I have heard reports that those who haven't been thoroughly disgusted by Lucas and Co, what with Ep1 and N'Sync and all, are begining to line up in Seattle for Ep2. This is inane. Now yes, I admit waiting all day or night for the Special Editions. But after Ep1, no more, I may even wait for video.
Don't these people have jobs to go to?
And it is perfectly reasonable for countries (Russia for example) who's laws state that making a back-up copy is perfectly legal to demand that the US force software makers to make sure their products are copyable. The US isn't the whole planet, nor is it the world government.
"The clear reason is that one choice is illegal, the other legal."
No. No it isn't. As long as no payment changes hands you can give whoever you want a copy of whatever. Copyright existed in order to guarantee that only the copyright holder could profit from copies.
What should be illegal is the bizarre concept that the music industry wants it both ways. They insist that their media is both a product outright as well as a license. If its a product then get off my back about what I do with it after I've payed for it. If is a license then replace my damn scratched CD's, I payed my fee.
From the standpoint of necessary animation, hell yeah. One army was of eagles, and another rode wargs or wolves. Thats insanely nore difficult to deal with than a seige by humanoids or beings such as ents. Any shot near enough to show detail would require a great amount of artificially generated creatures and effects. The average human can be costumed into a fine orc, but not a wolf or eagle.
Oh contrair! Star Wars reminds me of Lord of the Rings. Think about it for a moment:
Frodo and Luke both lived in holes in the ground.
Gandalf is fairly analogous to Obi-Wan.
Aragorn and Han are both of royal blood.
Sauron and the Emperor.
And for some odd reason Chewie reminds me of Gimli.
There is alot more, but the thing I see happening is younger viewers who know nothing of the books are likely to walk away feling as tho LoTR is somehow a rip off of Star Wars.
The Hobbit might have been entire too much of a technical nightmare. Producing Smaug is one thing, but could the battle of five armies been done proper justice?
I've been screaming for hardware makers to build stereo equipment style cases for years. The closest you get is NLX form factor "bookshelf" computers. I'd personally love a machine I could "hide" right with my stereo gear. If I had the cash I'd form a start-up myself. I bet I could snag at least 25% of slashdots readership without a problem, just on the "cool" factor.
Or at least you can get a Masters Degree in Digital Arts at the Maryland Institute. You should look into the works of Vasant Nayak, the former head of the department, and check out some of the instructors at art schools offering digital programs. It is most definately fine art, but digital art is also not simply defined as pure computer graphics, there can be much more to it than that.
From the article:
"I've seen songwriters myself who have been close to homeless before they finally got the two or three hits that let them survive."
Perhaps maybe they should get a dayjob like the rest of us?
"The CD is the root of all of our problems with the Net," says Jay Samit, senior vice president of new media at EMI, which is testing various copy-protection technologies. "If CDs were as hard to copy as DVDs or VHS tapes or even books, we would not be going through anything like what we're going through now with Napster or Gnutella."
Does this guy even have a grasp on reality? I takes me little to no effort to dupe a VHS tape or copy a DVD to VHS. And thanks to connections at the local Kinko's, i could even get books copied in a matter of hours, if need be. (Although books are the one medium I never feel justified in copying)
Slashdot Mirror
I have heard reports that those who haven't been thoroughly disgusted by Lucas and Co, what with Ep1 and N'Sync and all, are begining to line up in Seattle for Ep2. This is inane. Now yes, I admit waiting all day or night for the Special Editions. But after Ep1, no more, I may even wait for video.
Don't these people have jobs to go to?
And it is perfectly reasonable for countries (Russia for example) who's laws state that making a back-up copy is perfectly legal to demand that the US force software makers to make sure their products are copyable. The US isn't the whole planet, nor is it the world government.
"The clear reason is that one choice is illegal, the other legal."
No. No it isn't. As long as no payment changes hands you can give whoever you want a copy of whatever. Copyright existed in order to guarantee that only the copyright holder could profit from copies.
What should be illegal is the bizarre concept that the music industry wants it both ways. They insist that their media is both a product outright as well as a license. If its a product then get off my back about what I do with it after I've payed for it. If is a license then replace my damn scratched CD's, I payed my fee.
Even better if the billing acount was a Microsoft corporate credit card. =)
things may have gone smoother if they weren't running BETA software in a production environment, as one of their spokes-droids recently divulged.
From the standpoint of necessary animation, hell yeah. One army was of eagles, and another rode wargs or wolves. Thats insanely nore difficult to deal with than a seige by humanoids or beings such as ents. Any shot near enough to show detail would require a great amount of artificially generated creatures and effects. The average human can be costumed into a fine orc, but not a wolf or eagle.
Oh contrair! Star Wars reminds me of Lord of the Rings. Think about it for a moment:
Frodo and Luke both lived in holes in the ground.
Gandalf is fairly analogous to Obi-Wan.
Aragorn and Han are both of royal blood.
Sauron and the Emperor.
And for some odd reason Chewie reminds me of Gimli.
There is alot more, but the thing I see happening is younger viewers who know nothing of the books are likely to walk away feling as tho LoTR is somehow a rip off of Star Wars.
The Hobbit might have been entire too much of a technical nightmare. Producing Smaug is one thing, but could the battle of five armies been done proper justice?
I've been screaming for hardware makers to build stereo equipment style cases for years. The closest you get is NLX form factor "bookshelf" computers. I'd personally love a machine I could "hide" right with my stereo gear. If I had the cash I'd form a start-up myself. I bet I could snag at least 25% of slashdots readership without a problem, just on the "cool" factor.
Will it let me put metal in a microwave?
...And REALLY not a good idea for reliable 100
Isn't Passport illegal in one or more states? I seem to recall something about residents of a state being unable to use Passport.
Or at least you can get a Masters Degree in Digital Arts at the Maryland Institute. You should look into the works of Vasant Nayak, the former head of the department, and check out some of the instructors at art schools offering digital programs. It is most definately fine art, but digital art is also not simply defined as pure computer graphics, there can be much more to it than that.
From the article:
"I've seen songwriters myself who have been close to homeless before they finally got the two or three hits that let them survive."
Perhaps maybe they should get a dayjob like the rest of us?
"The CD is the root of all of our problems with the Net," says Jay Samit, senior vice president of new media at EMI, which is testing various copy-protection technologies. "If CDs were as hard to copy as DVDs or VHS tapes or even books, we would not be going through anything like what we're going through now with Napster or Gnutella."
Does this guy even have a grasp on reality? I takes me little to no effort to dupe a VHS tape or copy a DVD to VHS. And thanks to connections at the local Kinko's, i could even get books copied in a matter of hours, if need be. (Although books are the one medium I never feel justified in copying)