Ah, this illuminates the appeal to camera-happy folks. Make dvd's of all those handicam vids.
I wonder if it's easier to get people to sit still for your home movies in Japan? Nowadays, USAns tend to think its rude to even suggest that the neighbors need to sit through a recap of your summer trip.
Still, the square shape has the functional purpose of fitting into small refrigerators. The big US-style fridge is not a common thing, so it does seem that the premium on space has a significant effect on how Japanese live. Another phenomenon that can only be fully explained by the living space issue is "Sodai Gomi Day."
why they don't focus more (read: release) the PS3...
65nm, 300mm wafer.
"Cell is going to be like IBM's Deep Blue integrated on one chip," said Ken Kutaragi, chief executive officer of SCEI, referring to IBM's chess-playing supercomputer, which is based on a massively parallel architecture.
"One Cell processor will have, say, 1 teraflops performance. One thousand Cells make 1 petaflops performance. Then 1,000 of these 1,000 Cells can combine.
"We are planning to create a processor architecture that makes this network connection possible. We will focus on processors. The day when processors can truly link together will surely come. This project is such a huge challenge," said Kutaragi.
Seems pretty damned focussed to me. The Cell chip looks to be well on schedule..
But I know what you mean; I'd like to have one next week, too. How much do you think a prototype Cell chip would cost?
What you don't get is that either statement would be irrelevant to the topic. If you made the staement about liking manga I wouldnt have argued, but if I had mod points I would mod you down.
"manga looks great" is just as meaningless a statement; I probably wouldn't choose to discuss the statement with you because all the kibitzers (who are already giving both of us a hard enough time) would no doubt jump on me for arguing with someone who agrees with me.
Ink on paper looks like whatever the artist can bring to it, no matter what nation he's from; manga looks great and it looks crappy. I don;t see how the whole field can be tarred with the same brush.
I probably would not have said a thing if the statement was: "comic books and manga, all that stuff is a load of crap." I can understand that, it's a consistent point of view that I can see a basis for.
But if the statement is that US comic books can be good but manga always looks like crap, then I'd assume that the speaker hasn't been exposed to a wide range of manga.
That's reasonable. Here's the thing, though; as per Sturgeon's Law, 90% of everything is crap. Much of the manga that is widely distributed in the states is pretty crappy and very much the same, so there are a lot of people with the impression that manga are much more specific in what they are than, for instance, American comic books.
It's easy to come to the conclusion that all manga is crappy without much investigation.
From a real quick search, here's a few manga images that I think it would be very tough for anyone to simply dismiss as
"crappy":
2oth Century Boys
You can look at those three pictures and tell me that the artists involved are turning out crap? If you can, good luck to ya, but we are in way different worlds.
My, we're touchy today. Maybe you should turn down the Slayer once in a while, hey?
By introducing the term "least favorite" you are suggesting there was something comparative in his post. There wasn't. He said "manga is crappy."
Manga is not one thing that looks one way, the only essential to it is INK and PAPER. However ink and paper CAN look is how manga DOES look.
If this were a thread discussing the music that you like to listen to, and I came in with the statement "all that dark metal shot is crap," wouldn't you feel that you at least had a right to at ask if I knew the difference between Lizzie Borden and Venom?
The topic is not "Is all manga worthless," and his ill-informed opinion isn't relevant to the discussion. He was trolling, plain and simple.
Anyway, get a grip on yourself. It's not that big a deal.
Actually, I was referring to the posted article. I respect manga as an art form, and I value the work of talented translators/scanlators, but I don't see more than the thinnest parallel to open source.
"If you have actually looked into the genre, saying that you "hate this stuff" and are convinced it all "looks crappy," isn't sufficient.
Actually, in that scenario, yes, it is.
I was speaking about sufficiency for discussion -- that is what is supposed to be taking place here. If he has an informed opinion, but sums it up as "it's crappy," we have no peg for discussion.
On the other hand, if he is trolling, he has posted sufficiently.
The rest of your post is just as hair-splitting and picayune as your opening jab. When someone has no familiarity with the subject at hand, it is not "taste" that is being discussed.
If he has absolutely no familiarity with a form he professes to hate, and has no basis he is willing to provide as the reason for that hate, he really has no reason to post, other than to bait people.
I think he's saying that supporting artists in other cultures will deflate our own, and he is quite right. Traitors who go to see Jacques Tati films are stealing food right from the mouth of Jerry Lewis, imho. Why watch a Jean Luc Godard film when we have an auteur like Jerry Bruckheimer? Why listen to Edith Piaf when Doris Day recordings stay ignored?
Do you even have any familiarity with the field? Would you know the difference between Masamune Shirow and Rumiko Takahashi? Have you ever even seen an issue of "20th Century Boys?"
If you have actually looked into the genre, saying that you "hate this stuff" and are convinced it all "looks crappy," isn't sufficient. What about it is crappy? What is it that you hate that is common to ALL manga?
Saying "manga looks crappy" is like saying "comic books are for kids." There's no way that they are all alike or share a single esthetic; there's far more variety in Japanese mass-market comics -- in artstyle, storytelling techniques, intended audience -- than in the US product.
Unless you can lend some further depth to your remarks, you are simply a troll.
Once the DoD and your school do all the heavy lifting and perfect the hardware implementation, what would be the terrible cost to the civilian sector (assuming you could incite sufficient demand for economies of scale)?
I'll grant you that fractured language is a frequent characteristic of scams, and yes, this would look more legit (though not necessarily be more legit had the seller mad such efforts as you suggest.
If that's all you meant to convey, I misread you; my apologies.
Current bandwidths are not sufficient for much in the way of value-added services. If the telcos roll this out correctly, they could acquire the capital for the needed infrastructure improvements as they go along.
Besides, technology continues to develop to make bandwidth thicker and cheaper at every layer. If Joe Schmoe is speeding along at 200 mbps on a cat3 wire, you think the folks upstream will be standing still?
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I wonder if it's easier to get people to sit still for your home movies in Japan? Nowadays, USAns tend to think its rude to even suggest that the neighbors need to sit through a recap of your summer trip.
Xbox outsells Sony in month of April
65nm, 300mm wafer.
"Cell is going to be like IBM's Deep Blue integrated on one chip," said Ken Kutaragi, chief executive officer of SCEI, referring to IBM's chess-playing supercomputer, which is based on a massively parallel architecture.
"One Cell processor will have, say, 1 teraflops performance. One thousand Cells make 1 petaflops performance. Then 1,000 of these 1,000 Cells can combine.
"We are planning to create a processor architecture that makes this network connection possible. We will focus on processors. The day when processors can truly link together will surely come. This project is such a huge challenge," said Kutaragi.
Seems pretty damned focussed to me. The Cell chip looks to be well on schedule..
But I know what you mean; I'd like to have one next week, too. How much do you think a prototype Cell chip would cost?
Ink on paper looks like whatever the artist can bring to it, no matter what nation he's from; manga looks great and it looks crappy. I don;t see how the whole field can be tarred with the same brush.
I probably would not have said a thing if the statement was: "comic books and manga, all that stuff is a load of crap." I can understand that, it's a consistent point of view that I can see a basis for.
But if the statement is that US comic books can be good but manga always looks like crap, then I'd assume that the speaker hasn't been exposed to a wide range of manga.
It's easy to come to the conclusion that all manga is crappy without much investigation.
From a real quick search, here's a few manga images that I think it would be very tough for anyone to simply dismiss as "crappy": 2oth Century Boys
Argento Soma
This or anything else by Hayao Miyazaki
You can look at those three pictures and tell me that the artists involved are turning out crap? If you can, good luck to ya, but we are in way different worlds.
By introducing the term "least favorite" you are suggesting there was something comparative in his post. There wasn't. He said "manga is crappy."
Manga is not one thing that looks one way, the only essential to it is INK and PAPER. However ink and paper CAN look is how manga DOES look.
If this were a thread discussing the music that you like to listen to, and I came in with the statement "all that dark metal shot is crap," wouldn't you feel that you at least had a right to at ask if I knew the difference between Lizzie Borden and Venom?
The topic is not "Is all manga worthless," and his ill-informed opinion isn't relevant to the discussion. He was trolling, plain and simple.
Anyway, get a grip on yourself. It's not that big a deal.
So, why do you have a pickle up your butt?
Actually, in that scenario, yes, it is.
I was speaking about sufficiency for discussion -- that is what is supposed to be taking place here. If he has an informed opinion, but sums it up as "it's crappy," we have no peg for discussion.
On the other hand, if he is trolling, he has posted sufficiently.
The rest of your post is just as hair-splitting and picayune as your opening jab. When someone has no familiarity with the subject at hand, it is not "taste" that is being discussed.
If he has absolutely no familiarity with a form he professes to hate, and has no basis he is willing to provide as the reason for that hate, he really has no reason to post, other than to bait people.
If you have no basis on which to rest your statements then there is no reason for you to read or post in this topic, other than to troll.
I trust mods will take note.
Google, you anonymous idiot, google.
http://animeyume.com/animedictionary.html
If you have actually looked into the genre, saying that you "hate this stuff" and are convinced it all "looks crappy," isn't sufficient. What about it is crappy? What is it that you hate that is common to ALL manga?
Saying "manga looks crappy" is like saying "comic books are for kids." There's no way that they are all alike or share a single esthetic; there's far more variety in Japanese mass-market comics -- in artstyle, storytelling techniques, intended audience -- than in the US product.
Unless you can lend some further depth to your remarks, you are simply a troll.
Once the DoD and your school do all the heavy lifting and perfect the hardware implementation, what would be the terrible cost to the civilian sector (assuming you could incite sufficient demand for economies of scale)?
If that's all you meant to convey, I misread you; my apologies.
Not as off-topic as you thought, eh?
Besides, technology continues to develop to make bandwidth thicker and cheaper at every layer. If Joe Schmoe is speeding along at 200 mbps on a cat3 wire, you think the folks upstream will be standing still?