The last thing we need is more help for people drawing furries and "anime" for DeviantArt...
The First Netscape was revolutionary
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Netscape Turns 10
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· Score: 4, Insightful
While the older versions of Netscape is the butt of many a joke, nothing beats the electricity I felt when I first started browsing the web with Netscape. I mean, back then, browsing with Netscape, I knew that the web was going to be something huge (I remember playing silly games on Nintendo's web site). Netscape had a huge hand in creating that and the web as we know it. There were browsers before (not to mention IRC, Gopher, etc.) but Netscape helped bring the WWW and the Internet to the masses.
More power to Netscape's heir, Firefox, which is set to take the web crown back and help perfect the web experience Netscape pioneered.
The appropriate non-demoninational response to a sneeze is "You're SOOO good looking."
Mount St. Helens, you're sooo good looking.
Re:This could be good...
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Star Wars TV Show
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· Score: 4, Interesting
That was the good thing about the X-Wing/TIE Fighter/XW Alliance PC games. For the most part, especially in the X-Wing games and the first campaigns in TIE Fighter you were a grunt, just another fighter pilot. You got a soldier's eye view of the Rebellion (from both sides) and it was interesting. Far more interesting than the bullshit prequel movies. You weren't saving the world, just doing your job in this universe and that was engaging and entertaing.
I'd love to see some intelligent show that went along the same lines as that. I read those Han Solo books too, way back in the day, and I agree; you saw the "universe," people's lives, not just the world changing events.
Weak? Dynasty Warriors, and Minna no Golf (and to some degree Puyo) are HUGE in Japan. If the PSP remains semi relevant in Japan, it can hang on long enough for some major title to win hearts and minds in the U.S. (like Final Fantasy 7 did for the original PS1).
I'm a Nintendo fanboy through and through, but defintely, while I'm not going nuts over the PSP launch line up, it defintely has some strong Japanese titles that can keep it afloat for a bit.
I have been refusing to give any more money to Lucas, be it the new DVDs or Episode III, but the commercials for the trilogy DVDs almost (ALMOST!) changed my mind) they change is very apparent, even if you've watched the LDs or especially on cable. All three films look much crisper and brighter - I almost thought for a second that Lucas had added some new stuff.
I still won't be buying the trilogy, but I'm amazed at how good the restoration looks.
I dislike replying to my own comments, but we can see the beginnings of a Meiji style ultra nationalist/Islamist movement in Iraq, but the perfect parallel has been Iran: America's brilliant strategy in that country has proven to be very effective.
In short, yes, Japan sucked during WWII. However, if you think it was completely their fault, you don't know any history. Add to that, if you think Japanese people not even born during the war deserved to get ill because of the bombings, you're obviously American.
If you knew ANYTHING about Japanese history you would know that the war was precipitated by America's heavy handed foreign policy which effectively fell the moderate Bakufu government. The replacement, the ultra-nationalist Meiji government preciptated the war.
So, once again, American foreign policy creates an ultra nationalist state which sees the West as an enemy. Anyone see a parallel with Iraq?
Additionally, Japan was doing what the West did 50 - 100 years before - raping other countries for resources (believe me, I'm from Bangladesh and the British were little better than Japan). I'm sorry your ancestors were crazy bastards that killed thousands of Bengalis, from paupers to princes in the country to consolitate power. I won't hold it against you, though, unlike you, who seem to think today's Japanese folks had a hand in planning the war.
Finally, the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were not only unnessary (most people in the know back then knew Japan was close to capitulating without the bombs), they had terrible effects on people NOT EVEN BORN during the war. Children, for christ's sake. I'd say its a war crime, but then, America did it, so it can't be wrong, right?
They show the scenes in the gameboy version of the game (still pictures of the filmed footage). It's takes elements of the Scouring.
SPOILER AHEAD:
Gandalf, Theoden, and the rest of the crew talk with Saruman and Wormtongue, who are stuck in the tower. It seems to follow the book, more or less, but at the end, Denethor says that Worm served him once, in his own way and that he would let him free. Saruman (as in the Scouring) says that he really did act against Theoden - by poisoning his son. Wormtonge says Saruman made him do it and kills Saruman.
You post to Slashdot and you think Al Gore is a "wooden bore?" Have you ever seen Futurama? That's him - his daughter was A WRITER for the show!
If you blindly accept the picture the media (encouraged by the right) painted of Gore, a joke became a sterotype - Al Gore is a hilarious guy, if you look past the soundbites on the nightly news.
The radio stations vs. MS - who does/. hate more? Head will explode as geeks, nerds, and other basement people decide among two (count'em, two!) evils!
What about Clerks the animated series? I loved the cartoon and I heard some rumblings about a film version of that, though all talk of it seems to have dropped off the face of the earth. Anyone know more than I?
Clerks the animated series was an animated series that had as much in common with Family Guy and the Simpsons as it does with the original clerks films - (the cast all returned but it had as many asides and silly off the wall jokes as other animated series). It ran on ABC for two episodes or so. I've heard Eisner said he didn't get it and the show was promptly canned. However, a 2 DVD set with 6 episodes of the series was released and it's a ball to watch with friends. The commentary is fun and the show just gets wilder and wilder ans Smith & Co realize it's not going to get aired. I'm not sure if the DVD commentary or IMDB (or both) mentioned it, but there was talk of a film version of the animated series.
While I generally agree with you, I think automatic translation, if even possible, is not going to be in any version of office in the near future.
I'm ethnically bangladeshi, speak japanese (kinda), and was raised in the u.s. Out of the three languages, I know there are somethings that simply don't translate (even some common phrases) for whatever reasons. Both Bengali and Japanese let you (in fact, encourage) dropping the subject of a sentence if its already understood. That would be hard, if not impossible for a computer to pick up on.
I can think of another set of examples that *could* be translated into something similar if the computer had a person's intuitative abilities; in bengali there's a phrase that literally translates to "If I let you sit, you want to lay down." I know that roughly carries the same meaning as the english idiom "If I give an inch, you'll take a mile," but outside of brute forcing every idiom one by one I don't see a computer being able to make the connection.
Far be it for me to predict the future (watch google come out tomorrow with some brilliant translation tool), but considering the complexity and nuance of human language, I doubt "automatic translation tools" any better than babelfish's garbeledness are anywhere near the horizon.
I actually have an anime movie from work of City Hunter. I wasn't expecting much but it's actually pretty funny. It's the typical cop-saves governmental offical's daughter spiel but taken on its own merits it was actually pretty good.
Both the article and the comments so far seem to suggest that electronic style music works best for computer games. As an fan of Uematsu Nobou, I tend to disagree - Uematsu does the score for Final Fantasy (every game in the main series, except the upcoming 12). For the most part, Uematsu's often brilliant composition seems stunted, especially if you listen to any of the Final Fantasy orchestra CDs (which replay the FF music with real instruments - either piano, full orchestra, or in the case of FFV an electronic album, or Song Book or IV Celtic Moon, in celtic style).
However, even Uematsu presents a challenge: I didn't like FF8, but Laguna's theme is electronic music. Of all the major themes in recent final fantasy games to be translated into orchestra, The Man With the Machine Gun is almost always the poorest - it was best as a thumping electronic theme, with a lot of looping.
While electronic music may seem obvious in a game, it often isn't. Take a medieval game - Fire Emblem or even Lord of the Rings. Thumping techno beats don't sound right with those titles. Orchestra work has to be gameified. Star Wars did this well in X-Wing/TIE Fighter/Alliance - it dynamically loaded themes during missions according to what was going on - if new Imperial ships came in, the Imperial theme would cue. Another theme would come in when your reinforcements did.
The really interesting thing after playing both were my reactions to the music - after X-Wing I would cringe when I heard the Imperial theme, as it always meant more enemy ships. But after TIE Fighter, the Imperial theme began to sound noble.
As some games get closer to movies, they will get more orchestral soundtracks (Final Fantasy). Some games will continue to have loopy techno music, like puzzle games. Games like TIE Fighter will creatively straddle the power of orchestra and looping nature of gaming.
Doom 1 was seminal because it popularized FPSes. Doom 3 isn't innovative. Yes it uses some technology, but who remembers technical achievements? They're the minor awards at the academy awards.
People remember Mario 64 for having to chase baby penguins, because it was the first game to popularize the 3D platformer.
Doom 3 doesn't change the formula. Maybe, as a console gamer I'm biased, but Doom 3 is certainly the belle of the ball now, unless the mod community really takes off I don't seeing it being a watermark for gaming.
According to another post here on/. WinSpy is smart about it - it only takes cap when someone is using the computer and stops taking pictures when there is no activity/screensaver/etc.
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Slashdot is a "news" organization?!?
The last thing we need is more help for people drawing furries and "anime" for DeviantArt...
While the older versions of Netscape is the butt of many a joke, nothing beats the electricity I felt when I first started browsing the web with Netscape. I mean, back then, browsing with Netscape, I knew that the web was going to be something huge (I remember playing silly games on Nintendo's web site). Netscape had a huge hand in creating that and the web as we know it. There were browsers before (not to mention IRC, Gopher, etc.) but Netscape helped bring the WWW and the Internet to the masses.
More power to Netscape's heir, Firefox, which is set to take the web crown back and help perfect the web experience Netscape pioneered.
In their video for "Three Little Pigs,"
"And the moral of the story is, ' A band with no talent can easily amuse idiots with a stupid, puppet show."
Have you never watched Seinfeld?
The appropriate non-demoninational response to a sneeze is "You're SOOO good looking."
Mount St. Helens, you're sooo good looking.
That was the good thing about the X-Wing/TIE Fighter/XW Alliance PC games. For the most part, especially in the X-Wing games and the first campaigns in TIE Fighter you were a grunt, just another fighter pilot. You got a soldier's eye view of the Rebellion (from both sides) and it was interesting. Far more interesting than the bullshit prequel movies. You weren't saving the world, just doing your job in this universe and that was engaging and entertaing.
I'd love to see some intelligent show that went along the same lines as that. I read those Han Solo books too, way back in the day, and I agree; you saw the "universe," people's lives, not just the world changing events.
That explains Zell Miller!
This is...so evil...and amazingly funny...amazingly funny and evil...funnily evil and amazing.
/. though.
I am truly speechless. As wrong as it is, it is still so damn funny. Doesn't seem like those girls would be reading
One can dream, one can dream.
Weak? Dynasty Warriors, and Minna no Golf (and to some degree Puyo) are HUGE in Japan. If the PSP remains semi relevant in Japan, it can hang on long enough for some major title to win hearts and minds in the U.S. (like Final Fantasy 7 did for the original PS1).
I'm a Nintendo fanboy through and through, but defintely, while I'm not going nuts over the PSP launch line up, it defintely has some strong Japanese titles that can keep it afloat for a bit.
I have been refusing to give any more money to Lucas, be it the new DVDs or Episode III, but the commercials for the trilogy DVDs almost (ALMOST!) changed my mind) they change is very apparent, even if you've watched the LDs or especially on cable. All three films look much crisper and brighter - I almost thought for a second that Lucas had added some new stuff.
I still won't be buying the trilogy, but I'm amazed at how good the restoration looks.
I dislike replying to my own comments, but we can see the beginnings of a Meiji style ultra nationalist/Islamist movement in Iraq, but the perfect parallel has been Iran: America's brilliant strategy in that country has proven to be very effective.
In short, yes, Japan sucked during WWII. However, if you think it was completely their fault, you don't know any history. Add to that, if you think Japanese people not even born during the war deserved to get ill because of the bombings, you're obviously American.
If you knew ANYTHING about Japanese history you would know that the war was precipitated by America's heavy handed foreign policy which effectively fell the moderate Bakufu government. The replacement, the ultra-nationalist Meiji government preciptated the war.
So, once again, American foreign policy creates an ultra nationalist state which sees the West as an enemy. Anyone see a parallel with Iraq?
Additionally, Japan was doing what the West did 50 - 100 years before - raping other countries for resources (believe me, I'm from Bangladesh and the British were little better than Japan). I'm sorry your ancestors were crazy bastards that killed thousands of Bengalis, from paupers to princes in the country to consolitate power. I won't hold it against you, though, unlike you, who seem to think today's Japanese folks had a hand in planning the war.
Finally, the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were not only unnessary (most people in the know back then knew Japan was close to capitulating without the bombs), they had terrible effects on people NOT EVEN BORN during the war. Children, for christ's sake. I'd say its a war crime, but then, America did it, so it can't be wrong, right?
They show the scenes in the gameboy version of the game (still pictures of the filmed footage). It's takes elements of the Scouring.
SPOILER AHEAD:
Gandalf, Theoden, and the rest of the crew talk with Saruman and Wormtongue, who are stuck in the tower. It seems to follow the book, more or less, but at the end, Denethor says that Worm served him once, in his own way and that he would let him free. Saruman (as in the Scouring) says that he really did act against Theoden - by poisoning his son. Wormtonge says Saruman made him do it and kills Saruman.
You post to Slashdot and you think Al Gore is a "wooden bore?" Have you ever seen Futurama? That's him - his daughter was A WRITER for the show!
If you blindly accept the picture the media (encouraged by the right) painted of Gore, a joke became a sterotype - Al Gore is a hilarious guy, if you look past the soundbites on the nightly news.
The radio stations vs. MS - who does /. hate more? Head will explode as geeks, nerds, and other basement people decide among two (count'em, two!) evils!
What about Clerks the animated series? I loved the cartoon and I heard some rumblings about a film version of that, though all talk of it seems to have dropped off the face of the earth. Anyone know more than I?
Clerks the animated series was an animated series that had as much in common with Family Guy and the Simpsons as it does with the original clerks films - (the cast all returned but it had as many asides and silly off the wall jokes as other animated series). It ran on ABC for two episodes or so. I've heard Eisner said he didn't get it and the show was promptly canned. However, a 2 DVD set with 6 episodes of the series was released and it's a ball to watch with friends. The commentary is fun and the show just gets wilder and wilder ans Smith & Co realize it's not going to get aired. I'm not sure if the DVD commentary or IMDB (or both) mentioned it, but there was talk of a film version of the animated series.
While I generally agree with you, I think automatic translation, if even possible, is not going to be in any version of office in the near future.
I'm ethnically bangladeshi, speak japanese (kinda), and was raised in the u.s. Out of the three languages, I know there are somethings that simply don't translate (even some common phrases) for whatever reasons. Both Bengali and Japanese let you (in fact, encourage) dropping the subject of a sentence if its already understood. That would be hard, if not impossible for a computer to pick up on.
I can think of another set of examples that *could* be translated into something similar if the computer had a person's intuitative abilities; in bengali there's a phrase that literally translates to "If I let you sit, you want to lay down." I know that roughly carries the same meaning as the english idiom "If I give an inch, you'll take a mile," but outside of brute forcing every idiom one by one I don't see a computer being able to make the connection.
Far be it for me to predict the future (watch google come out tomorrow with some brilliant translation tool), but considering the complexity and nuance of human language, I doubt "automatic translation tools" any better than babelfish's garbeledness are anywhere near the horizon.
A) Where can I meet this Jane Boxwine? She can use my computer whenever she likes :)
;) I'm sure you meant 8GB, though, I had a machine with about those same specs.
B) Isn't 8MB a little sparse?
Did any of you mods see the movie?
It's a joke, laugh.
All this because of one movie? C'mon Bush administration!
I actually have an anime movie from work of City Hunter. I wasn't expecting much but it's actually pretty funny. It's the typical cop-saves governmental offical's daughter spiel but taken on its own merits it was actually pretty good.
Both the article and the comments so far seem to suggest that electronic style music works best for computer games. As an fan of Uematsu Nobou, I tend to disagree - Uematsu does the score for Final Fantasy (every game in the main series, except the upcoming 12). For the most part, Uematsu's often brilliant composition seems stunted, especially if you listen to any of the Final Fantasy orchestra CDs (which replay the FF music with real instruments - either piano, full orchestra, or in the case of FFV an electronic album, or Song Book or IV Celtic Moon, in celtic style).
However, even Uematsu presents a challenge: I didn't like FF8, but Laguna's theme is electronic music. Of all the major themes in recent final fantasy games to be translated into orchestra, The Man With the Machine Gun is almost always the poorest - it was best as a thumping electronic theme, with a lot of looping.
While electronic music may seem obvious in a game, it often isn't. Take a medieval game - Fire Emblem or even Lord of the Rings. Thumping techno beats don't sound right with those titles. Orchestra work has to be gameified. Star Wars did this well in X-Wing/TIE Fighter/Alliance - it dynamically loaded themes during missions according to what was going on - if new Imperial ships came in, the Imperial theme would cue. Another theme would come in when your reinforcements did.
The really interesting thing after playing both were my reactions to the music - after X-Wing I would cringe when I heard the Imperial theme, as it always meant more enemy ships. But after TIE Fighter, the Imperial theme began to sound noble.
As some games get closer to movies, they will get more orchestral soundtracks (Final Fantasy). Some games will continue to have loopy techno music, like puzzle games. Games like TIE Fighter will creatively straddle the power of orchestra and looping nature of gaming.
I disagree.
Doom 1 was seminal because it popularized FPSes. Doom 3 isn't innovative. Yes it uses some technology, but who remembers technical achievements? They're the minor awards at the academy awards.
People remember Mario 64 for having to chase baby penguins, because it was the first game to popularize the 3D platformer.
Doom 3 doesn't change the formula. Maybe, as a console gamer I'm biased, but Doom 3 is certainly the belle of the ball now, unless the mod community really takes off I don't seeing it being a watermark for gaming.
Man, they look just like normal suits with some extra crap on the front.
I was hoping for some anime utility suit or Gundam mech you climb inside of or something.
According to another post here on /. WinSpy is smart about it - it only takes cap when someone is using the computer and stops taking pictures when there is no activity/screensaver/etc.