An incomplete workprint gets leaked...so what. People that will be grabbing this are more than likely fanboys who will be waiting in line opening night anyway. Missing special effects and the soundtrack in a movie that depends heavily on both is just a prelude to the real thing for fans. Unless the movie is absolutely horrible I cant really see any damage being done. Not that I condone piracy or leaked films before they were intended to be seen but lets be realistic about it.
Everyone is freaking out over the iPod but what about the signed Richard Rodgers songbook? The queen is an admirer of Rodgers and Hammerstein and he has been dead for 30 years. IMHO alot of thought went into it, its uniquely American and represents a fantastic piece of American culture.
Lets see...in the past week The Huffington Post starts an online investigative team, Fox announces FoxNation, the Chicago Sun-Times joins the Chicago Tribune in chapter 11 and The Guardian whines about lack of online revenue to support its dying dead tree publication.
It seems to me some people in the media are figuring it out while others are fighting tooth and nail to prevent the inevitable. News happens to fast for traditional media to survive, the days of everyone being in the dark for 24 hours till the headlines hit are long over. Today "news" is as likely to get tweeted as its happening.
As for investigative reporting, most of the real investigation in my area seems to be from independent papers that are already quite heavy into the web, rss and other forms of new media, while the local newspaper has tried and failed with online subscriptions and has let go of most of its best writers in favor of canned news that is the same as what you can find online only a day late.
First they go after AMD threatening to revoke their x86 agreements (shooting themselves in the foot and threatening their own cross licensing) now they go after Nvidia? Someone should really remind them that their own GPU's are sub par and that for the average home user processor speeds have been "good enough" for years now leaving upgraded graphics cards and memory as practically the only visible speed boost. At this point its arguable that Intel needs AMD and Nvidia far more than they need Intel,
How so? I picked the x51v over the Ipaq hx4700 which was the current model when Dell dropped their PDA line.
Spec for spec the Axim trounced the Ipaq, it had more memory, a graphics co-processor, consumer IR, vga out, the same processor, same resolution, and a cheaper price.
Dell missed its opportunity when it unceremoniously dumped its PDA line, after having one of the best with the x50v they pulled away to focus on MP3 players that no one wanted delivering millions of what were nearly fanatical users straight into the hands of what would now be their competition.
I took the Mac plunge a couple years back and wouldnt buy anything else hardware wise now at least when it comes to notebooks. I need something reliable, portable and fast so far OSX fits that bill.
For me the best part about OSX is its portablity, try taking a harddrive out of a windows machine and moving it to another non indentical one and see what happens. With OSX as long as its an intel moving to an intel or ppc moving to ppc its just plug and go doesnt matter if its a core or core2 or what model. Better yet try troubleshooting a hardware problem on one windows machine by simply holding down a key on bootup to boot from another machine without having do anything without having to touch the innards.
As for price, my macbook (I dont own a pro) has better specs than the T61 for which I paid $200 more.
Ellison is one of my favorite sci fi writers but the version of the screenplay he wrote only vagely resembles the one that was used in the film, it was rewritten several times himself and by 4 others including D.C. Fontana and Roddenberry himself before it was finally filmed. As is the original script was unfilmable, it was written from a writers skew not a screenwriters one and also dismissed alot of the established character traits of the crew. He was originally upset enough by the rewrites that he threated to pull his name from the script.
Fast forward 42 years and a Hugo and now he wants all the credit? I take it his books arent selling like they used to? Seriously Harlan maybe you need the cash or something but get over it.
Sci-Fi has been dead for a while now, at one time I watched it more often than any other channel but cant remember the last time I actually watched anything on there. I have flipped it there a few times but its always some lame reality ghost chasing show or a "Sci-Fi original" that is so low grade it would make Ed Wood blush in shame and makes the average Troma film look like an oscar contender. Looking at their programming lineup I dont understand what demographic they are after, from the surface it looks like they are targeting undereducated, unemployed, basement dwellers but that group has no money and without boobies they will never be able to compete with Spike TV.
Wow that made my morning, not usually a fan of mashups but that was truly inspired, like garage band on acid. Somewhere im sure there is a lawyer about to blow a gasket trying to wrap his head around a way to even approach something like this.
Both channels infuriate me. With HBO I finally grew so tired of getting hooked on shows only to have them canceled with no ending that I just dropped it entirely, there are a couple of current shows I'd love to see but just know that as soon as I subscribe again they will be doomed. Carnivale, Deadwood, Rome, JFC...why bother anymore.
Fox does the same, but at least its free to watch. I just usually dont give any show a view until the first season is over now, I'll buy or rent the dvd set and then start watching.
Every generation has their favorite audio artifacts. Vinyl lovers like the warm sound despite the hiss and pops, im sure back in the day someone thought that wax phonograph cylinders sounded better than those new fangled gramaphone disks. Each generation gets accustomed to the sound they are most familiar with. I remember as a kid arguing with my dad who thought 8-track was much better than casette tapes.
I know its nice to run linux on stuff just because it can but seriously for the average user that isnt just trying to poke around at the cell processor, they would be better off getting a cheap hand me down pc.
Circuit City was dead to me when they lauched their DIVX plan back in the late 90's between that and their jacked up warranty policy (back then if you returned an item that you had purchased an extended warranty for, they pocketed the warranty fees) I had vowed never to step foot in one again. I managed to steer free from CC until a few months ago when I went by the local one to pick over the corpse during its going out of business sale.
I agree on the Hostage part, here at home we have two macbooks, an ibook, a 20" intel iMac and an old G4 firewire 800. I was looking to upgrade the G4 but there isnt anything I can reasonably afford so I ended up rolling my own hackintosh. I'd rather have apple hardware all around but this time I just couldnt do it so now I have a quad with 8gigs of ram, an 8800 gtx oc and 2tb of drive space, if I could have found something within $500 of what I ended building I would have gladly bought it but as is im happy saving the cash. I priced it out and the same specs (with the exception of the standard quad rather than the xeon) and it was $3249, I built mine and bought both Leopard and iLife09 for it for under $1400. Apple ended up getting about $300 from me (OS, iLife, keyboard and mighty mouse) but missed a sale and I only feel a little guilty.
Apple seems to forget there is a whole segment out there that needs more than the mini, wants a desktop but doesnt want to spend more on their computer than they did on their last car.
DC Universe online is a nice idea, many are looking forward to a challenger to CoH in the genre but as attractive as the DC license is, its also their biggest problem to overcome. Most casual players are going to be disappointed that they cant even play a minor character in the real DC Unvierse. How many will be happy with the "Dial H for Hero" version of the DC Universe? My guess is that not many will be satisfied, since most gamers picking it up off the shelf will see familiar characters on the cover and expect that they can play as them. Star Wars Galaxies had the same problem earlier on and had to basically gimp the game because everyone wanted to be a jedi, its still struggling.
Champions Online is also coming out soon and will start off with no expectations since like City of Heroes it has no license, it also benefits from a decades long following in the RPG community. Two different strategies, it will be interesting to see which has more success.
Park City has some of the best slopes in the US. The salt flats are rather interesting. Then there is zion national park, monument valley, the cleveland-loyd dinosaur quarry, Herritage Village, goblin valley, various canyons, etc. Utah is actually a great place to visit.
Just be very careful that the 10% is spelled out clearly. I took a similar deal about 10 years ago, stuck around the company was sold off about 3 years later but only after issuing tons more stock, in the end my 10% stake ended up being about a $10,000 buyout while the company was sold for around $10,000,000. It was a good lesson learned but a harsh one. 9 times out of 10 unless your buddies with the boss a "small company on the rise" will generally find a way to screw over the little people that helped get it on the map.
The only ones hurt by the Beatles not being on iTunes and other services are the remaining members. Those that want the Beatles either rip their own cd's or just snag them from torrents. Led Zeppelin finally relented, Pink Floyd gave in, I just find it amazing that a band that embraced technology in its heyday is now completely terrified by it.
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Sounds like they are more worried that citizens (or I guess its serfs) may understand too much.
An incomplete workprint gets leaked...so what. People that will be grabbing this are more than likely fanboys who will be waiting in line opening night anyway. Missing special effects and the soundtrack in a movie that depends heavily on both is just a prelude to the real thing for fans. Unless the movie is absolutely horrible I cant really see any damage being done. Not that I condone piracy or leaked films before they were intended to be seen but lets be realistic about it.
Everyone is freaking out over the iPod but what about the signed Richard Rodgers songbook? The queen is an admirer of Rodgers and Hammerstein and he has been dead for 30 years. IMHO alot of thought went into it, its uniquely American and represents a fantastic piece of American culture.
Umm have you checked out FoxNation? Its basically the Huffington Post for right wingers....tabloid politics.
Lets see...in the past week The Huffington Post starts an online investigative team, Fox announces FoxNation, the Chicago Sun-Times joins the Chicago Tribune in chapter 11 and The Guardian whines about lack of online revenue to support its dying dead tree publication.
It seems to me some people in the media are figuring it out while others are fighting tooth and nail to prevent the inevitable. News happens to fast for traditional media to survive, the days of everyone being in the dark for 24 hours till the headlines hit are long over. Today "news" is as likely to get tweeted as its happening.
As for investigative reporting, most of the real investigation in my area seems to be from independent papers that are already quite heavy into the web, rss and other forms of new media, while the local newspaper has tried and failed with online subscriptions and has let go of most of its best writers in favor of canned news that is the same as what you can find online only a day late.
First they go after AMD threatening to revoke their x86 agreements (shooting themselves in the foot and threatening their own cross licensing) now they go after Nvidia? Someone should really remind them that their own GPU's are sub par and that for the average home user processor speeds have been "good enough" for years now leaving upgraded graphics cards and memory as practically the only visible speed boost. At this point its arguable that Intel needs AMD and Nvidia far more than they need Intel,
How so? I picked the x51v over the Ipaq hx4700 which was the current model when Dell dropped their PDA line.
Spec for spec the Axim trounced the Ipaq, it had more memory, a graphics co-processor, consumer IR, vga out, the same processor, same resolution, and a cheaper price.
Dell missed its opportunity when it unceremoniously dumped its PDA line, after having one of the best with the x50v they pulled away to focus on MP3 players that no one wanted delivering millions of what were nearly fanatical users straight into the hands of what would now be their competition.
I took the Mac plunge a couple years back and wouldnt buy anything else hardware wise now at least when it comes to notebooks. I need something reliable, portable and fast so far OSX fits that bill.
For me the best part about OSX is its portablity, try taking a harddrive out of a windows machine and moving it to another non indentical one and see what happens. With OSX as long as its an intel moving to an intel or ppc moving to ppc its just plug and go doesnt matter if its a core or core2 or what model. Better yet try troubleshooting a hardware problem on one windows machine by simply holding down a key on bootup to boot from another machine without having do anything without having to touch the innards.
As for price, my macbook (I dont own a pro) has better specs than the T61 for which I paid $200 more.
Bioware announced Mass Effect as the first part of a Trilogy at the 2006 E3.
Ellison is one of my favorite sci fi writers but the version of the screenplay he wrote only vagely resembles the one that was used in the film, it was rewritten several times himself and by 4 others including D.C. Fontana and Roddenberry himself before it was finally filmed. As is the original script was unfilmable, it was written from a writers skew not a screenwriters one and also dismissed alot of the established character traits of the crew. He was originally upset enough by the rewrites that he threated to pull his name from the script.
Fast forward 42 years and a Hugo and now he wants all the credit? I take it his books arent selling like they used to? Seriously Harlan maybe you need the cash or something but get over it.
Sci-Fi has been dead for a while now, at one time I watched it more often than any other channel but cant remember the last time I actually watched anything on there. I have flipped it there a few times but its always some lame reality ghost chasing show or a "Sci-Fi original" that is so low grade it would make Ed Wood blush in shame and makes the average Troma film look like an oscar contender. Looking at their programming lineup I dont understand what demographic they are after, from the surface it looks like they are targeting undereducated, unemployed, basement dwellers but that group has no money and without boobies they will never be able to compete with Spike TV.
Wow that made my morning, not usually a fan of mashups but that was truly inspired, like garage band on acid. Somewhere im sure there is a lawyer about to blow a gasket trying to wrap his head around a way to even approach something like this.
Both channels infuriate me. With HBO I finally grew so tired of getting hooked on shows only to have them canceled with no ending that I just dropped it entirely, there are a couple of current shows I'd love to see but just know that as soon as I subscribe again they will be doomed. Carnivale, Deadwood, Rome, JFC...why bother anymore.
Fox does the same, but at least its free to watch. I just usually dont give any show a view until the first season is over now, I'll buy or rent the dvd set and then start watching.
Every generation has their favorite audio artifacts. Vinyl lovers like the warm sound despite the hiss and pops, im sure back in the day someone thought that wax phonograph cylinders sounded better than those new fangled gramaphone disks. Each generation gets accustomed to the sound they are most familiar with. I remember as a kid arguing with my dad who thought 8-track was much better than casette tapes.
I know its nice to run linux on stuff just because it can but seriously for the average user that isnt just trying to poke around at the cell processor, they would be better off getting a cheap hand me down pc.
Circuit City was dead to me when they lauched their DIVX plan back in the late 90's between that and their jacked up warranty policy (back then if you returned an item that you had purchased an extended warranty for, they pocketed the warranty fees) I had vowed never to step foot in one again. I managed to steer free from CC until a few months ago when I went by the local one to pick over the corpse during its going out of business sale.
I agree on the Hostage part, here at home we have two macbooks, an ibook, a 20" intel iMac and an old G4 firewire 800. I was looking to upgrade the G4 but there isnt anything I can reasonably afford so I ended up rolling my own hackintosh. I'd rather have apple hardware all around but this time I just couldnt do it so now I have a quad with 8gigs of ram, an 8800 gtx oc and 2tb of drive space, if I could have found something within $500 of what I ended building I would have gladly bought it but as is im happy saving the cash. I priced it out and the same specs (with the exception of the standard quad rather than the xeon) and it was $3249, I built mine and bought both Leopard and iLife09 for it for under $1400. Apple ended up getting about $300 from me (OS, iLife, keyboard and mighty mouse) but missed a sale and I only feel a little guilty.
Apple seems to forget there is a whole segment out there that needs more than the mini, wants a desktop but doesnt want to spend more on their computer than they did on their last car.
This was a whole lot easier before The Woz joined Dancing with the Stars, now it seems the reality line has blurred.
DC Universe online is a nice idea, many are looking forward to a challenger to CoH in the genre but as attractive as the DC license is, its also their biggest problem to overcome. Most casual players are going to be disappointed that they cant even play a minor character in the real DC Unvierse. How many will be happy with the "Dial H for Hero" version of the DC Universe? My guess is that not many will be satisfied, since most gamers picking it up off the shelf will see familiar characters on the cover and expect that they can play as them. Star Wars Galaxies had the same problem earlier on and had to basically gimp the game because everyone wanted to be a jedi, its still struggling.
Champions Online is also coming out soon and will start off with no expectations since like City of Heroes it has no license, it also benefits from a decades long following in the RPG community. Two different strategies, it will be interesting to see which has more success.
Park City has some of the best slopes in the US. The salt flats are rather interesting. Then there is zion national park, monument valley, the cleveland-loyd dinosaur quarry, Herritage Village, goblin valley, various canyons, etc. Utah is actually a great place to visit.
Just be very careful that the 10% is spelled out clearly. I took a similar deal about 10 years ago, stuck around the company was sold off about 3 years later but only after issuing tons more stock, in the end my 10% stake ended up being about a $10,000 buyout while the company was sold for around $10,000,000. It was a good lesson learned but a harsh one. 9 times out of 10 unless your buddies with the boss a "small company on the rise" will generally find a way to screw over the little people that helped get it on the map.
I tried blaming backing the car down a hill on Pole Position when I was a kid, didnt work then I really doubt this will work now.
The only ones hurt by the Beatles not being on iTunes and other services are the remaining members. Those that want the Beatles either rip their own cd's or just snag them from torrents. Led Zeppelin finally relented, Pink Floyd gave in, I just find it amazing that a band that embraced technology in its heyday is now completely terrified by it.
OMG so do Telephones, Amateur Radio and the Postal Service...quick! lets shutdown all forms of two way communication to make us all safe.