Yeah, and the same thing could be said about Israel. Both men and women in that nation have forced military duty. There are many ways to extrapolate that every citizen of any nation is in some way military.
For the NES, with fast paced games like Super Mario Bros, the correct "pro" way to hold the controller was with your thumb angled over both A and B buttons so that you could accurately press either button or both buttons. This allowed "twitch"-like reflexes. Using two fingures with the controller was far less common, and would give serious carpel tunnel symdrome to whoever tried playing like that for extended periods of time.
SuSe is a more polished and solid desktop Linux than Mandrake. Personally, I prefer more work upfront for ease of system care later on, so I use Debian. Installing Debian is more involved than other distros, but once you get everything setup correctly, you are done until you need to build a whole new computer. Upgrading Debian works, and is trivially easy, unlike other distro upgrades.
Anti-aliasing! Sheesh! You kids can only be satisfied by the latest wiz-bang graphics technologies! In my day, it was monochrome all the way, no anty-aliasing for us, no siree!
Falcon's Eye works great on my Windows 98 SE box. There are a few other graphical front-ends for Nethack. It would be interesting to see a front-end for the front-ends. So that I could select which interface I wanted on the fly. For some maps, the traditional ASCII interface, for others the Qt interface, and maybe if I am feeling in the need of even more eye-candy than the Qt interface, I can select the Flacon's Eye interface.
You don't get it, if you think that changing the interface to Nethack lessens the game. Nethack is about gameplay, graphics aren't a consideration. However, if you put icing on the cake, it doesn't make it less tasty.
hahahaha!!! God, I wish more people had at least a slightly better mathematics education. So many people fear, hate, or just plain don't understand math. Sad, truely sad.
The joke was "how many pounds in a gallon", which compares two different types. Of course, if you talk about how many gallons of water equals on pounds, then you are asking a different question.
What I don't understand about that episode is when bart is flying his kite outside at night... what is that a reference to? Its just too weird to not be a reference to something.
Everyone knows that Cantor's lame set theory is totally borked, and Category Theory is the new practical foundation for mathematics.
The best graphical version of Nethack...
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Sure you can play the Nethack with its original ASCII based interface, but the game is far more sexy with a full SVGA Diablo-esque interface (see screenshots on bottom of linked page). Note this game is fully open source, and still actively developed... even after more than a decade! This game has been polished to perfection.
Xolox, a gnutella for Windows, has been out for a long time now, and it allow for a client to serve parts of a *incompletely* downloaded file. Never underestimate the abilities of GNUtella.
Good god? Are you aware of the 500 plus mega ton nukes that we have? Yeah, we have quite a few. Enough that if detonated all in one place, would strip off a large part of the Earth's atmosphere. Not only that, but if all of these nukes were somehow held in the place, and then detonated (while still being held in place against the Earth)... they could tilt the Earth's axis. Oh, then there is that whole radiation thing.
I'm no tree hugger, but good god, as humans, our destructive abilities far outmatch our constructive abilities.
My opinion, if you want a RPM based distro, go with SuSe, and if you want the tightest, most sophisticated distro, go with Debian.
Once Debian gets a user-friendly OS installer, it will be more of a user-friendly distro than any other distro out there! Aside from the initial OS installation, Debian is extremely easy to use, maintain, upgrade, add/remove software too, etc...
If you correctly install Debian, which only has to be done once, then you are home free. Upgrading to a new version is a snap, adding more software is easy enough a 5-year-old and an 80-year-old could do it. If you are really committed to Linux, then I suggest that you take the time to learn how to correctly install and setup Debian... do that just once, and then rest back and enjoy free software for the rest of your life.
A 200W powersupply? Are you kidding me? VIA's Eden platform is ultra low power! The CPU doesn't even need to be cooled by fans. I think a 60W powersupply would be enough, if you had a low power harddrive, such as a solidstate CF HD... or one of those low power platter based drives.
I agree, restricting the movie to 18+ is wrong. Parents should watch such movies with their children, but at the parents discretion, and with the parents watching alongside their child.
In the following, by anime, I mean cell animated stories.
Making live action versions of classic anime in the USA is due to the common USA view of animation in general. As far as the average Joe is concerned, "cartoons are for kids" basically sums up the attitude towards anime.
One great example, which I recently bumped into is an old review of a classic anime movie "Grave of the Fireflies", where the reviewer has the movie listed under the headline "For Children". Anyone who has seen this movie knows that while it can be watched by children, it has so much emotional content that only a mature viewer could truely appreciate it. While "Adult Film" or "Film for mature audiences" in the USA means porn, it should mean movies like "Grave of the Fireflies". Again, I am not saying that "Grave..." isn't a movie that kids should watch - I am saying that giving it a headline "For Kids" is very silly.
Anyway, my main point is that in the USA, anime doesn't have the prestige that live action movies have. Somehow, I guess, movie execs think that making a great anime movie into a live action movie, somehow makes it better. Whatever... Its too bad because the average Joe is missing out on some great entertainment such as (my recommendations for the "average joe" slashdotter that isn't into anime but wants an introduction):
Ghost in the Shell (DVD): This is a roughly 1.5 hour movie, its Neuromancer mixed with Blade Runner. The English dub of this is good.
Serial Experiments Lain (DVD): This is an animated series of around 13 episodes 30 minutes each. It is a great neo-cyberpunk story. I would say its Neuromancer meets the X-Files - though these analogies are very crude. Also, stay away from the English dub of this series. Its awkward to say the least. The DVDs let you choose dub or subtitles, so go subtitles with this anime.
Cowboy Bebop (DVD): This is an animated series of (I can't remember how many) 30 minute episodes. Cowboy Bebop has a lot of everything for everyone. Comedy, action, violence, cyberpunk, mystery, drama, weirdness, etc... This is easy watching anime if that makes any sense. Its got style, thats for sure. The English dub is good, and I recommend it. Also, I recommend that you watch at least the first 4 episodes before drawing your opinion on this fine anime. Its not until then that you start to see the deep underlying plot of the entire series. Cowboy Bebop has lots of sugar and spice, bells and whistles, etc... but it also has a nice strong plotline.
The Blockbuster Video stores around my area rent anime. I don't rent, but buy, so I don't know if their selection is good or not. Its worth renting the above recommendations this weekend, if you haven't already seen them.
I am currently using it on Windows 98 SE - box has a 300a celeron and 128MB of RAM. My computer is self built and over 3 years old now. The browser performs nicely, speed wise. Of course, I only have one open right now. The real test is to concurrently surf several sites.
I suggest that every slashdotter download and use this build for at least a week straight... regardless of whether you already have a good browser or not. Personally, on Linux, I prefer Konqueror, but one sure way to help browser development and the internet is to use browsers besides Internet Explorer / Netscape. Let the world know that other browsers exist! Also, you can't make an accurate decision on a piece of software, unless you use it for day-to-day tasks. So download a copy, install it, surf your typical sites for a week, and then send bugs reports to the developers, write reviews, etc... However, don't write a "review" based on 30 minutes of "real world" use. No lame benchmarks either. Just surf with it. Try to forget what brand browser you are using. If you can't, then there is something wrong with your browser. Thats when I realized that Konqueror was truely becoming a solid browser... when I was surfing the web for about 8 hours with it, and I forgot that I was using Linux... forgot that I was surfing with konqueror... then I got off of my PC, stepped back, and realized that - hey, it worked pretty well!
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Why is it so acceptable for people to be racist against Germans? I wonder if the Jewish controlled USA media has anything to do with it?
Sharman Network/Brilliant Digital/KaZaA have finally responded to accusations that they were behind the attack on Morpheus. In an interview with the LA Times a spokeswomen for KaZaA, Kelly Larabee, said the company had nothing to do with Morpheus' network problems adding that we have no reason to have them go away. We'd rather them stay on FastTrack.
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Yeah, and the same thing could be said about Israel. Both men and women in that nation have forced military duty. There are many ways to extrapolate that every citizen of any nation is in some way military.
For the NES, with fast paced games like Super Mario Bros, the correct "pro" way to hold the controller was with your thumb angled over both A and B buttons so that you could accurately press either button or both buttons. This allowed "twitch"-like reflexes. Using two fingures with the controller was far less common, and would give serious carpel tunnel symdrome to whoever tried playing like that for extended periods of time.
SuSe is a more polished and solid desktop Linux than Mandrake. Personally, I prefer more work upfront for ease of system care later on, so I use Debian. Installing Debian is more involved than other distros, but once you get everything setup correctly, you are done until you need to build a whole new computer. Upgrading Debian works, and is trivially easy, unlike other distro upgrades.
Anti-aliasing! Sheesh! You kids can only be satisfied by the latest wiz-bang graphics technologies! In my day, it was monochrome all the way, no anty-aliasing for us, no siree!
Falcon's Eye works great on my Windows 98 SE box. There are a few other graphical front-ends for Nethack. It would be interesting to see a front-end for the front-ends. So that I could select which interface I wanted on the fly. For some maps, the traditional ASCII interface, for others the Qt interface, and maybe if I am feeling in the need of even more eye-candy than the Qt interface, I can select the Flacon's Eye interface.
You don't get it, if you think that changing the interface to Nethack lessens the game. Nethack is about gameplay, graphics aren't a consideration. However, if you put icing on the cake, it doesn't make it less tasty.
Lies! Damn lies!
Google deserves praise for relisting.
hahahaha!!! God, I wish more people had at least a slightly better mathematics education. So many people fear, hate, or just plain don't understand math. Sad, truely sad.
The joke was "how many pounds in a gallon", which compares two different types. Of course, if you talk about how many gallons of water equals on pounds, then you are asking a different question.
What I don't understand about that episode is when bart is flying his kite outside at night... what is that a reference to? Its just too weird to not be a reference to something.
Everyone knows that Cantor's lame set theory is totally borked, and Category Theory is the new practical foundation for mathematics.
Sure you can play the Nethack with its original ASCII based interface, but the game is far more sexy with a full SVGA Diablo-esque interface (see screenshots on bottom of linked page). Note this game is fully open source, and still actively developed... even after more than a decade! This game has been polished to perfection.
Correct. "Packet passing" is more realtime swarming, if that makes any sense, than Xolox's "parts sharing".
Xolox, a gnutella for Windows, has been out for a long time now, and it allow for a client to serve parts of a *incompletely* downloaded file. Never underestimate the abilities of GNUtella.
Good god? Are you aware of the 500 plus mega ton nukes that we have? Yeah, we have quite a few. Enough that if detonated all in one place, would strip off a large part of the Earth's atmosphere. Not only that, but if all of these nukes were somehow held in the place, and then detonated (while still being held in place against the Earth)... they could tilt the Earth's axis. Oh, then there is that whole radiation thing.
I'm no tree hugger, but good god, as humans, our destructive abilities far outmatch our constructive abilities.
My opinion, if you want a RPM based distro, go with SuSe, and if you want the tightest, most sophisticated distro, go with Debian.
Once Debian gets a user-friendly OS installer, it will be more of a user-friendly distro than any other distro out there! Aside from the initial OS installation, Debian is extremely easy to use, maintain, upgrade, add/remove software too, etc...
If you correctly install Debian, which only has to be done once, then you are home free. Upgrading to a new version is a snap, adding more software is easy enough a 5-year-old and an 80-year-old could do it. If you are really committed to Linux, then I suggest that you take the time to learn how to correctly install and setup Debian... do that just once, and then rest back and enjoy free software for the rest of your life.
A 200W powersupply? Are you kidding me? VIA's Eden platform is ultra low power! The CPU doesn't even need to be cooled by fans. I think a 60W powersupply would be enough, if you had a low power harddrive, such as a solidstate CF HD... or one of those low power platter based drives.
I agree, restricting the movie to 18+ is wrong. Parents should watch such movies with their children, but at the parents discretion, and with the parents watching alongside their child.
My Anime Turing test claims that if you can't tell it ain't cell, then its cell enough ;-)
In the following, by anime, I mean cell animated stories.
Making live action versions of classic anime in the USA is due to the common USA view of animation in general. As far as the average Joe is concerned, "cartoons are for kids" basically sums up the attitude towards anime.
One great example, which I recently bumped into is an old review of a classic anime movie "Grave of the Fireflies", where the reviewer has the movie listed under the headline "For Children". Anyone who has seen this movie knows that while it can be watched by children, it has so much emotional content that only a mature viewer could truely appreciate it. While "Adult Film" or "Film for mature audiences" in the USA means porn, it should mean movies like "Grave of the Fireflies". Again, I am not saying that "Grave..." isn't a movie that kids should watch - I am saying that giving it a headline "For Kids" is very silly.
Anyway, my main point is that in the USA, anime doesn't have the prestige that live action movies have. Somehow, I guess, movie execs think that making a great anime movie into a live action movie, somehow makes it better. Whatever... Its too bad because the average Joe is missing out on some great entertainment such as (my recommendations for the "average joe" slashdotter that isn't into anime but wants an introduction):
- Ghost in the Shell (DVD): This is a roughly 1.5 hour movie, its Neuromancer mixed with Blade Runner. The English dub of this is good.
- Serial Experiments Lain (DVD): This is an animated series of around 13 episodes 30 minutes each. It is a great neo-cyberpunk story. I would say its Neuromancer meets the X-Files - though these analogies are very crude. Also, stay away from the English dub of this series. Its awkward to say the least. The DVDs let you choose dub or subtitles, so go subtitles with this anime.
- Cowboy Bebop (DVD): This is an animated series of (I can't remember how many) 30 minute episodes. Cowboy Bebop has a lot of everything for everyone. Comedy, action, violence, cyberpunk, mystery, drama, weirdness, etc... This is easy watching anime if that makes any sense. Its got style, thats for sure. The English dub is good, and I recommend it. Also, I recommend that you watch at least the first 4 episodes before drawing your opinion on this fine anime. Its not until then that you start to see the deep underlying plot of the entire series. Cowboy Bebop has lots of sugar and spice, bells and whistles, etc... but it also has a nice strong plotline.
The Blockbuster Video stores around my area rent anime. I don't rent, but buy, so I don't know if their selection is good or not. Its worth renting the above recommendations this weekend, if you haven't already seen them.For those who don't know, Karate Champ was the first 1-vs-1 martial arts competitive fighting game.
I am currently using it on Windows 98 SE - box has a 300a celeron and 128MB of RAM. My computer is self built and over 3 years old now. The browser performs nicely, speed wise. Of course, I only have one open right now. The real test is to concurrently surf several sites.
I suggest that every slashdotter download and use this build for at least a week straight... regardless of whether you already have a good browser or not. Personally, on Linux, I prefer Konqueror, but one sure way to help browser development and the internet is to use browsers besides Internet Explorer / Netscape. Let the world know that other browsers exist! Also, you can't make an accurate decision on a piece of software, unless you use it for day-to-day tasks. So download a copy, install it, surf your typical sites for a week, and then send bugs reports to the developers, write reviews, etc... However, don't write a "review" based on 30 minutes of "real world" use. No lame benchmarks either. Just surf with it. Try to forget what brand browser you are using. If you can't, then there is something wrong with your browser. Thats when I realized that Konqueror was truely becoming a solid browser... when I was surfing the web for about 8 hours with it, and I forgot that I was using Linux... forgot that I was surfing with konqueror... then I got off of my PC, stepped back, and realized that - hey, it worked pretty well!
Why is it so acceptable for people to be racist against Germans? I wonder if the Jewish controlled USA media has anything to do with it?
Sharman Network/Brilliant Digital/KaZaA have finally responded to accusations that they were behind the attack on Morpheus. In an interview with the LA Times a spokeswomen for KaZaA, Kelly Larabee, said the company had nothing to do with Morpheus' network problems adding that we have no reason to have them go away. We'd rather them stay on FastTrack.