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Stanislaw Lem, aged 85, one of the world's greatest scifi writters has passed away. Most membered works include 'Solaris', 'The Cyberiad' and Pilot Pirx stories.

I don't think that's the one. There was a film from 1965 called Crack in the World. It started by them drilling down by a volcano and dropping in the nuke. The crack eventually worked its way around the Earth, which then ejected the portion that cracked into space, done as well as a 1960's movie could do, which is to say Not. The Core was the one with Hilary Swank and Aaron Eckhart that was almost as bad, but it did have more of a camp value.

Your name isn't Helmut Bakaitis is it? Nah, can't be, I don't see one single "ergo" in there...

The Tao begot one. One begot two. Two begot three.

Brother Maynard: Skip a bit, Brother.

And three begot the ten thousand things.

'It was set for 380C; but it just melted.'

I guess he should have bought the thermometer that goes to '11'..... ;^)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088258/

You fool! You can't use nukes on the Moon! You'll blow it to smithereens!

A little down the thread you mention you being based in Italy, I only have to recall the influence of the Vatican to imagine what that means for public access channels.

The latest full frontal nudity I have seen on dutch public TV was yesterday at about 16:30, a documentary in which a scene is shown from The Shining: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081505/
The scene is the one with "Lia Beldam .... Young woman in bath" and "Billie Gibson .... Old woman in bath".

It's only a couple of seconds, but it is a full body shot of a naked woman. But this is so common it is hard to think of other recent examples since it's really memorable, we also have swearing on TV. We are DOOOOOOOOOOMMMed

I hope it includes a performance of the chilling “Where There's A Whip, There's A Way.”

I am computer literate! I have 22 years in computer systems engineering and operation.

Oh yeah. Sure. What's that? 22 years of playing Choplifter on a Commodore64? No wait. You wrote "hello world" on a TRS-80 in the early 80's?

Yeah, I love how every script-kiddie who can insert a CD and install/run some canned software is a computer-support-tech and "Gee, wiz, I typed in foo.bas from Basic programming for Idiots and it ran, so I guess I be a computer system engineer."

That email exchange made me want to recomend Johnny Hughes for sainthood: while reading it I could feel myself sliding towards a BOFH attitude...

Oh. btw: anyone else notice that the City of Tuttle Seal looks like a view through a scope?

But wait! Is this the town named after "Tom Tuttle from Tacoma Washington?

Geez!

Let's just hope the lead scientist on this project is not Stephen Sorenson instead. Yikes!!!!!

Or, hire Christopher Walken as a Project manager

So any programmers who mess up get tossed out of a dirigible? Or his is real job to flood Cupertino? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090264/ Of course, he might be too evil, even for Microsost.

http://www.epa.gov/cleanrgy/renew.htm#geothermal land can sink in
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0298814/ the core could stop rotating

Personally, the one lesson I've learned in life, is that NOTHING is without consequences.
Make a simple change to make something easier, you may find you've made something else harder...

The fact is, nothing is 'without' issues.. they just may not be readily apparent before they are present.
and they may be disasters....

volunteered to lead the team for personal reasons.

Go here to see what happens when 'feeling' is outlawed.

Seriously, why did they place this issue under the umbrella of privacy?

Because there was already precedent for treating birth control as a privacy issue. Griswold v. Connecticut dealt with a state's attempt to stop its citizens from using birth control.

Any divisive issue has two sides to it, and abortion is no exception. The privacy perspective is that it is the woman's body, and as long as the pregnancy has not reached a point of "viability" it is her private decision. The other perspective is that at some point it becomes a viable human being and no longer a private matter.

I completely disagree with the term "activist judges". It's a dangerous bit of political agit-prop, designed to erode respect for the judicial system. If we didn't have judges, we wouldn't have a free country.

Citizen Ruth, great movie.

Joey, have you ever been to a Turkish prison?

WTF is it with all these movie references?

"It opens up a new means of investigating general relativity and it consequences in the quantum world."

well ... I'm even more scared!

Yes, but since HAL would agree, using FPS programmers in this context leaves me a with a edge of nervousness.

"It opens up a new means of investigating general relativity and it consequences in the quantum world."

but i'm running scared

Snakes On A Plane? http://imdb.com/title/tt0417148/

• The Terminator
• Apocalypse Now
• The Usual Suspects
• Psycho
• Pulp Fiction

This reminds me of a movie Startup.Com (http://imdb.com/title/tt0256408/). It was about a couple guys who had an idea- to have a website that sold city services. Instead of going to the city to buy a license plate sticker, they sold it on-line. Want to pay a parking ticket? Do it at their website. Good idea.

So, early on, one of the founders decides to cash in for a couple hundred thousand. His strategy was, be a founder but as soon as the company gets any VC money, that he will cash out. He also threatened the group with lawsuits if they did not pay him what he wanted. Everyone agreed, he was the prick who wanted money the first chance he could get it.

Of the 2 founders left, one was a MBA type, and the other was the programmer. So the MBA type did all the dealings with VC, he designed the company structure, everything. While the company was making money hand over fist, everyone was happy. The MBA type even shelled out for a vacation for ALL his employees, over a 100.

But the moment competition showed its ugly head, and profits were threatened, guess who got fired? The MBA type fired his best friend, the programmer. They talked about how they loved each other. I guess money is thicker than freindship.

So, what is the smart thing to do? Be the guy who cashes out in under a year? Be the guy who designs and programs the system but gets screwed? Be the MBA type who manages the company?

I think the company eventually went bankrupt. And the amazing things is, the programmer and the MBA type were able to remain friends.

I would have kicked his ass...

All I'm saying is that we won't know untill we try, and it makes no sense (to me) until it happens. I sure we all saw Flight of the Navigator. That's when I became intrueged with relativity, when I was 6. Didn't study it for another 10 years, though...

Organize them autobiographically.

Don't you know the Dewey Decimal System????

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098546/

FTFA:

The result should be a finer level of detail throughout the visible spectrum, enhancing details in shadows and making highlights come to life.

Unless I'm the Predator and have some special monitor that no one else has, this comment about the "visible spectrum" is ridiculous. Of course it's going to improve fidelity throughout the visible spectrum, do you think they'd just focus on the color green, or try to improve that all-so-important infrared fidelity?

Based on a cutting-edge 90nm process technology

90 nm is not the cutting-edge, it is the industry standard for most performance processors. Even that statement is weak, since the newest Intel offerings are based on 65 nm processes.

combined with full 128-bit precision

As opposed to partial 128-bit processing?

Was this article merely quoted verbatim from ATI's press release? It is filled with so much superfluous hype that getting to the substance of it is hardly worth the effort. Stop after the first two paragraphs and save us three minutes of time.

Denholm: Nice screensaver... I love the way the smoke seems to be coming off the top of it. (The IT Crowd)

There's already an entry in the Internet Movie Database for the series. IMDB is pretty good at keeping up with movies and TV shows that are still in development, so it'll probably be a good place to check back periodically to monitor progress of who comes onboard.

actually, mark hamill turned into a pretty accomplished voice actor. he even had live-action roles in SeaQuest and in cut-scenes for the video game series Wing Commander. sure, his career has not followed the same trajectory as harrison ford's, but considering his horrible car crash, i think he's done quite well for himself. a long, happy marriage, 3 kids, plenty of regular work. we should all be so lucky.

• Senator Organa and the rise of an underground resistance... the rebel alliance
• The rise of the military dictatorship and Governor Tarkin -> Gran Moff Tarkin
• Darth Vader the emperor's enforcer, flushing out the fugitive Jedi and reigning in defiant star systems
• Jedi fugitives looking for other surviving Jedi
• Chewbacca, his species having been all but extinct, getting into the smuggling game... perhaps we'll see him hook up with Han and Lando? Maybe we'll find out what Han did to Lando that Chewy reminded him about on the way to Bespin, where Han said "that was a long time ago, I'm sure he's forgotten all about that", and how the millenium falcon changed hands
• There will be no Yoda, no Obi-Wan, no Luke. They're all gone, in hiding, or growing up on some back-water planet. This isn't going to be like young Indiana Jones where we see Luke's adventures growing up. It's clear that he has a very dull life as a moisture farmer on Tatooine and wants to leave. This series won't be about him at all.
• Leia might be seen here and there just as Bail Organa's daughter but she won't be doing anything. Maybe we'll see how she gets to be a senator at age 20 though. But Alderaan seems to be an off mix of a monarchy and a democracy, Senator Organa is called "your majesty" by captain Antilles, so maybe Leia just gets appointed as a successor in the (powerless) imperial senate.
• And, I hope, this all gets seen through the eyes of our favourite droids, the prissy protocol droid C-3PO and the heroic astromech droid R2-D2. A Kurosawa device... telling the story through the eyes of two insignificant characters who are just there, pretty cool. Refer to Kurosawa's Hidden Fortress

Are you gonna ask us next to "Open the curtains and admire God's beautiful word, and know that even global warming happens for a reason"?

Would you like to play a game?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086567/

Um, no, V is for http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085106/. Faye Grant didn't need to shave her head. :)

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About AMD:

Slow.

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Don't forget to sue the movie also - Robin Hood: Men in Tights. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107977/

From a full 2 years before the trademark was originally awarded to Marvel and DC

There's a movie based on that idea. It's quite a good movie too!

"The Man Who Sued God"

Or maybe http://www.imdb.com/gallery/scrapbook/47/Sbk/47/55 497_1_9.jpg

on the off chance that you're serious, I'll point out that the GP is (hopefully) referring to this Willow.

Hell, in some of her outfits, Kari looks like a friggin' Anime character, and in a bikini she's amazing -- she's hot like Willow was hot.

Really good move, I reccomend it.

http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0471711/

has more.

(The dingo ate ma bay-bee!)

Then allow me to add this to the table.

I'll raise you This

And dont even try to raise me This

I am on to your game.

I'll raise you This

And dont even try to raise me This

I am on to your game.

I'll see your Cube and raise you this.

I will illustrate this with an example. I live in Argentina.

Movie Ticket: ARGENTINA: ARS 6 (USD 2). US: USD 9 (new movies, even some american ones not yet premiered in the US because movie premiers are thursdays here instead of fridays, example: http://imdb.com/title/tt0382077/releaseinfo).

Music CD: ARGENTINA: ARS 28 (~USD 9). US: USD 17.99
PC Game: ARGENTINA ARS 40-120 (USD 13-40). US: USD 20-80.

And now curiously:
Console game: ARGENTINA ARS 240-300 (USD 80-100) US: USD 20-80.
Windows XP Pro: ARGENTINA ARS 600 (USD 200), US: USD 200.

So what is wrong with this? 300 Pesos is the monthly income for many individuals here in my country. So, movie tickets, music CD, and PC game prices ARE adjusted for what people can buy here.
But check the price for Win XP pro. Some people would have to work 2 months to pay for their original XP pro. I'm sure very few americans would have to work 2 months (many would have to work 2 days) to pay for their XP.

So why aren't those prices adjusted? Newsflash: People won't spend their monthly salary in ONE piece of software. They WILL use a pirated copy. I do. I do NOT feel guilty, because what these companies do is STEAL from poor people. If they told me a copy of XP costs 200 pesos I might have an original copy, but I won't pay 600 pesos for it. Microsoft (and the game makers) have to sit down and think for a solution about this issue. And that solution is not XP starter edition. That's just a big corporation abusing the poor and the ignorant. So I'm happy if they lose against the pirates. And don't tell me to use linux. I want the games, I want the compatibility of windows, I want all these things. But I want the price for that to be fair. You can't charge the same price in the whole world (McDonald's and Coca Cola don't, and they do pretty good outside the US. So maybe Microsoft can learn a lesson from them).

IANADJ but I found the film Scratch to be very informative. It's also well made IMO.

Actually this would be interesting.