Every time I've bought an HP product I've regreted it. I even got one of their dvd burners for a mere $99 year before last (when they were ~$300 normally) and then when it broke only 3 weeks after I bought it they said it wasn't covered under warrenty. They claimed that it was covered for 1 year or until they decide the product is obsolete and no longer will be supported. Even though i'd just bought it they had decided it was too long to support any longer dispite the fact that it was still on store shelves. Then last year I got a HP 935 digital camera as a gift. It was a good little camera except for one thing. The batteries only lasted about 2-3 picutres at a time. You could wait for the amperage to build back up between sets of 2-3 pictures (usually a few minutes) but thats totally unacceptable to most people. Terrible designs and business decisions like these have destroyed any support I had left for HP. I know it's HP-Compaq now but hell would freeze over before I buy anything off them.
if you can patant this why can't you patent a desk layout. I'll patent the peticular setup where you have the mouse on the right of the keyboard and a monitor in the front and call it "productive arrangement A" followed by variations for multiple monitors and case locations. Then following on lessions from various software companies I won't really SELL the use of the patent..I'll lease it for a nominal monthy fee. And then if you ever take a picture of your desk I can sue you for trade secrets:D
you sir are an uneducated idiot. They've found assloads of life both complex and single cellular around geothermal vents far below any sunlight or oxygen. Watch some discovery channel for christs sake.
we found baby "giant" squid last year. They were less than an inch long and you needed a microscope to properly identify them but we found em. The researches tried to keep 6 for study but they all died before they reach land. If a ship full of PhDs can't keep the little bastards alive I'd say theres a lot we don't know about em
i read a shitty book about somthing like that once. And the book was serious heh. While the whole 2nd ocean thing is retarded the idea that very large sea life could go unnoticed isnt that far fetched. Giant squid have yet to be video taped or witnessed except in larve form (when they are near the surface). The adults are 40-60 feet long and we've never found more than the bits and pieces that wash up on shore when they come near the surface to breed. Now imagine something like that which never comes to the surface. We'd never fucking know about it. Theres also that fish we thought was extinct like 20 million years ago then they caught some off africa and california. I'm sure theres lots of crazy shit left to be discovered and probally several speices we think are extict that are still puttering around somewhere.
as an ocean engineer I feel compelled to point out that exploring the depths of the ocean is an assload harder than exploring space. Accordingly we've explored far less of it than space. Technologies are advancing but most of them are directed towards making existing technologies more efficient. We really don't have any improvments for reaching really deep areas and are still using technology pioneered in the 70s.
I was under that impression to. I'm wondering if they're playing around with this to try to devolop some robust code for use in future missions where transmision times would make direct intervention impracticle. I know they didn't have any worth a crap when we put that little Sojunour(sp?) rover on mars and it was a big hassle to control. The same code used in this could easily be used in sats that we send to orbit other planets (at least to "do i take a picture" part) and depending on how it's written it could probally be used on a rover. Me thinks this is just a field test of sorts.
talked to an indian friend of mine about this
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while I can't say I know jack shit about India (other than I'd like to have nuke insurance if I lived there) I spoke to an Indian friend of mine about this and he thought it was a cool idea. He even said the dudes name isn't that unusual and yes there are large buildings to swing around from in India's big cities. He figured they'd probally give it an antinuclear swing too for the "radioactive spider" part. Spiderman was always about ambiguity and with all the class destintions and cultural limits in Indian society I expect they can make it fairly interesting. Given how ravenous a lot of eastern countries are for classic US culture like this I'd expect it to do fairly well. Having Spiderman fight demons seems like a big far fetched to me but we'll see how it goes.
agreed. I've even had employees lie to me trying to say I couldn't buy a laptop without activating my "free" MSN account for 30 days (which registered to my credit card and would begin auto billing after said 30 days). I finally acted like I wasn't gunna buy it because I didn't want to deal with it and got him to suddenly remember it didn't work like that. I understand working retail in an electronics store must be hell but seriously the computer department employees at best buy are generally fucking retards. They need to be more interested in compedative pricing than mornic "free services" and "warrenty extentions". I can save about 30-40% off the regular best buy price just by going to newegg.com and I don't have to pay tax. For almost any electronics product thats pretty significant savings, at least in Texas (8.75% sales tax).
we're talking about the scene as a whole though. I'll grand last exile was orignal but I think the only reason a lot of people like it is because of how crappy a lot of the other animes are. I didn't like any of those other series you posted. It's much like the video game industry over there I imagine. For every 2-3 good titles that are being devoloped into anime we get at least 10 awful ones and mere business and marketing majors are the ones making decisions. I have no doubt this is only a passing trend as the market will self correct once they realize heaps of shit don't sell the same as a few polished products but it'll take time. There is no way anime is "finished" but it's going to tough for new artists pretty soon.
1. cowboy bebop + movie
2. Kenshin original 4 part OAV
3. Berserk... ignoring the first 2 episodes and last 2... (its an unfinished series but the meat of the series is stand alone)
4.gundam seed
Well I'll agree its not as good as Bebop but as a mere 1.5 hour movie it's one of the best. The full 26 episode series of Bebop + the movie is fucking anime at it's finest. There ARE, however, several themes going on in GITS though its probally a piece of writing where people will pick out what they want to see. If you didn't grasp anything bigger out of it I doubt you ever will. Find an english major who watched it and he'll probally give you 10-20 major sociological issues he noticed in it.
well to be honest what series in recent memory have been close to the classics like cowboy bebop? The only series I can think of that are worth watching are Ghost In The Shell Stand Alone Complex and Gundam:Seed. Both are simply continuations of an already successful theme. The only semi orignal anime to come out that hasn't sucked was Hellsing and the maker had ment for it to be another lame comedyish action anime and he was pissed when they went for a dark themed anime (thats why there was no 2nd season despite high ratings). Most anime now is "guy somehow gets involved with hot chics and falls in love" or "reluctant hero samurai joints underage girls to avenge some past wrong". Look at the older anime series and they were a lot more open to doing new ideas and themes where as most the thigns now days try to ride on the coattails of an already successful series.
you should also check out the "stand alone complex" series based off it. It assumes no familiarity with the movie but has the same chracters and a whole new plot. Right now theres planned 48 episodes but only 32 are translated by fansub groups. Very good anime unlike most the crap floating around.
I'd really like to see a new series that dosn't star engineers and the bridge crew as the heros. Somthing like having special federation marines to deal with the borg 50 years down the startrek time line could be cool or having a show about nonstarfleet personel that happens to be in the startrek universe would be original. For once I'd like to see some planet/city fuck with the main star and have the star respond by recuding it to smoldering rubble.
imagine the fun of engineering a laptop with a nice hot cpu,ram, videocard over a nice and most likey explosive fuel cell. Good thing they've bred most the ethics out of us engineers.
agreed. I can't believe the fuck hasn't beaten some of his writers to death. I remember an ep of enterprise where they are rescuing some ship of relegious refugees..I mean really if they'd watched startrek EVERYTIME you pick up some ship giving an SOS they end up taking over your ship. Best bet if a ship is signaling distress go ahead and shoot the little mutanous bastards before they take over your ship. The same plot has been used in TNG, VOY, B5, and now enterprise. Fuckers.
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Every time I've bought an HP product I've regreted it. I even got one of their dvd burners for a mere $99 year before last (when they were ~$300 normally) and then when it broke only 3 weeks after I bought it they said it wasn't covered under warrenty. They claimed that it was covered for 1 year or until they decide the product is obsolete and no longer will be supported. Even though i'd just bought it they had decided it was too long to support any longer dispite the fact that it was still on store shelves. Then last year I got a HP 935 digital camera as a gift. It was a good little camera except for one thing. The batteries only lasted about 2-3 picutres at a time. You could wait for the amperage to build back up between sets of 2-3 pictures (usually a few minutes) but thats totally unacceptable to most people. Terrible designs and business decisions like these have destroyed any support I had left for HP. I know it's HP-Compaq now but hell would freeze over before I buy anything off them.
if you can patant this why can't you patent a desk layout. I'll patent the peticular setup where you have the mouse on the right of the keyboard and a monitor in the front and call it "productive arrangement A" followed by variations for multiple monitors and case locations. Then following on lessions from various software companies I won't really SELL the use of the patent..I'll lease it for a nominal monthy fee. And then if you ever take a picture of your desk I can sue you for trade secrets :D
yep i really hate it when web sites have "exclusive" content or demos and then get hammered into slashdot land
and have pictures of them trying to "stealth pee" on the internet
robots playing soccer? meh..call me if they include a riot function
you sir are an uneducated idiot. They've found assloads of life both complex and single cellular around geothermal vents far below any sunlight or oxygen. Watch some discovery channel for christs sake.
well I'm more intereted in what pays well
we found baby "giant" squid last year. They were less than an inch long and you needed a microscope to properly identify them but we found em. The researches tried to keep 6 for study but they all died before they reach land. If a ship full of PhDs can't keep the little bastards alive I'd say theres a lot we don't know about em
i read a shitty book about somthing like that once. And the book was serious heh. While the whole 2nd ocean thing is retarded the idea that very large sea life could go unnoticed isnt that far fetched. Giant squid have yet to be video taped or witnessed except in larve form (when they are near the surface). The adults are 40-60 feet long and we've never found more than the bits and pieces that wash up on shore when they come near the surface to breed. Now imagine something like that which never comes to the surface. We'd never fucking know about it. Theres also that fish we thought was extinct like 20 million years ago then they caught some off africa and california. I'm sure theres lots of crazy shit left to be discovered and probally several speices we think are extict that are still puttering around somewhere.
as an ocean engineer I feel compelled to point out that exploring the depths of the ocean is an assload harder than exploring space. Accordingly we've explored far less of it than space. Technologies are advancing but most of them are directed towards making existing technologies more efficient. We really don't have any improvments for reaching really deep areas and are still using technology pioneered in the 70s.
I was under that impression to. I'm wondering if they're playing around with this to try to devolop some robust code for use in future missions where transmision times would make direct intervention impracticle. I know they didn't have any worth a crap when we put that little Sojunour(sp?) rover on mars and it was a big hassle to control. The same code used in this could easily be used in sats that we send to orbit other planets (at least to "do i take a picture" part) and depending on how it's written it could probally be used on a rover. Me thinks this is just a field test of sorts.
while I can't say I know jack shit about India (other than I'd like to have nuke insurance if I lived there) I spoke to an Indian friend of mine about this and he thought it was a cool idea. He even said the dudes name isn't that unusual and yes there are large buildings to swing around from in India's big cities. He figured they'd probally give it an antinuclear swing too for the "radioactive spider" part. Spiderman was always about ambiguity and with all the class destintions and cultural limits in Indian society I expect they can make it fairly interesting. Given how ravenous a lot of eastern countries are for classic US culture like this I'd expect it to do fairly well. Having Spiderman fight demons seems like a big far fetched to me but we'll see how it goes.
a smart programer would have it forward him all the good pics it gets too "what? she must be over 20 and not even a C cup!! BAD SATELLITE"
I bet they offer extended warrenties on the mp3s
agreed. I've even had employees lie to me trying to say I couldn't buy a laptop without activating my "free" MSN account for 30 days (which registered to my credit card and would begin auto billing after said 30 days). I finally acted like I wasn't gunna buy it because I didn't want to deal with it and got him to suddenly remember it didn't work like that. I understand working retail in an electronics store must be hell but seriously the computer department employees at best buy are generally fucking retards. They need to be more interested in compedative pricing than mornic "free services" and "warrenty extentions". I can save about 30-40% off the regular best buy price just by going to newegg.com and I don't have to pay tax. For almost any electronics product thats pretty significant savings, at least in Texas (8.75% sales tax).
we're talking about the scene as a whole though. I'll grand last exile was orignal but I think the only reason a lot of people like it is because of how crappy a lot of the other animes are. I didn't like any of those other series you posted. It's much like the video game industry over there I imagine. For every 2-3 good titles that are being devoloped into anime we get at least 10 awful ones and mere business and marketing majors are the ones making decisions. I have no doubt this is only a passing trend as the market will self correct once they realize heaps of shit don't sell the same as a few polished products but it'll take time. There is no way anime is "finished" but it's going to tough for new artists pretty soon.
1. cowboy bebop + movie 2. Kenshin original 4 part OAV 3. Berserk... ignoring the first 2 episodes and last 2... (its an unfinished series but the meat of the series is stand alone) 4.gundam seed
Well I'll agree its not as good as Bebop but as a mere 1.5 hour movie it's one of the best. The full 26 episode series of Bebop + the movie is fucking anime at it's finest. There ARE, however, several themes going on in GITS though its probally a piece of writing where people will pick out what they want to see. If you didn't grasp anything bigger out of it I doubt you ever will. Find an english major who watched it and he'll probally give you 10-20 major sociological issues he noticed in it.
a naked LESBIAN assassin at that
well to be honest what series in recent memory have been close to the classics like cowboy bebop? The only series I can think of that are worth watching are Ghost In The Shell Stand Alone Complex and Gundam:Seed. Both are simply continuations of an already successful theme. The only semi orignal anime to come out that hasn't sucked was Hellsing and the maker had ment for it to be another lame comedyish action anime and he was pissed when they went for a dark themed anime (thats why there was no 2nd season despite high ratings). Most anime now is "guy somehow gets involved with hot chics and falls in love" or "reluctant hero samurai joints underage girls to avenge some past wrong". Look at the older anime series and they were a lot more open to doing new ideas and themes where as most the thigns now days try to ride on the coattails of an already successful series.
you should also check out the "stand alone complex" series based off it. It assumes no familiarity with the movie but has the same chracters and a whole new plot. Right now theres planned 48 episodes but only 32 are translated by fansub groups. Very good anime unlike most the crap floating around.
don't forget according to anime constant thrust==constant acceleration
I'd really like to see a new series that dosn't star engineers and the bridge crew as the heros. Somthing like having special federation marines to deal with the borg 50 years down the startrek time line could be cool or having a show about nonstarfleet personel that happens to be in the startrek universe would be original. For once I'd like to see some planet/city fuck with the main star and have the star respond by recuding it to smoldering rubble.
imagine the fun of engineering a laptop with a nice hot cpu,ram, videocard over a nice and most likey explosive fuel cell. Good thing they've bred most the ethics out of us engineers.
agreed. I can't believe the fuck hasn't beaten some of his writers to death. I remember an ep of enterprise where they are rescuing some ship of relegious refugees..I mean really if they'd watched startrek EVERYTIME you pick up some ship giving an SOS they end up taking over your ship. Best bet if a ship is signaling distress go ahead and shoot the little mutanous bastards before they take over your ship. The same plot has been used in TNG, VOY, B5, and now enterprise. Fuckers.