Actually, the bigger run-up was caused when Microsoft announced that they would be investing in SCO. Otherwise, the general consensus was that SCO would have eventually run out of cash on their lawsuit as IBM wasn't buying their bluff.
Perhaps if Sun spent more time getting their processors faster at good cost they wouldn't be losing this kind of ground. Sun took way too long to come out with their UltraSparc III processor and now clustering technology is at the point where it's much cheaper to string together a bunch of commodity PCs than purchase a high end Sun box.
If we are ever going to establish a permanent presence in space we *need* do-everything spacecraft. Well designed, it will be cheaper in the long run that specially building each craft that is sent into space
Why, a mere 100 years in the future, is the earth's core cooled? They mentioned something about the humans "scorching" the sky when fighting the machines which I guess meant that they blocked out the sun because that was it's early source of power. This would have made earth's temperature drop.
As mentioned, the creators of the Matrix cannot modify it. Huh? Someone else touched on this and basically said that the matrix is too complex to just delete the miscreant, which is why they had the debugging programs (sentient programs). Also since they had hacked into the matrix and wasn't going through the regular interface for the matrix probably would have made it more difficult to take over the person's image in the matrix.
How did our heroes survive their last-ditch weapon? It should have taken out their life-support just as handily as it took out everything else.... The air outside wasn't poisonous or anything like that. If that was the case, things would have gotten serious much faster once the sentinels had breached the hull. Of course the hover-drive that the ship had probably would have cut off though. However, I would have guessed that it would be getting very cold in the ship.
The whole telephone/line tracing/extraction thing was a little silly (ok, a lot silly). Obviously the writers were not able to think in terms of a completely mutable reality very well, and needed to root themselves to physical concepts. Oh well. No argument there. But it did add a great degree more tension to the movie as they rushed to ringing telephones with sentients hot on their tail.:)
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wow, he said newton. Apple discontinued those many moons ago. If you want to write you should probably just stick with the Tablet PC.
In any case for my money give me a keypad, I can go much faster on that than with writing.
Sounds like you are talking about the Tungsten W (well, except for the 480x320 screen). A PDA with a phone jammed in.
Actually, the bigger run-up was caused when Microsoft announced that they would be investing in SCO. Otherwise, the general consensus was that SCO would have eventually run out of cash on their lawsuit as IBM wasn't buying their bluff.
Perhaps if Sun spent more time getting their processors faster at good cost they wouldn't be losing this kind of ground. Sun took way too long to come out with their UltraSparc III processor and now clustering technology is at the point where it's much cheaper to string together a bunch of commodity PCs than purchase a high end Sun box.
If we are ever going to establish a permanent presence in space we *need* do-everything spacecraft. Well designed, it will be cheaper in the long run that specially building each craft that is sent into space
They mentioned something about the humans "scorching" the sky when fighting the machines which I guess meant that they blocked out the sun because that was it's early source of power. This would have made earth's temperature drop.
Someone else touched on this and basically said that the matrix is too complex to just delete the miscreant, which is why they had the debugging programs (sentient programs). Also since they had hacked into the matrix and wasn't going through the regular interface for the matrix probably would have made it more difficult to take over the person's image in the matrix.
The air outside wasn't poisonous or anything like that. If that was the case, things would have gotten serious much faster once the sentinels had breached the hull. Of course the hover-drive that the ship had probably would have cut off though. However, I would have guessed that it would be getting very cold in the ship.
No argument there. But it did add a great degree more tension to the movie as they rushed to ringing telephones with sentients hot on their tail.