Actually, consensus is that it started with Mazinger-Z in 1972. Robotech was... actually a kludging together of 3 anime, Macross, Southern Cross, and Mospeada.
There are a lot of Robotech fans, but I'd prefer to take the original Macross and forget the other two.:p
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Someone had to say it. Thanks!
I used to buy a lot of DVDs, but now that you're pretty well guaranteed to be ripped off no matter what version you buy because another one is on the way with "the rest" of the features, I just download movies in slightly sub-DVD quality without the extras! Thanks, RIAA!
At the risk of sounding redundant, I second that. I'm no fan of Real, and find myself using their player less and less as it bloats up, but that doesn't change the fact that they have a good point, whoever's interests are being supported by it.
Additionally, I wish Apple would at least try to educate its users about proprietary formats: it's really annoying downloading an album just to find it's in MP4. Thanks, but I'll do without iTunes for now... I guess it's better than FLAC at least.
The cube is the only current console I have thanks to price and quality. If my DVD+-RW dies, I can still play DVDs in my DVD player without a $20 "remote control upgrade.":p
I think if it's cheap enough, they might see SOME returns. I can see this thing on every e-machine and crappy Wal-Mart PC out there. They can turn actual Windows into an obligatory upgrade.
Asia though... I don't know what they were thinking there. They can't make it for little enough that they could sell it beside the pirated copies of Windows in most of Asia. I think it's going to flop bigtime there.
The way I see it, it's about using the right tool for the job. Linux isn't the amazing do-all (though it's pretty damn flexible!)
I don't use Linux on my desktop because, well, I have to USE it. I'm not familiar with the setup, the paradigms are completely foreign and counterintuitive, and I still find the software availability lacking....on the other hand, if I were making an old PC router, hard drive array box, car MP3 player etc, I'd go for Linux right away, since once I got over the pain of setting it up, I'd expect it to work like new for the rest of its life (assuming I didn't play around with it and add/change things...)
I guess Windows could be expected to do the same for such simple tasks, but not within the license aggreement.;)
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Moving To Linux
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I was going to make a post just like this...
Like you, I have nothing against Linux. I tried several popular distros several years ago, and again this spring, and will probably play with it again in a couple years to see how it's progressed, but when I compare it to Win2003 I've yet to find a version that meets my needs for driver support, speed, stability (yes, stability,) and software availability.
Stories like this one used to get on my nerves because of the pointless elitism, but nowadays they're just laughable due to the ignorance of the arguments. "Haw haw haw! Windoze 3.11 sux! Get Linux, you no crash nemore!" These people haven't even looked at Windows in half a decade or more, but they continue to play up bugs that were long since fixed; probably because if we compared current OS versions Linux wouldn't shine so brightly....just my $0.02
That's impressive, but do you have current Korean broadband penetration statistics? The most recent credible study I could find was the 2002 Pyramid Research study which showed at the time that S.Korea had 55% BB penetration, leaving the US at 14%.
Your last line is also a good point; what can really be considered broadband? Around here, you can get cable internet at a blazing 56kps, where the standard in S.Korea (at least a a while ago) was 2Mbps.
I forgot, while not as crazy as the penny fix, after he got his G3, the interface board on his hard drive burned a hole in itself, but working at a Mac service center at the time, he managed to take a new board from another hard drive and swap them out. (Same model...) No errors were caused by the ridiculous catastrophic failure.
A friend of mine had an old (68040?) Powermac with a video capture board. One day he was running it with the case off, as was usual, but an unknown component on the capture board, probably a resistor, exploded with a pop and threw a spark into the air....so he masked the area around the now bare contacts with scotch tape, then taped a shiny new penny to it! From then on, his sound was monaural, but it actually worked again!
Somewhat less impressive was when he got a G3, he managed to yank the wires out of an extremely stubborn Molex power connector (god, I hate those things...), so to insulate the wire ends, he stuffed them into a cork he had laying around. For years, the G3 had a cork hanging in the middle of it.
I'm sick and tired of hard drives f*cking dying of old age. Actually, a 120GB Seagate Barracuda just died on me a couple days ago, it's making sickly rattling and clicking noises and won't even identify as a drive. Still, I'm estimating I've has about the following number of failures in my time:
Seagate: 1 (last Friday -_-;) Maxtor: 4 Western Digital: 6, only about a year old each Fujitsu: about 20. Seriously, I have boxes of the things! Out of about 50 PCs it was like 1 was dropping every 2 weeks! Quantum/IBM: Haven't used many, never seen a failure
I should also add that I have 2 40MB Seagates that have been working like they were brand new for about 15 years!
So... yeah. I think I'll stick with Seagate despite the recent death.
GIFs can be used properly to good effect. Just don't convert a high-color picture to GIF automatically.
*shrug* Much the same way you could compress an AVI in 16 colors then say AVI sucks.
Surprisingly, none of them are that great to use IMHO...
I like Amphetadesk myself though. It basically combines your feeds into a simple webpage and views on whatever browser/OS choice you use. (Well, Windows, MacOS and Linux at least)
No, he didn't mention Windows. He mentioned computers taking "MINUTES" to boot up. I spotted that as an antiquity of Linux, since between current versions of DOS (they exist), Netware (if you count it as an OS), OS/2, BeOS, Windows, and Linux, Linux is the only one I've seen take over a minute to boot on modern hardware, regardless of distro. (RedHat, Mandrake, Dragon, Phat, Gentoo)
I didn't say his post was uninformed Windows bashing, but I hear it all the time on/. People make claims that would be real zingers if MS hadn't fixed the problems in question 4 years ago.
I spent some time on the Linux bandwagon, then realized that it has nothing to offer me apart from a time-consuming hobby. I went miserably back to Windows 98 for a while because it actually ran programs I needed. Eventually, I tried 2003 as my desktop OS, and it's now abundantly clear that MS has cleaned up their act considerably. It still has the odd security hole if you never ever patch it, (usually they're fixed a month before anyone points them out...) but that's why I'm looking forward to "longhorn."
I don't want to sound like a troll, but this seems only fair with the amount of uninformed Windows-bashing that goes on here...
<i>I just don't understand why after 30 years of technology I still have to wait MINUTES for a computer to simply go on. Computer and software design was frozen 30 years back, it's a shame.</i>
Maybe if you hate using software designs from 30 years ago, you should try Windows out again. I use Windows Server 2003 on a 1467MHz Athlon XP w/512MB RAM, and only one hard disk with no swap partition. It takes about 20-30 seconds to cold-boot, or about 5 seconds to come out of hibernation. The only time I have to reboot however is when I power off my PC when a thunderstorm hits.
I second that. Just look at the credits for some of the super-successful shows like Naruto these days, and how much of the staff is from Korea. Certainly, it's bad news for Japanese animation studios, but it's great for the anime industry in general, as it allows making anime for even cheaper, probably allowing manga that wouldn't otherwise be approved to be animated.
I don't know about you, but I think it's great that there are so many lower-budget 5-minute gag anime on in Japan now like Ebichu, Di Gi Charat, Ippatsu Kikimusume, etc... while lots of half hour shows are turning into a mass of formulaic components, these shorts thrive on originality.
It is true. I read several years ago that the cost of producing animation cels is no longer worth it, and I THINK Fuji is the only company in Japan that still makes them.
I don't know if they still do, mind you. This was somewhere from 1998 to 2001 that I read it...
Zealotry and ignorance go hand in hand. Most of the folks here are so happy using Linux that they haven't peeked out of their own little worlds and looked at Windows in nearly a decade.
I know it's meant to be a server OS, but I'm running Windows 2003. It's easily my favorite MS OS since DOS 6.22, and possibly the best OS I've had the pleasure of using. It seems to share a lot of code with XP, so I have no idea why XP has to face so many problems... this one's fast, stable, pretty secure so far (I'll give it a few years before I conclude anything...) feature-packed but not bloated, easy to use, AND backwards-compatible.
Windows users could easily make jabs at Linux for its weaknesses these days, but what do they have to prove?
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That may be the official word, but try changing the AVI file's FOURCC code to that of DivX. It'll play, just without the extra enhancement filters and noise reduction found in many Xvid codecs.
No kidding... the way 3d cards are heading is asinine, and if it goes mainstream, I guess I have a reason to switch to console gaming. (Not that they're much better with hardware costs doubling every console generation...)
Actually, the only difference between NTSC-M (USA) and NTSC-J (Japan) is that Japanese video strangely doesn't make use of a blanking pedestal between painting each line on the screen.
I'm with you on that one. TechTV had a really nice atmosphere, so even if you were watching a show about how to install Winamp, it was still entertaining. Leo's a cool host, and IMHO, so was Chris Pirillo (sp?)
I didn't really watch much TV in the first place, now I may not need it at all.:/
Strangely enough, that pic is for the Region 3 Hong Kong release. It may be a region 0, but if there was a US edition, I'd think they'd use the scan from that one....btw, there's a UK version from Tartan Video with better video quality.
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Actually, consensus is that it started with Mazinger-Z in 1972. Robotech was... actually a kludging together of 3 anime, Macross, Southern Cross, and Mospeada.
:p
There are a lot of Robotech fans, but I'd prefer to take the original Macross and forget the other two.
Someone had to say it. Thanks!
I used to buy a lot of DVDs, but now that you're pretty well guaranteed to be ripped off no matter what version you buy because another one is on the way with "the rest" of the features, I just download movies in slightly sub-DVD quality without the extras! Thanks, RIAA!
At the risk of sounding redundant, I second that. I'm no fan of Real, and find myself using their player less and less as it bloats up, but that doesn't change the fact that they have a good point, whoever's interests are being supported by it.
Additionally, I wish Apple would at least try to educate its users about proprietary formats: it's really annoying downloading an album just to find it's in MP4. Thanks, but I'll do without iTunes for now... I guess it's better than FLAC at least.
Does the iPod support a DRM format that Real can use without reverse engineering?
The cube is the only current console I have thanks to price and quality. If my DVD+-RW dies, I can still play DVDs in my DVD player without a $20 "remote control upgrade." :p
I think if it's cheap enough, they might see SOME returns. I can see this thing on every e-machine and crappy Wal-Mart PC out there. They can turn actual Windows into an obligatory upgrade.
Asia though... I don't know what they were thinking there. They can't make it for little enough that they could sell it beside the pirated copies of Windows in most of Asia. I think it's going to flop bigtime there.
The way I see it, it's about using the right tool for the job. Linux isn't the amazing do-all (though it's pretty damn flexible!)
...on the other hand, if I were making an old PC router, hard drive array box, car MP3 player etc, I'd go for Linux right away, since once I got over the pain of setting it up, I'd expect it to work like new for the rest of its life (assuming I didn't play around with it and add/change things...)
;)
I don't use Linux on my desktop because, well, I have to USE it. I'm not familiar with the setup, the paradigms are completely foreign and counterintuitive, and I still find the software availability lacking.
I guess Windows could be expected to do the same for such simple tasks, but not within the license aggreement.
I was going to make a post just like this...
...just my $0.02
Like you, I have nothing against Linux. I tried several popular distros several years ago, and again this spring, and will probably play with it again in a couple years to see how it's progressed, but when I compare it to Win2003 I've yet to find a version that meets my needs for driver support, speed, stability (yes, stability,) and software availability.
Stories like this one used to get on my nerves because of the pointless elitism, but nowadays they're just laughable due to the ignorance of the arguments. "Haw haw haw! Windoze 3.11 sux! Get Linux, you no crash nemore!" These people haven't even looked at Windows in half a decade or more, but they continue to play up bugs that were long since fixed; probably because if we compared current OS versions Linux wouldn't shine so brightly.
That's impressive, but do you have current Korean broadband penetration statistics? The most recent credible study I could find was the 2002 Pyramid Research study which showed at the time that S.Korea had 55% BB penetration, leaving the US at 14%.
Your last line is also a good point; what can really be considered broadband? Around here, you can get cable internet at a blazing 56kps, where the standard in S.Korea (at least a a while ago) was 2Mbps.
I forgot, while not as crazy as the penny fix, after he got his G3, the interface board on his hard drive burned a hole in itself, but working at a Mac service center at the time, he managed to take a new board from another hard drive and swap them out. (Same model...) No errors were caused by the ridiculous catastrophic failure.
A friend of mine had an old (68040?) Powermac with a video capture board. One day he was running it with the case off, as was usual, but an unknown component on the capture board, probably a resistor, exploded with a pop and threw a spark into the air. ...so he masked the area around the now bare contacts with scotch tape, then taped a shiny new penny to it! From then on, his sound was monaural, but it actually worked again!
Somewhat less impressive was when he got a G3, he managed to yank the wires out of an extremely stubborn Molex power connector (god, I hate those things...), so to insulate the wire ends, he stuffed them into a cork he had laying around. For years, the G3 had a cork hanging in the middle of it.
I'm sick and tired of hard drives f*cking dying of old age. Actually, a 120GB Seagate Barracuda just died on me a couple days ago, it's making sickly rattling and clicking noises and won't even identify as a drive. Still, I'm estimating I've has about the following number of failures in my time:
Seagate: 1 (last Friday -_-;)
Maxtor: 4
Western Digital: 6, only about a year old each
Fujitsu: about 20. Seriously, I have boxes of the things! Out of about 50 PCs it was like 1 was dropping every 2 weeks!
Quantum/IBM: Haven't used many, never seen a failure
I should also add that I have 2 40MB Seagates that have been working like they were brand new for about 15 years!
So... yeah. I think I'll stick with Seagate despite the recent death.
GIFs can be used properly to good effect. Just don't convert a high-color picture to GIF automatically. *shrug* Much the same way you could compress an AVI in 16 colors then say AVI sucks.
What the...
How about they just rank pages based on the content? That way you wouldn't get highly polished useless fluff sites?
I know you must looooove XHTML, but try fitting some other standards in and see how bad it sounds:
"Petition Google to rank ActiveX-enabled pages more highly than others!"
Surprisingly, none of them are that great to use IMHO...
I like Amphetadesk myself though. It basically combines your feeds into a simple webpage and views on whatever browser/OS choice you use. (Well, Windows, MacOS and Linux at least)
No, he didn't mention Windows. He mentioned computers taking "MINUTES" to boot up. I spotted that as an antiquity of Linux, since between current versions of DOS (they exist), Netware (if you count it as an OS), OS/2, BeOS, Windows, and Linux, Linux is the only one I've seen take over a minute to boot on modern hardware, regardless of distro. (RedHat, Mandrake, Dragon, Phat, Gentoo)
/. People make claims that would be real zingers if MS hadn't fixed the problems in question 4 years ago.
I didn't say his post was uninformed Windows bashing, but I hear it all the time on
I spent some time on the Linux bandwagon, then realized that it has nothing to offer me apart from a time-consuming hobby. I went miserably back to Windows 98 for a while because it actually ran programs I needed. Eventually, I tried 2003 as my desktop OS, and it's now abundantly clear that MS has cleaned up their act considerably. It still has the odd security hole if you never ever patch it, (usually they're fixed a month before anyone points them out...) but that's why I'm looking forward to "longhorn."
I don't want to sound like a troll, but this seems only fair with the amount of uninformed Windows-bashing that goes on here...
<i>I just don't understand why after 30 years of technology I still have to wait MINUTES for a computer to simply go on. Computer and software design was frozen 30 years back, it's a shame.</i>
Maybe if you hate using software designs from 30 years ago, you should try Windows out again. I use Windows Server 2003 on a 1467MHz Athlon XP w/512MB RAM, and only one hard disk with no swap partition. It takes about 20-30 seconds to cold-boot, or about 5 seconds to come out of hibernation. The only time I have to reboot however is when I power off my PC when a thunderstorm hits.
I second that. Just look at the credits for some of the super-successful shows like Naruto these days, and how much of the staff is from Korea. Certainly, it's bad news for Japanese animation studios, but it's great for the anime industry in general, as it allows making anime for even cheaper, probably allowing manga that wouldn't otherwise be approved to be animated.
I don't know about you, but I think it's great that there are so many lower-budget 5-minute gag anime on in Japan now like Ebichu, Di Gi Charat, Ippatsu Kikimusume, etc... while lots of half hour shows are turning into a mass of formulaic components, these shorts thrive on originality.
Just my $0.02
It is true. I read several years ago that the cost of producing animation cels is no longer worth it, and I THINK Fuji is the only company in Japan that still makes them.
I don't know if they still do, mind you. This was somewhere from 1998 to 2001 that I read it...
Zealotry and ignorance go hand in hand. Most of the folks here are so happy using Linux that they haven't peeked out of their own little worlds and looked at Windows in nearly a decade.
I know it's meant to be a server OS, but I'm running Windows 2003. It's easily my favorite MS OS since DOS 6.22, and possibly the best OS I've had the pleasure of using. It seems to share a lot of code with XP, so I have no idea why XP has to face so many problems... this one's fast, stable, pretty secure so far (I'll give it a few years before I conclude anything...) feature-packed but not bloated, easy to use, AND backwards-compatible.
Windows users could easily make jabs at Linux for its weaknesses these days, but what do they have to prove?
That may be the official word, but try changing the AVI file's FOURCC code to that of DivX. It'll play, just without the extra enhancement filters and noise reduction found in many Xvid codecs.
No kidding... the way 3d cards are heading is asinine, and if it goes mainstream, I guess I have a reason to switch to console gaming. (Not that they're much better with hardware costs doubling every console generation...)
Actually, the only difference between NTSC-M (USA) and NTSC-J (Japan) is that Japanese video strangely doesn't make use of a blanking pedestal between painting each line on the screen.
I'm with you on that one. TechTV had a really nice atmosphere, so even if you were watching a show about how to install Winamp, it was still entertaining. Leo's a cool host, and IMHO, so was Chris Pirillo (sp?)
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I didn't really watch much TV in the first place, now I may not need it at all.
...just make sure you don't confuse the book with the manga, which is very nearly the worst I've ever read.
Strangely enough, that pic is for the Region 3 Hong Kong release. It may be a region 0, but if there was a US edition, I'd think they'd use the scan from that one. ...btw, there's a UK version from Tartan Video with better video quality.