The older dub was written and directed by Carl Macek.
Go search for him on Everything2.com, and you'll see that a lot of otaku do not like him. He created robotech (for what it is) by hacking 3 shows into one. He also had a habit of altering the dialog of stories to suit his tastes, and never released subtitled versions of shows Streamline licensed because he didn't like it.
The new dub (I prefer subs, of course) is just that. The lines are different, the voices are canadian (might explain the names). Everything translation wise is new, so things make a bit more sense.
The restoration is incredible, especially when compared to the video in the extras Pioneer got for the second disc.
The second disc is excellent as well. Tons of extras, including 2 documentaries made back in '88 on the making of Akira. Both in Japanese, they have subtitles and a voiceover read the onscreen text.
The case itself, at least the tin one, is beautiful. A slight metallic blue, both sides hinge off a silver center, with the disc mounts attached to the inside of each panel. A beautiful case, but it won't fit in a standard DVD holder.
For those who are cheaper, they're releasing the movie in a standard keepcase sans the extras disc. And those who missed/don't want the tin, they'll be releasing a plastic-cased "special edition" set with both discs.
Although I ignored the dub (which I hear is pretty good this time around), I finally got to hear the Japanese track. With the new translation, the story MAKES SENSE NOW. All you have to do is pay attention. It also helps to read the first few books of the manga, which'll introduce you to all of the characters (though their roles are changed significantly).
A great release, best of the year so far. Pioneer spent the money and made good on their promises.
Don't whine about how this guarantees the destruction of Mandrakesoft.
BUY SOME MANDRAKESOFT STOCK!!
Get your own voice in the company and be heard. The company goes the way the stockholders say, and if the stockholders say "go for the long term," then they'll go for the long term.
The problem is with the stock holders and their new "more more more now now now" approach. If you think you'd be better, then buy your way into mandrakesoft BEFORE they do.
you will not put MS out of business - they may pull out of the US but that will have a far far greater impact on your economy than you ever want to think about (possible a depression when the collapse of dependant companies is taken into account)
This is why MS may need to be preemptively broken (or modified in some way). If the loss of one company could cause as much damage to a single nation's economy, as you seem to believe, then that company is a threat to the very country that it resides in. Guess what that's known as. A MONOPOLY! Guess what Microsoft is being prosecuted for!
shouldn't we be developing a more user friendly and desktop friendly OS for the home market - something which doesnt require the level of knowledge most Linux Distros need ? (the home users - moms and dads - wont ever run the product at the level it is now)
Um, no? What needs to happen is Compaq, Gateway, Dell, et. al. need to start distributing a nice Linux desktop. Maybe with a well proofed Wine setup and heavily secured remote admin tools. Provide a mirror of that setup on a recovery CD (that is totally automated), and most "moms and dads" will be fine. That's about what they do for windows now. What, do you think a "mom" or "dad" could survive the windows install, or even really use it effectively? I'll say this now: They don't. They only use it because it's on there, and the software they get runs on it. That's ALL.
Isnt it enought that we have the high ground as ethical and intelligent liberal thinking programmers with an ethic of producing the best possible solution ?
Uh huh. And we sit here and get nowhere. We may have the high ground, but one effort of the "movement," as it may be called (I guess), is to spread this high ground to everyone. We want the best, we want everyone to have the best (except the "l33t f3w(lz)"). One needs to be proactive to do this, but when a company can actively lock you out of markets simply by the use of PHB quality tripe (and exclusivity agreements), it gets hard, fast (only after the trial started were PC manufacturers able to sell servers NOT running NT without fear of losing their client (9X) license).
We won't utterly destroy MS. We'll fight them on multiple fronts, and if possible, render them irrelevant. They'll fade into the background, listed under various source distros and modules as "Legacy" and be forgotten. At least, that's what one would hope.
Oh, and it's those third world countries that are permitting it. Seeing as how are laws aren't supposed to reach into other countries, we can't really do much about it. And as far as the hacker ethic is concerned, they believe exactly what MS tells them, that "hackers" are dangerous, want to steal your credit cards and pirate your software.
I don't know why anyone would think a "computer appliance" would sell.
Appliances usually do one, maybe two things well. Your toaster toasts. Your oven heats things. Your refrigerator cools and freezes things. A computer, by its nature, does more.
It sounds like Fuji would (and decided themselves to be) better off with just small, simple PCs. They may still use linux (control features, cost), but special purpose hardware isn't necessary (especially since it's likely just going to be locked in a cabinet).
Most teachers in elementary schools haven't a clue how to use windows effectively.
As long as you give them a desktop and a start-menu like object (or even something better), and easy access to word processors, spreadsheets, and maybe a few other programs, and make printing painless, there will be no problems, regardless of OS.
Linux + Gnome/KDE + StarOffice + MSO Converters + Wine could EASILY replace Windows, the trick is getting our foot in the door.
At the most, the IA-64 may benefit from some of the superior parts of the Alpha (and maybe standard IA-32 CPUs) like the FPU, but for the most part, the Alpha may suffer from NIH syndrome.
Sad, since it's superior to just about ALL other CPUs out there.
Mononoke isn't a Disney copy because Disney didn't make Mononoke.
That's a product of Studio Ghibli, whom licesensed it to Disney (under a fairly protective contract, no editing was permitted) through Miramax. Had this not happened, you'd likely have seen a Disney movie very similar to Mononoke eventually.
Of course, every Anime fan should fear the fact that Miramax has Ghost in the Shell 2, and who knows what they'll do to it (edit wise...)
That's because the Armitage III movie only exists in english (released by Pioneer, btw). It was given to Pioneer, edited into a compilation movie, and was reimported and shown in theaters in Japan (with Japanese subtitles!)
The 4 OAVs that originally comprised Armitage exist in both sub/dub format, and are going to be released later as an Armitage "Perfect Collection" by Pioneer (most likely).
...that NT shops get charged more because it's obvious they have the money to spend?
Either that or statistics show that NT has more security problems, which as bullshit as statistics are, this is what insurance companies live on.
...that Linux shops have low-turnover because GNU/Linux "admins" can't get jobs elsewhere?
Where'd you get that from?
...that your blatant and igornant anti-Microsoft bias only reinforces Slashdot's reputation as poo?
So what should they post, stuff espousing how they love microsoft, in spite of the things microsoft has done to prove they deserve a lot of the crap they catch? I know some of it (ok, a good bit of it) is BS, but from what the article says, it's obvious that it's not Slashdot making this call.
As much as people like to point to the Supreme Court decision that declared corporations to be private persons (super-persons more likely), THEY ARE NOT PEOPLE, and as such they do not deserve analogies such as the one you have given.
Speaking one's opinion in the library isn't bad though. But if your opinion is deemed "offensive" by the filter (even if it isn't), you can be silenced.
I've heard the crap about the porn mags. But not bringing in porn mags is very different than actively blocking anything an ambiguous third party is deciding what you can and can't see. And yes, the goverment does archive that stuff. The companies that make it send it in for copyright protection, suprisingly.
I shouldn't have to ASK for my rights that the goverment cannot abridge in any way. It's like being forced to ask a police officer for the right to speak your mind, with the risk that now that you're under their control, they'll say no.
And no, the library doesn't need to be open 24/7. I can wait until the next day if I have to. That doesn't infringe on my rights, so long as I can get access, period. Rare books have to be protected from environmental damage. That's why you need permission, not because the content is "offensive."
The danger here is the precedent. They got the "bad, nasty internet," so what's to stop them from going after the "bad, nasty books?"
This is about PUBLIC ACCESS funded by federal money, with a mandate from state and federal lawmakers demanding GOVERNMENT MANDATED CENSORSHIP.
This is utterly unconstitutional, regardless of how you look at it, because it is backed by federal monies. Now were it a private library, there would be no question, since it's not funded by the government. But whenever the government funds the operation of something, they MUST ABIDE BY THE CONSTITUTION, even if that means that you have to walk with your daughter across the oh-so-dangerous library.
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It was given an east and west coast digital cinema release a few months back, around May.
It moved to a few other theaters, and may appear at a few other theaters before it's run is finished.
Too bad it's not more popular, I'd like to have seen a release in a theater near here (arkansas sucks, by the way).
The older dub was written and directed by Carl Macek.
Go search for him on Everything2.com, and you'll see that a lot of otaku do not like him. He created robotech (for what it is) by hacking 3 shows into one. He also had a habit of altering the dialog of stories to suit his tastes, and never released subtitled versions of shows Streamline licensed because he didn't like it.
The new dub (I prefer subs, of course) is just that. The lines are different, the voices are canadian (might explain the names). Everything translation wise is new, so things make a bit more sense.
The restoration is incredible, especially when compared to the video in the extras Pioneer got for the second disc.
The second disc is excellent as well. Tons of extras, including 2 documentaries made back in '88 on the making of Akira. Both in Japanese, they have subtitles and a voiceover read the onscreen text.
The case itself, at least the tin one, is beautiful. A slight metallic blue, both sides hinge off a silver center, with the disc mounts attached to the inside of each panel. A beautiful case, but it won't fit in a standard DVD holder.
For those who are cheaper, they're releasing the movie in a standard keepcase sans the extras disc. And those who missed/don't want the tin, they'll be releasing a plastic-cased "special edition" set with both discs.
Although I ignored the dub (which I hear is pretty good this time around), I finally got to hear the Japanese track. With the new translation, the story MAKES SENSE NOW. All you have to do is pay attention. It also helps to read the first few books of the manga, which'll introduce you to all of the characters (though their roles are changed significantly).
A great release, best of the year so far. Pioneer spent the money and made good on their promises.
You're both right and wrong at the same time.
Only 12 episodes of Bebop aired on TV Tokyo in Japan, and the episodes that did air were lightly edited.
Bebop was later picked up by WOWOW (satellite network in Japan) and aired in it's entirety.
While I won't be watching the CN showing (don't like dubs, and I've got it all on dvd), I do hope they don't hack it.
Don't whine about how this guarantees the destruction of Mandrakesoft.
BUY SOME MANDRAKESOFT STOCK!!
Get your own voice in the company and be heard. The company goes the way the stockholders say, and if the stockholders say "go for the long term," then they'll go for the long term.
The problem is with the stock holders and their new "more more more now now now" approach. If you think you'd be better, then buy your way into mandrakesoft BEFORE they do.
Hmm...
you will not put MS out of business - they may pull out of the US but that will have a far far greater impact on your economy than you ever want to think about (possible a depression when the collapse of dependant companies is taken into account)
This is why MS may need to be preemptively broken (or modified in some way). If the loss of one company could cause as much damage to a single nation's economy, as you seem to believe, then that company is a threat to the very country that it resides in. Guess what that's known as. A MONOPOLY! Guess what Microsoft is being prosecuted for!
shouldn't we be developing a more user friendly and desktop friendly OS for the home market - something which doesnt require the level of knowledge most Linux Distros need ? (the home users - moms and dads - wont ever run the product at the level it is now)
Um, no? What needs to happen is Compaq, Gateway, Dell, et. al. need to start distributing a nice Linux desktop. Maybe with a well proofed Wine setup and heavily secured remote admin tools. Provide a mirror of that setup on a recovery CD (that is totally automated), and most "moms and dads" will be fine. That's about what they do for windows now. What, do you think a "mom" or "dad" could survive the windows install, or even really use it effectively? I'll say this now: They don't. They only use it because it's on there, and the software they get runs on it. That's ALL.
Isnt it enought that we have the high ground as ethical and intelligent liberal thinking programmers with an ethic of producing the best possible solution ?
Uh huh. And we sit here and get nowhere. We may have the high ground, but one effort of the "movement," as it may be called (I guess), is to spread this high ground to everyone. We want the best, we want everyone to have the best (except the "l33t f3w(lz)"). One needs to be proactive to do this, but when a company can actively lock you out of markets simply by the use of PHB quality tripe (and exclusivity agreements), it gets hard, fast (only after the trial started were PC manufacturers able to sell servers NOT running NT without fear of losing their client (9X) license).
We won't utterly destroy MS. We'll fight them on multiple fronts, and if possible, render them irrelevant. They'll fade into the background, listed under various source distros and modules as "Legacy" and be forgotten. At least, that's what one would hope.
Oh, and it's those third world countries that are permitting it. Seeing as how are laws aren't supposed to reach into other countries, we can't really do much about it. And as far as the hacker ethic is concerned, they believe exactly what MS tells them, that "hackers" are dangerous, want to steal your credit cards and pirate your software.
I don't know why anyone would think a "computer appliance" would sell.
Appliances usually do one, maybe two things well. Your toaster toasts. Your oven heats things. Your refrigerator cools and freezes things. A computer, by its nature, does more.
It sounds like Fuji would (and decided themselves to be) better off with just small, simple PCs. They may still use linux (control features, cost), but special purpose hardware isn't necessary (especially since it's likely just going to be locked in a cabinet).
In 3 billion years when andromeda collides with the milky way, it'll be like trying to catch air with a net: It'll just pass right through.
The only difference here being that the stars will all tug on each other with gravity, distorting the shapes of the galaxies.
Barring some bizzare incident, the sun will be here for 5+ billion years in some form or another (and with any luck, we'll be elsewhere as well).
Water is small.
Really small.
And to get enough water to stay collected in a vaccum (where water likes to sublimate quickly) so that we can detect it from this far away is rare.
Now for its existence elsewhere in the universe, that's a no-brainer. It DOES. It's a simple molecule.
Most teachers in elementary schools haven't a clue how to use windows effectively.
As long as you give them a desktop and a start-menu like object (or even something better), and easy access to word processors, spreadsheets, and maybe a few other programs, and make printing painless, there will be no problems, regardless of OS.
Linux + Gnome/KDE + StarOffice + MSO Converters + Wine could EASILY replace Windows, the trick is getting our foot in the door.
Current Pentium 3/4 CPUs are mostly RISC in the core, with a CISC emulation layer overhead.
I'd assume that most of the IA-64 is RISC, again with a CISC emulation layer overhead.
The CISC/RISC war was never won or lost, they merged.
At the most, the IA-64 may benefit from some of the superior parts of the Alpha (and maybe standard IA-32 CPUs) like the FPU, but for the most part, the Alpha may suffer from NIH syndrome.
Sad, since it's superior to just about ALL other CPUs out there.
Of course, the Chinese goverment has only existed in its current form for 52 years. It may yet outlast the US government, and continue for longer.
They'll be releasing their Macross boxed set in a few weeks here.
Macross is, of course, one of the 3 shows ground up into the hamburger that is Robotech.
Mononoke isn't a Disney copy because Disney didn't make Mononoke.
That's a product of Studio Ghibli, whom licesensed it to Disney (under a fairly protective contract, no editing was permitted) through Miramax. Had this not happened, you'd likely have seen a Disney movie very similar to Mononoke eventually.
Of course, every Anime fan should fear the fact that Miramax has Ghost in the Shell 2, and who knows what they'll do to it (edit wise...)
As I look over the list, an even more damning name comes up.
Winbond, makers of chips that appear in just about EVERY PC system on the planet have joined.
Go through your machine, whether self-built or bought. You will likely find a Winbond chip in there.
That worries me a bit...
In that IBM is joining the venture, while 27 others are leaving.
How does this affect their "most-favored-big-company" status here on Slashdot?
That's because the Armitage III movie only exists in english (released by Pioneer, btw). It was given to Pioneer, edited into a compilation movie, and was reimported and shown in theaters in Japan (with Japanese subtitles!)
The 4 OAVs that originally comprised Armitage exist in both sub/dub format, and are going to be released later as an Armitage "Perfect Collection" by Pioneer (most likely).
...that NT shops get charged more because it's obvious they have the money to spend?
...that Linux shops have low-turnover because GNU/Linux "admins" can't get jobs elsewhere?
...that your blatant and igornant anti-Microsoft bias only reinforces Slashdot's reputation as poo?
Either that or statistics show that NT has more security problems, which as bullshit as statistics are, this is what insurance companies live on.
Where'd you get that from?
So what should they post, stuff espousing how they love microsoft, in spite of the things microsoft has done to prove they deserve a lot of the crap they catch? I know some of it (ok, a good bit of it) is BS, but from what the article says, it's obvious that it's not Slashdot making this call.
Corporations ARE NOT PEOPLE.
As much as people like to point to the Supreme Court decision that declared corporations to be private persons (super-persons more likely), THEY ARE NOT PEOPLE, and as such they do not deserve analogies such as the one you have given.
Speaking one's opinion in the library isn't bad though. But if your opinion is deemed "offensive" by the filter (even if it isn't), you can be silenced.
I've heard the crap about the porn mags. But not bringing in porn mags is very different than actively blocking anything an ambiguous third party is deciding what you can and can't see. And yes, the goverment does archive that stuff. The companies that make it send it in for copyright protection, suprisingly.
I shouldn't have to ASK for my rights that the goverment cannot abridge in any way. It's like being forced to ask a police officer for the right to speak your mind, with the risk that now that you're under their control, they'll say no.
And no, the library doesn't need to be open 24/7. I can wait until the next day if I have to. That doesn't infringe on my rights, so long as I can get access, period. Rare books have to be protected from environmental damage. That's why you need permission, not because the content is "offensive."
The danger here is the precedent. They got the "bad, nasty internet," so what's to stop them from going after the "bad, nasty books?"
This is about PUBLIC ACCESS funded by federal money, with a mandate from state and federal lawmakers demanding GOVERNMENT MANDATED CENSORSHIP. This is utterly unconstitutional, regardless of how you look at it, because it is backed by federal monies. Now were it a private library, there would be no question, since it's not funded by the government. But whenever the government funds the operation of something, they MUST ABIDE BY THE CONSTITUTION, even if that means that you have to walk with your daughter across the oh-so-dangerous library.
Ok then.
In response to #4...
Slashdot ISN'T as good as it used to be (like back in '98, a 300 reply story was BIG)
=]
Um, yeah.
Earth to Slashdot! Earth to Slashdot!
Come in!
The Geeks in Space must have gone to far...
Seriously. Get back to reality please... You should have hours ago, but apparently the Cluetrain left and still hasn't come back.
Everything. Yet.