I've done some hunting and found another server that file is being served on. click HERE. you'll be glad you did.
I was getting a ton of disconnects with the URL that is on the Matrix website, so I searched for another way.
i just examined the URLs of other trailers and got lucky i guess.
By the way, this is officially the 3th Trailer:
1st was at the end of Reloaded,
2nd was at the end of the Enter the Matrix (crap) game (only the Hacking-system was moderately cool). (extra footage that isn't shown in the third one, namely "the Trainman" (played by Bruce Spence of "Mad Max" fame -- the pilot with the bad teeth))
Third: this one.
anyway, there are already numerous attempts to figure out the storyline, most of which is fairly obvious/predictable... but who cares.
It seems to me that machines today are really what I *thought* the Amiga was 10-12 years ago.
Gaming is one of the greatest reasons to soup-up your PC today... and strangely was one of the reasons the Amiga was never taken seriously in it's day.
Many Amiga programs supported external scripting via AREXX, to control certain functions (like Digipaint3)-- much like the use of XML today for configurations of of apps like... Trillian.
3-D rendering/ray tracing (Sculpt/Animate4D - Turbo Silver) -- yes it took 2 weeks to render a ray-traced silver-sphere on a red/white checkerboard, but it was photorealistic.
Music production hasn't ventured far either... though it was 8-bit sound, it was two channel stereo with 4 complex wavforms triggerable simultaneously... You had more professional software (Bars & Pipes, Dr. T's) and then your more underground software - ProTracker, Delitracker, etc..
just comparing tracker software to Sonic Foundry's Acid, the difference being that you "paint the waveform" in a track and apply effects through plug-ins, In tracker software it was ALL hex addressing,(even effects!) and a screen filled with multiple (dizzying at first) columns of numbers, it was all sample based -- they (music modules, "MODS") sounded a hell of a lot better than sucky general midi and the "M-PC" of the early 90's...
The problems I see with PC's today is there is really too much integration to be supported by the operating system of popular choice (windows).
The operating system is not LOGICALLY extensable in the way that unix was (before linux became easy to install)
application software should NOT put it's meathooks into your OS. ever.
games will transcend polygon count alone. I imagine that some people will spend their entire waking life immersed within massivly multiplayer simulation that will become so life-like they won't want to leave... less like EverQuest, more like THE MATRIX -- without the kung-fu.
input devices -- mouse is dead, joystick dead. your screen-mounted webcam will track your eye movements, a stylus will be provided for "detailed" work.
I imagine that we will have so many networked devices that our machines could aggregate computing power wirelessly in parallel with other devices, in effect, becoming virally faster, and temporarily intelligent.
speech recognition will never work.:^)
your OS will heal itself BEFORE it breaks.
storage costs will decrease, while capacity increases allowing an economic means of transaction auditing and journaling file-systems for general use (our PC's will work like a Mainframe, but with the power of an entire datacenter of today!) Imagine being able to roll your pc back 20 seconds ago, on the fly! you can change the past....roll forward... your browser cache history will no longer have ANY record of that accidental click to goatse.cx!
I can't believe this.
It's not secure!
shut up. can't you remember why you got into computers in the first place? Coz' your brain was stronger than your body, and it was your only chance to take control of the world around you.
If the system is broke. I say, don't fix it.
It would be badass if the president of the united states was a write-in candidate...
From CNN.COM
And The Winner is.... CowboyNeal! (who the fuck is CowboyNeal?!)
I call prior art! Ultima Online, you could talk to french or japanese people in english, and the stuff would translate pretty good. unfortunatly if you happened to know Japanese romanization and attempted to communicate that way, the system would try to translate your katakana-english into japanese (double translation).
it started getting crappier though with all the slang being used. "skels=skeletons" (for example) so many Japanese seemed to stay on their own servers...
kinda sad though. It was cool fighting with a guy named "Mopar" -- "let's go and a kill some shit!".
it's 0140 right here in KC. I've been at work since 1030 a.m. yesterday morning. This isn't the first time, and definitely won't be the last. The company I work for is hiring tons of people, but due to various departmental infighting (other groups are trying to take over our crap) we're unable to hire new people. (My boss is trying to keep HIS job by doing all the work the other departments staffed with 12-20 people are doing... but it's only me who's able to do the work).
I have to say.... I'm almost sick of it. Many of my co-workers have been with the company for 15+ years and honestly don't know half of what it takes to know how to do our job. We've been gradually transitioning to heavy-iron mainframes over to (physically) leaner Sun & IBM boxes, but these people are basically "grandfathered in" they've got a couple years til retirement, but the company won't spring for training for ANY of us. They're afraid we'll leave.
If there was a limitation put in place for payment of overtime it would absolutely kill me. I make almost double my base pay because of overtime pay. If all of a sudden I wasn't getting paid for my overtime. well, fsck it. I'd have gone home at 17:00 like the rest of em' AND i'd demand use of my vacation time.
HemosI'm hoping to play as the Pit of Saarlac: The Ultimate Camper
Actually, it's the "Pit of Carcoon" the Sarlacc creature lives inside it. I think the idea may have come from a creature called an "antlion" but just added tentacles for fun.
Strangely it seems, the spelling of "Carcoon" has at some time in the past 20 years (1983!?) been changed to "Carkoon" (check google). I know this happens from time to time in the starwars universe...
you can get more info about the Sarlacc here:starwars.com
"going gold" means that the software/code/app whatevah has been sent off to a CD Mastering company to create a GOLD (reflective layer) GLASS MASTER disc for replication into those cheap $0.02 plastic coasters we all know and love.
Back in the 80's the Japanese had a kiosk system that you could buy a game for the 8-bit Nintendo Famicom. It was like $5.00/game (depending on game)... The games were copied to yellow 3.5" floppy disks. The disk drive attached the the "belly-button" expansion slot on the bottom of the unit.... And it was red in color.
A friend of mine bought his copy of Dragon Warrior (known there as Dragon Quest) on a floppy disk. The game-pak based game save had not yet been invented, and so you had to write down a bunch of wierd heiroglyphic symbols in order to resume from where you left off....
I was thinking that you could break open a mouse (mechanical, not optical) and connect the y-axis to a series of small gears to a tiny fan blade (from a discarded laptop perhaps) the diameter of which being about the size of an US Quarter-dollar coin. Mount the fan into a near-size pvc tube. you'll just need the blades, becuase it a basic rotor, so that when she inhales, it turns the gears, moving the cursor UP, and when she exhales, it moves the cursor down... mount the assembly on a telescopic-boom (like a $20 microphone stand)
If you felt so inclined, you could mount a second pipe for the other axis and increase your options...
set up a simple pc that runs a dedicated macromedia flash file, and now when the cursor moves you can communicate basic wants/needs that are setup as onmouseover routines... inhaling makes the cursor move up. exhaling makes the cursor move down.
also depending on her skill with the device you could set up chorded strings of commands... like I Want...(y-axis) Water...(x-axis) perhaps you could come up with some time-out function that would automatically re-center the cursor so that she doesn't frustrate herself with all the blowing...
this does depend on her ability to control her breathing, however.. you may want to try two commands first, like "water" or "bathroom" then you could advance to "good morning" or "I love you"...
wife: "you should really try out that new Thai restaurant, it's really good" husband: "oh, really? tell me more about it?" wife: "well, they've got great food, authentic atmosphere, native Thai cooks & waitstaff" husband: "wow, that sounds really great, can you tell me where it is?" wife: "no, i can't. you see, Kansas City has this rule that you can't tell anybody how to get to where you really want to go, they want you to first go to Kansas City, drive around for a few hours, until you happen to see a road sign for your particular destination, and then you'll find out the location" husband: "Wow, that's stupid!" wife: "I know."
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Check this out... "Ringo" is Japanese for "APPLE".
I was getting a ton of disconnects with the URL that is on the Matrix website, so I searched for another way.
i just examined the URLs of other trailers and got lucky i guess.
By the way, this is officially the 3th Trailer:
anyway, there are already numerous attempts to figure out the storyline, most of which is fairly obvious/predictable... but who cares.
agent smith rules.
It seems to me that machines today are really what I *thought* the Amiga was 10-12 years ago.
:^)
Gaming is one of the greatest reasons to soup-up your PC today... and strangely was one of the reasons the Amiga was never taken seriously in it's day.
Many Amiga programs supported external scripting via AREXX, to control certain functions (like Digipaint3)-- much like the use of XML today for configurations of of apps like... Trillian.
3-D rendering/ray tracing (Sculpt/Animate4D - Turbo Silver) -- yes it took 2 weeks to render a ray-traced silver-sphere on a red/white checkerboard, but it was photorealistic.
Music production hasn't ventured far either...
though it was 8-bit sound, it was two channel stereo with 4 complex wavforms triggerable simultaneously...
You had more professional software (Bars & Pipes, Dr. T's) and then your more underground software - ProTracker, Delitracker, etc..
just comparing tracker software to Sonic Foundry's Acid, the difference being that you "paint the waveform" in a track and apply effects through plug-ins, In tracker software it was ALL hex addressing,(even effects!) and a screen filled with multiple (dizzying at first) columns of numbers, it was all sample based -- they (music modules, "MODS") sounded a hell of a lot better than sucky general midi and the "M-PC" of the early 90's...
The problems I see with PC's today is there is really too much integration to be supported by the operating system of popular choice (windows).
The operating system is not LOGICALLY extensable in the way that unix was (before linux became easy to install)
application software should NOT put it's meathooks into your OS. ever.
games will transcend polygon count alone. I imagine that some people will spend their entire waking life immersed within massivly multiplayer simulation that will become so life-like they won't want to leave... less like EverQuest, more like THE MATRIX -- without the kung-fu.
input devices -- mouse is dead, joystick dead. your screen-mounted webcam will track your eye movements, a stylus will be provided for "detailed" work.
I imagine that we will have so many networked devices that our machines could aggregate computing power wirelessly in parallel with other devices, in effect, becoming virally faster, and temporarily intelligent.
speech recognition will never work.
your OS will heal itself BEFORE it breaks.
storage costs will decrease, while capacity increases allowing an economic means of transaction auditing and journaling file-systems for general use (our PC's will work like a Mainframe, but with the power of an entire datacenter of today!) Imagine being able to roll your pc back 20 seconds ago, on the fly! you can change the past....roll forward... your browser cache history will no longer have ANY record of that accidental click to goatse.cx!
I can't believe this. It's not secure! shut up. can't you remember why you got into computers in the first place? Coz' your brain was stronger than your body, and it was your only chance to take control of the world around you. If the system is broke. I say, don't fix it. It would be badass if the president of the united states was a write-in candidate... From CNN.COM And The Winner is.... CowboyNeal! (who the fuck is CowboyNeal?!)
I call prior art!
Ultima Online, you could talk to french or japanese people in english, and the stuff would translate pretty good. unfortunatly if you happened to know Japanese romanization and attempted to communicate that way, the system would try to translate your katakana-english into japanese (double translation).
it started getting crappier though with all the slang being used. "skels=skeletons" (for example) so many Japanese seemed to stay on their own servers...
kinda sad though.
It was cool fighting with a guy named "Mopar" -- "let's go and a kill some shit!".
it's 0140 right here in KC. I've been at work since 1030 a.m. yesterday morning. This isn't the first time, and definitely won't be the last. The company I work for is hiring tons of people, but due to various departmental infighting (other groups are trying to take over our crap) we're unable to hire new people. (My boss is trying to keep HIS job by doing all the work the other departments staffed with 12-20 people are doing... but it's only me who's able to do the work).
I have to say.... I'm almost sick of it. Many of my co-workers have been with the company for 15+ years and honestly don't know half of what it takes to know how to do our job. We've been gradually transitioning to heavy-iron mainframes over to (physically) leaner Sun & IBM boxes, but these people are basically "grandfathered in" they've got a couple years til retirement, but the company won't spring for training for ANY of us. They're afraid we'll leave.
If there was a limitation put in place for payment of overtime it would absolutely kill me. I make almost double my base pay because of overtime pay. If all of a sudden I wasn't getting paid for my overtime. well, fsck it. I'd have gone home at 17:00 like the rest of em' AND i'd demand use of my vacation time.
Actually, it's the "Pit of Carcoon" the Sarlacc creature lives inside it. I think the idea may have come from a creature called an "antlion" but just added tentacles for fun.
Strangely it seems, the spelling of "Carcoon" has at some time in the past 20 years (1983!?) been changed to "Carkoon" (check google). I know this happens from time to time in the starwars universe...
you can get more info about the Sarlacc here:starwars.com
there is no such thing as "certifying gold".
it's b.s.
"going gold" means that the software/code/app whatevah has been sent off to a CD Mastering company to create a GOLD (reflective layer) GLASS MASTER disc for replication into those cheap $0.02 plastic coasters we all know and love.
Wow, this is gonna make me old, but...
anybody remember BBS RIP graphics? it was like the pre-Mosaic WWW. But yummy 16-color EGA.
and yes it was slow at 9600 baud.
Hey, If we're required to be certified, then by all means there should be an International Brotherhood Of Information Technology Professionals.
See if they continue to hand out pink-slips like rice at a wedding...
It seems their webserver is running cold enough to stop electrons dead in their tracks....
where's my 1200 baud Avatex so I can dial up Demon Roach Underground [cDc] in Amarillo.
pwd=kill.
hmmm.. seems to me that...
"YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG!!!"
From the upcoming 2003 remake of A Christmas Story:
"You can't a new video card, you'll cut your fingers off, then how will you type?!
Back in the 80's the Japanese had a kiosk system that you could buy a game for the 8-bit Nintendo Famicom. It was like $5.00/game (depending on game)... The games were copied to yellow 3.5" floppy disks. The disk drive attached the the "belly-button" expansion slot on the bottom of the unit.... And it was red in color.
A friend of mine bought his copy of Dragon Warrior (known there as Dragon Quest) on a floppy disk. The game-pak based game save had not yet been invented, and so you had to write down a bunch of wierd heiroglyphic symbols in order to resume from where you left off....
Hello, My name is Dixie Flatline...
I was thinking that you could break open a mouse (mechanical, not optical) and connect the y-axis to a series of small gears to a tiny fan blade (from a discarded laptop perhaps) the diameter of which being about the size of an US Quarter-dollar coin. Mount the fan into a near-size pvc tube. you'll just need the blades, becuase it a basic rotor, so that when she inhales, it turns the gears, moving the cursor UP, and when she exhales, it moves the cursor down...
mount the assembly on a telescopic-boom (like a $20 microphone stand)
If you felt so inclined, you could mount a second pipe for the other axis and increase your options...
set up a simple pc that runs a dedicated macromedia flash file, and now when the cursor moves you can communicate basic wants/needs that are setup as onmouseover routines...
inhaling makes the cursor move up. exhaling makes the cursor move down.
also depending on her skill with the device you could set up chorded strings of commands... like
I Want...(y-axis) Water...(x-axis)
perhaps you could come up with some time-out function that would automatically re-center the cursor so that she doesn't frustrate herself with all the blowing...
this does depend on her ability to control her breathing, however.. you may want to try two commands first, like "water" or "bathroom" then you could advance to "good morning" or "I love you"...
Apparently the guy who's hosting the site built his webserver from LEGO too.
/. effect.
NOTHING withstands the
Attention Trekkies: Mr. Scott's "Transparent Aluminum" A Reality. [cool]
wife: "you should really try out that new Thai restaurant, it's really good"
husband: "oh, really? tell me more about it?"
wife: "well, they've got great food, authentic atmosphere, native Thai cooks & waitstaff"
husband: "wow, that sounds really great, can you tell me where it is?"
wife: "no, i can't. you see, Kansas City has this rule that you can't tell anybody how to get to where you really want to go, they want you to first go to Kansas City, drive around for a few hours, until you happen to see a road sign for your particular destination, and then you'll find out the location"
husband: "Wow, that's stupid!"
wife: "I know." ----EOF