I like that logo, except for the GPL part. Black over dark blue lacks contrast, that part gets lost. I'd change the font color to white on those letters.
I think everyone can see their IP's. At least I remember reading the bittorrent creator saying that it was stupid to use BT to trade copyrighted files since it didn't even try to offer any kind of anonimity to begin with (it wasn't what it was created for).
Another sugestion here. You can get the most basic version of XSI for less than $500 (or even less than $200 if you're a student), most of the modelling tools are there plus you'll get a few animation tools that you won't get with a modeller only app, plus you have one of the best free trial versions there is.
I've personally tried 3D Studio Max, Maya (taking a maya course now), XSI and Houdini (out of the "big boys", that is), and I found XSI to have the best poly/subdivs modelling tools, and of the free trial versions of all these the most unobstrusive ones are Houdini and XSI, so you can even try it with no problems for as long as you can (actually when learning those I forgot I was using a trial)
Just a quick comment.. there are some programs that do require XP over 2K... the one that comes to mind offhand is premiere pro, which according to Adobe uses some new XP graphical APIs (or something like that) that allows it to do few things in real time that needed a render in previous versions of premiere.
Wouldn't that be Rise of the Triad (unless it's something different you're talking about)... which BTW always makes me remember DOTT or Day of the Tentacle..:)
On my end, I've never been able to properly install the spanish spell checker... well, I've done it (the two times that I've installed OO), and it seems to be installed because it sees it there and I can look for words, but keep marking every word as an error (and no, I don't spell THAT bad... not in spanish at least..:) )
Also I've found that bullets in the text writting program are not as intuitive as word in some times, like trying to make bullets leave a blank line between two bulleted lines... in word after one or two times I manually add a blank line it automatically adds them between the rest of the bulleted lines.. then again probably that's because of me being a extremely casual user of OO (once or twice a week, at most) and using word for a living about 5 years ago.
This was asked about to a jewish friend on another forum... aparently the general idea is that they can't destroy ot in any way directly allow the word "God" to be destroyed, that includes writting it in a format that can be destroyed or erased...:)
Well, he can.. but the reason zombie machines are so effective to send spam or DOS attacks is that it's too easy to get lots of them. If this becomes widespread enough, then it just wouldn't be practical (or economical) for the zombie bot network owner to phone ISPs a few thousand (or million) times so he can unblock enough zombies to do a decent DOS attack.
From the distance to Coruscant it would be affected by its gravity. Satellites and the space shuttle are still affected by earth's gravity, but they stay there (and have no gravity inside) because they're going around the planet so fast that the centrifugal force (sp?) counters the gravitational pull. When it's time to reentry, they just slow down so that gravity starts to pull them back, then hit the air, which slows them down even more.
Trying to but not so easy when you've spent 29 years speaking spanish and less than a third of that learning english (specially considering the lack of availability of english written books here in Venezuela)..;)
It could work, if the lawsuits were for having or downloading music. AFAIK all lawsuits so far have been for distributing (uploading) without permission.
The big question is wether OS X would work as well outside of such a controlled enviroment as it has now. With OS X limited to run on apple computers, they have a (relatively) very limited combinations of different hardware to test and optimize for, not the case with x86.
I have to say I love them too (started reading them when my mom, that's a teacher, got the first one from one of her students and I borrowed it), and since then I have read and loved all of them. One thing, though, if I hadn't read the books, I doubt I would have liked the movies to begin with. There's too much backstory and character that's missing in the movies, but that I kinda fill in the blanks from the books.
So far it hasn't worked for me, though. At least I know the last two times a new version came out the auto updater found it but gave an error (forgot wether it was downloading the update or updating), did a quick check on the firefox forums and the answer there was to just do the download full/install thing.
Depends on how hard you have to work to "localize" a movie. In Spain, for example, all movies are dubbed in spanish (which can take a while), here in Venezuela "kids" or "family" movies are dubbed, the rest subbed to spanish. Plus there's also the paperwork needed (permits, watching the movies to give the local censure rating, registering the movies with the local authorities, and so on). Also the good timing to make a movie do better. Finding Nemo, for example, IIRC was released in the US in the summer vacations time. In Spain, though, they missed it, so it would be released when the kids were in school, so it wouldn't do as good, so they kept it until the holiday season
Lately I've seen more and more movies that are released on the same day (or with a couple of days of difference) all over the world, though...:)
Forgot to add, it was shown in Spain too. I didn't get to see it while I was there (no cable where I was staying), but they had it on the commercials for the cable TV systems. I guess (like all TV and movies there) that it was dubbed in spanish.
Firefly was shown at least 4 times (first time and 3 reruns at 2 different timeslots) in the latinamerican fox network, in english with spanish subtitles. It was also very heavily marketed the first 2 times it was shown.
Depends on where you are. In latinamerica (for example, I bet it's the same in europe) we have a latinamerican version of Fox, WB, and few other channels that leave an empty "ad" space, so that the cable TV companies put their own localized ads (so that in argentina you see argentinan ads, in Venezuela venezuelan ads and so on... and in my case where the company I subscribe to operates in several countries, they put a little "this ad is only valid for X country" sign in the botton). At least in that case the cable TV company is the one that receives the revenue. The network usually puts a sign before those spaces warning that those ads weren't put there by them.
I know that for movies/shorts to be eligible for an oscar nomination they must be premiered on the big screen first (or at least that's how it used to be), so in the animated shorts it automatically would disqualify anything that was shown first on the internet.
Personally I'd like this, but I don't think I'd make much use of it... I like DVDs as they are (I'd welcome lower prices, of course), and the ones I buy I mostly buy for the extras, and personally there are lots of movies (specially the ones with lots of CGI) that I always prefer to watch first in the theater.
My take on this is that it'll go like it's going with music now, as you say, some movies (specially niche ones) will find this method of distribution better, but I don't think it'll be too succesful on a mainstream level because I'd bet most people will just like to watch movies in a simple way (plug DVD, hit play or go to the theater), and won't want to bother with TV outs, playing on a computer and the like. Music (itunes, for example) has had success mainly because there's no alternative to MP3 players when you want to listen to music and have so much to select from on a portable player, and buying music off an online store isn't any harder than ripping a CD and copy to the player that would be the only other (legal) alternative.
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AFAIK yep, they are. The people that broadcast the commercials have to get permission from the copyright owner before showing them.
I like that logo, except for the GPL part. Black over dark blue lacks contrast, that part gets lost. I'd change the font color to white on those letters.
oops... missread that last one, though he was referring to BT when he was talking about obfuscating the IPs.. :)
I think everyone can see their IP's. At least I remember reading the bittorrent creator saying that it was stupid to use BT to trade copyrighted files since it didn't even try to offer any kind of anonimity to begin with (it wasn't what it was created for).
I've personally tried 3D Studio Max, Maya (taking a maya course now), XSI and Houdini (out of the "big boys", that is), and I found XSI to have the best poly/subdivs modelling tools, and of the free trial versions of all these the most unobstrusive ones are Houdini and XSI, so you can even try it with no problems for as long as you can (actually when learning those I forgot I was using a trial)
Just a quick comment.. there are some programs that do require XP over 2K... the one that comes to mind offhand is premiere pro, which according to Adobe uses some new XP graphical APIs (or something like that) that allows it to do few things in real time that needed a render in previous versions of premiere.
Wouldn't that be Rise of the Triad (unless it's something different you're talking about)... which BTW always makes me remember DOTT or Day of the Tentacle.. :)
Microsoft agree upon some standards... it just happens that those standards disagree with other people's standards... :)
Also I've found that bullets in the text writting program are not as intuitive as word in some times, like trying to make bullets leave a blank line between two bulleted lines... in word after one or two times I manually add a blank line it automatically adds them between the rest of the bulleted lines.. then again probably that's because of me being a extremely casual user of OO (once or twice a week, at most) and using word for a living about 5 years ago.
This was asked about to a jewish friend on another forum... aparently the general idea is that they can't destroy ot in any way directly allow the word "God" to be destroyed, that includes writting it in a format that can be destroyed or erased... :)
Well, he can.. but the reason zombie machines are so effective to send spam or DOS attacks is that it's too easy to get lots of them. If this becomes widespread enough, then it just wouldn't be practical (or economical) for the zombie bot network owner to phone ISPs a few thousand (or million) times so he can unblock enough zombies to do a decent DOS attack.
From the distance to Coruscant it would be affected by its gravity. Satellites and the space shuttle are still affected by earth's gravity, but they stay there (and have no gravity inside) because they're going around the planet so fast that the centrifugal force (sp?) counters the gravitational pull. When it's time to reentry, they just slow down so that gravity starts to pull them back, then hit the air, which slows them down even more.
Trying to but not so easy when you've spent 29 years speaking spanish and less than a third of that learning english (specially considering the lack of availability of english written books here in Venezuela).. ;)
It could work, if the lawsuits were for having or downloading music. AFAIK all lawsuits so far have been for distributing (uploading) without permission.
The big question is wether OS X would work as well outside of such a controlled enviroment as it has now. With OS X limited to run on apple computers, they have a (relatively) very limited combinations of different hardware to test and optimize for, not the case with x86.
Then again, he only executive produced it.. :)
I have to say I love them too (started reading them when my mom, that's a teacher, got the first one from one of her students and I borrowed it), and since then I have read and loved all of them. One thing, though, if I hadn't read the books, I doubt I would have liked the movies to begin with. There's too much backstory and character that's missing in the movies, but that I kinda fill in the blanks from the books.
So far it hasn't worked for me, though. At least I know the last two times a new version came out the auto updater found it but gave an error (forgot wether it was downloading the update or updating), did a quick check on the firefox forums and the answer there was to just do the download full/install thing.
Lately I've seen more and more movies that are released on the same day (or with a couple of days of difference) all over the world, though... :)
Forgot to add, it was shown in Spain too. I didn't get to see it while I was there (no cable where I was staying), but they had it on the commercials for the cable TV systems. I guess (like all TV and movies there) that it was dubbed in spanish.
Firefly was shown at least 4 times (first time and 3 reruns at 2 different timeslots) in the latinamerican fox network, in english with spanish subtitles. It was also very heavily marketed the first 2 times it was shown.
Next thing you know it's only going to kill bill... :D
(ok, very bad joke)
Here's the story (at work now and too lazy to make it a link): http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/03/22/ 042253&tid=189
Depends on where you are. In latinamerica (for example, I bet it's the same in europe) we have a latinamerican version of Fox, WB, and few other channels that leave an empty "ad" space, so that the cable TV companies put their own localized ads (so that in argentina you see argentinan ads, in Venezuela venezuelan ads and so on... and in my case where the company I subscribe to operates in several countries, they put a little "this ad is only valid for X country" sign in the botton). At least in that case the cable TV company is the one that receives the revenue. The network usually puts a sign before those spaces warning that those ads weren't put there by them.
Personally I'd like this, but I don't think I'd make much use of it... I like DVDs as they are (I'd welcome lower prices, of course), and the ones I buy I mostly buy for the extras, and personally there are lots of movies (specially the ones with lots of CGI) that I always prefer to watch first in the theater.
My take on this is that it'll go like it's going with music now, as you say, some movies (specially niche ones) will find this method of distribution better, but I don't think it'll be too succesful on a mainstream level because I'd bet most people will just like to watch movies in a simple way (plug DVD, hit play or go to the theater), and won't want to bother with TV outs, playing on a computer and the like. Music (itunes, for example) has had success mainly because there's no alternative to MP3 players when you want to listen to music and have so much to select from on a portable player, and buying music off an online store isn't any harder than ripping a CD and copy to the player that would be the only other (legal) alternative.