There's nothing wrong with wanting to escape the endless stupidity of our world for an hour every once in a while. Without a break the problems we face have the potential to become unsolveable and unbearable.
"Strong Arms of the Ma," which aired last week, is the 300th episode of the series. For some bizarre reason Fox is advertising the 302nd episode as the 300th.
No, Transformers in not in the same category as Robotech, Pokemon, or Dragonball. Transformers was made by and for people in the US. It's art may have been influenced by anime, but it is still an American production.
No, Transformers as a whole is not considered anime. First, it wasn't animated in Japan, unless Korea is part of Japan. Second, all but the final animation was made by and for people in the US.
There's one thing about the cost of making Farscape that you forgot. It may cost $1.5 million per episode, but Sci-Fi only pays half of that. The downside for Sci-Fi is that they're only licensing Farscape for a limited time and number of airings and can't make money on DVDs, videos, toys, etc.
Sci-Fi owns SG1 and can offset the show's cost with merchandising and endless reruns, plus they already have the audience SG1 established on Showtime and in syndication.
I do agree that SciFi engineered the circumstances needed to cancel Farscape. The 10 PM timeslot, delaying season 3's final four until April, and underpromoting the show in general gave Sci-Fi the perfect excuse to cancel the show; though, they hadn't planned on people finding out while there was still a chance to save it (a press release from the previous week even mentioned Farsape as a contributing factor to the network's ratings increase). Sci-Fi's assumption that science fiction fans are undiscriminating idiots who will watch whatever gets thrown at them didn't help matters either.
The network execs don't understand their audience or the genre.
The article isn't under the Anime topic because it is about Cartoon Network's Adult Swim programming block as a whole, not just anime that happen to air during the block.
Why not force Microsoft to divulge its API's and protocols for free? It's not like MS is being forced to release its code under the GPL. They have been found guilty of violating antitrust law and this is supposed to be a penalty for that crime. Making the APIs and protocols freely accessible to anyone who wishes to view them is a perfectly reasonable way to restore a level playing field to the software industry. Microsoft has proven that it will weasel its way out of anything less.
Since so much of the code in Microsoft's products is developed by third party sources, it sometimes makes me wonder what the hell their army of programmers actually does all day long...
Well, someone has to write all of the bugs and security holes.
I do not believe that SciFi cancelled Farscape. I know they did. SciFi may not own the series, but the network does provide most of its budget. I doubt Ben Browder, David Kemper, and Richard Manning were lying during the chat held last night at scifi.com. A letter from Anthony Simcoe confirmed the news.
Apparantly, there isn't time to end things properly. The people working on the show only found out two days before shooting on the fourth season wrapped.
You're right about the intro for the first two seasons of TNG. The video was redone for the third season and remained that way for the rest of the series. The only real difference between the two is that the first two seasons had the camera move past planets in our solar system, while the third season intro featured objects outside the solar system.
I thik you need to take your civics class again. The Articles of Confederation were designed to create a weak and fragmented Federal Government, which didn't work out too well. States were setting absurd taxes on goods from their neighbors and even printing their own currency. The current constitution was meant to fix that by establishing a Federal Government that had authority in matters concerning the nation as a whole and when states came into conflict. It does move slowly by design, but as a result of checks and balances against corruption and an ability to be reinterpreted rather than an attempt to keep it weak and fragmented. It's starting to show some flaws after 213 years, but it is still better than the Articles of Confederation.
Our chief weapon is loops... loops and assignments... assignments and loops...Our two chief weapons are assignments and loops... and conditionals... Our three weapons are assignments, loops, and conditionals... and function libraries... Our four.. no... Amongst our weapons... Amongst our weaponry... are such elements as assignments, loops... I'll come again.
A more 'practical' weapons application would be as a type of stun device, though. Hell, they are getting ready to start deploying a sonic based 'non-lethal' weapon, it's already mounted on a destroyer. Supposedly makes it impossible to do anything but clap your hands on your head and cry 'make it stop' over and over.
I thought that was what Celine Dion and the various boyband clones were for.
Where did you get the idea that the english dub of Cowboy Bebop was edited? Sure, Cartoon Network made several minor edits to the broadcast version, but the DVD release is unaltered with the exception of english language credits and english audio.
Bandai spent a great deal of time translating and recording the english audio to deliver the best product possible and never marketed it to a younger audience. The time and effort put into the english dub resulted in a product that is in many ways better than the original version. Every character in the english dub is exactly who they should be. Faye is a woman who acts like a jaded slut, but is really trying to hider her insecurities. Spike acts like a badass who's too cool for everything. Ed is wacky, random, weird, and completely over the top. The only character that doesn't quite work in the english dub is Cowboy Andy.
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From what I've heard from people who have seen Tremors the series, you aren't missing much.
There's nothing wrong with wanting to escape the endless stupidity of our world for an hour every once in a while. Without a break the problems we face have the potential to become unsolveable and unbearable.
I wouldn't be scared by such a worm. I'd just use my uncursed +1 antivirus program.
Kang: Abortions for all
Crowd: (boo)
Kang: Very well, no abortions for anyone.
Crowd: (boo)
Kang: Hmm... Abortions for some, miniature American flags for others.
Crowd: (cheers)
My theory is that the Sci-Fi Channel's executives hate science fiction and its fans.
Actually, the 300th episode aired last Sunday, February 2nd. For some bizarre reason Fox is marketing the show's 302nd episode as the 300th.
Relative to Columbia's speed, the foam was only moving at about five-hundred miles per hour.
"Strong Arms of the Ma," which aired last week, is the 300th episode of the series. For some bizarre reason Fox is advertising the 302nd episode as the 300th.
No, Transformers in not in the same category as Robotech, Pokemon, or Dragonball. Transformers was made by and for people in the US. It's art may have been influenced by anime, but it is still an American production.
No, Transformers as a whole is not considered anime. First, it wasn't animated in Japan, unless Korea is part of Japan. Second, all but the final animation was made by and for people in the US.
One makefile to rule them all
One makefile to find them
One makefile to bring them all
And in the darkness bind them
Don't get mad. It was either that or "All your makefile are belong to us."
Sci-Fi owns SG1 and can offset the show's cost with merchandising and endless reruns, plus they already have the audience SG1 established on Showtime and in syndication.
I do agree that SciFi engineered the circumstances needed to cancel Farscape. The 10 PM timeslot, delaying season 3's final four until April, and underpromoting the show in general gave Sci-Fi the perfect excuse to cancel the show; though, they hadn't planned on people finding out while there was still a chance to save it (a press release from the previous week even mentioned Farsape as a contributing factor to the network's ratings increase). Sci-Fi's assumption that science fiction fans are undiscriminating idiots who will watch whatever gets thrown at them didn't help matters either.
The network execs don't understand their audience or the genre.
The article isn't under the Anime topic because it is about Cartoon Network's Adult Swim programming block as a whole, not just anime that happen to air during the block.
Why not force Microsoft to divulge its API's and protocols for free? It's not like MS is being forced to release its code under the GPL. They have been found guilty of violating antitrust law and this is supposed to be a penalty for that crime. Making the APIs and protocols freely accessible to anyone who wishes to view them is a perfectly reasonable way to restore a level playing field to the software industry. Microsoft has proven that it will weasel its way out of anything less.
Well, someone has to write all of the bugs and security holes.
I do not believe that SciFi cancelled Farscape. I know they did. SciFi may not own the series, but the network does provide most of its budget. I doubt Ben Browder, David Kemper, and Richard Manning were lying during the chat held last night at scifi.com. A letter from Anthony Simcoe confirmed the news.
Apparantly, there isn't time to end things properly. The people working on the show only found out two days before shooting on the fourth season wrapped.
You're right about the intro for the first two seasons of TNG. The video was redone for the third season and remained that way for the rest of the series. The only real difference between the two is that the first two seasons had the camera move past planets in our solar system, while the third season intro featured objects outside the solar system.
I thik you need to take your civics class again. The Articles of Confederation were designed to create a weak and fragmented Federal Government, which didn't work out too well. States were setting absurd taxes on goods from their neighbors and even printing their own currency. The current constitution was meant to fix that by establishing a Federal Government that had authority in matters concerning the nation as a whole and when states came into conflict. It does move slowly by design, but as a result of checks and balances against corruption and an ability to be reinterpreted rather than an attempt to keep it weak and fragmented. It's starting to show some flaws after 213 years, but it is still better than the Articles of Confederation.
Our chief weapon is loops... loops and assignments... assignments and loops...Our two chief weapons are assignments and loops... and conditionals... Our three weapons are assignments, loops, and conditionals... and function libraries... Our four.. no... Amongst our weapons... Amongst our weaponry... are such elements as assignments, loops... I'll come again.
Three monkeys, ten minutes.
Yes, exactly.
Rampaging killbots?
I thought that was what Celine Dion and the various boyband clones were for.
Bandai spent a great deal of time translating and recording the english audio to deliver the best product possible and never marketed it to a younger audience. The time and effort put into the english dub resulted in a product that is in many ways better than the original version. Every character in the english dub is exactly who they should be. Faye is a woman who acts like a jaded slut, but is really trying to hider her insecurities. Spike acts like a badass who's too cool for everything. Ed is wacky, random, weird, and completely over the top. The only character that doesn't quite work in the english dub is Cowboy Andy.