Being that you have such a large audience; you can expect a lot of feedback, both positive and negative. There is just no way around it.
Interestingly enough, we had a speaker here at work today who gave an example of this. He said that out of any group you're speaking to, 20% will hate you for some reason. Either you talk too loud, or they don't like your voice, or your hair, or how you're dressed, or whatever. They'll find something, and dismiss you based on it, no matter if you're telling them how to get free cash money legally or just how to operate your product.
provide me with at least anecdotal evidence of someone who seriously follows the "download lots of fan subs, but still spends thousands on anime" model?
I can do better than anecdotal. I do that. I use fansubs as a filter method, to determine which ones I actually would like to own. For instance, I saw the Cowboy Bebop movie as a fansub first, and still saw it in the theater 3 times with various people. And I own the DVD.
I first watched Elfen Lied as a fansub, and am in the process of rounding up all those DVDs in a box set. And if they ever start selling the manga for it over here, I'll end up buying that too. It will look good next to the real Japanese versions too. Just one example of many. I'm currently waiting for a bunch of stuff from the last season that I highly enjoyed to come out over here, so I can snap that up too.
Some days we have less to choose from. What is good one day isn't another because we have more to choose from. Some days we're stuck with "Infomercials" or "Press Releases" or "Boring Corporate Mumbo Jumbo". I'm trying to post a story every 45 minutes or so. They can't all be fantastic.
Others have discussed this before in this thread, and I know this is near the bottom of the article, but I don't care. I want to get my $0.02 in, and my karma has been maxed for at least 4 years. So if it gets modded up or down I don't care. I just hope you'll see it.
Perhaps part of the problem is that you are posting every 45 minutes. If there's nothing interesting to post, then why do it? I don't post in every story's comment section, I don't even post in perhaps 10% of them. I may check the site for new stuff 5-10 times a day, but if there's nothing there, it doesn't bother me. If its a crap story I'm not gonna read it anyways, because it'll be filled with comments about how the story sucks, or contributes nothing, or full of spelling/grammar nazis bitching about how you said "more better" instead of "bestest" or whatever. I'm one for quality over quantity.
BTW, the reason I don't like "Offtopic" is because I think it's often abused; many mods will mark a post that way when it's a perfectly legitimate reply to another post which is kinda sorta ontopic.
Also, there are the "abuses" of modding a comment Offtopic that happens to be shown further down in the story (viewed by thread). While it was actually posted before one that just happened to get tacked on to the first up-moderated post, regardless of if its on topic or not.
Because some people might post a political-type article that somebody doesn't agree with. Or, in the case of Beatles-Beatles, has a link-back they don't like. Or the article is a dupe (although hopefully people wouldn't be mean enough to fault the submitter for that).
While I'm posting in this discussion, I'd like to say that IMO the grammar nazis are ruining threads too. I hate going into a thread and seeing 15 posts about how somebody used "you're" instead of "your" or whatever. Yes, I realize this post itself are full of grammatical errors. Thank you for your patronage.
Cooking oil? Whatever happened to mineral oil? Hell, I remember articles years ago on Bit-Tech about cooling your computer by running it in a tank of [non-conductive] mineral oil.
When I go to get new glasses, I let them know that I use a computer for most of the day. They put a very slight dark tint on the lenses, which is supposed to cut down on eye strain. I have dual lcd monitors at home and use them for long periods with no eye strain. I, like everybody else, do get tired though.
Background lightning, as mentioned by a previous poster, helps too. I've found even if in the room (i.e. don't let it be cave dark with just the monitor on, use a lamp) rather than behind the screens.
Change the law to affect the party that stands to profit from whatever action the email suggests AND the party that sent the mail.
OK, so let's do a scenario. You own "Divide By Zero's Friendly Software Store" and I own "Alizarin's Discount Software, Bowling, and Small Appliance Emporium." I don't like the fact that you get more business than I do, so I contract a spammer under the table (and possibly by saying I'm you) to send out some spam advertising your company's mail-order services. Somebody reports it, and your company, as the supposed initiator and advertiser, is fingered. So you get fined/shutdown/whatever, and I laugh all the way to the bank.
I do make some assumptions about evidence, but still, is it really that far fetched?
If I understand this sort of thing correctly, all he has to do to avoid paying a single penny on this is avoid earning more than basic living costs. You're making the deadly assumption that this guy would actually report all income he makes. He obviously has no scruples with regards to following laws, regardless of the/. community's perceived effectiveness of those laws.
I showed up for a CS exam feeling like crap, hadn't studied (I never did though), wasn't really in the mood. Well, the test was pretty hard but I was doing ok. I figured I had enough points in the rest of the class to maintain a good final grade at the end of the semester. So the guy next to me starts erasing page after page. I'm in shock that he would do something like this, and am just staring at him, watching the whole spectacle.
The prof sees and calls me up to the front of the room. He tried to kick me out of the class, and threatened to turn me into the administration. I explained what was going on (being as sick as I was) with the erasure. He let me off, thankfully:-)
I ended up getting a B, and the guy who did all the erasing ended up really pissed off that he changed his answers.
Maybe not everyone would be savvy enough to take advantage of it, but it would be nice for those who knew how it worked.
Unfortunately, the tech savvy among the users would be the least likely to need such a feature to determine if the email was legitimately from ebay, paypal, their bank, etc. We know the rules about suspicious email. It is the so-called "unwashed masses" that don't.
Why don't the/. tech monkeys include a Mirrodot/Coral Cache link as part of the story template? It would help defray the/. effect (smoldering servers and whatnot).
Because some people, like me, have to deal with corporate firewall rules that will not allow Coral Cache to work.
But seriously, I thought it was like, a terrorist attack or something that was "sobering".
But also seriously, the article talks about "hacktivism" but is the correlation really there that this is about Nazis? There may be commands to spread on that date, but is there a chance that the author picked the date by coincidence? Are we reading too much into this?
We have. And the stories. Oh, my god, the stories. It's enough to bring tears to your eyes. They've blown it in such amazing, over-the-top ways, you wouldn't believe me if I told you.
I might, or I might not believe them... but I'd still be interested in hearing some.
6. Built-in wifi support means that the zillions of us who have broadband and wireless routers could eventually use this for surfing the web or watching TV/Streaming music, if Sony gets the application right.
Which you know they won't. One hand is a content producer, the other is a content player. The producer side will want it to be DRM'd to hell and back, and in the process they'll screw something up somewhere and make it a terrible implementation. Such as you can only use Sony's formats, you can't encode your own stuff since you can't embed their DRM junk, etc.
So obviously you haven't seen the ads now-a-days where they say something along the lines of "do X" (e.g. shoot the watermelon, knock out Osama, hit the mailbox) and "get a free Y* participation in our spam marketing promotions required"
Interesting... isn't Rockstar North, makers of GTA3, GTA: Vice City, and GTA: San Andreas, a US company? I guess maybe they moved to Japan and I didn't realize it.
I had to pick which of the GP responses to reply to, so I picked yours.
So how would you feel if it was the other way around, if the Soviet Union had caused such an explosion in US soil?
It was even reported in the article that the CIA kept the fact that this particular incident was caused by them a secret for many years. To all outside observers, it was an accident of some sort. Something went wrong, stuff blew up. Intentional software bug or not.
<bad analogy> Its like if your car caught fire while you were driving down the street. You might think "Piece of crap <car brand>", but if some random guy ("Steve") had put a tiny pin-hole in your gas line that sprayed the exhaust manifold and set the car on fire, and never told you, and you never found out Steve did it, how would that cause terror?
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Being that you have such a large audience; you can expect a lot of feedback, both positive and negative. There is just no way around it.
Interestingly enough, we had a speaker here at work today who gave an example of this. He said that out of any group you're speaking to, 20% will hate you for some reason. Either you talk too loud, or they don't like your voice, or your hair, or how you're dressed, or whatever. They'll find something, and dismiss you based on it, no matter if you're telling them how to get free cash money legally or just how to operate your product.
Will Sony face future repercussions for this potentially long-term damage?
Probably not. They're already getting off somewhat easy for the original hubub.
provide me with at least anecdotal evidence of someone who seriously follows the "download lots of fan subs, but still spends thousands on anime" model?
I can do better than anecdotal. I do that. I use fansubs as a filter method, to determine which ones I actually would like to own. For instance, I saw the Cowboy Bebop movie as a fansub first, and still saw it in the theater 3 times with various people. And I own the DVD.
I first watched Elfen Lied as a fansub, and am in the process of rounding up all those DVDs in a box set. And if they ever start selling the manga for it over here, I'll end up buying that too. It will look good next to the real Japanese versions too. Just one example of many. I'm currently waiting for a bunch of stuff from the last season that I highly enjoyed to come out over here, so I can snap that up too.
Some days we have less to choose from. What is good one day isn't another because we have more to choose from. Some days we're stuck with "Infomercials" or "Press Releases" or "Boring Corporate Mumbo Jumbo". I'm trying to post a story every 45 minutes or so. They can't all be fantastic.
Others have discussed this before in this thread, and I know this is near the bottom of the article, but I don't care. I want to get my $0.02 in, and my karma has been maxed for at least 4 years. So if it gets modded up or down I don't care. I just hope you'll see it.
Perhaps part of the problem is that you are posting every 45 minutes. If there's nothing interesting to post, then why do it? I don't post in every story's comment section, I don't even post in perhaps 10% of them. I may check the site for new stuff 5-10 times a day, but if there's nothing there, it doesn't bother me. If its a crap story I'm not gonna read it anyways, because it'll be filled with comments about how the story sucks, or contributes nothing, or full of spelling/grammar nazis bitching about how you said "more better" instead of "bestest" or whatever. I'm one for quality over quantity.
BTW, the reason I don't like "Offtopic" is because I think it's often abused; many mods will mark a post that way when it's a perfectly legitimate reply to another post which is kinda sorta ontopic.
Also, there are the "abuses" of modding a comment Offtopic that happens to be shown further down in the story (viewed by thread). While it was actually posted before one that just happened to get tacked on to the first up-moderated post, regardless of if its on topic or not.
Because some people might post a political-type article that somebody doesn't agree with. Or, in the case of Beatles-Beatles, has a link-back they don't like. Or the article is a dupe (although hopefully people wouldn't be mean enough to fault the submitter for that).
While I'm posting in this discussion, I'd like to say that IMO the grammar nazis are ruining threads too. I hate going into a thread and seeing 15 posts about how somebody used "you're" instead of "your" or whatever. Yes, I realize this post itself are full of grammatical errors. Thank you for your patronage.
Cooking oil? Whatever happened to mineral oil? Hell, I remember articles years ago on Bit-Tech about cooling your computer by running it in a tank of [non-conductive] mineral oil.
WTLY.
When I go to get new glasses, I let them know that I use a computer for most of the day. They put a very slight dark tint on the lenses, which is supposed to cut down on eye strain. I have dual lcd monitors at home and use them for long periods with no eye strain. I, like everybody else, do get tired though.
Background lightning, as mentioned by a previous poster, helps too. I've found even if in the room (i.e. don't let it be cave dark with just the monitor on, use a lamp) rather than behind the screens.
Change the law to affect the party that stands to profit from whatever action the email suggests AND the party that sent the mail.
OK, so let's do a scenario. You own "Divide By Zero's Friendly Software Store" and I own "Alizarin's Discount Software, Bowling, and Small Appliance Emporium." I don't like the fact that you get more business than I do, so I contract a spammer under the table (and possibly by saying I'm you) to send out some spam advertising your company's mail-order services. Somebody reports it, and your company, as the supposed initiator and advertiser, is fingered. So you get fined/shutdown/whatever, and I laugh all the way to the bank.
I do make some assumptions about evidence, but still, is it really that far fetched?
If I understand this sort of thing correctly, all he has to do to avoid paying a single penny on this is avoid earning more than basic living costs. /. community's perceived effectiveness of those laws.
You're making the deadly assumption that this guy would actually report all income he makes. He obviously has no scruples with regards to following laws, regardless of the
Are you referring to the 120mm fan that sits in the bottom of the watercooling enclosure? Because, you know, that's a fan. That moves air.
I showed up for a CS exam feeling like crap, hadn't studied (I never did though), wasn't really in the mood. Well, the test was pretty hard but I was doing ok. I figured I had enough points in the rest of the class to maintain a good final grade at the end of the semester. So the guy next to me starts erasing page after page. I'm in shock that he would do something like this, and am just staring at him, watching the whole spectacle.
:-)
The prof sees and calls me up to the front of the room. He tried to kick me out of the class, and threatened to turn me into the administration. I explained what was going on (being as sick as I was) with the erasure. He let me off, thankfully
I ended up getting a B, and the guy who did all the erasing ended up really pissed off that he changed his answers.
Maybe not everyone would be savvy enough to take advantage of it, but it would be nice for those who knew how it worked.
Unfortunately, the tech savvy among the users would be the least likely to need such a feature to determine if the email was legitimately from ebay, paypal, their bank, etc. We know the rules about suspicious email. It is the so-called "unwashed masses" that don't.
Why don't the /. tech monkeys include a Mirrodot/Coral Cache link as part of the story template? It would help defray the /. effect (smoldering servers and whatnot).
Because some people, like me, have to deal with corporate firewall rules that will not allow Coral Cache to work.
I'll tell you when I've had enough!
But seriously, I thought it was like, a terrorist attack or something that was "sobering".
But also seriously, the article talks about "hacktivism" but is the correlation really there that this is about Nazis? There may be commands to spread on that date, but is there a chance that the author picked the date by coincidence? Are we reading too much into this?
We have. And the stories. Oh, my god, the stories. It's enough to bring tears to your eyes. They've blown it in such amazing, over-the-top ways, you wouldn't believe me if I told you.
I might, or I might not believe them... but I'd still be interested in hearing some.
As for developers listing, nevada gaming commissions requires it, Why should slot machines meet a higher standard than voting machines?
That's such an easy answer. Two words: Cash money.
6. Built-in wifi support means that the zillions of us who have broadband and wireless routers could eventually use this for surfing the web or watching TV/Streaming music, if Sony gets the application right.
Which you know they won't. One hand is a content producer, the other is a content player. The producer side will want it to be DRM'd to hell and back, and in the process they'll screw something up somewhere and make it a terrible implementation. Such as you can only use Sony's formats, you can't encode your own stuff since you can't embed their DRM junk, etc.
Hardware mpeg2 input and output is only on the PVR-350. The 250 only has hardware input. The output part is software.
Is this enough to make sweeping claims about the reliability of Linux/Windows? No way.
I don't think that'll stop Microsoft from making said sweeping claims, though.
Seacrest out.
So obviously you haven't seen the ads now-a-days where they say something along the lines of "do X" (e.g. shoot the watermelon, knock out Osama, hit the mailbox) and "get a free Y* participation in our spam marketing promotions required"
Also, there is not enough RAM on the device.
I'd say give it to the end of the month. Somebody will take one apart and figure out a way to add some more RAM to it, I'm sure.
I'm seriously considering buying one of these, then whipping up a remote program... any chance it has an IR port?
Interesting... isn't Rockstar North, makers of GTA3, GTA: Vice City, and GTA: San Andreas, a US company? I guess maybe they moved to Japan and I didn't realize it.
I noticed an article on Ars Technica about the same thing... went to read it, and the ad on the page was for GTA: Liberty City Stories for the PSP.
Sweeeeet...
I had to pick which of the GP responses to reply to, so I picked yours.
So how would you feel if it was the other way around, if the Soviet Union had caused such an explosion in US soil?
It was even reported in the article that the CIA kept the fact that this particular incident was caused by them a secret for many years. To all outside observers, it was an accident of some sort. Something went wrong, stuff blew up. Intentional software bug or not.
<bad analogy>
Its like if your car caught fire while you were driving down the street. You might think "Piece of crap <car brand>", but if some random guy ("Steve") had put a tiny pin-hole in your gas line that sprayed the exhaust manifold and set the car on fire, and never told you, and you never found out Steve did it, how would that cause terror?