In Japan, anime is not mainstream family television, aside from the typical kiddie shows and a couple of shounen series. The real substance of anime is aired at late-night slots, and has a really focused target. Average ratings for late-night anime are around 2%~4% at best.
The thing is, fansubs set up the anime fandom in the western world. Do you really think there would have been any series released in the US if it wasn't for the VHS fansubs first distributed in the seventies? You like it or not, the western anime industry (which is NOT composed by the authors) owes its very existence to the fansubs it loathes so much. So I'd say they ought to show a little more respect and allow them the free advertising they're doing;)
All in all, the only ones truly complaining are the American licensing companies due to the fact that licensed anime fansubs DO exist. The only Japanese company to complain so far has been Media Factory.
At any rate, I live in a country with no official DVD releases, so I could hardly care about the licensing or not of a title when I'm downloading.
I think he was specifically referring to the "stop being so lazy" statement. It's common knowledge that one of the Windows' advocates' main arguments was the "user-friendliness" of Windows. "User-friendliness" is commonly understood as "my-work-gets-done-in-one-click". Having to go and find a compatibility pack in the web is extremely hard enough for most common users;)
I think it's time for Windows fanboys to recognize that the only reason why people stick to Windows is because they're fucking used to it, not because it's easier to handle. Out-of-the-box Windows XP is 500 times harder to set up than out-of-the-box Ubuntu.
Well, that's because the "Linux" system owes a lot of things to GNU. Linux is just a kernel, to begin with. The reason why the whole system should be called GNU/Linux is because of the huge role Richard Stallman and the GNU played in the formation of the Free Software movement (with the development of tools the Linux kernel uses in order to put together an operative system) and the consequential Open Source movement.
It's just a way of paying a small tribute to the people that first idealized what Free and Open Source Software is all about.
You should note that the chart, for Linux/OS X, covers not only OS-level vulnerabilities, but app-vulnerabilities, too. All in all, I find it an apples-to-oranges comparison, even more keeping in mind that the chart covers known and fixed bugs during the first 6 months of each OS after their respective release dates.
Paraphrasing a comment in Endgaget... Can someone grab me a copy of Windows XP: Jeff Jones edition? It looks much better than the public builds;)
A) Most people don't use a resolution higher than 1024x768. In fact, many still use 800x600. Asserting otherwise makes you really ignorant of the state of the common users.
B) I'll grant that cloning the desktop into a TV via S-Video does require editing the xorg.conf file, but I won't grant you the point of it being senseless coding. I'm not a coder, I'm just an above-regular user and I had no fucking problem googling for the answer and copy/pasting a few lines. It took me only 10 minutes to set it up.
Test the following:
Grab a Joe Average, get them in front of a freshly installed Windows XP machine, give them a regular h264 video file, and ask them to play it. Watch him suffer.
Windows freshly installed is not as tinkering-free as you make it seem;)
The thing is, it's the responsibility of the goddamn family to watch over what the kid does, or at least to teach him what the hell does a game mean and its difference with real life. I played "killer games" my whole goddamn life (I remember playing Marathon with my dad when I was 6) and I'm not going out there shooting people.
I wouldn't say they're all psychos. Many of them may have lived in an improper family circle, which didn't taught them properly the difference between reality and fantasy. Tagging them all as "psychos" is a short-sighted thing to do in my opinion.
You're not free to form a new company when you don't have the means to do so. Life is a game, and if you enter it in the wrong position (like 80% of the world population does) you're not in the position to do whatever you want. True freedom in capitalism is nothing more than an illusion. The role of the government should be to provide equal opportunities for everyone, since companies only provide equal opportunities to those who are in certain positions;)
Natural law?
Get off your high seat of arrogance, thinking your society is the best and the one that everyone should follow. Other cultures are built on different social systems, and that doesn't make them less "natural".
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In Japan, anime is not mainstream family television, aside from the typical kiddie shows and a couple of shounen series. The real substance of anime is aired at late-night slots, and has a really focused target. Average ratings for late-night anime are around 2%~4% at best.
You're going to say goodbye. Cancel or allow?
The thing is, fansubs set up the anime fandom in the western world. Do you really think there would have been any series released in the US if it wasn't for the VHS fansubs first distributed in the seventies? You like it or not, the western anime industry (which is NOT composed by the authors) owes its very existence to the fansubs it loathes so much. So I'd say they ought to show a little more respect and allow them the free advertising they're doing ;)
All in all, the only ones truly complaining are the American licensing companies due to the fact that licensed anime fansubs DO exist. The only Japanese company to complain so far has been Media Factory.
At any rate, I live in a country with no official DVD releases, so I could hardly care about the licensing or not of a title when I'm downloading.
I've been using Yahoo mail for years, sending tons of stuff of wildly varying sizes, and have never lost a single attachment.
Yes, I'm getting the same. It started today, though, and I've been using the new system for months now.
What will happen if it detects Linux on my hard drive? Send me advertisement about the evils of proprietary software?
I think he was specifically referring to the "stop being so lazy" statement. It's common knowledge that one of the Windows' advocates' main arguments was the "user-friendliness" of Windows. "User-friendliness" is commonly understood as "my-work-gets-done-in-one-click". Having to go and find a compatibility pack in the web is extremely hard enough for most common users ;)
I think it's time for Windows fanboys to recognize that the only reason why people stick to Windows is because they're fucking used to it, not because it's easier to handle. Out-of-the-box Windows XP is 500 times harder to set up than out-of-the-box Ubuntu.
Yes, the Ubuntu Live CD.
Repost.
Well, that's because the "Linux" system owes a lot of things to GNU. Linux is just a kernel, to begin with. The reason why the whole system should be called GNU/Linux is because of the huge role Richard Stallman and the GNU played in the formation of the Free Software movement (with the development of tools the Linux kernel uses in order to put together an operative system) and the consequential Open Source movement.
It's just a way of paying a small tribute to the people that first idealized what Free and Open Source Software is all about.
You must be kidding, right? This is one of the most biased articles I've seen in my entire life.
Criticizing Apple doesn't make you a Microsoft dog.
Silly me, when I said "app-vulnerabilities" I meant "BUNDLED app-vulnerabilities"...
You should note that the chart, for Linux/OS X, covers not only OS-level vulnerabilities, but app-vulnerabilities, too. All in all, I find it an apples-to-oranges comparison, even more keeping in mind that the chart covers known and fixed bugs during the first 6 months of each OS after their respective release dates.
;)
Paraphrasing a comment in Endgaget... Can someone grab me a copy of Windows XP: Jeff Jones edition? It looks much better than the public builds
A) Most people don't use a resolution higher than 1024x768. In fact, many still use 800x600. Asserting otherwise makes you really ignorant of the state of the common users.
B) I'll grant that cloning the desktop into a TV via S-Video does require editing the xorg.conf file, but I won't grant you the point of it being senseless coding. I'm not a coder, I'm just an above-regular user and I had no fucking problem googling for the answer and copy/pasting a few lines. It took me only 10 minutes to set it up.
Test the following: Grab a Joe Average, get them in front of a freshly installed Windows XP machine, give them a regular h264 video file, and ask them to play it. Watch him suffer. Windows freshly installed is not as tinkering-free as you make it seem ;)
The thing is, it's the responsibility of the goddamn family to watch over what the kid does, or at least to teach him what the hell does a game mean and its difference with real life. I played "killer games" my whole goddamn life (I remember playing Marathon with my dad when I was 6) and I'm not going out there shooting people.
I wouldn't say they're all psychos. Many of them may have lived in an improper family circle, which didn't taught them properly the difference between reality and fantasy. Tagging them all as "psychos" is a short-sighted thing to do in my opinion.
You're not free to form a new company when you don't have the means to do so. Life is a game, and if you enter it in the wrong position (like 80% of the world population does) you're not in the position to do whatever you want. True freedom in capitalism is nothing more than an illusion. The role of the government should be to provide equal opportunities for everyone, since companies only provide equal opportunities to those who are in certain positions ;)
Yeah, like the private efforts of people whose only objective is to make profit for themselves is better than that ;)
Natural law? Get off your high seat of arrogance, thinking your society is the best and the one that everyone should follow. Other cultures are built on different social systems, and that doesn't make them less "natural".