I'm not against the Japanese dub being included, don't get me wrong I just don't understand why its so important. So please tell me why.
Mainly because Japanese voice actors can actually act. The Japanese version of Mononoke was performed by some of the best voice actors in the industry. The title character in the English version was performed by someone who had never voice-acted before. I could hear the difference, and I can't even understand the Japanese tracks.
Do all releases of the dvd have the japanese track?
Yes. There should have been a red decal on the outer plastic that mentioned the Japanese audio track. Miramax (Disney) was originally going to release the movie without it, so the covers may have already been printed.
It also mentioned something called a "Featurette"
It's one of those little 10 minute (approx.) promotional space fillers you sometimes see on HBO and the like. There are clips of interviews with assorted voice actors and a little bit of background info.
Ribbon mics are very delicate, and the ribbon is succeptable to damage. One idiot blowing into the mic ("Hey! Is this on??") can tear the ribbon.
Sure, they sound warm, and sound much better "than carbon and early condenser microphones." But we don't use carbon microphones (professionally) either. Condenser mics have come a long long way since then also.
The biggest benefit in the ribbon mics was the internal tube pre-amp. There are better mics today using tube pre-amps that aren't nearly as fragile.
"They have this figure-eight pattern--they accept sound from the front and back, while rejecting sound from the sides." This is silly. Most modern-day large element recording mics have this capability. It was one of the first to have the capability, but certainly not the last.
The Internet is such new and fresh technology were I though we be able to take a new course of human history with it. Yet again it seems society is just imprinting the old world into the new one.
lower heat dissipation requires less machine cooling
lower machine cooling needs means lower room cooling needs
Now, for some Apple hardware specs:
G4 Cube - 225 Watts Maximum (Not sure why it's higher than the server...could be the video card.) Cube Specs
G4 Server - 220 Watts Maximum (The G3 server is 170 Watts Max.) G4 Server Specs
15" LCD Studio Display - 50 Watts Maximum (An equivalent CRT can almost triple this.) LCD Display Specs
Those Wattage ratings aren't power supply output ratings. Those are what the device will pull from the wall, including any heat losses in the power supply.
I can't find any other manufacturers who want to tell me their wattage requirements.
Have you ever seen Japanese Television? It's full of shows parading those funny foreigners.
Just like television in every other country, including USA.
Remember the Japanese minister stopping pullovers from being imported because they wouldn't fit the special japanese head? Or foreign food being banned because it might disagree with the special Japanese intestines?
Remember rounding up all the Japanese Americans and putting them in prison camps? Remember rounding up Muslims when that building in OKCity got blown up. Remember Jim Crow laws?
Racism is racism is racism. You've given us some fine examples.
The simple fact is... that you should learn how to use HTML.
I'm posting this anon, because otherwise I'll get hammered.
Yes, you probably will. We're all violent, you see. Too much anime watching, probably.
I'm fed up of seeing Anime promoted on this site. I've been to Japan, and seen with my own eyes the portrayal of women in manga comics over there. It's disgusting! Full of Japanese men fist-fucking & raping women.
Not all of it. Some of it has Japanese women fist-fucking and raping men.
Indeed, one of the most popular manga characters is called 'Rapeman', and all he does is smash his way into offices and rape secretaries.
Most popular? With whom? Probably with people like you who want to bash something, and are too afraid to log in to do it.
Japan is such a stifled and buttoned up culture that manga & anime are its only escape from being the good conforming corporate drone.
And USA is such a stifled and buttoned up culture that intolerance for other cultures and ways-of-life are its only escape from being the good conforming corporate drone.
But this is America! People here act out their fantasies. Please/. don't promote this terrible so-called art. It's a disgrace.
Its popularity is mostly due to it being on the first examples of high-quality Japanese animation available in the US. Better stuff has become available in the years since.
If Akira's early release makes it the "mother of all anime films," then you must really be impressed by the likes of Speed Racer and Astroboy.
Yeah, Akira is ok, but I'd rent it rather than buy it. --
All told, this is yet another reduction in quality for theatrical presentations. What's there to be excited about?
To 98% of the population, this won't matter anyway. It hasn't mattered that:
Beta has better video quality than VHS.
Laserdisk has better video quality than VHS, and is still better than DVD.
__________ is better than Windows.
Real breasts are better than silicone breasts.
The writing is the most important aspect of any film.
Generally speaking, nobody cares. Look at digital TV: The FCC is having to force it down our throats because we know no amount of technology is going to make Jerry Springer's guests look good. Nobody wants more set-top boxes. Nobody want to toss their analog TVs. Nobody cares.
> >the number of HAM hobbiests have droped dramatically over the years
Do you have number to back this statement up?
Actually, I tend to agree with AC: The number of HAM hobbyists has dropped. Now most HAMs I meet are ex-CBers with Yaesu HTs and headsets who try to sell boxes of old 286 motherboards at Swapfest and have never transmitted at anything longer than 11 meters in their lives.
Sure, there are a few hobbyists left, climbing towers, creating linked nodes, breadboarding, participating in Field Day, etc. But most of them are now content to let their computer-driven rigs win contests for them.
Sad, and one of the many reasons I left amateur radio behind. Plus, my 14.4 modem kicked but on that 2400 baud packet radio stuff. --
Find the local Amateur Radio Club and tell them what is happening. They will gladly help you with the problem. No Ham would knowing cause the problems you are having, and they know all the tricks to solve it. The Club will help you find the culprit, or they will solve things for you directly. The Amateur Radio community wants to stay in the good graces of the general public and will do whatever they can to keep you happy. They don't want to lose any more RF spectrum than they already have, and keeping a good image is part of that.
Of course, if they get there and find you running a PC with the cover removed (splashing noise all across the RF spectrum), then you deserve what you get. ^_^
this is very disappointing to the Mac community, who recently got strong support from 3DFX.
Strong support? No VooDoo box I ever saw said the word 'Macintosh' on it. How would 'Joe Average' consumer know that they could put one in their Mac? They never released anything but beta drivers ("It's beta, so we don't have to support it".)
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ITYM Pagan winter holidays.
We just let everyone party along with us.
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The whole story is at Nausicaa Net
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They kill trees to create that paper you wipe your ass with. I think you should never take a crap for the rest of your life.
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Darn, maybe I shouldn't have bought at Best Buy.
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Mainly because Japanese voice actors can actually act. The Japanese version of Mononoke was performed by some of the best voice actors in the industry. The title character in the English version was performed by someone who had never voice-acted before. I could hear the difference, and I can't even understand the Japanese tracks.
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Yes. There should have been a red decal on the outer plastic that mentioned the Japanese audio track. Miramax (Disney) was originally going to release the movie without it, so the covers may have already been printed.
It also mentioned something called a "Featurette"
It's one of those little 10 minute (approx.) promotional space fillers you sometimes see on HBO and the like. There are clips of interviews with assorted voice actors and a little bit of background info.
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Ribbon mics are very delicate, and the ribbon is succeptable to damage. One idiot blowing into the mic ("Hey! Is this on??") can tear the ribbon.
Sure, they sound warm, and sound much better "than carbon and early condenser microphones." But we don't use carbon microphones (professionally) either. Condenser mics have come a long long way since then also.
The biggest benefit in the ribbon mics was the internal tube pre-amp. There are better mics today using tube pre-amps that aren't nearly as fragile.
"They have this figure-eight pattern--they accept sound from the front and back, while rejecting sound from the sides." This is silly. Most modern-day large element recording mics have this capability. It was one of the first to have the capability, but certainly not the last.
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Nope, socialism still doesn't work.
Sorry, Mr 'Lenin'
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Wow, so 95% of the users could get by with a one-button mouse?
Some company should come up with a one-button mouse.
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I just can't imagine a Mac user:
- Editing and customizing System and app resources.
- Overclocking his Mac.
- Building a cross-platform network.
- Running traceroutes.
- Still remembering the file copy command from CP/M. (PIP, of all things)
- Reading and posting to Slashdot.
Oh, wait. I can imagine. That would be me. (And I know I'm one of many.)Oh well. Nevermind.
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That's the beta version, likely to be full of debugging code and assorted leftovers.
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- Lower wattage CPU leads to lower heat dissipation
- lower heat dissipation requires less machine cooling
- lower machine cooling needs means lower room cooling needs
Now, for some Apple hardware specs:G4 Cube - 225 Watts Maximum (Not sure why it's higher than the server...could be the video card.)
Cube Specs
G4 Server - 220 Watts Maximum (The G3 server is 170 Watts Max.)
G4 Server Specs
15" LCD Studio Display - 50 Watts Maximum (An equivalent CRT can almost triple this.)
LCD Display Specs
Those Wattage ratings aren't power supply output ratings. Those are what the device will pull from the wall, including any heat losses in the power supply.
I can't find any other manufacturers who want to tell me their wattage requirements.
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Intel makes computers? Wow, I didn't know that.
I wonder if the make the Macs that their "spokespeople" (aka Blue Man Group) use?
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Just like television in every other country, including USA.
Remember the Japanese minister stopping pullovers from being imported because they wouldn't fit the special japanese head? Or foreign food being banned because it might disagree with the special Japanese intestines?
Remember rounding up all the Japanese Americans and putting them in prison camps? Remember rounding up Muslims when that building in OKCity got blown up. Remember Jim Crow laws?
Racism is racism is racism. You've given us some fine examples.
The simple fact is... that you should learn how to use HTML.
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Yes, you probably will. We're all violent, you see. Too much anime watching, probably.
I'm fed up of seeing Anime promoted on this site. I've been to Japan, and seen with my own eyes the portrayal of women in manga comics over there. It's disgusting! Full of Japanese men fist-fucking & raping women.
Not all of it. Some of it has Japanese women fist-fucking and raping men.
Indeed, one of the most popular manga characters is called 'Rapeman', and all he does is smash his way into offices and rape secretaries.
Most popular? With whom? Probably with people like you who want to bash something, and are too afraid to log in to do it.
Japan is such a stifled and buttoned up culture that manga & anime are its only escape from being the good conforming corporate drone.
And USA is such a stifled and buttoned up culture that intolerance for other cultures and ways-of-life are its only escape from being the good conforming corporate drone.
But this is America! People here act out their fantasies. Please /. don't promote this terrible so-called art. It's a disgrace.
Don't you mean 'Amerika', Mr Buchanan?
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Its popularity is mostly due to it being on the first examples of high-quality Japanese animation available in the US. Better stuff has become available in the years since.
If Akira's early release makes it the "mother of all anime films," then you must really be impressed by the likes of Speed Racer and Astroboy.
Yeah, Akira is ok, but I'd rent it rather than buy it.
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He "earned" them?
He certainly hasn't amounted to anything as Governor of my state.
No matter which way this ends, I'm still stuck with Dubya.
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Most people also forget that Bush went AWOL for a YEAR, conveniently timed so that he avoided any drug tests.
Nevermind that he's just another rich kid who, no matter what titles his daddy buys for him, will never amount to anything.
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To 98% of the population, this won't matter anyway. It hasn't mattered that:
Generally speaking, nobody cares. Look at digital TV: The FCC is having to force it down our throats because we know no amount of technology is going to make Jerry Springer's guests look good. Nobody wants more set-top boxes. Nobody want to toss their analog TVs. Nobody cares.
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Do you have number to back this statement up?
Actually, I tend to agree with AC: The number of HAM hobbyists has dropped. Now most HAMs I meet are ex-CBers with Yaesu HTs and headsets who try to sell boxes of old 286 motherboards at Swapfest and have never transmitted at anything longer than 11 meters in their lives.
Sure, there are a few hobbyists left, climbing towers, creating linked nodes, breadboarding, participating in Field Day, etc. But most of them are now content to let their computer-driven rigs win contests for them.
Sad, and one of the many reasons I left amateur radio behind. Plus, my 14.4 modem kicked but on that 2400 baud packet radio stuff.
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Of course, if they get there and find you running a PC with the cover removed (splashing noise all across the RF spectrum), then you deserve what you get. ^_^
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Really really old FUD. Wrong, also.
But really, thanks for trying.
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Strong support? No VooDoo box I ever saw said the word 'Macintosh' on it. How would 'Joe Average' consumer know that they could put one in their Mac? They never released anything but beta drivers ("It's beta, so we don't have to support it".)
Not very impressive support, IMHO.
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