Well, I might be considered an otaku but I am not a big fan of Miyazaki. His stories tend to be far too preachy for my tastes. On the other hand his and his team's design of flying craft are just beautiful.:)
American type of animation doesn't reconcile with Japanese. Take the animation your nick is named after. Fifty-odd episode over one and a half year wasn't it, that's just too short for Americans. What about 13 episode stuff? It won't work. American kids used to one episode every morning, nothing changing between seven or eight years (seasons) of stuff. Only Pokemon or its mind-numbingly dumb kids stuff come close to that. Apart from a couple of epic stories, Japanese companies generate much smaller volume of work with a higher quality. Just for an example from this year and the previous: epic stories (52 episodes plus or minus a couple): Full Metal Alchemist, Samurai 7; romance comedies: school rumble; action: Ghost in the Shell; fighting: Naruto, off-beat: Samurai Champloo, Twin Spica; mistery/horror: Monster and so on.There are a couple of remakes like Ah Megami Sama and remakes of reasonably old mangas like Ichigo 100% plus the never-ending saga of Gundam:Gundam Seed Destiny... All of these are very high quality productions, mainly not for 10 year olds. I am now over thirty (damn I'm getting old) and I love all of these stuff (minus naruto, never managed to like it).
A co-worker gave me a nice cross-yagi for 2m. When I have some time free on my hand I'll finish it with a 70cm one as well and will be ready for satellite hunting. I already have an FT-847 which was marketed as "Earth Station" and has quite usefull stuff for satellite comms.
OTOH, I haven't touched the rig for a couple of months. Quite stupid really, at least the HF comms should be fine at this time of the year.
The biggest problem is... Actually.. The problem is... Japanese are just good at this work... Really good. Brilliantly good. Impressively good. Trying to compete with Japanese and especially creme ala creme Miyazaki stuff, Disney has no chance.
Anime can just be a fad but even after anime has dissapeared from USofA, Japanese will still continue creating masterpieces. No one is interested in a cat chasing a mouse anymore. History, character growth and a real story makes a difference.
Some of the best japanese stuff are not for kids but for young adults and grown-ups. Disney stuff just won't do.
well, the paper pushers in all governments are trying to shut those radio transmitters down. There used to be one in Rugby, UK but I thinkit's been shut down. Also with the BPL, ham radio is doomed. I think governments are trying to kill any type of communication you don't have to pay for (see attack on VoIP in USA).
oh come on, Oracle is fully supported on SuSE SLES as well and their techies will suggest FTP versions as well (although not for production and 'not-supported').
I have two of those 24" Sun beasts, one is sitting idle in my bedroom (there was some spare space), the other one is used as "the newspaper" on the breakfast table. Works great!
I never understood why people prefer LCDs to CRTs. None of the CRTs I've used came close to my relatively cheap 19" CRT's quality, sharpness, response or brightness (let alone constrast and colour).
Give me a good quality 24" LCD with the same characteristics, I might reconsider. Until then, from my dead cold hands indeed.
I dropped a 21" Compaq beast from 1.5m. It was a sad sight. Never try to dumpsterdive for an oversized CRT. a) It doesn't worth breaking your back b) it doesn't worth it!
Some time ago I installed a Netscape LDAP 4 family server with about a million users, if they are still using it, it must have had even more by this time. It works folks, it works.
It wasn't that hard to set up either. (That config had a rather simplistic hierarchy).
Harrier was designed for operating in the Soviet-infested front lines of Europe. The idea was hiding in forests or crowded places without a long runway getting bombed all the time.
Fortunately it was never used for the arena it was designed for. Phew.
On the other hand, it was designed with the sole aim of VTOL and it is still the only fixed-wing aircraft which can do this comfortably. V-22's are still not operational, are they? I'm not sure about JSF's VTOL capabilities either.
But soon there would be proprietary software built on top of what they get from Red Hat. That would not be GPL'd. Soon there could be a version of Linux that works flawlessly with Windows that's only available from Microsoft.
And what's stopping doing exactly that, just now? Nothing. They don't have to buy RedHat to do this and any programmer worth his/her integrity would resign as soon as possible.
That's just silly. There is a slight difference between GPL'ed code and BSD'ed code. They can fork Linux any time they like - right now. No one is stopping them.
And what is the problem with them making enhancements? GPL'ed source code means if you start distributing binaries, you have to make source available. Everyone profits. They can start doing that without purchasing RedHat. RedHat Enterprise and hobbyist products are available in source. They can start modifying any BSD-licensed code already.
Ah, you're right. I looked at the slab, it is actually a sparcstation 20. I must have rememberred incorrectly, there are two identical slabs sitting under my desk which are ultras.
I recently installed DragonFly on a laptop and a very old desktop. It had been some time since I attempted a BSD as a desktop and I was quite impressed with its speed (laptop had 48MB ram and Pentium 150 CPU and the desktop had 128MB ram and Pentium 200). None of the modern Linux distributions were as fast and responsive on these boxes as the DragonFly is.
Taking I've been using commercial Unix and Linux flavours for quite some time now, can you explain if I should ditch these two DragonFly's and switch to FreeBSD 5.4? I am seriously thinking of installing my home web server on a DragonFly machine because of its performance on old hardware and simplicity. What would be the pros and cons?
(Moderators: This is a serious question, not a troll so bugger off).
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Well, I might be considered an otaku but I am not a big fan of Miyazaki. His stories tend to be far too preachy for my tastes. On the other hand his and his team's design of flying craft are just beautiful. :)
American type of animation doesn't reconcile with Japanese. Take the animation your nick is named after. Fifty-odd episode over one and a half year wasn't it, that's just too short for Americans. What about 13 episode stuff? It won't work. American kids used to one episode every morning, nothing changing between seven or eight years (seasons) of stuff. Only Pokemon or its mind-numbingly dumb kids stuff come close to that. Apart from a couple of epic stories, Japanese companies generate much smaller volume of work with a higher quality. Just for an example from this year and the previous: epic stories (52 episodes plus or minus a couple): Full Metal Alchemist, Samurai 7; romance comedies: school rumble; action: Ghost in the Shell; fighting: Naruto, off-beat: Samurai Champloo, Twin Spica; mistery/horror: Monster and so on.There are a couple of remakes like Ah Megami Sama and remakes of reasonably old mangas like Ichigo 100% plus the never-ending saga of Gundam:Gundam Seed Destiny... All of these are very high quality productions, mainly not for 10 year olds. I am now over thirty (damn I'm getting old) and I love all of these stuff (minus naruto, never managed to like it).
Well, it will be leaving a massive ionization trail so someone can do some "meteor" scatter off it! :)
OTOH, I haven't touched the rig for a couple of months. Quite stupid really, at least the HF comms should be fine at this time of the year.
Anime can just be a fad but even after anime has dissapeared from USofA, Japanese will still continue creating masterpieces. No one is interested in a cat chasing a mouse anymore. History, character growth and a real story makes a difference.
Some of the best japanese stuff are not for kids but for young adults and grown-ups. Disney stuff just won't do.
Probably your test subjects would die even younger because of all of the parasites they picked up from the raw meat.
well, the paper pushers in all governments are trying to shut those radio transmitters down. There used to be one in Rugby, UK but I thinkit's been shut down. Also with the BPL, ham radio is doomed. I think governments are trying to kill any type of communication you don't have to pay for (see attack on VoIP in USA).
oh come on, Oracle is fully supported on SuSE SLES as well and their techies will suggest FTP versions as well (although not for production and 'not-supported').
15" screen small? When earth was young and I had a 12" Hercules green mono, moving to a 14" CRT with 800x600 VGA res really made the difference...
I never understood why people prefer LCDs to CRTs. None of the CRTs I've used came close to my relatively cheap 19" CRT's quality, sharpness, response or brightness (let alone constrast and colour).
Give me a good quality 24" LCD with the same characteristics, I might reconsider. Until then, from my dead cold hands indeed.
I dropped a 21" Compaq beast from 1.5m. It was a sad sight. Never try to dumpsterdive for an oversized CRT. a) It doesn't worth breaking your back b) it doesn't worth it!
It wasn't that hard to set up either. (That config had a rather simplistic hierarchy).
Im my area of UK, hardly a garden shed... :(
Well, is an living-god-emperor better than a speaking-to-god-president or not? Give me the emperor any day.
I read it as JSF once, Jupiter Space Force. That's too much time spent watching Nadesico.
Fortunately it was never used for the arena it was designed for. Phew.
On the other hand, it was designed with the sole aim of VTOL and it is still the only fixed-wing aircraft which can do this comfortably. V-22's are still not operational, are they? I'm not sure about JSF's VTOL capabilities either.
can I have my mirror back, please?
And what's stopping doing exactly that, just now? Nothing. They don't have to buy RedHat to do this and any programmer worth his/her integrity would resign as soon as possible.
Interesting. I wonder why every time we involve with IBM and Linux, we push out SuSE SLES to the customer, not RHEL.
That's just silly. There is a slight difference between GPL'ed code and BSD'ed code. They can fork Linux any time they like - right now. No one is stopping them.
They have enough money in the kitty to destroy a couple of well established companies. That's the only positive outcome (as MS is concerned).
And what is the problem with them making enhancements? GPL'ed source code means if you start distributing binaries, you have to make source available. Everyone profits. They can start doing that without purchasing RedHat. RedHat Enterprise and hobbyist products are available in source. They can start modifying any BSD-licensed code already.
Ah, you're right. I looked at the slab, it is actually a sparcstation 20. I must have rememberred incorrectly, there are two identical slabs sitting under my desk which are ultras.
damn. The ultrasparc I got for free is 32 bit. On the other hand the JavaStation E I'm going to play with this weekend is also 32 bit (has SPARC CPU).
Taking I've been using commercial Unix and Linux flavours for quite some time now, can you explain if I should ditch these two DragonFly's and switch to FreeBSD 5.4? I am seriously thinking of installing my home web server on a DragonFly machine because of its performance on old hardware and simplicity. What would be the pros and cons?
(Moderators: This is a serious question, not a troll so bugger off).