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This would be reason enough to have cable. MrChubble writes: "Seems that futurama isn't as dead as previously believed. Here is a quote from a someone's experience at ComicCon: "Julie Schwartz Slide Oddball Comics Show (Hilarious as usual), and at the FUTURAMA panel they showed a preview of a forthcoming episode in which Fry, Leela and Bender become super-heroes. One thing they didn't mention at the panel, was the news that FUTURAMA would be joining Cartoon Network's ADULT SWIM in the near future." Is this too good to be true?"
We have semi-successfully identified a potential security problem ... Jim Driggers writes: "You guys recently had an article on how to escalate one's security status on a Win32 machine. The article included a link to a download called shatter.exe. My Norton antivirus says it contains the beavuh virus. I don't have IIS 5, so it is not a worry for me, but I thought you guys should know."
Actually, it shouldn't be a worry for anyone: apparently, the shatter.exe file triggers some anti-virus software, but according to several readers this is a false alarm.
How to win friends and influence people. In response to this posting ("Congress to Ashcroft: Go After Song Swappers"), Declan McCullagh writes: "FYI I've placed the congressional letter to Attorney General Ashcroft here: Also see this analysis from last summer on why P2P piracy violates the federal No Electronic Theft act: 'Duncan Frissell on why Napster users are federal felons'."
Up against the wall (of videos). An anonymous reader writes "Looks like the film Revolution OS finally makes it to a small screen near you. First copies available at HP booth at LinuxWorld, San Francisco.
It includes footage from LinuxWorld '99 in San Jose where Stallman accepts the "Linus Torvalds Award" from the hand of Linus and proceeds to talk about why Linux should be called GNU/Linux". This is a treasure."
In addition, for the skateboard-inclined, note that Dogtown and Z-Boys is finally out on DVD, too.
Slimmer and trimmer like I ought to be. prostoalex writes "The rumors of Ziff Davis filing for Chapter 11 can just stay rumors, as company claimed it achieved a compromise with bondholders on financial restructuring. Recently ZD has been shutting down a sleuth of print publications including Yahoo! Internet Life, Family PC, Expedia Travels, Interactive Week, eShopper and Smart Business. It is still a publisher of eWeek, PC Magazine, CIO Insight, ExtremeTech and other computer and gaming magazines."
The Washington Post Sunday Magazine has an article on the corporatization of boarding.
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I mean, having a computer in the bathroom, just ISN'T sanitary.
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If we can't trust wild, unconfirmed rumors, what can we trust?
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/. seems to have completely overlooked this, but Futurama showed up on Fox's Fall schedule a couple of months ago.
I'm an American. I love this country and the freedoms that we used to have.
No, you're quite alone on this one, Chester. In fact, you may have just sealed your fate.
Finally, math books without any of that base 6 crap in them.
Greg the bunny? I sure hope you're being sarcastic.
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I don't usually usually go around invoking any powers-that-bes' names (well, unless I'm debugging, but that's a different story ;-)), but yet again, CN has won my devotion --- I mean, Dexter, PPG, Samurai Jack, and now Futurama *bliss* The only thing that could make this any better is if I could figure out how to get the sattelite feed into my WinTV card so I can watch while I'm "working". Hrm... sounds like an Ask /. question....
Apparently Cartoon Network said that there are negotiations going on between Fox and Cartoon Network for the reruns of Futurama, not new episodes. We can hope that if the reruns do well, that they might produce new episodes, but that is not what they are currently talking about.
Rumors are usually just that, rumors... remember that Invader Zim/Hot Topic thing a while back? More bullshit. Why does
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I hate to promote this, but I live in Upstate New York (like in the state, not the city.) Revolution OS will be coming to my city...errr...well...probably never.
So, how 'bout someone posting a link to a Divx version of it?
-Pete
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Short answer:
Fox sucks.
Long answer:
It seems that they had it out for this show and were determined to kill it by giving it the crappiest time slot on their schedule (short of the middle of the night). When you are pre-empted by football through 80% of the season, people won't see you. Then they started showing it at different times... I got to the point where I didn't even know when it would be on next.
Meanwhile, they keep puking up more and more profoundly stupidly shows that last all of 6 episodes (if that) because anyone with a room temperature IQ (which doesn't seem to include Fox programmers) won't watch them.
To me, "Futurama" is "The Simpsons" freed from its format and need for consistency with 13+ years of history. There is much more room for experimentation and therefore, to me, the show seems fresher. Still, I enjoy both greatly, but obviously Fox wanted Futurama to fail. Otherwise why would they move it to 7 and keep firing crapppy show and after show at us at 8:30 (they got lucky with Malcolm, almost every other show that followed the Simpsons was pathetic (anyone remember "House of Buggin'"?).
So long answer:
Fox sucks.
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I think that Dr. Zoidberg said it best when he emoted:
"As the candy hearts poured into the fiery quasar, a wonderous thing happened, why not? They vaporized into a mystical love radiation that spread across the universe, destroying many, many planets - including two gangster planets and a cowboy world. But one planet was exactly the right distance to see the romantic rays, but not be destroyed by them - Earth. So all over the world, couples stood together in joy. And me, Zoidberg! And no one could've been happier, unless it would've also been Valentine's Day. What? It was? Hooray!"
Taken from http://www.politechbot.com/p-02305.html, posted there by Duncan Frissell.
Time for a new slashdot poll: How many slashdotters are fedral felons due to their file sharing activities? The person closest to guessing the correct quantity without going over wins a get out of jail free card, curtousy of John Ashcroft! Yeah!
The only thing that could make this any better is if I could figure out how to get the sattelite feed into my WinTV card so I can watch while I'm "working"
You can buy one of those cablebox/satellite remote-control adapters for your system, like the ones that snapstream (www.snapstream.com) offers to go with their scheduled recording software.
Also, it would be TONS better if TOON would pick up Invader Zim and made new episodes. Except I don't want to see little retarded "guest appearances" on Space Ghost or whatever. I hate it when they do that.
Get off my launchpad!
Oh please. This is been non-news for anyone who bothered to check out FOX's lineup for the coming Fall season:
http://www.fox.com/schedule/schedule_2002.htm
BUT! You'll notice Family Guy is conspicuously absent from that lineup. And they didn't even bother to leave us with a finale! Just sort of vanished halfway through last spring.
Time to fire up the ol' useless web petition.
- JoeShmoe
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-- I wonder which will go down in history as the bigger failure: the War on Drugs or the War on Filesharing
The letter to Ashcroft states that '[t]he copyright industries account for 5% of our gross domestic product.' Anyone have any thoughts on where this figure might have come from? My BS detecter is beeping.
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This post is strictly opinion, including the spelling.
The OS Revolution will not be televised.
but according to several readers this is a false alarm.
Well, I'll just start running this right now then.
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Of course if you'd read the article (specifically the only bit in red, I know it's hard to miss) you'd know this.
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> I thought the same thing first time I saw Futurama. It was nothing special, sometimes just boring, and Simpsons seemed so much better. I never watched Futurama after the first few episodes. Then, a few years later I saw it and watched it, and for some reason I found it very funny and have watched it whenever I had the chance.
I guess I'm a sort of half convert. My initial reaction was the same as yours. I do watch it now and then now, but I would only rate it as "amusing" for most episodes, and I still find a few of them dull enough to turn off in the middle.
It's not bad considering the other crap that establishes par these days, but I can't see being a fan over it. The Jackie Chan Adventures cartoon series beats it hands down for humor, IMO.
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"Julie Schwartz Slide Oddball Comics Show..."
Proper noun, proper noun, verb, adjective, noun, noun...
What the FUCK would this be in English?
You can probably find it on the giFT internet File Transfer (OpenFT) network.
h Linux documentary The Code (for which I tried to submit a review to Slashdot, only to have it rejected) floating around on it. (Ironically, at least a couple of dozen people on giFT have The Code--but absolutely nobody has it on KaZaa itself!)
You can also find the made-for-Finnish-TV-yet-almost-entirely-in-Englis
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I'm not sure how American's perceive King now, but IMHO it's the most painful, unfunny cartoon to watch, ever. I'd rather be forced to watch 5 hours of that grindingly tedious Dr Katts than 30 minutes of KotH.
Mind you, I never found Beavis and Butthead funny either, so it could be Mike Judge failing at comedy through animation, yet again.
Futurama is fantastic, on-par with the Simpsons in many places. Family Guy is also extremely cool.
Looks can be deceiving. Or CAN they?
So even though there is no 'charging' going on,
the value of the product still changes hands.
While someone who distributes unauthorized copies of copyrighted works over a P2P network _might_ download copyrighted works of similar value, it is perfectly ok to take and never give, or to give and never take. There is no contract or bargain, which is what the law is clearly aimed at. Only on a P2P network with some sort of BBS-style "upload quotas" would the NET law apply.
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To the casual observer, it's difficult to tell the difference between gross incompetence and internal sabotage.
I'm not sure which one it is. The decisions made by Fox's programming efforts seem to point to the fact that they were making a conscious effort to kill the show. As I'm sure you well know, those Hollywood types are often more concerned with their egos then anything else. Groening (sp?) may have just pissed off the wrong executive.
Or, you're right; they could have made the programming decisions because they are morons. I'm not a big time network executive, but I know that if a show is good you probably want to get people to watch it. After all, it worked for the Simpsons.
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I read your post and thought, wow a bored of the rings quote, cool.
I don't think they want it to fail, if they didn't want it, they would just pull it. Thney don't really have to answer to anybody about whats on the schedule.
I think there to afraid to mess around with what they percieve to be there money makers. They know futurerama is a money maker, what they have forgottenm is that they need to bite the bullet and take some risj so they can invest in long term growth, instead of sudden success.
They used to know how to do that, but then they got big enough to get serious sports.
In conclusion, Fox Sucks Now.
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I think they'll have to deal with two points though, as this isn't like stealing a car. Who's copying the files, the man with them or the man downloading them? If you say the man sharing them, then you have to prove that he intended for people to download them that didn't own the CD. What if you don't get all the file from one person? Point 2 is the backup factor. You are entitled one backup copy, and they will have to PROVE that you don't own them before they can get a warrent. There is no method of proving that you do or don't if you claim you are using your backup copy because you lost the original in a fire.
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is that it is subtle, very subtle. I'm surprised at the number of post that don't find it funny.
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It is completly nerdsville, and I love.
they make programming reference, engineering references, sci-fi references, and modern culture references.
How many people would have the guts to put this on the air:
"that happened in 2506...just after the second coming of christ"?
I paraphrased the year.
in the last episod I saw it had:
A marriage between Iron chef and Soylent green.
A styx reference(group not river)
Homophobic reference from a robot.
Wraith of Kahn joke.
poisoning
revenge
a frame up
destruction of a ship(in a bottle)
secret code(granted, they're in every episode)
Its one of the few shows that I don't understand why it is NOT 'embraced' by slashdot, yet Buffy is.
I suspect its because the first generation gamers/video game players/star wars people are getting old, and this generation is trying to glom onto anything they can call a product of there generation.
I guess I'll have to start all my conversations with "Back in my day..."
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Matt Groening spoke in Montreal a few weeks ago, and he specifically stated that Futurama has "at least one more season" he was hoping for more, and that he also "has a few projects up [his] sleeve"
I'm looking forward to said sleeve-projects.
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My question: will it be encrypted with CSS? Will it also have region coding or will it be a region-free DVD?
Time to walk the talk. Make Revolution OS a truly OPEN DVD. Do the right thing.
Knowledge is power. Knowledge shared is power multiplied.
High-velocity pizza delivery... Is Snow Crash really ten years old? While we really need to have Uncle Enzo arrange to have somebody take care of Ashcroft, if you count software, movies, music, Muzak, videos, books, web pages, and anything else that involves people writing or performing text or songs or other things with original thought, or anybody taking those things and packaging and marketing them, it sounds like it could easily be 5% of the GNP. Ignore whether copyright is actually relevant to the business models (Ashcroft probably does) - since the US joined the Berne Convention, just about anything is born copyrighted.
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To me, "Futurama" is "The Simpsons" freed from its format and need for consistency with 13+ years of history.
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If anything, the Simpsons is pretty far from consistent. Watch the earlier seasons and compare them to now - characters completely changed, gone, etc. Never mind the fact that the characters haven't aged one day in 13 years on the air - I don't think continuity issues are terribly important (hell, just last week Homer pointed out that he's had something like 75 different jobs
I don't catch as much Futurama as I'd like, but have they ever done anything remotely CLOSE to the 'Treehouse of Horror' episodes?
Endless arguments over trivial contradictions in books written by ignorant savages to explain thunder in the dark.
Why is it that the name "Homeland Security" gives me images of Nazis? That name really bothers me.
I think Futurama sucks. ;- )
When people don't get the "in" jokes, they blame the show, not their ignorance
I'll be happy to see it (Futurama) go to cable, so I won't see it anymore.
What? And you're seeing it NOW? How do you do that? I try to watch futurama and I can't! It seems to be on a random time slot...once in a while I get it on sunday at 19:00, but never more than twice in a row.
I guess its like cats: They are naturally drawn to people who are allergic to cats...maybe if I pretend to hate futurama, it'll show up on tv...
You can't take the sky from me...
ZD are definitely doing this the right way. Other companies could learn from their actions if they near bankruptcy.
If McDonald's starts to go under.. it can close all of its outlets and stop buying supplies! No more costs, the business can get back on its feet.
If Walmart starts to go under.. it can just close all of its stores. No more stock to buy, no staff to employ, costs will be through the floor, with profits sure to rebound.
Really, I'm thinking the best way for a multi-billion dollar company to make money these days is to shut down its main operation, accumulate the billions in a high interest bank account, and then dabble in risky investments.
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same here in sweden. they showed it at 11:30 PM Mondays on TV4 Then they moved it to Mondays at 4:30 in the afternoon. Suddenly it took off! It got pretty popular at that time slot. Now it is on hiatus because they shoed the whole first season. It should be back in a couple months with season 2 (in sweden during the off season they don't show reruns. they just have a different show on. usually there are 2 tv seasons every year the fall-winter and spring-summer seasons, each season with thier own shows) One bad thing about tv in sweden is that they always move the shows around. Star trek voyager is usually on at 10:30 PM sundays, but sometimes it starts at 11:00, or sometimes at 10:25, or even worse, it starts at 10:00, so when i turn it on at the normal 10:30, i have already missed most of it (it's only a 45 minute show because the channel it is on here in sweden does not have commercials) Anyway, here in sweden anyway they are selling Region 2 DVDs of Season 1 of Futurama, and since the commercials for that DVD are on alot, I imagine it is selling pretty well. on the screen is the TV4 logo, so i think it is sponsored by TV4. If the new episodes are going to be shown on cartoon network, I hope TV4 will grab those too, since cartoon network in sweden is all dubbed instead of subtitled :(
However if they "planned for it" like you said, and football ended "early", then they would have to fill that dead air with a post-game show or some crap that no one would watch.
"Planning for it" means scheduling a "Simpsons" rerun after the game rather than a new episode of Futurama, and giving Futurama a timeslot that isn't trampled. Like, for example, that same timeslot outside of football season.
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It's been a while since I've looked up the stats, but the dollar value for felony copyright violations of software is something insanely low. And of course they use the full retail price for determining value (kind of like how game shows do it), so simply pirating some high-cost software like Photoshop or Office can get you near if not over the dollar limit all by themselves. I know that technically I was a felon back in the late 1980s thanks to all those PC games I copied using CopyIIPC-- but then again so was everyone I knew, and computer stuff was way under the national radar back then.
At least mafia-owned pizzarias make excellent pizza. Compare to Bill Gates.
Do you actually watch anything on Fox? 90% of what they put on is pure tripe! Sure, they have had a few good, intelligent shows, but were it not for the Simpsons, Fox wouldn't even exist, not the the other way around.
I stand by "Fox sucks" and I think you give way too much credit to Hollywood in general. If they were really trying to get people to watch the show, they wouldn't pre-empt it 6 months out of the year.
It may (and I'm sure it does) take a tremendous amount of energy to cultivate a successful TV show, but that doesn't imply that it requires a tremendous amount of intelligence.
Fox would rather shovel heaps of crap into the 8:30 time slot ("Malcolm" excepted, I find it intelligent and funny) rather than have a guaranteed lock of Groening-show fans by leaving Futurama in its original time slot where it belonged. Does anyone else remember in years past, a spin-off of a successful show would follow the original, sometimes for years. The kind of thinking that moves low-rated shows around the schedule pretty much guarantees that it will lose even more viewers (They even _know_ this and yet they still do it.)
I can't speak about what it's like in the world of network TV, nor do I really care, but as a paying customer (everyone pays through slightly higher prices due to advertising, blah, blah, blah), I find their actions highly illogical and their intelligence suspect.
Fox sucks... how many times has "The Simpsons" itself said the same thing?
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