Great article... no stats.. no numbers... no data... just an opinion of un-published results... REAL concrete... thanx for convincing me to switch.
I use IIS because i like satan, and i also like setting up and modeling client websites within minutes... if not less. I like that with ASP.NET i can run a huge hunk of languages with nearly zilch time spent configuring... i like knowing that when i remotly develop someones site and all i have is a name/password, i wont have to know how to set the servers default.conf file to whatever....
People SEVERLY underesitimate how important ease of use in ALL fields is... The easier to use.. the quicker to produce.. the quicker to produce the less money wasted and the more time working... I was gonna go completly anti-MS, but once.NET with SQL 7 specs came out i swallowed my foot (which was in my mouth) and said screw it... im sticking with bezlebud as long as hes got the good shit.
My number one thing... When Apache supports as many languages NATIVLY without a quigillion config changes / additional installs... ill be hopping the fence... But right now.NET alone allows J# (a J++ implementation), C#, VB, JS, and an unlimited amount of other languages (provided you get the pack necesary).
.NET scares the hell out of me, cause it may actualy be Java done right, except with unlimited languages....
Akira was really about the Trial of Best Friends being split apart by something thrust into their lives that they couldnt control. It was an exmplary expression of the inherent im-balence between most best friends, showing Tetsuo's Jealousies of Kanada, and Kanada's own problems being an orphan and a kid without direction. The thing thrust between them is of course the military research from WW III... The Akira project. Akira was actualy just another boy like Tetsuo who was injected/exprimented on with brain and mind over matter enhancments... eventually becomming too powerfull for the goverment and himself. The resultant plotline revolves around a de-stabilizing culture still suffering the ravages of WW III, The movie explores the depth of a broken society by using the two main chracters deeply intertwined love/hate relationship that takes them through ALL clases of neo-tokyo, from the impoverished kids and gangs, to the wealthy and corrupt goverment leaders to the rebelious masses who are straining for revolt to the college kids with grand ideas of reshaping the future to the terrorists urging and pushing for a rebelion. Meanwhile Kanada and Tetsua are fighting a very simple battle that most best friends fight constantly, who is the top dog.
The magic of Akira is its ability to Delve into all these areas with phenominal depth while capturing the viewer with a very real and very plain struggle. Think of how many times youve been jealous of your best friend and there you have the center of Akira. It goes back to when we all used to fight with our GI Joe's, who got to be king cobra or Hawk, who got to be optimus prime or StarScream, who got to be skeletor or He-man.
I fear that Norrington will miss and destroy the original films scope by trivializing the story in face of big explosions and not so great Computer Generated scenes. I sincerly DONT believe the movie needs to be made accesible at all... I only speak and understand english and have (in my own opinion) captured and understood the entire movie without any need for westernization (english dub of course).
I also Believe that this move CAN be done as live action succesfully, it would be sheer excelence if directly ported to 35mm, scene for scene reproduction would be excelent to watch... however i fear the movie will be made shorter eliminating the truely great storyline extrapalations and additionaly i doubt the american characters will have the chemistry necesary to discribe how close kanada and tetsua and the others are. It'll probably end up with Kanada a brad pitt looking white guy, tetsua a Chris rock or some other short and loud person, Kay just a beutifull dumb chick with reduced lines and reduced character (like storm from the XMEN movie), and other non-sensical characters.
The beuty of Akira is its reality, all the chracters are distinctly Japenese from Japan, no cross-culture characterizing conflicts, they simply are japanese street kids. I myself am a mulatto american street kid with little resemblance and very minute cultural similarities to this films premise, and what i enjoy most about this film, is it doesnt try to pander to my "background". It simply is a story that tells it like it is (or would be) without trying to be translated into my environment. I can only imagine how horrible an American Akira out of the Ghetto would/could be.... on the other hand... it could be astoundingly good....
But with this guys track record.... looks like Akira's gonna get mangled
Who ever said unix was dead? with the countless distros www.distrowatch.com and MAC OS X and all the servers/ gateways and routers out there, shes never been even close to dead.... what kind of article is this... common slashdot lets actualy REPORT something...
Simply put, As a Mac "zealot" in quotes cause i love NT adv Srv And mandrake just as much, this is just sad. I understand this is probably just a strict legal situation, child labor and such, apple "technicaly" is using underage workers for less than minimum wage. Om the books thats pretty bad, but in real life its ridiculous.
sense the "ope source community" isnt a organazation or any true buisness in a real-world sense it can be thought of as a free labor pool.
who gives a damn, i picked my quadra 605 apart at 11, wrote modem scripts and such, hacked BBS's (lol, remember those?) and by 17 was writing C++ apps and websites, etc... Laws need to change to reflect "hobbies" (lol) and real work (digging ditchs, selling hamburgers etc....)
idiots... alll of them
"shaw, LAMEST Hack in history"
jess, im surprised it took these guys that long to make this piece a poo software, ALL IT DOES IS MAKE MP3's with "organizer" data in their ID3 tags. im SOOOOOOOOO NOT impressed. Is this even a hack?
i mean technicaly speaking, did they actualy DO anything SPECIAL to make this work? it seems like they just set up their own musci genre or whatever (called "ipoddata") and then split off "albums" as contacts, work or whatever, sheesh, youd think these guys were gonna get an award for cleverness, they didnt DO anything special except make a ID3 tag editor that LOOKS like a organizer.
Next week im gonna intro the first text based trivia game for the ipod.... Will i get slashdot notice? lol
whats worst is the ipod IS fully capable of PDA functions, that extra special little port on top (not the firewire one) canplug in a good load of extra special little things like remotes or PDA style pens, hmmmm, i think these guys arent gona be to happy when apple starts releasing their "iUpgrades"
Anybody catch the bit that went "the ability to vaporise enemy troops and vehicles Star Wars-style will take a few more years to develop."
HAHA... "a few more years"?
well on that time scale i expect transportation, Molecular refabrication or sequencing (think HoloDeck and food synthisizers) within a decade or two...
That warp drive must be on schedule for mid century... Lord knows we WILL have holographic doctors that ACT better than the on on voyager by then... AND HE WAS SUPPOSED TO BE NEW!!!
Commander DATA will no longer be a dream of 23rd century, but a has been of the 2010's (search about for the self navigating human shaped robots in japan)
If you defeat your enemy by becoming him... whats the point?
We ARE NOT under direct duress... dont believe me? Then why are you on vacation... drinking a beer... and watching TV? People like you are terrorized by the idea that one day you wont have a martini to sip while dreaming up all kinds of ideas of what to do to those silly "hatefull" terrorists...
Unfortunately if you dont understand the problem... then you cant solve it.. Just cause you kill maim and torture these terrorists isnt going to make the problem go away... in fact youd just make the problem worse... NEVER EVER make a martyr of your enemy... the second you do youll have thousands upon thousands of supporters for his causes... What you want to do is catch them alive and well, treat them as good as you can, and sentance them in the most humane and respected way possible... You defeat terrorists by not being afraid to fight them with honor...
Terrorists seek to destroy us by ripping our morals away from us, by convincing us to be like them through violence... If we murder and torture them to "win"... they will only get to point at us and say to the rest of the world "YOU SEE, Americans are cold blooded murderers, no better than us"
Murder is murder... there is no such thing as justification of killing. Thats whats makes them "evil", and if we murder them... that makes us "evil"
--VISION
:-d.... I do think this is a pretty damn awesome piece of tech... except for the "winCe" bit... horrible OS.... But how hard would it be to seperate the display from the CPU. etc...?
As for usefullness... i think this is probably the first usefull piece of tech ive seen in years... er the first significant advancement... of course the first few versions are gonna be trial and error crap... but i dont think it would be too hard for people to change the OS or to make user adjustable display elements.... such as transparency / display on-off / depth/distance...etc.... i dont think thats a problem at all...
Can you imagine if APPLE got it hands on this tech? That would be one heck of a computer.
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Great article... no stats.. no numbers... no data... just an opinion of un-published results... REAL concrete... thanx for convincing me to switch.
.conf file to whatever....
.NET with SQL 7 specs came out i swallowed my foot (which was in my mouth) and said screw it... im sticking with bezlebud as long as hes got the good shit.
.NET alone allows J# (a J++ implementation), C#, VB, JS, and an unlimited amount of other languages (provided you get the pack necesary).
.NET scares the hell out of me, cause it may actualy be Java done right, except with unlimited languages....
I use IIS because i like satan, and i also like setting up and modeling client websites within minutes... if not less. I like that with ASP.NET i can run a huge hunk of languages with nearly zilch time spent configuring... i like knowing that when i remotly develop someones site and all i have is a name/password, i wont have to know how to set the servers default
People SEVERLY underesitimate how important ease of use in ALL fields is... The easier to use.. the quicker to produce.. the quicker to produce the less money wasted and the more time working... I was gonna go completly anti-MS, but once
My number one thing... When Apache supports as many languages NATIVLY without a quigillion config changes / additional installs... ill be hopping the fence... But right now
Akira was really about the Trial of Best Friends being split apart by something thrust into their lives that they couldnt control. It was an exmplary expression of the inherent im-balence between most best friends, showing Tetsuo's Jealousies of Kanada, and Kanada's own problems being an orphan and a kid without direction. The thing thrust between them is of course the military research from WW III... The Akira project. Akira was actualy just another boy like Tetsuo who was injected/exprimented on with brain and mind over matter enhancments... eventually becomming too powerfull for the goverment and himself. The resultant plotline revolves around a de-stabilizing culture still suffering the ravages of WW III, The movie explores the depth of a broken society by using the two main chracters deeply intertwined love/hate relationship that takes them through ALL clases of neo-tokyo, from the impoverished kids and gangs, to the wealthy and corrupt goverment leaders to the rebelious masses who are straining for revolt to the college kids with grand ideas of reshaping the future to the terrorists urging and pushing for a rebelion. Meanwhile Kanada and Tetsua are fighting a very simple battle that most best friends fight constantly, who is the top dog.
The magic of Akira is its ability to Delve into all these areas with phenominal depth while capturing the viewer with a very real and very plain struggle. Think of how many times youve been jealous of your best friend and there you have the center of Akira. It goes back to when we all used to fight with our GI Joe's, who got to be king cobra or Hawk, who got to be optimus prime or StarScream, who got to be skeletor or He-man.
I fear that Norrington will miss and destroy the original films scope by trivializing the story in face of big explosions and not so great Computer Generated scenes. I sincerly DONT believe the movie needs to be made accesible at all... I only speak and understand english and have (in my own opinion) captured and understood the entire movie without any need for westernization (english dub of course).
I also Believe that this move CAN be done as live action succesfully, it would be sheer excelence if directly ported to 35mm, scene for scene reproduction would be excelent to watch... however i fear the movie will be made shorter eliminating the truely great storyline extrapalations and additionaly i doubt the american characters will have the chemistry necesary to discribe how close kanada and tetsua and the others are. It'll probably end up with Kanada a brad pitt looking white guy, tetsua a Chris rock or some other short and loud person, Kay just a beutifull dumb chick with reduced lines and reduced character (like storm from the XMEN movie), and other non-sensical characters.
The beuty of Akira is its reality, all the chracters are distinctly Japenese from Japan, no cross-culture characterizing conflicts, they simply are japanese street kids. I myself am a mulatto american street kid with little resemblance and very minute cultural similarities to this films premise, and what i enjoy most about this film, is it doesnt try to pander to my "background". It simply is a story that tells it like it is (or would be) without trying to be translated into my environment. I can only imagine how horrible an American Akira out of the Ghetto would/could be.... on the other hand... it could be astoundingly good....
But with this guys track record.... looks like Akira's gonna get mangled
Who ever said unix was dead? with the countless distros www.distrowatch.com and MAC OS X and all the servers/ gateways and routers out there, shes never been even close to dead.... what kind of article is this... common slashdot lets actualy REPORT something...
Simply put, As a Mac "zealot" in quotes cause i love NT adv Srv And mandrake just as much, this is just sad. I understand this is probably just a strict legal situation, child labor and such, apple "technicaly" is using underage workers for less than minimum wage. Om the books thats pretty bad, but in real life its ridiculous. sense the "ope source community" isnt a organazation or any true buisness in a real-world sense it can be thought of as a free labor pool. who gives a damn, i picked my quadra 605 apart at 11, wrote modem scripts and such, hacked BBS's (lol, remember those?) and by 17 was writing C++ apps and websites, etc... Laws need to change to reflect "hobbies" (lol) and real work (digging ditchs, selling hamburgers etc....) idiots... alll of them
"shaw, LAMEST Hack in history" jess, im surprised it took these guys that long to make this piece a poo software, ALL IT DOES IS MAKE MP3's with "organizer" data in their ID3 tags. im SOOOOOOOOO NOT impressed. Is this even a hack?
i mean technicaly speaking, did they actualy DO anything SPECIAL to make this work? it seems like they just set up their own musci genre or whatever (called "ipoddata") and then split off "albums" as contacts, work or whatever, sheesh, youd think these guys were gonna get an award for cleverness, they didnt DO anything special except make a ID3 tag editor that LOOKS like a organizer.
Next week im gonna intro the first text based trivia game for the ipod.... Will i get slashdot notice? lol
whats worst is the ipod IS fully capable of PDA functions, that extra special little port on top (not the firewire one) canplug in a good load of extra special little things like remotes or PDA style pens, hmmmm, i think these guys arent gona be to happy when apple starts releasing their "iUpgrades"
which still beats winBlows hands down.... linux is still free.. and its support is still free... as long as you know what your doing
LMAO
Anybody catch the bit that went "the ability to vaporise enemy troops and vehicles Star Wars-style will take a few more years to develop."
HAHA... "a few more years"?
well on that time scale i expect transportation, Molecular refabrication or sequencing (think HoloDeck and food synthisizers) within a decade or two...
That warp drive must be on schedule for mid century... Lord knows we WILL have holographic doctors that ACT better than the on on voyager by then... AND HE WAS SUPPOSED TO BE NEW!!!
Commander DATA will no longer be a dream of 23rd century, but a has been of the 2010's (search about for the self navigating human shaped robots in japan)
If you defeat your enemy by becoming him... whats the point? We ARE NOT under direct duress... dont believe me? Then why are you on vacation... drinking a beer... and watching TV? People like you are terrorized by the idea that one day you wont have a martini to sip while dreaming up all kinds of ideas of what to do to those silly "hatefull" terrorists... Unfortunately if you dont understand the problem... then you cant solve it.. Just cause you kill maim and torture these terrorists isnt going to make the problem go away... in fact youd just make the problem worse... NEVER EVER make a martyr of your enemy... the second you do youll have thousands upon thousands of supporters for his causes... What you want to do is catch them alive and well, treat them as good as you can, and sentance them in the most humane and respected way possible... You defeat terrorists by not being afraid to fight them with honor... Terrorists seek to destroy us by ripping our morals away from us, by convincing us to be like them through violence... If we murder and torture them to "win"... they will only get to point at us and say to the rest of the world "YOU SEE, Americans are cold blooded murderers, no better than us" Murder is murder... there is no such thing as justification of killing. Thats whats makes them "evil", and if we murder them... that makes us "evil" --VISION
:-d.... I do think this is a pretty damn awesome piece of tech... except for the "winCe" bit... horrible OS.... But how hard would it be to seperate the display from the CPU. etc...? As for usefullness... i think this is probably the first usefull piece of tech ive seen in years... er the first significant advancement... of course the first few versions are gonna be trial and error crap... but i dont think it would be too hard for people to change the OS or to make user adjustable display elements.... such as transparency / display on-off / depth /distance...etc.... i dont think thats a problem at all...
Can you imagine if APPLE got it hands on this tech? That would be one heck of a computer.