Using a foreign language name is a marketing tool that I do not like.
Yeah, that's what I said, only with a negative bent on it. This is done as a way to avoid confusion with those superhero American comics. Someone who won't even look a superhero comic, might be more inclined to look at a "graphical novel" or "manga." You don't like it? That's fine. I on the other hand won't pick up "superhero v23.1 saves the day again" and the word manga allow me a large selection of comics that aren't the superhero garbage.
Even worse, this is often done in a way that pays no respect to the language being exploited.
Riiiiiiiiight. I'm sure the language is very embarrassed and ashamed to have been exploited in this way. I'm sure slashdot will send the Japanese language (not the people that speak it, but the language itself) an apology.
Odd. It seems you have to read this manga from left to right (and top to bottom).. not right to left as in most mangas.
This is because most manga's are created in Japan. Not America. "English manga's" (which I'll just call manga's even though they might not deserve that name) should be left to right, as they're audience are people in English speaking countries, which have the left to right feature in their written language.
The only time a manga created outside of Japan should read right to left is when they've been translated from Japanese, or they're being marketed towards an audience whose language is written right to left (in which case it should be written in that language, and not English).
If you do create a "manga" do not bring over the Japanese custom of having the panels read right to left. This is a bad imitation and amateurish, and only raises a barrier to your potential audience. NASA did the right thing with it's comic being left to right.
That would have been exciting. "Going where no man has gone before."
Ensign: So where are we going Captain?
Captain: To the Klingon home world.
Ensign: But that's 20 light years away, it'll take us 40 years just to get there!
Captain: You're right Ensign. And we only have 7 years before we're canned. Alright. We'll go to Jupiter station.
Ensign: Oh boy, that'll only take us several months!
Don't think that would have worked somehow.
For those that don't want to shill out $10 (plus shipping and handling) US for a comic they might or might not like (unfortunately the preview didn't really tell you much) here are a bunch of sci-fi comics that don't rely on a fad (and are free too) that you might enjoy:
* Storm Corps
* A Miracle of Science
* Kismet: Hunter's Moon
* Mozhaets
* Nine Planets Without Intelligent Life (WARNING: Humour)
* Twilight Agency
* Freefall (WARNING: Humour! But it is hard sci-fi. Confused how humour could mix with hard sci-fi? Read it and find out).
* Where Am I Now?
It's called a Manga because typically manga (as in, comics from japan) have had a very different art style to western comics. The art style has become popular in America, but to differentiate it from "Superman XXX after death in the second earth, retconned 50x", they call it a manga. So far there has been no word for comics drawn in the japanese art style outside of japan that has gained wide-usage to replace the misuse of manga. People drawing in the style of manga want to ensure that they aren't confused with the super hero rubbish that permetes America.
Whether you accept it or not, the word comic has become synonymous with superhero comic among the masses (and to a lesser degree, bad superhero comics;)). Do you blame people for attempting to distance themselves from that stigma?
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Am I a thief? yes. but it sits easier with my conscience than paying an industry which shows so readily all the worst tendencies of big business
I personally don't believe you and do strongly believe that you would come up with another justification to be a thief if the RIAA stopped suing people tomorrow. I don't know you, but I have this opinion of all thieves. Could you be different? Sure. But I simply don't believe you, and won't no matter what.
If you stopped stealing their content AND buying their content, I would applaud you for your morality. The RIAA doesn't own all music out there, go look for indie stuff, I'm sure you'll be surprised by what you find.
At the moment all you are is a thief with (IMO) a piss-weak justification.
I've always thought that it was the height of human arrogance to presume that life on other worlds would be recognizable to us as "life" at all.
No, I'd say it's optimism, not arrogance, that lets us hope that we will be able to recognize life on other worlds. Because if we can't recognize it, well for us, it might as well not exist. It would be great if there was life completely unlike we know it on another body (whether it be moon, jupiter or mars) and we did recognize it. That would be earth-shattering. But if we didn't recognize it, that isn't something I'm as interested in. Simply because even if I am interested in it, I'll never be able to know if it exists or not.
whether or not Mars could have supported its abiogenesis and subsequent evolution.
I think the question should be whether or not Mars DID support its abiogenesis and subsequent evolution. Sure whether or not it COULD have is interesting, but whether or not it did is much more interesting.
Obviously Microsoft realized that the public weren't ready to be shafted by single-play DVDs after the article was printed, so they cancelled development and had someone post a "blog" entry saying "haha. It was all a joke. Don't pay attention to the man behind the curtain."
Of course I still believe in the ripping CDs myself method.
Which means breaking the law if you buy DRM'd music (unless your one of those lucky sods who gets to live in a country without the DMC-fucking-A). I don't know if that little bit of plastic is worth that much.
Without DRM how could the content creators determine whether you were giving a copy to a person who had paid their license fee, or one who hadn't?
Same way they did for all those years that DRM didn't exist for.
Companies do NOT need DRM to be able to make a profit (and if they do need DRM, then they're doing something dreadfully wrong all of a sudden as many companies out there don't need it and are able to make profits). The idea that they do need DRM is pure nonesense fostered by the companies in their greed for greater profits. Whether or not they actually reach these greater profits as a result of DRM is questionable.
Having said that, yes I do buy DRM'd content. I buy DVDs, console games and e-books. All of which have DRM. I see if a product meets my needs, and if it does I buy it. If it doesn't, I don't buy it (and too bad if I liked the content).
Dr Marshall proved that H. pylori caused gastic inflammation by deliberately infecting himself with the bacterium.
Yeah, yeah. I'm sure he was trying to find the cause of ulcers. Pffft. Why doesn't he just admit it. He wanted to become a super-hero so he infected himself. He forgot one important step. The bacteria was supposed to be radioactive first!
Way to go at taking away any responsibility on the politicians part. I'm not saying you don't have a point, but the way your post is worded it's like the politicians aren't to blame at all, and it's all the fault of the ignorant voters.
Oh it's not the politician's fault for lying. It's the fault of the people for believing him.
I'm not saying you don't have a point, what I'm saying is politicians are partly responsible (I'd say the greater part myself).
I can just imagine it now. Little Billy is writing his assignment the night before it's due, and his internet drops out. He tries to reconnect. No good. He fails his assignment.
Thanks, but with how untrustworthy my internet connection is (it stays up for about 90% of the time, but it seems the more I need the internet connection the more likely it is for the internet to drop out) I'll stick with my computer (which fails enough as it is).
when Gmail launched last year offering a gigabyte of space, that was a really big deal. People were used to having to delete their e-mail every so often; now, they didn't have to.
Right. Fast forward 1 year now, and it's not big news. Anyone who wants a decent size to their e-mail has one. 5MB and 30GB might be a big difference, but no-one is being forced to use 5MB, anyone that wants more is getting more.
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Using a foreign language name is a marketing tool that I do not like.
Yeah, that's what I said, only with a negative bent on it. This is done as a way to avoid confusion with those superhero American comics. Someone who won't even look a superhero comic, might be more inclined to look at a "graphical novel" or "manga." You don't like it? That's fine. I on the other hand won't pick up "superhero v23.1 saves the day again" and the word manga allow me a large selection of comics that aren't the superhero garbage.
Even worse, this is often done in a way that pays no respect to the language being exploited.
Riiiiiiiiight. I'm sure the language is very embarrassed and ashamed to have been exploited in this way. I'm sure slashdot will send the Japanese language (not the people that speak it, but the language itself) an apology.
Odd. It seems you have to read this manga from left to right (and top to bottom) .. not right to left as in most mangas.
This is because most manga's are created in Japan. Not America. "English manga's" (which I'll just call manga's even though they might not deserve that name) should be left to right, as they're audience are people in English speaking countries, which have the left to right feature in their written language.
The only time a manga created outside of Japan should read right to left is when they've been translated from Japanese, or they're being marketed towards an audience whose language is written right to left (in which case it should be written in that language, and not English).
If you do create a "manga" do not bring over the Japanese custom of having the panels read right to left. This is a bad imitation and amateurish, and only raises a barrier to your potential audience. NASA did the right thing with it's comic being left to right.
It's what Enterprise *should* have been.
That would have been exciting. "Going where no man has gone before."
Ensign: So where are we going Captain?
Captain: To the Klingon home world.
Ensign: But that's 20 light years away, it'll take us 40 years just to get there!
Captain: You're right Ensign. And we only have 7 years before we're canned. Alright. We'll go to Jupiter station.
Ensign: Oh boy, that'll only take us several months!
Don't think that would have worked somehow.
For those that don't want to shill out $10 (plus shipping and handling) US for a comic they might or might not like (unfortunately the preview didn't really tell you much) here are a bunch of sci-fi comics that don't rely on a fad (and are free too) that you might enjoy:
* Storm Corps
* A Miracle of Science
* Kismet: Hunter's Moon
* Mozhaets
* Nine Planets Without Intelligent Life (WARNING: Humour)
* Twilight Agency
* Freefall (WARNING: Humour! But it is hard sci-fi. Confused how humour could mix with hard sci-fi? Read it and find out).
* Where Am I Now?
It's called a Manga because typically manga (as in, comics from japan) have had a very different art style to western comics. The art style has become popular in America, but to differentiate it from "Superman XXX after death in the second earth, retconned 50x", they call it a manga. So far there has been no word for comics drawn in the japanese art style outside of japan that has gained wide-usage to replace the misuse of manga. People drawing in the style of manga want to ensure that they aren't confused with the super hero rubbish that permetes America.
;)). Do you blame people for attempting to distance themselves from that stigma?
Whether you accept it or not, the word comic has become synonymous with superhero comic among the masses (and to a lesser degree, bad superhero comics
Am I a thief? yes. but it sits easier with my conscience than paying an industry which shows so readily all the worst tendencies of big business
I personally don't believe you and do strongly believe that you would come up with another justification to be a thief if the RIAA stopped suing people tomorrow. I don't know you, but I have this opinion of all thieves. Could you be different? Sure. But I simply don't believe you, and won't no matter what.
If you stopped stealing their content AND buying their content, I would applaud you for your morality. The RIAA doesn't own all music out there, go look for indie stuff, I'm sure you'll be surprised by what you find.
At the moment all you are is a thief with (IMO) a piss-weak justification.
I've always thought that it was the height of human arrogance to presume that life on other worlds would be recognizable to us as "life" at all.
No, I'd say it's optimism, not arrogance, that lets us hope that we will be able to recognize life on other worlds. Because if we can't recognize it, well for us, it might as well not exist. It would be great if there was life completely unlike we know it on another body (whether it be moon, jupiter or mars) and we did recognize it. That would be earth-shattering. But if we didn't recognize it, that isn't something I'm as interested in. Simply because even if I am interested in it, I'll never be able to know if it exists or not.
I'm waiting until they find life in Uranus!!
Well they won't find any in my anus. But I've heard they'll find plenty of diseases in yours.
whether or not Mars could have supported its abiogenesis and subsequent evolution.
I think the question should be whether or not Mars DID support its abiogenesis and subsequent evolution. Sure whether or not it COULD have is interesting, but whether or not it did is much more interesting.
Can you seriously
No, I can't. I was joking. Instead it looks like I got some mods who had their sense of humour surgically removed.
Obviously Microsoft realized that the public weren't ready to be shafted by single-play DVDs after the article was printed, so they cancelled development and had someone post a "blog" entry saying "haha. It was all a joke. Don't pay attention to the man behind the curtain."
I'm surprised they don't do this more often.
That's why I only install stuff like this at school.
Of course I still believe in the ripping CDs myself method.
Which means breaking the law if you buy DRM'd music (unless your one of those lucky sods who gets to live in a country without the DMC-fucking-A). I don't know if that little bit of plastic is worth that much.
Without DRM how could the content creators determine whether you were giving a copy to a person who had paid their license fee, or one who hadn't?
Same way they did for all those years that DRM didn't exist for.
Companies do NOT need DRM to be able to make a profit (and if they do need DRM, then they're doing something dreadfully wrong all of a sudden as many companies out there don't need it and are able to make profits). The idea that they do need DRM is pure nonesense fostered by the companies in their greed for greater profits. Whether or not they actually reach these greater profits as a result of DRM is questionable.
Having said that, yes I do buy DRM'd content. I buy DVDs, console games and e-books. All of which have DRM. I see if a product meets my needs, and if it does I buy it. If it doesn't, I don't buy it (and too bad if I liked the content).
Dr Marshall proved that H. pylori caused gastic inflammation by deliberately infecting himself with the bacterium.
Yeah, yeah. I'm sure he was trying to find the cause of ulcers. Pffft. Why doesn't he just admit it. He wanted to become a super-hero so he infected himself. He forgot one important step. The bacteria was supposed to be radioactive first!
Their research has shown that the majority of ulcers are caused by bacteria and can be cured with a short-term course of drugs and antibiotics.
How stringent are the doctors in testing if you have an ulcer or not before handing out the drugs?
Kid: Wewwy Robot: No, it's worry. Kid: disk Robot: No, it's dicks. Kid: Hex Robot: No, it's sexual intercourse.
Thanks to 40 years of relentless Liberal social policy have absolved parents of responsbilit
Really? Because I'm pretty sure parents are getting sued for their kids downloading music.
Way to go at taking away any responsibility on the politicians part. I'm not saying you don't have a point, but the way your post is worded it's like the politicians aren't to blame at all, and it's all the fault of the ignorant voters.
Oh it's not the politician's fault for lying. It's the fault of the people for believing him.
I'm not saying you don't have a point, what I'm saying is politicians are partly responsible (I'd say the greater part myself).
I can just imagine it now. Little Billy is writing his assignment the night before it's due, and his internet drops out. He tries to reconnect. No good. He fails his assignment. Thanks, but with how untrustworthy my internet connection is (it stays up for about 90% of the time, but it seems the more I need the internet connection the more likely it is for the internet to drop out) I'll stick with my computer (which fails enough as it is).
This guy seems like more of a Mad Scientist than an inventor to me.
Pfft. They're just copying Yahoo.
Wait, you've just criticized Windows, Gnome, KDE and OS X. Just what the fuck DO you use?
As a web developer I can say that I would never promise not to read any data stored on my machines.
And as a web user I can promise I will never use anything you helped develop.
when Gmail launched last year offering a gigabyte of space, that was a really big deal. People were used to having to delete their e-mail every so often; now, they didn't have to.
Right. Fast forward 1 year now, and it's not big news. Anyone who wants a decent size to their e-mail has one. 5MB and 30GB might be a big difference, but no-one is being forced to use 5MB, anyone that wants more is getting more.
Yeh, Office has a brilliant interface. Makes me want to kill myself.
It's good enough for OSS to copy (Open Office).
Outlook. That's a horrible mail program.
Once again, good enough for OSS to copy (Thunderbird).