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Most of the spoilers are in previous articles from the looks of things. Can't see many spoilers in their "huge new spoiler filled photos" though - media manipulation perfected.

Just saw Pinhead... Nah that's obviously Annakin after being burned and in the need for his respirator.... -B

Hmmm... sort of like a low tech Thirteenth Floor

The quicktime video is at http://www.movieweb.com/media/news/01_04/e3low.mov .

I'm getting 4kBytes/sec with wget.

Actually, that's not true. Mr Jackson has brought various actors back over the past year for reshoots. I myself have seen hobbits walking past my window at work carrying mysterious paper bags. Further evidence here because I know you won't take my word on it. From what I hear (and everyone in this city knows at least one person involved in LoTR) the tricky thing is making them look the same as they did during the primary shooting.

Since every response I got was "Phantom Menace was universially panned save for the fanboys on GL's jock" I bring evidence: The Rotten Tomatos page shows that PM got 63% positive reviews, averaging a 7 out of 10. Roger Ebert gave it 3.5 stars out of 4!

So that disproves only the diehards liking it.

Hell, people must have liked it for some reason since it is the 4th highest domestic grossing movie of all time.

So that disproves the fact that people were "tricked" into seeing it. If they were, they were magically "tricked" into seeing it multiple times.

I'm sorry but no, people liked the movie when it came out. Yeah, maybe not You, but they did defend it. It's only some social revisionism to say that it was never popular and that was all just some trick pulled by LucasFilms.

If it was a failure, Kevin Costner would've given his right nut to have Waterworld fail so spectacularly (to the tune of a half billion dollars).

I count 4+2+1=7

If they call it "Seven", then we can really say it's "Heavy as Sin".

aka What the hell are you talking about?
aka Mod this down

Armageddon

A roughneck crew of the world's foremost deep-core oil drillers, including Harry S. Stamper (Bruce Willis), set out on a heroic journey into space to save the world from an oncoming asteroid the size of Texas.

You've been leapfrogged -- the kernel already showed up in one movie, and the boot loader was in the title of another. I'm waiting for the Torvalds & Stallman stuffed toys any day now... :-)

....so how long before we start seeing Tux cameos in Disney toons?

About -4 years?

Somebody notice that while most of the "good" movies are well balanced and sticks to the plot of the article, the most succesful ones had an overdose of one element or another or were missing one of those? (Well except Titanic that is)

Yeah I know what you mean, the scary thing is, I've noticed a change in there voices. My lead engineer is starting to sound like Woody Allan, my structured cable guy is starting to sound like Sly Stallone, and for some reason I noticed my voice is starting to sound like Gene Hackman. I just wish my wife would sound more like Sharon Stone :)

ANTZ

Sure, until you watch the woman in the red dress walk by...

Seriously, the gaming industry continues to blur that line and while I agree that we need to keep a clear distinction between the two, I think we'll see games that are very difficult to distiguish from reality in the forseeable future. Consider The Matrix, Thirteenth Floor, and especially, eXistenZ, for some ideas on what might happen as the lines gets thinner..

I don't mind the stroke as long as I don't end up a fat bastard.

This will just make fluids all the more important. And we know what happens when such things become put into law.

Wait, I'm sorry, doesn't this happen already?

Hollywood wants to create another revenue stream. This copyright stuff is just a convenient vessel to do so.

If you account for inflation, the music, movie and tv industries are making less money (profits) than they were before.

Think of it, what were the gross ticket sales for E.T. and Star Wars versus Titanic and the other newer "blockbuster" movies? The list is here. The newer movies just are not making the same money that the old ones did. Very much a "good ol' days" analogy.

It is the same for the music industry. The marketing required to get the big album sales is tremendous. MTV, VH1, and the 3 or 4 companies that own most of the radio stations (Viacom etc.) in the US only play what pays.

TV has lost potential revenues from advertisers over the years due to restrictions on what types of companies are allowed to advertise on TV. There are no more hard liquor or cigarette ads, both industries that having massive cash reserves. That is why the TV industry pushed so hard to be able to get back prescription medication ads. And that is why you see so many Viagra, Prilosec and others ads on the TV now. They can afford it, and the .com's are not wasting millions on TV ads like they did in the 1990's.

Despite all of this, I think it is ludicrous that Hollywood (the entertainment industry as a whole really) is pushing so hard for the DMCA or whatever.

Business' must adapt, or face the consequences. Look at IBM, Apple, and Microsoft. Who adapted the best to the situation around them? Microsoft did. Who should have the monopoly? IBM. Who should have a much more significant share of the market? Apple.

Different companies, different business models, different results.

As someone who has seen the movie 'Twister' no less than a dozen times, I believe the answer to capturing the ultimate 'Torn Porn' is painfully obvious. Simply do the following:

(1) Purchase a gross of small, clear plastic balls (this can be substituted by a large number of the clear plastic eggs that silly putty comes in...)

(2) For a solid week, every time you see one of those highly-annoying X-10, wireless camera ads while cruising the net actually purchase one - if my calculations are correct that should give the average browser approximately 538 wireless cams within a seven day period... :-)

(3) Insert a single X-10 wireless cam (with newly hacked, longer lasting self contained power source) in each of the clear plastic balls/eggs.

(4) Next...as they learned in 'Twister' , you need to attach twisty-twirly-thingy-mabobs ® made from old pop cans to the balls to help them enter the tornado's vortex safely.

(5) And finally, create a large tin can with a half-moon Plexiglas top that looks like a cross between R2D2 and the first Lunar Lander to house all of these video-balls.

Now that we have created the device, it is time for deployment. Once again, I will take a page from the movie 'Twister' and suggest that you strap the launcher into the back of a very large (not to mention, expensive) 4x4 truck. Then, simply find a big-ass tornado, put on the cruise, drive straight at it and jump out at the last minute!!!

Oh well...just a thought!!! :-)

As someone who has seen the movie 'Twister' no less than a dozen times, I believe the answer to capturing the ultimate 'Torn Porn' is painfully obvious. Simply do the following:

(1) Purchase a gross of small, clear plastic balls (this can be substituted by a large number of the clear plastic eggs that silly putty comes in...)

(2) For a solid week, every time you see one of those highly-annoying X-10, wireless camera ads while cruising the net actually purchase one - if my calculations are correct that should give the average browser approximately 538 wireless cams within a seven day period... :-)

(3) Insert a single X-10 wireless cam (with newly hacked, longer lasting self contained power source) in each of the clear plastic balls/eggs.

(4) Next...as they learned in 'Twister' , you need to attach twisty-twirly-thingy-mabobs ® made from old pop cans to the balls to help them enter the tornado's vortex safely.

(5) And finally, create a large tin can with a half-moon Plexiglas top that looks like a cross between R2D2 and the first Lunar Lander to house all of these video-balls.

Now that we have created the device, it is time for deployment. Once again, I will take a page from the movie 'Twister' and suggest that you strap the launcher into the back of a very large (not to mention, expensive) 4x4 truck. Then, simply find a big-ass tornado, put on the cruise, drive straight at it and jump out at the last minute!!!

Oh well...just a thought!!! :-)

As someone who has seen the movie 'Twister' no less than a dozen times, I believe the answer to capturing the ultimate 'Torn Porn' is painfully obvious. Simply do the following:

(1) Purchase a gross of small, clear plastic balls (this can be substituted by a large number of the clear plastic eggs that silly putty comes in...)

(2) For a solid week, every time you see one of those highly-annoying X-10, wireless camera ads while cruising the net actually purchase one - if my calculations are correct that should give the average browser approximately 538 wireless cams within a seven day period... :-)

(3) Insert a single X-10 wireless cam (with newly hacked, longer lasting self contained power source) in each of the clear plastic balls/eggs.

(4) Next...as they learned in 'Twister' , you need to attach twisty-twirly-thingy-mabobs ® made from old pop cans to the balls to help them enter the tornado's vortex safely.

(5) And finally, create a large tin can with a half-moon Plexiglas top that looks like a cross between R2D2 and the first Lunar Lander to house all of these video-balls.

Now that we have created the device, it is time for deployment. Once again, I will take a page from the movie 'Twister' and suggest that you strap the launcher into the back of a very large (not to mention, expensive) 4x4 truck. Then, simply find a big-ass tornado, put on the cruise, drive straight at it and jump out at the last minute!!!

Oh well...just a thought!!! :-)

This picture pretty much sums it up.

From http://movieweb.com/movie/toystory/toystory.txt

"RESOLUTION:The resolution of a digital image refers to the number of pixels stored. For "Toy Story," the resolution is typically 1536 x 922 pixels."

Marko No. 5

At least as I understand the term, having looked it up after seeing The Big Lebowski. You have to realize that Congressmen are only there for their own gain. They don't represent you, they represent the money interests who pay to get them elected, and literally NOTHING else means anything to them. We (Americans) live under an institutionalized bribery system marketed as democracy. Once you understand that, you can stop wondering why so many things are wrong.

The best Sci Fi on TV right now is clearly all the repeat runs of Star Trek, ST Next Generation and ST Voyager. And let's not forget the occasional Superstation presentation of Stallone in "Judge Dredd".... a stunning cinematic masterpiece, with Rob Schneider playing a wonderfully refreshing role as comic relief.

The best sci fi not on TV right now is Robotech. Episodes can be found on Gnutella and Hotline, and are also available on DVD from the Robotech website, Robotech.com.

Does the name "HailStorm" remind anyone else of the "Hacker Hellstorm" from the movie Canadian Bacon? You remember, the machine created by R. J. Hacker to secretly take control of the nation's nuclear defense systems? Sounds a little to close to be coincidence to me.

More specifically related to this thread, how many people are using their toasters for email these days? Not many, I'm guessing, so why have the urge to offload all your passwords to some far away source so that they can be accessed from anywhere. I see no reason to let anyone manage my infomation en masse except me. In the MacOS, there's a handy utility called KeyChain (did this make it into OSX? I haven't used it yet) that can be used to manage passwords, and though it's not perfect yet, the OS supports voice recognition login, a significant step towards biometric authentication. As we all begin to have more wired appliances in our home, I see no reason why a local server (probably one that would also act as the firewall) like the motorized tie rack couldn't serve as a local password repository. Maybe it's a little complex for the average end user, but this same server could be accessed from anywhere, and yet private individuals control their own fate. There is a lot less incentive to hack John Doe's Blender/Firewall than there is to get into a repository of thousands of passwords. I think we're still a long way from needing corporate intervention in this domain.

gold? or maybe fresh water and limes? =]
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Hey, weren't they the guys with the swords in The Big Lebowski? No wait, that was Nihilists. Never mind.

Actual problems with clones has everything to do with genetic diversity. If a couple loses their ability to reproduce, and subsequently loses their only child to some disease, a genetic sibling of that child will potentially have big problems with the same disease. Other problems are not necessarily ONE additional child, but MANY identical twins running around, plus the potential stigma attached. If it becomes accepted, thousands of parents will want their children to be just like that "Tall, Blue-eyed, Handsome Guy." If it becomes too common, the stigma will be on those that weren't created in a laboratory.

In small quantities, cloning probably won't hurt anything, except socially. It will have everything to do with social aspects. But in large quanties, lack of genetic diversity (either immediately or the clone's children breeding with others from same clone) is indeed dangerous to the race as a whole. Genes will go to fixation, usually resulting in big genetic problems. cf: genetic diversity in cheetahs and inbreeding in humans.

Right. Or just ask Val Kilmer and Keanu Reeves.

Right. Or just ask Val Kilmer and Keanu Reeves.

Didn't you read suck this morning. We're responsible for the DDoS on Yahoo...

The actual perpetrator is more likely a surly thirteen-year-old kid, tired of knocking over neighbor's mailboxes. Or he's a railing anti-consumerist, hopped up on grade-B agitprop and ready to take down the Man. Or he's a Canadian -- you just know they're involved somehow -- amusing himself by testing what makes Americans panic. The specifics hardly matter.

Or check out the movie Canadian Bacon.

The fact is that people have been making fun of and flaming different cultures/countries for as long as they been on the face of the earth. But, we [Canadians] do have a tendency to look down our noses at "the states". And you know, after a while it might wear a little thin south of the border. This is the same way that one might find it a little presumptious that the championship of baseball is called the World Series.

So lets do a quick comparison:
Canadian National Broadcaster:CBC
Conistently tells you point blank what you will think today (citizen).
American National Broadcaster: NPR
Consistently puts you to sleep.
Canadian Leader:Jean Chretien
Beats up protesters.
American Leader:Bill Clinton
Hits on interns.
Canadian Currency:The Looney
Nuff Said.
American Currency:The Green Back
Worth something like 1 million to the Canadian dollar
...
So, don't take it so seriously, and don't worry about being picked on for being a Canuck, 'eh. Now how about you and all the snowbirds[1] go down to the deep south and remind 'em who torched the Whitehouse during the war of 1812.

--locust

[1] Snowbirds, Canadians who go to the southern states [florida] for the winter. Did you know they have a couple of french language dailys down there just for those lucky SoBs?.. Eh Jaques, votre testicules sont echape de vos speedos!

Don't misread that; I liked the Fifth Element; while the story may have been somewhat lame, the music and visuals more than made up for that.

But I don't want a computer made up in the colour of the Diva.

No, what the self respecting Linux nerd actually needs is a serious Rack Mount System.

Those that want cheaper options might want to Build A Rack Mount Case, and check out Rack Mount Hardware at eBay. Here may be the true ultimate case.