any real merit to using 'manga' instead of 'graphic novels'
I thought a "graphic novel" was distinguished by a more complex story line; with a beginning, middle and end, and of a book-length, say 100 pages or so (often published in parts). There is no implication about the drawing style. Conversely, there are manga graphic novels, and manga shorts, and interminable manga soap operas.
People drawing in the style of manga want to ensure that they aren't confused with the super hero rubbish that permetes America.
Because they wouldn't want to confuse this "manga" about a spndex-clad voluptuous female android who flies through space with her pet robot dogs with that "super hero rubbish".
If you see a mistake in a story, email the author. We'll get it fixed pronto.
For the record, I did that before I made the above post, about 11 hours ago now. Zonk particularly seems to be untroubled by spelling, grammar, dupes... and never makes any corrections. Taco screws up frequently, but occasionally does fix a glaring error.
They can force it politically, but that would simply piss off "The People of China" that much more when they can't import any foreign entertainment. (Certainly, a big import/export for any first world country.)
China doesn't import much foreign-made entertainment, because most Chinese people only speak Chinese. So localised, dubbed versions of movies are the norm. And actually most "first world countries" are the same, you won't find the same disks and packaging in the US and UK even. And that's not even getting into region coding, which tries to enforce this.
So if they're going to make their own physical versions, it makes no difference if they are in a different kind of disk as well.
What's the point of spending all this money on such a useless and rather silly project? Seriously.
"philanthropist Paul G. Allen has committed $13.5 million to support the construction of the first and second phases of the Allen Telescope Array... This announcement follows the successful completion of a three-year research and development phase that was originally funded by an $11.5 million gift from the Allen Foundation."
It's private money (actually Microsoft money). $24 million might fund a "low budget" Hollywood movie or buy one Impressionist painting.
The array will also be doing "ordinary" astronomy; "In addition to conducting a SETI survey of the inner galaxy, the ATA-32 will observe in the direction of the galactic anti-center to detect primordial deuterium, study dark matter in nearby dwarf galaxies, and generate maps of polyatomic molecules in molecular clouds."
I would prefer to see technical solutions over legal ones. How about:
Schenier's point is not that technical solutions are impossible, but that banks won't implement secure technical solutions unless they are (legally) responsible when they fail. Now the customers bear most of the burden of cleaning up the mess. Given the choice between making transactions more complex, and perhaps losing a customer who finds it too hard, or exposing the customer to a risk of fraud, the choice is clear.
Even if you couldn't afford a lawyer, you would be shouting for help on every news reporter and website you could fin, and you certainly wouldnt just settle.
Nevertheless most people do settle. The usual deal is you pay a few thousand diollars and promise to sin no more. The potential damages are huge.
haven't actually heard about a real suit yet where they were truly wrong about the downloading habits.
These cases hardly ever go to court. The legal costs of defending such a case will bankrupt any normal person. In almost every case a settlement is agreed and the evidence is thus never examined by the court. So the truth of the claims they make are never proved.
I didn't fully understand the Chinese stance on the issue, but it seemed to revolve around Taiwan having been "part of China" for hundreds of years
It's pretty hilarious, since it was only a loose part of China in Imperial times (often controlled by rebels and pirates), over the last 500 years it was controlled briefly by the Dutch and Spanish, was briefly independent till the 1895 Sino-Japanese War when the Chinese empire ceded Taiwan to to Japan. Taiwan was part of Japn till 1945 when after WWII it was given to the Republic of China. So it was never part of the PRC, and only briefly part of any "China" at all.
personally support the liberation of Tibet. But as an American, it's hard for me to say that without also believing that the territory of the US should be returned to the people it was stolen from -- the Native Americans.
The difference is that in every US state that "non-Natives" are in the majority, mostly by a great degree. In Tibet, the "Native" Tibetans are still in the majority, except perhaps in Lhasa where a few million Han Chinese have taken over most of the businesses, as well of course as the army and government. China is about to complete a new rail line to Lhasa, and that is going to bring a flood of new migrants. In another couple of decades the Chinese will have colonised Tibet and be in the racial majority. Then it will be irreversible -- but at the moment, should say Beijing be nuked and China get involved in a foreign war, Tibet could break away again. Not very likely, though.
After an "invading" power has been settled in a country for a generation or more, it becomes native. As a white Australian whose family has lived there for at least four generations, for instance, I consider myself as much a native as any Aboriginal, and don't feel any guilt or need to make reparations for what someone distantly related to me may have done 150 years ago. That doesn't make invading right, it just means that some things can't be undone.
Google makes Taiwan a province of China in order to appease China and avoid being denied access to China's markets.
Google makes Taiwan a privince of China
If you look at that story, you find it's a complaint from the "Taiwan Solidarity Union", a nationalist group that proposes independence for Taiwan. Though Taiwan is in effect an independent country, it has always been officially, according to both its own and the Beijing government, a province of China. They differ though on what "China" is. Taiwan sees it as the "Republic of China", whose government in exile is "temporarily" in Taipei; Beijing as the "People's Republic of China", ruled by the communists. Only in the last few years have any Taiwanese politicians dared to advocate legal independence, and Beijing is very quick to rattle the sabres about this.
Seems a good anaolgy to me.
That says more about you than it does about the quality of the analogy.
Yes, it means I'm a two-finger typist. That invalidates any argument I make for sure.
In fact, the iPod that's on the list is a "sequel", and clearly it won.
1) I said "rarely", and 2) it came 78th, which is not my definition of "winning". Feel free to differ.
your premise, that a product that was not released in 2005 is ineligible for a "Best Products of 2005" award is moronic
Well, fuck you too.
nor is it even consistent with the article.
Who knows what their criteria were? Gather up 100 things they've reviewed in the last year or whenever and recycle them into an article that people will link to and argue about, perhaps.
I mean, seriously, are you trying to claim that since Casablanca can't win an Oscar for 2005, that the iPod can't be considered a "Best Product of 2005"? One's got nothing to do with the other.
Seems a good anaolgy to me. Casablanca is still a great movie, you can watch it "in 2005"; but it's not a movie "of 2005".
There is (currently) no '"new, 2005" video version'.
They (PCWorld) placed "Apple IPod Photo Large-Capacity MP3 Player". Okay, photo not video, that's the model they gave #78 to; the point was it's not the original 2001 one, and like movies, sequels rarely win awards.
By making it a civil law, and attaching damages to that law, you allow individuals to get lawyers and sue the person into bankruptcy.
That's the problem, even if the case is won, very likely the perp will either be broke, or have hidden away his assets and cheefully go into bankruptcy, leaving the lawyer and/or the "victim" with nothing to cover their expenses. Lawyers aren't going to be eager to go after unrecoverable awards. Perhaps a few cases will get publicity and scare some of the local phishers, but the overseas ones won't give a shit either way.
Does this mean it will have PDF-import capabilities too?
It would be possible to make valid PDFs that included the Word doc file as a resource. Users would open such a file in Word and edit it, then save it as MS-PDF again. After a while users would get used to this, even setting Word as the default app for PDFs, and this would lead to people saying "There's something wrong with your PDF (from OpenOffice/WordPerfect/etc), I can't open it in Word...." following their time-worn Embrace/Extend/Extinguish strategy.
That's why printers that support PS are so expensive because each printer with PS support sold needs to pay royalty to Adobe.
Actually, that's why most printers that support Postscript actually use a PS-compatible RIP like Ghostscript. For instance HP PS lasers have been "PS compatible" rather than "Adobe PS" for about 10 years.
Making PDFs Read/Write would torpedo a LOT of current practices.
Duh. PDFs have been read/write since day 1. The format was aimed at the publishing industry, and if you look up "PDF workflow" you'll find a lot of tools for editing PDFs. That some clueless people who think "Acrobat READER" is the only thing that can open them imagine that makes them a locked, one-way format is laughable, but sadly common. That's why there are digital signing tools for PDFs. But just as easily you could encrypt and sign any document format, from plain text on up.
It would just be funny, except when these idiots discover their assumed security doesn't exist, they panic and claim anyone who edits PDFs must be a hacker, and demand the format be changed to make it impossible. So I wonder if MS's PDF's will be "embraced and extended" with features to fuck up such use, making a whole new mess of incompatibility with standard PDFs, and nightmares for prepress people given a bunch of MS-PDFs to output.
You can not copyright factual information. See eg Feist v Rural Telephone where the US Supreme Court ruled that lists of numbers in a phone book was not copyrightable.
The map in question is highly stylised, and not to scale. That makes it copyrightable.
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I thought a "graphic novel" was distinguished by a more complex story line; with a beginning, middle and end, and of a book-length, say 100 pages or so (often published in parts). There is no implication about the drawing style. Conversely, there are manga graphic novels, and manga shorts, and interminable manga soap operas.
Because they wouldn't want to confuse this "manga" about a spndex-clad voluptuous female android who flies through space with her pet robot dogs with that "super hero rubbish".
For the record, I did that before I made the above post, about 11 hours ago now. Zonk particularly seems to be untroubled by spelling, grammar, dupes... and never makes any corrections. Taco screws up frequently, but occasionally does fix a glaring error.
China doesn't import much foreign-made entertainment, because most Chinese people only speak Chinese. So localised, dubbed versions of movies are the norm. And actually most "first world countries" are the same, you won't find the same disks and packaging in the US and UK even. And that's not even getting into region coding, which tries to enforce this.
So if they're going to make their own physical versions, it makes no difference if they are in a different kind of disk as well.
"philanthropist Paul G. Allen has committed $13.5 million to support the construction of the first and second phases of the Allen Telescope Array... This announcement follows the successful completion of a three-year research and development phase that was originally funded by an $11.5 million gift from the Allen Foundation."
It's private money (actually Microsoft money). $24 million might fund a "low budget" Hollywood movie or buy one Impressionist painting. The array will also be doing "ordinary" astronomy; "In addition to conducting a SETI survey of the inner galaxy, the ATA-32 will observe in the direction of the galactic anti-center to detect primordial deuterium, study dark matter in nearby dwarf galaxies, and generate maps of polyatomic molecules in molecular clouds."
So until this no-OS PC was sold, every Dell PC used exactly the same hard disk with exactly the same OS imaged on it?
For God's sake Zonk, use spellcheck.
Schenier's point is not that technical solutions are impossible, but that banks won't implement secure technical solutions unless they are (legally) responsible when they fail. Now the customers bear most of the burden of cleaning up the mess. Given the choice between making transactions more complex, and perhaps losing a customer who finds it too hard, or exposing the customer to a risk of fraud, the choice is clear.
Nevertheless most people do settle. The usual deal is you pay a few thousand diollars and promise to sin no more. The potential damages are huge.
These cases hardly ever go to court. The legal costs of defending such a case will bankrupt any normal person. In almost every case a settlement is agreed and the evidence is thus never examined by the court. So the truth of the claims they make are never proved.
It's pretty hilarious, since it was only a loose part of China in Imperial times (often controlled by rebels and pirates), over the last 500 years it was controlled briefly by the Dutch and Spanish, was briefly independent till the 1895 Sino-Japanese War when the Chinese empire ceded Taiwan to to Japan. Taiwan was part of Japn till 1945 when after WWII it was given to the Republic of China. So it was never part of the PRC, and only briefly part of any "China" at all.
The difference is that in every US state that "non-Natives" are in the majority, mostly by a great degree. In Tibet, the "Native" Tibetans are still in the majority, except perhaps in Lhasa where a few million Han Chinese have taken over most of the businesses, as well of course as the army and government. China is about to complete a new rail line to Lhasa, and that is going to bring a flood of new migrants. In another couple of decades the Chinese will have colonised Tibet and be in the racial majority. Then it will be irreversible -- but at the moment, should say Beijing be nuked and China get involved in a foreign war, Tibet could break away again. Not very likely, though.
After an "invading" power has been settled in a country for a generation or more, it becomes native. As a white Australian whose family has lived there for at least four generations, for instance, I consider myself as much a native as any Aboriginal, and don't feel any guilt or need to make reparations for what someone distantly related to me may have done 150 years ago. That doesn't make invading right, it just means that some things can't be undone.
If you look at that story, you find it's a complaint from the "Taiwan Solidarity Union", a nationalist group that proposes independence for Taiwan. Though Taiwan is in effect an independent country, it has always been officially, according to both its own and the Beijing government, a province of China. They differ though on what "China" is. Taiwan sees it as the "Republic of China", whose government in exile is "temporarily" in Taipei; Beijing as the "People's Republic of China", ruled by the communists. Only in the last few years have any Taiwanese politicians dared to advocate legal independence, and Beijing is very quick to rattle the sabres about this.
Sadly, my original moronic post seems to have been modded "+5 insightful".
That says more about you than it does about the quality of the analogy.
Yes, it means I'm a two-finger typist. That invalidates any argument I make for sure.
In fact, the iPod that's on the list is a "sequel", and clearly it won.
1) I said "rarely", and 2) it came 78th, which is not my definition of "winning". Feel free to differ.
your premise, that a product that was not released in 2005 is ineligible for a "Best Products of 2005" award is moronic
Well, fuck you too.
nor is it even consistent with the article.
Who knows what their criteria were? Gather up 100 things they've reviewed in the last year or whenever and recycle them into an article that people will link to and argue about, perhaps.
You're defending a lost position and you know it.
No, I'm being trolled.
Seems a good anaolgy to me. Casablanca is still a great movie, you can watch it "in 2005"; but it's not a movie "of 2005".
There is (currently) no '"new, 2005" video version'.
They (PCWorld) placed "Apple IPod Photo Large-Capacity MP3 Player". Okay, photo not video, that's the model they gave #78 to; the point was it's not the original 2001 one, and like movies, sequels rarely win awards.
You can still watch Casablanca at your local revival cinema, so why doesn't it get an Oscar every year?
This is easily demonstrated by the fact that the iPod is on the list.
That's the "new, 2005" video version, I think.
That's the problem, even if the case is won, very likely the perp will either be broke, or have hidden away his assets and cheefully go into bankruptcy, leaving the lawyer and/or the "victim" with nothing to cover their expenses. Lawyers aren't going to be eager to go after unrecoverable awards. Perhaps a few cases will get publicity and scare some of the local phishers, but the overseas ones won't give a shit either way.
Especially since it's about products of 2005; the iPod debuted in 2001.
It would be possible to make valid PDFs that included the Word doc file as a resource. Users would open such a file in Word and edit it, then save it as MS-PDF again. After a while users would get used to this, even setting Word as the default app for PDFs, and this would lead to people saying "There's something wrong with your PDF (from OpenOffice/WordPerfect/etc), I can't open it in Word...." following their time-worn Embrace/Extend/Extinguish strategy.
Actually, that's why most printers that support Postscript actually use a PS-compatible RIP like Ghostscript. For instance HP PS lasers have been "PS compatible" rather than "Adobe PS" for about 10 years.
Duh. PDFs have been read/write since day 1. The format was aimed at the publishing industry, and if you look up "PDF workflow" you'll find a lot of tools for editing PDFs. That some clueless people who think "Acrobat READER" is the only thing that can open them imagine that makes them a locked, one-way format is laughable, but sadly common. That's why there are digital signing tools for PDFs. But just as easily you could encrypt and sign any document format, from plain text on up.
It would just be funny, except when these idiots discover their assumed security doesn't exist, they panic and claim anyone who edits PDFs must be a hacker, and demand the format be changed to make it impossible. So I wonder if MS's PDF's will be "embraced and extended" with features to fuck up such use, making a whole new mess of incompatibility with standard PDFs, and nightmares for prepress people given a bunch of MS-PDFs to output.
No it doesn't. You're probably thinking of trademarks.
The map in question is highly stylised, and not to scale. That makes it copyrightable.