Disney is with Nike on the list of companies that I won't have anything to do with. But now I'll be able to watch Pixar's new movies.
This is right on. I said in my other (knee-jerk) post that Disney was dead weight, but in fact, they're a liability with conscientious consumers. You and I can't be the only two people in the world who refuse to hand money over to Disney.
I could easily have spent, what, $150 on DVDs of Pixar's movies? And I would have by now, had I been able to do it with a clean consience.
One more crippling bombshell hit the already discouraged and defeated Star Trek franchise when UPN confirmed that Enterprise has dropped yet again after Voyager showed to be a miserable failure as well. Coming on the heels of a recent Gallop survey which plainly states that Rick Berman has lost the peoples confidence in his ability to innovate and make progress, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. The Star Trek franchise is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the ratings.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict Enterprise's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Enterprise faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Enterprise because Enterprise is dying. Things are looking very bad for Enterprise. As many of us are already aware, Enterprise continues to lose viewers. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
The Star Trek franchise is the most endangered science fiction franchise of them all, having lost 93% of its core nerds. There can no longer be any doubt: Enterprise is dying.
All major surveys show that Enterprise has steadily declined in consumer confidence. Enterprise is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Enterprise is to survive at all it will be among sci-fi dilettante dabblers. Enterprise continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Enterprise is dead.
Let's see if I can summarize: the author claims that with a certain very cold superconductor transmitting a large quantity of electricity in an intense magnetic field, he has observed a "new" force which repulses objects.
Ha ha, michael. You sure told that physicist!
Taiwan is not a "sworn ally" to the U.S. In fact, the United States does not have official diplomatic relations with Taiwan. We just like to sell them weapons.
Anyone who still harbors Utopian fantasies about the Virtual State -- you know, the Net and Web, global community, the digital economy and interactivity all combining to shatter existing boundaries, etc. -- should find the current U.S.-China confrontation finishing them off.
CGI has stood for both as far back as I can remember, and as far back as I can remember is about the beginning of the WWW (not the Internet, of course, the WWW)... I just happened to be into both the Internet and computer graphics at the time, and I saw both terms thrown around, so I suspect that if anything, "Computer-Generated Imagery" may predate "Common Gateway Interface".
Can anyone correct me on this? Was "Common Gateway Interface" in use before the WWW?
We can, however, put them into one-to-one correspondence with the natural numbers (as in, x is the nth prime). They are, therefore, in math lingo, countable.
Haven't we noticed this by now? Nothing, nothing, is capable of whipping Americans into "a blood-thirsty frenzy". There is no need for the RIAA to bother creating an alternative to the current system, since our government guarantees their sacred right to profit.
The RIAA, brainless though they may be (clearly are), will be just fine, minus some relatively paltry legal fees. (Which is a shame.)
...but at the end of the day, something like this will be worked out. Why? Because the Napster money entirely bypasses the artists, which is exactly what they want.
It is just so deliciously devious and hypocritical that the RIAA will find it impossible to pass up.
The Bones people are really on a roll. If I'm not mistaken, the same team is responsible for consecutive products dating back the mid-90's: Macross Plus, Escaflowne, Cowboy Bebop, and then Escaflowne - The Movie. (Can someone correct me if I'm wrong on this?) Not one of these projects has been less than awesome, so I have pretty high hopes for the Bebop movie.
...especially considering that the HP calculators' postfix notation is in fact quite a bit more efficient, and I would personally say easier to use (once you learn it), than infix. That calculator remark, aside from being tactless, seems to be an awfully silly thing to say on Slashdot where we're supposed to be all about old-school geek sorts of things like that.
It's a virtual impossibility, unless they plan to air it only on the midnight run. Even then, it faces heavy editing.
Yeah. I mean, come on. It's got Faye...;)
But seriously, I think the first real red flag moment in Bebop that I remember was when (MINOR SPOILER) Faye (I think it was Faye?) runs in on those two naked guys in bed. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but I'm not sure Toonami is quite ready for something like that... there's things like that and the completely innocent family bathing scene in Totoro that could either be red flags for censorship or interesting ways to look at differences in cultural taboos.
God knows we Americans could use a little more of that sort of education.
This thread is going to rapidly devolve into "My Favorite" vs. "Show X Sux."
A mildly irritating trend. Let's not forget the trolls and the "I love Akira/Ghost/Ninja Scroll" bandwagoners that rather dominate anime discussions on Slashdot. I'm almost to the point of agreeing with the trolls; anime and Slashdot might not go so well together...
I especially like how many anime series and films won't hand the plot directly to the viewer.
...except for the fact that it would require some pretty substantial editing at parts.
What I would like to see even more is a decent treatment of The Vision of Escaflowne free of Fox's unforgivable edits and "additions". There already exists a pretty good dub of the Macross Plus OVA's (it's on the DVDs); I bet those could draw pretty big numbers as prime-time Toonami specials.
Of course, we'll probably just get more DBZ. (sigh)
I think what we really need is some entity in a position like Toonami is in to at least have a block of decent anime presented in a respectable format. I think that quality, high-class work like Escaflowne and the Ghibli films, presented uncut in the original Japanese could draw a surprising audience in the States. I'm dreaming, of course.
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We've sure got a good head start on the raping and torturing though.
METAL GEAR!?
Disney is with Nike on the list of companies that I won't have anything to do with. But now I'll be able to watch Pixar's new movies.
This is right on. I said in my other (knee-jerk) post that Disney was dead weight, but in fact, they're a liability with conscientious consumers. You and I can't be the only two people in the world who refuse to hand money over to Disney.
I could easily have spent, what, $150 on DVDs of Pixar's movies? And I would have by now, had I been able to do it with a clean consience.
this is great news. disney is total dead weight. my hat's off to pixar!
One more crippling bombshell hit the already discouraged and defeated Star Trek franchise when UPN confirmed that Enterprise has dropped yet again after Voyager showed to be a miserable failure as well. Coming on the heels of a recent Gallop survey which plainly states that Rick Berman has lost the peoples confidence in his ability to innovate and make progress, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. The Star Trek franchise is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the ratings.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict Enterprise's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Enterprise faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Enterprise because Enterprise is dying. Things are looking very bad for Enterprise. As many of us are already aware, Enterprise continues to lose viewers. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
The Star Trek franchise is the most endangered science fiction franchise of them all, having lost 93% of its core nerds. There can no longer be any doubt: Enterprise is dying.
All major surveys show that Enterprise has steadily declined in consumer confidence. Enterprise is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Enterprise is to survive at all it will be among sci-fi dilettante dabblers. Enterprise continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Enterprise is dead.
Fact: Enterprise is dying
Let's see if I can summarize: the author claims that with a certain very cold superconductor transmitting a large quantity of electricity in an intense magnetic field, he has observed a "new" force which repulses objects. Ha ha, michael. You sure told that physicist!
All very well, but if the tables were turned, what would have happened?
Nothing. It would be public relations disaster for U.S. politicians to behave in this manner.
I have a hard time believing that the U.S. government could get away with holding 24 hostages...
They could intimidate Taiwan (our sworn ally)
Taiwan is not a "sworn ally" to the U.S. In fact, the United States does not have official diplomatic relations with Taiwan. We just like to sell them weapons.
Anyone who still harbors Utopian fantasies about the Virtual State -- you know, the Net and Web, global community, the digital economy and interactivity all combining to shatter existing boundaries, etc. -- should find the current U.S.-China confrontation finishing them off.
Make up your mind, Mr. New Jerusalem!
It may sound silly, but IIRC, a number of people in major cities die every hot summer due to air conditioning failure.
Just wait until some script kiddie gets the bright idea to DOS chicago.myappliance.com or whatever in the middle of July.
CGI has stood for both as far back as I can remember, and as far back as I can remember is about the beginning of the WWW (not the Internet, of course, the WWW)... I just happened to be into both the Internet and computer graphics at the time, and I saw both terms thrown around, so I suspect that if anything, "Computer-Generated Imagery" may predate "Common Gateway Interface".
Can anyone correct me on this? Was "Common Gateway Interface" in use before the WWW?
There are infinite number of primes.
We can, however, put them into one-to-one correspondence with the natural numbers (as in, x is the nth prime). They are, therefore, in math lingo, countable.
but I can't moderate... ;)
Changing the name, or even making insubstantial changes to the content should not evade the filter
Do *you* want to try to implement this?
Haven't we noticed this by now? Nothing, nothing, is capable of whipping Americans into "a blood-thirsty frenzy". There is no need for the RIAA to bother creating an alternative to the current system, since our government guarantees their sacred right to profit.
The RIAA, brainless though they may be (clearly are), will be just fine, minus some relatively paltry legal fees. (Which is a shame.)
...but at the end of the day, something like this will be worked out. Why? Because the Napster money entirely bypasses the artists, which is exactly what they want.
It is just so deliciously devious and hypocritical that the RIAA will find it impossible to pass up.
Actually, the very first movie listed on that page, "Design for Dreaming", *was* on MST3K. It was a short sometime in the early Mike days, IIRC.
;)
Not a good sign...
...what fall?
Also one of the authors of CLR, which is one heck of an algorithms text.
A lot of us have probably seen it or used it in a class. (It's the big white one.)
The Bones people are really on a roll. If I'm not mistaken, the same team is responsible for consecutive products dating back the mid-90's: Macross Plus, Escaflowne, Cowboy Bebop, and then Escaflowne - The Movie. (Can someone correct me if I'm wrong on this?) Not one of these projects has been less than awesome, so I have pretty high hopes for the Bebop movie.
...especially considering that the HP calculators' postfix notation is in fact quite a bit more efficient, and I would personally say easier to use (once you learn it), than infix. That calculator remark, aside from being tactless, seems to be an awfully silly thing to say on Slashdot where we're supposed to be all about old-school geek sorts of things like that.
It's a virtual impossibility, unless they plan to air it only on the midnight run. Even then, it faces heavy editing.
;)
Yeah. I mean, come on. It's got Faye...
But seriously, I think the first real red flag moment in Bebop that I remember was when (MINOR SPOILER) Faye (I think it was Faye?) runs in on those two naked guys in bed. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but I'm not sure Toonami is quite ready for something like that... there's things like that and the completely innocent family bathing scene in Totoro that could either be red flags for censorship or interesting ways to look at differences in cultural taboos.
God knows we Americans could use a little more of that sort of education.
I hope that Toonami goes with standard procedure and cuts the opening and closing songs.
;)
Heh heh... ah yes, J-pop theme songs. My absolute least favorite thing about anime...
They have several decent enough composers (a few more than decent enough) working on anime scores; why oh why can't they just stick to that?
This thread is going to rapidly devolve into "My Favorite" vs. "Show X Sux."
A mildly irritating trend. Let's not forget the trolls and the "I love Akira/Ghost/Ninja Scroll" bandwagoners that rather dominate anime discussions on Slashdot. I'm almost to the point of agreeing with the trolls; anime and Slashdot might not go so well together...
I especially like how many anime series and films won't hand the plot directly to the viewer.
You're going to love Lain.
...except for the fact that it would require some pretty substantial editing at parts.
What I would like to see even more is a decent treatment of The Vision of Escaflowne free of Fox's unforgivable edits and "additions". There already exists a pretty good dub of the Macross Plus OVA's (it's on the DVDs); I bet those could draw pretty big numbers as prime-time Toonami specials.
Of course, we'll probably just get more DBZ. (sigh)
I think what we really need is some entity in a position like Toonami is in to at least have a block of decent anime presented in a respectable format. I think that quality, high-class work like Escaflowne and the Ghibli films, presented uncut in the original Japanese could draw a surprising audience in the States. I'm dreaming, of course.