It looks like they both created some well done but very niche "artsy" products. Along with the argument that popularity can be a factor for measuring innovation in art, artsy stuff is a surprisingly common in Japan. Think Kino no Tabi, Shjo Kakumei Utena, Live a Live, a lot of Gainax, (arguably) Satoshi Kon, Enix (before it merged with Squaresoft), Cat Soup, etc.
I've posted a reading of the infamous passage from Salman Rushdie's "Satanic Verses" one of the more popular words that piss of the extremeist Muslims( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v20VvP19kCI ) and that hasn't been deleted for over a year. Seems to me it's a bit more complicated.
You seem to under the impression that critics only like pretentious "deep" movies or judge things with that as a metric. Actually most mainstream critics (like the ones on RottenTomatoes) enjoy a wide variety of movies ranging from "deep" to fantasy to chick flick to horror to action to etc. Most people disliked SR because they got bored with the flashy graphics after 30mins or so, and after that the movie didn't offer them anything else they liked. After watching hundreds of movies I suppose it's rather difficult to wow that person with visuals, or crude acting alone, it's pretty much the same with books and video games afterall.
Course some folks like niche genres no matter how good or bad it is... I do envy them.
There is/was a mindset in not too long ago Japan that if a child was bullied he/she was the one at fault for being different, and should simply have the strength to take it. Same thing no? Why should a group have to suffer that one freak, it's THEIR fault!
Well yes, while we're at it my father managed to enter the one of the most prestigious universities in S. Korea despite having less than 5 years of formal education. But the fact still remains that someone with spare cash would be able to spend more time monitoring their children's education (or at least pay someone to do it for them), and want their children to stay in their socio-economic niche through education.
With enough motivation ANYTHING can be overcome, but that's irrelevant, most people aren't that self-motivated (even in the education obsessed nation of S. Korea btw). When personal drive fails, then you need parental help, and money becomes a crucial factor there.
That'll kill Vista, Linux, Unix, and Apple... It'll be really interesting to see what such an "open source monopoly" would do, but I doubt it'll ever happen.
I second the look into what open source is, or at least elaborate you curious "freedom is slavery" like oxymoron. Also, why on earth are you complaining about Opera 9.50 when that is labled as beta?
Ah don't take it too badly, I've a nurse for a mom, and her views are essentially "dumb nerds, they can't do healthy even if it came with a porn star."
Well only some servers do if memory serves. In another game though (Maple Story... DON'T YOU DARE JUDGE ME) you had the option of reporting a person for cheating. The reports didn't affect people in any way, but it alerted the GM to keep a closer eye on a player. In fact I recall some clans who'd surf channels and servers in order to track botters down. One wonders what happened to the player created police force.
The usual reason, assumptions made when one can't see the person writing, with a dash of slashdot's collective view affecting that assumption. Also, the person did state he had MSOffice already, and just stated why he kept it. You responded by telling him to not complain, and use something else. It sounded strange, and seemed like you were trying to drive home the fact that he shouldn't talk badly about OO. But in any case my bad.
While my Wife and I have no issues with tables, maybe it's just not intuitive for you. It happens all the time. Maybe shelling out the dough for an MSOffice license is what you should do rather than complain about something you got for free?
On the flip side perhaps you should accept the line as the suggestion it is, and not get all offended someone offered a personal usability issue?
Ah, this may be a joke, but lets keep the dismissive paranoia out eh? Lets face it, at that level of worry no one really knows about their systems integrity unless one I dunno analyzed all computer data in assembly on a regular basis or something. If a virus scan doesn't find anything, a firewall doesn't notice any strange connections, and one doesn't notice any strange computer behavior I don't see why we should assume a machine could still be compromised without losing ones sanity.
Religion unfortunately promotes whatever interpretations a person/group has of a holy text. I've heard/read plenty of people on both sides (whatever the side may be) claim they've the correct interpretation of something. Usually it seems to revolve around cherry picking verses/logic that go well with their biases/goals, and ignoring the rest. For example you talk about reason and free will, while ignoring the notion that omnipotence makes free will a questionable concept, and with the existence of eternal damnation there's little motivation to be rationale instead of literally following a book.
I agree religion can and is for the most part is an institution of good, but one can not ignore the aspects of religions that promote irrationality/fatalism/whatever by dismissively claiming it's all an incorrect interpretation. That's insisting on a group mindset that you seem to dislike. To be honest though, without actually excising passages that promote such mindsets I don't know how to deal with the "dark" aspects of religion. Making people so content, and egotistical they don't wanna take on the unsavory parts of a religion could work I guess.
It doesn't help that Winny was created for anonymous file sharing I suppose. But it's rather strange, I thought most people migrated to Share when the creator of Winny was arrested, and are now starting to move on to Perfect Dark now that anonymous file sharing isn't possible in Share. I'd think the latter two users would be targeted as well.
Now that depends on what denomination you're in doesn't it? Christianity is like a bunch of lawyers interpreted the bible in every way imaginable and every single view got it's own denomination. I aint exagerating much, where I live there's parts of the city where there's a church or two... every fricken BLOCK.
From the looks of things Judaism, Islam, and even Scientology are heading someplace similar.
Odd, this is pretty much the initial reason why the Israel is so hotly contested (It's was given by god! vs. We lived there for generations!. Or was that your point?
Well I aint no fancy city programmer but I ought reckon that there be other ways of checking for nasty actions besides looking at the source code. uTorrent is one of the most popular programs on the net, it's probably scrutinized as heavily as say... Firefox. I mean how many people would love to gleefully point out that uTorrent is untrustworthy spyware with proof?
That's a horrible excuse, in fact I would've felt better if you said English was your first language. I'm also bilingual, when I write/talk in my other language I do my very best to be as accurate as possible because I'm not sure if one tiny gramatical/spelling error would make my sentence utterly unreadable or worse offensive, and yes I've had BOTH happen. It takes a LOT of knowledge in a language to properly use it improperly, you don't have that skill imo.
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It looks like they both created some well done but very niche "artsy" products. Along with the argument that popularity can be a factor for measuring innovation in art, artsy stuff is a surprisingly common in Japan. Think Kino no Tabi, Shjo Kakumei Utena, Live a Live, a lot of Gainax, (arguably) Satoshi Kon, Enix (before it merged with Squaresoft), Cat Soup, etc.
I've posted a reading of the infamous passage from Salman Rushdie's "Satanic Verses" one of the more popular words that piss of the extremeist Muslims( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v20VvP19kCI ) and that hasn't been deleted for over a year. Seems to me it's a bit more complicated.
Short of removing the moderation system I can't see how to stop the answers.
I believe "Lord of the Rings" is a good counter argument. That also had a crapload of hype, but how many people truly HATED them?
I always liked glancing at rottentomatoes to get a sense of what people/critics were thinking and whether or not I'd agree with them.
You seem to under the impression that critics only like pretentious "deep" movies or judge things with that as a metric. Actually most mainstream critics (like the ones on RottenTomatoes) enjoy a wide variety of movies ranging from "deep" to fantasy to chick flick to horror to action to etc. Most people disliked SR because they got bored with the flashy graphics after 30mins or so, and after that the movie didn't offer them anything else they liked. After watching hundreds of movies I suppose it's rather difficult to wow that person with visuals, or crude acting alone, it's pretty much the same with books and video games afterall. Course some folks like niche genres no matter how good or bad it is... I do envy them.
There is/was a mindset in not too long ago Japan that if a child was bullied he/she was the one at fault for being different, and should simply have the strength to take it. Same thing no? Why should a group have to suffer that one freak, it's THEIR fault!
Well yes, while we're at it my father managed to enter the one of the most prestigious universities in S. Korea despite having less than 5 years of formal education. But the fact still remains that someone with spare cash would be able to spend more time monitoring their children's education (or at least pay someone to do it for them), and want their children to stay in their socio-economic niche through education.
With enough motivation ANYTHING can be overcome, but that's irrelevant, most people aren't that self-motivated (even in the education obsessed nation of S. Korea btw). When personal drive fails, then you need parental help, and money becomes a crucial factor there.
That'll kill Vista, Linux, Unix, and Apple... It'll be really interesting to see what such an "open source monopoly" would do, but I doubt it'll ever happen.
To disable animation in Opera you go to Tools > Quick Preferences > uncheck "Enable GOF/SVG Animation"
I second the look into what open source is, or at least elaborate you curious "freedom is slavery" like oxymoron. Also, why on earth are you complaining about Opera 9.50 when that is labled as beta?
Ah don't take it too badly, I've a nurse for a mom, and her views are essentially "dumb nerds, they can't do healthy even if it came with a porn star."
Well only some servers do if memory serves. In another game though (Maple Story... DON'T YOU DARE JUDGE ME) you had the option of reporting a person for cheating. The reports didn't affect people in any way, but it alerted the GM to keep a closer eye on a player. In fact I recall some clans who'd surf channels and servers in order to track botters down. One wonders what happened to the player created police force.
The usual reason, assumptions made when one can't see the person writing, with a dash of slashdot's collective view affecting that assumption. Also, the person did state he had MSOffice already, and just stated why he kept it. You responded by telling him to not complain, and use something else. It sounded strange, and seemed like you were trying to drive home the fact that he shouldn't talk badly about OO. But in any case my bad.
On the flip side perhaps you should accept the line as the suggestion it is, and not get all offended someone offered a personal usability issue?
Ah, this may be a joke, but lets keep the dismissive paranoia out eh? Lets face it, at that level of worry no one really knows about their systems integrity unless one I dunno analyzed all computer data in assembly on a regular basis or something. If a virus scan doesn't find anything, a firewall doesn't notice any strange connections, and one doesn't notice any strange computer behavior I don't see why we should assume a machine could still be compromised without losing ones sanity.
Religion unfortunately promotes whatever interpretations a person/group has of a holy text. I've heard/read plenty of people on both sides (whatever the side may be) claim they've the correct interpretation of something. Usually it seems to revolve around cherry picking verses/logic that go well with their biases/goals, and ignoring the rest. For example you talk about reason and free will, while ignoring the notion that omnipotence makes free will a questionable concept, and with the existence of eternal damnation there's little motivation to be rationale instead of literally following a book.
I agree religion can and is for the most part is an institution of good, but one can not ignore the aspects of religions that promote irrationality/fatalism/whatever by dismissively claiming it's all an incorrect interpretation. That's insisting on a group mindset that you seem to dislike. To be honest though, without actually excising passages that promote such mindsets I don't know how to deal with the "dark" aspects of religion. Making people so content, and egotistical they don't wanna take on the unsavory parts of a religion could work I guess.
It doesn't help that Winny was created for anonymous file sharing I suppose. But it's rather strange, I thought most people migrated to Share when the creator of Winny was arrested, and are now starting to move on to Perfect Dark now that anonymous file sharing isn't possible in Share. I'd think the latter two users would be targeted as well.
One does wonder why the /. crowd lost interest in that phone in favor of another that doesn't exist yet.
Now that depends on what denomination you're in doesn't it? Christianity is like a bunch of lawyers interpreted the bible in every way imaginable and every single view got it's own denomination. I aint exagerating much, where I live there's parts of the city where there's a church or two... every fricken BLOCK.
From the looks of things Judaism, Islam, and even Scientology are heading someplace similar.
Odd, this is pretty much the initial reason why the Israel is so hotly contested (It's was given by god! vs. We lived there for generations!. Or was that your point?
Ah, silly incomplete person... as an uncircumcised male, I've never had to "oil" anything. : )
When you've an onipotent god anything is possible, duh.
Well I aint no fancy city programmer but I ought reckon that there be other ways of checking for nasty actions besides looking at the source code. uTorrent is one of the most popular programs on the net, it's probably scrutinized as heavily as say... Firefox. I mean how many people would love to gleefully point out that uTorrent is untrustworthy spyware with proof?
That's a horrible excuse, in fact I would've felt better if you said English was your first language. I'm also bilingual, when I write/talk in my other language I do my very best to be as accurate as possible because I'm not sure if one tiny gramatical/spelling error would make my sentence utterly unreadable or worse offensive, and yes I've had BOTH happen. It takes a LOT of knowledge in a language to properly use it improperly, you don't have that skill imo.
He beats you, makes you think it's your fault, and that you secretly want to sleep with your parents?