From what I understand the change was due to legal issues regarding the "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" subtitle. Aparently Bob Dylan didn't like one of his song names being used in an anime title. And of course he owns that phrase, so no one else may use it without his express written consent (implied oral consent isn't good enough).
Of course this is second hand info. Don't know if it's really true.
That's all well and good. What I don't get are these tree-killer accountants who print out 3000+ page reports, put them in binders, and send them to offsite storage where they will remain for all eternity. Why can't those people use PDFs? It would save a few trees, not to mention all the squids who had to die for that toner ink.
Is it that Sony Net Walkman? Yuck. You have to encode everything as ATRAC3 and "check in, check out" using their crappy software. No thanks. In fact, I wont buy any Sony MP3 anything for fear that I would have to use some of their check in check out BS. That includes their DVD players, car CD/MP3 players, or whatever else. I advise others to do the same.
iPod and similar devices are really the only way to go. You mount the unit like a file system, and just drag the files over. No re-encoding, no checking the files out. No DRM. Just ease of use and great performance. Sony realizes this, but because of their music devison holding them back, they are stuck with the crappy DRM hassleware.
Also, my Pioneer car deck plays MP3s without any crap. Burn the files onto a regular ISO9660 disc, and you're done. No special software. No proprietary formats. No hassles. I know Sony makes decks that play MP3s, but because of all thier DRM pushing, I would be very skeptical about buying one.
In short, because of Sony Music pushing for DRM, I am probably not going to buy Sony audio electronics again. At one time they were the best, because of Sony Music being scared of their own customers and forcing this lockdown, I'm not even taking a chance with Sony stuff.
Client Access uses Shift-ESC by default. I don't know what Mocha (the only 5250/3270 emulators for Linux I know of) uses. As with most terminal emulators, I'm sure you can map it.
At work we use an OS called 4690, which is a controller operating system for IBM POS terminals. It actually uses the SysRq key for system functions, but when telnetting in, of course it wont work. We have the telnet client configured to have ~ mapped to Alt+SysRq.
Yes, a vote for the Republicans is a vote for corporate oppressors and the loss of our rights. However, just remember that a vote for the Democrats is a vote for a different group of corporate oppressors and the loss of a different set of rights.
I hear about this crap on Tom Leykis all the time. You don't even have to be the father to owe child support. If the child has formed a "psycological bond", then you gotta pay. So if you are just dating a single mom, and then break up, you might end up paying for someone else's kid. Or if your wife was cheating on you and it turns out that someone else is the father of "your child", you still owe. Apparently, this is especially true in Washington state (the "single mom capital of the world").
Okay, how about this then? I collect vinyls, and also I like to listen to music in my car, but playing vinyls in my car is not possible. Howver, playing MP3s in the car is (thank you, Pioneer). Making an MP3 out of a vinyl is difficult, time consuming, and doesn't sound very good, so I will often go onto P2P networks to get the songs in MP3 format. I own a copy of the song on vinyl, so I'm not breaking the law by downloading songs I already have a license for. I would hate to have my ISP account terminated because somebody suspected me of breaking the law, even though I wasn't.
Because Edonkey sucks. Or at least I have had very little luck with it. First things first, it's almost impossible to connect to a server. They are ALWAYS full. Even after you do connect to a server, search results are always minimal. I have a hard time finding anything on Edonkey, even "common" stuff. And with Edonkey's stupid hashing, if you only have part of a file, you have nothing. At least Kazaa and WinMX will let me view a partially downloaded file.
Back when Napster and OpenNap was big, I had great luck with that, and there are some good Linux clients for it. Also, I've had pretty good luck with Gnutella. Good results, easy to use if you have a good client, quick downloads. Still, nothing can compare to Kazaa. Simply put, Kazaa gets you more files, more quickly.
Arrr, but Disney has a 60 year head start. Also video games are still a relitively new and emerging technology. The total market penetration that games now have is very recent. Prior to the Playstation, kids were the only target demo for games (in the US anyway). In addition Disney aren't doing as well as they had in the recent past, while game sales are way up. So the tables could be turned sooner than one might think.
That's funny. My Yahama 4x SCSI in my PC at work had the eject mechanism break. It did get constant use for over a year though. I also had an old Sony 2x SCSI in my PC years back that also had the eject mechanism break. But this thing was OG. It used CD Caddies. The caddy got stuck inside and I couldn't get it out. Quite sad.
Hmmm. I have a Pioneer DEH-P7400MP (just got it). I've always been a fan of Pioneer decks, and the whole MP3 thing is great, but I have had a couple issues with it. When I put lots of MP3s on a disc (more than 100 I'd say), it takes a very long time to switch tracks, about 10 seconds. Also some MP3s simply will not play on one disc I burned (it does have 221 files in one folder. I'm not sure that was such a good idea. About 10 of the tracks wont play). I burned the disc at 40x so perhaps if I lower the speed and try again, that will help.
What I think is funny is that the patent on Prozac is about to run out, so Lilly decided to get a new patent on it by coloring it pink, calling it Sarafem, and said it was a new drug for treating PMS, even though it is nothing more than a pink Prozac pill.
Also the makers of Prilosec did the same thing as the Claritin people. They made a little change and now call it Nexium. 17 more years of revenue! Sheer brilliance.
Cystalis for the NES (which came out in 1990) said the end would be on October 1, 1997. Chrono Trigger for the SNES said Dec. 31 1999. Neither were correct, which is strange as video games are usually correct about these things.
Is that so surprising? The networks don't care about putting out quality shows. Nor do they care about the shows fans. They care about selling advertising. Shows are just filler for the ads. A show could be the highest art ever created, but if no one is watching it, then advertising revenues will be low and the show will be pulled. It's not to their benefit to wait and hope a show catches on. For them it is better to replace it quickly and hope whatever fills that time slot will get more people watching ads.
Whatever. La Vita e Bella (Life is Beautiful) won three Oscars in 1999, including Best Foriegn Film and was nominated for four others, including Best Director. Malena was nominated for two Oscars in 2001. Those were both excellent movies, but the Oscar wins/nominations didn't exactly start an Italian film craze in the US.
An Oscar will do nothing for Anime's status in the US. It will remain a niche, but is that such a bad thing? What will mainstream do for you? Bad dubs on TV and delays due to big studios botching things up? No thanks?
Get DSL? It's the cable companies who cap. DSL providers all seem to be capless (albeit slower than cable). I would like to know where he gets 2.5mbps for $25/mo. I pay $50 for 768kbps or whatever.
Don't trust your offsite data storage company. We use Iron Mountain and they have let us down consistantly. We recall a contain for emergency delivery (2 hours max) and get charged $200, and they still don't show up for 6 hours after numerous calls, because the assholes can't find the friggin container. They apparently don't understand what "emergency" means. And to top it all off, they still charged us $200 which we had to fight to get refunded.
My advice, keep all the tapes burried under your house. It's still safer than Iron Mountain.
That's all well and good if you are standing next to the transmitter, as that's the only way you can pick up those stations. I used to live in Palo Alto and I still could barely pick up KZSU. They do spin some good tunes though. However, they also spin a lot of crappy tunes. They are a lot better than KALX though.
- Since so many dubs are so poor, and since they'll be showing so much anime (and no doubt rerunning a LOT of it), is there an actual possibility we could get subbed anime on TV?
This is why I liked it when one our local PBS stations (KTEH San Jose) showed anime. Shows like Evangelion and Dirty Pair Flash, subtitled, uncensored, with no commercials. They did Anime right. Sadly they seem to have stopped showing Anime. Alas.
Harvey Birdman would be great if there were more than six friggin' episodes that get repeated week after week. Let's see... we got:
The Johnny Quest episode
The Flinstones episode
The Scooby episode
The Jabberjaw episode
The Yogi episode
The Superfriends episode
And that's it. I've seen them all about a zillion times. It's the same story with Sealab and Aqua Teen Hunger Force. There are only 13 episodes of both those shows, and I've seen them all so many times that I have become sick of the shows. The episodes are 10 minutes long and use cheap animation tactics. You wouldn't think it would be too hard to produce some new episodes every now and then.
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Of course this is second hand info. Don't know if it's really true.
That's all well and good. What I don't get are these tree-killer accountants who print out 3000+ page reports, put them in binders, and send them to offsite storage where they will remain for all eternity. Why can't those people use PDFs? It would save a few trees, not to mention all the squids who had to die for that toner ink.
I'm more of a "J-pop man" myself. Cantopop and Mandopop just don't do it for me.
iPod and similar devices are really the only way to go. You mount the unit like a file system, and just drag the files over. No re-encoding, no checking the files out. No DRM. Just ease of use and great performance. Sony realizes this, but because of their music devison holding them back, they are stuck with the crappy DRM hassleware.
Also, my Pioneer car deck plays MP3s without any crap. Burn the files onto a regular ISO9660 disc, and you're done. No special software. No proprietary formats. No hassles. I know Sony makes decks that play MP3s, but because of all thier DRM pushing, I would be very skeptical about buying one.
In short, because of Sony Music pushing for DRM, I am probably not going to buy Sony audio electronics again. At one time they were the best, because of Sony Music being scared of their own customers and forcing this lockdown, I'm not even taking a chance with Sony stuff.
At work we use an OS called 4690, which is a controller operating system for IBM POS terminals. It actually uses the SysRq key for system functions, but when telnetting in, of course it wont work. We have the telnet client configured to have ~ mapped to Alt+SysRq.
The Democrats are certainly not our friends.
I hear about this crap on Tom Leykis all the time. You don't even have to be the father to owe child support. If the child has formed a "psycological bond", then you gotta pay. So if you are just dating a single mom, and then break up, you might end up paying for someone else's kid. Or if your wife was cheating on you and it turns out that someone else is the father of "your child", you still owe. Apparently, this is especially true in Washington state (the "single mom capital of the world").
$30k here is "living-in-a-cardboard-box-under-the-freeway" wages
Okay, how about this then? I collect vinyls, and also I like to listen to music in my car, but playing vinyls in my car is not possible. Howver, playing MP3s in the car is (thank you, Pioneer). Making an MP3 out of a vinyl is difficult, time consuming, and doesn't sound very good, so I will often go onto P2P networks to get the songs in MP3 format. I own a copy of the song on vinyl, so I'm not breaking the law by downloading songs I already have a license for. I would hate to have my ISP account terminated because somebody suspected me of breaking the law, even though I wasn't.
Back when Napster and OpenNap was big, I had great luck with that, and there are some good Linux clients for it. Also, I've had pretty good luck with Gnutella. Good results, easy to use if you have a good client, quick downloads. Still, nothing can compare to Kazaa. Simply put, Kazaa gets you more files, more quickly.
Arrr, but Disney has a 60 year head start. Also video games are still a relitively new and emerging technology. The total market penetration that games now have is very recent. Prior to the Playstation, kids were the only target demo for games (in the US anyway). In addition Disney aren't doing as well as they had in the recent past, while game sales are way up. So the tables could be turned sooner than one might think.
That's funny. My Yahama 4x SCSI in my PC at work had the eject mechanism break. It did get constant use for over a year though. I also had an old Sony 2x SCSI in my PC years back that also had the eject mechanism break. But this thing was OG. It used CD Caddies. The caddy got stuck inside and I couldn't get it out. Quite sad.
Are you having similar issues? Any tips?
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Why would Sony's competitors care about what Sony wants?
Also the makers of Prilosec did the same thing as the Claritin people. They made a little change and now call it Nexium. 17 more years of revenue! Sheer brilliance.
Cystalis for the NES (which came out in 1990) said the end would be on October 1, 1997. Chrono Trigger for the SNES said Dec. 31 1999. Neither were correct, which is strange as video games are usually correct about these things.
Is that so surprising? The networks don't care about putting out quality shows. Nor do they care about the shows fans. They care about selling advertising. Shows are just filler for the ads. A show could be the highest art ever created, but if no one is watching it, then advertising revenues will be low and the show will be pulled. It's not to their benefit to wait and hope a show catches on. For them it is better to replace it quickly and hope whatever fills that time slot will get more people watching ads.
An Oscar will do nothing for Anime's status in the US. It will remain a niche, but is that such a bad thing? What will mainstream do for you? Bad dubs on TV and delays due to big studios botching things up? No thanks?
Get DSL? It's the cable companies who cap. DSL providers all seem to be capless (albeit slower than cable). I would like to know where he gets 2.5mbps for $25/mo. I pay $50 for 768kbps or whatever.
My advice, keep all the tapes burried under your house. It's still safer than Iron Mountain.
That's all well and good if you are standing next to the transmitter, as that's the only way you can pick up those stations. I used to live in Palo Alto and I still could barely pick up KZSU. They do spin some good tunes though. However, they also spin a lot of crappy tunes. They are a lot better than KALX though.
Also check out Fat Wreck Chords if punk is you thing. Lots of good MP3 downloads available.
This is why I liked it when one our local PBS stations (KTEH San Jose) showed anime. Shows like Evangelion and Dirty Pair Flash, subtitled, uncensored, with no commercials. They did Anime right. Sadly they seem to have stopped showing Anime. Alas.
The Johnny Quest episode
The Flinstones episode
The Scooby episode
The Jabberjaw episode
The Yogi episode
The Superfriends episode
And that's it. I've seen them all about a zillion times. It's the same story with Sealab and Aqua Teen Hunger Force. There are only 13 episodes of both those shows, and I've seen them all so many times that I have become sick of the shows. The episodes are 10 minutes long and use cheap animation tactics. You wouldn't think it would be too hard to produce some new episodes every now and then.