My mom doesn't talk about computers very frequently, but she brought something up a few days ago.
Mom: "I love that free office program that you put on my computer!"
Me: "OpenOffice?"
Mom: "Yeah. I was using it today. I can't believe that it's free."
Before that, she was using MS Works. She's not the kind of person that wants to spend a lot of money on new software, so I suggested OpenOffice. OpenOffice meets her needs very well, as far as I can tell. People just need a little coaching at times. You can convince them that there is more out there than Microsoft, but you need to take it one step at a time with people that aren't familiar with things beyond AOL and MS Office.
Little things like this can make a difference. A guy I work with is also now using OpenOffice (as of last week), and a few other people are fanatical of MozillaFirebird. They love the fact that it's lean, fast, not prone to trojan EXEs, and is pop-up proof.
Not everyone should make the switch to Linux. It doesn't suit everyone's needs... Yet. But there are tons of other great Open Source programs out there that normal joes (and moms) are discovering every day. That is what is getting the word out.
True about that population thing. It may very well be that I just live in an area with very few Mac users.
Eh? I hate the Matrix, but that's beyond the point.;) I can afford a Mac, but I don't think I'd enjoy it as much. Maybe some day, I'll tire of being able to do some tinkering with Linux, but I doubt it. It takes me only a short period of time to get a Slackware system up and running very nicely. I get all of my work done just fine, without any real degree of needing to tweak my OS.
It sounds like you did what is right for you though. I don't do system administration, nor would I want to (no offense). But when I have to be able to do things on a computer that require lots of flexibility, I look forward to Linux. Sure, OSX has configurability too, but it's very different in many ways.
In reality though, how many people really use computers for work? Some do, like you, but for the rest, it's just an expensive toy. Some, like Macs, are more expensive toys that others. Inthe end, they all amount to one thing; We all just jerk around and read Slashdot all day.
I've been running only Slackware Linux on my home machine for a year and a half now. I've also been running it on my work PC for a long time as well. I've got no intentions of running anything else, aside from maybe some form of BSD on another home machine.
For starters, comparing a more advanced distribution like Debian to OSX is rediculous. Perhaps you should compare it to Lindows or Lycoris. Neither of those require a whole lot of effort to install. Lycoris even autodetects and sets up your hardware automatically.
Second, you need *no* libraries to get DVD movie playback to work with MPlayer. It comes with a modified version of libsdvdcss that is *enabled* by default. Many users install it with just a click or two, if they use an RPM based system. And 99% of video cards run on Linux with XV overlay support these days, so no configuration is really needed. It's funny that you have a DVD problem though, because I just installed Slackware 9 on my buddies P3 700 notebook with an s3 video chip. He gets full speed DVD with MPlayer with less than 30% CPU load. Are you another one of those framebuffer trolls?
I've never experienced your signal 11 problem with XMMS. I'm sorry to hear about that though. I listen to XMMS on all of my boxes and have yet to have a single crash in three years of use.
You have a point that Linux isn't for everybody, but neither is OSX. For some reason though, I don't think that was the point that the parent threads (or the article) was trying to make.
Honestly, though... I know *many* more Linux users than Mac users... Come to think of it, I only know a single Mac user. Maybe that article isn't so far-fetched. Perhaps that means that Linux really does cater to more users than Apple does? (I won't sympathize with those that actually take this comment seriously)
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Dropline offers improved font support (including better Freetype builds), extra Truetype fonts, and extra usability features (PAM). Other than that, most of the extra Gnome desktop stuff is about the same. The extra programs and new i686 optimizations make Dropline a plus. Even the included XF86 packages are built for i686-class CPUs.
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Right. I meant to mention that the Galeon port to the new GTK libs hasn't been ready for long. For the last few months, Gnome has been without its own dedicated browser.
I just figured that many people were used to seeing it with Gnome 1.4.
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Possibly. But Gnome 2 can now take screenshots without GIMP. There's a screenshot option in the "Actions" menu at the top of the toolbar.
It can't grab single windows though. Nor can it do a "timed" screen grab, allowing a brief delay.
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That's what Dropline is for. A new release of Dropline's Gnome just came out a few days ago. It's very nice. The installer is ncurses and web-based over sourceforge, and uses standard Slackware packages for installation. It even checks and removes old packages before installing the new ones. It's basically the Gnome 2.2 desktop with some added features and extra tools.
Often, your business (or school) will have web access to the calender. Try typing your mail server's name in a web browser. I use mine with Phoenix on Linux without a problem.
I've had Maxtor do the same thing. Then I switched to IBM. Then, two weeks ago, one of my 3 40GB IBM60GXP drives puked out. IBM/Hitachi's RMA process blows compared to Maxtor. Maxtor's replacement has the least hassle of all of them. They'll ship you a drive via next-day air, and you can send your old one back in the box they sent; prepaid. Hitachi doesn't seem interested in that kind of thing. Oh well. I won't buy from them.
There is an exception. Generally, Dreamcasts manufactured after October 2000 will not play CD-Rs. But honestly, most of them were made before that time. It's not too hard to find one that supports the MIL-CD format.
Evidently, nVidia may have hired porn star Catalina to attend e3. Well. Here are the pics. There sure are lots of ladies at nVidia's party? I wonder if that has anything to do with the bad press.
Nintendo is in no position to go away. We've seen what happened to SEGA because people "forgot" about what they stodd for. And those gamers that have been around the block will be damned if they're going to let Nintendo go.
Just maybe Microsoft is selling more XBox units, but the numbers have shown that they *are not* selling the software along with it. It's pretty sad when SNES titles top the best selling XBox games on GameFAQs.com. Hmm... Nintendo has been solid on those lists for months now, especially since the Metroid Prime release. Weather it is Game Boy titles, or GCN titles, they've remained pretty consistant. Unless everyone totally buys into the PSP hype, I don't see that changing too much. Gamecubes still keep selling, and software is selling well enough. The PS2 sales are grinding to a halt. Everyone and their mom already has one. The rest are just replacements for dead systems. Tell me if you don't know somebody that hasn't had to replace their PS2? (Gamecubes have a 12 month warranty, compared to the PS2's and XBox's 90 day).
Third party companies are afraid to make the jump, but it is begining to happen. Some of the companies that we've *never dreamed* would make games for non-Sony platforms are doing more cross-platform work. Where's Squaresoft in terms of XBox games? Granted, 3 Gamecube games from Square isn't *everything*, but it's a start. Nintendo still has the biggest and best exclusives that the *fans* want. And even companies like Konami and Capcom are finally working on some satisfactory exclusives.
The fact is... The dedicated game companies will *never* let Nintendo go, and neither will the fans. Nintendo may be a company, and they may be in it for profit just as Sony and Microsoft are, but they are *totally* about the games. You can't say that about the other two, which are primarily electronics, media, or software companies that just want total media domination. Many of us hated to see SEGA go, but we'll be damned if the same thing happens to Nintendo.
Honestly, the majority of the PSX's 3D was done in software. It really wasn't designed with 3D in mind, to tell you the truth. It just came at the right time. 3D was the next big craze, and the PSX had well designed tools and devkits that made 3D graphics quite capable at the time. The key was the extra video RAM that was never seen in dedicated game consoles before. As far the Saturn, SEGA incorperated some last minute changes that helped its "3D" processing, but the problem was in the non-standard method by which it rendered these models, and the fact that it was plagued with its massively parrallel processing architecture.
As for the first "real" 3D console. Many folks would say it was the N64, but I'm of the opinion that the Dreamcast was the first "real" 3D console. It was the first to integrate a dedicated processor that handled the important things... Lighting, filtering, antialiasing, texture mapping, etc., to such a perfect degree. In fact, very little has been changed in home 3D hardware since then. It's mostly just gotten faster and obtained a few new insttruction sets. The SH4/PowerVR combo is still a fantastic design... One of the best that's ever been put into a console.
I understand what you're saying. Windows is their priority, but that doesn't help the fact that the Linux version was extremely sub-par in comparison.
Don't get me wrong. I like Opera. But I feel it's fair to hold it against them, because incomplete and buggy commercial software is not desired by most people.
I don't take the software personally. I just don't like being sold an incomplete program, only to get a "Woops. It's time to upgrade. You only purchased your 6.x license a few months ago, but we're going to stop working on 6.x. Will that be cash, check, or charge?"
So just what am I not supposed to hold against them? Is it wrong to be vocal about how Linux users were cheated out of a complete and reasonably stable program? I guess so, seeing as how I was modded as a "troll" in the previous post, merely for sharing my experiences.
I was a big fan of Opera for Windows for years, and was a registered user. I switched to Linux, and used Opera 5.x and 6.x, and I was very unhappy with the product.
The port was broken and incomplete. Each time time that Espen and the guys working on the Linux port would release a new version, something new would be broken. I had tons of problems with things in 6.x.
-Crashing. -QT skinning. -The download manager would halt. -Opera would cause very high CPU load. -Java and other plugins didn't work worth a squat. -Pages would render strangely. -Features were missing that seemed fine in the Windows version. -And many more problems.
No matter how frequently I, and other users of the Linux Opera 6 would notify the coders, our suggestions were ignored. Excuses were always given. It was always "a bug in QT" or some other excuse.
I got tired of excuses and software that wasn't up to par... Software that *I paid for*. I switched to Phoenix/Firebird, and haven't looked back. It's now getting up to Opera's speed, and is becoming a fine browser.
What's my point in commenting on this? I feel that Opera neglected to deliver a good product to Linux users. Many people who paid for Opera 6 were never given a finished product, and Opera still expected them to pay the price to upgrade to version 7. Perhaps things will change with Opera 7. I've checked it out, and it's certainly gaining more features, and the codebase is allegedly going to be shared with the Windows version now. That's good. But I still can't help but feel that they've cheated their customers. I know that I'm not the only former Opera user that has since switched to Mozilla Firebird. I'm not saying that everyone should do the same. Use which product suits your needs. But I wanted everyone to be aware of my situation with these guys.
I have that chipset in my Abit KT7A-RAID board. I've had no problems with it. It's been perfectly reliable on Windows and Linux since I purchased it, which was about 2 years ago. The key is proper driver installation on Windows machines. With Linux, it's all automated. I've got no experience with Amiga systems and this southbridge.
Well... Wait a sec. I did experience some problems with these chipsets and ATAPI ZIP drives on another motherboard. But I believe that VIA resolved those problems. Our ZIPs worked fine with a 4in1 update. I'm not sure if it was a cheap hack though.
I went into this movie last night with mixed emotions. I left the theater a bit more excited about the third movie, but I wasn't entirely impressed with what happened in "Reloaded".
Don't get me wrong. It wasn't a stinker by any means, it just seems that there was too much there and too little time to adequately tell the story in two hours. The begining, in Zion, dragged on for a while. I suppose that it was done to give the viewer a better idea of how the people lived, hidden from the machines and the Matrix. But frankly, I feel that that time could have been better spent on develping the end of the film, where the plot twists occur. The end just seemed totally hacked up. Everything was rushed from scene to scene at the end, where it really should count to have things flow well and make sense. I was intrigued by some of the revelations at the end of the movie. But something feels like it's missing. Perhaps this will be different in the third movie?
As far as action goes... It's top-notch. And for many, that's what the Matrix is all about. I was really entertained by the Agent Smith fights. Those were very entertaining, and full of the Hong-Kong action style. Lots of wires and special effects were used.
As far as the characters go, even though Reeves is supposed to play the hero, I feel that Laurence Fishburne really stole the show. There was just something totally cool about Morpheus with a Katana, fighting off agents. He was totally the badass, like a fighting prophet.
This really makes way for the third movie, which REALLY looks cool. I think that it will be what we are waiting for. Stick areound after the movie to watch the trailer, after the credits. It looks impressive.
That's totally false. Have you heard of the BlueRoses engine?
http://www.raylight.it/Blueroses3dagb/blueroses. ht m
It's just one of many methods of achieving 3D on the GameBoy Advance. And it's no less *real* 3D than what was achieved on the Saturn or PSX.
There are true 3D games on the GBA as we speak. Some utilize true 3D and even blend them with paralax scrolling. Go look at IGN and you can get a good idea of what the GBA can do in terms of 3D. It's no powerhouse by any means, but it's up there with *early* PSX/Saturn quality in many ways.
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My mom doesn't talk about computers very frequently, but she brought something up a few days ago.
Mom: "I love that free office program that you put on my computer!"
Me: "OpenOffice?"
Mom: "Yeah. I was using it today. I can't believe that it's free."
Before that, she was using MS Works. She's not the kind of person that wants to spend a lot of money on new software, so I suggested OpenOffice. OpenOffice meets her needs very well, as far as I can tell. People just need a little coaching at times. You can convince them that there is more out there than Microsoft, but you need to take it one step at a time with people that aren't familiar with things beyond AOL and MS Office.
Little things like this can make a difference. A guy I work with is also now using OpenOffice (as of last week), and a few other people are fanatical of MozillaFirebird. They love the fact that it's lean, fast, not prone to trojan EXEs, and is pop-up proof.
Not everyone should make the switch to Linux. It doesn't suit everyone's needs... Yet. But there are tons of other great Open Source programs out there that normal joes (and moms) are discovering every day. That is what is getting the word out.
True about that population thing. It may very well be that I just live in an area with very few Mac users.
;) I can afford a Mac, but I don't think I'd enjoy it as much. Maybe some day, I'll tire of being able to do some tinkering with Linux, but I doubt it. It takes me only a short period of time to get a Slackware system up and running very nicely. I get all of my work done just fine, without any real degree of needing to tweak my OS.
Eh? I hate the Matrix, but that's beyond the point.
It sounds like you did what is right for you though. I don't do system administration, nor would I want to (no offense). But when I have to be able to do things on a computer that require lots of flexibility, I look forward to Linux. Sure, OSX has configurability too, but it's very different in many ways.
In reality though, how many people really use computers for work? Some do, like you, but for the rest, it's just an expensive toy. Some, like Macs, are more expensive toys that others. Inthe end, they all amount to one thing; We all just jerk around and read Slashdot all day.
I've been running only Slackware Linux on my home machine for a year and a half now. I've also been running it on my work PC for a long time as well. I've got no intentions of running anything else, aside from maybe some form of BSD on another home machine.
For starters, comparing a more advanced distribution like Debian to OSX is rediculous. Perhaps you should compare it to Lindows or Lycoris. Neither of those require a whole lot of effort to install. Lycoris even autodetects and sets up your hardware automatically.
Second, you need *no* libraries to get DVD movie playback to work with MPlayer. It comes with a modified version of libsdvdcss that is *enabled* by default. Many users install it with just a click or two, if they use an RPM based system. And 99% of video cards run on Linux with XV overlay support these days, so no configuration is really needed. It's funny that you have a DVD problem though, because I just installed Slackware 9 on my buddies P3 700 notebook with an s3 video chip. He gets full speed DVD with MPlayer with less than 30% CPU load. Are you another one of those framebuffer trolls?
I've never experienced your signal 11 problem with XMMS. I'm sorry to hear about that though. I listen to XMMS on all of my boxes and have yet to have a single crash in three years of use.
You have a point that Linux isn't for everybody, but neither is OSX. For some reason though, I don't think that was the point that the parent threads (or the article) was trying to make.
Honestly, though... I know *many* more Linux users than Mac users... Come to think of it, I only know a single Mac user. Maybe that article isn't so far-fetched. Perhaps that means that Linux really does cater to more users than Apple does? (I won't sympathize with those that actually take this comment seriously)
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"Yeah., well... Just keep your (insert failed human interface device here) off her, huh?"
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I must be the only one that got the "Wizard" joke there. Thanks, Lucas.
http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~rhwu/gifs/powe
Dropline offers improved font support (including better Freetype builds), extra Truetype fonts, and extra usability features (PAM). Other than that, most of the extra Gnome desktop stuff is about the same. The extra programs and new i686 optimizations make Dropline a plus. Even the included XF86 packages are built for i686-class CPUs.
Right. I meant to mention that the Galeon port to the new GTK libs hasn't been ready for long. For the last few months, Gnome has been without its own dedicated browser.
I just figured that many people were used to seeing it with Gnome 1.4.
Possibly. But Gnome 2 can now take screenshots without GIMP. There's a screenshot option in the "Actions" menu at the top of the toolbar.
It can't grab single windows though. Nor can it do a "timed" screen grab, allowing a brief delay.
That's what Dropline is for. A new release of Dropline's Gnome just came out a few days ago. It's very nice. The installer is ncurses and web-based over sourceforge, and uses standard Slackware packages for installation. It even checks and removes old packages before installing the new ones. It's basically the Gnome 2.2 desktop with some added features and extra tools.
Check it out at:
http://dropline.net/
They are part of Gnome... Actually, Galeon is probably going to be pulled in favor of Epiphany very soon.
Often, your business (or school) will have web access to the calender. Try typing your mail server's name in a web browser. I use mine with Phoenix on Linux without a problem.
I've had Maxtor do the same thing. Then I switched to IBM. Then, two weeks ago, one of my 3 40GB IBM60GXP drives puked out. IBM/Hitachi's RMA process blows compared to Maxtor. Maxtor's replacement has the least hassle of all of them. They'll ship you a drive via next-day air, and you can send your old one back in the box they sent; prepaid. Hitachi doesn't seem interested in that kind of thing. Oh well. I won't buy from them.
There is an exception. Generally, Dreamcasts manufactured after October 2000 will not play CD-Rs. But honestly, most of them were made before that time. It's not too hard to find one that supports the MIL-CD format.
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Evidently, nVidia may have hired porn star Catalina to attend e3. Well. Here are the pics. There sure are lots of ladies at nVidia's party? I wonder if that has anything to do with the bad press.
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Nintendo is in no position to go away. We've seen what happened to SEGA because people "forgot" about what they stodd for. And those gamers that have been around the block will be damned if they're going to let Nintendo go.
Just maybe Microsoft is selling more XBox units, but the numbers have shown that they *are not* selling the software along with it. It's pretty sad when SNES titles top the best selling XBox games on GameFAQs.com. Hmm... Nintendo has been solid on those lists for months now, especially since the Metroid Prime release. Weather it is Game Boy titles, or GCN titles, they've remained pretty consistant. Unless everyone totally buys into the PSP hype, I don't see that changing too much. Gamecubes still keep selling, and software is selling well enough. The PS2 sales are grinding to a halt. Everyone and their mom already has one. The rest are just replacements for dead systems. Tell me if you don't know somebody that hasn't had to replace their PS2? (Gamecubes have a 12 month warranty, compared to the PS2's and XBox's 90 day).
Third party companies are afraid to make the jump, but it is begining to happen. Some of the companies that we've *never dreamed* would make games for non-Sony platforms are doing more cross-platform work. Where's Squaresoft in terms of XBox games? Granted, 3 Gamecube games from Square isn't *everything*, but it's a start. Nintendo still has the biggest and best exclusives that the *fans* want. And even companies like Konami and Capcom are finally working on some satisfactory exclusives.
The fact is... The dedicated game companies will *never* let Nintendo go, and neither will the fans. Nintendo may be a company, and they may be in it for profit just as Sony and Microsoft are, but they are *totally* about the games. You can't say that about the other two, which are primarily electronics, media, or software companies that just want total media domination. Many of us hated to see SEGA go, but we'll be damned if the same thing happens to Nintendo.
Honestly, the majority of the PSX's 3D was done in software. It really wasn't designed with 3D in mind, to tell you the truth. It just came at the right time. 3D was the next big craze, and the PSX had well designed tools and devkits that made 3D graphics quite capable at the time. The key was the extra video RAM that was never seen in dedicated game consoles before. As far the Saturn, SEGA incorperated some last minute changes that helped its "3D" processing, but the problem was in the non-standard method by which it rendered these models, and the fact that it was plagued with its massively parrallel processing architecture.
As for the first "real" 3D console. Many folks would say it was the N64, but I'm of the opinion that the Dreamcast was the first "real" 3D console. It was the first to integrate a dedicated processor that handled the important things... Lighting, filtering, antialiasing, texture mapping, etc., to such a perfect degree. In fact, very little has been changed in home 3D hardware since then. It's mostly just gotten faster and obtained a few new insttruction sets. The SH4/PowerVR combo is still a fantastic design... One of the best that's ever been put into a console.
I understand what you're saying. Windows is their priority, but that doesn't help the fact that the Linux version was extremely sub-par in comparison.
Don't get me wrong. I like Opera. But I feel it's fair to hold it against them, because incomplete and buggy commercial software is not desired by most people.
I don't take the software personally. I just don't like being sold an incomplete program, only to get a "Woops. It's time to upgrade. You only purchased your 6.x license a few months ago, but we're going to stop working on 6.x. Will that be cash, check, or charge?"
So just what am I not supposed to hold against them? Is it wrong to be vocal about how Linux users were cheated out of a complete and reasonably stable program? I guess so, seeing as how I was modded as a "troll" in the previous post, merely for sharing my experiences.
I was a big fan of Opera for Windows for years, and was a registered user. I switched to Linux, and used Opera 5.x and 6.x, and I was very unhappy with the product.
The port was broken and incomplete. Each time time that Espen and the guys working on the Linux port would release a new version, something new would be broken. I had tons of problems with things in 6.x.
-Crashing.
-QT skinning.
-The download manager would halt.
-Opera would cause very high CPU load.
-Java and other plugins didn't work worth a squat.
-Pages would render strangely.
-Features were missing that seemed fine in the Windows version.
-And many more problems.
No matter how frequently I, and other users of the Linux Opera 6 would notify the coders, our suggestions were ignored. Excuses were always given. It was always "a bug in QT" or some other excuse.
I got tired of excuses and software that wasn't up to par... Software that *I paid for*. I switched to Phoenix/Firebird, and haven't looked back. It's now getting up to Opera's speed, and is becoming a fine browser.
What's my point in commenting on this? I feel that Opera neglected to deliver a good product to Linux users. Many people who paid for Opera 6 were never given a finished product, and Opera still expected them to pay the price to upgrade to version 7. Perhaps things will change with Opera 7. I've checked it out, and it's certainly gaining more features, and the codebase is allegedly going to be shared with the Windows version now. That's good. But I still can't help but feel that they've cheated their customers. I know that I'm not the only former Opera user that has since switched to Mozilla Firebird. I'm not saying that everyone should do the same. Use which product suits your needs. But I wanted everyone to be aware of my situation with these guys.
Flash works fine in Firebird. Just copy the libflashplayer.so file in the flash tar.gz to the firebird/plugins directory.
I'm using it on a GCC 2.95 and a 3.2x system, without any problems. Both are very different versions of Firebird/Phoenix.
I have that chipset in my Abit KT7A-RAID board. I've had no problems with it. It's been perfectly reliable on Windows and Linux since I purchased it, which was about 2 years ago. The key is proper driver installation on Windows machines. With Linux, it's all automated. I've got no experience with Amiga systems and this southbridge.
Well... Wait a sec. I did experience some problems with these chipsets and ATAPI ZIP drives on another motherboard. But I believe that VIA resolved those problems. Our ZIPs worked fine with a 4in1 update. I'm not sure if it was a cheap hack though.
This post should be modded down as *spoiler*, if that was possible. These comments are part of a big plot twist in the movie.
Thanks for ruining it for people.
Anyone remember when Intel did this a few years ago with motherboard chipsets? Programs like HDTach got insane benchamrks with their chips.
I went into this movie last night with mixed emotions. I left the theater a bit more excited about the third movie, but I wasn't entirely impressed with what happened in "Reloaded".
Don't get me wrong. It wasn't a stinker by any means, it just seems that there was too much there and too little time to adequately tell the story in two hours. The begining, in Zion, dragged on for a while. I suppose that it was done to give the viewer a better idea of how the people lived, hidden from the machines and the Matrix. But frankly, I feel that that time could have been better spent on develping the end of the film, where the plot twists occur. The end just seemed totally hacked up. Everything was rushed from scene to scene at the end, where it really should count to have things flow well and make sense. I was intrigued by some of the revelations at the end of the movie. But something feels like it's missing. Perhaps this will be different in the third movie?
As far as action goes... It's top-notch. And for many, that's what the Matrix is all about. I was really entertained by the Agent Smith fights. Those were very entertaining, and full of the Hong-Kong action style. Lots of wires and special effects were used.
As far as the characters go, even though Reeves is supposed to play the hero, I feel that Laurence Fishburne really stole the show. There was just something totally cool about Morpheus with a Katana, fighting off agents. He was totally the badass, like a fighting prophet.
This really makes way for the third movie, which REALLY looks cool. I think that it will be what we are waiting for. Stick areound after the movie to watch the trailer, after the credits. It looks impressive.
That's totally false. Have you heard of the BlueRoses engine?
. ht m
http://www.raylight.it/Blueroses3dagb/blueroses
It's just one of many methods of achieving 3D on the GameBoy Advance. And it's no less *real* 3D than what was achieved on the Saturn or PSX.
There are true 3D games on the GBA as we speak. Some utilize true 3D and even blend them with paralax scrolling. Go look at IGN and you can get a good idea of what the GBA can do in terms of 3D. It's no powerhouse by any means, but it's up there with *early* PSX/Saturn quality in many ways.