hey, the side effect of quantum computing of being able to reverse the arguement was brought up by the article, i didn't make it up! heh This is why I thought it was a valid discussion point.
Besides, I kind of wanted the magic mind reader...To be honest, a quantum computer might be able to tell you things like 'The password for this computer is [a,b,c,d,e...]' and be able to test every answer, all the same time, depending on the number of qbits of the quantum computer.
Very valid comments about entropy... and because they would be reversible, there's a chance. But because of the low efficiency of heat transfer devices, I suspect there will be quite a bit of energy lost.
And I agree with you again, the first article was very 'pie in the sky' with very little actual data. Because they saying a computer in 2020 will have 160 Gig of RAM, with a revolution such as quantum computers, there most likely will not be 'RAM' per se. A revolution of this magnatitude completely changes things, not a 'slight CPU modification'. Otherwise we'd see questions like 'Can I still use my TNT2 with a quantum computer?'
One thing from the first article made my brain tick... 'Completely reversable'. This means you run a program to get it's output. But it also means you can run the program backwards to get the original input.
Now, when put into light with the idea of a database, this almost sounds like a built-in, real-time transaction log. I hadn't even heard of this effect before in relation to quantum processing, can anyone back it up with any more fact?
This level of reliability and recoverability is amazing (if true)... I seriously think this idea has more potential than the 'no energy used' idea because after all, entropy must increase in a forward-time universe.
One part really perked me up: Both of the 85-foot dishes swing on two axes, an extravagance the astronomers suspect allowed the agency to swing the face around swiftly to catch up with satellites orbiting Earth. The astronomers need the dishes to move no faster than the speed of Earth itself.
With the proper computer equipment, they might be able scan large chunks of sky quickly, due to the speed of the dishes. Plus, they'd be a perfect reference check for the SETI folk, due to the speed at which they can test a signal and localize it. They could check areas around signals to make sure it's not a mistake and such. I'm sure these can be used for great science... Makes you wonder what other modern equipment the NSA has.
But I have to say the riveted carpeting... wow. In our current data center, we have carpeting on a raised floor, but I'm not sure it's static free. I wonder if that will ever make it into the civilian market...
At least some of the geeks who replace us when the older models are obsolete won't listen to Britney Spears!
It's good to hear that the geeks of tomarrow are getting the classical teaching of yesterday. Those who do not understand history are doomed to repeat it! (land war in asia...) Hence, we better not hear about you spending more money on marketing than development for mentalUNIX...
But one comment as far as package tools: you should really take a look at alien, it handles most of the major packages relatively well. to quote: Alien is a program that converts between the rpm, dpkg, stampede slp, and slackware tgz file formats. You might consider using them to achieve your goals... 'Why build a tank from scratch when B.A. Barrachas can just grab sheet metal and put it on a van!'
The shutdown of LEP is actually a good thing... With the shutdown of the LEP, the construction of the LHC be started on. This collider will allow energies in the TeV range, with is 10 times the LEP or Fermilab Tevatron. If they had delayed in the building of this, the Relativisitic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) might beat them to the higher energy ranges. Plus, you never know when funding might be cut, etc.
Let a lower powered accelerator attempt to find the Higgs, I STILL don't believe it will be discovered, because it's been stated over and over 'we just need a little more power to find the Higgs boson!'. The problem is that all of these vast teams are lead by one or two scientists, who desperately want the Nobel Prize. Hence, good science is sometimes ignored in favor of the limelight... I'm just glad 'good physics' prevailed this time around.
I had hoped to talk about this on BottomQuark but lost all my research midway through the discussion. whoops. `8r) I wonder if there is such a thing as an amateur partical physics person....
Like many people, I play minesweeper obsessively. But thanks to Pat for an amazing x-mas present one year, I found something more challenging than the same board over and over again. If you like Minesweeper, and are on a Windows machine, check out Professional Minesweeper. They have 18 different boards, with support for English, Finnish and Croatian languages.
It's Very challenging. I do it as a hobby, and currently have some amazing scores for it. Currently, I have a low of 107 for the regular level, with an 82 on my favorite level, crossed squares. It took me approx 4 months of solid play to get the 149 on Diamond, it's REALLY hard.
You can find the author, Bojan Urosevic's original web site. It's shareware, but I highly recommend you purchase it because it's such a great game.
Realize there are a lot of Linux companies out there who are looking for Linux people. And of course, it's not really something you can formally learn (yet). Hence, they are turning to places like LUG's and other user groups to find new people. It's just a matter of locating companies that do it.
I know that my company hires people to do linux, as we are onsite support for RedHat. Hence, we give tech talks concerning all sorts of different stuff. Recently, Curtis Preston gave a talk in Boston concerning Backup Recovery practices. I know with all the linux people within the company, we could dig someone out to talk about the place of open source systems in the corporate environment.
Yeah, I'm in Illinois, so I'm screwed cause it's 28 days before. damn laws.... too bad I don't live in chicago proper, where you can vote early AND often! `8r)
the worst part is that my voter registration card is sitting at home, all filled out, but I made a sentient decision of not sending it in. damn i feel dumb....
Just... re.... member that you're standing on a planet that's evolving and revolving at 900 miles an hour. its orbiting at 19 miles a second, so it's reckoned, the sun that is the source of all our power. the Sun and you and me, and all the stars that we can see, are moving at a million miles a day, in the outer spiral arm, at 40,000 miles an hour, of the galaxy we call the Milky Way.
Our Galaxy itself contains 100 million stars, its 100,000 light-years side-to-side, it bulges in the middle, 16 000 light-years thick, but out by us it's just 3 000 light-years wide. we're 30,000 light-years from galactic central point, we go round every 200 million years, and our galaxy is only one of millions of billions in this amaizng and expanding universe.
The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding, in all of the directions it can whizz, as fast as it can go, at the speed of light you know, twelve million miles a minute, and that's the fastest speed there is.
So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure, how amazingly unlikely is your birth! Pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space, because there's bugger all down here on Earth.
Thanks to Monty Python.... hope i got it all. It's a great song to remember conversion points for physics... heh
Like many other people my age, I didn't feel like I had a real choice. The difference between Gore and Bush was almost negligable (yes I know a flame commment) but at the time either candiate is a crap shoot for affecting issues I care about. Hence, I did not even register to vote (because of the number of calls/junk mail that I would get from the freely available registration lists). Why should I get harrassed at home more often just so I could flip a coin (with the edge of the coin being Nader).
Now, I'm a little regretful that I don't even have a choice. I should have registered, I should have voted. I wish that Bush had cooperated in this interview (damn did Gore come off well to a geek like me!) just so I could hear if he would bother to memorize some standard rhetoric.
Anyway, for those who did register, go out there and vote. Vote for whoever you think will do the right job for you, not your dad or your company or your community, but who you think is correct. You are not a Democrat just cause your parents are either. Make a conscious choice about what you choose....
Best way to illustrate it is the difference between Linux and AIX. Given a set of technical tasks defined by an IT department, these two operating systems might seem similar in nature. But only after you do a little research do you realize the strengths and weaknesses of each. From the surface, they seem the same. But if you can get past the tough kernel of linux and the gui of smit, you'd find which is the best for the job... and any unix person would agree that is the correct way to make any choice.
I live with friends from college still, four of us. Here's what we did:
* I manage the Linux router, hooked up to an ISDN line. We are working on getting a T1, which should be installed this week. Read the Mastercard reference to see what you need for a T1...
* We ran around 250 feet of cat5. We have a switch in each closet. Currently, we do not have any wireless solutions, just because of the lack of laptops in the house. Also, we have approx 4 computers per person in the house, so everyone can get a real desktop/monitor.
* 36 ports of fast switched ethernet, almost everytype of unix machine, a bunch of pc's, a cobalt box, every latest video card, and tons and tons of games.
* My roommate manages the Home Theatre setup. We have a Toshiba 36" tv, Dolby digital, DTS 5.1, a 6 disk DVD changer, a huge ass subwolfer, a projector with a pulldown screen for when you need 8 foot boobs, and Stadium setting (leather couches). An amazing setup.
* A regular fridge, a liquer cabinet, a beer/soda fridge, and a freezer in the basement.
* An Adams Family pinball game.
* Every console system known to man. Seriously. Approx. 60 games for the Dreamcast, two dance pads, the maracas, and 12 controllers of all different types.
* A deck with a hottub that fits 6.
* Babes. well... off and on. `8r)
This is a true bachelor pad. a good half-way home between college and the real world. Eventually, I'll put up a page describing the house...
One T1 line with 16Kbps average limit - $500
Line charge - $250
One Cisco 2501 to act as CSU/DSU - $500
The ability for 4 geeks living together to all play CounterStrike on the same server - Priceless
For people who must be LPB's, there should be a sick amount of bandwidth.
I remember apartment hunting! that was a good movie! I used to collect Quake/quake 2 movies quite often. Keygrip is an awesome tool, crt did a great job making it.
Some other gooes ones were Babalicious, any of the Ranger ones, and his first quake move 'Apartment Hunting' was pretty good, customized skins and everything.
Anyway, if you're interested in doing this yourselves, it can be quite rewarding when you get it working. I helped as an actor in one or two, and when they finally worked, it was cool. `8r)
Jesus guys, do you read submissions? I already researched this for you!
The Institute that is doing the research has more information here. I believe the guy doing the actual research has more research here.
Next time you get multiple submissions, try picking the post with more info than the rest instead of attempting to summarize. Especially when you leave out the important links.
Someone posted the link to the patent here. This one was filed in 1980 and finished in 1989, and seems to imply simplifying the use of the OS and using the network. I'm not sure if this is the correct patent, because I see several 'issues' with it as relating to hyperlinks.
It seems like the guy had a very specific use of these links, coresponding to function keys and modems. The use of a modem is implied in all manners, with only references to using the 'telephone network'. In fact, the term 'modem' is used 18 times, while the term 'telephone network' is used 7 times. However, the idea of a data network or a LAN is completely missed under this patent.
Hence, only ISP's might be liable to the usage of this patent. IE, people using a 'modem' as it was in those days, MOdulation-DEModulation. Those of us on ISDN, cable, ADSL, and com-grade services are not affected. `8r)
Don't patents expire after a certain amount of time? I know if they go after a company like AOL, they will be caught up in court until the patent expires. and if it expires from when it was first filed, it's already been 20 years.
It'd be pretty funny to have someone say 'You cannot use a modem any more to access the internet' forcing everyone to upgrade to another type of high speed connection though. that wouldn't be a bad thing for our society, IMHO. Cheap, easy frame relay drops for everyone!
I don't know where you got the idea that '...always gave really good action, comedy and animated films bad ratings...' but you have to remember a critic's job.
He goes to enjoy the movie. If he enjoys it, great. if he doesn't, fine. But it's based on his feelings.
Because of that, he might not enjoy Pokemon because he is not a kid (or just enjoy saying 'Pikapika!') Or he might not enjoy the comedic stylings of Jackie Chan. But when an animated film comes along that he enjoys because he can relate to it, he gives it a good recommendation. For instance, he gave Stuart Little a bad review, and when razzed about it, pointed out that he doesn't have kids, but if he was going to recommend something for kids, he'd recommend Princess Mononoke or Titan A.E. as better substitutes.
Realize that there have been massive films that the critics have just panned that have still done well. And there have been films that have been raved about and you most likely have not seen Run Lola Run or High Fidelity. Just because a reviewer doesn't like the movie doesn't like a movie doesn't mean he was paid off... Besides, it's much more likely that a reivewer would be paid off to give a good review.
It's just much better to find a reviewer that you agree with 80% of the time, and rely on his view. Myself, I'll stick for waiting it to hit the dish and watch it there if I wonder if it's any good. Then again, I think Manos: Hands of Fate is funny.
I've not seen one person mention any of the numerable popular culture references in this film! There must have been like 6 Tron references in it, including the death scene of the MCP and the holding cells. Yes, there were a lot parts that seemed ripped right out of 'Star Wars', such as the scene where they are using the Titan's Quad Laser cannons, but they got stuff from a lot of movies, it's not just a Star Wars rehash.
I personally really enjoyed the movie, and yes, it might have been predicitable and some of it was definately 'yeah right..' but there were some very enjoyable parts to it. I'm one who's akin to spotting the source of inspiration in movies (What, you think the ideas in the Matrix were unique?) and I think this one has several movies written all over it, and I think Star Wars was pretty low on the list, with Tron and Babylon 5 being very high on the list.
I'd also like to point out that this is the Americanized versions of Japanese animation (anime) that some of us enjoy, and with this bad showing, movies similar to Princess Mononoke and Ghost in the Shell will be much slower in coming to US theatres, which is bad news for anime fans in the US.
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Besides, I kind of wanted the magic mind reader...To be honest, a quantum computer might be able to tell you things like 'The password for this computer is [a,b,c,d,e...]' and be able to test every answer, all the same time, depending on the number of qbits of the quantum computer.
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And I agree with you again, the first article was very 'pie in the sky' with very little actual data. Because they saying a computer in 2020 will have 160 Gig of RAM, with a revolution such as quantum computers, there most likely will not be 'RAM' per se. A revolution of this magnatitude completely changes things, not a 'slight CPU modification'. Otherwise we'd see questions like 'Can I still use my TNT2 with a quantum computer?'
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Gonzo Granzeau
Now, when put into light with the idea of a database, this almost sounds like a built-in, real-time transaction log. I hadn't even heard of this effect before in relation to quantum processing, can anyone back it up with any more fact?
This level of reliability and recoverability is amazing (if true)... I seriously think this idea has more potential than the 'no energy used' idea because after all, entropy must increase in a forward-time universe.
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Fight 1...
Klick, versus...
Hacker! Fight!
"3y3 4m 31337!" Insert repeatable unblockable move
WINNER! Hacker.
But the soul still burns!
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Gonzo Granzeau
By far the best explination... I was somewhat referring to strong signals, but the analogy is well spoken.
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With the proper computer equipment, they might be able scan large chunks of sky quickly, due to the speed of the dishes. Plus, they'd be a perfect reference check for the SETI folk, due to the speed at which they can test a signal and localize it. They could check areas around signals to make sure it's not a mistake and such. I'm sure these can be used for great science... Makes you wonder what other modern equipment the NSA has.
But I have to say the riveted carpeting... wow. In our current data center, we have carpeting on a raised floor, but I'm not sure it's static free. I wonder if that will ever make it into the civilian market...
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Gonzo Granzeau
It's good to hear that the geeks of tomarrow are getting the classical teaching of yesterday. Those who do not understand history are doomed to repeat it! (land war in asia...) Hence, we better not hear about you spending more money on marketing than development for mentalUNIX...
But one comment as far as package tools: you should really take a look at alien, it handles most of the major packages relatively well. to quote: Alien is a program that converts between the rpm, dpkg, stampede slp, and slackware tgz file formats. You might consider using them to achieve your goals... 'Why build a tank from scratch when B.A. Barrachas can just grab sheet metal and put it on a van!'
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Gonzo Granzeau
Let a lower powered accelerator attempt to find the Higgs, I STILL don't believe it will be discovered, because it's been stated over and over 'we just need a little more power to find the Higgs boson!'. The problem is that all of these vast teams are lead by one or two scientists, who desperately want the Nobel Prize. Hence, good science is sometimes ignored in favor of the limelight... I'm just glad 'good physics' prevailed this time around.
I had hoped to talk about this on BottomQuark but lost all my research midway through the discussion. whoops. `8r) I wonder if there is such a thing as an amateur partical physics person....
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Gonzo Granzeau
It's Very challenging. I do it as a hobby, and currently have some amazing scores for it. Currently, I have a low of 107 for the regular level, with an 82 on my favorite level, crossed squares. It took me approx 4 months of solid play to get the 149 on Diamond, it's REALLY hard.
You can find the author, Bojan Urosevic's original web site. It's shareware, but I highly recommend you purchase it because it's such a great game.
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Gonzo Granzeau
Marge is whipped my an invader.
Marge: Ow!
Homer: Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos! hahahOW!
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Gonzo Granzeau
That would be a little disappointing if you were searching for 'naked and petrified' and found 'News for Nerds. Stuff that matters'.
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Gonzo Granzeau
Okay, so I was bored... `8rP
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Gonzo Granzeau
and if only I knew the system better, would it be cool to replace it with one of the Mac-using-but-Intel-advertisors Blue Man Group commercials?
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Gonzo Granzeau
I know that my company hires people to do linux, as we are onsite support for RedHat. Hence, we give tech talks concerning all sorts of different stuff. Recently, Curtis Preston gave a talk in Boston concerning Backup Recovery practices. I know with all the linux people within the company, we could dig someone out to talk about the place of open source systems in the corporate environment.
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Gonzo Granzeau
the worst part is that my voter registration card is sitting at home, all filled out, but I made a sentient decision of not sending it in. damn i feel dumb....
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Gonzo Granzeau
Our Galaxy itself contains 100 million stars, its 100,000 light-years side-to-side, it bulges in the middle, 16 000 light-years thick, but out by us it's just 3 000 light-years wide. we're 30,000 light-years from galactic central point, we go round every 200 million years, and our galaxy is only one of millions of billions in this amaizng and expanding universe.
The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding, in all of the directions it can whizz, as fast as it can go, at the speed of light you know, twelve million miles a minute, and that's the fastest speed there is.
So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure, how amazingly unlikely is your birth! Pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space, because there's bugger all down here on Earth.
Thanks to Monty Python.... hope i got it all. It's a great song to remember conversion points for physics... heh
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Gonzo Granzeau
Now, I'm a little regretful that I don't even have a choice. I should have registered, I should have voted. I wish that Bush had cooperated in this interview (damn did Gore come off well to a geek like me!) just so I could hear if he would bother to memorize some standard rhetoric.
Anyway, for those who did register, go out there and vote. Vote for whoever you think will do the right job for you, not your dad or your company or your community, but who you think is correct. You are not a Democrat just cause your parents are either. Make a conscious choice about what you choose....
Best way to illustrate it is the difference between Linux and AIX. Given a set of technical tasks defined by an IT department, these two operating systems might seem similar in nature. But only after you do a little research do you realize the strengths and weaknesses of each. From the surface, they seem the same. But if you can get past the tough kernel of linux and the gui of smit, you'd find which is the best for the job... and any unix person would agree that is the correct way to make any choice.
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Gonzo Granzeau
* I manage the Linux router, hooked up to an ISDN line. We are working on getting a T1, which should be installed this week. Read the Mastercard reference to see what you need for a T1...
* We ran around 250 feet of cat5. We have a switch in each closet. Currently, we do not have any wireless solutions, just because of the lack of laptops in the house. Also, we have approx 4 computers per person in the house, so everyone can get a real desktop/monitor.
* 36 ports of fast switched ethernet, almost everytype of unix machine, a bunch of pc's, a cobalt box, every latest video card, and tons and tons of games.
* My roommate manages the Home Theatre setup. We have a Toshiba 36" tv, Dolby digital, DTS 5.1, a 6 disk DVD changer, a huge ass subwolfer, a projector with a pulldown screen for when you need 8 foot boobs, and Stadium setting (leather couches). An amazing setup.
* A regular fridge, a liquer cabinet, a beer/soda fridge, and a freezer in the basement.
* An Adams Family pinball game.
* Every console system known to man. Seriously. Approx. 60 games for the Dreamcast, two dance pads, the maracas, and 12 controllers of all different types.
* A deck with a hottub that fits 6.
* Babes. well... off and on. `8r)
This is a true bachelor pad. a good half-way home between college and the real world. Eventually, I'll put up a page describing the house...
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Gonzo Granzeau
Line charge - $250
One Cisco 2501 to act as CSU/DSU - $500
The ability for 4 geeks living together to all play CounterStrike on the same server - Priceless
For people who must be LPB's, there should be a sick amount of bandwidth.
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Gonzo Granzeau
Some other gooes ones were Babalicious, any of the Ranger ones, and his first quake move 'Apartment Hunting' was pretty good, customized skins and everything.
Anyway, if you're interested in doing this yourselves, it can be quite rewarding when you get it working. I helped as an actor in one or two, and when they finally worked, it was cool. `8r)
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Gonzo Granzeau
Feel free to suck away my karma now, I don't think I'll be attempting it again now that i've made first post... heh
This has been a lame post for a really stupid reason. please moderate down.
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Gonzo Granzeau
The Institute that is doing the research has more information here. I believe the guy doing the actual research has more research here.
Next time you get multiple submissions, try picking the post with more info than the rest instead of attempting to summarize. Especially when you leave out the important links.
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Gonzo Granzeau
It seems like the guy had a very specific use of these links, coresponding to function keys and modems. The use of a modem is implied in all manners, with only references to using the 'telephone network'. In fact, the term 'modem' is used 18 times, while the term 'telephone network' is used 7 times. However, the idea of a data network or a LAN is completely missed under this patent.
Hence, only ISP's might be liable to the usage of this patent. IE, people using a 'modem' as it was in those days, MOdulation-DEModulation. Those of us on ISDN, cable, ADSL, and com-grade services are not affected. `8r)
Don't patents expire after a certain amount of time? I know if they go after a company like AOL, they will be caught up in court until the patent expires. and if it expires from when it was first filed, it's already been 20 years.
It'd be pretty funny to have someone say 'You cannot use a modem any more to access the internet' forcing everyone to upgrade to another type of high speed connection though. that wouldn't be a bad thing for our society, IMHO. Cheap, easy frame relay drops for everyone!
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Gonzo Granzeau
He goes to enjoy the movie. If he enjoys it, great. if he doesn't, fine. But it's based on his feelings.
Because of that, he might not enjoy Pokemon because he is not a kid (or just enjoy saying 'Pikapika!') Or he might not enjoy the comedic stylings of Jackie Chan. But when an animated film comes along that he enjoys because he can relate to it, he gives it a good recommendation. For instance, he gave Stuart Little a bad review, and when razzed about it, pointed out that he doesn't have kids, but if he was going to recommend something for kids, he'd recommend Princess Mononoke or Titan A.E. as better substitutes.
Realize that there have been massive films that the critics have just panned that have still done well. And there have been films that have been raved about and you most likely have not seen Run Lola Run or High Fidelity. Just because a reviewer doesn't like the movie doesn't like a movie doesn't mean he was paid off... Besides, it's much more likely that a reivewer would be paid off to give a good review.
It's just much better to find a reviewer that you agree with 80% of the time, and rely on his view. Myself, I'll stick for waiting it to hit the dish and watch it there if I wonder if it's any good. Then again, I think Manos: Hands of Fate is funny.
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Gonzo Granzeau
I personally really enjoyed the movie, and yes, it might have been predicitable and some of it was definately 'yeah right..' but there were some very enjoyable parts to it. I'm one who's akin to spotting the source of inspiration in movies (What, you think the ideas in the Matrix were unique?) and I think this one has several movies written all over it, and I think Star Wars was pretty low on the list, with Tron and Babylon 5 being very high on the list.
I'd also like to point out that this is the Americanized versions of Japanese animation (anime) that some of us enjoy, and with this bad showing, movies similar to Princess Mononoke and Ghost in the Shell will be much slower in coming to US theatres, which is bad news for anime fans in the US.
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Gonzo Granzeau