If it was just another anime flick getting delayed, then it wouldn't deserve a Slashdot headline. However, what we have here is a big corporation that changed directions on a major project because common people used the internet to voice their concerns. That deserves a headline.
I am glad to say that Gaiman did NOT perform an "extensive rewrite of the plot," as you put it. There were some IMHO minor adaptations to make the film play better -- pretty much to smooth the culture barrier in regards to dialogue. There are expressions ("This soup tastes like water.") and humor that don't carry the same weight or meaning to an American audience that they would to a Japanese audience. Gaiman put insane effort into faithfully adapting the meaning of this film while still maintaining an excellent match between the characters mouths and the English dialogue. Also, the names of some of the forest dwelling god-creatures (namely the Shishigami and Tatarigamis) were altered or omitted for those without a background in Japanese folklore.
Anyway, long story short, the PLOT remains identical, just some dialogue details are changed.
Read it again, carefully. The article discusses much of the BSD-ness that underlies this new MacOS, and also mentions that it's based on version 3 of the Mach microkernel. Also that the dock seems to behave similarly to the NeXT dock...
Only through hard work and perseverence can one truly suffer.
I have concerns that the interface of these little handhelds would ruin the gaming experience. A PDA would be fine -- my dad plays Zork on his Palm -- but I can't imagine having the patience to get the Bablefish using the crappy number pads on my Nokia. Yuck! (Even worse, imagine playing Bureaucracy, where every misunderstood command/typo raises your blood pressure until eventually you have a stroke!) Unless somebody's coming out with a full-size keyboard adaptor for cell phones...? Which could be cumbersome to say the least.
Only through hard work and perseverence can one truly suffer.
The world needs a cold, intelligent browser plugin capable of ruthlessly terminating the lives of those that get in the way of "the mission". In this case, it could kill off the people who design awful web pages, all while singing a lovely little song!
Only through hard work and perseverence can one truly suffer.
With regard to setting up a DSL connection, I have had experience with setting stuff up myself with Linux and troubleshooting (by phone from out of state, oh joy!) my future mother-in-law's connection problems (Win98). Linux (bless it's little penguiny heart) gave me zero guff, but the Windows setup was a nightmare. Win98 has an annoying tendency to not leave your network settings the way you set them after you perform the ubiquitous "I made a minor change, now I have to reboot" step. At least if my future mother-in-law was running Linux I could either give her a set of magic incantations to recite at a command line that would do the trick, or telnet in and configure it myself.
Only through hard work and perseverence can one truly suffer.
I'm sure that a zillion other folks will post this, but I found this particular tidbit rather interesting:
While lawyers say Microsoft may be able to get the material removed, it may well have lost the valuable protections it sought by claiming the Kerberos code as a trade secret.
Graham & James' Lemieux noted a mid-1990s case involving the Church of Scientology, in which a federal judge held that once information is on the Internet, it cannot be a trade secret.
Maybe there's some ammo for the DeCSS battle there?
Only through hard work and perseverence can one truly suffer.
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Bah, my HTML formatting got raped by the preview button. (That oughtn't happen!) Here's what it was supposed to be:
Hey fella, I bet you're still livin' in your parents' cellar
Downloadin' pictures of Sarah Michelle Gellar And postin' "Me too!" like some brain-dead AOL-er I should do the world a favor and cap you like Old Yeller You're just about as useless as jpegs to Helen Keller
Only though hard work and perseverence can one truly suffer.
Whee, I'm free-associating again! From Weird Al's It's All About the Pentiums... Hey fella, I bet you're still livin' in your parents' cellar Downloadin' pictures of Sarah Michelle Gellar And postin' "Me too!" like some brain-dead AOL-er I should do the world a favor and cap you like Old Yeller You're just about as useless as jpegs to Helen Keller Only though hard work and perseverence can one truly suffer.
I have to say that if you are so desperate for your own copy of The Phantom Menace that you rush out and buy it, you deserve to get screwed like this. There has been adequate notice that you will be throwing your money away on a tape of this. All along LucasFilm has said that there would be a DVD release eventually. There was never any doubt about if, just when. Fans who are eager to watch TPM over and over should consider being patient for awhile -- just rent a copy if you need a fix. As far as I see it, there's no reason to purchase a VHS copy.
Only through hard work and perseverence can one truly suffer.
Let's not forget The Iron Giant, one of the best animated features in ages, American or Japanese. WB totally screwed up its marketing when it was in theaters and made it out to be a fairly lame kids movie. It actually had more acclaim from film critics than American Beauty but was entirely overlooked because of the lousy marketing and the American bias against (non-Disney) animation as a legitimate art form. For those of you that haven't seen it, Iron Giant is packed with humor, action, surprisingly good voice acting, great integration of CG with traditional cel animation, a solid plot, believable characters, a lot of heart, and (my personal favorite) NO SINGING. I'd put it in the same league with the films of Miyazaki and Takahata (and if you're not familiar with their work, there's another great place to explore). So pop down to your favorite rental place and check it out -- it's definitely well worth your $2/90 minutes.
See if your router has a reset button hiding somewhere on it. Mine (a FlowPoint DSL router) has a round unlabeled hole with a button inset inside the box; you can press it with a paperclip, just like the Mac's emergency floppy eject method. It won't be documented in the "quick start" guide -- I had to dig through the router's PDF documentation that was buried on the install CD. You turn on the router, then press the reset button for several seconds until you get the test light to flash a few times and turn orange. For the next 10 minutes it enables you to use the router's serial number as a password instead of whatever your telco/provider set it to be. You can then telnet into the router, set the password to something you like, and reconfigure the port mapping. It's quick, and a fairly satisfying thing to do. I had gotten sick of waiting for my provider's usually inept tech support (and yes, I am paying business $$ for my home connection!), who had also not told me what they had set the router's password to after doing my initial portmap. My house + my network + my router = my password + my control.:-)
Hopefully the technology won't be kept as a trade secret by any international committee... Think of all the legal trouble that will ensue when people of the future want to play back their brains with their Linux boxen! And somehow I don't think the source code for that is going to fit on the back of a t-shirt (barring any stunning breakthroughs in the textile or silk-screening fields).
Only through hard work and perseverence can one truly suffer.
I can see a couple reasons rental stores won't like this...
Eliminating late fees shuts off a major revenue stream for the rental stores -- late fees are where stores make money
Rental stores will continually have to replenish their inventory, which also cuts into the local stores' profits. Imagine the store having to order a new copy of a movie every time someone rents it! (Anyone have figures on how popular things like "The Matrix" were at rental stores?)
Taken together, these would seem to undermine the typical rental store's way of doing business. Your favorite rental store will no longer be a repository of movies that can be shared and enjoyed for years to come, but a clearing house for disposable wastes of time. Oi.
Only through hard work and perseverence can one truly suffer.
As I recall, it depends on whether your station is commercial or non-commercial, and whether you are for-profit or non-profit. If you're for-profit, you have to pay ASCAP fees, but if you're non-profit, and commercial-free, you can blithely ignore them.:-)
Actually, you'd be surprised... The two polka shows on our station, WRUW-FM 91.1 Cleveland, have a tremendous community following. If you're in an area with any interest in polkas, you'd definitely be serving the community. And in truth, if you're playing practically anything that doesn't get mainstream radio exposure, you're serving the public good by turning people on to music or programming that they might not otherwise be able to hear.
Only through hard work and perseverence can one truly suffer.
Pixar's "Toy Story" humans are deliberately imperfect and stylized to preserve a "cartoony" feel to the movies. At the time the first one was produced, it was also felt that the audience would not be ready for fully photorealistic CG humans. Their next project, "Monsters, Inc.", is supposed to be to "Toy Story" as "Toy Story" was to previous CGI efforts.
We are also hard at work on the films we plan to release early in the new millennium. Pixar's fourth feature, tentatively titled "Monsters, Inc.", is targeted for release in 2001. It is a terrific story concept about the world of monsters, where chaos breaks loose after a hapless monster accidently lets a human child into the secret monster world. Monsters, Inc. is being directed by two of Pixar's next generation of directors: Pete Docter, an Oscar nominee for "Toy Story," and David Silverman, the Emmy Award - winning supervising director of "The Simpsons".
Only through hard work and perseverence can one truly suffer.
There are actually two, "Mission to Mars" from some random tentacle of Disney, and "Red Planet". My biggest gripe with the latter is that it's not going to be an adaptation of the Heinlein book of the same name, one of my favorites from childhood. But then again, with movies like "The Puppetmasters" (a total bastardization of a great story) and "Starship Troopers" ('nuff said), maybe it's not so bad after all.
Only through hard work and perseverence can one truly suffer.
I did a fairly vanilla Red Hat 6.0 install on my ThinkPad 600 a few months ago just to have something to do for awhile... It turned out mostly pretty good. I didn't have any problems (that I remember) with the sound, just ran the config tool that plays Linus pronouncing Linux. APM wasn't too hard either -- just a kernel rebuild, no big deal once you're comfortable with the concept, and there are some good resources online for what options to select to make it work. I don't recall it enjoying having the floppy hot-swapped;) but that may be changing at some point. There is USB on the TP600, on the left side, toward the back, tucked away behind a little plastic panel the way a lot of the other ports are hidden.
The only real setbacks I encountered were the fact that I got stuck with the sucky Mwave DSP modem, and that the drivers for my ethernet card are kinda flaky, so I could never get decent networking to happen.
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If it was just another anime flick getting delayed, then it wouldn't deserve a Slashdot headline. However, what we have here is a big corporation that changed directions on a major project because common people used the internet to voice their concerns. That deserves a headline.
Anyway, long story short, the PLOT remains identical, just some dialogue details are changed.
Read it again, carefully. The article discusses much of the BSD-ness that underlies this new MacOS, and also mentions that it's based on version 3 of the Mach microkernel. Also that the dock seems to behave similarly to the NeXT dock...
Only through hard work and perseverence can one truly suffer.
Looks like they are working on a Linux-specific product too...
Only through hard work and perseverence can one truly suffer.
How 'bout:
1 - Fear
2 - Uncertainty
3 - Doubt
Only through hard work and perseverence can one truly suffer.
Uh, count 'em again -- your song is seven syllables, but only six words. And lo, thus spake Weird Al:
Only through hard work and perseverence can one truly suffer.
The world needs a cold, intelligent browser plugin capable of ruthlessly terminating the lives of those that get in the way of "the mission". In this case, it could kill off the people who design awful web pages, all while singing a lovely little song!
Only through hard work and perseverence can one truly suffer.
Only through hard work and perseverence can one truly suffer.
Only through hard work and perseverence can one truly suffer.
Whee, I'm free-associating again! From Weird Al's It's All About the Pentiums...
Only though hard work and perseverence can one truly suffer.Whee, I'm free-associating again! From Weird Al's It's All About the Pentiums... Hey fella, I bet you're still livin' in your parents' cellar Downloadin' pictures of Sarah Michelle Gellar And postin' "Me too!" like some brain-dead AOL-er I should do the world a favor and cap you like Old Yeller You're just about as useless as jpegs to Helen Keller Only though hard work and perseverence can one truly suffer.
Only through hard work and perseverence can one truly suffer.
Let's not forget The Iron Giant, one of the best animated features in ages, American or Japanese. WB totally screwed up its marketing when it was in theaters and made it out to be a fairly lame kids movie. It actually had more acclaim from film critics than American Beauty but was entirely overlooked because of the lousy marketing and the American bias against (non-Disney) animation as a legitimate art form. For those of you that haven't seen it, Iron Giant is packed with humor, action, surprisingly good voice acting, great integration of CG with traditional cel animation, a solid plot, believable characters, a lot of heart, and (my personal favorite) NO SINGING. I'd put it in the same league with the films of Miyazaki and Takahata (and if you're not familiar with their work, there's another great place to explore). So pop down to your favorite rental place and check it out -- it's definitely well worth your $2/90 minutes.
See if your router has a reset button hiding somewhere on it. Mine (a FlowPoint DSL router) has a round unlabeled hole with a button inset inside the box; you can press it with a paperclip, just like the Mac's emergency floppy eject method. It won't be documented in the "quick start" guide -- I had to dig through the router's PDF documentation that was buried on the install CD. You turn on the router, then press the reset button for several seconds until you get the test light to flash a few times and turn orange. For the next 10 minutes it enables you to use the router's serial number as a password instead of whatever your telco/provider set it to be. You can then telnet into the router, set the password to something you like, and reconfigure the port mapping. It's quick, and a fairly satisfying thing to do. I had gotten sick of waiting for my provider's usually inept tech support (and yes, I am paying business $$ for my home connection!), who had also not told me what they had set the router's password to after doing my initial portmap. My house + my network + my router = my password + my control. :-)
Hopefully the technology won't be kept as a trade secret by any international committee... Think of all the legal trouble that will ensue when people of the future want to play back their brains with their Linux boxen! And somehow I don't think the source code for that is going to fit on the back of a t-shirt (barring any stunning breakthroughs in the textile or silk-screening fields).
Only through hard work and perseverence can one truly suffer.
I can see a couple reasons rental stores won't like this...
Taken together, these would seem to undermine the typical rental store's way of doing business. Your favorite rental store will no longer be a repository of movies that can be shared and enjoyed for years to come, but a clearing house for disposable wastes of time. Oi.
Only through hard work and perseverence can one truly suffer.
Only through hard work and perseverence can one truly suffer.
As I recall, it depends on whether your station is commercial or non-commercial, and whether you are for-profit or non-profit. If you're for-profit, you have to pay ASCAP fees, but if you're non-profit, and commercial-free, you can blithely ignore them. :-)
Actually, you'd be surprised... The two polka shows on our station, WRUW-FM 91.1 Cleveland, have a tremendous community following. If you're in an area with any interest in polkas, you'd definitely be serving the community. And in truth, if you're playing practically anything that doesn't get mainstream radio exposure, you're serving the public good by turning people on to music or programming that they might not otherwise be able to hear.
Only through hard work and perseverence can one truly suffer.
From a letter from Steve Jobs (http://www.pixar.com/aboutpix ar/ar98/sj_letter99.html):
Only through hard work and perseverence can one truly suffer.There are actually two, "Mission to Mars" from some random tentacle of Disney, and "Red Planet". My biggest gripe with the latter is that it's not going to be an adaptation of the Heinlein book of the same name, one of my favorites from childhood. But then again, with movies like "The Puppetmasters" (a total bastardization of a great story) and "Starship Troopers" ('nuff said), maybe it's not so bad after all.
Only through hard work and perseverence can one truly suffer.
The only real setbacks I encountered were the fact that I got stuck with the sucky Mwave DSP modem, and that the drivers for my ethernet card are kinda flaky, so I could never get decent networking to happen.
Try the Linux on Laptops site for more useful info.
Only through hard work and perseverence can one truly suffer.