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Hey! Didn't I see that movie ? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1053424/

It's merely confirming something else Einstein said: the universe is not only stranger than we imagine, it's stranger than we can imagine.

I don't know.... Einstein might want to revise that statement... he never had a chance to try to follow Lost

He wanted to reveal his best kept secret: Meeting aliens from the future http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0708828/

Jacob's Ladder did it much better.

Kind of reminds me of ST:Voyager episode Virtuoso.

No, sorry, that's The Happiness of the Katakuris. Best move that has ever or will ever be made.

WAIT A MINUTE!

I just realized those pics are from the movie Stealth!

This *might* be a picture of a SR-91. The cockpit makes me wonder what I'm looking at, if it can be piloted/unpiloted. I don't know for sure. Kudos to Yankee engineering though, it looks fast.

It definitely isn't an Aurora - That's the prop for the fictional F/A-37 Talon from the movie Stealth - the shots are from filming done on board the USS Abraham Lincoln - more production shots here

Why not Livius instead: http://www.imdb.com/media/rm1677760000/tt0058085

Yes, you are. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079470/
Whoosh

You go to Mos Eisley. I'll be here.

Well, that specific requirement can be met with other operating systems. For example, I don't think the Nexus series (and I don't mean the Google Phone) will run under Windows.

guess it isn't funny if you have to explain it. The older guys here will remember how HP created a very popular, cool, innovative product once before, and then hampered it with a cryptic error message. The younger people might remember it from a movie.

You could be training them or more sinister proposes...heh, yeah that was bad. And by bad I mean AWESOME.
This is a great movie:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069946/

I played fold.it for a few months a year and half ago. I was better than most at it, but there was one guy who almost always got the best score on every protein he worked on. He was a mutant at it; the Michael Jordan of protein folding. I joked that it was like The Last Starfighter , he was being selected for being taken off planet by the aliens who developed the game. He had a way of identifying parts of a protein that could be modified to improve it. By studying people like him...on what they see that nobody else does, can lead to improved automated algorithms, which can lead to significant improvements in medicines.

Finding optimal folds of proteins is an NP-Hard problem, so having any heuristic algorithm improvements can vastly increase the chance of having automated tools find useful folds in reasonable amounts of time.

Isn't this how the premise for I am legend came about?

While I understand the sentiments I would recommend that you watch "Witch Hunt" before fully supporting such a step.

36 convictions for child molestation, all overturned.

Opps, sorry, only 34 where overturned. The other 2 died in prison awaiting their retrial. The last guy was released after spending 20 years in jail for something he didn't do.

While he's probably not very well known outside of the UK, it's a bit harsh to call him an "actor"; he's been in quite a lot of successful stuff including Star Wars: Episode One, Shaun of the Dead, Spaced, Black Books, The IT Crowd, Look Around You, etc.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0784818/

According to the end of the second trailer, released in March: December 17 2010.

Release dates for various countries can be found here, courtesy of IMDb.

Thirteen freakin' years! Pretty soon (as in right now?) we'll be bragging about seeing it in the theater in the same breath as saying "Get off my lawn!"

100 different people proudly proclaiming "RAID is not a backup solution". Nobody wants to read that shit.

Anyone who works with computers has heard questions like "Jim changed my spreadsheet last week, can you recover my original file?"

Or, in the case of TFA who is a home downloader, how would he feel if his copy of Humphrey Bogart's "The Enforcer" had been overwritten by another movie?

100 different people proudly proclaiming "RAID is not a backup solution". Nobody wants to read that shit.

Anyone who works with computers has heard questions like "Jim changed my spreadsheet last week, can you recover my original file?"

Or, in the case of TFA who is a home downloader, how would he feel if his copy of Humphrey Bogart's "The Enforcer" had been overwritten by another movie?

Crocodile Dundee? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090555/

Reanimator,

1993 called, they said you can't have their animatronics.

Actually now that I think about it, it was an NCIS episode: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0903471/ though when the car tries to kill you it's not just a hunch I guess...

Thanks for reminding me of that great(Terrible) movie. I will be pulling out the DVD tonight.
For those to lazy to search themselves:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092746/

No, no, no. His career had died years before. The movie you're thinking of was the Double Tap to the groaning, brain-hungry remains of what used to be his career.

I beg to differ
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0186566/
(Space Cowboys)

Of course nobody would mind having a while hole in the neighborhood.

Kryten: I've never seen one before - no one has - but I'm guessing it's a white hole...

> I understand this joke often gets +5 Funny, even though I don't know what it refers to. So here I go:
> No disassemble Johnny 5!

It's from a 1986 movie, Short Circuit. (There was also a sequel). Fun old family movie about an experimental robot developing a personality. In the second one, there are also bank robbers.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091949/

DNA developing into a robot is the other way round, of course.

NK General: Try one of these North Korean stories, ambassador, they're pretty good.
/. Ambassador: Thank you, no. I do not support the propaganda of Commie stooges.
NK General: Oh, only Imperialist stooges, ay?
President Taco: Gentlemen, you can't argue in here! This is a discussion forum!

Wow. Gattaca is now. Did nobody else see this movie?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119177/plotsummary

Ob. Broken Arrow: "I don't know what's scarier: losing nuclear weapons, or that it happens so often there's actually a term for it."

I'm picturing Jonathan Ive, rushing into Steve Jobs' office: "Steve, we've got a broken telegraph!"

There are laws against using genetic information for hiring/firing decisions and health insurance purposes.

You don't fire someone because he/she is likely to get sick, is homosexual or a lower race.
You find something else to fire them for. See this instructional video.

I'm not sure it can be confined by mere human genres, but this is pretty horrific.

Idiocracy

*has to say it*

Is it time for a Galaxy Quest?

Could this be ... the first ... Satellite fight? That would be even better than fighting robots.

First they could cross the streams of their satellite signals. Then a few thruster jabs. And then, what we've all been waiting for, full contact satellite warfare! Take that, SkyNET!

This is why we the people of this planet really need to be working on a strategy for cleaning all the crap leftover from dead and broken sats.

Like vacuum it up? We need a Mega Maid.
Just proves that all great ideas come from science fiction movies.

How hard is it to say; change a disk in one of the submerged nodes ? or fix a loose ethernet cable ? If the nodes are separated in compartments, and you could isolate and drain one while servicing it, this would be really nice indeed.

Did you see the movie Sunshine? You'll have to immerse yourself in the coolant, possibly freezing and/or bleeding to death after getting your leg stuck in the rack. It had better be an important upgrade.

'So there was life on Mars.'
Sure, there was even a try to do a US remake.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0478942/

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1305806/

El secreto de sus ojos

Won Oscar. Another 34 wins & 19 nominations

IMDB score: 8.4

Total budget: 2.500.000 (two and a half million dollars)

Compare that to Avatar, that also has an IMDB score of 8.4 ... and costed ~280 million dollars (actual budget) and ~200 millions in marketing and other stuff.

It's not that the price tags are high because the movies are expensive ... the movies are expensive because the price tags are very high. They need to justify the outrageous amounts of money they are spending.

And, before you tell me that the huge budget is because of Avatar's FX ... all hollywood prodctions, even those without any FX at all cost dozens of million dollars, at least.

The wars of the future will not be fought on the battlefield or at sea. They will be fought in space, or possibly on top of a very tall mountain.

No, they will be fought with computers. And when the numbers are calculated, people on the appropriate side will be directed to the Death Chambers.

The one key system

I've found that with Netflix for about ten bucks a month I have no need to pirate movies.

You must have very mainstream tastes.

Want to watch Nothing Lasts Forever , Leningrad Cowboys Go America , The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse , or The Bed Sitting Room ? All reasonably well-known and popular cult movies with English-language soundtracks, but you can't get any of them in Region 1.

I've got dozens of non-R1 DVDs of TV shows and movies which I couldn't simply buy or rent in the USA. But not everyone's willing to e-mail a friend in Finland or take a trip to England to get a legal copy of a movie or TV show; and often, if I can't buy it legally, I don't want to wait until I'm next overseas, and I end up 'pirating'.

I've found that with Netflix for about ten bucks a month I have no need to pirate movies.

You must have very mainstream tastes.

Want to watch Nothing Lasts Forever , Leningrad Cowboys Go America , The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse , or The Bed Sitting Room ? All reasonably well-known and popular cult movies with English-language soundtracks, but you can't get any of them in Region 1.

I've got dozens of non-R1 DVDs of TV shows and movies which I couldn't simply buy or rent in the USA. But not everyone's willing to e-mail a friend in Finland or take a trip to England to get a legal copy of a movie or TV show; and often, if I can't buy it legally, I don't want to wait until I'm next overseas, and I end up 'pirating'.

I've found that with Netflix for about ten bucks a month I have no need to pirate movies.

You must have very mainstream tastes.

Want to watch Nothing Lasts Forever , Leningrad Cowboys Go America , The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse , or The Bed Sitting Room ? All reasonably well-known and popular cult movies with English-language soundtracks, but you can't get any of them in Region 1.

I've got dozens of non-R1 DVDs of TV shows and movies which I couldn't simply buy or rent in the USA. But not everyone's willing to e-mail a friend in Finland or take a trip to England to get a legal copy of a movie or TV show; and often, if I can't buy it legally, I don't want to wait until I'm next overseas, and I end up 'pirating'.

I've found that with Netflix for about ten bucks a month I have no need to pirate movies.

You must have very mainstream tastes.

Want to watch Nothing Lasts Forever , Leningrad Cowboys Go America , The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse , or The Bed Sitting Room ? All reasonably well-known and popular cult movies with English-language soundtracks, but you can't get any of them in Region 1.

I've got dozens of non-R1 DVDs of TV shows and movies which I couldn't simply buy or rent in the USA. But not everyone's willing to e-mail a friend in Finland or take a trip to England to get a legal copy of a movie or TV show; and often, if I can't buy it legally, I don't want to wait until I'm next overseas, and I end up 'pirating'.