Alanis Morissette has come aboard the upcoming film Radio Free Albemuth. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the film is an adaptation of Philip K. Dick's semiautobiograhical novel.
John Alan Simon has written the film, which he will also direct. Morissette will play Sylvia, a woman that shows up in the vision of a record label executive. In reality, she is a woman suffering from lymphoma who gets a job as a secretary.
Morissette stated, "I am a big fan of Philip K. Dick's poetic and expansively imaginative books. I feel blessed to portray Sylvia, and to be part of this story being told in film."
I hope they include a recording of "Come To The Party", a song critical to the book's plotline.
Screamers was an underrated film -- and also probably the only PKD film (prior to A Scanner Darkly) that really attempted to stay true to the source story.
Minority Report was an OK movie but I recall it deviating substantially from the story, both in plot and feel. But it's been a long time since I read it.
I'd like to see an ultra low power really-small-motherboard (nano, pico, invisible, whatever) that is fanless and can run on a small battery power source for a reasonable time. How about this:
The Beagle Board is a low-cost, fan-less single-board computer based on Texas Instruments' OMAP35x device family, with all of the expandability of today's desktop machines, but without the bulk, expense, or noise.
If you can't figure out what stuff does without a video tutorial, then it is *by definition* not intuitive. When people use "intuitive" for a user interface they usually mean "you only need it explained once; you don't continue to curse the confusion after that".
Which is a useful goal, but not at all what "intuitive" means.
The only truly intuitive user interface I can think of offhand is the nipple.
Even if it did take, literally, only an afternoon to port, the question is how many more sales would Adobe get from such a port? (i.e., sales that didn't cannibalize from existing Windows or Mac sales)
And how much would it cost to support such a port? The huge number of distributions means that probably only a well-restricted subset would be "officially" supported.
(Disclaimer: I work for Adobe, but not on Photoshop)
What career prospects are there? What can a "superstar" programmer expect to be doing in 10 years at your company? Hopefully not still programming.
If this is what you think, then you have never, ever met an actual "superstar programmer". Superstars live to code. Most would suck at management, and hate it too.
Sandman had well over a dozen artists over its run. Some weren't to my liking, but some were astonishing, e.g., P. Craig Russell on issue #50, "Ramadan":
It's that last part that's the tricky bit. My 20-year old CDs still work just fine. The floppy discs (cough) I have from that era? Not so much.
When iTunes/Amazon/etc can assure me that my purchases will still be accessible "forever" (or at least my lifetime, and my spouse's lifetime too), then they'll have my attention. Till then, not so much.
Yep. I could have "bought" Radiohead's "In Rainbows" at any price I wanted for the lossy download, but I waited till today to pick up the physical CD. I am currently ripping to Lossless (and also AAC for iPhone use), but if lightning hits my music drive, I still have a "hardware backup"...
So, Java and/or HTML+JavaScript can do pretty much anything that Flash can do... and yet, people whose livelihood depend on it use Flash instead. Surely there must be some reason for that, no?
Activision and "The Romantics" agreed on a contract.
Not necessarily -- The Romantics may not own the rights to the song itself, even if they wrote it originally. All Activistion has to do is license the rights to the song from the copyright owner, which might leave the band out of the loop entirely.
Want to disagree with my assertion, fine, post a response saying how I'm wrong. But there was nothing trollish in my post; it was posting a correction to what I see as a misstatement by GP.
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"Troll"? I didn't see any inflammatory language there. Just an opinion, simply stated.
I can't think of any case where I've seen a Flash-only site where Flash added anything of substance
Fail.
Actually, yes...
http://www.movieweb.com/news/02/24002.php
Alanis Morissette has come aboard the upcoming film Radio Free Albemuth. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the film is an adaptation of Philip K. Dick's semiautobiograhical novel.
John Alan Simon has written the film, which he will also direct. Morissette will play Sylvia, a woman that shows up in the vision of a record label executive. In reality, she is a woman suffering from lymphoma who gets a job as a secretary.
Morissette stated, "I am a big fan of Philip K. Dick's poetic and expansively imaginative books. I feel blessed to portray Sylvia, and to be part of this story being told in film."
I hope they include a recording of "Come To The Party", a song critical to the book's plotline.
Screamers was an underrated film -- and also probably the only PKD film (prior to A Scanner Darkly) that really attempted to stay true to the source story.
Minority Report was an OK movie but I recall it deviating substantially from the story, both in plot and feel. But it's been a long time since I read it.
Shameless plug -- I pulled out the Black Freighter story into its own "comic". I think it works well as a standalone story. See it here:
http://boredomfestival.wordpress.com/2007/12/11/tales-of-the-black-freighter/
http://beagleboard.org/
The Beagle Board is a low-cost, fan-less single-board computer based on Texas Instruments' OMAP35x device family, with all of the expandability of today's desktop machines, but without the bulk, expense, or noise.
Seriously... I've long thought there should be a mod for "-1, Factually Incorrect".
Which is a useful goal, but not at all what "intuitive" means.
The only truly intuitive user interface I can think of offhand is the nipple.
Tamarin is used in all Flash Players since version 9.
> absolutely no one is using yet
Er, except for Flash 9. Which it was originally written for.
I'm still hoping for someone to require math textbooks to have a sticker saying something like,
"According to Godel's Incompleteness Theorem, this book may contain statements that are true, but not provable"
Effort to port has little to do with it.
Even if it did take, literally, only an afternoon to port, the question is how many more sales would Adobe get from such a port? (i.e., sales that didn't cannibalize from existing Windows or Mac sales)
And how much would it cost to support such a port? The huge number of distributions means that probably only a well-restricted subset would be "officially" supported.
(Disclaimer: I work for Adobe, but not on Photoshop)
What career prospects are there? What can a "superstar" programmer expect to be doing in 10 years at your company? Hopefully not still programming.
If this is what you think, then you have never, ever met an actual "superstar programmer". Superstars live to code. Most would suck at management, and hate it too.
The superstars produce 2x to 10x what a very good programmers can produce in the same amount of time.
Actually, I'd say it's more like "the superstars produce what the very good programmers can't produce, ever".
It's not just about productivity, but insight.
An AC makes an excellent point for once.
Well... dirt, free. Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream, a few bucks.
I'll stick to dirt. For the price difference I can buy... um...
Sandman had well over a dozen artists over its run. Some weren't to my liking, but some were astonishing, e.g., P. Craig Russell on issue #50, "Ramadan":
http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/P%20Craig%20Russell%20Ramadan%201.jpg
Macromedia released a new version (r115)
Actually, Adobe released a new version. Macromedia hasn't existed for a few years now...
It's that last part that's the tricky bit. My 20-year old CDs still work just fine. The floppy discs (cough) I have from that era? Not so much.
When iTunes/Amazon/etc can assure me that my purchases will still be accessible "forever" (or at least my lifetime, and my spouse's lifetime too), then they'll have my attention. Till then, not so much.
Yep. I could have "bought" Radiohead's "In Rainbows" at any price I wanted for the lossy download, but I waited till today to pick up the physical CD. I am currently ripping to Lossless (and also AAC for iPhone use), but if lightning hits my music drive, I still have a "hardware backup"...
So, Java and/or HTML+JavaScript can do pretty much anything that Flash can do... and yet, people whose livelihood depend on it use Flash instead. Surely there must be some reason for that, no?
Realistically, if you want to learn to develop flash using an OSS toolchain, you have a long, hard road ahead of you
Step 1: go to http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flex/sdk/
Step 2: Download the open-source Flex Compiler.
Step 3: Profit.
Yep, that was long and hard...
Wish I could counteract the shortsighted individuals that modded you as "Troll".
You are right on the money.
Activision and "The Romantics" agreed on a contract.
Not necessarily -- The Romantics may not own the rights to the song itself, even if they wrote it originally. All Activistion has to do is license the rights to the song from the copyright owner, which might leave the band out of the loop entirely.
WTF? How the hell was the parent comment a Troll?
Want to disagree with my assertion, fine, post a response saying how I'm wrong. But there was nothing trollish in my post; it was posting a correction to what I see as a misstatement by GP.