Film-Tech Forum ARCHIVE: THX is to Movies what AIDS is to Humans

my profile | my password | search | faq & rules | forum home

»	Film-Tech Forum ARCHIVE » Community » Film-Yak » THX is to Movies what AIDS is to Humans (Page 1)

This topic comprises 2 pages: 1 2

Author

Topic: THX is to Movies what AIDS is to Humans

Joe Redifer
You need a beating today

Posts: 12859
From: Denver, Colorado
Registered: May 99

posted 08-20-2002 02:18 PM

Hilarious!

Click Here!

This page briefly also talks about "Fandango" whatever that is.

| IP: Logged

John Pytlak
Film God

Posts: 9987
From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922
Registered: Jan 2000

posted 08-20-2002 04:02 PM

"Fandango" is an on-line movie ticketing service:
http://www.fandango.com

------------------
John P. Pytlak, Senior Technical Specialist
Worldwide Technical Services, Entertainment Imaging
Research Labs, Building 69, Room 7525A
Rochester, New York, 14650-1922 USA
Tel: +1 585 477 5325 Cell: +1 585 781 4036 Fax: +1 585 722 7243
e-mail: john.pytlak@kodak.com
Web site: http://www.kodak.com/go/motion

| IP: Logged

Dave Williams
Wet nipple scene

Posts: 1836
From: Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Registered: Jan 2000

posted 08-20-2002 05:06 PM

Read his review of SPEP1, total rockin stuff.

This guy is funny. Joe, you should extend a hearty invitation for him to join our little forum, maybe liven things up a bit.

Dave

| IP: Logged

Bobby Henderson
"Ask me about Trajan."

Posts: 10973
From: Lawton, OK, USA
Registered: Apr 2001

posted 08-20-2002 05:19 PM

The spoof on THX and Fandango is kind of funny.

But what's really funny (and not in all that good a way) is how this guy claims he has the best website in the world. I thought Film-Tech was the best web site in the world (at least it is one of the ones I visit the most).

What do I see at that one dude's website? Big clunky Arial type and web page formatting that is old by even 1995 standards. Is Arial the only font on this guy's computer? The large type looks like something styled for an elementary school textbook for myopic kiddies wearing coke-bottle lensed glasses. If he's going to claim to be the best, he's got to have some waaayy cool a:hover, a:link, a:visted, a:active CSS pseudo class rollover text effects and a lot of other DHMTL and Flash action that takes forever and a day to download. Yeah, buddy.

| IP: Logged

Per Hauberg
Jedi Master Film Handler

Posts: 883
From: Malling, Denmark
Registered: Jul 2000

posted 08-20-2002 06:22 PM

Other guy not digital - therefore number two !!

| IP: Logged

Dave Williams
Wet nipple scene

Posts: 1836
From: Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Registered: Jan 2000

posted 08-20-2002 06:50 PM

I think this site was meant as a form of cynical tyrade, not to be taken to seriously. I disagreed with 90 percent of what he had to say, but I loved its complete lack of respect for all other human biengs on the planet. This is the kind of humor usually atributed to old men.

Dave

| IP: Logged

Aaron Haney
Master Film Handler

Posts: 265
From: Cupertino, CA, USA
Registered: Jan 2001

posted 08-20-2002 09:55 PM

Pretty funny, although he stole the "I will kick your ass" idea from someone who tried to auction an ass-kicking on eBay.

| IP: Logged

Brad Miller
Administrator

Posts: 17775
From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall)
Registered: May 99

posted 08-21-2002 02:13 AM

At first I thought that perhaps this was a website that Joe had created under an alias.

By the way Bobby, did you notice that the entire site was written in VI? Scott will tell you what a fabulous program that is.

| IP: Logged

Evans A Criswell
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1579
From: Huntsville, AL, USA
Registered: Mar 2000

posted 08-21-2002 01:12 PM

vi rules, Brad. I admit that most of my WWW pages were either written in vi, or are generated by Perl scripts written with vi.

------------------
Evans A Criswell
Huntsville-Decatur Movie Theatre Information Site

| IP: Logged

Brad Miller
Administrator

Posts: 17775
From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall)
Registered: May 99

posted 08-21-2002 02:06 PM

No it doesn't. Vi is the most evil program in the world. I've ranted on it before if you care to do a search.

| IP: Logged

Evans A Criswell
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1579
From: Huntsville, AL, USA
Registered: Mar 2000

posted 08-21-2002 04:01 PM

Ah, Brad, you just like the word evil since it has "vi" in the middle of it.

Maybe if you had a THX certified copy of vi, you'd like it!

------------------
Evans A Criswell
Huntsville-Decatur Movie Theatre Information Site

| IP: Logged

Brad Miller
Administrator

Posts: 17775
From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall)
Registered: May 99

posted 08-21-2002 04:14 PM

haha, pretty funny. I never noticed that.

Of course that doesn't make up for the fact that Vi is annoying as all hell. Where's Scott when you need him? He loves Vi for some reason.

| IP: Logged

Scott Norwood
Film God

Posts: 8146
From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas)
Registered: Jun 99

posted 08-21-2002 04:28 PM

Obligatory vi link: http://www.math.fu-berlin.de/~guckes/vi/

| IP: Logged

Joe Redifer
You need a beating today

Posts: 12859
From: Denver, Colorado
Registered: May 99

posted 08-21-2002 04:57 PM

BBEdit for the Mac is better. Nothing but a blank page you type text onto. That is how I create ALL of my web pages. That's the only way I can be sure the code is compliant... if I write it myself one letter/number/symbol at a time.

| IP: Logged

Bobby Henderson
"Ask me about Trajan."

Posts: 10973
From: Lawton, OK, USA
Registered: Apr 2001

posted 08-21-2002 05:20 PM

At first I thought you guys were talking about "Dreamweaver IV," but I see what you mean now by "vi". I'm not into text editors myself (I defer to apps like DreamweaverMX and GoLive 6 where I can see the design and the code).

As far as all code typed/generated being "compliant," that's a tough balancing act if you are trying to be compliant with really old computers and really old web browsers. Maybe 1 out of 10 or 1 out of 20 users out there are still farting around with a museum piece computer and version 2 or 3 web browser (or, God forbid, Netscape 4). To put the best visual kick into a website, you have to be willing to leave some of those users stuck in 1994 behind.

| IP: Logged

All times are Central (GMT -6:00)

This topic comprises 2 pages: 1 2

Printer-friendly view of this topic

The Film-Tech Forums are designed for various members related to the cinema industry to express their opinions, viewpoints and testimonials on various products, services and events based upon speculation, personal knowledge and factual information through use, therefore all views represented here allow no liability upon the publishers of this web site and the owners of said views assume no liability for any ill will resulting from these postings. The posts made here are for educational as well as entertainment purposes and as such anyone viewing this portion of the website must accept these views as statements of the author of that opinion and agrees to release the authors from any and all liability.