So true. We've been looking for that battery since the development of power sources like dams. We rely on dams here a lot (I live in Montana) and we use only a fraction what it can product. We can send power elsewhere (cough...California) but we lose a lot in the transfer.
True, the anti-nuclear crowd are a bit dogmatic, you forget the real issue with nuclear power. Where do you plan to put the waste, huh? Yucca Mountain? You mean the storage facility on the quake fault line? Nice.:) Nuclear is a good prospect but relying on a single source is what doomed our system in the first place. Variety is the spice of the power grid, my friend.
Read the FAQ. It's as much about movies and stickers than videos. My point: those companies weren't complaining when they didn't have a market here. But those products were helping build the exposure and cult status in the United States. Now that it has expanded into the mainstream, those same companies are complaing about those unlicensed products.
The critical point here is that to have "exotic" devices, you have to be able to manage them to make the power grid meaningful stability. Often, the hip environmental crowd (okay, so I am often one of them), complains that there isn't enough use of alternative energy in the mainstream grid. However, if we dedicated a meaningful amount of the grid to energy extracted from yak dung, what happens if there are problems? The grid elsewhere has to make up the slack (often at a higher price and inefficient) or we have problems like last week. The more technology develops, the more we are likely to be able to use alternative energy...goo goo gah joob.
Certainly, a big deal to Japanese companies, but I don't that answers my original concern. These companies wouldn't have a product to care about in US markets minus the piracy. Remember, anime started off as a tiny nitch in the market. Nobody cared 15 years ago when enterprising companies were selling products based on the copyrighted images at county fairs in 1989, because at that time, it was consider publicity. Now that there is a market (again, I don't get it, it's not my taste in popular culture), people whine about their copyright.
While that might be true in some circumstances, it is not true in copyright law. If they were true for copyright, Hilary Rosen could have sat a K-Mart with pirated (arrrr...) copies of House Party III that *looked* real and brought up federal charges against any poor sap that was unfortunately enough to pick up a copy.
I think the same issue applies here with anime.
I wonder how much of a big deal this is. Sure, protecting copyright is important, but I don't think anime expansion in the United States would have happened as fast or expansively without copyright violation.
Are there are real stats (not trumped up RIAA-style statistics) saying how much of a problem this is?
Also, would an FAQ be misguided towards the real problem? Younger children buying cheap ripoffs?
I am a teacher. I've taught in two districts, both interested in technology and I've seen Apple's sad attempted at continuing to play to schools.
Some thoughts:
1.) OSX was a killer for some districts. Often, district have restrictive license agreements for application software that allow install of a certain version of software. Sure, you can run pre-OSX software on OSX with compatibility mode, but it's a dog and prone to crash.
2.) Ignorance has scared away districts. I'm not sure why, but none of the happy promos for OSX were directed towards districts. The high memory requirements for OSX definately scared schools.
3.) The Business Week article implies that the EMacs are as inexpensive as PC's. Dell and Gateway are practically giving PC's away, especially in the past 12 months. Why switch to Macs (with their more limited software availabiltiy) when you can continue with PC's?
I like OSX, I have it install on my PowerBook. But I use PC's everywhere else. Until Mac starts giving it away (Linux!) or starts selling bargain (under $500) PC's, they will continue to be a dog.
I've been interested in Linux since 1998 and I've always had at least one desktop computer with a Red Hat distribution on it and I enjoy it as an OS, though I rarely no more than word process or surf the web on that box.
What I have been always curious about, and I never see this covered: what companies, big, small, in between, have adopted Linux on the desktop? I am a teacher, so I know of schools, but what about businesses?
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Yeah, I'm real elite. Good one.
My X-Box wins as it's running X-Box linux. :)
And, the article *does* read like a 11-year-old wrote it thinking he was an "3lit3 dewd."
Perhaps, based on the responses to my original post, I change my attitude to "who cares," like 80% of the others here. :)
It's a reference to a Beatles song, dumb ass.
So true. We've been looking for that battery since the development of power sources like dams. We rely on dams here a lot (I live in Montana) and we use only a fraction what it can product. We can send power elsewhere (cough...California) but we lose a lot in the transfer.
True, the anti-nuclear crowd are a bit dogmatic, you forget the real issue with nuclear power. Where do you plan to put the waste, huh? Yucca Mountain? You mean the storage facility on the quake fault line? Nice. :) Nuclear is a good prospect but relying on a single source is what doomed our system in the first place. Variety is the spice of the power grid, my friend.
Read the FAQ. It's as much about movies and stickers than videos. My point: those companies weren't complaining when they didn't have a market here. But those products were helping build the exposure and cult status in the United States. Now that it has expanded into the mainstream, those same companies are complaing about those unlicensed products.
The critical point here is that to have "exotic" devices, you have to be able to manage them to make the power grid meaningful stability. Often, the hip environmental crowd (okay, so I am often one of them), complains that there isn't enough use of alternative energy in the mainstream grid. However, if we dedicated a meaningful amount of the grid to energy extracted from yak dung, what happens if there are problems? The grid elsewhere has to make up the slack (often at a higher price and inefficient) or we have problems like last week. The more technology develops, the more we are likely to be able to use alternative energy...goo goo gah joob.
Certainly, a big deal to Japanese companies, but I don't that answers my original concern. These companies wouldn't have a product to care about in US markets minus the piracy. Remember, anime started off as a tiny nitch in the market. Nobody cared 15 years ago when enterprising companies were selling products based on the copyrighted images at county fairs in 1989, because at that time, it was consider publicity. Now that there is a market (again, I don't get it, it's not my taste in popular culture), people whine about their copyright.
While that might be true in some circumstances, it is not true in copyright law. If they were true for copyright, Hilary Rosen could have sat a K-Mart with pirated (arrrr...) copies of House Party III that *looked* real and brought up federal charges against any poor sap that was unfortunately enough to pick up a copy. I think the same issue applies here with anime.
I wonder how much of a big deal this is. Sure, protecting copyright is important, but I don't think anime expansion in the United States would have happened as fast or expansively without copyright violation. Are there are real stats (not trumped up RIAA-style statistics) saying how much of a problem this is? Also, would an FAQ be misguided towards the real problem? Younger children buying cheap ripoffs?
I am a teacher. I've taught in two districts, both interested in technology and I've seen Apple's sad attempted at continuing to play to schools. Some thoughts: 1.) OSX was a killer for some districts. Often, district have restrictive license agreements for application software that allow install of a certain version of software. Sure, you can run pre-OSX software on OSX with compatibility mode, but it's a dog and prone to crash. 2.) Ignorance has scared away districts. I'm not sure why, but none of the happy promos for OSX were directed towards districts. The high memory requirements for OSX definately scared schools. 3.) The Business Week article implies that the EMacs are as inexpensive as PC's. Dell and Gateway are practically giving PC's away, especially in the past 12 months. Why switch to Macs (with their more limited software availabiltiy) when you can continue with PC's? I like OSX, I have it install on my PowerBook. But I use PC's everywhere else. Until Mac starts giving it away (Linux!) or starts selling bargain (under $500) PC's, they will continue to be a dog.
I've been interested in Linux since 1998 and I've always had at least one desktop computer with a Red Hat distribution on it and I enjoy it as an OS, though I rarely no more than word process or surf the web on that box.
What I have been always curious about, and I never see this covered: what companies, big, small, in between, have adopted Linux on the desktop? I am a teacher, so I know of schools, but what about businesses?