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'cause there's no way I want a real life version of this. Really, the movie was bad enough...

McCain has personally admitted that he's computer illiterate (and that he hasn't seen a movie since 1952").

Certainly.

Reminds me of the movie Idiocracy where people mindlessly irrigated their crops with electrolytes because they had learned through advertising that electrolytes were good for you. There aren't any user visible quality filters separating good results from respected scientific journals from bad content from some bozo and his blog who has figured out how to game the search algorithms to get traffic to his high CPC keywords.

It's kind of a Gresham's Law applied to search results - bad search results overwhelm the good results.

You can't really put the blame on Google, how do you cost effectively assess the reputations of the millions of content sources out there? This is a democracy, messy but open to everyone.

I like to think that the principles of Wisdom of Crowds will kick in; that someone will come up with a feedback mechanism that can detect from how we interact with search results, on a mass scale, whether we're finding junk or the good stuff.

Re-make in 2010!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0360556/

I hope the young girl is smoking hot.

Do a remake of "Nude on the Moon"

IMDB

or Bill Cosby..

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083652/quotes

The story is believable enough, but, let's let the DA PROVE it first.

In this case, I wonder: wasn't Reiser committed wrongfully? Because if finding the body could turn the conviction from first degree to second degree murder it clearly means that first degree murder hasn't been proved beyond reasonable doubt. At least, "beyond reasonable doubt" doesn't seem like something that could be dispelled by examining a body that has been hidden for several years.

And what if, after examining the body, evidence is found that death could have had a natural cause, or be a suicide? With that reasonable doubt, would the conviction be reversed?

Finally, the juror mentioned in this article that made his decision based on the accused's eyes really scares me. What if I had been tried? Would a crazy schoolteacher send me to prison for life because he didn't like the look in my eyes? There's so much debate on lie detectors in general, experts cannot agree on which subtle body signals will tell if someone is lying or not. If trained police agents, people with vast experience in interrogation practices, using advanced equipment for evaluating stress, cannot tell for sure if someone is lying or not, how come a fifth-grade schoolteacher is able to tell just by a glance at the eyes?...

I'm not saying Reiser is either guilty or not. But that juror's statements make me hope I never stand trial, not under that system, unless there's at least one honest man in the jury to restrain the crazy old schoolteachers.

Once we get off of Earth's gravity well, why in God's name would we build another society within another gravity well? Space is where we should live. And in space, we should build habitats suitable to our evolutionary history. And once we can do that, the notion that we waste our time looking for "habitable planets" becomes a canard. Our only interest is to look for stars and planets with enough energy to support our biological needs.

I think I saw that movie already.

Well, I know which one makes for a better movie.

Never underestimate the strategic importance of a school at the beginning of World War III.

Can someone please tag this as "Zardoz" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070948/?

Thanks

I don't know if it's just me doing something wrong, but it seems IMDb is down. Amazon seems to be working fine right now though.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0283123/

No, This is Dong from 16 Candles all grown up.

Are we seriously going to have another news item for IronPython ("APAX"), J# ("AJ#AX"), F# ("AFAX") or IronLisp ("ALAX")?

Umm, also:

Episode IV: A New Hope

Maybe not in Games, but certainly in Movies:

Witness: House IV

For giving us this CG depection of theft, because it encorages crimes againt casinos? OR maybe we should arrest him for doing it again, and again, ad-nauseum?

Really, what kind of bullshit justification is this?

For giving us this CG depection of theft, because it encorages crimes againt casinos? OR maybe we should arrest him for doing it again, and again, ad-nauseum?

Really, what kind of bullshit justification is this?

For giving us this CG depection of theft, because it encorages crimes againt casinos? OR maybe we should arrest him for doing it again, and again, ad-nauseum?

Really, what kind of bullshit justification is this?

This reminds me of the water cooled computer from http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0448134/ . It seems like a pretty cool idea, I don't know why it hasn't been used before.

You'll be fine...

Just don't let Michah Saunders get near one of them.

http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0015555/

Another good documentary on this topic (which also features input from the folks at Black Box Voting) is Invisible Ballots (see http://www.invisibleballots.com/ and http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0437258) directed by William Gazecki, a former CNN reporter who turned into an investigative documentary producer after covering the Waco, Texas massacre in 1993 and became jaded at how the media dealt with politically sensitive stories. His first documentary, Waco: The Rules of Engagement, grew out of his experience covering the siege for CNN and was nominated for an Oscar for Best Documentary Feature.

Look for the flashing lights and sudden appearances of 3d interfaces - because everyone knows that hacking is just like it appears in the movies

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0151804/

and as somebody else said... *whoosh*...

As I said, I'm not going to waste any more time arguing with you on facts, since you're proving that doesn't work.

But why not have some fun pointing out that "you can't handle the truth" is the line used by a rogue colonel who's covering up murder by soldiers. That's the Republican respect for "facts" at work right there, buried deep in your corrupt culture of "evil by any means necessary".

IIRC 1.5 bits per year address space bloat is from Hennessy and Patterson. [...] At this point we have 30 unused bits of address space, assuming current apps need 32GB tops. That gives 64 bit x64 another 20 years lifetime!
Empirically, it hasn't been growing at anywhere near that rate. Ca. 1980 my TRS-80 had a 16-bit address space, and had enough memory to exhaust all of the addresses. Today, I'm using computers that have 1 Gb of memory, which is 30 bits worth of address space. That's less than 0.5 bits per year.

Also, in order to keep the actual used address space growing at a constant number of bits per year, Moore's law would have to continue indefinitely. But most experts are saying it will probably stop in 10 to 30 years. If we keep growing at 0.5 bits per year, starting now at 30 bits, and stop growing at the Moore's law rate in 2038, then we'll only be using 45 bits worth of actual address space.

It's hard to grok how big a 64-bit address space would really be. As a reality check, let's say that I want to own every movie that's ever been listed on IMDB, and store every single one of those in my computer's RAM simultaneously. If each one takes as much storage as a 5 Gb DVD, and IMDB has 400,000 movies listed, then that's a total of 2x10^15 bytes, which is 50 bits. That's 16,000 times smaller than a 64-bit address space.

As another example, the human brain has about 10^11 neurons. Each of those may be connected to 10^4 other neurons, so the total number of connections is about 10^15. That suggests that the total amount of RAM needed for direct, brute-force modeling of a human brain (assuming we knew enough to program such a model, which we don't, and had parallel processors that could run such a simulation, which we don't) might be about 10^15 bytes, which is a 50-bit address space. A 64-bit address space is 16,000 times bigger than that.

I think we're likely to see flying cars, Turing-level AI, and vacations on the moon before we need 128-bit pointers.

Not YET http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088083/

this is him.

In Soviet Russia Firefox updates YOU!

...is that Barry Corbin ( http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0179224/ ) ad-libbed that line (source: DVD commentary)

Wargames: The Dead Code

IMDb and the trailer can be seen on YouTube.

"Yup the GP lives in a fantasy world where everyone has 2500Sq ft homes or larger and have >$8000.00US to spend on frivolity."

You mean, 'the burbs' http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096734/

suburban America is real, and the McMansion trend proves there is a market. Also people in the burbs often have very little awareness about poverty, or people living in the 'real' world. Beside, mathematically speaking every American could have 3,500 SQ Ft if we used the same percentage of land for residences as japan does. (see my other post for the math on this)

oh and hey, my sister who has 8 kids has a 50" plasma, thanks to George W for his 'tax breaks' for large families, she Should have put every penny of that return against her outstanding debt, but that would be un-American. and the thing is, when she declares bankruptcy in a few years from now because she doesn't understand she needs to not buy fancy crap supporting such a large family, they won't even take her fancy plasma TV away, she has few enough assets to declare it as exempt.

Which is from the movie Dodgeball, which, I am sorry to say, I actually saw. It wasn't that bad... it just wasn't that good, either.

This educational video explains the biology behind this observation:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/

I agree, with one exception. Billy Bob cracks me up and I've watched it several times already.

A man "silicone augmenting" his computer... hmm, pretty soon you'll have something to make into a movie.

Dr. Blair: [throwing a fit in the radio room] You guys think I'M crazy! Well, that's fine! Most of you don't know what's going on around here, but I'm damn well sure SOME of you do! You think that thing wanted to be an animal? No dogs make it a thousand miles through the cold! No, you don't understand! That thing wanted to be US!
(later...)
MacReady: [talking into tape recorder] Nobody... nobody trusts anybody now, and we're all very tired... there's nothing more I can do, just wait... RJ MacReady, helicopter pilot, US outpost #31.
[turns off recorder]
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084787/

No one ever remembers The 13th Floor because it came out the same time as The Matrix. It deals with exactly this subject and is the reason that every so often I go someplace I've never been before... Just to make sure. ;)

Nah...Robert Ballard was really searching for a very expensive diamond dropped overboard by Rose.

Sounds like the Scifi version of Forever Eden.

1. The game is going to suck. MMOs are hard to make, and tie-in games almost always suck. Trying to do both is a recipe for failure
2. Even a game with a small playerbase is going to swamp an "alien invasion" site and bring the game to its knees. This happens in all MMOs when the developers decide to make some special event that only happens in one place. That event crushes the servers that were designed for maybe 50% over regular play levels.
3. Given TV production lead times, unless the events are as lame as "a character mentions it in passing" then the TV show will always be a month or so behind the game events, an eternity in the gaming world.
4. The script will be spastic if you're constantly asking the writers to redo stuff based on the outcome of a game. Plans they had for the event can't be made until after it happens, since they don't know which way it will go

Portal.

Were you thinking of Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future perhaps?

I can only see this realized like those "interactive" morning cartoon shows where they try to get the audience involved by showing an outline of a character in the show and pretend to care that the viewer got the character's name right. Like a subtle infomercial where if you act within 30 minutes you can get free loot as long as you hand over your cc#. Or a 3-D kids movie where the action stops to tell viewers to "put on your dimensional spectacles".

This thing has been done before. Only problem is, you have to think in Russian. Once you manage that, it's no problem to hit the store.