Hollywood is all about the connections. It also doesn't hurt that those writers already have a built in reputation for not giving a crap about the art and just bowing to studio intervention... executives likey! Nothing worse than a writer going uppity on you and wanting to put in ideas and such into a film!
Transformers are very alive today. I knew a bunch people in college that collected and went crazy for Transformers toys, but aside from that, most anime is basically a spin-off of transformers. With the popularity of anime, this film already has an audience even to people who don't remember the original transformers show. Oh, and cool effects.
This scheme would only hurt the little man with a good idea, than someone like Amazon. Amazon can keep paying the multiplying fines until it gets accepted, since their lawsuits against companies using their patented technology will far outweigh the measly fines for resubmitting a dozen times. The small guy, however, can't resubmit a dozen times, and the USPO can keep patents from getting accepted just so they could get higher fines on the resubmit.
I bought BeOS awhile back and used it for a little while. The reason I switched back is because it just seemed like a waste of my new computer to run an OS that I couldn't really run any software on. I think new OSes might catch on if they're marketed more toward people who don't want to upgrade their computers and still have a speed boost running an OS that isn't as bloated as the mainstream ones.
It's obvious that Roland Piquepaille has some connection with Slashdot... but who cares? He runs a blog that is basically much like Slashdot where he scours the web and finds interesting links and writes about them. So what if/. links to him and gives him some money through the traffic?
There's no question that he's getting special treatment with the amount of accepted submissions he gets, but nepotism and cronyism has been around since the beginning of time. I doubt it's any more sinister than Piquepaille being a friend of someone on the/. team. When/. starts posting just advertisements as stories (or at least more so than they do now:) ) that's when I'll start browsing something else.
But there are correct rules of grammar which you have followed in the creation of your post. Saying there is no correct English is ridiculous. Why else would someone make fun of the "All your base are belong to us" translation or create this comic strip if the English language was a free-for-all?
get-process is more intuitive because if I watch someone typing it over their shoulder, I'm more likely to know what it's doing and thus remember it, than if they typed "ps." When I'm at my desk in the new shell and I'm thinking "Ok, how do I get this process?" Which do you think would be easier to remember? I'll take the 11-character command with a 2 character shortcut any day
You could easily take an 8x10 print given to you by, say, a wedding photographer and scan it and get an image that could be easily reproduced and even enlarged. Should photographers not give out prints anymore as well, then?
The theatre experience has really been declining in recent years, and the home theatre stuff is getting less expensive. I bought a projector and screen a few months ago for my apartment and, while the screen isn't as big as a regular theatre, the sound quality is usually better just coming from two $100 Creative Labs speakers and a subwoofer.
It's just not worth going to a theatre when prices are being raised to insane amounts of money and the theatres aren't enhancing the experience to reflect the change. Most of the theatres I've been to have blown out speakers and outdated projectors but still keep raising the price of admission. And don't get me started on the 30 minutes of TV commercials they play these days. The trailers and commercials are so long, I forget what movie I'm waiting for.
Steve Jobs probably wouldn't want to interview at his own company. I don't know if he had the opportunity to interview at IBM back in the day, but he went out and achieved on his own accord, not by working a 9 to 5 at a company of the week. That's probably why he told people they should quit school. School will only teach you how to become an active member of the current heirarchy, and not going out and creating something extraordinary and new.
That's the dumbest excuse I've ever heard. If they need an extra 2 minutes to make people laugh then they're idiots. They still have, what, 18 minutes? Surely they could cram a good joke in there somewhere...
Thanks, that just made my day. I've been lamenting the death of adventure games for years. Actually, that's the reason I stopped playing games in general.
Because I for one consider a chip which purposefully takes control of my computer away from me and gives it to someone else without my authorization to be broken.
If you consider that to be broken, then you've got a funny definition of broken, because I consider that same thing to be criminal. I'd much rather have a processor that doesn't work instead of one that you've described.
I did the same thing years ago with duct tape. As comments pointed out earlier, this is pretty lame. Just buy 2 monitors. At least you could pull them apart later on.
If you want to predict market results for consumer products, then I suggest you predict them 70 or more years into the future. That way when the results come in, you're predictions will either be forgotten, or you'll be dead so it won't matter. Do you know how much money is being spent on making video for CELL PHONES? If people want to watch video on cell phones, I don't think a 480x234 pixel widecreen display is too small for them.
but all I really know is that I won't buy it because I don't think the ability to watch movies while I'm in line at the grocery store is worth 800 bucks to me, nor even 600.
it's not based on computer, I don't think. The stores I visit, when you're a return shopper, you usually have a username and password. They could change prices depending on whether you're logged in or not. It might also be different based on location... multiple computers in your own home would be coming from the same location, so prices wouldn't change.
I believe it, though I don't have the proof to back it up.
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Hollywood is all about the connections. It also doesn't hurt that those writers already have a built in reputation for not giving a crap about the art and just bowing to studio intervention... executives likey! Nothing worse than a writer going uppity on you and wanting to put in ideas and such into a film!
Transformers are very alive today. I knew a bunch people in college that collected and went crazy for Transformers toys, but aside from that, most anime is basically a spin-off of transformers. With the popularity of anime, this film already has an audience even to people who don't remember the original transformers show. Oh, and cool effects.
This scheme would only hurt the little man with a good idea, than someone like Amazon. Amazon can keep paying the multiplying fines until it gets accepted, since their lawsuits against companies using their patented technology will far outweigh the measly fines for resubmitting a dozen times. The small guy, however, can't resubmit a dozen times, and the USPO can keep patents from getting accepted just so they could get higher fines on the resubmit.
or most cases, it probably won't be a good thing. But why stifle choice and design just so every checkbox and radio button can be standard?
that had to be a code for something.
I bought BeOS awhile back and used it for a little while. The reason I switched back is because it just seemed like a waste of my new computer to run an OS that I couldn't really run any software on. I think new OSes might catch on if they're marketed more toward people who don't want to upgrade their computers and still have a speed boost running an OS that isn't as bloated as the mainstream ones.
It's obvious that Roland Piquepaille has some connection with Slashdot... but who cares? He runs a blog that is basically much like Slashdot where he scours the web and finds interesting links and writes about them. So what if /. links to him and gives him some money through the traffic?
/. team. When /. starts posting just advertisements as stories (or at least more so than they do now :) ) that's when I'll start browsing something else.
There's no question that he's getting special treatment with the amount of accepted submissions he gets, but nepotism and cronyism has been around since the beginning of time. I doubt it's any more sinister than Piquepaille being a friend of someone on the
But there are correct rules of grammar which you have followed in the creation of your post. Saying there is no correct English is ridiculous. Why else would someone make fun of the "All your base are belong to us" translation or create this comic strip if the English language was a free-for-all?
get-process is more intuitive because if I watch someone typing it over their shoulder, I'm more likely to know what it's doing and thus remember it, than if they typed "ps." When I'm at my desk in the new shell and I'm thinking "Ok, how do I get this process?" Which do you think would be easier to remember? I'll take the 11-character command with a 2 character shortcut any day
You could easily take an 8x10 print given to you by, say, a wedding photographer and scan it and get an image that could be easily reproduced and even enlarged. Should photographers not give out prints anymore as well, then?
The theatre experience has really been declining in recent years, and the home theatre stuff is getting less expensive. I bought a projector and screen a few months ago for my apartment and, while the screen isn't as big as a regular theatre, the sound quality is usually better just coming from two $100 Creative Labs speakers and a subwoofer.
It's just not worth going to a theatre when prices are being raised to insane amounts of money and the theatres aren't enhancing the experience to reflect the change. Most of the theatres I've been to have blown out speakers and outdated projectors but still keep raising the price of admission. And don't get me started on the 30 minutes of TV commercials they play these days. The trailers and commercials are so long, I forget what movie I'm waiting for.
Steve Jobs probably wouldn't want to interview at his own company. I don't know if he had the opportunity to interview at IBM back in the day, but he went out and achieved on his own accord, not by working a 9 to 5 at a company of the week. That's probably why he told people they should quit school. School will only teach you how to become an active member of the current heirarchy, and not going out and creating something extraordinary and new.
But Linux use is very high in the major effects studios.
That's the dumbest excuse I've ever heard. If they need an extra 2 minutes to make people laugh then they're idiots. They still have, what, 18 minutes? Surely they could cram a good joke in there somewhere...
WTF, dude? Cringley is on crack.
There, first vote!
Thanks, that just made my day. I've been lamenting the death of adventure games for years. Actually, that's the reason I stopped playing games in general.
Because I for one consider a chip which purposefully takes control of my computer away from me and gives it to someone else without my authorization to be broken.
If you consider that to be broken, then you've got a funny definition of broken, because I consider that same thing to be criminal. I'd much rather have a processor that doesn't work instead of one that you've described.
America! FUCK YEAH!
maybe this guy can help
I did the same thing years ago with duct tape. As comments pointed out earlier, this is pretty lame. Just buy 2 monitors. At least you could pull them apart later on.
If you want to predict market results for consumer products, then I suggest you predict them 70 or more years into the future. That way when the results come in, you're predictions will either be forgotten, or you'll be dead so it won't matter. Do you know how much money is being spent on making video for CELL PHONES? If people want to watch video on cell phones, I don't think a 480x234 pixel widecreen display is too small for them.
but all I really know is that I won't buy it because I don't think the ability to watch movies while I'm in line at the grocery store is worth 800 bucks to me, nor even 600.
Perhaps people drilling to the center of the earth is what's causing the tsunamis... Oh the tragic irony that would be!!
Although, if a truly scalable Artificial Intelligence ever gets Internet access, I fear it has the potential to know us better than we do.
But will it know love?
If you are already taking out the condom, you obviously don't need the oxytocin.
it's not based on computer, I don't think. The stores I visit, when you're a return shopper, you usually have a username and password. They could change prices depending on whether you're logged in or not. It might also be different based on location... multiple computers in your own home would be coming from the same location, so prices wouldn't change.
I believe it, though I don't have the proof to back it up.