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It shouldn't take too long before people implement their own on other p2p platforms, such as PeerMetrics or JXTA. Relying on shoutcast is definitely a weak element in the solution. Sharing of connected peers shouldn't be transparent, too, as it leads to discovery of the stream source (the unreferenced node).
<rant>Speaking of which, do people know of other good p2p platforms out there for implementing stuff like this? This idea and other good ones would have come sooner if only there were more good, generic p2p vectors. As is, everyone home-rolls their p2p apps, still, thus requiring different channels of distribution, different standards, yada yada. We need a platform that's like apache with mods.</rant>
/.-ed twice? Yet more proof that p2p is a hype technology.
I still remember talking to a Mojo developer at a con about what really happens with distributing file slicing:
Me: "So what if all the peers with my file are down?"
Developer: "They won't be. You'll still be able to get your file."
Me: "How?"
Developer: "You'll still be able to get your file."
?!?!?
Rather telling, actually; it's been 2+ years since gnutella. The number of novel p2p applications out there is slim. The number of platforms is even slimmer, which is really disappointing. P2p was supposed to revolutionize everything, not just vaporware.
There is a promising platform for running p2p services at PeerMetrics. Another one is JXTA. Both come with source. I was looking forward to World OS, but it appears to be dead. Most p2p endeavors are still unreleased, like Ocean Store.
I hope more people get to put in some dev cycles on p2p platforms. Applications like The Circle are cool, but as a standalone app the code isn't really leverageable. We need more shared effort. The economy aside, I believe it's taking forever because p2p is harder to write for than expected.
Hopefully this isn't true, and in the next year we'll finally see some real progress. Either way more p2p hype storms are a sure bet.
What we have here is a lack of a general solution
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Hmm. More closed corporate ware for isolated p2p functions. Yippie.
I'm disappointed. I want p2p emacs. Not a text editor, but I want a p2p base that's open source and as powerful as emacs. Then we could all write our own
MUDs or chat services or encryption services, file fiddling, or whatever the heck we feel like on this solid p2p base.
And then I can browse.el files or
something to download new p2p plugins.
Hopefully in all the hype one of the p2p lemmings will come up with something more original and useful, rather than just another for-the-money p2p Valley play.
I don't understand all these posts trying to justify local TV as some sort of replacement-- as if anime fans should feel compelled to cleanse themselves by excommunicating their embarassing hobby and restoring it with a good old American replacement. Who cares? Enjoy Futurama. I certainly do.
Still, it's not on the same level, and there's nothing to compare to Evangelion, Bebop and Lain-- which are less TV and more art which just happens to be disguised as a cartoon. The stories and their aura are beautiful, poignant, unsettling, and go far beyond what anyone would think of airing here, mostly because it wouldn't be profitable.
Engineers and other science majors, unlike others, actually have to come up against nature's limits (the closest thing to truth out there). It seems rather natural for them, more than others, to wade past the media's push-culture BS in search of new and interesting content. And even if anime is popular culture in Japan, it's a taste deliciously unfamiliar wheb projected onto the American tongue.
And how is an engineer not going to fall in love with all the anime stories portraying the hopeless, tortued geek who somehow manages to find a spaceship, pilot a mecha, and, even more strange, have one or more gorgeous females fall head over heels for him and his cause? In the other corner, US TV doesn't often portray geeks, and even when it does, they're usually shallow stereotypes (X-Files excepted). Groenig's shows are good, but it's rather exciting to see offerings where the protagonists aren't trajically dense, eh?
Who doesn't love Bebop's Ed or
Nadesico's Ruri? Not only are these characters intelligent to ear-splitting levels, but also humble, with refreshingly unique and, at times, cheerily fanciful outlooks. Ed uses her crew to test the properties of rare psychadellic mushrooms, while Ruri calls the accountant evil for breaking privacy and broadcasting the admiral's conversation over just what they're fighting to the entire crew.
Homer and Fry really don't compare. Maybe Mulder does, but he's a rare case.
Four years ago it was still embarassing to claim anime fandom, and hard to get shows. It's rather refreshing to see all that change, though a bit disconcerting to see a closet hobby becoming almost popular.
Yet it'll be a dark day if anime becomes popular enough that Japanese producers start aching over targeting it to American audiences.
(I like the updated icon. It's a bit Mill-chan-ish, and nicely optioned-out in the kawaii department. Arigatou!)
Re:Why feed good anime to the USTV garbage compact
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True, Kite's missing 10 minutes in the American release is a good example, where thankfully perfectly acceptable standard Japanese content was deemed unacceptable to more Puritan American eyes (or rather not worth the risk in corporate reputation of releasing it on Americans without the necessary Homogenization/Puritanization).
Fansubs are so perfect. Now release dates are set so early that there isn't much time, and, you're right, that's only going to attenuate. *Sniff* Hopefully some napster-like technology will save us, not so much in increasing consumer bootlegging, but in driving down prices from the stratosphere-- $30 for TWO EPISODES/ONE HOUR?!?!
It's such a racket. The subs are always more expensive and the consumer gets reamed so that a bunch of ADV employees can live on the con circuit and biz exp garage kits while the execs live the cream exec life (or better, so that they can spend the money making newer renditions of ugly CG intros).
Yet, even more revolting, they can't sell them for less, because it does take a lot of money to run a business, distribute, market, and compete, and if they did charge a lot less, it's all too likely their more ruthless competitors would just buy their noble yet cash-sapped asses.
I long for the upcoming days of gigabit bandwidth. Then I don't have to shell for their stupid tape, box, distribution, and marketing-- meaning it should be $10 for those 2 eps. With that bandwidth, they can't charge more, otherwise people will bootleg it guiltlessly (not unlike in China where everyone has a family CD burner; and isn't that such a better investment than One kosher windows 95 liscence in a land where a good dinner is a buck? It brings new fulfillment to MS's slogan "where do you want to go today?").
I think Eva was the decline point for me as well. I remember really being into it and finally understanding the popularity because it is quite good-- until the last two afu episodes. Since then, seeing yet another Rei poster or web page conjures up disgust. What's the point?
Just like the anime topic icon. No, actually that's a far uglier reaction.
I assume that quote is from the good/original Kosh, and not the later one that was overcome by the cruel effects of overpopularization.:)
Why feed good anime to the USTV garbage compacter?
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Maybe it's better they don't release it on TV; then it doesn't get hacked. Nadesico and Eva certianly wouldn't survive the process. Anime's much more widespread than four years ago. Hopefully the process will continue and some cable network will see the light. More preferably, hopefully some cool developer or cofounder will put those options to good use and start an all-anime cable channel, altering only to add 3 (not 4) commercials per episode.
I know someone took great time and care drawing the new anime topic icon; but, uhm, am I the only one that finds it unrepresentatively un-kawaii? There are so many cute or cool characters out there; Ruri, Mill-chan, Ed, Miyu, Van, Lain, etc. So they probably can't be used, but fan art sites, like fredart.com have artists who would love to have their fine work represented every four days or so on the cover of/., and the results would definitely be visually pleasaing (which is kinda the point, ne?).
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Just beware of when your SO sends you an email saying "Click here for wet and wild pics" and you get the email:
:P
You're in big trouble, buster!
Oops. My mistake; following listed peers, discovery is traced by finding the node without references to a given stream.
It shouldn't take too long before people implement their own on other p2p platforms, such as PeerMetrics or JXTA. Relying on shoutcast is definitely a weak element in the solution. Sharing of connected peers shouldn't be transparent, too, as it leads to discovery of the stream source (the unreferenced node).
<rant>Speaking of which, do people know of other good p2p platforms out there for implementing stuff like this? This idea and other good ones would have come sooner if only there were more good, generic p2p vectors. As is, everyone home-rolls their p2p apps, still, thus requiring different channels of distribution, different standards, yada yada. We need a platform that's like apache with mods.</rant>
/.-ed twice? Yet more proof that p2p is a hype technology.
I still remember talking to a Mojo developer at a con about what really happens with distributing file slicing:
Me: "So what if all the peers with my file are down?"
Developer: "They won't be. You'll still be able to get your file."
Me: "How?"
Developer: "You'll still be able to get your file."
?!?!?
Rather telling, actually; it's been 2+ years since gnutella. The number of novel p2p applications out there is slim. The number of platforms is even slimmer, which is really disappointing. P2p was supposed to revolutionize everything, not just vaporware.
There is a promising platform for running p2p services at PeerMetrics. Another one is JXTA. Both come with source. I was looking forward to World OS, but it appears to be dead. Most p2p endeavors are still unreleased, like Ocean Store.
I hope more people get to put in some dev cycles on p2p platforms. Applications like The Circle are cool, but as a standalone app the code isn't really leverageable. We need more shared effort. The economy aside, I believe it's taking forever because p2p is harder to write for than expected.
Hopefully this isn't true, and in the next year we'll finally see some real progress. Either way more p2p hype storms are a sure bet.
I'm disappointed. I want p2p emacs. Not a text editor, but I want a p2p base that's open source and as powerful as emacs. Then we could all write our own MUDs or chat services or encryption services, file fiddling, or whatever the heck we feel like on this solid p2p base. And then I can browse .el files or
something to download new p2p plugins.
Hopefully in all the hype one of the p2p lemmings will come up with something more original and useful, rather than just another for-the-money p2p Valley play.
I don't understand all these posts trying to justify local TV as some sort of replacement-- as if anime fans should feel compelled to cleanse themselves by excommunicating their embarassing hobby and restoring it with a good old American replacement. Who cares? Enjoy Futurama. I certainly do.
Still, it's not on the same level, and there's nothing to compare to Evangelion, Bebop and Lain-- which are less TV and more art which just happens to be disguised as a cartoon. The stories and their aura are beautiful, poignant, unsettling, and go far beyond what anyone would think of airing here, mostly because it wouldn't be profitable.
Engineers and other science majors, unlike others, actually have to come up against nature's limits (the closest thing to truth out there). It seems rather natural for them, more than others, to wade past the media's push-culture BS in search of new and interesting content. And even if anime is popular culture in Japan, it's a taste deliciously unfamiliar wheb projected onto the American tongue.
And how is an engineer not going to fall in love with all the anime stories portraying the hopeless, tortued geek who somehow manages to find a spaceship, pilot a mecha, and, even more strange, have one or more gorgeous females fall head over heels for him and his cause? In the other corner, US TV doesn't often portray geeks, and even when it does, they're usually shallow stereotypes (X-Files excepted). Groenig's shows are good, but it's rather exciting to see offerings where the protagonists aren't trajically dense, eh?
Who doesn't love Bebop's Ed or Nadesico's Ruri? Not only are these characters intelligent to ear-splitting levels, but also humble, with refreshingly unique and, at times, cheerily fanciful outlooks. Ed uses her crew to test the properties of rare psychadellic mushrooms, while Ruri calls the accountant evil for breaking privacy and broadcasting the admiral's conversation over just what they're fighting to the entire crew.
Homer and Fry really don't compare. Maybe Mulder does, but he's a rare case.
Four years ago it was still embarassing to claim anime fandom, and hard to get shows. It's rather refreshing to see all that change, though a bit disconcerting to see a closet hobby becoming almost popular.
Yet it'll be a dark day if anime becomes popular enough that Japanese producers start aching over targeting it to American audiences.
(I like the updated icon. It's a bit Mill-chan-ish, and nicely optioned-out in the kawaii department. Arigatou!)
True, Kite's missing 10 minutes in the American release is a good example, where thankfully perfectly acceptable standard Japanese content was deemed unacceptable to more Puritan American eyes (or rather not worth the risk in corporate reputation of releasing it on Americans without the necessary Homogenization/Puritanization).
:)
Fansubs are so perfect. Now release dates are set so early that there isn't much time, and, you're right, that's only going to attenuate. *Sniff* Hopefully some napster-like technology will save us, not so much in increasing consumer bootlegging, but in driving down prices from the stratosphere-- $30 for TWO EPISODES/ONE HOUR?!?!
It's such a racket. The subs are always more expensive and the consumer gets reamed so that a bunch of ADV employees can live on the con circuit and biz exp garage kits while the execs live the cream exec life (or better, so that they can spend the money making newer renditions of ugly CG intros).
Yet, even more revolting, they can't sell them for less, because it does take a lot of money to run a business, distribute, market, and compete, and if they did charge a lot less, it's all too likely their more ruthless competitors would just buy their noble yet cash-sapped asses.
I long for the upcoming days of gigabit bandwidth. Then I don't have to shell for their stupid tape, box, distribution, and marketing-- meaning it should be $10 for those 2 eps. With that bandwidth, they can't charge more, otherwise people will bootleg it guiltlessly (not unlike in China where everyone has a family CD burner; and isn't that such a better investment than One kosher windows 95 liscence in a land where a good dinner is a buck? It brings new fulfillment to MS's slogan "where do you want to go today?").
I think Eva was the decline point for me as well. I remember really being into it and finally understanding the popularity because it is quite good-- until the last two afu episodes. Since then, seeing yet another Rei poster or web page conjures up disgust. What's the point?
Just like the anime topic icon. No, actually that's a far uglier reaction.
I assume that quote is from the good/original Kosh, and not the later one that was overcome by the cruel effects of overpopularization.
Maybe it's better they don't release it on TV; then it doesn't get hacked. Nadesico and Eva certianly wouldn't survive the process. Anime's much more widespread than four years ago. Hopefully the process will continue and some cable network will see the light. More preferably, hopefully some cool developer or cofounder will put those options to good use and start an all-anime cable channel, altering only to add 3 (not 4) commercials per episode.
/., and the results would definitely be visually pleasaing (which is kinda the point, ne?).
I know someone took great time and care drawing the new anime topic icon; but, uhm, am I the only one that finds it unrepresentatively un-kawaii? There are so many cute or cool characters out there; Ruri, Mill-chan, Ed, Miyu, Van, Lain, etc. So they probably can't be used, but fan art sites, like fredart.com have artists who would love to have their fine work represented every four days or so on the cover of