I don't think so - most of the people leaving the movie pissed-off are pissed because the Wachowski's didn't go the same way everyone thought they would. That, in itself, is clever.
Look. Matrix 3 is the conclusion. It adds some to the world, finishes the story, and gives you Epic SciFi Battles. Lucas couldn't/hasn't done any better. Revolutions is a kick ass SciFi Action Flick. And there's nothing wrong with that.
Um, or not. The third was simply a kick-ass Epic SciFi Action Flick. That's all. Nothing wrong with that at all, I loved it. Yes, I can be disappointed that they didn't answer the "layers" question, that it wasn't an utter mind fsck. But, the third movie was fun. It wrapped things up.
For better or worse, the mind fsck occured in the minds of the viewers, in the months between movies. There was just enough there to make us create our own idea of the third movie. It just didn't happen to be theirs. As for "The One"'s powers? It's part of their mythos - they built it, they set the rules. It doesn't have to sync with ours.
I remember a survey of people who say CTHD in the theater. Something like 2/3rds remember it being dubbed, though they had seen it subtitled. Interesting. Personally, I didn't get much out of Chow Yun Fat's delivery - he spoke like a ventriloquist, teeth clenched together the whole time.
I use Teamspeak for gaming, and it does a rather good job. Granted, it's designed for gaming, but use the Speex 25.9 codec, and it's pretty much the same quality as the phone. Isn't a phone's bandwidth equal to 16kbps?
WinFS is all about metadata, stored on top of NTFS.
Yeah, right now it is... as opposed to several times in the not-so-recent-past, where it was a replacement filesystem. It's possible the most recent explanation is the truth, but none of us will know until it's out - this MS guy may be wrong, he may be feeding disinformation, or they may have figured out that they can't build a DB-oriented FS, and have come up with this way to get something like it.
However, someone mass duplicating the CD would have to fiddle with it every 10 tries and would not create a perfect copy after they moved stuff around.
Actually, no. If you're mass-duplicating CDs, you're either going to use a Disk Duplicator (about $200-$300 now - put in a master, put in one or two blanks, repeat in 5 minutes - heck, they even have robot arms to mass-feed them!), a program that lets you make copies (shouldn't Apple's Disk Copy let you do this?), or have access to a plant and can make thousands on demand.
That being said, I'm surprised the record companies care. A LOT more money is being lost due to professional pirates selling pressed CDs, than to people making 10 copies for their friends. But, as we've seen, the record companies aren't exactly bright. All they're doing is punishing their customers - as usual.
Why, indeed, does the code need to be rewritten? What are people going to do, mod it so they can beat the single-player game more easily? And hadn't they delayed the game before the code leak was announced?
It's even better than that - the story was originally run in The Sun! http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-%202003452301,00.html
I remember someone mentioning that Tom Baker once hinted that the next Doctor might be a woman (that would've been for the 5th Doctor). He did it purely to screw with everyone.
Neo needs to decide whether to free people into a real world of inevitable famine and suffering
That assumes that the outside world is actually like they say it is. What if this is just the beta test? What if Neo is one of the programmers, doing QA on it?
you're not paying the $25 to $2000 or whatever you might pay for the actual physical machine, either.
On Ebay, the boards run about 10$ on up, and you're getting a physical product.
Personally, I think they ought to license Marble Man - that would make a good flagship title, especially to Slashdotters.
I wish them the best, I hope it works. But they need to license MANY more games (60?! WTF?). The arcade manufacturers have (finally) realized there's money to be made out there in classic (aka Nostalgia) gaming. Hence the Atari Joystick at Thinkgeek, the Intellivision, the Namco Classics, the Xbox game with multiple arcade games, etc, etc.
but how's the GUI? It can have all the cool features and abilities, but if usability sucks, you might as well not bother. It's amazing how many companies get this wrong.
That's odd, I'm on Charter Pipeline, and they have 3 tiers. Not that I'd know - they never advertised the fact to me, and I probably would've ponied up more when they went from @Home's 5mbps(!) to their current 1mpbs (and only 768 if you're a new customer), if they'd only told me.
However, I got a letter in the mail last week that said, basically, "since you put up with our abysmal service and frequent drop-outs, we've upgraded you to 2mbps until March 2004". Too bad Usenet is still capped at 256 (2x128kbps streams).
Personally, I think part of it is that bragging rights matter. I _never_ suggested DSL over cable, since cable was potentially 6+ times faster. But when they went to the DSL-competitive speeds, it became very easy to recommend DSL. Heck, at that point DSL was a much better deal. I wonder if my previous suggestion (that the bandwidth hogs pay for themselves by evangelizing the product to people who never use it) is actually true.
I wasn't sure if it would be the same people each time, to be honest. But what if there was a Trinity, but she didn't say anything because the Oracle didn't? So, a little push, and voila...
If it does indeed replace 200 servers with 20, does that mean the number of servers running Win2k3 will go down? And does that mean their marketshare tanks?:)
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a "rhythm" robot. Never have so many electronics had so little sense of syncopation or timing.
...so is downloading it okay?
Definitely - take a look at this:
http://www.hop-on.com/headset.html
I don't think so - most of the people leaving the movie pissed-off are pissed because the Wachowski's didn't go the same way everyone thought they would. That, in itself, is clever.
Look. Matrix 3 is the conclusion. It adds some to the world, finishes the story, and gives you Epic SciFi Battles. Lucas couldn't/hasn't done any better. Revolutions is a kick ass SciFi Action Flick. And there's nothing wrong with that.
Thanks - I was hoping someone besides me would say that. It's their mythos, their rules.
Um, or not. The third was simply a kick-ass Epic SciFi Action Flick. That's all. Nothing wrong with that at all, I loved it. Yes, I can be disappointed that they didn't answer the "layers" question, that it wasn't an utter mind fsck. But, the third movie was fun. It wrapped things up.
For better or worse, the mind fsck occured in the minds of the viewers, in the months between movies. There was just enough there to make us create our own idea of the third movie. It just didn't happen to be theirs. As for "The One"'s powers? It's part of their mythos - they built it, they set the rules. It doesn't have to sync with ours.
My computer has developed an allergy to Windows.
I remember a survey of people who say CTHD in the theater. Something like 2/3rds remember it being dubbed, though they had seen it subtitled. Interesting. Personally, I didn't get much out of Chow Yun Fat's delivery - he spoke like a ventriloquist, teeth clenched together the whole time.
I saw "super-fast optical BSD" and my mouth watered.
Sure, I'll adopt it... but you have to post a link to a picture.
Now go over in the corner and hang out with David Coursey of Anchordesk. Go on. You earned it.
(wow, talk about FUD... Coursey had 3 of those 5 points...)
I use Teamspeak for gaming, and it does a rather good job. Granted, it's designed for gaming, but use the Speex 25.9 codec, and it's pretty much the same quality as the phone. Isn't a phone's bandwidth equal to 16kbps?
WinFS is all about metadata, stored on top of NTFS.
Yeah, right now it is... as opposed to several times in the not-so-recent-past, where it was a replacement filesystem. It's possible the most recent explanation is the truth, but none of us will know until it's out - this MS guy may be wrong, he may be feeding disinformation, or they may have figured out that they can't build a DB-oriented FS, and have come up with this way to get something like it.
Right there with you, actually.
DVD due out on December 9th. Includes the 3 unaired episodes, and a buttload of commentaries, extra bits, even the gag reel.
Hey, the farther away Lucas is from this, the better. Don't complain.
Not sure if this is what you meant to say...
However, someone mass duplicating the CD would have to fiddle with it every 10 tries and would not create a perfect copy after they moved stuff around.
Actually, no. If you're mass-duplicating CDs, you're either going to use a Disk Duplicator (about $200-$300 now - put in a master, put in one or two blanks, repeat in 5 minutes - heck, they even have robot arms to mass-feed them!), a program that lets you make copies (shouldn't Apple's Disk Copy let you do this?), or have access to a plant and can make thousands on demand.
That being said, I'm surprised the record companies care. A LOT more money is being lost due to professional pirates selling pressed CDs, than to people making 10 copies for their friends. But, as we've seen, the record companies aren't exactly bright. All they're doing is punishing their customers - as usual.
Why, indeed, does the code need to be rewritten? What are people going to do, mod it so they can beat the single-player game more easily? And hadn't they delayed the game before the code leak was announced?
It's even better than that - the story was originally run in The Sun! http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-%202003452301 ,00.html
I remember someone mentioning that Tom Baker once hinted that the next Doctor might be a woman (that would've been for the 5th Doctor). He did it purely to screw with everyone.
And it worked. Again.
Neo needs to decide whether to free people into a real world of inevitable famine and suffering
That assumes that the outside world is actually like they say it is. What if this is just the beta test? What if Neo is one of the programmers, doing QA on it?
you're not paying the $25 to $2000 or whatever you might pay for the actual physical machine, either.
On Ebay, the boards run about 10$ on up, and you're getting a physical product.
Personally, I think they ought to license Marble Man - that would make a good flagship title, especially to Slashdotters.
I wish them the best, I hope it works. But they need to license MANY more games (60?! WTF?). The arcade manufacturers have (finally) realized there's money to be made out there in classic (aka Nostalgia) gaming. Hence the Atari Joystick at Thinkgeek, the Intellivision, the Namco Classics, the Xbox game with multiple arcade games, etc, etc.
but how's the GUI? It can have all the cool features and abilities, but if usability sucks, you might as well not bother. It's amazing how many companies get this wrong.
That's odd, I'm on Charter Pipeline, and they have 3 tiers. Not that I'd know - they never advertised the fact to me, and I probably would've ponied up more when they went from @Home's 5mbps(!) to their current 1mpbs (and only 768 if you're a new customer), if they'd only told me.
However, I got a letter in the mail last week that said, basically, "since you put up with our abysmal service and frequent drop-outs, we've upgraded you to 2mbps until March 2004". Too bad Usenet is still capped at 256 (2x128kbps streams).
Personally, I think part of it is that bragging rights matter. I _never_ suggested DSL over cable, since cable was potentially 6+ times faster. But when they went to the DSL-competitive speeds, it became very easy to recommend DSL. Heck, at that point DSL was a much better deal.
I wonder if my previous suggestion (that the bandwidth hogs pay for themselves by evangelizing the product to people who never use it) is actually true.
I wasn't sure if it would be the same people each time, to be honest. But what if there was a Trinity, but she didn't say anything because the Oracle didn't? So, a little push, and voila...
If it does indeed replace 200 servers with 20, does that mean the number of servers running Win2k3 will go down? And does that mean their marketshare tanks? :)
Um, it does not help target email. All it does is figure out which type of ad makes you more likely to buy something.