I'm not quite sure what this change plans to achieve. One of the main reasons those who already bittorrent anime buy dvd's is to obtain the physical product, the box art, and to actually own the finished article. Changing the distribution model of for-sale US R1 anime towards bittorrent is surely just going to bring the product into direct comparison with its percieved 'competition', the fansubs that precede the release dates by months and can often have far higher quality/authentic translation. The portion of the anime audience with the technical know-how to operate bittorrent are probably already taking advantage of the great efforts of fansubbers, and those who may be introduced to bittorrent through ADV in some way will surely go on to find these resources.
It seems like iTunes has the market completely under control at the moment, the fashionability of macs themselves, along with the iPod have helped make iTunes the must have store, compared to Napster and others
It's good to see apple succeeding with something they innovated in, I feel we will be seeing the 1 billionth song purchase in the near future.
Interesting points but possibly too specific
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This article raises the issue of internal network security, which is something that's been increasing in profile as a security risk over the past few years as ethernet/wifi enabled devices get smaller, cheaper and easier to hide. However, this article's specific Cisco approach to dealing with things by tracking them back through routers and cisco-specific tools seems to be of less use than more general scanning and identification measures.
It's safe to say a good proportion of administrators already on networks with devices migrating on and off at will already have a consideration for these problems, and the specific approach detailed in the article may not be of best use to those less experienced admins starting to tackle this issue on their networks.
The screenshots of the monitoring software in use and everything make this seem extremely cool, but the potential risks seem huge. Obviously from the article this guy has done this kind of thing for work and had all the right equipment. I'd hate to see the results of someone lacking these vital elements 'hacking' their mains power system to get pretty graphs. The website says as much in its disclaimers too.
The case against the wayback machine is particularly interesting here, as it shows the internet's natural route-around-censorship/deletion (through things like the google cache, and archive.org) being contested by those who hold the copyrights on said material. Its been long acknowledged that storing people's websites indefinitely is something that could place mirror/cache hosters in a legal grey area, but it seems that most knowledgeable internet publishers have come to accept that their content will be archive & stored and place safeguards accordingly (like approval-to-publish CMS systems and in-house content review).
Business websites are perhaps a special case, as to me their public front represents almost a brochure of their services, with advertising text and relevant numbers. I don't really see why data like that being historically available (as it would be in any other format) is such a big problem, especially for a trademark dispute.
The article seems to suggest that the general idea of "Putting things in the "right" place for Windows users will go a long way" is something that would be beneficial to linux switchers. The many users who have switched to OS X haven't needed this, and in fact have moved to systems where menu choices and design philosophy are significantly different to windows.
The reason for this not being a problem is that things are laid out in a way that's intuitive to those who just want to perform the action, rather than perform it in the way windows does. From my experience people who mostly use macs find it harder to use windows pc's on occasion than vice versa for precisely this reason. Windows has its usabilit nuances, and cloning them doesn't help people get a better experience from using the computer
It seems to me that adding new holes to an existing case may not be the ideal solution for those looking for good cooling. Things like fans mounted directly in front of drives, and aligned with key mounting points are features of well designed cases and hacking holes into a case may lack a planned approach. The lack of filtration and dust control methods in the article is also worrying, as the dust can easily clog fans and block drive air holes, leading to increased internal component heat.
I didn't see any mention of the FCC in this article at all, something that may be indicative of a lack of approval from the relevant bodies. It's all very well the inventors/creators saying that this is technically ok, but when the people who are allocated the frequency range this technology operates in have problems with the raised noise or extra signals, or even just object to something else intruding on their licenced spectrum, I wonder what will happen.
The article states that individual pyramidal radio antennae are all connected back over fiber to the main Blue Gene supercomputer (Stella). As the antennae are spread over 350km, I think this represents a pretty serious amount of infrastructure development. Making the data collected available for local commercial use seems to have been of real use to the local community, and I wonder if there are a lot more situations where remote sensor networks could be of aid.
The actual technology of using antimatter to power a drive sounds great, but surely there will be great advances in technology needed to store antimatter in something light enough to make the difference worthwhile. The weight and size of the entire package are something to think about, but this still seems like an exciting direction for things to be going, and one that could perhaps make long distance space travel possible.
Surely they could just bribe the corrupt e-police with e-money!
I look forward to them scaling this up more and more, and people finding out what police are spending their time doing instead of actually policing in real life.
Obviously the mobile internet service required for this particicular hotspot is expensive, and you'd be mad to want to offer it for open access at your own expense, but what caught my imagination more from the article is the idea of a 'personal network' to allow all of your devices to talk to each other via wifi. As more devices we carry around become wifi equipped imagine if your iPod, phone, psp and camera are all enabled & communicating with each other, having them all on a common network and working to each of their strengths (the psp using the ipod for storage, viewing images from the camera using the psp then uploading them via the phone.. , etc) seems to have real potential and be something that would enhance the usability factor of each device greatly.
I'm not quite sure who this line of goods is targetting, I mean anyone geeky enough to wear a necklace of capacitors is probably going to have the materials and the interest to build/have built one already and be enjoying its uniquity, rather than being off-the-peg 'geek fashion'. Still, its an option for those who wish to carry their array of spare cables and components with them at all times.
Its interesting that they chose to pair the Gumstix with the Acroname Brainsem. I've been working with the brainstem for mobile robotics as part of CSCS and found it extremely flexible for robotics development. In what we've been doing, we used the brainstem chained to Zaurus PDA's, to achieve a similar linux control environment for the actual board (as the TEA language used to program the brainstem is somewhat restrictive). This platform seems like a great way for people to start out with a known good set of equipment, something that would really have helped us when getting started. (We had a whole load of teething issues getting the PDA's and brainstems talking, not to mention creating working combinations of servos)
So they seem to have established that drilling a message home to people through their inbox can sometimes make a point. I really dont know how this is any different to any other repeated advertising/promotion, except that this kind (if sent without the users request) is actually illegal. Surely if someone wants to be reminded all the time about a specific thing, they could just get reminders to flash on the screen, instead of clogging their inbox with these e-mails..
Its interesting that the percentage of Microsoft powered servers has risen 0.27 from the last statistics, perhaps suggesting that improvements to the latest versions of IIS are increasing use. As for the overall growth, the use of blogs as a commercial tool seems to really be coming into age and this may prove interesting as to filtering and blocking spam or excessively promotional blogs from search engines and feed spiders.
Its great to see Nvu (the Mozilla XHTML/HTML editor project) coming of age. A free XHTML able WYSIWYG editor is a tool many starting out building webpages could find useful, and begin to bring standards compliant design & creation in from the ground up, not just for professionals and those who choose to learn how to hand code clean and compliant code. I can only see this as a good step forward for compliant markup.
I dont think its suprising to anyone that the mind works in an analogue fashion, weighing the choices available to it up as the decision is made, but I think this experiment is interesting in measuring the effect through physical reaction to verbal triggers. By using that many core subsystems of the brain, I think its possible that effects could have been drawn into the experiment that are not wholly connected to the input/output streaming methods within the brain, and more to do with physical operation of the mouse or visual stimulus through the screen.
After reading the article, it seems to me that these new media standards are pushing far beyond just new ways to store video. Gosling is quoted as saying "Part of the DVD standard is the players have network ports out of the back". This just smacks of network controlled DRM, and the ability to run java bytecode when the discs boot could allow a whole new range of lockdown facilities on the disks. Not to mention the amount of complexity having network & JVM functionality must be introducing to the end units. Surely even mass production wil struggle to bring such complex devices down to sane prices in the near future.
This would appear to be strongly pushing the bias of practicality toward the opposing HD-DVD camp, while attempting to strengthen Blu-Ray's position as technologically more advanced and superior.
Its great to see the penetration of broadband connections increasing, as it gives increasingly more options to content creators and brings back some of the end-to-end nature of the original vision of the internet. I think the next big challenge will be to roll out 10mpbs+ synchronous level connections to users, allowing the next major stage of development into realtime streaming video and give more flexibility to end users. I think a big increase in bandwidth might lead to interestinig innovations in content distribution to end users, and unexpected new applications.
It seems as if the UMD will stay Sony only, at the moment. As in, not many other manufacturers and distributors will pick it up unless Sony offers them incentives to do so.
Unless Sony make it clear what the UMD can do for other companies, their product will not become as popular as it potentially could
It's amazing how much of how our brains and sight work together to recognize object's size and position creates these kinds of illusions. It just shows that even a finely tuned system that works well in everyday use can be caught out, and how because we rely on our vision to give us the absolute truth, its shocking when something manages to fool that sense.
Being able to plot the home locations of sex offenders on a map, as if they were tire-fitting chains or restaurants, is one step too far for me. I can see the logical extension from the things the Chicago Crime maps were achieving, but its really data that shouldn't be made accessible in such a contextless and simple manner. There could be people on the list for any number of reasons (not just the most serious offences..) who suffer greatly due to a 'Find your local sex offender' site.
I wouldn't be surprised if google maps chose to pull their data from being used by this site in such a way, it certainly wouldn't look good if anything unsavoury occurred. I'm all for cool and nifty uses of google maps, but this just doesn't seem tasteful.
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I'm not quite sure what this change plans to achieve. One of the main reasons those who already bittorrent anime buy dvd's is to obtain the physical product, the box art, and to actually own the finished article. Changing the distribution model of for-sale US R1 anime towards bittorrent is surely just going to bring the product into direct comparison with its percieved 'competition', the fansubs that precede the release dates by months and can often have far higher quality/authentic translation. The portion of the anime audience with the technical know-how to operate bittorrent are probably already taking advantage of the great efforts of fansubbers, and those who may be introduced to bittorrent through ADV in some way will surely go on to find these resources.
It seems like iTunes has the market completely under control at the moment, the fashionability of macs themselves, along with the iPod have helped make iTunes the must have store, compared to Napster and others
It's good to see apple succeeding with something they innovated in, I feel we will be seeing the 1 billionth song purchase in the near future.
This article raises the issue of internal network security, which is something that's been increasing in profile as a security risk over the past few years as ethernet/wifi enabled devices get smaller, cheaper and easier to hide. However, this article's specific Cisco approach to dealing with things by tracking them back through routers and cisco-specific tools seems to be of less use than more general scanning and identification measures.
It's safe to say a good proportion of administrators already on networks with devices migrating on and off at will already have a consideration for these problems, and the specific approach detailed in the article may not be of best use to those less experienced admins starting to tackle this issue on their networks.
The screenshots of the monitoring software in use and everything make this seem extremely cool, but the potential risks seem huge. Obviously from the article this guy has done this kind of thing for work and had all the right equipment. I'd hate to see the results of someone lacking these vital elements 'hacking' their mains power system to get pretty graphs. The website says as much in its disclaimers too.
The case against the wayback machine is particularly interesting here, as it shows the internet's natural route-around-censorship/deletion (through things like the google cache, and archive.org) being contested by those who hold the copyrights on said material. Its been long acknowledged that storing people's websites indefinitely is something that could place mirror/cache hosters in a legal grey area, but it seems that most knowledgeable internet publishers have come to accept that their content will be archive & stored and place safeguards accordingly (like approval-to-publish CMS systems and in-house content review).
Business websites are perhaps a special case, as to me their public front represents almost a brochure of their services, with advertising text and relevant numbers. I don't really see why data like that being historically available (as it would be in any other format) is such a big problem, especially for a trademark dispute.
The article seems to suggest that the general idea of "Putting things in the "right" place for Windows users will go a long way" is something that would be beneficial to linux switchers. The many users who have switched to OS X haven't needed this, and in fact have moved to systems where menu choices and design philosophy are significantly different to windows.
The reason for this not being a problem is that things are laid out in a way that's intuitive to those who just want to perform the action, rather than perform it in the way windows does. From my experience people who mostly use macs find it harder to use windows pc's on occasion than vice versa for precisely this reason. Windows has its usabilit nuances, and cloning them doesn't help people get a better experience from using the computer
It seems to me that adding new holes to an existing case may not be the ideal solution for those looking for good cooling. Things like fans mounted directly in front of drives, and aligned with key mounting points are features of well designed cases and hacking holes into a case may lack a planned approach. The lack of filtration and dust control methods in the article is also worrying, as the dust can easily clog fans and block drive air holes, leading to increased internal component heat.
I didn't see any mention of the FCC in this article at all, something that may be indicative of a lack of approval from the relevant bodies. It's all very well the inventors/creators saying that this is technically ok, but when the people who are allocated the frequency range this technology operates in have problems with the raised noise or extra signals, or even just object to something else intruding on their licenced spectrum, I wonder what will happen.
The article states that individual pyramidal radio antennae are all connected back over fiber to the main Blue Gene supercomputer (Stella). As the antennae are spread over 350km, I think this represents a pretty serious amount of infrastructure development. Making the data collected available for local commercial use seems to have been of real use to the local community, and I wonder if there are a lot more situations where remote sensor networks could be of aid.
The actual technology of using antimatter to power a drive sounds great, but surely there will be great advances in technology needed to store antimatter in something light enough to make the difference worthwhile. The weight and size of the entire package are something to think about, but this still seems like an exciting direction for things to be going, and one that could perhaps make long distance space travel possible.
Surely they could just bribe the corrupt e-police with e-money!
I look forward to them scaling this up more and more, and people finding out what police are spending their time doing instead of actually policing in real life.
Obviously the mobile internet service required for this particicular hotspot is expensive, and you'd be mad to want to offer it for open access at your own expense, but what caught my imagination more from the article is the idea of a 'personal network' to allow all of your devices to talk to each other via wifi. As more devices we carry around become wifi equipped imagine if your iPod, phone, psp and camera are all enabled & communicating with each other, having them all on a common network and working to each of their strengths (the psp using the ipod for storage, viewing images from the camera using the psp then uploading them via the phone.. , etc) seems to have real potential and be something that would enhance the usability factor of each device greatly.
I'm not quite sure who this line of goods is targetting, I mean anyone geeky enough to wear a necklace of capacitors is probably going to have the materials and the interest to build/have built one already and be enjoying its uniquity, rather than being off-the-peg 'geek fashion'. Still, its an option for those who wish to carry their array of spare cables and components with them at all times.
Its interesting that they chose to pair the Gumstix with the Acroname Brainsem. I've been working with the brainstem for mobile robotics as part of CSCS and found it extremely flexible for robotics development. In what we've been doing, we used the brainstem chained to Zaurus PDA's, to achieve a similar linux control environment for the actual board (as the TEA language used to program the brainstem is somewhat restrictive). This platform seems like a great way for people to start out with a known good set of equipment, something that would really have helped us when getting started. (We had a whole load of teething issues getting the PDA's and brainstems talking, not to mention creating working combinations of servos)
How long until we can start getting, say... a mahongany powerbook?
A pine iBook sounds appealing
So they seem to have established that drilling a message home to people through their inbox can sometimes make a point. I really dont know how this is any different to any other repeated advertising/promotion, except that this kind (if sent without the users request) is actually illegal. Surely if someone wants to be reminded all the time about a specific thing, they could just get reminders to flash on the screen, instead of clogging their inbox with these e-mails..
Its interesting that the percentage of Microsoft powered servers has risen 0.27 from the last statistics, perhaps suggesting that improvements to the latest versions of IIS are increasing use. As for the overall growth, the use of blogs as a commercial tool seems to really be coming into age and this may prove interesting as to filtering and blocking spam or excessively promotional blogs from search engines and feed spiders.
Its great to see Nvu (the Mozilla XHTML/HTML editor project) coming of age. A free XHTML able WYSIWYG editor is a tool many starting out building webpages could find useful, and begin to bring standards compliant design & creation in from the ground up, not just for professionals and those who choose to learn how to hand code clean and compliant code. I can only see this as a good step forward for compliant markup.
I dont think its suprising to anyone that the mind works in an analogue fashion, weighing the choices available to it up as the decision is made, but I think this experiment is interesting in measuring the effect through physical reaction to verbal triggers. By using that many core subsystems of the brain, I think its possible that effects could have been drawn into the experiment that are not wholly connected to the input/output streaming methods within the brain, and more to do with physical operation of the mouse or visual stimulus through the screen.
After reading the article, it seems to me that these new media standards are pushing far beyond just new ways to store video. Gosling is quoted as saying "Part of the DVD standard is the players have network ports out of the back". This just smacks of network controlled DRM, and the ability to run java bytecode when the discs boot could allow a whole new range of lockdown facilities on the disks. Not to mention the amount of complexity having network & JVM functionality must be introducing to the end units. Surely even mass production wil struggle to bring such complex devices down to sane prices in the near future.
This would appear to be strongly pushing the bias of practicality toward the opposing HD-DVD camp, while attempting to strengthen Blu-Ray's position as technologically more advanced and superior.
Its great to see the penetration of broadband connections increasing, as it gives increasingly more options to content creators and brings back some of the end-to-end nature of the original vision of the internet. I think the next big challenge will be to roll out 10mpbs+ synchronous level connections to users, allowing the next major stage of development into realtime streaming video and give more flexibility to end users. I think a big increase in bandwidth might lead to interestinig innovations in content distribution to end users, and unexpected new applications.
It seems as if the UMD will stay Sony only, at the moment. As in, not many other manufacturers and distributors will pick it up unless Sony offers them incentives to do so.
Unless Sony make it clear what the UMD can do for other companies, their product will not become as popular as it potentially could
After a six car US F1 GP, only three planets racing this weekend?
It's amazing how much of how our brains and sight work together to recognize object's size and position creates these kinds of illusions. It just shows that even a finely tuned system that works well in everyday use can be caught out, and how because we rely on our vision to give us the absolute truth, its shocking when something manages to fool that sense.
Being able to plot the home locations of sex offenders on a map, as if they were tire-fitting chains or restaurants, is one step too far for me. I can see the logical extension from the things the Chicago Crime maps were achieving, but its really data that shouldn't be made accessible in such a contextless and simple manner. There could be people on the list for any number of reasons (not just the most serious offences..) who suffer greatly due to a 'Find your local sex offender' site.
I wouldn't be surprised if google maps chose to pull their data from being used by this site in such a way, it certainly wouldn't look good if anything unsavoury occurred. I'm all for cool and nifty uses of google maps, but this just doesn't seem tasteful.