This is just to list the edits made to Neon Genesis Evangelion (Eva) for it's airing on Cartoon Network's Toonami block for Monday, Feburary 24th, 2003.
Eva is probably one of the greatest anime's ever made--excluding Quack Experimental Anime Excel Saga, of course.
Granted, the last two episodes (25 and 26) sucked, but End of Evangelion made up for it ten-fold. Death and Rebirth is just a recap and the first half of the good episode 25 from End of Evangelion.
Eva is known for it's way of mocking organized religion, just like all of Squaresoft's games (especially Xenogears and Xenosaga, which is out tomorrow in the US).
It takes about an hour to an hour and a half to do one of these lists. The more cuts, the longer.
Italicized parts are cut.
"Damn, why did I have to lose him at a time like this?" Misato says in the beginning.
One of the generals says, "Dammit, we've hit it with everything we've got and we're not even touching it."
Something appears to be cut when they were pushing over the car. Not sure what.
When Shinji Ikari (you still gotta love Spike Spencer) is holding Rei Ayanami's body after NERV is attacked by the angel, he looks at his hand and sees it covered in Rei's blood.
That's all the cuts there were. Surprising I guess. But then again, I guess there wasn't much to cut from the first episode.
This is just to list the edits made to Nadesico for it's airing on Cartoon Network's Toonami block for Monday, Feburary 24th, 2003.
If anyone is wondering how I made this list, I have a TiVo that I recorded Nadesico with and I have the DVD set of Nadesico. The TiVo is hooked up to my CRT TV and I have a 15 Inch LCD flatscreen DVD Player to the right of my bed that I play the DVD on. I have them both playing together, in sync. When the audio falls out of sync I stop the playback of both, reverse and write down the changes.
The white "explosion" flash was cut. This occurred right after the girl says "You're wonderful mister!" and the people open the doors. I am guessing because it showed definite death.
"This assignment would involve a lot of lovely young women." "Oh?" "Now, your bonus." was cut. Heaven forbid that men might actually do something for the womenfolk. The last part was probably cut just to make the scene make more sense.
When the engineer is offered the job on the Nadesico, he says "If it means getting away from those two, I'd work in the bowels of Hell." Understandably cut, especially since he was talking about his wife and child.
When Yurika's father was banging on the door, he says "Dammit, Yurika!" Cut!
Again, after Yurika's father and Jun open the door and see Yurika naked, her father responds "My little girl is all woman." We can't have incest, even though they left "Not only is she an officer, but she's well-endowed."
After Akito Tenkawa (gotta love Spike Spencer for this one) finishes screaming, he is heard to remark, "Oh, damn, I burned it!" That was cut. Everything falls because of the onlooker's reaction to his statement. Later he screams, "Dammit!" and that was cut.
After Akito gets hit by Yuriko, he says "Why me God? Why Always me?" The first part was cut.
"Oh" "Yeah, you need to consolidate the fragile things towards the center of the case. And you should wrap them with small articles of clothing like this... like this... pah-pah-panty." When Akito was helping Yurika repack her suitcase. He holds of the pair of panties and his face turns red. Cut!
Another "Dammit" Was cut during the interrogation scene.
In the same scene, "I think she [Yurika] might know why my parents were killed." I have no clue why they cut this. Akito's Parent's deaths are a very important part of the plot. Maybe someone thought this might leave a kid to want to kill his parents in order to get the next door neighbor's cute daughter 10+ years in the future?
During the Jovian battle, Akito's "friends" from the dinner say, "Why are they attacking out there?" "Who can ever figure out what those damn Jovians are thinking?" "That's true. I hope poor Akito isn't watching this." The italicized part was cut.
When Akito is taking his "Gekiganger" out of the Nadesico to fight the battle, he remarks, "There's no way I'm going to be trapped inside this ship. I'm just a freakin' cook. I'm not going to get killed in some stupid war." The italicized parts were cut. I kind of understand the "freakin'" cut (and he did say "freakin'") but not the stupid war comment. The only thing I can imagine it getting cut was for political reasons.
Something appears to be cut when Yurika recognizes who Akito is, but I don't know what it is.
When Akito is preparing to leave for battle, Megumi says, "Good luck and Godspeed." The last part was cut. I guess even saying God is far too much for kids now days. I'd hate to see what Cartoon Network is going to do to Eva.
"I did not sign up for this crap." When Akito was being chased by the Jovian Lizards.
Before the submarine dock is opened, Yurika says, "Akito, I will not let you die." Cut!
"I've had it with this, Dammit!" Same scene, cut!
Ruri gives her report after the battle, "All of the enemy were destroyed. Our ground forces were hit heavily but only five deaths have been reported." "Only five? It's just luck, a coincidence!" Italicized text was cut. Deaths are bad, mkay?
That's all for today.
We've released FruitMenu 3 with tabbed browsing...of the err, um, preference pane.
So much talk of tabs these days, it didn't seem right to make a post without those words in it.
Get it.
The update includes the ability to definte different configurations for menus for different applications, a click and hold option in Finder to invoke contextual menu for one button mouse users, and several fixes. FruitMenu sells for US$10. Version 3.0 is a free upgrade to all registered users.
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I am a shallow and egotistical person. That said, I have found Female programmers be far rarer than the Bald Eagle. Especially good female programers. This isn't a sexist statement as much as it is an observation.
It's really difficult for someone like me to find female programmer peers. Not so much that they don't exist, but that the ones that do exist are not exactly what I am looking for in a peer. They're either much older than me (I'm 21) and the generation gap causes many problems, or they just don't "get it". All my current peers and acquaintances "get it". They can easily go from point 'A' to point 'C' in a logical manner and skip over point 'B' because they understand it and (possibly) find it to be tedious. The female programmers I know do not always get this logical step (90% of the male programmers I know don't either). Sure, it's ok for them to need to be walked through it a few times, but after that, it's all about applied knowledge. Can something they've learned to handle one problem be transferred to another unrelated problem. That's what I look for in peers and friends alike. It's not so much the knowledge they have, it's the potential they have to learn and how quickly they can do it on their own and from other people's examples. Sure, someone in the business for 20 years may know a lot more than someone that's only been in it for 6 months but how long will it be before the newbie exceeds the veteran's abilities.
What's far worse though is that a lot of female "programmers" can't read. It's all about RTFM if you can find it... I almost always RTFM if I can find it so I'm not looking to be a hypocrite here.
At WWDC last year, there were practically no females whatsoever that didn't work for Apple in probably some PR, Q&A or Marketing position. I don't expect this to change this year. Erik wrote something about this topic a while back.
Anywho, on the rare occurrence I do find a female programmer about my age that might have some potential do to great things, one conversation usually dashes all hopes. You know, you'll be talking about something or other and the conversation brings up a key concept and you see that look of cluelessness in her eyes (or worse, she pretends to know what you're talking about, I hate that).
Still, one of the worst and best conversations I've had is the one were a high school friend in Delphos, Ohio told me I made her feel stupid. It was the worst because it hurt a lot and the best because she actually made me realize I do do that in conversations. I've tried my hardest to never do that again but I don't always succeed. C'est la vie.
Hmm, after looking at the product overview for iGesture Pad, it sounds/looks pretty awesome to me. At least the ability to move my hand and tap various fingers to perform various actions sounds pretty good, especially given the amount of mousing I do every day.
Now the question: did anybody tried these, and what were your impressions? A quick web search didn't found much reviews, and the ones I found were pretty raving ones. So how well does that thing really works?..
We all live in a changing world. Some things don't change way too often, some change every other minute. Internet evolves and changes constantly too - and so do the computers and their software.
I think we have come to an end of the Shareware Era. It was fun while it lasted, and some of us really enjoyed it while others disgusted the looks of it. Either way, I think it's time to rethink our vision of the subject and move on, leaving Shareware in the past.
Why? I guess all of us have thought about the topic, either briefly or throughfully, in one form or another - in any case, I think Shareware as a concept no longer exist. Let's take a look at the definition of shareware by Association of Shareware Professionals: "Shareware, traditionally, is software that is published by authors who want you to help with their word-of-mouth advertising. It's more than a free trial; it's a free trial that you can share with your friends. When you find a product that does what you need, you'll buy the full version, usually directly from the author, and nearly always find that if you need product support, you'll get a fast answer from a programmer who worked on the product, and not some help-desk worker reading from a pre-programmed script". From looking at the definition above, it is apparent that the border between Shareware and Commercial software no longer exists.
First of all, both commercial and shareware vendors put demos of their software available for download; moreover, when you buy shareware or commercial title, in many cases you can download the full version right off the web (or acquire an unlock code that turns your demo into a full featured software). Even more, many of so-called shareware titles are already available for you for purchase on a CD (eSellerate CD fulfullment for example).
Second, Shareware titles no longer rely on word-of-mouth implicitely. Many of the shareware publishers now spend thousands of dollars on advertising on the Web sites and magazines. How is that different from "commercial" titles?
Third, many shareware publishers do have their own support help desk team who handles customer support.
Fourth, the days when shareware titles were a little pieces of code doing some small things are over. There are plenty of Shareware titles out there that provide features sufficient for a full-featured, commercial applications.
So I think it is time to rethink our vision of this world and get rid of the Shareware and Commercial distinction. Shareware existed a few years ago, and now has merged with other types of software distribution. I think we all have to realize that we sell and buy software, and not "shareware", "nagware", "commercial" and so on. Sites listing updates such as MacUpdate and VersionTracker have to get rid of that stupid "License" field. Just leave the "Price" field and put the price in it, or "free" if it is a free software.
And honestly, no matter what we call it, the important thing is that all of us benefit: publishers develop and sell excellent software, and users enjoy using it. Let's focus on making the software great and nice, and do not waste time thinking how should we call it - shareware or commercial. It doesn't matter, as long as your stuff is worth buying.
So, I was skiing yesterday for the whole day, and I barely can walk today (gotta exersize more often!). What a good reason to sit down and work.
We're almost ready with a major FruitMenu release due early next week, and I am going to make sure everything is in order and works as expected in the final candidate build. Other than that, a few other exciting and semi-exciting things might be coming down the pipe in the coming month, so be prepared! ;)
Well, I guess my digital lifestyle is pretty much feature-complete. Today, I got an iPod (20 Gb kind) and these weird SoundSticks w/iSub speakers. I still have little clue of what to do with iPod, but I had an opportunity to get it cheap, so I got it. Speaking of iPod, disappointing is that it doesn't supports cyrillic ID3 tags, so half of the songs in my library are listed as spaces. Not nice.
And SoundSticks, I actually quite like them, despite what I have heard from many people (bad sound output, blah blah). Sure, you wouldn't host a party off these sticks, but they work just fine shooting music at my face when I am sitting here typing in ProjectBuilder and friends. And iSub is just great, glowing in the dark like a fscking UFO.
Come on, Apple, we need new toys out soon, or I'll have to buy one of these Xserve RAIDs...
I love glazed donuts. Whoever invented them deserves a reward.
Undercooked are the best...you know the ones. You're at your favorite donut spot, and you can see them from 50 feet away. They're a light golden color! Your heart (or is it your stomach?...nah, gotta be your heart...stomachs leaping is a badThingTM) leaps within you and you rush over and buy a dozen just to show them your support for the perfect level of golden-ness.
Mmm...so tasty. Homer knows what I'm talking about.
For the record, Krispy Kreme glazed donuts don't do it for me.
Ahh, come on Apple! Another time I install an OS update (10.2.4 in this case), and another time the "dock fixup" script in the updater adds Mail.app, Address Book.app and Sherlock.app in my Dock. Sure, it only takes a second to drag them out again (I don't use them that often to keep them in the Dock), but please, let me decide what I want to have in my Dock.
This will be a short post but I've yet to ever see a fast Cocoa application especially when compared to a carbon one. I mean, *ever*. Let's make a short list. Cocoa on left, much faster carbon (or C) on right.
Mail.app vs. Entourage, Eudora, PowerMail. Especially when dealing with 5000+ messages in one mailbox.
OmniWeb vs Chimera, IE, Mozilla, Safari. OmniWeb is so very slow. Noticed how I put Chimera and Safari in the Carbon/C field. Both use Carbon and or C to render items. Just a few things (like the GUI) are Cocoa. I think Safari has a bit more Cocoa code in it but David Hyatt is working on it and causes an exception.
iPhoto vs Coffee Machine. iPhoto has been slammed over and over and over for it's slow speed especially when resizing.
iMovie 3 vs iMovie 2. Yeah, iMovie was upgraded to Cocoa recently and look what happened.
ProjectBuilder text editing vs BBEdit, CW IDE. 'Nuff said. PB's editing is so slow that it has to be a default exclusion for Silk. I guess that's what happens when you look at each typed character multiple times.
Path Finder (SNAX 2.0) vs Finder (in 10.2). Yeah, Path finder is much slower than the Finder. That's kind of depressing.
I don't mention many third party applications because I don't use many third party cocoa applications. It's just the way things fall.
And yes, Cocoa applications usually are prettier than Carbon applications. But that could be because the Carbon applications you see are made with the devil-spawn known as PowerPlant and not lovely nibs that use ATSUI and junk like that.
I've still yet to see a super fast Cocoa application. Please point one out and mention the carbon/c alternative. I've seen a bunch of fast (properly written) Carbon apps that use RAEL/CarbonEvents instead of WNE/Polling. David can attest to this I believe.
We have great news for you -- a brand new haxie available right now for your consumption! We call it Mighty Mouse. It allows you to redefine system cursors, edit them, animate them and magnify them. You can also download more cursor sets created by other users from our partner ResExcellence.
So why is this utility great and how it is different from others serving the same purpose?
First of all, it doesn't modifies any system files. This means you don't need to back up CoreGraphics.framework, you are not required to enter the administrator password, and you're saved from the whole hassle surrounding the process.
Second, it allows you to redefine more cursors - namely, Arrow, I-Beam, Wait, Small Alias, Big Alias, Small Copy, Big Copy, Move and Forbidden.
Third, you can animate any cursor you want - so you can have a cool looking animated arrow - so your Windows XP friends can finally shut up.
Fourth, who said you are limited to 16x16 cursors? Cursors can be as big as you want. Want a 128x128 animated wait cursor? No Problem.
Fifth, you can edit all the cursors right in the Mighty Mouse preference pane. Each frame of the animation can have its own alpha mask, allowing you to create beautiful animations.
Sixth, you can share the cursors you have created and download the ones other users decided to share at ResExcellence, the premiere GUI customization website.
Seventh, you can magnify the cursor so it takes more or less space on the screen - this can be very handy if you have special accessibility needs or just want your cursor be more easily locatable.
Eighth, it is only US $10, just like our other haxies. We feel this is very reasonable for the amount of features Mighty Mouse offers. Oh, and it doesn't disables any features while unregistered - it will only remind you every hour and reset the cursors to the default state, so you can fully test drive it for as long as you would like.
Give it a try and tell us what you think!
As I've mentioned before, I work for a school district near where I live. Each school in the district has one or two of "us" at their disposal. I was having a problem the other day with one of the iMacs (9.2.2) and decided to send an email out to my peers to ask for assistance.
Anyone have any idea why an iMac would see half of the printers on the network when I open the chooser one time, the other half when I open it again, and none when I open it a third time?
Also, it cannot print to any of these printers.
And some lovely responses I received.
Reason: because its a mac :)
I'm sorry i cant help, never had that problem.. nor do i know even how to go about fixing it.. maybe [another tech] knows something.
And this next one is a serious response.
There is not enough space in the Chooser Box for all printers to be displayed at once.
It's one of those things!
Finally...
Sounds like it's dying a slow death. Kick the imac out the door. Did I just say that???
I did of course get some very good responses. One saying they had the exact same problem and suggested it might be the T1 line. His problem was also that email (via outlook client) was extremely slow. Same at my school! Another one mentioned the Cat 5 cable may be "cut" somewhere (very possible). And finally, someone suggested setting TCP/IP to always loaded. I haven't had a chance to try the uhm... responses I didn't paste word for word from their email yet.
I decided to walk to Taco Bell today since I live about 1/2 a mile from one and got hungry. It's seeking a horrible vengeance as I write this. Anyways, on my way there I was listening to Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous by Good Charlotte. While I'm listening to it, a limo pulls up beside me and stops at the red light. I couldn't help but laugh because of the sheer irony of the situation. This is even more ironic if you know the words to the song (the OJ Simpson part was playing). I was trying to laugh towards the direction of the person riding in the limo but I didn't know if anyone was in it.
This has been a completely pointless post.
I keep getting asked over and over again how to make AppleEvents from lame AppleScripts. Might as well post it here because it's easier. This assumes you have the cocoa version of Script editor. Special thanks to George Warner, as always.
Save the below code to a file, I named mine "AEDesc"
define aedesc
call (void *) malloc(4)
set $aed_malloc=$
call (long) AEPrintDescToHandle($arg0, $aed_malloc)
if $ == 0
printf "desc @ %p = {\n type = '%.4s'\n storage (%p) = %s\n}\n", \
$arg0, $arg0, ((long *) $arg0)[1], **(char ***) $aed_malloc
call (void) DisposeHandle(*(char ***) $aed_malloc)
else
printf "aedesc failed: error %d.\n", $
end
call (void) free($aed_malloc)
end
Then in the terminal type:
gdb /Applications/AppleScript/Script\ Editor.app/Contents/MacOS/Script\ Editor fut AESend source <path/to/file/with/below/code> run
Then run your script in the Script Editor and hit run. I'll use this script as an example:
tell application "iTunes" get name end tell
When it breaks, type:
aedesc $r3
This will print out your AppleEvent. It should look something like this:
core\getd{ ----:obj { form:'prop', want:'prop', seld:'pnam', from:'null'() }, &csig:65536 }
If you get something else, just continue until you get the correct output.
Now that we have the correct call we need to convert it into a real AppleEvent using AEBuildAppleEvent()
ProcessSerialNumber psn; //psn of target app, it's your business to get it.
AppleEvent event={typeNull,0};
AEBuildError error;
NSString* sendString=@"'----':obj { form:'prop', want:type('prop'), seld:type('pnam'), from:'null'() }";
OSStatus err = AEBuildAppleEvent('core', 'getd', typeProcessSerialNumber,
psn, sizeof(ProcessSerialNumber), kAutoGenerateReturnID, kAnyTransactionID,
&event, &error, [sendString lossyCString]);
if (err) // print the error and where it occurs
{
NSLog(@"%d:%d at \"%@\"",error.fError,error.fErrorPos,
[sendString substringToIndex:error.fErrorPos]);
}
else
{
AppleEvent reply;
err=AESend(&event,&reply,kAEWaitReply,kAENormalPriority,kAEDefaultTimeout,NULL,NULL);
AEDisposeDesc(&event); // we must dispose of this and the reply.
if (!err)
{
// do something to get reply.
}
}
That's pretty much all there is to it.
Today I enabled IPv6 as described @ http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/000831. Fun. What's interesting is that tracerouting to one of the IRC servers supporting both IPv4 and IPv6, I get way different results:
traceroute6 calvino.freenode.net results in 4 hops;
traceroute calvino.freenode.net results in 19 hops.
Interesting.
Well, I never posted random IRC chat quotes here. It might be a good thing, it might be a bad thing (I think it's a good thing), but either way, here you go:
<rudy_tipb> url, 10485760*0.94527363184
<url> 9911912.4378026
<funcker> wow, cool. you're using a computer that can do gigaflops of computations per second ... as a dumb terminal, connecting to a server on the internet, talking to a script running on another computer many miles from you, to do simple arithmetic.
<funcker> better still, the query and the results are both splatted across the net via unicast to 50 different people who don't care
* rudy_tipb punches drew in the arm
<iPXR> and better than that, drew, you're using an even more powerful machine, running enormous beautiful dual displays, as a dumb terminal running irc to make sarcastic remarks to rudy
What is even worse, I just made even more traffic with the above quote, effectively increasing the universe entropy and the Net latency.
Other than working at Unsanity, I also work at a local school district. This school district is replacing all their Macs with PCs, Dells in particular. That's not the point of this "rant" though.
I've probably opened about 30 or so Dell boxes and all of them have a nasty smell like someone stepped in something. Normally, this doesn't bother me since I am around students but a teacher here just got a new Dell. Why is this odd? He developed a rash on his arm shortly after opening it. When he went to sleep that night, his rash got "hot". I described these symptoms to the school nurse, when I was setting up her new Dell, and she thought it might be related to a latex allergy.
Does anyone know if that smell might be related to latex? If it is, why is Dell using it? Latex allergies can be fatal.
I'm on the phone right now to Dell to try to find out more.
Some of people in my iChat's buddy list have to be careful about some of the apps they are using if they are using David's excellent iChatStatus application. ;)
