Well the one thing right in your post is that it is true, you are never going to walk into a restaurant and say "I would like tuna sushi" and get tuna fried rice, because that isn't what "sushi" is referring to.
"Sushi" means rice in so much as it is referring to the fact that sushi is raw fish with rice as compared to sashimi which is without rice. You will never find a restaurant in Japan that serves anything thing but raw fish served in or in vinegared rice if you order tuna sushi, and you will also find that you will never be served only raw tuna without rice if you order tuna sushi. This is true in the US too.
The problem stems from the fact in America we don't eat just raw fish without rice, so there was never any need to import the word sashimi so in the minds of English speakers "Sushi" referred to the raw fish part of raw fish and rice, compared to the Japanese meaning which means sashimi with rice.
In conclusion, I think starting poster of this treads pedantic point was that saying sushi is dangerous is just silly, since it isn't raw fish with rice that is dangerous, it is raw fish. Therefore why focus on the fish with rice part by using the word Sushi. It is like if there was an outbreak of mad cow disease and a study saying "Hamburgers Dangerous" while that is true, would it not be more help to say "Beef Dangerous" since there is nothing about a bun, lettuce, and a tomato that would make hamburgers more dangerous than just eating a beef paddy.
While I can't say anything about the test of them, but Nomura's Jelly Fish is one of the (I think) two jelly fish eaten in China and Japan. Along with, according to the Japanese Wikipedia, a jelly fish, appropriately called the Edible jellyfish, though the scientific name is Rhopilema esculenta. While the Edible jellyfish is know as more delicious and fetches a higher price in China they are both perfectly edible.
The other problem is China and Japan view the problem differently, because Japanese people do not traditionally eat jellyfish they tend to view the surplus of jellyfish in terms of invaders, while China has a tendency to view it as more jellyfish to eat.
Though there are several Japanese companies who have started using Nomura's jellyfish as an ingredient in different foods as a way to try to deal with the influx of the jellyfish in recent years. This caused several problems last year, when several companies were expecting hauls of jellyfish last year to find almost none appearing.
Frankenstein is, in every iteration, a creation of humanity
I agree whole-heartedly. You can only watch Mr. and Mrs. Frankenstein do it so many times before you begin to think, "Enough already. I get it. Dr. Frankenstein was a creation of humanity. Now stop showing Dr. Frankstein's ugly-ass parents having sex and start showing Dr. Frankstein create the monster."
Anyone else worried about this turning into an infinite takedown notice loop the brings the whole internet to it's knees, as the corporations send takedown notices to take down the takedown notices which are then put up only to be followed up by more takedown notices for the takedown notices of the takedown notices, which of course will then have to be put...
Can anyone stop this madness?
Yes, but the same thing can be said for games made on the PlayStation and xbox360. Because of the different processors used there is no simple way to port between the two systems and likewise between revolution. All three systems have made design decisions that really make it difficult to conveniently port games freely between the three systems.
And in my opinion a different controller design does not seem as hard a hurdle to overcome as different design philosophies imposed by the hardware. But that last part is just IMHO.
I don't think people are necessarily making jokes on the article because it is against Microsoft or offshoring. The jokes stem from how ridiculously baised the summary for the story is. If you read just the summary and not the article (though I am sure everyone read the article) you would assume slashdot hit an all time low too, and that the article was just some shallow attempt to find a new reason to discredit and laugh at microsoft. Irregardless of what the article actually said.
In other news Linus Torvalds catches the common cold showing Linux is much more susceptible to basic vulnerabilities than Windows is. Proving once and for all Windows is more secure than Linux.
I think my favorite part of the article is when someone says:
.I've marked the Boy*d Upp and Jamie Kane articles on Wikipedia for deletion. Hopefully this will teach people that Wikipedia isnt the place for viral marketing.
Since I can only imagine how many more people have seen the wikipedia page and heard about the game, after people started making a big deal about it and writing articles about it. I can only imagine what all viral advertizing firms are thinking. Damn, well I guess we can't use wikipedia to try to gain recognition for our product, because if someone notices, our pages will get slashdotted then no one will be able to view them, because too many people will be viewing our product... Oh, wait...
Despite that, I am still not sure what the big deal was in the first place. It was just good fun, and didn't really harm anyone. What is wrong with a wikipedia page about a fake artist, as far as some people are concerned (see earlier slashdot article about mmorpg) there actually is/will be no difference between reality and what is found on the internet, so in those terms the BBC is actually ahead of the game.
Not only has he gone head to head with Northrop Grumman, he has pursued it vigorously in the courts and has even managed to shut down "stealthisemail.com" (Steal This Email.com) because the URL coincidentally contains the word "stealth".
What the article actually says about "Stealthisemail.com" is that Mr. Stroller sent an e-mail to the website telling them to shut it down. Then the article says about InterActivist Network (who runs stealthisemail.com):
Eric Goldhagen, a member of the InterActivist Network, said that members of his group planned to talk to lawyers and others who have received letters from Mr. Stoller to discuss ways to deal with his "stealth" claims. "The fact that somebody, just by claiming to own a word, can intimidate large companies and powerful law firms shows the damage, to an extent, is already done," he said. "If people like Stoller are allowed to get away with this unchallenged, there could be ripple effects to every form of public mass media."
which if you look closely seems to imply to me that they have not taken it to court yet, therefore have not been forced to shutdown. This is easily verified by going to the actual website which is still up.
Though I do agree with the general sentiment of the submitter that this whole thing is ridiculous.
-Patrick
Yeah, but the problem with calling modern games worthless, unfun crap that no-one would want to play is that people do want to play them. If no one wanted to play the upteenth iteration of GTA then there wouldn't be an upteenth + 1 version of it. The problem is the majority of people do want to play GTA and can't wait for the next one to come out. They love the graphics and the cut-scenes. It is not just the industry steering itself in that direction, it is the also the money and that money is coming from the consumer who is buying all these damn rehashed games.
I feel most slashdotters (myself included-considering the only game installed on my computer right now is Angband) don't realize how in the minority they are. The gaming industry for the most part is in it to make money, so why make games that would please a few thousand slashdotters (at least the ones that would actually pay for the game) when the could sell a flasher game to 100X that audience. There will always be small niche game makers who do it for the love of the craft, but big companies want to make big money. And to say these developers are digging there own graves rehashing the same old ideas just doesn't jive with reality, since people are obviously buying the games. So complain about the lack of good games, but don't just blame the developers thinking they are on some ego-maniacal trip, they are just doing what the public, in general, wants.
I know that there are things like ScummVM that allow you to play some games and fix up the graphics a bit, but it requires the original disks, which I have but cannot use (no 5.25"/3.5" floppy drives). I, for one, would pay a lot of money to get copies of my old games that Just Work on my newer machines.
how about instead of paying lots of money you buy a floppy drive.
Yeah, I was slightly conflating being filthy rich and being large and ubiquitous. Of course that was mostly because MS, which is the company in question, is both filthy rich and large.
Nonsense! If MicroSoft was 2 billion in the red and falling fast, the party line would be exactly the same. If anything, they'd cheer louder as MS approached chapter 11.
The only reason they would cheer is because they already hate MS. If MicroSoft had never become big and filthy rich then no-one would give a damn. That is what I meant with my hypothetical comparision to BeOS. If MicroSoft hadn't gotten big (and filthy rich) people wouldn't hate them (at least as much). So of course if MicroSoft was losing money slashdot would cheer because it would be the felling of a giant, but that doesn't change the fact that they started cheering in the first place for the down fall of MicroSoft because MS was (is) a filthy rich giant.
Also in defense of my conflation of money and size. I don't know about worldcom and adelphia, but I would imagine that they were at one time making piles of money or else how did they become behemoth corps. It seems to me that you can't become a behemoth corp without any capital so they needed and had it at one time or another.
That reasoning doesn't work at all.* Since while you are thinking "fux0r MS, they've gotten rich selling garbage; I won't pay to perpetuate garbage" you are in fact perpetuating garbage since you are using the freaking product, even if it is pirated, so in the end people are either pirating Windows because they think MS is filthy rich or because the have no moral consience against it.
As for personal opinion I am pretty sure slashdot's party line is we hate MS because they are rich. If MS was about the size BeOS was then there would be much less MS bashing going on.
* Not to imply slashdotters ever make sense
Slashdot Mirror
Nintendo also can't depend on a cult to buy products and make excuses.
Right, because who's ever heard of an Nintendo Fanboi?
Yeah, but they only need to run it once to make the cost less than twice the amount.
Point being, the summary is just as inflammatory.
Unless you use it on a Japanese fingerprint scanner, then you only have 3 seconds.
Well the one thing right in your post is that it is true, you are never going to walk into a restaurant and say "I would like tuna sushi" and get tuna fried rice, because that isn't what "sushi" is referring to. "Sushi" means rice in so much as it is referring to the fact that sushi is raw fish with rice as compared to sashimi which is without rice. You will never find a restaurant in Japan that serves anything thing but raw fish served in or in vinegared rice if you order tuna sushi, and you will also find that you will never be served only raw tuna without rice if you order tuna sushi. This is true in the US too. The problem stems from the fact in America we don't eat just raw fish without rice, so there was never any need to import the word sashimi so in the minds of English speakers "Sushi" referred to the raw fish part of raw fish and rice, compared to the Japanese meaning which means sashimi with rice. In conclusion, I think starting poster of this treads pedantic point was that saying sushi is dangerous is just silly, since it isn't raw fish with rice that is dangerous, it is raw fish. Therefore why focus on the fish with rice part by using the word Sushi. It is like if there was an outbreak of mad cow disease and a study saying "Hamburgers Dangerous" while that is true, would it not be more help to say "Beef Dangerous" since there is nothing about a bun, lettuce, and a tomato that would make hamburgers more dangerous than just eating a beef paddy.
While I can't say anything about the test of them, but Nomura's Jelly Fish is one of the (I think) two jelly fish eaten in China and Japan. Along with, according to the Japanese Wikipedia, a jelly fish, appropriately called the Edible jellyfish, though the scientific name is Rhopilema esculenta. While the Edible jellyfish is know as more delicious and fetches a higher price in China they are both perfectly edible. The other problem is China and Japan view the problem differently, because Japanese people do not traditionally eat jellyfish they tend to view the surplus of jellyfish in terms of invaders, while China has a tendency to view it as more jellyfish to eat. Though there are several Japanese companies who have started using Nomura's jellyfish as an ingredient in different foods as a way to try to deal with the influx of the jellyfish in recent years. This caused several problems last year, when several companies were expecting hauls of jellyfish last year to find almost none appearing.
Frankenstein is, in every iteration, a creation of humanity
I agree whole-heartedly. You can only watch Mr. and Mrs. Frankenstein do it so many times before you begin to think, "Enough already. I get it. Dr. Frankenstein was a creation of humanity. Now stop showing Dr. Frankstein's ugly-ass parents having sex and start showing Dr. Frankstein create the monster."
Anyone else worried about this turning into an infinite takedown notice loop the brings the whole internet to it's knees, as the corporations send takedown notices to take down the takedown notices which are then put up only to be followed up by more takedown notices for the takedown notices of the takedown notices, which of course will then have to be put... Can anyone stop this madness?
Yes, but the same thing can be said for games made on the PlayStation and xbox360. Because of the different processors used there is no simple way to port between the two systems and likewise between revolution. All three systems have made design decisions that really make it difficult to conveniently port games freely between the three systems.
AnandTech: comparing PS3 and 360's hardware
And in my opinion a different controller design does not seem as hard a hurdle to overcome as different design philosophies imposed by the hardware. But that last part is just IMHO.
I don't really see why the video is called Developers, Developers, developers?
I don't think people are necessarily making jokes on the article because it is against Microsoft or offshoring. The jokes stem from how ridiculously baised the summary for the story is. If you read just the summary and not the article (though I am sure everyone read the article) you would assume slashdot hit an all time low too, and that the article was just some shallow attempt to find a new reason to discredit and laugh at microsoft. Irregardless of what the article actually said.
before the serious part, your post was the single funniest post I have read on slashdot. For that I salute you.
In other news Linus Torvalds catches the common cold showing Linux is much more susceptible to basic vulnerabilities than Windows is. Proving once and for all Windows is more secure than Linux.
So I agree with just about everyone--BS article.
I think my favorite part of the article is when someone says:
.I've marked the Boy*d Upp and Jamie Kane articles on Wikipedia for deletion. Hopefully this will teach people that Wikipedia isnt the place for viral marketing.
Since I can only imagine how many more people have seen the wikipedia page and heard about the game, after people started making a big deal about it and writing articles about it. I can only imagine what all viral advertizing firms are thinking. Damn, well I guess we can't use wikipedia to try to gain recognition for our product, because if someone notices, our pages will get slashdotted then no one will be able to view them, because too many people will be viewing our product... Oh, wait...
Despite that, I am still not sure what the big deal was in the first place. It was just good fun, and didn't really harm anyone. What is wrong with a wikipedia page about a fake artist, as far as some people are concerned (see earlier slashdot article about mmorpg) there actually is/will be no difference between reality and what is found on the internet, so in those terms the BBC is actually ahead of the game.
'm a gambler, and I despise compulsives, but they're an unfortunate reality, no different than drunks or bible thumpers.
or "self-rghteous idiots" while we are at it.
Dude, send me some of those songs so I can put them on my hacked cell.
Slashdot needs a +1 makes the parent look like an idiot mod.
cause I would use that one all the time.
Not only has he gone head to head with Northrop Grumman, he has pursued it vigorously in the courts and has even managed to shut down "stealthisemail.com" (Steal This Email.com) because the URL coincidentally contains the word "stealth".
What the article actually says about "Stealthisemail.com" is that Mr. Stroller sent an e-mail to the website telling them to shut it down. Then the article says about InterActivist Network (who runs stealthisemail.com):
Eric Goldhagen, a member of the InterActivist Network, said that members of his group planned to talk to lawyers and others who have received letters from Mr. Stoller to discuss ways to deal with his "stealth" claims. "The fact that somebody, just by claiming to own a word, can intimidate large companies and powerful law firms shows the damage, to an extent, is already done," he said. "If people like Stoller are allowed to get away with this unchallenged, there could be ripple effects to every form of public mass media."
which if you look closely seems to imply to me that they have not taken it to court yet, therefore have not been forced to shutdown. This is easily verified by going to the actual website which is still up.
Though I do agree with the general sentiment of the submitter that this whole thing is ridiculous. -Patrick
"too slowly", you mean.
Sorry, I forgot to mention that I was trying to be snarky.
Instead of helpful that is.
Yeah, but the problem with calling modern games worthless, unfun crap that no-one would want to play is that people do want to play them. If no one wanted to play the upteenth iteration of GTA then there wouldn't be an upteenth + 1 version of it. The problem is the majority of people do want to play GTA and can't wait for the next one to come out. They love the graphics and the cut-scenes. It is not just the industry steering itself in that direction, it is the also the money and that money is coming from the consumer who is buying all these damn rehashed games.
I feel most slashdotters (myself included-considering the only game installed on my computer right now is Angband) don't realize how in the minority they are. The gaming industry for the most part is in it to make money, so why make games that would please a few thousand slashdotters (at least the ones that would actually pay for the game) when the could sell a flasher game to 100X that audience. There will always be small niche game makers who do it for the love of the craft, but big companies want to make big money. And to say these developers are digging there own graves rehashing the same old ideas just doesn't jive with reality, since people are obviously buying the games. So complain about the lack of good games, but don't just blame the developers thinking they are on some ego-maniacal trip, they are just doing what the public, in general, wants.
I know that there are things like ScummVM that allow you to play some games and fix up the graphics a bit, but it requires the original disks, which I have but cannot use (no 5.25"/3.5" floppy drives). I, for one, would pay a lot of money to get copies of my old games that Just Work on my newer machines.
how about instead of paying lots of money you buy a floppy drive.
Yeah, I was slightly conflating being filthy rich and being large and ubiquitous. Of course that was mostly because MS, which is the company in question, is both filthy rich and large.
Nonsense! If MicroSoft was 2 billion in the red and falling fast, the party line would be exactly the same. If anything, they'd cheer louder as MS approached chapter 11.
The only reason they would cheer is because they already hate MS. If MicroSoft had never become big and filthy rich then no-one would give a damn. That is what I meant with my hypothetical comparision to BeOS. If MicroSoft hadn't gotten big (and filthy rich) people wouldn't hate them (at least as much). So of course if MicroSoft was losing money slashdot would cheer because it would be the felling of a giant, but that doesn't change the fact that they started cheering in the first place for the down fall of MicroSoft because MS was (is) a filthy rich giant.
Also in defense of my conflation of money and size. I don't know about worldcom and adelphia, but I would imagine that they were at one time making piles of money or else how did they become behemoth corps. It seems to me that you can't become a behemoth corp without any capital so they needed and had it at one time or another.
Indeed.
Myself included
That reasoning doesn't work at all.* Since while you are thinking "fux0r MS, they've gotten rich selling garbage; I won't pay to perpetuate garbage" you are in fact perpetuating garbage since you are using the freaking product, even if it is pirated, so in the end people are either pirating Windows because they think MS is filthy rich or because the have no moral consience against it. As for personal opinion I am pretty sure slashdot's party line is we hate MS because they are rich. If MS was about the size BeOS was then there would be much less MS bashing going on. * Not to imply slashdotters ever make sense
Well it is pretty obvious that the parents sure as hell didn't show these kids how to respect other people's property.