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Actually the Matrix was planned as a trilogy to begin with, but the Warner bros. were uncertain about it so they put a hold on Reloaded and Revolutions until the first became a success. If you check out the official site, you can check out the storyboard of pics dated as back as 1999. Plus they explained it themselfs on Matrix Revisited.

As for the suckyness in the story.. well dont look at the trilogy as three movies but one movie cut in 3 parts. First part was about the story, second was about the action and third was about the climax. Now compair that to any movie/story thats known to man kind...
Of course that doesnt justify the cheesy dialogs and over-action focusing on sfx just for the heck of it.. but then again, The Matrix (1st) was _so_ good that even sequels didnt manage to live up to it.
It did looked that the sequels were trying to be matrixy like those b-grade movies and commercials and underworld.

Lots of solutions have been suggested -- VMWare, a self-signed root certificate, various driver hacks, and hardware hacks all the way down to a quality microphone.

For that matter, what about ReactOS? And what about user feedback?

Most users would not buy a DVD that required them to play it on a computer. Somehow, I'm guessing the hardware on any "trusted" DVD player will be _very_ easy to hack -- something like a modchip? Add to that the fact that we already have non-compliant DVD players, and most of us don't want to go buy a new one.

As for me, I will quietly sit here borrowing CDs from people and ripping flac files (or buying them from magnatune), and as soon as DVD burners or terabyte storage gets cheap enough and a good format is available, I'll be ripping full-quality DVDs.

Once they've got us all locked into an Orwellian DMCA scheme, I laugh and pull out my multi-terabyte archive of stuff, release it onto Kazaa, start giving away burned copies on street corners with only a license that insists that for each copy I give to someone, they must burn two for someone else...

This is not because I'm evil, and I hope that I will never end up doing that. I would rather use something like Magnatune and actually pay the artists and be completely unrestricted in how I use the music. I would rather still use Creative Commons licensed stuff, but honestly, I haven't seen The Matrix nearly enough times. Fatboy Slim, Prodigy, and Jimi Hendrix are all still damn good. I don't need to buy new music, and so I would start the piracy like mad if I ever thought that such things would be limited in their use.

I would probably choke to death on rage when I could no longer listen to classic songs about freedom, or even songs from ICP and Limp Bizkit about breaking heads for no reason in absolute disrespect of authroity, without surrenduring my freedoms to a central authority -- without playing them all on some offshoot of Longhorn.

I almost did anyway when I heard Metallica bitching about Napster -- I wanted to throw some of their own lyrics back at them. Lyrics like "So fucking what?" was my first reaction. My next reaction was somewhat longer: "All the justice pain and greed money talking" but I'm not sure that's actually what's being said. Either way, the whole song "And Justice For All" rebels against exactly what I thought of Metallica as doing.

Robots using biological brainmatter.. hmm .. I see the Matrix comming..

Because bits can't physically hurt or kill people.

Think again.

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Just imagine if most of the electricity using world was running on solar power. I hope I live to see the day.

Oh you do, do you? What if everything was reliant on solar power and something catastrophic blocked out the sun? Don't you know that humans are the next best power source in line after the sun? I, for one, would rather not be alive to face that future.

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