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New gang fromed at American electronics retailer Best Buy. They dress scrawny FBI agents and drive VW beetles with the GS logo on the side. If you work at Circuit City these thugs will vandalize the store and you.
Customer: Oh my god are you okay?!
Circuit City Employye: Hell no bitch! I just got jacked by these Geek Squad guys. They raped my ass!
Circuit City Employye: Hell no bitch! I just got jacked by these Geek Squad guys. They raped my ass!
by Karate Jesus
October 26, 2004
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A small computer tech store based in Minnesota that was bought by Best Buy. You can now find the Geek Squad in all Best Buy stores. If you wish to find one he or she will be wearing a white shirt, black slacks, and a tie with a Geek Squad Pin on it. With their supreme 1337-ness a Geek Squad agent will be able assist a customer with any computer crisis. Do not attempt to go to circuit city for a computer problem as they are too busy picking eachother's butts.
ohnoes my megahurtz they haev been ST0LED!!1!one! Haxx0rz gotted them!Call teh GEEK SQUAD!
by Xx|Phantom|xX
April 27, 2005
The laughing stock of businesses in the PC world. Run by a bunch of idiots reading off Microsoft's website. Charging a whooping $90 for a simple harddrive format(no joke). Rivaled by Alienware as the biggest bunch of liars and scammers under the sun who claim to fix any problem but can't tell a graphics card from a sound card. Employees consist of 22-27 year old dropout losers who claim to be smart with PCs but in reality have as much knowledge as a pile of dogshit. Merged with Best Buy recently to become one ultimate corporate fuckstick. If you use Geek Squad you are a fucking idiot who doesn't deserve a PC and sucks major amounts of corporate dick.
Bringing your PC in to Geek Squad is the equivalent of getting your car repaired at a dealership.
See also: Crock of shit, scam, waste of money.
Bringing your PC in to Geek Squad is the equivalent of getting your car repaired at a dealership.
See also: Crock of shit, scam, waste of money.
The very fact that the Geek Squad has been in business all these years really scares me and makes me wonder how many stupid people are actually out in this world.
by fuck you asshole
May 06, 2007
A group of retarded monkeys that work at best buy thinking they can fix computers but in all reality is screw them up worse then they really are.
Geek squad: Heres your computer mam
Customer: Is if fixed?
Geek Squad: I dont know there wasnt a bannana in it
Customer: WTF?!
Customer: Is if fixed?
Geek Squad: I dont know there wasnt a bannana in it
Customer: WTF?!
by Fresh Like Mike jones
March 01, 2008
Geek Squad is the biggest bunch of assclowns under the sun. They think that the are the end-all be-all of anything regarding computers. They think that a week long course in pressing "ctrl+alt+delete" enables them to be elitist losers. Stay away from them at all cost.
My computer was broken, so I sent it to Geek Squad. Now it is a smoldering pile of rubble.
by Robbo15
January 06, 2006
A group of friends that get together to do coke every night.
Me and the geek squad blasted mad last night.
by ohohohohohohoh
May 03, 2007
Someone who works at Best Buy, drives around in the homomobile and is proud of it because he thinks it's cool and get's chicks but in reality has barely enough game to have sex with his hands.
also see fudgepacker
also see fudgepacker
Isn't that that bitch Karl we used to beat up in high school, yep and he is still a bitch, he works for Geek Squad.
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the simplest thing that could possibly work -- it's a phrase held dearly to all agile developers, but it's also a common source of disagreement. I recently saw two different interpretations of the phrase that I considered to be worth sharing.
Often the emphasis of the phrase is like so: the simplest thing that could possibly work. However, recently Ian Robinson was discussing the idea that the emphasis should be: the simplest thing that could possibly work. The difference is only emphasis, but it's a change worth considering.
I was also part of a discussion the other day where a developer was following a pattern correctly, but it was causing us to add a significant amount of additional code. This code would have supported several features that seemed nice to us, but our domain expert hadn't asked for any of those features. I would have been happy to go along if there was a small amount of code or if the nice features were on our roadmap, but neither of those things were true. I began to advocate for breaking the pattern and doing only what we needed to do. It allowed us to delete ~60% of the code we were currently working with.
At first the developer said "this is where we're going to disagree on the simplest thing that could possibly work." He argued that we were backing ourselves into a corner by not following the pattern; therefore, what I was suggesting couldn't possibly work. I took a few moments to consider his point of view. I concluded that he might be right, but deleting 60% of the code we were currently working with meant that the remaining 40% was so small that if we did need to rewrite in the future it would actually be easier than the amount of effort required to maintain the prematurely put in place architecture.
I believe there are occasions where the simplest thing that could possibly work is writing 10 lines of code today that do what you need, and deleting them tomorrow in light of new requirements.
There are, of course, a few caveats. I had been pairing with the developer for about 4 hours and was able to accurately assess what the difference actually was between what we were doing and what we could be doing. Once we both saw how much effort it was to follow the pattern, it was easy for us to trim to the simpler version. I think it would have been more painful to speculate on the pattern implementation effort, and we may not have agreed on the outcome.
Also, painting yourself into a corner when you can jump over the paint is fine, but if someone else keeps painting on the other side, you may not be able to get out. The small amount of code that we wrote can be rewritten in about an hour, but if someone else was going to add to that code then we would have probably gone down the more complicated path. No one was building on our code so we weren't as worried about the foundation we put in place.


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Dodgers welcome Kershaw back to face Nats
Ace returns after nearly six weeks on DL; Treinen set for first start
Dodgers left-hander Clayton Kershaw comes off the disabled list on Tuesday and will start against the Nationals at Nationals Park.
He pitched for the Dodgers on Opening Day in Australia and gave up one run while earning the win against the D-backs, but he hasn't pitched since because of a muscle strain in his back. Kershaw has been on the disabled list since March 30.
Kershaw is 5-2 with a 3.18 ERA in nine career outings (eight starts) against the Nationals. Kershaw was 2-0 with a 1.15 ERA in two games against Washington last year. He fanned 20 and walked just one against the Nationals.
At the last minute, the Nationals needed a starter for Tuesday and decided to call up Blake Treinen, who made a great impression during Spring Training.
In four starts, he allowed two earned runs in 11 2/3 innings. This will be Treinen's second trip to the big leagues and his first career start. In April, he allowed a run in 6 2/3 innings.
At Triple-A Syracuse, Treinen allowed two earned runs in 11 1/3 innings.
"Treinen will start the game for us, hopefully will go deep into it," manager Matt Williams said. "Blake has been starting and he has been in that regular rotation. We certainly wanted to stay away from [Craig] Stammen as much as possible."
To make room for Treinen, the Nationals sent reliever Ryan Mattheus to Triple-A Syracuse.
Dodgers: Could Greinke start sooner?
Right-hander Zack Greinke pitched just three innings in Monday's 4-0 loss to the Nationals because of a three-hour, 17-minute rain delay. But Greinke and manager Don Mattingly will be talking about if Greinke can make his next start sooner because of the short outing.
Greinke threw just 54 pitches.
Nationals: Barrett solid in relief
Reliever Aaron Barrett has been a solid reliever ever since he joined the Nationals, allowing one run in 9 2/3 innings. He picked up his second victory of the season on Monday against the Dodgers after pitching one inning.
"[Anthony] Rendon hit the home run … Jordan [Zimmermann] pitched four great innings and the rest of the bullpen shut it down," Barrett said. "I was the next guy in line. It was a great team win."
Worth noting
• Carl Crawford's batting average jumped 25 points to .225 after his 3-for-4 effort in Monday's 4-0 loss. He singled in the third, sixth and eighth innings.
• Pedro Baez, the Dodgers' 10th-ranked prospect, made his Major League debut in Monday's game. He came on in the eighth inning and pitched one inning, giving up two hits and two runs, both coming on Danny Espinosa's homer. He struck out two.
• Dodgers reliever Chris Withrow saw his ERA slide down to 0.61 with his scoreless sixth inning Monday night. He's allowed just one earned run in 14 2/3 innings this season.
• Nationals center fielder Denard Span had three hits and saw his batting average go up to .252.
• Left-hander Jerry Blevins has been a solid reliever for the Nationals, allowing five runs in 15 innings with 19 strikeouts.
Bill Ladson is a reporter for MLB.com and writes an MLBlog, All Nats All the time. He also can be found on Twitter @WashingNats. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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I'm thinking, Brenda... Are pringles cans waterproof on the inside?
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I've had some success teaching the concept of cohesion using an unusual approach that exploits the word's etymology. I know that sounds unlikely, but bear with me. In my experience, it seems to register well with people.
Cohesion comes from the same root word that "adhesion" comes from. It's a word about sticking. When something adheres to something else (when it's adhesive, in other words) it's a one-sided, external thing: something (like glue) is sticking one thing to another. Things that are cohesive, on the other hand, naturally stick to each other because they are of like kind, or because they fit so well together. Duct tape adheres to things because it's sticky, not because it necessarily has anything in common with them. But two lumps of clay will cohere when you put them together, and matched, well-machined parts sometimes seem to cohere because the fit is so precise. Adhesion is one thing sticking to another; cohesion is a mutual relationship, with two things sticking together.
This is also why we refer to a sound line of reasoning, for example, as coherent. The thoughts fit, they go together, they relate to each other. This is exactly the characteristic of a class that makes it coherent: the pieces all seem to be related, they seem to belong together, and it would feel somewhat unnatural (it would result in tight coupling!) to pull them apart. Such a class exhibits cohesion. No glue is required, you don't have to build extra code to make the pieces fit together; the pieces hang together naturally because they're closely related. In contrast, sometimes a class will seem to have its fingers in way too many parts of your system. Such a class is adhesive, and that's not what we're looking for.
And whereas coherent means things fit well together, we use the word "adherent" to refer to a follower, and there's a connotation that the follower isn't necessarily wanted: a hanger-on.
There's another common word that stems from the same root: "inherent". Something that adheres sticks to something else, and two things that are coherent mutually stick to each other, but something that is inherent isn't stuck to something so much as it's embedded: it is an integral part of the other thing, tightly and inextricably bound. Although you don't hear them very often, the two sister words "inhere" and "inhesion" are real words, as well.
So cohesion/cohesive/coherent occupy the middle territory between the sort of arbitrary, forced relationship of adhesion/adhesive/adherent and the integral, unbreakable relationship of inhesion/inhesive/inherent. That mental picture often helps me make wise decisions when I'm designing and refactoring. I want to build classes that are cohesive, not adhesive.
Michael writes, "For years, in the software industry, we've made the assumption that some language features are just too powerful for the typical developer—too prone to misuse." I've heard that argument many, many times, from people I strongly respect. And for a long time I believed it. For several years after I became enthusiastic about Ruby, I worked in places where most of the developers were typical, average programmers, and I refrained from really pushing Ruby in those environments because I thought Ruby was too powerful for them.
Then, a few years ago, I spent some time in a role where I was doing architectural reviews of IT projects (mostly Java projects). And one day I came to a shocking realization: there's no way those projects could have been screwed up any worse if they had been written in Ruby.
What was alarming and depressing about those Java projects I was reviewing was not that they were poorly designed. I expected that; design is, after all, difficult. No, the surprising thing was that somehow, against all odds, the developers had managed to wrestle these monstrous designs over the finish line. The sheer dogged determination it took to do so was impressive and horrifying. I would have given up in despair long before.
The experience taught me a valuable lesson:
Weak developers will move heaven and earth to do the wrong thing. You can't limit the damage they do by locking up the sharp tools. They'll just swing the blunt tools harder.
I've been working full-time in Ruby now for almost four years. Everything I've seen while working on Ruby projects confirms what I realized back then, and it matches what Michael wrote about the ethic of responsibility that a powerful language like Ruby fosters. Ruby isn't a panacea. The weak developers will wreak havoc in Ruby projects as well. But I think Ruby also makes it more difficult to hide from those mistakes without learning something from them. Yes, many Ruby projects have design weaknesses, but the usual standard is better than what I've seen in other languages, not worse.
If you want your team to produce great work and take responsibility for their decisions, give them powerful tools.
Like Chad, I think MagLev's initial performance numbers will hold up. It's possible that as it matures it will get slower, but it could get a lot slower than it is now and still easily be the fastest Ruby VM around.
And I agree with Chad that it might even get faster. I've also spent some time investigating how to make Ruby run on a Smalltalk VM, and it's a really close fit. During the presentation at RailsConf, either Avi or the Gemstone guys revealed that they had modified their Smalltalk VM by adding two new bytecodes aimed at Ruby. I'll go so far as to speculate: it's likely that those two bytecodes deal with variadic methods and creation/lookup of dynamic instance variables. It sounds as though the core Ruby language is nearly complete on top of that base, so it's easy to imagine that the early, hurried implementation of those two new bytecodes could be optimized further. And some of the Ruby features that have hurt JRuby's performance will be no problem on a Smalltalk VM—ObjectSpace, for example, can work using the same facilities that Smalltalk's development tools use today.
The persistence story is amazing. Avi and the team at Gemstone plan to implement an interface that is similar to ActiveRecord, but cleaner, since the object/relational impedance mismatch no longer applies.
Finally, there's the question of licensing. I'll be shocked if MagLev is open-source, but I think there's room for a proprietary Ruby implementation. The team has committed to complying with RubySpec, which means I'm not very worried about compatibility. Most Ruby projects won't need MagLev, but the ones that do will gladly pay for a top-notch, supercharged implementation with great scalability and persistence stories.
I'm definitely looking forward to hearing more about MagLev over the next few months.
The story so far (for the probably 99% of my readers who don't read a lot of Smalltalk blogs): Avi and I had a discussion last year at OSCON about Ruby and Smalltalk, and Rails and Seaside. Avi was once a Ruby guy, but switched to Smalltalk (but he's still friendly to the Ruby crowd). I'm currently a Ruby and Rails guy, but I've evangelized Seaside rather extensively.
During our discussion, we talked about the different tradeoffs that the two communities make.
I related that story to Neal Ford, which helped him to understand some things he'd been wondering about, which led to these blogs. In a vastly oversimplified nutshell: Ruby has some strengths that Smalltalk is missing, because it gives you a place to put all your stuff. (Please note that this does not imply that Smalltalk is fundamentally inferior to Ruby. I believe Smalltalk, in turn, has other strengths that Ruby is missing.)
James Robertson took issue with Neal's blog, but gave no real evidence to back up his point. I was getting a bit frustrated with the "all heat and no light" nature of the discussion, until Avi saved the day by explaining the Smalltalk way of doing things.
I have to say that I think to some degree Avi confirms Neal's and my point: Ruby provides a ready-made place for stuff like "has_many", whereas in Smalltalk, to provide similar functionality while preserving the "statement of intent" (as we've been calling it) the tool has to build a place for that statement. Which is fine, but it seems to me that "to make the generated code round-trippable," as Avi says, adds extra complexity to building such tools.
Again, this is not to say that the Ruby way is necessarily superior. These different approaches reflect different tradeoffs. That's the conclusion Avi and I reached during our chat last year, and we were both happy to agree to disagree. Smalltalkers tend to prefer generating the methods directly, because that way they can get the most value out of their terrific toolset. And Alan Knight (in his comment on James' blog) definitely prefers generating the methods in-place, so that the full API will be visible to developers. We Rubyists, on the other hand, having generally crappy tools, are free to do things in a way that even rdoc doesn't understand, and I for one like the fact that all those boilerplate methods aren't physically cluttering up my source code. You pays your money and you takes your choice.
My interest in discussions like this is not to have a language war, and especially not between Smalltalk and Ruby. (There's brother against brother for you.) The point is to learn from each other and, through learning about the other, to understand more clearly the strengths of both approaches.
It's absolutely certain that the biggest factor in their early maturity as programmers is that they're just very smart guys. I'm also sure they started programming at a younger age than I did.
But Alan and I think there's a third factor: Ruby itself. Ruby helps to teach those good programming skills, and makes them easier to learn. I got the chance later to talk to Koz about it, and he enthusiastically agreed.
The first thing I said in my talk on Saturday was that Rails is like an instructional laboratory for how to build good software. I think that's the thing I like most about Rails. A big part of that is Ruby itself. Ruby, its libraries, and its documentation are filled with examples of clean, well designed code, and Ruby makes it easier than most other languages to create clean code yourself. The community values and encourages it. Ruby teaches good programming by setting the goal, lowering the barrier, and providing a lot of assistance and encouragement.
I was thrilled last year when Chris Pine's Learn to Program was published, and now _why has taken up the flag with his brilliant Hackety Hack. We should support efforts that are focused on using Ruby to teach children to program. I think it's the best way available right now to grow a generation of great programmers.
Hot on the heels of that, Chad strumming on his ukelele while Rich Kilmer gamely tried to deadpan through his introduction of David Heinemeier Hansson.
From David's RailsConf keynote: "What we want to manipulate … is people." (With a little careful editing, you can turn a harmless quote into just about anything!)
Seeing Uncle Bob speak. He's a master, and I haven't seen him speak for about three years. The talk was about clean code, and I already understood about 48 out of the 50 minutes of material he presented—but as a speaker, watching the way he presents and works the audience is always fantastic and educational. (James' photo captures the magic perfectly.)
After being online friends since sometime in 1999 (when we met on Ward's wiki), Alan Francis and I finally got to meet in person.
Another quotable moment from David (this time with no editing required) during Alan's talk: "People don't stop doing stupid things because you make fun of them once."
Being blocked out of Adam Keys' standing-room-only talk. (Not a highlight for me, but I was thrilled for Adam, and it was great to see so many people interested in such an important but underemphasized topic.)
The accordion and ukelele duet.
Avi Bryant's wondefully articulated challenge for Ruby over the next few years to work toward turtles all the way down.
Ze Frank. 'Nuff said.
My audience cheering wildly. I always thought you had to deserve something like that, but apparently you can just ask! I'll try that again sometime. (But even though I got the cheers by cheating, it was nice to know everyone was on my side. :-)
James Adam is a great speaker, and his talk on "The Dark Art of Developing Plugins" was loads of fun.
Jeff Barczewski and Deb Lewis demonstrating MasterView at the lightning talks session. Deb told me about MasterView last year at OSCON when she and Jeff had just begun working on it. MasterView is an alternative templating system for Rails that's HTML-centric, designed to allow page designers to use HTML editors like Dreamweaver within a Rails project. I was a bit skeptical of MasterView, because I'm most comfortable when the programmers are in control of HTML generation. But Deb and Jeff get it; MasterView works just like a Rails templating engine should. Reopen the page in Dreamweaver, edit things, save, and when you click refresh in the browser the changes are there. Great stuff.
The personal page editor demonstrated by the guys from Revolution Health. Impressive!
French programmer Fernand Galiana's "Pardon my French!" after he got a bit frustrated during his demo of the Mole plugin.
Rich and Marcel finally believing I wasn't a werewolf.
Charles Nutter and Tom Enebo giving some really boring demos of JRuby. Boring is great for JRuby. It's supposed to be just Ruby, on a different platform, and with Java integration that just seems natural. And it is! That was the challenge for them, to make JRuby boring, and they've done a great job.
Erik Hatcher's fantastic talk about Solr on Rails, with demos of very cool things he's doing with full-text search at the University of Virginia.
All of James' photos. He keeps getting better.
Beginning with many attendees at the Pragmatic Studio's introductory Guidebook tutorial (but continuing throughout the week), the Ruby community raised (at last count) $26,000 for some excellent causes. (Update: over $33,000!)
Finally, Dave Thomas' closing keynote was the perfect finish. Thanks so much, Dave.
But of course, at all of the really good conferences the best things happen in the halls and over lunch and dinner. I had the pleasant privilege of chatting with loads of great people—some old friends, and some new. I'm already looking forward to next year.
Tim Bray, as he so often does, nails it.
Being intentionally provocative to knock people out of old assumptions is all well and good … but even though I love Ruby, and am so glad to be working in it now after 11 years of Java, my perspective is more pragmatic.
There is no perfect world. You gain a lot by giving up static typing for dynamic typing, but you also give up some things. It's six of one, a half-dozen of the other. Or maybe 9 and 3. Whatever. Whether the tradeoff works in your favor depends on a lot of things — the kinds of systems you're building, the process and practices you use, how well you understand your domain, and other things. And folks like Tom Ball make great points when they point out some of those tradeoffs.
(Furthermore, "static typing" doesn't necessarily mean "Java-style static typing." It's just that the industry right now is all wrapped up in static typing done the wrong way, while ignoring static typing done the right way.)
In spite of all that, though, I do agree (mostly) with Neal and Stu. I, too, would rather write Ruby in vi (er … that is, emacs) than Java in IDEA.
If you're still on the fence about this, or even downright skeptical, here's my advice. Having been a static typing bigot for a very long time, I know all of the arguments from that side. I used them myself. And what I've learned is that you can't figure this out by thinking about it. There are things about dynamic programming languages — and about how programmers work in those languages, and how systems are designed in those languages — that you don't really understand until you've gained some real experience. It's the Blub paradox at work. Knowing about the flaws in the language isn't enough either. What's important is knowing when they bite you, and how badly, and what you have to do to stay clear of them. Primitive types in Java represent one of that language's worst flaws, but in my many years of Java programming I was impressed by how rarely they really got in my way. (They did get in my way, but not as much as I expected them to when I first learned Java.)
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it took me literally about 10 minutes and 15 attempts of beating the shit outa my laptop before i realized this wasn't a link to the new episode and that i was just a freeze frame pic lol.
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I want her to look as if she jumped off the screen onto my shelf with Broom. No "sexification" necessary.
"Traditional" FILMATION/COMIC stlye.
Altered to be a sexy character, as shown in some fan art.
There is a thread in the support and speculation section that asks the question of whether or not Madame Razz should come as her classic Filmation depiction or if her sex appeal should be vamped up for some reason. It seems most people are sticking with tradition but I want to put it to an official vote. I am personally biased because now that Shadow Weaver is on her way Madame Razz is my most wanted figure and I can't bear to think of her coming in any manner other than how I grew up with her! I believe most POP fans agree, but some who are not as invested in POP characters may not. We'll see!
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I want her to look as if she jumped off the screen onto my shelf with Broom. No "sexification" necessary.
Not to sound like a creepy cheerleader for Uki, but it's nice to know there is at least one person on this forum who is extremely positive & friendly all the time. I don't think I could be that nice even if you paid me. If we ever give out awards for "forum member of the month", Uki gets my vote. -Mr. Shokoti
For the first time, I don't agree with Uki.Originally Posted by Uki:2935662
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I agree. Why would they even consider changing her to make her sexy?
Same here Hek-Tor... *This is the end, my beautiful friend, the end...* LOL. Seriously, I like the sexy version of Madame Razz, such as we have seen in the fan art - looks brilliant to me. I never liked MR in PoP altogether. But to be honest, I can see no reason why they would present us with a "sexy" version, so those of you who want an exact representation should not worry at all.
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Madame Razz is sexy enough as she is!
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and I have absolutely no desire to spend a penny on a character I thoroughly despise:
I think it's only logical they should vamp her up, just like they beefed up Bow and the NA characters. She doesn't need to be a tall supermodel like the other PoP girls, she definitely deserves to be a unique sculpt, but the obnoxiously wacky grandma vibe has to go ... and I suggest replacing it with the mature sexyness from Bufallo Bill-Man's fan art.
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I really love that fan art, and I think it works (except for the eyes) but really just make her "classicized" and leave it at that. Of course I dont mean share a body with the other females.
no, no, no, hell no.
She must look Filmation, making her look "sexy" is an absolutely idiotic, terrible idea.
When it comes to She-ra Princess of Power characters, FILMATION is the way to go!.
I still don't understand why people find that art piece sexy nor do I understand why people want a grandma type character to be sexy. But I'm also confident Mattel can't and won't make a toy based on fan art. Filmation Razz (the only official/legal Razz) all of the way.
I think a lot of it has to do with views (I would have to assume mostly by men) which place no value in female characters unless they are sexy or, as one person put it, "spilling out cleavage." I certainly have nothing against cleavage but to insist that a character who has officially only ever appeared one way to be changed because she doesn't fit into the body type of a Playboy Bunny is, in my opinion, disgustingly regressive.
I went with the fan art, looks awesome.
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filmation style that how she was originally.
its kinda sexist to have all females to be sexy.
thank you.
that is something that bothers me. whenever there is a woman or female character in comics, video games, cartoons what ever that is drawn. the women almost always are made to look sexy even if they are aliens, young girls or barbarian warrior chicks. that kinda wrong. not all the male characters hold to those same standards.
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Don't you think that's quite a hypocritical thing to say about a toyline where all the men are ripped to the extreme? Where is the average joe in MOTUC? This is comic book fantasy, for Pete's sake, get over it. Besides that delightful drawing by Buffallo Bill-Man doesn't fit in the Playboy Bunny body type either, so much for your sexist allegations ...
In my opinion, Filmation Razz is a horrible eyesore and a terrible character, fortunately MOTUC has the chance to make her into something better, as simple as that (which would probably have happened anyway if she had been redesigned during 200X). If most people want to spend 30$ on an annoying granny, so be it, but I certainly won't have that rubbish anywhere near my collection.
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prob wont buy her either way...but if i had to choose 'll take the fan creation look for her.... i dont care much for any of the filmations designs at all for any character...
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Absolutley no "sexy" Madam Razz. I love the character but there isn't anything sexy about her. When her figure is released in MOTUC she should appear exactly as she did on the POP series. I like a lot of the fan art but I don't find them sexy. I mean look at her personality. Can you imagine a hot, volumptuous Madam Razz saying "Oh deary my!"? I can't.
My feedback thread:http://www.he-man.org/forums/boards/...d.php?t=204997
Give me Filmation style , Madam Razz is like a grandmother to Adora , who wants a sexy grandmother ?
Feedback Thread http://www.he-man.org/forums/boards/...d.php?t=213737
Orko. Should he be "ripped to the extreme" as well? I mean if Madame Razz is going to be sexy, then it's only fair that Orko be a beefcake. While we're at it, let's make Man-At-Arms fat, Hordak a skinny beanpole, and Frosta a female bodybuilder.Originally Posted by Crusader
It's cool if you hate the Madame Razz design from the cartoon. Not everybody likes the same things and you are totally entitled to express your desire for a redesign. The cartoon depiction of the character is THE iconic version though. She was in the opening credits of every She-Ra episode and featured prominently in the story. She's grandmotherly and very old with a matronly build. She's also scatterbrained, forgetful, wise and kindhearted. I don't get the desire to make her into a "sexy"-looking character. With MOTUC, I'm sure we'll get the cartoon-accurate version with perhaps some added details so I wouldn't hold your breath for a heavily redesigned Madame Razz. Just "managing expectations" to borrow a phrase.
Originally Posted by SwiftyThat kind of thing burns me up. I was wicked annoyed when I heard they did that to Amanda Waller in DC. So stupid. That said, I'm sure some of the folks here simply want a redesign for Razz because they don't like how she looks on the cartoon and aren't necessarily looking for a hot GMILF action figure.Originally Posted by kylun flac
Actually if it were up to me, we'd get fat Whiplash and Ram-man, both like in the 200x toon.
Also a skinny, shorter, young Adam.
When it comes to She-ra Princess of Power characters, FILMATION is the way to go!.
Filmation for me. the way it SEEMS, most people that want her sexy aren't fans of the character, so why not make the toy for the fans who want her? I mean to me it makes sense to try to get the widest audience you can, but it makes more sense to sell to those who are going to buy no matter what, not take a risk at alienating everyone.
I'm not the biggest PoP fan not a big fan of Razz but I don't hate her and would love to have a filmation style of her on the shelf. only issue is in this line which focuses hard on shared parts, will we get her at all?
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Orko is not a humanoid character, so he doesn't count and neither does Gwildor, Kowl or Loo-Kee.
It's the head that grieves me the most ... and those horrid yellow eyes. I'm fine with matronly build women and I'm not advocating to redesign Razz in order to fit the regular female buck like some other people suggested. Look closely at the fan art, the big differences are in the texturing/details of the dress and the head, the bodytype itself is not all that different, only slightly more elegant. I'm sure the Horsemen could work out a satisfying solution for everyone if they would be allowed to include a second non-Filmation head and maybe some optional costume enhancements. It could be a younger version of Madame Razz before Time ravaged her looks and turned her into the gruesome old Filmation tart you all seem to love so passionately.That said, I'm sure some of the folks here simply want a redesign for Razz because they don't like how she looks on the cartoon and aren't necessarily looking for a hot GMILF action figure.
I'd be all for that as well. Ram Man and Whiplash could use some girth. But even though they are heavy dudes, they are not just fat ... look at those bulging muscles on 200X Ram Man, he's not a gluttonous pig like chef Allen.
Well, those who are going to buy no matter what are the subscription holders, not the ardent Madame Razz fan club
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I'm a subbed and fan of Razz as is. I love the fan art-don't get me wrong! I just don't see Mattel altering her much from her toon appearance. Shoot, go ahead and sign me up for a younger Razz from Pretheria though!
Not to sound like a creepy cheerleader for Uki, but it's nice to know there is at least one person on this forum who is extremely positive & friendly all the time. I don't think I could be that nice even if you paid me. If we ever give out awards for "forum member of the month", Uki gets my vote. -Mr. Shokoti
Whiplash doesn't just have some girth, he is definitely fat in the 200X toon, he has the same build as broadway from gargoyles, they look very similar in many ways, and if broadway's diet is of any indication, then we could fill in the gaps and say that Whplash eats a lot too.
He could get away with not having defined muscles, I wouldn't object that a tall, fat orc-looking alien with a trashing tail is dangerous, defined muscles or not.
But I prefer him having muscles, like in the cartoon.
When it comes to She-ra Princess of Power characters, FILMATION is the way to go!.
i hate the look of her. anything would be better.
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What exactly is mp4-decoding compared to h264 decoding?
Phoronix: NVIDIA VDPAU Reference Benchmarks
At the request of Phoronix readers curious about the NVIDIA VDPAU performance between different GeForce graphics cards, here are some results.
What exactly is mp4-decoding compared to h264 decoding?
Any benchmarks using the VDPAU state tracker with mesa on r300, r600 & nouveue?
Would be interesting to see how this is progressing - even if it's only mpeg2
Can anyone offer any incite as to why VC-1 takes such a dive on newer hardware?
That would seem like a pretty serious regression to me, given the difference over other decoding tests.
Is it failing to decode via VDPAU and falling back to the CPU?
It would have been nice to spend a little more time looking into the reason behind it, Michael.
Those 3 cards which are faster use VP2. This version could not fully accelerate VC-1 on the gpu, in particular the bitstream decode is done on the cpu. I bet that's the reason, give it a slow cpu and things won't look so rosy :-).
Plus I'm not sure it would make even sense to have faster VC-1 acceleration, no idea if higher resolutions / multistream etc. are needed somewhere (this might be the reason why the gt2xx are a bit faster there than the later ones).
The Keppler generation is supposed to accelerate 4K video. Any chance you could test that? From the speed of the X.264 1080p decode, it looks like playing 2160p30 video might be 'iffy'. Then again, not everything needs to scale up 4x.
I might need to go test a few different members of my nVidia card collection to see what there is to see. I have a 1x G210 that might be interesting to compare to a 16x G210. Hmmm, I think I have an identical 16x G210 to the one I cut down to make the 1x.
The VC1 speed is faster with older cards because the cpu is very fast. Do the same benchmark with an atom cpu and things would be reversed. Due to a bug in the chip partly VC1 is software rendered. One other thing you don't see in those benchmarks is that accelleration depends on the video size, the older chips can not accellerate all res which are used in the web using flash.
Unfortunately, this test contains no information that are actually of interest for what VDPAU matters: HTPC users.
All those figures are useless. They only show that all cards are fast enough to decode data. No one really care that it can decode data a 400 frame per second, when all you will ever need at the most is 60 fps.
As far as VDPAU is concerned , any VDPAU cards ever released, including the slowest 8200, will be fast enough to decode data, including the highest quality bluray content.
What matters however is how fast they will perform for deinterlacing content.
You would find that the 520 is much slower than the GT220 and can't be used at the highest quality settings.
Agree. This test on a new hardware is meaningless. It should contain data for old laptops and htpc with modest hardware.
Also as far as I know vdpau runs from 8400gs not 8200. And the slowest one should be 8600m gpu (mobile gpu for laptops).
But if anyone is intrested may be we could post here test results with a relevant data.


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Aurora said the acquisition would increase its market share lead in the optical transport market by significantly increasing its installed base for next-generation service-providing products and create long-term strategic growth opportunities.
"Acquiring the assets of Harmonic's optical transport business extends our access leadership position by adding to our footprint within the cable industry," said Guy Sucharczuk, chairman, president and CEO of Aurora Networks. "We are dedicated to the evolution of cable infrastructure. This strategic move is an opportunity for us to further accelerate our innovations, continue to grow, and ensure that the networks of current customers and expanded customer base from Harmonic can meet challenges today and well into the future."
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For the calendar year, Harmonic's Cable Access business generated $52.9 million of net revenue, with a gross margin of approximately 30 percent. Harmonic said that the sale of the business would be neutral to diluted earnings per share for this year, excluding the impact of the share repurchase program.
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BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! her feet yell at me onomatopoeically after she has been instructed no longer to do so herself verbally.
Still, I sit on the couch.
She returns, juts her jaw to me, verifies I'm watching, and rolls her eyes.
Did you see that? I rolled my eyes at you.
"I saw, love."
Yeah? Well, I'm doing it again.
She stamps away, goes up the stairs alone.
I pour her cup of bedtime milk and follow up slowly, giving her time to complete her nighttime routine without my button-pushing presence. She's in possession of big-kid anger now, though she's still little-kid hurt by the behaviors of others. She rolls her eyes at me but needs me to reassure her that I saw the act of defiance happen. She sticks her tongue out but only if I am looking at her to see it happen. She stamps her feet because she knows she's not allowed to hit, because I told her that if the anger inside her gets so big she absolutely must let it out, that she can let it out through her feet, but never through her hands. She stamps as loudly as she can, but only if I watch.
She's in bed, showing me her profile. Her jaw juts up in measured hostility. She looks swanlike. Regal. She sits so that she clearly isn't looking at me, but toward me enough to watch me see her not looking at me. The last baby fat fell from her cheeks this year, and at almost 5 years old, and at angry jaw angle of night time, I see how seriously she wants me to see her as big. Formidable. Offended on legitimate grounds.
I respect the intensity of her feelings and with care I pause before I speak. Then I scoop her into my arms and squeeze her with the tenderest but firmest of not-letting-go hugs. "I love you no matter what," I tell her. "I love you forever. I love you when you're angry at me. I love you right now. I love up to the stars and the rocket ships and all the silly things we say. No matter how many times you roll your eyes at me, I love you all the way up to God."
She doesn't look at me, but she relaxes in my arms.
"But you still can't behave like that."
She tenses again in re-anger.
She wants to act angry to be seen as tough. She wants to intimidate with her ferocity, and certainly she is fierce. She wants to wear me down with her locked, jutted jaw.
She is tough. And she is without question fierce. And she is sometimes now filled with anger. She wants me to see these things and I let her know that I've seen them. But what I can't let her know that I've seen, the real reason I paused before I spoke, is that more than anything else, the way she sets her demeanor so determinedly and calculates the degree of my attention she has captured --
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Diana Jorgenson Portola Reporter 7/14/2010
The city of Portola has demonstrated an ongoing concern about notifying traffic along Highway 70 that there is more to the town on the other side of the Feather River across the Gulling Street Bridge.
In the past, the city established a wayfinding sign on the corner of Gulling Street and Sierra Street (Highway 70) directing traffic to Old Town, as the business district along Commercial Street is called.
The problem was that locating the sign on the corner required its placement on private property and the good auspices of the business owner. If the owner had a use for the spot, the city's sign became inconvenient.
Currently, the city's wayfinding sign is at the onset of the bridge, which means that the driver already made the turn off and knew where Old Town was located without being told.
The other viable alternative was to hang a sign below the lights on the intersection, just as Reno cross streets are marked directly overhead. A sign like that requires Caltrans' approval and implementation.
Caltrans is notoriously narrow minded about the signs it allows on the state's highways. When it comes to signage for towns and cities, it prefers only one at the entrance and again at the exit, and the agency prefers that it be green.
Other signs are strictly monitored, and signs such as Portola used to have that list the churches and service clubs in the town are no longer allowed.
The Caltrans' perspective is that if the sign is there and has been there, it stays; but if the sign requires repair or if it falls down, it stays down.
The city, which would like to replace the sign listing churches and service clubs, has presented design after design of potential add-ons to the stone monuments currently at the city's boundaries on Highway 70, and they have been repeatedly rejected or discouraged by Caltrans.
Along the same track, the city has, on more than one occasion, requested Caltrans post a sign directing traffic into Portola's downtown at the bridge intersection be placed under the traffic lights, and Caltrans has repeatedly said no: The only signs that may be hung from center traffic lights are those naming cross streets.
Fine, then. How about naming the street Old Town? That, it would appear, seems just fine to Caltrans. You just have to speak the language.
City Clerk Leslie Tigan reported that changing the name of the two-block section (one block on each end of the bridge) of road that includes the bridge turns out to be a relatively simple matter. The city council must pass a resolution and it is so.
There are no businesses that have addresses along that section and there would be little impact to businesses, other than reviewing the wording of directions they might include on websites or brochures.
The matter was discussed at the last city council meeting and the consensus of the council members and staff was to complete the process for the name change.
The exact wording and spelling only needed finalization. Two possible variations have been suggested, "Old Town" or "Old Towne."
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Finally I have made it into Canada, beginning with the mighty Fraser River. Much of it runs through fairly unpopulated, mountainous country; I have tried to mark as many little hamlets as I could find. Given the low population, this map fits on a smaller poster size than most of my other ones.
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10% of the profits I earn from the sale of prints will be donated to organizations that protect and restore some of the watersheds seen in this river map series.
Important: Zazzle, the company which does my prints, will let you shrink the map down from the original size if you ask, but I cannot guarantee it will look good if you do.
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Daily links: 4/15/09 | |
Written by Mike Baehr | Filed under television, Supermen, Paul Hornschemeier, Michael Kupperman, Daniel Clowes, Boody Rogers | 15 Apr 2009 1:52 PM |
• Reviews: MEGATONik calls Boody. The Bizarre Comics of Boody Rogers "absolutely insane... I would definitely make a case for reading this book no matter what sort of comics you like... These shorts are always funny, and not in an ironic or 'so bad it's good' way"; and of Supermen! The First Wave of Comic Book Heroes 1936-1941 they say "...the artists here are all early comic pioneers, flexing their muscles, pencilling straight from their crazy guts in a medium with no borders... his is how reprints should be done"
• Things to see: In celebration of Daniel Clowes's birthday yesterday, Entrecomics presents some pages from Ghost World: Special Edition
• Things to see: CD booklet comic by Paul Hornschemeier• Things to see: Michael Kupperman shares some sparkly screengrabs from the Snake 'n' Bacon TV program debuting on Adult Swim May 10


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