...the movie made over 200 million in Japan (An unheard-of sum, I believe that is equivalent to every person in Japan watching the movie three times...
Number of people in Japan: 120 million (approx) Cost of going to a movie theatre: $US15 (approx)
$US 200,000,000 / 15 / 120,000,000 = 0.111111...
0.111111... is equal to 1/9, so one in nine people in Japan went to see it once each.
The red tint which the Japanese distributor (Buena Vista) still has not acknowledged to be a problem. Their explanation was that "the coloration was changed in accordance with the director's wishes". I say bullshit - if that's true, then why is the US version not tinted?
The "thin, long and wandering" plot was mostly the fault of the translation, I think - the original Japanese version had a much more logical plot progression.
If you look at the KDE WebCVS depository for kdelibs (where khtml resides), you'll see that it's licensed under the LGPL, and thus Apple are obliged only to release the source to the changes they make to khtml itself.
My apologies - I should have been a bit more specific.
Did you download and install this file? Or another one?
If you did install that file, did you run ldconfig as root before compiling mplayer? (That one caught me out - the installation of faac/faad doesn't do it for you, so mplayer won't autodetect it when compiling.)
1) Install libsndfile if you don't have it. (http://www.zip.com.au/~erikd/libsndfile/#Download )
2) Install faac to get sound on the trailer (http://faac.sourceforge.net/download.php)
3) You probably want to install xvid as well... nothing to do with the Animatrix, but the more codecs, the better, right? (http://www.xvid.org/downloads.html)
4) Go to http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/ and grab:
Untar them and move them all into someplace like/usr/local/lib/mplayer/dlls.
5) Get the latest mplayer source (0.9.0rc5) and run configure with something like this:./configure --enable-largefiles --with-extraincdir=/usr/local/include --with-extralibdir=/usr/local/lib --with-win32libdir=/usr/local/lib/mplayer/dlls --with-xanimlibdir=/usr/local/lib/mplayer/dlls --with-reallibdir=/usr/local/lib/mplayer/dlls
and then do the usual make/su/make install thing.
With any luck, you should be able to play back the trailer.
I believe "Brave New World" was the title of that section in the musical version of the War of the Worlds. I can't be bothered checking out the original Wells to see if there was a title on that chapter.
(And before anybody asks, no, the musical version did *not* have Martian war machines singing and dancing.)
It's not so much the heat as the humidity. In Japan, this varies between 0% in winter and 100% in summer, so wood is under quite severe stress as it absorbs and releases water.
Believe it or not, it's an *improvement* over the old system. Normal train passes here in Japan can only be bought for 1, 3 or 6 month spans, with the cost per month lower the longer the span. That meant that, in order to get the cheapest fare (which is all your company will pay out), you had to buy the six-month pass, and carry the equivalent of several hundred dollars (if you live far out of Tokyo, it could be over a $US1000) in your pocket in the form of a thin piece of plastic. If you lost it, tough.
At least with the SUica cards you can control how much you want to keep in the card yourself.
Japan in general, and the Tokyo area in particular, has had a form of prepaid card for use at train stations for several years. These cards are of the "magnetic stripe" type, and have to be fed through the ticket gate to work. The ticket gates have a tendency to jam occasionally, requiring human intervention to get them working again.
The main advantage of the Suica cards is that they just have to be held against a panel on the ticket gate - as they're RF based, there's no moving parts to get jammed.
The main disadvantage of these particular cards is that they don't offer the same flexibility in routes that the "old" cards have - you have to be travelling between two JR (Japan Rail) stations to be able to use them. I commute on a train that switches from a JR train to a subway train (separate organization - same train) halfway along my route, which means I can't use the Suica cards.
In spite of what the article says, I haven't really noticed them being used for anything other than commuting.
Ottenberg said such tags could be used for "customer loyalty" rewards that could earn consumers such benefits as frequent flyer miles, free music downloads or discount coupons.
Why, while I read this, did the phrase "bread and circuses, bread and circuses..." keep on looping through my brain?
Ah well, I suppose a majority of people will be quite happy to give away their right to privacy in return for some extra frequent-flyer miles, dragging the rest of us along by default.
How much longer before they start introducing niggling little irritations if you buy with cash, and/or larger incentives if you buy with a credit card?
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Which part of the word "Japan" did you not understand?
"Good or bad but not much in between"? Did we see the same movie? Name one unequivocally bad character.
President Bush, who graduated from Yale only because of his father. According to at least one of his teachers, he never bothered turning up for class.
...the movie made over 200 million in Japan (An unheard-of sum, I believe that is equivalent to every person in Japan watching the movie three times...
Number of people in Japan: 120 million (approx)
Cost of going to a movie theatre: $US15 (approx)
$US 200,000,000 / 15 / 120,000,000 = 0.111111...
0.111111... is equal to 1/9, so one in nine people in Japan went to see it once each.
How many people did you think Japan has?
The red tint which the Japanese distributor (Buena Vista) still has not acknowledged to be a problem. Their explanation was that "the coloration was changed in accordance with the director's wishes". I say bullshit - if that's true, then why is the US version not tinted?
The "thin, long and wandering" plot was mostly the fault of the translation, I think - the original Japanese version had a much more logical plot progression.
Strangely enough, I was actually being ironic ;)
If you look at the KDE WebCVS depository for kdelibs (where khtml resides), you'll see that it's licensed under the LGPL, and thus Apple are obliged only to release the source to the changes they make to khtml itself.
Never mind, I just saw your next post ;)
My apologies - I should have been a bit more specific.
Did you download and install this file? Or another one?
If you did install that file, did you run ldconfig as root before compiling mplayer? (That one caught me out - the installation of faac/faad doesn't do it for you, so mplayer won't autodetect it when compiling.)
I just did this, so here it goes...
d )
/usr/local/lib/mplayer/dlls.
./configure --enable-largefiles --with-extraincdir=/usr/local/include --with-extralibdir=/usr/local/lib --with-win32libdir=/usr/local/lib/mplayer/dlls --with-xanimlibdir=/usr/local/lib/mplayer/dlls --with-reallibdir=/usr/local/lib/mplayer/dlls
1) Install libsndfile if you don't have it. (http://www.zip.com.au/~erikd/libsndfile/#Downloa
2) Install faac to get sound on the trailer (http://faac.sourceforge.net/download.php)
3) You probably want to install xvid as well... nothing to do with the Animatrix, but the more codecs, the better, right? (http://www.xvid.org/downloads.html)
4) Go to http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/ and grab:
Latest Win32 codecpack
QuickTime6 DLLs
QuickTime extra DLLs
RealPlayer9 codecs
XAnim DLLs
MJPEG2000 DLLs
Win32/DMO codecs
Untar them and move them all into someplace like
5) Get the latest mplayer source (0.9.0rc5) and run configure with something like this:
and then do the usual make/su/make install thing.
With any luck, you should be able to play back the trailer.
And who said Linux isn't easy to use, eh?!
Hey, they've got the Japanese versions online as well! And I was sitting here thinking "Great. More crappy American-accented dubbing".
This is one of the few times when my ADSL has been the bottleneck in downloading multiple files from the same site...
Whoa! Bad moderation, dude!
Erm, hate to tell you, but these shows were all originally targetted at children ;)
I believe "Brave New World" was the title of that section in the musical version of the War of the Worlds. I can't be bothered checking out the original Wells to see if there was a title on that chapter.
(And before anybody asks, no, the musical version did *not* have Martian war machines singing and dancing.)
It's not so much the heat as the humidity. In Japan, this varies between 0% in winter and 100% in summer, so wood is under quite severe stress as it absorbs and releases water.
Yeah, but you're exiting from JR exits, right? I leave from a subway exit, which doesn't have Suica gates.
What, exactly, did that have to do with what I said?
Believe it or not, it's an *improvement* over the old system. Normal train passes here in Japan can only be bought for 1, 3 or 6 month spans, with the cost per month lower the longer the span. That meant that, in order to get the cheapest fare (which is all your company will pay out), you had to buy the six-month pass, and carry the equivalent of several hundred dollars (if you live far out of Tokyo, it could be over a $US1000) in your pocket in the form of a thin piece of plastic. If you lost it, tough.
At least with the SUica cards you can control how much you want to keep in the card yourself.
Japan in general, and the Tokyo area in particular, has had a form of prepaid card for use at train stations for several years. These cards are of the "magnetic stripe" type, and have to be fed through the ticket gate to work. The ticket gates have a tendency to jam occasionally, requiring human intervention to get them working again.
The main advantage of the Suica cards is that they just have to be held against a panel on the ticket gate - as they're RF based, there's no moving parts to get jammed.
The main disadvantage of these particular cards is that they don't offer the same flexibility in routes that the "old" cards have - you have to be travelling between two JR (Japan Rail) stations to be able to use them. I commute on a train that switches from a JR train to a subway train (separate organization - same train) halfway along my route, which means I can't use the Suica cards.
In spite of what the article says, I haven't really noticed them being used for anything other than commuting.
Heh.... I remember telnetting to CERN to use Lynx too. Probably '92 as well.
When I started using the Web, I had to telnet to a server at CERN (from Japan, no less) just to run Lynx.
;)
For me, everything after that has been chrome
Bravery?!
So, what's next on the crackers' list of challenges to prove their bravery - stuffing kittens into sacks and throwing them off bridges?
Ottenberg said such tags could be used for "customer loyalty" rewards that could earn consumers such benefits as frequent flyer miles, free music downloads or discount coupons.
Why, while I read this, did the phrase "bread and circuses, bread and circuses..." keep on looping through my brain?
Ah well, I suppose a majority of people will be quite happy to give away their right to privacy in return for some extra frequent-flyer miles, dragging the rest of us along by default.
How much longer before they start introducing niggling little irritations if you buy with cash, and/or larger incentives if you buy with a credit card?
Take a closer look at his post.
Don't give bad advice on aprostrophies.
The boys are going to steel a car