Except amongst dog afficionados, i.e. professional dog breeders and those Westminster(sp?) Kennel Club types.
Allowing pop-culture language to take over the specialized vernacular of a special interest group is as foolish as to expect the general public to directly adopt the language of a special interest group. By muddying the meaning of the word "hacker" and letting "cracker" fall into obscurity, you're making efficient communication more difficult.
If Slashdot wants to be "corerct for nerds" the differences between hacker and cracker should stand. If just pop-culture is desired, hacker is good by itself.
"Dell Dimension 2200 loaded up with 256 Megs RAM, 40 gig drive, 17" flat screen CRT... $900 with WinXP, Microsoft Works.
With the stability of a real XP kernel, and plug-n-play that really works, not to mention a UI with intuitive design instead of just being pretty. Why spend more and get less from a Macintosh?"
Alright, enough of your shenanigans... give 'Steve' his script back.... RIGHT NOW!
so they don't need a banana and an onion in front of them to know that you won't be able to create a decent desert with those two ingredients.
You, sir, Have apparently not seen enough episodes of Iron Chef. Anything... I say, ANYTHING can be made into a sorbet. (probably have to sautee the onions though)
There is also the fact that a large amount of a chef's work is recreating tested (and popular) recipies from memory, in addition to understanding the 'ingredient synergy' that is useful in experimentation. It's hardly the picture of a chef being left to toy with ingredients in the kitchen until something edible comes out, is it?
Honestly, a good chef should be able to stand back and tell other people how to prepare a dish... how many assistant chefs do you think an average resturant-operating chef has?
Actually, I'm beginning to like the chef analogy. Shouldn't the goal of a good programmer to be to set out with his basic tools (keyboard and compiler), recipies (design patterns and algorithms), and ingredients (libraries and other reuseable code) and come up with a correct solution the first time out... basically try to make sure that nothing leaves the kitchen that would displease a patron?
Of course it's not horribly realistic, since current time demands place the software (and hardware) industries more on the time-scale of the drive-through at McDonalds. Still, a good goal for any who would stake claim on the title 'professional'...
There are lies, damn lies, and marketing generated statistics. If there was such a thing as an "employment expert", I think they would have, by now, figured out the whole unemployment problem and solved it.
Well, if I could keep a steady, good-paying job that just involved producing meaningless context-less economic forecasts, I would certainly call myself an "employment expert" (i.e. expert at staying employed).
I think Gainax panicked when they quickly announced the movies soon after the end of the series caused controversy. Hideaki Anno himself didn't approve the projects, but did participate. He also said in the interviews that he is satisfied with the original ending. Everyone feels out-of-character in EoE, and there seems to be a strong "F U" attitude aimed at the fans demanding "real" ending. Next time you watch EoE, think Shinji as yelling otakus, and Asuka as Hideaki Anno and the NGE series. It's kind of funny how everything fits:-)
Am I the only one who remembers the old Gainax lore ? This kind of activity is completely typical of them... a prime example of revenge on the fans from back in the old day.
Revenge on the fans is the standard reaction of Gainax (I guess Anno in particular) when the more artful work of theirs is treated to a lukewarm reception by the otaku. The best example of this action/reaction was the release of Honneamisu no Tsubasa followed by Toppu wo Nerae! Gunbuster!. Gainax released one of the truly all-time great animated films, but apparently the public reaction was underwhelming to the folk at Gainax. The logical conclusion: give the otaku another great product, this time wrapped in anime cliches and stupidity... anime that, more or less, talks down to the fans.
Another example of the wierd relationship Gainax has with the anime otaku is truly bizarre Otaku no Bideo, where Gainax presents a looose animated history of itself ("Giant X" in the video) which is interspersed with live action "portrait of otaku": interviews with people acting out some standard otaku stereotypes. There's the tape collecting/trading otaku, the fake-guns military otaku, the prOn otaku, and several others. For the Americans, there's the westerner who's given up everything back home to move to Japan, the mecca of animation (or at least anime). All of them seem rather psychotic.
Despite all of this, Gainax clearly ranks themselves amongst the otaku. They are, in fact, such great lovers of animation that they have based their lives around trying to actually create animation. Sometimes, they aim for innovative and thoughtful animation that tries to transcend the current state of the industry. Odd how they'd be mildly vengeful when their art is poorly received by fandom.
Artists... yeesh.
Evangelion is about trying to find a way to cope with the painful reality of the world... to find some kind of meaining in one's futile life to make living worth while... a deeply personal story.
The "second ending for Evangelion" is just an immediate application of revenge on the fans. Fans get what they want... and hopefully feel somewhat stupid when they do get it.
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Except amongst dog afficionados, i.e. professional dog breeders and those Westminster(sp?) Kennel Club types.
Allowing pop-culture language to take over the specialized vernacular of a special interest group is as foolish as to expect the general public to directly adopt the language of a special interest group. By muddying the meaning of the word "hacker" and letting "cracker" fall into obscurity, you're making efficient communication more difficult.
If Slashdot wants to be "corerct for nerds" the differences between hacker and cracker should stand. If just pop-culture is desired, hacker is good by itself.
Perhaps they just sound like really good idea on a lonely Saturday night.
So what does the NFL have against anti-gravity?
I mean, what are they afraid of, the Zero-G Football League? Has the XFL taught us nothing???
With the stability of a real XP kernel, and plug-n-play that really works, not to mention a UI with intuitive design instead of just being pretty. Why spend more and get less from a Macintosh?"
Alright, enough of your shenanigans... give 'Steve' his script back.... RIGHT NOW!Congrats! Now that Slashdot's linked to you, you won't even notice that HardOCP traffic!
Dude... that was Aquafina Classic. They're just cashing in on the nostalgia.
You, sir, Have apparently not seen enough episodes of Iron Chef. Anything... I say, ANYTHING can be made into a sorbet. (probably have to sautee the onions though)
There is also the fact that a large amount of a chef's work is recreating tested (and popular) recipies from memory, in addition to understanding the 'ingredient synergy' that is useful in experimentation. It's hardly the picture of a chef being left to toy with ingredients in the kitchen until something edible comes out, is it?
Honestly, a good chef should be able to stand back and tell other people how to prepare a dish... how many assistant chefs do you think an average resturant-operating chef has?
Actually, I'm beginning to like the chef analogy. Shouldn't the goal of a good programmer to be to set out with his basic tools (keyboard and compiler), recipies (design patterns and algorithms), and ingredients (libraries and other reuseable code) and come up with a correct solution the first time out... basically try to make sure that nothing leaves the kitchen that would displease a patron?
Of course it's not horribly realistic, since current time demands place the software (and hardware) industries more on the time-scale of the drive-through at McDonalds. Still, a good goal for any who would stake claim on the title 'professional'...
Methinks some people need to get some lessons in picking up glass... or at least buy some gloves.
Well, if I could keep a steady, good-paying job that just involved producing meaningless context-less economic forecasts, I would certainly call myself an "employment expert" (i.e. expert at staying employed).
Hmmm... maybe I need to look into that.
Am I the only one who remembers the old Gainax lore ? This kind of activity is completely typical of them... a prime example of revenge on the fans from back in the old day.
Revenge on the fans is the standard reaction of Gainax (I guess Anno in particular) when the more artful work of theirs is treated to a lukewarm reception by the otaku. The best example of this action/reaction was the release of Honneamisu no Tsubasa followed by Toppu wo Nerae! Gunbuster!. Gainax released one of the truly all-time great animated films, but apparently the public reaction was underwhelming to the folk at Gainax. The logical conclusion: give the otaku another great product, this time wrapped in anime cliches and stupidity... anime that, more or less, talks down to the fans.
Another example of the wierd relationship Gainax has with the anime otaku is truly bizarre Otaku no Bideo, where Gainax presents a looose animated history of itself ("Giant X" in the video) which is interspersed with live action "portrait of otaku": interviews with people acting out some standard otaku stereotypes. There's the tape collecting/trading otaku, the fake-guns military otaku, the prOn otaku, and several others. For the Americans, there's the westerner who's given up everything back home to move to Japan, the mecca of animation (or at least anime). All of them seem rather psychotic.
Despite all of this, Gainax clearly ranks themselves amongst the otaku. They are, in fact, such great lovers of animation that they have based their lives around trying to actually create animation. Sometimes, they aim for innovative and thoughtful animation that tries to transcend the current state of the industry. Odd how they'd be mildly vengeful when their art is poorly received by fandom.
Artists... yeesh.
Evangelion is about trying to find a way to cope with the painful reality of the world... to find some kind of meaining in one's futile life to make living worth while... a deeply personal story.
The "second ending for Evangelion" is just an immediate application of revenge on the fans. Fans get what they want... and hopefully feel somewhat stupid when they do get it.