The problem is still there, however. IMO the biggest problem with getting people to actually buy their anime (rather than bittorrent fansubs) is threefold:
1) The fansubs are often better translated than the real thing. Most DVDs I have gotten have remarkably bad subtitles.
2) The price. It costs 20-30 dollars per 4 episodes (80 minutes). Thats absolutely ridiculous!
3) There is no easy, convenient way to watch an anime series once unless your local video store has it (unlikely). Thus, anyone who wants to watch it once just bittorrents it or gets it from a friend, because it wouldn't be worth spending some horribly gouging 400-500 dollars on a series.
Midrange 512MB model? What's the point of that? 512MB will do nothing at all unless the card can fully utilize it all--I doubt it gives much boost for a 7800GTX, let alone a 6800 or 6600. 256MB cards are just as fast and far cheaper.
We have a long, long way to go to come up with real AI.
All AIs we have ever worked with in our history have been what are called heuristic AIs--they have a specific program which specifies how to learn, and they do so. However, there is no way they can break the bounds of their program, and they only do exactly what we program them to do. In the end, this is not very useful.
The next revolution in AI will be when someone figures out how conciousness in the brain works, figure out how to imitate it on a computer, and finally use it to create a truly intelligent AI, not just a bunch of heuristic scripts.
The final revolution will be when the first self aware AI is created.
This may happen in 5 years, it may happen in 500. This is because it has nothing to do with our processing capability--its a matter of theory, not of raw power.
But the only "good science" theory of development is evolution. There is no other theory that has the same sort of factual backing. Now there are many theories of evolution--all of which are taught in schools. Punctuated equilibirium, Peripatric evolution, Darwinian natural selection, etc.
Except stealing gets rid of the item altogether, decreasing its value to zero. I don't see how an item's value can be decreased at all, let alone decreased to a negative value, through copyright infringement?
Adobe Premiere has no free alternative for what I do, at all. Also, explain how copyright infringement = stealing? They're completely unrelated. In fact, the main difference is that stealing hurts the owner because the owner no longer has the item, while copyright infringement, assuming you would not have bought the program either way, hurts nobody at all.
I fool around with Adobe Premiere Pro sometimes (To be honest here--I did not buy it). I use it to produce fan videos for EVE Online, but thats about it. To me, it isn't worth much, nowhere near the 800 dollar price tag.
Now bring it to a professional who makes his living with it. To him, its worth thousands of dollars, far more than the price tag.
In my experience the subtitles on fansubs are much better translated than the "official" subs on DVDs. Often DVD subbers are extremely lazy and miss a lot of the detail in what the characters are saying. Also, many fansubs nowadays are basically DVD quality.
Runs Debian Linux. Half the computers in there are Celeron 400mhz boxes, and the rest are P4 2.4ghz. Interestingly enough the performance difference is not noticable.
Now move to the Windows XP lab. There's a bunch of 400mhz Celeron boxes (same brand, etc) with XP, and some 2.4Ghz boxes with XP. The 2.4Ghz boxes boot up about 4-5 times faster, and take 2 seconds, instead of 15 seconds, to load Firefox. Etc.
The Celerons in the Linux lab load Firefox faster than the 2.4Ghz P4s in the XP lab. A tribute to the bloatedness of XP, I guess.
The third was wasn't original either. In episode 6 of Neon Genesis Evangelion, the fourth Angel drills down to NERV HQ with a device that looks mysteriously like the one used in Revolutions. Of course, as in Evangelion, only one man could save the day!
I don't grind ISK, and I don't mine, in fact I never have. So perhaps I wouldn't know. For me in EVE, money is about skill, not skill points or any crap like that--I trade, I corner markets, and I use evil little tricks to squeeze lots of money out of the economy:)
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The problem is still there, however. IMO the biggest problem with getting people to actually buy their anime (rather than bittorrent fansubs) is threefold:
1) The fansubs are often better translated than the real thing. Most DVDs I have gotten have remarkably bad subtitles.
2) The price. It costs 20-30 dollars per 4 episodes (80 minutes). Thats absolutely ridiculous!
3) There is no easy, convenient way to watch an anime series once unless your local video store has it (unlikely). Thus, anyone who wants to watch it once just bittorrents it or gets it from a friend, because it wouldn't be worth spending some horribly gouging 400-500 dollars on a series.
Below about -180C, the semiconductivity of silicon fails, so no you can't get any colder.
Wouldn't be cold enough. You need a lot colder than dry ice to overclock to 7Ghz--maybe -180C? (Liquid nitrogen)
Midrange 512MB model? What's the point of that? 512MB will do nothing at all unless the card can fully utilize it all--I doubt it gives much boost for a 7800GTX, let alone a 6800 or 6600. 256MB cards are just as fast and far cheaper.
We have a long, long way to go to come up with real AI.
All AIs we have ever worked with in our history have been what are called heuristic AIs--they have a specific program which specifies how to learn, and they do so. However, there is no way they can break the bounds of their program, and they only do exactly what we program them to do. In the end, this is not very useful.
The next revolution in AI will be when someone figures out how conciousness in the brain works, figure out how to imitate it on a computer, and finally use it to create a truly intelligent AI, not just a bunch of heuristic scripts.
The final revolution will be when the first self aware AI is created.
This may happen in 5 years, it may happen in 500. This is because it has nothing to do with our processing capability--its a matter of theory, not of raw power.
Imagine a processor that uses 16 watts (at 1.6Ghz, 21 watts at 2.1Ghz, 24 watts at 2.4ghz) that runs faster clock per clock than an A64.
But the only "good science" theory of development is evolution. There is no other theory that has the same sort of factual backing. Now there are many theories of evolution--all of which are taught in schools. Punctuated equilibirium, Peripatric evolution, Darwinian natural selection, etc.
Except stealing gets rid of the item altogether, decreasing its value to zero. I don't see how an item's value can be decreased at all, let alone decreased to a negative value, through copyright infringement?
Adobe Premiere has no free alternative for what I do, at all. Also, explain how copyright infringement = stealing? They're completely unrelated. In fact, the main difference is that stealing hurts the owner because the owner no longer has the item, while copyright infringement, assuming you would not have bought the program either way, hurts nobody at all.
Exactly.
I fool around with Adobe Premiere Pro sometimes (To be honest here--I did not buy it). I use it to produce fan videos for EVE Online, but thats about it. To me, it isn't worth much, nowhere near the 800 dollar price tag.
Now bring it to a professional who makes his living with it. To him, its worth thousands of dollars, far more than the price tag.
Should have put yourself into the transporter buffer and waited for a future starship to find you, like you did last time!
In my experience the subtitles on fansubs are much better translated than the "official" subs on DVDs. Often DVD subbers are extremely lazy and miss a lot of the detail in what the characters are saying. Also, many fansubs nowadays are basically DVD quality.
Runs Debian Linux. Half the computers in there are Celeron 400mhz boxes, and the rest are P4 2.4ghz. Interestingly enough the performance difference is not noticable.
Now move to the Windows XP lab. There's a bunch of 400mhz Celeron boxes (same brand, etc) with XP, and some 2.4Ghz boxes with XP. The 2.4Ghz boxes boot up about 4-5 times faster, and take 2 seconds, instead of 15 seconds, to load Firefox. Etc.
The Celerons in the Linux lab load Firefox faster than the 2.4Ghz P4s in the XP lab. A tribute to the bloatedness of XP, I guess.
The third was wasn't original either. In episode 6 of Neon Genesis Evangelion, the fourth Angel drills down to NERV HQ with a device that looks mysteriously like the one used in Revolutions. Of course, as in Evangelion, only one man could save the day!
But does it work on IE?
I'm worried. Tokyo might be destroyed by the impending eruption.
At least the Japanese have experience. I mean, Tokyo's been destroyed at *least* 500 times before hasn't it?
Last? Thats the second-to-last... did they cut out the last episode?!
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I don't grind ISK, and I don't mine, in fact I never have. So perhaps I wouldn't know. For me in EVE, money is about skill, not skill points or any crap like that--I trade, I corner markets, and I use evil little tricks to squeeze lots of money out of the economy :)
Is to not have one. This is why I play EVE Online. Grinds suck, horribly. Leveling blows.
But... but...
Moralgorithm is a perfectly cromulous word!
This is not the congressman you're looking for.
Serect is a perfectly cromulous word.
Those people who fear cyborgs can rest easy.
Motoko Kusinagi is unimpressed with these pathetic, childish attempts at so-called "cyborg" technology.
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