I was thinking the same thing, except that Neo is also a human, and is simply being experimented on by other humans in the present or near future.
And that outside of the second layer of the matrix is a real reality that probably is just some secret research hospitol.
Of course that would be an incredibly lame and disapointing ending, and I really hope that is not the case.
perhaps the robots and humans are still fighting, and the robots are testing the long term feasablility of blacking out the sun (we need it more then them really).
The people in the matrix could all then just be prisoners that are being tested to see what human nature does indeed dictate.
I still think that the thing with the Architect stanks of social experimentation.
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The head of Nvidia was written about in wired a while ago and he essentially said the same thing.
He was like, our cards ARE the computer, and are becoming far more important then the CPU for the hard core stuff.
my question is why wouldn't any and every software company check major GPL code for violations.
I know that I would.
I would have somebody paid to grep all available source code for possible violations.
Including BSD, MS shared source, and GPL stuff floating around.
It just seems obvious.
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That is great, I would love it if I had to reburn my CD when I baught a new graphics card (you know, one that is two or more generations newer then when the game came out).
I really hope they do this.
Because when I leave Windows doing nothing it takes up so much prossessor power (at least.01%).
And it is very fortunate that we have effective ways to write to NTFS outside of Windows, that will really help us save our games.
PS. I really think the odds of that happening are slim to none, but what do I know?
Slashdot covers opera releases including major releases and minor ones for Linux. It is hardly ignored.
Perhaps if Opera had an open and transparent development prossess, and provided a free (as in free Godammit) rendering engine used in few other browsers. And built a cross platform GUI toolkit (ok this release is not too relovent to the last two) it would be get a front page story every time a developer farted.
As is Opera is a great browser that gets a fair amount of buzz on this site, but due its slower and opaque developement it does not get as much continual praise./. is news for nerds stuff that matters, but it also unabashidly has an OS bias.
Last time I tried to play an RPG (it was grandia II) I thoughoughly (even obsevily for a day) enjoyed it for the first 30 hours or so. The next 7 or so were ok, and the last 3 were excrutiating. (it may have been longer then 40 hours, if so the middle seven is the time I have wrong)
Games I am interested come out often enough that I have a whole bunch of games I have not even installed or played yet (out of bargin bins, not new).
And I never finish a game because it just gets boring after a while. Even a good zero effort TV series gets fatiguin by 80 episodes (40 hours - commercials) why should a game be expected to last double that?
The Economist published the same thing during the peak of the boom (late 90's) saying it was going to end and had a chart of overlaping curve of railroad automobile blah.
The chart was of the derivitaves of total size (a chart of growth) so they looked like bell curves, or maybe upside down purabalas<sp> and not S's but I have a distinct memory because it was at that moment I realized that if I took CS in college I would be getting out just as the job market was impossible (this year).
Not that I wanted to go to college anyway.
I guess it just shows that the use of the past in economics is very effective for predicting the future (better then the weather anyway).
Even with all the special effects the scene in the Matrix that most impressed be was when they are shooting up the building from the helicapter and there are bullets just raining down.
Something about that scene just seamed awsome to me.
I liked the crazy action more in crouching tiger personaly.
To think that to learn the keyboard on a synth is any harder then learning where the keys are on a control pad is rediculous.
The problem with playing music well is timing and the distortion their of (style). You must feel the music and have the timing perfect, but not quite their.
I learned the fingering for the saxaphone in about 2 hours, I never became a good player because I have no feel for music.
They realized that if they made a design that allowed them to ramp up the clock speed to profane levels, they would have the best overall performance.
That p4 3GHz is faster then the fasted AMD has to offer. Considering that not too lang ago AMD had the fastest offering for quite a while, I would say the stradegy worked.
There is nothing wrong with designing a chip for ultra high clock sppeds then attaining them. The only problem I had with the p4 was that right when it came out it was slower overall then the best pIII's.
No, they were crap cars. They were under powered and/or overwight.
They were originally designed for the smaller more powerful rotary engines that crapped out at 20,000 miles (this was discovered late in the cars designing. The V6 they tossed in didn't cut it like it should of.
The weight problem led to not very good performance and bad fuel economy so the car was neither sporty or economy.
It is one of the cars that blesses the pages of a book on auto lemons I own (as does the Pinto due to it's tendancy to exploade).
The gremlin has a "cool" look to it, but besides that is is not a good car.
P.S. I was going to buy one based soley on the (un)cool factor, but the price was too high to justify it (I had 1500 for a car, not the 4000 the guy wanted).
Funny, I am capable of paying them now with no money at all.
Because I let them borrow a small piece of my screen to put up adds.
Are you incapable of that?
I don't intend to ever pay cash for Opera persoanly, but I will continue to live up to my end of the bargain for the free neer version instead of trying to cheat them.
I garentee tapes make more per a copy (for the store) then CD's, otherwise they would not be worth the shelf space. Think about it, I can sell a tape that has 1/10th the people interested in buying it (Most cars even have CD now) or a CD. hmmm.
If that tape is not 10 times the proffit (ok exagurated) then the tape is a waste of space.
Well actually I believe it would be called gross proffit. I did not mean to imply that I though CD stores were making tons of money, they obviously are not. All the ones in my area (a college town, so they were hit hard by p2p) are suffering, and some moving into books instead. Even at 6.00 bucks (wink wink troll) a CD, which was apperently way high, they are not making much money.
To be doing well a store like that is going to need at least 500.00 bucks gross proffit and at 6.00 bucks a CD that is 85 CDs/day. or ~8/hour.
I don't know of any CD stores in my area that sell a CD every eight minutes all day long. Most stores are struggling to stay open while many fail to do even that.
To the person who got down on me for spouting like an expert, FUCK YOU, I qualified what I knew at the beginning of my statement.
To the people who clarified that the proffit was much lower per a CD, thanks.
And the spelling troll, I moderate you with a +1 informative and a +1 funny. The moderator that did otherwise is lame.
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I was thinking the same thing, except that Neo is also a human, and is simply being experimented on by other humans in the present or near future.
And that outside of the second layer of the matrix is a real reality that probably is just some secret research hospitol.
Of course that would be an incredibly lame and disapointing ending, and I really hope that is not the case.
perhaps the robots and humans are still fighting, and the robots are testing the long term feasablility of blacking out the sun (we need it more then them really).
The people in the matrix could all then just be prisoners that are being tested to see what human nature does indeed dictate.
I still think that the thing with the Architect stanks of social experimentation.
The head of Nvidia was written about in wired a while ago and he essentially said the same thing.
He was like, our cards ARE the computer, and are becoming far more important then the CPU for the hard core stuff.
It was interesting, but I totally foo fooed it.
obviously he was smarter then me.
my question is why wouldn't any and every software company check major GPL code for violations.
I know that I would.
I would have somebody paid to grep all available source code for possible violations.
Including BSD, MS shared source, and GPL stuff floating around.
It just seems obvious.
That is great, I would love it if I had to reburn my CD when I baught a new graphics card (you know, one that is two or more generations newer then when the game came out).
.01%).
I really hope they do this.
Because when I leave Windows doing nothing it takes up so much prossessor power (at least
And it is very fortunate that we have effective ways to write to NTFS outside of Windows, that will really help us save our games.
PS.
I really think the odds of that happening are slim to none, but what do I know?
that is why it will be cooler on PC.
even if all the textures, polygon counts, reflectivity etc. are the same, it will just look better on a PC with high res graphics.
I hate all your programming languages because they arn't just a .wav file of my dictating what I want it to do.
PS.
I don't program for a living
you don't need 3 GHz
You need a 2.2 Ghz AMD
duh.
Slashdot covers opera releases including major releases and minor ones for Linux. It is hardly ignored.
/. is news for nerds stuff that matters, but it also unabashidly has an OS bias.
Perhaps if Opera had an open and transparent development prossess, and provided a free (as in free Godammit) rendering engine used in few other browsers. And built a cross platform GUI toolkit (ok this release is not too relovent to the last two) it would be get a front page story every time a developer farted.
As is Opera is a great browser that gets a fair amount of buzz on this site, but due its slower and opaque developement it does not get as much continual praise.
And it is a weekend on tope of that.
I am totally with you.
Last time I tried to play an RPG (it was grandia II) I thoughoughly (even obsevily for a day) enjoyed it for the first 30 hours or so. The next 7 or so were ok, and the last 3 were excrutiating. (it may have been longer then 40 hours, if so the middle seven is the time I have wrong)
Games I am interested come out often enough that I have a whole bunch of games I have not even installed or played yet (out of bargin bins, not new).
And I never finish a game because it just gets boring after a while. Even a good zero effort TV series gets fatiguin by 80 episodes (40 hours - commercials) why should a game be expected to last double that?
The Economist published the same thing during the peak of the boom (late 90's) saying it was going to end and had a chart of overlaping curve of railroad automobile blah.
The chart was of the derivitaves of total size (a chart of growth) so they looked like bell curves, or maybe upside down purabalas<sp> and not S's but I have a distinct memory because it was at that moment I realized that if I took CS in college I would be getting out just as the job market was impossible (this year).
Not that I wanted to go to college anyway.
I guess it just shows that the use of the past in economics is very effective for predicting the future (better then the weather anyway).
Even with all the special effects the scene in the Matrix that most impressed be was when they are shooting up the building from the helicapter and there are bullets just raining down.
Something about that scene just seamed awsome to me.
I liked the crazy action more in crouching tiger personaly.
Do you think users that are fearful of viruses all back things up regularly?
The trama of a virus is all your hours of work, personal files old, email, pirated stuff, ect. lost.
All root protections will do is protect the pirated software.
On a home computer where the average user has the root password there is no reason to not run them as root.
People are gullable and will provide the root password at the drop of a hat (didn't that british poll find people glad to give up their password?)
I think your premiss is very flawed.
To think that to learn the keyboard on a synth is any harder then learning where the keys are on a control pad is rediculous.
The problem with playing music well is timing and the distortion their of (style). You must feel the music and have the timing perfect, but not quite their.
I learned the fingering for the saxaphone in about 2 hours, I never became a good player because I have no feel for music.
But you can do that now.
How many "Purple Dinosaur" and Big Mouse earily siomilar to Mickey are available for birthday parties?
Quite a lot.
every utility disk I have received recently was a DOS boot disk or a windows app.
I have not had to find a DOS bot disk for a long time. So I think the problem is a non-issue.
The decline in utility disks that don't boot probable has to do with win XP not supporting a true DOS mode.
I have a therory.
They realized that if they made a design that allowed them to ramp up the clock speed to profane levels, they would have the best overall performance.
That p4 3GHz is faster then the fasted AMD has to offer. Considering that not too lang ago AMD had the fastest offering for quite a while, I would say the stradegy worked.
There is nothing wrong with designing a chip for ultra high clock sppeds then attaining them. The only problem I had with the p4 was that right when it came out it was slower overall then the best pIII's.
AMD does not have full compatability.
According to their site if you want to run x86-64 code you can not use 16-bit legacy apps.
Yes, technicaly the chip can run all those apps, but then it is just the next athalon, and not 64-bit chip with extra registers.
"Yeah. So when was the last time the government did anything efficiently or cost-effectively?"
This moring I sent a letter to the middle of nowhere over 1000 miles away for under 40 cents.
Does that count?
"It is a common misconception it was based on Quake 2, but in fact it was based on Quake 2."
people spouting things like that might have somehting to do with it.
you mean it's happening in 6 months?
that's not too long a wait for such a big company to get it's act together.
OK, the version number inflation joke is old. shame on me.
No, they were crap cars. They were under powered and/or overwight.
They were originally designed for the smaller more powerful rotary engines that crapped out at 20,000 miles (this was discovered late in the cars designing. The V6 they tossed in didn't cut it like it should of.
The weight problem led to not very good performance and bad fuel economy so the car was neither sporty or economy.
It is one of the cars that blesses the pages of a book on auto lemons I own (as does the Pinto due to it's tendancy to exploade).
The gremlin has a "cool" look to it, but besides that is is not a good car.
P.S. I was going to buy one based soley on the (un)cool factor, but the price was too high to justify it (I had 1500 for a car, not the 4000 the guy wanted).
Funny, I am capable of paying them now with no money at all.
Because I let them borrow a small piece of my screen to put up adds.
Are you incapable of that?
I don't intend to ever pay cash for Opera persoanly, but I will continue to live up to my end of the bargain for the free neer version instead of trying to cheat them.
I garentee tapes make more per a copy (for the store) then CD's, otherwise they would not be worth the shelf space. Think about it, I can sell a tape that has 1/10th the people interested in buying it (Most cars even have CD now) or a CD. hmmm.
If that tape is not 10 times the proffit (ok exagurated) then the tape is a waste of space.
I'm pretty sure it was ab select start.
... codes.
I haven't played life force for ages though.
my favorite code was the sonic up c down c
I alsways though people were being cute like upsy daisy and never got the codes right (well obviously I did eventualy, damn ypou hyperboly)
Well actually I believe it would be called gross proffit. I did not mean to imply that I though CD stores were making tons of money, they obviously are not. All the ones in my area (a college town, so they were hit hard by p2p) are suffering, and some moving into books instead. Even at 6.00 bucks (wink wink troll) a CD, which was apperently way high, they are not making much money.
To be doing well a store like that is going to need at least 500.00 bucks gross proffit and at 6.00 bucks a CD that is 85 CDs/day. or ~8/hour.
I don't know of any CD stores in my area that sell a CD every eight minutes all day long. Most stores are struggling to stay open while many fail to do even that.
To the person who got down on me for spouting like an expert, FUCK YOU, I qualified what I knew at the beginning of my statement.
To the people who clarified that the proffit was much lower per a CD, thanks.
And the spelling troll, I moderate you with a +1 informative and a +1 funny. The moderator that did otherwise is lame.