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Bzzzt. Ah, sorry, thanks for playing though.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062622/quotes
"I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that. "

The scalpin' kinda injun.

Who names a charity after a violent horror movie that stars a psychopathic doll?

But congratulations anyway.

Wow, this is terrible. I'm sure the festival organizers, including Sam Roberts whom we met last year when we competed there, are devastated by being forced into this. They courted SCRPG! for the festival, but in hindsight, it was a little too risky. Sam is a good guy who wants to push on the frontiers of gaming; he must be very disappointed. But he should be proud he had the guts to originally include it in the festival, I hope people realize it was against his wishes to pull it. It would have been unfair to the other finalists to have not pulled it, leading to the festival being cancelled.

It's unclear how much this will tarnish the reputation of Slamdance, or the broader game industry somehow, but hopefully this event will lead to more debate and discussion about games as a medium for serious expression. Although school shootings are a very incendiary topic, I think it's a better tool for debate than, say, the more puerile controversies over the right to have prostitutes and hidden soft-core sex in the Grand Theft Auto games.

I also recommend everyone rent Elephant , if you haven't already — a movie on the same topic as SCRPG!, which won the top prize at film's most prestigious festival, for crissakes! The irony is thick here.

(Trivia: My local Portland game developer meetings are sometimes organized by a guy named Corwin Light-Williams, who made the videogame parody footage for Elephant by programming an actual custom videogame, which allowed players to shoot at Gerry . How many people get "video game designer" in a movie credits?)

Wow, this is terrible. I'm sure the festival organizers, including Sam Roberts whom we met last year when we competed there, are devastated by being forced into this. They courted SCRPG! for the festival, but in hindsight, it was a little too risky. Sam is a good guy who wants to push on the frontiers of gaming; he must be very disappointed. But he should be proud he had the guts to originally include it in the festival, I hope people realize it was against his wishes to pull it. It would have been unfair to the other finalists to have not pulled it, leading to the festival being cancelled.

It's unclear how much this will tarnish the reputation of Slamdance, or the broader game industry somehow, but hopefully this event will lead to more debate and discussion about games as a medium for serious expression. Although school shootings are a very incendiary topic, I think it's a better tool for debate than, say, the more puerile controversies over the right to have prostitutes and hidden soft-core sex in the Grand Theft Auto games.

I also recommend everyone rent Elephant , if you haven't already — a movie on the same topic as SCRPG!, which won the top prize at film's most prestigious festival, for crissakes! The irony is thick here.

(Trivia: My local Portland game developer meetings are sometimes organized by a guy named Corwin Light-Williams, who made the videogame parody footage for Elephant by programming an actual custom videogame, which allowed players to shoot at Gerry . How many people get "video game designer" in a movie credits?)

...by the Star League, to defend the Frontier against Xur and the Kodan Armada.

It's because every one of us has this secret hope that our Achievements will be noticed by someone, and we'll be whisked away to fly a giant CGI starship full of laser beams and death blossoms.

Or is that just me?

What if I wanted to make a Hitler RPG, would that be freedom of speech?

Yes. There are tons of content (movies, songs, etc) that feature Hitler. Some even don't portray him as a monster

I think we need to do some sort of "Trading Places"-esque scheme, where all the Microsoft board members go to sleep one night as usual, but wake up the next morning working in Bangalore at an outsourced call center for OEM tech support.

At the same time we'll let the tech support drones have their way with the Microsoft campus, which I suspect will involve setting it on fire.

This Power6 chip the one they were talking about in the movie Hackers? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113243/

Now that was a movie way ahead of its time!

"It has a killer refresh rate.
P6 chip. Triple the speed of the Pentium.
Yeah. It's not just the chip, it has a PCI bus. But you knew that.
Indeed. RISC architecture is gonna change everything.
Yeah. RISC is good."

I believe that was a reference to a documentary by that title.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0808532/

They already made that movie.

Just build copies of Marvin and pack him full of explosives. I'm sure a chronically depressed robot can be talked into ending it all.

Could be worse. Instead of a RealDoll it could be a pissed off Pris

They should sell adult games the same way they sell adult magazines -- clearly labelled and with a wrapper around them

What store are you buying your games in where the cases aren't covered in shrink-wrap or displaying only the empty cases, the game disks kept behind the counter?

The adult magazines are similarly covered in clear plastic, and that's just to keep people from reading them in public. They employ opaque panels only if the cover art is too revealing of the naughty bits for your community's standards.

There's not much risk in some kid carrying his XBOX 360 or PS3, a battery pack to power them, a pocket TV, controller, and cables popping a copy of GTA4 in and playing it in the isle at Best Buy! And even if they release versions for the PSP or NDS or other portable system, there's still that shrink-wrap in the way.

The content in magazines is readily accessible to the unaided eye. The same is not true of a CD or DVD unless you're a Roswell alien.

You shouldn't vent your frustrations by damaging things, living or otherwise. It's not good for your mental health and it's not an effective way of expressing anger, in fact it tends to make it worse.

Can you cite any studies that back this up? Some of the best "anger therapy" I've ever experienced was beating on a 70 pound punching bag until I was exhausted. A close second to that was knocking down some walls in my house in preparation for a remodel. There's the famous printer scene in Office Space, clearly these guys are getting some payoff from what they're doing.

I'd never do this to any living thing or to property that wasn't mine, but from my own experience, beating the crap out of something is sometimes the best way to vent.

There's an absolutely splendid movie, Creation of the Humanoids which has robot rights as the basic plot driver. Robots were rated from R-1 (basic function) all the way to R-100 (fully human abilities including reproduction). Much of the story revolved around resistance to and efforts to control the "Clickers" as the "Order of Flesh and Blood" called them. Just what do you do when somebody finally (and illegally) builds an R-96 (fully human abilities *except* reproduction)?

In many respects the problem isn't that different from the one we've faced since the day gorillas proved to be self-aware, as Koko demonstrated by her sign-language answer to the question of whether she was an animal or a person: "fine animal gorilla".

This reminds me of the Spaceballs quote:

Listen! We're not just doing this for money... We're doing it for a SHIT LOAD of money!

I don't see why Starbucks should be critised for pointing out that the application wouldn't be legal.

They shouldn't, unless they were wrong. Sounds like they aren't; You have provided a citation, to which I will link. The copied paragraph in your comment is paragraph (e).

there are plenty of other charities that could use my money, and I suspect they wouldn't waste it on tripe such as this.

Obviously you're not giving it to Greenpeace either then :D

But seriously, the obvious fact is that oxfam went after starbucks because they have a big name. All they have accomplished, however, is that the usual reactionary causeheads (see PCU) will stop drinking their venti latte at starfucks, and instead will probably purchase a coffeemaker from a company that made gas ovens for the third reich. (They make bitchin' juicers, too.)

How about V for Vendetta (2005)?

They'll have to explain the absence of Indy's good friend Dr Marcus Brody first.

IMDb credits "someone" (3rd from the bottom), although Wikipedia credits Ford and claims dysentery instead of food poisoning.

Offtopic, did you post that with a Commodore 64?

I always thought James Cameron should only do sequels.

If you bust your buns making the whole project succeed, it's quite likely your boss will get a bonus or stock options, and you'll get nothing.

This concept of giving the bonus to the boss is a partial buy-in to the fallacy of management. It buys in to the concept of the boss as the "essential" cog on the team. Pay off that one big cog and the rest of the team will continue to work. Stakeholders bought in to the image, so now we have 25-year old "genius managers" making more than the underlings with 25 years of experience who actually make things tick.

Of course, this is where the "fend for yourself" concept comes in. I'm a believer in the "Die Broke" philosophy (though the book is poorly written). Point #1 is to "Quit Today", which roughly translates into "fend for yourself". If you work for a firm where bonuses are given to individuals rather than teams, talk to your bosses and be ready to leave.

I mean really, why work hard to put money in someone else's pockets? I'll give bosses some time to prove their worth, but their time is limited. When my x-mas bonus or referral bonus is 1% on "our best year ever" (with unemployment hovering at 4.5% and everyone looking for new staff), then time is up and I'll start looking for a new job.

Mind you, I think your method of playing both sides is easily overlooked. Everyone wants to a "better job", the key is understanding that you can make your current job better or find an new better job. I have heard people spread the belief that only one of these two can be successful. But I actually see two sides of the coin that are not contradictory. I can keep an up to date resume, keep an ear to job market and send out resumes all while helping my boss to improve my current work situation.

In fact, in my recent interviews, companies have been very accepting of my "desire to leave". It's well-known that the strongest employees are rarely without a job, so no one questsions my behaviour. If anyone really prods, I just tell them that "I'm working for a B-grade company and I really want to be working for an A-grade company". Funny thing is, the companies I felt were B-grade haven't called me back, but the company I felt was A-grade has called me back. It's like they can self-select :)

Since the rumour has it that Natalie Portman will appear in Indy 4, I guess we can say with some certainty that the film will include an artifact that petrifies whoever touches it.

I know that was intended as a joke, but there could be some wisdom in it...

If you're looking for an actor that could pass for the son of Indy, wouldn't River Pheonix's brother make some sense?

This will be similar to Never Say Never Again, when Sean Connery returned as an old-ass James Bond, making Roger Moore look better than ever.

Is it really going to be called Indiana Jones and the Ravages of Time? They are right about the 'ravages of time'.

Harrison Ford sure looks over sixty these days. Maybe they can bring back Sean Connery for this one too, and bring other about-to-die actors as his colleagues. (Is Ed Asner really still alive?)

Has anyone seen the script?

This will be similar to Never Say Never Again, when Sean Connery returned as an old-ass James Bond, making Roger Moore look better than ever.

Is it really going to be called Indiana Jones and the Ravages of Time? They are right about the 'ravages of time'.

Harrison Ford sure looks over sixty these days. Maybe they can bring back Sean Connery for this one too, and bring other about-to-die actors as his colleagues. (Is Ed Asner really still alive?)

Has anyone seen the script?

Don't forget 'Leigh Bracket's contributions to the script -- a veteran scriptwriter who had worked on numerous Hollywood classics in the 1940s and 50s. Her experience was essential to the mood and sexual tension of Empire. She unfortunately died before they could work on a script for the third film.

Star Wars is a good reworking of Kurosawa's A Hidden Fortress. Empire has the hands of Kerscner and Bracket all over it. Return of the Jedi closes the trilogy, but should be considered the lesser of the three.

Maybe the movie Bubba Ho-tep would be an appropriate warm up to this new movie... Bruce Campbell plays an aged Elvis who needs to use a walker as he fights a mummy.

Hugo Atse (GNAP) Oakland, CA - Worldwide GNAA agency private investigators Gary Niger and Penny Sbird, trying to link two suspicious criminal cases to Mossad activity, described as "devastating horror" the new evidence they found in the Hans Reiser case.

Hans Reiser, a well known attention whore in the Opensores community who has been struggling for ages to get a pathetically underperforming and unreliable filesystem into the Linux kernel, is being detained for the murder of famous tramp Rob Levin (known as "liLOL" to the Internet community).

Niger and Sbird claim they have found stains of Levin's semen in Reiser's car. They also noticed the car, a large pink bus in the shape of a hypodermic phallus, was missing a seat. It is, according to Sbird, "evidence enough that Reiser brutally sodomised Levin to death, and had to dispose of the seat because Levin's massive body would not fit in the car otherwise".

Reiser's estranged wife, covert Jewish Russian agent Nina "Nenashat" Reiser from Moscow-based Vladimir Bonars hookers agency. was not available for comment. She was last seen celebrating the memory of 9/11 victims by flying her private airplane into a Manhattan building on 10/11.

About Rob Levin:

LOL.

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hey, an Indiana Jones that took place in the sixties might have real potential.

IMDb lists Natalie Portman as a rumored cast member. So in case the movie doesn't live up to its potential, just add some hot grits and we'll all go watch it anyway. :-P

From Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Panama Hat: This is the second time I've had to reclaim my property from you.
Indiana Jones: That belongs in a museum.
Panama Hat: So do you.

Especially since they want Indy's dad to play a decent part in the movie. As much as Connery is one of my all time favorite actors, he's up in the years, and probably only has a few years left on the blue ball. I'll see it strictly for the Connery factor.

the film "live free or die hard" is on it's way. The synopsis alone makes me wanna gag..

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0337978/
When a criminal plot is in place to take down the entire computer and technological structure that supports the economy of the United States (and the world), it's up to a decidedly "old school" hero, police detective John McClane (Willis), to take down the conspiracy, aided by a young hacker (Long).

Yeah, its coming out soon, its going to be called "Live Free or Die Hard". I saw a trailer for it before "The Good Shepherd", though all I can tell you from that is that there will be a lot of big explosions and car chases.

That sucker looks eerily like the M Machine near the start of Metropolis.

Life imitating art? (More likely it's just an obvious design, but still.)

Or just watch the movie Pierrepoint.

If you take the time to read Gutmann's actual analysis, rather than just the summary on the Inquirer, you'll note that he gives several reasons to object to Vista's DRM requirements even if you never use a single DRM-protected file. For example:

The specs for DRM support in Vista specify that the OS has to encrypt any protected video data sent to the video card. "Ah HA," you say. "I'll just never use any protected video." Fair enough. But consider this: in the future, any new video card you buy will have to be capable of decrypting stuff even if you yourself never send it any encrypted content. That means that the company that makes the video card has to integrate cryptography capabilities into the video card. Which requires space on the video card's circuit board. That same circuit board space could have been, say, another pixel pipeline or two for faster video rendering - oh well. Congratulations, you're getting less bang for the same buck.

Except, of course, it's NOT the same buck; it's more buck. Integrating cryptography into a video card will require expertise (expensive), development (expensive), and testing (expensive). And naturally, some cryptography technologies are covered by patents, so the video card company will have to purchase more patent licenses (expensive). Guess who's going to wind up footing the bill for these new expenses? That's right: you, the end user.

Some of the patent expenses can probably be reduced. nVidia has patents of its own, as does ATI, and SGI for that matter. They can offer to swap patent permissions with companies who hold patents for cryptographic technology. (Assuming that the cryptography companies have any interest in graphics patents.) What's that you say? You're a small company? You don't have a massive portfolio of patents to bargain with? And your budget is limited? Sorry, friend, you're in the wrong line of work. Try McDonald's, I hear they need highly-skilled cash-register operators. (Not that there are very many small upstart video-card companies; breaking into that market is damn hard. Throwing in all this DRM stuff just makes the impossible a teensy bit harder.)

Slower development times, higher hardware costs, decreased competition ... all those affect you even if you never sully your system with a DRM-protected file. And that's just scratching the surface. Open source drivers are going to get harder to write; the DRM spec breaks Microsoft's own unified driver scheme, requiring a completely unique driver for every possible variant of every possible device; massively increases the required system specs; decreases system reliability; and on and on. It doesn't even do a damn bit of good in the long run; all it takes is one bright hacker with a compiler (and possibly a soldering gun) to figure out some way around it. One compromised system means that Hollywood's precious copies of Soccer Dog: the Movie will be smeared all over the net. And meanwhile, the rest of us poor schmucks will be paying more for hardware that does less. Great.

The typical production budget for a Pixar film is approaching $100 million USD.

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A single telephone line was enough for VR.5...

A lot of sci-fi mirrors what's happening in the real world. Ever seen Star Wars? The tagline for that should have been: "A War In Space Is Always A Cold War."

That's one of the best sci-fi movies ever.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062168/

It's a remake of the british screenplay, but, well, we didn't get that on this side of the pond.

Someone mod parent up.

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BMO

In this series Edward Woodward gets his 'Union' card confiscated (declared a non-citizen) and almost starves to death as he can't access any of the basic services necessary for survival.

[fiction]

"The population is now governed by the tyrannical Home Office Public Control Department (PCD), who have done away with the rights of the individual and maintain control through ID cards, rationing and electronic surveillance"

"the Great Britain .. we see portrayed in this series .. depicts a distinct "ruling class" and an "under-class" consisting mostly of "non-citizens" as they are called. It is virtually impossible to do anything "anonymously", and society is, to all intents and purposes cashless .. Transactional anonymity is only possible if one is able to pay with gold .. Not surprisingly, something of a black market and underground movement develops"

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075469/

[reality]

Right now if in some officials opinion you may have had knowlege of the comissioning of a crime or supplied a service that aided in the commision of a crime, you can have your passport confiscated, be prevented travel to other regions of the UK and banned from using financial services - all without the bother of a trial, in other words declared a non-citizen.

Yes, the Vista workshop was so valuable that I decided to cut all ties with Google. They may be supplying millions of dollars and free promotions across the globe, but... man, it was such a great workshop!

Well, it may not be real but did any of you ever see the original Miracle on 34th Street? In that movie, there was a major plot point where the "Santa" gave out advice that sometimes told people to buy at another store. This was such a major positive PR move that it brought in more customers than it may have lost. This same concept is what seems to be going on here (or, more correctly, wishing was going on here).

Now, I am not saying that the Google thing is actually an issue but the point is that sometimes playing fair / even handed is actually a win in the long run.

Over all, however, I must say that Google does play rather fair - more so than many (most) other companies in the same space or even other businesses. This does not mean that they could not try harder, but it also does not mean that they should give themselves a disadvantage.

6. The late Alan "Fluff" Freeman had trained as an opera singer.
Because it was a non-story? Or did people really care?
7. The lion costume in the film Wizard of Oz was made from real lions.
I'm assuming they knew this when they made it.
9. Fathers tend to determine the height of their child, mothers their weight.
Maybe scientists didn't know this, but tall men have probably known it for a while.
11. An infestation of head lice is called pediculosis.
An infestation of inaccurate headlines is called ridiculosis.
15. Donald Rumsfeld was both the youngest and the oldest defence secretary in US history.
I'm guessing someone figured that out three years ago when he surpassed George Marshall as the oldest.
17. Coco Chanel started the trend for sun tans in 1923 when she got accidentally burnt on a cruise.
Does that even warrant a comment?
20. Sex workers in Roman times charged the equivalent price of eight glasses of red wine.
Even assuming "things we forgot" counts as things we didn't know, that brothel was discovered in 1862.
24. One third of all the cod fished in the world is consumed in the UK.
Only 1/3?
28. More than 90% of plane crashes have survivors.
If you count the crashes that don't involve falling out of the sky. Anyway, the story appeared on CNN in 2005, and the report is from 2000.
32. Barbie's full name is Barbie Millicent Roberts.
This is from 2003..
35. There were no numbers in the very first UK phone directory, only names and addresses. Operators would connect callers.
Someone just finally got around to opening the very first UK phone directory?
37. Pavements are tested using an 80 square metre artificial pavement at a research centre
You mean they test materials now?
41. Some Royal Mail stamps, which of course carry the Queen's image, are printed in Holland.
Insert prior evidence here.
42. Helen Mirren was born Ilyena Lydia Mironov
2004.
48. Allotment plots come in the standard measure of 10 poles
2001
49. When filming summer scenes in winter, actors suck on ice cubes
1978
50. There are 60 Acacia Avenues in the UK.
Didn't know, or didn't care to know?

I'll let someone else do the last 50.

We found an 1940's church, and behind the pulpit was a blank wall space that was very close to 16:9 above the chair-rail; to make a long story short, we bought the church, made a home out of it, and we ended up with a display surface that is quite large.

I thought The Devil Wears Prada.

When I saw the name the first thing that came to mind was that awful movie featuring a killer doll. Ugh.