Yeah, but in Japan, you could have a $100 bill and still not have enough to both ride on the train and buy a cup of coffee. Of course, even the average data-entry clerk gets paid in their choice of precious gems or bags of money, so $60 is chump change to you Japanese. I mean, the only thing you guys have trouble affording is your own giant mecha, but with payment plans and interest rates the way they are, it's realistic to expect one in every garage by 2007.
Either that, or they figure you anime fans for a bunch of suckers.
Anime isn't very high on the procurement list of most video stores. Hell, it's hard enough to find DVDs of movies I want to rent. The only option for a lot of people is Netflix. I tried that, but found that, because of mailing lag, I had to watch movies as soon as I got them to make it worth my while. I don't have time for that. I'm busy wasting my time on/.
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I actually happen to prefer the English dub on Eva...
I've never seen Evangelion, but I actually prefer the english dub on Cowboy Bebop. The voice acting is perfect. Sometimes they just get it right. And besides, it's annoying to read when you're supposed to be looking at the pictures.
You know he invented the atomic bomb just so he could say that quote. I can picture him the night before, pulling a Travis Bickle in front of his mirror: "I am become death...
Oh man, I am such a badass."
How are we supposed to look smart if we can't criticize highly-skilled engineers? And, I ask you, how are we supposed to get a break at work if our computers always run smoothly? Shit, I'm running OS X now, I don't know what to do. I used to have 3 or 4 programs I could depend on to crash my machine.
And sometimes, you get really close to your bugs. Certain apps, you'd have to do things in a specific order - I was like a nerd Fonzie. Hit a couple keys, go "Ayyy," and watch the girls in the next cubicle swoon. But alas, now I have no bugs to complain about. Luckily, there's always UI issues!
...is now become an art form.
Is that bad grammar, or really advanced? Like that quote on the guy's helmet in Full Metal Jacket: "I am become death." What was that from anyway...?
It's funny, a few people recommended "League" as his second best (best being From Hell, the best $40 you can spend in comics, unless you're buying $40 of Sandman issues, or starting an Akira collection), so after reading FH I read League and Promethea and stopped, cause they both kinda sucked. Maybe I'll try Watchmen one of these days.
It's a comic by Alan Moore (of From Hell fame) about a group of superheros who are literary figures - Captain Nemo, Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde, etc.
Personally I didn't care for the book (and I was blown away by "From Hell" (the comic, not the movie)). Maybe this'll be one time the movie is better than the book.
Still waiting on movie adaptations of Bendis books. Goldfish, Jinx... Hollywood, I tap my foot in your general direction...
Every night I cry myself to sleep, lamenting the absence of an option key on the right side of my keyboard. As any Photoshop user knows, opt-del fills the selection. Over the years, I got so I could fill quicker than Wild Bill Hickock could draw. Then a couple years ago, Apple got rid of it! Now I have to use TWO HANDS to fill a selection! The horror! The. Horror.
Let's say the guys over at Penny Arcade want to send a gif out to all their loyal fans. Let's say their mailing list was 5,000 people long. It's gonna cost them $50! And if you charge per MB, it'll probably cost even more. Spam, like piracy, needs to be fought with a technical solution. These penny-a-mail type hacks just end up hurting the little guy.
My iBook (12", 700mhz) only bitches about reserve power when it hits 10% or so, and doesn't fall asleep until about 5%. No problems there.
But the battery life is kinda frustrating. The specs claim it can get up to 5 hours, but I only get around 2.5, and that's when doing stuff like typing the whole time. Is this normal? Do any of you guys get 5? I'm wondering if i have a bad battery...
I completely agree. But it was totally irrelavent to his point. It made it seem like his arguement lacked confidence, the same as if you mention cigars while criticizing Clinton's economics policies.
from the article:...Bill's boxes to Steve's elegant machines.
This is the kind of subjectivity that has no place in real journalism. Zealots are Apple's real threat. So many people hear "Apple" and think "using a Powerbook at a Starbucks, sipping a latte, dressed in black." Apple users are art-fags to them, and derogatory comments about "Windoze" aren't going to do anything but make it worse.
How about some fucking objectivity? Lemmie give you a tip, Sparky - people will take you more seriously when you say "Apple's new technology poses a real threat to MS" if you don't follow it with "I'm getting a sex change so I could maybe have Steve's baby"
When you listen to Britney's latest, you get the songwriting talents of some fat middle-aged man (SFMAM), the instrument-playing talents of SFMAM, the recording talents of SFMAM, the mixing talents of SFMAM, and some of Britney Spears' voice, filterd by SFMAM.
Guess what? These fat middle-aged men, in most cases, can do everything you say, and more. They can play fusion jazz like Tom Scott. Did it ever occur to you that they write pop songs because they *like* it? "Baby One More Time" is a hella good song. Everything about it is done with such skill and perfection, and it's all thanks to these middle-aged men who have been working in the industry for god-knows-how-long, and have honed their skills as sharp as a razor. If you really appreciated MUSIC, you'd be able to see this. Why don't they say the album is by "Rob Reverb" then, featuring Britney on vocals? It should be obvious. Would you buy an album with a picture of SFMAM on the cover? Furthermore, I'd bet these guys are happy and settled down; they don't want to go touring.
Fusion jazz "excites" a lot fewer people than pop music. I'm a big fan of all genres, and I pretty much can't stand it, aside from some Miles Davis. It's like these guys are mastrubating to their Berklee degrees. Please. You don't need to impress me with diminished 9th hooey. It's boring.
But fusion jazz artists like playing it, and there are people who like to listen to it. So where's the problem? Stop being a music nazi.
No, I didn't say that you can't break anything in a GUI. I implied that that you can't break something by mistake. It's impossible to accidently drag a file to the trash. It is possible (theoretically) to type "rm foobar.mov" and think you'll be opening up foobar.mov as a realmedia file.
I mean, couldn't you, if you got caught, just go out and buy the CDs that they accuse you of illegaly downloading?
Or what if your friend, who owns the latest Eminem CD, comes over your house, downloads it and plays it for you, and then deletes it? Or rather, how can they ever prove that that didn't happen?
I would guess that they only will prosecute people who upload stuff. Actually, I would guess that it's just a scare tactic; or maybe they'll pull a Mitnick and throw some random college kid in jail for 5 years, just to make an example of him. Yikes though.
I can recall many "non-geek" folks (e.g. secretaries, reception clerks, managers) coping perfectly adequately with DOS commands in the course of their work.
Yeah, but someone had to teach them what the commands were. I'm sure they were very apprehensive about it until they got the hang of it. With a GUI, you can click around and explore with confidence that you won't break anything.
It's not that users are dumber now, they just expect it to be obvious how to use their computer. And it should. I mean, if you're just starting out you have to read through man pages just to learn how to create a new directory. That's not right. Time spent learning how to do something that should be obvious is time well wasted.
That said, the CLI has its place, and I think it's just SO COOL how I can open up a terminal in OS X, or if I want, totally ignore it.
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Yeah, but in Japan, you could have a $100 bill and still not have enough to both ride on the train and buy a cup of coffee. Of course, even the average data-entry clerk gets paid in their choice of precious gems or bags of money, so $60 is chump change to you Japanese. I mean, the only thing you guys have trouble affording is your own giant mecha, but with payment plans and interest rates the way they are, it's realistic to expect one in every garage by 2007.
Either that, or they figure you anime fans for a bunch of suckers.
Anime isn't very high on the procurement list of most video stores. Hell, it's hard enough to find DVDs of movies I want to rent. The only option for a lot of people is Netflix. I tried that, but found that, because of mailing lag, I had to watch movies as soon as I got them to make it worth my while. I don't have time for that. I'm busy wasting my time on /.
I actually happen to prefer the English dub on Eva...
I've never seen Evangelion, but I actually prefer the english dub on Cowboy Bebop. The voice acting is perfect. Sometimes they just get it right. And besides, it's annoying to read when you're supposed to be looking at the pictures.
Over three-hundred dollars? Does it come with a geisha?
Thank God for Cartoon Network. Apparently everyone else only cares about the hardcore fans. God forbid you're a curious n00b.
You know he invented the atomic bomb just so he could say that quote. I can picture him the night before, pulling a Travis Bickle in front of his mirror: "I am become death...
Oh man, I am such a badass."
And I've already run into race conditions in the event handling for C#.
I knew C# was no good when I saw it buying white sheets and torches in bulk.
Ba-dum, ksssh!
(groan...)
How are we supposed to look smart if we can't criticize highly-skilled engineers? And, I ask you, how are we supposed to get a break at work if our computers always run smoothly? Shit, I'm running OS X now, I don't know what to do. I used to have 3 or 4 programs I could depend on to crash my machine.
...is now become an art form.
And sometimes, you get really close to your bugs. Certain apps, you'd have to do things in a specific order - I was like a nerd Fonzie. Hit a couple keys, go "Ayyy," and watch the girls in the next cubicle swoon. But alas, now I have no bugs to complain about. Luckily, there's always UI issues!
Is that bad grammar, or really advanced? Like that quote on the guy's helmet in Full Metal Jacket: "I am become death." What was that from anyway...?
It's funny, a few people recommended "League" as his second best (best being From Hell, the best $40 you can spend in comics, unless you're buying $40 of Sandman issues, or starting an Akira collection), so after reading FH I read League and Promethea and stopped, cause they both kinda sucked. Maybe I'll try Watchmen one of these days.
It's a comic by Alan Moore (of From Hell fame) about a group of superheros who are literary figures - Captain Nemo, Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde, etc.
Personally I didn't care for the book (and I was blown away by "From Hell" (the comic, not the movie)). Maybe this'll be one time the movie is better than the book.
Still waiting on movie adaptations of Bendis books. Goldfish, Jinx... Hollywood, I tap my foot in your general direction...
Every night I cry myself to sleep, lamenting the absence of an option key on the right side of my keyboard. As any Photoshop user knows, opt-del fills the selection. Over the years, I got so I could fill quicker than Wild Bill Hickock could draw. Then a couple years ago, Apple got rid of it! Now I have to use TWO HANDS to fill a selection! The horror! The. Horror.
Let's say the guys over at Penny Arcade want to send a gif out to all their loyal fans. Let's say their mailing list was 5,000 people long. It's gonna cost them $50! And if you charge per MB, it'll probably cost even more. Spam, like piracy, needs to be fought with a technical solution. These penny-a-mail type hacks just end up hurting the little guy.
My iBook (12", 700mhz) only bitches about reserve power when it hits 10% or so, and doesn't fall asleep until about 5%. No problems there.
But the battery life is kinda frustrating. The specs claim it can get up to 5 hours, but I only get around 2.5, and that's when doing stuff like typing the whole time. Is this normal? Do any of you guys get 5? I'm wondering if i have a bad battery...
Oh please. I know plenty of gay men who refer to themselves as "fags" in passing. Get off your high horse.
I completely agree. But it was totally irrelavent to his point. It made it seem like his arguement lacked confidence, the same as if you mention cigars while criticizing Clinton's economics policies.
Yeah, but it could be better.
...Bill's boxes to Steve's elegant machines.
from the article:
This is the kind of subjectivity that has no place in real journalism. Zealots are Apple's real threat. So many people hear "Apple" and think "using a Powerbook at a Starbucks, sipping a latte, dressed in black." Apple users are art-fags to them, and derogatory comments about "Windoze" aren't going to do anything but make it worse.
How about some fucking objectivity? Lemmie give you a tip, Sparky - people will take you more seriously when you say "Apple's new technology poses a real threat to MS" if you don't follow it with "I'm getting a sex change so I could maybe have Steve's baby"
Logan?
Hmmm, listening to music at full blast while riding a bike, followed by a crash...
Crap! I left my bag of i-told-you-so's at home.
When you listen to Britney's latest, you get the songwriting talents of some fat middle-aged man (SFMAM), the instrument-playing talents of SFMAM, the recording talents of SFMAM, the mixing talents of SFMAM, and some of Britney Spears' voice, filterd by SFMAM.
Guess what? These fat middle-aged men, in most cases, can do everything you say, and more. They can play fusion jazz like Tom Scott. Did it ever occur to you that they write pop songs because they *like* it? "Baby One More Time" is a hella good song. Everything about it is done with such skill and perfection, and it's all thanks to these middle-aged men who have been working in the industry for god-knows-how-long, and have honed their skills as sharp as a razor. If you really appreciated MUSIC, you'd be able to see this. Why don't they say the album is by "Rob Reverb" then, featuring Britney on vocals? It should be obvious. Would you buy an album with a picture of SFMAM on the cover? Furthermore, I'd bet these guys are happy and settled down; they don't want to go touring.
Fusion jazz "excites" a lot fewer people than pop music. I'm a big fan of all genres, and I pretty much can't stand it, aside from some Miles Davis. It's like these guys are mastrubating to their Berklee degrees. Please. You don't need to impress me with diminished 9th hooey. It's boring.
But fusion jazz artists like playing it, and there are people who like to listen to it. So where's the problem? Stop being a music nazi.
Geez, haven't you ever played Monopoly?
Until then, I waive my paw
I did the same thing, and now it's gone. *sniff*
(sorry, couldn't resist)
How do they know he returned his original iTunes SDK, and not a copy?
lol, that's totally true. No, I've never done tech support. It sounds fun though ;)
Maybe there's a learning curve either way, but I sure had a lot easier time learning to use a GUI than a CLI.
No, I didn't say that you can't break anything in a GUI. I implied that that you can't break something by mistake. It's impossible to accidently drag a file to the trash. It is possible (theoretically) to type "rm foobar.mov" and think you'll be opening up foobar.mov as a realmedia file.
I mean, couldn't you, if you got caught, just go out and buy the CDs that they accuse you of illegaly downloading?
Or what if your friend, who owns the latest Eminem CD, comes over your house, downloads it and plays it for you, and then deletes it? Or rather, how can they ever prove that that didn't happen?
I would guess that they only will prosecute people who upload stuff. Actually, I would guess that it's just a scare tactic; or maybe they'll pull a Mitnick and throw some random college kid in jail for 5 years, just to make an example of him. Yikes though.
I can recall many "non-geek" folks (e.g. secretaries, reception clerks, managers) coping perfectly adequately with DOS commands in the course of their work.
Yeah, but someone had to teach them what the commands were. I'm sure they were very apprehensive about it until they got the hang of it. With a GUI, you can click around and explore with confidence that you won't break anything.
It's not that users are dumber now, they just expect it to be obvious how to use their computer. And it should. I mean, if you're just starting out you have to read through man pages just to learn how to create a new directory. That's not right. Time spent learning how to do something that should be obvious is time well wasted.
That said, the CLI has its place, and I think it's just SO COOL how I can open up a terminal in OS X, or if I want, totally ignore it.