At this point, I think people investing in SCO are probably more concerned about winning the IBM trial than the company being profitable on it's current business. So SCO posts a loss. It's core business is bunk (it's other business is bunk too, but the investors don't seem to know that yet).
They must've known that doing something like that would eventually get them reported somewhere. Granted, slashdot readers do not constitute the public en masse, but sometimes with smaller films (especially sometimes with films like Shaolin Soccer, which isn't likely to become any sort of Hollywood-class blockbuster in the theatres), the best publicity one can get is with word-of-mouth. But word-of-mouth has to start somewhere, and the best place tends to be the fans of the movie in the first place.
So in essence, they've now ticked off some of the fans by looking like they want to control the exclusive rights to distribution of the movie in their region, going so far as to stop imports. To a certain extent, region coding was supposed to enforce that. Obviously, however, Miramax took it into their own hands to go a step further. They aren't the first to do so, actually (I had an auction cancelled on eBay for an import DVD that I was bidding on because a company was going to release the DVD domestically - I'll spare the company by not naming them or the title here). But seriously, anime companies don't try to stop imports from Japan of their titles, and would be foolish to do so. They know better. Miramax apparently doesn't, and it might just come back to haunt them, though in all likelihood, it'll mean little.
1 Year seems a hair arbitrary, though. In all honesty, I have compassion for some companies who can't get a product out within a year. Anime companies are typically known for taking the better part of 9 months to get releases out, because it does take time.
However, it probably would make sense to be putting "distribute by" clauses inside the contract. Maybe not 12 months, but maybe by 18 months, or almost certainly 24 months. If the companies start taking longer than that, then I think the offering company should have the right to revoke w/o penalty and choose a different distributor, if they wish.
In any case, it's obviously a contract issue, and not anything that should be legislated like that.
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So you want us to take the print press releases they sent out and dump them in front of their door?
This will probably subject me to some flames, but replace "mob / coercive organization" with "union" or "business", and suddenly, you're in serious trouble. Since unions have a bad habit of liking to pressure their members to vote a certain way, adding something that can trace the member's vote would be suddenly very disturbing.
REDMOND, Wash. -- Apr. 19, 2004 -- Today Microsoft Corp. announced a new $20 million advertising campaign for their Microsoft Windows(R) Server 2003 family.
The campaign will use pop-under windows as the core of their advertising campaign. Utilizing a little-known bypass for their banner pop-up blocker mechanism in upcoming versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft will take 100% of the available pop-up banner impressions available for users. "This is a great day for Microsoft," said Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates. "Finally, our users will be able to view only those ads that our company sees fit to display to users."
About Microsoft
Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq "MSFT") is the worldwide leader in software, services and Internet technologies for personal and business computing. The company offers a wide range of products and services designed to empower people through great software -- any time, any place and on any device.
That's a new one, as far as I know. But I don't know how people would necessarily treat that. Flashing red & yellow quickly alternately doesn't mean anything about an emergency vehicle according to CA handbooks, I believe. I've never seen that pattern for sure.
I've seen enough people already disregard the common rule about treating a traffic light as a 4-way stop when the lights are out (they just blow through like it's green for everyone). You try to introduce a new rule into the drivers handbooks that deal with the light patterns. I bet you there'd be trouble.
I'm pretty sure it was a Diebold machine that I voted on for the gubernatorial recall election in LA County (they had early touchscreen voting down here).
Does this mean I can have my vote thrown out and put Gary Coleman in the governorship instead?:P
That's obviously only one example, and it's the only one that I knew for sure of. Obviously, there are other problems besides that one. It's unlikely that all of the software components that MS used for the XBox (and by extension, MS software in general) are written in any kind of hardware independant way. However, that's certainly something new that I wasn't aware of, so thanks.
There's a definite possibility of that, I think. Just the fact that the processor deals with memory in a big-endian way probably'll create havoc (think about the problems talked about moving VirtualPC to G5).
Since DirectX is supposed to be tied a bit to the hardware, one could predict a rewrite of that being necessary, though perhaps the OS might not need to be (after all, just because the XBox uses Win2K at its core doesn't mean that the XBox2 can't use a custom-written kernel).
Basically, if the hardware is designed custom, you can make up for the costs in the long run by manufacturing lots of chips. Costs go down. While if MS went with Intel or AMD, the likely conclusion is that MS would've gone with stock chips.
On the other hand, that logic fails to make sense considering that IBM would be using a G5 based core, supposedly. But there's probably more to this than these rumors.
Think about it. At this point, if their case really is that bad, what do they have to lose by pushing the envelope? I don't think this is a move that necessarily hurts their case, per se. And if they were to somehow win in the courts, they'd make off with a fortune
And to anyone who says that they have absolutely no chance in court, because the law is clearly on the other side, just remember how many
id judgments have come out of this court system.
Don't install computer hardware while drunk. It'll sure be funny in the morning, but only if you haven't managed to plug things in such a way that they don't blow up.
Don't install computer hardware with all the components plugged in AND on. Yeah, I know that it's good practice to keep the plug in while holding the computer case for installing components so you stay grounded, but when it's all on, I'm sure something's liable to fry. Of course, USB might be an exception, but considering how often hot-plugging USB stuff crashes my comp, it might be best to stay away from that, too.;)
Don't install components while having sex. Either your SO doesn't care, or he/she is the biggest geek ever, and you're one lucky person.
Don't install components while eating a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. I tried that once. It wasn't pretty.
See, you didn't need to read that article at all. Let's keep up the slashdot tradition!
Imagining each one of those came with just a little bit of Steve Job's Reality Distortion Field, someone from NASA might want to head over there and make sure that some kind of tear in space/time doesn't occur right there. With that many G5s, we don't know what level of destruction could happen.
Hey hey hey... I like my dark crawl spaces. Being a reflective display means a light would be necessary to view it. Maybe they could backlight this too, though.
It may take a real hacker to break into Linux, but as has been iterated many times before, poor security procedure can make it a lot easier to do serious damage once you're in.
A solid operating system with an insecure security setup is still an insecure system, nonetheless.
That'd be interesting, except it's significantly harder to figure out what percentage of attacks are unsuccessful. Unless you have enough server admins out there, scouring every log entry for something that would correspond to an attack, how can one be sure how many attacks were attempted at all?
How incomplete would all these comments be without mentioning modelm.org, probably the uber-fansite about the favorite keyboard. The mboard that pimps, indeed.
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At this point, I think people investing in SCO are probably more concerned about winning the IBM trial than the company being profitable on it's current business. So SCO posts a loss. It's core business is bunk (it's other business is bunk too, but the investors don't seem to know that yet).
So in essence, they've now ticked off some of the fans by looking like they want to control the exclusive rights to distribution of the movie in their region, going so far as to stop imports. To a certain extent, region coding was supposed to enforce that. Obviously, however, Miramax took it into their own hands to go a step further. They aren't the first to do so, actually (I had an auction cancelled on eBay for an import DVD that I was bidding on because a company was going to release the DVD domestically - I'll spare the company by not naming them or the title here). But seriously, anime companies don't try to stop imports from Japan of their titles, and would be foolish to do so. They know better. Miramax apparently doesn't, and it might just come back to haunt them, though in all likelihood, it'll mean little.
However, it probably would make sense to be putting "distribute by" clauses inside the contract. Maybe not 12 months, but maybe by 18 months, or almost certainly 24 months. If the companies start taking longer than that, then I think the offering company should have the right to revoke w/o penalty and choose a different distributor, if they wish.
In any case, it's obviously a contract issue, and not anything that should be legislated like that.
So you want us to take the print press releases they sent out and dump them in front of their door?
These are getting seriously out of hand...
Yeah, well, now that slashdot readers know about it, there's no way anyone's going to be able to get a bargain on that die too...
Rats, and I was really hoping to surprise a friend with that too. Nothing says "I'm a geek" more than a nearly two-millenia old d20.
Um, you might want to keep your eyes on your mailbox for a cease-and-desist letter for revealing all of their source code.
This will probably subject me to some flames, but replace "mob / coercive organization" with "union" or "business", and suddenly, you're in serious trouble. Since unions have a bad habit of liking to pressure their members to vote a certain way, adding something that can trace the member's vote would be suddenly very disturbing.
The campaign will use pop-under windows as the core of their advertising campaign. Utilizing a little-known bypass for their banner pop-up blocker mechanism in upcoming versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft will take 100% of the available pop-up banner impressions available for users. "This is a great day for Microsoft," said Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates. "Finally, our users will be able to view only those ads that our company sees fit to display to users."
About Microsoft
Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq "MSFT") is the worldwide leader in software, services and Internet technologies for personal and business computing. The company offers a wide range of products and services designed to empower people through great software -- any time, any place and on any device.
I've seen enough people already disregard the common rule about treating a traffic light as a 4-way stop when the lights are out (they just blow through like it's green for everyone). You try to introduce a new rule into the drivers handbooks that deal with the light patterns. I bet you there'd be trouble.
I'm pretty sure it was a Diebold machine that I voted on for the gubernatorial recall election in LA County (they had early touchscreen voting down here). Does this mean I can have my vote thrown out and put Gary Coleman in the governorship instead? :P
That's obviously only one example, and it's the only one that I knew for sure of. Obviously, there are other problems besides that one. It's unlikely that all of the software components that MS used for the XBox (and by extension, MS software in general) are written in any kind of hardware independant way. However, that's certainly something new that I wasn't aware of, so thanks.
Since DirectX is supposed to be tied a bit to the hardware, one could predict a rewrite of that being necessary, though perhaps the OS might not need to be (after all, just because the XBox uses Win2K at its core doesn't mean that the XBox2 can't use a custom-written kernel).
His post is here.
Basically, if the hardware is designed custom, you can make up for the costs in the long run by manufacturing lots of chips. Costs go down. While if MS went with Intel or AMD, the likely conclusion is that MS would've gone with stock chips. On the other hand, that logic fails to make sense considering that IBM would be using a G5 based core, supposedly. But there's probably more to this than these rumors.
Think about it. At this point, if their case really is that bad, what do they have to lose by pushing the envelope? I don't think this is a move that necessarily hurts their case, per se. And if they were to somehow win in the courts, they'd make off with a fortune
And to anyone who says that they have absolutely no chance in court, because the law is clearly on the other side, just remember how many id judgments have come out of this court system.
See, you didn't need to read that article at all. Let's keep up the slashdot tradition!
Oh God.
Imagining each one of those came with just a little bit of Steve Job's Reality Distortion Field, someone from NASA might want to head over there and make sure that some kind of tear in space/time doesn't occur right there. With that many G5s, we don't know what level of destruction could happen.
Hey hey hey... I like my dark crawl spaces. Being a reflective display means a light would be necessary to view it. Maybe they could backlight this too, though.
It may take a real hacker to break into Linux, but as has been iterated many times before, poor security procedure can make it a lot easier to do serious damage once you're in.
A solid operating system with an insecure security setup is still an insecure system, nonetheless.
That'd be interesting, except it's significantly harder to figure out what percentage of attacks are unsuccessful. Unless you have enough server admins out there, scouring every log entry for something that would correspond to an attack, how can one be sure how many attacks were attempted at all?
She isn't the head of the RIAA anymore, remember?
...instead of being afraid that officials'll crackdown on this and kill his livelihood?
Pretty, and geeky. There's only one question that the legion of slashdotters must ask... Will you marry me? Please?
How incomplete would all these comments be without mentioning modelm.org, probably the uber-fansite about the favorite keyboard. The mboard that pimps, indeed.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=1 209&e=5&u=/afp/20030508/tc_afp/japan_game_sega_com pany&sid=96001015
This is getting disturbing, to say the least.