Just for the record, Celeborn's fine, it was Haldir who bit it at Helm's Deep...
But I agree wholeheartedly about the difference between telling a story via a movie as opposed to a book. I think Jackson's doing a wonderful job, all told. My biggest beef has to do with all the complaining over the Aragorn/Arwen storyline. While it may not have been front & center in the book, the story is thoroughly told in the Appendix, and obviously has a major impact on Aragorn's personal struggle throughout the War of the Ring. It ties in nicely with the whole Elves-leaving-Middle-Earth angle, and yes, it does give the female audience another avenue for identifying with the characters and becoming emotionally involved with the story...
Sounds simple, but in how many ways is that data stored and structured, and how current is it? With a GSP swarm you don't just generate a map, but you put in place a mechanism to both update current maps and create new ones as needed...
That's what news venues pay Reuters for - they're not going to go out and fact-check every story they get from AP and Reuters. You can rest assured that this story will show up in hundreds, if not thousands of different newspapers tomorrow, without 99% of the editors even worrying about validity...
Now granted, there's a real danger in that. I remember a few years ago some guy mocked up a false press release about a public company and got it fed through either the Reuters or AP newsfeeds. The market reaction caused many investors to lose great sums of money, all because a bogus PR got circulated with a trusted brand name (AP/Reuters) at the top.
I'd wait for confirmation before getting all excited about this. Isn't the NY Post the paper that printed an editorial congratulating the Red Sox on beating the Yankees in the ALCS? Perhaps it's really Burger King that's giving out Hillary Rosen action figures instead...
While it looks like "a friggin ton of compensation," it really amounts to little going out of SCO's door in terms of cash. As many other tech firms have done over the last decade, they're only committing other people's money (lawsuit settlement or company buyout), but the potential is enough to make it worth the law firm's while. Not only are they betting the company on winning this lawsuit, but they're getting 3rd parties to pile on as well.
Frankly, in this deal, I think the law firm's management is the stupid one...
I think the scariest thing is that I haven't heard a single, unqualified bit of praise for the film so far. It's not like people love it or hate it, just that they either hate it or can tolerate sitting through it...
But that's Hollywood for you - you can't just make one great movie and leave it alone. You have to squeeze every dollar out of the franchise while you can!
That is one the silliest things I've read in a looooong time.
1) Freedom of the press is only truly open to those who can afford to publish? Uh, hello, communication channels are more wide open today then they have ever been, thanks to blogs, email, newsgroups, P2P, desktop publishing, etc. Of course big corporations have more options available to them, but that is (and has always been) the case just about everywhere in the world.
2) "What will hopefully emerge from this process is a totally new form of government, a meritocracy. In my opinion, music will be the greatest power." Have you taken your meds today, or are we looking at 50 Cent as the new Director of Homeland Security?
3) "the company with the greatest financial clout in the world right now is Microsoft." A software company, no matter how large, hardly wields "financial clout" like a GE, which spans the globe and gobbles up companies in a variety of industries by the handful, or a huge bank like Citigroup, which brokers deals and provides the financing that makes business projects possible. Microsoft is a giant in the software business, but in terms of the overall business picture, they aren't the biggest kid on the block by far.
4) Gates can direct the "full power of the press" to back candidates of his choosing? While Microsoft has a partnership with NBC, I doubt that he spends his time telling Katie & Matt which candidates to pump up.
5) "If my thesis is right, and this is a plutocratic system, then Gates is nominally the king, with no hereditary right of succession as such, unless he can prolong his wealth into the next generation. Well, your "thesis" is dead wrong from the start, and is certainly finished off by the fact that Gates plans to give all his fortune away.
There are plenty of reasons to bash or admire Microsoft, but paranoid fantasies are another thing entirely...
There's a major difference between music and text, however - people greatly prefer reading newspapers or books because of portability, legibility, etc. By comparison, there is little or no difference between listening to a music CD and music stored in some other medium like a HD or Flash card. Once they resolve the licensing issues this will become a no-brainer. It sounds like iTunes is making good progress on that front...
So is it time to stop subsidizing the Canadian NHL teams who keep complaining about their weak currency, and how that prevents them from signing the best players?
It looks like it is available in the US here - not straight from Amazon, but available via their marketplace of used books. There's a few hardcovers and paperbacks left...
It all depends on the ownership structure - just because you're a public company doesn't mean that a majority of the shares are out in the marketplace. Google could go IPO, and still maintain majority control amongst the insiders.
Instead of answering their critics directly, the administration is using websites to bypass them and sell their propaganda to the American Public.
To be fair, that's just common sense. When you're trying to get a message out, you don't respond directly to critics - that puts the dialogue on their terms. Instead, you focus on your own themes and ramp up the volume. That's a tried-and-true strategy used by politicians, businesses, and other issue-driven advocates of all stripes.
I guess the important point is, does anybody actually visit and read these sites? This is the first I've heard of them...
The musicians that you refer to have everything to GAIN from P2P file sharing, as it gives them another opportunity to get their music noticed by music fans. The ones who lose from P2P are those poor saps you see on MTV's "Cribs", who live in such appalling conditions...
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Just for the record, Celeborn's fine, it was Haldir who bit it at Helm's Deep...
But I agree wholeheartedly about the difference between telling a story via a movie as opposed to a book. I think Jackson's doing a wonderful job, all told. My biggest beef has to do with all the complaining over the Aragorn/Arwen storyline. While it may not have been front & center in the book, the story is thoroughly told in the Appendix, and obviously has a major impact on Aragorn's personal struggle throughout the War of the Ring. It ties in nicely with the whole Elves-leaving-Middle-Earth angle, and yes, it does give the female audience another avenue for identifying with the characters and becoming emotionally involved with the story...
All I know is, I told ya so yesterday! It's been a rough time for the Post lately...
The merits of Messenger Service may be debatable, but the fact that it is activated by default in Windows installs is downright absurd...
But they don't go to market with the development code name, do they? Otherwise we'd have Whistler instead of WinXP (is that right? I can't recall).
Sounds simple, but in how many ways is that data stored and structured, and how current is it? With a GSP swarm you don't just generate a map, but you put in place a mechanism to both update current maps and create new ones as needed...
That's what news venues pay Reuters for - they're not going to go out and fact-check every story they get from AP and Reuters. You can rest assured that this story will show up in hundreds, if not thousands of different newspapers tomorrow, without 99% of the editors even worrying about validity...
Now granted, there's a real danger in that. I remember a few years ago some guy mocked up a false press release about a public company and got it fed through either the Reuters or AP newsfeeds. The market reaction caused many investors to lose great sums of money, all because a bogus PR got circulated with a trusted brand name (AP/Reuters) at the top.
I'd wait for confirmation before getting all excited about this. Isn't the NY Post the paper that printed an editorial congratulating the Red Sox on beating the Yankees in the ALCS? Perhaps it's really Burger King that's giving out Hillary Rosen action figures instead...
Don't you think Tub Girl would be more appropriate here?
While it looks like "a friggin ton of compensation," it really amounts to little going out of SCO's door in terms of cash. As many other tech firms have done over the last decade, they're only committing other people's money (lawsuit settlement or company buyout), but the potential is enough to make it worth the law firm's while. Not only are they betting the company on winning this lawsuit, but they're getting 3rd parties to pile on as well.
Frankly, in this deal, I think the law firm's management is the stupid one...
Another way of saying it is that Voyager has now gone Into the Void...
That sounds like last week's CSI, "Fur and Loathing".
And The Road Warrior is certainly the best Mad Max film... (although not truly the middle part of a predefined trilogy)
I think the scariest thing is that I haven't heard a single, unqualified bit of praise for the film so far. It's not like people love it or hate it, just that they either hate it or can tolerate sitting through it...
But that's Hollywood for you - you can't just make one great movie and leave it alone. You have to squeeze every dollar out of the franchise while you can!
That is one the silliest things I've read in a looooong time.
1) Freedom of the press is only truly open to those who can afford to publish? Uh, hello, communication channels are more wide open today then they have ever been, thanks to blogs, email, newsgroups, P2P, desktop publishing, etc. Of course big corporations have more options available to them, but that is (and has always been) the case just about everywhere in the world.
2) "What will hopefully emerge from this process is a totally new form of government, a meritocracy. In my opinion, music will be the greatest power." Have you taken your meds today, or are we looking at 50 Cent as the new Director of Homeland Security?
3) "the company with the greatest financial clout in the world right now is Microsoft." A software company, no matter how large, hardly wields "financial clout" like a GE, which spans the globe and gobbles up companies in a variety of industries by the handful, or a huge bank like Citigroup, which brokers deals and provides the financing that makes business projects possible. Microsoft is a giant in the software business, but in terms of the overall business picture, they aren't the biggest kid on the block by far.
4) Gates can direct the "full power of the press" to back candidates of his choosing? While Microsoft has a partnership with NBC, I doubt that he spends his time telling Katie & Matt which candidates to pump up.
5) "If my thesis is right, and this is a plutocratic system, then Gates is nominally the king, with no hereditary right of succession as such, unless he can prolong his wealth into the next generation. Well, your "thesis" is dead wrong from the start, and is certainly finished off by the fact that Gates plans to give all his fortune away.
There are plenty of reasons to bash or admire Microsoft, but paranoid fantasies are another thing entirely...
There's a major difference between music and text, however - people greatly prefer reading newspapers or books because of portability, legibility, etc. By comparison, there is little or no difference between listening to a music CD and music stored in some other medium like a HD or Flash card. Once they resolve the licensing issues this will become a no-brainer. It sounds like iTunes is making good progress on that front...
Oh, I'm sure AT&T deserves punishment here, but I don't think a fine is in order.
Instead, let's have CarrotTop drawn & quartered...
So is it time to stop subsidizing the Canadian NHL teams who keep complaining about their weak currency, and how that prevents them from signing the best players?
that's the hardcover - I think the paperbacks are much cheaper...
It looks like it is available in the US here - not straight from Amazon, but available via their marketplace of used books. There's a few hardcovers and paperbacks left...
American? I'd say human...
It all depends on the ownership structure - just because you're a public company doesn't mean that a majority of the shares are out in the marketplace. Google could go IPO, and still maintain majority control amongst the insiders.
Instead of answering their critics directly, the administration is using websites to bypass them and sell their propaganda to the American Public.
To be fair, that's just common sense. When you're trying to get a message out, you don't respond directly to critics - that puts the dialogue on their terms. Instead, you focus on your own themes and ramp up the volume. That's a tried-and-true strategy used by politicians, businesses, and other issue-driven advocates of all stripes.
I guess the important point is, does anybody actually visit and read these sites? This is the first I've heard of them...
The musicians that you refer to have everything to GAIN from P2P file sharing, as it gives them another opportunity to get their music noticed by music fans. The ones who lose from P2P are those poor saps you see on MTV's "Cribs", who live in such appalling conditions...
does that mean we can kill off that tired, overused phrase as well???
Taken right out of the playbook of Phillip Morris, err... Altria!