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Others have remarked on the use of Javascript, YouTube videos, and other technology that didn't exist or wasn't widely used until after then '90s, but the original Space Jam movie website is still up in its 1996 glory: https://www.warnerbros.com/arc...

HTML is an open format, but you can't display websites from the 1990s anymore can you?

The website promoting the Warner Bros. film Space Jam is still viewable in Chrome 64. Many others are on Wayback Machine even if their hosts have dropped off the Internet.

Dude, the Space Jam website is still up: http://www2.warnerbros.com/spa...

So by this logic, someone could write a computer program that would randomly file a take down notice against Warnerbros.com and it would be OK, since it was done by a computer algorithm.

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Seems to me that they should suffer the same kind of damages that they would insist on if someone tried that stunt. Can we say $N,000,000 per instance?

Try loading a page that hasn't changed for years.
I will offer as my suggestion, the Space Jam movie homepage:
http://www2.warnerbros.com/spacejam/movie/jam.htm

So they'll implement a new protocol: httpSS - twice as secure

You laugh, but...

https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions#!/

https://wwws.safra.com/SafraOfficeBank/

http://wwws.aa.warnerbros.com/journeytothecenteroftheearth2/

https://wwws.loc.gov/readerreg/remote/

Secure browsing has already gone enterprisey with the new WWWS for secure sites

Notice the 3rd link. https:/// is not even configured on this server. Yet we are meant to think it is secure because of the 'wwws'.

Forget that, just go here or here.

The trailer is only 24fps, not the 48fps it was filmed at. Who knows what they'll do for the Blu-ray release.

Forget that, just go here or here.

The trailer is only 24fps, not the 48fps it was filmed at. Who knows what they'll do for the Blu-ray release.

It is Beerfest 2. http://beerfestmovie.warnerbros.com/

Reminds me of the Superman rights/trademark issue. Where he has to be trademarked in every domain (comics, movies, clothing, toys, etc...). PC machines vs OS. And yes, sometimes it creates stupid scenarios such as this. A nd, with Superman, sounds like DC/WB have their hands full now (well, the specific issue at hand has been going on a while). Possible scenarios are say the original creators controlling his looks, DC controlling the name. From a forum (so salt and all that):

*The blue and white, electrically-powered Superman of the 1990s was created for precisely this reason. In case the families won the rights to the intellectual property of Superman, they would have to change Superman's look and powers. So the electrical Superman was created as a back-up in case this happened, because DC would still own his name but not his image.

*The names Superman and Superboy, or the Superman costume have never been used in the Smallville TV series.

*Superboy was killed off in Infinite Crisis, and Superboy Prime was re-named Superman Prime. This happened at a time when a ruling against DC made it look like they would lose the Superboy copyright.

posted: bigbadbruce on: http://dcboards.warnerbros.com/web/thread.jspa?threadID=2000245076&start=34

News:
http://www.movieweb.com/news/man-of-steel-legal-issues-could-split-superman-franchise-in-two
http://www.bleedingcool.com/2011/05/28/what%E2%80%99s-in-the-marc-toberoff-%E2%80%93-superman-stolen-document/

Please mod my parent post down - as the other replies point out, events have moved on:

http://extratv.warnerbros.com/2009/10/blog_and_ralph_lauren_fight_over_skinny_model_ad.php

"On Thursday, Polo Ralph Lauren released the following statement about the retouched ad: "For over 42 years we have built a brand based on quality and integrity. After further investigation, we have learned that we are responsible for the poor imaging and retouching that resulted in a very distorted image of a woman's body. We have addressed the problem and going forward will take every precaution to ensure that the caliber of our artwork represents our brand appropriately."

The Download game button the Matrix game website seems to be disabled, but you can still download the game here: http://pdl.warnerbros.com/thematrixonline/game_client/MxO.exe

I have never been a big fan of Martians since that incident at Grover's Mill that was covered up.

Burn aliens, burn!

the sleestak fossil revealed yesterday was a nice advertisement for the upcoming land of the lost will ferrell movie

and electing a vulcan as president of the united states was a nice pr coup for the star trek movie now playing

but when the armed forces start building real terminators just to plug the upcoming christian bale terminator salvation movie, this hollywood pr stunt business has gotten a little out of hand

i'm sorry i have to draw the line. what next? someone releases a global pandemic just to plug... oh wait

Does anyone have the full lyrics to "Ding Dong the Witch is Dead" ?

From Warner's site.

Could this be available in something other than requiring me a update in software to my machine?

Yeah, you can find it here with no update required!

Well, I don't know why I should sit through another 3 minutes of arc welding when a new Watchmen trailer with music from Philip Glass & Muse was released on Quantum of Solice.

Guess because it's Trek, it gets day to day duplicate coverage.

I think we will be hearing more about odd animal behavior in the near future. The animal world IS changing...I recommend you watch Planet Earth BBC (last disk about Conservation). (60 Minutes recently had a bit on Global Warming, and keep your eyes out for The 11th Hour. http://wip.warnerbros.com/11thhour/)

And Yu-Gi-Oh, the Movie is in production. From Warner Brothers, makers of Pokemon, the Movie.

(Major idea shortage in Hollywood. Too many movies this year were either sequels or adaptations of successes in other media. The comic book genre is being mined out; it started at Superman, and bottomed at the Silver Surfer. We're now down to trading card movies and toy doll movies. The better ideas in game movies have been done. Effects movies have maxed out; with current CG technology you can put anything on the screen, so nobody is impressed. Expect more whining by the MPAA that theater attendance is down due to "piracy". The problem is ennui, not piracy.)

And Yu-Gi-Oh, the Movie is in production. From Warner Brothers, makers of Pokemon, the Movie.

(Major idea shortage in Hollywood. Too many movies this year were either sequels or adaptations of successes in other media. The comic book genre is being mined out; it started at Superman, and bottomed at the Silver Surfer. We're now down to trading card movies and toy doll movies. The better ideas in game movies have been done. Effects movies have maxed out; with current CG technology you can put anything on the screen, so nobody is impressed. Expect more whining by the MPAA that theater attendance is down due to "piracy". The problem is ennui, not piracy.)

One of the best scenes in Syriana http://syrianamovie.warnerbros.com/ is:

when the young kid is standing in a line a some checkpoint and the thugs who are running the checkpoint start hassling the old man and the kid says something to them (and as we have seen repeatedly in the US media, it is not doing something "illegal" that gets you it trouble at checkpoints, but is merely when the guards dislike you, something about you or something you did). They ask him what his name is, he replies "Johnny" and they immediately start beating the crap out of him.

Did it matter what his name was? No. Does it really matter who you are for 99% of the people trying to go about their lives. No. It depressed me because it seems like that same scene is not far off in the US after the market crash, that started yesterday, runs its course. After being poor and/or homeless for more than a couple days how can you prove who you are/were?

Maybe NASA should watch "The Matrix"...

As Morpheus explains to Neo, there was a catastrophic war between the humans and the machines, after the humans had produced AI, a sentient robot that spawned a race of its own. It isn't known now who started the war, but it did follow a long period of machine exploitation by humans. What is known is that it was the humans who "scorched the sky", blocking out the sun's rays, in an attempt at machine genocide--since the machines needed solar power to survive. In response and retaliation the machines subdued the humans and made them into sources of energy--batteries, in effect. http://whatisthematrix.warnerbros.com/rl_cmp/new_p hil_fr_mcginn.html

And run the rovers off of people power ;-)

ohm. bad link. etc...

Maybe he saw a movie or something.

Maybe he saw a or something.

I thought this addition to The Matrix was awesome: http://whatisthematrix.warnerbros.com/cmp/neil_g.h tml

"Our only weapon against the machines is the EMP..."

Oh, and guns. Turns out that guns work just as well.
No one wants to buy the third Matrix flick since they ruined the franchise by abandoning the entire premise in the third installment. So I'm not surprised that their box set isn't a top seller.

Maybe if they'd went with their better options instead of insisting that humans expand more energy than they consume they would still be raking in the mind boggling profits they were enjoying when I first read that story on their site, but they had to cheapen it all.

As a guy... Go on Beauty and the Geek show, survive long enough to get a make over, and then try applying for this BBC event.

"Does any one say What is so interesting about these guys ? Those guys are Turkish equvalent of American redneck"

Does it help explain it that American rednecks themselves are also giants of American comedy?

The term "metaphysics" lends a false sense ...

Now it is my turn to say "Dude" - I know - but back to the matrix as well. More seriously, I think that all the sciences are in an epistemological crisis - in short and very mundane (but also related to belief systems of sorts within which the scientist has to promote his issues) - due to funding policies. Regarding physics, I have observed a strong bias towards "big bang".

if an assumed axiom leads to contradictory conclusions

This of course happens if you try to inject a new one into an already existing system which is thought to be consistent. But what if you aim at a revolution? BTW, I believe :) that defining axioms cannot be false, only, as you said, contradictory.

The further ahead we get with science, the more obviously wrong the superstitions of the past seem to have been.

I am all with this, my point is that this will hold in the distant future as well - thus - there is no truth.

And I still don't understand what this great insight of yours is.

Not an insight - more a nuisance. According to my perception, empirical sciences these days market themselves as "giving proof" - not evidence. Besides, I did not argue that the universe is an illusion (though exclusively created by the senses and instrumentation that we use), but that the instance that we perceive is depending on the means of measurement - this seems trivial, but it is obviously not.

vocabulary games

To me, "working assumption" vs. "belief"(-system) is different levels, the first touching day-to-day activities, the second - say - epistemology related issues (or maybe - the vision that the scientific community - if such an entity may be postulated - has). Though, admittedly, I like to play those games. If it comes to overturning - there was a time when (western) societies believed in religion, which is not the case anymore, but gaines ground again, especially in the US.

Has some author convinced you to change your world view?

No, I always thought up the world at first and then found supporting references (much easier and saves a lot of time :) - well, this indeed is a result of personal experience linked to practicing Tai Chi (yes, I was a real hard-core scientist who believed that it would be possible to create a purely silicon based AI to pass Turing). The main turning point came when I realized how much socially induced predetermination is shaping life (and thus science as well, as the actors are individuals). Secondly, on the basis of a "new" somesthetic perception, I analyzed the medical treatment that I received over the years (e.g. braces, spectacles, treatment of lacerations etc.) as well as the effects of impaired posture (30yrs@kbd) - keeping in mind that western medicine is rated science and thereby reinventing osteopathy (which is in rather low esteem here). The bottom line is that I became aware that quite a mighty set of biases of sorts determined my life.

Isn't the internet wonderful?

Yes, indeed. But believe me, it is not much better here if you are a phased out academic, though I live in a town with 1.75mio inhabitants (Hamburg).

CC.

P.S.: Realizing that I am a little out of practice with regard to writing properly, I shall see whether I can find a paper that depicts my position.

This idea is totally not new.

The only problem is, last time we simulated it, humanity ended up enslaved by robots.

Hmm, like maybe this one (trailer)?

I loved Deep Spance 9 because unlike TOS and TNG where it was a space ship flying around causing trouble, with DS9 the trouble came to the station. It was neat to have something different, and I really liked that.

Obviously, somebody been watching too many Wile E. Coyote & Road Runner cartoons for their scientific education.

In a galaxy not so far away,

the Old Software was crumbling away, rotting from the corruption and treachery within. Power-hungry technocrats and wealthy bureaucrats maneuvered and bribed their way into office, while one ambitious ex-Hobbyist plotted to destroy the Hobbyists and rule the galaxy. Hoping to restore virtue and the remembered glory of the Software, the High Council of Free Software dispatched the Geeks - protectorate of justice in the galaxy - on a quest to retrieve the lost Source Code. They believed that the small incomprehensible object (which intensified the power of the Code) would unite the disaffected among the people and would destroy the corruption around them. However, within their Free Software, the evil ex-Hobbyist had other traitorous designs. Foreseeing that the Code would secure his position as The Hacker, he deceived one of the...uhh Wookies! and sent him to acquire the Code. . .

"Perhaps, somehow, Natalie Portman is a matter of national security."

When this movie comes out, she will be...

Warner Brothers, in US, is doing a reality show too. Hot women vs. geeks. You can watch its season 2 on Thursday nights at 9:00 PM (assuming Los Angeles, CA).

One of the previous record holders, Tyson Mao, can be seen on WB's Beauty and the Geek 2.

Try this, but don't buy it (for Windows, anyway).

The whole article is about the U.S. being interested in *testing* the theory. To do this, you build a big-ass torroid (6M) and get it spinning fast (> 700m/s) and then energize a big-ass magnetic field (>37 T) and measure to see if the effect occurs. The effect in this case measuring something like 3 newtons.

Wonder if it might look like this.

V for Vendetta, which is apparently coming out as a movie, is a great graphic novel. So while it's not a novel per se, it's hard to beat the geek factor of it being a graphic novel.

Right on.. I watched and actually enjoyed Beauty and the Geek mentioned in the summary. The creative force behind it was Aston Kutcher, you know, of Punk'd fame. You know when it came time to edit each episode he laughed it ass off AT the geeks, not with them. Hardly a great example of geeks being cool. I know plenty of people that laughed their ass of AT the show, but no one that said "hey, I want to be a geek" after watching it.

Maybe this riots are a promotion for the release of V for Vendetta

It sounds like it was Lex Luthor's idea. But where was Aquaman and Clark Kent to destroy the project? See here. [grin]

Forget the tinfoil hats...go with armadillo hats!

I'm not buying it that a movie about terrorism in London just happens to get delayed at this time.

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Incidentally, here's what producer Joel Silver had to say about it at the San Diego Comic-Con:

Question 13: In the post 9/11 sort of climate, where Britain and America seem to be getting closer and closer to the world of this movie, what made you decide to make it now, and how do you think it's going be received?

Joel Silver: I think it's a really great time for this movie. I mean, it's a controversial film, and we're in a controversial time. There're some really bold and impressive ideas in the original story, which was written in the late 80s, and it's the perfect place for us to show the film now. What happened is that when the boys finished the Matrix movies, they were kind of burnt out, but they had written a script for me for this before they made the Matrix movies. They said that they were very happy with working with James McTeigue, who had been our first assistant director on the Matrix films, and they wanted James to have a shot to direct a picture. They said, "We were thinking about going back, rewriting V -- we'll produce it with you," which I was happy to have them do, "And we'd like James to direct it." And they said, "We think the time is right for it." So that's why we're doing it, and I think it's going to impress a lot of people and make a lot of people think, which I think is important for movies like this today."

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And here's the original comic's artist, David Lloyd's thoughts on the subject:

"Question 16: David Lloyd, as a creator of the original story, and the rest of you making it, what are your feelings about the London bombing, and also present-day London with video cameras all over the place... which is kind of how the story of V FOR VENDETTA was.

David Lloyd: Yeah, that's very interesting about the CCTV cameras, because when we did that in the '80s, there weren't that many around. I mean, society has actually become a lot more like the one that we actually painted. The question about London and terrorism, and what's happened there -- I think it's important that we try and understand terrorists. I think there should be lots of movies made about terrorists, and politics generally, and one of the reasons I'm so happy about this film is that it does have a very strong and uncompromising political message, and there aren't many films made like that now. So, in terms of what's happening in London over the last week, I think it's going to be healthy to try and understand what leads a person to terrorism. There's that old cliché, isn't there - one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter - and if we try and understand that, then maybe we might be able to solve the problems that cause terrorism more easily."

Actually they have a lot of good information on their website in the production section. I think they chose not to include it in the movie because they didn't make a documentary for scientists, they made it for everyone. We (er, most people) are emotional creatures who don't need numbers to justify our feelings. That might go against the geek mentality of science & numbers ruling all, but that's just the way it is.

Put another way, your emotions aren't nonsense.

http://wip.warnerbros.com/marchofthepenguins/

If you happen to be running an operating system that doesn't run Quicktime natively, download it here and play in mplayer.

http://pdl.warnerbros.com/wbmovies/vforvendetta/V_ trailer_480_reflect.mov

If you just want to get to the highest res trailer, here's the link: http://pdl.warnerbros.com/wbmovies/vforvendetta/V_ trailer_1920_reflect_HD.mov

... a movie tie-in for V For Vendetta? Seems appropriate. :P