Pizza Hut paid to have its logo on the side of a rocket that went into space. Perhaps that story was missed, in all the excitement.
What's Borsch? I've heard of Borscht, which is a kind of beet soup, but none of the five immigrants from the former Soviet Union in my office have heard of Borsch.
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Poor misguided fool. Everybody knows that Geeks didn't create the internet...American Vice-President Al Gore did! It was even reported in the media.
"During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet."
-- Al Gore, March 9, 1999; CNN interview with Wolf Blitzer
Our company has contracted out our custom pop3 server implementation to an Indian company. I have yet to see any results, but their implementation could hardly be worse than the current one, which is written in Java for some strange reason, and freezes and locks constantly (we have a shell script running on cron that checks the pop server for connectivity every two minutes, and restarts the service if it can't connect). I'm happy to get any re-write at all, and I don't see how them being overseas makes any difference, seeing as how the development team here in the USA has only two American citizens, all the rest are H1B's from China, Pakistan, Burma, and other countries where it's not customary to bathe every day. But in general, we already are subject to all the bullet points above, excepting perhaps "Paying a premium", so subcontracting a specific job out (write pop3) to foreign programmers doesn't really mean anything to us other than our developers are freed to pursue other projects.
Let me get this straight...you spent extra on a "very nice, very expensive case", and yet claim not to have any money? I bought the cheapest case I could find and spent my money where it counts, on the inside.
I believe the Anonymous poster was speaking about the demo scene, when machine language coders would make absolutely dazzling things happen with very limited hardware , for example VGA cards with 256k of video RAM, and four megabytes of system RAM, and a 16MHz processor.
BTW, "anime" is just the word for "animation" in Japanese. Therefore, it IS anime.
However, this conversation is in English. "Anime" in English means "Japanese animation", and is hardly applicable.
Anime (pronounced AH-nee-may) is a term for a style of Japanese comic book and video cartoon animation in which the main characters have large doe-like eyes. Anime is the prevalent style in Japanese comic books or manga. In Japan, the comic book is a popular form of entertainment for adults as well as for younger audiences. Story lines are often very sophisticated and complex and extend into episodic series. Typical anime themes or genres include Ninja and other martial arts; the supernatural or horror story; the romance; and science fiction including robots and space ships. Foils for the main characters, including robots, monsters, or foreigners, often lack the doe-eyed quality.
I guess it's cool that people are doing things with Quake that were never intended (the mark of a good tool), but giving it a pretentious name and calling it art just really stretches the bounds of credibliity a bit too much.
The term Machinima is clearly an excuse for dorks to try and apply some kind of pretentious artisness to the act of recording themselves doing funny stuff. I did the same thing in 1981 with a tape recorder.
I think the term Mechanime would be misleading, as it is neither mechanical nor anime, and besides, you want to stay as far away from the dreaded "anime" tag as possible.
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Pizza Hut paid to have its logo on the side of a rocket that went into space. Perhaps that story was missed, in all the excitement.
What's Borsch? I've heard of Borscht, which is a kind of beet soup, but none of the five immigrants from the former Soviet Union in my office have heard of Borsch.
"During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet."
-- Al Gore, March 9, 1999; CNN interview with Wolf Blitzer
Our company has contracted out our custom pop3 server implementation to an Indian company. I have yet to see any results, but their implementation could hardly be worse than the current one, which is written in Java for some strange reason, and freezes and locks constantly (we have a shell script running on cron that checks the pop server for connectivity every two minutes, and restarts the service if it can't connect). I'm happy to get any re-write at all, and I don't see how them being overseas makes any difference, seeing as how the development team here in the USA has only two American citizens, all the rest are H1B's from China, Pakistan, Burma, and other countries where it's not customary to bathe every day. But in general, we already are subject to all the bullet points above, excepting perhaps "Paying a premium", so subcontracting a specific job out (write pop3) to foreign programmers doesn't really mean anything to us other than our developers are freed to pursue other projects.
Let me get this straight...you spent extra on a "very nice, very expensive case", and yet claim not to have any money? I bought the cheapest case I could find and spent my money where it counts, on the inside.
Suggestion: don't use the @ symbol to mean "at" in sentences. Spell it out. Makes you look like less of an idiot.
I believe the Anonymous poster was speaking about the demo scene, when machine language coders would make absolutely dazzling things happen with very limited hardware , for example VGA cards with 256k of video RAM, and four megabytes of system RAM, and a 16MHz processor.
However, this conversation is in English. "Anime" in English means "Japanese animation", and is hardly applicable. Anime (pronounced AH-nee-may) is a term for a style of Japanese comic book and video cartoon animation in which the main characters have large doe-like eyes. Anime is the prevalent style in Japanese comic books or manga. In Japan, the comic book is a popular form of entertainment for adults as well as for younger audiences. Story lines are often very sophisticated and complex and extend into episodic series. Typical anime themes or genres include Ninja and other martial arts; the supernatural or horror story; the romance; and science fiction including robots and space ships. Foils for the main characters, including robots, monsters, or foreigners, often lack the doe-eyed quality.
I guess it's cool that people are doing things with Quake that were never intended (the mark of a good tool), but giving it a pretentious name and calling it art just really stretches the bounds of credibliity a bit too much.
I think the term Mechanime would be misleading, as it is neither mechanical nor anime, and besides, you want to stay as far away from the dreaded "anime" tag as possible.