She got the job because she actually likes talking to the
Nerds that "star" in each episode.
She still manages to look cute in that black vinyl whatever
that she wears in each episode.
She does a great job of explaining semi-technical concepts without
losing the rest the couch potatoes.
Did I mention she's cute? She may not look to be the type of girl most
Nerds want to date, but she strikes me as the type of girl that might
date most Nerds.
Hot? No she's the next nominee for Slashdot Woman of the Year.
IANAL:
Law Enforcement investigators (I assume) already
have a great deal of illegal pornography archived
as evidence from prior convictions.
All they would have to do to test the claim that
such material was CG is to compare it against the
pre-exisiting pool of evidence.
The question would them become a matter of validating
the age and creation of the materials in the database.
If it could be proven that the evidence existed in
another form prior to being found on that users machine,
that might be enough of a statement to dismiss the claim
that the material was artificially digitally rendered.
Some training could also be given to investigators to
better recognize direct scanned materials vs.
photomanipulation or 3D renderings.
Note also that some LE agencies might see fit to
create/manage special branches of acknowledges
"experts" in such materials for the explicit purpose
of better recognizing real vs fake vs mistaken evidence
in child pornography investigations (similar to what
they do for bombings, rackettering and terrorism.
But unfortunately it was a repeat of the ad that
Apple ran when IBM first introduced their version
of the PC. And shortly after Apple's products
started getting spanked in the marketplace.
It's that sort of blatant arrogance in the face
of changing market conditions that put Apple
where it is today.
"Obviously this won't apply to all the data on the disk. "
How do you know that? What mechanism is in place to stop it from
appling to all the data? Even if what you say is true, that means
all it takes is one 3LL3T HaXOR to create something that "protects"
random files from porting by taking advantage of this mechanism.
One of the underlying issues with this proposal is that representatives of
the 4C companies have admitted that they haven't even considered the
effect of this on legitimate uses for maintaining some portability
in the data (backup, file/disk management utils, RAID and other disk
abstraction services).
CPRM is a half-baked solution to a psuedo-problem, and unless 4C can
(a) better define the problem, or (b) come up with a more complete solution,
it will continue to be met with the skepticism it seems to deserve.
Palm OS lisencees are allowed to share in
each others developments. Hence, Palm can
gain USB technology originally developed
by Handspring, and Handspring, Sony, TGR,
et al, should be able to benefit from the
porting of the OS to ARM.
I hope this new version also addresses some of the other design limits of
the current Palm OS such as:
the 4k Memo limit
the lack of a standard interface to link data points from the basic apps together
(such as linking the note fields from datebook and todo lists with the notebook app)
I really like my Palm device, and I admire its simplicity, but even without
comparing against other PDAs I think Palm Inc is overdue on making the underlying
OS a little more powerful and flexible. Particularly in light of the remaining
challenges of PocketPC and PSION, and the new designs of Linux-based PDAs.
If you really look back at some older generations
of anime, you will find just as much "head hurts"
material as is produced now. Much of it being
seen as the forebearer for a lot of the storylines
applied today.
AKIRA (of course)
Gunmm / Battle Angel Alita
Robot Carnival
(a head trip from start to finish)
Nausicaa and the Valley of Wind -
Whisper of the Heart -
and many other Miyazaki/Studio Ghibli
efforts.
Even before Evangelion, Gainax was playing
with peoples heads (and the laws of Physics)
in Gunbuster.
You have to click on the link for
"TLD Applications Lodged" to see
all the TLDs applied for by each
applicant. There the.xxx and.sex
show up in the listing
Even with the GeForce getting higher benchmark scores, the Radeon is considered by many to have
better video quality, and multimedia friendly features.
For some of us, that is also an important consideration.
Okay, so I get the fuel cell.
Then I set up a windmill in the front yard
(a small one, so as not to upset the neighbors)
and slap some solar panels to the roof...
While I can agree that most fan service is made up of Buxom girls with Big Guns,
"Fan Service" is more than gratuitous titillation. It is the art of the
Inside Joke, or insider information that is designed to appeal most to
the hardcore fans of that particular anime series or genre.
In "Cop show/ Detective" anime, there is usually one character who always carries
the coolest guns, and can go into great descriptive detail as to the design an
capabilities of each weapon / device they use or encounter.
In "Magic girl / Idol" shows, as much emphasis can be placed on the fashion
choices of the characters as is put on their transformations.
In Auto Racing shows (Initial D) - a large amount of dialog is expended by
guys drooling over the souped up features of their respective street racers.
In "Hacker" anime (Serial Expirements Lain) the audience is presented with
drool-worthy examples of seamless desktop to network to net-device integration.
All of these stories all make an effort to appeal to some deep-seating desire
in their target audience, but all do so by appealing to our interests in
different ways.
No Tigers please, we're hungry...
on
TigerCloning
·
· Score: 1
If these biologists are going to insist on bringing animals back...
why can't they start with the tasty ones?
G-force? aka Battle of the Planets aka (bleh) "Eagle
Riders"; that which was also and originally
known (to the Japanese) as Science
Ninja Team Gatchaman!!!
How sneaky of you to link a Toonami thread into the Anime
topics like that...
I assume you are unaware that solutions to allow simple networking
between PC's using USB already exist? And that there are USB to
Ethernet adapters on the market as well?
Or are you referring to something else I'm missing in the context that
networking on USB will not happen?
What you do not see is all the styles of anime and manga
influences that get left behind in Japan, because only
the "popular to western eyes" stuff gets carried over
commercially. Many titles that are made popular over
here look the same as the last best seller, because the
distributors are looking specifically for something that
will have the same appeal to their market as the last title.
Sometimes that even occurs as an opposite to a shows Japanese
popularity - "Battle Angel Alita" is considered to have had
a much more favorable response in the west than it did in
Japan, becuase the character designs were so different than
other popular efforts of its time.
Two of the great factors that are often missed in other peoples
perception of anime are one: That much of the character designs
are influenced by over a thousand years of established Japanese
paintings and drawing; and that much of the artistic style is designed to
be familiar to modern Japanese, one of the most homogenous societies
on present day earth. Because of factors like these, to a viewer that
has only a limited exposure to anime, it does all look the same. But,
as ones exposure increases, one can see the greater degrees of artistic
style, and understand the subtler nuances that are applied for effect on
a given storyline.
To say they all look the same, is kind of like saying all C code looks
the same...
Different anime OVAs, Movies, and series also reflect different trends
and fads that can affect artistic styles over the years.
Compare AstroBoy and Kimba the White Lion to Neon Genesis Evangelion
and Akira for examples of how styles change over many generations.
A better example might be the original Bubblegum Crisis vs. BGC 2040,
which is a retelling of the original story with some radical variations
in character design (at least it seems that way to many fans).
It is as easy for a fan to tell anime from the 70's, 80's, and 90's as it
is for us to tell popular music from the same timeframes.
For some anime fans, it is those subtle differences within the greater detail
that can make anime more compelling than what is seen as a haphazard style
in Hannah-Barbera. And it provides for an even more jarring experience when
that fan is faced with a suddenly distinct new artistic style.
Just as a fan of modern art can respond differently from a Van Gogh to a
Manet, so too does an anime fan from Ranma 1/2 to the Vision of Escaflowne.
What seems now to be a new trend in anime is to move away from the "cartoonish"
elements of character design, and to make the characters look either more
consistently 'human', or more generally Japanese in appearance.
Serial Experiments Lain, City Hunter, Perfect Blue, The Princess Mononoke,
and even Key the Metal Idol all base powerful storylines (more or less) on
the idea that these are regular people thrust into very unusual circimstances.
As for the most recent example I can think of as "diversity" in character design,
see if you can get your hands on a copy of Excel Saga. They use just about
every major character design ever thought up to effect in that series,
and thats just the first episode.
This is the first I've heard of such a utility for Windows Me.
And I cannot find any info on google, or on the WinMe beta to
tell how to install such a beast.
Can you provide more information on this, or are you confusing
new features of NT/W2K with WinMe?
The IO.SYS that Me installs on a hard drive is
different than the one installed on the EBD.
The hard drive version ignores entries in
msdos.sys, config.sys and autoexec.bat; it
is basically there to call the Win32 kernel
and help switch into protected mode.
I've seen otherwise innocuous search engine hits come up against a script that is designed to fool
the search into thinking it is being fed back
the keywords the user was looking for. This
is used as a front end for scam and sex sites
alike.
I would still like to propose the creation of both.XXX and.SEX domains;
but I disagree that any sites should be required to house thier domains there.
Instead, the clearly pornographic sites (those that deem themselves to be
of an sexual nature that would normally be subject to screening
only by adults over the age of 18) should be encouraged to migrate their
domains into the.XXX TLD category - at no additional fee for transfer.
This will act both to allow the domain change without oversight by some
faceless bureaucrat(s); and will give the porn-meisters a better way of
focusing their marketing efforts to an audience that is both interested
and able to pay for thier services. In addition AFAIK, the XXX can be
internationally identified with a specific level of adult activity
(aside from those who still count with Roman Numerals), whereas SEX
is more ambiguous between different cultures, social groups,
and educational levels.
The.SEX domains then, can become open to areas of discussion on sexual
health and education that may not in themselves be seen (by some groups)
as pornographic. PlannedParenthood.sex, STD.sex, and even DrRuth.sex
could become respected alternatives which can provide more in-depth advice
for adults, while still allowing for both parental discretion, and providing
an educational resource thru the standard.com pages.
I realize there will still be opportunites for abuse, but I'd think that
most web-promoters would be more likely to follow the path of least
resistance to continuing success, than to try and buck a trend.
I enjoyed Titan A.E. a lot more than I thought I would.
The first reason I thought I wouldn't enjoy it was because I had been seeing promos for well over a year telling me how it was the next great step in animation... actually, from the first promos I saw I didn't even get the impression that it was animated, that's how far the hype was ahead of the substance.
Another reason is because Hollywood, and western animation to a large degree, is still in that phase where presentation takes a higher priority than the need to establish a solid plot, consistent storyline, and good character development. TAE actually made an attempt at this, but I don't think they allowed enough time in the film to carry these factors thru. That is an inherent problem with Summer Blockbuster films in general, with the X-Men being a good example of how to work around such issues to still bring a good story thru.
The third reason is becuase I (and a significant portion of the target market) have gotten used to the idea that animation can be more than strange characters and creatures in the background, with the clueless humans saving the day thru a combination of dogged determination and sheer luck. As an anime fan, I consider myself biased in this regard; but even if I wasn't, I would have to hold TAE up in comparison to the Toy Storys, Bugs life's, and even Pokemon, to see if it was worth the full price of admission.
All in all, I went in expecting mind-candy, and I got great mind-candy as a result. I think Fox was aiming for a higher audience expectation overall, and that may have been a failing in hyping the movie. But, I'll still take Gune over Jar-Jar anyday.
Slashdot Mirror
The separation of church and state was established
before the creation of public schools.
You'll have to find another cause for that vacuum.
VESA Local Bus was a competing standard to PCI.
PCI was developed by Intel, as was AGP.
If anything, AGP is a reincarnation of PCI.
Let's see:
She's in a band,
She studies medicine
She produces educational TV shows
She got the job because she actually likes talking to the
Nerds that "star" in each episode.
She still manages to look cute in that black vinyl whatever
that she wears in each episode.
She does a great job of explaining semi-technical concepts without
losing the rest the couch potatoes.
Did I mention she's cute? She may not look to be the type of girl most
Nerds want to date, but she strikes me as the type of girl that might
date most Nerds.
Hot? No she's the next nominee for Slashdot Woman of the Year.
IANAL:
Law Enforcement investigators (I assume) already
have a great deal of illegal pornography archived
as evidence from prior convictions.
All they would have to do to test the claim that
such material was CG is to compare it against the
pre-exisiting pool of evidence.
The question would them become a matter of validating
the age and creation of the materials in the database.
If it could be proven that the evidence existed in
another form prior to being found on that users machine,
that might be enough of a statement to dismiss the claim
that the material was artificially digitally rendered.
Some training could also be given to investigators to
better recognize direct scanned materials vs.
photomanipulation or 3D renderings.
Note also that some LE agencies might see fit to
create/manage special branches of acknowledges
"experts" in such materials for the explicit purpose
of better recognizing real vs fake vs mistaken evidence
in child pornography investigations (similar to what
they do for bombings, rackettering and terrorism.
But unfortunately it was a repeat of the ad that
Apple ran when IBM first introduced their version
of the PC. And shortly after Apple's products
started getting spanked in the marketplace.
It's that sort of blatant arrogance in the face
of changing market conditions that put Apple
where it is today.
This will probably get me nicked as a troll, but... http://www.urbanlegends.com/products/beta_vs_vhs.h tml
"Obviously this won't apply to all the data on the disk. "
How do you know that? What mechanism is in place to stop it from
appling to all the data? Even if what you say is true, that means
all it takes is one 3LL3T HaXOR to create something that "protects"
random files from porting by taking advantage of this mechanism.
One of the underlying issues with this proposal is that representatives of
the 4C companies have admitted that they haven't even considered the
effect of this on legitimate uses for maintaining some portability
in the data (backup, file/disk management utils, RAID and other disk
abstraction services).
CPRM is a half-baked solution to a psuedo-problem, and unless 4C can
(a) better define the problem, or (b) come up with a more complete solution,
it will continue to be met with the skepticism it seems to deserve.
Palm OS lisencees are allowed to share in
each others developments. Hence, Palm can
gain USB technology originally developed
by Handspring, and Handspring, Sony, TGR,
et al, should be able to benefit from the
porting of the OS to ARM.
I hope this new version also addresses some of the other design limits of
the current Palm OS such as:
the 4k Memo limit
the lack of a standard interface to link data points from the basic apps together
(such as linking the note fields from datebook and todo lists with the notebook app)
I really like my Palm device, and I admire its simplicity, but even without
comparing against other PDAs I think Palm Inc is overdue on making the underlying
OS a little more powerful and flexible. Particularly in light of the remaining
challenges of PocketPC and PSION, and the new designs of Linux-based PDAs.
If you really look back at some older generations
of anime, you will find just as much "head hurts"
material as is produced now. Much of it being
seen as the forebearer for a lot of the storylines
applied today.
AKIRA (of course)
Gunmm / Battle Angel Alita
Robot Carnival
(a head trip from start to finish)
Nausicaa and the Valley of Wind -
Whisper of the Heart -
and many other Miyazaki/Studio Ghibli
efforts.
Even before Evangelion, Gainax was playing
with peoples heads (and the laws of Physics)
in Gunbuster.
Space Adventurer Cobra.
I get the feeling that there are a few holiday
shoppers who will return DOA2 and X-Squad for
not being the type of "Hardcore" they were
expecting.
You have to click on the link for .xxx and .sex
"TLD Applications Lodged" to see
all the TLDs applied for by each
applicant. There the
show up in the listing
On the issue of ATI's driver development for the Radeon:
ATI Radeon Beta Driver Comparison
A recent review on some of the other features Radeon Cards offer:
gotapex reviews-Ati Radeon 64MB
A good site for ATI information, and user feedback:
Rage3D The Place for the Latest ATI News
Even with the GeForce getting higher benchmark scores, the Radeon is considered by many to have
better video quality, and multimedia friendly features.
For some of us, that is also an important consideration.
Okay, so I get the fuel cell.
Then I set up a windmill in the front yard
(a small one, so as not to upset the neighbors)
and slap some solar panels to the roof...
Hey, I might just be ready for Y2K!
Since I see no-one else having mentioned it yet, ATI's new multimedia
card, the AIW Radeon, seems to answer many of the rants in that article.
Pros:
It will put Tivo-like recording capabilties on a standard PC
It allows for TV-out, but you will probably need S-VHS support.
Their listings (called Guide+) are free
Nobody (to my knowledge) can track your viewing habits, becuase you can
program it/record to it even without using the Guide+ software.
Network connection? Make your own.
Expandable, just add more drive space - Also, on a good system, video is
saved as MPEG-1 or 2.
DVI output for that flat panel screen
DVD support
Cons:
No commecial skip
Linux support is questionable.
ATI has to prove it on the market first, sounding good on paper is just not
enough.
While I can agree that most fan service is made up of Buxom girls with Big Guns,
"Fan Service" is more than gratuitous titillation. It is the art of the
Inside Joke, or insider information that is designed to appeal most to
the hardcore fans of that particular anime series or genre.
In "Cop show/ Detective" anime, there is usually one character who always carries
the coolest guns, and can go into great descriptive detail as to the design an
capabilities of each weapon / device they use or encounter.
In "Magic girl / Idol" shows, as much emphasis can be placed on the fashion
choices of the characters as is put on their transformations.
In Auto Racing shows (Initial D) - a large amount of dialog is expended by
guys drooling over the souped up features of their respective street racers.
In "Hacker" anime (Serial Expirements Lain) the audience is presented with
drool-worthy examples of seamless desktop to network to net-device integration.
All of these stories all make an effort to appeal to some deep-seating desire
in their target audience, but all do so by appealing to our interests in
different ways.
If these biologists are going to insist on bringing animals back...
why can't they start with the tasty ones?
G-force? aka Battle of the Planets aka (bleh) "Eagle Riders"; that which was also and originally
known (to the Japanese) as Science Ninja Team Gatchaman!!!
How sneaky of you to link a Toonami thread into the Anime topics like that...
????
I assume you are unaware that solutions to allow simple networking
between PC's using USB already exist? And that there are USB to
Ethernet adapters on the market as well?
Or are you referring to something else I'm missing in the context that
networking on USB will not happen?
What you do not see is all the styles of anime and manga
influences that get left behind in Japan, because only
the "popular to western eyes" stuff gets carried over
commercially. Many titles that are made popular over
here look the same as the last best seller, because the
distributors are looking specifically for something that
will have the same appeal to their market as the last title.
Sometimes that even occurs as an opposite to a shows Japanese
popularity - "Battle Angel Alita" is considered to have had
a much more favorable response in the west than it did in
Japan, becuase the character designs were so different than
other popular efforts of its time.
Two of the great factors that are often missed in other peoples
perception of anime are one: That much of the character designs
are influenced by over a thousand years of established Japanese
paintings and drawing; and that much of the artistic style is designed to
be familiar to modern Japanese, one of the most homogenous societies
on present day earth. Because of factors like these, to a viewer that
has only a limited exposure to anime, it does all look the same. But,
as ones exposure increases, one can see the greater degrees of artistic
style, and understand the subtler nuances that are applied for effect on
a given storyline.
To say they all look the same, is kind of like saying all C code looks
the same...
Different anime OVAs, Movies, and series also reflect different trends
and fads that can affect artistic styles over the years.
Compare AstroBoy and Kimba the White Lion to Neon Genesis Evangelion
and Akira for examples of how styles change over many generations.
A better example might be the original Bubblegum Crisis vs. BGC 2040,
which is a retelling of the original story with some radical variations
in character design (at least it seems that way to many fans).
It is as easy for a fan to tell anime from the 70's, 80's, and 90's as it
is for us to tell popular music from the same timeframes.
For some anime fans, it is those subtle differences within the greater detail
that can make anime more compelling than what is seen as a haphazard style
in Hannah-Barbera. And it provides for an even more jarring experience when
that fan is faced with a suddenly distinct new artistic style.
Just as a fan of modern art can respond differently from a Van Gogh to a
Manet, so too does an anime fan from Ranma 1/2 to the Vision of Escaflowne.
What seems now to be a new trend in anime is to move away from the "cartoonish"
elements of character design, and to make the characters look either more
consistently 'human', or more generally Japanese in appearance.
Serial Experiments Lain, City Hunter, Perfect Blue, The Princess Mononoke,
and even Key the Metal Idol all base powerful storylines (more or less) on
the idea that these are regular people thrust into very unusual circimstances.
As for the most recent example I can think of as "diversity" in character design,
see if you can get your hands on a copy of Excel Saga. They use just about
every major character design ever thought up to effect in that series,
and thats just the first episode.
This is the first I've heard of such a utility for Windows Me.
And I cannot find any info on google, or on the WinMe beta to
tell how to install such a beast.
Can you provide more information on this, or are you confusing
new features of NT/W2K with WinMe?
No, there isn't...
The IO.SYS that Me installs on a hard drive is
different than the one installed on the EBD.
The hard drive version ignores entries in
msdos.sys, config.sys and autoexec.bat; it
is basically there to call the Win32 kernel
and help switch into protected mode.
Some of them already do.
I've seen otherwise innocuous search engine hits come up against a script that is designed to fool
the search into thinking it is being fed back
the keywords the user was looking for. This
is used as a front end for scam and sex sites
alike.
I would still like to propose the creation of both .XXX and .SEX domains;
.XXX TLD category - at no additional fee for transfer.
.SEX domains then, can become open to areas of discussion on sexual
.com pages.
but I disagree that any sites should be required to house thier domains there.
Instead, the clearly pornographic sites (those that deem themselves to be
of an sexual nature that would normally be subject to screening
only by adults over the age of 18) should be encouraged to migrate their
domains into the
This will act both to allow the domain change without oversight by some
faceless bureaucrat(s); and will give the porn-meisters a better way of
focusing their marketing efforts to an audience that is both interested
and able to pay for thier services. In addition AFAIK, the XXX can be
internationally identified with a specific level of adult activity
(aside from those who still count with Roman Numerals), whereas SEX
is more ambiguous between different cultures, social groups,
and educational levels.
The
health and education that may not in themselves be seen (by some groups)
as pornographic. PlannedParenthood.sex, STD.sex, and even DrRuth.sex
could become respected alternatives which can provide more in-depth advice
for adults, while still allowing for both parental discretion, and providing
an educational resource thru the standard
I realize there will still be opportunites for abuse, but I'd think that
most web-promoters would be more likely to follow the path of least
resistance to continuing success, than to try and buck a trend.
I enjoyed Titan A.E. a lot more than I thought I would.
The first reason I thought I wouldn't enjoy it was because I had been
seeing promos for well over a year telling me how it was the next
great step in animation... actually, from the first promos I saw I
didn't even get the impression that it was animated, that's how
far the hype was ahead of the substance.
Another reason is because Hollywood, and western animation to a
large degree, is still in that phase where presentation takes a
higher priority than the need to establish a solid plot, consistent
storyline, and good character development. TAE actually made
an attempt at this, but I don't think they allowed enough time
in the film to carry these factors thru.
That is an inherent problem with Summer Blockbuster films in general,
with the X-Men being a good example of how to work around such
issues to still bring a good story thru.
The third reason is becuase I (and a significant portion of the
target market) have gotten used to the idea that animation can
be more than strange characters and creatures in the background,
with the clueless humans saving the day thru a combination of
dogged determination and sheer luck. As an anime fan,
I consider myself biased in this regard; but even if I wasn't,
I would have to hold TAE up in comparison to the Toy Storys,
Bugs life's, and even Pokemon, to see if it was worth the
full price of admission.
All in all, I went in expecting mind-candy, and I got great mind-candy
as a result. I think Fox was aiming for a higher audience expectation
overall, and that may have been a failing in hyping the movie. But,
I'll still take Gune over Jar-Jar anyday.