Because of this, many companies are understandably nervous about getting sued and so often err on the side of caution. In addition to more famous examples such as Negativland and the Grey Album, there are cases such as the one detailed in the article, Unfair Use: Advice to Unwitting Authors where an author was originally denied permission to publish an scholarly book responding to another author because the publishers were afraid that he had cited the other auther too much and was therefore exciding the bounds of fair use.
The book would never have been published had the author not gone to the step and called the other author personally to get permission. Of course the problem here is that since this book was highly critical of the first author's work, if the first author would have been thin skinned, he could have easilly said no and thereby stifled the debate about the issue.
But that isn't a scene. it is a format. That's the same as the differences between filming something on video, 35mm or IMAX. That doesn't have much to do with the actual pictures in the comic book. Even the content is not talked about in terms of expenses but in terms of sales. The costs to make a comic are always more or less the same as long as it is in the same format(and other formats are nearly always seen as gimmics rather than an artistic preference), unlike a film where there is an immense range in the production costs of films that are created in the same format. A 35mm film can cost anywhere from hundreds of thousands to hundreds of millions. A standard size, page count and paper quality comic will cost the same to produce. Of course, like films, the costs of advertising can vary and the cost per copy is reduced the more that are manufactured.
What? What does Thor wanting to be worhiped as a god have to do with communism/socialism/anti-capitalism???? As far as Thor wanting to be worshiped, well, he is Thor. There are tons of comics that are less controversial than that. The whole DC line that is inspired by the Cartoon Network versions of the Teen Titans and the Justice League come to mind. How many superheroes are millionaires for that matter? I find it hard to beleive that Batman, aka millionaire bruce Wayne, would ever be anti-capitalist or even communist or socialist since both of those are about the community while Batman is such a loner and individualist. Captian America is a communist/socialist/anticapitalist???? While I can think of some examples of comic books that do have that agenda, I can think of several more that don't.
The epicness of movies is a really bad example. It costs the same to draw a comic that is a small scale story about relationships as it does to draw a comic with thousands of people fighting a huge battle with lasers and alien creatures. Comic books, unlike films are only bounded by their imaginations. There has never been a comic book where a scene has had to have been changed because someone said, "It would be too expensive to make that scene happen."
Go to the local library and they will probably have a copy of Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics. Read it and you will see why comic books are a unique medium that does things that no other medium can do. (Of course every medium has things no other medium can do, so that isn't to imply comics are better than any other medium.)
That's true. The figure is especially meaningless when you notice that gross dollar ammounts of dvd sales are higher than box office grosses and that doesn't count pay-per-view, television, airline, or international sales. Even at $50 a game, videogames have a long way to go before they compare to film sales. (Although to be honest, the movie industry (except sony) doesn't get money from equipment sales do they? except a licencing fee or something. But on the flip side, there is the fact that microsoft and sony (at least at the start) lose money on hardware sales, so should that be a profit or a loss?)
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Most of my friends turned them down simply because they didn't understand why they would need another email address. And honestly, they are right. I've got a gmail account and only one person knows about it (the person that gave me the invite). The other email services I use are fine for what I use them for and especially since gmail forced hotmail and yahoo to up their storage, there isn't as much motivation to move.
I would imagine most of those places already subscribe to lexis-nexis of one of the other research databases. Which raises the question, why would the New York Times keep older stories online anyway? just put up a link, "If you want an older story to to lexis-nexis." I'm sure the answer is that they get a bigger cut if they do it themselves but, as others have noted, the market for people who are doing casual research and don't already have access to a research database seems pretty small.
I've just never been interested in any of the stuff Whedon's done. I gave Buffy a few chances, I watched 3 or so episodes of Firefly, I flipped through his isses of Amazing X-Men. I just don't get him. Of course that doesn't mean anything is wrong with people who do like him, but I just don't understand it and it seems so very unremarkable.
I mean all the things people mention about his work were also done by Xena, which I thought was a much better show than Buffy (and which had TWO musical episodes before the much talked about musical Buffy episode even aired!), and yet who even knows who created or wrote for that show?
Of course I can't understand why anyone watches baseball either, so what do I know?
I'm not sure if you are tlaking about PVR's that have dvd burners or set-top dvd burners, but my set-top dvd machine can burn anywhere from 1 hour up to 10 hours on a disk (Although I've never tried more than the 4 hour setting since even at that setting it starts to look as bad as vhs).
The best advice is to go use it yourself. Find a public library or university computer lab you can use and sit down and use an mac for a couple of hours. I'm a windows user, but whenever I'm on campus I use macs (mainly because they are usually free! It amazes me to see people standing in line to use a windows machine to write a paper when the macs are half open). There are things I like about osx, there are things I don't like about it. If you don't have any issues with windows, then there probably really isn't any reason to switch. If I have money left at the end of the summer, I'll probalby get a mac mini, but it is ore just gadget lust than anything else (I'm having enough trouble messing around with Linux on an old computer, so I don't really know why I would need a mac!).
totally agree. Jessica had a brain? whaaa???? If she didi, it wasn't when it came to technology. She didn't know crap about computers. She is hot, but the coupld of times they had her cohost were jaughable at best.
Since it is free, you can give away copies. Therefore you can argue that you can give every student a copy regardless of what type of computer mom and dad have at home. I would imagine that you could even make a customized version that is called AnySchool High Office with the school's name and mascot all over it. Schools seem to love that kind of school spirit stuff. By every student using the smae program you don't have to worry about incompatability and you aren't forcing parents to buy expensive software to use at home and you don't need to worry about if you are doing something "legal" with it or not.
You could also talk up the educational opportunities in it since the concept of free software and "free as in freedom" could easilly be used as a theme for a schoolwide unit on freedom and democracy where each subject somehow ties into the theme, which is another thing that is pretty big in educational pedogogy.
Finally, you could also bring out the Word macro virus scare tactic, but i'm not sure how honest that is since I don't think that is a very serious problem any more.
I had similar problems with early cd burners from a couple different manufaturers. They wouldn't play certain kinds of disks like the ones that come on gaming magazines or wouldn't recognize data on a cd-r that they just burned.
I've had a bit of trouble with my set-top dvd players, but not much. Of course they are so cheap now I've managed to get 3 of them (not counting the ones in computers) so I can usually manage to get a disk to play.
I agree with others that the lens alighment seems to be the likely problem. Years ago I had a portable cd player that would skip all the time so i took it apart and there was a thing in there that looked like it had a screwdriver slot, so i put one in and twisted it. Put it back together and it worked a lot better from then on. I'm not sure I would reccomend taking it apart unless you didn't mind breaking it completely.
But it's still only at 10!!! If it were really a big update they would call it 11!!! all the windows versions have different names, therefore they have more improvements! Duh!!! (or at least that seems to be the logic of the review)
I'm not sure why you would want to pay to listen to online radio when WOXY is free. And they are even currently beta testing AAC+ streams which sound pretty sweet. During the week they have live djs that play requests and they are always commercial free.
Leaving lights on is one of my biggest peaves. I'm not talking about turning them off and then back on 20-30 or even an hour later. I mean situations where I teach in the basement of a dorm and when I come in to teach at 8am on monday all the lights are on. I know it isn't the janitorial staff turning them on in the morning since if I get there before 7:30 I have to wait for someone to open the door to the basement (i have a key to the classroom, but not the door to the hall to the classroom...) so they have been on all weekend with no one around.
A similar case is the lights in the hall of out department building. There are windows at both ends so if it is daylight out you can see fine to get to your office even on the most overcast days. Yet every time I've turned half the lights off, within a few minutes someone comes by and turns them on. Are these people blind? Same thing when I occasionally come in on the weekend. If I come in on Saturday and turn the hall lights off, if I come back on Sunday, there they are on with no one else in the entire building.
Of course don't get me started on the heat which no one knows how to turn down which is so hot even during the middle of a midwest winter we have the windows open in the hall and the window air conditioner units on in our offices...
Rich Johnson (comic book rumor columnist) posted a message over at aintitcoolnews claiming that the plan all along has been to change doctors at the end of the first season as a way of introducing the concept to new viewers.
Sorry, as much as I hate the current administration, you can't pin this on the Republicans. Joe Lieberman, one of the first to suggest laws against videogames is a Democrat, as is Rod Blagojevich, as is Joe Baca from California who has proposed similar legislation in the US senate, and so is Leland Yee who got the well known "violence against police" anti-videogame law passed in the state of Washington.
Sorry, this is clearly on the Democrat's agenda which, unfortunatly, only goes to prove that NEITHER of the major American political parties reflects my (or I would imagine most slashdot reader's) beliefs.
Is this the part where we talk about how fat Harry is? Seriously though, I agree, the site has gone downhill in terms of the quality of the scoops. Part of it may be getting too close to the creators, but I think a lot of it is that the site (and others like it) was too good at their job and the movie inustry has tightened up their process so there are a lot fewer leaks and information in general is just hard to come by.
Textbooks don't count on tenure, at least not if they are written as textbooks. Unless the sciences are different, the only publishing that really counts toward tenure are refereed academic journal articles or books that come out of university presses. One of my professors wrote a textbook that is used by over a dozen colleges and she said it didn't count towards tenure. So it is even more screwed up that it seems. A paper that will be read by a couple hundred people counts towards tenure, but a textbook that is used to educate thousands of people doesn't...
And where are you people going that the professors are using their own books? I was an English major and a math minor and don't remember ever using the prof's book. Even in grad school I've only had to read a prof's book twice.
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The problem is that these are just GUIDELINES and not strict rules. Even the US governments own web page on fair use says, The distinction between "fair use" and infringement may be unclear and not easily defined.
Because of this, many companies are understandably nervous about getting sued and so often err on the side of caution. In addition to more famous examples such as Negativland and the Grey Album, there are cases such as the one detailed in the article, Unfair Use: Advice to Unwitting Authors where an author was originally denied permission to publish an scholarly book responding to another author because the publishers were afraid that he had cited the other auther too much and was therefore exciding the bounds of fair use.
The book would never have been published had the author not gone to the step and called the other author personally to get permission. Of course the problem here is that since this book was highly critical of the first author's work, if the first author would have been thin skinned, he could have easilly said no and thereby stifled the debate about the issue.
Wow, that's news to me. Who knew?
But that isn't a scene. it is a format. That's the same as the differences between filming something on video, 35mm or IMAX. That doesn't have much to do with the actual pictures in the comic book. Even the content is not talked about in terms of expenses but in terms of sales. The costs to make a comic are always more or less the same as long as it is in the same format(and other formats are nearly always seen as gimmics rather than an artistic preference), unlike a film where there is an immense range in the production costs of films that are created in the same format. A 35mm film can cost anywhere from hundreds of thousands to hundreds of millions. A standard size, page count and paper quality comic will cost the same to produce. Of course, like films, the costs of advertising can vary and the cost per copy is reduced the more that are manufactured.
What? What does Thor wanting to be worhiped as a god have to do with communism/socialism/anti-capitalism????
As far as Thor wanting to be worshiped, well, he is Thor.
There are tons of comics that are less controversial than that. The whole DC line that is inspired by the Cartoon Network versions of the Teen Titans and the Justice League come to mind.
How many superheroes are millionaires for that matter? I find it hard to beleive that Batman, aka millionaire bruce Wayne, would ever be anti-capitalist or even communist or socialist since both of those are about the community while Batman is such a loner and individualist. Captian America is a communist/socialist/anticapitalist???? While I can think of some examples of comic books that do have that agenda, I can think of several more that don't.
The epicness of movies is a really bad example. It costs the same to draw a comic that is a small scale story about relationships as it does to draw a comic with thousands of people fighting a huge battle with lasers and alien creatures. Comic books, unlike films are only bounded by their imaginations. There has never been a comic book where a scene has had to have been changed because someone said, "It would be too expensive to make that scene happen."
Go to the local library and they will probably have a copy of Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics. Read it and you will see why comic books are a unique medium that does things that no other medium can do. (Of course every medium has things no other medium can do, so that isn't to imply comics are better than any other medium.)
That's true. The figure is especially meaningless when you notice that gross dollar ammounts of dvd sales are higher than box office grosses and that doesn't count pay-per-view, television, airline, or international sales. Even at $50 a game, videogames have a long way to go before they compare to film sales.
(Although to be honest, the movie industry (except sony) doesn't get money from equipment sales do they? except a licencing fee or something. But on the flip side, there is the fact that microsoft and sony (at least at the start) lose money on hardware sales, so should that be a profit or a loss?)
Most of my friends turned them down simply because they didn't understand why they would need another email address. And honestly, they are right. I've got a gmail account and only one person knows about it (the person that gave me the invite). The other email services I use are fine for what I use them for and especially since gmail forced hotmail and yahoo to up their storage, there isn't as much motivation to move.
I would imagine most of those places already subscribe to lexis-nexis of one of the other research databases. Which raises the question, why would the New York Times keep older stories online anyway? just put up a link, "If you want an older story to to lexis-nexis." I'm sure the answer is that they get a bigger cut if they do it themselves but, as others have noted, the market for people who are doing casual research and don't already have access to a research database seems pretty small.
I've just never been interested in any of the stuff Whedon's done. I gave Buffy a few chances, I watched 3 or so episodes of Firefly, I flipped through his isses of Amazing X-Men. I just don't get him. Of course that doesn't mean anything is wrong with people who do like him, but I just don't understand it and it seems so very unremarkable.
I mean all the things people mention about his work were also done by Xena, which I thought was a much better show than Buffy (and which had TWO musical episodes before the much talked about musical Buffy episode even aired!), and yet who even knows who created or wrote for that show?
Of course I can't understand why anyone watches baseball either, so what do I know?
I'm not sure if you are tlaking about PVR's that have dvd burners or set-top dvd burners, but my set-top dvd machine can burn anywhere from 1 hour up to 10 hours on a disk (Although I've never tried more than the 4 hour setting since even at that setting it starts to look as bad as vhs).
The best advice is to go use it yourself. Find a public library or university computer lab you can use and sit down and use an mac for a couple of hours. I'm a windows user, but whenever I'm on campus I use macs (mainly because they are usually free! It amazes me to see people standing in line to use a windows machine to write a paper when the macs are half open). There are things I like about osx, there are things I don't like about it. If you don't have any issues with windows, then there probably really isn't any reason to switch. If I have money left at the end of the summer, I'll probalby get a mac mini, but it is ore just gadget lust than anything else (I'm having enough trouble messing around with Linux on an old computer, so I don't really know why I would need a mac!).
Do you mean compulsory? Complementary doesn't seem to make sence in that context since it means given free as a courtesy or favor.
totally agree.
Jessica had a brain? whaaa???? If she didi, it wasn't when it came to technology. She didn't know crap about computers. She is hot, but the coupld of times they had her cohost were jaughable at best.
Since it is free, you can give away copies. Therefore you can argue that you can give every student a copy regardless of what type of computer mom and dad have at home. I would imagine that you could even make a customized version that is called AnySchool High Office with the school's name and mascot all over it. Schools seem to love that kind of school spirit stuff. By every student using the smae program you don't have to worry about incompatability and you aren't forcing parents to buy expensive software to use at home and you don't need to worry about if you are doing something "legal" with it or not.
You could also talk up the educational opportunities in it since the concept of free software and "free as in freedom" could easilly be used as a theme for a schoolwide unit on freedom and democracy where each subject somehow ties into the theme, which is another thing that is pretty big in educational pedogogy.
Finally, you could also bring out the Word macro virus scare tactic, but i'm not sure how honest that is since I don't think that is a very serious problem any more.
totally possible. it was 10+ years ago and I'm not an electrical engineer by any stretch of the imagination.
I had similar problems with early cd burners from a couple different manufaturers. They wouldn't play certain kinds of disks like the ones that come on gaming magazines or wouldn't recognize data on a cd-r that they just burned.
I've had a bit of trouble with my set-top dvd players, but not much. Of course they are so cheap now I've managed to get 3 of them (not counting the ones in computers) so I can usually manage to get a disk to play.
I agree with others that the lens alighment seems to be the likely problem. Years ago I had a portable cd player that would skip all the time so i took it apart and there was a thing in there that looked like it had a screwdriver slot, so i put one in and twisted it. Put it back together and it worked a lot better from then on. I'm not sure I would reccomend taking it apart unless you didn't mind breaking it completely.
But it's still only at 10!!! If it were really a big update they would call it 11!!! all the windows versions have different names, therefore they have more improvements! Duh!!!
(or at least that seems to be the logic of the review)
I'm not sure why you would want to pay to listen to online radio when WOXY is free. And they are even currently beta testing AAC+ streams which sound pretty sweet. During the week they have live djs that play requests and they are always commercial free.
Leaving lights on is one of my biggest peaves. I'm not talking about turning them off and then back on 20-30 or even an hour later. I mean situations where I teach in the basement of a dorm and when I come in to teach at 8am on monday all the lights are on. I know it isn't the janitorial staff turning them on in the morning since if I get there before 7:30 I have to wait for someone to open the door to the basement (i have a key to the classroom, but not the door to the hall to the classroom...) so they have been on all weekend with no one around.
A similar case is the lights in the hall of out department building. There are windows at both ends so if it is daylight out you can see fine to get to your office even on the most overcast days. Yet every time I've turned half the lights off, within a few minutes someone comes by and turns them on. Are these people blind? Same thing when I occasionally come in on the weekend. If I come in on Saturday and turn the hall lights off, if I come back on Sunday, there they are on with no one else in the entire building.
Of course don't get me started on the heat which no one knows how to turn down which is so hot even during the middle of a midwest winter we have the windows open in the hall and the window air conditioner units on in our offices...
Since that is what the lawsuit is about, I am sure the company denies that the name has anything to do with Mandrake the Magician.
yes. I get it too. weird. don't remember seeing another site that screws up that way in firefox.
Rich Johnson (comic book rumor columnist) posted a message over at aintitcoolnews claiming that the plan all along has been to change doctors at the end of the first season as a way of introducing the concept to new viewers.
Sorry, as much as I hate the current administration, you can't pin this on the Republicans. Joe Lieberman, one of the first to suggest laws against videogames is a Democrat, as is Rod Blagojevich, as is Joe Baca from California who has proposed similar legislation in the US senate, and so is Leland Yee who got the well known "violence against police" anti-videogame law passed in the state of Washington.
Sorry, this is clearly on the Democrat's agenda which, unfortunatly, only goes to prove that NEITHER of the major American political parties reflects my (or I would imagine most slashdot reader's) beliefs.
Is this the part where we talk about how fat Harry is?
Seriously though, I agree, the site has gone downhill in terms of the quality of the scoops. Part of it may be getting too close to the creators, but I think a lot of it is that the site (and others like it) was too good at their job and the movie inustry has tightened up their process so there are a lot fewer leaks and information in general is just hard to come by.
Textbooks don't count on tenure, at least not if they are written as textbooks. Unless the sciences are different, the only publishing that really counts toward tenure are refereed academic journal articles or books that come out of university presses. One of my professors wrote a textbook that is used by over a dozen colleges and she said it didn't count towards tenure.
So it is even more screwed up that it seems. A paper that will be read by a couple hundred people counts towards tenure, but a textbook that is used to educate thousands of people doesn't...
And where are you people going that the professors are using their own books? I was an English major and a math minor and don't remember ever using the prof's book. Even in grad school I've only had to read a prof's book twice.