Since everyone seems to think the bootleg versions are official releases, here are the lists of (legal) available versions of Spirited Away, Castle in the Sky, and Kiki. If you have anything else, you got scammed.
Totoro is out on DVD from Fox, but Fox only owns the pan and scan version. If you want it in widescreen, you'll can either wait until Fox's contract expires and Disney can release the film on DVD in North America, or get the region 2 set they've already released.
You don't need an "adapter at the port", just a nine-pin to six-pin cable, in the same way that you need a six-pin to four-pin cable to connect a camcorder to a FireWire 400 port.
Firewire 800 uses 9 pins instead of 6, and it uses optical cable to get longer range (100 meters on FW800 vs. 4.5 on FW400 and 5 on USB2). See the Apple FireWire page.
Apple has a very specific warning on their beta software that never appears on final versions:
Important Note: this is trial, pre-release, time-limited software meant for evaluation purposes only. This software should not be used in a commercial operating environment or with important data. Before installing the Apple Software, you should back up all of your data and regularly back up data while using the Apple Software.
It has been speculated that Apple has been putting off USB2 support until FireWire 2 was ready, so if they are ready to put FW2 in their machines, expect USB2 support as well.
If you beleive that, then you are opposed to pop-up blocking, since browsers that have pop-up blocking aren't respecting all the commands the ECMAScript standard. Pop-up blocking does indeed break many legitimate scripts, but the web is unusable without it. When a standard allows any website to do anything it wants to the browser, you can't follow it to the letter.
But the same technology could someday be used on banner ads; the marketers are just pointing out what anyone who codes for the web already knows: if your browser will run any piece of JavaScript sent to it, any website can do whatever it wants to your browsing experience, including bringing it to a grinding halt, and if your machine doesn't have protected memory, crash it.
Pop-up blocking is only the first step in what will have to be a shift from the creation of new languages and plug-ins to let content creators do whatever they want on the viewers' machine, to have browsers decide what is reasonable for a web page to do. Pop-up windows not initiated by clicking a link quickly became one obvious thing that pages shouldn't be allowed to do, but flash ads that take over the page and ads that load if you mouse over them make you realize that there are many more things they shouldn't be allowed to do either. But if alternate browsers keep innovating, and IE keeps doing whatever the javascripts and plugins tell it, this can only help drive people to the alternatives.
...that browser makers need to shift more and more from blindly displaying and executing whatever code comes with a web page, to screening that content to provide the best experience for the user.
This has started with things like disabling the blink tag and having pop-up blockers, and now we see that browsers should not allow certain actions to be triggered simply by a mouseover, and so on. Remember things like this the next time you see someone on bugzilla commenting about how the browser has to respect command X because it's in the standard!
This is even dumber because if record companies wanted me to send them the play counts from my MP3 program so that they could make more of the kind of music I like, I would gladly do it. Just use an open source program so that we know exactly what it's doing, and make sure users are asked if they want to participate.
Miyazaki stated that he didn't like the movies by Toho or Toei either (they are the Japanese movie companies which have been distributing the Ghibli films). He distinguishes between film production and film distribution. He also stated that he had agreed to the deal mainly to help Tokuma, which had backed him when he was starting out. He said he has earned enough money to last him a lifetime.
Disney hasn't won an award in that categoy yet, and I doubt they will in the near future. Spirited Away should win this year, and if it doesn't Ice Age will, so the award will go to Ghibli or Blue Sky. Next year Finding Nemo will probably win, giving Pixar their first Oscar in this category. But the bottom line is that Ghibli, PDI, Pixar, and Blue Sky are going to win this Oscar every year for quite some time.
The movie made $200 Million in Japan; it is the highest grossing film of all time in Japan, beating Titanic. Studio Ghibli doesn't care too much about how much money they make in the U.S.
Further, Ghibli has a very restrictive contract with Disney that prevents Disney from making any changes to the movies (this is why Mononoke was released with a PG-13 rating).
Furthermore, the lawsuit claims that a story artist from Pixar visited Mouse in 2000
Which would make this rather irrelevant since M.I. would have to have been pitched in 1997 to be released in 2001.
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Pixar orignally had a 3 picture deal with Disney, and Toy Story was released under that contract (notice that Toy Story isn't even branded as Pixar at all, and the Pixar Luxo logo trailer doesn't even show until after the credits.) That contract was replaced by a new 5 picture contract, so the 5 films are Bugs, MI, Nemo, Incredibles, and Cars (TS2 doesn't count, and Disney declined to allow Pixar to create a TS3 that would count as one of the films). In their last earnings teleconference, Pixar said that they are already in early pre-production on the film after Cars, which they are financing entirely themselves and which they will own all the rights to, although of course they could choose to get a new contract with Disney, they would just get to keep a much, much bigger piece of the profits (they currently get 50% minus all distribution fees)
You mean they're cancelling a bunch of reruns to start showing Futurama? Who wouldn't be upset!
Seriously, everything that has been cut was nearing its natural end of life; Gundam is the only one that hasn't been on that long. Also, try to remember that Cartoon Network is going from showing 3 hours of Adult Swim anime to 5. It's pretty likely that Cowboy Bebop will be replaced by another new acquision soon, given the fact that the 26 episodes will be repeating every 5 weeks on the new shedule.
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Whether that stops other people from using the code is another question.
But why would it not be better if every component of Mozilla was a completely seperate application? Then you could have Phoenix or Konqueror or Lynx as your default browser and still use any other mozilla.org applications that you like. You would also be free of the bloated UI inherent in suites that are so tightly integrated and which have so many components as Mozilla, not to mention making it massively easier to control the codebase, isolate problems, and dedicate manpower where it is needed most (hint: making a major alternative web browser is currently more relevant to the internet community than building the 47th open source IRC client, or a pitiful web design app).
Netscape jumped on the suite bandwagon; now that that fad is over, why can't they get off?
This will probably have its source released as part of Darwin (simply because it's a low-level function; I don't have any news about this), but it will also probably only work on HFS+ filesystems, so someone else would still have to adapt it to other filesystems to add it to the other BSDs.
Their roadmap is to first get a version that works fine on OS X using X11 for windowing, then to make a version that draws everything manually in quartz and still looks like the X11 version, but it runs without X11, and then finally to make a version that uses aqua widgets. They plan to be done with this by summer 2004, so don't go trashing your copy of office just yet;)
http://porting.openoffice.org/mac/timeline.html
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Since everyone seems to think the bootleg versions are official releases, here are the lists of (legal) available versions of Spirited Away, Castle in the Sky, and Kiki. If you have anything else, you got scammed.
Totoro is out on DVD from Fox, but Fox only owns the pan and scan version. If you want it in widescreen, you'll can either wait until Fox's contract expires and Disney can release the film on DVD in North America, or get the region 2 set they've already released.
You don't need an "adapter at the port", just a nine-pin to six-pin cable, in the same way that you need a six-pin to four-pin cable to connect a camcorder to a FireWire 400 port.
Firewire 800 uses 9 pins instead of 6, and it uses optical cable to get longer range (100 meters on FW800 vs. 4.5 on FW400 and 5 on USB2). See the Apple FireWire page.
Apple has a very specific warning on their beta software that never appears on final versions: Important Note: this is trial, pre-release, time-limited software meant for evaluation purposes only. This software should not be used in a commercial operating environment or with important data. Before installing the Apple Software, you should back up all of your data and regularly back up data while using the Apple Software.
It has been speculated that Apple has been putting off USB2 support until FireWire 2 was ready, so if they are ready to put FW2 in their machines, expect USB2 support as well.
If you beleive that, then you are opposed to pop-up blocking, since browsers that have pop-up blocking aren't respecting all the commands the ECMAScript standard. Pop-up blocking does indeed break many legitimate scripts, but the web is unusable without it. When a standard allows any website to do anything it wants to the browser, you can't follow it to the letter.
But the same technology could someday be used on banner ads; the marketers are just pointing out what anyone who codes for the web already knows: if your browser will run any piece of JavaScript sent to it, any website can do whatever it wants to your browsing experience, including bringing it to a grinding halt, and if your machine doesn't have protected memory, crash it. Pop-up blocking is only the first step in what will have to be a shift from the creation of new languages and plug-ins to let content creators do whatever they want on the viewers' machine, to have browsers decide what is reasonable for a web page to do. Pop-up windows not initiated by clicking a link quickly became one obvious thing that pages shouldn't be allowed to do, but flash ads that take over the page and ads that load if you mouse over them make you realize that there are many more things they shouldn't be allowed to do either. But if alternate browsers keep innovating, and IE keeps doing whatever the javascripts and plugins tell it, this can only help drive people to the alternatives.
This has started with things like disabling the blink tag and having pop-up blockers, and now we see that browsers should not allow certain actions to be triggered simply by a mouseover, and so on. Remember things like this the next time you see someone on bugzilla commenting about how the browser has to respect command X because it's in the standard!
This is even dumber because if record companies wanted me to send them the play counts from my MP3 program so that they could make more of the kind of music I like, I would gladly do it. Just use an open source program so that we know exactly what it's doing, and make sure users are asked if they want to participate.
Disney hasn't won an award in that categoy yet, and I doubt they will in the near future. Spirited Away should win this year, and if it doesn't Ice Age will, so the award will go to Ghibli or Blue Sky. Next year Finding Nemo will probably win, giving Pixar their first Oscar in this category. But the bottom line is that Ghibli, PDI, Pixar, and Blue Sky are going to win this Oscar every year for quite some time.
Further, Ghibli has a very restrictive contract with Disney that prevents Disney from making any changes to the movies (this is why Mononoke was released with a PG-13 rating).
That would be a really great argument if the movie was made by Disney.
Which would make this rather irrelevant since M.I. would have to have been pitched in 1997 to be released in 2001.
1. Get version 10.2.1 2. Get a RADEON or better 3. Get 512MB+ of RAM 4. Get rid of the Internet Explorer and Mozilla, which run at glacial speeds on Mac OS X, and use Chimera or Opera
Pixar orignally had a 3 picture deal with Disney, and Toy Story was released under that contract (notice that Toy Story isn't even branded as Pixar at all, and the Pixar Luxo logo trailer doesn't even show until after the credits.) That contract was replaced by a new 5 picture contract, so the 5 films are Bugs, MI, Nemo, Incredibles, and Cars (TS2 doesn't count, and Disney declined to allow Pixar to create a TS3 that would count as one of the films). In their last earnings teleconference, Pixar said that they are already in early pre-production on the film after Cars, which they are financing entirely themselves and which they will own all the rights to, although of course they could choose to get a new contract with Disney, they would just get to keep a much, much bigger piece of the profits (they currently get 50% minus all distribution fees)
Seriously, everything that has been cut was nearing its natural end of life; Gundam is the only one that hasn't been on that long. Also, try to remember that Cartoon Network is going from showing 3 hours of Adult Swim anime to 5. It's pretty likely that Cowboy Bebop will be replaced by another new acquision soon, given the fact that the 26 episodes will be repeating every 5 weeks on the new shedule.
Actually the Mac OS X version does force you to install all of the programs.
Netscape jumped on the suite bandwagon; now that that fad is over, why can't they get off?
"If you think Mozilla's current UI is acceptable, then you are clearly not the target audience for Phoenix." -David Hyatt
This will probably have its source released as part of Darwin (simply because it's a low-level function; I don't have any news about this), but it will also probably only work on HFS+ filesystems, so someone else would still have to adapt it to other filesystems to add it to the other BSDs.
Their roadmap is to first get a version that works fine on OS X using X11 for windowing, then to make a version that draws everything manually in quartz and still looks like the X11 version, but it runs without X11, and then finally to make a version that uses aqua widgets. They plan to be done with this by summer 2004, so don't go trashing your copy of office just yet ;)
http://porting.openoffice.org/mac/timeline.html
You mean if it isn't standards compliant it requires proprietary drivers? Who would have thought!