Like "growing towards the light". I like it how the current colloquial use of "geil" is a colloquial version of a colloquial version of the original meaning.
Well, as long as it's not as ridiculous as the German Weiss Kreuz DVD... The line "Können Sie mir ein Gebinde binden?" (I can't find a good translation to "Gebinde", but the question is about binding together a flower arrangement.) appears as "Können Sie mir ein Gewinde binden?" ("Can you bind me a screw thread?") and is ansered by something like "Ja, ich kann Ihnen ein ein Gebinde winden." ("Yes, I can wind you a flower arrangement."). Just one example.
Even sadder is that if the translation had been made by MTV (who translate anime series from time to time) they wouldn't have such ridiculous errors. Okay, so the entire thing would have been dubbed by five quite untalented voice actors and have the into music replaced by generic chart music but hey, you can't have everything...
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And let's not forget the OVAs: Slashdot: Beowulf Cluster Slashdot: Hot Grits Panic! Slashdot is dead - Confirmation: Netcraft (gotta love Engrish) In Soviet Russia, Slashdot watch YOU! Internet Crisis: Slashdot Effect Slashdot: $sys$Goatse
I'm not that old but I'm in the "has money and spends it on random shit" age group (the fact that I don't nonwithstanding). And I grew up on Saber Rider, Captain Future*, Speed Racer and to a lesser extent also Heidi, Mila Superstar**, Captain Tsubasa*** or Maya the Bee - those didn't quite fit my taste, although now I enjoy the occasional Tsubasa or Mila rerun for the realism-defying special techniques.
Anime certainly is old enough to have influenced today's spend-crazy generation of young adults from the very beginning of their media life.
* I actually have the soundtrack somewhere... The German Captain Future received a completely new and really funky soundtrack, on the condition that the title song contains no vocals. There's only a voice with an reverb effect saying "CAPTAIN FUTURE" at the end, which I like, as the song doesn't suffer from embarrassing lyrics. The German CF soundtrack is just great space funk, from beginning to end. It's also one of the main reasons why Captain Future became a hit in Germany.
** I don't know how that show is called in English. It's about a girl who plays volleyball and pretty much like Captain Tsubasa, even up to the completely illogical special techniques. Hell, I can remember one episode where she saw a leaf in a river and spontaneously developed a trike that makes the ball invisible. If they'd do stuff like that in the real wrld I migh actually care about sports.
*** This one ran under the name of "Die tollen Fußball-Stars", which roughly translates to "The neat Soccer Stars". No wonder I didn't want to be associated with the series. It also featured one of the worst themes ever, possibly the worst until I mad the mistake of zapping into the Wedding Peach intro.
Heh... Maybe they should just license the subs of the better subber groups. Might cut some translation costs and give them some "street cred" with the other subber groups. OTOH it might backfire and give them the image of greedy bastards who want to make money off the scene ($DEITY forbid!).
I'm still waiting for Rastamon to be subbed. Rastamon is a series about a Jamaican monster trainer called Jimi Reggae who travels around the world collecting the most powerful monsters to "bahn down babbalohn".
No nneed to quote from the past. One of the classes I have to take is a one-year software project. We get one assignment and form competing groups of five to seven students who act as if they were real software businesses - we get everything from vague specifications to the usomer changing his demands two weeks before the deadline.
The really interesting part is that our software will actually be used later. To be precise, we're supposed to reengineer the IEEE Reengineering Bibliography (how fitting!) in JSP, fixing the horrible UI in the process. The best team will then enter into a discussion with the professor with the aim of actually giving the code to the IEEE. Cheapskates.
I think it should be possible to support both Lego and Fischer-Technik. After all, you just have a bunch of motors, what the motors are attached to is pretty much irrelevant (except for the fact that Lego motors have specific properties, of course).
Well, the additional parts would need next to no marketing or development - they're selling the same stuff you get in the box and no one who doesn't have the box needs the individual parts. Mentioning the stuff in the manual should be enough advertisement.
If they still can't sell the individual parts for what people are willing to pay for them they need to a) find out what makes their stepper motors so much more expensive than other peoples' stepper motors or b) get out of a market they apparently can't serve. Apparently Lego can't cut costs on Mindstorms any more so they leave the market because people aren't ready to pay their prices.
Come on. They could easily sell a Mindstorms set for 50 USD and then release individual pieces like additional motors or a better main unit separately. We use Mindstorms at my university for simple robotics learnning. It's amazing how a 200 Euro kit contains basically just two motors, two sensors, an 8-bit ATMega chip and a bunch of Lego Technic things. If I had the time I'd make an ATMEga PCB myself and give the plans to the university - they'd save a lot of money, gain access to C programmable exercise robots and have the ability to give people enough parts to actually make something useful (a robotic arm with 1 DOF is not).
The parts for the PCB themselves come in at about fifteen to twenty bucks, including a 16-bit ATMega. If we add a few motors, some wires and a bunch of simple sensors we might reach the fifty EUR mark, not counting bulk discounts. Even though the Mindstorms prices have dropped a bit 50 EUR is a damn good price for a kit that does much more than a 120 EUR Mindstorms kit. Mindstorms might be competitive if it was priced similarly (people don't have to learn C in order to program it), but not for the current price.
Maybe I should tell the Prof to just give some E-Tech student twenty bucks to make a PCB design...
Yes, but if RMS (note how "RMS" sounds much tighter than "Steve") gets Ballmer to say the word "developers", Ballmer might get stuck. You can't burn the crowd by infinitely repeating one word.
Because supporting a standard is nothing you can brag to potential customers about. Extending $BUZZWORD so that it does things that are extremely necessary ever since We Said So gives the company the image of someone who gets the things done that other people couldn't.
Most of the time. Some RSSes are RDF based. We can't tell whether Microsoft will use RSS 0.90, 0.91, 0.91, 0.92, 0.93, 0.94, 1.0, 2.0, 2.01, 2.01, 3.0 or 3.0. The repetitions are intentional, as some versions have been implemented more than once (0.91: Netscape vs. Userland; 2.01: Two incompatible revisions by Userland. All 2.01 RSSes use the official version number 2.0; 3.0: Two implementations that have nothing to do with all other RSSes at all). IIRC, 0.90, 1.0 and one of the 3.0s are RDF-based.
Actually, I don't think it's possible for Microsoft to make the situation with RSS much worse. We have how many mutually incompatible RSSes? Seven? I know that at least two of them are called "RSS 3" - does any software support either of them? I have no idea. Just because a website offers an RSS feed and you have an RSS reader doesn't mean that you can read the feed. Ugh.
Seriously, the only way they could screw up RSS even more would be by dropping all support for it (do they even support RSS?) and using their own patented format instead.
They should offer this stuff as an extension to Atom, at least then we'd be able to use a standard that deserves the name.
The UN doesn't cater to the lowest common denominator. By the way, I wouldn't want to give it to an entity (the government of the USA, by proxy) that has officially stated that it doesn't care about what the rest of the world thinks and that is known for its' aggressive tendencies.
While Apple would take a blow from Microsoft dropping them, they'd survive. They'd focus on lifestyle even more. They're making a lot of money off the iPod, enough to keep them afloat for a while. Besides, with their move to Intel they could bundle Crossover Office and use that to run MS Office. Bang, market share saved.
As long as people are willing to shell out insane amounts of money (and as someone who uses their keyboard and the Mighty Mouse with an IBM compatible PC I can attest that not only die-hard Apple fans do that) Apple will survive. Even if Netcraft confirms their death.
Actually, as long as they have Steve Jobs they could sell dog shit and people would still go out of their way to buy the stuff. When that man is nearby, reality becomes irrelevant.
I did a few tests and especially images with very few colors sokmetimes compress much better with PNG than with GIF. If the PNG is compressed correctly (ie. not the way Photoshop does it) it's usually smaller or only slightly bigger then GIF.
Every PNG should be post-processed with OptiPNG. A good way is to use OptiPNG with the option -o3 to batch-optimize your images. If you batch-optimize an entire directory containing PNGs it might be a good idea to use a makefile so that you only optimize images that have changed since the last optimization run.
1.) Then... then make your own civilization and don't bother me with valid arguments!
2.) Make your own oil as well!
3.) See? Maybe installing a giant mirror might make those meetings more interesting. Especially if you put a giant lens in front of it.
Using the same logic, why the hell are you interested in the Near East? You've got your own oil and if that's not enough you can use some other energy source or move somewhere else. Besides, in addition to giving those people some sunlight, this stuff might attract tourists, something which international politics have yet to accomplish.;)
Well, historical roots are a reason to stay for some people. By the way, the money also helps to create something pretty unique - I'd actually go there and look at it if I didn't live in northern Germany (and cool as that stuff is, it doesn't justify a multi-hundred-kilometer trip). This might actually turn the town into a point of interest for tourists.
Personally, I wouldn't pay to resettle any of them. If they want to move, then it's on their nickel.
So you can guarantee that each and every of them will get a job at wherever they move to? And that they will not need any place to stay so that they don't drive up the housing prices in the new location? We' not talking subsidy, we're talking associated costs. You have to account for people not finding jobs at the new location, housing prices going up, maybe even a few businesses shutting down because there's not enough customers anymore.
Wouldn't you rather it be spent where you want or at least someplace more reasonable than "fixing" a town that has been "broke" since the first brick was laid?
Chances are that when the town was founded there were some good arguments in favor of it, like access to a river, good soil etc. Considering that this is Austria and not the USA I'd assume that the town in question is old enough to have been built at a time when good soil was much more important than access to sunlight during winter (when most people didn't leave the house much anyway).
Because several towns sufficiently far from the equator are not ten minutes from sunshine? People in Finland are used to not getting any sun in summer, people in Austria are not.
Slashdot Mirror
Like "growing towards the light". I like it how the current colloquial use of "geil" is a colloquial version of a colloquial version of the original meaning.
Well, as long as it's not as ridiculous as the German Weiss Kreuz DVD... The line "Können Sie mir ein Gebinde binden?" (I can't find a good translation to "Gebinde", but the question is about binding together a flower arrangement.) appears as "Können Sie mir ein Gewinde binden?" ("Can you bind me a screw thread?") and is ansered by something like "Ja, ich kann Ihnen ein ein Gebinde winden." ("Yes, I can wind you a flower arrangement."). Just one example.
Even sadder is that if the translation had been made by MTV (who translate anime series from time to time) they wouldn't have such ridiculous errors. Okay, so the entire thing would have been dubbed by five quite untalented voice actors and have the into music replaced by generic chart music but hey, you can't have everything...
Some suggestions:
Frist Post!
You Have Been Trolled
SlashDot: Anime for nerds, mechas that matter (notice the BiCapitalization. When an anime has an Englisch or German name it's often strange in some way)
Roland de Piquepaille and the Karma Whores
Repost Warrior CmdrTaco
CowboyNeal
And let's not forget the OVAs:
Slashdot: Beowulf Cluster
Slashdot: Hot Grits Panic!
Slashdot is dead - Confirmation: Netcraft (gotta love Engrish)
In Soviet Russia, Slashdot watch YOU!
Internet Crisis: Slashdot Effect
Slashdot: $sys$Goatse
And of course the manga, Slashdot: RTFA.
I'm not that old but I'm in the "has money and spends it on random shit" age group (the fact that I don't nonwithstanding). And I grew up on Saber Rider, Captain Future*, Speed Racer and to a lesser extent also Heidi, Mila Superstar**, Captain Tsubasa*** or Maya the Bee - those didn't quite fit my taste, although now I enjoy the occasional Tsubasa or Mila rerun for the realism-defying special techniques.
Anime certainly is old enough to have influenced today's spend-crazy generation of young adults from the very beginning of their media life.
* I actually have the soundtrack somewhere... The German Captain Future received a completely new and really funky soundtrack, on the condition that the title song contains no vocals. There's only a voice with an reverb effect saying "CAPTAIN FUTURE" at the end, which I like, as the song doesn't suffer from embarrassing lyrics. The German CF soundtrack is just great space funk, from beginning to end. It's also one of the main reasons why Captain Future became a hit in Germany.
** I don't know how that show is called in English. It's about a girl who plays volleyball and pretty much like Captain Tsubasa, even up to the completely illogical special techniques. Hell, I can remember one episode where she saw a leaf in a river and spontaneously developed a trike that makes the ball invisible. If they'd do stuff like that in the real wrld I migh actually care about sports.
*** This one ran under the name of "Die tollen Fußball-Stars", which roughly translates to "The neat Soccer Stars". No wonder I didn't want to be associated with the series. It also featured one of the worst themes ever, possibly the worst until I mad the mistake of zapping into the Wedding Peach intro.
Heh... Maybe they should just license the subs of the better subber groups. Might cut some translation costs and give them some "street cred" with the other subber groups. OTOH it might backfire and give them the image of greedy bastards who want to make money off the scene ($DEITY forbid!).
I'm still waiting for Rastamon to be subbed. Rastamon is a series about a Jamaican monster trainer called Jimi Reggae who travels around the world collecting the most powerful monsters to "bahn down babbalohn".
No nneed to quote from the past. One of the classes I have to take is a one-year software project. We get one assignment and form competing groups of five to seven students who act as if they were real software businesses - we get everything from vague specifications to the usomer changing his demands two weeks before the deadline.
The really interesting part is that our software will actually be used later. To be precise, we're supposed to reengineer the IEEE Reengineering Bibliography (how fitting!) in JSP, fixing the horrible UI in the process. The best team will then enter into a discussion with the professor with the aim of actually giving the code to the IEEE. Cheapskates.
I think it should be possible to support both Lego and Fischer-Technik. After all, you just have a bunch of motors, what the motors are attached to is pretty much irrelevant (except for the fact that Lego motors have specific properties, of course).
Well, the additional parts would need next to no marketing or development - they're selling the same stuff you get in the box and no one who doesn't have the box needs the individual parts. Mentioning the stuff in the manual should be enough advertisement.
If they still can't sell the individual parts for what people are willing to pay for them they need to a) find out what makes their stepper motors so much more expensive than other peoples' stepper motors or b) get out of a market they apparently can't serve. Apparently Lego can't cut costs on Mindstorms any more so they leave the market because people aren't ready to pay their prices.
Come on. They could easily sell a Mindstorms set for 50 USD and then release individual pieces like additional motors or a better main unit separately. We use Mindstorms at my university for simple robotics learnning. It's amazing how a 200 Euro kit contains basically just two motors, two sensors, an 8-bit ATMega chip and a bunch of Lego Technic things. If I had the time I'd make an ATMEga PCB myself and give the plans to the university - they'd save a lot of money, gain access to C programmable exercise robots and have the ability to give people enough parts to actually make something useful (a robotic arm with 1 DOF is not).
The parts for the PCB themselves come in at about fifteen to twenty bucks, including a 16-bit ATMega. If we add a few motors, some wires and a bunch of simple sensors we might reach the fifty EUR mark, not counting bulk discounts. Even though the Mindstorms prices have dropped a bit 50 EUR is a damn good price for a kit that does much more than a 120 EUR Mindstorms kit. Mindstorms might be competitive if it was priced similarly (people don't have to learn C in order to program it), but not for the current price.
Maybe I should tell the Prof to just give some E-Tech student twenty bucks to make a PCB design...
I'm still waiting for com.com.com.
Hmm... Add a few subdomains to that... alt.names.stupid.com.com.com - classic!
Yes, but if RMS (note how "RMS" sounds much tighter than "Steve") gets Ballmer to say the word "developers", Ballmer might get stuck. You can't burn the crowd by infinitely repeating one word.
That means it's "Microsoft screws up at PR yet again, News at 11"?
Because supporting a standard is nothing you can brag to potential customers about. Extending $BUZZWORD so that it does things that are extremely necessary ever since We Said So gives the company the image of someone who gets the things done that other people couldn't.
I say it's at least 70% marketing.
Most of the time. Some RSSes are RDF based. We can't tell whether Microsoft will use RSS 0.90, 0.91, 0.91, 0.92, 0.93, 0.94, 1.0, 2.0, 2.01, 2.01, 3.0 or 3.0. The repetitions are intentional, as some versions have been implemented more than once (0.91: Netscape vs. Userland; 2.01: Two incompatible revisions by Userland. All 2.01 RSSes use the official version number 2.0; 3.0: Two implementations that have nothing to do with all other RSSes at all). IIRC, 0.90, 1.0 and one of the 3.0s are RDF-based.
Actually, I don't think it's possible for Microsoft to make the situation with RSS much worse. We have how many mutually incompatible RSSes? Seven? I know that at least two of them are called "RSS 3" - does any software support either of them? I have no idea. Just because a website offers an RSS feed and you have an RSS reader doesn't mean that you can read the feed. Ugh.
Seriously, the only way they could screw up RSS even more would be by dropping all support for it (do they even support RSS?) and using their own patented format instead.
They should offer this stuff as an extension to Atom, at least then we'd be able to use a standard that deserves the name.
The UN doesn't cater to the lowest common denominator. By the way, I wouldn't want to give it to an entity (the government of the USA, by proxy) that has officially stated that it doesn't care about what the rest of the world thinks and that is known for its' aggressive tendencies.
While Apple would take a blow from Microsoft dropping them, they'd survive. They'd focus on lifestyle even more. They're making a lot of money off the iPod, enough to keep them afloat for a while. Besides, with their move to Intel they could bundle Crossover Office and use that to run MS Office. Bang, market share saved.
As long as people are willing to shell out insane amounts of money (and as someone who uses their keyboard and the Mighty Mouse with an IBM compatible PC I can attest that not only die-hard Apple fans do that) Apple will survive. Even if Netcraft confirms their death.
Actually, as long as they have Steve Jobs they could sell dog shit and people would still go out of their way to buy the stuff. When that man is nearby, reality becomes irrelevant.
I did a few tests and especially images with very few colors sokmetimes compress much better with PNG than with GIF. If the PNG is compressed correctly (ie. not the way Photoshop does it) it's usually smaller or only slightly bigger then GIF.
Every PNG should be post-processed with OptiPNG. A good way is to use OptiPNG with the option -o3 to batch-optimize your images. If you batch-optimize an entire directory containing PNGs it might be a good idea to use a makefile so that you only optimize images that have changed since the last optimization run.
1.) Then... then make your own civilization and don't bother me with valid arguments!
2.) Make your own oil as well!
3.) See? Maybe installing a giant mirror might make those meetings more interesting. Especially if you put a giant lens in front of it.
Using the same logic, why the hell are you interested in the Near East? You've got your own oil and if that's not enough you can use some other energy source or move somewhere else. Besides, in addition to giving those people some sunlight, this stuff might attract tourists, something which international politics have yet to accomplish. ;)
Well, historical roots are a reason to stay for some people. By the way, the money also helps to create something pretty unique - I'd actually go there and look at it if I didn't live in northern Germany (and cool as that stuff is, it doesn't justify a multi-hundred-kilometer trip). This might actually turn the town into a point of interest for tourists.
Summer, winter where's the difference? I live in Ecuador, you insensitive clod! ;)
Personally, I wouldn't pay to resettle any of them. If they want to move, then it's on their nickel.
So you can guarantee that each and every of them will get a job at wherever they move to? And that they will not need any place to stay so that they don't drive up the housing prices in the new location? We' not talking subsidy, we're talking associated costs. You have to account for people not finding jobs at the new location, housing prices going up, maybe even a few businesses shutting down because there's not enough customers anymore.
Wouldn't you rather it be spent where you want or at least someplace more reasonable than "fixing" a town that has been "broke" since the first brick was laid?
Chances are that when the town was founded there were some good arguments in favor of it, like access to a river, good soil etc. Considering that this is Austria and not the USA I'd assume that the town in question is old enough to have been built at a time when good soil was much more important than access to sunlight during winter (when most people didn't leave the house much anyway).
Because several towns sufficiently far from the equator are not ten minutes from sunshine? People in Finland are used to not getting any sun in summer, people in Austria are not.