Studios know this and can always demand a refund when stuff breaks.
WTF? Isn't it just a wash if you use a no-cost tool and it doesn't work?
I understand the urge to have a foot to hold to the fire, but why should they have any worry about getting their money back or not if they have "faulty" software? If someone uses an Avid for a project and they can't get their bloody feature film out the door, they have *a lot* more problems involving things like completion bonds and unpaid workers. That's a *much* bigger worry than the cost of that Avid workstation and its applications.
I severely doubt Avid would ever have to accept this type of responsibility. But again, they have the lawyers that can SHOW the claim is laughable. B2000 probably didn't.
Actually, how I read this is that they were worried that somebody would try to use this software for production, and something would horribly fail, causing extreme duress. In the inevitable ensuing lawsuits, the Broadcast 2000 people would end up being sued into oblivion. It's not a nice way to go.
Yes... and the orginal comment still applies. Avid, Macromedia, and Adobe all have enough lawyers to prevent such stupid lawsuits. If someone did something stupid with Premere, would they even THINK of suing Adobe. Probably not. Would they think of suing a small project that MIGHT have one pro-bono lawyer... uh-huh.
Yeah... why not? The GPL saves the right for *anyone* to fork the code. There is always a more fearless group out there willing to take up controversial code.
"the distribution of Broadcast 2000 enhanced to unacceptable levels the risk of an individual experiencing significant financial damage due to the extremely expensive nature of high end video production and the high risk inherent in professional video business marketing."
This means: "We have fewer lawers than Avid, Adobe, and Macromedia. In the current business climate, the company with the largest number of lawers wins, no matter what the law says. We are closing the project because we would like to have enough money to eat net week."
gov't of the corp., by the corp., and for the corp.
If people don't use Braille anymore, then how come in libraries and schools etc. there's always Braille on the signs?
It's just a continutaion of that myth. It's also those institutions finally catching up the values of the 50s!
Note that your average drive-up ATM has braille. Now, as every comic has pointed out, THAT is really not useful. Also, none of those signs would be useful in an emergency.
There are people that still use it, which makes those signs a little valuable, but most every blind student these days uses tapes. Perhaps the tech could be developed to feel braille with a mouse, but I don't think it would be used much (though could it cause a braille to be used again electronically??)
This would probably be great for reading braille webpages. Otherwise, it sounds annoying.
Well.. maybe if the blind still used braille. It's a myth... They don't... they use books on tape and such these days, it's hardly taught anymore. Braille books are huge and cause portability and storage problems.
It would, however, be a way for the blind to find items on the screen, but it does not and can not match text-to-speech for accessability.
The ones that I saw took *a long* time to finish... and the time to go indicators were in the 30 hour range for small example items. The versions that are 4 or 5 are probably not on the market (yet).
Whatever the time, unless it's *instant* or close it can't be called a replicator. Replicators are magic tech... rapid prototyping is real life.
For the 2nd time today.. this HAS been going on for a while. You can make your Windows desktop and website touchy feely using the logitech i-feel mouse. I have one and it actually works okay.
I don't understand why this is news. At Siggraph they have had the 3D printers for years. You can get 3D printers that plug into networks via regular Ethernet and you can feed it CAD files. They have shown full working models of things like engines. Check out Z Corp and a whole list of resources here.
This is far from a "replicator." The items take quite a bit of time to built up. Even small items take over a day. Not an instant solution by far...
They're easy, intuitive and popular, especially among the asian girls (being japanese made, it's not too surprising). And a good player is sure to draw a captive audience, standing around watching.
I've seen these games... but what location are you in?? All we get are big white guys that clap their hands on wrong beat.
I might of stayed and stared too if there were loads of cute asian girls playing the game. We don't get that here.
Maybe I can get the guys at Gameworks to PAY some cute asian girls to play the game... they are sure to get a lot of attention and make some money. An arcade full of cute asian girls... now that is the future I would like to see!
comment 2259181 was attributed to me, but that is not the message I sent. It is my sig, though... weird.. that would seem to indicate that the form data got mixed up in transit.
I think this is because the DB hosed right I was submitting a comment.
The article that I first saw on CNet said that this announcement was *ONLY* the Justice Department and that this did *NOT* represent the wished of the individual states.
The newest CNet article is unclear, saying that the Justice Department and the States and the Judge will all meet over the next two weeks.
There might be a chance that the states won't go along with this. The Attorneys General of the states tend to be more progressive in consumer protection.
Wait a second... last time I looked Lego was a toy manufacturer.
I think you might have a good idea, but it might be way outside of Lego's core business. They make plastic toys that look cool in your office or home. Perhaps a good spin-off could make the learning/industrial devices that you point out...
I mentioned this before, but I will again since the threads I mentioned this on got flamebated: there is a much more interesting case of similarities between "The Books of Magic," written my Neil Gaiman, and Harry Potter than what is found in this current plagerism case. I finally found a news story on a Neil Gaiman fan site here (3rd Item down).
The character design of tween Tim Hunter of Books of Magic and Harry Potter is very similiar, right down to round glasses. Gaiman wrote a 4 issue series about an orphaned boy who finds out he has magical powers in the early 90s, and it became a monthly and was only ended recently.
The above article also tells of similarities between Harry Potter and a 1982 book by Diana Wynne.
For a while there were rumors that Gaiman was going to sue, but neither he nor Vertigo care about the similarites. As a matter of fact, according to the above article, they put in some nods to Harry Potter at the end of the series as a kind of joke.
Anyway... if they were to make a case it would be a lot more credible than the case that is current going down. I don't think it really is plagerism... sometimes you get ideas from something, they get all mixed up, and they come out in a new form. This is the stance Gaiman, Wynne, and Vertigo are taking.
There has been many rumors of lawsuits. This is from a post I put in another thread...
Harry Potter is also amazingly similar to "The Books of Magic," written by Neil Gaiman.
I don't have a URL to send you to, but it's a famous Vertigo mini-series. It's about an orphaned boy who finds out he has amazing talents in magic, and is visited by a number of known D.C. magical rhelm characters (like John Constantine, Death, others) to help him learn about it.
The main character even LOOKS the same as Harry Potter, with the round glasses and such. For a while there was a rumor the Neil Gaiman was going to sue, but he says he thinks that the similarities are just amazing coincidences, as the the two characters were thought up at the same time (early 90s) in approximately the same place (England).
Harry Potter is also amazingly similar to "The Books of Magic," written by Neil Gaiman.
I don't have a URL to send you to, but it's a famous Vertigo mini-series. It's about an orphaned boy who finds out he has amazing talents in magic, and is visited by a number of known D.C. magical rhelm characters (like John Constantine, Death, others) to help him learn about it.
The main character even LOOKS the same as Harry Potter, with the round glasses and such. For a while there was a rumor the Neil Gaiman was going to sue, but he says he thinks that the similarities are just amazing coincidences, as the the two characters were thought up at the same time (early 90s) in approximately the same place (England).
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I am FROM Lafayette, Indiana, have been on the phone to Lafayette, Indiana today and I can assure you this is *FALSE*
Fucking trolls aren't funny today.
SHUT UP
It's not smart to generalize like this. You statements are not 100% correct.
Dreamworks is a TOTALLY open source shop. They don't have "anyone to call" when something goes wrong.
They don't care.
Studios know this and can always demand a refund when stuff breaks.
WTF? Isn't it just a wash if you use a no-cost tool and it doesn't work?
I understand the urge to have a foot to hold to the fire, but why should they have any worry about getting their money back or not if they have "faulty" software? If someone uses an Avid for a project and they can't get their bloody feature film out the door, they have *a lot* more problems involving things like completion bonds and unpaid workers. That's a *much* bigger worry than the cost of that Avid workstation and its applications.
I severely doubt Avid would ever have to accept this type of responsibility. But again, they have the lawyers that can SHOW the claim is laughable. B2000 probably didn't.
Actually, how I read this is that they were worried that somebody would try to use this software for production, and something would horribly fail, causing extreme duress. In the inevitable ensuing lawsuits, the Broadcast 2000 people would end up being sued into oblivion. It's not a nice way to go.
Yes... and the orginal comment still applies. Avid, Macromedia, and Adobe all have enough lawyers to prevent such stupid lawsuits. If someone did something stupid with Premere, would they even THINK of suing Adobe. Probably not. Would they think of suing a small project that MIGHT have one pro-bono lawyer... uh-huh.
It's ALL about who has the lawyers...
Hmmm code fork?
Yeah... why not? The GPL saves the right for *anyone* to fork the code. There is always a more fearless group out there willing to take up controversial code.
So if someone still has the tarball...
It's time for Broad-Kast XP!
"the distribution of Broadcast 2000 enhanced to unacceptable levels the risk of an individual experiencing significant financial damage due to the extremely expensive nature of high end video production and the high risk inherent in professional video business marketing."
This means: "We have fewer lawers than Avid, Adobe, and Macromedia. In the current business climate, the company with the largest number of lawers wins, no matter what the law says. We are closing the project because we would like to have enough money to eat net week."
gov't of the corp., by the corp., and for the corp.
If people don't use Braille anymore, then how come in libraries and schools etc. there's always Braille on the signs?
It's just a continutaion of that myth. It's also those institutions finally catching up the values of the 50s!
Note that your average drive-up ATM has braille. Now, as every comic has pointed out, THAT is really not useful. Also, none of those signs would be useful in an emergency.
There are people that still use it, which makes those signs a little valuable, but most every blind student these days uses tapes. Perhaps the tech could be developed to feel braille with a mouse, but I don't think it would be used much (though could it cause a braille to be used again electronically??)
I'm in Indiana...
and, yes, that explains a lot, but there are a lot of cute asian girls here... unfortuantely they don't play the game!!
blah!
This would probably be great for reading braille webpages. Otherwise, it sounds annoying.
Well.. maybe if the blind still used braille. It's a myth... They don't... they use books on tape and such these days, it's hardly taught anymore. Braille books are huge and cause portability and storage problems.
It would, however, be a way for the blind to find items on the screen, but it does not and can not match text-to-speech for accessability.
The ones that I saw took *a long* time to finish... and the time to go indicators were in the 30 hour range for small example items. The versions that are 4 or 5 are probably not on the market (yet).
Whatever the time, unless it's *instant* or close it can't be called a replicator. Replicators are magic tech... rapid prototyping is real life.
For the 2nd time today.. this HAS been going on for a while. You can make your Windows desktop and website touchy feely using the logitech i-feel mouse. I have one and it actually works okay.
Just improve it a bit and you got it...
I don't understand why this is news. At Siggraph they have had the 3D printers for years. You can get 3D printers that plug into networks via regular Ethernet and you can feed it CAD files. They have shown full working models of things like engines. Check out Z Corp and a whole list of resources here.
This is far from a "replicator." The items take quite a bit of time to built up. Even small items take over a day. Not an instant solution by far...
They're easy, intuitive and popular, especially among the asian girls (being japanese made, it's not too surprising). And a good player is sure to draw a captive audience, standing around watching.
I've seen these games... but what location are you in?? All we get are big white guys that clap their hands on wrong beat.
I might of stayed and stared too if there were loads of cute asian girls playing the game. We don't get that here.
Maybe I can get the guys at Gameworks to PAY some cute asian girls to play the game... they are sure to get a lot of attention and make some money. An arcade full of cute asian girls... now that is the future I would like to see!
Do you think these programs can be set up to launch a nuke at anyone that has "lingered" too long at geekizoid or goatsex?
comment 2259181 was attributed to me, but that is not the message I sent. It is my sig, though... weird.. that would seem to indicate that the form data got mixed up in transit.
I think this is because the DB hosed right I was submitting a comment.
HAHHAAHHAHAHAHAA
stupid lameness filter
The article that I first saw on CNet said that this announcement was *ONLY* the Justice Department and that this did *NOT* represent the wished of the individual states.
The newest CNet article is unclear, saying that the Justice Department and the States and the Judge will all meet over the next two weeks.
There might be a chance that the states won't go along with this. The Attorneys General of the states tend to be more progressive in consumer protection.
Wait a second... last time I looked Lego was a toy manufacturer.
I think you might have a good idea, but it might be way outside of Lego's core business. They make plastic toys that look cool in your office or home. Perhaps a good spin-off could make the learning/industrial devices that you point out...
AP website:
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http://wire.ap.org/APnews/main.html?PACKAGEID=T
daily herald:
http://www.dailyherald.com/main_story.asp?intid
another spot.. (from another thread)
It's an ap story, so it should be many places soon.
it's also at dailyherald.com
Remember... MS assumes only IT'S software exists...
It works fine in NS 6, btw...
It's an ap story, so it should be many places soon.
Here is a version at
dailyherald.com.
Remember... MS assumes only IT'S software exists...
I mentioned this before, but I will again since the threads I mentioned this on got flamebated: there is a much more interesting case of similarities between "The Books of Magic," written my Neil Gaiman, and Harry Potter than what is found in this current plagerism case. I finally found a news story on a Neil Gaiman fan site here (3rd Item down).
The character design of tween Tim Hunter of Books of Magic and Harry Potter is very similiar, right down to round glasses. Gaiman wrote a 4 issue series about an orphaned boy who finds out he has magical powers in the early 90s, and it became a monthly and was only ended recently.
The above article also tells of similarities between Harry Potter and a 1982 book by Diana Wynne.
For a while there were rumors that Gaiman was going to sue, but neither he nor Vertigo care about the similarites. As a matter of fact, according to the above article, they put in some nods to Harry Potter at the end of the series as a kind of joke.
Anyway... if they were to make a case it would be a lot more credible than the case that is current going down. I don't think it really is plagerism... sometimes you get ideas from something, they get all mixed up, and they come out in a new form. This is the stance Gaiman, Wynne, and Vertigo are taking.
There has been many rumors of lawsuits. This is from a post I put in another thread...
Harry Potter is also amazingly similar to "The Books of Magic," written by Neil Gaiman.
I don't have a URL to send you to, but it's a famous Vertigo mini-series. It's about an orphaned boy who finds out he has amazing talents in magic, and is visited by a number of known D.C. magical rhelm characters (like John Constantine, Death, others) to help him learn about it.
The main character even LOOKS the same as Harry Potter, with the round glasses and such. For a while there was a rumor the Neil Gaiman was going to sue, but he says he thinks that the similarities are just amazing coincidences, as the the two characters were thought up at the same time (early 90s) in approximately the same place (England).
Harry Potter is also amazingly similar to "The Books of Magic," written by Neil Gaiman.
I don't have a URL to send you to, but it's a famous Vertigo mini-series. It's about an orphaned boy who finds out he has amazing talents in magic, and is visited by a number of known D.C. magical rhelm characters (like John Constantine, Death, others) to help him learn about it.
The main character even LOOKS the same as Harry Potter, with the round glasses and such. For a while there was a rumor the Neil Gaiman was going to sue, but he says he thinks that the similarities are just amazing coincidences, as the the two characters were thought up at the same time (early 90s) in approximately the same place (England).