"Not to mention the fact that it's a platform whose users, well, let's just say it's one whose users PREFER not to pay anything for software at all."
You're talking about the windows world right? I can't even recall all the times I walk into homes and businesses to fix their windows computers and find "warez" programs installed and being used on a daily basis.
From the article: When a sweepstakes is open to Canada, you will usually see that it is void in the province of Quebec. This is because of the stringent rules the Regie des Loteries et Courses du Quebec imposes, e.g. the company offering the contest must have a head office or place of business in Quebec. That leaves out a huge number of companies and their promotions. As a result, many companies just void Quebec in their elegibility rules.
2D animation is never going to die. Even now as we speak there are new 2D animation companies sprining up all over the world in the most unlikey countries and places. Part of this is because the tools needed to do an animated show/series/movie have gone down considerably. Movies like Spirited Away are also excellent proof that the genre is not dying -- but it is changing.
What is it we always argue about here on Slashdot the most? Big companies, inflexible to change. The Disney franchise is huge, and the formula for making animated shows and movies has served them so well for so long that it has blinded them to the changes happening around them. Ghibli is small (as say compared to Disney) so they are constantly reinventing their art and their storytelling, as are countless hopeful companies around the world which are all likely contenders to be the next Pixar of hand drawn animation.
Even should the unthinkable happen, and traditional hand drawn animation go the way of the western movie genre, you can take some comfort in the fact that hand drawn 2D animatiors are essential in the creation of 3D shows/series/movies. Many 2D animators become excellent 3D animators with some training, and many animators are still hired to make storyboards and animate complex scenes for the 3D animators.
Plugins to IE, Greasemonkey, A more horrifying version of clippy that reads "I see you are visiting getfirefox.com. Are you really sure you want to do that?"
Please. This whole article is just wild speculation on a closed talk between the two companies.
Wasn't it about a week ago now there was a Slashdot story about Microsoft trying to talk to the open source community about opening standards and interoperability? Could it be this was talk about that? Maybe all they were talking about was their favorite flavors of Benn and Jerry's Ice Cream.
Point is we don't know what they were discussing. Everyone is crying Chicken Little before it is really neccessary.
Ah, good. Thanks for clearing that up for me. I guess its all those insanely expensive taxes that go to fund government corruption then.
I consider a place like future shop a big store chain, and they tell me about the levy each time I pick up any blank media. If they are not collecting it and it really isn't much of a bother for them, then why are they going out of their way to make a fuss about it?
No, they actually are still boycotting it. It's rather stupid if you ask me. When you go to the counter with those blank CDrs and the like, the cashier reminds you of the levy added to the cost because of the tape tax. Oh, and then I think the cost goes up slightly because they never included that levy in the price sticker. I also think London Drugs, Visions and a few other chain stores are in on that too.
In a way, its kind of good they are doing that. It reminds people of that levy. It bugs me however because when I am budgeting for those 10 pack of CDrs it becomes an extra expense I forget they tack on and perhaps in the end it even cost me more then going to a different place.
I can't remember why, but a couple of their teammates (or whatever they are in this game) were missing or something at the time. When I said they were "there because of their boyfriends" I didn't mean that applied literally to this situation. I meant they were into this game because of them. And then there was the issue that there was missing players as well, etc..
Go figure... (Sorry, I couldn't resist that bad pun)
I was so shocked when my cousin, a huge DnD some card game like fanatic. he dragged me (reluctantly) to a truck stop where he and his friends all meet to play this card game. Of the 10 people there to play, 6 were girls. They were there because of their boyfriends, and one was there because she enjoyed the game. They were all active players too, not watching the game like I was. (The rules of the game were more confusing then Sendmail's configuration files.)
Trust me, these nerds and geeks are doing very well.
I'd say the best thing to do is to give away the music for free. Submit copies to the local community stations both in your area and across the country (if you can afford it). The community stations love indie artists and has been the best way for me to learn about good artists. I assure you it hasn't been through the main stream radio and record stores.
Use your website to promote the music by giving it away as non DRM files, and put them on P2P networks. Make money through concerts and T-shirts and anything else that you can think of. The music is like your business card. Merchandising will make you a profit.
If the music you have is good, the fans will find you. If it is really good, the record deals will come to you. I would not go to them. Let them come to you, then you can negotiate on your terms. Other artists I have heard have done this and gotten better deals then if they had gone to the labels to begin with. Remember labels have one agenda, making money. If you can approach them already with a fan base they would slit their own wrists to sign you.
No, I bet a more likely reason they went and bought from Corel instead of going with OpenOffice is so they can justify their spending budgets. In our government I have been told if you department doesn't spend their full budget you get that much less next year. That's why governments go hog crazy on spending in Febuary just before income tax time.
Go with OpenOffice? but that would make us short our spending budget? Are you mad? You're fired..
Maybe I'm wrong, but this seems a more plausable reason in my mind anyway.
If I plug in my Yepp MP3 player (A USB device), my video camera disappears (IEEE 1394).
I have a Soundblaster PCI 128. I have the XP drivers I DL from the website and the card doesn't work on any of the XP machines, as well as a 98 machine I plugged it into. But it works perfectly fine on my Fedora Linux machine, without any monkey business.
I consider myself a rational person, and to my rational thinking the driver support system for windows is on crack. (that, and/or Dvorak)
About a few months ago I remember I rented an older DVD in the video store and just after the FBI warning there was the Macrovision logo. It caught my eye because I didn't expect it. I sort of assumed they already had protection on the DVDs. So if this isn't true then why did they have the macrovision logo on a DVD? Can anyone explain this one to me?
(damn, wish I could remember the name of the DVD.)
I'm not meaning to say that a warning is not required either, and I am not putting down your idea either -- in fact I think a warning should be displayed like you say.
We are so used to seeing warnings and danger icons around us that we have come somewhat desensitised to the danger they represent. They are on gas stations, lawn mowers, even household cleaners and how many people (including myself) actually stop to read them?. This example I gave is a case where the warnings are extremely big, still very frew people pay attention to them. Big, small, the size of the warning won't make any difference if the person won't heed it.
What I am trying to say is that the size of the warning really is pointless. If people choose to ignore it, they will. I would think that a big warning message would be even as annoying as a time delayed click.
Here in Canada cigarettes have at least 60% of their labels covered with warning messages, and yet I still hear of young people taking up the nasty habit all the time.
Warnings won't help, people ignore them no matter how big they are. Education should be the best security against the scum on the internet. (that, and a good secure browser helps too.)
Sure it can, but once a law has been put into place and the marketplace has been flooded with these copy protected devices, do you think it will be easy to just suddenly go back to the way things were? Big business won't be inclined to let that happen. Lawmakers don't like to repeal old laws because in some ways its like admitting they made a mistake.
No, it's best to bite this demon before it gets its fangs dug into us.
there is a time and place where you should do things like that, like during the action sequences. But I noticed moments where actors are simply talking normally and the camera is shaking and losing focus slightly as they talk and zooming to CUs.. Blah Blah Blah Blah... After 15 minutes I got to feeling like I was on a rollercoaster.
One of the things they taught me in film school was if the camera is to move, it must be for a reason and it should be done so an audience isn't aware of the movement.
I think the DoP should go back to school. This isn't some new radical idea, it's just plain stupid and has me now tuning out.
Slashdot Mirror
"Not to mention the fact that it's a platform whose users, well, let's just say it's one whose users PREFER not to pay anything for software at all."
You're talking about the windows world right? I can't even recall all the times I walk into homes and businesses to fix their windows computers and find "warez" programs installed and being used on a daily basis.
From the article:
When a sweepstakes is open to Canada, you will usually see that it is void in the province of Quebec. This is because of the stringent rules the Regie des Loteries et Courses du Quebec imposes, e.g. the company offering the contest must have a head office or place of business in Quebec. That leaves out a huge number of companies and their promotions. As a result, many companies just void Quebec in their elegibility rules.
Don't forget Lemmings in there. I have to admit the PC version of Lemmings really was incredible, but the Amiga version looked and ran beautifully.
2D animation is never going to die. Even now as we speak there are new 2D animation companies sprining up all over the world in the most unlikey countries and places. Part of this is because the tools needed to do an animated show/series/movie have gone down considerably. Movies like Spirited Away are also excellent proof that the genre is not dying -- but it is changing.
What is it we always argue about here on Slashdot the most? Big companies, inflexible to change. The Disney franchise is huge, and the formula for making animated shows and movies has served them so well for so long that it has blinded them to the changes happening around them. Ghibli is small (as say compared to Disney) so they are constantly reinventing their art and their storytelling, as are countless hopeful companies around the world which are all likely contenders to be the next Pixar of hand drawn animation.
Even should the unthinkable happen, and traditional hand drawn animation go the way of the western movie genre, you can take some comfort in the fact that hand drawn 2D animatiors are essential in the creation of 3D shows/series/movies. Many 2D animators become excellent 3D animators with some training, and many animators are still hired to make storyboards and animate complex scenes for the 3D animators.
Plugins to IE, Greasemonkey, A more horrifying version of clippy that reads "I see you are visiting getfirefox.com. Are you really sure you want to do that?"
Please. This whole article is just wild speculation on a closed talk between the two companies.
Wasn't it about a week ago now there was a Slashdot story about Microsoft trying to talk to the open source community about opening standards and interoperability? Could it be this was talk about that? Maybe all they were talking about was their favorite flavors of Benn and Jerry's Ice Cream.
Point is we don't know what they were discussing. Everyone is crying Chicken Little before it is really neccessary.
Ah, good. Thanks for clearing that up for me. I guess its all those insanely expensive taxes that go to fund government corruption then.
I consider a place like future shop a big store chain, and they tell me about the levy each time I pick up any blank media. If they are not collecting it and it really isn't much of a bother for them, then why are they going out of their way to make a fuss about it?
No, they actually are still boycotting it. It's rather stupid if you ask me. When you go to the counter with those blank CDrs and the like, the cashier reminds you of the levy added to the cost because of the tape tax. Oh, and then I think the cost goes up slightly because they never included that levy in the price sticker. I also think London Drugs, Visions and a few other chain stores are in on that too.
In a way, its kind of good they are doing that. It reminds people of that levy. It bugs me however because when I am budgeting for those 10 pack of CDrs it becomes an extra expense I forget they tack on and perhaps in the end it even cost me more then going to a different place.
The Throttling is done mostly in Vancouver, and some places in Alberta. Saskatchewan and Manitoba users are not throttled. (yet)
Ha ha ha.. Funny
I can't remember why, but a couple of their teammates (or whatever they are in this game) were missing or something at the time. When I said they were "there because of their boyfriends" I didn't mean that applied literally to this situation. I meant they were into this game because of them. And then there was the issue that there was missing players as well, etc..
Go figure... (Sorry, I couldn't resist that bad pun)
Not having a girlfriend?
I was so shocked when my cousin, a huge DnD some card game like fanatic. he dragged me (reluctantly) to a truck stop where he and his friends all meet to play this card game. Of the 10 people there to play, 6 were girls. They were there because of their boyfriends, and one was there because she enjoyed the game. They were all active players too, not watching the game like I was. (The rules of the game were more confusing then Sendmail's configuration files.)
Trust me, these nerds and geeks are doing very well.
I'd say the best thing to do is to give away the music for free. Submit copies to the local community stations both in your area and across the country (if you can afford it). The community stations love indie artists and has been the best way for me to learn about good artists. I assure you it hasn't been through the main stream radio and record stores.
Use your website to promote the music by giving it away as non DRM files, and put them on P2P networks. Make money through concerts and T-shirts and anything else that you can think of. The music is like your business card. Merchandising will make you a profit.
If the music you have is good, the fans will find you. If it is really good, the record deals will come to you. I would not go to them. Let them come to you, then you can negotiate on your terms. Other artists I have heard have done this and gotten better deals then if they had gone to the labels to begin with. Remember labels have one agenda, making money. If you can approach them already with a fan base they would slit their own wrists to sign you.
Well this is my thoughts, practical or not.
kill him and take his place.
Interesting.
I would give her a shout, as well as your local MP if this concerns you as much as it does me.
Never thought of that one, and the StarOffice is a good idea too which I missed as well.
No, I bet a more likely reason they went and bought from Corel instead of going with OpenOffice is so they can justify their spending budgets. In our government I have been told if you department doesn't spend their full budget you get that much less next year. That's why governments go hog crazy on spending in Febuary just before income tax time.
Go with OpenOffice? but that would make us short our spending budget? Are you mad? You're fired..
Maybe I'm wrong, but this seems a more plausable reason in my mind anyway.
Please. Spoiled? Ha!
If I plug in my Yepp MP3 player (A USB device), my video camera disappears (IEEE 1394).
I have a Soundblaster PCI 128. I have the XP drivers I DL from the website and the card doesn't work on any of the XP machines, as well as a 98 machine I plugged it into. But it works perfectly fine on my Fedora Linux machine, without any monkey business.
I consider myself a rational person, and to my rational thinking the driver support system for windows is on crack. (that, and/or Dvorak)
interesting. Thank you.
About a few months ago I remember I rented an older DVD in the video store and just after the FBI warning there was the Macrovision logo. It caught my eye because I didn't expect it. I sort of assumed they already had protection on the DVDs. So if this isn't true then why did they have the macrovision logo on a DVD? Can anyone explain this one to me?
(damn, wish I could remember the name of the DVD.)
I'm not meaning to say that a warning is not required either, and I am not putting down your idea either -- in fact I think a warning should be displayed like you say.
We are so used to seeing warnings and danger icons around us that we have come somewhat desensitised to the danger they represent. They are on gas stations, lawn mowers, even household cleaners and how many people (including myself) actually stop to read them?. This example I gave is a case where the warnings are extremely big, still very frew people pay attention to them. Big, small, the size of the warning won't make any difference if the person won't heed it.
What I am trying to say is that the size of the warning really is pointless. If people choose to ignore it, they will. I would think that a big warning message would be even as annoying as a time delayed click.
Here in Canada cigarettes have at least 60% of their labels covered with warning messages, and yet I still hear of young people taking up the nasty habit all the time.
Warnings won't help, people ignore them no matter how big they are. Education should be the best security against the scum on the internet. (that, and a good secure browser helps too.)
Sure it can, but once a law has been put into place and the marketplace has been flooded with these copy protected devices, do you think it will be easy to just suddenly go back to the way things were? Big business won't be inclined to let that happen. Lawmakers don't like to repeal old laws because in some ways its like admitting they made a mistake.
No, it's best to bite this demon before it gets its fangs dug into us.
By the time that Soccer Mom and Joe Sixpack find they can't tape their favorite shows (assuming it ever got to that point), it would be too late.
I know we're a little OT on this matter, but...
there is a time and place where you should do things like that, like during the action sequences. But I noticed moments where actors are simply talking normally and the camera is shaking and losing focus slightly as they talk and zooming to CUs.. Blah Blah Blah Blah... After 15 minutes I got to feeling like I was on a rollercoaster.
One of the things they taught me in film school was if the camera is to move, it must be for a reason and it should be done so an audience isn't aware of the movement.
I think the DoP should go back to school. This isn't some new radical idea, it's just plain stupid and has me now tuning out.