I am pretty sure the person who submitted the article either did not read it thoroughly or did not really understand it. It is more of an insight into why Japanese people like anime rather than why Westerners do not.
If anything, it analyses why anime tends to reject Japanese characters and ideals in favor of Western ones.
By the way, since the server is completely/.ed, here is the google cache
Well, you wouldn't change anything then! It would have to be S,N,E,W. If you had a dot.com somewhere in there, you would have been a true dotcom billionaire!
I mean, you did get modded 4 for this, so, in real life, you would have been rich!
Cool project? You missed a HELL of an opportunity!
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Man, if you had had this idea like, 5 years ago, you would be a billionaire now...
I am trully surprised the editors would let a tech link from Forbes pass. I used to read the mag (or should I say rag) when I was in college and during my first years at work, hoping to understand why the hell all top business people read it and swear by it. After almost seven years of reading and trying, I have yet to reach a conclusion on whether the tech editors are clueless or criminally stupid
The vast majority of tech articles on Forbes are written for your everyday clueless CEO who wants to see ideas. Whether they work or not, is besides the point. Whether they are good or not is completely irrelevant. This article, although interesting in a "what if" kind of way gives little detail.
Forbes is to be avoided on tech issues. If you want good tech news from a business perspective read the Economist. Or slashdot.com:->
Minidisc had it, even though it is 10 year old technology. Digital recording? Had it. Quality? Well yes, actually. Even though audiophiles (myself NOT included) can definitely distinguish a MD recording from the original, the same goes for an mp3 rip.
But, most importantly, MDs came with copy control. You could ONLY make one copy of a copyrighted album digitally. The copy of the copy was not copiable through the digital out of the MD player. Of course, there are always ways to circumvent this but they are expensive.
MDs have the technology to solve most of the problems of the music industry without branding their customers pirates, potential or otherwise. You could make a copy of your purchased cd on minidisk, with excellent quality and you were prohibited of making copies of the same recording ad nauseum.
Of course, it is much easier to take out all the digital outputs (an extremely stupid move on my opinion) rather than try to solve the actual problem.
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If anything, it analyses why anime tends to reject Japanese characters and ideals in favor of Western ones.
By the way, since the server is completely /.ed, here is the google cache
I mean, you did get modded 4 for this, so, in real life, you would have been rich!
The vast majority of tech articles on Forbes are written for your everyday clueless CEO who wants to see ideas. Whether they work or not, is besides the point. Whether they are good or not is completely irrelevant. This article, although interesting in a "what if" kind of way gives little detail.
Forbes is to be avoided on tech issues. If you want good tech news from a business perspective read the Economist. Or slashdot.com :->
MDs have the technology to solve most of the problems of the music industry without branding their customers pirates, potential or otherwise. You could make a copy of your purchased cd on minidisk, with excellent quality and you were prohibited of making copies of the same recording ad nauseum.
Of course, it is much easier to take out all the digital outputs (an extremely stupid move on my opinion) rather than try to solve the actual problem.