Ingredients: whole wheat, sugars, vegetal fat, egg, calcium carbonate, iodated salt, sodium bicarbonate, color, (lots of vitamins go on in here); for the strawberry filling: corn syrup, sugar,maltodextrine,dextrose,strawberries, water, glicerine, powdered apple, pectine, artificial and natural flavors, sodium benzoate, malic acid, vegetable oil (non-hydrogenated) and soy leticine, red dye 40, sulfites, polisorbate 60.
While it has chemicals, it does contain whole wheat and actual fruits.
I "bolded" the sugars.
"contains actual fruit"... sigh, I can't believe the amount of people who think that something is made healthy by putting a tiny piece of fruit in a huge vat of sugar, artificial colouring, preservatives, etc.
The largest impediment to developing alternative energy sources, these days, seems to be environmentalists.
No, the largest impediment are the entrenched oligopolies of power production.
Maybe the loudest are the radical PETA enviro-nuts, but don't go lumping all environmentalists in the same boat. Some of us are just cautious about the wild claims of businessmen.
So, will Serenity jab Fox in the side for more episodes? My wife and I just got done renting the DVD's, and were shattered when we realized it's abrupt end.
There's a 3 issue comic from Dark Horse coming this summer and a movie by Universal released sept.30, though some lucky browncoats got to see it already in preview screenings.
I usually remembered some fantastic games coming near the end of the lifecycle, like Earthworm Jim 2 for the SNES
OMG yes... the level where you're dressed as an albino weasel and you're swimming in a giant colon while Beethoven's Moonlight Sonatta plays as the level music...
I don't know what these guys were smoking, but they should share : )
According to research published in 2003, kids breakfasting on fizzy drinks and sugary snacks performed at the level of an average 70-year-old in tests of memory and attention.
Maybe that's because they are being raised by the kind of parents that feed their kids cola and candy for breakfast?
Well, that's an extremely good question no matter how you try to belittle it. The only valid reason I can think of is the perception that it's safer (not security) and easier to use a Mac, which is likely true to a varing degree depending on implementation.
Actually, when you buy a mac, you get a box with everything you need, and all you have to do is plug it in and power it on.
Whereas I've watched a software engineer friend spend 3 days installing and configuring linux on his brand new box.
In fact, I have computer-newb friends who's crappy, buggy windows machines might benefit from a linux injection, but I don't want to have to find out which distro they need, how to install it, install it, fight with the various devices who want a driver, no not that driver, another driver, and then spend time re-teaching them the basics of using their machines.
So I just say "you know, the mac minis aren't too expensive, and they're tiny!".
I love how people love Macs because it's a very closed proprietary system that can then be controlled by a single entity. Isn't this what the/. crowd is supposed to be railing against?
Well, it just goes to show that sometimes owners of proprietary systems get it right by making an awesome product instead of trying to sucker you... sometimes.
Was Firefly aired on Fox or FX? I never, ever saw it on but I enjoyed the series when I rented the DVDs. I don't have cable, so if it was on FX that would explain why I never saw it.
On Fox... at a random shifting time slot of death.
Sometimes it came on as advertised, friday at 8, but sometimes it was on at 12:05am (after baseball and the news), one time at 12:15am... sometimes not at all.
And it was aired out of order, with the pilot being the last episode shown. Off course they didn't have good ratings! It was HARD to watch that show! It required planning, sacrifice, and luck.
In Spiderman 1 [...] the defying-physics stuff actually worked
No it didn't. Not for me, and to enough people that I ended up seeing an interview with the SFX guys defending their work on this.
They didn't understand why people didn't like the effect. They took some high speed footage of people doing acrobatics, and based their animations on that... they think people should love it. The reason why so many people didn't like that is that he's supposed to have the speed and agility of a spider, not of a guy on fast-forward.
Now, obviously they did it this way because it was the easiest, fastest, cheapest way to get the job done... they had a deadline to meet. You have the guy going in fast forward, no time wasted observing the movement of spiders or anything fancy like that.
Same reason why the Green Goblin had a power rangers suit and helmet instead of the rubber mask and cowled cape he's always had: Hard plastic is MUCH easier to animate photorealistically than flapping rubber masks and ragged capes.
Perhaps the "prophecy of the one who will bring balance to the Force" was misinterpreted after all: Perhaps the prophecy was really fulfilled not by Anakin destroying the Sith order, but by Luke humanizing the Jedi ethic.
At the beginning of episode1, there are thousands of Jedis, and 2 Sith. At the beginning of episode4, there are 2 Jedis, and 2 Sith.
Arrested Development, definetily one of the top sitcoms (if you can call it that)
Yes I can call it that. It's a half hour situation comedy revolving around a dysfunctionnal family, with the regular assortment of clueless dad, horny and confused teenager, goofy simpleton, etc. Nothing new there.
They do, however, shake the camera around and pretend it's reality TV. I guess there's people out there who really like pretend reality television... but it's just another gimmicky sitcom to me.
Right after seeing ep1, I made a bet with a buddy that in the next one Anakin would get his hand chopped off in a light saber fight with Obi Wan. Off course, I expected him to be fighting against Obi, not along side him, but the guy gave me the five bucks anyway : )
Is it me, or is the Death Star shown at the end of Episode III way too complete? At the beginning of Episode IV, there is some doubt about whether the station is fully operational, but there is a full skeleton of the Death Star visible at the end of III. Surely this is a mistake, just for continuity's sake. The DS could not have taken 16-18 years (as long as it takes Luke and Leia to grow up) to complete!
That skelletal structure was built by the trade federation's union workers. Then the Emperor had Darth Vader kill all the union leaders, so that led to a series of massive strikes who united under the rebel alliance.
In the meantime, the Death Star project had to proceed using off-sector subcontractors, and out of system construction contractors are notorious for delaying completion, double-billing, especially on a fat government contract like that.
Wait until you have a house built: you'll learn the real meaning of "continuity";-)
I think the grandparent post is right. By also producing for some kind of cast, the costs can be divided among the two divisions, and there's an opportunity to add to the revenue with the airing receipts.
I'm not disagreeing with the cost/benefit logic, I'm just saying that the way Fox behaves is a classic example of the right hand not knowing what the left hand is doing.
They aren't acting in their collective, long term best interest, but in short sighted, selfish ways.
Last year Fox started airing "My big fat obnoxious boss" - a reality show, a blatant rip-off of NBC's The Apprentice, but with a bunch of humorous twists, and parts of it were pretty funny.
I see too much Apprentice simply from the ads, and you're telling that there are people who not only watch the actual show, but also blatant dumbed down rip offs? And they are willing to go through the hassle of downloading it in.wmv to see it?
Apparently TV's good money isn't in smart sci-fi, it's in staged contests:-|
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Kellogg's NutriGrain.
Ingredients:
whole wheat, sugars, vegetal fat, egg, calcium carbonate, iodated salt, sodium bicarbonate, color, (lots of vitamins go on in here); for the strawberry filling: corn syrup, sugar,maltodextrine,dextrose,strawberries, water, glicerine, powdered apple, pectine, artificial and natural flavors, sodium benzoate, malic acid, vegetable oil (non-hydrogenated) and soy leticine, red dye 40, sulfites, polisorbate 60.
While it has chemicals, it does contain whole wheat and actual fruits.
I "bolded" the sugars.
"contains actual fruit"... sigh, I can't believe the amount of people who think that something is made healthy by putting a tiny piece of fruit in a huge vat of sugar, artificial colouring, preservatives, etc.
They have a pipe on Japan's Kume coast pumping up deep-sea water, and an institute devoted to trying to figure out what to do with it.
Mostly they desalinate it and sell it as very expensive bottled water... they also look at what kind of critters get sucked up the pipe.
The largest impediment to developing alternative energy sources, these days, seems to be environmentalists.
No, the largest impediment are the entrenched oligopolies of power production.
Maybe the loudest are the radical PETA enviro-nuts, but don't go lumping all environmentalists in the same boat.
Some of us are just cautious about the wild claims of businessmen.
So, will Serenity jab Fox in the side for more episodes? My wife and I just got done renting the DVD's, and were shattered when we realized it's abrupt end.
There's a 3 issue comic from Dark Horse coming this summer and a movie by Universal released sept.30, though some lucky browncoats got to see it already in preview screenings.
The future will be decided when the movie is out.
I usually remembered some fantastic games coming near the end of the lifecycle, like Earthworm Jim 2 for the SNES
OMG yes... the level where you're dressed as an albino weasel and you're swimming in a giant colon while Beethoven's Moonlight Sonatta plays as the level music...
I don't know what these guys were smoking, but they should share : )
So, basically, this thread should be entitled "bug in beta software found, fixed"?
Next up: Sky blue, water wet.
According to research published in 2003, kids breakfasting on fizzy drinks and sugary snacks performed at the level of an average 70-year-old in tests of memory and attention.
Maybe that's because they are being raised by the kind of parents that feed their kids cola and candy for breakfast?
Well, that's an extremely good question no matter how you try to belittle it. The only valid reason I can think of is the perception that it's safer (not security) and easier to use a Mac, which is likely true to a varing degree depending on implementation.
Actually, when you buy a mac, you get a box with everything you need, and all you have to do is plug it in and power it on.
Whereas I've watched a software engineer friend spend 3 days installing and configuring linux on his brand new box.
In fact, I have computer-newb friends who's crappy, buggy windows machines might benefit from a linux injection, but I don't want to have to find out which distro they need, how to install it, install it, fight with the various devices who want a driver, no not that driver, another driver, and then spend time re-teaching them the basics of using their machines.
So I just say "you know, the mac minis aren't too expensive, and they're tiny!".
I love how people love Macs because it's a very closed proprietary system that can then be controlled by a single entity. Isn't this what the /. crowd is supposed to be railing against?
Well, it just goes to show that sometimes owners of proprietary systems get it right by making an awesome product instead of trying to sucker you... sometimes.
Watch an actual highly-touted Bollywood movie someday, and you might just discover you like them more than you thought you would.
I don't.
Maybe it's just my aversion to the high pitch screeching noise that they call "music", but I really don't.
Can't please everyone.
Is with an animated sing and dance number.
;-)
That's where the bar has been raised, and I won't stand for sub standard hard drive technology announcements!
ignore the unusual style, you'll conclude that it's just like any other sitcom.
It's not just any old sitcom, it's a gimmicky sitcom.
Like Alf, or that one where the daughter was secretly a robot...
The point at which Arrested Development had me was when they did a parody of the Star Wars kid.
Meh, I think that's where I stopped wayching : )
Was Firefly aired on Fox or FX? I never, ever saw it on but I enjoyed the series when I rented the DVDs. I don't have cable, so if it was on FX that would explain why I never saw it.
On Fox... at a random shifting time slot of death.
Sometimes it came on as advertised, friday at 8, but sometimes it was on at 12:05am (after baseball and the news), one time at 12:15am... sometimes not at all.
And it was aired out of order, with the pilot being the last episode shown. Off course they didn't have good ratings! It was HARD to watch that show! It required planning, sacrifice, and luck.
Firefly episodes were aired on Friday nights. No NFL football on Fridays. Fox didn't schedule any sports during that day.
Baseball.
In Spiderman 1 [...] the defying-physics stuff actually worked
No it didn't. Not for me, and to enough people that I ended up seeing an interview with the SFX guys defending their work on this.
They didn't understand why people didn't like the effect. They took some high speed footage of people doing acrobatics, and based their animations on that... they think people should love it.
The reason why so many people didn't like that is that he's supposed to have the speed and agility of a spider, not of a guy on fast-forward.
Now, obviously they did it this way because it was the easiest, fastest, cheapest way to get the job done... they had a deadline to meet. You have the guy going in fast forward, no time wasted observing the movement of spiders or anything fancy like that.
Same reason why the Green Goblin had a power rangers suit and helmet instead of the rubber mask and cowled cape he's always had: Hard plastic is MUCH easier to animate photorealistically than flapping rubber masks and ragged capes.
Perhaps the "prophecy of the one who will bring balance to the Force" was misinterpreted after all: Perhaps the prophecy was really fulfilled not by Anakin destroying the Sith order, but by Luke humanizing the Jedi ethic.
At the beginning of episode1, there are thousands of Jedis, and 2 Sith.
At the beginning of episode4, there are 2 Jedis, and 2 Sith.
Anakin brought balance to the Force.
all of the robots had a personality
Yeah, Jar Jar's.
Licas, you sneaky bastard!
Arrested Development, definetily one of the top sitcoms (if you can call it that)
Yes I can call it that.
It's a half hour situation comedy revolving around a dysfunctionnal family, with the regular assortment of clueless dad, horny and confused teenager, goofy simpleton, etc. Nothing new there.
They do, however, shake the camera around and pretend it's reality TV. I guess there's people out there who really like pretend reality television... but it's just another gimmicky sitcom to me.
What's wrong with simply saying "new episodes of Futurama"?
The awnsers are all about alliterations.
I won a five dollar bet when epII came out.
Right after seeing ep1, I made a bet with a buddy that in the next one Anakin would get his hand chopped off in a light saber fight with Obi Wan.
Off course, I expected him to be fighting against Obi, not along side him, but the guy gave me the five bucks anyway : )
Is it me, or is the Death Star shown at the end of Episode III way too complete? At the beginning of Episode IV, there is some doubt about whether the station is fully operational, but there is a full skeleton of the Death Star visible at the end of III. Surely this is a mistake, just for continuity's sake. The DS could not have taken 16-18 years (as long as it takes Luke and Leia to grow up) to complete!
;-)
That skelletal structure was built by the trade federation's union workers. Then the Emperor had Darth Vader kill all the union leaders, so that led to a series of massive strikes who united under the rebel alliance.
In the meantime, the Death Star project had to proceed using off-sector subcontractors, and out of system construction contractors are notorious for delaying completion, double-billing, especially on a fat government contract like that.
Wait until you have a house built: you'll learn the real meaning of "continuity"
I think the grandparent post is right. By also producing for some kind of cast, the costs can be divided among the two divisions, and there's an opportunity to add to the revenue with the airing receipts.
I'm not disagreeing with the cost/benefit logic, I'm just saying that the way Fox behaves is a classic example of the right hand not knowing what the left hand is doing.
They aren't acting in their collective, long term best interest, but in short sighted, selfish ways.
Last year Fox started airing "My big fat obnoxious boss" - a reality show, a blatant rip-off of NBC's The Apprentice, but with a bunch of humorous twists, and parts of it were pretty funny.
.wmv to see it?
:-|
I see too much Apprentice simply from the ads, and you're telling that there are people who not only watch the actual show, but also blatant dumbed down rip offs? And they are willing to go through the hassle of downloading it in
Apparently TV's good money isn't in smart sci-fi, it's in staged contests
I think this is proof that adult entertainment is really evolving. And who do we have to thank for all this wonderfullness? Adult Swim.
Yeah, er, you do that.
I'm gonna keep thanking Japan and Europe for leading the way.