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Spirited Away Still Has a Chance
Dean Siren writes "Disney chairman Richard W. Cook says that they've budgeted to market Spirited Away in up to 1,000 North American theaters, and if the Oscars endorse it as much as Metacritic has, Disney will launch it. They'll spend the same time and money promoting Spirited Away for Academy Awards as they will Lilo & Stitch and Treasure Planet. Cook hopes that it will win not only Best Animated Film, but get nominated for Best Picture, as Beauty and the Beast got in 1991. Thanks to Jack Mathews at New York Daily News for getting Cook to explain."
Nobody is asking you not to sing in the shower. We are just telling what you can and cannot sing if you wish to charge people to listen to you singing in the shower. Produce all the music you want, just don't go galavanting around with ill-gotten music that wasn't produced by you.
Yes, Disney is in it for the money, but it may be argued that if the best way to get money is by appealing to the wants of us geeks, then how is it unreasonable to postulate that Disney is pro-geek?
Ok, now since this is the fourth Tuesday this month we like and support Disney?
I buy from the MPAA, but I also give to EFF because I take the Lessig Challenge. But even so, I don't buy from The Walt Disney Company because the company had a hand in not only the DMCA but also the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act.
Will I retire or break 10K?
After stumbling upon this cartoon fan site which I had never heard of, which goes by the name of "Slashdot", I clicked on the link "Bugs" on the left-hand side of the page, hoping to perhaps find some recent news about one of my all-time favourite cartoon characters, Bugs Bunny. I didn't get what I expected, instead I was re-directed to some strange site called SourceForge.net. I assumed it must have been an old link, perhaps left there by the previous nerdy webmasters who were engaged in some sort of open source project... Then when I returned to the cartoon fan site Slashdot, I began to wonder, what was this site really all about anyways? Either way, it will always have a permanent spot in my Bookmark file's "kiddy-stuff" sub-folder.
I am a graphics artist,
Figures.
I don't want to deal with the inconsistencies between the rendering of web pages done on all browsers
It is the nature of the web that it *will* look different. It was designed that way, and that's the way it is. Deal with it.
How are you going to handle CSS, where I can override your settings any way that I like? I'll bet you use little transparent images to try to "force" pages to look the same. Sigh.
If you don't have the Flash Player Version 6 you will not see my web site. Sorry, not possible.
It's a safe bet that I'm not missing anything! What about those people behind firewalls that don't allow executable content through? I guess they can't see it either.
By the way, if it's done entirely in in Flash it is *not* a web site, by definition.
The Flash Plug-in lets my web site look the same to the entire world! Not because it's an open standard, but rather because it's a closed standard that behaves the same on all platforms! Quality control I will not sacrifice
Quality control == style sheets are too hard for me, and I can't get my head around the idea that the web was designed to allow different presentations of the same information for different situations.
If you refuse to run Flash for philosophical or ideological reasons
No, Flash is not a valid mechanism for web content. It is also a security hazard. I don't run any downloaded executable content. And yes, I'm aware that Flash *should* pose no threat, but I see zero evidence that the plug-in itself is secure.
you probably won't appreciate why the world leader in Entertainment uses Flash to entertain an online audience, you shouldn't go to their sites
I didn't say Flash itself was lame, just that web sites done *only* in Flash are, as this sort of thing will inevitably fragment the web into little incompatible islands of content. The web was invented to fix *exactly* this (if you were even *aware* of a time before the web) - and we'll end up back there again if we are not careful and don't *think* about what we do.
you probably won't appreciate why the world leader in Entertainment uses Flash to entertain an online audience
Because, like you, they don't actually know what they are doing.
I'll bet that the graphic artist makes more money than a worn out COBOL code monkey like yourself.
It is the nature of the web that it *will* look different. It was designed that way, and that's the way it is. Deal with it.
It is NOT the nature of the web nor was it designed that way. The WWW was intended to be a way to transfer information while maintaining the integrity of that information. Information is not plain ascii text, but also color, fonts, shapes, images and sound. Any multimedia information must retain it's integrity otherwise information is lost.
How are you going to handle CSS, where I can override your settings any way that I like? I'll bet you use little transparent images to try to "force" pages to look the same. Sigh.
Ever hear of the CSS1 !important rule. Geesh you are an idiot. Ever hear of scripting, generate the document from script and the style sheet from script and your overides are meaningless, you either view the document as the author intended or you view nothing. With CSSP, you get pixel perfect control of the layout, it is called position:absolute;
No, Flash is not a valid mechanism for web content. It is also a security hazard. I don't run any downloaded executable content. And yes, I'm aware that Flash *should* pose no threat, but I see zero evidence that the plug-in itself is secure.
By nature of it's acceptance, flash has become a standard. You haven't seen evidence that the flash plugin is secure because you haven't looked. http://www.macromedia.com/desdev/mx/flash/whitepap ers/security.pdf
It's a hell of a lot more secure than most of the other software on your system, and that includes the Linux kernel..
I didn't say Flash itself was lame, just that web sites done *only* in Flash are, as this sort of thing will inevitably fragment the web into little incompatible islands of content. The web was invented to fix *exactly* this (if you were even *aware* of a time before the web) - and we'll end up back there again if we are not careful and don't *think* about what we do.
Flash exists because the W3C failed to deliver on SVG, HTML+Time and other important technologies which are needed to advance the web to take full advantage of it's potential.
Because, like you, they don't actually know what they are doing.
So you know more about entertainment than a multibillion dollar world leader in entertainment. Your kookery knows no bounds.
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