"The Matrix" Website Updated

feelafel writes: "Corona's Upcoming Films movie news site reports that the official Matrix website, www.whatisthematrix.com, has been "reloaded" today. Click on the keyboard twice, and enter the password "reload" to get to the new material. There's QuickTime VRs, on the set shots and most likely a slew of new hidden stuff. Happy searching."

Comments

what about the bugs ?

[mirko]

will the agents still need to "bug* Neo to find hm ?
Even though they may teleport anywhere ?
Many illogical features, IMHO.

Re:what about the bugs ?

[Anonymous Coward]

Stay humble, you dumb fuck...it's not a doctoral concept. Agents live and teleport INSIDE the Matrix, but Morpheus et al. exist in the outside physical world. The Matrix is a "video game" with humanity plugged in playing. The real world is the arcade room.

Neo

Re:what about the bugs ?

[Anonymous Coward]

um, it's a movie. if it was realistic it wouldnt exist....

There wouldn't be much of a plot if the agents could teleport in and kill him before the action starts would there?! I dunno about you, but I'd rather have a few inconsistencies in a 2 hour movie then a realistic 2 minute movie...

Re:what about the bugs ?

[mirko]

I'd have believed you if this had been written with the Cowboy Neal account ;-)

Re:what about the bugs ?

[Anonymous Coward]

the bug was actually a computer program so they didnt really need to use it to find him only to keep track of his position (since they did the search first to find him).

Re:what about the bugs ?

[Anonymous Coward]

Agents are programs and they WERE programed in a certain way. They can be stonger and faster that a human --in stat space-- vbut they act as they were programmed. They respawn anytme they're killed, but they're like any other human inside the Matrix, because when machines wrote the Matrix, they planed agents to take care of humans inside the Matrix, not thos who comes from outside.

Re:what about the bugs ?

[Anonymous Coward]

How is it illogical that they can't teleport to him if they don't know where he is? If you could teleport, could you appear next to me right now? No? How illogical.

Why...

[Penrod Pooch]

is an updated website frontpage material?

Re:Why...

[Anonymous Coward]

Agreed. Suck it Trebek!

Re:Why...

[Anonymous Coward]

Because it's the Matrix, and they think it's useful to let people know that a website on it has been updated with a few new things (and I mean 'few'... I was finished with the new material before the 2nd post was even posted.)

Re:Why...

[mikeyc666]

I can't believe they used Microsoft Frontpage to make that site!!!

Re:Why...

[norculf]

A leather glove!

Tight Site

[SkewlD00d]

So are they filming matrix 2 and 3 at the same time or just 2??

Re:Tight Site

[Robert1]

2 and 3 are both being filmed at once.

What is the Matrix

[Mode Frozen]

I chose the red pill. Which led to a game that sucks ass. DONT CHOOSE THE RED PILL. :P

Re:What is the Matrix

[Anonymous Coward]

Damn you agent Smith...you Slashdotted www.whatisthematrix.com!

Re:What is the Matrix

[jmccay]

Actually the higher you get in the game, the more codes they give you. The codes I know so far:
chrysalis,
page78,
page98,
page168,
page 272, and
sixtypages.
This is on top of the reload code. You enter these by selecting the upper right screen after you get through the reload screen.

Navigation?

[UM_Maverick]

Wow...I'm the first to admit that it's a pretty site, and there's probably a lot of fun stuff to do, but there's also something to be said for usable navigation. I wish I had time to click every single little screen to try to find some of the good stuff...

Has anybody else noticed the lack of easily-navigated sites out there today? People seem to have forgotten the old "just because we can doesn't mean we should" motto..

Re:Navigation?

[tomstdenis]

Try sitting in a "web design" college class. Where the motto is "if it loads in under a day its incomplete".

For example, in one lab we had to use CSS stuff. Which is all good [of course I've completely forgotten how todo them now since I never use em]... anyways. I did a rather plain webpage that did use CSS styles and anyways the teacher said I didn't work "hard enough" on it.

Most people in my class think that "flash animations" are stndard HTML elements and no site is complete without them.

Oh more on point, WTF, what's up with the stupid movie? When is it comming out?

Tom

Re:Navigation?

[digitalsushi]

I agree that most sites suck when it comes to navigation, but i think the mantra of the matrix site is one of obfuscation...

Re:Navigation?

[untoward]

I think that for entertainment sites, like this matrix site, it's refreshing to have to look around. I like exploring websites to find things, ala everything2 and Homeworkclub. It makes exploring the site more interesting.

Re:Navigation?

[tomstdenis]

Funny, at first in real math "matrices" are hard to grasp :-)

Wierd...

Tom

Re:Navigation?

[Flossymike]

CSS is good for reducing download time as you can remove the depriciated elements from the html, that includes the font tag.

CSS is also great for that ideal situation where content and form are seperated.

For more good information on using CSS see the following:-
http://archive.webstandards.org/

Re:Navigation?

[moonbender]

Exploring everything2 is great, but it's that way because of the wealth of information, not because the navigation is crippled. OTOH I suppose it's in good humour for the Matrix website to have obfusciating navigation, since you'll hardly really /need/ to know every single bit of advertisement on it.

Re:Navigation?

[Anonymous Coward]

Actually, in HTML 4.01-strict CSS is obligated. A lot of HTML is deprecated, and replaced by CSS. Even tags like b and i have all become CSS. It's the wave of the future. And if you do it right it saves you space and time. Ofcourse, since you probably couldn't be bothered to learn it right, you never realised that.

Re:Navigation?

[grafikhugh]

Creativity shouldn't take a back seat to your lack of patience. How interesting would comercials be if they where 30 seconds of just the facts in black and white. Seriously its a site built around entertainment, let them entertain you. Ambiguity is kind of fitting for a movie like "The Matrix".

Re:Navigation?

[anthony_dipierro]

I wish I had time to click every single little screen to try to find some of the good stuff...

It's a game, not a website, and I've given up on finding every little screen in games since Zelda.

Re:Navigation?

[zsmooth]

Coming Summer 2003... They had to reshoot all the shots that had Aaliyah with Jada Pinckett-Smith, and plus the Oracle died (dunno what they're doing about that...)

Re:Navigation?

[Anonymous Coward]

The internet is not television. Informative content should always come before design, and webdesigners that lock fonts using CSS should be tied down while the tendons are ripped away from their fingers all the way to their elbows.

and they deserve neither painkillers or antibiotics.

Flash designers should just be shot in the back of the head as they're obviously immune to pain.

Re: Navigation?

[thebabelfish]

Oh more on point, WTF, what's up with the stupid movie? When is it comming out?

According to the IMDB, both The Matrix Reloaded (the second one) and The Matrix Revolutions (the third one) are coming out in 2003.

I originally thought they were coming out this year, but I suppose not.

Re:Navigation?

[invenustus]

that lock fonts using CSS should be tied down while the tendons are ripped....

My old Slashdot sig had a simpler idea. Deprive every web designer of oxygen until his or her main page loads. If they die, they deserve it.

Re:Navigation?

[Anonymous Coward]

Unfortunately, the CSS approach to fonts cripples usability by locking the fonts to a specific pixel size. This wouldn't be a bad thing if designers weren't such pricks that they insist on using the smallest fonts possible ("Hey, it looks great on my 3000 dollar 26" monitor! What are you complaining about!@#"). I can't fucking wait until people with vision problems file suit under the ADA against every pompous designer out there that willfully limits access for the disabled.

Re:Navigation?

[IronChef]

I would have flipped out and killed everyone in the room, starting with the instructor. I work plenty hard on "plain" pages that have good cross-platform code.

When I read the Matrix site news here my first thought was, "you couldn't PAY me to visit that site, it'll be pure aggravation."

Heck, I haven't even visited fox.com/24 and I love the show. They drill the URL into my brain every chance they get but I know it'll be a load of Flash crap.

Re:Navigation?

[Grelli]

and plus the Oracle died

but... but... no!!! She's been with us since the beggining!

Re:Navigation?

[RoyalTS]

Untrue. This only happens if you use absolute font sizes. If you use em or ex, for example, it still scales.

Re:Navigation?

[Anonymous Coward]

The question is, WHY would you go to such a class?

Re:Navigation?

[Anonymous Coward]

sorry to hear you wasted college hours learning to make webpages ...

Re:Navigation?

[extra88]

Not in my department. The classes I've taken have focused on usable design and platform compatibility. I now have a deep hatred for Netscape 4.x, so much DHTML doesn't work right in it. Unfortunately we ran out of time to get into accessibility so all the class heard was early comments to make sure to have ALT tags on your images.

Re:Navigation?

[tomstdenis]

Its part of the course I'm in.

Re:Navigation?

[tomstdenis]

Its so much of a "waste". I mean just having experienced it is nice, but I wish my instructors wouldn't get so excited about every dazzly little thing.

Specially in the programming languages classes.

My C teacher is fond of "gets" and when I told him its a risk to use [e.g. buffer problems] he told me nobody would overflow a buffer on purpose and its not a problem he wants to address.

Thats when I snicker and "go with the flow".

Tom

Re:Navigation?

[ender81b]

So sadly true. The worst part is half the time they want you to use some P.O.S. WYSIWYG editor like front page or dreamweaver. Sad.. very, very, very sad.

I dropped the class I was in after they refused to not make me use either dreamweaver/frontpage and I insited on not only coding it by hand but *shock* validating my HTML with the W3C's validator. The teacher was none too happy when I pointed out that most of hte crap he was teaching wasn' valid HTML standards and shouldn't be used. Oh well. Hooray for college education.

Re:Navigation?

[testuser58]

First mistake: believing college professors know anything about the Web (some do, most don't). If you want to learn Web development, go intern at some company that's actually doing it.

Second mistake: believing large companies like AOL-Time Warner know anything about the Web (I've done outsourced work for them and other giants... they don't have a clue)

Anyway, if you don't feel like playing their stupid "find the right page and type our secret password" game, just go here.

Re:Navigation?

[stickytar]

I know this is offtopic, but what's up with xhtml 1.1? Everyone and their dog is saying that this is the BOMB format, but I still find it too constrictive. You can't even reference javascript functions like onChange from inside an input element. Its NO GOOD. How is a format like this going to be excepted if you lose the functionality of javascript? What's wrong with javascript these days?

Re:Navigation?

[J. Random Software]

See the intrinsic events module for onchange. Remember that XML is case-sensitive, and that user agents may not implement any particular scripting language or have scripting enabled (due to a history of security and privacy exploits in the standard sub-standard browsers).

Re:Navigation?

[Anonymous Coward]

True, but I rarely encounter pages using em. Designers have their heads far up their ass when it comes to usability.

Re:Navigation?

[Anonymous Coward]

There is a schematic of the site's layout on the first page after you choose the bandwidth level.

Re:Navigation?

[sql*kitten]

the Oracle died (dunno what they're doing about that...)

This is what to do:

$ sqlplus /nolog
SQL> connect / as SYSDBA;
SQL> startup;

Re:Navigation?

[Anonymous Coward]

You are so cool and know so much more than your professor. Why are you wasting your time in school?

Re:Navigation?

[tomstdenis]

I never said I know more than them. I was trying to point out how "form-fitted" they are. e.g. teaching what they were tought without questioning a single thing.

Matrix III

[SkewlD00d]

I bet the /. effect overloads the matrix and frees humanity. Oops, did i spoil the ending?

It sure is pretty but...

[beowulf_26]

"If I could choose the real world or the Matrix, I'd choose" the real world cause it doesn't make me gag on it's plugins.

Be forewarned, this page is plugin hell. In two minutes of browsing I've run into Flash, Quicktime VR, RealPlayer. The Matrix is a highly complicated thing I guess...

Doesn't matter, I'll still pay through the nose to go to any sneak peak and I'll probably see it in theaters at least 3 times as well.

Wow! That was...

[buckeyeguy]

a 'can-miss' experience. Not much of a draw, even for a casual Matrix fan.

Matrix upgrade

[Anonymous Coward]

does this update include a decent, cohesive plot without the clunky Biblical and Lewis Caroll references?

Re:Matrix upgrade

[Anonymous Coward]

It is my experience that people who find the plot incoherent are the ones who didn't understand it.

What makes the references clunky? How would you have done it?

System of a down

[Commienst]

System of Down's website is the most annoying to navigate site on the web I have come across. While it must have took the webmaster a long time to make that remote control, it makes the site utterly annoying to navigate.

Re:System of a down

[twentycavities]

The musical feedback is pretty hardcore, though. It'd be nice if all menus did that.

How to Hack the Matrix

[SkewlD00d]

Valid commands:

• geof
• skroce
• darrow
• wrong number
• guns
• morpheus
• trinity
• deja vu
• steak
• agent bullet time
• crash
• keanu
• carrie
• laurence
• tokyo
• lobby
• mirror mirror
• sentinal
• nebuchadnezzar
• site credits
• owen
• page168
• page212
• page98
• page78
• b ill
• redpill
• classic
• reload

I didn't try them all, so play w/ em! It's sorta cool, I guess.

Re:How to Hack the Matrix

[julez]

you forgot "red", three still of the lady in red in nothing but her lacy underthings.

Re:How to Hack the Matrix

[Anonymous Coward]

Trinity tripping after the Tokyo premiere

Codes for "Input Codes"

[Tensor]

These are all the codes it accepts : 'geof', 'skroce', 'darrow', 'wrong number' || 'wrong #', 'guns', 'morpheus', 'trinity', 'deja vu', 'Steak', 'agentbullettime', 'crash', 'keanu', 'carrie', 'laurence', 'tokyo', 'lobby' 'jaw', 'mirror mirror', 'neo bullet time', 'SENTINAL', 'NEBUCHADNEZZAR', 'SENTINELLARGE800x600', 'site credits', 'owen', 'chrysalis', 'page168', 'page212', 'page98', 'page78', 'bill', 'RED', 'REDPILL', 'classic', 'reload'

Re:Codes for "Input Codes"

[Anonymous Coward]

Input

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function fo(){
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if (a == 'darrow' || a == 'Darrow' || a == 'DARROW'){maxiWin = window.open("gpopup1.html","maxiWin","width=508,he ight=216");hi++;}
if (a == 'wrong number' || a == 'Wrong Number' || a == 'WRONG HUMBER' || a == 'Wrongnumber' || a == 'WRONGHUMBER' || a == 'wrongnumber' || a == 'WRONG #' || a == 'wrong #' || a == 'wrong#' || a == 'WRONG #'){maxiWin = window.open("popup_vince.html","maxiWin","width=20 0,height=100");hi++;}
if (a == 'guns' || a == 'Guns' || a == 'GUNS'){maxiWin = window.open("popup_bill.html","maxiWin","width=200 ,height=100");hi++;}
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if (a == 'trinity' || a == 'Trinity' || a == 'TRINITY'){maxiWin = window.open("trinity.html","maxiWin","width=188,he ight=200");hi++;}
if (a == 'deja vu' || a == 'Deja Vu' || a == 'DEJA VU' || a == 'dejavu' || a == 'DEJAVU' || a == 'DejaVu'){fatWin.top.location.href='scrt3_0.html'; hi++;}
if (a == 'Steak' || a == 'steak' || a == 'STEAK'){maxiWin = window.open("steak_enterance.html","maxiWin","widt h=200,height=200");hi++;}
if (a == 'agentbullettime' || a == 'agent bullet time'){maxiWin = window.open("agentbullettime_mov.html","maxiWin"," width=340,height=280");hi++;}
if (a == 'crash' || a == 'CRASH' || a == 'Crash'){maxiWin = window.open("crash_mov.html","maxiWin","width=340, height=280");hi++;}
if (a == 'keanu' || a == 'KEANU' || a == 'Keanu'){maxiWin = window.open("keanu_tokyo.html","maxiWin","width=33 6,height=272");hi++;}
if (a == 'carrie' || a == 'CARRIE' || a == 'Carrie'){maxiWin = window.open("carrie_tokyo.html","maxiWin","width=3 36,height=272");hi++;}
if (a == 'laurence' || a == 'LAURENCE' || a == 'Laurence'){maxiWin = window.open("laurence_tokyo.html","maxiWin","width =336,height=272");hi++;}
if (a == 'tokyo' || a == 'TOKYO' || a == 'Tokyo'){maxiWin = window.open("tokyo.html","maxiWin","width=336,heig ht=272");hi++;}
if (a == 'lobby' || a == 'LOBBY' || a == 'Lobby'){maxiWin = window.open("lobby_mov.html","maxiWin","width=340, height=280");hi++;} if (a == 'jaw' || a == 'JAW' || a == 'Jaw'){maxiWin = window.open("http://www.xlr8tr.com","maxiWin","wid th=700,height=500");hi++;}
if (a == 'mirror mirror' || a == 'mirrormirror' || a == 'Mirror Mirror' || a == 'MIRROR MIRROR'){maxiWin = window.open("mirrormirror_mov.html","maxiWin","wid th=340,height=280");hi++;}
if (a == 'neo bullet time' || a == 'Neo Bullet Time' || a == 'neobullettime'){maxiWin = window.open("neobullettime_mov.html","maxiWin","wi dth=340,height=280");hi++;}
if (a == 'SENTINAL' || a == 'Sentinal' || a == 'sentinal'){maxiWin = window.open("sentinal_mov.html","maxiWin","width=3 40,height=280");hi++;}
if (a == 'NEBUCHADNEZZAR' || a == 'Nebuchadnezzar' || a == 'nebuchadnezzar'){maxiWin = window.open("nebuchadnezzar_mov.html","maxiWin","w idth=340,height=280");hi++;}
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if (a == 'owen' || a == 'owen' || a == 'owen'){maxiWin = window.open("owen_patterson_matrix2.html","maxiWin ","width=260,height=205");hi++;}
if (a == 'chrysalis' || a == 'Chrysalis' || a == 'CHRYSALIS'){maxiWin = window.open("chrysalis_def.html","maxiWin","width= 650,height=400,resizable=no,scroll=no");hi++;}
if (a == 'page168' || a == 'Page168' || a == 'PAGE168'){maxiWin = window.open("spread168.html","maxiWin","width=600, height=400");hi++;}
if (a == 'page212' || a == 'Page212' || a == 'PAGE212'){maxiWin = window.open("spread212.html","maxiWin","width=600, height=400");hi++;}
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self.cl ose();}
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function check(){self.onBlur = out();}

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Re:Codes for "Input Codes"

[Steveftoth]

I guess security is lax when they put all the codes in the page you download.

JS security does not work.

Re:Codes for "Input Codes"

[Ziviyr]

I guess security is lax when they put all the codes in the page you download.

JS security does not work.

I know, it will bankrupt them and it totally goes against the hackerish nature of the movie to allow that. :-)

Matrix book preview

[prototype]

If you picked up the Matrix redux DVD, it contains a TON of material on the movie and previews of the upcoming ones.

On the site play the shockwave game and once you get through the various stages you're given a password to access the Matrix book preview (which they discuss on the DVD). The book contains tons of pics and stuff from the movies, the anime shorts, storyboards and other great stuff.

You can access the book preview URL directly here:
http://whatisthematrix.warnerbros.com/cmp/bookprev iew.html

Enjoy!

liB

Re:Matrix book preview

[Chanc_Gorkon]

Is the redux DVD better then the original DVD?
Out of all of my DVD's, the Matrix is still one of
the best!

Re:Matrix book preview

[SkewlD00d]

You mean "The Matrix Revisited?"

Re:Matrix book preview

[SkewlD00d]

There is only one "The Matrix" movie cut, but there is another dvd that has more goodies called "The Matrix Revisited" (see other post).

Re:Matrix book preview

[filtersweep]

That Matrix Revisited DVD is a trip... they licensed four tracks of my music and hearing Keanu doing a voice-over on one of them is downright freaky (in his wooden monotone).

Believe it or not, that movie has a real cult following.

Oh, and I had been using the name "Simulacra" long before Matrix came out...

Realistically, you would have to be quite a fan to appreciate "Revisited."

It's ingenious...

[Mahtar]

With the current catch-22 bandwidth dilemma most sites are having, this navigation scheme is absolutely ingenious.

Someone visits the site, realizes how pretty/cool/etc. it is, can't find their way around, ands leaves. So they get all the praise, without all the bandwidth!

what a dreadful site

[Anonymous Coward]

how confusing. why obfuscate the content so much. oh well.

How to rate a lame web site.

[the eric conspiracy]

Criminy, that was one of the worst web sites I've seen.

Marketting seems to have devolved to pretty pictures, and has nothing to do with useful information.

Well, get a clue - the reason I buy something is because I have some information that makes me believe that my life will be improved in some fashion as a result of the purchase. This site does nothing to give me the information I need to make a purchase decision. And NO, I am NOT going to download 5 plug-ins either!

Re:How to rate a lame web site.

[bricriu]

When was marketing NOT all about pretty pictures?

Style over substance, that's the American way ;)

Re:How to rate a lame web site.

[plone]

um, if you actually bothered to look around, the matrix website has alot more content than most movie sites. I've spent hours reading short stories, comics, production info and interviews. Perhaps it seemed like there wasn't much because you only looked at the reloaded section?

Re:How to rate a lame web site.

[the eric conspiracy]

Perhaps it seemed like there wasn't much because you only looked at the reloaded section?

I looked around, but I didn't get much past the home page because of the crummy navigation and heavy use of plugins. If this is better than most movie sites, than the genre as a whole is very lacking.

Pretty pictures does not equal usability.

Re:How to rate a lame web site.

[Hassman]

I guess this is what happens when you have an attention span and IQ of a dog.

Re:How to rate a lame web site.

[invenustus]

Marketting seems to have devolved to pretty pictures.... the reason I buy something is because I have some information that makes me believe that my life will be improved in some fashion as a result of the purchase.

How will buying a ticket to a movie improve your life? Maybe because you'll get some enjoyment from the pretty pictures on the screen.

I think movies are going to have to start making two websites. Requiem for a Dream's web site got me thinking about this. It's a beautiful site that adapts the movie to the web medium well, but it's got no information. You'd think the makers of an independent film who have to struggle to pay the bills would want people to know where to see or buy the damn thing. Even the distributor, Artisan Entertainment, only linked to the above site.

I'm all for Flash as a medium for creative expression, but sometimes I just want some info on a white background.

Re:How to rate a lame web site.

[Anonymous Coward]

I came across 2 lame sites at work...

One of them is the #3 guy in the industry. They were the only one that requires user info to get datasheet while the #1 & #2 doesn't. Wonder why ? Furthermore they track your evry move on their web site and have sales droils called you - guess which vendor I would choose ?

The other privately owned vendor trys to sell you parts, but doesn't tell you what it is without giving out info. Wouldn't want to waste 5 minutes just to find out they sell crap.

Pyrotechnician

[Cyclopedian]

One picture from The Matrix: Reloaded area:

A guy with a t-shirt that says "Pyrotechnician: If you see me running, try to keep up".

LMAO

-Cyc

Not Fast Enough

[MattW]

Webmaster: "What are you saying? That I can dodge a slashdotting?"

Morpheus: "No, webmaster, what I'm saying is that when you're ready...well, who are we kidding? You're doomed."

Slashdot:1, Matrix:0

Re:Pyrotechnician - with pic

[Cyclopedian]

The pyro t-shirt.
-Cyc

Another Code

[Twiki]

On the binary code entry screen, 11000 gets you another hidden interview. Any other binary codes?

I have no link since it's all Flash, but here's how to get to it:

- Once you type in 'Reload' to get to the Reloaded area, you must choose Enhanced Version
- On the top right, there's a little vertical bar with a yellow light. This is the Option bar, click it once to expand.
- Once expanded, click once on the grey square just to the right of the 'HTML Version' button.
- Click the green square you just opened up, and the binary entry terminal drops down.

Enjoy!

Re:Another Code

[eopiclius]

10110110

Re:Another Code

[Anonymous Coward]

Nope, already found by a previous post in another thread.

Re:Another Code

[Wrangler99]

Here's ALL the binary codes 00011000 - interview 10110110 - interview 11011011 - quicktime VR

Re:Another Code

[eopiclius]

I posted both...

Re:Another Code

[OrangeHairMan]

00011000

Access Panel 3

[eopiclius]

Code for access panel 3 in the Options menu next to HTML/Flash switch is 10110110.

Re:Access Panel 3

[SkewlD00d]

The link to the flash thing is here. I can't find any more codes, and I looked in the swf binary.

How to use a mouse

[Safety Cap]

Click on the keyboard twice~

Umm, on the Web, you activate a link by clicking the primary mouse button once ("single-click"). Clicking twice in rapid succession ("double-click") may result in errors, double billing or crashes.

Now it is your turn! Learn how to use the net and learn how to use a mouse! It's easy!! You'll see!!!

Re:How to use a mouse

[Anonymous Coward]

It's a FLASH ANIMATION you dumb shit!

Re:How to use a mouse

[netsharc]

Well I never saw any keyboard (I blame it on the confusing maze of tiny iconic screens, all alike), but maybe it was a keyboard drawn in Flash, which is programmed to do something magic only when you double-click it.

Re:How to use a mouse

[Safety Cap]

~programmed to do something magic only when you double-click it.

When you single-click, you get a pop-up with a prompt to enter the "password."

Yes, the instructions were confusing. Here is how to get to the keyboard:

1. Surf to What is the matrix
2. Click on "enhanced version" (on the top of the page)
3. Click on the keyboard (on the lower-right side of the page).
4. Type reload in the popup window's edit box.
5. Click on the enter button
6. have fun!

So does this mean the MPAA Jihad is over?

[Anonymous Coward]

After all, that site goes to "whatisthematrix.warnerbros.com". We must have won, right? Otherwise why would this be here?

This movie

[MicroBerto]

Does anybody have a REALLY good feeling about this movie? I do. I think that this is one sequel that is going to rock its fans just as much as the original. These guys know what they have to live up to, and I think they're going to do it!

Unlike Star Wars, which could go either way... I'm quite confident in this one, and have been from the start.

Re:This movie

[GreenHell]

You do? Really?

I (and some of my friends) have a really bad feeling about this movie. The basic idea works like this: "A prequel would be cool/decent/ok/whatever the opion of the first movie was, but a sequel will suck rancid goat nuts."

Why? Well, let's put it this way, take away the special effects from the first movie, and you're left with a plot with huge holes in it and a bunch of heavy handed Biblical metaphors.

Now, put the special effects back in, and you have an above-average action movie (Ok, it was WAY above average at the time, but not any more.) Which brings us to the next problem: The special effects aren't so 'special' anymore. Everyone's done it, everybody's seen it. There's no 'woah, that was cool' when we get a slow-bullet time effect or the sudden freeze, rotate camera, & continue effect. We've seen it beaten to death, propped up to seem like it's still alive, and beaten some more.

To sum up: Matrix sequel doesn't look too good IMHO.
(Especially since I've heard that Keanu will fly in this movie. If there's any part of the movie that made me want to groan, it was that flying sequence at the end. Both unneccesary & horrible!)

Pyrotechnician Shirt

[MicroBerto]

Did anybody see the shirt on This Page??? WOW I want one BAD!

PYROTECHNICIAN
[explosives sign with bulletholes in it]
IF YOU SEE ME RUN TRY TO KEEP UP

HEY!

[Dragnet]

I think that their website is doing a bullet time-type move! No wait, we just slashdotted it!

DMCA violation?

[anthony_dipierro]

Click on the keyboard twice, and enter the password "reload" to get to the new material.

You just offered to the public a technology that is primarily designed or produced for the purpose of circumventing a technological measure that effectively controls access to a copyrighted work.

wtf?

[alec314159]

Are they going to post a story every time google updates its contents or every time some webmaster farts and turns over in bed?

Re:wtf?

[Anonymous Coward]

Yes, every time, because otherwise we'd be deprived of your insightful, informative, and interesting complaining. Thank you for posting.

grrr

[Sir Homer]

The Matrix = teh best movie Site slow = because all you freaks are trying to go to it at the same time, bandwidth = limited

And..now...the most massive troll of all time...

[Anonymous Coward]

I think the Matrix sucked as a movie.

Sorry. It was one of the most adolescent, superficial, testosterone-laden movies I have ever seen.

I mean: people in black trench coats blowing people away with shotguns and dodging bullets in slow-mow?

PLEASE.

Give it up. The Matrix should have been put to rest a long time ago.

dude, take a valium!

[CodeMunch]

pretty pictures are fore ENTERTAINMENT
this site is for ENTERTAINMENT
the movies was full of ENTERTAINMENT
the movie may also have been a statement on how "society" is stuck in a rut on "how things should be"

if you are going to slam it, give some reasonable information to back up your opinsions. The site doesn't need to fit your luddite view of how things should be.

Free your mind - Morpheus

Animatrix

[ink]

Oh wow!

http://whatisthematrix.warnerbros.com/rl_img/matri x_anime_preview.gif Matrix anime!

Re:Animatrix

[duren686]

Pity the name sucks

List incomplete

[Alsee]

To "Hack the Matrix" for all "passwords" to try, all you have to do is look at the sourcecode:

if (a.indexOf('@') != -1 && a.indexOf('.') != -1) (Test for E-mail address!)

if (a == 'geof'...
if (a == 'skroce'...
if (a == 'darrow'...
if (a == 'wrong number' || a == 'Wrong Number' || a == 'WRONG HUMBER' (TYPO!) || a == 'Wrongnumber' || a == 'WRONGHUMBER' (TYPO!) || a == 'wrongnumber' || a == 'WRONG #' || a == 'wrong #' || a == 'wrong#' || a == 'WRONG #')...
if (a == 'guns'...
if (a == 'morpheus'...
if (a == 'trinity'...
if (a == 'deja vu'...
if (a == 'Steak'...
if (a == 'agentbullettime'...
if (a == 'crash'...
if (a == 'keanu'...
if (a == 'carrie'...
if (a == 'laurence'...
if (a == 'tokyo'...
if (a == 'lobby'...
if (a == 'jaw'...
if (a == 'mirror mirror'...
if (a == 'neo bullet time'...
if (a == 'SENTINAL'...
if (a == 'NEBUCHADNEZZAR'...
if (a == 'SENTINELLARGE800x600'...
if (a == 'site credits'...
if (a == 'owen' || a == 'owen' || a == 'owen')... (Repetitive *AND* redundant!)
if (a == 'chrysalis'...
if (a == 'page168'...
if (a == 'page212'...
if (a == 'page98'...
if (a == 'page78'...
if (a == 'bill'...
if (a == 'RED'...
if (a == 'REDPILL'...
if (a == 'classic'...
if (a == 'reload'...

-

Re:List incomplete

[kronsrepus]

You'd think that the warped mind creating such a complex website, just might have the skills to make the password discovery at least somewhat tricky.

Imagine that - server side matrix... you can only access some interfaces at certain times of the day. They need a better geek on their webdesign team.

The instructions left out a step

[bdigit]

You first must click the Hack the matrix icon on the left hand side of the main page, then click the keyboard twice.

Re:And..now...the most massive troll of all time..

[Pharmboy]

I think the Matrix sucked as a movie.
Sorry. It was one of the most adolescent, superficial, testosterone-laden movies I have ever seen.

WAS NOT, WAS NOT, WAS NOT!
Sorry, just couldn't help myself. But who cares, it still rocks. Don't bother moderating this one:)

More Hacking

[harvardian]

Once you get to the flash panel after typing reload into the keyboard, click on the panel pull-out that's on the far right. Click on the small button to the right of "HTML version" twice. You get a panel asking for binary input. Here are the codes:

• 11011011: a Quicktime VR of something in some ship
• 10110110: an interview with the stunt coordinator
• 00011000: an interview with a concept illustrator

And yes, I did try all 256 codes :-P The interviews are pretty short and the VR totally unrevealing, so this secret was kind of lame.

A "viral site" gone berserk...what a piece of crap

[Anonymous Coward]

I must say that, while the original site was a bandwidth hog, slow, unstable, and annoying, it at least operated according to some semblance of logic. The site was developed by a company that tried to recruit me in lower manhattan... X something or other (name slips me now).

However, this has gotten TOTALLY out of hand, and the site no longer makes any sense at all; loading delays lead you to believe working links are invalid, active/inactive navigation has unnoticeable differences, programming and layout of various page elements and scripts is attrocious, etc.

What the hell happened to Usability as a design creedo? 30 seconds for a list of bios to load?!? WTF is with that?!? Yes, the site is in flash, but I've programmed flash sites and know that ANY site should be faster when I have 2megs downstream on an optical cable line.

The son of teh producer probably found an old DHTML O'Reilly book and decided he was going to go nuts... oy.

-Rick

The sequels..

[Anonymous Coward]

The sequels were filmed quite a while ago.. the movies would have already been out, but they're having quite a hard time making a decent movie out of the material they've got.. nobody wants to release a crappy sequel to such a great movie.

Josh

Look out!

[Anonymous Coward]

The Matrix == Hailstorm!!

They want my email

[Anonymous Coward]

just to look at clips?

NO FUCKING WAY.

An Average Slashdot User In The Matrix...

[sker]

Slashdot User: Oh shit, an agent. I'm trapped.

Tank: OK, I'm loading you up with our latest hand-to-hand combat module

Slashdot User: Fuck no I'm not going to download a plug-in! This is stupid! Why can't it just be in HTML 3.2??

Re:An Average Slashdot User In The Matrix...

[Anonymous Coward]

Only the pure of heart will succeed grasshopper.

--

Slashdot User: Oh shit, an agent. I'm trapped.

Tank: OK, I'm loading you up with our latest VB-script sub-system

Slashdot User: Fuck no, I'm not going to load something that can't manipulate binary data, is proprietary, and runs slow as shit. This is stupid! Why can't it just be anything else?

Re:An Average Slashdot User In The Matrix...

[Anonymous Coward]

Actually, VBScript handles binary data just fine as all variables are variant datatype

As far as being slow, what kind of speed do you expect from an interpreted scripting language vs compiled languages or pseudo-compiled languages like perl?

Re:An Average Slashdot User In The Matrix...

[Anonymous Coward]

VBscript handle binary data? VB can't handle binary data either. Try using a Smartcard from VB. Or maybe try some ASN.1 stuff from VB. hahaha, the only way to create/update binary data is to access each element in the array individually. It sucks ass.

As for the speed. Yeah, that's what I said, VBscript is slow as hell compared to a compiled langauage like C/C++. Yes, it's interpreted but that doesn't change the fact that it's slow.

Zion Mainframe

[skinney]

If anyone does get to the RELOAD part, which I have found. It has this cool flash interface, if you click on a certain button, you can enter in a code to have access to "ZION83N6". But you have to figure out the password. If anyone does crack it, post it to /. !

Happy Cracking :)

~Shane

Re:Zion Mainframe

[skinney]

Ok..I found one for a Quick Time Movie:

1011011

~Shane

Re:Zion Mainframe

[Anonymous Coward]

watch out.... the DMCA will come after you...

Re:Even better

[Anonymous Coward]

I absolutely have every right calling Pascal crap. It is. You are. And while you're so high and mighty, please explain how it was wrong (taking into account that ucase() could be a user defined function).

Luser!

Miami-Dade Bomb Squad

[TellarHK]

The Miami-Dade Bomb Squad patch actually has that line on it.

If you see us running...
... Catch up!

Re:Death to the slavic race

[Treylis]

I don't quite know why I'm bothering to reply to this troll... but, as could be expected, his German sucks.

That would be 'in der Welt', as the dative of 'die' nouns. If this is an example of how us German folk are the master race... heh, it's certainly a bad one.

Everyone knows Asians are genetically superior, anyways. Except in the bedroom. ;-)

Matrix as a DMCA Metaphor

[Anonymous Coward]

The way I see it, the Matrix is a metaphor for the DMCA. The Robots (IP owners) came and took control(via legislation) forcing us all into a pay-per-use model of an information economy that will be the death of modern humanity (the Matrix). Which means Slashdot (Zion) is the only hope, and damned if we're not championed by a guy who has nothing interesting to say (John Katz... er, Keanu Reeves).

Now I'm just waiting for Jack Valenti to show up and say, "Anonymous Coward, you will be assimilated." Oh, wait, wrong mythology. Instead, he'll say, "choose the red pill, or not. See if I care. Either way, you'll pay licensing fees until the end of time, or the airing Matrix XXV: The War Over Yet Another Copyright Extension, whichever comes first. Muahahahahah!"

Re:Death to the slavic race

[Anonymous Coward]

billions of young horny asians sluts can't be wrong...

Hrm.

[autopr0n]

I didn't find it (system of a down page) that hard to use at all. Perhaps the problem has more to do with your inablity or undesire to use new things, when the old ones work fine.

Matrix Filming

[Anonymous Coward]

I was an extra during the filming of Matrix 3 here in Sydney.
All I can say is....its going to be awesome!
Look out for the fetish nightclub scene, and the final fight between Neo and Agent Smith....WOW!!!

Re:Matrix Filming

[Anonymous Coward]

...fetish nightclub scene...

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.|_______|
. /___\
. / FGH \
.|___W___|
. !#D
. FA^@R
.AAGWERTGWRT#
.ADFGGHARE^QR
.$%^@!RGETWR^
.QRETTDFASRGR

Re:A "viral site" gone berserk...what a piece of c

[stickytar]

nevermind the fact that 40,000 geeks with optical lines like yourself our now sucking the life out of this server. cheers? where everyone knows my name? why?

Re:Death to the slavic race

[Suomi88]

Well, German is my fourth language, after Finnish, Swedish, and English :(

MOD PARENT UP

[ChrisCampbell47]

Someone please mod the parent of this comment up!

I had to scan comments at threshold=1 to see his tip. [shudder]

Precisely why I like it

[bonch]

I mean: people in black trench coats blowing people away with shotguns and dodging bullets in slow-mow?

And I love every minute of it!

But...I guess you're right. It's wrong to like anything fun and cool.

I bought the Die Hard DVD the other day, but now that you've shown me the light, I'm going to toss it since I think there are some explosions in it, and the main character has funny one-liners. How dare I. The movie as a whole isn't pretentious enough, either. It just tries to be an action movie, nothing more.

I'm also going through my movie collection and removing anything that has sunglasses or fast cars in it.

Thanks again!

Re:Precisely why I like it

[James Colby]

Please, dont throw them away; send them to me. I need my tos toasted more. ?Fast Cars?

It's art.

[autopr0n]

The movie is art. The website is art.

When you go to the website you see "cool" art (or so they hope) and it makes you think that the art they are selling as their main product (the film) is of the same quality.

And the navigation on the site is not anywhere near as bad as some people make it out to be. It only requires a little creativity and intelegence to figure out.

It's not their fault that you're lazy and stupid.

[autopr0n]

Sheesh, most of the navigation is done via HTML, and you usualy have a choice between high and low bandwidth. Really, just go here and move your mouse over the screens. No, it's not as intuitive as a plain text list, but it's a movie not an XML parsing API or something.

Re:Death to the slavic race

[Anonymous Coward]

Most of them pining for unavailable satisfaction ... what a colossal waste :(

Sheep

[Anonymous Coward]

Does it bother anyone else that some rich jerk at AOL | TimeWarner has so many people twisted around his finger? People eagerly awaiting the update of a lame website? People planning to camp out for months in advance for the privledge of giving someone there money? Sure is entertaining, but that's not the point, is it?

small fonts

[cpeterso]

This wouldn't be a bad thing if designers weren't such pricks that they insist on using the smallest fonts possible ("Hey, it looks great on my 3000 dollar 26" monitor!

Why would a designer use extra small fonts on such a larger monitor? Those fonts would appear EVEN SMALLER on their monitor than on your 12" VGA monitor.

Re:small fonts

[Anonymous Coward]

Don't have time to put my login on this machine
Font sizes depend on resolution best I can tell...
A small font on a low resolution looks bigger than a small font on a higher resolution.
If the 26" monitor is running at the same res as the 12", the 8 pt. text will look bigger on the 26".
Just tested it (granted, this test was on a 98 machine *cringe*) and 12 pt. text on one res is larger than 12 pt. text on a higher res.

Matrix Codes

[arsaspe]

A while ago I went and worked out all the codes. There might be more now, but heres all the ones from a few months ago.

Heres a list:
GEOF
SKROCE
DARROW
WRONG NUMBER
GUNS
MORPHEUS
TRINITY
DEJA VU
STEAK
AGENTBULLETTIME
CRASH
KEANU
CARRIE
LAURENCE
TOKYO
LOBBY
MIRROR MIRROR
SENTINAL
NEBUCHADNEZZAR
SENTINELLARGE800 x600
SITE CREDITS
OWEN
CHRYSALIS
PAGE168
PAGE212
PAGE98
PAGE78
BILL
RED
REDPILL

What you really want...

[graveytrain]

For all of you looking for -just- the new content on the sequel, and don't want to fool around with any of this 'code' crap, go here...

http://whatisthematrix.warnerbros.com/index_main_s equel.html

Re:Pyrotechnician - with pic

[More Trouble]

I want that shirt. ThinkGeek?

To Get the Codes to the Site...

[Muddie]

Just view the source of the webpage. They are all embedded right in the code. Thank you and please drive through.