The entire Disney empire was built on someone else's stories. And they are doing everything they can to keep someone else from doing the same.
Say a thing five times and a must be true --- or maybe not.
In 2013 Philip Pullman published a new English translation of 50 classic tales from the Brothers Grimm. In 450 pages. You won't find Disney's "Snow White" in there or Humperdinck's "Hansel and Gretel." Not in any recognizable form. Not if you are being honest about the thing.
ImDB lists about 200 film. musical comedy and television productions based on "Cinderella." Disney owns the rights to maybe four of them.
For now. It's still M$, meaning it likely won't end well.
Still spelling Microsoft with the Dollar sign? How retro can you get?
Other tech sites have grown out of this kind of adolescent nonsense. Slashdot never. Which is one of the reasons why the site it is fading into irrelevance.
It would have been helpful to post this story before 5 PM ET on the Fourth. Picnics. Concerts in the Park. Fireworks later, Lots of things to do, I'm at my desk but not for long.
Elon Musk, in the person of his company, explicitly said this was not a hands-off system.
The problem is that Eton Musk is a high-voltage promoter. There is very little caution in what he says or implies as an individual. I am not af all surprised that people believe his Autodrive system is more mature and capable than it really is.
We can only hope for and wait for the total downfall and collapse of the US economy, before this madnes ends.
Disney can produce a film like Zootopia, distribute it globally, and sell a billion dollars worth of tickets. Disney can repeat and do it three times in one year You think just maybe India, Japan, China might be wondering why the lightening never strikes them --- and if they had a marketable export product in the Arts and Culture, where do you think they would come down on IP?
I am betting that it would be right where we are now.
Jefferson was an aristocrat wholly dependent on slave labor. He spoke for a pre-industrial agrarian society that would ultimately be destroyed by the Machine --- and the Machine was the creation of those who did believe in IP.
Jefferson had the good life handed to him on a plate. The kid up North? He had to work for it.
This is injustice handed to the people by the state. Once again, the state settles problems for corporations at the expense of the average citizen.
The average citizen never gave a dawn about Linux on the PS3. Best guess I heard at the time was about15,000 --- based on downloads of a PS3 distribution. That is why you take SONY into court on your own. But you are bound by the way you frame your case and the remedies which are available. If you are suing for damages you have to prove you've been damaged. I'm sorry you can't do that, but now it's too late. You're stuck for it.
Our "democratic" process is just an elaborate dog-and-pony show designed to make us feel like we have a voice in governance, when really the only voiced that matter are those of the super-rich.
I am sick of what passes as "Insightful" to the geek's adolescent mind.
You win political battles by getting up out of the trenches and fighting them. You find allies, you build coalitions. You put people on the ground and you keep them there. You are realistic about which issues matter to your city, your state, your country as a whole.
You claim to have a brain? Use it.
Leave trash-talk about bribery to political imbeciles like Trump.
There are no bandwidth caps on delivery through Amazon Prime. 4K Blu-ray quality HDR video with theatrical sound? Not a problem. Exclusive streaming-media deals? Not a problem if you pre-order the disk.
Hardware sates of Steam Machines have been pathetic. WIn 10 adoption by Steam gamers is about 40%, Linux a bare 1%. The only real surprise in the Steam Hardware and Software surveys is OSX at 3%. Nothing ever moves the numbers for Linux.
I don't even want a regular TV. I watch Netflix on a 25" monitor that I plug into a laptop.
Ah, the single life. Still thinking like you are living out of the dorm. But for social engagements with your wife and kids, friends and family, you are going to need that big screen TV and the sound bar to match --- say hello to the pre-order Disney Blu Ray from Amazon Prime, and goodbye to the rip off from the Pirate Bay.
The smart TV has become standard in all but the smallest screen sizes. If you are shopping for a new set, 4K UHD in large screen sizes is becoming very affordable and those are all smart sets and that isn't changing no matter how loudly the geek bitches and moans.
It is a marketable feature that adds next to nothing to the cost.
The geek may enjoy trying to get multiple devices to interconnect properly, wired or wirelessly, ideally with seamless remote control, but most people don't have the time or patience to set that up. If the Netflix app is one click away, it gets used.
It doesn't matter what tokens you are carrying --- poker chips, playing cards, a pocketful of dice ---- once it becomes obvious that money is being moved along with them.
All releases will still be available via the usual free channels, worldwide, downloadable without streaming, and likely to work on any device you might care to copy them too.
I am not going to waste my time searching the P2P nets for a serviceable rip when the HD or 4K stream is one click away on Netflix. Not after having made the investment in theatrical quality sound and video and the Netflix app is on screen.
Exclusives are never exclusive forever in this business:
Essentially what this means is that right after movies hit the shelves on DVD and Blu Ray, they will make their way to Netflix and will never make it to other streaming services as long as the deal is in place. The movies will be available exclusively to stream on Netflix for the same period of time that they would usually be shown on standard cable TV, so though the movies will eventually find their way to more traditional outlets, it will be an even longer wait than usual.
I am not crying any tears for Amazon. Films from the Disney collective have dominated home video sales since their first release on VHS. Zootopia will be released on June 7th and pre-sales of the DVD/Bllu-ray/Blu-ray 3D have already made the film a top ten/top 100 bestseller.
Though things could get interesting when Disney makes its move in 4K.
The real test of a movie is how well it performs in the first and second weeks after launch. Word of mouth and all that. Some films like How To Train Your Dragon can recover from a weak opening and show extraordinary strength down the road, but that doesn't happen very often.
The Tomatometer rates Angry Birds at a Rotten 43%. Zootopia, Fresh, at 98%, The Jungle Book, Fresh, at 95% ---- and. if you have taken your kids out to see Zooptopia and The Jungle Book, there isn't much of anything else out there for them right now.
Disney doesn't need Angry Birds.
Not when it is adding originals like Zootopia, Frozen, and Wreak-It Ralph to its animated cannon and vivid live-action remakes of films like Cinderella and The Jungle Book. Not after it after added Pixar, The Marvel Cinematic Universe, Star Wars and Indiana Jones to its roster.
For any competent user that is able to use a debugger the ability to actually figure out what is broken, and save significant amount of time doing so, is something that doesn't work for closed source software.
A debugger is a programmer's tool, not a user's tool --- and debugging a program of even modest complexity is not a trivial problem.
Close source embraces a philosophy that any outsider is not competent and the product is pure magic.
The product is not magic, but understanding does not come easy. You could say with a fair amount of truth that the core developers of an ambitious and successful open source project are no less contemptuous of the outsider who has nothing much to offer and butts in where he is not welcome.
Desktop Linux is getting to a point where it is viable for day to day work tasks, and gaming is becoming not just a wish, but actually something coming around (slowly but surely).
If it was coming around any slower, it would be going backwards.
The Mac Mini is hot right now at Amazon ---- well, as hot as it gets for a desktop these days ---- and there appear to be some good values in entry-level Win 10 gaming systems.
Linux has about 2% of the desktop market, Windows 10, 15%. Desktop Operating System Market Share - April 2016 A desktop market in decline is not healthy for Linux, which has always been starved of OEM support. Microsoft plays well with Linux if you are managing a server.
But it is also doing spectacularly well on the desktop side selling things like MS Office as a service.
Fury Road featured a bunch of strong women, so feminists loved it. That's why George Miller got to be the token male.
I got news for you kid, there are quite a few males around who liked "Fury Road." Looking at the return at the box office Disney has been seeing, strong female leads in sci-fi and fantasy films --- live action and animation and targeting audiences of all ages --- is something the geek is going to have to get used to.
The whole point of pre-trial proceedings is to frame the issues in a way that a judge and jury can understand them. If you are not focused, if you are not making yourself clear, this is the time and place to fix the problem.
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The entire Disney empire was built on someone else's stories. And they are doing everything they can to keep someone else from doing the same.
Say a thing five times and a must be true --- or maybe not.
In 2013 Philip Pullman published a new English translation of 50 classic tales from the Brothers Grimm. In 450 pages. You won't find Disney's "Snow White" in there or Humperdinck's "Hansel and Gretel." Not in any recognizable form. Not if you are being honest about the thing.
ImDB lists about 200 film. musical comedy and television productions based on "Cinderella." Disney owns the rights to maybe four of them.
This is merely to put the final nail in Bernie's coffin.
Clinton won 60% of the primary vote in California. Sanders 43%. That was the final nail in Bernie's coffin.
For now. It's still M$, meaning it likely won't end well.
Still spelling Microsoft with the Dollar sign? How retro can you get?
Other tech sites have grown out of this kind of adolescent nonsense. Slashdot never. Which is one of the reasons why the site it is fading into irrelevance.
On the contrary; it would clear a path for Sanders to become the Democratic nominee, and in a Sanders vs. Trump election, Sanders would win.
Sanders is the geek's candidate -- another word for that is "Loser."
It would have been helpful to post this story before 5 PM ET on the Fourth. Picnics. Concerts in the Park. Fireworks later, Lots of things to do, I'm at my desk but not for long.
Elon Musk, in the person of his company, explicitly said this was not a hands-off system.
The problem is that Eton Musk is a high-voltage promoter. There is very little caution in what he says or implies as an individual. I am not af all surprised that people believe his Autodrive system is more mature and capable than it really is.
We can only hope for and wait for the total downfall and collapse of the US economy, before this madnes ends.
Disney can produce a film like Zootopia, distribute it globally, and sell a billion dollars worth of tickets. Disney can repeat and do it three times in one year You think just maybe India, Japan, China might be wondering why the lightening never strikes them --- and if they had a marketable export product in the Arts and Culture, where do you think they would come down on IP?
I am betting that it would be right where we are now.
There is a problem in quoting Jefferson on IP.
Jefferson was an aristocrat wholly dependent on slave labor. He spoke for a pre-industrial agrarian society that would ultimately be destroyed by the Machine --- and the Machine was the creation of those who did believe in IP.
Jefferson had the good life handed to him on a plate. The kid up North? He had to work for it.
This is injustice handed to the people by the state. Once again, the state settles problems for corporations at the expense of the average citizen.
The average citizen never gave a dawn about Linux on the PS3. Best guess I heard at the time was about15,000 --- based on downloads of a PS3 distribution. That is why you take SONY into court on your own. But you are bound by the way you frame your case and the remedies which are available. If you are suing for damages you have to prove you've been damaged. I'm sorry you can't do that, but now it's too late. You're stuck for it.
Wireless is everywhere and corded is going away. It isn't just the headphone jack and it isn't just the smartphone.
Our "democratic" process is just an elaborate dog-and-pony show designed to make us feel like we have a voice in governance, when really the only voiced that matter are those of the super-rich.
I am sick of what passes as "Insightful" to the geek's adolescent mind.
You win political battles by getting up out of the trenches and fighting them. You find allies, you build coalitions. You put people on the ground and you keep them there. You are realistic about which issues matter to your city, your state, your country as a whole.
You claim to have a brain? Use it.
Leave trash-talk about bribery to political imbeciles like Trump.
Why does anything need an optical drive in 2016?
There are no bandwidth caps on delivery through Amazon Prime. 4K Blu-ray quality HDR video with theatrical sound? Not a problem. Exclusive streaming-media deals? Not a problem if you pre-order the disk.
The naked greed in these posts has me wondering --- and not for the first time --- whether the geek ever really grows out of adolescence.
That just a natural response to steam/linux.
Hardware sates of Steam Machines have been pathetic. WIn 10 adoption by Steam gamers is about 40%, Linux a bare 1%. The only real surprise in the Steam Hardware and Software surveys is OSX at 3%. Nothing ever moves the numbers for Linux.
I don't even want a regular TV. I watch Netflix on a 25" monitor that I plug into a laptop.
Ah, the single life. Still thinking like you are living out of the dorm. But for social engagements with your wife and kids, friends and family, you are going to need that big screen TV and the sound bar to match --- say hello to the pre-order Disney Blu Ray from Amazon Prime, and goodbye to the rip off from the Pirate Bay.
This is a case of a bad headline and summary. The article refers only to one customer's laptop, but it makes it look like it applied to all laptops.
This is Slashdot.
Where you are free to bash Win 10 at every opportunity --- even if you have to stretch the truth some, a little or a lot, to make things fit.
The smart TV has become standard in all but the smallest screen sizes. If you are shopping for a new set, 4K UHD in large screen sizes is becoming very affordable and those are all smart sets and that isn't changing no matter how loudly the geek bitches and moans.
It is a marketable feature that adds next to nothing to the cost.
The geek may enjoy trying to get multiple devices to interconnect properly, wired or wirelessly, ideally with seamless remote control, but most people don't have the time or patience to set that up. If the Netflix app is one click away, it gets used.
It doesn't matter what tokens you are carrying --- poker chips, playing cards, a pocketful of dice ---- once it becomes obvious that money is being moved along with them.
All releases will still be available via the usual free channels, worldwide, downloadable without streaming, and likely to work on any device you might care to copy them too.
I am not going to waste my time searching the P2P nets for a serviceable rip when the HD or 4K stream is one click away on Netflix. Not after having made the investment in theatrical quality sound and video and the Netflix app is on screen.
Exclusives are never exclusive forever in this business:
Essentially what this means is that right after movies hit the shelves on DVD and Blu Ray, they will make their way to Netflix and will never make it to other streaming services as long as the deal is in place. The movies will be available exclusively to stream on Netflix for the same period of time that they would usually be shown on standard cable TV, so though the movies will eventually find their way to more traditional outlets, it will be an even longer wait than usual.
Netflix Gets Disney, Marvel, Star Wars Exclusively in September
I am not crying any tears for Amazon. Films from the Disney collective have dominated home video sales since their first release on VHS. Zootopia will be released on June 7th and pre-sales of the DVD/Bllu-ray/Blu-ray 3D have already made the film a top ten/top 100 bestseller.
Though things could get interesting when Disney makes its move in 4K.
The real test of a movie is how well it performs in the first and second weeks after launch. Word of mouth and all that. Some films like How To Train Your Dragon can recover from a weak opening and show extraordinary strength down the road, but that doesn't happen very often.
The Tomatometer rates Angry Birds at a Rotten 43%. Zootopia, Fresh, at 98%, The Jungle Book, Fresh, at 95% ---- and. if you have taken your kids out to see Zooptopia and The Jungle Book, there isn't much of anything else out there for them right now.
Disney doesn't need Angry Birds.
Not when it is adding originals like Zootopia, Frozen, and Wreak-It Ralph to its animated cannon and vivid live-action remakes of films like Cinderella and The Jungle Book. Not after it after added Pixar, The Marvel Cinematic Universe, Star Wars and Indiana Jones to its roster.
For any competent user that is able to use a debugger the ability to actually figure out what is broken, and save significant amount of time doing so, is something that doesn't work for closed source software.
A debugger is a programmer's tool, not a user's tool --- and debugging a program of even modest complexity is not a trivial problem.
Close source embraces a philosophy that any outsider is not competent and the product is pure magic.
The product is not magic, but understanding does not come easy. You could say with a fair amount of truth that the core developers of an ambitious and successful open source project are no less contemptuous of the outsider who has nothing much to offer and butts in where he is not welcome.
Desktop Linux is getting to a point where it is viable for day to day work tasks, and gaming is becoming not just a wish, but actually something coming around (slowly but surely).
If it was coming around any slower, it would be going backwards.
Steam Hardware & Software Survey: April 2016
Windows All 95% Down 0.3%
Windows 10 64 Bit 38% Up 1.4%
OSX 3.6% Up 0.3%
Linux 0.9% No change
Ubuntu All 0.4%
The "Steam Machine?" Doesn't seem to catching on:
Alienware Steam Machine ASM100-2980BLK Desktop Console #3,546 in Computers & Accessories, #172 in Computers & Accessories > Desktops > Towers [7:10 PM ET May 21]
The Mac Mini is hot right now at Amazon ---- well, as hot as it gets for a desktop these days ---- and there appear to be some good values in entry-level Win 10 gaming systems.
Linux has about 2% of the desktop market, Windows 10, 15%. Desktop Operating System Market Share - April 2016 A desktop market in decline is not healthy for Linux, which has always been starved of OEM support. Microsoft plays well with Linux if you are managing a server.
But it is also doing spectacularly well on the desktop side selling things like MS Office as a service.
Fury Road featured a bunch of strong women, so feminists loved it. That's why George Miller got to be the token male.
I got news for you kid, there are quite a few males around who liked "Fury Road." Looking at the return at the box office Disney has been seeing, strong female leads in sci-fi and fantasy films --- live action and animation and targeting audiences of all ages --- is something the geek is going to have to get used to.
The whole point of pre-trial proceedings is to frame the issues in a way that a judge and jury can understand them. If you are not focused, if you are not making yourself clear, this is the time and place to fix the problem.