"Hikaru no Go" is a great anime series that you can download for free, as high-quality MPEG4 files. They are fansubbed. The series is great! It has great character development. Don't judge the show until you watch at least the first 5 episodes.
Most people can't stop watching after they have seen the first 5 episodes. So just give it a chance.
Akira Touya is giving Hikaru some of his own medicine. Hikaru refused to play Touya in the begining, and now Touya is doing the same.
The tension between those two rivals is one of the big appeals of the show. That and the fact that Touya is just so fucking cool in that elite way.
Yeah, leaving his friends was a drag, but Hikaru paid one of the prices of success. Most of his friends supported him though... with the exception of Mitani, of course. Also notice that Hikaru and crew ages throughout the series. Compare him in later seasons to how he was originally drawn.
I have seen up to and including episode 70. I can't wait to see the rest.
I never would have thought I would enjoy an anime like this. Thing is, the show doesn't always take the plot turns and twists that you want it to take.
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I thought that there was a poll, and most slashdotters weren't Christian, but instead were Hindi or Muslim. I might be wrong though.
It is not part of western culture, so you have to make anime recommendations whenever possible. There is one anime series that I was introduced to and loved. Hearing a description of what the show is about will turn most off, so I won't try to describe much about the show, except:
1. There is no violence, gore, sex, or robots.
2. On the surface, it is about professional gaming. Though the game played is 4000 years old.
3. Underneath the surface, the show is about a person that starts out as a loser and has no passion in life... is serious about nothing, but then finds his calling.
What makes "Hikaru no Go" such a good anime? Character development! You get attached to the characters. You relate with some and hate others. Sure all stories have that, but Hikaru no Go is different somehow...
My recommendation, even to those who "know they won't like it", is to just download and watch the first 5 episodes, which are masterfully fan subtitled and available using BitTorrent from AnimeTorrents. It should take one night to download the first 5 episodes, which are very high quality xvid files.
I thought that I would either hate or not enjoy Hikaru no Go, but I took the challenge and downloaded and watched the first 5 episodes. I must say that it is the best anime I have seen since Cowboy Bebop. Yet it is nothing like Cowboy Bebop.
Just because a work of art is great in one medium doesn't mean that it will be great in another. Yes, you will often see manga to anime and visa versa, but other than that conversion... most other conversions are a waist of time.
Making a live action version of an anime will not improve it. Live action is not better than anime. It is different.
Mozilla already has a similar feature, that lets you bookmark a group of tabs. Since every morning, I read slashdot, news.google, and a few other sites... I have them all bookmarked as my "Daily Reading".
Internet Explorer lacks such features. Anyway, I have an interest in Safari because improvements in it will possibly make their way into Konqueror. Also, ideas spread, so new useful features in web browsers will most likely end up in every browser (Mozilla, Konq, Opera...) except Internet Explorer;-)
Exactly! Id Software is John Carmack and John Carmack is Id Software. John Carmack is the kind of guy that has his games ported to Linux out of the goodness of his heart, not because it is making him money.
Furthermore, John Carmack is also the same guy that releases his game engines under the GPL, once they are past their prime. Finally, John Carmack has also worked on open source projects... if I remember correctly, he helped develop Matrox drivers for Linux.
Also throw in the fact that the openness of the PC allows and the openness of Id Software's previous games veritably created the mod scene that spawned such things as Threewave CTF, Team Fortress, Rocket Arena... and arguably Half-Life, Counter-Strike, etc... Not releasing a PC port would kill this aspect of the community, or at least it would leave Id Software out of it.
It would be smart for Id to sit on Doom 3 until the XBOX port is done because they will still be making money, cuz Microsoft is paying them, AND during that time, they can tweak, fix bugs, and add more polish to the PC version of Doom 3. It would be bad to delay the game for a long peroid of time, but if it is just a few months... Microsoft is basically paying them to add more polish to the PC version of Doom 3.
My favorite was the kid who was suspended for pointing a chicken wing at a teacher in the cafeteria. Suposedly, the chicken wing was shaped like a gun.
Defining a programming language in terms of a small set of consucts is nothing new. Such things are already common when creating a new PL, look at modern languages such as Haskell and Mozart-Oz.
However, even in those aforementioned languages, reductionism is not the #1 priority for the core language. Reductionism is useful, but must be balanced with other goals.
Still, you see calls for the use of reductionism everywhere. Science and Philosophy are the worst areas to use it.
In ethics, for example, why is it assumed that morality can be summed up in a small collection of rules of thumb? You end up with incomplete or contradictory systems of ethics.
The same goes for science. Why should nature obey simple laws? Nature could in fact obey horrible complex laws inconceivable to man.
So back to programming languages... yes a simple system should be a priority, but elegance, efficiency, ease of use, etc... are also top priorties. THEY WILL ALWAYS BE TOP PRIORITIES!
Its silly to think that there will be a day when we have fast enough CPUs and enough memory, such that efficiency no longer matters. Resources always being finite, we will always want more.
The future with regards to programming languages will have more to do with:
1. Stronger static type systems for correctness, security, concurrency, etc... 2. More refined constructs for structing programs both in data and algorithm.
See my grandparent post for areas of math where such things ideas will be found or created.
I think it's important not just that the axioms be well chosen, but that there be few of them. Mathematicians have always felt this way about axioms-- the fewer, the better-- and I think they're onto something.
To anyone that has studied theoretical computer science and/or programming languages knows that such reductionism is a fallacy. "...the fewer, the better..."
It turns out that its better to strike a balance, where you make the formal mathematical system (what a programming language is after all) as simple as possible, until you get to the point where making it more simple makes it more complicated. Or in other words, making it more simple would cloud the mathematical structures that you are describing.
Here are some examples of reductionism gone too far: Sheffer stroke, X = \z.zKSK, one instruction assembler, etc...
The only logical connective you need is the sheffer stroke... but thats of no use to us as it is easier to more connectives such as conjunction, disjunction, implication, and negation.
The only combinator you need is X, and you can compute anything... but making use of other combinators... or better yet the lambda-calculus is more useful.
Point is that we need more powerful tools that we can actually use, and there is no simple description of what makes one tool better than another. Applying reductionism can result in nothing special.
The true places to look for what the future brings with regards to programming languages are the following:
1. Mobile-Calculi: pi-calculus, etc... 2. Substructural Logics: linear-logic, etc... 3. Category Theory: It is big on structure, which is useful to computer scientists.
"Let's not even get on to Mandrake, which is, by far, the easiest OS install ever"
Are you kidding me? I guess you have never tried Knoppix. You just put the CD in the CD drive and reboot. Knoppix does everything else. Of course, it runs off the CD, but you can install the HD, if you want.
This brings up a point about BitTorrent. It is great for popular recent files, with a file size greater than 100MB. For smaller, or more rare, or older files, use one of the other P2P technologies.
I love mathematics (especially stuff like Category Theory, Lambda-calculi, etc...), but why does Slashdot always post number theory stories? You can try to view all of math through numbers, but you are missing out on allot of structure by doing so.
Super Puzzle Fighter is the best puzzle game ever! I used to play strictly Tetris with my friends, but Tetris just doesn't let you set up huge combos like Puzzle Fighter. The game looks like you won't enjoy it, but just play it for at least 30 minutes, with a few of your friends. Its one of my favorite games of all time!
Besides, if you really want to get to the truth, Muslims historically have been the ones to strike first for religious differences. ONCE AGAIN, READ A LITTLE.
Yes, as long as you ignore all of those crusades, which was the first full-scale war between western christianity and middle-eastern islam. Note that the Christians started the crusades to kill the unbelievers. Of course, the word "crusade" is politically correct in this country, but its arabic equivalent, "jihad", is not.
Another thing, the grunts in the military tend to be even more brainwashed than the average civilian. So your buds in Kuwait aren't a good info source. Just as Sadaam's elite guard aren't a good source for unbiased info.
That is NOTHING! On my University campus (in the USA), all Muslim international students have to register themselves.
Of course, this is cloaked as: requiring international students from X set of countries to regularly "register" themselves on a regular basis and to keep the "registration" department filled on everytime they go to the bathroom (ok an exaggeration, but you get the point).
Since every predominantly Muslim nation is included in the set of those to register, it has the effect of forcing Muslims to be registered. I understand that international students from all nations have to keep proper paperwork and stuff, but there is some Nazi-like program now, setup for Muslims. I am Christian and find this scary....history repeating...
Why don't more people realize that CS is applied math? CS is about algorithms, complexity, computability, etc... all of these concepts resulted from Hilbert's programme of metamathematics, which was started about 100 years ago. Maybe University's should require a CS history course in addition to the history of wars courses student's are already required to take.
In my opinion: Paul is the antichrist. He hijacked Jesus's message, and turned it into the fundie crap most Christians follow today. Jesus taught real world lessons that can improve society as of now! So many things Paul says contradict the teachings of Jesus. Jesus taught tolerance, Paul spoke of intolerance. Jesus preached peace, Paul preached the sword.
Most of Jesus's teachings make sense, though they may be difficult or impractical (e.g. turn the cheak). Paul's teachings are nothing more than brain rot, circular reasoning, and intolerance.
The Gospel of Mark is probably the only reliable part of the New Testament, being written soon after the death of Jesus. Everything else was added by frauds, or copied from Mark.
Another thing that this will greatly improve on Linux is gaming. Gaming tends to be highly interactive, and lowering the operating system's latency will put an end to those little hiccups Linux games sometimes get.
Latency on Linux is totally going to stomp latency on a Microsoft OS. Can't wait to see the benchmarks on that!
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"Hikaru no Go" is a great anime series that you can download for free, as high-quality MPEG4 files. They are fansubbed. The series is great! It has great character development. Don't judge the show until you watch at least the first 5 episodes.
Most people can't stop watching after they have seen the first 5 episodes. So just give it a chance.
You can download Hikaru no Go from AnimeTorrents. Make sure to install BitTorrent first... which is extremely easy.
Akira Touya is giving Hikaru some of his own medicine. Hikaru refused to play Touya in the begining, and now Touya is doing the same.
The tension between those two rivals is one of the big appeals of the show. That and the fact that Touya is just so fucking cool in that elite way.
Yeah, leaving his friends was a drag, but Hikaru paid one of the prices of success. Most of his friends supported him though... with the exception of Mitani, of course. Also notice that Hikaru and crew ages throughout the series. Compare him in later seasons to how he was originally drawn.
I have seen up to and including episode 70. I can't wait to see the rest.
I never would have thought I would enjoy an anime like this. Thing is, the show doesn't always take the plot turns and twists that you want it to take.
I thought that there was a poll, and most slashdotters weren't Christian, but instead were Hindi or Muslim. I might be wrong though.
It is not part of western culture, so you have to make anime recommendations whenever possible. There is one anime series that I was introduced to and loved. Hearing a description of what the show is about will turn most off, so I won't try to describe much about the show, except:
1. There is no violence, gore, sex, or robots.
2. On the surface, it is about professional gaming. Though the game played is 4000 years old.
3. Underneath the surface, the show is about a person that starts out as a loser and has no passion in life... is serious about nothing, but then finds his calling.
What makes "Hikaru no Go" such a good anime? Character development! You get attached to the characters. You relate with some and hate others. Sure all stories have that, but Hikaru no Go is different somehow...
My recommendation, even to those who "know they won't like it", is to just download and watch the first 5 episodes, which are masterfully fan subtitled and available using BitTorrent from AnimeTorrents. It should take one night to download the first 5 episodes, which are very high quality xvid files.
I thought that I would either hate or not enjoy Hikaru no Go, but I took the challenge and downloaded and watched the first 5 episodes. I must say that it is the best anime I have seen since Cowboy Bebop. Yet it is nothing like Cowboy Bebop.
Just because a work of art is great in one medium doesn't mean that it will be great in another. Yes, you will often see manga to anime and visa versa, but other than that conversion... most other conversions are a waist of time.
Making a live action version of an anime will not improve it. Live action is not better than anime. It is different.
You should try the FuhQuake Quake client, which updates the eyecandy for Quake and its mods. Check it out!
Mozilla already has a similar feature, that lets you bookmark a group of tabs. Since every morning, I read slashdot, news.google, and a few other sites... I have them all bookmarked as my "Daily Reading".
;-)
Internet Explorer lacks such features. Anyway, I have an interest in Safari because improvements in it will possibly make their way into Konqueror. Also, ideas spread, so new useful features in web browsers will most likely end up in every browser (Mozilla, Konq, Opera...) except Internet Explorer
Exactly! Id Software is John Carmack and John Carmack is Id Software. John Carmack is the kind of guy that has his games ported to Linux out of the goodness of his heart, not because it is making him money.
Furthermore, John Carmack is also the same guy that releases his game engines under the GPL, once they are past their prime. Finally, John Carmack has also worked on open source projects... if I remember correctly, he helped develop Matrox drivers for Linux.
Also throw in the fact that the openness of the PC allows and the openness of Id Software's previous games veritably created the mod scene that spawned such things as Threewave CTF, Team Fortress, Rocket Arena... and arguably Half-Life, Counter-Strike, etc... Not releasing a PC port would kill this aspect of the community, or at least it would leave Id Software out of it.
It would be smart for Id to sit on Doom 3 until the XBOX port is done because they will still be making money, cuz Microsoft is paying them, AND during that time, they can tweak, fix bugs, and add more polish to the PC version of Doom 3. It would be bad to delay the game for a long peroid of time, but if it is just a few months... Microsoft is basically paying them to add more polish to the PC version of Doom 3.
I am a fan of that movie, but I didn't make the connection when I first heard of the kid getting expelled. That movie was strange... very strange.
My favorite was the kid who was suspended for pointing a chicken wing at a teacher in the cafeteria. Suposedly, the chicken wing was shaped like a gun.
Defining a programming language in terms of a small set of consucts is nothing new. Such things are already common when creating a new PL, look at modern languages such as Haskell and Mozart-Oz.
However, even in those aforementioned languages, reductionism is not the #1 priority for the core language. Reductionism is useful, but must be balanced with other goals.
Still, you see calls for the use of reductionism everywhere. Science and Philosophy are the worst areas to use it.
In ethics, for example, why is it assumed that morality can be summed up in a small collection of rules of thumb? You end up with incomplete or contradictory systems of ethics.
The same goes for science. Why should nature obey simple laws? Nature could in fact obey horrible complex laws inconceivable to man.
So back to programming languages... yes a simple system should be a priority, but elegance, efficiency, ease of use, etc... are also top priorties. THEY WILL ALWAYS BE TOP PRIORITIES!
Its silly to think that there will be a day when we have fast enough CPUs and enough memory, such that efficiency no longer matters. Resources always being finite, we will always want more.
The future with regards to programming languages will have more to do with:
1. Stronger static type systems for correctness, security, concurrency, etc...
2. More refined constructs for structing programs both in data and algorithm.
See my grandparent post for areas of math where such things ideas will be found or created.
To anyone that has studied theoretical computer science and/or programming languages knows that such reductionism is a fallacy. "...the fewer, the better..."
It turns out that its better to strike a balance, where you make the formal mathematical system (what a programming language is after all) as simple as possible, until you get to the point where making it more simple makes it more complicated. Or in other words, making it more simple would cloud the mathematical structures that you are describing.
Here are some examples of reductionism gone too far: Sheffer stroke, X = \z.zKSK, one instruction assembler, etc...
The only logical connective you need is the sheffer stroke... but thats of no use to us as it is easier to more connectives such as conjunction, disjunction, implication, and negation.
The only combinator you need is X, and you can compute anything... but making use of other combinators... or better yet the lambda-calculus is more useful.
Point is that we need more powerful tools that we can actually use, and there is no simple description of what makes one tool better than another. Applying reductionism can result in nothing special.
The true places to look for what the future brings with regards to programming languages are the following:
1. Mobile-Calculi: pi-calculus, etc...
2. Substructural Logics: linear-logic, etc...
3. Category Theory: It is big on structure, which is useful to computer scientists.
"Let's not even get on to Mandrake, which is, by far, the easiest OS install ever"
Are you kidding me? I guess you have never tried Knoppix. You just put the CD in the CD drive and reboot. Knoppix does everything else. Of course, it runs off the CD, but you can install the HD, if you want.
Check out this site, for TV episodes through BitTorrent. Did you miss the latest Simpsons episode? What about Smallville? Well, just download them!
This brings up a point about BitTorrent. It is great for popular recent files, with a file size greater than 100MB. For smaller, or more rare, or older files, use one of the other P2P technologies.
I used knx-hdinstall with the latest version of Knoppix, and it was as easy to install as Redhat... yet the end result was a Debian install!
I love mathematics (especially stuff like Category Theory, Lambda-calculi, etc...), but why does Slashdot always post number theory stories? You can try to view all of math through numbers, but you are missing out on allot of structure by doing so.
Super Puzzle Fighter is the best puzzle game ever! I used to play strictly Tetris with my friends, but Tetris just doesn't let you set up huge combos like Puzzle Fighter. The game looks like you won't enjoy it, but just play it for at least 30 minutes, with a few of your friends. Its one of my favorite games of all time!
Yes, as long as you ignore all of those crusades, which was the first full-scale war between western christianity and middle-eastern islam. Note that the Christians started the crusades to kill the unbelievers. Of course, the word "crusade" is politically correct in this country, but its arabic equivalent, "jihad", is not.
Another thing, the grunts in the military tend to be even more brainwashed than the average civilian. So your buds in Kuwait aren't a good info source. Just as Sadaam's elite guard aren't a good source for unbiased info.
That is NOTHING! On my University campus (in the USA), all Muslim international students have to register themselves.
...history repeating...
Of course, this is cloaked as: requiring international students from X set of countries to regularly "register" themselves on a regular basis and to keep the "registration" department filled on everytime they go to the bathroom (ok an exaggeration, but you get the point).
Since every predominantly Muslim nation is included in the set of those to register, it has the effect of forcing Muslims to be registered. I understand that international students from all nations have to keep proper paperwork and stuff, but there is some Nazi-like program now, setup for Muslims. I am Christian and find this scary.
Paying taxes supports terrorism.
Why don't more people realize that CS is applied math? CS is about algorithms, complexity, computability, etc... all of these concepts resulted from Hilbert's programme of metamathematics, which was started about 100 years ago. Maybe University's should require a CS history course in addition to the history of wars courses student's are already required to take.
In my opinion: Paul is the antichrist. He hijacked Jesus's message, and turned it into the fundie crap most Christians follow today. Jesus taught real world lessons that can improve society as of now! So many things Paul says contradict the teachings of Jesus. Jesus taught tolerance, Paul spoke of intolerance. Jesus preached peace, Paul preached the sword.
Most of Jesus's teachings make sense, though they may be difficult or impractical (e.g. turn the cheak). Paul's teachings are nothing more than brain rot, circular reasoning, and intolerance.
The Gospel of Mark is probably the only reliable part of the New Testament, being written soon after the death of Jesus. Everything else was added by frauds, or copied from Mark.
Who cares about caotic anarchy, death, destruction, starvation, drug abuse, etc... when you can sing and dance!
Another thing that this will greatly improve on Linux is gaming. Gaming tends to be highly interactive, and lowering the operating system's latency will put an end to those little hiccups Linux games sometimes get.
Latency on Linux is totally going to stomp latency on a Microsoft OS. Can't wait to see the benchmarks on that!