That's pretty close to the agreement, and Pixar would probably be OK with things if that were the continuing contract. (Given their track record, maybe they'd require a bigger piece of the pie after expenses, though.)
However, Disney also gets the rights to the characters that Pixar creates, which will lead to the (almost certainly) direct-to-Disney-Video disaster "Toy Story 3" in 2008 (according to IMDb). I think Disney may also get 100% of the merchandising revenue, but I'm not certain about that.
On the other hand, the Moody Blues' "Nights in White Satin" got airplay specifically because of its length. The story (which is in the CD liner notes of the album, "Days of Future Passed") goes something like this:
A DJ at an AM station was given a list of the songs he was allowed to play. Since this DJ liked to smoke a joint during his overnight shift, he picked the longest song on the list, "Nights in White Satin", which clocks in at 7:24. The airplay the song got in this single market artificially inflated its ranking on the charts, which led to more airplay nationwide, etc. Eventually NiWS became the Moody Blues' biggest hit.
Peter Gibbons: So I was sitting in my cubicle today, and I realized, ever since I started working, every single day of my life has been worse than the day before it. So that means that every single day that you see me, that's on the worst day of my life. Dr. Swanson: What about today? Is today the worst day of your life? Peter Gibbons: Yeah. Dr. Swanson: Wow, that's messed up.
Funny thing, I have heard of this thing you called "gravity", but if our super-high-velocity projectile takes only 5 seconds to reach its target, 1/2 at^2 is only going to be 1/2(9.8)(5^2) m, or 122.5m, less than 0.1 of a mile.
Given the high speed of a projectile launched by a railgun, doesn't the curvature of the earth become a limiting factor awfully quickly?
The circumference of the Earth is (roughly) 25,000 miles, which means (if my trig is correct) that a railgun mounted at ground level fired 250 miles (3.6 degrees) away could not hit anything less than ((1 - cos 3.6) * 4000 miles), or roughly 8 miles high.
My copy of iTunes must be broken, then, since it offers eight complete Peter Gabriel albums. (Up, Plays Live, Secret World Live, Us, Shaking the Tree, Passion, So, and Security.)
A) Manufacturer of the hardware will spread FUD about functionality that it does not have
B) Competitor of hardware manufacturer will spread FUD about that functionality
Actually, Mail.app in Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther) has an option in the "Viewing" Preferences: "Display images and embedded objects in HTML messages".
When this option is unchecked, the user has to click a specific "Load Images" button in order to see the images in an HTML email, which means that the GIF does not get loaded unless the user lets it. For obvious spam emails, of course, the user can just junk the email, and the spammer gets no confirmation of delivery.
A group of warri^H^H^H^H^Hprogrammers fights against droves of bugs and orc^H^H^Hsalesdrones as they quest towards the evil land of Mordo^H^H^H^H^HLonghorn!
I think that the introduction of an iPodjr would mean that Apple's going to begin a "scorched earth" fight against WMA.
Right now, the iPod is the only player that supports AAC, and the iTunes Music Store is the only store that uses AAC. However, if Apple can make it unprofitable for companies to build cheap 128 MB (WMA) players, the WMA stores will have a major part of their demand cut off, which will lead to WMA store problems, which will mean that the WMA player demand will fold like a paper hat.
Apple has been on the wrong end of the "self-fulfilling prophecy" (Windows vs. Mac OS) before... this would be a dose of MS's own medicine.
The downside of this is that catastrophic system failure (or theft) will lose one of your keys. Or if you authorize a computer and then re-format the drive to do a clean re-install without having de-authorized first, then again you lose the key.
I was unfortunate enough to have a system crash earlier this week. However, after I reformatted the drive and installed the OS, the computer was still authorized.
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As long as Han shoots first, I'm looking forward to the final cut.
That's pretty close to the agreement, and Pixar would probably be OK with things if that were the continuing contract. (Given their track record, maybe they'd require a bigger piece of the pie after expenses, though.)
However, Disney also gets the rights to the characters that Pixar creates, which will lead to the (almost certainly) direct-to-Disney-Video disaster "Toy Story 3" in 2008 (according to IMDb). I think Disney may also get 100% of the merchandising revenue, but I'm not certain about that.
On the other hand, the Moody Blues' "Nights in White Satin" got airplay specifically because of its length. The story (which is in the CD liner notes of the album, "Days of Future Passed") goes something like this:
A DJ at an AM station was given a list of the songs he was allowed to play. Since this DJ liked to smoke a joint during his overnight shift, he picked the longest song on the list, "Nights in White Satin", which clocks in at 7:24. The airplay the song got in this single market artificially inflated its ranking on the charts, which led to more airplay nationwide, etc. Eventually NiWS became the Moody Blues' biggest hit.
Just as long as they don't bring him back.
The name. Apple got sued by Tibco about the Rendezvous trademark, so they changed the name to "Bonjour".
Windows viruses run Linux!
Peter Gibbons: So I was sitting in my cubicle today, and I realized, ever since I started working, every single day of my life has been worse than the day before it. So that means that every single day that you see me, that's on the worst day of my life.
Dr. Swanson: What about today? Is today the worst day of your life?
Peter Gibbons: Yeah.
Dr. Swanson: Wow, that's messed up.
Funny thing, I have heard of this thing you called "gravity", but if our super-high-velocity projectile takes only 5 seconds to reach its target, 1/2 at^2 is only going to be 1/2(9.8)(5^2) m, or 122.5m, less than 0.1 of a mile.
The circumference of the Earth is (roughly) 25,000 miles, which means (if my trig is correct) that a railgun mounted at ground level fired 250 miles (3.6 degrees) away could not hit anything less than ((1 - cos 3.6) * 4000 miles), or roughly 8 miles high.
A) Manufacturer of the hardware will spread FUD about functionality that it does not have
B) Competitor of hardware manufacturer will spread FUD about that functionality
Right... that's what I thought.
When this option is unchecked, the user has to click a specific "Load Images" button in order to see the images in an HTML email, which means that the GIF does not get loaded unless the user lets it. For obvious spam emails, of course, the user can just junk the email, and the spammer gets no confirmation of delivery.
To be released in 2004^H5^H6^H7...
Right now, the iPod is the only player that supports AAC, and the iTunes Music Store is the only store that uses AAC. However, if Apple can make it unprofitable for companies to build cheap 128 MB (WMA) players, the WMA stores will have a major part of their demand cut off, which will lead to WMA store problems, which will mean that the WMA player demand will fold like a paper hat.
Apple has been on the wrong end of the "self-fulfilling prophecy" (Windows vs. Mac OS) before... this would be a dose of MS's own medicine.