I know I'm a sad fanboy for pointing this out, but the "Doctor Who" scarf pictured in the article and purported to be part of Tom Baker's costume, looks nothing like any of the scarves he wore on the show.
There's a documentary around somewhere showing how everything worked and the actual bus jump, but I can't remember where I saw it or what it was called.
If you are referring to the HBO documentary about the making of "Speed," you saw it on HBO, and it's called The Making of "Speed."
But if they really wanted to exploit the nostalgia market that way, they'd be best advised to slap something in a repro C64 case (classic "breadbox" version, of course). In fact, if they had the case, it would probably be trivial to stick a small form-factor PC in there, with some sort of emulator onboard; possibly using the C64 30-in-one chips.
I suppose I can see why geeks would be more likely to prefer that brandnames were used on technical similarities rather than for reasons of marketing. Although then again, no one seems to care about reusing the Macintosh brand for different operating systems, or reusing brandnames like "Playstation" for completely different consoles - for some reason it only seems to be the Commodore (and perhaps also Amiga) brands which people complain about here.
Still, some brand names remain a bit constant. If you happened to be hanging around Apple headquarters, you might bump into Steve Jobs or Woz. The current Apple grew directly from the guys who were building the IIc in the 1980s. You could conceivably still find Shigeru Miyamoto running around the Nintendo offices, and you'd know that you're at the birthplace of the NES you were so glued to way back when. Hate Microsoft all you like, but you can still point to Gates and Ballmer and know that these are a couple of the guys responsible for that ubiquitous MS-DOS stuff you used to play with.
Brand loyalty can be a funny and superficial thing, and I'm not usually a practitioner of it myself, but I still prefer to see it used by those who earned it rather than third parties who scoop up names that others built. As another commenter on this story wrote, it feels pretty much like the retail version of domain squatting.
Does Commodore plan to revive the development of TV-friendly computer games?
In an era where the majority of console makers seem to be pushing towards HDTV over standard def, I'd doubt very much that the current Commodore company would be going the opposite way. However, if you're that into it, you could always get one of these.
I guess after that whole punishing a journalist for doing his job thing didn't work out, Sony needed to find another way to crap up their PR. How long until we get a Youtube clip of Sony's board of directors invading a playground in order to hog the swings and kick sandbox sand into childrens' faces?
I hate to be the cynical one this early in the morning, but it's worth noting that the Commodore brand name has been bought, sold, lost, found, and liquidated ridiculously often since its 1980s heyday. The current owners of the Commodore logo and brand name have about as much connection with the people who made the C64 and VIC20 as the current telephone companies have with Alexander Graham Bell.
Before this whole e-voting fiasco, I hadn't heard much about Diebold at all. I used ATMs for years without really caring about who built the damn things any more than I would care about which company made the parking meter outside the bank or the thumbtacks on their bulletin board. I didn't work in any industry that was tied strongly enough to whatever Diebold did to care.
Nowadays, the only mental image I have of Diebold nowadays is the complete mess of things they have made, as reported by concerned communities such as this one. I've double-checked the ATMs I've used since then, eschewing the Diebold ones.
In my case, the e-voting debacle didn't destroy my personal image of the company at all. It created it.
Special interests are what got our government where it is today; unfortunately, I don't see a way out. Does anyone else? Argue with me, I need some hope!:)
Unfortunately I can't argue with you, because I agree. Upon reading the words "Former New York Sen. Al D'Amato is giving lobbying a good name" every one of the voices in my head chorused "no he isn't, he really isn't." And they so rarely agree on anything...
If anyone but me was wondering when the MMOG 'Bigworld: Citizen Zero' would be coming out, you can stop wondering: it's been canceled. The sci-fi title was to feature a world where players re-discovered their past on a penal colony where everyone's memory had been erased.
That sounds like something I would have liked. How come I haven't heard about it until now? Or at least, I don't remember hearing about it before now... oh, dear.
TFA: "It is not uncommon to see Linux referred to as a volunteer-created system, as opposed to the corporate-sponsored, proprietary alternatives. There has been little research, however, into how much work on Linux is truly 'volunteer' - done on a hacker's spare, unpaid time. In general, the assumption that Linux is created by volunteers is simply accepted."
Thing is, even though some of those changes were done by programmers in the course of their paid jobs, isn't the work still being "volunteered," albeit by the company rather than an individual? As companies, Red Hat, IBM, Novell, or Big Roy's Heating and Plumbing don't need to help improve the kernel, nor are they directly paid for their work on it. They simply do so because a better Linux kernel does benefit them directly or indirectly, as do many individual volunteers.
The embedded ad images will provide the perfect raw material to deface when trying to come up with clever parody images to post on b3ta, Fark, Something Awful, and the like.
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Thank goodness mine is just a homemade copy!
I know I'm a sad fanboy for pointing this out, but the "Doctor Who" scarf pictured in the article and purported to be part of Tom Baker's costume, looks nothing like any of the scarves he wore on the show.
They found a slip of paper in the pocket which said "bald with glasses."
What does God need with a starship?
....sorry.
Brand loyalty can be a funny and superficial thing, and I'm not usually a practitioner of it myself, but I still prefer to see it used by those who earned it rather than third parties who scoop up names that others built. As another commenter on this story wrote, it feels pretty much like the retail version of domain squatting.
I guess after that whole punishing a journalist for doing his job thing didn't work out, Sony needed to find another way to crap up their PR. How long until we get a Youtube clip of Sony's board of directors invading a playground in order to hog the swings and kick sandbox sand into childrens' faces?
I hate to be the cynical one this early in the morning, but it's worth noting that the Commodore brand name has been bought, sold, lost, found, and liquidated ridiculously often since its 1980s heyday. The current owners of the Commodore logo and brand name have about as much connection with the people who made the C64 and VIC20 as the current telephone companies have with Alexander Graham Bell.
1. Look at the character design in any 8-bit game from the 1980s.
2. Do that.
3. Profit!
Before this whole e-voting fiasco, I hadn't heard much about Diebold at all. I used ATMs for years without really caring about who built the damn things any more than I would care about which company made the parking meter outside the bank or the thumbtacks on their bulletin board. I didn't work in any industry that was tied strongly enough to whatever Diebold did to care.
Nowadays, the only mental image I have of Diebold nowadays is the complete mess of things they have made, as reported by concerned communities such as this one. I've double-checked the ATMs I've used since then, eschewing the Diebold ones.
In my case, the e-voting debacle didn't destroy my personal image of the company at all. It created it.
Scientists have been able to produce an image of the ancient beast.
V'ger.
I suppose it would actually be P'neer, but that just doesn't sound right somehow.
I haven't handed one out for ages, but you have just won the Internet.
First Sony batteries explode, then Sanyo batteries overheat..
Note to self: avoid Stony silences, stay away from Sandy beaches, and don't talk to people named Sonya.
As a longtime dumpster-diver/rescuer of unwanted computer parts, I look forward to drawing a salary from the taxpayers.
TFA: "It is not uncommon to see Linux referred to as a volunteer-created system, as opposed to the corporate-sponsored, proprietary alternatives. There has been little research, however, into how much work on Linux is truly 'volunteer' - done on a hacker's spare, unpaid time. In general, the assumption that Linux is created by volunteers is simply accepted."
Thing is, even though some of those changes were done by programmers in the course of their paid jobs, isn't the work still being "volunteered," albeit by the company rather than an individual? As companies, Red Hat, IBM, Novell, or Big Roy's Heating and Plumbing don't need to help improve the kernel, nor are they directly paid for their work on it. They simply do so because a better Linux kernel does benefit them directly or indirectly, as do many individual volunteers.
Mod parent down (-1, Evil, Pure and Simple, From the Eighth Dimension)
The embedded ad images will provide the perfect raw material to deface when trying to come up with clever parody images to post on b3ta, Fark, Something Awful, and the like.
Speaking as a top award-winning particle physicist, race car driver, neurosurgeon, and rock star, I feel that this is absolutely terrible.