Of course, China may just want to avoid a tragedy similar to the recent South Korean man's death covered on Slashdot.
Hawaii has decided to cut down all coconut trees to prevent people dying from a coconut blow to the head. (there are more deaths per year by coconut then by sharks and gaming together)
I guess you want "adult" rehash ports over Fun original "kiddy" games.
Seriously, the DS games are outselling PSP hand over fist, Sony really needs to bring out some good release gunes...and if one of them falters (ex: GTA) it won't be pretty.
Amazon has only 1 PSP game in its top 100 (5+ DS several in top 10) Ebgames top 4 list was destroyed by only DS games (nintendogs + Advance Wars)
You are really doing yourself a disservice assuming games that don't fit your image are unworthy...your missing a lot of fun doing it.
Isn't the whole point of releasing it now that it CAN compete with other standards and maybe if its better enough (or more popular enough) it can still win?
I beleive if they waited for the future to be clearer there could already BE a new standard and they would have lost.
Just because you didn't like the new style given to your precious pixels doesn't make it a bad game. You are letting nostalgia cloud your memeory.
FF10 has one of the better skill impliments of ANY FF. (allowing customization, certain skills only optainable after story, yet at the same time everyone has a role to begin with and it is your decision if you want to diviate from that role.)
FF7 had a good story, actually CHALLENGING sidequests, and a good mix of tech/fantasy.
FF1-6 are not really better, Hell some of them are honestly worse!
1,3, and 5 have EXTREMELY weak stories.
5's is so bad its Job system was honestly the one of the only redeamable features of the entire game It was a HORRIBLE TRAVESTY this game came between 4 and 6.
2 has a HORRIBLE skill/battle system. It is a nightmare of a design. AVERAGE players MUST cheat it if they even want to survive!
4 was practically perfect, yet horribly edited, moreso than just about any other FF, in more than one case the bad translation left the player confused or completely changed story elements.
6 was practically perfect...yet buggy. How buggy? don't use Relm or you'll often enough crash your game. Setzer could also crash it if you stacked enough battle actions after a gamble (easy done if on haste) Some of the story elements were a nightmare to actually open up on your own. (IE Shadow Inn scenes) I really have a problem with saying FF6 was great yet dissing FF10. Both have the same basic story and honestly FF10 does it better overall, while FF6 has a better villian. everything else is just the pixel art vs 3d.
I'm one of those people who gets "huffy" because honestly if I buy anything newer...there is a good chance there isn't a driver yet for it unless an older driver runs it
One of the other things I got really huffy is honestly things aren't always where you expect them to be, many things driver lvl options that can be done via GUI in OSX and Win are quite the beast in Linux becuase many expect you to use the CLI instead and don't focus on the gui like they should.
In fact that is Linux's biggest problem. Linux needs to be designed and tested by people who are told they can NEVER use the CLI "." CLI is forbidden, it is for an additional complimenting input and never the primary method. No avg OSX user or Win user starts out going CLI for a feature, they start going GUI.
#1 Assumes he knows japanese better than someone who is a paid translator. Seems to blow off research thinking just because he has a fair amount of knowledge it allows him to critisize professionals.
#2 Assumes he knows more about Audio Video compressing than a professional...Thinks "bigger is better" with filesize.
#3 Thinks no one listens to dubs... Forgets old and recent history of split releases...and the ten-fold difference in sales.
#4 Blames problems on hated commercial target instead of where they belong. Typically acts like it was "done on purpose", just to "screw with him"
#1 Ask Funimation about Dec Conan... Answer: They were told "change its name or we sue"
Don't believe me? Email them yourself. They have always been VERY frank with the fans of the series about every chance with that show.
Not to mention I've "never" understood why some people claim fansubs are actually accurate...good god they are not...A few groups maybe but the majority cut so many corners to be the "first" its rediculous...And no, I'm not just taking about the HK bootleg crap.
(Great ex: Kenshin was one of the WORST and I mean WORST fansubs ever done by MANY communities...few even bothered to do half ass research into getting some rather important aspects right...Funniest thing was Media Blasters got ribbed HARD for not using many of the fansubbers mistakes -_- )
Remember above all else the number one rule in anime is: Nobody but NOBODY screws up anime more than the japanese... (* most owners/creators are personally responsible for most of the crap that happens to some series. Fans just assumed it was the US copany that had $.$ instead of the owner/creator)
By bastardizing it...
There is no other way...
The entirety of the process has been designed to prevent any way of blocking access. You no longer need: The tracker, dedicated server access.
Hell they are trying to remove the need for the seed! (see recent search engines)
Fansubs now fall under the (in this case bad) wording of the "Family Entertainment and Copyright Act"
Basically by releaseing Anime in another region it has not yet been released/licensed in it is now considered a "pre-release" and punishable by a sentence of up to three years in jail.
The VERY important part is the owner of the license does NOT even have to file the complaint...its now criminal offense, not your ordinary copyright infringement of civil court.
This is a emo drama timebomb waiting to explode I swear -_-
Seriously These guys aren't making millions... I KNOW VIDEO GAME VOICE ACTORS... not one of them pulls even a "normal" 30k salary based off their Voice work. Most of them get a few good day or two jobs a year.. maybe 10, 1 hour or two sessions.
So that ends the "they are making more than the programmers" arguement. Even these changes will not change that.
Next arguement "They will have to hire less programmers...skimp in other places...etc"
You have no frigging CLUE what you are talking about...
Risiduals are NOT repeat NOT repeat NOT Royalties...
Risiduals ONLY happen AFTER profitability AND a certain number of units (x) is sold. The estimates were last year only 30 titles would have been effected...that places X at WELL OVER 500,000 units (12 did over 1million sales, ~50 did over 500k sales) There is no way residuals would effect the coding talent able to work a game as all the coders would have to be paid AND recieve any bonuses THEY make FIRST before residuals would kick in.
Next up: Why do they deserve it and not "insert job here"?
Have you ever considered that once one group gets it the others will have that much more leverage to get such treatment...it has to start somewhere or management just gets to excuse it off saying "we dont' do that for everyone else why should we do it for you" instead of having workers say "we demand more because you pay --- more and we are just as good"
Seriously
These guys aren't making millions...I KNOW VIDEO GAME VOICE ACTORS...not one of them pulls even a "normal" 30k salary based off their Voice work. Most of them get a few good day or two jobs a year..maybe 10, 1 hour or two sessions.
so that ends the "they are making more than the programmers" arguement. Even these changes will not change that.
Next arguement
"They will have to hire less programmers...skimp in other places...etc"
You have no frigging CLUE what you are talking about...Risiduals are NOT repeat NOT repeat NOT Royalties...Risiduals ONLY happen AFTER profitability AND a certain number of units (x) is sold. The estimates were last year only 30 titles would have been effected...that places X at WELL OVER 500,000 units (12 did over 1million sales, ~50 did over 500k sales)
There is no way residuals would effect the coding talent able to work a game as all the coders would have to be paid AND recieve any bonuses THEY make FIRST before residuals would kick in.
Next up: Why do they deserve it and not "insert job here"?
Have you ever considered that once one group gets it the others will have that much more leverage to get such treatment...it has to start somewhere or management just gets to excuse it off saying "we dont' do that for everyone else why should we do it for you" instead of having workers say "we demand more because you pay --- more and we are just as good"
Legal Anime Bittorrents no longer exist.
Thanks to the Family Entertainment and Copyright act ALL fansubs would be legally considered "prior to" releases of DVD/Movie content and therefore criminal content punishable by up to 3 years in jail.
Oh and the Copyright holder doesn't have to complain...anyone can since its a criminal offense.
Thank Bush, the MPAA, and everyone who signed that piece of shit legislation.
If you fansub in the US or distrib in the US, and the company who owns the rights for the series in Japan, America or anyone else who America respects copyright wise...
You can get 3 years Jailtime... Even if it was bought AFTER you did this Even if they can't show damages Even if you stopped on first notice.
Seriously...Fansubbing as a practice is going to fall HARD in the next few years when one over zelous fan pisses off the wrong company thinking "fair use" or "they didn't have it when I started" will cover his ass. Once one fan falls, several more will follow suit as US corps try to "impress" their Japanese cohorts as being tough.
Think I'm kidding? Already one japanese studio is sending C&D letters to US fansubbers...and several fansubbers are directly ignoring them...
This house of cards is set to be destoryed soon.
(and its not necessarily something I think will be good for the parties involved...But both have been known to be stupid without thinking -_- )
How do you KNOW Linus was fooled? Wouldn't you have to know irl to make such a broad suggestion?
Maybe just maybe you and Linus do not see eye-to-eye and he knew perfectly well what he was going on.
Really I think many of you are not quite getting McVoy...This is a guy who KNEW VERY WELL the OSS field. He KNEW there would be people as SOON as BitKeeper was even REMOTELY involved with Linux kernal that would want to reverse engineer it simply to get it out of the picture for their "free as in freedom" philosophy. That was the point of his request for a promise to not RE it... someone decided to do it anyway (which they are perfectly legally able to do) and McVoy decided to take away bitkeeper.
Tridgell decided that "his" long-term philosophy was more important for Linux long-term than short term and decided because he legally could he would break a promise he knew very well about.
I really think some of you should really be wary of the politics that surround Linux so much...Anytime ANYONE disagree's with Tridgell's "free as in freedom" movement...there are usually consequences that tear at the community of Linux, hard. Truthfully I believe that one day this might be a deadly liability for Linux.
WHAT!?!? Are there no Farscape fans on /. !?!?!?
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Wormholes Unstable (BBC)
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Not a single John Crichton commment...Just a bunch of DS9/SG1 tripe -_- Where are the REAL nerds at!
Sex Offenders are not always the stalking perverted Jeckle/Hyde's the media makes them out to be.
The last one in my area: Was a 25yr old... Who when he was 18... Had sex... With his now wife... Who was 17 at the time...
OMG HE'S A MICHEAL JACKSON WAITING TO HAPPEN!
(should I even mention that it wouldn't have been illegal in a neighboring state, and it only came to trial because her folks were pissy since they were finacially better off and though he was a jerk for being lower middle class)
Oh look, an INFORMED and EDUCATED post !
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One of the best insights from the outside into this whole mess of Apple vs KHTL I thought was made by Gregory Block:
I just wonder how realistic the KDE guys are being about this, in the back of my head. Qt is a cross-platform UI, sure - but it's no different than any other UI when it comes to the fact that it's embedded all the way through the application.
Is this about Apple modifying KHTML in ways that embed it with Apple UI calls? Is it any different than the KHTML guys embedding Qt in it?
Having seen Netscape's cross-platform troubles from the inside, I can see why my gut reaction is that "cross-UI + cross-platform = total mess", because Nav 4.0's cross-platform stuff was... complicated, to say the least. Littered with #IFDEFs and a complicated build system to make that work, where each team routinely broke the mac build, over and over again.
The fact that Apple has gone so far to build a Qt-alike API in order to keep KHTML in the state that WebCore is in - which the KHTML players seem to feel isn't good enough; isn't close enough to the Qt version - is already a huge gift that, given that past experience at Netscape, I have difficulty seeing as a long-term solution.
So what's the answer? Is Apple expected to build and maintain a full Qt emulation library, or switch to Qt entirely? Is that a reasonable expectation? If it is not a reasonable expectation, is KHTML willing to spend its resources abstracting away its dependency on Qt? And is *that* a reasonable expectation?
Or is Apple meant to do the abstraction, as they're the ones "who require it", and submit that back to the KHTML guys and hope that the dev team finds it acceptable? And if they don't, what happens next? And will all parties be willing to live with the performance problems, if any, that come from inserting that abstraction? Will both sides be willing to live with the resulting limitations that come from the differences between the systems?
Talking about how the two sides 'differ in politics' misses something fundamental - the codebases appear to have fundamentally differing strategies, and I can't help but feel that I'm not actually hearing proposed solutions from the KHTML side - just issues with what's being done.
I can't see how it can be done radically differently without endangering both products, as an outsider. The choice is either to move towards a Mozilla-like platform abstraction, or end up with a Navigator 4 #ifdef-hack.
Sure, maybe there's a middle road, but all I'm hearing from the KHTML team is that they can't run WebCore diffs against their tree and are a little on the cross side about it. What would a diffable WebCore look like, and would the KHTML developers be able to live with the product that inevitably created? KHTML will have to change to meet requirements from the outside, requirements that may well be unacceptable to the KHTML community - and vice-versa; what then?
Especially after what happened to the last Frankenbrowser? Netscape 4 is dead. Netscape 6 (Java) is dead, with its shelf still in the box. Netscape 5, dead. Everything that was left of 4 that wasn't part of the low-level cross-platform or security toolkits used by every other product went the way of the dodo, along with every attempt to build a new Frankenbrowser, aside from Mozilla - and Mozilla is what it is not only because of the decisions it makes about its architecture, but because of its xplat requirements. And I know that Hyatt knows that, because he was the guy who had to fix the browser over, and over, and over, and over again, every time one of the Windows guys checked in a change to Nav that broke the Mac. If I were him, I'd be strapping a rocket on my back to get away from any hint of a mote of an idea of a glimmer of a thought to return to that kind of cesspit of a codebase, and I can't imagine the KHTML developers would want that life for themselves either.
Something tells me that neither side will be willing to sacrifice the one thing that made them stick with KHTML in the first place - the fact that it didn't have all of the cruft that c
Many of you are making faulty assumptions comparing the Japanese and American markets:
#1 Did you know the Japanese productions do not "Break Even" until DVD sales/rentals...THAT is why they are priced so high. TV does not break even on a show...it helps market it for sales/rental so that it will break even later.
1a. This means if you fansub, you are contributing AGAINST a production breaking even. 1b. If you torrent this is even worse as the last tracker I kept stats on over 40% of the traffic was non-US (~30%+ asian)...AKA the very rental/sales market that pays for productions!
#2 Fansub translations are better than commercial.
LOL! I've met the translators they get their material from!...At best they are above average AMATUER translators...many write scripts that are so bad they have to go through the projects english speakers to make sense.
Take this in comparison to professional level translators that run the finish product past the Japanese firm in many cases and have access to the ORIGINAL CREATOR. If there are differences, guess what, alot of the times its on purpose as someone WANTED IT THAT WAY from the Japan firm!
Example: series: FLCL fansub name: FuriKuri. REAL NAME: FoolyCooly Thanks to the R to L slur in Japanese this was told to SynchPoint by the CREATOR, the CREATOR told the fansubbers on more than one instance (at a con) THEY WERE WRONG. (ex: Name: Alice = Arisu or occasionaly Arise)
Never forget the #1 rule in Anime: NOBODY screws up anime more than the Japanese!
Slashdot Mirror
Why right here at slashdot of course
Where you can see them in their natural habbitat.
Oh look
Its "In Soviet Russasouras"
And TriMeth???Profitatops
No NO Timmy its the vicious DUPEPOSTREX! RUN RUNRUN for your Lives!
...Um you can skip the Madagascar thing
I do it all the time...Either menu or chapter skip works.
(No I do not have a hacked player, I have an old un-modded Pioneer 333)
Well then lets move 75% of the US...
Because you realize 75% of the US population lives within Hurricane distance.
Almost our major cities are coastal cities.
Of course, China may just want to avoid a tragedy similar to the recent South Korean man's death covered on Slashdot.
Hawaii has decided to cut down all coconut trees to prevent people dying from a coconut blow to the head. (there are more deaths per year by coconut then by sharks and gaming together)
I guess you want "adult" rehash ports over Fun original "kiddy" games.
Seriously, the DS games are outselling PSP hand over fist, Sony really needs to bring out some good release gunes...and if one of them falters (ex: GTA) it won't be pretty.
Amazon has only 1 PSP game in its top 100
(5+ DS several in top 10)
Ebgames top 4 list was destroyed by only DS games
(nintendogs + Advance Wars)
You are really doing yourself a disservice assuming games that don't fit your image are unworthy...your missing a lot of fun doing it.
as if millions of geeks suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced
There is no enemy, Who are we supposed to be upset at!?!?!
Support OS, Support DRM
Against DRM, Against OS
Isn't the whole point of releasing it now that it CAN compete with other standards and maybe if its better enough (or more popular enough) it can still win?
I beleive if they waited for the future to be clearer there could already BE a new standard and they would have lost.
Sure, if you like the thought that your money is going towards killing people sure...do it.
(Yes allofMP3 is subowned by the Russian mafia. If you don't believe this you than you have no idea how prevalent they are in Russia.)
Just because you didn't like the new style given to your precious pixels doesn't make it a bad game. You are letting nostalgia cloud your memeory.
FF10 has one of the better skill impliments of ANY FF.
(allowing customization, certain skills only optainable after story, yet at the same time everyone has a role to begin with and it is your decision if you want to diviate from that role.)
FF7 had a good story, actually CHALLENGING sidequests, and a good mix of tech/fantasy.
FF1-6 are not really better, Hell some of them are honestly worse!
1,3, and 5 have EXTREMELY weak stories.
5's is so bad its Job system was honestly the one of the only redeamable features of the entire game It was a HORRIBLE TRAVESTY this game came between 4 and 6.
2 has a HORRIBLE skill/battle system. It is a nightmare of a design. AVERAGE players MUST cheat it if they even want to survive!
4 was practically perfect, yet horribly edited, moreso than just about any other FF, in more than one case the bad translation left the player confused or completely changed story elements.
6 was practically perfect...yet buggy. How buggy? don't use Relm or you'll often enough crash your game. Setzer could also crash it if you stacked enough battle actions after a gamble (easy done if on haste) Some of the story elements were a nightmare to actually open up on your own.
(IE Shadow Inn scenes) I really have a problem with saying FF6 was great yet dissing FF10. Both have the same basic story and honestly FF10 does it better overall, while FF6 has a better villian.
everything else is just the pixel art vs 3d.
I'm one of those people who gets "huffy" because honestly if I buy anything newer...there is a good chance there isn't a driver yet for it unless an older driver runs it
One of the other things I got really huffy is honestly things aren't always where you expect them to be, many things driver lvl options that can be done via GUI in OSX and Win are quite the beast in Linux becuase many expect you to use the CLI instead and don't focus on the gui like they should.
In fact that is Linux's biggest problem. Linux needs to be designed and tested by people who are told they can NEVER use the CLI "." CLI is forbidden, it is for an additional complimenting input and never the primary method. No avg OSX user or Win user starts out going CLI for a feature, they start going GUI.
Hasta la Vista, Windows
(yesyesyes I'm a cornball...)
#1 Assumes he knows japanese better than someone who is a paid translator. Seems to blow off research thinking just because he has a fair amount of knowledge it allows him to critisize professionals.
#2 Assumes he knows more about Audio Video compressing than a professional...Thinks "bigger is better" with filesize.
#3 Thinks no one listens to dubs... Forgets old and recent history of split releases...and the ten-fold difference in sales.
#4 Blames problems on hated commercial target instead of where they belong. Typically acts like it was "done on purpose", just to "screw with him"
#5 Seemss shocked even one good title exhists.
#1 Ask Funimation about Dec Conan...
Answer: They were told "change its name or we sue"
Don't believe me? Email them yourself. They have always been VERY frank with the fans of the series about every chance with that show.
Not to mention I've "never" understood why some people claim fansubs are actually accurate...good god they are not...A few groups maybe but the majority cut so many corners to be the "first" its rediculous...And no, I'm not just taking about the HK bootleg crap.
(Great ex: Kenshin was one of the WORST and I mean WORST fansubs ever done by MANY communities...few even bothered to do half ass research into getting some rather important aspects right...Funniest thing was Media Blasters got ribbed HARD for not using many of the fansubbers mistakes -_- )
Remember above all else the number one rule in anime is:
Nobody but NOBODY screws up anime more than the japanese...
(* most owners/creators are personally responsible for most of the crap that happens to some series. Fans just assumed it was the US copany that had $.$ instead of the owner/creator)
By bastardizing it... There is no other way... The entirety of the process has been designed to prevent any way of blocking access. You no longer need: The tracker, dedicated server access. Hell they are trying to remove the need for the seed! (see recent search engines)
Fansubs now fall under the (in this case bad) wording of the "Family Entertainment and Copyright Act"
Basically by releaseing Anime in another region it has not yet been released/licensed in it is now considered a "pre-release" and punishable by a sentence of up to three years in jail.
The VERY important part is the owner of the license does NOT even have to file the complaint...its now criminal offense, not your ordinary copyright infringement of civil court.
This is a emo drama timebomb waiting to explode I swear -_-
fuck my wonderful stupidity...
Here's a properly formatted one:
Seriously These guys aren't making millions...
I KNOW VIDEO GAME VOICE ACTORS... not one of them pulls even a "normal" 30k salary based off their Voice work. Most of them get a few good day or two jobs a year.. maybe 10, 1 hour or two sessions.
So that ends the "they are making more than the programmers" arguement. Even these changes will not change that.
Next arguement "They will have to hire less programmers...skimp in other places...etc"
You have no frigging CLUE what you are talking about...
Risiduals are NOT repeat NOT repeat NOT Royalties...
Risiduals ONLY happen AFTER profitability AND a certain number of units (x) is sold. The estimates were last year only 30 titles would have been effected...that places X at WELL OVER 500,000 units (12 did over 1million sales, ~50 did over 500k sales) There is no way residuals would effect the coding talent able to work a game as all the coders would have to be paid AND recieve any bonuses THEY make FIRST before residuals would kick in.
Next up: Why do they deserve it and not "insert job here"?
Have you ever considered that once one group gets it the others will have that much more leverage to get such treatment...it has to start somewhere or management just gets to excuse it off saying "we dont' do that for everyone else why should we do it for you" instead of having workers say "we demand more because you pay --- more and we are just as good"
Seriously These guys aren't making millions...I KNOW VIDEO GAME VOICE ACTORS...not one of them pulls even a "normal" 30k salary based off their Voice work. Most of them get a few good day or two jobs a year ..maybe 10, 1 hour or two sessions.
so that ends the "they are making more than the programmers" arguement. Even these changes will not change that.
Next arguement
"They will have to hire less programmers...skimp in other places...etc"
You have no frigging CLUE what you are talking about...Risiduals are NOT repeat NOT repeat NOT Royalties...Risiduals ONLY happen AFTER profitability AND a certain number of units (x) is sold. The estimates were last year only 30 titles would have been effected...that places X at WELL OVER 500,000 units (12 did over 1million sales, ~50 did over 500k sales)
There is no way residuals would effect the coding talent able to work a game as all the coders would have to be paid AND recieve any bonuses THEY make FIRST before residuals would kick in.
Next up: Why do they deserve it and not "insert job here"?
Have you ever considered that once one group gets it the others will have that much more leverage to get such treatment...it has to start somewhere or management just gets to excuse it off saying "we dont' do that for everyone else why should we do it for you" instead of having workers say "we demand more because you pay --- more and we are just as good"
Why? Do you REALLY think they even get 10 hours of work most weeks? HA!
Legal Anime Bittorrents no longer exist. Thanks to the Family Entertainment and Copyright act ALL fansubs would be legally considered "prior to" releases of DVD/Movie content and therefore criminal content punishable by up to 3 years in jail. Oh and the Copyright holder doesn't have to complain...anyone can since its a criminal offense. Thank Bush, the MPAA, and everyone who signed that piece of shit legislation.
The problem is now the following:
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If you fansub in the US or distrib in the US, and the company who owns the rights for the series in Japan, America or anyone else who America respects copyright wise...
You can get 3 years Jailtime...
Even if it was bought AFTER you did this
Even if they can't show damages
Even if you stopped on first notice.
Thank the Family Entertainment and Copyright Act
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/04/28/1
Seriously...Fansubbing as a practice is going to fall HARD in the next few years when one over zelous fan pisses off the wrong company thinking "fair use" or "they didn't have it when I started" will cover his ass. Once one fan falls, several more will follow suit as US corps try to "impress" their Japanese cohorts as being tough.
Think I'm kidding? Already one japanese studio is sending C&D letters to US fansubbers...and several fansubbers are directly ignoring them...
This house of cards is set to be destoryed soon.
(and its not necessarily something I think will be good for the parties involved...But both have been known to be stupid without thinking -_- )
How do you KNOW Linus was fooled? Wouldn't you have to know irl to make such a broad suggestion? Maybe just maybe you and Linus do not see eye-to-eye and he knew perfectly well what he was going on. Really I think many of you are not quite getting McVoy...This is a guy who KNEW VERY WELL the OSS field. He KNEW there would be people as SOON as BitKeeper was even REMOTELY involved with Linux kernal that would want to reverse engineer it simply to get it out of the picture for their "free as in freedom" philosophy. That was the point of his request for a promise to not RE it... someone decided to do it anyway (which they are perfectly legally able to do) and McVoy decided to take away bitkeeper. Tridgell decided that "his" long-term philosophy was more important for Linux long-term than short term and decided because he legally could he would break a promise he knew very well about. I really think some of you should really be wary of the politics that surround Linux so much...Anytime ANYONE disagree's with Tridgell's "free as in freedom" movement...there are usually consequences that tear at the community of Linux, hard. Truthfully I believe that one day this might be a deadly liability for Linux.
Not a single John Crichton commment...Just a bunch of DS9/SG1 tripe -_- Where are the REAL nerds at!
Sex Offenders are not always the stalking perverted Jeckle/Hyde's the media makes them out to be.
The last one in my area:
Was a 25yr old...
Who when he was 18...
Had sex...
With his now wife...
Who was 17 at the time...
OMG HE'S A MICHEAL JACKSON WAITING TO HAPPEN!
(should I even mention that it wouldn't have been illegal in a neighboring state, and it only came to trial because her folks were pissy since they were finacially better off and though he was a jerk for being lower middle class)
One of the best insights from the outside into this whole mess of Apple vs KHTL I thought was made by Gregory Block: I just wonder how realistic the KDE guys are being about this, in the back of my head. Qt is a cross-platform UI, sure - but it's no different than any other UI when it comes to the fact that it's embedded all the way through the application. Is this about Apple modifying KHTML in ways that embed it with Apple UI calls? Is it any different than the KHTML guys embedding Qt in it? Having seen Netscape's cross-platform troubles from the inside, I can see why my gut reaction is that "cross-UI + cross-platform = total mess", because Nav 4.0's cross-platform stuff was... complicated, to say the least. Littered with #IFDEFs and a complicated build system to make that work, where each team routinely broke the mac build, over and over again. The fact that Apple has gone so far to build a Qt-alike API in order to keep KHTML in the state that WebCore is in - which the KHTML players seem to feel isn't good enough; isn't close enough to the Qt version - is already a huge gift that, given that past experience at Netscape, I have difficulty seeing as a long-term solution. So what's the answer? Is Apple expected to build and maintain a full Qt emulation library, or switch to Qt entirely? Is that a reasonable expectation? If it is not a reasonable expectation, is KHTML willing to spend its resources abstracting away its dependency on Qt? And is *that* a reasonable expectation? Or is Apple meant to do the abstraction, as they're the ones "who require it", and submit that back to the KHTML guys and hope that the dev team finds it acceptable? And if they don't, what happens next? And will all parties be willing to live with the performance problems, if any, that come from inserting that abstraction? Will both sides be willing to live with the resulting limitations that come from the differences between the systems? Talking about how the two sides 'differ in politics' misses something fundamental - the codebases appear to have fundamentally differing strategies, and I can't help but feel that I'm not actually hearing proposed solutions from the KHTML side - just issues with what's being done. I can't see how it can be done radically differently without endangering both products, as an outsider. The choice is either to move towards a Mozilla-like platform abstraction, or end up with a Navigator 4 #ifdef-hack. Sure, maybe there's a middle road, but all I'm hearing from the KHTML team is that they can't run WebCore diffs against their tree and are a little on the cross side about it. What would a diffable WebCore look like, and would the KHTML developers be able to live with the product that inevitably created? KHTML will have to change to meet requirements from the outside, requirements that may well be unacceptable to the KHTML community - and vice-versa; what then? Especially after what happened to the last Frankenbrowser? Netscape 4 is dead. Netscape 6 (Java) is dead, with its shelf still in the box. Netscape 5, dead. Everything that was left of 4 that wasn't part of the low-level cross-platform or security toolkits used by every other product went the way of the dodo, along with every attempt to build a new Frankenbrowser, aside from Mozilla - and Mozilla is what it is not only because of the decisions it makes about its architecture, but because of its xplat requirements. And I know that Hyatt knows that, because he was the guy who had to fix the browser over, and over, and over, and over again, every time one of the Windows guys checked in a change to Nav that broke the Mac. If I were him, I'd be strapping a rocket on my back to get away from any hint of a mote of an idea of a glimmer of a thought to return to that kind of cesspit of a codebase, and I can't imagine the KHTML developers would want that life for themselves either. Something tells me that neither side will be willing to sacrifice the one thing that made them stick with KHTML in the first place - the fact that it didn't have all of the cruft that c
Many of you are making faulty assumptions comparing the Japanese and American markets:
#1 Did you know the Japanese productions do not "Break Even" until DVD sales/rentals...THAT is why they are priced so high. TV does not break even on a show...it helps market it for sales/rental so that it will break even later.
1a. This means if you fansub, you are contributing AGAINST a production breaking even.
1b. If you torrent this is even worse as the last tracker I kept stats on over 40% of the traffic was non-US (~30%+ asian)...AKA the very rental/sales market that pays for productions!
#2 Fansub translations are better than commercial.
LOL! I've met the translators they get their material from!...At best they are above average AMATUER translators...many write scripts that are so bad they have to go through the projects english speakers to make sense.
Take this in comparison to professional level translators that run the finish product past the Japanese firm in many cases and have access to the ORIGINAL CREATOR. If there are differences, guess what, alot of the times its on purpose as someone WANTED IT THAT WAY from the Japan firm!
Example: series: FLCL fansub name: FuriKuri. REAL NAME: FoolyCooly Thanks to the R to L slur in Japanese this was told to SynchPoint by the CREATOR, the CREATOR told the fansubbers on more than one instance (at a con) THEY WERE WRONG. (ex: Name: Alice = Arisu or occasionaly Arise)
Never forget the #1 rule in Anime:
NOBODY screws up anime more than the Japanese!