No matter what machine virtualization software you use, you have to worry about licensing on the OS side. They are totally separate parts of the equation.
If I use VMWare right now on a server running Linux, and I run two VMWare sessions with Windows Server 2003, I need two Server 2003 licenses. The same applies if the base OS is 2003 running "Hypervisor" (although arguably then you should say you need 3 Server 2003 licenses, one for the host and two for the virtual machines).
Using VMWare is not a get-out-of-licensing-free card.
I work at a large public university doing IT, and we use LANDesk Management Suite to do all our package management, OS patching, inventory, OS Deployment (imaging), and much more! The application is really great for people who like to get under-the-hood, because its package builder is robust and high configurable, and it supports scripting at multiple levels, can integrate with AD or run without it entirely (we ran it on our NT4 domain infrastructure for years), and the best part is if you have feature requests the company listens. They're a firm where you call up their tech support guy with a problem and he says "Yea, we've got a guy here who's been working on the problem, I'll send you the beta of our fix and you can try it out". They're smart people, and I like that. We've gotten to the point where we can walk up to a machine, reboot it, PXE boot to Landesk's client, select an image from a menu, and the machine images itself, joins the domain, sets its static IP, reinstalls the Landesk client, patches the OS, updates applications, and reboots without us touching it again! Version 8.5 even does Spyware detection and removal! Highly recommended.
As has been stated, this is nothing more than some blogger who knows very little about how Digital Video works whining about something that's perfectly obvious.
So the scaler has chosen to simply upsize each 1920x540 field to 1280x720... Good! I'd rather it do that than use the usual crappy deinterlacing methods most internal scalers use. If all you're about to do is downsize the image, then using Bob is stupid and assinine, because all you're doing is line doubling and then downsizing! Why not simply upsize from the half-height field? You'll get a better image in the end.
The only way you could potentially get a better image is if you used a really good deinterlacing chip, or the 1080i60 signal is really 1080p24 put through telecine and your deinterlacer will do IVTC. But then I'm pretty sure that 1080p24 is an acceptable format to broadcast so anyone broadcasting a film at 1080 should use that in the first place.
Bottom line: this is not news, this is someone who doesn't know jack calling it news.
Macross 7 aired years and years ago. My point was anything airing NOW that's good is already licensed. Older shows getting licensed is much more uncertain, and I have no problem with people going back and subbing Princess Army or Captain Harlock, and such.
I realized I'm joining the discussion a whole 3 hours late which means no one will probably read this comment, but what the hell...
First, a little history: I used to fansub shows starting about five years ago, but my roots in online fansubbing go back even farther, to 1997. I was one of the three groups (although I guess I was really only one person) who pioneered online distribution of fansubs in the first place, back when RealPlayer G2 had just come out and Cable modems and DSL were just first available. I used to take VHS fansub tapes, encode them to RM, and make them available on my website. If you run across old Sailor Moon RM files, or Macross 7, or later on any of the Fumei Anime encodes, that was me.
Then DivX and broadband changed everything, and the whole online scene exploded. Now, you had people in Japan ripping raws from TV in high quality (beginning with Noir and Vandread, they were the real breakout series for Digital Fansubbing, or digisubbing) and groups translating and reencoding these raws, you no longer had to wait for an old-school tape fansubber to translate it and distro tapes. It was revolutionary.
But about that time I started to see where things were headed, and I got out of fansubbing more than two years ago because I came to realize that the modern fansubbing scene is nothing more than the next warez scene. Everything turned into speed, speed, speed, and became less about quality and the love of anime and more about online prick-waving contests about which group was cooler and got their releases out faster. I grew out of that crap when I was 16, thanks.
Today's market no longer needs fansubbing. Fansubbing was important back when shows might never get brought over to the US, or releases might not occur for another 4 years (like ADV and Excel Saga, for instance), but today the domestic anime companies get their product out in reasonable timeframes (it's no 1 week wait time, but that's for obvious reasons), produce good product (if they don't they hear about it forever, ask ADV about Eva Vol 1 sometime), and do a bang-up job of trying to get the whole phenomenon out to new people.
Anything good that gets aired on Japanese TV will be licensed in the US, period. Everything that's being produced in Japan now is licensed before it airs, so this crap about US companies looking to fansubbers for direction is bunk. All fansubbing is these days is whole-sale piracy on the one hand and another silly adolescent online rat race on the other. When you have "release" groups, distro groups (read torrent sites), and all of these things have three letter abbreviations, you know it's just the new warez scene.
That's why I got out. The last show I enjoyed subbing was Kokoro Toshokan, because I knew it would never get brought here (indeed, it still hasn't after three years). That was what fansubbing was about. Today's scene is a terrible perversion of the ideals of fansubbers of old.
I play the Korean MMORPG Ragnarok Online, one of the games listed (although the numbers they list are rather off). RO is rather unique in that it comes in many many flavors run by various companies that license the property. Here in the US you have Gravity LLC which runs International Ragnarok Online (iRO) although for all intents and purposes it's just Canada+US, in Japan you have jRO, China has cRO, Taiwan has tRO, Thailand has thRO, and there are RO versions for the Phillipenes, Malaysia, Europe (mostly German), and a couple more. If you counted all the various versions of RO in terms of subscribers, RO would be up there with Lineage in terms of subscriber numbers (there are something like a million in China alone). So while I'm playing a Korean MMORPG, I'm playing the US version of it. Sadly I couldn't play the Korean (or Japanese) version of it because they require the equivalent of a Social Security # to play, to assure you're from the country you're trying to play in. Which is a pity, cause I'd jump to jRO in a heartbeat.
This set of reviews is absolutely useless. They don't do into covering the two most important things in any DVD-Burner: Player compatability and DVD-blank compatability.
All +/-R crud aside (and most of the newer drives like the Sony DRU500 and Pioneer A06 do dual format anyway), the biggest issue for someone who's going to buy a DVD burner is whether the discs they burn will play in their set top player, and other people's. This article doesn't even consider that fact.
Other posters will touch on this I'm sure - DVD's aren't the ideal backup solution. They're alright, but really what DVD is good for is storing video. I think the number of people buying DVD burners to use for backup is a whole lot smaller than the audience who actually want to make DVDs they can play on their television, or bring to their friend's house.
Finally, all these drives are OLD news. The A05 has already been superceded by the A06 from Pioneer, the review doesn't mention a Sony drive at all, and Plextor has just announced their new 8x DVD+R/4x DVD-R burner that will come out sometime in the next month. Perhaps if this review was posted maybe 4 months ago it would be relevant.
I could recommend a bunch of sites with relevant reviews, but I'd rather not get them slashdotted. Check the almighty google for reviews, hopefully ones which aren't practically devoid of useful information like this one.
The beauty of real, open source, free software is that it empowers EVERYONE. Be they good, bad, or ugly, everyone is given access to the same kind of benefits. On the one hand, of course this empowers terrorists. But then again so does encryption research. Should we ban encryption? I'm sure the MPAA would have things to say about that. Open Source gives everyone an equal stake. Just because the enemy gets the same benefits doesn't mean we should stop. We're already "more powerful" than them - how will this uneven the playing field any more than it already is?
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Oh and I forgot to mention -
ADV is not going to be releasing these. I will bet money on this. First off, GAiNAX's relationship with ADV turned pretty sour after Eva. ADV never got a hold of the licenses for the Eva Director's Cut episodes 21-24, they only had the license for the original TV versions. Second, they didn't get the movie rights because of money. The amount of money GAiNAX wanted for the films was REDICULOUS, and the only reason Manga got them was because they're stupid and they have too much money (the did not recoup the licensing fees off their disc sales yet).
ADV is not going to spend money again to relicense the new remastered prints. They're already making money off their "perfect" box set. The demand for these remastered prints wouldn't be high enough to sustain the cost because in general American anime fans aren't the kind who will rebuy everything when a new version comes out. There are people I know who've bought something on VHS, then Laserdisc, then on DVD. Japanese hard core fans will do this all the time - and there's a much larger hardcore anime fanbase in Japan than here.
So don't hold your breath for these to ever be released Stateside. You want subs - go get some scripts or rip the sub streams from the ADV discs and retime them to these new imports and use DVDSubber. Me, I'm happy with em raw since I know all the dialog already.:)
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Well, for those in the know, the March issue of Newtype Magazine is out in Japan, I managed to snag a copy of it. Why? Because the sampler DVD includes a special section devoted entirely to the Eva Renewal project.
Here's what it has: 1) Remastered Opening 2) First Half of Episode One with Left Half of the screen Remastered, right side from original telecine with a white line running down the center. 3) Second Half of Episode One Remasters (with a little watermark in the top corner). 4) Remastered Ending of Episode One
So I've seen first hand the Eva remaster... spent the last hour rewatching it. It is AWESOME.
First off - the box set being released by GAiNAX is RAW JAPANESE in REGION 2. There are NO English Subs! Second, the price is extremely good for a boxset of this size (11 discs) in Japanese prices (actual boxset price is 39,800yen). Considering the poor shmucks who bought the Second Impact Box sets a year ago paid more than 50% more than that to get everything that's in this box - and not remastered - I'd say this is a bloody good deal.
The remastering process was two fold - first off, the entire show was re-telecined from film source and then digitally cleaned up. This means no frame jitters, no bad telecining, no bad coloring. It looks gorgeous. The colors are vibrant and clean enough it looks like digital cel work at times. And if you've seen my homepage - you know I've worked a lot with Eva's video... and the difference is like night and day.
The second part of the remastering process is all the audio is being redone in Dolby Digital 5.1 surround. I can't comment on this myself as I haven't watched it on a full 5.1 speaker setup, but it already sounds clearer, and my home theater nut friend who also got the disc tells me it sounds fantastic. I'll take his word on it as he's one of those anime fans where if there's ANYTHING wrong he makes a stink about it.
Now if you want to see this for yourself, buy the March issue of Newtype Magazine (NOT the US version!! It's not in that POS) or wait for the Evangelion Test Type 01 disc to come out. It's a sampler disc of the whole remastered first episode with a couple extras for less than $20. If it's not good enough to spend your money on, you don't have to get it. I own all the Region 1 Eva TV DVDs from ADV, I own the Region 2 imports of the Movies and Vol 6 (the re-edited episodes 21-24). I'm still buying this thing - it's that good. I've taken the time to capture some samples off the disc (digitally of course). You can check them out here, but PLEASE go easy on my server. If someone could mirror the pics please do so. http://www.ermacstudios.org/EvaRenewal/
Are you INSANE? OK I'll admit hiragana and katakana are pretty damn simple. But I would venture to guess you haven't gotten into any Kanji. The only people who don't have a problem with Kanji are 1) Chinese/Japanese/so-some-extent-Koreans who already learned them in school over a period of more than a dozen years or 2) complete and utter linguistical and artistic geniuses. You try learning the 1900+ Kanji you're expected to know before you finish high school and get back to me.
OK Since I'm currently in Japan, currently speak Japanese, and am an insane anime fan (please don't slashdot my homepage) I can sort of speak on this subject with at least some sense that I know what I'm talking about.
I will agree that learning Japanese will benefit your enjoyment and understanding of Japanese, especially of Japanese culture. You can tell who these people are when they laugh at the scene in TenchiMuyo OVA ep1 where Aeka sneezes right after Ryoko talks (those who've seen it know what I'm talking about). Cultural nuances like that will fall on deaf... eyes, unless you provide liner notes or something. Also there are plenty of things in Japanese which just do not translate. There is no good way to translate the fact that certain people in Scyed talk in Keigo all the time. There is no good way to translate the pun in Puni Puni Poemi involving 80 gram breasts (and it's a brilliant pun).
However, that's absolutely no basis to say that learning Japanese is a necessary requirement for watching Anime. A good subtitler (like I am, I'd like to believe) will spend a whole lot of time to get things just right, and to communicate as much information as possible in the most natural way with losing as little from the original as possible. A good subtitling job can usually provide 95% of the meaning, tone, and nuance of the original. There are plenty of ways to translate things which give you a very good idea of what's going on, and to say that watching raw is necessary is just rediculous.
Would I not watch film just because I'm not familiar with Goddard's New Wave editing technique? No - that's silly. Would I not drive a car if I didn't know what the inner workings of my timing belt were? No.
Would I not use a computer if I didn't know the source code for my operating system by heart? No.
That's analogous to what you're saying. Even if you cannot get the complete 100% picture doesn't mean you can't enjoy it, grow from it, and then from that maybe decide it would be a good idea put in the effort to find out what that bit you're missing is.
Various other responses: To the obvious troll. Jesus man, you'd learn C just so you could hack your operating system? Get a life!
About the mention of vocabulary in Anime: That's a bunch of bullocks. Anime's vocabulary, style, and everything else about its speech is generally on par with Japanese people. Take a look at American television. Does everyone there talk in really funky accents and use huge amounts of slang? No. Could you imagine Dan Rather saying "Next in dis hizzouz we be hitting up our home skillit down in Tehran for a breaking news up-dizzate!" Japanese television has people talking in just that - Japanese. Anime is no exception. In fact Anime is closer to the actual way Japanese people talk since most (almost all) of the time, it's fiction, and therefore the characters in it are suppose to be talking like real people, as opposed to the newscaster whose pronunciation has to be immaculate before they let him or her infront of the camera.
Rambus is a member of the JEDEC, a committee of Semiconductor manufacturers which was created to help set standards for different types of chips. All the major manufacturers are JEDEC members, as well as other companies including Intel and Rambus.
One of the agreements to joining the JEDEC is that you must disclose all patents, finalized and pending, to the committee and you may not withhold such information, or use information gained in the JEDEC forums to file your own patents.
Rambus decided not to follow the agreement, and instead filed a patent during the SDRAM standard negotiations which would attempt to patent the exact implementation of SDRAM which was being written up. In the patent office, if your patent is not granted you can get extensions on it by modifying it. So what they did is continually string the patent along for several years, modifying it slightly so that as the SDRAM (and later DDR-SDRAM standard) was finalized, their patent looked exactly like what the standard was supposed to be.
Now the patent finally went through (god bless those morons in the patent office), and since everyone has implemented their RAM according to the standard, Rambus is suing them all for patent infringement.
However, there is very little chance they'll win. First, they violated the JEDEC agreement. Second, there is certainly prior art. Third, there was a decision back in '96 (I think) against Dell Computer when they patented something which was the result of "An Industry-wide Standardization effort" where the courts ruled that their patent was unenforceable. This is going to happen to Rambus, as well.
As for Hitachi and Toshiba backing down and paying license agreements there are specific reasons.
After the settlement, Hitachi sold their RAM division to NEC. They don't have to deal with the problem now, and since NEC is incorporating Hitachi's RAM infrastructure into their own, the licensing agreements probably mean jack now.
Toshiba, on the other hand, manufactures the RD-DRAM which is used in the PlayStation 2. They're making enormous amounts of money from this, and if they didn't agree to pay more licensing fees to Rambus, Rambus might pull their RD-DRAM license, thus forcing Sony to find someone else to manufacture the RAM.
OK, this is obviously an uninformed post which is bordering on Trollness, but let me clear up some things for you.
1) Rambus is not a standard put out by Intel. Rambus is not even a standard at all. Rambus is a company which makes its money by licensing their intellectual property. Rambus Direct DRAM (RD-DRAM) is a standard put out by Rambus which outlines how to manufacture and communicate with their memory technology. Rambus licenses this to memory and chipset manufacturers such as Intel, NEC, and Samsung. FYI AMD also has a Rambus license, but they have done nothing with it.
2) While RD-DRAM does offer higher bandwidth than traditional SDRAM, its implementation brings about a whole bunch of other problems. Neither RAM standard is perfect, however DDR-SDRAM has better performance than RD-DRAM in almost all scenarios, and it's CHEAPER because A) no licensing fees and B) it's very very similar to SDRAM so fabrication plants can simply modify their existing production lines instead of creating whole seperate lines for RD-DRAM.
3) AMD has nothing to do with Rambus or DDR SDRAM. When you buy RAM you are not "buying Intel" or "Buying AMD." That's like saying you're "buying Honda" when you buy some Firestone tires that fit your Honda. [sarcasm]And of course we shouldn't buy Honda because they are an evil Japanese corporation, and Japan is where Pokémon came from, which is the spawn of Satan.[/sarcasm]
4) Intel is pushing the RD-DRAM standard because of an agreement with Rambus which, if they can make RDDRAM successful, they get enormous amounts of Rambus stock. Basically Rambus bribed Intel in order to get their superior product out there so they could make more licensing fee money.
5) Intel is NOT ALLOWED to market a DDR-SDRAM chipset for high-end desktop machines under the terms of this agreement. All this talk about Intel making a DDR-SDRAM chipset for regular PCs are foolish. They may try to produce a "server chipset" which supports DDR-SDRAM, but you will not see a high-end PC chipset from Intel which supports DDR-SDRAM. Note that the chipset must be made by Intel, that's not to say VIA or SiS can't make one.;-)
6) Rambus is produced in the same fabrication facilities as SDRAM.
How will the TUX Webserver integrate with RedHat's Linux distributions? Will RedHat create a special distribution with an identical setup to yours? Will RedHat start releasing more specialized distributions, preferably ones more suited to a secure server environment but focused on performance like your setup was?
As it is RedHat seems too insecure and bloated for a streamlined server environment. Ideal would be installation options where I can say "This server will do these 3 things (i.e. DNS, Mail, HTTP) so make it suited for that and nothing else." This kind of flexibility would be a HUGE boon to the server market, giving customers a high performance machine running TUX + Apache that was secure and did the functions they needed it to.
Yea that was a long question, you can chop off last paragraph if you like. Hehe, insecure and bloated, can we say WinNT/2K?
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No matter what machine virtualization software you use, you have to worry about licensing on the OS side. They are totally separate parts of the equation.
If I use VMWare right now on a server running Linux, and I run two VMWare sessions with Windows Server 2003, I need two Server 2003 licenses. The same applies if the base OS is 2003 running "Hypervisor" (although arguably then you should say you need 3 Server 2003 licenses, one for the host and two for the virtual machines).
Using VMWare is not a get-out-of-licensing-free card.
I work at a large public university doing IT, and we use LANDesk Management Suite to do all our package management, OS patching, inventory, OS Deployment (imaging), and much more! The application is really great for people who like to get under-the-hood, because its package builder is robust and high configurable, and it supports scripting at multiple levels, can integrate with AD or run without it entirely (we ran it on our NT4 domain infrastructure for years), and the best part is if you have feature requests the company listens. They're a firm where you call up their tech support guy with a problem and he says "Yea, we've got a guy here who's been working on the problem, I'll send you the beta of our fix and you can try it out". They're smart people, and I like that.
We've gotten to the point where we can walk up to a machine, reboot it, PXE boot to Landesk's client, select an image from a menu, and the machine images itself, joins the domain, sets its static IP, reinstalls the Landesk client, patches the OS, updates applications, and reboots without us touching it again!
Version 8.5 even does Spyware detection and removal!
Highly recommended.
As has been stated, this is nothing more than some blogger who knows very little about how Digital Video works whining about something that's perfectly obvious.
So the scaler has chosen to simply upsize each 1920x540 field to 1280x720... Good! I'd rather it do that than use the usual crappy deinterlacing methods most internal scalers use. If all you're about to do is downsize the image, then using Bob is stupid and assinine, because all you're doing is line doubling and then downsizing! Why not simply upsize from the half-height field? You'll get a better image in the end.
The only way you could potentially get a better image is if you used a really good deinterlacing chip, or the 1080i60 signal is really 1080p24 put through telecine and your deinterlacer will do IVTC. But then I'm pretty sure that 1080p24 is an acceptable format to broadcast so anyone broadcasting a film at 1080 should use that in the first place.
Bottom line: this is not news, this is someone who doesn't know jack calling it news.
Macross 7 aired years and years ago. My point was anything airing NOW that's good is already licensed. Older shows getting licensed is much more uncertain, and I have no problem with people going back and subbing Princess Army or Captain Harlock, and such.
I realized I'm joining the discussion a whole 3 hours late which means no one will probably read this comment, but what the hell...
First, a little history:
I used to fansub shows starting about five years ago, but my roots in online fansubbing go back even farther, to 1997. I was one of the three groups (although I guess I was really only one person) who pioneered online distribution of fansubs in the first place, back when RealPlayer G2 had just come out and Cable modems and DSL were just first available. I used to take VHS fansub tapes, encode them to RM, and make them available on my website. If you run across old Sailor Moon RM files, or Macross 7, or later on any of the Fumei Anime encodes, that was me.
Then DivX and broadband changed everything, and the whole online scene exploded. Now, you had people in Japan ripping raws from TV in high quality (beginning with Noir and Vandread, they were the real breakout series for Digital Fansubbing, or digisubbing) and groups translating and reencoding these raws, you no longer had to wait for an old-school tape fansubber to translate it and distro tapes. It was revolutionary.
But about that time I started to see where things were headed, and I got out of fansubbing more than two years ago because I came to realize that the modern fansubbing scene is nothing more than the next warez scene. Everything turned into speed, speed, speed, and became less about quality and the love of anime and more about online prick-waving contests about which group was cooler and got their releases out faster. I grew out of that crap when I was 16, thanks.
Today's market no longer needs fansubbing. Fansubbing was important back when shows might never get brought over to the US, or releases might not occur for another 4 years (like ADV and Excel Saga, for instance), but today the domestic anime companies get their product out in reasonable timeframes (it's no 1 week wait time, but that's for obvious reasons), produce good product (if they don't they hear about it forever, ask ADV about Eva Vol 1 sometime), and do a bang-up job of trying to get the whole phenomenon out to new people.
Anything good that gets aired on Japanese TV will be licensed in the US, period. Everything that's being produced in Japan now is licensed before it airs, so this crap about US companies looking to fansubbers for direction is bunk. All fansubbing is these days is whole-sale piracy on the one hand and another silly adolescent online rat race on the other. When you have "release" groups, distro groups (read torrent sites), and all of these things have three letter abbreviations, you know it's just the new warez scene.
That's why I got out. The last show I enjoyed subbing was Kokoro Toshokan, because I knew it would never get brought here (indeed, it still hasn't after three years). That was what fansubbing was about. Today's scene is a terrible perversion of the ideals of fansubbers of old.
I play the Korean MMORPG Ragnarok Online, one of the games listed (although the numbers they list are rather off). RO is rather unique in that it comes in many many flavors run by various companies that license the property. Here in the US you have Gravity LLC which runs International Ragnarok Online (iRO) although for all intents and purposes it's just Canada+US, in Japan you have jRO, China has cRO, Taiwan has tRO, Thailand has thRO, and there are RO versions for the Phillipenes, Malaysia, Europe (mostly German), and a couple more. If you counted all the various versions of RO in terms of subscribers, RO would be up there with Lineage in terms of subscriber numbers (there are something like a million in China alone).
So while I'm playing a Korean MMORPG, I'm playing the US version of it. Sadly I couldn't play the Korean (or Japanese) version of it because they require the equivalent of a Social Security # to play, to assure you're from the country you're trying to play in. Which is a pity, cause I'd jump to jRO in a heartbeat.
Holy cow, that's the fastest slashdotting ever! Less than 10 comments and the site's already gone.
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Take THAT! all you RTFA folks
This set of reviews is absolutely useless. They don't do into covering the two most important things in any DVD-Burner: Player compatability and DVD-blank compatability.
All +/-R crud aside (and most of the newer drives like the Sony DRU500 and Pioneer A06 do dual format anyway), the biggest issue for someone who's going to buy a DVD burner is whether the discs they burn will play in their set top player, and other people's. This article doesn't even consider that fact.
Other posters will touch on this I'm sure - DVD's aren't the ideal backup solution. They're alright, but really what DVD is good for is storing video. I think the number of people buying DVD burners to use for backup is a whole lot smaller than the audience who actually want to make DVDs they can play on their television, or bring to their friend's house.
Finally, all these drives are OLD news. The A05 has already been superceded by the A06 from Pioneer, the review doesn't mention a Sony drive at all, and Plextor has just announced their new 8x DVD+R/4x DVD-R burner that will come out sometime in the next month. Perhaps if this review was posted maybe 4 months ago it would be relevant.
I could recommend a bunch of sites with relevant reviews, but I'd rather not get them slashdotted. Check the almighty google for reviews, hopefully ones which aren't practically devoid of useful information like this one.
The beauty of real, open source, free software is that it empowers EVERYONE. Be they good, bad, or ugly, everyone is given access to the same kind of benefits. On the one hand, of course this empowers terrorists. But then again so does encryption research. Should we ban encryption? I'm sure the MPAA would have things to say about that.
Open Source gives everyone an equal stake. Just because the enemy gets the same benefits doesn't mean we should stop. We're already "more powerful" than them - how will this uneven the playing field any more than it already is?
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ADV is not going to be releasing these. I will bet money on this.
First off, GAiNAX's relationship with ADV turned pretty sour after Eva. ADV never got a hold of the licenses for the Eva Director's Cut episodes 21-24, they only had the license for the original TV versions. Second, they didn't get the movie rights because of money. The amount of money GAiNAX wanted for the films was REDICULOUS, and the only reason Manga got them was because they're stupid and they have too much money (the did not recoup the licensing fees off their disc sales yet).
ADV is not going to spend money again to relicense the new remastered prints. They're already making money off their "perfect" box set. The demand for these remastered prints wouldn't be high enough to sustain the cost because in general American anime fans aren't the kind who will rebuy everything when a new version comes out. There are people I know who've bought something on VHS, then Laserdisc, then on DVD. Japanese hard core fans will do this all the time - and there's a much larger hardcore anime fanbase in Japan than here.
So don't hold your breath for these to ever be released Stateside. You want subs - go get some scripts or rip the sub streams from the ADV discs and retime them to these new imports and use DVDSubber. Me, I'm happy with em raw since I know all the dialog already.
Well, for those in the know, the March issue of Newtype Magazine is out in Japan, I managed to snag a copy of it. Why? Because the sampler DVD includes a special section devoted entirely to the Eva Renewal project.
Here's what it has:
1) Remastered Opening
2) First Half of Episode One with Left Half of the screen Remastered, right side from original telecine with a white line running down the center.
3) Second Half of Episode One Remasters (with a little watermark in the top corner).
4) Remastered Ending of Episode One
So I've seen first hand the Eva remaster... spent the last hour rewatching it. It is AWESOME.
First off - the box set being released by GAiNAX is RAW JAPANESE in REGION 2. There are NO English Subs! Second, the price is extremely good for a boxset of this size (11 discs) in Japanese prices (actual boxset price is 39,800yen). Considering the poor shmucks who bought the Second Impact Box sets a year ago paid more than 50% more than that to get everything that's in this box - and not remastered - I'd say this is a bloody good deal.
The remastering process was two fold - first off, the entire show was re-telecined from film source and then digitally cleaned up. This means no frame jitters, no bad telecining, no bad coloring. It looks gorgeous. The colors are vibrant and clean enough it looks like digital cel work at times. And if you've seen my homepage - you know I've worked a lot with Eva's video... and the difference is like night and day.
The second part of the remastering process is all the audio is being redone in Dolby Digital 5.1 surround. I can't comment on this myself as I haven't watched it on a full 5.1 speaker setup, but it already sounds clearer, and my home theater nut friend who also got the disc tells me it sounds fantastic. I'll take his word on it as he's one of those anime fans where if there's ANYTHING wrong he makes a stink about it.
Now if you want to see this for yourself, buy the March issue of Newtype Magazine (NOT the US version!! It's not in that POS) or wait for the Evangelion Test Type 01 disc to come out. It's a sampler disc of the whole remastered first episode with a couple extras for less than $20. If it's not good enough to spend your money on, you don't have to get it.
I own all the Region 1 Eva TV DVDs from ADV, I own the Region 2 imports of the Movies and Vol 6 (the re-edited episodes 21-24). I'm still buying this thing - it's that good.
I've taken the time to capture some samples off the disc (digitally of course).
You can check them out here, but PLEASE go easy on my server. If someone could mirror the pics please do so.
http://www.ermacstudios.org/EvaRenewal/
The U.S. States? Is that the place where the HIV Virus is spread via. AC Current lines?
Umm, thanks. ^_^ And yes it was Tenchi muyo ep2 and not ep1, my mistake.
Are you INSANE?
OK I'll admit hiragana and katakana are pretty damn simple. But I would venture to guess you haven't gotten into any Kanji. The only people who don't have a problem with Kanji are 1) Chinese/Japanese/so-some-extent-Koreans who already learned them in school over a period of more than a dozen years or 2) complete and utter linguistical and artistic geniuses.
You try learning the 1900+ Kanji you're expected to know before you finish high school and get back to me.
OK Since I'm currently in Japan, currently speak Japanese, and am an insane anime fan (please don't slashdot my homepage) I can sort of speak on this subject with at least some sense that I know what I'm talking about.
I will agree that learning Japanese will benefit your enjoyment and understanding of Japanese, especially of Japanese culture. You can tell who these people are when they laugh at the scene in TenchiMuyo OVA ep1 where Aeka sneezes right after Ryoko talks (those who've seen it know what I'm talking about). Cultural nuances like that will fall on deaf... eyes, unless you provide liner notes or something. Also there are plenty of things in Japanese which just do not translate. There is no good way to translate the fact that certain people in Scyed talk in Keigo all the time. There is no good way to translate the pun in Puni Puni Poemi involving 80 gram breasts (and it's a brilliant pun).
However, that's absolutely no basis to say that learning Japanese is a necessary requirement for watching Anime. A good subtitler (like I am, I'd like to believe) will spend a whole lot of time to get things just right, and to communicate as much information as possible in the most natural way with losing as little from the original as possible. A good subtitling job can usually provide 95% of the meaning, tone, and nuance of the original. There are plenty of ways to translate things which give you a very good idea of what's going on, and to say that watching raw is necessary is just rediculous.
Would I not watch film just because I'm not familiar with Goddard's New Wave editing technique? No - that's silly. Would I not drive a car if I didn't know what the inner workings of my timing belt were? No.
Would I not use a computer if I didn't know the source code for my operating system by heart? No.
That's analogous to what you're saying. Even if you cannot get the complete 100% picture doesn't mean you can't enjoy it, grow from it, and then from that maybe decide it would be a good idea put in the effort to find out what that bit you're missing is.
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To the obvious troll. Jesus man, you'd learn C just so you could hack your operating system? Get a life!
About the mention of vocabulary in Anime: That's a bunch of bullocks. Anime's vocabulary, style, and everything else about its speech is generally on par with Japanese people. Take a look at American television. Does everyone there talk in really funky accents and use huge amounts of slang? No. Could you imagine Dan Rather saying "Next in dis hizzouz we be hitting up our home skillit down in Tehran for a breaking news up-dizzate!" Japanese television has people talking in just that - Japanese. Anime is no exception. In fact Anime is closer to the actual way Japanese people talk since most (almost all) of the time, it's fiction, and therefore the characters in it are suppose to be talking like real people, as opposed to the newscaster whose pronunciation has to be immaculate before they let him or her infront of the camera.
Here's the dirt:
Rambus is a member of the JEDEC, a committee of Semiconductor manufacturers which was created to help set standards for different types of chips. All the major manufacturers are JEDEC members, as well as other companies including Intel and Rambus.
One of the agreements to joining the JEDEC is that you must disclose all patents, finalized and pending, to the committee and you may not withhold such information, or use information gained in the JEDEC forums to file your own patents.
Rambus decided not to follow the agreement, and instead filed a patent during the SDRAM standard negotiations which would attempt to patent the exact implementation of SDRAM which was being written up. In the patent office, if your patent is not granted you can get extensions on it by modifying it. So what they did is continually string the patent along for several years, modifying it slightly so that as the SDRAM (and later DDR-SDRAM standard) was finalized, their patent looked exactly like what the standard was supposed to be.
Now the patent finally went through (god bless those morons in the patent office), and since everyone has implemented their RAM according to the standard, Rambus is suing them all for patent infringement.
However, there is very little chance they'll win. First, they violated the JEDEC agreement. Second, there is certainly prior art. Third, there was a decision back in '96 (I think) against Dell Computer when they patented something which was the result of "An Industry-wide Standardization effort" where the courts ruled that their patent was unenforceable. This is going to happen to Rambus, as well.
As for Hitachi and Toshiba backing down and paying license agreements there are specific reasons.
After the settlement, Hitachi sold their RAM division to NEC. They don't have to deal with the problem now, and since NEC is incorporating Hitachi's RAM infrastructure into their own, the licensing agreements probably mean jack now.
Toshiba, on the other hand, manufactures the RD-DRAM which is used in the PlayStation 2. They're making enormous amounts of money from this, and if they didn't agree to pay more licensing fees to Rambus, Rambus might pull their RD-DRAM license, thus forcing Sony to find someone else to manufacture the RAM.
Hope this has been informative...
OK, this is obviously an uninformed post which is bordering on Trollness, but let me clear up some things for you.
;-)
1) Rambus is not a standard put out by Intel. Rambus is not even a standard at all. Rambus is a company which makes its money by licensing their intellectual property. Rambus Direct DRAM (RD-DRAM) is a standard put out by Rambus which outlines how to manufacture and communicate with their memory technology. Rambus licenses this to memory and chipset manufacturers such as Intel, NEC, and Samsung. FYI AMD also has a Rambus license, but they have done nothing with it.
2) While RD-DRAM does offer higher bandwidth than traditional SDRAM, its implementation brings about a whole bunch of other problems. Neither RAM standard is perfect, however DDR-SDRAM has better performance than RD-DRAM in almost all scenarios, and it's CHEAPER because A) no licensing fees and B) it's very very similar to SDRAM so fabrication plants can simply modify their existing production lines instead of creating whole seperate lines for RD-DRAM.
3) AMD has nothing to do with Rambus or DDR SDRAM. When you buy RAM you are not "buying Intel" or "Buying AMD." That's like saying you're "buying Honda" when you buy some Firestone tires that fit your Honda. [sarcasm]And of course we shouldn't buy Honda because they are an evil Japanese corporation, and Japan is where Pokémon came from, which is the spawn of Satan.[/sarcasm]
4) Intel is pushing the RD-DRAM standard because of an agreement with Rambus which, if they can make RDDRAM successful, they get enormous amounts of Rambus stock. Basically Rambus bribed Intel in order to get their superior product out there so they could make more licensing fee money.
5) Intel is NOT ALLOWED to market a DDR-SDRAM chipset for high-end desktop machines under the terms of this agreement. All this talk about Intel making a DDR-SDRAM chipset for regular PCs are foolish. They may try to produce a "server chipset" which supports DDR-SDRAM, but you will not see a high-end PC chipset from Intel which supports DDR-SDRAM. Note that the chipset must be made by Intel, that's not to say VIA or SiS can't make one.
6) Rambus is produced in the same fabrication facilities as SDRAM.
7) It's l337 or 1337, not l335.
How will the TUX Webserver integrate with RedHat's Linux distributions? Will RedHat create a special distribution with an identical setup to yours? Will RedHat start releasing more specialized distributions, preferably ones more suited to a secure server environment but focused on performance like your setup was?
As it is RedHat seems too insecure and bloated for a streamlined server environment. Ideal would be installation options where I can say "This server will do these 3 things (i.e. DNS, Mail, HTTP) so make it suited for that and nothing else." This kind of flexibility would be a HUGE boon to the server market, giving customers a high performance machine running TUX + Apache that was secure and did the functions they needed it to.
Yea that was a long question, you can chop off last paragraph if you like. Hehe, insecure and bloated, can we say WinNT/2K?
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