Here's a list of some of the most cliched concepts in Sci-fi movies - you know, those so-called "concepts" that make you sigh and wonder what on earth happened to good science fiction:
Part 1 and Part 2
Makes you go, "Hey, I've thought of that myself" - especially when you think of "Red Heat" and how Arnie's (and his girl friend's of course) eyeballs go all screwy when they get out of the all-encompassing enclosure.
For such a wonderful Web application, Yahoo Mail Beta could have done just that little bit more and made Opera users too realize what all those rave reviews are about. Instead, they have chosen to leave them in the lurch, and force them to use other browsers if they want to experience the polish of their beta.
Make no mistake - Yahoo Mail Beta really stretches the limits of what a web application can do. I hate to say this, but it even makes Gmail's interface look positively crude. They've almost made it look like one particular Microsoft application that we all know of. Maybe it's not so incidental then that they have shut out users of Opera - one of the rebel browsers that have overwhelmed IE in features and security.
One of the photographs that I'm very proud of has a blurred subject! Well, I hope the reason is obvious - even as the rest of the station is clearly captured, the train is a moving blur.
I picked up my monthly copy of RD today a few days ago, and started reading it straight away. Found a nice, warm story about how a cat came to live with the author, and shortly thereafter, her parents. Her father was suffering from cancer, and was weakening day by day, but the cat gave him such joy that his last days were not filled only with pain, but also with happiness and laughter. Upon his passing away, the author's mother is still living with the cat and finds it an immensely effective way to cope with her husband's absence in her life, because she now has someone to care for and even talk to on a daily basis!
Animals are not dumb (as in stupid), they just don't talk the way we do. They do, however, talk in the universal language - that of the heart.
It looks like the day is not far when computers will, gasp, create music!
For now, they can only "generate" sounds that resemble music created by the greatest of Western composers. How long till they start encroaching on the hitherto unchallenged territories of homo sapiens, i.e., art and music?
How long till AI? And how long till "The Matrix"?
