That's ridiculous. You're telling us that you would watch a show that received no advertising? How would you know that the show existed? You are implicitly relying on the existing advertising to announce the show to you (in TV listings, etc.).
I watch a lot of shows that have never been advertised in the country I live in. I get them through referral networks i.e. I look on Amazon, in newsgroups, forums, etc to see what people who are watching the stuff I like are also watching which I haven't heard of. This requires more effort from me, but is ultimately far more rewarding e.g. I am currently watching Full Metal Alchemist, Ghost in the Shell SAC: 2, Macros Zero, Madolax, and Naruto. I have recently watched Lain, Noir, Evangelio (again, it's great), and.Hack/Sign. These all have zero advertsing over here because they aren't even released here, it was all P2P and referral.
You sound like one of the people who claim that iTunes should sell songs for 10 cents and albums for a $1. It's not going to happen.Your math needs a little skilling up based on the last comments. For example: Futurama Series 4 cost £35 over here, and contains 17 episodes. That's £2.05 each episode according to my calculator, right on the £1 or £2 quid I said I was happy to pay. Other shows work out at similar rates.
Been there done that. I live in the UK by the way. I tracked down a guy who was sending offensive junk mails to the MD of the company I worked for. Once I had his IP I nailed him down to his location within about 10 km based of that, and was able to deduce who he was from there. For the record, he was a disgruntled contractor. The police took it from there. Check this google search if you're interested in how it might be done.
For a good example of where CGI has enhanced live/animated film check out Casshern (live film), Ghost in the Shell: Innocence, or Metropolis. For a bad example, see any recent star wars flick.
You should ask if Cameron is worthy of Alita. Although by no means the best anime out there, it is a reasonable one. The Abyss, while beautiful to look at was lacking any depth, and Aliens, took the brilliant Alien franchise and dashed it's brains out on the rocks of gungho marine gun totting idiocy, losing *all* of the suspense and tension of the original. In the original, a single alient was all that was needed to hunt down and kill with incredible efficiency the entire crew. In the sequel they were blasting hundreds of them to death and the only thing you had for suspense was whether Hicks would also get out alive - Ripley and Newt were a lock-in.
Don't get me wrong, I like Cameron's visuals, but I just dont think he is right for anime.
An apocalyptic beggining is also acceptable for manga;-> I don't know if I can bear to watch yet another classic piece of foreign culture destroyed by the Americans. Once they've finished dumbing it down to suit the lowest common denominator in the US it may as well be just another crummy American show. This is their latest disturbing trend, find a good foreign film, make it in english (sorry American), slick up the production values and dumb down the content, then promote the shit out of it. The only good that can come of this is that people who see it may be tempted to seek out the originals. I may as well provide some backing examples, so off the top of my head:
Vanilla Sky
Solaris
City of Angels
The Ring
The Grudge
I might as well have a moan about how the films made by Takeshi Kitano in the US are pale in comparison to his Japanese ones. Compare Sonatine, Gonin and Zatoichi to Ghost Dog and Brother. No real comparison. Ah well, at least it's turning some people on to the real stuff.
Count me in too. I don't see why they don't create a three tier or more system of purchase e.g.
Broadcast with full ads
Video Store Release
DVD Release
Direct Download
They've been telling us for years that they are having to spend stupid money to find and retain viewers, and enormous money on distribution. Direct downloaders should only have to pay £1 or £2 / episode because:
We seek you out, not the other way around, saving on advertising
They have no real bandwidth costs (P2P)
No packaging costs
No DVD production costs
No distribution costs
We "word of mouth" it to all our mates
I only ask for ad free content, I'm willing to download it, seek it out, store it on blank DVDs, and even print my own covers. Why aren't they will to offer consumers the products they want? If they did, I wouldn't even bother with suprnova and their ilk, and they would all get paid much sooner. Hell, if the DVD's had real and decent "extras" I'd even be likely to flash out for them, but in reality the extras are "watch once and forget" at best, or HBO "specials" of very little merit, coming over more as a commercial than anything else.
Nice idea except given the global nature of BitTorent how are they gonna target the advertising on a geographic basis ?Your IP address can be resolved to the nearest major ISP which will generally get you down to an area no greater than 10km across, even better in dense cities. That's even more location specific than a national broadcast.
I also do exactly this. I hate watching TV because of all the ads and the fact that each pay channel usually only has 1 or 2 shows that are worth watching, forcing you to buy the whol damn lot just to get the few shows you want. I opted out years ago and started downloading instead. My time is worth something, and if I can see a movie with a running time of 90 mins in 90 mins instead of 120 mins that 30 mins I just saved right there - and no, I'm not incontinent and don't need a four minute toilet break every ten minutes.
Lately, I have really been upping my anime fetish, and the shows I like aren't even available in the US in most cases, let alone the UK, so I download fansubs and buy the DVD's when/if they get released.
But why buy the DVD's when I downloaded it already for free? Because I still believe content creators should be paid.
Try adding a nice big hosts file to block all the ad servers. You get far less pop-ups/banners/sidebars, save bandwidth, and get less flashing shit on your screen. Here's a link to one with 10000 entries, but there are others out there too.
Yeh right, and I'm the king of Persia and I ride a magic dragon to work every day. I have proof too, photos and stuff but I'm too lazy to post the links. I guess you'll just have to believe me.
When MS hands out free upgrades from Windows 2000 to Windows XP then you can say that the latest version is whatever the latest code off their presses is. Until then, whilst it still takes a heavy financial committment to upgrade to the "secure" version then the latest version is whatever you got bundled with the machine.
Also, business' tend to run on a 5 year plan, where they don't upgrade the base software for five years. They are the biggest supporters of MS software and yet the most likely to be affected. Uptake of XP in the business world is still quite slow.
BWAHAHA. And here I was using procmail to filter my spam out to a holding pen, when I could have simply forwarded it on to bill.gates@microsoft.com. If all the worlds nerds did this to their spam I bet we'd see the war on spam heat up considerably.
As for the department he has, I suspect that they'll be working their way through the possibly misclassified stuff looking for false positives rather than actually coding a spam tool.
Which is one of the main reasons I choose to smoke them over leaf. I live in London, which has already vastly increased my chance of lung cancer and various other diseases (70% IIRC for lung cancer) so I try to reduce the amount of self-harm I do to myself in various other ways.
And then, after years of getting everyone to donate cycles they will patent the research and then sell it to the pharmacutical companies who will tell us all to pay $40/month for the drugs that they developed with our help. They would need to garantee that all data and research findings will be open to all parties free of cost forever before I'l simulate folding even a single protein.
Marijuana users do not suffer any physical symptoms of withdrawl, but do frequently suffer psychological withdrawl symptoms. So no, it's not a physical dependancy thing. Also, I can remember when I was young I always had a nervous nature, hands always slightly shaking when doing soldering and other delicate tasks. Dope use has knocked the edge off that, but it came back again (because it's my phsyiology) once I stopped for a while.
It's also pretty good for treating pain in knuckles and reducing inflamation in joints. If you're an I.T. worker then dope is a virtual wonder drug. It reduces blood pressure, stress and glycoma related problems, helps with arthritis, and is a pretty nice psychoactive to boot. The only big negatives are increased risk of lung and mouth cancers, a lowered motivational drive, lowered short term memory and the fact that it's illegal and in some repressive countries can land you in prison (oh, and your short term memory goes too). I've been an I.T. worker for 24 years now, and a regular pot smoker (most days, but only small amounts of heads and only after my personal "watershed" hour) for 21 years and I can heartily recommend them both.
Interesting to note, recently I ran out of smoke and thought it might be a good time to take one of my breaks from it for a few months to let my system flush and clean out. Within a few weeks I had serious issues occurring with my sight, and I was developing a tic in one of my eyes that wouldn't go away. My knuckles became inflamed and I wondered if I could keep working with a PC. The joints of my entire body swelled, and sleeping became incredibly difficult at night. When doing sit-ups I had crunching sounds coming from my spine and a deep cracking in the lower back. ALL of these symptoms went away went I went back to smoking weed! Now, I know the long term effects aren't exactly conducive to our profession (computer programmer) but they are definitely the lesser of two evils here.
You need a program call xkeycaps to help save your key layout. It's on the net and although it's not available for Amd64 under portage the 32 bit version ran just fine the other day for me. Once you got your keys the way you like save them in an.xmodmap file and use xmodmap to update X11. Job sorted.
Here's some of my hot tips for supporting your OS platforms:
Usenet
Google
The developers mailing lists
The product's website
The community in general
There are legion of committed and interested people out there who will help you with the product for gratis. It's a hard sell to get the big thickies in charge of a company to realise this, but slashdotters should definitely know better. I have always gotten better, faster, and more informative replies from mailing lists than I have ever got from MS or other similar companies, even when *paying* for my support call to them.
...but the article is almost certainly referring to experienced developers, and a guy with a diploma or only a short course on I.T. wouldn't even get to interview for any positions at companies I worked for unless they had a shitload of experience. The minimum experience you need IMHO is at least 2 years of real world development on a similar project or related technology. Hell, even I have been on the pointy end of this business rule as I am presently trying to move my general finance sector experience into derivatives and other high ticket positions.
It's a vicious cycle. You don't get the offers without the experience, and without the position you don't get the experience. Try siddling up to it from the side i.e. maybe do some web work or administration or, god forbid, tech support for a bit. These are all valid routes into a better I.T. position.
I notice they're using Akamai instead of a cluster of cheap Windows servers. Nice of them to recommend to everyone else to use their technology, but then not trust it for their own stuff.
subversion:~# telnet techpreview.search.msn.com 80 Trying 213.253.9.73... Connected to a213-253-9-73.deploy.akamaitechnologies.net. Esca pe character is '^]'. HEAD/
HTTP/1.0 400 Bad Request Server: AkamaiGHost Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/html Content-Length: 161 Expires: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 12:56:31 GMT Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 12:56:31 GMT Connection: close
Is that the one which simply returns the entire internet in response to every search query? Customers love the comprehensive results, but are finding the download times to be prohibitive;->
The exact same reason I used to do them for the London Stock Exchange. To determine that the calculations you made earlier, and assumptions about the number of users and their usage patterns correlate to the real world conditions.
An article I saw somewhere on the economy of Everquest worked out that the guys who are levelling their chars and selling them on ebay/etc earned...dumb dumb dumb...about $4USD / hour...or the minimum wage. It's a lot to aspire for, but I'm going to stick with my programming job instead, at least until it goes to Bangalore.
OMG, there's a thought. I'll just hire some cheap-ass Bangalorean to power level characters for me to sell over here in the US! My new business plan:
Slashdot Mirror
I watch a lot of shows that have never been advertised in the country I live in. I get them through referral networks i.e. I look on Amazon, in newsgroups, forums, etc to see what people who are watching the stuff I like are also watching which I haven't heard of. This requires more effort from me, but is ultimately far more rewarding e.g. I am currently watching Full Metal Alchemist, Ghost in the Shell SAC: 2, Macros Zero, Madolax, and Naruto. I have recently watched Lain, Noir, Evangelio (again, it's great), and .Hack/Sign. These all have zero advertsing over here because they aren't even released here, it was all P2P and referral.
You sound like one of the people who claim that iTunes should sell songs for 10 cents and albums for a $1. It's not going to happen.Your math needs a little skilling up based on the last comments. For example: Futurama Series 4 cost £35 over here, and contains 17 episodes. That's £2.05 each episode according to my calculator, right on the £1 or £2 quid I said I was happy to pay. Other shows work out at similar rates.
Oh man, I just followed your sig link and laughed my ass off! Please tell me that is not you in the picture.
Been there done that. I live in the UK by the way. I tracked down a guy who was sending offensive junk mails to the MD of the company I worked for. Once I had his IP I nailed him down to his location within about 10 km based of that, and was able to deduce who he was from there. For the record, he was a disgruntled contractor. The police took it from there. Check this google search if you're interested in how it might be done.
Every Desktop Shutdown.
For a good example of where CGI has enhanced live/animated film check out Casshern (live film), Ghost in the Shell: Innocence, or Metropolis. For a bad example, see any recent star wars flick.
Don't get me wrong, I like Cameron's visuals, but I just dont think he is right for anime.
Vanilla Sky
Solaris
City of Angels
The Ring
The Grudge
I might as well have a moan about how the films made by Takeshi Kitano in the US are pale in comparison to his Japanese ones. Compare Sonatine, Gonin and Zatoichi to Ghost Dog and Brother. No real comparison. Ah well, at least it's turning some people on to the real stuff.
Broadcast with full ads
Video Store Release
DVD Release
Direct Download
They've been telling us for years that they are having to spend stupid money to find and retain viewers, and enormous money on distribution. Direct downloaders should only have to pay £1 or £2 / episode because:
We seek you out, not the other way around, saving on advertising
They have no real bandwidth costs (P2P)
No packaging costs
No DVD production costs
No distribution costs
We "word of mouth" it to all our mates
I only ask for ad free content, I'm willing to download it, seek it out, store it on blank DVDs, and even print my own covers. Why aren't they will to offer consumers the products they want? If they did, I wouldn't even bother with suprnova and their ilk, and they would all get paid much sooner. Hell, if the DVD's had real and decent "extras" I'd even be likely to flash out for them, but in reality the extras are "watch once and forget" at best, or HBO "specials" of very little merit, coming over more as a commercial than anything else.
Nice idea except given the global nature of BitTorent how are they gonna target the advertising on a geographic basis ?Your IP address can be resolved to the nearest major ISP which will generally get you down to an area no greater than 10km across, even better in dense cities. That's even more location specific than a national broadcast.
Lately, I have really been upping my anime fetish, and the shows I like aren't even available in the US in most cases, let alone the UK, so I download fansubs and buy the DVD's when/if they get released.
But why buy the DVD's when I downloaded it already for free? Because I still believe content creators should be paid.
Try adding a nice big hosts file to block all the ad servers. You get far less pop-ups/banners/sidebars, save bandwidth, and get less flashing shit on your screen. Here's a link to one with 10000 entries, but there are others out there too.
Yeh right, and I'm the king of Persia and I ride a magic dragon to work every day. I have proof too, photos and stuff but I'm too lazy to post the links. I guess you'll just have to believe me.
Also, business' tend to run on a 5 year plan, where they don't upgrade the base software for five years. They are the biggest supporters of MS software and yet the most likely to be affected. Uptake of XP in the business world is still quite slow.
As for the department he has, I suspect that they'll be working their way through the possibly misclassified stuff looking for false positives rather than actually coding a spam tool.
Which is one of the main reasons I choose to smoke them over leaf. I live in London, which has already vastly increased my chance of lung cancer and various other diseases (70% IIRC for lung cancer) so I try to reduce the amount of self-harm I do to myself in various other ways.
And then, after years of getting everyone to donate cycles they will patent the research and then sell it to the pharmacutical companies who will tell us all to pay $40/month for the drugs that they developed with our help. They would need to garantee that all data and research findings will be open to all parties free of cost forever before I'l simulate folding even a single protein.
Marijuana users do not suffer any physical symptoms of withdrawl, but do frequently suffer psychological withdrawl symptoms. So no, it's not a physical dependancy thing. Also, I can remember when I was young I always had a nervous nature, hands always slightly shaking when doing soldering and other delicate tasks. Dope use has knocked the edge off that, but it came back again (because it's my phsyiology) once I stopped for a while.
Interesting to note, recently I ran out of smoke and thought it might be a good time to take one of my breaks from it for a few months to let my system flush and clean out. Within a few weeks I had serious issues occurring with my sight, and I was developing a tic in one of my eyes that wouldn't go away. My knuckles became inflamed and I wondered if I could keep working with a PC. The joints of my entire body swelled, and sleeping became incredibly difficult at night. When doing sit-ups I had crunching sounds coming from my spine and a deep cracking in the lower back. ALL of these symptoms went away went I went back to smoking weed! Now, I know the long term effects aren't exactly conducive to our profession (computer programmer) but they are definitely the lesser of two evils here.
You need a program call xkeycaps to help save your key layout. It's on the net and although it's not available for Amd64 under portage the 32 bit version ran just fine the other day for me. Once you got your keys the way you like save them in an .xmodmap file and use xmodmap to update X11. Job sorted.
Usenet
Google
The developers mailing lists
The product's website
The community in general
There are legion of committed and interested people out there who will help you with the product for gratis. It's a hard sell to get the big thickies in charge of a company to realise this, but slashdotters should definitely know better. I have always gotten better, faster, and more informative replies from mailing lists than I have ever got from MS or other similar companies, even when *paying* for my support call to them.
It's a vicious cycle. You don't get the offers without the experience, and without the position you don't get the experience. Try siddling up to it from the side i.e. maybe do some web work or administration or, god forbid, tech support for a bit. These are all valid routes into a better I.T. position.
Is that the one which simply returns the entire internet in response to every search query? Customers love the comprehensive results, but are finding the download times to be prohibitive ;->
The exact same reason I used to do them for the London Stock Exchange. To determine that the calculations you made earlier, and assumptions about the number of users and their usage patterns correlate to the real world conditions.
OMG, there's a thought. I'll just hire some cheap-ass Bangalorean to power level characters for me to sell over here in the US! My new business plan:
Offshore power levelling to Bangalore
???
Profit!!!