The producer in Japan said that the title of the film should not have "2" in its name. The American title should have been Refer "Innocence - Ghost In the Shell". His intention was to target this movie to Japanese people who hadn't seen the original.
I think sequels are generally poorer than the initial movie and are a marketing convenience, but how many people won't see "2" because they missed "1"? Now that anime is widely popular (at least, compared to back in 1994), they should have stuck with the Japanese name.
"Innocence" also conveys the director's vision than "2" does. Mamoru Oshii is making a movie about life. What is human life and existance, as opposed to those that are machines? "Innocence": The theme of the movie.
Mamoru Oshii's vision is to make a movie that discusses--often overtly, which bothers some--the nature of human existence and how technology is changing the definition of humanity.
I've seen problems installing Japanese software on Windows. IE and wordpad work fine, but your Joe shareware or off-the-shelf software hasn't been tested on English Windows.
What you run into problems with are the wrong fonts get displayed in dialog boxes or whatever. So, even though Windows is trying to output Japanese, on your English Windows the dialog fonts don't work right.
And visa-versa, I used have problems inputing Japanese text into Adobe products like Illustrator or Photoshop. Some software crashes if you use IME to input.
Why would a criminal openly come out and say that the law is going put him in jail? It's highly unlikely "can spam" is going to adversely affect his so-called business. We don't know if him crying out is supposed to be a distraction or sympathy ploy, but we should be keeping both eyes on these creeps.
Manga characters are _always_ drawn by the artist; the person whose name appears on the cover. Assistants draw backgrounds, place screentones, dialog, sound effects, edit, etc.
Every drawing of the main characters from Ranma 1/2 the manga was drawn by Rumiko Takahashi. This is unlike the anime, where a team of artists and in-betweeners work on a show. An art director is in charge of making every character appear model.
If you want to hide your source, you can easily obfuscate. For example, I would suggest applying "gzip" to the final build. Then you can run the program by invoking "gcat" on it, and piping it to "/usr/bin/perl".
I haven't used a debugger in almost two years. I think the solution to diagnosing problems is to have in place a good logging framework (such as Log4J), which allows you to specify the verbosity of logging per subsystem. (Most people's complaints about using logging is that the noise/signal ratio is often too high to be useful.)
Usually, with a complicated program, it's fairly difficult (in an IDE) to trace the execution flow without stepping into the wrong subroutine or accidentally stepping over the routine you're really interested in. In a lot of cases, it will take more time setting up your IDE or debugger to do what you want, than it is to simply set up useful log statements that capture what you're really interested in. If you set up all your objects in Java to return useful debug strings from the "Object.toString()" method, you don't really need to use an IDE for inspectors or watches: You can customize debug information, avoiding information overload, and allows you to present just the critical data.
For memory profiling (leaks), disassemly, and performance analysis, a proper tool is very worthwhile. And I think that getting a stack trace from a core dump file useful. For everything else, I agree with Linus that debuggers don't really help you be more careful.
I guess I am alone in thinking that for the Singleton pattern, this sort of coding is sufficient:
public class Something {
private static Something s = new Something();
private Something() {}
public Something getInstance() { return s; }
}
You see in Java, unlike C++, we have a classloader that manages the loading (and thus creation) of a single instance of a class. If you are calling Something.getInstance, presumably the class-loader will then load the Something class at that time, instantiate a sole instance, and return it to you, without having to worry about the details of thread-safety and creating multiple instances.
Anyway, using the Singleton pattern is not entirely "good programming practice", as it is often used to create "Global Variables" in disguise.
...but alas, almost all had Japanese keyboards and the Japanese version of Windows
I'm typing on a Japanese computer right now. The keyboard is just fine for typing in English. I don't understand the problem with getting a Japanese keyboard. There are a few extra keys and Japanese letters (hiragana) in addition to the usual letters, but I'd say it's way cooler, not a problem.
Japanese Windows, of course, requires you to be able to read, but all good geeks can install an English operating system on their computers.
What do you mean about sleep(3) not being thread-safe? I'd like to see more explaination about how you see Apache's code as not thread-safe. You are likely talking out of your arse, and you don't deserve to get moderated to '5'.
You are only addicted if you want to get a girlfiend, for example, and instead of pursuing that goal, you spend all your time working on your projects. Hobbies are addictive when you are using them to try to avoid feelings of depression, lonliness, rejection, low-self esteem, etc.
A lot of us nerds use hobbies to isolate themselves, despite feeling deep down a want of companionship. That kind of non-progressive activity is what's being discussed.
You can be addicted to anything, including work, sex, health food, doing dishes, volunteering, sleeping, walking, etc. Almost anything can be used to avoid dealing with unpleasant emotions or situations. Addiction not about how much you use something, or what you use, or if it is 'physically' addictive, but how it is used.
The article claims that is TV is being used the same way one might use a narcotic. Care to dispute this?
Of course humans have a disorder for everything: They uncannily find new 'substances' to abuse. The easier people can justify their behavior, the more indignant they feel when people point it out. (Yeah, people use religious thought to avoid the unpleasant fear of dying. Ever try to pursade a Christian to think otherwise?)
I'm sure you can make a list for almost any activity an average person does during the day, and you can find a 'disorder' for each of them. Sleeping, eating, cleaning, working, drinking, studying, etc.
I can't belive such a retarded post made it to a 5. Hey Jennifer, have you graduated high school yet? Did you read the article? Did you have to write this post to slam 'intellectuals' for giving you the bad news?
In Japan, you can get pre-paid cards transportation (and phone) cards from a vending machine (or convience store, or wherever) and once they are used up, you can throw them away. You can't be tracked using that sort of system.
Intellectual property is not property at all, but freely shareable ideas that the government says we can't freely share. There's no such thing as "stealing" intellectual property.
The government and corporate interests want to "steal" our rights and further restrict our ability to share intellectual property. There's something very wrong with having something taken from you and having it reluctantly sold back to you.
I remember seeing on PBS the other day that Tesla had the idea of creating directed energy beam weapons over eighty years ago. Anyway, it's one of those ideas that has resurfaced many times. Like in Reagan's Star Wars initiative, which was to shoot down missles in space.
I guess it has never been practical to actually create a weapon like that, when it's pretty cheap and effective to use depleted uranium bullets to tear missles apart like they do on Navy carriers and the like.
printf is thread safe. At least on UNIX. The standard library is thread safe for pretty much all functions these days. I guess on Windows it isn't the case, eh?
Do you think Dubya would have happily signed this one off? With all the rights infringing bills that get passed down from congress these days, I hate to think that there might be no one to stop them.
GTE just sent me the hardware in a box and I had to configure it myself. No one came over and no one had to check to see I was running Windows or had a working ethernet card.
Piece of cake, once I had the correct IP address and all.
There aren't phones per-se, but they have emergency beacon devices and short wave radio is always an option if you have the battery. There are satillite transmitters as well.
But, what would she do with a phone anyway? Call the police to get herself picked up? You're pretty much SOL if you're in need of emergency care and no one can reach you physically in a short amount of time.
I was wondering if anyone can tell me how to be able to enter Japanese text in Mozilla for Linux. Currently, I have Netscape 4.6 working under i386/Debian with kinput2. If anyone has an answer please post. (I seem to recall I could read Japanese text just fine. kinput2 doesn't come up like it should...)
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The producer in Japan said that the title of the film should not have "2" in its name. The American title should have been Refer "Innocence - Ghost In the Shell". His intention was to target this movie to Japanese people who hadn't seen the original.
I think sequels are generally poorer than the initial movie and are a marketing convenience, but how many people won't see "2" because they missed "1"? Now that anime is widely popular (at least, compared to back in 1994), they should have stuck with the Japanese name.
"Innocence" also conveys the director's vision than "2" does. Mamoru Oshii is making a movie about life. What is human life and existance, as opposed to those that are machines? "Innocence": The theme of the movie.
Mamoru Oshii's vision is to make a movie that discusses--often overtly, which bothers some--the nature of human existence and how technology is changing the definition of humanity.
I've seen problems installing Japanese software on Windows. IE and wordpad work fine, but your Joe shareware or off-the-shelf software hasn't been tested on English Windows.
What you run into problems with are the wrong fonts get displayed in dialog boxes or whatever. So, even though Windows is trying to output Japanese, on your English Windows the dialog fonts don't work right.
And visa-versa, I used have problems inputing Japanese text into Adobe products like Illustrator or Photoshop. Some software crashes if you use IME to input.
Mac OS X has had much better i18n support.
Why would a criminal openly come out and say that the law is going put him in jail? It's highly unlikely "can spam" is going to adversely affect his so-called business. We don't know if him crying out is supposed to be a distraction or sympathy ploy, but we should be keeping both eyes on these creeps.
Manga characters are _always_ drawn by the artist; the person whose name appears on the cover. Assistants draw backgrounds, place screentones, dialog, sound effects, edit, etc.
Every drawing of the main characters from Ranma 1/2 the manga was drawn by Rumiko Takahashi. This is unlike the anime, where a team of artists and in-betweeners work on a show. An art director is in charge of making every character appear model.
If you want to hide your source, you can easily obfuscate. For example, I would suggest applying "gzip" to the final build. Then you can run the program by invoking "gcat" on it, and piping it to "/usr/bin/perl".
For example:
$ gzip test.pl
$ mv test.pl.gz test.pl
$ zcat test.pl | perl
This would probably work well enough to hide source from non-techies.
"The Lion King" was essentially stolen from Japanese manga artist Osamu Tezuka. Take a look online.
I haven't used a debugger in almost two years. I think the solution to diagnosing problems is to have in place a good logging framework (such as Log4J), which allows you to specify the verbosity of logging per subsystem. (Most people's complaints about using logging is that the noise/signal ratio is often too high to be useful.)
Usually, with a complicated program, it's fairly difficult (in an IDE) to trace the execution flow without stepping into the wrong subroutine or accidentally stepping over the routine you're really interested in. In a lot of cases, it will take more time setting up your IDE or debugger to do what you want, than it is to simply set up useful log statements that capture what you're really interested in. If you set up all your objects in Java to return useful debug strings from the "Object.toString()" method, you don't really need to use an IDE for inspectors or watches: You can customize debug information, avoiding information overload, and allows you to present just the critical data.
For memory profiling (leaks), disassemly, and performance analysis, a proper tool is very worthwhile. And I think that getting a stack trace from a core dump file useful. For everything else, I agree with Linus that debuggers don't really help you be more careful.
public class Something {
private static Something s = new Something();
private Something() {}
public Something getInstance() { return s; }
}
You see in Java, unlike C++, we have a classloader that manages the loading (and thus creation) of a single instance of a class. If you are calling Something.getInstance, presumably the class-loader will then load the Something class at that time, instantiate a sole instance, and return it to you, without having to worry about the details of thread-safety and creating multiple instances.
Anyway, using the Singleton pattern is not entirely "good programming practice", as it is often used to create "Global Variables" in disguise.
I'm typing on a Japanese computer right now. The keyboard is just fine for typing in English. I don't understand the problem with getting a Japanese keyboard. There are a few extra keys and Japanese letters (hiragana) in addition to the usual letters, but I'd say it's way cooler, not a problem.
Japanese Windows, of course, requires you to be able to read, but all good geeks can install an English operating system on their computers.
60k words? That's more than all the slashdot editor's vocabularies put together!
Actually, not too many people have a spoken vocabulary that large.
What do you mean about sleep(3) not being thread-safe? I'd like to see more explaination about how you see Apache's code as not thread-safe. You are likely talking out of your arse, and you don't deserve to get moderated to '5'.
You are only addicted if you want to get a girlfiend, for example, and instead of pursuing that goal, you spend all your time working on your projects. Hobbies are addictive when you are using them to try to avoid feelings of depression, lonliness, rejection, low-self esteem, etc.
A lot of us nerds use hobbies to isolate themselves, despite feeling deep down a want of companionship. That kind of non-progressive activity is what's being discussed.
You can be addicted to anything, including work, sex, health food, doing dishes, volunteering, sleeping, walking, etc. Almost anything can be used to avoid dealing with unpleasant emotions or situations. Addiction not about how much you use something, or what you use, or if it is 'physically' addictive, but how it is used.
The article claims that is TV is being used the same way one might use a narcotic. Care to dispute this?
Of course humans have a disorder for everything: They uncannily find new 'substances' to abuse. The easier people can justify their behavior, the more indignant they feel when people point it out. (Yeah, people use religious thought to avoid the unpleasant fear of dying. Ever try to pursade a Christian to think otherwise?)
I'm sure you can make a list for almost any activity an average person does during the day, and you can find a 'disorder' for each of them. Sleeping, eating, cleaning, working, drinking, studying, etc.
I can't belive such a retarded post made it to a 5. Hey Jennifer, have you graduated high school yet? Did you read the article? Did you have to write this post to slam 'intellectuals' for giving you the bad news?
In Japan, you can get pre-paid cards transportation (and phone) cards from a vending machine (or convience store, or wherever) and once they are used up, you can throw them away. You can't be tracked using that sort of system.
Intellectual property is not property at all, but freely shareable ideas that the government says we can't freely share. There's no such thing as "stealing" intellectual property.
The government and corporate interests want to "steal" our rights and further restrict our ability to share intellectual property. There's something very wrong with having something taken from you and having it reluctantly sold back to you.
I remember seeing on PBS the other day that Tesla had the idea of creating directed energy beam weapons over eighty years ago. Anyway, it's one of those ideas that has resurfaced many times. Like in Reagan's Star Wars initiative, which was to shoot down missles in space.
I guess it has never been practical to actually create a weapon like that, when it's pretty cheap and effective to use depleted uranium bullets to tear missles apart like they do on Navy carriers and the like.
printf is thread safe. At least on UNIX. The standard library is thread safe for pretty much all functions these days. I guess on Windows it isn't the case, eh?
Do you think Dubya would have happily signed this one off? With all the rights infringing bills that get passed down from congress these days, I hate to think that there might be no one to stop them.
Why do people think reverse engineering is the same as theft?
The last version of RedHat had pretty poor Japanese support. Will it have to same level or so as Mandrake 7.1?
GTE just sent me the hardware in a box and I had to configure it myself. No one came over and no one had to check to see I was running Windows or had a working ethernet card.
Piece of cake, once I had the correct IP address and all.
If girls/women were doing computer work, there'd be almost twice the programmers, and I'd get paid a lot less.
So, what's the incentive here?
They support Japanese, as I've used the Japanese version on my own computer.
There aren't phones per-se, but they have emergency beacon devices and short wave radio is always an option if you have the battery. There are satillite transmitters as well.
But, what would she do with a phone anyway? Call the police to get herself picked up? You're pretty much SOL if you're in need of emergency care and no one can reach you physically in a short amount of time.
I was wondering if anyone can tell me how to be able to enter Japanese text in Mozilla for Linux. Currently, I have Netscape 4.6 working under i386/Debian with kinput2. If anyone has an answer please post. (I seem to recall I could read Japanese text just fine. kinput2 doesn't come up like it should...)