I got it from the comments, I guess, but it would be nice if the summary would mention what the contest is about. They're having a contest to improve Netflix's algorithm?
Seriously, the voice actors in Futurama gave their characters heart and soul. It's not just that the actors are good (they are, of course) but the characters have grown along with the actors, such that in my mind, and in the mind of many fans I am sure, the two are inseparable.
Without the original cast, I won't be watching, simple as that. It's going to cost more money in the long run to produce an abject failure than to put more money into the show from the start and hoping the fanbase comes back.
I hate the "main-stream media" as much as any one (watching CNN irritates the hell out of me - if I wanted to read Twitter, Rick Sanchez, I would get on the Internet!) and don't even get me started on Fox.
But this is obvious - there is very little original research going on the Web (the one counter example are the Abu Ghraib pictures as I remember those being posted to Live Journal long before they hit the rest of the media world). It's more of a sounding chamber for things already being reported - commentary more than original research.
My biggest fear is that the mainstream media is moving in the same direction - closing local branches, relying on Twitter and the Facebook, this competitive advantage that the media has is slowly being dissolved, by itself.
Seriously, I don't know what's made you so emo, and I was just going to mod you down, but honestly, even people's most banal pictures can become important. I was an Asian Studies major in college and seeing photos from Japan's Meiji and Taisho periods was amazing. These are just family pictures or whatever.
When I lived in Yokohama, the city was celebrating 150 years since the port was opened and had hundreds of photos up of the city throughout that time.
Just because you're having fun in philosophy 101 doesn't mean photos can't be important.
Supposedly, the Indians coming to the States are the smartest. I find them to be no better than American educated and trained workers. IIT is not a breeding ground for great talent, rather superior attitudes. No different than the Ivy League in the United States. I have worked with plenty of Indian talent in Silicon Valley, and managed many as well. It depends on the person; where you go to school, or if you go to school, is irrelevant.
The Chinese and Europeans are the folks I move to the top of the interview list.
I am going to respond to this comment, even though it's a waste of time - no one is going to see my reply, I think but I would like to respond;
There's a lot to ask (why is it that Chinese coders are on the whole better than Indian ones?). I don't work in IT but I majored in Asian Studies and Japanese in college, but my parents are from Bangladesh so I met a lot of international students both from China (through my major) and India (through my background). The Indian students spoke English better, usually were able to acclimate better, and integrate into school society.
My parents are from Bangladesh, so I feel a kinship to Indian culture, but am not wedded to it either; in that sense I am American - one of the major reasons I buy Macs is because I intensely dislike Indian outsourced call centers (and I have a tendency to call out any Indian tech support guy who gives their name as Bobby or Johnny).
But India's best and brightest aren't coming to the US to be code monkeys. Among the upper middle and upper class of Bangladesh and India, those kind of jobs are considered somewhat middling. India's best and brightest, the people you think should be "smartest," if they are in the US and not Europe, are getting MBAs, JDs, MDs., etc.
It's hard to tell from the linked article (yeah, I read it) but it doesn't seem like Crampton has no copies of the articles (surely he would keep of his own stuff) but that they're just not accessible on the Internet. All the links that should point to them from the NYT and the IHT went kablammo when the two sites merged.
There's no way a back up on his end could fix this problem.
But of course awesome things happen if someone manages to take that roguelike core and adds fitting graphics ( Diablo series. )
Add to the list - Chocobo's Mysterious Dungeon Any other Fushigi na Dungeon series (Yangus, Torneko, the original IP ones) Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Shiren the Wanderer Izuma Legend of the Unemployed Ninja
With so many comments already posted, I doubt this will see the light of day, but in the hopes someone will read it:
I read Daring Fireball pretty regularly and its author has stated he doesn't want comments on his site because he feels it distracts from his own articles.
When I read a newspaper article, I am looking for a reporter's writing. While there is a lot wrong with journalism today, reading the comments on any newspaper website is like mucking through the dregs of human society. The anonymous nature of the Internet allows (and seemingly even encourages) people to post stupid comments. It's not worth reading and on newspaper sites, I don't.
I'm glad and I wish more sites and blogs would forgo comments and concentrate and getting new content out. When I read the BBC news or the New York Times I'm not interested in what Joe Schmo thinks, especially if it's going to be some poorly spelled, angry, outburst.
Slashdot is different in that the moderation system helps filter out the noise and no one in their right mind would come here to read the articles.
I am no fan of fighting games, but MvC2 was the reason I had/have a Dreamcast. Sure, it's somewhat shallow compared to say Virtua Fighter, the art is great, it's easy to pick up (and thus makes a good, geeky party game) and it's a blast to see Capcom and Marvel's characters (much, much cooler than MK vs. DC for example). I hope they keep the voices (the Marvel characters were voiced by their cartoon counterparts, right?) but do something about that jackass announcer.
It's funny, because I am more trusting (I originally wrote trust, but there are no websites I trust implicitly) of the Pirate Bay not to screw around with my computer or be dicks, while I don't trust Facebook at all with my photos or private information.
I mean I generally agree with you but it sounds like you're on a rant from whatever happened on that other forum.
What if (and this is, of course, an if - I've only started getting into Windows 7 after looking at my options for an HTPC, so outside of Media Center, I don't know much about it) Windows 7 handles things like gobs of RAM or multi-core processors better than XP? Then 7 will be faster on the same hardware than XP.
What you're generally saying is true, sometimes technology (dual channel memory for example?) can level the playing field.
My question is this then (and I seriously don't know): how is slashdot getting financed? I see the ads (more than I used to and way more then when I started using the site), I remember the site joining OSDN or whatever. Where does that money go?
Does it all go to servers or do you guys make some money?
Because if it's all severs and bandwidth, and the editors are really just doing this as a hobby mistakes are still blemishes, but are, at least, understandable. If you're making money, however, I don't think that "fast, interesting, correct: pick two" mentality really flies.
Who modded this insightful? I run emulators on my PC (actually my Mac) mostly of games I own or never were released in the U.S. (I'm looking at you Mother 3).
Mac emulators are far behind their Windows and even Linux counterparts. While I hope the situation will get better as Macs gain more market share, for a lot of emulation tasks, Mac OS doesn't cut it (Boot Camp is great, of course, but no one wants to boot into Windows just to play Rhythm Tengoku).
However, even on a Windows PC, it's not nearly as great an experience. To get the real feel of the game you have to hook a joypad into the computer (on my precious MacBook Pro, I only have 2 USB ports, expanded to five with a hub). And most of the best game pads are console ons with a USB adaptor. Even full screened, sitting at a chair with a game pad is different from being sprawled out on the couch playing say, Fire Emblem Genealogy of The Holy War. Some time's it's OK to run an emulator and have my IM and web browser in the background, but usually I just want to concentrate on the game. While it's not quite as "pick up and play" as having the original console and game, it's awful close. With easy multiplayer, console emulation can be great, and it's one of the major reasons I am thinking of getting a PS3.
I don't really have a dog in this fight - my brother owns an iPod Touch and I have a Blackberry Curve - but it doesn't seem to me that there's much competition on any front for Apple's App Store. For most of the smart phones I wouldn't even consider buying software (I don't think my Curve delivers an experience that I want - I would rather use other portable devices to do what software could do).
The one thing that may be able to mount a challenge is the DSi's app store - but here in Japan where the DSi is already out, I am not really getting the impression that it is a must have feature.
Until someone is even mildly successful in the area, no one competition is really "mounting" for the app store.
I'm sorry, my post was poorly worded. I agree a ton of phones have better specs than the iPhone but they won't beat Apple's machine based on that - it's style, form, and how that interacts with function that is Apple's forte.
I'm a Mac fan, but generally use the best tool I can and I don't have an iPhone or an iPod Touch, so I don't believe I really have a dog in this fight (for the record I have a Blackberry Curve [which is so=so at best], but mainly live in Japan and so have one of last year's au/WIN phones).
But this article's summary reminds of CmdrTaco's famous predictions for the original iPod. I read TFA and the phone pictured there doesn't look like an iPod killer. It doesn't even look like a phone from the last five years - it looks like fat, bulgy little free-with-service American phone from 2000 or 2001.
No one is going to beat Apple on specs. For better or for ill, the company is brilliant at style and presentation and those are huge factors in the iPhone's successes.
Moreover, the iPhone is out NOW and macrumors and other Apple sites are already beginning to rumble with information about the new iPhone software - the iPhone is moving ahead, with that and the App Store and where is this Palm phone?
A cell phone is a status symbol once again and until a good phone matches the iPhone in that arena, it's not going to kill it. I don't expect this Palm phone to, to be sure.
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I got it from the comments, I guess, but it would be nice if the summary would mention what the contest is about.
They're having a contest to improve Netflix's algorithm?
Only if you don't speak Japanese.
Wait, this isn't good news at all.
Seriously, the voice actors in Futurama gave their characters heart and soul. It's not just that the actors are good (they are, of course) but the characters have grown along with the actors, such that in my mind, and in the mind of many fans I am sure, the two are inseparable.
Without the original cast, I won't be watching, simple as that.
It's going to cost more money in the long run to produce an abject failure than to put more money into the show from the start and hoping the fanbase comes back.
I hate the "main-stream media" as much as any one (watching CNN irritates the hell out of me - if I wanted to read Twitter, Rick Sanchez, I would get on the Internet!) and don't even get me started on Fox.
But this is obvious - there is very little original research going on the Web (the one counter example are the Abu Ghraib pictures as I remember those being posted to Live Journal long before they hit the rest of the media world). It's more of a sounding chamber for things already being reported - commentary more than original research.
My biggest fear is that the mainstream media is moving in the same direction - closing local branches, relying on Twitter and the Facebook, this competitive advantage that the media has is slowly being dissolved, by itself.
Yeah, law school leaves me ample free time ;p
Seriously, I don't know what's made you so emo, and I was just going to mod you down, but honestly, even people's most banal pictures can become important. I was an Asian Studies major in college and seeing photos from Japan's Meiji and Taisho periods was amazing. These are just family pictures or whatever.
When I lived in Yokohama, the city was celebrating 150 years since the port was opened and had hundreds of photos up of the city throughout that time.
Just because you're having fun in philosophy 101 doesn't mean photos can't be important.
I'm sorry, I thought the phrase getting MDs implied they were, you know, getting medical degrees.
Supposedly, the Indians coming to the States are the smartest. I find them to be no better than American educated and trained workers. IIT is not a breeding ground for great talent, rather superior attitudes. No different than the Ivy League in the United States. I have worked with plenty of Indian talent in Silicon Valley, and managed many as well. It depends on the person; where you go to school, or if you go to school, is irrelevant.
The Chinese and Europeans are the folks I move to the top of the interview list.
I am going to respond to this comment, even though it's a waste of time - no one is going to see my reply, I think but I would like to respond;
There's a lot to ask (why is it that Chinese coders are on the whole better than Indian ones?). I don't work in IT but I majored in Asian Studies and Japanese in college, but my parents are from Bangladesh so I met a lot of international students both from China (through my major) and India (through my background). The Indian students spoke English better, usually were able to acclimate better, and integrate into school society.
My parents are from Bangladesh, so I feel a kinship to Indian culture, but am not wedded to it either; in that sense I am American - one of the major reasons I buy Macs is because I intensely dislike Indian outsourced call centers (and I have a tendency to call out any Indian tech support guy who gives their name as Bobby or Johnny).
But India's best and brightest aren't coming to the US to be code monkeys. Among the upper middle and upper class of Bangladesh and India, those kind of jobs are considered somewhat middling. India's best and brightest, the people you think should be "smartest," if they are in the US and not Europe, are getting MBAs, JDs, MDs., etc.
Meh, at least there's the chance the parrot could read you the news. No such luck with the Kindle now.
Also given Obama's recent speech in Saudi Arabia.
I think you mean Egypt.
You don't understand natural selection.
Is flying in front of plans a genetic trait?
If not, it can't be selected for or against.
I wish people would take a few biology classes when they're in college.
It's hard to tell from the linked article (yeah, I read it) but it doesn't seem like Crampton has no copies of the articles (surely he would keep of his own stuff) but that they're just not accessible on the Internet. All the links that should point to them from the NYT and the IHT went kablammo when the two sites merged.
There's no way a back up on his end could fix this problem.
But of course awesome things happen if someone manages to take that roguelike core and adds fitting graphics ( Diablo series. )
Add to the list -
Chocobo's Mysterious Dungeon
Any other Fushigi na Dungeon series (Yangus, Torneko, the original IP ones)
Pokemon Mystery Dungeon
Shiren the Wanderer
Izuma Legend of the Unemployed Ninja
With so many comments already posted, I doubt this will see the light of day, but in the hopes someone will read it:
I read Daring Fireball pretty regularly and its author has stated he doesn't want comments on his site because he feels it distracts from his own articles.
When I read a newspaper article, I am looking for a reporter's writing. While there is a lot wrong with journalism today, reading the comments on any newspaper website is like mucking through the dregs of human society. The anonymous nature of the Internet allows (and seemingly even encourages) people to post stupid comments. It's not worth reading and on newspaper sites, I don't.
I'm glad and I wish more sites and blogs would forgo comments and concentrate and getting new content out. When I read the BBC news or the New York Times I'm not interested in what Joe Schmo thinks, especially if it's going to be some poorly spelled, angry, outburst.
Slashdot is different in that the moderation system helps filter out the noise and no one in their right mind would come here to read the articles.
I am no fan of fighting games, but MvC2 was the reason I had/have a Dreamcast. Sure, it's somewhat shallow compared to say Virtua Fighter, the art is great, it's easy to pick up (and thus makes a good, geeky party game) and it's a blast to see Capcom and Marvel's characters (much, much cooler than MK vs. DC for example). I hope they keep the voices (the Marvel characters were voiced by their cartoon counterparts, right?) but do something about that jackass announcer.
C'mon, people, on the old slashdot this would have been in the first ten comments!
Bart: How would I go about creating a half-man, half-monkey-type creature?
Ms.Krabapple: I'm sorry, that would be playing God.
Bart: God shmod! I want my monkey-man!
It's funny, because I am more trusting (I originally wrote trust, but there are no websites I trust implicitly) of the Pirate Bay not to screw around with my computer or be dicks, while I don't trust Facebook at all with my photos or private information.
I mean I generally agree with you but it sounds like you're on a rant from whatever happened on that other forum.
What if (and this is, of course, an if - I've only started getting into Windows 7 after looking at my options for an HTPC, so outside of Media Center, I don't know much about it) Windows 7 handles things like gobs of RAM or multi-core processors better than XP? Then 7 will be faster on the same hardware than XP.
What you're generally saying is true, sometimes technology (dual channel memory for example?) can level the playing field.
And for reasons I'm not willing to discuss on slashdot, as my friends would say
You just got LA BLUE GIRLED
My question is this then (and I seriously don't know): how is slashdot getting financed? I see the ads (more than I used to and way more then when I started using the site), I remember the site joining OSDN or whatever. Where does that money go?
Does it all go to servers or do you guys make some money?
Because if it's all severs and bandwidth, and the editors are really just doing this as a hobby mistakes are still blemishes, but are, at least, understandable. If you're making money, however, I don't think that "fast, interesting, correct: pick two" mentality really flies.
Who modded this insightful? I run emulators on my PC (actually my Mac) mostly of games I own or never were released in the U.S. (I'm looking at you Mother 3).
Mac emulators are far behind their Windows and even Linux counterparts. While I hope the situation will get better as Macs gain more market share, for a lot of emulation tasks, Mac OS doesn't cut it (Boot Camp is great, of course, but no one wants to boot into Windows just to play Rhythm Tengoku).
However, even on a Windows PC, it's not nearly as great an experience. To get the real feel of the game you have to hook a joypad into the computer (on my precious MacBook Pro, I only have 2 USB ports, expanded to five with a hub). And most of the best game pads are console ons with a USB adaptor. Even full screened, sitting at a chair with a game pad is different from being sprawled out on the couch playing say, Fire Emblem Genealogy of The Holy War. Some time's it's OK to run an emulator and have my IM and web browser in the background, but usually I just want to concentrate on the game. While it's not quite as "pick up and play" as having the original console and game, it's awful close. With easy multiplayer, console emulation can be great, and it's one of the major reasons I am thinking of getting a PS3.
I don't really have a dog in this fight - my brother owns an iPod Touch and I have a Blackberry Curve - but it doesn't seem to me that there's much competition on any front for Apple's App Store. For most of the smart phones I wouldn't even consider buying software (I don't think my Curve delivers an experience that I want - I would rather use other portable devices to do what software could do).
The one thing that may be able to mount a challenge is the DSi's app store - but here in Japan where the DSi is already out, I am not really getting the impression that it is a must have feature.
Until someone is even mildly successful in the area, no one competition is really "mounting" for the app store.
I guess it's great we're copying them but perhaps we should be doing something to also keep them from dying off from fungal/bacterial infections?
I'm sorry, my post was poorly worded. I agree a ton of phones have better specs than the iPhone but they won't beat Apple's machine based on that - it's style, form, and how that interacts with function that is Apple's forte.
I'm a Mac fan, but generally use the best tool I can and I don't have an iPhone or an iPod Touch, so I don't believe I really have a dog in this fight (for the record I have a Blackberry Curve [which is so=so at best], but mainly live in Japan and so have one of last year's au/WIN phones).
But this article's summary reminds of CmdrTaco's famous predictions for the original iPod. I read TFA and the phone pictured there doesn't look like an iPod killer. It doesn't even look like a phone from the last five years - it looks like fat, bulgy little free-with-service American phone from 2000 or 2001.
No one is going to beat Apple on specs. For better or for ill, the company is brilliant at style and presentation and those are huge factors in the iPhone's successes.
Moreover, the iPhone is out NOW and macrumors and other Apple sites are already beginning to rumble with information about the new iPhone software - the iPhone is moving ahead, with that and the App Store and where is this Palm phone?
A cell phone is a status symbol once again and until a good phone matches the iPhone in that arena, it's not going to kill it. I don't expect this Palm phone to, to be sure.