why make it illegal... this of all the unemployed moils(sp?) that would leave in the world.. what other line of work would you suggest for them except maybe end cutters in a cigar shoppe?
Qt is trolltech's set of libs for developing apps in linux using c++ if you want more than that ask a real programer...
x is server that allows for *nixes to have guis/window managers/integrated destops running... if you want more than that ask a real programer...
kde stands for k desktop enviornemnt... it's the integrated destop that includes konquerer web/file browser.. hope this helps
and if you want to be more clued up on linux issues stick around.. lots of people here have issues *grin*
can i mention "dark matter" again? what if there are particles all over th eplace that have enough mass but can't be seen by our current instriments? maybe we can "push" off those to make minor course changes... but i think you will still need traditional thrusters for more controled manuvers or emergency stops
ok sttupid physics question to that... even if the bttle ship's guns had that much recoil wouldn't an equivalent rail gun have less recoil? due to the fact that there is very little eplosive charge propeling the projectile?
the magnetic forces acting on the projectile accelerate it along the whole length of the barrel as opposed to an instantanious burst of energy so while the net force and opposite force would be the same it should be easier to dampen the recoil of a rail gun since is happens over a slightly longer impulse right?
Speaking of Word Perfect where is Corel in the wine community? last i heard they did some work contributed some code and started using an internal version for specially tweaked for their apps rather than the "official" wine version...
NAd Corel is a classic example of "not developing" apps for linux... their whole draw suite is a wine port... and i am told in reviews that it is lacking on performance...
hopefully the lack of linux apps will be more solved by things like kylix from borland->inprise->borlandagain
although i think the efforts of wine is great... it seems like more of a temporary solution in a desprate time to get more people intrested in linux by letting them use word/excel...
"- No more "Word 97 for Dummies" books"
nah... there will always be stupid people in this world... no mater how smart you make a system someone will break it and blame someone else
it's all about cutting corners to trim the overhead right? who cares if you company's product doesn't live up to it's expectations or there are known security issues... we live in a society where marketing dominates
take pokemon for example... 100% marketing genius
as far as the author's gun analogy.. granted the ak-47 is one of the most abusable guns around... but you need to pick the right tool for the job.. if you want decent power, cheap costs and high reliability in varied enviornments then you would pick soemthing like the ak47
higher cost, small design, equal durability and more common ammunition.. try the uzi
the m16 might be jam prone but it is far more accurate at long range than the ak
me personally i like the hk-mp5 for it's high reliability and versitle configurations....
(not that i like guns mind you)
all this talk about konquer being great... does anyone have any opinions on koffice? how often does it chrash? does it do file conversions well? the main reason i am looking at kde over gnome is it seems that they will be having a better suite of applications.. to be honest... i didn't really like star office.. so i need something that will read my old wp and quatro pro files (ofcourse i could always use wplinux...)
i agree with you on some of those older ones... if you can find them
MD Geist i thought was quite good... but it was too short.. it should ahve been like a 6 part oav series to develop characters better
and i think urusukidoji did have a plot.. you just need to be able to look past it's *ahem* extreme graphical content... even one of my friends who is a fairly conservative female agreed that the plot was good(at least the first parts), just it was hard to watch
if you are going to mention must see anime... um gundam... gundam... er did i mention gundam.. well the older stuff anyhow... for those who know anything about the storyline.. watch the things that take place from UNC89 and earlier... most of the later series and alternate universes only exist to let bandai sell more toys
those series would be moble suit gundam (the orginal can be had in a subbed 3 movie set)
Gundam 0080
Gundam 0083
Zeta Gundam
Gundam ZZ (although that one does push our limits)
Char's counter attack (what should have been the final resolution)
and Gundam 8th squad
the flashback series have some of the nicest art and mecha desins...... heck 0080 character designs were done by haruhiku mikimoto of macross
ok i admit i am not talking from experience... i do not work in corperate america(i work in municipal government), but i'm just taking a stab at what might be desired based upon what i read and making possible comparasons with the it people i'm used to dealing with... of course i could be off base if government tends to be more conservative than corprate(which is very possible)
besides.. how much of what is said here can truly be backed up with anything substantial?
please don't count this as a flame, but just the fact that it's still going on nightly builds makes it less attractive and seem more of a "hobby" to bussnesses... sure you might have the time to do something like that but corperate america want something more forget and fire(not that windows is really the ideal solution, but it does give the appreance of that)
check out the zdnet article dude.. it also said that dell was making signifigant investments in certain opensource companies... that would explain why the use of gnome (note- this is not an attempt to say kde is better, just wanted to mention the money involved)
well yes what you say is true, reading books amounts to about the same thing (minus corperal tunnel)... but even if you are only interacting with people you already know i still think that's a good thing, just like when you go to the movies with your friends you rarely interact with other movie goers... although i have made a few friends through rpgs... it was more the situation where a friend of a friend wanted to play then became part of the group... i guess the big thing for me is i am affrraid that people who do too many activities of any type that are isolated(just in this case it was computer games) will start lacking the ability to socially interact with real humans face to face...
i think the lack of intrest by women is more of a socital thing... they are taught at an early age that such things are unfeminine and we men are taught not to appreciate females that are unfeminine... slowly this is changing and i think it's a good thing
i think we need to diffrentiate between traditional (table-top/live action) and computer roleplaying games here. Although the genres represented in the game do cross, the thing that's lacking is true human interaction. With a computer game you are interacting with a machine mostly... sure there might be other people playing, but it's still missing direct human contact and interaction
well yes i forgot to mention that, but you are very right... another really bad dub to avoid at all costs is "clash of the bionoids" a macross the movie" hack for children
i kinda liked the Megazone23 part 2 dub... if you can find it i thought it was decent
i guess the thing with gundam0080 war in the pocket is that it didn't really focus on the mecha(even less so than other gundam series)
but yeah i guess i do have to admit macross plus did have some really intense scenes... also character deisgns from 0080 were done by haruhiki mikimoto the macross creator... so i guess there is alot there we could go into detail on
i guess you do have a point about the styles in the visuals.. but i kinda like the metaphisical aspect of ghost.. and i am more partial to shirow's art style
one thing i forgot to mention is i think someone who liked ghost in the shell might also like wing of honmise or how ever you spell it... for that same metaphysical type of mood
the problem with dubbing is a twofold... for the most part the voice actors hired on many projects suck... just watch most of the old "Streamline titles" or "warriors of the wind" (warrning: if you've seen the original Naussica do NOT watch warroiors of the wind)
and the in subtitles you can add notes that explain alot of what's lost in translation due to cultural differences... many of these differences are subtle but do add extra mening to the show
i think you have read only a small amount of the manga and watch a small amount of the anime out there... take a look at Clamp(a female artist/writer group who are very popular) and of course Rumiko Takahashi who is possibly the single most prolific artist with more series than i care to name...
There is also a whole line of shojo(girl's) manga which is by far the most popular single manga genre (i cite manga because most anime is based on manga)
On the Anime side... look at Miyazaki whihc is sometimes violent but so family oriented that Disney is producing it in english
Yes there is ALOT of porno anime... but there is alot of Porno period... look at the amount of porno that's available in the us... just in japan there are a grater abundance of anime and manga for all subject matter than there is in the us.. so there will of course be a greater amount of adult anime and manga
maybe i'm too old school... but i think Char's Counter Attack,Stardust Memories, a War in the pocket(both excelent gundam series as oppsoed to gundam wing) or Five Star Stories to be amoung the best mecha shows
i don't know if you shouuld compare patlabour to ghost int he shell... although it's the same director... we are talking abotu completly different mentalities... ghost was much more cerbral... in questioning who we are... masamune shirow(the manga writer) also has appleseed which is an excelent manga that is much the same way... although my fav from him is Orion
and if you are talking Miyazaki... you have to see his first film... Kazenotanino Naussica... unfortunetly there is no good official traslation... but if you like nice art it compares to stuff comming out now and it's 15 years old
i haven't seen all of akira, but the only people who can really call me an anime "newbie" are the old timers who saw astro-boy... from what i've seen anime came to the us in waves..
1st was tezuka's classics like astroboy and kimba
2nd came the 70's stuff i remember raideen and mazinga z in particular but others were more particular for speed racer
then i remember star blazers in the early 80's shortly follwed by robotech and transformers(you could also count some of the other short lived less memorable ones such as orbots)
by this point many people knew the shows but there was still not much of a consideration of "japanese anime"
it wasn't untill the late 80's early 90's when titles such as bubble gum crisis, akira, kimagure orange road and others became easily accessable in english that anime became an entity of it's own in the us
of course in the late 80's most of it was fan subs.. i think we owe them alot for helping spread anime
i would have to say akira was ok(i felll asleep while watching the original japanese version back in the day)... but it's real attraction is that alot of people never even knew what anime was untill akira was released and although i would agree it was not as good as ghost in the shell or kazenotaninonaussica... it did open up alot of people's eyes to the medium... although not quite in the same way that urotsukidoji opened people's eyes)
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why make it illegal... this of all the unemployed moils(sp?) that would leave in the world.. what other line of work would you suggest for them except maybe end cutters in a cigar shoppe?
Qt is trolltech's set of libs for developing apps in linux using c++ if you want more than that ask a real programer...
x is server that allows for *nixes to have guis/window managers/integrated destops running... if you want more than that ask a real programer...
kde stands for k desktop enviornemnt... it's the integrated destop that includes konquerer web/file browser.. hope this helps
and if you want to be more clued up on linux issues stick around.. lots of people here have issues *grin*
can i mention "dark matter" again? what if there are particles all over th eplace that have enough mass but can't be seen by our current instriments? maybe we can "push" off those to make minor course changes... but i think you will still need traditional thrusters for more controled manuvers or emergency stops
ok sttupid physics question to that... even if the bttle ship's guns had that much recoil wouldn't an equivalent rail gun have less recoil? due to the fact that there is very little eplosive charge propeling the projectile?
the magnetic forces acting on the projectile accelerate it along the whole length of the barrel as opposed to an instantanious burst of energy so while the net force and opposite force would be the same it should be easier to dampen the recoil of a rail gun since is happens over a slightly longer impulse right?
Speaking of Word Perfect where is Corel in the wine community? last i heard they did some work contributed some code and started using an internal version for specially tweaked for their apps rather than the "official" wine version...
NAd Corel is a classic example of "not developing" apps for linux... their whole draw suite is a wine port... and i am told in reviews that it is lacking on performance...
hopefully the lack of linux apps will be more solved by things like kylix from borland->inprise->borlandagain
although i think the efforts of wine is great... it seems like more of a temporary solution in a desprate time to get more people intrested in linux by letting them use word/excel...
"- No more "Word 97 for Dummies" books"
nah... there will always be stupid people in this world... no mater how smart you make a system someone will break it and blame someone else
it's all about cutting corners to trim the overhead right? who cares if you company's product doesn't live up to it's expectations or there are known security issues... we live in a society where marketing dominates
take pokemon for example... 100% marketing genius
as far as the author's gun analogy.. granted the ak-47 is one of the most abusable guns around... but you need to pick the right tool for the job.. if you want decent power, cheap costs and high reliability in varied enviornments then you would pick soemthing like the ak47
higher cost, small design, equal durability and more common ammunition.. try the uzi
the m16 might be jam prone but it is far more accurate at long range than the ak
me personally i like the hk-mp5 for it's high reliability and versitle configurations....
(not that i like guns mind you)
all this talk about konquer being great... does anyone have any opinions on koffice? how often does it chrash? does it do file conversions well? the main reason i am looking at kde over gnome is it seems that they will be having a better suite of applications.. to be honest... i didn't really like star office.. so i need something that will read my old wp and quatro pro files (ofcourse i could always use wplinux...)
i agree with you on some of those older ones... if you can find them
MD Geist i thought was quite good... but it was too short.. it should ahve been like a 6 part oav series to develop characters better
and i think urusukidoji did have a plot.. you just need to be able to look past it's *ahem* extreme graphical content... even one of my friends who is a fairly conservative female agreed that the plot was good(at least the first parts), just it was hard to watch
if you are going to mention must see anime... um gundam... gundam... er did i mention gundam.. well the older stuff anyhow... for those who know anything about the storyline.. watch the things that take place from UNC89 and earlier... most of the later series and alternate universes only exist to let bandai sell more toys
those series would be moble suit gundam (the orginal can be had in a subbed 3 movie set)
Gundam 0080
Gundam 0083
Zeta Gundam
Gundam ZZ (although that one does push our limits)
Char's counter attack (what should have been the final resolution)
and Gundam 8th squad
the flashback series have some of the nicest art and mecha desins...... heck 0080 character designs were done by haruhiku mikimoto of macross
ok i admit i am not talking from experience... i do not work in corperate america(i work in municipal government), but i'm just taking a stab at what might be desired based upon what i read and making possible comparasons with the it people i'm used to dealing with... of course i could be off base if government tends to be more conservative than corprate(which is very possible)
besides.. how much of what is said here can truly be backed up with anything substantial?
please don't count this as a flame, but just the fact that it's still going on nightly builds makes it less attractive and seem more of a "hobby" to bussnesses... sure you might have the time to do something like that but corperate america want something more forget and fire(not that windows is really the ideal solution, but it does give the appreance of that)
well also a fedral judge declared it was so untill that ruling is overturned then it is a monopoly for all legal purposes
check out the zdnet article dude.. it also said that dell was making signifigant investments in certain opensource companies... that would explain why the use of gnome (note- this is not an attempt to say kde is better, just wanted to mention the money involved)
well yes what you say is true, reading books amounts to about the same thing (minus corperal tunnel)... but even if you are only interacting with people you already know i still think that's a good thing, just like when you go to the movies with your friends you rarely interact with other movie goers... although i have made a few friends through rpgs... it was more the situation where a friend of a friend wanted to play then became part of the group... i guess the big thing for me is i am affrraid that people who do too many activities of any type that are isolated(just in this case it was computer games) will start lacking the ability to socially interact with real humans face to face...
i think the lack of intrest by women is more of a socital thing... they are taught at an early age that such things are unfeminine and we men are taught not to appreciate females that are unfeminine... slowly this is changing and i think it's a good thing
i think we need to diffrentiate between traditional (table-top/live action) and computer roleplaying games here. Although the genres represented in the game do cross, the thing that's lacking is true human interaction. With a computer game you are interacting with a machine mostly... sure there might be other people playing, but it's still missing direct human contact and interaction
well yes i forgot to mention that, but you are very right... another really bad dub to avoid at all costs is "clash of the bionoids" a macross the movie" hack for children
i kinda liked the Megazone23 part 2 dub... if you can find it i thought it was decent
i guess the thing with gundam0080 war in the pocket is that it didn't really focus on the mecha(even less so than other gundam series)
but yeah i guess i do have to admit macross plus did have some really intense scenes... also character deisgns from 0080 were done by haruhiki mikimoto the macross creator... so i guess there is alot there we could go into detail on
i guess you do have a point about the styles in the visuals.. but i kinda like the metaphisical aspect of ghost.. and i am more partial to shirow's art style
one thing i forgot to mention is i think someone who liked ghost in the shell might also like wing of honmise or how ever you spell it... for that same metaphysical type of mood
the problem with dubbing is a twofold... for the most part the voice actors hired on many projects suck... just watch most of the old "Streamline titles" or "warriors of the wind" (warrning: if you've seen the original Naussica do NOT watch warroiors of the wind)
and the in subtitles you can add notes that explain alot of what's lost in translation due to cultural differences... many of these differences are subtle but do add extra mening to the show
i think you have read only a small amount of the manga and watch a small amount of the anime out there... take a look at Clamp(a female artist/writer group who are very popular) and of course Rumiko Takahashi who is possibly the single most prolific artist with more series than i care to name...
There is also a whole line of shojo(girl's) manga which is by far the most popular single manga genre (i cite manga because most anime is based on manga)
On the Anime side... look at Miyazaki whihc is sometimes violent but so family oriented that Disney is producing it in english
Yes there is ALOT of porno anime... but there is alot of Porno period... look at the amount of porno that's available in the us... just in japan there are a grater abundance of anime and manga for all subject matter than there is in the us.. so there will of course be a greater amount of adult anime and manga
maybe i'm too old school... but i think Char's Counter Attack ,Stardust Memories, a War in the pocket(both excelent gundam series as oppsoed to gundam wing) or Five Star Stories to be amoung the best mecha shows
i don't know if you shouuld compare patlabour to ghost int he shell... although it's the same director... we are talking abotu completly different mentalities... ghost was much more cerbral... in questioning who we are... masamune shirow(the manga writer) also has appleseed which is an excelent manga that is much the same way... although my fav from him is Orion
and if you are talking Miyazaki... you have to see his first film... Kazenotanino Naussica... unfortunetly there is no good official traslation... but if you like nice art it compares to stuff comming out now and it's 15 years old
i haven't seen all of akira, but the only people who can really call me an anime "newbie" are the old timers who saw astro-boy... from what i've seen anime came to the us in waves..
1st was tezuka's classics like astroboy and kimba
2nd came the 70's stuff i remember raideen and mazinga z in particular but others were more particular for speed racer
then i remember star blazers in the early 80's shortly follwed by robotech and transformers(you could also count some of the other short lived less memorable ones such as orbots)
by this point many people knew the shows but there was still not much of a consideration of "japanese anime"
it wasn't untill the late 80's early 90's when titles such as bubble gum crisis, akira, kimagure orange road and others became easily accessable in english that anime became an entity of it's own in the us
of course in the late 80's most of it was fan subs.. i think we owe them alot for helping spread anime
i would have to say akira was ok(i felll asleep while watching the original japanese version back in the day)... but it's real attraction is that alot of people never even knew what anime was untill akira was released and although i would agree it was not as good as ghost in the shell or kazenotaninonaussica... it did open up alot of people's eyes to the medium... although not quite in the same way that urotsukidoji opened people's eyes)