No, also not true. Several Japanese production companies have sent cease&desists, polite emails or their directors have spoken out against it at conventions and in interviews.
i may have exaggerated a bit by using the word "never", but companies have also came out and spoke out at conventions thanking the fansubber community for bringing interest for particular series globally. and most of the time, companies either don't care or actually support fansubbing.
And this explains why ADV is cutting staff, titles and losing money. Licensing everything on the planet, bankrolling the production of new series themselves - which then turn out to be complete bombs.
there can be a lot of reasons for this. ADV provides sub-quality dubs and translations and people would actually rather buy the RAWs from Japan than to purchase ADV DVDs. ADV is infamous for butchering animes they pick up that's why when a good series gets licensed by ADV, everyone pounds their head. as you said, they license everything on the planet, taking a plate full of more than they can handle which you can tell with their "finished" products.
by gray, i meant very dark gray. it's very well known that the anime/manga industries operate under different sets of rules.
for example, most major manga artists start off by creating doujinshi. it's basically taking someone's copyrighted character and making up a side-story and (yes) selling it to fans. no one ever pursues these artists? why? because that's probably how 90% of all manga artists start out and the more doujinshi there exists, it just means the more popular the series is and it doesn't compete with them in direct sales.
as the 2 of mentioned and you are correct that it is TECHNICALLY ILLEGAL to fansub. when I said it was a gray area, I meant companies don't bother pursuing them since there is actually a potential benefit that can come out of it and not very much harm if it hasn't been licensed yet.
from what i could tell, the reporter probably just interviewed US anime distributors and that's how he/she got all the information about these 'illegal' fansubbers.
fansubbing is a gray area if it is anime that hasn't been licensed in the country you're living. i'm not talking about fansubbers that continue to fansub material even after it's licensed. i'm only talking about fansubbers who fansubbed material that won't be available in their language any time soon. in fact, most fansub groups that I know about only fansub unlicensed material, but there are a few in the group who dislike how the american anime companies butcher up the anime by horrible dubbing, bad translations, removing scenes, and slow return time, that they feel like they should go ahead and fansubbed licensed material.
when an anime is unlicensed in the states, japanese distributors have never told them to stop their work. why? because it's a great way to test how well an anime will do in another country. it also lets us anime licensing companies to check how popular it might get with people living here. without these fansubbers bringing a popularity of these animes so high, i'd doubt that over half of what's available today would've been available.
fansubbers are a key step for an anime to get to the USA. what these anime licensing companies are worried about is that several of these fansub groups don't stop fansubbing EVEN after it gets licensed. even if that main groups stop fansubbing, new groups spawn up to continue the fansubbing where the original groups left off.
I'm not going to get into the ethics of stealling from a virtual game, but stealing/mugging is allowed in L2. you may argue that it represents a virtual world where there are rules etc etc.
however, just like how you can steal cars and how you can slaughter people in other games, stealing and mugging is one of the many actions you are "allowed" to do.
if you played any of the final fantasy series or maybe even an online rpg where 'thief' is a valid persona, then your goal in the game is TO STEAL.
What this guy did was wrong, by botting (which is fraud) and selling the rare items (which he obtained fraduently) for real world money. however, if i was a character on L2 with the class 'theif' and i stole a rare item from someone, I'd be perfectly within legal bounds to sell that item if i wanted to with no repercussion, besides getting rich.
slightly off topic too, but since we're doing jokes, i might as well.
there was 2 old couples driving on the freeway very slowly. they were probably doing 20MPH at most. cars behind them would honk and finally a highway patrol car pulled them over and asked they if they knew they were driving on the freeway. the old lady replied yes. he then suggested that they drive on the local streets because they were driving so slow. she goes, but that sign back there told us to drive at 20MPH. the highway patrol cracked out laughing. he told her that the sign back there indicated this was freeway route 20 and not the speed limit. the lady understands and thanks the officer for his time. the highway patrol finally realizes the old man has been very quiet and seems to be in shock. he asked the old lady what was wrong and she goes, "oh! we just got ove the 156."
At 8:15am on August 6th, 1945 the first experimental atom bomb, nicknamed 'Little Boy' was released from the Enola Gay at a height of six miles over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Viewers see what it meant to be struck by a nuclear bomb and survive.
i was just going to ask how long it lasts since glow in the dark stuff (although fun) tend to die out within minutes.
i am curious though, does initial brightness refer to the brightness of original flourescent lamp? or the brightness once the power outtage hits? hitting 10% of the original brightness in 6 minutes doesn't really give us much time and hitting 1% of that in 1 hour is basically useless at that point.
though an interesting idea, how does this compare money wise with just getting a battery backup for those flourescent lamps? 5x the cost is quite a bit and florescent lamps arent usually cheap.
another thing is, do we have to integrate it into the lamps themselves? glow-in-the-dark products work by absorbing light and slowing emmiting a glow which is only viewable after it gets dark. would it actually save money to purcahse a glow in the dark product seperate from the lamp and just place it inside or close to the lamp so it can absorb the light?
So when a teacher wants opinions on topics that people tend to shy away from like sex, religion, and politics, the question can be asked and the students can answer anonymously via the clicker. Everything from a simple poll to a graded quiz can be conducted using the device.
what's the point of grading a quiz that was submitted by anonymous students? or is there a way to switch the anonymous function on and off. if there is, would you really feel that anonymous when you use that clicker?
there's also the bait and switch scheme where electronics break (human error or item error), but either way, the warranties over and they're left with a dead piece of equipment. people would then buy the exact same item, making sure there's a return period, swap it, and return it. now they have a brand new unbroken toy and didn't have to pay a cent.
I'm not sure what's worse, having people to access your server 21 times or having people load your entire article w/ all your pictures on just one page.
of course, he could've thumbnailed them, but it isn't the case in this article. personally i think (seeing how many people stopped hitting 'next' after a few pages), this probably saved him a ton of bandwidth.
when you censor out any pages with words like freedom and liberty, you know you've got a problem. unless you don't think freedom and liberty are part of human rights...
seems the site has been slashdotted. well, not the site itself, but the user hosted his images/videos on his adelphia account and it's been blocked for bandwidth reasons.
Gatway did this and look where they are at. All of their stores I believe have closed. Trying to imitate Apple requires a lot of fan support, and personally, there is hardly any fan support for HP products.
though off topic, i just wanted to let you know beta1 was officially released wednesday if you didn't hear, so your 3rd and 4th pts are pretty invalid.
i'm not sure if anyone's mentioned or notice this, but msn virtual earth zooms in about 2-3x more than google maps, which is quite nice. you can actually see your house better instead of a 5x5pixel.
several other good things msn virtual earth has for it is the scratch pad. it's so nice that you can finally save a bunch of addresses on it. google really needs to implement something like that and not have me type the same address over and over again. although the balloons on google look cooler than the trapezoids(?) on virtual earth.
another thing virtual earth has is the search engine (upper left) where u can search for businesses and categories. for example, yesterday at work, i was trying to find the closest bank of america to me. i searched for bank of america, and immediately all the locations on the current viewable area of the map were plotted with the option for more. i can move my map around and the results dynamically change to where the viewable area is.
one last thing i'd like better, although this may not be true for everyone is that virtual earth actually takes up the entire screen instead of just 30% of it. often times i'd like a bigger map to see more stuff, but google limits it to a fix size which would be nice if it was expandable.
i remember back when i was in high school, i would think, what happens to sound. u know it gets softer, but does it really disappear?
if it does, why does it disappear? what does it become? took me awhile to figure out that sound was a form of energy and it was probably converted into heat.
but it's interesting to see that the underwater sound waves are still traveling from that earthquake. how long will it continue to travel? when will it finally disappear?
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No, also not true. Several Japanese production companies have sent cease&desists, polite emails or their directors have spoken out against it at conventions and in interviews.
i may have exaggerated a bit by using the word "never", but companies have also came out and spoke out at conventions thanking the fansubber community for bringing interest for particular series globally. and most of the time, companies either don't care or actually support fansubbing.
And this explains why ADV is cutting staff, titles and losing money. Licensing everything on the planet, bankrolling the production of new series themselves - which then turn out to be complete bombs.
there can be a lot of reasons for this. ADV provides sub-quality dubs and translations and people would actually rather buy the RAWs from Japan than to purchase ADV DVDs. ADV is infamous for butchering animes they pick up that's why when a good series gets licensed by ADV, everyone pounds their head. as you said, they license everything on the planet, taking a plate full of more than they can handle which you can tell with their "finished" products.
by gray, i meant very dark gray. it's very well known that the anime/manga industries operate under different sets of rules.
for example, most major manga artists start off by creating doujinshi. it's basically taking someone's copyrighted character and making up a side-story and (yes) selling it to fans. no one ever pursues these artists? why? because that's probably how 90% of all manga artists start out and the more doujinshi there exists, it just means the more popular the series is and it doesn't compete with them in direct sales.
as the 2 of mentioned and you are correct that it is TECHNICALLY ILLEGAL to fansub. when I said it was a gray area, I meant companies don't bother pursuing them since there is actually a potential benefit that can come out of it and not very much harm if it hasn't been licensed yet.
or maybe get the NCAA games when they come out? rules may be a bit different, but game play overall is the same.
from what i could tell, the reporter probably just interviewed US anime distributors and that's how he/she got all the information about these 'illegal' fansubbers.
fansubbing is a gray area if it is anime that hasn't been licensed in the country you're living. i'm not talking about fansubbers that continue to fansub material even after it's licensed. i'm only talking about fansubbers who fansubbed material that won't be available in their language any time soon. in fact, most fansub groups that I know about only fansub unlicensed material, but there are a few in the group who dislike how the american anime companies butcher up the anime by horrible dubbing, bad translations, removing scenes, and slow return time, that they feel like they should go ahead and fansubbed licensed material.
when an anime is unlicensed in the states, japanese distributors have never told them to stop their work. why? because it's a great way to test how well an anime will do in another country. it also lets us anime licensing companies to check how popular it might get with people living here. without these fansubbers bringing a popularity of these animes so high, i'd doubt that over half of what's available today would've been available.
fansubbers are a key step for an anime to get to the USA. what these anime licensing companies are worried about is that several of these fansub groups don't stop fansubbing EVEN after it gets licensed. even if that main groups stop fansubbing, new groups spawn up to continue the fansubbing where the original groups left off.
is it just me or did anyone else think bill gates when they read the topic?
I'm not going to get into the ethics of stealling from a virtual game, but stealing/mugging is allowed in L2. you may argue that it represents a virtual world where there are rules etc etc.
however, just like how you can steal cars and how you can slaughter people in other games, stealing and mugging is one of the many actions you are "allowed" to do.
if you played any of the final fantasy series or maybe even an online rpg where 'thief' is a valid persona, then your goal in the game is TO STEAL.
What this guy did was wrong, by botting (which is fraud) and selling the rare items (which he obtained fraduently) for real world money. however, if i was a character on L2 with the class 'theif' and i stole a rare item from someone, I'd be perfectly within legal bounds to sell that item if i wanted to with no repercussion, besides getting rich.
does this mean doctors and surgeons can be outsourced now?
it's because if they predicted right, they'd be able to say:
*insert nelson's laugh* told you so
slightly off topic too, but since we're doing jokes, i might as well.
there was 2 old couples driving on the freeway very slowly. they were probably doing 20MPH at most. cars behind them would honk and finally a highway patrol car pulled them over and asked they if they knew they were driving on the freeway. the old lady replied yes. he then suggested that they drive on the local streets because they were driving so slow. she goes, but that sign back there told us to drive at 20MPH. the highway patrol cracked out laughing. he told her that the sign back there indicated this was freeway route 20 and not the speed limit. the lady understands and thanks the officer for his time. the highway patrol finally realizes the old man has been very quiet and seems to be in shock. he asked the old lady what was wrong and she goes, "oh! we just got ove the 156."
no wonder they were advertising this show on the Discovery Channel:
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http://dsc.discovery.com/schedule/episode.jsp?epi
At 8:15am on August 6th, 1945 the first experimental atom bomb, nicknamed 'Little Boy' was released from the Enola Gay at a height of six miles over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Viewers see what it meant to be struck by a nuclear bomb and survive.
i was just going to ask how long it lasts since glow in the dark stuff (although fun) tend to die out within minutes.
i am curious though, does initial brightness refer to the brightness of original flourescent lamp? or the brightness once the power outtage hits? hitting 10% of the original brightness in 6 minutes doesn't really give us much time and hitting 1% of that in 1 hour is basically useless at that point.
though an interesting idea, how does this compare money wise with just getting a battery backup for those flourescent lamps? 5x the cost is quite a bit and florescent lamps arent usually cheap.
another thing is, do we have to integrate it into the lamps themselves? glow-in-the-dark products work by absorbing light and slowing emmiting a glow which is only viewable after it gets dark. would it actually save money to purcahse a glow in the dark product seperate from the lamp and just place it inside or close to the lamp so it can absorb the light?
So when a teacher wants opinions on topics that people tend to shy away from like sex, religion, and politics, the question can be asked and the students can answer anonymously via the clicker. Everything from a simple poll to a graded quiz can be conducted using the device.
what's the point of grading a quiz that was submitted by anonymous students? or is there a way to switch the anonymous function on and off. if there is, would you really feel that anonymous when you use that clicker?
there's also the bait and switch scheme where electronics break (human error or item error), but either way, the warranties over and they're left with a dead piece of equipment. people would then buy the exact same item, making sure there's a return period, swap it, and return it. now they have a brand new unbroken toy and didn't have to pay a cent.
baidu = hundred degrees.
;p
bai = hundred / du = degrees
ling = zeroes
bailing = hundred zeroes which is the definition of googal.
anyway, linkified for the lazy:
http://baidu.com/
like how they have virtual sex in demolition man?o n/
http://home1.gte.net/res0mrb7/widescreen/demoliti
interesting that safari breaks on this cause firefox seesms to work just fine....
I'm not sure what's worse, having people to access your server 21 times or having people load your entire article w/ all your pictures on just one page.
of course, he could've thumbnailed them, but it isn't the case in this article. personally i think (seeing how many people stopped hitting 'next' after a few pages), this probably saved him a ton of bandwidth.
when you censor out any pages with words like freedom and liberty, you know you've got a problem. unless you don't think freedom and liberty are part of human rights...
seems the site has been slashdotted. well, not the site itself, but the user hosted his images/videos on his adelphia account and it's been blocked for bandwidth reasons.
not sure if u were trying to be funny here:
I can say quite definitevly that the wifi does not work when the notebook is under water.
but i truly doubt a notebook works underwater, not to mention the wifi. though a waterproof notebook would be interesting.
Gatway did this and look where they are at. All of their stores I believe have closed. Trying to imitate Apple requires a lot of fan support, and personally, there is hardly any fan support for HP products.
though off topic, i just wanted to let you know beta1 was officially released wednesday if you didn't hear, so your 3rd and 4th pts are pretty invalid.
unless it requires compromising your conscience. ;p but then again, it's $1 million we're talking about.
i'm not sure if anyone's mentioned or notice this, but msn virtual earth zooms in about 2-3x more than google maps, which is quite nice. you can actually see your house better instead of a 5x5pixel.
several other good things msn virtual earth has for it is the scratch pad. it's so nice that you can finally save a bunch of addresses on it. google really needs to implement something like that and not have me type the same address over and over again. although the balloons on google look cooler than the trapezoids(?) on virtual earth.
another thing virtual earth has is the search engine (upper left) where u can search for businesses and categories. for example, yesterday at work, i was trying to find the closest bank of america to me. i searched for bank of america, and immediately all the locations on the current viewable area of the map were plotted with the option for more. i can move my map around and the results dynamically change to where the viewable area is.
one last thing i'd like better, although this may not be true for everyone is that virtual earth actually takes up the entire screen instead of just 30% of it. often times i'd like a bigger map to see more stuff, but google limits it to a fix size which would be nice if it was expandable.
sigh... my karma's going to drop...
i remember back when i was in high school, i would think, what happens to sound. u know it gets softer, but does it really disappear?
if it does, why does it disappear? what does it become? took me awhile to figure out that sound was a form of energy and it was probably converted into heat.
but it's interesting to see that the underwater sound waves are still traveling from that earthquake. how long will it continue to travel? when will it finally disappear?