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I'm not sure about box office results, but on Disney's primary portal http://disneyvideos.disney.go.com/ for DVD & video sales Miyazaki movies don't even touch their other franchises. By far the most popular are the princess movies http://disney.go.com/princess/, Winnie the Pooh, and Kim Possible. Eisner opened the floodgates for making sequels to their older movies so there's been a lot of straight to video movies that have been successful relying on the older franchises (Lion King, Mulan, Tarzan) that can make up for lost profits on flops. It should also be noted that Disney has had a certain amount of success over the last couple years with 2003's Home On The Range likelastyear'sHomeOntheRange and last year's Brother Bear http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=brotherbear.ht m which were pretty entertaining. So maybe its fair to say they've learned from Atlantis and Treasure Planet, although I'm not sure if the criticism leveled Disney calling these films disasters is merited. Most movies from all the major studios are lucky if they break even at the box office, once Disney decided to start releasing around an animated movie a year, they've ceased to be an exception to that rule.

That explains the "Alien Invasion" sequel playing out on Capitol Hill that afternoon.

I think that this kind of shit should be disclosed in a privacy policy. For example, "Your personal information may be transported, on physical media, to other parties via third-party carriers." Would that really make a difference though? And furthermore, why the fuck is it that the last few stories I have seen of this nature have involved UPS losing backup tapes?

Kinda makes you wonder if any of it is related to that dude who got busted dropping off packages off at his own house and selling the stuff on eBay... If not to that case itself, maybe someone else doing something similar?

Apple Confirms Plans to Switch Its Macintosh Line to Microprocessors Built by Intel

By GREG SANDOVAL and MATTHEW FORDAHL s
The Associated PressThe Associated Press

SAN FRANCISCO Jun 6, 2005 -- In a risky move that could further shrink its minuscule slice of the PC market, Apple Computer Inc. announced plans Monday to switch its Macintosh computers to the same Intel Corp. chips used in systems that run Microsoft Windows.

Apple, which for years suggested its users "Think Different," will join all other PC makers in using microprocessors built on the x86 architecture. The technology took root when IBM launched its first PC in 1981 and eventually turned Apple into a niche player. "Our goal is to provide our customers with the best personal computers in the world, and looking ahead Intel has the strongest processor roadmap by far," said Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO. "It's been ten years since our transition to the PowerPC, and we think Intel's technology will help us create the best personal computers for the next ten years."

Where all da Marines at? Maybe after we take out Kim we can move on to problems that aren't manufactured or risk plunging the nation into fascism and theocracy, and that actually HELP people! Nutbag liberal notion, helping people, I know. But hey, I have a good heart. What can I say.

Thanks for making mew spew my drink all over... :)

I was thinking: not too long ago I watched a Higglytown Heroes (hey, I'm a dad now...) episode where the hero was a garbage collector. His truck had a big arm that collected the trash from the curb and placed it in the truck.

Because there are only 20 episodes of the original? SciFi would have two choices: either run the episodes once a night every night or once a week for twenty weeks.

After you've run the episodes, then what? Repeat them?

Also, if you'll notice along the left side of the page I linked, right below the picture of Darren McGavin, there is a link from October of 2004 which says that ABC is in the process of remaking the Night Stalker series. Oh wait, that new series will be showing this fall.

Perhaps you missed the Night Stalker marathon on May 18th? (bottom of the page)

"...we will see a new installment of something like 9/11 to give the ignorant masses a refresher injection of terror and to push them into compliance with government and big corporations"

Oh, so you've heard of Operation Northwood before? Note the date on that article... May 1, 2001 , 5 months before the 9/11 incident.

We've done it before, we'll do it again, it seems. The other interesting fact about Operation Northwood is that Donald Rumsfeld was apparently involved in that too. Coincidence?

"Tortured sentence structure," indeed. This from a person who (1) fails to realize that a poorly-written Slashdot post cannot be expected to be properly capitalized, and relies on capitalization in the story blurb to determine meaning, (2) incorrectly capitalizes "Job Title," and (3) writes "Which it isn't." as a sentence and paragraph to itself, after another purported sentence which is in fact a misplaced clause and before yet another that misspells "capitalization" (or is too British to receive any attention).

Yes, my sentence structure is indeed tortured. It's tortured by idiots like you who see fit to be pedantic without the requisite knowledge.

Slashdot is predominantly a news site located in, based from, and operated primarily by people residing in the United States. On the front page of any news source, it is always nice if the language used is consistent within that page. But at least it's not ABC News, where this story managed to discover a previously unknown word: Artical (see the caption under the photograph).

since everyone bitches about how they have no content, let's see how many present their content, or rather: how many are black text on white background...

EVIL

* underlined+bold
* drop shadow
* cream background, not much of an improvement. some of the header text is glossy (shiney / embossed / see above one / other various "auto-artistic" trash ).
* the tiny images illustrating each entry, are dithered (i guess with a "web palette" [making it look even more horrible], which people stopped doing 5+ years ago) then jpg'd.
* cyan background (the name of 100% green + 100% blue)
* purple text, orange links. no, that's not better.
* yes i really want to be tortured with your family album pics
* half of the people leave directly (or die) with the header
* light yellow (piss-water yellow?) background.
* "I.Mter-
views" ?
i don't get it. dashes in headlines are satan.
* scary vector portrait
* horrible. evil. tasteless.
* scarier than the sixapart girl.
* yellow background.

GOOD

* pear/white background. title with first letter biggie, first line in different font from rest.
* greenish tasty tone over everything ...which i didn't follow. great. thanks. as for the equally bad link-colours being that horrible default-blue/purple, it was only around 10%. this was checking 70% of the a-list. methinks those popular people should hire someone to design their site

good design = pyros, don't remember any other. and yeah, it's not a blog.
says intersting things = ms g33k. who i'm not sure is a good thing to link, i won't link myself.

Yes, but they did it again. Fully loaded now.

What is your point exactly? Gmail uses a few tables -- not a ridiculous number -- and they appear to not be using spacer images. (I can tell this by Firefox's Web Developer toolbar) While I like Google's technology, their markup has never impressed me.

These guys seem to have table-free sites figured out: MySQL, Wikipedia, Wired, ESPN..

http://killbill.movies.go.com/images/wallpaper/ell edriver_1280.jpg

Something to tell your friend:

http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/news/WABC_110602_nycpl ague.html

'Officials say there are 20 to 30 cases of Bubonic plague in the U.S. each year. If caught early, the disease is very treatable, but it is often mistaken for a cold. If treatment is delayed, the plague can, of course, be fatal. '

You can also listen to Ebert and Roeper's review.

Same as he gave The Phantom Menace. Make of it what you will.

Also, the Ebert & Roeper review (mp3) is pretty good.

Now, about the picture on the review - is Tion Medon The Mouth of Sauron demasked?

Meanwhile, in the death cult capital of the world, the Netherlands, a new bone-chilling survey has been released. See Many Dutch Doctors Support Euthanasia for Terminally Ill Kids. An excerpt:

A child is suffering terribly from incurable cancer, and both he and his parents request a lethal injection of drugs to put an end to his pain. According to a new survey, up to 60 percent of Dutch pediatricians say they would honor that request, were such a step legal.

In fact, a smaller but significant number of pediatricians -- up to 28 percent -- said they would be willing to resort to lethal injection in such cases even when parents did not agree with their child's wish to die .

The survey comes on the heels of the so-called "Groningen protocol," issued in March by two Dutch physicians who contend that newborns with defects that cause them severe, chronic pain should, in certain cases, be euthanized.

No shit? I don't want to be around when some mad scientist crosses one with this.

And just before the series finale of "Lost" too ;) We're not even halfway through the first season screening down under, and I have a crack-like addiction to the series. It's shameful, I know, but some primal part of me really digs the idea of being stuck on an island with Maggie Grace

Not to support Disney's position, but currently airing on Toon Disney: House of Mouse

(note: lots of Flash used)

---PCJ

http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/news/story?id=205 7311

and (the exact same story) on the Robocup official site: http://www.robocup-us.org/press.html

Texas lost *a* game Germany 2-0. I don't see anywhere that says that it was the championship game. As an insider, are you saynig Texas did not play Dortmund at all?

...Sources. Check Them...

Articles...Read Them.

When will the American people get so sick of being fucked over that we actually stand up and DO something about it?

Well, someone did throw a grenade at Bush in Georgia (Russia) recently... See here.

It fell to the ground unexploded, though.

http://disney.go.com/disneyvideos/animatedfilms/mi yazaki/index2.html

Aparently they didn't have any problem with "Spirited Away" either.

ABC news has a story on Students asking questions about evolutions, http://www.abcnews.go.com/Technology/CSM/story?id= 722376&page=1
On pages 3 and 4 of the article they list some of the question that the students are asking. Maybe some people just don't feel that the theory of evolution is sound enough to be taught in schools. Now I don't think this is a good enough reason to teach creationism in the class room, but I would be interested in hearing some people respond to some of the questions. If they are legitimate gripes with the theroy, then shouldn't at very least some of the information that we are teaching kids be removed from the lessons or give teachers the answers to the questions?

Except that it is to be confused, that's why they chose that name. It's supposed to be funny.

It's not, but it's supposed to be.

Looks like someone forgot to change the spelling when they did this one.

Tommy John surgery is to fix the elbow of pitchers in baseball. It used to be considered very complex, now days it is like going in for a teeth cleaning, and according to some it can actually make you better than you were before.

Absolutely correct, compare Saudi Arabia with Iran, although Saudi Arabia had their very first elections last week.

Adams didn't 'work' with the other contributer, as he got hold of the script AFTER Adams' death.

As mentioned on the 'interview' linked from Slashdot some time ago: here,

A friend referred me to this, which you might enjoy seeing one (or twenty) times. http://hitchhikers.movies.go.com/games/dolphins.sw f

Hahaha! Thanks! I've been looking for that song, had it stuck in my head for days : )

As for those people preaching intelligent design:

They are all religious, and do not know what theories or evolution are. They
just pretend and believe they know. Remembering this, they are easily exposed,
as long as you yourself really know what theories and evoution are.

It is rare to see such ignorance on /. Oh wait, it isn't. :)

You are misinformed. ID is not held by "dumb religionists" but some pretty smart people. Had you been following current events you would know the former atheist (probably the best well-known critic of Theism in general) Anthony Flew jumped ship and is now a Deist. Not a fundamentalist as the slashdot groupthink would believe.

Why did he jump ship? Many reasons, but the primary one is a book written by Gerald Schroeder, who is an MIT-trained physicist with over 60 published articles in scientific journals. And he's a Jew, too. Not the rabid fundamentalist you painted in your post.

See The Hidden Face of God by Gerald Schroeder for more information.

So you like the intro? Me too ;-) A friend referred me to this, which you might enjoy seeing one (or twenty) times. http://hitchhikers.movies.go.com/games/dolphins.sw f

Because there's inevitably comments about the mission's name (which is the same as that of a Hollywood movie) whenever this is on slashdot, I figured I'd try to nip it in the bud. From this article:

"The scientists came up with the Deep Impact name independently of the movie studio, around the same time, neither knowing the other was choosing it, even though some members of NASA's Deep Impact team were consultants on the picture."

For those seeking more info, here's the Wikipedia article (on the mission, not the movie).

A former CIA agent, Ed Wilson, was released from jail after 22 years because he was able to show that the government lied about his case. One of the charges that he was convicted on was selling 20 tons of C-4 to Libya.

He claimed that, even though he was no longer employed by the CIA, that he was working with them at the time. The prosecution produced a document that said he had no substantail contact with the agency after he left it. This was a lie. He had more then 80 'non-social contacts' after he left and the gonvernment knew this. The railroaded him.

His conviction on the explosive charge was overturned and he is now out of jail. He is currently involved in legal action over his false conviction.

Wilson is a scumbag. It is also likely that he was involved in running drugs for the CIA before Iran-Contra. Even so, he was raped by the CIA and DOJ. An investigation is in the works, but Wilson is already 71 and I expect that they will drag it out until he dies.

Now think about all those wire taps and how they were justified.

Check out http://www.disinfo.com/archive/pages/dossier/id334 /pg1/ and http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/Investigation/stor y?id=708779&page=1

Maybe people realize that 911 is aservice in place designed to save lives and decide that prank calling it isn't such a hot idea. I would hope that there aren't many people in this world malicious enough to get their giggles from prank calling 911 from behind an untracable phone number.

Could this be related?

Train Rams Into Building in Japan; 50 Die

... but in case you're wondering if this may have caused the derailment at Amagasaki, apparently it didn't. Amagasaki is located in western Japan (covered by JR-West).

Still, the coincidence in time makes me wonder. I sure hope they don't use Windows in the train system I use... just read the EULA. My life is pretty "mission-critical" to me.

Apparently, you haven't seen the third trailer yet where the guide clearly defines that modern movie trailers require a main character, "In a world...", things blowing up, a girl in a bikini, physical violence, etc.

Quicktime, "large".

Other sizes/formats, go through the movie's site.

Apparently, you haven't seen the third trailer yet where the guide clearly defines that modern movie trailers require a main character, "In a world...", things blowing up, a girl in a bikini, physical violence, etc.

Quicktime, "large".

Other sizes/formats, go through the movie's site.

I'd mod the parent down, but I think an explanation is in order. What you see on TV is almost never a "Trailer," but rather a "Spot." TV Spots are almost always fast cut abbreviations of the trailers, designed to show one aspect of the film. Go HERE for trailers.

You know what annoys me? that all the freaking sentient aliens are pretty much the same size. why can't we have some superdense 15 foot giants walking around talking trash. Why are they all the same size?

Ill be putting my faith in The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. When Star Wars pisses me off Ill just go watch HHGG for a second time to cleanse my brain.

They did not break a "Law" they broke their contract . Breach of contract is not a "Law" per-say, it is however actionable.
Andrew Lee v. Church of Scientology
OR
Jennifer Lopez's Ex-Husband Sues For Breach Of Contract
Or just google it yourself
The only problem I can see with her case, is i would imagine she has to prove damages. So she could be seeking to have Comcast pay the $4,500 the RIAA got + legal fees. Which she "should" win. of course, IANAL...

Even the President uses iTunes+iTMS!

The TV is also listener initiated, because I have to turn it on and set the channel I want. I know lots of people have a problem with that idea, and throw tantrums at Fox / boobies / etc, but they choose what they watch.

I've seen TV regulation justified because it uses a public resource (a portion of the EM spectrum), and therefore the public has a right to expect something in return. A private individual publishing his own text doesn't use a public resource, so he owes the public nothing and can exercise his free speech as he sees fit.

Is TV really regulated because it uses public EM space, or is that just a constitutional fig leaf? I would say TV is regulated because it has such power. People already worship the box to the extent that many want the FCC to look after them, because it's beyond them to just not watch crap (except maybe this guy). The Internet at the moment is a bit less useful in manipulating public opinion, because it takes more effort to read things than to sit in front of the TV, and while on the net it's much easier to find other angles on the same story. But in years to come the Internet won't be mostly text, it'll be more like the TV. Eventually blogs could be full-blown Fox / Michael Moore multimedia propaganda, with as much if not more power over public opinion than TV. Today people navigate to blogs, but what if the browser model of the Internet changes? In the future, people may just fire up Realplayer and take whatever is thrown at them (just as they do on TV). The "broadcast" part of the Internet would probably have to be regulated in some way.

I suppose a good counter-argument is that regulation has proved useless at keeping corporate / political bias out of broadcast TV, and so it shouldn't be applied to the Net. But the unsatisfactory performance of TV regulators hasn't led to less regulation.

Hmm. From one of the articles, "But local governments often prefer to accept donations from Microsoft Corp. and other companies rather than pay for a new technology like the Simputer." AP. I think this is a somewhat futile project, but it's not clear it's "government-funded boondoogle." Any info?

It was well over a year after his passing that Douglas' widow, Jane Adams, encouraged us to move forward with the film as Douglas undoubtedly would have wanted. Karey Kirkpatrick, who had written the hugely successful "Chicken Run", was hired to complete the work Douglas had started on a film adaption of the book.

From:

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/ZDM/story?id=6601 29

The Dell Dimension XPS series is the company's answer to the high-end boutique systems from builders like Alienware, Falcon Northwest, and VoodooPC. Though the XPS isn't obscenely overclocked like its boutique brethren, it is wickedly fast and pretty distinctive in its own right. And this time around, it's equipped with a new processor: In fact, the Dimension XPS Gen 5 ($3,999 direct with monitor using Dell e-value code 6V411-XPS5PC) is the first system to hit the streets with the dual-core Pentium Extreme Edition 840 (Pentium EE 840) processor. (Read "Test-Driving the Dual Core Pentium EE 840" for more on what dual-core processing means for your computing experience.) With the addition of Microsoft Windows XP Media Center 2005, the XPS Gen 5 is more than just a gaming system, it's Dell's top-of-the-line gaming/multimedia machine and our latest Editors' Choice.

Like a Leatherman multipurpose tool, the Dell XPS Gen 5 does many things well. With 500GB of RAID hard drive space, the desktop has plenty of storage for the videos that will pile up thanks to the inclusion of Media Center 2005 and the two TV tuners. Four SATA ports on the motherboard enable it to hold 1.2TB (1,200 GB) of drive space, if you use 400GB drives (and with 500GB drives on the horizon, 2TB on the desktop isn't too far off).

The XPS Gen 5's TV tuners show steady pictures, even when the system is otherwise occupied (when it's also running a virus scan, for example), a benefit that can be directly attributed to the dual-core processor. The inclusion of the dual-core Pentium EE 840 means that someone playing a game on the XPS Gen 5 won't be affected by, say, the Media Center software recording TV or streaming video in the background. (As with all Windows Media Center 2005 desktops, if you purchase a Windows Media Extender, you'll be able to watch your recorded video on AV components in another room.)

Boutique systems' color schemes are sometimes hokey; we like the colored hues on the XPS Gen 5's front. Customers can choose from a variety of colors reminiscent of Star Wars lightsabers. We like the XPS Gen 5's roomy case for the most part. When the machine is laid on its side for servicing, as recommended by Dell, it's easy to open it, service it, and add components. When it's standing vertically as a tower, the case is a little harder to open. Though not all users will upgrade their systems, you'll need a good amount of space to work on this desktop.

The 20-inch UltraSharp 2005FPW LCD is a beautiful monitor, displaying the Web, games, spreadsheets, TV, and DVDs equally well.

The XPS Gen 5's SYSmark 2004 numbers indicate that it is one of the best systems we've tested for multimedia tasks. Its Internet Content Creation score of 285 is the highest we've seen, beating out our previous leader, the Overdrive Torque.SLI. Short of a high-powered dual-processor dual-core workstation, this is the Windows system to be using if you're planning on doing some major graphics work, such as video encoding, heavy PhotoShop work, or Flash animation. As expected, the desktop's Office Productivity score shows that it runs day-to-day tasks fast as well. (If you still need a little extra "oomph", the XPS Gen 5 is user-overclockable in BIOS to 3.4 GHz and 3.6 GHz.)

One of the complaints we've heard from readers is that "protection" programs, like Norton Internet Security, are useful for safeguarding their systems. but slow their computers to a crawl. Dual-core Hyper-Threaded processors, such as the Pentium EE 840, can help, improving your computing experience because the processor's dual cores can process tasks simultaneously. While most of the system is "concentrating" on making sure your Internet or gaming experience is fulfilled in the foreground, the reserve power that the dual cores provide protects you in the background, running Norton or other antivirus or firewall

Unfortunately, I doubt he'll serve any of it, it's been suspended while he appeals, and seeing as he's earned millions from his spamming, he can afford to appeal forever. If finally he does do some time, it'll be like Martha Stewart, a few month's stress-free low-security then out on probation.

Not only will we be able to get our hands on Tiger on the 29th, but we'll be able to head over to the movie theaters for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy; http://hitchhikers.movies.go.com/

Stern, who signed a five-year deal with the other satellite company, Sirius, worth an estimated $500 million, left no doubt about his allegiance at the event. "Once you start listening to (satellite), it's like crack," Stern said to cheers. "You will be addicted."

XM has to do something to stay competitive with Sirius to stay on the map.