Dammit. This may mean I'll have to give in and buy a Mac as my next computer.
Because certainly, Windows is going to be gnawing dead moose sclong by that point.
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At Anime Expo NY in a week and a half, there's a note on the schedule for a 'mystery surprise movie'. Many people think that it's going to be a preview of the dub of 'Spirited Away'.
Considering the night before, there's the release of 'Cowboy Bebop: Knocking on HEaven's Door' (followed by a panel discussion with the director, character designer, and the music composer (Yoko Kanno!)), as well as showings of the subtitled Escaflowne movie and Char's Counterattack... we think there's good possibility there.
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Mononoke Hime (Princess Mononoke) was the highest grossing film in Japan that year. Then Titanic came out, and it surpassed Mononoke Hime.
Then 'Spirited Away' came out and surpassed Titanic in gross profits.
Under the NET Act, signed by President Clinton in 1997, it is a federal crime to share copies of copyrighted products such as software, movies or music with anyone, even friends or family members, if the value of the work exceeds $1,000. Violations are punishable by one year in prison, or if the value tops $2,500, "not more than five years" in prison.
So who decides if it's something they can proscecute? "I ripped the new Flopping GNoberts CD and put it on KaZaA!" That's an $18 CD, so it's not prosecutable until enough people download it to bring the total over $1000? It's another bad use of a law which can be easily abused to deal with the situation. This is the same sort of thing as the Kevin Mitnick case, where Sun claimed that he'd stolen $600,000 of source code... that they were giving away for free.
I guess that Hillary Rosen and Jack Valenti thought the DoJ needed more exercise, so they got the guvmint jumping to conclusions again.
Mom: "I don't understand why this is bad. Copying this stuff is bad, right?" Me: "OK. What they want to do is lock this into a specific player." Mom: "Okay..." Me: "So, you have all your Abba and Barry Manilow CDs that you listen to while driving in the car." Mom: "Okay...." Me: "They want to make it so that when you sell the car, you have to buy all new CDs."
Mom understood it right away.
We need to make it SIMPLE for people to understand. The phrase, "If this happens, you'll need to buy a copy of everything for every player you own, ever" explains it.
Dr. Wallace, what is your opinion on the concept that there may already have arisen true artificial intelligences that have gone unrecognized as such, because their processes are sufficiently 'other' that we do not have the capability to recognize them as intelligences?
His point was that, in fact, it IS easier to shoot and distribute your stuff now than it was ten years ago.
And that the MPAA and the movie studios are scared shitless that someone out there will make a BETTER MOVIE Than they have in the past, and get all the riches and fame, and THEY WILL NOT. Therefore, part of the issue with destroying the ability of PCs to record to DVDs and do video editing is SPECIFICALLY to take the ability to make movies out of the hands of Just About Anyone and put it back in the hands of the studios.
At this time, we would like to remind you of the following facts:
you are in place to serve, not to rule.
Esther Dyson is not God.
You have not shown yourself to be at all trustworthy in the matters that you have been given.
quite honestly, we do not NEED you. All we need is the IETF and ad-hoc groups. This was all here before you; it can all be here after you. We suffer your interference.
Consider these things carefully before getting to much into your own power.
I'm aware of the various region-coding issues (being both the owner of an Apex AD-600 DVD player and the Japanese release of 'Mononoke Hime' on DVD - a most excellent set, three DVDs, much subbing and dubbing and extra goodness). I also was aware of Australia, but didn't know about the EU.
I wonder if companies could successfully file issues with the World Trade Organization to indicate that regionlocks could be considered a 'restraint of trade' issue. There's an idea for someone with deep pockets.....
but is there a SANE reason for not allowing the use of these imported controllers?
Other than "A Machine We Control Totally", that is.
Is there some kind of incredible controller for the Xbox that is only available in Japan (as the original response controllers for the PSX were)? So that Microsoft doesn't want people to have them because of some other kind of interesting occurance? And how long until someone either finds a way to change the USB ID in the controller firmware, or an enterprising company decides to make their own US-based USB ID controllers that match a local controller that isn't USian? Fairly soon, I would guess.
Hellsing's got US optioning in the US. Having seen the first 2 eps at New Year's Eve, I must state that it's probably one of the best vampire things I've seen in a long, long time, even compared to things like 'Blood' and 'Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust'. (Blood was irritating, but VHD:B had a VERY interesting twist to it which I enjoyed.) Besides, a vampire hunting other vampires with gun forged from a melted-down churck bell? Sign me up for the series!
It's what some of us call the Akira Syndrome: take a massive story and crush it into a single movie. It'll suck badly.
Akira was visually splendid, but a great deal of story was lost.
X/1999 was visually amazing, but MOST of the story got lost (especially since the printed version wasn't even FINISHED yet in Japan.)
(Thankfully, at least X/1999 is getting a series to tell the story. Akira had no such luck, but did at least the entire manga is being printed for US audiences.)
I work for a Very Large Organization that uses Openmail in parts of itself, and Exchange in others. When HP announced they were knifing Openmail, this gave some people the excuse to start planning the switchover.
So, now it's not being knifed. I made sure to get this information to my boss, who is going to pass it on to other people today, to read, review, and spit bile over, because now the reason for their pet project going through is negated. And it means we're not going over to Exchange, which is, pretty much, a good thing overall, even if having two different email systems between the parts of the corporation that merged together is a Really Not Very Good Thing.
I love the sound of an entire Fortune 10 corporation's IT management and planning group having a collective stroke, especially when I gave the information that causes the stroke. It really makes my mornings worth it some days.
We already HAVE that option. We don't NEED a completely new set of courts - use what we already HAVE!
And yes, we need more judges who hate the very IDEA of these things and require a tremendous amount of proof to allow them. The courts themselves are helping to cause this problem.
Wasn't a BIG part of the whole freedom thing supposed to be to give us a TRANSPARENT legal system, so that EVERYONE could see what was going on? Isn't that the theoretical basis of the entire judicial system of the United States?
Isn't that why the hell anyone who's actually read history understands the sheer terror that the words 'Star Chamber' means?
I'm going to change my name to something like Cromwell, I think. Oliver Cromwell. That would be a suitable name for the US of the 21st century.
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It's old, has some good points, but the characterization of Technological Prowess as some moral virtue is ridiculous.
For 30 years ago, it's not ridiculous. It also serves as a statment proclaming his admiration for our bravery and audacity.
"You talk about American technocracy and you find men on the moon, not once, but several times... and safely home again." Compared to radios and automobiles, that's a powerful image of a country which dared and won.
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This was written by Gordon Sinclair in 1973 at the end of the Vietnam Conflict.
You can read about it at this site, including the aftereffects of what it meant to his career - both good and bad. There's also a RealAudio copy of the recording he did of this, which is backed up by 'The Battle Hymn of the Republic'.
Most of the NYC TV stations are off the air except for Channel 7 - ABC. We also have a report that some of the radio stations are off the air.
We're getting unconfirmed reports of one or both planes having been hijacked. And the timing was almost exactly 18 minutes apart on a clear, sunny day with no visibility issues. This was not an accident.
I can see the whole thing from my building window - one of the execs actually is temporarily relocating to deal with the influx of people through his office.
Another thing you can do is modify the hosts file on your machine. I cut down the ads by a tremendous amount by doing that. (I did it for my father as well - two minutes work, two weeks of no-questions.)
I snagged mine down from this link at Gorilla Designs who I don't know, but figure hey, might as well mention who it is. It keeps both Mozilla and IE mostly free of ads at the same time. (You do need to keep it updated, though, but that's simple with a text editor.)
This particular missive could have been filed under 'Civil Rights' or 'Children', but it is centered on technology.
As a New Jersey resident who works in the technical fields, I find your recent proposal, S.1252, the School Website Protection Act of 2001, to be possibly the single worst-thought-out piece of technology legislation of 2001. If read in a broad manner, it can criminalize such acts as sending email to a teacher.
Recent acts by the Federal Bureau of Investigation to not allow me to consider the possibility this will be regarded narrowly. Please consult the news concerning their recent activities towards a foreign national, Dmitri Sklyarov, including reports that he has not been allowed to contact his embassy in direct violation of international treaty.
This strikes me as a self-serving attempt to raise your reputation out of the sewer that you have sunk it into.
I have voted for the Democratic party in every election since I was able to vote, but acts of this nature force me to not just reconsider this but to actively work towards your defeat in the next election, should be actually serving in Congress instead of serving a term of imprisonment.
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Dammit. This may mean I'll have to give in and buy a Mac as my next computer.
Because certainly, Windows is going to be gnawing dead moose sclong by that point.
At Anime Expo NY in a week and a half, there's a note on the schedule for a 'mystery surprise movie'. Many people think that it's going to be a preview of the dub of 'Spirited Away'.
Considering the night before, there's the release of 'Cowboy Bebop: Knocking on HEaven's Door' (followed by a panel discussion with the director, character designer, and the music composer (Yoko Kanno!)), as well as showings of the subtitled Escaflowne movie and Char's Counterattack... we think there's good possibility there.
Mononoke Hime (Princess Mononoke) was the highest grossing film in Japan that year. Then Titanic came out, and it surpassed Mononoke Hime.
Then 'Spirited Away' came out and surpassed Titanic in gross profits.
Oh, geez. Selling ice cream to the filthy worthless Earthenoids again, Zim?
(From an actual conversation with my mother.)
Mom: "I don't understand why this is bad. Copying this stuff is bad, right?"
Me: "OK. What they want to do is lock this into a specific player."
Mom: "Okay..."
Me: "So, you have all your Abba and Barry Manilow CDs that you listen to while driving in the car."
Mom: "Okay...."
Me: "They want to make it so that when you sell the car, you have to buy all new CDs."
Mom understood it right away.
We need to make it SIMPLE for people to understand. The phrase, "If this happens, you'll need to buy a copy of everything for every player you own, ever" explains it.
Dr. Wallace, what is your opinion on the concept that there may already have arisen true artificial intelligences that have gone unrecognized as such, because their processes are sufficiently 'other' that we do not have the capability to recognize them as intelligences?
On The SHores Of Lake Erie" is a town called Sandusky, OH.
Just so you know.
(Immortalized forever as the starting point of 'LEather Goddesses of Phobos".)
...did you actually READ that?
His point was that, in fact, it IS easier to shoot and distribute your stuff now than it was ten years ago.
And that the MPAA and the movie studios are scared shitless that someone out there will make a BETTER MOVIE Than they have in the past, and get all the riches and fame, and THEY WILL NOT. Therefore, part of the issue with destroying the ability of PCs to record to DVDs and do video editing is SPECIFICALLY to take the ability to make movies out of the hands of Just About Anyone and put it back in the hands of the studios.
SOMe of us don't have major comic book collections, a bunch of credit cards to max out, and a bunch of friends to hit for loans that we can use to make our first movie. Meanwhile, on my next trip, I can start working on mine and do the work on my laptop in my hotel room, getting things started. For about $4000, instead of $50,000.
And even if it sucks, hey, I can use the media over again and start from scratch...
I knew I recognized that URL.
Will you be able to make the Hellride after this DNS bill? o.o
Well, there's Charlie Sheen when he's drunk. But I really don't think that's what they're looking for.
I'm aware of the various region-coding issues (being both the owner of an Apex AD-600 DVD player and the Japanese release of 'Mononoke Hime' on DVD - a most excellent set, three DVDs, much subbing and dubbing and extra goodness). I also was aware of Australia, but didn't know about the EU.
I wonder if companies could successfully file issues with the World Trade Organization to indicate that regionlocks could be considered a 'restraint of trade' issue. There's an idea for someone with deep pockets.....
but is there a SANE reason for not allowing the use of these imported controllers?
Other than "A Machine We Control Totally", that is.
Is there some kind of incredible controller for the Xbox that is only available in Japan (as the original response controllers for the PSX were)? So that Microsoft doesn't want people to have them because of some other kind of interesting occurance? And how long until someone either finds a way to change the USB ID in the controller firmware, or an enterprising company decides to make their own US-based USB ID controllers that match a local controller that isn't USian? Fairly soon, I would guess.
Hellsing's got US optioning in the US. Having seen the first 2 eps at New Year's Eve, I must state that it's probably one of the best vampire things I've seen in a long, long time, even compared to things like 'Blood' and 'Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust'. (Blood was irritating, but VHD:B had a VERY interesting twist to it which I enjoyed.) Besides, a vampire hunting other vampires with gun forged from a melted-down churck bell? Sign me up for the series!
It's what some of us call the Akira Syndrome: take a massive story and crush it into a single movie. It'll suck badly.
Akira was visually splendid, but a great deal of story was lost.
X/1999 was visually amazing, but MOST of the story got lost (especially since the printed version wasn't even FINISHED yet in Japan.)
(Thankfully, at least X/1999 is getting a series to tell the story. Akira had no such luck, but did at least the entire manga is being printed for US audiences.)
I work for a Very Large Organization that uses Openmail in parts of itself, and Exchange in others. When HP announced they were knifing Openmail, this gave some people the excuse to start planning the switchover.
So, now it's not being knifed. I made sure to get this information to my boss, who is going to pass it on to other people today, to read, review, and spit bile over, because now the reason for their pet project going through is negated. And it means we're not going over to Exchange, which is, pretty much, a good thing overall, even if having two different email systems between the parts of the corporation that merged together is a Really Not Very Good Thing.
I love the sound of an entire Fortune 10 corporation's IT management and planning group having a collective stroke, especially when I gave the information that causes the stroke. It really makes my mornings worth it some days.
We already HAVE that option. We don't NEED a completely new set of courts - use what we already HAVE!
And yes, we need more judges who hate the very IDEA of these things and require a tremendous amount of proof to allow them. The courts themselves are helping to cause this problem.
like a fish needs a ham sandwich.
Wasn't a BIG part of the whole freedom thing supposed to be to give us a TRANSPARENT legal system, so that EVERYONE could see what was going on? Isn't that the theoretical basis of the entire judicial system of the United States?
Isn't that why the hell anyone who's actually read history understands the sheer terror that the words 'Star Chamber' means?
I'm going to change my name to something like Cromwell, I think. Oliver Cromwell. That would be a suitable name for the US of the 21st century.
For 30 years ago, it's not ridiculous. It also serves as a statment proclaming his admiration for our bravery and audacity.
"You talk about American technocracy and you find men on the moon, not once, but several times ... and safely home again." Compared to radios and automobiles, that's a powerful image of a country which dared and won.
This was written by Gordon Sinclair in 1973 at the end of the Vietnam Conflict.
You can read about it at this site, including the aftereffects of what it meant to his career - both good and bad. There's also a RealAudio copy of the recording he did of this, which is backed up by 'The Battle Hymn of the Republic'.
It also housed Solomon Smith Barney's NYC IT group, including the Exchange server administration team and the Novell and NT admins.
Friends of mine on the Exchange group. I'm glad they got out.
Most of the NYC TV stations are off the air except for Channel 7 - ABC. We also have a report that some of the radio stations are off the air.
We're getting unconfirmed reports of one or both planes having been hijacked. And the timing was almost exactly 18 minutes apart on a clear, sunny day with no visibility issues. This was not an accident.
I can see the whole thing from my building window - one of the execs actually is temporarily relocating to deal with the influx of people through his office.
Another thing you can do is modify the hosts file on your machine. I cut down the ads by a tremendous amount by doing that. (I did it for my father as well - two minutes work, two weeks of no-questions.)
I snagged mine down from this link at Gorilla Designs who I don't know, but figure hey, might as well mention who it is. It keeps both Mozilla and IE mostly free of ads at the same time. (You do need to keep it updated, though, but that's simple with a text editor.)
I sent him a letter:
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