That was the whole fucking POINT of Ranma - they like each other, but whenever they start getting close, something stupid happens.
Maybe YOU need to watch more Ranma. Yes, that is a recurring element, but you might as well say that Kuno's constant idiocy is the point of the anime. Ranma is MANY things. Love Hina is more in line with what you say - the entire plot is based around it! With Ranma, there are many other things that go on; Cologne and Shampoo's constant meddling comes instantly to mind, the incessant martial arts challenges, new techniques; Ryouga is a storyline in himself! Takahashi kept it to a good level of "something stupid happens when they get close" - in season 1(JP, season 2 Viz, thank you for the wonderful re-ordering of episodes) when they're about to kiss and Nabiki ruins it, that had me laughing, but if it was taken to the level of Love Hina, I wouldn't like it as much.
As it is, they're afforded more opportunity to SHOW that they love each other (well, that's my opinion. Others think Ranma pairs better with one of the others.) than in LH. I don't mind the comedy! It's not a shoujo anime for warm and fuzzy!
I won't give away what happens (you already have, asshole)
You have just made me laugh for the first time today.:P Yeah, I knew I was overexaggerating on the episode numbers (I still hold that the glasses thing was 6) but it still seemed THAT SLOW to me. (And I watched this at the rate of 6/day.) Yes, there were a couple of interesting moments before everything goes to hell (no more spoilers I promise) with a couple of the WCOTDs, but everything felt very disjointed and there really wasn't much CONTENT to the last bit. True, at least there was no Sailormoon-deadlock (where for 40 episodes you can follow the SAME FORMULA) after that, but it was either too predictable, or the *bad* kind of "WTF?"
's okay. Maybe I just don't like mystery genre at all (but the friend I was with as we plowed through it in four days agreed with me) but this seemed to pale in comparison with, say, Abenobashi Mahou Shoutengai. (Gainax's take on a parody anime. Eek?:P)
OBVIOUSLY Robin isn't attractive whatsoever because she doesn't run around like a bimbo in a skimpy outfit or have extensive shower/hotspring/near-nude sequences.
I'll assume you haven't seen the series:) In a way, she's MORE attractive BECAUSE of the mystery.
But you can't say this because she sleeps naked, although all you see is her back (and there is a bath scene)... it doesn't matter anyway. One of my friends and I decided that they figured by going the OPPOSITE route they'd end up with a winner - i.e. show no skin at all. Which worked to a point, I suppose, but my main point stands which is that the plot sucked a lot.:\
And, hmm... I don't remember LH actually being a big offender on the fanservice front. But since I severely dislike that series, except for the Christmas Special (and I hear LH-Again is more in line with the special) for a simple reason...
I do NOT like that cliche plot device that involves "Hey, we love each other, but we DON'T! And every time it looks like we might be getting close, something stupid happens!" I have the same problem with Ranma, but since they don't harp on it as much I can tolerate it. (Ranma's actually one of my favorites...)
And yes, I'm aware that LH was designed purely to make fun of that cliche, but it still bugs me.:P
Don't assume that because of an aside-point, I'm the standard "DRAGON BAWL Z IS KEWL HEHE GOKU CAN KICK ANYONES ASS" idiot.:P I'm much more of a shoujo fan, possibly because I was introduced to anime with Sailor Moon. (Which is still dear to me, even though I know it's absolutely awful to the point of being funny)
Witch Hunter Robin & Wolf's Rain are both really excellent shows I can't speak for Wolf's Rain, having not seen it, but I've seen WHR. (The original sub, even.)
In two words: NOTHING HAPPENS. AT ALL.
There are spoilers as I review the four plot events in the entire 26 episode series. I want the 10 hours of my life back.
Plot Point 1: around eps. 6-10, we come to the realization that Robin's power makes her eyes unfocus, so it's inaccurate. She needs glasses. The end.
Plot Point 2: around eps. 16-20, Robin finds a piece of wood which is the "Ultimate Spell". But, she already had said spell, and the piece of wood was really a Cracker Jack prize.
Plot Point 3: around eps. 20-24, we come to the realization that... ORBO IS MADE FROM WITCHES.
Plot Point 4: ep26: STN-J is really run by the blandest supervillain ever created who thinks witches are an impurity of the human race, and wishes to remove them.
The end. It was very very boring. They make a point of Robin not being sexy in any way; thus, whenever she shows any skin whatsoever, we would drink. I think we might have actually taken three shots to this rule in about five episodes.
I've been to fairs and such where the line for the girls bathroom was too long, so some girls would have their friends stand guard while they used the men's...
I remember this distinctly because they tried to stop me from entering, "our friend's in there" "well what's the silly girl doing in the MEN'S BATHROOM? Not my fault you use yours as a meeting place, now I have to GO"...
They threatened security, I pointed out that the sign clearly said "men":P
As the original poster pointed out, Ogg is a container. It can contain Vorbis or FLAC equally well. We just call Vorbis "ogg" for the same reason we refer to Sorenson as "QuickTime" - certainly there are other things that can be stored in the container but it's a bit like a Kleenex type convention.
And, yes, Vorbis "supports" bitrate peeling, but no one has yet written the program that will peel it, in fact several of the developers have stated that the current way the Vorbis stream is (dis)organized, it's impossible to write such a program.
SETI&Home Project - the first virtual supercomputer. Is it? I could have sworn I was participating in the distributed.net project long before I heard about SETI@Home... "We're currently operating at 2 million Pentium II-200s"... ah, good times:D
Six months to break RC5-56, too... now, a single computer could probably do it in that time, a small network much faster....
They also have the motto "We eat our own dogfood", which is why the pressure to use their own products - they can't exactly say that if the majority of them don't. And it's free testing for them, too. But my stepfather works for MS, and on my visit there I'd say around 1/4 to 1/3 of his team (XP Embedded development) was using OSS tools, if not an alternate OS entirely. I got into a nice conversation about differing configurations of Linux with a couple of his coworkers. So maybe it just depends on what department you work in.
Same. One gig, running GNOME 2.3 (Gentoo hasn't updated yet? What's wrong?) all full. Go to look at Process Manager and hey presto, something like 100MB is actually taken up in processes; 900mb of cache? That's why my system runs so FREAKING FAST it's amazing.:D
Of course, typing 'sync' causes my shell to hang for a full minute while it writes all that crap out...
It's not really the DVD authoring part that I know that much about (I know enough to encode to MPEG2 and mux an AC3 stream into it, creating a VOB...) - but since that audio was digital, loading it into Goldwave or CoolEdit or (insert sound editor of choice) is trivial, and applying a noise gate and a normalizer would have easily improved the quality about 90%.
For more than that, it's more advanced than I can do, so I couldn't complain at that point:) And I'm still not really complaining, since as you say, they aren't the only company to just release untouched audio. It just bugs me a tiny bit; but it's REALLY COOL of them to do it in the first place (especially since it's an 11 year old series...)
Now I can't wait for them to release R (the second season)...
The MS RDP implementation is pretty good for this. Seems to do a good job of understanding what text is (I think it's implemented at the GDI layer, so it just sends the windowing information to the client) and what pictures are. It runs reasonably well over dialup with low color depth, anyway.
Outside of that, the major anime companies like ADV,
Just thought I'd like to point out that ADV does a lot of stuff that makes you both love and hate them at the same time.
They just released the uncut original Sailor Moon first season on DVD. All of it, which is nice because they cut literally half the show when Dic dubbed it. I was amazed at what I was missing. (Shut up, you haven't seen the original if you think it's stupid.:P)
So why do I hate them for it? Well, they did what they've done with quite a few other releases and used the original analog audio. The series is more than TEN YEARS OLD. That's like rereleasing Star Wars without touching up the audio at all. I could have done a better job with five minutes in Goldwave.
And the subs could use a little work; on the canned speech (I am the lovely soldier Sailor Moon, blah blah, I'm a ditz and why don't the enemies kick my ass while I'm talking) they don't get the translation quite right... which makes me wonder how much they missed on the stuff I *don't* know.:) (They missed an entire word in the speech. "Bishoujo" should translate to "pretty" or "lovely" or something; it doesn't even show up in the subs.)
But even with those little flaws, it's nice to see it come out.:)
I highly doubt that people will stop using POP3/IMAP/SMTP just because there's another protocol out there. And note that MS might actually (gasp) develop the protocol to be somewhat open, allowing for *nix servers to be placed - after all, if they wanted to put this into corps, they would need that sort of protocol to take over the corps that use unix-based servers and windows-based clients.
I actually bothered to pop open Proxomitron's log window to check this... he's right! Images.slashdot doesn't do it, but the page server does: X-Bender: Nothing like a warm fire and a super-soaker of fine cognac. X-Bender: Lick my frozen, metal ass!
My stepdad actually was on the design team for XP Embedded (oh, shut up.) - I got to see some of the stuff it can do at a pretty low level. It was a LOT OF WORK to separate it out into those modules! His team spent almost as much time doing that as anything else. The end result is a really cool OS that I wouldn't mind slapping on some small PC and turning into a media server.
And to the poster below talking about "IE is TOO removable!!" Sure, it is, but then, so is Konqueror, and they both fulfill literally the same functions. (Web browsing/File browsing) Remember that Linux is customizable to a huge extent by default because that's the way the normal user of Linux wants to use it, and XP is all-in-one by default because that's the way ITS average user wants to use it.
Most laptops will boot off a CD or disk. An OS-less one would boot, and say either "Invalid system disk in drive C:" or "Missing operating system" (this one happens on Thinkpads when you wipe the disk) or somesuch, and you'll need to boot it from a floppy or CD.
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That was the whole fucking POINT of Ranma - they like each other, but whenever they start getting close, something stupid happens.
Maybe YOU need to watch more Ranma. Yes, that is a recurring element, but you might as well say that Kuno's constant idiocy is the point of the anime. Ranma is MANY things. Love Hina is more in line with what you say - the entire plot is based around it! With Ranma, there are many other things that go on; Cologne and Shampoo's constant meddling comes instantly to mind, the incessant martial arts challenges, new techniques; Ryouga is a storyline in himself! Takahashi kept it to a good level of "something stupid happens when they get close" - in season 1(JP, season 2 Viz, thank you for the wonderful re-ordering of episodes) when they're about to kiss and Nabiki ruins it, that had me laughing, but if it was taken to the level of Love Hina, I wouldn't like it as much.
As it is, they're afforded more opportunity to SHOW that they love each other (well, that's my opinion. Others think Ranma pairs better with one of the others.) than in LH. I don't mind the comedy! It's not a shoujo anime for warm and fuzzy!
Blaaah...
I won't give away what happens (you already have, asshole)
:P Yeah, I knew I was overexaggerating on the episode numbers (I still hold that the glasses thing was 6) but it still seemed THAT SLOW to me. (And I watched this at the rate of 6/day.) Yes, there were a couple of interesting moments before everything goes to hell (no more spoilers I promise) with a couple of the WCOTDs, but everything felt very disjointed and there really wasn't much CONTENT to the last bit. True, at least there was no Sailormoon-deadlock (where for 40 episodes you can follow the SAME FORMULA) after that, but it was either too predictable, or the *bad* kind of "WTF?"
:P)
You have just made me laugh for the first time today.
's okay. Maybe I just don't like mystery genre at all (but the friend I was with as we plowed through it in four days agreed with me) but this seemed to pale in comparison with, say, Abenobashi Mahou Shoutengai. (Gainax's take on a parody anime. Eek?
OBVIOUSLY Robin isn't attractive whatsoever because she doesn't run around like a bimbo in a skimpy outfit or have extensive shower/hotspring/near-nude sequences.
:) In a way, she's MORE attractive BECAUSE of the mystery.
... it doesn't matter anyway. One of my friends and I decided that they figured by going the OPPOSITE route they'd end up with a winner - i.e. show no skin at all. Which worked to a point, I suppose, but my main point stands which is that the plot sucked a lot. :\
:P
:P I'm much more of a shoujo fan, possibly because I was introduced to anime with Sailor Moon. (Which is still dear to me, even though I know it's absolutely awful to the point of being funny)
I'll assume you haven't seen the series
But you can't say this because she sleeps naked, although all you see is her back (and there is a bath scene)
And, hmm... I don't remember LH actually being a big offender on the fanservice front. But since I severely dislike that series, except for the Christmas Special (and I hear LH-Again is more in line with the special) for a simple reason...
I do NOT like that cliche plot device that involves "Hey, we love each other, but we DON'T! And every time it looks like we might be getting close, something stupid happens!" I have the same problem with Ranma, but since they don't harp on it as much I can tolerate it. (Ranma's actually one of my favorites...)
And yes, I'm aware that LH was designed purely to make fun of that cliche, but it still bugs me.
Don't assume that because of an aside-point, I'm the standard "DRAGON BAWL Z IS KEWL HEHE GOKU CAN KICK ANYONES ASS" idiot.
Gawd, long-windedness...
Witch Hunter Robin & Wolf's Rain are both really excellent shows
... ORBO IS MADE FROM WITCHES.
I can't speak for Wolf's Rain, having not seen it, but I've seen WHR. (The original sub, even.)
In two words: NOTHING HAPPENS. AT ALL.
There are spoilers as I review the four plot events in the entire 26 episode series. I want the 10 hours of my life back.
Plot Point 1: around eps. 6-10, we come to the realization that Robin's power makes her eyes unfocus, so it's inaccurate. She needs glasses. The end.
Plot Point 2: around eps. 16-20, Robin finds a piece of wood which is the "Ultimate Spell". But, she already had said spell, and the piece of wood was really a Cracker Jack prize.
Plot Point 3: around eps. 20-24, we come to the realization that
Plot Point 4: ep26: STN-J is really run by the blandest supervillain ever created who thinks witches are an impurity of the human race, and wishes to remove them.
The end. It was very very boring. They make a point of Robin not being sexy in any way; thus, whenever she shows any skin whatsoever, we would drink. I think we might have actually taken three shots to this rule in about five episodes.
Pathetic. *sigh*
I've been to fairs and such where the line for the girls bathroom was too long, so some girls would have their friends stand guard while they used the men's...
:P
I remember this distinctly because they tried to stop me from entering, "our friend's in there" "well what's the silly girl doing in the MEN'S BATHROOM? Not my fault you use yours as a meeting place, now I have to GO"...
They threatened security, I pointed out that the sign clearly said "men"
Two things:
As the original poster pointed out, Ogg is a container. It can contain Vorbis or FLAC equally well. We just call Vorbis "ogg" for the same reason we refer to Sorenson as "QuickTime" - certainly there are other things that can be stored in the container but it's a bit like a Kleenex type convention.
And, yes, Vorbis "supports" bitrate peeling, but no one has yet written the program that will peel it, in fact several of the developers have stated that the current way the Vorbis stream is (dis)organized, it's impossible to write such a program.
SETI&Home Project - the first virtual supercomputer. :D
Is it? I could have sworn I was participating in the distributed.net project long before I heard about SETI@Home...
"We're currently operating at 2 million Pentium II-200s"... ah, good times
Six months to break RC5-56, too... now, a single computer could probably do it in that time, a small network much faster....
Hey, PointCast at one point was a very useful service.
:P
Or maybe my memory's cloudy and it sucked ass. I wasn't exactly old enough to tell the difference at the time, back then.
I read this and all I could think of is "the artist formerly known as Prince"... :)
They also have the motto "We eat our own dogfood", which is why the pressure to use their own products - they can't exactly say that if the majority of them don't. And it's free testing for them, too. But my stepfather works for MS, and on my visit there I'd say around 1/4 to 1/3 of his team (XP Embedded development) was using OSS tools, if not an alternate OS entirely. I got into a nice conversation about differing configurations of Linux with a couple of his coworkers. So maybe it just depends on what department you work in.
Same. One gig, running GNOME 2.3 (Gentoo hasn't updated yet? What's wrong?) all full. Go to look at Process Manager and hey presto, something like 100MB is actually taken up in processes; 900mb of cache? That's why my system runs so FREAKING FAST it's amazing. :D
Of course, typing 'sync' causes my shell to hang for a full minute while it writes all that crap out...
It's not really the DVD authoring part that I know that much about (I know enough to encode to MPEG2 and mux an AC3 stream into it, creating a VOB...) - but since that audio was digital, loading it into Goldwave or CoolEdit or (insert sound editor of choice) is trivial, and applying a noise gate and a normalizer would have easily improved the quality about 90%.
:) And I'm still not really complaining, since as you say, they aren't the only company to just release untouched audio. It just bugs me a tiny bit; but it's REALLY COOL of them to do it in the first place (especially since it's an 11 year old series...)
For more than that, it's more advanced than I can do, so I couldn't complain at that point
Now I can't wait for them to release R (the second season)...
The MS RDP implementation is pretty good for this. Seems to do a good job of understanding what text is (I think it's implemented at the GDI layer, so it just sends the windowing information to the client) and what pictures are. It runs reasonably well over dialup with low color depth, anyway.
Outside of that, the major anime companies like ADV,
:P)
:) (They missed an entire word in the speech. "Bishoujo" should translate to "pretty" or "lovely" or something; it doesn't even show up in the subs.)
:)
Just thought I'd like to point out that ADV does a lot of stuff that makes you both love and hate them at the same time.
They just released the uncut original Sailor Moon first season on DVD. All of it, which is nice because they cut literally half the show when Dic dubbed it. I was amazed at what I was missing. (Shut up, you haven't seen the original if you think it's stupid.
So why do I hate them for it? Well, they did what they've done with quite a few other releases and used the original analog audio. The series is more than TEN YEARS OLD. That's like rereleasing Star Wars without touching up the audio at all. I could have done a better job with five minutes in Goldwave.
And the subs could use a little work; on the canned speech (I am the lovely soldier Sailor Moon, blah blah, I'm a ditz and why don't the enemies kick my ass while I'm talking) they don't get the translation quite right... which makes me wonder how much they missed on the stuff I *don't* know.
But even with those little flaws, it's nice to see it come out.
I highly doubt that people will stop using POP3/IMAP/SMTP just because there's another protocol out there. And note that MS might actually (gasp) develop the protocol to be somewhat open, allowing for *nix servers to be placed - after all, if they wanted to put this into corps, they would need that sort of protocol to take over the corps that use unix-based servers and windows-based clients.
Interestingly, it does in fact give them special rights.. namely, the rights to operate radio equipment on those frequencies... Just a thought :p
I actually bothered to pop open Proxomitron's log window to check this... he's right! Images.slashdot doesn't do it, but the page server does:
X-Bender: Nothing like a warm fire and a super-soaker of fine cognac.
X-Bender: Lick my frozen, metal ass!
My stepdad actually was on the design team for XP Embedded (oh, shut up.) - I got to see some of the stuff it can do at a pretty low level. It was a LOT OF WORK to separate it out into those modules! His team spent almost as much time doing that as anything else. The end result is a really cool OS that I wouldn't mind slapping on some small PC and turning into a media server.
And to the poster below talking about "IE is TOO removable!!" Sure, it is, but then, so is Konqueror, and they both fulfill literally the same functions. (Web browsing/File browsing) Remember that Linux is customizable to a huge extent by default because that's the way the normal user of Linux wants to use it, and XP is all-in-one by default because that's the way ITS average user wants to use it.
No kidding. I just snagged a 200GB FireWire/USB2 hard drive off newegg for $297...
All right, I'll bite. I did this with XP.
:\
M:\ (music, over 7000 files) - bit of HD rattle, two seconds later, menu came up.
C:\windows\system32 (about 1000 files or so) - almost instantaneous.
\\virtual\fred (500 files, Samba share running locally in a VPC) - 1 second.
Yeah, it's really slow.
I just imagined what a matrix of 25x25 LEDs would feel like in my back. Not comfortable. >_
Of course, I still have chilling thoughts about the demon with the beehive in his back from Ninja Scroll...
Our Windows 2000 images force you to register the machine name with us on about the 4th boot
Uh.. that's great. How does that relate at all to Linux? Install it, and you don't have to register jack shit...
Additionally, we only have Windows versions of the production software, so people would have a tough time doing their job.
Is it proprietary? Otherwise, I'm sure there's SOMEthing like it...
Most laptops will boot off a CD or disk. An OS-less one would boot, and say either "Invalid system disk in drive C:" or "Missing operating system" (this one happens on Thinkpads when you wipe the disk) or somesuch, and you'll need to boot it from a floppy or CD.
Wow, you just echoed my thought upon reading that, and I don't even run OS X (yet...)
I've been diagnosed, and frankly I'm appalled at all the discrimination!
At one point, I tried to organize a march, but for some reason everyone lost interest...