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Tron Special Edition On Sale January 15th
Muddie writes: "OnVideo.org reminded me that on January 15 , Disney is releasing the "Tron 20th Anniversary Collector's Edition" (1982) on DVD and VHS. Directed by Steven Lisberger, the film stars Jeff Bridges, Bruce Boxleitner and Barnard Hughes. The 2 disc DVD set contains the remastered film with commentary by Lisberger, producer Donald Kushner and visual effects supervisors Harrison Ellenshaw and Richard Taylor, a new 75-minute "making-of" documentary "The Making of Tron", deleted scenes, original soundtrack music deleted from the film and more all for $29.99.
Check out all the happy details at Amazon's link"
And it sucks just as much now as it did 20 years ago.
"Adequacy.org: Where congenital stupidity is not an option, but a requirement."
I know how one goes about placing a banner add on /., but how does one go about placing a "story add?"
/. that posted with indignation about yahoo mixing news and advertising?
Isn't this the same
"Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos!"
Slashdot: News for Nerds? Or Propaganda for the Impressionable?
Day in and day out, Slashdot sings the praises of open source software.
New readers of the site must be a little puzzled to find items like GPL
Violation discovered and Open Source Guru Speaks listed on the main
page alongside the straight science and technology news. Unfortunately,
few people really know what Open Source stands for. Perhaps Richard Means
Stallman, one of the founders of the movement, can elucidate.
[The GNU goal was] to be able to use a computer without using any
proprietary software, declaims RMS.
Because that way, you can lead a better life. Of course, the only way to
get rid of proprietary software is to destroy the software companies that
produce it. One way this is accomplished is by putting software that would
normally be public domain under a license RMS himself created, called the
General Public License, or GPL. Simply put, this license allows code
to be reused-- unless the final product is distributed without its source
code, as a proprietary product must be.
Software is a commodity, and people will often take the cheapest product,
even if they have to spend inordinate amounts of time struggling with poor
documentation and clumsy user interfaces. One of the best things I could
do with my life is: find a gigantic pile of proprietary software that was
a trade secret, and start handing out copies on a street corner so it
wouldn't be a trade secret any more, enthuses RMS. Perhaps that would be a
much more efficient way for me to give people new free software than
actually writing it myself.
Its time to stop the doubletalk and start thinking about the real
meaning of intellectual property. By some measures, intellectual property
is the main export of the developed countries of the world. Artists,
actors, and musicians make a living off the intellectual property they
produce. Programmers and engineers create designs to be sold. And
journalists and writers depend on intellectual property. Ironically, the
only jobs not deeply tied to intellectual property are the jobs many
slashdot readers affect to despise, like service workers, menial laborers,
and administrators. If slashdot readers cant stomach Scott McNealy, maybe
they would prefer to work with Ronald McDonald. From the other side of the
fast food counter.
Not everyone enjoys working at a menial job in the day, simply in
order to slave away at poorly organized programming projects. Not everyone
enjoys being told that he has the freedom to work, without pay, for a
small clique of free software partisans. It is one thing to oppose
microsofts monopoly on the desktop, and the RIAAs slow strangulation of
fair use rights. It is quite another to embrace a whole economic and
political ideology that centers around the exploitation of childlike
programming savants.
This message is not a troll, although many slashdot readers may
take it as such. It is simply a warning to users to think carefully before
they blindly follow the political lead of Rob Malda, Jon Katz, and the
like. I encourage readers to repost the text of this message, and others
like it, to the supposedly free message boards of slashdot and other
sites.
Peace out, and God bless.
Am so sorry Pimp-Dad Li*u*s T.
Complete Retraction is herewith
made. If you meet me in Rock Creek
park by the old oak Tree at the usual
time, I'll let you watch me take a
shit. I am extending this special
favor to you, because I'm very
sorry that you didn't like my
fraudulent post. It was wrong of
me to say things that are not completely
accurate.
It now is also for child molesters, enron executives, and trans-sexuals.
Emma Watson! I can't wait to see you in the next movie!