Yes, a great number of titles are targeted at "kids", which is people in college and younger. Other people (supposedly) do not have the time to watch anime.
But the age span of 'kids' is quite different. it goes up to about age 25, where cartoons in america plateau at about what, 9 years old?
But again, damnit.. anime is just a medium. There's nothing REQUIRING anime to be aimed mostly at college age students and younger, but the older working people here[in japan] often don't have much time to get in to a story like that, and the non-working people just seem to watch gameshows. Though my only experience is one family, from what I've read and observed, it seems to be true for a great majority.. *shrug*
While I admit that there's a certain truth to that, there's also a truth to the fact that it IS just a style, and therefore the people who love anime because it's anime, and not necessarily because of the content are equally as wrong.
Personally, I like a lot of anime. I find that they often have decent stories, it helps me refine my rather poor Japanese skills (Even though I've been 'studying' it for three years. ugh.), and I find the art pretty decent. However, I realize that there are a great number out there that suck.
There are some people who can't stand the art, and therefore reject it as a medium. There are some people who refuse to give it a chance due to some series being bad. To both of them, that's their loss. But to love everything just because it IS in a certain style is also rather stupid, and I feel sorry for them too.
Note, I'm not criticizing you for this, you didn't say you were like that. I'm just making a somewhat relevant comment on a pet-pieve of mine. All the while simultaneously mispelling the word pieve, I'm sure.
Most any distribution will have a way to keep the system up to date from what I've been able to see. Probably able to be automated as well. Only knowing mandrake and sorcerer, I can say these both do.
Mandrake: urpmi.update -a && urpmi --auto-select -a
will find newer packages. Pretty easy, since often the patches are just a new version of the software..
You mention the certain large proprietary vendors makign it easy and painless to secure your system? I hope like hell you aren't referring to Windows Update, that has to be the biggest piece of trash ever. One of the reasons that the viruses spread so well recently was BECAUSE of Windows Update. People get a false sense of security that there's no 'security updates' on there. Instead, they have to go to some obscure webpage that they were never told to go to in documentation or anything to find some obscure patch with hard installation instructions.
I once read a sci-fi book that had this idea in it, a computer that somehow always corrected your mistakes by working just like this. It then got a little funkier and the people started crossing the dimensions for fun then eventually to live there, all without letting the people in charge of the project know what they were doing.
If you know the name of this book PLEASE tell me, I lost it years ago and remember it as being good, so I want to read it again. Your comment made me think you might have heard of it.
I just think it'd be funny that if this were the case, then windows would also have to be certified as safe for all ages, since it includes such things as solitaire. Even better if they haven't yet been certified as such, and would have to be stuck in the 18 and over section:)
My Sony Ericcson (prolly spelled wrnog) phone from au here in Japan provides me maps and everything. It was one of au's first models to do it and thus doesnt' support all the features more recent models do. DoCoMo is SLOW to catch up to the other providers here in Japan in this regard. I can also get weather and stuff from it, I think.. but I can't read that part of the menu that well so I never bothered to try. NOT NEWS.
To one of the child posts: maybe my phone gets its GPS coordinates and sends them to the au server, whcih makes the map and sends it to me. It does seem like this is all being done remotely to me. So then the map doesn't have to be stored on the phone, and the phones in the US can do this as well. Not quite sure, but it still does everything the DoCoMo phone sounds like it's going to do. and has for at least a year now from what I can tell.
Ok, then try and watch a video in windows without overlays, and see how slow the windows renderer is. Oh, wait a second, it performs like ass too? Damn, I never would have thought that could possibly happen.. using x11 as a method is flawed, they just can't handle thigns like that. xv/overlays/etc. are the only way to get decent performance.
I second this, I love my Speedpad. Not really sure how well it screams awesome at a lan party (my friends think it's pretty stupid), but it's helped me so much. I only wish that the area that presses against the palm was able to be moved back slightly. My hand is a bit too large for it.
Happily running sorcerer. Took a while to get things compiled on Pentium 3 500MHz 128MB RAM, especially since the computer kept getting rebooted durign compiles, but a straight kde compile on THIS machine took only like 6 hours total I think.
that's kdebase, artwork, network, games, toys, sdk, develop, edu, graphics, etc. etc. Basically everything you need for a really nice kde setup.
I didn't know they had college courses on such things, unless you meant miner;) Of course given the content/purpose of your post, I assume this was intentional.:P
here at school we all have space on a central server to store stuff (auto-mounted as the z drive), and all the computers in the labs somehow wipe themselves at bootup (no clue how.. no time to reimage, not a network boot, but that's not the point).
I 'installed' phoenix to my z drive at school, and every time I go in to the lab I have to setup the proxy again.. tried setting the profile dir to something inside the z:\phoenix dir, no luck. Where the hell is the file stored that tells it what the profile directory is, or at least what the proxy settings are? There's no command line option to tell it where config files are (Grrr!)
Yeah, I remember that.. whooo boy, that was a mess. To this date I still have no clue why ATI went nuts for people hacking USR modems, but there doesn't need to be a reason. :)
I'll admit that I haven't checked any of the links there, but is there a place I can search for an artist name and get the label they're signed under, and (even better) if they support/are supported by/whatever you want to call it any groups we might be opposed to?
Though phrased somewhat sarcastically, it is a serious question:) I don't think anything I've 'pirated' in the past year is RIAA material (and, oh my god, I'll probably buy it once I return to the states.. it's just not available conveniently here)
ahh, also.. copy protection? I don't want to have to feel like a criminal downloading someone else's poor quality rips so i can burn stuff to cd for my mp3/cd player. I spend 3-4 hours a day on trains getting to and from home, and if I have to constantly swap cds it's damned annoying.
Easier to move and twist your arm slightly and look at the watch than reaching in to pocket and grabbing cell phone (assuming you have a non-flip style one, or one that has a display on the outside of it, otherwise you'd have to open it up too)
Yeah, it's not that much harder, but it is slightly quicker. Also, on packed trains you run less chance of being yelled at for being a perv by looking up at your watch, than accidentally brushing your arm against the ass of the person next to you then fishing around in your pocket for a bit.
1) If they don't know how to use tabs properly, where are they even going to get one from? New windows (javascript, targets) open in: new windows. Unless you go and change the option, no tabs, no worries.
2) ctrl+tab. similar to alt+tab for applications. Yes, it works in phoenix (I just did it) It even supports going backwards (ctrl+shift+tab) just like alt+shift+tab. This was all done using windows 2000 on a public computer btw.
3) You're thinking of things document centric anyway, which I guess considerign the article is a good thing, since this is a mac page. Windows tends to be application-centric, hence the MDI interfaces et al. where closing the program DOES close all the windows inside it. Basically tabbed browsing = MDI with a decent window switcher inside, from what I can tell. Which probably doesn't make it too surprising that apple did NOT implement it, since the apple paradigm is one window, one document. The document is the center, not the application (thus you can close document windows and leave applications open. Annoying at first, but sometimes useful)
well, if its an application cd that I don't need the cd to run it, or a drivers disc, I say.. every time?:) How often do you put in your drivers disc to just browse around and look at the pretty file names (or even better, the contents of those lovely.inf files)
Any program that has a reason to have the cd in there for any other reason than installation, and that doesn't automatically either 1) not bring up the autorun or 2) bring it up and offer the option to 'Play Game' (which is probably why you put it in there) is stupid. If you already installed it and it offers to install again, and that's the only option, it's a stupid cd. the concept itself isn't so bad.
I just wonder if Microsoft might not use this as a way to attack slashdot./. is linking to a story that infringes on their IP. If they can't get the guy in question (though I'm sure if they tried hard enough, either Microsoft or the US government could get the guy out of the UK), then they might as well stop the major places from linking to it. And how convenient that it's a site they're probably not all too fond of anyway.
Wow, there seems to be an extremely high percentage of 2s, 3s, 5s, and 0s in that number. I propose we research the creation of randomly mashed numbers on the numberpad and see if we can make it more efficient (and thus more random). Might be better than trying to find a 'better' way of shoving a tree structure of previously visited links in to a sensible 'line'. Either way's going to annoy someone as not being the way they expect.
There's information in the HTML spec to indicate what the next and previous pages will be. Mozilla uses this information to prefetch the page for you during times when nothing else is using the bandwidth. What I would like to see is it either change the back and forward buttons to use the next and previous links, or have the buttons appear somewhere else.. as opposed to searching for the next and prev buttons on pages that might move due to different banner ads and scrolling and shit.
if you reboot in safe mode it comes back (in XP Home). I've had to do it when some permissions got royally messed up somehow (I have no clue how they managed this, but it has happened to my friend)
I'm pretty fond of chaninja's work in the xp skinning area, very slick stuff. Honestly if xpde could handle the xp style themes, I'd run it just for that skin.. ^_^ There's nothing on the website about being able to support XP's ability to switch visual styles though, so I don't have much hope for that. Especially since they're emulating classic for some reason.. it's ok, but classic in XP looks ugly, everything is just the wrong size. They seem to be doing slightly better, but still, don't claim to emulate XP to the smallest detail, then leave out the biggest visual difference of XP (the luna theme, and the ability to change it to something else)
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Yes, a great number of titles are targeted at "kids", which is people in college and younger. Other people (supposedly) do not have the time to watch anime.
But the age span of 'kids' is quite different. it goes up to about age 25, where cartoons in america plateau at about what, 9 years old?
But again, damnit.. anime is just a medium. There's nothing REQUIRING anime to be aimed mostly at college age students and younger, but the older working people here[in japan] often don't have much time to get in to a story like that, and the non-working people just seem to watch gameshows. Though my only experience is one family, from what I've read and observed, it seems to be true for a great majority.. *shrug*
While I admit that there's a certain truth to that, there's also a truth to the fact that it IS just a style, and therefore the people who love anime because it's anime, and not necessarily because of the content are equally as wrong.
Personally, I like a lot of anime. I find that they often have decent stories, it helps me refine my rather poor Japanese skills (Even though I've been 'studying' it for three years. ugh.), and I find the art pretty decent. However, I realize that there are a great number out there that suck.
There are some people who can't stand the art, and therefore reject it as a medium. There are some people who refuse to give it a chance due to some series being bad. To both of them, that's their loss. But to love everything just because it IS in a certain style is also rather stupid, and I feel sorry for them too.
Note, I'm not criticizing you for this, you didn't say you were like that. I'm just making a somewhat relevant comment on a pet-pieve of mine. All the while simultaneously mispelling the word pieve, I'm sure.
uhm, that is NOT a cookie. a cookie is stored on the user's machine.
Most any distribution will have a way to keep the system up to date from what I've been able to see. Probably able to be automated as well. Only knowing mandrake and sorcerer, I can say these both do.
Mandrake: urpmi.update -a && urpmi --auto-select -a
will find newer packages.
Sorcerer: augur synch && augur newer && augur update
will find newer packages. Pretty easy, since often the patches are just a new version of the software..
You mention the certain large proprietary vendors makign it easy and painless to secure your system? I hope like hell you aren't referring to Windows Update, that has to be the biggest piece of trash ever. One of the reasons that the viruses spread so well recently was BECAUSE of Windows Update. People get a false sense of security that there's no 'security updates' on there. Instead, they have to go to some obscure webpage that they were never told to go to in documentation or anything to find some obscure patch with hard installation instructions.
I once read a sci-fi book that had this idea in it, a computer that somehow always corrected your mistakes by working just like this. It then got a little funkier and the people started crossing the dimensions for fun then eventually to live there, all without letting the people in charge of the project know what they were doing.
If you know the name of this book PLEASE tell me, I lost it years ago and remember it as being good, so I want to read it again. Your comment made me think you might have heard of it.
That's because often it IS Logitech, rebranded. At least, that's what I've always heard.
I just think it'd be funny that if this were the case, then windows would also have to be certified as safe for all ages, since it includes such things as solitaire. Even better if they haven't yet been certified as such, and would have to be stuck in the 18 and over section :)
My Sony Ericcson (prolly spelled wrnog) phone from au here in Japan provides me maps and everything. It was one of au's first models to do it and thus doesnt' support all the features more recent models do. DoCoMo is SLOW to catch up to the other providers here in Japan in this regard. I can also get weather and stuff from it, I think.. but I can't read that part of the menu that well so I never bothered to try. NOT NEWS.
To one of the child posts: maybe my phone gets its GPS coordinates and sends them to the au server, whcih makes the map and sends it to me. It does seem like this is all being done remotely to me. So then the map doesn't have to be stored on the phone, and the phones in the US can do this as well. Not quite sure, but it still does everything the DoCoMo phone sounds like it's going to do. and has for at least a year now from what I can tell.
they are. Ok, a newer version. But we'll ignore that.
Ok, then try and watch a video in windows without overlays, and see how slow the windows renderer is. Oh, wait a second, it performs like ass too? Damn, I never would have thought that could possibly happen.. using x11 as a method is flawed, they just can't handle thigns like that. xv/overlays/etc. are the only way to get decent performance.
I second this, I love my Speedpad. Not really sure how well it screams awesome at a lan party (my friends think it's pretty stupid), but it's helped me so much. I only wish that the area that presses against the palm was able to be moved back slightly. My hand is a bit too large for it.
Happily running sorcerer. Took a while to get things compiled on Pentium 3 500MHz 128MB RAM, especially since the computer kept getting rebooted durign compiles, but a straight kde compile on THIS machine took only like 6 hours total I think.
that's kdebase, artwork, network, games, toys, sdk, develop, edu, graphics, etc. etc. Basically everything you need for a really nice kde setup.
I didn't know they had college courses on such things, unless you meant miner ;) Of course given the content/purpose of your post, I assume this was intentional. :P
here at school we all have space on a central server to store stuff (auto-mounted as the z drive), and all the computers in the labs somehow wipe themselves at bootup (no clue how.. no time to reimage, not a network boot, but that's not the point).
I 'installed' phoenix to my z drive at school, and every time I go in to the lab I have to setup the proxy again.. tried setting the profile dir to something inside the z:\phoenix dir, no luck. Where the hell is the file stored that tells it what the profile directory is, or at least what the proxy settings are? There's no command line option to tell it where config files are (Grrr!)
Yeah, I remember that.. whooo boy, that was a mess. To this date I still have no clue why ATI went nuts for people hacking USR modems, but there doesn't need to be a reason. :)
I'll admit that I haven't checked any of the links there, but is there a place I can search for an artist name and get the label they're signed under, and (even better) if they support/are supported by/whatever you want to call it any groups we might be opposed to?
:) I don't think anything I've 'pirated' in the past year is RIAA material (and, oh my god, I'll probably buy it once I return to the states.. it's just not available conveniently here)
Though phrased somewhat sarcastically, it is a serious question
ahh, also.. copy protection? I don't want to have to feel like a criminal downloading someone else's poor quality rips so i can burn stuff to cd for my mp3/cd player. I spend 3-4 hours a day on trains getting to and from home, and if I have to constantly swap cds it's damned annoying.
Easier to move and twist your arm slightly and look at the watch than reaching in to pocket and grabbing cell phone (assuming you have a non-flip style one, or one that has a display on the outside of it, otherwise you'd have to open it up too)
Yeah, it's not that much harder, but it is slightly quicker. Also, on packed trains you run less chance of being yelled at for being a perv by looking up at your watch, than accidentally brushing your arm against the ass of the person next to you then fishing around in your pocket for a bit.
How popular is delphi? I hear about it occasionally but never have really seen any evidence of it being used much..
Also, any decent samples of what it looks like, or tutorials? Just curious..
Uhh.. Ok, I'll bite.
1) If they don't know how to use tabs properly, where are they even going to get one from? New windows (javascript, targets) open in: new windows. Unless you go and change the option, no tabs, no worries.
2) ctrl+tab. similar to alt+tab for applications. Yes, it works in phoenix (I just did it) It even supports going backwards (ctrl+shift+tab) just like alt+shift+tab. This was all done using windows 2000 on a public computer btw.
3) You're thinking of things document centric anyway, which I guess considerign the article is a good thing, since this is a mac page. Windows tends to be application-centric, hence the MDI interfaces et al. where closing the program DOES close all the windows inside it. Basically tabbed browsing = MDI with a decent window switcher inside, from what I can tell. Which probably doesn't make it too surprising that apple did NOT implement it, since the apple paradigm is one window, one document. The document is the center, not the application (thus you can close document windows and leave applications open. Annoying at first, but sometimes useful)
well, if its an application cd that I don't need the cd to run it, or a drivers disc, I say.. every time? :) How often do you put in your drivers disc to just browse around and look at the pretty file names (or even better, the contents of those lovely .inf files)
Any program that has a reason to have the cd in there for any other reason than installation, and that doesn't automatically either 1) not bring up the autorun or 2) bring it up and offer the option to 'Play Game' (which is probably why you put it in there) is stupid. If you already installed it and it offers to install again, and that's the only option, it's a stupid cd. the concept itself isn't so bad.
I just wonder if Microsoft might not use this as a way to attack slashdot. /. is linking to a story that infringes on their IP. If they can't get the guy in question (though I'm sure if they tried hard enough, either Microsoft or the US government could get the guy out of the UK), then they might as well stop the major places from linking to it. And how convenient that it's a site they're probably not all too fond of anyway.
Wow, there seems to be an extremely high percentage of 2s, 3s, 5s, and 0s in that number. I propose we research the creation of randomly mashed numbers on the numberpad and see if we can make it more efficient (and thus more random). Might be better than trying to find a 'better' way of shoving a tree structure of previously visited links in to a sensible 'line'. Either way's going to annoy someone as not being the way they expect.
There's information in the HTML spec to indicate what the next and previous pages will be. Mozilla uses this information to prefetch the page for you during times when nothing else is using the bandwidth. What I would like to see is it either change the back and forward buttons to use the next and previous links, or have the buttons appear somewhere else.. as opposed to searching for the next and prev buttons on pages that might move due to different banner ads and scrolling and shit.
if you reboot in safe mode it comes back (in XP Home). I've had to do it when some permissions got royally messed up somehow (I have no clue how they managed this, but it has happened to my friend)
I'm pretty fond of chaninja's work in the xp skinning area, very slick stuff. Honestly if xpde could handle the xp style themes, I'd run it just for that skin.. ^_^ There's nothing on the website about being able to support XP's ability to switch visual styles though, so I don't have much hope for that. Especially since they're emulating classic for some reason.. it's ok, but classic in XP looks ugly, everything is just the wrong size. They seem to be doing slightly better, but still, don't claim to emulate XP to the smallest detail, then leave out the biggest visual difference of XP (the luna theme, and the ability to change it to something else)