I agree completely - my father had the same and we were lucky that it in fact WAS the treatment that killed him after three years living with it. Yes that's right, he lasted three years - for those that know about glioblastoma that is an eternity. They pumped him full of steroids, gamma knife, radiation and oral chemo (newer drug, I forget the name) and eventually the body just shut down largely due to the steroids.
So yes, this is great news.
However, haven't we heard this before working on the same tumor, only with a modified cold/flu virus? I seem to remember very similar research a few years back touting the same success but what has happened with that lately?
at a traffic light, you (supposedly) know what the other drivers are going to do
While you raise some very good points, I think the argument the article was making (and on some level it is quite convincing) is that when you believe you know what someone is going to do, you lose courtesy when they don't react as expected as well as can go on auto-pilot and cause an accident because someone didn't do what you expected them to do.
However when you take away the rules and therefore no one knows what the other person is going to do, you are going to pay a lot more attention to figuring out what the other drivers on the road are doing, as well as communicate what moves you are going to make to everyone else. This is where your "joke" at the beginning of your post comes in, of course, since our culture is highly individualistic and isolated...the question becomes a chicken and the egg quandry - what comes first, the change in the rules or the change in attitudes?
For what it's worth (not even $.02), I think we should change the rules and see if that can help bring us closer as a society - this of course coming from someone who lives and works on an island (manhattan) where I think we should ban all private traffic anyhow (take a cab or a car but you can't drive your own SUV down Madison Ave.)...
The show is getting a small run, along with a TON of other shows as part of a yearly festival (of which there are several as well)...and the authors _hope_ it will move up to Broadway or off-broadway. The odds of that happening are pretty low; in fact even an extension in the same theatre is pretty momentous. For instance, from this year's Fringe festival (a more prestigious festival that just ended), there are about 10 shows out of 200 that are even lucky enough to _consider_ extensions. So the moral of the story is, don't expect to see this on Broadway anytime soon!
The geometry of the flyby and the camera's way of acquiring an image line-by-line resulted in the two views of Odyssey in the same frame.
The closest analog for this is actually the way digital cameras (and film cameras, with less help) allow you to take panoramic shots on a regular sized frame sensor/film stock and then stitch the images together. In this case the rate of movement of the camera and satellite caused the satellite to jump from one part of the frame to a part of the frame that was taken later.
I addressed this in an earlier post. I can assure you that the "referrer" that people are noticing was simply inserted by amazon themselves - I searched for the book using their on site search field and used the link that it gave me. I am making exactly _zero_ dollars off that link. Furthermore, my "blog" site has no ads whatsoever; its a personal site I use to promote my acting career. I eat all the expenses on that too.
I am amazed how quickly one's motives can be impugned on here just for submitting a story thought to be of interest to the community as a whole...
Interesting discussion on speculation about something that I have no clue about. For those that are curious, I am indeed NOT making any money off this link - it was pulled via amazon.com's own search function. Try it yourself and see.
I find it amazing what people believe is needed to garner appreciation. If you get extraordinary service, yes you tend to notice and pay well. But sometimes what you see as "adequate" service (in some restaurants) takes just as much or more effort and desire on the part of your server.
Anyone who complains about tipping - I suggest you spend even a short amount of time waiting tables or some other sort of hospitality or service job. I guarantee you will tip more generously after that experience.
I know this is flamebait and I should not respond but I still will...
No, you shouldn't perpetuate a system you believe is wrong. However, that also does not mean you penalize someone trying to make a living under that unjust system! If you see something wrong, do something that has a snowball's chance of CHANGING the situation. Don't be a cheapskate and then claim that you are "fighting against unjust laws;" your waiter, who often works very hard for your money (which you may not even see half of - it's a waiter's job to make it all seem effortless), won't be very impressed with your supposed moral fiber.
I apologize that I was somewhat unclear about my statements earlier - I did not mean that people won't sit through a long movie, but people won't generally sit through a long comedy. I can't seem to find data on what the longest comedic film was, but I would be greatly surprised to see it come in anywhere near 3 hours. The genre just doesn't hold up at that length. I mean yeah, I can sit and watch several episodes of a tv show in a row too, and in fact what I was saying was that the way H2G2 flows really lends itself in my mind to an episodic. And I would wonder if anyone has had a showing of the whole H2G2 series in one sitting, and how that went over. BTW, don't forget that just because you or I _can_ sit through it and enjoy it doesn't mean that many people will _want_ to. This is a film not just for fans of DNA, but also for those who have not ever heard of the series before. And don't forget - Exceptions (LOTR) don't invalidate the rule.
Oh and by the way - sorta back towards the topic: you don't have the option of having a ponderously slow _comedy_; it just won't be funny. Pace and timing are all that much more important to comedy.
The score of a baseball game (and any other game) falls under the section of copyright that exempts facts from being copyrightable. No one can own a copyright on "The earth is round" because its a fact, period, and you can't restrict access to facts.
That being said, wiretapping laws are WAY different than copyright laws (more different than patent and trade secret laws that are often lumped in with them under the misnomer "IP" laws). This isn't about access to information, its mainly about capturing evidence usable against someone in court. It's about protecting your fifth amendment right against self-incrimination.
You may be right - I spent way too much time looking up words looking for the right one to use there! I was looking for something that encompassed both the written word and the spoken word - for really the radio play and the book are very closely allied, when compared to the visual medium of film. I chose "linguistic" because it described the commonality: the emphasis on language (as opposed to emphasis on action and image that you have in film). Whatever the word that is perfect, I do not know, as I am not a very good writer (though I wish I were)!
Extreme budgetary constraints can often inspire great creativity, but it can just as often cause a director to make a shitty movie with a bad low budget look.
I wish I could claim to have seen the BBC series, but as I have yet to get my hands on it, I am by needs speaking from a position of ignorance on this subject; however I think you have the difference of having the extra time (3 hours as opposed to ~2 hours), the episodic nature, and the fact that its BBC (frankly BBC tv generally resembles American theatre more than american cinema or tv) that mitigate the situation. And in fact, I would argue that often times the best way to adapt books to the visual medium of film is through TV miniseries (a la the Shining), because it allows more of the story to be told, but not all at once (just like reading - how many people read a whole book in one sitting???). Which is why the LOTR adaptation worked so well, because they were able to do it somewhat episodically (3 films), and not forced to tell the whole story in one sitting (even in 3 episodes, some stuff STILL had to go).
You make some very good points, and yes when you think of "hollywood" as a monolithic entity, it is easy to believe that little good comes from it.
However, the other article someone posted earlier shows the perspective of someone I trust more; a person who understands what an unfinished film looks like. It is laudable that MJ Simpson wishes to preserve DNA's legacy such that he does not wish it tarnished by a bad film; however what looks like a bad film to him, from another angle looks like an unfinished film. And in fact some of his biggest complaints (jumbled plotlines, unexecuted and unfunny jokes) are the sort of thing that shake out in the test screenings and recuttings of films. Anyone who doubts this can watch the Mallrats deleted scenes (yes its a guilty pleasure - still one of my favorite Kevin Smith films), where KS explains how the entire setup of the movie (again the same area of the film that has taken the biggest beating - which is also the most important and difficult to cut correctly in a comedy) and you can see firsthand that the beginning of the movie as seen by test audiences was catastrophically timed and paced.
In fact I think one of the problems of modern audiences is their lack of sensitivity to the importance that pace has on their experience of a film as a whole.
The problem I have is that many people have come to believe these are the only two options: a movie that goes for "high art" that forgets an audience COMPLETELY, and a movie that goes for the lowest common denominator and throws the baby of creativity out with the bathwater while it blatantly panders to the audience.
That said, there ARE 'alternatives' out there; but most of them are not created in the studio system and must be sought out. Outside the studio sytem, in the "indie" world, you often skew the other direction (slow and ponderous and "artsy"), but you can find some gems. This is where it becomes imperative to know the difference between "created by Warner Bros." and "distributed by Warner Bros." Indie type films are often picked up for distribution deals by the studios, simply because otherwise they would be shown in like 12 theatres in the entire US.
As an actor, a cinema fan, and a human being, I have come to believe that good cinema does exist (despite some people's elitist views to the contrary). For me what it consits of is a balance between the oft conflicting aims of creating "art for art's sake" and creating "entertainment." A good film should entertain its audience, but also make its philosophical points and leave them thinking. And while the studio system may not develop it well, it does exist out there.
Unfortunately, most of the 'techie' work is with techtv (what is it now, g4tv or something?) Although I actually do know a woman who did their Love online segment when she lived on the west coast, they dont really have a NY presence, so I'm out on that!
As for the near future, i'll be doing background work on One life to live (soaps are NOT my favorite medium at ALL), and spending the summer in NH doing musicals...who knows, MN might be on the list at some point - I'm just starting out my career!
All this stuff I will keep updated on my website (of course powered by OSS - linux/apache hosting and using Wordpress for my blog), so if you actually are interested you can keep informed there.
Heh, actually I find that the two complement and fill each other out quite nicely...
The actor part of me gives me the social skills and charm that the techie side often can lack, whereas the techie side provides the logic and reason that most actors have no CLUE about.
Therefore I am comfortable talking/performing in front of thousands of people, and also equally comfortable sitting at home alone hacking my website on my linux boxen!
In a lot of states, simply recording the call without the other party's consent is illegal, running afoul of existing wiretapping laws. And if your "friend" is in another state? You might be running afoul of federal laws then....Just stop recording your conversations!
Background: I am a techie and an actor (Wil Wheaton, back me up here!)
A lot of people complaining about parts of the book that have been cut in the film version are forgetting a key difference: film is a visual medium, whereas radio, book and text based games are primarily lingual in nature.
Therefore, in the case of some books that have a very visual style to them (a la Fight Club), they translate very well and relatively literally into movies. HOWEVER, when the book is as complex linguistically as the H2G2 series (and all of Douglas Adams' wonderful writing - he really was a wordsmith in the best sense of the word), you are forced to make more cuts and changes because of the difference in media.
Don't believe me? Re-listen to the radio play, and attempt to visualize it as scenes from a movie. I defy you to do so without it being a mind-numblingly slow paced film.
My favorite idea for this (which I pictured as wired, but wired wireless works too) is as a mini firewall. Get smoothwall or something lighter working on one of these, and you could drop a firewall anywhere you need in your network, just as easily as a cable extender!
But just because it doesn't currently have any unpatched security vulnerabilities talked about in the press doesn't mean they don't exist (Secunia currently lists three unpatched vulnerabilities, for example).
I loved that line in particular, an IE fan who points out that FF has 4 vulnerabilities without mentioning that IE6 has 74 vulnerabilities for the same time period - many of which are more serious than spoofing bugs (which all of the FF bugs are), due to the tie ins with Windows????
OK, IANAD so I don't know all the ins and outs of these things...but couldn't they design a spec to encompass what both plugins and extensions do for a browser, and standardise on that? Yeah it would be a large spec, but that way someone could even write something like the Google toolbar ONCE and everyone could install it...am I just being a naive, stupid luser here?
Though draconian, it has gotten to the point where I almost feel that we should turn off most outbound connections at the switch level between dorms...that way the problem is confined to a single dorm. If a user could give good reason why they needed ports opened, we could grant them that.
We just this year implemented this exact policy at the Uni I work at, and let me tell you that that creates more havoc and work than it is worth. You never realize how many different programs are out there using different ports until you block them all by default. As soon as this is done, you start having all sorts of problems where programs (especially games) just stop working. FFXI is one of the worst, as it dynamically changes which ports it uses EVERY TIME THEY PATCH the game engine, so they ask that you leave the entire upper spectrum of the port range open! (50000 and up I believe) So unless you are prepared to adopt a policy regarding valid and invalid uses for your network that will allow you to ignore a lot of the uproar that will ensue, beware!
Umm...why did you install MS04-014 instead of MS04-011?
Maybe you got confused, like/. about what in the world this "poorly written" worm is attacking....
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I agree completely - my father had the same and we were lucky that it in fact WAS the treatment that killed him after three years living with it. Yes that's right, he lasted three years - for those that know about glioblastoma that is an eternity. They pumped him full of steroids, gamma knife, radiation and oral chemo (newer drug, I forget the name) and eventually the body just shut down largely due to the steroids.
So yes, this is great news.
However, haven't we heard this before working on the same tumor, only with a modified cold/flu virus? I seem to remember very similar research a few years back touting the same success but what has happened with that lately?
at a traffic light, you (supposedly) know what the other drivers are going to do
While you raise some very good points, I think the argument the article was making (and on some level it is quite convincing) is that when you believe you know what someone is going to do, you lose courtesy when they don't react as expected as well as can go on auto-pilot and cause an accident because someone didn't do what you expected them to do.
However when you take away the rules and therefore no one knows what the other person is going to do, you are going to pay a lot more attention to figuring out what the other drivers on the road are doing, as well as communicate what moves you are going to make to everyone else. This is where your "joke" at the beginning of your post comes in, of course, since our culture is highly individualistic and isolated...the question becomes a chicken and the egg quandry - what comes first, the change in the rules or the change in attitudes?
For what it's worth (not even $.02), I think we should change the rules and see if that can help bring us closer as a society - this of course coming from someone who lives and works on an island (manhattan) where I think we should ban all private traffic anyhow (take a cab or a car but you can't drive your own SUV down Madison Ave.)...
NY Music theatre festival != Broadway
The show is getting a small run, along with a TON of other shows as part of a yearly festival (of which there are several as well)...and the authors _hope_ it will move up to Broadway or off-broadway. The odds of that happening are pretty low; in fact even an extension in the same theatre is pretty momentous. For instance, from this year's Fringe festival (a more prestigious festival that just ended), there are about 10 shows out of 200 that are even lucky enough to _consider_ extensions. So the moral of the story is, don't expect to see this on Broadway anytime soon!
I addressed this in an earlier post. I can assure you that the "referrer" that people are noticing was simply inserted by amazon themselves - I searched for the book using their on site search field and used the link that it gave me. I am making exactly _zero_ dollars off that link. Furthermore, my "blog" site has no ads whatsoever; its a personal site I use to promote my acting career. I eat all the expenses on that too.
I am amazed how quickly one's motives can be impugned on here just for submitting a story thought to be of interest to the community as a whole...
Interesting discussion on speculation about something that I have no clue about. For those that are curious, I am indeed NOT making any money off this link - it was pulled via amazon.com's own search function. Try it yourself and see.
I find it amazing what people believe is needed to garner appreciation. If you get extraordinary service, yes you tend to notice and pay well. But sometimes what you see as "adequate" service (in some restaurants) takes just as much or more effort and desire on the part of your server.
Anyone who complains about tipping - I suggest you spend even a short amount of time waiting tables or some other sort of hospitality or service job. I guarantee you will tip more generously after that experience.
I know this is flamebait and I should not respond but I still will...
No, you shouldn't perpetuate a system you believe is wrong. However, that also does not mean you penalize someone trying to make a living under that unjust system! If you see something wrong, do something that has a snowball's chance of CHANGING the situation. Don't be a cheapskate and then claim that you are "fighting against unjust laws;" your waiter, who often works very hard for your money (which you may not even see half of - it's a waiter's job to make it all seem effortless), won't be very impressed with your supposed moral fiber.
I apologize that I was somewhat unclear about my statements earlier - I did not mean that people won't sit through a long movie, but people won't generally sit through a long comedy. I can't seem to find data on what the longest comedic film was, but I would be greatly surprised to see it come in anywhere near 3 hours. The genre just doesn't hold up at that length. I mean yeah, I can sit and watch several episodes of a tv show in a row too, and in fact what I was saying was that the way H2G2 flows really lends itself in my mind to an episodic. And I would wonder if anyone has had a showing of the whole H2G2 series in one sitting, and how that went over. BTW, don't forget that just because you or I _can_ sit through it and enjoy it doesn't mean that many people will _want_ to. This is a film not just for fans of DNA, but also for those who have not ever heard of the series before. And don't forget - Exceptions (LOTR) don't invalidate the rule.
Oh and by the way - sorta back towards the topic: you don't have the option of having a ponderously slow _comedy_; it just won't be funny. Pace and timing are all that much more important to comedy.
The score of a baseball game (and any other game) falls under the section of copyright that exempts facts from being copyrightable. No one can own a copyright on "The earth is round" because its a fact, period, and you can't restrict access to facts.
That being said, wiretapping laws are WAY different than copyright laws (more different than patent and trade secret laws that are often lumped in with them under the misnomer "IP" laws). This isn't about access to information, its mainly about capturing evidence usable against someone in court. It's about protecting your fifth amendment right against self-incrimination.
You may be right - I spent way too much time looking up words looking for the right one to use there! I was looking for something that encompassed both the written word and the spoken word - for really the radio play and the book are very closely allied, when compared to the visual medium of film. I chose "linguistic" because it described the commonality: the emphasis on language (as opposed to emphasis on action and image that you have in film). Whatever the word that is perfect, I do not know, as I am not a very good writer (though I wish I were)!
Extreme budgetary constraints can often inspire great creativity, but it can just as often cause a director to make a shitty movie with a bad low budget look.
I wish I could claim to have seen the BBC series, but as I have yet to get my hands on it, I am by needs speaking from a position of ignorance on this subject; however I think you have the difference of having the extra time (3 hours as opposed to ~2 hours), the episodic nature, and the fact that its BBC (frankly BBC tv generally resembles American theatre more than american cinema or tv) that mitigate the situation. And in fact, I would argue that often times the best way to adapt books to the visual medium of film is through TV miniseries (a la the Shining), because it allows more of the story to be told, but not all at once (just like reading - how many people read a whole book in one sitting???). Which is why the LOTR adaptation worked so well, because they were able to do it somewhat episodically (3 films), and not forced to tell the whole story in one sitting (even in 3 episodes, some stuff STILL had to go).
You make some very good points, and yes when you think of "hollywood" as a monolithic entity, it is easy to believe that little good comes from it.
However, the other article someone posted earlier shows the perspective of someone I trust more; a person who understands what an unfinished film looks like. It is laudable that MJ Simpson wishes to preserve DNA's legacy such that he does not wish it tarnished by a bad film; however what looks like a bad film to him, from another angle looks like an unfinished film. And in fact some of his biggest complaints (jumbled plotlines, unexecuted and unfunny jokes) are the sort of thing that shake out in the test screenings and recuttings of films. Anyone who doubts this can watch the Mallrats deleted scenes (yes its a guilty pleasure - still one of my favorite Kevin Smith films), where KS explains how the entire setup of the movie (again the same area of the film that has taken the biggest beating - which is also the most important and difficult to cut correctly in a comedy) and you can see firsthand that the beginning of the movie as seen by test audiences was catastrophically timed and paced.
In fact I think one of the problems of modern audiences is their lack of sensitivity to the importance that pace has on their experience of a film as a whole.
The problem I have is that many people have come to believe these are the only two options: a movie that goes for "high art" that forgets an audience COMPLETELY, and a movie that goes for the lowest common denominator and throws the baby of creativity out with the bathwater while it blatantly panders to the audience.
That said, there ARE 'alternatives' out there; but most of them are not created in the studio system and must be sought out. Outside the studio sytem, in the "indie" world, you often skew the other direction (slow and ponderous and "artsy"), but you can find some gems. This is where it becomes imperative to know the difference between "created by Warner Bros." and "distributed by Warner Bros." Indie type films are often picked up for distribution deals by the studios, simply because otherwise they would be shown in like 12 theatres in the entire US.
As an actor, a cinema fan, and a human being, I have come to believe that good cinema does exist (despite some people's elitist views to the contrary). For me what it consits of is a balance between the oft conflicting aims of creating "art for art's sake" and creating "entertainment." A good film should entertain its audience, but also make its philosophical points and leave them thinking. And while the studio system may not develop it well, it does exist out there.
Unfortunately, most of the 'techie' work is with techtv (what is it now, g4tv or something?) Although I actually do know a woman who did their Love online segment when she lived on the west coast, they dont really have a NY presence, so I'm out on that!
As for the near future, i'll be doing background work on One life to live (soaps are NOT my favorite medium at ALL), and spending the summer in NH doing musicals...who knows, MN might be on the list at some point - I'm just starting out my career!
All this stuff I will keep updated on my website (of course powered by OSS - linux/apache hosting and using Wordpress for my blog), so if you actually are interested you can keep informed there.
Heh, actually I find that the two complement and fill each other out quite nicely...
The actor part of me gives me the social skills and charm that the techie side often can lack, whereas the techie side provides the logic and reason that most actors have no CLUE about.
Therefore I am comfortable talking/performing in front of thousands of people, and also equally comfortable sitting at home alone hacking my website on my linux boxen!
In a lot of states, simply recording the call without the other party's consent is illegal, running afoul of existing wiretapping laws. And if your "friend" is in another state? You might be running afoul of federal laws then....Just stop recording your conversations!
Disclaimer: IANAL
Background: I am a techie and an actor (Wil Wheaton, back me up here!)
A lot of people complaining about parts of the book that have been cut in the film version are forgetting a key difference: film is a visual medium, whereas radio, book and text based games are primarily lingual in nature.
Therefore, in the case of some books that have a very visual style to them (a la Fight Club), they translate very well and relatively literally into movies. HOWEVER, when the book is as complex linguistically as the H2G2 series (and all of Douglas Adams' wonderful writing - he really was a wordsmith in the best sense of the word), you are forced to make more cuts and changes because of the difference in media.
Don't believe me? Re-listen to the radio play, and attempt to visualize it as scenes from a movie. I defy you to do so without it being a mind-numblingly slow paced film.
Wasn't there an article from last April Fools about a Japanese toilet?
My favorite idea for this (which I pictured as wired, but wired wireless works too) is as a mini firewall. Get smoothwall or something lighter working on one of these, and you could drop a firewall anywhere you need in your network, just as easily as a cable extender!
But just because it doesn't currently have any unpatched security vulnerabilities talked about in the press doesn't mean they don't exist (Secunia currently lists three unpatched vulnerabilities, for example).
I loved that line in particular, an IE fan who points out that FF has 4 vulnerabilities without mentioning that IE6 has 74 vulnerabilities for the same time period - many of which are more serious than spoofing bugs (which all of the FF bugs are), due to the tie ins with Windows????
OK, IANAD so I don't know all the ins and outs of these things...but couldn't they design a spec to encompass what both plugins and extensions do for a browser, and standardise on that? Yeah it would be a large spec, but that way someone could even write something like the Google toolbar ONCE and everyone could install it...am I just being a naive, stupid luser here?
Umm...why did you install MS04-014 instead of MS04-011? Maybe you got confused, like /. about what in the world this "poorly written" worm is attacking....