Control of distribution is what has built these media empires. Essentially the studios as we have known them for eighty or ninety years will cease to exist.
I'm not sure why anyone should shed a tear. People will always want movies, what will they care if it's production companies backed by Sony or by Amazon and Apple making them? Besides, the movie industry has for so long been so filled with such colossal frauds and criminals, whose accounting practices should pretty much land every producer in the greater Los Angeles area in prison for everything from mail fraud to extortion, that I think it's high time some new blood was injected.
I don't think Egypt swapped anything, to be honest with you. The Army always ran the show. They were content to let Mubarak be the frontman, but ultimately it wasn't street protests that knocked Mubarak down, it was the Army saying "Well, you're of no use to us anymore."
As has been pointed out multiple times, the C64 was the second wave, five years after Apple IIs, TRS-80 Model Is and Commodore PETS. I don't remember the C64 ever being seen as a business or education machine. It was pretty much a game machine.
What are you talking about? The only computer Commodore had out when the Apple II was released was the PET, which, beyond a few educational institutions, had almost no penetration at all. Commodore didn't begin dominating the market until the early 1980s.
The major systems available around the same time as the Apple II were the Commodore PET and the TRS-80 Model I, but for those first years, Apple had the dominant platform. A lot of computer historians over the years have pointed out that the Apple II with Visicalc pretty much created the notion of microcomputer as a small business machine.
Everything builds on everything else. He was instrumental in the Apple II, and that was, no matter what anybody may say, a titanic shift in the manufacture, marketing and public perception of the computer.
I think you're not giving Jobs enough credit even for the first wave of personal computers. The Apple II was probably the most important step into the world of computers in the home, school and business, moving us from the era of hobbiest kit computer to what we view as the standard computer, keyboard and monitor. Jobs was instrumental in that as well. This is a man, whether you liked him or not or approved of everything he did or not, who was in fact instrumental in a number of steps in the post-1960s computer revolution.
Let me guess, you had to wait for all those little voting people to click the plus sign on your stupid firehose before you could, you know, post probably the biggest tech-related story of the week, or the month for that matter.
Pathetic, Slashdot, absolutely pathetic. I mean, you let a stupid autism story get posted before the Steve Job's story.
At any rate, whatever you may have thought of his motives, the tech world has lost one of its towering figures. Condolences to his family.
Not to mention for con artists scamming gullible parents of children with autism into believing widely used vaccines caused their kids' disorder, rather than the genes they pass on to said children.
While ST:TOS had its clunky episodes, by and large it was anything but a mediocre show. There's no doubt the actors played a large part in it, but there was some damned good writing going on behind the scenes as well, and what the production team was able to do on often skimpy budgets and the special effects available to them in the mid to late 1960s was technically impressive as well. And let's not forget that the "trinity" of Kirk, Spock and McCoy was as much the product of the unsung hero of Star Trek, Gene L. Coon, as Roddenberry or the actors.
Want mediocre Star Trek, look no further than Voyager, which was gawdawful, despite having significantly better technical resources at its disposal. Bad writing, poorly acted by mediocre actors who couldn't at least cast a warm atmosphere over the more dismal episodes.
If Star Trek had begun with a series like Voyager or Enterprise, I doubt anyone would be talking about it today.
Apart from the fact that Mark Zuckerberg is a bad dude, how can you patent tracking cookies with a database back end? I mean, that sort of shit has been going on since the 1990s, done by other pre-Zuckerberg evil motherfuckers. What exactly is novel about this? It's like Saddam Hussein patenting "a place where people are burned for eternity and jabbed by evil bastards with pitchforks."
Mr. Shatner, how did you get to be The Man? I mean, let's face it, I can't speaker for the younger generations, but as a kid who grew up on Star Trek reruns in the 1970s, your portrayal of Kirk made you The Man. Heck, I watch you on Raw Nerve, and you're still The Man.
Still, the other side of that is the website's obligation that your data remain secure. Yes, you should back up your own data, but neither does the hosting company simply have a right to leave its systems vulnerable to penetration. After all, deleting websites is one thing, what about data theft?
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Control of distribution is what has built these media empires. Essentially the studios as we have known them for eighty or ninety years will cease to exist.
I'm not sure why anyone should shed a tear. People will always want movies, what will they care if it's production companies backed by Sony or by Amazon and Apple making them? Besides, the movie industry has for so long been so filled with such colossal frauds and criminals, whose accounting practices should pretty much land every producer in the greater Los Angeles area in prison for everything from mail fraud to extortion, that I think it's high time some new blood was injected.
I don't think Egypt swapped anything, to be honest with you. The Army always ran the show. They were content to let Mubarak be the frontman, but ultimately it wasn't street protests that knocked Mubarak down, it was the Army saying "Well, you're of no use to us anymore."
As has been pointed out multiple times, the C64 was the second wave, five years after Apple IIs, TRS-80 Model Is and Commodore PETS. I don't remember the C64 ever being seen as a business or education machine. It was pretty much a game machine.
The Commodore 64 came out five years after the Apple II. Good grief there are some pretty historically ignorant people here.
What are you talking about? The only computer Commodore had out when the Apple II was released was the PET, which, beyond a few educational institutions, had almost no penetration at all. Commodore didn't begin dominating the market until the early 1980s.
The major systems available around the same time as the Apple II were the Commodore PET and the TRS-80 Model I, but for those first years, Apple had the dominant platform. A lot of computer historians over the years have pointed out that the Apple II with Visicalc pretty much created the notion of microcomputer as a small business machine.
Everything builds on everything else. He was instrumental in the Apple II, and that was, no matter what anybody may say, a titanic shift in the manufacture, marketing and public perception of the computer.
I can't think of a better description of the man. He very much was an American Icon, and he is very much dead now.
I think you're not giving Jobs enough credit even for the first wave of personal computers. The Apple II was probably the most important step into the world of computers in the home, school and business, moving us from the era of hobbiest kit computer to what we view as the standard computer, keyboard and monitor. Jobs was instrumental in that as well. This is a man, whether you liked him or not or approved of everything he did or not, who was in fact instrumental in a number of steps in the post-1960s computer revolution.
Let me guess, you had to wait for all those little voting people to click the plus sign on your stupid firehose before you could, you know, post probably the biggest tech-related story of the week, or the month for that matter.
Pathetic, Slashdot, absolutely pathetic. I mean, you let a stupid autism story get posted before the Steve Job's story.
At any rate, whatever you may have thought of his motives, the tech world has lost one of its towering figures. Condolences to his family.
Not to mention for con artists scamming gullible parents of children with autism into believing widely used vaccines caused their kids' disorder, rather than the genes they pass on to said children.
Which he just has...
Man, is Slashdot is slow or what? There was a time when it would have scooped pretty much all the major press on something like this.
It may be quiet on the consumer front, but in the enterprise world, Java remains one of the big things. Ignore the .NET and Python fanatics.
There were no lack of hot scantily-clad babes in TOS. Didn't one of the guest-starring babes have to have her dress kept on with plastic tape?
While ST:TOS had its clunky episodes, by and large it was anything but a mediocre show. There's no doubt the actors played a large part in it, but there was some damned good writing going on behind the scenes as well, and what the production team was able to do on often skimpy budgets and the special effects available to them in the mid to late 1960s was technically impressive as well. And let's not forget that the "trinity" of Kirk, Spock and McCoy was as much the product of the unsung hero of Star Trek, Gene L. Coon, as Roddenberry or the actors.
Want mediocre Star Trek, look no further than Voyager, which was gawdawful, despite having significantly better technical resources at its disposal. Bad writing, poorly acted by mediocre actors who couldn't at least cast a warm atmosphere over the more dismal episodes.
If Star Trek had begun with a series like Voyager or Enterprise, I doubt anyone would be talking about it today.
"I just know she's hot under that Klingon makeup... and that latex... WOW!!!!"
Chicks?
The Mr. Belvedere theme song is much better.
Apart from the fact that Mark Zuckerberg is a bad dude, how can you patent tracking cookies with a database back end? I mean, that sort of shit has been going on since the 1990s, done by other pre-Zuckerberg evil motherfuckers. What exactly is novel about this? It's like Saddam Hussein patenting "a place where people are burned for eternity and jabbed by evil bastards with pitchforks."
It's always great when a sociopath finds his soulmate. Maybe you and this Ernst should hook up.
Mr. Shatner, how did you get to be The Man? I mean, let's face it, I can't speaker for the younger generations, but as a kid who grew up on Star Trek reruns in the 1970s, your portrayal of Kirk made you The Man. Heck, I watch you on Raw Nerve, and you're still The Man.
After having a ten minute fight scene, of course.
And in other news, someone else sued Facebook, the sky is blue, water is wet and ice is cold.
Still, the other side of that is the website's obligation that your data remain secure. Yes, you should back up your own data, but neither does the hosting company simply have a right to leave its systems vulnerable to penetration. After all, deleting websites is one thing, what about data theft?
As I recall, Microsoft got into significant trouble for doing just that with Internet Explorer.
We know that it isn't meaningfully cross platform for starters.