...it's about "Lord of the Rings" getting so many nominations. For a geek-favorite fantasy adventure to get so much attention from the Hollywood elite -- of course that's newsworthy.
The whole point of the Tunney Act is to ensure full disclosure of what is essentially an out-of-court settlement. It's no longer an issue of law, so of course they must ask if the proposed settlement is acceptable to the public.
it doesn't introduce any new concepts or demonstrate any real creativity
Are you serious? The book is almost fifty years old. It is the great-grandaddy of modern fantasy. It single-handedly established most of the concepts and archetypes that everyone else has been ripping off all this time. What the hell were you expecting?
Seriously, Mary Shelly's Frankenstein is the first bonafide science fiction novel. The horror aspects of it are just window dressing for a much deeper discussion of bioengineering and bioethics, written during the height of the Scientific/Industrial Revolution when all the old "divine miracles" were becoming less divine and less miraculous every day.
Sidebar-question: is Windows *ever* used in the publishing/effects industry?
Add music to that list, and the short answer is "nope." It's a simple matter of left brain versus right brain -- artists just don't care about the cheapness or ubiquity of Wintel.
Heck, I'm sitting here, working for a company that *makes* NT boxen (for industrial automation), and I still got me a brand new Mac and the full suite of Adobe software to do my marcomm work. I made it a condition of employment. If I hadn't, they would have stuck me with an old 200 MHz PII running CorelDRAW and Ventura Publisher. (No exaggeration -- I still have to boot it up sometimes to access materials created by my predecessor.)
Furthermore, the guy who authored the page has added a link to the following statement
Crow didn't author the page. I did, and my own postmortem should be posted later today (Saturday) -- just as soon as Crow wakes up and checks his email.
Crow is simply maintaining that mirror for me, ever since my ISP made me take down the original.
Anywho, since Atlantis has been released here in the U.S., I've prepared a postmortem letter and sent it out to my mirrors for posting. It should be up Saturday afternoon, so please check back then.
In a nutshell, my goals and motivation weren't quite what y'all may think...
(i) If links are part of the content of a page, then the whole DeCSS case is sunk. You have to choose what you believe. Smart tags may indeed be the EFF's best friend here because if Microsoft can convince the courts that they are permitted to add whatever links they like because they are not part of a web page, then by implication you also have the right to link your page wherever you like and not be responsible for the content at the other end. So, either Microsoft and the EFF are both correct, or both are wrong. You can't have it both ways.
You are oversimplifying this. Links most certainly are content because they help determine the overall function and intent of a page.
A simple text-only travelogue describing my trip to Japan is completely different from a fully-linked Web page pointing to the airlines I flew, the hotels I stayed at, the stores I shopped at, and the attractions I visited. Not only is the function of my page enhanced -- visitors could use my links to plan their own trip -- but some endorsement is implied by exactly which links I make.
However, if a visitor to my site has his luggage stolen at one of the hotels I linked to, am I liable? Of course not.
This is the argument against smart tags. No one could ever hold me responsible for what Microsoft tags, but that's not what I care about. What I care about is that Microsoft's tags alter the function and intent of my page.
People who short stock are known as "bears." This is why a down market is called a "bear market." "Bulls" are those who buy stock the normal way.
Umm, check your causality.
A "bull" market is one which charges ahead full strength -- duh, like a bull. A "bear" market is one which runs out of strength and seems to hibernate like a bear. It will come back eventually, but for the time being it's dead to the world.
People who sell short are called "bears" because they've found a way to make money in a bear market. They're named after the market, not the other way around.
1) Religious. To the vast majority of people, the power of Creation is God's and God's alone. A handful of atheist scientists and geeks don't count.
2) Ethical. What will we, as a race, do with artifical humans? Slave labor? Spare organs? Don't think it can't happen; it's a human conceit that to create a thing is to control a thing.
Between coupons and my shopper's card, I routinely save 25% to 40% off of my weekly grocery bill. Over the course of a year, that adds up to several hundred dollars.
With that in mind, who really cares if the store knows I like Turkey Store Italian Sausage and Peanut Butter Captain Crunch?
I am getting IDSL from Northpoint / PhoenixDSL in the Ann Arbor, Michigan area. I am paying $40 per month for a static IP, domain hosting, and all the usual ISP amenities.
They guarantee a minimum of 128 Kbps (typical for IDSL), but I usually run at 130 to 135 Kbps. That translates into 16 to 17 K / sec in the browser. I know it's not the greatest, but it is a distinct improvement over my previous 26.6 Kbps limit. (Damn you, whoever invented the multiplexer.)
From initial order to final installation was twelve weeks. However, I don't blame Northpoint for this; Ameritech (the local telco) is notorious for its poor service.
Installation, router, and first two months service were free, thanks to a mid-summer promotional offer.
All in all, I'm satisfied. I knew installation would take a while, so the trick was to order it and forget about it. That way, when it finally arrived, it was a pleasant surprise.
At some point, the only solution is to stop cleaning up after them. Let their incompetence shine through. When things fall apart and the boss is looking for someone to blame, you can literally say "I told you so."
It may sound childish, but it's no more childish than your coworkers' behavior and sometimes it's the only way they will learn.
If you're willing to pay a premium for imports, all of Yoko Kanno's CDs are available through CD Japan.
If you have a hard time finding what you're looking for, go to Tenkuu no Kanno Yoko for her complete discography with catalog numbers.
For anyone else reading this who isn't familiar with the amazing Yoko Kanno, you probably are and simply don't know it. She has composed the soundtracks for many recent hit anime series, including Macross Plus, Escaflowne, Brain Powerd, Turn A Gundam, and Cowboy Bebop, as well as a slew of one-shots for other shows like Please Save My Earth, X/1999, and the Lodoss War TV series.
Simply put, she is a genius. I can't even begin to describe how diverse and magnificent her work is without lapsing into lame hyperbole. She does it all: choral, orchestral, Celtic/new age, jazz, funk, techno, rock, ska, pop, and several other styles we don't even have names for. Many, many people buy her CDs "sight unseen" because she is just that good.
Slashdot Mirror
...it's about "Lord of the Rings" getting so many nominations. For a geek-favorite fantasy adventure to get so much attention from the Hollywood elite -- of course that's newsworthy.
No, 2001 was a notoriously bad year for movies and the studios deliberately held most of their real contenders until the end.
The whole point of the Tunney Act is to ensure full disclosure of what is essentially an out-of-court settlement. It's no longer an issue of law, so of course they must ask if the proposed settlement is acceptable to the public.
...right there in the story summary. Howsabout you try clicking on it.
it doesn't introduce any new concepts or demonstrate any real creativity
Are you serious? The book is almost fifty years old. It is the great-grandaddy of modern fantasy. It single-handedly established most of the concepts and archetypes that everyone else has been ripping off all this time. What the hell were you expecting?
Companies and organizations are clamoring for digital rights management software...
...but consumers / end users are not. Think about it.
Seriously, Mary Shelly's Frankenstein is the first bonafide science fiction novel. The horror aspects of it are just window dressing for a much deeper discussion of bioengineering and bioethics, written during the height of the Scientific/Industrial Revolution when all the old "divine miracles" were becoming less divine and less miraculous every day.
Sidebar-question: is Windows *ever* used in the publishing/effects industry?
Add music to that list, and the short answer is "nope." It's a simple matter of left brain versus right brain -- artists just don't care about the cheapness or ubiquity of Wintel.
Heck, I'm sitting here, working for a company that *makes* NT boxen (for industrial automation), and I still got me a brand new Mac and the full suite of Adobe software to do my marcomm work. I made it a condition of employment. If I hadn't, they would have stuck me with an old 200 MHz PII running CorelDRAW and Ventura Publisher. (No exaggeration -- I still have to boot it up sometimes to access materials created by my predecessor.)
Have you ever been hired to lobby a position that you knew to be tech ignorant? If yes, why did you take the job?
http://store.yahoo.com/animenation/cds-music-cds-c owboy-bebop.html
When the government cuts funding, the private sector inevitably picks up the slack for anything worthwhile. That's how capitalism works.
So, if Clark's temper tantrum is representative of the private sector, stem cell research must not be all that worthwhile...
Could someone please tell me why my response was any more of a troll than the post to which I was responding?
Most environmentalists are crackpots.
Furthermore, the guy who authored the page has added a link to the following statement
Crow didn't author the page. I did, and my own postmortem should be posted later today (Saturday) -- just as soon as Crow wakes up and checks his email.
Crow is simply maintaining that mirror for me, ever since my ISP made me take down the original.
Anywho, since Atlantis has been released here in the U.S., I've prepared a postmortem letter and sent it out to my mirrors for posting. It should be up Saturday afternoon, so please check back then.
In a nutshell, my goals and motivation weren't quite what y'all may think...
Stay tuned.
(i) If links are part of the content of a page, then the whole DeCSS case is sunk. You have to choose what you believe. Smart tags may indeed be the EFF's best friend here because if Microsoft can convince the courts that they are permitted to add whatever links they like because they are not part of a web page, then by implication you also have the right to link your page wherever you like and not be responsible for the content at the other end. So, either Microsoft and the EFF are both correct, or both are wrong. You can't have it both ways.
You are oversimplifying this. Links most certainly are content because they help determine the overall function and intent of a page.
A simple text-only travelogue describing my trip to Japan is completely different from a fully-linked Web page pointing to the airlines I flew, the hotels I stayed at, the stores I shopped at, and the attractions I visited. Not only is the function of my page enhanced -- visitors could use my links to plan their own trip -- but some endorsement is implied by exactly which links I make.
However, if a visitor to my site has his luggage stolen at one of the hotels I linked to, am I liable? Of course not.
This is the argument against smart tags. No one could ever hold me responsible for what Microsoft tags, but that's not what I care about. What I care about is that Microsoft's tags alter the function and intent of my page.
People who short stock are known as "bears." This is why a down market is called a "bear market." "Bulls" are those who buy stock the normal way.
Umm, check your causality.
A "bull" market is one which charges ahead full strength -- duh, like a bull. A "bear" market is one which runs out of strength and seems to hibernate like a bear. It will come back eventually, but for the time being it's dead to the world.
People who sell short are called "bears" because they've found a way to make money in a bear market. They're named after the market, not the other way around.
Scientific American discussed this last October.
The Third-Generation Partnership Project is the group developing the standard.
There are two main oppositions to cloning:
1) Religious. To the vast majority of people, the power of Creation is God's and God's alone. A handful of atheist scientists and geeks don't count.
2) Ethical. What will we, as a race, do with artifical humans? Slave labor? Spare organs? Don't think it can't happen; it's a human conceit that to create a thing is to control a thing.
Between coupons and my shopper's card, I routinely save 25% to 40% off of my weekly grocery bill. Over the course of a year, that adds up to several hundred dollars.
With that in mind, who really cares if the store knows I like Turkey Store Italian Sausage and Peanut Butter Captain Crunch?
And these problems are fixed in Quicktime 5.0b. Next?
I am getting IDSL from Northpoint / PhoenixDSL in the Ann Arbor, Michigan area. I am paying $40 per month for a static IP, domain hosting, and all the usual ISP amenities.
They guarantee a minimum of 128 Kbps (typical for IDSL), but I usually run at 130 to 135 Kbps. That translates into 16 to 17 K / sec in the browser. I know it's not the greatest, but it is a distinct improvement over my previous 26.6 Kbps limit. (Damn you, whoever invented the multiplexer.)
From initial order to final installation was twelve weeks. However, I don't blame Northpoint for this; Ameritech (the local telco) is notorious for its poor service.
Installation, router, and first two months service were free, thanks to a mid-summer promotional offer.
All in all, I'm satisfied. I knew installation would take a while, so the trick was to order it and forget about it. That way, when it finally arrived, it was a pleasant surprise.
At some point, the only solution is to stop cleaning up after them. Let their incompetence shine through. When things fall apart and the boss is looking for someone to blame, you can literally say "I told you so."
It may sound childish, but it's no more childish than your coworkers' behavior and sometimes it's the only way they will learn.
If you're willing to pay a premium for imports, all of Yoko Kanno's CDs are available through CD Japan.
If you have a hard time finding what you're looking for, go to Tenkuu no Kanno Yoko for her complete discography with catalog numbers.
For anyone else reading this who isn't familiar with the amazing Yoko Kanno, you probably are and simply don't know it. She has composed the soundtracks for many recent hit anime series, including Macross Plus, Escaflowne, Brain Powerd, Turn A Gundam, and Cowboy Bebop, as well as a slew of one-shots for other shows like Please Save My Earth, X/1999, and the Lodoss War TV series.
Simply put, she is a genius. I can't even begin to describe how diverse and magnificent her work is without lapsing into lame hyperbole. She does it all: choral, orchestral, Celtic/new age, jazz, funk, techno, rock, ska, pop, and several other styles we don't even have names for. Many, many people buy her CDs "sight unseen" because she is just that good.
For samples in RealAudio format, go here.
For me, boxes that are more efficient, that need less fans, use less power, make less noise, are far more appealing.
Funny, you just described an iMac.