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prostoalex writes "Washington Post talks about recent innovations in the world of windows (yes, lowercase). A Minnesota company is offering windows that double as entertainment centers, being used as projection screens for home entertainment systems and DVD players. A Yale professor is quoted to be excited about new product: 'One minute you're looking out your bay window at your neighbor's back yard, and the next you're watching Tom Cruise and 'Top Gun''."
now I can pretend those videos of my naked nextdoor neighbor are live...
At least before they had to sneak over to look in the windows, now they just have to look at the windows.
Microsoft lawyers hit them with a cease and desist, it definately dilutes the trademark if people use windows as an entertainment device.
This technology makes it into eyeglasses or contact lenses ?!?
I'd love to be sitting in my cube at work watching Office Space on my contact lenses!
-- Adam
'One minute you're looking out your bay window at your neighbor's back yard, and the next you're watching Tom Cruise and 'Top Gun'
Wow, so they invented a back to the 80's time machine!
Outdoor digital photography, mostly in New Engl
...will I get to see the Blue Sky Of Death?
You must think in Russian.
Actually it really just tells us about our Yale Professor here, as Quentin Tarantino pointed out in the movie 'Sleep With Me':
<snip>
No, I don't, fucking boy meets girl, I don't give a shit about that. Fuck boy meets girl, fuck motorcycle movie. No, what is really being said? What's really being said, that's what you're talking about. 'Cause the whole idea, man, is subversion. You want subversion on a massive level. You know what one of the greatest fucking scripts ever written in the history of Hollywood is? Top Gun.
[Duane: Oh, come on.]
Top Gun is fucking great. What is Top Gun? You think it's a story about a bunch of fighter pilots.
[Duane: It's about a bunch of guys waving their dicks around.]
It is a story about a man's struggle with his own homosexuality. It is! That is what Top Gun is about, man.
You've got Maverick, all right? He's on the edge, man. He's right on the fucking line, all right? And you've got Iceman, and all his crew. They're gay, they represent the gay man, all right? And they're saying, go, go the gay way, go the gay way. He could go both ways.
[Duane: What about Kelly McGillis?]
Kelly McGillis, she's heterosexuality. She's saying: no, no, no, no, no, no, go the normal way, play by the rules, go the normal way. They're saying no, go the gay way, be the gay way, go for the gay way, all right? That is what's going on throughout that whole movie...
He goes to her house, all right? It looks like they're going to have sex, you know, they're just kind of sitting back, he's takin' a shower and everything. They don't have sex. He gets on the motorcycle, drives away. She's like, "What the fuck, what the fuck is going on here?" Next scene, next scene you see her, she's in the elevator, she is dressed like a guy. She's got the cap on, she's got the aviator glasses, she's wearing the same jacket that the Iceman wears. She is, okay, this is how I gotta get this guy, this guy's going towards the gay way, I gotta bring him back, I gotta bring him back from the gay way, so I'm do that through subterfuge, I'm gonna dress like a man. All right? That is how she approaches it.
Okay, now let me just ask you--I'm gonna digress for two seconds here. I met this girl Amy here, she's like floating around here and everything. Now, she just got divorced, right?...
All right, but the REAL ending of the movie is when they fight the MIGs at the end, all right? Because he has passed over into the gay way. They are this gay fighting fucking force, all right? And they're beating the Russians, the gays are beating the Russians. And it's over, and they fucking land, and Iceman's been trying to get Maverick the entire time, and finally, he's got him, all right? And what is the last fucking line that they have together? They're all hugging and kissing and happy with each other, and Ice comes up to Maverick, and he says, "Man, you can ride my tail, anytime!" And what does Maverick say? "You can ride mine!" Swordfight! Swordfight! Fuckin' A, man!
</snip>
IMNSHO, this is Quentin's finest performance ever, better than his role in Pulp Fiction
Arrogance is Confidence which lacks integrity. -- me
So what.... ...does this look like from the outside?
That's the thing. Most slashdotters will never know.
Hell, they'll never even know what "outside" looks like.
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But in my Mom's basement, I'm an arch-wizard.
Opinions on the Twiddler2 hand-held keyboard?
I've been hearing lately that this version of windows has a exploit in which a hacker can use a tool called "crowbar" to compromise security. This may be fixed in upcoming patches.
If you don't understand any of my sayings, come to me in private and I shall take you in my German mouth.
Put up the static image, call your victim into the room for some unrelated reason and then watch the look on their face.
You would, of course, also need appropriate sound effects -- and a well planned escape route.
OS Software is like love: The best way to make it grow is to give it away.
Outside?
You mean the big blue room?
Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachtani?
www.fogbound.net
Well, this is the last time I take advice from slashdot! I'm now out 400 bucks 'cause I took a sledgehammer to my fiancee's patio door, and sure enough, it broke. Now I have to explain that I was just testing a theory of mine.
The restraining order is another matter, however...