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I think the first models will be more like Sleeper than Snow Crash. "Woof woof. Hello, I'm Rags. Woof woof."

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Exactly; totally agree. Of course, it goes for any other subject as well.

I think the biggest advantage that parents have over teachers is that they are there in the less formal moments when something sparks their child's interest, and can enlarge on it right then and there, in a much more interesting way. I think it is absolutely vital to make use of these opportunities if you're going to get kids to build on their own inate interest in things, and ultimately foster their ability to teach themselves about things they find interesting (and to keep finding things interesting).

No matter how good your kid's school is, they will eventually get an uninspiring teacher who can easily crush their spirit unless they have already become independently inquisitive and driven (I'm thinking of Mr. Cantwell on The Wonder Years, who could turn the most violent and interesting science into a droll monotone). And when this does happen, then provide backup and encouragement.

Here are some examples:

• In kindergarten, my daughter's teacher asked them to name the largest number they knew, and my daughter answered a googol. The teacher said no, there was no such number. She came home disappointed. We talked about it at dinner and sent a nice note back to the teacher, referring her to a dictionary and pointing out that it was, in fact, a child who had come up with the name. Lessons learned: my daughter could have confidence in things she knew, even in the face of an unauthoritative authority, and something could be done about it. Everyone learned something.
• One good source of inspiration is paradoxes. These get at the heart of a lot of math and science, yet they are inherently interesting. One of the best for me, a good example of making use of the moment, was when my daughter was watching me play Zork Zero. In one of the puzzles, an executioner will hang you if he can grant your last request, otherwise he will behead you. Getting past the cartoon violence, my daughter caught the paradox and solution, and kept a copy of the narrative on her wall for years.
• Another good source of ideas is in several of Feynman's popular books in which he discusses his father's influence on him. Once again, many of these were by making the best use of the moment.

Oh yes .. Gayniggers from Outer Space

...and that's it and that's the only thing I need, is this. I don't need this or this. Just Privacy. And this paddle game, privacy and the paddle game and that's all I need. And this remote control. My privacy, the paddle game, and the remote control, and that's all I need. And these matches. My privacy, and these matches, and the remote control and the paddle ball. And this lamp. My privacy, this paddle game and the remote control and the lamp and that's all I need. And that's all I need too. I don't need one other thing, not one - I need this. The paddle game, and the chair, and the remote control, and the matches, for sure. And this. And that's all I need. My privacy, the remote control, the paddle game, this magazine and the chair.

And while I'm quoting from the Jerk, my all time favorite...

I don't care about losing all the money. It's losing all the stuff.

Compliments of IMDB

But _The Day After Tomorrow_ is by the director of Independence Day -- how could it be anything but a quality picture?

This sounds like something out of Total Recall, or some other cheezy scifi flick.

Next thing you know, you find out they are paying you in "Hillary Dollars".

This sounds like something out of Total Recall, or some other cheezy scifi flick.

Next thing you know, you find out they are paying you in "Hillary Dollars".

you say '3D'

Sorceror. It gets trickier. Maze is horizontal and vertical. Think of the maze in Cube .

Reprising his role, eh...

I'd buy it.

Women like Julia Luis-Dreyfus or Uma Thurman, Sigourney Weaver and Jodie Foster, on the other hand, are hot. They're not blondes, they stand out of the tv-bimbo crowd and they have real screen charisma.

Women like Julia Luis-Dreyfus or Uma Thurman, Sigourney Weaver and Jodie Foster, on the other hand, are hot. They're not blondes, they stand out of the tv-bimbo crowd and they have real screen charisma.

Women like Julia Luis-Dreyfus or Uma Thurman, Sigourney Weaver and Jodie Foster, on the other hand, are hot. They're not blondes, they stand out of the tv-bimbo crowd and they have real screen charisma.

Women like Julia Luis-Dreyfus or Uma Thurman, Sigourney Weaver and Jodie Foster, on the other hand, are hot. They're not blondes, they stand out of the tv-bimbo crowd and they have real screen charisma.

Sounds very much like seventies to me... take a look at the rhytmic sforzando accents of Barry Ryan's Eloise and the fanfare-like soundtracks for Dallas and Dynasty.

Of course, there are millions of songs that never became very popular. Heck, there might be zero information about your sample on the internet. You might ask some DJ of some 70/80s station instead, don't know.

Cheers!

Sounds very much like seventies to me... take a look at the rhytmic sforzando accents of Barry Ryan's Eloise and the fanfare-like soundtracks for Dallas and Dynasty.

Of course, there are millions of songs that never became very popular. Heck, there might be zero information about your sample on the internet. You might ask some DJ of some 70/80s station instead, don't know.

Cheers!

Many many years ago when I was twenty three,
I got married to a widow who was pretty as could be.
This widow had a grown-up daughter
Who had hair of red.
My father fell in love with her,
And soon the two were wed.
This made my dad my son-in-law
And changed my very life.
My daughter was my mother,
For she was my father's wife.

To complicate the matters worse,
Although it brought me joy,
I soon became the father
Of a bouncing baby boy.

My little baby then became
A brother-in-law to dad.
And so became my uncle,
Though it made me very sad.

For if he was my uncle,
Then that also made him brother
To the widow's grown-up daughter
Who, of course, was my step-mother.

Father's wife then had a son,
Who kept them on the run.
And he became my grandson,
For he was my daughter's son.

My wife is now my mother's mother
And it makes me blue.
Because, although she is my wife,
She's my grandmother, too.

If my wife is my grandmother,
Then I am her grandchild.
And every time I think of it,
It simply drives me wild.

For now I have become
The strangest case you ever saw.
As the husband of my grandmother,
I am my own grandpa!

- from The Stupids, 1996

Put another way, if you REALLY wanted to see, say, Hellboy, substituting Spawn wouldn't help you. If you wanted to see Ella Enchanted, subtituting The Princess Bride wouldn't help. In comparison, if you wanted a sandwich, it probably doesn't matter if it's on OvenJoy, Safeway, or Wonderbread. The vast majority of people wouldn't know the difference unless they saw the bag it came in.

Put another way, if you REALLY wanted to see, say, Hellboy, substituting Spawn wouldn't help you. If you wanted to see Ella Enchanted, subtituting The Princess Bride wouldn't help. In comparison, if you wanted a sandwich, it probably doesn't matter if it's on OvenJoy, Safeway, or Wonderbread. The vast majority of people wouldn't know the difference unless they saw the bag it came in.

Put another way, if you REALLY wanted to see, say, Hellboy, substituting Spawn wouldn't help you. If you wanted to see Ella Enchanted, subtituting The Princess Bride wouldn't help. In comparison, if you wanted a sandwich, it probably doesn't matter if it's on OvenJoy, Safeway, or Wonderbread. The vast majority of people wouldn't know the difference unless they saw the bag it came in.

Put another way, if you REALLY wanted to see, say, Hellboy, substituting Spawn wouldn't help you. If you wanted to see Ella Enchanted, subtituting The Princess Bride wouldn't help. In comparison, if you wanted a sandwich, it probably doesn't matter if it's on OvenJoy, Safeway, or Wonderbread. The vast majority of people wouldn't know the difference unless they saw the bag it came in.

Incidentally wasn't there talk of a feature length Family Guy?

The '(V)' after the title means the film is made for video or a direct-to-video release. For those with a link-clicking phobia, here's the important info from that page:

Plot Outline: Based on the popular series, the movie follows the disfunctional Griffin family, in which the young domation-bent baby, Stewie, discovers he is a homosexual.
Status: Filming
Status Updated: 11 October 2003
Note: Since this project is categorized as being in production, the data is subject to change or could be removed completely.

Incidentally wasn't there talk of a feature length Family Guy?

The '(V)' after the title means the film is made for video or a direct-to-video release. For those with a link-clicking phobia, here's the important info from that page:

Plot Outline: Based on the popular series, the movie follows the disfunctional Griffin family, in which the young domation-bent baby, Stewie, discovers he is a homosexual.
Status: Filming
Status Updated: 11 October 2003
Note: Since this project is categorized as being in production, the data is subject to change or could be removed completely.

What does Grammer have to do with anything?

quieter adv. Colloq. More quietly.

The fact that your printed dictionary lacks this colloquial definition doesn't imply that the dictionaries internalized by native speakers of English also lack it.

Correct.

The real story was aired as part of HBO's "Lifestories: Families in Crisis" series in 1992. The episode was titled "Dead Drunk: The Kevin Tunnell Story"

Not to mention the fact that this thing has only a four second memory. Thats like having your privacy intruded upon by the guy from Memento's somewhat non-retentive goldfish.

as well as poorly-inaccessible mental copies as well, just by watching it. And presumably you can sit back later and remember it as many times as you want, just as clearly as you can manage, without breaking any laws. So why can't you use a more accessible format to remember the movie in?

He probably recorded Gigli too.

The thought of spending a year in "Le Hotel Cornhole" over The Alamo?! HA aha ahaha... man that's too funny.

Just to start, Mila Kunis has been able to work both "Family Guy" and "That 70's Show" simultaneously.

Voiceover and 'live' acting can and have crossed over.

My idea was not Virtual Reality, but "reality augmentation". The idea being that you would wear glasses (of some type) and could drag windows "off" the monitor to float is space around you. You had two choices at that point. Drag a window to your viewport (the monitor), or spin the viewport (and floating windows) to the view you desired.

That's a fantastic idea, but it would be clunky to use with a regular mouse/keyboard pair. With the sheer number of windows I keep open at the same time across multiple desktops, I would either have to dig through the windows floating in space so I can see the keyboard on my desk to start typing, or I would have to lift the glasses momentarily.

So instead of a mouse, lets add on a dual-webcam system that sits on either top corner of your monitor, and tracks several white spots on a dark glove (motion capture, essentially), and use that to move the windows around, change focus, surf, use web forms, etc. (Very similar to the fictional system in Minority Report.) That way, when you needed to move a bunch of different windows around, you can just sweep them away with your hand, instead of clicking and dragging on each one. If you wanted to type*, there would be a motion you perform with the glove to temporarily deactivate the glove's input. Then head to the keyboard, type away, and when you're finished make the same motion again to reactivate the glove's functionality. I see it almost as a hybrid of Opera's mouse gestures feature and physically picking up windows.

Theoretically, this system could be implemented with current technologies, but a large amount of work would have to go the glasses tracking where they are relative to their surroundings, and keeping the windows static, i.e., the windows would not move with the glasses when the user turned his head-- they would stay in place relative to the desk (or wall). It would also be difficult for the glasses to put up an image that would not be tiring to read for long amounts of time.

Food for thought.

*I've always been against virtual keyboards of any kind, since there's no tactile feedback.

I know I've heard that somewhere, but I can't quite rememer where.

It's a parody of a well-known courtroom scene from "A Few Good Men" -- the first few lines were used extensively in the ads for the movie, and if you actually saw the movie or play the longer part of the dialog would probably ring a bell as well.

IMDB (and probably a few million other sites) has the original version in their memorable quotes section for the movie version. Look for "Col Jessep" -- that's the character being parodied as "CmdrTaco" in the parent post.

Why do I have these mental images of Huey and Dewey wandering around, planting trees...?

Thinking of ST II: Wrath of Khan, where Kirk uses the 'prefix code' of the ship Khan's hijacked to drop its shields just before blasting it... Then you have the problem of keeping the in-cabin override switch unknown to the general public so the hijackers can't just lock out the tower as soon as they take the cockpit.

Sands of the Kalahari

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I'm not trying to troll here, but I have a job, I earn resonsable money, a mesely 14.95 USD isn't going to bother me at all. Hell, I pay 70 UKP (125 USD) a month for my fat internet connection, 15 USD is chump change and I'm not earning way above everybody else here (I'm only 24, working for a Telcoms provider as a Service Developer earning average wages for that sort of role, which is a pretty middle of the road profession for a /. reader).

I see people on boards and free-trialers complaning about subscription feeds. I spend more that than that in Starbucks/Coffee Republic a day as are the other 15 people a head of me in the queue, so I know I'm not the only one who doesn't give a toss about the cost of MMOG's.

I'm sure most /. readers are in a technology related field and earning above the national average and I don't think they are worried about such small amounts of money. I have 3 MMOG subscriptions (4, when the beta of Linage II ends this month, assuming I am still entertained by it) and don't find them an issue. I can only assume those complaining are kids, or students, or pikeys.

The concept is fairly straight forward, the up front money pays for the development of the game, just as with any other title. The monthly fee covers some new content and the access to the large arrays of interlinked redundant servers on which you play the game. They don't come free.

Blinkin pikeys won't be happy till they get a free dog with each subscription.. "I fucking hate pikeys"

I don't have to fear the pan-handlers, insane and other strays because we actually have a social care system that works.

I have been to Copenhagen a few times, and I can not believe that you seems to imply that the pan-handling problem is much worse in the States. I saw as many pan handlers on the Walking Mall in Copenhagen as I do in DC. As for the crazy people, I have seen Idioterne, the crazies in Copenhagen truely messed up.

If you give it stats, the pc's will kill it

From Apocalypse Now, a film which would undoubtedly be heavily censored by this device:

Kurtz: We train young men to drop fire on people. But their commanders won't allow them to write "fuck" on their airplanes because it's obscene!

He reminds me of the kids fromVillage of the Damned.

And getting "miscast as someone with too much information in his head."

How is this roleplaying? How is knowing that your weapon will deal 2 points more of damage a turn on average versus a competitor the deciding factor for someone who wants to play a role as a knight (as an example)?

Because he learned. He wanted power, and he learned better and better ways to get it.

Powergaming happens in the meta-game above real life. The guy who plays me, is probably explaining to his DM why the character switched to Python a few years ago. I can see it now, the DM says, "But Sloppy was into C! You're playing him wrong, you fucking munchkin, just to get a +2 on your programming roll." Then the player tries to explain that the character learned something about the relative values of programmer time vs compute time, but the DM shakes his head. "Sloppy is too dumb to learn," he says.

The player complains, and the DM threatens, "Look, just shut up, already. I'm getting tired of this." But the player persists.

Finally, the fed-up DM says, "That's it. Cthulhu appears and kills your character."

Ok, Aglassis, I want you to think about what you did. You just got me killed in what we call "real life", and Cthulhu is now wandering around. Do you think anyone in the world is safe, now? Cthulhu is out, and you're going to die too. Way to go. I hope you remember that, when your player rolls up the next Aglassis. And ask yourself: who is the real munchkin? The guy who was trying to convince the DM that I could learn from experience to try to become more powerful? Or the narrow-minded DM who thought characters shouldn't adapt, and then in a childish tantrum, set Cthulhu loose on the world?

Oh, relax. The Core was just a 1950's science-fiction movie with modern glitzy effects. Unobtanium! Sonic drills punching holes in the sides of mountains! Reversing the ship's polarity! If you had gone in accepting that it was a B movie, minus the men in rubber monster suits, you would have had a much better time.

Anyway, I'll go out on a limb here and recommend you skip The Day After Tomorrow , coming soon to a theater near you.

I wish I'd seen THIS page on their site before I submitted my first post, now I'm starting to think that HUMOR is their goal

http://www.backfire.dk/EMPIRENORTH/newsite/product s_en002_instructions.htm

Notice how everybody in the instructions is white except for the one "suspicious" guy. These guys must have had a brain storm after watching Brazil.

Apparently, there is a Fahrenheit 451 movie remake by the guy who directed, The Shawshank Redemption.

Apparently, there is a Fahrenheit 451 movie remake by the guy who directed, The Shawshank Redemption.

Well, IMDB doesn't list it as MST3K at least. (Actual movie IMDB entry here).

Well, IMDB doesn't list it as MST3K at least. (Actual movie IMDB entry here).

Why yes it is - but if you'd RTFA you'd realize that the retroNebulas nomination is specifically for the award-winning cartoon first done by Chuck Jones and Michael Maltese, two titans of humour.

The current Duck Dodgers is nothing but Waner Brothers sliding down the same whorish slope Disney has blazed.