A lot of these slots are VERY interchangeable to me, so none of this is set in stone. In fact, I welcome second opinions because Adapted is so tricky to predict. Untitled PTA 2. The French Dispatch 4. Screenplay: Spencer, Mass A. CODA is one of the most crowdpleasing films of the year so far and most of its charm is found in the screenplay and performances. He previously won in this category before in I think the writers branch wants to embrace him especially since the film got glowing reviews.
A Focus film is most likely to get in too since their players are quite strong. Last Night in Soho being co-written by recent Oscar nominated screenwriter, Krysty Wilson-Cairns, is also quite buzzy with the screenplay embarking on social commentary concerning female exploitation and idol worship. We will see how Soho is received today. Then Focus also has The Card Counter which has been getting good critics reviews and could be the classical lone screenplay nominee which was achieved by Schrader for First Reformed 2 years ago.
Whatever film it is, I think Focus is getting one of their players in. Last spot is tricky. Oscars Nominations Experts' Predictions. Viewing 15 posts - 1 through 15 of 80 total. Last Reply. View Predictions. September 1, at am Jacob "Oscar Boy" Boe Joined:. Decrepit old software like WordStar or MovieMaster are perfectly capable of generating a text file that can be emailed.
That's why you emulate the x86 software on a PowerPC based Mac, to ensure access to these nstructions. If you want to have fancy things, FreeDOS works much better with modern hardware. Even the latest CPUs still support bit real mode operation - only when you switch to x64 long mode do you lose access to 16 bit capability.
Anyhow, the 40 page limit isn't really a limit. A movie is generally 3 acts, and a two hour movie is only between page screenplay usually around pages. Maybe you're thinking of the popular modified 3 act structure where the second act split into two distinct halves. Save the cat! Using your numbers, the 40 page limit is, at best, barely adequate.
Even then, it only works if each section is exactly 40 pages. Are you sure about this? Perhaps the option wasn't available because of some combination of other settings, or perhaps it was hidden by the manufacturer of the motherboard, but still CPUs still run 16bit compatible instructions.
Most of it is in the form of industrial SBCs, and you can get them with relatively modern processors not literally modern, but at least something with vector operations, superscalar operation and such and ROM BIOS. They are provided for legacy purposes like industrial control, where it's a lot cheaper to buy a SBC than to modernize. Even thoug. Today you could just email the whole virtual machine running ms-dos and the MM software and the script itself - preserved as the author left it.
I run DOS apps in Linux, it's not a challenge and hasn't been for decades. Why this guy uses a decrepit WIndows XP PC, you'd have to ask him but probably some combination of ignorance and superstition. I hear you there, you can run old software in emulation in multiple ways and it's not hard. My old "retrocomputer" needs way too much TLC to keep running as components fail.
In the case of something like MovieMaster, I'd recommend vDos. Wordperfect and others run like a dream for me, and it supports printers. I once set up a chiropractor's office with vDos on Win8 so they could continue dot-matrix printing patient r. Aaaaand the gain from that time and money spent is? There is a good reason to spend time and money like this: Not needing to deal with the time in the middle of a big project.
But do you need to run on an unsupported operating system, on obsolete hardware the computer can't be even UEFI, right? You can't get to it except where it is. It has 40 pages and it runs out of memory. I can't fathom anyone allowing this level of risk to exist on such a high-value project.
If I'm reading this correctly, he has exactly one original digital copy, that one, single file on an emulated MS-DOS file system hosted on an unsupported Win XP file system? That's reckless. Reckless and insane. Presumably the original book was written on a typewriter. It might have even been a manual. Anything that will let you edit what you've typed on the screen is a quantum leap forward.
The question is whether it improves the writing or not. Being able to change just this paragraph or swap these two chapters may lead to sloppy work.
It certainly seems that long books - very long books - have become much more common in the years since manual typewriters died out. Same with movies - the. Some people prefer simpler word processors like that because they are distraction free.
You can't just open a browser or look at something else. The app covers the whole screen, you have to save and quit to do anything else. Worked just fine for basic document editing and you never suffered from the random reformatting that continues to afflict Microsoft Word forty years later. WordStar was the program of choice for conservative intellectual William F. Buckley, Jr. His son, Christopher Buckley, wrote of the almost comical loyalty and affection his father had shown for WordStar, which he had installed into every new computer he purchased despite the technical difficulty of such an endeavor as the program became increasingly outdated and incompatible with newer computers.
He said of WordStar, "I'm told there are better programs, but I'm also told there are better alphabets. I guess I agree with Buckley about that. I'm about as keen on a new wave of keyboard assignments or ribbon bars as having someone randomly upgrade my alphabet. Fictional vampire writer Anne Rice was another faithful user of WordStar who struggled to have it installed on newer computers until it could no longer reasonably be done.
She then grudgingly transitioned to Microsoft Word, whose design she felt was comparatively unintuitive and illogical:.
I loved it. It was logical, beautiful, perfect," adding, "Compared to it, MS Word which I use today is pure madness. Was Rice understood intuitively is that vampires are not the least bit keen on having their traditional alphabets randomly upgraded, many of whom continue to mourn the loss of their old azabercnageuua [wikipedia.
Fictional vampire writer Anne Rice was another faithful user of WordStar And here I thought she was a real person all this time. I'm gonna stick with comic books, vampire fiction is way too meta for me.
What's not clear is why Rice didn't consult someone who knew something about computers to help her continue to run Wordstar, which she could have done. What's also not clear is why she replaced a text editor like Wordstar with a word processor like Word. That's just not that smart, if what you want is a text editor.
I encouraged my father to move to Word. He's on LibreOffice now. He loved WordStar, and moving was incredibly hard, so I'm proud of him for achieving it. He wrote his first two books there, and the rest have been on more modern programs.
Incidentally, one of the hardest things for him was switching from the mentality of "first you create name and save the file, then you start writing in it" to the current "write first, save later".
There's no need to behave that way. You can create new documents from the file manager from templates and then open them and start working in them. For example from the context menu in windows explorer. Its what I learned on, its integrated functions are not supportable in unix.
ESC ends commands, not starts them. In wq! You want w! If you are using reference stuff that uses wq, find newer stuff. It doesn't start them, but it puts you into a mode where you can start them.
It does however end them, as you say. My father used to take me on Friday nights to the university so I could use the computer, back in Yes, the computer -- there were a couple of PCs around, but everybody prefered using the mincomputer a Foonly F2 in the terminal room. I was eight years old.
He taught me how to write in Emacs. What did I write back then? TeX, of course. Cue to That has nothing to do with anything. It's still part of the same filesystem that XP is using. If XP has internet connectivity then the files are as vulnerable as anything else in XP.
I think he may have a false sense of security here. For a start, you'd also have to persuade "train", even him to research and install DOS drivers for the? The problem that you're trying to solve is along the line of "his computer can't do X", when the actual situation that is being described is a lot closer to him saying "I don't want a computer that.
Maybe, but then he could do that with a modern computer. I agree, and that't the main reason I descended into this thread. Of course, not having a network interface including wireless in the machine, nor a serial-ish modem would help. Even better it opens up software libraries of operating systems most haven't even heard about like BeOS. Now, are your finances as complicated as they were back then?
It's one thing to use a computer program that is no longer developed or supported, but to use a program that doesn't even exist? Now that's impressive! The machine was built by my business partner.
It booted up faster than any PC since: clunk, whirr, clunk, command prompt. The earlier version of this machine only had paper tape for storage, and I was told it took about an hour to boot. Later, we got PCs. I can't remember the spec. I got really fluent at Wordstar commands. Total muscle memory. As well as letters, invoices, and so on, I used it as a poor man.
Often I use vi to write stuff in LaTeX, producing documents that look more professional than colleagues' documents in Word. Larry has contended twice for Best Comedy Album. The second of these came for a recording of his show with three other funny fellows: Bill Engvall , Jeff Foxworthy and Ron White.
They often perform together, a la the original Rat Pack. And the Baby copped to being in a lot of high speed car chases.
We will only find out if we are right that the Larry the Cable Guy is the Baby when he is unmasked. That will happen when the Baby loses a vote or wins the show. Do you think we are right about the true identity of Baby?
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