Sounds like one of the major pieces of a geek house. the fast, (sorta) cheap internet access. however, I cant complain, as I sit on an OC48 at work all the time:)
I dont think that the problem lies with bigger and badder vulnerabilities, it lies with the fact that the people who are admin'ing these servers have not paid their dues properly.
Hear me out on this one.
The industry has been so cheapened by the fact that any yahoo that can read a book can pass an MCSE exam and get a 70k/yr job doing admin work on so-called "high-end" NT servers. When in reality this is like sending a kid who just got his driver's license at 16 to run the Indy 500. No driver's license or MCSE certificate can substitute for real world experience at the helm.
And that comes out over time when you have inexperienced people out there. Common, fairly simple bugs and holes which come about through the normal life of software, become more serious when you don't have people with experience to handle them properly and do simple things like, say, remove the default configuration on software that is wide open like wu-ftpd and IIS. (Not to pick on any OS in particular, there)
I think the NIPC warning just signifies from them what most of us (/.'ers and the like) have known for quite some time, that vulnerabilities are more serious when you don't have qualified people to take care of them
Moderate me as off-topic, as it is a bit off topic, but at least hear me out.
I cant get to the article right now (/. effect again) but it seems that people are pissed about the whole GNU/HURD/Linux she-bang. And from what I can gather, it seems that Stallman is having the same sort of problem that organizations like PETA, The Sierra Club, etc. seem to have.
They take what would normally be a good idea, then get so worked up about it, that they alienate everyone who might have liked their idea into hating them. Cruelty to animals is wrong, however, when PETA says that animal shouldnt even be owned, leashed, or put in a zoo. When the Sierra Club tries to protect the wilderness, I'm all for that, I love to hike, bike and be outdoors. However, the wilderness is not just for the Sierra Club and its members/affiliates.
Free software is a beautiful thing, it enables software to be built not to corporate standards of obscurity, but through public standards of 'everyone checks the code, and it doesnt go out till its READY'
Just because Stallman wants GNU to be a pure/virginal thing for him to put his name on, doesnt necessarily mean that that's what WE want.
This sort of infighting that I see over stupid stuff like a NAME should stop, or it will destroy this cool thing called 'Open-Source' (I paid a royalty to JonKatz to use the term).
It took M$ almost 20 years of gluing stuff to DOS to get to the semi-stable Windows2000. Last I had heard, Linux as a whole has been stable since about '93 or so. That means that it only took 2 years to get Linux to hold up like the big corporate stuff. Now, imagine what would happen if everyone stopped bitching and started writing cool software WITH each other? There are easily a hundred times more Free software programmers than there are windows programmers, yet the industry still doesnt take our kind seriously, and this is the reason why.
Let's start working toward that common goal that hear so much about.
I dont expect to get moderated up or anything, but in my personal saga of learning linux from scratch, then finding out how much I dislike redhat's distro, I bought the Osborne book, then bought the O'Reilly Debian book. Kinda cool to see that I inadvertantly steered myself on the right path...btw, the comment about the cd with the debian book is correct. Install it plain the apt-get dist-upgrade, or get a recent cd from your local LUG meeting or installfest (like I did).
"While it does not appear that Congress anticipated that persons who
legitimately acquired copies of works should be denied the ability to
access these works, there is no unqualified right to access works on
any particular machine or device of the user's choosing. There are also
commercially available options for owners of DVD ROM drives and
legitimate DVD discs. Given the market alternatives, an exemption to
benefit individuals who wish to play their DVDs on computers using the
Linux operating system does not appear to be warranted.
Wow, last time I had heard, Linux/*BSD users numbered around 7-9 MILLION. That may be a fraction of the total number of PC owners out there, but let's do a little new math for a moment:
As a whole, most Linux/BSD users are at a higher level of understanding when it comes to computers, networks, the way things works, than your average windows user. Now, let's say that half of them, have a DVD player on their machine, now we're at 4 million users.
Half of those are hardcore zealots like myself who refuse to buy a DVD player or a DVD. Now we're at 2 million users.
2 MILLION users * 20-30$ per DVD = 40-60 million dollars in lost revenue, just as a minimum, not including people like me who love movies and would definitely buy more than one DVD.
The Linux contingent may be a small percentage, but I have yet to see ANY company that would ignore that amount of money in earnings, for any reason. Yet they do, and get away with doing away with consumer choice, fair use, and my right to do whatever the hell I want with something that I have purchased.
Now is the point where I write yet another letter to my congressmen asking them why they would back such a thing as the DMCA, and so CLOSE to election time no less?
Imagine this if you will, those 7-9 million users all voting for the same person who represents their opinions, and not just financial interests. Wouldnt determine a new president, but it would certainly get a LOT of peoples attention.
We had ESR at our local LUG meeting a few months back, unfortunately, I couldnt make it, but I hear he was quite a good speaker. At an install-fest about a month ago, we had a Corel rep show up to help out. How did we get him? one of the guys met him in line at Fried Electronics. Go Figure...
I have had great SERVICE with cox@home here in Arizona...I have had horrible CUSTOMER SERVICE with Cox@home in Arizona.
In the year that I have had it, it has gone down once for a period of more than 5 mins or so, and that was for 11 days, for a reason that I was never told of, went through 4 modems, 3 techs, and about 15 CS reps to get it fixed, every one of which was claiming that the lines in my house had suddenly gone 'bad' as they put it, and that I should have them checked and certified (by WHO?!?!) before I call back.
It seems that @home suffers from large service provider-itis, that of not giving a rat's ass about the people that are shelling out the money to keep them in business. Call your local telco, power company, long distance provider, et cetera, they don't care because there arent any other options for consumers to change to. You are a captive audience and they provide the service that you want/need. I guess you could call them the data pimps and we are their little ho's.:-)
The REAL reason this is happening is that some Super-Genius Dr. Evil-type has taken control of Mir and is planning to crash it into the ocean, thereby destroying the ecosystem, causing massive tidal waves and destroying Redmond, WA!!!!
O, the horror, O, the humanity, ad nauseum...
Sorta gives a whole new meaning to the movie title "From Russia with Love"
It's everything technological. I work for a cell phone company, The Cell Phone Company. We are opening stores all OVER the damn place, and every single store is expected to do just as well as the store that opened up right before it. But for some "unknown" reason, they don't.
Market saturation is easy for you and I to understand, being the ones who genenrally shell out the money for the newest, latest and greatest gadget. But for people who don't (read: Marketing idiots and Accountants) the concept makes them blow capacitors like its going out of style.
Amazigly, one of the things that causes this whole trend is good products, if everything was sub-standard, we would NEED to buy a new computer or cell phone every year. But, since manufacturers have been basically forced by the consumer to build things that work, we have stuff that doesnt break like it did even 5 years ago.
[rant]
Want to know what contributes to IT staff leaving in droves? Imagine the following scenario:
I start at company X as a contractor, no big deal, it comes with the territory, I am hoping to go permanent as I just got married, bought a house, etc, and would like a bit of stability, as I now have *gasp*, a life.
I BUST MY ASS.
I BUST MY ASS.
I get hired on to a permanent status, at a pretty good salary, considering all I have is experience, no certs, no school, etc.
I continue to bust my ass, since, phenominally, I like my job, I like the people, get my own hours, etc.
I get a review. My manager lauds my abilities to keep people happy and do a good job, says that I am a bit of a smart-ass at times, but not in a bad way. He then proceeds to give me a 22 CENT raise. Add 22 cents per hour to 42K/yr and what do you get? Thats right, Jack Shit.
During said review period, another contractor comes on, has very little experience, but can kiss ass in a way that is God-like. When it becomes apparent that I am not very happy with my raise, he begins to butter up said boss, and is soon hired on. He is given more money, more stock, and is basically made to be my boss. Bear in mind that I am NOT allowed to apply for this job since it will conveniently be filled 2 weeks before my required one year tenure in my current position.
So, to sum up, my manager gave me a shitty raise for hard work and the 5 years of experience that I currently have, and gave the "6 mos of experience in Windows 95" ass-kisser the job that I wasn't even allowed to apply for.
To sum up:
1: Piss-poor management, have a little respect for the fact that I make your sorry butt look GOOD for YOUR bosses, yet you don't want to let me get training in something new because "It doesn't relate to your current job"
2: The Shitty IT person mentioned below rears his ugly head again. It's people like him, who are simply out for the oodles of money that everyone says is in this field that are making it worse for the rest of us. The reason we (read: Slashdot community) do what we do is not for the money, it's for the challenge. Granted, money is nice, I like money, it helps me pay my mortgage and trite little things like that, but it is NOT the be-all, end-all reason that I do what I do.
[/rant]
Here in Phoenix (USWorst/Qwest territory), Sprint has been rolling out wireless technology offering cable speeds, ANYWHERE.
With the exception of being behind one of the 3 hills here, you can pretty much get it anywhere.
I know that Phoenix isnt the only area for that product, but I cant remember what the other areas are.
ALSO, I have a friend who just quit from my current company and went to work for, you guessed it, USWest, working on a new product that they havent rolled out yet....Wireless DSL.
Plus, isnt there some company out there that just got their stuff OK'ed by the FCC to start doing internet access over power lines?
I just bought a new house, and I got quite lucky, the builders finished the framing on a firday, and started the drywall to following monday.
I did my cabling on saturday and sunday, cost me 150$ and about 5 hours of time to do it, rather than the 2G's the builder wanted to put in CAT3. CAT3??!
I put in 2 cat5's and one coax to every room, enough for 2 pc's, two phone, and one TV in every room. Not that I want that many tv's, but its nice to know its there.
My brother hates me, he lives in an apt. with cables running all over the floor. *chuckle*
What if, perhaps, somebody did crack SDMI, and just didn't tell the music industry? I know the 10 grand free is hard to pass up, but think about what would happen if they released it thinking it was indestructible, then the crack for it appears THE VERY NEXT DAY?
It would certainly make them wake up and realize the money they are wasting trying to take control of our music/movies/minds.
If anyone besides Amazon (the largest online reseller of just about evertyhing) tried this, (i.e. Auto dealership, dept store, etc.) they would probably be sued, what makes Amazon so exempt from taking such blantant advantage of their customers?
What was it, like 15 years ago that a judge determined that it was PERFECTLY legal to use a vcr to record programming off television?
This proves a theory that I have had regarding the MPAA and RIAA. That they don't treat their product (music, movies, television) as such, they treat it as a drug.
Follow me on this rant for a bit.
A drug dealer does what? They will generally give you small, low quality samples of merchandise. Then, once you are hooked, they up the quality to get you completely addicted to their merchandise. Then, if you want to get it from somewhere else, large men with baseball bats show up and make you "want" to go back to your original dealer.
The MPAA/RIAA does what? They will generally give out low quality, free samples (radio, television, etc.) You decide that you want the real thing, so you buy the CD, VHS tape, or *gasp* DVD.
You then decide that you want to use your stuff in your own way, and not go through their channels, be it in the form of an mp3 file, watching your DVD on a linux box, whatever. What happens? The big boys generally don't send large men with baseball bats, they send lawyers instead.
Note to Hillary Rosen and Jack Valenti: Once something has entered my house, either in DVD/CD/broadcast form, that I have PAID FOR, you damn well better believe that its mine, and NOT yours.
A long time ago (4.5 years) I worked at a company that sold just that. Medical software that ran on Unix, they were just starting to get wind of Linux back then...
It's called PCN (Physicians computer network) and it probably would port to unix pretty well, as there were versions THEN for SCO, Xenix, AIX and HP-UX, IIRC.
Their website is www.scinetinc.com and they are located in Scottsdale, AZ.
Hope this helps!
That information on the net should be free, provided that credit is given where appropriate.
I feel that I should have the right to use someone else's idea for my new web page, and give them credit for it, especially if they simply ask for credit. If someone says that it's their idea and no one else's, fine. They can have it. Ideas that arent shared, may as well be dead. Information DOES want to be free (as in speech), and we could all stand to take some learning from our kindergarten classes we all slept through so long ago.
Well, good for AOL for branching out to make their sh*(&@#ty service available on linux. Objectively, its a smart business move. Subjectively, I would wonder if an AOL'ed dist. of linux would have the same problems that windows does. You know, 'magically' lost network configurations for the rest of your PC, that were magically working before AOL 4 or better went on the machine. Pop-up ads (our FAVORITE!).
SPAM, nearly unending amounts of spam! Let's put this perspective, my own mother has been on the internet with AOL for the last 18 mos, doesnt sign up for anything free on the internet, and gets 15-20 spams a day, a majority of which are pr0n.
I have been on the internet for nearly 5 years now, I sign up for all the free crap I find, and I still don't get the caliber of spam that is generated by AOL's quest for revenue.
This wasn't meant to be a rant against AOL and their marketing practices, but I guess it turned out that way. I guess what I was trying to say is that AOL's type of business does not in any way shape or form belong in the 'linux' model of business. Linux/*BSD/whatever has been successful because it has not adopted AOL's business methods, let's keep it that way.
that, and I pity the first poor schmuck who puts AOL on their linux box....:-)
Well, I havent seen Titan A.E. but it looked pretty interesting and seemed like it had a good story, I read a book simiilar to what the trailers showed a couple years back, but I cnat remember the name of it now.
Here is the problem as "I" see it:
People now dont want to be impressed with a story, plot or other such petty concerns, they want big, neat looking, and something that will keep their 2 year old busy long eough for them to get some peace and quiet.
Dont get me wrong, I like CG movies, cartoons, etc (ReBoot kicks a**!) but when I want to see a real classic with good, REAL GOOD animation, I wont watch some crappy anime POS (flame me now), I will watch some original Disney movies, or some old bugs bunny.
People want to be so impressed by the MOVIE itself, that in order to make a buck, Movie producers and writers have to leave the story behind, or else you watch their hard work and animation go down the tubes because some moron thinks the Pokemon movie is a decent way to spend a saturday afternoon.
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Sounds like one of the major pieces of a geek house. the fast, (sorta) cheap internet access. however, I cant complain, as I sit on an OC48 at work all the time :)
Hear me out on this one.
The industry has been so cheapened by the fact that any yahoo that can read a book can pass an MCSE exam and get a 70k/yr job doing admin work on so-called "high-end" NT servers. When in reality this is like sending a kid who just got his driver's license at 16 to run the Indy 500. No driver's license or MCSE certificate can substitute for real world experience at the helm.
And that comes out over time when you have inexperienced people out there. Common, fairly simple bugs and holes which come about through the normal life of software, become more serious when you don't have people with experience to handle them properly and do simple things like, say, remove the default configuration on software that is wide open like wu-ftpd and IIS. (Not to pick on any OS in particular, there)
I think the NIPC warning just signifies from them what most of us (/.'ers and the like) have known for quite some time, that vulnerabilities are more serious when you don't have qualified people to take care of them
Just my 0000 0010 cents worth...
Now, if they would just get rid of the damn region coding on the discs themselves....Talk about your average comsumer pipe dream.
Damned if I can remember the link much less where to find it, but the "Save the Dot-Coms" that was on here a while back seems appropriate, eh?
I cant get to the article right now (/. effect again) but it seems that people are pissed about the whole GNU/HURD/Linux she-bang. And from what I can gather, it seems that Stallman is having the same sort of problem that organizations like PETA, The Sierra Club, etc. seem to have.
They take what would normally be a good idea, then get so worked up about it, that they alienate everyone who might have liked their idea into hating them. Cruelty to animals is wrong, however, when PETA says that animal shouldnt even be owned, leashed, or put in a zoo. When the Sierra Club tries to protect the wilderness, I'm all for that, I love to hike, bike and be outdoors. However, the wilderness is not just for the Sierra Club and its members/affiliates.
Free software is a beautiful thing, it enables software to be built not to corporate standards of obscurity, but through public standards of 'everyone checks the code, and it doesnt go out till its READY'
Just because Stallman wants GNU to be a pure/virginal thing for him to put his name on, doesnt necessarily mean that that's what WE want.
This sort of infighting that I see over stupid stuff like a NAME should stop, or it will destroy this cool thing called 'Open-Source' (I paid a royalty to JonKatz to use the term).
It took M$ almost 20 years of gluing stuff to DOS to get to the semi-stable Windows2000. Last I had heard, Linux as a whole has been stable since about '93 or so. That means that it only took 2 years to get Linux to hold up like the big corporate stuff. Now, imagine what would happen if everyone stopped bitching and started writing cool software WITH each other? There are easily a hundred times more Free software programmers than there are windows programmers, yet the industry still doesnt take our kind seriously, and this is the reason why.
Let's start working toward that common goal that hear so much about.
I dont expect to get moderated up or anything, but in my personal saga of learning linux from scratch, then finding out how much I dislike redhat's distro, I bought the Osborne book, then bought the O'Reilly Debian book. Kinda cool to see that I inadvertantly steered myself on the right path...btw, the comment about the cd with the debian book is correct. Install it plain the apt-get dist-upgrade, or get a recent cd from your local LUG meeting or installfest (like I did).
Wow, last time I had heard, Linux/*BSD users numbered around 7-9 MILLION. That may be a fraction of the total number of PC owners out there, but let's do a little new math for a moment:
As a whole, most Linux/BSD users are at a higher level of understanding when it comes to computers, networks, the way things works, than your average windows user. Now, let's say that half of them, have a DVD player on their machine, now we're at 4 million users.
Half of those are hardcore zealots like myself who refuse to buy a DVD player or a DVD. Now we're at 2 million users.
2 MILLION users * 20-30$ per DVD = 40-60 million dollars in lost revenue, just as a minimum, not including people like me who love movies and would definitely buy more than one DVD.
The Linux contingent may be a small percentage, but I have yet to see ANY company that would ignore that amount of money in earnings, for any reason. Yet they do, and get away with doing away with consumer choice, fair use, and my right to do whatever the hell I want with something that I have purchased.
Now is the point where I write yet another letter to my congressmen asking them why they would back such a thing as the DMCA, and so CLOSE to election time no less?
Imagine this if you will, those 7-9 million users all voting for the same person who represents their opinions, and not just financial interests. Wouldnt determine a new president, but it would certainly get a LOT of peoples attention.
We had ESR at our local LUG meeting a few months back, unfortunately, I couldnt make it, but I hear he was quite a good speaker. At an install-fest about a month ago, we had a Corel rep show up to help out. How did we get him? one of the guys met him in line at Fried Electronics. Go Figure...
In the year that I have had it, it has gone down once for a period of more than 5 mins or so, and that was for 11 days, for a reason that I was never told of, went through 4 modems, 3 techs, and about 15 CS reps to get it fixed, every one of which was claiming that the lines in my house had suddenly gone 'bad' as they put it, and that I should have them checked and certified (by WHO?!?!) before I call back.
It seems that @home suffers from large service provider-itis, that of not giving a rat's ass about the people that are shelling out the money to keep them in business. Call your local telco, power company, long distance provider, et cetera, they don't care because there arent any other options for consumers to change to. You are a captive audience and they provide the service that you want/need. I guess you could call them the data pimps and we are their little ho's. :-)
O, the horror, O, the humanity, ad nauseum...
Sorta gives a whole new meaning to the movie title "From Russia with Love"
Market saturation is easy for you and I to understand, being the ones who genenrally shell out the money for the newest, latest and greatest gadget. But for people who don't (read: Marketing idiots and Accountants) the concept makes them blow capacitors like its going out of style.
Amazigly, one of the things that causes this whole trend is good products, if everything was sub-standard, we would NEED to buy a new computer or cell phone every year. But, since manufacturers have been basically forced by the consumer to build things that work, we have stuff that doesnt break like it did even 5 years ago.
Just my 0000 0010 cents worth.
I start at company X as a contractor, no big deal, it comes with the territory, I am hoping to go permanent as I just got married, bought a house, etc, and would like a bit of stability, as I now have *gasp*, a life.
I BUST MY ASS.
I BUST MY ASS.
I get hired on to a permanent status, at a pretty good salary, considering all I have is experience, no certs, no school, etc. I continue to bust my ass, since, phenominally, I like my job, I like the people, get my own hours, etc.
I get a review. My manager lauds my abilities to keep people happy and do a good job, says that I am a bit of a smart-ass at times, but not in a bad way. He then proceeds to give me a 22 CENT raise. Add 22 cents per hour to 42K/yr and what do you get? Thats right, Jack Shit.
During said review period, another contractor comes on, has very little experience, but can kiss ass in a way that is God-like. When it becomes apparent that I am not very happy with my raise, he begins to butter up said boss, and is soon hired on. He is given more money, more stock, and is basically made to be my boss. Bear in mind that I am NOT allowed to apply for this job since it will conveniently be filled 2 weeks before my required one year tenure in my current position.
So, to sum up, my manager gave me a shitty raise for hard work and the 5 years of experience that I currently have, and gave the "6 mos of experience in Windows 95" ass-kisser the job that I wasn't even allowed to apply for.
To sum up:
1: Piss-poor management, have a little respect for the fact that I make your sorry butt look GOOD for YOUR bosses, yet you don't want to let me get training in something new because "It doesn't relate to your current job"
2: The Shitty IT person mentioned below rears his ugly head again. It's people like him, who are simply out for the oodles of money that everyone says is in this field that are making it worse for the rest of us. The reason we (read: Slashdot community) do what we do is not for the money, it's for the challenge. Granted, money is nice, I like money, it helps me pay my mortgage and trite little things like that, but it is NOT the be-all, end-all reason that I do what I do. [/rant]
With the exception of being behind one of the 3 hills here, you can pretty much get it anywhere. I know that Phoenix isnt the only area for that product, but I cant remember what the other areas are.
ALSO, I have a friend who just quit from my current company and went to work for, you guessed it, USWest, working on a new product that they havent rolled out yet....Wireless DSL.
Plus, isnt there some company out there that just got their stuff OK'ed by the FCC to start doing internet access over power lines?
Stuff to think about
I did my cabling on saturday and sunday, cost me 150$ and about 5 hours of time to do it, rather than the 2G's the builder wanted to put in CAT3. CAT3??!
I put in 2 cat5's and one coax to every room, enough for 2 pc's, two phone, and one TV in every room. Not that I want that many tv's, but its nice to know its there.
My brother hates me, he lives in an apt. with cables running all over the floor. *chuckle*
It would certainly make them wake up and realize the money they are wasting trying to take control of our music/movies/minds.
Hot Grits.
If anyone besides Amazon (the largest online reseller of just about evertyhing) tried this, (i.e. Auto dealership, dept store, etc.) they would probably be sued, what makes Amazon so exempt from taking such blantant advantage of their customers?
This proves a theory that I have had regarding the MPAA and RIAA. That they don't treat their product (music, movies, television) as such, they treat it as a drug.
Follow me on this rant for a bit.
A drug dealer does what? They will generally give you small, low quality samples of merchandise. Then, once you are hooked, they up the quality to get you completely addicted to their merchandise. Then, if you want to get it from somewhere else, large men with baseball bats show up and make you "want" to go back to your original dealer.
The MPAA/RIAA does what? They will generally give out low quality, free samples (radio, television, etc.) You decide that you want the real thing, so you buy the CD, VHS tape, or *gasp* DVD. You then decide that you want to use your stuff in your own way, and not go through their channels, be it in the form of an mp3 file, watching your DVD on a linux box, whatever. What happens? The big boys generally don't send large men with baseball bats, they send lawyers instead.
Note to Hillary Rosen and Jack Valenti: Once something has entered my house, either in DVD/CD/broadcast form, that I have PAID FOR, you damn well better believe that its mine, and NOT yours.
A long time ago (4.5 years) I worked at a company that sold just that. Medical software that ran on Unix, they were just starting to get wind of Linux back then... It's called PCN (Physicians computer network) and it probably would port to unix pretty well, as there were versions THEN for SCO, Xenix, AIX and HP-UX, IIRC. Their website is www.scinetinc.com and they are located in Scottsdale, AZ. Hope this helps!
I feel that I should have the right to use someone else's idea for my new web page, and give them credit for it, especially if they simply ask for credit. If someone says that it's their idea and no one else's, fine. They can have it. Ideas that arent shared, may as well be dead. Information DOES want to be free (as in speech), and we could all stand to take some learning from our kindergarten classes we all slept through so long ago.
To share with your friend is a nice thing to do.
SPAM, nearly unending amounts of spam! Let's put this perspective, my own mother has been on the internet with AOL for the last 18 mos, doesnt sign up for anything free on the internet, and gets 15-20 spams a day, a majority of which are pr0n. I have been on the internet for nearly 5 years now, I sign up for all the free crap I find, and I still don't get the caliber of spam that is generated by AOL's quest for revenue.
This wasn't meant to be a rant against AOL and their marketing practices, but I guess it turned out that way. I guess what I was trying to say is that AOL's type of business does not in any way shape or form belong in the 'linux' model of business. Linux/*BSD/whatever has been successful because it has not adopted AOL's business methods, let's keep it that way.
that, and I pity the first poor schmuck who puts AOL on their linux box.... :-)
Disney - part of MPAA
MPAA - suing 2600.com ad other for the right to be able to write a DVD player for "the worst OS in history".
It's all pretty clear now, isn't it?
Shouldn't this on msnbc.com? *grin*
Here is the problem as "I" see it:
People now dont want to be impressed with a story, plot or other such petty concerns, they want big, neat looking, and something that will keep their 2 year old busy long eough for them to get some peace and quiet.
Dont get me wrong, I like CG movies, cartoons, etc (ReBoot kicks a**!) but when I want to see a real classic with good, REAL GOOD animation, I wont watch some crappy anime POS (flame me now), I will watch some original Disney movies, or some old bugs bunny.
People want to be so impressed by the MOVIE itself, that in order to make a buck, Movie producers and writers have to leave the story behind, or else you watch their hard work and animation go down the tubes because some moron thinks the Pokemon movie is a decent way to spend a saturday afternoon.