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Fox Considering a Return of "Family Guy"
wo1verin3 writes: "USA Today is reporting that all is not lost and due to exceptionally strong DVD sales Family Guy may return with as many as 35 new episodes! A DVD set of the show's first 28 episodes, released in April, has sold nearly 1 million copies, making it this year's top-selling TV show and the No. 4 television title ever, according to Video Store magazine."
yay.
Why do we have to keep hearing about that pasty little plain, 13 year old BSD chick? I'm sure she's the hottest thing these guys have seen, but come on!
At least Natalie Portman was worth trolling for, and appears to be above the age of consent. She may have even seen the sun once or twice!
vEver since Gnome 2.4 was released, I have found more and more gnome zealots
/gnu/celeron
who MUST absolutely advocate GNOME at every possible moment. Here is a guide
to some of their claims, and what they really mean.
Unlike KDE, Gnome is free
Translation : GPL is freerer than LGPL. LGPL allows corporations like Novell
and Sun to have propeitry forks and lock away their changes from the user. Now
that Novell has taken over Ximian you can expect Gnome to get put under
corpirate lock. With KDE you have the choice, you either PAY UP or pay with
your source code.
Nautilus is much better than konqueror.
Wrong, if your using nautilus for anything more than a simple finder clone you
can forget it. No split screen, no ioslaves and forget about being able to
have a decent file dialog, not to forget that it is as unstable as hell and is
STILL slow on >3 Ghz machines.
Gnome is easier to use
Yep, nothing like using gconf-editor to edit all except the most trivial of
settings. Want tear off menus? Want a useable file dialog? You won't find it
here.
Gnome has eye candy
Yes, my pirated Win32 fonts with the patent infringing font renderer. Bit
stream vera sans looks like Tahoma put through a shreadder! Of course I still
reboot into windows to print using "Comic Sans MS.
Gnome has a new web browser
Yawb! Along with Galeon, mozilla, thunderbird, konqueror, atlantis, lynx,
netscape and w3m. Yes I need another browser! Not to mention that its got a
religiously offensive name and it dosen't allow bookmark folders. It also
crashes like a crazy! Apple chose khtml for a REASON! its stable and light!
For newbies, Gnome is the ideal choice
Despite the fact that the only mainstream Gnome based distro has been EOL'd,
and all the newbie distros such as Mangadrake, Lindoze, $u$E, Lycoris,
Xandroze, Gentoo use kde default, the Local unix geek showed me Debian, which
installed Gnome 1.4 by default, so it must be good if he uses it.
You KDE guys must be sick of the K
Our G's and monkeys are SO MUCH better, gedit, glib, gconf, bobono, ghex,
gless, same-gnome.
Gnome is themeable
Yep, choose from High, low and medium contrast, default, and clean ice. Wan't
to change the colour scheme? USE GCONF NOOB, plus if you complain about it we
will tell you to fuck off and go back to Windows or KDE.
Gnome has multimedia framework
Its a kludge of esd combined with broken xine libraries. No wonder it crashes
all the time and dosen't work on 95% of video files
My Gnome work station
My 1.1Ghz Packard Bell box my mum bought for me from PC world, that is made of
made to break components, but it has a GEFORCE RADEON 9000 card, so it must be
good.On the other hand, no-one (well, nearly no-one) is suggesting that GTK+
is a replacement for Qt...
Gnome allows mac like operation.
x86 compatible 1 button mice are almost impossible to find, and it dosen't copy
the whole macbar concept. Not to even mention their auto apply implementation
is broken and dangerous! Plus if they did actually come anywhere close to
copying the Mac the C&D letters would come flying up their asses.
Gnome is GNU software.
gnu/Yay, gnu/gnome gnu/for gnu/my gnu/debian gnu/linux gnu/500mhz
gnu/packard gnu/bell gnu/box.
Inspired by the gentoo translate-o-matic.
The important question is our children learning
'Nuff said,
Kilgore Trout
When I was younger (12 to 15 years ago) we had great cartoons on TV in France.
They were really interesting and informative. For instance we had a cartoon called 'Les mysterieuses cites d'or' (something like 'The mysterious gold cities'). It was a story in about 30 episodes that took place in South America in the 16th or 17th century.
Through this cartoon I learned lots of things on Incas and other cultures. It was really cool and after each episode they put a very short film with real facts explaining something that appeared in the cartoon just before (a culture fact, etc).
Nowadays cartoons seems to use more and more slang and violence. I think that's a pity...
What kind of cartoons did you have in USA 20 years ago ?
Iraq: war to save the U
There was a Family Guy episode with some radio making Soviet Russia jokes - I don't remember the details. It's in the first DVD set.
My English teacher once told me that two positives don't make a negative. Two words for her: Yeah, right.
This is probably the fifth time in the past seven days that an article straight from Fark.com has been posted here.
Ah, I finally scrolled down far enough to find the comment I was going to write.
So how long will Katey Sagal's series last without John Ritter? Like 5 more episodes? Futurama has untapped potential, and is targetted at the right market; young male geeks with too much disposable income.
People shape laws. Not the other way around.
holy shit holy shit holy shit holy shit WOOOOOHOOOOOOOO
IM INSANE!