Want the answer for "Is there WMDs in Iraq" to be "yes"? Just get enough "experts" saying so.
Want the answer for "Do most scientists thing Global Warming is real?" to be "No", get enough "experts" to say so.
"Are violent video games linked to kids murdering people?" The gut answer is "yes", and I'll bet that's what the expert reply will be.
The list can go on and on. When you live in a society where there are only two sides "your side" and the "wrong side", people will defend their believes to the bitter end. They will spend vast amounts of time obfusticating the truth, giving the perception that the general concensus is unknown or even in their favor.
You only have to SOUND like you know what you are talking about, and most people will think of you as an expert. Especially if their views match your gut feeling.
I'm very skeptical it will work, but I look forward to playing with the service (and of course to make sure my side, the right side "wins"!;)
What is the difference between what Human Proteome Folding does and what Folding@home does?
There are large differences between the Human Proteome Folding Project and folding@home. Both projects are excellent but have very different objectives.
Folding@home aims to get at how a few proteins of KNOWN structure fold DYNAMICALLY. Folding@home is a project to further understanding of the folding process itself. Understanding why protein folding works (and why it doesn't) could have a significant impact in certain diseases like Alzheimer's and Huntington's Disease, which Folding@Home is actively studying.
The Human Proteome Folding Project will PREDICT the structures of large numbers of proteins of UNKNOWN-structure. The aim of this project is to get structures and functions for huge numbers of proteins so that biologists and biomedical researchers who run into these mystery proteins in their research can look to ISB's database for functional/mechanistic clues about their favorite mystery-proteins.
Call me a pessimist, or a conspiracy theorist, but the ability to predict unknown structures sounds like a way for coporations to patent them. Or maybe I'm reading it wrong.
Either way, I'm sticking to Folding@Home.
They really don't get it. They obviously see there's a problem with their dubs. They "see" it by all the people badmouthing the dubs, but they don't really understand it. What CPM is doing right now is a prime example of their misunderstanding. They are letting fans choose between 4 voices for each of 4 characters. All of these voices can not act. I doubt they've been to a voice acting school. Sure, you can choose the best sounding voice actor/actress (VA) out of the group, or the one that closest matches the original Japanese voice (which is hard, because all 4 voices sound very similar, and nothing like the originals), but the end result will still be poor. They still won't be able to act the parts. You'll still be left with a feeling that they are reading from a paper, or over hamming it up.
In the end, the type of voice really doesn't matter, as long as the VA can portray the character in the manner s/he needs to be portrayed in. If the VA is good, you'll soon forget that s/he doesn't sound like the Japanese voice. You'll be immersed in the story and the character.
One has to wonder if CPM (and the other anime dubbers) are being cheap, and are not hiring (or interviewing) expensive, professionally trained VAs, or if there are just no professionally trained VAs in America.
If voice in the samples are actually from people who have gone to VA school, I apologize, but the school you went to is crap crap crap.
Seamonkey was prevented from using "Mozilla Application Suite" by mozilla.org, which makes sense because they "own" the word Mozilla, and using it would infer that mozilla.org still supported newer versions, which it doesn't.
Same goes for v1.8. mozilla.org strongly recommended against using 1.8. And since they have kindly offered to host the souce, dist, bugs, etc for Seamonkey, you pretty much have to do what they recommend. Even 2.0 would be tricky, because people might think it's a upgrade from "Mozilla 1.7" (which it is, but.. well, isn't)
Wow, first two posts here are asking what' the point is.
The point is that it's a continuation of the Mozilla suite. Just because mozilla.org is too busy to handle the project, doesn't mean that a lot of developers don't want to code for it, nor does it mean that a lot of users don't want to use it.
Who's the target? Simple: People who have Mozilla 1.7.
Why? Same reason people use Mozilla 1.7.
Sure, Firefox is leet and is made by leet ex (and current) Mozilla developers, but it was not made as a replacement for Mozilla.
People who hate Firefox's simplistic options (or hate being uber-leet and going into about:config to change even the simplest config options) are the target. People who want a mail/news app bundled with their browser are a target. People who dislike the attitude of the leet Firefox developers when they first started up are targets.
Go ahead and troll rate me for calling Firefox users/developers leet if you want. I remember distictively when Firefox first came out, the users were bragging they were leet.
the web picks up the slack. Back in the day when I bought computer magazines (at least 2 years ago), I've always wanted comprehensive charts of the latest graphic cards listed in magazines. Occassionally, if they were doing a graphics card special issue, there'd be maybe 7 cards compared.
However, this comparison guide is hardly a "easy reference". It's on the web, so give it some features. I want to sort, filter out columns, have side-by-sides comparisons, comments/ratings by users (or staff), etc.
I live in Japan now, where I can pick up a monthly computer magazine, and they have a section dedicated to charts on the latest CPU, Video, HDD, Motherboards, and Chipsets. The video chart, for comparison, has 14 different specs, all listed on one row, making it far easier to compare than this site.
The only advantage to the charts at the site in this story is that it will/does include old cards. But, as with other commenters in this thread, I say this story certainly feels like a cheap ad.
I see a few posts bragging about these numbers. Stop now before you embarass yourself.
For example, the biggest VOIP company in Japan, Softbank has about 4.4 million VoIP customers. Yes, that's just one of the VOIP companies in Japan. (Source: cabledatacomnews.com)
I'm not here to brag about Japan. I'm sure S. Korea and China have impressive, if not larger numbers of VOIP users.
And in future news, XBOX360 and PS3 copy protection schemes circumvented by Distributed Computing apps. Homebrew game developers, owners of DVDs from other regions, and backup-copy gamers rejoice.
Growing yes, innovating hardly. Little innovation means you dont actually have a lot to protect making patents a moot point anyway.
Isn't one of the arguments against software patents that most of the software patents aren't innovations at all, but mere logical steps forward? So, whose to say they aren't 'innovating' according to the US software patent system?
Almost 1/2 the people from the Netscape Haydays are gone. Fortunately, the 1/2 that stayed seemed to be the more active and more dedicated ones. Those remaining ones who didn't switch off to Firefox when it split, are either to busy working on Mozilla/Gecko core (which helps FireFox), or they resent Firefox enough to not want to "bale them out", or even actively help. The whole FF split left a bitter taste in some people's mouths, and those people have long memories.
I don't mean to make it sound like there's an active rivalry between Moz and FF. Outwardly, there's no signs of that.
- Reviewers != Coders. There are more Firefox coders than reviewers. A bottleneck is created, but hardly a crisis
- Most of Firefox's changes come from Gecko, which is done by Mozilla coders (I guess you could call them Gecko coders, although I've never heard anyone say that). There are currently about 70 reviewers, and 20 super-reviewers for mozilla. There's about 84 coders a month (down from the 150+ haydays of the Netscape area)
Just what your local pedophile has been asking for all along.. a way to track kids so that they can grab them in much more concealed places. Oh look, that one kid just seperated from his friends and is now going down an empty street all by himself.. yum!
MNG supports so many fancy features beyond just simple animations
I'll expand on this statement a bit. MNG has so much extra stuff, it starts to feel like Flash animation. So, the question for designers becomes "is it a straight forward animation, or does it need some cool logic and effects?". The answer is either GIF, or Flash, respectively. MNG is not good enough for the 2nd choice, and overboard for the first choice. Sure, you can use MNG for the first choice, but then you feel dirty for not using it to its fullest potential. (Plus, as others have said, it's not supported by popular apps)
Ah yes, the downfall to open source.. you can't control what the developers do (unless you pay them or threaten them with violence).
Let's face it, developers would rather add a new toy than fix something that may go down to the core architecture of the product (yuck).
My theory on the new developer's cycle is:
Developers come to Mozilla to fix a certain problem with it. If they are sucessfull and gain knowledge about how mozilla works, they are probably more inclined to add "that feature that they always wanted" (and only 5 other people want) than to fix more bugs (afterall, they already fixed the bug they wanted.. the other bugs don't effect _them_, so why touch "someone elses code"?). Those people usually go on to maintain their new feature for a long time to come, but it doesn't help the situation of existing bugs. Eventually, that developer either loses interest in the feature, or leaves the project, leaving people who don't give a rats ass about the bugs in the feature. And did they document their new feature before leaving? Some do, most don't..
And other new developers come in only to add a new feature, having no concern about existing bugs. (ie "I don't know that area, so I can't fix anything there. However, I do know something about blowing up your monitor, so I'll add that feature to mozilla)
Of course, the new developers we need are the ones that will do structural changes, fix bugs, and continue to fix bugs. The huge learning curve and lack of up-to-date developer documentation (or sometimes any developer documentation) is an effective detterent.
Okay, I'm partially lying to you.. because I happen to know a considerable number (but not the majority) of mozilla developers are working on bug fixes, perf issues, or architecture changes (which allow for bugs to be fixed).
Have I got a deal for you! There's something our there that goes 1/3 the speed of a segway, is 1/3 of the size, and you could probably carry at least 1/3 of the stuff (probably more!)
It's called a human body. Everyone got one when they were born for FREE!
Also, keep in mind that you can only go the speed of traffic. So if you are on a sidewalk, and everyone is walking 3 mph, you can only drive your fat segway 3mph.
Slashdot Mirror
Sounds like a great way to spread disinformation.
;)
Want the answer for "Is there WMDs in Iraq" to be "yes"? Just get enough "experts" saying so.
Want the answer for "Do most scientists thing Global Warming is real?" to be "No", get enough "experts" to say so.
"Are violent video games linked to kids murdering people?" The gut answer is "yes", and I'll bet that's what the expert reply will be.
The list can go on and on. When you live in a society where there are only two sides "your side" and the "wrong side", people will defend their believes to the bitter end. They will spend vast amounts of time obfusticating the truth, giving the perception that the general concensus is unknown or even in their favor.
You only have to SOUND like you know what you are talking about, and most people will think of you as an expert. Especially if their views match your gut feeling.
I'm very skeptical it will work, but I look forward to playing with the service (and of course to make sure my side, the right side "wins"!
The provided URLs don't say whether it allows FTP upload, so I'd say no.
Ahh, businesses always thinking about the users, by leaving out obvious features so that they can sell services that provide those missing features.
They really don't get it. They obviously see there's a problem with their dubs. They "see" it by all the people badmouthing the dubs, but they don't really understand it. What CPM is doing right now is a prime example of their misunderstanding. They are letting fans choose between 4 voices for each of 4 characters. All of these voices can not act. I doubt they've been to a voice acting school. Sure, you can choose the best sounding voice actor/actress (VA) out of the group, or the one that closest matches the original Japanese voice (which is hard, because all 4 voices sound very similar, and nothing like the originals), but the end result will still be poor. They still won't be able to act the parts. You'll still be left with a feeling that they are reading from a paper, or over hamming it up.
In the end, the type of voice really doesn't matter, as long as the VA can portray the character in the manner s/he needs to be portrayed in. If the VA is good, you'll soon forget that s/he doesn't sound like the Japanese voice. You'll be immersed in the story and the character.
One has to wonder if CPM (and the other anime dubbers) are being cheap, and are not hiring (or interviewing) expensive, professionally trained VAs, or if there are just no professionally trained VAs in America.
If voice in the samples are actually from people who have gone to VA school, I apologize, but the school you went to is crap crap crap.
Seamonkey was prevented from using "Mozilla Application Suite" by mozilla.org, which makes sense because they "own" the word Mozilla, and using it would infer that mozilla.org still supported newer versions, which it doesn't.
Same goes for v1.8. mozilla.org strongly recommended against using 1.8. And since they have kindly offered to host the souce, dist, bugs, etc for Seamonkey, you pretty much have to do what they recommend. Even 2.0 would be tricky, because people might think it's a upgrade from "Mozilla 1.7" (which it is, but.. well, isn't)
Wow, first two posts here are asking what' the point is.
The point is that it's a continuation of the Mozilla suite. Just because mozilla.org is too busy to handle the project, doesn't mean that a lot of developers don't want to code for it, nor does it mean that a lot of users don't want to use it.
Who's the target? Simple: People who have Mozilla 1.7.
Why? Same reason people use Mozilla 1.7.
Sure, Firefox is leet and is made by leet ex (and current) Mozilla developers, but it was not made as a replacement for Mozilla.
People who hate Firefox's simplistic options (or hate being uber-leet and going into about:config to change even the simplest config options) are the target. People who want a mail/news app bundled with their browser are a target. People who dislike the attitude of the leet Firefox developers when they first started up are targets.
Go ahead and troll rate me for calling Firefox users/developers leet if you want. I remember distictively when Firefox first came out, the users were bragging they were leet.
the web picks up the slack. Back in the day when I bought computer magazines (at least 2 years ago), I've always wanted comprehensive charts of the latest graphic cards listed in magazines. Occassionally, if they were doing a graphics card special issue, there'd be maybe 7 cards compared.
However, this comparison guide is hardly a "easy reference". It's on the web, so give it some features. I want to sort, filter out columns, have side-by-sides comparisons, comments/ratings by users (or staff), etc.
I live in Japan now, where I can pick up a monthly computer magazine, and they have a section dedicated to charts on the latest CPU, Video, HDD, Motherboards, and Chipsets. The video chart, for comparison, has 14 different specs, all listed on one row, making it far easier to compare than this site.
The only advantage to the charts at the site in this story is that it will/does include old cards. But, as with other commenters in this thread, I say this story certainly feels like a cheap ad.
For example, the biggest VOIP company in Japan, Softbank has about 4.4 million VoIP customers. Yes, that's just one of the VOIP companies in Japan. (Source: cabledatacomnews.com)
I'm not here to brag about Japan. I'm sure S. Korea and China have impressive, if not larger numbers of VOIP users.
And in future news, XBOX360 and PS3 copy protection schemes circumvented by Distributed Computing apps. Homebrew game developers, owners of DVDs from other regions, and backup-copy gamers rejoice.
Isn't one of the arguments against software patents that most of the software patents aren't innovations at all, but mere logical steps forward? So, whose to say they aren't 'innovating' according to the US software patent system?
Almost 1/2 the people from the Netscape Haydays are gone. Fortunately, the 1/2 that stayed seemed to be the more active and more dedicated ones. Those remaining ones who didn't switch off to Firefox when it split, are either to busy working on Mozilla/Gecko core (which helps FireFox), or they resent Firefox enough to not want to "bale them out", or even actively help. The whole FF split left a bitter taste in some people's mouths, and those people have long memories.
I don't mean to make it sound like there's an active rivalry between Moz and FF. Outwardly, there's no signs of that.
- Reviewers != Coders. There are more Firefox coders than reviewers. A bottleneck is created, but hardly a crisis
- Most of Firefox's changes come from Gecko, which is done by Mozilla coders (I guess you could call them Gecko coders, although I've never heard anyone say that). There are currently about 70 reviewers, and 20 super-reviewers for mozilla. There's about 84 coders a month (down from the 150+ haydays of the Netscape area)
Just what your local pedophile has been asking for all along.. a way to track kids so that they can grab them in much more concealed places. Oh look, that one kid just seperated from his friends and is now going down an empty street all by himself.. yum!
I'll expand on this statement a bit. MNG has so much extra stuff, it starts to feel like Flash animation. So, the question for designers becomes "is it a straight forward animation, or does it need some cool logic and effects?". The answer is either GIF, or Flash, respectively. MNG is not good enough for the 2nd choice, and overboard for the first choice. Sure, you can use MNG for the first choice, but then you feel dirty for not using it to its fullest potential. (Plus, as others have said, it's not supported by popular apps)
Ah yes, the downfall to open source.. you can't control what the developers do (unless you pay them or threaten them with violence).
Let's face it, developers would rather add a new toy than fix something that may go down to the core architecture of the product (yuck).
My theory on the new developer's cycle is:
Developers come to Mozilla to fix a certain problem with it. If they are sucessfull and gain knowledge about how mozilla works, they are probably more inclined to add "that feature that they always wanted" (and only 5 other people want) than to fix more bugs (afterall, they already fixed the bug they wanted.. the other bugs don't effect _them_, so why touch "someone elses code"?). Those people usually go on to maintain their new feature for a long time to come, but it doesn't help the situation of existing bugs. Eventually, that developer either loses interest in the feature, or leaves the project, leaving people who don't give a rats ass about the bugs in the feature. And did they document their new feature before leaving? Some do, most don't..
And other new developers come in only to add a new feature, having no concern about existing bugs. (ie "I don't know that area, so I can't fix anything there. However, I do know something about blowing up your monitor, so I'll add that feature to mozilla)
Of course, the new developers we need are the ones that will do structural changes, fix bugs, and continue to fix bugs. The huge learning curve and lack of up-to-date developer documentation (or sometimes any developer documentation) is an effective detterent.
Okay, I'm partially lying to you.. because I happen to know a considerable number (but not the majority) of mozilla developers are working on bug fixes, perf issues, or architecture changes (which allow for bugs to be fixed).
Have I got a deal for you! There's something our there that goes 1/3 the speed of a segway, is 1/3 of the size, and you could probably carry at least 1/3 of the stuff (probably more!)
It's called a human body. Everyone got one when they were born for FREE!
Also, keep in mind that you can only go the speed of traffic. So if you are on a sidewalk, and everyone is walking 3 mph, you can only drive your fat segway 3mph.
What a world we live in, indeed.