I believe they are stopping service because they are not making money, not because the have no money. Your saying Hughes Electronics has no money? I'm just asking for fairness, consumers get burned if they quit a service, why the the companies also?
Just because they are switching to another provider probably mean much to the 100,000+ customers that are at the mercy of the new company.
One of my old friends sent me a recent story from Business2 that talks about online gaming, combined with The Sims Online and community involvement in a game. It's not a very substantive piece, but a good discussion starter./. getting/.ed that'll be the day!
No, thats not the idea, what I mean is that it's about making music or noise, that you love and sharing that music with people, so that when a connection is made between the artist and the consumer or fan directly, it really puts into perspective how BS the labels are.
You know, by sending a $1 or $5 bill to the artist you are supporting them a hell of a lot more than their label probably is. I know a lot of bands that would much rather have their music be available and have fans simply send them $5 if they like it or whatever than get their 67 cents per CD sold in retail stores.
Maybe it's hokie or whatever, but I bet when an artist gets a hand addressed letter with a crisp $5 bill in it, they remember why they started making music in the first place.
This is what I believe is on the minds of savvy techies all over slashdot in response to this announcement. While I'm not intending to be a troll, I'm trying to simply tell the truth (and see if I can get a post with the F-word modded up!)
Less Competition != Good for Consumers
Hell, they way things have been going, get ready in the next 12 months to be buying your Computing Devices from Microsoft Intel Inc.
Well, here's why open source is still economically sound. As todays software companies start moving to timed software licenses, open source will be around. So in two years you may be writing a check every year to microsoft for the right to use Office. But if microsoft folds then you are out of your entire investment and you have no access to the data you created while using the service.
With open source if the devo team quits, folds, or stops supporting their software you still have all the information to continue to use and improve the software you're using.
I don't believe that makes open source more expensive, I believe it makes it more flexible.
Ok, here is the lowdown for those of you that don't follow the Adult Swim (AS) news postings on other sites.
Adult Swim was designed to be a late night block of programming designed to appeal to older audiences, and was intended to be aired after the normal pre-teen audience of CN was in bed.
The first season of AS, took off, as CN was able to secure the rights to many cartoons that never recieved their full run on their original stations. (Home Movies), it also became home to the williams' street cartoons (sealab 2021, Aqua teen hunger force, harvey birdman, Space Ghost C2C) The thursday airing was identical to the Sunday airing.
The original airing I believe was
1 Hour of home movies 1 hour of williams street 1 Hour of Cowboy Bebop ------------------------
The ads with fat people swimming in a pool gave the brand an identity, as many of the targeted viewers remember lothing adults that could swim at their own risk at public pools and YMCA's when the lifeguards took their break every hour.
Cowboy bebop was only slightly edited to remove a few S words, a few T+A shots, 1 nude scene, and some blood. The content was never really altered compared to other anime.
The big censoring of bebop came after 9/11. During the first run of Cowboy bebop, Episode #22 was never aired because of the terrorist/bombing subject matter and the building that was blown up that was way too close to looking like the WTC. (bebop was made in 98).
Soon after spring 2002, CN changed AS to AS comedy on sunday nights, and AS action on saturday nights. This was an interesting move. Many fans found problems with the anime censoring. The reason is that cartoon network only had some new anime ready for air, and they originally intended to air it for toonami, so it was edited to toonami's standards. New aquisitions will be edited to the AS standard.
Although the comedy/action split still produced ratings, it also devided the AS audiences.
Now the new schedule has anime and comedy runing next to each other again, and to quote why this is a good thing is the owner of jazzmess.com a cowboy bebop fansite, Fata Morgana:
My personal thoughts on this change: I like the fact that the different sides of the block are mixed again. To a certain degree, putting "action" and "comedy" on different nights felt as though they were just trying to segregate the anime from the other animation. What this doesn't leave much room for, in my opinion, are "accidents." By which I mean, that Space Ghost fan who thinks that anime is crap accidentally leaving the television on after SG and discovering the greatness that is Cowboy Bebop. Or the other side of the issue, the anime fan who's waiting for CB turning to Cartoon Network a little early and accidentally catching the last ten minutes of Home Movies and realizing that yes, in fact, it's damn funny. Another possible (though not perhaps probable) effect of this change is that animation (Japanese or otherwise) that doesn't quite fit the "action" or "comedy" mold might get a chance to be shown on the block. Pure speculation, of course,
So ends the current history of AS. CN is trying to pickup rights to animation that never really recieved their fair shot by the networks they started on. (cowboy bebop only aired half their episodes in their first japanese run). And in some cases the response is good enough to put some shows back in production (home movies).
I'm I the only one who found no real information here?
It'd be nice to actually see what standards were set, or at least have a link to them.
It's like CNN having a news update about a presidental speech and saying "well the president outlined his goals for the economy and foreign policy, he is supported by these congressmen"
"When Palm talks, the industry listens. And users sometimes drool"
The industry then laughs, as their marketshare increase due do stupid palm decisions.
Users on the other hand are probably drooling because they are sleeping through palm's big announcement, having realized long ago, that palm has overpromised and underdelivered over and over.
At least you dont have to play football on Rust-Oleum Field.
A school near me just sold out completely, so I don't care if Rust-Oleum makes fonts look better, I know for a fact they don't make a football team better!
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I believe they are stopping service because they are not making money, not because the have no money. Your saying Hughes Electronics has no money? I'm just asking for fairness, consumers get burned if they quit a service, why the the companies also?
Just because they are switching to another provider probably mean much to the 100,000+ customers that are at the mercy of the new company.
I would seek a "cancellation fee", hell the wireless and satelite companies have been doing it to us for years, now it's time to get one back.
Why is it ok for them to charge us to cancel but they can stop providing service at a moments notice and not be liable.
Kind of a double standard.
And yes I know it's probably written somewhere in the contacts that they are not liable.. blah blah blah. It's simply unfair to the consumer.
Affleck was the bomb in Phantoms!!
and now he's bangin J-lo...
bastard!
It's not a very substantive piece, but a good discussion starter.
Come on admit it, you're just happy a non-geek source mentioned the Sims Online so we could get away with talking about it some more!
One of my old friends sent me a recent story from Business2 that talks about online gaming, combined with The Sims Online and community involvement in a game. It's not a very substantive piece, but a good discussion starter. /. getting /.ed that'll be the day!
3.14!!
nice sig, might I suggest Requiem For a Dream if you have not already seen it.
No, thats not the idea, what I mean is that it's about making music or noise, that you love and sharing that music with people, so that when a connection is made between the artist and the consumer or fan directly, it really puts into perspective how BS the labels are.
You know, by sending a $1 or $5 bill to the artist you are supporting them a hell of a lot more than their label probably is. I know a lot of bands that would much rather have their music be available and have fans simply send them $5 if they like it or whatever than get their 67 cents per CD sold in retail stores.
Maybe it's hokie or whatever, but I bet when an artist gets a hand addressed letter with a crisp $5 bill in it, they remember why they started making music in the first place.
"FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK!"
This is what I believe is on the minds of savvy techies all over slashdot in response to this announcement. While I'm not intending to be a troll, I'm trying to simply tell the truth (and see if I can get a post with the F-word modded up!)
Less Competition != Good for Consumers
Hell, they way things have been going, get ready in the next 12 months to be buying your Computing Devices from Microsoft Intel Inc.
watchout!
Warning GOATSE!
Affleck Was the Bomb in Phantoms!!
Too bad I couldn't put the same coating on my dollar bills that would cause them to decompose as soon as the MPAA or RIAA touches them.
Well pat yourselfs on the back, gideontech.com is effectively slashdotted.
Well, here's why open source is still economically sound. As todays software companies start moving to timed software licenses, open source will be around. So in two years you may be writing a check every year to microsoft for the right to use Office. But if microsoft folds then you are out of your entire investment and you have no access to the data you created while using the service.
With open source if the devo team quits, folds, or stops supporting their software you still have all the information to continue to use and improve the software you're using.
I don't believe that makes open source more expensive, I believe it makes it more flexible.
Ok, here is the lowdown for those of you that don't follow the Adult Swim (AS) news postings on other sites.
Adult Swim was designed to be a late night block of programming designed to appeal to older audiences, and was intended to be aired after the normal pre-teen audience of CN was in bed.
The first season of AS, took off, as CN was able to secure the rights to many cartoons that never recieved their full run on their original stations. (Home Movies), it also became home to the williams' street cartoons (sealab 2021, Aqua teen hunger force, harvey birdman, Space Ghost C2C) The thursday airing was identical to the Sunday airing.
The original airing I believe was
1 Hour of home movies
1 hour of williams street
1 Hour of Cowboy Bebop
------------------------
The ads with fat people swimming in a pool gave the brand an identity, as many of the targeted viewers remember lothing adults that could swim at their own risk at public pools and YMCA's when the lifeguards took their break every hour.
Cowboy bebop was only slightly edited to remove a few S words, a few T+A shots, 1 nude scene, and some blood. The content was never really altered compared to other anime.
The big censoring of bebop came after 9/11. During the first run of Cowboy bebop, Episode #22 was never aired because of the terrorist/bombing subject matter and the building that was blown up that was way too close to looking like the WTC. (bebop was made in 98).
Soon after spring 2002, CN changed AS to AS comedy on sunday nights, and AS action on saturday nights. This was an interesting move. Many fans found problems with the anime censoring. The reason is that cartoon network only had some new anime ready for air, and they originally intended to air it for toonami, so it was edited to toonami's standards. New aquisitions will be edited to the AS standard.
Although the comedy/action split still produced ratings, it also devided the AS audiences.
Now the new schedule has anime and comedy runing next to each other again, and to quote why this is a good thing is the owner of jazzmess.com a cowboy bebop fansite, Fata Morgana:
My personal thoughts on this change: I like the fact that the different sides of the block are mixed again. To a certain degree, putting "action" and "comedy" on different nights felt as though they were just trying to segregate the anime from the other animation. What this doesn't leave much room for, in my opinion, are "accidents." By which I mean, that Space Ghost fan who thinks that anime is crap accidentally leaving the television on after SG and discovering the greatness that is Cowboy Bebop. Or the other side of the issue, the anime fan who's waiting for CB turning to Cartoon Network a little early and accidentally catching the last ten minutes of Home Movies and realizing that yes, in fact, it's damn funny. Another possible (though not perhaps probable) effect of this change is that animation (Japanese or otherwise) that doesn't quite fit the "action" or "comedy" mold might get a chance to be shown on the block. Pure speculation, of course,
So ends the current history of AS. CN is trying to pickup rights to animation that never really recieved their fair shot by the networks they started on. (cowboy bebop only aired half their episodes in their first japanese run). And in some cases the response is good enough to put some shows back in production (home movies).
um, I saw adult swim last saturday night.
did you mean thursday?
What bs, open source for the wealthy, wait a sec, I guess that means its not open source at all....hmmmm
poopie trim
Like I said, real informative.
$2000 for a set of standards that no one knows what they are at the moment?
I'm I the only one who found no real information here?
It'd be nice to actually see what standards were set, or at least have a link to them.
It's like CNN having a news update about a presidental speech and saying "well the president outlined his goals for the economy and foreign policy, he is supported by these congressmen"
Then failing to say what the policy is.
Talk about a fluff piece.
Why then, do all the current palm games suck?
probably because users are to cheap to buy the games when they are $30-50, that's an awful lot to spend on a handheld enterainment app.
"When Palm talks, the industry listens. And users sometimes drool"
The industry then laughs, as their marketshare increase due do stupid palm decisions.
Users on the other hand are probably drooling because they are sleeping through palm's big announcement, having realized long ago, that palm has overpromised and underdelivered over and over.
http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/news/nation /3876857.htm
http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/news/nation /3876857.htm
At least you dont have to play football on Rust-Oleum Field.
A school near me just sold out completely,
so I don't care if Rust-Oleum makes fonts look better, I know for a fact they don't make a football team better!