Like, jacking off over the laptop while watching porn? Or maybe worse, sticking your penis into one of the optical drives? Man, what the HELL do you guys do in there?
Link to comparison here. It's on geocities, so it'll probably run out of bandwidth quickly.
Minor points:
Plug at the back of the neck.
A 'birth' scene.
Armoured truck exploding/on fire.
A bunch of soliders closing in on one location.
Major points:
Remember the market place chase scene in the Matrix? Remember one of the Agents missing and hitting watermelons, causing them to explode? Guess what, same thing happened in GITS.
Remember Motoko's head being clutched by a nasty looking robot? Remember Neo's birth scene? And guess what, they're both naked AND wet in both scenes. (No, not that kinda wet, you sicko)
Pillar scene. Both movies have the character standing behind a pillar at one point where it gets shot to bits, and acrobatic moves exist in both movies.
Well that's about it. Check out the link before you all/. it.
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The Swiss company claims the Roundshot Livecam uses a high-resolution digicam designed for porn photography, as well as cilt-scan technology, which apparently allows for 'seamless pornography' containing up to 360 females.
Episode 9 of Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, GIG 2 had an awesome hack scene. 3D worlds, AI bots defending you and deploying attack arrays and all sorts of cool shit. Mmmmm.... eye-candy.
Uh, if you haven't realised, those are the MAIN things that make anime interesting.
1) Large stream of tears flying out when they cry? Realistic, no. Amusing, yes.
2) If you hate this one, why don't you comment on the overly large eyes? Expressions are easily shown via those eyes, and the more extreme expressions just make it even funnier.
3) Unlike most American comics, Japanese mangaka (authors) are able to blend different genres together well and effectively. I like being able to laugh at the comedy, while think about the overall plot in detail at the back of my head.
4) Uh huh, so would you like some show like the Simpsons being compressed into a two hour movie? I admit, one of the better movies I saw was RahXephon, where they compressed it all into a movie, with added scenes and stuff, but generally, it doesn't work.
5) Anime characters abuse random peace signs? You obviously haven't seen enough anime.
6) Yes, they do get lazy. But note, there is more than one 'artist' for an anime. I mean, do you think it's possible for ONE single person to animate an entire standard 26 episode series? I don't think so.
7) Overuse of robots and cards? You obviously haven't seen enough anime, again.
8) Ridiculous physics? That's one of the main good points for anime. The ridiculous physics you're talking about usually happen in the comedy mangas, where the girl character or whatever whips out a mallet out of nowhere and smashes the guy into the ground. It's funny. People like to see things that can't be done normally, and that's why we have movies and stuff. Escapism at its finest.
Why the hell are you talking about anime anyway when this is about -manga-?
Other than that, I'm gonna feel sorry for MangaJouhou (MangaNews) for being linked in the topic..... it's hard trying to support a site only via donations and their own money. I'm one of the editors, so I feel some pain;p
Actually, I believe KDE has something like this.. I just tried opening a konq window and switching, and it opened in another window. What I also like about KDE, is that if you use the KGestures thingy and make it open a new tab for a gesture, the command opens a tab on a window on the current virtual desktop (if any), otherwise, it just opens a new window. Funky stuff.
Plus, the Slicker project (which seems to have been abandoned) is an interesting concept. Screenshot. Although the damn thing compiled and ran, I got nothing to show up. Clues?
You forgot to add that masturbation could make you go blind..... or does it? I still have the best eyesight in my immediate family, for some reason and I'm always on the computer.
You will be missing a couple million braincells after you've watched "Neon Genesis Evangelion" till the very end, including both movies from trying to figure out what all the abstraction of a billion different things blah blah blah blah. In other words, that series contains more religious connotations than the Matrix.
On the other end of the spectrum, you get anime that are like your regular cartoon -- funny, episode-based, action, etc. Like Full Metal Panic: Fumoffu (which I loved to bits, one of the funniest series I have watched).
You are also likely to find an anime on almost any damn subject, or combination of them. Not all of them are good, or ones that are easily obtainable, but they will exist, none-the-less. Also, anime were not designed for kids in mind, they are more targeted towards an older audience, mainly teenagers to young adults, as they contain far more violence, blood and T&A (Tits and Ass) than the Simpsons.
Also, most anime are based on the original manga, which are pretty much Japanese comics, but unlike typical comics, the artwork is extremely detailed and beautiful. Give me a manga over a comic any day.
Some of the anime I'm following right now:
Full Metal Alchemist - 52 episodes / Latest episode: 33 A bit backwards in time, this anmie is about this teenager with a steel arm and leg, who's little brother is made out of armour due to a... failed transmutation (alchemy stuff). This series contains many awesome fight scenes, the battles often utitlise alchemy as well, which gives some rather interesting battles as they can transmute, say, a friggin rocket launcher out of the ground or some crazy shit like that (provided the ground contains all the necessary elements to create a rocket launcher), combined with standard fighting with backflips and stuff. Has a rather deep and complex plot, too. A must see.
Bakuretsu Tenshi - 26 episodes, Latest episode: 6 This mecha-based series is my current 'brainless' anime, as it doesn't require much thinking (for now). Set in the future, four girls/women are part of a mercenary-ish group who take on jobs for various shady men. You could say two of the main characters (Jo and Meg) are like Rei and Asuka from Evangelion, although one isn't as bitchy and one actually speaks more than three lines per episode. There is a little girl who happens to be the hacker of the group (to cater for those pedo's out there), and a (relatively) mature woman named Sei, who's the leader of this group. They have a big robot in their... uhm, huge trailer thingy?, that kicks ass (in pretty awesome cel-shaded CG). There's also a guy, who gets recruited as the chef of the group, who also happens to be a pussy (think Shinji, fellas). People have said it's somewhat copying off Bubblegum Crisis, but I've never seen that, so don't take my word for it.
Tenjou Tenge - 26 episodes / Latest Episode: 8 I have been following this manga for a while now, and now I'm following the anime with interest. This is mainly action, in the way of martial arts, extending a bit into the 'ki' part of it. The main character is Souchirou Nagi, who happens to look like Goku when he's charged up or something (don't ask, I dislike DBZ), who's a thug and wants to kick everybodies ass at school, etc. His mate is a South African guy (I think), who's style is Capoeria, which is awesome break-dancing-style fighting. Both are l33t, until they get to a new school. Other main characters include the Natsume sisters, one who remains in a child form most of the time (to prevent excess ki from leaking away), and another who's innocently stupid. Oh yeah, can't forget Takanayagi. He's a second year guy who's under Maya (older Natsume sister)'s training, who's relatively leet (until you meet the other characters who come up later). In the manga, he has a small penis. Don't ask me where the hell that came from, but all the small penis jokes are just insanely hillarious. A real pity these are removed from the animated version, along with a lot of the T
Site slow, freecache doesn't work on files less than 5mb (and I am not letting my webserver feel the wrath of slashdot), so here's article text:
Area 51 hackers dig up trouble
By Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus May 25 2004 1:03PM
To the Area 51 buffs who travel to the Nevada desert in the hopes of catching a glimpse of unexplained lights in the sky or to bask in the mythic allure of the region, 58-year-old Chuck Clark is almost as much a part of the local color as the Black Mailbox.
A resident of tiny Rachel, Nevada -- 100 miles north of Las Vegas along the Extraterrestrial Highway -- the amateur astronomer and author has spent years keeping an eye on the spot the government calls the "operating location near Groom Lake, Nevada." He's said to be a frequent presence at the Little A'Le'Inn, where you can purchase post cards and tee shirts, enjoy an "Alien Burger," and walk out with a copy of Clark's "Area 51 & S-4 Handbook" to guide you on your journey into the desert.
But this self-appointed military watchdog is harder to find these days: messages left for him at the Inn go unreturned, and his media appearances have dried up like Groom Lake itself. "I think he's really not as motivated to talk to the media anymore as he used to be," says friend and fellow base-watcher Joerg Arnu. The reason: it turns out the truth really was out there, and the government didn't appreciate Clark digging it up.
Clark didn't find the Roswell craft or an alien autopsy room -- in fact, while officially shrouded in secrecy, the 50-year-old base is generally believed to be dedicated to the terrestrial mission of testing classified aircraft. "The U2 spy plane, the SR-71, the F-117A stealth fighter, all were flight-tested out of the Groom Lake facility," says Steven Aftergood, director of the Federation of American Scientists' Project on Government Secrecy. The myth of Area 51 memorialized in films, T.V. shows and novels is a function of the secrecy that surrounds it. "It is a concrete manifestation of official secrecy at its most intense, and that invites a mixture of paranoia and speculative fantasy that has become ingrained in popular culture," says Aftergood.
Even without aliens, the facility has its secrets, and last year while roaming the desert outside the Groom Lake base Clark stumbled upon one of them: an electronic device packed in a rugged case and buried in the dirt. Marked "U.S. Government Property," the device turned out to be a wireless transmitter, connected by an underground cable to a sensor buried nearby next to one of the unpaved roads that vein the public land surrounding the base. Together, the units act as a surveillance system, warning someone -- somewhere -- whenever a vehicle drives down that stretch of road.
Similar devices had been spotted in the area in the early 90s, but they were crude and bulky, stashed in the bushes and easily spotted. They were later withdrawn. The new road sensors are more clandestine, given away only by a slender antenna poking up through the dirt. "They're very, very hard to find, because there's just this little wire, like a blade of grass," says Arnu.
Sniffing Out Surveillance Arnu, a Las Vegas software engineer, has shared Clark's preoccupation with the Groom Lake base since 1999, when he made a trip to the area to see what all the fuss was about. "I thought, okay, I'll give it a try, see what's out there... A couple of days turned into a couple of weeks and before I knew it I started developing a website about Area 51," says Arnu.
So when Clark found the new generation of road sensor, Arnu drove out to help investigate further. The pair found that, at close range, they could use a handheld frequency counter to pick up the wireless signals given off by the devices as a car passes. Over the following month and half, Clark and Arnu engaged in a kind of geocaching game with the Men in Black, systematically sniffing out the road sensors with the frequency counter, exhuming them, and opening them up. They discov
Um, if you RTFM, you would know that the devices only broadcast an unique identifer, nothing else. Thus, it doesn't need to score that much information at all.
Of course, if they're only broadcasting the unique identifer, I'd imagine it won't take that much bandwidth at all.
There are other similar image boards, like 4chan.net (not direct linking because they're already losing the bandwidth cost war and saturating their 10mbit link) and the new 5chan.net. Both of these are in English, and there are lots of different categories of imageboards (these two are more image-based). I won't go into detail here, but stay away from 'Random' and 'Guro' (and 'Yaoi', if you're straight), since those two can sometimes have things worse than goatse and tubgirl there.
When I bought my laptop at the end of last year, within minutes of plugging into the internet, I was hit with Blaster. Thankfully, I've personally helped other people with this problem, so I was able to abort the shutdown and get a firewall. Seriously, though, why doesn't Microsoft release -pre-patched- systems? Like, every week or so, since there seems to be a new one out every day *cough*.
Actually, we have to do two 'club' 'sports' (includes chess), each year, and I just do chess and rugby to fulfill those terms. I don't drink (yet), and I don't have that attitude you said. I gained most of my respect by winning (programming) competitions for the school, and some by helping out people with their computer problems. Of course, the attitude works wonders, too.
And yes, some other 'nerds' in our school don't get as much respect as I do, so your point still stands.
It's somewhat different at my school. If you can study well and get good marks, but also gain the respect of your peers, chances are, you'll be able to rank high enough in the social ladder to not get ragged on all the time.
Personally, I'm one of those 'publicised' geeks/nerds who openly admit I like computers, etc, but I'm still liked by at least half the grade. Why? Because one just needs the right attitude. It doesn't take much, i.e., play a couple of sports a geek/nerd usually doesn't play (i.e., rugby), get good at it, and you will have friends, trust me. You even might have a reputation that might filter down to the lower grades.
Although the whole Matrix and LOTR being accepted to the general society could be part of it, being a geek isn't too bad at all:) So, the moral of this story is, you gotta have the right attitude.
If there was some way to hijack the optical nerve, grab images from it, process it and get various information, and then overlay it onto our eyes, that'll be awesome!
Combined with the 'take a picture and find where you are' thingy on slashdot (which I can't seem to find), we can immediately find out where we are, and with all the landmarks overlayed over!
Which is undoubtedly cool. And undoubtedly we'll have to wait a couple of years for that to happen.
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Like, jacking off over the laptop while watching porn? Or maybe worse, sticking your penis into one of the optical drives? Man, what the HELL do you guys do in there?
If I scored a 1gb thumbdrive for free from work.... I'd wanna know how to use it.
I mean, woohoo, free stuff I can use outside of work!
Minor points:
- Plug at the back of the neck.
- A 'birth' scene.
- Armoured truck exploding/on fire.
- A bunch of soliders closing in on one location.
Major points:- Remember the market place chase scene in the Matrix? Remember one of the Agents missing and hitting watermelons, causing them to explode? Guess what, same thing happened in GITS.
- Remember Motoko's head being clutched by a nasty looking robot? Remember Neo's birth scene? And guess what, they're both naked AND wet in both scenes. (No, not that kinda wet, you sicko)
- Pillar scene. Both movies have the character standing behind a pillar at one point where it gets shot to bits, and acrobatic moves exist in both movies.
Well that's about it. Check out the link before you allThe original Japanese site here. Still flash, but probably much better than the one you're currently seeing (I didn't RTFA).
Actually, 52 episodes are planned. The first season has already been completed, and subbers are up to episode 9 of season 2.
AniDB links: Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex GIG 2.
The Swiss company claims the Roundshot Livecam uses a high-resolution digicam designed for porn photography, as well as cilt-scan technology, which apparently allows for 'seamless pornography' containing up to 360 females.
Or Ghost in the Shell.
Episode 9 of Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, GIG 2 had an awesome hack scene. 3D worlds, AI bots defending you and deploying attack arrays and all sorts of cool shit. Mmmmm.... eye-candy.
Uh, if you haven't realised, those are the MAIN things that make anime interesting.
;p
1) Large stream of tears flying out when they cry? Realistic, no. Amusing, yes.
2) If you hate this one, why don't you comment on the overly large eyes? Expressions are easily shown via those eyes, and the more extreme expressions just make it even funnier.
3) Unlike most American comics, Japanese mangaka (authors) are able to blend different genres together well and effectively. I like being able to laugh at the comedy, while think about the overall plot in detail at the back of my head.
4) Uh huh, so would you like some show like the Simpsons being compressed into a two hour movie? I admit, one of the better movies I saw was RahXephon, where they compressed it all into a movie, with added scenes and stuff, but generally, it doesn't work.
5) Anime characters abuse random peace signs? You obviously haven't seen enough anime.
6) Yes, they do get lazy. But note, there is more than one 'artist' for an anime. I mean, do you think it's possible for ONE single person to animate an entire standard 26 episode series? I don't think so.
7) Overuse of robots and cards? You obviously haven't seen enough anime, again.
8) Ridiculous physics? That's one of the main good points for anime. The ridiculous physics you're talking about usually happen in the comedy mangas, where the girl character or whatever whips out a mallet out of nowhere and smashes the guy into the ground. It's funny. People like to see things that can't be done normally, and that's why we have movies and stuff. Escapism at its finest.
Why the hell are you talking about anime anyway when this is about -manga-?
Other than that, I'm gonna feel sorry for MangaJouhou (MangaNews) for being linked in the topic..... it's hard trying to support a site only via donations and their own money. I'm one of the editors, so I feel some pain
Dude, I celebrated too, but running around the house naked? As people said, Linux is more of a religion than an OS ;)
Actually, I believe KDE has something like this.. I just tried opening a konq window and switching, and it opened in another window. What I also like about KDE, is that if you use the KGestures thingy and make it open a new tab for a gesture, the command opens a tab on a window on the current virtual desktop (if any), otherwise, it just opens a new window. Funky stuff.
Plus, the Slicker project (which seems to have been abandoned) is an interesting concept. Screenshot. Although the damn thing compiled and ran, I got nothing to show up. Clues?
You forgot to add that masturbation could make you go blind..... or does it? I still have the best eyesight in my immediate family, for some reason and I'm always on the computer.
On the other end of the spectrum, you get anime that are like your regular cartoon -- funny, episode-based, action, etc. Like Full Metal Panic: Fumoffu (which I loved to bits, one of the funniest series I have watched).
You are also likely to find an anime on almost any damn subject, or combination of them. Not all of them are good, or ones that are easily obtainable, but they will exist, none-the-less. Also, anime were not designed for kids in mind, they are more targeted towards an older audience, mainly teenagers to young adults, as they contain far more violence, blood and T&A (Tits and Ass) than the Simpsons.
Also, most anime are based on the original manga, which are pretty much Japanese comics, but unlike typical comics, the artwork is extremely detailed and beautiful. Give me a manga over a comic any day.
Some of the anime I'm following right now:
A bit backwards in time, this anmie is about this teenager with a steel arm and leg, who's little brother is made out of armour due to a... failed transmutation (alchemy stuff). This series contains many awesome fight scenes, the battles often utitlise alchemy as well, which gives some rather interesting battles as they can transmute, say, a friggin rocket launcher out of the ground or some crazy shit like that (provided the ground contains all the necessary elements to create a rocket launcher), combined with standard fighting with backflips and stuff. Has a rather deep and complex plot, too. A must see.
This mecha-based series is my current 'brainless' anime, as it doesn't require much thinking (for now). Set in the future, four girls/women are part of a mercenary-ish group who take on jobs for various shady men. You could say two of the main characters (Jo and Meg) are like Rei and Asuka from Evangelion, although one isn't as bitchy and one actually speaks more than three lines per episode. There is a little girl who happens to be the hacker of the group (to cater for those pedo's out there), and a (relatively) mature woman named Sei, who's the leader of this group. They have a big robot in their... uhm, huge trailer thingy?, that kicks ass (in pretty awesome cel-shaded CG). There's also a guy, who gets recruited as the chef of the group, who also happens to be a pussy (think Shinji, fellas). People have said it's somewhat copying off Bubblegum Crisis, but I've never seen that, so don't take my word for it.
I have been following this manga for a while now, and now I'm following the anime with interest. This is mainly action, in the way of martial arts, extending a bit into the 'ki' part of it. The main character is Souchirou Nagi, who happens to look like Goku when he's charged up or something (don't ask, I dislike DBZ), who's a thug and wants to kick everybodies ass at school, etc. His mate is a South African guy (I think), who's style is Capoeria, which is awesome break-dancing-style fighting. Both are l33t, until they get to a new school. Other main characters include the Natsume sisters, one who remains in a child form most of the time (to prevent excess ki from leaking away), and another who's innocently stupid. Oh yeah, can't forget Takanayagi. He's a second year guy who's under Maya (older Natsume sister)'s training, who's relatively leet (until you meet the other characters who come up later). In the manga, he has a small penis. Don't ask me where the hell that came from, but all the small penis jokes are just insanely hillarious. A real pity these are removed from the animated version, along with a lot of the T
Yeah. Like the Matrix.
Yeah, after the server starts to spew out smoke, you would want some mirrors, and I have no clue where the silence fits in here.
Site slow, freecache doesn't work on files less than 5mb (and I am not letting my webserver feel the wrath of slashdot), so here's article text:
Area 51 hackers dig up trouble
By Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus May 25 2004 1:03PM
To the Area 51 buffs who travel to the Nevada desert in the hopes of catching a glimpse of unexplained lights in the sky or to bask in the mythic allure of the region, 58-year-old Chuck Clark is almost as much a part of the local color as the Black Mailbox.
A resident of tiny Rachel, Nevada -- 100 miles north of Las Vegas along the Extraterrestrial Highway -- the amateur astronomer and author has spent years keeping an eye on the spot the government calls the "operating location near Groom Lake, Nevada." He's said to be a frequent presence at the Little A'Le'Inn, where you can purchase post cards and tee shirts, enjoy an "Alien Burger," and walk out with a copy of Clark's "Area 51 & S-4 Handbook" to guide you on your journey into the desert.
But this self-appointed military watchdog is harder to find these days: messages left for him at the Inn go unreturned, and his media appearances have dried up like Groom Lake itself. "I think he's really not as motivated to talk to the media anymore as he used to be," says friend and fellow base-watcher Joerg Arnu. The reason: it turns out the truth really was out there, and the government didn't appreciate Clark digging it up.
Clark didn't find the Roswell craft or an alien autopsy room -- in fact, while officially shrouded in secrecy, the 50-year-old base is generally believed to be dedicated to the terrestrial mission of testing classified aircraft. "The U2 spy plane, the SR-71, the F-117A stealth fighter, all were flight-tested out of the Groom Lake facility," says Steven Aftergood, director of the Federation of American Scientists' Project on Government Secrecy. The myth of Area 51 memorialized in films, T.V. shows and novels is a function of the secrecy that surrounds it. "It is a concrete manifestation of official secrecy at its most intense, and that invites a mixture of paranoia and speculative fantasy that has become ingrained in popular culture," says Aftergood.
Even without aliens, the facility has its secrets, and last year while roaming the desert outside the Groom Lake base Clark stumbled upon one of them: an electronic device packed in a rugged case and buried in the dirt. Marked "U.S. Government Property," the device turned out to be a wireless transmitter, connected by an underground cable to a sensor buried nearby next to one of the unpaved roads that vein the public land surrounding the base. Together, the units act as a surveillance system, warning someone -- somewhere -- whenever a vehicle drives down that stretch of road.
Similar devices had been spotted in the area in the early 90s, but they were crude and bulky, stashed in the bushes and easily spotted. They were later withdrawn. The new road sensors are more clandestine, given away only by a slender antenna poking up through the dirt. "They're very, very hard to find, because there's just this little wire, like a blade of grass," says Arnu.
Sniffing Out Surveillance
Arnu, a Las Vegas software engineer, has shared Clark's preoccupation with the Groom Lake base since 1999, when he made a trip to the area to see what all the fuss was about. "I thought, okay, I'll give it a try, see what's out there... A couple of days turned into a couple of weeks and before I knew it I started developing a website about Area 51," says Arnu.
So when Clark found the new generation of road sensor, Arnu drove out to help investigate further. The pair found that, at close range, they could use a handheld frequency counter to pick up the wireless signals given off by the devices as a car passes. Over the following month and half, Clark and Arnu engaged in a kind of geocaching game with the Men in Black, systematically sniffing out the road sensors with the frequency counter, exhuming them, and opening them up. They discov
Horny bastard: Porn. Lots of porn.
Script kiddie: OMG I CAN DOS PPL!!!!!!!111111111oneone
Pirate: Warez, and other assorted treasures.
CowboyNeal: Hey, we can use it to host slashdot!
i win!
Um, if you RTFM, you would know that the devices only broadcast an unique identifer, nothing else. Thus, it doesn't need to score that much information at all.
Of course, if they're only broadcasting the unique identifer, I'd imagine it won't take that much bandwidth at all.
There are other similar image boards, like 4chan.net (not direct linking because they're already losing the bandwidth cost war and saturating their 10mbit link) and the new 5chan.net. Both of these are in English, and there are lots of different categories of imageboards (these two are more image-based). I won't go into detail here, but stay away from 'Random' and 'Guro' (and 'Yaoi', if you're straight), since those two can sometimes have things worse than goatse and tubgirl there.
Um. Up their ass?
Actually, mine was already activated for some reason. Granted, I bought it in Taiwan, so....... yeah.
Pretty nice, $1500 AUD for a BenQ Joybook 5000. Yes, it was named "Joybook". I named it "Kama Sutra".
I agree with your post.
When I bought my laptop at the end of last year, within minutes of plugging into the internet, I was hit with Blaster. Thankfully, I've personally helped other people with this problem, so I was able to abort the shutdown and get a firewall. Seriously, though, why doesn't Microsoft release -pre-patched- systems? Like, every week or so, since there seems to be a new one out every day *cough*.
Actually, we have to do two 'club' 'sports' (includes chess), each year, and I just do chess and rugby to fulfill those terms. I don't drink (yet), and I don't have that attitude you said. I gained most of my respect by winning (programming) competitions for the school, and some by helping out people with their computer problems. Of course, the attitude works wonders, too. And yes, some other 'nerds' in our school don't get as much respect as I do, so your point still stands.
It's somewhat different at my school. If you can study well and get good marks, but also gain the respect of your peers, chances are, you'll be able to rank high enough in the social ladder to not get ragged on all the time.
:) So, the moral of this story is, you gotta have the right attitude.
Personally, I'm one of those 'publicised' geeks/nerds who openly admit I like computers, etc, but I'm still liked by at least half the grade. Why? Because one just needs the right attitude. It doesn't take much, i.e., play a couple of sports a geek/nerd usually doesn't play (i.e., rugby), get good at it, and you will have friends, trust me. You even might have a reputation that might filter down to the lower grades.
Although the whole Matrix and LOTR being accepted to the general society could be part of it, being a geek isn't too bad at all
If there was some way to hijack the optical nerve, grab images from it, process it and get various information, and then overlay it onto our eyes, that'll be awesome!
Combined with the 'take a picture and find where you are' thingy on slashdot (which I can't seem to find), we can immediately find out where we are, and with all the landmarks overlayed over!
Which is undoubtedly cool. And undoubtedly we'll have to wait a couple of years for that to happen.