The cutting room floor is practically a bloodbath.
Ok, maybe that's a bad example - but what they left in was pretty gory! Its a far cry from the invisible blood and digital bikinis of Gundam Wing days...
Incidentally, I had to remove slashdot from my AvantGo list because slashdot has "banned" either my ip or the AvantGo servers IP (I've read its the later).
Eventually, I will set up Plucker for a daily download...
They allow paying users to choose their own skins for their journal, and paying users even get to write their own stylesheets (albeit in the GNU S2 script, not CSS).
I bet if Slashdot offered some features like this they might get a few more subscribers.
First of all, because slashdot HTML is different from other sites, there would have to be a bit of hard-coded stuff to deal with the funky HREFS.
Secondly, if the code itself was valid XHTML, that means I could use an XML parser to search the web page - rather than having to use cumbersome (and often outdated) HTML parsers.
Currently, whatever I created for parsing and saving slashdot journals is that would not be reusable with other journal sites - livejournal, blogspot and the other journal sites out there. (I'm trying to practice OO, so I'm avoiding writing a "one-shot" script).
BTW - Slashdot provides an RSS page for each user's journal - but only going back 15 entries or so. Otherwise, it would be the answer to my particular problem.
Hmmm. I can't imagine why SCO executives feel that they need to hire bodyguards."
Completely honest question: what has SCO done so far that actually justifies death threats (as the submitter is not-so-subtly implying). Angry emails, yes, anonymous death threats o_O.
I understand that they are arrogant so on with this whole mess, and that linux developers have invested both personal and emotional energy in the OS development...but death threats? WTF?
"Linux Windows" on newsbot.msn.com = 717 stories First headlines: Sun Micro Signs China Desktop Linux Software Deal (Reuters) Leader: Comdex reflects harsh IT realities (Silicon.com) Brown defends Blair relationship (?? Guardian Unlimited)
"Linux Windows" on news.google.com = ~1,800 stories First headlines: Intel intros hyperthreading compilers for Linux, Windows (The Inquirer, UK) Linux-Windows file access (Linuxworld) An editor to ease Windows to Linux migration (Newsforge)
In the book, the story of Aragorn is treated in exactly the way a hobbit would treat it - a bunch of Big People doing Big Things that don't concern us.
I'm not so sure about that. Consider that (relatively) a lot of attention is given to the Battle of Helms Deep and Aragorn's speeches there - even when there are no Hobbits present. On the other hand, they do spend about 100 more times on Frodo + Sam wandering towards Mordor, so maybe I'll have to re-read one more time and see if I can tell what's really going on.
According to the book ITSELF, it's primarily concerned with hobbits.
Yes, because Tolkien presents himself as a "translator" of a book written in Elvish by a Hobbit author (Frodo). The first chapters of FotR contribute to this illusion...but they were also cut from the movie (you'll find it - "Concerning Hobbits" or whatever - in the DVD Extended Edition).
I read an interesting book on LotR, JRR Tolkien: Master of Middle Earth, in which the author argued (convincingly, I think) that the real story LotR is that of Aragorn becoming king, and the real hero is Sam, Frodo's "working-class" lieutenant who holds everything together (and - in the book - is unaffected by the corruption of the Ring).
They already made a big deal of the palantir in FotR and TTT, so I think they can give the audience some credit and let them assume that our heroes already dispensed of Sauraman and looted his tower between the two films.
Also, a lot of people have been complaining that Sam foresaw the scouring of the Shire in his mirror...well, I think it was strongly implied in the movie that the Mirror was showing him the future if they failed in their quest. IIRC, Galadriel says something like "the future is not yet set." There was nothing to imply in the movie that they were foreseeing the Scouring, therefore, no audience member (excluding die-hards) will feel as if something is missing at the end.
Additionally, I am going to take the controversial position that the Scouring would make for an anti-climactic ending and is best left out the movie altogether.
Why?
Spoiler
A movie epilogue (of the non-"avant guarde" genre) should last 5-10 minutes. To do the Scouring justice would take 10-20 minutes of screen time. That means less 10-20 minutes less of Battle of Minas Tirith, Mt. Doom, Black Gate, etc.(if they want to keep it under 3 hours).
The Real Story that these movies have portrayed to the audience is the destruction of the Ring...so once that plotline is resolved, said audience is going to get fidgety. Introducing a whole new mini-plotline (Scouring of Shire) right after the resolution of the Trilogy would really make the movie "drag" for the vast majority. Better to wrap things up as quickly as possible and leave a tear in the audiences' collective eye if possible.
I just hope they end it with Frodo and Bilbo going West and Sam returning to his family - "Well, I'm back." If they end abruptly after the destruction of the Ring, it's going to suck.
And don't forget that they also moved the death of Boromir from the beginning of the book Two Towers (where it was related as a flashback) to the end of Fellowship the movie. That really worked, so I for one trust that PJ knows what he's doing here.
"I want people with Tux stickers on their cases, and I want people with Best Viewed Under IE 6.0 on their web pages. The Democratic party needs a big tent!"
I agree that anyone who gets in on the Google IPO is dumb unless they are somehow able to sell within the first five minutes. That means day traders will (potentially) make a killing while Joe Main Street will be taken to the cleaners.
After watching the featurette on the AvP web site, I can't help but think how cool a movie version of that book would be - and, conversely, the stupidity for which this movie is destined.
Yeah, I can already imagine that. Millions of Internet users writing Perl scripts to get the full text from Amazon database. Perl scripts, no shit.
Fine you can use Python, PHP, Visual Basic, Assembler, whatever, I don't care.
And who said anything about "millions?" I think dozens will do. On the other hand, perhaps you've heard of this phenomenon known as the "script-kiddie?"
Harry Potter was, in fact, scanned by readers (100% chance). There are enough accounts of that on the net. Scanning is easy. For the average person it's probably more so than writing a Perl script.
Let's see. Would you rather 1) scan and clean up a book (OCR is not 100% effective) or 2) get the master quark files from someone at one of the numerous printing companies that they had churning out this book. I'm sure it was done both ways, but only one of them could start printing "same-day" and was completely indistiguishable from genunine copies.
Look, I'm not passing judgement people who counterfeit books. I'm just making the observation that 1) doing so will become much easier/faster than it was in the past and 2) it probably won't hurt book sales anyway. Also you could add
3) I'm not interested in the whole "Information wants to be free" debate that is so prevelant here on YRO...
Yes, I realize that book piracy has always been an issue with publishers. Seems as if you didn't read my comment to closesly.
In fact, perhaps you skipped over a key phrase from my original comment:
Book counterfeiters are one perl-script away from obtaining the full-text of the latest Harry Potter book and printing up their own illicit copies for street sale. Yeah, there are already fake copies of bestsellers floating around out there, but now making them will become that much easier.
My point is that now people who didn't even consider doing book-counterfeiting will be able to because Amazon.com's service will make it easy. Mind-boggling easy.
Do you want to re-key the entire text of Cryptonomicon? Or even do a tedious OCR and cleanup? Or would you rather have a perl script do it for you in 2 hours?
Again, I know what I'm talking about - yes, photocopying, sharing, re-keying etc has always been a problem for publishers (we will leave out blatant criminal theft of master electronic files, which is 99% chance what happened with Harry Potter) - but for most people, photocopying an entire book is too big of pain to justify doing it on the scale that hurts publishers.
Amazon's system, however, opens the door of book pirating for the masses. Mark my words.
(Also, you seem be trying to bait me into a religious argument about whether or not authors actually "own" the works they write once they are published - that all information should be free, etc. Well, I have no interest in such debate. Maybe someone else will take you up on it).
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah, I could hardly believe the "bare-assed antics" either (especially when you realize the result is that Naota pops wood).
Neither could this woman (she obviously doesn't understand the concept of "Adult" Swim).
The cutting room floor is practically a bloodbath.
Ok, maybe that's a bad example - but what they left in was pretty gory! Its a far cry from the invisible blood and digital bikinis of Gundam Wing days...
They have been showing Blue Gender with minimal editing and FLCL with virtually none (just one word in episode 6).
And let's not forget the latest season of Inuyasha is uncut...gory demon deaths abound...
It is called ADULT Swim after all.
You forgot the trailing forwardslash
try:
http://slashdot.org/palm/
Incidentally, I had to remove slashdot from my AvantGo list because slashdot has "banned" either my ip or the AvantGo servers IP (I've read its the later).
Eventually, I will set up Plucker for a daily download...
I showed my wife (a non-techie) alternate layout page as I explained it to her and commented "oh, just like Livejournal."
They allow paying users to choose their own skins for their journal, and paying users even get to write their own stylesheets (albeit in the GNU S2 script, not CSS).
I bet if Slashdot offered some features like this they might get a few more subscribers.
I would love it if they implemented this on Slashdot very soon. The other night I wanted to write a quick app that downloads all the journal entries for a specific slashdot user, and found the non-compliant markup a bit of a headache. (Yes, slashdot has user journals! Probably more interesting than the front-page content, IMHO).
First of all, because slashdot HTML is different from other sites, there would have to be a bit of hard-coded stuff to deal with the funky HREFS.
Secondly, if the code itself was valid XHTML, that means I could use an XML parser to search the web page - rather than having to use cumbersome (and often outdated) HTML parsers.
Currently, whatever I created for parsing and saving slashdot journals is that would not be reusable with other journal sites - livejournal, blogspot and the other journal sites out there. (I'm trying to practice OO, so I'm avoiding writing a "one-shot" script).
BTW - Slashdot provides an RSS page for each user's journal - but only going back 15 entries or so. Otherwise, it would be the answer to my particular problem.
Hmmm. I can't imagine why SCO executives feel that they need to hire bodyguards."
Completely honest question: what has SCO done so far that actually justifies death threats (as the submitter is not-so-subtly implying). Angry emails, yes, anonymous death threats o_O.
I understand that they are arrogant so on with this whole mess, and that linux developers have invested both personal and emotional energy in the OS development...but death threats? WTF?
"Linux Windows" on newsbot.msn.com = 717 stories
First headlines:
Sun Micro Signs China Desktop Linux Software Deal (Reuters)
Leader: Comdex reflects harsh IT realities (Silicon.com)
Brown defends Blair relationship (?? Guardian Unlimited)
"Linux Windows" on news.google.com = ~1,800 stories
First headlines:
Intel intros hyperthreading compilers for Linux, Windows (The Inquirer, UK)
Linux-Windows file access (Linuxworld)
An editor to ease Windows to Linux migration (Newsforge)
I, for one, welcome our new Meson Overlords!
Oh wait, it must be an optional child-element ofSilly me!
(Reference)
In the book, the story of Aragorn is treated in exactly the way a hobbit would treat it - a bunch of Big People doing Big Things that don't concern us.
I'm not so sure about that. Consider that (relatively) a lot of attention is given to the Battle of Helms Deep and Aragorn's speeches there - even when there are no Hobbits present. On the other hand, they do spend about 100 more times on Frodo + Sam wandering towards Mordor, so maybe I'll have to re-read one more time and see if I can tell what's really going on.
According to the book ITSELF, it's primarily concerned with hobbits.
Yes, because Tolkien presents himself as a "translator" of a book written in Elvish by a Hobbit author (Frodo). The first chapters of FotR contribute to this illusion...but they were also cut from the movie (you'll find it - "Concerning Hobbits" or whatever - in the DVD Extended Edition).
I read an interesting book on LotR, JRR Tolkien: Master of Middle Earth, in which the author argued (convincingly, I think) that the real story LotR is that of Aragorn becoming king, and the real hero is Sam, Frodo's "working-class" lieutenant who holds everything together (and - in the book - is unaffected by the corruption of the Ring).
They already made a big deal of the palantir in FotR and TTT, so I think they can give the audience some credit and let them assume that our heroes already dispensed of Sauraman and looted his tower between the two films.
Also, a lot of people have been complaining that Sam foresaw the scouring of the Shire in his mirror...well, I think it was strongly implied in the movie that the Mirror was showing him the future if they failed in their quest. IIRC, Galadriel says something like "the future is not yet set." There was nothing to imply in the movie that they were foreseeing the Scouring, therefore, no audience member (excluding die-hards) will feel as if something is missing at the end.
Additionally, I am going to take the controversial position that the Scouring would make for an anti-climactic ending and is best left out the movie altogether.
Why?
Spoiler
A movie epilogue (of the non-"avant guarde" genre) should last 5-10 minutes. To do the Scouring justice would take 10-20 minutes of screen time. That means less 10-20 minutes less of Battle of Minas Tirith, Mt. Doom, Black Gate, etc.(if they want to keep it under 3 hours).
The Real Story that these movies have portrayed to the audience is the destruction of the Ring...so once that plotline is resolved, said audience is going to get fidgety. Introducing a whole new mini-plotline (Scouring of Shire) right after the resolution of the Trilogy would really make the movie "drag" for the vast majority. Better to wrap things up as quickly as possible and leave a tear in the audiences' collective eye if possible.
I just hope they end it with Frodo and Bilbo going West and Sam returning to his family - "Well, I'm back." If they end abruptly after the destruction of the Ring, it's going to suck.
And don't forget that they also moved the death of Boromir from the beginning of the book Two Towers (where it was related as a flashback) to the end of Fellowship the movie. That really worked, so I for one trust that PJ knows what he's doing here.
"I want people with Tux stickers on their cases, and I want people with Best Viewed Under IE 6.0 on their web pages. The Democratic party needs a big tent!"
I agree that anyone who gets in on the Google IPO is dumb unless they are somehow able to sell within the first five minutes. That means day traders will (potentially) make a killing while Joe Main Street will be taken to the cleaners.
Notice the right side of the chart. Yahoo is on an upward trend. Ever heard of the "buy and hold" strategy of equities investing?
Frodo vs. Willow: Battle of the Anklebiters
Who's up for it?!?
After watching the featurette on the AvP web site, I can't help but think how cool a movie version of that book would be - and, conversely, the stupidity for which this movie is destined.
NOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooo....!!!!!!!
Ever hear the phrase "I'm so happy, I could die!"?
There ya go!
Cat got your tongue? (something important seems to be missing from your comment ... like the body or the subject!)
Yeah, I can already imagine that. Millions of Internet users writing Perl scripts to get the full text from Amazon database. Perl scripts, no shit.
Fine you can use Python, PHP, Visual Basic, Assembler, whatever, I don't care.
And who said anything about "millions?" I think dozens will do. On the other hand, perhaps you've heard of this phenomenon known as the "script-kiddie?"
Harry Potter was, in fact, scanned by readers (100% chance). There are enough accounts of that on the net. Scanning is easy. For the average person it's probably more so than writing a Perl script.
Let's see. Would you rather 1) scan and clean up a book (OCR is not 100% effective) or 2) get the master quark files from someone at one of the numerous printing companies that they had churning out this book. I'm sure it was done both ways, but
only one of them could start printing "same-day" and was completely indistiguishable from genunine copies.
Look, I'm not passing judgement people who counterfeit books. I'm just making the observation that 1) doing so will become much easier/faster than it was in the past and 2) it probably won't hurt book sales anyway. Also you could add
3) I'm not interested in the whole "Information wants to be free" debate that is so prevelant here on YRO...
Buh bye.
I suspect the Nigerians are so happy because of the freely available drugs and the fact that they have so many 'friends' they send email to.
:)
Just wanna say "thanks" for that one. Still making me smile - wish I had thought of it!
Yes, I realize that book piracy has always been an issue with publishers. Seems as if you didn't read my comment to closesly.
In fact, perhaps you skipped over a key phrase from my original comment:
Book counterfeiters are one perl-script away from obtaining the full-text of the latest Harry Potter book and printing up their own illicit copies for street sale. Yeah, there are already fake copies of bestsellers floating around out there, but now making them will become that much easier.
My point is that now people who didn't even consider doing book-counterfeiting will be able to because Amazon.com's service will make it easy. Mind-boggling easy.
Do you want to re-key the entire text of Cryptonomicon? Or even do a tedious OCR and cleanup? Or would you rather have a perl script do it for you in 2 hours?
Again, I know what I'm talking about - yes, photocopying, sharing, re-keying etc has always been a problem for publishers (we will leave out blatant criminal theft of master electronic files, which is 99% chance what happened with Harry Potter) - but for most people, photocopying an entire book is too big of pain to justify doing it on the scale that hurts publishers.
Amazon's system, however, opens the door of book pirating for the masses. Mark my words.
(Also, you seem be trying to bait me into a religious argument about whether or not authors actually "own" the works they write once they are published - that all information should be free, etc. Well, I have no interest in such debate. Maybe someone else will take you up on it).