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That's a great idea! Be able to talk about Dean's mother issues, Sam's inability to keep a girlfriend alive for more than one episode, or the beautiful body work on the Metallicar and impress your date!

Actually, I think I've dated many with two out of three of the those issues.

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»Feisty And Like A Fawn: Ubuntu 7.04

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Ubuntu 7.04, codenamed Feisty Fawn, is the latest release of the fast and upcoming distribution from Canonical. Who says Linux is not ready for the desktop?

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It was more of a surprise than anything.

I would agree, if you like the music it really shouldn't matter what catagory it is. The only problem might be that some just might not be excepted as easily.

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»ICC Profiles: Bane Of The Web

I don't care what people say about ICC profiles. I hate them. <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1012_3-6191815.html">They may be fine for photos and such but when ICC profiles are being used for images in layouts, they are horrible</a>. I had tons of trouble with the .MacX theme in Safari.

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Unlike the prevailing browsers on the Internet--Microsoft's Internet Explorer and Mozilla's Firefox--the Apple browser supports different ways of encoding images that can mean richer, deeper colors. With the beta version of Safari now on Windows, Mac OS X users aren't the only ones who'll be able to see the difference. However, Apple won't keep that edge for long. Mozilla's forthcoming Firefox 3 browser, due to ship in beta form this July, likely will include support for richer color, said Vlad Vukicevic, a technical leader at Mozilla and a photo enthusiast. Together, the moves could help boost the Internet beyond the orbit of the sRGB color scheme, a broadly supported but limited standard initially introduced by Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft. But it's not likely that Web photography will achieve sRGB escape velocity until the dominant Internet Explorer also follows suit.

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I know and it just ticks me off. Improve on the systems, games etc...but don't keep fixing one little thing, releasing it and acting like it's the best thing in the world!

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»Mozilla Complains About Safari

A Mozilla Exec is complaining about how Apple went about the Safari release on Windows. <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1032_3-6191562.html">They don't like the duopoly that Apple is predicting</a>.

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In the speech predicting how Apple would grow its market share, Jobs showed a slide with Safari dominating almost a quarter of the market--a market shared only with a single other browser, Internet Explorer. Lilly says he doesn't believe that this was an omission or simplification, but instead an indication that Jobs is hoping to steal the users of Firefox and other smaller browsers in order to run a "duopoly" with Redmond. "This worldview that Steve gave a glimpse into betrays (Apple's) thinking: it's out-of-date, corporate-controlled, duopoly-oriented, not the-Web-thinking. And it's not good for the Web. Which is sort of moot, I think, because I don't think this two-party world will really come to be," Lilly said in his blog.

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That's typically the plot of any animated movie/TV show and has been since animation began. Reasons being:
A) you can film a human doing something, acting, but you can't make animals or inanimate objects do it. Animation opens up a door that allows you to do anything your imagination can think of and using humans is just so...boring. Also, it's easier to stretch reality when you use creatures no one has seen in real life, like talking anthropomorphic bunnies
B) In some, and almost all recent cases, animals and funny talking toasters appeal to children a lot more than humans do. They're cute and funny. This wasn't always the case, though, because animation was originally intended for adults (Looney Tunes especially). I also think kids are less likely to imitate what cartoon animals do than what cartoon (or live action) people do. As a kid, I never lept off cliffs or hit my siblings with frying pans, but we did imitate the Power Rangers.
C) Cartoon animals allow for the audience to easily project themselves onto the character without regard for factors like gender or race. It allows people to more easily identify and thus care about characters. It's not racist, mind, humans just naturally look to people who are most like them and, especially children, they will identify with those who look most like them because they represent their potential in the world. Take away the physical element, people will look to personality and situation to find who they identify with most.
and D) Humans are just damn hard to draw. We know what humans look like so we can see flaws and impossibilities in their cartoon representations. Animals are easier to draw and easier to exaggerate if you can't draw them close to what they're supposed to look like (Taz looks nothing like an actual Tasmanian Devil). There's also a bit of disturbing factored in, especially with 3D animation, that prevents humans from being realistically animated. It's creepy, they 'it's so human yet not' is just naturally disturbing (there was this whole theorem that backs this up but I can't remember the name of it) that it would put off people watching it. That happened somewhat with Cars, there were no humans in it but because people understand cars as what people drive, it turned a lot of people off by how creepy it was that the cars were moving on their own. The cars were realistic and thus made it strange that there were no people around (people didn't have problems with the Chevron cars in those old commercials). So humans in the same situation would creep people out and they wouldn't see it. So humans would typically have to be stylized to prevent that (kind of like The Incredibles). But all of that can be avoided by animating animals or lamps or whatever.

EDIT: On penguins, well, penguins are cute so people have sort of clung to them because they get a reaction out of people. It's like...when Survivor hit TV, being one of (but not the) first reality shows and people clung to it because it was new. And now studios are cranking out endless reality shows to get the same response. Just wait, someone will make a good animated movie about koalas and people will be all over that. OR if some big news story on some other animal, like pandas or something, gets a big reaction out of the public, there will then be tons of movies about pandas.

last day....lol...oh well...

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»WINE 0.9.39 Released

A new version of WINE has been released with bug fixes all around. <a href="http://www.winehq.org/?announce=0.9.39">I recently am using Cedega with great results</a>. It is unfortunate that the Cedega crew won't share their work with the WINE people (since they basically stole the project).

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This is release 0.9.39 of Wine, a free implementation of Windows on Unix.

What's new in this release:
- Many MSHTML improvements.
- Several improvements to the sound support.
- A number of Winsock fixes.
- Several new supported constructs in the IDL compiler.
- Many Direct3D threading fixes.
- Lots of bug fixes.

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Eva Mendes is one reason to watch it. I'll wait for cable.

Unhappy ? Be specific, or at least technical :-P

Most of the houses were inhereted from other rich relatives who died, or purchased ages ago. My uncle's parents have a house they bought pretty cheap years ago that's worth so much more now, likely in the millions but they don't pay nearly that much because of when they bought it.

Is it ironic that he already has the word "ban" embedded in his user name?

Yes, and I love every minute of it. We made up our own songs, though.

"We will scoop it" for We Will Rock You
We did one for "Hollaback girl" (We mix in bananas, b a n a n a s) and for Get Low.

There's nothing to miss. The game is like $10. Go try it now.

Or »http://www.aseville.com

Great job, I love this stuff.

I guess that would depend on the success of the Bionic Woman show being made. There has been several development projects but no one has pulled the trigger.

The conspiracy theorist in me is convinced that this story is bigger than it looks. There are too many coincidences in terms of the father in law encouraging him to travel AND being a researcher in resistant strains of TB.

Thanks for the upcoming review. Very curious as to your thoughts. I had never played the first Halo so all I can comment on is Halo 2 and I enjoyed that one.

STAY AWAY FROM ATI. Their Linux drivers suck ass. At least the Nvidia ones work. I'm eyeing a 8600GT or GTS myself. I'm going to purchase it this weekend.

There will be no problems running those cards on XP.

I have no Windows boxes.

I'd be happy to be on standby for most unix (linux) related questions, and I know Aron has a preference for Ubuntu as well as two other people on this site, while I prefer it's mommy, Debian (in fact, it's the mommy of most desktop commercial Linux distributions). Though the site is geek-based, it has the same potential for answers as any linux-based site. A review of many of the articles would suggest a strong pro-linux lovin' attitude here (which NB,Aron: the articles could go for a better tree-ified categorised view).

I just doodled on the side of the paper I was taking notes on so that I could cover them up. I didn't like getting caught doing things I was supposed to be doing.

I've heard good things about it. But, I'm going to wait for DVD.

I got to play with it in the last week, and it's actually quite fun, and, depending on what you're playing, you can expend a lot of energy.

Wii Sports proved to be tonnes of fun, except boxing, which none of us figured out, but we all put a lot of energy. I'm undefeated, but I possess no measurable skill, according to the game. The next day, however, I was very defeated, as my body informed me that the impractical attempt at boxing with only bowling as a warm up, is a truly bad idea after a certain age. It's amazing, because as you play it, you realise that there are simpler motions that can give you far better results than what the game instructs, but an hour on boxing, and I can't even throw a punch consistently.

I think making a person more active with the controller is great idea, but I think it would be better with an inexpensive adjustable mocap suit. The nunchuck controllers are no suitable for people of my size who wish to make more, err, exuberant motions.

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It really is indie filmwork at it's best. Hey a movie with Ben that didn't tanked, how bad can it be?

I always said a good movie is one that evokes a wide range of reactions. Must be the reason Hugh Jackman took the work.