Just Fluff implies that the action sequences didn't have value besides being fluff. Although they weren't the Drive of the series, they were spectacular combat sequences. Also, without the action Shinji loses some of his psychotic side.
One thing which, I feel, makes Evangelion so spectacular is that it is good as a philosophical piece and an action piece completely independently and together. Without the philosophy, it is good as action, and without the action it is good as philosophy. However, they are interworked so that either builds off of the other.
Actually, you can do that with DivX as well, it just requires a player which supports it, and no major players do (as far as I know). The main advantage with the QuickTime subs is that most things off of Linux know how to support what QuickTime does, so they're actually useable.
If you're like me (approximately 300 CDs or media laying around) you can't afford the DVDs for storage, even if you have the DVD burner. If you're an artist who often ends up with 300-400 meg photoshop files or massive 3D renders, you need this kind of stuff.
First off, it's not as easy for a cop in one state to get your info as it is for a cop in another state to get your info. If you get stopped in a different state, it'll usually take quite a while longer for them to pull up specifics.
More importantly, though, ID cards and Driver's Liscences are NOT the same. That's why JUST a drivers liscence isn't valid ID for lots of things. A drivers liscense only has: Name Date of Birth Sex Eye-Color Photograph Weight when you got it Address when you got it [ it can include anatomical gift info ]
Sure, that's a lot, but it isn't everything, nor is it tied into every major database. Also, it isn't needed for anything besides checking that you can drive if you are pulled over. There are many other ID types that can be used for other purposes, such as social-security-number and student ID cards (yes those are valid for lots of things).
You would do well to remember that the purpose of the government is NOT to turn a profit. It may seem that way on occasion, but it is not. The government is there to serve the people. *Sometimes* that coincides with making a profit, but the profit is not the goal.
1) FPS and other violence-centered games are regularly out-sold by games like Civilizations, The SIMs, SimCity, and all those.
2) Everquest were not such a total piece of shit. Actually, piece of shit implies that it could have once been something valuable (food). Rather, the act of Everquests creation was along the lines of a crime against nature.
Honestly, I've seen it run that well on a GeForce 1. No, really. Sure, it was like a slide-show, about a frame or two a second, and it was a little trouble to kill the zombies, but that was around six months ago, and you've gotta know this is totally unoptimized code (well, at least not broadly optimized)
Now, I hate most of Microsoft's products for a variety of reasons, but their office suite is their only good one, and it is quite good.
Excel is still my favorite spreadsheet out there. It has all the standard features of a spreadsheet, is intuitive to use, and makes phenomenally good conversions to web-pages when the need arises (A marked comparison to the shit word makes)
Word is the best word-processor around, in most ways. It has most all features you need and most of them can be found easily (admittedly, that's in part due to being adjusted to it). Also, things like non-linear selection are great.
Access is pretty damn good too, if you need an easy-to-use as oppossed to really-damn-good database system, which many people do.
Now, if you were talking about IE, or WindowsOS, or FrontPage (yeah, I know it's part of office, or Any Game They've Ever Made By Themselves, then I'd agree, just not on the office front.
Midland High in Midland Michigan was quite accepting of most everything. It's the only suburban white school I know of where, after Columbine, nobody flipped out when we discussed violence and guns. Heck, we had a discussion about artistic suicide once without getting suspended, or even getting sent to the principles office.
One: X is not a GUI. That's the field of KDE and GNOME. You can't blame X just because they suck.
Also, it doesn't necessarily need starting over: That'll just kill its potential on one front for the sake of more ease at reaching another. X has a lot of good features (don't bash remote Xwindows) and totally pulling out of it could screw up what support is already there. If it's fixable, it should be fixed, and I still think it is fixable.
I'm not really an expert on this stuff (in fact, I'm pretty damn far from it) but I think the issue would be needing a different diff for every possible configuration, not just every device.
So, ATAraid would be one diff, SMP would be another diff. However, applying both wouldn't work, so you'd need a third diff for ATAraid and SMP. At that point, it just gets confusing, especially since these diffs would only every apply to any single given kernel config.
Seeing as the kernel itself is rather small, it's much easier to have pre-compiled kernels of just about every reasonable combination.
I don't want Honest Headers. I never want to be required to tell the world that I sent something. Furthermore, I want to be able to send something without a return address. Similarly, I can send a snail-mail message without any notice of where it originated from (well, I suppose they know the original postal-district, but that's all).
Why?
Because I think I have a right to speak anonymously. I don't like spammers, but I'd rather keep the right to speak anonymously.
Likewise, I would often go home and play video games rather than deal with a bully. It wasn't because that was what I wanted, it was because I was too weak to deal with the bully.
The issue often is that guns are the only thing that give the weak even the slightest chance to stand up to bullies.
A friend of mine once got bullied similarly to me. He beat the shit out of the kid, then went home and played video games to relax. The only difference is that he was capable of beating the shit out of the kid. I wouldn't have been able to do so without a very dangerous weapon. I might have had a shot with a baseball bat, but even that would have been chancing it if he had a friend with him.
I think a lot of parents don't realize that they expect a lot more from the weaker children, in that stronger children actually can defend themselves with minimal harm to their persecutors.
In any case, there's something about American parents not wanting to take responsibility for their children. You shouldn't leave a 2 year old in the care of a 12 year old, period. Or if your child gets a hold of your gun and kills someone, who's at fault, you or the kid?
I think this should also get a quick look-over. It hasn't always been true that you couldn't trust a 12 year old with a baby. People were, at points in history, adults when they turn thirteen or fourteen. Society didn't collapse. The young teens competently fulfilled much of what was required of them.
Children have a tendency to do what is expected of them. In today's American society, we expect nothing. As such, we get nothing.
In the article, it mentioned handing out brochures with information about the patriot act and privacy rights. Could anyone post the text of these and/or link to scans or copies of them?
I've been interested for a period now in getting information about this stuff out on my campus, but haven't found a concise way to state what is important. Maybe the libraries did a good job, as they usually seem to be competent institutions.
Although this is a nice argument, and I agree in theory, it just doesn't apply. Things do not become 'retroactively illegal'. That's what ex post facto laws are about.
The issue is that something is illegal at the time it exists, not in the past or future. Likewise, I could not consider my brother having been a lawbreaker for starting driving at 16 when two years later they moved the driving permit age up to 17.
I've yet to try a Mandrake and find it truly goo.d It's very consistently almost good, but that just doesn't cut the mustard. It's Config tools look neat, but aren't that easy to use or reliable. I often needed to edit config files by hand (which I'm fine with, but shouldn't need to do).
I'd think the better question to the original poster is, have you ever tried running Office2k under CrossOver Office? It loads and runs faster under Linux than it does under windows (No, seriously, I've tried it a lot of times on my system). For that matter, Explorer also runs faster, as do most things which Do Run. The biggest problem is Never speed, it is usually just the existence of the application, and most Microsoft Apps run fine.
The only reason I don't use Linux exclusively is because I can't get Streamline / Illustrator / Photoshop / Dreamweaver / Premier / Flash / Freehand / Font-o-Grapher running under Linux, nor is there an alternative for any of them (Well, Dreamweaver can be replaced by Quanta or VIM, but don't you dare say The GIMP deserves to be recognized as even beginning to start entering competition with Photoshop)
In response to your wonder about why there would be a hundred ways of doing something in Linux:
- It's made by developers for developers
What's this mean? It means that it's made by people who care that they can be as productive as humanly possibly with the least effort humanly possible.
So, why not one good interface?
People work in different ways. If you're writing code, you want to use every niftty feature you usually do, and you want to do it the way you have always done so. That's why there's VIM and EMACS (May God smite all who use that ghastly creation) and KATE and CoolEdit and cat+touch and every other thing you can imagine.
However, that doesn't excuse distributions. As far as I can tell, Distros add things that lots of people use. What they need to notice is that they can pitch all of the stuff that is only used by total Linux geeks. Why? Total Linux geeks know damn well how to './configure && make && make install' so they have every program out there at their fingertips.
The main reason that Designers don't do work for Linux is Linux doesn't want them to, not money. In a lot of design environments you have this: Employee Type Coder gets instructions from Employee Type Designer and does them. If Employee Type Coder is confused or disagrees, it asks Employee Type Designer for clarification because it doesn't get to tell the designer what to do.
In Linux you have this: Random Person Coder sees a design suggestion and says 'Great, so why don't you implement it?' Random Person Designer shrugs and walks off because he can't code that and he knows it. - or - Random Person Coder sees a design is, a bit confused, and has Random Person Designer try to explain it to him over e-mail and without any direct contact because they aren't physically co-located.
I'm good at design, and can code a bit, but I can't code a quality program and I know it. But if I put a post on a mailing list, it'll get ignored if I don't contribute something else, especially if it disagrees with what is the current trend in the group and, guess what that group is a group of coders who doesn't know shit about design.
God said 'Let there be' and there was. Man wrote fifteen thousand lines of code and got a seg-fault because he missed a paren. We've got a ways to go as far as programming languages are concerned.
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Just Fluff implies that the action sequences didn't have value besides being fluff. Although they weren't the Drive of the series, they were spectacular combat sequences. Also, without the action Shinji loses some of his psychotic side.
One thing which, I feel, makes Evangelion so spectacular is that it is good as a philosophical piece and an action piece completely independently and together. Without the philosophy, it is good as action, and without the action it is good as philosophy. However, they are interworked so that either builds off of the other.
Sure, edging out is premptive, but this is a step in the right direction. Maybe it would be better to say that they're 'edging into the market'.
Actually, you can do that with DivX as well, it just requires a player which supports it, and no major players do (as far as I know). The main advantage with the QuickTime subs is that most things off of Linux know how to support what QuickTime does, so they're actually useable.
Ummm...cost.
If you're like me (approximately 300 CDs or media laying around) you can't afford the DVDs for storage, even if you have the DVD burner. If you're an artist who often ends up with 300-400 meg photoshop files or massive 3D renders, you need this kind of stuff.
A country that can actually make photo-id's look decent!
First off, it's not as easy for a cop in one state to get your info as it is for a cop in another state to get your info. If you get stopped in a different state, it'll usually take quite a while longer for them to pull up specifics.
More importantly, though, ID cards and Driver's Liscences are NOT the same.
That's why JUST a drivers liscence isn't valid ID for lots of things. A drivers liscense only has:
Name
Date of Birth
Sex
Eye-Color
Photograph
Weight when you got it
Address when you got it
[ it can include anatomical gift info ]
Sure, that's a lot, but it isn't everything, nor is it tied into every major database. Also, it isn't needed for anything besides checking that you can drive if you are pulled over. There are many other ID types that can be used for other purposes, such as social-security-number and student ID cards (yes those are valid for lots of things).
I'm not too up on this kind of stuff.
How much would this really help them?
I mean, would it be better for them to get a lot of requests and all for legal ammo, or would it just swamp them with wasteful requests?
Sure, that'd be great if you had no screensaver and your monitor never went to sleep.
I'd never thought of it quite that way, but that is exactly right.
You would do well to remember that the purpose of the government is NOT to turn a profit. It may seem that way on occasion, but it is not. The government is there to serve the people. *Sometimes* that coincides with making a profit, but the profit is not the goal.
I'd agree a bit more if not
1) FPS and other violence-centered games are regularly out-sold by games like Civilizations, The SIMs, SimCity, and all those.
2) Everquest were not such a total piece of shit. Actually, piece of shit implies that it could have once been something valuable (food). Rather, the act of Everquests creation was along the lines of a crime against nature.
Honestly, I've seen it run that well on a GeForce 1. No, really. Sure, it was like a slide-show, about a frame or two a second, and it was a little trouble to kill the zombies, but that was around six months ago, and you've gotta know this is totally unoptimized code (well, at least not broadly optimized)
Now, I hate most of Microsoft's products for a variety of reasons, but their office suite is their only good one, and it is quite good.
Excel is still my favorite spreadsheet out there. It has all the standard features of a spreadsheet, is intuitive to use, and makes phenomenally good conversions to web-pages when the need arises (A marked comparison to the shit word makes)
Word is the best word-processor around, in most ways. It has most all features you need and most of them can be found easily (admittedly, that's in part due to being adjusted to it). Also, things like non-linear selection are great.
Access is pretty damn good too, if you need an easy-to-use as oppossed to really-damn-good database system, which many people do.
Now, if you were talking about IE, or WindowsOS, or FrontPage (yeah, I know it's part of office, or Any Game They've Ever Made By Themselves, then I'd agree, just not on the office front.
Midland High in Midland Michigan was quite accepting of most everything. It's the only suburban white school I know of where, after Columbine, nobody flipped out when we discussed violence and guns. Heck, we had a discussion about artistic suicide once without getting suspended, or even getting sent to the principles office.
One: X is not a GUI. That's the field of KDE and GNOME. You can't blame X just because they suck.
Also, it doesn't necessarily need starting over: That'll just kill its potential on one front for the sake of more ease at reaching another. X has a lot of good features (don't bash remote Xwindows) and totally pulling out of it could screw up what support is already there. If it's fixable, it should be fixed, and I still think it is fixable.
I quite agree! That's what Guiness is for.
I'm not really an expert on this stuff (in fact, I'm pretty damn far from it) but I think the issue would be needing a different diff for every possible configuration, not just every device.
So, ATAraid would be one diff, SMP would be another diff. However, applying both wouldn't work, so you'd need a third diff for ATAraid and SMP. At that point, it just gets confusing, especially since these diffs would only every apply to any single given kernel config.
Seeing as the kernel itself is rather small, it's much easier to have pre-compiled kernels of just about every reasonable combination.
I don't want Honest Headers. I never want to be required to tell the world that I sent something. Furthermore, I want to be able to send something without a return address. Similarly, I can send a snail-mail message without any notice of where it originated from (well, I suppose they know the original postal-district, but that's all).
Why?
Because I think I have a right to speak anonymously. I don't like spammers, but I'd rather keep the right to speak anonymously.
Likewise, I would often go home and play video games rather than deal with a bully. It wasn't because that was what I wanted, it was because I was too weak to deal with the bully. The issue often is that guns are the only thing that give the weak even the slightest chance to stand up to bullies. A friend of mine once got bullied similarly to me. He beat the shit out of the kid, then went home and played video games to relax. The only difference is that he was capable of beating the shit out of the kid. I wouldn't have been able to do so without a very dangerous weapon. I might have had a shot with a baseball bat, but even that would have been chancing it if he had a friend with him. I think a lot of parents don't realize that they expect a lot more from the weaker children, in that stronger children actually can defend themselves with minimal harm to their persecutors.
In any case, there's something about American parents not wanting to take responsibility for their children. You shouldn't leave a 2 year old in the care of a 12 year old, period. Or if your child gets a hold of your gun and kills someone, who's at fault, you or the kid?
I think this should also get a quick look-over. It hasn't always been true that you couldn't trust a 12 year old with a baby. People were, at points in history, adults when they turn thirteen or fourteen. Society didn't collapse. The young teens competently fulfilled much of what was required of them.
Children have a tendency to do what is expected of them. In today's American society, we expect nothing. As such, we get nothing.
In the article, it mentioned handing out brochures with information about the patriot act and privacy rights. Could anyone post the text of these and/or link to scans or copies of them?
I've been interested for a period now in getting information about this stuff out on my campus, but haven't found a concise way to state what is important. Maybe the libraries did a good job, as they usually seem to be competent institutions.
Although this is a nice argument, and I agree in theory, it just doesn't apply. Things do not become 'retroactively illegal'. That's what ex post facto laws are about.
The issue is that something is illegal at the time it exists, not in the past or future. Likewise, I could not consider my brother having been a lawbreaker for starting driving at 16 when two years later they moved the driving permit age up to 17.
I've yet to try a Mandrake and find it truly goo.d It's very consistently almost good, but that just doesn't cut the mustard. It's Config tools look neat, but aren't that easy to use or reliable. I often needed to edit config files by hand (which I'm fine with, but shouldn't need to do).
I'd think the better question to the original poster is, have you ever tried running Office2k under CrossOver Office? It loads and runs faster under Linux than it does under windows (No, seriously, I've tried it a lot of times on my system). For that matter, Explorer also runs faster, as do most things which Do Run. The biggest problem is Never speed, it is usually just the existence of the application, and most Microsoft Apps run fine.
The only reason I don't use Linux exclusively is because I can't get Streamline / Illustrator / Photoshop / Dreamweaver / Premier / Flash / Freehand / Font-o-Grapher running under Linux, nor is there an alternative for any of them (Well, Dreamweaver can be replaced by Quanta or VIM, but don't you dare say The GIMP deserves to be recognized as even beginning to start entering competition with Photoshop)
In response to your wonder about why there would be a hundred ways of doing something in Linux:
- It's made by developers for developers
What's this mean? It means that it's made by people who care that they can be as productive as humanly possibly with the least effort humanly possible.
So, why not one good interface?
People work in different ways. If you're writing code, you want to use every niftty feature you usually do, and you want to do it the way you have always done so. That's why there's VIM and EMACS (May God smite all who use that ghastly creation) and KATE and CoolEdit and cat+touch and every other thing you can imagine.
However, that doesn't excuse distributions. As far as I can tell, Distros add things that lots of people use. What they need to notice is that they can pitch all of the stuff that is only used by total Linux geeks. Why? Total Linux geeks know damn well how to './configure && make && make install' so they have every program out there at their fingertips.
The main reason that Designers don't do work for Linux is Linux doesn't want them to, not money. In a lot of design environments you have this:
Employee Type Coder gets instructions from Employee Type Designer and does them.
If Employee Type Coder is confused or disagrees, it asks Employee Type Designer for clarification because it doesn't get to tell the designer what to do.
In Linux you have this:
Random Person Coder sees a design suggestion and says 'Great, so why don't you implement it?'
Random Person Designer shrugs and walks off because he can't code that and he knows it.
- or -
Random Person Coder sees a design is, a bit confused, and has Random Person Designer try to explain it to him over e-mail and without any direct contact because they aren't physically co-located.
I'm good at design, and can code a bit, but I can't code a quality program and I know it. But if I put a post on a mailing list, it'll get ignored if I don't contribute something else, especially if it disagrees with what is the current trend in the group and, guess what that group is a group of coders who doesn't know shit about design.
God said 'Let there be' and there was.
Man wrote fifteen thousand lines of code and got a seg-fault because he missed a paren.
We've got a ways to go as far as programming languages are concerned.