… even if it’s the first time I have ever seen him.
PS. Just reading that there will be no Flash support on the iPad… HUGE problem. If this is the ultimate web browsing experience and it’s missing a widely used and overused element like Flash… well, it’s going to be frustrating and limiting. Why make that choice, Apple?
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It shows how out of it I was in trying to be in it, acknowledging that I was out of it to myself, and then thinking, “Okay, how do I stop being out of it? Well, I get some legitimate illogical narrative ideas” — some novel, you know?
So I decided on three writers that I might be able to option their material and get some producer, or myself as producer, and then get some writer to do a screenplay on it, and maybe make a movie.
And so the three projects were “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep,” “Naked Lunch” and a collection of Bukowski. Which, in 1975, forget it — I mean, that was nuts. Hollywood would not touch any of that, but I was looking for something commercial, and I thought that all of these things were coming.
There would be no Blade Runner if there was no Ray Bradbury. I couldn’t find Philip K. Dick. His agent didn’t even know where he was. And so I gave up.
I was walking down the street and I ran into Bradbury — he directed a play that I was going to do as an actor, so we know each other, but he yelled “hi” — and I’d forgot who he was.
So at my girlfriend Barbara Hershey’s urging — I was with her at that moment — she said, “Talk to him! That guy really wants to talk to you,” and I said “No, fuck him,” and keep walking.
But then I did, and then I realized who it was, and I thought, “Wait, he’s in that realm, maybe he knows Philip K. Dick.” I said, “You know a guy named—” “Yeah, sure — you want his phone number?”
My friend paid my rent for a year while I wrote, because it turned out we couldn’t get a writer. My friends kept on me about, well, if you can’t get a writer, then you write.”
~ Hampton Fancher
“That was the most disappointing thing to me in how this thing was played. Is that I’m on the phone with you now, after all that’s been said, and the fundamental distinction between what James is dealing with in these other cases is not actually brought to the fore. The fundamental difference is that James Franco didn’t seek to use his position to have sex with anyone. There’s not a case of that. He wasn’t using his position or status to try to solicit a sexual favor from anyone. If he had — if that were what the accusation involved — the show would not have gone on. We would have folded up shop and we would have not completed the show. Because then it would have been the same as Harvey Weinstein, or Les Moonves, or any of these cases that are fundamental to this new paradigm. Did you not notice that? Why did you not notice that? Is that not something notable to say, journalistically? Because nobody could find the voice to say it. I’m not just being rhetorical. Why is it that you and the other critics, none of you could find the voice to say, “You know, it’s not this, it’s that”? Because — let me go on and speak further to this. If you go back to the L.A. Times piece, that’s what it lacked. That’s what they were not able to deliver. The one example in the five that involved an issue of a sexual act was between James and a woman he was dating, who he was not working with. There was no professional dynamic in any capacity.
~ David Simon
You’ve never heard of Loren Feldman? He’s kind of got a terrible reputation.
http://gawker.com/tech/loren-feldman/technigga-and-the-don-imus-of-silicon-valley-287091.php
But on this one issue, I think he gets it exactly right.
“Why make that choice, Apple?”
Because Flash is a bloated piece of junk. There’s a steady push towards HTML5 (obviously that’ll take awhile). And perhaps most importantly from a mobile device perspective, Flash is a big memory and battery drain.
Tele, I understand why Apple doesn’t like Flash, but to not allow it is just hubris. I mean, did Sony decide not to get in the VHS business because they preferred Beta?
I understand not liking all uses of Flash on website, but show someone this iPad and then tell them they can’t watch Hulu and see the positive reaction fade.
Apple’s argument against Flash on the iPhone/iPod touch was that it was a processor hog and drained the battery. The iPad has a supposedly far more capable processor and a much larger battery, so Me is right that Apple’s corporate animosity for Adobe is compromising the user experience out of hubris.
There are lots of crappy things on the Web, Flash is one, but its benefits outweigh its cost for most users because the simple fact is that it is what provides a lot of basic functionality that users expect. Until HTML5 is widely adopted, Apple is saying that their super-duper tablet is going to render huge swaths of the net unusable for no real good reason.
The only reason they decided to not include Flash was to protect their apps revenue. A very large percentage of users would use flash apps as opposed to spending money buying apps from Apple.