I stopped using Yahoo for exactly the reasons illustrated in the parent post. I believe that search engines shouldn't make results more relevant because some people paid for rankings and other people did not.
If Google is done as a search engine, so Slashdotters have any suggestions for an alternative?
I am one of the biggest Disney weenies in the world. I've had an AP since I was 15, and I long for a return to the old days of Disneyland. I would love to see a full-on 3D recreation of Disneyland in various eras, that could be "walked thru."
Two sites that I frequent are Yesterland.com, which features pictures, descriptions and memories of the almost every "retired" Disneyland attraction, and MiceAge.com, which features backstage "exposes" about Disneyland and the people who run it.
We'll know that this is a real and secure voting method just as soon as all the incumbents and lobbyists come out and blast it as "dangerous" and find some way to connect it to terrorism.
Re:Actors getting paid again?
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Doesn't really matter, if they were paid as a work-for-hire, or were paid scale by the hour. Most likely, they were paid for the work they did, and the ad agency owns all rights to the commercial.
Actually, it does matter. I am a former board member at SAG, and I was on the negotiating team for the last TV and Theatrical contract. I know most of the people who negotiated our Commercial contract, and I've been a member of the union for over 25 years.
Our contracts are really clear about this sort of thing. While the ad agency may own the creative rights to the commercial, if the ad was produced by a signatory agency, using union actors, the agency has to go back and renegotiate with the actors if they hope to "repurpose" the ad. Usually, this results in the actors getting a "buy out" for a certain number of cycles and markets. My mom just went through this with a commercial she did over a year ago, that the agency is bringing back next month.
This protection is one of the many benefits SAG and AFTRA members have. I used to do improv with this girl who was in an AOL commercial. I don't reacall what it was about, but it ran almost every break, nationally and on cable, a few years ago. She wasn't in the union, and did the spot as a non-union hire. She got a "buy out" from the agency . . . for 500 dollars. Had it been a SAG job, she would have made more than that for the session fee, and at least ten times that on residuals. As it ended up, that one day's worth of work really hurt her, because those geniuses at all the ad agencies immediately labled her "The AOL Girl," and wouldn't hire her for anything else.
A similar example - I wrote a chapter for a computer book a couple of years ago, and was paid per-page for the work I did. I found out a year or so later that they (the publishing company) had re-used my chapter in a newer edition of the book (Solaris 9 cert study guide versus the Sol8 one I wrote for) . However, that was well within their right, as it was a work-for-hire and they owned all rights to what I'd produced and could do what they wanted with it.
The comparison you made between writing work and SAG work is interesting, but it's really not valid. That comparison would apply more toward something the work I did on TNG. While I "created" Wesley Crusher, and my likeness is inextricably linked with him, if Paramount wants to write "The Adventures Of Wesley Crusher At Star Fleet Academy" as a series of books for kids, they can do that, and I they don't owe me a cent. They own the character the same way the company you wrote for owns your work. If they want to sell an action figure that's clearly my likeness, they have to pay me royalties on that. (But, since it's Paramount, I usually end up with.00006 % of what I'm actually owed.)
For the average person that needs to be able to plug in their digital camera without going into the terminal window, we think that the user's experience with any brand of Linux will be sub-par.
Does it bother anyone else that the CEO of the most widely-known Linux distro keeps downplaying Linux? Why does Microsoft need to spread FUD when Szulik will do it for them?
When Mr. Szulik made this announcement about Fedora, I wrote the following to my LUG:
While I agree that Linux is not quite there for average users, I'd say that it's definitely in the last few yards of the marathon. It's too bad that he didn't take this opportunity to encourage hardware manufacturers to make fewer winmodems or winprinters or winwhatevers.
I'm very unhappy to hear the CEO of Red Hat adding some legitimacy to Redmond's FUD, even if it's a transparent effort to showcase Red Hat's Enterprise solution.
One of the reasons I chose Red Hat is precisely because it was so easy to install and configure. A major consideration was my digital camera, in fact.
Guess what? I plug it in, launch gtkam, and there it is. I've dumped thousands of photos into my machine that way. I only had to use the cli once, and that was because there wasn't an icon in the kicker by default.
The fact is, as long as the CE-freakin-O of Red Hat Linux says ". . . we think that the user's experience with any brand of Linux will be sub-par." Linux will stay well behind Windows on the desktop.
This is like the CEO of Ford telling people that they'd be better off buying a Toyota, because Toyota has better cup holders and spiffy digital guages, instead of working harder to make Fords more attractive to buyers.
I loved ths book that this series is based upon, and it complimented Kaku's Hyperspace to guide me to a better understanding of Life, The Universe and Everything. (Yes, despite what you may have seen on TV, I know next to nothing about complex quantum theory).
I watched the Nova series with my stepson, and it reminded me of watching Cosmos with my parents. The production values were fantastic, too. This show may be beneath the average/. reader, but for lamers like me, it was awesome.
You know... maybe, just maybe, Lucas & co. should spend more time telling a coherent story with believable characters, and less time worrying about how he'll look in the outtakes?
Uh, this is George Lucas you're talking about. We'll all be playing Duke Nukem Forever while we are driven to work by robotic hover car before he puts time into creating believable characters.
Roger also wrote the first Sandman script, and it was fucking PERFECT before the studio utterly destroyed it. It's my Dream (heh) role, even more than Watchmen, so add me to the list of people who are happy to read that it may be crawling back to life.
I'd also like to add that I think this is the best Ask Slashdot I've ever read. You know someone is a great writer when their freakin' interview answers are compelling and entertaining.
For everyone who is shocked to hear such eloquence from a 12 year-old, and rightfully doubts the veracity of her statements, allow me translate her quote back into the original vernacular.
IM SORY FOR WUT I HAEV DONE!!!1!111 OMG LOL I LOVA MUSIC AND DONT WANT 2 HURT TEH ARTISTS I LOVE1!!!!!! WTF
And instead of campaigning for himself, all he has done so far is belittle his opponents and the recall process in general.
This is the defining characteristic of Gray Davis. I think this recall is wrong, and I will vote against it on principle, but Gray Davis is a useless bunch of crap. In the last election here, he never touted his own achievements. He just demonized his opponents, and took negative campaigning to an all-time low.
Darryl Issa (and his puppet-master Karl Rove) have certainly abused California's constitution to force this recall, but I don't think they could have been successful if Davis wasn't such a flagrant moron.
What is this lim mit of which you speak? I am aware of no such attribute on copyrights. Well, I remember learning of them when reading your history files, but if I remember correctly, they were abolished in the early 21st century, before you even had warp, hyoo-mon!
AHHH!!! Flashbacks!!! AHHHH!!!! Make it stop!!! AHHH!!!!!!11
For example, common voters, without any insider privileges, can cast unlimited votes without being detected by any mechanisms within the voting terminal.
Pick your favorite, and moderate as needed:
Now that's power to the people!
Darn those pesky 'common voters!' Elections would be so much easier without them!
Yes! Finally! We 'common voters' can live like Kennedys!
Yes! Finally! We 'common voters' can live like Bushes!
$Mayor.Quimby
(of course, the *truly* funny thing to do would be to moderate this as 'redundant.' Get it? I slay me.)
The greatest thing a geek who likes the outdoors can do is go Geocaching!
You go to the website, enter a ZIP code, or city, or similar, and you'll get a list of hidden "geocaches." You put some coordinates into your GPSr, print out a map (and sometimes some hints) from the website, and see if you can find one. From experience, I can tell you that it's pretty easy to get within 10 feet of the cache . . . it's those last 10 feet that are tough.:-)
It's incredibly fun, and here in my hometown of Los Angeles there is a geocache at Cal Tech, so you can take out two geeky birds with one stone. (It's easy to spot the geeky birds -- they have tape on their beaks.)
1 in 10,000 ?, thats a bit low for my liking, and now I am more worried about the zebra's than the RIAA.
I have a rock in my house that's been keeping zebras away for 25 years. If you are interested, I can sell you a chunk of the rock for a very reasonable price.
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I stopped using Yahoo for exactly the reasons illustrated in the parent post. I believe that search engines shouldn't make results more relevant because some people paid for rankings and other people did not.
If Google is done as a search engine, so Slashdotters have any suggestions for an alternative?
I am one of the biggest Disney weenies in the world. I've had an AP since I was 15, and I long for a return to the old days of Disneyland. I would love to see a full-on 3D recreation of Disneyland in various eras, that could be "walked thru."
Two sites that I frequent are Yesterland.com, which features pictures, descriptions and memories of the almost every "retired" Disneyland attraction, and MiceAge.com, which features backstage "exposes" about Disneyland and the people who run it.
We'll know that this is a real and secure voting method just as soon as all the incumbents and lobbyists come out and blast it as "dangerous" and find some way to connect it to terrorism.
Doesn't really matter, if they were paid as a work-for-hire, or were paid scale by the hour. Most likely, they were paid for the work they did, and the ad agency owns all rights to the commercial.
.00006 % of what I'm actually owed.)
Actually, it does matter. I am a former board member at SAG, and I was on the negotiating team for the last TV and Theatrical contract. I know most of the people who negotiated our Commercial contract, and I've been a member of the union for over 25 years.
Our contracts are really clear about this sort of thing. While the ad agency may own the creative rights to the commercial, if the ad was produced by a signatory agency, using union actors, the agency has to go back and renegotiate with the actors if they hope to "repurpose" the ad. Usually, this results in the actors getting a "buy out" for a certain number of cycles and markets. My mom just went through this with a commercial she did over a year ago, that the agency is bringing back next month.
This protection is one of the many benefits SAG and AFTRA members have. I used to do improv with this girl who was in an AOL commercial. I don't reacall what it was about, but it ran almost every break, nationally and on cable, a few years ago. She wasn't in the union, and did the spot as a non-union hire. She got a "buy out" from the agency . . . for 500 dollars. Had it been a SAG job, she would have made more than that for the session fee, and at least ten times that on residuals. As it ended up, that one day's worth of work really hurt her, because those geniuses at all the ad agencies immediately labled her "The AOL Girl," and wouldn't hire her for anything else.
A similar example - I wrote a chapter for a computer book a couple of years ago, and was paid per-page for the work I did. I found out a year or so later that they (the publishing company) had re-used my chapter in a newer edition of the book (Solaris 9 cert study guide versus the Sol8 one I wrote for) . However, that was well within their right, as it was a work-for-hire and they owned all rights to what I'd produced and could do what they wanted with it.
The comparison you made between writing work and SAG work is interesting, but it's really not valid. That comparison would apply more toward something the work I did on TNG. While I "created" Wesley Crusher, and my likeness is inextricably linked with him, if Paramount wants to write "The Adventures Of Wesley Crusher At Star Fleet Academy" as a series of books for kids, they can do that, and I they don't owe me a cent. They own the character the same way the company you wrote for owns your work. If they want to sell an action figure that's clearly my likeness, they have to pay me royalties on that. (But, since it's Paramount, I usually end up with
Since its my idea I will be the first leader.
I call next!
Does it bother anyone else that the CEO of the most widely-known Linux distro keeps downplaying Linux? Why does Microsoft need to spread FUD when Szulik will do it for them?
When Mr. Szulik made this announcement about Fedora, I wrote the following to my LUG:
One of the reasons I chose Red Hat is precisely because it was so easy to install and configure. A major consideration was my digital camera, in fact.
Guess what? I plug it in, launch gtkam, and there it is. I've dumped thousands of photos into my machine that way. I only had to use the cli once, and that was because there wasn't an icon in the kicker by default.
The fact is, as long as the CE-freakin-O of Red Hat Linux says ". . . we think that the user's experience with any brand of Linux will be sub-par." Linux will stay well behind Windows on the desktop.
This is like the CEO of Ford telling people that they'd be better off buying a Toyota, because Toyota has better cup holders and spiffy digital guages, instead of working harder to make Fords more attractive to buyers.
I'd really like to punch the RIAA right in its bitch mouth.
Then, while it writhes on the sidewalk, I'd turn to the MPAA, and say, "You're next, Nancy."
Then I'd swagger off to Moe's for a Duff.
Man, I feel so out if it right now.
I used to be totally with it, but now I'm so out of it, I don't even know what it currently is.
. . . goddamn kids today.
I loved ths book that this series is based upon, and it complimented Kaku's Hyperspace to guide me to a better understanding of Life, The Universe and Everything. (Yes, despite what you may have seen on TV, I know next to nothing about complex quantum theory).
/. reader, but for lamers like me, it was awesome.
I watched the Nova series with my stepson, and it reminded me of watching Cosmos with my parents. The production values were fantastic, too. This show may be beneath the average
When the researchers presented their findings: We have made this virus. It is our first effort. We wish you would like it!
You know... maybe, just maybe, Lucas & co. should spend more time telling a coherent story with believable characters, and less time worrying about how he'll look in the outtakes?
Uh, this is George Lucas you're talking about. We'll all be playing Duke Nukem Forever while we are driven to work by robotic hover car before he puts time into creating believable characters.
Roger also wrote the first Sandman script, and it was fucking PERFECT before the studio utterly destroyed it. It's my Dream (heh) role, even more than Watchmen, so add me to the list of people who are happy to read that it may be crawling back to life.
I'd also like to add that I think this is the best Ask Slashdot I've ever read. You know someone is a great writer when their freakin' interview answers are compelling and entertaining.
Dear Gator,
Gator is Spyware, you fuckers. Spyware. Spyware. Spyware.
Please send me a nastygram. My career is stalled, and I could really use the publicity.
Love,
Wil Wheaton
Linux weenie who doesn't even use your crappy SPYware.
PS- It's spyware.
You know those annoying "me too" posts that cost people karma?
This is one of those. Very well said, Viking Coder. Very well said, indeed.
Just download it from formster.
Translation: I dont like what's going on but I won't do anything about it.
Uh, no.
What I will do is vote against Davis in the next general election, just like I voted against him in the last general election.
And instead of campaigning for himself, all he has done so far is belittle his opponents and the recall process in general.
This is the defining characteristic of Gray Davis. I think this recall is wrong, and I will vote against it on principle, but Gray Davis is a useless bunch of crap. In the last election here, he never touted his own achievements. He just demonized his opponents, and took negative campaigning to an all-time low.
Darryl Issa (and his puppet-master Karl Rove) have certainly abused California's constitution to force this recall, but I don't think they could have been successful if Davis wasn't such a flagrant moron.
What is this lim mit of which you speak? I am aware of no such attribute on copyrights. Well, I remember learning of them when reading your history files, but if I remember correctly, they were abolished in the early 21st century, before you even had warp, hyoo-mon!
AHHH!!! Flashbacks!!! AHHHH!!!! Make it stop!!! AHHH!!!!!!11
Pick your favorite, and moderate as needed:
(of course, the *truly* funny thing to do would be to moderate this as 'redundant.' Get it? I slay me.)
The greatest thing a geek who likes the outdoors can do is go Geocaching!
:-)
You go to the website, enter a ZIP code, or city, or similar, and you'll get a list of hidden "geocaches." You put some coordinates into your GPSr, print out a map (and sometimes some hints) from the website, and see if you can find one. From experience, I can tell you that it's pretty easy to get within 10 feet of the cache . . . it's those last 10 feet that are tough.
It's incredibly fun, and here in my hometown of Los Angeles there is a geocache at Cal Tech, so you can take out two geeky birds with one stone. (It's easy to spot the geeky birds -- they have tape on their beaks.)
If the RIAA was counting, all those machines would have been pwn3d by Orrin Hatch by now.
d33r \/0t3r:
3y3 0wn j00r \/0+3Z, ph00lZ!
Da Supr3/\/\3Z
1 in 10,000 ?, thats a bit low for my liking, and now I am more worried about the zebra's than the RIAA.
I have a rock in my house that's been keeping zebras away for 25 years. If you are interested, I can sell you a chunk of the rock for a very reasonable price.
a survey showed the average user found the word 'blog' to be confusing
They just need to translate it into AOL:
"DUDE!!1 A bl0g iz a plaze 4 ur shit dat u write n stuff! U can put linkz n shit in there! Write back, k?"