Overgrowth is common in infrastucture. You don't build a power plant for today's electricity consumers, you build it for tomorrow's. And you keep building, even when current demand doesn't meet production. The overgrowth absorbs spikes in demand so the system maintains equilibrium.
This sounds like The Ant and the Grasshopper. Greed is turning telecoms into short-term planners, instead of long-term planners. It's going to bite them in the ass, and consumers are going to be wrung dry in the end.
Also, where the hell do you live that bandwidth is coming down in price? Bandwidth prices have been going up for the last 3 months, not down like good economics says it should. In order to shield stockholders from the bad news, companies are jacking rates. This is further decreasing the potential customer base, which is worsening the money pit impression investors have.
What's worse, there was the court ruling on cable not being a true telecom, and the attempt by telecoms to get legislative "fair pricing" on leasing to resellers. Lack of competition and barriers to market entry are going to lead to a general malaise towards "last mile" infrastructure building. This is the last thing the market needs; without fresh blood and a drive towards the consumer's home, the customer pool will be artificially kept small, and prices kept high to maintain stockholder expectations.
Won't work. Someone will hack the decryption and build their own decoder. (Likely in software) Violation of DMCA, so what? They'll release it anonymously and open source.
Won't work. Someone will rip a TV apart and figure out how to make the black box dance.
The new HDTV/Digital signal standard has yet to become mandatory (2006); in that time, it would be insignificant to build a new signal into transmission devices. Since all standard (re: analog) devices will require a HDTV/Digital converter, all will have to conform. Then you have the same sitution as with DSS (EchoStar, et al): you alter encryption in the broadcast stream, thereby killing the pirated devices.
Won't work. Someone will stick a freakin VIDEO RECORDER in optimum conditions in front of the TV, rip it, and release it. It's a home movie as far as the video recorder is concerned.
First, unless you have timing switch between TV and Recording Device, the scanning on TVs makes the picture look crap. That said, TV emissions are made at a set freq of 60Hz. All the FCC has to do is say: "All recording devices must now mask or attempt to block input at 60Hz." Gee, now your TV looks like a big black blob to the camera... Of course, you can use analog equipment, but good luck getting your new complaint computer and its compliant capture card to accept the signal without a proper signature. Heck, this just might make it impossible to digitize analog signals at all, since it would be impossible for legacy devices to know to transmit a signature...
Ditto all the above for encrypted speaker signals and microphones.
See above. Digital->Analog will probably be easy, but Analog->Digital will probably be impossible or heavily controlled.
Will the average person do this? Of course not. BUT IT ONLY TAKES ONE PERSON. There will ALWAYS be one person.
Who will be under house arrest and be ordered to not touch or be in contact with a digital or electronic computing device for the rest of their natural lives. Anybody remember Kevin Mitnick?
The global distribution and copying of information is now essentially costless. Deal with it. Welcome to the twenty-first fucking century.
Any idea, however wholesome, can be perverted.
I don't find it too fanciful an idea that ISPs could be required to institute software on their gateways and servers that makes use of "DRM handshakes" to determine if a client is DRM-compliant. Revised user agreements that require the use of DRM doesn't seem like such a big deal. The ISP points you at a server with a DRM package that makes your computer compliant, you go on with your surfing. What, you don't want to comply? Fine, we will no longer provide you with service. Do you honestly expect ISPs to stand up to the FCC, the RIAA, and the MPAA?
Nah, they don't need to. All they need to do is make it obscenely expensive to obtain blank media. Once this bill passes, devices in Canada won't be able to read the "special, digitally-signed" media produced in the US. Viola, the loophole in the levy bill in Canada is closed by fiat of the US Congress.
Always nice when you own both teams in a game, eh?
-TG, RIAA/MPAA: "We love when a plan comes together..."
Got to love that broad brush you paint alot of people with. Sort of the same brush folks use to paint people with above-average computer skills as "nerds" and "geeks" -- you know, lower than them because of being "less normal". Whatever the fuck that means -- I've never met a normal person -- but I digress.
I take the view that the original article was nothing more than food for the bean counters. Anime fandom is a bit like most other geek-leaning fandoms: tons of anal-retentives who ignore normal things (taking baths, socializing, etc); all for the joys of super-analyzing their particular hobby down to the sub-atomic particles. What do you want? The original article is on a column about edits to anime. Of course it's going to be spacious and go into detail that's not important to the normal viewer.
But I do find it rather funny that Yet Another Idiot is pushing the "anime is kiddie p0rn" angle. From your chest-puffing boast regarding having written a "manual" that says anime cons are big circlejerks to your quickness in pointing out the obvious content of the questions that relate to sex or sexuality; I'd say you're the one with the "sex" problem here. I suppose you could just be a sexually-frustrated middle-aged pot-bellied fella who wants to feel bigger by shooting at a rather harmless fandom (and one that doesn't really roll through Slashdot in any significant numbers).
If the only significant thing you have to say is "anime is kiddie p0rn", then why the hell are you responding to this? Somehow, in some small way, you hope to find fans who will rally around your silly and unimportant assertions? Rah rah for you. If you even knew what the hell Toonami was, you might actually be capable of contributing a worthwhile response; but alas, you're simply a windbag like many a "superior" nut I've run across. Perhaps you lazily typed in a worthless source of info in your quest for truth, and decided this was animeas far as you could find itwith the search tools at your disposal. Did you even bother to Google your way to a passing understanding?
Read. Watch. Learn.
Do these things BEFORE you open your mouth (or pound your keyboard); you might actually (gasp) change your view of things!
(Gawd, I'm gonna get so modded down for this, but here goes.)
Cartoon Network (not CowboyNeal, geez people) rearranged the schedule for Adult Swim. There's now Adult Swim on Sunday nights with Williams Street (read: Turner/WB/H-B 'toons) productions; and then there is "Action" Adult Swim on SATURDAY NIGHTS at *11PM*.
"Action" Adult Swim (it's not really called Action, but it's caught on) is all-anime. It kicks off at 11PM with "Yu Yu Hakusho" (just call it Ghostfiles, its English name), then at 11:30PM is "Cowboy Bebop", after which is "Candidate For Goddess" at 12AM and "Gundam 0083" at 12:30AM.
Whether or not there is enough programming to fill the programming grid of an anime channel, people are missing what Toonami is really about.
Action.
Adventure.
Male viewers in the 8-12 (and I suppose upwards to 16) demographic.
Nobody on this site is part of the target audience (though some of you may claim your fellows act like they are). Nobody here is being aimed at by advertisers. We're talking about Cartoon Network... Williams Street... Ted Turner's home address, NOT Sean Atkin's (Head of Toonami Prog.) Home For Really Cool Japanese Animation.
The whole Adult Swim thing is an experiment to see if there is a market for adult-targeted animation. Obviously Sean and the crew at Williams St. have gotten the suits to check out whether adults really do watch "cartoons". The fruits of that will not be Toonami. Toonami is a brandname for action cartoons, not a vehicle for anime to hit mainstream. Toonami happens to have anime, because those shows have a ton of action -- but also because anime is cheap to import and dub compared to funding the actual animation of a series. Money is always king here, hand's down.
So before fanboyish wetdreams of a "Toonami Channel" continue, grab your towel and jump into the pool with Adult Swim; and then make sure the suits in Atlanta know you like it, ALOT. Because Toonami has never been and is never going to be the "Anime Channel"; it's not for US, it's for the kids.
Which reminds me... whatever happened to saturday morning cartoons? I'm in my early twenties but even I can remember back when ABC, CBS, NBC, UPN, FOX all had hours and hours (about 6am to 3pm) of cartoons and kids would sit in front of the tube enjoying them all morning, like a kid should.
Two words: revenue stream. As in the affiliates weren't getting enough of it. They get more dollars selling time to religion, advertisers, and politicians than buying children's programming and finding advertisers for it.
NBC, Fox, and WB really are the oddballs in this game, because they have a second party to answer to -- whereas Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network have no-one to answer to. The networks have affiliates to split ad revenues with, but CN and Nick pocket theirs. And finally, CN and Nick are fully children's networks, so they can sell adtime in bulk, to advertisers who know their audience; the networks never had that luxary, so rates may not have been as plush, with airtime limited.. you get my point.
It should also be noted that with the acquisition of Saban Ent. by Disneyland, as well as Family Channel, Disney is now in control of three children's channels and a massive library of children's content. I don't think the networks are even bit players anymore, this is now truly a Battle of the Titans: AOL-TW, Viacom (I believe they own Nick), and Disney-ABC.
(And to make this more confusing: Fox has sold their Saturday Morning block to none other than 4Kids Ent., the folks who brought you Pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh.)
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Overgrowth is common in infrastucture. You don't build a power plant for today's electricity consumers, you build it for tomorrow's. And you keep building, even when current demand doesn't meet production. The overgrowth absorbs spikes in demand so the system maintains equilibrium.
This sounds like The Ant and the Grasshopper. Greed is turning telecoms into short-term planners, instead of long-term planners. It's going to bite them in the ass, and consumers are going to be wrung dry in the end.
Also, where the hell do you live that bandwidth is coming down in price? Bandwidth prices have been going up for the last 3 months, not down like good economics says it should. In order to shield stockholders from the bad news, companies are jacking rates. This is further decreasing the potential customer base, which is worsening the money pit impression investors have.
What's worse, there was the court ruling on cable not being a true telecom, and the attempt by telecoms to get legislative "fair pricing" on leasing to resellers. Lack of competition and barriers to market entry are going to lead to a general malaise towards "last mile" infrastructure building. This is the last thing the market needs; without fresh blood and a drive towards the consumer's home, the customer pool will be artificially kept small, and prices kept high to maintain stockholder expectations.
Won't work. Someone will hack the decryption and build their own decoder. (Likely in software) Violation of DMCA, so what? They'll release it anonymously and open source.
Won't work. Someone will rip a TV apart and figure out how to make the black box dance.
The new HDTV/Digital signal standard has yet to become mandatory (2006); in that time, it would be insignificant to build a new signal into transmission devices. Since all standard (re: analog) devices will require a HDTV/Digital converter, all will have to conform. Then you have the same sitution as with DSS (EchoStar, et al): you alter encryption in the broadcast stream, thereby killing the pirated devices.
Won't work. Someone will stick a freakin VIDEO RECORDER in optimum conditions in front of the TV, rip it, and release it. It's a home movie as far as the video recorder is concerned.
First, unless you have timing switch between TV and Recording Device, the scanning on TVs makes the picture look crap. That said, TV emissions are made at a set freq of 60Hz. All the FCC has to do is say: "All recording devices must now mask or attempt to block input at 60Hz." Gee, now your TV looks like a big black blob to the camera... Of course, you can use analog equipment, but good luck getting your new complaint computer and its compliant capture card to accept the signal without a proper signature. Heck, this just might make it impossible to digitize analog signals at all, since it would be impossible for legacy devices to know to transmit a signature...
Ditto all the above for encrypted speaker signals and microphones.
See above. Digital->Analog will probably be easy, but Analog->Digital will probably be impossible or heavily controlled.
Will the average person do this? Of course not. BUT IT ONLY TAKES ONE PERSON. There will ALWAYS be one person.
Who will be under house arrest and be ordered to not touch or be in contact with a digital or electronic computing device for the rest of their natural lives. Anybody remember Kevin Mitnick?
The global distribution and copying of information is now essentially costless. Deal with it. Welcome to the twenty-first fucking century.
Any idea, however wholesome, can be perverted.
I don't find it too fanciful an idea that ISPs could be required to institute software on their gateways and servers that makes use of "DRM handshakes" to determine if a client is DRM-compliant. Revised user agreements that require the use of DRM doesn't seem like such a big deal. The ISP points you at a server with a DRM package that makes your computer compliant, you go on with your surfing. What, you don't want to comply? Fine, we will no longer provide you with service. Do you honestly expect ISPs to stand up to the FCC, the RIAA, and the MPAA?
-TG, sounds rather viral, really...
Always nice when you own both teams in a game, eh?
-TG, RIAA/MPAA: "We love when a plan comes together..."
Politicians controlled by monied interests.
-TG, what... you think Big Money wants uncontrollables in office? Yeah right...
Xenu.net has returned to the front page as #3 site link upon a search on the word "Scientology".
AND...
News: Google pulls, replaces Web page critical of Scientology (The Namibian - 23:05 21 Mar 2002) (Google redirect removed from link for brevity and speed.)
This is now displayed at the top of Google's search listing for "Scientology" before Category listings. Talk about Power Of The People.
-TG, Who hopes this isn't redundant... and is not afraid of Travolta.. (g)
Got to love that broad brush you paint alot of people with. Sort of the same brush folks use to paint people with above-average computer skills as "nerds" and "geeks" -- you know, lower than them because of being "less normal". Whatever the fuck that means -- I've never met a normal person -- but I digress.
I take the view that the original article was nothing more than food for the bean counters. Anime fandom is a bit like most other geek-leaning fandoms: tons of anal-retentives who ignore normal things (taking baths, socializing, etc); all for the joys of super-analyzing their particular hobby down to the sub-atomic particles. What do you want? The original article is on a column about edits to anime. Of course it's going to be spacious and go into detail that's not important to the normal viewer.
But I do find it rather funny that Yet Another Idiot is pushing the "anime is kiddie p0rn" angle. From your chest-puffing boast regarding having written a "manual" that says anime cons are big circlejerks to your quickness in pointing out the obvious content of the questions that relate to sex or sexuality; I'd say you're the one with the "sex" problem here. I suppose you could just be a sexually-frustrated middle-aged pot-bellied fella who wants to feel bigger by shooting at a rather harmless fandom (and one that doesn't really roll through Slashdot in any significant numbers).
If the only significant thing you have to say is "anime is kiddie p0rn", then why the hell are you responding to this? Somehow, in some small way, you hope to find fans who will rally around your silly and unimportant assertions? Rah rah for you. If you even knew what the hell Toonami was, you might actually be capable of contributing a worthwhile response; but alas, you're simply a windbag like many a "superior" nut I've run across. Perhaps you lazily typed in a worthless source of info in your quest for truth, and decided this was anime as far as you could find it with the search tools at your disposal. Did you even bother to Google your way to a passing understanding?
Read. Watch. Learn.
Do these things BEFORE you open your mouth (or pound your keyboard); you might actually (gasp) change your view of things!
Cartoon Network (not CowboyNeal, geez people) rearranged the schedule for Adult Swim. There's now Adult Swim on Sunday nights with Williams Street (read: Turner/WB/H-B 'toons) productions; and then there is "Action" Adult Swim on SATURDAY NIGHTS at *11PM*.
"Action" Adult Swim (it's not really called Action, but it's caught on) is all-anime. It kicks off at 11PM with "Yu Yu Hakusho" (just call it Ghostfiles, its English name), then at 11:30PM is "Cowboy Bebop", after which is "Candidate For Goddess" at 12AM and "Gundam 0083" at 12:30AM.
Source: ToonZone's Adult Swim site
Action.
Adventure.
Male viewers in the 8-12 (and I suppose upwards to 16) demographic.
Nobody on this site is part of the target audience (though some of you may claim your fellows act like they are). Nobody here is being aimed at by advertisers. We're talking about Cartoon Network... Williams Street... Ted Turner's home address, NOT Sean Atkin's (Head of Toonami Prog.) Home For Really Cool Japanese Animation.
The whole Adult Swim thing is an experiment to see if there is a market for adult-targeted animation. Obviously Sean and the crew at Williams St. have gotten the suits to check out whether adults really do watch "cartoons". The fruits of that will not be Toonami. Toonami is a brandname for action cartoons, not a vehicle for anime to hit mainstream. Toonami happens to have anime, because those shows have a ton of action -- but also because anime is cheap to import and dub compared to funding the actual animation of a series. Money is always king here, hand's down.
So before fanboyish wetdreams of a "Toonami Channel" continue, grab your towel and jump into the pool with Adult Swim; and then make sure the suits in Atlanta know you like it, ALOT. Because Toonami has never been and is never going to be the "Anime Channel"; it's not for US, it's for the kids.
Two words: revenue stream. As in the affiliates weren't getting enough of it. They get more dollars selling time to religion, advertisers, and politicians than buying children's programming and finding advertisers for it.
NBC, Fox, and WB really are the oddballs in this game, because they have a second party to answer to -- whereas Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network have no-one to answer to. The networks have affiliates to split ad revenues with, but CN and Nick pocket theirs. And finally, CN and Nick are fully children's networks, so they can sell adtime in bulk, to advertisers who know their audience; the networks never had that luxary, so rates may not have been as plush, with airtime limited.. you get my point.
It should also be noted that with the acquisition of Saban Ent. by Disneyland, as well as Family Channel, Disney is now in control of three children's channels and a massive library of children's content. I don't think the networks are even bit players anymore, this is now truly a Battle of the Titans: AOL-TW, Viacom (I believe they own Nick), and Disney-ABC.
(And to make this more confusing: Fox has sold their Saturday Morning block to none other than 4Kids Ent., the folks who brought you Pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh.)