until disney bought pixar their animation was in the toilet except for a few TV characters they made up
people aren't going to buy crap based on 100 year old characters perpetually. and they didn't. lot of new stuff over the last few years has been better than almost anything disney has done in decades
people hype how cheap google fiber is but the point is if you're like verizon or Comcast and have to borrow money and pay 5% - 8% or so PER YEAR interest on the debt your service is going to be more expensive
$140 billion at 5% a year almost $8 billion a year in interest costs. and then you have to make enough profit to pay back the bonds after they mature. internet service has this bad trend of always dropping in price
and the only way google did it in kansas city was by paying off local officials to allow them to put their fiber on the poles at lower rates than everyone else's lines. not going to work everywhere. ISP's and others are already suing kansas city for allowing this
and like no one else has created any new animation lately?
disney animation was a joke until they bought pixar. they haven't had a good story since the lion king
the fact that mickey and disney's other properties were protected by copyright is what spurred Pixar, Dreamworks and others to create new animation and leave disney in the dust
disney thought they were riding on easy money paying for perpetual copyright, but there is an endless pool of new ideas out there and people thought up stories a lot better than Mickey
i never said shrek was disney. the point is even with mickey protected by copyright there is still lots of new animation coming out and people thinking up new stories
and shakespeare copied as well. everyone does. nothing bad about it, you just have to make your story unique to make it something new. like Paramount did with DS9 when they used Babylon 5 as inspiration
Disney is not the only ones making cartoons. In fact most of disney's revenue is from sports these days. They own espn
There was shrek that was based on a kids book Maracascar Ice age Pixar has made some excellent stuff like toy story and monsters that Disney only distributed Megamind was a superman ripoff but superheroes in general are an old idea Despicable me
But if you want to talk Disney Special agent oso Handy manny Chuggington which is inspired by Thomas the tank engine The older kid crap that Disney has for teens
My two year old likes Mickey but he's such a minor character these days it's like he doesn't exist. He is mostly for clueless foreigners to identify American animation by
so what if copyrights go to infinity? there is an almost never ending pool of new ideas to work on
Fifty Shades of Grey may have gotten a lot of hype a few months ago but there lots of other romance novels in the kindle store. people are always making up cool ideas for art, creating the product and selling it
say congress passes a law tomorrow extending copyright forever
Big deal? lots of new popular characters have been created. a lot more characters will be created in the future. at one point Mickey might even go the way of the dodo as people/culture changes
the only people hoping to kill copyright are the leaches who have never created anything themselves and just want to rip off someone's work. with amazon and youtube it has never been easier to think up of art yourself, create it, put it up for the world to see and make money off it
with amazon making it easy to self publish i decided to try my luck with writing. almost finished with my first novella. i got the idea for the story from a meme i saw on Google Plus almost a year ago and used my wife and other people i've met for the characters.
not very hard
how is lack of copyright going to encourage people to make up new content?
one of the most popular halloween costumes this year was from Jake and the Neverland Pirates, a Peter Pan spin off that Disney has in its 3rd season now disney jr has lots of new characters like Oso, Handy Manny, Little Einsteins and others
and the popularity of Mickey and its copyright protection is what fueled the children's animation revolution of the last 20 some years lion king shrek all the Pixar movies and at least a dozen other movies
if Microsoft wants Surface to have any chance of success they need to start writing checks to the top devs to port their games/apps to RT. otherwise there is no financial incentive since the sales will probably not pay for the costs to port and test the apps
if you have kids you have to leave enough days to stay home with sick kids. that means you get your a$$ into the office and infect everyone else if you get sick
my oldest kid was sick literally every 2-3 weeks at one point while in day care. he spent just over a year taking anti-biotics almost non stop
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until disney bought pixar their animation was in the toilet except for a few TV characters they made up
people aren't going to buy crap based on 100 year old characters perpetually. and they didn't. lot of new stuff over the last few years has been better than almost anything disney has done in decades
which is why internet is expensive
people hype how cheap google fiber is but the point is if you're like verizon or Comcast and have to borrow money and pay 5% - 8% or so PER YEAR interest on the debt your service is going to be more expensive
$140 billion at 5% a year almost $8 billion a year in interest costs. and then you have to make enough profit to pay back the bonds after they mature. internet service has this bad trend of always dropping in price
don't have 5 kids if you don't make enough
i knew people in the army not making much but they had 2 or 3 kids and complained about money. not like its hard to use birth control
sorry, verizon is way ahead of google
and the only way google did it in kansas city was by paying off local officials to allow them to put their fiber on the poles at lower rates than everyone else's lines. not going to work everywhere. ISP's and others are already suing kansas city for allowing this
and like no one else has created any new animation lately?
disney animation was a joke until they bought pixar. they haven't had a good story since the lion king
the fact that mickey and disney's other properties were protected by copyright is what spurred Pixar, Dreamworks and others to create new animation and leave disney in the dust
disney thought they were riding on easy money paying for perpetual copyright, but there is an endless pool of new ideas out there and people thought up stories a lot better than Mickey
i never said shrek was disney. the point is even with mickey protected by copyright there is still lots of new animation coming out and people thinking up new stories
and shakespeare copied as well. everyone does. nothing bad about it, you just have to make your story unique to make it something new. like Paramount did with DS9 when they used Babylon 5 as inspiration
You just have to make your story unique enough. Not very hard if you use your imagination.
Start trek copied Babylon 5 but they made it unique
Same with sliders copying doctor who
Disney is not the only ones making cartoons. In fact most of disney's revenue is from sports these days. They own espn
There was shrek that was based on a kids book
Maracascar
Ice age
Pixar has made some excellent stuff like toy story and monsters that Disney only distributed
Megamind was a superman ripoff but superheroes in general are an old idea
Despicable me
But if you want to talk Disney
Special agent oso
Handy manny
Chuggington which is inspired by Thomas the tank engine
The older kid crap that Disney has for teens
My two year old likes Mickey but he's such a minor character these days it's like he doesn't exist. He is mostly for clueless foreigners to identify American animation by
so what if copyrights go to infinity? there is an almost never ending pool of new ideas to work on
Fifty Shades of Grey may have gotten a lot of hype a few months ago but there lots of other romance novels in the kindle store. people are always making up cool ideas for art, creating the product and selling it
say congress passes a law tomorrow extending copyright forever
Big deal? lots of new popular characters have been created. a lot more characters will be created in the future. at one point Mickey might even go the way of the dodo as people/culture changes
the only people hoping to kill copyright are the leaches who have never created anything themselves and just want to rip off someone's work. with amazon and youtube it has never been easier to think up of art yourself, create it, put it up for the world to see and make money off it
with amazon making it easy to self publish i decided to try my luck with writing. almost finished with my first novella. i got the idea for the story from a meme i saw on Google Plus almost a year ago and used my wife and other people i've met for the characters.
not very hard
how is lack of copyright going to encourage people to make up new content?
one of the most popular halloween costumes this year was from Jake and the Neverland Pirates, a Peter Pan spin off that Disney has in its 3rd season now
disney jr has lots of new characters like Oso, Handy Manny, Little Einsteins and others
and the popularity of Mickey and its copyright protection is what fueled the children's animation revolution of the last 20 some years
lion king
shrek
all the Pixar movies
and at least a dozen other movies
Screaming in agony
Going to love to read macdailynews.com take on this
Old people?
And upi. That's what most news articles are, reprints of what they buy from the three big news gathering organizations
Local news? Between blogs, twitter and aol's push into local news there is no reason to pay for news
if you figure $100,000 per year for salary and benefits per developer. then a few weeks work to port and debug a game costing $10,000 is not crazy.
i played Great Little Wargame on iOS and it's pretty good. it has its short comings but a pretty good strategy/wargame overall
if Microsoft wants Surface to have any chance of success they need to start writing checks to the top devs to port their games/apps to RT. otherwise there is no financial incentive since the sales will probably not pay for the costs to port and test the apps
really? unless you spend some ridiculous amount of money for a nice vacation i get bored pretty quick.
ohh, its the 3rd day at the beach this week. so exciting
depends on the job
some IT can WFH. our networking guys almost always get their hands dirty touching routers in the office. help desk is setting up new computers.
doctors can't see patients from home. plumbers can't work from home. sales people can't sell from home either
if the general's mistress can take classified computers home, why can't you?
if you have kids you have to leave enough days to stay home with sick kids. that means you get your a$$ into the office and infect everyone else if you get sick
my oldest kid was sick literally every 2-3 weeks at one point while in day care. he spent just over a year taking anti-biotics almost non stop
and who is going to build these spaceships? Toyota?
The defense contractors were the ones who built apollo. Northrom Grumman built the moon lander outside of NYC
was the contractor convicted of the crime?
did she win a civil lawsuit for the home damage?
No? then she deserves to be sued. You can't bad mouth people and spread false information about them without being able to prove it
I dumped all my old crap years ago
a lot of the old games are on iOS/Android these days. cheaper to buy them than pay the electricity costs for the old crap
do some of you people get hard ons from watching cryptic text on a screen in your off time?