In his interview at Salon a couple weeks ago, Neal Stephenson wrote, "Every culture can be kind of defined by what they drink in order to avoid dying of diarrhea. In China it's tea. In Africa it's milk or animal blood. In Europe it was wine and beer."
I didn't realize the same would apply to hard drive cleaning...
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Yeah, but if you're trying to discourage people from the occult, is it really a good idea to tell them that mind control spells on their parents actually work?
Yes, but by the government increasing the fines, isn't it essentially coercion or extortion? The FCC may not be directly silencing Stern, but aren't they making it prohibitively expensive for the broadcasters to carry his words, thus having the same effect?
I thought Ultima IV only let you keep 6 in your party at a time, so you had to lose 2 virtue characters at some point, or at least figure out which ones you wanted with you. Could be wrong, but that's how I remember it...
The original Wizardry from Sir-Tech software had a great spell system, if I recall correctly. And I seem to remember Ultima IV also using a component based system. In both of these cases you really did customize the strengths and weaknesses of your characters. Building a balanced party was key. The little bit I've played Baulder's Gate and Neverwinter Nights doesn't really get me back to that same sense of putting my own spin on the adventure unfolding before me.
Jaguar worked fine on my Beige G3, so doesn't that mean that any machine that can't run OS X must be at least 7 or 8 years old (pre-G3)? You can't necessarily fault developers for not maintaining support or making new innovations compatible with hardware that outdated.
Very much so. To the point that when I first started studying Muybridge recently, I began to wonder what new innovations might be in the Virtual Camera patents. I'm really not seeing them...
The Jabba dance sequence comments sound a lot like the commentary that preceded the VHS release of special edition, either the 1997 or the 2000 release (don't recall which... not that big a fanboy, but I remember him talking about wanting it to be like the Cotton Club...)
Claris Emailer / Claris Organizer was a strong combination, made all the more powerful when Palm conduits were made for them. Too bad they stopped when they did.
I had one person tell me that the Outlook Express client for the Mac was written by the Emailer development team, but was never able to confirm...
Who wants to use a proprietary sound format, when they can use a much more appealing open format.
I do! Well actually, I still prefer AAC, but you'd probably try to make the same argument.
As much as people bitched and moaned at the time, as far as I can tell the GIF tax never really hurt anyone. Likewise, it's hard for me to worry about MP3 not being free as long as my player of choice isn't costing me a cent.
I'm probably the only one who's bothered by this, but I have a problem with what's going on here. H.G. Wells first published War of the Worlds in 1898 and died in 1946 leaving the copyright to his children. I believe that under the copyright terms at the time the novel is now in the public domain -- its copyright has lapsed. I'm uncertain if any of the more recent copyright term extensions would still hold on a work created more than 100 years ago.
But for the sake of argument (unless you can explain to me otherwise) let's assume that the novel is in the public domain at this point.
In 1951 Wells's kids signed a contract with Paramount which included the following:
The Seller hereby grants and assigns to the Purchaser irrevocably and forever... ALL his right title and interest in and to the sole and exclusive motion picture rights of every nature whatsoever throughout the world... and/or as a part of any motion pictures to combine said story with any other works to project transmit and/or otherwise reproduce said story pictorially and/or audibly by the art of cinematography and/or any process analogous thereto, including the right to project transmit reproduce and/or exhibit such motion pictures by television and/or any other process of transmission now known and/or hereafter to be devised...
Now, that bothers me... how can a company retain exclusive and perpetual rights to produce something based on a work that's in the public domain? The New York County Supreme Court upheld Paramount's rights in a court case a couple of years ago when the Wells family wanted to sell rights to a TV mini-series to Hallmark.
So contract law trumps copyright law??? I find that pretty disturbing.
I agree with the "talk with your employer" part. If you're valuable to them, they might keep the door open for you. When I was in a band we only toured 3 times: twice for 4 weeks and once for 6 weeks -- not as long as what you're talking about, but certainly more than I had vaction time to cover. But because I'd been with the company for awhile, and they knew that they weren't going to find anyone immediately who knew all the ins and outs of their system, they let me take it as a "leave of absence" the first couple of times, and the last time (because there was a limit on the number of leaves one could take within a year) I resigned with the verbal agreement that they'd hire me back when I became available again.
So the upshot is, don't be afraid to communicate. You might have more options than you know.
Actually, my friends and I developed a sci-fi noir detective movie set in 2035 based entirely around IP infringements. We worked up the stories more than 10 years ago, only to see a handful of some of our more absurd ideas actually show up in the courtrooms of today...
Hmm, I'll have to check out the Lost in Translation disc. Universal put it out, and I'm not as familiar with their practices. I know Disney got a lot of flack over the unskipable trailers on the Tarzan disc, and they haven't made that mistake in the last 2 years, as far as I know. Likewise, I don't recall it being an issue on any of the Fox titles I own. Each studio has their own standards for authoring. (Paramount won't let you chapter skip past the end credits on a lot of their titles, for instance.) It is probably a matter of complaining to the right people. The authoring house works to the specs they're given, but you'd probably be hard pressed to find the one guy who has a valid reason why the specs are the way they are. (Then again, I have friends in various authoring houses, so maybe tracking them down won't be as impossible a task...)
If they're not a managed hosting service, then why are they implicated at all? Sounds to me like their customers are the linux users and they're nothing more than bandwidth and electricity, if what you're saying is correct. Why would they need to sign an agreement with SCO if that were the case?
Nah, actually it's been the same since at least 1989... (worked at a Kinko's while I was in college...) Copy prices have gone up, surprisingly, but the fax remains the same.
Google prevails... Crazy Mixed-up Pup. Looks like it was released by Universal, but I don't recall what other characters they had control over... It was directed by Tex Avery, so it might have gotten shown with Tom & Jerry or Woody Woodpecker, perhaps.
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In his interview at Salon a couple weeks ago, Neal Stephenson wrote, "Every culture can be kind of defined by what they drink in order to avoid dying of diarrhea. In China it's tea. In Africa it's milk or animal blood. In Europe it was wine and beer."
I didn't realize the same would apply to hard drive cleaning...
Yeah, but if you're trying to discourage people from the occult, is it really a good idea to tell them that mind control spells on their parents actually work?
IGN interviewed American McGee last month about turning Alice, Oz and Grimm into feature films.
I think the visuals could be interesting, but here's to hoping they have a decent story and script...
Yes, but by the government increasing the fines, isn't it essentially coercion or extortion? The FCC may not be directly silencing Stern, but aren't they making it prohibitively expensive for the broadcasters to carry his words, thus having the same effect?
I thought Ultima IV only let you keep 6 in your party at a time, so you had to lose 2 virtue characters at some point, or at least figure out which ones you wanted with you. Could be wrong, but that's how I remember it...
The original Wizardry from Sir-Tech software had a great spell system, if I recall correctly. And I seem to remember Ultima IV also using a component based system. In both of these cases you really did customize the strengths and weaknesses of your characters. Building a balanced party was key. The little bit I've played Baulder's Gate and Neverwinter Nights doesn't really get me back to that same sense of putting my own spin on the adventure unfolding before me.
And there have been, what, three summer Olympics where baseball was a medal sport and not exhibition? Not much in the way of bragging rights...
Jaguar worked fine on my Beige G3, so doesn't that mean that any machine that can't run OS X must be at least 7 or 8 years old (pre-G3)? You can't necessarily fault developers for not maintaining support or making new innovations compatible with hardware that outdated.
Very much so. To the point that when I first started studying Muybridge recently, I began to wonder what new innovations might be in the Virtual Camera patents. I'm really not seeing them...
The Jabba dance sequence comments sound a lot like the commentary that preceded the VHS release of special edition, either the 1997 or the 2000 release (don't recall which... not that big a fanboy, but I remember him talking about wanting it to be like the Cotton Club...)
Claris Emailer / Claris Organizer was a strong combination, made all the more powerful when Palm conduits were made for them. Too bad they stopped when they did.
I had one person tell me that the Outlook Express client for the Mac was written by the Emailer development team, but was never able to confirm...
IBM may be a "decades-old giant", but more to the point, they're a century old company. I'd guess they grew out of "trifling ploys" decades ago...
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You're referring to Dolby Pro Logic. Dolby has a couple of surround methods...
So it would work really well if I were Tchad Blake? :)
Who wants to use a proprietary sound format, when they can use a much more appealing open format.
I do! Well actually, I still prefer AAC, but you'd probably try to make the same argument.
As much as people bitched and moaned at the time, as far as I can tell the GIF tax never really hurt anyone. Likewise, it's hard for me to worry about MP3 not being free as long as my player of choice isn't costing me a cent.
But for the sake of argument (unless you can explain to me otherwise) let's assume that the novel is in the public domain at this point.
In 1951 Wells's kids signed a contract with Paramount which included the following: Now, that bothers me... how can a company retain exclusive and perpetual rights to produce something based on a work that's in the public domain? The New York County Supreme Court upheld Paramount's rights in a court case a couple of years ago when the Wells family wanted to sell rights to a TV mini-series to Hallmark.
So contract law trumps copyright law??? I find that pretty disturbing.
I agree with the "talk with your employer" part. If you're valuable to them, they might keep the door open for you. When I was in a band we only toured 3 times: twice for 4 weeks and once for 6 weeks -- not as long as what you're talking about, but certainly more than I had vaction time to cover. But because I'd been with the company for awhile, and they knew that they weren't going to find anyone immediately who knew all the ins and outs of their system, they let me take it as a "leave of absence" the first couple of times, and the last time (because there was a limit on the number of leaves one could take within a year) I resigned with the verbal agreement that they'd hire me back when I became available again.
So the upshot is, don't be afraid to communicate. You might have more options than you know.
Actually, my friends and I developed a sci-fi noir detective movie set in 2035 based entirely around IP infringements. We worked up the stories more than 10 years ago, only to see a handful of some of our more absurd ideas actually show up in the courtrooms of today...
Hmm, I'll have to check out the Lost in Translation disc. Universal put it out, and I'm not as familiar with their practices. I know Disney got a lot of flack over the unskipable trailers on the Tarzan disc, and they haven't made that mistake in the last 2 years, as far as I know. Likewise, I don't recall it being an issue on any of the Fox titles I own. Each studio has their own standards for authoring. (Paramount won't let you chapter skip past the end credits on a lot of their titles, for instance.) It is probably a matter of complaining to the right people. The authoring house works to the specs they're given, but you'd probably be hard pressed to find the one guy who has a valid reason why the specs are the way they are. (Then again, I have friends in various authoring houses, so maybe tracking them down won't be as impossible a task...)
Actually, if they keep making DVD titles with unskippable previews, then I will make DIVX of every DVD I buy.
Can you name one recent release that does this?
Or just rent and then rip.
I don't see how the first justifies the second. There's a difference between owning and copying someone else's...
If they're not a managed hosting service, then why are they implicated at all? Sounds to me like their customers are the linux users and they're nothing more than bandwidth and electricity, if what you're saying is correct. Why would they need to sign an agreement with SCO if that were the case?
Nah, actually it's been the same since at least 1989... (worked at a Kinko's while I was in college...) Copy prices have gone up, surprisingly, but the fax remains the same.
Sorry, local faxes at Kinko's are a dollar a page. Long distance? More. So you can do 100 pages a month for $100...
Google prevails... Crazy Mixed-up Pup. Looks like it was released by Universal, but I don't recall what other characters they had control over... It was directed by Tex Avery, so it might have gotten shown with Tom & Jerry or Woody Woodpecker, perhaps.