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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.
I liken the recent rebirth, revelations, and renaissance of trolling on Slashdot to the soon-to-be-classic epic battle between Neo (played by actor Keanu Reeves) and the rogue virus Agent Smith (portrayed by the esteemed actor Hugo Weaving).
In this climactic and feverishly pitched battle, a rejuvenated Agent Smith confronts Neo. Neo (cmdr taco) has increased his power (anti troll filters) exponentially. Agent Smith (troll) has since developed the ability to infect the "shells" of others, a process which he uses to effectively multiply. At the outset of the battle, Agent Smith attempts to first infect Neo and spread into his "system". The troll filters prove amiable, and Neo easily repels this clever initial attack. Undaunted, the troll (Agent Smith) seeks to gain assistance from those in his surrounding environment. With the most excellent and well placed of trollings, Agent Smith captures the hearts and minds of many others, effectively creating an army in his own image (Trollkore, CLIT, You Fail It, IN SOVIET RUSSIA, etc).
This new army of Agent Smiths pour down upon Neo in a glorious wave of absurdity, brutal character attacks, vulgar ASCII imagery, and unprecedented and unusual tales of sexual escapades. The ensuing melee is a remarkable epic of good vs. evil, as the many trolls continue to pour down upon cmdr taco, seeking to defeat him with an avalanche of numbers. The outcome to this bitter rivalry has yet to be seen.
Which is where we find ourselves tonight gentlemen.
This is a war, and we are soldiers.
Why are we using BitTorrent to spare AOL's bandwidth?!?!?!? We never use BitTorrent to spare the poor guy who builds a lego robot or whatever and hosts his site on his DSL and then gets slashdotted. Sometimes Slashdot editors can just be so dumb...
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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
Just finished watching it, and I'm a smidge disappointed. I thought the first half set up an excellent backstory, but here, it's just "We attacked them, we lost, we're a power source," without any kind of expansion. It feels like this half just ended the story without trying to make any details beyond what we've gleaned from the first movie. Wasn't there a first Matrix that crashed and burned due to the people not able to accept it as reality? Was there any debate at all over how long the Dark Storm would last, unless they had some way to clear it afterwards? When did the AI develop the spidery robots?
While I think the Animatrix project has been pretty damn good, I think this one has fallen way short of expectations.
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 latest animatrix short, The Second Renaissance, Part 2 is finally out. This short is the continuation of The Second Renaissance Part 1.
Thanks for clearing that up for me...I was wonder what part was before part 2
"Some things have to be believed to be seen." - Ralph Hodgson
But, with all the illegal stuff also going around, im sure that the **AA's will be going after bittorrent as well!
Because it needs a centralised server (the tracker), it will be easier to knock out!
I dunno, man, I feel like I'm being preached to, again. Like:
Clean out the fridge before you eat something moldy which will make you sick.
Driving an SUV supports terrorism
Ordering french fries supports evil regimes which have WMD
If you don't pick up your room it'll lead to communist world domination.
Technology advances faster than our ability to manage it, eventually it will manage you if you don't watch out.
Some year, first the Matrix 2, then T3... What's the message here? Fear technology? Screw that.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
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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Arnold? Is that you?
I didn't know they even got the Internet in Austria...
I wish I had a kryptonite cross, because then you could keep Dracula and Superman away.
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
Never saw this one coming... :^)
You are in a maze of twisted little posts, all alike.
I think these were the worst shorts of those that I've seen online and in the theaters. The plotline, while interesting, is overly simplistic with the nice, sweet, never-harming robots simply wanting their own state while the cruel, evil humans only want to enslave them. It glosses over issues such as the previous human occupiers of the new robot state, or human sympathizers (geeks?) and the real problems with granting sentient-status to the machines. I realize it's just a short, and that it's told from the perspective on another computer (the Zion archive...?), but I still felt that it was a (very) poor-man's Metropolis. If you did enjoy it, please pick up Metropolis and check it out, you'll probably love it.
The wheel is turning, but the hamster is dead.
What exactly is the reason behind trying to compress already compressed audio and video files again? The size reduction, if you happen to get one, is negligable and it tends to make the file slightly bigger from what I've seen. I've never really understood this.
"Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door." - Emily Dickinson
It's advisable to download this using Freenet, rather than BitTorrent, as Freenet has a more robust, permanent network, and has many hundreds of nodes that might have never seen this file, but will automatically begin to share it, if it becomes popular.
;)
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That means faster download speeds. The RedHat 9 ISO files were downloading at over 120KB/sec on Freenet.
There is also the advantage that the link does not go down, when the people close their download windows
You can Download a copy of Freenet here, and donate Here
I had just uploaded it, but apparently the direct links in the story were wrong, so I've re-uploaded Episode 1 of the Animatrix. I'll try to provide a freenet link again soon, but I suspect it will be too late for most people
-Colin
Colin Davis
They still don't explain how a human in itself can generate more energy than it costs to maintain that very same human alive and well in the Matrix.
That is a major plot hole for me, and I hoped they would use the possibility here to explain it in greater detail. But noo. Just a tiny bit of plot that amounts to 'the war started, we darkened the sky, then we lost and got put in the Matrix'.
(Since this is anime, they could have gone wacky with this. For example, say that humans posess a unique ability to harvest immense amounts metaphysical energy, and that the Matrix somehow taps this energy. Much better than the 'new form of fusion' crap explanation.)
Beyond the sci-fi and action elements of the Matrix it's neat how they are working more of the religios and philisophical elements into the canon ... quite a bit of it going on in this short ... the Boddhavista sitting on the lotus, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. That being said, I was expecting this episode to be a bit more cynical (if that can be imagined, it's pretty dark already) ... I always thought it would be a mind bender to learn that the humans voluntarily hooked themselves up to the Matrix because living that way would be preferrable to the burned out wasteland they created through war.
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?
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?
You said it not i. Oh wait, you _thought_ you were talking about me.
There's this thing called the Second Law of Thermodynamics. You can't get more out of a system than you put in. You can't even get as much out again, some is always wasted as heat. People have been trying to figure out a way around that law for centuries, and if you think you've found a way, it's 99.999999% certain that you're just not accounting for all the steps.
Yeah, the humans scorched the sky, so what? It doesn't matter that there's no sun in this equation. HUMANS DO NOT PRODUCE ENERGY! We do not even _store_ energy very well!
Sure they grind up the humans to feed other humans, but that is not a self-sustaining cycle! You need some kind of energy input. In the natural world all energy comes from one of two sources, fusion power via the sun, or gravitational compression power via the earth's core. The sun is mostly gone, at least in terms of direct sunlight, although the earth is getting at least some heat through the cloud layer or it would freeze over (it's probably got a much higher greenhouse effect, but the green house effect can't be 100% efficient, so there has to be some input)
So the machine's only natural sources are geothermal power, and fossil fuels and anything else that has sun power stored up. They also have the options of fission and fusion, the later being mentioned in the movie.
They could use those sources of energy to produce more nutrients to keep the humans' "ecosystem" going. However as has been pointed out elsewhere in the thread, growing food to feed to animals is horribly energy inefficient. The machines could use this energy source directly and get far more out of it than they would eventually be able to extract from the humans that absorbed the nutrients that the machines could grow with the energy.
As for the cows, like i said, even if they went with this INSANE idea of using high level living beings to produce energy, any mammal would do. Sure, the cows are most likely all dead now (except perhaps in Zion, and you're assuming the machiens don't have advanced cloning capabilities) however at the time the machines made this decision there were cows alive!
When fighting the war, why didn't any of the machines say, instead of capturing all these humans, why not just KILL all the humans and round up some of the starving cattle and use them instead? Even if all the cows were dead, they could use dogs, or jackals, or rats, or anything else that could survive off of all the dead animals and humans lying around, which there would have been quite a lot of during the war. Humans were not the only option, and were a really stupid choice unless power is not what the machines are really getting out of them.
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No, that's totally wrong. BitTorrent is a file distribution tool, not a file sharing network. Every posted BitTorrent link is totally independent, and forms its own independent network which does not benefit any other BitTorrent users. So slashdot posting a BitTorrent link of the animatrix doesn't help anyone download Red Hat ISOs. And BitTorrent certainly doesn't give any cash to Slashdot. Have you even seen the BitTorrent website?
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