You forgot about the worst part about One Piece: the dub. The voices (especially for Luffy) are the worst voices I've ever heard. It's so bad, it gives me nightmares.
The TV series is good too, but it is totally different from the OVA. The TV series is action and a fair bit of comedy, while the OVA (Called Samuri X in the US) is dark and violent.
The TV series is 95 episodes long. The last third of the series has a bi drop off in story quality because the show outran the Kenshin manga that it was based on, so the storyline was no longer based on it.
but I just don't see the publishers of movies like "The Wizard of Oz" or "A Bridge Too Far" or any other old movie I own on DVD thinking there's much of a benefit to porting those old movies to a new HD disc...
Many of those old movies, when converted to DVD, were also stored in a high def format. So it's cheap to come out with HD versions of them.
It's really tough for many elderly people to go grocery shopping - some are too old to drive a car safely, many grocery stores don't have powered carts so you have to walk the store, and the bags are heavy. Unfortunately, there are no online grocers where my parents live (both are in their mid 80s, and have the above problems). I was worried that the concept was going to die when Peapod and (I think it was called) Homerun ran into problems. But it sounds like it's catching on.
It was only a few years ago that many of us were cheering for Caldera in its DR DOS lawsuit against Microsoft. Hopefully, IBM would not do anything as stupid as Caldera/TSG has done since then.
nVidia has done the linux world a bit favour in releasing any drivers at all
Of course, I've done Nvidia a bit of a favor, buying six of their video cards. Which would have been another brand if they hadn't released linux drivers.
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I used ted on our SGIs, so it's not a dos editor. When it starts up, it has a startup message that it was written by Michael Sweet, and there is a post on comp.sys.sgi back in 1991 where he announced the release of ted 3.1.3. It was freely available in source form. Good luck in your search.
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Re:Anyone have a replica of MS-DOS EDITOR?
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There was an editor called "ted", written by Michael Sweet, that had that. This was done 10-15 years ago - ted 3.1.3 came out in 1991. Ted has been used as a name for an editor by several people, though.
actually, a human fares much better in 3 feet of water with rocks and mangroves than a dolphin or shark.
But then the human is no longer swimming, but leaping to safety.
I do believe the OP said SHORELINE life. We ARE well-adapted for shoreline life. Your linked site successfully debunks a claim the OP did not make.
They were claiming that they believed the AAT, which the site I linked to debunks. To get the effects that the AAT claims, shoreline life would have to include substantial body immersion, and not just shallow water wading.
Virtually no scientist in the field of biology takes the aquatic ape theory seriously. Here is a link to a site that debunks it.
BTW, humans are not good swimmers - we are *dead* slow. Dogs and monkeys have voluntary breath control. While we are not hairless, there are land dwelling mammals that are, including some pigs, naked mole rats, elephants, and rhinos. And our skin is unlike water dwelling mammals - poorly adapted for a aquatic lifestyle.
Subtitles can be more accurate than the dubs for a number of reasons. One is that dubs may modify the script so that the dialog corresponds to the lips moving - so they may have to add or shorten the actors lines. Another is that sometimes there is a tendency of sanitizing/deculturalizing the dubs, while the subtitles for the same movie/show are a more correct translation of the japanese. By sanitizing I mean that sexual or volent dialog may be cleaned up, and by deculturalizing I mean cultural references may be changed to something more "westernized", or language jokes changed to different puns or jokes in english. Subtitles are assumed to be for the purists, and dubs are assumed to be for kids (hence the sanitization) and casual viewers.
Well SCO has hinted at looking at the BSD settlement, so if the worst case scenario happens, even BSD isn't safe. But SCO will be gone long before that.
Gore's Grades Belie Image of Studiousness - His School Transcripts Are a Lot Like Bush's
By David Maraniss and Ellen Nakashima
Washington Post Staff Writers
Sunday, March 19, 2000; Page A01
An excerpt:
Gore arrived at Harvard with an impressive 1355 SAT score, 625 verbal and 730 math, compared with Bush's 1206 total from 566 verbal and 640 math. In his sophomore year at Harvard, Gore's grades were lower than any semester recorded on Bush's transcript from Yale. That was the year Gore's classmates remember him spending a notable amount of time in the Dunster House basement lounge shooting pool, watching television, eating hamburgers and occasionally smoking marijuana. His grades temporarily reflected his mildly experimental mood, and alarmed his parents. He received one D, one C-minus, two C's, two C-pluses and one B-minus, an effort that placed him in the lower fifth of the class for the second year in a row.
I had 5 75GXP drives in a raid system using a 3ware controller (mirrored, striped, with a hot replacement drive). Three of the drives failed in a year and a half. The filesystem was not used very much (archival storage), and the system was rebooted only a 4 or 5 times. I had enough fans in that sucker that it sounded like the flight deck of an aircraft carrier, so temperature was not a problem.
Why would you say they have nothing to do with science?
Just because someone claims to be scientific doesn't mean that they are scientific. And for creationism to be taken as science, they have to provide a scientific theory of creationism. And so far, they have not done it. Even the proponents of "Intellegent Design" (which is just a rehash of creationism) admit that they do not have a scientific theory.
If you want someone who will debate you anytime, anywhere - and will give you 250,000 dollars for proving empirically that evolution happened - I suggest you look up Doctor Dino - aka Ken Hovind
People have tried to collect on it, but he won't even follow his own rules. For example, here is an example:
I emailed him and pointed out that his offer makes it plain that he will submit the proofs to a panel, not judge them himself. I asked him to so submit them. He wrote back that he had lost the proofs! I submitted more to him from the same source together with a reference to a web article from the BBC (UK) site that mentioned evolution in mosquitoes existing in the London underground railway. I told Hovind that these were to be submitted to his panel, and that I needed to know the names of the panel so that I could judge their impartiality and qualifications for myself. A year later, I am still waiting for even one name from his purported "panel." The only response I got other than Hovind's snide and childish comments was from some guy who completely ignored the proofs, preached incessantly to me, and rambled on inanely about his own plant breeding experiments.
And even if he decides that someone has won the challenge, it is doubtful that he has the resources to pay - after all, he declared bankruptcy in 1996 after the IRS reposessed his property (and Hovind claimed that he had no income).
one reference of use if you were to honestly explore the creation in the context of science:
http://www.icr.org
The institute for creation research (icr) is a place that has nothing to do with science. They just try to claim they do. I suggest
the talk.origons website as a better reference for the creation/evolution debate.
-MDL
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And the biggest problem of all. 16" mirror for $900?? 18" DOB for $2200?? Go fish! Some crackpipe dreams here. Superbly figured mirrors, which focus light superbly well, in well built dob structures, are going to run you into bucks.
If you grind your own mirror, you can make an 18" scope for under $2200. And an amateur can grid an excellent mirror - it doesn't take exotic equipment to do it.
A quality 18" dobsonian telescope like a Starmaster is going to run you $6,400 without any options
I'm surprized that they are now over $1K more than an Obsession Telescope.
I'll put my refractor up against this guys mirrors any day!;)
Even an 8" AP refractor is toast against a 18" dob with a very good mirror on most objects. The slight advantage on planets is demolished by the dobs better reach on Deep Space Objects. And how much for a 206 Starfire EDF, with mount? $25K to $50K? (used, of course).
The secondary mirror is a huge 33% (by diameter) - usually, for a telescope like this you would try for around 20% or so. The larger the central obstruction, the lower the contrast. The upside is that it is a F8 (focal length/diameter ratio) scope, so that it is easier to collumnate (keep the mirrors in proper alignment) and will have less coma (stars near the outer edge are more eliptical, instead of circular points).
I would imagine that it must have been a bitch to figure (shape) the mirror - it's not a simple parabola, and would require much more effort than a conventional mirror the same diameter. Kudos to Mike Fallwell for doing something different!
Slashdot Mirror
Mod this up!!!!
So, you're the one sending me all of that email.
"There are a number of influential legislators who believe you evolved from an ape," Buttars said following the vote. "I didn't."
I don't the apes would want to claim Buttars as a descendant, either.
You forgot about the worst part about One Piece: the dub. The voices (especially for Luffy) are the worst voices I've ever heard. It's so bad, it gives me nightmares.
The TV series is 95 episodes long. The last third of the series has a bi drop off in story quality because the show outran the Kenshin manga that it was based on, so the storyline was no longer based on it.
-MDL
Many of those old movies, when converted to DVD, were also stored in a high def format. So it's cheap to come out with HD versions of them.
-MDL
It's really tough for many elderly people to go grocery shopping - some are too old to drive a car safely, many grocery stores don't have powered carts so you have to walk the store, and the bags are heavy. Unfortunately, there are no online grocers where my parents live (both are in their mid 80s, and have the above problems). I was worried that the concept was going to die when Peapod and (I think it was called) Homerun ran into problems. But it sounds like it's catching on.
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DOD = Department of Defense.
Of course, I've done Nvidia a bit of a favor, buying six of their video cards. Which would have been another brand if they hadn't released linux drivers.
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I no longer have the source to it.
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But then the human is no longer swimming, but leaping to safety.
I do believe the OP said SHORELINE life. We ARE well-adapted for shoreline life. Your linked site successfully debunks a claim the OP did not make.
They were claiming that they believed the AAT, which the site I linked to debunks. To get the effects that the AAT claims, shoreline life would have to include substantial body immersion, and not just shallow water wading.
-MDL
BTW, humans are not good swimmers - we are *dead* slow. Dogs and monkeys have voluntary breath control. While we are not hairless, there are land dwelling mammals that are, including some pigs, naked mole rats, elephants, and rhinos. And our skin is unlike water dwelling mammals - poorly adapted for a aquatic lifestyle.
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We're talking SCO here.
We're talking SCO here. Logic need not apply.
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No, it's normal in SCO-world.
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Just because someone claims to be scientific doesn't mean that they are scientific. And for creationism to be taken as science, they have to provide a scientific theory of creationism. And so far, they have not done it. Even the proponents of "Intellegent Design" (which is just a rehash of creationism) admit that they do not have a scientific theory.
If you want someone who will debate you anytime, anywhere - and will give you 250,000 dollars for proving empirically that evolution happened - I suggest you look up Doctor Dino - aka Ken Hovind
People have tried to collect on it, but he won't even follow his own rules. For example, here is an example:
And even if he decides that someone has won the challenge, it is doubtful that he has the resources to pay - after all, he declared bankruptcy in 1996 after the IRS reposessed his property (and Hovind claimed that he had no income).
-MDL
-MDL
http://www.icr.org
The institute for creation research (icr) is a place that has nothing to do with science. They just try to claim they do. I suggest the talk.origons website as a better reference for the creation/evolution debate.
-MDL
If you grind your own mirror, you can make an 18" scope for under $2200. And an amateur can grid an excellent mirror - it doesn't take exotic equipment to do it.
A quality 18" dobsonian telescope like a Starmaster is going to run you $6,400 without any options
I'm surprized that they are now over $1K more than an Obsession Telescope.
I'll put my refractor up against this guys mirrors any day! ;)
Even an 8" AP refractor is toast against a 18" dob with a very good mirror on most objects. The slight advantage on planets is demolished by the dobs better reach on Deep Space Objects. And how much for a 206 Starfire EDF, with mount? $25K to $50K? (used, of course).
-MDL
I would imagine that it must have been a bitch to figure (shape) the mirror - it's not a simple parabola, and would require much more effort than a conventional mirror the same diameter. Kudos to Mike Fallwell for doing something different!
-MDL