• McCain has attacked Obama, because Obama is ambitious. McCain isn't ambitious, so probably he don't want to be president
  
• McCain doesn't speak for the campaign and the campaign doesn't speak for McCain
  
• candidate McCain opposes bills constructed by senator McCain

And therefore you shouldn't critisise McCain. Not because he is was a POW, or a war hero like Kerry. As a POW he could keep up his honour, his integrity. But this republicans abuse this old man and pressure him into a campaign, where he loses the very things he values most.
Voting for McCain is a lack of mercy. But you know, there are sadists. McCain does everything he can to sabotage his campaign, but still they want to see him suffer and becoming president.

Lich King/Caribou Barbie 08
Pain brings Katharsis

Nice idea, but doesn't work in practice ? and all those headlines about partizan revenge when they'll need all the good vibes just to fix the major things Bush broke. And no, I don't believe they really intend to fix the legislature or the Constitution

keep to the Fen Causeway

There is a GOD, and THANK YOU LORD! I NOW BELIEVE!

McCain/Palin ... total sacks of SHIT!

Make what you will of the English fascination for crisscross-dressing.

Yep, I'm that dude.

You can't be me, I'm taken

There are 3 3D systems available now; RealD, XpanD, and Dolby. Sony showed their version to a select audience at CineExpo last June, so they will be the 4th at some unannounced date.

Since it was active glasses, you must have seen the XpanD system. I haven't seen an excellent demo of theirs, only small expo rooms, so I can't comment.

I have seen the Dolby and the RealD system, which was the first one to hit the ground running a few years ago, Interview with Josh Greer, Real D
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When I saw my first clip of Chicken Little with the RealD system long before it was released, I thought that my eyes were going to bleed from little needles being stuck in them. I saw their reel recently, and it was surprising how much better it was. Saw some post work being done with it, and I must say that the entire technology is quite cool and capable. Saw a bunch of the U2 concert on it, with a great sound system and I can imagine that the day will come soon when people won't want to see a concert film any other way...or vice versa, that people will go to cinemas to see concerts.  

One advantage of DCinema is that niche products can be made and distributed, and niche markets can be hit because the distribution costs are lower, so concert films in a cinema with a great sound system can become marketable for example...or video games being played against cross town or cross planet rivals from a cinema.

In fact, the day will come soon when live 3D DCinema events can all be done for a marketable price (theNBA did a basketball game to good reviews last year) and people will flock to theaters for the event (not talking about 3 week long runs.) They already are flocking to cinemas to see live opera, broadcast from NY and SF and other places, in 2D. 3D will make it even more attractive when all the parts are nailed together and you bring your own fitted and/or prescription 3D glasses.

All current systems have a problem getting enough light to the eyeballs because of the way that each technology presently works. RealD handles this with a silver screen. Their glasses are kept cheap because they are to keep or be throw-aways. Dolby and XpanD are more expensive and washable. Dolby even has lenses that are hemispheric so that the distance of the light coming to the eyeball from the lens is the same as the eye moves. Somewhat more comfortable and they aren't as bulky cumbersome. (There is an inherent bulkiness to all the glasses because they have to keep all reflected and off-axis light out of the eyes to keep up the effect. So all the glasses have wide plastic parts.)

3D is still hard to do, and the production teams are still learning what can be done and what can be done well and what shouldn't be done. Animations were the first, and they have turned the corner. Several studios are now committed to making everything in 3D, with 2D as the down-convert.

There are some big producer non-animation productions being done in 3D now (Cameron getting the most press because he is also using the RED camera - this article has some good pull quotes James Cameron supercharges 3-D
.) As the real pros get the technique down, it is likely that the movies won't give the same specious feeling - that the 3D will be part of the way we see things, not a technique to scare the bejezuz out of one with a snake being thrown in your face.

Journey got a lot of flack for appearing to just be pandering to the 3D coolness bandwagon. Unfortunately, there just aren't enough 3D sites...there aren't really enough DCinema sites...so they couldn't even pull off that stunt. I saw a part of it a year ago. In the scheme of things, one knows that this kind of picture had to be made, as schmalzy as it was. So fine, it is behind us now.

All in all, this is not likely to be a technology that goes away. It works, though it is still being refined. It is nothing like the old systems by any stretch. And while the old systems would get one producer backing it and then it disappeared, all the studios are behind this one. There is a consumer technology following in a few years. There are even systems that are showing a nascent technology of converting some classic 2D into 3D. I saw a minute or two of the original Star Wars that was done at a jillion dollars a second, and it was not cool at all. It was just perfect. At that point I realized that there is a chance that this is how movies will just be. </sorry for hype motions>

It is also an add-on to digital cinema technology in general, which is slowly advancing toward a general roll-out. 3D costs a lot of money. In the neighborhood of 15-20k more, on top of the 100k dcinema system. This is a technology where, besides getting rid of a chemical/plastic/environmental nasty, the studios save more than a billion dollars a year, until uhm...carry the 5, divide by...oh, yeah, forever.  

Never underestimate their intelligence, always underestimate their knowledge.

Frank Delaney ~ Ireland

We usually go and have a coffee together after a screening (making me Trotsky?) and talk about the movie. This time we were not inspired.

You can't be me, I'm taken

This would be beautiful.

Where's your motherf*%&ing flag pin?

Interesting timing on the story. I was just thinking it's been almost an entire 24 hours since the last scandal.

the awesomeness is grandilicious - or something.

Dude, you are, like, so totally getting all Americanized and all, you know?  It's like, awesome!

obame will dance rings around his clumsy gotchas, i reckon it should be a fun face off.


Peace is not the absence of war -- peace is the absence of fear. Ursula Franklin

Now he is only 15 points behind Udall.

Och nu den svenska kocken bakar en Alaskan älg jägare. Bonk! Bonk! Bonk!