I think it's true with anime, too -- the growing popularity over the past few years has made a number of anime pop up which, honestly, aren't all that worthy, to reference the Miyazaki quote.
And, to make things worse, Newtype USA pushes some of the most pathetic anime series through its monthly DVD (ADV Films has some real garbage). Unfortunately, new fans pick up the magazine and think, "Cool! Translated, and all about anime!" They may read about some cool anime coming out in Japan, but what gets offered here isn't always the best, but whatever is easiest or cheapest to make. And this is killing new interest in the genre.
Most people will never hear of works like Grave of the Fireflies (reference here, here, and of course Roger Ebert); they've been turned off by countless screens of tentacle porn, giant robots, and fantasy heroes with fill-in-the-blank special powers, not to mention the ubiquitous card game of the month merchandising. And as long as we settle for paddling around in the "shallow" end of the pool, we'll never get more chances to immerse ourselves in the "deep."
Wow, I agreed with everything you said EXCEPT this trollish remark. What do you have against Wired? Granted they don't get as technical as many scientific journals, but they aren't trying to. And why do you assume Wired is for 'trendy' people? What about people who are very interested in science, technology, and society but don't have time to do in depth research or get bored at reading pages of numbers? Just because a magazine or its readers don't appeal to you, does not give you the right to take dirty shots at them.
Maybe the poster remembers Wired when it was new, years before Conde Nast bought it, because comparing the two, the "new" Wired is absymal.
When Wired started out, a lot of us liked it and started reading it, because it had some of the geekiness of Mondo 2000 and boing boing, but without the fake fashion layouts and somewhat less emphasis on drug culture, "smart" or otherwise. It even had some of the same writers, but weeded out most of the silly ones quickly enough. Oh, and it just looked like something progressive and promising that you wanted to pick up, too.
I remember reading a serious article about global economics in an early issue. Neal Stephenson also wrote a story/article for the magazine. What do you find today? Advertorials? Shopping guides?
Wired is the new Omni, except there's probably even fewer (intentional) fiction pieces. All that's missing is a binding change and a glossier cover - are they running a monthly contest in the back yet, just like Omni did?
Somehow I doubt that this will affect your decision to buy a next gen machine. You've already got a DVD player now, why would it be a factor next time around?
True, next time around. But I didn't have a DVD player or a recent game console at the time.
There's tons of evidence that these people downloaded the songs. They also PAID FOR A DOWNLOADING SERVICE! If there's illegality going on, then the RIAA should fight it out with Kazaa. Period. They should NOT be allowed to go after the end users of this service.
If they'd read the agreement, they'd see that they weren't supposed to trade anything copyrighted. I just went to kazaa.com and looked.
By the way, if you were one of those guys who said that the RIAA shouldn't sue Napster because it's not the service's fault if people trade copyrighted material... what prompted your reversal of opinion?
Tell me, how does the use of mini DVD's hurt anyone?
The fact that it couldn't play DVDs, and the other two consoles could, definitely kept me from seriously considering it.
People who only have enough money for one console, probably look for the one with the most functionality. Especially if they are looking to get it for their kids.
forget your Slashdot user number; what's your SWK petition signature number?
Go on, sign it already.
When you're done, go sign the Battlestar Galactica petitons, too! Support the remake, oppose it, it doesn't matter. Just let them know the fans still exist.
It's obvious that they're deliberately misleading people in their press releases/conferences and even in their legal filings. They're damaging the trademark, and Open Group needs to respond a lot more strongly. Threatening to remove SCO's ability to use "UNIX" would be a nice first step.
Carrying a possible liability, an "oh yah, we're being sued by someone, and they might win" clause in the quarterly report, looks bad when it recurs for years.
If you want something - even if I threw it behind the couch and walked away to go eat yummy crunchies from the cat box when daddy had to go answer the phone, it's MINE!
SGI as a company has one foot in the grave and the other on a slippery surface already.
Maybe they actually want to force SGI into an out of court settlement, to avoid a lengthy legal battle that could bankrupt the company, or to cause that bankruptcy. Either would scare other vendors.
Just wait, write this down - SCO will eventually sue Microsoft or Microsoft will sue SCO, regardless of the "license" SCO sold Microsoft.
It's going to be Darl vs. Bill: "There can be only one!"
Novell should sue SCO for going beyond their agreement and stealing website elements.
Sure, it's just another stock image. But can't Novell claim infringement in this direct juxtaposition of the same content by a competing company. It's almost like someone is using something that doesn't belong to them, that really belongs to a third party. Wait, that sounds almost like the SCO lawsuit, nobody would believe it. Never mind.
Why do people always want my BEST skill, and two other skills that no one in the world wants. It's like, "We want a Java programmer with massive database experience...Who is a hemaphrodite, and can speak fluent sanskrit." AAAAAAAAAA!
Obviously, they're writing the requirements so they can get a visa for that nice Indian programmer they met at the last conference.
Just think, you won't be able to make fun of "the new guy."
Which would you rather pay for a graphic on a site that will probably change in 3 months?
Not to mention that, if you take pictures of real employees, then if they get laid off/fired/quit/die/become your boss, you have to go digging through all your directories and pull their pictures, and make new ones.
If you buy a picture frame from a dime store (or whatever the modern equivalent is), you also get a picture in the frame. Maybe it doesn't occur to them that they should put their own picture there? I know I'm not getting any smarter, but is the world really getting that much dumber?
It's not the picture that really bothers me... it's the repetitive use of substantially the same text. Which basically says, "we can't really think about anything nice to say about our people, if we even have more than one person in our company, so we'll just leave this up here to fool you."
You must not know your sci-fi show history... the original Star Trek series only ran 3 seasons, and most people think the last season sucked. If it hadn't been for the fans and the success of the movie, where would the franchise be today? Probably in the same position as Battlestar Galactica's and Buck Rogers'.
FTP Timestamps are added by the FTP server. the FTP protocol only transfers the contents of the file, and then recreates that file in the native file system.
True, but with decent FTP clients/servers allowing you to select "keep original timestamp," it gets a lot murkier.
When I told him the his HD was dead, he looked at me with shock, as he explained that the last months worth of his so valuable work was on his disk. I asked him if he backed it up anywhere. He said no. He then asked me if we backed it up. I said no, we don't do that for local drives.
This is really sad, and the company could have fired him for being incompetent. He basically destroyed their intellectual property through negligence, wasting all the money they invested in his project, which was almost certainly more than just his salary for that time period.
If a truck driver gets a load and forgets to check his own tie-downs, and as a result loses the load before reaching his destination, whose fault is it?
Besides, as supreme programmer, he should be motivated to work sometimes from home in the middle of the night, and have backups there:)
When I was an Aeneas dialup customer, in 1998, the service provided by Aeneas was also subpar. The dialup speeds were averaging 21.6kbps, where as when I switched to U.S. Internet(now owned by Earthlink) my dialup speeds were always above 26.4kbps(Except on Mother's Day). There were frequent disconnections, and they had a limit of 150hrs/month.
Have you never learned what line quality means? Not just from you to your local POP, but beyond the local loop, on the trunks that go across town (or further) to the ISP's POP?
21.6 is an interim speed that, when seen in conjunction with v.34, v.90, or the other modern standards that go beyond 28K, all technicians know means "well, it's trying, but the lines are crap." Connections that lousy are also prone to disconnects. Nobody deliberately locks their modems down to that speed to be jerks or to save bandwidth - if they were that cheap, they'd put you on old-style 28K modems, which are practically free. The U.S. Internet POP was probably in a different part of town from the Aeneas POP, so you went over different trunks to get there. (since Earthlink took over, they probably dumped their local lines also, and it's probably Sprint's dialup network that is serving you locally)
Anyone getting weird speeds like that should be bitching to the local telco, not just to the local ISP, though they should have worked with you to isolate the problem to bad trunks. The fact that you're not getting 33 or better connection right now means the local part of the loop is still crappy.
Oh, I do agree with your complaint about being limited by 150 hours a month. Still, that's not a lousy service issue, that was a contractual agreement you signed up for, right?
As far as the school's T1 being slow goes, did you attempt any troubleshooting, or just blame it on the ISP? What did the router logs say? Were all channels 1-24 up? Were you getting frequent bounces? What were the CRC errors like? Did you arrange for a circuit test? What were the BERT results? More importantly... did you try throughput while directly connected to the router, since a lot of schools have really pathetic wiring systems because they're installed by volunteers who don't design and install networks for a living?
- No, I never worked for Aeneas, but I've done everything from dialup to customer network engineering for a global Tier-1 provider, and I have learned from hard, hard experience to be cynical about complaints without supporting evidence.
Even for those of us who still use MS operating systems regularly. Boot up, with your hand over the floppy drive light: "it's Linux, 'k?"
Surely they have routers and not just switches tying each wing into the network. So I wonder why, instead of spending all these hours on manpower for the current worms, they don't just block ports 445, 135-139. Do they really need them on the residential network?
I wonder whether the rise in alternative entertainment like this is bolstered by the huge recurring tv licensing tax there. There isn't one for games or consoles, at least not unless you hook them up to a tv set.
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MSN's search can't find it, either.
But, you know what?
Can't reach the DNS servers for it either, NS1.IUNIVERSE.CC and NS2.IUNIVERSE.CC.
So... did you do any research before posting?
If you think that's bad, I don't play any first-person shooter games. Never have.
And, to make things worse, Newtype USA pushes some of the most pathetic anime series through its monthly DVD (ADV Films has some real garbage). Unfortunately, new fans pick up the magazine and think, "Cool! Translated, and all about anime!" They may read about some cool anime coming out in Japan, but what gets offered here isn't always the best, but whatever is easiest or cheapest to make. And this is killing new interest in the genre.
Most people will never hear of works like Grave of the Fireflies (reference here, here, and of course Roger Ebert); they've been turned off by countless screens of tentacle porn, giant robots, and fantasy heroes with fill-in-the-blank special powers, not to mention the ubiquitous card game of the month merchandising. And as long as we settle for paddling around in the "shallow" end of the pool, we'll never get more chances to immerse ourselves in the "deep."
Maybe the poster remembers Wired when it was new, years before Conde Nast bought it, because comparing the two, the "new" Wired is absymal.
When Wired started out, a lot of us liked it and started reading it, because it had some of the geekiness of Mondo 2000 and boing boing, but without the fake fashion layouts and somewhat less emphasis on drug culture, "smart" or otherwise. It even had some of the same writers, but weeded out most of the silly ones quickly enough. Oh, and it just looked like something progressive and promising that you wanted to pick up, too.
I remember reading a serious article about global economics in an early issue. Neal Stephenson also wrote a story/article for the magazine. What do you find today? Advertorials? Shopping guides?
Wired is the new Omni, except there's probably even fewer (intentional) fiction pieces. All that's missing is a binding change and a glossier cover - are they running a monthly contest in the back yet, just like Omni did?
Let me also point out that Toyota does build some cars in North America, so not all the money leaves for Asia.
Face it - until everyone expects the same standard of living, jobs will continue to migrate to the cheapest labor market.
True, next time around. But I didn't have a DVD player or a recent game console at the time.
If they'd read the agreement, they'd see that they weren't supposed to trade anything copyrighted. I just went to kazaa.com and looked.
By the way, if you were one of those guys who said that the RIAA shouldn't sue Napster because it's not the service's fault if people trade copyrighted material... what prompted your reversal of opinion?
Try Magnetbox, they have a finder that lets you type in an artist and get a yes/no.
The fact that it couldn't play DVDs, and the other two consoles could, definitely kept me from seriously considering it.
People who only have enough money for one console, probably look for the one with the most functionality. Especially if they are looking to get it for their kids.
forget your Slashdot user number; what's your SWK petition signature number?
Go on, sign it already.
When you're done, go sign the Battlestar Galactica petitons, too! Support the remake, oppose it, it doesn't matter. Just let them know the fans still exist.
It's obvious that they're deliberately misleading people in their press releases/conferences and even in their legal filings. They're damaging the trademark, and Open Group needs to respond a lot more strongly. Threatening to remove SCO's ability to use "UNIX" would be a nice first step.
Carrying a possible liability, an "oh yah, we're being sued by someone, and they might win" clause in the quarterly report, looks bad when it recurs for years.
If you want something - even if I threw it behind the couch and walked away to go eat yummy crunchies from the cat box when daddy had to go answer the phone, it's MINE!
Maybe they actually want to force SGI into an out of court settlement, to avoid a lengthy legal battle that could bankrupt the company, or to cause that bankruptcy. Either would scare other vendors.
Just wait, write this down - SCO will eventually sue Microsoft or Microsoft will sue SCO, regardless of the "license" SCO sold Microsoft.
It's going to be Darl vs. Bill: "There can be only one!"
I respect Bill a lot more, however.
Novell should sue SCO for going beyond their agreement and stealing website elements.
Sure, it's just another stock image. But can't Novell claim infringement in this direct juxtaposition of the same content by a competing company. It's almost like someone is using something that doesn't belong to them, that really belongs to a third party. Wait, that sounds almost like the SCO lawsuit, nobody would believe it. Never mind.
Obviously, they're writing the requirements so they can get a visa for that nice Indian programmer they met at the last conference.
Just think, you won't be able to make fun of "the new guy."
Not to mention that, if you take pictures of real employees, then if they get laid off/fired/quit/die/become your boss, you have to go digging through all your directories and pull their pictures, and make new ones.
It's not the picture that really bothers me... it's the repetitive use of substantially the same text. Which basically says, "we can't really think about anything nice to say about our people, if we even have more than one person in our company, so we'll just leave this up here to fool you."
You must not know your sci-fi show history... the original Star Trek series only ran 3 seasons, and most people think the last season sucked. If it hadn't been for the fans and the success of the movie, where would the franchise be today? Probably in the same position as Battlestar Galactica's and Buck Rogers'.
Go see Firefly a bunch of times.
Look at Star Trek's history.
There's still hope.
True, but with decent FTP clients/servers allowing you to select "keep original timestamp," it gets a lot murkier.
This is really sad, and the company could have fired him for being incompetent. He basically destroyed their intellectual property through negligence, wasting all the money they invested in his project, which was almost certainly more than just his salary for that time period.
If a truck driver gets a load and forgets to check his own tie-downs, and as a result loses the load before reaching his destination, whose fault is it?
Besides, as supreme programmer, he should be motivated to work sometimes from home in the middle of the night, and have backups there
Have you never learned what line quality means? Not just from you to your local POP, but beyond the local loop, on the trunks that go across town (or further) to the ISP's POP?
21.6 is an interim speed that, when seen in conjunction with v.34, v.90, or the other modern standards that go beyond 28K, all technicians know means "well, it's trying, but the lines are crap." Connections that lousy are also prone to disconnects. Nobody deliberately locks their modems down to that speed to be jerks or to save bandwidth - if they were that cheap, they'd put you on old-style 28K modems, which are practically free. The U.S. Internet POP was probably in a different part of town from the Aeneas POP, so you went over different trunks to get there. (since Earthlink took over, they probably dumped their local lines also, and it's probably Sprint's dialup network that is serving you locally)
Anyone getting weird speeds like that should be bitching to the local telco, not just to the local ISP, though they should have worked with you to isolate the problem to bad trunks. The fact that you're not getting 33 or better connection right now means the local part of the loop is still crappy.
Oh, I do agree with your complaint about being limited by 150 hours a month. Still, that's not a lousy service issue, that was a contractual agreement you signed up for, right?
As far as the school's T1 being slow goes, did you attempt any troubleshooting, or just blame it on the ISP? What did the router logs say? Were all channels 1-24 up? Were you getting frequent bounces? What were the CRC errors like? Did you arrange for a circuit test? What were the BERT results? More importantly... did you try throughput while directly connected to the router, since a lot of schools have really pathetic wiring systems because they're installed by volunteers who don't design and install networks for a living?
- No, I never worked for Aeneas, but I've done everything from dialup to customer network engineering for a global Tier-1 provider, and I have learned from hard, hard experience to be cynical about complaints without supporting evidence.
Even for those of us who still use MS operating systems regularly. Boot up, with your hand over the floppy drive light: "it's Linux, 'k?"
Surely they have routers and not just switches tying each wing into the network. So I wonder why, instead of spending all these hours on manpower for the current worms, they don't just block ports 445, 135-139. Do they really need them on the residential network?
I wonder whether the rise in alternative entertainment like this is bolstered by the huge recurring tv licensing tax there. There isn't one for games or consoles, at least not unless you hook them up to a tv set.