Just read the sample excerpts. That was the most self-serving, pompous piece of fluff I have ever laid eyes on. "The first kick of the baby in the womb"? Awkward metaphors ahoy.
You missed the follow-up sentence which specifically called into question her method of division in general.
Like I said. I haven't had an.edu address in years. I was never able to use Facebook even when it first came out.
Not to mention, an article that tries to infer intelligence from choice of "social-networking sites" while using the wrong words to try and sound intelligent is ironic at best.
Such quality journalism. Also, let's consider the class of people who were out of college by 2005 vs the class of people who are in college as of 2005.
Oh, I was trying to tell you to not waste your breath, because he just doesn't care. He's going to give your email all the attention he gave Safari compatibility.
It's not saying that Safari won't work, it's saying that he doesn't want to deal with it. It's an out. This way, he can say that he doesn't support Safari, so any bugs on his website that only show up in "non-supported browser" won't be dealt with.
I do some web development, so I immediately downloaded it to see how my employer's site functioned in Safari.
Here's my take: Immediately impressed by the lack of waste of screen real estate. There hardly seemed any side and bottom borders in the rendering area, making the page just seem larger. (I've since turned on the status bar, but for other reasons.) I actually like the font rendering. It just looks softer and more comforting. This is purely an aesthetic judgment though. The menus were neat. Nice visual eye candy with all of the rolling and stuff. In a similar vein, the glow around active form elements is very noticeable (a good thing). No options. Like I said, I do some web development. I was looking for the Javascript console/debugger/anything, and I couldn't find out how to activate that. Can someone please tell me if this is even available on Winfari. Tab bar hidden by default. Tabbed browsing is to high speed connections as a crack pipe is to crack. Hiding that and making me explicitly turn it on is bad. No new tab button anywhere. Ctrl-Tab doesn't cycle through my tabs as it does in Firefox and IE. Middle-clicking a tab doesn't close it (but middle-clicking on links still opens them).
Of course, this is Safari 3 _BETA_ and I hope that Apple is going to correct/change these things in future releases.
Right, and morphine and codeine are totally safe substances that nobody has ever gotten addicted to. Opiates are highly addictive in any form and also have the potential to fuck up your immune system. I mean you get "harmful effects such as lung edema, respiratory difficulties, coma, or cardiac or respiratory collapse". Sign me up.
Yes they have. The Pirates trilogy has followed the Matrix trilogy formula exactly: Really good stand-alone movie followed by a 2 movie sequel with really shitty scripts and plots.
Dead Man's Chest was just a bunch of jokes and scenes rehashed from Curse of the Black Pearl but with a little more Bruckenheimer thrown in. At World's End, while better than Dead Man's Chest shows Bruckenheimer's influence more strongly with all the random shit that blows up for no good reason.
Just ruled unconstitutional. C'mon, a "serious felony". What about movies with equivalent ratings? And books. Books have no rating systems at all. My six year old niece can go and buy any Diane Steel or Stephen King book and I would not recommend either to an immature audience.
So you are writing parodies? And are you saying that the U.S. government has gotten its own copyright law wrong? Wow, I really should read your books. And what if I said I was a copyright lawyer. Would my appeal to authority trump yours?
Owning copyright on Mickey Mouse gives me copyright on all derivatives of Mickey Mouse as they are based on my original idea. Actually, I'm the only one who can make derivatives since I own the copyright to the original. http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ14.html
Looks like I'm not the one who needs to study.
I brought up trademarks because they represent a separate threat in addition to copyright violation. To reiterate my Spider-man example, here is the trademark registration for Spider-man: http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=6 d0u0u.2.14 Now if you use the term Spider-man to reference a comic strip character without getting the thumbs up from Marvel, you are open for trouble of the legal variety.
All of fanfic is shit. Not most. Other than that, I agree whole-heartedly.
Consider this, none of those authors are now or will ever be published by a reputable publishing house (note, I say reputable, vanity presses will press any piece of shit).
Fan fiction is the realm of the third or fourth rate writer. They are neither well-versed in their native language to make it interesting nor imaginative enough to create original stories. That is why most fan fiction descends into softcore pornography, over the top violence, and self-insertion. Fan fiction is an obsessive stalker's letter to something that has no physical manifestation. Each story a shrine to their mindless devotion to the topic. This is why it fails. Fan fiction isn't about the story, character development, or any sort of philosophy. Fan fiction is about how one person views a franchise. A projection of ego onto the objects of their desire.
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I prefer the more semantic "i += 1;" or actually just "i++;".
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I don't see the benefit in "i = i++;"
Oh wait, that's post-increment...
That's just sick.
If by Quickening you mean Quickening Plus, that's a near exact quote from the excerpt describing the early days of his guild.
Just read the sample excerpts.
That was the most self-serving, pompous piece of fluff I have ever laid eyes on. "The first kick of the baby in the womb"? Awkward metaphors ahoy.
You mean like an SD card.
And make a lot of car analogies.
You missed the follow-up sentence which specifically called into question her method of division in general.
.edu address in years. I was never able to use Facebook even when it first came out.
Like I said. I haven't had an
Not to mention, an article that tries to infer intelligence from choice of "social-networking sites" while using the wrong words to try and sound intelligent is ironic at best.
"their lack of interesting in having HS students"
.edu email in years.
Such quality journalism.
Also, let's consider the class of people who were out of college by 2005 vs the class of people who are in college as of 2005.
I haven't had an
Oh, I was trying to tell you to not waste your breath, because he just doesn't care. He's going to give your email all the attention he gave Safari compatibility.
It's not saying that Safari won't work, it's saying that he doesn't want to deal with it. It's an out. This way, he can say that he doesn't support Safari, so any bugs on his website that only show up in "non-supported browser" won't be dealt with.
Exactly. I haven't had cable since I was 16 (so for about 11 years now).
After the first week, it's not so bad.
Awesome. Thanks.
For the person with the itchy moderation finger. It's a joke that references an old story about the American and Russian space programs.
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http://www.snopes.com/business/genius/spacepen.as
Now they look no better than stupid Americans.
I do some web development, so I immediately downloaded it to see how my employer's site functioned in Safari.
Here's my take:
Immediately impressed by the lack of waste of screen real estate. There hardly seemed any side and bottom borders in the rendering area, making the page just seem larger. (I've since turned on the status bar, but for other reasons.)
I actually like the font rendering. It just looks softer and more comforting. This is purely an aesthetic judgment though.
The menus were neat. Nice visual eye candy with all of the rolling and stuff. In a similar vein, the glow around active form elements is very noticeable (a good thing).
No options. Like I said, I do some web development. I was looking for the Javascript console/debugger/anything, and I couldn't find out how to activate that. Can someone please tell me if this is even available on Winfari.
Tab bar hidden by default. Tabbed browsing is to high speed connections as a crack pipe is to crack. Hiding that and making me explicitly turn it on is bad.
No new tab button anywhere.
Ctrl-Tab doesn't cycle through my tabs as it does in Firefox and IE.
Middle-clicking a tab doesn't close it (but middle-clicking on links still opens them).
Of course, this is Safari 3 _BETA_ and I hope that Apple is going to correct/change these things in future releases.
Are you blind to sarcasm?
Right, and morphine and codeine are totally safe substances that nobody has ever gotten addicted to.
Opiates are highly addictive in any form and also have the potential to fuck up your immune system. I mean you get "harmful effects such as lung edema, respiratory difficulties, coma, or cardiac or respiratory collapse". Sign me up.
Yes they have.
The Pirates trilogy has followed the Matrix trilogy formula exactly: Really good stand-alone movie followed by a 2 movie sequel with really shitty scripts and plots.
Dead Man's Chest was just a bunch of jokes and scenes rehashed from Curse of the Black Pearl but with a little more Bruckenheimer thrown in. At World's End, while better than Dead Man's Chest shows Bruckenheimer's influence more strongly with all the random shit that blows up for no good reason.
Just ruled unconstitutional. C'mon, a "serious felony". What about movies with equivalent ratings? And books. Books have no rating systems at all. My six year old niece can go and buy any Diane Steel or Stephen King book and I would not recommend either to an immature audience.
It's not amateur writers in general. It's fanfiction specifically.
So you are writing parodies?
And are you saying that the U.S. government has gotten its own copyright law wrong?
Wow, I really should read your books.
And what if I said I was a copyright lawyer. Would my appeal to authority trump yours?
No I'm not.
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Owning copyright on Mickey Mouse gives me copyright on all derivatives of Mickey Mouse as they are based on my original idea. Actually, I'm the only one who can make derivatives since I own the copyright to the original.
http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ14.html
Looks like I'm not the one who needs to study.
I brought up trademarks because they represent a separate threat in addition to copyright violation.
To reiterate my Spider-man example, here is the trademark registration for Spider-man:
http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=
Now if you use the term Spider-man to reference a comic strip character without getting the thumbs up from Marvel, you are open for trouble of the legal variety.
You can't have copyright on a derivative work. Technically, the copyright belongs to the original creators of the universe/characters/planets/etc.
Not to mention most of the bigger icons are usually trademarked. (i.e. Spider-man is a trademark of Marvel)
You are so wrong.
All of fanfic is shit. Not most. Other than that, I agree whole-heartedly.
Consider this, none of those authors are now or will ever be published by a reputable publishing house (note, I say reputable, vanity presses will press any piece of shit).
Fan fiction is the realm of the third or fourth rate writer. They are neither well-versed in their native language to make it interesting nor imaginative enough to create original stories. That is why most fan fiction descends into softcore pornography, over the top violence, and self-insertion. Fan fiction is an obsessive stalker's letter to something that has no physical manifestation. Each story a shrine to their mindless devotion to the topic.
This is why it fails. Fan fiction isn't about the story, character development, or any sort of philosophy. Fan fiction is about how one person views a franchise. A projection of ego onto the objects of their desire.
Pedantically, the episode was entitles "Five Years Gone".
Sorry to disillusion you, but "abandonware" doesn't mean copyright has expired. MS could still sue for distribution of MS Bob.
But then they would have to bring it back to the public eye themselves. So I think sheer humiliation will keep them from suing.