A couple of other great Animes would be Rahxephon, Parallel Dual, Martian Successor Nadesico, Elfen Lied, Bleach, Full Metal Alchemist.....There are soo many.....Escaflowne, Macross, Last Exile, Read Or Die....
I'd have to say Champloo and Bebop are among the best. Rahxephon had a couple of good episodes, and I liked the ending. Bleach is an ongoing series.
However, a lot of the main character devices are the same. Protecting others/loved ones, or becoming better. Almost all of them kind of rotate around those two themes (like Beach, RahXephon). Not that it is bad or anything.
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That is sad. I'm not saying I'm a cook. But I do know how to cook things, and I have many, many times cooked things following the directions on how to cook them. It's not hard, it just requires following the steps.
To be a real cook, now, that is really something. I had a girlfriend who was a cook, and it was incredible how she could make things taste better. Simple things, like hamburgers. She'd add some spices to the meat and......yum!
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Why not take the 2 minutes and look for yourself? What happens the day you lose power? Or are hit by a storm that knocks out all your electricity? Are you going to starve to death? Sounds like it....go Darwin! Go!
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Yes indeed. Why not just go get some microwave food at the store if you can't cook?
Somehow, I find this pretty sad. People don't want to learn anything. Cooking is a great skill to learn, and it's fun to learn. 95% of it is following the directions. I suppose having a chip in there makes it easier to surf the net while cooking? (not that surfing in the kitchen is a good idea...)
"To be honest, it sounds like you're just trying to belittle DJs. This is a tired, petty arguement, and you should be ashamed to have started it. DJs call themselves DJs, if they make the music themselves then they also call themselves producers. It doesn't matter anyways because a musician is:"
All the people I know who DJ call themselves DJs. No crime. No offense. Many don't know how to play anything, but they don't go around calling themselves musicians. They freely admit they have no musical training.
"noun: a composer, conductor, or performer of music; especially an instumentalist. A 'mixer' as you call him, is a performer of music. I promise there is performance in it, and there's a big difference between a good DJ and a lousy one. Should we just call a sax player an instrumentalist because that's all he really is? No. I have plenty of respect for more traditional aspects of music. Now have some respect for people that do things differently from you."
Didn't you read the definition you put up? I'd say putting a person who takes sniplets of other peoples performances and puts them together and plays them for people is a very loose definition of "performer". Some would call them "theives".
Perhaps the ability to have a free mac.com email address for life with the purchase of a new Mac. That would be cool.
But, being a.Mac subscriber, there are a lot of great features to the service that it's nominal $99 a year price justifies. iSyncing is great. The ability to have my bookmarks on all 3 Mac synced is awesome. Along with my schedule and address book. Plus, I could do my email as well. I can back stuff up. And I can even do a webpage with iWeb now.
I'd happily pay for it again. What does Microsoft offer?
When a turntable is a musical instrument, I'll redefine musician to incorporate people who use them. As a percussion instrument? I think that would be very much stretching it. I'll go ask some professional percussion/drum players and see what they say....
"So do you also think that collage is not a form of art, merely because it involves a visual artist taking elements of other works and combining them into something else? What about work like Lichtenstein's paintings of comic book panels, or Warhol's paintings of ordinary objects (e.g. cans of soup)?"
I wasn't debating art or not. I find offense in calling someone a musician who simply takes the works of others and splices them together. Call them something else, but not a musician.
"This is remarkably wrong in many ways. Music is copyrightable, but not patentable, due to a lack of utility. Ideas are unownable against the world, and are not the subject matter of patents, or copyrights, or any other form of legal right. And AFAIK there is no concept of de minimis patent infringement."
Still one can "own" an idea for a certain amount of time. So you go take a Metallica song, and do a version of it that is 95% the same, and see how long Lars takes to sue you.
"A Musician who just spins tracks together". That's a musician? Wow. So, they "sample" parts of songs, and mix them all together. Seems like we need to reclassify them as a "mixer" rather than a musician. I think putting these people in with musicians is belittling to musicians. Seriously.
So, if you apply the idea of a patent in the business world to the music world, you can see where the problems are. A musical idea is something that a person can claim to own. So, if a "mixer" comes in and samples more than a certian amount (like 5 seconds I think), they are essentially stepping on the musician's "patent".
I don't know, I think the whole things is a bunch of B.S. But knowing people who actually do music for a living, I think 96% of them are offended by people stealing ideas without credit. After all, they did come up with the idea, and they should get something. Right? If you came up with a new device, and someone saw it (or in the music world, heard it), and then a week later they had the device (or tune or whatever), you'd be upset. Right?
This is true. I really don't see why I'd want to download a music video from IF I could transfer the same file TO my phone from my computer. Right now, you can't do that (as far as I can tell). And, outside the ROKR phone, you can't play iTunes songs. Seems rather dumb to me. Why can't we just be able to buy and use a phone that supports video (like the iPod with Video), music (like the iPod), and is in a package like a RAZR, and that I, the user, can put whatever I want on it. MP3s or AACs that I own, video's I've downloaded or created LEGALLY.
The cell phone industry seems really dumb. I think a lot of people would want a hard drive based MP3 player which is cool (like in iPod or RAZR cool), and has a camera, can play video, and can play music. No one seems able to do it. Perhaps Apple might? I hope.
I'd also like the device to be able to do PDA type things, like hold my contacts and schedule, and sync them via bluetooth.
I don't see how these "services" are any good. Verizon keeps pushing it's "Amazing videos" in it's mobile service. Why would I want to watch a video on my phone? I teach kids who have bought ring tones. They would rather see a phone in the form of a RAZR that can hook up with iTunes. None of them have raved about their video enabled phones. All of them have raved about their new iPods (Mini, Nanos, Videos).
I think there is a lot of disconnect between what people want and what execs think people want.
Are we watching the SAME show? Bad acting? What? Bad plots? What??!?!
Both seasons of Galactica have been great. The second season has been extremely good. Better than the first season. There have been some episodes that are just amazing.
Absolutely the best show on. House would be my number 2.
I was getting all my DVDs next day for a long time. Now, I'll put a DVD in the mail on Friday or Saturday, Netflix receives it on Monday, and then they say the next ones will ship on Tuesday, and they are not next day anymore. Not sure if this is due to the Holiday season or what. It will be interesting to see if this contiunes after the new year.
In all I've had a great experience with Netflixs. I've received a couple of cracked discs, and they are very good about sending out replacements. If they just had a Porno section I'd be set;-)
Amazing. Slashdot actually has a phone? And they were able to dial it and talk to a person to verify an "article" here? Wow. Hell must be really cold right now.
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A couple of other great Animes would be Rahxephon, Parallel Dual, Martian Successor Nadesico, Elfen Lied, Bleach, Full Metal Alchemist.....There are soo many.....Escaflowne, Macross, Last Exile, Read Or Die....
I'd have to say Champloo and Bebop are among the best. Rahxephon had a couple of good episodes, and I liked the ending. Bleach is an ongoing series.
However, a lot of the main character devices are the same. Protecting others/loved ones, or becoming better. Almost all of them kind of rotate around those two themes (like Beach, RahXephon). Not that it is bad or anything.
That is sad. I'm not saying I'm a cook. But I do know how to cook things, and I have many, many times cooked things following the directions on how to cook them. It's not hard, it just requires following the steps.
To be a real cook, now, that is really something. I had a girlfriend who was a cook, and it was incredible how she could make things taste better. Simple things, like hamburgers. She'd add some spices to the meat and......yum!
Why not take the 2 minutes and look for yourself? What happens the day you lose power? Or are hit by a storm that knocks out all your electricity? Are you going to starve to death? Sounds like it....go Darwin! Go!
Yes indeed. Why not just go get some microwave food at the store if you can't cook?
Somehow, I find this pretty sad. People don't want to learn anything. Cooking is a great skill to learn, and it's fun to learn. 95% of it is following the directions. I suppose having a chip in there makes it easier to surf the net while cooking? (not that surfing in the kitchen is a good idea...)
"To be honest, it sounds like you're just trying to belittle DJs. This is a tired, petty arguement, and you should be ashamed to have started it. DJs call themselves DJs, if they make the music themselves then they also call themselves producers. It doesn't matter anyways because a musician is:"
All the people I know who DJ call themselves DJs. No crime. No offense. Many don't know how to play anything, but they don't go around calling themselves musicians. They freely admit they have no musical training.
"noun: a composer, conductor, or performer of music; especially an instumentalist.
A 'mixer' as you call him, is a performer of music. I promise there is performance in it, and there's a big difference between a good DJ and a lousy one. Should we just call a sax player an instrumentalist because that's all he really is? No. I have plenty of respect for more traditional aspects of music. Now have some respect for people that do things differently from you."
Didn't you read the definition you put up? I'd say putting a person who takes sniplets of other peoples performances and puts them together and plays them for people is a very loose definition of "performer". Some would call them "theives".
Perhaps the ability to have a free mac.com email address for life with the purchase of a new Mac. That would be cool.
.Mac subscriber, there are a lot of great features to the service that it's nominal $99 a year price justifies. iSyncing is great. The ability to have my bookmarks on all 3 Mac synced is awesome. Along with my schedule and address book. Plus, I could do my email as well. I can back stuff up. And I can even do a webpage with iWeb now.
But, being a
I'd happily pay for it again. What does Microsoft offer?
Turntable is not an instrument. Look it up.
When a turntable is a musical instrument, I'll redefine musician to incorporate people who use them. As a percussion instrument? I think that would be very much stretching it. I'll go ask some professional percussion/drum players and see what they say....
You have to be kidding. A system of notation for turntables? My God.....
Look, call them something else. An "arranger", a "mixer".
Elvis played an instrument. And sang. Both of which meet the definition of a musician.
Ah, but Bach is not around to complain about it. His works are PUBLIC DOMAIN. As are the majority of pre 20th century people....
Speaking as someone who is in a cover band, songs I put together I say I arranged. So, I'm the arranger in the band.
I wasn't debating art or not. I find offense in calling someone a musician who simply takes the works of others and splices them together. Call them something else, but not a musician.
"This is remarkably wrong in many ways. Music is copyrightable, but not patentable, due to a lack of utility. Ideas are unownable against the world, and are not the subject matter of patents, or copyrights, or any other form of legal right. And AFAIK there is no concept of de minimis patent infringement."
Still one can "own" an idea for a certain amount of time. So you go take a Metallica song, and do a version of it that is 95% the same, and see how long Lars takes to sue you.
"A Musician who just spins tracks together". That's a musician? Wow. So, they "sample" parts of songs, and mix them all together. Seems like we need to reclassify them as a "mixer" rather than a musician. I think putting these people in with musicians is belittling to musicians. Seriously.
So, if you apply the idea of a patent in the business world to the music world, you can see where the problems are. A musical idea is something that a person can claim to own. So, if a "mixer" comes in and samples more than a certian amount (like 5 seconds I think), they are essentially stepping on the musician's "patent".
I don't know, I think the whole things is a bunch of B.S. But knowing people who actually do music for a living, I think 96% of them are offended by people stealing ideas without credit. After all, they did come up with the idea, and they should get something. Right? If you came up with a new device, and someone saw it (or in the music world, heard it), and then a week later they had the device (or tune or whatever), you'd be upset. Right?
Well, I believe even if you play the CD for a "public performance" you are supposed to pay royalties.
Check out this, and this.
No no, they are going to continue to provide Windows users lots of bugs and expolits and other things to patch. Oh the joy.
I believe that this site has all you need to know about Vista. A shameless ripoff of Mac OS X. Pity that Microsoft doesn't have any new ideas..
Doubtful. I'd put my money on a cell phone/PDA/iPod combo before they introduce a Tablet computer.
Check out this site. I still think the best Ad ever was the Intel Bunny guy getting burned. Genius!
HAL: "I think you are. Your heart rate is really high."
HAL: "Your breathing is heavy."
HAL: "Dave...........no Dave, no!"
HAL: "Dave, that is just wrong!"
Now, why would I want a computer that could sense stuff?
The cell phone industry seems really dumb. I think a lot of people would want a hard drive based MP3 player which is cool (like in iPod or RAZR cool), and has a camera, can play video, and can play music. No one seems able to do it. Perhaps Apple might? I hope.
I'd also like the device to be able to do PDA type things, like hold my contacts and schedule, and sync them via bluetooth.
I think there is a lot of disconnect between what people want and what execs think people want.
Both seasons of Galactica have been great. The second season has been extremely good. Better than the first season. There have been some episodes that are just amazing.
Absolutely the best show on. House would be my number 2.
In all I've had a great experience with Netflixs. I've received a couple of cracked discs, and they are very good about sending out replacements. If they just had a Porno section I'd be set ;-)
Amazing. Slashdot actually has a phone? And they were able to dial it and talk to a person to verify an "article" here? Wow. Hell must be really cold right now.
*wipes the slober away* Yup. I agree. She's the one to watch on the show. The SHARK week episode is very highly rated in my book ;-)