In addition to this, it is a fact that sequels (and in this case prequels) historically don't generate much revenue (look at Rocky and Rambo)
Well, first off - Rocky IV was the biggest sucesses for that franchise. So there goes that. And the list goes on and on...
Rush Hour 2 Next Friday Austin Powers 2 Ep1 (more than ep5 and ep6 - yes I know it's not a sequel to these, but it sorta is, and also B.O. costs went up, but this guy's arguement is about "revenue," which is simply wrong) Friday the 13th pt. 4 Basically all of the Kevin Smith movies vs. Clerks James Bond (true, not direct sequels, but after 20 episodes, the public still has an unquenchible thirst for these flicks!) etc. etc.
These stats are all from boxofficemojo.com, by the way...
Hmmm... I thought that Final Doom was supposed to be the final chapter in the Doom Series. After all, it did have a tagline "This is it. The final chapter. It's done."
So... guess not!;-)
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next? Why, TV and cable of course.
Um... MS already has entered TV, and it has already entered cable. It's called MSNBC:-)
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I respectfully must say (and I mean this, this is a truthful reply, not flamebait) that I hope that there are few people out there like you.
You seem to "know" what is "impossible." I'm not going to give the tired "Well Columbus or Einstein proved what people thought was impossible" argument (though it is still applicable). All I'm saying is that it is a sad day when a person says that he would "discourage" such thinking and experimentation. It is the basis of humanity that we broke away from the animal kingdom and have, in 100,000 years done the impossible, which is break away from the life systems of organisms for the last 4 billion years. We are the only organisms (most likely) in the history of the planet to have removed our dependence on nature, and the pioneers of this were merely cavemen. Yesterday: fire, today: flight, tomorrow: who know?
majestyk:
You said that to get 6000 feedback would mean that "You would have to put a huge amount of effort into doing this."
Um... isn't a huge amount of work worth it, if it means a quarter of a million dollars?:-) Seriously, for $250,000, wouldn't YOU TOO spend 20 hrs a day for 2 weeks straight making fake accounts and cross-bidding to get up to 6000?
I hope Metallica and all the (original) Napster-hating musicians chart-up thousands of downloads of MP3's... so they can be paid a total of a few bucks!!! That'd make them proud that they destroyed the most popular medium of spreading their music!
Isn't this the exact same lawsuit (well, almost) that the movie and tv studios waged when the VCR came out in the 70's? So, are these guys just sore losers or something? This isn't flamebait, I'm just wondering why, basically, they admit VCR's are ok, but not what is essentially a digital VCR with extras?
Google did exactly what us fanboys all whined and complained for - a company that made a good product (awesome search engine) without selling out (no popup ads). Google offered a free service, built up an enoumous following, and now offers its premium service for a premium price, while insuring its loyal customers continued free services. Forget eBay, Google is an Internet-Success-Story worthy of such praise!
I think you misunderstood, I'm only wondering why I never hear CONCRETE reasons for these protests. They only seem to say "Corporations are evil!" which, I'm sorry, I cannot agree with. Not all are evil, not all are good. That's all I meant. I did not insult their decision to protest.
Firstoff, just because I don't think ALL corporations are evil doesn't make me a biggot. Hmmm... if a biggot judges someone with little or no information, then... WHY YES!!! YOU are Mr. Biggot! Slashdot is full of people like, say... you who feel that all corps are evil. Microsoft, right? Take a look at this week's Newsweek. $24 Billion dollars to charity. Like all corp-haters, you'll find an excuse of why this is either pennies to him (it's not - 1/2 his fortune), or simply a ploy to get people on his side (it's not, if you READ the article). Anyway, as a medical student (who is $100k in debt, so that blows away your "I must be rich" argument, not to mention your "I'm an idiot" one too, come to think of it...), let me ask you this... are these "evil corporations" evil for becoming sucessful? Please tell me how the city of Detroit would be without the automobile corporations? How would Haiti, New Delhi and Rwanda's bankrupt health clinics operate without Bill Gate's unprecidented generosity? I DARE you to argue that Gate's donations (soley from he and his wife Melinda), which according to Newsweek are DOUBLE what any ORGANIZATION has EVER donated, are for evil purposes. He could have donated $3 billion, or topped the other organizations at only $15 billion.
Come to think of it... you're not even worth it. Your pre-judgements of me simply supported my original post, that these anti-corp protesters simply mutter allegations and name-calling without any sign of intellegence.
If you ever try and sit down with one of them, and ask them either "What is so bad about these corporations that you hate?" or "What do you propose instead?," they always answer me with mundane catch-phrases. "Corporations look out for profit only, not the people," or "People are dying in Africa and they sell $4 cups of coffee." They can protest till they get arrested (which is what they often hope for), but in my opinion, it's either just:
a) Empty rhetoric, meaning that they are in fact the puppets hey preach against, as they themselves don't even have intellegent reasons for what they are doing
b) A longing to be "cool" and protest like in the 60's, when there were REAL issues to overcome, or...
...with this space elevator being a PERFECT target for terrorists. How could you keep Al Queda from suicide bombing one of the elevator shafts? Is it possible to really have a 15 mile perimeter around the entire elevator? How would one be able to implement this?
It's just a shame... humanity at it's best (a peaceful, cost-effective operation that would provide jobs, technological advances and allow money to possibly be diverted to humanitarian uses) is impossible because of humanity's worst traits.
I mean... "Pause live tv." Who cares! I have a TiVo, and like everyone else here has said, it has changed my TV watching habits. But to the uninformed, pausing live tv doesn't mean so much! No one knows how it works. I only knew because my roommate has it, and he knew from his fraternity. I suggest TiVo market the following perks:
1) TiVo allows you to not rush home for shows. If you arrive at 10:06 for you favorite show, TiVo allows you to rewind the program back to the beginning.
2) TiVo is always recording! Even if you are not specifically recording a certain program, you can click the "flashback" button and rewind 8 seconds to see something you might have missed!
3) Unlike a VCR, TiVo quality never degrades over time.
These are just suggestions. Advertise REAL LIFE issues! Not just "pause live tv."
No I think it just means that a member of say, Al Queda, cannot go up into the hundred-billion dollar plus International Space Station. Political Correctness aside, if you're a member of an organization that could endager NASA, either politically, physically or financially (which a suicide bomber or sabateur could do - you dont need to smuggle bombs onboard to cause ISS to get F'D UP!), you'll be denied. Case closed.
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...but they alienated their retailers.
I was involved with a videogame website (handeye.com - don't worry, not a plug... the company's gone...) in spring 1999 that was launching a major advertising campaign centering around the release of Loki's Linux port of Civilization: CTP. What this "timeline" fails to mention is the CONSTANT, REPEATED, and UNEXPLAINED delays for Civ:CTP's shipment. We lost a lot of customers because of pre-orders and repeated emails by us that we had to delay shipment because of "distributor's delays."
Loki was a fine experiment, but Linux games wasn't the problem. Some blame has to be left with management. It can't be good when a company's first release is delayed half a dozen times...
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What a tactful response... Anyway, I was an astronomy minor at an Ivy League university. I never brag about stuff like that, but it was you who called me a "schmuck like you." I wonder what community college you got your MS from, because 100% oxygen at 1/5 the pressure is still an entire oxygen environment. Regular pressure with 20% oxygen and 80% non-flammable gas IS still the same number of O2 molecules, but is NOT the same thing. So you're basically saying that you'd rather be trapped in a bank vault with a PURE oxygen environment like Apollo 1's that I described than in a regular Earth-like air makeup of 20% oxygen and 80% nitrogen. Try lighting a match in a regular enclosed bank vault. It would light and be contained like any other Earth-match. Now, try lighting one in "your" bank vault choice...
Then this'll get a +5, Funny. Otherwise, it'll get 0 or 1...
Why not take all the hundreds of millisecond cuts from the shows and commercials, and at the end of the program, splice them all together for one grand 30-second "Megacommercial," like they did at the end of Cinema Paradiso!:-)
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Interestingly enough, in order to keep with the desired "20% oxygen" atmosphere of the capsule, NASA decided that they would create a total O2 environment, but at only 20% of the pressure to give the same net result. Unfortunately, of course, this created a COMPLETE oxygen environment which allowed the fire to spread wildly. From then on (the next manned mission would be Apollo 7) and including today's Shuttle, the compatment contents are kept at 20% oxygen by means of an air consisting of 20% oxygen and 80% nitrogen.
Apollo 7 and on also gave the astronauts complete and independent use of an emergency hatch opener, a lesson tragically learned from Apollo 1.
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I personally have never played Everquest (I'm very curious but dont wanna get into anything right now, cuz I'm a med student and medical school+any addiction = chiropractor school!), but it seems entirely ignorant that you'd label someone as a loser for paying $30/month for entertainment. Many people, esp on this site, probably make $30 an hour. One hours work for 720 hours fun is a bargain in my book.
Plus, I believe, Kiss the Spork, that YOU are on a site called "News for NERDS." Go to maximonline and call the above user a nerd, but to do it on a Slashdot message board is throwing stones when you live in a glass house!:-)
C'mon people! The fault here also lies with the users!
I mean... paying a basically untracable money order for $2000 merchandise is simply a foolish thing to do! It's basically the same as giving $2000 cash to a guy on a street corner who you don't know the name of, except as "Tito," and having him tell you "Yeah, I'll send your laptop/goods right away!" We already know about eBay users paying retail+20% already, so eBay users are not always the brightest apples.
Here. I'll spell it out for you: 1) Don't buy from someone who has like 40 negative feedbacks in the last 6 months! 2) DO NOT send someone a money order/cashier's check for something if it's more than $200 (eBay's protection of up to $200... -$25 for fees) 3) In regards to #1, do some research before sending a lot of money (thousands...) to a stranger, especially for electronics. This goes for not only if the stuff will arrive (like in this case), but whether or not it will arrive working!
How do the Slashdot mods pick what stories get posted? I sent this story in yesterday at noon! This is not the first time this has happened! Mods or informed users, in a serious question, does anyone know if:
a)Stories are rejected if UID is too High? b)...if one has too many rejected submissions? c)...if one's karma is not high-positive enough? d)...the choice of article titles isn't good enough? And e) Do the submitted stories even get read, or does it filter only like every 100th story to even be looked at?
Once again, this is NOT a troll post or blasting Slashdot. Obviously, you cannot post every interesting story, but if I have no chance of being looked at, I can save both of us the time/bandwidth of my submitting and your anylizing my submissions. Thanks.
"We are deeply disappointed that Ukraine has not passed an effective law and instead is rushing through an ineffective law,"
What motivation does the Ukranian goverment have to implement, and assign funds to appropriate the policing of such a bill? There has to be some motivation here. Do you really think that Pakistani President Musharraf wants to help America out of the goodness of his heart? No! While I do commend his help, he really does this so that he gets financial aid and lifted sanctions.
So I ask again, why should Ukraine support this? It gives its poor citizens cheap goods so that they can buy other necessities (food, vodka). Not that it's right, just that people don't necessarily care. Such questions must be addressed, and I'd be interested to know how the Slashdot communities' theories are in how to motivate countries like Ukraine, China, etc (where pirating is rampant) to put a halt to it?
Anyone see a correlation between the two formerly great shows?
1. Both were very thought-provoking shows at their creative peaks
2. Both were turds by their final seasons, with the main original charachters gone or killed off in the most cheesy and non-creative ways
3. Both had hardcore fans who seem to think, around the last and 2nd last season that there hasn't been a good episode in years...
Slashdot Mirror
In addition to this, it is a fact that sequels (and in this case prequels) historically don't generate much revenue (look at Rocky and Rambo)
Well, first off - Rocky IV was the biggest sucesses for that franchise. So there goes that. And the list goes on and on...
Rush Hour 2
Next Friday
Austin Powers 2
Ep1 (more than ep5 and ep6 - yes I know it's not a sequel to these, but it sorta is, and also B.O. costs went up, but this guy's arguement is about "revenue," which is simply wrong)
Friday the 13th pt. 4
Basically all of the Kevin Smith movies vs. Clerks
James Bond (true, not direct sequels, but after 20 episodes, the public still has an unquenchible thirst for these flicks!)
etc.
etc.
These stats are all from boxofficemojo.com, by the way...
So someone will just make a scenario themselves, much like people made politically incorrect battlesims for Civ II.
First there was Doom.
Well, technically, wasn't Wolf-3d first? And if we're being so nitpicky, I should mention Faceball 2000! Now THAT game mighta started FPS's!
Hmmm... I thought that Final Doom was supposed to be the final chapter in the Doom Series. After all, it did have a tagline "This is it. The final chapter. It's done."
;-)
So... guess not!
next? Why, TV and cable of course.
:-)
Um... MS already has entered TV, and it has already entered cable. It's called MSNBC
I respectfully must say (and I mean this, this is a truthful reply, not flamebait) that I hope that there are few people out there like you.
You seem to "know" what is "impossible." I'm not going to give the tired "Well Columbus or Einstein proved what people thought was impossible" argument (though it is still applicable). All I'm saying is that it is a sad day when a person says that he would "discourage" such thinking and experimentation. It is the basis of humanity that we broke away from the animal kingdom and have, in 100,000 years done the impossible, which is break away from the life systems of organisms for the last 4 billion years. We are the only organisms (most likely) in the history of the planet to have removed our dependence on nature, and the pioneers of this were merely cavemen. Yesterday: fire, today: flight, tomorrow: who know?
All I'm saying is, please don't make us stop now.
majestyk: You said that to get 6000 feedback would mean that "You would have to put a huge amount of effort into doing this."
:-) Seriously, for $250,000, wouldn't YOU TOO spend 20 hrs a day for 2 weeks straight making fake accounts and cross-bidding to get up to 6000?
Um... isn't a huge amount of work worth it, if it means a quarter of a million dollars?
I hope Metallica and all the (original) Napster-hating musicians chart-up thousands of downloads of MP3's... so they can be paid a total of a few bucks!!! That'd make them proud that they destroyed the most popular medium of spreading their music!
Isn't this the exact same lawsuit (well, almost) that the movie and tv studios waged when the VCR came out in the 70's? So, are these guys just sore losers or something? This isn't flamebait, I'm just wondering why, basically, they admit VCR's are ok, but not what is essentially a digital VCR with extras?
Google did exactly what us fanboys all whined and complained for - a company that made a good product (awesome search engine) without selling out (no popup ads). Google offered a free service, built up an enoumous following, and now offers its premium service for a premium price, while insuring its loyal customers continued free services. Forget eBay, Google is an Internet-Success-Story worthy of such praise!
I think you misunderstood,
I'm only wondering why I never hear CONCRETE reasons for these protests. They only seem to say "Corporations are evil!" which, I'm sorry, I cannot agree with. Not all are evil, not all are good. That's all I meant. I did not insult their decision to protest.
What a tactful response you have...
Firstoff, just because I don't think ALL corporations are evil doesn't make me a biggot. Hmmm... if a biggot judges someone with little or no information, then... WHY YES!!! YOU are Mr. Biggot! Slashdot is full of people like, say... you who feel that all corps are evil. Microsoft, right? Take a look at this week's Newsweek. $24 Billion dollars to charity. Like all corp-haters, you'll find an excuse of why this is either pennies to him (it's not - 1/2 his fortune), or simply a ploy to get people on his side (it's not, if you READ the article).
Anyway, as a medical student (who is $100k in debt, so that blows away your "I must be rich" argument, not to mention your "I'm an idiot" one too, come to think of it...), let me ask you this... are these "evil corporations" evil for becoming sucessful? Please tell me how the city of Detroit would be without the automobile corporations? How would Haiti, New Delhi and Rwanda's bankrupt health clinics operate without Bill Gate's unprecidented generosity? I DARE you to argue that Gate's donations (soley from he and his wife Melinda), which according to Newsweek are DOUBLE what any ORGANIZATION has EVER donated, are for evil purposes. He could have donated $3 billion, or topped the other organizations at only $15 billion.
Come to think of it... you're not even worth it. Your pre-judgements of me simply supported my original post, that these anti-corp protesters simply mutter allegations and name-calling without any sign of intellegence.
All they ever do is yell "CORPORATIONS SUCK MAN!"
If you ever try and sit down with one of them, and ask them either "What is so bad about these corporations that you hate?" or "What do you propose instead?," they always answer me with mundane catch-phrases. "Corporations look out for profit only, not the people," or "People are dying in Africa and they sell $4 cups of coffee."
They can protest till they get arrested (which is what they often hope for), but in my opinion, it's either just:
a) Empty rhetoric, meaning that they are in fact the puppets hey preach against, as they themselves don't even have intellegent reasons for what they are doing
b) A longing to be "cool" and protest like in the 60's, when there were REAL issues to overcome, or...
c) They just want to get laid (see "b")
...with this space elevator being a PERFECT target for terrorists. How could you keep Al Queda from suicide bombing one of the elevator shafts? Is it possible to really have a 15 mile perimeter around the entire elevator? How would one be able to implement this?
It's just a shame... humanity at it's best (a peaceful, cost-effective operation that would provide jobs, technological advances and allow money to possibly be diverted to humanitarian uses) is impossible because of humanity's worst traits.
I mean... "Pause live tv." Who cares! I have a TiVo, and like everyone else here has said, it has changed my TV watching habits. But to the uninformed, pausing live tv doesn't mean so much! No one knows how it works. I only knew because my roommate has it, and he knew from his fraternity. I suggest TiVo market the following perks:
1) TiVo allows you to not rush home for shows. If you arrive at 10:06 for you favorite show, TiVo allows you to rewind the program back to the beginning.
2) TiVo is always recording! Even if you are not specifically recording a certain program, you can click the "flashback" button and rewind 8 seconds to see something you might have missed!
3) Unlike a VCR, TiVo quality never degrades over time.
These are just suggestions. Advertise REAL LIFE issues! Not just "pause live tv."
No I think it just means that a member of say, Al Queda, cannot go up into the hundred-billion dollar plus International Space Station. Political Correctness aside, if you're a member of an organization that could endager NASA, either politically, physically or financially (which a suicide bomber or sabateur could do - you dont need to smuggle bombs onboard to cause ISS to get F'D UP!), you'll be denied. Case closed.
...but they alienated their retailers.
I was involved with a videogame website (handeye.com - don't worry, not a plug... the company's gone...) in spring 1999 that was launching a major advertising campaign centering around the release of Loki's Linux port of Civilization: CTP. What this "timeline" fails to mention is the CONSTANT, REPEATED, and UNEXPLAINED delays for Civ:CTP's shipment. We lost a lot of customers because of pre-orders and repeated emails by us that we had to delay shipment because of "distributor's delays."
Loki was a fine experiment, but Linux games wasn't the problem. Some blame has to be left with management. It can't be good when a company's first release is delayed half a dozen times...
What a tactful response...
Anyway, I was an astronomy minor at an Ivy League university. I never brag about stuff like that, but it was you who called me a "schmuck like you." I wonder what community college you got your MS from, because 100% oxygen at 1/5 the pressure is still an entire oxygen environment. Regular pressure with 20% oxygen and 80% non-flammable gas IS still the same number of O2 molecules, but is NOT the same thing.
So you're basically saying that you'd rather be trapped in a bank vault with a PURE oxygen environment like Apollo 1's that I described than in a regular Earth-like air makeup of 20% oxygen and 80% nitrogen. Try lighting a match in a regular enclosed bank vault. It would light and be contained like any other Earth-match. Now, try lighting one in "your" bank vault choice...
Then this'll get a +5, Funny. Otherwise, it'll get 0 or 1...
:-)
Why not take all the hundreds of millisecond cuts from the shows and commercials, and at the end of the program, splice them all together for one grand 30-second "Megacommercial," like they did at the end of Cinema Paradiso!
Interestingly enough, in order to keep with the desired "20% oxygen" atmosphere of the capsule, NASA decided that they would create a total O2 environment, but at only 20% of the pressure to give the same net result. Unfortunately, of course, this created a COMPLETE oxygen environment which allowed the fire to spread wildly. From then on (the next manned mission would be Apollo 7) and including today's Shuttle, the compatment contents are kept at 20% oxygen by means of an air consisting of 20% oxygen and 80% nitrogen.
Apollo 7 and on also gave the astronauts complete and independent use of an emergency hatch opener, a lesson tragically learned from Apollo 1.
I personally have never played Everquest (I'm very curious but dont wanna get into anything right now, cuz I'm a med student and medical school+any addiction = chiropractor school!), but it seems entirely ignorant that you'd label someone as a loser for paying $30/month for entertainment. Many people, esp on this site, probably make $30 an hour. One hours work for 720 hours fun is a bargain in my book.
:-)
Plus, I believe, Kiss the Spork, that YOU are on a site called "News for NERDS." Go to maximonline and call the above user a nerd, but to do it on a Slashdot message board is throwing stones when you live in a glass house!
C'mon people! The fault here also lies with the users!
I mean... paying a basically untracable money order for $2000 merchandise is simply a foolish thing to do! It's basically the same as giving $2000 cash to a guy on a street corner who you don't know the name of, except as "Tito," and having him tell you "Yeah, I'll send your laptop/goods right away!" We already know about eBay users paying retail+20% already, so eBay users are not always the brightest apples.
Here. I'll spell it out for you:
1) Don't buy from someone who has like 40 negative feedbacks in the last 6 months!
2) DO NOT send someone a money order/cashier's check for something if it's more than $200 (eBay's protection of up to $200... -$25 for fees)
3) In regards to #1, do some research before sending a lot of money (thousands...) to a stranger, especially for electronics. This goes for not only if the stuff will arrive (like in this case), but whether or not it will arrive working!
This is NOT a troll post, but I was wondering...
How do the Slashdot mods pick what stories get posted? I sent this story in yesterday at noon! This is not the first time this has happened! Mods or informed users, in a serious question, does anyone know if:
a)Stories are rejected if UID is too High?
b)...if one has too many rejected submissions?
c)...if one's karma is not high-positive enough?
d)...the choice of article titles isn't good enough?
And e) Do the submitted stories even get read, or does it filter only like every 100th story to even be looked at?
Once again, this is NOT a troll post or blasting Slashdot. Obviously, you cannot post every interesting story, but if I have no chance of being looked at, I can save both of us the time/bandwidth of my submitting and your anylizing my submissions. Thanks.
"We are deeply disappointed that Ukraine has not passed an effective law and instead is rushing through an ineffective law,"
What motivation does the Ukranian goverment have to implement, and assign funds to appropriate the policing of such a bill? There has to be some motivation here. Do you really think that Pakistani President Musharraf wants to help America out of the goodness of his heart? No! While I do commend his help, he really does this so that he gets financial aid and lifted sanctions.
So I ask again, why should Ukraine support this? It gives its poor citizens cheap goods so that they can buy other necessities (food, vodka). Not that it's right, just that people don't necessarily care. Such questions must be addressed, and I'd be interested to know how the Slashdot communities' theories are in how to motivate countries like Ukraine, China, etc (where pirating is rampant) to put a halt to it?
Anyone see a correlation between the two formerly great shows?
1. Both were very thought-provoking shows at their creative peaks
2. Both were turds by their final seasons, with the main original charachters gone or killed off in the most cheesy and non-creative ways
3. Both had hardcore fans who seem to think, around the last and 2nd last season that there hasn't been a good episode in years...