Contrary to the initial appearance, I really think the mecha elements aren't the focus.
Shinji is almost autistic in his inability to relate to other people, something that manifests in the "absolute terror" field he uses to keep everything else away from him. Asuka desperately looks in everyone she meets for the confirmation of her value that her mother was unable to give her. Rei is a teenage clone that knows what she is, but that doesn't make the molestation she experiences anything easier to deal with.
None of which is to say you're wrong in not having enjoyed it - you've pretty much outlined my initial take of the series - more that I found it to be an incredibly consistent story when I focused on what I see as the "true" story: how do you retain your humanity when you have to keep adapting to survive in an increasingly complex society?
Has there been any major terrorist attack on Australia?
Nope. Oddly enough, though, we had a threat of explosives being randomly left on the public transport system here in Brisbane the day before major rallies protesting the new IR reform. Isn't coincidence a bitch?
One Qld minister recently resigned after his travel itinerary to South America was leaked to the press, revealing it to be yet-another-junket, but not before setting off an unfettered witchhunt for the person who had put him "at risk of terrorist reprisal".
Because clearly the fucking minister for Primary fucking Industries (farms, basically) in Queensland is a HUGE target of international terrorism.
What's the point, other than crushing freedom?
Cronyism, protecting their personal interests & power, and basically fucking us over, because isn't that what positions of authority are all about?
He is talking about peoples' perceptions, and the need to be politically savvy when selling OSS to those same people.
Am I the only one who thinks the failing lies in the people who're making decisions based on shallow surface impressions rather than an actual deep understanding of the issue?
> It seems that netharbour.com.au is no longer operating.
Such a shame. Johnnie was so proud of his son being "one of those willing to make a go" of a new Aussie business (I'm guessing in comparison to the rest of us lazy bastards who're only too willing to suckle dependent on the government teat).
If I was cynical, I'd assume it was just another nepotistic scam... Thankfully, Howard's never done anything before to make us doubt his sincerity...
Still, I wonder about the student puzzling how he/she will finish a thesis.
Perhaps their thesis is actually about some aspect of the Wikipedia project?
Given the frequency of Wikipedia articles lately, it'd be nice if just once we could discuss the site without everyone having to register their yays & nays for the project first.
True story, our IT "security" officer here once told me - I shit you not - that SSH is less secure than telnet.
Turns out that complexity (to him) in installation translates into more potential vulnerabilities for crackers to exploit. Which is, in a way, true...but doesn't explain why he's still in this role.
10 years on and we're still not allowed to connect via SSH through our firewall. The irony of our minister recently resigning over an information leak isn't lost on me:)
So why does Google get all the good press on Slashdot (and elsewhere)?
Many of us still remember the pre-Google Yahoo! and the monstrousity of their portal. They may have made some interesting decisions & purchases lately but it all seems to be a response to trend & behavioural shifts that others are initiating.
I'm guessing it makes them feel "special" or "different."
That's the impression I got from the way EVERY article that even remotely touches on Cohen feels compelled to linger on the issue.
It disturbs me - esp. in TFA - because it seems to be included purely to propogate the myth that 'real' innovation/creation comes from 'special' or 'different' people...
http://freedesktop.org/wiki/ predates it by quite some time. It appears that Tango's focus is more on the visual appearance, while freedesktop.org aims to provide at least a loose level of standardisation for linux desktops. The two projects definitely compliment each other nicely.
The usual half-baked garbage of blah-blah fantasies and pieces of broken medieval weaponry. Cutscenes are abrupt, tacky and generally feel disconnected from the actual story. Watching a cut scene never left me feeling informed and I would have to check the quest journal to find out what to do next.
Quests mostly seem to involve immediately setting out for some location (one noone got around to mentioning during the amateur thespian hour that was the FMV) and either a) killing some generic, buffer up uberboss and then teleporting via the most pointlessly-contrived-to-follow-the- story-line-set-of-portals EVER to prove what you'd done, or b) wandering along the totally linear track they're not even trying to make seem more open-ended until you 'stumble' on the 72nd hidden cave system, through which you idly slaughter everything in sight while watching the map overlay for 'secret' buttons that provide you access to fey elven puzzles of the sort that most people learned how solved the first time they put the blue ball on the blue table, because god only knows you need a 17th copy, THEN tracking down some buffed up uberboss...
Depth of character development?
At seemingly random intervals, your party members appear to try and build up morale by throwing non sequiturs at each other:
"That certainly was a thrilling battle! What a great journey this has turned out to be!"
"You make too much noise." (oh, the tension!)
"I am a great fighter!"
Do you remember the stories of old, where one event would follow another, where characters had motivations more compelling than being a half-giant or happening to own a crossbow, where Evil acted before Good reacted and eventually saved the day?
Dungeon Siege 2 may have started with the intent of being epic in mind, but it could have at least bought me dinner before just rushing me so joylessly through the tropes.
Thousands of rare items a la BGII?
Right before I realised I couldn't even fake the interest to finish the last few quests, the best armor I'd come across for my combat mage was some kind of infected-banana-yellow robe with a red flame trim, which had her looking more like a pimped out Zippy the Pinhead than conveying the inherent arcane majesty it's bonuses wanted to imply. And ENOUGH WITH THE GLOWING ALREADY! From the second you equip your first enchanted item with its +0.001% to some stat that's useless to you, the hidden wellsprings of the universe break open and pour their heavenly light upon you. Clip on the right combo of magical bling, statgrind until you can finally fit into that special bright mauve & rotten orange Tunic of Three Random Words (ooh, +2% chance of finding less pointless equipment!), and it's disco inferno...
And look when your title is a party-based RPG, when that fact is constantly highlighted in the marketing and the game itself as being one of the distinguishing elements of this shambling corpse of what should have been a stillborn franchise, when you impose artificial constraints on the size of that party that reduces the potential for more interactions without any noticeable advances in your game engine (setting the fog to a different colour dependent on the locale so at first it's 'snow', then 'smoke, then 'uh is that humidity? or a spooky self-generating atmosphere of malaise?' doesn't help conceal the lack of any evolution of the graphics engine - the six point seven trillion points of cheap psychedelia the game starts whoring within the first 37 seconds don't even begin to help), so, yeah, when ALL OF THE ABOVE, why, why, why can't a party of even two characters manage to consistently STAND ON A DAMN ELEVATOR PLATFORM AT THE SAME TIME BEFORE TRIGGERING IT or, god forbid, the fucking fighter standing right beside the pile of gold actually pick it up instead of waiting for the most physically distant party member to shuffle on over to grab it, which is genera
For a human manually reading through log files, yes.
But don't you think they'd automate this process? A script generally isn't going to be distracted by titilating filler material and miss that single tell-tale line in a massive log.
Given the changes he was made aware of, plus the grief he got over the abyssmal LoEG film, Moore asked that his name not be used in conjunction with the film and recently got quite irate with announcements that he was "pleased" with the way the film had turned out.
College is education for those ready to receive it.
I would agree with this wholeheartedly if I didn't have to work alongside IT graduates whose understanding of the field isn't just undeveloped, it's embarrasingly incomplete and often just plain wrong.
When I have to explain to a college graduate that renaming the file extension of a Lotus Notes contacts file to.pst won't automagically convert the internal format to something Outlook can understand then there's a serious disconnect between what degrees & diplomas are supposed to represent and what they really signify.
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Shinji is almost autistic in his inability to relate to other people, something that manifests in the "absolute terror" field he uses to keep everything else away from him. Asuka desperately looks in everyone she meets for the confirmation of her value that her mother was unable to give her. Rei is a teenage clone that knows what she is, but that doesn't make the molestation she experiences anything easier to deal with.
None of which is to say you're wrong in not having enjoyed it - you've pretty much outlined my initial take of the series - more that I found it to be an incredibly consistent story when I focused on what I see as the "true" story: how do you retain your humanity when you have to keep adapting to survive in an increasingly complex society?
Nope. Oddly enough, though, we had a threat of explosives being randomly left on the public transport system here in Brisbane the day before major rallies protesting the new IR reform. Isn't coincidence a bitch?
One Qld minister recently resigned after his travel itinerary to South America was leaked to the press, revealing it to be yet-another-junket, but not before setting off an unfettered witchhunt for the person who had put him "at risk of terrorist reprisal".
Because clearly the fucking minister for Primary fucking Industries (farms, basically) in Queensland is a HUGE target of international terrorism.
What's the point, other than crushing freedom?
Cronyism, protecting their personal interests & power, and basically fucking us over, because isn't that what positions of authority are all about?
Is it really that difficult to work out that /. isn't a hive mind?
Or is it the diversity of opinion itself that's bothering you?
Like enterprise organisations tolerating 'sandals and ponytails' in exchange for decent software?
Am I the only one who thinks the failing lies in the people who're making decisions based on shallow surface impressions rather than an actual deep understanding of the issue?
What he takes for saavy, I see as pandering.
Such a shame. Johnnie was so proud of his son being "one of those willing to make a go" of a new Aussie business (I'm guessing in comparison to the rest of us lazy bastards who're only too willing to suckle dependent on the government teat).
If I was cynical, I'd assume it was just another nepotistic scam... Thankfully, Howard's never done anything before to make us doubt his sincerity...
*sigh*
Perhaps their thesis is actually about some aspect of the Wikipedia project?
Given the frequency of Wikipedia articles lately, it'd be nice if just once we could discuss the site without everyone having to register their yays & nays for the project first.
Buzz.
Are you advocating that we should just accept that?
What ever happened to standing up for what you believe in? Seriously.
True story, our IT "security" officer here once told me - I shit you not - that SSH is less secure than telnet.
Turns out that complexity (to him) in installation translates into more potential vulnerabilities for crackers to exploit. Which is, in a way, true...but doesn't explain why he's still in this role.
10 years on and we're still not allowed to connect via SSH through our firewall. The irony of our minister recently resigning over an information leak isn't lost on me :)
So why does Google get all the good press on Slashdot (and elsewhere)?
Many of us still remember the pre-Google Yahoo! and the monstrousity of their portal. They may have made some interesting decisions & purchases lately but it all seems to be a response to trend & behavioural shifts that others are initiating.
More importantly, we're told this from the very beginning:
"Who is Number 1?"
"You are, Number 6."
That's the impression I got from the way EVERY article that even remotely touches on Cohen feels compelled to linger on the issue.
It disturbs me - esp. in TFA - because it seems to be included purely to propogate the myth that 'real' innovation/creation comes from 'special' or 'different' people...
http://freedesktop.org/wiki/ predates it by quite some time. It appears that Tango's focus is more on the visual appearance, while freedesktop.org aims to provide at least a loose level of standardisation for linux desktops. The two projects definitely compliment each other nicely.
The usual half-baked garbage of blah-blah fantasies and pieces of broken medieval weaponry. Cutscenes are abrupt, tacky and generally feel disconnected from the actual story. Watching a cut scene never left me feeling informed and I would have to check the quest journal to find out what to do next.
Quests mostly seem to involve immediately setting out for some location (one noone got around to mentioning during the amateur thespian hour that was the FMV) and either a) killing some generic, buffer up uberboss and then teleporting via the most pointlessly-contrived-to-follow-the- story-line-set-of-portals EVER to prove what you'd done, or b) wandering along the totally linear track they're not even trying to make seem more open-ended until you 'stumble' on the 72nd hidden cave system, through which you idly slaughter everything in sight while watching the map overlay for 'secret' buttons that provide you access to fey elven puzzles of the sort that most people learned how solved the first time they put the blue ball on the blue table, because god only knows you need a 17th copy, THEN tracking down some buffed up uberboss...
Depth of character development?
At seemingly random intervals, your party members appear to try and build up morale by throwing non sequiturs at each other:
"That certainly was a thrilling battle! What a great journey this has turned out to be!"
"You make too much noise." (oh, the tension!)
"I am a great fighter!"
Do you remember the stories of old, where one event would follow another, where characters had motivations more compelling than being a half-giant or happening to own a crossbow, where Evil acted before Good reacted and eventually saved the day?
Dungeon Siege 2 may have started with the intent of being epic in mind, but it could have at least bought me dinner before just rushing me so joylessly through the tropes.
Thousands of rare items a la BGII?
Right before I realised I couldn't even fake the interest to finish the last few quests, the best armor I'd come across for my combat mage was some kind of infected-banana-yellow robe with a red flame trim, which had her looking more like a pimped out Zippy the Pinhead than conveying the inherent arcane majesty it's bonuses wanted to imply. And ENOUGH WITH THE GLOWING ALREADY! From the second you equip your first enchanted item with its +0.001% to some stat that's useless to you, the hidden wellsprings of the universe break open and pour their heavenly light upon you. Clip on the right combo of magical bling, statgrind until you can finally fit into that special bright mauve & rotten orange Tunic of Three Random Words (ooh, +2% chance of finding less pointless equipment!), and it's disco inferno...
And look when your title is a party-based RPG, when that fact is constantly highlighted in the marketing and the game itself as being one of the distinguishing elements of this shambling corpse of what should have been a stillborn franchise, when you impose artificial constraints on the size of that party that reduces the potential for more interactions without any noticeable advances in your game engine (setting the fog to a different colour dependent on the locale so at first it's 'snow', then 'smoke, then 'uh is that humidity? or a spooky self-generating atmosphere of malaise?' doesn't help conceal the lack of any evolution of the graphics engine - the six point seven trillion points of cheap psychedelia the game starts whoring within the first 37 seconds don't even begin to help), so, yeah, when ALL OF THE ABOVE, why, why, why can't a party of even two characters manage to consistently STAND ON A DAMN ELEVATOR PLATFORM AT THE SAME TIME BEFORE TRIGGERING IT or, god forbid, the fucking fighter standing right beside the pile of gold actually pick it up instead of waiting for the most physically distant party member to shuffle on over to grab it, which is genera
Sometimes they're cut down for time, in order to fit the requisite number of adverts into the timeslot.
Cutting content to fit in more marketting is far more offensive than doing so for moral reasons, IMO.
For a human manually reading through log files, yes.
But don't you think they'd automate this process? A script generally isn't going to be distracted by titilating filler material and miss that single tell-tale line in a massive log.
Really? Exactly where over here did all of this money allegedly end up?
When has researching the facts ever been a prerequisite for self-righteous whining? :)
If that's what you think is happening here, it's pretty clear you don't use your brain all that much either.
I haven't used Yahoo mail, could you explain what its address book offers that GMail's contacts doesn't cater for?
They mean the Tools menu contained within IE.
Given the changes he was made aware of, plus the grief he got over the abyssmal LoEG film, Moore asked that his name not be used in conjunction with the film and recently got quite irate with announcements that he was "pleased" with the way the film had turned out.
I would agree with this wholeheartedly if I didn't have to work alongside IT graduates whose understanding of the field isn't just undeveloped, it's embarrasingly incomplete and often just plain wrong.
When I have to explain to a college graduate that renaming the file extension of a Lotus Notes contacts file to .pst won't automagically convert the internal format to something Outlook can understand then there's a serious disconnect between what degrees & diplomas are supposed to represent and what they really signify.
My govt whored out our culture and crippled our IT industry in exchange for a "free" trade agreement with the US.
Believe me, it bother's me.