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Aug 13, 2002, 6:29pm

Ah, I'd assume he's blocking him via e-mail too.

--Bowen--

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Aug 17, 2002, 2:09pm

> ummm, its the amount of objects and special effects which lagg the place,
> not the amount of bytes in a tile..
> i dont think it makes any difference in frame rate whether u have an
object
> use its original texture or applying another one with create texture..

Well, that can be somewhat true. Adding a Create texture something to an
object will cause your video card to completely redraw the object (I assume
over the already present textures). This would cause a slight increase in
the time to draw the frames, I would assume that's how it's done.

--Bowen--

Aug 17, 2002, 8:57pm

> Erm, not quite. The object and the texture are independent of each
> other. Once the object is loaded, then it goes about loading the
> texture. If no texture is specified via a texture or animate command,
> then it downloads the object's default texture. If you change an
> already-loaded object's texture, then it just replaces the old texture
> with the new texture. That's why, if you change it to a texture that's
> not already in your cache, the object turns white/grey while the new
> texture is downloading.

Not with mine it doesn't. But then again this is one buggy as hell video
card.

--Bowen--

Aug 16, 2002, 7:08pm

[View Quote] Most of which are on Cartoon network. Most of which I hate more than
anything because of it's style. That's my opinion on Anime. Don't confuse
that for lack of "culture."

--Bowen--
Oh no, I'm stressed *sweat drop*

Aug 20, 2002, 9:53pm

http://www.winternet.com/~mikelr/flame33.html

Who's this remind you of? :)

--Bowen--

Aug 16, 2002, 10:43pm

> Umm, I hate to break it to you, Bowen, but the dumbed-down crap that
> they show on Cartoon Network is only a *tiny* fraction of all anime that
> exists in the world. As I said in my previous analogy, anime in Japan is
> just as big as Hollywood is in the states, if not bigger. The only
> reason some of it makes it to the states in the first place is because a
> bunch of advertising executives think that it'll sell merchandise. (i.e.
> Pokemon, Dragonball, etc.)

Hate to break it to you but my friends all watch anime. They have huge
collections. I've seen glimpses of it from time to time, and I'm sorry to
say, I do not like it nor enjoy it. Anything predating 1993 with anime at
least looks halfway decent and anything after it just contains the hints of
style that I loathe.

> So that's what I meant by "be adventurous". There's more to life than
> Cartoon Network and Kids WB. Find your nearest Blockbuster and check out
> the Sci-Fi section, or better yet, look up some fansubs of more current
> anime. (if you don't mind reading subtitles)

I do watch anime predating 1993, most of it is good, there's some garbage
but that's ok. Just because I don't like what you like doesn't make me bad
or uncultured or unadventurous. Like I just said, I don't like the
"current" anime style. Not even american branches of it like Batman Beyond.
It's just not entertaining to me, sorry if I can't like the same thing
majorities like.

> As for the lack of culture, I guess I should rephrase that to "a lack of
> wanting to learn more about the world around you." :P

How does me disliking a certain style automagically make me lacking the
ability to want to learn more about the world around me? Does this same
rule apply to people who don't like celery? They lack the wanting to a well
balanced diet? I dislike it that I really don't want to learn more about
it, so don't ask me questions since I've seen "glimpses" to test my
knowledge. Some people are just a little prejudiced against others not
liking the things they do.

--Bowen--

Aug 17, 2002, 12:20am

Oh no, not the anime faces... gah!

--Bowen--

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Aug 17, 2002, 2:13pm

> Anime is based on visual bangs, flashes and Music rather than detail, Hell
look at Sailor Moon, it had a best selling album out of all the music thats
never been beat (Cartoon wise). My MP3 collection contains about 20 of the
tracks from Digimon series 1 to 3 as well, as well as about 120 MB of the SM
CDs (I really should clear them out anyway) but the idea is to create a
flash and get people existed with the battle scenes as you can see from this
picture http://galileo.spaceports.com/~mralpha/anime_1.jpg there are also
other "pre-resiquites" to anime characters appart from the noses and the
tear drops to show worriedness, fright, sarcasm etc.

That along with the drawing style help to incorperate it into the anime
class. Those things alone don't immediately spin a cartoon into anime.

--Bowen--

Aug 18, 2002, 4:01pm

> And I'm telling you that just isn't the case. There are some anime shows
> that are all sex and violence (i.e. hentai), an there are some shows
> that have zero sex and violence (i.e. Card Captor Sakura), just like
> American shows/movies. The only thing that differentiates anime from
> American cinema is the drawing/animation style (i.e. big eyes, small
> mouth, weird hair, etc.) and Japanese cultural references. Those are the
> ONLY components that make anime anime. Any other components can be
> readily found in all forms of entertainment in varying degrees. You
> can't say sex and violence are the biggest components of *any* medium,
> much less anime, because those things merely define a sub-section of the
> medium, not the entire medium.

Is it me, though, or are all anime characters non Asian? It seems they have a hard time
doing the eyes for an Asian person in anime style.

--Bowen--

Aug 18, 2002, 4:34pm

Well it all depends on which cartoons we're talking about.

--Bowen--

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Aug 20, 2002, 5:20pm

> A lot of people really don't like web based forums, so if it's possible, you might want
to see if you can interface a web based form with a standard news server, that way you can
post and read both ways. Does anyone know of an example?

http://florian-amrhein.de/newsportal/index-english.php3

--Bowen--

Aug 21, 2002, 7:09pm

LoL :) I didn't think I needed to credit you for someone elses work.

--Bowen--

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Aug 20, 2002, 5:16pm

> BTW, if it was a galaxy far far away, at the speed of light it would take over a million
years to send a signal to the internet, not to mension the fact it would need a hundred
times the power of an supermassive black hole.

Not really, all you need to do is bend space. Much like a wormhole, which theoretically
are related to black holes. :)

--Bowen--

Aug 22, 2002, 12:56am

LOL nice pun.

--Bowen--

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Aug 23, 2002, 8:04pm

[View Quote] They look like they are drawn into that style. At least the first one is,
not sure about the other two.

--Bowen--

Aug 23, 2002, 11:46pm

> I have to dissagree with you, on several points. First and foremost is
that they are not even Human. heh. The second point is that those characters
do not flaunt their sexuality. You hardly think of angels as sex godesses do
you? I have no idea what you see in lilimon, at least its better than her
champion form.

I'm going to have to disagree with you as well. First and foremost it
doesn't matter if they're human or not, the point is it's humanoid and drawn
to manifest sexuality. Or at least partly drawn that way perhaps to draw in
the teen crowd in a failed attempt? They could've made it some giant robot
with a full robe on and little to no human characteristics right? Right,
but they didn't. Aphrodite was the goddess of sexuality, tell me she wasn't
a heavenly figure that was to allure to men?

--Bowen--

Aug 24, 2002, 12:24am

> True, but how they act, its not sexual at all. Only there initial
aprearence.

That's all that matters. Now if you'll excuse me I have to download my 2511
spam messages to find the 3 important ones. :)

--Bowen--

Aug 25, 2002, 12:38pm

Looks like it's back up.

--Bowen--

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Aug 26, 2002, 2:09pm

> There ARE not over 100k, but there HAVE been over 100k. Some poorly
> administered servers might have that many groups, but there aren't all
that
> many active groups that officially exist.

Especially KAH's ill-active newsgroups. :P

--Bowen--

Aug 26, 2002, 9:50am

> Still, I seem to remember hearing somewhere that they were going to get
> rid of the whole special commands BS and open up everything. (Though,
> that could also be more wishful thinking) I was talking to Brant about
> it a little while ago, and he claims that AWTeen has *never* had a
> move/rotate related vandalism problem EVER. And you'd think that would
> be the *first* place where such trouble would arise!

Well, could it be Brant's lying? I saw some rotation vandelisim by dozens
of tourists (of course it's a tourist so why report it). Just because it's
not reported doesn't mean it's never happened.

--Bowen--

Aug 27, 2002, 1:32pm

I don't understand how that has anything to do with tourists building objects that go crazy with rotate and move and go into other's
property. Registries don't do that stuff. :P

--Bowen--

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Aug 26, 2002, 2:17pm

LoL that's so silly. Don't put CD's in the microwave either... I know
there'll be one person dumb enough to put their windows95 CD in to see if
it's true.

--Bowen--

Aug 26, 2002, 4:38pm

Supposedly there's cyanide in CD's... but I think they fixed that with newer
ones. The cyanide only comes out through a microwave reaction (in lethal
amounts) because of the small enclosed space and the high amount of heat and
water being moved around.

--Bowen--

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Aug 27, 2002, 4:17pm

Well it'd have to be one small bank and you'd have to be nearby the oven. Most
people put it in the kitchen at eye level (or lower) so it was pretty dangerous to
kill those old AOL 5 CD's in there. I think that's how someone died by it.

--Bowen--

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Aug 27, 2002, 6:05pm

> I was under the impression that AOL CDs were meant to be used as coasters for one's
coffee table. I never thought of cooking them...

I use them for arrow targets.

--Bowen--

Aug 26, 2002, 8:08pm

No, you're simply recieving e-mails with the virus in it (that's why you get
constant pop ups if you have e-mail scanning on). It simply quarentines the
file, at least in my case. Sometimes it'll get spoofed by the virus trying
to send itself, don't worry no e-mail is infected. If you're on XP restart
in safe mode and do a scan as the admin so that you take no risk.

--Bowen--

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Aug 27, 2002, 4:15pm

Sometimes concearning E-mails they can sell execute their attachments. So it's not always the "safe" bet. The e-mail that
contained the yaha virus that was sent to me kept trying to self execute itself.

--Bowen--

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Aug 27, 2002, 6:54pm

[View Quote] I think it is, yes.

--Bowen--

Aug 27, 2002, 6:04pm

> this is gonna sound dumb, but is there a nuclear power plant near the
> orlando airport? when i was there there was some dude who was videotaping
> what looled like a Nukeplant for like 10 minutes straight, and then left the
> airport and i was thinking of reporting it because that was VERY suspicious.

I don't believe there is a nuclear plant anywhere near Orlando, I could be wrong.
Nonetheless video taping the exterior does nothing but make it look pretty on tape.

--Bowen--

Aug 27, 2002, 6:40pm

> It also provides a really good record of the layout and structure of the
> building when you just can't seem to find/make/steal those spiffy
> blueprints...

Nuclear plants have restricted airspace/altitude though, and it only gives the layout
from outside, not much that will help you with once you get inside. Most nuclear
plants have air-protection so the only way to really do anything is to get inside and
cause a core meltdown (even then there's quite a few failsafe's).

> Was this guy recording the same spot for 10 minutes, or did it look like
> he was actually casing the building? If the former, I wouldn't worry
> about it too much. He might have been following a departing plane or
> something...

Sounds like he might have just been taping it (I assume he exagerated on the 10
minutes part.. it was probably only like 2-5 minutes). Might have been a tourist
from New England or something.

--Bowen--

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