It is true. IP is the most important issue facing us in America. We have solved all of our problems. The oil crisis is solved, healthcare rates are affordable and healthcare service is impeccable. Its so nice to see that we really do not need alternative energy and that our economy is providing everyone a comfortable life style where only a single parent can work while the other parent raises the children. Education is more solid than ever. We are raising a nation of math wizards capable of programming in asm on the spot. Our government is finally loyal to the American citizen and corruption has been eradicated.
NOW.. we can finally tackle the issue of downloading music and movies illegally, and impose death on those that do.
I love FIOS. FIOS TV and Internet. Verizon was bold enough to do it, and it was the right time to do so. Look at Comcast bitching and moaning. Now AT&T?
They're behind, and it is their own fault. Verizon made the bold move of deploying fiber all over the place and FIOS is in demand more than any other broadband provider due to the fact that while their local cable companies bitch and complain, cap and throttle... Verizon says... "You need more speed? Well we realize that, and the future is only going to demand more speed... so here it is"
These companies need to upgrade. Its the same as CPUs. You cant run the new applications on 10 year old CPUs and expect the speed to be there. You just cant.
To the shitty telco's of our country (USA), UPGRADE your networks, or die. Dont use this as an opurtunity to overcharge your subscribers. You have plenty of money and every month you take in the same amount if not more. Get on with it, use all of that profit to upgrade your service.
Unlimited internet means just that. Any provider that things limiting data per month is going to work, needs to walk up because this beast we call the internet is going to get more data intensive every fucking day from now til oblivion. Get in the fucking game and stop bitching.
I felt a great disturbance in the Force...as if a 100 voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.
Lucas the great rebel... is really just another corporate dick.
Just to play devil's advocate, how many of those employees would have decided to leave and work for a foreign company if they thought they'd get paid more. Just to play devil's advocate... There are plenty of countries that can do just about everything we can, for slave wages. Why not just outsource all of our jobs? It would certainly be more profitable for the wealthy, but I dont want to hear them bitch and moan about walmarts moving into their neighborhoods.
Whats the point of employing people? What is our responsibility to our communities?
If you cant deliver the pipe... get out of the broadband industry because the demand for bandwidth is ONLY going to increase. It will NEVER decrease. We are a technological society, with more and more people using the internet everyday. The applications on the net are only going to increase the demand for bandwidth and speed.
Comcast, if you think you're having bandwith problems now... wait until 2011. Get off your ass and build for it, today. Stop punishing your customers, you have plenty of money as a business to provide the services that are demanded by your customers. AND YES... they are obviously demanded by your customers because the demand is too much for your network.
FIX IT.
How can a broadband provider see an increase in demand for bandwidth, and simply say... we're not going to increase our capacity? The demand is there because it is what is required by todays users.
You're not a broadband provider if you can not provide broadband. Comcast, you're a failure.
This is exactly how it is. Luckily I was able to get Cablevision's optonline very early in its deploy. It was fantastic before everyone jumped onto the internet. It eventually hit a saturation point and you could tell. Cablevision suddenly had secret caps, and everyones upload bandwidth went from 750KB a sec, to 110KB a sec. Constant secret throttling issues with a lot of users who complained endlessly on dslreports.com
The problem was cablevision's network, they over sold it and their quality of service went to shit. Luckily... FIOS came along and now i've dumped cablevision all together. I have Fios TV and Fios internet. 30mb down, 5mb up. Its fantastic, although lately i've seen some decline in dns responsiveness... but the bandwidth has remained solid.
Competition is great, when its there... but usually its just between 3 companies as you said. Its the local cable(usually the fastest) dsl/isdn... or if you're lucky... Verizon Fios.
Its not a total monopoly out there, its just a squeeze play. Fios was luckily the way out of the cablevision sqeeze!
My father has no option for broadband where he is. Comcast refuses to build up the road 2 blocks. There is no dsl. His only option is wireless data over cell phone MAYBE.. depends on his reception.
It was destined to happen. Once the masses were hooked on the net, and it became a part of their daily lives... its the perfect time for broadband providers to charge whatever they want and you have no other option but to pay.
Yeah so much for all of that "support the troops" patriotic nonsense that gets thrown around at so called "unpatriotic" Americans.
We've got pro ball players playing children's games for a living and a fraction of their salaries combined would help fit our wounded soldiers with things like this, or supply them with whatever special care.
This country is despicable sometimes. We have the right blaming the left that they're not supporting the troops... We have the government lieing about reasons for war... We have our military brainwashing our soldiers with ideas of fighting for their own freedom, in Iraq. It is just ridiculous.
I sure as hell hope one day, we as humans put the important things above all else, and stop living in this fast food, talking point policitian, 5 second news story world.
Good people are dieing, losing their limbs, being burned, scarred, and having their lives ruined... by our own governments hand, and we dont even have the god damn respect to do whats right. AND WE PUT THEM THERE.
Dont look the other way when you see a wounded soldier.... walk up and thank him or her and say you're sorry. This whole fucking Iraq thing was a convoluted lie.
Anyone remember Afghanistan? Bin Laden?... The real mission?
Where is our President? Where the fuck is that coward George W Bush?!
heheh Hate to break it to you, but the message or theme whatever you want to call it, is very much Miyazaki and is also apart of many of his other films. All of his films have a bit of conserving wildlife, nature, the environment etc. Spirited Away is a great film about personal growth but there is a segment of the film that deals with nature conservation etc.
I can see the Femi-Nazi's in Mononoke but it doesnt bother me much as i know its not his message. Infact i beleive if i remember right, was that the message is that we do need all of nature, man women, animals, the planet and that seperating yourself from your very own nature can be destructive. Female from man, man from nature etc.
Miyasaki isnt about empowering women above man, but instead his films tend to show young women becoming brave, and overcoming their fears and finding personal strength in a culture that is historically male dominated. Remember his films are made for Japan.
Miyazaki often deals with stories around strong women, usually finding their strength. You will see this as well in Spirited Away, Nassuica, Kiki's Delivery Service, Whisper of the Heart, Mononoke, and Porco Rosso. You can even add Castles in the Sky to that but its more about a girl who find a boy and together they adventure.
I've worked in 3d character animation for 11 years, I'm well aware of Walt, and his "9 old men" that created what we now know as cell animation. Its true that Miyazaki hasnt contributed on the technical level, but where Disney left off, Miyazaki continued. Again not on a technical level, but on a story and experience level. You could easily say that Disney for a while now has had a different kind of mission than when Walt was alive. Disney's films since Walts death, lack a lot of the heart and soul found in Miyazaki's work.
Basically while we in America after Walt's death, treated animation as a shallow form childrens entertainment, Miyazaki moved forward, continueing the same awe inspiring ideals as walt, but in my opinion, Miyazaki created far more entertaining films, more thoughtfulness, more use of symbolism... in other words, more adult. His works are equally as enjoyable on a childs level as an adults due to the depth and symbolism used in his films. He doesnt belittle the viewer. Which is something we've done for years here in America with animation. Even Walt is guilty of it. While i think some of Walts films were breath taking and thoughtful, I think Miyazaki's works, and Studio Ghibli's works are more intelligent and contain more depth. There is an elegance to his work.
Again, we stopped doing that in America. Disney the corporation had stopped doing that. After Walt's death Disney made product, and Miyazaki made art.
Which is why i think he relates more to Walt than Miyamoto. Miyamoto's work does not truely move you emotionally. He has designed games with very little regard for story. Thats not to say his work isnt a veyr fine contribution to the art of gaming. Everyone knows he has made his mark in the industry. So has Hideo Kojima, and Fumito Ueda. Fumito Ueda (ICO creator) has been often called the Miyazaki of gaming, because his games move you emotionally.
Miyamoto's work is very much plumbers and mushrooms, or little pikmin in his garden... They are all great games... well some of them were bad... but I think the one big thing from keeping Miyamoto from being Walt, is that he lacks the heart that Walt had. Ultimately Walt wanted to tell stories... Animation was simply the technology he and his team developed. The technology is worthless without heart and soul.
This is where i think Miyamoto has failed, but his contributions are immense. I wont deny that.
Btw Miyazaki did create a sort of theme park. He created a Studio Ghibli Museum/park where you can go and see short films and other things releated to the studios work. Ghibli is an animation studio above all else. Miyazaki has continued Walt's vision of animation, and has taken it to levels that worthy of Walts legacy.
Your point about changing the world definiately applies to Miyamoto, but I wouldnt dare say Miyazaki hasnt changed the world. He has in my field. I dont know of an animator not moved by his work, and most are inspired to be even a fraction of what he has become. Even John Lasseter is influnced by Miyasaki's work. You dont impress someone like John Lassetter easily... who has himself pioneered and changed the world of Animation.
I think your statement about changing the world is some what true if you talk about the numbers of people influenced. More people know of Mario, but have no clue who Miyamoto is. They know the brand's he created... but unlike Disney, everyone knows who Walt is. That doesnt change the fact, i thought it was interesting. But in my circle of the world, animators and true animation fans... Miyazaki has changed many people's minds as to what animation can be, or should be more like.
Miyamoto is a legend in his own right... but i tend to think on the levels of animation and story, when trying to define the next Walt Disney...
Some might say thats John Lassetter... Even i would:)
You have to watch that movie. Everything you've heard is true. It will move you to tears. It is an amazing example of animation being used for "grown up" stories. Its a sad film and yes it will move you to tears as it did me.
Also do yourself a huge favor and see Grave of Fireflies by Isao Takahata. It's a Studio Ghibli film by Miyasaki's long time friend and partner. Its incredible, especially since its based on a real story.
Everyone says they care about these more worldly issues of human rights, health, quality of life... but in reality we dont care. We only care about money and the quality of life, health and rights, that it brings us, at the cost of others.
That is how it works sadly.
Just don't be so surprised when companies choose dollars over humanity because you would do it to, and you probably have on many occasions.
While this is a perfect example of why DRM sucks, its also a perfect example of how media distributors can force a user to buy their music & movies multiple times. All they need do, is terminate one of their companies, and start a new one requiring a different DRM key or scheme.
Like it or not, companies love this because by licensing you products, they can terminate the license at anytime and force you to buy it again.:)
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It is true. IP is the most important issue facing us in America. We have solved all of our problems. The oil crisis is solved, healthcare rates are affordable and healthcare service is impeccable. Its so nice to see that we really do not need alternative energy and that our economy is providing everyone a comfortable life style where only a single parent can work while the other parent raises the children. Education is more solid than ever. We are raising a nation of math wizards capable of programming in asm on the spot. Our government is finally loyal to the American citizen and corruption has been eradicated.
NOW.. we can finally tackle the issue of downloading music and movies illegally, and impose death on those that do.
I'm proud to be an American today. So proud.
I love FIOS. FIOS TV and Internet. Verizon was bold enough to do it, and it was the right time to do so. Look at Comcast bitching and moaning. Now AT&T?
They're behind, and it is their own fault. Verizon made the bold move of deploying fiber all over the place and FIOS is in demand more than any other broadband provider due to the fact that while their local cable companies bitch and complain, cap and throttle... Verizon says... "You need more speed? Well we realize that, and the future is only going to demand more speed... so here it is"
These companies need to upgrade. Its the same as CPUs. You cant run the new applications on 10 year old CPUs and expect the speed to be there. You just cant.
To the shitty telco's of our country (USA), UPGRADE your networks, or die. Dont use this as an opurtunity to overcharge your subscribers. You have plenty of money and every month you take in the same amount if not more. Get on with it, use all of that profit to upgrade your service.
Unlimited internet means just that. Any provider that things limiting data per month is going to work, needs to walk up because this beast we call the internet is going to get more data intensive every fucking day from now til oblivion. Get in the fucking game and stop bitching.
Hey its American Baby! Give up your freedoms! It's the in thing now!
I felt a great disturbance in the Force...as if a 100 voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.
Lucas the great rebel... is really just another corporate dick.
Whats the point of employing people? What is our responsibility to our communities?
You're not a broadband provider!
If you cant deliver the pipe... get out of the broadband industry because the demand for bandwidth is ONLY going to increase. It will NEVER decrease. We are a technological society, with more and more people using the internet everyday. The applications on the net are only going to increase the demand for bandwidth and speed.
Comcast, if you think you're having bandwith problems now... wait until 2011. Get off your ass and build for it, today. Stop punishing your customers, you have plenty of money as a business to provide the services that are demanded by your customers. AND YES... they are obviously demanded by your customers because the demand is too much for your network.
FIX IT.
How can a broadband provider see an increase in demand for bandwidth, and simply say... we're not going to increase our capacity? The demand is there because it is what is required by todays users.
You're not a broadband provider if you can not provide broadband. Comcast, you're a failure.
This is exactly how it is. Luckily I was able to get Cablevision's optonline very early in its deploy. It was fantastic before everyone jumped onto the internet. It eventually hit a saturation point and you could tell. Cablevision suddenly had secret caps, and everyones upload bandwidth went from 750KB a sec, to 110KB a sec. Constant secret throttling issues with a lot of users who complained endlessly on dslreports.com
The problem was cablevision's network, they over sold it and their quality of service went to shit. Luckily... FIOS came along and now i've dumped cablevision all together. I have Fios TV and Fios internet. 30mb down, 5mb up. Its fantastic, although lately i've seen some decline in dns responsiveness... but the bandwidth has remained solid.
Competition is great, when its there... but usually its just between 3 companies as you said. Its the local cable(usually the fastest) dsl/isdn... or if you're lucky... Verizon Fios.
Its not a total monopoly out there, its just a squeeze play. Fios was luckily the way out of the cablevision sqeeze!
My father has no option for broadband where he is. Comcast refuses to build up the road 2 blocks. There is no dsl. His only option is wireless data over cell phone MAYBE.. depends on his reception.
It was destined to happen. Once the masses were hooked on the net, and it became a part of their daily lives... its the perfect time for broadband providers to charge whatever they want and you have no other option but to pay.
Strong words coming from an anonymous coward. Please go back to sucking on your mothers penis.
Yeah so much for all of that "support the troops" patriotic nonsense that gets thrown around at so called "unpatriotic" Americans.
We've got pro ball players playing children's games for a living and a fraction of their salaries combined would help fit our wounded soldiers with things like this, or supply them with whatever special care.
This country is despicable sometimes. We have the right blaming the left that they're not supporting the troops... We have the government lieing about reasons for war... We have our military brainwashing our soldiers with ideas of fighting for their own freedom, in Iraq. It is just ridiculous.
I sure as hell hope one day, we as humans put the important things above all else, and stop living in this fast food, talking point policitian, 5 second news story world.
Good people are dieing, losing their limbs, being burned, scarred, and having their lives ruined... by our own governments hand, and we dont even have the god damn respect to do whats right. AND WE PUT THEM THERE.
Dont look the other way when you see a wounded soldier.... walk up and thank him or her and say you're sorry. This whole fucking Iraq thing was a convoluted lie.
Anyone remember Afghanistan? Bin Laden?... The real mission?
Where is our President? Where the fuck is that coward George W Bush?!
Correct, Hayao Miyazaki did not direct Whisper of the Heart, but he did write it.
Just like Godaddy's shitty email service... These companies dont want to support email as it should be, so they dump it off to google??????????????
Looks like in the future i'll deal with hosts that have a higher quality service.
Gmail is great but... if you run a company, i think its better to have your email on your own domain.
heheh Hate to break it to you, but the message or theme whatever you want to call it, is very much Miyazaki and is also apart of many of his other films. All of his films have a bit of conserving wildlife, nature, the environment etc. Spirited Away is a great film about personal growth but there is a segment of the film that deals with nature conservation etc.
I can see the Femi-Nazi's in Mononoke but it doesnt bother me much as i know its not his message. Infact i beleive if i remember right, was that the message is that we do need all of nature, man women, animals, the planet and that seperating yourself from your very own nature can be destructive. Female from man, man from nature etc.
Miyasaki isnt about empowering women above man, but instead his films tend to show young women becoming brave, and overcoming their fears and finding personal strength in a culture that is historically male dominated. Remember his films are made for Japan.
Miyazaki often deals with stories around strong women, usually finding their strength. You will see this as well in Spirited Away, Nassuica, Kiki's Delivery Service, Whisper of the Heart, Mononoke, and Porco Rosso. You can even add Castles in the Sky to that but its more about a girl who find a boy and together they adventure.
How can you leave Princess Mononoke out of that list!?
I wasnt a fan of Howl's moving Castle. It wasnt a great Miyazaki film.
I also recommend, Naussica, and Whisper of the Heart.
I've worked in 3d character animation for 11 years, I'm well aware of Walt, and his "9 old men" that created what we now know as cell animation. Its true that Miyazaki hasnt contributed on the technical level, but where Disney left off, Miyazaki continued. Again not on a technical level, but on a story and experience level. You could easily say that Disney for a while now has had a different kind of mission than when Walt was alive. Disney's films since Walts death, lack a lot of the heart and soul found in Miyazaki's work.
:)
Basically while we in America after Walt's death, treated animation as a shallow form childrens entertainment, Miyazaki moved forward, continueing the same awe inspiring ideals as walt, but in my opinion, Miyazaki created far more entertaining films, more thoughtfulness, more use of symbolism... in other words, more adult. His works are equally as enjoyable on a childs level as an adults due to the depth and symbolism used in his films. He doesnt belittle the viewer. Which is something we've done for years here in America with animation. Even Walt is guilty of it. While i think some of Walts films were breath taking and thoughtful, I think Miyazaki's works, and Studio Ghibli's works are more intelligent and contain more depth. There is an elegance to his work.
Again, we stopped doing that in America. Disney the corporation had stopped doing that. After Walt's death Disney made product, and Miyazaki made art.
Which is why i think he relates more to Walt than Miyamoto. Miyamoto's work does not truely move you emotionally. He has designed games with very little regard for story. Thats not to say his work isnt a veyr fine contribution to the art of gaming. Everyone knows he has made his mark in the industry. So has Hideo Kojima, and Fumito Ueda. Fumito Ueda (ICO creator) has been often called the Miyazaki of gaming, because his games move you emotionally.
Miyamoto's work is very much plumbers and mushrooms, or little pikmin in his garden... They are all great games... well some of them were bad... but I think the one big thing from keeping Miyamoto from being Walt, is that he lacks the heart that Walt had. Ultimately Walt wanted to tell stories... Animation was simply the technology he and his team developed. The technology is worthless without heart and soul.
This is where i think Miyamoto has failed, but his contributions are immense. I wont deny that.
Btw Miyazaki did create a sort of theme park. He created a Studio Ghibli Museum/park where you can go and see short films and other things releated to the studios work. Ghibli is an animation studio above all else. Miyazaki has continued Walt's vision of animation, and has taken it to levels that worthy of Walts legacy.
Your point about changing the world definiately applies to Miyamoto, but I wouldnt dare say Miyazaki hasnt changed the world. He has in my field. I dont know of an animator not moved by his work, and most are inspired to be even a fraction of what he has become. Even John Lasseter is influnced by Miyasaki's work. You dont impress someone like John Lassetter easily... who has himself pioneered and changed the world of Animation.
I think your statement about changing the world is some what true if you talk about the numbers of people influenced. More people know of Mario, but have no clue who Miyamoto is. They know the brand's he created... but unlike Disney, everyone knows who Walt is. That doesnt change the fact, i thought it was interesting. But in my circle of the world, animators and true animation fans... Miyazaki has changed many people's minds as to what animation can be, or should be more like.
Miyamoto is a legend in his own right... but i tend to think on the levels of animation and story, when trying to define the next Walt Disney...
Some might say thats John Lassetter... Even i would
You have to watch that movie. Everything you've heard is true. It will move you to tears. It is an amazing example of animation being used for "grown up" stories. Its a sad film and yes it will move you to tears as it did me.
Because narrow minded game nerds think a plumber and a mushroom is more moving than the breathtaking works of art created by Hayao Miyazaki.
Sad isnt it?
Time to educate them.
Learn about Hayao Miyazaki, then watch all of Studio Ghibli's work.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayao_Miyazaki
Also do yourself a huge favor and see Grave of Fireflies by Isao Takahata. It's a Studio Ghibli film by Miyasaki's long time friend and partner. Its incredible, especially since its based on a real story.
Learn about Isao Takahata here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takahata_Isao
I'm glad we have such a great economy... so great that we can eat ourselves alive like this. Dumb shit like this is so meaningless.
Our country is dieing senators...
Mr President...
Anyone doing anything? Anyone really care? I didnt think so. But i figure i should ask. Someone should.
I love how sales is more important to Balmer than performance and function.
I do like Vista in many ways but it needs work! If Balmer is in "no way disappointed" with vista than there is no hope for Microsoft OS'es
This isn't 1998 anymore. CBS wasted a lot of money.
Everyone says they care about these more worldly issues of human rights, health, quality of life... but in reality we dont care. We only care about money and the quality of life, health and rights, that it brings us, at the cost of others.
That is how it works sadly.
Just don't be so surprised when companies choose dollars over humanity because you would do it to, and you probably have on many occasions.
While this is a perfect example of why DRM sucks, its also a perfect example of how media distributors can force a user to buy their music & movies multiple times. All they need do, is terminate one of their companies, and start a new one requiring a different DRM key or scheme.
:)
Like it or not, companies love this because by licensing you products, they can terminate the license at anytime and force you to buy it again.
DRM sucks.
"before everyone starts blaming Bush..."
:)
If you're defending Bush at this stage of the game, you're a fucking wack job
Users will use technology as they see fit. That is the ONLY thing everyone need know.