Actually, I was joking. Braindead (AKA Dead Alive) and Meet the Feebles are two examples of excellent films directed by Jackson. I was a fan of his well before he started with the rings movies.
Heck, if he wanted to film an earthworm orgy it would probably get made, because he has a track record of doing Great Things. When you have that, your movies get made.
Of course, if people paid for the content directly there is no way in hell the MPAA would allow it in theaters because it would demonstrate their uselessness.
I put new stuff up every day, mostly music but anything goes. Users can submit stuff whenever they want.
Heh, I have been meaning to make dates display but haven't had a chance to get to it... You can sort by date though by clicking on "New Stuff".
My favorite bands on there right now are p.s. i love you, no-fi soul rebellion and the fitness. You can find them with the search or alphabetical listings. YMMV, I prefer more pop-like electronic stuff with vocals...
As for music, my tastes are different. I cannot find many free music like trance and dance to download (not streaming due to dial-up). Maybe I am not looking at the right places on the Internet. I tried mp3.com, but their selections stink.
Hmm, actually I have found the opposite to be true. There is a lot of electronic music available for free because all it takes is a computer and time. Music that uses a lot of expensive, real instruments tends to be harder to find.
You can't go into a movie like Re-animator (the most famous "Lovecraft" based movie? hilarious regardless) expecting it to be serious. It is camp. Whether they meant it to be or not if you try and take it serious you will be disgusted.
Thats like expecting the move Hackers to be a serious introduction to the hacking world.
It also teaches them how to kill on command without any thoughts of morality as long as the orders are signed in triplicate. But hey, at least they aren't poor anymore right?
Or it could be that I drive the interstate every day, seeing thousands (literally) of their suckass ugly SUVs.
And the Ford logo on every single one of those SUV's is not advertising? Would you even recognize them as Ford SUV's without any form of advertising? Yeah frickin' right.
Anyway, relax. All I am pointing out is that companies advertise because it works, whether you want to admit it or not.
Some advice, I may one day buy a new car, Ford/Chevy/etc. I may not. Either way, it's totally uninfluenced by your billions of dollars a year in ad money.
Yeah, keep telling yourself that buddy. The fact that you even know what "Ford" and "Chevy" mean is proof that the ads have indeed worked.
I believe "work for hire" development copyrights default to the firm doing the hiring. Technically (IANAL) a written agreement should not be necessary but many businesses do so anyway as a CYA move. It seems really messed up to me that photographers doing a "work for hire" photo session, especially of a private event, should be able to retain the copyrights unless there is some special contract involved.
Pages fixes that. It fills in the same category as things like Word, but goes about things in a sane way. Apple has a text editor already - TextEdit. It's pervasive across the OS X system, and technically I'm using it right now in this Safari text box. Pages is a page layout program that calls on TextEdit (I presume) to do its text functions, QuickTime to handle its graphics functions, and so on.
Actually, that is exactly how Word does it too, via COM. Spreadsheets are just Excel objects etc...
Does Fair Use cover recording things off the TV? That is the ONLY thing the broadcast flag would prevent. Trying to extend this conversation to sharing files over the internet is a strawman.
I figure that once you break 1 million users you are no longer eligible for Beta status. Not that I actually know how many users Gmail has (which is what the gp was obviously referencing).
Yes, when a convicted monopolist bundles software as a tactict to further consolidate their hold on an industry, it is called "anticompetitive".
If you aren't a monopoly, you can bundle 'till the cows come home.
I guess this move is good news for MS then. It is hard to be a monopoly when you have an actual competitor in the same market...
You're right... it must take 10 times longer to count because there are 10 times more ballots... you sure wouldn't think about hiring 10 times more people to count the ballots... that wouldn't be a great idea, right?
Only if you are willing to make the massive assumption that human based processing system scale linearly. In my experience that is is not at all the case.
United States
Population:
295,734,134 (July 2005 est.)
Canada
Population:
32,805,041 (July 2005 est.)* Thats about 10X, fairly significant. The point is that you don't need to count all of them by hand...
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Actually, I was joking. Braindead (AKA Dead Alive) and Meet the Feebles are two examples of excellent films directed by Jackson. I was a fan of his well before he started with the rings movies.
Heck, if he wanted to film an earthworm orgy it would probably get made, because he has a track record of doing Great Things. When you have that, your movies get made.
You have obviously never seen "Bad Taste"!
Of course, if people paid for the content directly there is no way in hell the MPAA would allow it in theaters because it would demonstrate their uselessness.
Ill wait for someone to rip it to an ebook i think.
I know this is a joke but the Gutenberg Project probably does have e-books of everything in this collection.
I put new stuff up every day, mostly music but anything goes. Users can submit stuff whenever they want. Heh, I have been meaning to make dates display but haven't had a chance to get to it... You can sort by date though by clicking on "New Stuff". My favorite bands on there right now are p.s. i love you, no-fi soul rebellion and the fitness. You can find them with the search or alphabetical listings. YMMV, I prefer more pop-like electronic stuff with vocals...
As for music, my tastes are different. I cannot find many free music like trance and dance to download (not streaming due to dial-up). Maybe I am not looking at the right places on the Internet. I tried mp3.com, but their selections stink.
Hmm, actually I have found the opposite to be true. There is a lot of electronic music available for free because all it takes is a computer and time. Music that uses a lot of expensive, real instruments tends to be harder to find.
You can check out my site if you want: Free Legal music/media/software downloads. Check out the music/electronic section under "categories" for electronic stuff.
You can't go into a movie like Re-animator (the most famous "Lovecraft" based movie? hilarious regardless) expecting it to be serious. It is camp. Whether they meant it to be or not if you try and take it serious you will be disgusted.
Thats like expecting the move Hackers to be a serious introduction to the hacking world.
How odd, a rebuttal in a non-checklist format.
But funny mods make yourself and others smile.
:)
I will take that over karma any day
Meh, one adds to your slashdot karma, one adds to your real karma...
It also teaches them how to kill on command without any thoughts of morality as long as the orders are signed in triplicate. But hey, at least they aren't poor anymore right?
Or it could be that I drive the interstate every day, seeing thousands (literally) of their suckass ugly SUVs.
And the Ford logo on every single one of those SUV's is not advertising? Would you even recognize them as Ford SUV's without any form of advertising? Yeah frickin' right.
Anyway, relax. All I am pointing out is that companies advertise because it works, whether you want to admit it or not.
Some advice, I may one day buy a new car, Ford/Chevy/etc. I may not. Either way, it's totally uninfluenced by your billions of dollars a year in ad money.
Yeah, keep telling yourself that buddy. The fact that you even know what "Ford" and "Chevy" mean is proof that the ads have indeed worked.
I tend to dislike people that are too similar to myself.
Of course that could be just because I am pretty stubborn, so it makes getting my way harder if someone else is equally stubborn.
As an aside, I thought the quote actually was "implausible" when I was looking for it. I wanted to be accurate though...
Cassette Tapes on the Wane, except in some of the largest, most densly populated nations on the planet.
When words are outlawed, only outlaws will speak.
Who writes the laws then?
Those are words?!?!
Man can believe the impossible, but can never believe the improbable. - Oscar Wilde
I believe "work for hire" development copyrights default to the firm doing the hiring. Technically (IANAL) a written agreement should not be necessary but many businesses do so anyway as a CYA move. It seems really messed up to me that photographers doing a "work for hire" photo session, especially of a private event, should be able to retain the copyrights unless there is some special contract involved.
Pages fixes that. It fills in the same category as things like Word, but goes about things in a sane way. Apple has a text editor already - TextEdit. It's pervasive across the OS X system, and technically I'm using it right now in this Safari text box. Pages is a page layout program that calls on TextEdit (I presume) to do its text functions, QuickTime to handle its graphics functions, and so on.
Actually, that is exactly how Word does it too, via COM. Spreadsheets are just Excel objects etc...
Does Fair Use cover recording things off the TV? That is the ONLY thing the broadcast flag would prevent. Trying to extend this conversation to sharing files over the internet is a strawman.
Or maybe it really is in beta?
I figure that once you break 1 million users you are no longer eligible for Beta status. Not that I actually know how many users Gmail has (which is what the gp was obviously referencing).
If they had any morality they'd simply pull out of the Chinese market.
Come on now, I think Goog.....oh wait... this one is about MSN. DIE DIE BURN IN HELL!!!!
Yes, when a convicted monopolist bundles software as a tactict to further consolidate their hold on an industry, it is called "anticompetitive". If you aren't a monopoly, you can bundle 'till the cows come home.
I guess this move is good news for MS then. It is hard to be a monopoly when you have an actual competitor in the same market...
You're right... it must take 10 times longer to count because there are 10 times more ballots... you sure wouldn't think about hiring 10 times more people to count the ballots... that wouldn't be a great idea, right?
Only if you are willing to make the massive assumption that human based processing system scale linearly. In my experience that is is not at all the case.
United States Population: 295,734,134 (July 2005 est.)
Canada Population: 32,805,041 (July 2005 est.)*
Thats about 10X, fairly significant. The point is that you don't need to count all of them by hand...
*CIA world factbook