"Well now, that criticism is fair, but it describes the whole Trek Franchise, not just Enterprise."
Post TOS. The original cast aliens as everything from rocks to gas to fuzzballs. TNG made skin tone and bumpy noses defining marks of extraterrestial intelligence.
I think you forgot the "in 40 years of hindsight" part. Lincoln in a chair was still a far cry better than contemporary popular television of the time. The decades to follow brought no Petticoat Junction or Family Affair movies, and but a single Beverly Hillbillies yuk-fest.
You understate it, the BBC production took something the grandparent claims 'can't be done in a movie' and exceeded by making it damn funny. Those two opposites perfectly display the difference between creative originality and cranking out marketed 'product', the latter where Disney truly excels.
But also recall the reviewer calls it a tragically unfunny film. If an adaptation of an original in which "basically every single page... was funny" is not funny, that's a double failure.
Southeast Asian cinema is releasing a stream of great movies. Looking back on the last dozen movies I bought half were in Cantonese. They'll never see widespread North American acceptance because of resistance to subtitles, entirely non-European casts and embarassingly bad voice-over actors.
"Look, if people are willing to pay for bad movies (when there are very many good movies produced independently), why should they bother making good ones?"
Your faith in humanity is much stronger than mine, I think they really, truly believe disingenuous, cynical market-driven shit like "I Robot" are good 'product'.
Dismantle free software claims? Let's see. A couple sentences of the first article's conclusion:
"The open source movement is playing an important and vital role in software development at the end of the 20th century, and open source will continue to be an important center for creativity in the next century.".."This paper stresses the important advantage of OSS over commercial development - the inherent possibility of creating simpler products that are superior to commercial products in terms of functionality and user interface."
Scathing. The second article argues for a re-examination of the roots of 'free' software in government funded academia rather than "hacker ethics". Neither article touchs on, much less 'dismantles', any of what are considered the core claims of free software in this forum. Both are in fact pro OSS. That sacks of shit like you completely misrepresent them to knee the groin of OSS advocates and are as-per-usuaul trailed by moderators too stupid or lazy to read a full paragraph, that's the priceless part.
Nice alternate-universe-coloured-glasses you're sporting there. "Linux extremist" and "Slashbots" are terms tossed around here far more often than "Microsoft Fanboy", an epitaph rarely seen.
With the roll-out of Steam to HL1 came a bevy of on-line performance problems in exchange for 'features' of absolutely no consumer benefit. What was so hard about Valves pre-Steam update process, hitting 'OK'? If there's any credit I can accord to Steam it's giving me back all the time I used to waste playing pre-Steam HL on-line and a fresh appreciation for UT2004.
Not 'unreasonable' in the same sense 70 years is 'temporary'. Take care to differentiate recent goverment acts from 'reasonable' care to apply the principles of the Constitution.
"If the manufacturer says no fast forwarding, you have no "right" to do otherwise.
What a bizarre and distopian world view you have. Some individual in a corporate office in another country has rights in my living room over the fast-forward button? Why would any sane indiviual accept that?
That's funny because my Windows XP machine at work takes anywhere from 45 seconds to 5 minutes start up, time spent pulling patches, anti-virus DATs, etc. from across the country and running a confg verification. Every, single, day.
Sorry, it was Clinton who knocked it up to the next level, instituting programs such as "Know Your Neighbor" and beginning a decimation of rights which were well chronicled here (this isn't my only alias) and continues to this day. For all Reagan's faults, even he wasn't this bad. And please, there's a vast difference between "included legalized abortion, civil rights and equal rights for women", initiatives from the sixties and seventies which expand rights, and the PMRC, which are baseless, hysteria driven censorship. The Dems have changed in response to the right wing tidal wave, it's hard to rationally contend otherwise.
Were you in a coma through the nineties? Tipper Gore's PMRC (and exactly how the fuck does an unelected spouse of an elected representative get this kind of authority?), Clinton's "War on Drugs (tm)", Dems have been legislating morality for ages now. It's a brave new world.
""It was evidence that Microsoft was doing better, and now the evidence is tainted," said Counterpane Internet Security founder Bruce Schneier, a longtime RSA Conference speaker. "The results might be accurate, but now nobody's going to care, because all they'll see is a bias that was undisclosed."
"...they "gambled on an open source alternative and lost".
What exactly does this mean? A user of software can't be sued on the basis of code integrity as far as I know, so are you talking about developers who use GPL code without knowledge of its parentage? How is that riskier than reusing proprietary code?
And that simple statement illustrating the relationship between two former worldwide #1 artists and one of the world's biggest music distributors demonstrates just how little this RIAA IP crap really is about "feeding artists."
For very many of us P2P brings artists to our attention. Little known fun fact: most radio station playlists are under 1000 songs. Many more than you'ld imagine rotate 500 songs. Thanks, but I've had my fill of Lincoln Biscuit and Limp Park. The only way I get introduced to exciting new music and film is via downloads, which I then buy for the offical packaging and to support the artist. The rest stay on the drive unheard until either something clicks or I'm short on drive space. Some times I wonder if the RIAA and such fear P2P because it helps people decide which albums to avoid.;)
"deficincies" or efficiencies? As typing becomes a larger part of the common daily experience expect written English to adapt, as I'll wager it did to the introduction of the typewriter and the pen before it.
I'll continue to tag this comment to posts I see the uni-brows with moderation points have misunderstood them again. Using a font scheme specifically for them, and apologies to those without such obvious comprehension limitations :
THE GPL FORCES THE FREE FLOW OF INFORMATION AND IDEAS.
The position you view as contradictory is only so within the narrow limits of your understanding. No copyright means no GPL required. It's a VICTORY for GPL fans, not a loss. It's the very point of the GPL.
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Post TOS. The original cast aliens as everything from rocks to gas to fuzzballs. TNG made skin tone and bumpy noses defining marks of extraterrestial intelligence.
I think you forgot the "in 40 years of hindsight" part. Lincoln in a chair was still a far cry better than contemporary popular television of the time. The decades to follow brought no Petticoat Junction or Family Affair movies, and but a single Beverly Hillbillies yuk-fest.
You understate it, the BBC production took something the grandparent claims 'can't be done in a movie' and exceeded by making it damn funny. Those two opposites perfectly display the difference between creative originality and cranking out marketed 'product', the latter where Disney truly excels.
But also recall the reviewer calls it a tragically unfunny film. If an adaptation of an original in which "basically every single page ... was funny" is not funny, that's a double failure.
"Look, if people are willing to pay for bad movies (when there are very many good movies produced independently), why should they bother making good ones?"
Your faith in humanity is much stronger than mine, I think they really, truly believe disingenuous, cynical market-driven shit like "I Robot" are good 'product'.
"The open source movement is playing an important and vital role in software development at the end of the 20th century, and open source will continue to be an important center for creativity in the next century.".."This paper stresses the important advantage of OSS over commercial development - the inherent possibility of creating simpler products that are superior to commercial products in terms of functionality and user interface."
Scathing. The second article argues for a re-examination of the roots of 'free' software in government funded academia rather than "hacker ethics". Neither article touchs on, much less 'dismantles', any of what are considered the core claims of free software in this forum. Both are in fact pro OSS. That sacks of shit like you completely misrepresent them to knee the groin of OSS advocates and are as-per-usuaul trailed by moderators too stupid or lazy to read a full paragraph, that's the priceless part.
That's the broken part.
Nice alternate-universe-coloured-glasses you're sporting there. "Linux extremist" and "Slashbots" are terms tossed around here far more often than "Microsoft Fanboy", an epitaph rarely seen.
With the roll-out of Steam to HL1 came a bevy of on-line performance problems in exchange for 'features' of absolutely no consumer benefit. What was so hard about Valves pre-Steam update process, hitting 'OK'? If there's any credit I can accord to Steam it's giving me back all the time I used to waste playing pre-Steam HL on-line and a fresh appreciation for UT2004.
Not 'unreasonable' in the same sense 70 years is 'temporary'. Take care to differentiate recent goverment acts from 'reasonable' care to apply the principles of the Constitution.
What a bizarre and distopian world view you have. Some individual in a corporate office in another country has rights in my living room over the fast-forward button? Why would any sane indiviual accept that?
That's funny because my Windows XP machine at work takes anywhere from 45 seconds to 5 minutes start up, time spent pulling patches, anti-virus DATs, etc. from across the country and running a confg verification. Every, single, day.
Dupe!
http://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/ msg04609.html
Sorry, it was Clinton who knocked it up to the next level, instituting programs such as "Know Your Neighbor" and beginning a decimation of rights which were well chronicled here (this isn't my only alias) and continues to this day. For all Reagan's faults, even he wasn't this bad. And please, there's a vast difference between "included legalized abortion, civil rights and equal rights for women", initiatives from the sixties and seventies which expand rights, and the PMRC, which are baseless, hysteria driven censorship. The Dems have changed in response to the right wing tidal wave, it's hard to rationally contend otherwise.
Were you in a coma through the nineties? Tipper Gore's PMRC (and exactly how the fuck does an unelected spouse of an elected representative get this kind of authority?), Clinton's "War on Drugs (tm)", Dems have been legislating morality for ages now. It's a brave new world.
http://www.geocities.com/bourbonstreet/2640/topic. htm#statistics
Relax, Fitz's Law only applies to the "Start" button and bitching about Linux UI's. "Fitz? We don't need no stinking Fitz."
""It was evidence that Microsoft was doing better, and now the evidence is tainted," said Counterpane Internet Security founder Bruce Schneier, a longtime RSA Conference speaker. "The results might be accurate, but now nobody's going to care, because all they'll see is a bias that was undisclosed."
What exactly does this mean? A user of software can't be sued on the basis of code integrity as far as I know, so are you talking about developers who use GPL code without knowledge of its parentage? How is that riskier than reusing proprietary code?
And that simple statement illustrating the relationship between two former worldwide #1 artists and one of the world's biggest music distributors demonstrates just how little this RIAA IP crap really is about "feeding artists."
For very many of us P2P brings artists to our attention. Little known fun fact: most radio station playlists are under 1000 songs. Many more than you'ld imagine rotate 500 songs. Thanks, but I've had my fill of Lincoln Biscuit and Limp Park. The only way I get introduced to exciting new music and film is via downloads, which I then buy for the offical packaging and to support the artist. The rest stay on the drive unheard until either something clicks or I'm short on drive space. Some times I wonder if the RIAA and such fear P2P because it helps people decide which albums to avoid. ;)
"E-mail" = "Electronic Mail", a perfect example of shortening an existing and adequate term.
"deficincies" or efficiencies? As typing becomes a larger part of the common daily experience expect written English to adapt, as I'll wager it did to the introduction of the typewriter and the pen before it.
THE GPL FORCES THE FREE FLOW OF INFORMATION AND IDEAS.
The position you view as contradictory is only so within the narrow limits of your understanding. No copyright means no GPL required. It's a VICTORY for GPL fans, not a loss. It's the very point of the GPL.