I'm not surprised at all that it only supports windows. Sony is a Japanese company, and it looks like they are rolling out this protection scheme on a lot of their Japanese cd's. Despite recent reports of Japanese ministries looking into open-source, the vast majority of personal computer owners in Japan have windows. And at least in the Japanese market, I don't think that Sony will see as much backlash, as the piracy rates are much lower, and most people I know in Japan who make copies of a cd copy it to MD so that they can play it in their car or give it to a friend.
Let's make sure that Sony feels the pain in other markets.
I could be wrong, but I thought that one of the whole points of open source companies like RedHat is that they're selling the service, not the product. By opening our source, we will go towards a service-oriented industry. This is how RedHat can release it's OS as a free download and still be a viable business model.
But you're missing the point of the article. While tech support was mentioned, this was not the issue. I can't think of many companies anywhere who would provide tech support to a modded product. The point is that Microsoft has permanently banned modded XBoxes from their servers. The difference is one of passively refusing to help customers when they have a problem, versus actively detecting mods and banning them. The original poster tried to flippantly equate these two things without providing any backing for it, and that's what I was responding to.
Sanyo is a darned good company, though. They're a huge competitor to Panasonic and if I remember correctly, they were doing better than Panasonic on home appliances in Japan, but just don't have enough name recognition overseas. I got to take a tour of one of their R&D headquarters in Osaka over the summer, and I must say, they've got some really cool stuff in very thin, high resolution displays in the works. Hopefully this new robot will get them some of the name recognition they need outside of Japan.
Alas, it's true. The country that is full of BSD hackers, Ruby developers, etc... is also very reliant on Microsoft. I think there is a primary reason for that, and one that will probably get me flamed, modded down, or maybe both. Japanese Windows works flawlessly (well, as flawlessly as Windows can work).
Agreed. Sadly, surprisingly good support for Japanese in win2k/XP is about the only reason I'm still booting them on my email/gaming/paperwriting machine.
I found the statistics involving Japan to be rather interesting. While working there over the summer, we were developing some stuff that I could easily get working with Netscape, Mozilla and Opera, but was having much trouble with IE, and my coworkers told me that _nobody_ in Japan used anything other than IE. Well, here's to hoping they were wrong! =)
When I first read the headline, I thought that they were actually blowing up illegal seawalls remotely and I was like "Damn, that's some cool shit!" Oh, they're busting the people making the walls. That's just not as cool.
Sensitive _European_ tastes? Europe is generally much more ok with sex in movies and television than America is. Usually European movies coming to America get edited for nudity, and American movies going to Europe get edited for violence. Didn't stop Fox from killing Tenku no Escaflowne by editing out any fightscenes when they tried to air it, though. =(
That was such a funny scene when she flashed him. And all because Goku was curious about why Bulma didn't have any balls when he was trying to use her crotch as a pillow! God, I can only imagine how much of that joke was edited for the American version. I was laughing for weeks the first time I read the manga. =)
At least this way I won't have to listen to such poor dubbing anymore. Now if they showed it in the raw Japanese with subtitles and no scenes edited out, I would definitely mourn the loss.
I would also like to point out that the US is in the 10th position as the other countries were tied for their spots.
Why, this is like awarding 2 gold medals, 1 silver, and 1 copper in an olympic event--it just doesn't happen! Oh, wait. Bad example.
Little off topic, but if you look at the beginning of the chapter on template classes in Bjarne Stroustrup's The C++ Programming Language, you'll see the quote:
Yeah, that's why Fox bought the rights to Tenku no Escaflowne (Vision of Escaflowne I believe is the translation they used though it's not the literal one) and then drove it into the ground by editing out the entire first episode and then any scene they didn't like! =(
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Actually, sadly, I think _I_ really meant fabs(exp(x, y))
I think you really mean fabs(pwr(x, y)).
I'm not surprised at all that it only supports windows. Sony is a Japanese company, and it looks like they are rolling out this protection scheme on a lot of their Japanese cd's. Despite recent reports of Japanese ministries looking into open-source, the vast majority of personal computer owners in Japan have windows. And at least in the Japanese market, I don't think that Sony will see as much backlash, as the piracy rates are much lower, and most people I know in Japan who make copies of a cd copy it to MD so that they can play it in their car or give it to a friend.
Let's make sure that Sony feels the pain in other markets.
I could be wrong, but I thought that one of the whole points of open source companies like RedHat is that they're selling the service, not the product. By opening our source, we will go towards a service-oriented industry. This is how RedHat can release it's OS as a free download and still be a viable business model.
But you're missing the point of the article. While tech support was mentioned, this was not the issue. I can't think of many companies anywhere who would provide tech support to a modded product. The point is that Microsoft has permanently banned modded XBoxes from their servers. The difference is one of passively refusing to help customers when they have a problem, versus actively detecting mods and banning them. The original poster tried to flippantly equate these two things without providing any backing for it, and that's what I was responding to.
Why just the other day, RedHat had me disconnected from the internet for running my own code on my computer.
I have absolutely no clue how your analogy about RedHat makes _any_ sense in this context. Please enlighten me.
I though babel fish only made things harder to read...
No billboards in Hawaii either. On the argument that natural beauty _is_ Hawaii's main resource. Top industry is tourism after all.
the headline read Sanyo?
Sanyo is a darned good company, though. They're a huge competitor to Panasonic and if I remember correctly, they were doing better than Panasonic on home appliances in Japan, but just don't have enough name recognition overseas. I got to take a tour of one of their R&D headquarters in Osaka over the summer, and I must say, they've got some really cool stuff in very thin, high resolution displays in the works. Hopefully this new robot will get them some of the name recognition they need outside of Japan.
Damn, I almost mis-read your _ENTIRE POST_ as "Gee, I'm a stuck-up prick."
Agreed. Sadly, surprisingly good support for Japanese in win2k/XP is about the only reason I'm still booting them on my email/gaming/paperwriting machine.
I found the statistics involving Japan to be rather interesting. While working there over the summer, we were developing some stuff that I could easily get working with Netscape, Mozilla and Opera, but was having much trouble with IE, and my coworkers told me that _nobody_ in Japan used anything other than IE. Well, here's to hoping they were wrong! =)
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Dude, Magaman kicks ass. And I'm not talking MegamanX or anything like that. I mean like Megaman 2 or 3 or thereabouts.
When I first read the headline, I thought that they were actually blowing up illegal seawalls remotely and I was like "Damn, that's some cool shit!" Oh, they're busting the people making the walls. That's just not as cool.
I know it's nitpickey, but that's up 100%. Increase and decrease are measured from the original amount.
Sensitive _European_ tastes? Europe is generally much more ok with sex in movies and television than America is. Usually European movies coming to America get edited for nudity, and American movies going to Europe get edited for violence. Didn't stop Fox from killing Tenku no Escaflowne by editing out any fightscenes when they tried to air it, though. =(
That was such a funny scene when she flashed him. And all because Goku was curious about why Bulma didn't have any balls when he was trying to use her crotch as a pillow! God, I can only imagine how much of that joke was edited for the American version. I was laughing for weeks the first time I read the manga. =)
At least this way I won't have to listen to such poor dubbing anymore. Now if they showed it in the raw Japanese with subtitles and no scenes edited out, I would definitely mourn the loss.
Umm, righto. Too much D&D for me, apparantly. =)
I would also like to point out that the US is in the 10th position as the other countries were tied for their spots. Why, this is like awarding 2 gold medals, 1 silver, and 1 copper in an olympic event--it just doesn't happen! Oh, wait. Bad example.
Little off topic, but if you look at the beginning of the chapter on template classes in Bjarne Stroustrup's The C++ Programming Language, you'll see the quote:
Your quote here.
-B. Stroustrup
Gee, that's just so funny. Howabout you actually learn something about the Japanese language before trying to fake an article in it.
Except that the guy who died was in Korea. Get your East Asian countries straight.
Yeah, that's why Fox bought the rights to Tenku no Escaflowne (Vision of Escaflowne I believe is the translation they used though it's not the literal one) and then drove it into the ground by editing out the entire first episode and then any scene they didn't like! =(