Er...yeah...and it shows that they want to reverse Roe V Wade and take away our guns too! And...and...kick our dogs!
I mean, come on. The court was being critical on both sides. Hence the part of the justices were critical of the entertainment industry's proposal, which would hold companies "predominantly" supported by piracy liable for copyright infringement.
So to you, when they say they're critical of the entertainment industry's proposals, that means they really not? Er...what you talking bout Willis?
They say they're barely keeping afloat, yet how can they have screwed up so badly like this? I mean, they have a monthly fee you have to pay for the service right? That's income generated on a monthly basis...and new subscribers etc etc. And let's face it, the equipment can't be all that expensive (for them).
What I want is to walk into a store and pick up a digital recorder that records on a HD that I don't have the idiotic monthly fee. Just give me a recording device that..you know...comes on at 8pm, records an hour, then goes off at 9pm. It can still have the pause-while-recording feature and the skipping of the commercials and everything...but WHY be tied to a monthly fee bullshit?
Is there such a thing out there without me having to build a MythTV box?
They have this all the time on Arrested Development. Like when Henry Winkler...who plays a really idiotic lawyer on the show, was at a pier talking to one of the main characters standing in front of a little shark...at the end of the scene Winkler "jumped the shark".
Last night was pretty good in that a doctor played by Dan Castellaneta sort of messed up on an operation as as he was explaining it said in a mild voice "D'oh"...you hardly heard it. Of course, Mr. Castellaneta is the voice of Homer Simpson. No one got that here.
I don't even know my password. My real password is encrypted...and the password to that too is encrypted.
But my password to the second encrypted password is "passworD6". Get it? I changed the "D" to a upper case "D" and added a "6" at the end. Pretty ingenius if you ask me. Just let them TRY to get through that!
I agree, and also, the guy that submitted this story to Slashdot didn't make it any clearer. He put in about a million links that go all over the place, so I still don't really see what the bottom line on this story is.
I don't think anyone will be happy until everything ends up as a MMORPG. Still waiting for the announcements for:
1. Pokemon Online 2. The A-Team Online 3. Battlestar Galatica Online 4. Cheers Online 5. Zero Wing Online 6. America Online Online 7. World of Frank Stallone 8. Bible World Online 9. Evercowboyneil 10. Final Everworld of Ultima Warcraft's Lineage
Something that needs explaining I can see, but a person? I've seen many many people mentioned on here that I just go up to my googlebar and look up...it takes like 2 seconds.
Also, my response to him was a smart-ass response because he asked a smart-assed question. Wow, I'm not as geeky as I thought I was, cos I have no fucking idea who the hell you're talking about. Should I be concerned at this point?
So I ask you, was that a "valid form of research"? If so, then I apologize.
He's not a completely unknown person there sparky...just because you don't know about him or his work doesn't mean no one else does. The burden is on YOU if you don't know who he is. If you don't know, and don't care, why even make a post at all? Move on, it's ok. You don't know him, many other people do. It's no big deal. But I'm not going to fucking write a biography every time I bring up just in case there is someone that doesn't know him. If you know him you would have gotten my geek worship, but you didn't and you don't get it...so what? Move on.
Why is this pissing you off so much? You've made 4 posts now on how you don't know Ed Catmull and how much you resent people talking about him or even bringing him up because you don't know who he is. My original post was just a cute little anecdote about how small Pixar was back then and how big it is now...then you turn it into this. "Who is that? I resent you bringing up something I don't know anything about! How fucking dare you!".
Which is why, if you look at my original post, that I said it was a "geek" thing. If you're not a computer graphics geek, you would never have heard of him. The same can be said about anyone that someone finds famous really.
And another thing, why would you resent that some people find him to be an idol of theirs? Indifferent I can see...but resentment? Why resentment? And he's hardly someone no-one has heard of. Just because you haven't doesn't mean no one has. It only shows your limited knowledge of the subject matter at hand.
Well, let's see...I looked up Ed Catmull on Google and the very very very first link that pops up is from Pixar that describes Ed as:
Dr. Ed Catmull is president and co-founder of Pixar Animation Studios. In 1979, Ed brought his high-technology expertise to the film industry as vice president of the computer division of Lucasfilm, Ltd. During that time, Ed managed four development efforts in the areas of computer graphics, video editing, video games and digital audio. Ed has been honored with three Scientific and Technical Engineering Awards from The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for his work, including an Oscar®. He also won the Coons Award, which is the highest achievement in computer graphics, for his lifetime contributions. Ed is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and National Academy of Engineering. He earned a bachelor of science degree in both physics and computer science and a Ph.D. in computer science from University of Utah.
Which may stimulate a person that's really interested in looking up more about him instead of the person that just wants to try, and fail, at being a smart-ass.
I remember years ago going to SIGGRAPH and Pixar had this little booth off in the back. Ed Catmull was there manning the cash-box to where you could buy a videotape of their few animated shorts they had made up to that point.
Ed freaking Catmull was taking my bucks and sticking a videotape into a bag for me. I know, geek worship here, but this is Ed Catmull we're talking about.
Looks like file sharing will finally be erased once and for all
In case people don't understand sarcasm on the net, he was being sarcastic.
I mean, let's say Hatch outlaws file sharing...even say outlawing Bittorrent and things of that nature...will that change anything? The ONLY way to totally 100% stop piracy and file sharing over the Internet is to totally turn off the Internet. That's right, turn the entire thing off.
And trust me, it's only a matter of time before some idiot gets up there and proposes that.
And they're too busy with putting 500,000 dollar fines on radio people that may say "fuck" and having hearings on Baseball. I mean, what the FUCK are these idiots doing up there in Washington? Baseball?!?! WHO THE FUCK CARES! Tax dollars at work folks.
For the MPAA and the RIAA to demand the entire Internet be taken down to "protect their property". I mean, if you take the entire net down, then that stops the flow of illegal downloads! Sure, why not.
Also, demand that anything "digital" be destroyed as it can be copied and copied without loss of quality like the old days of analog recording. Hell, while they're at it demand that all recording devices be banned from the world! Why not?!?! They're crazy I tells ya! CRAZY!
Some years ago, before even the big dot-com boom and before the net was even popular, I had somehow registered www.gant.com. I mean, this was in the registration infancy when there were just a handfull of web sites. I honestly don't even remember registering it and at the time I though the Web was going to be a fad...ok, I never claimed to be a visionary. Besides, IRC-Gopher-Usenet-FTP WAS the Internet to me...again, at the time.
Anyway, to make a long story longer...the lawyers from Gant Shirts got ahold of me some years later demanding I release all claims on gant.com to them...but of course, I didn't mention that I didn't even remember registering it...but why muck up the water? So I wrote back and said, hey, it's my fricken name! How could I part with my name! Then I started channeling Arthur Millers "The Crucible" with "Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life! Because I lie and sign myself to lies! Because I am not worth the dust on the feet of them that hang! How may I live without my name? I have given you my soul; LEAVE ME MY NAME!"
They cut a check for an even grand and I found I could part with my name pretty easily after all.
This doesn't stand up though..as colorized films have failed big time. They were a fad for a while, but it just petered out.
But I have a big problem with colorizing films anyway. Just because you CAN do something doesn't mean it should be done. The weak weak argument that "the kids won't watch it" fell on it's ass as the kids didn't watch the colorized crap either! Not to mention that at the time when colorizing was huge, music videos were the rage...and about half of them were in B&W!
Also, why don't they colorize the newer movies like Manhatten or Schindler's List or even Pleasantville to be 100% color? How about starting Pleasantville as color and have it slowly go to B&W? Sure, why not...the "kids won't watch it!"
Or how about this, instead of fucking with everyone else's work, they go out and make their own fucking movies!
What's next? Don't like an actor because of his political affiliations so there will be a technique to replace actors in a movie with a different actor whom you agree more with? "the kids won't watch so-n-so because he said something bad about President so-n-so, so we've gone back and taken him out of this movie and replaced him with someone more pleasant".
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Er...yeah...and it shows that they want to reverse Roe V Wade and take away our guns too! And...and...kick our dogs!
I mean, come on. The court was being critical on both sides. Hence the part of the justices were critical of the entertainment industry's proposal, which would hold companies "predominantly" supported by piracy liable for copyright infringement.
So to you, when they say they're critical of the entertainment industry's proposals, that means they really not? Er...what you talking bout Willis?
They say they're barely keeping afloat, yet how can they have screwed up so badly like this? I mean, they have a monthly fee you have to pay for the service right? That's income generated on a monthly basis...and new subscribers etc etc. And let's face it, the equipment can't be all that expensive (for them).
What I want is to walk into a store and pick up a digital recorder that records on a HD that I don't have the idiotic monthly fee. Just give me a recording device that..you know...comes on at 8pm, records an hour, then goes off at 9pm. It can still have the pause-while-recording feature and the skipping of the commercials and everything...but WHY be tied to a monthly fee bullshit?
Is there such a thing out there without me having to build a MythTV box?
Just thought it up, though others may have done the same...sort of a take on Apple's "1984" commercial:
In 2005 the country of Brazil will start using Linux as it's prefered operating system and you'll see why Brazil won't be like Brazil
Jesus saves...everyone else takes 2d20 crushing damage.
They have this all the time on Arrested Development. Like when Henry Winkler...who plays a really idiotic lawyer on the show, was at a pier talking to one of the main characters standing in front of a little shark...at the end of the scene Winkler "jumped the shark".
Last night was pretty good in that a doctor played by Dan Castellaneta sort of messed up on an operation as as he was explaining it said in a mild voice "D'oh"...you hardly heard it. Of course, Mr. Castellaneta is the voice of Homer Simpson. No one got that here.
I don't even know my password. My real password is encrypted...and the password to that too is encrypted.
But my password to the second encrypted password is "passworD6". Get it? I changed the "D" to a upper case "D" and added a "6" at the end. Pretty ingenius if you ask me. Just let them TRY to get through that!
(oh, btw, forget I told you my password)
Did Shatner play him or something in an obscure show and it's an "in" thing to bring it up? Kind of like bringing up Cat from Zero Wing?
I mean, come on! Shatner will always be known for one character and one character only: Denny Crane!
Whoa...wait a minute, are you telling me that this SUCKER is NUCLEAR?
That's heavy...
Though it must be said that Rodriguez resigned from the Directors Guild because he felt that Frank Miller should be given co-director credit.
Rodriguez is a fanatic of Frank Millers work and he would certainly be the first to jump up and correct someone if they said "Rodriguez's Sin City".
I agree, and also, the guy that submitted this story to Slashdot didn't make it any clearer. He put in about a million links that go all over the place, so I still don't really see what the bottom line on this story is.
Can anyone fill me in? Me dumb...
World of Frank Stallone is going to kick ASS!
Just what the word needs, another MMORPG.
I don't think anyone will be happy until everything ends up as a MMORPG. Still waiting for the announcements for:
1. Pokemon Online
2. The A-Team Online
3. Battlestar Galatica Online
4. Cheers Online
5. Zero Wing Online
6. America Online Online
7. World of Frank Stallone
8. Bible World Online
9. Evercowboyneil
10. Final Everworld of Ultima Warcraft's Lineage
Of course, the list could go on...and on a on.
Something that needs explaining I can see, but a person? I've seen many many people mentioned on here that I just go up to my googlebar and look up...it takes like 2 seconds.
Also, my response to him was a smart-ass response because he asked a smart-assed question. Wow, I'm not as geeky as I thought I was, cos I have no fucking idea who the hell you're talking about. Should I be concerned at this point?
So I ask you, was that a "valid form of research"? If so, then I apologize.
He's not a completely unknown person there sparky...just because you don't know about him or his work doesn't mean no one else does. The burden is on YOU if you don't know who he is. If you don't know, and don't care, why even make a post at all? Move on, it's ok. You don't know him, many other people do. It's no big deal. But I'm not going to fucking write a biography every time I bring up just in case there is someone that doesn't know him. If you know him you would have gotten my geek worship, but you didn't and you don't get it...so what? Move on.
Why is this pissing you off so much? You've made 4 posts now on how you don't know Ed Catmull and how much you resent people talking about him or even bringing him up because you don't know who he is. My original post was just a cute little anecdote about how small Pixar was back then and how big it is now...then you turn it into this. "Who is that? I resent you bringing up something I don't know anything about! How fucking dare you!".
I said "try, and fail, at being a smart-ass".
...Mister Smarty Pants
I tried, and succeeded, at being a smart-ass. There is a difference.
Which is why, if you look at my original post, that I said it was a "geek" thing. If you're not a computer graphics geek, you would never have heard of him. The same can be said about anyone that someone finds famous really.
And another thing, why would you resent that some people find him to be an idol of theirs? Indifferent I can see...but resentment? Why resentment? And he's hardly someone no-one has heard of. Just because you haven't doesn't mean no one has. It only shows your limited knowledge of the subject matter at hand.
Remember, News for Nerds.
Well, let's see...I looked up Ed Catmull on Google and the very very very first link that pops up is from Pixar that describes Ed as:
Dr. Ed Catmull is president and co-founder of Pixar Animation Studios. In 1979, Ed brought his high-technology expertise to the film industry as vice president of the computer division of Lucasfilm, Ltd. During that time, Ed managed four development efforts in the areas of computer graphics, video editing, video games and digital audio. Ed has been honored with three Scientific and Technical Engineering Awards from The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for his work, including an Oscar®. He also won the Coons Award, which is the highest achievement in computer graphics, for his lifetime contributions. Ed is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and National Academy of Engineering. He earned a bachelor of science degree in both physics and computer science and a Ph.D. in computer science from University of Utah.
Which may stimulate a person that's really interested in looking up more about him instead of the person that just wants to try, and fail, at being a smart-ass.
Well, look him up. In case you didn't know, there's this site called www.google.com that you can search for names and web sites etc etc.
You should check it out, it's pretty cool web site and I have a feeling it may be big one day...
I remember years ago going to SIGGRAPH and Pixar had this little booth off in the back. Ed Catmull was there manning the cash-box to where you could buy a videotape of their few animated shorts they had made up to that point.
Ed freaking Catmull was taking my bucks and sticking a videotape into a bag for me. I know, geek worship here, but this is Ed Catmull we're talking about.
Now look at Pixar!
Why does it have to be one or the other? From what I've found in OSX is that it can have style AND function.
Is that so wrong?
Looks like file sharing will finally be erased once and for all
In case people don't understand sarcasm on the net, he was being sarcastic.
I mean, let's say Hatch outlaws file sharing...even say outlawing Bittorrent and things of that nature...will that change anything? The ONLY way to totally 100% stop piracy and file sharing over the Internet is to totally turn off the Internet. That's right, turn the entire thing off.
And trust me, it's only a matter of time before some idiot gets up there and proposes that.
And they're too busy with putting 500,000 dollar fines on radio people that may say "fuck" and having hearings on Baseball. I mean, what the FUCK are these idiots doing up there in Washington? Baseball?!?! WHO THE FUCK CARES! Tax dollars at work folks.
But it's all gone now since some stupid, dye-spraying robot came in and killed everything.
For the MPAA and the RIAA to demand the entire Internet be taken down to "protect their property". I mean, if you take the entire net down, then that stops the flow of illegal downloads! Sure, why not.
Also, demand that anything "digital" be destroyed as it can be copied and copied without loss of quality like the old days of analog recording. Hell, while they're at it demand that all recording devices be banned from the world! Why not?!?! They're crazy I tells ya! CRAZY!
Some years ago, before even the big dot-com boom and before the net was even popular, I had somehow registered www.gant.com. I mean, this was in the registration infancy when there were just a handfull of web sites. I honestly don't even remember registering it and at the time I though the Web was going to be a fad...ok, I never claimed to be a visionary. Besides, IRC-Gopher-Usenet-FTP WAS the Internet to me...again, at the time.
Anyway, to make a long story longer...the lawyers from Gant Shirts got ahold of me some years later demanding I release all claims on gant.com to them...but of course, I didn't mention that I didn't even remember registering it...but why muck up the water? So I wrote back and said, hey, it's my fricken name! How could I part with my name! Then I started channeling Arthur Millers "The Crucible" with "Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life! Because I lie and sign myself to lies! Because I am not worth the dust on the feet of them that hang! How may I live without my name? I have given you my soul; LEAVE ME MY NAME!"
They cut a check for an even grand and I found I could part with my name pretty easily after all.
This doesn't stand up though..as colorized films have failed big time. They were a fad for a while, but it just petered out.
But I have a big problem with colorizing films anyway. Just because you CAN do something doesn't mean it should be done. The weak weak argument that "the kids won't watch it" fell on it's ass as the kids didn't watch the colorized crap either! Not to mention that at the time when colorizing was huge, music videos were the rage...and about half of them were in B&W!
Also, why don't they colorize the newer movies like Manhatten or Schindler's List or even Pleasantville to be 100% color? How about starting Pleasantville as color and have it slowly go to B&W? Sure, why not...the "kids won't watch it!"
Or how about this, instead of fucking with everyone else's work, they go out and make their own fucking movies!
What's next? Don't like an actor because of his political affiliations so there will be a technique to replace actors in a movie with a different actor whom you agree more with? "the kids won't watch so-n-so because he said something bad about President so-n-so, so we've gone back and taken him out of this movie and replaced him with someone more pleasant".