Well, it's bad that you're too mature to see the appeal of this series to teenager. One of the really strong points of Anime is how they very precisely grasp what themes, stories and looks teenagers are interested in. Evangelion is targeted at that age and does very well in that respect. You just have to look at the following it got to see that it was very successful in delivering what a lot of people wanted to see.
Evangelion is not literature. But it still is a piece of pop culture which main feature is to provide a very large projection screen to dwell in with your own interpretations. Just because you're not in its target audience doesn't mean that there wasn't a lot clever work involved in it.
No, I don't think.Mac should be free.
On the other hand, it should also be possible for all.Mac enabled functions to use a third-party webserver with either FTP or WebDAV. I mean the.Mac features are nice but not nice enough for $99 a year especially if I already rent another webspace that could be used for this purpose. It's a stupid lock-in squish-the-last-penny-out revenue generation that I don't like. It shouldn't be free but there should be a choice whom you want to give the money to.
Yes but why make it wireless? It really doesnt seem to make much sense to me except to raise various security concerns. Why not embed a chip that as to be read by a card reader by making contact to the passport? If you have to take the passport out of your poket and scan the barcode on it, this wouldn't make much difference.
Though it's not so hip as RFID...
This is nothing new for Apple. As rumors say, the x86 version of OSX has been around for a long time and I'm inclined to believe this.
And not to forget Yellow Box. In early OSX development Apple had plans to create a cross platform runtime environment called Yellow Box that would allow Yellow Box applications to run on OSX and Windows. As it seems, they had a working version of it but it never went public. It seemed like a great idea to me, though.
Apple had a lot of good idea in its history that never made it because they (I) got serious flaws or (II) got their plug pulled halfway through.
It's probably the same as with everything else that doesn't have to carried around (no, the brain doesn't need to be carried the same way): The bigger the better.
But size does not correlate to quality and thus something small of high quality can easily outweigh something big an crude.
"It's expensive (compared to a reality show, for example) and, let's face it, sci-fi doesn't have the mass-market appeal we'd like it to."
Are you sure? If you don't make a handycam-series without any professional lightning this might be true but outdoor scenes are usually much more expensive to produce than studio scenes. For a sci-fi series you have to build some sets that can probably easily be reused and you have to add some 3d effects that shouldn't be that expensive to produce nowadays. I don't think the average sci-fi series is much more expensive than the average series that's shot in the studio and that's much less expensive than a series shot outdoors...
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Right, I'm using the windows port and the GUI doesn't work with windows. There's an experimental GUI somewhat in the works but it still has only basic functionality.
What I like most about MPlayer is that you can throw almost anything at it and it will play it without much fuss. When watching video fullscreen you don't need an interface anyway (MPlayer can display current position in the video by time or with a status bar onscreen) and controlling the player with the keyboard is much faster (you can use the arrow keys and PgUp PgDown to skip through the video).
But it doesn't just stop with being a simple player. It plays tons of formats and supports many different hardware and got some useful extras and filters.
It does take some more time to get used to than a normal GUI video player but once you got it, you just don't want to let it go anymore.;)
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VLC gets its video playback capabilites mostly from libavcodec (from the ffmpeg project). Before VLC used that library it only was able to play MPEG2 and 1, IIRC.
So, just as much you could use VLC, you can also use another player that uses the libavcodec and get similarly good results.
ffdshow is a DirectShow wrapper for libavcodec and makes it usable with almost all classic windows video players.
I personally prefer MPlayer which also uses libavcodec. It doesn't have a GUI but you get all control you need with the keyboard. But it still got lots of useful features accessible by the command line (using -dumpstream with a RM- or WMV stream for example).
x86 upgrade cards are nothing new for Macs. Back when I was still using one (Performa 5200 and later the early grey G3 desktop) there were several cards with Intel chips you could use to dual-boot your Mac into MacOS and Windows. Of course, in the end you paid more than for two separate PCs and performance propably wasn't as good but why not, wif you've got the money?
I don't know if you can still buy such cards for the current Macs or if they disappeared. And I'm not sure if this is a CPU replacement or separate upgrade as described above...
Took some time to load thre results (page loading is fast but searching is slow). Looks quite ok in that it has a clean interface without tons of ads.
However, there is one major flaw: No seeds / peers stats. You only get a "Speed Estimate" which was for all of the torrents my search returned: "Fast". It was a search I recently did on IsoHunt and the results may have been seeded but only with a few (less than 10) seeds and peers. This is far from being "fast" in my opinion.
This also leads to the question how often the data is updated. Since no actual seed / peer stats are displayed, I guess the database is update not that often. The other torrent search sites aren't updated that often, either but it seems to me that the official bittorrent search is updated even more seldomly.
This pretty much makes it uninteresting for me. I want to know how many seeds and peers a torrent has so I can judge the speed to expect and how long the torrent will still be alive. A loose term like "Fast" doesn't cut it for me in that case.
Well here in Switzerland it is perfectly legal to hand your iPod to a close friend and let him copy your music off it. You can freely copy copyrighted works between family members and close friends.
Centrino is an Intel markenting campaign and not the Intel CPU called Pentium M. A laptop that's called Centrino not only has a Pentium M CPU but also an Intel wireless card and an Intel chipset on the mainboard.
It's clever marketing from Intel that makes people think Centrino = Pentium M. Since Intel started this campaign, the sales of Intel wireless cards and mainboard chipssets went up and not because they're especially good but because they are cleverly bundled with the CPU...
There was just today a report in a swiss newspaper stating that the swiss department in charge of issuing law-enforcemet request did not issue one for the Indymedia case. The police of Geneva is investigating in this case and there's the possibility that they are in direct contact to the american authorities but for serious matters like confiscating servers a proper law-enforcement-cooperation request, issued by the proper department (who did not issue one), would be needed.
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Well, it's bad that you're too mature to see the appeal of this series to teenager. One of the really strong points of Anime is how they very precisely grasp what themes, stories and looks teenagers are interested in. Evangelion is targeted at that age and does very well in that respect. You just have to look at the following it got to see that it was very successful in delivering what a lot of people wanted to see.
Evangelion is not literature. But it still is a piece of pop culture which main feature is to provide a very large projection screen to dwell in with your own interpretations. Just because you're not in its target audience doesn't mean that there wasn't a lot clever work involved in it.
No, I don't think .Mac should be free.
On the other hand, it should also be possible for all .Mac enabled functions to use a third-party webserver with either FTP or WebDAV. I mean the .Mac features are nice but not nice enough for $99 a year especially if I already rent another webspace that could be used for this purpose. It's a stupid lock-in squish-the-last-penny-out revenue generation that I don't like. It shouldn't be free but there should be a choice whom you want to give the money to.
Yes but why make it wireless? It really doesnt seem to make much sense to me except to raise various security concerns. Why not embed a chip that as to be read by a card reader by making contact to the passport? If you have to take the passport out of your poket and scan the barcode on it, this wouldn't make much difference. Though it's not so hip as RFID...
This is nothing new for Apple. As rumors say, the x86 version of OSX has been around for a long time and I'm inclined to believe this.
And not to forget Yellow Box. In early OSX development Apple had plans to create a cross platform runtime environment called Yellow Box that would allow Yellow Box applications to run on OSX and Windows. As it seems, they had a working version of it but it never went public. It seemed like a great idea to me, though.
Apple had a lot of good idea in its history that never made it because they (I) got serious flaws or (II) got their plug pulled halfway through.
It's probably the same as with everything else that doesn't have to carried around (no, the brain doesn't need to be carried the same way):
The bigger the better.
But size does not correlate to quality and thus something small of high quality can easily outweigh something big an crude.
"It's expensive (compared to a reality show, for example) and, let's face it, sci-fi doesn't have the mass-market appeal we'd like it to."
Are you sure? If you don't make a handycam-series without any professional lightning this might be true but outdoor scenes are usually much more expensive to produce than studio scenes. For a sci-fi series you have to build some sets that can probably easily be reused and you have to add some 3d effects that shouldn't be that expensive to produce nowadays. I don't think the average sci-fi series is much more expensive than the average series that's shot in the studio and that's much less expensive than a series shot outdoors...
Right, I'm using the windows port and the GUI doesn't work with windows. There's an experimental GUI somewhat in the works but it still has only basic functionality. ;)
What I like most about MPlayer is that you can throw almost anything at it and it will play it without much fuss. When watching video fullscreen you don't need an interface anyway (MPlayer can display current position in the video by time or with a status bar onscreen) and controlling the player with the keyboard is much faster (you can use the arrow keys and PgUp PgDown to skip through the video).
But it doesn't just stop with being a simple player. It plays tons of formats and supports many different hardware and got some useful extras and filters.
It does take some more time to get used to than a normal GUI video player but once you got it, you just don't want to let it go anymore.
VLC gets its video playback capabilites mostly from libavcodec (from the ffmpeg project). Before VLC used that library it only was able to play MPEG2 and 1, IIRC.
So, just as much you could use VLC, you can also use another player that uses the libavcodec and get similarly good results.
ffdshow is a DirectShow wrapper for libavcodec and makes it usable with almost all classic windows video players.
I personally prefer MPlayer which also uses libavcodec. It doesn't have a GUI but you get all control you need with the keyboard. But it still got lots of useful features accessible by the command line (using -dumpstream with a RM- or WMV stream for example).
x86 upgrade cards are nothing new for Macs. Back when I was still using one (Performa 5200 and later the early grey G3 desktop) there were several cards with Intel chips you could use to dual-boot your Mac into MacOS and Windows. Of course, in the end you paid more than for two separate PCs and performance propably wasn't as good but why not, wif you've got the money?
I don't know if you can still buy such cards for the current Macs or if they disappeared. And I'm not sure if this is a CPU replacement or separate upgrade as described above...
Took some time to load thre results (page loading is fast but searching is slow). Looks quite ok in that it has a clean interface without tons of ads. However, there is one major flaw: No seeds / peers stats. You only get a "Speed Estimate" which was for all of the torrents my search returned: "Fast". It was a search I recently did on IsoHunt and the results may have been seeded but only with a few (less than 10) seeds and peers. This is far from being "fast" in my opinion.
This also leads to the question how often the data is updated. Since no actual seed / peer stats are displayed, I guess the database is update not that often. The other torrent search sites aren't updated that often, either but it seems to me that the official bittorrent search is updated even more seldomly.
This pretty much makes it uninteresting for me. I want to know how many seeds and peers a torrent has so I can judge the speed to expect and how long the torrent will still be alive. A loose term like "Fast" doesn't cut it for me in that case.
Well here in Switzerland it is perfectly legal to hand your iPod to a close friend and let him copy your music off it. You can freely copy copyrighted works between family members and close friends.
Centrino is an Intel markenting campaign and not the Intel CPU called Pentium M. A laptop that's called Centrino not only has a Pentium M CPU but also an Intel wireless card and an Intel chipset on the mainboard. It's clever marketing from Intel that makes people think Centrino = Pentium M. Since Intel started this campaign, the sales of Intel wireless cards and mainboard chipssets went up and not because they're especially good but because they are cleverly bundled with the CPU...
There was just today a report in a swiss newspaper stating that the swiss department in charge of issuing law-enforcemet request did not issue one for the Indymedia case. The police of Geneva is investigating in this case and there's the possibility that they are in direct contact to the american authorities but for serious matters like confiscating servers a proper law-enforcement-cooperation request, issued by the proper department (who did not issue one), would be needed.