This isn't a story you want to tell. It tears down everything our libertarian, DIY, hacker culture stands for!
"Little guy with big ideas, can't bring them to fruition, needs to sell out to big media corps (TEH DEVIL!) to bring his dream to frution and expose it to the masses."
Now, if he had self-published, set up a website and sold his own DVDs, now that would be worth trumpeting.
This guy should be publicly flogged as a traitor, a collaborator with the evil corps! First against the wall when the revolution comes!
Maybe Sony is using Fogal transistors on the input circuit. That wey they can access the complete scene information enfoldedalated in the noisy signal. Or sumthin'.
Because the people that really need to be sued is the USPTO for incompetently issuing patents on ideas that are trivial to anyone practicing in the field.
"Any attempt to turn a reading primer into a 90 minute movie is bound to be perilous."
Yes, they have totally disjoint audiences!
*****Big honking spoiler alert****
I just saw the movie today, and contrary to what all the elitists on slashdot have spouted off, they actually did a reasonable job of making a movie based upon the basic ideas in Asimov's robot stories. Sure, it doesn't fit into the cannon, it's more a riff on the same ideas. There's a big twist involving the Wil Smith character about halfway through the movie (the fight in the highway tunnel...) And the whole crux of the movie stems from the discovery of the zero-th law. But unlike Iassic would've done, people do not accept a perfectly safe, controlled future trapped in a technological cage, and instead pull the plug.
You call that flamebait? You goddamn limp-wristed amateur, you're probably a priest, aren't you? You want flamebait, HERE'S SOME GODDAMN FLAMEBAIT FOR YA:
Yeah, looks like they're really relevant in the 21st century. (And this is a good indication that land-grab IP attitudes have no long term positive benefit in an information society.)
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"Little guy with big ideas, can't bring them to fruition, needs to sell out to big media corps (TEH DEVIL!) to bring his dream to frution and expose it to the masses."
Now, if he had self-published, set up a website and sold his own DVDs, now that would be worth trumpeting.
This guy should be publicly flogged as a traitor, a collaborator with the evil corps! First against the wall when the revolution comes!
If your company wants honest employees, they won't be hiring iPod-owing, music-stealing anarchists.
heh heh heh...
Hey, that's a pretty good trick!
I bet you woulda gotten first post if they hadn't done all that!
Maybe Sony is using Fogal transistors on the input circuit. That wey they can access the complete scene information enfoldedalated in the noisy signal. Or sumthin'.
That saying is inherently illogical, since the Segway is the benchmark of gayness [*] , not GREATNESS.
[*]That is, embarrasingly lame, not cheerful. Accept it gayboys, it's like [h|cr]acker now...
It was worth the $3.50 ticket price just for the line : "Don't mind him, he did too much LDS in the 60's."!!
That whole Johnny - Hadji - Bandit love triangle is so wrong for a cartoon aimed at children!
Pete jumped of.
Who was left?
Because the people that really need to be sued is the USPTO for incompetently issuing patents on ideas that are trivial to anyone practicing in the field.
Bunch of freeloaders...
It's people like you, enforcer999 (733591) that have ruined slashdot. Come back when you get a UID in the first quarter-million.
Pete jumped out.
Who was left?
Don't forget Mikerowesoft. That kid really blew it, he should have held out for the big $$$$$$$$$!
Jim Bell says 'hi'!
All idiotic zealtory of Gentoo with all the, well, mindless zealotry of Mac! A winning combination!
4. A reboot must never pursue an anti-trust case against Microsoft or any of its officers.
Yes, they have totally disjoint audiences!
*****Big honking spoiler alert****
I just saw the movie today, and contrary to what all the elitists on slashdot have spouted off, they actually did a reasonable job of making a movie based upon the basic ideas in Asimov's robot stories. Sure, it doesn't fit into the cannon, it's more a riff on the same ideas. There's a big twist involving the Wil Smith character about halfway through the movie (the fight in the highway tunnel...) And the whole crux of the movie stems from the discovery of the zero-th law. But unlike Iassic would've done, people do not accept a perfectly safe, controlled future trapped in a technological cage, and instead pull the plug.
The Pentagon is producing kiddie-porn!
That's some fucked-up shit. Totally unacceptable.
Obviously positronic brains are prescient. (Or would they have to be omniscent?)
John W Campbell had some ideas about the inherent superiority of the White race. But then again, a lot of people did back then.
Debra Messing was HOTT in that!
B) Not indexed by search engines
C) Not electronically archived
Yeah, looks like they're really relevant in the 21st century. (And this is a good indication that land-grab IP attitudes have no long term positive benefit in an information society.)
Yes. But please, for Wotan's sake, make the setting America and use all American actors!