Yeah, but what does advertising have to do with facts? I once had a job making Coca-Cola, but I doubt that gives me the right to market my own soft drink as "from the maker of Coca-Cola."
The extent to which Pixar can use the names of movies made with Disney in future advertising will likely depend on its agreements with DIsney.
1 - As has been posted, there are books, and there are movies. They aren't the same.
2 - You really don't want a faithful movie version of the book you love. I've read through The Hobbit and LotR books many times. Re-read them every couple of years, love them, think of them as old friends. Peter Jackson's movies were something new and something I, and many fans, enjoyed.
I'll contrast those movies with the Harry Potter movies, which are about as faithful an adaptation as could be made. And they are as boring and stiff as could be. 'Oh look...it's everything I've read in the book up on a big screen...just as I read it...yawn.'
I'd compare it to making a radio play or audio book version. You can be faithful to the original to the extreme, and end up with a recording of someone reading the book. Or you can do some adapting and interpreting for a new format an up with something that isn't 100% of the original, but brings something new, and hopefully entertaining, to the table.
Folks on the left side of the pond will think this is funny, but won't know why.
Anyway, I think Mos Def is a great choice for Ford.
I liked Zooey in Elf and Almost Famous, but she isn't an especially adventerous choice--kinda like they watched the tv series and said, let's get a Trillian like that
Zaphod is a tough call. Eddie Izzard would be horrible. Half the time I cannot understand what he is saying. What I do understand, I don't find very entertaining.
Queen Latifa is a better Zaphod than she is a Trillian. Jack Black could pull off a good Zaphod, maybe cgi in Kyle Gass as head #2.
Though I don't see why they don't animate the whole thing and cast the simpsons...Homer as Arthur, Marge as Trillian, Bart and Lisa as Zaphod, Maggie as a mouse, Linguo as Marvin, Selma and Patty as Vogons, Prof Flick as Slartibartfast...I can see the burger king tie-ins now.
[typed while shaking my head] I've gotten used to seeing all kinds of crap on eBay, like broken hard drives.
The part I'm not used to, is like the broken hard drives, this gets bids. Although the imaginary cute girlfriends are getting higher bids than the imarginary creepy ex-boyfriend stalkers, so there is some order to the universe.
I think this is the part where god floods the earth and starts over.
When push comes to shove, you could use a TiVo or any of the PVR software for linux or windows. Just run your audio into the PVR and ignore the video.
You'll probably still need a video display for control purposes, but since you won't need a lot of processing power the whole setup shouldn't cost much.
Please note: All files marked with a copyright notice are subject to normal copyright restrictions.
Next we'll be getting public service announcements on how deal ole Geoffrey won't be able to afford his astrolube or whatever because we're all reading his work on the internet.
in hindsight, mistakes seem more obvious and preventable (studies in cognitition confirm this)
My gripe is not about preventing or preparing for accidents. My gripe is about assigning and accepting blame. Heck, I wasn't calling up NASA with warnings about re-entry. So maybe I can't speak to how preventable or predictable the accident was.
But when Flight director Paul Hill is quoted, "I don't know how any of us could have seen that coming," I know that isn't true. When someone who should know, who's expert opinion should be considered tells you to look, and you don't look, you can't say there was no way to see it coming.
Maybe NASA would have looked at the shuttle and not see the damage or not see enough to anticipate problems. But we'll never know--not cause 'hindsight is 20/20'--cause they didn't look.
Of course not. But when the people in the automotive engineers tell you "the car is going to explode if rear ended, recall it at once" and management doesn't then it is murder by management, and they are liable for the snafu (google for "Ford Pinto").
Damn straight. Yes, space flight is still experimental and very dangerous. No doubt. The foam hitting the shuttle during take-off may have been a random, unforeseen sort of accident. However, engineers at NASA--the folks who are the experts at such matters--said, this may be an issue;let's point our telescopes at the thing so at least we know what we are dealing with. The PHBs decided to take no action. That isn't a random mechanical malfunction.
(BTW, I do need to get some work done so I won't goggle for references, but wasn't there concern BEFORE this particular flight bits of foam and tile were coming off at launch and some engineers thought NASA should consider the possibility something import might get damaged?)
It ain't luck that the same four guys end up at the final table at the World Series of Poker each year...it's good management.
"The most complicated machine ever built got knocked out of the sky by a pound and a half of foam. I don't know how any of us could have seen that coming. The message that sends me is, we are walking the razor's edge. This is a dangerous business and it does not take much to knock you off." -- Flight director Paul Hill
There are none so blind as those who refuse to see. The folks at NASA could have seen this coming by listening to the engineers who wanted to get a closer look at the spots hit by the foam. The folks at NASA should have been watching for this type of situation if any attention had been paid to the follow up of the Challenger explosion.
It is simply not true that this tragedy was unavoidable and that there was no way to see this coming. The most complicated machine ever built was not knocked out of the sky by a pound and a half of foam. This was murder by management.
Those guys probably wouldn't have been laid off in the first place.
Why not start your own company?
1. Because you have bills to pay. Starting a company usually involves a big outflow of cash, and not much income.
2. Because you want to keep doing what you've been doing. The time you spend running your software business (meeting with lawyers, meeting with clients, meeting with acountants, meeting with...) is time spent not developing software, or whatever it is you like to do. For some people, this is an acceptable trade-off to be their own boss. For some people, it isn't.
3. Because you're no good at it. Being good at writing code is a world away from being good at running a business that employs code writers.
4. Because it takes more than an idea. Sure, a lot of lame ideas that got funded during the bubble crashed when the buble burst because they were still lame ideas. But don't let that hide the fact that companies founded on great ideas still fail.
Starting your own company is a great experience and path to sucess for many people. But it isn't for everyone.
The only reason why I figured out he cheated was because the amount of money offered just couldn't fit into my slots.
In Diablo II the size of your purse goes with your level, so as you advance you can carry more gold. I don't remember if this was true for the original, but that fellow may not have been cheating.
3. You can't complain about the ending of RotK being predictable because, duh, it was predicted 50 years ago by the book.
4. The main plot point of LotR was not for Frodo to destroy the ring. You missed the point. (And Moby Dick is not about a whale.)
5. It's been pointed out already, but bares repeating--in 1980 the USA Olympic hockey team beat the Soviet Olympic hockey team. Let the Soviets make movies about all the years the Soviets won, and the Americans will make the movie about the years they won.
6. You mention a couple movies to prove your point, but there are obvious counter-examples. Yes, there was "Armageddon", but there was also "Deep Impact" in which the world was not destroyed, but disaster was not completely averted either.
7. What about the multiple movies about Steve Prefontaine? He didn't win in the end. There goes your theory.
The warranty ensures, that in the event that an infringement issue is identified in Red Hat Enterprise Linux software code, Red Hat will replace the infringing code. Red Hat's warranty assures customers that they can use Red Hat Enterprise Linux and related solutions without interruption.
How can this be possible? If there is a case where Red Hat software contains infringing code, and Red Hat cannot come to an agreement with the code's owner on continuing use, Red Hat is prepared to replace the infringing code immediately? I presume use without interruption means support without interruption.
If Red Hat has a complete code base in wings so that any arbitrary bits of code found to be infringing can be replaced, and Red Hat is more sure of its legal standing on the replacement code (since it is meant to be used in event an existing infringement is found), why not just release that code?
Another aspect, which may or not be a significant factor, purely speculation on my part, is with a terrestrial launch you need be concerned with more than just the crew. Experiencing a terminal failure at launch is bad; experiencing a terminal failure by crashing into a strip club, lobbyist convention, or something else the politicians will notice would set back funding for the space program 50 years.
At least on Mars, the most you can lose is the ship and her crew.
The mass of the Mars is about 11% of the mass of the Earth; the moon being about 1.2%.
The escape velocity of Mars is about 4/9 of that of the Earth; 11.2 km/s Earth vs 5.0 km/s Mars (vs 2.38 km/s Moon).
The 'one sixth' figure refers to surface gravity, g. For the Earth, g=9.8 m^2/s. For the Moon, g=1.6 m^2/s. For Mars, g=3.7 m^2/s, not quite two-fifths.
As for atmosphere, the Martian surface you have around 8.5 mb, depending on the weather, which is less than 1% of your typical Earth surface atmosphere.
All in all, I'd say these guys have it backwards. I think we have a better shot at a one-way mission from Mars to the Earth. Lot's of good stuff to see on the Earth. Although if your main interest is the search for intelligent life, we haven't ruled it out yet for Mars.
That's one thing I've been wondering about. If it takes a HUGE construct of boosters, launching equipment, and fuel just to escape earth's atmosphere, how exactly do we expect to return anyone from mars?
The same way they returned from the moon...Mars is smaller than and has less atmosphere than the Earth. Lift off for the return trip takes much less energy.
I have an almost complete run of the Dr Strange from the 80s (not too hard...only something like 83 issues) that I can't give away as bird cage lining.
I could use a hot new video game to drum up some interest, maybe a movie to tie-in.
Tom Cruise is Stephen Strange, Master of the Mystic Arts. Halle Berry...nah, they already have her as Storm. Ok, Monica Bellucci is Clea, the Dr's faithful disciple and eye candy. Kyle Gass as Wong, Stephen's 'life partner'. And in an uncredited cameo, Christopher Walken is The Ancient One.
Maybe also have some open ethernet connections (and perhaps monitors) for people to bring their own computers and play.
Eh...that's sounds very sketchy. Beyond cheaters, there are virus/trojan/worm issues, on top of the usuall technical issues of added a machine to the network.
I would reserve this for private parties where one group has the whole room, and you have a damage deposit. I would also have a boot disk with virus scan that runs on every machine before it touches the network.
Slashdot Mirror
By CLIVE THOMPSON
Published: February 8, 2004
The future, Conan?
Yes, all the way to the year February 8
So do you calculate illegal content with a method that favors the claims of piracy by the RIAA, or by the method that favors claims of piracy by SCO?
Yeah, but what does advertising have to do with facts? I once had a job making Coca-Cola, but I doubt that gives me the right to market my own soft drink as "from the maker of Coca-Cola."
The extent to which Pixar can use the names of movies made with Disney in future advertising will likely depend on its agreements with DIsney.
Why bother?
1 - As has been posted, there are books, and there are movies. They aren't the same.
2 - You really don't want a faithful movie version of the book you love. I've read through The Hobbit and LotR books many times. Re-read them every couple of years, love them, think of them as old friends. Peter Jackson's movies were something new and something I, and many fans, enjoyed.
I'll contrast those movies with the Harry Potter movies, which are about as faithful an adaptation as could be made. And they are as boring and stiff as could be. 'Oh look...it's everything I've read in the book up on a big screen...just as I read it...yawn.'
I'd compare it to making a radio play or audio book version. You can be faithful to the original to the extreme, and end up with a recording of someone reading the book. Or you can do some adapting and interpreting for a new format an up with something that isn't 100% of the original, but brings something new, and hopefully entertaining, to the table.
Folks on the left side of the pond will think this is funny, but won't know why.
Anyway, I think Mos Def is a great choice for Ford.
I liked Zooey in Elf and Almost Famous, but she isn't an especially adventerous choice--kinda like they watched the tv series and said, let's get a Trillian like that
Zaphod is a tough call. Eddie Izzard would be horrible. Half the time I cannot understand what he is saying. What I do understand, I don't find very entertaining.
Queen Latifa is a better Zaphod than she is a Trillian. Jack Black could pull off a good Zaphod, maybe cgi in Kyle Gass as head #2.
Though I don't see why they don't animate the whole thing and cast the simpsons...Homer as Arthur, Marge as Trillian, Bart and Lisa as Zaphod, Maggie as a mouse, Linguo as Marvin, Selma and Patty as Vogons, Prof Flick as Slartibartfast...I can see the burger king tie-ins now.
[typed while shaking my head] I've gotten used to seeing all kinds of crap on eBay, like broken hard drives.
The part I'm not used to, is like the broken hard drives, this gets bids. Although the imaginary cute girlfriends are getting higher bids than the imarginary creepy ex-boyfriend stalkers, so there is some order to the universe.
I think this is the part where god floods the earth and starts over.
Not only is that the saddest thing I've ever seen, but the feedback on some of the 'sellers' is creepy...
A1 Great communition. Well packed. item in great condition as advertised.
When push comes to shove, you could use a TiVo or any of the PVR software for linux or windows. Just run your audio into the PVR and ignore the video.
You'll probably still need a video display for control purposes, but since you won't need a lot of processing power the whole setup shouldn't cost much.
Please note: All files marked with a copyright notice are subject to normal copyright restrictions.
Next we'll be getting public service announcements on how deal ole Geoffrey won't be able to afford his astrolube or whatever because we're all reading his work on the internet.
Stop the madness!
Ah yes...the time when /. editors reigned supreme.
My gripe is not about preventing or preparing for accidents. My gripe is about assigning and accepting blame. Heck, I wasn't calling up NASA with warnings about re-entry. So maybe I can't speak to how preventable or predictable the accident was.
But when Flight director Paul Hill is quoted, "I don't know how any of us could have seen that coming," I know that isn't true. When someone who should know, who's expert opinion should be considered tells you to look, and you don't look, you can't say there was no way to see it coming.
Maybe NASA would have looked at the shuttle and not see the damage or not see enough to anticipate problems. But we'll never know--not cause 'hindsight is 20/20'--cause they didn't look.
Damn straight. Yes, space flight is still experimental and very dangerous. No doubt. The foam hitting the shuttle during take-off may have been a random, unforeseen sort of accident. However, engineers at NASA--the folks who are the experts at such matters--said, this may be an issue;let's point our telescopes at the thing so at least we know what we are dealing with. The PHBs decided to take no action. That isn't a random mechanical malfunction.
(BTW, I do need to get some work done so I won't goggle for references, but wasn't there concern BEFORE this particular flight bits of foam and tile were coming off at launch and some engineers thought NASA should consider the possibility something import might get damaged?)
It ain't luck that the same four guys end up at the final table at the World Series of Poker each year...it's good management.
There are none so blind as those who refuse to see. The folks at NASA could have seen this coming by listening to the engineers who wanted to get a closer look at the spots hit by the foam. The folks at NASA should have been watching for this type of situation if any attention had been paid to the follow up of the Challenger explosion.
It is simply not true that this tragedy was unavoidable and that there was no way to see this coming. The most complicated machine ever built was not knocked out of the sky by a pound and a half of foam. This was murder by management.
Those guys probably wouldn't have been laid off in the first place.
Why not start your own company?
1. Because you have bills to pay. Starting a company usually involves a big outflow of cash, and not much income.
2. Because you want to keep doing what you've been doing. The time you spend running your software business (meeting with lawyers, meeting with clients, meeting with acountants, meeting with...) is time spent not developing software, or whatever it is you like to do. For some people, this is an acceptable trade-off to be their own boss. For some people, it isn't.
3. Because you're no good at it. Being good at writing code is a world away from being good at running a business that employs code writers.
4. Because it takes more than an idea. Sure, a lot of lame ideas that got funded during the bubble crashed when the buble burst because they were still lame ideas. But don't let that hide the fact that companies founded on great ideas still fail.
Starting your own company is a great experience and path to sucess for many people. But it isn't for everyone.
In Diablo II the size of your purse goes with your level, so as you advance you can carry more gold. I don't remember if this was true for the original, but that fellow may not have been cheating.
1. In the first movie, Rocky looses.
2. In the first movie, Jason wasn't the killer.
3. You can't complain about the ending of RotK being predictable because, duh, it was predicted 50 years ago by the book.
4. The main plot point of LotR was not for Frodo to destroy the ring. You missed the point. (And Moby Dick is not about a whale.)
5. It's been pointed out already, but bares repeating--in 1980 the USA Olympic hockey team beat the Soviet Olympic hockey team. Let the Soviets make movies about all the years the Soviets won, and the Americans will make the movie about the years they won.
6. You mention a couple movies to prove your point, but there are obvious counter-examples. Yes, there was "Armageddon", but there was also "Deep Impact" in which the world was not destroyed, but disaster was not completely averted either.
7. What about the multiple movies about Steve Prefontaine? He didn't win in the end. There goes your theory.
"Stealing movies is tantamount to taking money out of the pockets of everyone involved with the film industry," said United States Attorney Debra W. Yang in a statement. Kinda like how The Godfather 3 is tantamount to taking 3 hours of my life.
What? there's no gold in gold bond powder?
How can this be possible? If there is a case where Red Hat software contains infringing code, and Red Hat cannot come to an agreement with the code's owner on continuing use, Red Hat is prepared to replace the infringing code immediately? I presume use without interruption means support without interruption.
If Red Hat has a complete code base in wings so that any arbitrary bits of code found to be infringing can be replaced, and Red Hat is more sure of its legal standing on the replacement code (since it is meant to be used in event an existing infringement is found), why not just release that code?
Another aspect, which may or not be a significant factor, purely speculation on my part, is with a terrestrial launch you need be concerned with more than just the crew. Experiencing a terminal failure at launch is bad; experiencing a terminal failure by crashing into a strip club, lobbyist convention, or something else the politicians will notice would set back funding for the space program 50 years.
At least on Mars, the most you can lose is the ship and her crew.
The escape velocity of Mars is about 4/9 of that of the Earth; 11.2 km/s Earth vs 5.0 km/s Mars (vs 2.38 km/s Moon).
The 'one sixth' figure refers to surface gravity, g. For the Earth, g=9.8 m^2/s. For the Moon, g=1.6 m^2/s. For Mars, g=3.7 m^2/s, not quite two-fifths.
Source: Meters may in fact be feet, but the numbers look right
As for atmosphere, the Martian surface you have around 8.5 mb, depending on the weather, which is less than 1% of your typical Earth surface atmosphere.
All in all, I'd say these guys have it backwards. I think we have a better shot at a one-way mission from Mars to the Earth. Lot's of good stuff to see on the Earth. Although if your main interest is the search for intelligent life, we haven't ruled it out yet for Mars.
The same way they returned from the moon...Mars is smaller than and has less atmosphere than the Earth. Lift off for the return trip takes much less energy.
Oh, you know...stuff, and things. And stuff.
More than that...stuff that matters
+1
I have an almost complete run of the Dr Strange from the 80s (not too hard...only something like 83 issues) that I can't give away as bird cage lining.
I could use a hot new video game to drum up some interest, maybe a movie to tie-in.
Tom Cruise is Stephen Strange, Master of the Mystic Arts. Halle Berry...nah, they already have her as Storm. Ok, Monica Bellucci is Clea, the Dr's faithful disciple and eye candy. Kyle Gass as Wong, Stephen's 'life partner'. And in an uncredited cameo, Christopher Walken is The Ancient One.
Look out eBay, here I come!
Eh...that's sounds very sketchy. Beyond cheaters, there are virus/trojan/worm issues, on top of the usuall technical issues of added a machine to the network.
I would reserve this for private parties where one group has the whole room, and you have a damage deposit. I would also have a boot disk with virus scan that runs on every machine before it touches the network.