I wouldn't worry about the sound in space much. If you notice all of those scenes were in close proximity to a planet.
A planet of unknown gravity.
A planet of unknown atospheric content (refractive qualities) or circumference.
Did you notice some of the burn trails on wings of the firefly "in space"?
I once successfully argued, "It only takes a little bit a gas to make a lot of noise" about the validity of sound effects next to the death star. How embarasing.:) Of course the rest of the SW space noise is bunk.
Hense the problem with "automatic copyright" This case shows exactly why this is a bad idea. I'm not saying copyright should be hard to obtain, simply saying "copyright joe sixpack 2005" somewhere in a given package should be sufficient to show intent to treat information as a product.
People should know when you your words (etc) are not just communication but also a product with a price tag. Anything else is morally shady. Perhaps dad knows his son would want him to make a million dollar book from his memoirs, or maybe it's just greed. Without a a transcript of the choice it's impossible to know the son's intention for sure.
This case only touches on one angle of this, but I have come to believe freedom of speech and copyright should be mutually exclusive. This would end infotainment now. People want "companies" to stop "exploiting the children." Fine. But that "explotation" argument is obvious BS if the author doesn't profit.
"After all these years I've still never been to an interview where they didn't offer me a position."
Although I too love the ego boost, it probably means you are not aiming high enough for your skills. You should get rejected ocationally if you are playing to your skill/qualification level.
First off thank you for listening. I hope you realize that I am misguided at worst, not that I think so.:) I am deeply interested in the future careers of the creative and deeply fear a country/world where the best ideas are strewn aside. I imagine that will not be a kind world to me.
This is second only to my fear of the systematic failure of the 4th branch of the government, the press. Unfortunatly the risks have become systematic and the problems created by the overfunded movie industry have soured the quailty and diversity of the information crossing the airwaves. You only need to combine knowlage of how Clear Channel operates with the recent failed attempt by the FCC to localize more of radio and tv bandwidth to understand how diversity and competition has become all but extinct. When was the last time you saw a non-PBS nightly news show completely devoid of entertainment news? When was the last time you saw an copyright counterpoint on any news program? The press is as important as public schools at maintaining the knowladge to keep the republic funtioning fairly well.
I play the drums, and went to music school for a year. Even in the early nineties the doors where closing for talented musicians as contracts became more impossible to satisfy and end. Good musicians can't get attenion without the industry, until the Internet that is. After reading an earlier edition of the book All You Need to know About the Music Business I realized what a weak position artists crawl in from. Only the very best break even. Although not the authors intention, I realized what a waste of time it was to do business with Hollywood. Of course they where the only game in town until about 1995. Right around the time I decided on a career in computers.
"And I've seen firsthand how long it can take for a property to go from being a zero-money, self-published labor of love, to being published by a small underground publisher (for no money), to being optioned and developed as a possible TV series (and if you're not aware, you don't make much money at all from something "in development", not until it actually makes it to the air.) It's been pretty close to twelve or thirteen years."
Personally I believe this is due to a lack of competition. If the companies couldn't afford so many middle men, due to unearned money going to blatent nepitism, then things would move much faster. You may like working with some of those people, but if they aren't making the actual show better, they are overhead. This is likely to end pretty quickly. In about another 3 years individual PC's with have the horsepower to do decent homebrewed special effects, another 3 after that rendering semi realistic people at film quality level. Also 2-4 hour flash card based cameras can be used for gritty live action now. Combine this with creative commons licenced/original music and amatuer voice acting, and teenage punk's will be writing directing and "acting" whole home sitcoms. You already see these home series parents in flash cartoons. The age of 4 year legal holdups to licence a book into a movie is ending one way or another. Even now you see the industry grudgingly plucking successful net artists up in shorts and series. I even expect Internet TV to become popular as the (real)cost of creating regular shows goes down.
Even if new compitition from home doesn't scare TV as we know it dead, there is nothing special about 14 years. 28 years would still be a major improvment. According to your numbers that would still give the company 14 years of DVD sales.
"And, money aside, it's just as important for the copyright holder to have a say over what's done to their property. If anyone can edit a book, or turn a book into a movie, then anyone can edit it and completely change the meanging."
"I can't believe how many people on/. claim to "stick up for the little guy" and hate the evil corporations", but call for the overturning of copyright laws. Copyright laws exists to protect the individual creator from having his or her work appropriated without permission or profit."
First off I was responding to the stereotype that anybody on Slashdot who objects to a copyright law only does so on his own behalf. I read and post to slashdot and do not believe that. I feel deep sympathy for anyone dumb enough to believe their own joke about this. It rings like an ethnic slur. Angry about somthing?
Second trademark issues are clearly seperate from copyright issues. Peanuts would still belong to Schultz Inc.
People profit not from works but from reputation. "Did you hear the latest Korn album", or "Did you see the latest Brad Pitt movie or Quinton Tarentino flick". Copyright can slow people from selling pirate DVDs, but is subsequently useless sales wise(scale) except to control brands, which can be done very effectivly thought trademarks alone. Yes you do get retro hits, but they are rare, and still build reputation that can be cashed in in live preformance/merchandising/cross branding/advertising/and subsequent works. All effectivly endless copyright accomplishes is giving new artists ZERO barganing position with the cartels. It takes a real simplton not to be able to make money with all thoes options in a world without the cartels.
I'm sorry but I believe that the movie/music cartel has suffeciently undermined the press and subsequently the republic. The worst fears of Ben Franklin have come true and are getting worse. The burden of proof is on 80 plus life of the author Bono crowd. Copyright length is out of control and having unintended effects.
Incidentally, what copyrighted works have you released/profited from recently?
"The downside of this interview is that the kid fails to really achieve anything substantial, other than showing Valenti to be out-of-touch."
I respectfully diagree. It is easy enough for a layman to see he is out of touch. It is important for people to know a person who more or less writes the laws as he see's fit has no idea how things work.
This interview is modern art. It is not esteticly beautiful, but that is not point. The point is to get people talking. I believe if we email it, people will talk.
Can you recomend a good general chip company? I had a bad esperiance with a crappy 88 blazer 4 cyl and Jet chip. Increased air flow and high fuel and increased spark just to get reasonable acceleration. Not my most shining moment.
I ran a stage 1 86 5.0 monte carlo to 180k before with no problem. This was my first exeperince with a modded chip.
It was nice for a month.:/ Then crunchies.
I have a ford 99 Grand Marq 4.6 I'm thinking of tunning. Ford has got similar engines to 260hp from my 200 in four years.
Grow up, believe it or not the government isn't out to get you.
No actually they are out to get us. The only reason they haven't succeeded is they are out to get each other as well.
Assuming people aren't out to get you won't get you very far in NY.
Fedreralzation of almost anything is a prelude to failure. The "conservitive" Repulicans used to believe that. Remember states rights? Let dumb states make dumb deceisions, and smart ones succeed?
Cummon though, wouldn't it be great to wait one day cycle in the day and then see the cops return....
Operating out of a trailer?
Come to think of it, you probably replace most building with piles of rubble and trailer parks for most missions.
"I'm also not convinced open-source is right for all types of software."
Quality, funtional OSS projects are usually acceptable for many computational, orginizational and entertainment needs. There are many variables before you can say that.
But there really is one kind of software you should go that extra mile write/download/install OSS.
Infrastructure.
X needs to work with Y, but Xcorp said they can't write Y compatiblity in without 10,000 signatures and a million dollars.
Be sure you have the source to Y and are allowed to maintain your changes. And look we can dump the data from X into a database now. woooohoooo!
See you later Xcorp, here's a negitive million dollars.
AP Newswire 10/31/03 12:02pm: Three GAO board members were found dead in an Iraqi underground safehouse. One army medic commented the Government Accounting Office members, where apparently shot point blank with a Smith and Wesson. He promptly "applied for shore leave" and was unreachable. The pentegon declined to comment on this "senseless terrorist tragity." Saying the deaths were probably the result of secondhand fire durring raid on the safehouse. Nobody speculated on how the men got to Iraq becuse that would be hard to think about.
Privately Ask any of the RIAA's Marketing people privatly and seperate from this. The one thing most important to building a brand is consistancy. Any interrpution in download/purchase service will damage the sought after independant band and and mp3.com brands permenantly.
You think the RIAA doesn't know this? I can here the slimy manager's words right now, "See what happens when you try to go it alone. Sign here."
"It seems pretty telling that SCO's Lawyers are promised 20% of the buy-out if one happens, doesn't it?"
I did not know that. I just decided, if the lead SCO lawyers get no settlement money and disbared, my lug will raid the treasury and throw a rip roaring party.
Well actually we need to vote on it, but don't think it will need much convincing.
"Why is this so difficult for people to comprehend?"
Just accept that it is difficult, hence marketing. Bob Young(now gone from RH) said it best. It's all about branding. This will seriously hurt the brand and slow any new blood from jumping on board.
They could have done the same thing structurally and still called it Red Hat Linux. But now people will rightly say, "So why did they change the name?"
Expect to see an attempt at back-pedaling in two years, but it will be to late.
Who will be the next distro king? Who will get all that dirt cheap cross branding for the services their company offers...
Slashdot Mirror
Film at 11.
A planet of unknown gravity.
A planet of unknown atospheric content (refractive qualities) or circumference.
Did you notice some of the burn trails on wings of the firefly "in space"?
I once successfully argued, "It only takes a little bit a gas to make a lot of noise" about the validity of sound effects next to the death star. How embarasing. :) Of course the rest of the SW space noise is bunk.
People should know when you your words (etc) are not just communication but also a product with a price tag. Anything else is morally shady. Perhaps dad knows his son would want him to make a million dollar book from his memoirs, or maybe it's just greed. Without a a transcript of the choice it's impossible to know the son's intention for sure.
This case only touches on one angle of this, but I have come to believe freedom of speech and copyright should be mutually exclusive. This would end infotainment now. People want "companies" to stop "exploiting the children." Fine. But that "explotation" argument is obvious BS if the author doesn't profit.
Probably the best GPL driven video card is the ATI 8500. Still buggy with occational crashes, but everything (OpenGL etc) works.
The ATI drivers are excelent for this card also, but core 3 (x.org) is not supported. Supposedly this December there will be new ones.
The Robots!
Sounds like a great time for indy moviemakers/Hollywood outsiders to get a leg up on the inevitable online markets.
Just remember to keep your exemptions simple.
I can think of a half dozen moviemakers/animators who got started online.
Although I too love the ego boost, it probably means you are not aiming high enough for your skills. You should get rejected ocationally if you are playing to your skill/qualification level.
It doesn't get more stratigic than that.
This is second only to my fear of the systematic failure of the 4th branch of the government, the press. Unfortunatly the risks have become systematic and the problems created by the overfunded movie industry have soured the quailty and diversity of the information crossing the airwaves. You only need to combine knowlage of how Clear Channel operates with the recent failed attempt by the FCC to localize more of radio and tv bandwidth to understand how diversity and competition has become all but extinct. When was the last time you saw a non-PBS nightly news show completely devoid of entertainment news? When was the last time you saw an copyright counterpoint on any news program? The press is as important as public schools at maintaining the knowladge to keep the republic funtioning fairly well.
I play the drums, and went to music school for a year. Even in the early nineties the doors where closing for talented musicians as contracts became more impossible to satisfy and end. Good musicians can't get attenion without the industry, until the Internet that is. After reading an earlier edition of the book All You Need to know About the Music Business I realized what a weak position artists crawl in from. Only the very best break even. Although not the authors intention, I realized what a waste of time it was to do business with Hollywood. Of course they where the only game in town until about 1995. Right around the time I decided on a career in computers.
"And I've seen firsthand how long it can take for a property to go from being a zero-money, self-published labor of love, to being published by a small underground publisher (for no money), to being optioned and developed as a possible TV series (and if you're not aware, you don't make much money at all from something "in development", not until it actually makes it to the air.) It's been pretty close to twelve or thirteen years."
Personally I believe this is due to a lack of competition. If the companies couldn't afford so many middle men, due to unearned money going to blatent nepitism, then things would move much faster. You may like working with some of those people, but if they aren't making the actual show better, they are overhead. This is likely to end pretty quickly. In about another 3 years individual PC's with have the horsepower to do decent homebrewed special effects, another 3 after that rendering semi realistic people at film quality level. Also 2-4 hour flash card based cameras can be used for gritty live action now. Combine this with creative commons licenced/original music and amatuer voice acting, and teenage punk's will be writing directing and "acting" whole home sitcoms. You already see these home series parents in flash cartoons. The age of 4 year legal holdups to licence a book into a movie is ending one way or another. Even now you see the industry grudgingly plucking successful net artists up in shorts and series. I even expect Internet TV to become popular as the (real)cost of creating regular shows goes down.
Even if new compitition from home doesn't scare TV as we know it dead, there is nothing special about 14 years. 28 years would still be a major improvment. According to your numbers that would still give the company 14 years of DVD sales.
"And, money aside, it's just as important for the copyright holder to have a say over what's done to their property. If anyone can edit a book, or turn a book into a movie, then anyone can edit it and completely change the meanging."
But think about what you are sayin
First off I was responding to the stereotype that anybody on Slashdot who objects to a copyright law only does so on his own behalf. I read and post to slashdot and do not believe that. I feel deep sympathy for anyone dumb enough to believe their own joke about this. It rings like an ethnic slur. Angry about somthing?
Second trademark issues are clearly seperate from copyright issues. Peanuts would still belong to Schultz Inc.
People profit not from works but from reputation. "Did you hear the latest Korn album", or "Did you see the latest Brad Pitt movie or Quinton Tarentino flick". Copyright can slow people from selling pirate DVDs, but is subsequently useless sales wise(scale) except to control brands, which can be done very effectivly thought trademarks alone. Yes you do get retro hits, but they are rare, and still build reputation that can be cashed in in live preformance/merchandising/cross branding/advertising/and subsequent works. All effectivly endless copyright accomplishes is giving new artists ZERO barganing position with the cartels. It takes a real simplton not to be able to make money with all thoes options in a world without the cartels.
I'm sorry but I believe that the movie/music cartel has suffeciently undermined the press and subsequently the republic. The worst fears of Ben Franklin have come true and are getting worse. The burden of proof is on 80 plus life of the author Bono crowd. Copyright length is out of control and having unintended effects.
Incidentally, what copyrighted works have you released/profited from recently?
I respectfully diagree. It is easy enough for a layman to see he is out of touch. It is important for people to know a person who more or less writes the laws as he see's fit has no idea how things work.
This interview is modern art. It is not esteticly beautiful, but that is not point. The point is to get people talking. I believe if we email it, people will talk.
Personally, I couldn't give a crap if these images got no interest for 14 years and then got ripped off.
It looks like a pretty obvious violation, as they go.
GPLed stuff, music, and linux art, being protected for a limited time is good, forever is bad.
I ran a stage 1 86 5.0 monte carlo to 180k before with no problem. This was my first exeperince with a modded chip.
It was nice for a month. :/ Then crunchies.
I have a ford 99 Grand Marq 4.6 I'm thinking of tunning. Ford has got similar engines to 260hp from my 200 in four years.
No actually they are out to get us. The only reason they haven't succeeded is they are out to get each other as well.
Assuming people aren't out to get you won't get you very far in NY.
Fedreralzation of almost anything is a prelude to failure. The "conservitive" Repulicans used to believe that. Remember states rights? Let dumb states make dumb deceisions, and smart ones succeed?
Oh wait.. it's the same comapanies...
Well at least I'll hear about on the radio...
Oh wait those are the same companies too...
Well at least they will discuss it in the next session of congress...
Oh right I keep forgeting.....
What comment? Comment's are useless! I do not post!
Who would post online? Not me!
Cummon though, wouldn't it be great to wait one day cycle in the day and then see the cops return.... Operating out of a trailer? Come to think of it, you probably replace most building with piles of rubble and trailer parks for most missions.
Quality, funtional OSS projects are usually acceptable for many computational, orginizational and entertainment needs. There are many variables before you can say that.
But there really is one kind of software you should go that extra mile write/download/install OSS.
Infrastructure.
X needs to work with Y, but Xcorp said they can't write Y compatiblity in without 10,000 signatures and a million dollars.
Be sure you have the source to Y and are allowed to maintain your changes. And look we can dump the data from X into a database now. woooohoooo!
See you later Xcorp, here's a negitive million dollars.
AP Newswire 10/31/03 12:02pm: Three GAO board members were found dead in an Iraqi underground safehouse. One army medic commented the Government Accounting Office members, where apparently shot point blank with a Smith and Wesson. He promptly "applied for shore leave" and was unreachable. The pentegon declined to comment on this "senseless terrorist tragity." Saying the deaths were probably the result of secondhand fire durring raid on the safehouse. Nobody speculated on how the men got to Iraq becuse that would be hard to think about.
Privately Ask any of the RIAA's Marketing people privatly and seperate from this. The one thing most important to building a brand is consistancy. Any interrpution in download/purchase service will damage the sought after independant band and and mp3.com brands permenantly.
You think the RIAA doesn't know this? I can here the slimy manager's words right now, "See what happens when you try to go it alone. Sign here."
I did not know that. I just decided, if the lead SCO lawyers get no settlement money and disbared, my lug will raid the treasury and throw a rip roaring party.
Well actually we need to vote on it, but don't think it will need much convincing.
Just accept that it is difficult, hence marketing. Bob Young(now gone from RH) said it best. It's all about branding. This will seriously hurt the brand and slow any new blood from jumping on board.
They could have done the same thing structurally and still called it Red Hat Linux. But now people will rightly say, "So why did they change the name?"
Expect to see an attempt at back-pedaling in two years, but it will be to late.
Who will be the next distro king? Who will get all that dirt cheap cross branding for the services their company offers...
And the whole thing weighs 1 ton and get 36 miles to the gallon. Eat it stupid Navigator muscle car wanabee. Try to take that turn at 100 mph.
We have tax free trucks over 6000lbs now we just need cars under 1000 pounds to qualify too.
Are there any 24/hr internet non-DRM TV style streams yet? I expect there will be soon if not now.