There's hardly a single major motion picture put out today that doesn't have both a video and a DVD version. And there are "director's cuts" of movies much less popular and succesful than Star Wars (Highlander, anyone?) Having a video and DVD version of a movie released doesn't set Lucas apart in any way, shape or form. And anyone who runs out and buys both versions has no one but themselves to blame.
So, if Lucas releases a DVD in "2050 or so" because he wants to wait and put out the Super Ultra Deluxe More Features Than You Need Edition, you bitch. George Lucas, greedy bastard. But if he were to release a cheapjack DVD NOW and the Super Ultra Deluxe More Features Than You Need Edition in 2050 then you'll bitch about that too. George Lucas, greedy bastard. If Lucas were all about bleeding people dry, he'd release a piece of shit DVD now and sock you again a couple years down the line. But that doesn't matter, because George Lucas will never be anything other than pure evil no matter which way he goes, right?
When the original trilogy came out, the technological capacity to upload the entire script and / or storyboards to the World Wide Web didn't exist. If someone did get a hold of such materials, they might publish in some tiny fanzine, enough to reach a couple hundred or maybe a thousand people. Not millions. Nuff said.
I would say it's just backlash for the years that fans have treated people like Lucas as the enemy. Fans are the most ungrateful, vicious, backbiting, critical, unforgiving people in the world, and will not hesitate to turn their never-ending venom on the entertainers they supposedly enjoy. The Internet makes this especially easy. You only have to read the rest of the comments in this forum to know this is true.
I don't even need to read the comments. I know what they'll say already. Blah blah blah George Lucas greedy bastard. Blah blah blah worse than Hitler. Blah blah blah make me buy all the merchandise. Blah blah blah just in it for the fucking money. Blah blah blah Episode 1 sucked, face it people, deal with it. Blah blah blah kill Jar Jar. Blah blah blah more Jar Jar jokes. Blah blah blah I hated this movie. Blah blah blah it sucked rancid donkey balls. Blah blah blah George Lucas should be shot, stabbed, gutted, and hanged for making Star Wars. Blah blah blah when is it coming out on DVD. Blah blah blah is this really News for Nerds, is this really stuff that matters, grits, goat sex, yadadah, yadadah, yadadah.
Just disable the comments and run a fucking script. It all comes out the same.
So now instead of authors receiving fan mail, authors can receive thousands to millions of angry letters saying "OPEN THE SOURCE! OPEN THE SOURCE! CmdrTaco's -- I mean, Stephen King's -- latest effort really sucks, the code -- I mean, prose -- is totally buggy and how can you call yourself a zealot -- I mean, developer -- I mean, author if you don't OPEN THE SOURCE!"
What's the big fuss? Doesn't Bruce Sterling write one or two of these every time he gets drunk or depressed? "The Giant Cataclysmic Economic Crash of (insert five years from whenever article was written) took us all by surprise... well... except for me, Bruce Sterling..."
I guess the big difference is, Wired publishes all his Henny Penny tripe.
I would never in a million years try to replace my real friends and social interactions with the kind of human flotsam you meet on a daily basis on the net. The danger, perhaps, is that people will not live their lives on the Net, but live their real lives as if they -were- on the Net - screaming at the top of their lungs, talking in gibberish run-on sentences, threatening those who disagree with them on minor points with viruses, "hacks" and death - sure, there's some people who do that on a daily basis now, but thankfully most of them are incarcerated.
I think the game you're really after is Creatures... though I had a terrible time with Creatures, I somehow managed to breed critters so stupid they'd die because they were too stupid to eat. The Sims don't really seem to learn behavior so much as stick to their personality. If they're Neat, they'll clean everything up. If they're naturally Messy, it doesn't matter how often you tell them to do the dishes - they'll never do it by themselves.
I had very similar things happen to me a few years ago when I was working as a lab monitor at my university -- "but it's not like my computer at home" was like the one note these people knew how to play.
What really took the cake, though, was this guy who came up to me and started talking about a "security issue" he had. I went over and looked at his machine -- he had fired up Netscape Mail, entered his account information, username, and password, and was concerned that "people could now read his email."
Exerting every ounce of will not to shriek "no shit!" at him, I explained that yes, if you enter your username and password into the mail program (dumbass!!!), you can, in fact, read your mail. And if you don't remove said information (which you shouldn't be entering in a lab machine anyway, shit-for-brains), yes, other people will read your mail. He didn't understand. I explained that these were lab machines and the copies of Netscape on the computers were not really for their personal use as mail readers. I might as well have been talking to the wall. I then tried to show him how to use Pine, which is what we encouraged the students to use when reading their mail, but that was akin to trying to teach brain surgery to a tree frog. He stabbed at the keys in vain for a few minutes, then left, presumably to create another "security issue" on some machine elsewhere.
My conclusion was, fuck it, if he doesn't want to learn, let people read his mail. Probably all Dilbert links, macro viruses, and Neiman Marcus cookie recipes anyway.
Of course, this was really to be expected, when even the people teaching the technology classes had not the slightest clue what in God's name they were doing. It was truly a case of the blind leading the blind.
I agree, it's important to smash and destroy children's imagination as soon as possible. The sooner they realize that anything absurd, imaginary, or even mildly out of the ordinary is to be shunned and feared -- and probably made illegal -- the better off we'll all be.
Of course, this means confiscating your children's copies of Candyland (there is no Candyland; it's imaginary), Monopoly (buying land of any kind is going to cost more than $65, that's absurd), and Chutes and Ladders (such a place doesn't exist. Burn the designers at the stake).
Also up for extermination is Barney (talking purple dinosaur, 'nuff said), Sesame Street (hand puppets are only cloth and don't really talk - absurd and probably a form of idolatry), and, well, pretty much anything else.
Perhaps someone can commission a game designer to make healthy, realistic, non-imaginative Christian games -- the Doing the Dishes Game (in which you wash real dishes, not imaginary ones), for example, or Mind Your Pa! Or, better yet, go back to reading the Bible, with its stories of walking on water, talking columns of fire, plagues, locusts, angels of death, and putting tribes to the sword -- and leave all those absurd, violent images behind forever.
How about Star Wars Episode 2: The Incredibly Unfunny Jab At Lucas That's Not Even Remotely Clever or Witty But Somehow Got Moderated Up, God Only Knows How, You Just Have to Shrug and Accept That It's an Imperfect World.
I don't know, is this "shocking" amount of shelf space equal to more or less than the amount of shelf space dedicated to all the Kid Rock, Britney Spears, and other music CDs? The Best Buy here has a huge music space, and one can only assume it moves. And media goes for plenty of other purposes than pirating music -- I have a CD writer and plenty of CDRs - I use it for backups. I've only burned one audio CD on it so far, and that's a mix of stuff I already own.
Actually, Roger Ebert gave Titan A.E. three and a half stars. He loved it. So did I. Katz's ramblings about the story being too generic and familiar is off the mark. It is generic and familiar, but space opera always has been, since the 1950s -- to me, that's part of the draw. If you're going to see an (American) animated movie for the intricate plot and devious twists, you're really barking up the wrong tree. If you just want to be entertained with a good space adventure on a Saturday afternoon, it's hard to do better.
I'm seeing it again -- I'm buying the DVD when it comes out -- it's a fun, beautiful film. The Bicycle Thief it isn't, but I didn't go to see The Bicycle Thief. I went to go see a rock em sock em space adventure, and that's what I got.
I think I've read pretty much this story approximately once every six months since about 1996. If the PC is dead, it sure is taking its sweet time, because it's been "dead" for years.
1) Several times, I've listened to an mp3 that someone sent me, and then gone out and bought the album. Since I don't listen to the radio, I wouldn't have otherwise heard the song, nor would I have bought the album -- more exposure benefits the artist, regardless of the medium of that exposure.
2) mp3 probably benifits the little guy more than the big, established bands. There are a lot of bands I've heard on mp3.com or the like, whose albums I've gone on to purchase online (from the band's own web site). Again, without that exposure on the Net, I wouldn't have bought the album, nor would the artist have gotten that exposure.
3) Nearly all the mp3s on my drive are ripped from my own CD collection. I realize this is almost certainly -not- what you are taling about, but regardless, I find this a very convenient way to store my music (no disc switching, convenient playlisting, etc.), and as time goes on, it will probably become more common. This benefits the artist in that I (as a lazy person who spends too much time on the net) don't have to get the hell off my butt to go down to the record store -- I can just buy the album online when it comes out.
(Yes, this is a "theoretical," but the truth is, mp3 and distribution of music on the Net has not yet "arrived," so you're still stuck with a few theoreticals, I'm afraid).
"I confirmed that netscape had absolutely no problems loading the exact same URL. I was able to duplicate this enough times to be convinced that something was Seriously Wrong. " Isn't that what an alpha (or prealpha, from what I've read) is pretty much all about? Finding out what's Seriously Wrong and then fixing it? Netscape is a finished product (well... as finished as it ever is, I suppose), the Opera snapshot isn't. Of course it's going to have serious bugs.
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Hmm, screaming tarballs, doesn't play like Metamorphosis Alpha... sounds like you got ripped off. Why don't you ask for your money back?
Time is to Man of the Year what MTV is to music... without a music video, you don't have a hit single. Without being telegenic / media friendly, you don't have a shot at Man of the Year. Scientific / humanist accomplishment is pretty much secondary to what will look good on a magazine cover.
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There's hardly a single major motion picture put out today that doesn't have both a video and a DVD version. And there are "director's cuts" of movies much less popular and succesful than Star Wars (Highlander, anyone?) Having a video and DVD version of a movie released doesn't set Lucas apart in any way, shape or form. And anyone who runs out and buys both versions has no one but themselves to blame.
So, if Lucas releases a DVD in "2050 or so" because he wants to wait and put out the Super Ultra Deluxe More Features Than You Need Edition, you bitch. George Lucas, greedy bastard. But if he were to release a cheapjack DVD NOW and the Super Ultra Deluxe More Features Than You Need Edition in 2050 then you'll bitch about that too. George Lucas, greedy bastard. If Lucas were all about bleeding people dry, he'd release a piece of shit DVD now and sock you again a couple years down the line. But that doesn't matter, because George Lucas will never be anything other than pure evil no matter which way he goes, right?
When the original trilogy came out, the technological capacity to upload the entire script and / or storyboards to the World Wide Web didn't exist. If someone did get a hold of such materials, they might publish in some tiny fanzine, enough to reach a couple hundred or maybe a thousand people. Not millions. Nuff said.
I would say it's just backlash for the years that fans have treated people like Lucas as the enemy. Fans are the most ungrateful, vicious, backbiting, critical, unforgiving people in the world, and will not hesitate to turn their never-ending venom on the entertainers they supposedly enjoy. The Internet makes this especially easy. You only have to read the rest of the comments in this forum to know this is true.
Just disable the comments and run a fucking script. It all comes out the same.
Well, you heard El Presidente over here. From this day forth let all posting cease!
So now instead of authors receiving fan mail, authors can receive thousands to millions of angry letters saying "OPEN THE SOURCE! OPEN THE SOURCE! CmdrTaco's -- I mean, Stephen King's -- latest effort really sucks, the code -- I mean, prose -- is totally buggy and how can you call yourself a zealot -- I mean, developer -- I mean, author if you don't OPEN THE SOURCE!"
I guess the big difference is, Wired publishes all his Henny Penny tripe.
Geeks don't want social interaction. What the hell are you talking about.
I would never in a million years try to replace my real friends and social interactions with the kind of human flotsam you meet on a daily basis on the net. The danger, perhaps, is that people will not live their lives on the Net, but live their real lives as if they -were- on the Net - screaming at the top of their lungs, talking in gibberish run-on sentences, threatening those who disagree with them on minor points with viruses, "hacks" and death - sure, there's some people who do that on a daily basis now, but thankfully most of them are incarcerated.
I think the game you're really after is Creatures... though I had a terrible time with Creatures, I somehow managed to breed critters so stupid they'd die because they were too stupid to eat. The Sims don't really seem to learn behavior so much as stick to their personality. If they're Neat, they'll clean everything up. If they're naturally Messy, it doesn't matter how often you tell them to do the dishes - they'll never do it by themselves.
So if you post and complain about whether something is really News for Nerds, does that make you more or less of a nerd?
Yeah, cause there's not enough room or time in the world for both. Quake or the Olympics - YOU MUST CHOOSE!
What really took the cake, though, was this guy who came up to me and started talking about a "security issue" he had. I went over and looked at his machine -- he had fired up Netscape Mail, entered his account information, username, and password, and was concerned that "people could now read his email."
Exerting every ounce of will not to shriek "no shit!" at him, I explained that yes, if you enter your username and password into the mail program (dumbass!!!), you can, in fact, read your mail. And if you don't remove said information (which you shouldn't be entering in a lab machine anyway, shit-for-brains), yes, other people will read your mail. He didn't understand. I explained that these were lab machines and the copies of Netscape on the computers were not really for their personal use as mail readers. I might as well have been talking to the wall. I then tried to show him how to use Pine, which is what we encouraged the students to use when reading their mail, but that was akin to trying to teach brain surgery to a tree frog. He stabbed at the keys in vain for a few minutes, then left, presumably to create another "security issue" on some machine elsewhere.
My conclusion was, fuck it, if he doesn't want to learn, let people read his mail. Probably all Dilbert links, macro viruses, and Neiman Marcus cookie recipes anyway.
Of course, this was really to be expected, when even the people teaching the technology classes had not the slightest clue what in God's name they were doing. It was truly a case of the blind leading the blind.
Of course, this means confiscating your children's copies of Candyland (there is no Candyland; it's imaginary), Monopoly (buying land of any kind is going to cost more than $65, that's absurd), and Chutes and Ladders (such a place doesn't exist. Burn the designers at the stake).
Also up for extermination is Barney (talking purple dinosaur, 'nuff said), Sesame Street (hand puppets are only cloth and don't really talk - absurd and probably a form of idolatry), and, well, pretty much anything else.
Perhaps someone can commission a game designer to make healthy, realistic, non-imaginative Christian games -- the Doing the Dishes Game (in which you wash real dishes, not imaginary ones), for example, or Mind Your Pa! Or, better yet, go back to reading the Bible, with its stories of walking on water, talking columns of fire, plagues, locusts, angels of death, and putting tribes to the sword -- and leave all those absurd, violent images behind forever.
If the author really applied himself, I'm sure he could find a way to blame Windows for this. Preferably Bill Gates personally.
How about Star Wars Episode 2: The Incredibly Unfunny Jab At Lucas That's Not Even Remotely Clever or Witty But Somehow Got Moderated Up, God Only Knows How, You Just Have to Shrug and Accept That It's an Imperfect World.
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I don't know, is this "shocking" amount of shelf space equal to more or less than the amount of shelf space dedicated to all the Kid Rock, Britney Spears, and other music CDs? The Best Buy here has a huge music space, and one can only assume it moves. And media goes for plenty of other purposes than pirating music -- I have a CD writer and plenty of CDRs - I use it for backups. I've only burned one audio CD on it so far, and that's a mix of stuff I already own.
I'm seeing it again -- I'm buying the DVD when it comes out -- it's a fun, beautiful film. The Bicycle Thief it isn't, but I didn't go to see The Bicycle Thief. I went to go see a rock em sock em space adventure, and that's what I got.
Will you go to lunch!
2) mp3 probably benifits the little guy more than the big, established bands. There are a lot of bands I've heard on mp3.com or the like, whose albums I've gone on to purchase online (from the band's own web site). Again, without that exposure on the Net, I wouldn't have bought the album, nor would the artist have gotten that exposure.
3) Nearly all the mp3s on my drive are ripped from my own CD collection. I realize this is almost certainly -not- what you are taling about, but regardless, I find this a very convenient way to store my music (no disc switching, convenient playlisting, etc.), and as time goes on, it will probably become more common. This benefits the artist in that I (as a lazy person who spends too much time on the net) don't have to get the hell off my butt to go down to the record store -- I can just buy the album online when it comes out.
(Yes, this is a "theoretical," but the truth is, mp3 and distribution of music on the Net has not yet "arrived," so you're still stuck with a few theoreticals, I'm afraid).
Will you go to lunch!
Yeah, if only they'd stop putting a gun to your head and making you read the articles...
"I confirmed that netscape had absolutely no problems loading the exact same URL. I was able to duplicate this enough times to be convinced that something was Seriously Wrong. " Isn't that what an alpha (or prealpha, from what I've read) is pretty much all about? Finding out what's Seriously Wrong and then fixing it? Netscape is a finished product (well... as finished as it ever is, I suppose), the Opera snapshot isn't. Of course it's going to have serious bugs.
Time is to Man of the Year what MTV is to music... without a music video, you don't have a hit single. Without being telegenic / media friendly, you don't have a shot at Man of the Year. Scientific / humanist accomplishment is pretty much secondary to what will look good on a magazine cover.