Some journals will be "nice enough" to give you a copy of the specific volume where your work was published. And they always send you that friendly letter about how everything you wrote is now their copyright and you can't republish it anywhere else.
Meh.
And still, if we don't have those magical publications under our curriculum, we won't be getting another renewal of our funding, or a job in an university.
Regardless of how realistic or non-realistic the thing is, am I the only one boggled down by the fact that the US are using a *SHOOTING GAME* to motivate people to join the army?
Since when was war supposed to be fun and desirable?
"You see the game? Come to the army! Now you'll have the chance to shoot people, for REAL!" - ugh
However, the Slashdot summary IS misleading. From the summary.
" DieNadel writes, "The Brazilian senate is considering a bill that will make it a crime to join a chat, blog, or download from the Internet without fully identifying oneself first."
From the article: "If approved, it will be a crime, punishable with up to 4 years of jail time, to disseminate virus or trojans, unauthorizedly access data banks or networks and send e-mail, join chat, write a blog or download content anonymously." "
Both imply that the crime is for users to surf anonymously, which is not what is being proposed. With the ammount of people here not RTFA, I feel that needed to be pointed out (not that it would make such a difference)
I loved the idea, and decided to sign up to offer my place in the site (like I already do in some mailing lists with similar purposes).
However, when reading the terms and conditions, it was clearly written that my personal information would be released to "third parties that support our operation". Advertisers?
So, on one hand, it seems to me that it defeats the point to sign up with a throw away e-mail address, on the other, I'm not registering my e-mail on a site that says right front that they're handing over my personal info to advertisers.
Could anyone with actual experience on the service provide me with some clue?
(Hospitality Club seemed more reasonable in their sign-in forms, though)
Instead of "joining a chat or downloading", the new crime is for a service provider to give access to an user without having him registered and logged.
A broader article about said law, although a bit right winded (for brazilian standards)
- The worst point (according to law firms in brazil) is that this law turns allowing anonymous access into a criminal offence (instead of a civil one). As the article points out, the charge for an access provider allowing an anonymous user into the internet becomes the same as for a driver who ignores a red light and run over someone.
- Anonymity from the part of the user is not a crime. However, crimes commited while anonymous (or using some fake identity) have their penalties raised by about 1/6th.
- In Brazil's constitution, while "free speech" is guaranteed by law, anonimity is not. In fact, both things are actually said in the same paragraph (something like "the right of an individual to freely express his thoughts will be guaranteed, but anonimity will not be allowed"), so this new proposed regulamentation is not really changing anything other than plugging a loophole.
- The law PROPOSAL is not a consensus in the covernment. In fact, the minstry (sp) of communication is part of the lobby against it.
Not that I like this law proposal, anyway, but let's try to at least address the correct points.
It seems to me that, to the contemporary person, the morality (or lack of) of an invasion is wholly dependant on whoever wins the ensuing conflict. History belongs to the victor and all that.
Maybe, but they probably weren't around for more than a few million years. I've recently seen some movies about the changing of the land masses, and you'd be surprised on how much can change in how "little" time.
Make that four... but I thought aussie play to be quite violent, not very different from when they played Japan earlier in the week. I hope they go slower on their Judo against Croatia.
I have watched Muslims dancing in the street in celebration of 9/11.
Yeah... _only_ muslins were cheering 9/11 right? It may be sick, but I remember quite a bit of cheering and "they deserved it" coming from some quite catholic people when I was in Brazil at the time.
I'm pretty sure you can find such celebrations in any non developed country if you go look for it. This is an economical/political issue.
Those were exactly my thoughts when I read the article. It seems some reporter was on a slow afternoon, and decided to write about "exotic japan" to make up for not coming up with any really interesting news.
And the first picture in the article is of a CD shop in Tokyo, not a cybercafe.
Speaking as an ESL here, had to learn both english and japanese as non-native tonges (native tonge is a romance language):
Japanese is not intrisically hard. The problem is - it is very difficult to come across situations where japanese is required to do something - or at least very useful.
First, lear katakana and hiragana by yourself (just copy it from somewhere on the internet) spend a week or two memorizing it, and using it to write all sort of stupid stuff: your name, your your favorite anime char's name, your dog's name, etc.
Then get into a formal japanese course.
Seriously - you should get off the ground by yourself, but you'll need help at this point or the learning curve will hit you hard on your face.
After you're reasonably sure you can say anything you need to that can be construed with one sentence - go to japan, and take intensive courses here.
AND don't let yourself be sucked into the "english bubble" here. Foreigners - specially english native speakers, can get by in japan with only english by hanging around with other foreigners - cultural shock helps that - but then you'll go back bitter and without really knowing japanese (that's another reason why you should have a basic grasp of japanese before coming).
For materials, once you have the hang of the basic grammar, I would reccoment NES RPGs... NES RPGS, specially the final fantasy series, do not use kanji, which is helpful for the beginner. Mangas are also quite nice to read with a dictionary by your side, but avoid "weekly jump"-like compilations, and go for one-series books (tankohons), specially if you can get your hands on the first of the series (so you don't get lost).
Anime is nice, but you must listen to it with the goal of learning japanese: i.e. - go back and forth listening the phrases over and over again, repeating yourself as needed.
But your main material for learning japanese should be talking to japanese people - everyday. If coming to japan is not feasible in the medium future, I would reccomend that you check with your nearby "kenjinkai" : association for japanese emmigrants - there should be some of those wherever there are japanese abroad.
then one of the above three has to give, and we know it's not Evil.
Er, I don't know about that. While I'm areligious myself, I had plenty of catholic friends while I was in Uni, and most of them, and other christian folks I've met, seem to think that this concept of evil, satan and hell to be quite old fashioned, and of lesser importance in their religion.
Once per week on YOUR line? What line did you use? I take the subway (chiyoda) everyday and a yamanote/tokyu combo once a week for commuting to work (besides those extra odd trips for everything else), and I can only remember one suicide last year.
You know that your family will have to pay a hefty sum to JR or Tokyo Metro if you suicide on one of their lines, right? I don't remember the value right now, but it was easily over 1M yen. That had greatly reduced train suicides, and I'm pretty sure other companies follow a similar policy.
Not to say that japanese don't suicide a lot. They do. but your number of one suicide a week on one specific line seems a bit too high even for Japan.
Well it depends on what the software is made to do. I saw a presentation in november in Tokyo university of a company which was developing such translation software. They held a demonstration, and it was quite successfull, from japanese to english and back (I volunteered to test it myself, and tried to trick the thing).
The trick is, the device was intended for use ONLY in airports. So It could translate well any sentence in this context (things about luggage, flights, customs, times, where is this or that). If you tried to say something not likely to be said in an airport, it failed miserably, but other than that, it surprised me (I, too, don't usually believe in automatic translation).
I don't know the nitty gritty details of their research, but It seems pretty reasonable the premise that if you limit the world heavily, you can get some decent translation. After all, even people can be pretty lame translators if they don't know the context.
I would agree with those who posted that any of them are good. Spirited Away, indeed, might be a little strange for western audiences, but nothing impossible. His newest movie, Howl's Moving Castle (Hooru Ugoki Shiro) is nice too, and the first one based on a western history.
Another movie that I didn't see on the highest modded comments in this thread is "Lupan III: Castle Cagliostro", a movie of his pre-ghibli era. The animation is quite 80's, but the humor and pace are great.
Also, I wouldn't diss the "non Miyazaki" other Ghibli movies. He has a heavy hand on those too, so their quality is still way above your regular Big eyed anime. Specially "Whisper from the heart" and "Only yesterday"
The worst part about AI research is that, whenever we manage to do something people consider to be AI, they say that this thing is not "real" AI, that something else a little ahead is "true" AI.
The above (paraphrased) isn't mine, but I agree fully.
Sigh:-)
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You know, this is indeed true.
In Japan, there is this series, Tokimeki Memorial, where you play a guy who, in one school year, must make one of the girls of his social circle fall in love with him. It was a hugely suscessfull game, with 3 continuations.
A few years ago, they released "Tokimeki Memorial: Girls Side", where the roles were reversed. The character was a girl, and had to have one of the boys in her social circle fall for her.
And, unlike the other games, in this game the same-sex characters played a huge part, while in the "male" games, the male characters had pretty minor roles.
Slashdot Mirror
So does the DMCA apply? Ask Dimitri Skyralov.
Nope, we're not paid to publish.
Some journals will be "nice enough" to give you a copy of the specific volume where your work was published. And they always send you that friendly letter about how everything you wrote is now their copyright and you can't republish it anywhere else.
Meh.
And still, if we don't have those magical publications under our curriculum, we won't be getting another renewal of our funding, or a job in an university.
You may jest, but immigration into the US already asks for questions like
"Do you intend to smuggle drugs into the U.S. in this trip?"
"Have you ever performed Genocide?"
There you are... not that far from an ID card with embeded evil bit
Regardless of how realistic or non-realistic the thing is, am I the only one boggled down by the fact that the US are using a *SHOOTING GAME* to motivate people to join the army?
Since when was war supposed to be fun and desirable?
"You see the game? Come to the army! Now you'll have the chance to shoot people, for REAL!" - ugh
Firstly, I agree, yes it sucks.
However, the Slashdot summary IS misleading. From the summary.
"
DieNadel writes, "The Brazilian senate is considering a bill that will make it a crime to join a chat, blog, or download from the Internet without fully identifying oneself first."
From the article: "If approved, it will be a crime, punishable with up to 4 years of jail time, to disseminate virus or trojans, unauthorizedly access data banks or networks and send e-mail, join chat, write a blog or download content anonymously."
"
Both imply that the crime is for users to surf anonymously, which is not what is being proposed. With the ammount of people here not RTFA, I feel that needed to be pointed out (not that it would make such a difference)
I loved the idea, and decided to sign up to offer my place in the site (like I already do in some mailing lists with similar purposes).
However, when reading the terms and conditions, it was clearly written that my personal information would be released to "third parties that support our operation". Advertisers?
So, on one hand, it seems to me that it defeats the point to sign up with a throw away e-mail address, on the other, I'm not registering my e-mail on a site that says right front that they're handing over my personal info to advertisers.
Could anyone with actual experience on the service provide me with some clue?
(Hospitality Club seemed more reasonable in their sign-in forms, though)
Instead of "joining a chat or downloading", the new crime is for a service provider to give access to an user without having him registered and logged.
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A broader article about said law, although a bit right winded (for brazilian standards)
(in portuguese)
http://www.denunciar.org.br/twiki/bin/view/SaferN
Some choice points from the lengthy article:
- The worst point (according to law firms in brazil) is that this law turns allowing anonymous access into a criminal offence (instead of a civil one). As the article points out, the charge for an access provider allowing an anonymous user into the internet becomes the same as for a driver who ignores a red light and run over someone.
- Anonymity from the part of the user is not a crime. However, crimes commited while anonymous (or using some fake identity) have their penalties raised by about 1/6th.
- In Brazil's constitution, while "free speech" is guaranteed by law, anonimity is not. In fact, both things are actually said in the same paragraph (something like "the right of an individual to freely express his thoughts will be guaranteed, but anonimity will not be allowed"), so this new proposed regulamentation is not really changing anything other than plugging a loophole.
- The law PROPOSAL is not a consensus in the covernment. In fact, the minstry (sp) of communication is part of the lobby against it.
Not that I like this law proposal, anyway, but let's try to at least address the correct points.
It seems to me that, to the contemporary person, the morality (or lack of) of an invasion is wholly dependant on whoever wins the ensuing conflict. History belongs to the victor and all that.
Maybe, but they probably weren't around for more than a few million years. I've recently seen some movies about the changing of the land masses, and you'd be surprised on how much can change in how "little" time.
Make that four... but I thought aussie play to be quite violent, not very different from when they played Japan earlier in the week. I hope they go slower on their Judo against Croatia.
I have watched Muslims dancing in the street in celebration of 9/11.
Yeah... _only_ muslins were cheering 9/11 right? It may be sick, but I remember quite a bit of cheering and "they deserved it" coming from some quite catholic people when I was in Brazil at the time.
I'm pretty sure you can find such celebrations in any non developed country if you go look for it. This is an economical/political issue.
Those were exactly my thoughts when I read the article. It seems some reporter was on a slow afternoon, and decided to write about "exotic japan" to make up for not coming up with any really interesting news.
And the first picture in the article is of a CD shop in Tokyo, not a cybercafe.
Nonono... That's the old meaning of Capitalism.
Nowadays Capitalist is everything good/we agree with. Communism is anything bad/we don't agree with.
Speaking as an ESL here, had to learn both english and japanese as non-native tonges (native tonge is a romance language):
;-)
Japanese is not intrisically hard. The problem is - it is very difficult to come across situations where japanese is required to do something - or at least very useful.
First, lear katakana and hiragana by yourself (just copy it from somewhere on the internet) spend a week or two memorizing it, and using it to write all sort of stupid stuff: your name, your your favorite anime char's name, your dog's name, etc.
Then get into a formal japanese course.
Seriously - you should get off the ground by yourself, but you'll need help at this point or the learning curve will hit you hard on your face.
After you're reasonably sure you can say anything you need to that can be construed with one sentence - go to japan, and take intensive courses here.
AND don't let yourself be sucked into the "english bubble" here. Foreigners - specially english native speakers, can get by in japan with only english by hanging around with other foreigners - cultural shock helps that - but then you'll go back bitter and without really knowing japanese (that's another reason why you should have a basic grasp of japanese before coming).
For materials, once you have the hang of the basic grammar, I would reccoment NES RPGs... NES RPGS, specially the final fantasy series, do not use kanji, which is helpful for the beginner. Mangas are also quite nice to read with a dictionary by your side, but avoid "weekly jump"-like compilations, and go for one-series books (tankohons), specially if you can get your hands on the first of the series (so you don't get lost).
Anime is nice, but you must listen to it with the goal of learning japanese: i.e. - go back and forth listening the phrases over and over again, repeating yourself as needed.
But your main material for learning japanese should be talking to japanese people - everyday. If coming to japan is not feasible in the medium future, I would reccomend that you check with your nearby "kenjinkai" : association for japanese emmigrants - there should be some of those wherever there are japanese abroad.
Talking about websites, you could try:
http://mixi.jp/
It is a social network all in japanese, but with a growing foreign userbase. It is more friendly than 2ch.
Last but not least:
http://www.slasdhot.jp/
with Moji (firefox extension)
You mean, a few years after ultima underworld?
then one of the above three has to give, and we know it's not Evil.
Er, I don't know about that. While I'm areligious myself, I had plenty of catholic friends while I was in Uni, and most of them, and other christian folks I've met, seem to think that this concept of evil, satan and hell to be quite old fashioned, and of lesser importance in their religion.
Once per week on YOUR line? What line did you use? I take the subway (chiyoda) everyday and a yamanote/tokyu combo once a week for commuting to work (besides those extra odd trips for everything else), and I can only remember one suicide last year.
You know that your family will have to pay a hefty sum to JR or Tokyo Metro if you suicide on one of their lines, right? I don't remember the value right now, but it was easily over 1M yen. That had greatly reduced train suicides, and I'm pretty sure other companies follow a similar policy.
Not to say that japanese don't suicide a lot. They do. but your number of one suicide a week on one specific line seems a bit too high even for Japan.
Well it depends on what the software is made to do. I saw a presentation in november in Tokyo university of a company which was developing such translation software. They held a demonstration, and it was quite successfull, from japanese to english and back (I volunteered to test it myself, and tried to trick the thing).
The trick is, the device was intended for use ONLY in airports. So It could translate well any sentence in this context (things about luggage, flights, customs, times, where is this or that). If you tried to say something not likely to be said in an airport, it failed miserably, but other than that, it surprised me (I, too, don't usually believe in automatic translation).
I don't know the nitty gritty details of their research, but It seems pretty reasonable the premise that if you limit the world heavily, you can get some decent translation. After all, even people can be pretty lame translators if they don't know the context.
e.g. translate the word "hail" to some language.
Hmmm, not bad indeed but...
(I might be wrong in the below)
Encrypt it and send it to your gmail account,
U.S.
your Yahoo briefcase,
U.S.
and maybe your hotmail account.
and U.S.
Maybe it would be interesting to store it in some server overseas too, just in case?
I would agree with those who posted that any of them are good. Spirited Away, indeed, might be a little strange for western audiences, but nothing impossible. His newest movie, Howl's Moving Castle (Hooru Ugoki Shiro) is nice too, and the first one based on a western history.
Another movie that I didn't see on the highest modded comments in this thread is "Lupan III: Castle Cagliostro", a movie of his pre-ghibli era. The animation is quite 80's, but the humor and pace are great.
Also, I wouldn't diss the "non Miyazaki" other Ghibli movies. He has a heavy hand on those too, so their quality is still way above your regular Big eyed anime. Specially "Whisper from the heart" and "Only yesterday"
I saw a sideway tree too in the first sequence :-/
Torrent?
The worst part about AI research is that, whenever we manage to do something people consider to be AI, they say that this thing is not "real" AI, that something else a little ahead is "true" AI.
:-)
The above (paraphrased) isn't mine, but I agree fully.
Sigh
You know, this is indeed true.
In Japan, there is this series, Tokimeki Memorial,
where you play a guy who, in one school year, must
make one of the girls of his social circle fall in
love with him. It was a hugely suscessfull game,
with 3 continuations.
A few years ago, they released "Tokimeki Memorial:
Girls Side", where the roles were reversed. The character was a girl, and had to have one of the boys in her social circle fall for her.
And, unlike the other games, in this game the same-sex characters played a huge part, while in
the "male" games, the male characters had pretty minor roles.
But this is Brazil we're talking about. Street-level means excessive numbers of young sunburned Catholic females walking around in string bikinis.
:-P
As much as I'd LOVE to see that... Curitiba is not by the sea...