That's amusing, Cody. There certainly was a lot of clever extemporaneous mechanical and electrical innovation in the film.
Bruce On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 8:33 PM, cody dooderson <d00d3r...@gmail.com> wrote: > Four thumbs up for three idiots. > It was very good movie for the Maker movement. > On Apr 1, 2013 7:43 PM, "Sarbajit Roy" <sroy...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Dear Bruce >> >> If you liked 3 Idiots, you may enjoy its even better "prequel" - Munna >> Bhai MBBS. >> >> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0374887/ >> >> Sarbajit >> >> On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 1:10 AM, Bruce Sherwood >> <bruce.sherw...@gmail.com>wrote: >> >>> Despite all this, we experience a very low fraction of unreadable DVDs >>> from Netflix. Presumably DVD players vary in their ability to deal with >>> flaws. Also, more and more we along with everyone else streams when >>> possible, so the DVDs we order are often the less popular kind and so have >>> not had a lot of use. >>> >>> An example I'll recommend is the superb "3 Idiots", a fairly recent film >>> from India that is just wonderful along many dimensions. Read the >>> description somewhere. I've heard it's being remade in many countries >>> including the US (the original is in Hindi with much admixture of English, >>> but with excellent subtitles). It includes two of India's biggest stars, >>> and they're terrific. >>> >>> Bruce >>> >>> >>> On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 12:13 PM, Steve Smith <sasm...@swcp.com> wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> One thing to consider is that as time goes on, the disc population >>>>> 'ages' - probably discs are only replaced when they are completely broken, >>>>> or enough people complain. >>>>> -Arlo James Barnes >>>>> >>>>> I think there may be a little more going on than this. It feels like >>>> a soft "tragedy of the commons". >>>> >>>> Disc-based Netflix is going on at least 8 years old now, it seems >>>> unlikely that the halflife of discs being shipped around and handled by >>>> random people is more than months, rather than years. >>>> >>>> I think the *only* way discs get retired is if they are reported >>>> nonfunctional by a customer. I don't think there is anything more than >>>> casual inspection happening at the remailing centers (our closest may be >>>> ABQ?). >>>> >>>> It seems likely that something more subtle (or blunt?) is going on. >>>> Perhaps many people are depending mostly on streaming movies (as we are) >>>> and many may not bother to report a bad disc and simply return it in >>>> frustration. A positive feedback loop could emerge with the more bad discs >>>> they find, the more likely they will just send the movie back without >>>> watching. >>>> >>>> Another aggravator may be if the remailing centers have changed their >>>> inspection and possible automatic cleaning policy. I would imagine that >>>> they might have a process for very simply cleaning the DVDs when they come >>>> in or before they ship out. >>>> >>>> It seems likely that the "tragedy of the commons" may be a hard one to >>>> resolve. >>>> >>>> - Steve >>>> >>>> ==============================**============================== >>>> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >>>> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College >>>> to unsubscribe >>>> http://redfish.com/mailman/**listinfo/friam_redfish.com<http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com> >>>> >>> >>> >>> ============================================================ >>> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >>> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College >>> to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >>> >> >> >> ============================================================ >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College >> to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >> > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >
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