Is the poster saying the Columbine posters have to have used Linux to be worth of posting to Slashdot. Yuk.
No. Clearly not. Come on, you know better. Read the post. update() is 100% correct. What's more, his/her point is simple and clear and you look very bad in dismissing it so casually.
I'll elaborate on that. There's nothing wrong with disagreeing with the argument, but if you're going to flippantly assign a particular logical fallacy to it, i.e. circularity, that fallacy should be noticeable somewhere in the argument in question. I have a real hard time finding any circularity in that particular argument. That looks bad.
I know geeks and gamers that are visionaries. I know geeks and gamers that are artists. But being a geek or a gamer implies neither of these things in any way. I also know geeks who have no such interests and I also know gamers who are utter simpletons.
By the way, I'd like to know what games you're playing that you think are more complex than chess. Even Nethack, the deepest and most subtle computer game I know of, pales in comparison to chess.
But yeah, my first thought, seeing only the blurb on the Slashdot front page, was to post the completion of the sequence, "left, right, left, right, B, A, start". Very powerful corroboration of the point Katz is trying to make there. (Clever.)
When I saw that subject line, I thought at first that you meant exactly the opposite: that Transmeta has had such good press thus far that they can afford to "take a hit" like this. I suspect that is closer to the truth.
My personal experience is that a lot more "average people" have heard of Transmeta than you might think (enough to surprise me, at least). They've had some press from the Wall Street Journal, IIRC, and other widely read publications.
Agreed. Nausicaa is excellent. Actually, all of Miyazaki's films, that I have seen, are excellent. Laputa just happens to be my favorite, and how can you not have a soft spot for Totoro?
Stylistically, I thought Patlabor and Ghost in the Shell were quite similar, right down to the crowded city montage in each film. It was very obvious that it was the same man behind the camera, so to speak. So I think a comparison is fair. I enjoyed Patlabor's deliberate pace; Ghost may have been more "cerebral", but I thought Patlabor was more intelligent.
All that being said, I am not an Anime fanatic. I have seen only a few Anime movies, and many of them I thought were not worth watching. The three that were, though, were Akira, Ghost in the Shell, and Princess Mononoke. Akira and Princess were definitely the best.
I can't think of anything that compares to Akira, since it's so out there... but if you liked Ghost in the Shell, see Patlabor, a better film by the same director. If you liked Mononoke, try to see Laputa: Castle in the Sky and My Neighbor Totoro, again, better films by the same director.
It's been some time since I've seen Akira, but if my memory serves me correctly, I rather think that it's Akira that pales in comparison to the best of anime, such as Macross Plus and the earlier Ghibli films.
A lot of the most popular anime amongst semi-newbies (such as Akira, Ghost in the Shell, and inexplicably, the awful, awful Ninja Scroll), I think, is overrated at the expense of better films. Akira wasn't awful, but I'd jump at the chance to see Laputa again.
The Macross Plus DVDs, at least the ones you find at the only good rental store in my neck of the woods, are very well done. (This only applies to the OVA DVDs; I have yet to see a DVD version of Macross Plus - The Movie.) And the dubbed audio track is actually respectable, not that I watched it for more than five minutes. (This is a rarity in anime.)
Macross Plus is probably better for anime newbies, anyway, and I enjoyed it quite a bit more than Akira.
And this is a nitpick -- I'm not that big into mecha fight scenes, but I thought that those in Macross Plus were much better than the ones in Escaflowne (this is coming from someone who loves Escaflowne). Certainly the best I have seen to date. Macross Plus - The Movie omits one of these and extends another; for this and a variety of other reasons I would recommend seeing both versions (OVAs first).
Secure, eh? This will be cracked wide open in about a day.
Does anyone expect technical proficiency from the people that brought us Napster, possibly the most poorly written very popular software since Windows? Not a bright move by Bertelsmann...
This is a very common sentiment...
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...but basically incorrect, as far as I'm concerned. I can understand why someone would not vote as a matter of protest. And even if that isn't the reason, people still have a right to complain when they live under a poor government, no matter what. The fact that they didn't vote doesn't imply that the election results would have been any different or that there were suddenly viable outcomes that did not involve a rich business-friendly white man winning.
They should do more than complain, of course, but that doesn't mean the government can strip their rights away at a record pace and take away half their money in taxes and they can't bitch about it a little bit!
The moral dilemma that I (and I'm sure quite a few others) face is whether to vote for Gore, who actually has a chance of winning, and is certainly the lesser of the two most significant evils, or to do the Right Thing and vote for Nader, thereby essentially helping to elect George "There ought to be limits to freedom" Dubya. Voting for Gore, still, would leave a bad taste in my mouth, but I would be very, very frightened to have Bush in the White House. Politics is a dirty game.
Of course, a vote for Nader brings just that much more support to third party candidates, and specifically the Green Party closer to the... what is it, five percent?... they need to get federal funds in four years.
What finally made up my mind to vote for Nader is the corporate exclusion, by physical force, of Nader from the first debate. This was thuggish and low, and should never have happened in America. I still don't understand why it (and corporate-sponsored debates, for that matter) was tolerated. Well, I suppose I do, but it's depressing.
(Usually, of course, I'm more of the opinion expressed in thi s comic...)
From the article:
He also said he believes it is "hypocritical" for Cisco to take this "massive tax break" and at the same time support Proposition 39, which would make it easier to raise property taxes on California homeowners. Prop 39 would allow local school bonds to be approved by a vote of 55 percent instead of the current two-thirds.
This completely confuses me. What interest does Cisco have in property tax legislation? More importantly, why is Cisco's "support" relevant? What does it mean for a corporation to support legislation that has nothing to do with they way they operate their business?
First of all, being a current CS student (at a seriously good CS school), I can tell you that half the nerds I know are into anime. It's one of those things, like Star Wars and Legos, that just has that "geek cool" to it.
Second, go to your damn preferences and exclude the anime topic if you don't want to hear about it.
Third, read the FAQ, where this exact question is addressed. Slashdot is under no obligation to confine itself to what you find interesting.
Fourth, someone says this for every anime topic that gets posted, so SHUT THE FUCK UP ALREADY.
This rather silly troll actually gives me a chance to ask about something relevant.
I rented the first couple of episodes of Neon Genesis: Evangelion not too long ago, and found it the silliest, most pretentions Power Rangers crap I'd seen in a long time. (I know Evangelion is sacred to many fans, but this is honestly not a troll.) I was not impressed by the extremely overdone, half-baked religious references, either. (Angels? Flaming crosses? Can we be any more subtle?) My question for anime fans here, is, should I bother? Does it get any better after the first tape?
I could just be spoiled, being currently in the middle of Cowboy Bebop and Lain, myself (and being a huge fan of Escaflowne - the series and to a smaller degree the movie). But the first episodes of NG:E didn't really leave me with much desire to see the rest.
Ishtar was pretty bad, but it's nowhere near the worst movie of all time, and I'd say it was fairly influential (hey, Gary Larson did a comic about it).
#40 on the list, Santa Claus Conquers the Martians, has been very influential to old school Mystery Science Theater 3000 fans.
I mean, really. How much material did we get from that one?? The Patrick Swayze Christmas song alone was one of the great formative experiences of my childhood. Well, sorta. OK, no. But it was damn funny!
I don't much like traditional HTML. In order to achieve practically any satisfactory layout effects, you have to hack and kludge your way through an ugly DTD, using tricks like table layout and blank images that were never meant to be used.
I'm much more satisfied with the idea of clean, strict XHTML with CSS reserved for typographic and layout effects. Netscape and Microsoft have had more than enough time to implement proper support for CSS. CSS-2 is a great technology (have you read the spec? Man, they've thought of everything!) and there's no excuse for the current state of things, other than the fact that this fork in functionality, so to speak, is great business for Microsoft. It's not so great for developers.
I've been doing HTML since version, what, 1.1? It wasn't so great back then, and it's gotten a lot worse.
It's also long past time we got major browser support for PNG, but that's another story.
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Is the poster saying the Columbine posters have to have used Linux to be worth of posting to Slashdot. Yuk.
No. Clearly not. Come on, you know better. Read the post. update() is 100% correct. What's more, his/her point is simple and clear and you look very bad in dismissing it so casually.
I'll elaborate on that. There's nothing wrong with disagreeing with the argument, but if you're going to flippantly assign a particular logical fallacy to it, i.e. circularity, that fallacy should be noticeable somewhere in the argument in question. I have a real hard time finding any circularity in that particular argument. That looks bad.
I know geeks and gamers that are visionaries. I know geeks and gamers that are artists. But being a geek or a gamer implies neither of these things in any way. I also know geeks who have no such interests and I also know gamers who are utter simpletons.
By the way, I'd like to know what games you're playing that you think are more complex than chess. Even Nethack, the deepest and most subtle computer game I know of, pales in comparison to chess.
I'm really glad someone posted this before I got the chance to. I like games and all but that whole thing was remarkably silly.
And I used to try to defend JonKatz until now. Eesh. I mean I held out as long as I could, I really did.
Um...did you read the post? ;)
But yeah, my first thought, seeing only the blurb on the Slashdot front page, was to post the completion of the sequence, "left, right, left, right, B, A, start". Very powerful corroboration of the point Katz is trying to make there. (Clever.)
When I saw that subject line, I thought at first that you meant exactly the opposite: that Transmeta has had such good press thus far that they can afford to "take a hit" like this. I suspect that is closer to the truth.
My personal experience is that a lot more "average people" have heard of Transmeta than you might think (enough to surprise me, at least). They've had some press from the Wall Street Journal, IIRC, and other widely read publications.
Ninja Scroll is in my opinion the best anime movie ever.
Dragon Ball Z has to be the best series I have ever seen.
Is this a troll?
Agreed. Nausicaa is excellent. Actually, all of Miyazaki's films, that I have seen, are excellent. Laputa just happens to be my favorite, and how can you not have a soft spot for Totoro?
Stylistically, I thought Patlabor and Ghost in the Shell were quite similar, right down to the crowded city montage in each film. It was very obvious that it was the same man behind the camera, so to speak. So I think a comparison is fair. I enjoyed Patlabor's deliberate pace; Ghost may have been more "cerebral", but I thought Patlabor was more intelligent.
Perhaps you're looking for this?
(Macross Plus had three soundtracks if you include the "Sharon Apple" single...)
No argument here. Esca and MPlus both rule beyond belief. (It doesn't hurt that they both have soundtracks by the magnificient Yoko Kanno...)
All that being said, I am not an Anime fanatic. I have seen only a few Anime movies, and many of them I thought were not worth watching. The three that were, though, were Akira, Ghost in the Shell, and Princess Mononoke. Akira and Princess were definitely the best.
I can't think of anything that compares to Akira, since it's so out there... but if you liked Ghost in the Shell, see Patlabor, a better film by the same director. If you liked Mononoke, try to see Laputa: Castle in the Sky and My Neighbor Totoro, again, better films by the same director.
It's been some time since I've seen Akira, but if my memory serves me correctly, I rather think that it's Akira that pales in comparison to the best of anime, such as Macross Plus and the earlier Ghibli films.
A lot of the most popular anime amongst semi-newbies (such as Akira, Ghost in the Shell, and inexplicably, the awful, awful Ninja Scroll), I think, is overrated at the expense of better films. Akira wasn't awful, but I'd jump at the chance to see Laputa again.
The Macross Plus DVDs, at least the ones you find at the only good rental store in my neck of the woods, are very well done. (This only applies to the OVA DVDs; I have yet to see a DVD version of Macross Plus - The Movie.) And the dubbed audio track is actually respectable, not that I watched it for more than five minutes. (This is a rarity in anime.)
Macross Plus is probably better for anime newbies, anyway, and I enjoyed it quite a bit more than Akira.
And this is a nitpick -- I'm not that big into mecha fight scenes, but I thought that those in Macross Plus were much better than the ones in Escaflowne (this is coming from someone who loves Escaflowne). Certainly the best I have seen to date. Macross Plus - The Movie omits one of these and extends another; for this and a variety of other reasons I would recommend seeing both versions (OVAs first).
Now where is my Escaflowne - The Movie DVD!?
A man of unparalleled stupidity is now the most powerful man in the world. Excellent! I can certainly see the cause for jubilation. O happy day!
If we weren't already the laughingstocks of the world, we are now.
Secure, eh? This will be cracked wide open in about a day.
Does anyone expect technical proficiency from the people that brought us Napster, possibly the most poorly written very popular software since Windows? Not a bright move by Bertelsmann...
Nice work!
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...but basically incorrect, as far as I'm concerned. I can understand why someone would not vote as a matter of protest. And even if that isn't the reason, people still have a right to complain when they live under a poor government, no matter what. The fact that they didn't vote doesn't imply that the election results would have been any different or that there were suddenly viable outcomes that did not involve a rich business-friendly white man winning.
They should do more than complain, of course, but that doesn't mean the government can strip their rights away at a record pace and take away half their money in taxes and they can't bitch about it a little bit!
The moral dilemma that I (and I'm sure quite a few others) face is whether to vote for Gore, who actually has a chance of winning, and is certainly the lesser of the two most significant evils, or to do the Right Thing and vote for Nader, thereby essentially helping to elect George "There ought to be limits to freedom" Dubya. Voting for Gore, still, would leave a bad taste in my mouth, but I would be very, very frightened to have Bush in the White House. Politics is a dirty game.
... what is it, five percent? ... they need to get federal funds in four years.
Of course, a vote for Nader brings just that much more support to third party candidates, and specifically the Green Party closer to the
What finally made up my mind to vote for Nader is the corporate exclusion, by physical force, of Nader from the first debate. This was thuggish and low, and should never have happened in America. I still don't understand why it (and corporate-sponsored debates, for that matter) was tolerated. Well, I suppose I do, but it's depressing.
(Usually, of course, I'm more of the opinion expressed in thi s comic...)
From the article:
He also said he believes it is "hypocritical" for Cisco to take this "massive tax break" and at the same time support Proposition 39, which would make it easier to raise property taxes on California homeowners. Prop 39 would allow local school bonds to be approved by a vote of 55 percent instead of the current two-thirds.
This completely confuses me. What interest does Cisco have in property tax legislation? More importantly, why is Cisco's "support" relevant? What does it mean for a corporation to support legislation that has nothing to do with they way they operate their business?
There's something very strange about this.
Has anyone heard about that Airboard thingy?
Oh wait...
First of all, being a current CS student (at a seriously good CS school), I can tell you that half the nerds I know are into anime. It's one of those things, like Star Wars and Legos, that just has that "geek cool" to it.
Second, go to your damn preferences and exclude the anime topic if you don't want to hear about it.
Third, read the FAQ, where this exact question is addressed. Slashdot is under no obligation to confine itself to what you find interesting.
Fourth, someone says this for every anime topic that gets posted, so SHUT THE FUCK UP ALREADY.
This rather silly troll actually gives me a chance to ask about something relevant.
I rented the first couple of episodes of Neon Genesis: Evangelion not too long ago, and found it the silliest, most pretentions Power Rangers crap I'd seen in a long time. (I know Evangelion is sacred to many fans, but this is honestly not a troll.) I was not impressed by the extremely overdone, half-baked religious references, either. (Angels? Flaming crosses? Can we be any more subtle?) My question for anime fans here, is, should I bother? Does it get any better after the first tape?
I could just be spoiled, being currently in the middle of Cowboy Bebop and Lain, myself (and being a huge fan of Escaflowne - the series and to a smaller degree the movie). But the first episodes of NG:E didn't really leave me with much desire to see the rest.
Why is Network Solutions in charge of a potentially significant project? Does anybody trust them?
Ishtar was pretty bad, but it's nowhere near the worst movie of all time, and I'd say it was fairly influential (hey, Gary Larson did a comic about it).
Look to Manos, the Hands of Fate (unbearably bad) and the ungodly Red Zone Cuba for examples of truly bad movies.
In ratio to its enormous budget, though, yeah. Ishtar. Wow.
"...drop that zero, and get with the hero!"
#40 on the list, Santa Claus Conquers the Martians, has been very influential to old school Mystery Science Theater 3000 fans.
I mean, really. How much material did we get from that one?? The Patrick Swayze Christmas song alone was one of the great formative experiences of my childhood. Well, sorta. OK, no. But it was damn funny!
- Greg, MSTie #24910
use HTML 3.2 you dweeb.
I don't much like traditional HTML. In order to achieve practically any satisfactory layout effects, you have to hack and kludge your way through an ugly DTD, using tricks like table layout and blank images that were never meant to be used.
I'm much more satisfied with the idea of clean, strict XHTML with CSS reserved for typographic and layout effects. Netscape and Microsoft have had more than enough time to implement proper support for CSS. CSS-2 is a great technology (have you read the spec? Man, they've thought of everything!) and there's no excuse for the current state of things, other than the fact that this fork in functionality, so to speak, is great business for Microsoft. It's not so great for developers.
I've been doing HTML since version, what, 1.1? It wasn't so great back then, and it's gotten a lot worse.
It's also long past time we got major browser support for PNG, but that's another story.