It was plainly fucking obvious that those "aliens" were not aliens, but evolved robots.
HELLOOO?!? Barren wasteland? No humans left? This is obviously the future.
HELLOOO?!? The movie was about a new trend in creating intelligent robots. Maybe these robots continued on after the humans died?! Maybe that's slightly more plausible than fucking aliens! Idiots.
I never saw it in the theatre, but my mom was completely appauled at how everyone thought they were aliens at the end. We are both extremely unimpressed with the ambient stupidity. But I thought slashdot readers were smarter than that.
Finally, A.I. was an excellent fucking movie, and is totally underrated. It was not a sci-fi movie so much as a sci-fi fairy tale. It started out a bit more "normal" but became much more "fairy-tale like" by the end.
I think the only mistake was not making it more obvious, sooner and up front, that this was a (almost prototypical) fairy tale and not a hollywood "blockbuster" like Independence Day.
The extra ending made the movie much more sad, more poignant (though I can't spell the word), and more rememberable.
Sure they could have ended it with him sunk in the ocean.
But even sadder than that is to let the viewer know that yes, he sat in the ocean for no less than 1000 yrs.
Even sadder than that is the fact that he is discovered and eventually "re-integrated" back into a "society", but that his fellow beings have evolved so much that he doesn't really belong.
Even sadder than that is that they can recreate his mother, but only for a day.
Even sadder than that is knowing that after 1000 years, he finally found his happiness, only to have it taken away within 24 hours. That is fucking tragic, and it appears it was lost on everyone but me.
Oh no! Don't let the automated process get me!! Kill -9!
Put away the tinfoil hat. Yahoo and Hotmail also scan every word of your email. Any provider with a spamfilter does. Gmail is different in that they use this to generate relevant, text-based ads.
Because they are relavant, more people click on them.
Becuase more people click on them, gmail makes more money per ad.
Because they make more money per ad, they don't need to use the ridiculous half-screen-width animated-flash ads that Yahoo uses, and can concentrate themselves on doing things like invoking a better spam filter in 6 months than hotmail has gotten in 6 years.
Tinfoil hats are good fashion statements but i'd rather live in the real world.
I'm pissed off that Burnout3 doesn't support BOTH force-feedback Logitech steering wheels at once.
Despite the fact that Burnout *2* does.
What gives EA? I spent $150 on those 2 wheels so I could race against my wife. Instead, I have to wait for her to go to sleep so I never get to play burnout 3.
With folders I needed "Music-search" "music-scene" and "music-links" labels.
With labels, I apply the "Music" label to all of these, "Scene" to scene-related music links, and "links" to music-related linksites.
I also have a lable "video". And I can label something "video" and "links" or "scene" or "search".
with folders, for me to have this organization, i would have to have "video links", "video" [general]", "video scene", "video search", and I would have to have "music links", "music" [general], "music scene" and "music search".
That's 8 folders vs 5 labels, all of which could apply to other things not in those 8 folders. (For example, "porn" and "search".)
That's clearly superior.
If I get a political email that is comedic, I give it "politics" and "comedy". No need to have a separate folder for political comedy, a separate folder for political NONcomedy, and a separate folder for comedy that is nonpolitical.
It's superior. You just lack vision.
Actually, since the election [approximately], almost all mail goes to my spam folder. Even mail from other gmail accounts where we are both in each other's addressbooks (AND MARRIED). Even yahoo groups i am subscribed to.
300 false positives a day is making gmail totally fucking useless.
You've got to be the whiniest motherfucker I've read a post of all day. And the biggest hypocrite too.
So you think people should go to jail for doing exactly what YOU did? That puts you in the exact same category as George Bush who has strengthened drug laws despite having been a coke head.
You are both whiny hypocrites. May you die of lung cancer.
Are there actually any bittorent porn trackers that are pansexual and don't cater to one specific fetish? Straight, gay, bondage, dwarves, schise -- is there anything that actually covers everything??
Um... Duh?
The only reason to smoke it is economic. Eating it is much healthier. Seeing as cannabis has been ruled by the D.E.A.'s own judge as one of the "safest, most therapuetic substances known to man", one of the few dangers associated with it is the actual smoking process.
Something only done because the existence of a black market has driven the price of a weed to be higher than the price of gold.
Legalize it, take the black market out, it will drop back to weed price, people will eat it, and maybe they'll be less lung cancer.
But then I also hear there has never been a case of lung cancer in someone who ONLY smoked marijuana and not cigarettes. I don't think or konw that this is true, but would love if someone could find a study saying this.
$34000 is indeed quite steep. People could install google desktop (http://desktop.google.com/) on their individual desktops and search it for free. Of course there's no easy way to search EVERY computer in your LAN.
None of you actually know if the cows in question are "dual purpose" or not.
I'm pretty sure meat-cows and milk-cows are mutually exclusive. I don't know myself where leather cows come in, but it may very well be that they are special cows that we don't eat. Go read wikipedia or something... (NOTE: I am not taking my own advice since I really don't care.)
Exactly. And he's not even a D.C.-elected official.
If you live in D.C., your vote only counts becuase they let it. That is not democracy. And the "D.C. is not really a state" argument grows tiresome too. It's a legal neutral zone like Guantanamo.............
Bob Barr also blocked the Washington D.C. medical marijuana initiative. The voters of D.C. had a referendum on whether medical marijuana should be legalized. Congress, thanks to Bob Barr, blocked the counting of the vote.
Yes, in a democracy, our representatives are out there making sure our vote doesn't count. The city estimated that it only cost a few dollars to tabulate the votes, since it was electronic tabulation, but they could not get the authority to do so until the ACLU sued. Finally the votes were counted, and they won: But congress blocked its implementation.
I feel sorry for D.C. But even more sorry for anyone who thinks voting for Bob Barr is sensible. They ALL deserve bullets to the head. ALL.
Yea really. "Wah wahh, I proclaim to be a computer nerd but I'm too weak and helpless to view a fucking flash page." Typical Linux head-in-the-clouds zealotry. Installing flash requires what -- hitting enter when the prompt comes up? Oooooooooh, fear that.
And therein lies the problem -- Noone seems to care if it works like that and there is no marketing to that effect. So I would never buy it because I would never be sure.
A DVD-R costs 81 cents and holds 72 hours of music.
Aiwa has the CDC-MP3 head unit [$220 installed] which plays CDRs full of mp3s for 9 hrs per disc; Someone needs to come up with (or mod) a model that plays DVD-Rs full of MP3s.
No uploading. Disposable discs. Cheap media. 72 hrs of music PER DISC... I think you'd be fine.
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HELLOOO?!? Barren wasteland? No humans left? This is obviously the future.
HELLOOO?!? The movie was about a new trend in creating intelligent robots. Maybe these robots continued on after the humans died?! Maybe that's slightly more plausible than fucking aliens! Idiots.
I never saw it in the theatre, but my mom was completely appauled at how everyone thought they were aliens at the end. We are both extremely unimpressed with the ambient stupidity. But I thought slashdot readers were smarter than that.
Finally, A.I. was an excellent fucking movie, and is totally underrated. It was not a sci-fi movie so much as a sci-fi fairy tale. It started out a bit more "normal" but became much more "fairy-tale like" by the end.
I think the only mistake was not making it more obvious, sooner and up front, that this was a (almost prototypical) fairy tale and not a hollywood "blockbuster" like Independence Day.
The extra ending made the movie much more sad, more poignant (though I can't spell the word), and more rememberable.
Sure they could have ended it with him sunk in the ocean.
But even sadder than that is to let the viewer know that yes, he sat in the ocean for no less than 1000 yrs.
Even sadder than that is the fact that he is discovered and eventually "re-integrated" back into a "society", but that his fellow beings have evolved so much that he doesn't really belong.
Even sadder than that is that they can recreate his mother, but only for a day.
Even sadder than that is knowing that after 1000 years, he finally found his happiness, only to have it taken away within 24 hours. That is fucking tragic, and it appears it was lost on everyone but me.
Stop debating about it here. DO SOMETHING. Write your congressman. NOW.
Put away the tinfoil hat. Yahoo and Hotmail also scan every word of your email. Any provider with a spamfilter does. Gmail is different in that they use this to generate relevant, text-based ads.
Because they are relavant, more people click on them.
Becuase more people click on them, gmail makes more money per ad.
Because they make more money per ad, they don't need to use the ridiculous half-screen-width animated-flash ads that Yahoo uses, and can concentrate themselves on doing things like invoking a better spam filter in 6 months than hotmail has gotten in 6 years.
Tinfoil hats are good fashion statements but i'd rather live in the real world.
dir /b /s | grep whatyerlookingfor
Despite the fact that Burnout *2* does. What gives EA? I spent $150 on those 2 wheels so I could race against my wife. Instead, I have to wait for her to go to sleep so I never get to play burnout 3.
Fuck i'm glad i have a modchip.
With folders I needed "Music-search" "music-scene" and "music-links" labels. With labels, I apply the "Music" label to all of these, "Scene" to scene-related music links, and "links" to music-related linksites. I also have a lable "video". And I can label something "video" and "links" or "scene" or "search". with folders, for me to have this organization, i would have to have "video links", "video" [general]", "video scene", "video search", and I would have to have "music links", "music" [general], "music scene" and "music search". That's 8 folders vs 5 labels, all of which could apply to other things not in those 8 folders. (For example, "porn" and "search".) That's clearly superior. If I get a political email that is comedic, I give it "politics" and "comedy". No need to have a separate folder for political comedy, a separate folder for political NONcomedy, and a separate folder for comedy that is nonpolitical. It's superior. You just lack vision.
Actually, since the election [approximately], almost all mail goes to my spam folder. Even mail from other gmail accounts where we are both in each other's addressbooks (AND MARRIED). Even yahoo groups i am subscribed to. 300 false positives a day is making gmail totally fucking useless.
So you think people should go to jail for doing exactly what YOU did? That puts you in the exact same category as George Bush who has strengthened drug laws despite having been a coke head.
You are both whiny hypocrites. May you die of lung cancer.
I mean, most of us have mod chips, but will someobody please think of the children?!?!?
Are there actually any bittorent porn trackers that are pansexual and don't cater to one specific fetish? Straight, gay, bondage, dwarves, schise -- is there anything that actually covers everything??
Um... Duh? The only reason to smoke it is economic. Eating it is much healthier. Seeing as cannabis has been ruled by the D.E.A.'s own judge as one of the "safest, most therapuetic substances known to man", one of the few dangers associated with it is the actual smoking process. Something only done because the existence of a black market has driven the price of a weed to be higher than the price of gold. Legalize it, take the black market out, it will drop back to weed price, people will eat it, and maybe they'll be less lung cancer. But then I also hear there has never been a case of lung cancer in someone who ONLY smoked marijuana and not cigarettes. I don't think or konw that this is true, but would love if someone could find a study saying this.
Just use winamp with the WAWI web plugin. A wifi-enabled PDA can then control the music from anywhere in the house. That is my setup.
$34000 is indeed quite steep. People could install google desktop (http://desktop.google.com/) on their individual desktops and search it for free. Of course there's no easy way to search EVERY computer in your LAN.
Very sensible deductions.
Interesting about McDonalds! Are you serious?
I'm pretty sure meat-cows and milk-cows are mutually exclusive. I don't know myself where leather cows come in, but it may very well be that they are special cows that we don't eat. Go read wikipedia or something... (NOTE: I am not taking my own advice since I really don't care.)
Exactly. And he's not even a D.C.-elected official.
If you live in D.C., your vote only counts becuase they let it. That is not democracy. And the "D.C. is not really a state" argument grows tiresome too. It's a legal neutral zone like Guantanamo.............
Yes, in a democracy, our representatives are out there making sure our vote doesn't count. The city estimated that it only cost a few dollars to tabulate the votes, since it was electronic tabulation, but they could not get the authority to do so until the ACLU sued. Finally the votes were counted, and they won: But congress blocked its implementation.
I feel sorry for D.C. But even more sorry for anyone who thinks voting for Bob Barr is sensible. They ALL deserve bullets to the head. ALL.
Yea really. "Wah wahh, I proclaim to be a computer nerd but I'm too weak and helpless to view a fucking flash page." Typical Linux head-in-the-clouds zealotry. Installing flash requires what -- hitting enter when the prompt comes up? Oooooooooh, fear that.
It looks like an ideal 'walkman', at least.
C'mon AIWA... Hurry up and meet my market demands!
I third it.
Also, I'm looking for a car-unit :)
This guy has a presense IDENTICAL to Timothy Leary (RIP). I thinkt hey were separated at birth. He's cool though..
But ANYWAY... Let me know if you find somethign like this!
Aiwa has the CDC-MP3 head unit [$220 installed] which plays CDRs full of mp3s for 9 hrs per disc; Someone needs to come up with (or mod) a model that plays DVD-Rs full of MP3s.
No uploading. Disposable discs. Cheap media. 72 hrs of music PER DISC... I think you'd be fine.