Then they'd offer the owner of the small refinery two options - sell the company in exchange for stock in standard oil, or try and stick it out and eventually be crushed.
Don't give Standard Oil too much credit. They learned that trick from the federal government (who, to be equally fair, learned it from European empire-builders centuries earlier).
Well, the flamboyant ones either have an entourage to buy things or else only shop "at home":
"Your suit comes to $2704.29, sir." "Splendid, I'll have the money for you Monday, just as soon as I have your job eliminated and your salary reabsorbed." "I'm sorry, sir, I must have been reading someone else's bill. Have a splendid day."
The film, in other words, is one long special effect with Jude-Law-size holes in it.
Kinda like Attack of the Clones or (don't blame me, I didn't ask to watch this) Spy Kids 3-D were? Yeah, I remember those monuments to modern filmmaking -- bluescreens and greenscreens! Practically no sets! Let your actors imagine everything they're supposed to be interacting with and they'll be much more compelling that way!
Didn't anybody listen when we complained that the acting in the new Star Wars films was painfully wooden, and the actors complained that it was because they were working on virtual sets and couldn't place themselves in the roles?
Look, would-be blockbuster-makers: this isn't the way to make a compelling movie. It may be pretty, but it doesn't work well. Go watch the behind-the-scenes stuff for The Lord of the Rings and look at how much trouble they went through to build sets and miniatures whenever possible, and then count the Oscar nominations and wins they got for their trouble. Spend the money on at least some kind of physical set and your actors will thank you for it.
Kodak may still have the lead in medium format and larger digital photography, but this market is much smaller than the DSLR and consumer digicam markets.
As Apple learned long ago, you don't need to appeal to the lowest common denominator to earn a profit. In fact, the reverse is often true.
I'm sick of being forced through commercials of DVD's i already paid for. EVERY time I want to watch it.
Well, gee, that's why your DVD remote has a "next chapter" and a "disc menu" button; you PRESS them and you can SKIP the commercials and go straight to the MENU or the MOVIE. And it's an order of magnitude faster than when you have to do it with videotapes.
The number of DVDs that block you from doing this are actually very small nowadays, due to consumer complaints --Disney began and ended this practice with the DVD release of "Tarzan". Quitcherwhinin'.
As far as I know (which, I admit, isn't as complete as I'd like), this is the first feature-length movie which renders its human characters completely using cel-shaded CGI. (The buildings and machines are rendered more realistically using 3-D shading.)
Cel shading is used extensively for humans in some other media, most notably MTV's "Spider-Man" series, but this movie looks like a step up. The more common cel shading becomes, the more I think we can expect traditional animation to fade into a quaint and over-expensive technique. (I wouldn't be surprised if this is already the thinking at Disney's studios, now that they've closed their traditional animation departments.)
The point that everyone is missing, not helped at all by the article headline, is that this is about databases, not individual facts
Yes. A good analogy would be an encyclopedia -- each entry is nothing but facts, facts, facts, but they're written in a particular way which itself is copyrightable. You can re-copy the facts, but (barring fair use) not the exact format in which it's written.
A database is very similar: a bunch of facts written to a hard drive in a particular way which is uniquely readable and useful (and marketable).
Those are professional cameras, and entirely different from their consumer line. Those aren't nearly up to par with Canon's consumer line, hence my criticism.
Even if you pay with a credit card, BudNet isn't concerned about you personally. Their system tracks beer purchases by location, and cross-references it to demographics known to live there.
So they don't care if John Q. Slashdotter is buying Bud or Bud Light, individually speaking. They only care if blue-collar Caucasians or white-collar African-Americans or gay males or straight females or college undergrads or senior citizens are buying it, and where, and for what price. That information is all their marketing department needs to know to tailor their ads.
I wouldn't say they are finished. Their most recent cameras are pretty nice quality.
Perhaps, but I was reading the reviews of different cameras before I settled on my digital Canon. The consensus was that Kodak's digital cameras, at least as of last year, aren't quite on par with Canon's or Nikon's where picture quality is concerned.
Kodak was founded on the premise of easy-to-use photography, and they tried to continue this trend with camera docks that download your photos and charge the camera at the same time. But they can't compete with the major camera makers on price/features ratio anymore, and I think that will be their undoing.
...when every last cordless phone and mobile phone is thrown away in favor of the corded models.
I'm serious here--telecommunications has been moving in the direction of un-tethering the caller for over a decade, to the point now when people are chucking their landlines en masse in favor of mobile-only phone service. Videophones, whatever their advantage, lack even the limited mobility of a corded phone in the home -- you have to stay sitting in front of the camera and microphone the whole time.
Just because people who listen to headphones or cellphones all day act like complete imbeciles behind the wheel doesn't mean they're actually suffering brain damage. I mean, It's just as likely they had the brain damage done by network television programming at an early age.
Some ham operators wouldn't mind more changes to spice up the language. While Morse code has a period, a question mark, and even a semicolon, it offers no simple way to articulate excitement. "I was hoping they'd add a character for the exclamation point," said Yocanovich....
Which leads me to wonder: how many emoticons can you express in Morse Code? Or do they have their own equivalent already?
Palm's been lagging on support for Mac for a long time, and so have many Palm third-parties (AvantGo being the worst offender). Personally, I'm glad that mark/space has been working so hard to fill in the gaps Palm has left for Mac users.
Incidentally, as a "Linux-based PDA" advocate, I find it ironic that you haven't complained that Linux syncing isn't supported by Palm at all, nor has it ever been. Surely they've got it ten times worse?
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So now we can look forward to boxes and ad flyers with specs like "8XDVD+/-R DL 8XDVD+/-R 4XDVD+/-RW 16XDVD-ROM 48XCD+/-R 8XCD+/-RW 48XCD-ROM"?
I mean, I know what that all means, but it still makes my eyeballs want to scurry behind my ears and hide.
Then they'd offer the owner of the small refinery two options - sell the company in exchange for stock in standard oil, or try and stick it out and eventually be crushed.
Don't give Standard Oil too much credit. They learned that trick from the federal government (who, to be equally fair, learned it from European empire-builders centuries earlier).
If you can't beat 'em, flank 'em.
Well, the flamboyant ones either have an entourage to buy things or else only shop "at home":
"Your suit comes to $2704.29, sir."
"Splendid, I'll have the money for you Monday, just as soon as I have your job eliminated and your salary reabsorbed."
"I'm sorry, sir, I must have been reading someone else's bill. Have a splendid day."
Seriously, this will be good for his business.
I don't know, I sure wouldn't want to employ an obvious idiot with too much time on his hands to handle my accounting.
I put on the CD and 'listen' to this new article which I saw online but didn't have the time to read. Any others who do this as well?
A clever solution, but I imagine most people just use a printer.
the writing was terrible. That's why it flopped
So how do you explain every other season of Doctor Who that got renewed?
And in other news, NASA's Mission to the Giant Turtle has been canceled.
Dangit, how else are we going to learn what sex the Great A'Tuin is?
...You see this Slashdot headline and the first thing you think of is a new Sid Meier game.
The film, in other words, is one long special effect with Jude-Law-size holes in it.
Kinda like Attack of the Clones or (don't blame me, I didn't ask to watch this) Spy Kids 3-D were? Yeah, I remember those monuments to modern filmmaking -- bluescreens and greenscreens! Practically no sets! Let your actors imagine everything they're supposed to be interacting with and they'll be much more compelling that way!
Didn't anybody listen when we complained that the acting in the new Star Wars films was painfully wooden, and the actors complained that it was because they were working on virtual sets and couldn't place themselves in the roles?
Look, would-be blockbuster-makers: this isn't the way to make a compelling movie. It may be pretty, but it doesn't work well. Go watch the behind-the-scenes stuff for The Lord of the Rings and look at how much trouble they went through to build sets and miniatures whenever possible, and then count the Oscar nominations and wins they got for their trouble. Spend the money on at least some kind of physical set and your actors will thank you for it.
...way back in May '03.
Oh, by the way......all of what I said above and.......First post. :-)
Well, somebody's been taking his choline supplements today....
Kodak may still have the lead in medium format and larger digital photography, but this market is much smaller than the DSLR and consumer digicam markets.
As Apple learned long ago, you don't need to appeal to the lowest common denominator to earn a profit. In fact, the reverse is often true.
I'm sick of being forced through commercials of DVD's i already paid for. EVERY time I want to watch it.
Well, gee, that's why your DVD remote has a "next chapter" and a "disc menu" button; you PRESS them and you can SKIP the commercials and go straight to the MENU or the MOVIE. And it's an order of magnitude faster than when you have to do it with videotapes.
The number of DVDs that block you from doing this are actually very small nowadays, due to consumer complaints --Disney began and ended this practice with the DVD release of "Tarzan". Quitcherwhinin'.
As far as I know (which, I admit, isn't as complete as I'd like), this is the first feature-length movie which renders its human characters completely using cel-shaded CGI. (The buildings and machines are rendered more realistically using 3-D shading.)
Cel shading is used extensively for humans in some other media, most notably MTV's "Spider-Man" series, but this movie looks like a step up. The more common cel shading becomes, the more I think we can expect traditional animation to fade into a quaint and over-expensive technique. (I wouldn't be surprised if this is already the thinking at Disney's studios, now that they've closed their traditional animation departments.)
The point that everyone is missing, not helped at all by the article headline, is that this is about databases, not individual facts
Yes. A good analogy would be an encyclopedia -- each entry is nothing but facts, facts, facts, but they're written in a particular way which itself is copyrightable. You can re-copy the facts, but (barring fair use) not the exact format in which it's written.
A database is very similar: a bunch of facts written to a hard drive in a particular way which is uniquely readable and useful (and marketable).
Since when do we celebrate various equipment still working?
Wait until you're fifty years old. If your equipment is still working, you'll be celebrating too.
Those are professional cameras, and entirely different from their consumer line. Those aren't nearly up to par with Canon's consumer line, hence my criticism.
Even if you pay with a credit card, BudNet isn't concerned about you personally. Their system tracks beer purchases by location, and cross-references it to demographics known to live there.
So they don't care if John Q. Slashdotter is buying Bud or Bud Light, individually speaking. They only care if blue-collar Caucasians or white-collar African-Americans or gay males or straight females or college undergrads or senior citizens are buying it, and where, and for what price. That information is all their marketing department needs to know to tailor their ads.
Using the Mac OS X Terminal (HTML) or Using the Mac OS X Terminal (PDF)
Helpful for newbies, but let's face it -- those links you provided cover maybe one-half of the first chapter of O'Reilly's book.
So where is the Learning Mac OS X for the unix geek?
It just so happens it's available from O'Reilly as well. The Panther edition is due out in June.
I wouldn't say they are finished. Their most recent cameras are pretty nice quality.
Perhaps, but I was reading the reviews of different cameras before I settled on my digital Canon. The consensus was that Kodak's digital cameras, at least as of last year, aren't quite on par with Canon's or Nikon's where picture quality is concerned.
Kodak was founded on the premise of easy-to-use photography, and they tried to continue this trend with camera docks that download your photos and charge the camera at the same time. But they can't compete with the major camera makers on price/features ratio anymore, and I think that will be their undoing.
...when every last cordless phone and mobile phone is thrown away in favor of the corded models.
I'm serious here--telecommunications has been moving in the direction of un-tethering the caller for over a decade, to the point now when people are chucking their landlines en masse in favor of mobile-only phone service. Videophones, whatever their advantage, lack even the limited mobility of a corded phone in the home -- you have to stay sitting in front of the camera and microphone the whole time.
Just because people who listen to headphones or cellphones all day act like complete imbeciles behind the wheel doesn't mean they're actually suffering brain damage. I mean, It's just as likely they had the brain damage done by network television programming at an early age.
Some ham operators wouldn't mind more changes to spice up the language. While Morse code has a period, a question mark, and even a semicolon, it offers no simple way to articulate excitement. "I was hoping they'd add a character for the exclamation point," said Yocanovich....
Which leads me to wonder: how many emoticons can you express in Morse Code? Or do they have their own equivalent already?
Palm's been lagging on support for Mac for a long time, and so have many Palm third-parties (AvantGo being the worst offender). Personally, I'm glad that mark/space has been working so hard to fill in the gaps Palm has left for Mac users.
Incidentally, as a "Linux-based PDA" advocate, I find it ironic that you haven't complained that Linux syncing isn't supported by Palm at all, nor has it ever been. Surely they've got it ten times worse?