While I agree they arent synonymous and they shouldnt be, I'll tell you why I watch anime.
The majority of shows I see on television are crap. There are a few exceptions, but by and large the shows are all the same. Crime, mystery, sitcoms. One show, recently cancelled that accually fit outside the mold was Dead like Me, which I enjoyed quite a bit.
Anime provides an open medium. When you are drawing your characters and environment, you are completely unlimited in what you can do. It makes for more interesting stories - more fantasy or scifi. Plus, in the anime genre, its quite common for the run to be limited to one over-arching plot line - often in increments of 13 episodes - most commonly in 26 episodes. I'm of the opinion that good stories can sometimes take a while to explain.
They make anime for every age group - from kids to adults to pervs - girls and guys alike. There is something for everyone.
I usually introduce people to anime with a combination of Perfect Blue - quite possibly the most freaky suspense movie I've ever seen. Also, Spirited Away the highest grossing film in Japanese history - more Disney, but still quite good.
Take the plunge - its worth it. Especially if you lack movies with ninjas and big fucking swords.
Part of the logic (excuse?) of some of the fansubbing teams is that when they licensed Naruto, they licensed a fixed number of early episodes. So, those episodes are out of distribution - but the most recent ones for those of us who have been watching since the beginning are still made available.
I happen to follow naruto - its incredible how this works.
The show airs in Japan on wednesday night at 7:28pm local time. Within 24 hours, a fansubbed version is released on the internet. The most recent version was released about 13 hours ago, and there are currently 15770 seeds and 13600 peers on this torrent. In 12 hours, 11.5 terabytes has been transferred, and just over 71,000 people have downloaded the episode.
I honestly wonder if there is an environment that does the same thing to bittorrent on such a scale.
This is part of the problem. Wait until the population on earth is 12 billion people - dont worry, you wont have to wait long.
Then all of these issues start becoming a LOT more complicated. Currently there is (quite rightfully) concern over each and every life that is created - regardless of their potential quality of life - is precious. When we cant afford to provide for each person on this planet, is it still unethical to terminate a child whos quality of life or ability to contribute is next to nil?
We're quickly running towards a point where these questions become much more pressing - and I dont know how to answer them, do you? You could almost say that this is part of the arrogance of many countries still. As inhuman as it sounds, there is a time where some metric of value will be placed on each prospective human, and that metric will be there to ensure the survival of our entire civilization.
Yeah, it does a great job of breaking all those incoming connections from, say, the 1000 worms traversing the internet as well.
Accually, yes it does. Walking through 8 or 16 bits of address space is not really that much work for a worm. Walking 64 bits of address space to find 50 computers - well, thats a fair bit more.
Thing about it this way - You're on an ethernet network, and you need to walk through all of the MAC address space to find a computer. IPv6 is roughly the same.
Granted, its security by obscurity, but it will probably more effective than non-nat ipv4.
But if the world goes to 100% open source, innovation goes to zero. The open source guys hate it when I say this, but it's true."
You didnt quite nail it - so lets see if I can...
The reason us "open source guys" hate it when he says that is because its a fucking insult straight to our face. You basically just told me that I cant innovate, my software is reverse engineered from others, and if it wasnt for others my software would suck. I dont spend thousands of hours of my time in order to be told that I cant innovate.
I looked at satalite access a few years ago when I was looking at buying a house too far out of town to get broadband.
Geosynchronous Orbit is at 35,786 Kilometers. It takes light 120ms to get from earth to a geosync satalite. (source).
Hence, 240ms round trip. Back and forth, you to your provider. Another 240ms to get a responce.
The only reason I'd consider satalite access would be for bulk downloads. 540ms on an ssh session would quickly drive me insane.
So add that half second to whatever routing overhead there is involved in skype (I usually see about.3 to.6 of a second delay, talking to people within a few hundred kilometers). I'd say, all in all, pretty crappy experience.
I want these things in my servers. They're big enough to hold my OS - I assume eat less power and generate less heat. Good enough, I'm sold. I use central storage for my applications anyway. Give me a pair of these over a pair of scsi drives any day.
Maybe I'm mixing terms here, but I was under the impression that linux is NOT monolithic - its quite modular. Monolithic translates to no modules, correct?
Just because linux gives you the options of going modular or monolithic whereas most BSD based kernels do not (you will use modules, period) doesnt nessecarily make it a monolithic kernel by design.
Both methods have their advantages, and I personally have always like the BSD kernel method, but the advantages of being capable of building a monolithic kernel with linux have served me well as well. I think linux has a nice balance.
Another ignorant question - would it be possible to tie my Skype account to this? I've recently decided that I like Skype, figured it might be handy to tie the two together.
That accually reminds me of a story a friend of mine told me. He's in 4th year physics at Waterloo, and near the end of the class, as people were starting to pack up, the teacher made some reference to Patrick Stewart.
One student in the class, who grew up in North America to an english speaking family, asked "I've heard a number of reference to Patrick Stewart in your class - who is he?"
The room went dead silent. Another student goes "You're in fourth year physics and you dont know who Patrick Stewart is?", agast.
They care about Canadian IP laws for the same reason many americans cite as why canada should just shut up.
The US and Canada have incredibly tightly integrated economies. BOTH countries export and import 80% of their goods with each other. Mutual dependance.
The US wants the same laws as often as possible. It makes commerce easier. What if canada suddenly made oranges illegal. We dont grow any oranges up here, so only the importers would be affected. But believe me, some orange producer down in the states would be hopping mad.
If our IP laws are more lax, it makes canada a better place to do buisness in certain cases. Lost american jobs, lost american revenue. Of course they're pissed.
Maybe they should fix their IP laws instead of trying to fuck up ours just as badly as theirs are.
If you look at the quality of TNG between seasons 2 and 5 (after the actors and writers had found the characters, and before Gene died) - you'll see what good trek really should be.
The episodes often had some level of allegory, had rich character personality and generally good plots. The character development wasnt really -bad- after season 5, but the episodes lost alot of the allegory or idealism that Gene brought to the show.
I remember watching the special features on the DVD for season 2 (I think) and there was mention of Gene's common statements of "In the 24th century, X doesnt happen". Because we as a society were supposed to have grown out of it.
The idealism - the pure hope and character strength slowly evaporated. It became people exactly like we are today, with all the same failings as if society hadnt progressed at all, and only the technology was different. I think the latter half of DS9 demonstrates this the most.
If they want a show to compete against other trek reruns, then give us something we WANT TO WATCH other than what we've already seen dozens of times. It says something about the quality of the show if you think that people would rather watch TNG (which I would) than this Enterprise crap. Voyager was better than this.
I personally think that the approach towards broadband was mostly done wrong. The large majority of users should never be fully visible online - those broadband routers should be doing NAT for all but a small minority of users.
While we cant code or design around user stupidity (in the sense that if you give a user a button that says "DONT CLICK HERE, IT WILL INSTALL A SPYBOT" and they'll still click it), we certainly can design around stupid operating systems that have holes you could drive a transport truck through. NAT does this quite well - I reccomend a NAT router (WRT54G, specifically) for everyone I know - including myself. It saves massive amounts of problems.
Part of the issue also lies with the fact that most "concious" users load up their PC with firewalls and zonealarm and so forth to the point where its slow because of all the crap on the system.
As much of the song I can remember from memory. Maybe this will help tell the difference from stars and planets (was this a mistake, because im pretty sure astronomers should understand that..)
This sun is a mass of incandecent gas, A gigantic nuclear furnace, Where hydrogen is built into helium, at a temperature of millions of degrees.
The sun is hot, the sun is not A place where we could live. But here on earth, there'd be no life without the light it gives.
We need its light, We need its heat, The sunlight that we see.. The sunlight comes from our oun suns' Atomic energy.
Uhm, Carpal Tunnel is caused by doing any repetative action when your hand is above your wrist. (Hard to describe). Take your arm, and stick it straight out from your body. Now without moving your arm, point up.
Often, computer folks type on a keyboard which is not flush with their desk. The keyboard sits on the desk, and your wrist sits on the desk too. Thus, your hands are "above" your wrists.
The opposite is playing guitar. Your wrist is all bent down in order to hit the notes, and this causes tendonitis. My dad has been a professional guitarist for 40 years, and he has extremely bad tendonitis.
The two problems are caused by opposite repetative stresses. Tendonitis and CP are both RSI (repetative stress injuries).
(Note, im paraphrasing from what my doctor and such has told me - IANAD).
Oh, and 140,000 messages on a $1500 PC sounds a little low accually. We handled 40,000 -sockets- on an AMD Duron 900Mhz. Each socket recieved a few messages per second, and we were recieving far more from the uplink.
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Go rent Perfect Blue. The main character is a 21 year old girl trying to make it in show buisness. Believe me, that movie is NOT for kids.
While I agree they arent synonymous and they shouldnt be, I'll tell you why I watch anime.
The majority of shows I see on television are crap. There are a few exceptions, but by and large the shows are all the same. Crime, mystery, sitcoms. One show, recently cancelled that accually fit outside the mold was Dead like Me, which I enjoyed quite a bit.
Anime provides an open medium. When you are drawing your characters and environment, you are completely unlimited in what you can do. It makes for more interesting stories - more fantasy or scifi. Plus, in the anime genre, its quite common for the run to be limited to one over-arching plot line - often in increments of 13 episodes - most commonly in 26 episodes. I'm of the opinion that good stories can sometimes take a while to explain.
They make anime for every age group - from kids to adults to pervs - girls and guys alike. There is something for everyone.
I usually introduce people to anime with a combination of Perfect Blue - quite possibly the most freaky suspense movie I've ever seen. Also, Spirited Away the highest grossing film in Japanese history - more Disney, but still quite good.
Take the plunge - its worth it. Especially if you lack movies with ninjas and big fucking swords.
Part of the logic (excuse?) of some of the fansubbing teams is that when they licensed Naruto, they licensed a fixed number of early episodes. So, those episodes are out of distribution - but the most recent ones for those of us who have been watching since the beginning are still made available.
I happen to follow naruto - its incredible how this works.
The show airs in Japan on wednesday night at 7:28pm local time. Within 24 hours, a fansubbed version is released on the internet. The most recent version was released about 13 hours ago, and there are currently 15770 seeds and 13600 peers on this torrent. In 12 hours, 11.5 terabytes has been transferred, and just over 71,000 people have downloaded the episode.
I honestly wonder if there is an environment that does the same thing to bittorrent on such a scale.
Linux, *bsd.. and anything else that probably isnt purchased with the OS preinstalled.
How many of you get your servers with an OS installed on it? I surely dont. Then I install linux. And I buy a crapload of hardware.
This is part of the problem. Wait until the population on earth is 12 billion people - dont worry, you wont have to wait long.
Then all of these issues start becoming a LOT more complicated. Currently there is (quite rightfully) concern over each and every life that is created - regardless of their potential quality of life - is precious. When we cant afford to provide for each person on this planet, is it still unethical to terminate a child whos quality of life or ability to contribute is next to nil?
We're quickly running towards a point where these questions become much more pressing - and I dont know how to answer them, do you? You could almost say that this is part of the arrogance of many countries still. As inhuman as it sounds, there is a time where some metric of value will be placed on each prospective human, and that metric will be there to ensure the survival of our entire civilization.
Only reason this hardware can cost dirt is because there isnt a $100 microsoft tax in software.
Yeah, it does a great job of breaking all those incoming connections from, say, the 1000 worms traversing the internet as well.
Accually, yes it does. Walking through 8 or 16 bits of address space is not really that much work for a worm. Walking 64 bits of address space to find 50 computers - well, thats a fair bit more.
Thing about it this way - You're on an ethernet network, and you need to walk through all of the MAC address space to find a computer. IPv6 is roughly the same.
Granted, its security by obscurity, but it will probably more effective than non-nat ipv4.
But if the world goes to 100% open source, innovation goes to zero. The open source guys hate it when I say this, but it's true."
You didnt quite nail it - so lets see if I can...
The reason us "open source guys" hate it when he says that is because its a fucking insult straight to our face. You basically just told me that I cant innovate, my software is reverse engineered from others, and if it wasnt for others my software would suck. I dont spend thousands of hours of my time in order to be told that I cant innovate.
And the twit wonders why we hate it.
Err, 480ms rather. I cant do math. Damnit, there goes my whole post.
I looked at satalite access a few years ago when I was looking at buying a house too far out of town to get broadband.
.3 to .6 of a second delay, talking to people within a few hundred kilometers). I'd say, all in all, pretty crappy experience.
Geosynchronous Orbit is at 35,786 Kilometers. It takes light 120ms to get from earth to a geosync satalite. (source).
Hence, 240ms round trip. Back and forth, you to your provider. Another 240ms to get a responce.
The only reason I'd consider satalite access would be for bulk downloads. 540ms on an ssh session would quickly drive me insane.
So add that half second to whatever routing overhead there is involved in skype (I usually see about
But its better than nothing I suppose.
Regardless, Samsung == major vendor.
I want these things in my servers. They're big enough to hold my OS - I assume eat less power and generate less heat. Good enough, I'm sold. I use central storage for my applications anyway. Give me a pair of these over a pair of scsi drives any day.
Maybe I'm mixing terms here, but I was under the impression that linux is NOT monolithic - its quite modular. Monolithic translates to no modules, correct?
Just because linux gives you the options of going modular or monolithic whereas most BSD based kernels do not (you will use modules, period) doesnt nessecarily make it a monolithic kernel by design.
Both methods have their advantages, and I personally have always like the BSD kernel method, but the advantages of being capable of building a monolithic kernel with linux have served me well as well. I think linux has a nice balance.
Another ignorant question - would it be possible to tie my Skype account to this? I've recently decided that I like Skype, figured it might be handy to tie the two together.
That accually reminds me of a story a friend of mine told me. He's in 4th year physics at Waterloo, and near the end of the class, as people were starting to pack up, the teacher made some reference to Patrick Stewart.
One student in the class, who grew up in North America to an english speaking family, asked "I've heard a number of reference to Patrick Stewart in your class - who is he?"
The room went dead silent. Another student goes "You're in fourth year physics and you dont know who Patrick Stewart is?", agast.
And thats the end of my story.
They care about Canadian IP laws for the same reason many americans cite as why canada should just shut up.
The US and Canada have incredibly tightly integrated economies. BOTH countries export and import 80% of their goods with each other. Mutual dependance.
The US wants the same laws as often as possible. It makes commerce easier. What if canada suddenly made oranges illegal. We dont grow any oranges up here, so only the importers would be affected. But believe me, some orange producer down in the states would be hopping mad.
If our IP laws are more lax, it makes canada a better place to do buisness in certain cases. Lost american jobs, lost american revenue. Of course they're pissed.
Maybe they should fix their IP laws instead of trying to fuck up ours just as badly as theirs are.
As a Canadian, I'd put forth that we reject the US's rejection of our DMCA rejection.
If you look at the quality of TNG between seasons 2 and 5 (after the actors and writers had found the characters, and before Gene died) - you'll see what good trek really should be.
The episodes often had some level of allegory, had rich character personality and generally good plots. The character development wasnt really -bad- after season 5, but the episodes lost alot of the allegory or idealism that Gene brought to the show.
I remember watching the special features on the DVD for season 2 (I think) and there was mention of Gene's common statements of "In the 24th century, X doesnt happen". Because we as a society were supposed to have grown out of it.
The idealism - the pure hope and character strength slowly evaporated. It became people exactly like we are today, with all the same failings as if society hadnt progressed at all, and only the technology was different. I think the latter half of DS9 demonstrates this the most.
If they want a show to compete against other trek reruns, then give us something we WANT TO WATCH other than what we've already seen dozens of times. It says something about the quality of the show if you think that people would rather watch TNG (which I would) than this Enterprise crap. Voyager was better than this.
nscd does not obey TTL by default. It uses gethostbyname(), which does not return TTL.
We use nscd quite a bit, as im sure many other providers do. We only cache positives for 30 minutes, so we dont end up ignoring it for too long.
I personally think that the approach towards broadband was mostly done wrong. The large majority of users should never be fully visible online - those broadband routers should be doing NAT for all but a small minority of users.
While we cant code or design around user stupidity (in the sense that if you give a user a button that says "DONT CLICK HERE, IT WILL INSTALL A SPYBOT" and they'll still click it), we certainly can design around stupid operating systems that have holes you could drive a transport truck through. NAT does this quite well - I reccomend a NAT router (WRT54G, specifically) for everyone I know - including myself. It saves massive amounts of problems.
Part of the issue also lies with the fact that most "concious" users load up their PC with firewalls and zonealarm and so forth to the point where its slow because of all the crap on the system.
I praise you on your subtle yet accurate and effective reference to star trek.
As much of the song I can remember from memory. Maybe this will help tell the difference from stars and planets (was this a mistake, because im pretty sure astronomers should understand that..)
This sun is a mass of incandecent gas,
A gigantic nuclear furnace,
Where hydrogen is built into helium,
at a temperature of millions of degrees.
The sun is hot,
the sun is not
A place where we could live.
But here on earth, there'd be no life
without the light it gives.
We need its light,
We need its heat,
The sunlight that we see..
The sunlight comes from our oun suns'
Atomic energy.
Rinse, repeat.
Uhm, Carpal Tunnel is caused by doing any repetative action when your hand is above your wrist. (Hard to describe). Take your arm, and stick it straight out from your body. Now without moving your arm, point up.
Often, computer folks type on a keyboard which is not flush with their desk. The keyboard sits on the desk, and your wrist sits on the desk too. Thus, your hands are "above" your wrists.
The opposite is playing guitar. Your wrist is all bent down in order to hit the notes, and this causes tendonitis. My dad has been a professional guitarist for 40 years, and he has extremely bad tendonitis.
The two problems are caused by opposite repetative stresses. Tendonitis and CP are both RSI (repetative stress injuries).
(Note, im paraphrasing from what my doctor and such has told me - IANAD).
Oh, and 140,000 messages on a $1500 PC sounds a little low accually. We handled 40,000 -sockets- on an AMD Duron 900Mhz. Each socket recieved a few messages per second, and we were recieving far more from the uplink.