Marvel isn't nearly as integrated into the Disney culture (and doesn't integrate nearly as well) as Pixar or Lucasfilm, whose content matter can be described as wholesome, and if not then sanitized. On the other hand, Marvel's stories deal with darker, more complex, and more adult issues. These are issues that Disney is not accustomed to working with.
Marvel is the lone adult in a room full of infantile children. In fact, this may actually be a fair description of the relationship between Marvel's culture and Disney's culture. For now, Marvel is safe, because Disney doesn't really know what to do with Marvel. Yet. But as George Carlin says, "Never argue with an idiot. They will only bring you down to their level and beat you with experience." As in the same way that a child wouldn't know what to do with an adult initially, it'll only be a matter of time before Disney does exactly that with Marvel.
One can argue that it died with the making of episodes 1-3 and George Lucas' monetization push of the past ten or so years, but I think this is the last nail in the coffin. All that's left is the dissolution of ILM, and that will sound like dirt hitting wood.
How to ruin a good thing: sell it to Disney. I don't expect quality offerings from Pixar anymore either, especially after the atrocity that was Brave.
That's just a difference in power source output. The traditional principles of flight still applied. GP was talking about modifications to the way lift is generated. That's a difference on a higher level of abstraction.
Sorry, but they are huge in the enterprise. That's not the result of their OS monopoly, that's what caused their OS monopoly.
Home users are jumping ship from the open computing paradigm anyway. It's too much power in their hands that they can't manage. Users want the walled garden.
That is 1984. When we start turning on each other.
The point isn't to be able to analyze all the data, only the data for non-cooperating individuals, from the lowest temp office worker to the highest CEO, from the federal employee, to the President of the United States.
Cooperating with whom, to do what? That depends on who's sitting at the top of the FBI, now doesn't it? Want references? See Hoover. And see how his lieutenant brought down the then-current President.
I think I agree with your last point about the ribbon. Some of the obscure things, especially the ones that are supposed to lead to a separate dialog box, are just unintuitive.
That having been said, I find the ribbon makes my normal usage a ton easier. The ribbon is just a glorified toolbar, which I used to customize the hell out of first thing on a new installation of Office anyway. And in that sense, it really works, really well.
They should've never replaced the menus, just hidden it so that hitting alt would bring it up.
IE5 was lean and mean, and about as ideal as you could get for those days (security notwithstanding). The bloat began with IE6, and by then, Netscape was the better browser, feature- and resource-wise.
That requires an IT department full of competent people and not just interns hired at $10 an hour. Most systems don't talk well with each other, and require custom code to implement single sign-on. This is especially true of home-grown systems built 20 years ago.
Everybody wants to use a computer. Nobody wants to learn how or at least pay someone who knows how.
HTML5 is trying to be the next Java, substituting the browser in place of the JVM. This is a logical extension to the past decade of offloading all the heavy processing to the web browser.
Yes, the client is much faster and more powerful than what the server could provide for each individual connected client. But at the same time, the implementation differences between browsers, platforms, and even browser versions will still result in the same or worse incompatiblities than before.
I don't know if you're just not familiar with the legal on-goings in Hollywood, but big movie studios get sued for copyright infringement all the time. All the time.
This is because every Tom, Dick, and Harry has an idea, and every movie that's even remotely similar to this brilliant idea of their's will cause them to sue. Now, that doesn't mean these aren't always legitimate lawsuits. Many times, the studios will take something someone pitched, and turn it into a movie, without compensating the originator of the idea. But they have had a lot of experience dealing with these kinds of lawsuits.
Oh, and the movie studios usually win. Southern California, and in fact, most of California, soon to be the United States federal government, is their home turf, and you can't expect to win against them on their own home turf.
Portable computing's been around since the first portable calculator. The communications part not so much, but certainly the "smart" half of the smartphone, and tablets, are nothing new or revolutionary.
Almost all modern religions are based on this idea of perfection, that there is some greater being out there that is perfect, and that all humans should strive for that perfection. This god itself is merely an anthropomorphism of the ultimate aspirations of an imperfect, deeply flawed creature.
If there ever was there a place such a god could exist, it could only be found hidden behind the intricacies of mathematics.
Now if only this idea caught on among the deeply religious. Mathematics would be all the theology anyone needed to learn in school.
No, that's not democracy. Democracy is mob rule. Democracy is, if 51% of the people wanted religious education, persecution of other religions, and modern crusades into the Middle East, the other 49% are stuck doing exactly those same things. That is democracy.
Democracy still tyranny--tyranny of the majority over the minority.
No. And it illustrates just how useless DRM and activities around developing DRM actually are. There's always one place where the information has to come out decrypted. That place typically sits right in front of your sensory organs.
It's not "corporate" America. It's stupid America. People are scared of the things they don't know or know little about. The ADA is a coward. That's all this is. But so is most of America, if the general American reaction to 9/11 served as any indication. "Home of the brave" feels like attributing "land of the plenty" to North Korea.
Race may or may not have exacerbated the response.
To blame everything on white people doesn't do anything to fix the problem, not to mention is just an asshole thing to do.
Well, how do you think these black people who've been here for many generations got this way?
Not by choice, I'd imagine. More likely by circumstance. And who put them in that circumstance? And who continues to do so even today?
There's a reason these people, especially the kids, are considered underprivileged. It's not because they're poor. There's a ton of poor white people around. It really is because they're treated differently, that the privileges afforded to them by society are less, sometimes far, far less, than that afforded to people with lighter skin. Maybe this doesn't happen where you live, or you just don't notice it. But it sure as hell happens in certain parts of the country. It even happens in places that are as "liberal" and "north" and "abolitionist" as New York City.
Actually, revised calculations made their pass even closer, within 30 milliseconds. I may be doing the math wrong, but it seems like that's much closer, like an order of magnitude closer than 700' and then some.
Actually, since the users probably downloaded the client of their own free will, it's not a breach of anything. There's probably some clause in the EULA that says they can't be held responsible if their software makes your computer explode. Parts of the EULA might not be enforcable, but these parts fall under common sense and may actually be applicable in this case.
As a user, it's up to you to ensure that the things you put on your computer is not harmful to yourself. If somebody's program that you downloaded included a keylogger, as long as they didn't actually try to use the information pulled off it, it'd be hard to charge them and have the charges stick.
Now, the issue with law enforcement going after the individual who did this is a completely different issue. Those are just bullying tactics, something that anyone with a lawyer and hidden behind a limited-liability corporation wouldn't fall for, but an individual would.
The moral of the story? Get incorporated and a good lawyer if you want to do anything. Not anything shady, anything.
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Marvel isn't nearly as integrated into the Disney culture (and doesn't integrate nearly as well) as Pixar or Lucasfilm, whose content matter can be described as wholesome, and if not then sanitized. On the other hand, Marvel's stories deal with darker, more complex, and more adult issues. These are issues that Disney is not accustomed to working with.
Marvel is the lone adult in a room full of infantile children. In fact, this may actually be a fair description of the relationship between Marvel's culture and Disney's culture. For now, Marvel is safe, because Disney doesn't really know what to do with Marvel. Yet. But as George Carlin says, "Never argue with an idiot. They will only bring you down to their level and beat you with experience." As in the same way that a child wouldn't know what to do with an adult initially, it'll only be a matter of time before Disney does exactly that with Marvel.
That would be CmdrTaco.
Lucas's legacy that is.
One can argue that it died with the making of episodes 1-3 and George Lucas' monetization push of the past ten or so years, but I think this is the last nail in the coffin. All that's left is the dissolution of ILM, and that will sound like dirt hitting wood.
How to ruin a good thing: sell it to Disney. I don't expect quality offerings from Pixar anymore either, especially after the atrocity that was Brave.
That's just a difference in power source output. The traditional principles of flight still applied. GP was talking about modifications to the way lift is generated. That's a difference on a higher level of abstraction.
Sorry, but they are huge in the enterprise. That's not the result of their OS monopoly, that's what caused their OS monopoly.
Home users are jumping ship from the open computing paradigm anyway. It's too much power in their hands that they can't manage. Users want the walled garden.
That is 1984. When we start turning on each other.
The point isn't to be able to analyze all the data, only the data for non-cooperating individuals, from the lowest temp office worker to the highest CEO, from the federal employee, to the President of the United States.
Cooperating with whom, to do what? That depends on who's sitting at the top of the FBI, now doesn't it? Want references? See Hoover. And see how his lieutenant brought down the then-current President.
I think I agree with your last point about the ribbon. Some of the obscure things, especially the ones that are supposed to lead to a separate dialog box, are just unintuitive.
That having been said, I find the ribbon makes my normal usage a ton easier. The ribbon is just a glorified toolbar, which I used to customize the hell out of first thing on a new installation of Office anyway. And in that sense, it really works, really well.
They should've never replaced the menus, just hidden it so that hitting alt would bring it up.
IE5 was lean and mean, and about as ideal as you could get for those days (security notwithstanding). The bloat began with IE6, and by then, Netscape was the better browser, feature- and resource-wise.
That requires an IT department full of competent people and not just interns hired at $10 an hour. Most systems don't talk well with each other, and require custom code to implement single sign-on. This is especially true of home-grown systems built 20 years ago.
Everybody wants to use a computer. Nobody wants to learn how or at least pay someone who knows how.
HTML5 is trying to be the next Java, substituting the browser in place of the JVM. This is a logical extension to the past decade of offloading all the heavy processing to the web browser.
Yes, the client is much faster and more powerful than what the server could provide for each individual connected client. But at the same time, the implementation differences between browsers, platforms, and even browser versions will still result in the same or worse incompatiblities than before.
I don't understand how the takeaway from this is bad news for Blackberry.
You don't understand why a monopoly is good for business and bad for the customer?
I don't know if you're just not familiar with the legal on-goings in Hollywood, but big movie studios get sued for copyright infringement all the time. All the time.
This is because every Tom, Dick, and Harry has an idea, and every movie that's even remotely similar to this brilliant idea of their's will cause them to sue. Now, that doesn't mean these aren't always legitimate lawsuits. Many times, the studios will take something someone pitched, and turn it into a movie, without compensating the originator of the idea. But they have had a lot of experience dealing with these kinds of lawsuits.
Oh, and the movie studios usually win. Southern California, and in fact, most of California, soon to be the United States federal government, is their home turf, and you can't expect to win against them on their own home turf.
our phones and tablets were "science fiction". :-)
Portable computing's been around since the first portable calculator. The communications part not so much, but certainly the "smart" half of the smartphone, and tablets, are nothing new or revolutionary.
No, that's Blizzard. EA celebrates that only once every time they kill a popular franchise.
Almost all modern religions are based on this idea of perfection, that there is some greater being out there that is perfect, and that all humans should strive for that perfection. This god itself is merely an anthropomorphism of the ultimate aspirations of an imperfect, deeply flawed creature.
If there ever was there a place such a god could exist, it could only be found hidden behind the intricacies of mathematics.
Now if only this idea caught on among the deeply religious. Mathematics would be all the theology anyone needed to learn in school.
No, that's not democracy. Democracy is mob rule. Democracy is, if 51% of the people wanted religious education, persecution of other religions, and modern crusades into the Middle East, the other 49% are stuck doing exactly those same things. That is democracy.
Democracy still tyranny--tyranny of the majority over the minority.
What we have is a republic.
The spiritual healer obviously called upon the fairies, who conveyed the specific problem to the healer.
Even the crackpots get lucky sometimes.
No. And it illustrates just how useless DRM and activities around developing DRM actually are. There's always one place where the information has to come out decrypted. That place typically sits right in front of your sensory organs.
you can't taste how pissy it is.
It tastes the way piss smells. 'nuff said.
It's not "corporate" America. It's stupid America. People are scared of the things they don't know or know little about. The ADA is a coward. That's all this is. But so is most of America, if the general American reaction to 9/11 served as any indication. "Home of the brave" feels like attributing "land of the plenty" to North Korea.
Race may or may not have exacerbated the response.
The science student was a terrorist, because only terrorists known science.
To blame everything on white people doesn't do anything to fix the problem, not to mention is just an asshole thing to do.
Well, how do you think these black people who've been here for many generations got this way?
Not by choice, I'd imagine. More likely by circumstance. And who put them in that circumstance? And who continues to do so even today?
There's a reason these people, especially the kids, are considered underprivileged. It's not because they're poor. There's a ton of poor white people around. It really is because they're treated differently, that the privileges afforded to them by society are less, sometimes far, far less, than that afforded to people with lighter skin. Maybe this doesn't happen where you live, or you just don't notice it. But it sure as hell happens in certain parts of the country. It even happens in places that are as "liberal" and "north" and "abolitionist" as New York City.
A very, very large aerogel sponge. Getting the actual sponge to deorbit would be a bitch, but at least it'd be easy to track.
Actually, revised calculations made their pass even closer, within 30 milliseconds. I may be doing the math wrong, but it seems like that's much closer, like an order of magnitude closer than 700' and then some.
Actually, since the users probably downloaded the client of their own free will, it's not a breach of anything. There's probably some clause in the EULA that says they can't be held responsible if their software makes your computer explode. Parts of the EULA might not be enforcable, but these parts fall under common sense and may actually be applicable in this case.
As a user, it's up to you to ensure that the things you put on your computer is not harmful to yourself. If somebody's program that you downloaded included a keylogger, as long as they didn't actually try to use the information pulled off it, it'd be hard to charge them and have the charges stick.
Now, the issue with law enforcement going after the individual who did this is a completely different issue. Those are just bullying tactics, something that anyone with a lawyer and hidden behind a limited-liability corporation wouldn't fall for, but an individual would.
The moral of the story? Get incorporated and a good lawyer if you want to do anything. Not anything shady, anything.