Matrox cards seem to support dual monitors better than any other. I don't know if it has added hardware support or they provide better documentation on how to do it...
I have had three 8MB Millennium 1's in my alpha for a while. I went down to two because the third monitor's location was a pain.
If I must spend money to upgrade these M1's (one millennium is in a PC), I'll go for a G400 Max, maybe a G450. I really want to have the TV out and dual monitor capabilities. The Millennium 1 is still a great work horse video card. The 6 year old cards can knock a few AGP cards off their too lofty pedestal.
After using dual monitors, it makes using a single monitor feel very cramped.
Anime DVDs are NOT made by members of the MPAA. Most Anime DVDs aren't CSS'd either.
The people commenting against the MPAA aren't always the people buying up all the DVDs. You presently have no way of tracking the people that buy them and those that are against the MPAA.
Dual layer DVDs already have a capacity of just under 10 gigabytes now. Dual sided dual layer DVDs hold 18 Gigabytes.
Right now, there's not a whole lot hard drives that hold more than 18GB, the new, larger hard drives have only come around in the last year, the DVD format was designed in 1996.
I would have to say that overclockers have way too much time on their hands if they go to the distance of wetsanding the bottom of a heatsink. Heck, if they spend too much time at it they might even make the situation worse!
Actually, for the US, over 99% of the income taxes and such are collected from the middle class. Yes, the rich are soaked more, at an even higher percentage than the rest of us, but the US has such a strong middle class that's where the real money comes from. The US Government can't operate for a day even if it taxed all the millionares at 100% rate.
Sales taxes are charged when both the buyer and seller are in the same state.
California can't charge sales tax when the buyer is out of state and the seller is in state. They presently have no real method of enforcing sales tax when the seller is out of state and the buyer is in state - they claim that right but presently without search rights they can't prove you owe them a dime. It might turn up in an audit.
Creative Labs is the first purely out of state company to charge my state sales tax on my internet transactions, and they even charged the tax on shipping cost too! Those jerks, that's not even legally collectable, but I can't convince them and it's not worth the 50 cents to argue with them, I'll just buy elsewhere.
I think they have been in use for a couple years or so, several of Sony's portable MiniDisc and CD players can take either, some portable MiniDisc players are so small that they only support that type of battery.
This thing looks thinner than your thin palm, even thinner than the V unit. I hope it's as sturdy as the Sony MD player I have, that thing has taken some harsh falls and it keeps on working. The limited number of compatible OSs stops me from considering it though.
Personally, I don't think so. All it is saying, if you are running a side business, don't do it at your main job. Don't make them pay your expenses and your time for that side job.
Don't use company resources for the sole betterment of your own enterprises. It's common sense to me. Your addition makes it a little clearer though.
For products that are in development, I understand that companies need to do what they can to protect their secrets until the product is released. For one thing, products that are in development may have feature changes before being released.
I believe Apple is going too far, but I really don't have enough info to make an intelligent stand.
It'll probably be more expensive, but maybe for small runs of books, the paper gets costly too.
Frankly, I want my hardbound paper page text books. They stay on the shelf, you can't loose a password, properly done, they can last a few lifetimes and you don't need to update the storage format every 10 years. 20+ years ago, this would have been tape, 10+ years ago, it would have been floppy, up to 10 years ago, it would be CD-ROM / CD-R, now it might be HTTP or FTP storage, but what happens with IP6 or 7?
I would go out of my way to personally berate any instructor that requires a text that I can't buy and keep a permanant paper copy of.
On the other hand, if it is cheap enough, it would reduce the obsolesence of multiple editions, but now mostly each suceeding edition is simply minor error fixes and changing the homework exercises so that students can't keep the older editions.
For a long time Creative Labs had only a 90 day warranty, counting their CD-ROM drives, sound cards, everything. I don't know if anything is different.
That was one reason I totally returned a defective CD-ROM drive that I bought from them a year or so ago.
I doubt that's your page. You've also posted offtopic, and annonymously.
Personally, I believe the capalert site is a misguided attempt by Christians that only ends up being used as a tool to mock Christians.
Why a site designed to promote choosing safer programs for children even bothers to review "R" movies is beyond me, that rating was designed to help exclude the underaged and in the last year or so is rigorously enforced, some areas enforced it for quite some time.
I can support the right to play legally aquired media (legit CDs, MP3s made of those CDs by that citizen, DVDs, etc) on anything a citizen owns in their own home.
But there is no right to share over the internet someone else's copyrighted works like songs and moview. One can share DVDs by sharing the physical medium, but the borrower may not legally make a copy of it and keep it.
Even the founding fathers saw fit to make a copyright system. Yes, it is extended too far, but there is no need to abolish it totally.
I realize that some of the founding fathers also supported wrong things such as slavery, etc, but that was unjust and there was clear disagreement within the group, but I don't see any disagreement concerning copyrights and intellectual property.
By all laws I can tell, DeCSS is legal but sharing movies and music you don't own the copyright to is not.
Many within DEC thought that the CEO at the time was just prepping DEC for sale to Compaq. The rumours were that DEC had both Intel AND Microsoft dead to rights on technology that DEC developed (Alpha and VMS) and that Intel and Microsoft aquired without license.
Supposedly the Intel Pentium was using branch predict algorithms that were in the Alpha when DEC was trying to see who they can get to support this technology, and apparently Intel stole some details that they disclosed.
For the Microsoft case, I think the lead designer for VMS went to Microsoft and made a very VMS-like OS there, then called Windows NT. At the surface, the similarities were few (some apps were named the same and performed the same function), but the underlying architecture was said to be very similar. There was talk that that lead designer took a lot of trade secrets and other intellectual property with him and put it in NT.
Since then, Dec / Compaq has licenced out the technologies with in VMS to Microsoft to integrate into what was then slated to be called NT 6. At this rate, that product will probably Windows 2010.
I'm not sure Akira has a point. I watched it once. When it gets rereleased I'll watch it exactly one more time to see if it's what I remember. Maybe it's one of those drug induced designs.
I am a big fan of anime too, and I definitely have a sizable list of what I don't like. Saying one is an anime fan doesn't mean they like all of it or even a large fraction of it. A DBZ fan is a fan of an anime show, whether or not they like anything else. I haven't watched any DBZ BTW...
When I recommend anime I usually take into account what genres of regular shows they like, then recommend the best anime counterpart I can think of. I've done reasonably well in winning "converts" this way.
Actually, I'm using Win98 on an AMD K6-3. I think you can fit dumb terminal / timesharing support on a floppy, OK? Please don't get condecending, I wasn't trying to be.
I actually code in Windows using a "Studio" like app, but that's assembly code for PIC microchips, the reason I'm in Windows, I don't know how to develop for PIC in Linux, much less burn the chips. I also do IE 5.0 quite regularly, I just don't have the patience to download anything that isn't on a local CD.
If one is doing the high bandwidth video editing, I would assume that it would have to be SCSI to be acceptable in latency and bandwidth. Maybe use IDE for secondary storage once everything is properly captured.
I have a serious question of how they will up the animation quality and still make it somewhat consistent with the series. Think about it... Animation for TV is very cheap compared to animation made for the big screen. The drawing styles and color schemes for Simpsons are extremely simple. If one takes Disney's Aladdin and the following TV series, the TV series is a passable variation on the movie quality animation wise. The Simpsons is even cheaper and I really have to see the big screen version (at least a trailer) to be convinced that it won't blow up in Groening's or Fox's face. Besides, I keep hearing that no company outside of Disney has been able to make a good strong profit out of any animation movie in a long time in the US.
GCC seems to have poor optimization capabilities for RISC systems, as RISC systems rely on good compiler scheduling for performance and that itself requires more back end information on the code than gcc provides, an issue the DEC Alpha team have been trying to resolve. I do find that coding for RISC in mind improves the performance of x86 too.
The only problem with comparing PPC anything with x86 anything is that all the comparisons use Photoshop. Photoshop is said to be one of the few Mac apps that is better optimized for Mac than for Windows, it is usually the other way around, or that's the way it seems. The comparison putting a 500 MHz G4 as faster than a 1Ghz P!!! was said to be using only three photoshop filters, I read that using a broader range of 20 filter tests put the G4 in a very bad light.
Claims made on the G4 itself are said to be biased as well, Apple using its favorite 6 Altivec instructions in a theoretical use and claiming that puts it in the Gigaflop range.
I'm not saying that the G4 is a slouch in the power per clock, just the fact that twice the clock rate is available in a PC costing just as much doesn't put it in the best possible light.
OpenVMS works on Alpha systems too, so I really don't see this as too much of a loss as programmers and businesses had about nine years to switch over or upgrade to Alphas.
I think it's pretty cool that those VAX systems lasted this long, it says something about their reliability, IMO.
There is still the secondary (used) market, www.glcomp.com is one that is local to me. They have some stuff in their inventory that isn't worth the shipping to send it to a customer. They have many Vax machines that are the size of kitchen refrigerators. Some are four times larger, others are desktop systems.
I agree. So someone doesn't like s particular post or topic. Whoopie doo. Rob can choose to listen or not to listen. Personally I wish they'd do a wee bit of fact checking before posting some stories, the thesis story comes to mind. But journalism isn't about the truth, it's about manipulating us poor slashdot sheep until we're exhausted.
Yes, the effort to reply is about the same amount of effort it takes to edit your slashboxes to remove "anime" or "JonKatz" topics or whatever. Instead, they'll choose to spend that same amount of energy, if not more, to add to the noise as in a signal-to-noise ratio.
I don't think either topic will go away anytime soon anyways.
My question is, which idiot IT or management staffer do you fire once you figure out that you can't sue anyone over software, paid or free? It should be you, my dear FUD-slinger.
Unless you have a specific contract allowing you to seek damages, you can't. The Big Boys probably have huge legal departments that would make any compensation effort not worthwhile. Unless they make a product for a highly regulated industry, you're out of luck.
I like most of those (haven't seen Spawn or X-Men). I happen to know Taco somewhat personally and I understand his point. He liked the Simpsons, but as noted elsewhere, it has gotten inconsistent. The animation of the first season was... interesting at best, and many of the stories in the later episodes didn't seem that well thought out.
As an anime fan, I will say this: As there is crap American TV to the little good American TV, the same happens in Japan. We get the best of their stuff (there's nots of bad anime for each unit of good stuff). They actually happen to get the best of our stuff (all in terms of cultural acceptance), the Simpsons was wildly UNsuccessful there because it is so deeply rooted in our culture that they just get question marks above their heads, hence we get Groening's curious episodes about Japan and Japanese culture.
Some people don't get into foreign stuff (like anime) simply because it is rooted in an unfamiliar culture. The stuff that transends culture is what we see, humor, irony, love, sorrow, etc, and that's how I got started. Story telling from a different perspective.
I really don't care if you owned all the US national parks, GM and Boeing. The CONTRACT that was signed was said to be SPECIFIC about journalistic independence. Meaning while Andover bought the site, they didn't buy any control. I wouldn't want to see a Slashdot where every story is a rubber stamp of Andover's or VA's corporate policies. Andover was very aware that if they insisted on control, this site wouldn't be worth the domain registration fee. It is MUCH better than CNN (rubberstamps Turner's views), ABC (rubberstamps Disney's views). If you don't like it, sell your shares. I'll buy them if you like.
Like it or not, government and politics will become more intertwined with technology because there's money in it! Politicians like whoring for money. And you have the export regs, carnivore, DMCA, CDA, COPA, COPPA, UCITA. Why shouldn't tech people dick with government if government people like to feel free to dick with tech?
If you want my opinion, both Gore and Bush are lower than inanimate carbon rods. How many times has Gore NOT been cartooned as a cardboard stand-up?
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Sex slaves, even. Interesting trolling, if it is such, it is indistinguishable from a post of a person that actually believes such. I think I know people that actually believe what the original poster said.
Rule #1) Short, blanket statements are usually false.
"Anime is cartoon child porn" even "Hentai is cartoon child porn" isn't accurate either, as AFAIK, even hentai rarely involve identifiable children (pre-teens or pre-pubescent). Real child porn is illegal to have here anyways.
Rule #2) Prejudices are exactly that, judging something without / before having seen or experienced it.
Try My Neighbor Totoro, Kiki's Delivery Service, Record of Lodoss War, Slayers, Lupin, Trigun, Battle Athletes, Wanderers (El Hazard). There are many more.
I don't think any of the above have much nudity, and they definitely don't portray sex.
Oh, yes, not all anime gets here and not all anime is any good. We do tend to get the better stuff and it is usually pretty good.
Gee, do you think SOME nerds (or geeks) might like and matter to them. Anime? RPGs? Star Wars? Macs? Security? Digital toys? Movies? Humor? There are many times that people claim that certain topics are off-topic for slashdot. That is only true if Cmdr Taco says so. It's his site.
The other poster noted that that topic can be eliminated from in your profile. There are lots of categories you can block out so you never see it. Heck you can even block out certain authors. Like Katz, or even CmdrTaco if that gives you a woody.
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Matrox cards seem to support dual monitors better than any other. I don't know if it has added hardware support or they provide better documentation on how to do it...
I have had three 8MB Millennium 1's in my alpha for a while. I went down to two because the third monitor's location was a pain.
If I must spend money to upgrade these M1's (one millennium is in a PC), I'll go for a G400 Max, maybe a G450. I really want to have the TV out and dual monitor capabilities. The Millennium 1 is still a great work horse video card. The 6 year old cards can knock a few AGP cards off their too lofty pedestal.
After using dual monitors, it makes using a single monitor feel very cramped.
Anime DVDs are NOT made by members of the MPAA. Most Anime DVDs aren't CSS'd either.
The people commenting against the MPAA aren't always the people buying up all the DVDs. You presently have no way of tracking the people that buy them and those that are against the MPAA.
Dual layer DVDs already have a capacity of just under 10 gigabytes now. Dual sided dual layer DVDs hold 18 Gigabytes.
Right now, there's not a whole lot hard drives that hold more than 18GB, the new, larger hard drives have only come around in the last year, the DVD format was designed in 1996.
I would have to say that overclockers have way too much time on their hands if they go to the distance of wetsanding the bottom of a heatsink. Heck, if they spend too much time at it they might even make the situation worse!
Actually, for the US, over 99% of the income taxes and such are collected from the middle class. Yes, the rich are soaked more, at an even higher percentage than the rest of us, but the US has such a strong middle class that's where the real money comes from. The US Government can't operate for a day even if it taxed all the millionares at 100% rate.
Sales taxes are charged when both the buyer and seller are in the same state.
California can't charge sales tax when the buyer is out of state and the seller is in state. They presently have no real method of enforcing sales tax when the seller is out of state and the buyer is in state - they claim that right but presently without search rights they can't prove you owe them a dime. It might turn up in an audit.
Creative Labs is the first purely out of state company to charge my state sales tax on my internet transactions, and they even charged the tax on shipping cost too! Those jerks, that's not even legally collectable, but I can't convince them and it's not worth the 50 cents to argue with them, I'll just buy elsewhere.
I think they have been in use for a couple years or so, several of Sony's portable MiniDisc and CD players can take either, some portable MiniDisc players are so small that they only support that type of battery.
This thing looks thinner than your thin palm, even thinner than the V unit. I hope it's as sturdy as the Sony MD player I have, that thing has taken some harsh falls and it keeps on working. The limited number of compatible OSs stops me from considering it though.
Personally, I don't think so. All it is saying, if you are running a side business, don't do it at your main job. Don't make them pay your expenses and your time for that side job.
Don't use company resources for the sole betterment of your own enterprises. It's common sense to me. Your addition makes it a little clearer though.
Annoyingly, IANAL either.
For products that are in development, I understand that companies need to do what they can to protect their secrets until the product is released. For one thing, products that are in development may have feature changes before being released.
I believe Apple is going too far, but I really don't have enough info to make an intelligent stand.
It'll probably be more expensive, but maybe for small runs of books, the paper gets costly too.
Frankly, I want my hardbound paper page text books. They stay on the shelf, you can't loose a password, properly done, they can last a few lifetimes and you don't need to update the storage format every 10 years. 20+ years ago, this would have been tape, 10+ years ago, it would have been floppy, up to 10 years ago, it would be CD-ROM / CD-R, now it might be HTTP or FTP storage, but what happens with IP6 or 7?
I would go out of my way to personally berate any instructor that requires a text that I can't buy and keep a permanant paper copy of.
On the other hand, if it is cheap enough, it would reduce the obsolesence of multiple editions, but now mostly each suceeding edition is simply minor error fixes and changing the homework exercises so that students can't keep the older editions.
For a long time Creative Labs had only a 90 day warranty, counting their CD-ROM drives, sound cards, everything. I don't know if anything is different.
That was one reason I totally returned a defective CD-ROM drive that I bought from them a year or so ago.
I doubt that's your page. You've also posted offtopic, and annonymously.
Personally, I believe the capalert site is a misguided attempt by Christians that only ends up being used as a tool to mock Christians.
Why a site designed to promote choosing safer programs for children even bothers to review "R" movies is beyond me, that rating was designed to help exclude the underaged and in the last year or so is rigorously enforced, some areas enforced it for quite some time.
I can support the right to play legally aquired media (legit CDs, MP3s made of those CDs by that citizen, DVDs, etc) on anything a citizen owns in their own home.
But there is no right to share over the internet someone else's copyrighted works like songs and moview. One can share DVDs by sharing the physical medium, but the borrower may not legally make a copy of it and keep it.
Even the founding fathers saw fit to make a copyright system. Yes, it is extended too far, but there is no need to abolish it totally.
I realize that some of the founding fathers also supported wrong things such as slavery, etc, but that was unjust and there was clear disagreement within the group, but I don't see any disagreement concerning copyrights and intellectual property.
By all laws I can tell, DeCSS is legal but sharing movies and music you don't own the copyright to is not.
Many within DEC thought that the CEO at the time was just prepping DEC for sale to Compaq. The rumours were that DEC had both Intel AND Microsoft dead to rights on technology that DEC developed (Alpha and VMS) and that Intel and Microsoft aquired without license.
Supposedly the Intel Pentium was using branch predict algorithms that were in the Alpha when DEC was trying to see who they can get to support this technology, and apparently Intel stole some details that they disclosed.
For the Microsoft case, I think the lead designer for VMS went to Microsoft and made a very VMS-like OS there, then called Windows NT. At the surface, the similarities were few (some apps were named the same and performed the same function), but the underlying architecture was said to be very similar. There was talk that that lead designer took a lot of trade secrets and other intellectual property with him and put it in NT.
Since then, Dec / Compaq has licenced out the technologies with in VMS to Microsoft to integrate into what was then slated to be called NT 6. At this rate, that product will probably Windows 2010.
I'm not sure Akira has a point. I watched it once. When it gets rereleased I'll watch it exactly one more time to see if it's what I remember. Maybe it's one of those drug induced designs.
I am a big fan of anime too, and I definitely have a sizable list of what I don't like. Saying one is an anime fan doesn't mean they like all of it or even a large fraction of it. A DBZ fan is a fan of an anime show, whether or not they like anything else. I haven't watched any DBZ BTW...
When I recommend anime I usually take into account what genres of regular shows they like, then recommend the best anime counterpart I can think of. I've done reasonably well in winning "converts" this way.
Actually, I'm using Win98 on an AMD K6-3. I think you can fit dumb terminal / timesharing support on a floppy, OK? Please don't get condecending, I wasn't trying to be.
I actually code in Windows using a "Studio" like app, but that's assembly code for PIC microchips, the reason I'm in Windows, I don't know how to develop for PIC in Linux, much less burn the chips. I also do IE 5.0 quite regularly, I just don't have the patience to download anything that isn't on a local CD.
If one is doing the high bandwidth video editing, I would assume that it would have to be SCSI to be acceptable in latency and bandwidth. Maybe use IDE for secondary storage once everything is properly captured.
What do you do with the extra space? I am sitting comfortably on two hard drives, 2 GB each. Of course, I don't have high bandwidth net connections.
My little server, one that isn't even turned on, has four SCSI drives (2 UW, 2 U2W) at a total 22 GB, I don't think I am using half that space.
IDE drives are great for cheap computers for the reason you mention, they are cheap.
I have a serious question of how they will up the animation quality and still make it somewhat consistent with the series. Think about it... Animation for TV is very cheap compared to animation made for the big screen. The drawing styles and color schemes for Simpsons are extremely simple. If one takes Disney's Aladdin and the following TV series, the TV series is a passable variation on the movie quality animation wise. The Simpsons is even cheaper and I really have to see the big screen version (at least a trailer) to be convinced that it won't blow up in Groening's or Fox's face. Besides, I keep hearing that no company outside of Disney has been able to make a good strong profit out of any animation movie in a long time in the US.
I don't know which way is the truth...
GCC seems to have poor optimization capabilities for RISC systems, as RISC systems rely on good compiler scheduling for performance and that itself requires more back end information on the code than gcc provides, an issue the DEC Alpha team have been trying to resolve. I do find that coding for RISC in mind improves the performance of x86 too.
The only problem with comparing PPC anything with x86 anything is that all the comparisons use Photoshop. Photoshop is said to be one of the few Mac apps that is better optimized for Mac than for Windows, it is usually the other way around, or that's the way it seems. The comparison putting a 500 MHz G4 as faster than a 1Ghz P!!! was said to be using only three photoshop filters, I read that using a broader range of 20 filter tests put the G4 in a very bad light.
Claims made on the G4 itself are said to be biased as well, Apple using its favorite 6 Altivec instructions in a theoretical use and claiming that puts it in the Gigaflop range.
I'm not saying that the G4 is a slouch in the power per clock, just the fact that twice the clock rate is available in a PC costing just as much doesn't put it in the best possible light.
OpenVMS works on Alpha systems too, so I really don't see this as too much of a loss as programmers and businesses had about nine years to switch over or upgrade to Alphas.
I think it's pretty cool that those VAX systems lasted this long, it says something about their reliability, IMO.
There is still the secondary (used) market, www.glcomp.com is one that is local to me. They have some stuff in their inventory that isn't worth the shipping to send it to a customer. They have many Vax machines that are the size of kitchen refrigerators. Some are four times larger, others are desktop systems.
I agree. So someone doesn't like s particular post or topic. Whoopie doo. Rob can choose to listen or not to listen. Personally I wish they'd do a wee bit of fact checking before posting some stories, the thesis story comes to mind. But journalism isn't about the truth, it's about manipulating us poor slashdot sheep until we're exhausted.
Yes, the effort to reply is about the same amount of effort it takes to edit your slashboxes to remove "anime" or "JonKatz" topics or whatever. Instead, they'll choose to spend that same amount of energy, if not more, to add to the noise as in a signal-to-noise ratio.
I don't think either topic will go away anytime soon anyways.
who do you sue when the bug loses you money?
My question is, which idiot IT or management staffer do you fire once you figure out that you can't sue anyone over software, paid or free? It should be you, my dear FUD-slinger.
Unless you have a specific contract allowing you to seek damages, you can't. The Big Boys probably have huge legal departments that would make any compensation effort not worthwhile. Unless they make a product for a highly regulated industry, you're out of luck.
I like most of those (haven't seen Spawn or X-Men). I happen to know Taco somewhat personally and I understand his point. He liked the Simpsons, but as noted elsewhere, it has gotten inconsistent. The animation of the first season was... interesting at best, and many of the stories in the later episodes didn't seem that well thought out.
As an anime fan, I will say this: As there is crap American TV to the little good American TV, the same happens in Japan. We get the best of their stuff (there's nots of bad anime for each unit of good stuff). They actually happen to get the best of our stuff (all in terms of cultural acceptance), the Simpsons was wildly UNsuccessful there because it is so deeply rooted in our culture that they just get question marks above their heads, hence we get Groening's curious episodes about Japan and Japanese culture.
Some people don't get into foreign stuff (like anime) simply because it is rooted in an unfamiliar culture. The stuff that transends culture is what we see, humor, irony, love, sorrow, etc, and that's how I got started. Story telling from a different perspective.
I really don't care if you owned all the US national parks, GM and Boeing. The CONTRACT that was signed was said to be SPECIFIC about journalistic independence. Meaning while Andover bought the site, they didn't buy any control. I wouldn't want to see a Slashdot where every story is a rubber stamp of Andover's or VA's corporate policies. Andover was very aware that if they insisted on control, this site wouldn't be worth the domain registration fee. It is MUCH better than CNN (rubberstamps Turner's views), ABC (rubberstamps Disney's views). If you don't like it, sell your shares. I'll buy them if you like.
Like it or not, government and politics will become more intertwined with technology because there's money in it! Politicians like whoring for money. And you have the export regs, carnivore, DMCA, CDA, COPA, COPPA, UCITA. Why shouldn't tech people dick with government if government people like to feel free to dick with tech?
If you want my opinion, both Gore and Bush are lower than inanimate carbon rods. How many times has Gore NOT been cartooned as a cardboard stand-up?
Sex slaves, even. Interesting trolling, if it is such, it is indistinguishable from a post of a person that actually believes such. I think I know people that actually believe what the original poster said.
Rule #1) Short, blanket statements are usually false.
"Anime is cartoon child porn"
even "Hentai is cartoon child porn" isn't accurate either, as AFAIK, even hentai rarely involve identifiable children (pre-teens or pre-pubescent). Real child porn is illegal to have here anyways.
Rule #2) Prejudices are exactly that, judging something without / before having seen or experienced it.
Try My Neighbor Totoro, Kiki's Delivery Service, Record of Lodoss War, Slayers, Lupin, Trigun, Battle Athletes, Wanderers (El Hazard). There are many more.
I don't think any of the above have much nudity, and they definitely don't portray sex.
Oh, yes, not all anime gets here and not all anime is any good. We do tend to get the better stuff and it is usually pretty good.
Check out the phrase below the name "Slashdot"
"News for Nerds."
Gee, do you think SOME nerds (or geeks) might like and matter to them. Anime? RPGs? Star Wars? Macs? Security? Digital toys? Movies? Humor? There are many times that people claim that certain topics are off-topic for slashdot. That is only true if Cmdr Taco says so. It's his site.
The other poster noted that that topic can be eliminated from in your profile. There are lots of categories you can block out so you never see it. Heck you can even block out certain authors. Like Katz, or even CmdrTaco if that gives you a woody.