Gainax should be ranked right below Studio Ghibli! They made Wings of Honneamise, which many consider to be one of the best movies; they made Evangelion, which is arguably the most profound anime ever created; and they made His and Her Circumstances, which contains very interesting and realistic issues regarding relationships at the teenage level (at least very much applicable to Asian students...); and the list goes on.
Personally, I haven't seen enough of Beebop to really have an opinion, but from what I've seen, it's nothing spetacular. Kenshin contain historic events, but other than that aspect and a well made OVA, it's overrated. I've recently changed my views regarding Gundam Wings, after watching 0083 and Endless Waltz, and agree that it's one of the best series. It picked up where original Macross left off. Since Original Macross movie, Macross II was only so-so, Macross Plus OVA was superb, but Macross 7 was pretty bad...As for Lain...It's good, but it's also a bit too crazy/weird...
right...assuming your minimum estimation of 54 million (btw, 7*2^3=56!=54) from "only" doubling...at this rate, in 7 years, there will be 6.9 billion users of Linux, approximately the same as the world's population...and a year after that, it'll close double that of the world's population so on and so forth...
So, are you willing to buy everyone in the world one computer each in the year 2008 (assuming everyone already has one, so you don't have to for 2007), and two computers each in 2009 and 4 each in 2010 to keep those numbers up? Even if the computer only worth $1 each, and you will be the richest man alive by then, you'll be dead broke in no time!
well, the iBook was marketed as iMac-to-go, so is Apple going to make the new powerbooks G4-Cube-to-to? that'd be interesting ^_^
There's been rumors that the last squre is left for some stylish laptop that's more similar to Sony's Vaio: smaller and more stylish while maintaining performance to some degree. (Transmeta anyone?)
I heard this on Friday via NPR...they were saying that this idea, if works, will make the already established authors richer, and provide more opportunity for new-comers since it lowers the barrier of entry. But personally, I hate to read an entire book on the computer monitor...If I print it out, I might as well get a published version of it. 'course I also think HP's morning newspaper delivery to printer is a waste of paper/ink resources when you can subscribe to the papers for probably cheaper due to mass-production of the printing press...
given the amount of resources the Chinese government is dumping/has dumped on sensorship and what not, and that the government is using their own flavor of Linux, why do you suppose that they are not monitoring Slashdot? Heck, for all I know, the one who asked might be someone from the government. (How do you know I'm not a spy? I hold a Chinese Citizenship)
I'm sure by now, they'll have a team of people working on something that'll block sternography, if they haven't done so already...
What I've been wondering is, how can the government monitor say emails sent via hotmail or any other online email services?
Jobs knew Mot still had problems with their 500Mhz chip and unable to mass produce it. It was Jobs' fault to jump to the gun with the announcement! It's Mot's fault for not producing a chip faster for a year since then, but certainly not their fault during the announcement last year.
At least there are ways to obtain those things when they are announced...unlike Apple's 500 Mhz G4 announcement a year ago which took almost 6 months to fulfill...
There was a quote somehwere along the lines of "given enternity, type-writers and a room full of monkeys [that are either eternal or constantly replaced], they can produce the complete works of Shakespear; The law of probility dictates this."
Yes there are a lot of scientific background in Sci-Fi, but given the amount of Sci-fi that people comes up with, and the amount that actually comes true, and our ability to "stretch things" that doesn't fit exactly but have resemblence, we are no different from a room-full of monkeys! (yes, I'm stretching that too...)
Anyway, I'm terrible at Physics, and all this string theory 'n what not was talked about by Steven Hawkings at Kipp Thorn's 70th bday celebration a little over a month ago on my campus, of course I was too ignorant to go and left the opportunity to someone else who might understand better. Anyway, my point being, it's annoying to see people peckering at articles that tries to use analogies for the mass audience while they know probably less about the topic than the author of the article! (yeah, I guess this is flame bait, but after so many posts, I don't think more than 1 or 2 person will actually read this)
Oh yeah, I know it's offtopic, but Evangelion is arguably the most profound Japanese Animation ever created! It's also easier to follow than Lain, which I don't recommend watching too many eps at once.
There is an Evangelion FAQ floating about the internet, which I recommend all anime fans to skim through, especially those who's seen the series. That will provide much light as to the degree of seriousness/profoundness of the entire series, and will attempt to answer as much as the lose ends left un-answered by the series.
*gasp* how can you put VoE and El Hazard over Evangelion?
Anyway, just to clear things up, or at least from what I recall, Lain was 13 eps on 4 dvds.
Evangelion have 2 movies with it as well, entitled Death & Rebirth, and the End of Evangelion. The movie is an alternative to the TV ending. (the series have 2 endings, each follows eps 24) Oh, Escaflowne is 26 episodes as well.
And didn't Disney translate it into "My Neighbor Totoro?"
Also, Bubble Gum Crisis 2040 is as good as the original, and is 26 episodes, and currently being released through fansub.
I guess since I attend an Institute of Technologies (Cali), the nature of things are a bit different. What I was trying to get at was that at least from what I see, the G3/G4 towers dominate over the iMacs at my university dorm. (4:2, slightly better than the boy:girl ratio, which I brought up because the iMacs are used by girls while the guys got the towers. I'm not being sexist or stereotyping, just providing a number for reference purposes)
(hehe, my 188 Digital Audio Recorder project is still big in size and expensive! I guess since it's an intro EE class, it's "understandable")
hehe, the reason 8 is a popular number to Chinese is 'cuz in Cantoness and less so in Mandarin, it sounds similar to "fa" which means "becoming rich."
Oh, that's just a 2 second attempt to translate it. But as one other guy pointed out, my English is pathetically poor compared to his, and of course my Chinese isn't as sharp as it used to be:( Maybe drinkypoo can enlighten on this as well!;)
Let's see...$2299 for the 500Mhz iBorg...for $200 more, you can get a full blown DUAL 450 G4 that's actually *gasp* expandable! (and $75 of the extra $200 went into a Zip drive, and a Gbit ethernet is worth a whole lot more than $125 nowadays, not to mention another CPU, albeit at a lower clock speed.)
Exactly my point. How many Marketing students know the difference between RISC based PPC and CISC based Intel/AMD? (and I've read the ArsTechnica article regarding "post RISC era, hence the word "based)
Oh, and I'm an EE major, so I guess that might have something to do with it;-)
LOL you were right regarding my first language not being English, however, it's a harder language, not an easier one. Personal attacks are uncalled for.
And since you are so smart and so much superior in English, and ridiculed everything I've said, maybe you can englighten me with how long it takes for a 1 Ghz Pentium III to complete Seti@home, running whichever GUI, as long as its not command line. Yes, I realize the "superiority" of a command line which the Macs suffer from, but that's not the point right now.
Oh yeah, while I may not be the best at English, I still score in the 95th percentile or above in English proficiency tests (SAT etc), so you care to defend the rest of America and tell me why someone who's only learnt the language for less than 8 years is better at English than the vast majority of native English speakers?
LOL you think you can cut into the iBorg and find room in that 8*8*8 enclosure? considering the size of a DVD drive, a power supply, and a motherboard w/heat sink, RAM, 'n a few other things, it's gonna be tight in there, else Apple would've made it 7*7*7 or something...(lucky 7s...)
What I can't wait is to play with a dual G4 using OS X's SMP! That'll bench against a dual PIII Xeon servers!
LOL I AM an 18 yr old kid and I hate the iMac. It's so "un-Macintosh" and so underpowered! That's why I 'wasted' $2255 and got a G4/450 less than 48 hours of its original announcement last July.
The iMac is really aimed to appeal a lower educational market, ie middle school and elementary school, where Apple can convert more fans into buying Macintosh product later, or have them convince their parents to buy it. Why would anyone who knows anything about computers want an iMac which can't even be upgraded/expanded? almost same thing goes for the iBorg (aka G4 Cube).
uh, a single CPU G4/450 can finish a Seti@home in 5.5 hours, because I have one of those. Try doing that w/o the command line version on a PC...The latest Seti beta, version 3.0 is said to cut the computation time by approximately 1 hour on a G4, so that's 4.5 hours compared to a 1 Ghz PIII/Athlon not on command line...
If you look at Seti results, I believe the PowerMac has a less overall average hour per work unit than PCs. You may say there are more PC users on original Pentiums, but there are also more on PIII and Athlons, and there are also many using 6100 PowerMacs.
I like Tenchi 'n all, but everyone's only bringing in the less mature anime that's targeted at a younger audience. With Fox and WB, it was Technoman, Pokemon, Digimon, *mon, and now Card Capture Sakura, and with Cartoon Network, it's ancient stuff like Speed Racer and Voltron, and some popular stuff like Sailor Moon and Dragon Ball Z, and now Tenchi. What I want is a Toonami that's closer to what's played in the Sci-Fi channel than Fox...with stuff like Akira etc.
My predictions for next anime series to come: Slayers. Now my question is, when will Neon Gensis Evangelion come to TV? And when it does, they better create a ton of publicity prior...
Well, now that they bought Bungie, got Id to help them out, who's next to join the X-Box team? Blizzard? Microsoft is investing an awful lot of money into XBox...but here's a better idea (and much more expensive...), if those rumored Mac boxes become true (which I have a 90+% certainty that it will not), you'll have a nice CPU, AGP graphics, DVD, HD, heck, just 'bout everything XBox has to offer, except this isn't a dedicated game console. (and again, much more expensive of course)
looking at it that way, the "Men" part can be interpreted as the Y chromosome, thus making it X-Y, which defines "man." Since they are mutants with genetic mutations, and currently, the only "odd sex chromosome configuration" of which a man can live and still be a man is XYY, (I'm not sure on the XYYY one) Thus the sequel has to be named XY-Men!
Now, what will really boggle the mind is what should they name the prequel? Y-Women? nothing "logical" comes to mind...
nVidia originally registered a booth at MacWorld, then pulled it out. It might've been something to lessen rumors that are already flying high. But I wouldn't be suprised to find a 17' iMac @ 550Mhz (IBM) and GeForce2 MX. That would put iMac back in competition with the low end PCs again, even against the Duron chip from AMD.
So they artifically created an entire chromosome and placed it in the mice? Hey, at this rate, we really can grow people on trees...mess around with the plant cell chromosomes and vola, fertilized egg, and before you know it, people hanging by their head from the branch of an apple tree...
who needs sex? Better yet, asexual reproduction...the endless posibilities...
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Gainax should be ranked right below Studio Ghibli! They made Wings of Honneamise, which many consider to be one of the best movies; they made Evangelion, which is arguably the most profound anime ever created; and they made His and Her Circumstances, which contains very interesting and realistic issues regarding relationships at the teenage level (at least very much applicable to Asian students...); and the list goes on.
Personally, I haven't seen enough of Beebop to really have an opinion, but from what I've seen, it's nothing spetacular. Kenshin contain historic events, but other than that aspect and a well made OVA, it's overrated. I've recently changed my views regarding Gundam Wings, after watching 0083 and Endless Waltz, and agree that it's one of the best series. It picked up where original Macross left off. Since Original Macross movie, Macross II was only so-so, Macross Plus OVA was superb, but Macross 7 was pretty bad...As for Lain...It's good, but it's also a bit too crazy/weird...
right...assuming your minimum estimation of 54 million (btw, 7*2^3=56!=54) from "only" doubling...at this rate, in 7 years, there will be 6.9 billion users of Linux, approximately the same as the world's population...and a year after that, it'll close double that of the world's population so on and so forth...
So, are you willing to buy everyone in the world one computer each in the year 2008 (assuming everyone already has one, so you don't have to for 2007), and two computers each in 2009 and 4 each in 2010 to keep those numbers up? Even if the computer only worth $1 each, and you will be the richest man alive by then, you'll be dead broke in no time!
well, the iBook was marketed as iMac-to-go, so is Apple going to make the new powerbooks G4-Cube-to-to? that'd be interesting ^_^
There's been rumors that the last squre is left for some stylish laptop that's more similar to Sony's Vaio: smaller and more stylish while maintaining performance to some degree. (Transmeta anyone?)
I heard this on Friday via NPR...they were saying that this idea, if works, will make the already established authors richer, and provide more opportunity for new-comers since it lowers the barrier of entry. But personally, I hate to read an entire book on the computer monitor...If I print it out, I might as well get a published version of it. 'course I also think HP's morning newspaper delivery to printer is a waste of paper/ink resources when you can subscribe to the papers for probably cheaper due to mass-production of the printing press...
given the amount of resources the Chinese government is dumping/has dumped on sensorship and what not, and that the government is using their own flavor of Linux, why do you suppose that they are not monitoring Slashdot? Heck, for all I know, the one who asked might be someone from the government. (How do you know I'm not a spy? I hold a Chinese Citizenship)
I'm sure by now, they'll have a team of people working on something that'll block sternography, if they haven't done so already...
What I've been wondering is, how can the government monitor say emails sent via hotmail or any other online email services?
Jobs knew Mot still had problems with their 500Mhz chip and unable to mass produce it. It was Jobs' fault to jump to the gun with the announcement! It's Mot's fault for not producing a chip faster for a year since then, but certainly not their fault during the announcement last year.
At least there are ways to obtain those things when they are announced...unlike Apple's 500 Mhz G4 announcement a year ago which took almost 6 months to fulfill...
There was a quote somehwere along the lines of "given enternity, type-writers and a room full of monkeys [that are either eternal or constantly replaced], they can produce the complete works of Shakespear; The law of probility dictates this."
Yes there are a lot of scientific background in Sci-Fi, but given the amount of Sci-fi that people comes up with, and the amount that actually comes true, and our ability to "stretch things" that doesn't fit exactly but have resemblence, we are no different from a room-full of monkeys! (yes, I'm stretching that too...)
Anyway, I'm terrible at Physics, and all this string theory 'n what not was talked about by Steven Hawkings at Kipp Thorn's 70th bday celebration a little over a month ago on my campus, of course I was too ignorant to go and left the opportunity to someone else who might understand better. Anyway, my point being, it's annoying to see people peckering at articles that tries to use analogies for the mass audience while they know probably less about the topic than the author of the article! (yeah, I guess this is flame bait, but after so many posts, I don't think more than 1 or 2 person will actually read this)
Oh yeah, I know it's offtopic, but Evangelion is arguably the most profound Japanese Animation ever created! It's also easier to follow than Lain, which I don't recommend watching too many eps at once.
There is an Evangelion FAQ floating about the internet, which I recommend all anime fans to skim through, especially those who's seen the series. That will provide much light as to the degree of seriousness/profoundness of the entire series, and will attempt to answer as much as the lose ends left un-answered by the series.
*gasp* how can you put VoE and El Hazard over Evangelion?
Anyway, just to clear things up, or at least from what I recall, Lain was 13 eps on 4 dvds.
Evangelion have 2 movies with it as well, entitled Death & Rebirth, and the End of Evangelion. The movie is an alternative to the TV ending. (the series have 2 endings, each follows eps 24)
Oh, Escaflowne is 26 episodes as well.
And didn't Disney translate it into "My Neighbor Totoro?"
Also, Bubble Gum Crisis 2040 is as good as the original, and is 26 episodes, and currently being released through fansub.
I guess since I attend an Institute of Technologies (Cali), the nature of things are a bit different. What I was trying to get at was that at least from what I see, the G3/G4 towers dominate over the iMacs at my university dorm. (4:2, slightly better than the boy:girl ratio, which I brought up because the iMacs are used by girls while the guys got the towers. I'm not being sexist or stereotyping, just providing a number for reference purposes)
(hehe, my 188 Digital Audio Recorder project is still big in size and expensive! I guess since it's an intro EE class, it's "understandable")
hehe, the reason 8 is a popular number to Chinese is 'cuz in Cantoness and less so in Mandarin, it sounds similar to "fa" which means "becoming rich."
:( Maybe drinkypoo can enlighten on this as well! ;)
Oh, that's just a 2 second attempt to translate it. But as one other guy pointed out, my English is pathetically poor compared to his, and of course my Chinese isn't as sharp as it used to be
Let's see...$2299 for the 500Mhz iBorg...for $200 more, you can get a full blown DUAL 450 G4 that's actually *gasp* expandable! (and $75 of the extra $200 went into a Zip drive, and a Gbit ethernet is worth a whole lot more than $125 nowadays, not to mention another CPU, albeit at a lower clock speed.)
Exactly my point. How many Marketing students know the difference between RISC based PPC and CISC based Intel/AMD? (and I've read the ArsTechnica article regarding "post RISC era, hence the word "based)
;-)
Oh, and I'm an EE major, so I guess that might have something to do with it
LOL you were right regarding my first language not being English, however, it's a harder language, not an easier one. Personal attacks are uncalled for.
And since you are so smart and so much superior in English, and ridiculed everything I've said, maybe you can englighten me with how long it takes for a 1 Ghz Pentium III to complete Seti@home, running whichever GUI, as long as its not command line. Yes, I realize the "superiority" of a command line which the Macs suffer from, but that's not the point right now.
Oh yeah, while I may not be the best at English, I still score in the 95th percentile or above in English proficiency tests (SAT etc), so you care to defend the rest of America and tell me why someone who's only learnt the language for less than 8 years is better at English than the vast majority of native English speakers?
Yeah, well, once you get over the gel-cap design, the Logitech MouseMan optical USB is 'bout the same price if not cheaper, but has 3 buttons + wheel.
No to microsoft's Intellimouse...it's thumb buttons are poorly placed, and all buttons too sensitive.
LOL you think you can cut into the iBorg and find room in that 8*8*8 enclosure? considering the size of a DVD drive, a power supply, and a motherboard w/heat sink, RAM, 'n a few other things, it's gonna be tight in there, else Apple would've made it 7*7*7 or something...(lucky 7s...)
What I can't wait is to play with a dual G4 using OS X's SMP! That'll bench against a dual PIII Xeon servers!
LOL I AM an 18 yr old kid and I hate the iMac. It's so "un-Macintosh" and so underpowered! That's why I 'wasted' $2255 and got a G4/450 less than 48 hours of its original announcement last July.
The iMac is really aimed to appeal a lower educational market, ie middle school and elementary school, where Apple can convert more fans into buying Macintosh product later, or have them convince their parents to buy it. Why would anyone who knows anything about computers want an iMac which can't even be upgraded/expanded? almost same thing goes for the iBorg (aka G4 Cube).
uh, a single CPU G4/450 can finish a Seti@home in 5.5 hours, because I have one of those. Try doing that w/o the command line version on a PC...The latest Seti beta, version 3.0 is said to cut the computation time by approximately 1 hour on a G4, so that's 4.5 hours compared to a 1 Ghz PIII/Athlon not on command line...
If you look at Seti results, I believe the PowerMac has a less overall average hour per work unit than PCs. You may say there are more PC users on original Pentiums, but there are also more on PIII and Athlons, and there are also many using 6100 PowerMacs.
Apple's threat is based on improper usage of the Apple Trademark, not fake pictures.
I like Tenchi 'n all, but everyone's only bringing in the less mature anime that's targeted at a younger audience. With Fox and WB, it was Technoman, Pokemon, Digimon, *mon, and now Card Capture Sakura, and with Cartoon Network, it's ancient stuff like Speed Racer and Voltron, and some popular stuff like Sailor Moon and Dragon Ball Z, and now Tenchi. What I want is a Toonami that's closer to what's played in the Sci-Fi channel than Fox...with stuff like Akira etc.
My predictions for next anime series to come: Slayers. Now my question is, when will Neon Gensis Evangelion come to TV? And when it does, they better create a ton of publicity prior...
Well, now that they bought Bungie, got Id to help them out, who's next to join the X-Box team? Blizzard?
Microsoft is investing an awful lot of money into XBox...but here's a better idea (and much more expensive...), if those rumored Mac boxes become true (which I have a 90+% certainty that it will not), you'll have a nice CPU, AGP graphics, DVD, HD, heck, just 'bout everything XBox has to offer, except this isn't a dedicated game console. (and again, much more expensive of course)
looking at it that way, the "Men" part can be interpreted as the Y chromosome, thus making it X-Y, which defines "man." Since they are mutants with genetic mutations, and currently, the only "odd sex chromosome configuration" of which a man can live and still be a man is XYY, (I'm not sure on the XYYY one) Thus the sequel has to be named XY-Men!
Now, what will really boggle the mind is what should they name the prequel? Y-Women? nothing "logical" comes to mind...
nVidia originally registered a booth at MacWorld, then pulled it out. It might've been something to lessen rumors that are already flying high. But I wouldn't be suprised to find a 17' iMac @ 550Mhz (IBM) and GeForce2 MX. That would put iMac back in competition with the low end PCs again, even against the Duron chip from AMD.
So they artifically created an entire chromosome and placed it in the mice? Hey, at this rate, we really can grow people on trees...mess around with the plant cell chromosomes and vola, fertilized egg, and before you know it, people hanging by their head from the branch of an apple tree...
who needs sex? Better yet, asexual reproduction...the endless posibilities...