Shin Seiki Evangeliontook over my life for a good year-and-a-half...until the long-delayed release of The End of Evangelion in the US finally brought sweet release. NOW THIS? Please, Gainax...I want my life back.
When I went on an interview with Datek Online, they showed me a PC gaming room the President had set up for the employees. Nothing but high-end PCs with keyboards, mice and joysticks ready to go. Something about how the pres wanted to emphasize the connection between online gaming and online stock trading...
Of course, they got bought out by Ameritrade a few months later:\
You're confusing civil and criminal court cases. They don't have to extradite any officers from Spamhaus to the US to hold a trial.
I ain't a lawyer, but...
Basically, someone representing Spamhaus has to show up in court (or file a motion or whatever). Otherwise, they run the risk of aforementioned old, crusty judge (perhaps one with fond memories of his family's multi-million dollar mail-order business) issuing a summary judgement in favor of the Spammers.
Reference all the civil cases by US citizens against foreign governments and individuals: the PAM-AM 103 bombers, Chinese Government, Osama Bin Laden, Saddam Hussein, etc. etc. They had assets in the US (and elsewhere) turned over to the plaintiffs because they failed to defend themselves in civil court (for obvious reasons). IIRC, the ambassador from China (or was it North Korea) was even subpoenaed at the UN.
From there, they can do all sorts of things - most importantly, further legal action. Spamhaus will have a hard time setting up shop in the US if it wants to, as it will owe legal damages. eMarkerters may obtain further court rulings that order ISPs to stop using Spamhaus services. And don't forget that the US has all sorts of trade agreements and treaties with the UK (so they might have more power than you think).
Yeah, it's unlikely, but a ruling in favor of the spammers is not impossible (courts have been known to rule against conventional wisdom now and again *cough*MICROSOFT MONOPOLY*cough*). So it is in everyone's best interest for Spamhaus to take this suit seriously and meet it head-on in US court (preferably with a motion to dismiss).
What we need is a real legal expert to give us the low-down.
The spamhaus guy certainly dissects emarketer's absurd lawsuit, but unfortunately that is a technique better suited for Usenet flamewars. (At risk of overstating the obvious...) It isn't gonna cut it in Federal Court. Spamhaus will ultimately have to file a coherent legal briefing - which I hope Slashdot links to when it becomes available.
Unfortunately, many court cases are more about who has deeper pockets than who is right...so if Spamhaus doesn't get this court case dismissed immediately, they could be in big trouble.
If they DO go to court, they run the risk of ending up with one of those old, crusty judges - the kind that has never actually used a computer, having his(or her) secretary print out his email every day instead. In which case the proceedings could drag on and on...and Spamahaus would probably be SCREWED.
F*ck that f*cking "game" (cheat-fest is more like it). No game has ever made me so angry. Deleting it from my drive was one of the best decisions I have ever made.
And yah, not everyone cheats - but nobody follows the "spirit" of the game (team-based? HAH!) What a joke.
Lest you think Novell is getting all the accolades, one reader sent me screenshots to prove that his Windows NT v4 server is still up and running of 1,079 days with nary a reboot, and being used to serve up IP addresses for about 3,500 client workstations.
"The server outlived the core switch it was originally plugged into, the rack it was originally mounted in, and the KVM it was originally using. If all goes as planned, it will be retired in November without having any downtime and replaced with a Windows 2000 machine."
Does anybody actually believe this one? Buddy, whatever your configuration was, please post it on the net so the rest of us can see how you accomplished the impossible.
At my previous employer, they had to reboot the NT file server at least once daily...
What about the parallel universes that exist in the exact same time/space as our universe - but are separated only by the differing sub-atomic vibrations in the matter of each???
[Obligatory Star Trek joke] Also, the article forgot to mention that the duplicate of you would be the same - save for a suspicous-looking goatee.
Yes..."user friendly"...that's why everything has to be done in cryptic CL (Command Language) commands or whatever menu you happen stumble across...if you even have access rights to the AS/400 menu that is.
My original point was: What's stupid is that the people who know anything about AS/400 actively try to keep it a secret from anybody who's actually interested - such as myself. Not just how to use it, but its system architecture or even what the fucking "AS" stands for. Hence the original posting subject "Cult of the AS/400."
Before you waste anymore bandwidth with unwelcome "zingers", please go back and re-read my original comment carefully and address anything I wrote there specifically. Thank you.
PS - I went to Columbia University not Jefferson College (?) so sorry that they didn't have any vocational classes there for me to take while I was there.
If companies are whining that there is a shortage of AS/400 (or other mainframe) operators out there, then they should blame the mainframe manufacturers for making their products inaccessible, not the young IT people for being uninterested. Believe me, I TRIED to learn about the AS/400, but just finding scraps of information is a chore in itself (aside from superficial marketing crap).
I have worked at a bank for two years now. Before I arrived, I had never even heard of the AS/400. On my first day my manager took me into the computer room and proudly pointed out what looked like a black dishwasher sitting in the middle of the room. "And this," he smirked, "is our AS/400!"
I could bore you with stories about how nobody taught me anything, how I had to figure everything out about the vaunted AS/400 just so I could do my fucking job (and subsequently got scolded for "going where I wasn't allowed") and so on, but I won't.
Instead I'll just say this: whenever I tried to ask my manager or co-workers for an overview of the AS/400, he could only say "oh, it's NOTHING like a PC, it's COMPLETELY different." Me: "okay, but how is it different?" Them: "Oh, it's just different, you wouldn't understand."
I have come to is that my manager doesn't know jack shit about his beloved AS/400. He knows how to "make it work," and even though he claims to have some sort of certification, IBM obviously just gave him scraps. If you can't explain a technology in 3 sentences, then you probably don't understand it at all.
But why does he know jack shit, despite working with an AS/400 for 10 years? It is because IBM has purposely kept him uneducated. Everything is hidden in subscription professional sites and bank-account busting certifications from IBM.
I have searched the web over and over again for information on AS/400 crap. All I can find are IBM's boring information libraries for the "iSeries," mysterious subscription sites for AS/400 "professionals" and this page. Try finding a book on AS/400 online or at your bookstore. They suck. If you want to wade through the IBM manuals online, be my guest. My suggestion is you do it just before bedtime.
Ok, MAYBE you could teach yourself to be an AS/400 expert by wading through said manuals...but everyone here who learned about PC administration by wading through a Microsoft manual - or, for that matter, an Intel manual - raise your hand (and we're talking actually black-and-white MANUALS here, folks, not online tutorials or knowledge base articles)...well...still waiting...Thought so.
My manager has told me that if you want to learn ANYTHING about AS/400, then you should forget about a career in anything else, because you will have to become an AS/400 expert. Who do you think told HIM that? Why, the current AS/400 experts who want to keep their salaries up and the their jobs secure! (natch)
So here's to the Cult of the AS/400. May you all fade away into well deserved obscurity.
Too bad the software that will be doing all this complicated (and fascinating) price-analysis will be written by outsourced programmers in India and Russia.:(
Too bad we'll never see an American release of the Evangelion boxed set. ADV will probably not want to do the work of mixing their dub in with the new sound tracks...or redubbing the whole series? Forget it.
Even if someone does decide to buy the rights and re-dub the series, imagine how long it would take. Based on the track-record for the Eva movies (2 years late from their original american release date) we'll see the boxed set here sometime in 2008.
Looks like I'll have to invest in a region 2 DVD player and start learning some japanese (not otaku enough to have learned it yet)
That said, I don't follow your logic...If anime sales increase, then more anime will be offered by distributors and we won't have problems with limited releases...geez.
The linked article, while informative (I didn't know Nadia was so popular, for example), is really just an infomercial for Right Stuf (an anime distributor).
Well then, why are the worst specimens the most popular?
Why is The Jerry Springer Show so popular? Why is "Marry a Fake Millionaire" so popular? It's because the distributors decide that they can make the most money by appealing to the lowest common denominator.
Fortunately, shows like Evangelion and movies like Spirited Away come along and prove to the media Powers That Be that the "unwashed masses" actually have some appreciation for quality works.
BTW - anime fans, brace yourselves for lots of lame posts about tentacle rape and pedophilia. Articles on this topic seem to bring out lots of trolls.
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Shin Seiki Evangelion took over my life for a good year-and-a-half...until the long-delayed release of The End of Evangelion in the US finally brought sweet release. NOW THIS? Please, Gainax...I want my life back.
PS - evaotaku.com
Here's a story on wired about a Pentagon project called LifeLog. It seeks to record every bit of information that can be had...
So that's what the iLoo was for!
Gives the concept of "tracking the movements of every American" a whole new meaning...
When I went on an interview with Datek Online, they showed me a PC gaming room the President had set up for the employees. Nothing but high-end PCs with keyboards, mice and joysticks ready to go. Something about how the pres wanted to emphasize the connection between online gaming and online stock trading...
:\
Of course, they got bought out by Ameritrade a few months later
You're confusing civil and criminal court cases. They don't have to extradite any officers from Spamhaus to the US to hold a trial.
I ain't a lawyer, but...
Basically, someone representing Spamhaus has to show up in court (or file a motion or whatever). Otherwise, they run the risk of aforementioned old, crusty judge (perhaps one with fond memories of his family's multi-million dollar mail-order business) issuing a summary judgement in favor of the Spammers.
Reference all the civil cases by US citizens against foreign governments and individuals: the PAM-AM 103 bombers, Chinese Government, Osama Bin Laden, Saddam Hussein, etc. etc. They had assets in the US (and elsewhere) turned over to the plaintiffs because they failed to defend themselves in civil court (for obvious reasons). IIRC, the ambassador from China (or was it North Korea) was even subpoenaed at the UN.
From there, they can do all sorts of things - most importantly, further legal action. Spamhaus will have a hard time setting up shop in the US if it wants to, as it will owe legal damages. eMarkerters may obtain further court rulings that order ISPs to stop using Spamhaus services. And don't forget that the US has all sorts of trade agreements and treaties with the UK (so they might have more power than you think).
Yeah, it's unlikely, but a ruling in favor of the spammers is not impossible (courts have been known to rule against conventional wisdom now and again *cough*MICROSOFT MONOPOLY*cough*). So it is in everyone's best interest for Spamhaus to take this suit seriously and meet it head-on in US court (preferably with a motion to dismiss).
What we need is a real legal expert to give us the low-down.
The spamhaus guy certainly dissects emarketer's absurd lawsuit, but unfortunately that is a technique better suited for Usenet flamewars. (At risk of overstating the obvious...) It isn't gonna cut it in Federal Court. Spamhaus will ultimately have to file a coherent legal briefing - which I hope Slashdot links to when it becomes available.
Unfortunately, many court cases are more about who has deeper pockets than who is right...so if Spamhaus doesn't get this court case dismissed immediately, they could be in big trouble.
If they DO go to court, they run the risk of ending up with one of those old, crusty judges - the kind that has never actually used a computer, having his(or her) secretary print out his email every day instead. In which case the proceedings could drag on and on...and Spamahaus would probably be SCREWED.
COUNTER-STRIKE
F*ck that f*cking "game" (cheat-fest is more like it). No game has ever made me so angry. Deleting it from my drive was one of the best decisions I have ever made.
And yah, not everyone cheats - but nobody follows the "spirit" of the game (team-based? HAH!) What a joke.
Lest you think Novell is getting all the accolades, one reader sent me screenshots to prove that his Windows NT v4 server is still up and running of 1,079 days with nary a reboot, and being used to serve up IP addresses for about 3,500 client workstations.
"The server outlived the core switch it was originally plugged into, the rack it was originally mounted in, and the KVM it was originally using. If all goes as planned, it will be retired in November without having any downtime and replaced with a Windows 2000 machine."
Does anybody actually believe this one? Buddy, whatever your configuration was, please post it on the net so the rest of us can see how you accomplished the impossible.
At my previous employer, they had to reboot the NT file server at least once daily...
What about the parallel universes that exist in the exact same time/space as our universe - but are separated only by the differing sub-atomic vibrations in the matter of each???
[Obligatory Star Trek joke] Also, the article forgot to mention that the duplicate of you would be the same - save for a suspicous-looking goatee.
Soon Microsoft will beat out Google and all searches for the term "Second Superpower" will point to a giant JPEG of Bill Gates' head!
A useful response. Someone mod parent up.
Yes..."user friendly"...that's why everything has to be done in cryptic CL (Command Language) commands or whatever menu you happen stumble across...if you even have access rights to the AS/400 menu that is.
My original point was: What's stupid is that the people who know anything about AS/400 actively try to keep it a secret from anybody who's actually interested - such as myself. Not just how to use it, but its system architecture or even what the fucking "AS" stands for. Hence the original posting subject "Cult of the AS/400."
Before you waste anymore bandwidth with unwelcome "zingers", please go back and re-read my original comment carefully and address anything I wrote there specifically. Thank you.
Well nyah nyah nyah you're a stupid head!
PS - I went to Columbia University not Jefferson College (?) so sorry that they didn't have any vocational classes there for me to take while I was there.
If you were dumb enough to believe everything that your manager and an IBM marketing guy said, you should fade away into well deserved obscurity.
What the hell was that comment supposed to mean? Maybe you should try actually reading my post before wasting my time.
Please go back and read my post again. Maybe you will notice that I mentioned said "iSeries" books. Thanks for the useless post though.
If companies are whining that there is a shortage of AS/400 (or other mainframe) operators out there, then they should blame the mainframe manufacturers for making their products inaccessible, not the young IT people for being uninterested. Believe me, I TRIED to learn about the AS/400, but just finding scraps of information is a chore in itself (aside from superficial marketing crap).
I have worked at a bank for two years now. Before I arrived, I had never even heard of the AS/400. On my first day my manager took me into the computer room and proudly pointed out what looked like a black dishwasher sitting in the middle of the room. "And this," he smirked, "is our AS/400!"
I could bore you with stories about how nobody taught me anything, how I had to figure everything out about the vaunted AS/400 just so I could do my fucking job (and subsequently got scolded for "going where I wasn't allowed") and so on, but I won't.
Instead I'll just say this: whenever I tried to ask my manager or co-workers for an overview of the AS/400, he could only say "oh, it's NOTHING like a PC, it's COMPLETELY different." Me: "okay, but how is it different?" Them: "Oh, it's just different, you wouldn't understand."
I have come to is that my manager doesn't know jack shit about his beloved AS/400. He knows how to "make it work," and even though he claims to have some sort of certification, IBM obviously just gave him scraps. If you can't explain a technology in 3 sentences, then you probably don't understand it at all.
But why does he know jack shit, despite working with an AS/400 for 10 years? It is because IBM has purposely kept him uneducated. Everything is hidden in subscription professional sites and bank-account busting certifications from IBM.
I have searched the web over and over again for information on AS/400 crap. All I can find are IBM's boring information libraries for the "iSeries," mysterious subscription sites for AS/400 "professionals" and this page. Try finding a book on AS/400 online or at your bookstore. They suck. If you want to wade through the IBM manuals online, be my guest. My suggestion is you do it just before bedtime.
Ok, MAYBE you could teach yourself to be an AS/400 expert by wading through said manuals...but everyone here who learned about PC administration by wading through a Microsoft manual - or, for that matter, an Intel manual - raise your hand (and we're talking actually black-and-white MANUALS here, folks, not online tutorials or knowledge base articles)...well...still waiting...Thought so.
My manager has told me that if you want to learn ANYTHING about AS/400, then you should forget about a career in anything else, because you will have to become an AS/400 expert. Who do you think told HIM that? Why, the current AS/400 experts who want to keep their salaries up and the their jobs secure! (natch)
So here's to the Cult of the AS/400. May you all fade away into well deserved obscurity.
Whoops - full list of RSS content aggregators from the open directory project here.
You can already search rss feeds on google.
/. editors get a kick out giving google reason to sue another small company with poor judgement! Either that or they like /.ing small sites.
Plus there are tons of news aggregators that already exist and have huge indicies of rss sources.
Conclusion:
In other words:
1. Create web site - which doesn't do anything useful but has a name that rips off Google.
2. ???
3. Lawsuit!
Dear UT Austin Students/Faculty/Staff,
We were dumb@sses and now you're royally fscked.
Now let's try and hide those two facts by swamping you with irrelevant details
Sincerely,
UT Austin MIS Staff
Too bad the software that will be doing all this complicated (and fascinating) price-analysis will be written by outsourced programmers in India and Russia. :(
LONG LIVE UNIX!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Before they get a patent an "original method for automated online internet address commericialization [sic]"
First of all, check out the awesome poster.
Too bad we'll never see an American release of the Evangelion boxed set. ADV will probably not want to do the work of mixing their dub in with the new sound tracks...or redubbing the whole series? Forget it.
Even if someone does decide to buy the rights and re-dub the series, imagine how long it would take. Based on the track-record for the Eva movies (2 years late from their original american release date) we'll see the boxed set here sometime in 2008.
Looks like I'll have to invest in a region 2 DVD player and start learning some japanese (not otaku enough to have learned it yet)
I can't believe I'm replying to an AC...
That said, I don't follow your logic...If anime sales increase, then more anime will be offered by distributors and we won't have problems with limited releases...geez.
The linked article, while informative (I didn't know Nadia was so popular, for example), is really just an infomercial for Right Stuf (an anime distributor).
So I'll offer a plug of my own. I like AnimeNation...they have a great news section and a Q&A column "Ask John."
Well then, why are the worst specimens the most popular?
Why is The Jerry Springer Show so popular? Why is "Marry a Fake Millionaire" so popular? It's because the distributors decide that they can make the most money by appealing to the lowest common denominator.
Fortunately, shows like Evangelion and movies like Spirited Away come along and prove to the media Powers That Be that the "unwashed masses" actually have some appreciation for quality works.
BTW - anime fans, brace yourselves for lots of lame posts about tentacle rape and pedophilia. Articles on this topic seem to bring out lots of trolls.