First off, please forgive my ignorance, but is it really *that* important for Linus to decide to move Linux from the GPLv2 to the GPLv3? Just because version 3 of the license becomes available does not automatically invalidate the version 2 license does it? Why is this such a hot button issue?
I dunno. Maybe you should send Linus an email yourself and ask him: torvalds@osdl.org Please leave shark and laser references out of it, Ok?
most likely reply: I didn't hear RMS complain vehemently enough about GPLv3 so I figured it's fine.
Between Silk and Cyanide : A Codemaker's War, 1941-1945; Leo Marks
Leo worked in the Special Operations Executive (SOE) during WWII. During his work he
observed the Poem Codes were easily breakable and suspected the Dutch undergound had been compromised in what
the german's called Englandspiel (or The Game Against England) which resulted
in the capture and eventual deaths of many ">dutch agents. Marks
was instrumental in developing unbreakable Use-Once codes
Enigma; Robert Harris
Fictional thriller surrounded by the code-breaking effort at Bletchley Park
I thought starship troppers was supposed to be some sort of cheesy parody of something?
Heinlein used the story of the war with the "bugs" as as a vehicle for one of his explorations of political participation.
A similar theme can be found in Tunnel In The Sky.
They effectly dumped the political/socialogical discourse and went for the action, then made it rather camp. If RH were alive I think he'd die and commence to spinning on the spot. About the grade Mike Meyer's Cat In The Hat would rate from Theodore Suess Geisel.
With some recent interest in Heinlein's works and the Survivor TV fad I figured someone would pick it up and give it a right trashing with bimbos, dumb studs and gratuitious violence. (There's enough violence already, really.)
Not only is there a lot of legal, free video entertainment available on the Internet, there is also music, gaming, etc.
One other thing on the internet is instantaneous Communication with large audiences. Go to imdb and see a few comments and the film already rated and you just may change your mind about seeing it. Before the internet bad reviews got around on two legs.
Every movie I've gone out to see recently has been at the Del Mar, except those to which I was taking a child. And even then I wanted to get him out to see Duma, but he unfortunately came down with a cold and I wasn't able to do it.
A brilliant film! I saw it because I couldn't find anything else I wanted to see and it was about to exit, about one month ago;-)
Yeah, me too. Remember Gregory Peck and Jimmy Stewart in the 1952 version of "Brokeback Mountain". Now THAT was a classic. Nothing like that crappy remake that came out last year. WHAT was that studio thinking?
Get ready for in a few years time:
SLASHBACK MOUNTAIN
They were nerds. They were there for new and stuff that mattered in their lives. One eventful evening they both confessed in anonymous postings a secret admiration for Jar Jar Binks. If the word got out, they'd be shamed and shunned, lives would be ruined, hearts would be broken...
This just in: Paramount announced today they intend to spend at least $200 million in a remake of Might Joe Young to capitalize on the success of King Kong.
Now if we could just get the Wayans Brothers to do their version of the Blackula series...
The reason for that is that they have choked off the supply of works going in to the public domain. Historically, Hollywood has dipped into the public domain for ideas. Nothing new into the public domain = nothing new in Hollywood.
There's still buckets of stuff in the public domain. That said, there were a lot of great movies made of stuff copyrighted, like Gone With The Wind and The Wizard of Oz. I just think they've got some twisted idea that they won't take a risk. I think Heinlein's Tunnel In The Sky would make a killer film, but not with the calibre of actors I've seen cropping up lately. Lord knows they did a real job on Starship Troopers.
I think LOTR and the first new Star Wars (but only because it sucked so bad) were like that. At least with the geek group. Neither were more than "just a movie" to the general population.
I think Star Wars: ANH defined a generation of geeks, because they loved it (and still do.)
Star Wars: TPM defined another generation of geeks, because they didn't like it and hated Jar Jar.
LOTR was quite the series, but I never heard people outside the internet talk about it. No chatter, nothing. As if it had never happened.
FTFA: "We are exploring new ways to reach more people using innovative methods of communication and distribution."
I'm sure they are, but their big problem is that we already explored all that five years ago. Time to catch up, Hollywood, and fast!
You're referring to Blair Witch Project, right?
Sounds too much like they think the failing is due to not enough hype or viral marketing.
I think often enough I see trailers before the feature I'm going to see and use them to check things off my list of "Will Ever See", because all the good bits are essentially there.
There's probably also the odds a lot of people skip because they can just wait 4 months for the DVD, but I tend to buy DVD's of movies I already saw and liked.
I think two of the people speaking were trying to convince the audience to go see movies in theatres, "There is nothing like being part of the a community and watching a great film on the giant silver screen" or whatever. This made me a little sick.
Honestly, the last time I think I felt A Part of a Community was when Superman (with one with Christopher Reeve) came out. Star Wars:ANH also was like that. Wherever you went, people talked about it, it wasn't just being in the theater with your jaw hanging open and half-chewed popcorn rolling off your tongue onto your lap as the Millenium Falcon went into Hyperspace. It was wherever you went, for weeks afterwards, that everyone was talking about it and you were in the party, no invitation necessary.
Can't say I've seen anything really like it, maybe Titanic came close, but films don't Wow(!) people like they once did. Probably because they're just too predictable.
Ticket prices rising, movie quality decreasing = fewer ticket sales. Go figure
Don't know where you live, but where I do they've only gone up a buck or two in the past 7 years.
Really, it's the quality of writing and diversity of acting.
Lucas said the Age of the Blockbuster, $200 million films, is over. I can't really see that. If you spent $200 million making a really incredible picture, it would bring in the audiences and pay for itself many times over. Problem is they spend $200 million on a bad movie.
Case in point: Spielberg's War of the Worlds. I loved the animation, but Cruise? Give me a break! And that story? What crack-addicted pulp-writing hack came up with that? Geez. Imagine how awesome it would be if he'd picked a few unknown, high quality actors and followed the original book, as Pendragon tried to do? This effort was sick!
Steve lost cred with me, now I have to scrutinize his offerings, like Munich (which was above average, but missed some facts.)
Really. There's jibes all over in the press about it. Most of the films in the past year I spent my money on were at a place like
this.
Why?
Because I've seen it all before, now they're re-doing it all and nothing surprises me. Then I go to the Del Mar or The Nick and see
something
See a story which is either deeply thoughtful or genuinely entertaining.
I have no idea where the story is going.
See really good acting.
See a production done so well I forget for a moment I'm actually watching it on a screen.
Suprising. Innocent Voices, that was an eye opener. Amelie, that was a charmer. Run Lola Run, that was just cool.
Steve Martin in the recent remake of The Pink Panther is a prime example. I already have some idea where jokes are going, long before the punch.
The acting isn't anywhere near as good as the first (Sellers may have been an ass, but he could act comedy.) Honestly. Steve Martin (The Spanish Prisoner) and Kevin Kline (A Fish Called Wanda)
are really capable of great acting, but this was pretty weak.
I'm a real flim buff. You can tell. I take my own popcorn salt, rather than risk they'll have table salt shakers from SYSCO.
Hey, get that guys post! i want to create a movie based upon it! car chases! beautiful women! huge fireball explosions!
sophomoric humor! It'll be great!
My cubicles walls help give me more free time to spend on Slashdot... And, that's Stuff that Matters...
I totally blew it when I didn't bother to patent double-decker desks. Imagine surfing/. and having your secretary at the desk above you... oh wait, this is/. never mind.
Comments from current and former employees about the company's compensation and performance review system suggest a growing level of frustration among rank-and-file workers.
These sorts of things often lead to something like Blue-Flu
Enough to know that the way to ensure someone pays more attention to your useless rubbish is to try to hide it.
It's clear from the moderators who cast the prior post as Troll have no clue what I was actually saying. Can't figure them for programmers or anyone who has ever examined file contents or a core dump.
Purely by coincidence, more likely the larger the file, things can be found, which really aren't representative of what's there. In RADIX-50 dumps I remember frequently seeing ED0 (that's a zero on the end) which looked like the old name for Tokyo. It simply corresponded to a pair of commonly occuring bytes.
If the spymasters are looking, who says they are any smarter than the RIAA, when the RIAA was scanning stuff all over the web for names which matched patterns of song names or performers and simply issued orders to ISP's to close users accounts as they were obviously music pirates. Heaven help you if you so much as had an MP3 file you simply named SONGS_NOT_BY_BRITNEY_SPEARS visible to the web at large. I suppose there's a first or second screening Intelligence agencies must go through on things, but is there a point to being picked up on the first pass?
While I understand the nature of a support contract as insurance it is a bit frustrating that my company pays a huge annual amount for this, we hardly (actually never while I was here) use it and if we want to keep it we have to run our business on their schedule, not ours.
It's like a security blanket, I expect. If your vendor has really bad software (not likely support is going to be any better, is it?) people far removed from the realities will feel some sense of comfort that it's there.
Don't forget to apply the Murphy factor to the actual upgrading and conversion...
Oh, that has happened.
One of the worst experiences I've ever been through was getting part of the way through an upgrade and realizing it wasn't going to work and having to go back to the prior version.
There are software vendors out that who Beta on their own users. I used to work in a shop that did US$1B payroll annually. The vendors, I kid you not, made a change to the code and installed it, just before a run. It broke. All manner of files, which WERE NOT BACKED UP because Data Entry for the run had finished AFTER LAST BACKUP and data was hosed.
Did we immediately terminate with these buffoons and sue for damages? No. We let them get away with it. The CIO who chose this company eventually would get a raise, retro in effect to the beginning of his hire. Dilbert stuff really happens.
We did find, at another place of employ, that an essential report was not there or a library it called wasn't there, right at the beginning of production. I called the vendor and asked what happened to this missing module and non-functional report. The apologised and said it would be fixed in the next point release, in about 4 months time. I went ballistic and my boss forbade me to talk to these people for a couple years. I ended up having to write the report as an overnighter. I didn't get any overtime or anything for it.
Free online storage from a company that can't keep their documents safe from prying eyes -- including the document that eludes to the fact that they're offering free online storage.
Yeah, but just think, your stuff would be blocked from anyone in China.
Slashdot Mirror
I dunno. Maybe you should send Linus an email yourself and ask him: torvalds@osdl.org Please leave shark and laser references out of it, Ok?
most likely reply: I didn't hear RMS complain vehemently enough about GPLv3 so I figured it's fine.
dutch agents
Between Silk and Cyanide : A Codemaker's War, 1941-1945; Leo Marks
Enigma; Robert Harris
Oh, come now. They just finished winning their latest legal round on FAT
Give them a moment to catch their breath, will you?
introducing OrigamiFS, you write it out on paper then fold it in half as many times as you can
Heinlein used the story of the war with the "bugs" as as a vehicle for one of his explorations of political participation.
A similar theme can be found in Tunnel In The Sky.
They effectly dumped the political/socialogical discourse and went for the action, then made it rather camp. If RH were alive I think he'd die and commence to spinning on the spot. About the grade Mike Meyer's Cat In The Hat would rate from Theodore Suess Geisel.
With some recent interest in Heinlein's works and the Survivor TV fad I figured someone would pick it up and give it a right trashing with bimbos, dumb studs and gratuitious violence. (There's enough violence already, really.)
One other thing on the internet is instantaneous Communication with large audiences. Go to imdb and see a few comments and the film already rated and you just may change your mind about seeing it. Before the internet bad reviews got around on two legs.
A brilliant film! I saw it because I couldn't find anything else I wanted to see and it was about to exit, about one month ago ;-)
Hopefully still be there another week.
Get ready for in a few years time:
Now if we could just get the Wayans Brothers to do their version of the Blackula series...
Meanwhile, where the fsck is this?
The funny thing is, when you see a line down the block for a film at the Nick or the Del Mar, you know it's good.
When you see a line down the block for the Cinema 9, you know there's a lot of sheep in town.
There's still buckets of stuff in the public domain. That said, there were a lot of great movies made of stuff copyrighted, like Gone With The Wind and The Wizard of Oz. I just think they've got some twisted idea that they won't take a risk. I think Heinlein's Tunnel In The Sky would make a killer film, but not with the calibre of actors I've seen cropping up lately. Lord knows they did a real job on Starship Troopers.
I think Star Wars: ANH defined a generation of geeks, because they loved it (and still do.)
Star Wars: TPM defined another generation of geeks, because they didn't like it and hated Jar Jar.
LOTR was quite the series, but I never heard people outside the internet talk about it. No chatter, nothing. As if it had never happened.
I'm sure they are, but their big problem is that we already explored all that five years ago. Time to catch up, Hollywood, and fast!
You're referring to Blair Witch Project, right?
Sounds too much like they think the failing is due to not enough hype or viral marketing.
I think often enough I see trailers before the feature I'm going to see and use them to check things off my list of "Will Ever See", because all the good bits are essentially there.
There's probably also the odds a lot of people skip because they can just wait 4 months for the DVD, but I tend to buy DVD's of movies I already saw and liked.
Honestly, the last time I think I felt A Part of a Community was when Superman (with one with Christopher Reeve) came out. Star Wars:ANH also was like that. Wherever you went, people talked about it, it wasn't just being in the theater with your jaw hanging open and half-chewed popcorn rolling off your tongue onto your lap as the Millenium Falcon went into Hyperspace. It was wherever you went, for weeks afterwards, that everyone was talking about it and you were in the party, no invitation necessary.
Can't say I've seen anything really like it, maybe Titanic came close, but films don't Wow(!) people like they once did. Probably because they're just too predictable.
Don't know where you live, but where I do they've only gone up a buck or two in the past 7 years.
Really, it's the quality of writing and diversity of acting.
Lucas said the Age of the Blockbuster, $200 million films, is over. I can't really see that. If you spent $200 million making a really incredible picture, it would bring in the audiences and pay for itself many times over. Problem is they spend $200 million on a bad movie.
Case in point: Spielberg's War of the Worlds. I loved the animation, but Cruise? Give me a break! And that story? What crack-addicted pulp-writing hack came up with that? Geez. Imagine how awesome it would be if he'd picked a few unknown, high quality actors and followed the original book, as Pendragon tried to do? This effort was sick!
Steve lost cred with me, now I have to scrutinize his offerings, like Munich (which was above average, but missed some facts.)
Really. There's jibes all over in the press about it. Most of the films in the past year I spent my money on were at a place like this.
Why?
Because I've seen it all before, now they're re-doing it all and nothing surprises me. Then I go to the Del Mar or The Nick and see something
- See a story which is either deeply thoughtful or genuinely entertaining.
- I have no idea where the story is going.
- See really good acting.
- See a production done so well I forget for a moment I'm actually watching it on a screen.
- Suprising. Innocent Voices, that was an eye opener. Amelie, that was a charmer. Run Lola Run, that was just cool.
Steve Martin in the recent remake of The Pink Panther is a prime example. I already have some idea where jokes are going, long before the punch. The acting isn't anywhere near as good as the first (Sellers may have been an ass, but he could act comedy.) Honestly. Steve Martin (The Spanish Prisoner) and Kevin Kline (A Fish Called Wanda) are really capable of great acting, but this was pretty weak.I'm a real flim buff. You can tell. I take my own popcorn salt, rather than risk they'll have table salt shakers from SYSCO.
Hey, get that guys post! i want to create a movie based upon it! car chases! beautiful women! huge fireball explosions! sophomoric humor! It'll be great!
I totally blew it when I didn't bother to patent double-decker desks. Imagine surfing /. and having your secretary at the desk above you... oh wait, this is /. never mind.
What they're obviously missing is that denying iTunes sales increases CD sales which translate into more piracy.
Good plan.
These sorts of things often lead to something like Blue-Flu
From a life-long geek's perspective:
Regarding health, it will be bad for someone's if I don't get my coffee.
Enough to know that the way to ensure someone pays more attention to your useless rubbish is to try to hide it.
It's clear from the moderators who cast the prior post as Troll have no clue what I was actually saying. Can't figure them for programmers or anyone who has ever examined file contents or a core dump.
Purely by coincidence, more likely the larger the file, things can be found, which really aren't representative of what's there. In RADIX-50 dumps I remember frequently seeing ED0 (that's a zero on the end) which looked like the old name for Tokyo. It simply corresponded to a pair of commonly occuring bytes.
If the spymasters are looking, who says they are any smarter than the RIAA, when the RIAA was scanning stuff all over the web for names which matched patterns of song names or performers and simply issued orders to ISP's to close users accounts as they were obviously music pirates. Heaven help you if you so much as had an MP3 file you simply named SONGS_NOT_BY_BRITNEY_SPEARS visible to the web at large. I suppose there's a first or second screening Intelligence agencies must go through on things, but is there a point to being picked up on the first pass?
It's like a security blanket, I expect. If your vendor has really bad software (not likely support is going to be any better, is it?) people far removed from the realities will feel some sense of comfort that it's there.
Oh, that has happened.
One of the worst experiences I've ever been through was getting part of the way through an upgrade and realizing it wasn't going to work and having to go back to the prior version.
There are software vendors out that who Beta on their own users. I used to work in a shop that did US$1B payroll annually. The vendors, I kid you not, made a change to the code and installed it, just before a run. It broke. All manner of files, which WERE NOT BACKED UP because Data Entry for the run had finished AFTER LAST BACKUP and data was hosed.
Did we immediately terminate with these buffoons and sue for damages? No. We let them get away with it. The CIO who chose this company eventually would get a raise, retro in effect to the beginning of his hire. Dilbert stuff really happens.
We did find, at another place of employ, that an essential report was not there or a library it called wasn't there, right at the beginning of production. I called the vendor and asked what happened to this missing module and non-functional report. The apologised and said it would be fixed in the next point release, in about 4 months time. I went ballistic and my boss forbade me to talk to these people for a couple years. I ended up having to write the report as an overnighter. I didn't get any overtime or anything for it.
I seriously hate it when someone says, "Here's the new release, it's going in right away!" That's where the term "Bleeding Edge" comes in.
I typically upgrade when I feel I need to, i.e. there's some new feature which really is great or required for the work you do.
Lastly, this guy is 16? Props!
Yeah, but just think, your stuff would be blocked from anyone in China.