"It's pretty difficult for many businesses and many economic assets in this country to segregate the cyber side from the physical side because how that company operates, how that community operates, is interdependent," Ridge told lawmakers at a hearing this week.
So this new department will only protect business? Does that mean they'll also only crack down on businesses, or will they save most of their persecution for the people who don't fund their campaigns?
First, Nintendo of America is based in Washington state. Second, most cop-killer games have exclusivity contracts on PlayStation 2. Third, Shigeru Miyamoto said the video game market needs popular, non-violent alternatives to Grand Theft Auto. Maybe, since Nintendo is completely shut out from the cop killer genre, they're trying to outlaw them?
Today's video games are too time consuming. Back when arcade games were popular, they'd be a nice break because they only take a few minutes to play and leave, but most of today's console games take over half an hour before you get somewhere satisfying in them. They often space the opportunity to save far apart so if you spend less than half an hour you lose your progress. Simply having to save your progress is a nuisance, because you have to remember where you are after you stop, which means the game stays on your mind after you return to work. Arcade games always let extra players join in at any time, but today's console games force you to restart if you want to change the number of people playing. Startup screens alone now take over a minute. Some Gameboy Advance games are pretty brief, but it's low tech, uncomfortable and only supports one player per unit.
The sad fact is, today's console and PC games are designed to take over your life, which is just what the boss won't allow on the job.
Before the first Harry Potter book was published, its publisher feared that boys might not read a book if they knew a woman wrote it, so they made Joanne Kathleen Rowling use her initials. If the law forced them to put her full first name on the cover, perhaps it would not have become as popular.
If the Athlon 64 and Opteron have on-die memory controllers and the 970 has an off-die memory controller, does that mean that even though the 970 has the same theoretical bandwidth as the Opteron, it will have higher latency and lower real-world bandwidth?
Flexibility: Today's kids are too busy to sit around for a specific timeslot, but with VHS and DVD, they can watch shows whenever they have a moment. They can even stop partway and resume later. Video games and the internet are also this flexible, and both are currently popular.
Kids want to do grownup stuff. R-rated movies are often designed to appeal to kids, as is parental-advisory music and M-rated video games. Think of The Matrix, Eminem and Grand Theft Auto. If cartoons used to be written for adults, then kids would watch them for that reason. But if cartoons are written for kids, kids will ignore them because they'll feel talked-down to. Anime made for teens or adults has the problem that it's too offensive for a Saturday morning timeslot, but it's not popular enough for an evening timeslot because most American adults assume that all cartoons are childish. So animators have to inform Americans that cool, mature cartoons exist.
Personally, I'd feel OK if hardware was divided into open and closed categories, as long as both were legally and corporately protected, and as long as copyrights were shortened to more realistic lengths. It would mean that movies would only be watchable on "approved", game-console-style devices, and that there would be only streaming, but it would also mean that content on demand would be possible and that copyrighted works would become public domain in a few years or decades. It would also mean that Hollywood would no longer try to outlaw open hardware and software.
I know all these changes would take a huge amount of wrangling and attitude changes, but I think it's what we should have in the end.
According to The Simpsons, Japanese toilets have cameras in the bowl, facing upward. If The Simpsons has it, it's gotta be true AND popular, right? Everyone knows why MS is copying this: Xbox flopped in Japan, so MS is making this toilet to learn Japanese culture in time for Xbox 2. Actually, this toilet might BE Xbox 2! The Japanese thought Xbox 1 was so ugly, it might as well be a toilet. Now it is. Otherwise, you can watch your bowl-cam remotely on Xbox live. Just be aware that corn farmers are also watching your toilet. They bribed MS to trace corn post-purchase with this system. I think they turn on a light in the bowl to count the kernels. It might be a UV light so you can't see when they're spying. They put UV dye in the corn to show up on camera.
As you can read here and here, USA benefitted from IP theft in 1790 when Samuel Slater stole the blueprints of the the water-powered spinning frame from England and used it to build a textile industry in USA comparable to England's. England called him a traitor, but USA called him a hero and the father of the industrial revolution. Today, USA is the capitol of IP and China benefits whenever they steal some.
Most likely, enforcing US IP laws in Iraq will help USA but hurt Iraq.
The downside of anime being the world's only respected (not popular, but respected) form of animation is that it's the kind that's getting most imitated. There are good American graphic novels like Sandman, Watchmen, Dark Knight Returns and Creature Tech that don't fit either into the Disney style of cartooning or the superhero style (Watchmen and DKR have superheroes but show mainly their bad sides), but are still among the world's best graphic novels. You can see some of their style rub off in Tim Burton, Coppolla and Scorsese, but it's sad that they have to be made/adapted into live action and not shown as animation.
For the spatially impaired, maps should be a series of photographs taken at each intersection from the traveller's point of view. Unfortunately, this would be extremely labor intensive. For a service like Mapquest, each intersection would have to be taken from four points of view, at four different times of day, each season. That's hundreds of millions of photographs each year in USA alone. It would be very useful as a GPS-based, car mounted HUD, but very expensive.
The "invisible flicker" might just be infrared. Digital cameras see infrared as a sort of purple. Try flashing your remote control at it! If most video cameras are sensitive to it, a bright IR strobe could be a cheap but effective foil.
MARVEL accuses SONY of literally kidnapping Spidey.
Unfortunately, in the public's eyes, Spider Man might be a Sony character. I'm guessing, but the movie probably made more money than the last 10 years of Spider Man comic books. Technically, Spider Man belongs to Marvel, but if courtrooms are won by whoever buys the most lawers, then Sony could win this.
Slashdot Mirror
But Uncle Sam is paying them so much to keep it in so hijackers will know where to aim!
"It's pretty difficult for many businesses and many economic assets in this country to segregate the cyber side from the physical side because how that company operates, how that community operates, is interdependent," Ridge told lawmakers at a hearing this week.
So this new department will only protect business? Does that mean they'll also only crack down on businesses, or will they save most of their persecution for the people who don't fund their campaigns?
If kung fu, blank acting and lame sex constitute a religious leader, then lets have...
The Gospel According to Shinji
The Gospel According to Solid Snake
The Gospel According to Makoto Kusanagi
The Gospel According to Tetsuo
The Gospel According to Fei Fong Wong
Read what an Iraqi has to say about it.
"1.8 Billion instructions per second per second. It's about time that somebody made an accelerating chip - way to go, IBM!"
Unfortunately, they're only making one of this chip and selling off the clock cycles with distributed computing apps. So no 970 for us.
First, Nintendo of America is based in Washington state. Second, most cop-killer games have exclusivity contracts on PlayStation 2. Third, Shigeru Miyamoto said the video game market needs popular, non-violent alternatives to Grand Theft Auto. Maybe, since Nintendo is completely shut out from the cop killer genre, they're trying to outlaw them?
Today's video games are too time consuming. Back when arcade games were popular, they'd be a nice break because they only take a few minutes to play and leave, but most of today's console games take over half an hour before you get somewhere satisfying in them. They often space the opportunity to save far apart so if you spend less than half an hour you lose your progress. Simply having to save your progress is a nuisance, because you have to remember where you are after you stop, which means the game stays on your mind after you return to work. Arcade games always let extra players join in at any time, but today's console games force you to restart if you want to change the number of people playing. Startup screens alone now take over a minute. Some Gameboy Advance games are pretty brief, but it's low tech, uncomfortable and only supports one player per unit.
The sad fact is, today's console and PC games are designed to take over your life, which is just what the boss won't allow on the job.
Before the first Harry Potter book was published, its publisher feared that boys might not read a book if they knew a woman wrote it, so they made Joanne Kathleen Rowling use her initials. If the law forced them to put her full first name on the cover, perhaps it would not have become as popular.
Isn't this idea an insult to all the doctors who have nearly doubled the human lifespan in the past century?
Now we can really feel like Leonard!
If the Athlon 64 and Opteron have on-die memory controllers and the 970 has an off-die memory controller, does that mean that even though the 970 has the same theoretical bandwidth as the Opteron, it will have higher latency and lower real-world bandwidth?
Flexibility: Today's kids are too busy to sit around for a specific timeslot, but with VHS and DVD, they can watch shows whenever they have a moment. They can even stop partway and resume later. Video games and the internet are also this flexible, and both are currently popular.
Kids want to do grownup stuff. R-rated movies are often designed to appeal to kids, as is parental-advisory music and M-rated video games. Think of The Matrix, Eminem and Grand Theft Auto. If cartoons used to be written for adults, then kids would watch them for that reason. But if cartoons are written for kids, kids will ignore them because they'll feel talked-down to. Anime made for teens or adults has the problem that it's too offensive for a Saturday morning timeslot, but it's not popular enough for an evening timeslot because most American adults assume that all cartoons are childish. So animators have to inform Americans that cool, mature cartoons exist.
According to RAM Price Index, RAM prices have been generally dropping for the past five months.
Personally, I'd feel OK if hardware was divided into open and closed categories, as long as both were legally and corporately protected, and as long as copyrights were shortened to more realistic lengths. It would mean that movies would only be watchable on "approved", game-console-style devices, and that there would be only streaming, but it would also mean that content on demand would be possible and that copyrighted works would become public domain in a few years or decades. It would also mean that Hollywood would no longer try to outlaw open hardware and software.
I know all these changes would take a huge amount of wrangling and attitude changes, but I think it's what we should have in the end.
This is a small price to pay for freedom of speech.
According to The Simpsons, Japanese toilets have cameras in the bowl, facing upward. If The Simpsons has it, it's gotta be true AND popular, right? Everyone knows why MS is copying this: Xbox flopped in Japan, so MS is making this toilet to learn Japanese culture in time for Xbox 2. Actually, this toilet might BE Xbox 2! The Japanese thought Xbox 1 was so ugly, it might as well be a toilet. Now it is. Otherwise, you can watch your bowl-cam remotely on Xbox live. Just be aware that corn farmers are also watching your toilet. They bribed MS to trace corn post-purchase with this system. I think they turn on a light in the bowl to count the kernels. It might be a UV light so you can't see when they're spying. They put UV dye in the corn to show up on camera.
Now I know why every time I read the word "Slashdot" I taste SPAM and get a burning sensation.
As you can read here and here, USA benefitted from IP theft in 1790 when Samuel Slater stole the blueprints of the the water-powered spinning frame from England and used it to build a textile industry in USA comparable to England's. England called him a traitor, but USA called him a hero and the father of the industrial revolution. Today, USA is the capitol of IP and China benefits whenever they steal some.
Most likely, enforcing US IP laws in Iraq will help USA but hurt Iraq.
This is an apple.slashdot.org post, that should be iObject, not i object.
I object!
The downside of anime being the world's only respected (not popular, but respected) form of animation is that it's the kind that's getting most imitated. There are good American graphic novels like Sandman, Watchmen, Dark Knight Returns and Creature Tech that don't fit either into the Disney style of cartooning or the superhero style (Watchmen and DKR have superheroes but show mainly their bad sides), but are still among the world's best graphic novels. You can see some of their style rub off in Tim Burton, Coppolla and Scorsese, but it's sad that they have to be made/adapted into live action and not shown as animation.
For the spatially impaired, maps should be a series of photographs taken at each intersection from the traveller's point of view. Unfortunately, this would be extremely labor intensive. For a service like Mapquest, each intersection would have to be taken from four points of view, at four different times of day, each season. That's hundreds of millions of photographs each year in USA alone. It would be very useful as a GPS-based, car mounted HUD, but very expensive.
"I like that, that the development of her mind actually affects her physicality."
So the more she learns, the more she gets back problems. Great.
Ha ha!
The "invisible flicker" might just be infrared. Digital cameras see infrared as a sort of purple. Try flashing your remote control at it! If most video cameras are sensitive to it, a bright IR strobe could be a cheap but effective foil.
MARVEL accuses SONY of literally kidnapping Spidey.
Unfortunately, in the public's eyes, Spider Man might be a Sony character. I'm guessing, but the movie probably made more money than the last 10 years of Spider Man comic books. Technically, Spider Man belongs to Marvel, but if courtrooms are won by whoever buys the most lawers, then Sony could win this.