I guess you are not a Science Fiction Book fan, and don't know the SF Book field
Yes, I am very much into science fiction, but I know the difference between what something is valued at and what it's really worth.
For example, said first edition of Dangerous Visions, autographed, has an asking price of $2,000 US. First Edition hardcover of Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke...asking price: $7,500
That's nice, but you haven't told me why YOU want one. YOU want to pay all that money for one just because it's valued at that price?
Ask any SF book fan, and if the had the money, would jump on any of these given a chance.
Go ahead, ask me. And if you see one in a bookstore at that kind of price, I'll bet that if you come back next month, it's still there... and the month after, and the month after...
And they will do nothing but increase in value..
Why? What's their intrinsic value? I've already given my opinion as to why first editions aren't intrinsically all that valuable; please answer with why they are. Otherwise, it seems to me that you're buyng into speculation, believing what others tell you about what those are worth. How many of them want to buy books from you, and how many want to sell to you?
Do you have a room full of comic books, M:TG cards, or tulips, by any chance?
If you have a first edition of a book, you know that you have one of a printing that was probably at least a thousand. The author may not have ever even touched it, and if he did, and he signed it directly to you, it most likely wasn't his very own personal copy.
Unless it's extremely old, a printed edition shouldn't be something you get all excited about, and even if it is, you generally have to interact with it to get the most use from it (it's meant to be read, not looked at, like a movie prop), and interacting with a book causes wear. So it's not really a pristine edition any more, and worth less.
On the other hand, if you are really in love with an author's work, or think it changed your life, you might try looking for the original manuscripts. Many authors who write longhand have them typed before submission, and their original handwritten copies destroyed, so one step down from that is the author's own markup galleys or correction proofs, sent back from the publisher. Below that is the murky realm of review copies, which often turn up in bookstores as sought after items, even though they rarely have artwork, often have poor typesetting and are just photocopied sheets poorly bound, etc. Remember, these are the copies they send for free to newspaper columnists, etc., and they don't spend any money on them because they know they'll probably be tossed after being skimmed (who has time to read a whole book? And some review copies aren't even whole books, just excerpts).
plus quite large storage and shipping charges if you cannot immediately walk out with the item
Yup, the fine print on the registration mentions that an undisclosed "administration fee" will be charged if they invoice or you pay by credit card.
Suddenly that $1000 item has become $1200 conservatively ($180 premium + 20 for the admin fee), and you haven't even thought about shipping and insurance, yet.
Of course maybe there are some die-hard fans out there for whom a chance to own a piece of their favorite show for $600 is a dream come true.
Something important to keep in mind is that, rare as these are, most of these items are not the absolute only instances of their kind. When a film or tv show goes into production, they usually make several copies of things like outfits and any props that the actors may actually touch.
In my opinion, buying one outfit or prop isn't enough, you need to get a representative sampling of several. That's where you start to get the feelings you had when watching the show, and that's where you can start to see things like how the costumers and set designers did their real magic.
Also, please consider making an overall budget when you visit an auction like this, not only so that you don't go overboard, but so that you think more about how much further your money goes if you buy multiple smaller items you like, and not blow it all on the big ones.
Decide whether something being "screenworn" matters to you, before you start bidding. If you're all excited about getting Buck Rogers tights, for example, but you want a really nice pair, you may want to get a backup pair that weren't actually needed. On the other hand, don't be surprised if you decide you have to get a nifty blaster used on set, and it arrives with bits missing or glued back on, because it's not a toy, it's a handmade prop meant to be used briefly. Prop and costume designers are very hard workers, and very creative, but they rarely have the budget or the time to make things with the intent of them lasting beyond the length of the scenes in which they're used. That's why everyone sells these items with the disclaimers they do.
If you buy these, buy them because you want them and plan to have them until you die, not because they'll impress other people (good for about 5 minutes cumulative maybe) or because you think you can flip them later. Few props will actually increase in value over time, and even if the appraised value increases, getting someone to pay that much later, especially if you don't have a variety of items together, could be extremely difficult.
Above all, even if you have money to burn left over from a dot-com you sold years ago, don't get caught up in the bidding, and suddenly realise that you could have bought a car, taken an around-the-world vacation, or built a school in a third world country for the price of those Cylon and Twiki suits I know you're eyeing. You could also invest the money and approach the current buyer in about 3 years, when he's in debt, if you still want it. I think in those 3 years you'll be glad you didn't waste the money, however.
Also, consider the elderly. My grandmother gets confused easily by telemarketing calls and is likely to sign up and pay for something she thinks they're telling her that shed *needs*. By registering her number on the list, I am saving her the time and loss of her money.
Exactly. Although the type of people who run the worst scams on the elderly ("hi, it's your grandson Joey... no, I didn't die in a car wreck, no, anyway, I need money, can I come over? Please, I thought you loved us? I guess what mom said about you being a mean old bag is true... is grandpa there? Oh, he's dead? Well, how much money do you have in the house right now? Well, I'm coming over, I need it") really won't care, because they already call from pay phones or otherwise use subterfuge to make quick money and skip town.
Still, putting my grandma (and my parents!) on the list means that the less-severe attempts are thwarted.
Last December I wrote a comment about a truly awful Information Society CD, "Insoc Recombinant," which is basically a rehash of earlier work with truly pathetic mixes:
Summary: very very disappointing Review: I wish, I wish, I WISH I had read the reviews on Amazon first, but I was out burning a gift card at another store (shame on me!) and saw this in the stacks. What a mistake!
If you're new to InSoc, don't get this album. Buy the self-titled debut album, or Hack, or even Peace and Love, Inc., but not this. This is NOT a "greatest hits" selection by any means - just some very lame remixes of a few songs that point out the weakness of the vocals and how boring drum machines can sound.
If you like InSoc and you want remixes, don't get this album. Amazon sells plenty of other single CDs from InSoc on the Tommy Boy label that have decent/better remixes, and you can get two of them for the price of this one. Seriously, even if you are a completist, and have most of the discography, don't waste your time and money.
Amazon, of course, kicked it back, claiming that I was being negative about the artist. I wasn't. I was actually trying to push sales towards his other work, that people might enjoy. This would actually make more sales for them in the long run, of course, but somehow they thought I was rude:
Dear Jason,
Thank you for writing to Amazon.com.
Your comment was removed because of inappropriate content. We encourage all voices to respond openly in our store, both positive and negative. However, we do exert some editorial control over our customer reviews.
Please understand that we wholeheartedly support the right to free speech. Our intention is to make the customer review forum a place for commentary and feedback about titles, so discussions that criticize artists and their intentions are removed. Your comments were, in part, directed toward the artist and their character.
What I can suggest is that you resubmit your review, but restrict your comments to critically analyzing the content of the title.
Thanks for your cooperation.
Happy Holidays,
Marcie Wallace Amazon.com... And You're Done
Was I criticizing the artist, or the content? Was Amazon protecting the artist, or protecting sales?
Two problems cause the ineffectiveness: 1) You don't know if you're hurting the right people. 2) There are many more systems which are just like the 1 or 254 you're blocking.
If you choose to get transit from a company that can't play nice, don't come crying to me when I block you.
He steps into that territory with everything he wrote after "Now, download and compile 'smbdie'."
You're dragging in an extraneous detail to support your argument that blocking is bad. Denial of service and attacking machines remotely is not what we were discussing.
Have you noticed that they now offer web searching as well, and are also generating third-party ads based upon what you're looking for?
This development may bite them back - when I look for something on Amazon now, I often find in their ads that other people have the item cheaper. Amazon may get a nickel or quarter for the referral, but they lose the dollars from the markup.
Blocking pseudorandom DSL IPs is about as (in)effective an antispam measure as nuking the machines. You just want to vent your anger.
It's his network, he can do what he wants inside it, constrained only by whether he's providing transit for anyone else who may take issue with it.
His list falls under the category of advice garnered from personal experience - it may not work for you, it may be biased, but it seemed to work for him and it's offered for free.
Blocking Asian IP blocks in particular is a great way to pressure their ISPs. They face a huge crunch in IP availability right now, and unless a lot of space gets reallocated, they will be hurting for IPs until IPv6. Asian ISPs will figure out soon enough that they have to start paying attention to spam complaints, or face their routability for their good customers going away.
The internet routes around damage. Spammers are diminishing the common medium at least as much as packet loss. Route around them!
After which they'll explain that they use Juniper equipment because it doesn't suck near as much as Cisco and you'll look like an ass
They may use Juniper routers, but if your contract with them includes their maintenance of CPE they provided for you, and the CPE is Cisco, you're still screwed, aren't you?
Larry Wall is everything that Eric Raymond believes himself to be.
They're rather more like the Wozniak and Jobs of the computer worl- oh, wait, guess I can't say that. I'll say it anyway.
Seriously, though, both of these guys are very important to the present and future of computer programming. However, they fill different niches, much like the two Steves. They're not in direct competition. They're both visionaries, but one is more apt to build tools and the other is more apt to evangelize, in order to see their visions come true. I don't know these guys in real life, but I would be surprised to find any enmity between them, which I'd expect to find if one of their egos got deflated by the other's abilities.
A guy tried to impress me once by saying he once worked for or with ESR in some fashion. He couldn't explain exactly what he did or learned from the experience, so I treated it as starry-eyed syndrome or self-ego-building and ignored it. After all, when you work for an evangelist, your time is spent pushing the vision. It's hard to easily point to projects being done now and say that the Cathedral and the Bazaar and Magic Cauldron essays were directly responsible, but their perceivable impact will build over time. Oh, and there's something about him and open source, too, (whatever that is)...
The people I actually look up to when it comes to programming, on the other hand, almost always know perl, or at least feel inadequate if they don't. While it's not hard, learning it is an indication that you're serious about what you're doing. Larry's tools incorporate his ideas about how things should be done, (or that there's really not any one way some things have to be done, actually) and that invites quicker uptake on the part of people just trying to get things done.
(I'm only a dilettante, myself, but even I've been affected by Mr. Wall, anyway - my worthless claim to relevance, when I futilely try to impress people with name-dropping, is that I emailed Kibo when I was a kid asking about his usenet-searching script, and he told me this Larry guy had a new language, and I should talk to him for details on how to parse it. If only I was as willing to learn at the time as Larry always has seemed to be, to teach! Which is yet another trait he seems to share with Mr. Wozniak.)
or any file with "copyright content" (I think they meant copyrighted) carries this penalty. This means if you create a song, own the copyrights for its performance, and upload your performance to a P2P network, you will still be breaking the law.
Can you say "monopolistic control of distribution mechanisms?" Better not, it's probably a copyrighted phrase, now.
Yeah you would think more people would be using Juniper routers
Oh, Juniper makes great routers, but they're all carrier (ISP) class, or at least they all were when I trained on them. You're not going to find them used as customer CPE very often... and individual companies have the most to lose by this exploit, especially small ones whose ISPs maintain their equipment for them, who aren't rolling out fixes for all those small Ciscos now.
It's days like this I'm REALLY glad that I'm a unemployyed network engineer! This looks like a very serious headache!
I'm also an unemployed network engineer... with Juniper training, to boot.:) Which means, even if I was on the job, I probably wouldn't have to worry too much about this from outside my network, anyway.
Unfortunately, I still don't see any place to just download some code:) Off the tron.org English page, the closest I come is the link to the T-Engine site, that points to developers kits that cost over US$1K.
Sure, I know Open Source doesn't always mean free, but there ought to be an engine emulator you can get for free or more cheaply, right?
Its plain stupid to be on a rush and go get the movies in separated DVDs, you'll end with less features, needing to sale them on E-Bay just to buy the final-special-edition.
This is why I stopped buying Harry Potter books. I got a set of the first 3 volumes in one of the almost-free book club deals. Of course, they won't package up the second three (four) separately later, and if I bought any more today anyway I would end up with a box set and two loose books. So I'll probably just hold off on reading the rest of the series until they all come out, then give away this set to the local non-religious orphanage.
I challenge everyone to hold off on buying all the Matrix DVDs until the end, as well. Speaking of which, I have the first DVD, which I bought for the landmark effects, but have no desire to complete the series (or even see the second film). I'm more tempted to buy the Harry Potter movie DVDs as they come out, but you've reminded me that I shouldn't. At least I didn't buy any Lord of the Rings DVDs yet.:)
I went to a video competion with a fresh "print" of a precisely synced video track and discovered that adobe had somehow offset the whole thing by 200 ms, or about 6 frames. The only difference between that print and the test AVIs I run was the frame resolution -- the print was in lower res to ensure it ran at full speed. It made the whole project look amaturish, when I spent a lot of time making sure it would look great, and needless to say I didn't win.
Film festivals sometimes get blank or botched tapes as submissions to their competitions, because people don't bother to run through a final check. Always know your software, and always check an entry before submitting it.
No offense, but it's partly your fault that you looked amateurish - had you checked that print, you could have worked with the sound.
The guy is telling the NSA stuff they already know, and have signed off as acceptable. His company was entirely above board in explaining their operations to the NSA in the first place.
You're right about the overseas-code issue if the NSA signed off on it, but the CNet article starts by discussing the list of NSA employees in the company's database. This should be a concern if they did not discuss the database as well.
In response to another article about 802.1* a couple weeks ago, a lot of people wrote helpful comments about which cards and APs were "best" for single-, dual-, and tri-standard (a,b,g) use, many by people who had experiences with several.
Unfortunately, I seem to have misplaced my bookmark for that article. It'd be great to get a pointer to that discussion or even spark a new discussion here, as I'm finally wanting to buy into the technology, now.
Autorun does not occur until you log back in under XP
Great. So people could still put a batch files to turn they keyboard off, maybe the mouse, and erase all accessible file shares on mini CDs which they can carry in their wallet, waiting to stick them in peoples' computers when they're not looking. It's just that with XP, the victims get to watch everything disappear.
Bet a lot of Microsoft admins who leave themselves logged in as root on company machines will get fired over this.
that Stephenson has submitted a bug to Debian. (Read his In the Beginning Was the Command Line, it's excellent.) A skilled novelist who also participates in the open source process?
That gets him the same free pass that/. gives out to Linus Torvalds and Larry Wall.:-)
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Yes, I am very much into science fiction, but I know the difference between what something is valued at and what it's really worth.
That's nice, but you haven't told me why YOU want one. YOU want to pay all that money for one just because it's valued at that price?
Go ahead, ask me. And if you see one in a bookstore at that kind of price, I'll bet that if you come back next month, it's still there... and the month after, and the month after...
Why? What's their intrinsic value? I've already given my opinion as to why first editions aren't intrinsically all that valuable; please answer with why they are. Otherwise, it seems to me that you're buyng into speculation, believing what others tell you about what those are worth. How many of them want to buy books from you, and how many want to sell to you?
Do you have a room full of comic books, M:TG cards, or tulips, by any chance?
If you have a first edition of a book, you know that you have one of a printing that was probably at least a thousand. The author may not have ever even touched it, and if he did, and he signed it directly to you, it most likely wasn't his very own personal copy.
Unless it's extremely old, a printed edition shouldn't be something you get all excited about, and even if it is, you generally have to interact with it to get the most use from it (it's meant to be read, not looked at, like a movie prop), and interacting with a book causes wear. So it's not really a pristine edition any more, and worth less.
On the other hand, if you are really in love with an author's work, or think it changed your life, you might try looking for the original manuscripts. Many authors who write longhand have them typed before submission, and their original handwritten copies destroyed, so one step down from that is the author's own markup galleys or correction proofs, sent back from the publisher. Below that is the murky realm of review copies, which often turn up in bookstores as sought after items, even though they rarely have artwork, often have poor typesetting and are just photocopied sheets poorly bound, etc. Remember, these are the copies they send for free to newspaper columnists, etc., and they don't spend any money on them because they know they'll probably be tossed after being skimmed (who has time to read a whole book? And some review copies aren't even whole books, just excerpts).
Yup, the fine print on the registration mentions that an undisclosed "administration fee" will be charged if they invoice or you pay by credit card.
Suddenly that $1000 item has become $1200 conservatively ($180 premium + 20 for the admin fee), and you haven't even thought about shipping and insurance, yet.
Something important to keep in mind is that, rare as these are, most of these items are not the absolute only instances of their kind. When a film or tv show goes into production, they usually make several copies of things like outfits and any props that the actors may actually touch.
In my opinion, buying one outfit or prop isn't enough, you need to get a representative sampling of several. That's where you start to get the feelings you had when watching the show, and that's where you can start to see things like how the costumers and set designers did their real magic.
Also, please consider making an overall budget when you visit an auction like this, not only so that you don't go overboard, but so that you think more about how much further your money goes if you buy multiple smaller items you like, and not blow it all on the big ones.
Decide whether something being "screenworn" matters to you, before you start bidding. If you're all excited about getting Buck Rogers tights, for example, but you want a really nice pair, you may want to get a backup pair that weren't actually needed. On the other hand, don't be surprised if you decide you have to get a nifty blaster used on set, and it arrives with bits missing or glued back on, because it's not a toy, it's a handmade prop meant to be used briefly. Prop and costume designers are very hard workers, and very creative, but they rarely have the budget or the time to make things with the intent of them lasting beyond the length of the scenes in which they're used. That's why everyone sells these items with the disclaimers they do.
If you buy these, buy them because you want them and plan to have them until you die, not because they'll impress other people (good for about 5 minutes cumulative maybe) or because you think you can flip them later. Few props will actually increase in value over time, and even if the appraised value increases, getting someone to pay that much later, especially if you don't have a variety of items together, could be extremely difficult.
Above all, even if you have money to burn left over from a dot-com you sold years ago, don't get caught up in the bidding, and suddenly realise that you could have bought a car, taken an around-the-world vacation, or built a school in a third world country for the price of those Cylon and Twiki suits I know you're eyeing. You could also invest the money and approach the current buyer in about 3 years, when he's in debt, if you still want it. I think in those 3 years you'll be glad you didn't waste the money, however.
Exactly. Although the type of people who run the worst scams on the elderly ("hi, it's your grandson Joey... no, I didn't die in a car wreck, no, anyway, I need money, can I come over? Please, I thought you loved us? I guess what mom said about you being a mean old bag is true... is grandpa there? Oh, he's dead? Well, how much money do you have in the house right now? Well, I'm coming over, I need it") really won't care, because they already call from pay phones or otherwise use subterfuge to make quick money and skip town.
Still, putting my grandma (and my parents!) on the list means that the less-severe attempts are thwarted.
I disagree with the conclusions, but it's a good argument.
Almost nobody will see it otherwise because it was written by an AC, though.
Amazon, of course, kicked it back, claiming that I was being negative about the artist. I wasn't. I was actually trying to push sales towards his other work, that people might enjoy. This would actually make more sales for them in the long run, of course, but somehow they thought I was rude:
Was I criticizing the artist, or the content?
Was Amazon protecting the artist, or protecting sales?
If you choose to get transit from a company that can't play nice, don't come crying to me when I block you.
You're dragging in an extraneous detail to support your argument that blocking is bad. Denial of service and attacking machines remotely is not what we were discussing.
Have you noticed that they now offer web searching as well, and are also generating third-party ads based upon what you're looking for?
This development may bite them back - when I look for something on Amazon now, I often find in their ads that other people have the item cheaper. Amazon may get a nickel or quarter for the referral, but they lose the dollars from the markup.
It's his network, he can do what he wants inside it, constrained only by whether he's providing transit for anyone else who may take issue with it.
His list falls under the category of advice garnered from personal experience - it may not work for you, it may be biased, but it seemed to work for him and it's offered for free.
Blocking Asian IP blocks in particular is a great way to pressure their ISPs. They face a huge crunch in IP availability right now, and unless a lot of space gets reallocated, they will be hurting for IPs until IPv6. Asian ISPs will figure out soon enough that they have to start paying attention to spam complaints, or face their routability for their good customers going away.
The internet routes around damage. Spammers are diminishing the common medium at least as much as packet loss. Route around them!
They may use Juniper routers, but if your contract with them includes their maintenance of CPE they provided for you, and the CPE is Cisco, you're still screwed, aren't you?
They're rather more like the Wozniak and Jobs of the computer worl- oh, wait, guess I can't say that. I'll say it anyway.
Seriously, though, both of these guys are very important to the present and future of computer programming. However, they fill different niches, much like the two Steves. They're not in direct competition. They're both visionaries, but one is more apt to build tools and the other is more apt to evangelize, in order to see their visions come true. I don't know these guys in real life, but I would be surprised to find any enmity between them, which I'd expect to find if one of their egos got deflated by the other's abilities.
A guy tried to impress me once by saying he once worked for or with ESR in some fashion. He couldn't explain exactly what he did or learned from the experience, so I treated it as starry-eyed syndrome or self-ego-building and ignored it. After all, when you work for an evangelist, your time is spent pushing the vision. It's hard to easily point to projects being done now and say that the Cathedral and the Bazaar and Magic Cauldron essays were directly responsible, but their perceivable impact will build over time. Oh, and there's something about him and open source, too, (whatever that is)...
The people I actually look up to when it comes to programming, on the other hand, almost always know perl, or at least feel inadequate if they don't. While it's not hard, learning it is an indication that you're serious about what you're doing. Larry's tools incorporate his ideas about how things should be done, (or that there's really not any one way some things have to be done, actually) and that invites quicker uptake on the part of people just trying to get things done.
(I'm only a dilettante, myself, but even I've been affected by Mr. Wall, anyway - my worthless claim to relevance, when I futilely try to impress people with name-dropping, is that I emailed Kibo when I was a kid asking about his usenet-searching script, and he told me this Larry guy had a new language, and I should talk to him for details on how to parse it. If only I was as willing to learn at the time as Larry always has seemed to be, to teach! Which is yet another trait he seems to share with Mr. Wozniak.)
I don't think Mother Theresa would have become a lasting icon in popular culture had she said much about people being ungrateful.
And she would have definitely died unremembered had she been unwilling.
or any file with "copyright content" (I think they meant copyrighted) carries this penalty. This means if you create a song, own the copyrights for its performance, and upload your performance to a P2P network, you will still be breaking the law.
Can you say "monopolistic control of distribution mechanisms?" Better not, it's probably a copyrighted phrase, now.
Oh, Juniper makes great routers, but they're all carrier (ISP) class, or at least they all were when I trained on them. You're not going to find them used as customer CPE very often... and individual companies have the most to lose by this exploit, especially small ones whose ISPs maintain their equipment for them, who aren't rolling out fixes for all those small Ciscos now.
I'm also an unemployed network engineer... with Juniper training, to boot.
Thanks for the additional links!
:) Off the tron.org English page, the closest I come is the link to the T-Engine site, that points to developers kits that cost over US$1K.
Unfortunately, I still don't see any place to just download some code
Sure, I know Open Source doesn't always mean free, but there ought to be an engine emulator you can get for free or more cheaply, right?
This is why I stopped buying Harry Potter books. I got a set of the first 3 volumes in one of the almost-free book club deals. Of course, they won't package up the second three (four) separately later, and if I bought any more today anyway I would end up with a box set and two loose books. So I'll probably just hold off on reading the rest of the series until they all come out, then give away this set to the local non-religious orphanage.
I challenge everyone to hold off on buying all the Matrix DVDs until the end, as well. Speaking of which, I have the first DVD, which I bought for the landmark effects, but have no desire to complete the series (or even see the second film). I'm more tempted to buy the Harry Potter movie DVDs as they come out, but you've reminded me that I shouldn't. At least I didn't buy any Lord of the Rings DVDs yet.
They were. Haven't you seen the Imperious Leader?
Film festivals sometimes get blank or botched tapes as submissions to their competitions, because people don't bother to run through a final check. Always know your software, and always check an entry before submitting it.
No offense, but it's partly your fault that you looked amateurish - had you checked that print, you could have worked with the sound.
You're right about the overseas-code issue if the NSA signed off on it, but the CNet article starts by discussing the list of NSA employees in the company's database. This should be a concern if they did not discuss the database as well.
In response to another article about 802.1* a couple weeks ago, a lot of people wrote helpful comments about which cards and APs were "best" for single-, dual-, and tri-standard (a,b,g) use, many by people who had experiences with several.
Unfortunately, I seem to have misplaced my bookmark for that article. It'd be great to get a pointer to that discussion or even spark a new discussion here, as I'm finally wanting to buy into the technology, now.
Great. So people could still put a batch files to turn they keyboard off, maybe the mouse, and erase all accessible file shares on mini CDs which they can carry in their wallet, waiting to stick them in peoples' computers when they're not looking. It's just that with XP, the victims get to watch everything disappear.
Bet a lot of Microsoft admins who leave themselves logged in as root on company machines will get fired over this.
I don't know. Neal is excellent as a writer (except when writing endings for his novels; his article about the people who lay fiber-optic cable across oceans is one of the most interesting that Wired has ever published) but I don't consider this to be an even grouping:
Linus : Father of Linux.
Larry : Father of Perl.
Neal : Father of Debian bug report #...
I saw a trailer for Spy Kids 3 recently, and it revolves around some evil virtual reality game called Game Over.