Who wouldn't love a rock-solid game engine, running a great storyline, compiled specifically for their box's specs?
What you are saying sounds kind of like what Bungie did when they open-sourced Marathon 2 (the project can be found at source.bungie.org) Definitely a great game, with a great mod community.
Take 2 Interactive got Oni during the Microsoft buy-out (in exchange for their Bungie stock, IIRC). And if I further recall correctly, the game was then published buy Gathering of Developers.
So, if you want a sequal to Oni, you need to talk to them.
I dunno if they are trolling or not. Some carracho bandits out there are reporting that this is the latest builds of Jaguar, under the Internet tab in the System Preferences (where it is currently iTools).
Some have speculated that this might be Apple competing w/ Microsoft as far as brand recognition (note these are pretty much the same people who said the same thing when Microsoft decided to call the latest Windows "XP" about a month before OS X 10.0.0 was released).
However, for my own useless speculation, I don't think this will be a direct competitor to the.Net idea, but being a fairly nice set of network services (homepage, file storage, email, iCards, etc) might make some think that it is close enough.
The parent poster makes some very interesting points IMHO...but I have only one question...
Why does this new crypto-system have to be implemented through hardware?
As far as I am concerned, Microsoft can push Palladium all they want (I don't use their products anyway) and put all of the crypto and DRM stuff in as they want as long as they do it only as software...for me, it is the hardware part that bothers me (not that I use any x86 hardware either), because it seems to have (as just about everyone has noted) a very strong potential for abuse by certain monopolies. As long as it is hardware, then people are free to switch... But if the two leading CPU manufacturers implement this kind of thing in hardware, then the options are severely limited.
Of course, if this does happen, and (an even bigger if) Apple decides to lower their prices, then I have a feeling that they won't be able to produce computers quickly enough to satisfy the new demand for non-DRM hardware (assuming they don't jump on the bandwagon).
Anyway, just my stupid, uninformed opinion. Feel free to tear to shreads.
Cheers.:)
A tree in space is always falling...
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...since everything in space is in a constant state of free-fall. The Earth free-falls around the sun, satellites free-fall around the earth, etc.
Meanwhile, Larry Ponemon, the CEO of Privacy Council, says that since September 11 he's been hired by at least one major supermarket chain to oversee the handing over to law enforcement agencies of the buying records of customers with specific ethnic backgrounds. The authorities requested the data, Ponemon says, because they were trying to compile a profile of "terrorist eating habits."
So, what exactly are the eating habits of a terrorist? Do they all eat the same thing? Can I be flagged as a terrorist because I enjoy Mid-East food? Or, perhaps I am one of those "axis of evil" Korean people because I like kimchi and yaki-niku(ok, so that one is Japanese/Korean food)...
Is anyone else at least moderately (understatement) disturbed by the compiling of a profile of "terrorist eating habits"? It seems insanely useless to me. The idea that someone might get "special attention" because of the way he/she eats...pffft. The sad thing is, I won't be at all surprised if/when this happens.
but then what do you think Apple users have to deal with when buying PC oriented products?
Nothing. The ability to read DOS formated disks and such has been in MacOS for at least 7 years, in the form of the PC Exchange control panel back in System 7.x.
Unless you are referring to other devices (such as firmware incompatabilities for graphics cards, lack of drivers and such)....then of course, I completely agree w/ you.
according to Apple, so, dividing by 8bits/byte, that is 50MB/s max transfer rate for firewire. Interesting...any iPod users actually measured what the transfer rate is to their iPod? Do you hit that theoretical max?
If Apple's margins on the iPod are larger than I thought, Apple clearly benefits from this software. Windows people start buying iPods, increasing the sales, and Apple does not have to support them, redirecting them to Mediafour or TrentSoft.
What do you think?
Exactly. Apple sells the hardware and makes a profit, and also saves money on the support costs at the same time. Granted it isn't quite the profit margin of selling a new iMac or iBook or other to go along with the iPod, but in the end, it doesn't seem like a bad deal.
Here is a (probably stupid) thought: if this software somehow damages the iPod (OK, I don't see how that is possible, but in the off chance it screws w/ the iPod's builtin software), is it still covered by Apple's warranty? Do you think it would be a good move for Apple to not cover it? I mean, they don't cover damage of unsupported use of their computers (such as using non-CDs in the optical drive), so should they cover unsupported use of the iPod?
am I making any sense? or is this completely unfeasible?
P.S. the graphics on apple.slashdot.org look uber-sweet.:)
"I'm suprised that it took a third party to provide support."
If I am not mistaken, Apple is primarily a computer hardware company, right? Which means that they want to sell their own computers, right? Which means that if other cool products they release work only with their computers by default, then their computers just might look a little more attractive to the potential computer buyer, right?
Now, of course, I am not saying that an iPod is going to make the standard typical PC using geek/nerd/gamer/etc want to rush out and buy a Mac, but combine it w/ MacOS X, competitively priced notebooks (not to mention sexy), and some of the other nice details that come w/ owning a Mac (iMovie, Office on *nix, etc), and some people just might be swayed to buy one.
So, why do you think Apple should cause one of their "hot products" to be supported by default on a competitor's hardware? If a PC user wants to use this hardware, then they can do the extra work required to get it to work w/ their hardware...or they can get a Mac.
Correct me if I am wrong, but I'm pretty sure the rules of "first sale" do not include the right to photo-copy the book and sell the copies or even give them away for free. Or to transcribe the copy to your computer and then distribute it for free over the net. Call me crazy (or ignorant), but I am pretty sure that the current copyright law does NOT allow this.
Anyway, that is pretty much the equivalent of giving your.mp3s away for free over the net from your ripped CDs, is it not? The problem isn't necessarily the copying, I suspect, but rather the distribution.
I imagine that it is pretty much OK to transcribe a book to your computer to transfer to your PDA, but you are not allowed to post that copyrighted work to your web page and give it away. On the same note I imagine (even though the RIAA is trying to take even this away) that it is pretty much OK to rip your CD for use in your portable.mp3 player, but you are not allowed to post those songs to your web page and give them away.
Please correct me if I am wrong, but that is pretty much how it works, right?
"feeds a growing black economy in which criminal networks use piracy to fund other activities such as drug dealing, arms trading, money laundering and terrorism."
Well...I guess this could also give Microsoft some ammunition with their claims about not being able to release the source code of certain Windows components (including the Intellectual property protection stuff) due to threats of national security. Seems that copying and file sharing really is terrorism.
Anyone have any solid facts (or at least a little more substantial than these whisps of smoke) about music and movie piracy supporting terrorism and terrorists?
Uhhh...call me crazy, but don't you think it might be better to show the RIAA and such how you feel by NOT buying these non-CDs rather than buying them (which just gives the industry money anyway), breaking the protection (which is illegal, I guess), and ripping them?
As was proposed by many people the first time this story was posted, why not boycott these non-CDs? Why not send an email, snail-mail, whatever to the artists whose records are being made this way and tell them what you think? Surely this would be more useful than giving more of your money to the RIAA by buying these things. Plus, that might be mistaken for "supporting the idea of copy-protected (non)CDs...
Just a suggestion.
Bacteria are NOT a good idea, IMHO...
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How 'bout another sample: Bio-remediation. What if we created a harmless bacteria that can clean up toxic waste. I know someone working on such a project. She is practically booed every time she tells someone that she works in genetics, but it seems to me like she is doing some very interesting work.
While I agree with many of your points, I think this is a bad example. If there is any type of genetically modified organism that needs to be strictly controlled, it is bacteria. See, bacteria have a couple of very nice abilities which while at first could be beneficial to the example of cleaning up toxic waste, could very quickly turn the other way:
1. In order to be useful in cleaning up a toxic waste spill or contaminated environment, you probably want the bacteria to reproduce very quickly to attack the toxins very quickly right? So...what happens when the toxins are cleaned up? Many types of bacteria don't just up and die when resources are scarce. They tend to do one of two things: form a spore (is that the word I want?) that can be resucitated when conditions become favorable, or adapt and use something else as a resouce...and with bacteria, adaptations can happen very quickly because bacteria can evolve very quickly because of such short generation times.
2. One reason bacteria would be useful in this type of bioremediation is because they are easy to modify. But this is a blade that cuts both ways. This ease of modification makes them quite prone to mutations that could have undesirable effects. For example, how about this hypothetical situation: Big oil spill. Marine bacteria are modified to have an affinity for hydrocarbons like those in oil. They are dumped on the spill, where they grow very rapidly and consume the oil spill...however, in the process of all of this reproducing, slightly different strains of bacteria form, including one that causes an affinity to the same oils found in human sweat. Now these bacteria have an affinity for human skin...hopefully the ocean currents won't bring them near any beaches, because with bacteria, it just takes a single cell to get everything started. Or, how about the idea of what happens to the toxins? Sure, they are taken up and processed by the bacteria, but who is to say that something won't occur to make the by-products even more toxic? Then what? produce more bacteria to try and clean up that toxin? Eventually create an entire ecosystem with a specific purpose? An ecosystem with a goal is about as far from nature as you can get.
I'm sure that I am greatly over-simplifying things,but my point is, a "harmless" bacteria doesn't have to remain harmless. There is no law of nature that says these organisms must act the way we desire them to simply because we designed them. So, IMHO, introducing a foreign organism that has been specifically modified for a purpose rather than evolving into that purpose, an organism that has the potential to change and adapt very quickly and unpredicably into any environment is not a particularly good idea.
Perhaps they'll include the "Slow and painful death of Jar-Jar" scene that should have been included originally. Or are they going to save that for the next episode?
I agree with your post, especially about educating. But do you think making trouble will help the situation? I don't, and here is why:
Protests are fine and all, but more often than not, heads get hot and trouble breaks out. The news covers this trouble with stories not about people standing up for freedom getting smacked down by the man, but rather stories about trouble-makers making life difficult for honest working people and disturbing the public peace.
Now, I would say a good chunk of the American "Joe Sixpack" population gets their news specifically from these outlets and that is how they are "educated" about the current events of the world.
So, here is my modest proposal. Write to your local new outlets (especially to the individual reporters if you can) and point them to a source of information on this proposed treaty. Point them to RMS's commentary on it. Point them to some of the more insightful comments here on Slashdot as well as round the net. Explain to them politely your concern over this, and especially over how scandalous it seems, because the news outlets love a scandal.
Find people like-minded people and get them to do the same. Make enough of this sort of noise, and someone will notice.
You never know. Some up-and-coming journalist trying to make a name for himself might just make a front page story about how outrageous this situation is. And THAT is how you will reach and educate the minds of "Joe Sixpack". And when all of the "Joe Sixpack"s of the US make a noise about it, perhaps then the US government "officials" who are probably planning on trying for re-election will actually listen to the wishes of the people over the rich corporations.
Education is the key, and it seems to me that the system to spread the word is there. Why don't we try to use it?
"The failure of the (Clinton) administration to enforce those laws has led to a proliferation of obscenity, both online and off," Goodlatte said. "And I am particularly concerned about the safety of our children on the Internet, where they're subjected to child pornography and solicitation in a massive way."
I'm sorry, but can someone please define "a massive way" for me? I mean, is it "everywhere you turn"? "fairly frequent"? "somewhat rare"? or "not quite non-existant"?
I only ask because I have spent a great deal of time on the internet. Like many of you here, I have been on the internet for a pretty long time (since 1993 in my case). I have visited a lot of sites, from here to gaming sites to online comics to humor sites to "free stuff" sites to portals, etc. Even the occasional pr0n sites (hey, I'll freely admit it). Never once in my entire 8 years online have I come across a site about "child pornography and solicitation". Perhaps I'm not looking hard enough?
And that is one of the funny things about the internet. You actually have to actively seek something to find it. You don't just boot up your computer, launch IE, and the default page is suddenly a kiddie-pr0n page when only yesterday it was MSN or something. No, one would actually have to go to a search engine or portal site and type in "kiddie pr0n" in order to find it. Now, I don't know about you, but I fail to see how that can be defined as "solicitation in a massive way."
So, please, someone explain to me what Mr. Goodlatte means by "a massive way."
So...isn't it about time for a bakeoff?
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I'm sure everyone is sick of Photoshop Bakeoffs between Macs and PCs, especially as a comparison between Windows and MacOS 9.x and earlier.
So, how about a Gimp bakeoff. Now, not only do we compare the hardware, but the OS as well, i.e. we can compare MacOS X (on a G3 and a G4), LinuxPPC, Linux x86, and Windows. Of course, it will still come down to optimizations, I guess, but hey, it will give everyone a new set of numbers to piss and moan about.;^)
If someone wants to come up with a standard set of benchmark tests and a standard file to execute them on, I'd be game for it (on my 1999 G4 400MHz AGP 768MB RAM, 100MHz bus, 16MB ATI Rage 128 Pro). I'm gonna want to re-install my XFree and stuff because I did a lot of things wrong the first time, but if this comes up, I'd definitely be game for it.:^)
Apple provides that web space to Mac users for us to do with as we please (barring anything illegal). Nowhere in the terms of service does it say "thou shalt not post anything ill towards Apple, even if you do it in a sensable, polite, and scientific manner."
Now, they do list what content is deemed unacceptable, but IMHO, this content does not fit any of those descriptions.
So I don't think Apple really cares.
Uhh...He's in the Navy now...
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From the first article:
David Hahn is now in the Navy, where he reads about steroids, melanin, genetic codes, prototype reactors, amino acids and criminal law. "I wanted to make a scratch in life," he explains now. "I've still got time." Of his exposure to radioactivity he says, "I don't believe I took more than five years off my life."
The second article goes into a bit more detail about it on page 14. Hope this helps.
If those who say that this will not or did not happen (re-rendering) are correct then...
I'm pretty surprised that they didn't render it both ways (I'm choosing English and Japanese as the two primary languages for this movie) from the beginning for releases both in Japan and the United States. This seems like it would have been the simplest solution. Then they simply hire voice actors/actresses in their native languages for the respective releases.
I think Megumi Hayashibara could do an excellent voice for the main female character.;)
Imagine it...then when the DVD comes out, perhaps you could choose a combination of English or Japanese audio and English or Japanese subtitles or no subtitles at all. That would be pretty cool, especially if no matter which audio you watched, the voices would be synchronised with the mouth movements. Very cool indeed...
cheers!
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What you are saying sounds kind of like what Bungie did when they open-sourced Marathon 2 (the project can be found at source.bungie.org) Definitely a great game, with a great mod community.
Go. Play it. Have fun. :-)
So, if you want a sequal to Oni, you need to talk to them.
Well...it could be really cool if Apple did something more like this:
Then all Apple users would have their very own .Mac(.com) domain name. Of course, there is absolutely no proof of this...just rampant speculation.
But, isn't that what this entire story is about?
Some have speculated that this might be Apple competing w/ Microsoft as far as brand recognition (note these are pretty much the same people who said the same thing when Microsoft decided to call the latest Windows "XP" about a month before OS X 10.0.0 was released).
However, for my own useless speculation, I don't think this will be a direct competitor to the .Net idea, but being a fairly nice set of network services (homepage, file storage, email, iCards, etc) might make some think that it is close enough.
Just my humble opinion.
As long as it is software, then people are free to switch...
Sorry. ^^;
Why does this new crypto-system have to be implemented through hardware?
As far as I am concerned, Microsoft can push Palladium all they want (I don't use their products anyway) and put all of the crypto and DRM stuff in as they want as long as they do it only as software...for me, it is the hardware part that bothers me (not that I use any x86 hardware either), because it seems to have (as just about everyone has noted) a very strong potential for abuse by certain monopolies. As long as it is hardware, then people are free to switch... But if the two leading CPU manufacturers implement this kind of thing in hardware, then the options are severely limited.
Of course, if this does happen, and (an even bigger if) Apple decides to lower their prices, then I have a feeling that they won't be able to produce computers quickly enough to satisfy the new demand for non-DRM hardware (assuming they don't jump on the bandwagon).
Anyway, just my stupid, uninformed opinion. Feel free to tear to shreads.
Cheers. :)
btw, IANAPhysicist... ^^;
Yeah...but will they "shout because their weapons are voice activated"?
So, what exactly are the eating habits of a terrorist? Do they all eat the same thing? Can I be flagged as a terrorist because I enjoy Mid-East food? Or, perhaps I am one of those "axis of evil" Korean people because I like kimchi and yaki-niku(ok, so that one is Japanese/Korean food)...
Is anyone else at least moderately (understatement) disturbed by the compiling of a profile of "terrorist eating habits"? It seems insanely useless to me. The idea that someone might get "special attention" because of the way he/she eats...pffft. The sad thing is, I won't be at all surprised if/when this happens.
Nothing. The ability to read DOS formated disks and such has been in MacOS for at least 7 years, in the form of the PC Exchange control panel back in System 7.x.
Unless you are referring to other devices (such as firmware incompatabilities for graphics cards, lack of drivers and such)....then of course, I completely agree w/ you.
Cheers.
:)
hrmmm...I wonder what the discrepancy is...
Here is a (probably stupid) thought: if this software somehow damages the iPod (OK, I don't see how that is possible, but in the off chance it screws w/ the iPod's builtin software), is it still covered by Apple's warranty? Do you think it would be a good move for Apple to not cover it? I mean, they don't cover damage of unsupported use of their computers (such as using non-CDs in the optical drive), so should they cover unsupported use of the iPod?
am I making any sense? or is this completely unfeasible?
P.S. the graphics on apple.slashdot.org look uber-sweet. :)
Now, of course, I am not saying that an iPod is going to make the standard typical PC using geek/nerd/gamer/etc want to rush out and buy a Mac, but combine it w/ MacOS X, competitively priced notebooks (not to mention sexy), and some of the other nice details that come w/ owning a Mac (iMovie, Office on *nix, etc), and some people just might be swayed to buy one.
So, why do you think Apple should cause one of their "hot products" to be supported by default on a competitor's hardware? If a PC user wants to use this hardware, then they can do the extra work required to get it to work w/ their hardware...or they can get a Mac.
IMHO, it is not Apple's problem.
Anyway, that is pretty much the equivalent of giving your .mp3s away for free over the net from your ripped CDs, is it not? The problem isn't necessarily the copying, I suspect, but rather the distribution.
I imagine that it is pretty much OK to transcribe a book to your computer to transfer to your PDA, but you are not allowed to post that copyrighted work to your web page and give it away. On the same note I imagine (even though the RIAA is trying to take even this away) that it is pretty much OK to rip your CD for use in your portable .mp3 player, but you are not allowed to post those songs to your web page and give them away.
Please correct me if I am wrong, but that is pretty much how it works, right?
Well...I guess this could also give Microsoft some ammunition with their claims about not being able to release the source code of certain Windows components (including the Intellectual property protection stuff) due to threats of national security. Seems that copying and file sharing really is terrorism.
Anyone have any solid facts (or at least a little more substantial than these whisps of smoke) about music and movie piracy supporting terrorism and terrorists?
As was proposed by many people the first time this story was posted, why not boycott these non-CDs? Why not send an email, snail-mail, whatever to the artists whose records are being made this way and tell them what you think? Surely this would be more useful than giving more of your money to the RIAA by buying these things. Plus, that might be mistaken for "supporting the idea of copy-protected (non)CDs...
Just a suggestion.
While I agree with many of your points, I think this is a bad example. If there is any type of genetically modified organism that needs to be strictly controlled, it is bacteria. See, bacteria have a couple of very nice abilities which while at first could be beneficial to the example of cleaning up toxic waste, could very quickly turn the other way:
1. In order to be useful in cleaning up a toxic waste spill or contaminated environment, you probably want the bacteria to reproduce very quickly to attack the toxins very quickly right? So...what happens when the toxins are cleaned up? Many types of bacteria don't just up and die when resources are scarce. They tend to do one of two things: form a spore (is that the word I want?) that can be resucitated when conditions become favorable, or adapt and use something else as a resouce...and with bacteria, adaptations can happen very quickly because bacteria can evolve very quickly because of such short generation times.
2. One reason bacteria would be useful in this type of bioremediation is because they are easy to modify. But this is a blade that cuts both ways. This ease of modification makes them quite prone to mutations that could have undesirable effects. For example, how about this hypothetical situation: Big oil spill. Marine bacteria are modified to have an affinity for hydrocarbons like those in oil. They are dumped on the spill, where they grow very rapidly and consume the oil spill...however, in the process of all of this reproducing, slightly different strains of bacteria form, including one that causes an affinity to the same oils found in human sweat. Now these bacteria have an affinity for human skin...hopefully the ocean currents won't bring them near any beaches, because with bacteria, it just takes a single cell to get everything started. Or, how about the idea of what happens to the toxins? Sure, they are taken up and processed by the bacteria, but who is to say that something won't occur to make the by-products even more toxic? Then what? produce more bacteria to try and clean up that toxin? Eventually create an entire ecosystem with a specific purpose? An ecosystem with a goal is about as far from nature as you can get.
I'm sure that I am greatly over-simplifying things,but my point is, a "harmless" bacteria doesn't have to remain harmless. There is no law of nature that says these organisms must act the way we desire them to simply because we designed them. So, IMHO, introducing a foreign organism that has been specifically modified for a purpose rather than evolving into that purpose, an organism that has the potential to change and adapt very quickly and unpredicably into any environment is not a particularly good idea.
Just my 2.4 yen. Cheers. :)
Perhaps they'll include the "Slow and painful death of Jar-Jar" scene that should have been included originally. Or are they going to save that for the next episode?
;)
VLC is currently the best DVD player for MacOS X, considering Apple still hasn't released one yet...
grrrr...
*sigh*
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Protests are fine and all, but more often than not, heads get hot and trouble breaks out. The news covers this trouble with stories not about people standing up for freedom getting smacked down by the man, but rather stories about trouble-makers making life difficult for honest working people and disturbing the public peace.
Now, I would say a good chunk of the American "Joe Sixpack" population gets their news specifically from these outlets and that is how they are "educated" about the current events of the world.
So, here is my modest proposal. Write to your local new outlets (especially to the individual reporters if you can) and point them to a source of information on this proposed treaty. Point them to RMS's commentary on it. Point them to some of the more insightful comments here on Slashdot as well as round the net. Explain to them politely your concern over this, and especially over how scandalous it seems, because the news outlets love a scandal.
Find people like-minded people and get them to do the same. Make enough of this sort of noise, and someone will notice.
You never know. Some up-and-coming journalist trying to make a name for himself might just make a front page story about how outrageous this situation is. And THAT is how you will reach and educate the minds of "Joe Sixpack". And when all of the "Joe Sixpack"s of the US make a noise about it, perhaps then the US government "officials" who are probably planning on trying for re-election will actually listen to the wishes of the people over the rich corporations.
Education is the key, and it seems to me that the system to spread the word is there. Why don't we try to use it?
Just my humble opinion. :)
I'm sorry, but can someone please define "a massive way" for me? I mean, is it "everywhere you turn"? "fairly frequent"? "somewhat rare"? or "not quite non-existant"?
I only ask because I have spent a great deal of time on the internet. Like many of you here, I have been on the internet for a pretty long time (since 1993 in my case). I have visited a lot of sites, from here to gaming sites to online comics to humor sites to "free stuff" sites to portals, etc. Even the occasional pr0n sites (hey, I'll freely admit it). Never once in my entire 8 years online have I come across a site about "child pornography and solicitation". Perhaps I'm not looking hard enough?
And that is one of the funny things about the internet. You actually have to actively seek something to find it. You don't just boot up your computer, launch IE, and the default page is suddenly a kiddie-pr0n page when only yesterday it was MSN or something. No, one would actually have to go to a search engine or portal site and type in "kiddie pr0n" in order to find it. Now, I don't know about you, but I fail to see how that can be defined as "solicitation in a massive way."
So, please, someone explain to me what Mr. Goodlatte means by "a massive way."
I'm sure everyone is sick of Photoshop Bakeoffs between Macs and PCs, especially as a comparison between Windows and MacOS 9.x and earlier.
;^)
:^)
So, how about a Gimp bakeoff. Now, not only do we compare the hardware, but the OS as well, i.e. we can compare MacOS X (on a G3 and a G4), LinuxPPC, Linux x86, and Windows. Of course, it will still come down to optimizations, I guess, but hey, it will give everyone a new set of numbers to piss and moan about.
If someone wants to come up with a standard set of benchmark tests and a standard file to execute them on, I'd be game for it (on my 1999 G4 400MHz AGP 768MB RAM, 100MHz bus, 16MB ATI Rage 128 Pro). I'm gonna want to re-install my XFree and stuff because I did a lot of things wrong the first time, but if this comes up, I'd definitely be game for it.
Now, they do list what content is deemed unacceptable, but IMHO, this content does not fit any of those descriptions.
So I don't think Apple really cares.
David Hahn is now in the Navy, where he reads about steroids, melanin, genetic codes, prototype reactors, amino acids and criminal law. "I wanted to make a scratch in life," he explains now. "I've still got time." Of his exposure to radioactivity he says, "I don't believe I took more than five years off my life."
The second article goes into a bit more detail about it on page 14. Hope this helps.
Cheers!
If those who say that this will not or did not happen (re-rendering) are correct then...
;)
I'm pretty surprised that they didn't render it both ways (I'm choosing English and Japanese as the two primary languages for this movie) from the beginning for releases both in Japan and the United States. This seems like it would have been the simplest solution. Then they simply hire voice actors/actresses in their native languages for the respective releases.
I think Megumi Hayashibara could do an excellent voice for the main female character.
Imagine it...then when the DVD comes out, perhaps you could choose a combination of English or Japanese audio and English or Japanese subtitles or no subtitles at all. That would be pretty cool, especially if no matter which audio you watched, the voices would be synchronised with the mouth movements. Very cool indeed...
cheers!