SQL king Larry Ellison becomes sequel sultan with controlling interest in Paramount Global Oracle founder and CTO Larry Ellison has been revealed as holding the controlling interest in US media giant Paramount Global. Like many media outfits founded in the 20th century, Paramount has had a tough time in recent years despite owning storied brands like CBS, MTV, and Nickelodeon, plus the Star Trek and Mission: …
I have to mildly disagree. Oracle's lawyers are more than capable of coming up with a contract that is so obscure, so convoluted, so self-referential that it will take until the heat-death of the universe to unpick it.
In other words.
Oracle's lawyers their mission: to come up with a contract that is so obscure, so convoluted, so self-referential that it will take until the heat-death of the universe to unpick it; to boldly go where no contract lawyer has gone before!
Eh? I admit I've paid little attention to Star Trek since, oh, maybe the first couple seasons of TNG, but the original series, at least, was notable for two types of UIs on the Enterprise: voice assistant ("Computer, analyze the data on this slab of plastic") and panel of Big Glowing Buttons which would emit sparks at the slightest provocation. Neither of those were common with MS-DOS machines. Or with IBM's DOS for the S/360, for that matter.
<shrug> They've been running the original series on Legend. Not being overly familiar with the series (being a Brit I guess I was more a Space:1999 kind of guy?), I was watching a very bizarre programme set in a hippie commune. Kind of blew my mind when Spock turned up.
As for the other series, I guess it is like watching Friends. Seems like an interesting idea until one realises that it is 236 episodes over ten seasons. That's something like 86 hours. Sorry, life is too short...
The second season of Space: 1999 surely rivaled anything in Star Trek (at least the original series) for "very bizarre". And I say that with a certain measure of affection, or at least tolerance.
(These days I can barely get through half an hour of television at a time, except for a handful of specific titles that for whatever reason can hold my interest. But even there I have to make an effort. I can read for hours at a time, but with anything synchronous I quickly become restless.)
Now that Oracle's acquired The Federation there'll be no more talk of SQL injections.
Kirk: Warp 9 Mr Scott
Scotty: Cannae do Captain
Kirk: What's seems to be the problem
Scotty: The Oracle license renewal is up again, and we don't seem to have enough gold pressed latinum
Spock: This is most illogical Captain, why does'nt Starfleet just use postgres
Kirk: Shields up. Prepare for boarders
Mccoy: Klingons?
Kirk: No such luck. Oracle Ferengi Lawyers
To be continued.....
Owning a media company and knowing what it and IT can provision and realise practically for the future, and being prepared to create and present dam and block buster moves and movies disseminating engaging details of projects in progress, and stored in future networking distribution pipelines, does supply one and one's projects leadership team/chief executive office with a very realistic and almost invincible almighty power .... and fantabulous energy.
Strangely enough, the possibilities and opportunities of such an Advancing Intervention which be currently beta testing for any effective global SCADA type operating systems defences was also earlier servered to El Reg in posts both here, entitled Can one and/or does one need to speak to inform an audience when ROFL? and here, entitled Re: @I aint Spartacus
Ellison and Musk locked in step and doing the fandango and tango with Skydance ...... now there's a noble novelty likely impossible to compete against and vanquish.
only IBM's stupid software was pronounced that way (including the original 'SEQL' apparently, another IBM thing from which SQL was derived), and the first time I heard it called "sequel" (early 90's) I tried to research what the guy was talking about, and there were no programs called "Sequel whatever' in ANY of the literature I checked. It's inherently inaccurate to pronounce it that way.
The LANGUAGE was always S. Q. L. (not to be confused with the predecessor) but the IBM SOFTWARE was "Sequel Server". And I REFUSE to allow IBM marketeers from the 80's/90's to define how I pronounce something!!!
(and anyone at a jobsite I'm at calling it "sequel" is in danger of extreme ridicule from me)
the IBM SOFTWARE was "Sequel Server". And I REFUSE to allow IBM marketeers from the 80's/90's
IBM had a product in the '80s and '90s1 called "Sequel Server"? Do you have a citation for that? I don't remember one, and a search didn't turn anything up.
Are you thinking of Microsoft's "SQL Server"? That's often pronounced "sequel server", but it isn't named "Sequel Server", and it's not an IBM product.
1The apostrophe replaces the elided characters. It's "'80s", contracted from "1980s", not "80's".
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Oracle. So the per-show streaming fee is $400 now.
Plus its network bandwidth capped at 1mbps, with a fair use policy of 20mb. $50/mb over this.
Oracle is a necrotic dinosaur of a company with shitty ancient mid 1990's software and hardware bundles.
Why would ANYONE use their old unwieldy 20th century crud?
Plus the additions you used without licensing and now you have to pay for....
- You watched animated shows, that wasn't specified in your agreement, so that's an extra $10/month for last 24 months.
- You did searches for movies on more than 10 occasions over the last 12 monhts, another $5/month for the unlimited search option.
- You were audited and found to have watched more 12 hours in a single 24 hour period, that's $5/month extra.
- You logged in from more than 3 devices over a 6 month period, 2 devices max with each costing $10/month per device, plus an additional charge of $5/month per device if they're on different platforms.
So you now owe us a ton of money but if you sign up today for a fixed 2 year term we'll give you a 10% loyalty discount.
Remember in future to always consult you license agreement before starting the Paramount streaming app then we wouldn't have to have these severe audits.
( You can tell I've been through Oracle software severe audits in the past and they're are like going through an interrgation that even Putin's secret police would say, "Oooh, that's a bit harsh!". )
Hah, now look at them yo-yos, that's the way you do it
You play the guitar[licence] on the MTV[Computer]
That ain't workin', that's the way you do it
Money for nothing and your chicks for free
Now that ain't workin', that's the way you do it
With thanks to Dire Straits for the lyrics
America can now double their daily brainwashing dose now.
After the critical and commercial success of shows like The Acolyte, Rings of Power, Borderlands the movie, I for one can't wait to see what they do with Concord!
Ok, so those weren't all Paramount but there's still a chance they could butcher Star Trek the way Disney has Star Wars. Or it'll probably be Titanic II, Forest Gump II, A Quiet Place 3. This time perhaps with someone who can fix a nail sticking out of a step.
Annoying as the "just make sequels and reboots" trend in the film industry is, I understand it. The economics are pretty obvious: a large portion of the audience is making its spending decisions based on opportunity cost ("I want to see something I believe I'll enjoy, so I'll seek the sort of thing I enjoyed before"), cognitive load ("watching something unfamiliar requires cognitive resources that I may not feel like marshaling during my leisure time"), and psychological rewards like nostalgia ("I enjoyed some variant of this years ago"). And studios have increasingly conditioned much of the audience to expect big-budget noisemakers, so films are expensive to produce. And early buzz is important for studios' returns; simple "popcorn flicks" don't require a lot of reflection from audiences, or opportunity to read reviews, etc.
I mean, personally I'm not attracted to that sort of thing, but then I watch very few movies anyway. I am clearly not the target demographic.
And it's not like during cinema's "golden age" the studios weren't churning out masses of unoriginal Westerns and romances and gangster films and whatnot.
Arguably, for people who like film, it's good that there are studios making successful familiar, stupid sequels, because those provide the capital for studios to take a chance on the occasional interesting release.
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