I think its a great way to get publicity. People who haven't heard of it will doubtless notice it, and probably start talking about it...
With that said, most of the potential viewers for this channel will probably be aware of it before it comes out.
In general, I think this idea has great potential; new games can be previewed as video, as opposed to screenshots in mags or on websites. Programmers and game designers can be interviewed, and competitions and events can be covered. Unfortunately, I can't imagine it being much more than a video game slanted infomercial...
Technology has made possible a revolution in the distribution of media. But, the companies that control the rights to popular media are behind the times...They are too slow to change and innovate to meet consumer demand, and they are too powerful to have any incentive to try!
The proliferation of distributed file sharing has evolved out of a need for a more convenient way to retrieve media that is now digital by nature, and a means to do so.
Consumers DEMAND this convenience, because thats what they spend money on PC's and internet for, and because they've seen how smart and efficient it can be! (Napster, etc)
If the market can't meet the demand, then consumers will require some added value. Why should consumers sympathize with the publishers when they know how inefficient the current distribution method is?
Technology has made possible a revolution in the distribution of media. But, the companies that control the rights to popular media are behind the times...They are too slow to change and innovate to meet consumer demand, and they are too powerful to have any incentive to try!
The proliferation of distributed file sharing has evolved out of a need for a more convenient way to retrieve media that is now digital by nature, and a means to do so.
Consumers DEMAND this convenience, because thats what they spend money on PC's and internet for, and because they've seen how smart and efficient it can be! (Napster, etc)
If the market can't meet the demand, then consumers will require some added value. Why should consumers sympathize with the publishers when they know how inefficient the current distribution method is?
I know this is sort of off-topic, but the point is that this guy understands the added value aspect of buying his book on dead trees through a professional publisher. (After he gets the free publicity...)
Its really a shame that hobby shops; for electronics and PC DIYers are so scarce in the US. Akihabara in Tokyo is a GEM for all sorts of amateur and professional Do-It-Yourselfers. Many of the large computer stores will have parts sections with a choice of over 20 different motherboards, and even more choices for all other types of hardware.
I don't know much about electronics, but I know you can get anything you need. There are even multiple stores selling vintage vacuum tubes.
I am not a linux newbie, but I don't read source code, and can't troubleshoot compilation problems when I encounter errors compiling packages from source. With that said, I am finally getting work done on my gentoo box, and I'm almost completely Windows free. After 4 years of on and off w/ Red Hat, and struggling w/ RPM and compiling from source, I've finally gotten all the deskstop apps I need running, and running well under Gentoo with no major problems. This includes DVD, MPlayer, CDR, OpenGL with nvidia's drivers and a TV Tuner card w/ xawtv.
the human body would break apart into base elements - which Eva calls LCL
Actually, LCL is the oxygen-rich breathable liquid that surrounds the pilot in the entry plug...The episode where Shinji's body disappears, its dissolved in the LCL (kindof)
LCL is the same thing that the deep sea divers in 'The Abyss' have in their suits in order to be able to go to unprecedented depths in the ocean without having to worry about their suits being crushed by the pressure. LCL is technicall possible, and (from the Abyss) is what you breath in the womb before you are born!
This review is right on...Very well written without giving away the amazing climax of the series that takes place in episode 10. I especially like the reviewer's description of the finale: The series ends in a long collage of flashbacks and still artwork, accompanied by a protracted internal dialogue between Shinji and the other characters as he conceives them.
I couldn't think of a better way to describe it...
This is an amazing piece of artwork. When I first came to Japan, I was drawn to Evangelion just by the cover art, which clearly stands out among the hundreds of other animation videos in a typical video store...
I live in Tokyo, and I have to say these things scare me...OK, one guy points out that if its cold, the heated seat can be nice. But, in our office men's room, people leave the heat on full blast all the time, and its somehow very sickening to sit on a hot toilet seat when you gotta take care of business...
The other thing is how sanitary is some little plastic water gun squirting high pressure water point blank at your arse?!
Lastly, sometimes these things get outta hand, and you don't know which button is used to flush. (Especially if you don't know too much Japanese!) I was in a hotel once, and the toilet seat itself didn't have any buttons; there was a HUGE (7x5")IR Remote velcroed to the wall with a sheet of instructions on using all the different functions. Honestly, you had to flush the toilet with a remote that had maybe 15-20 buttons on it...
I installed rc6 a few weeks ago. This thing is smart, and it works! I am not a programmer, nor linux guru, but their documentation to get you up and running is flawless. I built up a desktop system and have installed all the applications I need and they are all working great. I've avoided KDE completely and run blackbox as a wm. I've successfully gotten my DVD player, CDR, TV Tuner card and sound card working great. Also, MPlayer (which doesn't allow binary installations like RPM) compiled and runs great. (Much better than Windows Media Player)
When I first read about Gentoo, I was afraid that if software I used wasn't in their portage list, I would be SOL. But, the list of applications available is very comprehensive...There haven't been any applications I've needed that aren't available via their Portage system. As I am not familiar with C, I have always had problems installing programs from source. If the makefile has problems, I usually can't figure out what to change in order to get it working...But, I haven't had any installations fail in Gentoo. The automatic configuration and dependencies calculation works and works well...
I can't imagine ever running Red Hat again. My Gentoo system is stable, fast and lean.
These people are crazier than I thought! If you read through the clambake site, they link to photos and articles about the Church of Scientology actually getting a fake number listed on Fox for 5 hours after Sept. 11 claming to be the National Mental Health hotline for distressed people. The number actually led to the Church hotline...
What makes a reviewer believe that the medium can be completely divorced from the message? Without the message, the medium is irrelevant.
As some previous posters mentioned, them most important thing to know about T1 is that telco doesn't usually know what they are talking about, so you have to call them on mistakes they make and inaccuracies they purport. In order to do this, you have to know what you are talking about, and understand the point of view from which telco sees your service. Telco knows NOTHING about WAN protocols, nor should they (unless you subscribe to some higher layer service, such as public frame relay).
Many of the responses to this story are talking about evolving technology, and people taking/not taking initiative to learn the details behind the technology. I don't disagree with this, but the fact of the matter is that large companies who produce technology aren't doing as much as they should to support their products and customers.
Yes, its unfortunate that the majority of the great modern artworks (films, music, games) can only happen with the financial backing of a large corporation. And so, unfortunately the only source for this great piece of geek art is the Disney store...
My experience is that traditional career paths are only for people who know exactly what they want to do before they even apply to college. And that's rare. Its even more rare for people to actually continue on that path and stay there.
I graduated in 1998; very few of my friends graduated and went into their field of study, directly.
I studied studio art and art history; now I'm a self-taught network engineer at a major market data company. Art was not my intended major, and really found me; not the other way around. It was something I was good at and enjoyed.I consider my time at college a development of my creative mind, problem solving and organizational skills. When it comes down to it, the technology is secondary to being able to solve problems and communicate clearly.
This is all related to all this talk about the new economy; the new information age, and the mutability of professions and work. Related to this is the fact that what you actually do on the job is rarely something you can learn at school; unless its research related. The best example is how many universities' CS programs are still teaching outdated languages that you would never use nowadays. And very few schools teach networking, or other aspects of IT that are huge industries now, except within the context of a business program...
They actually had computer judges and computer courts in Max Headroom...The police would escort the 'Blanks' or whoever into the courtroom, and this TV screen would light up and give almost instant judgement...I think it appeared in more than one episode.
Duckman is in a trailer park. The park is hit by a tornado and boxes start falling from the sky. Duckman asks a resident what they are. His reply 'Neilson boxes. Whole park's got 'em".
Its a shame these companies will end up spending time, money, and energy on minor technological differences in the way perform a very simple task...Digitizing and manipulating video from live television.
These companies should save their energy, and possibly share resources for the real battle they have yet to face, which is against the networks.
This technology has the potential of becoming as significant and controversial as Napster...
To be honest, I think it's far more likely that I'll just buy PS2 releases, or whatever console is around in 2003, and save myself the hassle of have two OSs on my PC...
That's an interesting point...Maybe this relates to XBox somehow? Seems that the majority of people who have something to lose by this are gamers...People who just run Win95/98 for internet or word processing don't need future DirectX Support, or any of the features XP offers.
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What's tech TV? Is it a real TV station? I've never heard of it...
I think its a great way to get publicity. People who haven't heard of it will doubtless notice it, and probably start talking about it...
With that said, most of the potential viewers for this channel will probably be aware of it before it comes out.
In general, I think this idea has great potential; new games can be previewed as video, as opposed to screenshots in mags or on websites. Programmers and game designers can be interviewed, and competitions and events can be covered. Unfortunately, I can't imagine it being much more than a video game slanted infomercial...
Technology has made possible a revolution in the distribution of media. But, the companies that control the rights to popular media are behind the times...They are too slow to change and innovate to meet consumer demand, and they are too powerful to have any incentive to try!
The proliferation of distributed file sharing has evolved out of a need for a more convenient way to retrieve media that is now digital by nature, and a means to do so.
Consumers DEMAND this convenience, because thats what they spend money on PC's and internet for, and because they've seen how smart and efficient it can be! (Napster, etc)
If the market can't meet the demand, then consumers will require some added value. Why should consumers sympathize with the publishers when they know how inefficient the current distribution method is?
Technology has made possible a revolution in the distribution of media. But, the companies that control the rights to popular media are behind the times...They are too slow to change and innovate to meet consumer demand, and they are too powerful to have any incentive to try!
The proliferation of distributed file sharing has evolved out of a need for a more convenient way to retrieve media that is now digital by nature, and a means to do so.
Consumers DEMAND this convenience, because thats what they spend money on PC's and internet for, and because they've seen how smart and efficient it can be! (Napster, etc)
If the market can't meet the demand, then consumers will require some added value. Why should consumers sympathize with the publishers when they know how inefficient the current distribution method is?
I know this is sort of off-topic, but the point is that this guy understands the added value aspect of buying his book on dead trees through a professional publisher. (After he gets the free publicity...)
I made my own electric violin
A la 'Revenge of the Nerds'! Classic!
Its really a shame that hobby shops; for electronics and PC DIYers are so scarce in the US. Akihabara in Tokyo is a GEM for all sorts of amateur and professional Do-It-Yourselfers. Many of the large computer stores will have parts sections with a choice of over 20 different motherboards, and even more choices for all other types of hardware.
I don't know much about electronics, but I know you can get anything you need. There are even multiple stores selling vintage vacuum tubes.
I am not a linux newbie, but I don't read source code, and can't troubleshoot compilation problems when I encounter errors compiling packages from source. With that said, I am finally getting work done on my gentoo box, and I'm almost completely Windows free. After 4 years of on and off w/ Red Hat, and struggling w/ RPM and compiling from source, I've finally gotten all the deskstop apps I need running, and running well under Gentoo with no major problems. This includes DVD, MPlayer, CDR, OpenGL with nvidia's drivers and a TV Tuner card w/ xawtv.
Actually, LCL is the oxygen-rich breathable liquid that surrounds the pilot in the entry plug...The episode where Shinji's body disappears, its dissolved in the LCL (kindof)
LCL is the same thing that the deep sea divers in 'The Abyss' have in their suits in order to be able to go to unprecedented depths in the ocean without having to worry about their suits being crushed by the pressure. LCL is technicall possible, and (from the Abyss) is what you breath in the womb before you are born!
The series ends in a long collage of flashbacks and still artwork, accompanied by a protracted internal dialogue between Shinji and the other characters as he conceives them.
I couldn't think of a better way to describe it...
This is an amazing piece of artwork. When I first came to Japan, I was drawn to Evangelion just by the cover art, which clearly stands out among the hundreds of other animation videos in a typical video store...
I live in Tokyo, and I have to say these things scare me...OK, one guy points out that if its cold, the heated seat can be nice. But, in our office men's room, people leave the heat on full blast all the time, and its somehow very sickening to sit on a hot toilet seat when you gotta take care of business...
The other thing is how sanitary is some little plastic water gun squirting high pressure water point blank at your arse?!
Lastly, sometimes these things get outta hand, and you don't know which button is used to flush. (Especially if you don't know too much Japanese!) I was in a hotel once, and the toilet seat itself didn't have any buttons; there was a HUGE (7x5")IR Remote velcroed to the wall with a sheet of instructions on using all the different functions. Honestly, you had to flush the toilet with a remote that had maybe 15-20 buttons on it...
I guess its better than the traditional Japanese toilet...
This thing is smart, and it works! I am not a programmer, nor linux guru, but their documentation to get you up and running is flawless. I built up a desktop system and have installed all the applications I need and they are all working great. I've avoided KDE completely and run blackbox as a wm. I've successfully gotten my DVD player, CDR, TV Tuner card and sound card working great. Also, MPlayer (which doesn't allow binary installations like RPM) compiled and runs great. (Much better than Windows Media Player)
When I first read about Gentoo, I was afraid that if software I used wasn't in their portage list, I would be SOL. But, the list of applications available is very comprehensive...There haven't been any applications I've needed that aren't available via their Portage system. As I am not familiar with C, I have always had problems installing programs from source. If the makefile has problems, I usually can't figure out what to change in order to get it working...But, I haven't had any installations fail in Gentoo. The automatic configuration and dependencies calculation works and works well...
I can't imagine ever running Red Hat again. My Gentoo system is stable, fast and lean.
As some previous posters mentioned, them most important thing to know about T1 is that telco doesn't usually know what they are talking about, so you have to call them on mistakes they make and inaccuracies they purport. In order to do this, you have to know what you are talking about, and understand the point of view from which telco sees your service. Telco knows NOTHING about WAN protocols, nor should they (unless you subscribe to some higher layer service, such as public frame relay).
Yes, its unfortunate that the majority of the great modern artworks (films, music, games) can only happen with the financial backing of a large corporation. And so, unfortunately the only source for this great piece of geek art is the Disney store...
Actually, the quote is: "To Alcohol! The cause of, and solution to all of life's problems..." From the Beer Baron episode...
No?!
I graduated in 1998; very few of my friends graduated and went into their field of study, directly.
I studied studio art and art history; now I'm a self-taught network engineer at a major market data company. Art was not my intended major, and really found me; not the other way around. It was something I was good at and enjoyed.I consider my time at college a development of my creative mind, problem solving and organizational skills. When it comes down to it, the technology is secondary to being able to solve problems and communicate clearly.
This is all related to all this talk about the new economy; the new information age, and the mutability of professions and work. Related to this is the fact that what you actually do on the job is rarely something you can learn at school; unless its research related. The best example is how many universities' CS programs are still teaching outdated languages that you would never use nowadays. And very few schools teach networking, or other aspects of IT that are huge industries now, except within the context of a business program...
I don't think we're too far from being 23 minutes into the future when its illegal to turn off your TV, never mind tape shows to watch them later...
Exactly!!!
Do you know anyone who had a nielsen box?
And, hopefully, it means more high quality shows that the Nielsens discount, and end up as 'cult' shows.
I'm sure more people watched MST3K than the Nielsens calculated...
These companies should save their energy, and possibly share resources for the real battle they have yet to face, which is against the networks.
This technology has the potential of becoming as significant and controversial as Napster...
That's an interesting point...Maybe this relates to XBox somehow? Seems that the majority of people who have something to lose by this are gamers...People who just run Win95/98 for internet or word processing don't need future DirectX Support, or any of the features XP offers.