However, this is not that movie...it simply doesn't do a good enough job.
It isn't that it is impossible--it's just that it's weak on acting, exposition (and lots of it!) and many other things that are needed to make a transcendant experience.
I read it...and its pompous attitude and loose, half-baked references don't add up to much. It's the worst kind of theological scholarship--you take the number of times Zion has been restarted (5), find something that occurs in that pattern (5 books of Moses) and start building.
I'm sure some of it is on the money, but that doesn't obviate the larger problems--we don't care about the people in a real way, the writing is super clunky, the acting is pretty poor......but to the guy at Mofo, it's all because the "unenlightened" don't realize the subtle brilliance.
Well, I understand it...and it's still only a movie with some beautful action scenes and terrible lows, much inferior to the original. Cloaking its flaws in an aura of mysteriousness is a sham.
People love this Tolkien quote. Problem is, I think he's full of it...one of the main reasons his work caught fire with the public was because of the resonances with the coming of technology, the rise of fascism, etc. If Tolkien was resolutely bone-headed enough to deny that the "real world" has impact on his book, that's fine--but even though he wrote it, it doesn't mean he understood what sources drove the writing.
I can't tell if he's biased against movies, but I agree that the Matrix isn't particularly deep--it's a good excuse to put Anime action on the screen, wear cool clothes and whip out Philosophy 101 phrases.
Professors are discussing it because it is popular, not because it has brought any new insights to anyone--the same folks discuss the meaning of Star Wars and The Force when that broke big.
Movies are a tremendous medium, and I very much enjoyed the first Matrix movie, but at the end of the day I think it is much more a well-executed plot device and setting than anything that shines real light on our reality.
That's fine with me...so far as I'm concerned, i wish RELOADED had stayed further away from bad, stagey speeches and stuck with action and mystery.
Apple rumor sites are, generally speaking, garbage--fun, but don't base buying decisions off of them until you sense wide consensus, and even then be suspicious.
They do, but everyone knew about this before today--well, everyone except you, so i guess you have a point. But PowerMac sales were already abysmal anyway.
Oh, and if you want an iMac or a PowerBook, odds are against the new chips premiering in those Macs, so you may have a longer wait than you expect on your hands.
...the/. story shoul specify which of the two Koreas it is talking about, as quick/. readers who skim (is there another kind?) will believe this could be N. Korea, even though the state of that country's infrastructure makes it a lot more likely that this is S. Korea.
"Sun is willing to give OpenOffice away for free, and they even will happily give you the source code. What exactly is the difference between giving away OpenOffice and giving away Microsoft Office?"
The difference is exactly that: Sun gives you the source code.
It would be hard--I don't have the time to go check out the links, but folks at appleinsider.com will dissect in great detail how problems like endianess and wishy-washy support could quickly bury the platform.
If they have to, they would. But it's a final soulution.
"If they had to, they could switch to an x86 architecture without batting an eye. It worked pretty well for SGI."
No, they couldn't. Every app would need to be rewritten, right on the heels of the 9 to X transition that isn't even finished yet. Switching to x86 is a complex nightmare that may be Apple's doomsday plan, but it is far from simple.
Get a low-end iBook. It's more fully-featured, but the price and weight are very nice, along with them being well-nigh industructible. It runs Linux, can boot OS X as well if you need non-ported apps and gets the job done.
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A modern movie could be at that level.
However, this is not that movie...it simply doesn't do a good enough job.
It isn't that it is impossible--it's just that it's weak on acting, exposition (and lots of it!) and many other things that are needed to make a transcendant experience.
Good movie. Fun movie. Not timeless and immortal.
I read it...and its pompous attitude and loose, half-baked references don't add up to much. It's the worst kind of theological scholarship--you take the number of times Zion has been restarted (5), find something that occurs in that pattern (5 books of Moses) and start building.
I'm sure some of it is on the money, but that doesn't obviate the larger problems--we don't care about the people in a real way, the writing is super clunky, the acting is pretty poor...
Well, I understand it...and it's still only a movie with some beautful action scenes and terrible lows, much inferior to the original. Cloaking its flaws in an aura of mysteriousness is a sham.
People love this Tolkien quote. Problem is, I think he's full of it...one of the main reasons his work caught fire with the public was because of the resonances with the coming of technology, the rise of fascism, etc. If Tolkien was resolutely bone-headed enough to deny that the "real world" has impact on his book, that's fine--but even though he wrote it, it doesn't mean he understood what sources drove the writing.
I can't tell if he's biased against movies, but I agree that the Matrix isn't particularly deep--it's a good excuse to put Anime action on the screen, wear cool clothes and whip out Philosophy 101 phrases.
Professors are discussing it because it is popular, not because it has brought any new insights to anyone--the same folks discuss the meaning of Star Wars and The Force when that broke big.
Movies are a tremendous medium, and I very much enjoyed the first Matrix movie, but at the end of the day I think it is much more a well-executed plot device and setting than anything that shines real light on our reality.
That's fine with me...so far as I'm concerned, i wish RELOADED had stayed further away from bad, stagey speeches and stuck with action and mystery.
Well, this isn't closer than Alpha Centauri, and it doesn't have a dust cloud. Otherwise there's a lot of coincidence.
One is a continent--the other is a country. Close, but no cigar.
Apple rumor sites are, generally speaking, garbage--fun, but don't base buying decisions off of them until you sense wide consensus, and even then be suspicious.
They do, but everyone knew about this before today--well, everyone except you, so i guess you have a point. But PowerMac sales were already abysmal anyway.
Oh, and if you want an iMac or a PowerBook, odds are against the new chips premiering in those Macs, so you may have a longer wait than you expect on your hands.
That's insightful? It's run-of-the-mill ranting...it may all be true, but it is hardly insightful.
Anybody who has been reading a lot about how repressive N. Korea is in the news lately, and has no idea how things work in S. Korea.
Not until it has been definitively thrown out, it's still the dumbest thing in it. Complain away!
Too bad that they didn't film it better, so it didn't look like a bad rave mixed with leftover Planet of the Apes set knockoffs.
"Sun is willing to give OpenOffice away for free, and they even will happily give you the source code. What exactly is the difference between giving away OpenOffice and giving away Microsoft Office?"
The difference is exactly that: Sun gives you the source code.
It would be hard--I don't have the time to go check out the links, but folks at appleinsider.com will dissect in great detail how problems like endianess and wishy-washy support could quickly bury the platform.
If they have to, they would. But it's a final soulution.
Eminem has a slightly larger user base, I suspect.
It's a cute comment, but this is modded up to high.
May be sooner--the power requirements for the PPC970 at 1.2 ghz is actually lower than the current G4 that is used in the Powerbooks.
"If they had to, they could switch to an x86 architecture without batting an eye. It worked pretty well for SGI."
No, they couldn't. Every app would need to be rewritten, right on the heels of the 9 to X transition that isn't even finished yet. Switching to x86 is a complex nightmare that may be Apple's doomsday plan, but it is far from simple.
Get a low-end iBook. It's more fully-featured, but the price and weight are very nice, along with them being well-nigh industructible. It runs Linux, can boot OS X as well if you need non-ported apps and gets the job done.
Right, but the linguist was an obsessive fan who happens to be a linguist.
1) The files aren't copied, they are streamed.
2)It isn't covered under the internet broadcasting laws as each iTunes client can not send to more than 5 clients at a time.
"Roddenberry managed to do this in less than 50 years, though I doubt Klingon contains the complexities and flexibility of a modern language."
Rodenberry had almost nothing to do with creating the Klingon language...that was all obsessive fans.
At least you aren't overreacting.
You are perfectly free to say that 1 in 62 is a bad failure rate, but your first post made a specious connection between that and airline travel.
I look forward to the word-by-word refutation of this post.