...and you will see a very realistic virtual community. Not only in character in the game, but also out of character. I've frequented MUDs for a long time, and at the ones I stay at, I can see the community grow and change. You get to know who's who, and make friends (and enemies.) It is a very real, but virutal, community.
If it ever comes to the point where the domain name system has to be re-vamped, maybe it should be done like newsgroups. All the new suggested TLDs I'm hearing sound like newsgroups to me. com.os.microsoft anyone? How about org.news.slashdot? Just a thought.
Actually, he says: As simply as I can put it, you must pay for what you take every time you take it or this won't
work.
Because if you take 1 edition for every single stupid little friggin' yuppie device you have, his experiment will fail, which he does not want. Does that make it clearer?
By DC's EULA for the Cue:Cat, I am not allowed to wipe my ass with it. And I firmly believe that this is not right. I think I should defend my rights to wipe my ass with whatever free gift I get.
There's no reason why an American or European accent is the "correct" or default way to pronounce English.
Actually. Yes there is. We are in America. Therefore it is the right way to pronounce it. In Australia, the Australian way is correct, etc. Don't say something so daft.
...How many applications were written for Windows, which may have been easily ported to other OSes, but weren't due to various reasons (i.e. Mircosoft saying, "No, bad dog.")?
... in Highschool, and they expect us to use CodeWarrior on the Macintosh. There are 2 major problems with this (for me.) First, they want us to use the APstring and APvector libraries provided with CodeWarrior (which, I believe, are actually just examples of things you can do with classes.) And second, I don't have a Macintosh, or Code Warrior, and besides the 50 minutes a day in class that I have to use the Macintoshes, the only other time is before school (for 45 minutes) or after school (for about 50 minutes.) But the computer labs are only open 2 days a week (Tuesday and Thursday) before and after school.
This is a major problem for me, because I have a very full schedule, and even my lunch is already taken up by other activities. I think that schools shouldn't expect students to have to go inordinately out of their way to simply write code for a class. Of course, my school doesn't start for another 5 days, so I _may_ be able to use g++ or MSVC++, but from what I've heard from asking my friends who already took the course, you have to use the teacher-specified compiler.
It's rediculous. Why should we have to go so far out of our way to do things, when we're the ones who are paying _them_! [Rant].
Never-the-less, a few millimeters is enough to make a large difference. And there are some fun applications. A beneath-skin watch (presuming you could keep the skin above the watch alive.) A flexible, forearm LCD panel. All sorts of things. That is, of course, provided that your body doesn't instantly reject anything you put in it. But it brings some of those nifty devices from Cyberpunk and Neuromancer a little closer.
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Paying an actor is more expensive than CG most of the time. Let's see. $20 million for Kevin Bacon, or $500,000 for a CG image. More importantly, how much do you think you'd have to pay an actor to be constantly injected with glycerol?
Though, it doesn't mean it wouldn't be fun.
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I say we form a new committee of the House. Made up entirely of engineers and well, geeks. And we arm these committee members with baseball bats, and maybe crowbars for style. And whenever they see some marketing zombie write an article like this (or pay someone to create a frisbee), this committee will convene outside their place of business, late at night, and wait for them to leave to go to their car.
And as soon as they aren't looking, we break their knees and steal their wallet.
If I remember right, didn't the discussion about cavitation drives (previously seen on/.) include lots of discussion about it would be nigh-impossible to steer them? How would a torpedo fired from a submarine pull a 180 and manage to home in on a sub? Maybe these Russians are further along than they let on. Hello Cold War II.
Back in my day we didn't have no pansy little SCSI drives or EIDE or even hard drives!
We used punch cards and we liked it! And when our puncher broke, we used our teeth! And when they got out of order, we didn't sleep for days until they were fixed!
OSes are hard to write. Are you going to be the one to write 30,000,000 lines of code? More importanly, why would companies such as nVidia want to write drivers for this brand new OS? Would you write them all yourself? I don't think so, for starters, there are MILLIONS of pieces of hardware out there, and the majority of that doesn't have the specs open to the public necessary for writing something like a driver.
Linux can please all of the people all of the time, simply because there is more than one distribution of it. If you want servers, go with Debian, if you want desktop, go with Mandrake. I wouldn't use Mandrake to host a website getting 300,000 hits a day, but I will use it to play my mp3s and play games.
Converting Linux into a desktop OS is the most feasable alternative to Windows right now, if that's their aim. And the fact that there are different distributions of Linux insures that if it dies horribly, that it won't take everyone down with it, and if it succeeds, that Linux will still be able to please those who like to hack the command line and those who like to point and click.
I have to agree with you, but from a different perspective. RAM is just that, Random Access Memory. It has things loaded into it every time you start a program, and whenever programs bring in more stuff. Why would you want, after you rebooted you computer, old information from programs sitting around in your RAM? It would not be used, as those programs would not be running at boot. In fact, it wouldn't be used at all, since the memory addresses are assigned as available, and wouldn't be reused without a complete OS/compiler/program/whatever rewrite to compensate for that fact. Frankly, it's a stupid idea to start out with.
The 95 machine was waay done while mine was just past the PCMCI initialization.
My Windows 98 machine (pII 400mhz, 128mb ram) boots in under 30 seconds from cold off (and that includes typing in 'windows' at the LILO prompt), why doesn't yours?
Last time I went to the Sharper Image (about 2 months ago) they already had one of these, wide screen. It's priced at about $1200, so you can probably expect a competitive price from Olympus.
I want one so I can run a laptop at 640x480 (or the appropriate widescreen area) and with large fonts and have a good ole time.
If I remember correctly, they also have one with a window shade feature, so you can even see through, but I may be mistaken.
Sure there have! While it's perhaps an overlooked or under appreciated area of coding, many MUDs (Multi-User Dungeons, text-based Massive Multiplay Online Role Playing Games) have *excellent* natural language parsers. One example of this is Zork's, though while primitive (and single player) compared to some that exist today, still had the idea.
Many of these MUDs parse for hundreds or THOUSANDs of commands, and do it quite well. Anyway, I'd just like to present an example of how it can be done.
If you'd like to check out some of these look at http://www.mudconnector.com. Note that not all muds have natural language parsers, but I'm pretty sure you can search for ones that do at Mud Connector.
Alright. The article was about supersonic underwater travel. You know what sonar uses? Sound! You can't use sonar to see anything infront of you if you're travelling faster than the sonar, so that is a moot issue.
This topic's a bit old, but I decided to post on it anyway, see what anyone agrees with me. (Sadly, I don't have the time to read 384 posts right now.) Basically, the way I see it when it comes to XXX material, is that children won't want to see it. If porn was made available to anyone who asked, the only people asking would be horny teenagers and adults, and horny teenagers will get their hands on it anyway.
As for violent video games, to say that a game would cause a child to be any more violent than before is rather rediculous. A child who is so taken by any game to follow a game to any harmful extent is mentally unbalanced anyway. Even children with the most imaginative imaginations know the difference between what you can do in reality and games. How often do you see children jumping out windows because an Angel could fly in a movie?
The 2nd worst part is that this Mayor probably did little to squat research into the actual psychology of the subject, and is making the law to placate a group of lobbyists, or voters. If he wrote a 10 page essay, citing all the evidence he had found reguarding the topic, and carefully examining the views presented, both sides, then I might accept a law like this.
The worst part is, as usual, the only people this law affects is people who have absolutely 0 say in the making of the law. What was that about Taxation without Representation? Should Censorship without Representation somehow be better because it reflects extremist Puritan ideals that have affected our country? Anyone who has been out of this country, i.e. Europe, knows that it isn't simply religion or morals that is a reason for this. Dern the Puritans. Dern the Censorship.
Give me 1 good reason why *anything* should be censored, and I'll give you 10 reasons why not.
It has occured to me, in a very general way, that it seems that lawyers really do not know anything about what they are talking about. They are using catch phrases like "open source" and "linux BSD" without any real knowledge of what either or anything is, short of perhaps a review by somebody.
My point, taken from the DeCSS deposition:
Q. Do you know who developed CSS-cat? A. I do not.
Q. Do you know whether or not it is a Linux BSD program? A. Can you describe Linux BSD?
Q. You previously said that CSS-auth was a Linux BSD program. A. I belief I said CSS-auth was a Linux program.
Q. Is CSS-cat a Linux program? A. I believe it is.
... ad nauseum.
It's no wonder some of the large companies with very well paid lawyers can manage to get UCITA and the DMCA passed, as well as coming up with these blatently illegal (or at least shifty) EULAs (IMHO acronyms are fun.). I honestly hope that as the younger generation, which has been more exposed to computers and technology than any other before it, grows up, things like this will not so easily be slipped under the public eye. At the same time, I can look at my peers who can't even get into MS Office, and realize that that hope will probably never come true.
-- Wedg
Some notes on anime and recommendations...
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Before I get into the recommendations, there are a few things I'd like to say. I was actually a bit reluctant to post this at first. For one, judging by the 650+ posts already up, I didn't think that my suggestions would be original or insightful, and I also didn't want to overly influence anyone with my pre-determined convictions about things such as dubbing or certain series. I generally think that any good reviews anime in general gets is beneficial, because for too long it has been stigmatized as pornographic or violent cartoons, without any thought to the incredibly complex and intricate plots, beautiful artwork, and simply moving characterization some series express. I hesitate before calling it cartoons because it groups what is a work of art with production crap such as Scooby Doo. Of course, not all anime is top notch, but some, in my experience, is even better than the $140 million Hollywood movies (in fact, a lot of it is.)
It really disheartens me when people cite Dragon Ball Z (FUNimation/Cartoon Network Style) as an anime they've seen. The FUNimation english adaptation is perhaps the worst I've ever seen. I strongly suggest, if you have even the slightest liking of the English version, that you search around and find Fansubs of DBZ. (For those of you who are ill-informed, fansubs are anime, and sometimes other imports, that are subtitled by fans of the show, shows, or just anime in general. The advantage of fansubs being that they are cheaper, usually $25 for 4 tapes or so, completely uncut, and still contain the original japanese voice actors.) I also might note that fansubs of anime that has already been released in the U.S. is not wholly legal, but I don't think charging $29.95 before shipping and handling is all that legal either, or shouldn't be.
If you are interested, I'm fairly sure Planet Namek (http://www.planetnamek.com) still distributes fansubs, and if not, they do have links to other DBZ fansubbers. And not just DBZ can be gotten demi-legally through fansubs. Almost any anime you want can be found. Think of fansubbers as the open sourcers of the anime community and FUNimation as the Microsoft. Although, not all distributers are that evil, ADV, Pioneer, and others all do good jobs, but they still cost more than they should (Can anyone explain to my why Subtitles cost more than Dubbed?!? Talk about logical fallacies...)
Besides the FUNi DBZ, all the other animes written about by CmdrTaco get at least a B+ in my book. If you get the chance to watch the Cowboy Bebop intro scene -- it's just plain funny.
On to my recommendations:
First comes Neon Genesis Evangelion(Shin Seiki Evangelion), a very intricate and complex story by Hideaki Anno about a young man named Shinji who forced to pilot an enormous biological robot under the command of his draconian father. This is possibly the best serialized anime I have ever seen (bet you haven't heard that before =P). Its plot follows 26 episodes and 2 movies, starting at what seems like a simply boy-piloting-giant-robot fighting series into a teen angst filled story about love, triumph, the meaning of life, and the existance of humanity. One of the greatest things about this series is that you can watch it a million times and pick up new foreshadowing, clues, and religious overtones every time (this series uses a lot of religious allusions, which is one of of its best features if you like that sort of thing.) NGE also features and excellent soundtrack, with some of the more catchy tunes I've heard. Beware watching large segments of this series at once: the Cicada sound gets _very_ irritating, and it will probably leave your mind lightly crispy. After you're done watching it (AND NOT BEFORE!) I strongly recommend you go read the fanfiction by those guys over at Eyrie productions (http://www.eyrie.net) called Neon Exodus Evangelion, which provides a very captivating spin on the series.
Next on the list comes anything by the incredible manga artist Rumiko Takihashi. Her works include Ranma 1/2, Maison Ikkukou, and Urusei Yatsura, all of which are quite good. Most of her stories focus on comedy between somehow afflicted lovers, friends, or those stuck in awkward situations. Her works can be quite touching at times and can make even the stiffest upper lip crack a smile.
Of course, the obligatory Ghost in the Shell comes in here. Interesting story about an android and the computer virus she loves, or something like that. Read other people's reviews for more in-depth.
One of the less heralded, but no less great works is Peacock King, an interesting story about demons and all sorts of cool stuff there. One of the characters in this story led me and my friends to come up with a skill called "The Ability to Look Like a Bad-Ass", rated on a scale of 1 to 50, its how bad ass you look, reguardless of your actual skill or anything like that. See the anime, and you will understand.
One comedy series that definitely needs menion is Tenchi-Muyo, a Rumiko Takahashi-esque story about a young man named Tenchi, beautiful alien space pirates, and all sorts of damn funny hijinks.
While we're on the subject of comedy, perhaps the funniest anime series I've seen is Slayers. It's about a young sorceress who goes around and adventures. Think: DnD. It has a giant fish with legs, 'nuff said.
If you like guns and shooting and Matrix-style fighting, check out Gunsmith Cats. Chicks with Guns. Funny and fun.
I almost left out one of the first anime I ever saw, Guyver which was also made into a few American movies. It's a bit old school 80s in its animation, and the plot isn't super-intense, I still like it, and think it's worth watching. Some nice DBZ-style action and evil-megacorporation type menace with the thrown in alien over power for flavor.
While I'm remembering good anime, BubbleGun Crisis is one of the neatest 80s mechanized fighting evil corporation type anime out there. This is actually just an 8 OAV (Original Animation Video, i.e. released straight to video) set, but still quite good. It also features poofy hair and 80s J-pop music if that floats your boat. On the other side it has very neato technology that'll keep you hooked afterwards. There's also an RPG based on it.
An excellent movie to watch is Macross 7. It has a decent Mindfuck factor (a scale of 1 to 11 of how confusing it is; Evangelion being 11, Scooby Doo being 0) and some of the _most_beautiful_animation_ I've seen, ever. A definite watch if you can find it. Good music too.
Christ there's so many out there that's good, it's almost impossible to list them all. These few are just some that I can list off the top of my head. If you really want more information and many, many, many more reviews of hundreds, even thousands of anime, check out AniPike (http://www.anipike.com).
Note that my drawings are flawed; the light pulse was probably longer than the cesium chamber. So the original pulse was already half-destroyed by the time the new pulse emerged from the other end. That would have been difficult to draw.
Actually it isn't. According to the article the new pulse was 60 feet away by the time the peak of the original hit the cesium. Just so ya know.
I think the reason behind this sort of 'early peak' that many programmers seem to see is that the new technology relating to things such as the internet changes on a daily basis. So the things that say, someone learned 30 years ago in college, might not give them the same skills that they might need today.
At the same time, that isn't entirely true. I've found in my experience that I learned very little from classes that I didn't find out by looking around and exploring on my own. That older programmers can't dal with the new technology just seems to be a stigma associated with the field.
Can you teach an old dog new tricks? Maybe. But who teaches the young dogs new tricks?
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As simply as I can put it, you must pay for what you take every time you take it or this won't work.
Because if you take 1 edition for every single stupid little friggin' yuppie device you have, his experiment will fail, which he does not want. Does that make it clearer?
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Actually. Yes there is. We are in America. Therefore it is the right way to pronounce it. In Australia, the Australian way is correct, etc. Don't say something so daft.
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This is a major problem for me, because I have a very full schedule, and even my lunch is already taken up by other activities. I think that schools shouldn't expect students to have to go inordinately out of their way to simply write code for a class. Of course, my school doesn't start for another 5 days, so I _may_ be able to use g++ or MSVC++, but from what I've heard from asking my friends who already took the course, you have to use the teacher-specified compiler.
It's rediculous. Why should we have to go so far out of our way to do things, when we're the ones who are paying _them_! [Rant].
- W
Never-the-less, a few millimeters is enough to make a large difference. And there are some fun applications. A beneath-skin watch (presuming you could keep the skin above the watch alive.) A flexible, forearm LCD panel. All sorts of things. That is, of course, provided that your body doesn't instantly reject anything you put in it. But it brings some of those nifty devices from Cyberpunk and Neuromancer a little closer.
- W
Paying an actor is more expensive than CG most of the time. Let's see. $20 million for Kevin Bacon, or $500,000 for a CG image. More importantly, how much do you think you'd have to pay an actor to be constantly injected with glycerol?
Though, it doesn't mean it wouldn't be fun.
- W
And as soon as they aren't looking, we break their knees and steal their wallet.
Who's with me?
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We used punch cards and we liked it! And when our puncher broke, we used our teeth! And when they got out of order, we didn't sleep for days until they were fixed!
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Linux can please all of the people all of the time, simply because there is more than one distribution of it. If you want servers, go with Debian, if you want desktop, go with Mandrake. I wouldn't use Mandrake to host a website getting 300,000 hits a day, but I will use it to play my mp3s and play games.
Converting Linux into a desktop OS is the most feasable alternative to Windows right now, if that's their aim. And the fact that there are different distributions of Linux insures that if it dies horribly, that it won't take everyone down with it, and if it succeeds, that Linux will still be able to please those who like to hack the command line and those who like to point and click.
- Wedg
- Wedg
My Windows 98 machine (pII 400mhz, 128mb ram) boots in under 30 seconds from cold off (and that includes typing in 'windows' at the LILO prompt), why doesn't yours?
- Wedg
I want one so I can run a laptop at 640x480 (or the appropriate widescreen area) and with large fonts and have a good ole time.
If I remember correctly, they also have one with a window shade feature, so you can even see through, but I may be mistaken.
- Wedg
Many of these MUDs parse for hundreds or THOUSANDs of commands, and do it quite well. Anyway, I'd just like to present an example of how it can be done.
If you'd like to check out some of these look at http://www.mudconnector.com. Note that not all muds have natural language parsers, but I'm pretty sure you can search for ones that do at Mud Connector.
- Wedg
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I love puns.
- Wedg
As for violent video games, to say that a game would cause a child to be any more violent than before is rather rediculous. A child who is so taken by any game to follow a game to any harmful extent is mentally unbalanced anyway. Even children with the most imaginative imaginations know the difference between what you can do in reality and games. How often do you see children jumping out windows because an Angel could fly in a movie?
The 2nd worst part is that this Mayor probably did little to squat research into the actual psychology of the subject, and is making the law to placate a group of lobbyists, or voters. If he wrote a 10 page essay, citing all the evidence he had found reguarding the topic, and carefully examining the views presented, both sides, then I might accept a law like this.
The worst part is, as usual, the only people this law affects is people who have absolutely 0 say in the making of the law. What was that about Taxation without Representation? Should Censorship without Representation somehow be better because it reflects extremist Puritan ideals that have affected our country? Anyone who has been out of this country, i.e. Europe, knows that it isn't simply religion or morals that is a reason for this. Dern the Puritans. Dern the Censorship.
Give me 1 good reason why *anything* should be censored, and I'll give you 10 reasons why not.
- Wedg the Disgruntled
My point, taken from the DeCSS deposition:
A. I do not.
A. Can you describe Linux BSD?
A. I belief I said CSS-auth was a Linux program.
A. I believe it is.
It's no wonder some of the large companies with very well paid lawyers can manage to get UCITA and the DMCA passed, as well as coming up with these blatently illegal (or at least shifty) EULAs (IMHO acronyms are fun.). I honestly hope that as the younger generation, which has been more exposed to computers and technology than any other before it, grows up, things like this will not so easily be slipped under the public eye. At the same time, I can look at my peers who can't even get into MS Office, and realize that that hope will probably never come true.
-- Wedg
Before I get into the recommendations, there are a few things I'd like to say. I was actually a bit reluctant to post this at first. For one, judging by the 650+ posts already up, I didn't think that my suggestions would be original or insightful, and I also didn't want to overly influence anyone with my pre-determined convictions about things such as dubbing or certain series. I generally think that any good reviews anime in general gets is beneficial, because for too long it has been stigmatized as pornographic or violent cartoons, without any thought to the incredibly complex and intricate plots, beautiful artwork, and simply moving characterization some series express. I hesitate before calling it cartoons because it groups what is a work of art with production crap such as Scooby Doo. Of course, not all anime is top notch, but some, in my experience, is even better than the $140 million Hollywood movies (in fact, a lot of it is.)
It really disheartens me when people cite Dragon Ball Z (FUNimation/Cartoon Network Style) as an anime they've seen. The FUNimation english adaptation is perhaps the worst I've ever seen. I strongly suggest, if you have even the slightest liking of the English version, that you search around and find Fansubs of DBZ. (For those of you who are ill-informed, fansubs are anime, and sometimes other imports, that are subtitled by fans of the show, shows, or just anime in general. The advantage of fansubs being that they are cheaper, usually $25 for 4 tapes or so, completely uncut, and still contain the original japanese voice actors.) I also might note that fansubs of anime that has already been released in the U.S. is not wholly legal, but I don't think charging $29.95 before shipping and handling is all that legal either, or shouldn't be.
If you are interested, I'm fairly sure Planet Namek (http://www.planetnamek.com) still distributes fansubs, and if not, they do have links to other DBZ fansubbers. And not just DBZ can be gotten demi-legally through fansubs. Almost any anime you want can be found. Think of fansubbers as the open sourcers of the anime community and FUNimation as the Microsoft. Although, not all distributers are that evil, ADV, Pioneer, and others all do good jobs, but they still cost more than they should (Can anyone explain to my why Subtitles cost more than Dubbed?!? Talk about logical fallacies...)
Besides the FUNi DBZ, all the other animes written about by CmdrTaco get at least a B+ in my book. If you get the chance to watch the Cowboy Bebop intro scene -- it's just plain funny.
On to my recommendations:
- First comes Neon Genesis Evangelion (Shin Seiki Evangelion), a very intricate and complex story by Hideaki Anno about a young man named Shinji who forced to pilot an enormous biological robot under the command of his draconian father. This is possibly the best serialized anime I have ever seen (bet you haven't heard that before =P). Its plot follows 26 episodes and 2 movies, starting at what seems like a simply boy-piloting-giant-robot fighting series into a teen angst filled story about love, triumph, the meaning of life, and the existance of humanity. One of the greatest things about this series is that you can watch it a million times and pick up new foreshadowing, clues, and religious overtones every time (this series uses a lot of religious allusions, which is one of of its best features if you like that sort of thing.) NGE also features and excellent soundtrack, with some of the more catchy tunes I've heard. Beware watching large segments of this series at once: the Cicada sound gets _very_ irritating, and it will probably leave your mind lightly crispy. After you're done watching it (AND NOT BEFORE!) I strongly recommend you go read the fanfiction by those guys over at Eyrie productions (http://www.eyrie.net) called Neon Exodus Evangelion, which provides a very captivating spin on the series.
- Next on the list comes anything by the incredible manga artist Rumiko Takihashi. Her works include Ranma 1/2, Maison Ikkukou, and Urusei Yatsura, all of which are quite good. Most of her stories focus on comedy between somehow afflicted lovers, friends, or those stuck in awkward situations. Her works can be quite touching at times and can make even the stiffest upper lip crack a smile.
- Of course, the obligatory Ghost in the Shell comes in here. Interesting story about an android and the computer virus she loves, or something like that. Read other people's reviews for more in-depth.
- One of the less heralded, but no less great works is Peacock King, an interesting story about demons and all sorts of cool stuff there. One of the characters in this story led me and my friends to come up with a skill called "The Ability to Look Like a Bad-Ass", rated on a scale of 1 to 50, its how bad ass you look, reguardless of your actual skill or anything like that. See the anime, and you will understand.
- One comedy series that definitely needs menion is Tenchi-Muyo, a Rumiko Takahashi-esque story about a young man named Tenchi, beautiful alien space pirates, and all sorts of damn funny hijinks.
- While we're on the subject of comedy, perhaps the funniest anime series I've seen is Slayers. It's about a young sorceress who goes around and adventures. Think: DnD. It has a giant fish with legs, 'nuff said.
- If you like guns and shooting and Matrix-style fighting, check out Gunsmith Cats. Chicks with Guns. Funny and fun.
- I almost left out one of the first anime I ever saw, Guyver which was also made into a few American movies. It's a bit old school 80s in its animation, and the plot isn't super-intense, I still like it, and think it's worth watching. Some nice DBZ-style action and evil-megacorporation type menace with the thrown in alien over power for flavor.
- While I'm remembering good anime, BubbleGun Crisis is one of the neatest 80s mechanized fighting evil corporation type anime out there. This is actually just an 8 OAV (Original Animation Video, i.e. released straight to video) set, but still quite good. It also features poofy hair and 80s J-pop music if that floats your boat. On the other side it has very neato technology that'll keep you hooked afterwards. There's also an RPG based on it.
- An excellent movie to watch is Macross 7. It has a decent Mindfuck factor (a scale of 1 to 11 of how confusing it is; Evangelion being 11, Scooby Doo being 0) and some of the _most_beautiful_animation_ I've seen, ever. A definite watch if you can find it. Good music too.
Christ there's so many out there that's good, it's almost impossible to list them all. These few are just some that I can list off the top of my head. If you really want more information and many, many, many more reviews of hundreds, even thousands of anime, check out AniPike (http://www.anipike.com).- the Pfish
Actually it isn't. According to the article the new pulse was 60 feet away by the time the peak of the original hit the cesium. Just so ya know.
What if you repeat this? Instant propogation over fairly long distances?
/Ponder
Discuss.
At the same time, that isn't entirely true. I've found in my experience that I learned very little from classes that I didn't find out by looking around and exploring on my own. That older programmers can't dal with the new technology just seems to be a stigma associated with the field.
Can you teach an old dog new tricks? Maybe. But who teaches the young dogs new tricks?
Myrr.