The good news is. It shouldn't take him more than a a day or two to rewrite it. Once you know your story and characters, and have worked on the screenplay in your head for a number of years it shouldn't take you more than a couple of days.
I only write short stories for the interweb, and even losing a day or two of work (much less a whole novel) would be devastating. All the careful wording that's the real beauty of any piece of writing would be lost -- it was tied to how you were at the moment you were writing and your concept of the overall story at that point in time (which changes every moment you write, and even after you're done).
He could redo it, maybe even come up with something better. But it would never be the same.
I try to always do these little comparisons whenever I buy something. $1200 for a computer seemed like alot, and I could get the following for the same price:
120 DVDs
PS3, Xbox360, and Wii
About a month's worth of my ebay budget
Still, doing the calculations and realizing I still wanted the PC made me feel that much better about spending the money. At the very least, I don't have to always wonder if I could've spent it better.
Sony is big because they have a reputation for making quality products
Problem: Sony is not doing now what it was doing before it became big. Isn't the definition of insanity doing two completely different things and expecting the same result?
This isn't like Age of Empires. You don't plop down $600 and see your "hardware" resource kick up 600 points, ready to sell at the market for food or gold as needed.
That $600 will be tied to the console -- sink or swim.
Actually, he compared them both to a "scale 'o evil" and theorized that we're already compalcent with the former and have proved to ignore the latter, and statistically speaking humans could probably score much higher in the future.
I don't need cable; I can get everything I want from the internets. However, I do like having a TV around to watch DVDs or play games. As I understand it, it's nearly impossible to convince the TV Police in Britain that you are not viewing BBC programmeys.
It was already ported over to Gamecube (sorta). In Super Smash Brothers Melee, one of the challenge states set you up as a huge character versus 128 tiny marios.
It was hard, even if you did a constant Donkey Kong hand-slap
I virtually never watch DVD's now, mainly because it's so cumbersome to find the right remote to navigate through the nested play menu's and the required coming attraction ads.
This reminds me of "I am Dennett" (http://www.cs.umu.se/kurser/TDBC12/HT99/Dennett.h tml)
In short, if you scoop your brain out of your head and hook it up to a wireless network so it can communicate with a receiver in your now (otherwise empty) skull, where "are" you?
What if they sectioned your brain and scattered it across the world, each still connected to the other parts (and your body) by the intranets. Then where "are" you?
Personally, what sold me on the ipod compared to generics was the 60gb of space. I've already taken up half of that with my "favorite" music directory from PC and could probably fill up the rest easily if i sat down for a few days and cherry-picked some more stuff.
A wide library was extremely important to me. I like being able to go weeks without hearing a song again, and none of the other players I saw even came close in capacity. They need more jiggawatts.
In what may be the crucial competitive stroke, Microsoft will also allow you to download from its store any song that you've purchased from Apple, unlocking users from iPod's vendor lock-in."
I'll assume the summary leaves out the crucial word "free" in there. If so, that's pretty damn clever. I just wonder how/if MS will get the music cartels to agree to it, other than wholescale bombing of their headquarters' into submission by the Windows Air Force.
You missed my point. If a store sells 100 DVDs at 10 bucks and 10 digital cameras at 100 bucks with the same overall profit markup from the manufacturer for each, the DVDs are not as efficient a money-maker than the cameras.
Of course, the problem has always been that it's not a simple matter of just scratching the dvds and ordering 20 cameras -- it just doesn't work that way.
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If redoing a day's work would devastate you, don't even think about Hollywood.
Done and done. You have to separate work and pleasure. In my writing, all I have to please is myself.
Because obviously, every other spelling of American words is goofier and sillier than the original.
The good news is. It shouldn't take him more than a a day or two to rewrite it. Once you know your story and characters, and have worked on the screenplay in your head for a number of years it shouldn't take you more than a couple of days.
I only write short stories for the interweb, and even losing a day or two of work (much less a whole novel) would be devastating. All the careful wording that's the real beauty of any piece of writing would be lost -- it was tied to how you were at the moment you were writing and your concept of the overall story at that point in time (which changes every moment you write, and even after you're done).
He could redo it, maybe even come up with something better. But it would never be the same.
A media sentry? Does it transform into a mecha-soldier and forcibly defend my video games and DVDs from burglars?
YOU HAVE 20 SECONDS TO COMPLY...
Screw those idiots. At least +1 insightful.
I try to always do these little comparisons whenever I buy something. $1200 for a computer seemed like alot, and I could get the following for the same price: 120 DVDs
PS3, Xbox360, and Wii
About a month's worth of my ebay budget
Still, doing the calculations and realizing I still wanted the PC made me feel that much better about spending the money. At the very least, I don't have to always wonder if I could've spent it better.
It was 38 for a lot of the way, and I don't have air conditioning!!!
lol, wut?
For most people, I hope that would be the dealbreaker.
Sony is big because they have a reputation for making quality products
Problem: Sony is not doing now what it was doing before it became big. Isn't the definition of insanity doing two completely different things and expecting the same result?
This isn't like Age of Empires. You don't plop down $600 and see your "hardware" resource kick up 600 points, ready to sell at the market for food or gold as needed.
That $600 will be tied to the console -- sink or swim.
Nothing wrong with using slippery slope as an argument as opposed to a logical proof.
Actually, he compared them both to a "scale 'o evil" and theorized that we're already compalcent with the former and have proved to ignore the latter, and statistically speaking humans could probably score much higher in the future.
I forwarded this to my work email group. Outlook's spellcheck suggested I change "Friendster' to "Fraudster." How apropos...
I have to admit, that is a pretty clever point. Touche :)
Why actually, yes.
I don't need cable; I can get everything I want from the internets. However, I do like having a TV around to watch DVDs or play games. As I understand it, it's nearly impossible to convince the TV Police in Britain that you are not viewing BBC programmeys.
It was already ported over to Gamecube (sorta). In Super Smash Brothers Melee, one of the challenge states set you up as a huge character versus 128 tiny marios.
It was hard, even if you did a constant Donkey Kong hand-slap
more like FAILpost lol amirite?
Our eyes were not slanty enough to be worthy of a port.
I virtually never watch DVD's now, mainly because it's so cumbersome to find the right remote to navigate through the nested play menu's and the required coming attraction ads.
You know, I hear there's DVDs on the internets
This reminds me of "I am Dennett" (http://www.cs.umu.se/kurser/TDBC12/HT99/Dennett.h tml)
In short, if you scoop your brain out of your head and hook it up to a wireless network so it can communicate with a receiver in your now (otherwise empty) skull, where "are" you? What if they sectioned your brain and scattered it across the world, each still connected to the other parts (and your body) by the intranets. Then where "are" you?
That does sound like a good deal, but now that I think about it, perhaps the sheer ubiquitous usage of Ipod did play a small part in my purchase.
Sort of "the beast you know is better than the beast you don't..."
Personally, what sold me on the ipod compared to generics was the 60gb of space. I've already taken up half of that with my "favorite" music directory from PC and could probably fill up the rest easily if i sat down for a few days and cherry-picked some more stuff.
A wide library was extremely important to me. I like being able to go weeks without hearing a song again, and none of the other players I saw even came close in capacity. They need more jiggawatts.
In what may be the crucial competitive stroke, Microsoft will also allow you to download from its store any song that you've purchased from Apple, unlocking users from iPod's vendor lock-in."
I'll assume the summary leaves out the crucial word "free" in there. If so, that's pretty damn clever. I just wonder how/if MS will get the music cartels to agree to it, other than wholescale bombing of their headquarters' into submission by the Windows Air Force.
How could it go wrong?
Because the Magic Book says so.
Your kid is going to be really messed up.
Remember, for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction...
You missed my point. If a store sells 100 DVDs at 10 bucks and 10 digital cameras at 100 bucks with the same overall profit markup from the manufacturer for each, the DVDs are not as efficient a money-maker than the cameras.
Of course, the problem has always been that it's not a simple matter of just scratching the dvds and ordering 20 cameras -- it just doesn't work that way.