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I think that can be said about most stories with a non-tragic hero.

Except that it's relatively unique to the animation field.

The thing is, Pixar's process is more story focussed than other studios, A typical Pixar film usually has a 4 year production cycle in which the first two of those are spent primarily on writing and rewriting the story to get the "feel" right. Even then, they have no problem with changing the story at the 11th hour.

Case in point - WALL-E's ending was originally very different with WALL-E originally saving EVE from the trash compactors (essentially larger versions of WALL-E for irony). After the film was complete and was screened in Portland, Andrew Stanton changed the ending to what it is today. The story flows better.

Compare that to something like Dreamworks or Blue Sky Studios. Dreamworks focusses on making films which are more technically proficient and aimed at children (Kung Fu Panda was astounding from a technical standpoint) and something like Horton Hears a Who or Ice Age are heavily stylised films.

Dreamworks are more focussed on the business side, rather than the entertainment side of the process.

I first saw Toy Story as a child. Looking back on it as an adult, I remembered that I had a pretty good grasp on the plot and characters as a kid, so I was assuming it had been a simplistic film. When I watched it again, I saw lots of things I didn't notice as a kid.

That's Lasseter's influence as one of the Pixar co-founders. This style has permeated throughout the whole studio. Creativity comes first at Pixar. Ironically, he was actually fired from Disney in the 80's for trying to introduce 3D to their production pipeline and Disney ended up buying Pixar for billions...

They've built up a pretty solid momentum now, and it would take a series of bombs (like Disney after the mid-90s) to shake it.

Funnily enough that's a result of Katzenberg leaving Disney after a disagreement with Michael Eisner (then CEO of Disney) and he ended up co-founding Dreamworks.

(Though I'm kind of on the fence about Cars.)

Yeah, each of the studios has those little outliers. Monsters vs Aliens has very many adult jokes in it that children just wont get. If you haven't yet seen it, go see it.

For example: This is a quote from one of the US Military Advisors says to the President in a secret strategic meeting to deal with a giant alien robot.

"We need our top scientific minds on this project... Get India on the phone!"

I absolutely laughed my ass off at that joke and I'm sure most people didn't "get it".
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seems like the guy created a website for donating to the legal funds (also in comment thread on jonengle.com)
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I don't about this case, but in general all the book contracts I signed have clauses for the rights of a book to go back to the author. A typical condition is the author's request to write a new edition and the publisher's refusal to do so (eg from low sales).
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Tufts. The differences between colleges don't make as much difference as people think. Being debt-free is awesome. If you get into Yale, go, maybe. Other than that, Tufts. Most of college admissions and college-choosing is just utter bullshit. You've already given it too much thought. People who do anything interesting with their time are incredibly rare and your chances of becoming one of those people will not be adjusted in any direction by any amount by what college you choose. So give it LESS thought. It's not worth any energy. It is worth doing, however, but you'd have to be a complete fucking idiot to go anywhere other than Tufts given that it's free. Unless Yale gives you a fantastic deal, and even then, you'd still want to give Tufts some serious thought.

Best way to get a reality check: make a list of 100 people you admire, find out how many of them went to an Ivy League school. Wikipedia makes it easy as hell. The schools are great but saving that money is much, much better.
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Except that it's relatively unique to the animation field.

I still disagree with this :)

I agree with the rest of your points though. I should probably check out some of these Dreamworks movies I've passed up over the last couple of years. I didn't like Shrek so I was kind of turned off to them.
By the way, I know my vernacular doesn't ever give this impression, but that thing about the differences between colleges is based on statistical analysis I read somewhere. It is scientifically proven that with a very few exceptions, any good school is as good as any other.
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poda pulle nayinte mone. The sick orthodox views of the people of Kerala is debilitating to the modern man. One is expected to stay celibate till the age pf marriage which tends to be around age 25. Suppression of hormonal urges has a crippling effect on the mind. College life in Kerala is the worst all over India. Apart from the impossibility to have sex thanks to the conservative views of the mallu girls, there's also a phenomenon called ragging which makes life even worse. I for one hate Kerala and call it the Devil's own country.To MGreen, you need some introspection; the culuture of Kerala is one that I despise beyond all. patti chetteh kazhidhe thendi
If you go though the older presentation. It breaks down at the disk I/O level. Not only that, it seems like one of the main reason was cost. CDNs can get expensive, especially when are the biggest Photo service on the internet.
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I still disagree with this :)

Well, I guess my argument is really based off watching all of the films from all studios with the directors commentaries turned on and taking notes of what they emphasise and then looking at all of the information in aggregate. There will always be cases where there are outliers.

I'm working on a version of a 3D animation startup of my own to apply with to YC later this year so I take notice of these kinds of things (and actually have many pages of handwritten notes when studying animation in detail as a hobby).

Anyway, that's neither here nor there

If you want to watch some good Dreamworks Animations, I would recommend the Madagascar's (very reminiscent of the traditional cartoon style, squash and stretch is prevalent in these films), Kung Fu Panda (visually stunning) and Monsters vs Aliens (just plain funny)
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"poda pulle nayinte mone"

for all those who don't speak Malayalam (the language of Kerala)
translation => "get lost you son of a bitch"

"patti chetteh kazhidhe thendi"

translation => Dog, scum, donkey, beggar!

fwiw, I think such language is inappropriate on a public forum , particularly HN, but to flag or delete something one should know what is being said.

I find the device of slipping into a different language (here Malayalam)from the commonly understood one (English) to send a "private message" (in this case, abuse unfortunately) interesting, though (strictly imo) that is a violation of the commonly understood (unspoken) rules of discourse.
For a long, long, long, long time, I thought that Microsoft was going that angle as a marketing move. Then they started doing ads like this, that seem to actively make them look stupid, and I'm starting to think that it's actually what they believe, that their corporate culture really doesn't realize what Apple does well that they don't, and it's a very saddening thought.
Olin is a great school. Just be cognizant of their admissions process; it is very thorough.
Oh yes, decentralised systems like Europe in the 20th century? We've just had 60 years of (relative) peace precisely because there was a top-heavy single-superpower (well, two superpowers for a lot of it, but still).

There are so many counterexamples to your argument it's not funny. Are societies with single governments less stable than those with several parties all pulling for control? Do trade agreements make regions more or less stable? These are all self-evident.

Not sure what you mean by "tinfoil", I assume it's meant to be insulting, but I really don't see the controversy.
Interesting analysis of the ad in question, but the I could picture this being submitted with a headline not including "Bwahahahahahaha".
I think that the biggest difference between the two companies is that Dreamworks doesn't attempt to make lovable characters. Shrek in the original movie is an exception. They make identifiable characters, but rarely are their characters deep and human. Froo and I argued Kung Fu Panda versus Wall-E on IRC, if I recall correctly, and while I'm not nearly as knowledgeable about the animation world as he is, it's pretty hard to say that Jack Black in KFP is a more relatable character than Wall-E. Pixar makes people that you really feel like you know. Dreamworks is willing to make caricatures and as a result, their movies feel shallower from a story point of view. Even if Pixar follows a formula, it's a complex formula with deep permutations so that Mr. Incredible and Woody and Nemo's father and Wall-E are all very different people, even if the one recurring thread is that they all feel real to us.

This is actually the one problem I had with Annie Hall, which I saw recently for the first time: Woody Allen has a brilliant style, but the characters he made all seemed like caricatures, and so despite being a genius movie, I didn't love it. (I thought of this because back when I was a kid and there were two camps of children, the Ants kids and the Bug's Life kids, I was an Ants kid, thought Woody Allen in that was terrific, and thought the movie was stylistically and conceptually beyond Bug's Life, but going back to them I realize that Bug's Life, for all that, still has the more realistic characters, the ones that feel real, and so Ants's clever and detailed world falls apart at that one big seam.)
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The thing is, we would never go back to just those things. You're ignoring all the other, much more significant developments that have taken place since.

For example, today we have social networking sites, blogs, and services like Twitter and StumbleUpon. All of these allow huge numbers of human-recommended links to be passed around very quickly.

I'm not saying that search engines aren't useful; in fact, I'm not really sure how we've jumped from the kind of Google services that were being criticised in the original article to attacking their search engine specifically. I'm just saying that if search engines went away, it's reasonable to assume that the web-surfing world would adapt, and that new and improved ways to find useful content have been invented and will continue to be developed whether or not search engines are around in their current form.
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Here's my take: I went to Shit Hole State University, well outside of cali and SV. In the cubicle next to me was a Stanford Master's grad. He and I made similar salary, did similar work. He got to be in more debt, though, and as a bit of a bonus he bragged about stanford and software quality, etc blah blah. I told him all software startup code is garbage and quietly to myself he should just work on the product. He quit, startup got sold and I cashed out. Sure I was lucky but his whole attitude was wrong.

Back at SSU I knew of another Stanford grad who was humble and was genuinely into software and all around a spiffy guy. And he knew more than my cube-neighbor.

Here's thing thing about "it" schools like Stanford, MIT: it's something of an illusion. Sure they great schools and they do the best research, if that is where you want to go (something I had a hard time doing at SSU). Before I got hired I worked on my own stuff, contributed code and had all-around genuine extracurricular fun messing around with systems, hacking, and reading about binary analysis and security. That's the kind of stuff that gets you somewhere. Not going to "it" schools gives you the freedom to pick what your extracurricular stuff is, though. :)

I guess my advice is to do what ever you want. In life there are front doors that are jammed and there are back windows you can slip in unnoticed if you know where to look.
Someone once wrote that, "in the narrow sense of the word, that startup ideas are worthless". However, we all seem to agree that "stealing" ideas would be sort of a shady thing to do, which indicates they do have some value. I still think that "narrow sense" needs more exposition.
I should probably be downvoted into oblivion for this but...

Is this actually a valid use of "Reductio Ad Hitlerum"? Surely such a thing is rare and beautiful.
I realize that Bug's Life, for all that, still has the more realistic characters, the ones that feel real, and so Ants's clever and detailed world falls apart at that one big seam.

Do you know why that is? It's actually a fairly simple answer and one you might not have realised visually.

Antz tried to make characters more realistic, IE 6 limbs (2 arms, 4 legs), whereas A Bugs Life anthromorphised their characters and gave them 4 limbs, 2 arms and legs. This is so that people watching could identify with the characters more readily, even though it was technically unrealistic.

They also did this with Finding Nemo to an extent, giving the characters mostly forward facing eyes and eyebrows which fish don't have but allowed for more expression. In fact, the characters were heavily influenced by Dog facial features as that is something people would be relatively familiar with.

EDIT - I also figured I'd argue another point unalone made :)

Froo and I argued Kung Fu Panda versus Wall-E on IRC, if I recall correctly, and while I'm not nearly as knowledgeable about the animation world as he is, it's pretty hard to say that Jack Black in KFP is a more relatable character than Wall-E.

Well it really depends on your perspective. One can relate to WALL-E as an adult audience more easily than to Po (Jack Black's character). This is why when we were arguing, it's difficult to argue one in favour of the other as the stories have two seperate markets.

Po's story arc is essentially this: He loves Kung Fu, He learns he is the Dragon Warrior, He learns kung fu while learning to believe he IS the dragon warrior, he defeats Tai Lung - it's simple and linear.

WALL-E's story arc is a little more complex. He first struggles with becoming self aware of his environment and learning about it (the first scene where he's collecting objects). The story then goes ahead and emphasises his need to be loved and his loneliness (the guys and dolls TV scene where he holds his own hand). His daily grind (when he wakes up and struggles to put his tracks on which adults relate too and after being curious (the landing marker) he learns of eve and starts to fall in love. He then goes on a voyage of discovery and then goes through a back and forth process between love and bravery (saving eve and the plant) in which he ends up saving humanity and getting the girl.

So WALL-E has a more complex story arc and has elements with which adults relate to more readily. But both have eye candy, so kids enjoy them both too.

From a visual standpoint, Andrew Stanton and his team discovered early in the process that WALL-E's binocular-like eyes and the little eyebrow things (which have no actual use except for expression) were all they needed to articulate emotion. Ben Burtt's sound effects reinforced that. In fact, during WALL-E, sound was a part of the production process and not an afterthought in post production like it normally would be.

Po's character really didn't break much ground in this respect. KFP's biggest thing was how they managed to do so much cloth on fur which is fairly computationally intensive.
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I didnt understand why Bragg was solo'd out it seemed he wasnt even the primary undersigned.

With Googles additions into the free music market in china earlier last week, one might be lead to believe that they would look have music videos in the UK.

The overall voice Michael seemed to write the article in was one depicting the G20 Riots in the UK.
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I think the updates are all security updates, which I personally want to get as soon as possible. It's true that a lot of times it seems like software I don't need, but who can tell in today's complex software environments? Maybe some other program I need relies on the program that I don't seem to need.

It's actually one thing that might speak against Ubuntu that for every release they freeze the version of the software version. At least that is my understanding. It is of course possible to install newer versions, but it would be more complicated than just using the package manager.
sorry, I was vastly oversimplifying the mechanism. I was speaking off-hand assuming most on this forum are well read on how these mechanisms work, it certainly sounds like you are.

To be more precise: The effect of banks, in aggregate, on the money supply results in a multiplier, which today runs at, in average, 26 times deposits.

Here are a few overviews:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractional-reserve_banking
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reserve_requirements
http://economics.about.com/cs/money/a/reserve_ratio.htm
Even very large companies, such as PayPal, find that its far easier to buy an existing licensed bank than to start a new one.
I use Zecco... but unfortunately didn't check it out for April Fool's. I guess I was thinking too rationally, at the moment.

But if I did see a balance for millions, being a hacker, I certainly would have invested every dollar of it into some highly volatile and ridiculous stock. I wouldn't expect it to execute.

My questions are the same. How could they even think of doing such a stupid prank.. and then on top of that, allowing it to execute. Two orders of magnitude stupid.

I think the SEC should investigate, because it looked like on the morning of April 1st, Zecco had $1m+ per user on margin. There's no way they could have actually had that cash on hand if people did an "investment run." This really could have put Zecco under, and made a mess for whoever is backing them, and the FDIC.

Disclosure: I hardly know anything about finance.
I would pay for that. And also, for somebody to sneak into my apartment and set all the clocks fast by 10 minutes.
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If I was an agency compensated under what I understand to be the normal model (15% of ad spend), then I'd probably 1) accept that I'm not going to do a better job than Apple and am therefore going to lose the contract eventually and so 2) front-load the ad spend as much as possible to maximize my compensation before I lose the contract.

Maybe for the first ads, I'd try to get a really big celebrity 'name' and run double-length commercials. Try to burn through half the budget straight off the bat. If I still had the contract after that, I'd run ads where I squeezed as many clips of people into 30 seconds as I possibly could - think of the production costs. If it was coming in too cheap, maybe throw in some B-list celebrities if I could get away with it. Finally, if the client still hadn't wised up, I'd just spend whatever was left of the budget, though at that stage I'd probably only be able to afford ads where I just pull someone off the street and get them to buy a computer.

Ah - it all makes sense now. Smart guys, ad agencies :-)
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> The main character has to "grow" throughout the film

There are certain archetypal personal growth stories, like overcoming a loss, learning to be more selfless, learning to trust your friends, etc. The most popular is the bland "learning to persevere," like Luke from Star Wars (this isn't a great example, anyone have a better one?)

Pixar's personal growth stories tend to be more imaginative: I feel like the protagonist is wiser at the end than he was at the start, but I'm not always sure how.
I haven't looked into it, but I wonder what would happen if you plotted the proportion of intergenic dna in the genome and species reproduction rate. Thoughts?
sorry, my language may be confusing as I certainly didn't want to write extensively on how money expansion works (I assume most here are read up), but I don't think I'm too confused in my head...maybe not, never know ;) For the record, I have written several large banking systems. I actually do know how transactions and liabilities get handled. And normal corps don't get to behave like this.

In my suggestion to recognize banks as something different than a normal private corp, I'm not thinking of GSEs as you link to. I'm thinking more about transparency and liability issues being different for banks than for a normal private corp.

If the gigantic banks that are currently the focus of such various problems would have had to have more open financial liabilities, the risk _should_ have spread less.
Paul Graham states basically the same theory in "Why Nerds are Unpopular":

As far as I can tell, the concept of the hormone-crazed teenager is coeval with suburbia. I don't think this is a coincidence. I think teenagers are driven crazy by the life they're made to lead. Teenage apprentices in the Renaissance were working dogs. Teenagers now are neurotic lapdogs. Their craziness is the craziness of the idle everywhere.

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I think it most amazing that Twitter has ubiquitized the short URL.

And, also, I agree.. URL shorteners suck. At least improve user experience by showing the original URL in the title attribute.
I am refering to Amherst College also. Amherst (and similar colleges like Swarthmore), place a surprising number of undergraduates into top 5 CS graduate programs. By surprising number, remember for these size departments that means anywhere between 1-3 per year. I hope I'm not speaking on incorrect information, but I feel like I looked up recent Alumni when I was considering Amherst.
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I'd rather be the ad agency that managed to do a better job than Apple, with Microsoft. It seems like a better long term strategy to me.
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Not everyone's from the US. :(

So I'm pretending HYPSM has a C in it.