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"Have you ever found yourself wanting to be the bad guy in a Alan Pakula film?"

-Eric

Oh, really? Are you friends with Edward Norton? Considering he delivered the same speech nearly word-for-word in the movie Fight Club.

Even the same variables....wow.

There is no special tech support que that's only in the US, it's a lie. You just dump them back into the ordinary tech support que.

I could definately see it being used in the tablet market. I don't think shifting through file systems with a pen would be much fun.

On a more 'futuristic' note: Wouldn't it be cool to have a desk like in The Island where the doctor brought up their files ON his desk. Now image a big desk with a touch panel as its face. This technology would be pretty cool. Pile up your documents, open them and a virtual keyboard/mouse appears.

I think Paul Verhoeven and JMS both have to give propers to David Cronenburg, who came up with the idea of very interactive TV in the '80s with Videodrome.

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You may want to check out what came out before Paul Verhoeven as J. Michael Straczynski came out in 1994 & had that on at least one of the episodes had a technology like this. IIRC it was something the mentioned HTML or something sounding like it. I'd have to go watch the show again to say what it was for sure.

You may want to check out what came out before Paul Verhoeven as J. Michael Straczynski came out in 1994 & had that on at least one of the episodes had a technology like this. IIRC it was something the mentioned HTML or something sounding like it. I'd have to go watch the show again to say what it was for sure.

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If TiVo really wants to fill the gap caused by ad-skipping, they should create interactive ads that viewers can poke and prod.

Sadly, Paul Verhoeven holds the patent on that one.

(you usually see 2-strokes in things like chainsaws and dirtbikes - you have to mix oil in with the gas)

The biggest engines in the world are 2 strokes. They don't run oil through their crankcases; instead, they have an air blower that blows fresh air in through ports at the bottom of the stroke ("scavenging").

There used to be a very popular series of industrial engines made by GMC/Detroit Diesel, nicknamed Jimmy Diesels. These were two strokes, with a mechanical scavenge blower (favoured as a supercharger by drag racers) and a very distinctive sound. Canadians who grew up in the 1970s will have heard it, whenever Nick Adonidas hopped in to Persephone and took off.

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They weren't selling anything. In fact, they weren't commercials at at. They were a series of educational short films produced by ABC television. And yes, they were very cool. The "I'm just a Bill" one is a personal favorite...

I don't know where you were 30 years ago, but the oceans weren't exactly lousy with bloodthirsty buccaneers back in 1976, either. It's only going to be some rather geriatric folks that actually associate "pirate" with people who capture ships and execute their crews on the high seas -- or the very small minority of people who are from areas of the world where that still happens. It's been a long time since pirates were anything but clownish semi-villians in the public consiousness here in America, more than just the youngest generation here today.

Just remember -- the original Peter Pan, the one that spawned the image of Captain Hook as the evil-but-neurotic guy who's scared of crocodiles, was released in 1953. There are probably more kids in today's generation that haven't seen it than there are adults.

desparately trying to convince it not to explode.
Holy crap! There's going to be a remake!

Didja know that you can get the lithium out of a new one?
The battery is manufactured with metallic lithium foil, which you can take out in a sheet if the battery has not been through a cycle.
Cycling the battery destroys the mechanical integrity of the foil, though, so only new batteries work.

desparately trying to convince it not to explode.
Holy crap! There's going to be a remake!

Didja know that you can get the lithium out of a new one?
The battery is manufactured with metallic lithium foil, which you can take out in a sheet if the battery has not been through a cycle.
Cycling the battery destroys the mechanical integrity of the foil, though, so only new batteries work.

No, Disney supports this completely - they're scheduling their own Pirate Party to celebrate the opening of the movie.

It is more like the Seinfeld episode The Smelly Car

"The strong body odor of a valet is left in Jerry's car. Jerry is forced to try to sell the car, because the odor has taken a life of its own and permeated everything. George is turned by Susan's new outlook on life. Susan's friend is swayed to heterosexuality by Kramer, though later turned back off by a whiff of a jacket that Kramer borrowed from Jerry. When the car can't be sold, Jerry winds up leaving it and the keys out on the street."

IIRC, it was a BMW.

Probably will work out better than snakes...

And here's another!

You'll probably enjoy The Opening of Misty Beethoven. The Pygmalion storyline, some very good acting, actual humor, real breasts, sexy women.

Regards,
Ross

Danny Noonan: I've always wanted to go to college, but it looks like my folks won't be able to afford it.
Judge Smails: Well, the world needs ditch diggers, too.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080487/

Relax, the Chinese have nothing on Emmit Fitzhume and Austin Millbarge.

Screw that. Just get D-FENS on their asses. He knows his rights as a consumer.

"Do we, as consumers, have any recourse against these businesses?"

There's always the solution from Fight Club.

Oops. I'm not supposed to talk about that. Forget I said anything, will ya?

>Plymouth, MI (a small city a bit north of Ann Arbor, not really known for anything)

From Plymouth's History page:'Daisy Air Rifle was founded in Plymouth and it used to be known as the Daisy Air Rifle Company began here in 1886 and earned for Plymouth the title of "Air Rifle Capital of the World"'

All those BB guns that shot kid's eyes out had to come from somewhere!

(Oh yeah, and it's east of Ann Arbor, not north.)

Silent Running, http://imdb.com/title/tt0067756/

In the end they all die except the stupid little robot.

As no one else seems to have pointed out the obvious answer, I will - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114709/ (Check out the first entry in the trivia section).
Although I was under the impression that the film used in movies is still of a far higher quality than 1080i (a trip to a cinema should confirm that). So the key is how well the digital recording (is it called 'mastering') is done.

Oh I'm sure at least one guy would pay for that.

there's a wonderful documentary on cane toads that i watched a few months ago.

it shows how some of the austrailians came to accept the invasion, while others would steer towards the toads to see how many they could squash on the way to work. it was a little disturbing to see 7 pop in your face...

Didn't they already do that? Oh wait, I'm thinking of something else:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079501/

They keep bouncing from outfit to outfit, getting salary bumps with each move.
You can blame HR for this. HR needs to weed out people who have made these kinds of moves too much in favour of people with long term business relationships with their employers. Testing a person's loyalty is HUGE for HR and they do typically drop the ball on it more than they keep the ball in play.

But blame the economy too. Companies have treated employees so poorly in the past, on almost every level, that there has to be some accountability for that. Every action triggers and equal and opposite reaction.

Treat them nicely and they treat YOU nicely. Treat them poorly for long enough and they will treat every other company categorically as poorly as they have been treated. This permanence of occupational conditioning is dark and moody at the core. It embellishes and derives its source from a much larger problem of economic scale.

People don't care enough about their fellow person, anymore. But the change has to start small and spread without being extinguished, like Pay it Forward.

I've even once bought a set of 9 movies on 3 DVDs in a set for $6. Sure, some of the movies on it were really stupid, but when you also get Metropolis, Things to Come, and Slipstream (Mark Hamill's "please don't type-cast me as Luke Skywalker!" movie), $6 is actually almost worth it. But, Jobs' plan would price even this movie at $9.99. (If you don't get it at first, read the reviews, which is the only reason I linked to Amazon rather than IMDB)

MPAA aside, this just doesn't seem like the best pricing plan to me.

Put on your sunglasses people :-/

But don't you see the problem with using torches? The patent system is frightened and angered by fire! Instead, we should try to soothe the patent system with soft music and treat it with kindness.

This is headquarters hailing Blue Thunder, Blue Thunder respond please...

You know, of all the science fiction stories that I'd hope would come true, Dark Angel wasn't one of them. As I recall from that series, the aerial drones were being outfitted with guns to preform assassinations. The populas never suspected because they had grown used to seeing the drones flying about, doing surveillance. I've always wondered if that series was canceled because it hit too close to home. On the other hand, the second season sucked.

Just move to a tasteful, 'product placement' model of advertising in mass media and get rid of interrupt-driven advertising altogether!!! No, not THE TRUMAN SHOW style or that one (in)famous night of programming on ABC(?) that revolved around Elizabeth Taylor and her new perfume.

Consumers get longer programs/movies/whatever with real content to watch making them happy. They also don't have to watch conventional advertising which is mostly assinine, repetitive drivel with only a handfull of exceptions such as Ridley Scott's (in)famous 1983 '1984' ad for Apple Computer. Those consumers who are influenced by product placement will buy your products anyway--the rest will essentially simply ignore such placement as they ignore examples of the current advertising model that dosen't interest them.

Everybody wins.

Any other views?

P.S. Here is how it can be done: 'Place' the product in the show/movie but do not draw undue attention to it or mention it by name (no, the passing Miller Beer truck in a scene in SPEED doesn't count!)--save that for the end credits where you can list the product(s) name/website URL.

P.P.S. The program CANNOT have the veneer of an 'infomercal' in any way or else all is lost and you have failed! This is what happened in the (in)famous Boost Mobile episode of AQUA TEEN HUNGER FORCE -- maybe that was the desired effect for that episode. On the other hand, the 'pop up advertising' episode was a laugh riot and 'oh so true'....

In this way, the 'ad creep' can be dialed down and maybe eliminated from
public bathrooms for starters....

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Just move to a tasteful, 'product placement' model of advertising in mass media and get rid of interrupt-driven advertising altogether!!! No, not THE TRUMAN SHOW style or that one (in)famous night of programming on ABC(?) that revolved around Elizabeth Taylor and her new perfume.

Consumers get longer programs/movies/whatever with real content to watch making them happy. They also don't have to watch conventional advertising which is mostly assinine, repetitive drivel with only a handfull of exceptions such as Ridley Scott's (in)famous 1983 '1984' ad for Apple Computer. Those consumers who are influenced by product placement will buy your products anyway--the rest will essentially simply ignore such placement as they ignore examples of the current advertising model that dosen't interest them.

Everybody wins.

Any other views?

P.S. Here is how it can be done: 'Place' the product in the show/movie but do not draw undue attention to it or mention it by name (no, the passing Miller Beer truck in a scene in SPEED doesn't count!)--save that for the end credits where you can list the product(s) name/website URL.

P.P.S. The program CANNOT have the veneer of an 'infomercal' in any way or else all is lost and you have failed! This is what happened in the (in)famous Boost Mobile episode of AQUA TEEN HUNGER FORCE -- maybe that was the desired effect for that episode. On the other hand, the 'pop up advertising' episode was a laugh riot and 'oh so true'....

In this way, the 'ad creep' can be dialed down and maybe eliminated from
public bathrooms for starters....

Slashdot CAPTCHA: latching

Appropriate for this post isn't it?

Just move to a tasteful, 'product placement' model of advertising in mass media and get rid of interrupt-driven advertising altogether!!! No, not THE TRUMAN SHOW style or that one (in)famous night of programming on ABC(?) that revolved around Elizabeth Taylor and her new perfume.

Consumers get longer programs/movies/whatever with real content to watch making them happy. They also don't have to watch conventional advertising which is mostly assinine, repetitive drivel with only a handfull of exceptions such as Ridley Scott's (in)famous 1983 '1984' ad for Apple Computer. Those consumers who are influenced by product placement will buy your products anyway--the rest will essentially simply ignore such placement as they ignore examples of the current advertising model that dosen't interest them.

Everybody wins.

Any other views?

P.S. Here is how it can be done: 'Place' the product in the show/movie but do not draw undue attention to it or mention it by name (no, the passing Miller Beer truck in a scene in SPEED doesn't count!)--save that for the end credits where you can list the product(s) name/website URL.

P.P.S. The program CANNOT have the veneer of an 'infomercal' in any way or else all is lost and you have failed! This is what happened in the (in)famous Boost Mobile episode of AQUA TEEN HUNGER FORCE -- maybe that was the desired effect for that episode. On the other hand, the 'pop up advertising' episode was a laugh riot and 'oh so true'....

In this way, the 'ad creep' can be dialed down and maybe eliminated from
public bathrooms for starters....

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Appropriate for this post isn't it?

I don't see the connection between "interesting enough to make people want to watch" and "viral".

Pure sales gold.

Ha! That'd be hilarious if MySpace ads were all targetted to pedophiles. You'd see ads for trenchcoats, fedoras, used work vans, pre-made "Free Puppies" signs, those tiny web-cams, night vision goggles, rope, duct tape, DVD ads for Happiness and Lolita, etc...

As Demetri Martin said on the Daily Show (regarding MySpace): On the downside, it's loaded with sexual predators. On the plus side, it's also loaded with sexual prey.

Ha! That'd be hilarious if MySpace ads were all targetted to pedophiles. You'd see ads for trenchcoats, fedoras, used work vans, pre-made "Free Puppies" signs, those tiny web-cams, night vision goggles, rope, duct tape, DVD ads for Happiness and Lolita, etc...

As Demetri Martin said on the Daily Show (regarding MySpace): On the downside, it's loaded with sexual predators. On the plus side, it's also loaded with sexual prey.

most religions are just social engineering scams designed to control the population and make people feel better about themselves at the expense of others^H^H non-believers.

most religions are just social engineering scams designed to control the population and make people feel better about themselves at the expense of others^H^H non-believers.

Here in Venezuela it also kept the english name (Ghost)... the one that was released as "Fantasma" was this one, though:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079714/

I'd rather be attacked by one of those chrome balls than watching Ghost again, BTW.. :)

You mean Tremors 5: Attack of the Microsoft Munchers There already is a 4th http://imdb.com/title/tt0334541/

It distributes itself to all your MSN contacts by sending a video called 'Fantasma.'

I didn't think that Leonard Nimoy was "late", wikipedia and imdb make no mention of it.

Has this just happened, or are you personally aquainted with said gentleman and simply lamenting his constant tardiness?

The People VS Larry Flint
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117318/

I've thought about converting some animated shows into HD for fun, but not upscaling. Instead, I'd take advantage of the bigger canvas of HD and stitch frames together so you could see the backgrounds in their full glory rather than the quick pans across them and otherwise expand the field of view (e.g. a shot from Gargoyles of Xanatos' Eerie Building that panned from pointing down at the base up to being level with Castle Wyvern atop it, but instead of being a pan being stitched together as a reveal). Or make it like an animated comic book where each camera change was a new cell on the page.

Unfortunately I need a more powerful computer to play back HD. A 550 MHz G4 on a Blue & White G3 motherboard doesn't cut it.