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Release date: April 18, 2014
Directed by: Wally Pfister
Written by: Jack Paglen
Starring: Johnny Depp, Rebecca Hall, Paul Bettany, Cillian Murphy, Kata Mara, and Morgan Freeman
Johnny Depp's latest flick wants to be a think piece. In fact there are a lot of interesting philosophical questions, but it's so slow and methodically paced that by the time it makes its point, it's doubtful you'll still care what it's trying to say.
As Dr. Will Caster, Depp is a brilliant and eccentric neuroscientist on the brink of fully realizing the creation of a self aware artificial intelligence mapping system that functions similarly to the human brain. Some people think Will's creation is a threat to humanity and God, so they try and take him out. Believing Will's mind was a gift to humanity, his wife, Evelyn (Rebecca Hall) decides to upload his conscious, merging with the A.I.
When Will becomes a fully functioning, self aware, artificial intelligence, he starts to become more powerful, building a fortress in the desert under the veil that he is trying to better humanity. Of course, it all raises questions about whether or not it really is Will, or just the A.I. using his image and memories in order to manipulate those he loves into building an army that may or may not want to transcend humanity into a new era of existence.
At the heart of it, it's all fascinating stuff. There are some really interesting questions about how to better humanity and the morality of creating our own Gods. But it's also, unfortunately, really boring. It's unpredictable and thought provoking, but first time director Wally Pfister, never allows the big moments to be as big as they need to be, so it's less of a roller coaster and more of a slow Sunday drive. Making it worse is everyone is playing the emotions so low that there is no emotional connectivity after all the big heady reveals.
Depp has struggled a bit lately and his role here is a welcome departure. It's nice to know he is able to pull off a character without having to rely on Disney's extensive costume and makeup department. He gets to do a bit of acting here, something that pays off when a lot of his screen time is just his voice. Unfortunately, as the A.I. develops, it too realizes that it is better off utilizing the face of Johnny Depp and plasters his digitized face all over the place.
The supporting cast is great, but most of them look bored, too. Morgan Freeman is a fabulous actor and always a welcome presence, but he doesn't look like he's having much fun. Then there is Rebecca Hall, who as Will's wife needs to be a lightning rod of emotion to keep us connected to Will after he transcends. But she seems so vacant in most of her scenes that it never allows the audience to truly get on board with all of the erratic decisions she makes based on her love for Will. Other actors are either wasted, Paul Bettany; or completely miscast, Kate Mara.
The lingering problem with the film may stem from the producing credit of Christopher Nolan. First time director Wally Pfister, an Oscar winning cinematographer for his stunning work on "Inception", who has worked with Nolan for years, seems hell bent on mimicking Nolan's pacing and style. But as intriguing as the plot feels, it never gets as interesting or exciting as the premise teases. It always "feels" like a Nolan movie, but never it's own beast. Maybe Pfister is someday able to make the transition the director's chair, but he'll need to cut his own path rather than walk the one laid by Nolan.
In the end, "Transcendence" will raise some intriguing questions and spark some fun debate during those post-movie analytics. It's a smart movie, that never snubs its nose at the audience or dumbs it down, but ultimately a bit of a snooze.
Running time: 1 hour 59 mins
MPAA rating: Rated PG-13 for sci-fi action and violence, some bloody images, brief strong language and sensuality


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BeleniX reviewed by eWeek!
By josephgeorge on Oct 25, 2006
BeleniX is reviewed by eWeek magazine in the article - 'OpenSolaris options show promise'.
Moinak Ghosh is mentioned in the article. There is also a neat slide show with a picture of the BeleniX desktop - I must admit that it looks the best . Thanks to Chandan for designing the BeleniX logo.
eWeek also has a good review of Solaris 10 as well.
Please digg the opensolaris story here!

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To things that together will revoluionize, extension directory.
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Extentsion manager like "NoName Extensionmanager" with profile favorit extension on the list of extension you can install.
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Now in its second year, New York's Pathways in Technology Early College High School
(P-TECH) recently hosted a Mentor Day to better connect the school's ninth and 10th graders with the IBM volunteers who are helping them navigate their academic and workplace learning programs. Each student, faculty and staff member at P-TECH is
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of Big Data, Cloud Computing, Mobile Computing and Social Business. Below, IBMer
Karen R.Thompson writes about why she mentors at P-TECH.
As a child growing up in Alabama, there was nothing off limits to me. I had major support from my parents, school and church. I grew up with an excellent view of the world and of the goals I wanted to accomplish. Now that I have migrated north, I have noticed that many children in the inner city don't have the same opportunities or support that I had to help me succeed. I became a mentor at P-TECH to do my part to bridge that gap.
As a P-TECH mentor, I have the privilege of imparting knowledge and pledging my support to help one young person reach his educational and life goals. I want my protégé Oliver to know that nothing in life is impossible – that education creates access, which opens doors to his heart's desires. The education Oliver is receiving at P-TECH is giving him a head start on college courses in the 10th grade. How awesome is that!
During our Mentor Day this month, I got the chance to sit down and talk with Oliver about his aspirations while we completed our mentor/student activity, which was to create a flag that reflected our shared joys and values. Oliver is not a typical 10th grader. He is quiet and reserved, but wants to use his technology education to make an impact on the world one day. The flag we created depicted four of our shared interests:
- Technology, represented by computers and other peripherals,
- Our desire to travel the world, represented by the globe,
- Our love for the State of Arizona, represented by the cardinal, and
- Our families and our faith in God, represented by human figures and the cross.
Oliver did all the art work. He's extremely talented, and I don't mind saying that our flag was best in the class!
The flag activity gave me a chance to share some insights into high school and college with Oliver. The advice I gave him was to:
- Broaden his horizons by engaging in extracircular activities that will expose him to different cultures, languages and opportunities,
- Stay focused through 11th grade, since his grades through that period will determine his class rank and potential for college scholarships,
- Surround himself with positive people who are walking in the same direction as he – toward college, and lastly
- Remember to have fun while staying focused on his job of getting an education.
Being a mentor is a HUGE honor that I don't take lightly. As IBMers, we have been blessed to work for a company that cares about the future of our children. Become a mentor; look for opportunities to give your support to a student who can benefit from the depth and breadth you have gained during your career. You never know. That young person might aspire to goals they would never have thought of if you hadn't helped them bridge the gap between where they are and where their dreams (and hard work) can take them.
Karen R. Thompson is a Project Manager with IBM Global Services' Client Management and Resource Optimization team.
Related Resources:
P-TECH Mentor Shilpa Menezes: The Joy of Mentoring
P-TECH Student Kiambu Gall: What It Means to Have a Mentor
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TC TO WILLIAM GRAHAM; 5 August 1834; DOI: 10.1215/lt-18340805-TC-WG-01; CL 7:254-256.
5. Great Cheyne Row, Chelsea, London, / 5th August, 1834.
My Dear Friend,
It is a shame to send you this miserable scrap of Paper, after all my good purposes: but the Frank, already burdened with a Naples letter, will hold no more. It is better to accomplish never so little than to resolve on never so much: "Hell," they say truly, "is paved with good resolutions."1 Now, as often heretofore, you must take the will for the deed.
All the circumstances of our settlement and position here I suppose you to have learned from my Mother and Brothers: if not, question them and they will speak. We are got to a kind of calmness at length; I can begin to ask myself seriously: What then canst thou do? In the name of Heaven, bestir thyself and do it. Literature continues in the same mad state it has long been in; nevertheless even this mad state is the one allotted to us; now is the time, or else never: other alternative is none at all. I have as good as bargained with a Bookseller to have a volume ready in Spring; I am to call it "French Revolution," and put my name to it. Pray that I may quit me like a true Scottish man, in this matter; for it is really important to me. I am already busy enough with it, for the labour is great. Such is my task; all else, as far as may be, I suffer to run by me, like the jingle of those chariot-wheels, which are to roll on without cooperation of mine; independent of me, as I of them. A singular rhapsody written long ago at Craigenputtock2 has at length worked itself out piecemeal thro' Fraser's Magazine: I hope to send it you stitched together and legible some six weeks hence: make of it what you can; at lowest, a friendly remembrance.3
The Henry4 that was yours stands in a conspicuous place among my Books; almost daily have I some kindly breath of reminiscence from you. Very sweet it is, out of this never-resting din, where the very country is a town, to think of your Burnswark home; of your emerald hillside, overspanned by azure skies, with its outlook of mountains and shining ocean-mirrors, with silence, and the visitation of the breezes! Alas, I know well, there too has labour and vexation of spirit found footing: "Black care," as the old Roman says, "leaps up behind the horseman,"5 pursues the flying mast; you cannot ride from it or sail from it; there where it is and you are, you must meet it and do battle with it. Sharp, then! strike, and spare not! Let your voices too encourage one another.
I saw our worthy Edward twice, a good while ago; not since, tho' I have tried it, and it was his part to come and see me. They seem to have a kind of synagogue in Newman Street, and are a "self-contained house" in many senses. What is to become of it? one asks; but cannot answer. If Irving live, he will, as I still keep prophecying, kick it to the Devil (who is mostly the father of it), and, in new shape be himself again one day. But, alas, his life, so agitated and beaten on, is no sure possession; and that deepest tragedy too is among his possibilities, to sink choked into utter Darkness amid clouds of basest stupidity! God avert it. I often think I might do something for him, were we in free intercourse; but the "four-and-twenty elders" will it not, and must have their way.
My Paper is done, in spite of smallest writing. Take the will for the deed! If you will any day take a large sheet, and write me all manner of things (even about Scotsbrig I am in the dark), "Post-obit"6 will send it, and get my blessing for it. True is that word. Think of it, and act!— John says he wrote to you: did you receive? He continues well; has some hope to be back in May.
The lady straitly charges me to send her "best regards": she is well. Remember me with kindest wishes to Mrs Howatson7 and Miss Grahame; also to your good friend Johnstone, who must like me, not shudder (or "scunner" [feel disgust]) at me.
I am ever, / Your's affectionately, /
T. Carlyle.
My grateful regards to the Grange Circle,8 if you be ever there.


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Millisecond pulsars are supposed to be old neutron stars. However, they are spinning even more rapidly than newly formed pulsars. Since pulsars slow down as they age, something must have caused these older pulsars to "spin up" and be rotating as fast as they are. What is the mechanism for doing so?
They accrete gas from a disk, fed by either a wind or Roche lobe overflow from their companion. Almost all known millisecond pulsars are in binary systems, but I think some in globular clusters may have been disrupted by three-body encounters, so appear to be isolated.
There are a couple of pieces of observational evidence that support the explanation Jeremy provided. Many millisecond pulsars have been found via x-ray or gamma ray observations, and is interpreted as accretion in a disk on to the surfaces of the pulsars. The falling material speeds up the rotation of the pulsar due to conservation of angular momentum. Pulsars which are in the process of "consuming" the mass of a companion star are often called "black widow pulsars".
Currently, something like 30% of millisecond pulsars are thought to be isolated, with 70% in binary systems. Two systems are known to have planetary mass companions, the most recent having been discovered last year (Transformation of a Star into a Planet in a Millisecond Pulsar Binary). While three body encounters may account for some of the solitary millisecond pulsars known, some millisecond pulsars may completely consume their donor stars. Some authors have argued that one of the millisecond pulsars with planets likely formed as a millisecond pulsar, and formed with a very low magnetic field (Implications of the PSR 1257+12 Planetary System for Isolated Millisecond Pulsars). Since the rate of "spin-down" of a pulsar, that is how quickly its period gets longer, depends on the strength of its magnetic field, a pulsar with a weak magnetic field will stay at its rotation speed for a much longer time.


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at any time using HDPS [hard drive photo storage]. And when the vehicles arrive at the police station, the video is downloaded.
We've also used fiber optics for parking advisory signs at all of our parking structures. Before the public goes into one of the multilevel structures and drives around to find there is no parking, they are advised before they enter. We also push out information in real time to the Web every five seconds; the public now has a refresh. And we've been working with Google: Google now has applications in their "maplets" and we are now working with them on an SMS [short-message service] application, so you can get parking availability on your cell phone. Of course, we've implemented voice over IP, which saved us a bundle of money and allowed us to do away with T1s. We no longer lease those circuits. We now put all our traffic signals on our network; so far we have moved about 50 percent of the traffic signals on the city's network. We are working with the regional partners, such as the MTA [Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority] for Rapid Bus transit priority in Santa Monica and Los Angeles.
We have implemented traffic cameras throughout the city and we are now deciding whether to make this available to the public to view over the Internet. We are also investigating wireless parking meters through Wi-Fi and cellular technologies. And again, none of this would have been possible without the underpinnings of fiber broadband.
Q: What have been the primary challenges in accomplishing all of this?
A: We believe you have to organize your IT internally to effectively communicate with your business partners. Some of the areas that were a focus for us were: GIS document management, Web services and many others. We aligned staff to ensure those areas were well understood and well staffed within the organization. That way our clients were able to go to those areas for resources that would help them with their particular needs. When we found there were needs for our clients outside the areas IT typically manages, such as water utility or permitting, we actually outsourced our staff and they would sit in the trenches so to speak, working with that business unit, even though they still reported to my IT managers.
It was very important for us to make sure we had ongoing funding. We made sure we communicated the need for depreciating all of our assets, including what's on the desktop, the server assets and our network assets. Everything we own is now depreciated and is in a refresh cycle through enterprise funding, which covers desktops, servers, networks, telecommunications, and fiber-optic enhancements and growth. It has been extremely useful for us to stay current and to make sure everyone is working on the same playing field. That's been key for making sure we can deploy enterprisewide applications in a timely manner.
Q: Did you also look for alternate sources of funding?
A: Yes, but really when possible, we would become entrepreneurs and look at ways to pool funds. I mentioned that we pooled funds from the city, school district and college to build our fiber networks, as well as to manage those. But we are now in the process of leasing colocation space and dark fiber to companies, such as HBO, Google, Fox Entertainment and many others. Santa Monica is fortunate in that we are close to Hollywood; there is a lot of video production and postproduction houses that serve the studios here that need to communicate to the rest of the world. We now have become their connection point, and this is actually nurturing them to stay and fostering new ones to move into the community.


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