But Penguin didn't threaten to sue Katie.com's owner - that was Katie (the other one)'s lawyer, presumeably acting as an agent for her client and not the publisher. All that Penguin did was fail to check whether Katie.com was owned before titling the book that, a reasonable mistake.
Mainly because a service pack is not the norm, it rolls all previous updates into one package. A more useful comparison in this case would have been a TYPICAL download for a security update i.e. in the 250kB range.
But this Mozilla release rolls several fixes into one package. Surely it would count as a service pack, not a single update?
Yes, the other day. I gave it a try, but in the end I couldn't get it looking as nice as I wanted and I missed some basic features I was used to. I went back to XFce 4, which uses the same amount of RAM and is just as fast, but which looks and feels much nicer to me.
Although it is nice to have that shortcut, I'd much rather be able to make the line *always* be there. I use it fairly often, so the ctrl-l is just an extra step to do what I used to be able to do more easily.
...if I could use it. Unfortunately, my bugreport that it is entirely broken under PowerPC has been ignored, as have requests both by myself and other people to have an option to run with JACK disabled. For many people, JACK is not only unnecessary, but difficult or impossible to use; it makes using MusE itself difficult, since it now *depends* on JACK even if only pure MIDI is to be used.
I'm surprised that you mention the Star Wars manga in connection to foreign-localized American comic books, but don't mention Spiderman himself. This same thing happened a few years back when Marvel had Spiderman redrawn and rewritten by Japanese artists and writers in an attempt to break into the Japanese market. It didn't turn out to be very popular there, I've heard, however.
I'd say that it was more Sega's incompetent marketing. The Saturn was neck-and-neck with the PlayStation in Japan for most of its life; Sega of America and Europe have always been incompetent and usually manage to drive successful Japanese consoles and games into the ground over here.
Mm, very true; that's what I've been doing. Which is a shame, because a single I've *really* wanted to buy is protected. ^.^; But I don't want to support protection, and I don't know if it would even work on my non-Windows computer.
The average CD price in Japan is about 2900-3000Y. That's about 26.40$ USD to 27.30$ USD, which is to my knowledge much higher than normal US CD prices. In Canadian dollars, that's about 35.54$ to 36.77$. To my knowledge, European CD prices are about the same. And that's the *average* CD price, not the price for weird obscure CDs. A CD single with three or four songs, in Japan, costs about the same as a somewhat cheap (12$) CD in Canada.
Only works released before 1968 are out of copyright in Russia. Everything after that is well in copyright. Most of AllOfMP3's catalogue is in copyright.
Actually, that's not true. ROMS, the Russian Organization for Multimedia and digital Systems, has legally licensed AllOfMP3. A portion of the income from every song sale goes to ROMS, which takes a small portion to cover operating costs and gives the rest directly to the artists - not through the record labels.
But CD prices are also much higher in Europe; they're about the same as Japanese CD prices, which are twice as high, or higher, than American and Canadian CD prices. It makes perfect sense to sell for that price since, in proportion to the CD price, the price is actually quite similar.
Studio Ghibli doesn't use cels anymore. Read the work diary for Howl's Moving Castle; you'll see mentions of piles of sketches waiting to be scanned and coloured.
I'm not so sure that Americanization has much to do with it. Osamu Tezuka, author of the original Astro Boy manga in the 1950s, was directly involved in the 1960s and 1980s productions of Astro Boy. I think what you say is happening to Astro Boy now is much like what happened to Jungle Emperor/Kimba the White Lion; Tezuka was directly involved in the original 1960s show, which despite its Americanization managed to retain some of the original feeling, but was not involved in the 1989/1990 remake series due to his death in 1989. The remake was technically superior but lacked the soul of the original. Tezuka, often called "God of Manga," was an absolute genius and the loss of quality since is simply because no one can match up to him.
The Cat Returns was great, too. I own the official R3 DVD, with English subtitles, and it's really a very enjoyable film. Perhaps not quite up to the usual Ghibli quality, but great nonetheless.
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But Penguin didn't threaten to sue Katie.com's owner - that was Katie (the other one)'s lawyer, presumeably acting as an agent for her client and not the publisher. All that Penguin did was fail to check whether Katie.com was owned before titling the book that, a reasonable mistake.
Yes, the other day. I gave it a try, but in the end I couldn't get it looking as nice as I wanted and I missed some basic features I was used to. I went back to XFce 4, which uses the same amount of RAM and is just as fast, but which looks and feels much nicer to me.
Weird Al gets permission from artists before making his parodies.
But Sega still releases games for the Dreamcast. They released Puyo Puyo Fever for it not long ago, at the same time as on the other major consoles.
Although it is nice to have that shortcut, I'd much rather be able to make the line *always* be there. I use it fairly often, so the ctrl-l is just an extra step to do what I used to be able to do more easily.
Actually, I'm fairly certain that only Hippocrates is actually Hippocrates.
...if I could use it. Unfortunately, my bugreport that it is entirely broken under PowerPC has been ignored, as have requests both by myself and other people to have an option to run with JACK disabled. For many people, JACK is not only unnecessary, but difficult or impossible to use; it makes using MusE itself difficult, since it now *depends* on JACK even if only pure MIDI is to be used.
AllOfMP3 pays license fees to ROMS, which in turn pays license fees (minus a very small percentage for operation costs) to the artists.
I'm surprised that you mention the Star Wars manga in connection to foreign-localized American comic books, but don't mention Spiderman himself. This same thing happened a few years back when Marvel had Spiderman redrawn and rewritten by Japanese artists and writers in an attempt to break into the Japanese market. It didn't turn out to be very popular there, I've heard, however.
I'd say that it was more Sega's incompetent marketing. The Saturn was neck-and-neck with the PlayStation in Japan for most of its life; Sega of America and Europe have always been incompetent and usually manage to drive successful Japanese consoles and games into the ground over here.
Mm, very true; that's what I've been doing. Which is a shame, because a single I've *really* wanted to buy is protected. ^.^; But I don't want to support protection, and I don't know if it would even work on my non-Windows computer.
There's already a hard drive for the regular PS2. Several games can use it, and Final Fantasy XII requires it.
You're welcome! I'm glad to have been able to help. :3
I don't have Windows 95, but try using the Windows 95 DCOM updater from Microsoft's site. It might work for you.
OpenOffice can open Word files just fine; StarOffice should work just as well.
The average CD price in Japan is about 2900-3000Y. That's about 26.40$ USD to 27.30$ USD, which is to my knowledge much higher than normal US CD prices. In Canadian dollars, that's about 35.54$ to 36.77$. To my knowledge, European CD prices are about the same. And that's the *average* CD price, not the price for weird obscure CDs. A CD single with three or four songs, in Japan, costs about the same as a somewhat cheap (12$) CD in Canada.
Only works released before 1968 are out of copyright in Russia. Everything after that is well in copyright. Most of AllOfMP3's catalogue is in copyright.
Actually, that's not true. ROMS, the Russian Organization for Multimedia and digital Systems, has legally licensed AllOfMP3. A portion of the income from every song sale goes to ROMS, which takes a small portion to cover operating costs and gives the rest directly to the artists - not through the record labels.
But CD prices are also much higher in Europe; they're about the same as Japanese CD prices, which are twice as high, or higher, than American and Canadian CD prices. It makes perfect sense to sell for that price since, in proportion to the CD price, the price is actually quite similar.
Studio Ghibli doesn't use cels anymore. Read the work diary for Howl's Moving Castle; you'll see mentions of piles of sketches waiting to be scanned and coloured.
I'm not so sure that Americanization has much to do with it. Osamu Tezuka, author of the original Astro Boy manga in the 1950s, was directly involved in the 1960s and 1980s productions of Astro Boy. I think what you say is happening to Astro Boy now is much like what happened to Jungle Emperor/Kimba the White Lion; Tezuka was directly involved in the original 1960s show, which despite its Americanization managed to retain some of the original feeling, but was not involved in the 1989/1990 remake series due to his death in 1989. The remake was technically superior but lacked the soul of the original. Tezuka, often called "God of Manga," was an absolute genius and the loss of quality since is simply because no one can match up to him.
The Cat Returns was great, too. I own the official R3 DVD, with English subtitles, and it's really a very enjoyable film. Perhaps not quite up to the usual Ghibli quality, but great nonetheless.
No, the official Ghost in the Shell SAC DVDs really don't have any subtitles, not even Japanese subs.