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Re:Cheating/ can't remember the name.
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Steven Spielberg's movie "Minority Report"
Spielberg has made a movie with Tom Cruise on this subject. You may want to watch this movie http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0181689/
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Re:Yeah, right
They may not have made head way on the music side, but buying MGM sure reeks of a sure fire way to battle it's way on the Blu-Ray format. Want Singing in the Rain or Gone With the Wind in HiDef? Guess you'll be going the Blu-Ray route.
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Re:Yeah, right
They may not have made head way on the music side, but buying MGM sure reeks of a sure fire way to battle it's way on the Blu-Ray format. Want Singing in the Rain or Gone With the Wind in HiDef? Guess you'll be going the Blu-Ray route.
I say if you build it, they will come. -
Re:Doing something about service..
San Dimas? Excellent! Good thing this tower wasn't up in 1989--the guys would've never gotten their phone booth.
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Re:Near VOD (NVOD) can be good too
I really doubt you could scale 1.3m users at 512kbits each, its just not worth it
Lets see...
1,300,000 X
81250 MBs = 81.25 GBs
T3 = 45Mbs =5.625 MBs
81250/5.625 = 14,444 T3s
T3 @ $2800/month
14,444 X 2800 = 45 million/month
It takes DTV 7000+ employees to maintain their network.. so assuming it takes
10,000 employees@60K/year
50 million/month
Total for monthly operation = 45+50=95 million/month
The would also need some servers
and if they go the any movie ever made anytime route they would of course also need about 375MB per 1.5 hours of movie@ 441,088 movies(http://www.imdb.com/database_statistics) = 165 Terabytes of storage to store all movies
1,300,000@$75/month = 97.5/month
They just might have a market (maybe..)
At 13,000,000 subscribers and 20K employees and 144,000 T3s and 10X server their costs will be tremendously reduced -
Re:Well
It sounds too much like this and I know that can't be good for business!
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Just a question...
Couldn't the guy who wrote the screenplay to "Brainstorm" (the movie from 1983) claim prior art?
I know we are only supposed to be agains IP patents and not mechanical patents (although I'm not sure which one this is), but call me crazy, I feel any patent without a working prototype should be denied.
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Re:Doesn't it seem a bit odd...
Well, if all you need is an idea, than all you need for prior art is an idea..... Brainstorm.
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Strange Days
This sounds more like the S.C.U.I.D. device from Strange Days than from anything from The Matrix
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Not Matrix
More like "Strange Days", IMO. (hmmmm Angela Bassett)
Because if you can beam stuff in, you can probably record stuff out.
I'd rather have that sci-fi come true than the Matrix any day. -
Re:Scales a little off?
or just go on picnics with this guy. Wasps will think twice before approaching.
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What a fantastic idea!
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I've been waiting for these...
...ever since seeing Runaway http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088024/
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I don't believe it..
You forgot the Brits
British Comedy shows/movies are rated amongst the best comedy series/movies of the world.
And some other great movies too.
I bet they can make some fun of the Movie and Film Industry Association too, and we can all have a great laugh! -
Re:Uh-oh...
"Hell's Kitten"? Sounds like a bad 1950s movie.
Whaddaya know? It is. Well, 1970s movie anyway... -
Re:I don't blame...Good points. To me, the Lethal Weapon series was one that improved with each episode (mind you, I was seeing these before I was in my teens). With the exception of the fourth installment.
I have to admit I have a soft spot for Bad Boys 2 only because it's one of those movies you've seen a bunch of times, and you had a good time while doing it, so you attribute some magical qualities to it. The first is better, the second is just... more. It's one of those movies you can pop in and enjoy. Unlike, say, The Seventh Seal, where you need to be in super-serious scholar-mode otherwise you'll fall asleep. That both of these inhabit the same medium is astonishing.
As far as Michael Bay is concerned, if you see stuff like Battleship Potemkin you see some of the same cinema tricks being applied (close-ups, tension created by a child in peril*). Human reactions are still the same, years later.
The difference between Eisenstein and Bay is that Eisenstein did it as art, crafted within it a serious discourse of socio-political events, and did it eighty years ago.
* A "child in peril" being, I think, later literally trademarked by John Woo, along with slow-mo of flying doves.
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Re:Am I the only one
There's only one thing that makes me disagree with you here...
Simon Furman
Regards... A transformers comics fan for 20 years and counting... -
There are worse things in this world.
Such as the live action dragon ball z movie.
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Re:"Live Action"?
I think they want "Live Action" to mean that it will look like Robot jox which could be started and finished by summer. Probably what will happen is the movie will be CGI with background platess being photographed ala "Walking with Dinosaurs" and the textures will be from photographed machinery
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Re:Directed by..
I don't know...Kate Beckinsale has some pretty nice breasts.
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Re:Directed by..
I don't know...Kate Beckinsale has some pretty nice breasts.
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Re:Directed by..
I don't know...Kate Beckinsale has some pretty nice breasts.
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Re:Directed by..
I don't know...Kate Beckinsale has some pretty nice breasts.
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Re:Robert Rodriguez, king of overrated
Spy kids movies are a sucess, made with a relative low budget and gaining millons of dollars either at box office and product placement, it's enough to keep the suits in hollywood happy.
More info here:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0227538/business
Same thing happened with "El mariachi". A decent, cheap home made film that gained a lot's of money and sometimes it's used as an example of amateur filming in some schools.. -
Re:Sign of the Times
I think that the first use of the morph effect in a movie was actually in willow .
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Nothing left of my Childhood
Hollywood is raping my childhood!!! AvP, Jason vs Freddy, Star Wars, Terminator... now they go and mess with my after school cartoon with a live action version? What's next a live action G.I.Joe?
Once again I'll get my hopes up and "hope" that this will not be a let down. But I do not expect much from this movie since it will be very difficult to do. It will be likely targeted to kids and make it a G rating, thus making it a tame and actionless flick. Even the original transformers movie wasn't geared towards kids, which made it that much more better.
Note: Spider-man, X-Men, and Hulk were at least not let downs. I also hope that Superman V will not be a let down also. -
Will we still be alive in 2006?
According to Transformers: The Movie , the Decepticons attack Autobot City in the year 2005. In the assault, Optimus Prime is destroyed, and the Autobots are left in the gravest situation yet.
To make matters worse Unicron is flying around eating planets.
Isn't anybody else worried?
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Hey!
Wow, with such a talented director, we can only hope they find a nice, juicy acting role for Sofia Coppola. That would just be the icing on the cake.
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"Rue the day"?
I told Torvalds, you will rue the day, you will rue the day you used BitKeeper, but noooooo
Chris Knight: "Rue the day? Who talks like that??"
Such a good movie -
NASA Conspiracy?
You insensitive clod! We have never visited the moon.
Capricorn One
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077294/
NASA - Response To FOXTV's 'Moon Conspiracy'
http://www.virtuallystrange.net/ufo/updates/2001/f eb/m16-007.sh
Did Apollo astronauts really visit the Moon
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2001/ast23feb_2 -
Bamboozled?
Spike Lee was unavailable for comment. In related news, revlon is trading higher in anticipation that the "average computer user" will be convinced that staying clean from viruses requires wearing blackface.
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Re:Star Wars geeksSlashdot is sounding more and more like high school jocks who pick on "nerds".
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Re:Bot vs Bot
Have you seen Robot Jox? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102800/
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Deep Blue Sea
This is really low-tech compared to the shark that was built for Deep Blue Sea.
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At First Sight
Is anyone else reminded of the Val Kilmer movie At First Sight (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0132512/)? Val's character has been blind since age 1 and undergoes a treatment only to find that seeing doesn't mean comprehending what one sees.
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Re:returning americans
Well, you're gonna be screwed. There is a recent law in Canada that prohibits to ask for Refugee's status if you travelled by the U.S.A. to come to Canada.
Maybe you can try to enter into a terminal airport and live there. -
Karma: Terrible
User 7471 here. Could you go into more detail?
Just kidding. I am still unemployed, and did not do my taxes yet, and I have a student loan that I need to pay off from a sponsor that might have been a Nazi supporter (Mr Ford). But for some reason, I think things are going to be OK.
http://www.godhatesamerica.com
Vote or Die. Jack!
http://freenet.sourceforge.net
I have a video with an 18 inch object. Anyone want to see it?
Why everyone is going digital:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0265459/.
How is the E911 programming coming?
Now do you know why I bough my LVLT stock now?
Anyone seen this yet?
http://whitehat.co.il
http://www.whoppix.net
If you can not beat-um, join um.
Not to be confused with a bomb.
http://hackaday.com/entry/1234000073038748/
Happy flying.
http://www.cnn.com/2005/BUSINESS/01/18/airbus.380/
I have copy of Bill Gates talking about the ROM if anyone wants it.
http://news.com.com/Battle+brews+over+unlocking+PC +secrets/2100-1016_3-5654272.html
Also on the CD are the first 3 episodes of
"THATS HOT!" Copy Right Paris Hilton.
Ahh... http://www.mlb.tv More Micro$oft.
Good old. Omniture again.
http://www.omniture.com
Sex, America's real past time activity.
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Look out VINCENT, Max is back!
#070 in the contest is the ancestor of the killer robot Max from the Black Hole.
VINCENT and "Bob"'s days are numbered! -
Re:Classified
Wow, eight replies.
But no one got it right. The correct reply is, "Mother's damn cookies!"
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Re:TV industry similar to movie industry
According to IMDB, it'll be coming out in Australia on May 26th. Here in Denmark, it doesn't come out until June 3rd, and the Czechs don't get it until August 18th...
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Re:Accepting demands
Matrix Reloaded http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0234215/
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Re:Watch out CmdrTaco!Runaway Jury
Awesome movie!
Now, back on-topic - Since the thread is "Watch out CmdrTaco!" - is this even open to extradition? And would we be stupid enough to try?
After all, the Internet WAS designed to route around damage.
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Re:Hey!
Why yes, there was.
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What a boot dem canooks. A Zed.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086373/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109370/
They have hot women in Quebec. -
What a boot dem canooks. A Zed.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086373/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109370/
They have hot women in Quebec. -
Re:Foxblocking Tivo?
What about ABC blocking?
http://imdb.com/news/sb/2005-04-04/
This guy has a challenge about Fox blocking.
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Re:Why do you need to know Pi so accurately?
Somebody enlighten me. Is there any use in knowing Pi to 2 billion decimal places (or even just a few hundred!) Do we hope to find a hidden message, or make the world's most accurate circle, or is it just because we can calculate it? And how do you check for errors?
Well, on the question of hoping to find a hidden message, TFA says:They wonder whether the digits contain a hidden rule, an as yet unseen architecture, close to the mind of God.
Aside: this reminded me a lot of the movie Pi. I have to wonder if this article was part of the inspiration for that movie.
As for the question of how to check for errors, there are other mathematical methods. After a few dozen digits, you exceed our capacity for measurement precision. But
Some interesting and surprising things involving pi come up in very basic complex analysis. For example, i raised to the i power has a finite real value, and that value involves pi {it's e^(-pi/2)}.
One (unity, the number 1) is of course e^0 (any nonzero real number raised to the zero power is 1). But negative 1 (-1) is e^(i pi). And i is e^(i pi/2) and -i is e^(-i pi/2).
I digress. This is all just an example of how pi shows up in places where you might not expect it in mathematics. There are more advanced examples, but I think this one serves to make the point.
As for the principal question, why one would need to know pi so accurately, well, for some it's just the challenge. According to TFA, the Chudnovskys were hoping to find a pattern. But just going further than anyone else has its own value. Would you have asked Edmund Hillary why he needed to climb Everest? -
Re:Why do you need to know Pi so accurately?
Some people believe it holds insight into patterns. Thus if you could crack PI, you could crack the stockmarket, the bible, etc.
See the movie:
PI
There are also several interesting books on the topic including The History of PI, by Peter Beckmann.
The Life of Pi by Yann Martel, however, has nothing to do with the number. -
Re:I have often wondered...
Isn't reaching escape velocity in the smallest possible time the most energy efficient way of leaving the vicinity of a gravity well? If so, requiring infinite energy to reach a lightspeed escape velocity from below the event horizon implies that you would need even more energy to leave slowly.
Incidentally, the concept of a slow rocket was used in the humorous 1963 film "The Mouse on the Moon", where a lone scientist from the country of Grand Fenwick beat the Russians and Americans to landing on the moon by building skipping he difficult bit of building a rocket powerful enough to reach escape velocity. He builds a less powerful one that can only go up fairly slowly, but it keeps going up until it eventually gets to the moon.
