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Ok, ok, so he backs it, but I can't help but feel he is only doing so just in case these advances trickle down to reproductive cloning, because then he can create an United States citizen born copy of himself.

Surely not. Why, wouldn't that be a violation of the 6th Day Law?

At Romy and Michele's High School Reunion!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120032/

On a vaguely related note, has anyone else seen that 'Movie Nuttball' character from http://imdb.com/ who goes around every film and computer game, pretending to be a normal visitor, giving it a glowing review from a standard template, calling it 'The Greatest Film Ever', and advising the reader to buy it from amazon.com?

He's not even subtle: http://imdb.com/user/ur1132073/comments.

On a vaguely related note, has anyone else seen that 'Movie Nuttball' character from http://imdb.com/ who goes around every film and computer game, pretending to be a normal visitor, giving it a glowing review from a standard template, calling it 'The Greatest Film Ever', and advising the reader to buy it from amazon.com?

He's not even subtle: http://imdb.com/user/ur1132073/comments.

Who knew that Romy and Michele also had a hand in creating the internet as well.

It's a quote from Fight Club. :)

Admittedly, I'm an EE and not a Software person, but I've been working a lot with FPGA design and this involves the use of a few "functional" programming languages such as the Scheme-like confluence Hardware Description Language (HDL).

ANSI and ISO C are imperative, sequential, PROCEDURAL languages.

From my (possibly wrong) understanding, languages such as Haskell (Wikipedia) and Scheme (Wikipedia) are "functional".

These are so far from anything at all like C programming, Haskell in particular for some reason reminds me of that movie Event Horizon, but that's probably just my warped mind thinking irrelevant thoughts again...

I'm told that the Haskell course taught at my University is a source of great frustration to many programmer wannabes who can never get their head around the "functional" programming paradigm and are forever stuck in their Java ways.

So, if C is classed as "functional" in your books, what would Haskell be?

Businesses should never get into these kinds of arguments. I would not want to be the Microsoft Rep responsible for selling into Utah or Idaho tomorrow. (huge generalization, I know)

As Sandeep Kaushik reported in the April 21st iss of The Stranger
The list of high-profile companies that endorsed the bill this year reads like a who's who of the Pacific Northwest corporate world. It includes the Boeing Company, Nike, Coors Brewing, Qwest Communications, Washington Mutual, Hewlett-Packard, Corbis, Battelle Memorial Institute, Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen's Vulcan Inc., and others. And as late as February 1, Microsoft, which issued a letter in support of the bill last year, appeared poised to do so again.

Notice that there's been nary a peep about any of these other comapanies. Perhaps it's the waffling and ham-handed handling of the issue that is Microsoft's real problem.

One of the biggest problems we've created for ourselves is making companies simply about making money. I think Chuck Palahniuk's Tyler Durden best expressed the inhuman calculations that leads to. Sure, investors deserve to know that the financial instrument they're investing in is out to make money, but if Google hasn't been delisted for it's preface to the company's S1 document perhaps other comapnies can profess something beyond "doing the right thing" only in the narrowest of definitions for its shareholders.

Further, it is in Microsoft's best interest, talent pool-wise, to make sure that Washington State is and remains attractive to gays, bohemians, and ethnic minorities because they are also the places where creative workers - the kind who start and staff innovative, fast-growing companies - want to live.

"Who doesn't have access to a Windows box?"

Have access to != know how to use. If it did I wouldn't have any work down here at all. What little money I've made in the Sunshine State has been mostly from teaching grandmothers how to not install spyware.

"Most of the Windows and office functionality can be learned with a variety of Linux distributions and OpenOffice -- and any of the many intro/"dummies" books that populate the shelves."

These kids can't be bothered to read friggin cliff's notes for crying out loud. Not to mention the fact that high school egos would never permit them to read anything with "dummies" on it. Their friends might see them.

I've been getting so much flak about this that I went and asked God. Here's what he said:

Windows... is my son. MacOS is my son. *ix/ux is my son. The guy who said there was no room at the inn was my son. Next question.

I realize that movies I liked as a child suck.

For anyone who saw Krull as a child then later saw it as an adult will without a doubt agree with you.

...certain languages/accents have come to be hung with certain stereotypes. BBC style British accent=intelligent, French accent=...

I thought British = Nazi. That or the devil. Either way, evil.

In the great movie Sneakers, they hired Leonard Adleman, one of the co-inventors of the RSA algorithm. He provided slides for the big math lecture. Thinking that, hey, this was Hollywood, he spent a solid week (going off memory there) creating pretty graphs and typographically sound mockups of the subject material, in exchange for giving his wife a chance to meet lead actor Robert Redford.
To his dismay, on the day of the shoot, he discovered that someone had just grease-penned some mockup slides to make it look more "authentic."
He said something like, "If I'd known thats what they wanted, I could have handed something over in a few minutes. And it'd be correct!"

you're 7 1/2 years older than allowed. Past time the sand man paid you a visit.

That's my dream job! My claim to fame is that I did consult a tiny bit for one of those movies, but as it has a score of 5.6 I'm embarassed to admit what it was.

Pi
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0138704/

not exactly recent but superb and successful none the less

Pi
probably the best maths film in a long time, the concepts and relationship to life the world and everything are real food for the mind.
more please !

I think you mean Swordfish.

Fantastic picture zooming predates computers. Columbo solved many a murder by zooming in on a crowd scene or a video to disover a tatoo, monogram, birthmark, etc.

Law and Order have simply digitized the technique. One season they were fond of zooming in on the name of the particular model of Ford driven by the suspect/victim/witness.

Namely, Tenchi Muyo in Love. At the end of the movie, the Tenchi gang have to set up 5 transmitters around the city and one on Tokyo Tower in order to defeat the super criminal Kain. Maybe Seattlites should be on the lookout for green spiky haired women who can fly and materialize energy swords.

Then obviously you've never seen this movie.

Mmm, Natalie Portman goodness

A pink wig even looks good on her. Impressive!

Oh for Christ's sake -- go see Natalie Portman nearly friggin' nekkid and stripping for Clive Owen in a 2-day rental of Closer http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0376541/ at Blockbuster Video.

Trust me -- no need to wait for Lucas to make Star Wars nerds wet dreams come true with revisions to Amidala's cloak or Leia's Hutt bikini in the "Star Wars 8th Edition Special THX Widescreen DVD Collection" to get you in trouble with the wife.

My gawking during "Closer" was plenty enough to land me on the couch last Saturday night...where I watched it again, after the wife went to sleep, in the privacy of my den. ;)

IronChefMorimoto

Nowadays, XXX is only rated PG-13

1. PG13 Titanic (1997) $1,835,300,000
2. PG13 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) $1,129,219,252
3. PG Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001) $968,600,000
4. PG Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999) $922,379,000
5. PG13 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) $921,600,000
6. PG13 Jurassic Park (1993) $919,700,000
7. PG Shrek 2 (2004) $880,871,036
8. PG Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) $866,300,000
9. G Finding Nemo (2003) $865,000,000
10. PG13 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) $860,700,000
11. PG13 Independence Day (1996) $811,200,000
12. PG13 Spider-Man (2002) $806,700,000
13. PG Star Wars (1977) $797,900,000
14. PG Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) $789,458,727
15. PG13 Spider-Man 2 (2004) $783,577,893
16. G The Lion King (1994) $783,400,000
17. PG E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) $756,700,000
18. R The Matrix Reloaded (2003) $735,600,000
19. PG13 Forrest Gump (1994) $679,400,000
20. PG13 The Sixth Sense (1999) $661,500,000

No, PG-13 was created in part because of Temple of Doom. I think a Gremlin exploding in a microwave also played a part. According to the IMDb, Red Dawn was the first movie released with a PG-13 rating. The trivia page for Gremlins says it is probably Spielberg's involvment in both Gremlins and Temple of Doom that saved them from R ratings.

No, PG-13 was created in part because of Temple of Doom. I think a Gremlin exploding in a microwave also played a part. According to the IMDb, Red Dawn was the first movie released with a PG-13 rating. The trivia page for Gremlins says it is probably Spielberg's involvment in both Gremlins and Temple of Doom that saved them from R ratings.

Nope, it was because of IJ The Temple of Doom that the PG-13 was crated (that and Gremlins). The first movie released with a PG-13 rating was Red Dawn.

Yuh-hunh. Sin City and Kill Bill Volume 1 move over, this one's a blood bath. OOOOooooo....

That's the problem with them damn Brits, they don't realize it's boobies in movies that's the real corrupting influence, not a little innocent killing and maiming.

Yuh-hunh. Sin City and Kill Bill Volume 1 move over, this one's a blood bath. OOOOooooo....

That's the problem with them damn Brits, they don't realize it's boobies in movies that's the real corrupting influence, not a little innocent killing and maiming.

Movies haven't made it past the 70's (Bladerunner, the Matrix) other than perhaps 'Eternal Sunshine' (similar to a few 80's stories)

You have missed seeing:

Gattica
Equilibrium
The Final Cut ... to name a few.

Sure, space opera and adventure SF dominiate the movies (why not, they're fun), but there is good stuff out there. Don't paint with too wide a brush.

- IV

Movies haven't made it past the 70's (Bladerunner, the Matrix) other than perhaps 'Eternal Sunshine' (similar to a few 80's stories)

You have missed seeing:

Gattica
Equilibrium
The Final Cut ... to name a few.

Sure, space opera and adventure SF dominiate the movies (why not, they're fun), but there is good stuff out there. Don't paint with too wide a brush.

- IV

Movies haven't made it past the 70's (Bladerunner, the Matrix) other than perhaps 'Eternal Sunshine' (similar to a few 80's stories)

You have missed seeing:

Gattica
Equilibrium
The Final Cut ... to name a few.

Sure, space opera and adventure SF dominiate the movies (why not, they're fun), but there is good stuff out there. Don't paint with too wide a brush.

- IV

Okay, maybe it's bad form to reply to my own submission, but just for the sake of more useless information, here are some links to wallpaper photos of Antonia Bayle.

Picture 1:
800x600, 1024x768, 1280x960, Oh my god, she's HUGE!

Picture 2 (for dual monitors):
1600x600, 2048x768, 2560x960, I can hang this up in my bedroom!

There is also a bio of Antonia here (flash site) accessbile by navigating to The Game / lore / people.

And if anyone is remotely interested, her voice in the game is provided by Heather Graham. Come to think of it, whether or not anyone is remotely interested, her voice in the game is STILL provided by Heather Graham.

And sorry, TFA actually says that SOE "encourages women (sorry, fellas)" [my emphasis, their parentheses] to send in pictures. Okay, that's a lie, I'm not really sorry at all.

About OSX 10.1 Puma?

What about the makers of Sex Panther?

These are far more realistic than Star Trek, and present a much clearer understanding of politics. Maybe someone should get the rights to produce a prequel of "The Prisoner" (set in The Village, but not with No. 6)

Of course, some people have argued that the character in "The Prisoner" is supposed to be the same character that was in Danger Man (Series 2 link; note that there were apparently plot differences between the two series).

OTOH, McGoohan denies this, but having recently seen the final episode of "The Prisoner" again, I don't think he knows more than anyone else.

I mean, have you *seen* the damn thing? The Prisoner had, at its best, some damn good stuff in it.

And at its worst, it's very datedly eccentric in a 'swinging' 1960s kind of way that veers on occasion towards 'Austin Powers' territory (although there is no 'Austin Powers' figure per se; certainly not McGoohan's character).

Supposedly, the series was cut short because it wasn't getting the viewing figures needed, and McGoohan had to write the final episode at short notice.

Which begs the question, did he have *any* idea what the final episode would have been had they been given their full run? At any rate, what you get is nonsense masquerading as something slightly deeper.

These are far more realistic than Star Trek, and present a much clearer understanding of politics. Maybe someone should get the rights to produce a prequel of "The Prisoner" (set in The Village, but not with No. 6)

Of course, some people have argued that the character in "The Prisoner" is supposed to be the same character that was in Danger Man (Series 2 link; note that there were apparently plot differences between the two series).

OTOH, McGoohan denies this, but having recently seen the final episode of "The Prisoner" again, I don't think he knows more than anyone else.

I mean, have you *seen* the damn thing? The Prisoner had, at its best, some damn good stuff in it.

And at its worst, it's very datedly eccentric in a 'swinging' 1960s kind of way that veers on occasion towards 'Austin Powers' territory (although there is no 'Austin Powers' figure per se; certainly not McGoohan's character).

Supposedly, the series was cut short because it wasn't getting the viewing figures needed, and McGoohan had to write the final episode at short notice.

Which begs the question, did he have *any* idea what the final episode would have been had they been given their full run? At any rate, what you get is nonsense masquerading as something slightly deeper.

The show has been cancelled...but the adventure is just beginng

The last two episodes of Enterprise, "In a Mirror, Darkly", did just that! They even changed the show's theme (at both the beginning and end of the show) and the title sequence. I thought it was very well done, but then I'm also a Trek fan and hated to see the series end.

Paranoid parents from 1980?

Cool, hopefully they'll show Mazes and Monsters on TBS soon. Btw, that movie was based on a myth that was later debunked.

Also, the acting was some of the worst I've seen. EVER. Period. And I go out of my way to see nototiously bad movies, when the mood strikes me.

I don't think you go very far out of your way to watch bad films if that is the worst acting you've ever seen. Just head along to your local equivalent of the Incredibly Strange FIlm Festival - I reccomend the marathon sessions with a suitably alternately intoxicated and caffeinated audience. For bad films I suggest you check out some Troma classics like

A Nymphoid Barbarian in Dinosaur Hell
Curse of the Cannibal Confederates

But if you want to see truly bad film making you'll need to go for things like

Raiders of the Living Dead

Or, what is quite possibly the worst film ever made (and is quite legitimately notorious as such):

The Roller Blade Seven

I don't think you've really seen many bad films at all. I don't think you were even trying.

Jedidiah.

Also, the acting was some of the worst I've seen. EVER. Period. And I go out of my way to see nototiously bad movies, when the mood strikes me.

I don't think you go very far out of your way to watch bad films if that is the worst acting you've ever seen. Just head along to your local equivalent of the Incredibly Strange FIlm Festival - I reccomend the marathon sessions with a suitably alternately intoxicated and caffeinated audience. For bad films I suggest you check out some Troma classics like

A Nymphoid Barbarian in Dinosaur Hell
Curse of the Cannibal Confederates

But if you want to see truly bad film making you'll need to go for things like

Raiders of the Living Dead

Or, what is quite possibly the worst film ever made (and is quite legitimately notorious as such):

The Roller Blade Seven

I don't think you've really seen many bad films at all. I don't think you were even trying.

Jedidiah.

Also, the acting was some of the worst I've seen. EVER. Period. And I go out of my way to see nototiously bad movies, when the mood strikes me.

I don't think you go very far out of your way to watch bad films if that is the worst acting you've ever seen. Just head along to your local equivalent of the Incredibly Strange FIlm Festival - I reccomend the marathon sessions with a suitably alternately intoxicated and caffeinated audience. For bad films I suggest you check out some Troma classics like

A Nymphoid Barbarian in Dinosaur Hell
Curse of the Cannibal Confederates

But if you want to see truly bad film making you'll need to go for things like

Raiders of the Living Dead

Or, what is quite possibly the worst film ever made (and is quite legitimately notorious as such):

The Roller Blade Seven

I don't think you've really seen many bad films at all. I don't think you were even trying.

Jedidiah.

Also, the acting was some of the worst I've seen. EVER. Period. And I go out of my way to see nototiously bad movies, when the mood strikes me.

I don't think you go very far out of your way to watch bad films if that is the worst acting you've ever seen. Just head along to your local equivalent of the Incredibly Strange FIlm Festival - I reccomend the marathon sessions with a suitably alternately intoxicated and caffeinated audience. For bad films I suggest you check out some Troma classics like

A Nymphoid Barbarian in Dinosaur Hell
Curse of the Cannibal Confederates

But if you want to see truly bad film making you'll need to go for things like

Raiders of the Living Dead

Or, what is quite possibly the worst film ever made (and is quite legitimately notorious as such):

The Roller Blade Seven

I don't think you've really seen many bad films at all. I don't think you were even trying.

Jedidiah.

Until the liquid metal escapes out of the cooling system and turns into Robert Patrick.

Sorry, but it really seems discordant to mix these.

What's next, 3D shutter glasses that look like Geordi La Forge's visor from Star Trek: TNG?

(actually, those might be cool)

But they're actually going to fuck up V for Vendetta first before they go fuck up the Watchmen.

For a while now I've pictured David Thewlis as a decent Dirk Gently... at least if he's got brilliant comedic timing, and would put on a tad of weight.

erm, I think you've got your dates out of whack there... Dirk Gently came out in paperback in 1988 and Twin Peaks didn't appear on screen till 1990.

Amazon.co.uk has Dirk here:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/033030162 4/026-5185379-6291623#product-details
and IMDB has Twin Peaks here:
http://www.imdb.com/find?q=twin%20peaks;tt=on;nm=o n;mx=20

Putting aside the idea that one is a rip-off of the other. Can't quite see it myself but hey.

There were 3 problems with the movie: . . . The girl who played Trillian fucking SUCKED.

Actually, part of DGHDA was a Dr. Who story ... specifically, the time-traveller in it was a rewrite of a character in the Dr. Who episode Shada (the "unfinished" Tom Baker episode written by DNA).

In any case, I would absolutely LOVE to see a Dirk Gently movie - those were great stories, and I actually liked them better than the Hitchhiker's books.

--The Rizz

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