1. The Phantom of the Opera (2-Disc Special Edition)
6.
The Andy Griffith Show - The Complete Second Season
12. Abs Diet
13.
Gilmore Girls - The Complete Third Season
25. Quantum Leap - The Complete Third Season
33. WWE WrestleMania XXI
38.
Star Trek Enterprise - The Complete First Season (doomed, ya already know this, right?)
43.
Ocean's Twelve (Widescreen Edition) (what? one week in the theater, was it?)
is it possible that the series will come back to TV?
I dunno, probably right up there behind Jim Carrey as Andy Taylor, in spandex, wearing a wig, armed with a phaser, with 11 clones of Barney Fife... uuuuurrrrggghhhh...
From the press release: 'The plot of the comic book series centers on...
WTF? Ok, we like Firefly, we are all gooey over Serenity. Why do we have a 3 comic book
series as a major/. story item? Is the news really that slow or are people just so incredibly wrapped up in
Firefly/Serenity that it takes precedence? This whole post is a massive spoiler though!
Really, Dark Horse does some fine publishing and I'm sure they've lined up some excellent
artists, colorers, letterers, inkers, etc. and it'll be a great read. But why spoil it all right there in a post? Can't leave people to
surf over to the site with all the dirt?
Not only funny, but a fantastic San Juan Capistsano reference. I have to ask, is it that well known outside of Central CA (where I grew up) or do you actually live in those parts?
I live a few hundred miles up the coast, where the seagulls return to shit on your car like clockwork.
There was a song years ago, When The Swallows Return To Capistrano and there have been numerous references to their return in the national news over the years -- something along the lines of signs of spring, first robin, dandelions, potholes, etc.
It was the quickest reference to Swallows and lots of them I could come up with spur of the moment. The locals probably hear the Python routines enough they cringe reflexively.
Why not have a publication select a number of sources at random and check them? Wouldn't this go a long way towards "keeping honest people honest"?
Odds are, anyone who carried such a function was long since laid off in the industry to maximise profits. Let readers letters tell the editors who is off base, etc. Heck, they write in for free!
I had a friend, ages ago, who was going into reporting. I pointed out she had some minor little factual error in one of her published stories. She said, she didn't really fscking care. Seems to be a lot of that going around lately and not just because the Whitehouse is handing out envelopes of cash. Maybe it's the job, too much expected in too little time. What does bother me is when a reporter has your number, and rather than call up to clarify some item, they just make up something and move on. Probably what Delios did.
They've got a few experienced journalists lined up to take her place.
Janet Cooke
Stephen Glass
Jayson Blair
Jack Kelley
Jeff Gannon
Maureen O'Gara
"I swear I am not making this up" -- Dave Barry
Personally, I don't talk to reporters anymore. For years I have been disgusted by "fill-in-the-blanks-with-whatever-sounds-good" journalists.
As a teenager
I was featured in the local town paper with my father's OSI (that's Ohio Scientific) computer, which I was learning to program in the mid 70's. I was aghast to read the article, with my
face prominently displayed above it at the dining room table near the computer, filled in with all sorts of wild claims. Seemed to me that reality wasn't exciting enough for the reporter so
she threw in some crap about my teenage brother writing for Scientific American (she screwed up the name Ohio Scientific, which my brother had written a program for.)
Year's later I'd be misquoted, embarrassingly so, during the outsourcing of my department. A decidedly pro-labor, and damn whatever he said, article put words in my mouth and I'll never forgive that paper
for that. The next time they called I hung up. I don't talk to reporters anymore.
It has, thankfully, blown up in Ms O'Gara's face, which goes to show that there is some small sliver of justice in the world.
Yeah, but scum have a way of rising back to the top of the pond. Keep an eye on her career. Wouldn't surprise me to see her show up in Washington as a lobbyist.
The star of the play was IMHO Lancelot. Hank Azira steals the show playing the roles of Lancelot, the Knights who Say Ni, and the absurd french. Hillarious
He's certainly had enough practice at playing various parts on the Simpsons.
What next, in 10 years a musical of H2G2? There's already a song.
You expect these things when someone begins a sentence 'More on'
One of my English profs explained the importance of thinking through sentence structure so as not to be phonetically or grammatically careless, i.e. 'Me and Jim went to the arcade' as it could sound like 'Mean Jim went to the arcade', proper grammar is 'Jim and I went to the arcade.'
Methinks it is not B-movies and horror flicks that you don't want your mother to catch you watching...
Those old horror flicks are kinda fun to watch now. A bit campy, but suprisingly better acted than most films today. Sometimes you also get a bit tired of Tom & Crow's narrative and would like to just enjoy some old guys-in-monster-suits flicks.
I was a bit shocked to see how much the Toho Godzilla movies are going for. Yipes! Most of this stuff I can get for a few bucks a DVD, not that though.
Ok, I'll bite - are you in the Boy Scouts, the Army or jail?
Last time I did that it was comic books with a flashlight and I was 9....
Not sure if it was intended, but thanks for the laugh.:-)
Nope, not any of the above. Mostly I was having problem with reflected glare on the screen and how dark the lighting of the horror films was. I found pulling the sheets over the player made it considerably easier to follow and sort of fun, like back with the comics and flashlight part of early life.
The reason I was watching it in the afternoon was because I came home from a hard 60 mile bike ride (I ride with pros, former pros and just damn talented riders) and my tired ol' body needs a rest afterwards. I lie down for a nap or rest and sometimes watch a short DVD. Attack of the Giant Leeches was actually pretty cool. I've got The Screaming Skull lined up for next time.
But that's an LCD screen - the article talks about a crt display shrunk due to nanotech.
Still digitally driven. Ok, uses phosphors, which in the old CRT's were fired from 'color guns' and directed by electromagents (yoke) at the phosphors, exciting them and tossing off photons at desired wavelengths, in combinations of 3 phosphors (one red, one blue, one green) to form the particular color desired. As I understand it the LED is backlit and and filters the wavelength of light via layers of R, G and B (or suchlike) and due to the availibility of materials, quality of materials speed of electronics doing the switching, etc, it may or may not have better color resolution. Analog is a very difficult thing to simulate from digital. Will they make it work better than what we already have?
I've got a little battery powered DVD player with letterbox screen, which is ok
for hiding under the sheets and watching 1950's B-movie/horror flicks or watching something other than the same tired movie you saw on the flight out to Timbuktu, but it's got rather poor available colors.
Looks like 4096 or something sometimes.
This technology would be decent if it addresses the aforementioned problems, but isn't much of an improvement if it looks blotchy (what is this called, banding?) where colors are similar hue.
Perhaps she's complaining because she doesn't follow the party line that permeates your world - namely that customer lock-in and DRM are bad only when they come from Microsoft or someone else, but A-OK when they come from Apple.
Worse than Microsoft or Apple, some RIAA invention, which I fully expected years ago while the RIAA treated MP3's as a cancer. Now they've conceded it's an unstoppable tide and even Sony has been forced to acknowledge that accepting MP3 is the only way to stay in the game.
Apple is successful, but only because their entire product package works for enough people. If iPod didn't accept MP3's I rather doubt it would be doing as well. There's still plenty of room for competition and nobody is bending arms to make anybody else buy the iPod.
Huffington Post? I knew that name rung a bell, some background.
She writes: "I've got a confession to make. I'm talking weak-in-the-knees infatuation. But it's not Brad or Orlando or Colin or any of the cinematic hunks du jour who have set my heart aflutter. No it's Atrios and Kos and Joshua Micah Marshall and Kausfiles and Kevin Drum and Wonkette. Bloggers all. Yes, when it comes to the blogosphere, I'm a regular cyberslut."
Ok, tell us something we can't guess. So you have a new rag and you've got Hilary Rosen writing thus:
I spent 17 years in the music business the last several of which were all about pushing and prodding the painful development of legitimate on-line music. Now, the music fan is on the cusp of riches in their options - free of the viruses of the pirate sites.
Oh my... Has anyone seen my unawarded Humanitarian of the Millenium trophy around? I've got someone to give it to at last.
There are lots of places you can go for great music at good deals and with a deep catalog of songs from over the last 20 or 30 years. MSN.com, Rhapsody.com, aolmusic.com, even walmart.com. There are little players to make your favorite music even more portable than ever starting at as little as 29 bucks. Most every player device works at every one of these "stores" and it is pretty easy to keep all the songs, no matter where you got them, in a single folder or "jukebox" on your computer.
Or all your favorite pirated mp3's seems we've been here before.
But not the iPod. Most agree it is the best quality player on the market even if the cheapest one costs a few hundred dollars. The problem is that the iPod only works with either songs that you buy from the on-line Apple iTunes store or songs that you rip from your own CD's.
!Cough! Surely you jest, Hilary! What next will you be pushing? Fair Use? You commie!
But those other music sites have lots of music that you can't get at the iTunes store. So, if you have an iPod, you are out of luck. If you are really a geek, you can figure out how to strip the songs you might have bought from another on-line store of all identifying information so that they will go into the iPod. But then you have also degraded the sound quality. How cruel.
Yeah, how cruel. Seems when the big labels were withholding everything from us consumers we were somehow evil to rip and make our own mp3's. Only able to get what the powers that be (RIAA) felt we were worthy of (mostly whatever manufactured band or act they were currently exploiting and wanted us to buy into like so many lemmings. "Puny mortal, you are only worthy of Britney Spears Greatest Dance Songs of Last Week, with CD-ROM destroying anti-copy-protection, now BUY!") Now the stiletto heel is on the other foot?
keeping the iTunes system a proprietary technology to prevent anyone from using multiple (read Microsoft) music systems is the most anti-consumer and user unfriendly thing any god can do.
UltraGasp! This just can't be the same Hilary Rosen! Impostor!!!
Why am I complaining about this?
I dunno. Maybe you're a consumer now. Or just another cyberslut.
Wasn't there another slashdot article a few weeks ago about how blackholes don't exist? I think it was talking about this report.
Let's rename them 'Schrödinger's holes' - They may or may not exist. Seems to fit in with a lot of the battling theories.
Our astronomy club hosted a local speaker, studying the lives of black holes, where the entire cycle was explored. Pretty cool stuff. I'll try to remember his name and find a link.
they should put these doctoral types on american gladiator and have them defend their theories!
That's what I thought when I heard about Paula Abdul on Idol... this is how burned out old stars on earth behave, they attemt to merge with younger, brighter stars. A little titillation and BAM(!) their radiating again and the envy of all their neighboring dying stars.
The Gamma ray burst was determined to emitted from a very large cigarette lighter igniting a very, very large cigarette. SETI recorded the
first successfully detected extraterrestrial broadcast of a message, which they believe was "Was it good for you, too?" Bachelor and bachelorette scientists around the world
are extremely puzzeled and have few clues as to what it all means.
Intel is obviously relying on fat vendors like Dell, but with performance like this and power consumption like that, buyers will be asking Dell what their problem is. When Dell finally cracks, you'll know Intel have spent too long fixating on their stock price rather than their products. It's a tough thing to recover from, too, and will call for a major shake-up.
Pity is, companies which go though this usually are considerably weaker. AMD looks good, but you have no idea what may be coming out of Japan/Taiwan/China in 10 years.
The myth discussed in this article is really intended for a bunch of PHBs and people who aren't that technically inclined,
Technically? How about even literate enough to read?
who believe that Linux is a toy used by rogue hackers to break into peoples' Windoze boxes and steal their social security numbers...
Possibly not helped when advocated in front of PHB by someone with the hygene of a troll (under bridge variety, not intended as flamebait, I've seen the error of my own approach in pushing these things)
The kind of PHBs who wrote a book I recently read. Linux was mentioned only once, and that sentence stated something to the effect that, "Linux, a free software program available in the public domain..." Yeah. Even programmers know what the public domain is better than whatever PHB wrote that disgusting phrase.
Some of it isn't. Some of the public domain is only so good and not supported, or worse, poorly coded. I truly love people who place code or examples in the public domain, I do it myself and will be launching an open source project this fall, but lack of documentation or easy to follow coding style can spell doom.
Heck, I had a bitch of a selling job on coding a tiny server app in C on an HP 9000 (mostly because we didn't do any C coding in house) because of considerable belief at a couple levels that anything coded in house, in C, by a Linux geek, would not be reliable or secure!
Of course, once it was up and running it hummed right along in the background with nary a glitch and everyone promptly forgot about it.
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Right behind
- 1. The Phantom of the Opera (2-Disc Special Edition)
- 6.
The Andy Griffith Show - The Complete Second Season
- 12. Abs Diet
- 13.
Gilmore Girls - The Complete Third Season
- 25. Quantum Leap - The Complete Third Season
- 33. WWE WrestleMania XXI
- 38.
Star Trek Enterprise - The Complete First Season (doomed, ya already know this, right?)
- 43.
Ocean's Twelve (Widescreen Edition) (what? one week in the theater, was it?)
is it possible that the series will come back to TV?I dunno, probably right up there behind Jim Carrey as Andy Taylor, in spandex, wearing a wig, armed with a phaser, with 11 clones of Barney Fife... uuuuurrrrggghhhh...
WTF? Ok, we like Firefly, we are all gooey over Serenity. Why do we have a 3 comic book series as a major /. story item? Is the news really that slow or are people just so incredibly wrapped up in
Firefly/Serenity that it takes precedence? This whole post is a massive spoiler though!
Really, Dark Horse does some fine publishing and I'm sure they've lined up some excellent artists, colorers, letterers, inkers, etc. and it'll be a great read. But why spoil it all right there in a post? Can't leave people to surf over to the site with all the dirt?
I live a few hundred miles up the coast, where the seagulls return to shit on your car like clockwork.
There was a song years ago, When The Swallows Return To Capistrano and there have been numerous references to their return in the national news over the years -- something along the lines of signs of spring, first robin, dandelions, potholes, etc.
It was the quickest reference to Swallows and lots of them I could come up with spur of the moment. The locals probably hear the Python routines enough they cringe reflexively.
Odds are, anyone who carried such a function was long since laid off in the industry to maximise profits. Let readers letters tell the editors who is off base, etc. Heck, they write in for free!
I had a friend, ages ago, who was going into reporting. I pointed out she had some minor little factual error in one of her published stories. She said, she didn't really fscking care. Seems to be a lot of that going around lately and not just because the Whitehouse is handing out envelopes of cash. Maybe it's the job, too much expected in too little time. What does bother me is when a reporter has your number, and rather than call up to clarify some item, they just make up something and move on. Probably what Delios did.
"I swear I am not making this up" -- Dave Barry
Personally, I don't talk to reporters anymore. For years I have been disgusted by "fill-in-the-blanks-with-whatever-sounds-good" journalists.
As a teenager I was featured in the local town paper with my father's OSI (that's Ohio Scientific) computer, which I was learning to program in the mid 70's. I was aghast to read the article, with my face prominently displayed above it at the dining room table near the computer, filled in with all sorts of wild claims. Seemed to me that reality wasn't exciting enough for the reporter so she threw in some crap about my teenage brother writing for Scientific American (she screwed up the name Ohio Scientific, which my brother had written a program for.)
Year's later I'd be misquoted, embarrassingly so, during the outsourcing of my department. A decidedly pro-labor, and damn whatever he said, article put words in my mouth and I'll never forgive that paper for that. The next time they called I hung up. I don't talk to reporters anymore.
Yeah, but scum have a way of rising back to the top of the pond. Keep an eye on her career. Wouldn't surprise me to see her show up in Washington as a lobbyist.
'n good riddance
He's certainly had enough practice at playing various parts on the Simpsons.
What next, in 10 years a musical of H2G2? There's already a song.
I shudder to think if they took this show on the road, what might happen (Cue dream sequence)
It's a Play so far, but there is a CD of the tunes, which just came out this month.
Then we shall make them ours!
Muah ha ha ha haaaaa!
i wonder if I could fit a linux box inside one of these
You expect these things when someone begins a sentence 'More on'
One of my English profs explained the importance of thinking through sentence structure so as not to be phonetically or grammatically careless, i.e. 'Me and Jim went to the arcade' as it could sound like 'Mean Jim went to the arcade', proper grammar is 'Jim and I went to the arcade.'
Thus endeth today's grammar report.
Apart from the car crashing. Maybe a few less pints of Boddington's next time you head for the bunker, eh?
Those old horror flicks are kinda fun to watch now. A bit campy, but suprisingly better acted than most films today. Sometimes you also get a bit tired of Tom & Crow's narrative and would like to just enjoy some old guys-in-monster-suits flicks.
I was a bit shocked to see how much the Toho Godzilla movies are going for. Yipes! Most of this stuff I can get for a few bucks a DVD, not that though.
Nope, not any of the above. Mostly I was having problem with reflected glare on the screen and how dark the lighting of the horror films was. I found pulling the sheets over the player made it considerably easier to follow and sort of fun, like back with the comics and flashlight part of early life.
The reason I was watching it in the afternoon was because I came home from a hard 60 mile bike ride (I ride with pros, former pros and just damn talented riders) and my tired ol' body needs a rest afterwards. I lie down for a nap or rest and sometimes watch a short DVD. Attack of the Giant Leeches was actually pretty cool. I've got The Screaming Skull lined up for next time.
Still digitally driven. Ok, uses phosphors, which in the old CRT's were fired from 'color guns' and directed by electromagents (yoke) at the phosphors, exciting them and tossing off photons at desired wavelengths, in combinations of 3 phosphors (one red, one blue, one green) to form the particular color desired. As I understand it the LED is backlit and and filters the wavelength of light via layers of R, G and B (or suchlike) and due to the availibility of materials, quality of materials speed of electronics doing the switching, etc, it may or may not have better color resolution. Analog is a very difficult thing to simulate from digital. Will they make it work better than what we already have?
This technology would be decent if it addresses the aforementioned problems, but isn't much of an improvement if it looks blotchy (what is this called, banding?) where colors are similar hue.
Worse than Microsoft or Apple, some RIAA invention, which I fully expected years ago while the RIAA treated MP3's as a cancer. Now they've conceded it's an unstoppable tide and even Sony has been forced to acknowledge that accepting MP3 is the only way to stay in the game.
Apple is successful, but only because their entire product package works for enough people. If iPod didn't accept MP3's I rather doubt it would be doing as well. There's still plenty of room for competition and nobody is bending arms to make anybody else buy the iPod.
Ok, tell us something we can't guess. So you have a new rag and you've got Hilary Rosen writing thus:
Oh my... Has anyone seen my unawarded Humanitarian of the Millenium trophy around? I've got someone to give it to at last.
Or all your favorite pirated mp3's seems we've been here before.
!Cough! Surely you jest, Hilary! What next will you be pushing? Fair Use? You commie!
Yeah, how cruel. Seems when the big labels were withholding everything from us consumers we were somehow evil to rip and make our own mp3's. Only able to get what the powers that be (RIAA) felt we were worthy of (mostly whatever manufactured band or act they were currently exploiting and wanted us to buy into like so many lemmings. "Puny mortal, you are only worthy of Britney Spears Greatest Dance Songs of Last Week, with CD-ROM destroying anti-copy-protection, now BUY!") Now the stiletto heel is on the other foot?
UltraGasp! This just can't be the same Hilary Rosen! Impostor!!!
I dunno. Maybe you're a consumer now. Or just another cyberslut.
Found it. Donald Coyne of UCSC gave a talk on the Ultimate Fate of Small Black Holes. Be sure to check the Milagro link on his facutly page.
Let's rename them 'Schrödinger's holes' - They may or may not exist. Seems to fit in with a lot of the battling theories.
Our astronomy club hosted a local speaker, studying the lives of black holes, where the entire cycle was explored. Pretty cool stuff. I'll try to remember his name and find a link.
they should put these doctoral types on american gladiator and have them defend their theories!
That's what I thought when I heard about Paula Abdul on Idol... this is how burned out old stars on earth behave, they attemt to merge with younger, brighter stars. A little titillation and BAM(!) their radiating again and the envy of all their neighboring dying stars.
The Gamma ray burst was determined to emitted from a very large cigarette lighter igniting a very, very large cigarette. SETI recorded the first successfully detected extraterrestrial broadcast of a message, which they believe was "Was it good for you, too?" Bachelor and bachelorette scientists around the world are extremely puzzeled and have few clues as to what it all means.
Intel is obviously relying on fat vendors like Dell, but with performance like this and power consumption like that, buyers will be asking Dell what their problem is. When Dell finally cracks, you'll know Intel have spent too long fixating on their stock price rather than their products. It's a tough thing to recover from, too, and will call for a major shake-up.
Pity is, companies which go though this usually are considerably weaker. AMD looks good, but you have no idea what may be coming out of Japan/Taiwan/China in 10 years.
Technically? How about even literate enough to read?
who believe that Linux is a toy used by rogue hackers to break into peoples' Windoze boxes and steal their social security numbers...
Possibly not helped when advocated in front of PHB by someone with the hygene of a troll (under bridge variety, not intended as flamebait, I've seen the error of my own approach in pushing these things)
The kind of PHBs who wrote a book I recently read. Linux was mentioned only once, and that sentence stated something to the effect that, "Linux, a free software program available in the public domain..." Yeah. Even programmers know what the public domain is better than whatever PHB wrote that disgusting phrase.
Some of it isn't. Some of the public domain is only so good and not supported, or worse, poorly coded. I truly love people who place code or examples in the public domain, I do it myself and will be launching an open source project this fall, but lack of documentation or easy to follow coding style can spell doom.
Heck, I had a bitch of a selling job on coding a tiny server app in C on an HP 9000 (mostly because we didn't do any C coding in house) because of considerable belief at a couple levels that anything coded in house, in C, by a Linux geek, would not be reliable or secure!
Of course, once it was up and running it hummed right along in the background with nary a glitch and everyone promptly forgot about it.