Go ahead, what was the last good original animated Disney movie (not counting those made by Pixar)? I don't know, but I'm estimating something like 20 years ago.
I'd say Mulan, but that might be pushing it for some people. Maybe Tarzan, if you don't mind Phil Collins. The unarguable one is The Hunchback of Notre Dame, without a doubt, in 1996.
Regardless, far less than twenty years.
Besides, all Disney has been doing is trying non-sequels. Chicken Little, Bolt, Enchanted, and the new, not-white princess that all of the news outlets tittered over for a few months. All original. So if Disney was working Pixar, I'm sure they'd be pushing the same way.
High school is a better place to learn these lessons than later down the road, at least. I know a lot of kids in my newly-graduated class who learned quite a bit from that mad scramble at the end.
I'm a high school student who just graduated last week. Tell me the value of what I have learned so far, if I don't understand it as you claim. What will my diploma accomplish? What can I do with it?
But more importantly, how can I succeed with the education I've received? That's what it boils down to, and by and large, the answer is, "You can't, at least not yet. You need to work even more." A high school education means absolutely nothing these days.
Blame the students, I guess, they're too dumb/stupid/interested in their cell phones to blame back. Is that how Slashdot runs these days?
In the USA public education is now just used as a tool for political indoctrination.
Having to come out of the closest here and admit that I am not all that old, I just graduated high school about a week ago.
Having said this, you might need to readjust your tinfoil hat. The more radical or political a teacher is the less students pay attention to them. Sure, some teachers try, but they forget that students rarely pay attention to anything the teacher says anyway. And in our community (which is fairly representative of nearly every community these days) the teachers are hated with such an unrelenting, illogical venom that any sign of political bias will get nailed by the local press or complaining helicopter parents. It has happened here and resulted in the sacking of more than one teacher.
Political brianwashing simply does not happen. Even if students are tested on their political views for the class, they just regurgitate whatever the teacher said an hour before and forget about it. This is how middle and high school works now - unless the student has a vested interest in the material and views it of some value (which usually only occurs in the honor classes, speaking from personal experience) then no "learning" or "brainwashing" occurs. Political leaning is a good way to turn ears off.
neither do you have the right to use the property of others if they do not want you to.
Tell me where I said that I do. Point at it.
Oh, my, where did your finger go! It's pointing at your brain?! Oh, dear; you imagined it!
Concentrating on your post, I agree with you for the most part (I have released several novels and other works under the most free CC license possible, with some enjoyable results). Yes, piracy is bad. I don't pirate. I never will. Rah, rah, for the team, blah blah blah.
I also believe there should be regulations on what someone else can and can't do to you to stop you from accessing their data when they don't want you to. Keeping detailed, tabs on your internet browsing, and then nailing you for copyright infringements and shutting down internet without a trial, for two things that are not acceptable. The ends do not justify the means in this case.
These companies are delusional in thinking they are chasing down additional profits that people are "stealing." In a magical happy land where no piracy exists, I see no additional profit gained from piracy's demise.
Once again, ignorance does not constitute as a valid argument. Please, if you're going to troll, at least try to bother looking up these things.
Bioshock's devs were so afraid of piracy they set up servers the game had to access before the game was launched. It worked for about a few hours, then died, at least partially, for about two days. Quite a few gamers could not access the game they legally bought. What was frightening is that 2K was not legally required to refund customers for their own incompetence. Google a bit to see some of these occurrences; it's fairly recent history.
Since when? I thought it was, "Hey, Bob, make Program X for me and I'll give you ten dollars!" And then Bob yells back, "Sure, Tim, I'll make that Program X!"
I don't know where this whole "I'm gonna make a program and stick it somewhere, which entitles me to money" came from, at least in the smaller end of software creation. Success is not a right. If you want profit, make sure it's on the table beforehand.
If they were worried about money, why would they create something unless there was money on the table? Isn't that the whole point of creating something?
Absolutely. I went and bought Fallout and Freespace 2 for six bucks each, packaged in a simple exe installer without DRM. If every game was like that, just with a higher price, I'm totally for it.
And CD Projekt, the company behind gog.com, is making so much money off of The Witcher that I doubt they'll die anytime soon.
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Go ahead, what was the last good original animated Disney movie (not counting those made by Pixar)? I don't know, but I'm estimating something like 20 years ago.
I'd say Mulan, but that might be pushing it for some people. Maybe Tarzan, if you don't mind Phil Collins. The unarguable one is The Hunchback of Notre Dame, without a doubt, in 1996.
Regardless, far less than twenty years.
Besides, all Disney has been doing is trying non-sequels. Chicken Little, Bolt, Enchanted, and the new, not-white princess that all of the news outlets tittered over for a few months. All original. So if Disney was working Pixar, I'm sure they'd be pushing the same way.
I'll take a look at it; thanks for the tip.
One of the more popular brands, called "plasmids," are bound to become mainstream, and, well, we have Bioshock to explain what happens after that.
Get everybody burning those Ayn Rand books, on the double!
I wish I could. My main computer's barely powerful enough to run one OS at a time, much less two.
I know, I know, it's time for an upgrade. You tell my wallet that.
These boots are made for walkin', and that's just what they'll do...after twenty seconds the boots are gonna walk all over you.
I wish I had a spare partition to install this on. The Beta and Preview releases were good, and they seem to be interested in trying a few new things.
The release announcement makes we wonder, though.
This is different to real life...how? At least they'll learn their lesson in high school.
High school is a better place to learn these lessons than later down the road, at least. I know a lot of kids in my newly-graduated class who learned quite a bit from that mad scramble at the end.
I'm a high school student who just graduated last week. Tell me the value of what I have learned so far, if I don't understand it as you claim. What will my diploma accomplish? What can I do with it?
But more importantly, how can I succeed with the education I've received? That's what it boils down to, and by and large, the answer is, "You can't, at least not yet. You need to work even more." A high school education means absolutely nothing these days.
Blame the students, I guess, they're too dumb/stupid/interested in their cell phones to blame back. Is that how Slashdot runs these days?
cram as much information in as possible right before the exam, and I would be willing to bet most forget most of it in a week.
It's already like that, though. With money, they'll tend to cram a bit harder, and maybe something will stick. That's the idea.
What else do the kids want?
Happiness or satisfaction doesn't put food on the table.
In the USA public education is now just used as a tool for political indoctrination.
Having to come out of the closest here and admit that I am not all that old, I just graduated high school about a week ago.
Having said this, you might need to readjust your tinfoil hat. The more radical or political a teacher is the less students pay attention to them. Sure, some teachers try, but they forget that students rarely pay attention to anything the teacher says anyway. And in our community (which is fairly representative of nearly every community these days) the teachers are hated with such an unrelenting, illogical venom that any sign of political bias will get nailed by the local press or complaining helicopter parents. It has happened here and resulted in the sacking of more than one teacher.
Political brianwashing simply does not happen. Even if students are tested on their political views for the class, they just regurgitate whatever the teacher said an hour before and forget about it. This is how middle and high school works now - unless the student has a vested interest in the material and views it of some value (which usually only occurs in the honor classes, speaking from personal experience) then no "learning" or "brainwashing" occurs. Political leaning is a good way to turn ears off.
neither do you have the right to use the property of others if they do not want you to.
Tell me where I said that I do. Point at it.
Oh, my, where did your finger go! It's pointing at your brain?! Oh, dear; you imagined it!
Concentrating on your post, I agree with you for the most part (I have released several novels and other works under the most free CC license possible, with some enjoyable results). Yes, piracy is bad. I don't pirate. I never will. Rah, rah, for the team, blah blah blah.
I also believe there should be regulations on what someone else can and can't do to you to stop you from accessing their data when they don't want you to. Keeping detailed, tabs on your internet browsing, and then nailing you for copyright infringements and shutting down internet without a trial, for two things that are not acceptable. The ends do not justify the means in this case.
These companies are delusional in thinking they are chasing down additional profits that people are "stealing." In a magical happy land where no piracy exists, I see no additional profit gained from piracy's demise.
Once again, ignorance does not constitute as a valid argument. Please, if you're going to troll, at least try to bother looking up these things.
Bioshock's devs were so afraid of piracy they set up servers the game had to access before the game was launched. It worked for about a few hours, then died, at least partially, for about two days. Quite a few gamers could not access the game they legally bought. What was frightening is that 2K was not legally required to refund customers for their own incompetence. Google a bit to see some of these occurrences; it's fairly recent history.
Not the most pressing, no, but the easiest the fix by far.
Since when? I thought it was, "Hey, Bob, make Program X for me and I'll give you ten dollars!" And then Bob yells back, "Sure, Tim, I'll make that Program X!"
I don't know where this whole "I'm gonna make a program and stick it somewhere, which entitles me to money" came from, at least in the smaller end of software creation. Success is not a right. If you want profit, make sure it's on the table beforehand.
If they were worried about money, why would they create something unless there was money on the table? Isn't that the whole point of creating something?
Are creative people entitled to money automatically?
What do you want to do with GPL code that you can't? Just wondering.
Answers, in order: The Bioshock DRM Fiasco, iTunes DRM-ed files, and whatsherface that's all over Slashdot almost daily (too lazy to search).
Just because you aren't aware of issues does not mean they don't exist. Pull your head out of your ass, thanks.
Absolutely. I went and bought Fallout and Freespace 2 for six bucks each, packaged in a simple exe installer without DRM. If every game was like that, just with a higher price, I'm totally for it.
And CD Projekt, the company behind gog.com, is making so much money off of The Witcher that I doubt they'll die anytime soon.
*Applause*
Hardcore - make it install Ubuntu via Wubi from the flash drive on Windows, but also have it delete the Windows option from the bootloader.
And 650 of those distros are just Ubuntu with non-brown wallpaper.