On some high schools and universities over here (Buenos Aires, we speak spanish), they start teaching with a "Pseudo Pascal", wich is basically a pascal translated to spanish. something like this:
si a = b entonces
comienzo
escribir('Hola Mundo');
fin;
It wasn't any different to normal pascal, just the keywords.
Big mistake, because they don't have a compiler for this thing (that would be _very cool_ to teach to younger kids), so you spend 4 months writing this useless code on a piece of paper.
Everyone sounds like they feel "threaten" as an American by japanese animation. It's not like you'll be betraying your country because you watch anime. As someone says on a previous post, anime is a 'medium', just like western 'movies', or 'television'.
The only difference with television is that it's all animation, so women have bigger breasts, and it can hadle more adult topics, without being some very werid thing like spawn, that has to be hidden from children. If you search, you'll find a lot of crap and a lot of really deep things on anime. (I like anime better:P)
btw: nice logo.. at least nicer than the last one.. I'd put her a nose and more hair tho.
There is also a type of music on Argentina (not vert far from brazil; like 20 degrees to the south) called Samba, completely different to the brazilian Samba.
While brazilian samba is one of those crazy southamerican dances, samba from argentina is more slow, played with a normal guitar. Mostly boring (there are a few beautiful songs tho, but it's very doll).
People that live on rural zones are the first one to use technology, as soon as they can, because it drops down the cost of their business dramatically.
Who do you think will use e-mail more? the guy that lives on the capital of the country (who can just pick up the phone and make a local call) or the guy who lives 1000 km far from the capital?
Of course "they need food before internet" (I saw a lot of posts with smart ass comments like that), and Internet will let them get more food for less price.
I wrote a site to did that, last year. People would have to download a program that would add "." and ".redir.freenic.com.ar" to the searchlist (a key on the windows registry). So, if they look for yahoo.com they'll find "yahoo.com.", and if they look for "porn.porn" they find "porn.porn.redir.freenic.com.ar".
I drop the proyects for a number of reasons (I'd have to get everyone to download the program, it wouldn't work with some configurations, I had to mantain the program (I'm not a very good C programmer), etc). It might still be up on freenic.com.ar (spanish). It was a good alternative to the other existing sites (I found at least 5 of them) because this works with the normal DNS system, and not all requests go to my DNS servers..
It was free, didn't need any DNS configuration.. I may bring it back up again on the future..
I don't think so.. Sure, it's not the same because we no longer live on caves, and probably people with less education/money (posibilities to actually live longer or better on a modern city) will have more children. But, who controls evolution? There is not a "god" that controls evoluon.. Evolution results from the convination of a lot of factors. So, if we start srewing with ourserlves, thats another factor, a new, and very interesting factor, not seen on other species before.
Of course, to see actual evolution we would have to wait a _LOT_ of time, at least when it's the result of the known factors.
Here in Canada the level of literacy is (IIRC) about 80%
That can't be right. The level of literacy on Mexico is around 87%, and it's one of the lowes of the "big countries" on latin america. I'd expect Canada's to be higher.
Last year, the outgoing president of Argentina sign a decree similar to this, that said that every citizen has the right to a free e-mail, wich will be used to do transacts with the government, like paying taxes and stuff (among other things).
It's not implemented yet, and I don't think it will be soon, but it helped increase internet's "popularity" (this happened at the same time that the guy from amazon was "man of the year" for some magazine). Right now there must be like 4 or 5 "free internet" companies now on the country, all private of course.
There was no article on any news source I could find (at least not in english).
I didn't like Akira. I find it boring, ugly (animation is cool, but all characters are chinese => they all look the same to me). I didn't understand it. Is't like you wait the entire movie for an explanation, but there is no explanation, because it doesn't make sence.
People often put Akira up there with Ghost in the Shell, but there is a difference, GITS has an argument.
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Re:Some notes on anime and recommendations...
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the incredible manga artist Rumiko Takihashi. Her works include Ranma 1/2, Maison Ikkukou, and Urusei Yatsura
I would specially mention the Mermaid saga (Mermaid Forest, Mermaid Scar, Mermaid Mask, etc), wich is very unlike Takahashi's style (definitively NOT a comedy), and I think her best work.
While we're on the subject of comedy, perhaps the funniest anime series I've seen is Slayers.
If I had to make a list of funniest "crazy comedies", in a scale of "normal to totaly werid and bizarre", I'd say:
Slayers Dragon Half (the manga specially) Dr. Slump (quite old, the same guy who wrote Dragon Ball; he can be _very_ funny) Ping Pong Club (_totaly_ werid. And it's also the anime with the most "chinese looking" characters I've ever seen. they have small eyes and everything).
It's not the only martial arts anime with transgender themes though
Really? name some titles.
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Re:The Battle Angel Alita series - Peerless!
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I agree. The manga (comic) of Alita is much more "closer" to the author than the OVA (video), and it's a lot more "moving", more developed. It really makes you think about stuff (like what the hell is on the city up there:)
My favorites:
RG Veda (comic) Ping Pong Club (I think it's like 12 episodes, totaly werid and hilarious) Grave of the Fireflies (very dramatic movie, about 2 kids in te middle of world war 2) Mermaid Forest (the comic, it's about a guy who is inmortal) Ranma 1/2 (also the comic)
And of course, Evangelion, Ghost in the Shell, etc.
I didn't like Akira, I find Robotech _very_ boring.
I started on BASIC too, on a Commodore 64, writting little "hello world" programs. Then Pascal (when I was 12). I used Visual Basic a little, _very_ easy. Just draw the little buttons and captions with the mouse, and program the events..
But I preferred Pascal, to write games for DOS 6 (win95 was very recent, 320x200x256 was a good resolution).
I don't know.. A lot of people seem to think that CGI _is_ Perl. A cgi script _is_ a perl script. So I tell them that cgi is not perl, and I explain that there are other "cgi languages", like PHP and ASP. mod_perl is not actually cgi? who cares?:-)
For me, cgi is anything that runs on the server when you request a page (on top of the web server software). I'm the admin., I don't have to know what "common gateway interfase" means..:-)
We as a free people should have the right to view pipctures of young girls in the nude
The problem is the people that take the pictures, wich I think is a different issue.. I think it's not a thing of "Supply and Demand"; a lot of the people that takes the pictures are just sick and want to have sex with 12 y. o. kids.
I wonder what would happend if the images were not of real people, like porn anime, or maybe a really good painting, or a 3d image, so good that you could not tell the differece.. That would not harm any minor, and people would download it. Would it be OK to watch that and masturbate?
I'm sure a lot of the people that post "ah, that makes me sick" actually mean "ah, that makes me horny" (or at least curious). It's like robbing a bakn. Everybody wants to rob a banks and get away with it.. (of course, not everybody wants to rape a teenager)
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si a = b entonces
comienzo
escribir('Hola Mundo');
fin;
It wasn't any different to normal pascal, just the keywords.
Big mistake, because they don't have a compiler for this thing (that would be _very cool_ to teach to younger kids), so you spend 4 months writing this useless code on a piece of paper.
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That's actually a lame excuse.. If they start building stuff like this, I think there are more important questions than "does it have an off switch?".
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The only difference with television is that it's all animation, so women have bigger breasts, and it can hadle more adult topics, without being some very werid thing like spawn, that has to be hidden from children. If you search, you'll find a lot of crap and a lot of really deep things on anime. (I like anime better :P)
btw: nice logo.. at least nicer than the last one.. I'd put her a nose and more hair tho.
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While brazilian samba is one of those crazy southamerican dances, samba from argentina is more slow, played with a normal guitar. Mostly boring (there are a few beautiful songs tho, but it's very doll).
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Is that a guy or a girl?
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Who do you think will use e-mail more? the guy that lives on the capital of the country (who can just pick up the phone and make a local call) or the guy who lives 1000 km far from the capital?
Of course "they need food before internet" (I saw a lot of posts with smart ass comments like that), and Internet will let them get more food for less price.
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Actually, it's up, but none of the CGI works.. The program is still there to download tho.
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I drop the proyects for a number of reasons (I'd have to get everyone to download the program, it wouldn't work with some configurations, I had to mantain the program (I'm not a very good C programmer), etc). It might still be up on freenic.com.ar (spanish). It was a good alternative to the other existing sites (I found at least 5 of them) because this works with the normal DNS system, and not all requests go to my DNS servers..
It was free, didn't need any DNS configuration.. I may bring it back up again on the future..
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That alredy exists. It's called "printer". It uses ink.
Now I'll go read the article.
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Does paying ${whatever the cost is, don't know} for a copy of windows98, or Office, makes any sense? NO. That's the whole point.
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I don't think so.. Sure, it's not the same because we no longer live on caves, and probably people with less education/money (posibilities to actually live longer or better on a modern city) will have more children. But, who controls evolution? There is not a "god" that controls evoluon.. Evolution results from the convination of a lot of factors. So, if we start srewing with ourserlves, thats another factor, a new, and very interesting factor, not seen on other species before.
Of course, to see actual evolution we would have to wait a _LOT_ of time, at least when it's the result of the known factors.
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what about cabs? Don't they use those radios all the time?
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That can't be right. The level of literacy on Mexico is around 87%, and it's one of the lowes of the "big countries" on latin america. I'd expect Canada's to be higher.
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It's not implemented yet, and I don't think it will be soon, but it helped increase internet's "popularity" (this happened at the same time that the guy from amazon was "man of the year" for some magazine). Right now there must be like 4 or 5 "free internet" companies now on the country, all private of course.
There was no article on any news source I could find (at least not in english).
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I didn't like Akira. I find it boring, ugly (animation is cool, but all characters are chinese => they all look the same to me). I didn't understand it. Is't like you wait the entire movie for an explanation, but there is no explanation, because it doesn't make sence.
People often put Akira up there with Ghost in the Shell, but there is a difference, GITS has an argument.
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I would specially mention the Mermaid saga (Mermaid Forest, Mermaid Scar, Mermaid Mask, etc), wich is very unlike Takahashi's style (definitively NOT a comedy), and I think her best work.
While we're on the subject of comedy, perhaps the funniest anime series I've seen is Slayers.
If I had to make a list of funniest "crazy comedies", in a scale of "normal to totaly werid and bizarre", I'd say:
Slayers
Dragon Half (the manga specially)
Dr. Slump (quite old, the same guy who wrote Dragon Ball; he can be _very_ funny)
Ping Pong Club (_totaly_ werid. And it's also the anime with the most "chinese looking" characters I've ever seen. they have small eyes and everything).
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Really? name some titles.
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My favorites:
RG Veda (comic)
Ping Pong Club (I think it's like 12 episodes, totaly werid and hilarious)
Grave of the Fireflies (very dramatic movie, about 2 kids in te middle of world war 2)
Mermaid Forest (the comic, it's about a guy who is inmortal)
Ranma 1/2 (also the comic)
And of course, Evangelion, Ghost in the Shell, etc.
I didn't like Akira, I find Robotech _very_ boring.
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But I preferred Pascal, to write games for DOS 6 (win95 was very recent, 320x200x256 was a good resolution).
Now I use Perl most of the time.
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Too bad Tuvalu is alredy taken..
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Of course it's funny.. you could use that _stupid_ "1 click shopping" with someone else's ID.. It'll be easy, fast, _and_ funny..
(of course, I think it's funny because I use Netscape..)
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I don't know.. A lot of people seem to think that CGI _is_ Perl. A cgi script _is_ a perl script. So I tell them that cgi is not perl, and I explain that there are other "cgi languages", like PHP and ASP. mod_perl is not actually cgi? who cares? :-)
For me, cgi is anything that runs on the server when you request a page (on top of the web server software). I'm the admin., I don't have to know what "common gateway interfase" means.. :-)
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The problem is the people that take the pictures, wich I think is a different issue.. I think it's not a thing of "Supply and Demand"; a lot of the people that takes the pictures are just sick and want to have sex with 12 y. o. kids.
I wonder what would happend if the images were not of real people, like porn anime, or maybe a really good painting, or a 3d image, so good that you could not tell the differece.. That would not harm any minor, and people would download it. Would it be OK to watch that and masturbate?
I'm sure a lot of the people that post "ah, that makes me sick" actually mean "ah, that makes me horny" (or at least curious). It's like robbing a bakn. Everybody wants to rob a banks and get away with it.. (of course, not everybody wants to rape a teenager)
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