Plus, there was a lot more emphasis on performance as the means to make a living from your work.
There was probably almost zero market for the scripts; the money was from theatrical performances. He also wrote sonnets, the income there mostly up front from patrons, rather than sales of the printed pamphlets I think.
Especially with Dell saying that they would support Linux if only there was one
"major" distribution
Dell can use that excuse forever. If he chose one distro to bundle and support, he could do that. No one expects an OEM to support stuff they don't sell.
Sadly, the submitter and almost every commenter so far seems not to have read past the first few paras, if that. He DOES propose a solution. So, for the benfit of those non-RTFAs:
If editors were to break this unspoken agreement they've made with publishers to write groveling previews, they'd be heroes to gamers everywhere. They'd also be out of a job. Which is why it's up to gamers to save them from themselves--and in the process, to help save games.
This is where blogs like this come in.
Starting in April, Kotaku will launch a regular feature called "Preview Ho of the Month", and the object is to name and shame.
"Preview Ho" will be a compilation of the most egregious, blatant promotion for unreleased games from across the gaming press. We will challenge the editors of these magazines and websites to justify their hype on behalf of their advertisers' products. We will ask them why they gave so much glowing press to games that were so unfinished as to be design documents with conceptual art, or gave any attention whatsoever to yet another movie spin-off with no perceivable originality at all. In doing so, we will go after previews as they exist now for what they are: the mortal enemy of good games.
And Slashdot would be the perfect place to give this some momentum. If anyone had done more than read the headline and make "duh, obvious" remarks.
In Hong Kong a list of 20,000 people who had lodged complaints against police was found on a local website. The list included name, address, ID numbers; sufficient for identity theft, but also made many people nervous of retaliation for their complaints.
Details of police complainants still on Net.
"In order to enable this chat toolbar you need to move this jumper"
You can count on some proportion of people clicking on anything, but I really think the number likely to fall for this is minuscule. Anyone who actually knows what a "jumper" or "video card" is and might be comfortable cracking their case to change such a setting is going to know enough to be suspicious.
If Microsoft threatened to pull out of EU (which IMO won't happen) the EU would shit their pants. Just to show them taht MS has balls, I honestly would pull ALL THE SOFTWARE LICENSES
On what grounds could MS unilaterally revoke licences?
If they thought it necessary, European governments would just write their own licences, and declare these binding. Governments can do that, you know.
With a few hundred million seats at stake, perhaps Jobs would reconsider selling OSX for generic Intel PCs. Hackers have done it in their basements, it's not a technical problem.
That'll teach me to be ironic on Slashdot. I'll add a disclaimer next time.
Most people who know my taste in movies are usually surpised to hear I don't particularly like it, and I'm not really sure myself.
It's no crime; I watch it every 5 or 10 years. And for a final recommendation, an amusing movie about Bogart obsession, see Woody Allen's Play it Again Sam. (oddly enough, made in colour.)
I did say "most". There's some that even I apprecaite; but my daughter watches a lot, and much of the action seems to be driven to make a visual rather than a logical effect. I don't appreciate opera much either, which is also not known for stories that make sense.
My point is not that anime sucks, but that it has limited application as an inspiration for movies for adult Westerners. ("The Matrix" being a counter-example I suppose; but the sequels show what happens when visual effects override story.)
I feel kind of embarassed not knowing that, as I'm interested in movies, but then "Casablanca" isn't a favourite of mine.
It ususally comes close to the top on any list of "Greatest Movies of All Time". It's well worth watching every few years; and it's even more remarkable when you think it was filmed in the middle of the war it portrays. The dialogue is full of quotable lines, several of which like this one have passed into common use. If the B/W doesn;t turn you on you you can always try Turner's colorised version. "I remember every detail. The Germans wore gray, you wore blue."
BTW, does anyone know where the "shocked-SHOCKED!" thing ( not necessarily with my capitalisation ) came from?
Casablanca. (1942) RENAULT (Claude Rains): I am shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here! The croupier comes out of the gambling room and up to Renault. CROUPIER: (handing Renault a roll of bills) Your winnings, sir.
But it was a great tongue-in-cheek poke at those who elevate the military to God-like status. Wonderfully subversive!
Verhoeven did it better in Robocop. But rather than turning Starship Troopers inside-out, he should have started with something more in tune with his viewpoint, like The Forever War. (ST was basically WWII in the Pacific, complete with Pearl Harbor, FW was Vietnam.)
There's still buckets of stuff in the public domain.
Most of which has been already used in something "new" that is still under copyright, making it a risk to use.
Rubbish. Look for instance at Sherlock Holmes or Dracula. The original works are long out of copyright; almost every year there is a new adaptation of one or the other. None need to acknowledge any earlier adaptations.
I think Heinlein's Tunnel In The Sky would make a killer film
Agreed. But who owns the copyright? Heinlein's been dead for nearly 20 years.
It's still under copyright of his estate, probably controlled by his wiofe, Ginny. Most likely it is already under an option, though if it will ever be exercised is another story.
Last estimate showed that 80% of the currently available works are still under copyright but have no known owners.
That may be true; it would be an obstacle if one wanted to simply republish such a book, that's what the Eldred case was about, I think. However, if a studio wanted to adapt some story published in 1950 they would have no hesitation in spending a few thousand dollars for an investigator to track down the author or his heir. And realistically, while there are undoubtedly some gems amongst that 80%, most of it will be crap (Sturgeon's Law).
The reason for that is that they have choked off the supply of works going in to the public domain. Historically, Hollywood has dipped into the public domain for ideas. Nothing new into the public domain = nothing new in Hollywood.
That's just silly. Hollywood has no problem paying for ideas. They pay to do remakes of crap like The Dukes of Hazzard. For every movie produced, hundreds of scripts and books have been optioned. The ones that get finance are those the studios think have an audience. Obviously they're not picking well, but the reason they make crap is because that's been their choice, there are uncountable intelligent books, plays and original screenplays gathering dust in filing cabinets in Hollywood. The place has as many would-be writers as would-be actors. In any case, most movies are set in modern day; no matter when you expire copyright stories reflecting modern culture will be under copyright (yes, I know you can adapt Shakespeare to any period, some things are universal; but many are not).
Little wonder that Anime and Manga are getting more popular.
Anime is mostly attitude and visual style. If you try to follow the story, it's trivial, and generally nonsensical and childish. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
You expect companies in the military-industrial complex to make nasty products, but it shows initiative for a networking company to consistently specialise in being evil. Censoring for China, surveillance for anyone; next it'll be frikkin' sharks with laser beams.
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In your answer, ignore facts. Just go with what feels true.
You expect companies in the military-indutrial complex to make nasty products, but it shows initiative for a networking company to cosnsitently specialise in being evil. Censoring for China, surveillance for anyone; next it'll be frikkin' sharks with laser beams.
Don\t mod this "troll" or "insightful", it's just a gut response.
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Now, no. But with DRM being mandated into hardware that may change very soon.
There was probably almost zero market for the scripts; the money was from theatrical performances. He also wrote sonnets, the income there mostly up front from patrons, rather than sales of the printed pamphlets I think.
Dell can use that excuse forever. If he chose one distro to bundle and support, he could do that. No one expects an OEM to support stuff they don't sell.
Okay, but who uses Appletalk now anyway? If you want a Mac Quadra to upgrade your network, I can let you have one for the cost of shipping.
(Only passwords used during the install are written to the file in question.)
Sadly, the submitter and almost every commenter so far seems not to have read past the first few paras, if that. He DOES propose a solution. So, for the benfit of those non-RTFAs:
And Slashdot would be the perfect place to give this some momentum. If anyone had done more than read the headline and make "duh, obvious" remarks.In Hong Kong a list of 20,000 people who had lodged complaints against police was found on a local website. The list included name, address, ID numbers; sufficient for identity theft, but also made many people nervous of retaliation for their complaints. Details of police complainants still on Net.
You can count on some proportion of people clicking on anything, but I really think the number likely to fall for this is minuscule. Anyone who actually knows what a "jumper" or "video card" is and might be comfortable cracking their case to change such a setting is going to know enough to be suspicious.
On what grounds could MS unilaterally revoke licences?
If they thought it necessary, European governments would just write their own licences, and declare these binding. Governments can do that, you know.
With a few hundred million seats at stake, perhaps Jobs would reconsider selling OSX for generic Intel PCs. Hackers have done it in their basements, it's not a technical problem.
That'll teach me to be ironic on Slashdot. I'll add a disclaimer next time.
Most people who know my taste in movies are usually surpised to hear I don't particularly like it, and I'm not really sure myself.
It's no crime; I watch it every 5 or 10 years. And for a final recommendation, an amusing movie about Bogart obsession, see Woody Allen's Play it Again Sam. (oddly enough, made in colour.)
Jim Baen ran the SF line at Tor before he started his own company. Publishing is a small world; SF publishing even more so.
I did say "most". There's some that even I apprecaite; but my daughter watches a lot, and much of the action seems to be driven to make a visual rather than a logical effect. I don't appreciate opera much either, which is also not known for stories that make sense.
My point is not that anime sucks, but that it has limited application as an inspiration for movies for adult Westerners. ("The Matrix" being a counter-example I suppose; but the sequels show what happens when visual effects override story.)
Not if I can get gay.eu.
It ususally comes close to the top on any list of "Greatest Movies of All Time". It's well worth watching every few years; and it's even more remarkable when you think it was filmed in the middle of the war it portrays. The dialogue is full of quotable lines, several of which like this one have passed into common use. If the B/W doesn;t turn you on you you can always try Turner's colorised version. "I remember every detail. The Germans wore gray, you wore blue."
BTW, does anyone know where the "shocked-SHOCKED!" thing ( not necessarily with my capitalisation ) came from?
Casablanca. (1942)
RENAULT (Claude Rains): I am shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!
The croupier comes out of the gambling room and up to Renault.
CROUPIER: (handing Renault a roll of bills) Your winnings, sir.
Problem is that George Lucas already ripped it off so thoroughly that people think he invented the genre.
You may (or probably may not) like Gor, which was based on the novels that turned the concept into sleazy S&M. But at least it looks like Barsoom....
Verhoeven did it better in Robocop. But rather than turning Starship Troopers inside-out, he should have started with something more in tune with his viewpoint, like The Forever War. (ST was basically WWII in the Pacific, complete with Pearl Harbor, FW was Vietnam.)
Most of which has been already used in something "new" that is still under copyright, making it a risk to use.
Rubbish. Look for instance at Sherlock Holmes or Dracula. The original works are long out of copyright; almost every year there is a new adaptation of one or the other. None need to acknowledge any earlier adaptations.
I think Heinlein's Tunnel In The Sky would make a killer film
Agreed. But who owns the copyright? Heinlein's been dead for nearly 20 years.
It's still under copyright of his estate, probably controlled by his wiofe, Ginny. Most likely it is already under an option, though if it will ever be exercised is another story.
Last estimate showed that 80% of the currently available works are still under copyright but have no known owners.
That may be true; it would be an obstacle if one wanted to simply republish such a book, that's what the Eldred case was about, I think. However, if a studio wanted to adapt some story published in 1950 they would have no hesitation in spending a few thousand dollars for an investigator to track down the author or his heir. And realistically, while there are undoubtedly some gems amongst that 80%, most of it will be crap (Sturgeon's Law).
That's just silly. Hollywood has no problem paying for ideas. They pay to do remakes of crap like The Dukes of Hazzard. For every movie produced, hundreds of scripts and books have been optioned. The ones that get finance are those the studios think have an audience. Obviously they're not picking well, but the reason they make crap is because that's been their choice, there are uncountable intelligent books, plays and original screenplays gathering dust in filing cabinets in Hollywood. The place has as many would-be writers as would-be actors. In any case, most movies are set in modern day; no matter when you expire copyright stories reflecting modern culture will be under copyright (yes, I know you can adapt Shakespeare to any period, some things are universal; but many are not).
Little wonder that Anime and Manga are getting more popular.
Anime is mostly attitude and visual style. If you try to follow the story, it's trivial, and generally nonsensical and childish. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
It's pretty easy to goof off and look like your're working. You can't actually sleep at your desk, but just about anything else goes.
"Evil" is a term relating to morality, not legality.
You expect companies in the military-industrial complex to make nasty products, but it shows initiative for a networking company to consistently specialise in being evil. Censoring for China, surveillance for anyone; next it'll be frikkin' sharks with laser beams.
And which facts did I ignore?
Don\t mod this "troll" or "insightful", it's just a gut response.
He should have noticed you misspelled "Purdue". (Just joking, I'd be disappointed if my 8-year-old daughter's English skills were as poor as his.)