Can anyone recall the girl on the home page of the Kazaa site? Do you make much of an association between her and the Kazaa product? I'm curious because I know the surfer girl who is in that photo and she got paid some ridiculously low flat fee to have her picture taken for some generic advertizing purposes (I've seen her on Yahoo and BlueShield's site as well). And with this many downloads I wonder if she is a fairly recognizable figure on the web? You think Kazaa might consider taking her on as a spokesmodel?
My problem is my Pop thinks I'm still just a kid (i'm 30yrs old) and that I don't know what I'm talking about, even though I'm a professional software engineer. What he does is ping me for a quick diagnosis, and if it sounds like it's gonna cost him money, he goes to someone else.
For instance... He tells me he can't connect to the internet consistantly blah, blah, blah... my diagnosis is he needs a new modem. He doesn't believe me, and spends the next 3 months making calls to MSN tech support before taking his machine into the shop and they tell him he needs a new modem, so he gets a new modem, everything is now fine!
He also will read something somewhere, or pick up some bit of information and now it's WRITTEN IN STONE for him... For instance... He tells me there's something wrong with his MSN because he can't always get to certain sites reliably... ?!?! So I watch him... He's got a specific URL, but instead of typing it into his browser's ADDRESS/URL field, he types it into the SEARCH field. And since the search results vary he can't always get to this site. So I tell him "if you've got the website address already, you gotta put it into the address field. Only use the search field if you don't know the address and need to search for it." He gives me some "you don't know what yer talking about" look and tells me some book told him to use the search field, and by golly that's what he's gonna do. He doesn't need any of my crazy computer-wiz tricks.
BTW, my mother has a CS degree and sysadmin'd VAX data centers and whatnot for some pretty big companies. My parents are divorced.
I've got a web hosting account right now with Verizon, and in the control panel there's a combo box that prompts something like "when your max bandwidth is reached, what do you want to do?" which I've got set to "Suspend my account". I've never looked into it, but I assume it means that when the bandwidth is reached, requests will get some kind of error and I won't be billed for the excess.
Perhaps the burden of running this kind of site has rested on too few shoulders?
If you're all so hot and bothered about paying money for something of value, then perhaps this eveil plan appeals to you...
Take every topic (ie, Anime, BSD, Hardware, whatever) and get SlashCode and host a site for each topic, and they all share RDF (or whatever it is) data so that whatever site you're on you can see all the stories posted for that day on every other topic servers. Kind of a P2P thing in which each peer simply specializes in a different topic. Would something like that work?
Second, you haven't seen the Original Theatrical Release since it came out some twenty years ago.
You know, this is lame of me to say, because BR has been shown in small revival houses like the New Beverly Cinema in LA since it first came out (I saw it back-to-back with CHINATOWN - LA's past and future). And those prints must be from the print-run for the original release.
Now, as I mentioned in a previous post, there was a version which played at the NUART in LA a few years prior to the release of the Director's Cut. Kenneth Turan later wrote an article about it in LA TIMES MAGAZINE, but it looks like you have to pay on their website to get a copy of it. Anyway, some interesting points from what I can remember of it:
1. Main Title (orange w/horizontal pinstripe) started split in half and met in middle of the screen.
2. Music was all messed up in final Roy/Deckard confrontation. I think article said it was from PLANET OF THE APES?
3. During one of the downtown scenes with Leon or Zora, there were distinct shots of dancing girls in these huge verticle plexiglass tubes!
4. Some of the dialog was screwed up when refering to the replicant shuttle-jacking and how many came to earth - I think they were still trying to reconcile the housewife replicant which was eventually cut out of script.
5. Webster's Dictionary definition - jeez it's been so long since I last saw regular version of BR I can't remember if this is unique or not - Oh well, I know at the NUART screening that either before or in lieu of the scrolling Replicant intro they displayed what would have been a Webster's entry for the word Replicant.
6. Nothing to do with the film - but the dude who plays Checkov in Star Trek was in line. He was all scruffy like he'd just gotten up and was politely waving to those who passed and recognized him.
I'm sure there's a whole bunch of other junk I can't remember. I distinctly got the feeling that this was just some rough cut made during post, or a collection of all the crap that got left on the floor. Whatever it was, it was pretty neat!
Anything I say on/. shouldn't really be considered Objective Truth, and I get tired of adding IMNSHO, but really I was being mischevious in response to the way I perceived the tone of your previous post:-)
Yeah, I know. I just got a pet peeve about, well... comparing OS's on/. is one thing... but discussing ART?!?!?! It's not like this is some HTML standard that IE and Netscape are feuding over. Do people freak out when live versions or remixes of music get released? Sheesh.
I don't suppose you saw that freaky cut that played at the NUART a few years before the DC was officially released? I suppose I should read the rest of these posts. Someone's got to have mentioned it. IMNSHO, that was by far the most interesting version of the film I've seen, but not my favorite.
And I'll take the better movie - in this case the Original Theatrical Release.
First, I'm sure you meant to say "I'll take the movie I consider to be better..."
Second, you haven't seen the Original Theatrical Release since it came out some twenty years ago. Are you sure you remember it all that well? The mind does funny things sometimes... given those are your real memories.
What the hell are you talking about? That's like saying the guy paying for Picasso's paint was right in adding smiley faces onto Guernica. If I had the choice between a Director's vision and a Studio's lust for money, I'll back the director any day!
``We have clients -- 750 of them. We have a need to be responsible, to give them a fair shot of being compensated for infringement. That's the reason we decided to go forward,'' he said.
Sounds like their "shot at stardom" missed, and so they're shooting for something else.
There is a lot of crap on mp3DOTcom, IMHO. But some good stuff too! (Here's a new-fangled newDOTnet address for ya! "kmb.mp3")
How about some kind of Micropayment Subscription Service (MSS) which would allow publishers to post a graphical link (similar to PayPal or Amazon's Honor System) which if clicked would take the reader to the MSS where they could add the publisher's site to the reader's subscription list. The reader then determines how much they would like to contribute (or perhaps the publisher has some means of providing an MSRP based on the content the reader is interested in). The reader is then charged a single monthly transaction to their credit card for their contributions to all the publishers in their subscription list.
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as far as ads are concerned ... if you just want the basics and don't mind lack of security ... you can always go super lite.
Can anyone recall the girl on the home page of the Kazaa site? Do you make much of an association between her and the Kazaa product? I'm curious because I know the surfer girl who is in that photo and she got paid some ridiculously low flat fee to have her picture taken for some generic advertizing purposes (I've seen her on Yahoo and BlueShield's site as well). And with this many downloads I wonder if she is a fairly recognizable figure on the web? You think Kazaa might consider taking her on as a spokesmodel?
My problem is my Pop thinks I'm still just a kid (i'm 30yrs old) and that I don't know what I'm talking about, even though I'm a professional software engineer. What he does is ping me for a quick diagnosis, and if it sounds like it's gonna cost him money, he goes to someone else.
For instance... He tells me he can't connect to the internet consistantly blah, blah, blah... my diagnosis is he needs a new modem. He doesn't believe me, and spends the next 3 months making calls to MSN tech support before taking his machine into the shop and they tell him he needs a new modem, so he gets a new modem, everything is now fine!
He also will read something somewhere, or pick up some bit of information and now it's WRITTEN IN STONE for him... For instance... He tells me there's something wrong with his MSN because he can't always get to certain sites reliably... ?!?! So I watch him... He's got a specific URL, but instead of typing it into his browser's ADDRESS/URL field, he types it into the SEARCH field. And since the search results vary he can't always get to this site. So I tell him "if you've got the website address already, you gotta put it into the address field. Only use the search field if you don't know the address and need to search for it." He gives me some "you don't know what yer talking about" look and tells me some book told him to use the search field, and by golly that's what he's gonna do. He doesn't need any of my crazy computer-wiz tricks.
BTW, my mother has a CS degree and sysadmin'd VAX data centers and whatnot for some pretty big companies. My parents are divorced.
I've got a web hosting account right now with Verizon, and in the control panel there's a combo box that prompts something like "when your max bandwidth is reached, what do you want to do?" which I've got set to "Suspend my account". I've never looked into it, but I assume it means that when the bandwidth is reached, requests will get some kind of error and I won't be billed for the excess.
I always thought it would be cool for photocopy shops to basically offer on-demand printing of public domain books.
Won't shooting at higher frame rates still increase your costs if you are doing a lot of digital effects? Gotta process each frame!
The actual labor required to develop something GPL'ed doesn't have to be free! Does it?
Aside from whether or not it was viable... I thought it was a pretty cool idea! :)
Aren't they dumping the PGP dept because they can't make any money off of it? What makes you think this co-op /. corp would be able to?
Need to do your reading... they said they'll be implementing BIGGER ads and such soon.
Perhaps the burden of running this kind of site has rested on too few shoulders?
If you're all so hot and bothered about paying money for something of value, then perhaps this eveil plan appeals to you...
Take every topic (ie, Anime, BSD, Hardware, whatever) and get SlashCode and host a site for each topic, and they all share RDF (or whatever it is) data so that whatever site you're on you can see all the stories posted for that day on every other topic servers. Kind of a P2P thing in which each peer simply specializes in a different topic. Would something like that work?
You know, this is lame of me to say, because BR has been shown in small revival houses like the New Beverly Cinema in LA since it first came out (I saw it back-to-back with CHINATOWN - LA's past and future). And those prints must be from the print-run for the original release.
Now, as I mentioned in a previous post, there was a version which played at the NUART in LA a few years prior to the release of the Director's Cut. Kenneth Turan later wrote an article about it in LA TIMES MAGAZINE, but it looks like you have to pay on their website to get a copy of it. Anyway, some interesting points from what I can remember of it:
1. Main Title (orange w/horizontal pinstripe) started split in half and met in middle of the screen.
2. Music was all messed up in final Roy/Deckard confrontation. I think article said it was from PLANET OF THE APES?
3. During one of the downtown scenes with Leon or Zora, there were distinct shots of dancing girls in these huge verticle plexiglass tubes!
4. Some of the dialog was screwed up when refering to the replicant shuttle-jacking and how many came to earth - I think they were still trying to reconcile the housewife replicant which was eventually cut out of script.
5. Webster's Dictionary definition - jeez it's been so long since I last saw regular version of BR I can't remember if this is unique or not - Oh well, I know at the NUART screening that either before or in lieu of the scrolling Replicant intro they displayed what would have been a Webster's entry for the word Replicant.
6. Nothing to do with the film - but the dude who plays Checkov in Star Trek was in line. He was all scruffy like he'd just gotten up and was politely waving to those who passed and recognized him.
I'm sure there's a whole bunch of other junk I can't remember. I distinctly got the feeling that this was just some rough cut made during post, or a collection of all the crap that got left on the floor. Whatever it was, it was pretty neat!
Yeah, I know. I just got a pet peeve about, well... comparing OS's on /. is one thing... but discussing ART?!?!?! It's not like this is some HTML standard that IE and Netscape are feuding over. Do people freak out when live versions or remixes of music get released? Sheesh.
I don't suppose you saw that freaky cut that played at the NUART a few years before the DC was officially released? I suppose I should read the rest of these posts. Someone's got to have mentioned it. IMNSHO, that was by far the most interesting version of the film I've seen, but not my favorite.
First, I'm sure you meant to say "I'll take the movie I consider to be better..."
Second, you haven't seen the Original Theatrical Release since it came out some twenty years ago. Are you sure you remember it all that well? The mind does funny things sometimes... given those are your real memories.
What the hell are you talking about? That's like saying the guy paying for Picasso's paint was right in adding smiley faces onto Guernica. If I had the choice between a Director's vision and a Studio's lust for money, I'll back the director any day!
Damn straight! Congrats to you both!
Ah, yes. I see it now. Hmmm... I hope there's enough room to depict the fruit on the "WHOA-TERMELONS!" t-shirt.
Man, if I can't buy an orange "AHHHVACADO!" tube-top for my lady next week from THINK GEEK, there's gonna be hell to pay!
``We have clients -- 750 of them. We have a need to be responsible, to give them a fair shot of being compensated for infringement. That's the reason we decided to go forward,'' he said. Sounds like their "shot at stardom" missed, and so they're shooting for something else. There is a lot of crap on mp3DOTcom, IMHO. But some good stuff too! (Here's a new-fangled newDOTnet address for ya! "kmb.mp3")
How about some kind of Micropayment Subscription Service (MSS) which would allow publishers to post a graphical link (similar to PayPal or Amazon's Honor System) which if clicked would take the reader to the MSS where they could add the publisher's site to the reader's subscription list. The reader then determines how much they would like to contribute (or perhaps the publisher has some means of providing an MSRP based on the content the reader is interested in). The reader is then charged a single monthly transaction to their credit card for their contributions to all the publishers in their subscription list.
"You've got porn!" (or is that an old joke? someone's got to have said it before somewhere.)