There was a time when almost nobody had internet access. Back then, the internet was a beautiful place.
where the loudest voice to be heard was the Geek on Campus and CompuServe still charged you by the hour.
fifteen years reading posts like these has left me wondering if the true Geek ever loses his adolescent sense of entitlement: that the Internet - by rights - should be his private playground and everything to be found there his for the taking.
So much time wasted over such an abtract, and mostly useless concept.
Corbis was founded by Bill Gates in 1989 and archives over 25 million images in a secured - climate controlled - limestone mine in Pennsylvania.
There are few institutions outside the great national museums that have the resources to do this sort of thing.
The odds are very good that the source of any historically significant, instantly recognizable, image in print will be in the Corbis collections. The Bettmann Archieve
science-fiction cinema seemed to grow up right alongside the literature itself in the '60s, culminating in the ultimate marriage of the two: "2001: A Space Odyssey." Director Stanley Kubrick went right to the source for his visionary classic
The problem with 2001 is that it was and remains chillingly cold and remote from its audience. "Somewhere between hypnotic and immensely boring." Star Wars brought fun and play back into the genre that hadn't been seen since Forbidden Planet.
Starship Troopers was that it was written to satirize the book. The book was about Heinlein's ideal society, while the movie was about tearing it apart.
bring that attitude to your source material and your project is most likely to sink without a trace.
TV as we know it is a rapidly dying market. More than half of the people I know don't have an antenna/cable/satellite TV
and I can't walk six blocks in any direction in this upper middle class sports-minded town without spotting a new satellite dish---which is probably feeding an equally new HDTV. the plural of anecdote is not data.
Gone With The Wind was the year's, prestige, big-ticket, road show for adults. Running three hours with an intermission. Budgeted at $4,000,000 in an era when Stagecoach could be produced for $500,000.
Summer was the off-season.
Theaters were air-conditioned beginning in the 20's, but there was little relief to be had anywhere else.
There is no way in the world that protecting somebody's imaginary "property" is more important than protecting the first amendment.
The First Amendment applies only to actions by the government.
Everyone else is free to censor content spoken or published on their home grounds for whatever reasons they damn well chose. You are not entitled to a soapbox and a megaphone, a printing press or a web blog.
Windows is a commercial OS designed and priced for systems which are entry-level or mid-line at the time of its release. The $500 Vista Basic laptop from Acer. The $900 dual-core Vista Premium laptop from Toshiba.
Hardly. He was just the whiny wannabe PHB who wanted to get paid. Allen did all the work originally; the rest was ripped from Gary Kildall
Gates began programming at age thirteen, at fourteen, he was clearing $20,000 a year at this game. In 1973 he co-authored and published a paper a paper on algorithms with computer scientist Christos Papadimitriou. Bill Gates That is moving damn fast and damn far for a "whiny wannabee."
Microscoft was founded in 1975. In Japan in 1978.
Microsoft was dominant in programming languages for the microcomputer in 1980 and not an unknown quantity to IBM. Gates promised to deliver a serviceable, low-cost, OS in time for the scheduled launch of the PC. Nothing more. But these were the words IBM needed to hear---and they weren't coming from Kildall.
I mean, think about it, 10-15% performance hit is not something these people will accept. They tweak and tune and spend hundreds of dollars to get even that last 5fps out of a game.
I suspect a performance hit is typical for a new OS with immature drivers running on (mostly) legacy hardware.
I also suspect FPS is as much a myth in graphics performance as MHz is in CPU performance.
Every DX10 card must support every DX10 feature. You might see something like physics acceleration appearing outside the DX10 framework. But you will have a more stable platform for development.
The DX10 card at $150-$180 should hit the market in about a month or two.
Beyond DX10 you have a common development platform for Windows and the XBox 360. Much closer ties in Vista between the PC and the console gamer. That is something OGL, OSX and Linux can't deliver.
And apparently Vista will spur OpenAL adoption, as that's the only way to get around Vista's brain-dead DRM'd audio architecture
The only thing Creative has to offer over the integrated audio on a Vista board ia aimulated surround sound. Tell mw why I need that when I can feed real multichannel audio directly to my Yamaha receiver.
*Symantec* released the report. This is not news. This is a Symantec marketing campaign
Tell me again how a more secure Windows OS becomes good news for Symantec.
RHEL...include[s] a lot more software than the base OS for Windows.
Is RHEL equivalent to the baseline Windows install --- and it is really so very different from the typical - not the minimal - Windows enterprise install? Red Hat Enterprise Linux
The US Constitution is pretty clear about fair use; it's the bribed congress that has allowed intellectual property to become seemingly permanent for the benefit of IP aggregating organizations.
I doubt you'll find fair use mentioned anywhere in the Constitution.
You are looking at statutory or judge-made law.
Politicians vote the interests of their constituents. The Kansan wheat and corn. The Texan oil, gas and cattle.
The information and entertainment industries are important to New York, California, Florida, Washington, etc. States both Red and Blue with a very strong say in what gets through Congress.
Why not? As long as there's no way the game can ever reach the code during normal operation it doesn't need to be rated up. As long as the user has to deliberately enable it with a program downloaded from the internet he knows what he's getting himself into (and he could probably download worse things when he's on the internet anyway).
Superficial.
It's too easy to imagine developers leaking the key to the net --- a key that may be little more than a cheat code.
The game code and game assets cost serious time and money to develop. The opposition will conclude --- quite reasonably --- that you were hell-bent on openly pushing the limits of the M-rated game into X-rated territory, but got cold feet at the last minute.
Disney is not the only producer of media in the planet. If you sell a device that only provides their content it will sink faster than you can say "Cinderella"
and if you sell a video device that can't access Disney content from Day 1 you can flush your investment down the toilet.
I thought it was going to be a snap to find a WiFi enabled replacement, so I could program it remotely -- from the basement *or* from the campground. Never did find one.
They didn't think anyone would go poking around in the game files and find it.
I find that difficult to believe.
Rockstar's defense had the look of "plausible deniability." It established a precedent for burning any content into a game, no matter how violent or obscene, so long as the modding community is there to take the fall.
Paying huge sums of money all the time to musicians is a weird phenomenon of the past 50 years
Tickets for Jenny Lind's 1850s concert tours for P.T. Barnum went as high as $150 in Gold. There were also the procceds from sheet music sales and product endorsements to split --yes, that too, even then.
In an era when the composer Stephen Foster was making $1400/yr, a solidly middle class income.
Enrico Caruso's fee for a single solo concert performance in 1919 was $13,200. A Centennial of Sound
The nusic industry in the states (and industry is the right word here) has always been older, bigger and richer than the Geek likes to pretend.
The effect of printed music was similar to the effect of the printed word, in that information spread faster, more efficiently, and to more people than it could through manuscripts. It had the additional effect of encouraging amateur musicians of sufficient means, who could now afford music to perform. This in many ways affected the entire music industry. Composers could now write more music for amateur performers, knowing that it could be distributed. Professional players could have more music at their disposal. It increased the number of amateurs, from whom professional players could then earn money by teaching them. Nevertheless, in the early years the cost of printed music limited its distribution.
In many places the right to print music was granted by the monarch, and only those with a special dispensation were allowed to do so. This was often an honour (and economic boon) granted to favoured court musicians.Sheet Music
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where the loudest voice to be heard was the Geek on Campus and CompuServe still charged you by the hour.
fifteen years reading posts like these has left me wondering if the true Geek ever loses his adolescent sense of entitlement: that the Internet - by rights - should be his private playground and everything to be found there his for the taking.
You haven't the foggiest notion of where Corbis stands in the world of art and design.
Corbis was founded by Bill Gates in 1989 and archives over 25 million images in a secured - climate controlled - limestone mine in Pennsylvania.
There are few institutions outside the great national museums that have the resources to do this sort of thing.
The odds are very good that the source of any historically significant, instantly recognizable, image in print will be in the Corbis collections. The Bettmann Archieve
The problem with 2001 is that it was and remains chillingly cold and remote from its audience. "Somewhere between hypnotic and immensely boring." Star Wars brought fun and play back into the genre that hadn't been seen since Forbidden Planet.
bring that attitude to your source material and your project is most likely to sink without a trace.
in the states, no one.
the leap to widescreen digital HD is being made in one big jump from the console TV little changed since the introduction of color in the 'fifties.
and I can't walk six blocks in any direction in this upper middle class sports-minded town without spotting a new satellite dish---which is probably feeding an equally new HDTV. the plural of anecdote is not data.
GWTW premiered in Atlanta on December 15, 1939. Gone With The Wind
Gone With The Wind was the year's, prestige, big-ticket, road show for adults. Running three hours with an intermission. Budgeted at $4,000,000 in an era when Stagecoach could be produced for $500,000.
Summer was the off-season.
Theaters were air-conditioned beginning in the 20's, but there was little relief to be had anywhere else.
The First Amendment applies only to actions by the government.
Everyone else is free to censor content spoken or published on their home grounds for whatever reasons they damn well chose. You are not entitled to a soapbox and a megaphone, a printing press or a web blog.
To put this in perspective, Harvard's endowment fund is worth about 30 billion dollars.
Windows is a commercial OS designed and priced for systems which are entry-level or mid-line at the time of its release. The $500 Vista Basic laptop from Acer. The $900 dual-core Vista Premium laptop from Toshiba.
Gates began programming at age thirteen, at fourteen, he was clearing $20,000 a year at this game. In 1973 he co-authored and published a paper a paper on algorithms with computer scientist Christos Papadimitriou. Bill Gates That is moving damn fast and damn far for a "whiny wannabee."
Microscoft was founded in 1975. In Japan in 1978.
Microsoft was dominant in programming languages for the microcomputer in 1980 and not an unknown quantity to IBM. Gates promised to deliver a serviceable, low-cost, OS in time for the scheduled launch of the PC. Nothing more. But these were the words IBM needed to hear---and they weren't coming from Kildall.
You snooze, you lose.
so replace the Yamaha with surround sound headphones, a wireless Logitech Z 5450, or whatever other PC or home theater sound system floats your boat.
I suspect a performance hit is typical for a new OS with immature drivers running on (mostly) legacy hardware. I also suspect FPS is as much a myth in graphics performance as MHz is in CPU performance.
Every DX10 card must support every DX10 feature. You might see something like physics acceleration appearing outside the DX10 framework. But you will have a more stable platform for development.
The DX10 card at $150-$180 should hit the market in about a month or two.
Beyond DX10 you have a common development platform for Windows and the XBox 360. Much closer ties in Vista between the PC and the console gamer. That is something OGL, OSX and Linux can't deliver.
The only thing Creative has to offer over the integrated audio on a Vista board ia aimulated surround sound. Tell mw why I need that when I can feed real multichannel audio directly to my Yamaha receiver.
Tell me again how a more secure Windows OS becomes good news for Symantec.
RHEL...include[s] a lot more software than the base OS for Windows.
Is RHEL equivalent to the baseline Windows install --- and it is really so very different from the typical - not the minimal - Windows enterprise install? Red Hat Enterprise Linux
That trying to legislate a market for Microsoft's competitors is a waste of time?
I doubt you'll find fair use mentioned anywhere in the Constitution.
You are looking at statutory or judge-made law.
Politicians vote the interests of their constituents. The Kansan wheat and corn. The Texan oil, gas and cattle.
The information and entertainment industries are important to New York, California, Florida, Washington, etc. States both Red and Blue with a very strong say in what gets through Congress.
Superficial.
It's too easy to imagine developers leaking the key to the net --- a key that may be little more than a cheat code.
The game code and game assets cost serious time and money to develop. The opposition will conclude --- quite reasonably --- that you were hell-bent on openly pushing the limits of the M-rated game into X-rated territory, but got cold feet at the last minute.
and if you sell a video device that can't access Disney content from Day 1 you can flush your investment down the toilet.
Carrier's high-end residential HVAC can be programmed over the net. Climate Control Over the Internet
I find that difficult to believe.
Rockstar's defense had the look of "plausible deniability." It established a precedent for burning any content into a game, no matter how violent or obscene, so long as the modding community is there to take the fall.
Tickets for Jenny Lind's 1850s concert tours for P.T. Barnum went as high as $150 in Gold. There were also the procceds from sheet music sales and product endorsements to split --yes, that too, even then.
In an era when the composer Stephen Foster was making $1400/yr, a solidly middle class income.
Enrico Caruso's fee for a single solo concert performance in 1919 was $13,200. A Centennial of Sound
The nusic industry in the states (and industry is the right word here) has always been older, bigger and richer than the Geek likes to pretend.
and just how much of that "service" was underwritten by the church, the state or the merchant prince?
and shaped as a product to serve their interests?
Then, some guy (named Edison) created an anomily. A peculiar quirk of technology that turned it inot a PRODUCT
like sheet music sales?
I'll take the odds that every American "folk song" you know is of commercial origin. "I've got a mule and her name is Sal. Fifteen miles on the Erie Canal..." "Low Bridge, Everybody Down (The Erie Canal)" by Thomas S. Allen, 1905
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The effect of printed music was similar to the effect of the printed word, in that information spread faster, more efficiently, and to more people than it could through manuscripts. It had the additional effect of encouraging amateur musicians of sufficient means, who could now afford music to perform. This in many ways affected the entire music industry. Composers could now write more music for amateur performers, knowing that it could be distributed. Professional players could have more music at their disposal. It increased the number of amateurs, from whom professional players could then earn money by teaching them. Nevertheless, in the early years the cost of printed music limited its distribution. In many places the right to print music was granted by the monarch, and only those with a special dispensation were allowed to do so. This was often an honour (and economic boon) granted to favoured court musicians. Sheet Music