Don't forget the flamethrower ejaculate! Seriously, possibly the worst sex scene in the history of film.

Except that the point of the attack on New York was to unify the US and the Soviet Union against a common, unknown enemy. Instead there was a was an attack on a US city by an out of control US operative. I can almost see Kruschev beating a podium in the UN with his shoe over the issue, not engaging in peace talks.

Yeah, I forgot to submit Nethax! (http://www.big-ape.net/nethax/) this year. Maybe next time.

First this is an attempt to become the defacto platform for Internet enabled tv, So you'll have set top boxes, televisions with integrated functionality, dvrs with it built in, blu-ray players, etc. The "Google TV Box" is to Google TV what the Nexus One is to Android.

Second, I think their strategy is just like every other Google product out there. They are going to enter the market early with a so-so product and then just iterate the hell out of it. So this version might not be all that great, but in 2 years when they've gone through 8 upgrades its going to be much better. Android, Chrome, Docs, even their search engine followed this exact strategy. This is how they've always done business. I'm not saying they're going to succeed here, its a tricky market and a product that doesn't have a a quick answer to the "What problem does it solve" question, but knowing Google I wouldn't count them out on a review of a v1.0 product.

You just have to change the user agent in the Google TV browser. Its trivially easy to do, but of course Google can't "officially" support a work around like that. The issue was resolved like 5 minutes after it happened. I fixed the problem on my box before I actually experienced it.

God I wish we would just implement all of the CSS print features in the spec so I could do exactly that. The only reason I've incorporated any type of PDF functionality into any web app I've written recently is that you still can't hit print from your browser and get a well formatted document out of it. Unfortunately I need this in IE because of my user base, and it'll be a cold day in hell before Microsoft does this as it moves Office one step closer to obsolescence.

The comparing of the opening shots of The Phantom Menace and A New Hope was a great piece of film design analysis. The scene of the blockade runner getting blasted by the star destroyer set up everything; there was a conflict going on, the rebels were weak and ill equipped and the empire was big, scary and not afraid to use force. The Jedis approaching the trade federation ships in The Phantom Menace told you nothing about either side, and that sort of weakly defined sense of design pervades the entire movie. The battle droids were never intimidating, they looked like they were designed purely to stand around waiting to be light-sabered in half. I mean storm troopers were a joke in an actual fight but at least they looked bad assed. Darth Maul had some scary design going on but he was out doing his own thing. Vader not only looked like a bad guy but he was also the fist on the long arm of the empire which added to his menace. Epic fantasy (yes, Star Wars has more in common with the Lord of the Rings then 2001) needs its clearly defined villains and heros, and some trade dispute is just not the right kind of conflict for this kind of movie.

I vote paranoid. In all the places I've heard of this used its only used as a way for the students to collect their own information and to monitor themselves and their own heart rate. These devices are generally only heart rate monitors, in no way are they designed to notice an arrhythmia, and I've never heard of the data being collected in any way. Besides since they've asked you to purchase the equipment, you would be better able to know exactly what the capabilities of the model you were asked to buy then a bunch of random Slashdotters. Stop reading the site and do some research.

The sequels really needed to continue the genre change to be successful. Aliens 3 should have been a romantic comedy.