You're an idiot. Abolishing public education means kissing goodbye to one of the only tools that can prevent the rich from getting richer at the expense of the poor, who only get poorer. Asshole.
Who the fuck is this guy? A quick look at the post history reveals nothing but nonsense (links to google.com? WTF?), and a quick look in Google for his website's name reveals similar attempts at spamming other community-based sites (quite poorly, if I might add). The website itself doesn't seem too harmful and it seems actually written by a human being instead of by a random bot, but the fact that it has dozens of hyperlinked words makes me doubtful.
The difference between Japanese and Western RPGs is one of concept.
When the Japanese first learned about RPGs, they saw it associated mainly with roguelike games, due to a lack of proper tabletop RPGs exposure. What they only took about that was the fact that you're a guy inside a dungeon looting treasure and killing monsters... Which was exactly what the American idealization of what an RPG was tried to avoid. The Japanese built on that concept and completely strayed away from what an RPG truly means. That, coupled with their Engrish tendence to adapt Western words and give them completely different meanings gave birth to the genre of the jRPG.
Well, of course... 90% of everything will always be crap. However, right now we're having a new golden age of Japanese animation, with numbers nearing 40 new series each April and October (plus a lot of midseason series), which leaves room for some truly great series in every sense of the word. Kure-nai, for example, a series that just started airing in April, has the most original work of scriptwriting and dialog I've ever seen in an anime.
Of course that if you look at stereotypical genres, such as action/adventure/shounen and comedy/romance/ecchi you will always end up with very similar and formulaic series... but you have to look a bit deeper to find the gold lying at the bottom of the river.
Language is an emergent order and you do not have the power to change it just because you're pissed. Of course, our problem with the way language has changed is that it reflects upon the view the US society has of themselves and its surroundings.
In the same way we can't change the way language has evolved, we can make an analysis of what sort of society has given birth to such a "misnomer".
The other day I just revived a used P3 500 mhz with 128 MB of RAM my mother bought for herself. It came with XP, and it took at least a full minute and a half to barely present the login screen. I installed Debian (netinst version, so I could tailor it up to her needs) and worked from there. In the end, the box boots in thirty seconds and XFCE runs smooth as silk. Abiword and Gnumeric take less than two seconds to start up (mind you, OpenOffice took a lot of time though).
You'll excuse me if I choose not to believe your experience.
Wine on the other hand, or anything else that leaves a sticky residue, will kill things stone dead. Yep, I remember dropping a glass on my dad's keyboard when I was a kid, and that was the night right before the day he was going to give me money to buy a new one for me.
Not only this is awful, the sheer amount of javascript they've added makes it practically unusable. I was relatively happy when Firefox 3.0 beta 4 processed the scripts a lot faster than 2.0, making browsing Slashdot comments less of a chore... and now they've brought this abomination to the site.
Hey! My browser just copied a whole page of comments to my RAM! Do you think I can get sued for copyright infringement? Do you know any trustworthy lawyers?
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they *would not* be taken advantage...
Not particularly, but at least they're not being taken advantage of their ignorance in order to separate them from their money.
I know, I know! Let's call it an "Operating System"!
You're an idiot. Abolishing public education means kissing goodbye to one of the only tools that can prevent the rich from getting richer at the expense of the poor, who only get poorer. Asshole.
The fact that programs HAVE dependencies with other programs is the whole point of Free Software.
Who the fuck is this guy? A quick look at the post history reveals nothing but nonsense (links to google.com? WTF?), and a quick look in Google for his website's name reveals similar attempts at spamming other community-based sites (quite poorly, if I might add). The website itself doesn't seem too harmful and it seems actually written by a human being instead of by a random bot, but the fact that it has dozens of hyperlinked words makes me doubtful.
The difference between Japanese and Western RPGs is one of concept.
When the Japanese first learned about RPGs, they saw it associated mainly with roguelike games, due to a lack of proper tabletop RPGs exposure. What they only took about that was the fact that you're a guy inside a dungeon looting treasure and killing monsters... Which was exactly what the American idealization of what an RPG was tried to avoid. The Japanese built on that concept and completely strayed away from what an RPG truly means. That, coupled with their Engrish tendence to adapt Western words and give them completely different meanings gave birth to the genre of the jRPG.
Well, of course... 90% of everything will always be crap. However, right now we're having a new golden age of Japanese animation, with numbers nearing 40 new series each April and October (plus a lot of midseason series), which leaves room for some truly great series in every sense of the word. Kure-nai, for example, a series that just started airing in April, has the most original work of scriptwriting and dialog I've ever seen in an anime.
Of course that if you look at stereotypical genres, such as action/adventure/shounen and comedy/romance/ecchi you will always end up with very similar and formulaic series... but you have to look a bit deeper to find the gold lying at the bottom of the river.
In the same way we can't change the way language has evolved, we can make an analysis of what sort of society has given birth to such a "misnomer".
I believe it's specifically over 9000 votes.
Mental blindness.
That's not the point. Debian with XFCE runs better than XP on the same amount of RAM.
The other day I just revived a used P3 500 mhz with 128 MB of RAM my mother bought for herself. It came with XP, and it took at least a full minute and a half to barely present the login screen. I installed Debian (netinst version, so I could tailor it up to her needs) and worked from there. In the end, the box boots in thirty seconds and XFCE runs smooth as silk. Abiword and Gnumeric take less than two seconds to start up (mind you, OpenOffice took a lot of time though).
You'll excuse me if I choose not to believe your experience.
Debian is essentially the same as Ubuntu. But if you know your way around Linux, every distro is essentially the same.
You even duped the [website] tag!
No new keyboard for me
Thank you. I feel the same when people call Bush an idiot. He's bad news, but he's certainly not an idiot.
Don't get me wrong, the script does load fast, but the thing scrolls extremely slow. It might not be Firefox's fault, though.
Either use another virtualization software, or just use the damn Live CD.
Not only this is awful, the sheer amount of javascript they've added makes it practically unusable. I was relatively happy when Firefox 3.0 beta 4 processed the scripts a lot faster than 2.0, making browsing Slashdot comments less of a chore... and now they've brought this abomination to the site.
More like Johnatan Shill.
Hey! My browser just copied a whole page of comments to my RAM! Do you think I can get sued for copyright infringement? Do you know any trustworthy lawyers?
It's actually one. The distinction made between South and North America, mostly for sociological reasons, doesn't make it two.