Particularly in this case, these extended editions were planned.
Movie audiences don't want to sit in-seat for 4 hours. Plus the super-size mega drinks (now with tides!) make that a major trick.
These scenes were not "cut" from the big-screen releases. They were intentionally filmed for the related-but-separate entity of the Extended DVD Edition.
Theft is really the wrong word. I KNOW it's nitpicking, but really. If you could walk out of Wal-Mart with a coiped case of Coke, only they didn't actually lose a case of Coke, would you still feel they had the right to subpoena your address?
- Bulk UCE (or other net annoyances, but let's confine this discussion) is spam. - Strange meatlike loaf coated in gel and sold in square tins is SPAM(tm).
Sheesh. You obviously have no regard for intellectual property.
Q: Now that you've become the first robot to fly over the Atlantic, what would you like to say to the public: TAM-5: I am here to protect you. I am here to protect you from the Terrible Secret of Space. Are there stairs in your house?
POST-POST SCRIPT: Please do not confuse the short story Nightfall or the novel Nightfall with the two wretched B-movies named Nightfall. Neither movie bears more than a passing resemblance to the written pieces.
Asimov had a fantastic collection of short stories in "Nightfall and Other Stories." It's out of print, but I had no trouble hunting up a copy on Amazon recently.
(NB: This contains the short story version of Nightfall, which later grew into the novel Nightfall in collaboration with Silverberg.)
It's so waterproof that if you were to throw it into the Great Salt Lake, it would within seconds sit atop an enormous salt crystal pyramid in the middle of the Great Freshwater Donut.
You're all infringing on my patent. From the USPTO site:
------------------ Claim 1:
What is claimed is
A method and apparatus of humor that operates in a recursive fashion.
Claim 2:
What is claimed is
A system comprised of the above claims, where:
Humor in the system is designed to be a witty social commentary, whereby an element of society is targeted with a hyperbolic exaggeration of a specific example of this societal element.
Claim 3:
What is claimed is
A system comprised of the above claims, where:
The societal element to be parodied is a patent, and a fictitious "patent claim" is listed such that the "patent claim" is of a system that is both deemed by the author to be obvious, and relevant to a claim being discussed or to an "inherently obvious" real-life example.
------------------
You'll all be hearing from my patent attorney for infringement. (Infringement jokes, of course, are covered by Patent 6,666,667.)
I didn't like the last one, and yet I was drawn to it... Too big a fan of the series, I suppose.
The costumes were OK, but can someone PLEASE smack down the hat designer? The big floating sail covered with butterflies was a bit much, and every time Feyd walked onscreen with that ridiculous triangle behind his head, I had to start singing..
I could be wrong, but I don't see how eBay's effort to license the patents directly confirms that they're violating them. Let's say I wanted to open a software development company. First off, I start developing software under Linux, using vi and g++. I go to a computer store and pick up a copy of Microsoft Visual Studio.NET, look at the box, and inquire as to the price. I then go back home and have a successful Linux-based software development enterprise. The computer store can't necessarily assume that I'm running Visual Studio at this point.
That's just my thought, anyway. I'm neither a lawyer nor a software developer.
Philip Bond, the Commerce Department's under secretary for technological policy, said cyber-pirates steal an estimated $12 billion worth of technology and goods a year, according to the Business Software Alliance.
So... uh.... who said it again? Philip Bond? The Commerce Department? The BSA? Nice journalism.
It's good to know that the government has stopped all the real crime so they can focus on people pirating Quake and Windows ME (remember ME stands for "suckbox crash enhancer").
I had an HP calculator that nobody else I've ever known would admit to... the 38G.
It was weird, for an HP... By default, it didn't even work in RPN! Definitely one of the neatest calcs I ever owned, though. My favorite part was the speaker functionality... It's always fun to be able to code your own music player on yer calc.
Oh. Very appropriate. Of COURSE punching someone in the face is acceptable, just to show "those damn hippies." It's this mindset that makes me miserable to be American today.
America... A great idea, but we seem to have lost the reins. I know, let's just bully everybody...
Apparently, most people posting in the "Yeah, why should they censor/Big Brother/Don't they respect their privacy" vein are missing a couple of points.
1: What privacy? You're in a public room, and you should assume that anybody could look over your shoulder the next minute. I think popping up a screen-cap on the big screen is a great way to handle this.
2: Have you ever taken a lecture course with computers available? I have, and it's incredibly distracting to hear "tap-taptap" and have peoples' screens flashing during what should be lecture time. No bullshit about boring or useless lectures; there's a solid amount of respect-for-prof and respect-for-students that any "adult" should have in classes. Rude all the way through.
3: What possible good reason is there to check email, or IM, or surf the web during class? Rhetorical question; there isn't one. Not a necessary evil.
All said, I applaud any school that has a policy like this. While the 'Net may be a solid educational tool, there's no need to let 'Net access wreck someone else's educational experience.
(Now if only they could come up with an off switch for the "zipping up bags and putting on coats 5 minutes before the end of class" problem...)
You're right, we were very humane in saving the poor Kuwaiti (oil supplies) from the evil invading Iraqi scum. And the Kurds... oh wait, we didn't really save the Kurds.
Hey, in fact, aren't we starving the common people of Iraq now with our sanctions and no-fly rules? And.. they hate us more every day for it? And... um..
"The copyright grants, among other things the exclusive right to create derivative works, except in the case of parody."
So remember, unless specifically stated by the author, you can't:
- Change font sizes
- Change colors
- Resize auto-sizing browser windows
- Display in less or more color depth than intended
- Use screen-reader technology (audio or tactile)
- Allow your browser to add links to the text
- Display page in an unauthorized browser.
Any of these modify the web page significantly, so they could be called derivative works. So now I'm getting confused. Does information want to be freely usable by the end-recipient or not?
Erm... My understanding is that HTML is (at root) just a markup language for text. Until CSS and layers and whatnot got totally out of hand, it wasn't even POSSIBLE for the designer to dictate how a webpage would be rendered. I know I always change the default fonts and sizes; maybe the author of the webpage WANTED it displayed in ANNOYING-HUGE or illegibletiny or even *shudder* BLINK!
I think any end-user who wants to modify their browser (by recoding it, by installing a third-party program, or by viewing it through one of those red plastic decoder rings) has every right to do that. So the text on your web page triggered my auto-link-to-search-engine software? How is that a PROBLEM?
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Particularly in this case, these extended editions were planned.
Movie audiences don't want to sit in-seat for 4 hours. Plus the super-size mega drinks (now with tides!) make that a major trick.
These scenes were not "cut" from the big-screen releases. They were intentionally filmed for the related-but-separate entity of the Extended DVD Edition.
Theft is really the wrong word. I KNOW it's nitpicking, but really. If you could walk out of Wal-Mart with a coiped case of Coke, only they didn't actually lose a case of Coke, would you still feel they had the right to subpoena your address?
Now, now, now.
- Bulk UCE (or other net annoyances, but let's confine this discussion) is spam.
- Strange meatlike loaf coated in gel and sold in square tins is SPAM(tm).
Sheesh. You obviously have no regard for intellectual property.
Microsoft shipped a software update that successfully patched a buffer overrun, with a net REDUCTION in vulnerabilities on a product.
I'm still in shock.
What is this, the Slashdot MMORPG?
I don't want to be completely pedantic, but this seems in slightly poor taste when somebody died from the blackout. Not that I didn't chuckle myself.
(For those who don't wanna clicky clicky, there has been one heat-related death so far.)
Yes. When interviewed, TAM-5 had this to say:
Q: Now that you've become the first robot to fly over the Atlantic, what would you like to say to the public:
TAM-5: I am here to protect you. I am here to protect you from the Terrible Secret of Space. Are there stairs in your house?
POST-POST SCRIPT: Please do not confuse the short story Nightfall or the novel Nightfall with the two wretched B-movies named Nightfall. Neither movie bears more than a passing resemblance to the written pieces.
Asimov had a fantastic collection of short stories in "Nightfall and Other Stories." It's out of print, but I had no trouble hunting up a copy on Amazon recently.
(NB: This contains the short story version of Nightfall, which later grew into the novel Nightfall in collaboration with Silverberg.)
But this watch is wicked waterproof.
It's so waterproof that if you were to throw it into the Great Salt Lake, it would within seconds sit atop an enormous salt crystal pyramid in the middle of the Great Freshwater Donut.
#define GREEN 0 ...
#define YELLOW 1
#define RED 2
int DetermineThreatLevel (struct victim * pId)
{
if substr(pId.lastname, "Al-")
return RED;
else if Administration.OpinionPolls 40
return YELLOW;
return GREEN;
}
You're all infringing on my patent. From the USPTO site:
------------------
Claim 1:
What is claimed is
A method and apparatus of humor that operates in a recursive fashion.
Claim 2:
What is claimed is
A system comprised of the above claims, where:
Humor in the system is designed to be a witty social commentary, whereby an element of society is targeted with a hyperbolic exaggeration of a specific example of this societal element.
Claim 3:
What is claimed is
A system comprised of the above claims, where:
The societal element to be parodied is a patent, and a fictitious "patent claim" is listed such that the "patent claim" is of a system that is both deemed by the author to be obvious, and relevant to a claim being discussed or to an "inherently obvious" real-life example.
------------------
You'll all be hearing from my patent attorney for infringement. (Infringement jokes, of course, are covered by Patent 6,666,667.)
I didn't like the last one, and yet I was drawn to it... Too big a fan of the series, I suppose.
The costumes were OK, but can someone PLEASE smack down the hat designer? The big floating sail covered with butterflies was a bit much, and every time Feyd walked onscreen with that ridiculous triangle behind his head, I had to start singing..
Triangle man, Triangle man...
I could be wrong, but I don't see how eBay's effort to license the patents directly confirms that they're violating them. Let's say I wanted to open a software development company. First off, I start developing software under Linux, using vi and g++. I go to a computer store and pick up a copy of Microsoft Visual Studio.NET, look at the box, and inquire as to the price. I then go back home and have a successful Linux-based software development enterprise. The computer store can't necessarily assume that I'm running Visual Studio at this point.
That's just my thought, anyway. I'm neither a lawyer nor a software developer.
So... uh.... who said it again? Philip Bond? The Commerce Department? The BSA? Nice journalism.
It's good to know that the government has stopped all the real crime so they can focus on people pirating Quake and Windows ME (remember ME stands for "suckbox crash enhancer").
I had an HP calculator that nobody else I've ever known would admit to... the 38G.
It was weird, for an HP... By default, it didn't even work in RPN! Definitely one of the neatest calcs I ever owned, though. My favorite part was the speaker functionality... It's always fun to be able to code your own music player on yer calc.
Er, ok, back to geekland now.
Oh, it makes me glad to hear people other than me coming up with uses for the PIC.
If I understand correctly, the PIC is also the magic secret component in a TI calculator link cable (:
heh. in my own little piece of civil disobedience, I refuse to let best buy search my stuff.
Hi, I came from the register 10 feet away. If you couldn't watch me there, that's your problem.
Oh. Very appropriate. Of COURSE punching someone in the face is acceptable, just to show "those damn hippies." It's this mindset that makes me miserable to be American today.
America... A great idea, but we seem to have lost the reins. I know, let's just bully everybody...
Apparently, most people posting in the "Yeah, why should they censor/Big Brother/Don't they respect their privacy" vein are missing a couple of points.
1: What privacy? You're in a public room, and you should assume that anybody could look over your shoulder the next minute. I think popping up a screen-cap on the big screen is a great way to handle this.
2: Have you ever taken a lecture course with computers available? I have, and it's incredibly distracting to hear "tap-taptap" and have peoples' screens flashing during what should be lecture time. No bullshit about boring or useless lectures; there's a solid amount of respect-for-prof and respect-for-students that any "adult" should have in classes. Rude all the way through.
3: What possible good reason is there to check email, or IM, or surf the web during class? Rhetorical question; there isn't one. Not a necessary evil.
All said, I applaud any school that has a policy like this. While the 'Net may be a solid educational tool, there's no need to let 'Net access wreck someone else's educational experience.
(Now if only they could come up with an off switch for the "zipping up bags and putting on coats 5 minutes before the end of class" problem...)
I worked in Visual Studio 6 for a couple years, and I think it has IntelliSense, too.
You're right, we were very humane in saving the poor Kuwaiti (oil supplies) from the evil invading Iraqi scum. And the Kurds... oh wait, we didn't really save the Kurds.
Hey, in fact, aren't we starving the common people of Iraq now with our sanctions and no-fly rules? And.. they hate us more every day for it? And... um..
Where was I going with this?
I don't wanna crush your good down-home all-American fun, but..
WE DON'T KNOW THAT IT'S BIN LADEN.
Doesn't that make it a little bit premature for dictating the course of our retaliation? Just my opinion.
"The copyright grants, among other things the exclusive right to create derivative works, except in the case of parody."
So remember, unless specifically stated by the author, you can't:
- Change font sizes
- Change colors
- Resize auto-sizing browser windows
- Display in less or more color depth than intended
- Use screen-reader technology (audio or tactile)
- Allow your browser to add links to the text
- Display page in an unauthorized browser.
Any of these modify the web page significantly, so they could be called derivative works. So now I'm getting confused. Does information want to be freely usable by the end-recipient or not?
"The browser has no business modifying webpages."
Erm... My understanding is that HTML is (at root) just a markup language for text. Until CSS and layers and whatnot got totally out of hand, it wasn't even POSSIBLE for the designer to dictate how a webpage would be rendered. I know I always change the default fonts and sizes; maybe the author of the webpage WANTED it displayed in ANNOYING-HUGE or illegibletiny or even *shudder* BLINK!
I think any end-user who wants to modify their browser (by recoding it, by installing a third-party program, or by viewing it through one of those red plastic decoder rings) has every right to do that. So the text on your web page triggered my auto-link-to-search-engine software? How is that a PROBLEM?