I loved the first one. My only complaint was that they left it too open at the end. Its like they were begging for a sequal. Neo is definetly a hacker and the idea is that hes learning to do the kind of superhero things that he can do in cyberspace, except in the real world. I hope they get more into this though. You know a little more technical. Like maybe when he's bending a spoon they could compare it to object oriented programming or something.
If you meet a lot of html/website types you'll notice that a scripting language, such as perl, makes far mor sense to them than anything that is compiled. I'm serious! I guess that is just what happens when you are forced write in a clunky markup language for long periods of time.
I think a lot of you are right. Voyager and much of The Next Generation are crap. That is because they are jsut using ideas from the orginal series. By the time voyager came out traveling through space was the most played idea out there. The original series introduced some great concepts (thanks to Roddenberry) and pretty much defined scifi. I think that DS9 really brought a lot of that back by focusing more on a religous and magical sense which allowed them to explore the human condition more. After all that is what Roddenberry really wanted.
Honestly, I don't see this going anywhere. For people who want a more innovative OS I recomend Squeak running on top of Linux kernel. I think that Smalltalk basicly perfected object orientation, after all they are the people who invented it!
I think what he is trying to say is that technical people like us have a disease were we are locked into a way of thinking so we cannot understand our own being. He's also saying that all the physics problems we've made for ourselves to solve are a result of this. My problem with what he is saying is that we seem to have reached singularity already and that it doesn't really involve technical stuff at all. Rather it involves abandoning all rational though in favor of some kind of zen bliss? You can call me ritual addicted, but i like living in a reality where there are problems that we have to solve and where we have a set way of solving them. Of course his theory doesn't leave any room for problems that are impossible (Godel) which I think shows that he is just a new age type looking for any kind of sense out of the world even if it isn't rational.
The reason it is difficult for reporters to write an informative article on hacking is because there is not a clear definition in the underground. The defintion I use is "exploring systems through their functions". This means that rather than learning about a program by looking at the source code, you play around with the compiled version and thus can make assumptions about how it works.
The only reason we use linux is because we like the idea of an open source os. Let's face it, the kernel has some good design elements, but does it really compare to Solaris, BSDi, or even OpenBSD? Only after so much work can linux be considered good enough for business use and we still don't know if people will pick it up. Also, why don't you look at some other small alternative os projects that are closed source. For instance Beos. Sure its a good idea, but how do you think they are doing financially?
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"the motion picture industry is reeled" Who else noticed it? Come on!
I loved the first one. My only complaint was that they left it too open at the end. Its like they were begging for a sequal. Neo is definetly a hacker and the idea is that hes learning to do the kind of superhero things that he can do in cyberspace, except in the real world. I hope they get more into this though. You know a little more technical. Like maybe when he's bending a spoon they could compare it to object oriented programming or something.
If you meet a lot of html/website types you'll notice that a scripting language, such as perl, makes far mor sense to them than anything that is compiled. I'm serious! I guess that is just what happens when you are forced write in a clunky markup language for long periods of time.
I think a lot of you are right. Voyager and much of The Next Generation are crap. That is because they are jsut using ideas from the orginal series. By the time voyager came out traveling through space was the most played idea out there. The original series introduced some great concepts (thanks to Roddenberry) and pretty much defined scifi. I think that DS9 really brought a lot of that back by focusing more on a religous and magical sense which allowed them to explore the human condition more. After all that is what Roddenberry really wanted.
Honestly, I don't see this going anywhere. For people who want a more innovative OS I recomend Squeak running on top of Linux kernel. I think that Smalltalk basicly perfected object orientation, after all they are the people who invented it!
I think what he is trying to say is that technical people like us have a disease were we are locked into a way of thinking so we cannot understand our own being. He's also saying that all the physics problems we've made for ourselves to solve are a result of this. My problem with what he is saying is that we seem to have reached singularity already and that it doesn't really involve technical stuff at all. Rather it involves abandoning all rational though in favor of some kind of zen bliss? You can call me ritual addicted, but i like living in a reality where there are problems that we have to solve and where we have a set way of solving them. Of course his theory doesn't leave any room for problems that are impossible (Godel) which I think shows that he is just a new age type looking for any kind of sense out of the world even if it isn't rational.
The reason it is difficult for reporters to write an informative article on hacking is because there is not a clear definition in the underground. The defintion I use is "exploring systems through their functions". This means that rather than learning about a program by looking at the source code, you play around with the compiled version and thus can make assumptions about how it works.
The only reason we use linux is because we like the idea of an open source os. Let's face it, the kernel has some good design elements, but does it really compare to Solaris, BSDi, or even OpenBSD? Only after so much work can linux be considered good enough for business use and we still don't know if people will pick it up. Also, why don't you look at some other small alternative os projects that are closed source. For instance Beos. Sure its a good idea, but how do you think they are doing financially?