Exactly... it's really no different from colour recognition.. your brain attaches labels to certain frequencies.
The difference is, people are continually 'trained' at colour recognition as part of day to day life from birth, but recognizing pitch is not something most people get any practice with.
I believe I read once that most (all?) people have natural perfect pitch when very young, but it fades over time from disuse.
Couldn't agree more. The first time I was like, "eh.", but then I started thinking about it more, getting other takes on, and went back to see it again, and loved it! I've seen it twice more since then, and liked it better each time, always noticing more little details and clues you can't possibly grasp the first time through.
Here's one I noticed the last time... when Neo and co. meet the Merovingian and he starts talking about his cause and effect stuff, watch Persephone... she is bored out of her mind!:) You can practically see the thought bubble, "Oh for fuck's sake, here we go AGAIN...". This is obvious of course later, but it is evident from the subtle acting beforehand.
"taking a 1-chapter battle and turning it into half of the movie"
Sorry, bit of a pet peeve here, but why do people make statements like this? Do you know how much screentime is actually dedicated to showing the battle of Helm's Deep?
Most people say something like, oh, it was the entire last hour. Or 45 minutes. (You're the first I've seen to say it took an entire half.. I know you're exaggerating, but still)
Well, the last time I went to see TTT in the theatre, I decided to time all the Helm's Deep battle segments. There's four sequences (intercut with the Ents, and Osgiliath), the longest of which is about 6 minutes. The grand total of all four Helm's Deep battle sequences? 15 minutes. Out of 180. Or, about 8% of the movie. There's simply such an incredible amount of action happening, it SEEMS like so much longer.
Now, Faramir dragging Frodo and the Ring to Osgilath, THAT was totally lame. I read in an interview with one of the writers (Philippa Boyens?) that they did that to give Faramir's character "more of a journey", because in the book, his character is very stagnant while everyone else goes through changes.
Anyway, can't wait for extended TTT, or RotK:) I think Matrix 3 will be pretty interesting too, there's a lot of unexplained stuff going on under the surface in the second one, which the third will (hopefully) resolve.
Just curious, where did you read that the other Wizards went bad?
I assume the other "good" Wizard you are referring to is Radaghast the Brown.
I have searched the trilogy and the Simarillion for some mention of the other two, but they are never named, and it says they vanished into the east or south, if I recall.
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Hell, even the Wiki page for Wolf3D says flat out:
"Wolfenstein 3D (commonly abbreviated to Wolf 3D) is the video game which started the first person shooter genre on the PC"
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I'm aware of prior wireframe/flat poly stuff, but Wolf3D was the first that could actually pass for some semblance of reality (ie, texture mapping).
Even that Wiki page you linked to lists it first in its "Selected List of First-person Shooters" at the bottom, implying its the first one they consider to truly belong in the genre.
"I guess that light is like a vector space: any base vectors will do as long as they are... crap, my memory sucks... independent? (what you want is that no base vector is the linear combination of the others)"
Oi. You had to go and invoke Vector Math.;P
<Inserts crank in head and begins turning>
Ah yes. The term you are looking for "orthoganal", otherwise known as "linearly independent".:)
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Sorry, but I have to disagree. The things you mention are certainly critical advances, but they are still merely incremental, EVOLUTIONARY improvements.
What was REVOLUTIONARY about Wolfenstein was its 360 degree, First Person Perspective. Players were finally seeing the game world as if they were actually THERE.
Doom may have been a better game, had innovations of its own, was more popular, and overshadowed Wolf3D, but it wasn't ground breaking in the same original sense.
...rapid communication in general that has been improved/enabled by our new fangled networks.
Like, an example is http://www.rottentomatoes.com. (No, not affiliated,:P) They will have links to dozens of reviews before a movie is even released.
When 40 out of 40 reviewers all say 'Gigli' is an abhorrent, unoriginal, poorly written, disastrous mess, I'm sure not shelling out moolah for a theatre ticket.
In "the old days" you'd maybe read a single review in a newspaper, which wasn't nearly as disuading as a whole battalion of naysayers all lined up.
It's not just the difference between what colours you use to mix, it's a fundamental difference between how light is produced, and how light is reflected.
RGB is an "additive" model. You start with black (no light), and add light to it. Adding all 3 RGB components creates white light.
CMY is a "subtractive" model. You start with white (normal ambient or source light), then add pigments which ABSORB some of this light. Magenta, for example, absorbs green from the RGB spectrum, leaving you with R+B => Magenta. You add more pigment types, you absorb more colours, and will get black if you mix them all.
Not sure why they'd use a CMY sensor, unless they're trying to keep it in the same colourspace as printers use. All this means is the light is broken down differently... ie blue light would be picked up by both cyan and magenta sensors. But as you say, I'm sure Nikon knows more about it than we do:)
"Have you ever read the EULA for Windows? It practically indemnifies itself for everything but manslaughter. Oh wait, they're clear of that too."
Not to defend MS.. but you're linking to a EULA for Windows-based terminal devices, and the section that mentions death refers to JAVA, because Sun insisted that warning be there. It doesn't really support your point (which I believe to quite valid, regardless)
Agreed. I keep a nice store of AA NiMHs around, and when buying rechargable gadgets, I look for ones that take AAs. Digital camera, cordless mouse & keyboard, PDA, toothbrush, and one set of AAA's I keep around for the truly wonderful MX-500 remote. I also have a nice 1 hour charger from Radio Shack.
I just had to. Besides, I think it's proving a point, or something.
--
Romancing of the Rosetta stone
' you give me sufficient parallel data, and you can have translation a system in the hours '
University southern California of the computer scientist Franz Josef, which Och of most famous against-resounded, praises itself in the history of the technology, after its software counted the Arab strongly under 23 and Chinese English translatio systems, commercially and experimentally, examined inside in recently concluded Ministry of Trade of attempts.
"you indicate a place to me to the location, and I shift the world,", after to to order a mathematical explanation for the lever said the large Greek scientist Archimedes place.
"you give me sufficient parallel data, and you can have translation a system for all possible two languages in an affair of hours,", said Dr. Och, a computer scientist in the USC school of the institute for information science of the technology.
Och spoke after the benchmark tests 2003 for the machine translation, which was accomplished in the May and June of this yearly by the National Institute of Standards and Technology United States of the trade department.
Translations Ochs examined well into the 2003 head ton head tests against 7 Arab systems (5 research and 2 commercial away dregal products) and 14 Chinese systems (9 research and 5 from stock). In preceding 2002 evaluations had examined it similarly superior.
The researcher discussed his methods held at a NIST Postmortemseminar over the Benchmarking July 22-23 of John Hopkins at the university in Baltimore, Maryland.
Och is an outstanding exponent of a newer method of using the computers to touch in order to translate a language into other one, which became more successful in the last years, while the ability of the computers grew, large bodies of the information, and the volume of the text and the brought together translations in the digital form has, on (for example) multilingual newspaper or government net places of assembly explodes.
Method Ochs uses brought together bilingual texts, the computer-coded equivalents of the famous Rosetta descriptions of stone. Or rather gigabytes and gigabyte Rosetta of stones.
"our approximation uses statistic models, in order to find the most probable translation for a given entrance," Och avowedly
"it is rather different to the older, symbolic approximations for the machine translation, which in most existing the commercial systems is used, which try, to code the grammar and the encyclopedia of a foreign language in a computer program the grammatical structure of the strange text analyzed, and produced then English, which on hard guidelines," it is based, continued.
"employs, explaining from the computer, how one, we left it it out explains translated. First we draw the system it with a parallel korpus i.e. an accumulation of texts in the foreign language and their translations into English.
"the computer uses these information, in order to co-ordinate the parameters of a statistic model translation of the process. During the translation of the new text, the system tries to find English sentence which is the most probable translation strange entrance of the sentence, be based in these statistic models."
This method ignores or rolls over rather, finds express grammatical guidelines and even traditional dictionary lists of the vocabulary in favor of leaving the computer matchup samples between given Chinese or Arab (or any another language) texts and English translations.
Such abilities grew, while computers improved, by making possible for them, from using the individual words as the fundamental unit on using the groups of words to move -- cliches.
Versions of the different human translators of the same text change frequently considerably. Another key improvement was the use of repeated English human translations to permit the computer too its transmission by an ana
"Ask a Star Wars fan about how Han Solo made a voyage in however many parsecs"
The "Kessel Run" if I remember correctly, is a route that passes around a big black hole. (Called "The Maw" I think?) Therefore a ship with more powerful acceleration could pass closer to it, and complete the run in less distance. Not THAT convoluted, but I take your point.
Not sure why you're modded as flamebait, it's a valid point. And Babylon 5 is far better than Star Wars or Star Trek.
Yup, definitely a bare bones design. In fact, TIEs don't even have a life support system. That's why all the TIE pilots wear full environment suits and those sinister face masks, while the Rebels can go bare faced.
"You know that Death Star is packed full of TIE Fighters, but they only actually send out a handful to fight the rebel fighters. Maybe they were just overconfident."
Or, maybe it would've been unfeasible for the special effects of the time to pull off thousands of fighters using models?:)
Not in public though. Once in Kindergarten I smashed a lego escape pod as it crashed into the ground. I had to go sit in the red square for my wanton destructive behavious:(
'What part of "the right of the people to keep and bear arms" don't you understand?'
The definition (or limit) of what 'arms' entails, that's what.
In the general sense, arms are defined as "Instruments or weapons of offense or defense." (from www.dict.org)
Should 'the people' have the right to bear heavy machine guns? Flamethrowers? Mortars? RPGs? Cruise missiles? Tactical nukes?
Why not? These are all 'arms', which the constitution guarantees the right to bear.
Or.... maybe there should be a limit, yes? Maybe everyone SHOULDN'T have access to weapons capable of slaughtering their neighbors en masse.
And the argument that the people need to be armed so they can overthrow the government... please. Can you imagine what would happen if private citizenry launched an assault against the government in today's America?
But why would they need such a "lever"? They can wipe out the human race any time they want. (And yes, I've seen the Animatrix)
I don't buy the whole "humans as power sources" idea at all. I believe the world of Zion is simply another layer of the simulation, a catchpocket for the rebels. I think the whole "evil machines sucking our energy" thing is a ruse, to keep the rebels occupied. The machines recognize that these people NEED to rebel against "the system", so they have provided them with a monstrous system to fight against.
Why do I believe this? Three reasons:
1) "Generating" energy from humans is nonsense. It's no more feasible than a perpetual motion machine. The laws of thermodynamics simply don't allow it. I'm positive the W bros. are aware of this. Also, the Architect indicates (in a vague fashion) that the machines can survive the extinction of the humans.
2) Smith has transferred himself into the human Bane in Zion. How is it possible for a computer program to "possess" a flesh and blood brain? There is no precedent for this. However, if Bane is simply an avatar in a simulation, it makes perfect sense. Also, Bane cuts his hand rather deeply, in the next scene they draw attention to his hand again, and there is no sign of blood. They are subtly hinting (without explicitly showing) that he was able to heal himself.
3) Neo stopping the sentinels. Impossible if he is flesh and blood. But if he's still in a simulation, and has finally realized that, he could easily do it. Notice how he immediately falls into a coma, diverting the attention away from what he did. Perhaps he's in a coma because he has woken up into the next "level"... which could be yet another simulation, or possibly actual reality. My one problem with this is Neo said "Something's different, I can feel them now." I have no explanation for that line.. what exactly has changed?
Oh well.. there will be no definitive proof of what's really going on until Revolutions comes out; I am eagerly awaiting it. Thank goodness we don't have to wait 3 years!:)
"I've always been a bit skeptical of handhelds that have flip out keyboards like this"
Two questions:
What is there to be 'skeptical' about? It's like a mini laptop. What's wrong with that?
Where are all these flip out keyboard handhelds he is skeptical about? I think there's a decided lack of them.
I am using an ancient Sharp OZ-770PC because I simply cannot find a modern organizer with a form factor I like better. (Also, 2xAA batteries last it like 6 months) The TMobile Sidekick looked interesting, but that was about it.
The Architect explicitly says to Neo, "Although the process has altered your consciousness, you remain irrecovably human". It's possible he's lying of course, but that just feels wrong. I think everything he tells Neo is the truth (although I'm sure he's left some stuff out)
The machines want to build the perfect simulation; one that everyone will accept. To this end, they must perfect their understanding of human nature, specifically our choices.
In this iteration of the Matrix, they seem to be very interested in the emotion of love. Persephone demanding to 'sample' Neo's love of Trinity via a kiss, and the entire ending is engineered by the machines to test Neo and Trinity's love for each other.
Also, the Architect says this:
"Your 5 predecessors were by design based on a similar predication a contingent affirmation that was meant to create a profound attachment to the rest of your species facilitating the function of the One. While the others experienced this in a very general way your experience is far more specific, Vis a vie love."
This doesn't seem to make sense to me... his predecessors experienced a "profound attachment to the rest of [their] species", but Neo is different.. he has a profound attachment to ONE PERSON, which would be contrary to "facilitating the function of the One", but it seems the machines intended this. Why? To finally find the lever required for a human to doom his race?
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"This is _NOT_ troll, this is _NOT_ flamebait, if you disagree with those facts"
First of all, there are no FACTS in your post. There's a lot of all-caps typing, a lot of swearing, and your OPINION.
"The show sucked, okay? Just because a post has the word "suck" in it, doesnt make it a troll or a flame-"
It's your inflammatory, obnoxious, profane, insulting tone that makes your post flamebait, not your choice of the word "suck".
"it is INFORMATIVE or INSIGHTFUL if you absolutely NEED to moderate."
Just saying something sucked is not particularly informative or insightful. Maybe if you provided some REASONS behind your opinion...
Exactly... it's really no different from colour recognition.. your brain attaches labels to certain frequencies.
The difference is, people are continually 'trained' at colour recognition as part of day to day life from birth, but recognizing pitch is not something most people get any practice with.
I believe I read once that most (all?) people have natural perfect pitch when very young, but it fades over time from disuse.
Couldn't agree more. The first time I was like, "eh.", but then I started thinking about it more, getting other takes on, and went back to see it again, and loved it! I've seen it twice more since then, and liked it better each time, always noticing more little details and clues you can't possibly grasp the first time through.
:) You can practically see the thought bubble, "Oh for fuck's sake, here we go AGAIN...". This is obvious of course later, but it is evident from the subtle acting beforehand.
Here's one I noticed the last time... when Neo and co. meet the Merovingian and he starts talking about his cause and effect stuff, watch Persephone... she is bored out of her mind!
"taking a 1-chapter battle and turning it into half of the movie"
:) I think Matrix 3 will be pretty interesting too, there's a lot of unexplained stuff going on under the surface in the second one, which the third will (hopefully) resolve.
Sorry, bit of a pet peeve here, but why do people make statements like this? Do you know how much screentime is actually dedicated to showing the battle of Helm's Deep?
Most people say something like, oh, it was the entire last hour. Or 45 minutes. (You're the first I've seen to say it took an entire half.. I know you're exaggerating, but still)
Well, the last time I went to see TTT in the theatre, I decided to time all the Helm's Deep battle segments. There's four sequences (intercut with the Ents, and Osgiliath), the longest of which is about 6 minutes. The grand total of all four Helm's Deep battle sequences? 15 minutes. Out of 180. Or, about 8% of the movie. There's simply such an incredible amount of action happening, it SEEMS like so much longer.
Now, Faramir dragging Frodo and the Ring to Osgilath, THAT was totally lame. I read in an interview with one of the writers (Philippa Boyens?) that they did that to give Faramir's character "more of a journey", because in the book, his character is very stagnant while everyone else goes through changes.
Anyway, can't wait for extended TTT, or RotK
Just curious, where did you read that the other Wizards went bad?
I assume the other "good" Wizard you are referring to is Radaghast the Brown.
I have searched the trilogy and the Simarillion for some mention of the other two, but they are never named, and it says they vanished into the east or south, if I recall.
Hell, even the Wiki page for Wolf3D says flat out:
"Wolfenstein 3D (commonly abbreviated to Wolf 3D) is the video game which started the first person shooter genre on the PC"
I'm aware of prior wireframe/flat poly stuff, but Wolf3D was the first that could actually pass for some semblance of reality (ie, texture mapping).
Even that Wiki page you linked to lists it first in its "Selected List of First-person Shooters" at the bottom, implying its the first one they consider to truly belong in the genre.
"I guess that light is like a vector space: any base vectors will do as long as they are... crap, my memory sucks... independent? (what you want is that no base vector is the linear combination of the others)"
;P
:)
Oi. You had to go and invoke Vector Math.
<Inserts crank in head and begins turning>
Ah yes. The term you are looking for "orthoganal", otherwise known as "linearly independent".
Sorry, but I have to disagree. The things you mention are certainly critical advances, but they are still merely incremental, EVOLUTIONARY improvements.
What was REVOLUTIONARY about Wolfenstein was its 360 degree, First Person Perspective. Players were finally seeing the game world as if they were actually THERE.
Doom may have been a better game, had innovations of its own, was more popular, and overshadowed Wolf3D, but it wasn't ground breaking in the same original sense.
...rapid communication in general that has been improved/enabled by our new fangled networks.
:P) They will have links to dozens of reviews before a movie is even released.
Like, an example is http://www.rottentomatoes.com. (No, not affiliated,
When 40 out of 40 reviewers all say 'Gigli' is an abhorrent, unoriginal, poorly written, disastrous mess, I'm sure not shelling out moolah for a theatre ticket.
In "the old days" you'd maybe read a single review in a newspaper, which wasn't nearly as disuading as a whole battalion of naysayers all lined up.
It's not just the difference between what colours you use to mix, it's a fundamental difference between how light is produced, and how light is reflected.
:)
RGB is an "additive" model. You start with black (no light), and add light to it. Adding all 3 RGB components creates white light.
CMY is a "subtractive" model. You start with white (normal ambient or source light), then add pigments which ABSORB some of this light. Magenta, for example, absorbs green from the RGB spectrum, leaving you with R+B => Magenta. You add more pigment types, you absorb more colours, and will get black if you mix them all.
Not sure why they'd use a CMY sensor, unless they're trying to keep it in the same colourspace as printers use. All this means is the light is broken down differently... ie blue light would be picked up by both cyan and magenta sensors. But as you say, I'm sure Nikon knows more about it than we do
On the contrary, there was a guy posting to Slashdot from the middle of the New York blackout yesterday, with full 'net access through Verizon.
So _obviously_, the blackout was a huge diversion to hide the source of the DDOS, and fool us all. Thank goodness for tinfoil hats.
"Have you ever read the EULA for Windows? It practically indemnifies itself for everything but manslaughter. Oh wait, they're clear of that too."
Not to defend MS.. but you're linking to a EULA for Windows-based terminal devices, and the section that mentions death refers to JAVA, because Sun insisted that warning be there. It doesn't really support your point (which I believe to quite valid, regardless)
"that's how he stayed up for so long"
I have many emails promising the same thing...
" Sixty million Americans use peer-to-peer networks to share music. That's more Americans than voted for George Bush."
;D
But the question remains, is that more Americans than voted for Al Gore??
Agreed. I keep a nice store of AA NiMHs around, and when buying rechargable gadgets, I look for ones that take AAs. Digital camera, cordless mouse & keyboard, PDA, toothbrush, and one set of AAA's I keep around for the truly wonderful MX-500 remote. I also have a nice 1 hour charger from Radio Shack.
I just had to. Besides, I think it's proving a point, or something.
--
Romancing of the Rosetta stone
' you give me sufficient parallel data, and you can have translation a system in the hours '
University southern California of the computer scientist Franz Josef, which Och of most famous against-resounded, praises itself in the history of the technology, after its software counted the Arab strongly under 23 and Chinese English translatio systems, commercially and experimentally, examined inside in recently concluded Ministry of Trade of attempts.
"you indicate a place to me to the location, and I shift the world,", after to to order a mathematical explanation for the lever said the large Greek scientist Archimedes place.
"you give me sufficient parallel data, and you can have translation a system for all possible two languages in an affair of hours,", said Dr. Och, a computer scientist in the USC school of the institute for information science of the technology.
Och spoke after the benchmark tests 2003 for the machine translation, which was accomplished in the May and June of this yearly by the National Institute of Standards and Technology United States of the trade department.
Translations Ochs examined well into the 2003 head ton head tests against 7 Arab systems (5 research and 2 commercial away dregal products) and 14 Chinese systems (9 research and 5 from stock). In preceding 2002 evaluations had examined it similarly superior.
The researcher discussed his methods held at a NIST Postmortemseminar over the Benchmarking July 22-23 of John Hopkins at the university in Baltimore, Maryland.
Och is an outstanding exponent of a newer method of using the computers to touch in order to translate a language into other one, which became more successful in the last years, while the ability of the computers grew, large bodies of the information, and the volume of the text and the brought together translations in the digital form has, on (for example) multilingual newspaper or government net places of assembly explodes.
Method Ochs uses brought together bilingual texts, the computer-coded equivalents of the famous Rosetta descriptions of stone. Or rather gigabytes and gigabyte Rosetta of stones.
"our approximation uses statistic models, in order to find the most probable translation for a given entrance," Och avowedly
"it is rather different to the older, symbolic approximations for the machine translation, which in most existing the commercial systems is used, which try, to code the grammar and the encyclopedia of a foreign language in a computer program the grammatical structure of the strange text analyzed, and produced then English, which on hard guidelines," it is based, continued.
"employs, explaining from the computer, how one, we left it it out explains translated. First we draw the system it with a parallel korpus i.e. an accumulation of texts in the foreign language and their translations into English.
"the computer uses these information, in order to co-ordinate the parameters of a statistic model translation of the process. During the translation of the new text, the system tries to find English sentence which is the most probable translation strange entrance of the sentence, be based in these statistic models."
This method ignores or rolls over rather, finds express grammatical guidelines and even traditional dictionary lists of the vocabulary in favor of leaving the computer matchup samples between given Chinese or Arab (or any another language) texts and English translations.
Such abilities grew, while computers improved, by making possible for them, from using the individual words as the fundamental unit on using the groups of words to move -- cliches.
Versions of the different human translators of the same text change frequently considerably. Another key improvement was the use of repeated English human translations to permit the computer too its transmission by an ana
"Ask a Star Wars fan about how Han Solo made a voyage in however many parsecs"
The "Kessel Run" if I remember correctly, is a route that passes around a big black hole. (Called "The Maw" I think?) Therefore a ship with more powerful acceleration could pass closer to it, and complete the run in less distance. Not THAT convoluted, but I take your point.
Not sure why you're modded as flamebait, it's a valid point. And Babylon 5 is far better than Star Wars or Star Trek.
Yup, definitely a bare bones design. In fact, TIEs don't even have a life support system. That's why all the TIE pilots wear full environment suits and those sinister face masks, while the Rebels can go bare faced.
:)
"You know that Death Star is packed full of TIE Fighters, but they only actually send out a handful to fight the rebel fighters. Maybe they were just overconfident."
Or, maybe it would've been unfeasible for the special effects of the time to pull off thousands of fighters using models?
Not in public though. Once in Kindergarten I smashed a lego escape pod as it crashed into the ground. I had to go sit in the red square for my wanton destructive behavious :(
'What part of "the right of the people to keep and bear arms" don't you understand?'
The definition (or limit) of what 'arms' entails, that's what.
In the general sense, arms are defined as "Instruments or weapons of offense or defense." (from www.dict.org)
Should 'the people' have the right to bear heavy machine guns? Flamethrowers? Mortars? RPGs? Cruise missiles? Tactical nukes?
Why not? These are all 'arms', which the constitution guarantees the right to bear.
Or.... maybe there should be a limit, yes? Maybe everyone SHOULDN'T have access to weapons capable of slaughtering their neighbors en masse.
And the argument that the people need to be armed so they can overthrow the government... please. Can you imagine what would happen if private citizenry launched an assault against the government in today's America?
But why would they need such a "lever"? They can wipe out the human race any time they want. (And yes, I've seen the Animatrix)
:)
I don't buy the whole "humans as power sources" idea at all. I believe the world of Zion is simply another layer of the simulation, a catchpocket for the rebels. I think the whole "evil machines sucking our energy" thing is a ruse, to keep the rebels occupied. The machines recognize that these people NEED to rebel against "the system", so they have provided them with a monstrous system to fight against.
Why do I believe this? Three reasons:
1) "Generating" energy from humans is nonsense. It's no more feasible than a perpetual motion machine. The laws of thermodynamics simply don't allow it. I'm positive the W bros. are aware of this. Also, the Architect indicates (in a vague fashion) that the machines can survive the extinction of the humans.
2) Smith has transferred himself into the human Bane in Zion. How is it possible for a computer program to "possess" a flesh and blood brain? There is no precedent for this. However, if Bane is simply an avatar in a simulation, it makes perfect sense. Also, Bane cuts his hand rather deeply, in the next scene they draw attention to his hand again, and there is no sign of blood. They are subtly hinting (without explicitly showing) that he was able to heal himself.
3) Neo stopping the sentinels. Impossible if he is flesh and blood. But if he's still in a simulation, and has finally realized that, he could easily do it. Notice how he immediately falls into a coma, diverting the attention away from what he did. Perhaps he's in a coma because he has woken up into the next "level"... which could be yet another simulation, or possibly actual reality. My one problem with this is Neo said "Something's different, I can feel them now." I have no explanation for that line.. what exactly has changed?
Oh well.. there will be no definitive proof of what's really going on until Revolutions comes out; I am eagerly awaiting it. Thank goodness we don't have to wait 3 years!
Two questions:
I am using an ancient Sharp OZ-770PC because I simply cannot find a modern organizer with a form factor I like better. (Also, 2xAA batteries last it like 6 months) The TMobile Sidekick looked interesting, but that was about it.
Oh man... tell me about it. Coding in Java always feels like the old cartoon where every leak you plug, a brand new one springs up for no reason.
The Architect explicitly says to Neo, "Although the process has altered your consciousness, you remain irrecovably human". It's possible he's lying of course, but that just feels wrong. I think everything he tells Neo is the truth (although I'm sure he's left some stuff out)
The machines want to build the perfect simulation; one that everyone will accept. To this end, they must perfect their understanding of human nature, specifically our choices.
In this iteration of the Matrix, they seem to be very interested in the emotion of love. Persephone demanding to 'sample' Neo's love of Trinity via a kiss, and the entire ending is engineered by the machines to test Neo and Trinity's love for each other.
Also, the Architect says this:
"Your 5 predecessors were by design based on a similar predication a contingent affirmation that was meant to create a profound attachment to the rest of your species facilitating the function of the One. While the others experienced this in a very general way your experience is far more specific, Vis a vie love."
This doesn't seem to make sense to me... his predecessors experienced a "profound attachment to the rest of [their] species", but Neo is different.. he has a profound attachment to ONE PERSON, which would be contrary to "facilitating the function of the One", but it seems the machines intended this. Why? To finally find the lever required for a human to doom his race?