The writeup says you can run DivX, etc... but they don't say at what resolution or framerate. I've got PXA-255 based PDAs that can run DivX/WMV...as long as it is no larger than a postage stamp and encoded at more than 15 fps. The processor is still dog slow at stuff like compiling though. The writeup nor the articles give a good impression of exactly how fast these guys are, and that's a little worrysome. I don't mind energy efficent processors, but the last thing I want is something underpowered in my media center (oh, it can't handle 640x480 DivX, yay!).
That's just how Blockbuster, Hollywood Video, and their Hollywood buddies squeeze out independants. They have sharing agreements where they pay basically nothing for the movies and split the profits with the big companies (saves them a ton of capital expenses). Mom and Pop places that want to compete have to find a ton of capital just to get started. New releases cost considerably more (which is why most Mom and Pop places can't afford to keep the "wall of new releases" up like Blockbuster.
The thing is, these early estimates are always low. That's what it would cost if there were no beaurocacy involved (like Senators wanting you to buy your gyros from some company in their state), but once NASA gets in the picture the cost will increase by an order of a magnitude.
I doubt it. It's being released in what? 4 markets? The fans who downloaded the thing are going to the theatre to see it (unless it sucks really bad, I havn't seen it myself).
I've been in the fansub community for years now. One thing I've learned is that it is impossible to determine what stuff will get licensed (The US doesn't get anywhere close to 100% of the stuff released in Japan) in the States. For instance, Super Milk Chan is showing on TV. I would have never expected that. On the other side of the coin, no American company has (thus far) made a peep about Naruto, and it is up to episode 119 and is basically a shoe-in for the Amerian audience.
Anime companies of course have a policy of not releasing any information on series they are interested in acquiring, so Fansubbers have effectively NO information to go on. So what is a Fansub group to do? Just sub what you find interesting and stop if the series gets picked up.
The point is that the fansub groups pull the material the instant it is available. Frankly, even if fansubbers didn't exist you would find that material on the net. There is always a scumbag somewhere that is going to rip the DVD and put it on the net. Also, all of the reputable bittorrent sites and even most usenet posters are very good at pulling material when it is licensed (or at least stop posting it in the Usenet case). There is a lot of infrastructure built up in the fansub community to watch for when a company announces a title and pulling it from the net. The AnimeOnDVD Grand High Licensing List is a good example of this.
HECTO? Wow man, you are an old timer. Did you know that fansubs are online these days?:) Next you'll be warning us about Artic Fansubs.
Most modern groups spend a lot of time on quality control, and the end result is pretty comperable to the professional releases (sometimes better, sometimes worse). The only ones you have to watch out for are the speed subbers, who try to get a show translated and out on the next the next DAY after it airs in Japan. Fortunatly, these groups are easy to spot because they tend to have a bunch of new shows out that the other groups don't have yet (IE, they're on foobar-120 while everyone else is releasing foobar-119).
Yep. It has always been copyright infringement. Of course the fact that it was benefiting the Japanese companies greatly was not overlooked (at least until recently).
The problem now is that fansubs have moved off of the VHS-tapes-copied-and-mailed model to the distribute-it-on-the-internet model. This means that even people in Japan can download the shows off of the net and watch them without commercials. What's worse, is that Japan used to have a thriving OAV industry (direct to video releases), but now all OAVs show up on the internet very quickly and people aren't buying them anymore. Well, they're also really expensive and the Japanese economy is not doing so hot in general, but we assume that the outrageous prices have nothing to do with it for some reason.
Basically, this is one of those cases where the whole concept of Copywrite was actually hurting the companies (and they knew it) so they turned a blind eye to the activity in the early days. Later on, when the situation started to get muddled (are they helping more than they are hurting?) we started getting into arguments like this.
When companies realize that strict enforcement of Copyright is harmful, they often come out way ahead. Just look at what bootlegging has done for the music industry for another example. It's just another case of having to choose between doing the right thing and following the law to the letter.
Gee, only $230 for 512M of memory on 2 sticks? Your price perception has been warped by Rambus. You can get a very nice 512MB DDR DIMM for a little under $100.
You need to stop drinking the Sony Kool-Aid. "Fundimental revolution in processor/computer design" is the sort of BS phrasing Sony has been putting out about the Cell for ages. It's the exact sort of thing I was talking about. Sony promises the moon, and delivers a processor that is pretty decent at vector calculations.
The PS2 was supposed to be a mindblowing revolution in hardware design too as I recall. The chances that the Cell processor is actually a disruptive technology seem very small at the moment.
Every time a new Playstation comes out Sony marketing types talk about how it will deliver movie-quality graphics to the masses in realtime. The truth is that it tends to perform exactly how you would expect it to perform, about the same as a high-end PC graphics card at the time it is released. Given how PC graphics cards aren't very close to rendering movies in realitime yet, I think it is safe to assume that any such statements made by Sony marketing are bullshit.
Sorry, that's a dumb idea. The Usenet is pretty much the only example of broadcasting working over the internet (as opposed to massive singlecasting). Bittorrent isn't designed for that, especially since you'd have to change the torrent everytime someone posted.
People still use WebTV? I thought it was EoLed ages ago. It sucked back when the web was actually designed for 640x480 screens and browsers were still unsure about the whole table concept.
A co-worker of mine had this quote pasted on his cube. I don't know who said it originally, but it is a gem: "Attacks always come from below your level of abstraction."
"You are not allowed to publish anything negative about the software on any medium" (Especially on reviewer copies)
"We don't care if the software causes damage to your computer hardware"
"We can revoke your right to run this software at any time for any reason without refund"
"You may not give this software to anybody else, even if you uninstall it from your machine and everything"
"Don't even think about installing it on two machines in your house. You need to buy a second copy buddy--it doesn't matter that you only run it on one machine at a time!"
The problem with trying to solve the connector conspiracy (in this case obtuse undocumented binary files) is that not everybody [b]wants[/b] to solve the connector conspiracy. Some people would rather have their file format die off than have a competitor gain any advantage whatsoever over their product. They also don't want people buying cheap knockoffs of their products and think they can stop this by not giving away any details on how to interface with their product. If we find a way to change this perception, then the connector conspiracy will mostly go away on its own (save for those lazy guys who just implement it however they want and never document anything, regardless of whatever standards are available).
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The writeup says you can run DivX, etc... but they don't say at what resolution or framerate. I've got PXA-255 based PDAs that can run DivX/WMV...as long as it is no larger than a postage stamp and encoded at more than 15 fps. The processor is still dog slow at stuff like compiling though. The writeup nor the articles give a good impression of exactly how fast these guys are, and that's a little worrysome. I don't mind energy efficent processors, but the last thing I want is something underpowered in my media center (oh, it can't handle 640x480 DivX, yay!).
Uh, did you read the writeup at all? He contacted them several times and they just gave him the runaround.
That's just how Blockbuster, Hollywood Video, and their Hollywood buddies squeeze out independants. They have sharing agreements where they pay basically nothing for the movies and split the profits with the big companies (saves them a ton of capital expenses). Mom and Pop places that want to compete have to find a ton of capital just to get started. New releases cost considerably more (which is why most Mom and Pop places can't afford to keep the "wall of new releases" up like Blockbuster.
The thing is, these early estimates are always low. That's what it would cost if there were no beaurocacy involved (like Senators wanting you to buy your gyros from some company in their state), but once NASA gets in the picture the cost will increase by an order of a magnitude.
I find Animesuki to be very upstanding. I've never seen a licensed series on there.
I doubt it. It's being released in what? 4 markets? The fans who downloaded the thing are going to the theatre to see it (unless it sucks really bad, I havn't seen it myself).
I've been in the fansub community for years now. One thing I've learned is that it is impossible to determine what stuff will get licensed (The US doesn't get anywhere close to 100% of the stuff released in Japan) in the States. For instance, Super Milk Chan is showing on TV. I would have never expected that. On the other side of the coin, no American company has (thus far) made a peep about Naruto, and it is up to episode 119 and is basically a shoe-in for the Amerian audience.
Anime companies of course have a policy of not releasing any information on series they are interested in acquiring, so Fansubbers have effectively NO information to go on. So what is a Fansub group to do? Just sub what you find interesting and stop if the series gets picked up.
The point is that the fansub groups pull the material the instant it is available. Frankly, even if fansubbers didn't exist you would find that material on the net. There is always a scumbag somewhere that is going to rip the DVD and put it on the net. Also, all of the reputable bittorrent sites and even most usenet posters are very good at pulling material when it is licensed (or at least stop posting it in the Usenet case). There is a lot of infrastructure built up in the fansub community to watch for when a company announces a title and pulling it from the net. The AnimeOnDVD Grand High Licensing List is a good example of this.
HECTO? Wow man, you are an old timer. Did you know that fansubs are online these days? :) Next you'll be warning us about Artic Fansubs.
Most modern groups spend a lot of time on quality control, and the end result is pretty comperable to the professional releases (sometimes better, sometimes worse). The only ones you have to watch out for are the speed subbers, who try to get a show translated and out on the next the next DAY after it airs in Japan. Fortunatly, these groups are easy to spot because they tend to have a bunch of new shows out that the other groups don't have yet (IE, they're on foobar-120 while everyone else is releasing foobar-119).
Yep. It has always been copyright infringement. Of course the fact that it was benefiting the Japanese companies greatly was not overlooked (at least until recently).
The problem now is that fansubs have moved off of the VHS-tapes-copied-and-mailed model to the distribute-it-on-the-internet model. This means that even people in Japan can download the shows off of the net and watch them without commercials. What's worse, is that Japan used to have a thriving OAV industry (direct to video releases), but now all OAVs show up on the internet very quickly and people aren't buying them anymore. Well, they're also really expensive and the Japanese economy is not doing so hot in general, but we assume that the outrageous prices have nothing to do with it for some reason.
Basically, this is one of those cases where the whole concept of Copywrite was actually hurting the companies (and they knew it) so they turned a blind eye to the activity in the early days. Later on, when the situation started to get muddled (are they helping more than they are hurting?) we started getting into arguments like this.
When companies realize that strict enforcement of Copyright is harmful, they often come out way ahead. Just look at what bootlegging has done for the music industry for another example. It's just another case of having to choose between doing the right thing and following the law to the letter.
Actually, most benchmarks put the LCII as slightly slower than the LC. Good thing for apple the LCIII was a pretty nice machine.
Gee, only $230 for 512M of memory on 2 sticks? Your price perception has been warped by Rambus. You can get a very nice 512MB DDR DIMM for a little under $100.
You need to stop drinking the Sony Kool-Aid. "Fundimental revolution in processor/computer design" is the sort of BS phrasing Sony has been putting out about the Cell for ages. It's the exact sort of thing I was talking about. Sony promises the moon, and delivers a processor that is pretty decent at vector calculations.
The PS2 was supposed to be a mindblowing revolution in hardware design too as I recall. The chances that the Cell processor is actually a disruptive technology seem very small at the moment.
Every time a new Playstation comes out Sony marketing types talk about how it will deliver movie-quality graphics to the masses in realtime. The truth is that it tends to perform exactly how you would expect it to perform, about the same as a high-end PC graphics card at the time it is released. Given how PC graphics cards aren't very close to rendering movies in realitime yet, I think it is safe to assume that any such statements made by Sony marketing are bullshit.
Sorry, that's a dumb idea. The Usenet is pretty much the only example of broadcasting working over the internet (as opposed to massive singlecasting). Bittorrent isn't designed for that, especially since you'd have to change the torrent everytime someone posted.
People still use WebTV? I thought it was EoLed ages ago. It sucked back when the web was actually designed for 640x480 screens and browsers were still unsure about the whole table concept.
A co-worker of mine had this quote pasted on his cube. I don't know who said it originally, but it is a gem: "Attacks always come from below your level of abstraction."
You're splitting hairs. Which way do you think the various *AA associations are going to look at it?
Don't forget:
"You are not allowed to publish anything negative about the software on any medium" (Especially on reviewer copies)
"We don't care if the software causes damage to your computer hardware"
"We can revoke your right to run this software at any time for any reason without refund"
"You may not give this software to anybody else, even if you uninstall it from your machine and everything"
"Don't even think about installing it on two machines in your house. You need to buy a second copy buddy--it doesn't matter that you only run it on one machine at a time!"
and so on.
I'm not sure that is such a glowing reccomendation... It takes a special kind of person to be a fan of the original.
The problem with trying to solve the connector conspiracy (in this case obtuse undocumented binary files) is that not everybody [b]wants[/b] to solve the connector conspiracy. Some people would rather have their file format die off than have a competitor gain any advantage whatsoever over their product. They also don't want people buying cheap knockoffs of their products and think they can stop this by not giving away any details on how to interface with their product. If we find a way to change this perception, then the connector conspiracy will mostly go away on its own (save for those lazy guys who just implement it however they want and never document anything, regardless of whatever standards are available).
Maybe it has something to do with Battle.net being chock full of asshats?
Martha would complain if the Truffles were overcooked or the Caviar wasn't properly garnished.
No, Daikatana is not vaporware anymore. QED.
That's a Livejournal, self centered ego wanking is required to get an account.