Is it going to take an armed revolution to get our countries, our world, back? My country's declaration of independance starts with "We, the People." We, the people aren't being represented at all any more.
Armed revolution, while part of American tradition, is beyond the reach of most Americans these days as most of them lack the testicular fortitude to pick up a weapon rather than a remote in order to voice their opinion to the government.
What is it that they could be pissed off about? If the delay between theater and DVD is at least 4 weeks, that's more than enough as most movies are in and out of the theater chain system by then anyway. The only theaters that might have a problem would be the dollar theaters, but they tend to show indie films anyway.
What the theaters should really be pissed about is how movie studios are churning out complete and absolute shit that is not attracting much of an audience.
By optioning the titles, that basically cuts her out of the loop. Everything that she is saying is true, but the movie studio frankly has no reason and no incentive to go back to the author for anything. It means that the studio has bought all of the rights to the title and that they can do anything that they want to with it, including changing the skin colors of everyone and including making changes to the story.
I feel for her, but honestly, if she wanted to have some way of maintaining the integrity of the story, then optioning the rights away is NOT the way to do it. The thing to have done is for her to have the movie produced herself. That would have started by her writing a script and peddling it around Hollywood to see if there is interest. Once there is interest, the producers come on and make the movie happen, but at least it would have been according to her own terms. Yes, there are authors that have more clout in Hollywood when they option their books, like Stephen King and the such, but she is not in that category and thus she would have had to do the legwork for a lot of this herself, but that's basically how she could have prevented all of this. Bellyaching about it now just seems rather childish and frankly if she was that concerned with the story, she should have not signed the movie rights over.
The name of the computer with the simulation is WOPR and the name of the AI in it is Joshua and the head designer is a reclusive scientist named Professor Falken.
The real question is whether the Chinese could have done anything about Tyler Durden being involved in a class action lawsuit against the Pressman Hotel regarding the urine content of their soup.
Buy your hip-e now and you get to join their hip-e squad! as a squad leader!! If your friends join your hip-e squad and buy a hip-e of their own, you get $10!!!!
Of course, all of the money goes into a convenient MasterCard that you get from hip-e, just in time to teach those teens the value of living your life with a credit card bill!!
Become a squad leader! All your base are belong to hip-e squad leaders!
No, according to the organizers, this is supposed to show that people can have this kind of computing power anywhere in the world.
Now please explain why or how it would be up to normal citizens to do something like stop an asteroid. Not all the computing power in the world is going to stop something moving at 50 miles per second straight at the planet.
The question is not whether this can be done-- the question is what exactly do you need to run on a supercomputer that requires a flash mob? If this is about democracy and putting power in the hands of the people, that's all good, but what is this supposed to prove? That garment workers in Sri Lanka can leave their factories simultaneously and put together a super-computer so that they can..... what? Solve a really complex mathematical problem?
Putting democracy in the hands of these kind of people is about having your voice be heard and having it make a difference, not to make impromptu supercomputers. A supercomputer is not going to save sweatshop workers in China or Sri Lanka or Mexico or whereever.
Nice geek thing to do though. Maybe next time they can do it in the middle of a street and Reclaim the Streets!!
The problem is that these recording industries simply do no understand one simple thing-- people are going to be pirating whether there are laws for it or not. In fact, all I have to do is basically wardrive, find an open WAP, get on the Internet, and download to my heart's content. I can even go to a Starbuck's and get on the network that many places offer, and again, download to my heart's content. Getting logins and passwords that don't match you is not exactly hard.
It's the same thing with hacking back in the day... scan for PBXs.. hack them (mostly because the default logins and passwords were left), get a PBX number, or if you are nimble enough make on for yourself, drive out to one of those green phone boxes sticking out of the green, alligator-clip yourself in at someone's number, and do whatever you need to do online, whether it's dialup to your BBS boards or dial into that company you've been dumpster diving.
All the music and movie industry is doing is shooting themselves in the foot. Instead of embracing the technology, they are marginalizing the people that are fans of the music and movies and whatever media that they donwload (which amounts to free advertising) and they all come off as the 800-lb gorilla that is out to get back at a bunch of kids who are swapping music for the most part and building a collection mostly because they like to collect things more than they like to listen to them. They're just driving people back underground and that's where the technology is going to evolve again.
Of course, the governments know where their bread is buttered. Hatch and Leahy have their idiotic US-PIRATE Act going through Congress and and now you have the Canadian government goosestepping along as well. These media companies contribute a lot more money to keeping them in control than 80 million kids downloading music off of the Internet, so they're just going to do whatever they have to in order to keep that money flowing anyway.
That is unbelievable. When are these people going to realize that they need to get the input of someone that at least represents the people that they are going to 'govern'??
He's got a right to be pissed, and I would honestly be pissed too.
The only thing this means is that people that still have their Packard Bells and Dells and the such with Windows 98 OEM copies are not going to be able to do Windows Updates and are basically going to have to upgrade to another PC if they want support.
Any guess as to what OS their next PC is going to run?
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What is it that they could be pissed off about? If the delay between theater and DVD is at least 4 weeks, that's more than enough as most movies are in and out of the theater chain system by then anyway. The only theaters that might have a problem would be the dollar theaters, but they tend to show indie films anyway. What the theaters should really be pissed about is how movie studios are churning out complete and absolute shit that is not attracting much of an audience.
This won't work for anyone that has upgraded their PSP to anything above 1.0 of the Firmware. A little detail that got left out of the article..
By optioning the titles, that basically cuts her out of the loop. Everything that she is saying is true, but the movie studio frankly has no reason and no incentive to go back to the author for anything. It means that the studio has bought all of the rights to the title and that they can do anything that they want to with it, including changing the skin colors of everyone and including making changes to the story. I feel for her, but honestly, if she wanted to have some way of maintaining the integrity of the story, then optioning the rights away is NOT the way to do it. The thing to have done is for her to have the movie produced herself. That would have started by her writing a script and peddling it around Hollywood to see if there is interest. Once there is interest, the producers come on and make the movie happen, but at least it would have been according to her own terms. Yes, there are authors that have more clout in Hollywood when they option their books, like Stephen King and the such, but she is not in that category and thus she would have had to do the legwork for a lot of this herself, but that's basically how she could have prevented all of this. Bellyaching about it now just seems rather childish and frankly if she was that concerned with the story, she should have not signed the movie rights over.
The name of the computer with the simulation is WOPR and the name of the AI in it is Joshua and the head designer is a reclusive scientist named Professor Falken.
Just when the roleplayers said that PVP was dead, the Army goes and makes a whole continent dedicated to PVP play in 2015.
The real question is where are the soldiers going to bind and who is going to rezz them. And will the Army ban soldiers that corpse-camp?
The real question is whether the Chinese could have done anything about Tyler Durden being involved in a class action lawsuit against the Pressman Hotel regarding the urine content of their soup.
There's more to the offer!
Buy your hip-e now and you get to join their hip-e squad! as a squad leader!! If your friends join your hip-e squad and buy a hip-e of their own, you get $10!!!!
Of course, all of the money goes into a convenient MasterCard that you get from hip-e, just in time to teach those teens the value of living your life with a credit card bill!!
Become a squad leader! All your base are belong to hip-e squad leaders!
No, according to the organizers, this is supposed to show that people can have this kind of computing power anywhere in the world.
Now please explain why or how it would be up to normal citizens to do something like stop an asteroid. Not all the computing power in the world is going to stop something moving at 50 miles per second straight at the planet.
Maybe they should call it a FlashBeowulf..
The question is not whether this can be done-- the question is what exactly do you need to run on a supercomputer that requires a flash mob? If this is about democracy and putting power in the hands of the people, that's all good, but what is this supposed to prove? That garment workers in Sri Lanka can leave their factories simultaneously and put together a super-computer so that they can..... what? Solve a really complex mathematical problem?
Putting democracy in the hands of these kind of people is about having your voice be heard and having it make a difference, not to make impromptu supercomputers. A supercomputer is not going to save sweatshop workers in China or Sri Lanka or Mexico or whereever.
Nice geek thing to do though. Maybe next time they can do it in the middle of a street and Reclaim the Streets!!
The problem is that these recording industries simply do no understand one simple thing-- people are going to be pirating whether there are laws for it or not. In fact, all I have to do is basically wardrive, find an open WAP, get on the Internet, and download to my heart's content. I can even go to a Starbuck's and get on the network that many places offer, and again, download to my heart's content. Getting logins and passwords that don't match you is not exactly hard.
It's the same thing with hacking back in the day... scan for PBXs.. hack them (mostly because the default logins and passwords were left), get a PBX number, or if you are nimble enough make on for yourself, drive out to one of those green phone boxes sticking out of the green, alligator-clip yourself in at someone's number, and do whatever you need to do online, whether it's dialup to your BBS boards or dial into that company you've been dumpster diving.
All the music and movie industry is doing is shooting themselves in the foot. Instead of embracing the technology, they are marginalizing the people that are fans of the music and movies and whatever media that they donwload (which amounts to free advertising) and they all come off as the 800-lb gorilla that is out to get back at a bunch of kids who are swapping music for the most part and building a collection mostly because they like to collect things more than they like to listen to them. They're just driving people back underground and that's where the technology is going to evolve again.
Of course, the governments know where their bread is buttered. Hatch and Leahy have their idiotic US-PIRATE Act going through Congress and and now you have the Canadian government goosestepping along as well. These media companies contribute a lot more money to keeping them in control than 80 million kids downloading music off of the Internet, so they're just going to do whatever they have to in order to keep that money flowing anyway.
That is unbelievable. When are these people going to realize that they need to get the input of someone that at least represents the people that they are going to 'govern'?? He's got a right to be pissed, and I would honestly be pissed too.
The only thing this means is that people that still have their Packard Bells and Dells and the such with Windows 98 OEM copies are not going to be able to do Windows Updates and are basically going to have to upgrade to another PC if they want support. Any guess as to what OS their next PC is going to run?
Maybe we should go sit in front of Israeli bulldozers then...
It appeared on http://www.hackerjournal.com yesterday morning.