Lets see, when my brother and I had our tonsils removed, me at the age of six, my mom and dad visited us after the operation. They brough some toys. I got a "Speedy Gonzoles" stuffed toy. I had a lot of "Tom and Jerry" stuff, that being one of my favorite cartoons. Guess what? This was in the mid sixties! Merchandizing has always been a part of cartoons. Your line of critism started during the mid eighties in responce to "He-Man" and "Transformers" specificaly. Its validity was only partial, and very transitory. The reason is very simple. Kid won't watch crap. No amount of marketing will change that. Those who originated this line of critism, and those who continue to use it, in truth just do'nt like anything they did not grow up with, and they flounder around looking for excuses to validate their opinions. Some of todays cartoons are awash with merchandise. The kids demand it. Hell, on my wall, I've got a "Tenchi Muyo" figure ( realy cool) and an "Outlaw Star" set with Gene, Melfina, and the Outlaw Star. I also have a couple of "Zoids" on top of my monitor. The shows that sell the most stuff will always be the ones that are watched.
I've been watching "Pokemon" with my neighbors 10 year old son. Its actualy quite good. Most critism comes purly from the kids stuff stigma. I notice most of detracters started their dislike in their late teens to early twenties, not exactly an age group known for unbiased opinions! I was particulary impressed by one of the "Pokemon" movies, "Mewtoo Returns". It touched on philosophical issues and problems a lot more advanced then any US production geared towards the same age group. I sure wished someone made all those kneejerk congressmen, who passed the un-PATRIOT act, watch this movie. They might have learned something. BTW, I have been watching cartoons since the early sixties. Like in everything, there has always been some good stuff, but also a lot of crap. We tend to remember the good stuff from yesterday, but think of the bad stuff of today.
Your post gave me quite a laugh. It kinda reminded me of a line from "At the Core" by Larry Niven; "... Nessus was humming Beethoven, Beatles, or something else classical". "Tom and Jerry" is a classic. "Buggs Bunny" is a classic. Even "Roadrunner and Coyote" is classic. I don't think "Thundercats" qualifies as a classic. Of course, people were bemoaning the degradation of cartoons that did not measure up to their idea of the classics durring the late eighties. "Transformers" and "He-Man" in particular caught quite a bit of flak. I watched "Transformers" during the mid eighties. I felt the critics had their heads in very dark places. Your comments sound just like the scatocephalic critics of the eighties. BTW, "Hey Arnold" is from the early seventies!
You need to check out the new X-men being aired on the Cartoon Network. Good character design, mostly decent animation, excellent voice acting, and a twisted plot line typical of X-men. There are a lot of great cartoons, just not on Saturday morning broadcast TV.
Who needs saturday morning cartoon with Cartoon Network 24/7. Tell ya the truth, I watch far more "Cartoons" now, then when I was a kid. I've got DirectTV. I never miss "Samurai Jack" and enjoy "Dexters Labratory" and even "Powerpuff Girls". Plus they show a lot of cool anime. My neighbor, who is a single mom ( I'm a single dad, though my son is now a young adult), is more practical then me and does not have anything but broadcast. Her son, who is 10, comes over to watch "Pokemon" and "Yu-Gi-Oh". I'm not realy into these, but started watching them with the boy. Even these are better then anything I can remember from Saturday morning during the 60s and 70s, though I liked "Scooby Do" and the "Star Trek" cartoon had realy good stories( but lame animation). Right now I have been following "Rurouni Kenshin", one thing good about being unemployed!
Thats the least of its problems. 250M + resident memory footprint, and I've seen 470M. When it tries to use more memory then is available ( shit I have only 128M RAM on my maxed PPro) it crashes. During the active part of the conflict in Iraq, I was trying to save some of the excelent pictures being published. It normaly took about 30 seconds to save a picture during which time Mozilla was completely unusable. It would not even do a redraw of a moved window. This is unacceptable. Responce time to user input also needs to be improved. While scrolling through a menu, Mozilla tries to render any submenu that gets highlighted. When this happens, it stops responding to changes in mouse possition ( at least it alows the mouse possition to be updated). This means that the selection sticks. It takes several seconds to catch up to the mouse for short menus, but much longer for things like bookmark foldrs. The workaround is to not use drag-release and to explicitly click on the menu item disregarding highlighting. But this is ridicules. As far as I can tell, Mozilla has gotten worse with each release. I could care less about useless features. Just give me a browser that WORKS!
Re:Now if it was just little faster... WHY?
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The correct standard for this type of application is not 802.11. IEEE 802.16 has been designed specificly for this type of application. A quick read of the earlier responces indicates most/.er are a little behind the times. This is understandable. Prior to the new standard, 802.11.whatever was the only way to go ( by default). Manufacturers and Service providers have been applying it to problems outsides its targeted domain. These entities have been marketing their products/services and thereby obscuring the definition of the domain for which 802.11 is applicable. Now that 802.16 exists, and products are coming to market, implimentors should stop missapplying the older standard and current 802.11 systems should be migrated where appropriate.
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No question about it. Everything else is legacy. Of course a lot of distros have not modernised. A better question concern something like VIm. Vim is on the border of three rules. It is kinda small to be going in/opt, but not unduely so. It is often a basic component of a distribution so/usr makes sence. But it is also often a user added tool and thus most naturaly in/usr/local. Personaly. I have desided to put it in/opt because it is one of my major apps.
Few programmers work to develop code as a marketed product. Nor should they. Software that is designed as a profitable product will always be inferior to software developed to solve a problem directly. It is easy to demonstrate impericaly ( a little more convoluted to prove logicaly) that software is not a good sustanable buisness without resorting to sleezy practices ala MS. Most viable commercial software products were produced for use in house befor being marketed. With Open Source, companies will be able to do more, in house, and for less cost. That will allow them to hire more programmers while retaining the same budget.
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Wrong, you silly Brit. Just because your ancestors were too stupid to escape a repressive society, does not indicate that your version of English is more proper then mine. As a matter of fact, contray to popular wisdom ( promulgated by British Academia, for reasons I'll cover later), several forms of English, spoken in the New world, are closer to the original forms then anything accepted across the pond. These forms are considered improper by hidebound US Academia also. They are not realy improper, just very archaic. In the 300 or so years since the seeding of English in the Americas, New World and Old World English have each drifted their own ways.
American English has been enriched by influences from all of the waves of immigration that free sociaties attract. Most of its evolution was due to practicality. The changes in British English on the other hand, were driven by class arrogance.
The British have traditionaly used language as a weapon to subdue cultures, starting with the various Celtic peoples. It is no supprise that the British upper classes would use language to differentiate themselves from the lower classes. The private school system was the vehical that transmited the changes. Private schools with rare exception were the domain of the upper class. The instructors at these schools would decide on the latest and greates "proper" way to speak, specificaly to differentiate their students from the common slobs. An intersting point from a linguistic point of view, is that these schools were not in sync with each other. Anyways, the common slobs would soon pick up on the new way to talk in order to sound more educated. That required the Private Boys Schools to change the definition of "proper" English. This does not sound like any way to drive a language. In practice, British English is spoken with far more irregular idiomatic pronunciations then American English.
To be fair, the same phenomina is seen to a much lesser extent in the US. But its worth noting that standard British English is "Kings English" while the standard American English is "Broadcasters English".
Now to the word "maths". There is no such word. It appears to be the creation of some anal instructor in a misguided attempt at regularization. The word "math" is a shortened form of the word "mathamatics" NOT "mathamatic". The later is not found in modern usage as a noun. "Mathamatics" is treated as a collective singular despite the "s". Thus the word "math" is a collective singular, and quite proper. Saying "maths" is like saying "mathamaticses". It also appears that the usage of the word "math" started in the US. Therefor we expect you to use it right!
I worked for Motorola. I had to deal with Apple. Apple has ALWAYS been the strange one. First they want one thing then something else. They change their minds faster then a kid with $20 in a toy store ( or me with $15k at the Harley dealership). At one point, Motorola got so mad at them, I think someone might have told Apple to go itself. And remember Apple was just one target for the PPC. Just because the only place the common slob sees the device is in Macs does not mean that that is all it is used for. If Apples erratic wishes deoptimise PPC systems for other applications such as robotics. They loose. In the end, Apple engineering managment sucks, always has, always will.
I started something like this in the late Eighties on my Apollo workstation ( just befor HP raped Apollo). All it took was some cleaver rebinding of the mouse keys/w Apollo DM and Aegis scripts. I also rebound some of the function keys for special functions. By the time I was done, I could do most of the common tasks and execute "menu"ed programs in any consol window. I really miss Apollo. I wonder if any/. readers remember them. Now HP uses the name for their cheapest line of disposable printers. Sic transit gloria mundi.
This appears to be a great project. The problem is that it is not optimised for something big like a full distribution. That means things like RPM are'nt going away any time soon. I don't think I like the idea of having some things installed via RPM and some by another method. I've managed to keep my heavily hacked SuSE 7.0 distro RPM pure with the exception of my kernle, which I see little point in packaging. Of course that means I am often building my own packages. The payoff is in having consistancy. On the other hand, using the distro specific packaging system for the base install and upgrades to that base, and a more generic system for add ons might not be such a bad idea. RPMs for one thing can be a real pain... "You mean SuSE calls it this and Redhat calls it that?". Another point, as most distributions these days come with everything including the kitchen sink and a choice of five toilet seats, there are not a lot of large apps that will be added. Its large apps that benifit from the distro specific system.
You missed a point. The Hubble program was designed with the idea of being upgraded periodicaly with the aid of the shuttle. This was to allow advances in technology to be incorporated every 3 or so years. In fact, the optics correction was done on a regualar maintainence mission that was planned befor the Hubble was launced. All in all the poster you were responding to needs to grow up, and realizes that there are other people in the world that know what they are doing, and some of those work for NASA. It was his type of whining that caused the graduale scaling back of the original ISS design. So he is in essence to blame ( in spirit) for the failings of the ISS that he is whining about.
Thats funny. I'm into Animation and styalized still art. I have seen some well drawn but rather rude stuff that looks as if it was drawn by the original artists. Either that or someone was very very good at capturing the subtal nuances of those original artists. I ran across one such picture. Other then the positions of the characters ( and their body parts), the artwork was indistingishable from the original cartoon. It was also executed in such a way as to draw the attention of the viewer to the point of "activity" after several more prominant focal points were looked at. In other words what was going on was not obvious at first even though it was in plain view. It was definately the work of a very skilled artist. I thought it was so funny that I put a printout of it on my coffee table so my 18 year old son could see it. "Hey dad, why did you print this... OOOH." Just the reaction I was hoping for!
First some background. Some former co-workers who were resently layed off, along with myself, and some who were not, but see no futur, are getting ready to start writing crossplatform internet based games. We will eventuly attempt producing a Linux based game consol. As I use to fill the roll of Software Architect, and am the most familiar with Linux and graphics issues, I have been tasked with doing a preliminary design. I was investigating DirectFB. My question is, how suitable is SDL for imbeded applications? I have more questions, but need to get back to working on my resume. Obviously, outside employment will be needed to bring in money untill this project becomes profitable ( looking at years here). So no more wasting time on/.!
The fault of the stigmatation of animation as kids stuff lays not so much with Disney, as with childrens programming on TV. Animation was much cheaper then any alternatives. That is why Saturday morning TV has historicly been dominated by crude animation. Everyone in the US has grown up with this shit.
Disney is also constrained by the radical Christian Right, who watch them like a beat cop watching a begger, looking for any excuse to rail them out of town. Remember the furor over "The Lion King", "Aladin", and "Pochihontis", not to mention Disneys ownership of Touchstone. Disney does in fact do a good job of producing bi-level films. I realy enjoyed "Lilo and Stich".
As far as Anime, I think even the kid stuff is more mature in some regards then what would be done in the US. A very good example of this is "The Return of Mewtoo". I am not to sure why this is so. It might be due to the unimaginative marketing droids that have been responsible for most kids programming in the US. Fortunatly this has changed with no going back. Disneys "Gargoyls" had some fairly deep stories and some well developed characters. The Cartoon Network has done wonders. I am addicted to "Samarai Jack" even though it is episodic. But there is still a lot of crap like "G.I.Joe" and "The Justice League" (the later has some hope). Even the monster of the week Anime like "Dragonball Z", "Yu Yu Hakisho", and "Yu Gi Oh" have better character development then these.
BTW, there has been a measurable amount of Animation targeting adults in the US. For example, "Wizards", "Fritz the Cat", "Lord of the Rings", all from Ralph Bakshi, in addition to the "Heavy Metal" movies.
There is more to dubbing then re-doing the audio track. On top of that there is also the matter of the subtitling wich would be rather anoying to those who choose the dubbed version. Offering only subbed versions would not be a good idea. When I watch Anime, I much prefer subbed, but I can still enjoy the dubbed versions. My son, who is extreamly dyslexic, can not read the subtitles. They are too fast. He will see words from several scense back, making the dialoge a jumble. For him, the only accesible version is the dubbed (which sucks when I want to enjoy watching something like Akira with my son).
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Lets see, when my brother and I had our tonsils removed, me at the age of six, my mom and dad visited us after the operation. They brough some toys. I got a "Speedy Gonzoles" stuffed toy. I had a lot of "Tom and Jerry" stuff, that being one of my favorite cartoons. Guess what? This was in the mid sixties! Merchandizing has always been a part of cartoons. Your line of critism started during the mid eighties in responce to "He-Man" and "Transformers" specificaly. Its validity was only partial, and very transitory. The reason is very simple. Kid won't watch crap. No amount of marketing will change that. Those who originated this line of critism, and those who continue to use it, in truth just do'nt like anything they did not grow up with, and they flounder around looking for excuses to validate their opinions. Some of todays cartoons are awash with merchandise. The kids demand it. Hell, on my wall, I've got a "Tenchi Muyo" figure ( realy cool) and an "Outlaw Star" set with Gene, Melfina, and the Outlaw Star. I also have a couple of "Zoids" on top of my monitor. The shows that sell the most stuff will always be the ones that are watched.
I've been watching "Pokemon" with my neighbors 10 year old son. Its actualy quite good. Most critism comes purly from the kids stuff stigma. I notice most of detracters started their dislike in their late teens to early twenties, not exactly an age group known for unbiased opinions! I was particulary impressed by one of the "Pokemon" movies, "Mewtoo Returns". It touched on philosophical issues and problems a lot more advanced then any US production geared towards the same age group. I sure wished someone made all those kneejerk congressmen, who passed the un-PATRIOT act, watch this movie. They might have learned something. BTW, I have been watching cartoons since the early sixties. Like in everything, there has always been some good stuff, but also a lot of crap. We tend to remember the good stuff from yesterday, but think of the bad stuff of today.
Your post gave me quite a laugh. It kinda reminded me of a line from "At the Core" by Larry Niven; "... Nessus was humming Beethoven, Beatles, or something else classical". "Tom and Jerry" is a classic. "Buggs Bunny" is a classic. Even "Roadrunner and Coyote" is classic. I don't think "Thundercats" qualifies as a classic. Of course, people were bemoaning the degradation of cartoons that did not measure up to their idea of the classics durring the late eighties. "Transformers" and "He-Man" in particular caught quite a bit of flak. I watched "Transformers" during the mid eighties. I felt the critics had their heads in very dark places. Your comments sound just like the scatocephalic critics of the eighties. BTW, "Hey Arnold" is from the early seventies!
You need to check out the new X-men being aired on the Cartoon Network. Good character design, mostly decent animation, excellent voice acting, and a twisted plot line typical of X-men. There are a lot of great cartoons, just not on Saturday morning broadcast TV.
Who needs saturday morning cartoon with Cartoon Network 24/7. Tell ya the truth, I watch far more "Cartoons" now, then when I was a kid. I've got DirectTV. I never miss "Samurai Jack" and enjoy "Dexters Labratory" and even "Powerpuff Girls". Plus they show a lot of cool anime. My neighbor, who is a single mom ( I'm a single dad, though my son is now a young adult), is more practical then me and does not have anything but broadcast. Her son, who is 10, comes over to watch "Pokemon" and "Yu-Gi-Oh". I'm not realy into these, but started watching them with the boy. Even these are better then anything I can remember from Saturday morning during the 60s and 70s, though I liked "Scooby Do" and the "Star Trek" cartoon had realy good stories( but lame animation). Right now I have been following "Rurouni Kenshin", one thing good about being unemployed!
Thats the least of its problems. 250M + resident memory footprint, and I've seen 470M. When it tries to use more memory then is available ( shit I have only 128M RAM on my maxed PPro) it crashes. During the active part of the conflict in Iraq, I was trying to save some of the excelent pictures being published. It normaly took about 30 seconds to save a picture during which time Mozilla was completely unusable. It would not even do a redraw of a moved window. This is unacceptable. Responce time to user input also needs to be improved. While scrolling through a menu, Mozilla tries to render any submenu that gets highlighted. When this happens, it stops responding to changes in mouse possition ( at least it alows the mouse possition to be updated). This means that the selection sticks. It takes several seconds to catch up to the mouse for short menus, but much longer for things like bookmark foldrs. The workaround is to not use drag-release and to explicitly click on the menu item disregarding highlighting. But this is ridicules. As far as I can tell, Mozilla has gotten worse with each release. I could care less about useless features. Just give me a browser that WORKS!
No mozilla crashes a lot. Its flippen unstable.
The correct standard for this type of application is not 802.11. IEEE 802.16 has been designed specificly for this type of application. A quick read of the earlier responces indicates most /.er are a little behind the times. This is understandable. Prior to the new standard, 802.11.whatever was the only way to go ( by default). Manufacturers and Service providers have been applying it to problems outsides its targeted domain. These entities have been marketing their products/services and thereby obscuring the definition of the domain for which 802.11 is applicable. Now that 802.16 exists, and products are coming to market, implimentors should stop missapplying the older standard and current 802.11 systems should be migrated where appropriate.
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No question about it. Everything else is legacy. Of course a lot of distros have not modernised. A better question concern something like VIm. Vim is on the border of three rules. It is kinda small to be going in /opt, but not unduely so. It is often a basic component of a distribution so /usr makes sence. But it is also often a user added tool and thus most naturaly in /usr/local. Personaly. I have desided to put it in /opt because it is one of my major apps.
Few programmers work to develop code as a marketed product. Nor should they. Software that is designed as a profitable product will always be inferior to software developed to solve a problem directly. It is easy to demonstrate impericaly ( a little more convoluted to prove logicaly) that software is not a good sustanable buisness without resorting to sleezy practices ala MS. Most viable commercial software products were produced for use in house befor being marketed. With Open Source, companies will be able to do more, in house, and for less cost. That will allow them to hire more programmers while retaining the same budget.
Wrong, you silly Brit. Just because your ancestors were too stupid to escape a repressive society, does not indicate that your version of English is more proper then mine. As a matter of fact, contray to popular wisdom ( promulgated by British Academia, for reasons I'll cover later), several forms of English, spoken in the New world, are closer to the original forms then anything accepted across the pond. These forms are considered improper by hidebound US Academia also. They are not realy improper, just very archaic. In the 300 or so years since the seeding of English in the Americas, New World and Old World English have each drifted their own ways.
American English has been enriched by influences from all of the waves of immigration that free sociaties attract. Most of its evolution was due to practicality. The changes in British English on the other hand, were driven by class arrogance.
The British have traditionaly used language as a weapon to subdue cultures, starting with the various Celtic peoples. It is no supprise that the British upper classes would use language to differentiate themselves from the lower classes. The private school system was the vehical that transmited the changes. Private schools with rare exception were the domain of the upper class. The instructors at these schools would decide on the latest and greates "proper" way to speak, specificaly to differentiate their students from the common slobs. An intersting point from a linguistic point of view, is that these schools were not in sync with each other. Anyways, the common slobs would soon pick up on the new way to talk in order to sound more educated. That required the Private Boys Schools to change the definition of "proper" English. This does not sound like any way to drive a language. In practice, British English is spoken with far more irregular idiomatic pronunciations then American English.
To be fair, the same phenomina is seen to a much lesser extent in the US. But its worth noting that standard British English is "Kings English" while the standard American English is "Broadcasters English".
Now to the word "maths". There is no such word. It appears to be the creation of some anal instructor in a misguided attempt at regularization. The word "math" is a shortened form of the word "mathamatics" NOT "mathamatic". The later is not found in modern usage as a noun. "Mathamatics" is treated as a collective singular despite the "s". Thus the word "math" is a collective singular, and quite proper. Saying "maths" is like saying "mathamaticses". It also appears that the usage of the word "math" started in the US. Therefor we expect you to use it right!
I worked for Motorola. I had to deal with Apple. Apple has ALWAYS been the strange one. First they want one thing then something else. They change their minds faster then a kid with $20 in a toy store ( or me with $15k at the Harley dealership). At one point, Motorola got so mad at them, I think someone might have told Apple to go itself. And remember Apple was just one target for the PPC. Just because the only place the common slob sees the device is in Macs does not mean that that is all it is used for. If Apples erratic wishes deoptimise PPC systems for other applications such as robotics. They loose. In the end, Apple engineering managment sucks, always has, always will.
I started something like this in the late Eighties on my Apollo workstation ( just befor HP raped Apollo). All it took was some cleaver rebinding of the mouse keys /w Apollo DM and Aegis scripts. I also rebound some of the function keys for special functions. By the time I was done, I could do most of the common tasks and execute "menu"ed programs in any consol window. I really miss Apollo. I wonder if any /. readers remember them. Now HP uses the name for their cheapest line of disposable printers. Sic transit gloria mundi.
This appears to be a great project. The problem is that it is not optimised for something big like a full distribution. That means things like RPM are'nt going away any time soon. I don't think I like the idea of having some things installed via RPM and some by another method. I've managed to keep my heavily hacked SuSE 7.0 distro RPM pure with the exception of my kernle, which I see little point in packaging. Of course that means I am often building my own packages. The payoff is in having consistancy. On the other hand, using the distro specific packaging system for the base install and upgrades to that base, and a more generic system for add ons might not be such a bad idea. RPMs for one thing can be a real pain ... "You mean SuSE calls it this and Redhat calls it that?". Another point, as most distributions these days come with everything including the kitchen sink and a choice of five toilet seats, there are not a lot of large apps that will be added. Its large apps that benifit from the distro specific system.
You missed a point. The Hubble program was designed with the idea of being upgraded periodicaly with the aid of the shuttle. This was to allow advances in technology to be incorporated every 3 or so years. In fact, the optics correction was done on a regualar maintainence mission that was planned befor the Hubble was launced. All in all the poster you were responding to needs to grow up, and realizes that there are other people in the world that know what they are doing, and some of those work for NASA. It was his type of whining that caused the graduale scaling back of the original ISS design. So he is in essence to blame ( in spirit) for the failings of the ISS that he is whining about.
Thats funny. I'm into Animation and styalized still art. I have seen some well drawn but rather rude stuff that looks as if it was drawn by the original artists. Either that or someone was very very good at capturing the subtal nuances of those original artists. I ran across one such picture. Other then the positions of the characters ( and their body parts), the artwork was indistingishable from the original cartoon. It was also executed in such a way as to draw the attention of the viewer to the point of "activity" after several more prominant focal points were looked at. In other words what was going on was not obvious at first even though it was in plain view. It was definately the work of a very skilled artist. I thought it was so funny that I put a printout of it on my coffee table so my 18 year old son could see it. "Hey dad, why did you print this ... OOOH." Just the reaction I was hoping for!
Notice that the worker gets jail time, but the buisness man just gets fined?
... surf for porn?
AFAIK, there is no satisfactory replacment for TeX.
First some background. Some former co-workers who were resently layed off, along with myself, and some who were not, but see no futur, are getting ready to start writing crossplatform internet based games. We will eventuly attempt producing a Linux based game consol. As I use to fill the roll of Software Architect, and am the most familiar with Linux and graphics issues, I have been tasked with doing a preliminary design. I was investigating DirectFB. My question is, how suitable is SDL for imbeded applications? I have more questions, but need to get back to working on my resume. Obviously, outside employment will be needed to bring in money untill this project becomes profitable ( looking at years here). So no more wasting time on /.!
I thought about that ... after I hit "Submit".
The fault of the stigmatation of animation as kids stuff lays not so much with Disney, as with childrens programming on TV. Animation was much cheaper then any alternatives. That is why Saturday morning TV has historicly been dominated by crude animation. Everyone in the US has grown up with this shit. Disney is also constrained by the radical Christian Right, who watch them like a beat cop watching a begger, looking for any excuse to rail them out of town. Remember the furor over "The Lion King", "Aladin", and "Pochihontis", not to mention Disneys ownership of Touchstone. Disney does in fact do a good job of producing bi-level films. I realy enjoyed "Lilo and Stich". As far as Anime, I think even the kid stuff is more mature in some regards then what would be done in the US. A very good example of this is "The Return of Mewtoo". I am not to sure why this is so. It might be due to the unimaginative marketing droids that have been responsible for most kids programming in the US. Fortunatly this has changed with no going back. Disneys "Gargoyls" had some fairly deep stories and some well developed characters. The Cartoon Network has done wonders. I am addicted to "Samarai Jack" even though it is episodic. But there is still a lot of crap like "G.I.Joe" and "The Justice League" (the later has some hope). Even the monster of the week Anime like "Dragonball Z", "Yu Yu Hakisho", and "Yu Gi Oh" have better character development then these. BTW, there has been a measurable amount of Animation targeting adults in the US. For example, "Wizards", "Fritz the Cat", "Lord of the Rings", all from Ralph Bakshi, in addition to the "Heavy Metal" movies.
There is more to dubbing then re-doing the audio track. On top of that there is also the matter of the subtitling wich would be rather anoying to those who choose the dubbed version. Offering only subbed versions would not be a good idea. When I watch Anime, I much prefer subbed, but I can still enjoy the dubbed versions. My son, who is extreamly dyslexic, can not read the subtitles. They are too fast. He will see words from several scense back, making the dialoge a jumble. For him, the only accesible version is the dubbed (which sucks when I want to enjoy watching something like Akira with my son).