I've been upset about this for a while. Alot of these movies have little bits of censored profanity in them. It shows they are made for DVD distribution. Why do I care? Because these movies are not only crappy, but they are flooding the market and backed by enough money that we may see the end of GOOD B movies. What company can compete with the flood of crap SciFi puts out, especially when you realize that video stores work with distributors who deal only with certain companies. Wnat some B movies in your store, we already have a fine line available for SciFi...nobody else gets in.
I feel the same way, I used to work for the governemnt, we had all kinds of problems communicating between us workers on Sun stations and the adminstration that used Windows NT. We could never read Word.doc's sent to us. So, that was worthless, then our Sun stations had VM ware to NT, but we couldn't print to anywhere that we ever found, and we didn't have a word processor of our own for the Suns, MS Office, VM Ware, and it was mostly useless...What a waste. They didn't evenhave the e-mail hooked up between the NT LAN and the Sun LAN except for a couple of mailing aliases, so you would send an email to someone and he would recieve code or info on a machine 100 feet away from the one he needed to use it on. I on occasion used as many as 5 computers at once when one could have been sufficient. There, it's not just the software issue, they just didn't know how to set up a network.
I think that's a great project. Look at all of the open source software out there that is so much more complicated. This stuff wouldn't be that bad, and the coders are right there as parents, and the husbands and wives of teachers. Consider, how few and lame the educational software is. Doesn't the sheer number of variants on the same theme scream for open source as the only answer? Great way to throw Open Source right at kids, too. They see it, they know Jimmy's dad made it, they know they can learn, too. Any educators out there want to lead up a project?
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I've been upset about this for a while. Alot of these movies have little bits of censored profanity in them. It shows they are made for DVD distribution. Why do I care? Because these movies are not only crappy, but they are flooding the market and backed by enough money that we may see the end of GOOD B movies. What company can compete with the flood of crap SciFi puts out, especially when you realize that video stores work with distributors who deal only with certain companies. Wnat some B movies in your store, we already have a fine line available for SciFi...nobody else gets in.
I feel the same way, I used to work for the governemnt, we had all kinds of problems communicating between us workers on Sun stations and the adminstration that used Windows NT. We could never read Word .doc's sent to us. So, that was worthless, then our Sun stations had VM ware to NT, but we couldn't print to anywhere that we ever found, and we didn't have a word processor of our own for the Suns, MS Office, VM Ware, and it was mostly useless...What a waste. They didn't evenhave the e-mail hooked up between the NT LAN and the Sun LAN except for a couple of mailing aliases, so you would send an email to someone and he would recieve code or info on a machine 100 feet away from the one he needed to use it on. I on occasion used as many as 5 computers at once when one could have been sufficient. There, it's not just the software issue, they just didn't know how to set up a network.
I think that's a great project. Look at all of the open source software out there that is so much more complicated. This stuff wouldn't be that bad, and the coders are right there as parents, and the husbands and wives of teachers. Consider, how few and lame the educational software is. Doesn't the sheer number of variants on the same theme scream for open source as the only answer? Great way to throw Open Source right at kids, too. They see it, they know Jimmy's dad made it, they know they can learn, too. Any educators out there want to lead up a project?