Or how about just CE... Chief Employee.

I'm a Canadian in New Zealand.

Rather hilariously, in typical imperial/metric, schizophrenic Canadian style, there's quite a few joint CEO/Managing Directors back home.

Managing Director itself is funny. Which is it? Are you managing a bunch of directors? Or barely managing to direct?

I assume you're aware that "managing director" is technically a member of the board of directors of the company (a director) who also manages the day-to-day operations of the company, unlike non-managing directors (e.g. investors).

$200m USD is $158m euros.. so yes, that's, an order of magnitude more.

For a typical pixar/dreamworks movie, it takes about $1.25 million/per minute of film.

It can take a week just do 3 seconds of animation and all the labour is, of course, exceptionally talented and extremely expensive.

"For a typical pixar/dreamworks movie, it takes about $1.25 million/per minute of film."

Not doubting you, but do you have a source for this?

A friend of mine works in film, so I know the ballpark costs from conversations with him. You can find production costs for films on the net fairly easily.

Puss in Boots, for example was $130 million and Kung Fu Panda 2 was around $150 million. So you're looking at 1.25m to 1.5m per minute.

While original Shrek had $60M budget, which meant $666k per minute, the sequel took $150M to produce, which meant $1.66M per minute.

Is there anything at all "typical" about the biggest CG film studios on the planet? One of them the pioneer of the entire artform…

As it happens, last night, I came across this talk featuring Jeffrey Katzenburg from Dreamworks Animation: http://te11.techonomy.com/innovation/entertainment-and-techn...

In it, he discusses the enormous investment they are making in real-time technologies for future animation projects.

Animation is absurdly labour intensive and highly iterative and, as he says, new real-time technologies will revolutionize the industry.

68.6 million Americans live in households with incomes under 20k.

None of them are rich.

I came across this post yesterday about using Ponoko's, relatively inexepensive, laser cutting service for micro-fluidics: http://nznano.blogspot.co.nz/2012/05/simple-laser-cut-millim...

Hey, that's really cool! Thanks for posting the link. I wonder what kind of resolution Ponoko can get, and what the pricing on the parts in the post were.

I don't have a ton of experience with acrylic microfluidics -- I mostly did soft lithography with PDMS -- but this could be a cool alternative to a institutional cutter for small shops/labs.

Rabobank has a similar system.

Account access requires a keypad widget, an account number, the widget's serial number, a pin and the generated one-time pass.

Any transactions require a second one-time pass derived from a different algo.

15 studies showing caloric intake is the primary factor for weight loss: http://examine.com/faq/what-should-i-eat-for-weight-loss.htm...

I came across an article about the Belarus dictatorship back in November, on Reddit. It's a pretty interesting read:

Belarus, the land of no applause (http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/article/belarus-land-no-a...)