Based on the amount of movie, merchandise and people who keep buying the DVD's I would say you are in the minority with your feelings. Personally, I don't want them to make another one, but they will, my wife and I will probably see it with friends, and if it's a good movie (this doesn't mean 100% true to the book or my envisioning of the characters) then we might even buy the dvd er blue ray.
Seriously, we have a great LotR trilogy, and while other hobbit movies have sucked, we really don't need to keep rehashing this stuff. Lets move past remakes and start producing movies based on some of the newer fiction out there.
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From the blurb I was expecting something different...but then nothing in this review makes me want to read the book, in fact after getting all the way through to the end and seeing "New York Times best sellers list" just shows me how much of a inflated budget failure of writing this is. It's right up with the typical mass produced best seller garbage that comes out such as Anita Blake novels, where you have people who are excellent writers of written language, yet have no real creativity of their own and as a result resort to mimic the ideas of others or fill their books with enough sex to entice all the 12 year old boys into reading.
I hate garbage like this so much.
Thank you stoolpigeon for saving me from another bad read.
No matter what author at any level of talent that had picked up the books and decided to continue them would be met with heresy or at very least a review of "not as good as the original".
As a writer I know how to mimic the words of others, but it doesn't mean that a person with a significant and highly educated fan base wouldn't pick up on the subtle differences, because no matter how good someone try's to imitate another person, in writing, it's just not the same.
Besides the fact that the expectations, especially those of slashdot's community, are so high you have little chance of being honored with anyone other than "mainstream" media who may have water on the brain, but enough money to throw at people to make them happy, even if slashdot or many fans don't approve.
But, what you posted are not only valid points, but they are things that my Wife who is not a sci-fi fan would have rebutted with just because she has a good deal of common sense.
Why is PayPal still used by anyone other than Ebayers who have no choice? With Google Checkout being better and more secure all around and having more options I don't see why people aren't on a mass exodus of PayPal to Google Checkout.
Also, why has no one else bothered to launch a product that competes with them that is just as easy to use?
I don't consider myself "old", but I'm 30 and from the time I started Junior High through college all my reports had to be typed and saved on a floppy (lol), by my Senior year of High School everything needed to be saved on a zip and by College I was taking my class notes on my laptop just to save time and it was easier to do a "find" in a word document that sift through actual paper notebooks.
My career choices didn't help being in the creative industry for 10 years now where I spend all day long creating graphics and laying out text for multiple projects I have no need to "manually write down anything" - if you catch me in the hallway, I'll just thumb type the notes in my Blackberry's memo pad...
But there is a down side I suppose. I have trouble signing my name sometimes as well as if I have to fill a form out at the doctors office it's nearly illegible, so I find I have to rely on my wife or friends to "write" stuff for me as they tend to have less computer experience and therefore better handwriting.
Google OS, Defeat Windows? Sure, right up there with oh..you know..Linux defeating Windows too...
It'll happen as soon as RedHat or Suse become household names and Linux gains 40% of the everyday consumer market share with stores like Best Buy having half their software isles filled with software that runs from a command line or KDE/Gnome GUI.
Oh that's right, no one outside of slashdot, the silicon valley or the tech industry who is a joe average consumer has any interest in using anything other than Windows or Apple OS. The only way to defeat that would be to create an OS that could do everything that both Windows and Apple OS does as well as run everything that the both of them can run - NATIVELY, but you won't ever have a third party created that because both companies rely on too much proprietary garbage.
I think you're belief that I'd somehow be converting the finished 8.5x11 formatted PDF into the reader format is throwing you off.
The fact is I use InDesign for my book creations and I have a number of options/methods for converting the document easily and quickly into a reduced ebook size and exporting as a smaller sized PDF, all of which would be automated with scripts and able to be done quickly. It's part of the reason I can create "on-the-fly" versions for different printers like 8.5x11, A4, Single Pages, Spreads, etc...
Oh and the html export from InDesign is utter garbage for what I require.
Resizing a PDF, or rather in my case - resizing the native documents to a different size other than 8.5x11 is a couple clicks of irrelevancy. Recreating a an entire book into html format can be a tedious task.
"The software also is compatible with both PCs and Apple computers and enable the user to read PDF, Word, BBeB and other text files on the Reader."
- that right there.
When I first made my paperback book available in paperback format in early 2007 Amazon offered to convert it (it was in PDF format) to their kindle format for me, I said sure, and almost immediately found out that the formatting didn't work out. I pulled it from the kindle store and asked if I could do the conversion on my own. They said sure, but their format was html. Because of the charts and imagery and the way the text was done in the book there wasn't any easy way of converting the 162 page PDF into essentially a big ass website. I opted to ignore the kindle and since then haven't suffered for it in anyway.
Now my books are available in PDF format and I'm converting many of the stories into RTF versions for mobile devices. The fact that Sony now has a reader that can view html formated ebooks as well as RTF, Word and PDF files means I soon will have another outlet for my products without me having to do any type of special conversion on my end, which for me means I get another revenue stream, a potentially larger client base and no additional time cost. Win Win.
I don't understand why so many people think that all ads are bad, they aren't. Yes there is annoying ones which we could do without, primarily anything involving a popup, popunder, and a lot of flash or animated gifs that cause seizures. But some ads actually do serve a legitimate cause/purpose and provide value to the user and site. For example, I more than likely would not have discovered RPGCountdown had it not been for one of their ads being displayed on a popular site I visit. Essentially, I was visiting a RPG Social site and saw an ad for an RPG related itunes show and now I listen to it when I can.
This is basically a perfect example of how ads should work. Unfortunately many unrelated or harmful ads sneak into places that they don't belong. We need to find a way to make the policing of ads better and not just remove all ads.
I wonder what the loss of revenue is for companies like Dell who recently posted earnings of $3M from Twitter sales. I know for me, it's an inconvenience as I just released mobile versions of my rpg supplements and twittered about it, which will probably be lost in a see of tweets from various people this morning about twitter being down. I also promote other pdf books through a second Twitter account that is undoubtedly not gaining any referral fees with no one clicking on the links since the site is down. Ultimately though, my loss of revenue will be around $20 LOL so it's not like my mortgage payment or something that will make me a sad panda, but for companies like Dell, I wonder how much they estimate their losses at, probably higher than actual, but still a fair amount I bet.
You say you come up with a lot of ideas, but what exactly are the ideas for?
For example, I'm a marketing person at my day job, I think of new ways for our office to promote our listings and so I send out these ideas, after some testing and Q&A with my graphics and research departments, in monthly installments to everyone. No harm in anyone taking my idea and claiming it as their own as it ultimately wouldn't matter because any successful idea potentially helps generate revenue for our office and thus keep us all employed. Of course if you are a paranoid person about corporate sabotage within your own office because Dude in Department A wants your job I guess that would be a different story, fortunately I'm not a paranoid person.
Now lets look outside the office and maybe you have creative ideas for a new business or a potential expansion of an existing business. Well with this you may want to keep a tighter lid on things because of the potential for competitors to use the idea first. That is one of the main reasons any good business person will have potential business plan reviewers or investment personal sign an NDA before reviewing any ideas on paper. This is common and anyone who isn't willing to sign one before potentially working with you isn't worth talking too as they will either screw you over or waste your time.
What can ICANN actually do to enforce any rules they put into place? From reading the initial announcement it just sounds like the corporate idiots at my work who spout out "That's a violation of our company standards!!!" at our sales teams then do nothing because the sales guys are the ones who pay their salaries.
If the last decade has shown us anything, this means that in a couple years I'll have a terabyte flash drive I can carry in my pocket that runs me about $300.
really? Are people this bored from being unemployed that they need to work on articles like this to pass the time. I'm disappointed with a side of disgruntled.
If you want enjoy playing with people online and taking your time with no where to go or nothing in particular to kill then play an mmo, if you want immediate hack and slash action and gratification then play a rts or fps or something other than an mmo.
I don't understand why this topic keeps coming up UGH I AM PUKING NOW.
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Was probably one of the funnest games I ever played through. I wish they'd make a new version for the PS3.
Based on the amount of movie, merchandise and people who keep buying the DVD's I would say you are in the minority with your feelings. Personally, I don't want them to make another one, but they will, my wife and I will probably see it with friends, and if it's a good movie (this doesn't mean 100% true to the book or my envisioning of the characters) then we might even buy the dvd er blue ray.
Seriously, we have a great LotR trilogy, and while other hobbit movies have sucked, we really don't need to keep rehashing this stuff. Lets move past remakes and start producing movies based on some of the newer fiction out there.
From the blurb I was expecting something different...but then nothing in this review makes me want to read the book, in fact after getting all the way through to the end and seeing "New York Times best sellers list" just shows me how much of a inflated budget failure of writing this is. It's right up with the typical mass produced best seller garbage that comes out such as Anita Blake novels, where you have people who are excellent writers of written language, yet have no real creativity of their own and as a result resort to mimic the ideas of others or fill their books with enough sex to entice all the 12 year old boys into reading.
I hate garbage like this so much.
Thank you stoolpigeon for saving me from another bad read.
THEY PULL ME BACK IN!!!!
Damnit, I'm about to login to WoW to prepare for the expansion again.
I want to get one and hug and love it and squeeze it until it throws all it's legs at me :D
No matter what author at any level of talent that had picked up the books and decided to continue them would be met with heresy or at very least a review of "not as good as the original".
As a writer I know how to mimic the words of others, but it doesn't mean that a person with a significant and highly educated fan base wouldn't pick up on the subtle differences, because no matter how good someone try's to imitate another person, in writing, it's just not the same.
Besides the fact that the expectations, especially those of slashdot's community, are so high you have little chance of being honored with anyone other than "mainstream" media who may have water on the brain, but enough money to throw at people to make them happy, even if slashdot or many fans don't approve.
was first
but really this direction just seems like it is destined to fail because of cost and the lack of people already buying physical things to read.
I haven't read the article.
But, what you posted are not only valid points, but they are things that my Wife who is not a sci-fi fan would have rebutted with just because she has a good deal of common sense.
Why is PayPal still used by anyone other than Ebayers who have no choice? With Google Checkout being better and more secure all around and having more options I don't see why people aren't on a mass exodus of PayPal to Google Checkout.
Also, why has no one else bothered to launch a product that competes with them that is just as easy to use?
Can I get reimbursed for my relocation costs? $5k isn't enough of a reward to justify traveling to the places he's at.
I don't consider myself "old", but I'm 30 and from the time I started Junior High through college all my reports had to be typed and saved on a floppy (lol), by my Senior year of High School everything needed to be saved on a zip and by College I was taking my class notes on my laptop just to save time and it was easier to do a "find" in a word document that sift through actual paper notebooks.
My career choices didn't help being in the creative industry for 10 years now where I spend all day long creating graphics and laying out text for multiple projects I have no need to "manually write down anything" - if you catch me in the hallway, I'll just thumb type the notes in my Blackberry's memo pad...
But there is a down side I suppose. I have trouble signing my name sometimes as well as if I have to fill a form out at the doctors office it's nearly illegible, so I find I have to rely on my wife or friends to "write" stuff for me as they tend to have less computer experience and therefore better handwriting.
Google OS, Defeat Windows? Sure, right up there with oh..you know..Linux defeating Windows too...
It'll happen as soon as RedHat or Suse become household names and Linux gains 40% of the everyday consumer market share with stores like Best Buy having half their software isles filled with software that runs from a command line or KDE/Gnome GUI.
Oh that's right, no one outside of slashdot, the silicon valley or the tech industry who is a joe average consumer has any interest in using anything other than Windows or Apple OS. The only way to defeat that would be to create an OS that could do everything that both Windows and Apple OS does as well as run everything that the both of them can run - NATIVELY, but you won't ever have a third party created that because both companies rely on too much proprietary garbage.
Did anyone else read "Cyxymu" as "Sexy Moo"
I think you're belief that I'd somehow be converting the finished 8.5x11 formatted PDF into the reader format is throwing you off.
The fact is I use InDesign for my book creations and I have a number of options/methods for converting the document easily and quickly into a reduced ebook size and exporting as a smaller sized PDF, all of which would be automated with scripts and able to be done quickly. It's part of the reason I can create "on-the-fly" versions for different printers like 8.5x11, A4, Single Pages, Spreads, etc...
Oh and the html export from InDesign is utter garbage for what I require.
Resizing a PDF, or rather in my case - resizing the native documents to a different size other than 8.5x11 is a couple clicks of irrelevancy. Recreating a an entire book into html format can be a tedious task.
"The software also is compatible with both PCs and Apple computers and enable the user to read PDF, Word, BBeB and other text files on the Reader."
- that right there.
When I first made my paperback book available in paperback format in early 2007 Amazon offered to convert it (it was in PDF format) to their kindle format for me, I said sure, and almost immediately found out that the formatting didn't work out. I pulled it from the kindle store and asked if I could do the conversion on my own. They said sure, but their format was html. Because of the charts and imagery and the way the text was done in the book there wasn't any easy way of converting the 162 page PDF into essentially a big ass website. I opted to ignore the kindle and since then haven't suffered for it in anyway.
Now my books are available in PDF format and I'm converting many of the stories into RTF versions for mobile devices. The fact that Sony now has a reader that can view html formated ebooks as well as RTF, Word and PDF files means I soon will have another outlet for my products without me having to do any type of special conversion on my end, which for me means I get another revenue stream, a potentially larger client base and no additional time cost. Win Win.
I don't understand why so many people think that all ads are bad, they aren't. Yes there is annoying ones which we could do without, primarily anything involving a popup, popunder, and a lot of flash or animated gifs that cause seizures. But some ads actually do serve a legitimate cause/purpose and provide value to the user and site. For example, I more than likely would not have discovered RPGCountdown had it not been for one of their ads being displayed on a popular site I visit. Essentially, I was visiting a RPG Social site and saw an ad for an RPG related itunes show and now I listen to it when I can.
This is basically a perfect example of how ads should work. Unfortunately many unrelated or harmful ads sneak into places that they don't belong. We need to find a way to make the policing of ads better and not just remove all ads.
I wonder what the loss of revenue is for companies like Dell who recently posted earnings of $3M from Twitter sales. I know for me, it's an inconvenience as I just released mobile versions of my rpg supplements and twittered about it, which will probably be lost in a see of tweets from various people this morning about twitter being down. I also promote other pdf books through a second Twitter account that is undoubtedly not gaining any referral fees with no one clicking on the links since the site is down. Ultimately though, my loss of revenue will be around $20 LOL so it's not like my mortgage payment or something that will make me a sad panda, but for companies like Dell, I wonder how much they estimate their losses at, probably higher than actual, but still a fair amount I bet.
Now I have another reason to keep stuffing my face and getting fatter - jerks! :P
You say you come up with a lot of ideas, but what exactly are the ideas for?
For example, I'm a marketing person at my day job, I think of new ways for our office to promote our listings and so I send out these ideas, after some testing and Q&A with my graphics and research departments, in monthly installments to everyone. No harm in anyone taking my idea and claiming it as their own as it ultimately wouldn't matter because any successful idea potentially helps generate revenue for our office and thus keep us all employed. Of course if you are a paranoid person about corporate sabotage within your own office because Dude in Department A wants your job I guess that would be a different story, fortunately I'm not a paranoid person.
Now lets look outside the office and maybe you have creative ideas for a new business or a potential expansion of an existing business. Well with this you may want to keep a tighter lid on things because of the potential for competitors to use the idea first. That is one of the main reasons any good business person will have potential business plan reviewers or investment personal sign an NDA before reviewing any ideas on paper. This is common and anyone who isn't willing to sign one before potentially working with you isn't worth talking too as they will either screw you over or waste your time.
What can ICANN actually do to enforce any rules they put into place? From reading the initial announcement it just sounds like the corporate idiots at my work who spout out "That's a violation of our company standards!!!" at our sales teams then do nothing because the sales guys are the ones who pay their salaries.
If the last decade has shown us anything, this means that in a couple years I'll have a terabyte flash drive I can carry in my pocket that runs me about $300.
really? Are people this bored from being unemployed that they need to work on articles like this to pass the time. I'm disappointed with a side of disgruntled.
If you want enjoy playing with people online and taking your time with no where to go or nothing in particular to kill then play an mmo, if you want immediate hack and slash action and gratification then play a rts or fps or something other than an mmo.
I don't understand why this topic keeps coming up UGH I AM PUKING NOW.