Word: virtualization
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...focus on your backhand when you're worrying about being on time for homeroom. So last year Hunt, who hones his ground strokes at Elite TNT Tennis Academy in April Sound, Texas, enrolled for academics in the $9,750-a-year University of Miami Online High School (UMOHS), a virtual school that caters to athletes. "The online school gives me the flexibility I need," says Hunt. "The workload is the same, but I can do it anywhere. It's nicer to ask a question face-to-face with a teacher, but in some ways it prepares me better for college...
Malone has his legacy concerns too, which are what touched off this skirmish a few weeks ago. Long regarded as the consummate cable executive, he has built Liberty Media through relentless wheeling and dealing into a virtual mutual fund of cable interests, including QVC, the Encore and Starz! movie networks, stakes in Discovery Communications, Court TV, game-show channel GSN, DMX Music, MacNeil/Lehrer Productions and others. Yet Malone has been unable to add value to this portfolio; the stock has gone nowhere in years and, at around $10, represents a hefty discount to Liberty's assets. Liberty didn't respond...
...virtual lock that the magic price point?at which flat-panel TVs switch from being a status symbol of the rich and hip to an everyday feature in many living rooms?will be reached in the near future. That's because the Asian consumer-electronics companies that dominate the flat-panel industry are building too many factories too fast. A glut is in the offing, and while prices have already been falling, more rapid declines are expected. Consulting firm iSuppli Corp. estimates that a 37-in. (94-cm) LCD TV that now retails for more than $4,000 will cost...
...motion-capture animation, which turns real actors into the virtual variety, is less likable. They are as wooden as Snow White's prince. And just because it is now possible to count every hair on their heads doesn't mean we want to. But look, it's not art. It's a head trip. You could argue, in fact, that the IMAX Polar Express returns movies to their most primitive beginnings, when the simple act of realistically capturing motion on a screen--narrative subtlety be damned--was sufficient to thrill, enchant and totally involve an audience. By that crude standard...
...Rossum (The Day After Tomorrow) and Scott Gerard Butler, 35, best known for 2003's Tomb Raider sequel. The only name is Minnie Driver, who is less than hot these days and has a cameo as the jealous opera diva Carlotta. Although Phantom has kept salaries low by casting virtual unknowns, its $80 million budget puts it between Alien vs. Predator and The Incredibles. An ensemble of 100-plus sings and dances through Schumacher's enormous, immaculately designed soundstages. In addition to the roof set, where stone gargoyles gaze down malevolently, there's the Phantom's Lair - a dark catacomb...