I would also add that this film short needs much tighter editing (my sense is that this could be cut down to 6 minutes), and a lot of the footage is dark, muddy, because there wasn't enough lighting on set.
For example, Napoleon Dynamite was made for around $500K, as was Brick. This isn't unsual at all. In fact, $1 million is the comfortable minimum for producing a low-budget movie shot on film.
As for this "film production by committee" approach, I already since a disaster, especially with how they plan to develop a script.
A better idea would be to hold a screenwriting contest. People submit their screenplays for consideration. A judging panel selects 10 finalists, which are chosen based on quality and ability to be produced for less than $1.75 million. The members of this production (those who have put in their money to contribute) vote for the one out of the ten they want to see produced. The runner up becomes a fallback, should problems arise in the preproduction of the winning screenplay.
Could there also be a benefit in Linux using the ReacOS kernel itself? For example, imagine a Linux distro that incorporates the ReactOS kernel and can simultaneously call it up when needed to run a Windows app, or peripheral that uses a Windows driver (using the WINE APIs in conjunction, of course). If this could be theoretically possible, then perhaps the work that the ReactOS team is doing might have other benefits for the Linux community beyond WINE.
I think it's great that these fan-filmmakers are moving on to doing their own original work. But why do comedy? Science fiction and comedy don't go together well -- okay, maybe nobody has done it right. Or maybe it's just damned hard. Doing either comedy or science fiction well by itself is already hard to pull off. At best, maybe these guys will produce something of the brilliance of Red Dwarf or even the Hitchhiker's Guide. Or, worse, it will be (an unfunnier) Spaceballs.
Heck, I had no idea that there was even a torrent search engine at Bram's site until this news.
I figured the news was going to be a partnership where bittorrent technology would be used for a paid distribution system backed by the major studios. Instead, it's just Bram agreeing to prevent his site's search engine from looking up pirated movies -- something I would have figured he might have done on his own long ago, and without the encouragement (strongarming?) of the MPAA.
Looks like the competition between Blu-Ray and HD-DVD may benefit consumers in the end after all. Now let's see what Sony offers the consumer with Blu-Ray to convince us to go with them first.
There are assumptions going on here that such an office suite would have to be accessed and loaded up via the Internet whenever you want to use it, and your personal documents would be placed online on Google's servers. But maybe it's not going to work exactly like that.
Maybe the applications are downloaded, cached to your hard drive. So whenever you go to, for the example, the word processor, it simply loads up what is already cached on your drive first. If you're online, then it will check for updates to the program. If you're not online, then you just use the word processor in your browser window like any other offline word processor.
As for your personal documents, perhaps you can save files to your own system and will have the option to save to an online folder. The attraction to save online would be to have your documents accessible from whatever Internet-enabled computer you use, and for online collaboration.
This way Apple can make money by selling legitimate copies of OS X to the geek/hacker/developer community, and not have to worry about fully supporting the operating system for the average computer user. This version would, after all, be for "development purposes only".
It would also have a legitimate purpose for Apple, too: It would further encourage software development for the company's MacIntel line.
The hacker/geek community gets to build their own gray box OS X systems, and Apple still makes most of its money with average computer users through its hardware. Furthermore, more software is developed by independent programmers. Everybody wins.
Once I was in a coffeehouse and the place's subscription servce was playing a song I liked. I took out my notepad, listened to the singer carefully, and wrote down some of the lyrics. Then I googled parts of the lyrics to find them on the Web to identify the song.
I've done the same thing to songs I've heard featured on TV shows.
Seeing stories like these makes me feel less inclined to step into a Best Buy unless I really need to. I'm finding better deals and less hassle through online stores anyway.
Best Buy really needs to get its act together and start a new focus on customer service. Otherwise, they're going to lose a significant amount of their business to online retailers, and others that are still bricks-n-mortar.
I see his point in wanting to police the blatant piracy that goes on related to MAME. And he should continue with this, bless him.
But he does not own the MAME name, nor its trademark, and his attempt to secure it for his supposedly noble purpose of fighting piracy is not a good enough reason on its own.
Looks like there's going to have to be a new feature in Web browsers -- an option to allow sites of your choosing to be accessed with Java and or Javascript. Otherwise, these two will be switched off by default. Damn this is getting frustrating.:(
I examined my DVD copy of Ghost World just now, and matched up scenes with production stills from the movie that were put online during the time of the movie's original release in theaters...
I'm not exactly certain, but I don't think the DVD version of Ghost World is affected.
So what's really going on here?
Reading the suit carefully, what is it claiming exactly?
I've always thought that a show similar to TSS (though perhaps not live) and starring Leo and Patrick could probably work well on the Home & Garden Television network. Dang, I wish I were a TV producer because then I would try to pitch this to that network and get Leo and Patrick on board.
Lemme guess: It's revealed in the end that everything was actually set on Earth. Some gov't/military conspiracy teleported the heroes to a lab to test the affects of a top-secret bioweapon. The End.
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I would also add that this film short needs much tighter editing (my sense is that this could be cut down to 6 minutes), and a lot of the footage is dark, muddy, because there wasn't enough lighting on set.
Microsoft racing to restore compatibility with DRMS.
I predict Paramount will re-use the domain for the upcoming prequel movie.
Why won't the U.S. government investigate Diebold as well?
For example, Napoleon Dynamite was made for around $500K, as was Brick. This isn't unsual at all. In fact, $1 million is the comfortable minimum for producing a low-budget movie shot on film.
As for this "film production by committee" approach, I already since a disaster, especially with how they plan to develop a script.
A better idea would be to hold a screenwriting contest. People submit their screenplays for consideration. A judging panel selects 10 finalists, which are chosen based on quality and ability to be produced for less than $1.75 million. The members of this production (those who have put in their money to contribute) vote for the one out of the ten they want to see produced. The runner up becomes a fallback, should problems arise in the preproduction of the winning screenplay.
Could there also be a benefit in Linux using the ReacOS kernel itself? For example, imagine a Linux distro that incorporates the ReactOS kernel and can simultaneously call it up when needed to run a Windows app, or peripheral that uses a Windows driver (using the WINE APIs in conjunction, of course). If this could be theoretically possible, then perhaps the work that the ReactOS team is doing might have other benefits for the Linux community beyond WINE.
...You mean game testing involves more than just tightening the graphics?
I think it's great that these fan-filmmakers are moving on to doing their own original work. But why do comedy? Science fiction and comedy don't go together well -- okay, maybe nobody has done it right. Or maybe it's just damned hard. Doing either comedy or science fiction well by itself is already hard to pull off. At best, maybe these guys will produce something of the brilliance of Red Dwarf or even the Hitchhiker's Guide. Or, worse, it will be (an unfunnier) Spaceballs.
Shouldn't that be the MPAA, not the RIAA, which would have an issue with Linux circumventing the encryption of DVDs?
Heck, I had no idea that there was even a torrent search engine at Bram's site until this news.
I figured the news was going to be a partnership where bittorrent technology would be used for a paid distribution system backed by the major studios. Instead, it's just Bram agreeing to prevent his site's search engine from looking up pirated movies -- something I would have figured he might have done on his own long ago, and without the encouragement (strongarming?) of the MPAA.
Looks like the competition between Blu-Ray and HD-DVD may benefit consumers in the end after all. Now let's see what Sony offers the consumer with Blu-Ray to convince us to go with them first.
There are assumptions going on here that such an office suite would have to be accessed and loaded up via the Internet whenever you want to use it, and your personal documents would be placed online on Google's servers. But maybe it's not going to work exactly like that.
Maybe the applications are downloaded, cached to your hard drive. So whenever you go to, for the example, the word processor, it simply loads up what is already cached on your drive first. If you're online, then it will check for updates to the program. If you're not online, then you just use the word processor in your browser window like any other offline word processor.
As for your personal documents, perhaps you can save files to your own system and will have the option to save to an online folder. The attraction to save online would be to have your documents accessible from whatever Internet-enabled computer you use, and for online collaboration.
Isn't this a bit like going after an ax maker because one of its axes was used by an ax murderer?
This way Apple can make money by selling legitimate copies of OS X to the geek/hacker/developer community, and not have to worry about fully supporting the operating system for the average computer user. This version would, after all, be for "development purposes only".
It would also have a legitimate purpose for Apple, too: It would further encourage software development for the company's MacIntel line.
The hacker/geek community gets to build their own gray box OS X systems, and Apple still makes most of its money with average computer users through its hardware. Furthermore, more software is developed by independent programmers. Everybody wins.
I've done this on numerous occasion.s
Once I was in a coffeehouse and the place's subscription servce was playing a song I liked. I took out my notepad, listened to the singer carefully, and wrote down some of the lyrics. Then I googled parts of the lyrics to find them on the Web to identify the song.
I've done the same thing to songs I've heard featured on TV shows.
Seeing stories like these makes me feel less inclined to step into a Best Buy unless I really need to. I'm finding better deals and less hassle through online stores anyway.
Best Buy really needs to get its act together and start a new focus on customer service. Otherwise, they're going to lose a significant amount of their business to online retailers, and others that are still bricks-n-mortar.
This certainly begs for a bittorrent link. Anyone?
I see his point in wanting to police the blatant piracy that goes on related to MAME. And he should continue with this, bless him.
But he does not own the MAME name, nor its trademark, and his attempt to secure it for his supposedly noble purpose of fighting piracy is not a good enough reason on its own.
Basically, Dave, fuck off.
Looks like there's going to have to be a new feature in Web browsers -- an option to allow sites of your choosing to be accessed with Java and or Javascript. Otherwise, these two will be switched off by default. Damn this is getting frustrating. :(
Pardon my ignorance, but can't something like this be done with any LCD projector and piece of glass (covered with a one-way reflective material)?
I examined my DVD copy of Ghost World just now, and matched up scenes with production stills from the movie that were put online during the time of the movie's original release in theaters...
I'm not exactly certain, but I don't think the DVD version of Ghost World is affected.
So what's really going on here?
Reading the suit carefully, what is it claiming exactly?
so what the hell is the PSP NOT going to be able to do?
I've always thought that a show similar to TSS (though perhaps not live) and starring Leo and Patrick could probably work well on the Home & Garden Television network. Dang, I wish I were a TV producer because then I would try to pitch this to that network and get Leo and Patrick on board.
Lemme guess: It's revealed in the end that everything was actually set on Earth. Some gov't/military conspiracy teleported the heroes to a lab to test the affects of a top-secret bioweapon. The End.
1) John Carmack will have a cameo in it somewhere. He'll probably briefly appear as a nerdy tech/scientist seen on a video monitor.
2) The Rock will say in the movie: "Let's give 'em HELL!"
3) It will be rated PG-13.