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microsoft and bmw have teamed up to show 8 independent films in 25 cities using windows media technology. bmw's digital cinema series will run through next year, and will begin on friday in cities including new york and los angeles. bmw's interest in digital film began when it commissioned promotional films on its website last year.
a typical digital projector costs over us$100,000. the system that will be used for the film series by ibm and microsoft costs half of that. the system will also be free for theater owners who agree to a stipulation that a 7 minute bmw promotional movie is played before each movie screening.
read more on this topic at the new york times.
brian's opinion
microsoft wants to attract hollywood to begin using its windows media technology. one simple reason is that it points users back to the windows operating system. the other reason is that microsoft wants a piece of the action when it comes to the creation and distribution of movies.
theater owners and hollywood studios would definitely see a cost savings in using a digital format to distribute films. the great thing about digital films is that you don't have to worry about the image degrading over time. millions of dollars could be saved in future restoration costs if film began being produced in digital format.
it's also not rocket science why microsoft has used independent film makers to further its cause. the digital format greatly reduces the costs associated with producing, editing, and distributing films. you usually don't hear about millions of dollars being spent on independent films. well, at least not before they are made.
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|ms into movies.. (9:30am est fri nov 15 2002)
can't you just see an ms flick becoming the next box-office bomb?
(box office crash? box office bsod?)
..and knowing ms they'll charge licensing fees through the nose. – by billywood
|microsoft movies… (10:05am est fri nov 15 2002)
this thread is going to be awesome! i can't wait to see these posts! – by m@
|what!! (10:10am est fri nov 15 2002)
i like microsoft and all but they do try and get into every single area. they should move technology forward but also it is important for some other companies to gte in on the action.
– by supersonic
|wibble (10:29am est fri nov 15 2002)
digital films great, microsoft bad.
mix the two together and i think that there will be some indie film makers really pissed off when the shine wears off for the men in suits – by avery boy
|didn't apple just release… (10:38am est fri nov 15 2002)
audio/video apps before m$ media apps came along? why no comparison of the apps? i wonder if m$ had to open thier source how many times the word apple would be found in the doc of their media products? – by bill gates
|ahhh but… (10:45am est fri nov 15 2002)
does that $100,000 include the ctrl+alt+del?? – by fbill!
|can it make it. (10:51am est fri nov 15 2002)
it will succeed only if the tools are free to indepentant film makers. if they had to pay $10000 for software tool to produce the film, no one is going to go for it.
these people have no money.
– by rax
|i can see it now !!! (11:09am est fri nov 15 2002)
and the top news of the day. windows media technology crashes throughout the united states. all movie theaters have been shut down until a patch is released by the people at redmond. the eta of this patch is 6 months. please go back to your regular lives……………………….. – by noclue
|new movie!!!! (12:04pm est fri nov 15 2002)
now playing: "the blue screen of death" – by prosoothus
|another new movie!!!! (12:18pm est fri nov 15 2002)
now playing: "the 40 billion dollar man"
his super power is unknown — – by chagamon
|sorry, bill, but hollywood is using linux technologies (12:46pm est fri nov 15 2002)
check out the latest movies especially those using computer animation and special effects. hollywood is using linux technologies because it is customizable, cheaper and more reliable. – by hollywoodusinglinux
|re sorry, bill, but hollywood is using linux technologies (9:34pm est fri nov 15 2002)
[.ogg is somewhat better than .wma, for sure] – by askheart
|avoid windows media player 8/9 when watching dvd (11:36pm est fri nov 15 2002)
don't use windows media player 8/9 when watching dvd because it sends information to microsoft. microsoft will know what porn dvd you are watching. use any other windows dvd player or linux dvd player.
small ms dvd privacy invasion, not many dead
– by ms spying on you
|microsoft to the rescue (9:55am est sun nov 17 2002)
hollywood likes big bucks so does microsoft. the two will be very happy together. cheaper distributions costs should mean more money on production vlaues. also digital format can mean that finally movies may get released on the same day around the world, yay!
i can't see any downside to this. people moan about ms getting into every avenue of life, well, so what? standards are a good thing people. – by moshster
|re: moshster (10:28am est sun nov 17 2002)
ms supporting standards? you make me laugh. ms does not support standards. i hate to be a visual basic programmer. ms changed the standards so all the old visual basic programs do not work. when samba on *nix work as a file system for windows, ms changed the standards for no good reason except to mess up open source, so samba had to change. windows media player is definately not a standard. if it was, i should able to run an open source version of windows media player except using a linux converter program for windows media player.
"people moan about ms getting into every avenue of life, well, so what? "
|no more s***t cam downloads :) (5:48pm est mon nov 18 2002)
now they can just steal the high quality format directly from media player instead of the bad quality camcorder recordings. p2p users will love this. i am sure they will prolly distribute the movies over some kind of network or send drm-protected cdz to the theatres. either way the pirates (did i spell that right?) out there are saved the hassle of converting their recordings to digital format. plus with ms security as great as it is –(sarcasim in case you don't know)they will prolly be able to exploit a hole and access these movies. or they can just pay the 16yr old that works their to burn them a copy haha! – by can't wait


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Frankfurt Motor Show 2017: Autumn Car Catwalk
by Sue Baker
Europe's biggest motoring fashion show opened in Germany this last week and finishes on September 24. We've been taking a look at highlights from the biennial Frankfurt Motor Show.
Have motor shows had their day? Frankfurt begs the question, because of the number of major car makers who aren't there at one of the world's leading car events. Ten notable absentees are Peugeot, DS, Volvo, Mitsubishi, Fiat, Alfa Romeo, Chrysler, Jeep, Nissan and Infiniti.
However, there is plenty of activity from the rest of the motor industry at this 67th Frankfurt Motor Show, with more than 50 motor manufacturers displaying their wares and an official opening by German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
This is the prestige German car makers' home territory, so Mercedes, BMW and Audi go a big step further than having lavish stands. They each have their own show halls. Like Las Vegas casinos, these vast emporiums are easier to enter than to find the way out again.
Everyone in Frankfurt wants to parade their green credentials, and electrification is the show's constantly recurring theme. Here are some of the highlights from a very vibrant and frenetic show.
It may seem surprising to start with South Korean car maker Kia, but it has more new models on show than just about any other manufacturer, and as a result its Frankfurt stand is rammed with a busy traffic of visitors eager to see them.
A show star is the new Proceed concept, a sleek estate with a muscled body that looks gym-honed. Also grabbing attention is the Kia Stinger, a performance car and the company's most powerful model to date, going on sale next month. There are also three new SUV-crossover models: the dinky Picanto X-Line, the compact-size Stonic, and the new seven-seater Sorento range-topper.
There is a sea change in the company's naming policy, shedding the weird apostrophes and underlinings in some of its past car names – such as the cee'd and pro_cee'd – in favour of more normal badging. A sign, maybe, of Kia going much more mainstream.
A surprise of the show is SsangYong's new Rexton, with a handsome body and a well-crafted cabin that shows how far a company once known for rather ugly, very rustic models has now come. The pricing is still budget, but the cars have taken a big leap forward in quality.
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On the Honda stand the key news is the updated Jazz with freshened design and a new 1.5 litre engine. Also featured is one of the cutest concept cars in the show, the Urban EV, a chummy-looking little electric car reminiscent of an early Mini. It's mooted to go into production in 2019.
A sporty hot hatch from Hyundai? This is a first, and it's slicky styled and has enough performance to rival a Golf GTi or Focus ST. Rather boringly called the i30 N, it is the first N model from Hyundai, co-called because its development included dynamic testing at the Nurburgring, Germany's legendary 'green hell' race track.
There is keen interest in a home-grown babe. The Mini Electric concept car shows what a new model coming in 2019 will be like. Also on show is a very butch-looking John Cooper Works GP concept car celebrating the 50th anniversary of Paddy Hopkirk's Monte Carlo rally victory.
Bathed in a dramatic overhead lightshow of changing colours, the Audi stand's big news in the VW Group hall is the new A8 luxury range-topper, but its most fascinating exhibit is the Aicon concept car designed for a fully autonomous future. Are we ready for a car with a lounge-like interior and no steering wheel or pedals? Maybe not, but this is Audi's time machine to what cars may eventually become.
The big news in BMW's vast hall 11 at the show is a concept car telling us what the big new seven-seater SUV in the range will look like. It will be badged X7. There is also a sexy new 6 Series Gran Turismo, the latest high-performance M5, and a concept version of the new i5 electric saloon.
The star turn in Mercedes' lofty dome of a show hall is the 217 mph AMG Project One hypercar, which is essentially a Formula One-powered piece of ultra-exotica for the road. Who else to introduce it but Mercedes F1 driver Lewis Hamilton? His appearance caused as much of a stir as the car itself. Also interesting is Merc's new X-Class pick-up, an uppercrust version of close cousin Nissan Navara.
Here's another big-name German brand, and Porsche's highlight is the new Cayenne. It maintains its reputation as one of the sportiest SUVs around, now featuring new tech and a bigger boot.
The big news at Bentley is the new Continental GT. This is the third generation of the company's sports tourer that seems to be the favourite transport of wealthy footballers. It has is a six-litre W12 engine, like two three-litre V6s joined together, and is said to have a top speed of around 207 mph. Expect to see it on UK roads from next spring.
London Electric Vehicle Company
Taxi! LEVC is what used to be known as the London Taxi Company, manufacturer of the iconic black cabs. Its star exhibit in Frankfurt is the new taxi, not black but beige, in homage to the traditional colour of all German taxis. It is a hybrid, called TX, and soon to start whispering around London streets. LEVC, like Volvo, is owned by Chinese motor group Geely. The name change makes way for extending its product range, with a new van coming later.
Although sister companies Peugeot and DS have stayed away from the Frankfurt Show, Citroen is in upbeat mood with its new C3 Aircross due on sale next month. Also grabbing attention is the funky E-Mehari, an electric open-top buggy
The new model of the cheap-and-cheerful Duster stars on Dacia"s stand, due to replace the old model sold in Britain since 2012. It has a curvier new look and a much improved cabin.
There is more muscle for the Mustang on the Ford stand. It has an upgraded V8 engine and a new ten-speed auto gearbox, as well as other minor tweaks.
After a recent London debut, the new E-Pace, Jaguar's smaller SUV, is on public show for the first time ahead of going on sale early next year.
Won the lottery? On the Ferrari stand there is a gorgeous new arrival in the Portofino open top GT. With a 3.9 litre V8 engine and 199 mph top speed, it replaces the California T as the entry-level prancing horse model.
Tough decision. A lottery winner's alternative choice might be the new Lambo Aventador S Roadster. That open top roof would ensure you hear the great sound of its 6.5 litre V12 engine.
Back to reality, and Suzuki is showing its new Swift Sport, a small hot hatch from the Japanese company. It has a turbocharged 1.4 litre engine, and an all-up weight of under a tonne.
Among many hybrids featuring in Frankfurt is Toyota's C-HR Hy-Power, a beefy-lloking concept model that points towards the Japanese company's future direction on the hybrid front.
The third SUV-crossover from Vauxhall, the new Grandland X, is making its debut, but the bigger draw is the sporty performance version of the Insignia. It's called GSi, now that Vauxhall has abandoned the VXR performance tag.
Big news at VW is the arrival of the new Polo, the sixth generation of one of the most popular small hatchbacks. Except that it isn't that small any more, at eight cm longer and 7 cm wider than its predecessor. There's also the T-Roc, a close cousin of the Audi Q2 mini-crossover.
One of the most intriguing of all the new electric vehicles in Frankfurt is Renault's Symbioz concept of an autonomous electric car. It's four-door model with a glass upper body, face-to-face seating and no steering wheel.
Here comes another new small crossover. Seat's Arona is one of a growing breed of pumped-up mini models that includes the Audi Q2, new Kia Stonic and new Citroen C3.
Boo to the disappearance of the Yeti, Skoda's well-loved crossover. In its place is the new Karoq, less distinctive but more in keeping with the styling across the rest of the range.
Appearing for the first time in Europe is Subaru's new Impreza, with freshened style and a greatly updated interior.
After an absence of more than half a century, Borgward has reappeared in Europe. It makes SUVs for China, but titivated interest with a svelte concept car, a coupe named Isabella.
Never heard of Chery? Not surprising, as the Chinese manufacturer is little known outside Asia. On its stand is the Exceed, a chunky SUV for Europe. Hybrid and EVs also planned.
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|Chris Bell - pitching
4th International Conference of the Society of Children's Writers and Illustrators, Sydney, June 29-July 2 2012
Wednesday, 27 June 2012
To Pitch or Not to Pitch - that is the question
5 comments:
I am really looking forward to the pitch session. I agree that it will be a great opportunity for those chosen to present their work.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous27 June 2012 at 15:58
Thanks for your "enthralling pitch", Sheryl. Adrenalin can pump up the effect! Good luck to all those pitching. And I hope you'll all see my book one day in the not too distant future.ReplyDelete
I loved this, Chris - you are a very brave woman and I hope something wonderful comes of this, Scottish accent or no! xReplyDelete
JULIA, this is for you.ReplyDelete
Your comment won't show up on the blog because it's Anonymous (not sure why not) so I've added it below. I'll answer it in the next comment.
"Hello! I'm really enjoying the blog leading up to the conference. I just submitted a pitch, but then found some info through the Writer's Centre website that said it was only open to unpublished authors, so I've written to withdraw my entry. Perhaps you can mention it in the blog post for people like me who are pretty new to all of this and didn't know. Thanks! Julia."
Julia, any author can try for a pitching session - that information is incorrect. The story you're pitching must not be published, but certainly all authors can do it.ReplyDelete
You need to send in your entry again because you are able to throw your hat in the ring.
best wishes
PS For some reason this blog is not admitting comments through Anonymous even though the setting is correct.


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School Assembly revamp – Libby Purves
The UK government is planning to review the law on 'collective worship' in state schools. It is compulsory – indeed more compulsory in the letter than in the usual practice; and teachers must, however wearily, devise a 'broadly Christian' message for the whole school.
Faith Central – Times Online – WBLG: School Assembly revamp.
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The Pharmacy Technician Certification Board has recently launched their new website at www.ptcb.org. They are experiencing heavy traffic as they transition to a new database so response times on the site may be slow and you may not be able to login right away. The PTCB staff continues to work around the clock to address these issues.
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- Career Step being recognized as an Educator Advocate.
- Launching an updated, reorganized exam replacing the current PTCE. The new blueprint organizes content into nine "knowledge areas" each having a number of sub-domains. Changes have resulted from a Job Analysis Study completed in February 2012.
- PTCB Executive Director & CEO Everett B. McAllister, RPh, MPA, together with the PTCB Board of Governors, announced the development of an advanced certification program for pharmacy technicians. Further information regarding the new certification program will be released in 2013.


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The confrontation was not created by the police; the confrontation was created by the people who charged the police. Gentlemen, let's get the thing straight, once and for all. The policeman isn't there to create disorder; the policeman is there to preserve disorder.
Richard J. Daley, Mayor of Chicago, Freudian slip in discussing the police misconduct during the 1968 Chicago Democratic National Convention.


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The Japanese to the Rescue
From 1902 until 1923 the British and Japanese were military allies, bound to support each other in the case of a war with more than a single power and a promise of neutrality otherwise. At its signing, this was primarily seen as a way to counterbalance Russia. Japan would eventually fight on the side of the Entente powers in World War I and engage with Germans in Shandong province, China and in its island possessions in the Pacific. It did not ever play any major role in the action on the European mainland.
At least one fictional pre-war novel, however, appears to have imagined circumstances under which Britain's Japanese ally would come to its aid in the case of a German invasion. The work is Robert William Cole's The Death Trap (1907) which came to my attention when brought up in Niall Ferguson's The Pity of War.1
I haven't found a copy of the original2, but there appears to be more on and an extract from this work in Ignatius Frederick Clarke's The Great War with Germany, 1890-1914: Fictions and Fantasies of the War-to-Come. The brief summary of the conclusion of the novel goes as follows:
Despite the initial German successes and the enemy occupation of London, there is a national uprising directed by Lord Eagleton, the Military Dictator; and then help comes with the arrival of a Japanese fleet—a comvenient [sic], fictional activation of the Anglo-Japanese Treaty of 1905. Tens of thousands of Japanese troops land in Liverpool and hasten south to assist the British insurgents…3
- On page 2 of the work, it is listed among many other works of fiction imagining a German invasion of the British Isles. [↩]
- It doesn't seem to be in the Harvard library but I put in a request for it through inter-library loan [↩]
- Ignatius Frederick Clarke The Great War with Germany, 1890-1914: Fictions and Fantasies of the War-to-Come, p178. [↩]
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I've got the Clarke volume; there isn't much more about the Japanese in the extracts. Bleiler's Science-Fiction: The Early Years notes (p. 148) that the Japanese troops are veterans of the Manchurian campaign.
Cole also wrote The Struggle for Empire, about the expansion of the "Anglo-Saxon Empire" into space! I blogged about it here: http://airminded.org/2009/03/16/the-struggle-for-empire/


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Joan Burton wants a job guarantee for everyone on dole
LABOUR Party deputy leader Joan Burton wants the Government to "guarantee" everyone on the dole a job, training or education from the State.
The Social Protection Minister is floating the idea of a specific pledge of a "Job Guarantee" for all, which would build on an EU-driven promise for the under 25s.
The European Youth Guarantee, which is being introduced, will provide enhanced work, training and education opportunities for jobseekers under 25, if they can't get a job.
Ms Burton's wider plan has not been cleared by the Coalition as it will be viewed as being a particularly left-wing initiative.
But she says it would represent a "fundamental and decisive shift" in labour market, welfare and training systems.
The minister will set out her views in a speech at a conference organised by the trade union umbrella group, ICTU, later today.
"A wider Job Guarantee would be for those of all ages who want to work but have not found jobs in the private sector.
"Just as the goal of the Youth Guarantee is to ensure viable work, training or education opportunity for young jobseekers within a set period of them becoming unemployed, a Job Guarantee would roll out similar opportunities for those over 25," she said.
Ms Burton acknowledges there's a "long road to travel" before such a concept would gain widespread acceptance.
"But it strikes me as the only practical way in which real full employment, which is the cornerstone of a decent society, can be achieved," she said.
Ms Burton believes that even when the country returns to full employment, this will still allow for a large level of unemployment as the definition of full employment assumes it's as much as the economy can bear.
The minister said a Job Guarantee would secure real full employment at every stage of the economic cycle "by making the State the employer of last resort, guaranteeing employment and training opportunities for unemployed people".
"Such a scheme would be flexible and attuned to the economic cycle. As the economy grows and experiences inflationary pressures, the numbers of people receiving a Job Guarantee would shrink.
"In other words, it would have a deflationary effect to counter inflationary pressures in the private sector," she said.
"By contrast, in a recession when large numbers of workers are laid off, deflation would be countered by the increased spending on hiring the unemployed – who would otherwise be on welfare – under a Job Guarantee," she said.
Ms Burton said the "fixed Job Guarantee wage" would serve as the effective basic living wage in the economy and stabilise demand.
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For decades, the eastern side of San Francisco's Mission District (sometimes referred to as "Mission Creek") has housed industrial warehouses, wedged between the trendier parts of the Mission and residential Potrero Hill. But recently, many of the city's craftspeople and artisans have been moving into the area, christening it as the city's new center for creativity and ingenuity. The big distinction between this side of the Mission and San Francisco's other creative neighborhoods? The craftspeople here put their wares on display—showing off their creative process from start to finish in the many factory-showroom spaces fixed to their storefronts—from clothes to pottery to gourmet food. It's an exciting few blocks to explore where everything up-and-coming is happening in San Francisco. As master chocolatier, Chuck Siegel of Charles Chocolates says, "Nothing formulaic is coming into or out of this neighborhood."
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