The Reavers haven't been around long enough for the first generation to die off. That said, there's an episode of the series that suggests they don't reproduce so much as they recruit. There's more than one way to keep a society's numbers up.
Still not sure how they manage to cooperate well enough to run big ships, though.
The ability to recognize quality and the ability to produce it are distinct. I can appreciate a good symphony, but I sure as heck can't play the violin worth a damn.
It's 2019. After George Lucas' death two years ago, the new owners of Lusacsfilm showed less restraint in exploiting the franchise. Next week, the Star Wars channel launches. There's already enough material for 24-hour-a-day marathons for the first month, after which they plan to launch the fall season of Star Wars, including Star Wars: Miami, Star Wars Nights, Star Wars: Las Vegas, and Everybody Hates Darth.
In other news, Microsoft's Linux distro has taken over about 60% of the desktop market, and the Sony Apple is taking living room entertainment centers by storm. This year's hot music item is the iPod Nanite (it's implanted in your ear). The fifth round of browser wars have heated up, though, with Operavigator trying to break SafariFox's stranglehold over the web.
Interesting list. It's ironic that The Phantom Menace, widely regarded as the worst of the series, grossed the most (easily explained by the fact that it was the first new Star Wars in 16 years and most people hadn't had a chance to get disillusioned yet), and The Empire Strikes Back, which many people regard as the best in the series (some prefer the original) grossed the least.
I assume these numbers are just cumulative; it would be interesting to see them adjusted for inflation, though that means separating out the receipts from each re-release -- and Star Wars (I still don't think of it as A New Hope or Episode IV) has been re-released at least twice prior to the Special Edition re-release.
I imagine it would be easier to catch him if Bin Laden was actually *in* the US and left a paper trail every time he put a new terrorist plot up on P2P.
The TV show was basically Joss' chance to do what he was trying to do with the movie (which was constantly interfered with by higher-ups and, apparently, Donald Sutherland, who reportedly wasn't willing to do things like learn his lines.)
Anyone know if this is going to be a staged release, or if its going to go wide fairly soon?
It depends entirely on how well it does in limited release this weekend. If it does really well, it'll probably go wide. If not... we'll all be waiting for the DVD. While the Henson company is thrilled with it, Sony is being really cautious.
Hey, Clerks was close to perfection! And he did a great job on... uh... well... that one wasn't so good, how about... no, not that one either... maybe... no... hmm... uh, Dogma was okay...
From interviews with Neil Gaiman, the movie got started when the Henson company looked at Dark Crystal and Labyrinth and noticed that while they didn't do very well in theaters, they've turned out to be quite successful in the home video market. People keep buying the tapes, DVDs, etc. year after year.
So they went to him and said, "Can you come up with an idea for a movie in this style, that we could produce on a low budget, and could you put in a word with Dave McKean? And we know we can't affort you as the writer, but would you at least come up with the story?" At that point he said something like "If Dave's direting it, I'm writing it," they got the deal, the two of them went off to spend a week or two in the Hensons' vacation home developing the story, and launched into it from there.
So while it would be wonderful if it did well in theaters, the studio is really counting on it being part of their home video line for the next 20 years -- just like The Dark Crystal and Labyrinth.
Yes, MirrorMask is in limited release right now. And at least some of those theaters are only running it for a week. According to Gaiman, if it does well on its opening weekend, Sony may try a wider release.
So if you're close enough to one of those theaters, and you're interested in seeing it on the big screen, go see it this weekend! (a) You might not get another chance, and (b) you'll help convince the studio to give it another chance.
You're missing a critical point, which is that not all blogs are worthless, and that worth depends entirely on what you're searching for.
For instance, someone looking for information about red pandas is going to have trouble if they search for "firefox." Not blog related at all, but for that person, all this junk about some web browser is worthless crap clogging their search results.
Sure, there are a bunch of blogs that probably aren't going to help you much... but what about the guy who spends 8 hours trying to research a tech problem, finally figures it out, and posts a detailed summary on his blog? If the information you want is buried in one cryptic mailing list post from three years ago that doesn't use many of the phrases people are likely to search for, you might actually be better off if that blog entry is included in your search results.
What you *really* want to do is filter the crap from your search results, not filter the blogs. And you know what, that's what the search engines want to do, too. A "blog" meta tag isn't going to help.
The plots are simplistic with only the vaguest linking between shows. And, most importantly, the world isn't internally consistant.
Kind of like The Simpsons, or South Park, or most sitcoms.
There's nothing wrong with the episodic format, and when you're dealing with, essentially, an antholigy, continuity between shows isn't the be-all and end-all. (Continuity within an episode, of course, is critical for suspension of disbelief.)
Of course, a continuing story is much more rewarding than something you can sit down and watch once in a while -- but it takes more effort to get involved.
just because someone takes Gunsmoke, and throws some spaceships into the show doesn't necessarily make it sci-fi.
Hmm, did Gunsmoke have a secret government plot in which people were experimenting on human subjects' brains in order to create a telepath and/or telekinetic?
While the original Star Trek probably deserves the top spot, the only other show that had fans actively protesting and trying to reverse its cancellation was Farscape.
The only other show? Hardly. These days, any genre show that has fans gets at least a letter-writing campaign when it gets cancelled, unless there's a sense that it's time has come (i.e. Babylon 5 completing its 5-year story arc, or Buffy the Vampire Slayer completing seven years with its spin-off still going.) Unfortunately this means that studios pay less attention to the letters, because they figure it's just something that happens when you cancel a show.
Admittedly, the only shows I can think of in the last decade or so that had successful campaigns are Farscape and Firefly. With Farscape it was mainly a matter of keeping the interest visible while studio politics worked things out. (A big issue was that the Jim Henson company was owned by some media conglomerate that didn't want to pay up for a fifth season, but then the Henson family bought the company back. And another copmany entirely put up the funding based on the fans' visibility. Sci-Fi Channel just bought the broadcast rights after the whole thing was done.) With Firefly, the big thing that landed the movie deal wasn't a diret result of a campaign -- it was that the DVD set sold phenomenally well. (This of course, came from fans introducing the show to friends, who would then go out and buy their own copies, show them to other friends, etc.)
As long as the syntax is relatively easy to learn and write, I don't see that it matters whether it's XML or some other plain-text format. It just has to be portable.
Up to now, it's been much easier to copy a website with all its settings from one Apache server to another than to do the same on IIS.
For the seasoned admin, config files are much easier to work with. A GUI that edits the config files is even better, but a GUI alone is a pain to work with for anything but small changes.
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The Reavers haven't been around long enough for the first generation to die off. That said, there's an episode of the series that suggests they don't reproduce so much as they recruit. There's more than one way to keep a society's numbers up.
Still not sure how they manage to cooperate well enough to run big ships, though.
Not gonna happen. That would require the network to admit it made a mistake.
As for the voodoo arts of bureaucracy...
Of course, there's always the Office Voodoo Kit...
Plus Episode IV has been re-released about five times, whereas Episode III is still on its first round.
Hell of a typo. Not quite on the level of leaving out the word "not," but significant enough.
The ability to recognize quality and the ability to produce it are distinct. I can appreciate a good symphony, but I sure as heck can't play the violin worth a damn.
It's 2019. After George Lucas' death two years ago, the new owners of Lusacsfilm showed less restraint in exploiting the franchise. Next week, the Star Wars channel launches. There's already enough material for 24-hour-a-day marathons for the first month, after which they plan to launch the fall season of Star Wars, including Star Wars: Miami, Star Wars Nights, Star Wars: Las Vegas, and Everybody Hates Darth.
In other news, Microsoft's Linux distro has taken over about 60% of the desktop market, and the Sony Apple is taking living room entertainment centers by storm. This year's hot music item is the iPod Nanite (it's implanted in your ear). The fifth round of browser wars have heated up, though, with Operavigator trying to break SafariFox's stranglehold over the web.
The big rumor, of course, is that BSD is dying.
Interesting list. It's ironic that The Phantom Menace, widely regarded as the worst of the series, grossed the most (easily explained by the fact that it was the first new Star Wars in 16 years and most people hadn't had a chance to get disillusioned yet), and The Empire Strikes Back, which many people regard as the best in the series (some prefer the original) grossed the least.
I assume these numbers are just cumulative; it would be interesting to see them adjusted for inflation, though that means separating out the receipts from each re-release -- and Star Wars (I still don't think of it as A New Hope or Episode IV) has been re-released at least twice prior to the Special Edition re-release.
I imagine it would be easier to catch him if Bin Laden was actually *in* the US and left a paper trail every time he put a new terrorist plot up on P2P.
The TV show was basically Joss' chance to do what he was trying to do with the movie (which was constantly interfered with by higher-ups and, apparently, Donald Sutherland, who reportedly wasn't willing to do things like learn his lines.)
Anyone know if this is going to be a staged release, or if its going to go wide fairly soon?
It depends entirely on how well it does in limited release this weekend. If it does really well, it'll probably go wide. If not... we'll all be waiting for the DVD. While the Henson company is thrilled with it, Sony is being really cautious.
Hey, Clerks was close to perfection! And he did a great job on... uh... well... that one wasn't so good, how about... no, not that one either... maybe... no... hmm... uh, Dogma was okay...
Having seen plenty of fans use "insane troll logic" to justify things... yes, I do believe you are correct.
From interviews with Neil Gaiman, the movie got started when the Henson company looked at Dark Crystal and Labyrinth and noticed that while they didn't do very well in theaters, they've turned out to be quite successful in the home video market. People keep buying the tapes, DVDs, etc. year after year.
So they went to him and said, "Can you come up with an idea for a movie in this style, that we could produce on a low budget, and could you put in a word with Dave McKean? And we know we can't affort you as the writer, but would you at least come up with the story?" At that point he said something like "If Dave's direting it, I'm writing it," they got the deal, the two of them went off to spend a week or two in the Hensons' vacation home developing the story, and launched into it from there.
So while it would be wonderful if it did well in theaters, the studio is really counting on it being part of their home video line for the next 20 years -- just like The Dark Crystal and Labyrinth.
Yes, MirrorMask is in limited release right now. And at least some of those theaters are only running it for a week. According to Gaiman, if it does well on its opening weekend, Sony may try a wider release.
So if you're close enough to one of those theaters, and you're interested in seeing it on the big screen, go see it this weekend! (a) You might not get another chance, and (b) you'll help convince the studio to give it another chance.
I don't know. Why couldn't we just use the original words? It's just something that happens a lot on the internet.
You're missing a critical point, which is that not all blogs are worthless, and that worth depends entirely on what you're searching for.
For instance, someone looking for information about red pandas is going to have trouble if they search for "firefox." Not blog related at all, but for that person, all this junk about some web browser is worthless crap clogging their search results.
Sure, there are a bunch of blogs that probably aren't going to help you much... but what about the guy who spends 8 hours trying to research a tech problem, finally figures it out, and posts a detailed summary on his blog? If the information you want is buried in one cryptic mailing list post from three years ago that doesn't use many of the phrases people are likely to search for, you might actually be better off if that blog entry is included in your search results.
Daring Fireball has a term for this: Writing for Google.
What you *really* want to do is filter the crap from your search results, not filter the blogs. And you know what, that's what the search engines want to do, too. A "blog" meta tag isn't going to help.
Kind of like The Simpsons, or South Park, or most sitcoms.
There's nothing wrong with the episodic format, and when you're dealing with, essentially, an antholigy, continuity between shows isn't the be-all and end-all. (Continuity within an episode, of course, is critical for suspension of disbelief.)
Of course, a continuing story is much more rewarding than something you can sit down and watch once in a while -- but it takes more effort to get involved.
just because someone takes Gunsmoke, and throws some spaceships into the show doesn't necessarily make it sci-fi.
Hmm, did Gunsmoke have a secret government plot in which people were experimenting on human subjects' brains in order to create a telepath and/or telekinetic?
A Los-Angeles area PBS station ran the show several times in the late 1980s/early 1990s.
Now that's a show that could use season-by-season DVD boxed sets!
(AFAIK, it's only out in Region 2)
While the original Star Trek probably deserves the top spot, the only other show that had fans actively protesting and trying to reverse its cancellation was Farscape.
The only other show? Hardly. These days, any genre show that has fans gets at least a letter-writing campaign when it gets cancelled, unless there's a sense that it's time has come (i.e. Babylon 5 completing its 5-year story arc, or Buffy the Vampire Slayer completing seven years with its spin-off still going.) Unfortunately this means that studios pay less attention to the letters, because they figure it's just something that happens when you cancel a show.
Admittedly, the only shows I can think of in the last decade or so that had successful campaigns are Farscape and Firefly. With Farscape it was mainly a matter of keeping the interest visible while studio politics worked things out. (A big issue was that the Jim Henson company was owned by some media conglomerate that didn't want to pay up for a fifth season, but then the Henson family bought the company back. And another copmany entirely put up the funding based on the fans' visibility. Sci-Fi Channel just bought the broadcast rights after the whole thing was done.) With Firefly, the big thing that landed the movie deal wasn't a diret result of a campaign -- it was that the DVD set sold phenomenally well. (This of course, came from fans introducing the show to friends, who would then go out and buy their own copies, show them to other friends, etc.)
It's never just the letter-writing.
Where does it say you are required to sell someone a gun unless they match those criteria?
There's a big difference between "You may sell to anyone who is not on this list" and "You must sell to anyone who is not on this list."
Hmm, wouldn't furnishing someone a murder weapon, if you know what they plan to do with it, make you an accessory to the murder (or attempted murder)?
I'm not talking about people who want gun manufacturers and dealers to be liable for what end-users do with it, I'm talking about a simple scenario:
"I need something to commit murder with."
"Here you go!"
It seems to me that the act of money changing hands doesn't figure into it.
Let's change it slightly -- forget guns, let's use a chainsaw.
"I need a chainsaw."
"OK"
No problem there, the person providing the chainsaw can assume the other person needs it for yard work or something.
"I need a chainsaw so I can chop my husband into little bits and add him to the mulch pile."
"Uh, I don't think that's a good idea."
But somehow, s/chainsaw/gun/ changes everything?
As long as the syntax is relatively easy to learn and write, I don't see that it matters whether it's XML or some other plain-text format. It just has to be portable.
Up to now, it's been much easier to copy a website with all its settings from one Apache server to another than to do the same on IIS.
For the seasoned admin, config files are much easier to work with. A GUI that edits the config files is even better, but a GUI alone is a pain to work with for anything but small changes.
There's the problem! If only they'd stuck with beige boxes instead of switching to black, people wouldn't be so confused!