Yes to nitpick. It's written anime, without any "é"s or other wierd letters. It comes from the word "animeeshon" (with a long "e") which is the Japanification of the word animation. Animation -> animeeshon -> anime.
And if slashdot allowed me to enter Japanese letters, I could show you the actual spelling.
Not only that, each number actually 2 readings. The "Japanese" and the "Chinese" readings. In double quotes because both are Japanese, but the "Chinese" readings historically evolved from Chinese readings.
For example 3661 can be mnemoniced to "Samurai". 3 = san -> sa 6 = mu, roku -> ra 1 = ichi -> i
So indeed he could have made a complete story out of the mnemonics, making it easier to remember.
Not only that, any culture that uses kanji (chinese characters) as one of the main writing methods has their brains used to memorizing a lot of data. Whether it is directly or using mnemonics.
First of all, I do understand most of them. And it sounds good to me. Some of the character indeed sound bad, but usually they really fit the character. The dark evil characters simply sound better in japanese;) And the cutsie characters just sound horrible in english.
Btw, about your sig... apparantly the original quote was "To be, to be or not to be?" which translates to: 0x2B + (0x2B | ~0x2B) = 43 + 0xFF = 43 + (-1) = 42
And you know what? I DON'T EVEN WANT TO WATCH DUBS! Original japanese voices, in 99.9999999% of the cases, are vastly superior to the american dubbed versions.
"official" versions have all the text written in a single boring sub style, with no karaoke, no translator notes and nothing to pass the ton of nuances in the original script, which japanese put a LOT.
And then you get to the "diluted" versions as you mentioned them. There are many japanese shows mainly for children, but have value for older people aswell. When these shows get to the US, they become distilled of all the things that older people like in them. Usually things kids don't really understand, but makes it fun when you do.
While the video quality is high and the translations are generally good, at many times the fansubs are superior, even in pure quality. Not to even mention the japanese idioms that disappear.
Indeed! And don't even try playing complex 2 player games on the PC using only a keyboard. Keys locking up is hell and being cramped so close together just make it not the same.
We've found that for 2 player games, the best is having 3 players. When one loses, the other plays. That way no one gets bored by not playing and it's refreshing to not play against the same person over and over again.
For me, and for others I believe, watching another person playing _well_ in a game is still a lot of fun... it's like watching a good movie.
Indeed sometimes when I play a game on my PC, alone, and then see some cool/funny thing in the game, I feel like talking about it to somebody... but if that person is already by my side, it's a lot of fun:-P
You can read guides... Don't get close to cockatrices, and eat a lizard or use acid if you hear their hissing. Also, NEVER TOUCH THEM WITHOUT GLOVES!!! If you're fighting a cockatrice, are blind and without gloves, DON'T MOVE or use FORCED MOVE without touching stuff, otherwise you'll try to feel what's on the floor and die:P
Learn to use Elbereth. Engrave it on the floor to make most monsters stay back.
When you get to the medusa map, you'll need to get accross the water, there are various methods, or dig to get to the lower level.
Agreed. As the other posters mentioned, there are many great 2D games for the GBA.
The games I found myself playing the most in the last year are on emulators. All metroid games not including prime. A couple of castlevania games, mainly CotM and AoS for the GBA and now SotN for the PS. And various other consoles games such as Crystalis, Puyopuyo, Zelda....
The graphics are "outdated" but they are eye pleasing, from the aestethic standpoint!
Not to say newer, 3D games are bad... for example Soul Calibur (for the DC) is an excellent game (and works surprisingly well with a keyboard).
Why not combine both worlds? Allow to the user to set up their options just like in an emulator? Surely it will dumbed down a bit instead of giving you over 20 filtering methods.
Ummm what about the solar sail? The amount of fuel required for it is essentially zero, and the theories point toward reaching 0.2c in about 3 years using only our sun. There's even an experiment planned to launch in the very near future.
Wow that looks a hell lot like SQL. Replace "get-process" with "SELECT * FROM processes". Replace "get-member m" with "SELECT m FROM...". Replace "where" with.. well, "WHERE" and so on...
They only said running Linux is for losers. They didn't say Windows was any better. So now you're neither cool nor [insert Linux advantage over Windows].
Step one: OBTAIN some CP. Actually paying for porn, legal or not is a depraved act.
Step two: Find out when someone's house is about to be searched.
Step three: Install a trojan on his PC that: * goes and downloads all the images to his temporary folder. * downloads a different set of images, in an encrypted archive file (using a simple password) and place somewhere in his home dir. * posts said images to usenet or any big enough forum.
There, you ruined a person's life without them knowing anything.
Wrong wrong and wrong. There's a fuckload of CP posted all around the world. And i'm talking about the illegal things (not just "pure" naked children, which fall under "art"). They are usually posted to random anonymously postable boards, and are usually deleted quite fast by the moderators. And while looking around porn sites, I sometimes stumble upon real CP which can't be classified as over 18 in any way. At those times I report those site to ASACP.
Also, there's a distinguishing between pre-teens and teens. Although 18 is usually considered the age of consent, mother nature attracts people to fully sexually developed children in the age range of 13-18. While I agree that the laws should be followed, this distinction has to be made. Especially in our days, where the average age of starting to have sex in practice goes down quite fast.
1. The general public who uses "pirated" software wouldn't have bought it anyways, hence there's no loss of income. Moreover, they pretty much act as free beta testers.
2. Most companies who use commercial software do pay the licensing fees, so no loss of income. However, companies that decide to switch to cheaper, possibly opensource solutions are in fact loss of income for the software vendors. Nonetheless, switches like this are completely legal. So again, no loss of income due to illegal actions.
The BSA is full of it. Those who use pirated software wouldn't have bought it anyways and even if forced (as in bigbrother) to not use a certain piece of software without paying, they would have found alternative applications and still not pay up. Those who do pay are getting fed up with the EULAs, crappy software and prices then turn to cheaper alternatives.
Not only that, but you can design the code to be tolerant to specific kinds of errors, the errors common in the system you are trying to protect.
For example the CRC error detection scheme, while not cryptographically secure, it is tolerant, for example, to errors which are long streams of 0s or 1s. This is a common error on communication lines. Another example is error correction on DVDs. The data is coded in a way that a scratch will be detected for example by keeping the parity bits physically far from the scratch. If you hold the parity bits, for example, 10 degrees after the data, a radial scratch will be detected, while logically it'll be near the data, so reads are easy.
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Yes to nitpick.
It's written anime, without any "é"s or other wierd letters.
It comes from the word "animeeshon" (with a long "e") which is the Japanification of the word animation.
Animation -> animeeshon -> anime.
And if slashdot allowed me to enter Japanese letters, I could show you the actual spelling.
No where in his post did he say he doesn't like classical music, or stated something other than facts.
:-P
Popular music has a large market. Regardless if popular music is any better or worse than unpopular music (usually worse).
He just said it's understandable that unpopular music has smaller markets, by definition of popularity
I know the music I listen to has a relatively TINY market, yet it's quality material, at least in my eyes.
You did understand the GP was joking, trying to show he lost HIS 2), right?
Not only that, each number actually 2 readings.
The "Japanese" and the "Chinese" readings. In double quotes because both are Japanese, but the "Chinese" readings historically evolved from Chinese readings.
For example 3661 can be mnemoniced to "Samurai".
3 = san -> sa
6 = mu, roku -> ra
1 = ichi -> i
So indeed he could have made a complete story out of the mnemonics, making it easier to remember.
Not only that, any culture that uses kanji (chinese characters) as one of the main writing methods has their brains used to memorizing a lot of data. Whether it is directly or using mnemonics.
First of all, I do understand most of them. And it sounds good to me. Some of the character indeed sound bad, but usually they really fit the character. The dark evil characters simply sound better in japanese ;) And the cutsie characters just sound horrible in english.
Btw, about your sig... apparantly the original quote was "To be, to be or not to be?" which translates to:
0x2B + (0x2B | ~0x2B) = 43 + 0xFF = 43 + (-1) = 42
And you know what?
I DON'T EVEN WANT TO WATCH DUBS!
Original japanese voices, in 99.9999999% of the cases, are vastly superior to the american dubbed versions.
"official" versions have all the text written in a single boring sub style, with no karaoke, no translator notes and nothing to pass the ton of nuances in the original script, which japanese put a LOT.
And then you get to the "diluted" versions as you mentioned them. There are many japanese shows mainly for children, but have value for older people aswell. When these shows get to the US, they become distilled of all the things that older people like in them. Usually things kids don't really understand, but makes it fun when you do.
While the video quality is high and the translations are generally good, at many times the fansubs are superior, even in pure quality. Not to even mention the japanese idioms that disappear.
MU.
Longhorn is not going to be built.
Or at least not shipped in our generation.
And in the United States too...
But who will think of soviet russia?
Indeed, but if it's a condition stating something like "I'm registered", you just need to stay unregistered and u'll be fine :)
Indeed!
:-P
And don't even try playing complex 2 player games on the PC using only a keyboard. Keys locking up is hell and being cramped so close together just make it not the same.
We've found that for 2 player games, the best is having 3 players. When one loses, the other plays.
That way no one gets bored by not playing and it's refreshing to not play against the same person over and over again.
For me, and for others I believe, watching another person playing _well_ in a game is still a lot of fun... it's like watching a good movie.
Indeed sometimes when I play a game on my PC, alone, and then see some cool/funny thing in the game, I feel like talking about it to somebody... but if that person is already by my side, it's a lot of fun
You can read guides... :P
Don't get close to cockatrices, and eat a lizard or use acid if you hear their hissing. Also, NEVER TOUCH THEM WITHOUT GLOVES!!! If you're fighting a cockatrice, are blind and without gloves, DON'T MOVE or use FORCED MOVE without touching stuff, otherwise you'll try to feel what's on the floor and die
Learn to use Elbereth. Engrave it on the floor to make most monsters stay back.
When you get to the medusa map, you'll need to get accross the water, there are various methods, or dig to get to the lower level.
Shoot down the gate in the castle and go over it.
Agreed.
As the other posters mentioned, there are many great 2D games for the GBA.
The games I found myself playing the most in the last year are on emulators.
All metroid games not including prime.
A couple of castlevania games, mainly CotM and AoS for the GBA and now SotN for the PS.
And various other consoles games such as Crystalis, Puyopuyo, Zelda....
The graphics are "outdated" but they are eye pleasing, from the aestethic standpoint!
Not to say newer, 3D games are bad... for example Soul Calibur (for the DC) is an excellent game (and works surprisingly well with a keyboard).
This site shows a speculated tree of evolution of game controllers.
It is indeed evolutionary, with each generation resembling the previous one, but a bit different.
Some people use Acronym Finder.
Why not combine both worlds?
Allow to the user to set up their options just like in an emulator?
Surely it will dumbed down a bit instead of giving you over 20 filtering methods.
Ummm what about the solar sail?
The amount of fuel required for it is essentially zero, and the theories point toward reaching 0.2c in about 3 years using only our sun.
There's even an experiment planned to launch in the very near future.
Wow that looks a hell lot like SQL.
Replace "get-process" with "SELECT * FROM processes".
Replace "get-member m" with "SELECT m FROM...".
Replace "where" with.. well, "WHERE"
and so on...
Not that it's inherently bad...
They only said running Linux is for losers. They didn't say Windows was any better.
So now you're neither cool nor [insert Linux advantage over Windows].
Step one: OBTAIN some CP. Actually paying for porn, legal or not is a depraved act.
Step two: Find out when someone's house is about to be searched.
Step three:
Install a trojan on his PC that:
* goes and downloads all the images to his temporary folder.
* downloads a different set of images, in an encrypted archive file (using a simple password) and place somewhere in his home dir.
* posts said images to usenet or any big enough forum.
There, you ruined a person's life without them knowing anything.
Wrong wrong and wrong.
There's a fuckload of CP posted all around the world. And i'm talking about the illegal things (not just "pure" naked children, which fall under "art"). They are usually posted to random anonymously postable boards, and are usually deleted quite fast by the moderators.
And while looking around porn sites, I sometimes stumble upon real CP which can't be classified as over 18 in any way.
At those times I report those site to ASACP.
Also, there's a distinguishing between pre-teens and teens. Although 18 is usually considered the age of consent, mother nature attracts people to fully sexually developed children in the age range of 13-18. While I agree that the laws should be followed, this distinction has to be made. Especially in our days, where the average age of starting to have sex in practice goes down quite fast.
1. The general public who uses "pirated" software wouldn't have bought it anyways, hence there's no loss of income. Moreover, they pretty much act as free beta testers.
2. Most companies who use commercial software do pay the licensing fees, so no loss of income. However, companies that decide to switch to cheaper, possibly opensource solutions are in fact loss of income for the software vendors. Nonetheless, switches like this are completely legal. So again, no loss of income due to illegal actions.
The BSA is full of it.
Those who use pirated software wouldn't have bought it anyways and even if forced (as in bigbrother) to not use a certain piece of software without paying, they would have found alternative applications and still not pay up.
Those who do pay are getting fed up with the EULAs, crappy software and prices then turn to cheaper alternatives.
And if there's another DS around with the game, you can lets the dogs play with eachother (according to some vids about the game).
Not only that, but you can design the code to be tolerant to specific kinds of errors, the errors common in the system you are trying to protect.
For example the CRC error detection scheme, while not cryptographically secure, it is tolerant, for example, to errors which are long streams of 0s or 1s. This is a common error on communication lines.
Another example is error correction on DVDs. The data is coded in a way that a scratch will be detected for example by keeping the parity bits physically far from the scratch.
If you hold the parity bits, for example, 10 degrees after the data, a radial scratch will be detected, while logically it'll be near the data, so reads are easy.