This may be hard for a lot of younger people to believe, but there was actually a time in Hollywood when George Lucas was considered an incredible up-and-coming young director. Coming off of American Graffiti, a lot of people were thinking he would be the next Francis Ford Coppola. He was widely regarded as being in the same league (maybe an even better one) as Martin Scorsese coming off Mean Streets.
But then the greed got him. An afterthought merchandising deal on Star Wars meant that his big money-maker from that point on was toys and merchandise, not movies. He stopped directing and let his best years pass him by. The ten-year-rule for directors is that, give or take, most directors have about 10 years of truly creative energy. And with the mountain of money he was sitting on from toys, he just sat back and let his expire. Now we'll never know what he might have done if he had to struggle, if he had kept working.
That's a great lesson for you young creative types out there. Careful what you wish for.
That is the best summary of Lucas I have ever heard.
Without having read TFA I would imagine that this is aimed more at people who pirate music and sell it as genuine. Their customers think they're buying from a legitimate source.
So in a way this is a good thing, but is likely to be the thin end of a wedge where once people accept PayPal policing their users in this way then you'll start to see people having their PayPal accounts disabled for unrelated activities that someone or other doesn't approve of.
Ya, i came across some sites like that.
Was looking for flac recordings of Chris and Cosey, and from some sites that "sell" flac copies of the song.
While I know they are doing something illegal, I'll bet most people don't realize it.
Yes, of course I found a place to download them for free. http://welikeitlossless.blogspot.com/ (no, i have nothing to do with that blog, nor do they know i'm sharing their info here)
And the only reason i can think that paypal is doing this, is they are getting more money for the music industry to do this then they are earning from the peeps that are selling illegal music.
thanks to my 2 computers, I7 cpu's, my 2 monitors, my big ass 1080p tv, I never turn the heat on in my apartment (studio, live in seattle). In fact, i usually have my windows open all year around. I don't pay for heat. Sure, during the Summer it can suck a bit, mainly if we hit over 90, and if no air is blowing can stay too hot at night, but hell, I don't pay for heating.
I do though, seem to have a nice high electric bill.
in ui design I learned that people are sufficiently similar that you can test on 7 randomly chosen subject and if your ui work on all of them it will be good for 95% of the population, those 5% be damned....
Well that explains why UI's seem to suck.
7 random people isn't going to represent 95% of the population.
Been playing computer games since the beginning also. I can understand them saying this back in the days of 8bit machines, when it took months to finish games like the TSR AD&D games and other stuff. At the very least, games took days to finish, many hours. Not less then 24 usually.
Today? Fuck, I get homefront and 4 hours later it's over. WTF? Bad Company 2? same.
In fact, most games are way the fuck too short. You want me to pay $40-$60 for a game, that take me less then 8 hours to finish? I don't even get paid that much an hour, so fuck you.
I have a good idea, why don't you Dev's start making decent shit, quit with this bullshit "Hollywood" of the games industries and get back to making good games that are fun to play, instead of big ass Triple AAA titles, that takes millions to billions of dollars to make, and has less then 8 hours play time.
A system for transmission, reception and accumulation of the knowledge packets to plurality of channel nodes in the network operating distributedly in a peer to peer environment via installable one or more role active Human Operating System (HOS) applications in a digital devise of each of channel node, a network controller registering and providing desired HOS applications and multiple developers developing advance communication and knowledge management applications and each of subscribers exploiting the said network resources by leveraging and augmenting taxonomically and ontologically classified knowledge classes expressed via plurality search macros and UKID structures facilitating said expert human agents for knowledge invocation and support services and service providers providing information services in the preidentified taxonomical classes, wherein each of channel nodes communicating with the unknown via domain specific supernodes each facilitating social networking and relationships development leading to human grid which is searchable via Universal Desktop Search by black box search module.
You're damn right! Latte? Latte? Arrogant little shit, people (like me) are pinching pennies cancelling even basic cable in the tight economy already trying to keep a "normal" life going with a $10 spot to Netflix. I can go to Redbox, Steve Swasey, you little asshole and get almost 3 DVDs a week! Netflix was mostly to keep my CHILD entertained with kids shows, but fuck it, it's just a latte to you, right?
Sorry for the cursing, but that mother... needs to read The Thank You Economy by Gary Vaynerchuk and get some goddamn manners! This is a less for how NOT to conduct business when everyone has a direct line to 500 friends on Facebook, Twitter, G+, etc! What a retard! I hope the fact that he is spokesman for Netflix will make future employers go, "Ah, so I guess I don't have to ask why you're now looking for new employment. Well, we don't find you qualified for spokesman, but we do have janitorial."
Weird, I just pay for internet, and somehow i get to watch movies and tv shows without paying netflix, or anyone else.
Maybe people will understand the basics of Corporations.
1. Get Customers in with decent prices. 2. Raise Said Prices. 3. ??? 4. Profit!!!
Let's look at the reality of the situation. It cost netflix a lot less money to stream movies then it does to mail out dvd's of movies. So ya, times are tough, the cost of everything is up, so Netflix needs to raise the price of it's DVD operations.
If money is tight, just download the videos from the internet for free. I don't see why having to pay corporations who like bleeding their "customers" while cheating their "employees" as much as they can is a smart way to spend your limited funds.
. . . but it's the remake of The Evil Dead, not another sequel. And Bruce is currently only signed on to produce, not act.
So, let me see.
Evil Dead was the original Evil Dead II was apparently a remake of Evil Dead. Army of Darkness. Evil Dead Remake (coming i guess).
So, out of 4 movies, there is only 2 actually movies, if you don't count the remakes.
Sometimes, you just got to leave the past alone, and go on with the new. But hey, cash in on the Evil Dead name, since i'll download it off tpb anyways.
I can accept not having relations with humans (females, in case you were wondering), but getting the "cold shoulder" from a robot? Sorry, that is more then I can take.
I love it when a judge thinks and makes the punishment fit the crime. Having his parents pay a fine would have been pointless. Gotta make the punishment hurt for it to have any effect.
Since he's 13, I'm pretty sure he's parents probably bought it for him anyways. Of course, he could be a hard worker and do odd jobs to afford one. But seeing as he's a thief, that probably isn't the case.
Ya, he could of stolen the Xbox, but I'm thinking he didn't, unless he's breaking into peoples houses, they aren't that easy to steal (reserve the right to be wrong).
Anyways, he's getting it back once the charges are all taken care of. lol, if i was the judge, i'd make it so he didn't get it back till probation was over, and i'd make it a 2-3 year probation.
I hope FF loses some market share. Stupidity should be punished in the business world. I don't personally care if it's Microsoft with IE, Google with Chrome, or Apple with Safari, or any other browser. I don't care about rapid releases. I'm against them, actually. In a business environment, rapid releases only muck up the works and makes life harder for the IT staff.
of course, i'm not educated in the field, but if parent's dna were copied exactly the same, then you wouldn't be much different from your brothers and sisters.
Exactly how many pirates really care about "forgiveness"? While greater than 0,/me thinks they are overestimating the crushing guilt caused by pirating music from Sony and others.
I waiting for my apology from the music industry still...
Overglossy graphics, crappy game play, rollercoaster ride.
Look at the map comparison between Duke 3D and Forever. The sad part? It's like that between all games from the 90's compared to now.
Games that you used to have an openish enviroment, are all now rollercoastered.
Games you used to play for 20+ hours, are all 4-6 hours now.
This is what happens when you get big corporations running the show. and of course, Hollywoodizing crap. Let's make it shiny and expensive, but not give any value. (it's like going from the great black & white movies, to the trashy color movies that came out).
ya, Duke Nukem Forever is a crappy game, should of never been made. But it's actually a shining example of the current gaming industry and what they think about their customers.
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This may be hard for a lot of younger people to believe, but there was actually a time in Hollywood when George Lucas was considered an incredible up-and-coming young director. Coming off of American Graffiti, a lot of people were thinking he would be the next Francis Ford Coppola. He was widely regarded as being in the same league (maybe an even better one) as Martin Scorsese coming off Mean Streets.
But then the greed got him. An afterthought merchandising deal on Star Wars meant that his big money-maker from that point on was toys and merchandise, not movies. He stopped directing and let his best years pass him by. The ten-year-rule for directors is that, give or take, most directors have about 10 years of truly creative energy. And with the mountain of money he was sitting on from toys, he just sat back and let his expire. Now we'll never know what he might have done if he had to struggle, if he had kept working.
That's a great lesson for you young creative types out there. Careful what you wish for.
That is the best summary of Lucas I have ever heard.
thank you.
Ya, i'd post it under anonymous also.
IBM then approached Microsoft, which already had a few of years of experience under its belt with M-DOS, BASIC, and other important tools...
Not true.
IBM was looking for an OS, which MS said, we can deliver, then they went and got QDOS and made it into MSDOS, or M-Dos, as it was put above.
In fact, you can find that in a few places:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS-DOS
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_PC_DOS
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft
Now, at the time, MS had made a unix OS, but hadn't even considered (from what i can find) doing a 8086 OS until the chance came with IBM.
Sorry summaries rarely make me want to read the fucking article.
Without having read TFA I would imagine that this is aimed more at people who pirate music and sell it as genuine. Their customers think they're buying from a legitimate source.
So in a way this is a good thing, but is likely to be the thin end of a wedge where once people accept PayPal policing their users in this way then you'll start to see people having their PayPal accounts disabled for unrelated activities that someone or other doesn't approve of.
Ya, i came across some sites like that.
Was looking for flac recordings of Chris and Cosey, and from some sites that "sell" flac copies of the song.
While I know they are doing something illegal, I'll bet most people don't realize it.
Yes, of course I found a place to download them for free. http://welikeitlossless.blogspot.com/ (no, i have nothing to do with that blog, nor do they know i'm sharing their info here)
And the only reason i can think that paypal is doing this, is they are getting more money for the music industry to do this then they are earning from the peeps that are selling illegal music.
thanks to my 2 computers, I7 cpu's, my 2 monitors, my big ass 1080p tv, I never turn the heat on in my apartment (studio, live in seattle). In fact, i usually have my windows open all year around. I don't pay for heat. Sure, during the Summer it can suck a bit, mainly if we hit over 90, and if no air is blowing can stay too hot at night, but hell, I don't pay for heating.
I do though, seem to have a nice high electric bill.
in ui design I learned that people are sufficiently similar that you can test on 7 randomly chosen subject and if your ui work on all of them it will be good for 95% of the population, those 5% be damned....
Well that explains why UI's seem to suck.
7 random people isn't going to represent 95% of the population.
.... Go kick some guy in the nuts and see what happens.
Go kick some girl in the nuts and see what happens.
ya, church camp. totally sucked.
but it was there when i first made the decision i didn't believe in the crap they were spewing and wouldn't be getting involved ever again.
Probably didn't learn as much as I might have at a nerd camp, but it did help guide my life for the better.
=)
...
I've been gaming since video games have been out.
Been playing computer games since the beginning also. I can understand them saying this back in the days of 8bit machines, when it took months to finish games like the TSR AD&D games and other stuff. At the very least, games took days to finish, many hours. Not less then 24 usually.
Today? Fuck, I get homefront and 4 hours later it's over. WTF?
Bad Company 2? same.
In fact, most games are way the fuck too short. You want me to pay $40-$60 for a game, that take me less then 8 hours to finish? I don't even get paid that much an hour, so fuck you.
I have a good idea, why don't you Dev's start making decent shit, quit with this bullshit "Hollywood" of the games industries and get back to making good games that are fun to play, instead of big ass Triple AAA titles, that takes millions to billions of dollars to make, and has less then 8 hours play time.
Seriously.
I guess expecting Policemen to know the laws is a bit much...
A system for transmission, reception and accumulation of the knowledge packets to plurality of channel nodes in the network operating distributedly in a peer to peer environment via installable one or more role active Human Operating System (HOS) applications in a digital devise of each of channel node, a network controller registering and providing desired HOS applications and multiple developers developing advance communication and knowledge management applications and each of subscribers exploiting the said network resources by leveraging and augmenting taxonomically and ontologically classified knowledge classes expressed via plurality search macros and UKID structures facilitating said expert human agents for knowledge invocation and support services and service providers providing information services in the preidentified taxonomical classes, wherein each of channel nodes communicating with the unknown via domain specific supernodes each facilitating social networking and relationships development leading to human grid which is searchable via Universal Desktop Search by black box search module.
Holy run on sentence Batman!!!
That hurt to read.
Microsoft has a long history of saying they are doing this and that and then never delivering.
Not holding my breath, and would of course, wait for service pack 1 on any new OS before using.
And we ain't playing no Xbox 360 games on Windows 8. Ain't happening.
And how many times has MS said they were going to go all gungho with gaming on windows? what, 5, 6 times now? Every OS they release?
I'm a big stoner, and yet my memory seems way better then most of you.
MS ain't doing shit, but talking. That's pretty much all they have been good at, that and being bullies.
You're damn right! Latte? Latte? Arrogant little shit, people (like me) are pinching pennies cancelling even basic cable in the tight economy already trying to keep a "normal" life going with a $10 spot to Netflix. I can go to Redbox, Steve Swasey, you little asshole and get almost 3 DVDs a week! Netflix was mostly to keep my CHILD entertained with kids shows, but fuck it, it's just a latte to you, right?
Sorry for the cursing, but that mother... needs to read The Thank You Economy by Gary Vaynerchuk and get some goddamn manners! This is a less for how NOT to conduct business when everyone has a direct line to 500 friends on Facebook, Twitter, G+, etc! What a retard! I hope the fact that he is spokesman for Netflix will make future employers go, "Ah, so I guess I don't have to ask why you're now looking for new employment. Well, we don't find you qualified for spokesman, but we do have janitorial."
Weird, I just pay for internet, and somehow i get to watch movies and tv shows without paying netflix, or anyone else.
Maybe people will understand the basics of Corporations.
1. Get Customers in with decent prices.
2. Raise Said Prices.
3. ???
4. Profit!!!
Let's look at the reality of the situation. It cost netflix a lot less money to stream movies then it does to mail out dvd's of movies. So ya, times are tough, the cost of everything is up, so Netflix needs to raise the price of it's DVD operations.
If money is tight, just download the videos from the internet for free. I don't see why having to pay corporations who like bleeding their "customers" while cheating their "employees" as much as they can is a smart way to spend your limited funds.
why are these machines even connected to the net?
because the net is where the porn is.
. . . but it's the remake of The Evil Dead, not another sequel. And Bruce is currently only signed on to produce, not act.
So, let me see.
Evil Dead was the original
Evil Dead II was apparently a remake of Evil Dead.
Army of Darkness.
Evil Dead Remake (coming i guess).
So, out of 4 movies, there is only 2 actually movies, if you don't count the remakes.
Sometimes, you just got to leave the past alone, and go on with the new. But hey, cash in on the Evil Dead name, since i'll download it off tpb anyways.
I can accept not having relations with humans (females, in case you were wondering), but getting the "cold shoulder" from a robot? Sorry, that is more then I can take.
I love it when a judge thinks and makes the punishment fit the crime. Having his parents pay a fine would have been pointless. Gotta make the punishment hurt for it to have any effect.
Since he's 13, I'm pretty sure he's parents probably bought it for him anyways. Of course, he could be a hard worker and do odd jobs to afford one. But seeing as he's a thief, that probably isn't the case.
Ya, he could of stolen the Xbox, but I'm thinking he didn't, unless he's breaking into peoples houses, they aren't that easy to steal (reserve the right to be wrong).
Anyways, he's getting it back once the charges are all taken care of. lol, if i was the judge, i'd make it so he didn't get it back till probation was over, and i'd make it a 2-3 year probation.
I hope FF loses some market share. Stupidity should be punished in the business world. I don't personally care if it's Microsoft with IE, Google with Chrome, or Apple with Safari, or any other browser. I don't care about rapid releases. I'm against them, actually. In a business environment, rapid releases only muck up the works and makes life harder for the IT staff.
use lynx then, it doesn't have rapid updates.
and it will be secure enough for you.
Seriously, that is a stupid question.
You got illegal shit your worried about? delete it.
A thousand monkeys standing around a box of parts would "accidentally" build a computer
Ah, I see you are familiar with the TRS-80.
Well, i have to hand it to those monkeys, my TRS-80 Mod 4p is still working...
of course, i'm not educated in the field, but if parent's dna were copied exactly the same, then you wouldn't be much different from your brothers and sisters.
Seems like it's evolution, not mutation.
Exactly how many pirates really care about "forgiveness"? While greater than 0, /me thinks they are overestimating the crushing guilt caused by pirating music from Sony and others.
I waiting for my apology from the music industry still...
This is state of most modern games.
Overglossy graphics, crappy game play, rollercoaster ride.
Look at the map comparison between Duke 3D and Forever. The sad part? It's like that between all games from the 90's compared to now.
Games that you used to have an openish enviroment, are all now rollercoastered.
Games you used to play for 20+ hours, are all 4-6 hours now.
This is what happens when you get big corporations running the show. and of course, Hollywoodizing crap. Let's make it shiny and expensive, but not give any value. (it's like going from the great black & white movies, to the trashy color movies that came out).
ya, Duke Nukem Forever is a crappy game, should of never been made. But it's actually a shining example of the current gaming industry and what they think about their customers.
... if I get a "friend" request ( or whatever the site names it), and it's an attractive female, i think a few things:
1. It's fake
2. It's some chick with some horrible mental problems to want to be friends with me.
Yep, only 2 things. So i just ignore it.
Seriously, why would i want to be friends with someone I don't know?
I don't like being friends with half the people I already know.
Okay, it requires oxygen to breathe, so it goes to the surface to get air.
They they say it's diving bell isn't just that, but an "aqualung" that allows it to get oxygen from the water.
If it can get oxygen from that water, why is it going to the surface then for oxygen?