Studio Ghibli did it with their film My Neighbours the Yamadas, which was animated completely on computers in order to give everything, characters and backgrounds, a watercolour effect really basically impossible to get with traditional media.
The Japanese animation "studio" trees of Life, composed of just two people, did the recent Japanese film Tamala2010: A Punk Cat in Space entirely digital using Adobe software but carefully gave it a 1950s, hand-drawn, black-and-white look. It works surprisingly well, allowing just two people to take care of almost all aspects of an entire film, with the entire script, animation, direction and music composition being done by them. (As an aside: Tamala2010 is running, subtitled, in some art-house theatres in the United States at the moment. Go see it, it's really good.;b)
"This article is only compatible with x86 processors." Sometimes things that separate the user from the base language of the computer are a good thing.;b
Although I'll readily admit that I don't have the skill to audit my BIOS, the UBoot source is out there for anyone who wants it, and I'm certain that at least one interested programmer has already gone through it.
To my knowledge, Ghost in the Shell never played here where I live; Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away both ran in one of the two large theatre multiplexes.
On a tangental note, I'm curious to know what happens to the copyrights of old games made by companies that no longer exist. For instance, I own copies of the old Sanctuary Woods games Wolf and Lion; Sanctuary Woods (later renamed Theatrix) went out of business years ago, however; what happened to those rights? Who owns them? Does anyone own them? Is distributing copies of these CDs now legal? (I'm aware that being sued for distributing them if not is highly unlikely; I'm more interested with the actual legality than the likelihood of retribution.) The same case is true for the old Exidy games and countless games made by companies now long gone.
If that could really be done, I'm all for it. I'm a prospective author ("prospective" for I'm but in first-year university;b), and I would be glad to take part in such a system allowing free copying of my works provided, as you say, that I was able to have a reasonable income. How this could actually be organized, however, is quite beyond me. (I, not unlike the majority of the Slashdot population, am not a lawyer.;b)
That was the intention, yes.;b I like to think that when I'm actually trying to be funny, I manage; and when I'm really tired and let myself type stupid things to public webpages, I'm quite certain that I turn out the inverse.
"Insightful?" Though the point is valid, it's simply parroting back *precisely* the point of the entire article linked to, giving quite the impression of neither poster nor moderators having read the article at all.
If you don't approve of their music, then just simply don't listen at all; I wouldn't advocate piracy, but rather listening to music by independant artists or from alternative record labels, more actively helping the downfall of the RIAA labels because you're aiding their competitors.
I'm a fan of old Roland synths, so I have an ISA MPU-IPC (with the external box) and an MT-32, from about 1987 or so. Unfortunately, it's about my only choice if I want 100% MPU-401 compatibility (i.e., intelligent mode)... though there are some other ISA devices, there aren't any PCI MIDI ports that support that mode, and I need it for some MIDI software.:/
Not necessarily. In places like Taiwan, piracy used to be so rampant that it was hard to buy legit CDs. Now, however, companies have started putting out CDs which, while not as cheap as the pirated versions, are of a reasonable price; and this is causing piracy to lower significantly.
I'd suggest that Avant Browser and its kin are more problem than solution, since they make the avarage joe wonder why (s)he should move to a browser that only offers more nebulous improvements like standards compliance or security.
Some of us are. ^.~ I've convinced my boyfriend to use Mozilla, and a female friend of mine to use Firebird. I've also installed it on the hard drives of a few local families who use me for cheap tech support and, when they tried it, they were impressed enough to make the switch.
That's starting to change in some places, however; in Taiwan, for instance, pirate copies are actually becoming less and less common, while legit goods, including licensed versions of foreign goods, are springing up at good prices. For an example, I bought the legit Taiwanese soundtrack to the anime film The Cat Returns recently; I paid much less than the Japanese soundtrack, and the local Taiwanese price is, to my knowledge, less than CDs tend to be over here. And, to boot, the packaging was much nicer than American or Japanese CDs. The same thing is happening with DVDs, where legit Taiwanese DVDs are popping up at very reasonable prices and pirated DVDs are disappearing.
Hopefully, American record labels will catch on to this and combat piracy the way it's being proven to work.
Windows Media Player is actually a decent product, and I will continue to use it untill a comparable free program is available for Windows or DRM becomes mandatory.
How about Media Player Classic, an open-source clone of the non-bloated Media Player 6.4 with additional features?
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Tomb Raider and Sonic Advance are its biggest games. Draw your own conclusions.
Studio Ghibli did it with their film My Neighbours the Yamadas, which was animated completely on computers in order to give everything, characters and backgrounds, a watercolour effect really basically impossible to get with traditional media. The Japanese animation "studio" trees of Life, composed of just two people, did the recent Japanese film Tamala2010: A Punk Cat in Space entirely digital using Adobe software but carefully gave it a 1950s, hand-drawn, black-and-white look. It works surprisingly well, allowing just two people to take care of almost all aspects of an entire film, with the entire script, animation, direction and music composition being done by them. (As an aside: Tamala2010 is running, subtitled, in some art-house theatres in the United States at the moment. Go see it, it's really good. ;b)
I'm holding out for Super Voltari Alpha Zero III', myself.
"This article is only compatible with x86 processors." ;b
Sometimes things that separate the user from the base language of the computer are a good thing.
So much for getting away from TV with Slashdot; we've reruns here, too. ;b
Although I'll readily admit that I don't have the skill to audit my BIOS, the UBoot source is out there for anyone who wants it, and I'm certain that at least one interested programmer has already gone through it.
Computer language! But now don't we have to worry about evil Lunix commie hackers breaking into our TVs and stealing all of our moneys?
To my knowledge, Ghost in the Shell never played here where I live; Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away both ran in one of the two large theatre multiplexes.
On a tangental note, I'm curious to know what happens to the copyrights of old games made by companies that no longer exist. For instance, I own copies of the old Sanctuary Woods games Wolf and Lion; Sanctuary Woods (later renamed Theatrix) went out of business years ago, however; what happened to those rights? Who owns them? Does anyone own them? Is distributing copies of these CDs now legal? (I'm aware that being sued for distributing them if not is highly unlikely; I'm more interested with the actual legality than the likelihood of retribution.) The same case is true for the old Exidy games and countless games made by companies now long gone.
If that could really be done, I'm all for it. I'm a prospective author ("prospective" for I'm but in first-year university ;b), and I would be glad to take part in such a system allowing free copying of my works provided, as you say, that I was able to have a reasonable income. How this could actually be organized, however, is quite beyond me. (I, not unlike the majority of the Slashdot population, am not a lawyer. ;b)
You're sure they're not robot people?
Gift Card? They're rather more lenient over here and give cash instead. Or, at least, they were the last time I needed to return something.
So... you jog in your car, then? ^.~
That was the intention, yes. ;b I like to think that when I'm actually trying to be funny, I manage; and when I'm really tired and let myself type stupid things to public webpages, I'm quite certain that I turn out the inverse.
I, for one, accept our new ID card thief overlords. ...if anyone needs me, I'll be dipping my head in arsenic. ^.^;
"Insightful?" Though the point is valid, it's simply parroting back *precisely* the point of the entire article linked to, giving quite the impression of neither poster nor moderators having read the article at all.
If you don't approve of their music, then just simply don't listen at all; I wouldn't advocate piracy, but rather listening to music by independant artists or from alternative record labels, more actively helping the downfall of the RIAA labels because you're aiding their competitors.
I'm a fan of old Roland synths, so I have an ISA MPU-IPC (with the external box) and an MT-32, from about 1987 or so. Unfortunately, it's about my only choice if I want 100% MPU-401 compatibility (i.e., intelligent mode)... though there are some other ISA devices, there aren't any PCI MIDI ports that support that mode, and I need it for some MIDI software. :/
Not necessarily. In places like Taiwan, piracy used to be so rampant that it was hard to buy legit CDs. Now, however, companies have started putting out CDs which, while not as cheap as the pirated versions, are of a reasonable price; and this is causing piracy to lower significantly.
I'd suggest that Avant Browser and its kin are more problem than solution, since they make the avarage joe wonder why (s)he should move to a browser that only offers more nebulous improvements like standards compliance or security.
Some of us are. ^.~ I've convinced my boyfriend to use Mozilla, and a female friend of mine to use Firebird. I've also installed it on the hard drives of a few local families who use me for cheap tech support and, when they tried it, they were impressed enough to make the switch.
That's starting to change in some places, however; in Taiwan, for instance, pirate copies are actually becoming less and less common, while legit goods, including licensed versions of foreign goods, are springing up at good prices. For an example, I bought the legit Taiwanese soundtrack to the anime film The Cat Returns recently; I paid much less than the Japanese soundtrack, and the local Taiwanese price is, to my knowledge, less than CDs tend to be over here. And, to boot, the packaging was much nicer than American or Japanese CDs. The same thing is happening with DVDs, where legit Taiwanese DVDs are popping up at very reasonable prices and pirated DVDs are disappearing. Hopefully, American record labels will catch on to this and combat piracy the way it's being proven to work.
Ah, my mistake, sorry... I wasn't familiar with the AppleII gs' hardware and thought you referred to the SNES.
The SPC-700 does 8 channels, not 32.