I don't understand why we even bother making movies from books if we are going to change the stories completely.
The holywood production process relies on someone having an idea, lots of other people completely butcherring it and then the marketing department forcing more rewrites until it fits the campagn they already have planned.
Starting with a book allows them to avoid paying someone with an imagination to do stage 1.
Not that it always produces a bad movie. Consider Fobidden Planet and This Island Earth (if you ignore the mutoid bit) for classic SF examples.
Star Wars is a parallel example, not starting from a book, but from standard parts. The difference in quality between that and the sequels where Lucas tried to be original shows what starting from a solid foundation can do.
Well, for one of the two versions, they actuall;y want to make a film of the book. That sounds like a reasonable thing to do to me. In addition, If they just make one without having to throw bones t the religious loons (which shouldbe possible with a British production) that will be one up on the older film.
The Spielberg one will be just the usual mindless drivel with kids who make your skin crawl until you start screaming `eat them' to the monsters, so any connection with either the book or the old film will be just in the title.
ISTR they threw away the core of SunOs and imported sysV, then ported some SunOs stuff over. Took them several releases to get something a non PHB would use without persuasion with a cattle prod. So, it's not the core, but the periphery which is/was SunOs.
Either way, SunOS only goes back to ~1986
By name, yes, but that was just when it branched from BSD, so there was a lot of history under there.
People are willing to pay Comcast $100+/mo for Internet and Cable (and sometimes telephone). It's probably not worth that much but people say "hey, look, it's a good deal." completely unaware that there could/should be better offers available.
If they are willing to pay $100, then it is worth at least $100 to them.
That's separate from the question of competition, which can drive the price down below the value. In a monopoly situation, and excluding other factors, such as the state forcing you to buy, the price will be determined by the distribution of the values consumers place on the product.
The Bush Administration is altering the laws of gravity in order to distract us from the situation in Iraq.
Don't be silly.
Obviously they are turning up the gravity as seen by useless objects like space probes in order to use it up quicker. This will remove hydroelectric and tidal power as a competitors to oil.
In addition, if gravity runs out, the sun will no longer be able to maintain fusion. That will eliminate solar power directly and wind/wave power indirectly. Lack of light will also eliminate biomass.
A secret DOD project to mount a giant heatsink on top of the tibetan plateau is the best hope for the elimination of the subversive geothermal option, though some British scientists are doing small-scale tests of lowerring Anne Widdacombe into volcanoes.
Even BBC World is biased [towards whatever the ruling party is in the States]
The BBC is by it's nature biased towards the centre of gravity of the UK parliament. They have to be seen to be not to far from whoever might be in charge next time their charter comes up for renewal.
At the moment that point is centre-right -- Labour is noticably right of centre, and the Tories are waaaaay off to the right (to the extent they can make any coherent point at all given their total meltdown), but still look unlikely to win power in the forseeable future.
I find that a mixture of the BBC news on the web (which has much more factual detail than the broadcast news), The Economist (whose bias is very clear and simple and relatively easy to compensate for) and Private Eye (just for the stuff `they' would rather keep quiet) works for me. Dunno what a US equivalent of Private Eye would be.
Grepping through 10GB of compressed, mime encoded mail because they send you their frigging messages as word documents, stored on a laptop harddrive is oh so useful.
When the mail comes in it's either from a complete waste of space, in which case delete it, or it's from someone you have to put up with, dispite their Word addiction, in which case you save it as plain text.
The tough case is people who send attached sncreenshots of wordpad windows. `Losing' the mail is probably the best option in this case.
no more searching for that e-mail someone sent you 6 months ago that you're sure you put in the "coding" folder-- or was it "scripting", or "ai", or "todo"?
if it's not changed since I last used it, then you need to be some kind of math/spacial-relationships/geometry god to create anything cool.
Hardly. You need to remember some school geometry and have a reasonably visual imagination.
I think it's far more fun than the GUI graphics toys. Perfect for programmers, who are used to building abstract descriptions in order to create concrete end results.
I'm sad to say but to me it looks like one of the reasons they are doing this is to make millionaires out of the employees.
The bastards! Fancy them wanting to give money to their employees! I bet those employees are really pissed off at be ing exploited this way.
You seem to be saying that this whole thing is a scheme to take money from well-off idiots and give it to the people who built a tool I use every day and which has made my life much easier.
That's not just a good thing, not even just a Good Thing, it's a damn fine, mind blowingly excelent thing.
In light of such actions, how can one associate "liberty" with "liberal" anymore?
Easily. These arseholes are not liberals. A liberal is someone who believes in individual choice and individual responsibility. The arseholes want to limit people's ability to choose to laugh at the republicoids' web site and I bet they do so anonymously to avoid responsibility.
Er, isn't this a dutch auction? Brokers should have no ability to offer shares to prefered customers first, since you will have put your bid in long before share allocation begins.
The only way you could be blocked out would be if no broker was willing to act for you.
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10:1 odds that the shares trade back to where they were supposed (UP!) to be after they are public.
If you really believe this, what are you whinging about? You will make a mint.
Ripping the shit out of microsoft for no good reason never, ever happens on this site.
Ripping the shit out of microsoft for no good reason is an impossibility. M$ is such an amazingly efficiant producer of reasons that no one attempting to produce an unjustified attack is likely to succeed in avoiding all of them.
Sure, the government could make something I do now illegal and then come after me. If it's a small thing, I'll stop it. If it's a big thing, I'll use the soap box, ballot box, and ammo box
Of course, the first `small' things will be the ones which make it hard for you to use soap box, ballot box or ammo box.
If you decide you will just roll over on the `small' things, you are handing them everything.
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Can I get that on Betamax?
Well, neither have you, and you have all those numbers in your name to prove how cool you are.
The holywood production process relies on someone having an idea, lots of other people completely butcherring it and then the marketing department forcing more rewrites until it fits the campagn they already have planned.
Starting with a book allows them to avoid paying someone with an imagination to do stage 1.
Not that it always produces a bad movie. Consider Fobidden Planet and This Island Earth (if you ignore the mutoid bit) for classic SF examples.
Star Wars is a parallel example, not starting from a book, but from standard parts. The difference in quality between that and the sequels where Lucas tried to be original shows what starting from a solid foundation can do.
Well, for one of the two versions, they actuall;y want to make a film of the book. That sounds like a reasonable thing to do to me. In addition, If they just make one without having to throw bones t the religious loons (which shouldbe possible with a British production) that will be one up on the older film.
The Spielberg one will be just the usual mindless drivel with kids who make your skin crawl until you start screaming `eat them' to the monsters, so any connection with either the book or the old film will be just in the title.
So long as they cast Mary Binglebat.
It's even better if you draw a line around your iPod with a green marker pen.
ISTR they threw away the core of SunOs and imported sysV, then ported some SunOs stuff over. Took them several releases to get something a non PHB would use without persuasion with a cattle prod. So, it's not the core, but the periphery which is/was SunOs.
Either way, SunOS only goes back to ~1986
By name, yes, but that was just when it branched from BSD, so there was a lot of history under there.
If they are willing to pay $100, then it is worth at least $100 to them.
That's separate from the question of competition, which can drive the price down below the value. In a monopoly situation, and excluding other factors, such as the state forcing you to buy, the price will be determined by the distribution of the values consumers place on the product.
Don't be silly.
Obviously they are turning up the gravity as seen by useless objects like space probes in order to use it up quicker. This will remove hydroelectric and tidal power as a competitors to oil.
In addition, if gravity runs out, the sun will no longer be able to maintain fusion. That will eliminate solar power directly and wind/wave power indirectly. Lack of light will also eliminate biomass.
A secret DOD project to mount a giant heatsink on top of the tibetan plateau is the best hope for the elimination of the subversive geothermal option, though some British scientists are doing small-scale tests of lowerring Anne Widdacombe into volcanoes.
They like to sit in nightclubs in clouds of Gallois smoke.
The BBC is by it's nature biased towards the centre of gravity of the UK parliament. They have to be seen to be not to far from whoever might be in charge next time their charter comes up for renewal.
At the moment that point is centre-right -- Labour is noticably right of centre, and the Tories are waaaaay off to the right (to the extent they can make any coherent point at all given their total meltdown), but still look unlikely to win power in the forseeable future.
I find that a mixture of the BBC news on the web (which has much more factual detail than the broadcast news), The Economist (whose bias is very clear and simple and relatively easy to compensate for) and Private Eye (just for the stuff `they' would rather keep quiet) works for me. Dunno what a US equivalent of Private Eye would be.
Talk about ``the engines canna take it'':-(
When the mail comes in it's either from a complete waste of space, in which case delete it, or it's from someone you have to put up with, dispite their Word addiction, in which case you save it as plain text.
The tough case is people who send attached sncreenshots of wordpad windows. `Losing' the mail is probably the best option in this case.
Where they can be even harder to service and be at the bottom of a gravity well to make sure lots of micrometeorites get sucked towards them?
Low gravity and no atmosphere are a huge plus for building large aperture instruments.
Isn't that a pretty good description of a location in orbit?
Gee guys, whatever happened to grep?
Hardly. You need to remember some school geometry and have a reasonably visual imagination.
I think it's far more fun than the GUI graphics toys. Perfect for programmers, who are used to building abstract descriptions in order to create concrete end results.
In a quick calculation from some numbers to hand I make it more like 0.0003%.
Due to a high-density atmosphere, it has severe variations in temperature...
Isn't the variation in temperatiure mostly due to difference in orientation to the sun.
The bastards! Fancy them wanting to give money to their employees! I bet those employees are really pissed off at be ing exploited this way.
You seem to be saying that this whole thing is a scheme to take money from well-off idiots and give it to the people who built a tool I use every day and which has made my life much easier.
That's not just a good thing, not even just a Good Thing, it's a damn fine, mind blowingly excelent thing.
The BBC have been using Sony and McDonalds as comparison point.
Which would you choose if Old Nick popped up and offered you a choice of owning Google or Sony?
Easily. These arseholes are not liberals. A liberal is someone who believes in individual choice and individual responsibility. The arseholes want to limit people's ability to choose to laugh at the republicoids' web site and I bet they do so anonymously to avoid responsibility.
The only way you could be blocked out would be if no broker was willing to act for you.
If you really believe this, what are you whinging about? You will make a mint.
Since there are BSOD errors and crashes in the list of things supposedly fixed bs SP2, I think we can deduce that M$ dissagrees with you.
Ripping the shit out of microsoft for no good reason is an impossibility. M$ is such an amazingly efficiant producer of reasons that no one attempting to produce an unjustified attack is likely to succeed in avoiding all of them.
Of course, the first `small' things will be the ones which make it hard for you to use soap box, ballot box or ammo box.
If you decide you will just roll over on the `small' things, you are handing them everything.