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Eliza Schneider was Liza on Beakman's world, looking at her IMDB credits she has mostly done voice work in quite a lot of well known video games. Very impressive, though too bad we don't see her in person.

Nearly sounds like the plot of Dredd, sort of.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt13...

The drug of choice was called Slo-mo and altered ones perception of time. In one scene it made someone falling from a height that would have taken maybe 20 seconds seem like hours.

No, it most certainly was not. Are you confusing the TV movie Babylon 5: A Call to Arms with the TV series?

No, it most certainly was not. Are you confusing the TV movie Babylon 5: A Call to Arms with the TV series?

The Sentence (4 Aug. 1996)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt06...

DNRTFA

Here: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt00...

The Day After is a silly, happy disney version of what would happen after a nuclear war. Do yourself a favor and watch youtube for Threads.

In the movie, "Happy", they talk about a communal living situation in, IIRC, Denmark. The advantages extend far beyond simply saving money. Other benefits range from increased socialization for kids to little things like having to only cook once per month (but cooking for 30-60 people). Seems like something people should be doing more of.

PROTHERO: Do you believe this crap, Dascombe?

DASCOMBE: It's not our job to believe it, Lewis. Our job is to tell the people -- ref

Not necessarily - if I could download content from 14 years ago free and clear of legal encumbrance, then I'd probably watch a lot more old content, it's not like modern content has improved dramatically, and there's no shortage of old classics I've never gotten around to watching, thus reducing the temptation to pirate anything.

Did it improve *at all*?

*cough* 8.0 stars in 1968 *cough* 5.7 stars in 2001 *cough*
*cough* 6.5 stars in 1980 *cough* 4.9 stars in 2009 *cough*
*cough* 7.5 stars in 1987 *cough* 6.7 stars in 2014 *cough*
*cough* 7.5 stars in 1990 *cough* 6.3 stars in 2012 *cough*

The real issue with 14 year copyright terms is what's my 2 year old going to watch when he grows up?

Not necessarily - if I could download content from 14 years ago free and clear of legal encumbrance, then I'd probably watch a lot more old content, it's not like modern content has improved dramatically, and there's no shortage of old classics I've never gotten around to watching, thus reducing the temptation to pirate anything.

Did it improve *at all*?

*cough* 8.0 stars in 1968 *cough* 5.7 stars in 2001 *cough*
*cough* 6.5 stars in 1980 *cough* 4.9 stars in 2009 *cough*
*cough* 7.5 stars in 1987 *cough* 6.7 stars in 2014 *cough*
*cough* 7.5 stars in 1990 *cough* 6.3 stars in 2012 *cough*

The real issue with 14 year copyright terms is what's my 2 year old going to watch when he grows up?

Not necessarily - if I could download content from 14 years ago free and clear of legal encumbrance, then I'd probably watch a lot more old content, it's not like modern content has improved dramatically, and there's no shortage of old classics I've never gotten around to watching, thus reducing the temptation to pirate anything.

Did it improve *at all*?

*cough* 8.0 stars in 1968 *cough* 5.7 stars in 2001 *cough*
*cough* 6.5 stars in 1980 *cough* 4.9 stars in 2009 *cough*
*cough* 7.5 stars in 1987 *cough* 6.7 stars in 2014 *cough*
*cough* 7.5 stars in 1990 *cough* 6.3 stars in 2012 *cough*

The real issue with 14 year copyright terms is what's my 2 year old going to watch when he grows up?

Not necessarily - if I could download content from 14 years ago free and clear of legal encumbrance, then I'd probably watch a lot more old content, it's not like modern content has improved dramatically, and there's no shortage of old classics I've never gotten around to watching, thus reducing the temptation to pirate anything.

Did it improve *at all*?

*cough* 8.0 stars in 1968 *cough* 5.7 stars in 2001 *cough*
*cough* 6.5 stars in 1980 *cough* 4.9 stars in 2009 *cough*
*cough* 7.5 stars in 1987 *cough* 6.7 stars in 2014 *cough*
*cough* 7.5 stars in 1990 *cough* 6.3 stars in 2012 *cough*

The real issue with 14 year copyright terms is what's my 2 year old going to watch when he grows up?

Not necessarily - if I could download content from 14 years ago free and clear of legal encumbrance, then I'd probably watch a lot more old content, it's not like modern content has improved dramatically, and there's no shortage of old classics I've never gotten around to watching, thus reducing the temptation to pirate anything.

Did it improve *at all*?

*cough* 8.0 stars in 1968 *cough* 5.7 stars in 2001 *cough*
*cough* 6.5 stars in 1980 *cough* 4.9 stars in 2009 *cough*
*cough* 7.5 stars in 1987 *cough* 6.7 stars in 2014 *cough*
*cough* 7.5 stars in 1990 *cough* 6.3 stars in 2012 *cough*

The real issue with 14 year copyright terms is what's my 2 year old going to watch when he grows up?

Not necessarily - if I could download content from 14 years ago free and clear of legal encumbrance, then I'd probably watch a lot more old content, it's not like modern content has improved dramatically, and there's no shortage of old classics I've never gotten around to watching, thus reducing the temptation to pirate anything.

Did it improve *at all*?

*cough* 8.0 stars in 1968 *cough* 5.7 stars in 2001 *cough*
*cough* 6.5 stars in 1980 *cough* 4.9 stars in 2009 *cough*
*cough* 7.5 stars in 1987 *cough* 6.7 stars in 2014 *cough*
*cough* 7.5 stars in 1990 *cough* 6.3 stars in 2012 *cough*

The real issue with 14 year copyright terms is what's my 2 year old going to watch when he grows up?

Not necessarily - if I could download content from 14 years ago free and clear of legal encumbrance, then I'd probably watch a lot more old content, it's not like modern content has improved dramatically, and there's no shortage of old classics I've never gotten around to watching, thus reducing the temptation to pirate anything.

Did it improve *at all*?

*cough* 8.0 stars in 1968 *cough* 5.7 stars in 2001 *cough*
*cough* 6.5 stars in 1980 *cough* 4.9 stars in 2009 *cough*
*cough* 7.5 stars in 1987 *cough* 6.7 stars in 2014 *cough*
*cough* 7.5 stars in 1990 *cough* 6.3 stars in 2012 *cough*

The real issue with 14 year copyright terms is what's my 2 year old going to watch when he grows up?

Not necessarily - if I could download content from 14 years ago free and clear of legal encumbrance, then I'd probably watch a lot more old content, it's not like modern content has improved dramatically, and there's no shortage of old classics I've never gotten around to watching, thus reducing the temptation to pirate anything.

Did it improve *at all*?

*cough* 8.0 stars in 1968 *cough* 5.7 stars in 2001 *cough*
*cough* 6.5 stars in 1980 *cough* 4.9 stars in 2009 *cough*
*cough* 7.5 stars in 1987 *cough* 6.7 stars in 2014 *cough*
*cough* 7.5 stars in 1990 *cough* 6.3 stars in 2012 *cough*

The real issue with 14 year copyright terms is what's my 2 year old going to watch when he grows up?

What are the people going to do? Break into the cockpit? They can't--we added locks on the doors and such because of the terrorists.

Besides, how would the people know? Don't get me wrong--they'd figure it out eventually like several hours into the flight when they weren't over the airport they were going to land at.

If you were taking a flight to Hawaii, would you even bother looking out the window? Even if you did, would it be obvious to you that you were off course--enough that you were raise an alarm to a flight attendant? And that the Flight Attendant wouldn't come back with some appropriate double-talk?

Not wanting to speak ill of the dead, but I just can't trust anyone with five first names...
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0551912/

The study is interestingly-timed, given the 3/28/14 release of http://www.imdb.com/title/tt19....

This reminds me of what Richard Feynman went through while investigating the Shuttle Discovery disaster.
They made a movie about it: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt24...

So tired of your, and peoples like you, ignorance.

Then stop being part of the problem. Do you seriously believe that airlines are resisting this proposal merely because they want to save perhaps as much as a few million dollars over 30 years? That's nothing compared to the costs that you ignore.

I was expecting you to link to Tommy .

"People hate flippers"

That's simply not true!

You are giving 'the government' far too much credit. They react to things after the fact, but don't really plan very well. There is no grand conspiracy. "The Government" mostly consists of tired civil servants and a few pompous, self deluded politicians. I guess Brazil shows how that sort of thing can go wrong, but I just don't believe we are there yet.

As it stands, your post comes off as paranoid and delusional. I don't think Bill Gates cares about what you or I are doing in our living room, unless it has something to do with downloading the newest games.

You hate IMDB so much you don't just link to that as the first attempt, but to a pay site that self censors for most of the planet?

I forgot about IMDB - good call. Why didn't you link to it?

I linked to Netflix because that's where I saw it, and before posting I checked to verify that it's still available for streaming, so others could view it as well. I do not know how pages on Netflix, IMDB, or other websites appear from other countries, nor do I research website availability across the slashdot demographics before posting links. Besides, someone could just do a Google search based on what was in the post to find more information.

I'm hoping you're just a troll (and that I'm falling for you), because it would be really sad that you totally missed what the parent (and many repliers) were actually quoting from:

The Jerk

Hmm. This somehow reminds me of a Steven King movie.

OK, who else saw that and thought of this:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt00...

...seen that movie.

we don't need any TMZ thank you

Well, I WAS expecting an article about this. I am new here.

Posting as AC because I can't figure out how to create a new account here on 'backward-slash period'. I'd like to become a new member of this website for nerds. I'm a nerd about cats.

Hey why can't we paste pictures of our cats like Reddit? That's where I heard about this cool website! Dice has been telling us that all of us nerds should come here! Well, since I'm a cat nerd, I should be here!

And how come I can't get that really cool version that starts with bata or beata or ....something. I like it!

Then this version came up but it's hard to use.

I like kitties.

Twins :-)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt00...

And did the prison staff know who he was? Or did he go in undercover, like in Brubaker/a??

I've been through this a few times and, strangely enough, I've found wisdom in a small speech from a mediocre movie that's helped with my last few.

To paraphrase:

There's no such thing as a tough decision. We make hundreds of decisions each day and, over the course of a year, the number of decisions we make runs into tens or even hundreds of thousands. We only think decisions are hard when we don't like the answer that we've come up with.

The movie was otherwise forgettable, but that quote has stuck with me and I've used it on quite a few occasions to try to listen to whatever voice inside me has already decided and drown out the conscious thoughts that are trying to undermine that decision with logical arguments. It looks weird to type, but I've found that whether it's decisions in a relationship, career or even what to eat for dinner, starting from the position that I've already made the decision and then trying to figure out what my decision was makes the decision making process easier.

Listening to your description, I can guess at the decision you've made. But I encourage you to read your own words aloud as if they aren't yours and try to figure it out for yourself. Chances are you're trying to talk yourself into either staying or going. There's no guarantee that this will help you arrive a the correct decision. But it will at least help you determine which outcome you actually want.

Seaquest DSV beat us to it - where war is just a game conducted by citizens...

I love H.264. I do not love that its proprietary, nor do I believe it should be. x.264? I hope someone can create a free codec equivalent to or superior to H.264 so I give props to Google for giving it a go with VP8 and VP9.

The founders of Oblong Industries, Inc. were responsible for the visuals in the 2002 movie the Minority Report. Their company started shortly after that movie and has been in the black for more than 10 years.

These images show the technology as conveyed in the movie. The video in the next paragraph showcases it at oblong and is very much worth a watch, enjoy.

No I do not work for Oblong Industries, not that fortunate.

Oblong Industries, Inc. g-speak uses their internally developed software SDK, optical cameras (a bit more expensive right now, but cheaper every year and multiple optical inputs produce less interference than multiple infrared inputs when generating 3-D images and manipulating those images in real time. Thanks to optical, the quality is much better. Imagine 20+ optical cameras, mulitple screens and you can since the data requirements and why they had to develop it internally. They use data pools in memory in order to move massive amounts of data over the network from say your database to your tablet, to your laptop, to a desktop (some at the same time) without stutters, pausing or visible buffering...I am sure you get the idea.

Too bad their current video does not show the gloves as the input device instead of the wand, suppose they are a work in progress.

I wonder if a codec like VP9 could use the concept of data pools to not only compress more efficiently, but to play back using less bandwidth, memory and CPU more efficiently.

Regardless the end goal of an open source, proprietary free, video/audio codec is exactly what ffmpeg is all about. Smart and powerful, if it does not get there today, who knows about tomorrow! You guys rock.

I've always thought ARM was a cool design. Simple, minimalist, sort of a latter-day PDP-11, one of those canonical architectures that just works. Simple chip, not many transistors, low power, good chip for mobile devices. It seems so obvious in retrospect. Especially since that's not what the designers had in mind. They were designing a simple chip because they only had a couple of people and that was all they could afford.

In one of the later scenes in Micro Men there is a whiteboard in the background with the original ARM requirements, right down to the barrel shifter.

...laura

link for the movie I referred to:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt22...

find it on TPB.

watch it and tell me that capitalism is AT ALL better than any other system. in modern times, its a complete and total failure for everyone but the ruling classes.

just like every other system out there!

of course, those at the top LOVE making bank on the backs of the rest of us. for them, its a godsend!

They make that money - because they can.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt00...

It was never published AFAIK, but there was a documentary film made about Darger and his book which mostly summarized the plot, including animations of many of the illustrations. Worth seeking out IMHO.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt03...

I was hoping for something a little more cherry.

What could possibly go wrong...

Quite a lot from what I have seen

"THEIR CRIME IS CURIOSITY"

A story I wrote is based on this idea, in particular, a mathematician working with NSA on quantum cryptography finds that a physical process is being randomized using an eight-bit (think 6502) pseudorandom number generator which he concludes is an example of a legacy code that was never updated (think of the sin() function, when is the last time you looked inside that?).

Of course, the story is about the discovery process more than the discovery itself.

And the movie Thirteenth Floor is a much better look at this idea than the Matrix is.

How many are old farts and still virgin like me? I will be like The 40 Years Old Virgin soon. :P

Past that one, 44 years and counting...

I work doing IT support in a school, talking with students and teachers all day though I am definetly an introvert.

I have no problems at social event - will happily go along - I don't need to be talky talky while there though.

I'm incredibly shy when I want to talk relationship questions with a girl. I just can't bring it up, or ask them out...

Quite good movie. And of course the Matrix

What kind of hardware would these simulations run on ...

Morpheus: "Have you ever had a dream, Neo, that you were so sure was real? What if you were unable to wake from that dream? How would you know the difference between the dream world and the real world?"

They don't *HAVE* have to be expensive. The expensive is a side effect of the massive Hollywood egos.

And there is "Hollywood Accounting" (I read someplace all Harry Potter movies lost money. Distribution costs ate up the profits so movie makers didn't have to pay taxes). I also wonder if there are some that make lots of money, others not so much except bragging rights. Perhaps going OT, an article about music piracy/studios losing money, etc. someone posted a link to an article written in 1990s about several musicians that have "sold" millions of albums but received meager amount from the studios. And some even owed money back to the studio. Author described how expenses are tallied to the gross revenue (all those expenses from production/distribution/promotion is "necessary") but end result is artists didn't get much to speak of. These accounting procedures were virtually like those portrayed in "The Harder They Fall" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt00...

Primer (2004). One of the most original Sci-Fi movies I have ever seen.

And I agree, main stream big Hollywood Science Fiction is crap.

Memorable quotes for
Looker (1981)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt00...

"John Reston: Television can control public opinion more effectively than armies of secret police, because television is entirely voluntary. The American government forces our children to attend school, but nobody forces them to watch T.V. Americans of all ages *submit* to television. Television is the American ideal. Persuasion without coercion. Nobody makes us watch. Who could have predicted that a *free* people would voluntarily spend one fifth of their lives sitting in front of a *box* with pictures? Fifteen years sitting in prison is punishment. But 15 years sitting in front of a television set is entertainment. And the average American now spends more than one and a half years of his life just watching television commercials. Fifty minutes, every day of his life, watching commercials. Now, that's power."

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"The United States has it's own propaganda, but it's very effective because people don't realize that it's propaganda. And it's subtle, but it's actually a much stronger propaganda machine than the Nazis had but it's funded in a different way. With the Nazis it was funded by the government, but in the United States, it's funded by corporations and corporations they only want things to happen that will make people want to buy stuff. So whatever that is, then that is considered okay and good, but that doesn't necessarily mean it really serves people's thinking - it can stupify and make not very good things happen."
- Crispin Glover: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm000...

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"It's only logical to assume that conspiracies are everywhere, because that's what people do. They conspire. If you can't get the message, get the man." - Mel Gibson (from an interview)

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"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." - William Casey, CIA Director

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"The real reason for the official secrecy, in most instances, is not to keep the opposition (the CIA's euphemistic term for the enemy) from knowing what is going on; the enemy usually does know. The basic reason for governmental secrecy is to keep you, the American public, from knowing - for you, too, are considered the opposition, or enemy - so that you cannot interfere. When the public does not know what the government or the CIA is doing, it cannot voice its approval or disapproval of their actions. In fact, they can even lie to your about what they are doing or have done, and you will not know it. As for the second advantage, despite frequent suggestion that the CIA is a rogue elephant, the truth is that the agency functions at the direction of and in response to the office of the president. All of its major clandestine operations are carried out with the direct approval of or on direct orders from the White House. The CIA is a secret tool of the president - every president. And every president since Truman has lied to the American people in order to protect the agency. When lies have failed, it has been the duty of the CIA to take the blame for the president, thus protecting him. This is known in the business as "plausible denial." The CIA, functioning as a secret instrument of the U.S. government and the presidency, has long misused and abused history and continues to do so."
- Victor Marchetti, Propaganda and Disinformation: How the CIA Manufactures History

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George Carlin:

"The real owners are the big wealthy business interests that control things and make all the important decisions. Forget the politicians, they're an irrelevancy. The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don't. You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own and control the corporations. They've long since bought and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the statehouses, the city h