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Latest Animatrix Short Released
martyn s writes "The latest animatrix short, The Second Renaissance, Part 2 is finally out. This short is the continuation of The Second Renaissance Part 1. Taken together, these shorts document how, in the matrix universe, 'Man was the architect of his own demise.'"
And here's the
BitTorrent link.
If you went along earlier today there would have been the pages accessible to download Part 2, except all of the links pointed to the first episode! I think a professional site could do a bit better than that. As some of you may have discovered after downloading a hundred megabyte file. :)
wget -c http://progressive1.stream.aol.com/wb/gl/wbonline/ progressive/thematrix/us/med/animatrixlgfinal_dl.m ov
For those of you who keep getting dropped or get half finished downloads...
PepperHacks - Hacking the Pepper Pad
Those direct links are for the FIRST episode (hence the "Episode1" in the URL). And post the sizes next to the links, these are HUGE (e.g. 140 MB). Better yet, just link to the page, it's really well done and quick.
One simple rule for its versus it's
The "direct links" are wrong, they point to the episode 1. Here are the correct ones:b online/ progressive/thematrix/us/med/2R2_640_dl.zip: //progressive1.stream.aol.com/wb/gl/wbonline/ progressive/thematrix/us/med/2R2_480_dl.zip: //progressive1.stream.aol.com/wb/gl/wbonline/ progressive/thematrix/us/med/2R2_320_dl.zip
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I think those links are wrong, I only tried the large one. Here's some new links -
Large 640x272 - 138 MB
Medium 480x204 - 87 MB
Small 320x136 - 31 MB
Or you can go here.
The entire series of 9 short CG-Animatrion/Japanese Anime films will soon be available on DVD. Depending on your MPAA stance (and what day of the week it is) follow the white rabbit via one of the links below to pre-order your copy.
Official web site
Amazon US: available 3 June
Amazon UK: available 2 June
"Accept that some days you are the pigeon, and some days you are the statue." - David Brent, Wernham Hogg
Oh, and here are the REAL links to the second episode (as I post this, the links in the article still point to the first episode).
Medium version (recommended for people with non-godly computers, the large version starts skipping frames)
Large version
main(c,r){for(r=32;r;) printf(++c>31?c=!r--,"\n":c<r?" ":~c&r?" `":" #");}
I've read that the original intention was that the rationale behind farming humans was to use them as nodes in a huge parallel processing computer. However, this idea was dropped because it was thought that your average viewer wouldn't understand it. Unfortunately, can't find a link that would back this up. It would be encouraging if this was true, though.
What's the point, I was getting 350 KB/s anyways. I'm sure bittorrent was much much slower.
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I'm not sure if that's true though, might be just a rumour. In fact, using human brains in a Beowulf cluster does present some problems, because people would probably find more hints of the reality through the calculations going on in their subconscious minds.
On the other hand, it's marginally possible that humans can be used to extract energy from food such as carbohydrates, even if some entropy is increased in the process. Maybe the alternatives for using that particular fuel were not that efficient or practical. Then again, the food had to be produced somehow, and in the absence of sunlight it would have meant even more wasted energy.
Escher was the first MC and Giger invented the HR department.
"as Freenet has a more robust, permanent network"
... It will also use the bandwidth avaiable in a rather suboptimal way, to insure privacy and security. BitTorrent does not waste bandwidth, at the price of anonymity.
;-)
;)"
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... Its goals are different from BitTorrent though (anonymity vs. efficient use of bandwidth, privacy vs. speed, everything vs. single-uri, etc.), and in this case, BT is probably the better choice.
;)
Care to say what you mean by permanent ? It's no more permanent than BitTorrent; if nobody wants the file, it dies off quickly.
"but will automatically begin to share it, if it becomes popular."
"That means faster download speeds. The RedHat 9 ISO files were downloading at over 120KB/sec on Freenet."
Hmm. I got a download rate of over 1mbyte/s on the torrent for that; and there were a LOT of people getting fast speeds (I have the logs to prove it
"There is also the advantage that the link does not go down, when the people close their download windows
Yeah, the link only goes down when the generous storage & bandwidth providers on the freenet network don't feel like providing this free service anymore
Don't get me wrong, FreeNet is a nice system
If you were to share something that could get you into trouble (say, a complete crack of Microsoft's DRM schemes), you'd probably want to use Freenet instead
Watch out for spoilers -- there's a multi-page section discussing the plot which is well-marked with warnings.
Can't you see that everyone is buying station wagons?
It appears as though the 480 wide movie and the zip file from the official website are both corrupted.
Nukes don't automatically generate EMP. The military found that the effect occurs when a nuke is detonated high above the ground.
D'oh -- the stuff that buys me beer! Ray -- the guy who sells me beer!
All energy on Earth (except geothermal) comes from the Sun originally. Wind, the water cycle, solar power.. everything is driven by the Sun. Sure, there are non-renewable resources such as oil you could harvest, but adding human bodies into the mix as a conversion "solution" is simply ridiculous and makes no sense.
The human body CONSUMES about 1800 calories a day just sitting still.. breathing, pumping blood, etc. Building a power plant out of them would just drain massive amounts of energy, not produce it.
I love the movie, and I'm sure I'll love the sequels too.. but the whole "humans as power sources" thing is complete nonsense and has always bugged me.
"Mind, as manifested by the capacity to make choices, is to some extent present in every electron." -Freeman Dyson
As usual, no way to watch this in Linux.
/usr/lib/win32/qtmlClient.dll, /usr/local/lib/win32/qtmlClient.dll :( /roam/dm/.mplayer/codecs.conf from etc/codecs.conf
Take for expample MPlayer's complaint:
Opening video decoder: [qtvideo] Quicktime Video decoder
Win32 LoadLibrary failed to load: qtmlClient.dll,
invalid qt DLL!
VDecoder init failed
*** Try to upgrade
*** If it still does not work, read DOCS/codecs.html!
DOCS/codecs.html said, a bunch of confusing stuff, mainly "go to our website and get more confused". Why can't video people ever write stuff in english?
Simple - to force people to save the files and not just "stream" them. So a user who wants a file downloads it once, and generally won't need to download it a second time if they want to watch it again (thus saving potential bandwidth).
I run a website where I offer a number of videos for download and I routinely used to get a number of downloads of the same video from the same IP address, more than could be explained by proxy servers. Once I started zipping the files, a lot of that disappeared... enough to be statistically significant. Enough to make a difference in my bandwidth bill...
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I got an advance DVD of all nine movies - "Osiris" is phenomenal, but I have to say that "Beyond" is my favorite. I felt the exact same way about the second installment of "Renaissance" - felt like they could have done alot more with it...
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