Remember, if it weren't for the USA and the USSR most of the world would be speaking either German or Japanese today.
Would you please explain to me why we should be thankful to a country who sat on their ass in two world wars until either they were attacked (Pearl Harbour, Dec 7 1941. 2 years after the war started) or some of their people were killed (Lusitania, May 1, 1915. 1 year after the war started) when my country was one of the first to go and fight.
In the second world war. Of a population of approx 7 million, 1 million men and women joined up and serve their country in the war. Can America claim a similar percentage?
Australia has never shirked from doing it's duty to help preserve world peace.
Australia has never attacked anyone... Can the same be said of America.
Australia has never used it's influence to topple a government to put a corrupt dictator on the seat of power, and then try and knock him off again after he takes the money and turns against you.
I really feel for the people who died in the towers and I honestly think that they would be ashamed of the US government for abusing their death's in a powerplay to try and gain a foothold in the Middle East oil fields. Which Middle East country will be the next one to harbour terrorists, Iran? Syria? Lebennon? Saudi Arabia where Bin Ladin comes from?
Or do we all have to start speaking with an American accent (to counter the german and japanese accents we would be speaking with now) because a corrupt small minded (man who is dominated by his father and the arms manufacturers and texas oil men who contributed to his campaign) wants to extend America's peace all over the world?
Australia didnt fight in two world wars to stop dictators and tyrants just to let another one push the buttons of the world. If there is an attack today on 9/11 or close around it. Look for the bush administration's hand in it. How to justify an attack on another country... lets set them up... Gee... Hitler did that with Poland and then with Russia, so it has been tried before and it failed... I have a lot of American friends who read this website. I hope that they are ashamed of what their government is doing to propagate war instead of peace.
And one last thing... If you had the strength of your convictions that your forefathers had, you would have posted your nick and email address up there so you could be flamed properly instead of hiding behind the Anonymous Coward tag like the gutless coward that you obviously are... I am properly going to be modded down to hell because of this and I will lose karma for it... But hey, learn a few things about the rest of the world before poking your useless head out of your shell again...
Maybe if you had of read it properly, you would see that the player in question had passed away from a heart attack in real life.
He doesnt need a new computer where he is going, and if you are a religious geek, then maybe there is a heaven where they hand out the latest hardware when you walk through the gates
I live in an apartment building and I have a small wireless network setup here at home. The access point is located near a window.
outside of the building, in LOS of the window, I get about 100 meters. Inside the building, through the other apartments, I get at best about 30 meters.
It might be possible to have the access points near the windows and connect them to a small switch for the internal building network. then have the access points do the routing between buildings.
It was the first version I used and it was relatively good compared to Dos 4.0, 4.1, 5.0, 6.0, 6.2, 6.22 all of which have had their days in court and have been deemed crap
Personally I dont like Micro$oft... Their business practices suck, their operating systems (except for dos 3.3) blows the proverbial goat. However looking at the situation from a logical point of view, the desktop as most IT workers know it wouldnt exist if it wasnt for them.
They brought out a lot of good applications and back in the days of Dos didnt discourage people like Mr Norton from designing tools that worked with their operating systems.
These days you have to sign half a million disclaimers and NDA's just to be able to work on something that will integrate with the Windows OS.
In the past they have tried to stifle all possible hazardous security flaws within their products. But now someone comes out with a paper on their new console product and everyone expects that they are going to jump on the poor guy. In the past when they introduce something new, they never used to bother about people releasing security problems... Why should they bother now?
Isn't in their best interests to let other people bugtest their products, just like they used to do, and then incorperate the fixes into the next version of it.
Isn't it rather silly for us to take Micro$oft to task over something that in the end benefits the general public who doesnt know any better? Personally I would rather see M$ do something by not doing something rather than seeing them destroy reputations and our basic freedom to comment on things...
Just my opinion of things and Kudos to all involved for getting this issue out into the open rather than seeing disappear into the ether...
I'm sorry, I just dont agree with all the hype and stuff like that about saving the planet. Mankind is only a occupying a small period in the history of the Earth. Mankind is being pretty egotistical about themselves if they think that it really matters in planetary terms what we do...
Maybe we should consider saving the human race rather than worrying about the planet. We should be more interested in saving the animals we are killing of at a great rate of knots
Because in the end, it can look after itself...
Even the worst that we can do to the planet (totally irradiating the place with nuclear bombs) will sort itself out in a few thousand years. Will the human race be able to do that...
50,000 years or 50 Million years from now, will mankind still be around? somehow I dont think so. If we are what sort of condition will we be in?
It's our necks and our kids necks on the line, so lets try and leave them a place to live!
I think that it would be more appropriate that they force Bill and the boys into retirement, and make the next gen of microsoft buy back all the shares that Bill and the boys have...
The 36 Billion Dollar Cash reserve isnt really going to go that far...
Also get them to sign over all royalty rights to the government...
Before it became AD&D, there was a series of 6 boxed sets with the basic rules called D&D.
When you started buying the manuals for it, it became AD&D.
back in the old days when I used to game, I was collecting games, as well as playing and running them, and I actually got the first box in D&D (red box with a dragon and some characters on the front)
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You could very well be right, but whats the bet that the next afgan government is going to be biased towards american world views?
I think that China might be a better place to be.
I remember Australia bringing in something like the DMCA bill, plus that damned stupid law about 'supposedly' making the internet in Australia safe for kids by firewalling the entire country against pr0n...
But then again, I remember that the ACCC challenged that the region encoding in DVD's was anti-competative [Slashdot ] and went into court to defend comsumer rights over mod-chipping your PS [Slashdot].
Isn't there some sort of organisation like that over there?
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I'm one of those dumb aussie's everyone keeps talking about... born and brought up there.
In Australia, we have an old saying for a situation like this... Dont steal, the government hates the competition
By the looks of this bill, the music and movie industry in the states wants to apply our saying to their own means. It's a a pretty basic bill really... "we're right, you're wrong, give us all your money and we wont put you in jail for being a scum-sucking thief who wont give us money".
All I can really see is the computer industry going to hell and taking the rest of the world economy with it. If this law comes to pass, I will not want to buy something from the states because it's cheaper anymore, why should it... all of a sudden, I cant use my computer do make my own music CD's, I wont be able to back up my original software media. I wont even be able to back it up to the hard drive. Hell, the way I read this law, I wont even be able to backup my hard drive in case of a computer crash
Considering that there are a lot more people outside of the states who would have brought hardware from the states because it is dirt cheap than there is in the states. I really dont see the hardware manufacturers bending over to get shafted because of this law. Why make two identical products (one with the SSSCA crap in it) when you only have to make one and not sell it to the US.
I think that it will be cheaper for them to move offshore and stop dealing with the draconian laws of the USA than it will be for them to stay in the states and suddenly have to build a separate manufacturing line to build their products for internal US use. Why should they, they have already spent billions on the current crop of production plants that are working just fine.
How do you think that the defence department is going to react when they develop a custom, top secret, piece of software for their network and they have to submit it to the SSSCA inspectors just to make sure that it conforms to the standard...
I really dont think so...
So is the US government going to really welcome something like this that stops them from being able to innovate and develop their little programs. Ohh I forgot, they wrote the law... so I guess that means that their hardware will be exempt from the law. Ahhhh, it's good to be the king (to quote Mel Brookes, History of the World Part 1)
and now we are back to that old saying in Australia... Dont steal, The government doesnt like the competition (and neither does the MPAA and the RIAA)
This is my view of the SSSCA and it's effects on the rest of the world, it is meant to be a semi-humourous view and should be taken as such. Flame me if you want, but just consider the point of view from outside the cube. If you dont like the implied repercussions, write to your local representative and get them to check out anything that disturbs you.
So, by your arguement, open source projects like Apache and Sendmail are a physical or financial failure and are charity cases or complete scams? Somehow I don't think so...
I would bring up the Halloween document, but I actually think that someone else brought it up. The point of the message is that MS ordered the use of FUD to discredit the open source movement and remove it as a viable opponant to it's operating system monopoly (I am sure that you do know that MS has been maintaining an illegal monopoly for quite a few years now in the operating system and desktop applications market? or do you think that they have gotten where they are today by fair means?), and it definately looks to me as if it has a fan in you.
Mundie and his cohorts in the PR dept of Microsoft constantly pump out a stream of FUD about the Open Source movement, constantly going on about how much extra it costs to run open source software.
They never talk about the cost of constantly upgrading your Windows administration skills to stay in touch with the industry or the cost of running the latest hardware for the latest versions of Windows. What is the cost of a full MCSE against getting certification for running something like Redhat or Mandrake in the work place?
something tells me, that a MCSE would be some what more expensive.
It will take a lot of patient, logical arguement from people like Mr Perens and Mr Stallman, who can put across the arguement for not believing all the FUD coming out of Redmond.
However, Microsoft have probably got a team of script writers there who can pump out arguments that are structured to tug the heart strings of upper management who are more interested in the bottom line rather than the more technical people who are more interested in having a working product that is reliable.
But, one of the good things that is coming out of the constant stream of FUD from Microsoft is that every now and then, they trip over their own tongues while rabbiting on about how good their product is.
Education and knowledge will slowly break down the walls that Microsoft has thrown up... but it will take time.
Honestly, I think that we should load all the terrorists and all the dumb ass politicians from around the world who are a bunch of low-brow rednecks and send them off to mar's so that they can settle their differences up there and leave the rest of the human race in peace...
Maybe just to make it interesting for the rest of us, send up about 50 camera's as well and a limited supply of oxygen and they have to fight for the right to be the last person breathing up there... and possibly get a free ride home...
That way, everyone left back here gets the best of all worlds...
Mars gets a manned mission,
We stop the fight against terrorism,
AND *shudder* for the reality tv freaks out there, they get the ultimate reality show of all time...
Ohhh... and as a side benefit, we also get rid of all those useless politicians who are just screwing up everything for everyone else...
It isn't only the Open source sites that are keeping things simple these days.
Corporate web sites these days are starting to get rid of all the flash and big images that some people seem to think that the web is all about.
Having a Macromedia Flash page is great if you are a game development company... but then again, look at some of the really cool sites associated with games. They are more into using DHTML rather than flash.
As a professional web designer, I know that when I go to check out sites, if it hasn't loaded in less than a minute, I'm out of there.
Having lots of graphics isn't as bad as some would think, so long as you break the one big image into a heap of smaller images. Even on a 33.6k modem, the bandwidth is enough that the browser can load 10 10k images quicker than trying to load a single 100k image. And if you pre-load the images of your buttons and any other serious images on your site. It will load quicker and then usability starts coming into the equation.
If you have a lot of content on your pages, break it up into smaller sentences and paragraphs (I used to know the paragraph readability formula, but that was in first year at university).
If someone has to read huge paragraphs of content, they will soon lose track of what they are trying to read and get bored with it. Once that happens, forget it, you have lost the person reading the page.
Use of graphics in strategic area's are good, especially if they are related to the content and enhance the content. Use of hyper-linked thumbnails are better unless the image contains critical information, then display the image in a prominent position.
Try and avoid excessive scrolling as well. There is nothing worse than having more than 2 screens of information loaded into a single page. It's easier to put a link to a second page at the bottom of the 2 screens of content.
Also, you should try and scale your information to the maximum width of the browser, there is nothing worse than looking at a page that is designed for 800*600 when your monitor is set to a screen resolution of 1280*1024... where did all that white space come from?
Navigation of a site is also important. The main navigation should be in a prominent position. These days, a lot of people are starting to put their navigation at the top of the page. This means that they usually have an extra 150 pixels of screen real estate to play with.
For cross-browser text sizes, it is better to look towards using pixel size rather than point size. This is because IE renders point size slightly smaller than Netscape, and IE for the Mac renders if differently again.
The point that I am trying to make, is that if you want to, you can design a site with all the latest bells and whistles available to you, but if it doesn't work in all browsers, you're up that well known creek without a paddle. If you keep a site simple, but pleasant to look at, you will find a lot of people coming back again. And if you are in business, this is what it is all about at the end of the day.
A long life fill with the laughter of children all over the world.
I read in an article that out of the top 50 cartoons ever as rated by his peers (The Fifty Greatest Cartoons. edited by Jerry Beck), Chuck has 4 of the top 5. In fact, he has #1, #2, #4, #5... #3 belongs to Disney.
#1 - What's Opera Doc?
#2 - Duck Amuck
#4 - Duck Dodgers in the 24 1/2 century.
#5 - The Band Concert
What's Opera Doc? was one of 11 cartoons choosen by the Library of Congress for preservation.
Not to shabby really.
R.I.P Charles 'Chuck' Jones 1912-2002, the world is going to have to really search to find someone who can make the kids laugh as much as you ever did
and that woman of course for agreeing in front of the/. community...
what I want to know is...
is there going to be a webcam at the wedding?
congrats to you both...
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Way back when, DARPA started the net to create a network of spreading information and to create a network that would survive a nuclear attack and enable the US to strike back.
Hopefully the bit about the strike back is now a thing of the past (although with G.W. Bush in charge... who knows...) but the spreading of information is still the heart of the net.
Just because these days, a lot of people are more interested in passing around spam and other such rubbish, it is still information that a varity of people want. Just because you hate spam doesnt mean that everyone else does.
I think that there is still a centralised heart to the net, but I dont think that it is ever going to be MSN or AOL... in the end, they will just become irrelevent to the average person.
As the middle class of net users becomes more switched on, they will start to ignore more and more of the rubbish put out there by AOL and other companies like that.
In 10 years time when the hostile youth of today are in their late 20 and early 30's, they will look at the hostile youth of their day and wonder whats making the kids so bad, conveniently forgetting the stuff they used to do.
Hopefully the net will be there in 10 years time, and will still be a free medium for people to put their point of view across without some government or corporation absolutely destroying the person for not seeing things the way the governments or corporations want them to.
If the net is in the hands of the governments and corporations, then free speach is dead and we all might as well have stamps on our foreheads and dance to the company themes...
Long live a free internet with a heart of free information.
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Would you please explain to me why we should be thankful to a country who sat on their ass in two world wars until either they were attacked (Pearl Harbour, Dec 7 1941. 2 years after the war started) or some of their people were killed (Lusitania, May 1, 1915. 1 year after the war started) when my country was one of the first to go and fight.
In the second world war. Of a population of approx 7 million, 1 million men and women joined up and serve their country in the war. Can America claim a similar percentage?
Australia has never shirked from doing it's duty to help preserve world peace.
Australia has never attacked anyone... Can the same be said of America.
Australia has never used it's influence to topple a government to put a corrupt dictator on the seat of power, and then try and knock him off again after he takes the money and turns against you.
I really feel for the people who died in the towers and I honestly think that they would be ashamed of the US government for abusing their death's in a powerplay to try and gain a foothold in the Middle East oil fields. Which Middle East country will be the next one to harbour terrorists, Iran? Syria? Lebennon? Saudi Arabia where Bin Ladin comes from?
Or do we all have to start speaking with an American accent (to counter the german and japanese accents we would be speaking with now) because a corrupt small minded (man who is dominated by his father and the arms manufacturers and texas oil men who contributed to his campaign) wants to extend America's peace all over the world?
Australia didnt fight in two world wars to stop dictators and tyrants just to let another one push the buttons of the world. If there is an attack today on 9/11 or close around it. Look for the bush administration's hand in it. How to justify an attack on another country... lets set them up... Gee... Hitler did that with Poland and then with Russia, so it has been tried before and it failed... I have a lot of American friends who read this website. I hope that they are ashamed of what their government is doing to propagate war instead of peace.
And one last thing... If you had the strength of your convictions that your forefathers had, you would have posted your nick and email address up there so you could be flamed properly instead of hiding behind the Anonymous Coward tag like the gutless coward that you obviously are... I am properly going to be modded down to hell because of this and I will lose karma for it... But hey, learn a few things about the rest of the world before poking your useless head out of your shell again...
PAX
He doesnt need a new computer where he is going, and if you are a religious geek, then maybe there is a heaven where they hand out the latest hardware when you walk through the gates
outside of the building, in LOS of the window, I get about 100 meters. Inside the building, through the other apartments, I get at best about 30 meters.
It might be possible to have the access points near the windows and connect them to a small switch for the internal building network. then have the access points do the routing between buildings.
Just one of many possible solutions I suppose.
They brought out a lot of good applications and back in the days of Dos didnt discourage people like Mr Norton from designing tools that worked with their operating systems.
These days you have to sign half a million disclaimers and NDA's just to be able to work on something that will integrate with the Windows OS.
In the past they have tried to stifle all possible hazardous security flaws within their products. But now someone comes out with a paper on their new console product and everyone expects that they are going to jump on the poor guy. In the past when they introduce something new, they never used to bother about people releasing security problems... Why should they bother now?
Isn't in their best interests to let other people bugtest their products, just like they used to do, and then incorperate the fixes into the next version of it.
Isn't it rather silly for us to take Micro$oft to task over something that in the end benefits the general public who doesnt know any better? Personally I would rather see M$ do something by not doing something rather than seeing them destroy reputations and our basic freedom to comment on things...
Just my opinion of things and Kudos to all involved for getting this issue out into the open rather than seeing disappear into the ether...
first post... I think...
I have nightmares thinking about it...
and just for a laugh, try and find some people who resemble the upper management of the company...
I'm sorry, I just dont agree with all the hype and stuff like that about saving the planet. Mankind is only a occupying a small period in the history of the Earth. Mankind is being pretty egotistical about themselves if they think that it really matters in planetary terms what we do...
Maybe we should consider saving the human race rather than worrying about the planet. We should be more interested in saving the animals we are killing of at a great rate of knots
Because in the end, it can look after itself...
Even the worst that we can do to the planet (totally irradiating the place with nuclear bombs) will sort itself out in a few thousand years. Will the human race be able to do that...
50,000 years or 50 Million years from now, will mankind still be around? somehow I dont think so. If we are what sort of condition will we be in?
It's our necks and our kids necks on the line, so lets try and leave them a place to live!
The 36 Billion Dollar Cash reserve isnt really going to go that far...
Also get them to sign over all royalty rights to the government...
When you started buying the manuals for it, it became AD&D.
back in the old days when I used to game, I was collecting games, as well as playing and running them, and I actually got the first box in D&D (red box with a dragon and some characters on the front)
I think that China might be a better place to be.
I remember Australia bringing in something like the DMCA bill, plus that damned stupid law about 'supposedly' making the internet in Australia safe for kids by firewalling the entire country against pr0n...
But then again, I remember that the ACCC challenged that the region encoding in DVD's was anti-competative [Slashdot ] and went into court to defend comsumer rights over mod-chipping your PS [Slashdot].
Isn't there some sort of organisation like that over there?
In Australia, we have an old saying for a situation like this... Dont steal, the government hates the competition
By the looks of this bill, the music and movie industry in the states wants to apply our saying to their own means. It's a a pretty basic bill really... "we're right, you're wrong, give us all your money and we wont put you in jail for being a scum-sucking thief who wont give us money".
All I can really see is the computer industry going to hell and taking the rest of the world economy with it. If this law comes to pass, I will not want to buy something from the states because it's cheaper anymore, why should it... all of a sudden, I cant use my computer do make my own music CD's, I wont be able to back up my original software media. I wont even be able to back it up to the hard drive. Hell, the way I read this law, I wont even be able to backup my hard drive in case of a computer crash
Considering that there are a lot more people outside of the states who would have brought hardware from the states because it is dirt cheap than there is in the states. I really dont see the hardware manufacturers bending over to get shafted because of this law. Why make two identical products (one with the SSSCA crap in it) when you only have to make one and not sell it to the US.
I think that it will be cheaper for them to move offshore and stop dealing with the draconian laws of the USA than it will be for them to stay in the states and suddenly have to build a separate manufacturing line to build their products for internal US use. Why should they, they have already spent billions on the current crop of production plants that are working just fine.
How do you think that the defence department is going to react when they develop a custom, top secret, piece of software for their network and they have to submit it to the SSSCA inspectors just to make sure that it conforms to the standard...
I really dont think so...
So is the US government going to really welcome something like this that stops them from being able to innovate and develop their little programs. Ohh I forgot, they wrote the law... so I guess that means that their hardware will be exempt from the law. Ahhhh, it's good to be the king (to quote Mel Brookes, History of the World Part 1)
and now we are back to that old saying in Australia... Dont steal, The government doesnt like the competition (and neither does the MPAA and the RIAA)
This is my view of the SSSCA and it's effects on the rest of the world, it is meant to be a semi-humourous view and should be taken as such. Flame me if you want, but just consider the point of view from outside the cube. If you dont like the implied repercussions, write to your local representative and get them to check out anything that disturbs you.
I would bring up the Halloween document, but I actually think that someone else brought it up. The point of the message is that MS ordered the use of FUD to discredit the open source movement and remove it as a viable opponant to it's operating system monopoly (I am sure that you do know that MS has been maintaining an illegal monopoly for quite a few years now in the operating system and desktop applications market? or do you think that they have gotten where they are today by fair means?), and it definately looks to me as if it has a fan in you.
They never talk about the cost of constantly upgrading your Windows administration skills to stay in touch with the industry or the cost of running the latest hardware for the latest versions of Windows. What is the cost of a full MCSE against getting certification for running something like Redhat or Mandrake in the work place?
something tells me, that a MCSE would be some what more expensive.
It will take a lot of patient, logical arguement from people like Mr Perens and Mr Stallman, who can put across the arguement for not believing all the FUD coming out of Redmond.
However, Microsoft have probably got a team of script writers there who can pump out arguments that are structured to tug the heart strings of upper management who are more interested in the bottom line rather than the more technical people who are more interested in having a working product that is reliable.
But, one of the good things that is coming out of the constant stream of FUD from Microsoft is that every now and then, they trip over their own tongues while rabbiting on about how good their product is.
Education and knowledge will slowly break down the walls that Microsoft has thrown up... but it will take time.
Maybe just to make it interesting for the rest of us, send up about 50 camera's as well and a limited supply of oxygen and they have to fight for the right to be the last person breathing up there... and possibly get a free ride home...
That way, everyone left back here gets the best of all worlds...
Mars gets a manned mission,
We stop the fight against terrorism,
AND *shudder* for the reality tv freaks out there, they get the ultimate reality show of all time...
Ohhh... and as a side benefit, we also get rid of all those useless politicians who are just screwing up everything for everyone else...
*** I had a
Corporate web sites these days are starting to get rid of all the flash and big images that some people seem to think that the web is all about.
Having a Macromedia Flash page is great if you are a game development company... but then again, look at some of the really cool sites associated with games. They are more into using DHTML rather than flash.
As a professional web designer, I know that when I go to check out sites, if it hasn't loaded in less than a minute, I'm out of there.
Having lots of graphics isn't as bad as some would think, so long as you break the one big image into a heap of smaller images. Even on a 33.6k modem, the bandwidth is enough that the browser can load 10 10k images quicker than trying to load a single 100k image. And if you pre-load the images of your buttons and any other serious images on your site. It will load quicker and then usability starts coming into the equation.
If you have a lot of content on your pages, break it up into smaller sentences and paragraphs (I used to know the paragraph readability formula, but that was in first year at university).
If someone has to read huge paragraphs of content, they will soon lose track of what they are trying to read and get bored with it. Once that happens, forget it, you have lost the person reading the page.
Use of graphics in strategic area's are good, especially if they are related to the content and enhance the content. Use of hyper-linked thumbnails are better unless the image contains critical information, then display the image in a prominent position.
Try and avoid excessive scrolling as well. There is nothing worse than having more than 2 screens of information loaded into a single page. It's easier to put a link to a second page at the bottom of the 2 screens of content.
Also, you should try and scale your information to the maximum width of the browser, there is nothing worse than looking at a page that is designed for 800*600 when your monitor is set to a screen resolution of 1280*1024... where did all that white space come from?
Navigation of a site is also important. The main navigation should be in a prominent position. These days, a lot of people are starting to put their navigation at the top of the page. This means that they usually have an extra 150 pixels of screen real estate to play with.
For cross-browser text sizes, it is better to look towards using pixel size rather than point size. This is because IE renders point size slightly smaller than Netscape, and IE for the Mac renders if differently again.
The point that I am trying to make, is that if you want to, you can design a site with all the latest bells and whistles available to you, but if it doesn't work in all browsers, you're up that well known creek without a paddle. If you keep a site simple, but pleasant to look at, you will find a lot of people coming back again. And if you are in business, this is what it is all about at the end of the day.
I read in an article that out of the top 50 cartoons ever as rated by his peers (The Fifty Greatest Cartoons. edited by Jerry Beck), Chuck has 4 of the top 5. In fact, he has #1, #2, #4, #5... #3 belongs to Disney.
#1 - What's Opera Doc?
#2 - Duck Amuck
#4 - Duck Dodgers in the 24 1/2 century.
#5 - The Band Concert
What's Opera Doc? was one of 11 cartoons choosen by the Library of Congress for preservation.
Not to shabby really.
R.I.P Charles 'Chuck' Jones 1912-2002, the world is going to have to really search to find someone who can make the kids laugh as much as you ever did
Mark
Heaven has a hell of an animation dept now
what I want to know is...
is there going to be a webcam at the wedding?
congrats to you both...
Way back when, DARPA started the net to create a network of spreading information and to create a network that would survive a nuclear attack and enable the US to strike back.
Hopefully the bit about the strike back is now a thing of the past (although with G.W. Bush in charge... who knows...) but the spreading of information is still the heart of the net.
Just because these days, a lot of people are more interested in passing around spam and other such rubbish, it is still information that a varity of people want. Just because you hate spam doesnt mean that everyone else does.
I think that there is still a centralised heart to the net, but I dont think that it is ever going to be MSN or AOL... in the end, they will just become irrelevent to the average person.
As the middle class of net users becomes more switched on, they will start to ignore more and more of the rubbish put out there by AOL and other companies like that.
In 10 years time when the hostile youth of today are in their late 20 and early 30's, they will look at the hostile youth of their day and wonder whats making the kids so bad, conveniently forgetting the stuff they used to do.
Hopefully the net will be there in 10 years time, and will still be a free medium for people to put their point of view across without some government or corporation absolutely destroying the person for not seeing things the way the governments or corporations want them to.
If the net is in the hands of the governments and corporations, then free speach is dead and we all might as well have stamps on our foreheads and dance to the company themes...
Long live a free internet with a heart of free information.