I've seen it. I got a chance to sit in on a press screening of Innocence and it is nothing short of awesome.
Innocence cuts through the limitations of the first Ghost In The Shell movie beautifully. There aren't any longwinded philosophical discussions in this new movie like the ones that dragged down GITS in places. In Innocence, Oshii-sensei is able to visually illustrate the philosophical points he wants to make rather than weight things down with expository dialogue.
It is said that Akira was the most expensive animated feature ever made in Japan at $7.5 Million. That can't be right. I was under the impression that Miyazaki has had Disney-sized budgets (in the high tens of millions of dollars) since Mononoke Hime, and that Mobile Space Force: The Wings of Honneamise by the Gainax crew cost Bandai over $100 Million when all the cost overruns were totalled up.
Innocence looks expensive. There are some awesome CGI set-pieces in the movie that are easily the most elaborate CGI I have ever seen. While the CGI in the movie doesn't blend as well with the traditional animation in Innocence, unlike the CGI/Traditional Animation mix in the extremely underrated Cowboy Bebop: Knocking On Heaven's Door, both the traditional and digital animation in Innocence are impressive if looked at as separate entities.
The best animation is not Bateau, but Bateau's soulful basset hound, Gabe. Droopy Dog wishes he looked that good, and that realistic. From the swing of the dangling ears to the wrinkly folds of skin and fur, you really think you're looking at a live action film at first glance. Then you look closer, and see the artistry of the drawings, and the achievement is overwhelming.
The story's great too. I think they pick up pretty closely after the end of Ghost In The Shell here. Bateau is following up on stories of homicidal female home robots, called "gynoids." He gets pulled into the weird world of the creator of the series of robots.
I strongly suggest going to see this when it comes out next month. I suspect I will be going back to see it again...there is just so much in the movie that one viewing is not enough.
Los Angeles, California, which had the same punch card ballot system as Florida, was able to retrofit their old "Votomatics" with a little felt pen on a chain. The pen makes marks on the ballot, an optical reader reads the ballots, there is no learning curve because the interface is virtually unchanged. And yes, there is an anonymous paper trail for recount purposes. The system is called InkaVote.
Optical readers have been around for decades. Folks, it doesn't take rocket (or computer) science to solve this problem. Just a little pen on a little chain.
Intel has always been somewhat embarrassed about the Pentium M series of microprocessors. Basically a Pentium M, whether a Banias or Dothan, (both of which are named after rivers in Israel) is more an heir of the Pentium III architecture than the P4. Yet, the Pentium M, clock for clock, does more work and stays cooler than the P4.
A Pentium M desktop would be great, and it looks like Alviso is that very desktop. It would be ideal for quiet media boxes and transportable LAN party machines. However, I am sure that one of the reasons why Intel is dragging its feet is this: to put out a desktop Pentium M board would be an admission of just how much of a disappointment the P4 architecture has been.
Perhaps Intel should look towards Micro-ITX and Nano-ITX applications of this technology as well. I'm sure that the existing Centrino chipset would be ideal for such mini-boxen.
That's released under the Mozilla Public License, plus the GPL and LGPL, just like Mozilla itself.
One good reason for going with full-blown Mozilla vs. Firefox. Although from what I see here on mozilla.org it can be loaded in as a plugin to Firefox. I've just never done it...I just go with the Big Moz.
It's a Transmeta processor...I think it was the last one Linus Torvalds worked on the x86 code morphing code for before moving on.
Does Linux work on it? I suspect so, in this case. It seemed like the Crusoe was very happy under Linux. I have friends who have had Crusoe-based laptops running under Linux.
The only thing that might cause trouble would be the wireless networking. And that has nothing to do with the CPU.
OK smarty...what's missing? The writeup on Fileshack sounds like it is complete enough to recompile with MS C++ 6. The basic console version of which is now free as in beer.
Anyway, this is the EULA [yes, it's a EULA, if you thought Epic GPLed Unreal Engine 2 you're wrong) so if you feel like trying your hand at playing with the code here are the limitations you have to work under. Void where prohibited. Sorry, Tenneseee.
Ever heard of Bulletin Board Systems? Remember calling into a machine hosted at some guy's house with several modems attached to it? Trumpet Winsock was shareware, and could be easily downloaded from a BBS.
Also people used to pay dearly for things like Compuserve and Prodigy, remember them? And The Microsoft Network? And a little operation called America On Line? You could download software from any one of those pay systems.
You have a lot of computer history to learn, young padawan.
Going all the way back to Windows 3.1, even my worst Windows installs always end up with more things functioning than with the best Linux installs.
Bullshit. I am a longtime computer user with a goodly amount of grey hair. You were probably in diapers when Windows 3.11 came out. Windows 3.11 came with exactly jack and shit functional. It had Solitaire, but that's about it. Need TCP/IP? Download Trumpet Winsock. Then download Mosaic and Pegasus Mail. Oh yeah, install all your apps...maybe Word, maybe Word Perfect, maybe Lotus, maybe any number of other stuff. Windows95 was a little better. You got TCP/IP networking, you got The Microsoft Network (remember when MS was chasing AOHell and Prodigy?) and you got Wordpad. Oh yeah, and Solitaire. w00t. 2K gave you Internet Exploder and Outhouse Excess, and also a pinball game to go along with your Solitaire and Minesweeper.
OK, now what do you get with your average distribution of Linux? A lot more, eh? Fully fledged office suites, all the internet apps you want and some you don't, lots of cute little timesink games, a full development environment, educational software, multimedia software, and almost all the drivers you need. Including the NVidia drivers if you back away from the Fedora and try perhaps SuSE or Mandrake. Or even Linspire, which you can set up with a non-root user account and even use apt-get to update into glorious Debian-ness.
If you value your time, buy a machine that's preloaded. There's a lot more out there preloaded with Linux then there used to be.
If you are truly interested in getting free of Windows, there are tons of resources out there for it. And even if you stick with Windows, there's a lot of F/OSS out there to try while you make the transition.
Which is precisely why Microsoft has been pushing BSD licenses instead of the "viral" GPL. This Businessweek article is basically a truckload of astroturf on MS's behalf.
Oh yeah, and the X-series also uses 1.8" hard drives, which are standard on the iPod but not really a standard for notebooks. Might pose a bit of a problem around upgrade time.
I'd rather have a T-series ThinkPad over an X-series. The T-series are the heirs to the 600 series (I currently have a 400MHz 600e) and weigh about five pounds. You can get one with Centrino Inside or Pentium-M with a different wireless chipset. (hint: the Cisco wireless is currently the most Linux friendly of the three available for this machine.)
Actually ThinkPads and PowerBooks/iBooks compare pretty favorably to one another. Both are built to last. The choice between IBM and Apple is more a question of which platform you prefer rather than quality.
BTW both IBM and Apple have had battery problems in the past. The 600 series battery is notorious for losing capacity, and the PB 5300 might have caught fire a few times thanks to a flaw in its LiIon battery.
My Palm devices basically are replacements for a paper-and-pencil organizer. As such, it's great. A few ounces of weight in my purse vs. 5 pounds.
Anything else about the Palm is gravy. Mahjongg solitare? Brian Eno's Oblique Strategies? A Yi-Jing thrower? A subnet calculator? Plucker and PalmReader? A bunch of books on a SD card? All fun extras.
I bought my current refurbed m125 for $70 at Fried Electronics. I bought a refurbed m100 for the same price a year and a half before that. Palms are cheap. If I misplace the damn thing (as I have once in the past) replacing it is not a tragedy. Losing a Zaurus or a PocketPC would be almost as bad a hit in the pocketbook as losing a laptop.
Exactly. Those little router boxes are so cheap, even if you only have ONE machine there is no excuse not to use one.
Maybe they are not proof against all hacks, and a determined and skilled cracker might be able to get around it with ease, but the boxes will protect you against worms. Problem solved.
Used DVDs. That's how I usually scratch my moviegoing itch. Usually one can buy them for about $10...that's less than what it costs for two people to go to the movies even during matinee performances. The MPAA doesn't get my money, the pigopolists don't get my money, I get to see a recent movie, and if I like the movie I can watch it again whenever I want to.
If you rent instead of buy, there is a rental sales list that is published weekly, so the MPAA can keep track of what people rent. However, they don't have a list (yet) for used DVD sales. And unlike used VHS tapes, they can't dirty up your DVD player. Just give the DVD a nice wipe with a static-free wet wipe before you first play it.
Also keep your WAP on a separate "real world" IP from the rest of your system. Thanks to DSL Extreme, I now have the ability to completely separate the wireless traffic from the wired traffic. If someone gets around these obstacles:
* SSID broadcast OFF * DHCP OFF and static address in a non-obvious non-routable range (not 192.168.0.x, 192.168.1.x, 192.168.2.x or 192.168.254.x. Most routers default to these ranges and so does Windows Internet Connection Sharing) * MAC address whitelisting * WEP key
all they'll get is the ability to piggyback on my connection. That's it. They will be on a different subnet to anything I care about. Knock yourself out, l33t b0i.
(Note: this can be accomplished with some fancy routing and non-routing on a firewall box with two nics and a WAP. But this way is easier. And yes, I know that nothing is uncrackable.)
Name this beast after the Congresscritter most thoroughly owned and operated by the RIAA and MPAA! I'm sure he's also owned and operated by the BSA as well, or at least sympathetic to their cause.
The species change would not only make it a better rhyming name, but one would have to do it because ferrets are still illegal in California. (and Hawaii, and the 5 boroughs of New York City, NY)
Interesting how Isaac Newton and William Blake...
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...were not so far behind each other after all?
William Blake held Isaac Newton up as an example of stale, dry, Atheistic reason. The famous drawing I have linked to here is that of his conception of Newton, sitting in a dry desert, playing with a compass.
What would have been if Blake would have read some of Newton's writings on theology, I wonder?
Gematria, or the use of the numeric values of Hebrew letters as a means of interpreting the Torah, began being used around the Greco-Syrian occupation of Judea and Israel. The term is actually a corruption of the Greek term "Geometria" or the science of Geometry. The transliteration of Nero Augustus Caesar into Hebrew letters can be done in two ways: one gives the value of 666, the other 616. I don't know if Caligula Augustus Caesar works in the same way but Nero works both ways.
The book "The Revelation of Jesus Christ to John The Divine" is a very interesting one if looked at not as prophecy (anyone and anything can be worked into the fantastic account) but as historical allegory. It seems to have been written to encourage the persecuted Pauline Christians, who were persecuted with great vigor around the time the book is said to have been written. Just google on Nero and 666 and you can read some very interesting stuff.
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Innocence cuts through the limitations of the first Ghost In The Shell movie beautifully. There aren't any longwinded philosophical discussions in this new movie like the ones that dragged down GITS in places. In Innocence, Oshii-sensei is able to visually illustrate the philosophical points he wants to make rather than weight things down with expository dialogue.
It is said that Akira was the most expensive animated feature ever made in Japan at $7.5 Million. That can't be right. I was under the impression that Miyazaki has had Disney-sized budgets (in the high tens of millions of dollars) since Mononoke Hime, and that Mobile Space Force: The Wings of Honneamise by the Gainax crew cost Bandai over $100 Million when all the cost overruns were totalled up.
Innocence looks expensive. There are some awesome CGI set-pieces in the movie that are easily the most elaborate CGI I have ever seen. While the CGI in the movie doesn't blend as well with the traditional animation in Innocence, unlike the CGI/Traditional Animation mix in the extremely underrated Cowboy Bebop: Knocking On Heaven's Door, both the traditional and digital animation in Innocence are impressive if looked at as separate entities.
The best animation is not Bateau, but Bateau's soulful basset hound, Gabe. Droopy Dog wishes he looked that good, and that realistic. From the swing of the dangling ears to the wrinkly folds of skin and fur, you really think you're looking at a live action film at first glance. Then you look closer, and see the artistry of the drawings, and the achievement is overwhelming.
The story's great too. I think they pick up pretty closely after the end of Ghost In The Shell here. Bateau is following up on stories of homicidal female home robots, called "gynoids." He gets pulled into the weird world of the creator of the series of robots.
I strongly suggest going to see this when it comes out next month. I suspect I will be going back to see it again...there is just so much in the movie that one viewing is not enough.
How simple is this? Take a look.
Optical readers have been around for decades. Folks, it doesn't take rocket (or computer) science to solve this problem. Just a little pen on a little chain.
Intel has always been somewhat embarrassed about the Pentium M series of microprocessors. Basically a Pentium M, whether a Banias or Dothan, (both of which are named after rivers in Israel) is more an heir of the Pentium III architecture than the P4. Yet, the Pentium M, clock for clock, does more work and stays cooler than the P4.
A Pentium M desktop would be great, and it looks like Alviso is that very desktop. It would be ideal for quiet media boxes and transportable LAN party machines. However, I am sure that one of the reasons why Intel is dragging its feet is this: to put out a desktop Pentium M board would be an admission of just how much of a disappointment the P4 architecture has been.
Perhaps Intel should look towards Micro-ITX and Nano-ITX applications of this technology as well. I'm sure that the existing Centrino chipset would be ideal for such mini-boxen.
Don't tell them I sent you but http://www.plastic.com/ is where Slashdotters go when they grow up.
That's released under the Mozilla Public License, plus the GPL and LGPL, just like Mozilla itself.
One good reason for going with full-blown Mozilla vs. Firefox. Although from what I see here on mozilla.org it can be loaded in as a plugin to Firefox. I've just never done it...I just go with the Big Moz.
It's a Transmeta processor...I think it was the last one Linus Torvalds worked on the x86 code morphing code for before moving on.
Does Linux work on it? I suspect so, in this case. It seemed like the Crusoe was very happy under Linux. I have friends who have had Crusoe-based laptops running under Linux.
The only thing that might cause trouble would be the wireless networking. And that has nothing to do with the CPU.
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The word that the tester was trying to type was LOGIN. The system crashed before he could type the rest of it. Some things never change.
Source: "Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Birth of the Internet."
Thanks for clearing that up. It seemed too good to be true and now we know that yes, it is.
Anyway, this is the EULA [yes, it's a EULA, if you thought Epic GPLed Unreal Engine 2 you're wrong) so if you feel like trying your hand at playing with the code here are the limitations you have to work under. Void where prohibited. Sorry, Tenneseee.
http://udn.epicgames.com/Two/UnrealEngine2RuntimeE ULA
Yes, what temperature is it outside now? Did you say 20 below zero degrees? OK, just checking...^_^
But of course. But your first terminal program probably came bundled with your modem, like my copy of Procomm did. With my 1200bps modem.
Ever heard of Bulletin Board Systems? Remember calling into a machine hosted at some guy's house with several modems attached to it? Trumpet Winsock was shareware, and could be easily downloaded from a BBS.
Also people used to pay dearly for things like Compuserve and Prodigy, remember them? And The Microsoft Network? And a little operation called America On Line? You could download software from any one of those pay systems.
You have a lot of computer history to learn, young padawan.
Bullshit. I am a longtime computer user with a goodly amount of grey hair. You were probably in diapers when Windows 3.11 came out. Windows 3.11 came with exactly jack and shit functional. It had Solitaire, but that's about it. Need TCP/IP? Download Trumpet Winsock. Then download Mosaic and Pegasus Mail. Oh yeah, install all your apps...maybe Word, maybe Word Perfect, maybe Lotus, maybe any number of other stuff. Windows95 was a little better. You got TCP/IP networking, you got The Microsoft Network (remember when MS was chasing AOHell and Prodigy?) and you got Wordpad. Oh yeah, and Solitaire. w00t. 2K gave you Internet Exploder and Outhouse Excess, and also a pinball game to go along with your Solitaire and Minesweeper.
OK, now what do you get with your average distribution of Linux? A lot more, eh? Fully fledged office suites, all the internet apps you want and some you don't, lots of cute little timesink games, a full development environment, educational software, multimedia software, and almost all the drivers you need. Including the NVidia drivers if you back away from the Fedora and try perhaps SuSE or Mandrake. Or even Linspire, which you can set up with a non-root user account and even use apt-get to update into glorious Debian-ness.
If you value your time, buy a machine that's preloaded. There's a lot more out there preloaded with Linux then there used to be.
If you are truly interested in getting free of Windows, there are tons of resources out there for it. And even if you stick with Windows, there's a lot of F/OSS out there to try while you make the transition.
HTH HAND
Which is precisely why Microsoft has been pushing BSD licenses instead of the "viral" GPL. This Businessweek article is basically a truckload of astroturf on MS's behalf.
No, freedom of expression snatched, then clean and jerked.
[beavis]Is this a god-dam?[/beavis]
I'd rather have a T-series ThinkPad over an X-series. The T-series are the heirs to the 600 series (I currently have a 400MHz 600e) and weigh about five pounds. You can get one with Centrino Inside or Pentium-M with a different wireless chipset. (hint: the Cisco wireless is currently the most Linux friendly of the three available for this machine.)
Actually ThinkPads and PowerBooks/iBooks compare pretty favorably to one another. Both are built to last. The choice between IBM and Apple is more a question of which platform you prefer rather than quality.
BTW both IBM and Apple have had battery problems in the past. The 600 series battery is notorious for losing capacity, and the PB 5300 might have caught fire a few times thanks to a flaw in its LiIon battery.
My Palm devices basically are replacements for a paper-and-pencil organizer. As such, it's great. A few ounces of weight in my purse vs. 5 pounds.
Anything else about the Palm is gravy. Mahjongg solitare? Brian Eno's Oblique Strategies? A Yi-Jing thrower? A subnet calculator? Plucker and PalmReader? A bunch of books on a SD card? All fun extras.
I bought my current refurbed m125 for $70 at Fried Electronics. I bought a refurbed m100 for the same price a year and a half before that. Palms are cheap. If I misplace the damn thing (as I have once in the past) replacing it is not a tragedy. Losing a Zaurus or a PocketPC would be almost as bad a hit in the pocketbook as losing a laptop.
Exactly. Those little router boxes are so cheap, even if you only have ONE machine there is no excuse not to use one.
Maybe they are not proof against all hacks, and a determined and skilled cracker might be able to get around it with ease, but the boxes will protect you against worms. Problem solved.
Used DVDs. That's how I usually scratch my moviegoing itch. Usually one can buy them for about $10...that's less than what it costs for two people to go to the movies even during matinee performances. The MPAA doesn't get my money, the pigopolists don't get my money, I get to see a recent movie, and if I like the movie I can watch it again whenever I want to.
If you rent instead of buy, there is a rental sales list that is published weekly, so the MPAA can keep track of what people rent. However, they don't have a list (yet) for used DVD sales. And unlike used VHS tapes, they can't dirty up your DVD player. Just give the DVD a nice wipe with a static-free wet wipe before you first play it.
http://www.avast.com/
Free as in beer and updates itself automagically.
Also keep your WAP on a separate "real world" IP from the rest of your system. Thanks to DSL Extreme, I now have the ability to completely separate the wireless traffic from the wired traffic. If someone gets around these obstacles:
* SSID broadcast OFF
* DHCP OFF and static address in a non-obvious non-routable range (not 192.168.0.x, 192.168.1.x, 192.168.2.x or 192.168.254.x. Most routers default to these ranges and so does Windows Internet Connection Sharing)
* MAC address whitelisting
* WEP key
all they'll get is the ability to piggyback on my connection. That's it. They will be on a different subnet to anything I care about. Knock yourself out, l33t b0i.
(Note: this can be accomplished with some fancy routing and non-routing on a firewall box with two nics and a WAP. But this way is easier. And yes, I know that nothing is uncrackable.)
Name this beast after the Congresscritter most thoroughly owned and operated by the RIAA and MPAA! I'm sure he's also owned and operated by the BSA as well, or at least sympathetic to their cause.
The species change would not only make it a better rhyming name, but one would have to do it because ferrets are still illegal in California. (and Hawaii, and the 5 boroughs of New York City, NY)
William Blake held Isaac Newton up as an example of stale, dry, Atheistic reason. The famous drawing I have linked to here is that of his conception of Newton, sitting in a dry desert, playing with a compass.
What would have been if Blake would have read some of Newton's writings on theology, I wonder?
Gematria, or the use of the numeric values of Hebrew letters as a means of interpreting the Torah, began being used around the Greco-Syrian occupation of Judea and Israel. The term is actually a corruption of the Greek term "Geometria" or the science of Geometry. The transliteration of Nero Augustus Caesar into Hebrew letters can be done in two ways: one gives the value of 666, the other 616. I don't know if Caligula Augustus Caesar works in the same way but Nero works both ways.
The book "The Revelation of Jesus Christ to John The Divine" is a very interesting one if looked at not as prophecy (anyone and anything can be worked into the fantastic account) but as historical allegory. It seems to have been written to encourage the persecuted Pauline Christians, who were persecuted with great vigor around the time the book is said to have been written. Just google on Nero and 666 and you can read some very interesting stuff.