The computing cluster idea is also a bad one, because there is nothing the human mind could give the machines that they didn't have already. The machines have sentience, creative tought and the power and ability to enslave the WHOLE human race (6 billions of us). It would be many times more effective to create machine arrays instead.
Another viable possibility is that the machines just felt so sorry for us, that they decided to put us in a near-perfect world where we could live as we used to, without bothering the machines any more.
I agree that the short is bad, but some of the points are not really necessary to explain:
...the previous human occupiers of the new robot state
This state were made far out in the desert, in the Middle East. I think that the number of people that previously occupied that territory were less than a thousand.
human sympathizers
When an all-out war starts, sympathizers tend to get viewed as traitors or worse. No need to explain their fate.
and the real problems with granting sentient-status to the machines
You're talking about one of two things - if you're talking about humans giving the machines the ability to become sentient in the first place, it may be that it was a unintended side effect brought forth through machinal evolution or other means (program bugs?). It wasn't intended, that's for sure.
If you're talking about why they didn't grant the machines sentient status after they become sentient, it's quite simple - changes like that takes time. Remember how long it took to get equal rights for blacks and whites in USA? Now imagine how long it would take for man to get to love his metallic brother. It could have happened, for sure, but it would have taken centuries. The war arrived first.
And the Zion computer is just a computer - it doesn't take sides as far as I see. Several times it talks about the sins of both man and machine, and if you watch the first part, you will see that the humans really are cruel and evil, and the machine response, even though it was extremely hard, was the only one that guaranteed their survival.
don't have anything against seeing movies (boycotting the whole movie industry is pointless, there just aren't enough people who care), but there is no way that I would pay $18.74 plus S&H for a DVD of shorts that are available for free online.
Four of them are available online. The remaining five are not - one of them were shown as a pre-movie to Dreamcatcher, the other four will only be available on DVD.
They still don't explain how a human in itself can generate more energy than it costs to maintain that very same human alive and well in the Matrix.
That is a major plot hole for me, and I hoped they would use the possibility here to explain it in greater detail. But noo. Just a tiny bit of plot that amounts to 'the war started, we darkened the sky, then we lost and got put in the Matrix'.
(Since this is anime, they could have gone wacky with this. For example, say that humans posess a unique ability to harvest immense amounts metaphysical energy, and that the Matrix somehow taps this energy. Much better than the 'new form of fusion' crap explanation.)
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I think you are a bit confused. Winamp 2.91 does not have any 'Media Library', only a playlist. I guess you're thinking about Winamp 3, which does have this kind of library.
On the contrary, there are actually at least TWO private keys in the X-Box. One that is used to decrypt the encrypted BIOS, and another to unlock the hard drive.
...when the only time slashdot even considers mirroring or give alternative sources to material is when the source is AOL, which has pipes wide enough to max out the lines of all slashdot users at once...
From a much too short research with Google, I've concluded that he, as many others, is just a participant in the contest, and that he personally doesn't have any ties to Scientology. If I'm wrong, feel free to correct me.
Maybe there aren't countries without extradition treaties, but I bet some of the east Asian countries would be rather lax about handing you over when they hear the reason.
"You want to punish him for WHAT?" *sound of hysterical laughter*
It's not permanent, and 'creative hacking' is limited to cutting a modchip wire or unseating the modchip itself. (Those guys that thought it was a good idea to just overwrite Microsoft's own BIOS might have a harder time, though.)
See, in a casino, the casino management has video cameras on every table, slot machine, card, chip, and urinal. They make sure from EVERY single angle that there is NO cheating going on inside their premises. And if there is, you're gonna be BUSTED!!!
But how do you defend against this in an online playing environment where you don't have a video camera pointing in the user's face and stuff?
Actually, Win95 was partially usable under 4MB of RAM. Remember, it didn't have a painfully integrated Internet Explorer everywhere. In fact, it ran well enough for me to run Duke Nukem 3D, a game that REQUIRED at least 8 MB... Thank god for virtual memory:)
I didn't try counterstrike, but experimented with installing Half-Life itself on VirtualPC. It ran unexpectedly well in 640x480 software mode, so it might be worth a try. Still, this was on VirtualPC for PC, not for mac, so there could be some speed differences.
Specs: VirtualPC 5.1 for Windows Windows 98SE as guest OS with 96mb RAM Host was Windows 2000 on a 1,3 GHz Celeron with 384mb SDR RAM
VirtualPC doesn't support 3D acceleration, so that rules out most new games. Older games will probably work better, but from what I've seen on the PC version, the VGA emulation seems to be the slowest part of the whole emulator. So your best bet is non-accelerated Windows games that are quite a bit old..
I don't understand why you feel Bochs is more 'real' than VirtualPC. They both support almost all of the operating systems you can find under the sun (for the PC, that is) and the only difference between them is that VirtualPC is non-free and are quite a bit faster.
You don't get the point, do you? 67.etc was your ip, but it belonged to someone else a few minutes before that. They were probably disconnected while surfing on Microsoft's webpages, and when you came and took over that IP, Microsoft tried to contact the previous connected person, but got you instead.
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Something tells me that those documentaries are not in the public part of the Zion Archive... :)
(And it is from the Zion Archive, it says so in the first movie clip.)
The computing cluster idea is also a bad one, because there is nothing the human mind could give the machines that they didn't have already. The machines have sentience, creative tought and the power and ability to enslave the WHOLE human race (6 billions of us). It would be many times more effective to create machine arrays instead.
Another viable possibility is that the machines just felt so sorry for us, that they decided to put us in a near-perfect world where we could live as we used to, without bothering the machines any more.
*slaps forehead*
:)
Of course...I was thinking about the ones available the more legal way
I agree that the short is bad, but some of the points are not really necessary to explain:
...the previous human occupiers of the new robot state
This state were made far out in the desert, in the Middle East. I think that the number of people that previously occupied that territory were less than a thousand.
human sympathizers
When an all-out war starts, sympathizers tend to get viewed as traitors or worse. No need to explain their fate.
and the real problems with granting sentient-status to the machines
You're talking about one of two things - if you're talking about humans giving the machines the ability to become sentient in the first place, it may be that it was a unintended side effect brought forth through machinal evolution or other means (program bugs?). It wasn't intended, that's for sure.
If you're talking about why they didn't grant the machines sentient status after they become sentient, it's quite simple - changes like that takes time. Remember how long it took to get equal rights for blacks and whites in USA? Now imagine how long it would take for man to get to love his metallic brother. It could have happened, for sure, but it would have taken centuries. The war arrived first.
And the Zion computer is just a computer - it doesn't take sides as far as I see. Several times it talks about the sins of both man and machine, and if you watch the first part, you will see that the humans really are cruel and evil, and the machine response, even though it was extremely hard, was the only one that guaranteed their survival.
don't have anything against seeing movies (boycotting the whole movie industry is pointless, there just aren't enough people who care), but there is no way that I would pay $18.74 plus S&H for a DVD of shorts that are available for free online.
Four of them are available online. The remaining five are not - one of them were shown as a pre-movie to Dreamcatcher, the other four will only be available on DVD.
They still don't explain how a human in itself can generate more energy than it costs to maintain that very same human alive and well in the Matrix.
That is a major plot hole for me, and I hoped they would use the possibility here to explain it in greater detail. But noo. Just a tiny bit of plot that amounts to 'the war started, we darkened the sky, then we lost and got put in the Matrix'.
(Since this is anime, they could have gone wacky with this. For example, say that humans posess a unique ability to harvest immense amounts metaphysical energy, and that the Matrix somehow taps this energy. Much better than the 'new form of fusion' crap explanation.)
Smokers have become the outsiders.
Then stop smoking.
I think you are a bit confused. Winamp 2.91 does not have any 'Media Library', only a playlist. I guess you're thinking about Winamp 3, which does have this kind of library.
(I'm gonna get flamed for this...)
How about a family of operating systems that has managed to capture over 90% of the small computer market?
On the contrary, there are actually at least TWO private keys in the X-Box. One that is used to decrypt the encrypted BIOS, and another to unlock the hard drive.
It's still illegal. There's not much difference as far as the law is concerned.
So are both murder and speeding.
A lot of things are illegal, but the severity (and thus, punishment) of crimes vary greatly.
What would you rather have - somebody copying an mp3 from your hard drive, or somebody physically taking your computer?
Since the Macrovision protection on DVDs is nothing more than a single bit (protection on/off) it doesn't degrade the movie's quality at all.
DVD Players that decide to honor this bit, however, is the problem. But I think most players have a nice hidden menu setting to turn it off nowadays.
At least one part of the trailer was slowed down - the 'Agent Smith crushes car'-scene was shown at full speed in a previous trailer. So maybe..
...when the only time slashdot even considers mirroring or give alternative sources to material is when the source is AOL, which has pipes wide enough to max out the lines of all slashdot users at once...
From a much too short research with Google, I've concluded that he, as many others, is just a participant in the contest, and that he personally doesn't have any ties to Scientology. If I'm wrong, feel free to correct me.
Maybe there aren't countries without extradition treaties, but I bet some of the east Asian countries would be rather lax about handing you over when they hear the reason.
"You want to punish him for WHAT?" *sound of hysterical laughter*
...with a bit of work a PVR using Myth TV...
So, in which of the nonexistant PCI slots in the Xbox are you going to put your tuner card?
It's not permanent, and 'creative hacking' is limited to cutting a modchip wire or unseating the modchip itself. (Those guys that thought it was a good idea to just overwrite Microsoft's own BIOS might have a harder time, though.)
See, in a casino, the casino management has video cameras on every table, slot machine, card, chip, and urinal. They make sure from EVERY single angle that there is NO cheating going on inside their premises. And if there is, you're gonna be BUSTED!!!
But how do you defend against this in an online playing environment where you don't have a video camera pointing in the user's face and stuff?
X10?
Actually, Win95 was partially usable under 4MB of RAM. Remember, it didn't have a painfully integrated Internet Explorer everywhere. In fact, it ran well enough for me to run Duke Nukem 3D, a game that REQUIRED at least 8 MB... Thank god for virtual memory :)
I didn't try counterstrike, but experimented with installing Half-Life itself on VirtualPC. It ran unexpectedly well in 640x480 software mode, so it might be worth a try. Still, this was on VirtualPC for PC, not for mac, so there could be some speed differences.
Specs:
VirtualPC 5.1 for Windows
Windows 98SE as guest OS with 96mb RAM
Host was Windows 2000 on a 1,3 GHz Celeron with 384mb SDR RAM
VirtualPC doesn't support 3D acceleration, so that rules out most new games. Older games will probably work better, but from what I've seen on the PC version, the VGA emulation seems to be the slowest part of the whole emulator. So your best bet is non-accelerated Windows games that are quite a bit old..
I don't understand why you feel Bochs is more 'real' than VirtualPC. They both support almost all of the operating systems you can find under the sun (for the PC, that is) and the only difference between them is that VirtualPC is non-free and are quite a bit faster.
...until somebody embeds "seineeW erA sreenignE epacsteN"?
You don't get the point, do you? 67.etc was your ip, but it belonged to someone else a few minutes before that. They were probably disconnected while surfing on Microsoft's webpages, and when you came and took over that IP, Microsoft tried to contact the previous connected person, but got you instead.