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Yeah, thanks, I'm not an idiot and did follow the instructions. It doesn't work for me.

Um, I don't get it. Is it a joke? Because his head never disappeared.

I feel bad for the guy, but he probably won't win. You see, this is common practice in the video/film industry. He signed on for 25% of the "profits". However, it becomes very easy to bury the profits as costs. Sometimes it's even legit.

Think about it. $267,000 in gross sales. Take out of that the cost of production, cost of paying Criss Angel, cost of advertising, costs of this, that, and the other thing. It's very reasonable to assume it made only $104,000 profit. That would be a great profit margin if it did. 25% of that is his $26,000.

It's also got Jolie's brother James Haven on the right and husband at the time (and Hacker co-star) Jonny Lee Miller on the left.

I just don't understand why it makes any bit of difference if I watch in Boxee, Safari, Firefox, IE, or a computer attached to a big screen or small screen. So long as there is no circumvention of the ads (there isn't) then why does it make any difference whatsoever? Short sighted, white top, ignorant people running these companies.

Why wouldn't you think so? It's PPC, which would have to be developed, but that doesn't require Sony's help. There are several Linux distros that work on the PS3. Not sure why you'd think it wouldn't work. Boxee developers often seem stuck in a box. The social media center concept was thinking outside the box, but it seems many other things are stuck inside a tiny little box with no creative problem solving.

PS3 can run Boxee via Linux with no help from Sony.

I do agree, you have to have a method to play home media. I do think storing it internally is silly though, and would add cost. Either a way to stream or connect an external USB drive should be included.

This is exactly what I'm talking about. Boxee can be great, but will always be relegated to "geeks" unless it has a delivery platform. Simple and cheap is the way to go. People (not the geeks here) don't want a million things in one box. They want a box that is simple, easy to use, and cheap. Skip the DVR, no one cares outside of some in this group. Skip the Blu-ray unless embedded in some other manufacturer's player as Netflix has done.

Look at the Roku (also, examine the platform they use). That's what people want. Don't make Boxee be all things to all people because it will suck, quite frankly. Make it do a few things really well. In particular, bring Internet video services to the TV. That's it. Keep it simple. A method to stream (not store) local media would also be good and not detract. But DVR, BR, Tuners, etc are just worthless features once you give everyone access to the world's largest DVR and high quality movie archive, the Internet.

Well at least that's a proper description!

HAHA, great title, and so true. Angel has become a caricature, his own doing.

It really just depends on the type of performer and character you've created. Magic isn't one "thing." It's whoever the performer is. Penn, for example, is a juggler as well as a magician and he mixes that into the show. Flourishes are like juggling. They show a certain type of skill. There's no reason it can't be mixed with magic in the course of a routine.

It's entirely dependent on style, character, and what you want to portray. For me, I'd rather stay away from flourishes. I try to use everyday objects to show I have some real magical ability. That's ruined if I can suddenly do some amazing flourish.

But, there have been times that I've wanted to perform a poker routine. In that context it makes perfect sense that I come across as a master manipulator of cards. Flourishes would only add to that.

Context. It's all about context.

Nice cards to be certain, but I would never use them, preferring to use something spectators are familiar with, Bicycles.

how about looking at IMDB?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0128305/

The movie "Life Sold Separately" (1997) is about four strangers who meet in a field for different reasons, but for the same purpose: to escape each one's respective life. How they are to escape their world is the key to the film.

His hand really got nailed, just like a steamroller really rolled over him and an Escalade really rolled over him...

Did people really think it was real?

OMG! I hope he's ok! I can haz injury?

Why is not enjoying this stunt or his show "hating" on him? That's ridiculous, childish, and ignorant. Grow up.

It's very possible to discuss Angel in a serious matter, to deconstruct his show or stunts, to talk about what we liked or didn't like.

There are a lot of different styles of magic because there are a lot of different styles of magicians. If everyone agreed on how to entertain there wouldn't be stage, parlour, closeup, mentalism, cards, coins, grand illusion, etc, etc, etc. There would simply be "magic".

We know that not to be true. We know people disagree or at least have a personal preference. That said, it's still possible to discuss the relative benefits and drawbacks of each as well as the relative quality of each.

In his TV show, Criss sucks IMHO. It's mainly setup, canned, edited, and not "real". I know he's a fantastic magician live and a great performer. To me, his show is a disappointment anymore. I can just as easily rig a video shoot like he did here. It's not impressive.

It was one of the worst episodes yet. They are getting worse all the time. It's all set up, stooges, and camera tricks with lots of video editing.

I can make lots of things happen if reality doesn't constrain me. That's all Criss does.

I do like his style and his original show. I think his live performances are very original and theatrical, something a lot of magicians can't do. But Mindfreak has grown old and silly.

It's "lose" not "loose."

I hate that.

Looks like you've just stumbled upon the reason hydrogen cars are bullshit too. You have to create, transport, and store the hydrogen to use it. There is an extreme amount of energy loss and that energy has to come from somewhere, most likely fossil fuels.

Electric cars have the most direct source of energy and the least loss. That's the way things need to go IMHO. Anything else is a storage medium and therefore a loss. Augment electric cars with solar panels on your house and you can provide some, if not all, of your own energy using just the Sun.

Amazing, huh? Seems a little too simple, that's why it's slow to take off.

Cisco doesn't own Netgear, it owns Linksys. And it bought Linksys in 2003, not 2000. And iPhone was not acquired in that purchase. It was a purchase of a different company. That's only the first half of the first paragraph. I stopped reading after that.

Well, I'm not sure it's been described as an "upgrade" just an "update". Besides, they did "upgrade" the Shuffle by including the new headphones.

Thin clients can catch a virus, it will just exist on the terminal server. Also, thin clients don't "process data". That's why they are "thin". They just present the data, the server does all the heavy lifting.

It doesn't do rtf even. And it's slow as shit. I uploaded a 1 page pdf and waited several hours before calling it a night and going to sleep. It took several hours to convert a simople 1 page pdf to a png and the quality was absolutely horrible.

Also, it can't even do rtf. No rtf? WTF?

Neat idea, needs a LOT of work.

Nice, but not so unique.

http://www.corbin.com/furniture/

This doesn't make a single car garage a dual car garage. It makes a dual car garage a dual car garage.

I HATE U3. It's so incredibly annoying. Luckily I found a nice way to remove it, a tool from the GeekSquad.

Not impressive in the least. It's an invasive way to do something that others are doing better. http://portableapps.com/