Frank Herbert wrote 6 Dune novels. I love them. Some of the grandest Sci Fi ever written! Now, Brian Herbert and Kevin J Anderson are writting a bunch of books using the Dune universe. All a series of trilogies. The "Prelude to Dune" books focused on the major families of the Dune universe, the "Legends of Dune" Trilogy, currently in production, focuses on the events and sciences that shaped the Dune universe (Mentants, sheid technology, etc).
Personnally, I don't have time for any of them. Brian is not Frank in either imagination or skill. Not that this is a major insult, Frank was a master.
However, Brian did recently find his father's COMPLETE OUTLINE for Dune 7. So, Brian and Kevin will write that, which I will gladly purchase, after they are done with their prequels. Hurry up guys!
Mariner 1 (that was intended to orbit around Venus) went off course and crashed (splashed?) into the Atlantic because of an omitted comma in the COBOL guidance program.
This is swaying off the specifics of the case a bit, but... As someone who is a firm lover of art and literarure, as well as a believer in an author/artists ownership of their creation, I don't understand the belief that copyright should be extended past the creater's death. I'm assuming it started as income for the survivors. However, a window washer's widow does not continue to take in income from her late husbands previously washed windows. And children... should probably learn how to earn their own living. I don't see why being the son of an author that had to work hard their whole life suddenly makes you able to sit on your ass your whole life.
Since I changed my phone # last year, I started no giving out my phone # to anyone but my friends. Those little "registration cards" you get when you buy a VCR (or any other gadget), I put down a 555 #. When was the last time RCA called you and asked if your dishwasher you registered was working out for you? Since then, I haven't recieved any telemarketing calls.
I did work for a telemarketer for awhile (right out of high school, I didn't know any better) that just called randon #s with the right pre-fix for the town. Half the calls you made were not real #s. Once you had them, you asked for the "head of the household".
This sort of thing worked for e-mail too. I changed my e-mail, used a hotmail account for giving out to companies. I have recieved 0 SPAM e-mails since I did so a year ago. There's 200 e-mails a week in my hotmail account, but I only log in once a week to delete the whole works without giving it a second thought.
Can't believe I'm taking the time to reply to this, but Scripture does not say that there is not life on other planets. It only outlines the beginning of life on Earth. In fact, that whole damn book is rather Earth-centric.
Another thing to keep in mind, is that ESD issues are not the same the world over. Because of different climates, some areas of the world are virtually immune to ESD. Unfortunately, these are regions of the world were we are having our sensitive circuits borads designed and built. They don't even understand our concern over ESD! When these parts are used in the USA, they get fried relatively easily.
Most of what we know about the universe has been found out right here on Earth by analyzing light spectra. The "what's the point if we can't go there" attitude isn't beneficial to anyone. The more information we have, the more comprehensive our theories about the universe will be.
They really should have fought that case in court to shut up jerks like that. Many cases have been fought and won when the claim was ridiculous enough so that "no reasonable person would beleive it" (I belive is how the legal wording goes". The Pepsi Harrier case would definitely fall underneath that heading. Now there is legal precident for other cases to be won by other crackpots.
Unfortunitly, selling your musis is harder that making your music. I'm pretty on top of the music scene in my area, and know a ton of good musicians - that make good original music. Some of them have even got a tug or two by the "big time" music industry. But, if you have conditions ("making it without selling your soul") it will make it that much harder.
I'm not endorsing selling out, I'm just saying that there are no shortcuts. Keep doing what you're doing, find a manager you agree with that can do the legwork for you while you work on your "soul". Until you do a soundtrack for Disney, you're gonna have to keep pushing it. Hell, if you listen you any sort of alternative/non-top 10 FM radio, most of your favorite musicians are not in a place were they can just retire, even with a national fan base.
What happened to the , just change the mass theory. Not that long ago I remember NASA proposed a method of just taking an intense laser and trimming a few once off the mass of the asteroid, thus changing its trajectory. It seems more feasible than giant air bags.
You know, let them edit their movies for senior citizens and the easily offended Christian right. I will make it a point never to rent from them (although, there location already decided that: a small store in Colorado).
I do think they should, and any altered movie or music, should have a big damn sticker on the front so you know you are getting an altered version. I made the mistake of buying a CD at Wal-Mart once! Sell edited CDs if you want, Wal-Mart, but nowhere on the CD did it state that it was altered from the original version buy putting sound drop outs and bleeps over the "naughty" words. Fine, I'll never buy a CD from Wal-Mart again, be it clean or not. I just don't agree with the policy.
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Personnally, I don't have time for any of them. Brian is not Frank in either imagination or skill. Not that this is a major insult, Frank was a master.
However, Brian did recently find his father's COMPLETE OUTLINE for Dune 7. So, Brian and Kevin will write that, which I will gladly purchase, after they are done with their prequels. Hurry up guys!
of course, if you wanted to pad your bill you could just run a few fractal programs overnight to crank up the CPU time.
Mariner 1 (that was intended to orbit around Venus) went off course and crashed (splashed?) into the Atlantic because of an omitted comma in the COBOL guidance program.
This is swaying off the specifics of the case a bit, but ... As someone who is a firm lover of art and literarure, as well as a believer in an author/artists ownership of their creation, I don't understand the belief that copyright should be extended past the creater's death. I'm assuming it started as income for the survivors. However, a window washer's widow does not continue to take in income from her late husbands previously washed windows. And children ... should probably learn how to earn their own living. I don't see why being the son of an author that had to work hard their whole life suddenly makes you able to sit on your ass your whole life.
Boris may have a difficult time getting into the dino outfit.
Since I changed my phone # last year, I started no giving out my phone # to anyone but my friends. Those little "registration cards" you get when you buy a VCR (or any other gadget), I put down a 555 #. When was the last time RCA called you and asked if your dishwasher you registered was working out for you? Since then, I haven't recieved any telemarketing calls. I did work for a telemarketer for awhile (right out of high school, I didn't know any better) that just called randon #s with the right pre-fix for the town. Half the calls you made were not real #s. Once you had them, you asked for the "head of the household". This sort of thing worked for e-mail too. I changed my e-mail, used a hotmail account for giving out to companies. I have recieved 0 SPAM e-mails since I did so a year ago. There's 200 e-mails a week in my hotmail account, but I only log in once a week to delete the whole works without giving it a second thought.
I wonder if /. will now get sued for running the story. Those PetWarehouse people are sure thorough about suing anyone that may possibly not like them.
Isn't this an oxymoron ("complicated point-and-click toolbars")?
Can't believe I'm taking the time to reply to this, but Scripture does not say that there is not life on other planets. It only outlines the beginning of life on Earth. In fact, that whole damn book is rather Earth-centric.
Man ... I wish I had some ice ... wha ... ahhhh..
Are they sure they're not just ice chunks falling off of MIR? ;-)
Another thing to keep in mind, is that ESD issues are not the same the world over. Because of different climates, some areas of the world are virtually immune to ESD. Unfortunately, these are regions of the world were we are having our sensitive circuits borads designed and built. They don't even understand our concern over ESD! When these parts are used in the USA, they get fried relatively easily.
"So it's a spoofed address. Are you willing to share your real name, address, phone number? Didn't think so."
Then why put up any name and address at all?
I mean, that sucks ass! And not good ass either, I'm talking about some of that old scragily cottage cheese ass!
Ha ha.
Most of what we know about the universe has been found out right here on Earth by analyzing light spectra. The "what's the point if we can't go there" attitude isn't beneficial to anyone. The more information we have, the more comprehensive our theories about the universe will be.
They really should have fought that case in court to shut up jerks like that. Many cases have been fought and won when the claim was ridiculous enough so that "no reasonable person would beleive it" (I belive is how the legal wording goes". The Pepsi Harrier case would definitely fall underneath that heading. Now there is legal precident for other cases to be won by other crackpots.
"If they want to send Britney Spears into space"
... to study the effects of weightlessness on silicone.
... and the winner is ... Lance Bass, who will now shill for Pepsi for the rest of his life!
It's funny how MS can keep adding restriction on top of restriction in their software, and label them as "services".
I'm not endorsing selling out, I'm just saying that there are no shortcuts. Keep doing what you're doing, find a manager you agree with that can do the legwork for you while you work on your "soul". Until you do a soundtrack for Disney, you're gonna have to keep pushing it. Hell, if you listen you any sort of alternative/non-top 10 FM radio, most of your favorite musicians are not in a place were they can just retire, even with a national fan base.
What!? The Statue of Liberty is gone!? Since when?
What happened to the , just change the mass theory. Not that long ago I remember NASA proposed a method of just taking an intense laser and trimming a few once off the mass of the asteroid, thus changing its trajectory. It seems more feasible than giant air bags.
I do think they should, and any altered movie or music, should have a big damn sticker on the front so you know you are getting an altered version. I made the mistake of buying a CD at Wal-Mart once! Sell edited CDs if you want, Wal-Mart, but nowhere on the CD did it state that it was altered from the original version buy putting sound drop outs and bleeps over the "naughty" words. Fine, I'll never buy a CD from Wal-Mart again, be it clean or not. I just don't agree with the policy.