Superman was a starmaker role for Christopher Reeve, and I think they need to get an unknown for the next film.
I also thought the "Death of Superman" storyline sucked. I'm glad they ditched it. Keven Smith was on record saying that the studio has been preasuring him to make many stupid changes to the story.
The "Bats vs. Supes" story sounded like a mess. All involved should count themselves lucky that the film didn't get made.
Warner Bros. should be patient and do this right instead of competing with Hulk, Daredevil, Spiderman II, X-Men II. If they rush Superman it will suck and they will ruin it they way they ruined Batman.
The real question is this: "Will hackers still be able to love Linux if it become a real competitor to Microsoft?"
Will this all be fun when mom calls in the evening wanting to know how to build the new kernel? Or when some little Britney wannabe says "Linux" the wrong way? Or when what we do and talk about at the LUG meetings isn't unique anymore? When the club is open to all members, will it still be worth belonging?
Maybe that's why some people fear Red Hat. The more mainstream they get, the closer all of those things become.
Ah. One tower for 200,000 homes. What about commercial demands? Industrial needs? An average US city might need 2 or three of these things.
Do the enviromentalists really think this is a better method over the next 100-200 years than nuclear or oil?
A one mile tall tower could create some castostophic effects should it fall. Beyond just terrorism, accidents still happen. These would be an air traffic hazard.
The other thing that the press is not going to make clear is that an EEG is only a tool, and a DOCTOR must then enter that process and make a determination of the patient's health. Airports are not going to find people with the skills to conduct and read an EEG who will work for burger-flipping wages.
Airport EEGs would be more expensive than the bomb sniifing machines, the see-thru-your-clothes machines, and all of the other crazy ideas that will kill off air travel.
EEGs can help determine brain damage or death. The press is going to make this sound like a TV that shows pictures of what's in your head.
And perhaps that's the real goal here - to make the under-educated third world believe that terrorism will be more difficult, if not impossible. After all, the Americans can now read minds. The idea is the most powerful thing here. This doesn't have to work, it only has to make people THINK that it works.
It's is soooo misleading the way this story is being headlined everywhere today.
An electroencephalogram (EEG) is not capable knowing what images or thoughts are in your head. An EEG can only measure electrical activity and create a graph of that activity. Think of the output of a heart monitor - a line goes up and down in time to the heart's beating. Now think of a couple dozen lines that represent the electrical spikes in major nodes of the brain.
An EEG can detect abnormal brain activity as a result of disease, head trauma, or seazure. It cannot tell me if you are an asshole.
This idea is a red herring. I think the fear it creates is more useful to law enforcement than the actual tool itself. The output of an EEG is not very useful in a court of law.
The Nelson figures can be skewed by the fact that Tivo can "push" a program, and Tivo can watch a program that the members of the household will never view. Networks will know that the numbers are junk, but they will still base advertising rates on them.
I can't help but notice that some of these older space probes may have cost more in 1970's dollar's when adjusted for inflation, but if they last for 30 years there was the potential to get more for you money over the years. It certainly seem more care went into the planning than some recent missions.
I know that in trademark law, if a company fails to vigorously enforce a trademark they lose claim to it. The effect of this is McDonald's sometimes sues a little family restarant called McDonald's and other strange insane lawsuits.
Does this same thing not apply to patent law at all? A company has a patent, allows it to be deluted, and then goes after everybody. In trademark law, this would be thrown out of court.
Now you could say "Trademarks and Patents are two different things" but they are really aren't. And so I'd like a laywer to explain to me WTF gives companies the right to broadside tech firms every few months with bullshit patent claims.
The 100,000 euro is to pay for the intellecual property so it may be freed. The code is currently the property of investors, and 100,000 is the price to make them go away.
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Introducing MS Bob 2003!!!
"Mr. Simonyi has left Microsoft with the right to use the intellectual property he developed and patented while working there."
????!!!!!Errrrr??????
(conspiracy) Something seems to be going on here.(/conspiracy)
Superman was a starmaker role for Christopher Reeve, and I think they need to get an unknown for the next film.
I also thought the "Death of Superman" storyline sucked. I'm glad they ditched it. Keven Smith was on record saying that the studio has been preasuring him to make many stupid changes to the story.
The "Bats vs. Supes" story sounded like a mess. All involved should count themselves lucky that the film didn't get made.
Warner Bros. should be patient and do this right instead of competing with Hulk, Daredevil, Spiderman II, X-Men II. If they rush Superman it will suck and they will ruin it they way they ruined Batman.
The real question is this:
"Will hackers still be able to love Linux if it become a real competitor to Microsoft?"
Will this all be fun when mom calls in the evening wanting to know how to build the new kernel? Or when some little Britney wannabe says "Linux" the wrong way? Or when what we do and talk about at the LUG meetings isn't unique anymore? When the club is open to all members, will it still be worth belonging?
Maybe that's why some people fear Red Hat. The more mainstream they get, the closer all of those things become.
You start off with "Can I get you a soda or something with caffeine?"
Ah. One tower for 200,000 homes. What about commercial demands? Industrial needs? An average US city might need 2 or three of these things.
Do the enviromentalists really think this is a better method over the next 100-200 years than nuclear or oil?
A one mile tall tower could create some castostophic effects should it fall. Beyond just terrorism, accidents still happen. These would be an air traffic hazard.
What a stupid idea.
"for that matter, lets just hook up a collander to a copy machine."
I'd rather fund your project with my tax money. It would cost less and yeild the same results.
Thank you Art Bell.
The other thing that the press is not going to make clear is that an EEG is only a tool, and a DOCTOR must then enter that process and make a determination of the patient's health. Airports are not going to find people with the skills to conduct and read an EEG who will work for burger-flipping wages.
Airport EEGs would be more expensive than the bomb sniifing machines, the see-thru-your-clothes machines, and all of the other crazy ideas that will kill off air travel.
EEGs can help determine brain damage or death. The press is going to make this sound like a TV that shows pictures of what's in your head.
And perhaps that's the real goal here - to make the under-educated third world believe that terrorism will be more difficult, if not impossible. After all, the Americans can now read minds. The idea is the most powerful thing here. This doesn't have to work, it only has to make people THINK that it works.
It's is soooo misleading the way this story is being headlined everywhere today.
An electroencephalogram (EEG) is not capable knowing what images or thoughts are in your head. An EEG can only measure electrical activity and create a graph of that activity. Think of the output of a heart monitor - a line goes up and down in time to the heart's beating. Now think of a couple dozen lines that represent the electrical spikes in major nodes of the brain.
An EEG can detect abnormal brain activity as a result of disease, head trauma, or seazure. It cannot tell me if you are an asshole.
This idea is a red herring. I think the fear it creates is more useful to law enforcement than the actual tool itself. The output of an EEG is not very useful in a court of law.
The Nelson figures can be skewed by the fact that Tivo can "push" a program, and Tivo can watch a program that the members of the household will never view. Networks will know that the numbers are junk, but they will still base advertising rates on them.
Long live ATASCII!!! Long Live Atari!!!!
Comic Book Guy voice: Best. Trek. Ever.
So why was everyone so f'n baffled by simple candle wax? Is parafin wax somehow beyond laboratory chemical analysis?
This looks like a shot at Yellow Dog Linux users as well.
Wow. I mean, she may be nice, but put a bag over that head! In fact, put one over yours in case hers falls off!
echo off, man!
Three stories? You make JonKatz look terse!!
Leave it to British tabloits to sensationalize a non-story. Fortunately I never see biased or inacurate stories at this site.
Some guy going to see LOTR:Two Towers had a recipe for brownies.
I can't help but notice that some of these older space probes may have cost more in 1970's dollar's when adjusted for inflation, but if they last for 30 years there was the potential to get more for you money over the years. It certainly seem more care went into the planning than some recent missions.
Sounds like a backbone for Sony's Cell Computing.
I know that in trademark law, if a company fails to vigorously enforce a trademark they lose claim to it. The effect of this is McDonald's sometimes sues a little family restarant called McDonald's and other strange insane lawsuits.
Does this same thing not apply to patent law at all? A company has a patent, allows it to be deluted, and then goes after everybody. In trademark law, this would be thrown out of court.
Now you could say "Trademarks and Patents are two different things" but they are really aren't. And so I'd like a laywer to explain to me WTF gives companies the right to broadside tech firms every few months with bullshit patent claims.
This sounds a bit like what is being done with the Free Blender Project , as covered in this story.
Good Man! I gave as well.
People around here forget that Free as in Freedom doesn't always mean free as in beer.
The 100,000 euro is to pay for the intellecual property so it may be freed. The code is currently the property of investors, and 100,000 is the price to make them go away.