Sure it sounds fun but how much does it actually shorten travel time when you have to go through 2 hours of security and baggage check-in before boarding? Frankly I'd still see this generation of supersonic flight just as much of a status symbol (of course barring urgent business dealings and such) as it was for the Concorde, with all the same problems the Concorde faced limiting where and when it could break the sound barrier.
Actually there are certain circles that already do something similar but decidedly more low tech: they sign up for large email accounts and store file attachments in the "drafts" section. On the mailing list you have the account login info and password, then you simply login to the account full of attachments and send off an email to yourself to receive the file. You'd think that you could just download the attachment from the draft box without actually having to email it to yourself but it turns out that there's a bit of a bandwidth limit to this at least on the accounts I was familiar with, so it was easier to just have everyone email it off to themselves. Obvious problems with this method are folks deleting the drafts and changing the account password, so it wouldn't work on an large scale, though the mailing list I was familiar with had several hundred members. Keep in mind though that the files being passed around were normally no larger than 40MB, so an IRC channel might have been less hassle, though more costly to maintain.
Something about the phrase "emo douchebag" is redundant, but that's neither here nor there:)
Guess it depends on how much Harvey Danger is considered alt rock, as Flagpole Sitta got tons of radio play. Anyone citing Harvey Danger as an underground band they like to give themselves some sort of better-than-you street cred deserves to be repeatedly shot in the face, though that goes for any band.
While it is a rather big step for an anime company to be using BT to distribute promotional material, just because ADV is doing it doesn't mean it will become a trend, particularly in light of ADV's recent financial troubles and staff cutbacks. Let's just say that the rest of the industry won't look towards ADV as a shining example of how to run a business, as they've made what has been viewed as some serious mistakes, such as licensing too many series that don't sell and flooding the manga market with substandard works.
As for the promo itself, these three series will need all the publicity they can get to actually become popular. Godanner has the reputation of being full of meaningless vapid fanservice, Madlax is viewed as a Noir clone, and Gilgamesh seems to be nothing but a monumental angst fest for the entire duration of the series. I wouldn't call any of them remarkable by any stretch of the imagination.
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hanG on there folks, I haVe my doubts ovEr such claiMs, howEver Mildly innOceNt thEY seem.
Go ahead and sue dead kids, that'll get the public on your side.
On meth, yes.
Gives a new meaning to the term "Blue Screen of Death".
The Scorpion Worm, however, will rock you like a hurricane.
Why are we so afraid of robots when we have perfectly good safeguards against the possible setbacks?
"The 2005 IT Year"
It seems like this is the machine that gets all the crashes and other issues.
Sure it sounds fun but how much does it actually shorten travel time when you have to go through 2 hours of security and baggage check-in before boarding? Frankly I'd still see this generation of supersonic flight just as much of a status symbol (of course barring urgent business dealings and such) as it was for the Concorde, with all the same problems the Concorde faced limiting where and when it could break the sound barrier.
Actually there are certain circles that already do something similar but decidedly more low tech: they sign up for large email accounts and store file attachments in the "drafts" section. On the mailing list you have the account login info and password, then you simply login to the account full of attachments and send off an email to yourself to receive the file. You'd think that you could just download the attachment from the draft box without actually having to email it to yourself but it turns out that there's a bit of a bandwidth limit to this at least on the accounts I was familiar with, so it was easier to just have everyone email it off to themselves. Obvious problems with this method are folks deleting the drafts and changing the account password, so it wouldn't work on an large scale, though the mailing list I was familiar with had several hundred members. Keep in mind though that the files being passed around were normally no larger than 40MB, so an IRC channel might have been less hassle, though more costly to maintain.
Something about the phrase "emo douchebag" is redundant, but that's neither here nor there :)
Guess it depends on how much Harvey Danger is considered alt rock, as Flagpole Sitta got tons of radio play. Anyone citing Harvey Danger as an underground band they like to give themselves some sort of better-than-you street cred deserves to be repeatedly shot in the face, though that goes for any band.
You probably didn't go to high school in the 90's, they are rather well known with the mainstream rock crowd.
As North Korea already has their own robotic countermeasures.
While it is a rather big step for an anime company to be using BT to distribute promotional material, just because ADV is doing it doesn't mean it will become a trend, particularly in light of ADV's recent financial troubles and staff cutbacks. Let's just say that the rest of the industry won't look towards ADV as a shining example of how to run a business, as they've made what has been viewed as some serious mistakes, such as licensing too many series that don't sell and flooding the manga market with substandard works.
As for the promo itself, these three series will need all the publicity they can get to actually become popular. Godanner has the reputation of being full of meaningless vapid fanservice, Madlax is viewed as a Noir clone, and Gilgamesh seems to be nothing but a monumental angst fest for the entire duration of the series. I wouldn't call any of them remarkable by any stretch of the imagination.