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I'm a sucker for good story, and so far I have yet to see anything that beats anime. What it all comes down to is that I find anime to be a very artistic medium, rather than 'cartoons'... seriously, you look at the philosophy that's examined, the painstaking detail that the artists sometimes go through...there is definitely pride and workmanship involved (at least in the really good stuff).
This is my list of favorites (no rhyme or reason): Vampire Hunter D Ninja Scroll Demon City: Shinjuku Akira Ghost in the Shell Macross Plus Iria: Zeiram, the Animation
Macross Plus and Ghost in the Shell have the best artwork I have seen in Anime to date, Ghost in the Shell was very well done in comparison to Shirow's Manga of the same name. I saw Battle Angel at Suncoast last weekend, if that anime is even remotely similar to the Battle Angel: Alita manga series...it must be good. I'm told that El Hazard and Lain are both excellent as well, though I haven't watched them myself (yet). ...some people may think I'm nuts, but go ahead. If you're in a wickedly terrible mood, go hunting for a flick called My Neighbor Totoro. It's a kid's anime...but I'll tell you: it'll make you feel really warm and fuzzy, and force you to chill:) I don't think it's on DVD yet, still VHS...
there's my thoughts, hope I was some help;) zerodvyd
Seriously, by agreeing to the terms of use set forth by the company that this thread refers to I am agreeing to *not* say anything in a negative context. The legalese of their statement neglects the definition of negative context...so it's wide open for any interpretation, as usual. I was looking forward to their next product, too bad they had to tread upon my rights as a consumer and an American. Next time somebody writes up a 'Terms of use' paper, they ought to go examine the Bill of Rights in depth, and then call their congresspeople and have them start lobbying against the UCITA.
perhaps lackluster sales will persuade them, read the following Apogee(r): You have lost a paying customer.
indeed, someone above proclaimed that if you have nothing good to say, say nothing at all. I will do just that.
As this post (http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=00/05/13/2038 233&cid=31) said: "...kick them in the PR department..." UCITA, DMCA, EULA...they all do the same thing: limit users rights. Though in the case of the EULA there is one thing we as users can do: Just Click No....That, of course, means that we don't use a Microsoft product. The other two we must lobby against, and write our congresspeople about. Informing the masses is the only way to win this fight. I don't mean we should drag Microsoft through the mud, as a community we are accused as being fanatics and zealots frequently. I do mean we should make sure that everyone is made aware of the situation.
I'm unsure what the motivation is for Microsoft to have to extend a standard that has been established practice for rather a long time. If they acknowledge that their own NTLM design was poor in comparison to Kerberos, why did they have to alter it to suit their needs? So that they could integrate with the rest of the world...yet the rest of the world cannot integrate with them? This makes no sense, honestly I think that they should be forced to comply with the standard or remove it from W2K entirely. That amounts to false advertising, and that is bad PR.
What is the driving force here? Covering your intellectual property is a given. I can understand that. Is this decision to pursue this court battle solely of the band, or is it lawyer derived? Napster may be a haven for piracy, though it may not be that cut and dried. There are countless musicians who freely release tracks as MP3s to get people to listen to their music, they have the option to purchase the CD whole CD, but there's the track(s): gratis. By releasing that MP3 they're hoping it will proliferate. They want it to change hands, word of mouth travels faster than any other form of advertisement. Killing off Napster by lawsuit would be killing publicity for other musicians. So, what return is expected?
Why do journalists feel the need to sensationalize everything? In ZDNet's case it's a matter of generating hard evidence that people even read their articles. I suppose that would be true of any ratings hungry organization. I am not surprised, but at the same time I am disappointed. I would expect something like this from C|Net, but I see that in the past year or two ZDNet has snowballed down the hill into a media giant that wants ratings and nothing more. The failure of the writer to address even the most obvious of Open Source projects is the clincher: he really didn't do his research. If he's gabbing about Mozilla, the next logical step is Apache, from there he can go to PHP, Perl, just about everything--since apache is that capable. It's apparent that he already had his opinion well formulated since he pounded on the Mozilla project and took the view point of 'AOL gobbles up Netscape and acquires Open Source effort: win/win for AOL' What the fellow really missed the mark on was one thing: even if Open Source isn't 'delivering the goods'...just look at what it's doing for education, or for people who want to learn in their own time. I agree with the numerous posts before my own: (-1; Troll).
Could you describe the online curricula? I'm highly interested in this, actually. Will there be source to download? Will there be exercises to follow along with? Will there be an open forum to voice concerns, questions, and otherwise communicate with members of the staff and other online 'students'?
to be truly objective, the actual benchmark code should be written in a cross platform capacity. I question the reliability of benchmarking software in general, go ahead and call me a skeptic or whatnot...but I stand by that claim. What defines a benchmark? Is it not a measurement of the performance of one aspect of a system? Benchmarks should be open sourced, the community that uses the system(s) at large should define what the tests (torturous as they should be) actually test. That will determine the difference between fluff and actual fact.
...just as long as they keep the BogoMIPS around I'm okay with it:) lol
I, personally, have always thought denial of service to be the most childish of assault tactics. Whether it is ping flooding, syn flooding, win nuking, or other makes no difference. The fact of the matter is, even if it is an exploit of a particular OS or protocol implementation, it is just plain Not Nice(TM). To be blunt, it is childish and borderline moronic.
There must be some power trip derived from the realization that the software you just downloaded is capable of blue screening a windows box, or causing a kernel panic, or just increasing network traffic to the point that the system physically cannot handle it. I fail to see it, myself. It is most certainly not hacking. There is no elegance to it, it is simply a matter of control and who has it. By shutting down the services of the network, they're giving in to the script kiddie's desires. Because of their actions, the protest gives them what they want...effective control, albeit rather indirectly.
More often than not script kiddies have larger ego problems than average trouble makers, I sincerely doubt they move in packs--they're just not that kind of animal, in my estimation.
If indeed the DDoS attacks are the product of a l337 c4dr3 of script kiddies, they should get a clue and grow up. Though, there is value in learning about how to defend against denial of service: it keeps coders on their toes.
Scilab is very close to Matlab in basic functionality, I have yet to try out any other package yet, however Matlab and Scilab are rather interoperable for my studies at the moment: Neural Network Design and Fuzzy Logic.
such an insightful look at the issue at hand! I have to agree with you on all counts, and admit that I am guilty of being a whiner regarding this whole thing. I think what happened was I read most of the FUD article from MS while my caffeine rush was kicking in;). If we were to out-FUD the FUD folks from Microsoft as you suggest, we would indeed need to form a group of some kind...or at the very least start getting our own independent benchmarks together. I like the idea you pointed out regarding a "How many crashes this week?" poll or some kind of survey. Again, I must agree that getting our response read in a clear, professional context at a high volume site like wired or yahoo, would get our anti-FUD FUD to the right eyes. Microsoft wants us to return fire with a flame war, but if we as a community speak up with an articulate response to their obviously ignorant FUD, then many more uninformed users would tend to listen to both sides of the story. ZeroDvyd
Microsoft hires evangelists (in fact many companies do, check the job listings) to spread the "good" word about their products. I was a DOS head up through high school, and then jumped on the Windows 9x bandwagon...got on to the internet as a newbie (wow much better than bbs'ing:)) what really got to me though was when I was first exposed to NT. It installed just fine, just like 9x, but after updating it via Service Pack it still crashed all of my apps just as often as 9x, and I got the BSOD as frequently. Linux on the other hand, doesn't crash nearly as often (for me). The article that Microsoft posted seems to be poorly researched, for instance: I use a swap partition larger than 128M on my server at home, so perhaps they should do their homework rather than make a groundless, ignorant assumption. Maybe they've not yet mastered the art of browsing through source documentation and README's and man? I know of the magazine article where they draw most of their stance from, and I'm sorry, but it was biased: I find it much easier to kill off processes that I want to update, run rpm -Uvh, then restart the processes than to double click an executable and then *REBOOT*...a server is about up-time people, and 120 days on the average without a reboot or down-time is pretty nice if you ask me. NT up-time? I ran it for 4 days max just sitting there and it managed to foobar. The thing that drives me crazy as an IS Specialist is licensing. that has got to be the most incredibly blatant money making scheme ever devised. Sure many companies do it with their products: but should I be penalized because I have close to 150 users...I can undestand accessing a specific software package, but the OS? that is just completely unnecessary, unless with the licenses I get increased support should something goofy happen. TCO, it means more than just what they think. Many apps on Linux are free (hey I even get the source!) under the GPL. The OS is free. The OS is not Windows. and as far as support is concerned, I would be willing to bet that I could get an answer quicker from #linuxhelp than I could from calling up a tech support line. documentation is out there, there is info all over the web and even in most distributions (HOWTOs, FAQ, mini-HOWTOs, man, etc). Microsoft is putting an ease-of-use slant on their platform, but an admin *needs* to know everything that the server is doing and why!
NT vs Linux, we'll hear it up and down. Linux as a community has a lot of development force, and with Microsoft's Windows out there we have a great example of what not to do (and sometimes what to do). Sorry, but my anecdote: I hit the powerbutton and less than 15 seconds later I have a login prompt from xdm (or kdm). Windows 98 on the same machine? close to a minute, NT? close to 2 minutes. no joke. benchmark this microsoft;)
E-mail has its set of advantages over US Snail, consider the time it takes to e-mail someone on the other side of the continent, or across the world compared to the time it takes to send a hardcopy letter. As far as bills are concerned, I prefer mail, yes, you can have bills paid via electronic draft of a bank account: not a bad thing, fairly reliable. Now what about official legally bound documents? Two points that I whole heartedly agree with from previous posts are such that Digital Sigs and Encryption do need to be widely spread and accepted as everyday options before the postal service can be challenged, not only that, but who is to be the 'trust' for holding on to the table of data linking RealPeople(TM) to their digital signatures? The various governments need to rethink their policies on encryption, and we the users need to rethink it all as well: an envelope does not stop someone with prying eyes from viewing your mail. and someone determined enough to view your email most likely will--if it's the government or some nut who wants to know what your Visa balance is, it does not matter. Right now the technology is available, but the laws are not right for it. Besides, how am I to receive the care package from Mom and Dad...printing out that box of stuff just doesn't work, but then they could use UPS I suppose or FedEx;) and yes, a physical card from Hallmark is so much more personal than the e-mail of birthday congratulations you could get...
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I'm a sucker for good story, and so far I have yet to see anything that beats anime. What it all comes down to is that I find anime to be a very artistic medium, rather than 'cartoons' ... seriously, you look at the philosophy that's examined, the painstaking detail that the artists sometimes go through...there is definitely pride and workmanship involved (at least in the really good stuff).
:) I don't think it's on DVD yet, still VHS...
;)
This is my list of favorites (no rhyme or reason):
Vampire Hunter D
Ninja Scroll
Demon City: Shinjuku
Akira
Ghost in the Shell
Macross Plus
Iria: Zeiram, the Animation
Macross Plus and Ghost in the Shell have the best artwork I have seen in Anime to date, Ghost in the Shell was very well done in comparison to Shirow's Manga of the same name.
I saw Battle Angel at Suncoast last weekend, if that anime is even remotely similar to the Battle Angel: Alita manga series...it must be good. I'm told that El Hazard and Lain are both excellent as well, though I haven't watched them myself (yet).
...some people may think I'm nuts, but go ahead. If you're in a wickedly terrible mood, go hunting for a flick called My Neighbor Totoro. It's a kid's anime...but I'll tell you: it'll make you feel really warm and fuzzy, and force you to chill
there's my thoughts, hope I was some help
zerodvyd
Seriously, by agreeing to the terms of use set forth by the company that this thread refers to I am agreeing to *not* say anything in a negative context. The legalese of their statement neglects the definition of negative context...so it's wide open for any interpretation, as usual. I was looking forward to their next product, too bad they had to tread upon my rights as a consumer and an American. Next time somebody writes up a 'Terms of use' paper, they ought to go examine the Bill of Rights in depth, and then call their congresspeople and have them start lobbying against the UCITA.
perhaps lackluster sales will persuade them, read the following Apogee(r):
You have lost a paying customer.
indeed, someone above proclaimed that if you have nothing good to say, say nothing at all. I will do just that.
zerodvyd
As this post (http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=00/05/13/2038 233&cid=31) said: "...kick them in the PR department..." ...That, of course, means that we don't use a Microsoft product. The other two we must lobby against, and write our congresspeople about. Informing the masses is the only way to win this fight. I don't mean we should drag Microsoft through the mud, as a community we are accused as being fanatics and zealots frequently. I do mean we should make sure that everyone is made aware of the situation.
UCITA, DMCA, EULA...they all do the same thing: limit users rights. Though in the case of the EULA there is one thing we as users can do: Just Click No.
I'm unsure what the motivation is for Microsoft to have to extend a standard that has been established practice for rather a long time. If they acknowledge that their own NTLM design was poor in comparison to Kerberos, why did they have to alter it to suit their needs? So that they could integrate with the rest of the world...yet the rest of the world cannot integrate with them? This makes no sense, honestly I think that they should be forced to comply with the standard or remove it from W2K entirely. That amounts to false advertising, and that is bad PR.
To get to the point, many people who read newspapers with national exposure are not necessarily geeks or nerds. They may be people who don't use computers at all. What would bind us to that reader is this: First Amendment rights.
There is a disclaimer at the bottom of every single bit of HTML that comes through the pipe to my browser from Slashdot, it reads as follows: "All trademarks and copyrights on this page are owned by their respective owners. Comments are owned by the Poster. The Rest © 1997-2000 Andover.Net." That explains it all. Slashdot should not be held accountable for the posts made by someone else. Microsoft should read the fine print that they hold so dear in their EULA and contact the people directly.
You can hide behind clickable EULAs all you want to protect your rights. The fact of the matter is that once something is available on the internet, you have lost all control over it. This is freedom of speech to the nth degree, word of mouth carries fast, but the ether medium is much faster. If you don't want people to see what you're up to, don't make it available to 'preview'.
Maybe Microsoft would get the idea if the next 'standard' meant all but Microsoft products could work together.
zerodvyd
What is the driving force here? Covering your intellectual property is a given. I can understand that. Is this decision to pursue this court battle solely of the band, or is it lawyer derived?
Napster may be a haven for piracy, though it may not be that cut and dried. There are countless musicians who freely release tracks as MP3s to get people to listen to their music, they have the option to purchase the CD whole CD, but there's the track(s): gratis. By releasing that MP3 they're hoping it will proliferate. They want it to change hands, word of mouth travels faster than any other form of advertisement.
Killing off Napster by lawsuit would be killing publicity for other musicians. So, what return is expected?
zerodvyd
Why do journalists feel the need to sensationalize everything? In ZDNet's case it's a matter of generating hard evidence that people even read their articles. I suppose that would be true of any ratings hungry organization. I am not surprised, but at the same time I am disappointed. I would expect something like this from C|Net, but I see that in the past year or two ZDNet has snowballed down the hill into a media giant that wants ratings and nothing more. ...just look at what it's doing for education, or for people who want to learn in their own time. I agree with the numerous posts before my own: (-1; Troll).
The failure of the writer to address even the most obvious of Open Source projects is the clincher: he really didn't do his research. If he's gabbing about Mozilla, the next logical step is Apache, from there he can go to PHP, Perl, just about everything--since apache is that capable. It's apparent that he already had his opinion well formulated since he pounded on the Mozilla project and took the view point of 'AOL gobbles up Netscape and acquires Open Source effort: win/win for AOL'
What the fellow really missed the mark on was one thing: even if Open Source isn't 'delivering the goods'
zerodvyd
Could you describe the online curricula? I'm highly interested in this, actually. Will there be source to download? Will there be exercises to follow along with? Will there be an open forum to voice concerns, questions, and otherwise communicate with members of the staff and other online 'students'?
to be truly objective, the actual benchmark code should be written in a cross platform capacity. I question the reliability of benchmarking software in general, go ahead and call me a skeptic or whatnot...but I stand by that claim. What defines a benchmark? Is it not a measurement of the performance of one aspect of a system? Benchmarks should be open sourced, the community that uses the system(s) at large should define what the tests (torturous as they should be) actually test. That will determine the difference between fluff and actual fact.
:) lol
...just as long as they keep the BogoMIPS around I'm okay with it
zerodvyd
I, personally, have always thought denial of service to be the most childish of assault tactics. Whether it is ping flooding, syn flooding, win nuking, or other makes no difference. The fact of the matter is, even if it is an exploit of a particular OS or protocol implementation, it is just plain Not Nice(TM). To be blunt, it is childish and borderline moronic.
There must be some power trip derived from the realization that the software you just downloaded is capable of blue screening a windows box, or causing a kernel panic, or just increasing network traffic to the point that the system physically cannot handle it. I fail to see it, myself. It is most certainly not hacking. There is no elegance to it, it is simply a matter of control and who has it. By shutting down the services of the network, they're giving in to the script kiddie's desires. Because of their actions, the protest gives them what they want...effective control, albeit rather indirectly.
More often than not script kiddies have larger ego problems than average trouble makers, I sincerely doubt they move in packs--they're just not that kind of animal, in my estimation.
If indeed the DDoS attacks are the product of a l337 c4dr3 of script kiddies, they should get a clue and grow up. Though, there is value in learning about how to defend against denial of service: it keeps coders on their toes.
just my $.02US.
zerodvyd
http://www.freshmeat.net/appindex/x11/scientific%2 0applications.html
Scilab is very close to Matlab in basic functionality, I have yet to try out any other package yet, however Matlab and Scilab are rather interoperable for my studies at the moment: Neural Network Design and Fuzzy Logic.
such an insightful look at the issue at hand! I have to agree with you on all counts, and admit that I am guilty of being a whiner regarding this whole thing. I think what happened was I read most of the FUD article from MS while my caffeine rush was kicking in ;). If we were to out-FUD the FUD folks from Microsoft as you suggest, we would indeed need to form a group of some kind...or at the very least start getting our own independent benchmarks together. I like the idea you pointed out regarding a "How many crashes this week?" poll or some kind of survey. Again, I must agree that getting our response read in a clear, professional context at a high volume site like wired or yahoo, would get our anti-FUD FUD to the right eyes.
Microsoft wants us to return fire with a flame war, but if we as a community speak up with an articulate response to their obviously ignorant FUD, then many more uninformed users would tend to listen to both sides of the story.
ZeroDvyd
Microsoft hires evangelists (in fact many companies do, check the job listings) to spread the "good" word about their products. I was a DOS head up through high school, and then jumped on the Windows 9x bandwagon...got on to the internet as a newbie (wow much better than bbs'ing :)) what really got to me though was when I was first exposed to NT. It installed just fine, just like 9x, but after updating it via Service Pack it still crashed all of my apps just as often as 9x, and I got the BSOD as frequently. Linux on the other hand, doesn't crash nearly as often (for me). ...a server is about up-time people, and 120 days on the average without a reboot or down-time is pretty nice if you ask me. NT up-time? I ran it for 4 days max just sitting there and it managed to foobar.
;)
The article that Microsoft posted seems to be poorly researched, for instance: I use a swap partition larger than 128M on my server at home, so perhaps they should do their homework rather than make a groundless, ignorant assumption. Maybe they've not yet mastered the art of browsing through source documentation and README's and man? I know of the magazine article where they draw most of their stance from, and I'm sorry, but it was biased: I find it much easier to kill off processes that I want to update, run rpm -Uvh, then restart the processes than to double click an executable and then *REBOOT*
The thing that drives me crazy as an IS Specialist is licensing. that has got to be the most incredibly blatant money making scheme ever devised. Sure many companies do it with their products: but should I be penalized because I have close to 150 users...I can undestand accessing a specific software package, but the OS? that is just completely unnecessary, unless with the licenses I get increased support should something goofy happen.
TCO, it means more than just what they think. Many apps on Linux are free (hey I even get the source!) under the GPL. The OS is free. The OS is not Windows. and as far as support is concerned, I would be willing to bet that I could get an answer quicker from #linuxhelp than I could from calling up a tech support line. documentation is out there, there is info all over the web and even in most distributions (HOWTOs, FAQ, mini-HOWTOs, man, etc). Microsoft is putting an ease-of-use slant on their platform, but an admin *needs* to know everything that the server is doing and why!
NT vs Linux, we'll hear it up and down. Linux as a community has a lot of development force, and with Microsoft's Windows out there we have a great example of what not to do (and sometimes what to do). Sorry, but my anecdote: I hit the powerbutton and less than 15 seconds later I have a login prompt from xdm (or kdm). Windows 98 on the same machine? close to a minute, NT? close to 2 minutes. no joke. benchmark this microsoft
Justin "ZeroDvyd" Knox
E-mail has its set of advantages over US Snail, consider the time it takes to e-mail someone on the other side of the continent, or across the world compared to the time it takes to send a hardcopy letter. As far as bills are concerned, I prefer mail, yes, you can have bills paid via electronic draft of a bank account: not a bad thing, fairly reliable. Now what about official legally bound documents? Two points that I whole heartedly agree with from previous posts are such that Digital Sigs and Encryption do need to be widely spread and accepted as everyday options before the postal service can be challenged, not only that, but who is to be the 'trust' for holding on to the table of data linking RealPeople(TM) to their digital signatures? The various governments need to rethink their policies on encryption, and we the users need to rethink it all as well: an envelope does not stop someone with prying eyes from viewing your mail. and someone determined enough to view your email most likely will--if it's the government or some nut who wants to know what your Visa balance is, it does not matter. Right now the technology is available, but the laws are not right for it. Besides, how am I to receive the care package from Mom and Dad...printing out that box of stuff just doesn't work, but then they could use UPS I suppose or FedEx ;) and yes, a physical card from Hallmark is so much more personal than the e-mail of birthday congratulations you could get...