Alternatively, they could decide that all of Enterprise was non-canon and redo the timeline under the original premise - no transporters, translators, and without every darn TOS race they could squeeze in. With new writers.
Kevin Smith has offered several times to write a new Trek series. Give Smith a crack at this. Make sure Berman and Braga are kept as far away as possible from it. Maybe even allow some humor in the series...what a concept!
My idea of what Enterprise should have been would be a return to the '60s idea of the future from TOS. Captain Archer should be a free-lovin', two fisted prototype for Kirk. T'Pol should be Spock with tits and sexual tension between her and Archer. (Never, EVER allow this to be consummated.) The visual look of the show should be TOS with better production values and '60s retro-futurism. Miniskirted uniforms for female crew members! Bio-engineered Klingons without silly putty on their foreheads! It would rock.
Imagine all that and Kevin Smith directing. Now that is something I'd watch religiously.
Osama Bin Forgotten...I mean Osama bin'Laden...released a video tape today. If George W(ithout Honor) Bush was truly the "security" President instead of the "Safety Dance" President, bin'Laden would be dead and his head rotting on a pike somewhere in Afghanistan.
Hey all you "security moms" who voted this asshole in for a second term: what are you going to do when bin'Laden strikes again on US soil? Did Dubya keep your widdle home safe? Because bin'Laden's assessment is correct: it would be almost too easy to get around Homeland Security. Chertoff is doing a heck of a job, you know.
Would a President Gore have done better in 9/11? Well, for one thing, the Clinton Administration shut down two attempts by Arab terrorists to launch an attack on US soil. The Clinton Administration was hip to bin'Laden and the danger of Al'Qaeda, and tried to impress that danger on Dubya when he was coming in. At best, his reaction was "What, me worry?" At worst, he was protecting the Family Friends in the House of Saud.
I believe that if Gore had been allowed to take his rightful seat in the White House instead of being usurped, we might not be talking about 9/11 changing everything now. We might be talking about the trials of 20 Arab nationals who were caught trying to sneak boxcutters onto three planes. Or, we might have been talking about the trial of Osama bin'Laden at the World Court at Den Haag for crimes against humanity. Or both.
The more interesting possibility for many users will not be directly booting or dual-booting Windows XP, but rather running Windows XP at essentially the full speed of the underlying hardware in a virtual machine, right alongside Mac OS X.
This is actually the absolute best possible scenario for running Windows on a MacIntel. The untrusted OS (Windows XP) would run sandboxed in a virtual machine. It would get access to the internet and to hardware, but not "bare metal" access. It would all be mediated through Mac OS X and the virtual machine technology. It would have a "C drive" that is basically a file on the Mac OS X filesystem. And most importantly it would not get root access on the machine. At all. Do you see how this would be a better scenario than dual-booting?
Intel has been working on virtualization technologies for years. The new Yonah/Core chips have that capability. Apple went Intel at the right time.
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The reason why Intel is now playing games with chip names is that they found out something about the P4 round about 3GHz or so: the P4 can only scale in a limited way. PIII was a way more scalable chip design. And the folks at Intel's Israeli division who designed Pentium M/Core designed a chip which can do more per clock cycle than a P4 can.
A car with an engine that runs at more revolutions per minute than another car is not necessarily the faster car.
All hail the almighty Pentax MX. 100% manual. Outrageously tiny for its time period. (1976 -early '80s.)Only Leicas were smaller when the MX was first released. I got mine in 1980, and mechanically it is still 100% functional. The light meter is a little wonky, but selenium cells have a limited lifespan. Mine has been in mosh pits, on top of buildings at LA Valley College, in smoky clubs and in the Great Outdoors. 25 years of use. Gotta love it.
That FM10 could probably be willed to your grandchildren and still be functional. Whether there will still be 35MM film or not is an open question. Hell, I suspect that Nikkormat cameras, the mainstay of news operations in the 1960s, will be fully functional save for their light meters at the turn of the next century. Again, film might not be available, but the actual guts of the camera will function.
Compare this to the auto-this, auto-that cameras that were rampant when I was looking for an SLR, and which had almost taken the prosumer market over long before digital killed the 35MM star. Those cameras don't last. Then again, nowadays we marvel at something technological with a useful lifespan of 5 years, much less 25. There are still clones of Pentax's classic K1000 camera being made in China, long after the end of Pentax's manufacture in 1997.
Mac user mostly. Got $1,000,000 for a few seconds of music for Windows 95. If The Beast of Redmond paid me a million for a few seconds of music, I'd do it.
However, it seems like David Byrne is a Windows Kool-ade drinker. I wouldn't be surprised if Byrne was the one who passed Fripp's contact info to his buddy Bill.
The Crimson song "Dig Me" should factor somewhere in the Windows Vista sound set. It's about a broken down piece of crap car. Perfect for a new OS by a company with a broken down piece of crap business model.
Hey, if it's got the handcrank, so much the better! I'm actually lusting after one of those puppies with the hand crank...$200 for something that's about the size of the Apple eMate, with the ability to run on elbow grease? Fuck yeah, bring it on! The MIT device would probably be a great replacement for my dead PDA. When you are down on your batteries and there's no place to plug in, a crank would be a godsend.
Yep, that's my Navi. "Blueberry" original 300MHz iBook. My Aunt Karen initially owned Navi, and the thing literally went around the world with her when she was a travel writer. She passed it off to me last year when she made the questionable "upgrade" to a VAIO. I sent it to the folks at Wegener Media to get a 30GB HD and 512MB SO-DIMM to bring the specs up from the 3.2GB/192MB it originally shipped with. I run Navi on Mac OS X Panther 10.3.9. It's not a speed daemon with that...you can only push a 300MHz G3 so far. But it gets me there.
I have been using Navi at college now for the past semester, and it's been great. Navi has an AirPort card, and using wireless on Mac OS X is a satiny smooth experience when you compare it to the fiddliness of wireless under Linux or under Windows. (Wireless+Windows=security nightmare!)
The original clamshell iBook is built to last. It's made out of that Fisher-Price ABS plastic that the iMac and the "flavored" minitowers are made of. It was designed to take the kind of bumps expected from the K-12 kids it was designed for. Yeah, it's heavy. Yeah, it's got an 800 x 600 screen when 1024 x 768+ is normal. But that's a solid machine. I fully expect it to be still running and still useful in 5 more years. Maybe Apple doesn't make lappies to last now like they did in the past. But the iBook comes from a time that they did.
The Google Box will run a custom Linux distro, GoogLinux. It will probably be largely based on either Ubuntu or Mepis (note, these are both Debian derivatives and have easy updating goodness via.DEB/apt-get) but since Google is absolutely swimming in Linux wizards it will be extensively customized.
There will be a custom version of MythTV installed which will allow the Google Box to be a PVR. It will also license the same DVD player that Linspire licensed which is fully DVD Forum approved and will run encrypted DVDs without hacking around with decoder libs. You know which one I'm talking about, don't you? ^_~
Actually, one possibility for GoogLinux I just now thought of: Google buys Linspire off of Michael Robertson, and washes all the suck away from the distro. Another Debian derivative that could conceivably rock if someone else was running the show.
Anyway, if this box is true, I assure you it will run some flavor of Linux. Long shot: it runs FreeBSD with a GNU + KDE userland.
And you didn't mention what came to my mind upon reading this story: the two classic Warner Bros. cartoon shorts with the "house of the future," the out of control droids, the record changer that throws records around, etc. etc.
It seems like ever since he took power as Boris Yeltzin's hand-picked successor he has been feverishly working to basically reestablish Russia as "The Soviet Union with Capitalism." And his idea of Capitalism is sort of, kind of, alien: he is re-nationalizing a lot of industries, most notably the petroleum industry.
Of course, none of the "good things" wrt the old Soviet Union still exist: their education system is decimated, and there is no health safety net anymore. Life expectancies are galloping backwards thanks to drug-resistant TB strains bred in the "new Gulags" of Russia and an AIDS crisis that Putin is in complete denial about.
I would not put it past Comrade Putin to re-target the remaining Soviet-era nukes at the US again. Of course, they have less of them and so do we thanks to Yeltzin-era demilitarization efforts and the reductions built into the various treaties signed with the old Soviet Union. But I'm sure it's still enough for Mutually Assured Destruction. And with the G. W. Bush doctrine of "preemption," MAD would be a lot MAD-der than it was back in the '80s. Putin would have to deal with a certifiably insane foreign policy run by a guy who claims to have a direct hotline to Jay-zus. Sort of like dealing with Chechen rebels, only this time the religious fanatic in question has nukes.
They *hurt*. They fall out of your ears. They focus sound all wrong.
Give me a good set of headphones and nobody gets hurt.
Besides, those pasty white regulation iPod earbuds are an open invite to theft for those so inclined. If I have a big clunky set of headphones attached to anything, be it my Mini Disc player or a future iPod or whatever, it's not obvious what I'm listening to. I might even be some sort of looney wearing them to fend off the evil radiation from the Computer Gangster God Control or whatever. I suspect that my insistence on cans would save my ass and my property.
...I would be angry now. I was angry until I got the facts about this case. These numb-nuts at ACME Games played themselves by installing the 77 "borrowed" games.
If this was simply a case of "here's the mod chip, go have fun" and Microsoft threw a fit, I would be supportive. But as far as giving people "borrowed" games they have no rights to, that's beyond the pale. This is a case of Warez pure and simple.
I have no sympathy. They were trading in Warez, and what's more they were doing it openly. That's not only wrong, it's *dumb.*
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One of my big pet peeves about Los Angeles Valley College was their insistence on using my SSN for everything. Luckily Woodbury University issues you a student ID. The only creepy thing is that Woodbury's ID number pattern is XXX-XX-XXXX just like an SSN. Gee, thanks a lot. Instead of using a real SSN, you use a fake one. I suppose it's progress but not by much.
Dems are some of the worst pushers of "Trusted" (I like the term "Treacherous") Computing and other attempts to fence the Commons. My congresscritter is Howard Berman (D-RIAA/MPAA) and my two senators, Boxer and Feinstein, are also thoroughly 0wn3d by Big Media. Remember the "Clipper Chip?" That was a Clinton Administration initiative. The GOP is very anti Fair Use as well. (The RIAA and MPAA is bi-partisan. They tend to buy both parties.)
This puts me in a very uncomfortable position. I don't want to support Berman, Boxer and Feinstein's efforts in support of their patrons in the Four Families of the Record Industry, (that worked better when there were still five record companies, alas) the Motion Picture industry, TV, and Clear Channel (What? it's still called Radio? Could have fooled me!) but the fact is that I agree with them on a lot of other issues and they all have mostly been voting from the Democratic wing of the Democratic Party of the United States of America. (Feinstein's support for the rancid Bankruptcy Bill notwithstanding.)
I think the Greens are perhaps the most "pure" supporters of a robust Commons, but alas, they don't have much chance in this system. The Founders didn't like the Westminster (Parliamentary) system, so we got a system that has little chance for third parties to make a big difference in politics. Ferdinand Lundberg once made a convincing argument that we have a single-party system here in America, the Property Party, with two wings: Democratic and Republican.
I guess what we geeks all need to do is get more active in our local Democratic Party establishment and push our agenda along with a broader progressive agenda. But right now, to say that the Democratic Party has more of our interests at heart is foolhardy and ignores recent history. It probably won't do a lot of good but it's worth a try.
One can ask if Dashboard is a rip-off of Konfabulator and it would be a very good question. Apple swears up and down it was an independent creation...however...
The closest thing you can get to that at this point is Peter Chung's 30-minute prequel OAV animated short "Dark Fury" which was released concurrently with "The Chronicles of Riddick" and has ownage over both "Riddick" and the original movie "Pitch Black."
Both movies were like live-action video games where you were cheated out of the fun of actually controlling a character. Peter Chung's work on "Dark Fury" was excellent and although the movie still felt like a video game (animated, this time) there was more substance to it and the animation, as usual, rocked.
Oh yeah, Chung did "Matriculated," one of the nine "Animatrix" shorts. It was one of the better ones.
Between "Animatrix," "Dark Fury," and the "Clone Wars" animated shorts by Genndy Tartakovsky it is obvious that if you really want to do a good sequel to an blockbuster SF movie, you should do it animated. And get decent directors. Someone like a Tartakovsky or a Chung.
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Alternatively, they could decide that all of Enterprise was non-canon and redo the timeline under the original premise - no transporters, translators, and without every darn TOS race they could squeeze in. With new writers.
Kevin Smith has offered several times to write a new Trek series. Give Smith a crack at this. Make sure Berman and Braga are kept as far away as possible from it. Maybe even allow some humor in the series...what a concept!
My idea of what Enterprise should have been would be a return to the '60s idea of the future from TOS. Captain Archer should be a free-lovin', two fisted prototype for Kirk. T'Pol should be Spock with tits and sexual tension between her and Archer. (Never, EVER allow this to be consummated.) The visual look of the show should be TOS with better production values and '60s retro-futurism. Miniskirted uniforms for female crew members! Bio-engineered Klingons without silly putty on their foreheads! It would rock.
Imagine all that and Kevin Smith directing. Now that is something I'd watch religiously.
Easy answer: HELL NO.
Osama Bin Forgotten...I mean Osama bin'Laden...released a video tape today. If George W(ithout Honor) Bush was truly the "security" President instead of the "Safety Dance" President, bin'Laden would be dead and his head rotting on a pike somewhere in Afghanistan.
Hey all you "security moms" who voted this asshole in for a second term: what are you going to do when bin'Laden strikes again on US soil? Did Dubya keep your widdle home safe? Because bin'Laden's assessment is correct: it would be almost too easy to get around Homeland Security. Chertoff is doing a heck of a job, you know.
Would a President Gore have done better in 9/11? Well, for one thing, the Clinton Administration shut down two attempts by Arab terrorists to launch an attack on US soil. The Clinton Administration was hip to bin'Laden and the danger of Al'Qaeda, and tried to impress that danger on Dubya when he was coming in. At best, his reaction was "What, me worry?" At worst, he was protecting the Family Friends in the House of Saud.
I believe that if Gore had been allowed to take his rightful seat in the White House instead of being usurped, we might not be talking about 9/11 changing everything now. We might be talking about the trials of 20 Arab nationals who were caught trying to sneak boxcutters onto three planes. Or, we might have been talking about the trial of Osama bin'Laden at the World Court at Den Haag for crimes against humanity. Or both.
The more interesting possibility for many users will not be directly booting or dual-booting Windows XP, but rather running Windows XP at essentially the full speed of the underlying hardware in a virtual machine, right alongside Mac OS X.
This is actually the absolute best possible scenario for running Windows on a MacIntel. The untrusted OS (Windows XP) would run sandboxed in a virtual machine. It would get access to the internet and to hardware, but not "bare metal" access. It would all be mediated through Mac OS X and the virtual machine technology. It would have a "C drive" that is basically a file on the Mac OS X filesystem. And most importantly it would not get root access on the machine. At all. Do you see how this would be a better scenario than dual-booting?
Intel has been working on virtualization technologies for years. The new Yonah/Core chips have that capability. Apple went Intel at the right time.
The reason why Intel is now playing games with chip names is that they found out something about the P4 round about 3GHz or so: the P4 can only scale in a limited way. PIII was a way more scalable chip design. And the folks at Intel's Israeli division who designed Pentium M/Core designed a chip which can do more per clock cycle than a P4 can.
A car with an engine that runs at more revolutions per minute than another car is not necessarily the faster car.
Unless Jen is a Chinese guy, the name suggests that this character is female. Good that they thought to put a geek grrl in the show.
Yes indeed...Simon Travaglia really does need to be onboard. Although I still hope that one day there will be a BOFH movie.
BTW among the "losers" in the basement is someone named Jen. So it seems there is a token geek grrl down there with the guys.
Monsieur Cartier-Bresson practically invented modern photojournalism. Read and learn, grasshopper.
All hail the almighty Pentax MX. 100% manual. Outrageously tiny for its time period. (1976 -early '80s.)Only Leicas were smaller when the MX was first released. I got mine in 1980, and mechanically it is still 100% functional. The light meter is a little wonky, but selenium cells have a limited lifespan. Mine has been in mosh pits, on top of buildings at LA Valley College, in smoky clubs and in the Great Outdoors. 25 years of use. Gotta love it.
That FM10 could probably be willed to your grandchildren and still be functional. Whether there will still be 35MM film or not is an open question. Hell, I suspect that Nikkormat cameras, the mainstay of news operations in the 1960s, will be fully functional save for their light meters at the turn of the next century. Again, film might not be available, but the actual guts of the camera will function.
Compare this to the auto-this, auto-that cameras that were rampant when I was looking for an SLR, and which had almost taken the prosumer market over long before digital killed the 35MM star. Those cameras don't last. Then again, nowadays we marvel at something technological with a useful lifespan of 5 years, much less 25. There are still clones of Pentax's classic K1000 camera being made in China, long after the end of Pentax's manufacture in 1997.
File this under end of an era.
Mac user mostly. Got $1,000,000 for a few seconds of music for Windows 95. If The Beast of Redmond paid me a million for a few seconds of music, I'd do it.
However, it seems like David Byrne is a Windows Kool-ade drinker. I wouldn't be surprised if Byrne was the one who passed Fripp's contact info to his buddy Bill.
The Crimson song "Dig Me" should factor somewhere in the Windows Vista sound set. It's about a broken down piece of crap car. Perfect for a new OS by a company with a broken down piece of crap business model.
Hey, if it's got the handcrank, so much the better! I'm actually lusting after one of those puppies with the hand crank...$200 for something that's about the size of the Apple eMate, with the ability to run on elbow grease? Fuck yeah, bring it on! The MIT device would probably be a great replacement for my dead PDA. When you are down on your batteries and there's no place to plug in, a crank would be a godsend.
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Yep, that's my Navi. "Blueberry" original 300MHz iBook. My Aunt Karen initially owned Navi, and the thing literally went around the world with her when she was a travel writer. She passed it off to me last year when she made the questionable "upgrade" to a VAIO. I sent it to the folks at Wegener Media to get a 30GB HD and 512MB SO-DIMM to bring the specs up from the 3.2GB/192MB it originally shipped with. I run Navi on Mac OS X Panther 10.3.9. It's not a speed daemon with that...you can only push a 300MHz G3 so far. But it gets me there.
I have been using Navi at college now for the past semester, and it's been great. Navi has an AirPort card, and using wireless on Mac OS X is a satiny smooth experience when you compare it to the fiddliness of wireless under Linux or under Windows. (Wireless+Windows=security nightmare!)
The original clamshell iBook is built to last. It's made out of that Fisher-Price ABS plastic that the iMac and the "flavored" minitowers are made of. It was designed to take the kind of bumps expected from the K-12 kids it was designed for. Yeah, it's heavy. Yeah, it's got an 800 x 600 screen when 1024 x 768+ is normal. But that's a solid machine. I fully expect it to be still running and still useful in 5 more years. Maybe Apple doesn't make lappies to last now like they did in the past. But the iBook comes from a time that they did.
Here's my fearless prediction:
.DEB/apt-get) but since Google is absolutely swimming in Linux wizards it will be extensively customized.
The Google Box will run a custom Linux distro, GoogLinux. It will probably be largely based on either Ubuntu or Mepis (note, these are both Debian derivatives and have easy updating goodness via
There will be a custom version of MythTV installed which will allow the Google Box to be a PVR. It will also license the same DVD player that Linspire licensed which is fully DVD Forum approved and will run encrypted DVDs without hacking around with decoder libs. You know which one I'm talking about, don't you? ^_~
Actually, one possibility for GoogLinux I just now thought of: Google buys Linspire off of Michael Robertson, and washes all the suck away from the distro. Another Debian derivative that could conceivably rock if someone else was running the show.
Anyway, if this box is true, I assure you it will run some flavor of Linux. Long shot: it runs FreeBSD with a GNU + KDE userland.
And you didn't mention what came to my mind upon reading this story: the two classic Warner Bros. cartoon shorts with the "house of the future," the out of control droids, the record changer that throws records around, etc. etc.
Cue Raymond Scott's "Powerhouse"...
It seems like ever since he took power as Boris Yeltzin's hand-picked successor he has been feverishly working to basically reestablish Russia as "The Soviet Union with Capitalism." And his idea of Capitalism is sort of, kind of, alien: he is re-nationalizing a lot of industries, most notably the petroleum industry.
Of course, none of the "good things" wrt the old Soviet Union still exist: their education system is decimated, and there is no health safety net anymore. Life expectancies are galloping backwards thanks to drug-resistant TB strains bred in the "new Gulags" of Russia and an AIDS crisis that Putin is in complete denial about.
I would not put it past Comrade Putin to re-target the remaining Soviet-era nukes at the US again. Of course, they have less of them and so do we thanks to Yeltzin-era demilitarization efforts and the reductions built into the various treaties signed with the old Soviet Union. But I'm sure it's still enough for Mutually Assured Destruction. And with the G. W. Bush doctrine of "preemption," MAD would be a lot MAD-der than it was back in the '80s. Putin would have to deal with a certifiably insane foreign policy run by a guy who claims to have a direct hotline to Jay-zus. Sort of like dealing with Chechen rebels, only this time the religious fanatic in question has nukes.
ph34r.
Nope. Sorry.
I ***HATE*** earbuds.
Hate. Hate. Hate.
They *hurt*. They fall out of your ears. They focus sound all wrong.
Give me a good set of headphones and nobody gets hurt.
Besides, those pasty white regulation iPod earbuds are an open invite to theft for those so inclined. If I have a big clunky set of headphones attached to anything, be it my Mini Disc player or a future iPod or whatever, it's not obvious what I'm listening to. I might even be some sort of looney wearing them to fend off the evil radiation from the Computer Gangster God Control or whatever. I suspect that my insistence on cans would save my ass and my property.
Death before earbuds. Maybe quite literally.
HE GETS NO SPAM!!!!!
...I would be angry now. I was angry until I got the facts about this case. These numb-nuts at ACME Games played themselves by installing the 77 "borrowed" games.
If this was simply a case of "here's the mod chip, go have fun" and Microsoft threw a fit, I would be supportive. But as far as giving people "borrowed" games they have no rights to, that's beyond the pale. This is a case of Warez pure and simple.
I have no sympathy. They were trading in Warez, and what's more they were doing it openly. That's not only wrong, it's *dumb.*
It's a yearly tradition.
Yes, it's Woodbury University in Burbank, CA, US. I'm a Psych major.
One of my big pet peeves about Los Angeles Valley College was their insistence on using my SSN for everything. Luckily Woodbury University issues you a student ID. The only creepy thing is that Woodbury's ID number pattern is XXX-XX-XXXX just like an SSN. Gee, thanks a lot. Instead of using a real SSN, you use a fake one. I suppose it's progress but not by much.
Dems are some of the worst pushers of "Trusted" (I like the term "Treacherous") Computing and other attempts to fence the Commons. My congresscritter is Howard Berman (D-RIAA/MPAA) and my two senators, Boxer and Feinstein, are also thoroughly 0wn3d by Big Media. Remember the "Clipper Chip?" That was a Clinton Administration initiative. The GOP is very anti Fair Use as well. (The RIAA and MPAA is bi-partisan. They tend to buy both parties.)
This puts me in a very uncomfortable position. I don't want to support Berman, Boxer and Feinstein's efforts in support of their patrons in the Four Families of the Record Industry, (that worked better when there were still five record companies, alas) the Motion Picture industry, TV, and Clear Channel (What? it's still called Radio? Could have fooled me!) but the fact is that I agree with them on a lot of other issues and they all have mostly been voting from the Democratic wing of the Democratic Party of the United States of America. (Feinstein's support for the rancid Bankruptcy Bill notwithstanding.)
I think the Greens are perhaps the most "pure" supporters of a robust Commons, but alas, they don't have much chance in this system. The Founders didn't like the Westminster (Parliamentary) system, so we got a system that has little chance for third parties to make a big difference in politics. Ferdinand Lundberg once made a convincing argument that we have a single-party system here in America, the Property Party, with two wings: Democratic and Republican.
I guess what we geeks all need to do is get more active in our local Democratic Party establishment and push our agenda along with a broader progressive agenda. But right now, to say that the Democratic Party has more of our interests at heart is foolhardy and ignores recent history. It probably won't do a lot of good but it's worth a try.
Good artists copy. Great artists steal.
One can ask if Dashboard is a rip-off of Konfabulator and it would be a very good question. Apple swears up and down it was an independent creation...however...
The closest thing you can get to that at this point is Peter Chung's 30-minute prequel OAV animated short "Dark Fury" which was released concurrently with "The Chronicles of Riddick" and has ownage over both "Riddick" and the original movie "Pitch Black."
Both movies were like live-action video games where you were cheated out of the fun of actually controlling a character. Peter Chung's work on "Dark Fury" was excellent and although the movie still felt like a video game (animated, this time) there was more substance to it and the animation, as usual, rocked.
Oh yeah, Chung did "Matriculated," one of the nine "Animatrix" shorts. It was one of the better ones.
Between "Animatrix," "Dark Fury," and the "Clone Wars" animated shorts by Genndy Tartakovsky it is obvious that if you really want to do a good sequel to an blockbuster SF movie, you should do it animated. And get decent directors. Someone like a Tartakovsky or a Chung.