They were based upon the ancient Greek idea of mankind having "sparks" of the god(s) inside their very being; that everything the god(s) created had a piece of themselves inside as well. Or, for a more modern adaption, go for John Carpenter's "The Prince of Darkness." That film's premise advanced the idea that every thing in the universe had particles that were of God and also anti-God inside them; thus explaining how objects and people could be controlled by the paranormal... The reason why the Midichlorians "ruined" Star Wars is because it took away the moviegoers feelings that they too could be a Luke Skywalker, a hero transformed by his beliefs and his own inner strength. A whole generation of sci-fi moviegoers dreamed of becoming Jedi Knights only to find out that the universe made it impossible for an individual to become one from faith alone; that they only could touch the divine if they had enough microbes in their blood... The Matrix is terrible because if you've seen "Dark City" before, there's no point in seeing the film. Its just an algamation of the plot of "Dark City" (and with some of that movie's sets as well) mixed with the special effects from "Blade", the computer plot *adapted* from "The Deadly Assassin" episode from 70s Doctor Who, and a healthy batch of wire-fu. And for the third film, we have Mech-Warrior in it now as well...or maybe Robo-Jox. I know the only reason why I'll go see it is because Monica Bellucci appears in it...
Just imagine how much more content they [the BBC] would've had available had they not incinerated so many cannisters of film in the 70s because they saw no use in keeping it...and I'm not just speaking of all the episodes of Doctor Who they torched either...
you obviously aren't a TiVo owner. Like AOL, TiVo is a company that has consistently beaten Microsoft in a market they've invaded. They make a great product and they support Linux. Now what are you complaining about again?
actually, you only owe $32...SCO wants to charge $32 per device using embedded Linux. Surely you cannot count a TiVo Series2 system as an actual computer that requires a $699 IP license...
You go to the polls. When you stand in line, you do a fingerprint and a retinal scan. The scanning system cross-checks your information with the Dept. of Homeland Security to verify you are a citizen; your Social Security number is valid, and that you aren't actually deceased. The poll workers then check for your valid ID as a third form of verification. You go to the voting machine which is a secure terminal running on Linux, BSD, or some other form of Unix that has a history of reliability. The terminal is *NOT* hooked up to the net. You go to the touch screen. You select the language you want to read your choices. Then pictures of the candidates come up and you select from there. There is a keyboard if you want to select a write-in candidate. Once you are done voting, you receive a print-out with a verification code so that your print-out will have a record of what you voted for, but it will not be associated with your identity. All the verification was done prior to you visiting the voting terminal. The terminal reports the voting scores to the mainframe set up at the polling place. It prints out the final results. Multiple print-outs are given to the county registrar as well as *responsible* third-parties (such as UN monitors, the press, other voting-related interests, etc.). The print-outs are also encoded. The mainframe also creates an encrypted DVD-R or flash media to be inserted into a secure laptop at the polling place that is hooked up to the net so that the voting scores can be accessed online, but accepts no inquiries from the net... With security such as this, we could feel more comfortable with our voting system. Of course, the flip side of this is had this existed in 1960, Kennedy would've never been elected...
that's a *load* if I've ever heard one. That's like denying Native Americans their land-rights because they did not have a capitol city and migrated across THEIR land, like Moses in the desert. Palestine is what the Romans called the land. It is historic. Just because it was a conquerred land run by other empires does not give you or anyone else the right to denying their [Palestinians] nationhood and simply label them as other arabs that can go live in some other arab land. If one were to follow the slippery-slope fallacy that is your argument then perhaps Poland shouldn't exist in its present location since a good portion of that last is East Prussia, aka Germany. Or how about the Czechs? And if you really want to get historical, the Palestinians claim to be one-in-the-same with the Caananites, the *original* inhabitants of that contested land you speak of (especially since the archaeological evidence supports the theory that the walls of Jericho did not fall). Maybe the Greeks should claim the area since the Phillistines were 95% likely to have been a Greek people with an advanced culture(based upon the ruins in Phillistinia), not the barbarians the Torah proclaims them to have been... The founders of the modern State of Israel were terrorists (excuse me, *freedom fighters*) themselves...go ask the British about that...
How many Slashdot readers actually figure they'll be using Longhorn on their computers in 2005? Versus how many will have either switched fully to Linux or Mac OS X due to total disgust with Microsoft? I know I plan on having a Mac (as my main rig) and Linux installed on a legacy PC and perhaps dual booted with XP for any leftover PC software that can't run decently in emulation mode on either of the previously mentioned operating systems...
maybe its a new revenue scheme. Microsoft sells advertising logos for various spots in the operating system, and then can change it when the next operating system patch is downloaded and installed...
why even offer backwards compatibility to DX7? Longhorn isn't going to be released until late 2005! Look at how low Microsoft's sales have been for the WinXP upgrade editions... People just aren't buying those copies (except for people building their own *whiteboxes* that are concerned about legalities), they buy brand new computers with the OS pre-installed... Microsoft will probably be at DirectX 11 or something close by then...they should cut out the old stuff if they truly are concerned about 1. bloat, 2. system performance, 3. simplifying the OS so that like with Apple "it just works." Wasn't that the spirit of what they [Microsoft] showed off at WinHEC?
I'm totally with you, Mr. Gzip... That's the first thing I noticed in that pic... But considering since TiVo has yet to file an IP claim against Microsoft for UltimateTV (or even joining RedHat in the pre-emptive legal strike against SCO), I wouldn't count a trademark fight anytime soon... I think TiVo Inc. is only concentrating on increasing market penetration and becoming profitable at this phase... If TiVo was smart, they'd wait until Microsoft releases Longhorn with this graphic in each copy and then sue based upon the sheer number of Longhorn copies on the market in a trademark dillution case...
Moral of the story; don't use Google as a quick spell-check just because you don't want to use the *enemy* Word program when that's your only other tool at the workplace...:)
Fascinating how Microsoft is using AOL's *excuse* to block third parties from accessing MSN Messenger? I seem to recall AOL using this reason to block MSN and others from its users and Microsoft responded by helping to set up IMUnified as a pressure group to convince the FTC and the FCC to require AOL to open up the AIM network to them... I love hypocricy (sic, if I spelled that incorrectly!)...
WETA isn't the only motion-picture related company using Linux. However, since WETA is in New Zealand and probably have no operations in the United States, SCO will probably have to go to New Zealand to file suit against them. Fat chance a New Zealand court will convict their own media heroes. But, New Line Cinema, a division of AOL Time Warner, certainly has made lots of money off the special effects derived from all of those *SCO-IP infringing* computers loaded with Linux. Then we go to AOL Time Warner itself. A couple of quarters ago, AOL itself made a big deal about replacing all their servers running Unix with Linux. Then we have DreamWorks SKG that rendered all of "Sinbad" using Linux. Last week, we heard that Disney and two (2) refuse-to-be-named movie studios pooled their resources together to get Adobe Photoshop to run under Linux since each of the three (3) studios were switching every PC over to Linux. And then we have Lucasfilm/ILM. They switched everything over to Linux as well. So in summary, the fun is really going to start when SCO pushes all these players too far: 1. AOL Time Warner/AOL/New Line Cinema/WETA, 2. DreamWorks SKG, 3. Disney, *cough cough* 4. and 5. 20th Century Fox and Sony Pictures, and 6. Lucasfilm/ILM. Care to wager bets when the bootleg video of Mr. McBride getting a Super Star Destroyer stuffed into him hits Kazaa? It'll be funnier than the *Star Wars Kid* video and far more legally damaging...:)
The critics and the mass media itself lashed out against "Gigli," not teenagers text-messaging everyone. "Gigli" had worse word-of-mouth before it even hit the theatres than even "Batman & Robin" which Harry Knowles and Aint-It-Cool-News famously destroyed online. Name one other film besides "B&R" that Knowles has massacred effectively on his website? You can't name any. He lashed out against "Scooby Doo" and its stars, but had to admit later on that Matthew Lilliard was impressive as Shaggy (Knowles was spot-on about Freddy Prinz Jr. but that is all-too-easy to predict). For "Gigli" to be ruined by teens and text messaging, they would've had to have gone to the theatres opening week and then spread the virtual bad-word. But the film only grossed a little over $3 million to begin with, and I would wager money the studio itself "asked" its employees to go see the film that weekend, ala the famous *accusations* against Scientology requiring its members to frequently purchase L. Ron Hubbard books at the bookstores. Hollywood should fess up and admit that they made a lot of turkeys this year and stop trying to find a scapegoat. Next thing you know, they'll be blaming file-trading for their profit losses; oh wait, they already are in those commercials I skip through with my TiVo!
The only interested parties in interoperability are the parties such as Trillian wanting to make money off someone else's backbone. Do you see Yahoo or MSN making great strides in the interoperability between their programs despite both of them being the most vocal critics of the AOL Time Warner merger due to AOL's IM strength (and the two of them founding the IMUnified lobbying organization)? Nope. Have you ever had success with a file transfer between AIM and Trillian or Yahoo Messenger and Trillian? I sure haven't...
First off, I never said "free". If Apple thought they could make money off of it ($30 per copy), they probably would do it. Considering how many Linux-heads insist upon x86 architecture, I'm sure Steve and the rest at Apple have no illusions of "converting" them. If Steve and Apple were so rigid, they would've never allowed Quicktime to be ported to Windows; they would never have offered iPod models specifically for Windows; and they wouldn't be set upon making the iTunes Music Store available for Windows before the end of the [insert your favorite Holiday] Season 2003. The iChat A/V FireWire based cam is awesome and Apple definitely makes a profit off of it. Extending it for the Windows/Linux market makes sense... (and Linux is sweeter because it robs Microsoft of revenue on its *native* platform...
I added it first through AOL, then ICQ, then my stand-alone AIM. Perhaps you should check ICQ's website... It only works with ICQ Lite, that's the only ICQ version they are testing it with...
The FCC restrictions were bogus. AOL NEVER restricted its own userbase from downloading other IM clients. They had just as much right to try to block out others illegally hacking into their network (hint hint--> Microsoft) as any ISP has over blocking out spam. Microsoft complained the loudest over AOL's potential monopoly (isn't that irony for you?) and then contributed a substantial amount of money for campaign contributions. Now let's look at Microsoft with its closed Xbox system (which I own one). Do you think for a moment they'll allow AOL or Yahoo to port their instant messaging to the Xbox(or Mozilla Firebird as a browser)? No way. Incidentally, Sony sought out AOL to provide the Playstation2 with IM capabilities once Sony gets serious about online playing with the release of the PS2 hard drive. To stick these restrictions on AOL for the past three years while failing to break up Microsoft's OS and Office productivity packages screamed of hypocricy. AOL should be complaining to Justice, the FTC, and the FCC about how all the other cable companies have blocked AOL from offering AOL Broadband directly to their customers... BYOA is not the answer, it should be single-source billing...
Bull. I've been Beta-testing the interoperable versions of AIM and ICQ for a month-and-a-half. Go to Keyword: Beta and look more carefully...It isn't top secret by a couple of kilometers...
Instead of complaining about the out-of-date official AOL AIM client for Linux, perhaps you should write to Steve Jobs at Apple and convince him Apple should port iChat to Linux at a price. Currently, its in beta on Mac OS X, but it is fully compatible with AIM and it also has plenty of nifty features. Apple intends to charge $30 for the program for all Apple users who opt not to upgrade to OS X 10.3 Panther later this year. It works especially with Apple's Firewire-based webcam. Since the Linux platform lacks a decent IM client from a major player, this could be a role Apple could step into and make a profit from offering a superior IM product with relatively little cost to itself...
Would this count as a distributed (err, mobile) energy grid when you consider the article from last month about using turkey stomachs to power fuel cells? I seem to recall a Slashdotter predicting a rapid decline in America's homeless population when those generators hit the market...
Wait until this subject appears on the Van Impe Ministries infomercial (yes, I said *infomercial* since they sell their videotapes on the program)...they'll have a field day with this. And somehow it'll be tied with Spanish King Carlos because they claim he is the Antichrist...or was it Milosovich...or bin Laden...maybe that was last week's episode. I swear, a *bobblehead* is smarter than that minister's wife who co-hosts the program...I laughed so hard when she mispronouced "kalif" (sic) in regards to bin Laden. She pronounced it *CAL-IF*... It was as bad as Avril mispronouncing David Bowie's name...
Your *suggestion* sounds like a movie that starred Ice-T. You might want to look that up on the Internet Movie Database (www.imdb.com). It appears on broadcast television on Saturday afternoons in syndication. Charles S. Dutton (Alien3, Fox's "Rock") also starred in it... I think it was called "Surviving the Game." Not to be confused with that similar Van Damme film directed by John Woo..."Hard Target"...
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They were based upon the ancient Greek idea of mankind having "sparks" of the god(s) inside their very being; that everything the god(s) created had a piece of themselves inside as well. Or, for a more modern adaption, go for John Carpenter's "The Prince of Darkness." That film's premise advanced the idea that every thing in the universe had particles that were of God and also anti-God inside them; thus explaining how objects and people could be controlled by the paranormal... The reason why the Midichlorians "ruined" Star Wars is because it took away the moviegoers feelings that they too could be a Luke Skywalker, a hero transformed by his beliefs and his own inner strength. A whole generation of sci-fi moviegoers dreamed of becoming Jedi Knights only to find out that the universe made it impossible for an individual to become one from faith alone; that they only could touch the divine if they had enough microbes in their blood... The Matrix is terrible because if you've seen "Dark City" before, there's no point in seeing the film. Its just an algamation of the plot of "Dark City" (and with some of that movie's sets as well) mixed with the special effects from "Blade", the computer plot *adapted* from "The Deadly Assassin" episode from 70s Doctor Who, and a healthy batch of wire-fu. And for the third film, we have Mech-Warrior in it now as well...or maybe Robo-Jox. I know the only reason why I'll go see it is because Monica Bellucci appears in it...
Just imagine how much more content they [the BBC] would've had available had they not incinerated so many cannisters of film in the 70s because they saw no use in keeping it...and I'm not just speaking of all the episodes of Doctor Who they torched either...
you obviously aren't a TiVo owner. Like AOL, TiVo is a company that has consistently beaten Microsoft in a market they've invaded. They make a great product and they support Linux. Now what are you complaining about again?
actually, you only owe $32...SCO wants to charge $32 per device using embedded Linux. Surely you cannot count a TiVo Series2 system as an actual computer that requires a $699 IP license...
You go to the polls. When you stand in line, you do a fingerprint and a retinal scan. The scanning system cross-checks your information with the Dept. of Homeland Security to verify you are a citizen; your Social Security number is valid, and that you aren't actually deceased. The poll workers then check for your valid ID as a third form of verification. You go to the voting machine which is a secure terminal running on Linux, BSD, or some other form of Unix that has a history of reliability. The terminal is *NOT* hooked up to the net. You go to the touch screen. You select the language you want to read your choices. Then pictures of the candidates come up and you select from there. There is a keyboard if you want to select a write-in candidate. Once you are done voting, you receive a print-out with a verification code so that your print-out will have a record of what you voted for, but it will not be associated with your identity. All the verification was done prior to you visiting the voting terminal. The terminal reports the voting scores to the mainframe set up at the polling place. It prints out the final results. Multiple print-outs are given to the county registrar as well as *responsible* third-parties (such as UN monitors, the press, other voting-related interests, etc.). The print-outs are also encoded. The mainframe also creates an encrypted DVD-R or flash media to be inserted into a secure laptop at the polling place that is hooked up to the net so that the voting scores can be accessed online, but accepts no inquiries from the net... With security such as this, we could feel more comfortable with our voting system. Of course, the flip side of this is had this existed in 1960, Kennedy would've never been elected...
that's a *load* if I've ever heard one. That's like denying Native Americans their land-rights because they did not have a capitol city and migrated across THEIR land, like Moses in the desert. Palestine is what the Romans called the land. It is historic. Just because it was a conquerred land run by other empires does not give you or anyone else the right to denying their [Palestinians] nationhood and simply label them as other arabs that can go live in some other arab land. If one were to follow the slippery-slope fallacy that is your argument then perhaps Poland shouldn't exist in its present location since a good portion of that last is East Prussia, aka Germany. Or how about the Czechs? And if you really want to get historical, the Palestinians claim to be one-in-the-same with the Caananites, the *original* inhabitants of that contested land you speak of (especially since the archaeological evidence supports the theory that the walls of Jericho did not fall). Maybe the Greeks should claim the area since the Phillistines were 95% likely to have been a Greek people with an advanced culture(based upon the ruins in Phillistinia), not the barbarians the Torah proclaims them to have been... The founders of the modern State of Israel were terrorists (excuse me, *freedom fighters*) themselves...go ask the British about that...
...the next time in commiting a major crime, use acid for any leftover evidence... (joking!) :)
How many Slashdot readers actually figure they'll be using Longhorn on their computers in 2005? Versus how many will have either switched fully to Linux or Mac OS X due to total disgust with Microsoft? I know I plan on having a Mac (as my main rig) and Linux installed on a legacy PC and perhaps dual booted with XP for any leftover PC software that can't run decently in emulation mode on either of the previously mentioned operating systems...
maybe its a new revenue scheme. Microsoft sells advertising logos for various spots in the operating system, and then can change it when the next operating system patch is downloaded and installed...
why even offer backwards compatibility to DX7? Longhorn isn't going to be released until late 2005! Look at how low Microsoft's sales have been for the WinXP upgrade editions... People just aren't buying those copies (except for people building their own *whiteboxes* that are concerned about legalities), they buy brand new computers with the OS pre-installed... Microsoft will probably be at DirectX 11 or something close by then...they should cut out the old stuff if they truly are concerned about 1. bloat, 2. system performance, 3. simplifying the OS so that like with Apple "it just works." Wasn't that the spirit of what they [Microsoft] showed off at WinHEC?
I'm totally with you, Mr. Gzip... That's the first thing I noticed in that pic... But considering since TiVo has yet to file an IP claim against Microsoft for UltimateTV (or even joining RedHat in the pre-emptive legal strike against SCO), I wouldn't count a trademark fight anytime soon... I think TiVo Inc. is only concentrating on increasing market penetration and becoming profitable at this phase... If TiVo was smart, they'd wait until Microsoft releases Longhorn with this graphic in each copy and then sue based upon the sheer number of Longhorn copies on the market in a trademark dillution case...
Moral of the story; don't use Google as a quick spell-check just because you don't want to use the *enemy* Word program when that's your only other tool at the workplace... :)
Fascinating how Microsoft is using AOL's *excuse* to block third parties from accessing MSN Messenger? I seem to recall AOL using this reason to block MSN and others from its users and Microsoft responded by helping to set up IMUnified as a pressure group to convince the FTC and the FCC to require AOL to open up the AIM network to them... I love hypocricy (sic, if I spelled that incorrectly!)...
WETA isn't the only motion-picture related company using Linux. However, since WETA is in New Zealand and probably have no operations in the United States, SCO will probably have to go to New Zealand to file suit against them. Fat chance a New Zealand court will convict their own media heroes. But, New Line Cinema, a division of AOL Time Warner, certainly has made lots of money off the special effects derived from all of those *SCO-IP infringing* computers loaded with Linux. Then we go to AOL Time Warner itself. A couple of quarters ago, AOL itself made a big deal about replacing all their servers running Unix with Linux. Then we have DreamWorks SKG that rendered all of "Sinbad" using Linux. Last week, we heard that Disney and two (2) refuse-to-be-named movie studios pooled their resources together to get Adobe Photoshop to run under Linux since each of the three (3) studios were switching every PC over to Linux. And then we have Lucasfilm/ILM. They switched everything over to Linux as well. So in summary, the fun is really going to start when SCO pushes all these players too far: 1. AOL Time Warner/AOL/New Line Cinema/WETA, 2. DreamWorks SKG, 3. Disney, *cough cough* 4. and 5. 20th Century Fox and Sony Pictures, and 6. Lucasfilm/ILM. Care to wager bets when the bootleg video of Mr. McBride getting a Super Star Destroyer stuffed into him hits Kazaa? It'll be funnier than the *Star Wars Kid* video and far more legally damaging... :)
The critics and the mass media itself lashed out against "Gigli," not teenagers text-messaging everyone. "Gigli" had worse word-of-mouth before it even hit the theatres than even "Batman & Robin" which Harry Knowles and Aint-It-Cool-News famously destroyed online. Name one other film besides "B&R" that Knowles has massacred effectively on his website? You can't name any. He lashed out against "Scooby Doo" and its stars, but had to admit later on that Matthew Lilliard was impressive as Shaggy (Knowles was spot-on about Freddy Prinz Jr. but that is all-too-easy to predict). For "Gigli" to be ruined by teens and text messaging, they would've had to have gone to the theatres opening week and then spread the virtual bad-word. But the film only grossed a little over $3 million to begin with, and I would wager money the studio itself "asked" its employees to go see the film that weekend, ala the famous *accusations* against Scientology requiring its members to frequently purchase L. Ron Hubbard books at the bookstores. Hollywood should fess up and admit that they made a lot of turkeys this year and stop trying to find a scapegoat. Next thing you know, they'll be blaming file-trading for their profit losses; oh wait, they already are in those commercials I skip through with my TiVo!
The only interested parties in interoperability are the parties such as Trillian wanting to make money off someone else's backbone. Do you see Yahoo or MSN making great strides in the interoperability between their programs despite both of them being the most vocal critics of the AOL Time Warner merger due to AOL's IM strength (and the two of them founding the IMUnified lobbying organization)? Nope. Have you ever had success with a file transfer between AIM and Trillian or Yahoo Messenger and Trillian? I sure haven't...
First off, I never said "free". If Apple thought they could make money off of it ($30 per copy), they probably would do it. Considering how many Linux-heads insist upon x86 architecture, I'm sure Steve and the rest at Apple have no illusions of "converting" them. If Steve and Apple were so rigid, they would've never allowed Quicktime to be ported to Windows; they would never have offered iPod models specifically for Windows; and they wouldn't be set upon making the iTunes Music Store available for Windows before the end of the [insert your favorite Holiday] Season 2003. The iChat A/V FireWire based cam is awesome and Apple definitely makes a profit off of it. Extending it for the Windows/Linux market makes sense... (and Linux is sweeter because it robs Microsoft of revenue on its *native* platform...
I added it first through AOL, then ICQ, then my stand-alone AIM. Perhaps you should check ICQ's website... It only works with ICQ Lite, that's the only ICQ version they are testing it with...
The FCC restrictions were bogus. AOL NEVER restricted its own userbase from downloading other IM clients. They had just as much right to try to block out others illegally hacking into their network (hint hint--> Microsoft) as any ISP has over blocking out spam. Microsoft complained the loudest over AOL's potential monopoly (isn't that irony for you?) and then contributed a substantial amount of money for campaign contributions. Now let's look at Microsoft with its closed Xbox system (which I own one). Do you think for a moment they'll allow AOL or Yahoo to port their instant messaging to the Xbox(or Mozilla Firebird as a browser)? No way. Incidentally, Sony sought out AOL to provide the Playstation2 with IM capabilities once Sony gets serious about online playing with the release of the PS2 hard drive. To stick these restrictions on AOL for the past three years while failing to break up Microsoft's OS and Office productivity packages screamed of hypocricy. AOL should be complaining to Justice, the FTC, and the FCC about how all the other cable companies have blocked AOL from offering AOL Broadband directly to their customers... BYOA is not the answer, it should be single-source billing...
You know her too? I wonder if she still has her job at Siebel... :)
Bull. I've been Beta-testing the interoperable versions of AIM and ICQ for a month-and-a-half. Go to Keyword: Beta and look more carefully...It isn't top secret by a couple of kilometers...
Instead of complaining about the out-of-date official AOL AIM client for Linux, perhaps you should write to Steve Jobs at Apple and convince him Apple should port iChat to Linux at a price. Currently, its in beta on Mac OS X, but it is fully compatible with AIM and it also has plenty of nifty features. Apple intends to charge $30 for the program for all Apple users who opt not to upgrade to OS X 10.3 Panther later this year. It works especially with Apple's Firewire-based webcam. Since the Linux platform lacks a decent IM client from a major player, this could be a role Apple could step into and make a profit from offering a superior IM product with relatively little cost to itself...
Would this count as a distributed (err, mobile) energy grid when you consider the article from last month about using turkey stomachs to power fuel cells? I seem to recall a Slashdotter predicting a rapid decline in America's homeless population when those generators hit the market...
Wait until this subject appears on the Van Impe Ministries infomercial (yes, I said *infomercial* since they sell their videotapes on the program)...they'll have a field day with this. And somehow it'll be tied with Spanish King Carlos because they claim he is the Antichrist...or was it Milosovich...or bin Laden...maybe that was last week's episode. I swear, a *bobblehead* is smarter than that minister's wife who co-hosts the program...I laughed so hard when she mispronouced "kalif" (sic) in regards to bin Laden. She pronounced it *CAL-IF*... It was as bad as Avril mispronouncing David Bowie's name...
Your *suggestion* sounds like a movie that starred Ice-T. You might want to look that up on the Internet Movie Database (www.imdb.com). It appears on broadcast television on Saturday afternoons in syndication. Charles S. Dutton (Alien3, Fox's "Rock") also starred in it... I think it was called "Surviving the Game." Not to be confused with that similar Van Damme film directed by John Woo..."Hard Target"...