The other site I'd like to recommend is one to bookmark and check back every month or so: Alexandria Digital Literature, or AlexLit, used to have a truly marvelous collaborative filtering engine, where you'd tell it what books you like and dislike, and it would tell you what books you haven't already read that you're likely to enjoy. I found some of what are now my most favorite books that way. But the site is down right now and they promise a revised version "sometime in 2008." So keep checking it.
(I interviewed Dave Howell, the guy behind AlexLit, on one of the episodes of my Biblio File podcast.)
Problem with this is that a lot of people (myself included) use gmail for the ease of use, but prefer to keep their own email address as the return address for various reasons.
I actually like having an auxiliary backup browser. Sometimes a page won't load properly, and I want to try it in a different browser to see if maybe something is broken in one but not in the other. And I'd a lot rather use Safari than Internet Explorer (which is broken on my current winbox anyway).
Personally, I'm delighted to have an integrated Intel graphics chip in my computer. It's great for running my old 19" diagonal CRT monitor as my secondary display, while my 8800GT runs my 21" widescreen LCD and the TV set on which I watch DVDs.
Yeah, that's what City of Heroes uses it for. When a villain smashes a mailbox, a cloud of letters goes flying everywhere. Things like that. It really is eye-candy, doesn't improve the game in any majorly meaningful way. Certainly not worth the $150-$200 extra that an Ageia PhysX standalone card would run you.
Of course, you don't have to have the sepaate card even now to get some of the benefits; the Ageia engine will run in software, too, just not as well. It will be interesting to see what happens when nVidia slaps it into CUDA.
Everyone talking about the strike is talking about the terms for Internet streaming/new media.
I'm curious as to why nobody's mentioning the writers' other big demand, for an increased royalty on DVD sales. Did they drop that demand as part of a compromise?
I'm going to be interviewing Phil & Kaja Foglio live this weekend about this very issue: why they decided to stop selling individual print issues of their Girl Genius comic book and turn it into a free webcomic to sell more trade paperbacks and hardcover collections. Call in with questions of your own.
I am not a lawyer, but I thought that evidence was inadmissible if obtained illegally by law-enforcement officers. If it was obtained illegally by private citizens and posted all over the place, I would expect that, though the private citizens might get in big trouble for doing it, it would still be okay to go ahead and use since it wasn't the police who illegally got it. Though I could be wrong.
(And I don't see what's to stop them from, after reading these emails, just going ahead and subpoenaing an official version of them from MediaDefender and using those in court.)
For what it's worth, IANAL but it's all due to the legal situation over in Japan. Harmony Gold licensed all the external-to-Japan rights to Macross from Tatsunoko. Big West, however, has been litigating whether Tatsunoko actually had the right to do this. It's all one big snarl-up, and it's working its way through the Japanese court.
On my Space Station Liberty podcast last night, see link in my signature, I asked Harmony Gold rep Kevin McKeever about whether the Macross rights deal would have any effect on the movie, and someone else asked a similar question later on. In both cases, all that HG would allow McKeever to say was, "Harmony Gold owns all rights to Robotech." He couldn't go into any detail, though he was able to repeat the same statement several times. Until everything is settled in Japan, it's probably about the only statement Harmony Gold can safely make.
A lot of Robotech fans would welcome Hasbro-made Robotech toys, given that as it stands right now the only Robotech toys available are made by smaller toy companies that don't have Hasbro's economy of scale--so as a result, the toys we get are generally poorly made and cost $80-100 and up each.
The last major American toy company to be involved with the production of a Robotech series, Matchbox, had to pull out of the Sentinels production due to the rising yen and as a result the show's production failed. Since then, Harmony Gold has shied away from major toy company involvement in Robotech due to not wanting the company to be able to dictate the direction of their series. It would be interesting to see what happens regarding tie-ins if the movie does come out.
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"Urine trouble now!"
Um...how about...
"Jose Exherbo, you are a friend of mine..."
Well, okay, maybe not.
I didn't see any mention of Baen in the first most-of-a-page of comments, so I'll just mention they have a great free e-library and reasonably priced ebook program, as well as a science fiction e-magazine.
The other site I'd like to recommend is one to bookmark and check back every month or so: Alexandria Digital Literature, or AlexLit, used to have a truly marvelous collaborative filtering engine, where you'd tell it what books you like and dislike, and it would tell you what books you haven't already read that you're likely to enjoy. I found some of what are now my most favorite books that way. But the site is down right now and they promise a revised version "sometime in 2008." So keep checking it.
(I interviewed Dave Howell, the guy behind AlexLit, on one of the episodes of my Biblio File podcast.)
...we'll soon C even more BS about the NET?
Sloppy writing. They should probably have said something to the effect of "was at most 140 years old at the time the light we are now seeing left it."
It is when you're sending out your resume and want something a bit more professional-looking on the header than "robotech master at gmail.com"
Problem with this is that a lot of people (myself included) use gmail for the ease of use, but prefer to keep their own email address as the return address for various reasons.
Hint: apostrophe not optional.
I actually like having an auxiliary backup browser. Sometimes a page won't load properly, and I want to try it in a different browser to see if maybe something is broken in one but not in the other. And I'd a lot rather use Safari than Internet Explorer (which is broken on my current winbox anyway).
Personally, I'm delighted to have an integrated Intel graphics chip in my computer. It's great for running my old 19" diagonal CRT monitor as my secondary display, while my 8800GT runs my 21" widescreen LCD and the TV set on which I watch DVDs.
There's a glowing playtest review of the game on Ain't It Cool News. Part One, Part Two. Part Three should be posted some time today.
Yeah, that's what City of Heroes uses it for. When a villain smashes a mailbox, a cloud of letters goes flying everywhere. Things like that. It really is eye-candy, doesn't improve the game in any majorly meaningful way. Certainly not worth the $150-$200 extra that an Ageia PhysX standalone card would run you.
Of course, you don't have to have the sepaate card even now to get some of the benefits; the Ageia engine will run in software, too, just not as well. It will be interesting to see what happens when nVidia slaps it into CUDA.
Everyone talking about the strike is talking about the terms for Internet streaming/new media.
I'm curious as to why nobody's mentioning the writers' other big demand, for an increased royalty on DVD sales. Did they drop that demand as part of a compromise?
Well, actually I haven't seen the movie itself yet, but I read the first part of the synopsis.
I'm going to be interviewing Phil & Kaja Foglio live this weekend about this very issue: why they decided to stop selling individual print issues of their Girl Genius comic book and turn it into a free webcomic to sell more trade paperbacks and hardcover collections. Call in with questions of your own.
I thought Jon Katz was the first Slashdot troll...
This article might be more to your taste, then.
Interesting how reality is finally catching up to fiction.
Now we just need for them to start building a giant dome over New York City...
Are you sure?
I am not a lawyer, but I thought that evidence was inadmissible if obtained illegally by law-enforcement officers. If it was obtained illegally by private citizens and posted all over the place, I would expect that, though the private citizens might get in big trouble for doing it, it would still be okay to go ahead and use since it wasn't the police who illegally got it. Though I could be wrong.
(And I don't see what's to stop them from, after reading these emails, just going ahead and subpoenaing an official version of them from MediaDefender and using those in court.)
Someone has.
I mean, really.
When you ask this sort of question on Slashdot, do you honestly expect to receive any answer other than "none at all"?
For what it's worth, IANAL but it's all due to the legal situation over in Japan. Harmony Gold licensed all the external-to-Japan rights to Macross from Tatsunoko. Big West, however, has been litigating whether Tatsunoko actually had the right to do this. It's all one big snarl-up, and it's working its way through the Japanese court.
On my Space Station Liberty podcast last night, see link in my signature, I asked Harmony Gold rep Kevin McKeever about whether the Macross rights deal would have any effect on the movie, and someone else asked a similar question later on. In both cases, all that HG would allow McKeever to say was, "Harmony Gold owns all rights to Robotech." He couldn't go into any detail, though he was able to repeat the same statement several times. Until everything is settled in Japan, it's probably about the only statement Harmony Gold can safely make.
I know. They weren't involved in producing a show, however, and all they did was reissue a few of the old Matchbox toys.
Though he might want to wait for the Special Edition 2-disc set that's coming out at the end of this month.
A lot of Robotech fans would welcome Hasbro-made Robotech toys, given that as it stands right now the only Robotech toys available are made by smaller toy companies that don't have Hasbro's economy of scale--so as a result, the toys we get are generally poorly made and cost $80-100 and up each.
The last major American toy company to be involved with the production of a Robotech series, Matchbox, had to pull out of the Sentinels production due to the rising yen and as a result the show's production failed. Since then, Harmony Gold has shied away from major toy company involvement in Robotech due to not wanting the company to be able to dictate the direction of their series. It would be interesting to see what happens regarding tie-ins if the movie does come out.