Actually I can't imagine myself brainlessly gazing at an attractive lady over the fence rudely because she was wearing a thong bikini while mowing the lawn. Where I live, immature nitwits make fun of men wearing speedos for any reason and the only time the girls don't find it disturbing is if the guy is attractive (sounds a lot like most male responses to women in skimp-wear).
Maybe it's because I spent four years of my life surrounded by women in miniskirts but for a woman to be "asking for attention" she'd have to be hanging out around the city in a bikini or less.
Also to add, men's clothing tends to be less 'attention grabby' than women's clothing anyway and men who do wear 'attention grabby' men's clothing end up on the receiving end of attention that though different, is just as bad as what a women would get.
Is that why the fat guy who walked into a Taco Bell near where I live was kicked out because he had no shirt on? Maybe you're indoors too much to realize but both sexes get reactions to lack of clothing. I also remember a couple female friends ogling a biker with no shirt on. It goes both ways, the difference is that no guys flip out when someone looks at them because their skin is exposed.
So I'm guessing that if a guy decides to walk outside in his birthday suit he isn't asking to be arrested or harassed by everyone for indecent exposure, not like it can just be fricken warm or maybe they think they look good or maybe they feel good that way.
Though it might not be your genre, Final Fantasy XI is available for PS2 and PC and eventually the Xbox 360 (where they plan to make it look prettier).
I don't know, last time I came up with a configuration for a home built latest and greatest 'beige box' it ended up being quite a bit more expensive than the highest end Powermac. And if I came up with a configuration equal to that of the highest end Powermac the money saved was probably about as much as it would cost to pay someone to assmble the machine.
Some people find the warmth a sweater brings comfortable for their body but uncomfortable to breathe in. There are also people who find the cold temperature perfectly comfortable and since it's easier to warm yourself up with personal property than it is to keep yourself cool it only makes sense to set the temperature to the lowest preference.
I believe there are also health reasons for cooler temperature in public as well.
I've never come across a public building that felt like a furnace in the winter though, usually at most they're around 75 degrees. The only furnaces I've been in are private homes that stay furnaces year around because the inhabitants are insane (personally I can't stand breathing in heated air).
Now people who open windows with the AC on, they're fucking amazing.
As for trash, yes, a lot of Americans are very stupid about it.
In other words you just don't like how he does things. However, he might need to have a set public deadline in order to help with motivation, even if he rarely meets it (he's late a lot more often than he misses comics).
Would you still have greater respect for him if he said, "Comics posted whenever they're done" while sticking to the same release 'schedule'?
Not all comic artists want to spend every waking day drawing. Also drawing a comic in pencil with attention to detail when you're somewhat of a perfectionist probably takes a lot more time than the other comics out there. I think he said it takes him like 4-8 hours to draw a single comic? I don't know about you but I find 8 hours of my day to be a lot of time, especially if I have interests in doing other things. Usually my hand starts to get tired within 7 hours of nonstop drawing. Oh and just so you know, the more you draw the better you get, not necessarily the faster you get.
You have to remember that Fred tries to stay present among his fans even though he creates the most popular graphic novel-style comic on the web and has a store to run. I know Seraphim (whom he also has to spend time with) helps him but it still doesn't mean he doesn't have other things to do. Including other artistic pursuits such as another graphic novel he wants to create.
I detect a hint of jealousy in your post, maybe it's because you think you have to work harder than Fred to make less money? Maybe you should quit your day job and do the same thing if you think you could do a better job.
Here's another comic where the artists will not sacrifice the best they can do in quality for speed: http://alpha-shade.com/
The artist there is also doing it full time, and it takes him a lot more work than Fred to complete a single page, even though his brother is the writer.
So, are you suggesting that Fred should post comics when he can't draw at or above his standards because he's either too exhausted to or having a bad day? Personally I'd think you'd appreciate someone trying to bring you the highest quality stuff they can get you, especially if they think you might actually purchase it from them in the form of a book.
Not just Apple products though, it seems to me that all consumer level electronics are getting less and less reliable. Maybe companies are just having trouble keeping up with customer demands while being able to maintain a profit.
I don't know, I feel that my iPod is a better quality product than the iRiver. Simple and easy interface, minimalistic industrial design, and excellent sound quality (as long as you're not using the built in equalizer, which you shouldn't have to anyway if you have a good pair of headphones). The iPod doesn't have an FM tuner for a good reason, it's a personal digital media player not a radio. If you want to listen to the crap that is radio than there are really small and cheap devices (some I think even attach to the iPod to sap power if you want) that allow this. You can in fact view text files on the iPod, just drop a text file in your "Notes" folder. The iPod does support voice recording with an accessory. Based upon what seems to be Apple's product design guidelines, adding a voice recorder directly to the iPod would only add additional complication that most people wouldn't bother using anyway.
And you fail to see why Apple would never release an ultimate product out in the wild when they could use it to get more money out of it's customers (like any company should do). Apple makes more money off of hardware sales, so if they can use OS X as a way to get people to buy their hardware then they will. I also believe Apple is more of a 'control freak' company than most. They want to create an entire user experience. I'm sure a lot of slashdotters think that's snobish or evil or whatever but as someone who likes to get every related detail exactly the way I want it when I create something, I can certainly understand it. I also prefer it because I believe it results in better products. The Gran Turismo franchise for the Playstation is also controlled by a perfectionist and you rarely hear complaints about it outside of feature requests and the typical, "It's not my kind of thing".
So these people/companies figure that if they can't do something in a way that's satisfactory to their standards or if it disrupts their vision in some way, they just simply won't do it and since I'm also somewhat anti-convergance, I hope Apple continues to keep the iPod a portable digital media device and will not bloat it with unnecessary PDA-like features. Now if only they'd do something about the equalizer since some people can't afford to pay $120+ for a good pair of earbuds.
Wow, just wow. Cartoons have absolutely no link to pedophilia. I believe most fans of cartoons would tell you that they outright detest the disgusting people who abuse children. I'll say it once again, watching cartoons has no link to underage sexual activity.
Yes some anime capitalizes on the whole schoolgirl thing, but I really don't see much that capitalizes on it intentionally in a sexual way, a lot of live action films capitalize on things like racial and sexual stereotypes so you probably would have complaints about those too right?. You're forgetting that some shows have a completely legitimate reason for what their characters wear. If the series is about a bunch of Japanese school kids then what do you want would you expect them to be wearing? Since Japanese cartoons are still cartoons, you can bet your ass that there will be anatomic incorrectness and exaggerations (there are other forms of art that do this) and stylization according to the head artist's wishes, sometimes this means a 'sexy' look which you usually find in shows that are not targeted at kids. I'd also like to point out that there are shows that go to the flipside of cutsie look, but based upon your predisposition that all anime fans are scary perverts, you'd probably find something wrong with that as well.
Also I'd like to point out that American cartoons, even ones for kids can also be accused of 'idealizing' the human body (See Aladdin). I also find it interesting that you didn't complain about cartoon men that have insanely huge muscles and upper torsos that tear shirts...Or maybe it's because you don't find that for some unknown reason
I doubt being a woman would taint your perspective, there are many women who like cartoons and anime. In fact, in high school I was vice president of our anime club, and out of 15 members, there were only 3 guys who regularly came (including me). The president was a girl.
You seem to be badly misinformed or just ignorantly throwing punches because you really seem to know nothing about cartoons and the 'culture' surrounding them. I bet that you've blamed past relationship problems on cartoons. As someone else said, I bet you really hate the artists who draw cartoons.
The fact that it does that say something more negative about real life to me than the MMORPG. The fact that society fails it's members so terribly that they want to escape reflects baddly on all of us, not just the 'pathetic person playing games'. Also, playing MMORPGs can technically get you 'somewhere' For example, the reason MMORPGs are appealing to me is because of the social aspect which in fact does 'get you somewhere'. It's a great way to get to know different people around the globe, sometimes you make friends. Also the technically not allowed practice of selling game money does something. Also to point out, if your friends never tried to get you away from your gaming habits previously, they probably weren't very good friends to begin with. If you were that addicted that they couldn't pull you away, then you should be more sympathetic to those who overuse the game's potential for escapism.
Happy Tree Friends is hardly cheerful and cute, it makes fun of cheerful and cute with the gory/violent endings.
I'm one of those people who watch things that are so cute that people say, "What the hell?" when I show it to them, they seem to be even more disturbed because I'm male. I never cared much for dark genres or body counts unless it's a multiplayer game (so that I can laugh in the face of the person who just got killed). Also, the only single player games I play are very story and character driven because otherwise I'll lose interest. (Yes I'm one of those weird weird people who actually like Xenosaga).
"Why does everyone just assume that cheerful = girly?"
Because they think guys aren't suppose to be into cheerful, happy, colorful things and prefer gore, collisions, death, destruction, and darkness. Just why do you think rainbows are treated like a sign of gayness?
It's because there is no strong organized group against Fucked-up-America. Social change starts with an organized group because most people aren't strong or brave enough to take a strong social stand alone, especially since you risk being labeled as a terrorist if things get out of hand.
I don't think there's enough space in the current iMac for an off the shelf video card. Laptop video card maybe, but as of now they have the video fabricated on board to save space.
The difference between Dell and Apple supposedly is that Apple tries make sure to choose good hard disks, RAM, chipsets, etc.
For example, unlike Compaq did several years ago. I doubt Apple would stick an extremely noisy and failure prone hard drive, terribly unstable winmodem, and give me a laptop video chipset in a desktop AGP slot. Apple's own operating system is very picky about RAM, thus whatever company makes their DIMMs has to provide a reliable stream of good RAM.
If you buy a stack of Apple DVD-Rs, you'll find that the actual maker of those discs are the ones that get very good comments in all the discussion about good media. Even if Apple doesn't hand craft every single component in their machines, they at least don't stick bargain bin quality components in their machines.
Of course I may be wrong about the other companies now, I've stopped buying premade desktops for a while now so I don't know if they've stopped putting shit components in their machines. But I have noted that a lot of new laptops have plenty of blue lights on them to waste battery life in attempt to 'look cool'.
You know, you're supposed to configure your iBook's LCD if it matters to you, they actually have a utility in OS X to do it (it's also accessible through the Display control panel). As for the resolution, I heard the idea behind that is to keep a certain dpi for easy readability. As for dead pixels, there's no excuse at that resolution. My iBook has no dead pixels, maybe you should complain to Apple.
Do you really think you'll be seeing a standard ATX motherboard, power-supply and Pentium 4 in in the iMac form-factor and noise level? Even if they change the looks of all the new Intel lineups, I highly doubt they're going to go with a form-factor that is nearly impossible to make look good (in my opinion, all PC cases are ugly).
Seriously, maybe in their high end towers but their other product lines are going to require more than off the shelf components. Even if the components are produced by a 3rd party they're going to end up being custom jobs.
Just for the record, even though I was being sarcastic in my previous post, I have never had or even caused an accident in all the years I've been driving. In fact, thanks to my ability to press the gas and steer rather than jam on the breaks and skid into another car I was able to avoid some idiot who made an illegal turn. The people who give you high insurance premiums are those who don't give the road their undivided attention and stupidly push the limits without know where they are and they *gasp* actually get into accidents.
Which group do you think gets other people killed more often? People who speed or people who do things that distract them or slow their reflexes. Even though I'm not crazy enough to speed on busy streets with plenty of potential accidents around me, I do know people who do and they get into less accidents than the average driver I know. Probably because they know a little more about how to handle a car than those who freak out when the need to make an emergency maneuver comes up.
Driving slow sucks, it's boring and takes too long. I like hearing my tires squeal as I go around turns and my engine roar as I go down a straightaway...Best of all, I love the looks of fear on the pedestrian faces.
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Actually I can't imagine myself brainlessly gazing at an attractive lady over the fence rudely because she was wearing a thong bikini while mowing the lawn. Where I live, immature nitwits make fun of men wearing speedos for any reason and the only time the girls don't find it disturbing is if the guy is attractive (sounds a lot like most male responses to women in skimp-wear).
Maybe it's because I spent four years of my life surrounded by women in miniskirts but for a woman to be "asking for attention" she'd have to be hanging out around the city in a bikini or less.
Also to add, men's clothing tends to be less 'attention grabby' than women's clothing anyway and men who do wear 'attention grabby' men's clothing end up on the receiving end of attention that though different, is just as bad as what a women would get.
Is that why the fat guy who walked into a Taco Bell near where I live was kicked out because he had no shirt on? Maybe you're indoors too much to realize but both sexes get reactions to lack of clothing. I also remember a couple female friends ogling a biker with no shirt on. It goes both ways, the difference is that no guys flip out when someone looks at them because their skin is exposed.
So I'm guessing that if a guy decides to walk outside in his birthday suit he isn't asking to be arrested or harassed by everyone for indecent exposure, not like it can just be fricken warm or maybe they think they look good or maybe they feel good that way.
Though it might not be your genre, Final Fantasy XI is available for PS2 and PC and eventually the Xbox 360 (where they plan to make it look prettier).
I don't know, last time I came up with a configuration for a home built latest and greatest 'beige box' it ended up being quite a bit more expensive than the highest end Powermac. And if I came up with a configuration equal to that of the highest end Powermac the money saved was probably about as much as it would cost to pay someone to assmble the machine.
I'm not exactly sure how TFA displays arrogance in anybody.
Some people find the warmth a sweater brings comfortable for their body but uncomfortable to breathe in. There are also people who find the cold temperature perfectly comfortable and since it's easier to warm yourself up with personal property than it is to keep yourself cool it only makes sense to set the temperature to the lowest preference.
I believe there are also health reasons for cooler temperature in public as well.
I've never come across a public building that felt like a furnace in the winter though, usually at most they're around 75 degrees. The only furnaces I've been in are private homes that stay furnaces year around because the inhabitants are insane (personally I can't stand breathing in heated air).
Now people who open windows with the AC on, they're fucking amazing.
As for trash, yes, a lot of Americans are very stupid about it.
In other words you just don't like how he does things. However, he might need to have a set public deadline in order to help with motivation, even if he rarely meets it (he's late a lot more often than he misses comics).
Would you still have greater respect for him if he said, "Comics posted whenever they're done" while sticking to the same release 'schedule'?
Not all comic artists want to spend every waking day drawing. Also drawing a comic in pencil with attention to detail when you're somewhat of a perfectionist probably takes a lot more time than the other comics out there. I think he said it takes him like 4-8 hours to draw a single comic? I don't know about you but I find 8 hours of my day to be a lot of time, especially if I have interests in doing other things. Usually my hand starts to get tired within 7 hours of nonstop drawing. Oh and just so you know, the more you draw the better you get, not necessarily the faster you get.
You have to remember that Fred tries to stay present among his fans even though he creates the most popular graphic novel-style comic on the web and has a store to run. I know Seraphim (whom he also has to spend time with) helps him but it still doesn't mean he doesn't have other things to do. Including other artistic pursuits such as another graphic novel he wants to create.
I detect a hint of jealousy in your post, maybe it's because you think you have to work harder than Fred to make less money? Maybe you should quit your day job and do the same thing if you think you could do a better job.
Here's another comic where the artists will not sacrifice the best they can do in quality for speed: http://alpha-shade.com/
The artist there is also doing it full time, and it takes him a lot more work than Fred to complete a single page, even though his brother is the writer.
So, are you suggesting that Fred should post comics when he can't draw at or above his standards because he's either too exhausted to or having a bad day? Personally I'd think you'd appreciate someone trying to bring you the highest quality stuff they can get you, especially if they think you might actually purchase it from them in the form of a book.
Not just Apple products though, it seems to me that all consumer level electronics are getting less and less reliable. Maybe companies are just having trouble keeping up with customer demands while being able to maintain a profit.
I don't know, I feel that my iPod is a better quality product than the iRiver. Simple and easy interface, minimalistic industrial design, and excellent sound quality (as long as you're not using the built in equalizer, which you shouldn't have to anyway if you have a good pair of headphones). The iPod doesn't have an FM tuner for a good reason, it's a personal digital media player not a radio. If you want to listen to the crap that is radio than there are really small and cheap devices (some I think even attach to the iPod to sap power if you want) that allow this. You can in fact view text files on the iPod, just drop a text file in your "Notes" folder. The iPod does support voice recording with an accessory. Based upon what seems to be Apple's product design guidelines, adding a voice recorder directly to the iPod would only add additional complication that most people wouldn't bother using anyway.
And you fail to see why Apple would never release an ultimate product out in the wild when they could use it to get more money out of it's customers (like any company should do). Apple makes more money off of hardware sales, so if they can use OS X as a way to get people to buy their hardware then they will. I also believe Apple is more of a 'control freak' company than most. They want to create an entire user experience. I'm sure a lot of slashdotters think that's snobish or evil or whatever but as someone who likes to get every related detail exactly the way I want it when I create something, I can certainly understand it. I also prefer it because I believe it results in better products. The Gran Turismo franchise for the Playstation is also controlled by a perfectionist and you rarely hear complaints about it outside of feature requests and the typical, "It's not my kind of thing".
So these people/companies figure that if they can't do something in a way that's satisfactory to their standards or if it disrupts their vision in some way, they just simply won't do it and since I'm also somewhat anti-convergance, I hope Apple continues to keep the iPod a portable digital media device and will not bloat it with unnecessary PDA-like features. Now if only they'd do something about the equalizer since some people can't afford to pay $120+ for a good pair of earbuds.
Wow, just wow. Cartoons have absolutely no link to pedophilia. I believe most fans of cartoons would tell you that they outright detest the disgusting people who abuse children. I'll say it once again, watching cartoons has no link to underage sexual activity.
Yes some anime capitalizes on the whole schoolgirl thing, but I really don't see much that capitalizes on it intentionally in a sexual way, a lot of live action films capitalize on things like racial and sexual stereotypes so you probably would have complaints about those too right?. You're forgetting that some shows have a completely legitimate reason for what their characters wear. If the series is about a bunch of Japanese school kids then what do you want would you expect them to be wearing? Since Japanese cartoons are still cartoons, you can bet your ass that there will be anatomic incorrectness and exaggerations (there are other forms of art that do this) and stylization according to the head artist's wishes, sometimes this means a 'sexy' look which you usually find in shows that are not targeted at kids. I'd also like to point out that there are shows that go to the flipside of cutsie look, but based upon your predisposition that all anime fans are scary perverts, you'd probably find something wrong with that as well.
Also I'd like to point out that American cartoons, even ones for kids can also be accused of 'idealizing' the human body (See Aladdin). I also find it interesting that you didn't complain about cartoon men that have insanely huge muscles and upper torsos that tear shirts...Or maybe it's because you don't find that for some unknown reason
I doubt being a woman would taint your perspective, there are many women who like cartoons and anime. In fact, in high school I was vice president of our anime club, and out of 15 members, there were only 3 guys who regularly came (including me). The president was a girl.
You seem to be badly misinformed or just ignorantly throwing punches because you really seem to know nothing about cartoons and the 'culture' surrounding them. I bet that you've blamed past relationship problems on cartoons. As someone else said, I bet you really hate the artists who draw cartoons.
The fact that it does that say something more negative about real life to me than the MMORPG. The fact that society fails it's members so terribly that they want to escape reflects baddly on all of us, not just the 'pathetic person playing games'. Also, playing MMORPGs can technically get you 'somewhere' For example, the reason MMORPGs are appealing to me is because of the social aspect which in fact does 'get you somewhere'. It's a great way to get to know different people around the globe, sometimes you make friends. Also the technically not allowed practice of selling game money does something. Also to point out, if your friends never tried to get you away from your gaming habits previously, they probably weren't very good friends to begin with. If you were that addicted that they couldn't pull you away, then you should be more sympathetic to those who overuse the game's potential for escapism.
Dual booting will probably be difficult because Apple uses a totally different partitioning scheme.
Happy Tree Friends is hardly cheerful and cute, it makes fun of cheerful and cute with the gory/violent endings.
I'm one of those people who watch things that are so cute that people say, "What the hell?" when I show it to them, they seem to be even more disturbed because I'm male. I never cared much for dark genres or body counts unless it's a multiplayer game (so that I can laugh in the face of the person who just got killed). Also, the only single player games I play are very story and character driven because otherwise I'll lose interest. (Yes I'm one of those weird weird people who actually like Xenosaga).
"Why does everyone just assume that cheerful = girly?"
Because they think guys aren't suppose to be into cheerful, happy, colorful things and prefer gore, collisions, death, destruction, and darkness. Just why do you think rainbows are treated like a sign of gayness?
Mmm...butter martinis...
Remember the Nano virtual pets? (Nano Baby, Nano Dog, etc.)
It's because there is no strong organized group against Fucked-up-America. Social change starts with an organized group because most people aren't strong or brave enough to take a strong social stand alone, especially since you risk being labeled as a terrorist if things get out of hand.
I don't think there's enough space in the current iMac for an off the shelf video card. Laptop video card maybe, but as of now they have the video fabricated on board to save space.
The difference between Dell and Apple supposedly is that Apple tries make sure to choose good hard disks, RAM, chipsets, etc.
For example, unlike Compaq did several years ago. I doubt Apple would stick an extremely noisy and failure prone hard drive, terribly unstable winmodem, and give me a laptop video chipset in a desktop AGP slot. Apple's own operating system is very picky about RAM, thus whatever company makes their DIMMs has to provide a reliable stream of good RAM.
If you buy a stack of Apple DVD-Rs, you'll find that the actual maker of those discs are the ones that get very good comments in all the discussion about good media. Even if Apple doesn't hand craft every single component in their machines, they at least don't stick bargain bin quality components in their machines.
Of course I may be wrong about the other companies now, I've stopped buying premade desktops for a while now so I don't know if they've stopped putting shit components in their machines. But I have noted that a lot of new laptops have plenty of blue lights on them to waste battery life in attempt to 'look cool'.
You know, you're supposed to configure your iBook's LCD if it matters to you, they actually have a utility in OS X to do it (it's also accessible through the Display control panel). As for the resolution, I heard the idea behind that is to keep a certain dpi for easy readability. As for dead pixels, there's no excuse at that resolution. My iBook has no dead pixels, maybe you should complain to Apple.
Do you really think you'll be seeing a standard ATX motherboard, power-supply and Pentium 4 in in the iMac form-factor and noise level? Even if they change the looks of all the new Intel lineups, I highly doubt they're going to go with a form-factor that is nearly impossible to make look good (in my opinion, all PC cases are ugly).
Seriously, maybe in their high end towers but their other product lines are going to require more than off the shelf components. Even if the components are produced by a 3rd party they're going to end up being custom jobs.
'Homework', of course...
Just for the record, even though I was being sarcastic in my previous post, I have never had or even caused an accident in all the years I've been driving. In fact, thanks to my ability to press the gas and steer rather than jam on the breaks and skid into another car I was able to avoid some idiot who made an illegal turn. The people who give you high insurance premiums are those who don't give the road their undivided attention and stupidly push the limits without know where they are and they *gasp* actually get into accidents.
Which group do you think gets other people killed more often? People who speed or people who do things that distract them or slow their reflexes. Even though I'm not crazy enough to speed on busy streets with plenty of potential accidents around me, I do know people who do and they get into less accidents than the average driver I know. Probably because they know a little more about how to handle a car than those who freak out when the need to make an emergency maneuver comes up.
Wise up, speed does not equal recklessness.
Driving slow sucks, it's boring and takes too long. I like hearing my tires squeal as I go around turns and my engine roar as I go down a straightaway...Best of all, I love the looks of fear on the pedestrian faces.