I don't see FMP? Fumoffu being entertaining unless the original FMP! is watched, unfortunately. Fumoffu is downright funny, but only if you understand where the extreme character personalities are coming from. I think the original FMP! is a good show too, though.
I have to disagree with this. Full Metal Panic: Fumoffu makes Sousuke's fish-out-of-water scenario obvious in the first episode and the supporting cast simply appears as the stories dictate. I watched about half of it before seeing a minute of the original and wasn't confused in the slightest. Only when Tessa appears near the end would a bit of backstory be helpful.
But this isn't going to appear on TV before the original unless someone other than ADV licenses it.
I think they aren't bootlegs, but I suppose I can't really be sure. Here's the info:
Region-free DVDs with chinese subtitles are bootlegs. Legitimate import DVDs are rarely region free, never have chinese subtitles and are always quite expensive.
As I recall, Cowboy Bebop's Adult Swim run was less censored than its Japanese television run.
Only about half of Cowboy Bebop's episodes actually aired on its original japanese run. Episodes like "The Real Folk Blues" weren't shown until the second season on satellite TV. For those without satellite, the episodes went straight to video. So in this instance, american viewers got to see a lot more of the show.
Personally, I think the best serieses deserving a run right now are "Now and Then, Here and There" and "Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu", the first being one of the best all-around stories out there, and the second being just about the funniest thing ever.
FMP:Fumoffu has yet to be licensed. But if ADV gets it just like they got the original, it would wind up on ADV's own Anime Network rather than the Cartoon Network. It's a hilarious show, though, and superior to the original season IMHO.
As for "Now and Then, Here and There", though not a very explicit show, its content is just too intense for american broadcast - as others have mentioned.
I would just be happy if they actually FINISH some of the series... I am STILL waiting for the final episode of "Big O"..they did a repeat when it should have shown, then nothing for 2 weeks..
The Cartoon Network played the final episode the week after they mixed up and played a repeat. They pushed their special "Family Guy" episode back just so they could fix their mistake and so fans only had to wait two weeks to see the final Big O episode. Sorry you missed it - it was very trippy.
The show was made for japanese TV viewing, whose standards aren't all that different from those of american TV. As such, the show features little of the gore and nudity of the feature film while still presenting plenty of action and musings about the ramifications of future technology. And besides, Bandai wants this on Adult Swim so they can sell plenty of shiny DVDs in preperation for the show's second season.
...when we're going to get past this dubbing thing and see some subs.
The market for subbed-only anime is still very small, that's why studios work hard to ensure all the DVD releases have a dub track (preferably a good one). Trying to put subbed-only anime, even on late night, isn't going to keep enough people watching to pay the advertising dollars.
The Neuros seems to be toast. The "official" beta firmware plays vorbis, but only those encoded at low quality (5 or under). Otherwise you'll get nasty skipping. Better firmware available at open.neurosaudio.com hasn't been updated since late August. It plays high quality vorbis with barely perceptable "scratchy" sounds (very slight skipping, I guess), but it's billed as being "very beta" - though I haven't experienced problems.
Neuros owners were promised a USB 2.0 update to their existing units in August, but that's not happening either according to their founder. So the result is a USB 1 device with incomplete vorbis support.
Skip the Neuros and get a Rio Karma or iRiver device.
Personally I think this kind of thing is a bit silly and pointless, but it seems people want to be entertained by their menus, so I guess we're stuck with more of it;)
Semitransparent windows are obviously a bunch of eye candy at present, but they might prove useful once the extension becomes widespread. I'm sure it'll lead to lots of annoying X clients at first, but that stage will pass once people tire of the "effect for effect's sake" part of it.
But if SCO spends millions, loses and goes out of business, where's the incentive for anyone else to try such a stunt? The only way this attack strategy will gain popularity is if it actually accomplishes anything other than some short term stock pumping.
Funny, I always thought of him as the french guard, who fart's in everbody's general direction.
Can't be the french guard. He actually had ammunition.
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"When (The Santa Cruz Operation) sold us the property, included in the property was a non-compete," McBride told IDG News Service. "Last time I checked, Linux was intended to compete with our core products."
I think Darl is going to have to prove that if he wants to enforce that no-compete clause in the contract.
The researchers claim: "turning the invention into a commercially viable product might take as little as five years". Would that turn out to be true and this device takes off, it'll still take a few years to push CDs out of the marketplace. Though I'm certain the RIAA would love to sell you your music colllection all over again, that task would likely take years more to complete.
I know the second one was a joke.. But does dd work if the drives are different sizes? I was under the impression they had to be the same.. What if I just create the partition to be the same size. Would that work?
It makes more sense to image the hard drive to some file, preferably an external one. For example:
Apple 3:1
Apple 6:1
IMA 2:1
IMA 4:1
ALaw 4:1
uLaw 4:1
Indeo 8:1
Erm, I hate to say it, but all of these formats are lossy. Apple touts them as "CD quality", which is probably true, but data is lost when converting to them and the original cannot be recovered.
Then again, I don't think music files can be compressed easily.
Music can be losslessly compressed to about 1/2 of the original size on average, depending on the source material. There's a slight difference in size and speed when using FLAC vs. Shorten vs. Monkey's Audio, but nothing too significant. But most people are going to stick with the 10:1 compression offered by mp3 and vorbis since few care about the additional quality offered by an exact copy of the original.
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I'm sorry. But isn't there a problem with a 900 page guide to an operating system? This isn't even advanced server. This is RH9 desktop.
Here's a 1,296 page book about Windows XP. Does that mean Windows XP is too complicated for the average user and isn't suitable for the desktop? Using the page count of a book devoted to an operating system as an excuse to blast its user friendliness is idiotic.
I get plenty of use out of this big Unix book. In general, online docs like man pages or Google are nice when your machine is working fine and you have a good idea of what you're looking for. But having a nice book on a subject is handy when those conditions don't apply.
- The user can add a new PCI card and install a driver for it
- The user can insert a hotplug device (USB or Firewire or even Bluetooh) and get a fixed, known location in the file system for it, the same one every time
- The user can click on any audio file and it will "just play"
- The user can click on any video file and it will "just play"
- The user can drop a CD into the CDROM drive and play it or rip it
- The user can drop a DVD into the DVD drive and it plays, including the horrible and ungodly menu
- The user can drop a CDR into the CDROM drive and burn a random selection of files to it, with long file names on by default
- The user can hook up a TV Tuner card and be able to play video from a cable box / antenna or a VCR.
By these definitions, a Linux box is more ready for the desktop than a Windows one is. I format a USB drives with a label and my box always mounts in the same spot, no matter what order I connect them. But if I connect USB drives in arbitrary order on XP, they might show up as E:, F: or whatever - all depending on how I connect them.
If I download mp3, vorbis and FLAC files, Linux plays them out-of-the-box. In Windows, downloading winamp or some other player is often a necessity.
If I download WMV, DivX Quicktime and Realplayer movies, I'll need to download DivX codecs, Quicktime and Realplayer in Windows. mplayer handles them all in Linux without a problem.
Burning CD-ROMs in Linux is a drag-and-drop affair. As is ISOs. I haven't figured out how to burn ISOs in XP without downloading/buying something extra. Ripping is equally easy, and without the lame, Windows-specific, shift-key-to-bypass copy protection. Playing is a no-brainer, even with CDDB support.
DVDs play with menus in Xine. Even ones from different regions. Windows seems to require firmware hacks to achieve the same effect.
I've performed all of the above without compiling a kernel. The only thing keeping all of the above from being implemented everywhere are patent encumberances (for mp3) or obnoxious laws (for DeCSS).
But even if all of the above were implemented on every distribution without any command lines, it wouldn't make a bit of difference. Really. All of these are trivial matters. What matters is applications, and Linux needs an application that everyone can't live without - and that has no native equivilent on Windows. Only a combination of a "killer app" and housekeeping tools (CD burning, etc.) is going to convince people to switch.
-Why is it that as soon as Frodo puts on the ring Sauron and the wraiths know where he is, but when Bilbo and Gollum wore the ring they didn't know?
The wraiths know he's wearing the ring only when close enough to see him. Just like Sauron only knows he has the ring when Frodo claims it as his own. Simply using the ring isn't enough to give away its location unless there are wraiths about.
-in FOTR Saruman turns evil, he gets a bunch of orcs and starts cutting down trees. But when Gandalf shows up to talk to Saruman and get advice, he is completely taken by surprise by Saruman's change of heart. Didn't he notice all the orcs and tree stumps outside of Orthanc? The Ents sure as hell noticed. Maybe Saruman was right about Gandalf smoking too much weed.
Saruman didn't start the destruction until after Gandalf had been captured. Perhaps you've been smoking too much weed.
-Speaking of Gandalf's weed smoking, is that why it took him so freaking long to figure out that Bilbo's ring was the "one ring"? What was it, about 50 years he had to figure it out?
-Why is it that no one knows that the ring is "Isuldur's Bane"? We know that Elrond knew, and Aragorn seems to know and we also know that Isuldur wrote about the ring. But it's apparently a huge suprise to Boromir, Farimir, and the other dudes from Gondor. Even Gandalf doesn't know at first.
Sauron figures out about the ring because of Gollum's trip to Mordor. Gandalf figures it out both by fire and process of elimination. The rest don't figure it out until Gandalf tells them.
-Why is it that the Witch-king is invincible to men, but females and hobbits can kick his ass?
It was prophecied that no man would kill the Witch-King. He had no particular invulnerability; it was just his fate to not be killed by a man.
-The eagles: Why not get one of those big eagles to fly Frodo to Mordor, drop the ring into the fire, and leave? It would have saved everyone a lot of grief. Yeah, some people say Sauron would have seen the eagle coming. But it worked for Gandalf to leave Orthanc, and it worked to pick up the hobbits at the end of ROTK. It would have worked to take the ring to Mordor too.
The eagles don't do whatever Gandalf tells them to. If Gandalf could command them, he wouldn't need a horse. The eagles obey Manwe and he won't interfere because of men sinned and broke the Ban of the Valar; after that, men have to solve their own problems. The eagles help out at the end because by then the problem had been solved and men had in part repented for their earlier transgression.
-Why does Bilbo turn almost instantly old and feeble after he gives up the ring, but when Gollum gives up the ring he doesn't get any older?
Bilbo grows old because of the seventeen years that pass between his farewell party and Frodo's departure from the shire.
What's just as bad is a user deciding to send off "s to the database server. When properly escaped by certain database modules, they pose no harm. The moral to all of this is to never trust user input. But when staff is short and a deadline is looming, these sorts of silly little goofs can turn into big problems further down the line.
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I have to disagree with this. Full Metal Panic: Fumoffu makes Sousuke's fish-out-of-water scenario obvious in the first episode and the supporting cast simply appears as the stories dictate. I watched about half of it before seeing a minute of the original and wasn't confused in the slightest. Only when Tessa appears near the end would a bit of backstory be helpful.
But this isn't going to appear on TV before the original unless someone other than ADV licenses it.
Only about half of Cowboy Bebop's episodes actually aired on its original japanese run. Episodes like "The Real Folk Blues" weren't shown until the second season on satellite TV. For those without satellite, the episodes went straight to video. So in this instance, american viewers got to see a lot more of the show.
More is coming. Funimation is bringing it out as fast as they can. Expect all of it to air on the Cartoon Network eventually.
FMP:Fumoffu has yet to be licensed. But if ADV gets it just like they got the original, it would wind up on ADV's own Anime Network rather than the Cartoon Network. It's a hilarious show, though, and superior to the original season IMHO.
As for "Now and Then, Here and There", though not a very explicit show, its content is just too intense for american broadcast - as others have mentioned.
The Cartoon Network played the final episode the week after they mixed up and played a repeat. They pushed their special "Family Guy" episode back just so they could fix their mistake and so fans only had to wait two weeks to see the final Big O episode. Sorry you missed it - it was very trippy.
The show was made for japanese TV viewing, whose standards aren't all that different from those of american TV. As such, the show features little of the gore and nudity of the feature film while still presenting plenty of action and musings about the ramifications of future technology. And besides, Bandai wants this on Adult Swim so they can sell plenty of shiny DVDs in preperation for the show's second season.
The market for subbed-only anime is still very small, that's why studios work hard to ensure all the DVD releases have a dub track (preferably a good one). Trying to put subbed-only anime, even on late night, isn't going to keep enough people watching to pay the advertising dollars.
Neuros owners were promised a USB 2.0 update to their existing units in August, but that's not happening either according to their founder. So the result is a USB 1 device with incomplete vorbis support.
Skip the Neuros and get a Rio Karma or iRiver device.
Semitransparent windows are obviously a bunch of eye candy at present, but they might prove useful once the extension becomes widespread. I'm sure it'll lead to lots of annoying X clients at first, but that stage will pass once people tire of the "effect for effect's sake" part of it.
But if SCO spends millions, loses and goes out of business, where's the incentive for anyone else to try such a stunt? The only way this attack strategy will gain popularity is if it actually accomplishes anything other than some short term stock pumping.
Can't be the french guard. He actually had ammunition.
I think Darl is going to have to prove that if he wants to enforce that no-compete clause in the contract.
Perhaps it should be named the Free Meson.
The researchers claim: "turning the invention into a commercially viable product might take as little as five years". Would that turn out to be true and this device takes off, it'll still take a few years to push CDs out of the marketplace. Though I'm certain the RIAA would love to sell you your music colllection all over again, that task would likely take years more to complete.
It makes more sense to image the hard drive to some file, preferably an external one. For example:
dd if=/dev/sda1 | ncftpput -c -u username site.com filepath
And then use ftp to retrieve it back again later.
Erm, I hate to say it, but all of these formats are lossy. Apple touts them as "CD quality", which is probably true, but data is lost when converting to them and the original cannot be recovered.
Music can be losslessly compressed to about 1/2 of the original size on average, depending on the source material. There's a slight difference in size and speed when using FLAC vs. Shorten vs. Monkey's Audio, but nothing too significant. But most people are going to stick with the 10:1 compression offered by mp3 and vorbis since few care about the additional quality offered by an exact copy of the original.
...a/s/l?
Here's a 1,296 page book about Windows XP. Does that mean Windows XP is too complicated for the average user and isn't suitable for the desktop? Using the page count of a book devoted to an operating system as an excuse to blast its user friendliness is idiotic.
I get plenty of use out of this big Unix book. In general, online docs like man pages or Google are nice when your machine is working fine and you have a good idea of what you're looking for. But having a nice book on a subject is handy when those conditions don't apply.
By these definitions, a Linux box is more ready for the desktop than a Windows one is. I format a USB drives with a label and my box always mounts in the same spot, no matter what order I connect them. But if I connect USB drives in arbitrary order on XP, they might show up as E:, F: or whatever - all depending on how I connect them.
If I download mp3, vorbis and FLAC files, Linux plays them out-of-the-box. In Windows, downloading winamp or some other player is often a necessity.
If I download WMV, DivX Quicktime and Realplayer movies, I'll need to download DivX codecs, Quicktime and Realplayer in Windows. mplayer handles them all in Linux without a problem.
Burning CD-ROMs in Linux is a drag-and-drop affair. As is ISOs. I haven't figured out how to burn ISOs in XP without downloading/buying something extra. Ripping is equally easy, and without the lame, Windows-specific, shift-key-to-bypass copy protection. Playing is a no-brainer, even with CDDB support.
DVDs play with menus in Xine. Even ones from different regions. Windows seems to require firmware hacks to achieve the same effect.
I've performed all of the above without compiling a kernel. The only thing keeping all of the above from being implemented everywhere are patent encumberances (for mp3) or obnoxious laws (for DeCSS).
But even if all of the above were implemented on every distribution without any command lines, it wouldn't make a bit of difference. Really. All of these are trivial matters. What matters is applications, and Linux needs an application that everyone can't live without - and that has no native equivilent on Windows. Only a combination of a "killer app" and housekeeping tools (CD burning, etc.) is going to convince people to switch.
It wouldn't be a big deal if this misfeature was disabled by default. As it stands, it's fairly annoying.
The wraiths know he's wearing the ring only when close enough to see him. Just like Sauron only knows he has the ring when Frodo claims it as his own. Simply using the ring isn't enough to give away its location unless there are wraiths about.
Saruman didn't start the destruction until after Gandalf had been captured. Perhaps you've been smoking too much weed.
Sauron figures out about the ring because of Gollum's trip to Mordor. Gandalf figures it out both by fire and process of elimination. The rest don't figure it out until Gandalf tells them.
It was prophecied that no man would kill the Witch-King. He had no particular invulnerability; it was just his fate to not be killed by a man.
The eagles don't do whatever Gandalf tells them to. If Gandalf could command them, he wouldn't need a horse. The eagles obey Manwe and he won't interfere because of men sinned and broke the Ban of the Valar; after that, men have to solve their own problems. The eagles help out at the end because by then the problem had been solved and men had in part repented for their earlier transgression.
Bilbo grows old because of the seventeen years that pass between his farewell party and Frodo's departure from the shire.
What's just as bad is a user deciding to send off "s to the database server. When properly escaped by certain database modules, they pose no harm. The moral to all of this is to never trust user input. But when staff is short and a deadline is looming, these sorts of silly little goofs can turn into big problems further down the line.