There's so much wrong with the above post, I think it almost qualifies as flamebait. Where do I start?
Fansubs are not "killing the business". Fansubs are merely a symptom of a failure to properly respond to a demand. The demand is for subtitled digital files of the latest anime from Japan. The proper response is to sell those files at a reasonable price.
The rest of the post is merely Sturgeon's Law. Anime is television from Japan. It's mostly cliched crap for precisely that reason, just as American television is mostly crap. Guess what, that doesn't stop people from watching American TV, or from buying it on DVD.
That last point about importing Japanese DVDs clearly shows that AKAImBatman has no knowledge of the subject he's oh so insightfully posting about. Japanese DVDs made for the Japanese market are very, very, very expensive(Yes, that many verys!). Their DVD purchasing habits are very different from ours.
I agree with nearly all of the above except for this statement:
"Porting over PC code is going to be easier then ever."
First of all, when you say 'PC code' I assume you mean code written to run on MS Windows. That is a fairly nonsensical statement. Most software never accesses the processor directly, so porting code will not be any easier or harder than it was before.
Still a great post though. Now is a great time to start writing software for the Mac!
Before anyone beats me to it (surprise! I'm sure they already have) let's curb speculation about whether Apple will be able to leverage this technology in their upcoming products:
Apple switched to Intel for the explicit purpose of benefitting from advances like this
Apple will most likely be using a slightly different architechture than wintel(mobo, bios, firmware, etc), so not every hot new Intel chip will make it into an Apple system.
Apple will still be offering a limited selection of systems, so they will have to pick and choose what makes it into thier product line
The first systems are more than a year away (not counting the dev system) so everybody take a deep breath.
Exactly my thinking. I thought it was odd that boingboing reported on this but didn't mention the similarity. In fact, your post is the first sign I've seen of anyone making the connection besides me. Weird.
It's an idea that's been floating around for a while. I would love to see it as well.
One way to do it would be to allow "generals" playing the RTS mode to instance quests in the form of missions for "commanders" who would then instance commands to troops in their squad.
Why would people obey these commands? Experience.
And "command" is a skill tree that allows you to enter the squad and rts modes, thus ensuring that commanders and generals know what they are doing.
Not sure how much anyone here cares about the styling of their music player, but I think Sony has leapfrogged Apple in terms of design. The pictures on Sony's site don't do them justice. For one thing, the OLED display is embedded under the surface of the player, so you don't see the display unless it's on (and glowing through the metallic surface). It actually looks futuristic, instead of the chinsy pseudo-futuristic look sony has been selling us for years now.
I may be talking out of may ass here, but I seem to remember that Vulcans are longer lived than humans, so even though kirk and spock looked the same age, Spock was probably older than Kirk and went through the Academy before him.
Are you joking? Where do you think that skill comes from? I had to stop playing certain FPS games because the time required to maintain my skills was unreasonable. The addict who spends 12 hours a day palying UT or Quake will most likely own the casual player who only has 10 hours/week to play.
Halo 2 solves this problem somewhat, in that it pairs you with people of the same skill level in random ranked matches. But if I haven't played for a couple weeks, I'm screwed! I'll have to wait for the system to realize my skill level has dropped and pair me with people I can actually compete against.
I'm not sure this is a problem that can actually be solved.
The worst part about this little tale is that the makers of COH made a good faith attempt to eliminate look-alike heroes who attempted to use trademarked names. They even accepted lists of names from the major comics publishers for their block list.
>>But the unwritten point, which I'll state now, is that I'm sure I'm not the only one in this boat. There will be others out there who were thinking about getting Live and Halo 2 etc etc who aren't going to bother now.
Hmm, and how people do you suppose that is? Do you think 1% of people mod their boxes?.01%?.001%?
I have a modded xbox, and I enjoy it very much, thank you. But I have no problem seeing Microsoft's point of view. Disallowing modded xboxen on Xbox Live means no cheaters. No cheaters means I can enjoy my Xbox Live account. Xbox Live terms of service specifically disallows modded xboxs. I knew the score going in, and so did you.
There is a point where your character has to make a choice: join with a corporation or oppose it. This choice is framed within a mission where you either recover a prototype of a super-weapon(the weapon is not all that super it turns out) or kill the scientist who developed it.
The weapon is sealed in an impregnable force-field. To access it, you must allow the scientist to lock himself in an observation room. So you can kill the scientist or get the weapon, but not both.
Using the 'amazing' physics engine, I blocked the doors to the room with a crate. After I got the weapon, I jumped over the crate into the room and fired at the scientist.
Try walking on all fours for a while and answer your own question. You legs are shorter than your arms, resulting in a less than ideal gait, while your neck is adapted to be oriented from an upright posteur, resulting in neck pain when looking forward from all fours for extended periods of time.
It's his own damn fault for having a site that's just a bunch of image slices. Most of the images could have been converted to text and structural tags.
Perhaps, I'm not understanding what you're saying. But it seems to me that communicating with a server without full web page requests is simply a matter of using a hidden frame(iframes work nicely) and some javascript. I only poked around gmail a bit, seems to be what they're doing there to periodically get your new messages. I read the oddpost "Learn More" page, seems like that's what they're probably doing too.
All the other stuff(drag and drop, right click menu, auto complete) is DOM/dhtml stuff that all your modern browsers support, albeit in frustratingly different ways. How does SOAP come into it? Maybe on the server side, I don't know...
I don't know what planet you're from, but here on Earth a bj won't cost you more than $50(or whatever your local currency is) or less, no matter who you get it from.
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There's so much wrong with the above post, I think it almost qualifies as flamebait. Where do I start?
Fansubs are not "killing the business". Fansubs are merely a symptom of a failure to properly respond to a demand. The demand is for subtitled digital files of the latest anime from Japan. The proper response is to sell those files at a reasonable price.
The rest of the post is merely Sturgeon's Law. Anime is television from Japan. It's mostly cliched crap for precisely that reason, just as American television is mostly crap. Guess what, that doesn't stop people from watching American TV, or from buying it on DVD.
That last point about importing Japanese DVDs clearly shows that AKAImBatman has no knowledge of the subject he's oh so insightfully posting about. Japanese DVDs made for the Japanese market are very, very, very expensive(Yes, that many verys!). Their DVD purchasing habits are very different from ours.
"If I was right about Apple switching to Intel, maybe some of my other crack-induced hallucinations are true too!"
I agree with nearly all of the above except for this statement:
"Porting over PC code is going to be easier then ever."
First of all, when you say 'PC code' I assume you mean code written to run on MS Windows. That is a fairly nonsensical statement. Most software never accesses the processor directly, so porting code will not be any easier or harder than it was before.
Still a great post though. Now is a great time to start writing software for the Mac!
- Apple switched to Intel for the explicit purpose of benefitting from advances like this
- Apple will most likely be using a slightly different architechture than wintel(mobo, bios, firmware, etc), so not every hot new Intel chip will make it into an Apple system.
- Apple will still be offering a limited selection of systems, so they will have to pick and choose what makes it into thier product line
The first systems are more than a year away (not counting the dev system) so everybody take a deep breath.Exactly my thinking. I thought it was odd that boingboing reported on this but didn't mention the similarity. In fact, your post is the first sign I've seen of anyone making the connection besides me. Weird.
It's an idea that's been floating around for a while. I would love to see it as well.
One way to do it would be to allow "generals" playing the RTS mode to instance quests in the form of missions for "commanders" who would then instance commands to troops in their squad.
Why would people obey these commands? Experience.
And "command" is a skill tree that allows you to enter the squad and rts modes, thus ensuring that commanders and generals know what they are doing.
I wish they'd start shipping lower end systems with serial ATA ports. Then we'd see some real speed gains.
You know, you're not supposed to use the same variable to represent two different values.
Since the press release neglected to mention it, I looked up the release date of the first issue on Dark Horse's website.
Issue #1 hits July 06, 2005 at a cost of $2.99.
Not sure how much anyone here cares about the styling of their music player, but I think Sony has leapfrogged Apple in terms of design. The pictures on Sony's site don't do them justice. For one thing, the OLED display is embedded under the surface of the player, so you don't see the display unless it's on (and glowing through the metallic surface). It actually looks futuristic, instead of the chinsy pseudo-futuristic look sony has been selling us for years now.
That's really funny! Wait, no it isn't. How fscking sad.
I may be talking out of may ass here, but I seem to remember that Vulcans are longer lived than humans, so even though kirk and spock looked the same age, Spock was probably older than Kirk and went through the Academy before him.
Are you joking? Where do you think that skill comes from? I had to stop playing certain FPS games because the time required to maintain my skills was unreasonable. The addict who spends 12 hours a day palying UT or Quake will most likely own the casual player who only has 10 hours/week to play.
Halo 2 solves this problem somewhat, in that it pairs you with people of the same skill level in random ranked matches. But if I haven't played for a couple weeks, I'm screwed! I'll have to wait for the system to realize my skill level has dropped and pair me with people I can actually compete against.
I'm not sure this is a problem that can actually be solved.
because if so, I'm totally there. grab a 40gb ipod and have a portable boot drive and all my music!
The worst part about this little tale is that the makers of COH made a good faith attempt to eliminate look-alike heroes who attempted to use trademarked names. They even accepted lists of names from the major comics publishers for their block list.
Your kid will despise you!
>>But the unwritten point, which I'll state now, is that I'm sure I'm not the only one in this boat. There will be others out there who were thinking about getting Live and Halo 2 etc etc who aren't going to bother now.
.01%? .001%?
Hmm, and how people do you suppose that is? Do you think 1% of people mod their boxes?
I have a modded xbox, and I enjoy it very much, thank you. But I have no problem seeing Microsoft's point of view. Disallowing modded xboxen on Xbox Live means no cheaters. No cheaters means I can enjoy my Xbox Live account. Xbox Live terms of service specifically disallows modded xboxs. I knew the score going in, and so did you.
Biggest example of the failure of DE2 in my eyes:
There is a point where your character has to make a choice: join with a corporation or oppose it. This choice is framed within a mission where you either recover a prototype of a super-weapon(the weapon is not all that super it turns out) or kill the scientist who developed it.
The weapon is sealed in an impregnable force-field. To access it, you must allow the scientist to lock himself in an observation room. So you can kill the scientist or get the weapon, but not both.
Using the 'amazing' physics engine, I blocked the doors to the room with a crate. After I got the weapon, I jumped over the crate into the room and fired at the scientist.
He was invulnerable to harm.
someone to review a book for me if they can't even bother to proof their own writing?
Yes, anthology is a beautiful world, isn't it?
Try walking on all fours for a while and answer your own question. You legs are shorter than your arms, resulting in a less than ideal gait, while your neck is adapted to be oriented from an upright posteur, resulting in neck pain when looking forward from all fours for extended periods of time.
It's his own damn fault for having a site that's just a bunch of image slices. Most of the images could have been converted to text and structural tags.
And what exactly would you do with the fleshed up Austian look model? Perhaps you're looking for this?
Perhaps, I'm not understanding what you're saying. But it seems to me that communicating with a server without full web page requests is simply a matter of using a hidden frame(iframes work nicely) and some javascript. I only poked around gmail a bit, seems to be what they're doing there to periodically get your new messages. I read the oddpost "Learn More" page, seems like that's what they're probably doing too.
All the other stuff(drag and drop, right click menu, auto complete) is DOM/dhtml stuff that all your modern browsers support, albeit in frustratingly different ways. How does SOAP come into it? Maybe on the server side, I don't know...
So what's the plugin for?
What a coincidence, I read it for their in depth coverage of watersports too!
I don't know what planet you're from, but here on Earth a bj won't cost you more than $50(or whatever your local currency is) or less, no matter who you get it from.
:)
Someone's been overcharging you