Why should they care? What they care about is using the right tool for the right job. Also, producers are not advertisers; they hand advertising over to the advertising team, who then makes the call on how to advertise the piece.
The Dreamworks IT team responsible for making this production work on Linux is hardly responsible for marketing the movie as well. The fact of the matter is, WindowsMedia.com has brand recognition and is a popular site, and the logistics are taken care of by someone else.
Speaking of popular sites for movie trailers, have you ever heard of Apple QuickTime? They've got this great little movie trailers site, and it's always the first place I check. I found the Sinbad trailer right away.
Just look on the back of the microwave for the FCC sticker and device rating, indicating that it passes the requirements for a device of its class. This means that signal emissions fall within acceptable limits to not interfere with other equipment.
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As for the cheating, you have to take a couple of things into account:
1. The guy cheating on his wife is, well, male. That right there is 95% of the justification.
2. He's not necessarily good-looking or successful himself, although successful enough to afford a trip to India, sure (once you get the ticket to get there, actually staying in India is pretty cheap.)
The best part about Japanese TV is, you don't really need to know Japanese to understand it. It's primarily food and travel shows, with one person explaining what's going on while everyone else says, "Oooh," "Ahhh," and "Delicious!"
You get cable and it's mostly American shows (and a couple of German) dubbed/subbed into Japanese. Hit the bilingual button on your remote and it's in the native language. I get Animal Planet, Discovery Channel, CNN, Fox, and Cartoon Network, among others.
Reverse engineering does not require that you look at the source code. To make reverse engineering legal, you specifically should *not* look at the source code. The idea originated with the original IBM chip clone, where basically an engineer with no prior affiliation with IBM products would feed information into the chip and document what came out; by dint of careful testing, they were able to reproduce the functions of the chip without actually knowing what the insides looked like.
It's good for end users of a particular product (in my case, 3D software), when the authors of your favorite software can at least play around with the competitor's software. As long as they're not cracking code, this ability to look at the competition doesn't guarantee that they'll be able to beat them out or even match them, but it does help them compete.
What's next? Are we going to start telling auto manufacturers that they can't look at each other's cars when they're driving down the road?
Re:That's why Germany's Economy is in the shitter.
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I guess I should have specified that, in this case, "limelight" refers to history, which does not remember everybody. If you feel personally fulfilled, good for you. However, that has absolutely nothing with the topic at hand, which is justification for not getting paid for overtime.
My time is worth something to me; I should get paid for it. In times like these, with the economy as bad as it is, many people feel obligated to put up with whatever their bosses throw at them. I don't think that someone else exploiting my goodwill is justifiable.
Re:That's why Germany's Economy is in the shitter.
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So why is America's economy in the shitter, then? The death rattle of captalism?
Germany's economic problems have been because their economy is too strong, thus killing their exports. Also, there is still a disparity in pay between East and West, even to this day. Finally, Germany's one flaw is that their standard of living is too high, which raises the cost of living considerably.
Germans get as much done as your average American during the work week, if not more; the average German is far more industrious than Americans.
It's simple math: during an eight-hour work day, how much of that time do you actually spend being productive? Subtract meetings, bathroom breaks, lunch breaks, smoking breaks, and 15 minutes after each break (the average time it takes to get back in the groove after having been distracted from your task. If you're responsible for more than one project, you have to subtract another 30 minutes required to completly shift gears and find where you left off. This is all assuming you don't just goof off or chat with your co-workers.
During the average, 8-hour day, I'd say that leaves you with about 3 productive hours - and I'm being generous. More time does not improve this situation, it merely increases fatigue, which kills your edge, regardless of age.
Re:Jobs dont have to be enjoyable.
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Every job I do, I do to the best of my ability.
I appreciate your idealism, but very few people in the world, including the hard-working Japanese, take their jobs that seriously. It's just human nature. Many people are motivated by the fear of being unemployed.
What you experience in America also does not hold for the rest of the world. When I lived in Germany, it was common to see or hear about worker strikes on TV, both in and outside of Germany. Firemen, sanitation workers, you name it. And the public supported them (Cologne went for two weeks without a trash pickup. It was nasty.)
Not everybody views work as their life. For some people, it's family. For others, it's about experiencing the world. What you get paid for is not necessarily your life's work; sometimes, you find your life's work in a hobby, even though nobody pays you for it.
There just isn't enough room in the limelight for everyone to be remembered for the profound contributions they made to society - and it's also unlikely that a grocery clerk's contributions were that profound. If you want to have a profound sense of satisfaction for your time wasted on earth as a grocery clerk, then more power to you.
Life is about the little moments. A sunset enjoyed with loved ones while camping out at the local lake can be a far more profound and beautiful experience in a couple of hours than you'll ever find in stocking the peas on aisle four for the next twenty years.
Re:Not working hard enough.
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So how many people out there are 3D artists? What percentage of the population?
I know what you're talking about, being a professional animator myself, but how many jobs out there really fit into the "truly enjoyable" category? To be generous, let's say 50%. That's not cool for the other 50%, though.
Even if you are doing what you want to do, you could still have crappy co-workers, a crappy boss, and a crappy work environment. You could sign up for a job as a 3D artist and find yourself doing models of rack-mount servers, when they promised you cutting-edge special effects in an up-and-coming television series (or worse, doing a multimedia CD explaining the US budget process.)
Life isn't perfect, and neither are jobs. Even with a good job, to keep it good, you have to take vacation. There are better things to do in life, like living. I took a three-year hiatus from computer animation just so I could experience living in Japan.
I am currently working full-time as an English teacher, which I do *gasp!* to pay the bills. The work isn't onerous, and leaves me plenty of time for the good stuff. I'm paid full-time, yet contractually obligated to only work 35 hours a week. I'm guaranteed 20 days of vacation a year, and the difference is carried over into the new year. I still freelance for producers I know at home, so I get to have my cake and eat it, too.
What do you mean by, "Win(Modems/Printers) are not?" Not swappable? I just bought a new Epson printer that is cross-platform compatible; it uses USB and requires only platform-specific drivers (which were available.) Same goes for modems.
Re:Let me be the first to say...
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They gave me upgrade coupons with my new machine. Here's seeing if they honor them this time.
I downloaded it for free. Burned the CDs. Rebooted. Ran the installer. Except for some grief from my monitor (which even OSX is having some trouble with - I think I picked the wrong monitor), everything was set up automagically, no sweat. Sound, web, video, everything.
Er...you want an Apple computer manafuctured by a third party, running GNU/Linux? Then it wouldn't be an Apple computer, would it?
Third-party manufacturers *do* produce their hardware; they just don't sell it. For example, IBM makes the chips, ATI and nVidia make the video cards, and Sony makes the SuperDrive.
The only thing unique to Apple's computers are the motherboard ROMs. Everything else is standardized hardware (SDRAM, PCI, AGP, etc.)
On my Mac, I run OSX and Yellow Dog Linux. Within OSX itself, I can compile and run pretty much every desktop environment available for Linux, not to mention thousands of open-source programs. I can run these seamlessly, side-by-side with my OSX applications. Steve does not block me from doing what I want with my system, and even allows me to boot directly into a CLI right from the login screen. I also have complete shell access within OSX itself, completely customizable to my preference (bash, tcsh, csh, etc.)
I guess it all comes down to how well you really know computers, doesn't it?
That's where it gets tricky - ever seen a tank that couldn't be termed, "offensive?" What do they do, put a bumper sticker on it?
That's probably where everybody gets hung up - you could basically own any weapon you want, so long as you prove that you couldn't/wouldn't move it outside of Japan's territory.
The United States and Japan also have a treaty whereby the United States is beholden to protect Japan in exchange for their continued pacifist stance. Remember, the United States *wrote* their current constitution.
Living in Japan, I get to hear a lot more on the news about the debates currently underway in the Diet regarding the possibility of changing that stance, considering that Japan was worried during the latest round of threats from North Korea that America would fail to honor the treaty.
Anyway, when a United States Army officer above the rank of a colonel tells you they're not supposed to have it, I'll take that as a pretty good source.
If the American copyright system had been in place at the time of the Greeks and Romans, the western world as we know it would not exist. The Romans would very likely have had neither religion, art, nor philosphy.:)
Except for the dangers of a two-year-old's next word being the F-word, I would say the only reason that a child that young should be allowed to watch that movie (if you're worried about bad influences on your children) is because he/she luckily can't comprehend the rest of the dialogue.
Why on earth a child that young would find that movie entertaining is beyond me. And if his intelligence is that advanced, then he already has comprehended why the F-word is a no-no.
It's a game, regardless of how much people are getting paid. Games aren't any fun if you just let the computer play against itself. Getting irritated at the umpire for making a call you consider unfair is part of baseball.
If they were *really* good parents, they could learn how to use the word, "no," on their kids.
The kids are still going to be left out when their friends find out they didn't see the entire movie, and their peers are going to either a) laugh at them because their parents treat them like that, or b) offer to let them come over and see the full, un-edited movie in all its hedonistic glory.
The problem with many parents is that they seem to have forgotten what it was like to be kids.
There is at least one point on which I agree with the movie industry about unapproved edits: it's art. As an artist, I really don't like the idea of somebody making money censoring my artwork. Sure, they're doing it in the privacy of their own home, and if they bought it, there's really nothing I can do about it (and I shouldn't waste time stressing out over it.)
If you want to see a good movie that is only "good" after you've edited out the parts you don't like, then for you it wasn't a good movie. As the editor, director, producer, or writer, I felt that it was a good movie the way I released it; the idea that somebody is making money bastardizing my work is rather offensive.
It's like John Ashcroft spending $8,000 on a shroud for the statue of Justice, or paying someone to go to Italy and paint or sculpt clothes for all of the nude works of the Renaissance. Sex and violence are a bit different, true, but where someone draws the line is purely subjective; some people might consider kissing in public "smutty."
If you don't like it, don't watch it. It's entertainment, not oxygen; you don't have to watch it. If the movie is really that good, then you should be able to watch it as-is. The statement that it's good only after editing strikes me as a bit contradictory.
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Why should they care? What they care about is using the right tool for the right job. Also, producers are not advertisers; they hand advertising over to the advertising team, who then makes the call on how to advertise the piece.
The Dreamworks IT team responsible for making this production work on Linux is hardly responsible for marketing the movie as well. The fact of the matter is, WindowsMedia.com has brand recognition and is a popular site, and the logistics are taken care of by someone else.
Speaking of popular sites for movie trailers, have you ever heard of Apple QuickTime? They've got this great little movie trailers site, and it's always the first place I check. I found the Sinbad trailer right away.
Just look on the back of the microwave for the FCC sticker and device rating, indicating that it passes the requirements for a device of its class. This means that signal emissions fall within acceptable limits to not interfere with other equipment.
As for the cheating, you have to take a couple of things into account:
1. The guy cheating on his wife is, well, male. That right there is 95% of the justification.
2. He's not necessarily good-looking or successful himself, although successful enough to afford a trip to India, sure (once you get the ticket to get there, actually staying in India is pretty cheap.)
3. Maybe he's just kinked that way. See point 1.
The best part about Japanese TV is, you don't really need to know Japanese to understand it. It's primarily food and travel shows, with one person explaining what's going on while everyone else says, "Oooh," "Ahhh," and "Delicious!"
You get cable and it's mostly American shows (and a couple of German) dubbed/subbed into Japanese. Hit the bilingual button on your remote and it's in the native language. I get Animal Planet, Discovery Channel, CNN, Fox, and Cartoon Network, among others.
Reverse engineering does not require that you look at the source code. To make reverse engineering legal, you specifically should *not* look at the source code. The idea originated with the original IBM chip clone, where basically an engineer with no prior affiliation with IBM products would feed information into the chip and document what came out; by dint of careful testing, they were able to reproduce the functions of the chip without actually knowing what the insides looked like.
It's good for end users of a particular product (in my case, 3D software), when the authors of your favorite software can at least play around with the competitor's software. As long as they're not cracking code, this ability to look at the competition doesn't guarantee that they'll be able to beat them out or even match them, but it does help them compete.
What's next? Are we going to start telling auto manufacturers that they can't look at each other's cars when they're driving down the road?
This statement is based on what proof?
I guess I should have specified that, in this case, "limelight" refers to history, which does not remember everybody. If you feel personally fulfilled, good for you. However, that has absolutely nothing with the topic at hand, which is justification for not getting paid for overtime.
My time is worth something to me; I should get paid for it. In times like these, with the economy as bad as it is, many people feel obligated to put up with whatever their bosses throw at them. I don't think that someone else exploiting my goodwill is justifiable.
So why is America's economy in the shitter, then? The death rattle of captalism?
Germany's economic problems have been because their economy is too strong, thus killing their exports. Also, there is still a disparity in pay between East and West, even to this day. Finally, Germany's one flaw is that their standard of living is too high, which raises the cost of living considerably.
Germans get as much done as your average American during the work week, if not more; the average German is far more industrious than Americans.
It's simple math: during an eight-hour work day, how much of that time do you actually spend being productive? Subtract meetings, bathroom breaks, lunch breaks, smoking breaks, and 15 minutes after each break (the average time it takes to get back in the groove after having been distracted from your task. If you're responsible for more than one project, you have to subtract another 30 minutes required to completly shift gears and find where you left off. This is all assuming you don't just goof off or chat with your co-workers.
During the average, 8-hour day, I'd say that leaves you with about 3 productive hours - and I'm being generous. More time does not improve this situation, it merely increases fatigue, which kills your edge, regardless of age.
Every job I do, I do to the best of my ability.
I appreciate your idealism, but very few people in the world, including the hard-working Japanese, take their jobs that seriously. It's just human nature. Many people are motivated by the fear of being unemployed.
What you experience in America also does not hold for the rest of the world. When I lived in Germany, it was common to see or hear about worker strikes on TV, both in and outside of Germany. Firemen, sanitation workers, you name it. And the public supported them (Cologne went for two weeks without a trash pickup. It was nasty.)
Not everybody views work as their life. For some people, it's family. For others, it's about experiencing the world. What you get paid for is not necessarily your life's work; sometimes, you find your life's work in a hobby, even though nobody pays you for it.
There just isn't enough room in the limelight for everyone to be remembered for the profound contributions they made to society - and it's also unlikely that a grocery clerk's contributions were that profound. If you want to have a profound sense of satisfaction for your time wasted on earth as a grocery clerk, then more power to you.
Life is about the little moments. A sunset enjoyed with loved ones while camping out at the local lake can be a far more profound and beautiful experience in a couple of hours than you'll ever find in stocking the peas on aisle four for the next twenty years.
So how many people out there are 3D artists? What percentage of the population?
I know what you're talking about, being a professional animator myself, but how many jobs out there really fit into the "truly enjoyable" category? To be generous, let's say 50%. That's not cool for the other 50%, though.
Even if you are doing what you want to do, you could still have crappy co-workers, a crappy boss, and a crappy work environment. You could sign up for a job as a 3D artist and find yourself doing models of rack-mount servers, when they promised you cutting-edge special effects in an up-and-coming television series (or worse, doing a multimedia CD explaining the US budget process.)
Life isn't perfect, and neither are jobs. Even with a good job, to keep it good, you have to take vacation. There are better things to do in life, like living. I took a three-year hiatus from computer animation just so I could experience living in Japan.
I am currently working full-time as an English teacher, which I do *gasp!* to pay the bills. The work isn't onerous, and leaves me plenty of time for the good stuff. I'm paid full-time, yet contractually obligated to only work 35 hours a week. I'm guaranteed 20 days of vacation a year, and the difference is carried over into the new year. I still freelance for producers I know at home, so I get to have my cake and eat it, too.
What do you mean by, "Win(Modems/Printers) are not?" Not swappable? I just bought a new Epson printer that is cross-platform compatible; it uses USB and requires only platform-specific drivers (which were available.) Same goes for modems.
They gave me upgrade coupons with my new machine. Here's seeing if they honor them this time.
In contrast to Windows, OSX is compatible with my favorite Linux applications. I see no problem here.
Ever actually install Yellow Dog Linux?
I downloaded it for free. Burned the CDs. Rebooted. Ran the installer. Except for some grief from my monitor (which even OSX is having some trouble with - I think I picked the wrong monitor), everything was set up automagically, no sweat. Sound, web, video, everything.
Er...you want an Apple computer manafuctured by a third party, running GNU/Linux? Then it wouldn't be an Apple computer, would it?
Third-party manufacturers *do* produce their hardware; they just don't sell it. For example, IBM makes the chips, ATI and nVidia make the video cards, and Sony makes the SuperDrive.
The only thing unique to Apple's computers are the motherboard ROMs. Everything else is standardized hardware (SDRAM, PCI, AGP, etc.)
Funny, I just checked the Apple Store, and their lowest price is $799. You checking the right site?
On my Mac, I run OSX and Yellow Dog Linux. Within OSX itself, I can compile and run pretty much every desktop environment available for Linux, not to mention thousands of open-source programs. I can run these seamlessly, side-by-side with my OSX applications. Steve does not block me from doing what I want with my system, and even allows me to boot directly into a CLI right from the login screen. I also have complete shell access within OSX itself, completely customizable to my preference (bash, tcsh, csh, etc.)
I guess it all comes down to how well you really know computers, doesn't it?
That's where it gets tricky - ever seen a tank that couldn't be termed, "offensive?" What do they do, put a bumper sticker on it?
That's probably where everybody gets hung up - you could basically own any weapon you want, so long as you prove that you couldn't/wouldn't move it outside of Japan's territory.
The United States and Japan also have a treaty whereby the United States is beholden to protect Japan in exchange for their continued pacifist stance. Remember, the United States *wrote* their current constitution.
Living in Japan, I get to hear a lot more on the news about the debates currently underway in the Diet regarding the possibility of changing that stance, considering that Japan was worried during the latest round of threats from North Korea that America would fail to honor the treaty.
Anyway, when a United States Army officer above the rank of a colonel tells you they're not supposed to have it, I'll take that as a pretty good source.
If the American copyright system had been in place at the time of the Greeks and Romans, the western world as we know it would not exist. The Romans would very likely have had neither religion, art, nor philosphy. :)
Except for the dangers of a two-year-old's next word being the F-word, I would say the only reason that a child that young should be allowed to watch that movie (if you're worried about bad influences on your children) is because he/she luckily can't comprehend the rest of the dialogue.
Why on earth a child that young would find that movie entertaining is beyond me. And if his intelligence is that advanced, then he already has comprehended why the F-word is a no-no.
It's a game, regardless of how much people are getting paid. Games aren't any fun if you just let the computer play against itself. Getting irritated at the umpire for making a call you consider unfair is part of baseball.
If they were *really* good parents, they could learn how to use the word, "no," on their kids.
The kids are still going to be left out when their friends find out they didn't see the entire movie, and their peers are going to either a) laugh at them because their parents treat them like that, or b) offer to let them come over and see the full, un-edited movie in all its hedonistic glory.
The problem with many parents is that they seem to have forgotten what it was like to be kids.
There is at least one point on which I agree with the movie industry about unapproved edits: it's art. As an artist, I really don't like the idea of somebody making money censoring my artwork. Sure, they're doing it in the privacy of their own home, and if they bought it, there's really nothing I can do about it (and I shouldn't waste time stressing out over it.)
If you want to see a good movie that is only "good" after you've edited out the parts you don't like, then for you it wasn't a good movie. As the editor, director, producer, or writer, I felt that it was a good movie the way I released it; the idea that somebody is making money bastardizing my work is rather offensive.
It's like John Ashcroft spending $8,000 on a shroud for the statue of Justice, or paying someone to go to Italy and paint or sculpt clothes for all of the nude works of the Renaissance. Sex and violence are a bit different, true, but where someone draws the line is purely subjective; some people might consider kissing in public "smutty."
If you don't like it, don't watch it. It's entertainment, not oxygen; you don't have to watch it. If the movie is really that good, then you should be able to watch it as-is. The statement that it's good only after editing strikes me as a bit contradictory.
I agree that full-speed sounds faster. The nomenclature is moronic.
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The important question is, if there's full-speed and high-speed, where is the half-speed and slow-speed? I sense a vacuum here...
Oh, it's just the naming committee. Nevermind.