The sys reqs for Haystack do seem a bit absurd. Wouldn't Haystack really have it's place on a PDA where you'd want fewer programs sucking up your hard disk space without giving up functionality? I'd freaking love it if my iPAQ had one interface for all my needs. All they have to do is "shrink it" down req wise...but i guess if it were as simple a job as putting a word in quotes then it'd be done already.
1) I'm sure that there are unique segments of matrix code that the machines and agents use to identify individuals. That way no matter what visual representation of a digital self one would choose, they'd still be themselves (Rose by any other name kind of thing)
2) Smith and Neo share some kind of funky connection. They somehow partially overwrote each other so i'm sure Smith could just home in on that. Smith should have "chmod 700" before his last fight with neo, but then there wouldn't have been that cool ending.
[The same programming flaws that allowed the 1% of people to 'wake up' and reject the First Matrix, would also allow 1% of THOSE people to eventually wake up and reject the Second Matrix. Which is why every 100 years the robots come in and wipe out everyone in Zion, to keep the chances of that 1% of 1% from growing to a whole number. Only this time, the "Messiah" was stronger than they had allowed for...]
If what you say is right, then here's my take:
Let's assume that we start from the point when the machines have wipes out Zion (it's already happened 6 times after all). We begin fresh. Then 1% of the population plugged into the "Matrix" "wake up". These people find their way to Zion somehow.
Every year a stronger person "wakes up" from the 1% that "wake up" from the "Matrix". This person...well...let's call him/her the "hundredth". This "hundredth" not only gets unplugged, but realizes that they can bend reality once they temporarily plug back into the matrix. They also teach others how to bend reality. Morpheus, Trinity, Ghost and everyone else get physically unplugged via a mathematical error from the "Matrix", but also get mentally unplugged through training from freed minds.
Therefore, every decade we have a "tenth".
Then the reason why the machines destroy Zion every 100 years is because the last "tenth" that "wakes up" is the "one". The one is exceedingly dangerous because the "one" not only wakes up from the Matrix, but also from the "real world", which you've pointed out as being yet another Matrix.
So then you could say that the "one" is in fact the whole number that the machines are waiting on. He's like a boolean flag that instructs the machines to destroy Zion.
So then this shows us exactly why the machines must destroy Zion every 100 years.
Every being after the "one" would be granted with greater abilities than the ability of the "one". Neo would be 1.00 or so and the next person to wake up from "the real world" simulation would be 1.00000001. One year after Neo there would be the 1.01. (Keep in mind that in either of Neo's choices at the end of the film Zion is destroyed)
That would explain why they need to destroy Zion every 100 years. This would prevent "the ones" from growing a large enough following and heading straight for the kernel of true machine. It would also kill anyone who might train the 1.000000001 and so on.
I think I've even figure out what going on in Revolutions based on this post and the teaser at the end of the Reloaded, but I'll just keep those thoughts to myself. Damn, I sound as preachy as that French guy in the movie. Sorry for rambling.
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You lucky...lucky...little man...whom i wish i was at this very moment on my dial up connection.
The sys reqs for Haystack do seem a bit absurd. Wouldn't Haystack really have it's place on a PDA where you'd want fewer programs sucking up your hard disk space without giving up functionality? I'd freaking love it if my iPAQ had one interface for all my needs. All they have to do is "shrink it" down req wise...but i guess if it were as simple a job as putting a word in quotes then it'd be done already.
1) I'm sure that there are unique segments of matrix code that the machines and agents use to identify individuals. That way no matter what visual representation of a digital self one would choose, they'd still be themselves (Rose by any other name kind of thing)
2) Smith and Neo share some kind of funky connection. They somehow partially overwrote each other so i'm sure Smith could just home in on that. Smith should have "chmod 700" before his last fight with neo, but then there wouldn't have been that cool ending.
This Neo is the 7th, significant number...
Maybe i'm dense, but could you clearify how 7 is a significant number besides it being "lucky" or due to its appetite for "9"?
If what you say is right, then here's my take:
Let's assume that we start from the point when the machines have wipes out Zion (it's already happened 6 times after all). We begin fresh. Then 1% of the population plugged into the "Matrix" "wake up". These people find their way to Zion somehow.
Every year a stronger person "wakes up" from the 1% that "wake up" from the "Matrix". This person...well...let's call him/her the "hundredth". This "hundredth" not only gets unplugged, but realizes that they can bend reality once they temporarily plug back into the matrix. They also teach others how to bend reality. Morpheus, Trinity, Ghost and everyone else get physically unplugged via a mathematical error from the "Matrix", but also get mentally unplugged through training from freed minds.
Therefore, every decade we have a "tenth".
Then the reason why the machines destroy Zion every 100 years is because the last "tenth" that "wakes up" is the "one". The one is exceedingly dangerous because the "one" not only wakes up from the Matrix, but also from the "real world", which you've pointed out as being yet another Matrix.
So then you could say that the "one" is in fact the whole number that the machines are waiting on. He's like a boolean flag that instructs the machines to destroy Zion.
So then this shows us exactly why the machines must destroy Zion every 100 years.
Every being after the "one" would be granted with greater abilities than the ability of the "one". Neo would be 1.00 or so and the next person to wake up from "the real world" simulation would be 1.00000001. One year after Neo there would be the 1.01.
(Keep in mind that in either of Neo's choices at the end of the film Zion is destroyed)
That would explain why they need to destroy Zion every 100 years. This would prevent "the ones" from growing a large enough following and heading straight for the kernel of true machine. It would also kill anyone who might train the 1.000000001 and so on.
I think I've even figure out what going on in Revolutions based on this post and the teaser at the end of the Reloaded, but I'll just keep those thoughts to myself. Damn, I sound as preachy as that French guy in the movie. Sorry for rambling.