e.g. love2: "a feeling of warm personal attachment or deep affection, as for a parent, child, or friend", instead of love3: "sexual passion or desire".
Don't you mean "Love", "Lovara" and "Lovaga"? Quit playing old translations, please.
FireFox/Mozilla is US program for US market. Not less, not more.
Huh? There are lots of countries in the world besides the US and China. Besides, I've never had a problem rendering Japanese characters and Spanish-specific characters, which are, with English, the two languages I read the most on the web.
No, they're just like that to reflect the US publishers' idiocy. The SNES "Final Fantasy II" and "Final Fantasy III" are and will always be "Final Fantasy IV" and "Final Fantasy VI". They were just numbered like that because they couldn't publish the original II, III and V.
There's no "best", in my opinion, there's just "different". With the advent of pre-rendered backgrounds, the scenario design paradigm had to be completely shifted, making the post-VI FFs quite different in scope and approach to their predecessors. Also, cutscenes got longer and 3D models gained more complicated animations, making it easier to present the player with a cinematic experience. However, FF VI proved that you don't need 3D models to have a breathtaking cinematic scene (I'm thinking Celes' attempted suicide scene, which ranks in my personal list of the most beautiful moments Final Fantasy has given me, right there with Aeris' death and FFIX's ending scene). Old school FFs, on the other hand, have a more "hardcore" appeal (more difficulty, less linearity in terms of gaming progression--you weren't pointed exactly where to go every single time, as opposed to the newer generation). FFIV's storyline was awesome and _remains_ awesome, FFVI's character depth and game length were impressive, FFVII was the 3D revolution and was also Aeris' death, FFVIII was a beautiful love story, FFIX was a tender look to the past and remains my favorite of all time... However, I've enjoyed them all (with the exception of FFII with its godawful, buggy leveling system... plus I've never played FFIII).
It goes beyond "clicking". No matter how many layers of security you add, any user with administrative access to a PC can hose it. Social engineering is one of the main causes behind the number of infected computers in botnets today. The only way to completely prevent malware from entering a PC is to restrict what the user can and can't do--which would be not giving administrative privileges at all.
Of course, we have silly design principles like Windows' "Everyone's administrator by default!" concept, but even in Linux you can get a user to hose his or her PC by applying social engineering and luring him into running a script with administrative privileges. This was seen not too long ago in the Ubuntu forums, where random sockpuppet accounts were posting "sudo rm -rf/" as a solution in lots of threads in the Beginners section, making lots of clueless people delete their entire filesystem. There's no practical solution to user stupidity.
How can it be unfair when THEY were the ones at fault? When THEY were the ones lying and making false claims? Whatever they get now is perfectly fair game.
I say we kick the horse till its guts get sprayed all over SCO's main building.
Lots of software in the universe and multiverse repositories isn't kept up-to-date. This can be pretty annoying. Off the top of my head, I always have to work extra hard to get Valknut and Pan (newsreader) to their newest versions (with the former, I compile several packages from source, and with the latter, I go to the website where I get the up-to-date debs.) Applications aren't kept "up-to-date" due to stability issues. That's why you have the 6-month cicle: you're supposed to have a stable set of applications in the repositories that will last 6 months. Once the new release of Ubuntu is out, all said applications will be updated to the next stable version. However, you can easily turn on new updates to applications by activating the 'Ubuntu backports' repository. Besides, for most of things that aren't in the repositories, there's always the.deb packages (which work pretty much like.exes in Windows in the eyes of a regular user), and being Ubuntu the most popular distro, not finding any.deb packages precompiled for that distro in any project page is pretty rare. Moreover, _normal_ users should not care about running the latest software--they should care about it working. GAIM, despite being replaced by Pidgin now, still works, and it should meet the needs of any regular user.
Wine is never at the newest version whenever I look for it, and the newer versions tend to include lots of compatibility updates. Wine is probably one of the most unstable and constantly updating pieces of software around. It gets an update every two weeks--maintaining it via an official repository would be a pain in the ass. That's why the regular way of doing it is adding Wine's own repository--which can be easily done with a click-and-run GUI.
Huh? Is there anything a normal user would want that can't be installed through Synaptic or Add/Remove (both frontends to apt)? And as another user pointed out, the Flash plugin is automatically installed by Firefox. In fact, they've even tweaked it in 7.10 to make Firefox install the 64-bit Windows plugin via ndiswrapper for people who are using Ubuntu 64-bit.
Really, people need to stop this FUD. There's anti-MS FUD, but there's also lots of anti-Linux FUD.
Nice way of grabbing yourself from a single phrase (my small comment on the usage of the word 'cartoon' which actually didn't address any of your points at all) and ignoring the rest of my argument. Then you go on rambling about things that I don't really understand what the hell have to do with what I posted.
Perhaps I should have cleared what was I criticizing in your post:
"With a cartoon, of course, the original is 'dubbed'. So the question becomes largely one of which version has the better voice acting. That's still usually the original because of matters of budget, access to the original creators, and because of timing (human languages can take surprisingly different amounts of speech to encode the same information, especially when differences in cultural context are taken into account)."
I criticized the fact that you seemed to ignore that, in a "cartoon", the people are acting, too, and they're also directed (in a particular language--the original one) in order to match with what is being animated. The script is in the original language, and thus the whole animation is thought and created as if it were spoken in the original language. This is a VERY important point... language is determinant in the way of conveying information, and art is nothing other than a way of conveying information in the form of emotions generated in the viewer. Most of times, the whole development of a particular scene depends a lot on the language being spoken. As I said, Japanese people use an absurd amount of vocatives in a regular dialog when compared to English people, thus making many scenes in dubbed anime appear quite awkward.
Of course "cartoons" (or animation, as it is usually called when you try to talk about it in a serious manner;) are "dubbed", but the whole script was done in the ORIGINAL language, and thus it retains the conventions and mannerisms proper of that language.
Let's take a simple example: Japanese people refer to other persons by their name a lot. When I say a lot, I say A LOT. The usage of vocatives in a common Japanese dialog is absurdly high when compared to a regular English dialog. When you make an English dub of a Japanese dialog, the result is incredibly awkward-sounding, not only in the wording, but also in the intonation... and that's because the script was originally adapted to the Japanese language, and thus it's a lot more difficult to make it fit in the conventions and mannerisms of the English language. In fact, you'd have to rewrite the whole script just to make it sound a bit more natural.
Closer languages such as Spanish, French, Italian and English may suffer a bit less of this, but when comparing two completely different ones, the result is really impressive.
Everyone sane uses VLC anyways. Everybody truly sane wouldn't use a media player with such a crappy (not to say non-existent) soft subtitles support. VLC sucks big time due both to that and the crappy user interface. Give me mplayer (or MPC/Zoom Player/TCMP + CCCP if you're on Windows) and voilá, all the problems are gone.
1. If the US and Western Europe aren't making the rules, somebody else is. After all, for rules to exist, somebody has to make them, right? So, of the alternatives, who do we want making the rules for us? China? Russia? Saudi Arabia? Fiji? (I kid about the last one.) The problem is that the US is forcing their unequal rules on other countries. It's called domination. I understand that you like living under those rules, but don't assume we like to do so.
Seriously, why? Does disclosing personal information of your clients classify as freedom of speech, too? Don't you think there are other risks involved?
If you never educate the users about the fact that they have a choice, how the hell do you expect them to choose? That's the beauty of Linux: Freedom. You're not tied to a single GUI. It's not about desktop environment competition (even if some few people seem to think it is), it IS about choice. The problem is, the regular public is not educated to choose, they're educated to use whatever comes with the PC. It's no wonder that Microsoft's greatest strength are OEM retailers, because people don't choose: they buy whatever comes with the "Computer". Hell, they don't even know what an OS is, and most Joe Averages that have ever heard about a Mac seem to believe there's some kind of voodoo magic that makes them not a PC (and, sadly, Apple exploits this and makes use of it in their advertisement campaigns).
People need to be educated. They must learn there ARE choices.
A lifetime of free wireless access to Wikipedia for $399 - that's a pretty good deal. Until the device dies on you... I'm sure that thing isn't designed to last forever.
I have a problem with ANN both in its attitude towards the general fanbase and its stupid attempts at sensationalist articles such as that one, which are generated in order to stir the fans into a frenzy, pushing them towards clicking the ANN homepage and generating more hits for you, which means more ad revenue. I can't argue with the fact that the lines were there, but the point is the way you guys presented the issue made it all the more sensationalist. In the end, it was no big deal... did you notice any kind of change in the attitude of Japanese distributing companies or animation studios?
PD: Before you mention this particular conflict, it has already been confirmed as BayTSP, a company contracted by Odex, screwing up big time by sending C&D letters to people outside Singapore (which wasn't Odex's intention).
They lost all popularity here in Argentina after deciding, one or two weeks before their planned concert in 2003 (I think, can't remember the exact year), that they wouldn't be doing the gig after all (I think because they thought they wouldn't get enough money from it--it was the time our currency was getting devalued). I still remember the long lines of angry people waiting to get their money back.
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e.g. love2: "a feeling of warm personal attachment or deep affection, as for a parent, child, or friend", instead of love3: "sexual passion or desire".
Don't you mean "Love", "Lovara" and "Lovaga"? Quit playing old translations, please.
FireFox/Mozilla is US program for US market. Not less, not more.
Huh? There are lots of countries in the world besides the US and China. Besides, I've never had a problem rendering Japanese characters and Spanish-specific characters, which are, with English, the two languages I read the most on the web.
No, they're just like that to reflect the US publishers' idiocy. The SNES "Final Fantasy II" and "Final Fantasy III" are and will always be "Final Fantasy IV" and "Final Fantasy VI". They were just numbered like that because they couldn't publish the original II, III and V.
There's no "best", in my opinion, there's just "different". With the advent of pre-rendered backgrounds, the scenario design paradigm had to be completely shifted, making the post-VI FFs quite different in scope and approach to their predecessors. Also, cutscenes got longer and 3D models gained more complicated animations, making it easier to present the player with a cinematic experience. However, FF VI proved that you don't need 3D models to have a breathtaking cinematic scene (I'm thinking Celes' attempted suicide scene, which ranks in my personal list of the most beautiful moments Final Fantasy has given me, right there with Aeris' death and FFIX's ending scene). Old school FFs, on the other hand, have a more "hardcore" appeal (more difficulty, less linearity in terms of gaming progression--you weren't pointed exactly where to go every single time, as opposed to the newer generation). FFIV's storyline was awesome and _remains_ awesome, FFVI's character depth and game length were impressive, FFVII was the 3D revolution and was also Aeris' death, FFVIII was a beautiful love story, FFIX was a tender look to the past and remains my favorite of all time... However, I've enjoyed them all (with the exception of FFII with its godawful, buggy leveling system... plus I've never played FFIII).
It goes beyond "clicking". No matter how many layers of security you add, any user with administrative access to a PC can hose it. Social engineering is one of the main causes behind the number of infected computers in botnets today. The only way to completely prevent malware from entering a PC is to restrict what the user can and can't do--which would be not giving administrative privileges at all.
/" as a solution in lots of threads in the Beginners section, making lots of clueless people delete their entire filesystem. There's no practical solution to user stupidity.
Of course, we have silly design principles like Windows' "Everyone's administrator by default!" concept, but even in Linux you can get a user to hose his or her PC by applying social engineering and luring him into running a script with administrative privileges. This was seen not too long ago in the Ubuntu forums, where random sockpuppet accounts were posting "sudo rm -rf
Wha...? Now moderators only read the thread name! Well, that's really nice of you.
Actually, if you're really conscious about what you click, why would you need so many security layers?
How can it be unfair when THEY were the ones at fault? When THEY were the ones lying and making false claims? Whatever they get now is perfectly fair game.
I say we kick the horse till its guts get sprayed all over SCO's main building.
Huh? Is there anything a normal user would want that can't be installed through Synaptic or Add/Remove (both frontends to apt)? And as another user pointed out, the Flash plugin is automatically installed by Firefox. In fact, they've even tweaked it in 7.10 to make Firefox install the 64-bit Windows plugin via ndiswrapper for people who are using Ubuntu 64-bit.
Really, people need to stop this FUD. There's anti-MS FUD, but there's also lots of anti-Linux FUD.
Nice way of grabbing yourself from a single phrase (my small comment on the usage of the word 'cartoon' which actually didn't address any of your points at all) and ignoring the rest of my argument. Then you go on rambling about things that I don't really understand what the hell have to do with what I posted.
Perhaps I should have cleared what was I criticizing in your post:
"With a cartoon, of course, the original is 'dubbed'. So the question becomes largely one of which version has the better voice acting. That's still usually the original because of matters of budget, access to the original creators, and because of timing (human languages can take surprisingly different amounts of speech to encode the same information, especially when differences in cultural context are taken into account)."
I criticized the fact that you seemed to ignore that, in a "cartoon", the people are acting, too, and they're also directed (in a particular language--the original one) in order to match with what is being animated. The script is in the original language, and thus the whole animation is thought and created as if it were spoken in the original language. This is a VERY important point... language is determinant in the way of conveying information, and art is nothing other than a way of conveying information in the form of emotions generated in the viewer. Most of times, the whole development of a particular scene depends a lot on the language being spoken. As I said, Japanese people use an absurd amount of vocatives in a regular dialog when compared to English people, thus making many scenes in dubbed anime appear quite awkward.
Of course "cartoons" (or animation, as it is usually called when you try to talk about it in a serious manner ;) are "dubbed", but the whole script was done in the ORIGINAL language, and thus it retains the conventions and mannerisms proper of that language.
Let's take a simple example: Japanese people refer to other persons by their name a lot. When I say a lot, I say A LOT. The usage of vocatives in a common Japanese dialog is absurdly high when compared to a regular English dialog. When you make an English dub of a Japanese dialog, the result is incredibly awkward-sounding, not only in the wording, but also in the intonation... and that's because the script was originally adapted to the Japanese language, and thus it's a lot more difficult to make it fit in the conventions and mannerisms of the English language. In fact, you'd have to rewrite the whole script just to make it sound a bit more natural.
Closer languages such as Spanish, French, Italian and English may suffer a bit less of this, but when comparing two completely different ones, the result is really impressive.
Any reason why it is at the end of the damn article, then? Normally you present a 'top ten' from the bottom to the top.
Read the ENTIRE article. Starting at page one.
Vista is actually #1. The summary sucks.
Sorry, add "you like living under those rules because they benefit you ".
Seriously, why? Does disclosing personal information of your clients classify as freedom of speech, too? Don't you think there are other risks involved?
Mod parent the fuck up. Fuck you if you can't face reality, people: The fact remains that the countries in power are the ones making the rules.
If you never educate the users about the fact that they have a choice, how the hell do you expect them to choose? That's the beauty of Linux: Freedom. You're not tied to a single GUI. It's not about desktop environment competition (even if some few people seem to think it is), it IS about choice. The problem is, the regular public is not educated to choose, they're educated to use whatever comes with the PC. It's no wonder that Microsoft's greatest strength are OEM retailers, because people don't choose: they buy whatever comes with the "Computer". Hell, they don't even know what an OS is, and most Joe Averages that have ever heard about a Mac seem to believe there's some kind of voodoo magic that makes them not a PC (and, sadly, Apple exploits this and makes use of it in their advertisement campaigns).
People need to be educated. They must learn there ARE choices.
I have a problem with ANN both in its attitude towards the general fanbase and its stupid attempts at sensationalist articles such as that one, which are generated in order to stir the fans into a frenzy, pushing them towards clicking the ANN homepage and generating more hits for you, which means more ad revenue. I can't argue with the fact that the lines were there, but the point is the way you guys presented the issue made it all the more sensationalist. In the end, it was no big deal... did you notice any kind of change in the attitude of Japanese distributing companies or animation studios?
PD: Before you mention this particular conflict, it has already been confirmed as BayTSP, a company contracted by Odex, screwing up big time by sending C&D letters to people outside Singapore (which wasn't Odex's intention).
They lost all popularity here in Argentina after deciding, one or two weeks before their planned concert in 2003 (I think, can't remember the exact year), that they wouldn't be doing the gig after all (I think because they thought they wouldn't get enough money from it--it was the time our currency was getting devalued). I still remember the long lines of angry people waiting to get their money back.