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Comment · 14 years ago
Or how about just CE... Chief Employee.
Comment · 14 years ago
I'm a Canadian in New Zealand.

Rather hilariously, in typical imperial/metric, schizophrenic Canadian style, there's quite a few joint CEO/Managing Directors back home.

Managing Director itself is funny. Which is it? Are you managing a bunch of directors? Or barely managing to direct?

Comment · 14 years ago
A friend of mine works in film, so I know the ballpark costs from conversations with him. You can find production costs for films on the net fairly easily.

Puss in Boots, for example was $130 million and Kung Fu Panda 2 was around $150 million. So you're looking at 1.25m to 1.5m per minute.

Comment · 14 years ago
$200m USD is $158m euros.. so yes, that's, an order of magnitude more.
Comment · 14 years ago
For a typical pixar/dreamworks movie, it takes about $1.25 million/per minute of film.

It can take a week just do 3 seconds of animation and all the labour is, of course, exceptionally talented and extremely expensive.

Comment · 14 years ago
As it happens, last night, I came across this talk featuring Jeffrey Katzenburg from Dreamworks Animation: http://te11.techonomy.com/innovation/entertainment-and-techn...

In it, he discusses the enormous investment they are making in real-time technologies for future animation projects.

Animation is absurdly labour intensive and highly iterative and, as he says, new real-time technologies will revolutionize the industry.

Comment · 14 years ago
68.6 million Americans live in households with incomes under 20k.
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Comment · 15 years ago
Rabobank has a similar system.

Account access requires a keypad widget, an account number, the widget's serial number, a pin and the generated one-time pass.

Any transactions require a second one-time pass derived from a different algo.

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