Which is probably how Hollywood managed to even get its feet off the ground, having a wealth of others ideas to 'borrow' upon.
That was brought up a few weeks ago about how Hollywood set up shop on the West Coast to avoid paying licensing fees to Thomas Edison on the East Coast.
If you want to claim extensive copyright hurts creativity, you really should be looking at sequalitis.
The two shining film examples would be Sony and Universal.
Sony made more Spiderman movies by rehashing the origin story — seriously, how many times does Uncle Ben have to die? — to prevent the licensing rights from reverting back to Marvel Studios. The new Spiderman movie is the result of a cross licensing deal between Sony and Marvel that will expire in 2019.
Universal got copyrights for their classic monster movies as the monsters were never described in a real great detail in the public domain books, preventing anyone from making a movie that looks identical to the Universal Monsters and forcing them up with different designs (not necessarily a bad thing). They're remaking all their movies to prevent their copyrights from falling into the public domain. Although Tom Cruise may have killed the budding franchise with the newest Mummy movie.
I think he was complaining that I was called Slashdot reader #14,247 rather than Slashdot member or participant #14,247.
I think "reader" would be the most appropriate and historically correct term. Members or participants would imply that management has a marketing plan to add value to the user experience. I don't see that happening.
Not quite. If your account gets deleted, the username is put back into circulation. If a new account gets created with the same username, it gets a new user id number. A username may have many user ids over the years, but user ids are always unique. It makes sense that a story submitter is referred to by their user id.
VueScan (https://www.hamrick.com) will let you use any scanner on any OS, regardless of driver support.
Second this. When I saw how easy VueScan made scanning from old hardware, I bought a professional license 10+ years ago. Still getting free updates. Software runs on Windows, Mac and Linux.
As a general rule for my side business, all data resides on the file server and the backup hard drive in the Red Hat Linux box. I'm not overly concern about my inexpensive laptop or gaming rig being stolen. The file server and RHL box are locked down with Kensington cable locks. This, of course, doesn't prevent a determined thief from stealing these systems. It does deter the casual thief who is looking to get in and out in a hurry.
It's a fucking scripting language - the only "build" it requires is running the goddamned python interpreter.
The ant build script for my static websites generates the static files using Pelican, archives the output directory to a backup folder on the file server, and then transfer the output files to the web hosting server. I just type "ant all" from the command line for everything to get done automatically. Each static website has a build.properties file that has specific settings for the build script to use.
Let's re-frame your "miracle" - you spent billable hours for the client doing janitorial work, instead of the IT work you were hired to do. In legal circles, I think they'd call that "fraud," not a "miracle." And that might also be the major factor in why your contract ended three months "ahead of schedule" - they decided to eliminate you and find someone else, because you proved yourself to be a useless janitor, instead of a valuable support tech.
You're that desperate to cast me a negative light? Then again, you have nothing better to do with your life.
You don't dispute that you're a poorly-qualified candidate, but you still claim you're a miracle worker.
A miracle worker solves a problem that the IT manager doesn't know was a solvable problem. For example, I wasn't hired to clean up a storage closet filled with eight years of IT crap. I asked to move my desk into the storage closest and cleared it out in six weeks in between tickets. Not only did I complete the contract three months ahead of schedule (therefore putting myself out of the job), I also gave back 600-sqft of storage space. A better qualified candidate wouldn't have done that.
So much for the claims of being a "miracle worker," eh? If they can always find someone better qualified, then that means you are literally the least-qualified applicant for any job you apply for.
I've yet to meet a better qualified candidate who was also a miracle worker.
It's been passed around every since, and anyone claiming to be them now just bought the name from someone who bought it from someone, etc.
I worked at Accolade when Infogrames went on a buying spree prior to the dot com bust. After they bought Accolade, they bought Hasbro Interactive that also owned the Atari intellectual property rights. It wasn't a coincidence that headquarters got moved from San Jose to Sunnyvale, home for the original Atari, and the company renamed itself to Atari. I believe that Accolade/Infogrames/Atari (same company, different owners, multiple personality disorders) is still behind the current Atari after the most recent bankruptcy. Whenever I wear an Atari t-shirt out in public, I still run into people who worked at the original Atari.
You can always get the Atari Flashback 7 Classic Game Console. I would be much interested in an Atari 5200/7800 retro console, two generations I skipped because I had a Commodore 64.
And they'll trivially find your shitty blog, which is full of rants about Slashdot asshats being mean to you.
That's not the only blog I've written for over the last 20 years.
You keep telling us that you're a replaceable cog - so it's not as if they'd have trouble finding another candidate to do the job instead.
Correct. There's always someone better qualified than me that an employer could always hire. Usually it comes down to a coin toss. But when I do get hired, I've never disappointed an employer with my work performance.
That you think your idiotic shit-posts on a public forum, especially under a name that is trivially easy to match to your ACTUAL name, especially given your penchant for plastering photos of yourself all over the place - are irrelevant to your employability is even cuter, Christopher.
Over the last ten years, no employer has ever asked my author website — or any other social media website. Even when I put it down for my security clearance. the interviewer was more interested in the fact that I had multiple contract assignments in a short period of time and lived in my apartment for longer than three years. A two-hour interview lasted four hours because of those two items.
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Which is probably how Hollywood managed to even get its feet off the ground, having a wealth of others ideas to 'borrow' upon.
That was brought up a few weeks ago about how Hollywood set up shop on the West Coast to avoid paying licensing fees to Thomas Edison on the East Coast.
https://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10707285&cid=54561405
If you want to claim extensive copyright hurts creativity, you really should be looking at sequalitis.
The two shining film examples would be Sony and Universal.
Sony made more Spiderman movies by rehashing the origin story — seriously, how many times does Uncle Ben have to die? — to prevent the licensing rights from reverting back to Marvel Studios. The new Spiderman movie is the result of a cross licensing deal between Sony and Marvel that will expire in 2019.
Universal got copyrights for their classic monster movies as the monsters were never described in a real great detail in the public domain books, preventing anyone from making a movie that looks identical to the Universal Monsters and forcing them up with different designs (not necessarily a bad thing). They're remaking all their movies to prevent their copyrights from falling into the public domain. Although Tom Cruise may have killed the budding franchise with the newest Mummy movie.
I think he was complaining that I was called Slashdot reader #14,247 rather than Slashdot member or participant #14,247.
I think "reader" would be the most appropriate and historically correct term. Members or participants would imply that management has a marketing plan to add value to the user experience. I don't see that happening.
Not quite. If your account gets deleted, the username is put back into circulation. If a new account gets created with the same username, it gets a new user id number. A username may have many user ids over the years, but user ids are always unique. It makes sense that a story submitter is referred to by their user id.
So in other words you could not be assed to update the security of your printers for years until it finally broke connectivity?
Printer security is a can of worms. If you think that is bad, try finding and removing Windows-based medical devices from the general VLAN.
VueScan (https://www.hamrick.com) will let you use any scanner on any OS, regardless of driver support.
Second this. When I saw how easy VueScan made scanning from old hardware, I bought a professional license 10+ years ago. Still getting free updates. Software runs on Windows, Mac and Linux.
As a general rule for my side business, all data resides on the file server and the backup hard drive in the Red Hat Linux box. I'm not overly concern about my inexpensive laptop or gaming rig being stolen. The file server and RHL box are locked down with Kensington cable locks. This, of course, doesn't prevent a determined thief from stealing these systems. It does deter the casual thief who is looking to get in and out in a hurry.
Creimer, you've got an awful lot of opinions about Python for someone who apparently doesn't know how to run python projects inside a virtualenv.
Sorry, grandpa, your bias against Java and Python 3 is showing again.
https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10381487&cid=54110393
It's a fucking scripting language - the only "build" it requires is running the goddamned python interpreter.
The ant build script for my static websites generates the static files using Pelican, archives the output directory to a backup folder on the file server, and then transfer the output files to the web hosting server. I just type "ant all" from the command line for everything to get done automatically. Each static website has a build.properties file that has specific settings for the build script to use.
Python 3 is a slow bloated mess [...]
That's funny. Instagram made the transition from Python 2 to Python 3, and got an unexpected performance boost from CPU and memory savings.
Python 2.7 still works fine in the meantime.
If you still have Python 2.7 installed. I've been using only Python 3 for the last few years.
Doesn't look like SCons made the transition to Python 3 yet.
I'll stick to using Ant for my Python projects.
I was fascinated by the Colossal Cave when I read "Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution" by Stephen Levy as a teenager in 1984. The only text adventure game I ever played was The Legend of The Red Dragon when I ran WildCat! BBS at college in the mid-1990's.
And weren't you not trolling the trolls or something?
Nope. I haven't called anyone an asshat today. Not that anyone tried to provoke me.
Let's re-frame your "miracle" - you spent billable hours for the client doing janitorial work, instead of the IT work you were hired to do. In legal circles, I think they'd call that "fraud," not a "miracle." And that might also be the major factor in why your contract ended three months "ahead of schedule" - they decided to eliminate you and find someone else, because you proved yourself to be a useless janitor, instead of a valuable support tech.
You're that desperate to cast me a negative light? Then again, you have nothing better to do with your life.
[...] I was wondering if he meant Tom or Jerry [...]
A Cyrix processor? The founders' names were... drumroll, please... Tom (Brightman) and Jerry (Rogers).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrix
You don't dispute that you're a poorly-qualified candidate, but you still claim you're a miracle worker.
A miracle worker solves a problem that the IT manager doesn't know was a solvable problem. For example, I wasn't hired to clean up a storage closet filled with eight years of IT crap. I asked to move my desk into the storage closest and cleared it out in six weeks in between tickets. Not only did I complete the contract three months ahead of schedule (therefore putting myself out of the job), I also gave back 600-sqft of storage space. A better qualified candidate wouldn't have done that.
So much for the claims of being a "miracle worker," eh? If they can always find someone better qualified, then that means you are literally the least-qualified applicant for any job you apply for.
I've yet to meet a better qualified candidate who was also a miracle worker.
You often (clumsily) deflect the argument when it's shown that you've talked yourself into an impasse.
If it makes you feel better (I know this is very important on Slashdot), you won.
It's been passed around every since, and anyone claiming to be them now just bought the name from someone who bought it from someone, etc.
I worked at Accolade when Infogrames went on a buying spree prior to the dot com bust. After they bought Accolade, they bought Hasbro Interactive that also owned the Atari intellectual property rights. It wasn't a coincidence that headquarters got moved from San Jose to Sunnyvale, home for the original Atari, and the company renamed itself to Atari. I believe that Accolade/Infogrames/Atari (same company, different owners, multiple personality disorders) is still behind the current Atari after the most recent bankruptcy. Whenever I wear an Atari t-shirt out in public, I still run into people who worked at the original Atari.
You can always get the Atari Flashback 7 Classic Game Console. I would be much interested in an Atari 5200/7800 retro console, two generations I skipped because I had a Commodore 64.
And they'll trivially find your shitty blog, which is full of rants about Slashdot asshats being mean to you.
That's not the only blog I've written for over the last 20 years.
You keep telling us that you're a replaceable cog - so it's not as if they'd have trouble finding another candidate to do the job instead.
Correct. There's always someone better qualified than me that an employer could always hire. Usually it comes down to a coin toss. But when I do get hired, I've never disappointed an employer with my work performance.
Seriously, do you even lift, bro?
I do 150 pounds on the cable row.
But I see your confusion, you think your delusions about your reputation are real.
At least I'm not a confessed murderer.
https://www.kickingthebitbucket.com/2017/03/28/i-worked-with-a-murderer/
That you think your idiotic shit-posts on a public forum, especially under a name that is trivially easy to match to your ACTUAL name, especially given your penchant for plastering photos of yourself all over the place - are irrelevant to your employability is even cuter, Christopher.
Over the last ten years, no employer has ever asked my author website — or any other social media website. Even when I put it down for my security clearance. the interviewer was more interested in the fact that I had multiple contract assignments in a short period of time and lived in my apartment for longer than three years. A two-hour interview lasted four hours because of those two items.