You've seen half the picture. Case is visually significant ("README" looks very different from "readme"), but not nearly as mnemonically significant ("Bob" and "bob" are the same word to me; but I write the first if I mean "bob" as someone's name, or in a title, or at the beginning of a sentence...it's a visual cue that indicates what it's being used for. I don't pronounce those words differently, or think of them differently, except possibly in the case of someone's name). If we apply this to a filesystem, we'd get the ability to name files using mixed-case letters (where the case information would be retained), but the file could be referred to case-insensitively; I get the impression this is what MacOS does. The only tradeoff you make here is the ability to use case sensitivity to give files very similar names within a single namespace...and we know people tend to get confused by this.
Now, I get the impression you're arguing against a totally case-insensitive filesystem, one that doesn't retain case information (ie filenames are either all lowercase or ALL CAPS). No doubt that's a bad situation, since you can't put emphasis on filenames by mixing or changing case (and worse still, ALL CAPS reduces readability; we recognize words by their overall shapes, not the shapes of individual letters. Totally capitalized words all look rectangular). But I still don't think it justifies case-sensitive filesystems, where capitalizing a letter (or failing to do so) causes you to refer to a different file, possibly one that doesn't exist.
That may be part of it, but I don't think it's the whole story...
IIRC, at the time Toonami was airing Robotech every weekday, their two-hour block was filled with Thundercats, Voltron, Robotech, and the new Jonny Quest cartoons. CN didn't have a lot of money to begin with, and I think there was some pressure from on high to develop their own stuff instead of shows they'd have to license from other folks; so CN got the first two parts of Robotech (more licensed episodes means higher cost), and blew a wad on Quest. Yech. And the ratings never really came in for Robotech - at least, not enough to justify buying more episodes. Again, IIRC Toonami wasn't doing too well in terms of ratings until they started airing Sailor Moon; that got even better when they added DBZ. Of course, two shows had to be sacrificed to make room for those, and do you think CN was about to get rid of shows they owned instead of ones they had to license from other people?
Also, you may be in the minority on this. I recall hearing that Genesis Climber Mospeada bombed in Japan except for a small cult following - but its lack of success may also have been due to a bad time slot. Oh well, I like it.
Well...there've been rumors that AIC, the company that made Tenchi, is going to start work on more Tenchi episodes that will hopefully conclude the OAV storyline, but it's not known if the new episodes will be released as OAVs or as a TV series (TV series would mean lower animation budget per episode, and thus art more on par with Tenchi Universe than TM!R). Also fewer minutes per episode. But probably more episodes overall.
"will be named"? SMS is already on, has been for months. Michiru became "Michelle", Haruka became "Amara", and I don't remember what happened to the other two.
Robotech was shown on Toonami during weekday afternoons until about two years ago. For several months after that, it was shown during the late Saturday night showing (actually, the time slot was something like 3 AM Sunday).
Toonami stopped playing Robotech because it wasn't being watched (see this interview, question 8). But don't let it get you down; Animeigo has picked up the rights to release Macross (the first of three series that was altered to make Robotech), and ADV is apparently going to be releasing Robotech. Both releases on DVD.
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Now, I get the impression you're arguing against a totally case-insensitive filesystem, one that doesn't retain case information (ie filenames are either all lowercase or ALL CAPS). No doubt that's a bad situation, since you can't put emphasis on filenames by mixing or changing case (and worse still, ALL CAPS reduces readability; we recognize words by their overall shapes, not the shapes of individual letters. Totally capitalized words all look rectangular). But I still don't think it justifies case-sensitive filesystems, where capitalizing a letter (or failing to do so) causes you to refer to a different file, possibly one that doesn't exist.
Alan Zabaro
IIRC, at the time Toonami was airing Robotech every weekday, their two-hour block was filled with Thundercats, Voltron, Robotech, and the new Jonny Quest cartoons. CN didn't have a lot of money to begin with, and I think there was some pressure from on high to develop their own stuff instead of shows they'd have to license from other folks; so CN got the first two parts of Robotech (more licensed episodes means higher cost), and blew a wad on Quest. Yech. And the ratings never really came in for Robotech - at least, not enough to justify buying more episodes. Again, IIRC Toonami wasn't doing too well in terms of ratings until they started airing Sailor Moon; that got even better when they added DBZ. Of course, two shows had to be sacrificed to make room for those, and do you think CN was about to get rid of shows they owned instead of ones they had to license from other people?
Also, you may be in the minority on this. I recall hearing that Genesis Climber Mospeada bombed in Japan except for a small cult following - but its lack of success may also have been due to a bad time slot. Oh well, I like it.
Alan Zabaro
Alan Zabaro
Oh, and H & M have apparently become "cousins".
Alan Zabaro
Toonami stopped playing Robotech because it wasn't being watched (see this interview, question 8). But don't let it get you down; Animeigo has picked up the rights to release Macross (the first of three series that was altered to make Robotech), and ADV is apparently going to be releasing Robotech. Both releases on DVD.
Alan Zabaro