Interesting Links for 17-03-2013

[andrewducker]

• Tax loophole for UK businesses set to close
  (tags: tax uk )
• What it's like doing a maths PhD.
  (tags: academia mathematics )
• Cyprus levies 7-10% on savings in banks to pay for their bailout
  (tags: europe banking cyprus )
• Are bloggers to be included in the proposed press royal charter?
  (tags: law uk viaJennieRigg web media )
• Smartphone's have

Comments

[momentsmusicaux]

Why on earth would you even want a github gist to get slurped in like that? LJ has some really odd features sometimes!

[andrewducker]

I know. Making it an option (with an "unfold" button, or something) would be fine. Automatically expanding my post to be five times the size is not on.

[andrewducker]

I'm not sure you'd have enjoyed the cat-hoovering aspect.

[bart_calendar]

I don't see why a $2 million budget is that unrealistic. The average television show costs 1.5 million to make and a movie bases on a TV show is, essentially, one and a half episodes of a TV show. So, the $2 to $3 million range is doable.

[andrewducker]

Yeah, I figure it'll be a TV movie, not something intended for a mass market, or made using the standard blockbuster techniques.

[bart_calendar]

Exactly.

[ajr]

It's a straight-to-DVD movie, effectively, yeah. Probably about 80-100 minutes? So about the length of two TV episodes, more or less. VM was about $1.8m an episode which made it about the cheapest TV show of its type when it was on air, I believe

[lil_shepherd]

I haven't had a look at the Hitler video yet, but my mother grew up in Nazi Germany and I once asked her if she had ever seen Hitler speak, and what that was like. She told me he was impressive when heard in person. (Dad was one of the many British soldiers who met and married a German girl - he was in the Royal Engineers and had an interesting war, but not half as interesting as Mother's.)

[andrewducker]

It is fascinating to see the difference it makes to see the videos with subtitles I can read.

He goes from Shrieking Madman to Passionate Orator. It's kinda terrifying.

[steer]

My PhD is maths/stats and that is a great article about the applied side(*). I think it should be referred to whenever someone says something like "if you can't explain it to a 12 year old you don't understand it" or "This wikipedia page on 'cohomology' is quite difficult to read."

(*) The pure maths people are, of course, sometimes horrified that their work might ever be useful outside mathematics.