But for the Lion King 1-1/2 (which I haven't seen, so I won't comment), there's an Aladdin II... and an Alladin III.
My pet peeve with Disney is that they take stuff in the Public Domain (Cinderella etc) then start sending legal threats to anybody who does the same, claiming that they are cashing on the Disney investment. Of course, many claims are baseless, but who can defend themselves against the legal might of Disney?
The last straw was when they pulled out of the production of the recent "Peter Pan" movie, because they didn't want to pay royalties to the orphanage that owns the rights (they received them in the will of the Author).
Disney claims because they already paid once for their animated production of Peter Pan, they shouldn't have to pay again.
Hmm.. Billion dollar multinational refusing to give a tiny percentage of one fucking movie to a group of kids without parents. Walt would be spinning in his grave if he wasn't frozen into it.
Pixar don't want to do sequels because all the rights to sequels are with Disney, so in order to do the sequel Pixar has to work with Disney... or more accurately... print money for Disney.
If they can resolve the commercial relationships, I'm sure Toy Story III would rock.
> I thought that Pixar split from the Disney > Empire? What's up with that?
Disney will still release one or two movies more (The Incredibles plus the next one). Pixar had a 6 film deal with Disney, but Disney contested that "Toy Story II" counted as it was a sequel. (This is one reason that Pixar don't do sequels).
So we have
Toy Story I/II Bugs Life Monsters Inc Finding Nemos The Incredibles One more... and then Pixar will go with somebody who gives them more than 10% of the takings. Pixar weren't looking to "screw" Disney, just be paid a fair price for what they are now worth in the market.
I used to look forward to flights because it gave me time to get lost in a book while sipping some whiskey.
First time I ever flew overseas company paid (Sydney, Australia to Denver, CO) I got stuck into the Jack Daniels. By the time I arrived in LA I had 15 of those little plastic bottles (empty) in my the sick bag, and I was starting to feel a bit ordinary. (No. I have no idea why hanging on to them seemed like a good idea).
Going through LA immigration sux at the best of times, but when coming done into a jetlagged hangover, its even worse.
On my connecting flight to Denver, I got stuck next to two Beverly Hills brats who were going on a Skiing holiday in Vale with Mummy and Daddy. We hit turbulance crossing the rockies and...
well. Lets just say they stank pretty bad when they got off the plane.
Larry Ellison: Founder of Oracle, a database company
Calling Oracle "a" database company is like calling Rupert Murdoch "a" guy in the TV industry.
Adam Osborne: Founder of Osborne Computers, maker of the first portable computer
Osborne is deserving IMHO, tho "portable" is relative:)
Ken Thompson: Co-developer (with Dennis Ritchie) of UNIX operating system for Bell Labs, Co-led (with Dennis Ritchie) team that developed the C programming language
Um. You mean Thompson isn't already inducted? What drugs are these people smoking?
Linus Torvalds- Author of Linux, popular open-source operating system.
And all round unassuming beer-drinking type.
William Gibson: Coined the phrase "cyberspace" in the novel "Neuromancer" (1984)
As much as I am a fan of Gibson's work, I don't believe coining the word "cyberspace" (a phrase is more that one word by definition), is enough to warrant immortalisation. At least they didn't propose whatever schmuck came up with "Information SuperHighway".
Scott McNealy: Co-founder of Sun Microsystems
Bad timing. Should have put his name forward 4 years ago.
William Oughtred: Inventor of the slide rule
Now _that_ deserves a prize. Rock on Willy.
Gordon Moore: Postulated Moore's Rule (1964), which holds that computing power will double every 18 months with no increase in price
So it is a "rule", a "law", or just a bit of a guide line.
Capitalism: Taking advantage of impressionable people since time immemorable.
I don't believe these "pseudoscientists" are the problem. Hell, they are just making an honest buck selling their stories to the masses. If the masses choose to believe them, why are they to blame?
(Its not like they're spammers).
No. The problem is with the educational system that allows these people to finish high-school without even having the ability to critically think about what they are being fed.
However, smart consumers are bad business.* Given the current non-separation between big-business and state, there is too much short-term gain to be made by keeping the population stupid.
*As an IT management book I was reading on the weekend stated, IT people don't care why the Marketting people believe that consumers want an intimate, emotional relationship with their hand soap, we just implement the web-page.
You have any ideas how many different combinations of hardware there are out there?
Any x86 vendor* suffers the same problem. Unless you have the vendors behind you, there is no way to maintain current as new hardware is released.
And its not like Nvidia (name pulled from air, may be a bad example) are going to strive to get linux compatibility for their latest and greatest double whammy 24GB card when 95% of their target market only want to run games that aren't availble for linux anyway.
Over and above that, you have little johnny who's researched all the components he can overclock to 150%, then put them together and managed to reveal some bizarre compatibility bug that was never seen. And of course, when linux crashes, its the fault of the OS for not having up-to-date drivers.
If you want to run linux (as I do), sometimes you gotta sit a few months behind on the hardware. Redhat 8 doesn't recognise the on-board ethernet on my Abit board, but hey... them's the breaks.
* Except MS.. when you are the big dick in the pond, everybody strives for compatability with you (I feel a "In Soviet Russia" joke coming on)
True, but Excel is one of Microsofts Killer Apps. Word is bloat, but Excel can do some amazing shit. Sure, 95% of people will never use these capabilities, but they'll need it to read the stuff they get sent by the other 5%.
Other killer App that is still required: Project.
MrProject is okay for basic stuff, but no serious project can be run off it (note that my definition of serious project is a dozen or so people. I have no idea about projects coordination 100s or 1000s. If I did, chances are I wouldn't have time to post to slashdot while I finish my ice-cream).
If you ever needed an argument that perfectly rendered skin can't rescue an amazingly crap film, Van Helsing will give it to you.
It is so amazingly bad that you end up cringing for the actors forced to deliver such bad performances. Yes, its worse that Episode I, dare I say it, that the even numbered StarTrek movies.
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> but have no great desire to see 'Finding Nemo' again.
I loved "Finding Nemo", but them I am an Australian currently living abroad, and all the accents and shots of Sydney made me homesick.
But for the Lion King 1-1/2 (which I haven't seen, so I won't comment), there's an Aladdin II... and an Alladin III.
My pet peeve with Disney is that they take stuff in the Public Domain (Cinderella etc) then start sending legal threats to anybody who does the same, claiming that they are cashing on the Disney investment. Of course, many claims are baseless, but who can defend themselves against the legal might of Disney?
The last straw was when they pulled out of the production of the recent "Peter Pan" movie, because they didn't want to pay royalties to the orphanage that owns the rights (they received them in the will of the Author).
Disney claims because they already paid once for their animated production of Peter Pan, they shouldn't have to pay again.
Hmm.. Billion dollar multinational refusing to give a tiny percentage of one fucking movie to a group of kids without parents. Walt would be spinning in his grave if he wasn't frozen into it.
Pixar don't want to do sequels because all the rights to sequels are with Disney, so in order to do the sequel Pixar has to work with Disney... or more accurately... print money for Disney.
If they can resolve the commercial relationships, I'm sure Toy Story III would rock.
> so Disney could make their own Toy Story 3, if they chose.
Which they will.
And it will be straight to video.
And it will be crap.
> I thought that Pixar split from the Disney
.. and then Pixar will go with somebody who gives them more than 10% of the takings. Pixar weren't looking to "screw" Disney, just be paid a fair price for what they are now worth in the market.
> Empire? What's up with that?
Disney will still release one or two movies more (The Incredibles plus the next one). Pixar had a 6 film deal with Disney, but Disney contested that "Toy Story II" counted as it was a sequel. (This is one reason that Pixar don't do sequels).
So we have
Toy Story I/II
Bugs Life
Monsters Inc
Finding Nemos
The Incredibles
One more.
> If you gaze into an abyss, the abyss looks also into thee.
In soviet russia maybe.
In this vein, I'd vote for "bloggle", assuming it isn't already taken.
"Bloogle" doesn't sound enough like "blog", and makes me think of snot.
First time I ever flew overseas company paid (Sydney, Australia to Denver, CO) I got stuck into the Jack Daniels. By the time I arrived in LA I had 15 of those little plastic bottles (empty) in my the sick bag, and I was starting to feel a bit ordinary. (No. I have no idea why hanging on to them seemed like a good idea).
Going through LA immigration sux at the best of times, but when coming done into a jetlagged hangover, its even worse.
On my connecting flight to Denver, I got stuck next to two Beverly Hills brats who were going on a Skiing holiday in Vale with Mummy and Daddy. We hit turbulance crossing the rockies and...
well. Lets just say they stank pretty bad when they got off the plane.
Note. I don't drink on flights anymore. Honest :)
I read that as "Case badgers ".
Larry Ellison: Founder of Oracle, a database company
Calling Oracle "a" database company is like calling Rupert Murdoch "a" guy in the TV industry.
Adam Osborne: Founder of Osborne Computers, maker of the first portable computer
Osborne is deserving IMHO, tho "portable" is relative :)
Ken Thompson: Co-developer (with Dennis Ritchie) of UNIX operating system for Bell Labs, Co-led (with Dennis Ritchie) team that developed the C programming language
Um. You mean Thompson isn't already inducted? What drugs are these people smoking?
Linus Torvalds- Author of Linux, popular open-source operating system.
And all round unassuming beer-drinking type.
William Gibson: Coined the phrase "cyberspace" in the novel "Neuromancer" (1984)
As much as I am a fan of Gibson's work, I don't believe coining the word "cyberspace" (a phrase is more that one word by definition), is enough to warrant immortalisation. At least they didn't propose whatever schmuck came up with "Information SuperHighway".
Scott McNealy: Co-founder of Sun Microsystems
Bad timing. Should have put his name forward 4 years ago.
William Oughtred: Inventor of the slide rule
Now _that_ deserves a prize. Rock on Willy.
Gordon Moore: Postulated Moore's Rule (1964), which holds that computing power will double every 18 months with no increase in price
So it is a "rule", a "law", or just a bit of a guide line.
So, we gonna propose Taco?
Capitalism: Taking advantage of impressionable people since time immemorable.
I don't believe these "pseudoscientists" are the problem. Hell, they are just making an honest buck selling their stories to the masses. If the masses choose to believe them, why are they to blame?
(Its not like they're spammers).
No. The problem is with the educational system that allows these people to finish high-school without even having the ability to critically think about what they are being fed.
However, smart consumers are bad business.* Given the current non-separation between big-business and state, there is too much short-term gain to be made by keeping the population stupid.
*As an IT management book I was reading on the weekend stated, IT people don't care why the Marketting people believe that consumers want an intimate, emotional relationship with their hand soap, we just implement the web-page.
I thought you were a Sun shareholder until I read the last point:
:(
Disclaimer: I am
No they wont.
Theyll make a big song and dance in the media about listening to their customers, then roll it out in six months anyway.
Corperations and governments know damn well that its almost impossible to get "the people" to rally around a cause a second time.
Look at Live Aid and ethopia. When was the last time you saw a starving african child on TV?*
Matt
* No. SouthPark doesn't count.
Bugger. There goes my last chance of meeting a girl.
C'mon.
You have any ideas how many different combinations of hardware there are out there?
Any x86 vendor* suffers the same problem. Unless you have the vendors behind you, there is no way to maintain current as new hardware is released.
And its not like Nvidia (name pulled from air, may be a bad example) are going to strive to get linux compatibility for their latest and greatest double whammy 24GB card when 95% of their target market only want to run games that aren't availble for linux anyway.
Over and above that, you have little johnny who's researched all the components he can overclock to 150%, then put them together and managed to reveal some bizarre compatibility bug that was never seen. And of course, when linux crashes, its the fault of the OS for not having up-to-date drivers.
If you want to run linux (as I do), sometimes you gotta sit a few months behind on the hardware. Redhat 8 doesn't recognise the on-board ethernet on my Abit board, but hey... them's the breaks.
* Except MS.. when you are the big dick in the pond, everybody strives for compatability with you (I feel a "In Soviet Russia" joke coming on)
True, but Excel is one of Microsofts Killer Apps. Word is bloat, but Excel can do some amazing shit. Sure, 95% of people will never use these capabilities, but they'll need it to read the stuff they get sent by the other 5%.
Other killer App that is still required: Project.
MrProject is okay for basic stuff, but no serious project can be run off it (note that my definition of serious project is a dozen or so people. I have no idea about projects coordination 100s or 1000s. If I did, chances are I wouldn't have time to post to slashdot while I finish my ice-cream).
No, that would be AdmrlTaco
Please post photo of dog. Thats one mutt I'd ram a telephone pole to avoid.
Looks like they have 14 employees
Don't touch the VAIOs either.
:)
Stick will IBM, Toshiba and Dell.
Or, if you have money to burn, get a Tadpole.
An exception to that rule.
It will help prevent problems like this (Work safe).
Not being a huge perveyor of porn, would whacking on a condom really destroy the effect?
> the soon-to-be-released van Helsing movie.
Not out in the states yet?
If you ever needed an argument that perfectly rendered skin can't rescue an amazingly crap film, Van Helsing will give it to you.
It is so amazingly bad that you end up cringing for the actors forced to deliver such bad performances. Yes, its worse that Episode I, dare I say it, that the even numbered StarTrek movies.
Must... resist.... can't....
IRS: ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US
(Yeah, I suffer from SDWS... slow day at work syndrome)