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You can watch it full screen and not in the matchbox in the web page

If you wanna watch it under Linux, you can use mplayer, which will play straight in mozilla if you have the mozilla-mplayer plugin.

Or if you wanna save it onto your HD you can view the HTML source and pick out the URL. Get the asx file with wget. Then take the mms:// link that is in there and feed it to MMS client.

These (mozilla plugin, mplayer, mmsclient) are all available as Debian packages. :-)

Cheers!

Costyn.

This is more of a complaint about a common practice on Slashdot, rather than this particular story.

When posting stories, the original poster often puts in too many links. For example, the above story has a link to Game Girl Advance even though it has the link to the story itself, making the first link redundant.

Enough with the promiscuous linking!

Here's a couple that come to mind in less than 30 seconds...
Run Lola Run and The Professional are two highly action packed flicks that are great guy movies. Guaranteed to keep ypou entertained. The Professional is especially riveting. The whole movie is action packed from the get-go. It also has that special "evil genius" villain quirkiness only Gary Oldman can deliver on screen.
Both really good movies to own on DVD and keep in the archives.

hmm... Johnny Mnemonic anyone?

Thats what the plauge of their century was supposed to be.

If you thing such things are very far in the future, they could be not so far of Matilda, used right now to search (not destroy... yet) Talibans in Afganistan.

A company called Seisint has created a product called Accurint that was used by the government to catch the DC snipers .

Their price list alone is reminiscent of Gattaca which offers the ability to retrieve for most any U.S. citizen their:

6 Neighbors at 10 Different Addresses
Possible Relatives
Possible Drivers Licenses
Criminal (Felony) - 10 Year

It's bad enough if our government uses it to catch terrorists, what happens when AOL uses it to target their mass marketing?!?

Like the MandelCrop Set?

You mean this one? :-)

For what it's worth, Q*bert is available on cell phones with certain service providers (SprintPCS and ATT Wireless). SprintPCS is promoting it on the first page you see when you log on to the web on your phone. This is all thanks to our good friends at Sony Pictures Mobile (did I miss the Q*bert motion picture?). Of course they're charging $5 to use the game for only 60 days, so best not to be too thankful. Despite the steep rates, I do like the fact that my favorite games of yore are being reborn in the wireless world. How long 'till I can play dig-dug on the subway?

For what it's worth, Q*bert is available on cell phones with certain service providers (SprintPCS and ATT Wireless). SprintPCS is promoting it on the first page you see when you log on to the web on your phone. This is all thanks to our good friends at Sony Pictures Mobile (did I miss the Q*bert motion picture?). Of course they're charging $5 to use the game for only 60 days, so best not to be too thankful. Despite the steep rates, I do like the fact that my favorite games of yore are being reborn in the wireless world. How long 'till I can play dig-dug on the subway?

Mastermind of Munich Massacre to Receive the Palestine Prize

Sony Pictures Classics presents: One Day In September

"Hmmm.... big!"

"Hmmm.... big!"

The development of the tank was plagued with setbacks and the original inventors were brushed off by the american war office, only to be adopted by the brits.

Even then, the program really didn't get started until after a lot of patriotic young men were were killed on the fields of the first world war.

If we believe the website (especially the third link in the slashdot article) then the solotrek flew, there are two prototypes capable of controlled hover (one of which is slightly damaged in a test flight accident due to a problem with the test rig and not the vehicle) and all of it is available for cash.

If there is a real need for a single occupant exosuit flyer (for instance, making insertions into urban areas and avoiding the whole black hawk down kinda scenario) then somebody will fund it.

Whether its the EU, some asian power who has engineers who work for nothing or Somebody Else.

If the next developer waits until after the solotrek team scatters, then the resulting machine will not be a solotrek. But then again a Panzer is not the tank envisiged by the engineers at the Holt Company USA either.

Surely you meant "Johnny Mnemonic", the so so movie made from the William Gibson short story of the same name. That was 1995, a wee bit before the Matrix. Sony's web site: Johhny Mnmenic

Just ask for the chief architect, Art Vandelay.

Isn't this the plot of Robots of Dawn (part of the Robot series)? Perhaps the strategy is to license cheaper, more encompassing material (a collection of short stories that represent the important 3 laws and their implications) and then do whatever you want with it...

For those of you who are interested in the artwork of many of Asimov's books, the fellow responsible is Michael Whelan.

My opinion on doing a movie on an Asimov book (short story collection) is that it probably has to be better than Starship Troopers and probably not as good as 2001: A Space Odyssey. Who knows; maybe it will be as good as Contact! I'll keep my fingers crossed.

Imagine that we had a way of sending actors from Broadway to Hollywood that involved putting them in cars and driving them across the country. Some of these cars crashed, killing the poor actors.

Unlike TCP, though, we don't have the ability to re-send copies of Hollyweird actors. Or do we?

Sounds like the devices from the movie the big hit!

Dude don't dis I-Spy before I even get a chance to see it! I wasn't alive during the first time it was done! 'Cause, like, Owen Wilson is a genius. He did that movie with the chick that got a wooden finger and the dad that was dying from being an unsufferable prick. That r0x0red!

why on earth hasn't hollywood suggested, and gotten a .movie (.mov) or .film (.flm) suffix for all movie websites? I'm REALLY sick of seeing advertizements with urls attached like "reallylongmoviename_themovie.net" and such.

I'd rather see them not even use domain names at all, and instead follow Sony Pictures' example of placing all their movie sites under the studio's domain.

Instead, I'd like to see them add a domain ".dum" for all stupid websites.

Let me say, though, that I think your post was quite on-topic, insofar as the original post was of interest to /.'ers. (Personally, I think the most amazing thing about this story is that these links appear, so far, to be unslashdottable.) but does anyone know how "OT" came into use as shorthand for "off-topic?" What's the shorthand for "on-topic?"

Funny, but I always thought of Sony, et. al. as *CONSUMER* electronics companies, not slack-jawed Yes Men for the Hollywood Mafia.


Sony is the Tokyo branch of the Hollywood Mafia (MPAA's board of directors list on their 'about' page has Sony listed right after Disney). As an added bonus, the name Sony appears no less than 10 times on the RIAA membership list, without even counting the sub-labels that don't carry the Sony name, but are still wholly owned by Sony.

Geezus, next week there's going to be an article about super-spies being developed from our children and our convicts.

Ideally, demand by consumers kickstarts the process. Based upon demonstrations of the technology, people *voluntarily* buy the dual-tuner televisions, just like they did with DVD players, CDs, and the game console of the week.

And when it comes right down to it, many of the companies manufacturing televisions are also producing content. Which, in the context of this article, adversely affects my sanity. More lobbying, by entertainment groups, for forced acceptance of their product. Brilliance.

Oops.

Spider-Man, not Spider-Man

Oops.

Spider-Man, not Spider-Man

Where your logic makes sense, I believe you are in the minority.

First, it's the graphics intensive sites that drive people to faster connections to start with. People like web pages that 'snap' up. Whether it's something as complex as Spider-Man or as simple as Google, people want it to be there.

What these people DON'T realize is that they'd probably be happy with a single-channel ISDN connection that gets you 64Kb.

For unlimited phone access, you still have to have a dedicated phone line ($20/mo), plus an unlimited ISP ($22/mo). You've aready spent $42/month, and it's only 4K. For another $5/10/15, you get two less bills, and a way to get viruses faster than ever.

Also, it doesn't take much bandwidth to consume. All it takes is the understand that your PC can do a lot of downloading when you're not there.... and you're not there a lot more than you think you are (aren't?)...

The best solution would be for the cable providers to provide bandwidth based services (you know.. like real ISPs do for businesses)... not surcharges for bytes transferred.

$20/mo for a 64Kb service.
$30/mo for a 128Kb
$40/mo for a 256Kb
$50/mo for a 512Kb
and
$60/mo for a 1Mb.

They don't look like the heavy, they can easily attract the $20/mo user with a nominal impact to their bandwidth and people can REALLY buy what they need.

Look Jon -- It's a convenient device to raise the battle between Spider-man and AotC to the level of culture-shifting battles between one kids generation and the next.

But to say that Lucas has a lock on marketroid obsession and that the Stan Lee clan hasn't tried to "shroud Spider-man in market hype", and that that's why Spider-man is winning the hearts of all the little Generation X++ers, isn't just wishful thinking... it's plain wrong.

For breakfast this morning, I had Kellog's Spider-man cereal. (Honestly. I really did.) It tasted just like Cap'n Crunch Berries, but it sure looked like little spider webs. I could have tried the Spider-man Pop-tarts or Rice-Krispies, but I was in the mood for something a little sweeter.

After breakfast I signed up for the new Spider-man Cingular account that I saw lots of cool commecials for, and entered to win a custom Spider-man Dodge Viper.

Then I popped over to Wal-mart to pick up the new Spider-man game, and found out I could get a free trip to Universal Studios, complements of Sam Walton! For lunch I "swung into Carl's Jr" or did I "drop into Hardee's" for a quick Spider-man burger, and washed it down with a Spider-man Dr. Pepper, which I became a big fan of ever since I heard they were racing a Spider-man Dr. Pepper car in the NASCAR Busch Series.

The amazing thing is, even the marketing press is completely aware of what Sony Pictures is doing with Spider-man. Why aren't you?

Give it all to Longfellow Deeds, silly.

The comic is "Spider-Man" note the dash and the captiol M. Incase you are not believing, check out here and here (note the reserved trademark at the bottom).

It's interesting to note that the Spiderman movie site has a "will return soon..." message and that quicktime, who housed the trailer, has pulled it. The climax of the trailer was a shot of a helicopter full of bank robbers caught in a giant web between the two towers of the WTC.

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