Um, I'm no Mac fanatic or anything, but a quick look at http://www.apple.com/ lists dual 1.25 GHz G4s for sale. Not to mention, of course, that hertz isn't the best way of measuring CPU power; I'm sure you know that Athlon CPUs at the same GHz rating as Intel CPUs tend to be significantly faster, right? Well, G4s have more power per clock cycle than Athlons do.
Also, could you back up your statement that it's worse than Win2k in terms of overhead? You may be able to boot into a command line-only environment in Win2k, but it's virtually useless, and gives you about as much functionality as DOS 2.0.
Where're you getting your information from about.hack? Just judging from what I've seen, Tsukasa and Kite are completely different characters -- Tsukasa's the amnesiac magic user who's the star of the TV series, while Kite is the dagger-using star of the video game (and, presumably, the OAV that goes alongside it, although I've neither seen it nor played the game).
Similar character designs, yes, but I think that's intended to reinforce the fact that they're template-based characters in an RPG. There are a number of others with similar designs, such as Black Rose / Mimiru and Bear / Orca.And... You'll have to forgive me, I know I've seen concept art of Kite with "kaito" written in katakana on it, but I can't find it at the moment. The one of Elk definitely has "eruku" on it, though.
I've got four cats that all frequently go in and out of the bathroom. Granted, we keep their litter box right next to the toilet, so they don't have a whole lot of choice.
Nonetheless, I can't imagine any of them ever drowning in the toilet -- if one of them so much as touched the water, there'd probably be a violent chemical reaction that would send them flying down the hallway...
... How does the use of PHP and MySQL prove that mandatory teaching of C# is a bad idea? Or, more specifically, their database being overloaded when you tried to connect to it. I can't see any connection at all.
Actually, I've installed Win2k on Win98 machines before, and it even gave me a nice little menu on startup that let me pick which OS to boot from. I've also had experiences installing Win2k and WinXP on machines with Linux already on them, and in neither case did they overwrite the MBR, although it also didn't give me the option to pick between Linux and Windows; LILO started up just fine, in fact, and all I had to do was go into Linux and add the appropriate sections for 2k/XP.
Sorry about that.. But seriously, every time there's a topic about anime, there's at least one thread where somebody says how much they hate anime and they can't understand why it's on Slashdot, and they're usually just trolling.
I'll take your word for it that you were honestly asking a question, but really, walking in to any place and saying you hate the topic of discussion isn't a good way to start a conversation.
For example, according to the preferences page, there's a topic for Star Wars prequels.. I don't really like Star Wars at all; I fail to understand how people can even consider it science fiction. But I don't complain, I just ignore it.
I've been reading slashdot for years and have never figured why anime keeps cropping up here.
Have you ever taken the time to read any of the other threads just like yours in every other anime article ever posted on Slashdot?
*ahem* That is, other people have already answered your question. I like anime. I know a lot of geeks that like it, too -- in fact, out of the anime club at Texas Tech, I believe that all but two of the members are in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering.
Just because it doesn't matter to you doesn't mean it doesn't matter to anybody else. If you don't want to see it, disable it in your personal account settings.
Go to Control Panel/User Accounts, then "change the way users log on or off", and uncheck "Use the welcome screen." This will replace XP's welcome screen with a login box similar to 2k's, and do the same with the logout box.
I'd recommend Tasogare Anime, which you can find at 4503 34th St. The owner carries a nice selection of DVDs as well as imported magazines, action figures, art books, soundtracks, wallscrolls, calendars, and so forth, plus she'll special order anything you ask for -- in my experience, she can usually get domestically released stuff in about a week, stuff from Japan will take longer depending on how easy it is to acquire.
Also, as a personal plug -- I'm the president of the Texas Tech anime club, which meets every Wednesday and Saturday as long as college is in session. It's absolutely free and open to everybody, even if you're not a student!
Jon's post isn't quite correct... (and Nintendo's article seems a bit misinformed, too) There's going to be a "Phantasy Star Online Episode I & II" for both Gamecube and Xbox, which will contain all the content of the Dreamcast's PSO v2 as well as two new areas, three new character classes, improved graphics, new (and much better) models for some weapons, and a few other tweaks.
They haven't talked much about gameplay tweaks, but maybe if we're lucky, they'll do something interesting like give Forces an inherent advantage in magic over other classes (faster casting times, access to better spells that others can't use -- PSOv2's level 30 spells don't count -- etc). Or maybe they'll make slicers not suck. Or find some way to eliminate cheating...
That's not quite a valid comparison... Why not "I have 5600 Oggs"? I mean, you never hear people say "I have 5600 MPEG Layer 3 audio files." I kinda like "Ogg", personally.
Not to mention those stupid humans! Would you believe some of them actually kill their babies before they're even born? If that's not brutal, I don't know what is. They probably can't even comprehend the concept of friendship.
(Please note I am not stating any opinion on abortion, I am making a point contrasting with the parent comment)
Yay! With that installed, it worked. Well, it also gave an error about openssl later, but installing openssl-devel fixed that.
However, I'm still having a problem. It's installed and running now, but not letting me log in -- it's reading the same config file as before, and I can connect, but when I try to send my password, it always denies it (same thing for any user).
With LogLevel set to DEBUG3 in/etc/ssh/sshd_config, I made a quick log of it starting up, me trying to log in, and shutting it down, and you can take a peek at it by following this link. Any ideas?
Well, I don't believe it's a case of the window manager not working well enough, but it just not being the right tool for the job -- in Opera, I always have at least eight different pages open, sometimes upwards of a dozen. If these were all shown in the taskbar, the rest of my programs would be crowded into obscurity.
Not to mention that Opera's one instance in the taskbar function kinda like a control for all of the tabs -- if I suddenly decide I want Opera minimized so I can do something on the desktop, I just click the minimize button. If I have eight pages open in a non-tabbed browser, though, that's eight times I have to click minimize.
It also makes it very easy to close everything at once -- when I want to shut down a non-tabbed browser, I've got to close every window individually, while I can do it all at once in Opera.
There's also one other thing I love about Opera that Mozilla can't do yet -- start up with multiple pages. Typically whenever I sit down at the computer, the first thing I'm going to do is quickly check those eight pages. As soon as Opera opens, it begins loading all of them, and I can switch through the tabs at my leisure. In every other browser I'm aware of, though, I have to load them one at a time. (While this is only a small saving grace on a high-bandwidth connection, think about how long you'd have to wait for each individual page to load on a modem...)
Sure, software has its problems. Their computers could crash and traffic could go haywire -- although I'm certain they'd include a killswitch just in case something like that happened -- or somebody might hack into it.
But if all cars were automatic, it would eliminate human error. There'd be no more crashes because people weren't paying attention to the road, they lost control on an icy road, or they were drunk.
Aside from that, I'll admit that I don't like driving at all, and I only do so because it's infinitely more convenient than walking, and the public transport where I live sucks.;-)
I can't stand most anime fans because of this reason -- they rant and rave about how horrible English voice acting is and how wonderful Japanese voice acting is, when they couldn't understand Japanese to save their lives. At best, they might've picked up some pidgin Japanese on the internet, and they run around yelling "Baka!" or taking their favorite character and referring to themselves as "X no miko." As the vice-president of Texas Tech's anime club and somebody who's taken two years of Japanese (I know that's not much, I'm still working on it), this wears on me terribly.:-p
But in any case, they just haven't realized one thing -- they like it in Japanese because stuff in foreign languages sounds cool.
Mind you, in my opinion, most of the time the Japanese voice acting is better than the English voice acting; this could be attributed to that VA'ing in Japan is a respectable position (people even go to school for it), while in America, the actors who do it either do so because they love it or because they can't find a part in a live-action show. This naturally leads to the Japanese actors being better (most of the time).
But one thing that people need to realize is that the English voice acting is still *good* -- Cowboy Bebop, Outlaw Star, Tenchi Muyo, Nadesico, Rurouni Kenshin, and El Hazard are but a few examples of series where the English VA's are obviously skilled at their jobs. (In fact, I think that the Cowboy Bebop and El Hazard dubs are better than the original) Or, say, the new Vampire Hunter D movie, of which there is *only* an English version. That's how the director wanted it, and hey, it came out very well.
Of course, it's also become a bit of a moot point with DVDs. Buy one, you get two voice tracks! Yay!
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Um, I'm no Mac fanatic or anything, but a quick look at http://www.apple.com/ lists dual 1.25 GHz G4s for sale. Not to mention, of course, that hertz isn't the best way of measuring CPU power; I'm sure you know that Athlon CPUs at the same GHz rating as Intel CPUs tend to be significantly faster, right? Well, G4s have more power per clock cycle than Athlons do.
Also, could you back up your statement that it's worse than Win2k in terms of overhead? You may be able to boot into a command line-only environment in Win2k, but it's virtually useless, and gives you about as much functionality as DOS 2.0.
Yes, "Ogg Vorbis" is more complex than "MP3." And "MPEG Layer 3" as much more complex than "Ogg." What's your point?
Where're you getting your information from about .hack? Just judging from what I've seen, Tsukasa and Kite are completely different characters -- Tsukasa's the amnesiac magic user who's the star of the TV series, while Kite is the dagger-using star of the video game (and, presumably, the OAV that goes alongside it, although I've neither seen it nor played the game).
g anda/s043.jpg a ck001.jpg a ck005.jpg
Tsukasa: http://www.rpgamer.com/games/other/ps2/hack/propa
Kite: http://www.rpgamer.com/games/other/ps2/hack/art/h
Or you may be thinking of Elk: http://www.rpgamer.com/games/other/ps2/hack/art/h
(you may have to copy/paste links, I don't think RPGamer allows direct links)
Similar character designs, yes, but I think that's intended to reinforce the fact that they're template-based characters in an RPG. There are a number of others with similar designs, such as Black Rose / Mimiru and Bear / Orca.And... You'll have to forgive me, I know I've seen concept art of Kite with "kaito" written in katakana on it, but I can't find it at the moment. The one of Elk definitely has "eruku" on it, though.
I've got four cats that all frequently go in and out of the bathroom. Granted, we keep their litter box right next to the toilet, so they don't have a whole lot of choice.
Nonetheless, I can't imagine any of them ever drowning in the toilet -- if one of them so much as touched the water, there'd probably be a violent chemical reaction that would send them flying down the hallway...
... How does the use of PHP and MySQL prove that mandatory teaching of C# is a bad idea? Or, more specifically, their database being overloaded when you tried to connect to it. I can't see any connection at all.
Actually, I've installed Win2k on Win98 machines before, and it even gave me a nice little menu on startup that let me pick which OS to boot from. I've also had experiences installing Win2k and WinXP on machines with Linux already on them, and in neither case did they overwrite the MBR, although it also didn't give me the option to pick between Linux and Windows; LILO started up just fine, in fact, and all I had to do was go into Linux and add the appropriate sections for 2k/XP.
Except that Linux won't run on a 286. Perhaps you're thinking of Minix?
Sorry about that.. But seriously, every time there's a topic about anime, there's at least one thread where somebody says how much they hate anime and they can't understand why it's on Slashdot, and they're usually just trolling.
I'll take your word for it that you were honestly asking a question, but really, walking in to any place and saying you hate the topic of discussion isn't a good way to start a conversation.
For example, according to the preferences page, there's a topic for Star Wars prequels.. I don't really like Star Wars at all; I fail to understand how people can even consider it science fiction. But I don't complain, I just ignore it.
I've been reading slashdot for years and have never figured why anime keeps cropping up here.
Have you ever taken the time to read any of the other threads just like yours in every other anime article ever posted on Slashdot?
*ahem* That is, other people have already answered your question. I like anime. I know a lot of geeks that like it, too -- in fact, out of the anime club at Texas Tech, I believe that all but two of the members are in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering.
Just because it doesn't matter to you doesn't mean it doesn't matter to anybody else. If you don't want to see it, disable it in your personal account settings.
Go to Control Panel/User Accounts, then "change the way users log on or off", and uncheck "Use the welcome screen." This will replace XP's welcome screen with a login box similar to 2k's, and do the same with the logout box.
I'd recommend Tasogare Anime, which you can find at 4503 34th St. The owner carries a nice selection of DVDs as well as imported magazines, action figures, art books, soundtracks, wallscrolls, calendars, and so forth, plus she'll special order anything you ask for -- in my experience, she can usually get domestically released stuff in about a week, stuff from Japan will take longer depending on how easy it is to acquire.
Also, as a personal plug -- I'm the president of the Texas Tech anime club, which meets every Wednesday and Saturday as long as college is in session. It's absolutely free and open to everybody, even if you're not a student!
Even if you know that 95% of them are likely to be ugly, smelly guys in real life?
:-(
Aw! I'm really not that smelly. And I've been told I'm not ugly.
Except that your last line should be:
;-)
cout << mystring;
Or perhaps std::cout instead, if you didn't put std in your namespace prior to that.
Jon's post isn't quite correct... (and Nintendo's article seems a bit misinformed, too) There's going to be a "Phantasy Star Online Episode I & II" for both Gamecube and Xbox, which will contain all the content of the Dreamcast's PSO v2 as well as two new areas, three new character classes, improved graphics, new (and much better) models for some weapons, and a few other tweaks.
;-)
They haven't talked much about gameplay tweaks, but maybe if we're lucky, they'll do something interesting like give Forces an inherent advantage in magic over other classes (faster casting times, access to better spells that others can't use -- PSOv2's level 30 spells don't count -- etc). Or maybe they'll make slicers not suck. Or find some way to eliminate cheating...
But, er, ignore my rantings, I'm a PSO junkie.
That's not quite a valid comparison... Why not "I have 5600 Oggs"? I mean, you never hear people say "I have 5600 MPEG Layer 3 audio files." I kinda like "Ogg", personally.
I don't know about you, but I'd be pretty scared of any one that has more than one floppy.
Not to mention those stupid humans! Would you believe some of them actually kill their babies before they're even born? If that's not brutal, I don't know what is. They probably can't even comprehend the concept of friendship.
(Please note I am not stating any opinion on abortion, I am making a point contrasting with the parent comment)
Actually, at least from what I've been taught, "I" is for constant current while "i" is for variable current.
Nevermind, Scoria helped me out. Turns out I also had to manually enable MD5 passwords when compiling it.
Yay! With that installed, it worked. Well, it also gave an error about openssl later, but installing openssl-devel fixed that.
/etc/ssh/sshd_config, I made a quick log of it starting up, me trying to log in, and shutting it down, and you can take a peek at it by following this link. Any ideas?
However, I'm still having a problem. It's installed and running now, but not letting me log in -- it's reading the same config file as before, and I can connect, but when I try to send my password, it always denies it (same thing for any user).
With LogLevel set to DEBUG3 in
It's not working for me. :-(
./configure step, when it gives me:
I get as far as the
(insert lots and lots of lines)
checking for deflate in -lz... no
configure: error: *** zlib missing - please install first or check config.log ***
I've got zlib 1.1.3 installed (this is Mandrake 8.0, BTW), and I looked in config.log, but it's all Greek to me. Any idea what could be going wrong?
Well, I don't believe it's a case of the window manager not working well enough, but it just not being the right tool for the job -- in Opera, I always have at least eight different pages open, sometimes upwards of a dozen. If these were all shown in the taskbar, the rest of my programs would be crowded into obscurity.
Not to mention that Opera's one instance in the taskbar function kinda like a control for all of the tabs -- if I suddenly decide I want Opera minimized so I can do something on the desktop, I just click the minimize button. If I have eight pages open in a non-tabbed browser, though, that's eight times I have to click minimize.
It also makes it very easy to close everything at once -- when I want to shut down a non-tabbed browser, I've got to close every window individually, while I can do it all at once in Opera.
There's also one other thing I love about Opera that Mozilla can't do yet -- start up with multiple pages. Typically whenever I sit down at the computer, the first thing I'm going to do is quickly check those eight pages. As soon as Opera opens, it begins loading all of them, and I can switch through the tabs at my leisure. In every other browser I'm aware of, though, I have to load them one at a time. (While this is only a small saving grace on a high-bandwidth connection, think about how long you'd have to wait for each individual page to load on a modem...)
A better question: Do you trust people that much?
;-)
Sure, software has its problems. Their computers could crash and traffic could go haywire -- although I'm certain they'd include a killswitch just in case something like that happened -- or somebody might hack into it.
But if all cars were automatic, it would eliminate human error. There'd be no more crashes because people weren't paying attention to the road, they lost control on an icy road, or they were drunk.
Aside from that, I'll admit that I don't like driving at all, and I only do so because it's infinitely more convenient than walking, and the public transport where I live sucks.
True dat.
:-p
I can't stand most anime fans because of this reason -- they rant and rave about how horrible English voice acting is and how wonderful Japanese voice acting is, when they couldn't understand Japanese to save their lives. At best, they might've picked up some pidgin Japanese on the internet, and they run around yelling "Baka!" or taking their favorite character and referring to themselves as "X no miko." As the vice-president of Texas Tech's anime club and somebody who's taken two years of Japanese (I know that's not much, I'm still working on it), this wears on me terribly.
But in any case, they just haven't realized one thing -- they like it in Japanese because stuff in foreign languages sounds cool.
Mind you, in my opinion, most of the time the Japanese voice acting is better than the English voice acting; this could be attributed to that VA'ing in Japan is a respectable position (people even go to school for it), while in America, the actors who do it either do so because they love it or because they can't find a part in a live-action show. This naturally leads to the Japanese actors being better (most of the time).
But one thing that people need to realize is that the English voice acting is still *good* -- Cowboy Bebop, Outlaw Star, Tenchi Muyo, Nadesico, Rurouni Kenshin, and El Hazard are but a few examples of series where the English VA's are obviously skilled at their jobs. (In fact, I think that the Cowboy Bebop and El Hazard dubs are better than the original) Or, say, the new Vampire Hunter D movie, of which there is *only* an English version. That's how the director wanted it, and hey, it came out very well.
Of course, it's also become a bit of a moot point with DVDs. Buy one, you get two voice tracks! Yay!
I always assumed it was the other way around and that the people they said were thousands of years old were actually millions of years old.
Eh? People understating their achievements? That doesn't describe the human race I know...