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As a rule of thumb, I refuse to read these serialized stories. I may read the first in a series but that's all.
I generally agree but I like to check and see who broke up the book. If it's the publisher, as was the case with Lord of the Rings, then you're really missing out.
I don't think that's the case much these days. Authors enter into some sort of multi-book contract and then just churn them out. There's no incentive to make just one epic book. Nowadays, I find myself browsing book stores for the largest books I can find. If the book is greater than 1200 pages, the odds of it becoming serialized are small.
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Hmmm... A person using the name Orson Scott Card has posted a few messages on previous threads concerning the upcoming movie, Ender's Game.
I can't say I agree. I've just finished reading Children of the Mind (again). It's so utterly forgettable that I couldn't remember reading it the first time. The first is the best in this series.
Don't get me wrong though. I like Card. I think his best book is Ender's Game, but I enjoyed Homecoming more than any other series.
Think about it, most of the people on napster are college students. I know there are a lot of others on there too but most of the users tend to be young and poor. They are also the ones who tend to love music the most, but they are also the ones with the most limited income in general.
I'm on your side, but your argument is flawed. You can't justify criminal acts by saying, "I'm poor" and don't be so sure that love of music fades after youth. There are plenty of people out there that are closer to 40 than they are to 30 that use Napster. I'm one of them. I typically use Napster to find older stuff of just single tracks that I don't feel like buying an entire album to get. So... call me a criminal. I speed while driving too.
What you're essentially saying is that nobody should ever release anything if they want to make any money off it, or retain any control over it.
There are bands that still manage to be successful and profitable without trying to control their product once it has been released to the masses. Bands like Offspring and Limp Bizkit have made it quite clear that they do not fear Napster. Just as the Grateful Dead did in the past, the Dave Matthews Band allows fans to record their concerts! Imagine that!
Oh that would be rich... Just to make sure I have this scenario correctly imagined...
1. I purchase a CD and make a couple of MP3 files to play on my computer. (a legal act) 2. I run Napster (a legal act). 3. A law enforcement officer downloads a Metallica song from my hard drive. (possibly an illegal act) 4. I am charged with copyright violation and face punishment by the court.
No I wasn't kidding. The "Mac's are for graphics" mantra hasn't been true for years. For example, PhotoShop for Windows is every bit as capable as Photoshop for Mac. The user interface within the app isn't any different. The hardware certainly isn't superior any more. What exactly makes Mac better at graphics today?
I don't believe there is enough market-share in the graphics industry alone to support Apple. There certainly wasn't enough to save Amiga.
You may not recall, but cross-platform compatiblily problems between Mac and Windows used to be a huge issue. At the time, MS$ Office was one of the few if not the only office suite that supported both platforms and allowed for easy exchange of data.
That $150 million that Gates threw at Jobs didn't save Apple. MS$ Office did... and Jobs knows it. He lobbied very hard to keep a Mac version in production.
I'm not sure that the iMac saved Apple. According to ZDNet News, Apple's PowerBook G3 laptop and Power Mac G4 desktop lines still provided most of the company's profits last quarter.
The article also states,...even if the iMac provided the spark for Apple's remarkable turnaround in unit sales, market share and public opinion, sales to its traditional core of professionals and power users remain the engine driving its financial performance.
But cubans are granted automatic residency and asylum as a matter of US policy on Cuba. Therefore, the whols custody case is now a US issue.
Where is the law that states this?
Isn't this in the realm of FL family courts? INS decides citizenship/residency issues. The Atty Gen deals with the constitution. The wrong parts of the system are involved here.
The Florida family courts have no business dictating parental rights of non-citizens. If the child's father were a citizen of the U.K. instead of Cuba, this wouldn't even be an issue. The father would have custody immediately. They held Elian simply because the United States is at odds with Cuba.
I have to believe that parental rights take precedence.
The question to ask is why did the father lose custody (in the Cuban family court system) of Elian? If he was abusive, then custody should certainly not rrevert to him if the mother dies.
Is this a question for the U.S. court system or for the Cuban court system?
The child is an illegal alien with a living parent in another country. He should be sent home and quit wasting taxpayer dollars on political grandstanding.
You mean Apple bundled MacWrite with the Macintosh? My gawd! That's just the sort of ruthless activity that got MS$ into trouble.:)
I remember Word 5 on the Mac being a really good program. Then, MS$ ported the windows over to Mac and called it Word 6. IMHO, it was an abortion. Less features, less friendly, etc.
Then again, word processors are typically loaded with far too many "features". Even in an office environment, most of us leave 75% of the capability untouched, IMHO.
Sure it's free and that makes it useful to many individuals. I have it at home. At work, I use the software provided for me, MS Office.
AFAIK, most corporations dictate the type of office suite software that will be used by their employees. Are there any companies that have decided upon StarOffice as their standard?
I don't know about Word, but MS released Excel for the Mac before Windows.
At one time, Mac had the most popular word processor, MacWrite. Someone mismanaged their market-share so badly that Word was allowed to take over as the de-facto standard.
The six o'clock news won't report that the study shows a correlation, but not a causation, between video games and violent behavior. They won't bother to define "violent behavior". They'll simply scream "Latest studies show a link between violent video games and violence in our schools!!!!"
Read the title of the UniSci article. It doesn't say, "Video Games and Aggressive Thoughts, Feelings, and Behavior in the Laboratory and in Life". It says, " Violent Video Games Seen To Increase Violent Behavior". If the Daily University Science News can't publish the story accurately, why would one expect the evening news to do better?
There was another story posted on/. last week from the New York Times. Statistically, we have more to fear from people with mental disorders than we do from Quake players. Personally, I'm afraid of psychologists.
If it were my 6 year-old, you can bet your ass I'd take him back by gunpoint if necessary.
The politics are irrelevant. The media hype is irrelevant. The father has right to expect the return of his child.
This may come as a surprise, but believe it or not, there are actually people living outside of the United States that are happy to do so. Imagine that!
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As a rule of thumb, I refuse to read these serialized stories. I may read the first in a series but that's all.
I generally agree but I like to check and see who broke up the book. If it's the publisher, as was the case with Lord of the Rings, then you're really missing out.
I don't think that's the case much these days. Authors enter into some sort of multi-book contract and then just churn them out. There's no incentive to make just one epic book. Nowadays, I find myself browsing book stores for the largest books I can find. If the book is greater than 1200 pages, the odds of it becoming serialized are small.
Hmmm... A person using the name Orson Scott Card has posted a few messages on previous threads concerning the upcoming movie, Ender's Game.
Oh yeah... It doesn't stop there. Many SCI-FI and fantasy books have been written that rip off the Matrix:
Dune
Lord of the Rings
Stranger in a Strange Land
The Stand
etc...
I can't say I agree. I've just finished reading Children of the Mind (again). It's so utterly forgettable that I couldn't remember reading it the first time. The first is the best in this series.
Don't get me wrong though. I like Card. I think his best book is Ender's Game, but I enjoyed Homecoming more than any other series.
Such is not the case in the United States.
And anyway, their music is crap for retarded acneic teenagers.
Do you realize that James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich are almost 40? Metallica makes music for middle-aged adolescents.
As long as I keep it loud, I won't grow old.
Think about it, most of the people on napster are college students. I know there are a lot of others on there too but most of the users tend to be young and poor. They are also the ones who tend to love music the most, but they are also the ones with the most limited income in general.
I'm on your side, but your argument is flawed. You can't justify criminal acts by saying, "I'm poor" and don't be so sure that love of music fades after youth. There are plenty of people out there that are closer to 40 than they are to 30 that use Napster. I'm one of them. I typically use Napster to find older stuff of just single tracks that I don't feel like buying an entire album to get. So... call me a criminal. I speed while driving too.
What you're essentially saying is that nobody should ever release anything if they want to make any money off it, or retain any control over it.
There are bands that still manage to be successful and profitable without trying to control their product once it has been released to the masses. Bands like Offspring and Limp Bizkit have made it quite clear that they do not fear Napster. Just as the Grateful Dead did in the past, the Dave Matthews Band allows fans to record their concerts! Imagine that!
Control is an illusion.
Oh that would be rich... Just to make sure I have this scenario correctly imagined...
1. I purchase a CD and make a couple of MP3 files to play on my computer. (a legal act)
2. I run Napster (a legal act).
3. A law enforcement officer downloads a Metallica song from my hard drive. (possibly an illegal act)
4. I am charged with copyright violation and face punishment by the court.
Is that it?
Okay... what exactly is the "THX sound effect"?
Luckily there are sites like this one or peacefire.org or allaboutsex.org that help restore my faith in humanity.
It's an empty faith, my friend. Sites like peacefire, and /. represent the minority.
No I wasn't kidding. The "Mac's are for graphics" mantra hasn't been true for years. For example, PhotoShop for Windows is every bit as capable as Photoshop for Mac. The user interface within the app isn't any different. The hardware certainly isn't superior any more. What exactly makes Mac better at graphics today?
I don't believe there is enough market-share in the graphics industry alone to support Apple. There certainly wasn't enough to save Amiga.
You may not recall, but cross-platform compatiblily problems between Mac and Windows used to be a huge issue. At the time, MS$ Office was one of the few if not the only office suite that supported both platforms and allowed for easy exchange of data.
That $150 million that Gates threw at Jobs didn't save Apple. MS$ Office did... and Jobs knows it. He lobbied very hard to keep a Mac version in production.
I'm not sure that the iMac saved Apple. According to ZDNet News, Apple's PowerBook G3 laptop and Power Mac G4 desktop lines still provided most of the company's profits last quarter.
The article also states, ...even if the iMac provided the spark for Apple's remarkable turnaround in unit sales, market share and public opinion, sales to its traditional core of professionals and power users remain the engine driving its financial performance.
But cubans are granted automatic residency and asylum as a matter of US policy on Cuba. Therefore, the whols custody case is now a US issue.
Where is the law that states this?
Isn't this in the realm of FL family courts? INS decides citizenship/residency issues. The Atty Gen deals with the constitution. The wrong parts of the system are involved here.
The Florida family courts have no business dictating parental rights of non-citizens. If the child's father were a citizen of the U.K. instead of Cuba, this wouldn't even be an issue. The father would have custody immediately. They held Elian simply because the United States is at odds with Cuba.
I have to believe that parental rights take precedence.
Is this a question for the U.S. court system or for the Cuban court system?
The child is an illegal alien with a living parent in another country. He should be sent home and quit wasting taxpayer dollars on political grandstanding.
We few, we happy few...
Like I said... wasn't sure of Word.
You mean Apple bundled MacWrite with the Macintosh? My gawd! That's just the sort of ruthless activity that got MS$ into trouble. :)
I remember Word 5 on the Mac being a really good program. Then, MS$ ported the windows over to Mac and called it Word 6. IMHO, it was an abortion. Less features, less friendly, etc.
Then again, word processors are typically loaded with far too many "features". Even in an office environment, most of us leave 75% of the capability untouched, IMHO.
Technically, the United States is a country that supports freedom of religion also... try living here as an atheist. It's not easy.
Do you remember how Sun beat Microsoft? They decided to develop StarOffice and give it away for free, when Microsoft was selling their Office suite...
Sure it's free and that makes it useful to many individuals. I have it at home. At work, I use the software provided for me, MS Office.
AFAIK, most corporations dictate the type of office suite software that will be used by their employees. Are there any companies that have decided upon StarOffice as their standard?
I don't know about Word, but MS released Excel for the Mac before Windows.
At one time, Mac had the most popular word processor, MacWrite. Someone mismanaged their market-share so badly that Word was allowed to take over as the de-facto standard.
yeah, yeah... Office is it. Were it not for Microsoft Office, the Macintosh would be DEAD and gone.
I think there is already an open file standard for office suites. Rich Text Format (RTF).
Yes!
Read the title of the UniSci article. It doesn't say, "Video Games and Aggressive Thoughts, Feelings, and Behavior in the Laboratory and in Life". It says, " Violent Video Games Seen To Increase Violent Behavior". If the Daily University Science News can't publish the story accurately, why would one expect the evening news to do better?
There was another story posted on /. last week from the New York Times. Statistically, we have more to fear from people with mental disorders than we do from Quake players. Personally, I'm afraid of psychologists.
If it were my 6 year-old, you can bet your ass I'd take him back by gunpoint if necessary.
The politics are irrelevant. The media hype is irrelevant. The father has right to expect the return of his child.
This may come as a surprise, but believe it or not, there are actually people living outside of the United States that are happy to do so. Imagine that!