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chris97 says...

Der Autor dieser Zeilen ist bekanntlich ein Kind der Achtziger. Aufgewachsen mit John McClane, Pretty Woman und natürlich auch mit Hasta la vista, Baby, dem T-800, dem Terminator. Der erste Teil war Kult, die zweite Teil leitete eine neue filmische Epoche ein, im dritten Teil sah Kristanna Loken gut aus – den neuen, vierten Teil habe ich bisher noch nicht gesehen. Als ich Freitag auf der Arbeit das neue Media-Markt-Prospekt sah, wusste ich – diese Box muss ich haben. Für 15,- Euro bietet der MediaMarkt derzeit die Terminator-Quadrilogy an.

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Wie leicht zu erkennen ist, auf 3 DVDs verteilt, die Terminator-Quadrilogy. Oder vielleicht doch nicht? Als ich gestern im MediaMarkt stand, staunte ich nicht schlecht. In dieser Box sind lediglich die ersten drei Teile enthalten. Wenn man einmal genauer schaut, dann bemerkt man einen kleinen Aufkleber: Der vierte Teil ist nur als Platzhalter :D enthalten, sprich eine leere DVD-Hülle. Freundlich, wie der MediaMarkt so ist, weist er darauf hin, dass Terminator – Die Endlösung ab dem 30. November erhältlich ist. Natürlich im MediaMarkt. Das nenne ich doch mal auf die Wünsche der Kunden eingehen – naja, oder auch nicht.

Man bewirbt hier ganz offensichtlich alle vier Teile der Terminator-Reihe – Quadrilogy. Nun wird der MediaMarkt wahrscheinlich argumentieren, dass Quadrilogy ein Kunstbegriff sei – und man nicht versprochen habe, vier Filme einer Reihe zu liefern, schließlich weist man auch auf 3 DVDs hin. Ich fühle mich trotzdem getäuscht und ich will gar nicht wissen, wie viele Kunden zu Hause die Terminator-Quadrilogy geöffnet haben um festzustellen, dass nur die Teile 1-3 enthalten sind. Der erste Begriff, der mir in den Sinn kam, als ich die Box in der Hand hielt: Irreführende Werbung. Ich kann mich natürlich auch täuschen…

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Stephen says...

The Financial Times reported that the rights to the Terminator film franchise will be auctioned in November 2009, by Halcyon, the production company behind the movie Terminator Salvation.

The rights will give the right to the buyer to make new Terminator films, TV programs and future films, but doesn't cover earlier Terminator films.

The sale will likely exceed $60 million, the price that the rights to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was sold for, according to Matthew Garrahan, Financial Times writer. 

The Terminator rights are not controlled by a big studio. Several buyers have expressed interest in Terminator including all of the big film studios with Sony Pictures being a leading contender.

The sale is being conducted by FTI Capital Advisors. Halcyon filed for Chapter 11 after due to a dispute with Pacificor, which is a hedge fund that lended Halcyon funds to buy the Terminator rights.

The rights to the franchise have changed hands numerous times and were sold to Halcyon for $25 million in 2007, by Mario Kassar, who produced Terminator 2: Judgement Day.

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Andy says...

One of the most exciting emerging technologies out there is Augmented Reality (AR). While the term has been around since approximately 1990, the technology is only really beginning to take off now for consumer uses.

In augmented reality, you layer computer-generated information over real world physical environment. This computer generated imagery is seen through special eye wear such as contacts, glasses, monocles, or perhaps even projected as a 3-D image display in front off you.

With the overlay of computer information, important context can be added to everyday content that you are sensing. This takes place when names and other information are layered over people, places, and things to give them meaning and greater value to us.

Augmented reality is really a form of mashups, where information is combined (i.e. content aggregration) from multiple sources to create a higher order of information with enhanced end-user value.

In AR, multiple layers of information can be available and users can switch between them easily at the press of a button, swipe of a screen, or even a verbal command.

Fast Company, November 2009, provides some modern day examples of how this AR technology is being used:

Yelp’s iPhone App—“Let’s viewers point there phone down a street and get Yelp star ratings for merchants.”

Trulia for Android—“The real-estate search site user Layar’s Reality Browser to overlay listings on top of a Google phone’s camera view. Scan a neighborhood’s available properties and even connect to realtors.”

TAT’s Augmented ID— “Point your Android phone at a long-lost acquaintance for his Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube activity.”

Michael Zollner, an AR researcher, puts it this way: “We have a vast amount of data on the Web, but today we see it on a flat screen. It’s only a small step to see all of it superimposed on our lives.”

Maarteen Lens-FitzGerald, a cofounder of Layar, said: “As the technology improves, AR apps will be able to recognize faces and physical objects [i.e. facial and object recognition] and render detailed 3-D animation sequences.”

According to Fast Company, it will be like having “Terminator eyes,” that see everything, but with all the information about it in real time running over or alongside the image.

AR has been in use for fighter pilots and museum exhibits and trade shows for a number of years, but with the explosive growth of the data available on the Internet, mobile communication devices, and wireless technology, we now have a much greater capability to superimpose data on everything, everywhere.

The need to “get online” and “look things up” will soon be supplanted by the real time linkage of information and imagery. We will soon be walking around in a combined real and virtual reality, rather than coming home from the real world and sitting down at a computer to enter a virtual world. The demarcation will disappear to a great extent.

Augmented reality will bring us to a new level of efficiency and effectiveness in using information to act faster, smarter, and more decisively in all our daily activities personally and professionally and in matters of commerce and war.

With AR, we will never see things the same way again!

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Andy says...

One of the most exciting emerging technologies out there is Augmented Reality (AR). While the term has been around since approximately 1990, the technology is only really beginning to take off now for consumer uses.

In augmented reality, you layer computer-generated information over real world physical environment. This computer generated imagery is seen through special eye wear such as contacts, glasses, monocles, or perhaps even projected as a 3-D image display in front off you.

With the overlay of computer information, important context can be added to everyday content that you are sensing. This takes place when names and other information are layered over people, places, and things to give them meaning and greater value to us.

Augmented reality is really a form of mashups, where information is combined (i.e. content aggregration) from multiple sources to create a higher order of information with enhanced end-user value.

In AR, multiple layers of information can be available and users can switch between them easily at the press of a button, swipe of a screen, or even a verbal command.

Fast Company, November 2009, provides some modern day examples of how this AR technology is being used:

Yelp’s iPhone App—“Let’s viewers point there phone down a street and get Yelp star ratings for merchants.”

Trulia for Android—“The real-estate search site user Layar’s Reality Browser to overlay listings on top of a Google phone’s camera view. Scan a neighborhood’s available properties and even connect to realtors.”

TAT’s Augmented ID— “Point your Android phone at a long-lost acquaintance for his Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube activity.”

Michael Zollner, an AR researcher, puts it this way: “We have a vast amount of data on the Web, but today we see it on a flat screen. It’s only a small step to see all of it superimposed on our lives.”

Maarteen Lens-FitzGerald, a cofounder of Layar, said: “As the technology improves, AR apps will be able to recognize faces and physical objects [i.e. facial and object recognition] and render detailed 3-D animation sequences.”

According to Fast Company, it will be like having “Terminator eyes,” that see everything, but with all the information about it in real time running over or alongside the image.

AR has been in use for fighter pilots and museum exhibits and trade shows for a number of years, but with the explosive growth of the data available on the Internet, mobile communication devices, and wireless technology, we now have a much greater capability to superimpose data on everything, everywhere.

The need to “get online” and “look things up” will soon be supplanted by the real time linkage of information and imagery. We will soon be walking around in a combined real and virtual reality, rather than coming home from the real world and sitting down at a computer to enter a virtual world. The demarcation will disappear to a great extent.

Augmented reality will bring us to a new level of efficiency and effectiveness in using information to act faster, smarter, and more decisively in all our daily activities personally and professionally and in matters of commerce and war.

With AR, we will never see things the same way again!

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andre says...

This woman + T2 = Iconic

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MiladoRec says...

Joseph McGinty - más conocido como McG, el director de Terminator Salvation, ha hablado sobre la quinta entrega de la saga 'Terminator' desvelando que la idea es que el líder de la resistencia de los humanos, John Connor, viaje al pasado, al día anterior al del Juicio Final en el año 2011,  para tratar de convencer a las autoridades y militares de la inminente amenaza de la red de Skynet.

La idea es jugar con una de las probadas y verdaderas reglas de la franquicia – los viajes en el tiempo – e introducirlos en esta película", Aseguró. "Digamos que es muy, muy probable que John Connor terminará corriendo por salas como las de esta entrevista en donde conocerá algo que ninguno de nosotros sabe. Y tendremos un villano mucho más claro. Será más una película de persecución".


También adelanto que los progresos en los viajes en el tiempo permitirán, además, trasladar al pasado grupos de rebeldes y todo tipo de artilugios y máquinas de combate. De manera que un comando de la Resistencia podrá ayudar a impedir la invasión de Skynet.

A pesar que la cuarta película no ha sido el éxito de taquilla, el cineasta asegura que Terminator 5 se está preparando de cara a 2011 y que el rol principal recaerá nuevamente en Christian Bale, que firmó contrato por tres cintas, pero el proyecto está verde aún ya que la producción propiamente dicha comenzará después de que McG termine de filmar la nueva versión del clásico de Julio Verne 100 leguas de viaje submarino.


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heyrye says...

Toyota and Honda are not just competing for car dominance, but they are also competing to build the first SKYNET TERMINATORS!! They are just jogging right now, but wait!! in just a little time they will be running after you down the street with you screaming for dear life!!!!

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Andy says...

Arnold Schwarzenegger , "the Terminator", definitely knows how to cut the budget--with a 2 foot long knife. Yikes!

But all kidding aside, while many critical services were cut to resolve a $42 billion budget deficit in the state of California, Governor Schwartzenegger manages to keep his cool. He posted this video of himself--combining some unique star humor with crowdsourcing--engaging people on new ideas to solve the crisis.

For The Total CIO, this is a great lesson in humility, working on difficult problems (no, not with a knife!), and reaching out to people with humor and passion to get the job done.

Good job Terminator!

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Andy says...

Arnold Schwarzenegger , "the Terminator", definitely knows how to cut the budget--with a 2 foot long knife. Yikes!

But all kidding aside, while many critical services were cut to resolve a $42 billion budget deficit in the state of California, Governor Schwartzenegger manages to keep his cool. He posted this video of himself--combining some unique star humor with crowdsourcing--engaging people on new ideas to solve the crisis.

For The Total CIO, this is a great lesson in humility, working on difficult problems (no, not with a knife!), and reaching out to people with humor and passion to get the job done.

Good job Terminator!

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