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Disney Completes Dali Animation
jbottero writes "Wired News has an interesting piece on a Salvador Dali animation coming out of Disney Studios. It seems that in 1946, Walt Disney and Dali teamed up on a short film called Destino. The film was shelved for money reason, and now, 57 years later, Disney animators has finished what Dali started. The six minute film will be shown in theaters next year before a Disney feature film. The remnants of the aborted film include 150 storyboards, drawings and paintings, which have sat for the last half-century in the Disney vaults. Notably, some of the project was modeled on the animation program Maya. An interesting quote from the article, Dali describes Walt Disney as one of America's greatest surrealists."
Correct to have finished. There is more than one animator. Compare with 'Disney has finished', wherein Disney is a collective noun, which, in American English, is treated as a singular. True plurals, however, are not.
I predict that far more drugs will be trafficked inside Salvador Dali action figures than ever was inside teddy bears or rub-on tattoos. This may spur a new era of economic prosperity for South America!
Can anyone think of any nation to which 4, 5, and 8 would not apply? (Can anyone name any American who actually says "shucks," as insinuated in 3?Doesn't 7 just apply to California?)
Since when? Disney is a bad guy, rememeber? Microsoft, SCO, Disney, etc?
Brain Fuck
Disney Corp alienates the progressives.
You forgot:
10 - ???
11 - Profit!
It is official; Netcraft confirms: *BSD is dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered *BSD community when IDC confirmed that *BSD market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that *BSD has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *BSD is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last [samag.com] in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin [amdest.com] to predict *BSD's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *BSD because *BSD is dying. Things are looking very bad for *BSD. As many of us are already aware, *BSD continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
FreeBSD is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time FreeBSD developers Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: FreeBSD is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. *BSD is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. *BSD continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *BSD is dead.
Fact: *BSD is dying
lol, and people are modding this down.
Three words: Winnie the Pooh.
'nuff said.
Business isn't willing to pay for products, innovation and careers, so we get brands, mortgage commercials and layoffs.
And the fact that Disney is a founding member of the MPAA that went after DeCSS, is irrelevant? Let's get this straight: Disney as a corporation has deliberately chosen to persecute open source developers attempting to provide a free DVD player for Linux. They are not the good guys. While I greatly admire Dali's art, I think providing free advertising for Disney runs counter to the professed pro-open source stance of most slashdotters. But, people that point out hypocrisy are never popular. Oh well... back to the shiny pictures!
"Freedom means freedom for everybody" -- Dick Cheney
Probably the most well known purveyors of what I would call "American Surrealism". Granted, he's modern, but Lynch's vision is distinctly American.
i'm the jedidiahmarkfoster your parents warned you about
You missed Muhammed (wrote the Qu'ran)
Sadly, yes, they will even though it means doing business with the corporation that was a strong proponent of the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998. This bill became law and stifles our ability to build on Disney's work like Disney built on Buster Keaton's Steamboat Bill Jr.. We can't share and preserve countless other copyrighted works that aren't selling but are disappearing because of an overly long term of copyright. I wonder how many Slashdot readers have too short a memory to act effectively in defiance of the laws they rail against in other threads.
I'll be glad to do business with Disney when they advocate for a more reasonable copyright regime, one in which society's need to share and build on copyrighted works is balanced with publisher's need to make money.
Digital Citizen
That's all.
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