Last summer Jun Group dropped a collection of live videos and MP3s from Steve Winwood on the topsites. "We got 2.9 million downloads," says Forest, "and
album sales took off."
..Small sample set maybe, but hopefully soon, 'they' will understand that #downloads ~= #sales
This may be true *now*, but sooner-or-later enough people in positions where their influence is important will realise that an open, IETF support, XML-based messaging client makes more sense for their business than tying themselves into a proprietry networks that will eventually be questioned by organisations like the FCC.
Failing that, check out the Jabber Components and MSN/AOL/ICQ/Yahoo!/SMS/E-Mail gateways, your clients need not worry about 'crappy lame official clients'
#1 - Family First are a RIGHT-WING neo-christian fringe party, playing the percentages in the bible belt suburbs of the major cities ( cf http://www.hillsong.com/) - they'll poll +/-5% in those areas, not a real threat in the lower house, although they may get some sway if they get the balance of power in upper house, but I doubt it and
#2 - they'll get this past on a cold day in hell, read their comments about smaller ISPs for instance (eg they're expendable - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/09/27/net_levy/) , it's anti-competitive, hard to maintain and largely ineffective.
I bought them pre-release on Monday and, well this is going to be an unpopular view-point here, they're "impressive". The print is great, there are scenes especially in ANH that have never looked so good that you'd forget that it was shot nearly 30 years ago, the sound is really tremendous and it's awesome to see "The Holy Triology" on a decent home-theatre setup.
Once you overcome the inevitable resistance to having what, to most of us, is the single most defining piece of entertainment in our short lives, they kind of make sense, and although the Han/Greedo shoot-out V3 is clunky, most of the changes make the two triologies flow together better (Ian McDiarmid, Temeura Morrison and Hayden Christenson's additions in particular).
It is after all *only* a film after all, and if you were Lucas, wouldn't you go back and fix the things that you'd wanted to change but never had the resources?
On why he brought it out now: "A lot of people are getting very worried about piracy. That has really eaten dramatically into the sales. It really just came down to, there may not be a market when I wanted to bring it out, which was like, three years from now."
What? Every place I look claims DVD sales are very stong and not losing momentum any time soon (mainly thanks to idiots like me who buy 2 and 3 versions of the same crap I already own).
I think you missed the point on the piracy angle. It's not about DVD sales vs Piracy generally, when he talks about losing money, it's about lost sales due to people having pirate dvd's now, versus people who will wait until they got released. It's kind of the same argument as p2p music piracy, if you download an album, the record company is missing out on a sale, wether you would have bought it or not.
I don't necessarily agree with that, and think it's more a money grab to get an edition of SW out now, and a better HD transfer out in two years (read the previous article about the restoration process), but I think that's where he's coming from.
Fry: Hey, as long as you don't make me smell Uranus. (laughs)
Leela: I don't get it.
Professor: I'm sorry, Fry, but astronomers renamed Uranus in 2620 to end that stupid joke once and for all.
Fry: Oh. What's it called now?
Professor: Urectum. Here, let me locate it for you.
Fry: Hehe, no, no, I think I'll just smell around a bit over here.
You've got the wrong film and the wrong way around.
Originally, Episode 6 - "Return of the Jedi" was to be called "Revenge of the Jedi" but it was renamed for two reasons,
1) Revenge isn't an emotion a Jedi would express and therefore doesn't fit the story-arc
2) Originally "ST:Wrath Of Khan" was to be called "ST:Revenge of Khan" studio was concerned that the names would cause confusion, hence Return of the Jedi.
Knowing this, "Revenge of the Sith" should be of no real surprise to a SW fan
Actually yah, it is.. Moore doesn't own the distribution rights to F911 anymore thus it's not his call.
Remember the 'controversy' over distribution, how disney wanted nothing of it in fear of angering Jeb, and the Weinsteins' bought out the distribution rights?
It wouldn't be piracy if Lion's Gate and IFC Films okayed downloading it, and even then the other distributors may want a word with them before that. Not so stupid media
History lesson for you..
the Boston "Tea Party" was a protest by the 'Sons of Liberty' against the Tea Act of 1773 where 342 crates of tea were thrown into Boston Harbour.
Gawd, you just don't get it do you, there are designers in the studio where I work who will literally wet their khaki corduroy pants over this, not matter how many video cards it requires. Screen real-estate isn't important to the average programmer geek or management wonk, but to a designer (who by definition are very visual people), to have all their tools on screen at once is priceless.
The cost, sure it's expensive, but two things; one, it's Apple, Apple users expect to pay more, and most of the time prefer to pay for quality over quantity, two, for the percieved effect it will have on productivity, a couple of decent paying clients will cover the cost of one of these.
Essentially
* The designer/producer of the cover art had them on their site, they also produced the new Aliens set
* There are three packages, each individually named
-- The Final Conflict
-- Jedi vs Dark Side
-- The Imperial Collection
* The Final Conflict is reminiscent of the original triology release on VHS in 1997 (Vader etc)
I don't know.. maybe because they're DEAD, and died six years before the film was shot ?
Although, that said, there's some great material for a Weekend at Bernies style crossover..
Oh but I hate to feed the trolls, but I think you'll find that Sean Combs et al pay royalties the music they use... in the most part.
Re:Ok, enough about the crappiness of sequels
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Story goes something like this... Katzenberg worked at Disney for ten years, but like many others, didn't get on too well with Michael Eisner, and viceversa. He quit in 1993 to create Dreamworks SKG.
When Shrek was created, Dreamwork's first real feature animation, the character of Farquad (or Fuck-wad) was supposed to be Eisner, and Duloc (Farquad's Castle) is modelled on Disneyworld.
Nokia should start buying into the great Military Industrial Complex. What with this this and now the N-Gage, all they seem to be doing these days is handling bombs.
It's a joke, laugh...
Down under (well at least in Adelaide) we were treated to Matrix + Matrix:Reloaded + Animatrix at a "Movie Marathon" in May (the long weekend actually), run by one of the large cinema chains here, and considering at xmas they ran LotR:FotR+LotR:TTT in one marathon, i'm awaiting the Matrix+Reloaded+Revolutions marathon at xmas.
One word, Switch. As stated, above and below the real innovation is not happening in Seattle but further south, toward Cupertino. It's not just Steve and the crew, it's the small third party apps like Konfabulator. It seems like theres a new 'oh cool' app every few weeks.
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A quick google found me the KDF-70XBR950 (and Here) with GPL'd software. Also, Sony's GPL Downloads
Better the devil you know ..
'Cos we all know that P2P is essentially evil and serves no purpose for legal distribution of large files, even so here's the BitTorrent Link
This may be true *now*, but sooner-or-later enough people in positions where their influence is important will realise that an open, IETF support, XML-based messaging client makes more sense for their business than tying themselves into a proprietry networks that will eventually be questioned by organisations like the FCC.
Failing that, check out the Jabber Components and MSN/AOL/ICQ/Yahoo!/SMS/E-Mail gateways, your clients need not worry about 'crappy lame official clients'
#1 - Family First are a RIGHT-WING neo-christian fringe party, playing the percentages in the bible belt suburbs of the major cities ( cf http://www.hillsong.com/) - they'll poll +/-5% in those areas, not a real threat in the lower house, although they may get some sway if they get the balance of power in upper house, but I doubt it and) , it's anti-competitive, hard to maintain and largely ineffective.
#2 - they'll get this past on a cold day in hell, read their comments about smaller ISPs for instance (eg they're expendable - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/09/27/net_levy/
It's an attention seeking episode imho
Seems that's common to the R2/R4 release and yah, it's lame.
I bought them pre-release on Monday and, well this is going to be an unpopular view-point here, they're "impressive". The print is great, there are scenes especially in ANH that have never looked so good that you'd forget that it was shot nearly 30 years ago, the sound is really tremendous and it's awesome to see "The Holy Triology" on a decent home-theatre setup.
...
Once you overcome the inevitable resistance to having what, to most of us, is the single most defining piece of entertainment in our short lives, they kind of make sense, and although the Han/Greedo shoot-out V3 is clunky, most of the changes make the two triologies flow together better (Ian McDiarmid, Temeura Morrison and Hayden Christenson's additions in particular).
It is after all *only* a film after all, and if you were Lucas, wouldn't you go back and fix the things that you'd wanted to change but never had the resources?
Just my AU$69.95 anyway
I don't necessarily agree with that, and think it's more a money grab to get an edition of SW out now, and a better HD transfer out in two years (read the previous article about the restoration process), but I think that's where he's coming from.
Obligatory Futurama Quote:
Fry: Hey, as long as you don't make me smell Uranus. (laughs)
Leela: I don't get it.
Professor: I'm sorry, Fry, but astronomers renamed Uranus in 2620 to end that stupid joke once and for all.
Fry: Oh. What's it called now?
Professor: Urectum. Here, let me locate it for you.
Fry: Hehe, no, no, I think I'll just smell around a bit over here.
You've got the wrong film and the wrong way around.
Originally, Episode 6 - "Return of the Jedi" was to be called "Revenge of the Jedi" but it was renamed for two reasons,
1) Revenge isn't an emotion a Jedi would express and therefore doesn't fit the story-arc
2) Originally "ST:Wrath Of Khan" was to be called "ST:Revenge of Khan" studio was concerned that the names would cause confusion, hence Return of the Jedi.
Knowing this, "Revenge of the Sith" should be of no real surprise to a SW fan
Actually yah, it is .. Moore doesn't own the distribution rights to F911 anymore thus it's not his call.
Remember the 'controversy' over distribution, how disney wanted nothing of it in fear of angering Jeb, and the Weinsteins' bought out the distribution rights?
It wouldn't be piracy if Lion's Gate and IFC Films okayed downloading it, and even then the other distributors may want a word with them before that. Not so stupid media
Hmm, of course, Victoria and Tasmania are the two most southern states of Australia. Wikipedia tells me that Victoria is 227,416 km2 and Tasmania is 90,758 km2 so in total, 291,817km2. Texas is 696,241 km2.
..
So it's about half the size of Texas
VW Bugs, now that's for someone else to work out
History lesson for you ..
the Boston "Tea Party" was a protest by the 'Sons of Liberty' against the Tea Act of 1773 where 342 crates of tea were thrown into Boston Harbour.
Gawd, you just don't get it do you, there are designers in the studio where I work who will literally wet their khaki corduroy pants over this, not matter how many video cards it requires. Screen real-estate isn't important to the average programmer geek or management wonk, but to a designer (who by definition are very visual people), to have all their tools on screen at once is priceless.
The cost, sure it's expensive, but two things; one, it's Apple, Apple users expect to pay more, and most of the time prefer to pay for quality over quantity, two, for the percieved effect it will have on productivity, a couple of decent paying clients will cover the cost of one of these.
(not: If you want to post Anonymously you might want to check "Post Anonymously", otherwise it might get embarrassing) :)
Essentially
* The designer/producer of the cover art had them on their site, they also produced the new Aliens set
* There are three packages, each individually named
-- The Final Conflict
-- Jedi vs Dark Side
-- The Imperial Collection
* The Final Conflict is reminiscent of the original triology release on VHS in 1997 (Vader etc)
I, for one, Welcome Our New ... *sigh* that used to be funny too ...
I don't know .. maybe because they're DEAD, and died six years before the film was shot ? ..
Although, that said, there's some great material for a Weekend at Bernies style crossover
Sigh, I've just fed a troll haven't I ?
Oh but I hate to feed the trolls, but I think you'll find that Sean Combs et al pay royalties the music they use ... in the most part.
Story goes something like this ... Katzenberg worked at Disney for ten years, but like many others, didn't get on too well with Michael Eisner, and vice versa. He quit in 1993 to create Dreamworks SKG.
When Shrek was created, Dreamwork's first real feature animation, the character of Farquad (or Fuck-wad) was supposed to be Eisner, and Duloc (Farquad's Castle) is modelled on Disneyworld.
But seriously, tell us how you really feel ..
Nokia should start buying into the great Military Industrial Complex. What with this this and now the N-Gage, all they seem to be doing these days is handling bombs. ...
It's a joke, laugh
Down under (well at least in Adelaide) we were treated to Matrix + Matrix:Reloaded + Animatrix at a "Movie Marathon" in May (the long weekend actually), run by one of the large cinema chains here, and considering at xmas they ran LotR:FotR+LotR:TTT in one marathon, i'm awaiting the Matrix+Reloaded+Revolutions marathon at xmas.
One word, Switch. As stated, above and below the real innovation is not happening in Seattle but further south, toward Cupertino. It's not just Steve and the crew, it's the small third party apps like Konfabulator. It seems like theres a new 'oh cool' app every few weeks.