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The women aren't naked. They are scantily clad. They have panties and pasties on, to be exact.

You can see it if you watch closely here: http://www.ifilm.com/video/2920222/show/23733/

I admit they are supposed to 'look' naked, but they're not.

Sure they do...
-They plan on building a decent digital animation render-farm to produce a Pixar-esqe version of this: http://www.ifilm.com/video/2855424?ns=1

Yeah, that's find if you only have one song.

sorry to reply to my own post, but I'm watching him on crossfire again...
http://www.ifilm.com/video/2652831
brilliant!
Stewart/Colbert '08

After the rate cut that the Fed announced, fellow-liberal Jon Stewart asked Greenspan pointed questions of whether America is a free economy given the invisible hand of the Fed that favors "investment over work", these guys have been wondering what kind of "flation" we will have to live with.

The Fed chose to cut rates to prevent deflation. The Slate article seems to suggest that deflation has only been postponed and companies will be hit in the long term. But the price cuts are held often - think Thanksgiving or Labor day weekend sales. The fact that there is (almost certainly) a chance to get products way cheaper at a certain point in time does not mean that sales at other time will slow down. The iPhone price cut debate is over - atleast on Slashdot. We all agreed that there will always be early adopters who don't mind paying extra to be the first ones to own a cool piece of gadgetry. That is the very definition of early adopters.

Some pictures to whet your apetite!

http://www.ifilm.com/video/2879515?cmpnid=800&lkde s=VID_2879515

Actually I find this whole debate amusing. Here's everone decrying the state of movies and a few talk about independent films. AND yet there is this internet with sites like atom films and Ifilm with all the quality films you can stand. Why are you all here bitching instead of there watching?

He actually covered it yesterday
http://www.ifilm.com/video/2878949/show/17676

As for Sicko, all I can say is -- go easy on that buttered popcorn.

(if you don't know what's i'm talking about, check this: http://www.ifilm.com/video/2858169)

... in the top 5 most funny TV-moments (on Fox I think it was last week), the FCC song by Family Guy: http://www.ifilm.com/video/2683695

Sorry no. It wasn't well designed, well done, or even original.
The general shittiness of political ads does not make this one any cooler in comparison.

Copying Apple's 1984 ad has been done some many times it's past cliché now.

Two quick examples for ya:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNru2SGZSms

http://www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/2665948/

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What might have been useful would have been if, in the ad, they said even one thing which gave a REASON that Obama might be better than Hillary. All they did was dress her up as a totalitarian leader in the commercial and copy all the old footage. Seriously, this is a two day project for a decent editor. It's sad that someone with real creative thought didn't get involved, because it really could have been cool if they would have made a rational argument. There was no evidence, just a cartoon of what this guy saw Hillary as. He needed to explain WHY.

First let me quote the following from http://www.ifilm.com/about/

"In October 2005, IFILM was acquired by Viacom International, Inc., and is now part of the MTV Networks family of brands that includes MTV, VH1, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, TV Land, CMT, Spike TV and Logo. As one of the largest global television networks, MTV Networks reaches over 1 billion people worldwide."

Basically, if Viacom wins, Viacom loses since their subsidiary iFilm.com will likely be sued as well by other companies (using Viacom v. Google as precendent).
In a nutshell, the only way for Viacom to win is to lose this case, and they know it. I predict it will never make it to judgement but will be withdrawn before the trial ever even begins.

I have (under fair use provisions) included quotes from their own terms of service for iFilm below. It seems they are quite explicit that they only remove copyright content when provided 'notice'. No filtering, no pre-screening... the same things they claim are easy and that Google should do for their benefit, but they refuse to do themselves. In fact, under Section 6, they don't even promise to let you know they received a take-down notice if you send them one.

This case is over before its even begun, and Viacom will look like hypocritcal fools in front of any Judge they get in front of.

SOURCE [ http://www.ifilm.com/about/terms_of_use.jsp ]
Section 4: OWNERSHIP & PROPRIETARY RIGHTS ...We require users to respect our copyrights, trademarks, and other intellectual property rights and those of others, including other users. On notice, we will act expeditiously to remove content on the IFILM Network that infringes the copyright rights of others and will disable the access to the IFILM Network and its services of anyone who uses them to repeatedly to infringe the intellectual property rights of others. Specific procedures to notify us about copyright infringement can be found in Section 6 which describes our Notice and Procedure for Making Claims of Copyright Infringement...

Section 6: CLAIMS OF COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT
If you believe that any Content on the IFILM Network (including, without limitation, any Posting) violates any of the terms or conditions of this Agreement, please send us a message about it at feedback@ifilm.com. We cannot guarantee that we will respond to your message and we reserve the right to take or refrain from taking any or all steps available to us once we receive any such message.

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All the above is personal opinion and does not represent the views of anyone... including myself.

First let me quote the following from http://www.ifilm.com/about/

"In October 2005, IFILM was acquired by Viacom International, Inc., and is now part of the MTV Networks family of brands that includes MTV, VH1, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, TV Land, CMT, Spike TV and Logo. As one of the largest global television networks, MTV Networks reaches over 1 billion people worldwide."

Basically, if Viacom wins, Viacom loses since their subsidiary iFilm.com will likely be sued as well by other companies (using Viacom v. Google as precendent).
In a nutshell, the only way for Viacom to win is to lose this case, and they know it. I predict it will never make it to judgement but will be withdrawn before the trial ever even begins.

I have (under fair use provisions) included quotes from their own terms of service for iFilm below. It seems they are quite explicit that they only remove copyright content when provided 'notice'. No filtering, no pre-screening... the same things they claim are easy and that Google should do for their benefit, but they refuse to do themselves. In fact, under Section 6, they don't even promise to let you know they received a take-down notice if you send them one.

This case is over before its even begun, and Viacom will look like hypocritcal fools in front of any Judge they get in front of.

SOURCE [ http://www.ifilm.com/about/terms_of_use.jsp ]
Section 4: OWNERSHIP & PROPRIETARY RIGHTS ...We require users to respect our copyrights, trademarks, and other intellectual property rights and those of others, including other users. On notice, we will act expeditiously to remove content on the IFILM Network that infringes the copyright rights of others and will disable the access to the IFILM Network and its services of anyone who uses them to repeatedly to infringe the intellectual property rights of others. Specific procedures to notify us about copyright infringement can be found in Section 6 which describes our Notice and Procedure for Making Claims of Copyright Infringement...

Section 6: CLAIMS OF COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT
If you believe that any Content on the IFILM Network (including, without limitation, any Posting) violates any of the terms or conditions of this Agreement, please send us a message about it at feedback@ifilm.com. We cannot guarantee that we will respond to your message and we reserve the right to take or refrain from taking any or all steps available to us once we receive any such message.

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All the above is personal opinion and does not represent the views of anyone... including myself.

Hot hot hot!

Especially this country

All patches from Novell must be rejected, as of now. As well as a statement of our standpoint wrt/ their actions, it can only be assumed that they will include a poison pill that makes Microsoft's case.

Oh, and for Saturday night relief - even the mighty can be seduced by MS charm: farewell, Napoleon!

You must be one of those fancy Landscaping Artists too.

I equate both as temporary evils that must be disciplined no less as little boys that poor sand down their ass cracks.

Then you'll appreciate this :)

"I'm the only guy crazy enough to do this, because I'm not allowed to turn a profit."

Actually, you're not the first and only guy, and I doubt you'll be the last. Come on, this was only a year ago! Star Wars Revelations

If I'm not mistaken, that one sucked too

I am sure I am not the only one who looked for it ... heres a link to the video of the people having sex in the back of that car.
http://www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/2675854

Dude... let's make a podcast out of this! That'd be mad stoooopid!

If Steve Ballmer leaves, what will we do for entertainment?

I have no idea what is so bad about MySpace. You are clearly missing something..

A number of years ago, when the company I founded released Daggerfall, (the second chapter of the Elder Scrolls series from which the latest chapter, Oblivion, has recently sprung), we learned that Senator Joseph Lieberman had identified Daggerfall by name--along with games such as Mortal Kombat--in a televised press conference as one of the year's "10 Worst Games". Not worst games to play, mind you, but most socially unredeeming and therefore deserving of censure by "good people".

I was incensed. Not only because I believed that Lieberman was using his elected office as a platform for his personal (read political) agenda, but because I knew he could not possibly have played Daggerfall to have come out with such an evaluation.

As anyone who knows both the RPG genre and especially the Elder Scrolls series can tell you, the series stresses the importance of relationships and enforces many social rules. To put it in the same category as Mortal Kombat simply meant that someone, or some group with an agenda, had provided Lieberman his Worst Games list.

So, I did what any red blooded president of an American gaming company would do -- I sued him. In doing so we discovered the people who had the agenda and supplied the fateful list to Senator Lieberman. It was the National Institute on Media and the Family. So I sued them too.

Violated by ignorance

I was not going to let my rights be violated by ignorance. What came to pass is that Lieberman had to resort to using the Justice Department to shield himself from our suit. Nevertheless, the good news is that ever since that time, Senator Lieberman stopped the absurd practice of an uninvestigated Worst 10 games list. So, I would like to think that my decision to put money behind principle had a result that was vindication for my company and a larger victory for the games industry.

So, when I tell you that I believe we as an industry need to be aware of our perception by the public and government, I tell you with personal investment in protecting your freedom to be creative and not kowtow to everyone with an opinion. -- The Folly of 'Office Massacre'

Oh, hey everyone, you can see Kasumi's boobs in the Dreamcast version of Dead or Alive by downloading a modified save file that lets you view the Japanese intro that was left on the disk, somebody call the ESRB, it's still being sold used some places!!! (It's not as thrilling as it sounds, if I were you I'd just watch this (not work safe) instead.)

One of the top 10 USAn commercials of all time (according to a USA Today poll, anyway) rags on competitors' attributes and claims the advertised product is better. How is this fundamentally different than what Apple's doing?

One of the top 10 USAn commercials of all time (according to a USA Today poll, anyway) rags on competitors' attributes and claims the advertised product is better. How is this fundamentally different than what Apple's doing?

The one that goes, "I believe the children are our future..."

Then it goes on to show the dumb photos that people post.

Its funny stuff... http://www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/2713146

Here are the first 25 hits on 08/02/2005, when I wrote this story:

1. Whole House Digital Solution
2. Uniform Access Solution (UAS)
3. premises-based solution
4. network-based solution
5. Solution Providers
6. Internet Port solution
7. VoIP solution
8. long-term solution, software solution
9. Comprehensive Voice Solution
10. hosted solution
11. complete on-line trading solution
12. VoIP solution set
13. Web-Based Contact Center Solution
14. Troubleshooting Guide Problem Solution
15. Repeated: network-based solution
16. national voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) solution
17. iQ Networking solution, security solution
18. preset solution
19. e-Solution
20. complex integrated ASP solution
21. carrier-grade solution
22. Repeated: Internet Port solution
23. Business Solution
24. Government Technology Solution, Centrex PRIME solution
25. Qwest solution

Anyone else see the irony in this? Why did you go into the IT business? It's because you enjoy technology and you enjoy problem solving. And now you're being told the only way to save your job is by going into management?

I work in a company that is very management heavy, where there's tonnes of rhetoric about about developing leadership skills. I've had more than one manager tell me that the heads-down coder who knows the system inside-out has "very little value to the company." They want leaders, not specialists. Unfortunately, most of the managers who spout this nonsense would have trouble leading a horse out of a barn. They're all very good talkers, but once you start listening to what they say, you realize it's all BS.

The best "leaders" I've ever worked with are the ones who would never stand up and call themselves leaders. They're the ones who've worked in the trenches, have been the heads down coders and learned multiple systems inside and out over the years. They're the ones who have developed an instinct for what will work and what won't. They're not the boot-licking smooth-talking managers who promise the world to upper-management and then have to claw back features near the end of development because they had no clue what was involved in the work that they were committing to.

So yeah, if you want to save your job, go ahead and practice these lines "Yes, sir. Coming sir." Just like the kid from the commercial. Go into management, kiss up to your boss and your boss's boss. Learn to be a smooth-talker. In the end you'll be nothing more than a used car salesman in a more expensive suit, but at least you won't be outsourced.

On the other hand, if you want to save your dignity and have any passion left for the job that you originally signed up for, do not listen to the article. If you're at a company that respects the work that you do, then great. If not, find a different company to work for. They do exist.

You've got one life to live. Doing something that makes you miserable just because it will save you from being outsourced isn't worth it.

...prevent giant business partners and competitors and the like profiting from doing things with our software and users we didn't authorize.

The ironic part of this is how the Mac became popular. When Apple's Mac team started to market the Mac, they figured there were three programs any home user would want: word processor, spreadsheet, and database. So that's all they marketed. Sales were mediocre at best, despite what was arguably one of the world's best TV commercials.

The Mac really took off when a little company called Aldus wrote a desktop publishing program called PageMaker.

Source: Keynote speech by Guy Kawasaki, former 'evangelist' for Macintosh.

Just post a link to Brokeback to the Future, it's easier.

I thought he was born in Arizona, moved to Babylonia? (Buried with donkey, funky Tut!)

It's a dark, dark path to go down, and one I suggest you avoid.

for those of us who remember Summoner Geeks:
I'm casting...Magic Missile. DM: Why are casting Magic Missile? There's nothing to attack here. Golstaff: I...I'm attacking the darkness! ... (LAUGHTER FROM ALL) Lots of places to see it again ... http://www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/220487?htv=12

If Google set up servers behind China's firewall and only indexed what is accessible via routes available to be followed from those servers, then they aren't censoring anything and would not know what to flag as being censored. More to the point, this is the same as Google indexing what is available on the public servers of news outlets, and news organizations are censoring information all the time. For example, today I was the 619,996 person who saw an "Incredible Video of George Bush Drunk???" at http://www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/2685392?htv=12&ht v=12 My first impression was that this was a digital spoof. I imagine most others would think the same. Consequently no one could blame a news organization for not covering such items. Imagine the cognitive dissonance if they did. When Google doesn't index what is not there, how can it know that censorship took place? But what if the film was more authentic? Who's to know? What about the real case of a young Bill Clinton dressed in a Russian uniform shouting, "You're out numbered 10 to 1". The old cold war propaganda-era 16mm film, "No To Silent Death", made by the Russians, was discovered in an abandoned trade office when the Soviet Union failed. Thousands of news people have seen the detailed forensic evidence at http://ingridx.dyndns.org/ but none will publicly acknowledge its existence. Instead it is left alone for the spies to get their rocks off.

"Actually, I'm not overlooking it...I'm counting on all that to be worked out."

That was the only relevant part of your response to the discussion of warrantless searches, which I'm still trying to understand. You agree that warrants should be required? Or does "worked out" mean that some legal explanation for warrantless searches will be found and accepted?

The rest was us vs. them style ranting. Both Republicans and Democrats do it, and it's bad. However true your facts may be, the point that the other guys are worse does nothing to help America.

BOTH SIDES HAVE BAD APPLES - instead of arguing that theirs are worse, how about we purge bad apples from both sides. How about we agree on what we can, and argue the merits and benefits on other things - instead of arguing the other side sucks.

Please go watch John Stewart (from the Daily Show) and Carlson Tucker (from Crossfire):

http://www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/2652831

The Brick Testament is amusing. However... the Lego Camelot is just tremendous. It's Lego. And it's Camelot. But only a model...

>Ecological change is usually on the order of hundreds of thousands of years.

Dr Rex: "But, you see, kids, we dinosaurs don't have anything to worry about since ecological change takes plenty of time.. we'll have a chance to adapt. I mean, fast ecological change is totally unrealistic.. you'd require a comet hitting the earth or something."

Little velociraptor in the back of the class: "Umm, sir, what's that large flaming ball descending from the sky at this very moment?"

If only dinosaurs were built like the Toyota Tacoma

The Shining Redux appears to capture the spirit of the book much better.

They maybe spinning AGAINST openoffice using FOX but they're also spinning WITH msoffice2003 using Napolean Dynamite ...

If you think Bill Gates going to college is interesting, you might want to watch Bill Gates Goes to College, a movie staring BillG and Napoleon Dynamite, everyone's favorite antihero. Totally hilarious...

Napoleon: "I've got like, computer hacking skills, probably the best I know of."

Bill: "I don't think so."

MS plugs aside, it's really great, and watching Napoleon pull a roller-skating Bill from his totally sweet bike is well worth it. Enjoy =D

Think Jon Stewart's appearance on Crossfire

Think Super-Bowl wardrobe malfunction

Think just about any online video that you'd email your friends, but since video is sometimes slow to download, think about just handing them your iPod for a second.

(though, as the old adage goes... think porn)

Using firefox I was about to find out the filename after it interpreted all that javascript for me. These are the 300K quicktime ones:

http://secure.ifilm.com/qt/portal/2681479_300.mov? e=1128865200&h=d3950f00de4368120de7f5c268a3ae3f
http://secure.ifilm.com/qt/portalnav/getnext.mov?e =1128865200&h=506b32a69c83686efac27d14a6f3bad4

Using firefox I was about to find out the filename after it interpreted all that javascript for me. These are the 300K quicktime ones:

http://secure.ifilm.com/qt/portal/2681479_300.mov? e=1128865200&h=d3950f00de4368120de7f5c268a3ae3f
http://secure.ifilm.com/qt/portalnav/getnext.mov?e =1128865200&h=506b32a69c83686efac27d14a6f3bad4

not as good quality but it will play on virtually anything, here:
http://download.ifilm.com/qt/portal/2681479_300.mo v

ngrep rtsp
select the realplayer version from http://www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/2681478?htv=12&ht
see an interesting rtsp url, so do

mplayer -noframedrop -dumpfile serenity_promo.rm -dumpstream \
rtsp://ifilm.rmod.llnwd.net/a65/o1/portal/2681479_ MULTI.rm

enjoy

Oops. Screwed up my cut-and-paste on that last one. Here's a corrected link:

http://www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/2681478?htv=12&ht v=12&htv=12&htv=12

Here's a version that (I am told) is viewable under Linux:

http://www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/2681478?htv=12&ht v=12&htv=12&htv=12&htv=12

Here's a version that (I am told) is viewable under Linux:

http://www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/2681478?htv=12&ht v=12&htv=12&htv=12&htv=12

IFilm now has the first nine minutes available in three other formats: streaming Windows Media, QuickTime and Real Player

Are those more accessible to your OS?