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OK, here's a good list to go by to start you off... Classic Anime by Hayao MiyazakiNausicaa of the Valley of Wind One of his first works, an amazing film, and an even better manga series. The story follows a young girl in a post-apocalyptic future, where jungles of toxic plant life has taken over. She attempt to understand and live among the forest, rather than see it destroyed by other humans. Highly reccommended. Laputa, Castle In the Sky Again, amazing art and a fantastic story. It follows a young girl named Sheeta who holds a mystical stone that will unlock the treasures of the Laputa. This stone makes her the target of government agencies and sky pirates. Topped off with some of the greatest music in an anime that I've ever had the pleasure of listening to. Princess Mononoke Probably the most popular Miyazaki film, very easy to find here in the US, and it was in theatres (art houses) for a short while. It's sort of based on Japanese folklore, a story about man and his fight with the surrounding environment. Some of his best work to date. Here's a good review if you're interested. Fun/ActionGuyver This is just a fun anime series to watch. No real significance in the plot, but its got some good animation and a lot of good action. A boy named Sho Fukamachi finds a Bio-Booster armor, which transforms him into an alien fighting machine. The armor belonged to an evil corporation, controlled by alien/human hybrids who want to conquer the Earth. Gundam This one should go without saying. One of the biggest anime series' ever in Japan, plus with Gundam Wing on Cartoon Network, its easily accessible. Macross Plus If you don't remember Robotech from your childhood, then your childhood must have sucked. Awesome stuff, not much of a fan of the movies, though. Other ReccommendedWings of Honneamise Amazing animation, and a great story. Sort of an alternate world story, a young boy named Shirotsu wants to become a pilot, but ends up having to join the Space Force. (sort of like joining the foreign legion, last resort kinda thing) He ends up, through a series of events, attempting to become the first man to go into space. Just avoid the crappy dubbed version if possible. The Mysterious Cities of Gold I cant say enough good things about one of my favorite series of all time. It follows a boy named Esteban in the early 1500s, who seems to have the power to bring out the sun. He was orphaned at sea, and has lived in Spain his whole life. Through a series of events, he sets off for the New World (America) to locate El Dorado, the cities of Gold. An amazing series, somewhere around 45 episodes. Also, the greatest anime soundtrack (IMHO) ever. If you didnt catch it on Nickelodeon as a kid, you missed out. I (thankfully) have all of the episodes on tape, so I'll be able to keep it forever. If you can get copies, then you're extremely lucky, since they don't make them and never have.
Thats all I can really think of right now. Those are some of the more interesting anime's I've seen. Hope it helps
ICANN's goal is to enlist members of the Internet community in its consensus-based processes and supporting organizations, committees and working groups, including the At Large Membership.
That way, we can gather you all together before we influence all your decisions for you:)
Well, I'm a webmaster, and have been since before I was twenty. Been doing it for awhile now, and I havent really seen any web programmers over 30. Although, at my current job, there's nothing but database programmers who are over 40. I havent seen one younger than 40 yet. But all the techs, web programmers, and newer technologies go to the younger guys. I guess it could be that we grew up doing nothing but sitting in front of a computer screen, but I've learned almost everything I know either from self teachings or by an older coder showing me the ways. I ain't one fer' that fancy book learnin'. Hopefully the ages will naturally balance themselves out over the next decade, or I'll be out of a job soon:)Sharkey www.badassmofo.com
Doom heard Lars Ulrich of the repugnant band, "Metallica" speak last week on the Napster issue. It was clear to Doom that this insolent rock star was completely ignorant of the situation at hand, with no prior knowledge to the workings of the program. If you desire to listen to this interview, along with questions and answers from the insipid audience, you should point your browser to KROQ.com. Doom has spoken....Sharkey www.badDOOMassmofo.com
Leave it to the art community to ruin a geek movie. Bastards. Although I would like to hear that "Whoa" song poking fun at Keanu. Anybody got an mp3 bootleg? Wha, wait. WHO'S THERE?!? OH GOD, JAMES HETFIELD AND LARS ULRICH! PUT ME DOWN YOU PANSIES! PUT ME *thud* Sharkey Music Pirate www.badassmofo.com
As if people needed any more reasons to hate Metallica.
(For added effect, it handed the names over on 60,000 pages of paper instead of simply using a few floppy disks.)
I saw a news report on that this morning, and how the guys from Napster took one look at the stack of paper, and said, "Uh... give these to us on a disk, and maybe this process wont take two years, dumbass." If you ever see Lars in an interview about it, he's a total idiot. He has no idea what he's talking about, he's basically quoting what the lawyers told him. I'd imagine that they were just following their record label's lead with the whole thing, it got blown out of proportion, and now they can't just back out. I say good, maybe now they'll stop tarnishing their former glory with the repeated piles of crap that they produce today. Sharkey www.badassmofo.com
Man, I had my domain stolen under NetSol, and the bastards took two weeks to give it back. All some idiot had to do to take it was send out an email. To get it back I had to give my drivers license, 20 faxes, numerous phone calls, e-mails, and lost hair. Bastards deserve that one star.Sharkey www.badassmofo.com
Did anyone else hear the call? I live in OC and heard it, and the guys at KROQ are grand pranksters. I wouldnt trust any of that info, seeing as how they have fake celebs calling in all the damn time.
"You've got your fiber layer, and you're going to carry some number of wavelengths on each fiber -- the term that is used is lambda for wavelength, so lambda means color, really. One fiber can carry a number of colors -- there could be as many as a hundred, maybe even more. Each color might be transporting as much as a terabit of capacity"I'm sorry, but did that give anyone else an erection, or is it just me?Sharkey www.badassmofo.com
And an assload of RAM doesnt hurt either. Ive done editing on a Mac with a 500MHz processor and 256 Megs of RAM and had it run pretty smooth, and I've edited on a 233 Pentium with 64 Megs of RAM and have it eat shit on anything over a Gig spacewise. Premiere is a pretty damn good program, if you're into Adobe products you should be in love with the software. Some interface issues, but overall the best I've worked with. For compatibility issues alone, Id go with Windows/Premeire. Sorry, I love love Linux as much as the next guy, but not for digital video editing. Sharkey www.badassmofo.com
Wow, I feel bad for anyone who had money in MS stock today. Look at the stock price drop in the article. And that was before the ruling. Better pull your $ outta MS, possibly all related tech stocks. This'll be a fun day on Wall Street. Oh, check out this article for more on the stock fall. http://www.wired.com/news/p olitics/0,1283,35364,00.html Sharkey Badassmofo.com www.badassmofo.com
...that they don't plan on keeping that color style. Who'd want to carry around some lame purple palm pilot? It'll be nice to view color on the go, but can anyone find out what the cost will be on this sucka? Damn Japanese text, I can't read a thing. Sharkey Badassmofo.com www.badassmofo.com
...Always limiting personal freedoms and blaming everyone but the responsible parties. Hey, since the US owns the Internet 'n all, http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/03/24/1246243&mode=thread, shouldn't we just bitch slap the French for this attempt to steal our power over the Internet? ...Maybe we should just bitch-slap the French because they're the French.:)Sharkey www.badassmofo.com
... *scratching head* OK.... Yahoo? I havent got anything for the site. And if I ever do get anything, itd go towards a server for it. And I dont see where you come off judgin' me about anything, you anonymous cowardly sonuvawhore. If I have to put up banners to keep my site alive, then WTF do you have a problem with? I don't even want them there, I dont want to make money off my site, if I did I'd run a damn pr0n site, that's where the money is. So if you want to come out from behind that curtain and have a match of wits, I'd be glad to. But until then shut your yap. Thank you and goodnight. Please tip your waitress.
This was a fairly informative article, and it brought up a good point. How are they going to regulate information and services which are illegal in some areas and legal in others? There are quite a few ways that this whole thing could go, this isnt the first time that a new medium has had trouble on a global scale. I think that the most likely course of action to be taken, is that individual nations will have to work together when governing Internet relations. Joel is right, I can't see a single orginization on Earth that could effectively govern the Internet. But it could (possibly) work if the Internet-capable nations of the world worked together, instead of for themselves, as the author pointed out. Sharkey www.badassmofo.com
I've been paying bills online through my bank for awhile now, so has my roommate, we havent experienced any problems. The only problem I could forsee is data loss and then the resulting final notices and repossesions. Oh the HORROR! Ah, its a pretty good system thus far, and their privacy statement makes you feel all warm and fuzzy inside, doesnt it?
The privacy and security of your personal information is the foremost consideration of the Paytrust service. Paytrust will never sell any of your personal information -- contact, financial, bill history -- to any other company, period. Unlike many billers who routinely sell their customers to direct marketing organizations, Paytrust keeps all subscriber lists confidential. And, unlike many other web sites, Paytrust does not depend on advertising for revenue. Paytrust is completely committed to safeguarding your personal information and protecting your privacy.
The article mentions the book GTK+ in 21 Days. Don't bother, that book isn't very good. (like most of those 21 Days books). You want a good book on GTK+ snag a copy of GTK+/Gnome Application Development by Havoc Pennington. Much better. Sharkey www.badassmofo.com
But you can't roll a virtual LEGO car down the stairs. Still, if youdve told me that kids would be using a CAD program to play with LEGOs a decade ago, I would have called you nuts. Still sounds plenty nuts (kids need something tangeable to play with), but it looks kinda fun for adults. Itd make planning a fully LEGO PC case a lot easier. Sharkey www.badassmofo.com
Ah, I agree that it should be regulated, just like US Mail is regulated against illicit advertisements, but you're never getting rid of spam. There's always a way around these things, and big companies will always find them. Sharkey www.badassmofo.com Re-Opened for your viewing pleasure
You know, people are seriously over-critical of Spam. Its never going to be eliminated, and only those who aren't super-protective of their e-mail will get it. But that's the same with junk mail, isnt it? I mean, that's what P.O. Boxes are for, right? Anonymity and filtering? Same deal with Spam. I have public e-mail accounts for the inevitable Spam to go through, and more private e-mail accounts for only the messages that I want. Its not so hard kids, just don't go giving out that precious e-mail address and you'll be fine. Sharkey www.badassmofo.com Re-Opened for your viewing pleasure
I dont know if accepting any sort of "gift" such as this from the government is such a good idea. These are the people backing Janet Reno in her quest to drop laws in place to protect Internet publicists. The same people who'd sell out to any big corporation who wanted the bandwidth to themselves. -Sharkey www.badassmofo.com Now re-opened for your viewing pleasure
Hmmm...just a thought. You ever wonder what happens to leftover chips when Intel takes them off the market? Sorta reminds me of how a store I worked for gave all the three-day old food to the homeless guys out back, and got on TV this one time for their generous "charitable" work. Food probably gave those bums the runs anyway. Sharkey Badassmofo.com
As long as Blizzard's been around, they've yet to make a release date stick. I'm pretty sure this is why they havent been quoting release dates to the public lately. My friends at Blizzard have been telling me release dates for the past year, but with no sign of the game hitting the shelves in sight. Although from what I hear, the Beta is supposed to be heading out within the next month or so. But thats what they said in October:) And it doesnt help that theyve got two other titles in development that make me salivate. The spit glands dry up pretty quick though, when I realize that they wont be available for another half-decade. Bastards. They make me love them. Sharkey http://www.badassmofo.com
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One of his first works, an amazing film, and an even better manga series. The story follows a young girl in a post-apocalyptic future, where jungles of toxic plant life has taken over. She attempt to understand and live among the forest, rather than see it destroyed by other humans. Highly reccommended. Laputa, Castle In the Sky
Again, amazing art and a fantastic story. It follows a young girl named Sheeta who holds a mystical stone that will unlock the treasures of the Laputa. This stone makes her the target of government agencies and sky pirates. Topped off with some of the greatest music in an anime that I've ever had the pleasure of listening to. Princess Mononoke
Probably the most popular Miyazaki film, very easy to find here in the US, and it was in theatres (art houses) for a short while. It's sort of based on Japanese folklore, a story about man and his fight with the surrounding environment. Some of his best work to date. Here's a good review if you're interested.
Fun/Action Guyver
This is just a fun anime series to watch. No real significance in the plot, but its got some good animation and a lot of good action. A boy named Sho Fukamachi finds a Bio-Booster armor, which transforms him into an alien fighting machine. The armor belonged to an evil corporation, controlled by alien/human hybrids who want to conquer the Earth. Gundam
This one should go without saying. One of the biggest anime series' ever in Japan, plus with Gundam Wing on Cartoon Network, its easily accessible. Macross Plus
If you don't remember Robotech from your childhood, then your childhood must have sucked. Awesome stuff, not much of a fan of the movies, though.
Other Reccommended Wings of Honneamise
Amazing animation, and a great story. Sort of an alternate world story, a young boy named Shirotsu wants to become a pilot, but ends up having to join the Space Force. (sort of like joining the foreign legion, last resort kinda thing) He ends up, through a series of events, attempting to become the first man to go into space. Just avoid the crappy dubbed version if possible. The Mysterious Cities of Gold
I cant say enough good things about one of my favorite series of all time. It follows a boy named Esteban in the early 1500s, who seems to have the power to bring out the sun. He was orphaned at sea, and has lived in Spain his whole life. Through a series of events, he sets off for the New World (America) to locate El Dorado, the cities of Gold. An amazing series, somewhere around 45 episodes. Also, the greatest anime soundtrack (IMHO) ever. If you didnt catch it on Nickelodeon as a kid, you missed out. I (thankfully) have all of the episodes on tape, so I'll be able to keep it forever. If you can get copies, then you're extremely lucky, since they don't make them and never have.
Thats all I can really think of right now. Those are some of the more interesting anime's I've seen. Hope it helps
Sharkeywww.badassmofo.com
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Well, I'm a webmaster, and have been since before I was twenty. Been doing it for awhile now, and I havent really seen any web programmers over 30. Although, at my current job, there's nothing but database programmers who are over 40. I havent seen one younger than 40 yet. But all the techs, web programmers, and newer technologies go to the younger guys. I guess it could be that we grew up doing nothing but sitting in front of a computer screen, but I've learned almost everything I know either from self teachings or by an older coder showing me the ways. I ain't one fer' that fancy book learnin'. Hopefully the ages will naturally balance themselves out over the next decade, or I'll be out of a job soon :)Sharkey
www.badassmofo.com
Doom heard Lars Ulrich of the repugnant band, "Metallica" speak last week on the Napster issue. It was clear to Doom that this insolent rock star was completely ignorant of the situation at hand, with no prior knowledge to the workings of the program. If you desire to listen to this interview, along with questions and answers from the insipid audience, you should point your browser to KROQ.com. Doom has spoken....Sharkey
www.badDOOMassmofo.com
Leave it to the art community to ruin a geek movie. Bastards. Although I would like to hear that "Whoa" song poking fun at Keanu. Anybody got an mp3 bootleg? Wha, wait. WHO'S THERE?!? OH GOD, JAMES HETFIELD AND LARS ULRICH! PUT ME DOWN YOU PANSIES! PUT ME *thud* Sharkey
Music Pirate
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Man, I had my domain stolen under NetSol, and the bastards took two weeks to give it back. All some idiot had to do to take it was send out an email. To get it back I had to give my drivers license, 20 faxes, numerous phone calls, e-mails, and lost hair. Bastards deserve that one star.Sharkey
www.badassmofo.com
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"You've got your fiber layer, and you're going to carry some number of wavelengths on each fiber -- the term that is used is lambda for wavelength, so lambda means color, really. One fiber can carry a number of colors -- there could be as many as a hundred, maybe even more. Each color might be transporting as much as a terabit of capacity"I'm sorry, but did that give anyone else an erection, or is it just me?Sharkey
www.badassmofo.com
And an assload of RAM doesnt hurt either. Ive done editing on a Mac with a 500MHz processor and 256 Megs of RAM and had it run pretty smooth, and I've edited on a 233 Pentium with 64 Megs of RAM and have it eat shit on anything over a Gig spacewise. Premiere is a pretty damn good program, if you're into Adobe products you should be in love with the software. Some interface issues, but overall the best I've worked with. For compatibility issues alone, Id go with Windows/Premeire. Sorry, I love love Linux as much as the next guy, but not for digital video editing. Sharkey
www.badassmofo.com
Wow, I feel bad for anyone who had money in MS stock today. Look at the stock price drop in the article. And that was before the ruling. Better pull your $ outta MS, possibly all related tech stocks. This'll be a fun day on Wall Street. Oh, check out this article for more on the stock fall. http://www.wired.com/news/p olitics/0,1283,35364,00.html Sharkey
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...that they don't plan on keeping that color style. Who'd want to carry around some lame purple palm pilot? It'll be nice to view color on the go, but can anyone find out what the cost will be on this sucka? Damn Japanese text, I can't read a thing. Sharkey
Badassmofo.com
www.badassmofo.com
...Always limiting personal freedoms and blaming everyone but the responsible parties. Hey, since the US owns the Internet 'n all, http://slashdot.org /article.pl?sid=00/03/24/1246243&mode=thread, shouldn't we just bitch slap the French for this attempt to steal our power over the Internet? ...Maybe we should just bitch-slap the French because they're the French. :)Sharkey
www.badassmofo.com
... *scratching head* OK.... Yahoo? I havent got anything for the site. And if I ever do get anything, itd go towards a server for it. And I dont see where you come off judgin' me about anything, you anonymous cowardly sonuvawhore. If I have to put up banners to keep my site alive, then WTF do you have a problem with? I don't even want them there, I dont want to make money off my site, if I did I'd run a damn pr0n site, that's where the money is. So if you want to come out from behind that curtain and have a match of wits, I'd be glad to. But until then shut your yap. Thank you and goodnight. Please tip your waitress.
Or Taco? I don't see how I could be a sellout without making any money off my site.
This was a fairly informative article, and it brought up a good point. How are they going to regulate information and services which are illegal in some areas and legal in others? There are quite a few ways that this whole thing could go, this isnt the first time that a new medium has had trouble on a global scale. I think that the most likely course of action to be taken, is that individual nations will have to work together when governing Internet relations. Joel is right, I can't see a single orginization on Earth that could effectively govern the Internet. But it could (possibly) work if the Internet-capable nations of the world worked together, instead of for themselves, as the author pointed out. Sharkey
www.badassmofo.com
www.badassmofo.com
The article mentions the book GTK+ in 21 Days. Don't bother, that book isn't very good. (like most of those 21 Days books). You want a good book on GTK+ snag a copy of GTK+/Gnome Application Development by Havoc Pennington. Much better. Sharkey
www.badassmofo.com
But you can't roll a virtual LEGO car down the stairs. Still, if youdve told me that kids would be using a CAD program to play with LEGOs a decade ago, I would have called you nuts. Still sounds plenty nuts (kids need something tangeable to play with), but it looks kinda fun for adults. Itd make planning a fully LEGO PC case a lot easier. Sharkey
www.badassmofo.com
Ah, I agree that it should be regulated, just like US Mail is regulated against illicit advertisements, but you're never getting rid of spam. There's always a way around these things, and big companies will always find them. Sharkey
www.badassmofo.com
Re-Opened for your viewing pleasure
You know, people are seriously over-critical of Spam. Its never going to be eliminated, and only those who aren't super-protective of their e-mail will get it. But that's the same with junk mail, isnt it? I mean, that's what P.O. Boxes are for, right? Anonymity and filtering? Same deal with Spam. I have public e-mail accounts for the inevitable Spam to go through, and more private e-mail accounts for only the messages that I want. Its not so hard kids, just don't go giving out that precious e-mail address and you'll be fine. Sharkey
www.badassmofo.com
Re-Opened for your viewing pleasure
I dont know if accepting any sort of "gift" such as this from the government is such a good idea. These are the people backing Janet Reno in her quest to drop laws in place to protect Internet publicists. The same people who'd sell out to any big corporation who wanted the bandwidth to themselves. -Sharkey
www.badassmofo.com
Now re-opened for your viewing pleasure
Maybe this is Gore's way of reclaiming the Internet, since he invented it and all.
--Sharkey
Hmmm...just a thought. You ever wonder what happens to leftover chips when Intel takes them off the market? Sorta reminds me of how a store I worked for gave all the three-day old food to the homeless guys out back, and got on TV this one time for their generous "charitable" work. Food probably gave those bums the runs anyway. Sharkey
Badassmofo.com
As long as Blizzard's been around, they've yet to make a release date stick. I'm pretty sure this is why they havent been quoting release dates to the public lately. My friends at Blizzard have been telling me release dates for the past year, but with no sign of the game hitting the shelves in sight. Although from what I hear, the Beta is supposed to be heading out within the next month or so. But thats what they said in October :) And it doesnt help that theyve got two other titles in development that make me salivate. The spit glands dry up pretty quick though, when I realize that they wont be available for another half-decade. Bastards. They make me love them. Sharkey
http://www.badassmofo.com