Implement the "pay-per-download" scheme on fansubs. In other words, LICENSE the anime (as non-exclusive) to fansubs, asking for a specific donation per download.
It works for the music industry. Why not anime? The difference would be that, instead of doing business with rich men, they'd be doing business with their fanbase.
It would be like a TV episode *IF* these fansubbers weren't sticking them on bittorrent and letting thousands upon thousands of people download them.
Thousands of people from other countries with LITERALLY NO ACCESS to the series in question.
At least you should do a little research and stop bashing something you have no F'ing idea what it's about. Tell me. How much money do the japanese companies lose, if a person sees their anime in a country that they wouldn't sell to, anyway?
I have an anime friend from the Filipines, another from Guatemala. And I live in Mexico. The very scarse Anime DVD's are twice as expensive (in dollars) than DVD's bought in the US. Not to mention the extremely high price the dollar has around. Let's say an anime DVD costs you $60 bucks. Well, here it costs about $120. Take the money parity, and it would be about $360. ONE DVD.
And that's in the BIG CITIES of Mexico. Outside them, the _ONLY_ way to have access to Anime is thru satellite TV or thru downloaded fansubs.
I hate the ignorance of americans like you, who keep thinking that your country englobes all the world, and anything beyond your borders is some fuzzy grey area. Hellooooo, the internet is not only about the U.S.!
I don't know which country is more isolated from the world. Japan, with the language barrier, or the U.S., with the cultural and censorship barrier.
I've been watching anime since about 10 years ago. Before the internet era, all we could do was renting some limited anime at very specialized stores. It's very scarse. We would meet and gather money to rent (or even buy) one.
However, with the internet, we've been able to know the most recent japanese releases. Of shows that would take 3 or even more years to be officially released in the US.
Please allow me to ask this question: What use is making a perfectly legal show if nobody outside your country is going to see it? Where will you get the reviews, if people won't understand a thing of what's being said? Who will buy your series? But most important, did you plan to earn money thru exportation of the series you're producing?
Maybe you don't want to accept it, but in a certain sense, you owe us. Both the fans and the fansubbers. We're otakus, too. We respect you and appreciate your wonderful work. But please, don't take away from us this thing that we love so much... if you do, the direct consequence is that we'll have to stop watching anime (not because we don't want it, but because we won't be able to see it at all) and stay with the mainstream imports that are no good.
Anime is not widely distributed in other countries apart from the US - like in Latin America. You can see there only the most popular shows like Pokèmon, or Yu Gi Oh. These shows are garbage to the true Otakus. We want the good shows, like Evangelion, Saber Marionette, Cowboy Bebop, Detective Academy... most of us wouldn't have even heard of them if it wasn't for the fansubs.
There is another thing to consider. The "popular" shows that go on open TV usually have more than 100 episodes, and are transmitted daily. But the small shows that have an average of 25 episodes, have very little chance of appearing in open TV. What to say of OVA's? 8, 6, even 3 chapters?
In Mexico the common idea of Anime is a lot of guys fighting with superpowers. That's their idea because that's what they've seen of Anime. Here there are many people with very limited resources. We barely have money for cable TV, much less for satellite TV where the specialized anime channels are.
"When water falls from the sky, you say it's ______".
Make the words digitized, you can even distort them a little, but the answer is _NOT_ displayed. Besides an image recognition system, you'd also need a powerful AI engine (like a superloaded expert system).
I remember hearing about verbal tests somewhere, but I can't recall where.
AFL - Academic Free License (replaces Apache, BSD, and MIT)
Mutual Termination for Patent Action. This License shall terminate automatically and You may no longer exercise any of the rights granted to You by this License if You file a lawsuit in any court alleging that any OSI Certified open source software that is licensed under any license containing this "Mutual Termination for Patent Action" clause infringes any patent claims that are essential to use that software.
It's also covered in the "Open Software License v. 1.1" (akin to GPL).
The CPL is an interesting choice. It requires that the licensee share and distribute any modifications to the licensed Open Source code. On the other hand, it is non-viral in that does not require that a larger derivative work that incorporates this modified Open Source code also be distributed as Open Source. In these respects, it is like the LGPL. In my opinion, the main flaw with the CPL is that it may be modified at any time by IBM and all source code released under earlier versions of the CPL would be affected by the change. For this reason, I have abandoned the CPL in favor of the AFL.
The finding seems to be about the difference between thumbs and fingers, and the fact that thumbs are not designed to be tapping away for prolonged period.
Was *ANY* part of the hand designed to be tapping for prolonged periods? AFAIK "tapping" hasn't been involved in evolution - unless we see fossils of primates and primitive keyboards in archaeological studies.
I'm 28yo, and have been using computers since I was 8. I can't use the keyboard for much time without feeling pain in my fingers, and my mouse has really screwed up my right index finger. Even writing something on paper gets my hand exhausted. Had people known about this 20 years ago...
and they *really* don't give a flying shit about using warezed copies of Windows in their labs, and no one ever has complained/charged/arrested/whatever.
It's exactly the same in Mexico. But frankly, with $100, $200 or even higher costs of licensing Windows PER COMPUTER, I can't blame them. Microsoft should stop this "Windows starter edition" bu115h!7 and give much lower license fees to developing countries. Like for example, $25 for Home, and $30 for pro. Per household in homes, per computer in enterprises.
Do you guys really think that people who are starving, without jobs, AND paying with their taxes the external country debts, STILL have the resources to give some Redmond millionaire a great part of their income, just not to get arrested for piracy?
This is the TRUE risk of a monopoly like Microsoft: It widens the breach between the rich and the poor.
You're forgetting something. IF the shourd was imprinted miraculously, perhaps God thought about that detail already. Had He not imprinted the shroud orthogonally, maybe all that people could see was just a distorted face of somebody, but not Jesus'. So much for a miracle, huh?
Also, I'd like to say that the fire could have altered the carbon-14 test. To add more wood to the fire, I'd remind the readers that science is fallible (soon new facts disprove earlier theories). But extremist atheist used that to say: "Ah, see! Science proves that Jesus didn't exist" or something.
Kids are NOT responsible for their actions, that's why they can't vote.
Oh, but kids LOVE being nasty and NOT being punished, don't they?
A couple of spanks at an early age might have been MUCH more effective than a couple of years at 16. BTW, what's his excuse now? "Bill Gates made me do it"?
Well maybe you're right. Kids aren't FULLY responsible for their actions... parents are (ouch).
Also, you can specify classes more than once in a stylesheet. I use this to separate my stylesheets in two: Operational (margins, positioning width, etc), and Presentational (color, border styles).
Just link both stylesheets in your html header section. Perhaps if you read the CSS specs at the w3c you might find some pleasant surprises:)
Free? What about the time factor?
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Not sure who would plonk down good money when so many thorough tutorials are online.
When you need to get things done FAST, and learn while not in front of your computer monitor, or maybe even have a quickreference handy, you need to buy books. Hey, what if suddenly your internet connection drops?
I'm a customer of Sitepoint (the company that published the book), and I purchased the "build your own... website using PHP and MySQL". I keep it always handy on my job desk.
Also, having a manual handy (either printed or downloaded, such as the PHP reference) saves you lots of trouble. I've talked with many people who just use the online PHP manual, and they keep asking me stupid questions they could have answered themselves had they downloaded the reference in CHM format.
Never forget that time is money, and learning online "for free" might cost you lots of hours that you could have well spent designing a website and getting paid.
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The figure shows that SPAM increasing rate was more or less the same before and after the CAN-SPAM law.
Ok, in plain text: It didn't accelerate SPAM. It just didn't do anything to stop it.
Implement the "pay-per-download" scheme on fansubs. In other words, LICENSE the anime (as non-exclusive) to fansubs, asking for a specific donation per download.
It works for the music industry. Why not anime? The difference would be that, instead of doing business with rich men, they'd be doing business with their fanbase.
It would be like a TV episode *IF* these fansubbers weren't sticking them on bittorrent and letting thousands upon thousands of people download them.
Thousands of people from other countries with LITERALLY NO ACCESS to the series in question.
At least you should do a little research and stop bashing something you have no F'ing idea what it's about. Tell me. How much money do the japanese companies lose, if a person sees their anime in a country that they wouldn't sell to, anyway?
I have an anime friend from the Filipines, another from Guatemala. And I live in Mexico. The very scarse Anime DVD's are twice as expensive (in dollars) than DVD's bought in the US. Not to mention the extremely high price the dollar has around. Let's say an anime DVD costs you $60 bucks. Well, here it costs about $120. Take the money parity, and it would be about $360. ONE DVD.
And that's in the BIG CITIES of Mexico. Outside them, the _ONLY_ way to have access to Anime is thru satellite TV or thru downloaded fansubs.
I hate the ignorance of americans like you, who keep thinking that your country englobes all the world, and anything beyond your borders is some fuzzy grey area. Hellooooo, the internet is not only about the U.S.!
I don't know which country is more isolated from the world. Japan, with the language barrier, or the U.S., with the cultural and censorship barrier.
Dear Japanese Anime companies:
I've been watching anime since about 10 years ago. Before the internet era, all we could do was renting some limited anime at very specialized stores. It's very scarse. We would meet and gather money to rent (or even buy) one.
However, with the internet, we've been able to know the most recent japanese releases. Of shows that would take 3 or even more years to be officially released in the US.
Please allow me to ask this question: What use is making a perfectly legal show if nobody outside your country is going to see it? Where will you get the reviews, if people won't understand a thing of what's being said? Who will buy your series? But most important, did you plan to earn money thru exportation of the series you're producing?
Maybe you don't want to accept it, but in a certain sense, you owe us. Both the fans and the fansubbers. We're otakus, too. We respect you and appreciate your wonderful work. But please, don't take away from us this thing that we love so much... if you do, the direct consequence is that we'll have to stop watching anime (not because we don't want it, but because we won't be able to see it at all) and stay with the mainstream imports that are no good.
Anime is not widely distributed in other countries apart from the US - like in Latin America. You can see there only the most popular shows like Pokèmon, or Yu Gi Oh. These shows are garbage to the true Otakus. We want the good shows, like Evangelion, Saber Marionette, Cowboy Bebop, Detective Academy... most of us wouldn't have even heard of them if it wasn't for the fansubs.
There is another thing to consider. The "popular" shows that go on open TV usually have more than 100 episodes, and are transmitted daily. But the small shows that have an average of 25 episodes, have very little chance of appearing in open TV. What to say of OVA's? 8, 6, even 3 chapters?
In Mexico the common idea of Anime is a lot of guys fighting with superpowers. That's their idea because that's what they've seen of Anime. Here there are many people with very limited resources. We barely have money for cable TV, much less for satellite TV where the specialized anime channels are.
Please. Don't kill the worldwide Anime community.
Sincerely,
your fans.
"When water falls from the sky, you say it's ______".
Make the words digitized, you can even distort them a little, but the answer is _NOT_ displayed. Besides an image recognition system, you'd also need a powerful AI engine (like a superloaded expert system).
I remember hearing about verbal tests somewhere, but I can't recall where.
http://www.croftsoft.com/library/tutorials/openso
AFL - Academic Free License (replaces Apache, BSD, and MIT)
Mutual Termination for Patent Action. This License shall terminate automatically and You may no longer exercise any of the rights granted to You by this License if You file a lawsuit in any court alleging that any OSI Certified open source software that is licensed under any license containing this "Mutual Termination for Patent Action" clause infringes any patent claims that are essential to use that software.
It's also covered in the "Open Software License
v. 1.1" (akin to GPL).
The "Common Public License Version 1.0" deals a lot with patents, but I couldn't understand a thing
Try this time with quotes.
:)
Results 1 - 23 of 23 for "which distribution of linux should i use". (0.06 seconds).
There ya go.
The finding seems to be about the difference between thumbs and fingers, and the fact that thumbs are not designed to be tapping away for prolonged period.
Was *ANY* part of the hand designed to be tapping for prolonged periods? AFAIK "tapping" hasn't been involved in evolution - unless we see fossils of primates and primitive keyboards in archaeological studies.
I'm 28yo, and have been using computers since I was 8. I can't use the keyboard for much time without feeling pain in my fingers, and my mouse has really screwed up my right index finger.
Even writing something on paper gets my hand exhausted. Had people known about this 20 years ago...
Private : Sir! I found this, it may be a clue. Should I consult the field manual to cryptopgraphy?
Sargeant: "histay siay aay ecretay essagemay"? Yes, private. Consult the manual. Obviously this is beyond our capabilities.
M$ must be laughing...!
MS should thank these guys for turning off Windows before a possible public blue screen scenario.
and they *really* don't give a flying shit about using warezed copies of Windows in their labs, and no one ever has complained/charged/arrested/whatever.
It's exactly the same in Mexico. But frankly, with $100, $200 or even higher costs of licensing Windows PER COMPUTER, I can't blame them. Microsoft should stop this "Windows starter edition" bu115h!7 and give much lower license fees to developing countries. Like for example, $25 for Home, and $30 for pro. Per household in homes, per computer in enterprises.
Do you guys really think that people who are starving, without jobs, AND paying with their taxes the external country debts, STILL have the resources to give some Redmond millionaire a great part of their income, just not to get arrested for piracy?
This is the TRUE risk of a monopoly like Microsoft: It widens the breach between the rich and the poor.
I remember a D&D board game. You had the little player figures, dice (Neo: LOTS OF DICE), and the fun part, a Dungeon Master :)
I don't know, but this sounds like your typical board-playable RPG.
As an off-topic side note, I also remember the Spy vs Spy board game, we had lots of fun with that one (not that it's related, just a thought)
That sounds pretty much like "cooking for engineers".
what about the BINARY formats? ;-)
What's the matter, MS? Chicken?
You're forgetting something. IF the shourd was imprinted miraculously, perhaps God thought about that detail already. Had He not imprinted the shroud orthogonally, maybe all that people could see was just a distorted face of somebody, but not Jesus'. So much for a miracle, huh?
Informative.
Also, I'd like to say that the fire could have altered the carbon-14 test. To add more wood to the fire, I'd remind the readers that science is fallible (soon new facts disprove earlier theories). But extremist atheist used that to say: "Ah, see! Science proves that Jesus didn't exist" or something.
The rhesus macaque monkeys...
Weren't these the ones with HIV immunity?
that Darwin was right?
Kids are NOT responsible for their actions, that's why they can't vote.
Oh, but kids LOVE being nasty and NOT being punished, don't they?
A couple of spanks at an early age might have been MUCH more effective than a couple of years at 16. BTW, what's his excuse now? "Bill Gates made me do it"?
Well maybe you're right. Kids aren't FULLY responsible for their actions... parents are (ouch).
The project site is: http://www.hymn-project.org/jhymndoc/ It has already been slashdotted.
As predicted by the RIAA agents. Well done, boys! *evil chuckle*
With...
:)
color: blue {a.blue, span.blue, div#back}
You got it backwards.
a.blue,span.blue,div#back { color:blue }
Also, you can specify classes more than once in a stylesheet. I use this to separate my stylesheets in two: Operational (margins, positioning width, etc), and Presentational (color, border styles).
For example:
STYLESHEET A
#whatever, #somethingelse { border:1px solid; width:35%; }
STYLESHEET B
#whatever { border-color:#f00;border-style:ridge; }
#somethingelse { border-color:#0f0;border-style:outset; background-color:#fff; }
Just link both stylesheets in your html header section. Perhaps if you read the CSS specs at the w3c you might find some pleasant surprises
Not sure who would plonk down good money when so many thorough tutorials are online.
When you need to get things done FAST, and learn while not in front of your computer monitor, or maybe even have a quickreference handy, you need to buy books. Hey, what if suddenly your internet connection drops?
I'm a customer of Sitepoint (the company that published the book), and I purchased the "build your own... website using PHP and MySQL". I keep it always handy on my job desk.
Also, having a manual handy (either printed or downloaded, such as the PHP reference) saves you lots of trouble. I've talked with many people who just use the online PHP manual, and they keep asking me stupid questions they could have answered themselves had they downloaded the reference in CHM format.
Never forget that time is money, and learning online "for free" might cost you lots of hours that you could have well spent designing a website and getting paid.
I wonder what silicon they smoke
;-)
It's called "free time". Envious?
Look at all the banner ads and popups in webpages. Those pay-per-click advertisements.
.com bubble, and i predict there will be the pay-per-click bubble, too.
People in these online businesses still have no freaking idea of how the web works.. the heck! how a business works!
They failed in the
I thought it said "MPAA Releases Software for Patents". Eek!