Despite Bernie being wholly obnoxious, the lengths to which some members of the web community have gone to pillory the guy have gone WAY beyond the seriousness of his offense.
Yes, he spammed. Yes, he makes vocal (but obviously empty) legal threats.
But to create a web site totally devoted to a complete and absolute character assassination? Are you having fun yet?
The day after arriving in Japan I borrowed a friend's portable typewriter, banged out a resume and generic cover letter, copied them several times and mailed them to all the computer-related firms I could find in the English Japan Yellow Pages.
The next day (God, I loved the Japanese postal system) I got a call from the head office of ComputerLand Japan saying they had a franchise who needed a computer-knowledgeable English speaker to deal with their foreign clients.
Thus, what I thought would be a one-week stay became 10 years.
London Drugs (local discount pharmacy, housewares, computer store) is currently having another of their computer book sales where they sell off overstock they grabbed from somewhere.
Although a lot of the stuff is outdated (Win95 Resource Kit?, please.) much is suprisingly up-to-date and a valuable reference.
The fun part is paying C$9.95 for a book that has a list price of C$79.99 on the back.
As expected there are no shortage of posts in this thread that confuse the "anime" of rabid fandom fame with the full-length movie features that Miyazaki's Studio Ghibli produces.
Simply put, they are two different things.
Comparing a regular anime with Totoro is like comparing "Superfriends" with The Lion King. One is churned out weekly in sweatshop production lines using repetitive themes and recycled cells. The other is major production where every cell is a piece of art (and usually ends up selling like it later).
The other thing Ebert neglects to mention is the music. Miyazaki's films have music that uniquely identifies the mood of every scene and which can be listened to endlessly afterwards to re-live the film. Coincidentally I spent part of this afternoon lying on the couch listening to the soundtrack of Kurenai no Buta aka "Porco Rosso". My son asked me why just listen to the music and not watch the movie? My answer was simple: Listening to the music, I don't have to watch the movie. It's that good.
North Americans have only seen two of Miyazaki's films: Totoro and Kiki. However, even better (in my opinion) films have yet to be released:
Kurenai no Buta ("Porco Ross")
Tenku no Shiro Laputa ("Laputa, Castle in the Sky")
If Disney is serious about not releasing any more Miyazaki films it will just prove what many suspected; Buy the rights to a vastly superior product, carry out a half-hearted promotion campaign emphasizing the wrong things ("A-List Voice Talent!" my ass), then bury the rest citing the "poor reception" to the first couple of releases.
The definitive resource for all Miyazaki/Ghibli films remains nausicaa.net.
I don't know what that has to do with being emotionally unaffected by the WTC attacks.
Absolutely right. The WTC attack was shocking on first hearing. However, by the end of the day it had lost its impact. Why?
BECAUSE IT WAS EXPECTED!
It had been attempted before. Threats were constantly being made against the U.S. by Islamic extremists. The only question was when and how.
The Challenger explosion was, to the general populace, completely unexpected. The Space Shuttle represented the hopes and dreams of an entire generation brought up on the Apollo missions. Spaceflight was becoming an exciting reality. Challenger brought all that hope literally crashing to the ground.
Microsoft changed the behavior of the serial DTR line with windows ME, where previously it was off when not in use, but now it stays on from the time you boot
John is using Windows ME to control the rocket??????
Some of the video looks just like the old NASA films, wheeee!... crash!, whee.. crash!, tip..crash! etc.
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Unfortunately I have to agree with you.
Despite Bernie being wholly obnoxious, the lengths to which some members of the web community have gone to pillory the guy have gone WAY beyond the seriousness of his offense.
Yes, he spammed. Yes, he makes vocal (but obviously empty) legal threats.
But to create a web site totally devoted to a complete and absolute character assassination? Are you having fun yet?
Pre-web (1986) but same thing:
:-)
The day after arriving in Japan I borrowed a friend's portable typewriter, banged out a resume and generic cover letter, copied them several times and mailed them to all the computer-related firms I could find in the English Japan Yellow Pages.
The next day (God, I loved the Japanese postal system) I got a call from the head office of ComputerLand Japan saying they had a franchise who needed a computer-knowledgeable English speaker to deal with their foreign clients.
Thus, what I thought would be a one-week stay became 10 years.
OK, where's my t-shirt?
Brilliant.
Expect to see this all over the place within two days.
If not two hours.
Time to go for a nice walk outside.
In spite of the weather.
London Drugs (local discount pharmacy, housewares, computer store) is currently having another of their computer book sales where they sell off overstock they grabbed from somewhere.
Although a lot of the stuff is outdated (Win95 Resource Kit?, please.) much is suprisingly up-to-date and a valuable reference.
The fun part is paying C$9.95 for a book that has a list price of C$79.99 on the back.
cum prep. Latin: Combined, together with, plus.
Something-cum-somethingelse = Something plus somethingelse
I never understood the Sorcerer substitution. Is philosophy too intellectual?
<flamebait>We ARE talking about Americans here.</flamebait>
... the Pengiun was evil, and you knew it.
This is the proof Aaardman's genius. The penguin has no expression! No mouth! Nothing!
But when he is standing in front of the window rubbing his flippers together as Grommit leaves...
Or calmly whipping out the gun in response to Grommit's rolling pin.
"The Great Vegetable Plot" :-)
Would Americans get it? They have vegetable patches and Great Schemes.
You have an extra 'o' in cookup.
I'm not going to say anything about 'Incompitence' since, as a sig, it's probably intentional.
I hope.
Compared to what's available in his hometown, maybe they are.
Got a brochure from Novell the other day. Lots of ad-speak with possible reasons why Microsoft is spreading certain untruths about Novell's products.
However, fold the card ala the back page of a Mad magazine and the messsage gets condensed to just three words:
"Their Products Suck"
Oh yeah..
"Sorry Princess, I don't have time for anything else"
As expected there are no shortage of posts in this thread that confuse the "anime" of rabid fandom fame with the full-length movie features that Miyazaki's Studio Ghibli produces.
Simply put, they are two different things.
Comparing a regular anime with Totoro is like comparing "Superfriends" with The Lion King. One is churned out weekly in sweatshop production lines using repetitive themes and recycled cells. The other is major production where every cell is a piece of art (and usually ends up selling like it later).
The other thing Ebert neglects to mention is the music. Miyazaki's films have music that uniquely identifies the mood of every scene and which can be listened to endlessly afterwards to re-live the film. Coincidentally I spent part of this afternoon lying on the couch listening to the soundtrack of Kurenai no Buta aka "Porco Rosso". My son asked me why just listen to the music and not watch the movie? My answer was simple: Listening to the music, I don't have to watch the movie. It's that good.
North Americans have only seen two of Miyazaki's films: Totoro and Kiki. However, even better (in my opinion) films have yet to be released:
Kurenai no Buta ("Porco Ross")
Tenku no Shiro Laputa ("Laputa, Castle in the Sky")
If Disney is serious about not releasing any more Miyazaki films it will just prove what many suspected; Buy the rights to a vastly superior product, carry out a half-hearted promotion campaign emphasizing the wrong things ("A-List Voice Talent!" my ass), then bury the rest citing the "poor reception" to the first couple of releases.
The definitive resource for all Miyazaki/Ghibli films remains nausicaa.net.
"nippon-jin"
Sorry, no.
Nihonjin.
I thought it was just the wind...
Living WAY too close to UBC.
I don't know what that has to do with being emotionally unaffected by the WTC attacks.
Absolutely right. The WTC attack was shocking on first hearing. However, by the end of the day it had lost its impact. Why?
BECAUSE IT WAS EXPECTED!
It had been attempted before. Threats were constantly being made against the U.S. by Islamic extremists. The only question was when and how.
The Challenger explosion was, to the general populace, completely unexpected. The Space Shuttle represented the hopes and dreams of an entire generation brought up on the Apollo missions. Spaceflight was becoming an exciting reality. Challenger brought all that hope literally crashing to the ground.
Put in terms the original poster would understand:
If Anime is porn then the Road Runner is snuff video.
No, that should be "what exactly do YOU do with rugby balls?"
Just in case you didn't read the previous message because I didn't put in a cool subject.
From the Nov. 17 update:
Microsoft changed the behavior of the serial DTR line with windows ME, where previously it was off when not in use, but now it stays on from the time you boot
John is using Windows ME to control the rocket??????
Some of the video looks just like the old NASA films, wheeee!... crash!, whee.. crash!, tip..crash! etc.
They put it out too early. Now is the time, with the critical mass of DVD players, PS/2s, X-Boxes and other DVD-playing hardware out there.
With this
Nah, Wait for the DVD version. Only 5 disks.
Look here.
That's Origami.
Ori = Oru: "To Fold"
gami = kami: "Paper"
Knowing the creativity of some origami artists there could be some spectacular pieces.
Most amazing one I saw was a (non-working) cuckoo clock made from one piece of paper 10 meters long.