SchizophrenicMC

Bright colors on a sports car are about a third as cliche as satin graphite on a high-end European car at this point.

I wasn't aware we were already building the Kennedy. Interesting.

If Toyota introduces it to forced-induction, it might gain my interest. I'll take a new MX-5 over an FR-S/BRZ though.

For some snap-oversteer goodness.

Just gonna jump on this: AW11s really gave the concept of snap-oversteer a lot of misunderstanding. People jumped to assume it was the mid-engine layout, when the real cause was the tiny wheelbase combined with a bad rear suspension design. Shift the weight forward while the suspension is loaded on one side, the geometry will change and start the rear wheels moving the other direction, and now your weight is shifted off the rear axle and you start coming around. Pair that with the puny wheelbase that doesn't resist change in direction and you become oncoming traffic. The SW20 and W30 didn't have nearly the same problem with snap oversteer, thanks to longer wheelbases and more advanced suspension dynamics. On the other hand, the FC RX-7 had a tendency for it, thanks to some unwanted effects in its Dynamic Tracking Suspension System, and it was front-mid engine.

This is the hidden secret power of the 240SX: the wheelbase is longer than the car's apparent size would make you guess. It's a very stable thing that resists rotating about its center of mass. Which is ultimately why it's won over the drift crowd so hard: the long wheelbase makes it the easy mode of the sport. Now I've gone and depressed myself.

Anyway yeah, the Celica. Silly Toyota. Doing it as a Scion was their first mistake. Now it's too late to call it Celica and save their brand. And yeah, it doesn't provide much of a proposition against alternatives like the new Miata, or the old Miata, or any of the other cars in this price segment that have the thing the FR-BZQTF68 doesn't: power. I haven't driven an NC or an ND long enough to say "you know, this could use more power." I've got more seat time in those cars combined than I do in a Subuyota. And frankly my immediate impressions were "this sounds like hell" and "why aren't I going anywhere?". The S13 may be objectively slower, but even the friends I have who drive much faster cars agree: it gives the feeling of speed. The FR-S doesn't do that, and if it can't do that, the least it can do is have enough power to actually have some speed.

Toyota's moving to Dallas. I wonder what that'll do for the local scene.

I wonder how many bothans died to bring us this information.

Get an FR-S and put Celica badges on it. That's what that car is, really.

Who cares? The vast majority of SW fans do not follow the show and are completely ignorant of the stories being told in it. Hell, almost all of the SW fans I know haven't even watched the prequels in over a decade. This stuff just isn't relevant.

The majority of people who have seen Star Wars may not, but the people who watch the show are the people who watch the show. You dig? If you only watch the movies, that's fine, they're very well self-contained. But if you're into the greater franchise as a whole, well, you probably give a damn about things like Maul being in TCW and so on.

Ouch. That really sucks, man. Having to mess with serious IT-related issues at home is a definite drag.

You mentioned before that you were looking to modernize your hardware and get the system back up to speed. When were you thinking of upgrading? Later this year? If you can't get your old system limping again, how much of a wrench does that put into your schedule?

The original plan was to wait until Q4 this year to make the move to Skylake. I have a lot of other projects going on this year, and I was hoping to have enough of that knocked out to afford my Skylake build around November. As it is now, I'm struggling to get either of my secondary hard drives (which are frankly the important ones) to spin up. Both the drives are fine, but between them and the memory issue, and the fact that the problem persists regardless of whether I'm in Windows, LiveCD, or an old Ubuntu 12.04 livedisk I keep around specifically for data recovery after Windows stops running drives*, I suspect my motherboard is dying to death. Which sucks because the last thing I want to do is spend money on a junk triple channel Bloomfield motherboard. But all the same I can't much afford the $800 or so I planned on dumping into my new build right now.

*Windows 7 is really aggressive about turning off disks with even a hint of something going wrong. Ubuntu 12.04 LiveCD on the other hand will read off a drive until your bearings go. Assuming it can get the drive to mount on boot, which is a problem I'm having right now. If you have a secondary that won't mount, it won't even attempt to boot. And it won't even drop me into a maintenance shell like most useful versions of Linux. But it is an improvement over Ubuntu 14, which is just all kinds of broken.

What bothers me is that the concept of having "stolen" someone's culture/language is a relatively recent phenomenon that appears to be occurring in only one English speaking country. Is it the Politically Correct phenomenon rearing its head again?

It's this SJW concept of "cultural appropriation". Pay it no mind. Lots of words have their origin in foreign languages, but nobody thinks about it. Tycoon, honcho, skosh, karaoke, soy, and rickshaw for example, just to name a few from Japanese alone. It's just hip to be down on Anglophones these days.

Why would a blatant admin command be available to a regular user and not locked behind sudo? I think the crux of what gets people frustrated with Linux is that the use model is different. Windows assumes many things, including basic configuration settings and has a well-developed GUI. Linux does not assume as much, depending on which distro your using, and that can get a person into trouble because a GUI may or may not be available to set up the system.

You keep bringing up Red Hat. I guess you mean Red Hat Enterprise Linux and not Fedora. The rm -rF thing may have been a joke, but the point is valid. A Linux newbie would not be familiar with the command line and should not have access to wipe root.

What you think every idiot with an idea for a business and enough income to rent a server can afford to pay a sysadmin? Pah! It's not our problem if a customer runs commands they're not supposed to run, but I'm not joking when I say it's happened enough times to destroy my faith in the notion of Linux users being tech savvy. Linux is (usually) free, any idiot can play with it, and destroy all of their business-critical data.

And yes, I mean RHEL. We stopped supporting Fedora recently, on account of it didn't make sense to have it in a lineup that already included CentOS and RHEL.

Anyway moving on, I had a helluva time getting my machine working yesterday after some updates installed and probably finally killed some stuff on my chipset. Stupid Bloomfield and its triple-channel BS. So anyway now I'm down to 4GB (any more and it won't boot anything) and one of my hard drives is no longer being recognized in either OS I have readily available for boot. I do not have the budget for this nonsense. What a bad time for this to happen. How very inopportune.

But,

They both walked away from the fight. As I pointed out earlier, Filoni claims it is open to interpretation, but Ahsoka is clearly seen walking down into the temple just after we see the "Owl" thing fly away. No interpretation necessary. If we didn't see her I could buy that, but that is not the case here.

Chris

But Windows does not work in all cases. You guys must have your rose colored glasses on, or maybe you're lucky enough to have never encountered a blue screen (but I seriously doubt it). Windows can be brought to a halt just as easily as any other OS. Use what you are comfortable with, especially if it is your home desktop.

I work with hardware designers. The team I work with uses multiple operating systems and we have to test and document the software that they code on these systems. No one system is better than any other, really. They are all equally frustrating/helpful at times. The thing is, you can't go to a customer and say the OS is to blame when there is a bug.

*sigh*

As usual, it comes down to personal preferance, and not who has the most clever hyperbole or snark.

Windows is incredibly stable. Windows Server is more stable than it has any right to be. And I work with a LOT of different server configs, ranging from 10 year old Opterons with 1GB of RAM and unspeakably small drive volumes, to brand new 4-proc boxes with hundreds of gigs of memory, terabytes upon terabytes of storage, twin K80 GPUs, and everything in between. The one overarching fact in all of this is, the Windows boxes have the fewest issues. The only OS-specific issues with Windows boxes occur with some particular Win2003 servers that crash due to some paging issues. I can't tell you how many times I have to fix Linux boxes because the customer's idiot sysadmin messed around with their SWAP partition too much.

Or the number of times a customer took /b/'s advice and ran

rm -rf /

At least Windows is smart enough to stop deleting things before it kills itself.

But even excusing that, Linux is so unstable. For example, Ubuntu Server likes to set ACPI to off when it boots for some reason, and if you do that on a server with a GPU, the box will do some really funny stuff and cause kernel panic at best, total system lockup at worst. And there are so many stupid things that cause kernel panics. Had a server kernel panic because its RAID card stopped passing on information about a pair of secondary JBODs, neither of which contained anything necessary for booting, because Linux wants to mount every drive in fstab without regard to whether it's there or not. If it was Windows, it'd boot and you just wouldn't have those drive letters available. People love to talk about BSODs, but that's because BSOD is a lot more dramatic sounding and looking than kernel panic. And BSODs are usually hardware issues (RAM is easily 99% of what I've encountered), but most kernel panics I deal with have to do with Linux needing considerable tuning to stabilize on a given config. Plus Windows has a lot of generic driver support, and runs user-installed drivers in userspace. Ubuntu runs it at root level, which causes your OS to stop working completely when you install CUDA drivers but have a GRID GPU.

And then you get payware Linux like RedHat, like what's the point of that? For that matter, cPanel/WHM. And why does Ubuntu take so long to boot? I'll grant that most Linux is super light and boots faster than most Windows, but Ubuntu will just sit and sit and sit and sit. Ubuntu Desktop is almost usable, but Ubuntu Server is super AIDS. Shattered platters are better for your machine than Ubuntu.

God I hate Ubuntu.

The best way to fix a P&W. Remove from aircraft and replace with a GE......end of problem.

QFT

WHY ALWAYS P BANDAI?

I do want that new MG Freedom though.

looks ugly. Elon Musk is still an a-hole.

Thank you for summing up how I feel about the car in few enough words to keep me out of trouble.

I have seen them in my local Hobbytown USA, branded as Star Blazers merch. Local Hobbytown does a lot of Bandai import, but you never get Macross or Star Wars stuff because of licensing rules that keep it out. Additionally, I don't think we have any Yamato 2199 stuff, just SB2199.

For a cheap CAS aircraft, why can't the USAF just buy off the shelf designs such as the OV-10X, T-6C or Super Tucano? These are designs that are good for low-intensity conflicts, such as counterinsurgency missions like those done by the OV-10 in the Philippines.

F-35 already swallowed the budget whole.

I work with various Linux distros professionally. CentOS is the only one that isn't complete pain. RedHat is the nonsense payware version of Cent, BSD makes no sense at all, Debian sucks, Ubuntu is the software equivalent of cancer, I'm not even sure what CloudLinux is (I think it might be based on the Cent kernel?) and I was so glad when we dropped Fedora support. And even Cent, which I typically don't mind, becomes an epic pain when paired with cPanel/WHM.

Say what you will about Windows, at least WinServer just kind of *works*.

Oh, and what's with

Vader fighting with both hands on his lightsaber? Where is his arrogance and the confidence he usually shows in his one-handed dueling style?

That and they probably determined there would be more interest in a branded Yamato release, than a halfhearted re-sub to reflect the naming of stuff within a Star Blazers context. Which means ultimately we did get a Yamato 2199 release. (And some officially licensed merchandise)

Better than Harmony Gold could have pulled off, if there was a hypothetical Macross 2009. They would have tried and failed to make a Robotech release and then dropped the project and tightened licensing and import restrictions again.

Disappointing, like the rest of Rebels.

I get it that this stuff works with kids, but it's a poor piece of fanfiction being passed off as Star Wars canon.

I agree for the most part, but it was still satisfying to see so many things get tied up into one big crazy knot. Especially the Ahsoka-Vader stuff. And, was it just me, or did they really step up the facial animation a notch for that climax scene?

You're entitled to your opinion. You are not, however, entitled to be right. And that's all I will say on the matter.

> changing some of the dialogue in subtitles to match the Star Blazers mythos (Argo, anyone?)

Other than the title being changed to Star Blazers 2199 nothing was changed in the subtitles, there is no Argo, or WIldstar, or Venture, or Nova, etc... in SB 2199.

It may have been a tentative change that was cut before production, but in the initial trailer, references to Yamato were replaced with Argo, and the Star Blazers spelling of Gamilas was used. I admittedly didn't watch the official release, because reasons.

Finally, a good episode of Rebels. How great to finally see all of these characters come together like this. The stakes were so high!

Pretty much. I don't think they've put out any press information since like summer 2014. They may or may not have completed the Star Blazers 2199 release- they certainly stuck around long enough to get a lot of the Bandai merch branded Star Blazers outside of Japan- but even the SB2199 release was half-assed. It didn't stay full Yamato, changing some of the dialogue in subtitles to match the Star Blazers mythos (Argo, anyone?), but it also didn't go full Star Blazers. ie no Wildstar.

The anime pioneers of the 70s and 80s are really a double-edged bunch. On the one hand, they all suck. They either grub on the licensing and refuse to release stuff that doesn't fit the narrative they had to make to get this stuff to fly outside of Japan in its day, or they make halfhearted attempts to cash cow on whatever new stuff gets released. On the other hand, if it weren't for Harmony Gold, Voyager, and company, a whole segment of this industry wouldn't have come about. Or at least, it would have done so a lot later, with greatly different cultural effects. I mean, you know, you've got a fair amount of 70s kids who remember watching Star Blazers and Robotech, but that set the stage for a whole generation raised on Gundam, Pokemon, and Dragonball Z. So much so, I know maybe 4 people who can recall Robotech and Star Blazers. Literally everyone I know between the ages of 20 and 30, is familiar with Pokemon and Dragonball Z. That kind of spells both the expansion of the industry, and what's possible if you know how to license and market a damn release. I wouldn't exactly call Pokemon groundbreaking storytelling.

So, given the track record we've seen from Voyager, I don't expect we'll get an official subtitled Yamato release, and it's similarly unlikely we'll get an official 2202 release. Sucks. If they'd sell the licensing to Funimation or Sentai or any of the other companies (not ADV) in the industry today, they'd probably make out better on the cash-out than they are now, and we'd get competent legitimate releases of good media. Look at Gundam right? We're finally getting ZZ (we're finally getting ZZ...) thanks to that.

I hope the success of the new show eventually makes way for a subtitled release of the original anime at some point, but I don't know if the original Yamato has any licensing issues like the original Macross.

Anyway, the really nice thing about the original Yamato, as noted before, is that you will see a different telling of the story than what was told in 2199. I agree that the original story is dated in parts, but it is still fun in its own right. If you want better production values, I can recommend the first two movies too. Alas, I have yet to see Be Forever Yamato.

Macross has Robotech and Harmony Gold, Yamato has Star Blazers and Voyager Entertainment. On the upside, Voyager has played a bit looser with the licensing for Yamato, and even released Star Blazers 2199 with only minor changes in the subtitles. On the downside, they haven't really done anything comprehensive to bring the Yamato franchise to North America (I don't actually know what their deal is outside of North America) as anything but Star Blazers.

If they pick up 2202, we might see enough renewed interest to license and subtitle some of the original stuff. Probably not.