Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay is the sequel to Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle. The film is planned for release on April 25, 2008 with John Cho and Kal Penn returning as the duo of stoners and Paula Garcés as Harold's love interest Maria.
Sources confirm the film production began the second to last week of January 2007 in Shreveport, Louisiana, and finished in March.[
The premise of the movie involves Kumar Patel, the Indian American protagonist of the original film, being mistaken for a 'bomb carrying terrorist' while the pair are trying to sneak a bong on board a plane in route to Amsterdam. They are incarcerated in a Guantanamo Bay detention camp but manage to escape.
The movie follows their adventures as fugitives from the United States Department of Homeland Security as they travel through Miami to Texas and ultimately find themselves in the ranch-house of President George W. Bush.
New additions to the cast are comedian Jon Reep and former Daily Show correspondents Rob Corddry and Ed Helms.[1] Others include David Krumholtz, Eddie Kaye Thomas, Jack Conley, Roger Bart, Danneel Harris, Eric Winter, Adam Herschman, Richard Christy and Brandon Routh.
sâmbătă, 29 decembrie 2007
Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo
Meet the spartans
After successfully skewering Hollywood's scariest movie (as two of the writers on "Scary Movie"), romantic comedy franchises ("Date Movie"), and Hollywood blockbusters ( "Epic Movie"), writers/directors/producers Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer now set their sights on "300." The heroic Leonidas, armed with nothing by leather underwear and a cape, leads a ragtag group of 13 - count 'em, 13! -- Spartans to defend their homeland against the invading Persians (whose ranks include Ghost Rider, Rocky Balboa, the Transformers, and a hunchbacked Paris Hilton).
The Incredible Hulk 2
The Incredible Hulk is a 2008 superhero film based on the fictional Marvel Comics character the Hulk. It is directed by Louis Leterrier and stars Edward Norton, Liv Tyler, Tim Roth and William Hurt. Norton also wrote the script, after a draft by Zak Penn. Penn said the film is a sequel to 2003's Hulk, but it will be different enough to also be considered a reboot. The Incredible Hulk has a target release date of June 13, 2008.
Premise
Bruce Banner is on the run from the United States Army and General "Thunderbolt" Ross, trying to avoid capture long enough to cure the condition that turns him into the Hulk.[3] Meanwhile, a soldier named Emil Blonsky repeats the accident that gave Banner his powers, but as he is unable to change back to human form, he blames Banner and seeks his revenge.[4]
Louis Leterrier said that he planned to show Bruce Banner's struggle with the monster within him.[5] Producer Avi Arad has also said that the Hulk would be more strongly portrayed as a hero than in the previous film,[5] while producer Kevin Feige added the film would explore "that element of wish fulfillment, of overcoming an injustice or a bully and tapping into a strength that you didn't quite realize you had in yourself."[6] Arad also said the film would be "a lot more of a love story between Bruce Banner and Betty Ross."[7]
Cast
Edward Norton as Dr. Bruce Banner / The Hulk: A genius scientist who, because of exposure to gamma radiation coupled with childhood trauma, transforms into the Hulk when stressed or enraged.[3] Eric Bana turned down reprising the role, as he viewed the first film as a one-off opportunity.[8] Norton was a fan of the character, particularly his first appearances in the comics as well as the TV show and Bruce Jones' run on the comic.[9] He had expressed interest in the role for the first film.[10] The filmmakers were interested in Norton because he reminded them of Bill Bixby, who played Banner in the TV series.[11] Lou Ferrigno, who played the Hulk with Bixby, stated that Norton reminded him of the actor, as "he has a similar physique, [and a] similar personality."[12] Zak Penn also compared Norton's character in Fight Club to that of Banner.[13]
Liv Tyler as Betty Ross: Bruce's girlfriend, whom he is separated from due to his condition. Tyler replaced actress Jennifer Connelly, who portrayed Betty Ross in the 2003 film Hulk.[14] Tyler was attracted to the love story in the script, and was a fan of the TV show, because of the "humanity and what [Banner] is going through".[9] She said filming the part "was very physical, which was fun for me. I got to do a whole bunch of action stuff I'd never done, [like] running in front of tanks."[15]
Tim Roth as Emil Blonsky: A soldier who exposes himself to gamma radiation to gain the Hulk's powers. Unable to change back into human form, he seeks his revenge on Banner.[4] Roth described playing the role as fun, and making the film was about pleasing his sons. He stated, "Pure, on set, all I'm asking is, 'Okay, this has got to be a cool shot for my kids, all right? Am I going to look cool in this shot?' It's truly about that for me, completely about that."[16] The character is known as the "Abomination" in the comics, but Zak Penn considered this name too silly, and he will only be referred to as Blonsky on screen.[13]
William Hurt as General Thaddeus "Thunderbolt" Ross: Betty's father, who has dedicated himself to capturing the Hulk.[17] Sam Elliott stated he would have liked to have reprised the role, noting it was odd seeing someone take his role, "but I'll be looking forward to seeing this one".[18]
Tim Blake Nelson as Samuel Sterns: A scientist.[19]
Ty Burrell as Doc Samson.[20]
Lou Ferrigno has a cameo in the film.[12]
Production
Development
The Incredible Hulk is more tonally similiar to the TV series of the same name
At the time of the release of Ang Lee's Hulk, screenwriter James Schamus was planning a sequel, featuring the Gray Hulk. He was also considering the Leader and the Abomination as villains.[21] On January 18, 2006 producer Avi Arad confirmed Marvel Studios would be making the film, with Universal distributing.[22] Marvel felt it would be better to deviate from Lee's style to continue the franchise.[23] Louis Leterrier had expressed interest in directing the Iron Man film adaptation, but Jon Favreau took that project, so Arad offered him the Hulk.[1] Although he liked the first film, Letterier concurred with Marvel for a less cerebral tone.[23] As a child, he had enjoyed the TV series, and read Hulk: Gray by Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale to get into the mindset of directing.[24]
Screenwriter Zak Penn said the film would follow up Hulk, but tonally the film will be more similar to the TV series or Bruce Jones' run on the comic. He compared the film to Aliens, which was a very different film to Alien, but still in the same continuity.[10] Peter David's run is also referenced in the film.[24] Penn wrote three drafts, before departing in early 2007 to promote his film The Grand. Actor Edward Norton, who had rewritten previous films he starred in, wrote a new draft, which pleased the director and the studio in establishing the film as a reboot.[25] Norton explained, "I don't even like the phrase origin story, and I don't think in great literature and great films that explaining the roots of the story doesn't mean it comes in the beginning."[9] He also added Doc Samson and made references to other Marvel characters.[26] Letterier stated, "We don’t go against anything that the first one established, but it’s brand new, a fresh start."[24]
Marvel chose the Abomination as the villain because he was the most famous enemy, and because he would be an actual threat to the Hulk, unlike General Ross.[23] The film modernizes the character from the comics, when he was a KGB agent. Instead, Letterier created a plotline of someone who was the opposite of Banner: a soldier "realizing that he was at the end of his career, physically" and taking the power Banner did not want so "he could go one-on-one against him because he had nowhere to go". The Leader, in his human form Samuel Sterns, was also introduced to set up a sequel.[24]
Filming
Filming began on July 9, 2007.[11] The Canadian shoot included Toronto, Hamilton, Ontario, CFB Trenton,[27] Vancouver and Belleville, Ontario.[28] Afterwards, there was a week-long shoot in New York City and two weeks in Rio de Janeiro.[27] The Incredible Hulk joined Toronto's Green-Screen initiative, to help cut carbon emissions and waste created during filming. Producer Gale Anne Hurd hopes the film will be a symbol of the drive to encourage less pollution from film productions. Norton used a hybrid vehicle on set.[29]
Effects
Concept art for the film's incarnation of the Hulk. The director aimed to make the monsters in the film look scarier and grittier
The director said of the special effects in the first film "that there was no weight to [the Hulk]. He was flying around and it was very poetic, but our movie is grittier. [...] I want everything to be gritty, darker, even a little scarier. Frankenstein, King Kong, these monsters are pretty scary. They’re not smooth-looking, fluorescent-green-looking characters. They’re pretty dark and, still, within, there’s a tenderness and a humanity that you can see through them."[24] Leterrier planned to use make-up and animatronics in combination with computer-generated imagery that had solely been used in the previous film.[30] Leterrier hired Rhythm and Hues to provide the CGI, because of their skills in character animation. Industrial Light & Magic worked on the 2003 film.[31]
The Hulk is not directly modelled on Edward Norton as he was cast after the designs had begun. After they had approved the main look though, they added subtle elements of his features, such as a scar on his cheek and a mole on the right side of his mouth. They were careful to make sure the character's hair did not look like a mullet.[24] Stylistically, the filmmakers chose a darker shade of green from the previous film,[32] and decided to not make him as large.[22] His size does not increase as he becomes further enraged, staying at a consistent height. Norton had indicated he will provide motion capture for the character.[9]
The Abomination's look deviates from the comics as befitting his new storyline. His pointed ears are kept, but the reptilian scales were left out because Letterier felt it made no sense. "There was no reptile mix in his origin", he said, "so I just changed it and made it like the 'über-human'. It’s a human that was injected in the wrong places with something, and these places are growing differently. It still has the general shape of the Abomination, but there’s something realistic that I wanted to put in it." His designs had been taken back during animation as they were becoming too ugly.[24]
Music
Marvel has bought the rights to "The Lonely Man" theme from the TV series. The piano piece was composed by Joseph Harnell and was used over the end credits to represent Banner's never-ending search for inner peace.
Arnold Schwarzenegger Will Not Be in Terminator 4!
"We're keeping the script under very tight security" Borman said, adding "And one of the reasons is that we have a huge twist at the end, which we're being careful not to reveal. Like with the last Terminator -- we kept that under tight wraps so not even the crew got the last six or seven pages. I can tell you this much -- this is the story everybody has been waiting for. Namely, we're in the future. The part of it where Arnold's character has not yet been built but is on the drawing board. And in the next two episodes we'll get to the point where time-travel is more in the foreground. It's the war against the machines, the start of Skynet taking over the world."
Borman hinted that Californian governor Schwarzenegger could be featured in two subsequent movies and commented that He knows the material and is very supportive of what we're doing. There might even be hints of his character in this one."
Borman refused to be drawn on rumors that Christian Bale is set to play John Connor and added "Everyone is assuming there is a John Connor and a Terminator in the script. Connor is in there along with another figure, but who is that figure?"
The Dark Knight
The follow-up to the action
hit "Batman Begins," "The Dark Knight" reunites director Christopher Nolan and star Christian Bale, who reprises the role of Batman/Bruce Wayne. In the new film, Batman raises the stakes in his war on crime. With the help of Lieutenant Jim Gordon and District Attorney Harvey Dent, Batman sets out to dismantle the remaining criminal organizations that plague the city streets. The partnership proves to be effective, but they soon find themselves prey to a reign of chaos unleashed by a rising criminal mastermind known to the terrified citizens of Gotham as The Joker.
miercuri, 26 decembrie 2007
Fujitsu dezvolta memoria ReRam
Fujitsu Laboratories a anuntat o noua descoperire pentru tehnologia “resistive RAM” ce elimina dificultile din procesul de fabicatie si reduce consumul de energie pentru operatiuni de scriere/stergere la mai putin de 100 microamperi pentru un timp de acces de 5 nanosecunde.
ReRam este un tip de memorie non-volatila, bazata pe un material ce isi modifica rezistivitatea atunci când este aplicata o sarcina electrica.
Acest nou tip de memorie foloseste un proces de fabricatie cu un cost foarte redus iar procesul tehnologic folosit permite o miniaturizare foarte buna, fapt ce o transforma intr-o tehnologie foarte atractiva.
Cercetatorii de la Fujitsu au implementat un proces ce foloseste titan si oxid de nichel impreuna cu optimizari la nivelul tranzistorilor, pentru a obtine timpi de acces foarte redusi si un consum redus de energie.
Inlaturarea acestor limitari ce au caracterizat pâna acum memoria ReRam fac din aceasta un competitor serios pentru memoria flash conventionala.
Tomb Raider: Underworld
Chiar dacă noi am aflat de vineri, revista PLAY este prima publicaţie care publică detalii pe larg şi imagini din Tomb Raider: Underworld. De realizarea jocului se vor ocupa tot isteţii de la Crystal Dynamics, care ne-au dezvăluit că noile aventuri ale Larei Croft se petrec după evenimentele din Tomb Raider: Legend, într-o lume vastă, imersivă şi interactivă, ce "reacţionează şi îşi aduce aminte." De exemplu, dacă într-un nivel plouă, ploaia va şterge în scurt timp urmele paşilor lăsaţi de Lara prin noroaie, iar corpurile adversarilor doborâţi de gloanţe, precum şi dovada distrugerilor la care îşi va aduce contribuţia, vor rămâne întru veşnicie în mocirlă.
Mişcările Larei Croft vor fi în totalitate motion captured, mai naturale şi mai fluide, promit băieţii de la Crystal Dynamics, care au adăugat că Tomb Raider: Underworld va vedea lumina zilei cândva prin 2008, pentru PC, Xbox 360 şi PS3.
[ps3] Orange Box Non-playable?Probleme noi pt cei de la Sony
De-a dreptul deplorabil. Nu bine iese PS3-ul din criza perpetuă ce s-a ţinut ca scaiul de el încă de la lansare, că primim o altă lovitură sub centură. În timp ce posesorii de PC şi Xbox360 se delectează cu acest minunat titlu, "norocoşii" posesori de PS3 clocotesc de nervi. Motivul? Framerate scăzut, chiar sacadări frustrante şi alte probleme tehnice la rularea jocului. Problema însă nu e consola, ci Orange Box-ul! Versiunea pentru PS3 a fost dată spre optimizare unei echipe de la EA, care a făcut o treabă de mântuială. Ruşinică, ruşinică!
marți, 25 decembrie 2007
Piano Theory Widget 1.0.1
Piano Theory Widget vă permite să cântaţi la pian direct de pe tastatură.
Programul include efecte şi sunete predefinite, pentru a vă ajuta să învăţaţi să cântaţi la pian mult mai uşor. Vă oferă cunoştinţele de bază pentru cântatul la pian
Activision+Vivendi= ActivisionBlizzard
Şoc în industria jocurilor video: Activision şi Vivendi au anunţat fondarea unei noi companii, Activision Blizzard, rezultată din fuziunea dintre Activision şi Blizzard Entertainment (parte din Vivendi Games). Prin valoarea cumulată a francizelor deţinute de noua companie (World of Warcraft, Starcraft, Diablo, Spider-Man, X-Men, TRANSFORMERS, Shrek, James Bond), valoare estimată la 18.8 miliarde de dolari, Activision Blizzard devine cel mai mare publisher de pe piaţă, devansând liderul incontestabil al ultimilor ani: Electronic Arts. Momentan, nimeni nu poate spune care vor fi urmările acestei fuziuni, dar amintim că industria jocurilor video a mai înregistrat în trecut şi alte fuziuni/achiziţii mai mult sau mai puţin spectaculoase (Electronic Arts - Bullfrog/Origin/Maxis/Westwoo, Square - Enix, Pandemic - Bioware, SCi - Eidos).
December 2, 2007 (Santa Monica, Calif. and Paris, France) – Activision, Inc. (NASDAQ: ATVI) and Vivendi (Euronext Paris: VIV) today announced that they have signed a definitive agreement to combine Vivendi Games, Vivendi's interactive entertainment business -- which includes Blizzard Entertainment's® World Of Warcraft®, the world's #1 multi-player online role-playing game franchise -- with Activision, creating the world's largest pure-play online and console game publisher. The new company, Activision Blizzard, is expected to have approximately $3.8 billion in pro forma combined calendar 2007 revenues and the highest operating margins of any major third-party video game publisher. On closing of the transaction, Activision will be renamed Activision Blizzard and will continue to operate as a public company traded on NASDAQ under the ticker ATVI.
Activision, one of the world's leading independent publishers of interactive entertainment, is best known for its top- selling franchises, including Guitar Hero®, Call of Duty® and the Tony Hawk series, as well as Spider-Man™, X-Men™, Shrek®, James Bond™ and TRANSFORMERS™. Blizzard Entertainment, a division of Vivendi Games, has projected calendar 2007 revenues of $1.1 billion, operating margins of over 40% and approximately $520 million of operating profit. Blizzard owns the #1 multi-player online role-playing game franchise, World Of Warcraft, which currently has over 9.3 million subscribers worldwide. Blizzard's World Of Warcraft, Warcraft®, StarCraft® and Diablo® games account for four of the top-five best-selling PC game titles of all time. Vivendi Games also owns popular franchises, including Crash Bandicoot™ and Spyro™. Pro forma for calendar 2007, Activision Blizzard expects to generate approximately 70% of its revenues from owned franchises. As a result of the business combination, Activision Blizzard expects to have the most diversified and broadest portfolio of interactive entertainment assets in its industry, positioning the combined company to capitalize on the continued worldwide growth in interactive entertainment.
Jean-Bernard Lévy, Chairman of the Management Board and Chief Executive Officer of Vivendi stated: "This alliance is a major strategic step for Vivendi and is another illustration of our drive to extend our presence in the entertainment sector. By combining Vivendi's games business with Activision, we are creating a worldwide leader in a high-growth industry. We are excited about the opportunities for Activision Blizzard as a broader entertainment software platform. We believe this transaction will create significant value for Activision Blizzard and Vivendi stockholders. In Activision, we have found a partner with a highly complementary business and strong operating team. Bobby Kotick and Brian Kelly are industry pioneers, well known for creating shareholder value. The combined strength of the existing management teams at both companies will set the stage for further profitable growth of Activision Blizzard. We look forward to being an active and supportive majority stockholder in a company that is poised to lead the worldwide interactive entertainment industry in the years ahead."
René Penisson, Member of the Management Board of Vivendi and current Chairman of Vivendi Games, added: "We are very confident that by combining forces, Activision Blizzard will set the highest standards in quality, reputation and profitability, and will bring together the best creative teams in the industry. The combination of this unique product portfolio with highly professional employees gives us great confidence in the growth prospects for Activision Blizzard."
Said Robert Kotick, Activision's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer: "This is an outstanding transaction for Activision and our stockholders, as well as a pivotal event in the continuing transformation of the interactive entertainment industry. By combining leaders in mass-market entertainment and subscription-based online games, Activision Blizzard will be the only publisher with leading market positions across all categories of the rapidly growing interactive entertainment software industry and reach the broadest possible audiences. By joining forces with Vivendi Games, we will become the immediate leader in the highly profitable online games business and gain a large footprint in the rapidly growing Asian markets, including China and Korea, while maintaining our leading operating performance across North America and Europe. Activision stockholders will benefit from significantly increased earnings power and the recurring nature and predictability of subscription-based revenues, while also having the opportunity, if they choose, to receive $27.50 per share for a portion of their shares in the post-closing tender offer."
Kotick continued: "Vivendi Games provides Activision with unique strategic and financial benefits and will allow us to leverage our franchises into emerging online opportunities as Blizzard has done so successfully. Activision has been very focused on margin expansion, and this transaction will meaningfully increase our overall operating margins as we expand our franchises online and in new geographies. Diversifying our revenue base among subscription-based online, console and PC formats, as well as wireless and casual emerging opportunities, gives us the broadest platform to capitalize on industry growth. With Blizzard's successful franchises, such as World Of Warcraft, StarCraft and an exciting pipeline of yet-to-be announced titles, Vivendi Games' and Blizzard's management team will join with Activision's strong and experienced leaders to become an even more powerful force for innovation in online and offline interactive entertainment across a wide range of platforms. This transaction also provides a unique relationship with Universal Music Group – the world's largest music company – which will benefit Guitar Hero and further extend our sizable leadership position in music-based games."
Mike Morhaime, President and Chief Executive Officer of Blizzard, added: "Blizzard's industry-leading PC games business, with a track record of nine consecutive bestsellers and a global subscriber base of more than 9.3 million World Of Warcraft players, is an exceptional fit for Activision's highly profitable console games business. From our interactions with the Activision team, it is clear we have much in common in terms of our approaches to game development and publishing. Above all, we are looking forward to continue creating great games for Blizzard gamers around the world, and we believe this new partnership will help us to do that even better than before."
Structure & Terms of Transaction Under the terms of the agreement, Vivendi Games will be merged with a wholly owned subsidiary of Activision. In the merger, shares of Vivendi Games will be converted into 295.3 million new shares of Activision common stock. Based on the transaction price of $27.50 per share of Activision common stock, this implies a value of approximately $8.1 billion for Vivendi Games. Concurrently with the merger, Vivendi will purchase 62.9 million newly issued shares of Activision common stock at a price of $27.50 per share – a premium of 31% to Activision's average closing price over the past 20 trading days – for a total of $1.7 billion in cash. As a result of these transactions, Vivendi will own an approximate 52% ownership stake in Activision Blizzard on a fully diluted basis.
Within five business days after closing the transaction, Activision Blizzard will launch a $4 billion all-cash tender offer to purchase up to 146.5 million Activision Blizzard common shares at $27.50 per share. The tender offer will be funded by Activision Blizzard's cash on hand at closing, including the $1.7 billion in cash received from the Vivendi share purchase. In addition, Vivendi has agreed to acquire from Activision Blizzard additional newly issued shares for up to an additional $700 million of Activision common stock at $27.50 per share, the proceeds of which would also be used to fund the tender offer. Any remaining funds required to complete the tender offer will be borrowed by Activision Blizzard from Vivendi or third-party lenders. If the tender offer is fully subscribed, Vivendi will own an approximate 68% ownership stake in Activision Blizzard on a fully diluted basis.
The transaction is expected to be immediately accretive in its first year post-closing for Activision's stockholders and slightly accretive for Vivendi's stockholders. Activision Blizzard is targeting pro forma operating income of $1.1 billion and pro forma earnings per share (EPS) in excess of $1.20 in calendar year 2009. The transaction is expected to be at least $0.20 accretive to Activision stockholders in calendar year 2009.
Governance
Activision Blizzard's board of directors will be comprised of eleven members: six directors designated by Vivendi, two Activision management directors and three independent directors who currently serve on Activision's board of directors. René Penisson, currently a member of the Management Board of Vivendi and Chairman of Vivendi Games, will serve as Chairman of Activision Blizzard. Brian Kelly, currently Co-Chairman of Activision, will serve as Co-Chairman of Activision Blizzard. The three independent directors will be Richard Sarnoff, Robert J. Corti and Robert Morgado. Other Activision Blizzard directors will be Robert Kotick (President and Chief Executive Officer of Activision Blizzard), Bruce Hack (Vice-Chairman and Chief Corporate Officer of Activision Blizzard), Jean-Bernard Lévy (Chairman of the Management Board and Chief Executive Officer of Vivendi), Doug Morris (Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Universal Music Group), Philippe Capron (Member of the Management Board and Chief Financial Officer of Vivendi), and Frédéric Crépin (Senior Vice President, Head of Legal, Vivendi).
Management
Following the completion of the transaction, Robert Kotick will be President and Chief Executive Officer of Activision Blizzard. Bruce Hack, current Chief Executive Officer of Vivendi Games, will serve as Vice-Chairman and Chief Corporate Officer of Activision Blizzard, accountable for leading the merger integration and the finance, human resources and legal functions. Mike Griffith will serve as President and Chief Executive Officer of Activision Publishing, which after closing will include the Sierra Entertainment, Sierra Online and Vivendi Games Mobile divisions in addition to the Activision business. Mike Morhaime will continue to serve as President and Chief Executive Officer of Blizzard Entertainment. Thomas Tippl, currently Chief Financial Officer of Activision, will be appointed Chief Financial Officer of Activision Blizzard and Jean-François Grollemund, currently Chief Financial Officer of Vivendi Games, will be appointed Chief Accounting Officer of Activision Blizzard.
Conditions to Closing
The transaction has been approved by the boards of directors of Vivendi, Vivendi Games and Activision. The transaction is subject to the approval of Activision's stockholders and the satisfaction of customary closing conditions and regulatory approvals, including expiration of applicable waiting periods and receipt of applicable approvals under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act and European Union merger control regulations. Pending regulatory and stockholder approval, the companies expect the transaction to be completed in the first half of calendar year 2008.
Cum sa imi fac cunoscut forumul ?
Intr-o pauza de green dragon, si o eterna plictiseala, m-am hotarat sa fac un scurt(cred) tutorial despre cum sa-ti faci un minim de publicitate forumului.
Primul lucru pe care trebuie sa il faceti este sa va ganditi foarte clar carei categorii de useri va adresati. Nu puteti sa-i atrageti pe toti.
Daca va adresati unor useri maturi, care nu au timp de pierdut, si care cauta informatii complete si usor de accesat, cea mai buna metoda de a va face publicitate sunt text ad-urile, deoarece genul acesta de useri nu cad in plasa bannerelor animate, sau a topurilor de siteuri. De asemenea, evitati sa folositi cuvinte de genul "GRATUIT!", "SUPER", "VINO ACUM", si in general scrierea cu capsuri, din aceleasi considerente. Incercati sa faceti anunturi scurte, la obiect, care eventual sa atraga printr-un singur cuvant, fie amplasat singur pe rand, fie bolded, sau in caz extrem scris cu capsuri.Un serviciu interesant de text ads mi s-a paruttrafic dublu. Neglijati faptul ca va platesc pentru clickurile date de userii dumneavoastra pe reclame. Este foarte putin probabil sa ajungeti la 30 de euro. Este mult mai interesanta afisarea reclamei dumneavoastra pe alte siteuri. De asemenea, rata de schimb e ok. O alta metoda ar fi sa luati legatura cu adminii unor siteuri(preferabil in curs de dezvoltare) cu care sa faceti un link exchange. Eventual inscrieti-va la un top de siteuri, de genul top66, nu neaparat pentru reclama oferita de top in sine, ci pentru ca descrierea si adresa forumului dumneavoastra va ajunge pe un site foarte bine clasat in topul google. Adica, daca siteul dumneavoastra are in descriere cuvintele cheie "mar, comercializare, para", la cautarea unuia sau mai multora din ele, descrierea dumneavoastra din top66 va aparea printre primele.
Daca va adresati unor useri obisnuiti, puteti sa incercati un program de banner exchange, sau chiar sa luati legatura cu un admin al vreunui site sau forum in vederea schimbului de bannere. De asemenea, deschideti threaduri pe alte forumuri de specialitate(presupunand ca nu se considera reclama, si sa fie sterse ).
Daca va adresati userului in cautare de clanz de counter, huburi de dc, muzica de calitate indoielnica, warez, etc, nimic mai simplu. Postati unde apucati mesaje de genul "Sit3 n3w, car3 pwnz. Lolz 1234!War3z, pr0n, si muzik buna" si veti primi userii pe care ii cautati.
luni, 24 decembrie 2007
Top 25 Movies of 2007
1. There Will Be Blood 9.1 (1,151)
2. No Country For Old Men 8.9 (21,431)
3. Juno 8.6 (3,352)
4. In the Shadow of the Moon 8.6 (705)
5. Sicko 8.5 (20,557)
6. The King Of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters 8.5 (2,246)
7. The Bourne Ultimatum 8.3 (61,620)
8. Ratatouille 8.3 (48,149)
9. Lars and the Real Girl 8.3 (2,445)
10. Persepolis 8.3 (1,807)
11. American Gangster 8.2 (34,034)
12. 3:10 to Yuma 8.2 (23,370)
13. Atonement 8.2 (6,487)
14. Control 8.2 (3,780)
15. Grindhouse 8.2 (47,849)
16. The Nines 8.2 (636)
17. Hot Fuzz 8.1 (67,072)
18. Stardust 8.1 (28,778)
19. Into The Wild 8.1 (6,460)
20. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford 8.1 (6,215)
21. Lust, Caution 8.1 (3,274)
22. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly 8.1 (965)
23. The Savages 8.1 (550)
24. Enchanted 8.0 (10,298)
25. Superbad 8.0 (57,064)
duminică, 23 decembrie 2007
I Am Legend
I Am Legend is a 2007 American post-apocalyptic science fiction horror film directed by Francis Lawrence and starring Will Smith. It is the third film adaptation of Richard Matheson's 1954 novel I Am Legend, following 1964's The Last Man on Earth and 1971's The Omega Man.[3] Smith plays Robert Neville, possibly Earth's only human survivor of a man-made virus. He works to create a cure, but is stalked by nocturnal mutant survivors of the plague.
Warner Bros. Pictures began developing I Am Legend in 1994, and various actors and directors have been attached to the project, though it never entered production due to budgetary concerns. Production began in 2006 in New York City, filming mainly on location in the city, including a $5 million scene at the Brooklyn Bridge, the most expensive scene ever filmed in the city at the time. Warner Bros. launched a tie-in comic and an online multiplayer game on Second Life as part of its marketing campaign. I Am Legend was released December 14, 2007 in the United States. Despite mixed reviews, its opening was the largest ever for a film released in the U.S. during December.
A genetically reengineered measles virus called Krippin Virus or KV, created as a cancer cure by Dr. Alice Krippin (Emma Thompson), rapidly spreads and kills 90% of the people on the planet by the end of 2009; fewer than one percent are immune. The remaining survivors are infected, initially exhibiting the early symptoms of rabies, but then degenerate into an animal state driven by hunger and blind rage.
Military virologist Robert Neville (Will Smith) is the last healthy human survivor in New York City and possibly the world. Neville is watched by the "Infected" people, who react painfully to UV radiation, forcing them to be nocturnal. Avoiding sunlight, they hide in buildings during the day (in groups called "hives" by Neville), swarming out at night. Dogs and rats are also susceptible to the virus. By 2012, Neville has not seen another normal human being since the virus' outbreak three years earlier, and suspects that the Infected have succeeded in killing the remainder of the immune survivors. Neville is outnumbered by the infected and running out of time as he seeks a cure.
His isolation broken only by the companionship of his daughter's dog Samantha (Sam), Neville's life centers around a strict, daily routine of working out, researching a cure, foraging for food and supplies, and security, but he has also leisure time in which he plays golf and watches recorded news and entertainment broadcasts on TV. He is regularly haunted by flashbacks of his wife's and daughter's deaths while being evacuated during the chaotic, militarily enforced quarantine of Manhattan in 2009. He also waits each day for a response to his continuous radio broadcasts to any uninfected survivors. One day his research appears to find a promising treatment, so he captures and treats an infected woman, but without apparent success. Shortly after, he is ensnared and attacked by the Infected. He escapes, but is forced to put down Sam because she has been bitten by an infected dog and begins to transform into one of them. Despondent over the death of Sam, Neville suicidally attacks a group of Infected that night and is nearly killed. He is saved by a pair of survivors from Maryland who bring him back to his fortified home in Washington Square Park. Anna (Alice Braga) and young boy Ethan (Charlie Tahan), immune like Neville, had survived the chaos aboard a Red Cross evacuation ship. Hearing Neville's broadcasts, they have come with plans to take him with them to a rumored survivors colony in Vermont. Anna tells Neville that God sent her to bring him to the colony. Neville refuses to believe her, saying that there cannot be a God in a world with such suffering and mass death.
The Infected attack the house that night and overrun its defenses. Neville, Anna, and Ethan retreat into the basement laboratory, sealing themselves in with the Infected woman on which Neville was experimenting. Discovering that the last treatment has successfully cured the woman, Neville realizes that he has to find a way to pass it on to other survivors before they are killed. He quickly draws a vial of blood from the patient and gives it to Anna. He then pushes Anna and Ethan into a coal chute and sacrifices himself with a hand grenade, killing the attacking Infected.
Surviving the explosion, Anna and Ethan escape to Vermont and locate the fortified survivors colony. Anna gives the cure to the guards. In the voice-over, she states that Neville's cure enabled humanity to survive and rebuild, establishing his legend.
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Development
In 1994, Warner Bros. began developing the film project, having owned the rights to Richard Matheson's 1954 novel I Am Legend since 1970.[4] In June 1997, director Ridley Scott and actor Arnold Schwarzenegger entered talks with Warner Bros. for I Am Legend, based on a script by Mark Protosevich. Actors Tom Cruise and Michael Douglas were previously considered to star in the film.[5] The following July, Scott and Schwarzenegger finalized negotiations with the studio.[6] Production slated to begin the coming September,[5] with Houston as a stand-in for the film's setting of Los Angeles.[7] In December 1997, the project was called into question when the projected budget escalated to $108 million due to media and shareholder scrutiny of the studio in financing a big-budget film.[8] Scott rewrote the script in an attempt to reduce the film's budget[9] by $20 million, but in March 1998, the studio canceled the project due to continued budgetary concerns.[10] In August 1998, director Rob Bowman was attached to I Am Legend,[11] but he moved on to direct Reign of Fire.[12]
In March 2002, Schwarzenegger became the producer of I Am Legend, commencing negotiations with Michael Bay to direct and Will Smith to star in the film. Bay and Smith were attracted to the project based on a redraft that would reduce its budget.[13] However, the project was shelved due to Warner Bros. president Alan F. Horn's dislike of the script.[14] In 2004, Akiva Goldsman was asked by head of production Jeff Robinov to produce the project.[15] In September 2005, director Francis Lawrence signed on to helm the project, with production slated to begin in 2006.[16] Guillermo del Toro was also approached to direct.[17] Lawrence, whose film Constantine was produced by Goldsman, was fascinated by empty urban environments. He said, "Something’s always really excited me about that... to have experienced that much loss, to be without people or any kind of social interaction for that long."[15]
Goldsman rewrote the screenplay to be closer to the second I Am Legend film adaptation, The Omega Man, of which he was a major fan.[18] The rewrite was also done to distance the film from the numerous zombie films inspired by the novel.[17] A forty-page scene-by-scene outline of the film was developed by May 2006. When delays occurred on Will Smith's film Hancock (2008), which was scheduled for 2007, it was proposed to switch the actor's films. This meant filming would have to begin in sixteen weeks: production was greenlit, using Goldsman's script and the outline.[15] Elements from Protosevich's script were introduced, while the crew consulted with experts on infectious diseases and solitary confinement.[18] Rewrites continued throughout filming, because of Smith's improvisational skills and Lawrence's preference to keep various scenes silent.[15] The director had watched The Pianist with a low volume so as to not disturb his newborn son, and realized that silence could be very effective cinema.[19]
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Casting
Will Smith signed on to play Robert Neville in April 2006.[20] He said he took on I Am Legend because he felt it could be like "Gladiator [or] Forrest Gump — these are movies with wonderful, audience-pleasing elements but also uncompromised artistic value. [This] always felt like it had those possibilities to me."[18] The actor found Neville to be his toughest acting challenge since portraying Muhammad Ali in Ali (2001). He said that "when you're on your own, it is kind of hard to find conflict." The film's dark tone and exploration of whether Neville has gone insane during his isolation meant Smith had to restrain himself from falling into a humorous routine during takes.[21] To prepare for his role, Smith visited the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Georgia. He also met with a person who had been in solitary confinement and a former prisoner of war.[22] Smith compared Neville to Job, who lost his children, livelihood and health. Like the Book of Job, I Am Legend studies the questions, "Can he find a reason to continue? Can he find the hope or desire to excel and advance in life? Or does the death of everything around him create imminent death for himself?"[17] He also cited an influence in Tom Hanks' performance in Cast Away (2000).[18]
Abbey, a three-year-old German Shepherd, played Neville's dog. Another dog was used for scenes where Neville plays fetch with his companion, as Abbey refused to perform these scenes.[23] The rest of the supporting cast consists of Salli Richardson as Zoe, Robert's wife,[24] and Alice Braga as a character named Anna.[24] Willow Smith, Will Smith's daughter, makes her film debut as Marley, Neville's daughter.[25] Emma Thompson has an uncredited role as a doctor on television, explaining the vaccine for cancer that mutates into the virus.[26]
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Filming
The Brooklyn Bridge served as a location in I Am Legend, at which there was a $5 million scene filmed, the most expensive scene to date in New York City.
Akiva Goldsman decided to move the story from Los Angeles to New York City to take advantage of locations that would more easily show emptiness.[4] Goldsman explained, "L.A. looks empty at three o'clock in the afternoon, [but] New York is never empty... it was a much more interesting way of showing the windswept emptiness of the world."[21] Warner Brothers initially rejected this idea because of the logistics,[15] but Francis Lawrence was determined to shoot on location, to give the film a natural feel that would not benefit from shooting on soundstages. Lawrence went to the city with a camcorder, and filmed areas filled with crowds. Then, a special effects test was conducted to remove all those people. The test had a powerful effect on studio executives.[19] Michael Tadross convinced authorities to close busy areas such as the Grand Central Terminal viaduct, several blocks of Fifth Avenue and Washington Square Park.[15]
Filming began on September 23, 2006.[27] The Marcy Avenue Armory in Williamsburg was used for the interior of Neville's home,[21] while Greenwich Village was used for the exterior.[17] Other locations including the Tribeca section of Lower Manhattan, the aircraft carrier Intrepid, the Kingsbridge Armory in the Bronx and St. Paul's Cathedral.[4] Weeds were imported from Florida and were strewn across locations to make the city look like it had overgrown with them.[15] The closure of major streets was controversial with New Yorkers. Will Smith said, "I don't think anyone's going to be able to do that in New York again any time soon. People were not happy. That's the most middle fingers I've ever gotten in my career."[17]
A bridge scene was filmed for six consecutive nights in January on the Brooklyn Bridge to serve as a flashback scene in which New York's denizens evacuate the city. Shooting the scene cost the studio $5 million, which was the most expensive shot in the city to date. The scene, which had to meet requirements from fourteen government agencies, involved 250 crew members and 1,000 extras, including 160 National Guard members.[28] Also present were several Humvees, three Stryker armored vehicles, a 110-foot cutter, a 41-foot utility boat, and two 25-foot Response Boat Small craft.[2] Filming concluded on March 31, 2007.[27]
Reshoots were conducted around November 2007. Lawrence noted, "We weren't seeing fully-rendered shots until about a month ago. The movie starts to take on a whole other life. It's not only until later that you can judge a movie as a whole and go, 'Huh, maybe we should shoot this little piece in the middle, or tweak this a little bit.' It just so happened that our re-shoots revolved around the end of the movie."[29]
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Effects
A week into filming, Francis Lawrence felt the infected, who were being portrayed with actors wearing prosthetics, were not convincing. His decision to use computer-generated imagery meant post-production had to be extended and the budget increased. Lawrence explained, "They needed to have an abandon in their performance that you just can’t get out of people in the middle of the night when they’re barefoot. And their metabolisms are really spiked, so they’re constantly hyperventilating, which you can’t really get actors to do for a long time or they pass out."[15] While the infected become vampires in the novel, the film depicts them as "dark seekers" (Anna's term for them)[18] who consume living flesh, with a design inspired by the concept of their adrenal glands being open all the time. The actors remained on set to provide motion capture.[21]
In addition, CGI was used for the lions and deer in the film, and to erase pedestrians in shots of New York. Workers visible in windows, spectators and moving cars in the distance were all removed. In his vision of an empty New York, Lawrence cited John Ford as his influence: "We didn't want to make an apocalyptic movie where the landscape felt apocalyptic. A lot of the movie takes place on a beautiful day. There's something magical about the empty city as opposed to dark and scary."
sâmbătă, 22 decembrie 2007
vineri, 21 decembrie 2007
joi, 20 decembrie 2007
Pink şi-a tăiat degetul, gătind pentru soţ
Deşi a primit din partea soţului său doar infidelităţi, solista Pink nu îi răspunde lui Carey Hart cu aceeaşi monedă. Din contră! Ştiind că mariajul ei este pe ducă, americanca încearcă să mai dea o şansă iubirii care cândva i-a legat. Şi cum poate o femeie să se pună mai bine în valoare decât prin arta culinară?
În reşedinţa cuplului, cântăreaţa s-a „închis” în bucătărie cu gândul de a-i pregăti motociclistului bucate alese. Numai că intenţia ei bună a avut parte de un ghinion de neimaginat. Tânăra în vârstă de 28 de ani aproape că şi-a tăiat degetul inelar, în timp ce gătea somon pentru Hart.
Sângerând foarte tare, Pink, pe numele ei adevărat Alecia Beth Moore, a fost dusă de urgenţă la spitalul „Sherman Oaks” din California.
„Sunt fără doar şi poate o bucătăreasă îngrozitoare. Am avut nevoie de patru copci”, a declarat eroina întâmplării.
Cine ştie, poate incidentul i-a apropiat din nou pe cei doi parteneri, care de curând au luat în calcul divorţul. „Despărţirea îi pândeşte. Carey iese cu o blondă în paralel, pe care a prezentat-o lumii întregi”, a declarat mai demult un amic al lui Hart. La aceste afirmaţii s-au adăugat şi spusele apropiaţilor lui Pink, cărora solista li s-a destăinuit. „Nu mai merge”, le-a zis artista prietenilor ei.
Şoc şi dezamăgire după anunţul că sora lui Britney e însărcinată
Britney rebelă? Doar mic copil pe lângă sora ei de doar 16 ani, asta spun mulţi oameni după ce vestea că Jamie Lynn Spears aşteaptă un copil la o vârstă atât de fragedă a făcut înconjurul lumii. Aşa cum era de aşteptat, anunţul şocant a generat un adevărat scandal.Evident, majoritatea opiniilor sunt negative, iar şansele ca sora lui Brit să fie privită în continuare ca un model pentru adolescenţi sunt foarte slabe.
În timpul în care campaniile împotriva maternităţii la vârste fragede trag semnale de alarmă, Jamie Lynn, de doar 16 ani, anunţă că va deveni mamă. „Fata mea în vârstă de 11 ani vede în fete ca Jamie Lynn sau Miley Cyrus adevărate modele. Mulţumesc lui Dumnezeu că încă o mai are pe Miley Cyrus”, a comentat un cititor pentru People. „Acesta este un şoc? Unde sunt modelele demne de urmat? Îi învinuiesc pe părinţi, pentru că nu au fost în stare să îşi înveţe fiicele să se poarte cuviincios. Sunt ruşinat că sunt din acelaşi stat cu mine. Îmi pare foarte rău pentru ele”, a ţinut să precizeze un alt cititor. Evident, au fost trimise şi mesaje de încurajare pentru tânăra viitoare mămică: „Cred că nimeni nu ar trebui să comenteze despre Jamie sau despre mamele tinere. Nu are sens să judeci un om fără să îl cunoşti. Te sprijin, Jamie Lynn, până la capăt. Mult noroc şi uită de oamenii ale căror comentarii sunt negative”.
Vedeta „spectacolului”, sora ei celebră, părinţii amândurora, despre toţi s-a vorbit în mesajele de mai sus, mai puţin despre viitorul tătic, Casey Aldridge. „A avut grijă de Jamie Lynn foarte bine. Dacă a mers ceva greşit, el a ştiut întodeauna să o ajute”, a povestit o sursă despre iubitul tinerei. Băiatul, în vârstă de 18 sau 19 ani, a stat departe de lumina reflectoarelor, doar ocazional însoţindu-şi iubita la diferite evenimente mondene. Ca pe toţi ceilalţi, vestea sarcinii l-a luat şi pe el prin surprindere, dar, potrivit amicilor apropiaţi, Casey Aldridge se va descurca în faţa unei asemena provocări. „Va fi un tată bun”, a asigurat o sursă.
Cât despre interpreta „Toxic”, fiecare face ce a învăţat. Şocată sau nu de anunţul potrivit căruia sora sa este însărcinată, Britney a ieşit liniştită la cumpărături. „Ne-a sunat seara târziu şi ne-a spus că vrea să cumpere cadouri pentru Crăciun. Arată foarte bine şi s-a purtat foarte frumos. A cumpărat pentru mama şi pentru sora ei cadouri asortate”, a povestit o sursă.
Schumacher, investigat pentru conducerea taxiului
Michael Schumacher va fi investigat de poliţia germană, pentru că a condus maşina de taxi pe care o comandase pentru o cursă spre aeroportul din Coburg. Fostul pilot îşi însoţea familia la aeroport şi s-a urcat la volanul taxiului pentru a fi sigur că vor ajunge în timp util la avion. Cursa a costat 60 de euro, iar experienţa de şofer de taxi a fost evaluată de Schumi la 100 de euro.
Acum, poliţia investighează cazul, în dorinţa de a vedea dacă Schumacher a încălcat legea şi, de asemenea, îl va interoga pe taximetristul Tuncer Yilmax, pentru a descopri care este gradul său de culpabilitate. Kai Holland, directorul adjunct al Direcţiei de Trafic din Coburg, a afirmat că această situaţie „este o ofensă adusă legilor transportului” şi că „va fi necesară o întrevedere cu şoferul de taxi, pentru a rezolva problema”.
Pe de altă parte, reacţia fostului pilot de Formula 1 nu s-a lăsat aşteptată. Germanul a mărturisit la o conferinţă de presă că este „năucit” şi consideră că „s-a exagerat”. „Eu m-am aflat în taxi spre aeroport. Este straniu. Dacă mă gândesc la toţi anii petrecuţi ca profesionist în lumea automobilismului şi la toate câte mi s-au întâmplat, nu îmi amintesc nimic asemănător. S-a exagerat mult. Dintr-o picătură de apă s-a făcut un ocean. Este impresionant. Pot doar să râd, pentru că este incredibil”, a comentat Schumacher surprins.
Pleacă Zapata? Sevilla oferă 4 milioane € pentru stelist
Nu a trecut mult timp de când Gigi Becali a anunţat cei opt jucători de care se va despărţi Steaua în această iarnă, că un alt jucător, de această dată ofertat, ar putea fi transferat. FC Sevilla, fosta adversară a Stelei în grupa H a Ligii Campionilor, îl doreşte pe portarul Zapata, pentru care este decisă să plătească patru milioane de euro, de opt ori mai mult decât a plătit Steaua pe el.
Ştirile Sportive ale Antenei 1 au anunţat că goalkeeperul de 29 de ani a intrat în atenţia andaluzilor la meciul direct de la Sevilla, scor 1-2, pe 7 noiembrie, când stelistul a prins o zi mare, limitând proporţiile scorului prin paradele senzaţionale reuşite în faţa lui Kanoute, Luis Fabiano şi Keita. Apoi, spaniolii l-au urmărit şi la alte jocuri şi, cum Zapata a fost poate cel mai bun stelist în acest sezon, au fost impresionaţi.
În plus, oficialii şi antrenorii Sevillei au primit amănunte de la fundaşul central al echipei, Aquivaldo Mosquera, coleg cu Zapata la echipa naţională a Columbiei. Mosquera a fost şi cel care i-a spus stelistului despre intenţiile Sevillei de a încerca să-l achiziţioneze pe goalkeeper-ul roş-albaştrilor, care ar primi un salariu de 800.000 de euro pe sezon.
Sevilla ar urma chiar să înainteze şi o ofertă pentru Zapata, însă tranzacţia are şanse mici de reuşită, pentru că Gigi Becali nu este dispus să se despartă de cel mai bun portar al său, după experienţele nereuşite cu Carlos sau Andrey. „Nu va pleca niciodată! Indiferent de suma pe care o primesc pe el. Nu-l dau nici dacă mi se oferă 10 milioane pe el. Este cel mai bun portar de când sunt eu la Steaua şi este netrasferabil. Va pleca doar dacă voi găsi un portar mult mai bun decât el sau doar dacă nu va mai da randament. Cum să-l dau afară pe cel mai bun portar care a jucat la Steaua? Poate să fiu nebun la cap şi atunci aş putea renunţa la el. Să fie clar, Zapata este cel mai bun portar pe care l-a avut Steaua vreodată. Nu va pleca niciodată de la Steaua!”, a spus Becali pentru Gazeta Sporturilor.
Totuşi, Steaua ar putea să îl cedeze pe Zapata, dar din vară, în condiţiile în care andaluzii sunt pe cale să îî dea drumul lui Armenteros în Ghencea.
miercuri, 19 decembrie 2007
Probabil cel mai tare film din noul an
In November 2005, New Regency Productions hired director Doug Liman to helm the film adaptation of the science fiction novel Jumper by Steven Gould. Screenwriter Jim Uhls was hired to rewrite an adapted screenplay by David S. Goyer. The studio announced plans to develop a trilogy based on the novel's premise.[2] In April 2006, actors Tom Sturridge, Teresa Palmer, and Jamie Bell were cast for Jumper with Sturridge in the lead role.[3] The following July, actor Samuel L. Jackson was cast into Jumper as an NSA agent, with producer Simon Kinberg rewriting the original screenplay draft by Goyer. Principal photography was scheduled to take place in Tokyo, Rome, Toronto, and New York.[4] In August, actor Hayden Christensen replaced Sturridge in the lead role as David just two weeks before the beginning of shooting, as the studio "became concerned about not having a more prominent actor in their trio of young stars."[5]
In September 2006, Jumper was filmed at various locations in Peterborough, Ontario.[6] The next October, actress Rachel Bilson replaced Palmer in the role opposite Christensen, with principal photography already underway in Toronto.[7] In December 2006, Liman negotiated with the Rome Film Commission for rare access to film for three days in the Colosseum. The scene in the Colosseum was originally written for the Pantheon, at which exterior shots were also filmed. The crew was required to keep equipment off the ground by using harnesses and to rely on natural light for filming the Colosseum's scenes.[8]
After filming in Rome, scenes were filmed in Toronto during December 2006 to January 2007 and wrapped at the Canadian location on January 19. Cast and crew traveled to Tokyo to film scenes. On January 26 in Toronto, 56-year-old David Ritchie, a set dresser, was fatally struck by frozen debris while dismantling an outdoor set in wintry conditions.[9] Another worker was injured and was sent to a hospital with serious head and shoulder injuries.[10]
In February 2007, the next filming site was set up at Gallup Park in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Sixty students from the nearby Huron High School were cast as extras for the film.[11]
marți, 18 decembrie 2007
Google Knol competitie cu Wikipedia
Google, in a challenge to Wikipedia, has created a user-generated online encyclopedia called Knol that identifies its writers instead of keeping them anonymous. “Earlier this week, we started inviting a selected group of people to try a new, free tool that we are calling Knol, which stands for a unit of knowledge,” the company wrote on its blog. “Our goal is to encourage people who know a particular subject to write an authoritative article about it.” Although it’s already drawing comparisons to the best-known user-generated Web encyclopedia Wikipedia, Knol is different in a few key ways. First, unlike Wikipedia, authors of articles on Google’s site are highlighted, not hidden. Similarly, articles on Knol aren’t collaborative; they are written by just a single author.
Users of the site, which is in beta-testing and invitation only, can still participate by ranking the usefulness of entries, adding comments and asking questions. Google will not serve as an editor and expects several knols on each topic. But can Knol unseat current online leader Wikipedia? Owned by the nonprofit Wikimedia Foundation, Wikipedia was founded in January 2001. It has more than 8.2 million articles in more than 200 languages, including more than 2 million in English. Knol’s respect for authorship will be a huge boon for Google and differentiate it from competitors like Wikipedia and Squidoo, Saffo said. In addition to it’s “star-making” potential, Knol has an added incentive — it allows its authors to make money from their writing. I guess students all over the world will be happy to use a new source for their essays…
Cel mai bun an pentru industria jocurilor
Industria jocurilor video a inregistrat cel mai mare an din istorie ca vanzari de jocuri dar si softuri
si accesorii. Vanzarile din luna noiembrie a ajuns la suma de 2.63 miliarde $ cu o marire de 52%
fata de aceeasi luna a anului precedent.Vanzarile din tot anul 2007 este de 13.1 miliarde $.
Vanzarile totale de software din luna noiembrie au atins 1.1 miliarde $.Vanzarile de hardware au
fost si ele in crestere din cauza scaderii recente a preturilor la PlayStation 3 si Xbox 360.
Nintendo a avut cel mai bun an pentru Wii, care s-a vandut in aproape 1 milion de unitati.
Compania a vandut 350 000 de bucati din totalul de 981 000 in noiembrie in cursul saptamanii
Thanksgiving(ultima joi din noiembrie).Xbox 360 a avut a doua cea mai buna luna a sa vanzand
770 000 unitati.Cele mai vandute jocuri a lunii noiembrie a fost versiunea pentru Xbox 360 la
Call of dutty 4, care s-a vandut in 1.57 mil copii. Urmatorul in topul celor mai vandute jocuri a fost
Super Mario Galaxy cu 1.15 mil copii vandute pe Wii, Assassins Creed(980 000 unitati pe
Xbox 360) si Guitar Hero III (967 000 pe playstation 2)
luni, 17 decembrie 2007
vineri, 14 decembrie 2007
joi, 13 decembrie 2007
Cea mai tare metoda de copiat
Am gasit si eu un video interesant pe MetaCafe care iti arata o metoda geniala sa copY la teste,teze,examene,eTc.(dar trebuie sa ai niste mici ‘’ustensile’’ ca sa faci asemenea ‘’copiute’’)
Adica,ce trebuie :
1. Un Scanner
2. O Imprimanta COLOR
3. PhotoShop
4. O Sticla Coca-Cola ...
Sa trecem la treaba :
Cheat At School Professionally - The funniest home videos are here
BitDefender s-a clasat in fruntea producatorilor mondiali de solutii de securitate
BitDefender® anunta ca la începutul lunii septembrie 2007, tehnologiile sale antivirus/antispyware au avut o rata de detectie de 99.51% în cadrul unei testari împotriva a circa 1 milion de amenintari informatice.
Analiza a fost realizata de catre cea mai renumita organizatie mondiala de testare a aplicatiilor de securitate IT, AV-Test.org din Germania (www.av-test.org).
Acest rezultat a plasat BitDefender în fruntea tuturor furnizorilor mondiali de tehnologii proprietare antimalware, demonstrând înca o data capabilitatile tehnologiei de detectie proactiva B-HAVE, dezvoltata de producatorul român.
Testul a masurat capacitatile a 29 solutii de securitate cu motoare unice sau multiple de scanare (în general, aceste produse utilizeaza motoare de scanare licentiate de alti producatori), precum si abilitatile acestora de a detecta aproape un milion de diferite tipuri de atacuri informatice, folosind semnaturi actualizate la zi.
„Suntem foarte încântati de rezultatele acestui test si vom continua sa dezvoltam tehnologii inovatoare, pentru a ne mentine în fruntea topurilor mondiale ale producatorilor de solutii de securitate”, a declarat Bogdan Dumitru, BitDefender’s Chief Technology Officer.
Toate produsele BitDefender cuprind tehnologii proprietare de detectie proactiva a amenintarilor informatice. Acestea, precum si noi functionalitati construite special pentru a raspunde noilor cerinte ale clientilor, vor fi în curând disponibile si în România sub forma unei noi suite de securitate BitDefender.
miercuri, 12 decembrie 2007
marți, 11 decembrie 2007
duminică, 9 decembrie 2007
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
Cei de la Activision au adus seria Call of duty la cu totul alt nivel.Au lasat trecutul in urma si au adus razboiul de astazi in noul joc al seriei.Fata de precedentul joc Call of Duty 4 vine cu o noua abordare a jocului in care razboiul este purtat impotriva terorismului.Este cel mai bun joc al seriei si al tuturor jocurilor de acest gen si neaparat trebuie sal jicati.
Download Vista Transformation Pack 8
Download Vista Transformation Pack 8 or VTP8
Changes in Version 8.0
-Added CPU Speed information in Welcome Center
-Added saving setup information file to save setup configuration for later uses with unattended transformation support
-Added installation background
-Added "System optimized" in Setup Configuration to configure the user account corresponding to machine's spec-Added TrueTransparency 0.8.5 (Glass border with ported AeroStyle skin)
-Added WinFlip 0.42 (Vista 3DFlip)
-Fixed KB925902 hotfix issues with file processing animation
-Fixed Media Center program execution error
-Fixed rebuilding icon cache bug on non-current users during the processes
-Fixed Styler's installation checking bug (always set toolbar to styler mode when possible)
-Fixed failing to apply Vista screensaver
-Fixed program name in Add/Remove Programs
-Fixed subscribing Windows X's shrine to be default homepage bug in Welcome Center
-Fixed visualtooltip's advanced configuration bug
-Fixed WindowBlinds 6 skin installation compatibility
-Moved hotfix warning to user guide file to prevent confusion
-Re-arranged welcome dialog for richer information
-Replaced Extras in Welcome Center with Community link to forum
-Removed configuring user account's status report
-Removed obsolete dialogs (WindowBlinds warning, Before transformation, Donation, FAQ and Q&A)
-Removed Vista Live Messenger 8.1 skin
-Updated Setup Configuration in Welcome Center to cover on everything
-Updated setup transformation to pre-configure current user account before finishing the transformation
-Updated theming engine configuration
-Updated Vista Sidebar to version 2.3 Lite
-Updated Vista Sidebar user account configuration in Welcome Center
-Updated ViStart to build 2661
-Updated ViOrb to version 2.0
-Updated VisualTooltip to version 2.2
-Updated Welcome Center to pre-configure user account with system optimized option on the first run in that user account
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