I don't know about how tech-savvy he is at home, but Coppola was one of the first film directors/producers/studio heads to advocate and use digital editing and cgi. Arguably, it may have been too early. He applied his digital theories to the film "One from the Heart" which was a real box office dud and it essentially cost him the American Zoetrope studio. He may have been attracted to the nascent digital technologies because they seemed to offer the ability to put off choices until editing and assembling, which dovetailed with his mid-70s creative process, i.e., writing the film as it was being shot. (This is what Eleanor Coppola said was taking place on Godfather II and Apocalypse Now in her published diary for the AN shoot.) I think Hollywood now believes that while digital filming allows for some post-principal photography blocking changes, cgi really requires, because of costs and time to produce, a fairly tight adherence to storyboards when practical and digital elements are together.
Pickett had an office (were based in?) Santa Barbara, where I grew up. As a gift, circa 9th grade [1971], I asked my Mom to drive me over there. I looked and picked out a circular slide rule. Was I such a nerd or what?
It's got to be at my folks' home; maybe I'll go find it when I visit next week.
When I need to compare two columns in this manner, I use a formula which flags when the absolute value of the difference exceeds.001 (as I'm dealing with US currency). As another responder notes, this is not an Excel problem, but a floating/double issue inherent in computing.
Plus, if you had something to hide, the first thing you say is "I have nothing to hide," and the second thing is "but, I think you might want to talk to Joe over there."
Funny thing, Caldera was fronting for Novell in that suit. That came out because Caldera thought it should also get lawyer expenses when Novell said that wasn't the deal. Caldera lost that suit. The suit against Microsoft was regarding DrDOS which Microsoft rat-f'ed. Caldera was a successor in interest in that it had bought DrDOS solely in order to pursue the suit (and as we found out later at the behest of Novell who got most of the settlement/judgment.) Now the Novell-Caldera beard situation wasn't revealed until 2004, though it should have been clear from cursory examination that Caldera did not develop DrDOS.
Still, why would a suit about unfair competition practices by Microsoft confer credibility on a suit, brought by a Linux distributor who acquired some rights to use and sell SVR4 Unix and who had a goal to merge the codebases and who changed their name to to obscure the difference between them and Santa Cruz (the original SCO) and who even tried to get the USL trademark (AT&T's Unix spin-off that was sold to Novell) and add another level of confusion, charging that Linux is enterprise ready because millions of lines of Unix code were copied into it?
How slick a con was it? "We can show you an example of the copying, but we'll have to NDA you, so you can't tell any one if what you saw was bogus or not and you can't develop Linux any more." "Our licenses are licenses for our IP which is there somewhere and if it turns out it isn't, you don't get your money back." "Here's another company that acquired our licenses." "We don't have any licenses." "Well, they were a bonus as part of that suit we settled." "We don't need to respond to discovery requests because IBM won't tell us what it knows it did." I would say it was in the category of painfully obvious.
And there was the sordid Alexis de Tocqueville Institute incident, where they investigated the originality of Torvalds' Linux. Aha, it was a rip off of Minix which was derived from Unix. Wrong and wrong, as demonstrated by Andrew Tannebaum's crystal clear denunciation of the AdTI report. Incidentally, there's a very famous flame-fest where Torvalds and Tannenbaum discuss Linux's monolithic kernel and I think both gentlemen would take offense at the Linux is Minix claim. I can't find a link to where Lyons propagated the AdTI report, but one can find plenty of people talking about him talking about it. I would think at that point (2004), when Dr. Tannenbaum discredits the report and everyone notes that AdTI gets funding from Microsoft, that was the moment Lyons should have realized who was making verifiable comments with documentation and who was engaging in distortions, revisionisms and slipping him junk information.
Me I'm a forgive (but not forget) person. Moving on. So what has Mr. Lyons opined regarding the 235 patent infringements in Linux? This isn't the cliche "here we go again" sitcom moment is it?
Macs and iPods later. Isn't this what the BBC said? I wonder if Microsoft has told them something about a silverlight based, multi-platform client program, coming real soon now and abso-damn-lutely guaranteed to really work kinda okay.
It may just be a paragraph in the deal some money up front and a percentage of ownership down the road, but they are producers now as well. Their ownership in a property is a factor in deciding scheduling and renewal.
As to your number (1), the benefits of digital, could it be there aren't any real benefits? Instead of static, which can be tolerated if the program is interesting enough, the digital transmissions I've seen go into pixellated freeze and jump mode whenever signal degrades below a threshhold. I think this is worse.
Digital means distributors can use technology to overthrow Sony vs. Betamax. There will be a day when to view your programs, you'll click through a EULA in order to be permitted to use the software that renders the video.
I don't have cable. Some of the most fun tv to watch is UHF/non-English programs. I expect it's going to be a debacle in March '09 for these programmers, advertisers, and viewers. Oh, wait, that's right, we're going to piss away 1/2 of the minimum bid for the recycled frequencies on buying people converters, thanks to our free market Republicans of a couple of sessions of Congress ago. And now, thanks to the FCC, we can pay cable providers for the privilege to not buy new televisions. Oh, yeah, that saves the day.
Funny thing is, none of these mitigations would be needed had our, again mostly free market worshipping, leaders noticed that digital, after ten years of trying, never made that jump from first-adopters to mainstream demand. I bet "our Congressman killed your television" would make an interesting campaign flyer in November '08.
The sneakware addressed possible exploits which were imminent or active, exploits that revealed shoddy engineering so as to undo years of p.r. saying Microsoft now gets security, and exploits that could be immediately and effectively implemented if Microsoft fixed the problem in a public way. Why else would it be done stealthily, pre-emptively, and not part of Patch Tuesday?
While I appreciate that the mission for language teachers should be to teach the grammar and the literature and in the United States a Renaissance Man seems to be one who has enough wealth to also have a home in Tuscany, I disagree with some of your comment. While cultural genres, such as science fiction or westerns or kabuki theater or blues music, are identifiable because they have their conventions. the great accomplishments in art begin with the tokens of convention as a baseline in order to start the viewer in a familiar place and then take them to some place interesting.
As you know from your work with computers, abstraction and refactoring are the ways you bring a problem of computation to manageable size; art frequently uses the same approach. I've had the opportunity to learn a little about Chinese brush painting which has a long tradition (and many ancient works feature a combination of image and text which was considered a post-modernist radical departure in Western art circa 1980) and a painting which includes a cherry blossom may also to be a commentary on spring and youth and vanity. A less educated person may look at the landscapes and say, "more mountains," and miss what also is being said. Shoot, Shakespeare was using established plots and his art was how he could put more of the truth of life in those plots than any other writer of the English language. Regarding the Bard of Avon, there's a line we're taught about how the ribald double entendres were throw aways to the groundlings, but I really suspect that the lettered person of the times appreciated a dirty joke as much as an intellectual allusion to Phoebus' cart. What is allusion any way, but an artistic #include?
As for correcting imbalances, if not us, then who? I am reminded of one of the richest parables in the Bible's New Testament. It's about spreading seeds and it seems that most of the seeds will not flourish. While it's a comment on human nature, i.e., you can tell people and a lot of them just won't get it. It also illustrates that the job is to keep throwing seeds. My appreciation of literature started with "See Dick run." I'm not concerned about people who move through science fiction on their way to being a reader of works of substance. Some will go no further and some will. Some are throwing science fiction seeds. Don't try to stop them, join in and throw the seeds that matter to you.
So one has Universal vs. Disney. One also has Universal-owned NBC vs. Disney-owned ABC. NBC and Microsoft have been in business together for a while (and look at the product placements in programs like Trump's The Apprentice.) Uni are the ones who get Microsoft to give them some money for the Zune. Disney/ABC/Pixar and Apple have strong ties.
So this is another stream in a corporate pissing match. Not having a fancy MBA from some school, I guess I don't understand why sellers think it's a good idea to cut out certain markets.
Wait... all this time, could it actually be that people up at Uni really believe that piracy is the problem? Collect the grosses is show biz's first guideline. Rule #1 is don't believe your press releases.
It's days later, so the following may be worthless.
Let's say you give me $1000 to deliver something. I fail. You sue. You get $1000 for compensation. Here's what happened: you deducted the original $1000 paid to me as a business expense. You show the $1000 received to make you whole as income. Net effect, 0 income. (By the way, I showed the first $1000 as income and show the paid out claim as expense, net effect to me $0 income). Now I think this is what you're saying, but I hope you see that net wash is because the settlement offset an earlier expense.
Let's just imagine that the damage and settlement happened in different tax periods, I hope you see that, unless the taxation rate changed (oh... those governments) it's a net wash. If the tax rate goes up, then you'll pay more taxes in the second period than what you saved in the first period.
Let's look at another scenario, call it punitive damages, where you get money from me in excess of your out of pocket costs in order to make me see the error of my ways. You charge me with making your copyrighted Get Rich By Tax Schemes for Less Abled books available on a p2p network and I have cost you a billion dollars in lost sales. You take me to court. The court, says yes... give or take some decimal places and orders me to pay you $1000 in damages. $1000 in income to you and $1000 expense to me. Unrealized sales are not an expense, unless the loss of the sale requires adjustment to a receivable. There was no receivable to adjust in this little vignette, so it's all income and all taxable.
Autozone got sued for switching because SCO alleges that there was a point during the transition when Linux applications are linking to unix libraries. Daimler/Chrysler got sued because they didn't respond within 30 days to a letter sent to the wrong address and, eventually, SCO alleged that when DC said "we are not using Unix" they didn't answer the question "which servers are running Unix" and SCO claimed that they had audit rights to Linux usage. For the latter two points, the Michigan state court sent SCO packing with another expensive goose egg.
How it affects piracy? If that's the question being asked, then Uni don't get it. The real question is does this get more revenue.
And not through iTMS... hmm. Could it be Real is okay with the variable pricing scheme, which, depending on point of view, is discounting the crap or gouging for the cream. So that suggests that these DRM-free tracks will be excluded from iTMS. So if they don't get the results they want, is it because of higher prices, or avoiding the biggest digital music store which gives distributors a convenient feed to the most popular personal music device? Oops, I forgot this is a record company. If it fails, it will be because of piracy and college kids swapping music files. It's never about a blind disregard of what consumers want.
I wonder if there's fraud in using an assumed name for registration. Plus, what was the name on the credit card? But if DEFCON copyrighted the proceedings... then she'd be in real trouble for using pictures and descriptions. NBC/Universal being DMCA'ed. There's a dream.
I sense the guiding hand of an editor making the book commercial. Look, the woman has mastered upper-division mathematics where the concepts are expressed and proved notationally. Refliprocals? (Now watch as I discover that it how she learned them in junior high.)
I'm all for the positive message "you can do this and you belong here." I abhor all the manifest and subtle varieities of gender determinism I saw in public education in my day, e.g., the girls in home ec. and the boys to woodworking. There is a potential undermining message in approaches like these, where the material has to be recontexualized in order for it to be relevant and accessible. These reworkings may suggest that one would not be interested if the presentation was traditional (even though the author did succeed when the questions were about trains travelling towards each other and selling mixed nuts.) At some point chemistry is more than making things go boom. Do approaches like these provide some kids an access point to a better future they would have missed with a drier presentation or does having fun with the material merely delay by a few years when the "outta here" moment takes place?
I think The Good, The Bad and The Ugly was a prequel to Fistful of Dollars so there'd be a second good prequel (and bonus points for being the the entire movie.)
Compete on the function/price/license and not on the file format, I'm good with that. I'm really down with that.
Now, could someone parse for me
if [ODF] doesn't 'restrict choice among formats'
because I really don't see what Microsoft, if that's what their people said, is getting at. Is it some sort of convoluted license-snipe? Are they saying that ODF support is out if it requires them to correct the 1900 leap year error. Is this about ODF tying in with SVG, for instance, and Microsoft not wanting to support SVG? Because I just don't see why supporting two xml based office document files is any different than supporting Word 2000 and WordPerfect 2000 file formats.
I think this is a great illegal restraint of trade case a-brewing. Let' say I have a web site and I sell advertising. If my ads can be replaced by the ones from Microsoft's sponsors at the last step before my audience's eye balls, then why would any one buy any general consumer advertising from me? (Unless I pay protection money to Microsoft to leave my ads be.)
I'm guessing that to support a lower cost to customers, Wal-Mart has negotitated lower per unit royalties with the recording company. I don't see them seeing this as a must-get market which makes it worth losing money. So, if the real news is that sales of physical cds have declined and digital revenues have not fully replaced lost cd revenues, selling exclusively at Wal-Mart looks like a classic digging deeper to get out of the hole tactic.
Meanwhile, if cost is what matters, why has Wal-Mart not become the digital music store?
In 1989 my band made a vinyl record and pressed a 1000 copies. There are 920 or so copies still within our control. I've been giving some thought to setting up a MySpace page and providing free downloads of the band's works and writing and recording some new songs.
Mr. and Madam Record Company executive, this is your chance and time is running out. Sign me to a record deal now before I give away more of my music. Your industry needs you!!!!
And who else was using p-rb, so who else would have come up in anyone's searches? No, I think their advertising/marketing people checked on how the campaign was going: was it "You Deserve a Break Today" good or "Knock on any Norge" bad. No doubt they discovered that the target demographic graded the slogan as meaningless. They may have also discovered a rising trend of people who wondered who actually takes a pay check for conceiving, pitching, and approving such grand puffery and who's dumb enough to actually hire them.
This, as they say on Madison Avenue, was an opportunity. Obviously, a little street cred was called for and increased billings would be an excellent side effect. Hum. Hum. Think. Think. Aha, let's pay bloggers to use the phrase and inject it full of yummy, vitamin-packed significant meaninginess. Briiliant! Let's knock off early and go to the corner people-ready bar.
So if someone asked you to casually use "soylent green is not people," as you discussed world affairs and what your cat did yesterday, would you take the money because, blogging is a money-ready business, it doesn't matter any way (see silk purse out of sow's ear), 10000 x nothing is still nothing and $50 will get one 1/12 of the way to looking at an iPhone, or, it's a subsidy for performance art pieces which remind viewers of the banality of cynicism? Didn't Burger King pay rap artists for product placement? Yo, yo, my wallet is Microsoft-ready, Jack.
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I don't know about how tech-savvy he is at home, but Coppola was one of the first film directors/producers/studio heads to advocate and use digital editing and cgi. Arguably, it may have been too early. He applied his digital theories to the film "One from the Heart" which was a real box office dud and it essentially cost him the American Zoetrope studio. He may have been attracted to the nascent digital technologies because they seemed to offer the ability to put off choices until editing and assembling, which dovetailed with his mid-70s creative process, i.e., writing the film as it was being shot. (This is what Eleanor Coppola said was taking place on Godfather II and Apocalypse Now in her published diary for the AN shoot.) I think Hollywood now believes that while digital filming allows for some post-principal photography blocking changes, cgi really requires, because of costs and time to produce, a fairly tight adherence to storyboards when practical and digital elements are together.
FreeBSD
"Jump KITT"
"Michael, I cannot comply right now. Do you wish for me to download the source and compile kittJump_8.2.1_1?"
Pickett had an office (were based in?) Santa Barbara, where I grew up. As a gift, circa 9th grade [1971], I asked my Mom to drive me over there. I looked and picked out a circular slide rule. Was I such a nerd or what?
It's got to be at my folks' home; maybe I'll go find it when I visit next week.
When I need to compare two columns in this manner, I use a formula which flags when the absolute value of the difference exceeds .001 (as I'm dealing with US currency). As another responder notes, this is not an Excel problem, but a floating/double issue inherent in computing.
Plus, if you had something to hide, the first thing you say is "I have nothing to hide," and the second thing is "but, I think you might want to talk to Joe over there."
Funny thing, Caldera was fronting for Novell in that suit. That came out because Caldera thought it should also get lawyer expenses when Novell said that wasn't the deal. Caldera lost that suit. The suit against Microsoft was regarding DrDOS which Microsoft rat-f'ed. Caldera was a successor in interest in that it had bought DrDOS solely in order to pursue the suit (and as we found out later at the behest of Novell who got most of the settlement/judgment.) Now the Novell-Caldera beard situation wasn't revealed until 2004, though it should have been clear from cursory examination that Caldera did not develop DrDOS.
Still, why would a suit about unfair competition practices by Microsoft confer credibility on a suit, brought by a Linux distributor who acquired some rights to use and sell SVR4 Unix and who had a goal to merge the codebases and who changed their name to to obscure the difference between them and Santa Cruz (the original SCO) and who even tried to get the USL trademark (AT&T's Unix spin-off that was sold to Novell) and add another level of confusion, charging that Linux is enterprise ready because millions of lines of Unix code were copied into it?
How slick a con was it? "We can show you an example of the copying, but we'll have to NDA you, so you can't tell any one if what you saw was bogus or not and you can't develop Linux any more." "Our licenses are licenses for our IP which is there somewhere and if it turns out it isn't, you don't get your money back." "Here's another company that acquired our licenses." "We don't have any licenses." "Well, they were a bonus as part of that suit we settled." "We don't need to respond to discovery requests because IBM won't tell us what it knows it did." I would say it was in the category of painfully obvious.
And there was the sordid Alexis de Tocqueville Institute incident, where they investigated the originality of Torvalds' Linux. Aha, it was a rip off of Minix which was derived from Unix. Wrong and wrong, as demonstrated by Andrew Tannebaum's crystal clear denunciation of the AdTI report. Incidentally, there's a very famous flame-fest where Torvalds and Tannenbaum discuss Linux's monolithic kernel and I think both gentlemen would take offense at the Linux is Minix claim. I can't find a link to where Lyons propagated the AdTI report, but one can find plenty of people talking about him talking about it. I would think at that point (2004), when Dr. Tannenbaum discredits the report and everyone notes that AdTI gets funding from Microsoft, that was the moment Lyons should have realized who was making verifiable comments with documentation and who was engaging in distortions, revisionisms and slipping him junk information.
Me I'm a forgive (but not forget) person. Moving on. So what has Mr. Lyons opined regarding the 235 patent infringements in Linux? This isn't the cliche "here we go again" sitcom moment is it?
Macs and iPods later. Isn't this what the BBC said? I wonder if Microsoft has told them something about a silverlight based, multi-platform client program, coming real soon now and abso-damn-lutely guaranteed to really work kinda okay.
It may just be a paragraph in the deal some money up front and a percentage of ownership down the road, but they are producers now as well. Their ownership in a property is a factor in deciding scheduling and renewal.
Yes, (4) should be (1).
As to your number (1), the benefits of digital, could it be there aren't any real benefits? Instead of static, which can be tolerated if the program is interesting enough, the digital transmissions I've seen go into pixellated freeze and jump mode whenever signal degrades below a threshhold. I think this is worse.
Digital means distributors can use technology to overthrow Sony vs. Betamax. There will be a day when to view your programs, you'll click through a EULA in order to be permitted to use the software that renders the video.
I don't have cable. Some of the most fun tv to watch is UHF/non-English programs. I expect it's going to be a debacle in March '09 for these programmers, advertisers, and viewers. Oh, wait, that's right, we're going to piss away 1/2 of the minimum bid for the recycled frequencies on buying people converters, thanks to our free market Republicans of a couple of sessions of Congress ago. And now, thanks to the FCC, we can pay cable providers for the privilege to not buy new televisions. Oh, yeah, that saves the day.
Funny thing is, none of these mitigations would be needed had our, again mostly free market worshipping, leaders noticed that digital, after ten years of trying, never made that jump from first-adopters to mainstream demand. I bet "our Congressman killed your television" would make an interesting campaign flyer in November '08.
The sneakware addressed possible exploits which were imminent or active, exploits that revealed shoddy engineering so as to undo years of p.r. saying Microsoft now gets security, and exploits that could be immediately and effectively implemented if Microsoft fixed the problem in a public way. Why else would it be done stealthily, pre-emptively, and not part of Patch Tuesday?
We are sure that Microsoft was the one patching?
While I appreciate that the mission for language teachers should be to teach the grammar and the literature and in the United States a Renaissance Man seems to be one who has enough wealth to also have a home in Tuscany, I disagree with some of your comment. While cultural genres, such as science fiction or westerns or kabuki theater or blues music, are identifiable because they have their conventions. the great accomplishments in art begin with the tokens of convention as a baseline in order to start the viewer in a familiar place and then take them to some place interesting.
As you know from your work with computers, abstraction and refactoring are the ways you bring a problem of computation to manageable size; art frequently uses the same approach. I've had the opportunity to learn a little about Chinese brush painting which has a long tradition (and many ancient works feature a combination of image and text which was considered a post-modernist radical departure in Western art circa 1980) and a painting which includes a cherry blossom may also to be a commentary on spring and youth and vanity. A less educated person may look at the landscapes and say, "more mountains," and miss what also is being said. Shoot, Shakespeare was using established plots and his art was how he could put more of the truth of life in those plots than any other writer of the English language. Regarding the Bard of Avon, there's a line we're taught about how the ribald double entendres were throw aways to the groundlings, but I really suspect that the lettered person of the times appreciated a dirty joke as much as an intellectual allusion to Phoebus' cart. What is allusion any way, but an artistic #include?
As for correcting imbalances, if not us, then who? I am reminded of one of the richest parables in the Bible's New Testament. It's about spreading seeds and it seems that most of the seeds will not flourish. While it's a comment on human nature, i.e., you can tell people and a lot of them just won't get it. It also illustrates that the job is to keep throwing seeds. My appreciation of literature started with "See Dick run." I'm not concerned about people who move through science fiction on their way to being a reader of works of substance. Some will go no further and some will. Some are throwing science fiction seeds. Don't try to stop them, join in and throw the seeds that matter to you.
So one has Universal vs. Disney. One also has Universal-owned NBC vs. Disney-owned ABC. NBC and Microsoft have been in business together for a while (and look at the product placements in programs like Trump's The Apprentice.) Uni are the ones who get Microsoft to give them some money for the Zune. Disney/ABC/Pixar and Apple have strong ties.
So this is another stream in a corporate pissing match. Not having a fancy MBA from some school, I guess I don't understand why sellers think it's a good idea to cut out certain markets.
Wait... all this time, could it actually be that people up at Uni really believe that piracy is the problem? Collect the grosses is show biz's first guideline. Rule #1 is don't believe your press releases.
Oh fuss and bother. Another apparent glitch in my plan to pass as young. It's back to the drawing board to get out the slide rule and adding machine.
It's days later, so the following may be worthless.
Let's say you give me $1000 to deliver something. I fail. You sue. You get $1000 for compensation. Here's what happened: you deducted the original $1000 paid to me as a business expense. You show the $1000 received to make you whole as income. Net effect, 0 income. (By the way, I showed the first $1000 as income and show the paid out claim as expense, net effect to me $0 income). Now I think this is what you're saying, but I hope you see that net wash is because the settlement offset an earlier expense.
Let's just imagine that the damage and settlement happened in different tax periods, I hope you see that, unless the taxation rate changed (oh... those governments) it's a net wash. If the tax rate goes up, then you'll pay more taxes in the second period than what you saved in the first period.
Let's look at another scenario, call it punitive damages, where you get money from me in excess of your out of pocket costs in order to make me see the error of my ways. You charge me with making your copyrighted Get Rich By Tax Schemes for Less Abled books available on a p2p network and I have cost you a billion dollars in lost sales. You take me to court. The court, says yes... give or take some decimal places and orders me to pay you $1000 in damages. $1000 in income to you and $1000 expense to me. Unrealized sales are not an expense, unless the loss of the sale requires adjustment to a receivable. There was no receivable to adjust in this little vignette, so it's all income and all taxable.
Not an accountant either, but here's a rule of thumb: if it's an expense to one party it's income to the other.
Autozone got sued for switching because SCO alleges that there was a point during the transition when Linux applications are linking to unix libraries. Daimler/Chrysler got sued because they didn't respond within 30 days to a letter sent to the wrong address and, eventually, SCO alleged that when DC said "we are not using Unix" they didn't answer the question "which servers are running Unix" and SCO claimed that they had audit rights to Linux usage. For the latter two points, the Michigan state court sent SCO packing with another expensive goose egg.
How it affects piracy? If that's the question being asked, then Uni don't get it. The real question is does this get more revenue.
And not through iTMS... hmm. Could it be Real is okay with the variable pricing scheme, which, depending on point of view, is discounting the crap or gouging for the cream. So that suggests that these DRM-free tracks will be excluded from iTMS. So if they don't get the results they want, is it because of higher prices, or avoiding the biggest digital music store which gives distributors a convenient feed to the most popular personal music device? Oops, I forgot this is a record company. If it fails, it will be because of piracy and college kids swapping music files. It's never about a blind disregard of what consumers want.
I wonder if there's fraud in using an assumed name for registration. Plus, what was the name on the credit card? But if DEFCON copyrighted the proceedings... then she'd be in real trouble for using pictures and descriptions. NBC/Universal being DMCA'ed. There's a dream.
I sense the guiding hand of an editor making the book commercial. Look, the woman has mastered upper-division mathematics where the concepts are expressed and proved notationally. Refliprocals? (Now watch as I discover that it how she learned them in junior high.)
I'm all for the positive message "you can do this and you belong here." I abhor all the manifest and subtle varieities of gender determinism I saw in public education in my day, e.g., the girls in home ec. and the boys to woodworking. There is a potential undermining message in approaches like these, where the material has to be recontexualized in order for it to be relevant and accessible. These reworkings may suggest that one would not be interested if the presentation was traditional (even though the author did succeed when the questions were about trains travelling towards each other and selling mixed nuts.) At some point chemistry is more than making things go boom. Do approaches like these provide some kids an access point to a better future they would have missed with a drier presentation or does having fun with the material merely delay by a few years when the "outta here" moment takes place?
But I'm 50, so maybe this is me being elitist.
I think The Good, The Bad and The Ugly was a prequel to Fistful of Dollars so there'd be a second good prequel (and bonus points for being the the entire movie.)
Compete on the function/price/license and not on the file format, I'm good with that. I'm really down with that.
Now, could someone parse for me
because I really don't see what Microsoft, if that's what their people said, is getting at. Is it some sort of convoluted license-snipe? Are they saying that ODF support is out if it requires them to correct the 1900 leap year error. Is this about ODF tying in with SVG, for instance, and Microsoft not wanting to support SVG? Because I just don't see why supporting two xml based office document files is any different than supporting Word 2000 and WordPerfect 2000 file formats.I think this is a great illegal restraint of trade case a-brewing. Let' say I have a web site and I sell advertising. If my ads can be replaced by the ones from Microsoft's sponsors at the last step before my audience's eye balls, then why would any one buy any general consumer advertising from me? (Unless I pay protection money to Microsoft to leave my ads be.)
I'm guessing that to support a lower cost to customers, Wal-Mart has negotitated lower per unit royalties with the recording company. I don't see them seeing this as a must-get market which makes it worth losing money. So, if the real news is that sales of physical cds have declined and digital revenues have not fully replaced lost cd revenues, selling exclusively at Wal-Mart looks like a classic digging deeper to get out of the hole tactic.
Meanwhile, if cost is what matters, why has Wal-Mart not become the digital music store?
In 1989 my band made a vinyl record and pressed a 1000 copies. There are 920 or so copies still within our control. I've been giving some thought to setting up a MySpace page and providing free downloads of the band's works and writing and recording some new songs.
Mr. and Madam Record Company executive, this is your chance and time is running out. Sign me to a record deal now before I give away more of my music. Your industry needs you!!!!
And who else was using p-rb, so who else would have come up in anyone's searches? No, I think their advertising/marketing people checked on how the campaign was going: was it "You Deserve a Break Today" good or "Knock on any Norge" bad. No doubt they discovered that the target demographic graded the slogan as meaningless. They may have also discovered a rising trend of people who wondered who actually takes a pay check for conceiving, pitching, and approving such grand puffery and who's dumb enough to actually hire them.
This, as they say on Madison Avenue, was an opportunity. Obviously, a little street cred was called for and increased billings would be an excellent side effect. Hum. Hum. Think. Think. Aha, let's pay bloggers to use the phrase and inject it full of yummy, vitamin-packed significant meaninginess. Briiliant! Let's knock off early and go to the corner people-ready bar.
So if someone asked you to casually use "soylent green is not people," as you discussed world affairs and what your cat did yesterday, would you take the money because, blogging is a money-ready business, it doesn't matter any way (see silk purse out of sow's ear), 10000 x nothing is still nothing and $50 will get one 1/12 of the way to looking at an iPhone, or, it's a subsidy for performance art pieces which remind viewers of the banality of cynicism? Didn't Burger King pay rap artists for product placement? Yo, yo, my wallet is Microsoft-ready, Jack.