I'm a trader by profession (although not a day trader) and making emotional decisions is about the worst thing you can do. The only worse thing is NOT making a call because you happen to be excited.
It's a learned behaviour, but a trader needs to be able to abstract away from the trade. You almost need to pretend that somebody else is doing the trade and you're just watching. I think any trader who stays in the job learns this skill eventually. The first time I traded a few million dollars of risk, I was down to few last red cells in my adrenaline stream. If I kept going that way, I'd be either an unemployed or an alcoholic (or most likely both). Instead I learned not to take it too personally. Now a large trade barely increases my pulse.
I don't think a device can replace this behaviour. In a fast market my heart may be way up due to working on several things at once and trying to keep up with the information. I still need to make trades, I just need to stay rational. A glorified heart rate monitor won't help with this.
The article quotes an intern working on their MBA. $4-6k during an MBA internship is not uncommon and is probably on the lower side. Most investment banks pay MBA interns the same base as first year associates. I don't have up to date figures, but last I heard it worked out to around $8k/mo.
Actually I'm not just stating my views or rehashing laws. Some Japanese firms have already asked fansubbers to not distribute their work. As for the rest - I'd be surprised if they would give fansubbers permission to distribute they materials if asked for one. The reason fansubbing community can get away with this is because Japanese authors find it too costly and difficult to keep fansubbers from distributing their works.
>That assumes people would be willing to pay for it
This is of course not an excuse for piracy:-)
>or have access to a place they can actually buy it, in the first place. Many people don't have the option (ie, can't import and can't find any local store to import for them).
You cna actually order import manga from various online stores. Some recommendations:
http://global.yesasia.com/en/Japanese/Comics.asp x http://www.bk1.co.jp http://amazon.co.jp
>I don't see how just the translated scripts are any better, but that's me.
Scripts alone don't let you avoid buying the manga. All they do is translate the bubbles.
Actually the shows/books aren't free to trade to begin with. There are international agreements on intellectual property and stealing Japanese works is just as wrong as stealing American. The only legeal difference is that US licensees may be better positioned to enforce the agreement. From the moral standpoint, some believe that it's ok to distribute a fansubbed work until it's licensed in US, since this is the only way for people to access it (it isn't true - you can buy Japanese DVD/VHS and find scripts online for most of them). Once the shopw is licensed, the moral reationale is gone and distribution of fansubs becomes you plain vanialla piracy.
This will likely go against the slashdot majority dogma, but scanlations have all the copyright issues inherent in fansubs. After all, they do disribute copyrighted work. There are on the other hand comminities that translate manga and release translations of it; i.e. a traslated script without actual manga images. You can buy japanese manga and with translations you can read it. Yes it's a little less convenient, but at least authors get paid for their work.
Just to clarify. Goodwill in this case is an accounting concept referring to accounting treatments of premium paid in a merger. Until fairly recently Goodwill used to be amortized (i.e. company would write it off over time). Under new rules, it's carried indefinitely and assessed for impariment. According to SCO's March '04 10-Q, most of their goodwill comes from acquisition of Vultus, Inc. Not very much related to the loss of face in the Linux debucle.
Half.com has an easy way to report them - unfortunately, ever since eBay bought half, reports fall on deaf ears. According to eBay only a license holder for the title can report copyright violation. In order to do it, a studio must be registered under the eBay's VERO program. Aparently the process is complex enough that most studios who license anime in US don't bother to go through it.
As a result eBay and half are chockful of bootlegs; and it's just the way they like it - after all, they make their fee regardless of legality of a sale.
It's interesting to note that the interview conducted by the publisher of the first Linux Journal - Bob Young, who left his own mark of history of linux. Namely as a co-founder of RedHat.
EB used products business deserves serious scrutiny. In my area all EB stores stock comprehensive selection of bootleg DVDs. Moreover, employees are very much aware of the fact that DVDs they sell are bootlegs.
The Japanese region 2 GitS:SAC DVDs don't have English subtitles. What you got are the Hong Kong bootlegs. You may want to check http://www.digital.anime.org.uk/piratefaq.html for more info.
Just because Apple got rid of debt doesn't mean that Jobs and the gang own all company assets. Everything (including those 4.8BB in cash) is owned by Apple shareholders (people who own Apple stock). Shareholders in turn want to make money - be that in the form of dividends or in the form of stock appreciation.
Shareholders take more risk than bondholders do, since there is no promised payoff. If Apple fares poorly, shareholders lose their investment without any legal recourse. Since shareholders take more risk, they want to earn more than bondholders on their investments. Meaning that they expect Apple to make more money than bondholders did.
Since all of Apples capital now comes from equity financing (stock), they have to make enough profit to meet shareholders expectations.
The good news for Apple is that there's no rigid schedule of payments they have to meet (like they do with debt). The bad news is that they have to earn more or shareholders would get upset.
Being debt free isn't necessarily good. A public company without debt is financed entirely by equity, which is more expensive than debt. Shareholders generally expect higher return on their investment than bondholders. With higher cost of capital Apple will have to make sure that their projects generate higher return on money they invest into them. As a result Apple may have to forego some projects, which they would've chosen to pursue have they had lower cost of capital.
I think RedHat would only benefit from White Box. RH is going after corporate IT departments that have budget and want hand-holding. These guys would pay rather than use something less than perfectly "official". People who will use White Box are those who wouldn't have bought RHEL in the first place. If thse people choose to use White Box, RH would benefit since more users would learn to use their software (making it more of a standard). RH will also benefit from debugging efforts and improvements of White Box - GPL works both ways.
Nausicaa is expected to come out on Legit R2 DVD by the end of this year. So far all Ghibli R2 DVDs had English subtitles, so as long you have a region free player you'll be all set (if you're willing tospend $50 on a DVD of course).
I have to agree with a comment above on Manga. As a proud (NOT) owner of R1 dvd of Wings of Honneamise, I have a good reason to be more than a little upset with them. On other hand no studio is perfect, I can come up with a few shortcomings with every studio releasing anime in US. Still If Disney has no interest in releasing Hayao's works in US, they at least could strike a deal with one of other studios to do it for them. After all, they manage to make money on anime DVD's without doing much hyping for every release.
I have to disagree with this definition on investments vs. specualtion. Dividend policy should really depend on whether a company can make efficient use of funds or better off giving it back to shareholders. If a company is growing it's business it may very well pay no dividends and use the money for the growth. In that case investor gets the return through stock appreciation rather than dividend payments. If you're looking for more information on this. Modigliani and Miller have a work discussin why investor should be inifferent on getting return through dividends vs stock appreciation.
Here lives xmps and it is the one that can play divX. not xmms. By the way about legality - xmps is not distributed linked with divx. They only have a page on how user can do this himself. xanim was doing the same for years. As you can see people bend over backwards to keep things legal. But I guess KDE is just too good for that. (Or aimed at users who wouldn't bother to compile thing?)
> It's really very simple and if marketing gurus > weren't deluding themselves about their > profession they'd understand this perfectly:
> Marketing is mostly lies and obfuscation.
I respectfully disagree. While I hate telemarketers as much as anyone, it's far from being all there is about marketing. Advertising is the part that you see the most and dislike the most, but less visible part of markting is actually figuring out what people want. As these activities are usually unnoticed by public marketing gets all of it's reputation for telemarketers calling you and the ads you see on TV. The bottom line is - ads are just a tip on iceberg.
P.S. I am not a marketing professional (I would sound much more convincing if I was;-)
I definetely second that. Robert Heinlein is by far my favorite SciFi author. Some of his books may not be appropriate for a 13 year old, but on the other hand he actually wrote quite a few scifi books for younger audience (which are just as fun to read if you're an adult). Podkayne of Mars, Rocket Ship Galileo, Starman Jones and Rolling Stones come to mind. As for yourself I definetely recommend Double Star, The Door into Summer and I will fear no evil. And the rest of his books of course;-)
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I'm a trader by profession (although not a day trader) and making emotional decisions is about the worst thing you can do. The only worse thing is NOT making a call because you happen to be excited.
It's a learned behaviour, but a trader needs to be able to abstract away from the trade. You almost need to pretend that somebody else is doing the trade and you're just watching. I think any trader who stays in the job learns this skill eventually. The first time I traded a few million dollars of risk, I was down to few last red cells in my adrenaline stream. If I kept going that way, I'd be either an unemployed or an alcoholic (or most likely both). Instead I learned not to take it too personally. Now a large trade barely increases my pulse.
I don't think a device can replace this behaviour. In a fast market my heart may be way up due to working on several things at once and trying to keep up with the information. I still need to make trades, I just need to stay rational. A glorified heart rate monitor won't help with this.
The article quotes an intern working on their MBA. $4-6k during an MBA internship is not uncommon and is probably on the lower side. Most investment banks pay MBA interns the same base as first year associates. I don't have up to date figures, but last I heard it worked out to around $8k/mo.
Actually I'm not just stating my views or rehashing laws. Some Japanese firms have already asked fansubbers to not distribute their work. As for the rest - I'd be surprised if they would give fansubbers permission to distribute they materials if asked for one. The reason fansubbing community can get away with this is because Japanese authors find it too costly and difficult to keep fansubbers from distributing their works.
>That assumes people would be willing to pay for it
:-)
p x
This is of course not an excuse for piracy
>or have access to a place they can actually buy it, in the first place. Many people don't have the option (ie, can't import and can't find any local store to import for them).
You cna actually order import manga from various online stores. Some recommendations:
http://global.yesasia.com/en/Japanese/Comics.as
http://www.bk1.co.jp
http://amazon.co.jp
>I don't see how just the translated scripts are any better, but that's me.
Scripts alone don't let you avoid buying the manga. All they do is translate the bubbles.
Actually the shows/books aren't free to trade to begin with. There are international agreements on intellectual property and stealing Japanese works is just as wrong as stealing American. The only legeal difference is that US licensees may be better positioned to enforce the agreement.
From the moral standpoint, some believe that it's ok to distribute a fansubbed work until it's licensed in US, since this is the only way for people to access it (it isn't true - you can buy Japanese DVD/VHS and find scripts online for most of them). Once the shopw is licensed, the moral reationale is gone and distribution of fansubs becomes you plain vanialla piracy.
This will likely go against the slashdot majority dogma, but scanlations have all the copyright issues inherent in fansubs. After all, they do disribute copyrighted work. There are on the other hand comminities that translate manga and release translations of it; i.e. a traslated script without actual manga images.
You can buy japanese manga and with translations you can read it. Yes it's a little less convenient, but at least authors get paid for their work.
Trust me, Tuvai is making sense :-P
Just to clarify. Goodwill in this case is an accounting concept referring to accounting treatments of premium paid in a merger. Until fairly recently Goodwill used to be amortized (i.e. company would write it off over time). Under new rules, it's carried indefinitely and assessed for impariment. According to SCO's March '04 10-Q, most of their goodwill comes from acquisition of Vultus, Inc. Not very much related to the loss of face in the Linux debucle.
Half.com has an easy way to report them - unfortunately, ever since eBay bought half, reports fall on deaf ears. According to eBay only a license holder for the title can report copyright violation. In order to do it, a studio must be registered under the eBay's VERO program. Aparently the process is complex enough that most studios who license anime in US don't bother to go through it.
As a result eBay and half are chockful of bootlegs; and it's just the way they like it - after all, they make their fee regardless of legality of a sale.
It's interesting to note that the interview conducted by the publisher of the first Linux Journal - Bob Young, who left his own mark of history of linux. Namely as a co-founder of RedHat.
They are obvious fakes, but EB mostly stocks anime. Most companies that license anime in US aren't MPAA members.
EB used products business deserves serious scrutiny. In my area all EB stores stock comprehensive selection of bootleg DVDs. Moreover, employees are very much aware of the fact that DVDs they sell are bootlegs.
The Japanese region 2 GitS:SAC DVDs don't have English subtitles. What you got are the Hong Kong bootlegs. You may want to check http://www.digital.anime.org.uk/piratefaq.html for more info.
Let me try :-)
Just because Apple got rid of debt doesn't mean that Jobs and the gang own all company assets. Everything (including those 4.8BB in cash) is owned by Apple shareholders (people who own Apple stock). Shareholders in turn want to make money - be that in the form of dividends or in the form of stock appreciation.
Shareholders take more risk than bondholders do, since there is no promised payoff. If Apple fares poorly, shareholders lose their investment without any legal recourse. Since shareholders take more risk, they want to earn more than bondholders on their investments. Meaning that they expect Apple to make more money than bondholders did.
Since all of Apples capital now comes from equity financing (stock), they have to make enough profit to meet shareholders expectations.
The good news for Apple is that there's no rigid schedule of payments they have to meet (like they do with debt). The bad news is that they have to earn more or shareholders would get upset.
Being debt free isn't necessarily good. A public company without debt is financed entirely by equity, which is more expensive than debt. Shareholders generally expect higher return on their investment than bondholders.
With higher cost of capital Apple will have to make sure that their projects generate higher return on money they invest into them. As a result Apple may have to forego some projects, which they would've chosen to pursue have they had lower cost of capital.
Nice try, but the announcement on the lkml was posted by Linus :-)
I think RedHat would only benefit from White Box. RH is going after corporate IT departments that have budget and want hand-holding. These guys would pay rather than use something less than perfectly "official".
People who will use White Box are those who wouldn't have bought RHEL in the first place. If thse people choose to use White Box, RH would benefit since more users would learn to use their software (making it more of a standard). RH will also benefit from debugging efforts and improvements of White Box - GPL works both ways.
Nausicaa is expected to come out on Legit R2 DVD by the end of this year. So far all Ghibli R2 DVDs had English subtitles, so as long you have a region free player you'll be all set (if you're willing tospend $50 on a DVD of course).
I have to agree with a comment above on Manga. As a proud (NOT) owner of R1 dvd of Wings of Honneamise, I have a good reason to be more than a little upset with them. On other hand no studio is perfect, I can come up with a few shortcomings with every studio releasing anime in US. Still If Disney has no interest in releasing Hayao's works in US, they at least could strike a deal with one of other studios to do it for them. After all, they manage to make money on anime DVD's without doing much hyping for every release.
I have to disagree with this definition on investments vs. specualtion. Dividend policy should really depend on whether a company can make efficient use of funds or better off giving it back to shareholders. If a company is growing it's business it may very well pay no dividends and use the money for the growth. In that case investor gets the return through stock appreciation rather than dividend payments. If you're looking for more information on this. Modigliani and Miller have a work discussin why investor should be inifferent on getting return through dividends vs stock appreciation.
http://www-eleves.enst-bretagne.fr/~chavarri/xmps/
Here lives xmps and it is the one that can play divX. not xmms. By the way about legality - xmps is not distributed linked with divx. They only have a page on how user can do this himself.
xanim was doing the same for years. As you can see people bend over backwards to keep things legal. But I guess KDE is just too good for that. (Or aimed at users who wouldn't bother to compile thing?)
This thread is great - I am building my "to watch" list from it ;-) And so here are my recommendations.
The records of Lodoss War
Bastard
The Vision Of Escaflowne
Berserk
Galaxy Express 999
Warriors of the Wind
I haven't seen the last two titles mentions in the discussion so far - so let me be the first one to voice my opinion - WATCH THEM, they are worth it.
Just my 2 cents (adjusted for inflation)
> It's really very simple and if marketing gurus
;-)
> weren't deluding themselves about their
> profession they'd understand this perfectly:
> Marketing is mostly lies and obfuscation.
I respectfully disagree. While I hate telemarketers as much as anyone, it's far from being all there is about marketing. Advertising is the part that you see the most and dislike the most, but less visible part of markting is actually figuring out what people want. As these activities are usually unnoticed by public marketing gets all of it's reputation for telemarketers calling you and the ads you see on TV. The bottom line is - ads are just a tip on iceberg.
P.S. I am not a marketing professional (I would sound much more convincing if I was
I would probably add Friday to this list, and possibly Job: The Comedy of Justice.
;-)
- Crazy Lion
P.S. Hey! I liked I Will Fear No Evil
I definetely second that. Robert Heinlein is by far my favorite SciFi author. Some of his books may not be appropriate for a 13 year old, but on the other hand he actually wrote quite a few scifi books for younger audience (which are just as fun to read if you're an adult). Podkayne of Mars, Rocket Ship Galileo, Starman Jones and Rolling Stones come to mind. As for yourself I definetely recommend Double Star, The Door into Summer and I will fear no evil. And the rest of his books of course ;-)