Crazy Heart, Big Lebowski, Starman, What-Have-You

[DigitalBuddha]

It is my conclusion that Jeff Bridges is the greatest of all underrated actors in the parlance of our times. Is their anymore out there?

I would say that Jeff is definitely an underrated actor, but in the past few years he has begun to receive the credit he merits. I.e., his Oscar, which was well deserved. IMHO True Grit really gave Jeff a chance to show a lot of what he could do. He played a great role and I think a little bit of the dude came out of him in True Grit. Fabulous stuff, man!

He did better then John Wayne did imho.

~thinkingdude

This is true. But in all fairness to the Duke; Jeff had a role model to build off of, but the Duke had to create the character from scratch.

[meekon5]

@ D.B. @ M5 holy crap!! I am in envy of the collection. Any doubles send my way

~thinkingdude

Due to being a DBA I have a database of all of them so I only have nine that are doubles (because I may buy a boxed set after  buying the individual film). Not bad nine out of 1348.

I use invelos as my database  because it has an internet interface so when I'm tempted  to buy Max Payne for a fourth time (luckily Tesco's let me bring it back if I don't open it) I can check the web page to ensure I haven't got the DVD already.

I have to admit that my "want list" is still about 300+

Something like this...

One of my walls:

14DVD by meekon5, on Flickr

I'm afraid it's a big hobby (obsession) of mine. But then I will rather sit and watch a film than watch TV most nights.

[DigitalBuddha]

Nice collection you got there, M5, completely unspoiled. 

[meekon5]

Personally I'm waiting for these, 5-D Discs to Store 2000 Times More Than DVD, to become commercially available. that would solve the problem in one disk.

[DigitalBuddha]

Personally I'm waiting for these, 5-D Discs to Store 2000 Times More Than DVD, to become commercially available. that would solve the problem in one disk.

Whoa, and I thought 8 gig jump drives and 2 terabyte hard drives were badass!

[Hominid]

Let's see - that's 4GB (one sided) X 2,000 = 8 TB.  That'll cover my DVD/BR collection! Imaging misplacing it... "Honey, seen my movie collection anywhere? It's worth - like - 50 grand!" 

[meekon5]

Personally I'm waiting for these, 5-D Discs to Store 2000 Times More Than DVD, to become commercially available. that would solve the problem in one disk.

Whoa, and I thought 8 gig jump drives and 2 terabyte hard drives were badass!

Personally I carry a half TB 2.5 inch protable usb disk for my incidental stuff.

Let's see - that's 4GB (one sided) X 2,000 = 8 TB.  That'll cover my DVD/BR collection! Imaging misplacing it... "Honey, seen my movie collection anywhere? It's worth - like - 50 grand!" 

By then it will all be on your private cloud available 24-7-365

[Caesar dude]

Personally I carry a half TB 2.5 inch protable usb disk for my incidental stuff.

Personally I used to carry a 9 mil Browning and an SA80 at all times just in case something needed rebooted...I do so wish I could carry those items at work now!

Peace? dudes. 

[DigitalBuddha]

Personally I'm waiting for these, 5-D Discs to Store 2000 Times More Than DVD, to become commercially available. that would solve the problem in one disk.

Whoa, and I thought 8 gig jump drives and 2 terabyte hard drives were badass!

Personally I carry a half TB 2.5 inch protable usb disk for my incidental stuff.

Let's see - that's 4GB (one sided) X 2,000 = 8 TB.  That'll cover my DVD/BR collection! Imaging misplacing it... "Honey, seen my movie collection anywhere? It's worth - like - 50 grand!" 

By then it will all be on your private cloud available 24-7-365

Damn, drives are getting massive. Just saw 2 TB drive on sale for $119.00US, think I am going to have to grab one. I have a 1 TB drive for this laptop, but I have already use 2/3 of it.

[Hominid]

Personally I'm waiting for these, 5-D Discs to Store 2000 Times More Than DVD, to become commercially available. that would solve the problem in one disk.

Whoa, and I thought 8 gig jump drives and 2 terabyte hard drives were badass!

Personally I carry a half TB 2.5 inch protable usb disk for my incidental stuff.

Let's see - that's 4GB (one sided) X 2,000 = 8 TB.  That'll cover my DVD/BR collection! Imaging misplacing it... "Honey, seen my movie collection anywhere? It's worth - like - 50 grand!" 

By then it will all be on your private cloud available 24-7-365

And how does it get there? Gotta have the disk in the first place, right? Unless society moves to the whole Netflix paradigm. Then no-one will own anything digital, thanks to upcoming DRM legislation...

[meekon5]

And how does it get there? Gotta have the disk in the first place, right? Unless society moves to the whole Netflix paradigm. Then no-one will own anything digital, thanks to upcoming DRM legislation...

You wont have to own the disk, the cloud suppliers will own the hardware you will subscribe to resources, like you do with broadband, except the "machine" (your PC) will be a virtual machine, on their hardware.

We're doing this already at the museum, you get a box that sits  on your desk that plugs into the network (monitor, mouse, and keyboard, plug into it), the "PC" is a virtual image on a vast server in another place.

The films/music/book/game will be created on the cloud by someone else, and you rent time in the cloud to use it.

Fewer people will own hardware (except obsessive collectors like myself), your cerebrally implanted interface will deal with the transactions.

Another collection of mine:

2011-02-08 22.57.30 by meekon5, on Flickr

And yes that is a Mac in there second from left.

[Hominid]

I understand the technology, I just don't like the paradigm, and I don't think others will either for their home PCs. Brings up privacy issues for me personally... When you're at the office, company policy dictates what you use and how to use it, but I still think people in general like to have something tangible they can hold in their hands.

The thin-client model was tried in the past and it failed.

[meekon5]

I agree on the privacy issues.

But look how easily people accepted things like Tivo. You no longer have tapes and so on. Or even "Love Film", where you rent the film but can download it.

I know old paranoids like us will always have our own private stashes of hardware, a bit like the "lowtechs" from Gibsons novels. Unfortunately I see it going in that direction (everything on the cloud).

What do you do when the big companies have all the tech and the only way to use it is to buy into their control?

I didn't have a mobile phone until a few years ago an agency as much as refused to sign me onto it's books if i didn't have one.

[meekon5]

The thin-client model was tried in the past and it failed.

When was that?

I know we moved away from the dumb terminal and mainframe  model.

The thin client model just depends on the bandwidth.

We have a 100gb network and are already rolling out thin client pc's around the museum now. But we have huge amounts of resources on the vm clusters.

[Hominid]

When was that?

Late nineties, by Sun and some others. The PC booted locally, but everything else came off the network.  I think it failed due to lack of standards, though I'm just guessing.

Ya, I see it going that way as well... although hardware is pretty darn cheap these days. My wife just got a new laptop for 500 clams, and a nifty little netbook for 150. (CND dollars). And, she got rid of eight inches of reference paperwork with a Kindle, cheap as well.

Another thought on cloud computing: when a lightning bolt takes out my Internet feed, how do I access anything? I'll have to go to the drug store and actually buy the latest Playboy  ;-)