(Hey is this the Thieron? Of the atherton lobby crew Thieron?)
Anyway, check out Bittorrent -- there is a little clip out there in cyberspace that expands on the scene where Crichton and Aeryn are in the big circle drawing their guns. Spoilers below:
D'Argo mentions that the people all around them helped "Put you back together" and that "It was an accident. You were crystallized."
A few people had emailed the folks at apple.com and asked to see the trailer there after comicon. Apple.com said something about talking with the Sci-Fi channel (they actually don't usually host TV trailers) -- but actually it was Henson who owned the trailer. The staff at www.watchfarscape.com (I am also a staff member) brought the folks at apple up to speed on who owned what, and encouraged site members to write in to apple.com telling them about their desire to see the trailer. After a week of such emails and negotiations, Apple.com announced it would host the trailer.
If you'd like to argue with me about causation, I can pull MS statistician-going-on-PhD on you and start talking counterfactuals and Directed acyclic graphs, but I'd rather not.
Lets just hope the production quality of this miniseries meets or exceeds the quality of the previous four seasons. It would be a shame if they cut corners now and made it less then it could of been.:)
Well, ImageCreative.net (ie, Dave and Lou Elsey of the Sydney Creature Shop, the people doing alien costumes for Star Wars 3) reported a while back that they did a TON of costumes and creatures for this miniseries -- almost as much as they had done for an entire season. I think one of their quotes was something to the effect of "It's like Farscape on acid".
folks affiliated with Savefarscape.com ran a commercial for the site during the series finale. It played on the Dish Network, so those with satellite TV should have seen it. There were also some other scapers who paid $$ from their pockets to run it locally. Did anybody see it? Just some text and maybe a voiceover saying, "you can help, visit savefarscape.com and/or call 1-888-###-####". They had an 800-number set up.
Unfortunately the ISP is being slow and they were totally slashdotted. They tried to make a smooth transition to a dedicated server and the ISP didn't get it done in time. Last we heard, they were up for a microt and then a quarter-million hits sent them crashing again.
The only time that you can add probabilities like that is when there is zero intersection between the groups - independence.
Sorry to nitpick, but it's not independence, it's mutual exclusivity. Two events cannot be independent and disjoint at the same time unless the probability of one of the events is 0. This is a common misconception, but the point is, if events are disjoint, then knowing that one has happened means you automatically know the other has NOT happened.
The overall population size does not factor into the calculations of standard errors for proportion estimates. As long as the population is significantly larger (say 50x) than the sample, and as long as the sample is large enough (1000 is good), the bell curve approximation of the distribution of the proportion is relatively accurate. 100,000 or 100,000,000, doesn't matter, statisticians get the same confidence from a sample of 5000.
If you want to attack problems in the Neilsen's, it's difficult because it's hard to get ahold of their precise methodology. But I would start with the influx of cable choices... Neilsens were designed when there were only 3 or 4 networks around. They are not the best tools for estimating cable viewership, but they are the only measurement out there.
Need you ask? Of course he's a Crichton -- blond-haired blue-eyed scientist extroardinaire.
I've got Aeryn's dark hair and blue eyes, but according to the S.O. my nose isn't right for the total Claudia Black experience.
What the yotz, I'm going to go send a bucketful of frelnik dead dentics to the greebol SciFi drannits who couldn't even find their mivonks in the dark.
Yeah, are they tinkt? They're not just fahrbot, they're magra-farhbot! Hezmana, those wellnitzes at SciFi need to get their dren together -- maybe it would be better to just send them the empty bucket.
LOL, I wasn't sure how many people here would understand if I said "Scorpius." Sorry about the female thing; it's just that Scapers (not "Scapies"; I agree that sounds like a skin condition or something!), like many scifi followers, seem to be automatically lumped into the "fanboy" genre. People see images of the comic book guy from the Simpsons. Heck, even last night on Leno they dissed scifi fans on "Celebrity Jeopardy":
Jay: The answer is '72 virgins.'
Eminem (played by Gilbert Gottfried, lol): What are the first 72 men to come through the door at a Star Trek convention?
That's no truer for Farscape than it is for Trek, or for Babylon 5. As for dressing up, well, I didn't finish my Aeryn costume in time for halloween, much to the S.O.'s dismay;)
I don't know that I would equate the online Farscape community with "geeks" in the Slashdot sense of the word. The online presence of mainstream fans is large with Farscape. And if SciFi doesn't care about them, the cast and crew of Farscape certainly do, which is perhaps why we see such a "rabid" following.
Since the show was filmed in Australia but not aired there, cast, crew and producers routinely used the Internet to gauge their following. At the first US convention people would write their internet handles on their nametags, and often a cast member (Anthony Simcoe, Ben Browder, etc), would actually recognize the handle. Over Halloween 2002 in LA, three farscape fans took to the streets in costume and with a big poster of the bad guy from the show. And, amidst the 100,000 people out and about, series star Ben Browder saw their poster and took the time to track them down, come over and talk to them. Even took pictures.
There is also a very large female presence over at the site. Writers, graphic designers, stay-at-home moms, bus drivers, students, lawyers, etc. I'm a 25-year-old female PhD student, I love ice hockey and football and reading science fiction. My s.o. is the one who regularly checks out slashdot, and I was the one who got HIM hooked on Farscape. Check it out. I talk to guys about Farscape and I routinely hear, "My sister watches Farscape religiously," or (with 8-year-old child in tow at comic book convention), "I don't watch it, but my wife loves that show."
So we're not quite all hardcore geeks, and the commercial isn't really meant for geeks. It is meant for mainstream folks who maybe wouldn't normally watch scifi. The "I am Farscape" tag is a little dig at the SciFi channel's own marketing scheme of "I am SciFi."
As for moving to HBO, well, they'd definitely get me as a subscriber.
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ack, sorry, I think I replied to the wrong thread. I meant to reply to the first claim, not yours! Sorry.
(Hey is this the Thieron? Of the atherton lobby crew Thieron?) Anyway, check out Bittorrent -- there is a little clip out there in cyberspace that expands on the scene where Crichton and Aeryn are in the big circle drawing their guns. Spoilers below: D'Argo mentions that the people all around them helped "Put you back together" and that "It was an accident. You were crystallized."
A few people had emailed the folks at apple.com and asked to see the trailer there after comicon. Apple.com said something about talking with the Sci-Fi channel (they actually don't usually host TV trailers) -- but actually it was Henson who owned the trailer. The staff at www.watchfarscape.com (I am also a staff member) brought the folks at apple up to speed on who owned what, and encouraged site members to write in to apple.com telling them about their desire to see the trailer. After a week of such emails and negotiations, Apple.com announced it would host the trailer.
If you'd like to argue with me about causation, I can pull MS statistician-going-on-PhD on you and start talking counterfactuals and Directed acyclic graphs, but I'd rather not.
Lets just hope the production quality of this miniseries meets or exceeds the quality of the previous four seasons. It would be a shame if they cut corners now and made it less then it could of been. :)
Well, ImageCreative.net (ie, Dave and Lou Elsey of the Sydney Creature Shop, the people doing alien costumes for Star Wars 3) reported a while back that they did a TON of costumes and creatures for this miniseries -- almost as much as they had done for an entire season. I think one of their quotes was something to the effect of "It's like Farscape on acid".
Hey all,
folks affiliated with Savefarscape.com ran a commercial for the site during the series finale. It played on the Dish Network, so those with satellite TV should have seen it. There were also some other scapers who paid $$ from their pockets to run it locally. Did anybody see it? Just some text and maybe a voiceover saying, "you can help, visit savefarscape.com and/or call 1-888-###-####". They had an 800-number set up.
Unfortunately the ISP is being slow and they were totally slashdotted. They tried to make a smooth transition to a dedicated server and the ISP didn't get it done in time. Last we heard, they were up for a microt and then a quarter-million hits sent them crashing again.
Sorry to nitpick, but it's not independence, it's mutual exclusivity. Two events cannot be independent and disjoint at the same time unless the probability of one of the events is 0. This is a common misconception, but the point is, if events are disjoint, then knowing that one has happened means you automatically know the other has NOT happened.
Independence P(A and B) = P(A)P(B)
Disjoint (A and B) empty => P(A and B) = 0.
The overall population size does not factor into the calculations of standard errors for proportion estimates. As long as the population is significantly larger (say 50x) than the sample, and as long as the sample is large enough (1000 is good), the bell curve approximation of the distribution of the proportion is relatively accurate. 100,000 or 100,000,000, doesn't matter, statisticians get the same confidence from a sample of 5000.
If you want to attack problems in the Neilsen's, it's difficult because it's hard to get ahold of their precise methodology. But I would start with the influx of cable choices... Neilsens were designed when there were only 3 or 4 networks around. They are not the best tools for estimating cable viewership, but they are the only measurement out there.
I've got Aeryn's dark hair and blue eyes, but according to the S.O. my nose isn't right for the total Claudia Black experience.
What the yotz, I'm going to go send a bucketful of frelnik dead dentics to the greebol SciFi drannits who couldn't even find their mivonks in the dark.
Yeah, are they tinkt? They're not just fahrbot, they're magra-farhbot! Hezmana, those wellnitzes at SciFi need to get their dren together -- maybe it would be better to just send them the empty bucket.
LOL, I wasn't sure how many people here would understand if I said "Scorpius." Sorry about the female thing; it's just that Scapers (not "Scapies"; I agree that sounds like a skin condition or something!), like many scifi followers, seem to be automatically lumped into the "fanboy" genre. People see images of the comic book guy from the Simpsons. Heck, even last night on Leno they dissed scifi fans on "Celebrity Jeopardy":
Jay: The answer is '72 virgins.'
Eminem (played by Gilbert Gottfried, lol): What are the first 72 men to come through the door at a Star Trek convention?
That's no truer for Farscape than it is for Trek, or for Babylon 5. As for dressing up, well, I didn't finish my Aeryn costume in time for halloween, much to the S.O.'s dismay ;)
Since the show was filmed in Australia but not aired there, cast, crew and producers routinely used the Internet to gauge their following. At the first US convention people would write their internet handles on their nametags, and often a cast member (Anthony Simcoe, Ben Browder, etc), would actually recognize the handle. Over Halloween 2002 in LA, three farscape fans took to the streets in costume and with a big poster of the bad guy from the show. And, amidst the 100,000 people out and about, series star Ben Browder saw their poster and took the time to track them down, come over and talk to them. Even took pictures.
There is also a very large female presence over at the site. Writers, graphic designers, stay-at-home moms, bus drivers, students, lawyers, etc. I'm a 25-year-old female PhD student, I love ice hockey and football and reading science fiction. My s.o. is the one who regularly checks out slashdot, and I was the one who got HIM hooked on Farscape. Check it out. I talk to guys about Farscape and I routinely hear, "My sister watches Farscape religiously," or (with 8-year-old child in tow at comic book convention), "I don't watch it, but my wife loves that show."
So we're not quite all hardcore geeks, and the commercial isn't really meant for geeks. It is meant for mainstream folks who maybe wouldn't normally watch scifi. The "I am Farscape" tag is a little dig at the SciFi channel's own marketing scheme of "I am SciFi."
As for moving to HBO, well, they'd definitely get me as a subscriber.