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When's the last time *you* helped out a starving artist?

Home Alone 4 has already been made, as a (terrible) made-for-TV sequel. Your script for Pizza Power will have to become Home Alone 5.

I'd rather have a Jump to Conclusions mat.

-fren

he'll take it home and be pissed off he only got a laptop.

Yeah, but you're in trouble when he realizes a simple fact:

1 laptop = LOTS of pizzas!!!

So he starts thinking of ways to enjoy this "free prize":

a) He sells it and gets an extra money for pizzas
b) He steals your passwords, credit card numbers, and orders a pizza with your account (keep the change, you filthy animal). Of course he gets in trouble because he ordered the pizza with "extra anchovies".
c) He calls you and asks for a reward for "finding a laptop that some guy dropped"
d) He calls you and asks for a delicious quantity of money "if you want to keep your data alive and healthy. And don't call the cops"
e) b) and c)
f) b) and d)
g) He backs up your porn folder and sets up a paid website using your credit card, to earn more money.
h) He backs up all your data and starts blackmailing you when he finds out that besides a porn folder, you also have online dates, AND you're married.
i) He finds out that you're involved in some illegal activity, and he asks for the double. In case you want to kill him, he published all this data in his personal internet harddrive, and sets up a script to publish all of it on his blog if he doesn't cancel it in 14 days.
j) Instead he blackmails your g/f and asks her to pose naked for him, or else he'll tell your wife. THEN he uses your credit card to setup a website, giving away the video of your g/f AND publishing your name (just because he felt like it!).
k) He gives the laptop (with wireless internet) to a hacker friend of his, and do all kinds of nasty illegal stuff.
l) Among the nasty illegal stuff, he defaces the PowerPizza website, mentioning how they made money with the laptop they stole thinking it was a pizza.
m) He writes all these experiences in his blog and the Hollywood guys buy him the script for "Home alone 4: Pizza Powered".
n) All of the above. The possibilities are endless!

Lesson: DON'T use the powerpizza box. It's not worth it.

in fact the only thing I do which they have a dominant market share in is the iPod.

Speaking of which, has anyone seen Blade: Trinity? Am I the only one who noticed that it is one big iPod commercial?

Where's Bruce Willis when you need him? :-)

BTW: It's discoverer tells the tale of how it was found here. Amazing what you can do with a telescope that the parents bought for Christmas 1968.

What good are all those billions we spend for NASA's budget, when we don't even have a single hydrogen bomb-carrying spaceship? Can we trust the Space Administration to be able to dig up even a single team of expert oil drillers to blow up Machholz once it's inevitably revealed as the Texas-sized planet killer it surely is? I think not.

What good are all those billions we spend for NASA's budget, when we don't even have a single hydrogen bomb-carrying spaceship? Can we trust the Space Administration to be able to dig up even a single team of expert oil drillers to blow up Machholz once it's inevitably revealed as the Texas-sized planet killer it surely is? I think not.

So Slashdot, let's hear how you were lured into the digital life. What was it that drew you to a life of programming? How old were you when you first used a computer?

..the memories come flooding back..

Back when I was in 4th grade, my dad bought us a Franklin Ace 1000 - this was the first clone of the Apple II, and came with a 360k floppy. It was great! I did what most of us probably did with our first computer - I wrote a "guess the number" game in AppleBASIC. :-)

Over time, I got better at simple game programming. One game I made for myself was an adventure-style game along the lines of 'search for the magic item' and 'monsters may attack you as you enter an area'. Friends at school tried to get me interested in D&D, but I just saw it as a rule system for my computer game.

Later, I started to learn more about the GR and HGR graphics system on the Apple/Franklin. When War Games came out, I convinced myself I could write a war simulator that was more or less like the one in the movie. It looked great, but you could only target a few cities (and it was case sensitive - gah!) so it wasn't much fun to play.

I remember we eventually got an 8088 IBM-PC compatible clone, and how impressed I was that it had dual 360k floppy drives and a 5MB "hard card." This was originally intended for my mom and dad to do work-like stuff at home (spreadsheets, word processing) but my brother and I eventually found a few games we could run. (Anyone remember Sopwith?)

And I started the FreeDOS Project in 1994, while I was a physics student. But at the time, computers were just a hobby for me.

Heh, but I didn't even get interested in computers as a career until my 3rd year at university. Internships for physics students were hard to find that year, so I got a job doing some programming at a local small company. After graduation, I went back to that company to do system administration, and maybe a little programming.

..and the rest is history?

Oh, we can do much better than that. Go see Closer for Natalie Portman in a thong. Highly, highly recommended. And the movie was actually really good. Preview makes it look like a chick flick. It's not. It's dark and twisted and quite good.

These games come in many forms, such as a "fox and hounds" game, capture the flag, or a treasure hunt.

In the 1973 Woody Allen comedy, Sleeper, it was cigarettes that turned out to promote health. Now, we have instances where video games promote physical activity.

I think (hope!) that we'll be reading in Wired about a young entrepreneur who turns this into a viable business, either as a service, where games are hosted professionally (as in MMORPGs), or as a product, where games are purchased and played on a peer-to-peer basis (as in most retail games). Perhaps I'm looking at this through rose-colored glasses, (I miss playing laser tag as a kid), but I think this has the potential to turn out some fantastic stuff.
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"Lee is actually related to Tolkien in some way. Don't know the exact connection"

Nope. Christopher Lee met Tolkien once, and they are not related.

OTOH, Lee is related by marriage to Ian Fleming, and was Fleming's choice for Dr No.

IMDB Bio

Well-acted? Ok, well I guess Mark Hamill got all these great acting jobs after Episode IV because of his amazing talent.

Tee-hee-hee! Snarking on Mark Hamill is easy, and also wholly inaccurate. The man has one of the biggest voice acting portfolios I've ever seen, and has worked nearly every year since Star Wars. No, he wasn't fortunate enough to get as stellar a movie career as Harrison Ford, but then again, no one else in Star Wars was either. Bottom line, he's working steadily and everyone still knows who he is after twenty-five years. That's more than most actors ever get. He's doing just fine.

As for the rest of your post: It's not Lucas's movie alone. Lucas got as rich and powerful as he is because of the tickets, action figures, and breakfast cereals -- all paid for by his fans. The fans made Lucas, and for that I think they (not we; I'm not a fan anymore) deserve better than the rank indifference Lucas has given them. He's said flat-out he doesn't care how much his fans enjoy the movies. If they hate it, that's just too bad, because it's his and his alone, the money for producing it apparently having come out of nowhere. It's George's world, and he could give a fuck about anyone's childhood memories.

Star Wars doesn't have to be King Lear to be important to people. It unleashed a lot of kids' imaginations, and I think that's a good thing. Also, being a kid has nothing to do with it. Yes, being young and seeing Star Wars for the first time is like nothing else, but watching the Lord of the Rings adaptations taught me that I don't have to be ten to be blown away by a movie, or to rediscover a sense of wonder. I think Lucas has lost sight of what made the original Star Wars great, but can't realize it because he's determined to do exactly as he pleases, regardless of how poor his decisions regularly seem to be these days. Yes, it's not the most important issue in the world, but these are beloved films that are getting butchered and their original forms lost. It's not fanatical to object to that.

I feel that Star Wars is too big and influential a piece of pop culture to be so crassly handled by one man with a runaway ego. Millions of kids grew up with this stuff, and Lucas is twiddling with it like he's a kid with a home movie in his basement. Only he's messing with something that millions of kids have very fond memories of, and, yeah, whether it's rational or not, people have problems with that. That's completely irresponsible, and I won't support it with my dollars anymore. You go ahead and "take what Lucas gives you;" I don't feel I have to.

That's just the original trilogy though. The prequels -- they're just mediocre. In my opinion, no one will really remember them, not like they do the OT.

although I was told by several rows worth of people in the theater that I only improved Mystery Men.

You shot the projectionist and put on something better? Like one of the movies from this list?

for some reason it reminds me of this

Then please, everyone, go see Closer.

I just have to say, I asked my parents not to go see it because it would make me blush.

I'm surprised you had to go with so many foreign films.

Great all we need now is Pauly Shore and Stephen Baldwin and we got ourselves a big hit.

So, does anyone think that movie theatres will go the way of the drive in ?

Given the numbers I don't think so.

B.

Strangely, IMDB recommends Miller's Crossing to people who enjoyed From Justin to Kelly. I can't get my mind around that.

Strangely, IMDB recommends Miller's Crossing to people who enjoyed From Justin to Kelly. I can't get my mind around that.

Yeah, I'd spend my vacation there! Unfortunately, Survivor has booked the whole place for the 387th season. You pay for your ticket, then they vote you off. The title is slated to be Survivor: Rip-Off Island.

So when do they pick a truman?

I agree that our (assuming you mean the US) national sex ed curriculum sucks. Can you provide a source? I wasn't aware of any big events regarding sex ed recently. Except maybe Kinsey.

I have to agree. There are worse movies than the prequels.

I have to agree. There are worse movies than the prequels.

I have to agree. There are worse movies than the prequels.

I have to agree. There are worse movies than the prequels.

I have to agree. There are worse movies than the prequels.

I have to agree. There are worse movies than the prequels.

I have to agree. There are worse movies than the prequels.

Why, I once saw "a blue ford with ....oh, you're never gonna believe this - duckies, and bunnies?".

Once.

NO!

This is the "link" to the movie Jackal's imdb page:

http://imdb.com/title/tt0119395/

Don't ya'll mean Johnny Dangerously from the movie Johnny Dangerously ? I love that movie. :-)

[On smoking]
Ishmael: You should try to quit. They say its bad for your heart, your lungs. It quickens the aging process.
Roy: Who's done more research than the good people at the American Tobacco Industry? They say its harmless. Why would they lie? If you're dead, you can't smoke.

I think the first time I saw this was in the film "The Jackal") from 1997. That SUV was definitely coated in something that appeared to be white paint that washed off when a water jet was applied unless it was a *very* good special effect.

• First, you have to obtain a copy of GAYNIGGERS FROM OUTER SPACE THE MOVIE and watch it. You can download the movie (~130mb) using BitTorrent.
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Well, he missed the guy who had the best film.

Well, he missed the guy who had the best film.

Shattered Glass

I remember religously watching Computer Chronicles ...

I just took a look at the Computer Chronices entry on the IMDB. The recommendations seem a bit, well, strange. If you like Computer Chronicles, they also recommend

A Garfield Christmas Special (1987) (TV)
The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking (1988)
American Bandstand's 30th Anniversary Special (1981) (TV)
"Password Plus" (1979)
"Square Pegs" (1982)
"Let's Make a Deal" (1980)
"The New Yankee Workshop" (1988)
"Makin' It" (1979)
"Family Ties" (1982)
Norman Rockwell: An American Portrait (1987) (TV)

I remember religously watching Computer Chronicles ...

I just took a look at the Computer Chronices entry on the IMDB. The recommendations seem a bit, well, strange. If you like Computer Chronicles, they also recommend

A Garfield Christmas Special (1987) (TV)
The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking (1988)
American Bandstand's 30th Anniversary Special (1981) (TV)
"Password Plus" (1979)
"Square Pegs" (1982)
"Let's Make a Deal" (1980)
"The New Yankee Workshop" (1988)
"Makin' It" (1979)
"Family Ties" (1982)
Norman Rockwell: An American Portrait (1987) (TV)

drilling a small hole in the top of the safe, filling it with water, and detonating a small explosive charge inside the safe

That would be from this movie if I'm not mistaken...

Yep, same technique used by Robert De Niro in The Score. To which when questioned if the concept would work he replied "It's physics".

So is it chemistry or physics that makes this work? I suppose the pressure generated by the explosion is the main factor to success but what about a purely chemical reaction via an exothermic reaction in the water causing it to expand.... /me runs to the convenience store with an aquarium heater and balaclava.

I think he meant trained actors in the traditional sense. When Mr. Nanny is your acting tour de force, there isn't much more to be said.

(Besides, Andy Kaufman was a comedian before he was a wrestler, and the Rock, who's career is at least successful enough that it continues, is the only guy on that list who could leave wrestling altogether to pursue acting - if you would argue that he hasn't already).

Besides, how could you forget Super Shredder from TMNT II?

> I think they mean Comet.

Shame on a bunch of Slashdotters for not knowing their Star Trek trivia!

wrestlers are not actors

Actually, I beg to differ, sir.

wrestlers are not actors

Actually, I beg to differ, sir.

wrestlers are not actors

Actually, I beg to differ, sir.

wrestlers are not actors

Actually, I beg to differ, sir.