For starters, does anyone have a translation of what the French site says? My guess would be that whatever firm came up with these has done three concept prototypes and submitted them.
But here's the biggest problem - if the original trilogy comes in casing like this then they won't match the existing movies on DVD. I mean, perhaps I'm misreading what's going on here, but at least one of these sets looks like it's one of those deals where the book unfolds and the discs click into the pages (like when they release seasons of television shows on DVD)
Granted, with the inclusion of a fourth disc (instead of, say, three 2-disc movies) the whole thing was going to get messed up anyway, but am I the only one who wants keeper cases with "IV", "V" and "VI" to sit next to my "I", "II" and "III" DVD's?
Or perhaps this is just what the foreign markets get?
the fact that Christopher Tolkien disowned his own son for supporting Peter Jackson's efforts w/ LOTR
The part I don't get is this - the Tolkien estate was furious about the LOTR movies (J.R.R. signed away the movie rights a long time ago for like $15K), they apparently don't have a problem with the LOTR games - you know, the video games they licensed that are "based on the books (not on the movies)". Why is it one form of modern entertainment they shun and the other they don't?
Or is it really that they didn't hate the LOTR movies per se, just that they weren't going to see any money out of them directly?
The funny thing about the South Park movie is that South Park as a show sucked for some time shortly thereafter. Word was that Matt & Trey wanted to move on. This is why Comedy Central allowed them to do "That's my Bush!", but after eight epsiodes at a million a piece (with declining ratings) they axed that. After they signed M&T to a huge contract to keep South Park alive and these last few seasons - this one in particular (#7) - have been particularly brilliant.
Also, remember that if a non-outsourced programmer (in this context, an American one) did this, they'd be fired. Same reason this outsourced person (hopefully) loses their job.
However, the American gets to have this incident follow him. Every time he lists that job on a resume, one phone call to his former employer can get the details and the company who might hire him next can get more info on it. However, this outsourced offshore programmer will likely either go to work for another outsourcing firm or, more likely, the outsourcing firm will just stick him somewhere else. The hiring company (of the outsourcing firm) doesn't know anything about his background, or how badly he screwed up. Hell, the fact that they don't have to do the interviewing and background checking themselves is seen as a plus.
Yeah, if this is an aberrant incident it'll be ignored in the long run, but if lots of little incidents like these go down - which if the projections that outsourcing is on the rise continue - then perhaps it'll send a signal to the powers that be.
Now all we need is for one of those children to be the child of a Congressman. Same way we need just one of the RIAA targets to be some senator's kid off at school...
I used this back in High School - we had a "Broadcast Journalism" department, producing television shows for local networks, and a daily news broadcast (student body president, announcements, etc.) for which we hijacked the "Channel One" TV's.
For a while, I could "spot" when it was being used somewhere - like in low budget syndicated television shows, or in the early days of small networks, like Comedy Central.
The "problem" with it was - it was something you outgrew. That Commodore/Amiga went the way of the dodo didn't help, but really it was for small-time or hobbyist operations at best. Once your operation became big enough, you started looking elsewhere.
I should probably go back and see if my alma mater's operation is still going, and what they use today.
It was my understanding that the first versions of Java were called simply "Java". Then at some version (1.2?) they started calling them "Java 2", despite not being 2.0. So, is this 1.5 version still "Java 2" or have we moved on to "Java 3"? (which, as I understood it, was the title likely associated with 1.5)
Arkane Studios, an independent French developer that created the critically-acclaimed role-playing game 'Arx Fatalis,' has licensed [Half-Life 2's Source engine] for a forthcoming title
And in a stunning turn of events, their neccessary changes to the source code are already completed!
Doesn't copyrighting fonts seem kinda overkill anyway? I mean, yeah copyright it since it's a piece of work, but this draconian licensing scheme they've come up with is probably the reason everyone uses the fonts that come on their system and no others.
This is what I'm going to try to do to - but not because I'm "anti-RIAA". I could give a crap. I'm going to try and find new unknown artists with this - I've accidentally found some unknown artists that kick ass lately and it's the most fun I've had with music in a long time. I'll try and use this iTunes promotion to do the same.
It looks like this promotion is limited to Pepsi, Diet Pepsi and Sierra Mist, none of which interest me. Wither Mountain Dew? Are they intentionally slighting geeks?
are there certain companies that tend to put the non-skippable ads at the beginning?
The original, movie-only version of Disney's Tarzan had about two and a half minutes of unskippable commercials at the beginning of the disc. Consumers complained very loudly, especially since not only was this a popular DVD, but it was aimed at (impatient) children. Disney declared that they wouldn't make the commercials non-skippable in the future (I haven't really checked to see if this is the case), but pretty much this set the precedent - make commercials skippable, lest you piss off your consumers.
I ordered a pizza from Pizza Hut this past summer and it came with Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey on DVD (was either cheap or free with a large pizza). It had about three minutes of unskippable commercials at the beginning, one of which was a PSA sponsored by Pizza Hut. One of my APEX players would let me skip, the others wouldn't. I guess given the price break on the disc, a few commercials I can ignore while going to get some food is fine.
Pixar was unable to do a Toy Story 3 since their contract with Disney says they have to come out with X movies by 2005 (and the forthcoming two fulfill that obligation) and sequels don't count. They got conflicting info on this so they went ahead and did Toy Story 2, then learned it wouldn't count towards their obligation.
Disney owns all the rights to the characters in Toy Story, so Toy Story 3 is not something Pixar can do outside of Disney even if they wanted to. However, Pixar owns the rights to all of the new characters in Toy Story 2, so either a Disney TS3 wouldn't have those characters, or TS3 just won't exist at all.
Rumor is that the timing of this announcement is purposeful in the efforts to get Michael Eisner outed in favor of Roy Disney. Steve Jobs is a pawn to that, as goes the theory.
For me, I was in middle school and the Book Fair came into the library, offering to sell us all books. I remember seeing 12" LP's for this "Hitchhiker's Guide" thing and wondering what it was all about - and one of the books for sale was H2G2, so I bought it (amusingly, it reccomended "mature audiences"). Been hooked ever since.
For the uninitiated, go into any bookstore in America and look for the "Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide" - one volume, five+ books, $15. Cheap!
Guys, these are guesses done by Analysts, they're not based off of anything Microsoft has said for a fact. The analysts base it off of what Microsoft might do, not off of what might be intelligent in the marketplace.
So whatever you do, don't bet on Xbox dropping to $99 or seeing Xbox Next/2 in 2005. And don't complain that Microsoft lied to you when neither of these things happen.
This is the real crux of the issue - even when the artist complains later (Coolio, Eminem), they still get paid. The Booble logo looks a lot like Google and Google doesn't get a dime. Of course, Google would probably decline recieving money from a porn site.
I found this funny - on his Off the Deep End album, Weird Al did this long polka parody and one of the songs he worked in was "Ice Ice Baby", and for writing credits he had to list Vanilla Ice, Hurricane (VI's DJ), David Bowie and the five members of Queen. Imagine getting paid royalties from a parody artist who parodied the guy who tried to rip you off (VI originally gave no credit/royalties to Bowie/Queen for sampling "Under Pressure").
about damn time for what? I think FOTR had more nominations that ROTK, and all three have been up for best picture. Perhaps you're confusing getting nominated for winning?
But yeah - with no "Chicago" style frontrunner, ROTK has a better than average chance.
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But here's the biggest problem - if the original trilogy comes in casing like this then they won't match the existing movies on DVD. I mean, perhaps I'm misreading what's going on here, but at least one of these sets looks like it's one of those deals where the book unfolds and the discs click into the pages (like when they release seasons of television shows on DVD)
Granted, with the inclusion of a fourth disc (instead of, say, three 2-disc movies) the whole thing was going to get messed up anyway, but am I the only one who wants keeper cases with "IV", "V" and "VI" to sit next to my "I", "II" and "III" DVD's?
Or perhaps this is just what the foreign markets get?
Or is it really that they didn't hate the LOTR movies per se, just that they weren't going to see any money out of them directly?
The funny thing about the South Park movie is that South Park as a show sucked for some time shortly thereafter. Word was that Matt & Trey wanted to move on. This is why Comedy Central allowed them to do "That's my Bush!", but after eight epsiodes at a million a piece (with declining ratings) they axed that. After they signed M&T to a huge contract to keep South Park alive and these last few seasons - this one in particular (#7) - have been particularly brilliant.
What, no Congressman would have foster kids?
However, the American gets to have this incident follow him. Every time he lists that job on a resume, one phone call to his former employer can get the details and the company who might hire him next can get more info on it. However, this outsourced offshore programmer will likely either go to work for another outsourcing firm or, more likely, the outsourcing firm will just stick him somewhere else. The hiring company (of the outsourcing firm) doesn't know anything about his background, or how badly he screwed up. Hell, the fact that they don't have to do the interviewing and background checking themselves is seen as a plus.
Yeah, if this is an aberrant incident it'll be ignored in the long run, but if lots of little incidents like these go down - which if the projections that outsourcing is on the rise continue - then perhaps it'll send a signal to the powers that be.
Now all we need is for one of those children to be the child of a Congressman. Same way we need just one of the RIAA targets to be some senator's kid off at school...
For a while, I could "spot" when it was being used somewhere - like in low budget syndicated television shows, or in the early days of small networks, like Comedy Central.
The "problem" with it was - it was something you outgrew. That Commodore/Amiga went the way of the dodo didn't help, but really it was for small-time or hobbyist operations at best. Once your operation became big enough, you started looking elsewhere.
I should probably go back and see if my alma mater's operation is still going, and what they use today.
Man, remember when we had to REWIND things?
It was my understanding that the first versions of Java were called simply "Java". Then at some version (1.2?) they started calling them "Java 2", despite not being 2.0. So, is this 1.5 version still "Java 2" or have we moved on to "Java 3"? (which, as I understood it, was the title likely associated with 1.5)
Doesn't copyrighting fonts seem kinda overkill anyway? I mean, yeah copyright it since it's a piece of work, but this draconian licensing scheme they've come up with is probably the reason everyone uses the fonts that come on their system and no others.
This is what I'm going to try to do to - but not because I'm "anti-RIAA". I could give a crap. I'm going to try and find new unknown artists with this - I've accidentally found some unknown artists that kick ass lately and it's the most fun I've had with music in a long time. I'll try and use this iTunes promotion to do the same.
Actually, I meant that switching from Coke to Pepsi is too much - but I could handle Mountain Dew. Or Code Red.
It looks like this promotion is limited to Pepsi, Diet Pepsi and Sierra Mist, none of which interest me. Wither Mountain Dew? Are they intentionally slighting geeks?
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What the hey, I've got Karma to burn...
I ordered a pizza from Pizza Hut this past summer and it came with Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey on DVD (was either cheap or free with a large pizza). It had about three minutes of unskippable commercials at the beginning, one of which was a PSA sponsored by Pizza Hut. One of my APEX players would let me skip, the others wouldn't. I guess given the price break on the disc, a few commercials I can ignore while going to get some food is fine.
Disney owns all the rights to the characters in Toy Story, so Toy Story 3 is not something Pixar can do outside of Disney even if they wanted to. However, Pixar owns the rights to all of the new characters in Toy Story 2, so either a Disney TS3 wouldn't have those characters, or TS3 just won't exist at all.
Rumor is that the timing of this announcement is purposeful in the efforts to get Michael Eisner outed in favor of Roy Disney. Steve Jobs is a pawn to that, as goes the theory.
For the uninitiated, go into any bookstore in America and look for the "Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide" - one volume, five+ books, $15. Cheap!
Don't forget the computer game, which followed the plot of the book to a certian point, then took a hard right.
So whatever you do, don't bet on Xbox dropping to $99 or seeing Xbox Next/2 in 2005. And don't complain that Microsoft lied to you when neither of these things happen.
This just speculation.
I found this funny - on his Off the Deep End album, Weird Al did this long polka parody and one of the songs he worked in was "Ice Ice Baby", and for writing credits he had to list Vanilla Ice, Hurricane (VI's DJ), David Bowie and the five members of Queen. Imagine getting paid royalties from a parody artist who parodied the guy who tried to rip you off (VI originally gave no credit/royalties to Bowie/Queen for sampling "Under Pressure").
But yeah - with no "Chicago" style frontrunner, ROTK has a better than average chance.