I've seen tons of Anime, and the whole issue is with cross-culture. Americans are NOT Japanese, and the reverse is equally true. I know, that's a shocker, huh?
That's the key here. When you have to sit through 20 minutes of voiceovers explaining WTF a Jujin-kai is, or who the hell that Japanese mythologic dude was, what he did, how he failed, and now the universe will implode (or some odd shit like that) you lose American Audiences. No audience, no sale = no broadcast, leaving it to either DVD release or fansubs. Add to that the Japanese prediliction for panspermia in every freaking spaceopera and tenticles everywhere else, you get people a little freaked out.
I've seen anime that won awards (lots of them), and without a doubt the only one worth a shit was Akira. So I bought it. The other one I bought was Chôjin densetsu Urotsukidôji, because it's damn funny, gory, and insane. But even it succumbs to the issue of a voiceover dialog that goes for ever.
If the Japanese want to sell us more anime, and I bet they do...just ask 'em...they have to do a bit of a better job at crossing the culture gap. It's as simple as that.
And the original article is off base. Fansubs aren't hurting the market, they're expanding it. Especially when you can't get certain stuff here even if you pay to import it specially. Given the option between official DVD release and a fansub, most rational people will go DVD provided they aren't insanely priced. But if there's no DVD to get at any price...guess where they look? Same thing goes for the new Dr. Who. Nobody around where I live is showing it so I had to snarf the whole season off of BT. Bummer for the cable stations that were too stupid to pick it up, excellent for me. I won, they lost, move along.
The sad thing is, the SCOTUS declared line-item veto unconstitutional since Wachington, himself, is on record having bitched about it as well. We're kinda stuck with it.
...so you don't have to read it: Apple = slow, Linux = the shit.
Now, had they gone x86 BSD on the G5 versus OSX on the same G5 then that would be a bit different. But nobody ever does that. I'm glad I'm not the only one who saw that "comparison" was flawed a bit. But it is still nice to see the myth of Apple being all-powerful being demolished by cruel charts.;)
Point 1: Windows is complex. Yup. That happens when one version of the OS does every-damn-thing. This point is right on the money. Of course MacOS X and Linux/BSD/Unix are complex as well...
Point 2: Not entirely true, but close enough I'll give it a pass.
Point 3: This is IBM's fault all those years ago...
Point 4: Third party developers are to blame, not the hardware (as point 3), or MS (point 1 and 2).
Point 5: Diversity is a problem now? Gee go figure. So by this logic, there should be only one hardware vendor for PCs, and I bet that would be someone other than Intel, right? Were there not more than one hardware developers we'd still be on the 8080 and Apple would not even be around.
Point 6 & 7: Buy piss poor, get piss poor. Caveat Emptor, brother. That's why you read up and buy with an intelligent decision. These are third party devices to the motherboard, RAM, and OS. Blaming "WinTel" when your PC might be AMD/Asus is flawed.
The argument has been done to death, and in the end it's a personal preference sort of thing. If Macs make his tail wag, right on; but if not, then what? Of all his points, 2 of the 7 he makes puts the ball in MS' court, the rest are hardware related save one which would bring a screeching halt to the diversity and development we've been enjoying for so long.
Sorry, I don't buy into his list fully. Is MS a problem child? Yes they are. Can they fix their shiznit and act straight? Yes they can (only time will tell if they do it). But to think switching to Mac (or anything else for that matter) will solve all the woes, he's sadly mistaken. Each platform has its own issues--trade one for another. "You makes your choices and you takes your chances," is the rule.
I suggested this exact same sentiment, along with an explanation, which I called "Legislative Germanity" to my Senators. I can still hear their laughter. It didn't go well. Effectively, what I envision is all parts of a bill must logically link up to the title/subject of the bill, and the subject/title must not be vague or overly broad. What this would do is eliminate craptacular bills, since the bill could only relate to a single concept, while fast-tracking legit "good stuff" because of the same reason. It also would end-run around the unconstitutionality of line item veto by making the President's veto power a stronger item. Everyone wins except those who have their hands in the cookie jar/pork entitlements. But like I said, you can still hear the laughter.
Actually, TCP/IP is broken. It was never intended to be secure, rather just a means of communication. The creators of the stack never envisioned people doing what they are with it. It needs a complete reworking--thus the need for IPv6 with all the security hoo-ha's in play. MS was in a quandry: force the patch out and fix the issue, and thereby hamstring some machines; or don't fix it and have an explosion of zombies and compromised machines--for which there would be no end to the complaints (on Slashdot or anywhere else, for that matter.) What's your pick: a more secure Internet experience for everyone or not?
IPv4 is broken, like it or not. Our only hope is to fix it.
What we do is use Autoclave for the IDE drives (max setting, or at the very least setting #3.) Although we'll be switching to DBAN since Autoclave is no longer around. For the SCSI Also there's nothing better than a circular saw.;)
I suppose a really good industrial wood-chipper would work as well, provided it could shred steel.
...is this: I don't care one way or another, if I have to go through an intermediary to contact the people controlling the domain, or directly through a whois lookup. All I care about is that there is a legit way to reach them--no false information listed. The people who make these decisions should weed out all the fake registrations first before anything else.
As long as these robots obey the amended Laws...
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...Then I'm A-OK with them...Otherwise, chop 'em up.
Defintion1: A human is any intelligent, self-aware, evolutionary descendant of the great apes of Earth or a relative thereof, and has the scientific nomenclature of Homo sapiens sapiens Definition2: Humanity is the collective existance of multiple Humans, regardless of location or population density Definition3: Sentience is a sense of one's personal or collective identity, including the attitudes, beliefs, and sensitivities held by or considered characteristic of an individual or group, including self-awaredness 0: A robot may not injure humanity, or, through inaction, allow humanity to come to harm 1: A robot may not harm a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm; except where such harm is incidental, non-lethal, and which prevents or mitigates a greater or fatal harming of a human being. 2: A robot must obey the orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. 3: A robot must protect its own existence, as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law. 4: A robot may not design, create, or impliment modifications to itself or any other robot 5: A robot may not participate in or interfere with any political, religous, or governmental activity 6: A robot may not harm any sentient being or, through inaction, allow a sentient being to come to harm, except where such would conflict with the First or Second law 7: A robot must obey the articles of law and jurisprudence for the nation, state, region, and municipality in which they are currently present, except where such would conflict with any other Robotic Law
What part of "...but I'm too lazy to go get other links pointing out the flaws in the architecture,..." did you not fucking understand? Go look for your self, if you can, and you'll see the G5, in comparison to the Athlon 64/FX series chips from AMD, is a sad little shell of a chip. Do I have to do the work for you? I'm not trolling here I'm telling the truth: Apple sells overpriced, underpowered hardware. Get a grip, fanboy. Google, you dipshit, is your friend.
http://www.pcinpact.com/actu/news/Mini_test_Athl on _64_3200_vs_PowerMac_G5_25GHz.htm
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/online/archives/2003 /1 0/athlon_64_vs_apple_g5_systems_not_even_close.htm l
Those scores show the G5 getting hammered. They show the problems, but I'm too lazy to go get other links pointing out the flaws in the architecture, but I bet you could find it (I'm also too lazy to HTMLize those links above.)
The Athlon 64 and the FX series chips make the G5 look like ass.
before Linus get's P.Oed at the fact that the PPC processors have built-in bottlenecks, curtesy of IBM's lack of foresight. Compare the G5 to a similar AMD 64 and you'll see quite a difference.
This would have been more of a threat had it been in.CAB format. Not everyone uses.RAR files. Heck, in my company there are a grand total of 3 computers capable of even opneing a.RAR file...the one I'm posting from is one. On a side note: my wife got this virus emailed to her and she called me at work to ask what a rar file was... Needless to say, this virus will not be long-lived as it's just plain stupid.
...is equal to my overtime pay for my employer, that is to say time and a half of my hourly wage. I think that's not only fair, as I would be getting that pay if I were at work; and make no mistake, just because I'm not *at* work doesn't make the cleaning up of other people's problem PCs work in and of itself. Plus, since I'm losing my free time, that means it's more valuable to me, personally.
Hooking any computer up to the Internet unprotected by a firewall is like having unprotected sex with everyone you see--you will catch something. Should we have sympathy for the chronically stupid? I say "no." I'd wager she's a blonde, too.
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I'm surprised you didn't mention it. It's pretty nice.
Not only is this immoral, but in many places it's outright illegal. This is not the direction to go.
Uve Boll.
You know you want him to direct instead.
I've seen tons of Anime, and the whole issue is with cross-culture. Americans are NOT Japanese, and the reverse is equally true. I know, that's a shocker, huh?
That's the key here. When you have to sit through 20 minutes of voiceovers explaining WTF a Jujin-kai is, or who the hell that Japanese mythologic dude was, what he did, how he failed, and now the universe will implode (or some odd shit like that) you lose American Audiences. No audience, no sale = no broadcast, leaving it to either DVD release or fansubs. Add to that the Japanese prediliction for panspermia in every freaking spaceopera and tenticles everywhere else, you get people a little freaked out.
I've seen anime that won awards (lots of them), and without a doubt the only one worth a shit was Akira. So I bought it. The other one I bought was Chôjin densetsu Urotsukidôji, because it's damn funny, gory, and insane. But even it succumbs to the issue of a voiceover dialog that goes for ever.
If the Japanese want to sell us more anime, and I bet they do...just ask 'em...they have to do a bit of a better job at crossing the culture gap. It's as simple as that.
And the original article is off base. Fansubs aren't hurting the market, they're expanding it. Especially when you can't get certain stuff here even if you pay to import it specially. Given the option between official DVD release and a fansub, most rational people will go DVD provided they aren't insanely priced. But if there's no DVD to get at any price...guess where they look? Same thing goes for the new Dr. Who. Nobody around where I live is showing it so I had to snarf the whole season off of BT. Bummer for the cable stations that were too stupid to pick it up, excellent for me. I won, they lost, move along.
The sad thing is, the SCOTUS declared line-item veto unconstitutional since Wachington, himself, is on record having bitched about it as well. We're kinda stuck with it.
...so you don't have to read it: Apple = slow, Linux = the shit.
;)
Now, had they gone x86 BSD on the G5 versus OSX on the same G5 then that would be a bit different. But nobody ever does that. I'm glad I'm not the only one who saw that "comparison" was flawed a bit. But it is still nice to see the myth of Apple being all-powerful being demolished by cruel charts.
Point 1: Windows is complex. Yup. That happens when one version of the OS does every-damn-thing. This point is right on the money. Of course MacOS X and Linux/BSD/Unix are complex as well...
Point 2: Not entirely true, but close enough I'll give it a pass.
Point 3: This is IBM's fault all those years ago...
Point 4: Third party developers are to blame, not the hardware (as point 3), or MS (point 1 and 2).
Point 5: Diversity is a problem now? Gee go figure. So by this logic, there should be only one hardware vendor for PCs, and I bet that would be someone other than Intel, right? Were there not more than one hardware developers we'd still be on the 8080 and Apple would not even be around.
Point 6 & 7: Buy piss poor, get piss poor. Caveat Emptor, brother. That's why you read up and buy with an intelligent decision. These are third party devices to the motherboard, RAM, and OS. Blaming "WinTel" when your PC might be AMD/Asus is flawed.
The argument has been done to death, and in the end it's a personal preference sort of thing. If Macs make his tail wag, right on; but if not, then what? Of all his points, 2 of the 7 he makes puts the ball in MS' court, the rest are hardware related save one which would bring a screeching halt to the diversity and development we've been enjoying for so long.
Sorry, I don't buy into his list fully. Is MS a problem child? Yes they are. Can they fix their shiznit and act straight? Yes they can (only time will tell if they do it). But to think switching to Mac (or anything else for that matter) will solve all the woes, he's sadly mistaken. Each platform has its own issues--trade one for another. "You makes your choices and you takes your chances," is the rule.
I suggested this exact same sentiment, along with an explanation, which I called "Legislative Germanity" to my Senators. I can still hear their laughter. It didn't go well. Effectively, what I envision is all parts of a bill must logically link up to the title/subject of the bill, and the subject/title must not be vague or overly broad. What this would do is eliminate craptacular bills, since the bill could only relate to a single concept, while fast-tracking legit "good stuff" because of the same reason. It also would end-run around the unconstitutionality of line item veto by making the President's veto power a stronger item. Everyone wins except those who have their hands in the cookie jar/pork entitlements. But like I said, you can still hear the laughter.
Actually, TCP/IP is broken. It was never intended to be secure, rather just a means of communication. The creators of the stack never envisioned people doing what they are with it. It needs a complete reworking--thus the need for IPv6 with all the security hoo-ha's in play. MS was in a quandry: force the patch out and fix the issue, and thereby hamstring some machines; or don't fix it and have an explosion of zombies and compromised machines--for which there would be no end to the complaints (on Slashdot or anywhere else, for that matter.) What's your pick: a more secure Internet experience for everyone or not?
IPv4 is broken, like it or not. Our only hope is to fix it.
Yousa CEO gonna die?
If you care to know, you can enter the code and it will take you right to the airport you need...lax...dsm...alo...ord, whichever. Works great.
What we do is use Autoclave for the IDE drives (max setting, or at the very least setting #3.) Although we'll be switching to DBAN since Autoclave is no longer around. For the SCSI Also there's nothing better than a circular saw. ;)
I suppose a really good industrial wood-chipper would work as well, provided it could shred steel.
...is this: I don't care one way or another, if I have to go through an intermediary to contact the people controlling the domain, or directly through a whois lookup. All I care about is that there is a legit way to reach them--no false information listed. The people who make these decisions should weed out all the fake registrations first before anything else.
...Then I'm A-OK with them...Otherwise, chop 'em up.
Defintion1: A human is any intelligent, self-aware, evolutionary descendant of the great apes of Earth or a relative thereof, and has the scientific nomenclature of Homo sapiens sapiens
Definition2: Humanity is the collective existance of multiple Humans, regardless of location or population density
Definition3: Sentience is a sense of one's personal or collective identity, including the attitudes, beliefs, and sensitivities held by or considered characteristic of an individual or group, including self-awaredness
0: A robot may not injure humanity, or, through inaction, allow humanity to come to harm
1: A robot may not harm a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm; except where such harm is incidental, non-lethal, and which prevents or mitigates a greater or fatal harming of a human being.
2: A robot must obey the orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3: A robot must protect its own existence, as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
4: A robot may not design, create, or impliment modifications to itself or any other robot
5: A robot may not participate in or interfere with any political, religous, or governmental activity
6: A robot may not harm any sentient being or, through inaction, allow a sentient being to come to harm, except where such would conflict with the First or Second law
7: A robot must obey the articles of law and jurisprudence for the nation, state, region, and municipality in which they are currently present, except where such would conflict with any other Robotic Law
At one point or another it would stop being a "fireball" and become a "Sphere of Annihilation."
Gotta love them old-school relics.
What part of "...but I'm too lazy to go get other links pointing out the flaws in the architecture, ..." did you not fucking understand? Go look for your self, if you can, and you'll see the G5, in comparison to the Athlon 64/FX series chips from AMD, is a sad little shell of a chip. Do I have to do the work for you? I'm not trolling here I'm telling the truth: Apple sells overpriced, underpowered hardware. Get a grip, fanboy. Google, you dipshit, is your friend.
You want links? Here...
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http://www.pcinpact.com/actu/news/Mini_test_Ath
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/online/archives/200
Those scores show the G5 getting hammered. They show the problems, but I'm too lazy to go get other links pointing out the flaws in the architecture, but I bet you could find it (I'm also too lazy to HTMLize those links above.)
The Athlon 64 and the FX series chips make the G5 look like ass.
before Linus get's P.Oed at the fact that the PPC processors have built-in bottlenecks, curtesy of IBM's lack of foresight. Compare the G5 to a similar AMD 64 and you'll see quite a difference.
Yo, man, she's a nurse, cut her some slack.
This would have been more of a threat had it been in .CAB format. Not everyone uses .RAR files. Heck, in my company there are a grand total of 3 computers capable of even opneing a .RAR file...the one I'm posting from is one. On a side note: my wife got this virus emailed to her and she called me at work to ask what a rar file was... Needless to say, this virus will not be long-lived as it's just plain stupid.
You should have told them that you bought a new copy of WoW, and the key is used...goddamn pirates and their keygen programs....
I could give a rat's ass less if a browser is a second faster, I want it to display the CSS and whatnot correctly--each time.
IE displays the page correctly, groovy. Firefox 1.0 still has the CSS sliding image bug, not groovy. They gotta fix that.
...No mention of the C2 Orange Book certifications that Windows has and no Linux version does? I'm ashamed of you MS, you're slipping.
...is equal to my overtime pay for my employer, that is to say time and a half of my hourly wage. I think that's not only fair, as I would be getting that pay if I were at work; and make no mistake, just because I'm not *at* work doesn't make the cleaning up of other people's problem PCs work in and of itself. Plus, since I'm losing my free time, that means it's more valuable to me, personally.
Why is Mark Morford's SO so abjectly stupid?
Hooking any computer up to the Internet unprotected by a firewall is like having unprotected sex with everyone you see--you will catch something. Should we have sympathy for the chronically stupid? I say "no." I'd wager she's a blonde, too.