Considering Harry Potter's success, i'd say yes. Altho I doubt the kids will read the Finances section.
My parents used to buy the newspapers that had the comic strips that I liked. For my father there wasn't much difference between newspaper A or newspaper B, but I _HAD_ to see the comic strips. So he always bought newspaper A for me.
See, newspapers aren't aimed at kids. They're aimed at the PARENTS. The comic strips are just a marketing device, and manga inclusion is just a strategy to keep that market (people don't buy newspapers as often as 10 years ago). Since comic strips like Peanuts don't attract the young people right now, manga in newspapers was bound to happen, sooner or later.
and I've become a fan of it. It has very good jokes, and tries to imitate the japanese narrative style (altho not completely, but that's not a defect). It reminds me a bit of the Slayers series, and also has (very funny) references to anime videogames.
In comparison with american anime-like cartoons like Martin Mystery or Totally Spies (ack! Choke! Cough), VVH is much more anime-like, relatively speaking. And having seen garbage like digimon (eew) or DBZ (ugh), I say VVH has much more quality than them.
So no, VVH is NOT a heresy against the concept of Manga / Anime.
Regarding the inclusion of VVH in newspapers, I can say that it fits the format very well. It's done weekly, and altho it has a story, each strip doesn't need the reading of previous strips to get the joke. I personally recommend it to anyone.
I tried that trick when I was younger, to see if i could reduce the complexity of factorization.
Turns out these number anomalies only happen with base-10 numbers. When you have base-16 numbers, these mysterious relationships of the last digits disappear.
It's not a very useful knowledge, but I thought you should know.
Besides trolling, you don't seem to care anything about the discussion. Yes, the GP poster has a point. But you don't contribute anything to the discussion, you just take parts of the GP argument and turn them into a horrible straw man.
The next time you're sarcastic, please try to make a point of it. I admire the Windows user interface (well, most of it - some things i can't stand, like that stupid online registration), it's just that their security COMPLETELY SUCKS and their closed source + monopoly just makes things worse and very hard to maintain.
It's microsoft's fault their crappy OS is so open to spyware (*cough* IE, ActiveX, poor security scheme, services enabled by default, etc. etc), so, yes, MS should PAY to keep the OS we spent $200 on, clean. IMO Microsoft should pay us so we can purchase *ANY* antispyware, not necessarily theirs.
Because, if ONLY "authentic licensed" works can be traded, what stops a government to decide if a particular file (i.e. controversial news of some chinese blogger text) is "illegal"?
Unregulated file sharing networks must keep existing. Let the RIAA sue users if they want, but DONT touch freedom of speech.
I think you meant to say syllogism. A tautology is a true syllogism.
Anyway. Technology = product, community = the driving force behind that product. I think what the GP poster wanted to say was that the product was based on the community, and not viceversa.
A product is dead without support. There are open source products that have no support, even from their authors. Some investment could make the difference to let the project survive, and flourish.
That's what I say to the fellow fundies when I cite them passages proving the catholic beliefs of the Eucharist (John 6), confession of sins (John 20), the primacy of Peter (Matthew 16:18).
The problem with literal interpretation is that it comes from a need to have an unified interpretation of the Bible without having to resort to any teaching authority, i.e. the Catholic Church. (Remember protestantism appeared after Luther's rejection of catholicism). Still, not all christians believe in a literal interpretation, so the literal interpretation isn't a solution, but rather another face of the same problem: Doctrinal division among protestant christians.
I would not put too much stock in what comes out of the Vatican - weren't they in the "world is flat" camp for quite some time?
You mean in the middle ages, when people in general still believed in dragons? And you forget the fact that it was Queen Elizabeth "the Catholic", who authorized Columbus to do his trip to "the indias".
Still, you got it wrong. The Catholic Church never said the Earth was flat - they said the sun circled around the earth. But, AFAIK, that was the only clerical fumble regarding science. And it wasn't catholic dogma, anyway - just a high clergy wrong decision.
The fundies do NOT know who those rabbis where, but knowing that they can't talk to them, they don't even try to talk to those rabbis who have ACTUALLY studied the Genesis, or read the writings of the first christian bishops and martyrs on the subject.
In other words, the fundies are taking a text they did NOT write, and they claim to be the only ones who know the correct interpretation (i.e. claiming to be something equivalent to a Pope). Under what basis? With what authority?
As a catholic, I think the Vatican's statement has exposed the fundamentalists' fanatism regarding the Holy Scriptures: The ID proponents are not only going against science, they're also going against the Church that represented christianity for more than 15 centuries - that ought to say something.
I'm saying it's "ruining", i.e. present tense, something happening. Saying "ruined" refers to something that ALREADY happened.
By "ruining" i mean campaigns such as Google's, cooperating with projects that are a direct competition to Microsoft's. Perhaps I should have said "is threatening to ruin", or "beginning to ruin".
In any case, it'll be fun watching how the water is slowly filtering into Microsoft's boat. And certainly much more interesting than the Titanic, mwahahaha.
Today I watched a TV show on hackers. How the hacker culture formed, from the phone interventions to the computer makers. One thing that called my attention was Bill Gates' letter to the homebrew computer club, saying:
"As the majority of hobbyists must be aware, most of you steal your software. Hardware must be paid for, but software is something to share. Who cares if the people who worked on it get paid?"
It's so funny, isn't it? At the beginning, Bill Gates complained about people sharing "his" software. But now, people sharing FREE software (Linux, OpenOffice) is what's ruining his business.
*THINK* Before permitting these people to contact their biological parents! It destroys families.
How could a child born from a donated sperm destroy a family? From my point of view, there are much worse things that can destroy a family. Adultery, for example.
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Considering Harry Potter's success, i'd say yes. Altho I doubt the kids will read the Finances section.
My parents used to buy the newspapers that had the comic strips that I liked. For my father there wasn't much difference between newspaper A or newspaper B, but I _HAD_ to see the comic strips. So he always bought newspaper A for me.
See, newspapers aren't aimed at kids. They're aimed at the PARENTS. The comic strips are just a marketing device, and manga inclusion is just a strategy to keep that market (people don't buy newspapers as often as 10 years ago). Since comic strips like Peanuts don't attract the young people right now, manga in newspapers was bound to happen, sooner or later.
and I've become a fan of it. It has very good jokes, and tries to imitate the japanese narrative style (altho not completely, but that's not a defect). It reminds me a bit of the Slayers series, and also has (very funny) references to anime videogames.
In comparison with american anime-like cartoons like Martin Mystery or Totally Spies (ack! Choke! Cough), VVH is much more anime-like, relatively speaking. And having seen garbage like digimon (eew) or DBZ (ugh), I say VVH has much more quality than them.
So no, VVH is NOT a heresy against the concept of Manga / Anime.
Regarding the inclusion of VVH in newspapers, I can say that it fits the format very well. It's done weekly, and altho it has a story, each strip doesn't need the reading of previous strips to get the joke. I personally recommend it to anyone.
From TFA:
"An asteroid the size of two football fields..."
'Nuff said.
Analog ripping. Just plug your audio out into the motherboard's audio in and... ta-da.
Fully working since the good ol' times.
"Stained Glass protector", "windefendor" or something. After all, ANYTHING can compete with a name like "HijackThis", don't you think?
I tried that trick when I was younger, to see if i could reduce the complexity of factorization.
Turns out these number anomalies only happen with base-10 numbers. When you have base-16 numbers, these mysterious relationships of the last digits disappear.
It's not a very useful knowledge, but I thought you should know.
# Best use of parenthesis
Michael Ash - Self-printing LISP interpreter
USA
E(E(E(E(E(E(E(Ew)w)w)w)w)w)w)
The Kansas board has left the real world to dwell into the land of Oz.
Best. title. ever.
You're right... the current education system encourages passiveness instead of interaction, i.e. discussions, debates, etc.
So yes, please mod grandparent up. And no, please don't mod this up, it'd be wasted karma.
1. Make webpage
:D
2. Get punished
3. Profit!!
It's every student's dream!
Besides trolling, you don't seem to care anything about the discussion. Yes, the GP poster has a point. But you don't contribute anything to the discussion, you just take parts of the GP argument and turn them into a horrible straw man.
The next time you're sarcastic, please try to make a point of it. I admire the Windows user interface (well, most of it - some things i can't stand, like that stupid online registration), it's just that their security COMPLETELY SUCKS and their closed source + monopoly just makes things worse and very hard to maintain.
It's microsoft's fault their crappy OS is so open to spyware (*cough* IE, ActiveX, poor security scheme, services enabled by default, etc. etc), so, yes, MS should PAY to keep the OS we spent $200 on, clean. IMO Microsoft should pay us so we can purchase *ANY* antispyware, not necessarily theirs.
But what's the problem with hardware manufacturers? Their profits are in the HARDWARE, not the software.
Eastern country offers cheap HDTV download without DRM. Offer not available in the U.S. (HAH HAH!)
The doctors wanted to trick the software. But then the software didn't work as intended. A really unexpected outcome, really :P
99 windows users; get a virus, infect a machine...
98 windows users on the wall!
(My regards to user Rei (128717) for the original idea)
... for freedom of speech.
Because, if ONLY "authentic licensed" works can be traded, what stops a government to decide if a particular file (i.e. controversial news of some chinese blogger text) is "illegal"?
Unregulated file sharing networks must keep existing. Let the RIAA sue users if they want, but DONT touch freedom of speech.
I think you meant to say syllogism. A tautology is a true syllogism.
Anyway. Technology = product, community = the driving force behind that product. I think what the GP poster wanted to say was that the product was based on the community, and not viceversa.
A product is dead without support. There are open source products that have no support, even from their authors. Some investment could make the difference to let the project survive, and flourish.
That's what I say to the fellow fundies when I cite them passages proving the catholic beliefs of the Eucharist (John 6), confession of sins (John 20), the primacy of Peter (Matthew 16:18).
The problem with literal interpretation is that it comes from a need to have an unified interpretation of the Bible without having to resort to any teaching authority, i.e. the Catholic Church. (Remember protestantism appeared after Luther's rejection of catholicism). Still, not all christians believe in a literal interpretation, so the literal interpretation isn't a solution, but rather another face of the same problem: Doctrinal division among protestant christians.
No, you got it wrong! If it's a space thing, AND it runs linux, what you must ask is:
Is it penguin-shaped?
I would not put too much stock in what comes out of the Vatican - weren't they in the "world is flat" camp for quite some time?
You mean in the middle ages, when people in general still believed in dragons? And you forget the fact that it was Queen Elizabeth "the Catholic", who authorized Columbus to do his trip to "the indias".
Still, you got it wrong. The Catholic Church never said the Earth was flat - they said the sun circled around the earth. But, AFAIK, that was the only clerical fumble regarding science. And it wasn't catholic dogma, anyway - just a high clergy wrong decision.
The fundies do NOT know who those rabbis where, but knowing that they can't talk to them, they don't even try to talk to those rabbis who have ACTUALLY studied the Genesis, or read the writings of the first christian bishops and martyrs on the subject.
In other words, the fundies are taking a text they did NOT write, and they claim to be the only ones who know the correct interpretation (i.e. claiming to be something equivalent to a Pope). Under what basis? With what authority?
As a catholic, I think the Vatican's statement has exposed the fundamentalists' fanatism regarding the Holy Scriptures: The ID proponents are not only going against science, they're also going against the Church that represented christianity for more than 15 centuries - that ought to say something.
perhaps i should be more explicit the next time.
I'm saying it's "ruining", i.e. present tense, something happening. Saying "ruined" refers to something that ALREADY happened.
By "ruining" i mean campaigns such as Google's, cooperating with projects that are a direct competition to Microsoft's. Perhaps I should have said "is threatening to ruin", or "beginning to ruin".
In any case, it'll be fun watching how the water is slowly filtering into Microsoft's boat. And certainly much more interesting than the Titanic, mwahahaha.
Today I watched a TV show on hackers. How the hacker culture formed, from the phone interventions to the computer makers. One thing that called my attention was Bill Gates' letter to the homebrew computer club, saying:
"As the majority of hobbyists must be aware, most of you steal your software. Hardware must be paid for, but software is something to share. Who cares if the people who worked on it get paid?"
It's so funny, isn't it? At the beginning, Bill Gates complained about people sharing "his" software. But now, people sharing FREE software (Linux, OpenOffice) is what's ruining his business.
Oh the irony....
I wonder whether that'll be good or bad for global warming...
Just a thought.
*THINK* Before permitting these people to contact their biological parents! It destroys families.
How could a child born from a donated sperm destroy a family? From my point of view, there are much worse things that can destroy a family. Adultery, for example.