One of the most important aspects of Aeon Flux in the original shorts and the series is that Trevor Goodchild is not the bad guy, Aeon Flux is not the hero, and there are no classic melodrama heroes/villains.
If you are not inclined to follow the link, here's a very cogent quote:
"The disclaimer that MTV runs at the beginning of the show now is not my idea...the show is not necessarily about good and evil. Trevor is not necessarily evil, Æon is not necessarily good...they are like any human being with their own traits and good points and bad points. In some episodes Trevor is actually doing more positive things than Æon is and sometimes the roles are reversed." -- Peter Chung
See, this is where the movie fails and this is why Peter Chung should have gotten greenlighted to do this as the animated movie he wanted to do.
Well according to that list they made Napoleon Dynamite. And Election. I'd say that's enough of a raison d'etre for any movie studio. And look at the size of those budgets! Napoleon Dynamite cost only $400,000 to make! Vote for Pedro indeed. MTV Films has definitely been a profit center for Viacom. Look again at the numbers. These guys are (normally anyway) smart.
Missing from that list: Beavis and Butt-Head Do America. Cost $10 Million to make. Made it back twice the first week of release. It came out through Paramount *as* an MTV Films release.
As far as Aeon Flux goes, they should have done it right. Give it to Peter Chung to make it as an animated feature. Thanks to this very *stoopid* move on the part of MTV Films, it will *never* happen. Thanks a lot.:P
Note that the capital "b" in Blak does not look anything like the "b" in Tab.
My mom was addicted to Tab. When they relaunched the drink with a combination of saccharin and aspartame my mom totally disapproved of it. "You might as well be drinking Diet Coke."
There is no accounting for taste. As for myself, I actually prefer Diet Coke with Lime. And Diet Mountain Dew, while not something I would drink all the time, is a godsend at finals time. Ultra-caffeinated. No carbs. Rock.
Oh yeah, nothing is going to ever beat the Japanese on iced coffee beverages. UCC Coffee has ownage over anything made in the US. I'll try this but I doubt they can beat UCC.
...that Microsoft Office has a nestful of bugs on its own. I've had MS Office 2000 crash on me, I've dealt with memory leaks in 97, 2000 and v.X for OSX, and there are things that are easy to do in OpenOffice.Org that are maddeningly opaque in MS Office. For example: how do you do the kind of hanging-indentation thing that APA style requires for Bibliography lists? I have tried to do it in Office and it is not obvious how to do it at all. However, it's a breeze in OpenOffice.Org.
It's also dead easy to take multiple OO Impress presentations and splice them together into one big presentation. However, try doing it in Office. Again, how to do that is not obvious at all, and it should be.
There's also something I brought up in another thread here: Open Office will fix corrupted and virus-laden Office documents. Just save in Open Office native format, then resave the OO.O native file as.DOC. Fixed. You might have to retweak some formatting, but you've cleansed the file.
OO.O rocks. I want to see a version that will natively run under OS X, but as long as iWork exists, Apple's not going to encourage it. OK, no problem, I'll run it happily under Linux.
It might be underpowered for a lappie but it's not half bad for a PDA. And it runs Linux! But the hand-crank thing is what really interests me. No more looking for an outlet when your battery is running low! 10 minutes of elbow grease and you're back surfing again. I'd pay for a mod like that for my ThinkPad 600x or my iBook.
This is a reversal...the $200 price to the General First-World Public. Negroponte was talking about not even offering this to developed countries. I guess he knows that there is a secondary "tinkerers" market for this device.
Open Office is great for "fixing" broken Word documents. Macro virus? Corruption? No problem! Save as Oasis,then save back as.DOC. Problem solved. I'm sure Open Office can also "fix" version tracking as well.
These guys are good. I bought my first professional 35MM camera from them back in 1980, and they are still alive and kicking. They have five stores, two in West LA, one in Santa Barbara, one in Pasadena, and one in Santa Ana. Not a fly-by-night operation by any means. Everything from consumer to prosumer to pro; video, digital or film.
Can't lose with NewEgg either if all you want is a consumer-grade digital camera. Again, in California.
300MHz, 800 x 600 screen, USB port. One of the best implementations of 802.11b on the planet.
You can cram in as much as 544MB RAM into one of those puppies. Mine is currently running Mac OS X Panther. And very, very happy.
Since they were designed for K-12 users, they are built hella-tough. They are also really, really hard to work on, so leave the upgrades to the experts. I got mine from my aunt and sent it to these guys to hot-rod: http://www.wegenermedia.com/ . Wegener is currently selling a whole slew of Clamshells for $279. They will probably be able to hot-rod it for you before shipping it out the door.
Everyone forgets that you can run as lean or as fat as you want to under Debian. Theoretically Sarge will still work on a 386...perhaps Strongbad has Debian under the hood of his Lappy 486? The Net Install disk is smaller than Puppy, smaller even than DSL if my memory serves me right. You don't have to run GNOME or KDE with it...hell, you don't even have to run X if you really want to run lean! Try IceWM as your window manager and make sure the GTK and QT libs are installed so you can run GTK and/or KDE apps.
If you remember the trauma of the old installer and haven't tried the new debian-installer introduced with Sarge, give it a try. Ubuntu and Kubuntu use debian-installer with almost no tweaks. It's that easy.
Adaptation Ali Cowboy Bebop: Knockin' On Heaven's Door Dilbert: The Complete Animated Series Dogtown and Z-Boys Steamboy Triplets of Belleville
Those are just the Sony Tri-Star Home Entertainment DVDs I have in my collection. None of them were purchased new. All of them I personally like. All of them would beat the stupid Charlie's Angels movie.
A lot of these are transfers from the flat Diamond Discs, not the cylinders dubbed from Diamond Discs. Some of those transfers are pretty freakin' amazing. Lots of history here. Hear Irving Berlin sing. Hear why people raved about Enrico Caruso...makes Pavarotti and Domingo sound like punters. Hear Fanny Brice do her schtick. A lot of what is referred to as "Jazz" is actually more like Ragtime. But that can be pretty amazing too.
I came here looking for cartoony music that had passed into the public domain for my upcoming podcast series The Cartoon Geeks. There's lots of it here. Here's the tune that's going to be the theme music. Yowza yowza.
Foxconn NF4K8AB-RS Socket 754 NVIDIA nForce4-4X ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail Model #: NF4K8AB-RS $63.00 Albatron PC6600Q Geforce 6600 256MB DDR PCI Express x16 Video Card - Retail Model #: PC6600Q $109.00 AMD Sempron 64 2600+ Palermo 800MHz FSB Socket 754 Processor Model SDA2600BXBOX - Retail Model #: SDA2600BXBOX $64.00 CORSAIR ValueSelect 1GB 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (PC 3200) Unbuffered System Memory Model VS1GB400C3 - Retail Model #: VS1GB400C3 $95.16 Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 ST3120026A 120GB 7200 RPM IDE Ultra ATA100 Hard Drive - OEM Model #: ST3120026A $80.00 mounted as / Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 ST3200826AS 200GB 7200 RPM Serial ATA150 Hard Drive - OEM Model #: ST3200826AS $110.00 mounted as/home TOSHIBA Black IDE DVD Burner Model SD-R5372V - OEM Model #: SD-R5372V $35.00 Antec Truepower 430W Power Supply on sale at CompUSA for $40 after rebates Existing InWin full-tower case $Free (Complete with murals done by Greg Colton, who did layouts for the "Dilbert" animated series.) Existing keyboard, monitor & mouse $Free Debian Linux $Free
Full cost $557.15...yeah, it's a little over the $500 limit. Tom also went over the mark. Actually I'm going to spend $110 more on it, because I want two drives on the SATA chain for vidcap work.
Kicking ass on the econo system that Tom's Hardware put together: Priceless.
Linux is getting better and better on the gaming front. Windows? It ain't worth the hassle, the insecurity or the money. This configuration can do more than the Tom's system as well. You shouldn't build a modern machine without a DVD burner at this point...it doesn't make sense, because good ones are so inexpensive. And Sempron64 gives you better bang-to-buck ratio than Athlon64.
I might go with a different video card than the Albatron, but I'll probably stick with the NVidia 6600. Again, good bang-to-buck ratio.
Yes, the Mac mini seems to have killed all the incentive to build VIA EPIA-platform mini boxen. They are small, they are quiet, and they have a lot more capability than your average EPIA Mini-ITX box. They're a little more expensive but they are less hassle. And hey, you get Mac OS X with it! I like Linux, I use it all the time, but it doesn't have the same kind of polish that Mac OS X has.
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One of the most important aspects of Aeon Flux in the original shorts and the series is that Trevor Goodchild is not the bad guy, Aeon Flux is not the hero, and there are no classic melodrama heroes/villains.
http://anp.awn.com/chungint.html
If you are not inclined to follow the link, here's a very cogent quote:
"The disclaimer that MTV runs at the beginning of the show now is not my idea...the show is not necessarily about good and evil. Trevor is not necessarily evil, Æon is not necessarily good...they are like any human being with their own traits and good points and bad points. In some episodes Trevor is actually doing more positive things than Æon is and sometimes the roles are reversed." -- Peter Chung
See, this is where the movie fails and this is why Peter Chung should have gotten greenlighted to do this as the animated movie he wanted to do.
Well according to that list they made Napoleon Dynamite. And Election. I'd say that's enough of a raison d'etre for any movie studio. And look at the size of those budgets! Napoleon Dynamite cost only $400,000 to make! Vote for Pedro indeed. MTV Films has definitely been a profit center for Viacom. Look again at the numbers. These guys are (normally anyway) smart.
:P
Missing from that list: Beavis and Butt-Head Do America. Cost $10 Million to make. Made it back twice the first week of release. It came out through Paramount *as* an MTV Films release.
http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/1996/BEAVI.html
As far as Aeon Flux goes, they should have done it right. Give it to Peter Chung to make it as an animated feature. Thanks to this very *stoopid* move on the part of MTV Films, it will *never* happen. Thanks a lot.
The Blak logo looks like the old Tab logo. Compare "a" in the Blak logo to the "a" in the Tab logo.
http://home.epix.net/~tjwagner/tab.html
Note that the capital "b" in Blak does not look anything like the "b" in Tab.
My mom was addicted to Tab. When they relaunched the drink with a combination of saccharin and aspartame my mom totally disapproved of it. "You might as well be drinking Diet Coke."
There is no accounting for taste. As for myself, I actually prefer Diet Coke with Lime. And Diet Mountain Dew, while not something I would drink all the time, is a godsend at finals time. Ultra-caffeinated. No carbs. Rock.
Oh yeah, nothing is going to ever beat the Japanese on iced coffee beverages. UCC Coffee has ownage over anything made in the US. I'll try this but I doubt they can beat UCC.
http://www.tcp.com/doi/doi/ufo/eva/eva-ucc1.jpg
Misato knows what's good for you. Beer, Ramen, Curry Rice, and UCC Coffee.
If you do that, all the slides take on the background and style of the parent presentation. Bzzt! Thanks for playing!
...that Microsoft Office has a nestful of bugs on its own. I've had MS Office 2000 crash on me, I've dealt with memory leaks in 97, 2000 and v.X for OSX, and there are things that are easy to do in OpenOffice.Org that are maddeningly opaque in MS Office. For example: how do you do the kind of hanging-indentation thing that APA style requires for Bibliography lists? I have tried to do it in Office and it is not obvious how to do it at all. However, it's a breeze in OpenOffice.Org.
.DOC. Fixed. You might have to retweak some formatting, but you've cleansed the file.
It's also dead easy to take multiple OO Impress presentations and splice them together into one big presentation. However, try doing it in Office. Again, how to do that is not obvious at all, and it should be.
There's also something I brought up in another thread here: Open Office will fix corrupted and virus-laden Office documents. Just save in Open Office native format, then resave the OO.O native file as
OO.O rocks. I want to see a version that will natively run under OS X, but as long as iWork exists, Apple's not going to encourage it. OK, no problem, I'll run it happily under Linux.
It might be underpowered for a lappie but it's not half bad for a PDA. And it runs Linux! But the hand-crank thing is what really interests me. No more looking for an outlet when your battery is running low! 10 minutes of elbow grease and you're back surfing again. I'd pay for a mod like that for my ThinkPad 600x or my iBook.
This is a reversal...the $200 price to the General First-World Public. Negroponte was talking about not even offering this to developed countries. I guess he knows that there is a secondary "tinkerers" market for this device.
Open Office is great for "fixing" broken Word documents. Macro virus? Corruption? No problem! Save as Oasis,then save back as .DOC. Problem solved. I'm sure Open Office can also "fix" version tracking as well.
Only goes to show you that it pays to use F/OSS.
These guys are good. I bought my first professional 35MM camera from them back in 1980, and they are still alive and kicking. They have five stores, two in West LA, one in Santa Barbara, one in Pasadena, and one in Santa Ana. Not a fly-by-night operation by any means. Everything from consumer to prosumer to pro; video, digital or film.
Can't lose with NewEgg either if all you want is a consumer-grade digital camera. Again, in California.
300MHz, 800 x 600 screen, USB port. One of the best implementations of 802.11b on the planet.
You can cram in as much as 544MB RAM into one of those puppies. Mine is currently running Mac OS X Panther. And very, very happy.
Since they were designed for K-12 users, they are built hella-tough. They are also really, really hard to work on, so leave the upgrades to the experts. I got mine from my aunt and sent it to these guys to hot-rod: http://www.wegenermedia.com/ . Wegener is currently selling a whole slew of Clamshells for $279. They will probably be able to hot-rod it for you before shipping it out the door.
Everyone forgets that you can run as lean or as fat as you want to under Debian. Theoretically Sarge will still work on a 386...perhaps Strongbad has Debian under the hood of his Lappy 486? The Net Install disk is smaller than Puppy, smaller even than DSL if my memory serves me right. You don't have to run GNOME or KDE with it...hell, you don't even have to run X if you really want to run lean! Try IceWM as your window manager and make sure the GTK and QT libs are installed so you can run GTK and/or KDE apps.
If you remember the trauma of the old installer and haven't tried the new debian-installer introduced with Sarge, give it a try. Ubuntu and Kubuntu use debian-installer with almost no tweaks. It's that easy.
http://www.openvotingconsortium.org/
At least, I hope that fsckn works...I thought I did it right the first time...
http://www.openvotingconsortium.org/. A 100% F/OSS voting solution that can run on commodity hardware and F/OSS operating systems.
It wasn't a Fox show then, but since it's being made by Sky TV in the UK, it will be a Fox show now. :P
Sky = Fox.
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
I can think of a few:
Adaptation
Ali
Cowboy Bebop: Knockin' On Heaven's Door
Dilbert: The Complete Animated Series
Dogtown and Z-Boys
Steamboy
Triplets of Belleville
Those are just the Sony Tri-Star Home Entertainment DVDs I have in my collection. None of them were purchased new. All of them I personally like. All of them would beat the stupid Charlie's Angels movie.
No, it's the second coming of John Trubee.
A blind man's penis is erect because he's blind.
"The issue's not whether you're paranoid, Lenny, I mean look at this shit, the issue is whether you're paranoid enough." -- Max, "Strange Days" (1995)
http://www.archive.org/audio/audiolisting-browsear tists.php?collection=78rpm
A lot of these are transfers from the flat Diamond Discs, not the cylinders dubbed from Diamond Discs. Some of those transfers are pretty freakin' amazing. Lots of history here. Hear Irving Berlin sing. Hear why people raved about Enrico Caruso...makes Pavarotti and Domingo sound like punters. Hear Fanny Brice do her schtick. A lot of what is referred to as "Jazz" is actually more like Ragtime. But that can be pretty amazing too.
I came here looking for cartoony music that had passed into the public domain for my upcoming podcast series The Cartoon Geeks. There's lots of it here. Here's the tune that's going to be the theme music. Yowza yowza.
See http://www.whitehouse.gov/president/. Currently sitting on VP Dick Cheney's knee, with a string coming out the back of his neck. Distant relative of Mortimer Snerd.
Just do it. Debian Sarge is the easiest Debian yet. If you add Sid packages you can bring it up to the newest KDE. Too bad about SuSE.
I don't like Gnome, but it's funny: GTK+ apps are often better than KDE apps. Thankfully KDE handles both gracefully.
I hate those microbes.
are on Ventura Blvd. in Sherman Oaks. I always extend my upraised middle finger when passing their accursed lair. :P
(all quotes via NewEgg unless cited otherwise)
/home
Foxconn NF4K8AB-RS Socket 754 NVIDIA nForce4-4X ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail
Model #: NF4K8AB-RS $63.00
Albatron PC6600Q Geforce 6600 256MB DDR PCI Express x16 Video Card - Retail
Model #: PC6600Q $109.00
AMD Sempron 64 2600+ Palermo 800MHz FSB Socket 754 Processor Model SDA2600BXBOX - Retail
Model #: SDA2600BXBOX $64.00
CORSAIR ValueSelect 1GB 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (PC 3200) Unbuffered System Memory Model VS1GB400C3 - Retail Model #: VS1GB400C3 $95.16
Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 ST3120026A 120GB 7200 RPM IDE Ultra ATA100 Hard Drive - OEM
Model #: ST3120026A $80.00 mounted as /
Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 ST3200826AS 200GB 7200 RPM Serial ATA150 Hard Drive - OEM
Model #: ST3200826AS $110.00 mounted as
TOSHIBA Black IDE DVD Burner Model SD-R5372V - OEM Model #: SD-R5372V $35.00
Antec Truepower 430W Power Supply on sale at CompUSA for $40 after rebates
Existing InWin full-tower case $Free (Complete with murals done by Greg Colton, who did layouts for the "Dilbert" animated series.)
Existing keyboard, monitor & mouse $Free
Debian Linux $Free
Full cost $557.15...yeah, it's a little over the $500 limit. Tom also went over the mark. Actually I'm going to spend $110 more on it, because I want two drives on the SATA chain for vidcap work.
Kicking ass on the econo system that Tom's Hardware put together: Priceless.
Linux is getting better and better on the gaming front. Windows? It ain't worth the hassle, the insecurity or the money. This configuration can do more than the Tom's system as well. You shouldn't build a modern machine without a DVD burner at this point...it doesn't make sense, because good ones are so inexpensive. And Sempron64 gives you better bang-to-buck ratio than Athlon64.
I might go with a different video card than the Albatron, but I'll probably stick with the NVidia 6600. Again, good bang-to-buck ratio.
Power to the people RIGHT ON!
Yes, the Mac mini seems to have killed all the incentive to build VIA EPIA-platform mini boxen. They are small, they are quiet, and they have a lot more capability than your average EPIA Mini-ITX box. They're a little more expensive but they are less hassle. And hey, you get Mac OS X with it! I like Linux, I use it all the time, but it doesn't have the same kind of polish that Mac OS X has.