...seasonal anime. Stuff like Sailor Moon (you think I'm joking, don't you; watch it Japanese) or Neon Genesis Evangelion or Saber Marionette J.
The main story is drawn out over an entire season. While selling toys is a big part of it, the only way to do a seasonal anime properly is with a half decent story. After all, they can show it over and over and over and.....
It's good for those who like having stuff like plot, and don't want it all shoved at them in two hours.
Moderation sucks - but it sucks less than any other system.
You'll notice the meta-moderation link. If you follow it, and meta-mod some posts as unfair, you can lower the karma of some moderators, and they won't be allowed to moderate any more.
As for banning anonymous posting - I've seen that debate before, and I don't want to live through it again.
And as far as *this particular* question is concerned, the real question is at what point does an application written for one specific machine magically turn into an operating system for one particular machine turn into an operating system for more than one machine? That's debatable, and can turn into a good discussion here on/.
Some things are news for nerds.
Some stuff is stuff that matters.
The rest just breeds discussion. And discussion is the stuff that matters.
Apparently people don't know the true value of Ask Slashdot.
It is *not* so the guy who asks the question gets the answer. It is so that guys like me, who idly wonder about things like "who made the first OS" or "so who do I buy music from now that I'm boycotting the RIAA" or "what did CmdrTaco eat for breakfast this morning? Cold Pizza?" can get the answer.
To repeat, the average/. reader, who might wonder about who made the first OS, but doesn't care enough to ask, is the one that benefits, not the guy who asked the question. I learned something, but apparently you're too busy bitching to have learned much at all.
To quote somebody's sig, this is a lot like science, which is a lot like sex: something useful might come out of it (in this case, the comments from Ask Slashdot), but that's not why we do it.
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Re:Celeberty Deathmatch anyone?
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There's a small Gnome waiting in the middle of the ring. He's getting really cocky because his opponenet hasn't shown up yet.
The bell rings.
A gigantic gear falls on and squishes the small gnome.
Idunno, it seems even shorter than Bigfoot vs. the Loch Ness Monster to me.:)
Click and drag.
Right click.
Copy.
Right click.
Paste.
Press enter.
I count at least five clicks, a button on the keyboard, and a drag (unless you're using IE5 and the Go button, in which case that's six clicks and a drag).
After following a few links on the Sony site, I dug up the following:
This product line, C1, exists, and it's first model powered by a Celeron 400. It's about the 10 by 6 inches, making it look like a really big WinCE device, only it runs 98 SE.
The standard battery lasts between one and two hours. That is, as you can imagine, pretty unacceptable. Moving to the Crusoe is a good move here, because can probably get another hour to 90 minutes out of it. Then, when upgrading to a "quad capacity battery", you can get about 12 to 16 hours out of it, which means you can use it most of the day.
And for those people bitching about it's small size, this is the market Transmeta was aiming for, so there.:)
Then explain why, for YEARS, I laughed my ass off when some American in a movie took 30 seconds to trace a call. Must have had something to do with the fact that I knew who was calling before I picked up the phone.
The landline telecom industry in Canada (okay, Ontario) is usually about five years ahead of the States. Now that Ma Bell has competition, I don't know how the numbers are affected, but while she had her monopoly we got *all* the cool landline toys.
But, yeah, we could really use some wireless gadgets. Probably has something to do with the fact that we need millions of those little cell towers to cover the country (I still can't get more than Bell Mobility and Cantel AT&T in my area - I'm more than five km from the 400 (read expressway)).
<p><i>Even Anheiser-Busch has to refrain from selling a beer called Budweiser in some markets, because that name was already taken.</i>
<i>By a company selling a similar type of beer. If 'Budweiser' had been the name of a bestselling vodka, they probably could have come to an arrangement. </i>
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<P>I don't think so, actually. Actually, pretty much any beverage would be right out. Did you just buy a Budweiser beer, vodka, whiskey, or mineral water? The products are just too close.
<p>Now Budweiser Breath Mints - that would be different.
<p>IMHO, the SAMBA thing would be a lot like somebody creating a new spell checker (for lack of a better example) and calling it Word. It's not the same product, but it's in the same category of products (computer software), so trademark infringement applies. Oh, IANAL, and I'm certainly not a German one.
...or is there a Hell of a lot more anime articles lately?
In any case, this is a good thing. I like anime and I like reading about it on Slashdot. I'ts about time - a Nerd site just isn't complete with out anime.
Now if only I could find the time to watch some. I've just been too busy lately. The only thing even close that I've been seeing lately is....DigiMon.
Hell, I'd even be happy just seeing the third season of DIC's Sailor Moon. Or Variable Geo. Hell, maybe even the Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers (live action anime - freaky it is).
....normal computers were too big to carry in one hand while munching on pizza. Trust me, a handle on this little puppy would be a godsend while carrying and the flat screen to the LAN party (the Apple flat screen, IIRC, has a stand with a hole in it - I'm pretty sure it'll double as a handle).:)
Of course, there is one, but I'd rather not have to carry this computer around in the rain while it's naked. A normal carrying handle would be a good thing.
(And in case there are other replies like this before mine, my official excuse is "Can't read; working.")
Not to mention that I have the distinct impression Tom and crew are on crack.
They use 20% more transistors than the GeForce 2. They are therefore faster. But elegant? The Kyro PowerVR3 is elegant. The Radeon seems like a big ol' hack job to me.
It's a brute force solution, with everything except the kitchen sink to boot (if there's anything to love about ATi, it's that).
OK, I think I've whined about Tom enough for today.:)
If you can make it more than halfway through Neon Genesis Evangelion (hell, if you can watch an entire season of subtitled Sailor Moon) I defy you to say that again.
The stories are long, complicated (for a cartoon anyway) and usually have one theme: love conquers all. Except in Eva. Nobody knows wtf *that* was all about. Turn everybody into orange juice and strangle the only other person on the planet. F*cked up sh*t right there.
Actually, I've always been partial to section one.
It prevents such debacles as the first amendment (Yes! Let's tell everybody the Holocaust never happened and that all Jews muct die - it's not like anybody can stop us), and the right to bear arms (but I won't get into that one right now).
No right is absolute in Canada, which makes Canada just like the United States, only we're up front about it.
Actually, the language law is practically unconstitutional. They actually have to pass it under section 33, which revokes your constitutional rights. The bill must pass by a 2/3 majority, and it fizzles and dies after 5 years, at which point the Quebec gov't passes a new language law.
If they didn't invoke section 33, the language law would be declared unconstitutional so fast it would make your head spin.
Jamie here found one word in the article, and used it as an excuse to rant.
He said he has never played SoF and it shows. I'm sorry, but the giblets are the worst part of SoF realism wise. When you blow off a guy's leg, and shoot him while he spins on his other one, then you'll know gore.:)
As for cows, woop de do. I don't see him griping about Diablo 2, complete with a Cow Level(TM). Mind you, if he did, CmdrTaco would probably smack him upside the head, so I can see why he instead picked on the first person shooter instead.
He's getting a few retail processors and is going to try it again, but apparently changing the contacts did absolutely nothing to the prerelease processors. Go fig.
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...seasonal anime. Stuff like Sailor Moon (you think I'm joking, don't you; watch it Japanese) or Neon Genesis Evangelion or Saber Marionette J.
The main story is drawn out over an entire season. While selling toys is a big part of it, the only way to do a seasonal anime properly is with a half decent story. After all, they can show it over and over and over and.....
It's good for those who like having stuff like plot, and don't want it all shoved at them in two hours.
Don't you be dissing my man Godzilla and his monster dubbing action.
By the way, who else saw Godzilla 2000? (MPAA boycott be damned, this is GODZILLAAAAAAAAAAAAA! *smash* TOHO)
Moderation sucks - but it sucks less than any other system.
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:) )
You'll notice the meta-moderation link. If you follow it, and meta-mod some posts as unfair, you can lower the karma of some moderators, and they won't be allowed to moderate any more.
As for banning anonymous posting - I've seen that debate before, and I don't want to live through it again.
And as far as *this particular* question is concerned, the real question is at what point does an application written for one specific machine magically turn into an operating system for one particular machine turn into an operating system for more than one machine? That's debatable, and can turn into a good discussion here on
Some things are news for nerds.
Some stuff is stuff that matters.
The rest just breeds discussion. And discussion is the stuff that matters.
(Pretzel logic at it's finest.
Apparently people don't know the true value of Ask Slashdot.
It is *not* so the guy who asks the question gets the answer. It is so that guys like me, who idly wonder about things like "who made the first OS" or "so who do I buy music from now that I'm boycotting the RIAA" or "what did CmdrTaco eat for breakfast this morning? Cold Pizza?" can get the answer.
To repeat, the average
To quote somebody's sig, this is a lot like science, which is a lot like sex: something useful might come out of it (in this case, the comments from Ask Slashdot), but that's not why we do it.
</rant>
There's a small Gnome waiting in the middle of the ring. He's getting really cocky because his opponenet hasn't shown up yet.
The bell rings.
A gigantic gear falls on and squishes the small gnome.
Idunno, it seems even shorter than Bigfoot vs. the Loch Ness Monster to me. :)
Click and drag.
Right click.
Copy.
Right click.
Paste.
Press enter.
I count at least five clicks, a button on the keyboard, and a drag (unless you're using IE5 and the Go button, in which case that's six clicks and a drag).
When was the last time I edited an INI file in Windows?
I'm not sure. What year is it again?
Manually edit a text file? In Windows? Bizarre. :)
*goes to download KMaleon*
After following a few links on the Sony site, I dug up the following:
:)
This product line, C1, exists, and it's first model powered by a Celeron 400. It's about the 10 by 6 inches, making it look like a really big WinCE device, only it runs 98 SE.
The standard battery lasts between one and two hours. That is, as you can imagine, pretty unacceptable. Moving to the Crusoe is a good move here, because can probably get another hour to 90 minutes out of it. Then, when upgrading to a "quad capacity battery", you can get about 12 to 16 hours out of it, which means you can use it most of the day.
And for those people bitching about it's small size, this is the market Transmeta was aiming for, so there.
Then explain why, for YEARS, I laughed my ass off when some American in a movie took 30 seconds to trace a call. Must have had something to do with the fact that I knew who was calling before I picked up the phone.
The landline telecom industry in Canada (okay, Ontario) is usually about five years ahead of the States. Now that Ma Bell has competition, I don't know how the numbers are affected, but while she had her monopoly we got *all* the cool landline toys.
But, yeah, we could really use some wireless gadgets. Probably has something to do with the fact that we need millions of those little cell towers to cover the country (I still can't get more than Bell Mobility and Cantel AT&T in my area - I'm more than five km from the 400 (read expressway)).
I didn't know you could go into people's user info and do that. Neat.
*Writes that down*
Now all I need are modpoints...
:)
Unless this guy posted this to the other article too, this is not redundant.
Overrated, maybe, but not redundant.
Apparently you underestimate the power of high quality animation to the life of a modern geek.
Next you'll be saying Linux is not news that matters because Tux is too cute.
I'm a nerd and it matters to me. CmdrTaco is (presumably) a nerd, and it matters to him. So quit yer bitchin' and go to kuro5hin. Or something.
...or is there a Hell of a lot more anime articles lately?
In any case, this is a good thing. I like anime and I like reading about it on Slashdot. I'ts about time - a Nerd site just isn't complete with out anime.
Now if only I could find the time to watch some. I've just been too busy lately. The only thing even close that I've been seeing lately is....DigiMon.
Hell, I'd even be happy just seeing the third season of DIC's Sailor Moon. Or Variable Geo. Hell, maybe even the Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers (live action anime - freaky it is).
....normal computers were too big to carry in one hand while munching on pizza. Trust me, a handle on this little puppy would be a godsend while carrying and the flat screen to the LAN party (the Apple flat screen, IIRC, has a stand with a hole in it - I'm pretty sure it'll double as a handle). :)
Of course, there is one, but I'd rather not have to carry this computer around in the rain while it's naked. A normal carrying handle would be a good thing.
(And in case there are other replies like this before mine, my official excuse is "Can't read; working.")
Not to mention that I have the distinct impression Tom and crew are on crack.
:)
They use 20% more transistors than the GeForce 2. They are therefore faster. But elegant? The Kyro PowerVR3 is elegant. The Radeon seems like a big ol' hack job to me.
It's a brute force solution, with everything except the kitchen sink to boot (if there's anything to love about ATi, it's that).
OK, I think I've whined about Tom enough for today.
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If you can make it more than halfway through Neon Genesis Evangelion (hell, if you can watch an entire season of subtitled Sailor Moon) I defy you to say that again.
The stories are long, complicated (for a cartoon anyway) and usually have one theme: love conquers all. Except in Eva. Nobody knows wtf *that* was all about. Turn everybody into orange juice and strangle the only other person on the planet. F*cked up sh*t right there.
If you're driving an SUV, the likelihood that the other poor fsck in the car you hit will die triples (pulled from a report on CFTO about a year ago).
So you're not driving an SUV to survive the collision; you're driving it to kill somebody.
If you want to merely survive the collision, do everybody a favour and buy a Volvo.
It had like all the Marvel superheroes. And it blew. Give me Pokemon or Magic any day.
:)
NOTE: I've listed the games in popularity, and not preference.
Actually, I've always been partial to section one.
It prevents such debacles as the first amendment (Yes! Let's tell everybody the Holocaust never happened and that all Jews muct die - it's not like anybody can stop us), and the right to bear arms (but I won't get into that one right now).
No right is absolute in Canada, which makes Canada just like the United States, only we're up front about it.
Actually, the language law is practically unconstitutional. They actually have to pass it under section 33, which revokes your constitutional rights. The bill must pass by a 2/3 majority, and it fizzles and dies after 5 years, at which point the Quebec gov't passes a new language law.
If they didn't invoke section 33, the language law would be declared unconstitutional so fast it would make your head spin.
Jamie here found one word in the article, and used it as an excuse to rant.
:)
He said he has never played SoF and it shows. I'm sorry, but the giblets are the worst part of SoF realism wise. When you blow off a guy's leg, and shoot him while he spins on his other one, then you'll know gore.
As for cows, woop de do. I don't see him griping about Diablo 2, complete with a Cow Level(TM). Mind you, if he did, CmdrTaco would probably smack him upside the head, so I can see why he instead picked on the first person shooter instead.
...has tried that and it did not work.
He's getting a few retail processors and is going to try it again, but apparently changing the contacts did absolutely nothing to the prerelease processors. Go fig.