Except they licensed it after about episode 15. Animanda and kuro-hana are the only ones who are subbing it all the way through. Animanda is slow, but kuro-hana does bad translations. Take your pick...
"I mean, it's not like most porn-mongers actually want kids looking at their stuff. For starters, they don't have credit cards..."
Actually, some do. Those "portal" sites get paid for clickthroughs, regardless of whether or not anything gets bought.
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Yeah, but it's pretty sad if gnome's killer apps are the dictionary and the deskbar.
Last I checked (a year ago) gnome still didn't have basics like reliable CD burning. Actually, most of the apps exclusive to gnome (regular GTK doesn't count; you can run that on KDE without installing gnome) were screwed up in one way or another. Totem can't find DVDs without assistance. Anjuta doesn't build from source; you have to use debian binaries. Gnomebaker will ruin CDs, if it can find the drive.
Now, there are a lot of GTK apps that are better than their kde counterparts, mostly in the are of multimedia authoring: vlc, kino, gimp, inkscape, ardour, and synfig, among others. This is probably because gnome users tend to be people who own or want to own a mac. GTK also has more office stuff: openoffice and gnucash.
But for the rest, KDE owns. KDE has amarok, k3b, and konqueror, all three of which are outstanding in their respective fields. And they're always talking about how KOffice 2 is going to replace OO.O and gimp.
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Nautilus is what made me give up on gnome. The rest of it isn't so bad, except maybe the configuration suite. Nautilus is slow as hell redrawing, it wastes space, and it has a tendency to lock up on large folders. Furthermore, there aren't really any good GTK file managers at all; thunar and rox is just too simplistic. The file manager is absolutely core to a desktop environment, and usability and feature-completeness are critical. This is what makes gnome a non-starter for me.
The gnome apps can be irritating too, but usually there are workable alternatives that are still GTK. You can substitute VLC for totem, thunderbird for evolution, and firefox for epiphany. This borks integration, but this isn't really a problem. All the really serious gnome users I know are the sort of people who run FVWM, don't ever use the taskbar, and launch everything from the console. If you never use nautilus, it doesn't make a difference if it's crap, but that also sort of defeats the purpose of gnome being easy to use.
Unless gnome really gets their act together soon, I don't think it's going to survive in the mainstream. KDE 4 is focusing on cleaner user interface and will have OSX style buttons, which is really the only thing different about gnome. And KDE has apps, too, which will soon be ported to windows, probably gaining users and developers. Against that, I don't think GNOME really has a chance.
As I recall, stranger in a strange land had absolutely nothing to do with science. Actually, most of the science fiction I've read has had nothing to science, and more to do with humanist philosophy, and the singularity, and all that crap. I think you'd have to read a hell of a lot of science fiction before you learned anything at all about biology, and so it would be a lot easier just to read a biology text. Of course, maybe I've been reading all the wrong stuff...
While you're at it, though, you might as well give them credit for watching science fiction too. You know, stuff like: "watch all of star trek for an extra letter grade" or "watch all of Gundam for an extra letter grade". But it shouldn't count if it takes longer than a month. Make 'em WORK for that A.
Well, yeah, nuclear is probably the best bet for the long term. But it couldn't replace oil right now; we've got too many cars on the road for that. And those plants take a while to build. And the environmentalists dislike it, even though it probably isn't much worse than coal. Actually, it's suprising how many environmentalists regard it as a done deal; "everybody knows that nuclear power is bad, fullstop" they say. The climate for it is still really bad. Maybe the public will have softened up in another 20 years. I don't know.
Oh, no. There's no way bush would be in it for the oil. He's interested in spreading democracy...
Of course he's in it for the oil! Everybody with half a brain knows that. The thing is, we really need that oil. There are no good alternatives to oil; if there were, they would have already been developed. Do you really believe that, if wind power were truly viable, that energy corporations wouldn't be dumping money into wind research as fast as they could? Do you believe that there's some kind of worldwide conspiracy to keep people hooked on oil, and that easier, better alternatives are just a step away? Do you?
Thus, the people with brains keep quiet, and the idiots on TV blather on about how Bush lied. And the common man believes the people on TV, because it is what he wants to believe. And by focusing on whether or not Bush lied, he can avoid thinking about the real issue -- what we are going to do without oil. This is how conspiracy theories come about: when the truth is harder to accept than a made up story.
First, this isn't "News for Nerds". Second, what the hell is wrong with Halibuton moving its headquarters to take advantage of tax cuts? It's what I'd do, and it's probably what you'd do too. Third, what's with the vague insinuations? Damn it, if you have something nasty to say about Cheney or whatever, just say it. Don't fuck around like an Ayn Rand villain. As it is, all you whiney liberals can come up with is this:
"Ooh, Haliburton got a big contract." "So?" "You know, Cheney owns a lot of Haliburton stock" "So, Cheney is a greedy cunt" "Well, so am I"
If you don't have the guts to say what you believe, just shut up and stop spamming slashdot.
I'll make a deal with you. I'll acknowlege pluto is a planet in order to honor Tombaugh if you acknowlege xena is a planet in order to honor Mike Brown. Fair enough?
Well, yeah, some might be a little left, in the sense that they might like the environment (my cousin wants to be a nuclear engineer), or be sort of against the war. But they're nothing like English professors, for example, who seem to ALL be hardcore communist/pacifist/etc.
Here's a hint: practically speaking, there is no real difference between left and right. They just choose different issues to push. The real difference is between extremes and moderates. Extreme left is quite similar to extreme right -- both are anti-government, both are full of conspiracies, both are relatively close-knit communities, both favor incredibly idealistic goals. Moderates tend to favor the established order, popular culture, and that sort of thing.
Apple users are the people who like to think of themselves as being radical, while actually being exactly the same as all the other liberal arts majors. Linux users tend to either be people who wanted an apple, but couldn't afford one, or libertarians who tend to be more right than left. Or hackers who have never used anything else. Heh, heaven forbid that we choose our OS based on PRACTICAL reasons.
Better yet: don't use tags at all. Just use a system like book-recommendation sites, and assume that people who mod stuff the same have the same political leanings.
Of course, only seeing the posts you want would be horrible, to my mind; but whatever.
That's why the kernel and KDE and the GNU tools are GPLed. So they can't switch to proprietary formats, or copyrighted crap. IF everything was BSD licensed, we would be in trouble.
They wouldn't install crapware on corporate machines; it wouldn't make any sense.
Also, I don't know about you guys, but I like to wipe my systems every so often, even my linux systems. It cleans out all the random crap and hacked packages I installed at one point in time, and gets me back to the default. Wiping the system when you get it is pretty damn basic, and there isn't really any good reason to bitch about it. Unless you don't have a real windows CD, in which case you should have bought your computer from someone else. Fuck those configuration CDs, you should demand a real windows CD and real driver CDs. That way, I can control what goes on the machines.
Talking about the ethics of raping robots is like talking about the ethics of teamkilling bots. Does the bot "feel" irritation? Does a robot suffer from being raped? Who the hell cares? The only thing that makes an action wrong is the consequences, and we can probably program the robots so there won't be any consequences. If raping a robot damages the hardware somehow, then yes, it's wrong. Otherwise, you'd be pretty hard-pressed to come up with a good reason not to.
Sure it's ethical. Emotion is just a state, there isn't anything special about it. Assuming that the robot would "feel" the same way about it as you would is just dumb. There's no way to know the robot has feelings. Actually, there's no way to know that people have feelings, either. In fact, being affected by other people's emotions seems kind of fucked up to me, but whatever.
I'll confess: I got my brother to set up my linux firewall for me. It's just so complicated, and would require so much playing around, that it wouldn't be worth the time I have now.
And yeah, the package manager is a double-edged sword. It is easy to install anything in the repos, but difficult to build your own packages properly. I haven't yet seen a really good tutorial on building debian packages.
But most gaming junkies, (the kind who build their own hardware) are already power users, to some degree, and have the ability to install linux. Furthermore, i think that with the takeover of consoles, those hardcore gamers are going to be stranded on a shrinking ice flow, so to speak. Although there is much fud on the topic, the general consensus is that vista really does have a performance hit attached. Add to that the fact that UT, Quake, WoW, and HL all run on linux. And, of course, the bar for linux adoption is steadily getting older.
I actually think that if linux is ever going to become mainstream, the first adopters will be disgruntled hardcore gamers. Most people think that linux should focus on education and the third world, but the vast majority of computers in education are "self-maintained" (teachers and librarians without a clue) and the third world seems to prefer to pirate windows. IMHO, ubuntu should try to make a distro suitable for workstations (no, it isn't quite there yet), and then cater to the gamers by adding serious 3D support and stable wine.
Realistically, directx9 is going to be around for a while, and it can be emulated just like any other old platform. Actually, it's regular old x86, so it doesn't even need to be emulated. The only slowdown is from a little bit of indirection.
Nah. What we want to do is develop strong AI. That way, we can send transhuman robots to colonize the galaxy, while we stay home and read slashdot for the rest of eternity. Why worry about "the destiny of the human race" if you can get someone else to do it for you?
Slow to start, maybe. But for rendering, firefox is second in speed only to IE. A big part of this is due to the way KHTML/Webkit waits for a bunch of images to download before it starts rendering.
The trouble would be working around the lameness filter. I don't know how the filter works, but I suspect you'd have to encode stuff as dictionary words. It might be a real challenge to get a full, read-write filesystem working with symlinks and directories and all that. You could use buffering to avoid "slow down, cowboy", but if your posts got marked down, you wouldn't be able to write for a while. Probably, the best thing would be to use journals.
Of course, why anyone would want to do a retarded thing like that is beyond me.
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Except they licensed it after about episode 15. Animanda and kuro-hana are the only ones who are subbing it all the way through. Animanda is slow, but kuro-hana does bad translations. Take your pick...
"As a detective friend of mine once said, "Yer criminals'r mostly stupid - it's why they're criminals.""
Yagami Light would beg to differ.
"I mean, it's not like most porn-mongers actually want kids looking at their stuff. For starters, they don't have credit cards..." Actually, some do. Those "portal" sites get paid for clickthroughs, regardless of whether or not anything gets bought.
Yeah, but it's pretty sad if gnome's killer apps are the dictionary and the deskbar.
Last I checked (a year ago) gnome still didn't have basics like reliable CD burning. Actually, most of the apps exclusive to gnome (regular GTK doesn't count; you can run that on KDE without installing gnome) were screwed up in one way or another. Totem can't find DVDs without assistance. Anjuta doesn't build from source; you have to use debian binaries. Gnomebaker will ruin CDs, if it can find the drive.
Now, there are a lot of GTK apps that are better than their kde counterparts, mostly in the are of multimedia authoring: vlc, kino, gimp, inkscape, ardour, and synfig, among others. This is probably because gnome users tend to be people who own or want to own a mac. GTK also has more office stuff: openoffice and gnucash.
But for the rest, KDE owns. KDE has amarok, k3b, and konqueror, all three of which are outstanding in their respective fields. And they're always talking about how KOffice 2 is going to replace OO.O and gimp.
Nautilus is what made me give up on gnome. The rest of it isn't so bad, except maybe the configuration suite. Nautilus is slow as hell redrawing, it wastes space, and it has a tendency to lock up on large folders. Furthermore, there aren't really any good GTK file managers at all; thunar and rox is just too simplistic. The file manager is absolutely core to a desktop environment, and usability and feature-completeness are critical. This is what makes gnome a non-starter for me.
The gnome apps can be irritating too, but usually there are workable alternatives that are still GTK. You can substitute VLC for totem, thunderbird for evolution, and firefox for epiphany. This borks integration, but this isn't really a problem. All the really serious gnome users I know are the sort of people who run FVWM, don't ever use the taskbar, and launch everything from the console. If you never use nautilus, it doesn't make a difference if it's crap, but that also sort of defeats the purpose of gnome being easy to use.
Unless gnome really gets their act together soon, I don't think it's going to survive in the mainstream. KDE 4 is focusing on cleaner user interface and will have OSX style buttons, which is really the only thing different about gnome. And KDE has apps, too, which will soon be ported to windows, probably gaining users and developers. Against that, I don't think GNOME really has a chance.
I'm probably not the only one pissed off by the need to middle-drag in nautilus.
As I recall, stranger in a strange land had absolutely nothing to do with science. Actually, most of the science fiction I've read has had nothing to science, and more to do with humanist philosophy, and the singularity, and all that crap. I think you'd have to read a hell of a lot of science fiction before you learned anything at all about biology, and so it would be a lot easier just to read a biology text. Of course, maybe I've been reading all the wrong stuff...
While you're at it, though, you might as well give them credit for watching science fiction too. You know, stuff like: "watch all of star trek for an extra letter grade" or "watch all of Gundam for an extra letter grade". But it shouldn't count if it takes longer than a month. Make 'em WORK for that A.
Well, yeah, nuclear is probably the best bet for the long term. But it couldn't replace oil right now; we've got too many cars on the road for that. And those plants take a while to build. And the environmentalists dislike it, even though it probably isn't much worse than coal. Actually, it's suprising how many environmentalists regard it as a done deal; "everybody knows that nuclear power is bad, fullstop" they say. The climate for it is still really bad. Maybe the public will have softened up in another 20 years. I don't know.
Oh, no. There's no way bush would be in it for the oil. He's interested in spreading democracy...
Of course he's in it for the oil! Everybody with half a brain knows that. The thing is, we really need that oil. There are no good alternatives to oil; if there were, they would have already been developed. Do you really believe that, if wind power were truly viable, that energy corporations wouldn't be dumping money into wind research as fast as they could? Do you believe that there's some kind of worldwide conspiracy to keep people hooked on oil, and that easier, better alternatives are just a step away? Do you?
Thus, the people with brains keep quiet, and the idiots on TV blather on about how Bush lied. And the common man believes the people on TV, because it is what he wants to believe. And by focusing on whether or not Bush lied, he can avoid thinking about the real issue -- what we are going to do without oil. This is how conspiracy theories come about: when the truth is harder to accept than a made up story.
Of course Bush lied, you dickheads!
First, this isn't "News for Nerds". Second, what the hell is wrong with Halibuton moving its headquarters to take advantage of tax cuts? It's what I'd do, and it's probably what you'd do too. Third, what's with the vague insinuations? Damn it, if you have something nasty to say about Cheney or whatever, just say it. Don't fuck around like an Ayn Rand villain. As it is, all you whiney liberals can come up with is this:
"Ooh, Haliburton got a big contract."
"So?"
"You know, Cheney owns a lot of Haliburton stock"
"So, Cheney is a greedy cunt"
"Well, so am I"
If you don't have the guts to say what you believe, just shut up and stop spamming slashdot.
I'll make a deal with you. I'll acknowlege pluto is a planet in order to honor Tombaugh if you acknowlege xena is a planet in order to honor Mike Brown. Fair enough?
Well, yeah, some might be a little left, in the sense that they might like the environment (my cousin wants to be a nuclear engineer), or be sort of against the war. But they're nothing like English professors, for example, who seem to ALL be hardcore communist/pacifist/etc.
Here's a hint: practically speaking, there is no real difference between left and right. They just choose different issues to push. The real difference is between extremes and moderates. Extreme left is quite similar to extreme right -- both are anti-government, both are full of conspiracies, both are relatively close-knit communities, both favor incredibly idealistic goals. Moderates tend to favor the established order, popular culture, and that sort of thing.
Apple users are the people who like to think of themselves as being radical, while actually being exactly the same as all the other liberal arts majors. Linux users tend to either be people who wanted an apple, but couldn't afford one, or libertarians who tend to be more right than left. Or hackers who have never used anything else. Heh, heaven forbid that we choose our OS based on PRACTICAL reasons.
Better yet: don't use tags at all. Just use a system like book-recommendation sites, and assume that people who mod stuff the same have the same political leanings.
Of course, only seeing the posts you want would be horrible, to my mind; but whatever.
That's why the kernel and KDE and the GNU tools are GPLed. So they can't switch to proprietary formats, or copyrighted crap. IF everything was BSD licensed, we would be in trouble.
They wouldn't install crapware on corporate machines; it wouldn't make any sense. Also, I don't know about you guys, but I like to wipe my systems every so often, even my linux systems. It cleans out all the random crap and hacked packages I installed at one point in time, and gets me back to the default. Wiping the system when you get it is pretty damn basic, and there isn't really any good reason to bitch about it. Unless you don't have a real windows CD, in which case you should have bought your computer from someone else. Fuck those configuration CDs, you should demand a real windows CD and real driver CDs. That way, I can control what goes on the machines.
But if there's no way the robots can oppose us, that makes it all right.
Talking about the ethics of raping robots is like talking about the ethics of teamkilling bots. Does the bot "feel" irritation? Does a robot suffer from being raped? Who the hell cares? The only thing that makes an action wrong is the consequences, and we can probably program the robots so there won't be any consequences. If raping a robot damages the hardware somehow, then yes, it's wrong. Otherwise, you'd be pretty hard-pressed to come up with a good reason not to.
Sure it's ethical. Emotion is just a state, there isn't anything special about it. Assuming that the robot would "feel" the same way about it as you would is just dumb. There's no way to know the robot has feelings. Actually, there's no way to know that people have feelings, either. In fact, being affected by other people's emotions seems kind of fucked up to me, but whatever.
I'll confess: I got my brother to set up my linux firewall for me. It's just so complicated, and would require so much playing around, that it wouldn't be worth the time I have now. And yeah, the package manager is a double-edged sword. It is easy to install anything in the repos, but difficult to build your own packages properly. I haven't yet seen a really good tutorial on building debian packages.
But most gaming junkies, (the kind who build their own hardware) are already power users, to some degree, and have the ability to install linux. Furthermore, i think that with the takeover of consoles, those hardcore gamers are going to be stranded on a shrinking ice flow, so to speak. Although there is much fud on the topic, the general consensus is that vista really does have a performance hit attached. Add to that the fact that UT, Quake, WoW, and HL all run on linux. And, of course, the bar for linux adoption is steadily getting older.
I actually think that if linux is ever going to become mainstream, the first adopters will be disgruntled hardcore gamers. Most people think that linux should focus on education and the third world, but the vast majority of computers in education are "self-maintained" (teachers and librarians without a clue) and the third world seems to prefer to pirate windows. IMHO, ubuntu should try to make a distro suitable for workstations (no, it isn't quite there yet), and then cater to the gamers by adding serious 3D support and stable wine.
Realistically, directx9 is going to be around for a while, and it can be emulated just like any other old platform. Actually, it's regular old x86, so it doesn't even need to be emulated. The only slowdown is from a little bit of indirection.
Nah. What we want to do is develop strong AI. That way, we can send transhuman robots to colonize the galaxy, while we stay home and read slashdot for the rest of eternity. Why worry about "the destiny of the human race" if you can get someone else to do it for you?
Slow to start, maybe. But for rendering, firefox is second in speed only to IE. A big part of this is due to the way KHTML/Webkit waits for a bunch of images to download before it starts rendering.
A generic AES program would not have infringement as it's "primary purpose". Yes, I know that that's fucked up.
The trouble would be working around the lameness filter. I don't know how the filter works, but I suspect you'd have to encode stuff as dictionary words. It might be a real challenge to get a full, read-write filesystem working with symlinks and directories and all that. You could use buffering to avoid "slow down, cowboy", but if your posts got marked down, you wouldn't be able to write for a while. Probably, the best thing would be to use journals.
Of course, why anyone would want to do a retarded thing like that is beyond me.