I wish animators would resist this "all star cast" crap. It's sort of lame in this case anyway, since these aren't really "stars" -- they're people who used to be big and/or are "famous" for being on bad TV shows. But even when you have the money to hire "real" stars, it's kind of a waste. When I see a favorite actor doing animation work, I'm usually disappointed. They just don't add anything special to the role. Better to hire real voice actors, even if nobody knows who they are.
Which is not to say that there aren't actors who can do both. Jennifer Lien and Hank Azara come to mind. Not to mention Britanny Murphy.
When you work for a company, you have to insist that all your trademarks are adjectives, because there's a lot of silly case law that penalizes you if you don't. But the rest of us are free to use language that actually makes sense. Sure, you'll get letters reminding you that you're "misusing" the trademark. But that's just "due diligence" -- not even the person who wrote the letter takes it serious.
I also had rebates that "expire" by the company claiming that it "didn't get it on time" a month after the fact, when they should have recieved it within two days after mailing it.
One of many excuses I've heard: you didn't send in all the documentation, that's a duplicate registration number, yada yada yada. Such patently bogus excuses only seem to occur when the rebate is too small to sue over.
The whole concept of rebates is a fraud. Like you, I'd like to see them banned -- though I don't see it happening. I'd settle for making it impossible to advertise "$10 (after $40 rebate)".
if you really want to fuck with the yellow child molesting bastards at AOL, encrypt all your im traffic.
Encryption is the only reasonable privacy measure for any electronic communication, even if the carrier isn't an alleged pedophile. You cannot assume that your email or your IMs go unintercepted, not the way the Internet is structured.
We keep hearing about things like this TOS and ECHELON and other attempts to "invade" all the open information out there, which gets people all pissed. Which is silly, because the problem isn't that people are gathering information, it's that the information is out there to gather. If you live in a glass house, don't be surprised if all your neighbors buy binoculars.
Hey, I once knew a guy who, having just graduated from Harvard, made the rounds of all the interesting high-tech firms that were hiring newbie computer scientists. One company made him a really good offer, but he walked away because he thought the guy in charge was an insufferable idiot.
Do I need to mention that the II in question was Bill Gates?
I was somewhat bemused by the name "UK Independence Party", and found their web site. As the name suggests, they want the UK out of the EU. So their MEPs "use their positions exclusively to expose the true nature of the EU and to campaign for British withdrawal." Doesn't suggest a lot of interest in the software patents issue.
If Windows were there just to support the MP3 player, then of course this would be overkill. But it's obviously there to support PDA functionality and general-purpose apps. As with a lot of other smart phones.
Which is not to say that you're wrong about the security issues. Or that cramming MP3 and PDA functionality into a phone is a good idea. But Samsung and its competitors seem to prefer feature-bloated phones to simple phones that interoperate -- probably because they don't make any money off of the devices they interoperate with.
Assuming (a) the consumer actually needs a USB drive and (b) there's enough extra space on the USB drive for the consumer's needs. Even if those are both true, that only works the first time the consumer buys a USB game.
What he came up with was USB Emily Dickinson. The game would be a small program bundled with a USB memory drive, which is now a large business and an almost impulse buy.
Except that this would at least double the cost of the game. Still, there's a good idea here. If games are supposed to be fun, you shouldn't make it a major hassle to install them. No-install games on CDs would be very popular. There are technical problems, of course, but they're not insurmountable. The really hard part would be persuading your developers to leave out all the "cool" features that are too hard to support on this kind of game. But a lot of those features don't really add to the user experience anyway -- and would be more than made up for by being able to do a quick game whenever you're near a computer.
If you hooked up with a mysterious Asian gentleman, became an expert in the martial arts, tracked the thief down, got your bike back, beat him up, made him see the error of his ways, and the whole thing got made into a movie -- then yeah, obviously it was the best thing that ever happened to you!
To you, I'm a Fascist who wants to take away your sacred right of "self defense". To me, you're an Idiot who hides behind the illusory safety of a weapon that's more likely to hurt you or an innocent bystander than any criminal. I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree.
One things for sure: if you're boycotting Best Buy, then that makes it a safer place for me!
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What you're actually saying (if I understand you) is that Europeans always use "Lego" as an adjective.
Walt Disney is Evil!
Get real. Nobody's more cynical about silly laws than a lawyer.
Which is not to say that there aren't actors who can do both. Jennifer Lien and Hank Azara come to mind. Not to mention Britanny Murphy.
When you work for a company, you have to insist that all your trademarks are adjectives, because there's a lot of silly case law that penalizes you if you don't. But the rest of us are free to use language that actually makes sense. Sure, you'll get letters reminding you that you're "misusing" the trademark. But that's just "due diligence" -- not even the person who wrote the letter takes it serious.
I'm often critical of the editors myself, but I'm not about to hold them responsible for every inept web monkey they might link to.
Yeah, money can't buy success, everybody knows that!
The whole concept of rebates is a fraud. Like you, I'd like to see them banned -- though I don't see it happening. I'd settle for making it impossible to advertise "$10 (after $40 rebate)".
We keep hearing about things like this TOS and ECHELON and other attempts to "invade" all the open information out there, which gets people all pissed. Which is silly, because the problem isn't that people are gathering information, it's that the information is out there to gather. If you live in a glass house, don't be surprised if all your neighbors buy binoculars.
Do I need to mention that the II in question was Bill Gates?
(Sorry for the sloppy spelling.)
The whole point of "free" software is that people can complain.
X terminals are so 90s!
I don't think so! Astonishing how quickly they ripped off my idea!
I was somewhat bemused by the name "UK Independence Party", and found their web site. As the name suggests, they want the UK out of the EU. So their MEPs "use their positions exclusively to expose the true nature of the EU and to campaign for British withdrawal." Doesn't suggest a lot of interest in the software patents issue.
Anyway, Lucas doesn't have script ideas. He just pulls down a copy of Joseph Campbell and picks a page at random.
You deserve to be modded up as funny. Unfortunately, your sense of humor is too sneaky for this crowd!
Hey, I'm the one that threw in a stoat, apropos of nothing. So your mind is no weirder than mine. Unfortunately, that's pretty weird!
Which is not to say that you're wrong about the security issues. Or that cramming MP3 and PDA functionality into a phone is a good idea. But Samsung and its competitors seem to prefer feature-bloated phones to simple phones that interoperate -- probably because they don't make any money off of the devices they interoperate with.
Assuming (a) the consumer actually needs a USB drive and (b) there's enough extra space on the USB drive for the consumer's needs. Even if those are both true, that only works the first time the consumer buys a USB game.
If you hooked up with a mysterious Asian gentleman, became an expert in the martial arts, tracked the thief down, got your bike back, beat him up, made him see the error of his ways, and the whole thing got made into a movie -- then yeah, obviously it was the best thing that ever happened to you!
One things for sure: if you're boycotting Best Buy, then that makes it a safer place for me!