When moving from the Americas to Europe I've quickly noticed how TV are different:
In Europe you have to physically push a button to turn them on in stand by mode. Unfortunally I haven't seen many devices (like radios) that work the same way.
But I guess TV was something that almost everyone has and everyone left on stand-by so it was a good choice for a device with mandatory off switch.
Lets hope this practices spread around elsewhere and in other devices. It's a small price to pay (moving you ass to turn it on) for big savings.
Did a miss the part of the Constitution about "dangerous speech" not been protected by the first ammendment? Or maybe it just poped-in.
Sounds very un-democratic to me that's for certain.
What's with "owning a gun" such a high civil liberty?
Doesn't freedom of expression come way before that?
I'de rather express myself and be able to gain support to change my goverment (or support somebody else in doing it) then having the possibility to shoot my way out a dictatorship.
If things ever get bad enought that people need to pick up guns (God forbid), it'll take more then a law to stop them.
Yeah, I used to work for a client who applied to just those rules.
The guy took 45 minutes to 1 hour EVERY DAY of a 10-man team (all consultants and payed by the hour) for the purpose of making himself look useful.
A couple of guys slept during most of it, another instant-messaged and the rest of us felt our life-force been sucked out of us, slowly.
The meeting where 95% of the time pointless, and the guy scratched endlessly on his notepad every single word, nice and slowly (we had to speak slowly so he could note it all).
You may be sad to hear that the second season of GITS has Oshii taking the role Masamune had in the first season (creative input-wise).
It does take a weirder turn but at least the imagery stays as Masamune set it.
It gets more complex (not always in a good way) but the action picks up a more militaristic tone which is very cool at times.
You may want to check out the Hong Kong DVD packs.
I've got the first season in a 6 DVD pack for only 40$. It's legal but hard to find. The shops prefer to sell the more expensive 1-2 episode DVD packs going 30$ a pop.
For that you can thank the CGI.
Most vehicules or mechanical animation in general was made in 3D.
Which is good as organics look better hand-drawned but for the robots/cars/aircraft, 3D works great.
Season two ("Second GIG") is finished and a third one is rumored. Was about time people started talking about it (outside anime-centric sites that is:-)).
My advise: if you watched the movies and found them to hard to follow, don't worry. The series are closer to the source material and despite some odd episodes (like the one covering a online chat session and nothing more), it's really worth it.
The season finale is incredible.
It's sad to see how personal information is regarded in the USA. The grand-parent gives some insight on why things have come to this.
Where I live, personal information is highly regarded and strick laws work to protect that right.
I would stand up and claim my right if that ever changed.
It is possible to protect one's right. I guess it's hard to turn things around but if people ask for it, they should be able to get such a sensible rule applied. Well, at least in a working democracy it should be.
Maybe making driving safe is more important then keeping driving fun.
There are places you can go and drive funly (racetracks, go karts, bumper cars).
I don't want my daily train-ride to be fun, I just want to get there safe and fast.
From what I've read, when the US had "obtained" equipment from the Soviets (and vice-versa), they had to return it if the other side knew of it and could prove it. In the time they had to return it they would certainly pick it appart and gather as much data as they could before sending it back in whatever state they are willing to lie that the aircraft was when it "crashlanded" or "got trashed during shipping".
I guess they had to return the vehicules otherwise it would have been considered and act of war.
PS: Planes where also obtained by the way of defecting pilots. Whether the planes where returned or not is not certain, I'm guessing that they where.
If you're going to listen to it with lots of background noise then why care about the sound quality? Unless reviews say it's awful or not powerful enought for a confortable listening volume in those situations, you should be fine.
In those situations a good pair of earphones makes the difference.
I can't remember for sure if it had a anotation feature. Wouldn't surprise me if it did. It was all in Japanese so maybe I missed it among all the other Kanji characters:-).
It's about time. I've played with one of these 2 years ago in Tokyo and fell in love with it. If it wasn't for the price (aroud 400 US$) and the fact that it was all in Japanese (so I couln't check if it read PDF files), I would have bought one.
If these baby can read PDF and HTML, it's going to be one great tool to read technical documentation during my daily train commute. No more heavy books to carry around breaking my back.
Yeah, like playing sound and doing other stuff is the reason PC's need 1Gz processors.
Come to think of it, don't all games do that since a couple of decades? Just about any electronic device plays some sort of sounds as queues. Microsoft didn't come up with the process. A good guitar riff is not going to eat more processor time then the crappy piano clips-whatever we've had on different graphical OS's for quite some time.
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Yes, thats a great solution.
I do it for all my PC equipement. I have a couple of power-strips I turn on before turning on my computer itself.
When moving from the Americas to Europe I've quickly noticed how TV are different:
In Europe you have to physically push a button to turn them on in stand by mode. Unfortunally I haven't seen many devices (like radios) that work the same way.
But I guess TV was something that almost everyone has and everyone left on stand-by so it was a good choice for a device with mandatory off switch.
Lets hope this practices spread around elsewhere and in other devices. It's a small price to pay (moving you ass to turn it on) for big savings.
Did a miss the part of the Constitution about "dangerous speech" not been protected by the first ammendment? Or maybe it just poped-in.
Sounds very un-democratic to me that's for certain.
Parent has a point in that it came out the same day :-).
What's with "owning a gun" such a high civil liberty?
Doesn't freedom of expression come way before that?
I'de rather express myself and be able to gain support to change my goverment (or support somebody else in doing it) then having the possibility to shoot my way out a dictatorship.
If things ever get bad enought that people need to pick up guns (God forbid), it'll take more then a law to stop them.
Yeah, I used to work for a client who applied to just those rules.
The guy took 45 minutes to 1 hour EVERY DAY of a 10-man team (all consultants and payed by the hour) for the purpose of making himself look useful.
A couple of guys slept during most of it, another instant-messaged and the rest of us felt our life-force been sucked out of us, slowly.
The meeting where 95% of the time pointless, and the guy scratched endlessly on his notepad every single word, nice and slowly (we had to speak slowly so he could note it all).
Already done on the version sent with the development kit. Lets just hope they can do it again with this version.
You may be sad to hear that the second season of GITS has Oshii taking the role Masamune had in the first season (creative input-wise). It does take a weirder turn but at least the imagery stays as Masamune set it. It gets more complex (not always in a good way) but the action picks up a more militaristic tone which is very cool at times.
You may want to check out the Hong Kong DVD packs. I've got the first season in a 6 DVD pack for only 40$. It's legal but hard to find. The shops prefer to sell the more expensive 1-2 episode DVD packs going 30$ a pop.
For that you can thank the CGI.
Most vehicules or mechanical animation in general was made in 3D.
Which is good as organics look better hand-drawned but for the robots/cars/aircraft, 3D works great.
Rember, this is based on material from the 80s. Back then, every fashion nightmare was possible.
Hellsing starts great but ends pretty badly. Wait for the new OVA coming in a couple of weeks ;-).
Season two ("Second GIG") is finished and a third one is rumored. Was about time people started talking about it (outside anime-centric sites that is :-)).
My advise: if you watched the movies and found them to hard to follow, don't worry. The series are closer to the source material and despite some odd episodes (like the one covering a online chat session and nothing more), it's really worth it.
The season finale is incredible.
It's sad to see how personal information is regarded in the USA. The grand-parent gives some insight on why things have come to this. Where I live, personal information is highly regarded and strick laws work to protect that right. I would stand up and claim my right if that ever changed. It is possible to protect one's right. I guess it's hard to turn things around but if people ask for it, they should be able to get such a sensible rule applied. Well, at least in a working democracy it should be.
Maybe making driving safe is more important then keeping driving fun. There are places you can go and drive funly (racetracks, go karts, bumper cars). I don't want my daily train-ride to be fun, I just want to get there safe and fast.
From what I've read, when the US had "obtained" equipment from the Soviets (and vice-versa), they had to return it if the other side knew of it and could prove it. In the time they had to return it they would certainly pick it appart and gather as much data as they could before sending it back in whatever state they are willing to lie that the aircraft was when it "crashlanded" or "got trashed during shipping". I guess they had to return the vehicules otherwise it would have been considered and act of war. PS: Planes where also obtained by the way of defecting pilots. Whether the planes where returned or not is not certain, I'm guessing that they where.
If you're going to listen to it with lots of background noise then why care about the sound quality? Unless reviews say it's awful or not powerful enought for a confortable listening volume in those situations, you should be fine. In those situations a good pair of earphones makes the difference.
I can't remember for sure if it had a anotation feature. Wouldn't surprise me if it did. It was all in Japanese so maybe I missed it among all the other Kanji characters :-).
Yes it does. And they where working on colour too :-).
Heck, it even handles embeded sound (useful for dictionnary/translation kind of books).
It's about time. I've played with one of these 2 years ago in Tokyo and fell in love with it. If it wasn't for the price (aroud 400 US$) and the fact that it was all in Japanese (so I couln't check if it read PDF files), I would have bought one. If these baby can read PDF and HTML, it's going to be one great tool to read technical documentation during my daily train commute. No more heavy books to carry around breaking my back.
"Sesos" means "brains" in Spanish. It's not specific for brain tacos or any dish.
Yeah, like playing sound and doing other stuff is the reason PC's need 1Gz processors. Come to think of it, don't all games do that since a couple of decades? Just about any electronic device plays some sort of sounds as queues. Microsoft didn't come up with the process. A good guitar riff is not going to eat more processor time then the crappy piano clips-whatever we've had on different graphical OS's for quite some time.
Low tech? Fictionaly, that guy was able to hack live feed TV broadcast to mask his face. All that just using his cyberbrain.
Then he wouldn't be so novice wouldn't him?
Just ask Marilyn Manson. Or then again don't...