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For a flat $6 a month I can add 10 unedited and commercial-free movie channels to my digital cable service.

If I want to introduce my kids to the online RPG, Disney and Cartoon Network both have solid entries that are free of charge.

The Sims is a consumerist fantasy.

It's all about spending frivolously and living large - and can be enjoyed on that level.

But the world of Visa and MasterCard is something I want to put behind me as much as possible when I come out to play. I particularly don't want my status in the game world to be dependent on my credit line.

I may not be counting every penny these day. But I do shop for value and I am not interested in open-ended commitments, "hidden" charges or fees.

Personally, think it would be fun to use known cartoon characters instead. I would want to use Hoss Delgado.

The only downside to this technology is that I could only imagine that people would end up using sprites of celebrities everywhere, which could become quite annoying.

• You lock your self in your room to look at source code.
• When your mom opens the door you yell "Mom, close the door! Your letting the demons out!"
• Your hygene habits resemble that of a svelte Theodore Kaczynski.
• When the power goes out, you immediately stop breathing.
• Goths have stopped by your house and ask if they can hang around your room because it is dark and creapy.
• You secretly write love letters to fictional anime characters.
• You friends (if you have any) have started a chapter of the Secret Snake Club

They've been placed on the Boomerang network.

The Google entry for that page says "Go to Boomerang.com for more information about our 24-hour network for classic cartoons!", but that's a completely unrelated site. It's also in the page's description tag, which is where Google gets it from. Anybody know what happened to that domain?

Right, nevermind that The Cartoon Network network thought there was enough awareness of the word to use it as a pun for a block of shows called Toonami. Or do you think the named it after the disaster?

Right, nevermind that The Cartoon Network network thought there was enough awareness of the word to use it as a pun for a block of shows called Toonami. Or do you think the named it after the disaster?

http://www.cartoonnetwork.com/

They are both full of comedy and farce, perhaps one is unintentional but is full of it none the less.

I like the idea of IPTV, but not in the way that it is being used in this article. I'd really like the concepts of networks and channels to pretty much go away, leaving only studios and ISPs.

As it stands now, studios have to beg and plead networks to carry their programming, and a lot of times, they have to compromise their artistic creativity to pander to the networks' need to sell advertising to sponsors and meet stupid FCC anti-obscenity standards. Consumers have to pick through hundreds of hours of worthless drivel to find a very few priceless gems.

With IPTV, we could completely cut out the middlemen. We watch and pay for exactly what we want to watch and pay for, tv studios get to make exactly what they want to make, and everyone's happy. Well, everyone except the former network executives, who are used to telling us what we're supposed to like to watch and screwing creative people for the sake of petty power.

I just noticed, but I think the DVD only has episodes 1-20 (which are badass but don't have the tie in to the movie). You can watch episodes 21-25 at cartoon network's website. The video compression doesn't handle the fast action very well, but it's still watchable.

Or there's the torrent solution.

Enjoy!

...troll! Did you even google like I stated? I haven't seen any review that pans these cartoons except for yours.

Re: animation: Are we even talking about the same series? Star Wars: Clone Wars. You can watch episodes 21-25 online.

To anyone who might be following this thread, watch episodes 24 and 25. Even online (and the compression can't handle how fast the action is) they are all kinds of awesome.

you don't want Coop, Jamie and Kiva to appear in their giant robot (specially with Coop on the driver's seat).

I haven't watched Cartoon Network in a while so I had no clue what "Toonami" was nor what "IGPX" was. (I wasn't "highly anticipating" it either).

Shouldn't they at least have posted a link to the official website?

It sounds like their kind of show.

Your timing is impeccable. The first cartoon of Volume II airs on on Monday

The whole idea is to pressure sites to clean up their code, make it standard, and stop using ActiveX.

How do you make a Direct3D game load from a web site without loading through an ActiveX control? What about client-side apps that access the file system, such as an ActiveX virus scanner?

I don't think there are "quite a few" sites that require 3rd party ActiveX to function properly.

You try running Cartoon Network's game Kids Next Door: Operation BEST without turning on ActiveX.

Then watch as people bitch (or sue!) because IE-specific ActiveX apps such as Windows Update and CartoonNetwork.com's Kids Next Door: Operation BEST stop working. I'll take an educated guess that at this point, it'd be too much of a pain for Cartoon Network developers to reprogram a 3D game such as Operation BEST to 1. be written in Java rather than C++ and 2. work with Java 3D's scene graph model rather than the Direct3D model that the current client uses.

I do not use the "house-call" style apps when cleaning up a PC.

True, one can download anti-spyware programs using Firefox, but don't anti-virus programs cost money to download? And what about ActiveX based games for the kids such as Kids Next Door: Operation Best?

I don't know how Windows users put up with Windows Update only updating Windows and not every program on their computer.

Under Windows, it's considered the norm for each publisher to use its own software update notification system. Windows Update/Office Update happens to be Microsoft's. Popular Windows programs often have a checkbox that lets the user tell the program to check for updates itself. On my computer, at least Azureus and eMule have fetched an update in the past week; Gaim has an update notifier as well.

True, some of Cartoon Network's games might use Flash or Java technology and thus be compatible with GNU/Linux, but Kids Next Door: Operation Best is a more sophisticated 3D game, and in order to get enough permission to access the 3D card through DirectX, it needs ActiveX.

Show business needs to look somewhere for original plot ideas. They most definitely have none in Hollywood nor with the studio Exec's in NY and FL. There is so very little decent, quality programming on TV. And in movies it's almost not worth owning a VCR/DVD player, or a TV for that matter.

I have the fortune of having a 7 year old son. It's just him and me picking our own entertaimment. For that reason I tend to watch a number of cartoons on Nick and the Cartoon Network. He loves "Spounge Bob" & "Kids Next Door." I can watch them with him but I don't get the same enjoyment from them as he does. However, there is a block on the Cartoon Network now called "Migusi" which airs from 1700 to 1900. We watch "Totally Spies", "Code Lyoko", "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" and "Teen Titans". Code Lyoko is really fun and out there. The Turtles have always been a hoot and the Teen Titans are just plane cool. Not to mention their theme song is by Puffy AmiYumi.

As for moview, we have the majority of the Godzilla collection and the first three Tremmors movies (still need the 4th one). Got a number of Pokemon and assorted cartoons (not to mention the virtually manditory Disney movies). My personal movie collection, i.e. the ones daddy gets to watch, are about half F&SF and half Kurosawa/Mifune/Shimura films and their like (CT/HD & The Last Samuri being the most recently made). We'll just skip over the videos in the box on the top shelf of my bedroom closet for now. ;-)

What was I talking about?!? Oh, yeah! That the "entertainment industry" is full of brainless idiots who wouldn't know a good story or show if it hit them in the head.

At work, we've just decided on a completely Flash website

I won't be able to use it then. I'll also steer people away from it, if I find out what site it is.

I've often wondered what retardation causes people to design sites like Fuji's and Cartoon Network's awful sites. Now I know that it's idiot managers.

You're right. What would Hanna-Barbera, the owner of the SCOOBY-DOO trademark, have to say about this? Under the Trademark Dilution Act and foreign counterparts, the rule about separation of fields of use don't apply to trademarks as famous as SCOOBY-DOO(R).

Star Wars fans may want to watch the second half of the Star Wars: Clone Wars cartoon mini series, on the Cartoon Network this Friday the 6th, at 8pm and 9pm. As it bridges the story between movies Episode II and Episode III. That and we get to see the fall of the Jedi order.

Mad Hatter

There is a Windows Media Player for Mac OS X and 9 that, like its RealPlayer for OS X counterpart, has few annoying "features' that appear in their Windows counterparts. Generally speaking, Mac users can use the streams from the major sites like NPR unless the streaming site has intentionally identified the Macintosh browser or player and refuses access, whether the stream is compatible or not.

WMP for Mac's streaming ability works fine. But this player, unlike the one built-in with Windows, only plays WMA streams and files, and lacks the iTunes-ish MP3 player features.

Of course, aside from the free RealPlayer (which, if you look at this link on a Mac browser that IDs itself as a Mac browser shows a simple link in the right corner to the free RealPlayer), there is QuickTime, which also plays streams well, but there are few sites that use it (one is Cartoon Network's Star Wars: Clone Wars site).

I would challenge the moderators of the above comment to explain what could possibly constitute "flamebait". The lack of technical specifications for this vehicle might be explained by the fact that it's an enormous practical joke - a little late for April Fool's, perhaps, but a joke nonetheless.

Consider that from the above linked article and personal experience, in Japan anime is cartoons. The best anime - Akira might be up there - is still a cartoon movie and not of a genre which is overall taken seriously. Compare the American popular success of Scooby Doo 2 to any serious animated work and it becomes clear that just like in America, anime is not revered by the Japanese people, the expected consumers of the linked "product".

You might be able to buy a giant tree house or a Space Ghost desk and chair or an Ed, Edd, n Eddy gumball machine if you have enough money to burn in America, but no rational person does this because these are more important things to spend one's money on - like, say, anything but cartoon accessories. No rational adult would buy a Hello Kitty motorcycle.

In this regard, anyone who takes anime seriously is disregarding and disrespecting the Japanese attitude towards the media and, in effect, displaying a bizarrely childlike fixation on things that are neither very deep nor very significant.

One could argue that perhaps vehicle enthusiasts (car, bicycle, or motorcycle) are pursuing blindly a childlike desire to drive. Culturally speaking, though, there is a precedent for this fascination with the vehicle, and to demean people who are truly interested in the mechanics of their motorcycle (as opposed to, say, buying a Harley because it looks cool) is by corollary to demean people who are truly interested in how their computer works (as opposed to, say, buying an Alienware PC because it looks cool).

If the above comment was moderated down because the linked article challenges your notion of what does and doesn't constitute fine art and demand great respect in Japanese culture - well, it took me by surprise too. Educating yourself is an integral component of developing a meaningful cultural awareness; the lack of such a competent understanding is certainly a foundation of the anti-American sentiment with which some three hundred million US citizens (Slashdot is US-centric :/) must cope. Rather than blithe submission to Japanophilia, consider that this motorcycle is either an elaborate prank or a supreme waste of money on a puerile object.

I would challenge the moderators of the above comment to explain what could possibly constitute "flamebait". The lack of technical specifications for this vehicle might be explained by the fact that it's an enormous practical joke - a little late for April Fool's, perhaps, but a joke nonetheless.

Consider that from the above linked article and personal experience, in Japan anime is cartoons. The best anime - Akira might be up there - is still a cartoon movie and not of a genre which is overall taken seriously. Compare the American popular success of Scooby Doo 2 to any serious animated work and it becomes clear that just like in America, anime is not revered by the Japanese people, the expected consumers of the linked "product".

You might be able to buy a giant tree house or a Space Ghost desk and chair or an Ed, Edd, n Eddy gumball machine if you have enough money to burn in America, but no rational person does this because these are more important things to spend one's money on - like, say, anything but cartoon accessories. No rational adult would buy a Hello Kitty motorcycle.

In this regard, anyone who takes anime seriously is disregarding and disrespecting the Japanese attitude towards the media and, in effect, displaying a bizarrely childlike fixation on things that are neither very deep nor very significant.

One could argue that perhaps vehicle enthusiasts (car, bicycle, or motorcycle) are pursuing blindly a childlike desire to drive. Culturally speaking, though, there is a precedent for this fascination with the vehicle, and to demean people who are truly interested in the mechanics of their motorcycle (as opposed to, say, buying a Harley because it looks cool) is by corollary to demean people who are truly interested in how their computer works (as opposed to, say, buying an Alienware PC because it looks cool).

If the above comment was moderated down because the linked article challenges your notion of what does and doesn't constitute fine art and demand great respect in Japanese culture - well, it took me by surprise too. Educating yourself is an integral component of developing a meaningful cultural awareness; the lack of such a competent understanding is certainly a foundation of the anti-American sentiment with which some three hundred million US citizens (Slashdot is US-centric :/) must cope. Rather than blithe submission to Japanophilia, consider that this motorcycle is either an elaborate prank or a supreme waste of money on a puerile object.

I would challenge the moderators of the above comment to explain what could possibly constitute "flamebait". The lack of technical specifications for this vehicle might be explained by the fact that it's an enormous practical joke - a little late for April Fool's, perhaps, but a joke nonetheless.

Consider that from the above linked article and personal experience, in Japan anime is cartoons. The best anime - Akira might be up there - is still a cartoon movie and not of a genre which is overall taken seriously. Compare the American popular success of Scooby Doo 2 to any serious animated work and it becomes clear that just like in America, anime is not revered by the Japanese people, the expected consumers of the linked "product".

You might be able to buy a giant tree house or a Space Ghost desk and chair or an Ed, Edd, n Eddy gumball machine if you have enough money to burn in America, but no rational person does this because these are more important things to spend one's money on - like, say, anything but cartoon accessories. No rational adult would buy a Hello Kitty motorcycle.

In this regard, anyone who takes anime seriously is disregarding and disrespecting the Japanese attitude towards the media and, in effect, displaying a bizarrely childlike fixation on things that are neither very deep nor very significant.

One could argue that perhaps vehicle enthusiasts (car, bicycle, or motorcycle) are pursuing blindly a childlike desire to drive. Culturally speaking, though, there is a precedent for this fascination with the vehicle, and to demean people who are truly interested in the mechanics of their motorcycle (as opposed to, say, buying a Harley because it looks cool) is by corollary to demean people who are truly interested in how their computer works (as opposed to, say, buying an Alienware PC because it looks cool).

If the above comment was moderated down because the linked article challenges your notion of what does and doesn't constitute fine art and demand great respect in Japanese culture - well, it took me by surprise too. Educating yourself is an integral component of developing a meaningful cultural awareness; the lack of such a competent understanding is certainly a foundation of the anti-American sentiment with which some three hundred million US citizens (Slashdot is US-centric :/) must cope. Rather than blithe submission to Japanophilia, consider that this motorcycle is either an elaborate prank or a supreme waste of money on a puerile object.

Why wait go online and watch the entire thing should only take you an hour and change with broadband.

overall not terrible impressed

No, but they did have a lot of other really annoying fat kids doing lots of inane stuff.

Cartoon Network are the ones advertising it as Star Wars: Clone Wars. The Epic Micr-Series.

I had a friend who taped the 10 episodes from season one and we watched it in a single 30 minute sitting. Each episode is only 3 minutes, so they seem more like a scene from a story rather than a complete story.

It is mostly action driven with very little dialog. I found it to be enjoyable. However, I think if I watched each 3 minute episode a week apart it wouldn't have been as good.

Season 1 is archived at Cartoon Network's page

You can see all the old episodes, and the new ones as they come out, online at http://www.cartoonnetwork.com/clonewars/index.html

More direct link to the clone wars site...

Is avalible on cartoon networks website(warning, lots of flash). Its avalible in streaming Quicktime and Real(gag), and you can google around for direct download links (looks like the first listings already slashdotted...). I've got all of them in divx at about 35mb apiece, not a bad series either, more deserving of the Star Wars title than some of the other cartoons that have been done(holiday special, and that droids cartoon i havn't seen but have heard was awful. and dont get me started on the ewok adventures...)

... the cartoon network ultimate wish list. Does anyone actually buy this stuff? Well I can see the module being bought by a museum, MAYBE, but 1.65 million dollars is a lot of money to buy on something like that, it seems you could build your own for much cheaper. Sure it wouldn't be as accurate but you could make it as accurate as you want, and is this one even accurate? Does the real module weigh 20,000lbs? Wouldn't it have some super lightweight materials? Would any real people pay for one? I don't think anyone who actually has the money for this, would want this, since for a few million more they can probably go up to the ISS.

Buttered toast plus cat is something that the Ed-boys might think up. But in our universe, the cat would win purely on account of more mass.

God! You people! C!?! Assembly?!? WTF?!?

If he wants to learn how to create games, he needs to see how they're assembled. Hand-writing a console-mode checkers or tic-tac-toe in assembly isn't going to show him squat about how modern games are put together.

Give him this link, download the cheap (or free) version and have at it. Also download this and this so he can do things like create sprites and graphical models (free tutorials abound, use google).

Once he can get through a few 3dRad tutorials likethis one, he will be ready to tackle this book on game programming in C++.

Maybe a lot, but it's winter; what else is he gonna do besides stay inside watching tv?

The complete first season of Aqua Teen Hunger Force is available for $30, and if you buy it from adultswim.com, you get a free t-shirt to boot. It's 2 DVDs -- like 8 gigs of media. I think it's priced perfectly.

What pisses me off is that while I can get 18 episodes (the equivalent of 9 normal-length eps) of Aqua Teen for $30, they -- "they" being a bald aryan giant of a man who sits on top of a mountain of doom and inflates the price of anime DVDs, pumping them with empty space like a goddam ICEE -- expect me to pay nearly that much for 2 episodes of FLCL. Okay, the DVD is like half full! It's only got 2 gigs! You could fit at least 2 more episodes on it! And you want $25 for it? When I can get like 18,000 hours of the Fellowship of the fucking Ring for a couple bucks more? Take off, hoser.

That's the cause of piracy right there: greed.

This stuff is so obsurdly overpriced for what you get they must be doing it to rake in some change

Show how the kids bedrooms are worth 100 Grand each!

Dexter's Lab may be yours for a mere $99,995! Act now!

... But for the true geek, you need a whole la-bor-a-tory.

General Description:

• Provide design and layout drawings
• Provide structural steel frame and stairs with painted fiberglass shell for tree feature
• Provide Boat Hull and Space Shuttle features as well as wood housing features and dome
• Provide artificial foliage
• 18' X 18' X 2' concrete pad for mounting
• 100A electrical feed
• HVAC
• Plumbing for upstairs sink
• Drywall in all rooms
• Millwork for sink cabinet and closets
• Carpet installed
• Phone and satellite service installed

[evil voice]and for a small price of 1 Million Dollars[/evil voice]

It not only fits perfectly into my kid's tree house but it is comparativlely very cheap too.

Get Harvey Birdman's 1971 Plymouth Roadrunner. Nice.

I always wanted a Treehouse, but we never had a tree in our garden. Fortunatly they provide the tree for you, a snip at $1 million

When go for the Space Ghost desk when you can have A Powerpuff Girls Bedroom for only $99.995!

A short animated series on Cartoon Network: Star Wars: Clone Wars on Cartoon Network

Here's a picture of Anakin/Vader in Episode III.

Finally, if you're into minor spoilers, head over to the IMDB record for Episode III, and you might recognize some interesting character names in the cast list...

Didn't put it in the main post cos it's a tad off-topic, but I just started watching Bandai's .hack//SIGN TV show on Cartoon Network, and there's some really interesting discussions of lawlessness in virtual worlds in that (seeing as it takes place in a MMORPG n' all.) It's an intriguing and thoughtprovoking show - do you go in a MMORPG to have fun however you want, even if it means being 'bad', or is imposing order necessary for the majority to have fun? That seemed to be one of the questions they tackled.

Soon we won't be able to watch free TV, we will all need to pay mega $$$ to watch, and that is when I will stop watching.

All I watch now anyway is Enterprise and Cowboy Bebop

Can't tell if you're down on the corporate web sites or not, but a couple that are aimed at the younger crowd are Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network which both have great games. Not particularly educational and the advertising can be a little annoying, but definitely good bookmarks for the "fun" category. My daugher loves them both.