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...more than 6,000 landline phones with a wide variety of telephone service features. Most of these are digital phone lines, also known as ISDN, which cost roughly twice as much per month as analog lines. Many faculty and staff do not need the additional features – such as call forwarding and conferencing capabilities – available in a digital phone, and due to advances in analog phone technology, many other digital phone features are now available for analog phone lines. An ongoing audit of our usage and needs has so far yielded substantial annual savings through...
...Joshua Tree last year; Bruce Springsteen recently announced plans for a new Darkness on the Edge of Town) that have both cash and nostalgia in abundance. Rap? Not many reissues. The Grateful Dead? Too many to count. Older bands fare better for technological reasons; advances in transferring music from analog to digital mean that most records from the '70s and '80s sound demonstrably better, even to amateur ears. "That's a big selling point," says Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys, who are in the midst of reissuing three of their early albums. "People who care about sound really care...
...Ellis’s novels and the films they spawned have always stood on their psychopathology. Bateman murders his colleagues not just because he’s jealous of them, but because he actually is a homicidal maniac; the joke is that nobody notices. He’s the analog of Wall Street’s own psychosis.What better metaphor than a vampire for the Patrick Batemans of the opposite coast, literally sucking the marrow of life? Lusty consumption drives and sustains the film’s central group, led by a sensitive if shallow performance from Jon Foster...
...proponents say digital 3-D is a different animal from the analog stuff that came before 2005. Viewers often wore cardboard glasses with red and cyan cellophane lenses (similar to but somewhat different from what you see in this magazine). As just about everyone knows, old-school 3-D was less than awesome. Colors looked washed out. Some viewers got headaches. A few vomited. "Making your customers sick is not a recipe for success," Katzenberg likes...
Even if you're willing to grant him the glasses, there's still one problem. For digital 3-D to work, the movie theater must first convert from analog to digital--that is, from reels of film to data feeds. Theaters have been slow to do it, citing the expense and security. Disney chairman Dick Cook is credited with breaking the initial logjam with Chicken Little in 2005. About 75 theaters converted to digital to show the film, and a surprising thing happened: 3-D theaters reported three to four times the box-office gross as those that showed...