I've always assumed that this naming convention started with the Classic Mac. With that, the computer *was* the screen, and if you were lucky enough to have a hard drive, that was the little box attached to the screen.
In previous jobs, it would usually be the longtime Mac users would would use Hard Drive for the computer itself, and I suspect it's just one of those memes that gets spread around.
I want to BUILD my media center PC but unfortunately Microsoft only sells the media center edition with pre-built PC's
You've been able to buy OEM Media Center 2005 for quite some time now (which, although they don't tell you this, was more like XP Professional than XP Home). I built my own MCE PC over a year ago. If you're building your own machine, an OEM version is perfectly legitimate.
Not true. The first series of Quatermass was broadcast live (as was most TV at the time) and the first two episodes were 'telerecorded' as an experiment. Telerecording involved pointing a synchronised 16mm film camera at a TV screen and at the time it wasn't done very much. On reviewing the results of the first recordings it was deemed not of sufficient quality and subsequent episodes were never recorded.
At the BBC Proms several years ago, the long-dead pianist Percy Granger played Grieg's Piano Concerto along with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, courtesy of a piano-roll recording of his performance whose tempo was controlled live by an operator (to ensure piano and Orchestra kept together). At the time I was amazed at the subtleties of performance that the roll had captured. I had assumed (knowing next to nothing about them) that piano rolls were a crude digital version, with little or no intonation, but this was (to my poor ears) as impressive as a live performance.
However, while Douglas was under contractual obligation to deliver a script, the contract didn't specify when. So Douglas sat on it. and sat on it. and sat on it. and basically refused to finish it unless another person was attached to the project. I believe that is where it stood when he died...
No, this is incorrect. What happened was Douglas eventually decided it was going nowhere and bought back the rights with his own money. After that he tried setting it up with Mike Nesmith before eventually teaming up with Spyglass Entertainment and Jay Roach. He spent the last few years of his life working on a new screenplay for the movie, and even moved to Santa Barbara to make working on the movie easier.
However, how much of that reduction was due to the banks now refusing to pay out in cases of CC fraud, claiming that you must have given your PIN to someone in your family, and it's them taking the money? That's the downside of the PIN - at least with a signature, *you* can prove that the signature isn't yours, but with a PIN you've got no chance.
It's just a pity that Bill Thompson, who represents the BBC is such a fool.
Well, he only represents the BBC in that he writes an occasional column. And part of the reason for running a column is to elict reaction, which I suspect he does regularly. But don't expect reasoned argument or technical accuracy.
Also, what people seem to forget is that while you are allowed to time-shift broadcasts, you're not actually allowed to keep them indefinitely (at least under UK copyright law).
I'm pretty sure you're wrong about this. When the copyright laws were being revised in the mid-eighties, they considered putting in a 'time-shifting' clause which would specifically allow for time-shifting, but would mandate a limit on the time you'd be allowed to keep the tape. In the event, this clause never made it into legislation, mainly because it was stupid and unenforceable.
It is a BBC badge, based on a scan of mine, I believe. At least, I sent the art department a scan of mine when they asked for one, so I assume that's what they used.
"We are contemporizing it, taking these ideas that were ahead of the curve and applying them to the present, and we feel the film now has a chance to resonate with a young audience."
Unless, of course, your competition is the last(?) installment of Star Wars. Who in their right mind is going to open another sci-fi movie against that?
The Hitchhiker's Guide movie is opening two weeks before Episode III. I'm in two minds whether this is a good thing or not.
On h2g2 there's more movie stuff, including an interview with the director and producer, and a short clip of behind the scenes as the first scene is filmed.
Just to correct something in the story itself - it cites the h2g2 entry as 'pretty much straight out of 'The Salmon of Doubt' but in fact, it was the other way around. TSOD is a collection of previously unpublished writings, several of which originally appeared on h2g2, the website Douglas founded in 1999.
If you check the date on the h2g2 article you'll see it was written in 1999, two years before he died. The Salmon of Doubt was published posthumously.
" An estimated 3 million people illegally watch satellite television using devices that unscramble satellite TV signals. The industry estimates it loses $4 billion a year in revenue."
Is that right? Satellite TV costs well over $1000 a year? No wonder people don't want to pay for it.
They can't possibly be worried about lost ad revenue, because those people are all watching the ads.
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I've always assumed that this naming convention started with the Classic Mac. With that, the computer *was* the screen, and if you were lucky enough to have a hard drive, that was the little box attached to the screen. In previous jobs, it would usually be the longtime Mac users would would use Hard Drive for the computer itself, and I suspect it's just one of those memes that gets spread around.
I want to BUILD my media center PC but unfortunately Microsoft only sells the media center edition with pre-built PC's
You've been able to buy OEM Media Center 2005 for quite some time now (which, although they don't tell you this, was more like XP Professional than XP Home). I built my own MCE PC over a year ago. If you're building your own machine, an OEM version is perfectly legitimate.Is that Sony's Choice?
the first series of Quatermass went the same way.
Not true. The first series of Quatermass was broadcast live (as was most TV at the time) and the first two episodes were 'telerecorded' as an experiment. Telerecording involved pointing a synchronised 16mm film camera at a TV screen and at the time it wasn't done very much. On reviewing the results of the first recordings it was deemed not of sufficient quality and subsequent episodes were never recorded.
At the BBC Proms several years ago, the long-dead pianist Percy Granger played Grieg's Piano Concerto along with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, courtesy of a piano-roll recording of his performance whose tempo was controlled live by an operator (to ensure piano and Orchestra kept together). At the time I was amazed at the subtleties of performance that the roll had captured. I had assumed (knowing next to nothing about them) that piano rolls were a crude digital version, with little or no intonation, but this was (to my poor ears) as impressive as a live performance.
However, while Douglas was under contractual obligation to deliver a script, the contract didn't specify when. So Douglas sat on it. and sat on it. and sat on it. and basically refused to finish it unless another person was attached to the project. I believe that is where it stood when he died...
No, this is incorrect. What happened was Douglas eventually decided it was going nowhere and bought back the rights with his own money. After that he tried setting it up with Mike Nesmith before eventually teaming up with Spyglass Entertainment and Jay Roach. He spent the last few years of his life working on a new screenplay for the movie, and even moved to Santa Barbara to make working on the movie easier.
He's kind of like a mirror service then?
Not really. He's more like the disk full of checksums. And about as useful on his own.
However, how much of that reduction was due to the banks now refusing to pay out in cases of CC fraud, claiming that you must have given your PIN to someone in your family, and it's them taking the money? That's the downside of the PIN - at least with a signature, *you* can prove that the signature isn't yours, but with a PIN you've got no chance.
It's just a pity that Bill Thompson, who represents the BBC is such a fool.
Well, he only represents the BBC in that he writes an occasional column. And part of the reason for running a column is to elict reaction, which I suspect he does regularly. But don't expect reasoned argument or technical accuracy.
Also, what people seem to forget is that while you are allowed to time-shift broadcasts, you're not actually allowed to keep them indefinitely (at least under UK copyright law).
I'm pretty sure you're wrong about this. When the copyright laws were being revised in the mid-eighties, they considered putting in a 'time-shifting' clause which would specifically allow for time-shifting, but would mandate a limit on the time you'd be allowed to keep the tape. In the event, this clause never made it into legislation, mainly because it was stupid and unenforceable.
It is a BBC badge, based on a scan of mine, I believe. At least, I sent the art department a scan of mine when they asked for one, so I assume that's what they used.
"We are contemporizing it, taking these ideas that were ahead of the curve and applying them to the present, and we feel the film now has a chance to resonate with a young audience."
This is supposed to be a writer speaking?
If Fax Your MP doesn't work out, how about a more traditional way to influence your government? Fix Your MP
Unless, of course, your competition is the last(?) installment of Star Wars. Who in their right mind is going to open another sci-fi movie against that?
The Hitchhiker's Guide movie is opening two weeks before Episode III. I'm in two minds whether this is a good thing or not.
The Lion King is a story pathetically stolen from Osamu Tezuka
Really? I'd always assumed they ripped it off from Shakespeare's Hamlet.
"I don't hold much hope for the movie ... the TV series was pretty awful."
Lucky that a) the movie is not being made by the same people who made the TV Series and b) its budget is about 100 times bigger.
Reference: Louis Armstrong's "What A Wonderful World" was the music played at the very end of the 1980 BBC TV series.
And in the original radio series, at the end of the first series.
David Fincher? Michel Gondry?
Good thing the producer and director, most of the crew and much of the cast are British, then.
Hey! Watch the spoilers!
Well, it *is* being filmed on the George Lucas stage at Elstree. Does that count?
On h2g2 there's more movie stuff, including an interview with the director and producer, and a short clip of behind the scenes as the first scene is filmed.
And the other part was that the man was a raving alcoholic.
No he wasn't.
Just to correct something in the story itself - it cites the h2g2 entry as 'pretty much straight out of 'The Salmon of Doubt' but in fact, it was the other way around. TSOD is a collection of previously unpublished writings, several of which originally appeared on h2g2, the website Douglas founded in 1999.
If you check the date on the h2g2 article you'll see it was written in 1999, two years before he died. The Salmon of Doubt was published posthumously.
" An estimated 3 million people illegally watch satellite television using devices that unscramble satellite TV signals. The industry estimates it loses $4 billion a year in revenue."
Is that right? Satellite TV costs well over $1000 a year? No wonder people don't want to pay for it.
They can't possibly be worried about lost ad revenue, because those people are all watching the ads.
Weasel maths, I'm guessing.