The best grammar-checking tool is the brain of an educated native speaker of the language. It runs on Wetware, but is fully compatible with Linux.
I'm a non-native English speaker with not more than a year of high school education, and even I get annoyed by obvious spelling and grammar mistakes.
(...) every so often, my brain tells my fingers to type "you're" and somehow "your" comes out. Have I commited a grammar error (used the wrong word), a spelling error (used the correct word but spelled it incorrectly), or a typographical error (used the correct word, was aware of the correct spelling, but the cerebrum misdirected the fingers)?
It's usually just a brain fart. I, too, know full well the difference between they're, their and there, for example, but my brain breaks wind every now and then.
I think most [they're|there|their], [you're|your] and [it's|its] errors are caused by poor understanding of grammar. Not knowing the rules for contractions and going only by the sound of the word. Some errors will always sneak themselves in, but the constant erroneous use and mix-ups of these words indicates, I believe, semi-illiteracy.
You native English speakers are not alone however, it's just as bad with Norwegian teens - and some adults - in their native tongue.
Cowboy Bebop is great, as you say Watanabe has a flair for mixing genres and making it work (although I haven't watched Samurai Champloo yet). One of the things I love about anime, that you might disagree with, is the really advanced and varied story lines and concepts often seen. Topics and ideas that usually are not even dared experimenting with in American animation.
Movies like Nekojiru-so (Cat Soup) for example. Surreal, dreamy, cute and grotesque. Or, as mentioned in the article, FLCL.
A series I enjoyed immensely, although many might think it slow, was Oniisama E (Brother, dear brother). A sad, sad story - and I'm usually not easily moved by such things.
These are just a couple of examples. I don't know what makes the Japanese market open to this kind of intelligent and often beautiful storytelling. Maybe it's because of Zen concepts deeply rooted in the collective psyche, the ages-old sense for simplicity and beauty (just look at their flag), or something else.
What many see as cheap shortcuts to animation making - few FPS and much relying on extended "pauses" in the animation when there's action - I, and many others view as emphasizing the moment, the beauty of the scene. Think about the established standard "person just hacked with a katana" scenes - the action pauses, stands still, before one of the duellants eventually fall.
Americans (and many other peoples of the western world) need to grow up and realise animation can be a valid medium for delivering deep concepts and creating visions and vistas not possible with conventional film-making. 3D CGI moviemaking is not the answer to everything.
Driving a boat for 15 mins in HL2 was more eye-pleasing than walking through dark, dark hallways for 5 minutes in Doom 3.
I liked both too - Doom 3 was seriously scary a few times if played on a large screen at night with surround sound at full blast. It reminded me of playing Doom 1 all those years ago. However, the darkness got a bit boring after a while. Without the flashlight mod it became almost unplayable after a while.
HL2, on the other hand, had a much better storyline - no matter how linear the gameplay - and, IMHO, prettier / more realistic graphics and physics. It made you care about some of the characters, like a good movie or book does. The Doom storyline has been rehashed so many times it's not even fun as a joke anymore.
The site was unreachable when I tried to watch it now, but if yours is a correct exerpt the article itself is BS.
You can format every partition you create in the Windows installer. With FAT32 or NTFS as you wish. Just format it _before_ you hit ENTER to install Windows on the selected partition.
It's a fucking menu option, it's not that hard to find it.
So true, so true. That's why I always create a 30-or-something GB part called "System" for Windows and Program Files and all that crap, 4 gig part called "Swap" for the swapfile to avoid fragmentation, and the rest of the drive is labelled "Data".
It's just a 3-minute explanation of what the Swap does, and to tell the user to store anything downloaded in "Data".
Easy reinstalls, baby. Which you have to do quite often (say every 6 months or so) on a Windows box.
You _never_ change your httpd.conf to make it stay at, say,/home/www// or something? I thought most people did, at least the people making websites taking up more than a few megs... or more than the default virtualhost.
I'd wish, though (and I've "reported" this to AVG) that the auto-update could be set to run completely in the background. Annoying when you're watching a movie and the blasted dialog comes up, un-fullscreening the media player.
If this is already possible, my apologies for being stupid and inobservant.
Not to be pedantic or anything, but the world actually has close to _six_and_a_half_ billion people... 6,484,183,002 as of today according to geohive.com.
Seriously, if every liberal person here on Slashdot (which I think is the majority, it seems like the hacker nature) decided to link up, create a small encrypted network for communication and plan something like, say, kill George W. Bush and take over the white house - it would most likely succeed.
I believe, and have seen evidence to support, that the collective brain power of Slashdot, trolls excluded, is exceptional. What other public Internet site has that many postgrads, engineers, former students of the most respected colleges, and just plain smart thinking people? I think none.
What, exactly takes 100mb about a background shown at 72ppi and 800x600?
Because it's most likely not 800x600, but rather 4096x4096 just in case they would want to zoom in on something having the texture. Also, bear in mind that many of the backgrounds are probably still there from "Bigger, Longer, Uncut" movie and many others are probably made for possible future use in a new feature film. Rendering for the silver screen takes a bit higher res than 800x600...
An accent would better be described as (dictionary.com): "a characteristic pronounciation, specifically one determined by the phonetic habits of the speaker's native language carried over to his or her use of another language."
My American uncle has an American accent when he speaks Norwegian to me.
While the copist might be skilled, he has only learned to copy a technique. Millimeter by millimeter. However, to create original work? OK. Good? Maybe. Masterful? Most likely not.
As an example: Some of the most technically skilled metal/whatever guitarists out there wouldn't know _real_ music if it bit them in the ass and couldn't come up with an emotionally stirring chord progression to save their lives.
The "no css" part would most likely be because you need to pay licensing fees to have CSS in your product. This could be in a small way linked with HD content - no fees == more profit == new Sony HD cameras!
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They'll soon come to process us into burgers!
I like doing that too! Funny how my current cellphone has a better camera than the one used to take that picture.
I think most [they're|there|their], [you're|your] and [it's|its] errors are caused by poor understanding of grammar. Not knowing the rules for contractions and going only by the sound of the word. Some errors will always sneak themselves in, but the constant erroneous use and mix-ups of these words indicates, I believe, semi-illiteracy.
You native English speakers are not alone however, it's just as bad with Norwegian teens - and some adults - in their native tongue.
On his page he also gives himself up as a Slashdot troll, Slashvertiser and general idiot.
Cowboy Bebop is great, as you say Watanabe has a flair for mixing genres and making it work (although I haven't watched Samurai Champloo yet). One of the things I love about anime, that you might disagree with, is the really advanced and varied story lines and concepts often seen. Topics and ideas that usually are not even dared experimenting with in American animation.
Movies like Nekojiru-so (Cat Soup) for example. Surreal, dreamy, cute and grotesque. Or, as mentioned in the article, FLCL.
A series I enjoyed immensely, although many might think it slow, was Oniisama E (Brother, dear brother). A sad, sad story - and I'm usually not easily moved by such things.
These are just a couple of examples. I don't know what makes the Japanese market open to this kind of intelligent and often beautiful storytelling. Maybe it's because of Zen concepts deeply rooted in the collective psyche, the ages-old sense for simplicity and beauty (just look at their flag), or something else.
What many see as cheap shortcuts to animation making - few FPS and much relying on extended "pauses" in the animation when there's action - I, and many others view as emphasizing the moment, the beauty of the scene. Think about the established standard "person just hacked with a katana" scenes - the action pauses, stands still, before one of the duellants eventually fall.
Americans (and many other peoples of the western world) need to grow up and realise animation can be a valid medium for delivering deep concepts and creating visions and vistas not possible with conventional film-making. 3D CGI moviemaking is not the answer to everything.
Who says anyone can't buy the OS?
What about this?
If you can run it on your PC, now that's another story...
Driving a boat for 15 mins in HL2 was more eye-pleasing than walking through dark, dark hallways for 5 minutes in Doom 3.
I liked both too - Doom 3 was seriously scary a few times if played on a large screen at night with surround sound at full blast. It reminded me of playing Doom 1 all those years ago. However, the darkness got a bit boring after a while. Without the flashlight mod it became almost unplayable after a while.
HL2, on the other hand, had a much better storyline - no matter how linear the gameplay - and, IMHO, prettier / more realistic graphics and physics. It made you care about some of the characters, like a good movie or book does. The Doom storyline has been rehashed so many times it's not even fun as a joke anymore.
That's not a good mobile phone :)
Only thing that makes it "cool" are the diamonds and gold. Ugly as hell, and no features to speak of.
Nothing can burn without an oxygen supply, can it? Explode maybe, but burn?
The site was unreachable when I tried to watch it now, but if yours is a correct exerpt the article itself is BS.
You can format every partition you create in the Windows installer. With FAT32 or NTFS as you wish. Just format it _before_ you hit ENTER to install Windows on the selected partition.
It's a fucking menu option, it's not that hard to find it.
So true, so true. That's why I always create a 30-or-something GB part called "System" for Windows and Program Files and all that crap, 4 gig part called "Swap" for the swapfile to avoid fragmentation, and the rest of the drive is labelled "Data".
It's just a 3-minute explanation of what the Swap does, and to tell the user to store anything downloaded in "Data".
Easy reinstalls, baby. Which you have to do quite often (say every 6 months or so) on a Windows box.
You _never_ change your httpd.conf to make it stay at, say, /home/www// or something? I thought most people did, at least the people making websites taking up more than a few megs... or more than the default virtualhost.
Because that model would have been designed before the Intel switch, and all Apple apps will be Universal Binary for a good while anyways.
bad, too-low-rate MPEG2 compression, yes.
CSS and Macrovision has been part of the DVD standard since time beginning...
I'd wish, though (and I've "reported" this to AVG) that the auto-update could be set to run completely in the background. Annoying when you're watching a movie and the blasted dialog comes up, un-fullscreening the media player.
If this is already possible, my apologies for being stupid and inobservant.
Not to be pedantic or anything, but the world actually has close to _six_and_a_half_ billion people... 6,484,183,002 as of today according to geohive.com.
Is that Boondocks the comic strip Boondocks by Aaron McGruder?
Seriously, if every liberal person here on Slashdot (which I think is the majority, it seems like the hacker nature) decided to link up, create a small encrypted network for communication and plan something like, say, kill George W. Bush and take over the white house - it would most likely succeed.
I believe, and have seen evidence to support, that the collective brain power of Slashdot, trolls excluded, is exceptional. What other public Internet site has that many postgrads, engineers, former students of the most respected colleges, and just plain smart thinking people? I think none.
Because it's most likely not 800x600, but rather 4096x4096 just in case they would want to zoom in on something having the texture. Also, bear in mind that many of the backgrounds are probably still there from "Bigger, Longer, Uncut" movie and many others are probably made for possible future use in a new feature film. Rendering for the silver screen takes a bit higher res than 800x600...
An accent would better be described as (dictionary.com): "a characteristic pronounciation, specifically one determined by the phonetic habits of the speaker's native language carried over to his or her use of another language."
My American uncle has an American accent when he speaks Norwegian to me.
Technical skill != ability to create fine art.
While the copist might be skilled, he has only learned to copy a technique. Millimeter by millimeter. However, to create original work? OK. Good? Maybe. Masterful? Most likely not.
As an example: Some of the most technically skilled metal/whatever guitarists out there wouldn't know _real_ music if it bit them in the ass and couldn't come up with an emotionally stirring chord progression to save their lives.
The "no css" part would most likely be because you need to pay licensing fees to have CSS in your product. This could be in a small way linked with HD content - no fees == more profit == new Sony HD cameras!
Haaa haaaaaaahaha, roflmao :)