Piracy does sometimes reduce the games we get, however. As I recall, Dragon Quest VII suffered from poor sales largely due to widespread piracy and, as a result, the Dragon Quest IV wasn't released here.
It happens even unintentionally. After reading the novel The Cunning Little Vixen, I decided to search for MP3s of the opera based on it to see if it was any good; and, well, you can imagine my results. ^.^;;
But if the film was being reencoded to another format when being ripped, wouldn't that bit change? And wouldn't single-pixel changes possibly be distorted when the frame is reencoded?
Anime's a medium, not a genre. There are plenty of bad and mediocre anime shows and films, but there are also some absolute gems. Rose of Versailles, for instance, is a very intelligent historical-fiction show about pre-revolutionary France, focusing on Marie-Antoinette and her fictional guard Oscar Francois de Jarjayes; it's very well-written and altogether quite remarkable. Not all anime is the same homogenous and semi-erotic pap generally made.;b
You might like Ozy and Millie, which is sometimes similar to Calvin and Hobbes, though it's not too derivative. ^.~ It's become my favourite comic strip.
Really? That's odd... when I used Win32 before, Firebird 0.7, which was what I was using, never had any problems; it displayed the same as 0.7 under Linux does now.
Perhaps the problem is more of misdirection of funds? I know that at my high school, each department had a separate technology fund in addition to a separate fund for computer labs and their software. The English department was left with tech money they had no use for and which couldn't be rerouted into the books they fairly desperately needed or put into any other budgets; in the end, they bought a TV and a DVD player because they weren't allowed to use the money for anything they actually needed or give it to another department that needed it.
I definately agree. I'd never used Linux for more than a few minutes, I must admit, until buying my AmigaOne, which had Debian preloaded. I can't claim to be an expert in it, but the transition was extremely easy. KDE controls like Windows, but nicer, and learning anything new I needed to wasn't very difficult. Transferring skills you've learned on one OS to other OSs isn't too difficult anymore.
Try disc 2 of any Studio Ghibli film except Princess Mononoke. They let you switch between the actual film and the original production storyboards for the same scene.
There are large amounts of legit VCDs in China; it's the DVDs that are mostly bootleg, though some companies do sell legit DVDs. (I own a few legit R3 DVDs, made by a Chinese company called IVL. Licensed from elsewhere and marketed at quite a reasonable price, they do decent business. They also sell VCDs of the same films for even less, but those unfortunately lack English subtitles as an option.)
You've forgotten optional subtitles and multiple audio tracks, which works beautifully for foreign films. No more separate dub/sub versions; both are on the same disc and you can switch however you want. You can also have multiple video tracks (which they call multiple angles).
Might one also say, however, that due to the current astronomical population of our planet perhaps the natural tendencies dating from when we were a minority species that needed to grow are sometimes incorrect?
Mine came with Noatun as well as XMMS. (Mind you, I don't tend to use Noatun because there aren't plugins available for most of the audio formats I listen to.;b) And, though KDE defaults to Konqueror, Mozilla was installed and ready to use. (I will admit that KOffice was the only office suite installed, though I soon replaced that with OpenOffice and, finally, AbiWord.)
How about Media Player Classic? It started out as an open-source clone of the non-bloated Media Player 6.4, but since then has added numerous features not present in any Windows Media Player version without adding bloat.
Perhaps because running Linux on your X-Box isn't hurting Microsoft in any way, while this not only violates your terms of agreement but keeps Ritz from getting the camera back, which is how they can offer it at such a price?
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Piracy does sometimes reduce the games we get, however. As I recall, Dragon Quest VII suffered from poor sales largely due to widespread piracy and, as a result, the Dragon Quest IV wasn't released here.
Or, though admittedly rather less likely, the AmigaOne; the current systems ship with Debian and the BIOS is based off of the opensource UBoot.
It happens even unintentionally. After reading the novel The Cunning Little Vixen, I decided to search for MP3s of the opera based on it to see if it was any good; and, well, you can imagine my results. ^.^;;
"Jokes?" In the plural? I don't think Foxworthy can be fairly said to have more than one joke.
But if the film was being reencoded to another format when being ripped, wouldn't that bit change? And wouldn't single-pixel changes possibly be distorted when the frame is reencoded?
Anime's a medium, not a genre. There are plenty of bad and mediocre anime shows and films, but there are also some absolute gems. Rose of Versailles, for instance, is a very intelligent historical-fiction show about pre-revolutionary France, focusing on Marie-Antoinette and her fictional guard Oscar Francois de Jarjayes; it's very well-written and altogether quite remarkable. Not all anime is the same homogenous and semi-erotic pap generally made. ;b
As I recall, Cowboy Bebop's Adult Swim run was less censored than its Japanese television run.
You might like Ozy and Millie, which is sometimes similar to Calvin and Hobbes, though it's not too derivative. ^.~ It's become my favourite comic strip.
That's because you use x86. ;b I've come across the occasional package that doesn't work properly on PPC.
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Really? That's odd... when I used Win32 before, Firebird 0.7, which was what I was using, never had any problems; it displayed the same as 0.7 under Linux does now.
Mainly that OpenOffice has menus that are really, really *slow.* I prefer AbiWord for my word processing.
Perhaps the problem is more of misdirection of funds? I know that at my high school, each department had a separate technology fund in addition to a separate fund for computer labs and their software. The English department was left with tech money they had no use for and which couldn't be rerouted into the books they fairly desperately needed or put into any other budgets; in the end, they bought a TV and a DVD player because they weren't allowed to use the money for anything they actually needed or give it to another department that needed it.
I definately agree. I'd never used Linux for more than a few minutes, I must admit, until buying my AmigaOne, which had Debian preloaded. I can't claim to be an expert in it, but the transition was extremely easy. KDE controls like Windows, but nicer, and learning anything new I needed to wasn't very difficult. Transferring skills you've learned on one OS to other OSs isn't too difficult anymore.
Try disc 2 of any Studio Ghibli film except Princess Mononoke. They let you switch between the actual film and the original production storyboards for the same scene.
There are large amounts of legit VCDs in China; it's the DVDs that are mostly bootleg, though some companies do sell legit DVDs. (I own a few legit R3 DVDs, made by a Chinese company called IVL. Licensed from elsewhere and marketed at quite a reasonable price, they do decent business. They also sell VCDs of the same films for even less, but those unfortunately lack English subtitles as an option.)
You've forgotten optional subtitles and multiple audio tracks, which works beautifully for foreign films. No more separate dub/sub versions; both are on the same disc and you can switch however you want. You can also have multiple video tracks (which they call multiple angles).
I got the Odyssey recently, combined with bits of the financial section from their local newspaper. Spam just keeps getting stranger and stranger...
And we'd have lots of endian compilation issues with people who talk out of their rear ends, neh?
Might one also say, however, that due to the current astronomical population of our planet perhaps the natural tendencies dating from when we were a minority species that needed to grow are sometimes incorrect?
Mine came with Noatun as well as XMMS. (Mind you, I don't tend to use Noatun because there aren't plugins available for most of the audio formats I listen to. ;b) And, though KDE defaults to Konqueror, Mozilla was installed and ready to use. (I will admit that KOffice was the only office suite installed, though I soon replaced that with OpenOffice and, finally, AbiWord.)
How about Media Player Classic? It started out as an open-source clone of the non-bloated Media Player 6.4, but since then has added numerous features not present in any Windows Media Player version without adding bloat.
Perhaps because running Linux on your X-Box isn't hurting Microsoft in any way, while this not only violates your terms of agreement but keeps Ritz from getting the camera back, which is how they can offer it at such a price?