No, he's talking about the teaser trailer, which was an extended sequence of Mr. Incredible putting on his shiny red supersuit, being unable to buckle the belt no matter how hard he tried...and when he finally got it and relaxed, the pressure of his girth made the buckle fly off the belt and go ricocheting around the room like shrapnel.
It seems to be Pixar's practice to render a short mini-film that has little to do with the movie itself for a teaser trailer as a way of introducing the character and piquing interest. (If you'll recall, the "Outer Magnolia" bit with Mike and Sulley emerging into the wrong bedroom was nowhere in the Monsters Inc. movie either.)
Note that this sequence is totally out of continuity with the movie itself--in the scrapbook wall that the teaser starts by panning over, Incredible is shown in his red costume, which he only gets about halfway through this movie, and not the blue "hobo suit" that he actually wore in bygone days. And, since the new costume is custom-fitted to his paunch, there shouldn't be any problem with the belt. (There's also no Incrediphone, alas, but that's just a detail.)
Actually, it's only attached in certain areas; it wasn't there in Springfield, Missouri, nor did a friend of mine from New Jersey get it where he saw the movie.
If you know for a fact that you don't have the trailer, or just don't care about it, you might actually want to arrive late, to miss the annoyingly twee "Boundin'" short that precedes the movie.
Does anyone have some advice for how to enable the playing of.m4a files off of the iPod in Knoppix Linux? I can hook my iPod to the machine at work, and can even access the hard drive...and I can play the files in mp3 encoding via Knoppix's XMMS. But to play AACs requires some special plugin, which in turn requires additional libraries, and they all need to be compiled, and it's all beyond my ability to make work with this read-only LiveCD implementation.
There are very few novelists these days who write their novels in the present tense ("He gets up, goes to work"). Most people write in the time-honored past tense ("He got up, went to work.") style.
Why did you start using the present tense after writing your first two books (The Big U, Zodiac) in past? What does it do for you that past tense does not? Was it hard to get your novels accepted by the publisher because of the unexpected tense?
...I'm going to take this chance to plug the DVDTracks audio commentary I did for Cagliostro, inspired by a Slashdot story about the site. (As well as the journal entry I wrote recently describing how I put it all together.) I did a good enough job with it that a representative from a movie company considering making a live-action Lupin III contacted me and asked if I would serve as a consultant. (I never heard anything back from them afterward, though, and that was a couple of years ago.)
You might want to check out KidSpeak, formerly "Muggles For Harry Potter." It was created specifically to deal with schools banning Harry Potter, and then broadened its mission to include all free-speech and censorship issues concerning children.
Whether or not there is harm is really just a sideshow. Even if peer-to-peer could be conclusively proven to multiply sales by a factor of ten, it would still be the RIAA's (members') prerogative to say whether they wanted those files traded or not...and if they did not, it would still be illegal to trade them. Having copyright on the works means that they get to decide what (outside of fair use--and P2P the way most people use it is not even remotely fair use) can be done with them.
Actually, that's not quite true. A torrent client is a lot easier--and safer--to use than a P2P client.
All you do is click on the link and tell it where to save the file. How hard is that?
(Oh, sure, you have to install BitTorrent, but it's not like that's hard. Download, run program, boom, it's installed. No confusing configuring of shares directories that may result in you sharing credit card numbers or other undesirable information. You don't even have to worry about spyware if you use the plain vanilla BitTorrent from Bitconjurer.)
...is why there's even anybody left for them to sue in the first place. I stopped sharing files when the RIAA first announced they were going to sue, and that was months ago. Anyone with half a brain should have stopped after they sued the first couple of thousand. Anyone with one quarter brain...etc. etc.
I would think that by this time, the peer-to-peer networks would be just about empty, at least of sharers in the USA.
Eh, I just found that link in ten seconds with Google anyway. I have little doubt there are more complete primers out there if people just look for them.
Well, the narration that opens the trailer seems to suggest they're going to do a "The story thus far" segment. I'm pretty sure that if they want to attract viewership, they'll do something of that nature.
I don't doubt that there will be more rewards for those who have watched the entire series than those who haven't, but they'd be stupid not to try to reach out to new audiences. This is, after all, the last chance they have to build a bigger audience and show they're worthy of being brought back for another year.
Either way, if you'd like to catch up on everything that's ever happened in the series so you'll have a better idea what's going on in the movie, there's always the Farscape Primer.
...I've just written a really lengthy entry in my essay journal going into the whole matter at great length, pulling in quotes and article citations from here and there and discussing the implications.
Okay, so I'm a self-promoter. But hey, I put some good time and effort into writing it, and I'm proud of my work.
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MMORPG players have been paying it for years. I gather there are even MMORPGs out there, such as Second Life, where the whole point of the game is to pay real money for virtual goods. This is just stripping that down to a single-person world is all.
This hasn't just been happening in the Olympics, but in schools--remember the kid who got suspended for wearing a Pepsi shirt on Coke day? Oddly enough, this sort of thing was predicted ages ago by the satirical novel The Space Merchants (aka The Man Who Sold Venus) by Frederick Pohl and C.M. Kornbluth. Funny how what back then was satirical excess is today's standard order of business...
I didn't flunk anything, but it still took me five years to get through my undergrad program at Southwest Missouri State U. Entered Fall '91, graduated Spring '96. I just took it a little slower.
In America, a lot of people do it, too, for a variety of reasons--whether to review it afterward, or to catch a lecture when they had to miss class. (So much so that it became a running gag in the quintessential American college comedy, Real Genius.) I know I did it. (Funny, though, I never ended up actually listening to the lectures after recording them. I understand it works better that way.)
The key is to ask your instructor ahead of time if it's okay, because some of them publish things associated with their lectures. I asked all my instructors, and I never had a single one who didn't approve it, but it's a good courtesy to practice.
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His suit was NOT custom fitted to his paunch.
Without spoiling people too much, I think you need to pay attention to the first thing Edna says after Mr. Incredible identifies himself.
It might have been a smaller paunch, but it was still a paunch all the same.
Something negative, something negative...um...
...it ended?
Um...
No, he's talking about the teaser trailer, which was an extended sequence of Mr. Incredible putting on his shiny red supersuit, being unable to buckle the belt no matter how hard he tried...and when he finally got it and relaxed, the pressure of his girth made the buckle fly off the belt and go ricocheting around the room like shrapnel.
It seems to be Pixar's practice to render a short mini-film that has little to do with the movie itself for a teaser trailer as a way of introducing the character and piquing interest. (If you'll recall, the "Outer Magnolia" bit with Mike and Sulley emerging into the wrong bedroom was nowhere in the Monsters Inc. movie either.)
Note that this sequence is totally out of continuity with the movie itself--in the scrapbook wall that the teaser starts by panning over, Incredible is shown in his red costume, which he only gets about halfway through this movie, and not the blue "hobo suit" that he actually wore in bygone days. And, since the new costume is custom-fitted to his paunch, there shouldn't be any problem with the belt. (There's also no Incrediphone, alas, but that's just a detail.)
...has been posted to my journal, for what it's worth.
Actually, it's only attached in certain areas; it wasn't there in Springfield, Missouri, nor did a friend of mine from New Jersey get it where he saw the movie.
If you know for a fact that you don't have the trailer, or just don't care about it, you might actually want to arrive late, to miss the annoyingly twee "Boundin'" short that precedes the movie.
Does anyone have some advice for how to enable the playing of .m4a files off of the iPod in Knoppix Linux? I can hook my iPod to the machine at work, and can even access the hard drive...and I can play the files in mp3 encoding via Knoppix's XMMS. But to play AACs requires some special plugin, which in turn requires additional libraries, and they all need to be compiled, and it's all beyond my ability to make work with this read-only LiveCD implementation.
There are very few novelists these days who write their novels in the present tense ("He gets up, goes to work"). Most people write in the time-honored past tense ("He got up, went to work.") style.
Why did you start using the present tense after writing your first two books (The Big U, Zodiac) in past? What does it do for you that past tense does not? Was it hard to get your novels accepted by the publisher because of the unexpected tense?
"Fair use is the right to hire a lawyer."
--Lawrence Lessig in Free Culture
...I'm sure that eminent mad scientist from Sluggy Freelance can attest to the efficiency of inflatable technology...
...I'm going to take this chance to plug the DVDTracks audio commentary I did for Cagliostro, inspired by a Slashdot story about the site. (As well as the journal entry I wrote recently describing how I put it all together.) I did a good enough job with it that a representative from a movie company considering making a live-action Lupin III contacted me and asked if I would serve as a consultant. (I never heard anything back from them afterward, though, and that was a couple of years ago.)
You might want to check out KidSpeak, formerly "Muggles For Harry Potter." It was created specifically to deal with schools banning Harry Potter, and then broadened its mission to include all free-speech and censorship issues concerning children.
I used to be a big fan of Winamp...but then I switched to iTunes and never looked back. Guess that's a good thing.
Of course, then you can't listen to Internet radio...
Whether or not there is harm is really just a sideshow. Even if peer-to-peer could be conclusively proven to multiply sales by a factor of ten, it would still be the RIAA's (members') prerogative to say whether they wanted those files traded or not...and if they did not, it would still be illegal to trade them. Having copyright on the works means that they get to decide what (outside of fair use--and P2P the way most people use it is not even remotely fair use) can be done with them.
Actually, that's not quite true. A torrent client is a lot easier--and safer--to use than a P2P client.
All you do is click on the link and tell it where to save the file. How hard is that?
(Oh, sure, you have to install BitTorrent, but it's not like that's hard. Download, run program, boom, it's installed. No confusing configuring of shares directories that may result in you sharing credit card numbers or other undesirable information. You don't even have to worry about spyware if you use the plain vanilla BitTorrent from Bitconjurer.)
...is why there's even anybody left for them to sue in the first place. I stopped sharing files when the RIAA first announced they were going to sue, and that was months ago. Anyone with half a brain should have stopped after they sued the first couple of thousand. Anyone with one quarter brain...etc. etc.
I would think that by this time, the peer-to-peer networks would be just about empty, at least of sharers in the USA.
Eh, I just found that link in ten seconds with Google anyway. I have little doubt there are more complete primers out there if people just look for them.
Well, the narration that opens the trailer seems to suggest they're going to do a "The story thus far" segment. I'm pretty sure that if they want to attract viewership, they'll do something of that nature.
I don't doubt that there will be more rewards for those who have watched the entire series than those who haven't, but they'd be stupid not to try to reach out to new audiences. This is, after all, the last chance they have to build a bigger audience and show they're worthy of being brought back for another year.
Either way, if you'd like to catch up on everything that's ever happened in the series so you'll have a better idea what's going on in the movie, there's always the Farscape Primer.
...I've just written a really lengthy entry in my essay journal going into the whole matter at great length, pulling in quotes and article citations from here and there and discussing the implications.
Okay, so I'm a self-promoter. But hey, I put some good time and effort into writing it, and I'm proud of my work.
MMORPG players have been paying it for years. I gather there are even MMORPGs out there, such as Second Life, where the whole point of the game is to pay real money for virtual goods. This is just stripping that down to a single-person world is all.
Whoops, hit submit before I could elaborate.
This hasn't just been happening in the Olympics, but in schools--remember the kid who got suspended for wearing a Pepsi shirt on Coke day? Oddly enough, this sort of thing was predicted ages ago by the satirical novel The Space Merchants (aka The Man Who Sold Venus) by Frederick Pohl and C.M. Kornbluth. Funny how what back then was satirical excess is today's standard order of business...
The news actually came out via BoingBoing over a week ago...I wrote about it in my essay journal.
Have a Coke and a Smile...Or Else
I didn't flunk anything, but it still took me five years to get through my undergrad program at Southwest Missouri State U. Entered Fall '91, graduated Spring '96. I just took it a little slower.
In America, a lot of people do it, too, for a variety of reasons--whether to review it afterward, or to catch a lecture when they had to miss class. (So much so that it became a running gag in the quintessential American college comedy, Real Genius .) I know I did it. (Funny, though, I never ended up actually listening to the lectures after recording them. I understand it works better that way.)
The key is to ask your instructor ahead of time if it's okay, because some of them publish things associated with their lectures. I asked all my instructors, and I never had a single one who didn't approve it, but it's a good courtesy to practice.
*shrug* They did it for me.