If you look at the bottom right of that picture, at 0 on the scale, you'll notice two figures at the left of it. I turned my head sideways, and um......well, I was wondering if anybody else jumped to the same conclusion that I did; that they were silouettes showing scale to the blimp....and they used Han and Chewie as comparison?
"A blimp like this would probably need some air cover to operate inside a war zone. "
This leads us to the inevitable conclusion that things will quickly start resembling elements from Last Exile (apologies for the Flash). When the hell do I get my Vanship?!?!
I was just about to post something similar. Instead, I will add to yours.
One of the other really fascinating things to watch is the industry's response to this. The anime companies overseas are starting to realize that more and more stuff is catching on with Western audiences. The bittorrent tracker sites, like Animesuki.com offer a unique kind of "Nielsen" rating system. You get to see which new series are released and how many people download it, thus enabling you to establish demand. Sometimes, the licensing companies in America grab the series before its gone more than 5 episodes, sometimes they let an UNBELIEVEABLE series slip past for more than 75, like Naruto (knock on wood). When something gets licensed, the production companies ask the fansubbing groups to stop subbing. Almost all do. There are a few rogue groups who continue subbing it, but I would honestly have to say a large number of people stop downloading it then, especially when they can buy it. The inconvenience of having to find another.torrent with a large number of seeds is enough that most people buy the DVDs, which aren't that bad price wise.
I seriously would not be at all shocked if some anime companies started hiring a fansub group to do an "official fansub preview" where they gave maybe a special preview episode or even the first few episodes of a new series to a fansubbing group to sub and distribute, while building buzz around the partnership, and then when lots of people start downloading the.torrent, you know the time is right to release the series.
This is a great system because it gets some money into the fansubbing community to help get hardware and maybe better translations and such. It also gets quality fansubs to the fans in traditional fansubbing quality (some is much better than DVDs). The burden still rests on the studio for producing a quality anime series, because otherwise nobody will download it, so it is fair in that regard.
I'm an advertising/marketing person so perhaps I should mention that as well.
When are companies going to get it? Seriously, I do NOT want your goddamned crappy little proprietary client. There is absolutely no reason for you to use it aside from you wanting to "monitor my surfing habits", log other information, and probably show me "targeted ads". I can understand the desire to keep the.torrent link to yourself, but someone's gonna download the file at some point, and then they can start a torrent themselves. God, how stupid are these people.
Ok, I'll tell you the reason why this would completely suck from a students perspective, and why I would NEVER use such a system and would fight tooth and nail against such a sytem.
I don't want my fucking downloads to need to be approved by someone else. I'm using the internet on my computer, thats MY goddamned business.
I don't want some guy who is on a power trip to download my file when he "has time available". That is the most asinine suggestion I've ever heard. You also seem to not understand how many people we're actually dealing with here. Large schools have upwards of 40k students. Do you have any idea how quickly that list would become unmanageable due to the sheer size of it? I mean, some students of course wouldn't be needing files, but certainly more than 500 would.
I actually blame the people too stupid to realize that the person workin for the company may be a bit biased. Or maybe I'm just overestimating the intelligence of people.
Oddly enough, while I was an intern at a company last summer, I really didn't have a lot of time to play games. So I downloaded this RPG (whose name is completely slipping my mind) which was basically a window that showed your character stats, equipment, loot, spells, xp, and your progress on your quest. It would just automatically have you fight monsters, kill them, once you killed enough it would take you back to town, sell everything, and buy upgraded equipment. No graphics, all text. I just let it run during the day and at night I'd see how far I progressed. w00t, level 19 mage after only 1 week of playing! Seriously, I got almost the same satisfaction as when I played Everquest for way too long.
So are they going to have an episode where they show a synopsis of all the kids who got busted by the RIAA that were on the pepsi commercial? It'll show a short summary of their lives after they stole music and where they are today. One of em is a crack whore on the street, another moved on to Grand Theft Auto after getting a taste of stealing from Kazaa, etc.
And what would you have us say? I'm sorry, but i'm part of the industry in question and this is incredibly insulting. What would you have us do? Have people give their actual opinions in the ads which the advertiser is paying out of pocket for, for both production and media? Let's pretend you own a small computer consulting business. Someone asks you what kind of services you offer. You tell them. They then ask you how good your services are. WHAT IN THE BLOODY HELL DO YOU THINK YOU'RE GOING TO TELL THEM!?!?! "Oh, I'm not very good at my job, please don't use my business"? Seriously folks, marketing and advertising work at small scales as well as big, try to understand why these companies may not feel very compelled to give an unbiased opinion when asked. Its not like we're out to get you (all the time), think about this logically.
I'm in advertising and marketing, and while I frequently have to put people in their place around here when they start spouting uneducated crap about what marketing and advertising really are, but this is one instance where I want to clarify.
The language this person uses appears to be mostly made up on the spot. One thing you should learn about marketing speak is that if a high level marketing person uses the term, her underlings will use it, and the people they associate will use it, etc. This leads to things like 'purchase intent', and 'accelerate favourability'. Keep in mind that buzzwords start somewhere. Right with the marketing people, so these people are frequently making words up. Sometimes with less than spectacular results such as with this specimen.
Admittedly, when AIM runs those stupid little movies, as much as I hate them and despise the things when the little bastards scare the shit out of me when I minimize AIM and go back to my webbrowsing, no, I do not notice the bandwidth usage.
So what exactly is this type of genre/setting called? I'm always fascinated by it, but never know where to look for more information. Its kind of an alternate history too....Fascinating stuff, right up there with Crimson Skies, Talespin, and Porco Rosso
There's actually some flash movies on the Lucas website for their game which show off the gameplay and environments. So far the graphics look way better than bf1942. MUCH denser jungles. Honestly the foliage looks denser than BF:Vietnam. And while the bf1942 mod rocks (DLed it last night), they still have a long way to go, and Lucas Arts should be able to deliver better gameplay with theirs. I'm just glad I have a free SW mod to play that isn't crappy.
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A lot of fun???
This leads us to the inevitable conclusion that things will quickly start resembling elements from Last Exile (apologies for the Flash). When the hell do I get my Vanship?!?!
One of the other really fascinating things to watch is the industry's response to this. The anime companies overseas are starting to realize that more and more stuff is catching on with Western audiences. The bittorrent tracker sites, like Animesuki.com offer a unique kind of "Nielsen" rating system. You get to see which new series are released and how many people download it, thus enabling you to establish demand. Sometimes, the licensing companies in America grab the series before its gone more than 5 episodes, sometimes they let an UNBELIEVEABLE series slip past for more than 75, like Naruto (knock on wood). When something gets licensed, the production companies ask the fansubbing groups to stop subbing. Almost all do. There are a few rogue groups who continue subbing it, but I would honestly have to say a large number of people stop downloading it then, especially when they can buy it. The inconvenience of having to find another .torrent with a large number of seeds is enough that most people buy the DVDs, which aren't that bad price wise.
I seriously would not be at all shocked if some anime companies started hiring a fansub group to do an "official fansub preview" where they gave maybe a special preview episode or even the first few episodes of a new series to a fansubbing group to sub and distribute, while building buzz around the partnership, and then when lots of people start downloading the .torrent, you know the time is right to release the series.
This is a great system because it gets some money into the fansubbing community to help get hardware and maybe better translations and such. It also gets quality fansubs to the fans in traditional fansubbing quality (some is much better than DVDs). The burden still rests on the studio for producing a quality anime series, because otherwise nobody will download it, so it is fair in that regard.
I'm an advertising/marketing person so perhaps I should mention that as well.
I don't want my fucking downloads to need to be approved by someone else. I'm using the internet on my computer, thats MY goddamned business.
I don't want some guy who is on a power trip to download my file when he "has time available". That is the most asinine suggestion I've ever heard. You also seem to not understand how many people we're actually dealing with here. Large schools have upwards of 40k students. Do you have any idea how quickly that list would become unmanageable due to the sheer size of it? I mean, some students of course wouldn't be needing files, but certainly more than 500 would.
I'm sure this show will be doubleplusgood.
The language this person uses appears to be mostly made up on the spot. One thing you should learn about marketing speak is that if a high level marketing person uses the term, her underlings will use it, and the people they associate will use it, etc. This leads to things like 'purchase intent', and 'accelerate favourability'. Keep in mind that buzzwords start somewhere. Right with the marketing people, so these people are frequently making words up. Sometimes with less than spectacular results such as with this specimen.
It's apparent you never lived through the housing shortage in Ultima Online.