I do belive you are indeed wrong.The title crawl begins with the the text 'Epsidoe IV - A New Hope". I can't testify to it being there in '77 however, as I was 4 years away from being born, but I've heard people talk about it being there in the origianl theatrical relase, and all the tapes made before george lucas went on his "special edition" craze also contain it. That and it's just common knowledge.
But my question is, if this sells poorly will they point to it as proof that straight mp3 sales don't work?
Perhaps thats why they did it in the first place. Everything the record companys have done to this point in the realm of online distrubution have been absolutley half-assed. They want all their online ventures to fail. If they don't, they belive that the the new distbution method will make them lose control over the content of the music. If that happens, they stay middle men like they are now, except this time, there will be no middle. It would be a wonderful day.
Does Kurosawa do that? hmm....I'll have to rent Hidden fortess and have a look-see.Anyway, I will conceede that A New Hope is a well directed film, but in the way Men in Black is well directed, not in the way that 2001 or ESB is. Now that I think about though, it's pretty hard to come up with well directed Sci-fi films. Perhaps I'm being a bit harsh.
I know the RIAA didn't write it, it was proabably some self-rightous bastard alot like yourself. How can you possibly defend a company that acts the way RIAA members do? Do you think they care about you? You think all these "thives" go away that their gonna lower prices, or create good content? HA! They are using file sharing as an exuse to pass legislation that gives them a future stranglehold on content creation. "oh, you want to distrubute a song you wrote and performed? Not without the RIAA watermark seal of approval!" Stop defending companys whose soul goal is to make your computer into a nutered VCR, incapable of doing anything without the xxAA's express writen consent.
Lucas is perfectly capable of displaying greatness, just not as a director. His style is rather generic(other then the super cheesy wipes,which I will admit are sometimes fun)and he has problems conveying drama or emotion outside of special effects shots. Where his greatness lies is in storytelling. Witness not only Star Wars but American Grafiti and Indiana Jones(even THX-1138 would have an interesting story, if it wasn't so incomprehinsible).In other words, I think Lucas is one of the worlds great story tellers,but as a director he started off average and went downhill from there.
did you just call Lucas a good director? I love star wars, but please, a good director he is not.
Lets go over the films he's directed shall we?
"THX-1138", "American Grafiti", " A New Hope", "Howard the Duck", "The Phantom Menace", "Attack of the Clones". With the exception of American Graffiti and A New Hope(kinda), the man has never directed a good movie. "Clones" is okay as a star wars movie, but as a standalone film it's awful.
You forgot a great reference to a John Ford film in "A New Hope" BTW. When Luke comes back to the villa to find his home and his aunt and uncle dead and burnt to a crisp it's right out of "The Serchers"
It's much more of a danger to the Music Industry, and they have a right to protect themselves.
Protect themselves how? By making laws that do nothing for the public good, instead only helping to line their pockets? How is making progams that have perfectly legitamite uses illegal their "right"? is that what you mean? Can you name a tool that can be used for illegal purposes that is illegal in the united states? Crack pipes? Guns? penises? Nope. Nothing. Why? becuase who is to say what a object's legitamte purpose is. Why do you want to be analy raped by huge corparations? I don't get it. Why would anyone defend the rights of an entity that isn't even alive? it's bizzare behavior.
Had 2600 been prim and proper they wouldn't of won anymore then they did in reality. I don't think they are owed any "favors" as you put it. I think they are owed their right to appeal a unfair ruling made by a judge who was either corrupt or had no idea what he was talking about. I would hope that court rulings aren't based on the conduct of the defendant in court or the "favors" they are owed.
That was the most interesting legal brief I've ever read. Wait, check that, that was the only legal brief I've ever read. Are they all that interesting?
I do hope that this ruling is overturned. The way courts have been ruling lately on copyright law terrifies me. Are these judges not citizens? Do they not see how this is going to effect them? Are they all bought? sigh......
uhhh.....original Quake was not 3d accelerated untill months after it came out. Even Quake 2 could be played in software. There was not any "forcing" going on.
The anlogy dosen't hold up anyway. 3d acceleration was clearly superior to software rendering, while digital filming and projection has visual drawbacks to celluloid. Some people think that digital film looks flat and washes out in high contrast sceens. Besides, It's alot easier to make 10 million people buy 3d accelrators then it is to make 5,000 theaters buy digital projectors, especialy when most directors, besides lucas of course, aren't interested becuase either they don't like the look, or if a film transfer is required, it WILL look like shit.
First off, Q3A is used as THE single standard metric to see how a card will perform under a common load. It's a very good way to judge the raw speed of a card overall, and often provides good pointers as to overall performance in fancier modes or other games, but it certainly doesn't mean every game you play will be 100+ fps
It's not a good judge. The reason being, is that chipset devolpors spend half their time optimising their hardware and their drivers for q3 so they'll get better reviews. Ati even cheated by lowering image quailty to get higher frame rates when quake3.exe was executed.
I for one wish hardware sites would drop q3 all together, if only so more time could be spent optimising for all around experience, instead of just under one damn 3 year old game
I could be wrong, but I think that the imac cd drive violates the orange book standard. I'm pretty sure that all CD-rom drives must have a manual eject button.
the type of movies that are rehashes of classical mythology usually end up like O Brother Where Art Thou
the Cohen brothers later admited that they had never read the Oddessy, and just threw in the Syrins and Cyclops for good mesure, kinda like the "based on a true story" thing in Fargo.
I think your point still stands though, films that have mass appeal normaly have very little alogorical value.
Well, you've hit on the main issue there. I'm sure(at least I hope)that most people do indeed understand that. There is little anyone can do though. The problem being, that almost all politicans are indeed bought to a extent, and if you vote out a bought one, he or she is just replaced by someone who's owned by a diferent set of industrys. Solving this problem will take a sea-change of the general public's outlook on the situation. That is unlikley to happen untill something directly threatens the freedoms the public as a whole hold dear, of which apparently, freedom of speech and freedom of privacy are not.
"A group of business leaders from high-tech firms said the bill struck the right balance between consumers and businesses"
I've heard this said about the DMCA too. Ay time businesses talk about balance between themselves and consumers through legislation, I instantly know that it's a terrible idea and I oppose it. They couldn't give a rat's ass about balance or compromise.
Even personal speech is not protected 100%. Libel, slander, harassment, assault, death threats, etc. are all illegal, and the First Amendment does not protect them. Other things and actions which could be defined as "forms of expression" (I use the term loosely) like child pornography and public nudity can also be made illegal, and are not considered protected.
These examples IMO fall under don't yell fire in a crowded theater. I.E, very spefic rules for speach that is limited for the common good of the people. As for commercial vs. personal, well, depite what the law says, corporations aren't people. The same law should clearly be more restricive on them. I'm splitting hairs though, I think we agree 100%. You just said it better.
"The mere fact that this conduct occurs at some level through expression does not elevate all such conduct to the highest levels of First Amendment protection. Doing so would turn centuries of our law and legal tradition on its head, eviscerating the carefully crafted balance between protecting free speech and permissible governmental regulation"
What the hell is this judge refering to? I don't know of any permissible goverment regulation on speech(don't even start with the whole yelling fire in a crowded theater,that clearly does not apply). I was not even aware of diferent "levels" of speech. Is politcal speech protected less then artistic speech? how does one define where one level ends and the next begins? This idea is a pretty terrifying prospect to me.
AFAIK, the bible has not been the best selling book of any given time period in the time such things have been recorded, but it is the best selling book of all time, as it is a very consistant seller.
sorry, I didn't read the article I linked to, and it wasn't very clear. kazaa has a DC app hidden in itself. The article didn't seem to mention it.
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I do belive you are indeed wrong.The title crawl begins with the the text 'Epsidoe IV - A New Hope". I can't testify to it being there in '77 however, as I was 4 years away from being born, but I've heard people talk about it being there in the origianl theatrical relase, and all the tapes made before george lucas went on his "special edition" craze also contain it. That and it's just common knowledge.
What are your views on how to stop scourge of sharpies and other ink based copy protection defeating devices on the music industries profits?
Perhaps thats why they did it in the first place. Everything the record companys have done to this point in the realm of online distrubution have been absolutley half-assed. They want all their online ventures to fail. If they don't, they belive that the the new distbution method will make them lose control over the content of the music. If that happens, they stay middle men like they are now, except this time, there will be no middle. It would be a wonderful day.
Does Kurosawa do that? hmm....I'll have to rent Hidden fortess and have a look-see.Anyway, I will conceede that A New Hope is a well directed film, but in the way Men in Black is well directed, not in the way that 2001 or ESB is. Now that I think about though, it's pretty hard to come up with well directed Sci-fi films. Perhaps I'm being a bit harsh.
Terrorism = File Sharing
someonce call the RIAA and tell them the great news!
I know the RIAA didn't write it, it was proabably some self-rightous bastard alot like yourself. How can you possibly defend a company that acts the way RIAA members do? Do you think they care about you? You think all these "thives" go away that their gonna lower prices, or create good content? HA! They are using file sharing as an exuse to pass legislation that gives them a future stranglehold on content creation. "oh, you want to distrubute a song you wrote and performed? Not without the RIAA watermark seal of approval!" Stop defending companys whose soul goal is to make your computer into a nutered VCR, incapable of doing anything without the xxAA's express writen consent.
Lucas is perfectly capable of displaying greatness, just not as a director. His style is rather generic(other then the super cheesy wipes,which I will admit are sometimes fun)and he has problems conveying drama or emotion outside of special effects shots. Where his greatness lies is in storytelling. Witness not only Star Wars but American Grafiti and Indiana Jones(even THX-1138 would have an interesting story, if it wasn't so incomprehinsible).In other words, I think Lucas is one of the worlds great story tellers,but as a director he started off average and went downhill from there.
Lets go over the films he's directed shall we? "THX-1138", "American Grafiti", " A New Hope", "Howard the Duck", "The Phantom Menace", "Attack of the Clones". With the exception of American Graffiti and A New Hope(kinda), the man has never directed a good movie. "Clones" is okay as a star wars movie, but as a standalone film it's awful.
You forgot a great reference to a John Ford film in "A New Hope" BTW. When Luke comes back to the villa to find his home and his aunt and uncle dead and burnt to a crisp it's right out of "The Serchers"
Protect themselves how? By making laws that do nothing for the public good, instead only helping to line their pockets? How is making progams that have perfectly legitamite uses illegal their "right"? is that what you mean? Can you name a tool that can be used for illegal purposes that is illegal in the united states? Crack pipes? Guns? penises? Nope. Nothing. Why? becuase who is to say what a object's legitamte purpose is. Why do you want to be analy raped by huge corparations? I don't get it. Why would anyone defend the rights of an entity that isn't even alive? it's bizzare behavior.
Had 2600 been prim and proper they wouldn't of won anymore then they did in reality. I don't think they are owed any "favors" as you put it. I think they are owed their right to appeal a unfair ruling made by a judge who was either corrupt or had no idea what he was talking about. I would hope that court rulings aren't based on the conduct of the defendant in court or the "favors" they are owed.
on my matrix dvd box the drip is a mix of letters and wingdings. no kanji involved.
it should also be noted that he said "after doom".
I do hope that this ruling is overturned. The way courts have been ruling lately on copyright law terrifies me. Are these judges not citizens? Do they not see how this is going to effect them? Are they all bought? sigh......
The anlogy dosen't hold up anyway. 3d acceleration was clearly superior to software rendering, while digital filming and projection has visual drawbacks to celluloid. Some people think that digital film looks flat and washes out in high contrast sceens. Besides, It's alot easier to make 10 million people buy 3d accelrators then it is to make 5,000 theaters buy digital projectors, especialy when most directors, besides lucas of course, aren't interested becuase either they don't like the look, or if a film transfer is required, it WILL look like shit.
It's not a good judge. The reason being, is that chipset devolpors spend half their time optimising their hardware and their drivers for q3 so they'll get better reviews. Ati even cheated by lowering image quailty to get higher frame rates when quake3.exe was executed.
http://www.hardocp.com/reviews/vidcards/ati/8500/I for one wish hardware sites would drop q3 all together, if only so more time could be spent optimising for all around experience, instead of just under one damn 3 year old game
I could be wrong, but I think that the imac cd drive violates the orange book standard. I'm pretty sure that all CD-rom drives must have a manual eject button.
the type of movies that are rehashes of classical mythology usually end up like O Brother Where Art Thou the Cohen brothers later admited that they had never read the Oddessy, and just threw in the Syrins and Cyclops for good mesure, kinda like the "based on a true story" thing in Fargo. I think your point still stands though, films that have mass appeal normaly have very little alogorical value.
Well, you've hit on the main issue there. I'm sure(at least I hope)that most people do indeed understand that. There is little anyone can do though. The problem being, that almost all politicans are indeed bought to a extent, and if you vote out a bought one, he or she is just replaced by someone who's owned by a diferent set of industrys. Solving this problem will take a sea-change of the general public's outlook on the situation. That is unlikley to happen untill something directly threatens the freedoms the public as a whole hold dear, of which apparently, freedom of speech and freedom of privacy are not.
anytime even
I've heard this said about the DMCA too. Ay time businesses talk about balance between themselves and consumers through legislation, I instantly know that it's a terrible idea and I oppose it. They couldn't give a rat's ass about balance or compromise.
Even personal speech is not protected 100%. Libel, slander, harassment, assault, death threats, etc. are all illegal, and the First Amendment does not protect them. Other things and actions which could be defined as "forms of expression" (I use the term loosely) like child pornography and public nudity can also be made illegal, and are not considered protected.
These examples IMO fall under don't yell fire in a crowded theater. I.E, very spefic rules for speach that is limited for the common good of the people. As for commercial vs. personal, well, depite what the law says, corporations aren't people. The same law should clearly be more restricive on them. I'm splitting hairs though, I think we agree 100%. You just said it better.
What the hell is this judge refering to? I don't know of any permissible goverment regulation on speech(don't even start with the whole yelling fire in a crowded theater,that clearly does not apply). I was not even aware of diferent "levels" of speech. Is politcal speech protected less then artistic speech? how does one define where one level ends and the next begins? This idea is a pretty terrifying prospect to me.
AFAIK, the bible has not been the best selling book of any given time period in the time such things have been recorded, but it is the best selling book of all time, as it is a very consistant seller.
"I'm sure in 1985 Plutonium can be bought in every corner drug store, but in 1955, it's a little hard to come by."
sorry, I didn't read the article I linked to, and it wasn't very clear. kazaa has a DC app hidden in itself. The article didn't seem to mention it. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/04/02/041720 8