That is pretty much exactly the post I was about to make. Although with a few more spelling errors.
Java is not appreciated by the end user. Not by me as one and not by any other non-techie out there either.
Granted this might change if java through some work of magic were to become stable, fast and good-looking. But then again, without open sourcing it, magic seems to be the only way that's gonna happen in this lifetime:)
While I don't think that 3-D CG is inherently better (or worse), I do think that variety is important, and that using the appropiate medium for the appropiate story is crucial.
I think you're very right. If you look at what's done with animation outside of the feature length format, 2d still reigns supreme and is looking incredible. But what's being used more is 3d effects and scenes, parts of scenes, mixed with the 2d animation.
This can be seen in a lot of the new high budget anime coming out of asia, see the recently released trailer for Ghost in the shell 2, but it can also be seen in the newer simpsons episodes, and every last futurama one to name a couple.
I've been more and more impressed with what I've been seeing, especially from the asian creators, and I think that if this was done well in more movies, as the incredible Mononoke-hime, we could very well have instant, and long-lasting, success on our hands:)
Is there anyone outside the US that gets these kinds of letters from their providers???
Scandinavia is notorious for having cheap, high-bandwidth connections. Sweden in particular I believe.
Here, if you're lucky, you pay about 40 USD for a 10mbit ethernet connection without bandwidth limitations. Until recently the cost was less than $30 even. They're about to offer 100mbits at the same cost but with a monthly gigabit allowance I believe.
Cable exists and is doing better lately, but DSL is all over the place and mostly you get the bandwidth you pay for. Not everywhere with every provider, but you *can* get it if you're not too far out in the woods.
DSL is mostly around the same price. 2.5mbit downsteam and 768kbit up is about average. Although in most of the major cites you can get VDSL starting at 8mbit/1mbit for us unfortunates,and up to 26mbit/26mbit if you're pretty much next to the switching station.
You can get much cheaper connections with much less bandwidth...but I haven't really checked them out:)
Why couldn't you release an open source version of the driver where all the parts that were under 3rd party patent, or even the parts Nvidia wants to keep hidding, are singled out and linked to in included binary modules?
Actually, western-in-space has to be one of the least appealing themes a SciFi show could adapt in my taste (sort of like if you take a popular franchise and take it BACK in time as much as possible instead of forward, remove a lot of the interesting futuristic technologies that we've come to like instead of introducing new ones (*couch* Enterprise *cough*)), and yet somehow, firefly managed to enthrall me to no end.
Quite a feat.
I was extremely sad to see this show go, it showed great promise for the future.
Who didn't shiver when men in the blue rubber gloves were hinted at now and again????:)
Comparing users and developers now are we? I think you've been on/. for way too long.
I think the real issue is presenting the average user with a consistent UI experience.
Most people do not *want* to choose, they just want things to work. Developers however need to be very picky and choose the right tool for the job.
Huge difference.
Heck I know what I'm doing and *I* don't want to make a choice. I want my computer to work. If I then decide to change some later on I willl. The more choices and options out there the better. But initially this is not the case.
I've been using opera since version 3.5 something.
I cannot recall that I have ever had to switch to IE for slashdot. Ever.
I have, throughout the years, had a secondary browser at hand for certain 'problem' websites for various reasons. But that rarely happens anymore.
I use the web extensively. More than most non-slashdotters, that's for sure;) To say that I use opera for 99% of all my activities would definitely not be an exaggeration.
Try re-installing and cleaning out your opera folder. It worked for me after installing every beta/retail version for 3 years and I had a problem I couldn't seem to come to terms with.
There's also a subgroup to the third category of people:
Us foreigners that might never get these shows, or if we do, get them years after they were broadcast, usually with nasty subtitles thrown on with no option to remove them.
Even IF the syndication allows for DVD release within a sane amount of time, half of the stuff we want to watch is either not released in our region coding, or if it is, it will lack the extra features and the quality of a region 1 DVD.
It's sad how often this happens.
It's also sad that the only way we can watch these shows is officially lableing us pirates in the eyes of the corporate world when we could gladly both watch the shows, ads included, and buy the DVD's were they available and up to standards.
I leave the the discussion of the morality in this up the more qualified and overly energetic.
But on the other hand, it will of course have an on-off switch.
Why in their glorious wisdom, Nintendo chose not to include it, with an on-off switch so that battery life would only be affected when the we, lowly GBA users, deemed fit, well...
I for one aim to support the portable monopoly project, whether a new GBA with internal lighting is launched or not.
ConSumAh PoWaHH!
..or something to the effect.
It won't make much real difference, but I'll positively feel the amount of Real Karma (TM), flowing towards me from the neverending universe.
Actually, I HAVE seen NT-based ATM's do bad things.
A terminal belonging to one of the bigger domestic banks in sweden, Föreningssparbanken, did very bad things:
It crashed, it rebooted, you could follow everything that happened on the cute little colorized display. Going through hardware, detecting cd players and whatnot. Finally entering WinNT where it spent an awfully long time starting up this and that application.
I *always* wondered why those spiffy looking ATM's always were sluggish, always out of order and generally a drag to deal with.
Guess that explained it:)
This isn't exactly censorship we're talking about here. It's just a simple means for someone that wants to be shielded to be shielded. It's easily disabled by a simple checkbox.
It doesn't hinder you from reading or sending any email you'd like. It simply warns at it's default setting.
Personally don't find this a very useful feature, but then again some people will. Maybe (overly?) concerned parents will see this as a reason to use Eudora over some script-kiddie friendly, evil-empire made one, in these days where "offensive" content on the internet is abundant.
I for one enjoyed toying with my own emails, seeing what I could get away with to get my letter rated with so and so many chilis for "hot" content.
Penis, for instance, won't change the little iceube rating into anything, but mention it twice and you're already at a double chili rating. If that isn't useful information I don't know what is;-)
So let the geeks buy it. There are, and will be enough of us to support Opera Software for all, or at least most of eternity;)
But seriously, the reasons mentioned will contribute. The fact that both IE and Netscape are pushed towards higher compatibility with W3C standards will also help Opera, which is already extremely standards compliant. Opera will be able to display the most fancy, hyped up pages around..in due time.
It'll get there in the end, it moves slow and steady...it's almost like an Open source project in that sense;)
I forgot to point out that my former post carefully removed all my moderations, so in effect..I just wasted a few seconds of your time in reading that...and this.
Only drugs and smut you say? I pity you, I really do. For the ones, who like me, wonder why this guy bothers getting up in the morning I give you this: http://www.mnc.net/norway/ This might a slightly more accurate picture of what has come out of Norway. And I'm not taking A-HA, M2M or Lene Marlin into account to mention a few;)
Slashdot Mirror
Mod parent up.
:)
That is pretty much exactly the post I was about to make. Although with a few more spelling errors.
Java is not appreciated by the end user. Not by me as one and not by any other non-techie out there either.
Granted this might change if java through some work of magic were to become stable, fast and good-looking. But then again, without open sourcing it, magic seems to be the only way that's gonna happen in this lifetime
I'm fairly sure that the Opera browser will block this as well, if it doesn't already have that capability that is.
:)
It remains to be seen when this new, glorious wonder of technology ad, is revealed
While I don't think that 3-D CG is inherently better (or worse), I do think that variety is important, and that using the appropiate medium for the appropiate story is crucial.
:)
I think you're very right. If you look at what's done with animation outside of the feature length format, 2d still reigns supreme and is looking incredible. But what's being used more is 3d effects and scenes, parts of scenes, mixed with the 2d animation.
This can be seen in a lot of the new high budget anime coming out of asia, see the recently released trailer for Ghost in the shell 2, but it can also be seen in the newer simpsons episodes, and every last futurama one to name a couple.
I've been more and more impressed with what I've been seeing, especially from the asian creators, and I think that if this was done well in more movies, as the incredible Mononoke-hime, we could very well have instant, and long-lasting, success on our hands
Is there anyone outside the US that gets these kinds of letters from their providers???
:)
Scandinavia is notorious for having cheap, high-bandwidth connections. Sweden in particular I believe.
Here, if you're lucky, you pay about 40 USD for a 10mbit ethernet connection without bandwidth limitations. Until recently the cost was less than $30 even. They're about to offer 100mbits at the same cost but with a monthly gigabit allowance I believe.
Cable exists and is doing better lately, but DSL is all over the place and mostly you get the bandwidth you pay for. Not everywhere with every provider, but you *can* get it if you're not too far out in the woods.
DSL is mostly around the same price. 2.5mbit downsteam and 768kbit up is about average. Although in most of the major cites you can get VDSL starting at 8mbit/1mbit for us unfortunates,and up to 26mbit/26mbit if you're pretty much next to the switching station.
You can get much cheaper connections with much less bandwidth...but I haven't really checked them out
Why couldn't you release an open source version of the driver where all the parts that were under 3rd party patent, or even the parts Nvidia wants to keep hidding, are singled out and linked to in included binary modules?
It's work, but it's possible isn't it?
Actually, western-in-space has to be one of the least appealing themes a SciFi show could adapt in my taste (sort of like if you take a popular franchise and take it BACK in time as much as possible instead of forward, remove a lot of the interesting futuristic technologies that we've come to like instead of introducing new ones (*couch* Enterprise *cough*)), and yet somehow, firefly managed to enthrall me to no end.
:)
Quite a feat.
I was extremely sad to see this show go, it showed great promise for the future.
Who didn't shiver when men in the blue rubber gloves were hinted at now and again????
Actually I find this something that the Family Guy people has understood completely and manages to pull off extremely well.
:)
At first these interludes seem on the bizarre side but the more 'FG' you consume, the better these little side activities become.
The racoon from the deep south episode is mentioned in a nother post and is a very good example of this.
Family Guy is hands down the funnies cartoon ever produced. Bar none.
Peace
Comparing users and developers now are we? I think you've been on /. for way too long.
I think the real issue is presenting the average user with a consistent UI experience.
Most people do not *want* to choose, they just want things to work. Developers however need to be very picky and choose the right tool for the job.
Huge difference.
Heck I know what I'm doing and *I* don't want to make a choice. I want my computer to work. If I then decide to change some later on I willl. The more choices and options out there the better. But initially this is not the case.
It's a sad state of affairs.
Then they blame p2p for the drop in cd-sales and not the fact that it's damn hard to find something that's not a boy band or britney spears.
Prices are insane and then the sound is actually BROKEN on top of all that...
Yes, it must be p2p, that's it. Let's make 60 million americans criminals. They're wrong, the law is right.
Simple.
Umm..
;)
I've been using opera since version 3.5 something.
I cannot recall that I have ever had to switch to IE for slashdot. Ever.
I have, throughout the years, had a secondary browser at hand for certain 'problem' websites for various reasons. But that rarely happens anymore.
I use the web extensively. More than most non-slashdotters, that's for sure
To say that I use opera for 99% of all my activities would definitely not be an exaggeration.
Try re-installing and cleaning out your opera folder. It worked for me after installing every beta/retail version for 3 years and I had a problem I couldn't seem to come to terms with.
Peace.
There's also a subgroup to the third category of people:
Us foreigners that might never get these shows, or if we do, get them years after they were broadcast, usually with nasty subtitles thrown on with no option to remove them.
Even IF the syndication allows for DVD release within a sane amount of time, half of the stuff we want to watch is either not released in our region coding, or if it is, it will lack the extra features and the quality of a region 1 DVD.
It's sad how often this happens.
It's also sad that the only way we can watch these shows is officially lableing us pirates in the eyes of the corporate world when we could gladly both watch the shows, ads included, and buy the DVD's were they available and up to standards.
I leave the the discussion of the morality in this up the more qualified and overly energetic.
peace
Yes, of course it will affect battery life.
But on the other hand, it will of course have an on-off switch.
Why in their glorious wisdom, Nintendo chose not to include it, with an on-off switch so that battery life would only be affected when the we, lowly GBA users, deemed fit, well...
I for one aim to support the portable monopoly project, whether a new GBA with internal lighting is launched or not.
ConSumAh PoWaHH!
..or something to the effect.
It won't make much real difference, but I'll positively feel the amount of Real Karma (TM), flowing towards me from the neverending universe.
Peace
Peace
Actually, I HAVE seen NT-based ATM's do bad things.
:)
A terminal belonging to one of the bigger domestic banks in sweden, Föreningssparbanken, did very bad things:
It crashed, it rebooted, you could follow everything that happened on the cute little colorized display. Going through hardware, detecting cd players and whatnot. Finally entering WinNT where it spent an awfully long time starting up this and that application.
I *always* wondered why those spiffy looking ATM's always were sluggish, always out of order and generally a drag to deal with.
Guess that explained it
I don't know what all the fuss is about.
;-)
This isn't exactly censorship we're talking about here. It's just a simple means for someone that wants to be shielded to be shielded. It's easily disabled by a simple checkbox.
It doesn't hinder you from reading or sending any email you'd like. It simply warns at it's default setting.
Personally don't find this a very useful feature, but then again some people will. Maybe (overly?) concerned parents will see this as a reason to use Eudora over some script-kiddie friendly, evil-empire made one, in these days where "offensive" content on the internet is abundant.
I for one enjoyed toying with my own emails, seeing what I could get away with to get my letter rated with so and so many chilis for "hot" content.
Penis, for instance, won't change the little iceube rating into anything, but mention it twice and you're already at a double chili rating. If that isn't useful information I don't know what is
But seriously, the reasons mentioned will contribute. The fact that both IE and Netscape are pushed towards higher compatibility with W3C standards will also help Opera, which is already extremely standards compliant. Opera will be able to display the most fancy, hyped up pages around..in due time.
It'll get there in the end, it moves slow and steady...it's almost like an Open source project in that sense ;)
Yup there ARE going to be SDI as well as MDI version and also I think static as well as dynamic versions. I for one can't wait :)
I forgot to point out that my former post carefully removed all my moderations, so in effect..I just wasted a few seconds of your time in reading that...and this.
/me bows
I also do childrens parties.
Well I moderated down as many wow.cgi links as I could, but there are still quite a few left.
Anyone else care to join in the fun?
Only drugs and smut you say? ;)
I pity you, I really do.
For the ones, who like me, wonder why this guy bothers getting up in the morning I give you this: http://www.mnc.net/norway/
This might a slightly more accurate picture of what has come out of Norway. And I'm not taking A-HA, M2M or Lene Marlin into account to mention a few