Archives for June, 2008

Netflix and Blockbuster are in trouble because of iTunes

  • Posted by Jeremy
  • June 19, 2008

Today Apple announced that they have sold 5 billion songs. And now they sell or rent over 50,000 movies per day. A while ago it is said that Netflix has 8 million subscribers. I believe many of those subscribers are not subscribed to unlimited plan. So a conservative estimation is, every customer rents 3 movies [...]

iTunes Movie Rental Total Movies

  • Posted by Jeremy
  • June 17, 2008

60 Pages of movies, about 1260 titles as of June 16th, 2008. And counting. Still a long way to go. And stop, please stop $0.99 rentals of western movies from the 1960s.

Opera Chinese Font Problem Never Going to be Fixed?

  • Posted by Jeremy
  • June 11, 2008

Default fonts for Chinese Simplified: Arial Unicode still??? NONE of the fonts for Simplified Chinese on Mac OS X is recognized by Opera. How long is it going to take for Opera to fix such a smaller problem? And they are going to release 9.5? The performance of 9.5 is already surpassed by Safari and [...]

Movie: Ghost World, A-

  • Posted by Jeremy
  • June 1, 2008

Ghost World，一部美国现实主义青春电影。高中毕业，朋克，社会，谋生，爱情——步入成年人的世界，不是件容易的事情。 一部剧情片，非喜剧，非悲剧，缺乏戏剧高潮。但是，个人感觉这是一部类似Junebug的展示美国社会现实的电影。事实上，个人认为本片比Juno好不少；Juno就是吹捧出来的。Juno的剧本可以说可能还可以吧，但是表演上，个人认为Ellen Page太差。Ghost World里面各个演员的表演，才是真的好。 当对美国的印象完全是好莱坞式的时候，Ghost World，可以唤醒我们。我给这部电影A-的评分。个人认为，对所有intelligent的年轻人，可能都会有不少启发。