Near as I'm aware the only sequel, Macross Plus, was released in English though away from the Harmony Gold treatment. First of... So I don't get my Robotech/Macross nerd card revoked:
When is the movie industry going stop pissing all over my childhood? They will stop doing the '80s thing in about 5-10 years.
By then, they will bleed dry all of the re-marketable stuff from that decade. Also, those kids from the '80s that are at the moment such popular demographic group (single, employed, spending money mostly on their private wishes and dreams...) will step over into that other not so popular demographic group (married with children, mortgage, living on their credit cards...).
But then... It will be the time for the '90s revival. Expect Pokemon, X-files and shitty dance and techno music to make a comeback. Not because any of that was really good or because someone missed it.
Nope... simply because kids that were around 10 in the '90s will be around 30 in the next decade. Single grownups, with cash to spend and nostalgic about their childhood.
Only thing is... this time... I will have both means to get AND age to own a gun. Lots of guns. And first person that I see on the street wearing the '70s/'90s clothes and hair, and listening to disco will pay dearly for that.
So people will buy them, play with them, make them better.
Look at the portable MP3 players and DivX/DVD players. Work as good or even better than the brand name thingamajigits and cost so little that it is almost pointless to repair them. Just buy a new one instead. Only now, it will be even cheaper, it will work better, and it will have more options.
Couple of years ago, I bought 3 USB-disk/MP3 players in one month intervals. For me. For my sister. For my cousin. Each one was about 10-15$ cheaper then the last one. Also each one was thinner and had better (less bugs, more options) software. Third one was almost 30% cheaper then the first one.
A friend of mine bought 3 different DivX/DVD players. Being a geek/slash nerd he tried fixing (small problems - like difficulty reading some disks) first two and ended up with paper-weights first two times. So he kept buying cheaper and better ones every 8-12 months.
Last one was about 3 times cheaper then the first one and about 2-3 times cheaper then the brand name players with same functions. After about 10 months it started having problems with some disks. This time though - he took it to a TV repair shop.
Turns out one of the capacitors was dead. Repair cost him about 15-20$. It has been a year since then. It still works.
Now... apply that 8-12 months scheme with mobile phone market. We all know guys/girls that change their phones more often then their bed sheets. I know a guy that keeps getting new and better phones every two months. Hi sells his old one, pays a little extra and gets himself a new phone.
8-12 months for a cheaper, better, cooler iClone is WAY over its market-life. Plus no DRM, works with every mobile provider, no hidden battery costs, and you get that "Ha, you hype-eating-fashionable cattle! I got that same shit only better AND cheaper! All your base are belong to me!" feeling.
I am guessing you have just recently gone blind in a freakish laser accident. Can I perhaps interest you in our line of white canes? We also have them in reflective Jedi green, red and purple for Samuel L. Jackson fans.
Perhaps a guide dog? A Braille keyboard or a watch?
You can strip everything but the movie and then reencode only the movie to fit on a 4.7GB DVD. Or split the movie into 2 DVDs if you like. Or reencode everything down to a 4.7GB with different levels of compression (shrink the hell out of commercials, and leave more space for the main feature).
Just imagine. You hate your boss (don't we all?) or anyone else. You go out and buy an I-phone (I is for Invisible). Then you go to your boss (or whom ever it is you hate) and just plain beat them to death with a baseball bat. Then you just sit there and wait for the cops to show up.
When they finally come admit everything but ask to call your lawyer. On your invisible phone. Which you have paid 5000$ for. (Must remember to mention that.)
Instant "Get out of jail free by pleading insanity"-card.
If I ever had to pay that much to read an article I'd print that article on a shirt and wear it around later for years. With "I've paid USD$ 39.00 just to read this article - you get to read it for free" message on top.
What? Where does it say you can't use textile as printable surface or that you can't wear the article in public?
Some journals are > 10,000 per year. I guess engraving the proof of such a purchase on a easily attachable small piece of rare metal should be the science-guy's equivalent of a diamond studded iPod.
So maybe Apple isn't quite as "stupid" as you're making them out to be? Who said Apple people are stupid?
It is their customers who are stupid.
And frankly, if someone has 500$ to blow on a phone (screw the "its not JUST a phone" excuse - its not called iBlender or iVibrator) - they deserve to pay 90$ and more to have their battery replaced. And 50$ for the iString so they can hang the phone around their neck or 80$ for the iBag so they can carry it on their hip.
Screw 'em.
If they are willing to spend that amount of $$$ on a phone - hell yeah they should pay +90$ for the battery. Its called sweet irony.
After buying a new iPhone yesterday and bringing it home to sync and activate it, I found out that Windows 64-bit is not supported. Using Windows? Just what kind of an Apple fanboy ARE YOU?
If they can make it, test it, check it and double- and triple- check it for potential quirks and problems and have it ready and operational for the mission for 50.000$, spending more would be just throwing money on it only for the sake of spending more money.
Would you pay 50$ for a loaf of bread on account that you are going to take it from London to Japan, first class?
If they can do it all so it works for 50.000$, they can always dip it in gold and cover it in caviar if they MUST spend more money on the project.
I remember back in C64 days how 1337 it was to adjust the tape drive head just by the sound it made during the loading. Only n00bs used software assistance.
Still carry my lucky screwdriver around with me. If nothing else, it is still useful for tightening screws on eyeglasses.
Slashdot Mirror
When I clicked on the iTards tag only to find out - there are no other iTards stories.
Which I just know can't be the truth.
IMHO Slashdot needs more stories tagged iTards.
It was three not two unrelated anime series that Carl Macek cut-and-pasted together to make Robotech.
The Super Dimension Fortress Macross http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Super_Dimension_
As for Macross sequels... Hell yes there were more. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Super_Dimension_
Robotech on the other hand had only one REAL sequel (Robotech Sentinels crashed and burned before even starting) - the 2006 Robotech: Shadow Chronicles. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robotech:_The_Shadow
Unless you are counting books and comics. http://www.robotech.com/infopedia/bibliography/
...the largest and most sophisticated people-tracking network in the world - so far.
By then, they will bleed dry all of the re-marketable stuff from that decade.
Also, those kids from the '80s that are at the moment such popular demographic group (single, employed, spending money mostly on their private wishes and dreams...) will step over into that other not so popular demographic group (married with children, mortgage, living on their credit cards...).
But then... It will be the time for the '90s revival. Expect Pokemon, X-files and shitty dance and techno music to make a comeback.
Not because any of that was really good or because someone missed it.
Nope... simply because kids that were around 10 in the '90s will be around 30 in the next decade.
Single grownups, with cash to spend and nostalgic about their childhood.
Only thing is... this time... I will have both means to get AND age to own a gun. Lots of guns.
And first person that I see on the street wearing the '70s/'90s clothes and hair, and listening to disco will pay dearly for that.
Yeah, at first.
But they will be about 10 times cheaper.
So people will buy them, play with them, make them better.
Look at the portable MP3 players and DivX/DVD players.
Work as good or even better than the brand name thingamajigits and cost so little that it is almost pointless to repair them.
Just buy a new one instead. Only now, it will be even cheaper, it will work better, and it will have more options.
Couple of years ago, I bought 3 USB-disk/MP3 players in one month intervals. For me. For my sister. For my cousin.
Each one was about 10-15$ cheaper then the last one. Also each one was thinner and had better (less bugs, more options) software.
Third one was almost 30% cheaper then the first one.
A friend of mine bought 3 different DivX/DVD players.
Being a geek/slash nerd he tried fixing (small problems - like difficulty reading some disks) first two and ended up with paper-weights first two times.
So he kept buying cheaper and better ones every 8-12 months.
Last one was about 3 times cheaper then the first one and about 2-3 times cheaper then the brand name players with same functions.
After about 10 months it started having problems with some disks.
This time though - he took it to a TV repair shop.
Turns out one of the capacitors was dead. Repair cost him about 15-20$.
It has been a year since then. It still works.
Now... apply that 8-12 months scheme with mobile phone market.
We all know guys/girls that change their phones more often then their bed sheets.
I know a guy that keeps getting new and better phones every two months. Hi sells his old one, pays a little extra and gets himself a new phone.
8-12 months for a cheaper, better, cooler iClone is WAY over its market-life.
Plus no DRM, works with every mobile provider, no hidden battery costs, and you get that "Ha, you hype-eating-fashionable cattle! I got that same shit only better AND cheaper! All your base are belong to me!" feeling.
You sir!
I am guessing you have just recently gone blind in a freakish laser accident.
Can I perhaps interest you in our line of white canes? We also have them in reflective Jedi green, red and purple for Samuel L. Jackson fans.
Perhaps a guide dog? A Braille keyboard or a watch?
These babies will be in the stores while you are still grappling with appropriate level of darktitude bhay-gn-flay-vn.
So... if THEY publish this for Wii - will the gameplay and controls for boys be different from those for girls?
One word: Capacitors.
Yeah, but do you need to buy an Apple computer too to use your iPhone as it should be used?
With PS3 - there is no point buying it unless you have or are going to buy a HDTV too.
Springy propulsion could doo wonders for ones carbon footprint?
Cue The Magic Roundabout theme...
Yeah, sure... carbon nanotubes can give you springy erections but can they give you love?
I always use DVD shrink.
You can strip everything but the movie and then reencode only the movie to fit on a 4.7GB DVD. Or split the movie into 2 DVDs if you like. Or reencode everything down to a 4.7GB with different levels of compression (shrink the hell out of commercials, and leave more space for the main feature).
Software itself is freeware, but since it is kind of illegal in US (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD_shrink) official site (http://www.dvdshrink.org/what.html) instructs you to google it.
They should make it invisible too.
They could sell that baby for 5k or more.
Just imagine. You hate your boss (don't we all?) or anyone else. You go out and buy an I-phone (I is for Invisible).
Then you go to your boss (or whom ever it is you hate) and just plain beat them to death with a baseball bat.
Then you just sit there and wait for the cops to show up.
When they finally come admit everything but ask to call your lawyer. On your invisible phone. Which you have paid 5000$ for. (Must remember to mention that.)
Instant "Get out of jail free by pleading insanity"-card.
You mean force dogs to have sex?
Even if they don't love or can't stand the other dog?
They breed them from 2 years up. That is like... 14 in dog years.
What kind of a sick underage-dog-rape fantasies are you people into?
With "I've paid USD$ 39.00 just to read this article - you get to read it for free" message on top.
What? Where does it say you can't use textile as printable surface or that you can't wear the article in public? Some journals are > 10,000 per year. I guess engraving the proof of such a purchase on a easily attachable small piece of rare metal should be the science-guy's equivalent of a diamond studded iPod.
But since that is not enough - I will now go outside and put some homeless people on fire so they could feel your pain too.
It is their customers who are stupid.
And frankly, if someone has 500$ to blow on a phone (screw the "its not JUST a phone" excuse - its not called iBlender or iVibrator) - they deserve to pay 90$ and more to have their battery replaced.
And 50$ for the iString so they can hang the phone around their neck or 80$ for the iBag so they can carry it on their hip.
Screw 'em.
If they are willing to spend that amount of $$$ on a phone - hell yeah they should pay +90$ for the battery.
Its called sweet irony.
...Mr. Jar Jar Binks:
"Innocent people are gonna die?"
... but then it would turn out that Apple folk have been just sellin' hot air for the last two decades, instead of Microsoft.
No, no, no... we can't have objectivity stand in the way of pointing out how EVERYTHING Apple ever did RULZ! and how EVERYTHING MS does SUCKS!
If they can make it, test it, check it and double- and triple- check it for potential quirks and problems and have it ready and operational for the mission for 50.000$, spending more would be just throwing money on it only for the sake of spending more money.
Would you pay 50$ for a loaf of bread on account that you are going to take it from London to Japan, first class?
If they can do it all so it works for 50.000$, they can always dip it in gold and cover it in caviar if they MUST spend more money on the project.
I remember back in C64 days how 1337 it was to adjust the tape drive head just by the sound it made during the loading.
Only n00bs used software assistance.
Still carry my lucky screwdriver around with me. If nothing else, it is still useful for tightening screws on eyeglasses.
From TFA:
m us_maximus_01.jpg
http://www.artlebedev.com/everything/optimus/opti
And for the first time it is revealed that "ANY" keys are actually: F2, E and Y.
And all this time I thought it was A, N and Y.
Well... got one right. Lucky I was using THAT ONE all this time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10bG9Bmj9dM
I kinda feel like I should go out and chase away some kids from my lawn.