I don't believe scanslations for popular manga like Naruto was ever the basis for licensing. Naruto is like hotcakes in Japan and what kind of US company wouldn't want to capitalize on that? While scanslations might be useful for less well known manga, the bigger, more popular series don't need any more publicity than they already have.
I'm sure artists might appreciate the fact that people went out of their way to devote their free time in translating the artists' works, but I sincerely doubt, except for a few artists, that they would be happy about it being distributed for free online.
I don't believe that any official Ghost in the Shell SAC English DVDs are out yet. They're supposed to come out the end of July. What you were probably looking at was a pirated Hong Kong DVD. They are known for crap quality. Now, I know that most DVDs don't color code dialogue, but I know that they tend to have better translation. Both fansubs and official DVDs suffer from typos and fansubs tend to suffer more from grammatical problems. DVDs tend to overedit sometimes to make it suitable for a general audience, whereas most fansubs are geared towards more hardcore fans.
I'm not saying that our current system is any better. I'm just looking at where the proposed system may have some problems. The ideal solution (impossible) would be to have everyone in a room with votes taken place in the room and the vote counter dumping all the votes on a table and counting.
With my previous post, I was just pointing out that 'open source' may not inspire as much trust as many people online might think.
I'm sure a lot of geeks will be convinced that the voting software would be safe if all the able coders can look at the voting software at their leisure and find bugs, if any. However, how do you convince the general populace this? Just saying there are random people in the world finding bugs in it doesn't seem convincing enough to a normal person who knows nothing about computers except that they can use it to get email and buy flowers. While I'm all for open source voting, I think it doesn't inspire the amount of trust necessary or as much trust as most Slashdot readers would think.
Nice case mod. Gives me sort of a grungy feel. However, even though it looks like it came right out of Half Life, I'm not sure it's the best thing to use while actually playing it. For example, it would have been neat if he used a different style, like say a high-tech silvery clean console. However, that would not have taken as much work and looked as impressive as this one.:)
It's a nice, funny way to implement P2P, but it's hardly anonymous. All someone has to do is place packet sniffers strategically over the network and they can trace your packet back. Now, if it were encrypted, and you constantly sent junk...
4chan is mainly an image board, and yes a lot of the images are pornographic in nature. 2chan is mostly text based, with some image boards scattered here and there.
Nice idea!...so we should find some way to pack 4 seconds of digital audio into these little Atmel chips, connect up some DACs, feed it into a nice bridged amplifier and speaker, and voila!
That was actually from code provided by the professor of the class. The reason was that there were problems differentiating the square brackets from the curly ones in the font that was used in the IDE. The font basically differentiated the two by having one extra pixel for the curly braces. Personally I didn't need to use those defines, since I changed the font...
I believe Pioneer said a few months ago that they tested the A06 using new firmware and got it to burn onto dual layered DVD-R media. Furthermore, the Anandtech article did state that they managed to convert a GO-W0808A to burn DVD+R9's: "In fact, several other MT1818E burners are capable of firmware upgrades to DVD+R9. In fact, using beta firmware upgrades, we actually got our Gigabyte GO-W0808A to burn DVD+R9 as well. Keep in mind that the GO-W0808A retails for less than $110, while the DRU-700A will hit shelves at $199. Although the Sony DRU-700A is a considerable step up from the DRU-530A, we would have to recommend the GO-W0808A if it costs $90 less and performs the same." - AnandTech
...developers probably have an easier time gauging graphics engine and how powerful they are then the strength of a plot. In order to gauge how well a graphics engine performs, you can get hard measurements from benchmarks. To see how good something looks, you can just show pictures to anyone off the street and they'd be able to tell. Now, compare this to story, or gameplay. How do you measure that? While screenshots will reveal how good the graphics are, you can't get something similar for story and gameplay, other than the reviewer describing it with words. Perhaps there needs to be more artistic people in some of these game studios, and I mean people with aesthetics in higher levels of management than the normal game artist positions.
...and on the sponsored ads, every one of them had 'AXA' in the title, but didn't seem to be related to the company itself. Are sponsored links different from regular links in that the companies give Google the title that'll show up? It seems like the only way to actually solve this may be to force Google to check for trademarks in titles, but that is a LOT of work, and probably is only feasible if a company assertively places its name in "the list."
Wouldn't that mean that the dot code was created as a security feature to prevent copy protection? I can see the headlines now: Samuel Morse Cracks Copy Protection, Sued Under DMCA
You can probably also get a skin for Gnome or KDE that looks like Windows XP... Or you can program in a 'boss-key' like that old Tetris game, when ESC brings up a fake text based spreadsheet:)
I wonder why they give out the emails of people that have been arrested. I can see some reason for giving out names, but e-mails? Is there actually a public benefit for this, other than letting the public spam those e-mail addresses or helping lawyers find clients?
I don't know if it's just me, but doesn't the first model in the set of pictures (Nomad Augmented Vision System) look like some random Borg like creature with her headset and red-eye?
I find it odd that the MSNBC server returns a blank page. Perhaps they want to prevent themselves from paying all the extra bandwidth costs of a slashdotting? Or did we actually crash their server?
At least those labels would fit well with the "cholesterol-free!" labels I see on some bottles of water. What are they going to come up with next? "Nutrient free!" "Necessary for YOUR survival!"
Maybe this is why people shouldn't take any document on the Web at face value unless they check the sources or credentials. Not only can there be research study oriented "fake web pages", but there also can be pranks and out of date information (many pages do not have timestamps).
I know many professors at my university view Web references as something that you use at last resort, when all other reference sources fail.
However, another problem is that there IS a lot of good content on the web, and sometimes they disappear and can never be located again, unless they were lucky enough to have been crawled over by archive.org
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I don't believe scanslations for popular manga like Naruto was ever the basis for licensing. Naruto is like hotcakes in Japan and what kind of US company wouldn't want to capitalize on that? While scanslations might be useful for less well known manga, the bigger, more popular series don't need any more publicity than they already have.
I'm sure artists might appreciate the fact that people went out of their way to devote their free time in translating the artists' works, but I sincerely doubt, except for a few artists, that they would be happy about it being distributed for free online.
I don't believe that any official Ghost in the Shell SAC English DVDs are out yet. They're supposed to come out the end of July. What you were probably looking at was a pirated Hong Kong DVD. They are known for crap quality. Now, I know that most DVDs don't color code dialogue, but I know that they tend to have better translation. Both fansubs and official DVDs suffer from typos and fansubs tend to suffer more from grammatical problems. DVDs tend to overedit sometimes to make it suitable for a general audience, whereas most fansubs are geared towards more hardcore fans.
I'm not saying that our current system is any better. I'm just looking at where the proposed system may have some problems. The ideal solution (impossible) would be to have everyone in a room with votes taken place in the room and the vote counter dumping all the votes on a table and counting. With my previous post, I was just pointing out that 'open source' may not inspire as much trust as many people online might think.
I'm sure a lot of geeks will be convinced that the voting software would be safe if all the able coders can look at the voting software at their leisure and find bugs, if any. However, how do you convince the general populace this? Just saying there are random people in the world finding bugs in it doesn't seem convincing enough to a normal person who knows nothing about computers except that they can use it to get email and buy flowers. While I'm all for open source voting, I think it doesn't inspire the amount of trust necessary or as much trust as most Slashdot readers would think.
Nice case mod. Gives me sort of a grungy feel. However, even though it looks like it came right out of Half Life, I'm not sure it's the best thing to use while actually playing it. For example, it would have been neat if he used a different style, like say a high-tech silvery clean console. However, that would not have taken as much work and looked as impressive as this one. :)
So the Star Trek franchise has degenerated into a show for gauking at hot guys/girls?
Is he going to have the same speech style, even if he doesn't become Kirk? "Hello. -pause- I am a cameo. -pause- "
It's probably because of the fact that they are physically developed enough, but not mentally developed enough to make the decision.
They'll still be geeks, because they acquired the expertise through playing Gameboy, and not through actual experience :)
It's a nice, funny way to implement P2P, but it's hardly anonymous. All someone has to do is place packet sniffers strategically over the network and they can trace your packet back. Now, if it were encrypted, and you constantly sent junk...
I believe Coldfire IS one of Motorola's offerings. The digital cable equipment company I worked at was using those for a variety of applications.
4chan is mainly an image board, and yes a lot of the images are pornographic in nature. 2chan is mostly text based, with some image boards scattered here and there.
No, the poster is correct. The Japanese behind the 'Godzilla' on the image is basically GO JI RA.
Nice idea! ...so we should find some way to pack 4 seconds of digital audio into these little Atmel chips, connect up some DACs, feed it into a nice bridged amplifier and speaker, and voila!
That was actually from code provided by the professor of the class. The reason was that there were problems differentiating the square brackets from the curly ones in the font that was used in the IDE. The font basically differentiated the two by having one extra pixel for the curly braces. Personally I didn't need to use those defines, since I changed the font...
I believe Pioneer said a few months ago that they tested the A06 using new firmware and got it to burn onto dual layered DVD-R media.
Furthermore, the Anandtech article did state that they managed to convert a GO-W0808A to burn DVD+R9's:
"In fact, several other MT1818E burners are capable of firmware upgrades to DVD+R9. In fact, using beta firmware upgrades, we actually got our Gigabyte GO-W0808A to burn DVD+R9 as well. Keep in mind that the GO-W0808A retails for less than $110, while the DRU-700A will hit shelves at $199. Although the Sony DRU-700A is a considerable step up from the DRU-530A, we would have to recommend the GO-W0808A if it costs $90 less and performs the same." - AnandTech
...developers probably have an easier time gauging graphics engine and how powerful they are then the strength of a plot. In order to gauge how well a graphics engine performs, you can get hard measurements from benchmarks. To see how good something looks, you can just show pictures to anyone off the street and they'd be able to tell. Now, compare this to story, or gameplay. How do you measure that? While screenshots will reveal how good the graphics are, you can't get something similar for story and gameplay, other than the reviewer describing it with words. Perhaps there needs to be more artistic people in some of these game studios, and I mean people with aesthetics in higher levels of management than the normal game artist positions.
...and on the sponsored ads, every one of them had 'AXA' in the title, but didn't seem to be related to the company itself. Are sponsored links different from regular links in that the companies give Google the title that'll show up? It seems like the only way to actually solve this may be to force Google to check for trademarks in titles, but that is a LOT of work, and probably is only feasible if a company assertively places its name in "the list."
Wouldn't that mean that the dot code was created as a security feature to prevent copy protection?
I can see the headlines now:
Samuel Morse Cracks Copy Protection, Sued Under DMCA
You can probably also get a skin for Gnome or KDE that looks like Windows XP... Or you can program in a 'boss-key' like that old Tetris game, when ESC brings up a fake text based spreadsheet :)
I wonder why they give out the emails of people that have been arrested. I can see some reason for giving out names, but e-mails? Is there actually a public benefit for this, other than letting the public spam those e-mail addresses or helping lawyers find clients?
I don't know if it's just me, but doesn't the first model in the set of pictures (Nomad Augmented Vision System) look like some random Borg like creature with her headset and red-eye?
I find it odd that the MSNBC server returns a blank page. Perhaps they want to prevent themselves from paying all the extra bandwidth costs of a slashdotting? Or did we actually crash their server?
At least those labels would fit well with the "cholesterol-free!" labels I see on some bottles of water. What are they going to come up with next? "Nutrient free!" "Necessary for YOUR survival!"
Maybe this is why people shouldn't take any document on the Web at face value unless they check the sources or credentials. Not only can there be research study oriented "fake web pages", but there also can be pranks and out of date information (many pages do not have timestamps). I know many professors at my university view Web references as something that you use at last resort, when all other reference sources fail. However, another problem is that there IS a lot of good content on the web, and sometimes they disappear and can never be located again, unless they were lucky enough to have been crawled over by archive.org