Here, have some of my tomatoes... they are engineered to create arsenic inside them.
Cute. Considering that arsenic is an element, that means they would need to perform either nuclear fusion or fission in order to create it. Now that would be something to see.
Irregardless, that doesn't negate the fact that if one seed was planted,
Fine. Then mill the corn before sending it over. It's sort of difficult to grow after the seeds have been all ground up. Worried about an unground seed accidentally getting in? Then run the ground corn through a seive.
I'm kind of partial to John Pertwee myself. Pertwee and Baker were the best. Of course they were the ones us "bloody yanks" got to see the most too. Don't think I ever did get to see any Sylvester McCoy episodes.
there are alot of old school Hollywood directors who feel that b&w is an integral element of being able to carry a fantastic story
The frame rate and lack of excessive movement is just as important in anime as B&W is to Hollywood. Has anyone seen any of "Platonic Chain" yet? (One liner: Japanese schoolgirls with video cellphones become a sort of P2P network of cable public access shows.) It's done with full CGI (cel shading on the characters) and motion capture (and the camera viewpoint moves like crazy too). The CGI is technically interesting, but all that motion capture is annoying as hell.
On the other end you have Violinist of Hamelin, which is basically a slide show with voice actors. Some of the scenes aren't even fully painted, but are just pastel sketches! The few sequences with full frame rate animation tend to get re-used in flash backs. Low-budget at its lowest.
You forgot to mention that a lot of the good stuff gets cancelled after (or sometimes during) its first season, while (gag) Friends keeps right on churning out more episodes.
You got it right there. Producers in the US are more interested than following the latest "formula" (and cheezy CGI special effects) than in things like good writing and a good story. Hollywood couldn't write their way out of a wet paper bag, which is why two of the biggest films last year were Harry Potter and LOTR-FOTR.
The US music industry is even worse. Almost everything new these days is crap, and the '70s and '80s stuff (even though I like it) is just plain old. So I listen to anime theme song music with a bit of regular J-pop mixed in. Remember folks, '80s music happened because of Brit groups (and the occasional non-english song like 99 Luftbaloons and Der Komissar) getting so much airtime on MTV (back when MTV actually played music). Unfortunately J-pop has a bit of a language barrier to deal with, plus the same US producers' urge to "sanitize" anything Japanese language from anime because it's not in their "formula".
In the good ol' days, System 7 point something or so, sometimes a directory could report that it contained a negative number of files. So of course it wouldn't allow you to delete it, because it had files in it. If you put files to make the number equal to zero, it would notice that the directory had file entries it, and you still couldn't delete it.
And then there was the dreaded Error -127. That's the generic "HFS is confused" error code.
As for Disk First Aid, it was totally useless on all but the simplest of directory corruption. It also refused to work on a disk with open files (including of course the boot volume). It was a great day when Norton was able to fix a drive without rebooting from a slow recovery floppy, although it did bitch on some sorts of boot volume problems.
the most spectacular being a crash during a defrag.
One time I was defragging with a shrinkwrap copy (as in not warezed) of Mac Tools and hit cancel during the defrag. It left the directory in a corrupted state. That was the last time I trusted Mac Tools to either defrag or repair HFS volumes.
However, no matter how I have abused my Macs in the past, I have never had filesystem corruption with HFS+.
You lucky bastard. When I was running the OS X Public Beta, my 20 gig hard drive got messed up bad enough that OS 9 wouldn't mount it any more (and with OS 9, no mount means no boot). Of course Disk First Aid was useless. I had to go out and get Norton, at which point I found out that my files had gotten badly crosslinked. A crosslinked HFS+ file system is a truly evil thing. And from more recent experience with Norton, it seems that OS X still refuses to keep the alternate volume header block up to date.
If in the future you are required to buy an Xbox systems instead of a generic PC to run windows then you can sya bye-bye to the lowcost PC and hello to the EXPENSIVE Xbox.
If that happened, someone would be very happy. And very happy to sell you a computer without DRM.
Beste calls his site the "USS Clueless" - complete with view screen.
It would have helped if the article poster (or *cough* the Slashdot editors) had simply added the words "his weblog" to the/. article, right before that link. Now that I've gotten to read it, my problem is wondering why he doesn't call it "USS Clueful". (All that silly star trek "stardate" nonsense is kind of lame, but I can deal with it. At least he understands that the One True Date Format is YYYY MM DD.)
7. for the network guys - the cisco gear is maxed out, the other blades haven't arrived yet.. the one that's mostly populated will have fiber in the unused areas, the second will be a warm standby copy.. my comment of 'boring' is a dig at the network guy, as this whole thing was meant for my co-workers and close friends, not general consuption..
So when do you do the case mod for the "boring router switchy things"?
It is significantly cheaper to put ports like that on the motherboard than to make people buy PCI cards, not to mention the cost of trying to support whatever crap card the user digs up at his local CompuBuy store. I'll bet Firewire adds less than $5 to the cost of goods, and gigabit Ethernet (vs 10/100) adds less than $10 to cost of goods. And don't forget the economies of scale of purchasing and manufacturing so many units.
Have you bitched at Microsoft for putting a 10/100 Ethernet port on the X-Box when most people will probably never use it?
And FWIW, on the one Mac I have with built-in gigabit Ethernet, I am using it. I can saturate a switched 100MBit connection with it, though I've never tested to see how much more it can push.
Actually, all PCI Macs have OpenFirmware. You just don't know it because older ones are normally configured to talk through the serial ports. XPostFacto will let you change this to keyboard/video.
not really fair when the top dual Powermac doesn't actually cost $5000.
It does when you count the price of that spiffy LCD monitor. It's a bit unfair to compare the price of a Mac with a Cinema LCD monitor to the price of a headless Athlon box using a monitor that was lying around the office. Macs have supported standard VGA monitors for at least ten years now, and there's no reason why you have to buy a new monitor with a new Mac.
Someone out there must not care if their CPU is 13.4% slower than the fastest thing out there. Otherwise Intel and AMD wouldn't be having such trouble selling their fastest chips. Seems the new Megahertz Myth is that most people even need the fastest chips on the planet. Right now it's mostly the hard-core gamers (and the CPU-hog operating systems) that are driving the "need for speed".
I don't see why this even got posted. The linked article isn't any kind of news, it's just a summary of reader mail. In other words, mail from the trolls who secretly want to be able to run OS X on a white-box PC made of crap parts. That there are people with an almost religious fervor about "OS X on x86" is no news at all.
Folks, it ain't gonna happen. Apple was only able to get through the 68K->PPC change because it was able to write a good emulator, and a decent PPC on X86 emulator is still yet to appear, and I think unlikely ever to appear. And they're just now getting through the Classic->Unix change. Apple is much more likely to go with an IBM chip now that they seem to have successfully evangelized Altivec to IBM.
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And you could call it Cusco Systems!
Cute. Considering that arsenic is an element, that means they would need to perform either nuclear fusion or fission in order to create it. Now that would be something to see.
Fine. Then mill the corn before sending it over. It's sort of difficult to grow after the seeds have been all ground up. Worried about an unground seed accidentally getting in? Then run the ground corn through a seive.
I'm kind of partial to John Pertwee myself. Pertwee and Baker were the best. Of course they were the ones us "bloody yanks" got to see the most too. Don't think I ever did get to see any Sylvester McCoy episodes.
"Who. Doctor Who."
I'd like a jynnan tonix, shaken, not stirred.
Also, Dame Judi Dench will appear as Romana.
The frame rate and lack of excessive movement is just as important in anime as B&W is to Hollywood. Has anyone seen any of "Platonic Chain" yet? (One liner: Japanese schoolgirls with video cellphones become a sort of P2P network of cable public access shows.) It's done with full CGI (cel shading on the characters) and motion capture (and the camera viewpoint moves like crazy too). The CGI is technically interesting, but all that motion capture is annoying as hell.
On the other end you have Violinist of Hamelin, which is basically a slide show with voice actors. Some of the scenes aren't even fully painted, but are just pastel sketches! The few sequences with full frame rate animation tend to get re-used in flash backs. Low-budget at its lowest.
You forgot to mention that a lot of the good stuff gets cancelled after (or sometimes during) its first season, while (gag) Friends keeps right on churning out more episodes.
The US music industry is even worse. Almost everything new these days is crap, and the '70s and '80s stuff (even though I like it) is just plain old. So I listen to anime theme song music with a bit of regular J-pop mixed in. Remember folks, '80s music happened because of Brit groups (and the occasional non-english song like 99 Luftbaloons and Der Komissar) getting so much airtime on MTV (back when MTV actually played music). Unfortunately J-pop has a bit of a language barrier to deal with, plus the same US producers' urge to "sanitize" anything Japanese language from anime because it's not in their "formula".
This is the first time I've seen Slashdot repeat a story in the same article!
Never used Slackware, have you?
And then there was the dreaded Error -127. That's the generic "HFS is confused" error code.
As for Disk First Aid, it was totally useless on all but the simplest of directory corruption. It also refused to work on a disk with open files (including of course the boot volume). It was a great day when Norton was able to fix a drive without rebooting from a slow recovery floppy, although it did bitch on some sorts of boot volume problems.
the most spectacular being a crash during a defrag.
One time I was defragging with a shrinkwrap copy (as in not warezed) of Mac Tools and hit cancel during the defrag. It left the directory in a corrupted state. That was the last time I trusted Mac Tools to either defrag or repair HFS volumes.
You lucky bastard. When I was running the OS X Public Beta, my 20 gig hard drive got messed up bad enough that OS 9 wouldn't mount it any more (and with OS 9, no mount means no boot). Of course Disk First Aid was useless. I had to go out and get Norton, at which point I found out that my files had gotten badly crosslinked. A crosslinked HFS+ file system is a truly evil thing. And from more recent experience with Norton, it seems that OS X still refuses to keep the alternate volume header block up to date.
I think Open Source Modchips would be a much better idea. After all, aren't most of them just code running on generic microcontroller chips?
Look for increasing numbers of death sentences for PCs, with their parts immediately going for transplants into newer PCs that can afford the price.
Ah, I see.
If that happened, someone would be very happy. And very happy to sell you a computer without DRM.
It would have helped if the article poster (or *cough* the Slashdot editors) had simply added the words "his weblog" to the /. article, right before that link. Now that I've gotten to read it, my problem is wondering why he doesn't call it "USS Clueful". (All that silly star trek "stardate" nonsense is kind of lame, but I can deal with it. At least he understands that the One True Date Format is YYYY MM DD.)
No doubt the site is slashdotted simply from the large number of people (like myself) who have no idea what this refers to.
So when do you do the case mod for the "boring router switchy things"?
sudo nvram boot-args=-s
(For those of you who just want to see the messages as OS X boots, change the -s to a -v.)
Have you bitched at Microsoft for putting a 10/100 Ethernet port on the X-Box when most people will probably never use it?
And FWIW, on the one Mac I have with built-in gigabit Ethernet, I am using it. I can saturate a switched 100MBit connection with it, though I've never tested to see how much more it can push.
Actually, all PCI Macs have OpenFirmware. You just don't know it because older ones are normally configured to talk through the serial ports. XPostFacto will let you change this to keyboard/video.
It does when you count the price of that spiffy LCD monitor. It's a bit unfair to compare the price of a Mac with a Cinema LCD monitor to the price of a headless Athlon box using a monitor that was lying around the office. Macs have supported standard VGA monitors for at least ten years now, and there's no reason why you have to buy a new monitor with a new Mac.
Someone out there must not care if their CPU is 13.4% slower than the fastest thing out there. Otherwise Intel and AMD wouldn't be having such trouble selling their fastest chips. Seems the new Megahertz Myth is that most people even need the fastest chips on the planet. Right now it's mostly the hard-core gamers (and the CPU-hog operating systems) that are driving the "need for speed".
Folks, it ain't gonna happen. Apple was only able to get through the 68K->PPC change because it was able to write a good emulator, and a decent PPC on X86 emulator is still yet to appear, and I think unlikely ever to appear. And they're just now getting through the Classic->Unix change. Apple is much more likely to go with an IBM chip now that they seem to have successfully evangelized Altivec to IBM.