Uh, I forgot to mention in the parent that Girlfriend of Steel 2 is based off that alternate-universe scene in the last episode. As far as I can tell, it's a romance/comedy for now, but NERV still exists, Gendo is still a bastard and Misato has the same bust:P, so action could come later.
For those who forgot, Rei isn't her usual cold self, but a complete opposite, but she still has some mystery about her. Misato's their teacher, Ritsuko seems to be the school nurse, Kaoru is still there with his homosexual tendancies, I *think* Shinji's mother is still alive (her name escapes me). Enough spoiling, go leech it now, from Studio ADTRW (they have BT, use them!).
And it's rumored this is getting made into an anime, so keep your eyes peeled.
I hope they don't put too much action in there and do something similar to Full Metal Panic 2, more romance/comedy, less action.
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And Antartica is supposed to been hit by an asteriod in the year 2000, killing 2/3 of the world. But hey, that hasn't happened;p
Actually, Neon Genesis Evangelion isn't a cartoon for kids. Average kids don't have the intellectual capacity to understand it. And maybe some adults.
References to the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Sephiroth Tree of Life, lots more religous references than the Matrix...
Unlike most anime, NGE leaves you to draw your own conclusions.
It's definitely one of the most influential anime of all time considering how much people it drove into therapy:)
For those NGE fanboys, Girlfriend of Steel 2 (the manga) is being scanslated by Studio ADTRW. I'm not direct-linking them in case I slashdot them. Use the BT links. 3 chapters have been released so far. And no, I don't work for them;p
Cyborgs like the ones in Ghost in the Shell exist... Things like video communication, surfing the web, virtual reality, all in your head. How cool would that be, apart from the fact that if hackers gained access to your brain... censorship via 'interceptors' (think them as a way to allow other people to access your sight, and modifiy it, if possible) and tons of other things.
But having a cyborg body would be pretty good... just get a new body whenever you get run over by a truck, provided your head is still intact. Although I'm personally not sure how they eat/drink/go to the toilet/have sex/and stuff, I'm sure they'll find a way.
On a more offtopic note, the first few episodes of Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex Season 2 has been aired and the raws are on the net, waiting to be subbed...:o
Claim : Gnome is more popular than KDE
Despite the fact that the only mainstream Gnome based distro has been EOL'd,
and all the newbie distros such as Mangadrake, Lindoze, $u$E, Lycoris,
Xandroze,
Gentoo use kde default, bruce perens decided to make a gnome based distro and everybody hated it because KDE wasn't in it.
What the hell are you talking about? Gentoo doesn't have any default enviroments. You are free to choose what enviroment you want.
It's hard to believe someone if they can't even get the details right. And since when did a "GEFORCE RADEON" exist?
Aw hell, that reminds me of another thing I did back in grade 8...
I found the net send command one day, and everyone thought it was cool. So I created a program called "PandaMail" in VB (One of my friends loved pandas, for some reason). Hell, I even intergrated some registration thingy that required a key based on the username >:D. Soon it was distributed all over the school, but I only gave the working keys to people I actually had contact with. Nevertheless, I found out you could net send to workgroups the hard way... trial and error, of course:D
I was proud to say I got net send banned, the command console's locked out, security tightened up tighter than Fort Knox (taskbar removed, no desktop, yadda yadda yadda) and no detention! w00t!
Oh yeah, I was supposed to be moving to another school the end of that year, so I went and installed Counter-Strike on the computers in my classroom and the one upstairs on the second last day. As usual, we didn't get caught, people came from all over the school to have a go, and it was great! Until next year, when some people tried to play and got some detentions, but my friend only got a warning from the admins for playing. Guess we're special, huh?:)
Hoping that nobody that got the detentions or the sysadmins are reading this, but here goes:
I had read/write access on one of the folders on the public drives because I requested Apache and PHP for one of my assignments that other people wrote in notepad with all those annoying javascript tricks they ripped from sites and the IT staff couldn't figure out how to install it. So, they gave me a folder and I installed it myself. Needless to say, I think they forgot I had read/write access on that folder, and I started to hide various files in there, some legimate like Dev-C++. And some not so legimate like some games. Some I made myself, and some not (Like this really addictive game where you have to dodge all these little dots. Sounds simple, but aint, especially with some special dots that home in on you, 2x speed dots, etc etc. It was Japanese tho, but yeah, great game).
Anyway, like in the second-last week of school, they started catching people who were playing games. In one day, they caught 40-odd people, and thank God I wasn't one of them because I was too busy practicing for a coding competition. I was able to get out of my class to get into the computer room where another class that was the same grade was there, playing a game that involved insane amounts of clicking. It was so obvious, with all that mouse-clicking going on, why wouldn't the teacher notice? They were supposed to be working on javascript...
Anyway, the next day our grade had to go to the hall while a teacher called out student IDs... It's surprising people didn't hate me for that, heh:)
And I managed to get some more people in trouble after a really simple HTML page I coded that was able to show the photo and past subject details of a person when you gave it a student ID was passed around. Apparently it was confidential data, but there was this link on the school intranet that said "Student Profile" that let to a page that worked like mine, and it worked two years ago. They found out and removed the text box, but...
One day I was bored, and went to that page again and viewed the source and found a line that contained a hidden value in a form named 'student_id'. So I just coded a page that posted to the same page, with a textbox for student_id, and voila! It worked.
The original page had "Example of a SQL query in ASP" for the title, too. It's amazing how bad the IT department is at my school...
P.S. I haven't been caught for either of the events, yet:)
I was young (around 8 at the time, can't remember) and I was bored one afternoon. I started fiddling around with the back of the computer, the PSU, to be exact. The red button looked fun to play with.
It was on 220v. I turned the computer on. It worked. Then I tried putting it on 110v and turning it on. Nothing. Then I switched it back to 220v, turned it on, and switched it to 110v while it was on.
Boom.
Moral of the story is, trial and error isn't the best way to learn hardware, and don't throw water on the smoking PSU while it's still live.
Has anyone thought of a webcrawler that automatically crawled the web and fed it into a program with similar technology to this? It'll sort into two different folders: Porn and/dev/null:D
There's a movie I saw on AXN recently called "Mission to Mars" or something like that. There was a huge leak on their ship, and one of the guys squeezed some Dr Pepper out of it's packet and watched it go towards the hole.
The only problem is it was a large leak, whereas the one on the station is a slow one, and this idea may not work.
Can't believed they failed to mention that...
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And the costumes and atmosphere of the recently concluded "Matrix" series were rooted primarily in Japanese manga.
Highly likely the manga they're talking about Ghost in the Shell (recent coverage)
I reckon we should put a new section specially for opinion related stuff, as stuff like this can usually start flamewars and the such...
On the other hand, I'd like to hear slashdot's opinions on the best anime of 2003. I put my vote in for Full Metal Panic: Fumoffu and Full Metal Alchemist (which is still being subbed, AFAIK, and no, the names are just a coincidence, I swear.)
Oh, and I reckon Matrix 3 disappointed me. Stuff like DBZ fightscenes are far too unreal and the ending probably made fans feel like the fans that watched End of Evangelion, the creator(s) flipping the finger at the fans while saying "FUCK YOU!". At least most people survived in the Matrix. I didn't get to watch Kill Bill, so I'll probably grab that later on DVD. And did anyone else apart from me notice that the Neo vs 100 Smiths fight scene in Reloaded was sorta similar to xiaoxiao 3? One guy verses many, including the whole pole fight scene where Neo kicks it into a Smith and it rebounds back and stuff.
The new main character is Ash. From what I see and what I hear from people who have actually played the beta, he's one powerful character. But does he look gay, or is it just me?
As for the censoring thing, it's easy enough going into Kawaks and change the region code to Japan or something similar. Then you'll have to deal with Japanese text in some places, but you get to see Mai's bounce! Also, I hear Angel's (pronouced 'An-ell' or something, she's supposed to be Mexican) animation where she takes her top off as a victory pose is stripped out of the US version too.
Would it be possible to project a 'blurred' picture of the HUD so people can read it clearly while they're still looking at the road? That way people won't have to focus on the glass/plastic in front of them.
After all, it's possible that SCO 'hired' a group of people to DDoS their own servers purely for further misrepresentation of the open-source community.
I've finished watching the subbed versions, and I have to say this is one of the most hillarious anime I've ever watched.
It's just the original Full Metal Panic, without most of the serious stuff. For those who doesn't know, the original Full Metal Panic had Sagara Souske, a professional solider/teenager (with absolutely -zero- common sense and social skills) assigned to protect Chidori Kaname from the Russians because she is one of the 'Whispered', people who are born with 'Black' technology. Sagara is part of Mithril, a self-appointed military division.
Sosuke Sagara is an elite soldier who belongs to an independent special force named "Mithril". Mithril is a self appointed military force that fights terrorism across the globe. With technology that is far superior to that of normal nations, Mithril intercedes on behalf of justice. Sagara, a Second Lieutenant under Mithril's command, is assigned to the duty of protecting a girl named Kaname Chidori, who attends high school in Japan. To accomplish this task, he pretends to be a transfer student attending at Kaname's school. As Sagara settles into his new role as classmate, a massive plot unfolds beginning with the kidnapping of Chidori. What is Chidori's role in the conspiracy? Why does she seem to be born with knowledge of technology that has only been recently invented?
(Taken from animenfo.com)
Full Metal Panic 2 (Also known as Full Metal Panic : Fumoffu) is more about Sagara and Chidori than about the whole Mithril thing. I mean, he blows up his shoebox with plastic explosives because he found a hair in front of his shoebox and thought that someone sent him a mailbomb, when in fact it was a love letter.
One of my favourite episodes was the Rugby one (ep 10), and it was aired just before the World Cup started. Turning a team of pansies into killers... bwahahahahahhaa
Anyhow, FMP2 is a great series and I suggest you check it out while it's still unlicensed. Also, FMP3 is rumored to be in the planning and will focus more of the military-side of things. Which I find very interesting as well. And if I didn't mention it eariler, FMP contains mecha called Arm Slaves (AS), and Souske is a good pilot of it. FMP2 contains a mechanized teddy bear costume named 'Bonta-kun', that Sousuke made himself after he stole the costume from a theme park, and he absolutely kicks ASS!
Uh... are you smoking crack? People -expect- things to work the same. Look at the top bar on OSX. It's always there. Most programs contain a File, Edit and Help menu. Why? Because people can find them more easily.
Why does Lindows look and feel like Windows? So people don't feel as much fear when moving to it.
I could go on and on, but I'd rather not cause it's getting late.
And how exactly does this relate to expocity anyway?
Slashdot Mirror
On the Discovery channel! :p
Uh, I forgot to mention in the parent that Girlfriend of Steel 2 is based off that alternate-universe scene in the last episode. As far as I can tell, it's a romance/comedy for now, but NERV still exists, Gendo is still a bastard and Misato has the same bust :P, so action could come later.
For those who forgot, Rei isn't her usual cold self, but a complete opposite, but she still has some mystery about her. Misato's their teacher, Ritsuko seems to be the school nurse, Kaoru is still there with his homosexual tendancies, I *think* Shinji's mother is still alive (her name escapes me). Enough spoiling, go leech it now, from Studio ADTRW (they have BT, use them!).
And it's rumored this is getting made into an anime, so keep your eyes peeled.
I hope they don't put too much action in there and do something similar to Full Metal Panic 2, more romance/comedy, less action.
And Antartica is supposed to been hit by an asteriod in the year 2000, killing 2/3 of the world. But hey, that hasn't happened ;p
Actually, Neon Genesis Evangelion isn't a cartoon for kids. Average kids don't have the intellectual capacity to understand it. And maybe some adults.
:)
;p
References to the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Sephiroth Tree of Life, lots more religous references than the Matrix...
Unlike most anime, NGE leaves you to draw your own conclusions.
It's definitely one of the most influential anime of all time considering how much people it drove into therapy
For those NGE fanboys, Girlfriend of Steel 2 (the manga) is being scanslated by Studio ADTRW. I'm not direct-linking them in case I slashdot them. Use the BT links. 3 chapters have been released so far. And no, I don't work for them
Cyborgs like the ones in Ghost in the Shell exist... Things like video communication, surfing the web, virtual reality, all in your head. How cool would that be, apart from the fact that if hackers gained access to your brain... censorship via 'interceptors' (think them as a way to allow other people to access your sight, and modifiy it, if possible) and tons of other things.
:o
But having a cyborg body would be pretty good... just get a new body whenever you get run over by a truck, provided your head is still intact. Although I'm personally not sure how they eat/drink/go to the toilet/have sex/and stuff, I'm sure they'll find a way.
On a more offtopic note, the first few episodes of Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex Season 2 has been aired and the raws are on the net, waiting to be subbed...
It's hard to believe someone if they can't even get the details right. And since when did a "GEFORCE RADEON" exist?
Nice to see that they mentioned dashboard in the article and at Foo Camp.
I find it sad that I'm able to read what you just said without thinking.
Aw hell, that reminds me of another thing I did back in grade 8...
:D
:)
I found the net send command one day, and everyone thought it was cool. So I created a program called "PandaMail" in VB (One of my friends loved pandas, for some reason). Hell, I even intergrated some registration thingy that required a key based on the username >:D. Soon it was distributed all over the school, but I only gave the working keys to people I actually had contact with. Nevertheless, I found out you could net send to workgroups the hard way... trial and error, of course
I was proud to say I got net send banned, the command console's locked out, security tightened up tighter than Fort Knox (taskbar removed, no desktop, yadda yadda yadda) and no detention! w00t!
Oh yeah, I was supposed to be moving to another school the end of that year, so I went and installed Counter-Strike on the computers in my classroom and the one upstairs on the second last day. As usual, we didn't get caught, people came from all over the school to have a go, and it was great! Until next year, when some people tried to play and got some detentions, but my friend only got a warning from the admins for playing. Guess we're special, huh?
Hoping that nobody that got the detentions or the sysadmins are reading this, but here goes:
:)
:)
I had read/write access on one of the folders on the public drives because I requested Apache and PHP for one of my assignments that other people wrote in notepad with all those annoying javascript tricks they ripped from sites and the IT staff couldn't figure out how to install it. So, they gave me a folder and I installed it myself. Needless to say, I think they forgot I had read/write access on that folder, and I started to hide various files in there, some legimate like Dev-C++. And some not so legimate like some games. Some I made myself, and some not (Like this really addictive game where you have to dodge all these little dots. Sounds simple, but aint, especially with some special dots that home in on you, 2x speed dots, etc etc. It was Japanese tho, but yeah, great game).
Anyway, like in the second-last week of school, they started catching people who were playing games. In one day, they caught 40-odd people, and thank God I wasn't one of them because I was too busy practicing for a coding competition. I was able to get out of my class to get into the computer room where another class that was the same grade was there, playing a game that involved insane amounts of clicking. It was so obvious, with all that mouse-clicking going on, why wouldn't the teacher notice? They were supposed to be working on javascript...
Anyway, the next day our grade had to go to the hall while a teacher called out student IDs... It's surprising people didn't hate me for that, heh
And I managed to get some more people in trouble after a really simple HTML page I coded that was able to show the photo and past subject details of a person when you gave it a student ID was passed around. Apparently it was confidential data, but there was this link on the school intranet that said "Student Profile" that let to a page that worked like mine, and it worked two years ago. They found out and removed the text box, but...
One day I was bored, and went to that page again and viewed the source and found a line that contained a hidden value in a form named 'student_id'. So I just coded a page that posted to the same page, with a textbox for student_id, and voila! It worked.
The original page had "Example of a SQL query in ASP" for the title, too. It's amazing how bad the IT department is at my school...
P.S. I haven't been caught for either of the events, yet
I was young (around 8 at the time, can't remember) and I was bored one afternoon. I started fiddling around with the back of the computer, the PSU, to be exact. The red button looked fun to play with.
It was on 220v. I turned the computer on. It worked. Then I tried putting it on 110v and turning it on. Nothing. Then I switched it back to 220v, turned it on, and switched it to 110v while it was on.
Boom.
Moral of the story is, trial and error isn't the best way to learn hardware, and don't throw water on the smoking PSU while it's still live.
Has anyone thought of a webcrawler that automatically crawled the web and fed it into a program with similar technology to this? It'll sort into two different folders: Porn and /dev/null :D
Does anyone else notice the 'Copyright IDC 2002' on the second page of the article? Pretty sure Windows 2000 didn't exist in 1997 either.
There's a movie I saw on AXN recently called "Mission to Mars" or something like that. There was a huge leak on their ship, and one of the guys squeezed some Dr Pepper out of it's packet and watched it go towards the hole.
The only problem is it was a large leak, whereas the one on the station is a slow one, and this idea may not work.
Highly likely the manga they're talking about Ghost in the Shell (recent coverage)
Okay.
:)
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goatse.cx (not work safe, for those who don't know
Btw, what's IANAL, BFD, and all those other acronyms I see on
I reckon we should put a new section specially for opinion related stuff, as stuff like this can usually start flamewars and the such...
On the other hand, I'd like to hear slashdot's opinions on the best anime of 2003. I put my vote in for Full Metal Panic: Fumoffu and Full Metal Alchemist (which is still being subbed, AFAIK, and no, the names are just a coincidence, I swear.)
Oh, and I reckon Matrix 3 disappointed me. Stuff like DBZ fightscenes are far too unreal and the ending probably made fans feel like the fans that watched End of Evangelion, the creator(s) flipping the finger at the fans while saying "FUCK YOU!". At least most people survived in the Matrix. I didn't get to watch Kill Bill, so I'll probably grab that later on DVD. And did anyone else apart from me notice that the Neo vs 100 Smiths fight scene in Reloaded was sorta similar to xiaoxiao 3? One guy verses many, including the whole pole fight scene where Neo kicks it into a Smith and it rebounds back and stuff.
The new main character is Ash. From what I see and what I hear from people who have actually played the beta, he's one powerful character. But does he look gay, or is it just me?
As for the censoring thing, it's easy enough going into Kawaks and change the region code to Japan or something similar. Then you'll have to deal with Japanese text in some places, but you get to see Mai's bounce! Also, I hear Angel's (pronouced 'An-ell' or something, she's supposed to be Mexican) animation where she takes her top off as a victory pose is stripped out of the US version too.
Would it be possible to project a 'blurred' picture of the HUD so people can read it clearly while they're still looking at the road? That way people won't have to focus on the glass/plastic in front of them.
After all, it's possible that SCO 'hired' a group of people to DDoS their own servers purely for further misrepresentation of the open-source community.
This car kinda reminds me of those funky cars in Minority Report, how they can move sideways and go vertical without the passengers feeling anything.
I can see it now... robots taking over the world.
It's just the original Full Metal Panic, without most of the serious stuff. For those who doesn't know, the original Full Metal Panic had Sagara Souske, a professional solider/teenager (with absolutely -zero- common sense and social skills) assigned to protect Chidori Kaname from the Russians because she is one of the 'Whispered', people who are born with 'Black' technology. Sagara is part of Mithril, a self-appointed military division. (Taken from animenfo.com)
Full Metal Panic 2 (Also known as Full Metal Panic : Fumoffu) is more about Sagara and Chidori than about the whole Mithril thing. I mean, he blows up his shoebox with plastic explosives because he found a hair in front of his shoebox and thought that someone sent him a mailbomb, when in fact it was a love letter.
One of my favourite episodes was the Rugby one (ep 10), and it was aired just before the World Cup started. Turning a team of pansies into killers... bwahahahahahhaa
Anyhow, FMP2 is a great series and I suggest you check it out while it's still unlicensed. Also, FMP3 is rumored to be in the planning and will focus more of the military-side of things. Which I find very interesting as well. And if I didn't mention it eariler, FMP contains mecha called Arm Slaves (AS), and Souske is a good pilot of it. FMP2 contains a mechanized teddy bear costume named 'Bonta-kun', that Sousuke made himself after he stole the costume from a theme park, and he absolutely kicks ASS!
Obviously not.
;p
It's an upgrade incentive, of course. To get these cool effects, you must upgrade to Linux! After all, it *is* technically an upgrade...
Uh... are you smoking crack? People -expect- things to work the same. Look at the top bar on OSX. It's always there. Most programs contain a File, Edit and Help menu. Why? Because people can find them more easily.
Why does Lindows look and feel like Windows? So people don't feel as much fear when moving to it. I could go on and on, but I'd rather not cause it's getting late.
And how exactly does this relate to expocity anyway?