OK, I'm just going to go for one little tidbit here. I'll let the rest lie.
There is no way you can challenge that more people dislike/don't carefor anime in the US then people like anime
1. Pokemon, while far from the best Anime, was one of the most successfull cartoons of all time so far as popularity at height goes. I am fairly young (22) but in my lifetime I hadn't seen any other cartoon with quite the popularity that Pokemon enjoyed.
2. I shouldn't have to challenge your point. As you made a positive assertion, the burden of proof should lie with you and you have made NO effort in any of your posts to prove any of your points except to go on your own emotional and subjective prefrences.
3. Walk around a mall (if you can stand it) you will see more T-Shirts with Anime characters/logos than you will see other animation styles. Probably by a HUGE margin.
4. Cartoon Network currently runs, or has VERY recently run: Dragon Ball Z, Dragon Ball.hack//sigh Teen Titans, Inuyasha, The Big O, Zoids, Pokemon, Yu Gi Oh!, SD Gundum, Transformers Armada, and Cyborg 009. They are constantly trying to get new anime miniseries that are suitable for their audiences (mostly children) and do not seem to have made any effort to stop.
5. To refute your point: Otherwise you would see anime all over and all major release cartoon films would be of anime style. You do see Anime all over. As far as movies go, you are seeing more and more movies becoming more and more Anime-style, even the non-animes. Furthermore Animes often take longer to make and are more expensive. It is often better financialy to pay for second-rate artists (or, to give you the benifit of the doubt, artists who don't waste their time doing TO much detail) and not have to pay them as much than it would be to get the really talented artists (or the artists who waste more time on detail) thus get more profits even though the Anime may have been prefered by the audience. Furthermore, your logic that "all major release cartoon films would be of anime style" is flawed, as that would only be true if ALL people prefered Anime to standard cartoons, not just MOST. Your point would have been better stated "most major... films would be of anime style." On that stronger argument, my cost analysis counterargument still holds.
6. Best Animated feature goes to... Spirited Away
7. A growing number of students of all ages are taking Japaneese classes, or even teaching themselves Japaneese just to be able to watch Anime Cartoons in the native language. Although this, by itself, does not prove larger numbers of Anime enjoyers, it does provide evidence to the claim by pointing out how far some people will go to enjoy this medium.
8. Many major universities have Anime Clubs, as do many communities. I've yet to see a "classic" cartoon club.
9. Many american cartoons are emulating some aspects of Animes. PowerPuff girls is a notable example. While they are 100% American, many elements of their drawing style is very Animesh. Immitation is the most sincere form of flattery.
10. I am an Education Major, in my practiums in elementary schools, I have heard much more chatter about animes (although rarly was the word "Anime" used) than about the other cartoons. The Dragonball and Gundum serieses in paticular are common topics of discussion. (Although I admit, I might just NOTICE the anime discussions more)
Ok, Not only did I find a way to challenge your assertion, I found 10 DIFFERENT ways. Not all are perfect, i'll admit this. But I think your claim that your position is unchallengably obvious has been shown to be indefendable.
Good animation is not about detail!!
US animators are less talented/care less so let's change the subject.
Looneytoons is still going strong today because they are what cartoons are ment to be. Animal based charators with non stop comedy.
I won't accept any animation that isn't like what I grew up with: Pointless slapstick violence with no plot development or characteraziation.
Use of humans in cartoons is going away from the point of cartoons
I don't like realism in art, I prefer escapeism and making the characters humans makes me think to much. Furthermore I am the grand judge of the point of cartoons and none may gainsay my word.
If what your are going for is detail, I sugest you check out movies and tv shows with real live actors, the detail of a human being in just great.
I also don't understand why anyone would want to look at a painting or inkcolor when you could just go out and look at a real, live person. The whole "art" thing is just a bunch of people wasting their time looking at things like the Mona Lisa or Rembrant's Sunflower when they could be looking at ther real thing.
Or in short. I don't like art. I don't like to think. I don't like anything that challenges my worldview. I don't like change. I don't like complexity.
I beleive the origional poster meant seamless intragration from one network to another, not just different access points on the same network. At this point TCP/IP doesn't do this very easily as the same IP number won't work on a different network.
Yes, it equates to Nazi's following orders! Some Nazi's were ordered to build bridges, others were ordered to guard positions, others were ordered to figure out how to pull Germany's economy out of the gutter. I think SCO coders equate to the Nazi's who had NOTHING to do with any of the atrocities. And I don't think this is a bad thing! They do what they have to do, they don't commit any crimes, and they come out alive (or at least employed).
Admittable, suing IBM, and committing genocide are vastly different on the scale of evil, but as an extreme analogy, it works.
But what is truth?
Is truth unchanging law?
We both have truths.
Are mine the same as yours?
-From Jesus Christ Superstar.
First of let me say that I beleive in and accept Christ. That being said, I beleive that people who think there is a logical basis for beleif in God to be either ignorant or fools. The preponderence of the evidence is against the existance of God. That is what faith is for. Faith is the acceptance of that which is beyond proof. If you think you have proof, not only are you mistaken, but also you don't have true faith.
Furthermore I think that any mortal who thinks they understand the Truth of God. Who thinks they know what God wants, know God's reasons and know what is or isn't approved of by God are guilty of the sin of hubris. They presume way to much. I think somebody said something about "judge not" at one point, wonder who that cold have been?
Um, actually I thought it was cool to like the book. Which is why the New York Times made a seperate catagory for children's books in their bestsellers ratings, because so many "adult" book authors got their feelings hurt because they have no chance against Harry Potter. Kinda funny really.
Light! Am I the only person who liked CoT? It gave EXACTALY what I wanted, more information on how the rest of the world reacted to the extreme amounts of channeling that was required to cleanse the OP and more information about what everybody else was doing at the time. Personaly I think that if RJ hadn't included these elements, you'd all be bitching about what he left out! Blood and bloody ashes people! Have you no patience? Don't try to rush the last battle, it will come when it will come.
Yes. I've met one of each of those. The sports geeks (if they're good) will know the history of most major sports, and a few minor ones. The history is beyond what would be found in almanics and will include the predesessors of the sport. They will understand one or two sports (like CS geeks will understand one or two programming languages) extensively. They are able to tell you about all the current rules and the progression from earlier rules that brought the current rules into being. They know nearly every current player in their sport of choice (The hockey geek I knew could give me the entire starting roster of every team in the NHL (I had to use google to even find out what the teams were)). Sport geeks often invent their own plays/moves, and these often actualy work on whatever level they are playing at and they can support why such a play/tecnique would work in the majors. (I'm sure some people in the majors ARE sports geeks, but I have no way of knowing.) Although a sports geek may be a fan of a specific team, they are able to list the strong and weak points of any team more-or-less objectively.
As for fasion geek, see fung shui (spelling) masters for more information. (I guess, I know less on this topic)
Yeah, I read your post. Yeah I read the wiki on Ethics. Now what? Care to make your point yourself so I don't just have to guess what you're talking about? Or do you have a firmly establishable point?
This is why we get the reputation of being religious zealots instead of practical software developers/users. We are seen as having the mindset that ours is the One True Way. This is not a good thing, and it frankly is one of the major reasons I don't try to associate myself with the open source movement when applying for jobs and why I don't recomend it to individual clients I work for, unless I think they are already considering it, or I think they only know about it from the TV adds. Even our fearless leader (or his second in command according to the RMSites) has a balanced view on the issues; In the words of Linus torvalds I actually like some of Microsoft applications. I used to use PowerPoint to make my slides when I was talking about Linux for example. I don't think Microsoft is evil in itself; I just think that they make really crappy operating systems. I realize this quotation isn't as fun as the smoking crack soundbite, but I think it is more relavant to Open Source prostylazation debates.
Anything should work, however, I'm told that some of the more end-user based distros have custom kernels, so you might want to avoid Mandrake and Redhat and possibly Suse. Personaly, I'd say your BEST bets would be, as you indicated, LFS, Debian, and Slackware although I could also add Gentoo to the list. Whatever your distro, you should at least be able to get basic boot without crashing, although some apps might have some minor problems.
No, its pointless optimism in a broken system that lets those same companies get away with what they do. The system is flawed, the flaws MUST be brought to light for there to be a snwoball's chance in hell at fixing them. So long as people think that anyone who claims the system is broken is written off as defeatest or extremist, people will continue thinking they actualy have a voice when in fact they do not. Our government only has the concent of the governed because the people are intentionaly mislead into thinking that their wants and needs make a difference in a real way and it will take the awakening of the people for this to have a chance of changing.
But I don't have as much money to contribute to the representatives' re-election campaigns as the people who profit on the abuse of the current system. Wich do most congresmen care more about, my single informed vote, or the ability to influence thousands of uninformed votes with campaign propaganda paid for by the Companies?
Somebody else here can give a better discription, but here are the very basics. In standard iso burining the first thing (and last thing incidentily) on the disk is the index for the entire disk. It includes such information as the last sector with readable data (i think). On a CD-ROM (read only memory!) this is fine and very efficient. However, on a rewritable medium you might want to change the contents of the cd at some time (say, add one file to an almost-full cd). With the ISO filesystem you would have to reburn the ENTIRE disk, as the index file is already written, and cannot be added to because the first bit of data is immediatly after the index. This, I think all will agree, sucks. Packet writing is much more like a traditional FS because instead of burning the entire CD as a single image, it breaks it down into self-contained packets, the CD drive has to spend more time scanning the disk to get drive contents than it would with a CD-ROM index, but you can just plop another packet at the end of the cdrom without problem. Again, I'm not an expert, I'm sure some of my details are wrong, but that is the basic idea.
Because we have broken the patent system. Unstead of patenting products the idiotic US patent system now lets us patent ideas thus if you just patent the idea of something, nobody can make a competing product, even via different methods. Yes, this is completly against the origional intent of patent law, but origional patent law (like copyright law BTW) was intended to protect/help the individual creator, and limit the power of large coorperations and big buisnesses, now that the coorperations and big buisnesses have gained control of the government, they can reintrepret the law to suit them.
Unrestricted? Cool, that quite plainly means no restrictions, I can do whatever I want on the system! First thing I want to do is set up a server for my pay pr0n site, then host a commercial spambot. I'm sorry, I thought you said the service had no restrictions!
NO! Don't try to explain the law to a judge! Judges tend to understand the law better than the average./er. You might have to explain the technology to the judge, but I'm sure the defence will do an ample job at explaining that SCO's claims are BS. The defence WILL, by law, know all the evidence against them and shouldn't have a hard time proving their innocence of the noncrime. All we really need to do is wait for a verdict and do what we can to inform INVESTORS that SCO's claim is ridiculous as a matter of law.
I'm sure he provided a sample of something while he was on friendly terms with the USA. Its not like we never had access to him. Hell, they might have found flakes of his hair or skin in Rumsfeld's bedsheets.
It would be pretty simple, mod any post that ends with the line *"is dying" or *"is dead" as -1 troll. This would save the moderators a lot of trouble and if the code change isn't announced, you won't have people doin inane things like:
X is dead
lkdfjlkad;s;sakhgl;dks;sjfa;ldsfjl;dsfja
forget the 'must have all manual body to learn photography'.
Depends on to what extent you want to learn photography. If your desire is either to get above average pictures quickly, or to work inactive shots only, this may be true. (i personaly don't think so, but I'm unsure enough to give the benifit of the doubt.) But if you are willing to take some time to get the best photos possible, or if you want to shoot action on an inexpensive camera, go manual focus only.
First, you can do things with manual focus you just can't do with autofocus without major cheeting, and the cheeting generaly requires knowledge of how you SHOULD take the shot on a manual. Shots of this type are where you have three items, a middle subject, a foreground and a background, all approximently equidistant. If you want to set your apature wide and get a large focal tolerance and then get two parts in focus and leave the third out (setting the focus between the two) you can do this easily on a manual focus, but this is difficult on an automatic. However, this is fairly advanced technique, if all you desire is the ability to take above-average (though not perfect) shots of what's going on around you.
Secondly, on action, inexpensive autofocus cameras just can't hack it if your subject changes distance in relation to you rapidly. If you're good, damn good, you can do much better than all but the most expensive autofocus cameras with your manual. So if you want to shoot sports events, especialy things like American Football, football/soccer, or basketball where people move rapidly and spuraticly, your autofocus just won't track fast enough. (Side note, in order to get good at manual focus, sit near a highway and track moving cars, then start shifting from a car comming one direction to a car comming from the other direction. You'll be a focusmaster in 5-10 rolls of film)
Another reason for going with all manual, is that it is easier to go from all manual to autofocus/autoexposure, than it is to go from autofocus to all-manual.
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There is no way you can challenge that more people dislike/don't carefor anime in the US then people like anime
1. Pokemon, while far from the best Anime, was one of the most successfull cartoons of all time so far as popularity at height goes. I am fairly young (22) but in my lifetime I hadn't seen any other cartoon with quite the popularity that Pokemon enjoyed.
2. I shouldn't have to challenge your point. As you made a positive assertion, the burden of proof should lie with you and you have made NO effort in any of your posts to prove any of your points except to go on your own emotional and subjective prefrences.
3. Walk around a mall (if you can stand it) you will see more T-Shirts with Anime characters/logos than you will see other animation styles. Probably by a HUGE margin.
4. Cartoon Network currently runs, or has VERY recently run: Dragon Ball Z, Dragon Ball .hack//sigh Teen Titans, Inuyasha, The Big O, Zoids, Pokemon, Yu Gi Oh!, SD Gundum, Transformers Armada, and Cyborg 009. They are constantly trying to get new anime miniseries that are suitable for their audiences (mostly children) and do not seem to have made any effort to stop.
5. To refute your point: Otherwise you would see anime all over and all major release cartoon films would be of anime style. You do see Anime all over. As far as movies go, you are seeing more and more movies becoming more and more Anime-style, even the non-animes. Furthermore Animes often take longer to make and are more expensive. It is often better financialy to pay for second-rate artists (or, to give you the benifit of the doubt, artists who don't waste their time doing TO much detail) and not have to pay them as much than it would be to get the really talented artists (or the artists who waste more time on detail) thus get more profits even though the Anime may have been prefered by the audience. Furthermore, your logic that "all major release cartoon films would be of anime style" is flawed, as that would only be true if ALL people prefered Anime to standard cartoons, not just MOST. Your point would have been better stated "most major ... films would be of anime style." On that stronger argument, my cost analysis counterargument still holds.
6. Best Animated feature goes to... Spirited Away
7. A growing number of students of all ages are taking Japaneese classes, or even teaching themselves Japaneese just to be able to watch Anime Cartoons in the native language. Although this, by itself, does not prove larger numbers of Anime enjoyers, it does provide evidence to the claim by pointing out how far some people will go to enjoy this medium.
8. Many major universities have Anime Clubs, as do many communities. I've yet to see a "classic" cartoon club.
9. Many american cartoons are emulating some aspects of Animes. PowerPuff girls is a notable example. While they are 100% American, many elements of their drawing style is very Animesh. Immitation is the most sincere form of flattery. 10. I am an Education Major, in my practiums in elementary schools, I have heard much more chatter about animes (although rarly was the word "Anime" used) than about the other cartoons. The Dragonball and Gundum serieses in paticular are common topics of discussion. (Although I admit, I might just NOTICE the anime discussions more)
Ok, Not only did I find a way to challenge your assertion, I found 10 DIFFERENT ways. Not all are perfect, i'll admit this. But I think your claim that your position is unchallengably obvious has been shown to be indefendable.
Good animation is not about detail!!
US animators are less talented/care less so let's change the subject.
Looneytoons is still going strong today because they are what cartoons are ment to be. Animal based charators with non stop comedy.
I won't accept any animation that isn't like what I grew up with: Pointless slapstick violence with no plot development or characteraziation.
Use of humans in cartoons is going away from the point of cartoons
I don't like realism in art, I prefer escapeism and making the characters humans makes me think to much. Furthermore I am the grand judge of the point of cartoons and none may gainsay my word.
If what your are going for is detail, I sugest you check out movies and tv shows with real live actors, the detail of a human being in just great.
I also don't understand why anyone would want to look at a painting or inkcolor when you could just go out and look at a real, live person. The whole "art" thing is just a bunch of people wasting their time looking at things like the Mona Lisa or Rembrant's Sunflower when they could be looking at ther real thing.
Or in short. I don't like art. I don't like to think. I don't like anything that challenges my worldview. I don't like change. I don't like complexity.
Bloody Philistine.
I beleive the origional poster meant seamless intragration from one network to another, not just different access points on the same network. At this point TCP/IP doesn't do this very easily as the same IP number won't work on a different network.
Admittable, suing IBM, and committing genocide are vastly different on the scale of evil, but as an extreme analogy, it works.
Is truth unchanging law?
We both have truths.
Are mine the same as yours?
-From Jesus Christ Superstar.
First of let me say that I beleive in and accept Christ. That being said, I beleive that people who think there is a logical basis for beleif in God to be either ignorant or fools. The preponderence of the evidence is against the existance of God. That is what faith is for. Faith is the acceptance of that which is beyond proof. If you think you have proof, not only are you mistaken, but also you don't have true faith.
Furthermore I think that any mortal who thinks they understand the Truth of God. Who thinks they know what God wants, know God's reasons and know what is or isn't approved of by God are guilty of the sin of hubris. They presume way to much. I think somebody said something about "judge not" at one point, wonder who that cold have been?
Um, actually I thought it was cool to like the book. Which is why the New York Times made a seperate catagory for children's books in their bestsellers ratings, because so many "adult" book authors got their feelings hurt because they have no chance against Harry Potter. Kinda funny really.
Well, I'm sure some of them are 16. But you're right, I miscounted. Thanks for the correction. And my point still stands, they arn't 12.
Light! Am I the only person who liked CoT? It gave EXACTALY what I wanted, more information on how the rest of the world reacted to the extreme amounts of channeling that was required to cleanse the OP and more information about what everybody else was doing at the time. Personaly I think that if RJ hadn't included these elements, you'd all be bitching about what he left out! Blood and bloody ashes people! Have you no patience? Don't try to rush the last battle, it will come when it will come.
By the time of OoTP the main characters are 16, not twelve.
As for fasion geek, see fung shui (spelling) masters for more information. (I guess, I know less on this topic)
Yeah, I read your post. Yeah I read the wiki on Ethics. Now what? Care to make your point yourself so I don't just have to guess what you're talking about? Or do you have a firmly establishable point?
This is why we get the reputation of being religious zealots instead of practical software developers/users. We are seen as having the mindset that ours is the One True Way. This is not a good thing, and it frankly is one of the major reasons I don't try to associate myself with the open source movement when applying for jobs and why I don't recomend it to individual clients I work for, unless I think they are already considering it, or I think they only know about it from the TV adds. Even our fearless leader (or his second in command according to the RMSites) has a balanced view on the issues; In the words of Linus torvalds I actually like some of Microsoft applications. I used to use PowerPoint to make my slides when I was talking about Linux for example. I don't think Microsoft is evil in itself; I just think that they make really crappy operating systems. I realize this quotation isn't as fun as the smoking crack soundbite, but I think it is more relavant to Open Source prostylazation debates.
Please Define "Enormous amounts"
If it isn't much money to you, would you PLEASE send me just HALF of it? Please? No? Why not?
Short answer, just do it.
Shorter answer: Yes
No, its pointless optimism in a broken system that lets those same companies get away with what they do. The system is flawed, the flaws MUST be brought to light for there to be a snwoball's chance in hell at fixing them. So long as people think that anyone who claims the system is broken is written off as defeatest or extremist, people will continue thinking they actualy have a voice when in fact they do not. Our government only has the concent of the governed because the people are intentionaly mislead into thinking that their wants and needs make a difference in a real way and it will take the awakening of the people for this to have a chance of changing.
But I don't have as much money to contribute to the representatives' re-election campaigns as the people who profit on the abuse of the current system. Wich do most congresmen care more about, my single informed vote, or the ability to influence thousands of uninformed votes with campaign propaganda paid for by the Companies?
Somebody else here can give a better discription, but here are the very basics. In standard iso burining the first thing (and last thing incidentily) on the disk is the index for the entire disk. It includes such information as the last sector with readable data (i think). On a CD-ROM (read only memory!) this is fine and very efficient. However, on a rewritable medium you might want to change the contents of the cd at some time (say, add one file to an almost-full cd). With the ISO filesystem you would have to reburn the ENTIRE disk, as the index file is already written, and cannot be added to because the first bit of data is immediatly after the index. This, I think all will agree, sucks. Packet writing is much more like a traditional FS because instead of burning the entire CD as a single image, it breaks it down into self-contained packets, the CD drive has to spend more time scanning the disk to get drive contents than it would with a CD-ROM index, but you can just plop another packet at the end of the cdrom without problem. Again, I'm not an expert, I'm sure some of my details are wrong, but that is the basic idea.
Because we have broken the patent system. Unstead of patenting products the idiotic US patent system now lets us patent ideas thus if you just patent the idea of something, nobody can make a competing product, even via different methods. Yes, this is completly against the origional intent of patent law, but origional patent law (like copyright law BTW) was intended to protect/help the individual creator, and limit the power of large coorperations and big buisnesses, now that the coorperations and big buisnesses have gained control of the government, they can reintrepret the law to suit them.
Unrestricted? Cool, that quite plainly means no restrictions, I can do whatever I want on the system! First thing I want to do is set up a server for my pay pr0n site, then host a commercial spambot. I'm sorry, I thought you said the service had no restrictions!
NO! Don't try to explain the law to a judge! Judges tend to understand the law better than the average ./er. You might have to explain the technology to the judge, but I'm sure the defence will do an ample job at explaining that SCO's claims are BS. The defence WILL, by law, know all the evidence against them and shouldn't have a hard time proving their innocence of the noncrime. All we really need to do is wait for a verdict and do what we can to inform INVESTORS that SCO's claim is ridiculous as a matter of law.
He has been captured by the other oil barrons and is completly under their control.
I'm sure he provided a sample of something while he was on friendly terms with the USA. Its not like we never had access to him. Hell, they might have found flakes of his hair or skin in Rumsfeld's bedsheets.
X is dead
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Just a thought.
Depends on to what extent you want to learn photography. If your desire is either to get above average pictures quickly, or to work inactive shots only, this may be true. (i personaly don't think so, but I'm unsure enough to give the benifit of the doubt.) But if you are willing to take some time to get the best photos possible, or if you want to shoot action on an inexpensive camera, go manual focus only.
First, you can do things with manual focus you just can't do with autofocus without major cheeting, and the cheeting generaly requires knowledge of how you SHOULD take the shot on a manual. Shots of this type are where you have three items, a middle subject, a foreground and a background, all approximently equidistant. If you want to set your apature wide and get a large focal tolerance and then get two parts in focus and leave the third out (setting the focus between the two) you can do this easily on a manual focus, but this is difficult on an automatic. However, this is fairly advanced technique, if all you desire is the ability to take above-average (though not perfect) shots of what's going on around you.
Secondly, on action, inexpensive autofocus cameras just can't hack it if your subject changes distance in relation to you rapidly. If you're good, damn good, you can do much better than all but the most expensive autofocus cameras with your manual. So if you want to shoot sports events, especialy things like American Football, football/soccer, or basketball where people move rapidly and spuraticly, your autofocus just won't track fast enough. (Side note, in order to get good at manual focus, sit near a highway and track moving cars, then start shifting from a car comming one direction to a car comming from the other direction. You'll be a focusmaster in 5-10 rolls of film)
Another reason for going with all manual, is that it is easier to go from all manual to autofocus/autoexposure, than it is to go from autofocus to all-manual.