Yeah, I'm not anti-smoking, I just think it's funny that's immediately what people turn to when they need to up the 'cool'-factor.

A decade of campaigning against it, lawsuits crippling the majors, a pricipitous decline in usage, and yet the one extraneous element in this demo that indicates the 'coolness' of the main character is lighting up multiple cigarettes.

Awesome video, but that looked to me like standard 4:3 480i video.

This is part 1 of Jason Chen's plan of World Domination.

Awesome, thanks. I was on the nasa site but couldn't locate that specific shot.

anyone know where a high-res shot of that first image can be found?

Flawed skyscraper design looming over an entire city, you say?

@mean_mr_mustard: BRRRAAAAAAAAPPPP.

Eh. If you were a cool geek in '94 / '95 these clips were just as silly then. I remember in 1995 a kid in my class asked me how he "could get on the Information Superhighway". My friend and I laughed and laughed.

*Apple Water not sold in San Fransisco due to ban on bottled water

@You probably won't like me: It's possible MSFT turned down the invite.

If you look at the trend minus the meteoric rise of the CD, it's clear that the music industry's long term size is a lot smaller than the behemoth it became. You could view the CD era almost as a sort of industry "bubble" in that sense.

Up to about 1:20, the video is actually true. In fact, after turning the cup over you can let go of the card and it will stay in place. That's a known physics trick. The rest, well.....blah blah blah come buy the Brooklyn bridge from me.

Up to about 1:20, the video is actually true. In fact, after turning the cup over you can let go of the card and it will stay in place. That's a known physics trick. The rest, well.....blah blah blah come buy the Brooklyn bridge from me.

Just based on the hyperventilating going on all over the web about it. You'd think it was a greater achievement that it was (which was just an impressive NLP demo closely monitored and propagandized by IBM.)

@LegalCookie: Like an all-Final Jeopardy version? Yes.

"Formerly impressive?" Because he couldn't click the buzzer in a microsecond (as robot servomechanisms have been able to do for decades)?

@Gingers Aren't So Bad: I had an extremely vivid dream last night where Steve Ballmer was personally giving me a tour of the Microsoft campus, and he took me to a building to pick up a brand new PS3 (!) and 10 free ps3 games.

ah well. The fact that The 400 Blows and Seven Samurai have sat in my queue, unwatched, for a couple years should tell you how negatively this will impact me.