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Los Muertos (Apr 30 2004 21:43 GMT) - Film Reviews: The slow-moving minimalism of new Argentine cinema finds its poet and master in Lisandro Alonso, whose mysterious journey upriver in "Los Muertos" follows very similar lines to his feature bow, "Freedom." This elegantly concise work, which certainly induces a meditative mood, will confirm Alonso's unusual talent for a limited circle of admirers, but will need special handling and critical support to reach the larger arthouse crowd. |
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- Film Reviews: A fine docu about "at risk" kids, "Girl Trouble" follows three young San Francisco women on the brink of adulthood -- and a possible lifetime stuck in the revolving door of crime and incarceration -- over four years' course. Juvenile delinquent stereotypes are usefully demolished while the lack of supportive environs and services for such girls becomes painfully clear. |
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Evilenko (Apr 30 2004 21:43 GMT) - Film Reviews: Based on a book called "The Communist Who Ate Children," "Evilenko" is an ambitious and fairly intriguing attempt to revisit shifting Soviet ideology via the titillating mechanism of the manhunt for Andrei Evilenko, the notorious pedophile and cannibal who murdered 55 victims. |
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- Film News: Deal covers all upcoming pix including 'Notebook,' 'Blade' -- New Line International has signed an output deal with leading Mexican indie distrib Gussi following the collapse of startup Districine. New Line had announced an alliance with the newly founded company at AFM. |
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- Film Reviews: In the great tradition of French print intellectuals pratfalling into the motion picture medium, well-respected author Emmanuel Carrere (whose fiction has been adapted for the screen by Claude Miller, among others) uses his first venture into cinema as an excuse for a dreadfully self-indulgent, meandering "personal essay" with the creator himself seldom out of camera range. |
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- Business News: Phones users willing to pay for right content -- A study by mobile phone operator Nokia has found that phone users are willing to spend up to a third more per month, ?7.4 ($8.80), to receive largely entertainment-based content. |
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Pinkish Hue (Apr 30 2004 21:42 GMT) - One of the qualities of a good cheek. (see also "Rosy Glow")... |
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- You cannot live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you. -- John Wooden... |
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- Last night I had an epiphany. I’m leaving for vacation on Monday morning. My boss returns from her vacation on... |
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- We closed on the house this morning. We have one key to the house. We did a walk-through of the house and it looked so different without all their stuff everywhere. And they said they will probably vacate the house by saturday evening instead of sunday. They will call us when they are out. |
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- Set to publish PS2 RPG this fall. |
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- Atari attempts to squeeze everything out of the DBZ license |
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- Nick Barker - drums - Lock Up |
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- Caso diário para Indice PSI-20, como nota sobre os seus suportes e resistências locais. |
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- AUSTIN – Gov. Rick Perry has announced the appointment of Bill Ledbetter Jr. of North Richland Hills to the Texas Workers’ Compensation Commission for a term to expire Feb. |
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- I don't quite believe that Doc Searls is sitting opposite me in my living room, using my wifi and drinking my whisky but he is. :-) [Later - spelling of whisky corrected (from whiskey) thanks to the eagle eye of... |
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- Shows the rise and fall of housing and jobs in SF during the bubble |
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- Tom Baker receives an unexpected call - from the Fourth Doctor. streaming realmedia |
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- Website for the dance club held in Hollywood, California each Friday night. Party info, tons of pictures, special event listing, links, store and more. |
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- by TChris Another embarrassment for the Bush administration: The head of the U.S.-led coalition in Iraq, Paul Bremer, warned six months before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks that the Bush administration seemed to be paying no attention to the problem... |
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- A disturbing, grinding noise started coming from my PC earlier this week. When I opened it up, I discovered the noise was coming from the fan on my northbridge chipset. My motherboard is an Asus A7V266-E, one of the few motherboards where, in a fit of insanity, Asus used a fan instead of a simple heatsink to cool the VIA chipset. (Maybe it's because this mobo was made in 2001 - at the twilight of the dot-com era - where insanity was never in particularily short supply.) It's insane because a passive heatsink provides adequate cooling for a chipset, makes no noise and suffers no mechanical wear and tear. |
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- BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany’s top-selling Bild newspaper on Friday welcomed the 10 new members to the European Union in its own special fashion: with pictures of 10 scantily clad young women from the countries in question. Continental Europe’s biggest daily... |
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- As you know, every business segment within Microsoft is responsible for continually evaluating its strategy and investments in all areas of the business to achieve operational efficiencies. At Microsoft Game Studios (MGS), we must continually evaluate our portfolio strategy and investments to ensure we are achieving our most important objectives of creating successful, platform driving titles for Windows gamers. In addition, Microsoft Games Studio must streamline game development operations to be more efficient and critically examine all projects in development to position the business for long-term success and profitability. Microsoft Game Studios has cancelled the Windows-based game "Train Simulator 2.0. |
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- The small business segment is a unique audience with special requirements. In order for technology geared to small businesses to be accessible and effective, it must be affordable, easy to manage and incorporate support programs. A strategic relationship recently announced in London between Microsoft and British Telecommunications (BT), one of Europe's leading providers of telecommunications services, aims to transform the quality and delivery of technology available to small businesses in the UK. A market test of the new initiative in two regions of Scotland will target this currently underserved segment of the business community and seek to narrow the technology gap between large and small businesses. |
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- This presentation is part two of a comprehensive four-part series focused on moving existing Microsoft Visual Basic® 6.0 applications to Visual Basic .NET. |
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- See how to maximize your business potential with Microsoft solutions. TechNet sessions are learning resources designed to meet the needs of IT professionals. |
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- This reference explains how to use the PDS Application Programming Interface (API) to allow client applications to access Project Server portfolio data. Client applications can programmatically log on to Project Server and use SOAP to call PDS API methods. The PDS implements a SOAP listener, which receives method calls in XML format and returns an XML response. |
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- The Visual Studio 2005 .NET Framework Base Class Libraries will include some new APIs that take advantage of the new CLR feature called Generics. This episode provides an overview of the main Generic APIs, including collections in the new namespace System.Collections.Generic. |
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- It's the newest computer security problem to attract the attention of Congress: spyware, or software designed to collect computer users' personal data without their knowledge. Secretly piggybacking on downloaded Internet software, spyware transmits information about computer usage and generates pop-up advertisements and other annoyances. It often is difficult to uninstall. |
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- A survey of IT security professionals conducted at the Infosecurity show in London this week revealed that more than 80 percent of people do not think that Bill Gates' pledge to eliminate spam within two years is realistic. In June 2003, the Microsoft chairman called for cooperation between government and corporations to fight the spammers. But Gates was branded hypocritical by anti-spam organizations because they said that Microsoft was only focusing on reducing the amount of spam received, rather than the spam sent by its users and servers. |
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- In a recent weblog I highlighted Sun's odd status in the industry's evolution to free software. I pointed out there that Sun has a verbally ambivalent and even fearful attitude toward free software, and that they still take strong actions in support of it, including their heavy investment in GNOME and their choice to release the overwhelming bulk of StarOffice as the open source OpenOffice.org. You can't always get the best information about a trend by scrutinizing the statements of a corporate executive; like politicians, executives sometimes have to say one thing while doing another. |
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- Worldwide PDA shipments declined 4.6 percent in the first quarter of 2004, but the battle for the PDA operating system market has heated up as PalmSource and Microsoft were in a virtual tie in shipments in the first quarter of 2004, according to preliminary results from Gartner, Inc. Palm OS shipments declined by 20.7 percent in the first quarter of 2004 compared with the same period last year (see Table 1). Palm OS market share slipped to 40. |
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- When you're the industry's 800-pound gorilla, what's a few billion dollars to pay for problems to disappear? So it is that erstwhile rivals like Sun Microsystems, America Online or InterTrust Technologies have walked away with small fortunes, courtesy of Microsoft over the last year. How much longer before Steve Ballmer invites Rob Glaser to drop RealNetworks' $1 billion lawsuit in return for a sizable check with fewer zeroes? As CEO, Ballmer no doubt has far better ideas about how to invest the company's funds. But shareholders need not wonder whether their favorite equity holding is turning into a pliant pinata. |
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- Microsoft Corp. has bought software products from nonprofit accounting suite maker Encore Business Solutions Inc. to strengthen its Great Plains offering in the public sector. Microsoft is buying Encore’s purchase order and cash flow management modules for Great Plains, which Microsoft sells today under a special license from Encore, as well as Encore’s not-for-profit accounting suite. Financial details of the deal with Winnipeg, Canada-based Encore were not disclosed. |
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- Microsoft has released details about a number of problems which could be dogging those who install one of its patches issued on April 13 - the patch that fixes 14 vulnerabilities, among them two which are now being actively exploited. In one case, the company said that those who were running Windows Server 2003 could experience a situation "where programs that use Microsoft Windows Graphics Device Interface (GDI) functions to open enhanced metafile graphics files (also known as EMF image files) do not correctly display EMF image files that were created in Adobe Illustrator." |
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- The European Court of Justice drew a legal line in the sand Thursday on the circumstances under which a dominant company must license its intellectual property for use by rivals. The ruling, involving two distributors of drugs, could have repercussions for the European Commission's antitrust case against Microsoft. The case involved one American drug distribution company, IMS Health, suing another, NDCHealth, for using its copyright-protected geographical breakdown of the German pharmaceutical market. Although the final word in this case rests with a court in Frankfurt, Thursday's judgment by Europe's highest court clarified European law in this field, where intellectual property law and competition law meet. |
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