It is indeed from the 70s, or most of it is anyway. Many, many changes were made by the dubbers. This would be acceptable perhaps if the actual dub was good, but alas it is not. I'm a huge Lupin fan but I couldn't make it through more than about 15 seconds of the CN version.
Agreed. For better or worse, we have a habit of Americanizing anything that comes over here. Watching anime transform from original Japanese to American television is often a scary process. You sometimes wonder if the editors understood why the anime had appeal in the first place. Good seiyuus (voice actors), interesting storyline, mature issues... many of these things often disappear when the American producers get ahold of it.
Then you watch something like Cowboy Bebop and you regain some faith in the system.
Bringing it over dubbed and edited can still be good, but only if the company doing it is competent.
2) Fights against anti-spam legislation
Result: Hotmail getting bent over by spam
and now...
3) Steals windows GUI from Apple
Result: Gets bent over by Lindows
Does anyong else get the feeling that M$ is so huge they are pulling in every direction at once and shooting themselves repeatedly in the foot?
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There's no single answer to parenting...but hitting a kid doesn't solve problems. If you're lucky, it just may not get in the way in the rest of the parenting process.
I think your first statement is a little contradictory. I agree completely that there's no single answer to parenting. Kids are different, each and every one. Some kids need to be nurtured and taught by positive example, but that doesn't work with all of them.
I'm not saying "hit with stick time" is the first solution or the only solution. But there are kids where it is the only solution that works. In today's society, people like you dismiss it out of hand. That, I believe, is part of the problem.
I have no problem with believing that many kids would respond well to offering them rewards for good grades and good behavior. And, I undestand it's important to set the example for them. But in the end, if you really love your child, you should be willing to go to any lengths to make sure they grow up right, even if it means hitting them.
There's a big difference between "hitting with stick time" and "child abuse". I'm not suggesting you injure your child, but simply to have the option of using pain as negative reinforcement. Recognize the difference.
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Why do we have things like Columbine nowadays when these things were unheard of 30 years ago? Because we didn't have people psychoanalyzing (read: witch doctoring) everyone's feelings and demanding parents use "quiet time" when the kid needed "hit with stick time". We had discipline and ethics that came from our parents and not from the government.
It's entirely up to them what they do with their equipment. Sounds like the 'crybabys' are those folks complaining about their lack of broadband Internet access.
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It's not even really their equipment. Before the "deregulation" of telephone services, much of the infrastructure was built on taxpayer dollars.
God forbid we try and have a little bit of say in what we paid for. I for one am not okay with the Bells having control of the copper. They have historically proven to suck at properly managing it.
Besides, if you can physically walk up to the computer in question and boot it from a CD in your pocket, your security problem doesn't come from Windows - it either comes from a BIOS that doesn't support changing the boot order, or it comes from between your ears.
Not that changing the boot order on the BIOS will do jack against me ripping the HD out and walking off with it. There is no substitute for actual physical security.
I dislike benchmarks like these. It encourages video card manufacturers to design video cards that do well in benchmarks, rather than do well in actual applications.
There are tons of people who do comparisons with applications rather than benchmarking utility.
Whether you're a fan Tom's Hardware (or not, I know he's had somewhat of a sorted past), there a lot of sites where people like him do testing with end user applications. Do research, find one of those sites you trust, and go with numbers based on software you use, rather than some number a benchmarking application you'll never actually run gives you.
The idea of WEP is to encrypt transmission between the wireless device and the base station. It's mainly just to make sure the traffic doesn't get hijacked in transit, it's very poor as a true authentication scheme. WEP is about as secure as an unlocked car. Click here for a technical explaination of why, plus here for the application that actually does it.
From the article: "IRM is a persistent file-level technology from Microsoft that allows the user to specify permission for who can access and use documents or e-mail messages, and helps prevent sensitive information from being printed, forwarded, or copied by unauthorized individuals. Once permission for a document or message has been restricted with this technology, the access and usage restrictions are enforced no matter where the information is."
Perhaps this has been addressed by another post, but couldn't you just copy data elsewhere? Either copy/paste, or if they can even restrict that, then type it manually a new document.
The only data this technology seems to protect is the data not worth spending that kind of time on. If it's not worth spending that kind of time on it, why bother protecting it in the first place?
The only thing bothersome with the articles is the idea that Linux is still something that's "rebellious". It's not. No, it doesn't have the market share that some of the other operating systems out there has (ahem), but just because you're not #1 in market share doesn't make you a niche technology. Linux IS mainstream. It's proven itself time and time again.
Just because Ford (or whatever car comany) has market share, it doesn't make my buying a Honda "rebellious". It just might be the choice that fits my needs better.
Executives need to know that Linux isn't a rogue OS. It's a choice you can make that provides different features. For those whose requirements would be better by Linux, they need to know they are simply making another mainstream choice.
Since when are laywers a beacon for what a fair punishment should be? I thought a laywers job was to understand the law and to represent his/her client, not decide what's fair or not fair regarding the law.
Also, think about this. Whenever the two sides work out a plea bargain rather than going to court, you basically have 2 lawyers hashing out what is a fair penalty for the crime involved.
So, in response to your statement, I would have to say that lawyers have always been the beacon for what fair punishment should be since the modern criminal system came into being.I'm sure it's fun to take potshots at lawyers, but you need to realize that they do run the system to a large extent.
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Then again, I actually happen to prefer the English dub on Eva... *dodges thrown debris*
No dodging needed. There are some anime that has been dubbed over very well, and others which well, seem to be lacking.
For example, Ranma 1/2. Although I do prefer the Japanese voice acting, I have to admit the dub is done very well. As opposed to, let's say, Bubblegum Crisis, for example, where the dub was painful to watch.
YMMV, but not all dubs are created equal. I think as anime fans its more important to get the content in front of mainstream audiences so that it's more economically viable to bring more content over from Japan. Infighting over the details doesn't help.
Unfortunately, laws like this are likely to get passed in other states as well.
Not necessarily because the legislature doesn't understand how the technology works (although that is often also the case), but because if such a bill is proposed in your state, which politician is going to open himself up to the inevitable "he voted against a bill designed to reduce child pornography" campaign when he runs for re-election?
On the other hand, maybe the "He hit me first" excuse is bullshit.
Your obvious misrepresentation of scale aside. Has it ever occurred to you that people do things for a reason?
Most everyone would agree that to shoot someone in cold blood is murder. Now, how about if that person had a gun leveled in your direction with an intent to kill you? What about if he shot you in the arm? Would your shooting him be murder now? No, it would be self defense.
You are naive to think that every action should be judged the same regardless of the motivations behind it. Psychology does not work that way; the law doesn't work that way; society as a whole doesn't work that way.
Perhaps you should think the subject through before using cliches to justify your point.
And this would be a great example of why people think geeks are a bunch of elitist assholes.
You can't blame someone for wanting to look down at the people who ridiculed them for some of the most impressionable years of their life.
Don't even pretend that the "nerds" are the people who started this war between classes. We were nerds because we * didn't care * what the other kids thought of us. That's why we were unpopular, we put little effort into being popular. So, if we didn't give a damn what the "popular" kids thought, why would we start shit?
Look on the flipside, the "popular" kids. They were popular because they gave a damn about what other kids thought of them, and worked to make other kids think more of them.
Now ask yourself this, who's more likely to do the looking down? The kids who cared about what other kids thought? Or the kids who didn't?
No one is blaming the people who were the "popular" kids for what they did when they were a teenager. You don't need to get defensive. But to blanketly declare that everyone's personality is only a result of their own doing and not from outside influences is naive.
I actually work for the company who developed the the PAYE and SA application for Inland Revenue. BTW - We're based in the US.:)
How did you like the application? My current project involves adding enhancements to the SA application. We've gotten good feedback from most people, but I'm curious to see how the/. people liked it.
I am disappointed our own government is playing catchup in this department.
My personal preference as far as hardware review sites is Tom's Hardware Guide (formerly http://sysdoc.pair.com). He gives much more insight into testing methodology and has access to a greater variety of hardware than the article linked to in the story. He also does more testing than game framerates, like Solidedge and 3D Studio Max benchmarks.
In addition, Tom sorts his results! The results in the story's article aren't sorted by performance, so if I want to find the card that performed the best in any specific benchmark, I have to scroll up and down the chart to see which number is highest.
Admittedly, your mileage may vary on a system with multiple processors, but in the end, this is a video card test, isn't it?
I was in the Warcraft 3 beta. Unfortunately they have to keep the number of people in beta down so they can keep the test server loads down.
Of course, waiting til the end to test server load can be a Bad Thing(tm). Anarchy Online's last minute load test, and WW2 Online's post-release load "test" proved that 1) stuff WILL break when more users sign on at once and 2) if your stuff doesn't work at launch, there goes three quarters of your subscriber base.
I think the ERPS webpage is about to gag and die. Please excuse the Karma whoring, Carmack's post follows below:
* Subject: [ERPS] Peroxide production
* From: John Carmack
* Date: Tue Feb 4 22:02:01 2003
* List-id: ERPS discussion list
We are starting to get the distinct impression that FMC is fucking
with us on the peroxide supply situation. We keep doing the things
they say (spending thousands of dollars), and they keep coming up with
some other reason we still can't buy peroxide (or just not return
calls for weeks). They have strung us along for a long time now, and
convinced us to stop talking to Degussa, but we still don't have
peroxide.
There was some talk about this a while ago, but I was a lot more
hopeful about FMC, so I didn't pursue it -- maybe it is time to set up
a new company on the scale of X-L Space Systems.
I don't want to be in the chemical processing business, but I would
probably be willing to be an anchor customer. I want to buy $100,000
worth of peroxide this year.
One of Michael Carden's customers has one of his concentrators, and is
willing to do some peroxide production for us, but I would really
prefer to work with a company, even a small one, that is devoted to
peroxide, and really cares about all the details, not just someone
that can feed a machine.
Would any ERPS people be interested in actually running a business to
do this? I would be happiest working with a proven production system
(one of Michael's), but I could entertain notions of paying for more
development work on the ERPS concentrators.
This is sort of a trial balloon here -- if FMC turns around and ships
us peroxide, that is still my preferred solution.
so that you have two firewalls back2back and the other boxes behind it? It's a bit extreme, but worth it if your cable company is composed of jackasses.
Unfortunately this won't help. By adding another router behind the current router, all you are doing is making the traffic your machines appear to come from one IP. The described method of analysing hosts uses IPid fields, which does not change no matter how many improperly configured routers in between your machines and the internet. The IPid used by your machines simply gets passed from one router to the next, without changing. The only way to fix this is to change the behavior of the router.
Does anyone else find it amusing that they are not allowing DoS attacks but are awarding points based on service response times?
It seems to be that the most legitimate measurement that response times provide in a hacking contest is how effective a DoS attack is.
Past that, all the majority of that result comes from how much traffic you have. Last time I checked, this was a hacking contest, not a web server benchmark.
of how little Microsoft cares about the ruling against them for anti-competitive business practices. Selective discounts is specifically prohibited in the agreement, and now they are trying ways to get around the system.
I find the article somewhat lacking. The points from the other side which he addresses are ones which the open source movement has addressed from day 1.
Anyone who understands the open source movement already knows that peer review is superior to any internal QA process. Despite what the FUD claims, there is little question that the quality of open source software has been higher than that of closed sources software. I think the fact other people might see their software as "lousy" only accounts for a very small % of the reason why most software companies are not open source.
Intellectual property is a much bigger issue, one which the article's author failed to address properly. Right now, I may have no clue what the best way to design a piece of software to do some particular task. If some other vendor has already designed that piece of software and released the source, I might not understand the details of what exactly is going on, but it would not be too hard to get a high level understanding of how the software works.
From there, creating the better mousetrap becomes a much easier task. The design of the software is often as time consuming or more time consuming than the implementation.
Sure, if I used their work in the creation of mine, I have created a derivative work. However, copyright law is a very grey area. If I kept my work closed source, how could anyone prove that I didn't steal my design from their product? They could sue me, but it would be at great cost to them, and if enough of the implementation was changed, they may not even win.
Managing any company successfully is not a trivial task. Executive board meetings are not filled with people who want to create poor software and hide that fact from the consumer. However, when someone presents a concept that could a) help competitors get into their market and b) result in a huge loss in revenue (directly and indirectly), what do you expect them to do? If you were a developer at that company, what would you want?
Regardless of how good you are, there's always going to be someone better out there. Most companies are realistic and realize this. Why give them an edge on your company's business? Do you really want to be out on the street that bad?
Russia seems to be more concerned with sending tourists to space than contributing funds to the further the space station. I guess NASA was just helping them construct a Motel 6.
You do realize that the reason that they are sending celebrities into space is so that they can raise money to fund the space program right?
Heck, I wish the NASA was forward thinking enough to sell seats on the shuttle to raise money. Anything to reduce the demand on our tax dollars.
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Then you watch something like Cowboy Bebop and you regain some faith in the system.
Bringing it over dubbed and edited can still be good, but only if the company doing it is competent.
1) "Linux is a toy"
Result: Gets bent over by IBM
2) Fights against anti-spam legislation
Result: Hotmail getting bent over by spam
and now...
3) Steals windows GUI from Apple
Result: Gets bent over by Lindows
Does anyong else get the feeling that M$ is so huge they are pulling in every direction at once and shooting themselves repeatedly in the foot?
I'm not saying "hit with stick time" is the first solution or the only solution. But there are kids where it is the only solution that works. In today's society, people like you dismiss it out of hand. That, I believe, is part of the problem.
I have no problem with believing that many kids would respond well to offering them rewards for good grades and good behavior. And, I undestand it's important to set the example for them. But in the end, if you really love your child, you should be willing to go to any lengths to make sure they grow up right, even if it means hitting them.
There's a big difference between "hitting with stick time" and "child abuse". I'm not suggesting you injure your child, but simply to have the option of using pain as negative reinforcement. Recognize the difference.
Why do we have things like Columbine nowadays when these things were unheard of 30 years ago? Because we didn't have people psychoanalyzing (read: witch doctoring) everyone's feelings and demanding parents use "quiet time" when the kid needed "hit with stick time". We had discipline and ethics that came from our parents and not from the government.
It's not even really their equipment. Before the "deregulation" of telephone services, much of the infrastructure was built on taxpayer dollars.
God forbid we try and have a little bit of say in what we paid for. I for one am not okay with the Bells having control of the copper. They have historically proven to suck at properly managing it.
I dislike benchmarks like these. It encourages video card manufacturers to design video cards that do well in benchmarks, rather than do well in actual applications.
There are tons of people who do comparisons with applications rather than benchmarking utility. Whether you're a fan Tom's Hardware (or not, I know he's had somewhat of a sorted past), there a lot of sites where people like him do testing with end user applications. Do research, find one of those sites you trust, and go with numbers based on software you use, rather than some number a benchmarking application you'll never actually run gives you.
The idea of WEP is to encrypt transmission between the wireless device and the base station. It's mainly just to make sure the traffic doesn't get hijacked in transit, it's very poor as a true authentication scheme. WEP is about as secure as an unlocked car. Click here for a technical explaination of why, plus here for the application that actually does it.
The only data this technology seems to protect is the data not worth spending that kind of time on. If it's not worth spending that kind of time on it, why bother protecting it in the first place?
The only thing bothersome with the articles is the idea that Linux is still something that's "rebellious". It's not. No, it doesn't have the market share that some of the other operating systems out there has (ahem), but just because you're not #1 in market share doesn't make you a niche technology. Linux IS mainstream. It's proven itself time and time again.
Just because Ford (or whatever car comany) has market share, it doesn't make my buying a Honda "rebellious". It just might be the choice that fits my needs better.
Executives need to know that Linux isn't a rogue OS. It's a choice you can make that provides different features. For those whose requirements would be better by Linux, they need to know they are simply making another mainstream choice.
Business Week needs to catch up to the present.
1) Judge (often a lawyer)
2) Prosecutor (lawyer)
3) Defense Attorney (lawyer)
Also, think about this. Whenever the two sides work out a plea bargain rather than going to court, you basically have 2 lawyers hashing out what is a fair penalty for the crime involved.
So, in response to your statement, I would have to say that lawyers have always been the beacon for what fair punishment should be since the modern criminal system came into being.I'm sure it's fun to take potshots at lawyers, but you need to realize that they do run the system to a large extent.
IANAL
For example, Ranma 1/2. Although I do prefer the Japanese voice acting, I have to admit the dub is done very well. As opposed to, let's say, Bubblegum Crisis, for example, where the dub was painful to watch.
YMMV, but not all dubs are created equal. I think as anime fans its more important to get the content in front of mainstream audiences so that it's more economically viable to bring more content over from Japan. Infighting over the details doesn't help.
Unfortunately, laws like this are likely to get passed in other states as well.
Not necessarily because the legislature doesn't understand how the technology works (although that is often also the case), but because if such a bill is proposed in your state, which politician is going to open himself up to the inevitable "he voted against a bill designed to reduce child pornography" campaign when he runs for re-election?
Most everyone would agree that to shoot someone in cold blood is murder. Now, how about if that person had a gun leveled in your direction with an intent to kill you? What about if he shot you in the arm? Would your shooting him be murder now? No, it would be self defense.
You are naive to think that every action should be judged the same regardless of the motivations behind it. Psychology does not work that way; the law doesn't work that way; society as a whole doesn't work that way.
Perhaps you should think the subject through before using cliches to justify your point.
Don't even pretend that the "nerds" are the people who started this war between classes. We were nerds because we * didn't care * what the other kids thought of us. That's why we were unpopular, we put little effort into being popular. So, if we didn't give a damn what the "popular" kids thought, why would we start shit?
Look on the flipside, the "popular" kids. They were popular because they gave a damn about what other kids thought of them, and worked to make other kids think more of them.
Now ask yourself this, who's more likely to do the looking down? The kids who cared about what other kids thought? Or the kids who didn't?
No one is blaming the people who were the "popular" kids for what they did when they were a teenager. You don't need to get defensive. But to blanketly declare that everyone's personality is only a result of their own doing and not from outside influences is naive.
I actually work for the company who developed the the PAYE and SA application for Inland Revenue. BTW - We're based in the US. :)
/. people liked it.
How did you like the application? My current project involves adding enhancements to the SA application. We've gotten good feedback from most people, but I'm curious to see how the
I am disappointed our own government is playing catchup in this department.
My personal preference as far as hardware review sites is Tom's Hardware Guide (formerly http://sysdoc.pair.com). He gives much more insight into testing methodology and has access to a greater variety of hardware than the article linked to in the story. He also does more testing than game framerates, like Solidedge and 3D Studio Max benchmarks.
In addition, Tom sorts his results! The results in the story's article aren't sorted by performance, so if I want to find the card that performed the best in any specific benchmark, I have to scroll up and down the chart to see which number is highest.
Admittedly, your mileage may vary on a system with multiple processors, but in the end, this is a video card test, isn't it?
I was in the Warcraft 3 beta. Unfortunately they have to keep the number of people in beta down so they can keep the test server loads down.
Of course, waiting til the end to test server load can be a Bad Thing(tm). Anarchy Online's last minute load test, and WW2 Online's post-release load "test" proved that 1) stuff WILL break when more users sign on at once and 2) if your stuff doesn't work at launch, there goes three quarters of your subscriber base.
I think the ERPS webpage is about to gag and die. Please excuse the Karma whoring, Carmack's post follows below:
* Subject: [ERPS] Peroxide production
* From: John Carmack
* Date: Tue Feb 4 22:02:01 2003
* List-id: ERPS discussion list
We are starting to get the distinct impression that FMC is fucking with us on the peroxide supply situation. We keep doing the things they say (spending thousands of dollars), and they keep coming up with some other reason we still can't buy peroxide (or just not return calls for weeks). They have strung us along for a long time now, and convinced us to stop talking to Degussa, but we still don't have peroxide.
There was some talk about this a while ago, but I was a lot more hopeful about FMC, so I didn't pursue it -- maybe it is time to set up a new company on the scale of X-L Space Systems. I don't want to be in the chemical processing business, but I would probably be willing to be an anchor customer. I want to buy $100,000 worth of peroxide this year.
One of Michael Carden's customers has one of his concentrators, and is willing to do some peroxide production for us, but I would really prefer to work with a company, even a small one, that is devoted to peroxide, and really cares about all the details, not just someone that can feed a machine.
Would any ERPS people be interested in actually running a business to do this? I would be happiest working with a proven production system (one of Michael's), but I could entertain notions of paying for more development work on the ERPS concentrators.
This is sort of a trial balloon here -- if FMC turns around and ships us peroxide, that is still my preferred solution.
John Carmack
Does anyone else find it amusing that they are not allowing DoS attacks but are awarding points based on service response times?
It seems to be that the most legitimate measurement that response times provide in a hacking contest is how effective a DoS attack is.
Past that, all the majority of that result comes from how much traffic you have. Last time I checked, this was a hacking contest, not a web server benchmark.
of how little Microsoft cares about the ruling against them for anti-competitive business practices. Selective discounts is specifically prohibited in the agreement, and now they are trying ways to get around the system.
-- David
I find the article somewhat lacking. The points from the other side which he addresses are ones which the open source movement has addressed from day 1.
Anyone who understands the open source movement already knows that peer review is superior to any internal QA process. Despite what the FUD claims, there is little question that the quality of open source software has been higher than that of closed sources software. I think the fact other people might see their software as "lousy" only accounts for a very small % of the reason why most software companies are not open source.
Intellectual property is a much bigger issue, one which the article's author failed to address properly. Right now, I may have no clue what the best way to design a piece of software to do some particular task. If some other vendor has already designed that piece of software and released the source, I might not understand the details of what exactly is going on, but it would not be too hard to get a high level understanding of how the software works.
From there, creating the better mousetrap becomes a much easier task. The design of the software is often as time consuming or more time consuming than the implementation.
Sure, if I used their work in the creation of mine, I have created a derivative work. However, copyright law is a very grey area. If I kept my work closed source, how could anyone prove that I didn't steal my design from their product? They could sue me, but it would be at great cost to them, and if enough of the implementation was changed, they may not even win.
Managing any company successfully is not a trivial task. Executive board meetings are not filled with people who want to create poor software and hide that fact from the consumer. However, when someone presents a concept that could a) help competitors get into their market and b) result in a huge loss in revenue (directly and indirectly), what do you expect them to do? If you were a developer at that company, what would you want?
Regardless of how good you are, there's always going to be someone better out there. Most companies are realistic and realize this. Why give them an edge on your company's business? Do you really want to be out on the street that bad?
Russia seems to be more concerned with sending tourists to space than contributing funds to the further the space station. I guess NASA was just helping them construct a Motel 6.
You do realize that the reason that they are sending celebrities into space is so that they can raise money to fund the space program right?
Heck, I wish the NASA was forward thinking enough to sell seats on the shuttle to raise money. Anything to reduce the demand on our tax dollars.
David