While there is a certain 'labor of love' comparison between scanlation and open source programming, and both involve alot of volunteer folks working on their own, that's about where the similarity ends. Open source is original work, and often it's an original idea. Scanlation is scanning in someone else's product and translating it. I think at one point translations were considered original work, but even if that were still the case, all of the artwork is still the publisher's property. Open Office is open source programming. Microsoft Office with a crack and a hacked translation into a new language is, while a labor of love, still outright theft.
Anyways, where did I save that latest Trigun manga...
Must...not....make...beowulf...joke...
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Renderfarm Setup Tips?
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No, that's not it at all. You can't block a whole state from voting. If only 1% of the voters in NY vote, it'll probably still go the same way. What you do is find a close state, with maybe 51% support for Kerry. Then you figure out the left-leaning districts and take THEM out.
Here in Atlanta, one popular station, 99X, has a recurring advertisement that boasts loudly that they are not in any way owned by Clear Channel. They're doin' darn well.
I recommend Mozilla or Firefox. They block pop-ups, pop-unders, all potentially bad ActiveX controls, and just about every other form of spyware. If you act now, you can even get standards compliance thrown in for free!
No, it's the right question. The goal is not to make everyone else understand and feel comfortable with your software as it is. The goal is to make your software so that everyone else understands and feels comfortable with it. If Windows users aren't ready to use Linux on the desktop, then Linux isn't ready for the desktop of anyone who is a Windows user.
Georgia Tech, in its infinite wisdom, solved the problem of people not being willing to pay the $350 for a parking permit by towing all cars with 3 tickets, whether or not they've been paid off.
This is why tools like lint exist. Alongside about 1000 other useful things, lint tells you if you ever fail to check the return value of a function call. Sure, it's tedius to always check the return of printf, but it's necessary and to some extent it can be automated.
U.S. Robotics? I'm sure that it sounds more familiar to audiences, but sheesh, they could've left the original name. What's wrong with "U. S. Robots and Mechanical Men, Inc?"
I don't like what I've seen so far. Don't get me wrong, I'm pleased as punch that they've left in the three laws, but why does there have to be a deep dark secret and robots throwing people around? Asimov's stories were great because they didn't need any discovering-the-evil-corporation's-plans sort of tricks. They worked with the three laws to produce all sorts of fascinating stories about robots who followed the rules perfectly. Sigh.
I sure hope the secret doesn't turn out to be that R. Daneel Olivaw is a girl.
Yeah, she was amazingly hot. On the DVD, they point out that Whedon, in his infinite wisdom, told her that she could be on the show, but she would have to gain 20 pounds so she would look like a real human. Bless the man.
I'm sorry, but when I heard a bunch of little groups of people was far too grainular to model in really large groups, I just started thinking about psychohistory.
We may not offer it as a major, but we do certainly offer a very successful class in video game design, alongside other classes that go along with it, such as digital video special effects (who make some very impressive movies), computer graphics, and more AI classes than you can shake a stick at.
Plus, the video game class has successfully sent at least one group to the IDGA conference every semester it's been taught, which is pretty impressive, seeing as it's one class amoung several and only has about 30 students, unlike Digipen where the whole school is trying solely to make games.
So, um, yeah...go Jackets! To hell with Georgia! Woooo!
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Ask Neil Gaiman
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Neil,
You and Terry Pratchett are two of my favorite authors, but asides from Good Omens, I never noticed much of a cross-over between any of your books. However, when American Gods came out, I couldn't help noticing that the portrayal of its gods and goddesses was very similar to Pratchett's portrayal of gods in Small Gods, another classic. Is this more than a coincidence?
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While there is a certain 'labor of love' comparison between scanlation and open source programming, and both involve alot of volunteer folks working on their own, that's about where the similarity ends. Open source is original work, and often it's an original idea. Scanlation is scanning in someone else's product and translating it. I think at one point translations were considered original work, but even if that were still the case, all of the artwork is still the publisher's property. Open Office is open source programming. Microsoft Office with a crack and a hacked translation into a new language is, while a labor of love, still outright theft. Anyways, where did I save that latest Trigun manga...
bah! too late!
You see? You got fooled by a fake YRO. That's why I always #name mine the first time I see them.
Zealots don't have to actually DO the things they're zealous about. Work is for boring people.
You left out Vorbis Ogg. He ordered people to eat dolphins, which are practically fish.
Yes, let's go with Phoenix's attempt at brand identity. I mean Firebird. Whoops, I mean Firefox.
No, that's not it at all. You can't block a whole state from voting. If only 1% of the voters in NY vote, it'll probably still go the same way. What you do is find a close state, with maybe 51% support for Kerry. Then you figure out the left-leaning districts and take THEM out.
::looks at sad man::
::looks at career path::
::cries::
Here in Atlanta, one popular station, 99X, has a recurring advertisement that boasts loudly that they are not in any way owned by Clear Channel. They're doin' darn well.
uh-huh, good, good, good, wait a second! One of those things you mentioned was a Microsoft solution!
I recommend Mozilla or Firefox. They block pop-ups, pop-unders, all potentially bad ActiveX controls, and just about every other form of spyware. If you act now, you can even get standards compliance thrown in for free!
No, it's the right question. The goal is not to make everyone else understand and feel comfortable with your software as it is. The goal is to make your software so that everyone else understands and feels comfortable with it. If Windows users aren't ready to use Linux on the desktop, then Linux isn't ready for the desktop of anyone who is a Windows user.
Georgia Tech, in its infinite wisdom, solved the problem of people not being willing to pay the $350 for a parking permit by towing all cars with 3 tickets, whether or not they've been paid off.
This is why tools like lint exist. Alongside about 1000 other useful things, lint tells you if you ever fail to check the return value of a function call. Sure, it's tedius to always check the return of printf, but it's necessary and to some extent it can be automated.
U.S. Robotics? I'm sure that it sounds more familiar to audiences, but sheesh, they could've left the original name. What's wrong with "U. S. Robots and Mechanical Men, Inc?" I don't like what I've seen so far. Don't get me wrong, I'm pleased as punch that they've left in the three laws, but why does there have to be a deep dark secret and robots throwing people around? Asimov's stories were great because they didn't need any discovering-the-evil-corporation's-plans sort of tricks. They worked with the three laws to produce all sorts of fascinating stories about robots who followed the rules perfectly. Sigh. I sure hope the secret doesn't turn out to be that R. Daneel Olivaw is a girl.
Yeah, she was amazingly hot. On the DVD, they point out that Whedon, in his infinite wisdom, told her that she could be on the show, but she would have to gain 20 pounds so she would look like a real human. Bless the man.
I'm sorry, but when I heard a bunch of little groups of people was far too grainular to model in really large groups, I just started thinking about psychohistory.
You could always get your money back by suing him for trespassing, couldn't you?
At kernel.org where the patch files lies.
I know I do. :)
My preciousssssssssss...My precioussssssss 2.6...
SCOses can't haveses our precioussssssssssss kernel....
As a student of Georgia Tech, I'd like to point out that the word you were looking for is spelled "won."
We may not offer it as a major, but we do certainly offer a very successful class in video game design, alongside other classes that go along with it, such as digital video special effects (who make some very impressive movies), computer graphics, and more AI classes than you can shake a stick at.
Plus, the video game class has successfully sent at least one group to the IDGA conference every semester it's been taught, which is pretty impressive, seeing as it's one class amoung several and only has about 30 students, unlike Digipen where the whole school is trying solely to make games.
So, um, yeah...go Jackets! To hell with Georgia! Woooo!
Neil, You and Terry Pratchett are two of my favorite authors, but asides from Good Omens, I never noticed much of a cross-over between any of your books. However, when American Gods came out, I couldn't help noticing that the portrayal of its gods and goddesses was very similar to Pratchett's portrayal of gods in Small Gods, another classic. Is this more than a coincidence?