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Your post is strangely familiar.

"Before Repliee Q1, Professor Ishiguro developed Repliee R1 which had the appearance of a five-year-old Japanese girl."

Perhaps he was inspired by the show Small Wonder

It was developed in Israel, and it's called the Nataliee P1.
Like the Repliee Q1, she can flutter her eyelids, move her hands like a human and even appears to breathe, but she can also sit, stand and walk.

The Nataliee P1 is overall far more human-looking than the Repliee Q1, but its speech synthesis is so far not as convincingly human-sounding.

Here are some samples from its vocabulary:
"I will not condone a course of action that will lead us to war."
"I was not elected to watch my people suffer and die while you discuss this invasion in a committee."
"Our people are dying, Senator. We must do something quickly to stop the Federation."

you don't really read the whole book before you buy it either.

I have, I have compleatly read books before buying them. I do the same with magazines, I'd go into the cafe at B&N or Borders and read. If I loved it and/or want to keep it for reference then I pay for it. Reminds me of the movie "You've Got Mail" where one of the charactors says something along the lines of what I do.

Why wasn't GTA:SA nominated? It has lots of fun stuff on the radio--suprisingly for a video game, it actually got quite a few good song to put on the rock stations.

Yeah. And they were in 1988. Hell, "Welcome to the Jungle" was on the Dead Pool soundtrack.

Didn't March of the Penguins (or La Marche de l'empereur in Canada) just come out? OH

1) City of God - Awesome biopic

2) Suicide Circle(Club) - Look for the American Remake soon!

3) Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - Some of those shots must have been a bitch

4) Sin City - Two points: It was visually awesome, and original in the fact that it was almost an exact translation of the books. No one tried to rewrite the universe to make it box office friendly

5) Waking Life - Richard Linklater art film stuff.

1) City of God - Awesome biopic

2) Suicide Circle(Club) - Look for the American Remake soon!

3) Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - Some of those shots must have been a bitch

4) Sin City - Two points: It was visually awesome, and original in the fact that it was almost an exact translation of the books. No one tried to rewrite the universe to make it box office friendly

5) Waking Life - Richard Linklater art film stuff.

1) City of God - Awesome biopic

2) Suicide Circle(Club) - Look for the American Remake soon!

3) Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - Some of those shots must have been a bitch

4) Sin City - Two points: It was visually awesome, and original in the fact that it was almost an exact translation of the books. No one tried to rewrite the universe to make it box office friendly

5) Waking Life - Richard Linklater art film stuff.

1) City of God - Awesome biopic

2) Suicide Circle(Club) - Look for the American Remake soon!

3) Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - Some of those shots must have been a bitch

4) Sin City - Two points: It was visually awesome, and original in the fact that it was almost an exact translation of the books. No one tried to rewrite the universe to make it box office friendly

5) Waking Life - Richard Linklater art film stuff.

1) City of God - Awesome biopic

2) Suicide Circle(Club) - Look for the American Remake soon!

3) Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - Some of those shots must have been a bitch

4) Sin City - Two points: It was visually awesome, and original in the fact that it was almost an exact translation of the books. No one tried to rewrite the universe to make it box office friendly

5) Waking Life - Richard Linklater art film stuff.

Awsome spy movie formula: Sam Fisher: George Clooney Lambert: James Earl Jones Grimsdottir: Sandra Bullock You get the idea.

Awsome spy movie formula: Sam Fisher: George Clooney Lambert: James Earl Jones Grimsdottir: Sandra Bullock You get the idea.

Awsome spy movie formula: Sam Fisher: George Clooney Lambert: James Earl Jones Grimsdottir: Sandra Bullock You get the idea.

PinxXao: "Intellectual property" is not real property.

Yes it is.

Why would Hollywood invest $100 million plus for a reel of exposed motion picture film. For example, the film negative to T2 is intrinsically worth about $115,000,000.00 as that is the total production cost that went into creating the final product: a motion picture film negative. That negative was turn into motion picture prints that were exhibited back in 1991 to the tune of over $200,000,000.00 in box office receipts.

On the software front there is Microsoft--a very real corporate empire built on intangible, magnetically and optically encoded ones and zeroes since the late 1970s.

Sorry PinxXao, there is *BIG* money in "Intellectual property" which is truly a license to print money for wildly successful (usually 'branded') IP....

But don't let silly things like, oh, facts get in the way of all your flag-waving.

Oh, but don't let silly things like, oh, understanding the facts you presented from getting in the way of all your sophomoric insights.

The best thing that NASA could have done at the time to replace their shuttle fleet would have been to fund or buy Buran from the Russians when they ran out of money. the Russians built an amazing robot spaceplane in the 80's, something that NASA still has not achieved.

There was no neeed for a "robot spaceplane", and the the Buran was never intended to be used as a "robot spaceplane". Look, the shuttle could be remotely piloted, like any other aircraft. It's not because there's no point in remotely piloting a manned aircraft. The idea of remotely piloted manned aircraft was never popular in the US, even though the initial Soviet launch vehicles, specifically the Vostok. You can read all about it in Tom Wolfe's book The Right Stuff.

A simple example:

If the shuttle's re-entry angle is wrong, EVEN WITH NO DAMAGE, airframe stress becomes critical, it breaks up and everybody dies.

If a Russian space capsule's re-entry angle is wrong, they experience slightly higher G-forces and the pickup helicopter takes a couple of minutes longer to reach them after parachuting to earth.

Let me point out the obvious. A capsule isn't an airplane; The shape of the object helps to determine what stresses it can take. The Russian capsules are compact gumdrops. The shuttle is long and wide. Of course it has a different stress pattern. I'm not even an aerospace engineer, and I know that.

NASA's shuttle is a bastard design created from political compromise: the military wanted it, the scientists wanted it, the politicians wanted it. As a result it works for almost nobody

No argument here.

and is a 30-year old deathtrap. I'm suprised the loss rate has been so low - I have no idea what drugs NASA is ingesting, I'll be very suprised if this one isn't lost as well.

Your sleep at the local Holiday Inn not withstanding, you don't know what you're talking about. You have some individual facts, but you don't have any understanding of them. Come back when you're actually a rocket scientist, and not simply just playing one.

The shuttle should be killed and replaced ASAP, preferably taking some serious clues from bulletproof no-compromise brute simplicity Russian space engineering -

I'm dissing the Russian space program, they managed to keep Mir flying well beyond its intended lifespan, but they have no funding, not equipment, nothing. They're plenty smart, but don't have the ability to actually implement anything they design.

which is currently the best in the history of the world (until the Chinese or commercial sector catches up and passes them).

Yeah. That's why "Russian" is synonymous with well built dependable products, and not rusting, broken, semi-dependable, and kind of sad given their former greatness.

The world has seen that fabulous Russian engineering during the Cold War. Like the Chinese, they copied. The TU-144? The Concorde. The Buran? The space shuttle. The A-Bomb? Given to them by the Rosenbergs. Then there's the whole fiasco with the soviet engineers touring the American factory with special soles on their shoes to pick up metal filings for future analysis.

Coming back to the space program, my favorite quote from the movie version of The Right Stuff comes from an American general learning about Sputnik. He asks the scientist, "Are you telling me their Germans are smarter than our Germans?" Who got space first? The Germans.

I grew up during the 80s, and was told by the

Very nice. Too bad the camera on the external tank didn't keep going until the fiery end... I always wondered what it would be like to personally re-enter the atmosphere...

The release of this movie only furthers my theory that there are no original ideas left in the entertainment industry.

Submitted as additional proof (like more is needed? perhaps not.): The Island, which is apparently a remake of Parts: The Clonus Horror, which is itself a movie bad enough to have been riffed by the MST3K crew.

What's next? Tim Burton's "Manos: Hands of Fate"? (Note to Johnny Depp: Don't do it!)

The release of this movie only furthers my theory that there are no original ideas left in the entertainment industry.

Submitted as additional proof (like more is needed? perhaps not.): The Island, which is apparently a remake of Parts: The Clonus Horror, which is itself a movie bad enough to have been riffed by the MST3K crew.

What's next? Tim Burton's "Manos: Hands of Fate"? (Note to Johnny Depp: Don't do it!)

The basic Voltron premise was to have standard villian create hair-brained scheme executed by horrifying giant monster/robot. Team Voltron goes off to fight this menace, nearly gets beaten, rises up again to heroic music, forms blazing sword, and lays the smack down - all while dealing with a touching interpersonal subplot.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113820/

Bad news folks. Voltron, the live-action movie has already been done. It's called Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers and if I'm not mistaken, we all hated it.

- StaticLimit

The A-Team 2006 Remake

As shouted by a man in black recently: "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"

Sure, ruin Star Wars, Dukes of Hazzard, Transformers, and millions of other memories from my childhood days. Why not ruin Voltron.

The worst is yet to come :-)

I really dont think they are going to stop. It seems like they have to run out of classics eventually, but there are still many, many more childhood memories for them to ruin.

Lets take bets on what TV franchise from the 80's they will bastardize next. I've got $50 down for He-Man. Paris Hilton can be Skeletor.

Way too late, by almost twenty years. That honor went to Frank Langella.

That it doesn't suck like Robot Jox did. I could care less about the money I wasted on watching that movie, I want my time back!

I was originally going to reply with a link to the 80's He-Man movie, then I ran into this . Truly frightening.

However, those coming from the post-power ranger generation certainly appreciate Amy Jo Johnson (aka the pink ranger)

...already happen?

"Broadcasting beautiful views, 24 hours a day. You're tuned to the Scenery Channel."

- A window in the McFly's future HillDale residence, Back To The Future: Part II , 1989

I heard this when I was a kid watching Forbidden Planet

Wow score one for the 1950's science fiction audio producers.

this sound exactly like the intro to the 90's remake of night of the living dead, which in my humble opinion is the best zombie flick of all time.

Sounds like some of the effects from the soundtrack to Forbidden Planet!

http://imdb.com/title/tt0049223/

Yeah, it was a pretty nasty scene, but much more realistic than movies like Outland and Total Recall

And the guy did survive.

-Eric

Yeah, it was a pretty nasty scene, but much more realistic than movies like Outland and Total Recall

And the guy did survive.

-Eric

The film you are thinking of was Event Horizon http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119081/

I work in television, and programming doesn't shift with DST. If something airs at 3pm, it airs at 3pm.

I guess now we know what time Sesame Street is on.

zing!

Well, shit. I'm going to hold on to any possible chance that he's being unreasonably curmudgeonly. Any... possible... chance. Any chance that this line will not be in the movie:

V: "This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is it vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished, as the once vital voice of the verisimilitude now venerates what they once vilified. However, this valorous visitation of a by-gone vexation, stands vivified, and has vowed to vangquish these venal and virulent vermin vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition.

The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose vis-à-vis an introduction, and so it is my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V."

Evey: Are you like, a crazy-person?

I shall wait until Roger Ebert provides his... verdict.

--grendel drago

V.

For the confused, the quote came from The Hunt for Red October.

Don't forget Solo.

How about this:

The Wave or The Wave

To explain to his students the atmosphere in the 1930's Nazi-Germany, history teacher Burt Ross initiates a daring experiment. He declares himself leader of a new movement, called 'The Wave'. Inspired, he proclaims ideas about Power, Discipline and Superiority. His students are strikingly willing to follow him. Soon the entire school is under the spell of 'The Wave'. Anyone who refuses to be a part of the Movement, faces threats or worse. Ross himself gets carried away by his own experiment. Or has it turned into something more than an experiment? A climax is unavoidable, resulting in a hard lesson for both Ross and his students...

Dr. Lizardo surrenders.

IMDB

I find it ironically funny that John Hurt seems to be playing the head of the oppressive party in this movie while he played the exact opposite kind of character in 1984.

I find it ironically funny that John Hurt seems to be playing the head of the oppressive party in this movie while he played the exact opposite kind of character in 1984.

And it went very badly, as I recall.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102812/

oh yeah i forgot(since we cant edit our posts?) there is a mini series, i think two-nights for a total of 4 hours that will be an update to the miniseries. if successful then there will be sequels... the good news is the original director, and cast such as robert englund have agreed to sign on. imdb

http://www.imdb.com/Title?0108598

In the graphic novel the hero, V, is a terrorist and a psycho. He blows things up, killing the guilty and the innocent. He not the leader of a popular uprising, he's a loner. The closest thing he has to an ally is Evey - a girl he keeps imprisoned and tortures until she comes around to his way of thinking. The brilliance of the graphic novel stems from the fact that the reader identifies with the main character, even though he's cruel and clearly totally out of his mind.

I've not read V, but from your description, it sounds like Save the Green Planet! is the kind of movie V wants to be - except instead of blowing up buildings, the sympathetic, insane anti-hero tortures people to death to prove they are or are not aliens.

The movie is WAY too extreme for Hollywood, but Korean cinema kicks-ass so not a problem for them. You can find STGP floating around the net, or pick up the US region-1 release on DVD in a few months.

What is very interesting about your reference to http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087803/1984 is how John Hurt has changed as an actor. Early in his career, he played the character who was being oppressed by a tyrannical government. However, now in towards the end of his career, he is now the oppressor. One one hand it's an interesting metaphor for our lives as we get older and how things change. However, on the other hand, it's the same kind of "look how smart I am" crap that these guys throw out for every film that drives me insane. IT

For anyone that doesn't get this reference: http://imdb.com/title/tt0085106/