Considering the image was used in the press release, and thereafter turned up at such places as the BBC's page, I'd say that it was given pretty wide dissemination.
Please please pleeeeeease don't sue me. By the way, that illustration helped us get a $50 million grant from the US military, so we've got deeper pockets than you.
An MIT student, are we? Hmm? If you had bothered to read the article, you would have seen that the MIT image is a straight cut-and-paste touchup job, using scans from Radix. You'd think a prestigious university would be able to fork out the couple of hundred bucks it'd take to get an original illustration, especially since they were trying to get a $50 million grant, but apparently they're just as clueless as Joe Sixpack who downloads MP3s from Gnutella "because they're free".
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-When was the last time you flew a kite?
Some time around the end of March, 1997.
Well, you did ask...
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Hi, Inoshiro... yes, I'm sure - take a look at this if you don't believe me;) (Obviously, that peak didn't last very long, but they did hit it - and after a 3:1 stock split, to boot!)
Liquid Audio is infamous in Japan - it was one of the first two companies to be listed on the new Tokyo Stock Exchange "Mothers" board for venture companies; unfortunately, the relaxed listing rules allowed Japanese gangsters to get a foot in the door.
Eventually, what happened was one of the company directors was kidnapped by the CEO(?), a rather interesting personage who was missing a chunk off one of his little fingers... for those of you familiar with Japan, that should immediately ring alarm bells;)
These days, they're called Cyber Music Entertainment. Their stock price peaked at around 1,590,000 yen in September 2000; these days, they trade at around 10,000 yen...
==== Thank you for visiting our site. As has been reported earlier the Broadband Adapter (BBA) is no longer being manufactured, with the remaining stock sold out in July and August. However, we have received many requests for manufacturing to be restarted. As a result, we have decided to accept "countdown" preordering in order to do a new manufacturing run, with the run to be produced only if reservations reach 1000 by the cutoff date. Please follow the instructions below to preorder an adapter. In the event that manufacture does go ahead, it will take approximately four months from that point in time until we can deliver the adapter to you. Please take this into account when ordering.
Start of preorder acceptance: 2002/8/26 (Mon) 13:00- Cutoff date: 2002/9/9 (Mon) 13:00 Number of BBAs to be produced: 1000 Delivery date (planned): A notice will be placed on this site as it is finalized around the end of December 2002. ====
In other words, you won't be able to put your preorder in until after 1pm Monday (Japan Standard Time).
Osamu Tezuka might have been an admirer of Disney, but he sure didn't take a Disney story, change the names of the characters, and pretend the original never existed, unlike a certain studio...
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Be aware that Japanese fans have been up in arms over the Japanese DVD release. Apparently, the color balance is way off the original theater release - it's heavily red-biased.
"Patent #1: A system for approving any vague description of something that might resemble, on shallow inspection, an invention. Issued by the USPO to the USPO."
I unexpectedly had some strange FAT corruption on my 'media storage drive' when I was playing around with a removable HDD drive bay. (The DVD-ROM on the same IDE channel was affected too... it was strange.)
The day this happens is the day I move to a small hut just outside Ulan Baator, surrounded by three walls of electrified barbed wire, with a very large Doberman leashed to the doorknob. I'll use only software that takes no input and produces no output and do my networking via encrypted smoke signal - and my packets will walk uphill both ways! On their knees! Backwards!
Japan's had phones with similar functionality for at least three years... there's a version for children that allows the parents to find out where the phone is via fax.
As an example, see here - this photo was taken in November 1945, several months after the bomb was dropped, and you can see that there's nothing standing.
Yee, do you ever have that mangled! The island's name was "Oo too" ("Oo shima" on modern maps, "oo" means a long "o") English name would be "Big Island". The island is part of Japan, and the gatekeeper to the Sagami Sea. Godzilla has to pass it on the way to Tokyo Bay. Mount Mihara, in which Godzilla was imprisoned from 1984 to 1989, is located on the island.
Er... no. The island is 'Ootojima' (), written "Large Door Island". Ooshima is a completely different island. See here for further info.
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It's a fucking *scan*, f'Chrissakes... look at the pictures. Straightforward Photoshop job.
I find the characters look alike, but then I think it looks like it was ripped off from the old Japanese Anime "Eight Man" and "Astro boy".
I hope you're joking...
Astro Boy
Tobor, the Eight Man
Considering the image was used in the press release, and thereafter turned up at such places as the BBC's page, I'd say that it was given pretty wide dissemination.
Mod the parent up, and here's the translation:
"Dear Mr. Comic Artist,
Please please pleeeeeease don't sue me. By the way, that illustration helped us get a $50 million grant from the US military, so we've got deeper pockets than you.
Insincerely yours,
Ned"
An MIT student, are we? Hmm?
If you had bothered to read the article, you would have seen that the MIT image is a straight cut-and-paste touchup job, using scans from Radix.
You'd think a prestigious university would be able to fork out the couple of hundred bucks it'd take to get an original illustration, especially since they were trying to get a $50 million grant, but apparently they're just as clueless as Joe Sixpack who downloads MP3s from Gnutella "because they're free".
-When was the last time you flew a kite?
Some time around the end of March, 1997.
Well, you did ask...
Egan's Blood Music? I think you mean Bear's...
Hi, Inoshiro... yes, I'm sure - take a look at this if you don't believe me ;)
(Obviously, that peak didn't last very long, but they did hit it - and after a 3:1 stock split, to boot!)
Liquid Audio is infamous in Japan - it was one of the first two companies to be listed on the new Tokyo Stock Exchange "Mothers" board for venture companies; unfortunately, the relaxed listing rules allowed Japanese gangsters to get a foot in the door.
Eventually, what happened was one of the company directors was kidnapped by the CEO(?), a rather interesting personage who was missing a chunk off one of his little fingers... for those of you familiar with Japan, that should immediately ring alarm bells
These days, they're called Cyber Music Entertainment. Their stock price peaked at around 1,590,000 yen in September 2000; these days, they trade at around 10,000 yen
Nope. Just what's written above, no more, no less. Wait till Monday is my advice.
OK, here's a quick translation of the page:
====
Thank you for visiting our site.
As has been reported earlier the Broadband Adapter (BBA) is no longer being manufactured, with the remaining stock sold out in July and August. However, we have received many requests for manufacturing to be restarted.
As a result, we have decided to accept "countdown" preordering in order to do a new manufacturing run, with the run to be produced only if reservations reach 1000 by the cutoff date.
Please follow the instructions below to preorder an adapter.
In the event that manufacture does go ahead, it will take approximately four months from that point in time until we can deliver the adapter to you. Please take this into account when ordering.
Start of preorder acceptance: 2002/8/26 (Mon) 13:00-
Cutoff date: 2002/9/9 (Mon) 13:00
Number of BBAs to be produced: 1000
Delivery date (planned): A notice will be placed on this site as it is finalized around the end of December 2002.
====
In other words, you won't be able to put your preorder in until after 1pm Monday (Japan Standard Time).
Just don't eat the brown acid.
Osamu Tezuka might have been an admirer of Disney, but he sure didn't take a Disney story, change the names of the characters, and pretend the original never existed, unlike a certain studio...
Be aware that Japanese fans have been up in arms over the Japanese DVD release. Apparently, the color balance is way off the original theater release - it's heavily red-biased.
Since Spirited Away is a Japanese film, does the MPAA have any say regarding its handling?
Hmmm.... what's patent #1, I wonder?
"Patent #1: A system for approving any vague description of something that might resemble, on shallow inspection, an invention. Issued by the USPO to the USPO."
Where can I apply?!
Iffy connection on the bay plug that was sending interference down the wire?
You do realize that WMP could possibly keep track of anything that you play with it?
"Windows Media Player has detected a license problem. Please update the media license for this pr0n movie...oh, by the way, that chick is really hot!"
I unexpectedly had some strange FAT corruption on my 'media storage drive' when I was playing around with a removable HDD drive bay. (The DVD-ROM on the same IDE channel was affected too ... it was strange.)
Bad cable, probably.
Yeah - it's called .
The day this happens is the day I move to a small hut just outside Ulan Baator, surrounded by three walls of electrified barbed wire, with a very large Doberman leashed to the doorknob. I'll use only software that takes no input and produces no output and do my networking via encrypted smoke signal - and my packets will walk uphill both ways! On their knees! Backwards!
Japan's had phones with similar functionality for at least three years... there's a version for children that allows the parents to find out where the phone is via fax.
As an example, see here - this photo was taken in November 1945, several months after the bomb was dropped, and you can see that there's nothing standing.
Yee, do you ever have that mangled! The island's name was "Oo too" ("Oo shima" on modern maps, "oo" means a long "o") English name would be "Big Island". The island is part of Japan, and the gatekeeper to the Sagami Sea. Godzilla has to pass it on the way to Tokyo Bay. Mount Mihara, in which Godzilla was imprisoned from 1984 to 1989, is located on the island.
Er... no. The island is 'Ootojima' (), written "Large Door Island". Ooshima is a completely different island. See here for further info.