It depends. Two against one, where one of the two is a healer—I’d say it depends on what outcome the original author wanted. Or the confrontation might not happen at all, since we’re not entirely sure what Aikawa’s trying to achieve right now. (The resurrecting dog is also a major potential wildcard until we find out where it went.)
So, essentially, mismanagement of funds and labour that could have happened on any project. (Just for comparison’s sake, back in the days when every cel would have needed to be hand-drawn, producing 23 minutes of NTSC-TV animation would have taken a little over 41300 cels if they weren’t able to re-use any (29.97fps * 60sec * 23min), and this studio did around double that amount of work for the first episode if they redid 12000 stills from scratch 5 or 6 times.)
Your Internet obviously does not look like my Internet. I can’t remember ever seeing a site that didn’t belong to Google or Microsoft that required their login garbage (I see commercial sites that offer it as an option for lazy people who are unable to understand that using it is not in their best interests, yes, but every single one I’ve encountered thus far has also had a local username/password system).
As for the hyperscalers, that’s starting to break up a bit because of the number of countries the US has pissed off recently. People want to move their stuff back inside their own borders. It’s a drop in the bucket so far, admittedly, but every little bit helps.
Using hg-git everywhere reinforces the idea that Mecurial is a second-class citizen. (Don’t get me wrong, I’m grateful that an option for interoperability exists, but I wish it weren’t needed.)
Definitely. The last time I checked, your only hosting options if you wanted to use Mercurial directly were Heptapod and ($DEITY help us) Sourceforge.
If I were talking just about devices I myself use, I would say yes, get rid of all forced updates, but unfortunately, smart TVs are not bought only by the technically adept. (You should see my mother trying to use hers, and given her age and general incomprehension of technology I doubt her understanding is going to improve.) Their devices still have to be patched to keep the botnets from going after the rest of us. I don’t particularly like forced updates, but for security updates on consumer devices they sometimes are the lesser of two evils.
That becomes a problem when we’re talking about the 1% of updates that are sent to prevent your smart TV from becoming part of a distributed botnet, though. Some people might even complain about the 9% of updates intended to keep up with churn in the APIs of 3rd-party services that are part of the functionality the device was purchased for.
What we need is something that restricts forced updates to those categories. That requires regulation, which likely means starting in the EU, since that’s the only major jurisdiction that’s (sometimes) pro-consumer. We also need regulations on labeling that force the manufacturer to indicate on the outside of the packaging in big letters exactly what advertised functionality of a device will break if it’s kept off the internet.
At a guess? Because the techniques they used were more labour-intensive and are no longer used.
The original GitS movie came out in 1995, and used a mixture of cel and computer animation. Cowboy Bebop first aired in spring of 1998, and likely used cel-like techniques for most character artwork even if physical cels weren’t involved (I can’t find a specific reference), because those were the methods they knew and could make work with the limited computer equipment of the day.
Since then, animators have figured out many ways to use computers to cut corners and still create “good enough” product. They used to do that with cels too, it’s just that the set of cheap tricks available was different. Since ultimately, anime is meant to make money for the studio, they use every cheap trick they think they can get away with.
For reference, the last major anime production done entirely on cels was supposedly Jin Roh: The Wolf Brigade (1999) (and even that had a few effects superimposed in postproduction). Since then, that animation style has been gradually dying out.
Fair. Two wrongs don’t make a right. (And to be honest? If it were me, I’d actually just drop out of those channels. I’m used to venues on the Internet being easy-come-easy-go.)
Well, there’s always the ancient method that teens used to get their hands on alcohol when I was that age: pay someone who’s down on their luck for ten minutes of their time.
The article notes (along with names of shops—vote with your money, if you’re in the UK), that the ID system being used has the usual racial bias (has a hard time with anyone who isn’t white) and also a gender bias (has an easier time IDing men). And that the provider was careful not to mention this until after people started complaining.
So, we probably shouldn’t do it, then. (Which means that Ford probably will.)
It’s actually worse than that. Apparently, if you go down through enough layers of the movements pushing age-gating for social media in the US, you discover that one of the major funders is . . . Meta/Facebook (or at least this is what is getting batted around on tech sites). Whether they’re actively funding it up here, or it’s just slopover . . . 🤷
The most benign explanation for this is that they want more anti-lawsuit armour. The cynical explanation is that they want to harvest additional personal data from the organization doing the age-gating, so that they can sell more “personalized” ad spaces to their real customers.
(And the real solution? Make the toxic elements of large corporate social media illegal, period, regardless of the user’s age group. And while you’re at it, require any advertising-funded online service that shows different ads to different users to put up an annoying banner saying “we steal your personal data” in big red letters that has to be clicked through every time someone uses the site.)
An indication of whom they’re trying to emulate, perhaps.
For what it’s worth, I have a system with first-gen Zen cores (Threadripper 1900X). 8 cores at 3.8GHz. Not too shabby even now. It’s just got a higher power draw than the newer chips. Got a fairly decent price on it on Black Friday of 2017. (Never ran Windows on it, though.)
My suspicion is that they didn’t talk to the neighbours until after they bought the house. So, yeah, lack of due diligence.
Are they claiming that the event has given the property a bad reputation that reduces its value by that amount? I suppose those are plausible grounds for a lawsuit. I can’t think of any other way a death on the property several years ago could cause damage to the new owners. Surely they’re not claiming that the house is haunted (and if that’s the issue, I can imagine the judge being extremely unamused).
anonymity enables greater levels of toxicity
No. No, it doesn’t. Various fora that have required real names and IDs over the years have proven this—people are quite willing to be extremely toxic even if their real names are attached to every post.
If it has a screen in it, it also contains basic electronic components—capacitors, resistors, diodes, etc. And unless something’s changed in the last few years, those are mostly made in China.
Nobody ever likes that part, no matter how much they deserve it.