Obviously what is crap and what is good is subjective. So I won't get into that argument here. What I will say is today we are getting a larger percentage with what appears to be substantially larger budgets, especially dubbing (hoorah!).
The problem isn't what's out there now, but what profits tend to do to non-mainstream, semi-subculture forms of entertainment. My evidence? Look at natively popular movie stars (moderately famous in the states) that came to Hollywood from other countries. Look at American conversions of foreign flicks. I'm surprised Disney hasn't made a move on Anime. Fortunately for us they've kept themselves to the "family" market. Not saying I don't like Disney movies (Loved Prince of Egypt), but I like my anime the way it is, slightly confusing. There are some jokes and gestures that are Japanese, that I don't fully understand, I sort of "get", that would sadden me if they disappeared. Get where I'm going with this? If you don't think it will happen, look at Escaflowne. We chopped it up here to serve to youngsters.
Well, partial to the theory of patent enforcement is the threat to prevent infringement. The whole concept of law is to discourage the activity. Lack of prosecution is an indicator that the law is working well.
The real argument is whether the idea or law itself is ethically a good one or not.
Let us think about the fundamental reason why patents were created and perhaps we can get to the bottom of it. Patents provide a monetary motivation for inventors, but more importantly for corporation. Are there no other motivations for creating new ideas?
Please enlighten us. What does the TV Show "Facts of Life" have to do with Eva?
Sounds like the only one here thats angry is you.
As for the Eva Live-Action movie, it all smells like a repeat of Zieram. I just hope there are some cute chicks in it. I won't get my expectations up for anything else.
As for Anime in general, its becoming too popular. If anyone asks you questions about anime, please misdirect them. As anime becomes more popular, I fear it will go the way of all things that become popular. Increase in quantity and decrease in quality. Espcially if it becomes something to push in the Amercian market.
Please enlighten us. What does the TV Show "Facts of Life" have to do with Eva?
Sounds like the only one here thats angry is you.
As for the Eva Live-Action movie, it all smells like a repeat of Zieram. I just hope there are some cute chicks in it. I won't get my expectations up for anything else.
As for Anime in general, its becoming too popular. If anyone asks you questions about anime, please misdirect them. As anime becomes more popular, I fear it will go the way of all things that become popular. Increase in quantity and decrease in quality. Espcially if it becomes something to push in the Amercian market.
In answer to whether people would pay for something that's broken (ie. would people pay for a car that won't start reliably).
People do. All the time.
And you wonder why so many great author's say humans are stupid? We sell to the lowest common denominator. It's the few greedy, lazy or otherwise simply stupid people that ruin it for the rest of us. It will NEVOR be resolved. There's nothing to resolve. This is the way we are designed. Until someone fixes us, this will not likely change.
Well atleast this is more interesting to discuss than the original post. The only advertisements I like talking about are the ones they usually debut on the superbowl. Other than that, this clie pusher can go kiss my ass. And so can the editors of/. for allowing this shit to float to the top. Literally.
Controlling consumer electronics was old hat 6 or 7 years ago. Palms have had a remote control application for several years. If you ever had a real programmable learning remote device (a la Radio Shack or Sharper Image) with an infrared reader, you could just about control everything and anything that was within the spectrum range. Why is this news today? Cause someone wants to promote it or a site?
Define obvious in legal terms. That requires judgement. God forbid we ask a judge to judge things. It's the reason we have written laws, and judges interpret them.
Call me crazy but I'll ask anyway. Since everyone is so gung-ho about how evil software patents are, imagine for a moment that software patents were abolished. Do you think companies and people would continue to innovate software? Or do you think software development would stop? What would be the consequences to industry? Would the economy collapse due to a severe outage of software companies (The entire world has a huge stake in it, anyone know the numbers and percentages? percentage of GDPs?) ? What about the Hardware Manufacturing companies? How would they be impacted? Inquiring minds want to know.
Balance and reasonability. I've worked in both extremes of the environment. Places that gave you complete freedom (from work hours to setting project goals) to complete lockdown. What I've learned is some partial wisdoms of what Pieroxy and BoomerSooner have said
Salary What you sacrifice for paychecks now you get for Quality of Life later (if you've saved and invested and they pay off). Vice versa holds true. Also, to strive financially to provide for your kids and sacrifice on Quality of Life now will affect their perspective on their life and work. You're damned if you do, damned if you don't. It's your choice, so expect the consequences of your choices, which ever way you choose. IMHO, I believe that not only communicating with your kids about it, but also how you communicate it, that makes all the difference. Studies indicate that asset-affluent people raise income-affluent people who raise asset-affluent people, cycling.
Schedules You can indeed have people with differing schedules and shifts and still accomplish a great deal of teamwork (with the exception of those roles that require fixed shifts). As a network engineer it was critical to have staggered schedules so that coverage and support could be coordinated with weekend/late-night cutovers. However in order for this to work management must have periodic regular meetings during which all members can comminucate at the same time. We did this with conference calls and extensive use of e-mail.
The Boss The best management-worker relationships I've seen are at places where the boss works for the team, and not the other way around. And this was at a massive corporation.
Community Service When anyone makes it a requirement or "have to do", people always treat it like a chore. I'd give them the opportunity to to do it or just go on with their work.
I think this was an exercise in business and powerpoint presentation. I don't think it was for the technical stuff IN IT guys. As far as the technicals is concerned, it's obviously riddled with holes. Just enough to LOOK like they knew what they were talking about, but not quite enough to convince the/. crowd I see.
The scarey thing is the reason why alot of our technology is bungled by the time we get it is precisely because projects acquiring management approval in this manner. Scare, E.
The presentation did lack a few things though.
[1] Objectives for the project seem to be there. What are the objectives of this presentation? What are they trying to accomplish with this presentation? Is this informational? Is this a sales pitch? Is this training?
[2] Some sentences were FAR too long. Your captive audience is not a captive attention. People, especially in meetings, won't concentrate and remember Powerpoint slides larger than half a dozen items on a page. I wasn't there so I don't know, but I hope their delivery was more cohesive.
[3] We could sit here all day line by line (which is what these fellas might want to do before making another presentation) but here is a sample.
"This project is a plan to incorporate the three primary uses...". A project isn't a plan. A project plan is a plan. This plan is to incorporate. This project is to incorporate. This is a plan to a implement a project that incorporates. This is a project to build a plan that incorporates. But This project is NOT a plan to incorporate.
"The long term goal of this project is to maximize shareholder return by becoming the standard by which both urban and suburban American people access these communications mediums."
Standardizing communications access will maximize shareholder return? I see. It's all so clear to me now.
"In the short term, the goal is to maintain and increase existing market share by creating a competitive advantage over competitors with overlapping markets using the existing infrastructure."
Maintain. AND increase. At the same time? Wow. By competitive advantage. over competitors? really? No shit?
This smells of zine lifting. Lots of buzz words, visionary statements and instant actualization, just add water. But not to worry. As long as you got a friend in high places, this presentation will do just fine:)
Just curious Michael (poster), what school did you go to?
Everyone's said it, but just like marketing works on dumb principles on the masses, I too will wield its bloody sword. I suggest everyone to do the same by including "NOTE: This has NOT been fixed." Hopefully repeated constant bombardment will get people to go out and buy a security book and look up the definition of a fix.
Fixed? Hardly. That's like telling you that the virus your computer has will only attack when you save files. So we will apply a fix that does not allow you to save files. How's that?
As for the ventures, true that. But in the past 2 years, they've actually shortened their timelines on proposals and ROI calculations. Real impacts seen with real projects getting crunched. More so than any of the other years I've experienced. To the point of the original article, it doesn't appear this guy took any notes. Isn't it a federal mandate that geeks carry a pen and pad in their pocket protector, at all times?
The dangers are not real yet because the technology is not real yet. Will we wait until it is at our doorstep to discuss the risks and dangers? Moral and ethical questions about cloning didn't seem like more than paperback novel material a few years ago. We're now enacting laws concerning their use.
I would have to disagree that self-replicating nano is beyond our mortal grasp. We've already done it with robots of normal size (./article couple months back) as well as what IMHO is the more important development of evolutionary ones that can construct itself "mutations" or permutations of limbs and functional areas. Like any technology, what's to prevent us from replicating the method to a smaller scale?
You say "alot more resources". You have any idea how much resources it takes to construct nanos? If you do please share it. I can only give you an educated theory that if the nanos were self-replicating, then by definition that means they need only the raw materials and energy to do this. How much mass do you think a typical "installation" would be in a host? My guess is that in THEORY it would be negligible, no?
If there's anything that I can tell you with certainty is that if we've done something (self-replcation) in one place (robots) , we're are great at borrowing the methods and processes to apply it to something else (nanotech).
Is it just me or did that article have very little information that I didn't know or that I didn't already suspect. Venture capitalist are looking for shorter turnaround on their investment? Wasn't that news like a year or two ago? Potential military application? Political and legislation problems? Appreciate if the other attendants could provide some more focused details about the topics and perhaps your own insights and conclusions you have drawn from the discussions and presentations.
I found the links from the replies more informative. Thanks fellas.
There is that possibility that everyone on slashdot who found the joke funny is whatever it is you propose they are. However the chances are very slim since the diversity of human's and their behavior strongly suggests that a common set of ANY attributes does not apply to EVERYONE, in any community of anonymous people. Especially on slashdot.
And what does the fact that this message is on Slashdot have to do with copulation?
Perhaps if you try to write without so much negative emotion you may get your point across. As it stands now, your comment has no value since your intended audience neither perceived the meaning of your message nor its goal. Only its attitude.
I don't particularly care for anti-semetic jokes myself. I found the transcript of the conversation to be funny because what was portrayed was a "corporate"-type person conversing with a "haxor"-type and the failure of their communication. Not because it was anti-semetic. As I said, get over it. It wasn't the point. It never is. As long as people like you make such a big deal out of it, our next generation won't. Any argument you've had with your mother, brother, sister, or lover works the same way. As long as you bring it up, the animosity between the two sides will persist. If both sides forget the argument, you can both move on to better things.
Ever heard of 2 wrongs don't make a right? If someone hates you, hating that person back only makes you only slightly less a bad person.
Its not you. It was fuckin hilarious. Regardless of how stupid it was.
As for the anti-semtic. yayayayaya. OK. Slap him on the wrist. And you! GET OVER IT! There have been horrendous acts of racism that have been visited upon throughout all mankind for every imaginable race. The very fact that racist comments are all we have to deal with now for the MOST part (yes we have incidents, surprise the world's not perfect, but we're getting there), and not an EPIDEMIC, national, INSTITUTIONALIZED, accepted, persecution is relief.
Racism will live as long as humans are different. In one form or another. So, some people don't like you and your "kind". Not everyone can be as RIGHTEOUS and fair as you, ok? Just get on with your life.
The only thing you would lose is the large superstars. hmmm... thats about all I can really think off. Come to think of it, I think thats the only reason large superstars exist.
Slashdot Mirror
For me it wasn't that it "wasn't particularly useful. It was particularly useless. Infact it was taking up too much memory, so I wiped it.
Obviously what is crap and what is good is subjective. So I won't get into that argument here. What I will say is today we are getting a larger percentage with what appears to be substantially larger budgets, especially dubbing (hoorah!).
The problem isn't what's out there now, but what profits tend to do to non-mainstream, semi-subculture forms of entertainment. My evidence? Look at natively popular movie stars (moderately famous in the states) that came to Hollywood from other countries. Look at American conversions of foreign flicks. I'm surprised Disney hasn't made a move on Anime. Fortunately for us they've kept themselves to the "family" market. Not saying I don't like Disney movies (Loved Prince of Egypt), but I like my anime the way it is, slightly confusing. There are some jokes and gestures that are Japanese, that I don't fully understand, I sort of "get", that would sadden me if they disappeared. Get where I'm going with this? If you don't think it will happen, look at Escaflowne. We chopped it up here to serve to youngsters.
Well, partial to the theory of patent enforcement is the threat to prevent infringement. The whole concept of law is to discourage the activity. Lack of prosecution is an indicator that the law is working well.
The real argument is whether the idea or law itself is ethically a good one or not.
Let us think about the fundamental reason why patents were created and perhaps we can get to the bottom of it. Patents provide a monetary motivation for inventors, but more importantly for corporation. Are there no other motivations for creating new ideas?
Please enlighten us. What does the TV Show "Facts of Life" have to do with Eva?
Sounds like the only one here thats angry is you.
As for the Eva Live-Action movie, it all smells like a repeat of Zieram. I just hope there are some cute chicks in it. I won't get my expectations up for anything else.
As for Anime in general, its becoming too popular. If anyone asks you questions about anime, please misdirect them. As anime becomes more popular, I fear it will go the way of all things that become popular. Increase in quantity and decrease in quality. Espcially if it becomes something to push in the Amercian market.
Please enlighten us. What does the TV Show "Facts of Life" have to do with Eva?
Sounds like the only one here thats angry is you.
As for the Eva Live-Action movie, it all smells like a repeat of Zieram. I just hope there are some cute chicks in it. I won't get my expectations up for anything else.
As for Anime in general, its becoming too popular. If anyone asks you questions about anime, please misdirect them. As anime becomes more popular, I fear it will go the way of all things that become popular. Increase in quantity and decrease in quality. Espcially if it becomes something to push in the Amercian market.
Ar your datar ar berong to us!
In answer to whether people would pay for something that's broken (ie. would people pay for a car that won't start reliably).
People do. All the time.
And you wonder why so many great author's say humans are stupid? We sell to the lowest common denominator. It's the few greedy, lazy or otherwise simply stupid people that ruin it for the rest of us. It will NEVOR be resolved. There's nothing to resolve. This is the way we are designed. Until someone fixes us, this will not likely change.
Well atleast this is more interesting to discuss than the original post. The only advertisements I like talking about are the ones they usually debut on the superbowl. Other than that, this clie pusher can go kiss my ass. And so can the editors of /. for allowing this shit to float to the top. Literally.
Controlling consumer electronics was old hat 6 or 7 years ago. Palms have had a remote control application for several years. If you ever had a real programmable learning remote device (a la Radio Shack or Sharper Image) with an infrared reader, you could just about control everything and anything that was within the spectrum range. Why is this news today? Cause someone wants to promote it or a site?
I vote to close this thread.
And I suppose spammers won't start parsing the disposable addresses?
I'm doin my part ;)
Define obvious in legal terms. That requires judgement. God forbid we ask a judge to judge things. It's the reason we have written laws, and judges interpret them.
Call me crazy but I'll ask anyway. Since everyone is so gung-ho about how evil software patents are,
imagine for a moment that software patents were abolished. Do you think companies and people would continue to innovate software? Or do you think software development would stop? What would be the consequences to industry? Would the economy collapse due to a severe outage of software companies (The entire world has a huge stake in it, anyone know the numbers and percentages? percentage of GDPs?) ? What about the Hardware Manufacturing companies? How would they be impacted? Inquiring minds want to know.
Balance and reasonability. I've worked in both extremes of the environment. Places that gave you complete freedom (from work hours to setting project goals) to complete lockdown. What I've learned is some partial wisdoms of what Pieroxy and BoomerSooner have said
Salary
What you sacrifice for paychecks now you get for Quality of Life later (if you've saved and invested and they pay off). Vice versa holds true. Also, to strive financially to provide for your kids and sacrifice on Quality of Life now will affect their perspective on their life and work. You're damned if you do, damned if you don't. It's your choice, so expect the consequences of your choices, which ever way you choose. IMHO, I believe that not only communicating with your kids about it, but also how you communicate it, that makes all the difference. Studies indicate that asset-affluent people raise income-affluent people who raise asset-affluent people, cycling.
Schedules
You can indeed have people with differing schedules and shifts and still accomplish a great deal of teamwork (with the exception of those roles that require fixed shifts). As a network engineer it was critical to have staggered schedules so that coverage and support could be coordinated with weekend/late-night cutovers. However in order for this to work management must have periodic regular meetings during which all members can comminucate at the same time. We did this with conference calls and extensive use of e-mail.
The Boss
The best management-worker relationships I've seen are at places where the boss works for the team, and not the other way around. And this was at a massive corporation.
Community Service
When anyone makes it a requirement or "have to do", people always treat it like a chore. I'd give them the opportunity to to do it or just go on with their work.
My mama always said, if I don't have anything funny to say then say nothing at all.
Karma: Clown. All mod points go toward funny.
I think this was an exercise in business and powerpoint presentation. I don't think it was for the technical stuff IN IT guys. As far as the technicals is concerned, it's obviously riddled with holes. Just enough to LOOK like they knew what they were talking about, but not quite enough to convince the /. crowd I see.
:)
The scarey thing is the reason why alot of our technology is bungled by the time we get it is precisely because projects acquiring management approval in this manner. Scare, E.
The presentation did lack a few things though.
[1] Objectives for the project seem to be there. What are the objectives of this presentation? What are they trying to accomplish with this presentation? Is this informational? Is this a sales pitch? Is this training?
[2] Some sentences were FAR too long. Your captive audience is not a captive attention. People, especially in meetings, won't concentrate and remember Powerpoint slides larger than half a dozen items on a page. I wasn't there so I don't know, but I hope their delivery was more cohesive.
[3] We could sit here all day line by line (which is what these fellas might want to do before making another presentation) but here is a sample.
"This project is a plan to incorporate the three primary uses...".
A project isn't a plan.
A project plan is a plan.
This plan is to incorporate.
This project is to incorporate.
This is a plan to a implement a project that incorporates.
This is a project to build a plan that incorporates.
But
This project is NOT a plan to incorporate.
"The long term goal of this project is to maximize shareholder return by becoming the standard by which both urban and suburban American people access these communications mediums."
Standardizing communications access will maximize shareholder return? I see. It's all so clear to me now.
"In the short term, the goal is to maintain and increase existing market share by creating a competitive advantage over competitors with overlapping markets using the existing infrastructure."
Maintain. AND increase. At the same time? Wow.
By competitive advantage. over competitors? really? No shit?
This smells of zine lifting. Lots of buzz words, visionary statements and instant actualization, just add water. But not to worry. As long as you got a friend in high places, this presentation will do just fine
Just curious Michael (poster), what school did you go to?
Its not
"Where do you want to go today?"
It's
"Where do we want you to go today?"
Well one of my favrotite authors is Michael Moorecock (Elric, Corum, Eternal Champs). It's rather embarrassing asking an employee of Forbidden Planet,
"Excuse me, where would I find Moorecock?"
"I'm sorry, I wasn't aware you had some earlier..."
Everyone's said it, but just like marketing works on dumb principles on the masses, I too will wield its bloody sword. I suggest everyone to do the same by including "NOTE: This has NOT been fixed." Hopefully repeated constant bombardment will get people to go out and buy a security book and look up the definition of a fix.
Fixed? Hardly. That's like telling you that the virus your computer has will only attack when you save files. So we will apply a fix that does not allow you to save files. How's that?
Thanks for the ACK.
As for the ventures, true that. But in the past 2 years, they've actually shortened their timelines on proposals and ROI calculations. Real impacts seen with real projects getting crunched. More so than any of the other years I've experienced. To the point of the original article, it doesn't appear this guy took any notes. Isn't it a federal mandate that geeks carry a pen and pad in their pocket protector, at all times?
The dangers are not real yet because the technology is not real yet. Will we wait until it is at our doorstep to discuss the risks and dangers? Moral and ethical questions about cloning didn't seem like more than paperback novel material a few years ago. We're now enacting laws concerning their use.
I would have to disagree that self-replicating nano is beyond our mortal grasp. We've already done it with robots of normal size (./article couple months back) as well as what IMHO is the more important development of evolutionary ones that can construct itself "mutations" or permutations of limbs and functional areas. Like any technology, what's to prevent us from replicating the method to a smaller scale?
You say "alot more resources". You have any idea how much resources it takes to construct nanos? If you do please share it. I can only give you an educated theory that if the nanos were self-replicating, then by definition that means they need only the raw materials and energy to do this. How much mass do you think a typical "installation" would be in a host? My guess is that in THEORY it would be negligible, no?
If there's anything that I can tell you with certainty is that if we've done something (self-replcation) in one place (robots) , we're are great at borrowing the methods and processes to apply it to something else (nanotech).
Is it just me or did that article have very little information that I didn't know or that I didn't already suspect. Venture capitalist are looking for shorter turnaround on their investment? Wasn't that news like a year or two ago? Potential military application? Political and legislation problems? Appreciate if the other attendants could provide some more focused details about the topics and perhaps your own insights and conclusions you have drawn from the discussions and presentations.
I found the links from the replies more informative. Thanks fellas.
What's a goy?
There is that possibility that everyone on slashdot who found the joke funny is whatever it is you propose they are. However the chances are very slim since the diversity of human's and their behavior strongly suggests that a common set of ANY attributes does not apply to EVERYONE, in any community of anonymous people. Especially on slashdot.
And what does the fact that this message is on Slashdot have to do with copulation?
Perhaps if you try to write without so much negative emotion you may get your point across. As it stands now, your comment has no value since your intended audience neither perceived the meaning of your message nor its goal. Only its attitude.
I don't particularly care for anti-semetic jokes myself. I found the transcript of the conversation to be funny because what was portrayed was a "corporate"-type person conversing with a "haxor"-type and the failure of their communication. Not because it was anti-semetic. As I said, get over it. It wasn't the point. It never is. As long as people like you make such a big deal out of it, our next generation won't. Any argument you've had with your mother, brother, sister, or lover works the same way. As long as you bring it up, the animosity between the two sides will persist. If both sides forget the argument, you can both move on to better things.
Ever heard of 2 wrongs don't make a right? If someone hates you, hating that person back only makes you only slightly less a bad person.
Its not you. It was fuckin hilarious. Regardless of how stupid it was.
As for the anti-semtic. yayayayaya. OK. Slap him on the wrist. And you! GET OVER IT! There have been horrendous acts of racism that have been visited upon throughout all mankind for every imaginable race. The very fact that racist comments are all we have to deal with now for the MOST part (yes we have incidents, surprise the world's not perfect, but we're getting there), and not an EPIDEMIC, national, INSTITUTIONALIZED, accepted, persecution is relief.
Racism will live as long as humans are different. In one form or another. So, some people don't like you and your "kind". Not everyone can be as RIGHTEOUS and fair as you, ok? Just get on with your life.
The only thing you would lose is the large superstars. hmmm... thats about all I can really think off. Come to think of it, I think thats the only reason large superstars exist.