Glad to someone seeing the light, but just don't call it "Japanation." That hurts me like pulling, oh I don't know, Godzilla out of my ass. For the sake of the sanity of all concerned, call it "anime." Japanation just sounds dumb.
Of course, in reality, AOL didn't exactly want the Nullsoft guys to make Gnutella, in fact they disowned it a few hours after it appeared, but the courts won't listen to a flimsy argument like that. (grin) If the RIAA is so righteous about stamping out music piracy, shouldn't they follow mp3board and sue AOL/Time Warner? At a purely philosophical level, yes, but of course they won't sue one of their own members, so then we can accuse the RIAA guys of being two faced bastards, i.e. what we already know them to be. This then rips the heart out of any advantage the RIAA had, they lose their fire, and Napster, etc. gets a whole lot more.
Wow. What a smart idea. Thank you to Gog_Magog for making this all crystal clear. Mod him up. Way up.
I have an old NeXTWorld magazine comparing a standard NeXTStation, a SparcStation 2, and a Mac IIfx (Apple's workstation offering at the time). The sparc was the fastest, followed by the NeXT, and the Mac in a distant third. The Mac had a 68030 processor, whereas the NeXT and the Sun both had 040's. They tallied up prices, adding a bunch of periphirals to the Sun and Mac to show how well loaded the NeXTStation was out of the box (kinda like Macs today, you know). The Mac came out to something like $12,0000. The NeXT was around $10,000, I think, and the Sun was the cheapest, at a thousand or so less. The editors argued that the NeXT was still likely the best buy because of the extra features of the hardware and the OS.
I think I agree with that, because frankly, Sun's OS pretty much sucked at the time. They had something like 2 different GUI's for SunOS, which were incompatible and had different apps for the to GUI's. The other option was of course pure command line, which no doubt paled in comparison to the highly evolved NextStep user interface, at least in the eyes of those not accustomed to a CLI world.
NeXT's real failing, I think, was their failure to target their hardware at one specific market. In the early days, NeXT marketed their computers at university labs, mainly. In the middle of NeXT's short lifespan, they told the world how great scientific computing was using NeXT's. NeXTWorld ran articles describing how great FORTRAN worked in NeXTStep. Towards the end, in the era of the x86 port of NeXTStep, NeXT targeted their OS at custom applications developers, pointing out how, using Objective C and the NeXT developer tools, programmers could cut their development time from a year to few months. This last approach has been where OpenStep, and the early iterations of Mac OS X have stayed. It could have garnered them a lot more market share, and probably a longer lifespan, if they'd simply used that same marketing approach all along. At least that's what some people say.
I just had a thought. If a website, let's say AppleInsider, was to post an extensive verbal description of unannounced Macs, but no pictures, would they still get hit with a cease and desist?
I wouldn't be surprised if they did, because Apple Legal, being a largely separate entity from Apple, has nothing better to do with their time.
I think that commercial radio stations pay to play the music that they do, so they probably aren't in jeopardy. Smaller, independent radio stations, however...
>Localizations are what are required; one must smooth the differences in the two >languages/cultures involved, especially when they are as different as Japanese and >English/American culture.
Agreed; this is why Working Design's translations of the Lunar games (on the MegaDrive and PSX) are so great. The translations themselves are great, but hilarious American pop culture references which, in my mind, in no way sully the quality of the translation. Plus the theme songs are totally rewritten so that they make more sense in English.
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Really, I wish that instead of just cutting a scene entirely, they would just edit it. The added bathing suits and all in the Toonami edit are rather annoying. It might be better if they would just do a blur on the boobs instead, though they probably can't show even that during the day on the Cartoon Network. Interestingly enough, the showings of Gundam Wing at 5:30 and midnight are slightly different. The"Midnight Run" version is advertised as being "uncut," though I hadn't noticed a difference; I figured it was uncut anyway, given that there's very little objectionable content in the series (except for thought-provoking dialogue, maybe;) However in episode 1, in the 5:30 version, Heero tells Releena "I will destroy you," whereas at 12:00, he says, "I will kill you." A small difference, but I'm sure there are others. Perhaps something similar could be done for Tenchi, as it seems that some scenes are edited to the point of not making sense.
ICANN says: "Uhhm, we don't know how many or what TLD's we are going to approve, or how to protect them, but this is obviously a story of great importance to humanity.
I'm not angry at slashdot for posting this story, I'm just wondering why it's important.
Thank you for saying this. What this is really about, in my point of view, is Ryan Meader being a dick, which is nothing new. Most of the time he posts utter BS, and then when he finally gets an actual rumor (probably from reading Appleinsider, not "sources close to Apple"), he mouths of at Apple when he is asked to remove the rumor, while still maintaining that he can't hold stock in Apple because it would be a "conflict of interests." Go to http://mosr.net to see what I'm talking about. Mosr.net's maintainers use the site exclusively to tell the world that mosr.com, and Ryan Meader is a bunch of crock. They could not be more right.
Speaking on the subject of AppleInsider, mosr.net says, "Often Right instead of Often Wrong, AppleInsider set an example MOSR seems quite unable to follow." 'nuff said.
SGI sold all of Cray to Tera, I'm pretty sure. The only supercomputers SGI will retain is the Origin 2000, I think, which is of course just an extension of their high-end servers. As for new hardware, I seem to recall hearing something a while back about the Cray SV2, being developed jointly by SGI and the NSA.;) All the better to tap our phone lines, I suppose. I would not be surprised at all if Tera assumed the development the the SV2 along with the existing products.
Personally, I never quite saw it the way Adams puts it, in terms of Arthur being a "failure." The way I see it after reading the books is essentially that, despite the abundance of life, culture, and good parties in the galaxy, you're all alone in the end, and you have to make the best of it and look out for yourself. This is especially true on prehistoric earth with the Golgfrinchans, or on Lamuella as the Sandwich Maker.
I kinda feel like those weirdos who come with bizarre, subconscious reasons as to why Adams chose 42 as the answer to life, the universe, and everything.
Get Akira and see what they were doing 15 years ago and see how we have come only so little forward in animation.
You are comparing American animation to Japanese animation, which are two totally different things. American amination houses are just now reaching somewhere near the level of animation quality that anime has been at for years (I'm talking about 2d, not 3d, btw). Go see Princess Mononoke and see how far animation has come since Akira.
Very few common Mac OS X apps will be easily portable to the greater UNIX world unless most of the OS X libraries (i.e. everything under cocoa) are ported as well. GnuStep, in its current state, would not be a big help, because it only deals with the older OpenStep stuff. If someone decided to write directly to the Darwin level of things, then porting wouldn't be too problematic, but it is in fact very unlikely that this would happen, because the high level framework of Mac OS X is excellent. I would consider Mac OS X apps to be portable unless...
a) you rewrite everything from scratch; but that defeats the purpose of a port. b) Apple open-sources the rest of their OS (not just the kernel), which is highly unlikely right now.
That's an interesting (if offtopic) point. I think I have saturated my school's 768k DSL a few times while running Gnutella, as thousands of requests for stuff I don't have are piped through my end of the gnutellanet. Is there any way to limit this? Did they, for that matter, ever release the source code to gnutella?
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Sadly, Mac OS X isn't going to see a full-blown release until March 2001, and the public beta is being kept real low profile.
Glad to someone seeing the light, but just don't call it "Japanation." That hurts me like pulling, oh I don't know, Godzilla out of my ass. For the sake of the sanity of all concerned, call it "anime." Japanation just sounds dumb.
No offense intended, honest.
Of course, in reality, AOL didn't exactly want the Nullsoft guys to make Gnutella, in fact they disowned it a few hours after it appeared, but the courts won't listen to a flimsy argument like that. (grin) If the RIAA is so righteous about stamping out music piracy, shouldn't they follow mp3board and sue AOL/Time Warner? At a purely philosophical level, yes, but of course they won't sue one of their own members, so then we can accuse the RIAA guys of being two faced bastards, i.e. what we already know them to be. This then rips the heart out of any advantage the RIAA had, they lose their fire, and Napster, etc. gets a whole lot more.
Wow. What a smart idea. Thank you to Gog_Magog for making this all crystal clear. Mod him up. Way up.
Use it as swap? ;)
Icecast is open source. From the looking at the website (www.icecast.org), it works on Linux, and is GPL'ed. What more do you need?
And those actually exist?! Damn that's scary. Does the US have any?
And it would certainly work well when China decides to invade Taiwan: kill all the people, and leave all the high-tech infrastructure.
I have an old NeXTWorld magazine comparing a standard NeXTStation, a SparcStation 2, and a Mac IIfx (Apple's workstation offering at the time). The sparc was the fastest, followed by the NeXT, and the Mac in a distant third. The Mac had a 68030 processor, whereas the NeXT and the Sun both had 040's. They tallied up prices, adding a bunch of periphirals to the Sun and Mac to show how well loaded the NeXTStation was out of the box (kinda like Macs today, you know). The Mac came out to something like $12,0000. The NeXT was around $10,000, I think, and the Sun was the cheapest, at a thousand or so less. The editors argued that the NeXT was still likely the best buy because of the extra features of the hardware and the OS.
I think I agree with that, because frankly, Sun's OS pretty much sucked at the time. They had something like 2 different GUI's for SunOS, which were incompatible and had different apps for the to GUI's. The other option was of course pure command line, which no doubt paled in comparison to the highly evolved NextStep user interface, at least in the eyes of those not accustomed to a CLI world.
NeXT's real failing, I think, was their failure to target their hardware at one specific market. In the early days, NeXT marketed their computers at university labs, mainly. In the middle of NeXT's short lifespan, they told the world how great scientific computing was using NeXT's. NeXTWorld ran articles describing how great FORTRAN worked in NeXTStep. Towards the end, in the era of the x86 port of NeXTStep, NeXT targeted their OS at custom applications developers, pointing out how, using Objective C and the NeXT developer tools, programmers could cut their development time from a year to few months. This last approach has been where OpenStep, and the early iterations of Mac OS X have stayed. It could have garnered them a lot more market share, and probably a longer lifespan, if they'd simply used that same marketing approach all along. At least that's what some people say.
What country is .cx for?
What the hell is a neutron bomb? I've heard of atom bombs and hydrogen bombs, but I thought neutrons bombs were something out of science fiction.
I just had a thought. If a website, let's say AppleInsider, was to post an extensive verbal description of unannounced Macs, but no pictures, would they still get hit with a cease and desist?
I wouldn't be surprised if they did, because Apple Legal, being a largely separate entity from Apple, has nothing better to do with their time.
Is this real? If it is, I'll bet Amazon goes for amazon.net. They are allowed to have that, aren't they?
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Better yet! Maybe they'll sue the lesbians for domain name squatting!
I think that commercial radio stations pay to play the music that they do, so they probably aren't in jeopardy. Smaller, independent radio stations, however...
If memory serves me, the first NeXTCubes came out around 1987, and Steve Jobs formed NeXT Computer a year or two before that.
>Localizations are what are required; one must smooth the differences in the two
>languages/cultures involved, especially when they are as different as Japanese and
>English/American culture.
Agreed; this is why Working Design's translations of the Lunar games (on the MegaDrive and PSX) are so great. The translations themselves are great, but hilarious American pop culture references which, in my mind, in no way sully the quality of the translation. Plus the theme songs are totally rewritten so that they make more sense in English.
Seriously? Or is just a troll?
Really, I wish that instead of just cutting a scene entirely, they would just edit it. The added bathing suits and all in the Toonami edit are rather annoying. It might be better if they would just do a blur on the boobs instead, though they probably can't show even that during the day on the Cartoon Network. ;) However in episode 1, in the 5:30 version, Heero tells Releena "I will destroy you," whereas at 12:00, he says, "I will kill you." A small difference, but I'm sure there are others. Perhaps something similar could be done for Tenchi, as it seems that some scenes are edited to the point of not making sense.
Interestingly enough, the showings of Gundam Wing at 5:30 and midnight are slightly different. The"Midnight Run" version is advertised as being "uncut," though I hadn't noticed a difference; I figured it was uncut anyway, given that there's very little objectionable content in the series (except for thought-provoking dialogue, maybe
ICANN says: "Uhhm, we don't know how many or what TLD's we are going to approve, or how to protect them, but this is obviously a story of great importance to humanity.
I'm not angry at slashdot for posting this story, I'm just wondering why it's important.
Uhh, you've been able to access FAT16 filesystems from MacOS for years. Or maybe it's just DOS disks, I can't remember.
Thank you for saying this. What this is really about, in my point of view, is Ryan Meader being a dick, which is nothing new. Most of the time he posts utter BS, and then when he finally gets an actual rumor (probably from reading Appleinsider, not "sources close to Apple"), he mouths of at Apple when he is asked to remove the rumor, while still maintaining that he can't hold stock in Apple because it would be a "conflict of interests." Go to http://mosr.net to see what I'm talking about. Mosr.net's maintainers use the site exclusively to tell the world that mosr.com, and Ryan Meader is a bunch of crock. They could not be more right. Speaking on the subject of AppleInsider, mosr.net says, "Often Right instead of Often Wrong, AppleInsider set an example MOSR seems quite unable to follow." 'nuff said.
SGI sold all of Cray to Tera, I'm pretty sure. The only supercomputers SGI will retain is the Origin 2000, I think, which is of course just an extension of their high-end servers. As for new hardware, I seem to recall hearing something a while back about the Cray SV2, being developed jointly by SGI and the NSA. ;) All the better to tap our phone lines, I suppose. I would not be surprised at all if Tera assumed the development the the SV2 along with the existing products.
Personally, I never quite saw it the way Adams puts it, in terms of Arthur being a "failure." The way I see it after reading the books is essentially that, despite the abundance of life, culture, and good parties in the galaxy, you're all alone in the end, and you have to make the best of it and look out for yourself. This is especially true on prehistoric earth with the Golgfrinchans, or on Lamuella as the Sandwich Maker.
I kinda feel like those weirdos who come with bizarre, subconscious reasons as to why Adams chose 42 as the answer to life, the universe, and everything.
for what? The fish? ;)
Get Akira and see what they were doing 15 years ago and see how we have come only so little forward in animation. You are comparing American animation to Japanese animation, which are two totally different things. American amination houses are just now reaching somewhere near the level of animation quality that anime has been at for years (I'm talking about 2d, not 3d, btw). Go see Princess Mononoke and see how far animation has come since Akira.
Very few common Mac OS X apps will be easily portable to the greater UNIX world unless most of the OS X libraries (i.e. everything under cocoa) are ported as well. GnuStep, in its current state, would not be a big help, because it only deals with the older OpenStep stuff. If someone decided to write directly to the Darwin level of things, then porting wouldn't be too problematic, but it is in fact very unlikely that this would happen, because the high level framework of Mac OS X is excellent. I would consider Mac OS X apps to be portable unless...
a) you rewrite everything from scratch; but that defeats the purpose of a port.
b) Apple open-sources the rest of their OS (not just the kernel), which is highly unlikely right now.
That's an interesting (if offtopic) point. I think I have saturated my school's 768k DSL a few times while running Gnutella, as thousands of requests for stuff I don't have are piped through my end of the gnutellanet. Is there any way to limit this? Did they, for that matter, ever release the source code to gnutella?