Really, I don't think Rendezvous with Rama is such a good book and I don't see a good movie out of it. I'll guess we'll have Morgan Freeman in Perera's role and a Brad Pitt / di Caprio / whoever looks good on a magazine starring as the guy with the 'aerial bicycle' (can't remember the name of the caracter now), or something equally dull.
And 2001 - A great movie by a great director, but somehow disappointing compared to the book, which is far easier to understand and has incredible parts (such as when HAL go crazy kills the crew) that were changed in the movie (for worse imho).
Anyway, the Clarke book I'd like to see on film is Imperial Earth. I is not the usual action-packed sci-fi, but perhaps the time would be right now after Soderbergh's Solaris. And it wouldn't take a ridiculous amount of technical means to make it believeable, unlike Rama.
And while I'm at it, when will someone in Hollywood decide to remake BladeRunner, making it closer to PKD's book? Or PKD's The Man in The High Castle? Or Asimov's Foundation trilogy (got to employ those people after LoTR pt3 comes out)? Discuss.
I hoped my pro-IE (not pro-MS) statement was just a small comment and didn't get into controversy, but thanks, you just took the words out of my mouth.
Is Lynx a W3C-XHTML browser? And I think IE also supports alt-tags (for the text reading systems).
Call the W3C, Netscape whatever you want. I am democratic person and I go for demographic data. TELEPAC people (portuguese equivalent to AOL) can't even use Windows properly, let alone install and configure (let's say Corel?) Linux. And as you know, all Compaqs, HPs and even bulk computers run Windows and IE.
I dunno how it works in the US, but here in Europe popular vote wins the standard;)
And I want to make it clear I haven't been assimilated. I've chosen a BSD server and I been having a nightmarish afternoon in Word (can't MS at least rob Macromedia interfaces?:P).
I mean, magnetic storage is around here for quite a long time.
There were the Sinclair Spectrum, the C64 and others that used ordinary audio cassettes, using quite an interesting method - some kind of modem that is.
The same way, there was that Amiga to VCR thing, I also remember reading about it sometime during 1993 or 94.
So aren't we over-hyping digital tape recording. Of course there are some nice new toys like the Thomson D-VHS VCR or Sony Digital 8 (digital recording on 8mm tape - at twice its normal speed), but recording digital on analog magnetic media has been around since before I was born.
Now, about that anti-IE website. I think it takes a lot of nerve. Webstandards? -=Iframe=- is a web standard. Where is it in Netscape4? And what about the extreme confusion Mozilla represents for webdesigners? As one, I play by numbers. My server logs show a 55% IE4 and higher share (and I think that's quite low if you take all of the web), so IE must be my priority when designing webpages, unless I don't want my pages to be seen by as many visitors as possible. As I do want them to be seen, designing for IE has been a priority roughly since Windows98 and its bundled IE4 came out, and I am nicely surprised how IE evolves smoothly and (no one can deny it) how MSDN documentation almost rules as much as OReilly's *grin. But what about Netscape? In some high-tech websites where I needed split IE4 and NS4 versions, nothing, not even the NS4 version, works with Mozilla.6. That's just impossible.
Webstandards? Then everyone use Amaya! Else, the public is the only standard to go for.
This Unisys story remembers me something I read on The Onion last year. It was about Bill Gates patenting the binary system, ultimately demanding a tax on everything. I really want to see how Unisys are going to tax millions of users all over the world.
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Really, I don't think Rendezvous with Rama is such a good book and I don't see a good movie out of it. I'll guess we'll have Morgan Freeman in Perera's role and a Brad Pitt / di Caprio / whoever looks good on a magazine starring as the guy with the 'aerial bicycle' (can't remember the name of the caracter now), or something equally dull.
And 2001 - A great movie by a great director, but somehow disappointing compared to the book, which is far easier to understand and has incredible parts (such as when HAL go crazy kills the crew) that were changed in the movie (for worse imho).
Anyway, the Clarke book I'd like to see on film is Imperial Earth. I is not the usual action-packed sci-fi, but perhaps the time would be right now after Soderbergh's Solaris. And it wouldn't take a ridiculous amount of technical means to make it believeable, unlike Rama.
And while I'm at it, when will someone in Hollywood decide to remake BladeRunner, making it closer to PKD's book? Or PKD's The Man in The High Castle? Or Asimov's Foundation trilogy (got to employ those people after LoTR pt3 comes out)? Discuss.
I hoped my pro-IE (not pro-MS) statement was just a small comment and didn't get into controversy, but thanks, you just took the words out of my mouth.
;)
:P).
Is Lynx a W3C-XHTML browser? And I think IE also supports alt-tags (for the text reading systems).
Call the W3C, Netscape whatever you want. I am democratic person and I go for demographic data. TELEPAC people (portuguese equivalent to AOL) can't even use Windows properly, let alone install and configure (let's say Corel?) Linux. And as you know, all Compaqs, HPs and even bulk computers run Windows and IE.
I dunno how it works in the US, but here in Europe popular vote wins the standard
And I want to make it clear I haven't been assimilated. I've chosen a BSD server and I been having a nightmarish afternoon in Word (can't MS at least rob Macromedia interfaces?
Cheers,
| e.s.
Tape backup devices? Hello??
I mean, magnetic storage is around here for quite a long time.
There were the Sinclair Spectrum, the C64 and others that used ordinary audio cassettes, using quite an interesting method - some kind of modem that is.
The same way, there was that Amiga to VCR thing, I also remember reading about it sometime during 1993 or 94.
So aren't we over-hyping digital tape recording. Of course there are some nice new toys like the Thomson D-VHS VCR or Sony Digital 8 (digital recording on 8mm tape - at twice its normal speed), but recording digital on analog magnetic media has been around since before I was born.
Now, about that anti-IE website. I think it takes a lot of nerve. Webstandards? -=Iframe=- is a web standard. Where is it in Netscape4? And what about the extreme confusion Mozilla represents for webdesigners? As one, I play by numbers. My server logs show a 55% IE4 and higher share (and I think that's quite low if you take all of the web), so IE must be my priority when designing webpages, unless I don't want my pages to be seen by as many visitors as possible. As I do want them to be seen, designing for IE has been a priority roughly since Windows98 and its bundled IE4 came out, and I am nicely surprised how IE evolves smoothly and (no one can deny it) how MSDN documentation almost rules as much as OReilly's *grin. But what about Netscape? In some high-tech websites where I needed split IE4 and NS4 versions, nothing, not even the NS4 version, works with Mozilla.6. That's just impossible.
Webstandards? Then everyone use Amaya! Else, the public is the only standard to go for.
Cheers,
| e.s.
This Unisys story remembers me something I read on The Onion last year. It was about Bill Gates patenting the binary system, ultimately demanding a tax on everything. I really want to see how Unisys are going to tax millions of users all over the world.
Just another thing, have you noticed that the PNG Now! button is a GIF? http://www.cdrom.com/pub/png/img_pn g/pngnow.gif