anyone who is a fan of pj know that this is a lifelong dream of his. one which he very much deserves to have realized, after all the entertainment he has brought to the world.
BTW, this has been a long time in the works. LOTR origianlly started out as a joint development project between miramax and universal, each would share the costs of developing two films with pj, and relase one under each of their names. the two original projects were king kong & LOTR.
but when LOTR grew to two films and the costs rose they lost interest. and miramax (kindly) gave permission to take LoTR to another studio. ultimatley new line actually encourgaed peter to extend it to three films, thankfully leading to the historic project that it became.
the only downside was that as LOTR grew to a 7+ year project King Kong was put of that much longer.
althought there are a glut of remakes, i have complete confidence that this on ewill e b as special and unique as all of peters projects.
PS LOTR was co-written by pj himself, phillipa boyens, & fran walsh...
how much more black could it be?..... the answer is none, none more black......
similar story with a twist.....
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A few years ago when I was doing desktop/laptop support I came accross something similar.
One day my manager hands my a laptop and a ziploc bag full of keyboard keys, and instructs me to repair as quickly as possible, to ask no questions and return it to him.
Upon closer examanination the keys they we are melted and distorted. So I removed the hard drive and placed it anothewr usit and returned it as instructed.
Later on I found out the whole story. It was lucky that the hard drive was not damaged, as water (or some liquid) was spilled on a laptop (Toshiba 650CDT if it matters) and a hair dryer was used to dry it out. Apperantly the the user was interrupted while doing this so he set the hair dryer down on the keybaord to tkae a call. Hence the melted keys...
So what's the twist, turns out the laptop belongs to a Senior Director of our company. Why did he decide on the hair dryer method? Apperently he was in a hotel and was advised by two other to do so, the CIO and IT Director of our company!!!!!
You bring up good points, the binding make a big difference in the usibility of books, epecially refernce types. The company I work for produces legal reference books, and uses 3 ring binders that are about the size of a normal book. They have the benifits of a durable cover, they lay flat nicely on a desk, shelf nicely and have a readable spine.
Also they are extensible...
Many of our books come as a subscription that includes monthly updates. Would'nt that be cool for technical books as well? What's that your linux book doesn't cover a feature in the latest kernel? order (or download & print) the new chapter jsut written about it.
We also put out corrections this way, or you can add your own pages, or even blank pages for notes.
emusic, IMHO has done more for legitimatising digital music than anyone else.
they are providing all of the benefits of digital music, legally!
i.e.: lower prices, lower entry cost for artists, higher profit margins for artists, increases variety, less money going to corporate bastard record companies, etc, etc, etc.
while i don't necessarily like this tactic, if it is necessary for them to keep their business going then, it is worthwhile. (Situational ethics always rule in capitalism)
while i don't neccessarily like this tactic, if it is neccessary for them to keep there business going then, it is worth while. (situational ethics alway rule in capitalism)
my company is a subsidiary of a corporation (reed-elsevier) that have a multi-million dollar contract w/ ms that includes licences to all of there products.
since we cannot by pc's w/o windows from most major vendors, we have to pay twice for windows in many cases!
this is how they treat there "Selest" customers think how much the little guy gets the shaft!
transmeta worked around this by caching frequently used code so that it does not need to be "morphed" over & over again, also it spends more time on frequently used code trying to optimize it so performance increases w/ repitition. pre-compiled code cannot do this, it only get one shot.
this doesn't eliminate the performance hit compiling multiple times, but it significantly reduces so that the loss may be equalled, or even surpassed by the gains from running the optimized code.
i know morphing != JIT coompliling, but there is no reason the same concept cannot be applied, unless, of course, they've got patented!.....
if this is the case it would be counter productive for sun. they have been banking on (w/ java) and continue to bank on (majik processor) the belief that JIT will not only be a reality, but become the norm in the next 2-3 years. even their corparate dopeheads must know by now that unless your MS you can't expect a technology to grow if you keep it to yourself. JIT compiling sounds great in theory, but if it can live up to that why don't we see a lot more of in use yet? i'm not jumping on the bandwagon 'til it's at least got wheels underneath it....
i agree short term exclusive right to truly new idaes is a good idea. although 5 years is nearly an eternity in the computer world, one or two would be more practical.
the pharmaceutical indrustry has done this. a company that creates a new drug is allowed to sell it exclusivly for a year or two, then it is opened up.(this was the case to Alleve an OTC pain reliever that is now available generically) this allows them to cash in for a couple years which justifies the $$$ they spend in R&D, & then opens it up which benefits the consumer with lower prices due to increased competition.
in other words it balances the need of the individual with the need of the group. in the big picture a balance between socialism & capitolism, which is the foundation of our society.
also i think copyrights are more fitting for software than patents for software. mark twain could'nt patent the idea of writing a book about to boys and a slave, but he could copyright his words, his style, his characters. you shouldn't be able to patent the 'idea' of one-click service for on a web site, but could copyright or trademark, your specific terminology, logos, & code used to implement it...
sometimes a think they come up with some of this stuff just to get people fired up. obviously if there is no change in ownership, there iss no contribution!
i beleive $1000 is the limit a person can make as a direct contribution. obviously however if the equipment is still in possession of a donor then he hasn't actually given $1000 to anyone
considering the value of internet exposure today, there needs to a control on this, no doubt. but how about something semi-intelligent like: if the page's primary focus is on expressing or supporting a canditdates or parties views (just talking about issues does not constitute contributing to a candidate!!!) and the value of the equipment/net access/technician manhours, etc. exceeds say $20,000 (debateable) then it would have to be reported..
macmillin is a publisher that has a very good & innovative site. www.mcp.com offers the ability to maintian a personal library of books that they make freely available. also beta books that are not yet in stores are available as they are being written, giving the opportinity for reader feedback & info & advance looks at books on new technologies.
the design isn't the greatest, but the concept is very innovative & useful...
I agree, java a fell victim to the soaring expectations created by buzzword bingo, that it couldn't meet (nor can any application meet), linux will suffer from this as well, but should come out much better than java in the end i can't count how many times i saw push or pull, or shove (or whatever) technology being hailed as the next great savior for IT on some stupid trade journl. anybody heard from pointcast lately? the web was/is a very new concept to most and everbody was looking for the next big technology that would be as big as the www or email. linux on the other hand is not new a new concept. (technologically speaking at least) it's based of off unix which has been around forever. but it is still becoming a buzzword i hate to say it but the FUD spread towards linux may help it in the long run. many people rushed into java trying to beat there competitors to the next big thing. ultimatly java didn't meet there expectations. if linux is more carefully considered before being implemented it will have a better chance of meeting expectations & being considered a success. isn't irony ironic?
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what version of netware are you talking about? nw 3.1x needed occassional reboots to free up memory, but if 4.11 server is having problems like this either its overloaded & need more power, or it's not configured correctly. our primary server in my office averages 400-500 connections during business hours & 700-1000 open files. and has been up for about 4 months and MTBF of about 2-3 months. and that usually a rampant backup NLm or something & not the os itself.... oh yeah ipx gets a bad rap, ip is clearly superior, but not by as much as most poeple like to belive...... i know, iknow i'm way off subjuct, so shot me i like netware!
i tend to agree, in a perfect world. unfortunatley our society & governamnt is stil made up of capitolists. and any movement would be stigmatized as a bunch of left-wing wackos before any momentum should be gained. - in many ways microsoft doesn't behave like a monopoly. i think their proof of their monopolistic ways is not their profit margins but in their ability to get away with selling such crap for so long. any other company would be long out of business, if they frustrated their users the way MS has, many time. - so sadly the most likely way of impacting MS's business practices is the courts... ----- "just thowing in my two cents worth........you can keep the cahnge"
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here, here, netware gets overlooked to often, it's limited in what it does well (file&print), but nothing does it better. i have lot's of experience & it's not quite as stable as most unices but it's (way) better than NT, it's extremely tweakable, and very secure as well. sadly it seems to get lost in the raging nt vs. linux wars. p.s. 5 finally ditched IPX, for native IP. an thankfully it still doesn't have a gui, except for the console one thingy, which is just plain silly! i know this is off topic, but it's not often that i get a chance to ramble about NW. oh yeah, and they're not evil, there tech support even has a sense of humor, & admits when then don't have a solution to a problem, instead of sending you on repeated goose chases that don't resolve anything in order to buy themselves time to try to figure it out. p.p.p.s bill gate is evil, not because he wants to make money, but because he is willing to sacrifice the growth of technology to do it.
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anyone who is a fan of pj know that this is a lifelong dream of his. one which he very much deserves to have realized, after all the entertainment he has brought to the world.
BTW, this has been a long time in the works. LOTR origianlly started out as a joint development project between miramax and universal, each would share the costs of developing two films with pj, and relase one under each of their names. the two original projects were king kong & LOTR.
but when LOTR grew to two films and the costs rose they lost interest. and miramax (kindly) gave permission to take LoTR to another studio. ultimatley new line actually encourgaed peter to extend it to three films, thankfully leading to the historic project that it became.
the only downside was that as LOTR grew to a 7+ year project King Kong was put of that much longer.
althought there are a glut of remakes, i have complete confidence that this on ewill e b as special and unique as all of peters projects.
PS LOTR was co-written by pj himself, phillipa boyens, & fran walsh...
how much more black could it be?..... the answer is none, none more black......
A few years ago when I was doing desktop/laptop support I came accross something similar.
One day my manager hands my a laptop and a ziploc bag full of keyboard keys, and instructs me to repair as quickly as possible, to ask no questions and return it to him.
Upon closer examanination the keys they we are melted and distorted. So I removed the hard drive and placed it anothewr usit and returned it as instructed.
Later on I found out the whole story. It was lucky that the hard drive was not damaged, as water (or some liquid) was spilled on a laptop (Toshiba 650CDT if it matters) and a hair dryer was used to dry it out. Apperantly the the user was interrupted while doing this so he set the hair dryer down on the keybaord to tkae a call. Hence the melted keys...
So what's the twist, turns out the laptop belongs to a Senior Director of our company. Why did he decide on the hair dryer method? Apperently he was in a hotel and was advised by two other to do so, the CIO and IT Director of our company!!!!!
You bring up good points, the binding make a big difference in the usibility of books, epecially refernce types. The company I work for produces legal reference books, and uses 3 ring binders that are about the size of a normal book. They have the benifits of a durable cover, they lay flat nicely on a desk, shelf nicely and have a readable spine.
Also they are extensible...
Many of our books come as a subscription that includes monthly updates. Would'nt that be cool for technical books as well? What's that your linux book doesn't cover a feature in the latest kernel? order (or download & print) the new chapter jsut written about it.
We also put out corrections this way, or you can add your own pages, or even blank pages for notes.
Hippie Wackjob commune Island?
You do realize your tal;king about the state that gave us Ronald Reagan, don't you?
It is rare in such a time to read something both so humorous and poignant, thank you...
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emusic, IMHO has done more for legitimatising digital music than anyone else. they are providing all of the benefits of digital music, legally! i.e.: lower prices, lower entry cost for artists, higher profit margins for artists, increases variety, less money going to corporate bastard record companies, etc, etc, etc. while i don't necessarily like this tactic, if it is necessary for them to keep their business going then, it is worthwhile. (Situational ethics always rule in capitalism) while i don't neccessarily like this tactic, if it is neccessary for them to keep there business going then, it is worth while. (situational ethics alway rule in capitalism)
my company is a subsidiary of a corporation (reed-elsevier) that have a multi-million dollar contract w/ ms that includes licences to all of there products. since we cannot by pc's w/o windows from most major vendors, we have to pay twice for windows in many cases! this is how they treat there "Selest" customers think how much the little guy gets the shaft!
transmeta worked around this by caching frequently used code so that it does not need to be "morphed" over & over again, also it spends more time on frequently used code trying to optimize it so performance increases w/ repitition. pre-compiled code cannot do this, it only get one shot.
this doesn't eliminate the performance hit compiling multiple times, but it significantly reduces so that the loss may be equalled, or even surpassed by the gains from running the optimized code.
i know morphing != JIT coompliling, but there is no reason the same concept cannot be applied, unless, of course, they've got patented!.....
no!, not the red button!!!
if this is the case it would be counter productive for sun. they have been banking on (w/ java) and continue to bank on (majik processor) the belief that JIT will not only be a reality, but become the norm in the next 2-3 years. even their corparate dopeheads must know by now that unless your MS you can't expect a technology to grow if you keep it to yourself. JIT compiling sounds great in theory, but if it can live up to that why don't we see a lot more of in use yet? i'm not jumping on the bandwagon 'til it's at least got wheels underneath it....
somehow, even before i read your email address, i knew you were from rochester, can't imagine how though. i must be sike-ick
are you a csh'r?
i agree short term exclusive right to truly new idaes is a good idea. although 5 years is nearly an eternity in the computer world, one or two would be more practical.
.....ta ta
the pharmaceutical indrustry has done this. a company that creates a new drug is allowed to sell it exclusivly for a year or two, then it is opened up.(this was the case to Alleve an OTC pain reliever that is now available generically) this allows them to cash in for a couple years which justifies the $$$ they spend in R&D, & then opens it up which benefits the consumer with lower prices due to increased competition.
in other words it balances the need of the individual with the need of the group. in the big picture a balance between socialism & capitolism, which is the foundation of our society.
also i think copyrights are more fitting for software than patents for software. mark twain could'nt patent the idea of writing a book about to boys and a slave, but he could copyright his words, his style, his characters. you shouldn't be able to patent the 'idea' of one-click service for on a web site, but could copyright or trademark, your specific terminology, logos, & code used to implement it...
check out the rescource kit, included ont the cd...
great analogy!
sometimes a think they come up with some of this stuff just to get people fired up. obviously if there is no change in ownership, there iss no contribution!
i beleive $1000 is the limit a person can make as a direct contribution. obviously however if the equipment is still in possession of a donor then he hasn't actually given $1000 to anyone
considering the value of internet exposure today, there needs to a control on this, no doubt. but how about something semi-intelligent like: if the page's primary focus is on expressing or supporting a canditdates or parties views (just talking about issues does not constitute contributing to a candidate!!!) and the value of the equipment/net access/technician manhours, etc. exceeds say $20,000 (debateable) then it would have to be reported..
what a bunch of fat bloated eeeediots!
macmillin is a publisher that has a very good & innovative site. www.mcp.com offers the ability to maintian a personal library of books that they make freely available. also beta books that are not yet in stores are available as they are being written, giving the opportinity for reader feedback & info & advance looks at books on new technologies.
the design isn't the greatest, but the concept is very innovative & useful...
I agree, java a fell victim to the soaring expectations created by buzzword bingo, that it couldn't meet (nor can any application meet), linux will suffer from this as well, but should come out much better than java in the end i can't count how many times i saw push or pull, or shove (or whatever) technology being hailed as the next great savior for IT on some stupid trade journl. anybody heard from pointcast lately? the web was/is a very new concept to most and everbody was looking for the next big technology that would be as big as the www or email. linux on the other hand is not new a new concept. (technologically speaking at least) it's based of off unix which has been around forever. but it is still becoming a buzzword i hate to say it but the FUD spread towards linux may help it in the long run. many people rushed into java trying to beat there competitors to the next big thing. ultimatly java didn't meet there expectations. if linux is more carefully considered before being implemented it will have a better chance of meeting expectations & being considered a success. isn't irony ironic?
what version of netware are you talking about? nw 3.1x needed occassional reboots to free up memory, but if 4.11 server is having problems like this either its overloaded & need more power, or it's not configured correctly. our primary server in my office averages 400-500 connections during business hours & 700-1000 open files. and has been up for about 4 months and MTBF of about 2-3 months. and that usually a rampant backup NLm or something & not the os itself.... oh yeah ipx gets a bad rap, ip is clearly superior, but not by as much as most poeple like to belive...... i know, iknow i'm way off subjuct, so shot me i like netware!
i tend to agree, in a perfect world. unfortunatley our society & governamnt is stil made up of capitolists. and any movement would be stigmatized as a bunch of left-wing wackos before any momentum should be gained. - in many ways microsoft doesn't behave like a monopoly. i think their proof of their monopolistic ways is not their profit margins but in their ability to get away with selling such crap for so long. any other company would be long out of business, if they frustrated their users the way MS has, many time. - so sadly the most likely way of impacting MS's business practices is the courts... ----- "just thowing in my two cents worth.... ....you can keep the cahnge"
here, here, netware gets overlooked to often, it's limited in what it does well (file&print), but nothing does it better. i have lot's of experience & it's not quite as stable as most unices but it's (way) better than NT, it's extremely tweakable, and very secure as well. sadly it seems to get lost in the raging nt vs. linux wars. p.s. 5 finally ditched IPX, for native IP. an thankfully it still doesn't have a gui, except for the console one thingy, which is just plain silly! i know this is off topic, but it's not often that i get a chance to ramble about NW. oh yeah, and they're not evil, there tech support even has a sense of humor, & admits when then don't have a solution to a problem, instead of sending you on repeated goose chases that don't resolve anything in order to buy themselves time to try to figure it out. p.p.p.s bill gate is evil, not because he wants to make money, but because he is willing to sacrifice the growth of technology to do it.