Yes I did. I learned programming on Univac 1100 at SUNY Albany. I worked for Sperry for a few years but resigned in 1984 to work on IBM equipment. I still consider quitting one of the best career moves I ever made.
NGE was a great series in its time but at this point you could compare Cartoon Network to a library that aquires all the latest by Heinlein and Bradbury while ignoring Stephenson, Rucker, Richard Morgan, and others because they aren't "classic".
Really what I'd rather see is a high definition version of Gankutsuou. Or the uncensored version of Dokuro. (I'll admit it, I laughed pretty hard at episode 1-2).
Aren't "Americans" being blamed for the greediness and shortsightedness of a handful of telecom monopoly CEOs ?
Can't I buy a nokia 3620 if I want or get a radio headset if I really wanted to ?
Isn't the real problem just pricing? Could you imagine someone doing BitTorrent downloads to their cell phone and getting charged 5 cents per 1k by Cingular if they went over the 1 meg limit ?
Also, if due to my specific interests, if I think I'd be better off with a laptop with highspeed wireless access than a dopey smart phone, is this really the same thing as living in the past ?
I used to read the Mercury News (the local San Jose California USA paper) pretty much every day since I moved here in 1990. About 6 months ago I stopped almost completely.
I still buy the paper once a week on Friday. I keep the Frys advertising section and the entertainment guide and throw the rest out before I get irritated. I still read Gilmor (who's leaving next month) online.
The reason for this was the quality of their news coverage, not anything to do with Craigslist or the internet.
Here are some questions I wish the author of this article and some of the people he interviewed would address.
Why can't "Hollywood" adapt to technological change instead of fighting it ? Why can an unemployed programmer sitting in his apartment out-inovate a handful of multi-billion dollar corporations ?
Why do these wealthy CEO and entertainer types think they're immune from change ? I used to be a high paid COBOL guy, I had to adapt. Do any of these people expect me to feel any sympathy or support for them ?
Why would people want to download in the first place ? Is it because ticket prices are too high, and the cost of soda and popcorn is almost offensive ? Do people in one country want to see the movie as soon as people in another country ?
Is the loss of revenue real or imaginary ? Is their existence really threatened ? Are movie industry profits really sliding ? Are American high school kids really going to start staying home instead of going to the theatre ?
Sorry if this sounds like a bit of a rant. I'm really tired of the pro-CEO slant in the mainstream media. If any journalists are reading this I hope you address these questions in your future articles. It would really make me alot more interested in what you do for a living.
I'm just curious. I'll watch anything that's not mainstream Hollywood. These days it seems I mostly watch Asian stuff because "independent cinema" seems kind of sold-out and repetitious and the Europeans don't seem to be doing as much as they used to.
Another reason I'm asking is that Lawrence Lessig mentioned in his book - The Future of Ideas, that some schools do not release student video due to copyright concerns. I'd like to double check this and also see if there are film schools outside the US that put their students work online.
Some other things the suits seem to be missing...
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Good shows now have a global audience without them having to spend extra money. I watch more anime fansubs than regular US tv. Other people here download rather than wait a few years for the dvd to become available in their country. You'd think there would be something they could take advantage of rather than panic and try to stomp new technology out.
People wouldn't try so hard to skip US commercials if they weren't total overkill. When I watch live using MythTV I hit the pause key and wait ten minutes so commercial skip works, and that's for a "half hour" show. I've seen Japanese TV ads when the fansubbers leave them in. They're so brief and nonirritating compared to the US ads it's almost appalling.
The reason I went to tv-torrents rather than MythTV is that the quality of the Comcast broadcasts in San Jose is really poor. No one at work is happy with Comcast either. You'd think that this would come up as an issue with TV execs, and not just the fact the hdtv downloads are available.
Another thing that the guy quoted in this article seems to be unaware of is timezones. This year I've been able to download The Shield and start watching before it even came on in California. Guess it was recorded and encoded on the east coast.:-)
You're lucky, US advertising is total overkill
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I compare US television adds with telemarketing. One call a month would have been livable, but noooooo, they had to keep chiseling away with more and more calling until legislating a national do-not-call list was the only solution.
Since a legislative solution could never occur with TV adds, it looks like we're going ahead and solving the problem on our own with technology. It did't have to be that way. It's not like I didn't use the mute button a long time before Tivo and MythTV either.
The foreign TV I'm most familiar with is Japanese. Sometimes the fansubbers leave the commercials in. I'm so appalled by the brevity and unobtrusiveness of these commercials I actually do imitations of them at work when people complain about advertising.
Here's my impression of the comercial for Bandai, a Japanese toy company:
...even for non-professional home user types like me. This was also the only computer book I read straight through in a decade or so. Usually I just read the chapter or two that applies to me and then put the thing down.
The reviewer mentioned the lack of detailed instructions for firewalling. I don't see that as a drawback at all, there are plenty of books that cover that subject in detail.
The part I liked the most was malware analysis section. If you're the type of home user who wants to know exactly what a spyware app like Gator (or whatever they renamed it) does, this is exactly the info you need.
As soon as I see a player like this with a screen about the size and quality of the screen on a Sony TR2A laptop (with the xbrite screen) I'll go out and buy it. If I haven't bought the Sony first tho...
Really, I can't see myself enjoying anime on a matchbook sized screen.
There are others but most people in san jose have sbc for their internet service provider if they use dsl. They also provide local phone service and my wireless (cell phone) as well.
Since they're a big monopoly people in other parts of the US are stuck with them too.
Since I use BitTorrent and IRC exclusively for anime I might be hard to prosecute under the "anyone sharing 2,500 or more pieces of content" part. It does look conceivable that a fansub could be "pre-release copy" if the American distributers really wanted to put the DOJ up to protecting Japanese content. It did look like the bill is still in draft status and all the details haven't worked out yet though.
It didn't look those idiots know about sharing methods other than Kazaa or anonomizers either.
If this actually happens it won't be like industry will make more money off me personally. I cut all CD and music related purchases to zero after Audio Galaxy was shut down. I won't do this with anime, I'll just walk up the street to Nikaku Animart (one of the best anime rental places in the US, I live near the San Jose Japantown area) and rent. The amount of money I spend will NOT increase however.
I'll probably loose at least 20 pounds when I spend the former DSL money on a health club too.
In my case since I'm 48 y/o I wouldn't have gotten into anime in the first place and purchased as much as I have if it wasn't for fansubs.
If anyone wants to see an episode where the anime producers explicitly acknowledge the existence of fansubbers check out the last episode of Battle Progammer Shirase.
According to the translation by the We-Suck group there is an opening anouncement that goes something like this:
"We apologize to the viewers for ending the series early...We also apologize to the people who take special steps to view this series on their computers...and also to the people who watch the subtitled version overseas."
Heck, I'll just cancel my dsl and join a health club or something. If I just wanted to surf I could use the computer at the San Jose public library or at work.
Hopefully the Japanese companies don't go after the fansubbers if this happens.
In the early days of radio some people actually believed that putting radios in police cars would end crime and that radio was a force for world peace. When television was new it was assumed that it would be educational and raise the level of literacy.
I don't see much difference between these earlier beliefs and current superstitious ramblings on by baby boomer journalists about the power of the internet.
The internet eventually will make a difference in politics because it's how people communicate. It just won't be as magical or quick as some of these writers assume
Think of BitTorrent as an updated version of ftp that utilizes the clients upload bandwidth as well as the servers download bandwidth. That's all it is. (Yes, clients become servers even before the download process is complete.)
If the author of BitTorrent could be sued the authors of ftp and apache could be sued as well.
I hope this helps, your misconception of how BT functions is fairly common. It's not the same type of p2p network as Kazaa at all.
I'd describe this article as glamorizing virus writes rather than patronizing them. If I was 15 years old and didn't have any friends that article would have been highly motivating.
I'd really rather see the New York Times Magazine cover an open source project. Mplayer would be a good one if they absolutely couldn't avoid a little controversy.
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Yes I did. I learned programming on Univac 1100 at SUNY Albany. I worked for Sperry for a few years but resigned in 1984 to work on IBM equipment. I still consider quitting one of the best career moves I ever made.
Sperry Univac merged with Burroughs at the end of the mainframe era and how that merger turned the mainframe business around ???
NGE was a great series in its time but at this point you could compare Cartoon Network to a library that aquires all the latest by Heinlein and Bradbury while ignoring Stephenson, Rucker, Richard Morgan, and others because they aren't "classic".
Really what I'd rather see is a high definition version of Gankutsuou. Or the uncensored version of Dokuro. (I'll admit it, I laughed pretty hard at episode 1-2).
What area are you in and who's your isp ? Maybe I'll move there.
Aren't "Americans" being blamed for the greediness and shortsightedness of a handful of telecom monopoly CEOs ?
Can't I buy a nokia 3620 if I want or get a radio headset if I really wanted to ?
Isn't the real problem just pricing? Could you imagine someone doing BitTorrent downloads to their cell phone and getting charged 5 cents per 1k by Cingular if they went over the 1 meg limit ?
Also, if due to my specific interests, if I think I'd be better off with a laptop with highspeed wireless access than a dopey smart phone, is this really the same thing as living in the past ?
I used to read the Mercury News (the local San Jose California USA paper) pretty much every day since I moved here in 1990. About 6 months ago I stopped almost completely.
I still buy the paper once a week on Friday. I keep the Frys advertising section and the entertainment guide and throw the rest out before I get irritated. I still read Gilmor (who's leaving next month) online.
The reason for this was the quality of their news coverage, not anything to do with Craigslist or the internet.
from the DeHavilland article:
"It [MPAA] has also filed suits against users of file-sharing programmes BitTorrent, eDonkey and DirectConnect in the US and Europe."
If anyone has seen any details on this feel free to post, I thought they were just cracking down on the web sites.
Take a look at the public server statistics .
It looks like the majority are playing counterstrike, which is pretty old. Even my old favorite, Quake 2, is still hanging in there, kind of.
Here are some questions I wish the author of this article and some of the people he interviewed would address.
Why can't "Hollywood" adapt to technological change instead of fighting it ? Why can an unemployed programmer sitting in his apartment out-inovate a handful of multi-billion dollar corporations ?
Why do these wealthy CEO and entertainer types think they're immune from change ? I used to be a high paid COBOL guy, I had to adapt. Do any of these people expect me to feel any sympathy or support for them ?
Why would people want to download in the first place ? Is it because ticket prices are too high, and the cost of soda and popcorn is almost offensive ? Do people in one country want to see the movie as soon as people in another country ?
Is the loss of revenue real or imaginary ? Is their existence really threatened ? Are movie industry profits really sliding ? Are American high school kids really going to start staying home instead of going to the theatre ?
Sorry if this sounds like a bit of a rant. I'm really tired of the pro-CEO slant in the mainstream media. If any journalists are reading this I hope you address these questions in your future articles. It would really make me alot more interested in what you do for a living.
I'm just curious. I'll watch anything that's not mainstream Hollywood. These days it seems I mostly watch Asian stuff because "independent cinema" seems kind of sold-out and repetitious and the Europeans don't seem to be doing as much as they used to.
Another reason I'm asking is that Lawrence Lessig mentioned in his book - The Future of Ideas, that some schools do not release student video due to copyright concerns. I'd like to double check this and also see if there are film schools outside the US that put their students work online.
Good shows now have a global audience without them having to spend extra money. I watch more anime fansubs than regular US tv. Other people here download rather than wait a few years for the dvd to become available in their country. You'd think there would be something they could take advantage of rather than panic and try to stomp new technology out.
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People wouldn't try so hard to skip US commercials if they weren't total overkill. When I watch live using MythTV I hit the pause key and wait ten minutes so commercial skip works, and that's for a "half hour" show. I've seen Japanese TV ads when the fansubbers leave them in. They're so brief and nonirritating compared to the US ads it's almost appalling.
The reason I went to tv-torrents rather than MythTV is that the quality of the Comcast broadcasts in San Jose is really poor. No one at work is happy with Comcast either. You'd think that this would come up as an issue with TV execs, and not just the fact the hdtv downloads are available.
Another thing that the guy quoted in this article seems to be unaware of is timezones. This year I've been able to download The Shield and start watching before it even came on in California. Guess it was recorded and encoded on the east coast.
I compare US television adds with telemarketing. One call a month would have been livable, but noooooo, they had to keep chiseling away with more and more calling until legislating a national do-not-call list was the only solution.
Since a legislative solution could never occur with TV adds, it looks like we're going ahead and solving the problem on our own with technology. It did't have to be that way. It's not like I didn't use the mute button a long time before Tivo and MythTV either.
The foreign TV I'm most familiar with is Japanese. Sometimes the fansubbers leave the commercials in. I'm so appalled by the brevity and unobtrusiveness of these commercials I actually do imitations of them at work when people complain about advertising.
Here's my impression of the comercial for Bandai, a Japanese toy company:
Me (deep Japanese sounding voice):
BAAAANDAIII !!!!!
Me (punchline):
That's the WHOLE commercial !
...even for non-professional home user types like me. This was also the only computer book I read straight through in a decade or so. Usually I just read the chapter or two that applies to me and then put the thing down.
The reviewer mentioned the lack of detailed instructions for firewalling. I don't see that as a drawback at all, there are plenty of books that cover that subject in detail.
The part I liked the most was malware analysis section. If you're the type of home user who wants to know exactly what a spyware app like Gator (or whatever they renamed it) does, this is exactly the info you need.
The next step is obviously touchoblogs. Like many new technologies, the initial demand for this will be created by the pornography industry.
Thanks for the link. I took a quick peek and it looks like an interesting site. I'll definitely check it out in depth when I get a chance.
As soon as I see a player like this with a screen about the size and quality of the screen on a Sony TR2A laptop (with the xbrite screen) I'll go out and buy it. If I haven't bought the Sony first tho...
Really, I can't see myself enjoying anime on a matchbook sized screen.
There are others but most people in san jose have sbc for their internet service provider if they use dsl. They also provide local phone service and my wireless (cell phone) as well.
Since they're a big monopoly people in other parts of the US are stuck with them too.
Since I use BitTorrent and IRC exclusively for anime I might be hard to prosecute under the "anyone sharing 2,500 or more pieces of content" part. It does look conceivable that a fansub could be "pre-release copy" if the American distributers really wanted to put the DOJ up to protecting Japanese content. It did look like the bill is still in draft status and all the details haven't worked out yet though.
It didn't look those idiots know about sharing methods other than Kazaa or anonomizers either.
If this actually happens it won't be like industry will make more money off me personally. I cut all CD and music related purchases to zero after Audio Galaxy was shut down. I won't do this with anime, I'll just walk up the street to Nikaku Animart (one of the best anime rental places in the US, I live near the San Jose Japantown area) and rent. The amount of money I spend will NOT increase however.
I'll probably loose at least 20 pounds when I spend the former DSL money on a health club too.
In my case since I'm 48 y/o I wouldn't have gotten into anime in the first place and purchased as much as I have if it wasn't for fansubs.
If anyone wants to see an episode where the anime producers explicitly acknowledge the existence of fansubbers check out the last episode of Battle Progammer Shirase.
According to the translation by the We-Suck group there is an opening anouncement that goes something like this:
"We apologize to the viewers for ending the series early...We also apologize to the people who take special steps to view this series on their computers...and also to the people who watch the subtitled version overseas."
Heck, I'll just cancel my dsl and join a health club or something. If I just wanted to surf I could use the computer at the San Jose public library or at work.
Hopefully the Japanese companies don't go after the fansubbers if this happens.
In the early days of radio some people actually believed that putting radios in police cars would end crime and that radio was a force for world peace. When television was new it was assumed that it would be educational and raise the level of literacy.
I don't see much difference between these earlier beliefs and current superstitious ramblings on by baby boomer journalists about the power of the internet.
The internet eventually will make a difference in politics because it's how people communicate. It just won't be as magical or quick as some of these writers assume
Think of BitTorrent as an updated version of ftp that utilizes the clients upload bandwidth as well as the servers download bandwidth. That's all it is. (Yes, clients become servers even before the download process is complete.)
If the author of BitTorrent could be sued the authors of ftp and apache could be sued as well.
I hope this helps, your misconception of how BT functions is fairly common. It's not the same type of p2p network as Kazaa at all.
What Mr. Lamo thought he was doing was demonstrating to the NYT that they had a security problem.
I'd describe this article as glamorizing virus writes rather than patronizing them. If I was 15 years old and didn't have any friends that article would have been highly motivating.
I'd really rather see the New York Times Magazine cover an open source project. Mplayer would be a good one if they absolutely couldn't avoid a little controversy.