7,440,000 $87,784,194
9 X-Men Origins:...
The 2nd Decade of the Internet. (Know the past...
10. Hewlett-Packard acquires Compaq
9. Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates retires
8. Google acquires YouTube and legitimizes social media
7. Craigslist and the slow fade of traditional newspapers
6. Yahoo plays Hamlet with search
5. Apple releases the iPhone and changes mobile technology
4. Pffft goes the dot-com bubble
3. Microsoft and the feds make a deal
2. Apple unveils iTunes
1. Google...
WatchRichard Branson is interviewed while flying. WiFi FREE by Larry Page!
(Sound sucks)
“I remember well my first day at work. I walked through the door, turned round...”
– Jeremy Clarkson about strikes.
James Cameron interviews Peter Jackson (It’s The...
CAMERON: So how's the road trip been on The Lovely Bones?
JACKSON: It's all right. Not too bad. Having a harder job getting over the jet lag than I normally do, but never mind. Getting older, I guess. I'm in … Berlin.
CAMERON: Ha, ha! You had to think about it for a minute!
JACKSON: I did! I'm flying to Paris as soon as this phone call is over. So we're talking about technology and movies?
CAMERON: People often ask us about the future of filmmaking because we've both been innovators in the last few years, creating cutting-edge stuff that gets widely or narrowly adopted. I think the simple answer is that filmmaking is not going to ever fundamentally change. It's about storytelling. It's about humans playing humans. It's about close-ups of actors. It's about those actors somehow saying the words and playing the moment in a way that gets in contact with the audience's hearts. I don't think that changes. I don't think that's changed in the last century.
JACKSON: There's no doubt that the industry is in a weird position. It's not just Hollywood—it's international. The loss of the independent distribution companies and the finance companies, and the lack of ability to get medium-budget films these days. The studios have found comfort in these enormous movies. The big-budget blockbuster is becoming one of the most dependable forms of filmmaking. It was only three or four years ago when there was a significant risk with that kind of film. Now, especially last summer, we saw blockbuster after blockbuster be released, and they all had significant budgets and they're all doing fine. It almost doesn't matter if the film is a good film or a bad film, they're all doing OK. They've lost the ability to have that happen with a low-budget movie and with midrange-budget movies.
CAMERON: But they've also lost the courage to make, frankly, a movie like Avatar, which is a blockbuster-scaled movie not based on prior arc. All the blockbusters of the last four years, like Transformers, Harry Potter, Spider-Man—they're all films based on other films or part of a franchise. The idea of making a film of that scale that's a unique piece has been lost. In the meantime, we have all these increases in technology. And there's no clear way to pay for these blockbuster movies in the old traditional way. It's not clear that the technology will come down in price in the near future.
JACKSON: People are holding on to the idea of lowering the price. The vast majority of the CGI budget is labor. Unless everything goes to China or Eastern Europe in the sweatshops, that sort of approach, labor is never going to go down. It's only going to go up.
CAMERON: Because computers don't create beautiful images. People do. Down at your place in Wellington [New Zealand], we had 800 people working on Avatar for the past six months.
JACKSON: The ones that are conscious anyway.