I never really thought much of Anime in general. I grouped anime watchers in with goths, freaks, Magic the Gathering players, and others i just ignored.
I'm a Matrix fan, and as such, i downloaded The Animatrix: The Second Generation, Part I. I was astounded. Rather than large mouth monkey drawn, slow plotted, boring anime, such as is found on the Cartoon Network, instead, something more akin to what i thought Asimov's robots would be like was presented. I've since downloaded all the free short stories from the Wachowski bro's, and plan on buying the DVD.
What i want to say though, is that perhaps this anime converted to real life will have the same effect on people, perhaps to a larger audience, showing more people that anime isn't just a cartoon for the vast unlaid, but rather something more meaningful, with great plots and scriptwriters. On another note, I'm going to watch Spirited Away this weekend, due to its great reviews, and the fact that i saw the first 5 minutes, and was impressed at the overall feel of it.
Good luck with this project, i hope it does great!
This is great, but for a different reason. They're differentiating between those who pay, and those who don't. Those who pay, don't get the DRM. That's very nice. Those who don't, (demo, marketing versions), get it, and can't get rid of it. If this convinces people to pay, without inhibiting them in any way that really matters (especially paying customers), great! This is FINALLY a good application of DRM!
I just idle in some rooms where i know the people. only file sharing i've done is to send a pic or two
As for KaZaA, i'm just not using it at all. I haven't heard how well Norton or McAfee protects against Fizzer over different media yet, so i'm just gonna lay low for a while. I suspect that many others will too.
This brings up another interesting idea. RIAA/MPAA designing virii to attack P2P networked computers (maybe with keywords like 'Usher' in their music files?). HIGHLY illegal, but what do they care?
true, but it's a VERY limited field, with very high risks, to do anything but regular farming. if an investment goes bad, you lose everything. and you have no way to get back in, ever. you're basically screwed, and your family too, for life.
oh, and no bees. i don't even see why you would think we'd keep bees? maybe you're from new york or california, who knows.
My father owns a business. A farm. He grows corn, beans, wheat, and some clover here and there. He sells to local elevators, and knows all the people he interacts with. He doesn't use a computer, much less have a website. He doesn't need one.
However, you might correct yourself and say that all SERVICE businesses should have a website. I agree, as another form of communication, and advertising is a great asset. I use a local database of local businesses quite often, www.activedayton.com, and i really do think that the webspace pays for itself for those that use it, even if it's only contact info, business hours, and a short description for a very small hole-in-the-wall business.
I applaud this attempt to reach those local businesses which don't have any web presence. It would just make my life a lot easier, being able to access data that much faster. Good luck!
The first link is to the prototype page, of the guy who designed the first and second versions in his garage. the last two are of the commercial, buyable version. 'nuff said
Voila! Apples are different from Oranges" said American Agricultural Research magazine today
What i really want to know is whether old 'apples' are still good. To be more specific, it would be nice for them to compare Win2k's Eula (with service packs), to that of XP. The only reason right now that i don't go with XP is that i can't change my hardware willy-nilly like i do quite often. I have legal copies of everything (campus-wide license), so i really don't like the fact that they can tell me what i can/cannot do with products, my hardware, which they have nothing to do with.
I am from a farm. So, I will tell you why farmers do not 'innovate' like you think they should
Farming is a very competetive business. Prices for crops of any sort are quite low, and returns for investments negligible. There are however, many many crackpot ideas out there on how farmers 'should' run things. think Chairman Mao (30 million dead). Traditional methods have been the most reliable, and generally efficient ways for farming for more years than you'll ever see. Taking chances does not pay in this business. There is no venture capital to try new programs. If something goes wrong, a farmer loses his business and livlihood, completely. So, don't knock farmers for being so conservative as to not jump on every new-age crackpot idea that comes around.
*craft takes strategy, which is probably why c-strikers don't play as much. yes, i played c-strike, beta 3 - v1.1, and i must say that i now like to play starcraft broodwars a LOT more than cs.
of course, i also wonder if those koreans have hella old machines that won't play cs, but will play starcraft. you know, that whole i-want-to-eat-so-i'll-delay-upgrading-my-computer deal. (i'm late for class, so, no, i didn't read the article.)
The states banding together for a common based law? isn't that called the Federal Government? I'm not a historian, but i thought that it was the Federal government's duty to create nationwide laws and regulations...
I was born and raised on a farm, so i know a bit about this.
If water is scarce, it is more expensive. So, cattle, and other water intensive things are usually done where there's a lotta water. like the midwest. You don't see nearly as many cattle around in the desert anymore, do ya
The real problem with water and food useage isn't that there isn't enough. God no. It's getting the food to the people who need it. there's two reasons this is hard
1.) We'd have to ship all this food/water hundreds and thousands of miles through bad areas, with little roads or rails. think Somalia here.
The people who need it can't afford it, and we can't just give away everything we have all the time. we're not a socialist nation, us americans (we have the biggest surplus of food though).
So, if you want to become a vegetarian, this is truly the right reason. but please, be sensical about it, and don't talk about what you don't know
Is what this article sounds like. As if they want to be able to control the entire world's perception of the internet, and how they use it. This won't work of course, as business, personal beliefs, economics, and social concerns are the main driving factors in the electronic world. not some lame researcher in a cube telling everyone in his livejournal that they should think about everything in a different way
won't actually affect any coasters, since none currently exceed 5G
Plus, it won't affect any state that matters (ohio). Jersey is just odd sometimes. or all of the times. oh, time to go make fun of my roommate from jersey again...
Really, i wonder how many G's the Millenium Force at Cedar Point pulls? i've heard it's the edge of what people can stand, but then again, i've heard that for other coasters as well.
Who's quote, back in the early 1900s, was "Man was not made to go 19 Miles per Hour!" It's much like the "we'll only ever need XXX kilo/mega/giga-bytes of memory."
Is whether this will make the national news. Trust me, if CNN and MS/NBC and all the rest choose not to cover this, the general public won't know, and won't really make a decision based on this information.
Of course, this could just be a ploy to get M$'s most vile next O/S out, Palladium, that will let them 0\/\/|\| j00r s0ul (and credit card, and email, and music, and movies, and any personal items that may happen to be sitting on top of your computer...)
Imagine a grandma accidentially punching in the number for condoms, instead of her skin cream. No returns... very bad for customer relations.
I imagine they can save a couple bucks an hour on labor, but at what cost? You lose some business because it can't service you to all your whims. if something you buy is obviously defective, oh well. buy another one. That doesn't cut it with Real People. And how much does one of these cost? If it's, say, $200k (i'm guessing, wildly), plus service when it breaks down, plus electricity costs, plus someone who stocks the machine, is it really worth it to save the 50 thousand or so a year (365 days, 6 an hour, 24 hours a day)? Small regualr candybar/chip/pop machines cost up to 10 thousand up front, are produced by the masses and are already very accepted by society.
I'm really not seeing this thing becoming the all-answer to our problems, though it may have a niche market.
well, flamers and trolls usually don't get the +1 bonus... i think what happened is i read your post, replied on how pricing is actually done, then didn't read it again when you replied and we started referring to whatever it was.
i post from work, so i'm not really thorough when i'm trying not to view too many pages, use too much time here. oh welll, today's my last day anyway. i'm co-oping, leaving for school, not getting fired for/. Well, work's almost done, time to hit the bar
well, at first i was just commenting on pricing. i'll admit, i didn't even read the article. well, i read it, and we're both wrong.
Consequently, the nanotechnology industry is very interested in processes that make gold nanoparticles for nano-scale electronic and optical devices.
So, basically they want to use alfalfa in a controlled setting, with high concentrations of gold at their roots, to create nanoparticles
of gold, not just gold bullion. actually, if you filter enough seawater, you can get gold bullion from there too. gold's everywhere, just in minute quantities. but the reason they'd use alfalfa is that the standard procedure now to create these nanoparticles uses really bad bad bad chemicals that the EPA hates. i'm not sure of concentrations, ect, but i'm betting that they wouldn't take just any ole alfalfa for this. i doubt there's as many gold particles in my ohio/midwest soil as there is in your new mexico/southwest soil.
i agree, to extract for bullion, quite fewlish. like i said, seawater even has gold. actually, seawater contains every naturally occuring mineral, just in such small quantities to make it not worthwhile.
good point, but i don't think that these companies would go to roadside places or a hardware/general store for hay. they'd buy in bulk, directly from farms, where they can control the varieties of hay used, areas that may be more profitable, ect. and no, i'm in ohio, not NM. i doubt they'd compete with horses, though. they'd have a different market to shoot for, and i doubt they'd wanna worry if kentucky had a big horse-breeding year they prolly don't wanna have to worry about that, now would they.
Alfalfa is sold by farmers by the ton, not by the bale. alfalfa, depending on quality and market conditions, might be sold from anywhere aroun 90 to 120 dollars a ton. a wire bale might be 80 - 90 lbs, or around there. so, farmers might get anywhere from 3 - 6 bucks a bale, not 7 - 10. now, how valuable is this gold? and how much can be harvested? well, the first question is the one that matters.
When a farmer does something like this, this gold harvesting, they do it by contract, not open market like regular farm products. they agree to supply x-amount of the product, for x-price. now, if the price is more or less when they harvest, it doesn't matter. they're getting the same amount. problems come in when there's a crappy year, and yields are down. if the farmer doesn't supply the needed amount, the contract will usually dictate some kind of penalty. if he has a bumper crop, he can try to sell them more than what they thought they'd need, for whatever they'll give.
Back home, there's a place that raises rye, and harvests the pollen from it, and that's it. that pollen is used to create a drug for prostate cancer. very expensive to make, cause there isn't much pollen in a little head of rye. but, they have a contract, and it's quite profitable for them.
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I never really thought much of Anime in general. I grouped anime watchers in with goths, freaks, Magic the Gathering players, and others i just ignored.
I'm a Matrix fan, and as such, i downloaded The Animatrix: The Second Generation, Part I. I was astounded. Rather than large mouth monkey drawn, slow plotted, boring anime, such as is found on the Cartoon Network, instead, something more akin to what i thought Asimov's robots would be like was presented. I've since downloaded all the free short stories from the Wachowski bro's, and plan on buying the DVD.
What i want to say though, is that perhaps this anime converted to real life will have the same effect on people, perhaps to a larger audience, showing more people that anime isn't just a cartoon for the vast unlaid, but rather something more meaningful, with great plots and scriptwriters. On another note, I'm going to watch Spirited Away this weekend, due to its great reviews, and the fact that i saw the first 5 minutes, and was impressed at the overall feel of it.
Good luck with this project, i hope it does great!
This is great, but for a different reason. They're differentiating between those who pay, and those who don't. Those who pay, don't get the DRM. That's very nice. Those who don't, (demo, marketing versions), get it, and can't get rid of it. If this convinces people to pay, without inhibiting them in any way that really matters (especially paying customers), great! This is FINALLY a good application of DRM!
I just idle in some rooms where i know the people. only file sharing i've done is to send a pic or two
As for KaZaA, i'm just not using it at all. I haven't heard how well Norton or McAfee protects against Fizzer over different media yet, so i'm just gonna lay low for a while. I suspect that many others will too.
This brings up another interesting idea. RIAA/MPAA designing virii to attack P2P networked computers (maybe with keywords like 'Usher' in their music files?). HIGHLY illegal, but what do they care?
true, but it's a VERY limited field, with very high risks, to do anything but regular farming. if an investment goes bad, you lose everything. and you have no way to get back in, ever. you're basically screwed, and your family too, for life.
oh, and no bees. i don't even see why you would think we'd keep bees? maybe you're from new york or california, who knows.
My father owns a business. A farm. He grows corn, beans, wheat, and some clover here and there. He sells to local elevators, and knows all the people he interacts with. He doesn't use a computer, much less have a website. He doesn't need one.
However, you might correct yourself and say that all SERVICE businesses should have a website. I agree, as another form of communication, and advertising is a great asset. I use a local database of local businesses quite often, www.activedayton.com, and i really do think that the webspace pays for itself for those that use it, even if it's only contact info, business hours, and a short description for a very small hole-in-the-wall business.
I applaud this attempt to reach those local businesses which don't have any web presence. It would just make my life a lot easier, being able to access data that much faster. Good luck!
The first link is to the prototype page, of the guy who designed the first and second versions in his garage. the last two are of the commercial, buyable version. 'nuff said
Voila! Apples are different from Oranges" said American Agricultural Research magazine today
What i really want to know is whether old 'apples' are still good. To be more specific, it would be nice for them to compare Win2k's Eula (with service packs), to that of XP. The only reason right now that i don't go with XP is that i can't change my hardware willy-nilly like i do quite often. I have legal copies of everything (campus-wide license), so i really don't like the fact that they can tell me what i can/cannot do with products, my hardware, which they have nothing to do with.
I am from a farm. So, I will tell you why farmers do not 'innovate' like you think they should
Farming is a very competetive business. Prices for crops of any sort are quite low, and returns for investments negligible. There are however, many many crackpot ideas out there on how farmers 'should' run things. think Chairman Mao (30 million dead). Traditional methods have been the most reliable, and generally efficient ways for farming for more years than you'll ever see. Taking chances does not pay in this business. There is no venture capital to try new programs. If something goes wrong, a farmer loses his business and livlihood, completely. So, don't knock farmers for being so conservative as to not jump on every new-age crackpot idea that comes around.
It could be the internet is just losing ground in general. and that's a Bad Thing.
on an unrelated note, i just built a computer in an old cardboard fruit box. wee!
*craft takes strategy, which is probably why c-strikers don't play as much. yes, i played c-strike, beta 3 - v1.1, and i must say that i now like to play starcraft broodwars a LOT more than cs.
of course, i also wonder if those koreans have hella old machines that won't play cs, but will play starcraft. you know, that whole i-want-to-eat-so-i'll-delay-upgrading-my-computer deal. (i'm late for class, so, no, i didn't read the article.)
I thought about trying OS/2 out recently, trying to get away from Windoze, but with this news... i doubt it. sorry IBM. sorry.
The states banding together for a common based law? isn't that called the Federal Government? I'm not a historian, but i thought that it was the Federal government's duty to create nationwide laws and regulations...
I was born and raised on a farm, so i know a bit about this.
If water is scarce, it is more expensive. So, cattle, and other water intensive things are usually done where there's a lotta water. like the midwest. You don't see nearly as many cattle around in the desert anymore, do ya
The real problem with water and food useage isn't that there isn't enough. God no. It's getting the food to the people who need it. there's two reasons this is hard
1.) We'd have to ship all this food/water hundreds and thousands of miles through bad areas, with little roads or rails. think Somalia here.
The people who need it can't afford it, and we can't just give away everything we have all the time. we're not a socialist nation, us americans (we have the biggest surplus of food though).
So, if you want to become a vegetarian, this is truly the right reason. but please, be sensical about it, and don't talk about what you don't know
But alas, the space alloted in a regular comments window is insufficient to explain further...
Can it play them? If it's "all" in one, and i'm payin 300 clams, i sure as hell hope it gets up and gets me a beer too.
Is what this article sounds like. As if they want to be able to control the entire world's perception of the internet, and how they use it. This won't work of course, as business, personal beliefs, economics, and social concerns are the main driving factors in the electronic world. not some lame researcher in a cube telling everyone in his livejournal that they should think about everything in a different way
It seems like the whole world is like this. AKA, screw the little guy.
I know my g/f's name is whitney, but that's about it. the rest of this just confuses me...
won't actually affect any coasters, since none currently exceed 5G
Plus, it won't affect any state that matters (ohio). Jersey is just odd sometimes. or all of the times. oh, time to go make fun of my roommate from jersey again...
Really, i wonder how many G's the Millenium Force at Cedar Point pulls? i've heard it's the edge of what people can stand, but then again, i've heard that for other coasters as well.
Who's quote, back in the early 1900s, was "Man was not made to go 19 Miles per Hour!" It's much like the "we'll only ever need XXX kilo/mega/giga-bytes of memory."
Is whether this will make the national news. Trust me, if CNN and MS/NBC and all the rest choose not to cover this, the general public won't know, and won't really make a decision based on this information.
Of course, this could just be a ploy to get M$'s most vile next O/S out, Palladium, that will let them 0\/\/|\| j00r s0ul (and credit card, and email, and music, and movies, and any personal items that may happen to be sitting on top of your computer...)
Imagine a grandma accidentially punching in the number for condoms, instead of her skin cream. No returns... very bad for customer relations.
I imagine they can save a couple bucks an hour on labor, but at what cost? You lose some business because it can't service you to all your whims. if something you buy is obviously defective, oh well. buy another one. That doesn't cut it with Real People. And how much does one of these cost? If it's, say, $200k (i'm guessing, wildly), plus service when it breaks down, plus electricity costs, plus someone who stocks the machine, is it really worth it to save the 50 thousand or so a year (365 days, 6 an hour, 24 hours a day)? Small regualr candybar/chip/pop machines cost up to 10 thousand up front, are produced by the masses and are already very accepted by society.
I'm really not seeing this thing becoming the all-answer to our problems, though it may have a niche market.
well, flamers and trolls usually don't get the +1 bonus... i think what happened is i read your post, replied on how pricing is actually done, then didn't read it again when you replied and we started referring to whatever it was.
i post from work, so i'm not really thorough when i'm trying not to view too many pages, use too much time here. oh welll, today's my last day anyway. i'm co-oping, leaving for school, not getting fired for /. Well, work's almost done, time to hit the bar
well, at first i was just commenting on pricing. i'll admit, i didn't even read the article. well, i read it, and we're both wrong.
Consequently, the nanotechnology industry is very interested in processes that make gold nanoparticles for nano-scale electronic and optical devices.
So, basically they want to use alfalfa in a controlled setting, with high concentrations of gold at their roots, to create nanoparticles
of gold, not just gold bullion. actually, if you filter enough seawater, you can get gold bullion from there too. gold's everywhere, just in minute quantities. but the reason they'd use alfalfa is that the standard procedure now to create these nanoparticles uses really bad bad bad chemicals that the EPA hates. i'm not sure of concentrations, ect, but i'm betting that they wouldn't take just any ole alfalfa for this. i doubt there's as many gold particles in my ohio/midwest soil as there is in your new mexico/southwest soil.i agree, to extract for bullion, quite fewlish. like i said, seawater even has gold. actually, seawater contains every naturally occuring mineral, just in such small quantities to make it not worthwhile.
good point, but i don't think that these companies would go to roadside places or a hardware/general store for hay. they'd buy in bulk, directly from farms, where they can control the varieties of hay used, areas that may be more profitable, ect. and no, i'm in ohio, not NM. i doubt they'd compete with horses, though. they'd have a different market to shoot for, and i doubt they'd wanna worry if kentucky had a big horse-breeding year they prolly don't wanna have to worry about that, now would they.
Alfalfa is sold by farmers by the ton, not by the bale. alfalfa, depending on quality and market conditions, might be sold from anywhere aroun 90 to 120 dollars a ton. a wire bale might be 80 - 90 lbs, or around there. so, farmers might get anywhere from 3 - 6 bucks a bale, not 7 - 10. now, how valuable is this gold? and how much can be harvested? well, the first question is the one that matters.
When a farmer does something like this, this gold harvesting, they do it by contract, not open market like regular farm products. they agree to supply x-amount of the product, for x-price. now, if the price is more or less when they harvest, it doesn't matter. they're getting the same amount. problems come in when there's a crappy year, and yields are down. if the farmer doesn't supply the needed amount, the contract will usually dictate some kind of penalty. if he has a bumper crop, he can try to sell them more than what they thought they'd need, for whatever they'll give.
Back home, there's a place that raises rye, and harvests the pollen from it, and that's it. that pollen is used to create a drug for prostate cancer. very expensive to make, cause there isn't much pollen in a little head of rye. but, they have a contract, and it's quite profitable for them.