Amen to that. For me, the main reason that I read a lot more manga than american comics is this: it ENDS. You have your beggining, your development and the stories ends somewhere. Even Dragon Ball, with its never-ending battles ended. And that's it, we all love DB, thank you so very much, end of the story. Toriyama himself has written some very good stories, after DB, like Sand Land.
So, I will go even further in my advice to Marvel, DC: FINSIH IT. Spiderman, Superman, Batman, and all the other mans out there. Give them a rest, and create new stories, with new characters. And I mean mainstream characters, I love Vertigo, and it is definitely a step in the right direction, bu so far it is just a step, you have to go all the way.
Re:why not spend 1 billion on asteroid location
on
Lunar Dustbusters
·
· Score: 0, Offtopic
And yet, Bush won easily in his "re-election". But, hey, that's a lot better than gay marriage, right?
Re:why not spend 1 billion on asteroid location
on
Lunar Dustbusters
·
· Score: 1
You mean the one you bombed the whole country and then tried to see if there were anyone left, or the more recent one, where you invaded the country, and are choosing a new governor that will give a better price for their oil?
Small mistake, where it reads "one episode for each person" it should read "one season for each person", and the same for the second sentence. Quite a lot, huh?
Since you asked:
Oh, the equivalents! That's like 12 stacks of books that each reach from the Earth to the sun. Or you might think of it as 3 million times the information in all the books ever written, according to IDC. You'd need more than 2 billion of the most capacious iPods on the market to get 161 exabytes.
I don't have anime estimates, but I can make a Heroes analogy.a hi-def episode is more or less 700mb. Considering the first season has 23 episodes, that would make 16.1gb. So 161 exabytes would be 10,000,000,000 (ten billion) seasons of Heroes. Since the earth currenlty has around 6.6 billion people, this would mean that you would have 1 episode for each person on the planet, and all the people of China, India and the US would have a second episode. That's how big it is.
Regarding the storage space, I call shenanigans. We already have HDD that stores terabytes. A couple years from now, MS office will require that space to be installed.
I am currently in Tokyo, Japan and there is a very curious thing here: there is an area of the city (akihabara, the "electric town") where whole buildings have nothing but DVDs with porn. And they are very easy to find. But there's a catch: all the scenes that shows the sexual parts are pixelated. That's right: you pay the whole price for a movie, to watch in the privacy of your den, and you're denied the option to see the whole thing. That's DRM. You pay the whole price for something that only hinders you and prevents you from doing stuff that you have the right to.
ps. I don't know if there is any "normal porn" around here, I've been here for 2 weeks and so far, nothing.
It's an Advert for pete's sake, it's not "give me your brain and let me think for you". All adverts in the history of advertising have used exageration or hyperboles to clarify the argument they're selling
The ad does have a valid argument: If you are going to make a major upgrade on your computer, or buy a new one, why not buy a mac?
Ok, it can be considered offtopic, but bear with me please. Did you notive that recently, all microsoft stories has the defectivebydesing tag? I don't like MS actions as much as the next slashdotter, but I don't think this bombing helps in any way.
I am not a librarian, but I always thought like this:
Fantasy is anything that has magic, elves and/or dragons, usually in a medieval setting, examples: LOTR, Discworld, Lodoss War, The Books of magic and obviously, Harry Potter
Sci-fi is anything that has advanced technology, like robots, spaceships, nano-whatever thingies. examples: babylon 5, star trek, star wars, cowboy bebop.
If something has magic and technological thingies it still is Sci-fi, or "fantastic sci-fi".
Here's the permissions from Apple's DRM from wikipedia:
The protected track may be copied to any number of iPod portable music players.
The protected track may be played on up to five (originally three) authorized computers simultaneously.
The protected track may be copied to a standard Audio CD any number of times.
The resulting CD has no DRM and may be ripped, encoded and played back like any other CD. However, CDs created by users do not attain first sale rights and cannot be legally leased, lent, sold or distributed to others by the creator.
The CD audio still bears the artifacts of compression, so converting it back into a lossy format such as MP3 may aggravate the sound artifacts of encoding (see transcoding).
A particular playlist within iTunes containing a protected track can be copied to a CD only up to seven times (originally ten times) before the playlist must be changed.
Does MS DRM work in the same way? Because I downloaded a DRM'd WMV and every single time I wanted to watch it, it had to connect to the internet to retrieve the license.
They are not worthless, you can burn the music to an audio CD and then re-rip. Ok, ok, there's some loss of quality, but at least, it's not lost. What about the other way around? What if you bought a Zune, bought a lot of music, and then want to change to an iPod. Could you do that without loosing all your bought music?
Apple has one of least troublesome DRMs, and there's not really a tie-in, since you can put any mp3 file in the iPod, and use a program like winAmp to do so. Why don't they bother MS, Sony or EMI that has much more draconian DRM systems. I mean, as long as these are legitimate and genuine complaints, and just suing the company they would profit the most, considering how much Apple has of the mp3 player market.
That's exactly what he is complaining about. He shouldn't have to click the "Folders" button, or any of the "Favourite Locations". The drop box should have the whole folder hierarchy. And remember that if you do try to use a url, notepad won't let you.
The MS general marketing manager with an expression of "Now what am I going to do with this locked down piece of shit?"
I think we should thank MS for creating a system so draconian and restrictive to show that it would only cripple the buyer and nothing more.
Tecnology becomes frugal very quickly. Watch the streets today, and see how many peoply walk without problems talking to their cell phone or listening to their iPods/any other audio player. The iPhone may be all shiny and glamorous when it is launched, but a couple of years from now, it will be as common as any other gadget.
You think that is expensive? Here in Brazil, the XBox 360 is the only one that has been officialy released, and it costs R$3000, that's 1400 dollars. The PS3 price is almost hilarious, from R$4000(US$1869) to R$7000(US$3272).
Vincent: And you know what they call a... a... a Quarter Pounder with Cheese in Paris?
Jules: They don't call it a Quarter Pounder with cheese?
Vincent: No man, they got the metric system. They wouldn't know what the fuck a Quarter Pounder is
Slashdot Mirror
Amen to that. For me, the main reason that I read a lot more manga than american comics is this: it ENDS. You have your beggining, your development and the stories ends somewhere. Even Dragon Ball, with its never-ending battles ended. And that's it, we all love DB, thank you so very much, end of the story. Toriyama himself has written some very good stories, after DB, like Sand Land.
So, I will go even further in my advice to Marvel, DC: FINSIH IT. Spiderman, Superman, Batman, and all the other mans out there. Give them a rest, and create new stories, with new characters. And I mean mainstream characters, I love Vertigo, and it is definitely a step in the right direction, bu so far it is just a step, you have to go all the way.
And yet, Bush won easily in his "re-election". But, hey, that's a lot better than gay marriage, right?
You mean the one you bombed the whole country and then tried to see if there were anyone left, or the more recent one, where you invaded the country, and are choosing a new governor that will give a better price for their oil?
Yeah...good old days of LSL. I must have taken the phrase from there :P
Small mistake, where it reads "one episode for each person" it should read "one season for each person", and the same for the second sentence. Quite a lot, huh?
I don't have anime estimates, but I can make a Heroes analogy.a hi-def episode is more or less 700mb. Considering the first season has 23 episodes, that would make 16.1gb. So 161 exabytes would be 10,000,000,000 (ten billion) seasons of Heroes. Since the earth currenlty has around 6.6 billion people, this would mean that you would have 1 episode for each person on the planet, and all the people of China, India and the US would have a second episode. That's how big it is.
Regarding the storage space, I call shenanigans. We already have HDD that stores terabytes. A couple years from now, MS office will require that space to be installed.
Wow...someone did explained it. I'm impressed.
I am currently in Tokyo, Japan and there is a very curious thing here: there is an area of the city (akihabara, the "electric town") where whole buildings have nothing but DVDs with porn. And they are very easy to find. But there's a catch: all the scenes that shows the sexual parts are pixelated. That's right: you pay the whole price for a movie, to watch in the privacy of your den, and you're denied the option to see the whole thing. That's DRM. You pay the whole price for something that only hinders you and prevents you from doing stuff that you have the right to.
ps. I don't know if there is any "normal porn" around here, I've been here for 2 weeks and so far, nothing.
Ok, it can be considered offtopic, but bear with me please. Did you notive that recently, all microsoft stories has the defectivebydesing tag? I don't like MS actions as much as the next slashdotter, but I don't think this bombing helps in any way.
- Fantasy is anything that has magic, elves and/or dragons, usually in a medieval setting, examples: LOTR, Discworld, Lodoss War, The Books of magic and obviously, Harry Potter
- Sci-fi is anything that has advanced technology, like robots, spaceships, nano-whatever thingies. examples: babylon 5, star trek, star wars, cowboy bebop.
If something has magic and technological thingies it still is Sci-fi, or "fantastic sci-fi".Yes, in The Books of Magic Ii believe.
To make matters worse, There are two reviews for Vista, while only one for Linux and OS X.
- The protected track may be copied to any number of iPod portable music players.
- The protected track may be played on up to five (originally three) authorized computers simultaneously.
- The protected track may be copied to a standard Audio CD any number of times.
- The resulting CD has no DRM and may be ripped, encoded and played back like any other CD. However, CDs created by users do not attain first sale rights and cannot be legally leased, lent, sold or distributed to others by the creator.
- The CD audio still bears the artifacts of compression, so converting it back into a lossy format such as MP3 may aggravate the sound artifacts of encoding (see transcoding).
- A particular playlist within iTunes containing a protected track can be copied to a CD only up to seven times (originally ten times) before the playlist must be changed.
Does MS DRM work in the same way? Because I downloaded a DRM'd WMV and every single time I wanted to watch it, it had to connect to the internet to retrieve the license.I think this video explains it very well.
They are not worthless, you can burn the music to an audio CD and then re-rip. Ok, ok, there's some loss of quality, but at least, it's not lost. What about the other way around? What if you bought a Zune, bought a lot of music, and then want to change to an iPod. Could you do that without loosing all your bought music?
Apple has one of least troublesome DRMs, and there's not really a tie-in, since you can put any mp3 file in the iPod, and use a program like winAmp to do so. Why don't they bother MS, Sony or EMI that has much more draconian DRM systems. I mean, as long as these are legitimate and genuine complaints, and just suing the company they would profit the most, considering how much Apple has of the mp3 player market.
That's exactly what he is complaining about. He shouldn't have to click the "Folders" button, or any of the "Favourite Locations". The drop box should have the whole folder hierarchy. And remember that if you do try to use a url, notepad won't let you.
The MS general marketing manager with an expression of "Now what am I going to do with this locked down piece of shit?" I think we should thank MS for creating a system so draconian and restrictive to show that it would only cripple the buyer and nothing more.
Probiotic Food alters you! uh, wait...
Tecnology becomes frugal very quickly. Watch the streets today, and see how many peoply walk without problems talking to their cell phone or listening to their iPods/any other audio player. The iPhone may be all shiny and glamorous when it is launched, but a couple of years from now, it will be as common as any other gadget.
You think that is expensive? Here in Brazil, the XBox 360 is the only one that has been officialy released, and it costs R$3000, that's 1400 dollars. The PS3 price is almost hilarious, from R$4000(US$1869) to R$7000(US$3272).
Vincent: And you know what they call a... a... a Quarter Pounder with Cheese in Paris?
Jules: They don't call it a Quarter Pounder with cheese?
Vincent: No man, they got the metric system. They wouldn't know what the fuck a Quarter Pounder is
I always thought that a .xxx TLD was not the best name, it sounds a little childish. Wouldn't it be better .sex or .ero or even .porn?
thought about the anti-life equation ?