If I were to look 20-30 years down the road at a U.S. ruled by DRM via laws like the SSSCA, I would have to say it would be a pretty sad place. First of all, you have a generation of people who will have grown up beleiving that its normal to have to pay for *any* kind of information, and then think its taboo to share that information.
People will collaborate less and will have learned that it's 'wrong' to pass along data or information of any kind. This kind of mentality will manifest itself in an atmosphere where it's considered morally and ethically wrong to try to do things without doing them in the approved (legal or corporate) manner. I don't see a lot of technical or scientific innovation coming from people who have this mindset.
The Dark Ages was a fairly direct result of the Catholic Church's desire to control information, in their case, religious doctrine. The crusades brutally crushed scientific, philosophical, and mathmatic progress in the middle east. Human progress came to a virtual halt for several centuries.
This is the same thing. Instead of a rich, powerful church, we have a oligarchy of rich, powerful corporations who beleive it is in their best interest to control information of any kind, be it entertainment, scientific data, math, or any kind of production algorithm. The future is grim indeed if these companies get their way.
The renaissance, the richest period of exploration and innovation in human history happened when the controls imposed by the Catholic church started to break down and both religous and scientific information began to flow freely.
Freedom of Information == Human Progress and Advancement
Proprietary Information == Fear, Paranoia, Superstition, and Human Misery
I used to work at a Pizza Hut, so I'll clear this up.
PH corporation is a subsidary of Pepsi Cola, along with several other big-name fast food chains like Taco Bell and KFC. Most of the PH's across the nation are maintained by several district offices and report directly to PH corporation, and therefore back to Pepsi Cola.
Pepsi considers this an expensive way to do business because, while they profit from those stores (Markup on a Pizza was close to 5000%) they still have to pay wages and administrative costs. I'm not sure of the math, but Pizza Hut beleives they ultimately make more off of Pizza Hut franchises thank they make off of wholly owned stores.
Thus, unlike Taco Bell, there are a great number of Pizza Hut Franchises across the the country. Those franchises are owned by individuals or other companies who pay PH and Pepsi a precentage for the right to use the Pizza Hut logo, recipies and to participate in speicial promotions. Since they are privately owned, the owner has the right to do anything he wants in the way of adding or subtracting things from the menu. Most PH franchises offer Coca-Cola products in addition to or instead of Pepsi products. They may also do things like add or subtract certain toppings that can be ordered on a pizza. Some Franchises opt to not sell Pizza Hut's 'Thin Crust' pizza, because automatic dough rollers are fairly notorious for crushing finger bones.
Well it looks like we will never be able to download music on the internet.
Hmm... I'm downloading music from the internet *right now* from a P2P filesharing service called USENET.
Steve Vai rocks, BTW...
Despite the best efforts of the RIAA to stamp out filesharing services, they have yet to seriously move against Usenet or convince any of the major ISP's to not carry the alt.binaries hierarchy. (I beleive Earthnet caved into the BSA and stopped carrying a lot of the alt.binaries.warez groups)
Moreover, many ISP's have started to refuse requests from entertainment companies to TOS users because they share copyrighted material. They cite issues such as DHCP IP addresses and non-provability, but what it really boils down to is the fact that the ISPs realized that they'll start losing customers if the becoming known for TOS'ing their users.
Sharing is alive and well, neighbor, and as long as its easier to share than it is to buy music, then the RIAA will just be spinning their wheels.
"The more you tighten your grip,
the more star systems will
slip through your fingers."
Not content, mind you, but souvineirs, t-shirts, hats, CD's, maybe even LWN branded generic hardware or media.
"See, this isn't just your everyday average spool of CD's, it's a Linux Weekly News spool of CD's."
Seriously, I hadn't been to the LWN website before this, but it doesn't look like they have a goodies section like any other geek website who tries to stay afloat,/. included with all the 'Thinkgeek.com' stuff.
If nothing else, there is a current wave of feeling in the business community (at least if I read all the executives I know correctly) that breaking up Microsoft or imposing stiff penalties on them is innapropriate because it would hurt the already weakened economy.
Hopefully, the new judge in the case is a little more intelligent than people who routinely listen to and beleive marketing research.
The real problem with computer software advancement is that its all very firmly based in 2D land. WIMP environments are about as eficient as you can get. Even assuming that you can wrap your work habits around something as 'next-gen' as 'The Brain', you're still stuck in 2D land.
The real advance that will open innovation (real innovation and not some corporation's twisted idea of it) is the beginning of a 3D workstation environment.
We already have the primatives for this kind of environment in games like Unreal, Q3A, and Black and White. Assuming that we implement a 'graphical pipe' that will work for a truly 3D application system, ie: Allow 3D applications to pass information back and forth between each other semi-effortlessly, this will ignite a new 'interface revolution' similiar to what we experienced as a result of Xerox's early WIMP system and the first versions of Apple's MacOS.
Once programs and applications can truly be represented as 'objects' in a 3D environment, we'll end up with something like the 'God' interface in Black and White, where processes are represented by animated people and files are represented as other objects. Tasks best handled in 2-D such as composition, coding, or painting will still be easy to handle, but tasks best performed in 3-D such as file management, database management, and even some advanced programming tasks like linking and compiling files, will take place in a representational environment. Imagine opening up your HDD and pouring objects into it, then sorting them into containers based on type, as you would sort files into directories.
Eventually, I see us moving into something like Stephenson's 'Street' metaphor for shared environments.
Along with these advances, will come new interfaces. I think that eye-tracking cameras have the biggest potential, but we keep coming back to the data-glove in one form or the other. I know CADesigners who still have an old Nintendo powerglove hacked for basic 3D manipution tasks. We're also probably going to see a renaissance of 'body tracker' devices that will track human motion via sonar or laser. Any one of these has the potential to vastly reduce RSI injuries.
The real trick in jumping from 2D to 3D is reverse compatibility. All the shells I've seen that attempt 3D interaction do it badly. Even then, they fail completely when faced with most of the tasks we do on a daily basis, like write or paint. I think we're going to have to use 'easels' or something similiar. In Cowboy Bebop, Radical Edward's computing environment is shown as a multitude of 2D windows hovering around her in 3D space. This wouldn't be that hard to do, really.
Navigation will be the true challenge for any 3D application designer. It will be that itch to scratch that will spawn new, inventive input and coding ideas.
I don't know if it's Bush, but *somebody* has their thinking cap on.
One of the real reaons the Soviets failed was because they were waging an all-out war to subdue Afghanistan.
Apparently, we're intent on pacifying the populace in the literal sense rather than the military sense. This will make a *Big* difference when U.S. tanks and personell carriers start rolling through for any kind of ground activity.
BBC has some pretty good graphics, including some maps of possible targets:
Even Neo would have trouble cracking into the system that uses "Triple DES encryption over network, PGP CAST 128 encryption on disk, firewall, [and] intrusion detection."
I bet Trinity could slice and dice it in just a few days, tho...
Seriously, it's great to see encryption mentioned in anything other than a 'Only Terrorist Use Encryption' context.
It's a good time to start using encryption just for the sake of using it. Abilities that are not excercised tend to atrophy. If enough people see that its good to exercise crypto in this manner, we'll have a lot more people install it and grow used to the feeling of security it will give them.
Yeah, right up until someone modifies Code Red or Nimda to attack unpatched PocketPC's over their wrieless connections:
Executive 1: Hmmm... My PDA is being slow today. I wonder why?
Executive 2: Why did you send me this file to have my advice?
Executive 3: Boy, my pocket PC sure is heating up. It never used to heat up like-- AAAHHH!!! I'M BURNING! I'M BURNING!
Re:Differences between PPC G4 and Power 4 ?
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Of course, there's a lot to be said about the power of CPU's in these setups, but let's not forget that where IBM is really squeezing sheer computing power out of this new setup is the communications architecture. Completely beside the fact that this thing is going to start at 8 CPU's working some serious SMP mojo, I imagine that the mainboard/memory/bus controllers would put anything VIA or Intel put out to shame, much like Sun boards.
Differences between PPC G4 and Power 4 ?
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IBM Launches p690
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· Score: 2
These are both Motorola chips based on the same Power PC architecture, right? Will someone more informed than I am explain the differences between them, and explain why IBM is using Power 4's instead of G4's?
I doubted that the current Congress would've approved something like this to begin with. With the current state of economy, and the fact that eventually we'll have to clean up the giant mess that the recent anti-terrorism and airline support bills have made of our budget, the outlook is grim.
Remember that the congress who killed (and then buried) SCSC was a Democratic Congress. I had the opportunity to speak to a physicist in '93 who actually attended the hearings. His take on the whole deal was that the D's were pretty openly 'punishing' Texas for voting Republican in '92 by yanking all its 'pork-barrel' projects.
There was never a cost/benifit analysis or any mention of science. It was all politics and greed.
The SCSC development pumped millions into both Lubbock and Amarillo economies. It took quite a while for both those economies to recover from its burial... and it was literally buried. They filled in the trenches dug for the contstruction so that it could not easily be ressurected. While I think Clinton was a fairly decent president in terms of job performance, he rubberstamped this one. This kind of behavior got the D's very firmly ejected from both Senate and House in '94.
If there is one thing I learned from 'Demoliton Man' with Rocky^H^H^H^H^HSylvester Stallone is that Wesley Snipes will come and cut parts of your body off if he needs them badly enough.
Don't keep data on this thing that's worth dismemberment, because scary terrorist-types will cut your fingers off.
* Making the packaging worth owning
* Making the music worth buying
* Adding other features that are worth owning
1. Add image galleries to CD's in the manner of quite a few Anime DVD's. Everyone wants to see images of their favorite rock stars, especially if they are attractive pop idols. I know that I would much rather stare at Britney's pom-poms than listen to her music.
This won't work because these images would be 'copyrighted' and the first one that made its way to alt.fan.(starofyourchoice).binaries would invalidate the whole scheme in the eyes of the industry.
2. Include animated, musical screen savers featuring the rock star who's CD is being produced.
Again, if these were any good at all, they'd end up on Usenet and Gnutella faster than you can blink. The RIAA would balk at that point.
3. CD Media has never been cheaper, especially in large, bulk quantities. Start including 'extras' discs in all CD distros. Include things like interview tracks, Music Video mpegs. Tabulated sheet music, etc...
The Industry has repeated promised to 'lower' the price of CD's once they became cheap and easy to produce. I think that we can all see that this was a load of unmitigated bullshit, since it should have happened around '85 or '86. They wouldn't *dream* of including an extra CD in any package without charging more for it... probably enough to make it not worth it again.
4. Include 'Approved' logos and images for fan use. When Neon Genesis Evangelion anime was released in Japan, Gainax Co published a website that contained several web-targeted (ie: Low resolution) graphics that could be freely used in fan websites. Fans could and still do use these graphics, most of them keeping in mind the rules that Gainax asked them to follow when downloading them. NGE is one of the most popular anime ever. A lot of that has to do with how well Gainax treated its fanbase.
This won't work because American executives are ignorant and uncaring. Saying that a logo would look like crap on a t-shirt or poster because it was low resolution would never be understood. It looks great on the screen, therefore, it will look good on anything else, at least in the mind of a coked-up record executive. Even if said executive did understand that, he's much more concerned with the bottom-line that customer loyalty.
5. Put music on discs worth listening to.
Seriously, when did record executives know what sounds good or is fun to listen to. All they care about is what sells.
I think there are still copies of Win4Lin floating around out there. But isn't it a little slow? I also understand that Connectix is making Virtual PC for Linux.
There is no media codec that 6.4 won't play that is handled by 7.1 or 8. MS would like you to think so.
Since I refuse to touch wma with a ten foot pole, about the only reason I can think of for even wanting to use MP 7.1 or 8 are 'skins'. Oh, and they have better playlist capabilities. Thank you, but I'll stick with the smaller, faster 6.4, especially since I watch all of my anime fansubs in fullscreen mode anyway.
Or does it cost more electricity to break down H20 than it generates?
(Thinks back to the day in chemistry class when he used an electrical current to break down water...)
At any rate, this is outstanding, especially if it can be converted to run water. No more worrying about keeping gas for that generator during a floor or storm. Just stick a siphon pump or a funnell out the window.
This is common practice all over Texas now. There's not a convenience store in all of Amarillo that doesn't have inkpad right next to the cash register so that they can tag all the checks they get.
Wal-Mart does it off and on, although they run out of ink fairly quickly.
Of course its funny to refuse to do it, and see how the cashiers react.
Vendor 1: "You had *how many* hits during the World Trade Center Crisis? Jesus Christ! I don't think we served that much data in 1998 and 99 put together!"
Vendor 2: "We can host your website, but we'll need to add some servers... and some bandwidth capabilities... and some reinforced steel floors to keep those servers from damaging the foundation when they crash and...:"
Taco: "How Much?"
Vendor 2: "One Million Dollars! Err... One Hundred Billion Dollars!"
Vendor 3: (Runs away crying)
Vendor 4: Of course I can host your website Mr. Malda. All you need to do is sign here on the dotted line... in blood please. Your harem of Natalie Portman clones and your Beowulf Cluster of Slashdot Cruisers will also be arriving shortly. Thank you for doing business with us. I assure you that your soul will be in *very* good hands.
As evidenced by their 'Salon Premium' and in-page ads. It's a shame, too, because all the other good editorial sites are almost all virulently conservative.
While I hate to see it go, I think we're going to see Salon go the same way IGN did.
Slashdot Mirror
If I were to look 20-30 years down the road at a U.S. ruled by DRM via laws like the SSSCA, I would have to say it would be a pretty sad place. First of all, you have a generation of people who will have grown up beleiving that its normal to have to pay for *any* kind of information, and then think its taboo to share that information.
People will collaborate less and will have learned that it's 'wrong' to pass along data or information of any kind. This kind of mentality will manifest itself in an atmosphere where it's considered morally and ethically wrong to try to do things without doing them in the approved (legal or corporate) manner. I don't see a lot of technical or scientific innovation coming from people who have this mindset.
The Dark Ages was a fairly direct result of the Catholic Church's desire to control information, in their case, religious doctrine. The crusades brutally crushed scientific, philosophical, and mathmatic progress in the middle east. Human progress came to a virtual halt for several centuries.
This is the same thing. Instead of a rich, powerful church, we have a oligarchy of rich, powerful corporations who beleive it is in their best interest to control information of any kind, be it entertainment, scientific data, math, or any kind of production algorithm. The future is grim indeed if these companies get their way.
The renaissance, the richest period of exploration and innovation in human history happened when the controls imposed by the Catholic church started to break down and both religous and scientific information began to flow freely.
Freedom of Information == Human Progress and Advancement
Proprietary Information == Fear, Paranoia, Superstition, and Human Misery
I used to work at a Pizza Hut, so I'll clear this up.
PH corporation is a subsidary of Pepsi Cola, along with several other big-name fast food chains like Taco Bell and KFC. Most of the PH's across the nation are maintained by several district offices and report directly to PH corporation, and therefore back to Pepsi Cola.
Pepsi considers this an expensive way to do business because, while they profit from those stores (Markup on a Pizza was close to 5000%) they still have to pay wages and administrative costs. I'm not sure of the math, but Pizza Hut beleives they ultimately make more off of Pizza Hut franchises thank they make off of wholly owned stores.
Thus, unlike Taco Bell, there are a great number of Pizza Hut Franchises across the the country. Those franchises are owned by individuals or other companies who pay PH and Pepsi a precentage for the right to use the Pizza Hut logo, recipies and to participate in speicial promotions. Since they are privately owned, the owner has the right to do anything he wants in the way of adding or subtracting things from the menu. Most PH franchises offer Coca-Cola products in addition to or instead of Pepsi products. They may also do things like add or subtract certain toppings that can be ordered on a pizza. Some Franchises opt to not sell Pizza Hut's 'Thin Crust' pizza, because automatic dough rollers are fairly notorious for crushing finger bones.
Well it looks like we will never be able to download music on the internet.
Hmm... I'm downloading music from the internet *right now* from a P2P filesharing service called USENET.
Steve Vai rocks, BTW...
Despite the best efforts of the RIAA to stamp out filesharing services, they have yet to seriously move against Usenet or convince any of the major ISP's to not carry the alt.binaries hierarchy. (I beleive Earthnet caved into the BSA and stopped carrying a lot of the alt.binaries.warez groups)
Moreover, many ISP's have started to refuse requests from entertainment companies to TOS users because they share copyrighted material. They cite issues such as DHCP IP addresses and non-provability, but what it really boils down to is the fact that the ISPs realized that they'll start losing customers if the becoming known for TOS'ing their users.
Sharing is alive and well, neighbor, and as long as its easier to share than it is to buy music, then the RIAA will just be spinning their wheels.
"The more you tighten your grip,
the more star systems will
slip through your fingers."
Winsock, but that that still implies that it is 'Windows Only'.
Of course they got their start well before any of the major Linux distributions started making it big.
Not content, mind you, but souvineirs, t-shirts, hats, CD's, maybe even LWN branded generic hardware or media.
/. included with all the 'Thinkgeek.com' stuff.
"See, this isn't just your everyday average spool of CD's, it's a Linux Weekly News spool of CD's."
Seriously, I hadn't been to the LWN website before this, but it doesn't look like they have a goodies section like any other geek website who tries to stay afloat,
ROOTKIT - Remote Objet Oriented Telecommunications Knowledge Intelligence Technology
This will have little effect on the current case.
If nothing else, there is a current wave of feeling in the business community (at least if I read all the executives I know correctly) that breaking up Microsoft or imposing stiff penalties on them is innapropriate because it would hurt the already weakened economy.
Hopefully, the new judge in the case is a little more intelligent than people who routinely listen to and beleive marketing research.
The real problem with computer software advancement is that its all very firmly based in 2D land. WIMP environments are about as eficient as you can get. Even assuming that you can wrap your work habits around something as 'next-gen' as 'The Brain', you're still stuck in 2D land.
The real advance that will open innovation (real innovation and not some corporation's twisted idea of it) is the beginning of a 3D workstation environment.
We already have the primatives for this kind of environment in games like Unreal, Q3A, and Black and White. Assuming that we implement a 'graphical pipe' that will work for a truly 3D application system, ie: Allow 3D applications to pass information back and forth between each other semi-effortlessly, this will ignite a new 'interface revolution' similiar to what we experienced as a result of Xerox's early WIMP system and the first versions of Apple's MacOS.
Once programs and applications can truly be represented as 'objects' in a 3D environment, we'll end up with something like the 'God' interface in Black and White, where processes are represented by animated people and files are represented as other objects. Tasks best handled in 2-D such as composition, coding, or painting will still be easy to handle, but tasks best performed in 3-D such as file management, database management, and even some advanced programming tasks like linking and compiling files, will take place in a representational environment. Imagine opening up your HDD and pouring objects into it, then sorting them into containers based on type, as you would sort files into directories.
Eventually, I see us moving into something like Stephenson's 'Street' metaphor for shared environments.
Along with these advances, will come new interfaces. I think that eye-tracking cameras have the biggest potential, but we keep coming back to the data-glove in one form or the other. I know CADesigners who still have an old Nintendo powerglove hacked for basic 3D manipution tasks. We're also probably going to see a renaissance of 'body tracker' devices that will track human motion via sonar or laser. Any one of these has the potential to vastly reduce RSI injuries.
The real trick in jumping from 2D to 3D is reverse compatibility. All the shells I've seen that attempt 3D interaction do it badly. Even then, they fail completely when faced with most of the tasks we do on a daily basis, like write or paint. I think we're going to have to use 'easels' or something similiar. In Cowboy Bebop, Radical Edward's computing environment is shown as a multitude of 2D windows hovering around her in 3D space. This wouldn't be that hard to do, really.
Navigation will be the true challenge for any 3D application designer. It will be that itch to scratch that will spawn new, inventive input and coding ideas.
I don't know if it's Bush, but *somebody* has their thinking cap on.
/ newsid_1556000/1556588.stm#map
One of the real reaons the Soviets failed was because they were waging an all-out war to subdue Afghanistan.
Apparently, we're intent on pacifying the populace in the literal sense rather than the military sense. This will make a *Big* difference when U.S. tanks and personell carriers start rolling through for any kind of ground activity.
BBC has some pretty good graphics, including some maps of possible targets:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south_asia
Even Neo would have trouble cracking into the system that uses "Triple DES encryption over network, PGP CAST 128 encryption on disk, firewall, [and] intrusion detection."
I bet Trinity could slice and dice it in just a few days, tho...
Seriously, it's great to see encryption mentioned in anything other than a 'Only Terrorist Use Encryption' context.
It's a good time to start using encryption just for the sake of using it. Abilities that are not excercised tend to atrophy. If enough people see that its good to exercise crypto in this manner, we'll have a lot more people install it and grow used to the feeling of security it will give them.
Even MS Outlook users can use PGP...
A Beowulf cluster of E-machines?
I dunno. It's kinda lacking when you compare it to all the other Beowulf clusters we've considered.
So, is this the mighty Palm-killer
Yeah, right up until someone modifies Code Red or Nimda to attack unpatched PocketPC's over their wrieless connections:
Executive 1: Hmmm... My PDA is being slow today. I wonder why?
Executive 2: Why did you send me this file to have my advice?
Executive 3: Boy, my pocket PC sure is heating up. It never used to heat up like-- AAAHHH!!! I'M BURNING! I'M BURNING!
Of course, there's a lot to be said about the power of CPU's in these setups, but let's not forget that where IBM is really squeezing sheer computing power out of this new setup is the communications architecture. Completely beside the fact that this thing is going to start at 8 CPU's working some serious SMP mojo, I imagine that the mainboard/memory/bus controllers would put anything VIA or Intel put out to shame, much like Sun boards.
These are both Motorola chips based on the same Power PC architecture, right? Will someone more informed than I am explain the differences between them, and explain why IBM is using Power 4's instead of G4's?
Don't set precidents, man! Americans don't want to own up to Pauly Shore and Carrot Top, let alone apologize for their existance.
Hmm.... Whew! Carrot.com isn't a search engine.
I doubted that the current Congress would've approved something like this to begin with. With the current state of economy, and the fact that eventually we'll have to clean up the giant mess that the recent anti-terrorism and airline support bills have made of our budget, the outlook is grim.
Remember that the congress who killed (and then buried) SCSC was a Democratic Congress. I had the opportunity to speak to a physicist in '93 who actually attended the hearings. His take on the whole deal was that the D's were pretty openly 'punishing' Texas for voting Republican in '92 by yanking all its 'pork-barrel' projects.
There was never a cost/benifit analysis or any mention of science. It was all politics and greed.
The SCSC development pumped millions into both Lubbock and Amarillo economies. It took quite a while for both those economies to recover from its burial... and it was literally buried. They filled in the trenches dug for the contstruction so that it could not easily be ressurected. While I think Clinton was a fairly decent president in terms of job performance, he rubberstamped this one. This kind of behavior got the D's very firmly ejected from both Senate and House in '94.
If there is one thing I learned from 'Demoliton Man' with Rocky^H^H^H^H^HSylvester Stallone is that Wesley Snipes will come and cut parts of your body off if he needs them badly enough.
Don't keep data on this thing that's worth dismemberment, because scary terrorist-types will cut your fingers off.
Boy it would be great to have 300k/sec transmitted directly through your brain.
You wouldn't even have to look at the phone screen to watch movies. They'd play directly on your retinas!
* Making the packaging worth owning
* Making the music worth buying
* Adding other features that are worth owning
1. Add image galleries to CD's in the manner of quite a few Anime DVD's. Everyone wants to see images of their favorite rock stars, especially if they are attractive pop idols. I know that I would much rather stare at Britney's pom-poms than listen to her music.
This won't work because these images would be 'copyrighted' and the first one that made its way to alt.fan.(starofyourchoice).binaries would invalidate the whole scheme in the eyes of the industry.
2. Include animated, musical screen savers featuring the rock star who's CD is being produced.
Again, if these were any good at all, they'd end up on Usenet and Gnutella faster than you can blink. The RIAA would balk at that point.
3. CD Media has never been cheaper, especially in large, bulk quantities. Start including 'extras' discs in all CD distros. Include things like interview tracks, Music Video mpegs. Tabulated sheet music, etc...
The Industry has repeated promised to 'lower' the price of CD's once they became cheap and easy to produce. I think that we can all see that this was a load of unmitigated bullshit, since it should have happened around '85 or '86. They wouldn't *dream* of including an extra CD in any package without charging more for it... probably enough to make it not worth it again.
4. Include 'Approved' logos and images for fan use. When Neon Genesis Evangelion anime was released in Japan, Gainax Co published a website that contained several web-targeted (ie: Low resolution) graphics that could be freely used in fan websites. Fans could and still do use these graphics, most of them keeping in mind the rules that Gainax asked them to follow when downloading them. NGE is one of the most popular anime ever. A lot of that has to do with how well Gainax treated its fanbase.
This won't work because American executives are ignorant and uncaring. Saying that a logo would look like crap on a t-shirt or poster because it was low resolution would never be understood. It looks great on the screen, therefore, it will look good on anything else, at least in the mind of a coked-up record executive. Even if said executive did understand that, he's much more concerned with the bottom-line that customer loyalty.
5. Put music on discs worth listening to.
Seriously, when did record executives know what sounds good or is fun to listen to. All they care about is what sells.
Uhhh... Wine?
I think there are still copies of Win4Lin floating around out there. But isn't it a little slow? I also understand that Connectix is making Virtual PC for Linux.
Good for you.
There is no media codec that 6.4 won't play that is handled by 7.1 or 8. MS would like you to think so.
Since I refuse to touch wma with a ten foot pole, about the only reason I can think of for even wanting to use MP 7.1 or 8 are 'skins'. Oh, and they have better playlist capabilities. Thank you, but I'll stick with the smaller, faster 6.4, especially since I watch all of my anime fansubs in fullscreen mode anyway.
Or does it cost more electricity to break down H20 than it generates?
(Thinks back to the day in chemistry class when he used an electrical current to break down water...)
At any rate, this is outstanding, especially if it can be converted to run water. No more worrying about keeping gas for that generator during a floor or storm. Just stick a siphon pump or a funnell out the window.
This is common practice all over Texas now. There's not a convenience store in all of Amarillo that doesn't have inkpad right next to the cash register so that they can tag all the checks they get.
Wal-Mart does it off and on, although they run out of ink fairly quickly.
Of course its funny to refuse to do it, and see how the cashiers react.
Vendor 1: "You had *how many* hits during the World Trade Center Crisis? Jesus Christ! I don't think we served that much data in 1998 and 99 put together!"
Vendor 2: "We can host your website, but we'll need to add some servers... and some bandwidth capabilities... and some reinforced steel floors to keep those servers from damaging the foundation when they crash and...:"
Taco: "How Much?"
Vendor 2: "One Million Dollars! Err... One Hundred Billion Dollars!"
Vendor 3: (Runs away crying)
Vendor 4: Of course I can host your website Mr. Malda. All you need to do is sign here on the dotted line... in blood please. Your harem of Natalie Portman clones and your Beowulf Cluster of Slashdot Cruisers will also be arriving shortly. Thank you for doing business with us. I assure you that your soul will be in *very* good hands.
As evidenced by their 'Salon Premium' and in-page ads. It's a shame, too, because all the other good editorial sites are almost all virulently conservative.
While I hate to see it go, I think we're going to see Salon go the same way IGN did.