As others have said, Jackas^H^Hson left out the Scouring of the Shire...because he didn't like it. Personally it's a great ending because it emphasizes that even the "neverchanging, everprotected" Shire was affected by the war.
Americans don't know what's going. There's this group of nerds that scream out everytime a new law like the DMCA or perhaps even the Patriot Act gets signed into law, but the rest of the nation points and laughs at the "uptight crazy people" (no, I haven't actually been called that...as far as I know). The American public is blind, and it doesn't help that many of our laws are pushed through Congress because "it's for the security of our great nation", when really it's a grab for power (sometimes unchecked power). Education about these issues is about the only way for the U.S. to get a grip back on it's lawmakers, but I'm afraid as an American citizen that by the time it happens, it will be too late to make any changes.
The abilities of Hubble don't really lie in it's sheer imaging abilities but rather its vantage point. Being out of the Earth's atmosphere has quite a bit of an advantage over terrestrial telescopes because of less atmospheric distortion. That said, the Hubble does need to be replaced...and hopefully BEFORE Hubble is rendered useless.
I've been on the market for a good 3d software magazine that talks about MAYA, 3ds, and/or generic 3d modeling/animation information. Does anybody here know of any?
One thing I've noticed about dual displays is that, since I am no longer hampered by working space, I can do a million things at one (ok...maybe a little exagurated there...but a lot). When I go to work on a single display setup (happens often at work) I end up having to do things one...at...a...time. Basically I get hyperactive because I can't work at the speed that I'm used to.
Dual monitors is very very nice (especially for coding...pull up APIs on one display and have your IDE on the other...very nice). It also works really well with maya (put all of your tools and stuff on the left and work on the right).
It's definatelly possible. I run an NVidia GeForce 2 MX 400 on one display at 1600x1200 and a Matrox Millenium at 1024x768 (granted both at the same color level). There are a couple of different options for setup. The first is to use Xinerama...basically treats the whole setup as one big display (problem is that apps usually only will visually run as fast as the slowest card...so the ISA prolly would slow it down a whole lot). The other option is to treat each as a separate display. Email me at chuvaere -AT- montana -D0T- EDU and I'll send you my XF86Config file (have an example of both). One thing that may be a source of problems is that older PCI (and presumably ISA) need to be booted off of in order to be used (this can be set in your BIOS setup).
Not to mention the fact that most people don't understand that when you forward to a bunch of people (unless you use bcc), your email, along with everybody elses gets attached to that email. That email is then forwarded from person to person, collecting addresses...when finally it ends up at a spammer. Hm...wonder what they'd do with 1500 email addresses??
But can you remove (not just turn off) the effects of the GUI to make a completely minimialistic system? Can you replace the windowing system of XP to something that would run well on a Pentium 90? Linux has the ability to work with the most mimimalist setup you can think of, yet it also has the ability to do some pretty useless and cpu-sucking eye-candy effects. The whole point of linux is choice (and choice is both linux's best friend and worst enemy). Sure, windows has some choice, but windows can hardly be modified and customized compared to linux.
I tend to agree. The world won't get a good 3d environment until they get a good 3d input device. I can see how they might crudely accomplish this with a mouse-like device, using the X-Y axis controls like a current mouse, but then also have something like a scroll wheel controlling movement in the Z. Then you have that whole problem of rotation...just thinking about the controls boggles the mind (and reminds me of how much I need to replay Descent III:-) ).
Thanks for the info. Sounds like I'll have to give Giant Robo a second chance (I will admit that its been a while since I watched the first three, so I may have just been having a bad day or something). I've watched Escflowne 1/3 of the way through so far, and I must say that I am intrigued.
I guess I never got that far in Giant Robo, so I may have to go back and watch it all to see if my tastes have changed in the past couple of years. I also haven't watched all of Escaflowne, but that's one of my summer goals. I guess I like Eva because it relate to it a lot.
You misinterpreted my statement because I worded it poorly. First of all I should comment that by "bubble", I didn't mean a bad thing. Every person's life is their bubble (so yes, I do live in MY bubble...now the size of each person's bubble is a very different topic). My statement meant that you can live your life the way you want to and be happy with it, but don't assume because it's not worth your time that it's worth nobody's time. Each person has what they value in life (your house, job, and s.o. are very important things to value), but because you value them doesn't mean that others have to have the same values as you. I'm thankful that there are people out there who have the ability to value fighting against the RIAA (I have many other things to worry about), but because I can't do it doesn't mean that I should condemn those that can. And so now I wil STFU, as you so eloquently phrased it.
One thing I'd like to recommed to anime virgins, remember that anime is a medium, not a genre. There are quite a few anime genres, and don't make the assumption that all anime is the same. Find a genre you like and check those in that genre out. I personally like post-apocolyptic darker series and the occasional light hearted comedy (I definatelly recommend GTO (Great Teacher Onizuka) ). Just find a type you like and experiment in that type. You'll find the good ones (and appreciate them more because you'll have seem some ones you hated too).
Um...you mispelled Neon Genesis Evangelion as Giant Robo. Maybe it's just me, I just really really hated Giant Robo. But really, where is Evangelion on that list (don't tell me you don't like it!! ^_^).
I think a lot of people don't like the last Evangelion movie (the true ending) because it makes you feel absolutetly sick from the visceral feel. Personally I love it for catharsis-sake. I'm not the most emotionally stable person out there, and let me tell you, watching Shinji through the series, and finally through the ending, I feel so much better because of the way it handles it...I feel horrible, and then the show is over and my horrible feelings are gone. It's tiring though. Stand Alone Complex is much better than the movie personally, it raises a lot of questions that the movie didn't. It gives it much more depth.
You may not be interested because it does kind of follow the hot chicks + one guy style, but I highly recommend Love Hina. It's hilarious, and although it didn't invent the genre, it does it VERY well.
Then don't do it...nobody's asking you to. You live in your bubble and be happy...we have no right to ask you to do otherwise, but also understand that some people out there DO think this is a fight worth trying, and who the heck are you to tell them just because you don't deem it worth YOUR time it's not worth THEIR time. Different people with different priorities...don't like it, don't waste your time on it.
Here's a song by NoFX that I think you guys might enjoy (I highly recommend them if you are looking for a punk band that isn't being run by the RIAA)
Dinosaurs will die - NoFX
Kick back watch it crumble
See the drowning, watch the fall
I feel just terrible about it
That's sarcasm, let it burn
I'm gonna make a toast when it falls apart
I'm gonna raise my glass above my heart
Then someone shouts "That's what they get!"
For all the years of hit and run
For all the piss broke bands on VH1
Where did all, their money go?
Don't we all know
Parasitic music industry
As it destroys itself
We'll show them how it's supposed to be
Music's written from devotion
Not ambition, not for fame
Zero people are exploited
There are no tricks, up our sleeve
Gonna fight against the mass appeal
We're gonna kill the 7 record deal
Make records that have more than one good song
The dinosaurs will slowly die
And I do believe no one will cry
I'm just fucking glad I'm gonna be
There to watch the fall
Prehistoric music industry
Three feet in la brea tar
Extinction never felt so good
If you think anyone would feel badly
You are sadly, mistaken
The time has come for evolution
Fuck collusion, kill the five
Whatever happened to the handshake?
Whatever happened to deals no-one would break?
What happened to integrity?
It's still there it always was
For playing music just because
A million reason why
All dinosaurs will die
All dinosaurs will die
All dinosaurs will die
Sounds like I'm not the only one that marks cop cars by their looks. Recently our highway patrols changed from having the lights on the roof to having them mounted in the headlights area. Many people claim not to be able to pick them out anymore, but I have no problem: black Crown Victoria with a white roof and blacked-out wheels. Heck, the Crown Victoria around here his a dead giveaway.
As far as I understand, I think it comes from World War II, where the US had to "save" France. Some people evidentally think that the French are a weight on the American people, especially after the whole Iraq incident. Personally, as an American with French blood, get sick and tired of the the French bashing.
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As others have said, Jackas^H^Hson left out the Scouring of the Shire...because he didn't like it. Personally it's a great ending because it emphasizes that even the "neverchanging, everprotected" Shire was affected by the war.
Americans don't know what's going. There's this group of nerds that scream out everytime a new law like the DMCA or perhaps even the Patriot Act gets signed into law, but the rest of the nation points and laughs at the "uptight crazy people" (no, I haven't actually been called that...as far as I know). The American public is blind, and it doesn't help that many of our laws are pushed through Congress because "it's for the security of our great nation", when really it's a grab for power (sometimes unchecked power). Education about these issues is about the only way for the U.S. to get a grip back on it's lawmakers, but I'm afraid as an American citizen that by the time it happens, it will be too late to make any changes.
The abilities of Hubble don't really lie in it's sheer imaging abilities but rather its vantage point. Being out of the Earth's atmosphere has quite a bit of an advantage over terrestrial telescopes because of less atmospheric distortion. That said, the Hubble does need to be replaced...and hopefully BEFORE Hubble is rendered useless.
I've been on the market for a good 3d software magazine that talks about MAYA, 3ds, and/or generic 3d modeling/animation information. Does anybody here know of any?
One thing I've noticed about dual displays is that, since I am no longer hampered by working space, I can do a million things at one (ok...maybe a little exagurated there...but a lot). When I go to work on a single display setup (happens often at work) I end up having to do things one...at...a...time. Basically I get hyperactive because I can't work at the speed that I'm used to.
Dual monitors is very very nice (especially for coding...pull up APIs on one display and have your IDE on the other...very nice). It also works really well with maya (put all of your tools and stuff on the left and work on the right).
It's definatelly possible. I run an NVidia GeForce 2 MX 400 on one display at 1600x1200 and a Matrox Millenium at 1024x768 (granted both at the same color level). There are a couple of different options for setup. The first is to use Xinerama...basically treats the whole setup as one big display (problem is that apps usually only will visually run as fast as the slowest card...so the ISA prolly would slow it down a whole lot). The other option is to treat each as a separate display. Email me at chuvaere -AT- montana -D0T- EDU and I'll send you my XF86Config file (have an example of both). One thing that may be a source of problems is that older PCI (and presumably ISA) need to be booted off of in order to be used (this can be set in your BIOS setup).
See you next time spam cowboy!
I like it.
I was thinking the same thing. Nice one!!
Not to mention the fact that most people don't understand that when you forward to a bunch of people (unless you use bcc), your email, along with everybody elses gets attached to that email. That email is then forwarded from person to person, collecting addresses...when finally it ends up at a spammer. Hm...wonder what they'd do with 1500 email addresses??
But can you remove (not just turn off) the effects of the GUI to make a completely minimialistic system? Can you replace the windowing system of XP to something that would run well on a Pentium 90? Linux has the ability to work with the most mimimalist setup you can think of, yet it also has the ability to do some pretty useless and cpu-sucking eye-candy effects. The whole point of linux is choice (and choice is both linux's best friend and worst enemy). Sure, windows has some choice, but windows can hardly be modified and customized compared to linux.
I tend to agree. The world won't get a good 3d environment until they get a good 3d input device. I can see how they might crudely accomplish this with a mouse-like device, using the X-Y axis controls like a current mouse, but then also have something like a scroll wheel controlling movement in the Z. Then you have that whole problem of rotation...just thinking about the controls boggles the mind (and reminds me of how much I need to replay Descent III :-) ).
Thanks for the info. Sounds like I'll have to give Giant Robo a second chance (I will admit that its been a while since I watched the first three, so I may have just been having a bad day or something). I've watched Escflowne 1/3 of the way through so far, and I must say that I am intrigued.
I guess I never got that far in Giant Robo, so I may have to go back and watch it all to see if my tastes have changed in the past couple of years. I also haven't watched all of Escaflowne, but that's one of my summer goals. I guess I like Eva because it relate to it a lot.
You misinterpreted my statement because I worded it poorly. First of all I should comment that by "bubble", I didn't mean a bad thing. Every person's life is their bubble (so yes, I do live in MY bubble...now the size of each person's bubble is a very different topic). My statement meant that you can live your life the way you want to and be happy with it, but don't assume because it's not worth your time that it's worth nobody's time. Each person has what they value in life (your house, job, and s.o. are very important things to value), but because you value them doesn't mean that others have to have the same values as you. I'm thankful that there are people out there who have the ability to value fighting against the RIAA (I have many other things to worry about), but because I can't do it doesn't mean that I should condemn those that can. And so now I wil STFU, as you so eloquently phrased it.
One thing I'd like to recommed to anime virgins, remember that anime is a medium, not a genre. There are quite a few anime genres, and don't make the assumption that all anime is the same. Find a genre you like and check those in that genre out. I personally like post-apocolyptic darker series and the occasional light hearted comedy (I definatelly recommend GTO (Great Teacher Onizuka) ). Just find a type you like and experiment in that type. You'll find the good ones (and appreciate them more because you'll have seem some ones you hated too).
Um...you mispelled Neon Genesis Evangelion as Giant Robo. Maybe it's just me, I just really really hated Giant Robo. But really, where is Evangelion on that list (don't tell me you don't like it!! ^_^).
I think a lot of people don't like the last Evangelion movie (the true ending) because it makes you feel absolutetly sick from the visceral feel. Personally I love it for catharsis-sake. I'm not the most emotionally stable person out there, and let me tell you, watching Shinji through the series, and finally through the ending, I feel so much better because of the way it handles it...I feel horrible, and then the show is over and my horrible feelings are gone. It's tiring though. Stand Alone Complex is much better than the movie personally, it raises a lot of questions that the movie didn't. It gives it much more depth.
You may not be interested because it does kind of follow the hot chicks + one guy style, but I highly recommend Love Hina. It's hilarious, and although it didn't invent the genre, it does it VERY well.
Then don't do it...nobody's asking you to. You live in your bubble and be happy...we have no right to ask you to do otherwise, but also understand that some people out there DO think this is a fight worth trying, and who the heck are you to tell them just because you don't deem it worth YOUR time it's not worth THEIR time. Different people with different priorities...don't like it, don't waste your time on it.
Two more website to your cause. This could actually amount to something.
Here's a song by NoFX that I think you guys might enjoy (I highly recommend them if you are looking for a punk band that isn't being run by the RIAA)
Dinosaurs will die - NoFX
Kick back watch it crumble
See the drowning, watch the fall
I feel just terrible about it
That's sarcasm, let it burn
I'm gonna make a toast when it falls apart
I'm gonna raise my glass above my heart
Then someone shouts "That's what they get!"
For all the years of hit and run
For all the piss broke bands on VH1
Where did all, their money go?
Don't we all know
Parasitic music industry
As it destroys itself
We'll show them how it's supposed to be
Music's written from devotion
Not ambition, not for fame
Zero people are exploited
There are no tricks, up our sleeve
Gonna fight against the mass appeal
We're gonna kill the 7 record deal
Make records that have more than one good song
The dinosaurs will slowly die
And I do believe no one will cry
I'm just fucking glad I'm gonna be
There to watch the fall
Prehistoric music industry
Three feet in la brea tar
Extinction never felt so good
If you think anyone would feel badly
You are sadly, mistaken
The time has come for evolution
Fuck collusion, kill the five
Whatever happened to the handshake?
Whatever happened to deals no-one would break?
What happened to integrity?
It's still there it always was
For playing music just because
A million reason why
All dinosaurs will die
All dinosaurs will die
All dinosaurs will die
Sounds like I'm not the only one that marks cop cars by their looks. Recently our highway patrols changed from having the lights on the roof to having them mounted in the headlights area. Many people claim not to be able to pick them out anymore, but I have no problem: black Crown Victoria with a white roof and blacked-out wheels. Heck, the Crown Victoria around here his a dead giveaway.
As far as I understand, I think it comes from World War II, where the US had to "save" France. Some people evidentally think that the French are a weight on the American people, especially after the whole Iraq incident. Personally, as an American with French blood, get sick and tired of the the French bashing.
Where are mod points when you need them.