I know that when we bought the air hockey table for the physics department we knew what we were doing.
You are correct, it isn't "frictionless," but it is a much closer approximation to frictionless than is, say, a shuffleboard table, which itself is fairly low friction as these things go. It is frictionless enough that if you were to build an airhocky table a mile long you could drive the puck from one end to the other ( for that matter a golf ball has been driven a mile across a frozen lake, which has both more surface friction and air resistence than a puck on an airhockey table).
Having so little friction that miles are inside the bounds of relevant behavior makes yards even more so and remember that Gallileo was able to deduce frictionless behavior by rolling crude wooden balls down crude wooden ramps. You can do this thing called "extrapolating."
Nor is space itself frictionless. It is close enough that one may discuss it in those terms when discussing certain phenomenom, but this too is dealing only in pragmatic approximations.
Stuff doesn't "keep going forever." Space is not empty. Energy is lost throught various "winds" and collisions, just like on an airhockey table. In the real universe "when you bump into something" you often lose energy because real collisions are not ideal, and even light loses energy when it "bumps into something" (like, oh, say, something vaguely blackish). The total energy of the universe is conserved (the universe itself being "the system"), but the total energy of individual objects is not.
The airhockey table itself is an example of this, the puck slows down because it bumps into things and transfers some its energy to that thing. Like the table itself. Which loses energy to the universe.
Think about it, and perhaps you will come to a smaller gap between what you know and what the scientists know.
. . . they want Apple to have a monopoly in the mp3 player market.
Where on earth did you get the idea that Microsoft is going to be making an mp3 player?
How Microsoft competes will be interesting. Because for Microsoft, the real economics is about selling Windows. That's why Microsoft can spend $500 million developing Windows Media 9 Series technologies to be licensed cheaply or given away for free. Windows Media is a means to an end, a loss leader for selling the operating system--the way Apple's music store is in a way a loss leader for selling iPods. So, in that sense the strategies are similar. Microsoft hopes that the more devices and stores that support Windows Media, the more consumers that buy WMA DRM content, the better for selling Windows.
--Joe Wilcox: Microsoft Monitor Weblog, as linked to in a post above.
Six bucks was a lot of money for a kid back then. Something like three months allowence for me, or a full day of mowing lawns/shoveling snow. I don't remember what happened to mine and I assume it got thrown away. I'll blame my mommy for that too, what the hell. ( I don't get to blame my mommy for not having any 60s comic books anymore though. I get to blame my best friend's mommy).
I'd completely forgotten about Dr. Nim. I had one of those too.
It was card programed, but not punchcard programed. You had a plastic card with "teeth" on one side. Sticking a bit of straw on one of the teeth was a one. A tooth without a straw on it (a "hole" between the straws) was a zero. You ended up with a gap toothed "comb." The straws were just a way to make cheap pegs.
The answer came out in binary formed from stickers of little white and black squares stuck to tab ends of cards.
. ..it sounds like the little spider transmitters Spider-Man uses to track the henchmen of his enemies. ..
Except for the sticky projectile bit tiny little tracking bugs are pretty old hat though.
You'll find the plans for one at Radio Shack in a Forrest Mims III book published in the 80s. I used them in the 90s to track R/C cars. The basic design can be traced back to the 1920s (medical researchers put them in capsules, had subjects swallow them, and then traced the path they followed through the body).
The Spidey tracker was real, doable technology in the 60s. It just took someone to do it.
I'm still waiting for my Doc Oc arms and Goblin Flyers though.
I've been trying to remember the name of that puppy too. I had one and it was fascinating (if you're the sort of kid who also takes apart those old, plastic, push button, gear driven adding machines they used to sell in the grocery stores to see how they worked. Mechanical computers were actually nearly ubiquitous in the 60s).
Anyone with 60s comic books should be able to find an ad for one in the back, right next to the 6 foot long fiberboard submarine.
. ..but fortunately at the last minute I actually checked. ..
Ah, if only I scrupulously followed that simple dictum I'd have a few less assholes myself.
In colonial times, before all the shooting and declarations and stuff, "Lord Governor" was actually a title, and thus through historical usage is still considered usable (as is Mayor).
Personally I hold that such usage is not correct under the Republic, for exactly the same reasons that it is not correct for "President", the title is that of the office, not the man, but I'm not going to make a big stink about it or anything, and on those occasions when I've had dealings with ex-governors or mayors I've always used "Mr.", which is not only always correct, but has never given offense.
Yeah, I think I saw that at a Joie Chitwood Thrill Show once. It got kinda pathetic when they tried to jump the school busses though.
I'd guess they have to try to talk a new woman into trying it for every performance.
KFG
I started thinking about these things 25 years ago
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I was sitting on my front porch and a guy went by "walking" his dog by letting it pull him along on his bicycle. The little lightbulb thingy went off in my head (Ow! Stop it.)
Since that time I've "designed" several variants, also in my head, but I ran into a slight problem on approaching the development phase.
I don't particularly care for dogs.
My cats don't particularly care for the idea of being hitched up to a cart either.
And thus technology is set back decades by the peculiarities of a single man.
Oh, yeah, you can also already buy one commercially, so it's not like it's really a novel idea (mushers use them to keep their dogs in shape during the summer season. My idea is to make an ultralight one specifically tuned for running in the modern urban enviroment. Carbon fiber, racing bicycle wheels, that sort of thing).
But if he were it would be improper to call him President Bush in anything other than the past tense.
Jimmy Carter is "President" Carter only when refering to a time when he was the actual sitting President, and contemporaneously he may be properly refered to as "Former President" Carter or addressed as "Mr." Carter.
Nevermind the fact that "President" and "Prime Misister" are actually the names of the offices, not a title, and the forms are different. To take something of an extreme example it would be improper to address Wendy Carlos as "Mr.".
If one did address Ms. Carlos as Mr. or "The former Mr. Carlos" it would likely be taken as a delibate slight at his current status.
So too, for addressing Lord Norman Foster as the "Former Sir." Without contextual qualifications it implies an impuning of his right to be a Lord.
misterpies made a double error of his own, however. There is not, and never was either a Sir or Lord Foster. The title attaches to the name of the recipient, not the recipient's father.
Thus it is Sir/Lord Norman, or Sir/Lord Norman Foster, but never Sir/Lord Foster (Just as Churchill was Lord Randolph).
Fact is, everybody THINKS they remember what it was like, but simply put, you saw the world differently then than you do now, and I don't really see how you could argue otherwise.
And I wouldn't. Many of my points of view have shifted, but many of them have not, and I know the difference between the two. I adored my Mickey Mouse hat and Mickey Mouse watch as a child (and I wish I knew what the hell happened to my watch. It "disappeared" while in parental custody), as I adored the movies and the TV show, but so no point in traveling great distances at great expense to see a man in a costume.
I fully remember, at about the age of five, figuring out by my own powers of reason that the Easter Bunny, Tooth Fairy and Santa Claus were all, by the necessities of observable reality, fairy tales and the demarcation in point of view before and after. Any child psychologist who tries to tell me otherwise is full of shit (as a good many psycologists, quite demonstrably through scientific means, are).
And guess what, Disney needs to KEEP doing focus groups, because thats how it finds out what people want.
And deliver them focus group approved Edsels. Focus groups to find out what people want (as opposed to what you know is good) are one of the prime reasons "young lions" can turn up to overthrow the established order of things. Finding out what people want is viewing one's output as product in order to obtain money, as opposed to viewing one's output as valuable and desirable by its nature, and thus being likely to receive remuneration for it.
It is, by its very nature, pandering to the average so as to deliver average goods for predictably average results, and as often as not goes awry because what people tell a focus group they want is very often not actually what they buy.
Thus, as long as Disney keeps focusing on focus groups and Pixar keeps focusing on developing superior product Pixar will eat Disney's lunch at the box office, and as you yourself admit the movies come first, thus the value of the parks is degraded by devaluation of the movies. People are not going to spend money in huge gobs to go see a movie character "brought to life" that they don't give a damn about in the first place. Spending ten bucks (including travel expenses) to see a movie that has been brought virtually to their own doorstep is another matter entirely.
I have purchased Disney movies. I have even purchased Disney memorabilia. I have not been to one of the parks even though I have been in Orlando Florida (by happenstance,where I spent most of my money at Malibu Grand Prix).
Pixar will get its own back when it becomes a solidified corporate "old timer" more intent on maintaining its position through the use of focus groups, and then some other young hotshot will come along and eat their lunch by offering superior product.
Thus it is, has always been, and always shall be. ..in a free market.
Oracle has little interst in the TCO of its customers, except insofar as it can promote it to its customers.
Oracle is interested in Oracle. It is not in Oracle's interests to have its fortunes tied entirely to single propriatary OS whose owners can dictate Oracle's business to Oracle.
There is, of course, a cautionary tale to be found here by Oracle's customers as well, and TCO is not the be all and end all of the matter. It is often worth paying more to achieve some desirable end, say, independence from a single monolithic supplier.
And if Microsoft's products were truely and clearly superior you can be sure that instead of touting a lower TCO they'd be perfectly happy to tout the fact that they're a bit more expensive, but worth it.
In fact, when the whole fallacy of their TCO argument blows up in their face this rather the tack I expect they will shift to.
They may find, however, that the time has finally come when they must come about and run before the wind rather than beating into it.
Which brings us right back to my original premise.
Something most Americans are incapable of doing without moving to the woods and living off the land.
You say that like it's a bad thing.:)
You better make it public land though. If you expect to have enough land of your own to live off of (you can do it with five acres, but you really want ten, half of it mature forest, half meadow) you'll likely need a mortgage. You'll certainly need to register a deed (which is public information).
But you can actually "live off the land" fairly well in cities too. Cities are rich. Cities simply dispose of necessities and offer opportunities for making money, and spending it, under the radar, as well as a fair amount of barter.
The trick to living anonymously in cities is finding a legal place to "camp." This might well be mom's basement (or a friend's basement) or attic, or just the right sort of "Significant Other." Quasi-legal arrangements (like an old industrial loft with the permission of the owner, perhaps as "security." It isn't legal because it doesn't meet code requirements for a habitation, but the worst that can happen to you is being kicked out, not arrested or anything) are almost always possible if you are personable, useful and well dressed (there are a surprising number of very conventional people who take vicarious joy in lending support to counterculturalists. It's bums they don't like).
Bear in mind though that the second you hook up your internet connection, cable TV, whatever, in your own name you've just blown the whole anonymous "thing."
Disclaimer: I realize that not all guys like porn, just like not all chicks like Disney. Some girls like porn (my girlfriend for one), some guys like Disney.
But just about everybody likes a good movie. And the movie comes to you.
Putting Oracle on a low-end box is like putting a $3000 stereo system in a Yugo.
But about the only way you'll get someone to steal your Yugo for you. Might be worth it.
This guy walks into a NAPA store and up to the parts counter where he asks, "Excuse me, can you give me a rear view mirror for my Yugo?"
The gentleman behind the counter gets a thoughful look, scrathes his a head for a moment, and replies," Yeah, sure. Why not? It sounds like a fair trade to me."
I'm not at all sure that the same would apply to a PC with Oracle on it though. A thousand dollar PC is actually good for something and you might miss it.
I think what Oracle is good for is still an open question, but at least many find it useful. Kinda like a brick is useful when you need to swat a fly. It's a crude instrument, but it gets the job done.
You're speaking about this from the perspective of someone your age.
Who remembers very well being a child and entranced at first seeing Disney on television in color (although I'm a bit to young to have caught the Davey Crockett hat craze).
My perspective on this matter has not changed because I am now older.
In every focus group we did with children in the target age demographic. ..
Expressing the Disney Corporation point of view, and, oddly enough, lending support to my discomfort with the parks. When Disney stops focusing on focus groups and returns to simply making what it thinks are great movies they have a shot at returning themselves to their former glory.
I can only speak for myself, of course, but I think the parks are a bit of a daft idea and vaguely repulsive. You cannot bring Mickey Mouse "to life" by sticking a man in a giant plastic Mickey head. Said man will be nothing but a dead mockery of the the "live" Mickey seen on the screen.
I have a very small DVD collection, only nine titles, two of which are classic Disney animations, because they are damned fine movies.
It's about the movies, all the movies, and nothing but the movies.
If the parks all dried up and blew away I'd probably feel a whole lot better about Disney as a company and giving them any of my money for their movies. I hate to think I'm doing anything to encourage, let alone make possible that sort of shit.
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Maybe these scientists know more than I do. . .
I know that when we bought the air hockey table for the physics department we knew what we were doing.
You are correct, it isn't "frictionless," but it is a much closer approximation to frictionless than is, say, a shuffleboard table, which itself is fairly low friction as these things go. It is frictionless enough that if you were to build an airhocky table a mile long you could drive the puck from one end to the other ( for that matter a golf ball has been driven a mile across a frozen lake, which has both more surface friction and air resistence than a puck on an airhockey table).
Having so little friction that miles are inside the bounds of relevant behavior makes yards even more so and remember that Gallileo was able to deduce frictionless behavior by rolling crude wooden balls down crude wooden ramps. You can do this thing called "extrapolating."
Nor is space itself frictionless. It is close enough that one may discuss it in those terms when discussing certain phenomenom, but this too is dealing only in pragmatic approximations.
Stuff doesn't "keep going forever." Space is not empty. Energy is lost throught various "winds" and collisions, just like on an airhockey table. In the real universe "when you bump into something" you often lose energy because real collisions are not ideal, and even light loses energy when it "bumps into something" (like, oh, say, something vaguely blackish). The total energy of the universe is conserved (the universe itself being "the system"), but the total energy of individual objects is not.
The airhockey table itself is an example of this, the puck slows down because it bumps into things and transfers some its energy to that thing. Like the table itself. Which loses energy to the universe.
Think about it, and perhaps you will come to a smaller gap between what you know and what the scientists know.
KFG
Other than the fact that the function of the passwords was to prevent people from inside the department from being able to use one.
KFG
. . . they want Apple to have a monopoly in the mp3 player market.
Where on earth did you get the idea that Microsoft is going to be making an mp3 player?
How Microsoft competes will be interesting. Because for Microsoft, the real economics is about selling Windows. That's why Microsoft can spend $500 million developing Windows Media 9 Series technologies to be licensed cheaply or given away for free. Windows Media is a means to an end, a loss leader for selling the operating system--the way Apple's music store is in a way a loss leader for selling iPods. So, in that sense the strategies are similar. Microsoft hopes that the more devices and stores that support Windows Media, the more consumers that buy WMA DRM content, the better for selling Windows.
--Joe Wilcox: Microsoft Monitor Weblog, as linked to in a post above.
KFG
Bingo! That's the puppy. Thanks.
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Six bucks was a lot of money for a kid back then. Something like three months allowence for me, or a full day of mowing lawns/shoveling snow. I don't remember what happened to mine and I assume it got thrown away. I'll blame my mommy for that too, what the hell. ( I don't get to blame my mommy for not having any 60s comic books anymore though. I get to blame my best friend's mommy).
I'd completely forgotten about Dr. Nim. I had one of those too.
Memories. . . like the corners of my. .
Oh. Sorry. I'll stop now.
KFG
It was card programed, but not punchcard programed. You had a plastic card with "teeth" on one side. Sticking a bit of straw on one of the teeth was a one. A tooth without a straw on it (a "hole" between the straws) was a zero. You ended up with a gap toothed "comb." The straws were just a way to make cheap pegs.
The answer came out in binary formed from stickers of little white and black squares stuck to tab ends of cards.
KFG
. . .it sounds like the little spider transmitters Spider-Man uses to track the henchmen of his enemies. . .
Except for the sticky projectile bit tiny little tracking bugs are pretty old hat though.
You'll find the plans for one at Radio Shack in a Forrest Mims III book published in the 80s. I used them in the 90s to track R/C cars. The basic design can be traced back to the 1920s (medical researchers put them in capsules, had subjects swallow them, and then traced the path they followed through the body).
The Spidey tracker was real, doable technology in the 60s. It just took someone to do it.
I'm still waiting for my Doc Oc arms and Goblin Flyers though.
KFG
I've been trying to remember the name of that puppy too. I had one and it was fascinating (if you're the sort of kid who also takes apart those old, plastic, push button, gear driven adding machines they used to sell in the grocery stores to see how they worked. Mechanical computers were actually nearly ubiquitous in the 60s).
Anyone with 60s comic books should be able to find an ad for one in the back, right next to the 6 foot long fiberboard submarine.
I never had one of those. I still blame my mommy.
KFG
I'm still waiting to get my, ummmm, hands on, Feel-A-round!
KFG
Non!
KFG
. . .but fortunately at the last minute I actually checked. . .
Ah, if only I scrupulously followed that simple dictum I'd have a few less assholes myself.
In colonial times, before all the shooting and declarations and stuff, "Lord Governor" was actually a title, and thus through historical usage is still considered usable (as is Mayor).
Personally I hold that such usage is not correct under the Republic, for exactly the same reasons that it is not correct for "President", the title is that of the office, not the man, but I'm not going to make a big stink about it or anything, and on those occasions when I've had dealings with ex-governors or mayors I've always used "Mr.", which is not only always correct, but has never given offense.
KFG
Yeah, I think I saw that at a Joie Chitwood Thrill Show once. It got kinda pathetic when they tried to jump the school busses though.
I'd guess they have to try to talk a new woman into trying it for every performance.
KFG
I was sitting on my front porch and a guy went by "walking" his dog by letting it pull him along on his bicycle. The little lightbulb thingy went off in my head (Ow! Stop it.)
Since that time I've "designed" several variants, also in my head, but I ran into a slight problem on approaching the development phase.
I don't particularly care for dogs.
My cats don't particularly care for the idea of being hitched up to a cart either.
And thus technology is set back decades by the peculiarities of a single man.
Oh, yeah, you can also already buy one commercially, so it's not like it's really a novel idea (mushers use them to keep their dogs in shape during the summer season. My idea is to make an ultralight one specifically tuned for running in the modern urban enviroment. Carbon fiber, racing bicycle wheels, that sort of thing).
Here's an example:
Dog Cart
KFG
WTF??
It is wrong to call Lord Norman Sir Foster.
KFG
. . .why can't a couple more carry a 1000+ pound personal aircraft.
Because "a couple more" would only provide 24 lbs of additional thrust.
KFG
Bush was never a Prime Minister, AFAK...
But if he were it would be improper to call him President Bush in anything other than the past tense.
Jimmy Carter is "President" Carter only when refering to a time when he was the actual sitting President, and contemporaneously he may be properly refered to as "Former President" Carter or addressed as "Mr." Carter.
Nevermind the fact that "President" and "Prime Misister" are actually the names of the offices, not a title, and the forms are different. To take something of an extreme example it would be improper to address Wendy Carlos as "Mr.".
If one did address Ms. Carlos as Mr. or "The former Mr. Carlos" it would likely be taken as a delibate slight at his current status.
So too, for addressing Lord Norman Foster as the "Former Sir." Without contextual qualifications it implies an impuning of his right to be a Lord.
misterpies made a double error of his own, however. There is not, and never was either a Sir or Lord Foster. The title attaches to the name of the recipient, not the recipient's father.
Thus it is Sir/Lord Norman, or Sir/Lord Norman Foster, but never Sir/Lord Foster (Just as Churchill was Lord Randolph).
KFG
Fact is, everybody THINKS they remember what it was like, but simply put, you saw the world differently then than you do now, and I don't really see how you could argue otherwise.
.in a free market.
And I wouldn't. Many of my points of view have shifted, but many of them have not, and I know the difference between the two. I adored my Mickey Mouse hat and Mickey Mouse watch as a child (and I wish I knew what the hell happened to my watch. It "disappeared" while in parental custody), as I adored the movies and the TV show, but so no point in traveling great distances at great expense to see a man in a costume.
I fully remember, at about the age of five, figuring out by my own powers of reason that the Easter Bunny, Tooth Fairy and Santa Claus were all, by the necessities of observable reality, fairy tales and the demarcation in point of view before and after. Any child psychologist who tries to tell me otherwise is full of shit (as a good many psycologists, quite demonstrably through scientific means, are).
And guess what, Disney needs to KEEP doing focus groups, because thats how it finds out what people want.
And deliver them focus group approved Edsels. Focus groups to find out what people want (as opposed to what you know is good) are one of the prime reasons "young lions" can turn up to overthrow the established order of things. Finding out what people want is viewing one's output as product in order to obtain money, as opposed to viewing one's output as valuable and desirable by its nature, and thus being likely to receive remuneration for it.
It is, by its very nature, pandering to the average so as to deliver average goods for predictably average results, and as often as not goes awry because what people tell a focus group they want is very often not actually what they buy.
Thus, as long as Disney keeps focusing on focus groups and Pixar keeps focusing on developing superior product Pixar will eat Disney's lunch at the box office, and as you yourself admit the movies come first, thus the value of the parks is degraded by devaluation of the movies. People are not going to spend money in huge gobs to go see a movie character "brought to life" that they don't give a damn about in the first place. Spending ten bucks (including travel expenses) to see a movie that has been brought virtually to their own doorstep is another matter entirely.
I have purchased Disney movies. I have even purchased Disney memorabilia. I have not been to one of the parks even though I have been in Orlando Florida (by happenstance,where I spent most of my money at Malibu Grand Prix).
Pixar will get its own back when it becomes a solidified corporate "old timer" more intent on maintaining its position through the use of focus groups, and then some other young hotshot will come along and eat their lunch by offering superior product.
Thus it is, has always been, and always shall be. .
KFG
Oracle has little interst in the TCO of its customers, except insofar as it can promote it to its customers.
Oracle is interested in Oracle. It is not in Oracle's interests to have its fortunes tied entirely to single propriatary OS whose owners can dictate Oracle's business to Oracle.
There is, of course, a cautionary tale to be found here by Oracle's customers as well, and TCO is not the be all and end all of the matter. It is often worth paying more to achieve some desirable end, say, independence from a single monolithic supplier.
And if Microsoft's products were truely and clearly superior you can be sure that instead of touting a lower TCO they'd be perfectly happy to tout the fact that they're a bit more expensive, but worth it.
In fact, when the whole fallacy of their TCO argument blows up in their face this rather the tack I expect they will shift to.
They may find, however, that the time has finally come when they must come about and run before the wind rather than beating into it.
Which brings us right back to my original premise.
KFG
Something most Americans are incapable of doing without moving to the woods and living off the land.
:)
You say that like it's a bad thing.
You better make it public land though. If you expect to have enough land of your own to live off of (you can do it with five acres, but you really want ten, half of it mature forest, half meadow) you'll likely need a mortgage. You'll certainly need to register a deed (which is public information).
But you can actually "live off the land" fairly well in cities too. Cities are rich. Cities simply dispose of necessities and offer opportunities for making money, and spending it, under the radar, as well as a fair amount of barter.
The trick to living anonymously in cities is finding a legal place to "camp." This might well be mom's basement (or a friend's basement) or attic, or just the right sort of "Significant Other." Quasi-legal arrangements (like an old industrial loft with the permission of the owner, perhaps as "security." It isn't legal because it doesn't meet code requirements for a habitation, but the worst that can happen to you is being kicked out, not arrested or anything) are almost always possible if you are personable, useful and well dressed (there are a surprising number of very conventional people who take vicarious joy in lending support to counterculturalists. It's bums they don't like).
Bear in mind though that the second you hook up your internet connection, cable TV, whatever, in your own name you've just blown the whole anonymous "thing."
KFG
Disclaimer: I realize that not all guys like porn, just like not all chicks like Disney. Some girls like porn (my girlfriend for one), some guys like Disney.
But just about everybody likes a good movie. And the movie comes to you.
KFG
Putting Oracle on a low-end box is like putting a $3000 stereo system in a Yugo.
But about the only way you'll get someone to steal your Yugo for you. Might be worth it.
This guy walks into a NAPA store and up to the parts counter where he asks, "Excuse me, can you give me a rear view mirror for my Yugo?"
The gentleman behind the counter gets a thoughful look, scrathes his a head for a moment, and replies," Yeah, sure. Why not? It sounds like a fair trade to me."
I'm not at all sure that the same would apply to a PC with Oracle on it though. A thousand dollar PC is actually good for something and you might miss it.
I think what Oracle is good for is still an open question, but at least many find it useful. Kinda like a brick is useful when you need to swat a fly. It's a crude instrument, but it gets the job done.
But I advise not using it on Windows.
KFG
Give away something for free to drive sales? Don't be daft man, why would anyone buy milk when they can get it for free?
(Hey, ya know? This cheese really is pretty good. You'll have to excuse me now, I'm off to the dairy aisle. Later.)
KFG
. . .now its about the parks. Things have changed for them.
Exactly!
KFG
You're speaking about this from the perspective of someone your age.
.
Who remembers very well being a child and entranced at first seeing Disney on television in color (although I'm a bit to young to have caught the Davey Crockett hat craze).
My perspective on this matter has not changed because I am now older.
In every focus group we did with children in the target age demographic. .
Expressing the Disney Corporation point of view, and, oddly enough, lending support to my discomfort with the parks. When Disney stops focusing on focus groups and returns to simply making what it thinks are great movies they have a shot at returning themselves to their former glory.
KFG
Would that be the Chinese version?
No, silly. That would be the Flash version, Oh Ooooooh! King of the impossible. He'll save every one of us.
KFG
I can only speak for myself, of course, but I think the parks are a bit of a daft idea and vaguely repulsive. You cannot bring Mickey Mouse "to life" by sticking a man in a giant plastic Mickey head. Said man will be nothing but a dead mockery of the the "live" Mickey seen on the screen.
I have a very small DVD collection, only nine titles, two of which are classic Disney animations, because they are damned fine movies.
It's about the movies, all the movies, and nothing but the movies.
If the parks all dried up and blew away I'd probably feel a whole lot better about Disney as a company and giving them any of my money for their movies. I hate to think I'm doing anything to encourage, let alone make possible that sort of shit.
KFG