1) The dubbing of most anime is crud. For shows like CB, you get a great feel for the characters when you can hear the original voice acting, since much more thought goes into voice acting selection for the original as opposed to the dub.
As I said in a reply farther up, I actually think the voice dubbing in Cowboy Bebop is an example of a good dub in anime. Certainly superior to the work done on Dragonball Z on Cartoon Network, and the DVDs of Record of Lodoss War one of my friends has.
Also, like I said, I actually prefer the English dubs of Cowboy Bebop. In particular, the original voice of Faye annoys the living shit out of me, (it occurs to me though, that maybe it's supposed to...:p) and I prefer Spike's and Jet's English versions. Just my NSHO, though...
The one I always notice is one of the cartoons where Bugs is in the race with the turtle. Bugs makes his own shell and uses a swimming cap to reduce air resistance. Gangsters have a bet on the race, so they try to keep the turle from winning, except Bugs looks like a turtle with his gear, and the turtle is wearing a (really bad) rabbit suit, thus confusing the gangster rabbits.
At the very end of the cartoon, when they find out that they have inadvertantly helped the turtle win, they all say "Now he tells us." I distinctly remember the guy at the end putting a gun up to his head, and shooting all of them through the head, suicide-style. But for at least the last dozen times I've seen it (on Cartoon Network) they black out quickly right after they say their last line.
Ok, so I know suicide isn't exactly the best thing to be showing in a cartoon (or maybe I just have a *really* warped memory.:p) But they showed this cartoon for decades without any kids ever committing suicide over it. Why do they have to go and mess with classics now?
Offtopic, but didn't SCO have a GUI called OpenWindows? If so, I would think that Caldera is currently holding the trademark on the name, so you wouldn't be able to call it open-windows.;)
Quality, not quantity, my friend. The right one will come. And besides, if you're not in college yet, it means you're still dealing with high school girls. And trust the voice of experience here, they're more trouble than they're worth.:p
Also, IRC is a big cause and target of dos, as they say.. power corrupts, when people obtain the percieved "power" of being opped in an irc channel or even on the server itself, they often abuse it. I have often been kicked from irc channels for many reasons, my religion, my views, my HOSTNAME, my OS, my nick etc etc etc.
These little hitlers provoke responses, and a dos attack is the only thing most of these people will pay attention to.
Now, hold on a minute. I'm sure it's not what you meant to imply, but you make it sound like ops in channels and IRCops deserve to be DoS'd for exercising their rightful authority.
A channel owner, (or manager/master, or op, for that matter,) can do whatever the hell he wants in his/her channel. Analogy: I kick you out of my house, because I don't like your clothes. That may very well make me an ignorant ass, but does it give you the right to come back later, and burn my house down? It's no different when a channel owner/op kicks someone out of the channel for a dumb reason, and the idiot comes back with a DoS script. The guy should take a hint, and go somewhere else.
Now, it *is* different for IRCops. Most networks (at least, the one I used to oper on,) have standards of behavior for the IRCops. You can't just kick someone off the network for no good reason. But even if you could, most server admins *pay* to run this free service. Should they not be allowed to run it as they see fit?
I'm sorry if I sounded overtly aggressive, trust me, it wasn't directed at you. But I've seen script kiddies use this type of argument ("They won't listen to me any other way.") far too many times, and in my mind, it's no excuse for destructive behavior.
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Mortal Kombat proved that too.:p
I'm just waiting for a Freespace movie to come along and prove to be the exception to the rule.:)
Just finished downloading it, burning it to disc now... seems it's out and downloadable to me. (Runnable, now that just *might be a different story...)
I have to wonder why hardware vendors would be so dead set against releasing their specs. I mean, who in their right minds would say no to having drivers written for free, and getting an addition to their customer base? Could it be that they are afraid that someone will duplicate their hardware? (Keep in mind that I know nothing about actually designing hardware, or writing drivers.)
Assuming that this is the problem, maybe a GPL-like license could be written for drivers derived from companies opening up their specs. The driver software could be distributed and modified a la GPL (hence it would be allowed to link with the GPL'd Linux kernel,) but the license would prohibit the creation of new hardware devices based on the specs used to build the drivers.
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The telephone cards I used to buy when I was poor worked like this:
Buy the card, no authorization procedure. Now, when you dial the 800 number on the back, you're asked for a card number. The card has to be scratched off to reveal the card number. Now, scratching the card off in the store would be pretty conspicuous, (sp?) but also, if you were buying the cards, you would at least be able to know if a card had been compromised (ie, it's on the shelf, but scratched off.)
Seems like a pretty simple, and secure, system to me. Don't know if this is the case with all the phone cards on the market though.
I know Parsippany and Fairfield. I live in Burlington County (south of you,) in the military triangle (Ft. Dix, McGuire AFB, and NAWCAD Lakehurst.) The town's called Browns Mills, but you're not likely to find it on a map, it's that small.
The DVDs both rock (I own them) but I'd keep the receipt for that Archos player. I don't mean to rain on your parade, but I've got a friend with one, and it's doing weird things on him after only two weeks. I've yet to look at the thing yet, so I don't know what the exact problem is.
Sorry to be the harbinger and all, just thought I'd give you fair warning. Merry Christmas.
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I'm dead serious. I work a gas station at night (Full Service here in Jersey) for extra money. This guy in a pickup truck comes in, fills up, and gives me a $5 tip.
About a half an hour later, he comes in and asks if I want a turkey. Someone gave him one, and he's already got like three in his freezer, so he wants to offload it on me. I figure what the hell... dunno what I'll do with it, but I'm sure I can figure something out. Even if it's just turning it over to the local St. Vincent DePaul Society, so they can give it to someone who *really* needs it.
True story though, and definitely one of the strangest things that's ever happened to me. Something to tell the grandkids about someday, I guess...
The characters in Chasing Amy and Hi Fidelity were (supposed to be) older than I am, in both cases.
I have seen American Beauty and Taxi Driver. Both wonderful movies. But I would go as far as to say American Beauty at least isn't any better than anything I mentioned in my original post.
I don't think anyone actually putting out a Top 5 list can be completely accurate. Hell, just reading through the rest of the comments after making my original posting, I saw five or six movies that made me think, "Damn, I should've said that instead." Dr. Strangelove, Clockwork Orange, The Killing, Eyes Wide Shut (hell, likely just about anything Kubrick did,) Empire Strikes Back (undoubtedly the best out of those four movies,) Blade Runner, The Matrix, Casablanca, Dirty Harry, Gladiator, The Patriot, Braveheart, Planet Of The Apes (the original, not the remake,) Nosferatu (think there might also be a remake of this, but I've not seen it,) Dracula (Bella Lagosi was cool,) Frankenstein (so was Boris Karloff,) dozens more I'm forgetting to mention, etc... I could go on for hours. (But *not* Citizen Kane. I'm sorry, it was boring, and I don't feel enough of a need to be accepted by the film crowd to lie about it.:p)
And that's the problem. I could easily rank any of the movies I named above, including the 5 in my earlier posting, as my top 5 favorites. There's just too many to choose.
Sorry, I realize I got a little out of control there, so back to my original point... a good few of those movies were made before my time. (I mean hell, Nosferatu, it's silent, and made in 1922.) Age has very little to do with it. It's whether the subject material is interesting to the individual, regardless of age, gender, race, etc., that makes a movie good to that person. If a movie can appeal to many, many, people in that way, over a large period of time, that's what makes it a classic, IMHO.
I'm also on Comcast@Home in New Jersey. I got a postcard saying my kit will get here within a week. I imagine it's just some bullshit software to get rid of the "Provided By @Home" from the IE titlebar. I just hope it gets here, because it's likely to include info on what to change my machine name to, new DHCP and DNS servers, etc.
But to the point. We're already DHCP, so it's not likely that will change. And like the parent's poster, I don't seem to have a cap. Hope that doesn't change *crosses fingers*.
12:10 AM EST here in Comcast land. I've had no interruption in service... yet. But the articles I've read say the lights are going out at 12 AM PST... which would be 3 AM here. Guess I'll drink another Bawls, pop a caffeine pill, and sit up to see what happens.
Oh yeah, so long, and thanks for all the fish, if this turns out to be my last post.
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1) The dubbing of most anime is crud. For shows like CB, you get a great feel for the characters when you can hear the original voice acting, since much more thought goes into voice acting selection for the original as opposed to the dub.
:p) and I prefer Spike's and Jet's English versions. Just my NSHO, though...
As I said in a reply farther up, I actually think the voice dubbing in Cowboy Bebop is an example of a good dub in anime. Certainly superior to the work done on Dragonball Z on Cartoon Network, and the DVDs of Record of Lodoss War one of my friends has.
Also, like I said, I actually prefer the English dubs of Cowboy Bebop. In particular, the original voice of Faye annoys the living shit out of me, (it occurs to me though, that maybe it's supposed to...
The one I always notice is one of the cartoons where Bugs is in the race with the turtle. Bugs makes his own shell and uses a swimming cap to reduce air resistance. Gangsters have a bet on the race, so they try to keep the turle from winning, except Bugs looks like a turtle with his gear, and the turtle is wearing a (really bad) rabbit suit, thus confusing the gangster rabbits.
:p) But they showed this cartoon for decades without any kids ever committing suicide over it. Why do they have to go and mess with classics now?
At the very end of the cartoon, when they find out that they have inadvertantly helped the turtle win, they all say "Now he tells us." I distinctly remember the guy at the end putting a gun up to his head, and shooting all of them through the head, suicide-style. But for at least the last dozen times I've seen it (on Cartoon Network) they black out quickly right after they say their last line.
Ok, so I know suicide isn't exactly the best thing to be showing in a cartoon (or maybe I just have a *really* warped memory.
Offtopic, but didn't SCO have a GUI called OpenWindows? If so, I would think that Caldera is currently holding the trademark on the name, so you wouldn't be able to call it open-windows. ;)
Quality, not quantity, my friend. The right one will come. And besides, if you're not in college yet, it means you're still dealing with high school girls. And trust the voice of experience here, they're more trouble than they're worth. :p
Sprint is already doing something like this. For an additional $5/mo or so, you can have voice dialing on your cellular phone.
Also, IRC is a big cause and target of dos, as they say.. power corrupts, when people obtain the percieved "power" of being opped in an irc channel or even on the server itself, they often abuse it. I have often been kicked from irc channels for many reasons, my religion, my views, my HOSTNAME, my OS, my nick etc etc etc.
These little hitlers provoke responses, and a dos attack is the only thing most of these people will pay attention to.
Now, hold on a minute. I'm sure it's not what you meant to imply, but you make it sound like ops in channels and IRCops deserve to be DoS'd for exercising their rightful authority.
A channel owner, (or manager/master, or op, for that matter,) can do whatever the hell he wants in his/her channel. Analogy: I kick you out of my house, because I don't like your clothes. That may very well make me an ignorant ass, but does it give you the right to come back later, and burn my house down? It's no different when a channel owner/op kicks someone out of the channel for a dumb reason, and the idiot comes back with a DoS script. The guy should take a hint, and go somewhere else.
Now, it *is* different for IRCops. Most networks (at least, the one I used to oper on,) have standards of behavior for the IRCops. You can't just kick someone off the network for no good reason. But even if you could, most server admins *pay* to run this free service. Should they not be allowed to run it as they see fit?
I'm sorry if I sounded overtly aggressive, trust me, it wasn't directed at you. But I've seen script kiddies use this type of argument ("They won't listen to me any other way.") far too many times, and in my mind, it's no excuse for destructive behavior.
Mortal Kombat proved that too. :p
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I'm just waiting for a Freespace movie to come along and prove to be the exception to the rule.
Just finished downloading it, burning it to disc now... seems it's out and downloadable to me. (Runnable, now that just *might be a different story...)
I have to wonder why hardware vendors would be so dead set against releasing their specs. I mean, who in their right minds would say no to having drivers written for free, and getting an addition to their customer base? Could it be that they are afraid that someone will duplicate their hardware? (Keep in mind that I know nothing about actually designing hardware, or writing drivers.)
Assuming that this is the problem, maybe a GPL-like license could be written for drivers derived from companies opening up their specs. The driver software could be distributed and modified a la GPL (hence it would be allowed to link with the GPL'd Linux kernel,) but the license would prohibit the creation of new hardware devices based on the specs used to build the drivers.
Maybe I'm crazy, but it was just a thought...
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The telephone cards I used to buy when I was poor worked like this:
Buy the card, no authorization procedure. Now, when you dial the 800 number on the back, you're asked for a card number. The card has to be scratched off to reveal the card number. Now, scratching the card off in the store would be pretty conspicuous, (sp?) but also, if you were buying the cards, you would at least be able to know if a card had been compromised (ie, it's on the shelf, but scratched off.)
Seems like a pretty simple, and secure, system to me. Don't know if this is the case with all the phone cards on the market though.
I know Parsippany and Fairfield. I live in Burlington County (south of you,) in the military triangle (Ft. Dix, McGuire AFB, and NAWCAD Lakehurst.) The town's called Browns Mills, but you're not likely to find it on a map, it's that small.
Thanks, will check all those things when I look at it this Thursday.
Actually, to be totally technical by day, (2 PM - 10 PM) I'm a gas jockey. By night (Midnight - 8 AM) I work at a server farm.
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Oh it's grand to have run up enough debt as an 18 year old that I have to work two jobs to cover the bills now.
The DVDs both rock (I own them) but I'd keep the receipt for that Archos player. I don't mean to rain on your parade, but I've got a friend with one, and it's doing weird things on him after only two weeks. I've yet to look at the thing yet, so I don't know what the exact problem is.
Sorry to be the harbinger and all, just thought I'd give you fair warning. Merry Christmas.
I'm dead serious. I work a gas station at night (Full Service here in Jersey) for extra money. This guy in a pickup truck comes in, fills up, and gives me a $5 tip.
About a half an hour later, he comes in and asks if I want a turkey. Someone gave him one, and he's already got like three in his freezer, so he wants to offload it on me. I figure what the hell... dunno what I'll do with it, but I'm sure I can figure something out. Even if it's just turning it over to the local St. Vincent DePaul Society, so they can give it to someone who *really* needs it.
True story though, and definitely one of the strangest things that's ever happened to me. Something to tell the grandkids about someday, I guess...
New shirt, Adema's new CD, a Best Buy Gift Cert, and a tweed cap I've wanted all year. I can't complain.
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AND I got a turkey as a tip last night at work, along with $40 bucks. W00T!
Now if only I didn't have to work tonight...
Merry Christmas folks, hope it's a great holiday for everyone.
And you're an AC, and should never be mentioned on the same weblog as logged in users, what's your point.
If you think Eyes Wide Shut sucked, then you didn't get it, are a retard, or both.
The characters in Chasing Amy and Hi Fidelity were (supposed to be) older than I am, in both cases.
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I have seen American Beauty and Taxi Driver. Both wonderful movies. But I would go as far as to say American Beauty at least isn't any better than anything I mentioned in my original post.
I don't think anyone actually putting out a Top 5 list can be completely accurate. Hell, just reading through the rest of the comments after making my original posting, I saw five or six movies that made me think, "Damn, I should've said that instead." Dr. Strangelove, Clockwork Orange, The Killing, Eyes Wide Shut (hell, likely just about anything Kubrick did,) Empire Strikes Back (undoubtedly the best out of those four movies,) Blade Runner, The Matrix, Casablanca, Dirty Harry, Gladiator, The Patriot, Braveheart, Planet Of The Apes (the original, not the remake,) Nosferatu (think there might also be a remake of this, but I've not seen it,) Dracula (Bella Lagosi was cool,) Frankenstein (so was Boris Karloff,) dozens more I'm forgetting to mention, etc... I could go on for hours. (But *not* Citizen Kane. I'm sorry, it was boring, and I don't feel enough of a need to be accepted by the film crowd to lie about it.
And that's the problem. I could easily rank any of the movies I named above, including the 5 in my earlier posting, as my top 5 favorites. There's just too many to choose.
Sorry, I realize I got a little out of control there, so back to my original point... a good few of those movies were made before my time. (I mean hell, Nosferatu, it's silent, and made in 1922.) Age has very little to do with it. It's whether the subject material is interesting to the individual, regardless of age, gender, race, etc., that makes a movie good to that person. If a movie can appeal to many, many, people in that way, over a large period of time, that's what makes it a classic, IMHO.
I'm 22, and taking into account that I've not had a chance to see LoTR yet, my top 5 movies would be:
1. 2001: ASO
2. Godfather Part II
3. Godfather
4. Chasing Amy
5. Hi Fidelity
In that order. Age doesn't have anything to do with it. Some movies are destined to be classics.
A Merry Christmas to all, and a Happy New Year.
I'm also on Comcast@Home in New Jersey. I got a postcard saying my kit will get here within a week. I imagine it's just some bullshit software to get rid of the "Provided By @Home" from the IE titlebar. I just hope it gets here, because it's likely to include info on what to change my machine name to, new DHCP and DNS servers, etc.
But to the point. We're already DHCP, so it's not likely that will change. And like the parent's poster, I don't seem to have a cap. Hope that doesn't change *crosses fingers*.
12:10 AM EST here in Comcast land. I've had no interruption in service... yet. But the articles I've read say the lights are going out at 12 AM PST... which would be 3 AM here. Guess I'll drink another Bawls, pop a caffeine pill, and sit up to see what happens.
Oh yeah, so long, and thanks for all the fish, if this turns out to be my last post.
Might've been written before 1988, but it's a fact that they "hijacked" the BSD TCP/IP stack.
The kernel version should show up right above your login prompt once the system is booted. If not, try "uname -a"
The output should look something like:
Linux shiva.adubn1.nj.home.com 2.4.7-10 #1 Thu Sep 6 17:27:27 EDT 2001 i686 unknown
the third field (in my case, 2.4.7-10) is the kernel version.