I'll agree with that, provided you are reffering to his role in Jurassic Park as a mathmatician specializing in chaos theory, and not that Independence Day crap.
I spent the night thinking about this, and here's what I've come up with.
Sony is really thinking here. I'm serious, they knew exactly what they were getting into, and they priced themselves accordingly. At the end of 2006, how many people have the HD capabilities to really take advantage of this? The people who have dropped $2500 on a television. Its being marketed to them. Sony is in this for the long run, and the approach to the PS3 makes sense if you look at it that way.
The original Playstation was released in 1994. The PS2 was released in 2000. The PS3 is being released in 2006. A six year cycle - while the xbox and xbox 360 was released in 2001 and 2005 respectively - a four year cycle.
In 2006, not too many people have HD. By 2008, a lot more people will have HD. This is where their market starts making a substantial grasp. The full backwards compatibility of the PS3 makes it possible for developers to continue cranking out games for the PS2, and the PS3 users can still take advantage of those games.
In a lot of ways, the PS3 was rushed to market. The blue-ray tech is still very young, and hence very expensive (by some estimates 40% of the cost of the platform), and that will drop -really- fast. I suspect we'll see a price cut on the PS3 in the fall of 2007, which at that point the platform will really start taking off. 2008 will be the PS3's true testing year, since HD will be substantially more prevelent, and Blue-ray will have taken off as well.
The PS3 is probably designed for the same length on the market as the last two - six years. In 2013, most people will have HD, and if Microsoft maintains their cycle, will release another console in 2010. They'll have to, just to keep up.
Sony isnt shooting for market share, they're shooting for platform longevity. They -have- market share, and the PS2 still competes nicely right now. I'm betting that Sony wouldn't have put out a platform for another year if it hadn't been for Microsoft. All the technology that they're stuffing into the PS3 really makes me believe that. Blue-ray, HD, etc, their big costs for the platform are not market ready in a lot of ways yet.
I'm going to go out on a limb and say you just havent been properly introduced to it. As with any other medium, there are forms of anime or manga that will appeal to you, and some that will not. Do you like the simpsons? Do you like 24? Do you like Star Trek? Do you like Debbie Does Dallas? Each of these will have parallels in anime, just as they each have parallels in north american media. Simpsons has Family Guy, 24 has CSI, Star Trek has babylon 5 or star wars or firefly. I'm gonna avoid trying to compare anything to Debbie Does Dallas, since I havent actually seen it.
Seriously, tell me what kind of entertainment you enjoy. I have plenty of expoasure to anime, so I can reccomend a large variety. I generally start people with the easier animes, because there is some level of understanding of not only japan, but anime "memes" to handle some of the better (but wierder) versions.
For the totally uninitiated, I dont reccomend neon genesis evangelion. Its a little out there, and can leave people with a bad taste in their mouth if they dont enjoy it. Not all anime is completely insane.
I'm big on Media Player Classic on windows. Small, lightweight, and generally handles just about everything. There are a few codec packs out there that are required to do some things, but its generally ok.
BSplayer annoyed me when I first tried it, but then again it also kinda struck me as spyware the first time around. My mistake.
A recipercal effect though is that children exposed to pr0n will be exposed to sex much earlier and thus go looking for it.
I totally disagree. Anecdotal evidence, but I think it applies to your arguement.
I grew up with limited television, fairly strict christian parents, no internet until I was 15, and I was having sex with a girl from a church group when I was 12. We definitely didnt know much about what we were doing, but there was some inherent knowledge about how to put things together.
I think the key to handling this "problem" is not to limit porn, but to educate and expose early teens to it so they know what the hell all those hormones are for. If you demystify and remove the taboos and limitations around it, then sex becomes nothing more interesting than using public washrooms. I'm not saying teach children to be promiscuous, but teach them about the possible consequences, and let them make their own decsions.
My opinion on this feeds into all kinds of different things. Public nudity or sexual relations in public are some of them. But my opinions arent exactly general popular concensus.
I think that a lot of porn is damaging, because of the violence involved it tends to portray. If people didnt get some type of "im doing something bad!" thrill out of sex to begin with, then there would be no nessecity to continually raise the threashold of bad.
The sad part is that I have to go online to a swedish website in order to download the TV show that I missed last night. Look at iTunes. Give people a legal way to purchase things online, and people will use it. This is not about the $200 million dollars it takes to make a movie, its about the $1.50 the company could have made from me by providing an equally simple method of getting the content I want.
As the son of a professional musician, one who is barely known outside our small community, I can confidently say that there are plenty of other ways to make money without touring or selling merchandise. And $200 million movies will still get made, assuming the movie studios can keep up with the buisness models of the future.
open source projects are only successful when major technology corporations get involved
Show me the big buisness involvement with qmail. sendmail? how about bind? Does ISC count as a "major technology corporation" now?
I suppose you could also require a definition of successful. Buisness definition of success is money. My definition of success is how many people use it. IRC. Big buisness has generally steered right clear of it. Probably about a million people using it. Is IRC successful? Cause thats one of my open source projects.
What about RFC791. That could be seen as "open source". BSD's socket layer? Definitely open source. Definitely successful, Microsoft used it. I wouldnt say any big buisness made it successful. I would say it was successful beforehand, and big buisness used that success to further its own goals.
IANAL, but having a dirty phone conversation with an underage person is probably very illegal. At the minimum, it is immoral and an adult that engages in that activity should be considered a potential pedophile.
I suppose I should clarify my statement regarding legal age. I'm Canadian, and up here we have sane (and good) laws about "underage" sex. I'm not quite sure what americans think take place when a teenager turns 18, but my opinion on the statitory rape charge is purely some way for parents to get back at the guy who goes after their daughter. I personally ran into some problems with the american laws on that issue when I was 19, with the boarder patrol giving me a hard time about the 17 year old girl I was with.
And no, I dont think a dirty conversation is illegal. Period. If you're having problems with your ten year old having dirty phone conversations, then you've definitely got a problem. But a 15 year old? Thats just normal.
And I'm not telling you how to raise your child, you're taking this too personally. We're having a conversation, where we're both entitled to our opinion. I'll argue my point, but yours is no less valid.
I would moderate you flamebait if I could, instead I'll just (impersonally) flame you.
I believe that the comparison to California's crime rate is invalid because cybercrime may or may not involve actual physical contact. And, if it doesn't involve physical contact (for example, a dirty phone conversation), then it may not be reported.
So what, now -talking- about having underage sex is illigal, should be reported as sexual harrassment or such? wtf? Keep the frame of reference here. The issue was the fact that people were meeting on myspace and proceeding to have real, in person, SEX!. My issues with the legal age aside, you can NOT compare phonesex with a minor to statitory rape.
IMHO, that job should include removing computers from their children's bedroom.
At what age does it become acceptable? 18? 16? 14? If you've got a 15 year old girl that wants to flirt on the net, removing her computer from her room isnt going to stop her. If you want to be sure that she doesnt go meet some 40 year old in a motel for a night of wild sex, then raise her with values that wouldnt let her do that.
Teens running off and having sex with older folks isnt a symptom of the internet, its a symptom of something totally different. Yes, teach them not to put themselves in bad situations, but that doesnt mean removing their privacy to achieve it.
When my dad started dating my mom, he was 22 and she was 16. 30 years ago, that was still a big age difference, but when they past their 30th anniversary this year, it made me wonder what kinda fuss they went through and weather it would be more or less flac if I dated someone 6 years my junior now.
The majority of my taxes go towards causes, programs, or institutions whose services I neither need nor want, and a handful to which I have serious ethical and/or moral objections.
Thus is the nature of living in a democracy. If you expect to be a part of a society, then you must realize that society will not always agree with you. You pay taxes to be part of that.
I disagree with roads, because I dont drive. I think there should be bike paths instead of roads. I disagree with indoor plumbing because technology goes against my religious beliefs. I dont want to pay for peoples roads and cities sewer systems.
You may not gain from expenditures our governments make, and you always have the choice to leave the country. Move to an egregarian society somewhere else. If you wish to stay, then you must be prepared to realize that your tax money may not go to something that directly affects you. Saying "let me keep my taxes", you should be prepared to loose some of those things you consider most important - roads, plumbing, health care, employment insurance, capped electricity costs, reduced tuition costs, public education, military. I promise you, one of those things out there is the -MOST- important thing out there that someone pay their taxes to. You get the whole package, you dont pick and choose.
Dont complain - this tax gives us exactly the artillary we need to fight off further legislation. Right now I can download music guilt-free because every time I buy a blank CD, I pay for music.
I paid a levy on my ipod. As long as I own that Ipod, I intend to use it to listen to music I downloaded without paying for.
Sarmite Bulte, a Liberal Party Canidate was defeated in her riding in this mondays' election, possibly in part due to the media (i belive) started by Jack Kapica's column in the Globe and Mail (link... actual article about this issue here).
In short, she was previously the Canadian Heritage minister, and she was being wined and dined and donated to by the media industry, and advocating copyright reform that would allow DMCA style C&Ds. She was replaced with an NDP canidate, which made me pretty happy.
Agreed. In fact, as someone who learned socket coding around 1999/2000 (and as a result do not have a good grasp on how to actively define register variables, compilers do that stuff for you these days) I did all of these things out of habit, and didnt fully understand them until this article.
In the same line - where is the discussion of different FD table polling mechanisms? select() versus poll(), and wheres the writeup about Linux's epoll(). I would have been interested in an epoll() article, especially how it compares to FreeBSD's kqueue().
Honestly, this is the very feature Thunderbird is lacking that prevents me from switching to it. I get a whole bunch of VCAL messages from my Outlook-utilizing co-workers, which end up simply in my head since I use pine.
If thunderbird had VCAL support and very basic calendaring, I'd switch because then I'd actually have a reason to use it over pine.
I would be more curious if this now means the apache people are actively suggesting 2.0 on full-on production servers. Even a few months ago I briefly looked at switching my web cluster to 2.0, and I found posts saying "if there is no specific feature you require, stick with 1.3".
I'd like to start moving forward and make the big jump, but 1.3->2.2 probably isnt going to happen. What are people saying about 1.3->2.0 now?
I agree - I've been introducing people to it on a regular basis. I think its because of the raw quality of the work and the lack of good engaging material from this side of the planet.
I primarily download my anime via bittorrent. I check out what I like, and eventually buy the boxed set. Just this morning I recieved my box set of Azumanga Diaoh (funniest anime EVAR). If you have an easy method of previewing your content, it makes the purchase easier.
And I feel like I'm actually supporting something with anime, as most anime shops (in japan) are small and have very thin profit margins.
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I'll agree with that, provided you are reffering to his role in Jurassic Park as a mathmatician specializing in chaos theory, and not that Independence Day crap.
from the journalist-gets-paid-to-state-the-obvious dept.
I spent the night thinking about this, and here's what I've come up with.
Sony is really thinking here. I'm serious, they knew exactly what they were getting into, and they priced themselves accordingly. At the end of 2006, how many people have the HD capabilities to really take advantage of this? The people who have dropped $2500 on a television. Its being marketed to them. Sony is in this for the long run, and the approach to the PS3 makes sense if you look at it that way.
The original Playstation was released in 1994. The PS2 was released in 2000. The PS3 is being released in 2006. A six year cycle - while the xbox and xbox 360 was released in 2001 and 2005 respectively - a four year cycle.
In 2006, not too many people have HD. By 2008, a lot more people will have HD. This is where their market starts making a substantial grasp. The full backwards compatibility of the PS3 makes it possible for developers to continue cranking out games for the PS2, and the PS3 users can still take advantage of those games.
In a lot of ways, the PS3 was rushed to market. The blue-ray tech is still very young, and hence very expensive (by some estimates 40% of the cost of the platform), and that will drop -really- fast. I suspect we'll see a price cut on the PS3 in the fall of 2007, which at that point the platform will really start taking off. 2008 will be the PS3's true testing year, since HD will be substantially more prevelent, and Blue-ray will have taken off as well.
The PS3 is probably designed for the same length on the market as the last two - six years. In 2013, most people will have HD, and if Microsoft maintains their cycle, will release another console in 2010. They'll have to, just to keep up.
Sony isnt shooting for market share, they're shooting for platform longevity. They -have- market share, and the PS2 still competes nicely right now. I'm betting that Sony wouldn't have put out a platform for another year if it hadn't been for Microsoft. All the technology that they're stuffing into the PS3 really makes me believe that. Blue-ray, HD, etc, their big costs for the platform are not market ready in a lot of ways yet.
Just some thoughts.
I'm going to go out on a limb and say you just havent been properly introduced to it. As with any other medium, there are forms of anime or manga that will appeal to you, and some that will not. Do you like the simpsons? Do you like 24? Do you like Star Trek? Do you like Debbie Does Dallas? Each of these will have parallels in anime, just as they each have parallels in north american media. Simpsons has Family Guy, 24 has CSI, Star Trek has babylon 5 or star wars or firefly. I'm gonna avoid trying to compare anything to Debbie Does Dallas, since I havent actually seen it.
Seriously, tell me what kind of entertainment you enjoy. I have plenty of expoasure to anime, so I can reccomend a large variety. I generally start people with the easier animes, because there is some level of understanding of not only japan, but anime "memes" to handle some of the better (but wierder) versions.
For the totally uninitiated, I dont reccomend neon genesis evangelion. Its a little out there, and can leave people with a bad taste in their mouth if they dont enjoy it. Not all anime is completely insane.
I'm big on Media Player Classic on windows. Small, lightweight, and generally handles just about everything. There are a few codec packs out there that are required to do some things, but its generally ok.
BSplayer annoyed me when I first tried it, but then again it also kinda struck me as spyware the first time around. My mistake.
Antitrust wasnt bad. At least the video of the guy working on the commandline. That honestly impressed me.
I'd be curious to see how shows like ER or House actually compare to real medicine. I wonder if its that much a crapshoot most of the time.
A recipercal effect though is that children exposed to pr0n will be exposed to sex much earlier and thus go looking for it.
I totally disagree. Anecdotal evidence, but I think it applies to your arguement.
I grew up with limited television, fairly strict christian parents, no internet until I was 15, and I was having sex with a girl from a church group when I was 12. We definitely didnt know much about what we were doing, but there was some inherent knowledge about how to put things together.
I think the key to handling this "problem" is not to limit porn, but to educate and expose early teens to it so they know what the hell all those hormones are for. If you demystify and remove the taboos and limitations around it, then sex becomes nothing more interesting than using public washrooms. I'm not saying teach children to be promiscuous, but teach them about the possible consequences, and let them make their own decsions.
My opinion on this feeds into all kinds of different things. Public nudity or sexual relations in public are some of them. But my opinions arent exactly general popular concensus.
I think that a lot of porn is damaging, because of the violence involved it tends to portray. If people didnt get some type of "im doing something bad!" thrill out of sex to begin with, then there would be no nessecity to continually raise the threashold of bad.
*shrug*
The sad part is that I have to go online to a swedish website in order to download the TV show that I missed last night. Look at iTunes. Give people a legal way to purchase things online, and people will use it. This is not about the $200 million dollars it takes to make a movie, its about the $1.50 the company could have made from me by providing an equally simple method of getting the content I want.
As the son of a professional musician, one who is barely known outside our small community, I can confidently say that there are plenty of other ways to make money without touring or selling merchandise. And $200 million movies will still get made, assuming the movie studios can keep up with the buisness models of the future.
open source projects are only successful when major technology corporations get involved
Show me the big buisness involvement with qmail. sendmail? how about bind? Does ISC count as a "major technology corporation" now?
I suppose you could also require a definition of successful. Buisness definition of success is money. My definition of success is how many people use it. IRC. Big buisness has generally steered right clear of it. Probably about a million people using it. Is IRC successful? Cause thats one of my open source projects.
What about RFC791. That could be seen as "open source". BSD's socket layer? Definitely open source. Definitely successful, Microsoft used it. I wouldnt say any big buisness made it successful. I would say it was successful beforehand, and big buisness used that success to further its own goals.
your parents having sex /me promptly goes into convusions and wakes up having wiped that idea out of his head.
IANAL, but having a dirty phone conversation with an underage person is probably very illegal. At the minimum, it is immoral and an adult that engages in that activity should be considered a potential pedophile.
I suppose I should clarify my statement regarding legal age. I'm Canadian, and up here we have sane (and good) laws about "underage" sex. I'm not quite sure what americans think take place when a teenager turns 18, but my opinion on the statitory rape charge is purely some way for parents to get back at the guy who goes after their daughter. I personally ran into some problems with the american laws on that issue when I was 19, with the boarder patrol giving me a hard time about the 17 year old girl I was with.
And no, I dont think a dirty conversation is illegal. Period. If you're having problems with your ten year old having dirty phone conversations, then you've definitely got a problem. But a 15 year old? Thats just normal.
And I'm not telling you how to raise your child, you're taking this too personally. We're having a conversation, where we're both entitled to our opinion. I'll argue my point, but yours is no less valid.
I would moderate you flamebait if I could, instead I'll just (impersonally) flame you.
I believe that the comparison to California's crime rate is invalid because cybercrime may or may not involve actual physical contact. And, if it doesn't involve physical contact (for example, a dirty phone conversation), then it may not be reported.
So what, now -talking- about having underage sex is illigal, should be reported as sexual harrassment or such? wtf? Keep the frame of reference here. The issue was the fact that people were meeting on myspace and proceeding to have real, in person, SEX!. My issues with the legal age aside, you can NOT compare phonesex with a minor to statitory rape.
IMHO, that job should include removing computers from their children's bedroom.
At what age does it become acceptable? 18? 16? 14? If you've got a 15 year old girl that wants to flirt on the net, removing her computer from her room isnt going to stop her. If you want to be sure that she doesnt go meet some 40 year old in a motel for a night of wild sex, then raise her with values that wouldnt let her do that.
Teens running off and having sex with older folks isnt a symptom of the internet, its a symptom of something totally different. Yes, teach them not to put themselves in bad situations, but that doesnt mean removing their privacy to achieve it.
When my dad started dating my mom, he was 22 and she was 16. 30 years ago, that was still a big age difference, but when they past their 30th anniversary this year, it made me wonder what kinda fuss they went through and weather it would be more or less flac if I dated someone 6 years my junior now.
The majority of my taxes go towards causes, programs, or institutions whose services I neither need nor want, and a handful to which I have serious ethical and/or moral objections.
Thus is the nature of living in a democracy. If you expect to be a part of a society, then you must realize that society will not always agree with you. You pay taxes to be part of that.
I disagree with roads, because I dont drive. I think there should be bike paths instead of roads. I disagree with indoor plumbing because technology goes against my religious beliefs. I dont want to pay for peoples roads and cities sewer systems.
You may not gain from expenditures our governments make, and you always have the choice to leave the country. Move to an egregarian society somewhere else. If you wish to stay, then you must be prepared to realize that your tax money may not go to something that directly affects you. Saying "let me keep my taxes", you should be prepared to loose some of those things you consider most important - roads, plumbing, health care, employment insurance, capped electricity costs, reduced tuition costs, public education, military. I promise you, one of those things out there is the -MOST- important thing out there that someone pay their taxes to. You get the whole package, you dont pick and choose.
Dont complain - this tax gives us exactly the artillary we need to fight off further legislation. Right now I can download music guilt-free because every time I buy a blank CD, I pay for music.
I paid a levy on my ipod. As long as I own that Ipod, I intend to use it to listen to music I downloaded without paying for.
An expansion on the brouhaha...
... actual article about this issue here).
Sarmite Bulte, a Liberal Party Canidate was defeated in her riding in this mondays' election, possibly in part due to the media (i belive) started by Jack Kapica's column in the Globe and Mail (link
In short, she was previously the Canadian Heritage minister, and she was being wined and dined and donated to by the media industry, and advocating copyright reform that would allow DMCA style C&Ds. She was replaced with an NDP canidate, which made me pretty happy.
Agreed. In fact, as someone who learned socket coding around 1999/2000 (and as a result do not have a good grasp on how to actively define register variables, compilers do that stuff for you these days) I did all of these things out of habit, and didnt fully understand them until this article.
In the same line - where is the discussion of different FD table polling mechanisms? select() versus poll(), and wheres the writeup about Linux's epoll(). I would have been interested in an epoll() article, especially how it compares to FreeBSD's kqueue().
You missed it..
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The problem with that sentance is...
either scrupulously honest or more paranoid they'll get sued by RIAA
or lazy? Why hunt through p2p networks when itunes has it right there?
I'm not scared of RIAA. I'm not scrupulously honest. I AM lazy, and will take the method of least effort to achieve my goals.
Honestly, this is the very feature Thunderbird is lacking that prevents me from switching to it. I get a whole bunch of VCAL messages from my Outlook-utilizing co-workers, which end up simply in my head since I use pine.
If thunderbird had VCAL support and very basic calendaring, I'd switch because then I'd actually have a reason to use it over pine.
Same type of thing, but indenting styles. K&R vs. BSD, ect. I'm curious how that breaks up.
(Partial to BSD style myself..)
I would be more curious if this now means the apache people are actively suggesting 2.0 on full-on production servers. Even a few months ago I briefly looked at switching my web cluster to 2.0, and I found posts saying "if there is no specific feature you require, stick with 1.3".
I'd like to start moving forward and make the big jump, but 1.3->2.2 probably isnt going to happen. What are people saying about 1.3->2.0 now?
I love this kinda stuff. You piss off the internet, and the internet strikes back.. 100,000 geeks know where you live.
pygmysurfer you lazy git! stop posting on slashdot and work! :)
I agree - I've been introducing people to it on a regular basis. I think its because of the raw quality of the work and the lack of good engaging material from this side of the planet.
I primarily download my anime via bittorrent. I check out what I like, and eventually buy the boxed set. Just this morning I recieved my box set of Azumanga Diaoh (funniest anime EVAR). If you have an easy method of previewing your content, it makes the purchase easier.
And I feel like I'm actually supporting something with anime, as most anime shops (in japan) are small and have very thin profit margins.
This is on my software. If I dont like GPL 3.0, and dont want my software distributed under it, I'm already screwed.
by far the most useful tool in troubleshooting.