does it have those stupid alternate functins on all the F-Keys, and if so, are the bloody things turned off by defaut.
Now I kinda like my Micorosft Natural Keyboard wing-ding, it saves my hands a bit, but it pisses me off whenever I'm playing a game and cant figure out whether PrntScrn is working, or whether the F-keys will work when i need them to. GRR!
Okay cool that's basically the type of list I was after all along. Thanks for the tipoff about the manga, there's a decent enough comic book shop here in Galway that should be able to get it in for me if they don't already have it.
You may have started a manga book thing with me. Thanks:o)
Exaclty, there's more subtlety, anger, cheekiness, humor and empathy in the pitch of the original actor's voices than there is in the dubbed english version. The actor's intonation guves us nearly as much information about the scene as the actual text of what they're saying.
Yea I'm picky about wanting Japanese Audio as well, it sounds cooler to my Gajin ears, and when lipsync breaks down it's a real distractor for me. I put up with watching English dubbed versions of stuff when I watch with non fan friends just to keep them happy:o)
Hehe, I'd me more inclined to stand in the corner and cough quitely and announce that I'd seen some manga that I loved and I'm hooked:o) - a bit like here. I'm sure I'd get a better response that way anyway.
I've seen a fair bit of Studio Ghibli's stuff thanks to the Film Four Retrospective this month, plus some othr stuff on the Sci-Fi channel like Violence Jack etc. and of course Akira. I was really impressed with the apparent depth of GITS (nice acronym) and enjoyed it a lot so I want to get right in there and get my hands on the rest of what's out there.
I wasn't too uncomfortable with the feeling that this was part of a larger plot, you'll get that in most good cinema anyway. I'll probably get the movies first then start on the TV series', the order probably doesnt matter too much anyway, if I'm confused about stuff then it'll be more fun finding stuff out and having big 'aha!' moments:o)
I'm interested in watching much more Ghost in the Shell and getting caught up with it- I watched what I believe to be the first movie from 1995 a few months ago but I'm not sure if i've jumped in in the middle of the story.
Could someone in the know please tell the noobs here what we should watch to get everything in, and what order we should watch it in. I'm mildy offtopic but I think if this review has piqued anyone's interest, some info on how to catch up on what we've missed would be excellent.
Now people have argued that keeping a skill like driving a vehicle safely is no longer required as computers will be able to do it for us. But the required skill here- to be able to pilot a big hunk of metal, plastic and glass among other similar vehicles without anyone getting killed will still be a required skill for many years to come.
I think the real question here is how much control of these machines can be safely handed over to the judgement of an automated system, and whether we'd be willing to accept human death caused by such a system.
It's hard enough to accept death if it's human error or bravado that caused the accident. But when an error on your onboard computer means your car rams the back of a 7 seater and kills the two five year olds in the back seat, who do you blame?
Now people will answer with 'but planes already have autopilots and all sorts of automated systems' but a n autopilot doesn't do much more than keep a passsenger plane pointed at the desired heading while two or three professional crew members keep the plane safe. There's still a pilot and crew watching out for the safety of the plane and passengers, there are Ait Traffic Controllers making sure that planes don't come within miles of each other, and planes don't have to watch out for pedestrians (much).
Computers won't make driving much safer for now, and if we're going to allow automated systems such as these to get into the hands of ordainary people, who will take them as an excuse to pay less, not more attention at the wheel, then we're going to have to deal with the consequences of computer error killing people on a regular basis on our roads.
Precisely. 18 months ago I finished second in an Honours Degree class of 26 Multimedia Design students in a university Ireland. Although I was second, it wasn't really that impressive an achievement as 22 of the 26 students in the class were total deadwood who scraped 2:1 degrees together from the easiest modules they could find.
I would only hire 3 other people from my class.
I and those three have all found web developer & mmedia related jobs, so i'd say the job success rate for proper graduates for our course was 100%. Of course, the deadwood students in the course will have been recorded as graduates and their lack of jobs will account for our course's 15% industry job success rate.
I suspect that the Australian Govornment's graduate jobs figures are full of dead wood. Just because you're a 'Graduate' doesn't mean you're actually good at anything.
FFS I hate smartasses who prentend not to get it. Did you even read the headline never mind TFA?
They weren't trying to tell the difference between strangulation and decapitation. The researchers may have found a way of determining the difference between a quick death and a slow one, which may be useful in determining whether someone died of, say carbon monoxide poisioning, or of a heart attack. (okay a H.A may be physically more obvious than other sudden deaths, but there you go.)
Well okay I know that it's a technical challenge to keep yourself safe from detection, but my point was more one of trying to imagine that happening, and wondering what it would take for things to get that bad. Not much I reckon. There are all sorts of scenarios that could arise from that type of scenario, like my Mp3 speakeasy:o)
I had this idea 2 years ago during a brainstorming session for an Innovation and Concept module at University, it's like they're spying on meeee
Anyway, although I chose another idea from that brainstorming session to follow through with and fully develop, my inital few ideas on this concept centered on you setting up a list of albums or tracks that you are interested in, then when you get onto a bus or train where there are similar devices, music would transfer automatically from one person's player to the other, a bit like a virus would hop from one human being to another. I called it Personal Peer to Peer ( I call the copyright on that name BTW, it's here in B&W(!))
There was also the possibility of tagging extra albums or tracks to recommend to anyone downloading tracks from your player. Say for example you like, um- Snow Patrol and you had their last album on your player. You'd be able to recommend their first two (relatively unknown but pretty great) albums to someone downloading Final Straw from your player, and they may choose to take you up on your recommendation.
The ways in which this type of sharing could change the model of music sharing and distribution (again!) are enormous and how this idea plays out is dependant on how it's harnessed, if it catches on at all.
In the first scenario, no-one pays for the music that is bounced from person to person, and everyone's happy except the music industry. What happens then? Offering music for file swapping like this is illegal copyright infringement, but in this case it's out there on the street where everyone can see you. Imagine cops taking subway rides and arresting people swapping copyrighted material because they can see them offering illegal music downloads on the mini P2P network in the carriage. It's not that different than them arresting someone for selling bootleg CDs on the street, which happens often enough. It probably wouldnt happen, but then the all poweful RIAA have sued 12 year old girls. Just think about it anyway.
In the second scenario, instead of distributing full free copies of the a whole album off your player for free, what if the files that are sent have a limited (say 2 weeks?) initial licence that can be made a full licence by actually *paying* for & unlocking the album. This way, you can try a recommended album on your player for free for a while by having it sent on a Personal P2P network, and if you like it, buy the damn thing. This distribution method appeals to me because it puts the person back into personal recommendations ( I call copyright on that as well:op ) and means you'll probably strike up conversations with complete strangers about music, which is always a joy on a long journey.
If PP2P takes off, then it'll probably be the illegal kind, but then we've seen this kind of thing happen on t'inernet in the last 5 years, only to see commerical services pop up.
I can imagine the scene in the future- people meeting in music speakeasys to swap files & socialise while the cops/feds drive around sniffing out their puny network signals. Stranger things have happened.
"local laws and practices require consideration of unique elements..."
The "unique elements" here being the fact that CCP would never be re-elected elected in a democratic election, having been responsible for the deaths of 70 million chinese nationals plus hundreds of thousands of Americans, North Koreans and Vietnamse.
The CCP is running scared of democracy because it would mean more power to the chinese people full stop.
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does it have those stupid alternate functins on all the F-Keys, and if so, are the bloody things turned off by defaut.
Now I kinda like my Micorosft Natural Keyboard wing-ding, it saves my hands a bit, but it pisses me off whenever I'm playing a game and cant figure out whether PrntScrn is working, or whether the F-keys will work when i need them to. GRR!
Okay cool that's basically the type of list I was after all along. Thanks for the tipoff about the manga, there's a decent enough comic book shop here in Galway that should be able to get it in for me if they don't already have it.
:o)
You may have started a manga book thing with me. Thanks
Aha thanks man :o)
Exaclty, there's more subtlety, anger, cheekiness, humor and empathy in the pitch of the original actor's voices than there is in the dubbed english version. The actor's intonation guves us nearly as much information about the scene as the actual text of what they're saying.
Yea I'm picky about wanting Japanese Audio as well, it sounds cooler to my Gajin ears, and when lipsync breaks down it's a real distractor for me. I put up with watching English dubbed versions of stuff when I watch with non fan friends just to keep them happy :o)
Found some on ebay.ie ( yes we do have ebay in Ireland ).
ebay link
Price isnt bad. May stick in a bid
At the same time, I can probably get them from HMV and the prices aren't terrible either. I'll see what I can do :0'
No netflix for me, I'm Irish so we've only got two bloody provider of online rentals, and they're both shit.
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https://busybeedvd.rentshark.com/login.php?osCsid
We'd be better off with one good one than this tat. Ho hum.
*goes off to start online dvd rental revolution from his garage*.
*is foiled when he realises he doesn't have a garage*
Thanks for your comment man, hope you get modded up so more people see this explanation.
Hehe, I'd me more inclined to stand in the corner and cough quitely and announce that I'd seen some manga that I loved and I'm hooked :o) - a bit like here. I'm sure I'd get a better response that way anyway.
:o)
I've seen a fair bit of Studio Ghibli's stuff thanks to the Film Four Retrospective this month, plus some othr stuff on the Sci-Fi channel like Violence Jack etc. and of course Akira. I was really impressed with the apparent depth of GITS (nice acronym) and enjoyed it a lot so I want to get right in there and get my hands on the rest of what's out there.
I wasn't too uncomfortable with the feeling that this was part of a larger plot, you'll get that in most good cinema anyway. I'll probably get the movies first then start on the TV series', the order probably doesnt matter too much anyway, if I'm confused about stuff then it'll be more fun finding stuff out and having big 'aha!' moments
I'm interested in watching much more Ghost in the Shell and getting caught up with it- I watched what I believe to be the first movie from 1995 a few months ago but I'm not sure if i've jumped in in the middle of the story.
Could someone in the know please tell the noobs here what we should watch to get everything in, and what order we should watch it in. I'm mildy offtopic but I think if this review has piqued anyone's interest, some info on how to catch up on what we've missed would be excellent.
Thanks!
it isn't free already?! Good grief!
If Pythagoras can get one guy fired, imagine what Goldman's Polytope is going to do!
/changes professions
Well i was just being cheeky :p
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Now people have argued that keeping a skill like driving a vehicle safely is no longer required as computers will be able to do it for us. But the required skill here- to be able to pilot a big hunk of metal, plastic and glass among other similar vehicles without anyone getting killed will still be a required skill for many years to come.
I think the real question here is how much control of these machines can be safely handed over to the judgement of an automated system, and whether we'd be willing to accept human death caused by such a system.
It's hard enough to accept death if it's human error or bravado that caused the accident. But when an error on your onboard computer means your car rams the back of a 7 seater and kills the two five year olds in the back seat, who do you blame?
Now people will answer with 'but planes already have autopilots and all sorts of automated systems' but a n autopilot doesn't do much more than keep a passsenger plane pointed at the desired heading while two or three professional crew members keep the plane safe. There's still a pilot and crew watching out for the safety of the plane and passengers, there are Ait Traffic Controllers making sure that planes don't come within miles of each other, and planes don't have to watch out for pedestrians (much).
Computers won't make driving much safer for now, and if we're going to allow automated systems such as these to get into the hands of ordainary people, who will take them as an excuse to pay less, not more attention at the wheel, then we're going to have to deal with the consequences of computer error killing people on a regular basis on our roads.
Did they get their server for free? /.ed already it seems.
Precisely. 18 months ago I finished second in an Honours Degree class of 26 Multimedia Design students in a university Ireland. Although I was second, it wasn't really that impressive an achievement as 22 of the 26 students in the class were total deadwood who scraped 2:1 degrees together from the easiest modules they could find.
I would only hire 3 other people from my class.
I and those three have all found web developer & mmedia related jobs, so i'd say the job success rate for proper graduates for our course was 100%.
Of course, the deadwood students in the course will have been recorded as graduates and their lack of jobs will account for our course's 15% industry job success rate.
I suspect that the Australian Govornment's graduate jobs figures are full of dead wood. Just because you're a 'Graduate' doesn't mean you're actually good at anything.
FFS I hate smartasses who prentend not to get it. Did you even read the headline never mind TFA?
They weren't trying to tell the difference between strangulation and decapitation. The researchers may have found a way of determining the difference between a quick death and a slow one, which may be useful in determining whether someone died of, say carbon monoxide poisioning, or of a heart attack. (okay a H.A may be physically more obvious than other sudden deaths, but there you go.)
Thats what he said- keep the core of the system and invest in monitor etc. Much better!
Jack Thompson is 'in gaming' in the same way that an agressive army is 'in' a besieged castle. Watch out for giant wooden horses.
Well okay I know that it's a technical challenge to keep yourself safe from detection, but my point was more one of trying to imagine that happening, and wondering what it would take for things to get that bad. Not much I reckon. There are all sorts of scenarios that could arise from that type of scenario, like my Mp3 speakeasy :o)
I had this idea 2 years ago during a brainstorming session for an Innovation and Concept module at University, it's like they're spying on meeee
:op ) and means you'll probably strike up conversations with complete strangers about music, which is always a joy on a long journey.
Anyway, although I chose another idea from that brainstorming session to follow through with and fully develop, my inital few ideas on this concept centered on you setting up a list of albums or tracks that you are interested in, then when you get onto a bus or train where there are similar devices, music would transfer automatically from one person's player to the other, a bit like a virus would hop from one human being to another. I called it Personal Peer to Peer ( I call the copyright on that name BTW, it's here in B&W(!))
There was also the possibility of tagging extra albums or tracks to recommend to anyone downloading tracks from your player. Say for example you like, um- Snow Patrol and you had their last album on your player. You'd be able to recommend their first two (relatively unknown but pretty great) albums to someone downloading Final Straw from your player, and they may choose to take you up on your recommendation.
The ways in which this type of sharing could change the model of music sharing and distribution (again!) are enormous and how this idea plays out is dependant on how it's harnessed, if it catches on at all.
In the first scenario, no-one pays for the music that is bounced from person to person, and everyone's happy except the music industry. What happens then? Offering music for file swapping like this is illegal copyright infringement, but in this case it's out there on the street where everyone can see you. Imagine cops taking subway rides and arresting people swapping copyrighted material because they can see them offering illegal music downloads on the mini P2P network in the carriage. It's not that different than them arresting someone for selling bootleg CDs on the street, which happens often enough. It probably wouldnt happen, but then the all poweful RIAA have sued 12 year old girls. Just think about it anyway.
In the second scenario, instead of distributing full free copies of the a whole album off your player for free, what if the files that are sent have a limited (say 2 weeks?) initial licence that can be made a full licence by actually *paying* for & unlocking the album. This way, you can try a recommended album on your player for free for a while by having it sent on a Personal P2P network, and if you like it, buy the damn thing. This distribution method appeals to me because it puts the person back into personal recommendations ( I call copyright on that as well
If PP2P takes off, then it'll probably be the illegal kind, but then we've seen this kind of thing happen on t'inernet in the last 5 years, only to see commerical services pop up.
I can imagine the scene in the future- people meeting in music speakeasys to swap files & socialise while the cops/feds drive around sniffing out their puny network signals. Stranger things have happened.
"local laws and practices require consideration of unique elements..."
The "unique elements" here being the fact that CCP would never be re-elected elected in a democratic election, having been responsible for the deaths of 70 million chinese nationals plus hundreds of thousands of Americans, North Koreans and Vietnamse.
The CCP is running scared of democracy because it would mean more power to the chinese people full stop.