In six decades of film industry machinations, making everything from finely-honed art-movies to clodhopping, cast-of-thousands epics, De Laurentiis has experienced his fair share of triumphs and disasters; yet the tiny, tough-nosed operator has outlasted and outlived all his competitors, and could be on the threshold of his biggest hit yet.
So are the tiny amounts that some operators of small Web sites earn whenever someone clicks on the ads on their pages.
Lined up 12 deep along a tiny suburban street, the operators of these 80,000-pound triaxle rigs, each carrying 25 tons of dirt, are eager to dump their load and retrieve five or six more truckfuls.
Shipping also introduced Bouvier to the complicated lives of the rich — their taxes and their divorces — and the other ancillary trades that help the art world go around: restorers, framers, hired experts, operators of tiny galleries in Paris clinging on from sale to sale.
Military pilots and sonar operators get tiny mics put in their ears and then stuck in an anechoic chamber (a room that absorbs all sounds), where a computer records sounds directed at their heads from every possible angle.
Current UAVs – even those controlled by a pilot – also already have some sense-and-avoid capability, to account for the tiny lag between an operator sending an instruction and it being delivered to a plane.
So far, no one knows who is going to pay for the infrastructure to connect billions of devices, each of which offers the mobile operator a tiny fraction of the revenue that a smartphone customer would generate.
Tiny windowless offices house unknown operators trying to build a track record.
Documents made public by the city show that it paid three times more than its initial offer of $39,000 to Mr. McGregor for the property, which is currently being rented to the operators of a tiny Jamaican restaurant.
Mr Nichols thinks rogue operators are a tiny minority of all landlords, and that sufficient legislation is already in place to protect tenants.
