"Club Penton" - Ask questions to Hollywood insider "Penton-Man"

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by Doctorossi

Man, have you got my number these days, Penton! She's a hero of mine, if ever there was one. I can't wait to see what you'll dig up on my street tomorrow.

You’ve got to get out more and head south like the 'snow birds' for the winter.
Your fellow colleagues are party animals ………
http://www.editorsretreat.com/index.htm

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by Penton-Man

Doctorossi, if you’re still living and/or working in the New York area, and to anyone else in that area of the country....

Just so you West Coasters don’t feel left out, there’s an event tonight for yous toos ……
http://www.oscars.org/events-exhibit...oeternity.html

[DenonCI]

Originally Posted by Jeff Kleist

there is worldwide scientific consensus about man made/accelerated global warming in the scientific community, a few nutters, and energy company shills aside.

Jeff,

Just to play devil's advocate, but there was a time when worldwide scientific consensus was the world was flat...how did that work out?

What he says is valid...consensus doesn't mean their right. They very well may be, but they can be wrong too. I'm all for saving energy and do the best that I can in my own home, but to paraphrase his article..."if a consensus of scientists agree on something, watch your wallet because you're being had."

[mikey p]

Originally Posted by Penton-Man

People tell me that they've brought back rdjam?sp to bolster the forum's image over there.

ROFLOL!

[sharkshark]

Now, back on topic, Penton - did you end up seeing this?

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/a_serious_man/

I was curious what you thought - I've been a couple times now, and think it's an absolute work of genius (with the subburban banality gorgeously shot by forum fave Deakins, back in the DOP seat). I think Variety nailed it when they suggested it's the type of film you make when you win an Oscar... I'm going to take that as a complimentary comment.

Extracted from the fact that it's made next to no money, I think it's a future classic with a wit drier than a Minneapolis winter's eve.

Your thoughts?

[PeterTHX]

Originally Posted by Jeff Kleist

Mr. Crichton is not a reliable source. He's a graduate of medical school, he is not a climatologist, geologist, hydrologist, meterologist or any other *gist that would be qualified to render an opinion.

Well, neither is Al Gore

[edgebsl]

Didnt expect to see this kind of discussion here lol!

Fwiw, I had a friend from Alaska down here recently and there is a lot of talk she said, especially from the old timers about the Ice, and about how things appear to be melting and going away. She said things have changed just since she was a little girl. I didnt so much give the graphs and displays in Gore's movie much credit, but some of the pics of the poles...I mean when you see real solid evidence like that... I can't help but think so many people are just sticking their head in the sand. Remember people didnt believe in germs?

China is doing so much damage it pretty much renders all were doing here pretty well useless.

[edgebsl]

More on thread...anyone hear of talk of a motion sensitive ps3 control?
I mean the wii didnt exactly invent it. I remember all kinds of guns and other controls on other consoles.

Seems like they've gone a long way with inferior graphics but fun controls.
Shouldnt be hard to do something competitive as an add on to the ps3?

[Talkstr8t]

Originally Posted by Paul H

IMO, there is always room for improvement with technology progressing and also a danger in taking a remedial step backwards in media delivery, like kpkelley asking in post #11400

There's also lots of room for improvement in the overall user experience, such as the auto-bookmarking some titles now incorporate, and increased value from bringing in networked content to the main feature (such as how Neil Young is adding to the Archives collection on an ongoing basis).

- Talk

[Talkstr8t]

[QUOTE=edgebsl;2556381]More on thread...anyone hear of talk of a motion sensitive ps3 control?[/QUOTE[As I recall, something along these lines was demonstrated (or at least discussed in some detail) in the E3 time period a few months ago. My guess is you'll see a PS3 with a new controller in 2010 (perhaps a PS3D?). Of course, the standard controller does have motion sensitivity, though not as flexibly as the Wiimote.

- Talk

[Buddy Christ]

Originally Posted by DenonCI

My pet peeve is when people type "loosing" for "losing."

"loosing"
adj. loos·er, loos·est
1. Not fastened, restrained, or contained: loose bricks.
2. Not taut, fixed, or rigid: a loose anchor line; a loose chair leg.
3. Free from confinement or imprisonment; unfettered: criminals loose in the neighborhood; dogs that are loose on the streets.
4. Not tight-fitting or tightly fitted: loose shoes.
5. Not bound, bundled, stapled, or gathered together: loose papers.
6. Not compact or dense in arrangement or structure: loose gravel.
7. Lacking a sense of restraint or responsibility; idle: loose talk.
8. Not formal; relaxed: a loose atmosphere at the club.
9. Lacking conventional moral restraint in sexual behavior.
10. Not literal or exact: a loose translation.
11. Characterized by a free movement of fluids in the body: a loose cough; loose bowels.
adv.
In a loose manner.
v. loosed, loos·ing, loos·es
v.tr.
1. To let loose; release: loosed the dogs.
2. To make loose; undo: loosed his belt.
3. To cast loose; detach: hikers loosing their packs at camp.
4. To let fly; discharge: loosed an arrow.
5. To release pressure or obligation from; absolve: loosed her from the responsibility.
6. To make less strict; relax: a leader's strong authority that was loosed by easy times.
v.intr.
1. To become loose.
2. To discharge a missile; fire.


"losing"
adj.
1. Failing to win, as in a sport or game: a losing team; a losing lottery ticket.
2. Of or relating to one that fails to win: a losing season; a losing battle.
n.
1. The act of one that loses; loss.
2. Something lost, such as money at gambling. Often used in the plural.

Sorry for the English lesson

Originally Posted by sharkshark

I hear "Legos", I think "waffles"... I dunno, "Legos my Eggos"

Unbelievable that these things bother you!

You are responsible for your own annoyance, period.

[PeterTHX]

Originally Posted by Blu2U

Unbelievable that these things bother you!

You are responsible for your own annoyance, period.

People misspelling easily spelled words *is* annoying, because if you look around it seems that people spell "loose" for "lose" more wrong than right these days.

If you saw "Idiocracy" it's rather disturbing to see where the education of today's youngsters is headed.

[Jeff Kleist]

Just to play devil's advocate, but there was a time when worldwide scientific consensus was the world was flat...how did that work out?

I'd say that the primitive science of even 100 years ago couldn't fathom the tools we have today to study tens, and even hundreds of millions of years of the history of an area, and that while not perfect, the peer-reviewed scientific method is the best method of finding truth available to us. Just as new evidence, carefully studied and evaluated, and challenged by the community at large proved the earth was indeed round (and I remind you that the scientists of the flat era were a- much smaller in number, b- far more clustered and therefore prone to groupthink, and c- had the threat of burning at the stake for heresy over their heads), new evidence may indeed prove any number of things we believe today to be false (c'mon lightsabers actually being possible!). As everyone should have learned in middle school, this is the scientific method

Hypothesis- What do you think will happen?
Experiment- Create the circumstances you wish to test
Observation- What actually happens when you do it?
Conclusion- What you learned from the procedure, this can take the form of a published paper

Then the peer review process begins, where your colleagues take the same experiment and attempt to replicate your results. If they succeed in sufficient numbers, than your conclusions are accepted until something comes along to disprove it. Any good scientist should be THRILLED to be wrong (well, personally dissapointed, intellectually thrilled ), because it opens up new avenues to explore (Edison paraphrase "I found 374 wrong ways to make a lightbulb"). Cold fusion always seems to tank in this segment of the process

So until such a time that a different cause/disproving its happening can pass the same kind of exhaustive peer review (one of the longest and most elaborate in history) that man-made global warming has received, this is our best answer at this time.

[sharkshark]

Originally Posted by Talkstr8t

There's also lots of room for improvement in the overall user experience, such as the auto-bookmarking some titles now incorporate, and increased value from bringing in networked content to the main feature (such as how Neil Young is adding to the Archives collection on an ongoing basis).

- Talk

Nice to see you bring this up, Talk... It's still my go-to disc when I talk about BD-Live, and I was extremely pleased to see that with developing FW updates, the Oppo BD-83 went from basically unusable with these discs to almost on par with the PS3.

Frankly, the NYA set is one of those fine titles that makes for me need to always own a player for this format, one of the "if the format died tomorrow I'd be happy to have been able to own this" set of discs... The dream is still that Neil takes us up on his hints, and the framework that he's developed is used for any number of artists that would demand such attention, from the Beatles (their recent remastering was done with the same Pyramid 24/192 A/D converter NY used, aparently), to Dylan, to Townshend, to Springsteen. Frankly, any of these characters who have demos stronger than most artists actual releases would flourish with an archive release. One could only dream, alas, of a market place that would support such releases...

But, hey. I never thought I'd get NYA after some twenty years of him promising it, so maybe dreams =can= come true...

[Cinema Squid]

Hopefully this is an appropriate place to ask a Sony-related audio question...

What's the story with the recent appearance of 96kHz sample rate audio tracks that are now popping up? If I am not mistaken both Léon and sex, lies and videotape released this week have these (I'll be able to check Léon myself tomorrow when I get my copy from AMZ).

Not that I'm complaining mind you, just seems a bit excessive and odd. Is this going to be a regular thing going forward or is it some kind of experiment?

[HeavyHitter]

Originally Posted by Jeff Kleist

So just like you shouldn't trust Xylon or eric.exe to judge your PQ, don't ask a science fiction author to do your climate research for you His books are very entertaining but chock full of bad, misrepresented and made up science (his take on chaos theory being just one of the disasters that's more public because of JP)

lol Great line...but there are a number of prominent climate scientists who disagree with the scientists who say otherwise. What I find interesting is how the temperature on Mars has been rising.

[HeavyHitter]

Originally Posted by Penton-Man

People tell me that they've brought back rdjam?sp to bolster the forum's image over there.

I guess they figure when all else fails, time to go back to the old playbook.

[Jeff Kleist]

lol Great line...but there are a number of prominent climate scientists who disagree with the scientists who say otherwise. What I find interesting is how the temperature on Mars has been rising.

Can you name them and their affiliations?

[Slec]

Am I missing the film all this climatology discussion is associated with? Consensus or none, let's let this thread get back to what it does best.

[HeavyHitter]

Originally Posted by Jeff Kleist

Can you name them and their affiliations?

Here's a few.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...global_warming