They'd better move their servers offshore if they want to do that. They'd probably get busted sooner-or-later for copyright infringement for copying the page onto their servers.
(Don't laugh, things that stupid seem to be happening a lot lately in the States.)
I don't know... I think it's more like fantasy. The wanna-be's read it and go "Oh, cool! Someone like me could make an explosive to level a city block! Now if only I could get a fully-equipped lab, a few chamical licenses, and [300-char chemical name] by the pound! Wait... I can't get ANY of those!"
Personally, I thought the guide I found to making an atomic bomb was pretty funny. I'm sure the author knows this from experience, riiiiight...
Actually, if not for a dead UPS, the server where I work wouldn't have had to reboot for years. It runs Windows NT 4.
...as do our computer-controlled lathes in the back shop. (2 of them) If one of them crashed, it would be... a bad thing. So, it's pretty good that WinNT doesn't crash that often.
(I know it's not Win9x, but I already gave those examples, and you just said WINDOWS is messy and unstable.)
The subject says it all. Does anyone know if the U-Force bears any electronic similarity to a Theremin? If you've never heard of a Theremin, then does anyone know where I might be able to get some technical docs on the U-Force? I'm suddenly extemely curious about this.
Yeah, the Lemmings music was awesome. I had no idea there was a GameBoy version, but back when I would play it on my 286 (AdLib soundcard) there were some pretty cool tunes.
...more like the emotional charge of "Linux geek." (Seriously, I can't think of a better example.) I've met normal people from Japan who have otaku friends. (The term they use, too.) It's considered a bit weird, but now that the stigma is gone from the Miyazaki (Tsutomu) killings, it's pretty much equivalent to geek.
Absolutely.
It's better to not understand than to think you do, and be wrong, though. One friend of mine sees Lain and goes "This is so lame, it's just a basic statement of existentialism, borrowing heavily from Descartes' theories and then repeating itself."
To which I reply "Good, good, except for the repeating part. You know, you might just catch the rest of it if you watched it instead of complaining and pseudointellectialy posturing the whole time."
"But why should I watch it, it's just been repeating from the first episode!" he says. Waargh!
Perfect Blue on the other hand. Wow, I'd have to say that's the first time I've seen a movie that left me profoundly disturbed. That's a REAL horror movie. (CREEPY side note: The guy who can't stand Lain called the ending in the first 10 minutes of the show. I know for a fact he hadn't seen it before. Weird.)
"Subete no otaku ga shindara, Washi wa ureshikunaru-yanke. Mou e-wa. Fuzakeruna." (For those who can't do Japanese fonts)
Don't you think it's a bit weird that you make a long incoherent rant against otaku, then finish it by summarizing your rant in Japanese?
True, most people in Japan don't watch anime OBSESSIVELY. Still, if most people don't watch it, how do you explain the sheer volume of anime, and especially manga produced? How about the way anything Studio Ghibli does becomes a classic? (Except maybe Houhokekyo Tonari no Yamada-kun, we'll see about that one.) How about the phenominal success of shows like Urusei Yatsura, the many Macross series, and Slayers? If no one watches them, I kinda doubt they'd be able to keep going on for years on end like they do.
Aa, mou tsukareta! Chotto yasunde-hou ga ii... -_- Zzz...
I think Animethon 7 was pretty cool. Still had that unprofessional but organized feel to it. My only real complaints are that the dealer's room was a mosh-pit, and in the theater they were showing Perfect Blue in, if you ran your finger across a table, it'd get wet from the condensation, and it was so hot in there, it almost toasted the projector a few times.
Still, I agree with most of your points. You have to look pretty hard for the small enthusiast groups now. (Personally, I just started one when I went to high school. It just... collapsed and disappeared when I left. We got pretty good results showing Mononoke untranslated though.)
Actually, you're right. Importing from Japan is DAMN expensive. I remember pricing the X LD box set after it came out in Japan. Keep in mind, this is just the movie:
$170 US
Heh heh... I'm glad I waited and just caught a fansub at a con. I wasn't even that impressed in the end.
It's sad really, people used to see my anime and think "eww, cartoon porn!" even if it was something totally normal like Tenchi.
The awful thing is that after that, I'd be wearing a Ranma shirt or something and people would go "cool, it's Sailor Moon!" I almost fell flat on my face the fist time I heard that.
...why can't they just think I'm some weird porn fiend; it's so much less insulting!
This is possibly the worst thing that could happen to anime. Look what American culture does to anything foreign. British TV, Mexican and Chinese food, ugh! I'd prefer to pay more money, but keep the quality anime as it is now.
Hear hear! we don't need more Robotechs, "Warriors of the Wind", and total improv like the Slayers movie. It's just... painful to see shows so butchered.
If you want anime that hasn't been subbed here? Learn Japanese. That's what I'm doing. Same here. Progress is slow, but it's very useful to know.
Yeah, well I don't mean to sound to inflammatory here, but much like a fool running Linux will get nohting out of it, a fool running Windows will end up toasting their PC, then blaming it on something else.
My copy of Windows 95 at home has been installed since... about early 1996. Granted, I've moved the hard drive across to another PC, and installed the drivers for it, but I've never had to reinstall.
At work, I did a fresh install of Win98 about 10 months ago. Still running great.
A Mac-user friend of mine tells me that MacOS 7 decays over about 4 months of heavy use, but that's the only case I've heard.
Here's a humourous look at Quake as architectural design software:
http://www.gamespy.com/legacy/fargo/careers_a.sh tm
Seriously, though, how many dozens of times have you seen a level based on an office building, house, school, or even a street? I would have really thought it was a non-issue using Quake for this sort of thing, since it's been done by fans for so long.
Good idea, but sadly no help. I used a tweaker (because vbl wasn't a normal option, strangely,) and I even limited the refresh rate to 60Hz. I started up the game, and like always, it was:
"321GO!*WHOOSHTHUMP!*BzZzZzZzZzZzZz*BOOM!*"
(Fly forward, hit track, the couple-minute timer counts down the last 10 seconds, but the beeps are a continuous buzz. Then the craft self-destructs.)
I'd say it's just a case of bad programming. A friend of mine has Rolcage do the same thing to him.
The funny thing is that I can play it in hi-res at normal speed by opening Bleem! and turning on 3d acceleration, then popping in the Playstation disc.
(Both versions of the game have many of the same textures, simply in a different format, so there's not a big graphics performance hit when I use 3d acceleration on the Playstation version.)
I think maybe Psygnosis is just too used to programming things for consoles these days, and they don't take into consideration the increasing speed of computers AND their parts (like 3d cards.)
Let me get this straight, Capcom is planning on making emulation of their titles EASIER now...
Weren't Capcom the company infamous for making unhackable "suicide boards?" I can't remember the model name of them, but they would format themselves whenever you try to reverse-engineer them, or after a given amount of time, whichever comes first. (At which point, you'd have to get a new one sent in from Capcom; I don't think they charged full price for the replacements, but not being an arcade owner, I don't know.)
If Capcom is doing this, I would imagine it would make it a lot easier to rip the data from their game boards. (Although you'd still probably have to go through layers of encryption, self-formatting, precice voltage monitors, etc... if you wanted to crack an arcade machine.)
That sounds pretty cool. Quite a while ago I was thinking that if I were to enter a robot into Robot Wars, it'd be something along those lines. (Though maybe jumping 3 feet instead of 10 meters!)
I figure a simple design that can jump, and aim before jumping could do fairly well at all aspects of the contest except for the fight. (It'd have to wait for an attacker to approach, then use itself as a projectile, so it'd get low aggression scores.)
Because he's pretending to be a "professional."
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Man... that article's typical of a Mac zealot (no, Mac users are ok, the zealots are annoying.)
He rambles on about things he has no idea about, and from the first paragraph you can tell he's full of it.
I guess I'll bring up the most obvious thing: Since when does multitasking == OS? What about, say... the Disk Operating System? (DOS)
What about palmOS? How about all the others that don't multitask?
Actually, wouldn't a particularly well-written BIOS count as an OS? (Not the kind used in most PCs, but more in embedded devices such as car electronics systems.)
Sounds to me like a Mac zealot making a very flawed, very fundamentally weak argument that wouldn't prove much if it were true anyway, in an attempt to make OS/X look good. Blah, they should just rely on the smoke, mirrors, and nifty graphic effects to sell, because on a technical level I see no real advantage to OS/X, especially having read Apple sales literature. (Which features should I believe, and which ones are just to make a sale?)
I wonder if they'll fix the huge oversight bug in Wipeout 2097 this time around. On the PC version, there are no speed limiters, so if you have a decent system, it runs 20x as fast as it should.
I mailed Psygnosis (original makers) and they said that it was bound to happen as computers got faster. I guess they can program great console games, but forgot how to do PCs. (Funny, my copy of Lemmings ver.1 for the PC (or Tandy,) runs just fine on my P3 450.)
Exactly. You can almost always get a version of the game for windows.
(Possible flamebait warning! Anti-Linux views!:)
What I don't see is WHY you would want to boot to Linux to run a game? I thought when Quake 2 was benchmarked across Linux, Windows, and BeOS, in order of performance, it was:
1. BeOS
2. Windows
3. Linux
That, and I've never seen ANY version of Linux autodetect ANY of my devices, and that includes a standard serial mouse (Microsoft/Logitech protocol).
...so why not swing a deal with Be, and make BeOS-booting games that detect your hardware? (assuming you can get enough drivers for it; Be detects great, but doesn't have the drivers.)
(Also, on a default install of Linux (RedHat 6.3) and BeOS, on my system, Linux took 3 minutes to boot, and BeOS took 20 seconds.)
That was either a potent and cogent statement on the way the post-TV generation views reality - that is, that they view it as being no different from a video game, or at least that they view it through the filters developed during media consumption - or it was utter foolishness. I'm still deciding.
Could it be both? At first glance, it seems almost silly, but when you look at it, it is somewhat insightful.
I prefer art that makes me think, like this one. Also, the way that it takes pop culture and uses it to actually provoke thought reminds me of Takashi Murakami's "Hiropon." (I'd link it, but I don't know where it is. You can find pictures if you do some searches.) It's much deeper than it seems at first.
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Actually, I've heard that the people who wrote the script had to suffer through a bunch of lame fantasy movies so they'd know what not to do.
...and then watched things like Kurosawa films to get a better idea of what to aim for.
I'm pretty sure it won't be disappointing, and there aren't many movies I say that about.
They'd better move their servers offshore if they want to do that. They'd probably get busted sooner-or-later for copyright infringement for copying the page onto their servers.
(Don't laugh, things that stupid seem to be happening a lot lately in the States.)
I don't know... I think it's more like fantasy. The wanna-be's read it and go "Oh, cool! Someone like me could make an explosive to level a city block! Now if only I could get a fully-equipped lab, a few chamical licenses, and [300-char chemical name] by the pound! Wait... I can't get ANY of those!"
Personally, I thought the guide I found to making an atomic bomb was pretty funny. I'm sure the author knows this from experience, riiiiight...
Actually, if not for a dead UPS, the server where I work wouldn't have had to reboot for years. It runs Windows NT 4.
...as do our computer-controlled lathes in the back shop. (2 of them) If one of them crashed, it would be... a bad thing. So, it's pretty good that WinNT doesn't crash that often.
(I know it's not Win9x, but I already gave those examples, and you just said WINDOWS is messy and unstable.)
The subject says it all. Does anyone know if the U-Force bears any electronic similarity to a Theremin? If you've never heard of a Theremin, then does anyone know where I might be able to get some technical docs on the U-Force? I'm suddenly extemely curious about this.
I've never seen the Jaguar in action, but...
MAN, wasn't that a 64-bit CD system in the days of SNES?? Have I lost my mind, or is this really true?
Yeah, the Lemmings music was awesome. I had no idea there was a GameBoy version, but back when I would play it on my 286 (AdLib soundcard) there were some pretty cool tunes.
...more like the emotional charge of "Linux geek." (Seriously, I can't think of a better example.) I've met normal people from Japan who have otaku friends. (The term they use, too.) It's considered a bit weird, but now that the stigma is gone from the Miyazaki (Tsutomu) killings, it's pretty much equivalent to geek.
Absolutely.
It's better to not understand than to think you do, and be wrong, though. One friend of mine sees Lain and goes "This is so lame, it's just a basic statement of existentialism, borrowing heavily from Descartes' theories and then repeating itself."
To which I reply "Good, good, except for the repeating part. You know, you might just catch the rest of it if you watched it instead of complaining and pseudointellectialy posturing the whole time."
"But why should I watch it, it's just been repeating from the first episode!" he says. Waargh!
Perfect Blue on the other hand. Wow, I'd have to say that's the first time I've seen a movie that left me profoundly disturbed. That's a REAL horror movie. (CREEPY side note: The guy who can't stand Lain called the ending in the first 10 minutes of the show. I know for a fact he hadn't seen it before. Weird.)
"Subete no otaku ga shindara, Washi wa ureshikunaru-yanke. Mou e-wa. Fuzakeruna." (For those who can't do Japanese fonts)
Don't you think it's a bit weird that you make a long incoherent rant against otaku, then finish it by summarizing your rant in Japanese?
True, most people in Japan don't watch anime OBSESSIVELY. Still, if most people don't watch it, how do you explain the sheer volume of anime, and especially manga produced? How about the way anything Studio Ghibli does becomes a classic? (Except maybe Houhokekyo Tonari no Yamada-kun, we'll see about that one.) How about the phenominal success of shows like Urusei Yatsura, the many Macross series, and Slayers? If no one watches them, I kinda doubt they'd be able to keep going on for years on end like they do.
Aa, mou tsukareta! Chotto yasunde-hou ga ii... -_- Zzz...
I think Animethon 7 was pretty cool. Still had that unprofessional but organized feel to it. My only real complaints are that the dealer's room was a mosh-pit, and in the theater they were showing Perfect Blue in, if you ran your finger across a table, it'd get wet from the condensation, and it was so hot in there, it almost toasted the projector a few times.
Still, I agree with most of your points. You have to look pretty hard for the small enthusiast groups now. (Personally, I just started one when I went to high school. It just... collapsed and disappeared when I left. We got pretty good results showing Mononoke untranslated though.)
Actually, you're right. Importing from Japan is DAMN expensive. I remember pricing the X LD box set after it came out in Japan. Keep in mind, this is just the movie:
$170 US
Heh heh... I'm glad I waited and just caught a fansub at a con. I wasn't even that impressed in the end.
It's sad really, people used to see my anime and think "eww, cartoon porn!" even if it was something totally normal like Tenchi.
The awful thing is that after that, I'd be wearing a Ranma shirt or something and people would go "cool, it's Sailor Moon!" I almost fell flat on my face the fist time I heard that.
...why can't they just think I'm some weird porn fiend; it's so much less insulting!
This is possibly the worst thing that could happen to anime. Look what American culture does to anything foreign. British TV, Mexican and Chinese food, ugh! I'd prefer to pay more money, but keep the quality anime as it is now.
Hear hear! we don't need more Robotechs, "Warriors of the Wind", and total improv like the Slayers movie. It's just... painful to see shows so butchered.
If you want anime that hasn't been subbed here? Learn Japanese. That's what I'm doing.
Same here. Progress is slow, but it's very useful to know.
...especially after they say "oops, we didn't MEAN to nuke that heavily-populated city, hehehe!"
I'm surprised they would even consider trying something like this.
Yeah, well I don't mean to sound to inflammatory here, but much like a fool running Linux will get nohting out of it, a fool running Windows will end up toasting their PC, then blaming it on something else.
My copy of Windows 95 at home has been installed since... about early 1996. Granted, I've moved the hard drive across to another PC, and installed the drivers for it, but I've never had to reinstall.
At work, I did a fresh install of Win98 about 10 months ago. Still running great.
A Mac-user friend of mine tells me that MacOS 7 decays over about 4 months of heavy use, but that's the only case I've heard.
Here's a humourous look at Quake as architectural design software:h tm
http://www.gamespy.com/legacy/fargo/careers_a.s
Seriously, though, how many dozens of times have you seen a level based on an office building, house, school, or even a street? I would have really thought it was a non-issue using Quake for this sort of thing, since it's been done by fans for so long.
Good idea, but sadly no help. I used a tweaker (because vbl wasn't a normal option, strangely,) and I even limited the refresh rate to 60Hz. I started up the game, and like always, it was:
"321GO!*WHOOSHTHUMP!*BzZzZzZzZzZzZz*BOOM!*"
(Fly forward, hit track, the couple-minute timer counts down the last 10 seconds, but the beeps are a continuous buzz. Then the craft self-destructs.)
I'd say it's just a case of bad programming. A friend of mine has Rolcage do the same thing to him.
The funny thing is that I can play it in hi-res at normal speed by opening Bleem! and turning on 3d acceleration, then popping in the Playstation disc.
(Both versions of the game have many of the same textures, simply in a different format, so there's not a big graphics performance hit when I use 3d acceleration on the Playstation version.)
I think maybe Psygnosis is just too used to programming things for consoles these days, and they don't take into consideration the increasing speed of computers AND their parts (like 3d cards.)
Let me get this straight, Capcom is planning on making emulation of their titles EASIER now...
Weren't Capcom the company infamous for making unhackable "suicide boards?" I can't remember the model name of them, but they would format themselves whenever you try to reverse-engineer them, or after a given amount of time, whichever comes first. (At which point, you'd have to get a new one sent in from Capcom; I don't think they charged full price for the replacements, but not being an arcade owner, I don't know.)
If Capcom is doing this, I would imagine it would make it a lot easier to rip the data from their game boards. (Although you'd still probably have to go through layers of encryption, self-formatting, precice voltage monitors, etc... if you wanted to crack an arcade machine.)
That sounds pretty cool. Quite a while ago I was thinking that if I were to enter a robot into Robot Wars, it'd be something along those lines. (Though maybe jumping 3 feet instead of 10 meters!)
I figure a simple design that can jump, and aim before jumping could do fairly well at all aspects of the contest except for the fight. (It'd have to wait for an attacker to approach, then use itself as a projectile, so it'd get low aggression scores.)
Man... that article's typical of a Mac zealot (no, Mac users are ok, the zealots are annoying.)
He rambles on about things he has no idea about, and from the first paragraph you can tell he's full of it.
I guess I'll bring up the most obvious thing: Since when does multitasking == OS? What about, say... the Disk Operating System? (DOS)
What about palmOS? How about all the others that don't multitask?
Actually, wouldn't a particularly well-written BIOS count as an OS? (Not the kind used in most PCs, but more in embedded devices such as car electronics systems.)
Sounds to me like a Mac zealot making a very flawed, very fundamentally weak argument that wouldn't prove much if it were true anyway, in an attempt to make OS/X look good. Blah, they should just rely on the smoke, mirrors, and nifty graphic effects to sell, because on a technical level I see no real advantage to OS/X, especially having read Apple sales literature. (Which features should I believe, and which ones are just to make a sale?)
I wonder if they'll fix the huge oversight bug in Wipeout 2097 this time around. On the PC version, there are no speed limiters, so if you have a decent system, it runs 20x as fast as it should.
I mailed Psygnosis (original makers) and they said that it was bound to happen as computers got faster. I guess they can program great console games, but forgot how to do PCs. (Funny, my copy of Lemmings ver.1 for the PC (or Tandy,) runs just fine on my P3 450.)
Exactly. You can almost always get a version of the game for windows.
(Possible flamebait warning! Anti-Linux views!:)
What I don't see is WHY you would want to boot to Linux to run a game? I thought when Quake 2 was benchmarked across Linux, Windows, and BeOS, in order of performance, it was:
1. BeOS
2. Windows
3. Linux
That, and I've never seen ANY version of Linux autodetect ANY of my devices, and that includes a standard serial mouse (Microsoft/Logitech protocol).
...so why not swing a deal with Be, and make BeOS-booting games that detect your hardware? (assuming you can get enough drivers for it; Be detects great, but doesn't have the drivers.)
(Also, on a default install of Linux (RedHat 6.3) and BeOS, on my system, Linux took 3 minutes to boot, and BeOS took 20 seconds.)
That was either a potent and cogent statement on the way the post-TV generation views reality - that is, that they view it as being no different from a video game, or at least that they view it through the filters developed during media consumption - or it was utter foolishness. I'm still deciding.
Could it be both? At first glance, it seems almost silly, but when you look at it, it is somewhat insightful.
I prefer art that makes me think, like this one. Also, the way that it takes pop culture and uses it to actually provoke thought reminds me of Takashi Murakami's "Hiropon." (I'd link it, but I don't know where it is. You can find pictures if you do some searches.) It's much deeper than it seems at first.
Oh yeah? Maybe both are right. ^_^