However, the Merovingian saying 5 predecessors throws that off. The only real way to make them fit is to determine that the first Zion must not have had a "The One" - it just got too big because of the "utopian" nature of the first matrix, so they wiped it and started again, adding a "The One" to the second Matrix.
From what I understand, the first version of the Matrix was a perfect world, but it did not work out in the end because humans are not perfect, and they were not able to live in a perfect world. They then had to create a not-so perfect world (one that would not be bound by the confines of prefection i believe the architect put it). By creating this not-so perfect world, they also created the math anomoly known as neo, which also becomes something that the people can put faith in.
This goes with the Architect saying that the "mother" of the matrix determined how to make people happy within it on the second go-round.
I believe the way he put it was that the "mother" of the matrix found out a way to make 99% of the people content, just by giving them a choice, no matter if that choice was buried deep within the subconcious. This in my opinion kinda relates back to when the first matrix (the perfect world) people didnt need choice because everything was taken care of, because everything was perfect. In a non-perfect world people would want something to hope for (be it a religous deal or just to be able to live a happy life) and Neo represents that. I think the machines aren't smart enough to understand that (the architect saying that neo was a math 'mistake' that he has not been able to figure out, but they dont understand that by creating a non-perfect world the people of that world had to have something to belive in (the one))
The real question is if the design had him going into the core or back to rescue Trinity. Did he do what they expected or not? The architect says he was supposed to go into the source.
I think what happened here is that all the neo's were just anomolies in the system, but the neo we are watching in the movies is an anomoly of the anomolies (the other neo's were not / didn't fall in love) so at the end he was able to chose to save trinity, where as the other ones were just corralled back into the matrix by chosing to restart zion. What im wondering is if what the architect is saying is all true. I am almost guessing that maybe he is just another control put in place to stop anyone from destroying the machines. Neo chose something that the machines didn't expect (they wanted him to just go play around with restarting zion again) while he chose something else (go saving trinity) which from what I gather, will lead to neo actually being able to destroy the machines. This was not something that the other neos were able to do because they were fooled into thinking that they needed to restart zion.
Of course I can say this is a fairly deep movie, at least for being a movie and I could be wrong on all this, but its what I gathered from when I saw it just about 5 hours ago.
I agree with you saying that the next one is going to rock, I can't wait to see it.
Anyone care to give any ideas on why Neo can now stop sentinals? My guess is that when he left that building at the end and blew it up, he somehow gained some control over the machines, or part of the "source" is now inside him.. just a big guess though haven't really given it too much thought.
My statement you replied to said that a T3 line consisted of 28 T1 lines. I still believe this to be true. Your reply really has nothing to do with what im saying. Let me pick it apart =)
From the SONET Reference
Thats nice
Transmission standards in the U.S., Canada, Korea, Taiwan, and Hong Kong (ANS) ads the rest of the world (ITU-T) evolved from different basic-rate signals in the non-synchronous heirarchy.
Thanks for the history
ANSI Time Division Multiplexing (TDM) combines twenty four 64 kbit/s channes (DS0) into one 1.544 DS1 signal.
Alright some good information here. What this is saying is that a T1 line (or a DS0) is 24 channels that are 64kbps each. Good info.
ITU multiplexes thirty 64bit/s chennels (E0) into one 2.038 Mbit/s E1 signal (an extra two channels provide frame alignment and signalling, making 32 total).
Ahh some more good info, got to love that =). This is saying that an E0 line (which is pretty much europes equivalant of a T1 line from what I can see) is 30 channels that each run at 64kbps each. Good stuff to know, but this really has nothing to do with a T3 line.
Now for my good info =). A T3 line is actually 672 channels that run at 64kps each. Ya, thats right, 672, not 30. So, if we were to look at that good info above, we would see that a T1 line is 24 channels of 64kbps each. If we now take that magic number 24, and multiply it by 28, what do we get.. 672 =). Here are some of my links.
Hmm this is strange, because when I coded that little gba app, I didn't have to do anything with a logo of any sort, but like I said it was an emulator that I was testing this on, as I did not have a kart writer.
I thought that any CG scenes in the movie were done pretty much perfectly, because I can't really remember seeing any CG, so hats off to them in that respect.
If the 2Fast2Furious trailer played before the matrix in your theater, then you will see what cheesy CG is =).
Original Matrix rating: 10 Matrix Reloaded rating: 10
I read the patent and i'm not sure if its really that big of a deal. It might cause a bit of problems, but the patent is pretty specific on how its done.
Search is started Multiple requests are sent to DNS servers Information is sent back Information is formatted for the user (this has to be formatted in hypertext markup language according to the 2nd and 10th claims, probably others) Add in many other things that I couldn't really understand, but it seems to be pretty specific.
So, its kinda like me patenting a method of searching for a hotel room on the third tuesday of every odd month, but skipping every 7th month.
If I made a page that had 10 buttons on it, with a box at the top for me type a domain name into, and each one of the buttons searched a different DNS server, but I had to hit these buttons manually, would that be part of this patent?
Its just too bad that it takes the patent office 6 years to approve of a patent, especially when it comes to the computer industry, where things can change drastically in much shorter times then 6 years..
I dont think the gameboy really cares what it runs. I have written a gameboy advance game in assembly (ok, it wasn't a game, it just moved a box around) but it definatly wasn't "signed code" nor was there anything that I had to code to get around any code checking. I was using an emulator to test it, but from what I understand I could copy that file to a blank cart and run it with no problems.
Lurr: We demand to eat one human for each Omicronian that
was eaten.
Zapp: Fair enough. How many is that?
Kif: 198 Billion, sir.
Lurr: Very well. You will provide us with 198 billion humans.
And, uh, small fries.
Ndunda: Lurr!
Lurr: Oh, all right, cottage cheese.
Kif: [Whispers to Zapp] Sir, there aren't that many human
beings.
Zapp: A thought occurs: There aren't that many humans.
Lurr: We'll wait a few weeks while you shore up the numbers.
Zapp: Hmm? 198 billion babies in a few weeks. We'll need an
army of super-virile men scoring 'round the clock! I'll
do my part. Kif, clear my schedule.
Kif: [Sighs, turns over and shakes an Etch-A-Sketch]
I was under the impression that "Thunderbird" and "Firebird" were fortified wines and the prefered drink of transients which resembled the taste of zippo lighter fluid, but not approaching the quality of such fine beverages like Boones Strawberry Hill.
Funny, I was under the impression that "Thunderbird" and "Firebird" were muscle cars and the preferred car of many fast-car owners which resembled the feel of a real muscle car, but not quite approaching the quality of such fine cars like a Hemicuda.
The only reason I invest my own money in doing this is that I expect to get a return on my money.
I was going to write a big reply to you, but I re-read this line and figured it was enough. Just remind me to never buy your cd if the only reason you do it is because you EXPECT to get money back. Thanks, but no thanks, and rather listen to musicians who do it because they love music, not money =).
Here is one DVD player that supports AAC files, and it seems to me that just about any DVD player that can play mp3 files can also play AAC, but I could be wrong.
Here is a page that describes the fact that Dolby supports AAC, but it doesn't look like it has anything to do with "Dolby Digital Surround sound".
I think the people at ID like to think that they make thier money without really a lot of dependancy on Microsoft. They use OpenGL, and are pretty much pushing the limits of technology with each release of a game. My bet is that they wouldn't take the money from them =).
I once saw a toyota pickup truck that had a chevy 350 in it, with a blower and all. The blower kinda gives it away but im sure the truck was able to pickup and go pretty good.
I think the porshe engines are a bit more common in vw's, as the engines are pretty much swapable as far as i know.
#2 - There has been some talk recently of making the cabin be able to eject. If a problem is discovered, they can simply eject the cabin. As for how it gets back to earth, I would assume they just come back via Apollo mission capsule style, with a heat shield and parachute.
I dont think our shuttle has any sort of ejectable cabin. The russian shuttle that they copied from nasa (dont remember the name) had an ejectable cabin, and a few other nice features, but I do not think nasa has incorporated any of that.
The reason I see this being of help is that were dealing with human lives up there, and having the ability to check out the shuttle before going back to earth is going to help make things much safer I think. In the article it stated that the national imagary and mapping agency approached nasa to see if they wanted any shots taken of the shuttle, but nasa declined. That shuttle then came down and exploded, as well all know. I know that when we look at this now, we can pick out all the little things that weren't done right, and say that these certain people are bad, but it happens. Putting this extra step into checking the shuttle out should make it safer though, and having the ability to get shots of the shuttle from satellites, and having an easy way to do so can only be good.
I used to work for a company who flew small planes for FedEx, I was the computer guy who made sure all the pcs worked in the main office as well as all the maintenance stations littered along the west side of the U.S.
We just bought a box of video cards from someplace, they were pretty cheap, and came like 20 to a box or somethin, no driver disks or books or anything. I was installing one of these cards in one of the computers, and when I turned it on, *smoke*.
I pulled the video card out, and for some reason every memory chip on the card had burnt up, and left a whole thru the pcb. Never seen that before, I hope to never see it again (of course it'll happen when I go buy a new radeon 9700 or somethin).
I used to also ship the computers I built to these maintenance stations, at first we used just cardboard boxes and some sort of padding, but when they got down there, it was just a big jumbled mess. They would then send it back up here, and it would be in even worse condition, but I was able to get most of them fixed. A few times we even had the cpu fall out of the socket some how, and I had to go thru and straighten every pin to get it to work again. We finally had to buy these aluminum boxes (looked like some of the cases that people who play music store their instruments in when touring or whatnot). They seemed to work pretty great but added quite a lot to the shipping price (which incidentally was with UPS, even though we were contracted by FedEx, it was still cheaper to ship stuff UPS).
Well, up here in the northwest, I think ive seen about 2 or 3 days where there was snow on the ground for a whole day. Usually we have snow from thanksgiving to middle february.. Bad year to buy a pass to go snowboarding =(
Id have to agree with what your saying here, luckily the last couple years of me doing support there I was not doing OS support, so I didn't have to worry too much about the cryptic errors that win2k/xp have, but your right. The knowledge base that is available online to the public seems to be a bit different then the internal tool we used, we would get different hits by searching on the same string. I never really used the one on the web, it has always been unhelpful I think.
I believe on those errors you refer to, you can scroll thru the mumbo jumbo and at the bottom there is a link that says "view technical information" and I think it gives you a modname / appname that you can use to figure out errors.
Well, partly yes / no. The biggest place I saw drivers being a problem was doing game / multimedia support. They would be using a video driver that was made for dx6, and they would want to play a dx8 game. I wouldn't really consider the driver not knowing about directx8 a bug at all. There were other times where the driver had a bug (or it just didn't do something right, intel i810 comes ot mind here) where we knew that it needed at least x version of the driver to work properly, but once again I wouldn't call that a bug, its a *known limitation* of the software =P
This is probably going to sound a lot like ego stroking but after hearing horror stories from customers about phone support from other companies, I have to agree with the parent that MS is running a tight ship when it comes to tech support.
This has actually changed quite a bit in the past 4 years or so as well, at least when it comes to my experience. When I left the company, we had a policy that if I got a call, I had to solve it, even if it involved calling the customer back x amount of times, either the problem was unsolvable, I would fix it, or it would be escalated. You don't find that really anywhere else at all.
Actually no, I should have been a bit more specific, but this came into play much much more when I did games / multimedia support. A lot of the games I supported were 3d, and a lot of those calls were about performance (probably the worst was the flight simulator series) and it would just be that they had too much crap running in the background for their computer to actually render all that it needed to, and they would get choppy graphics. I do find it amusing the tangent you ran off with right there though..
Im assuming that you were talking about the online kb that microsoft has on its support.microsoft.com website.. and id agree its slow, and hard to find stuff.
The program we used just was a fairly basic program that searched text files, so it was pretty fast. You could customize the query to only search certain databases (there was probably 60-70+ databases I could search thru). For some real strange reason though you get different hits if you search the webpage vs. the internal tool. This was all done with servers that were 300 miles away also. It did have its problems but overall it was a very nice and helpful tool. Nowadays I find google to be much more helpful (I dont work for that company anymore)
This happened a lot more often when I was doing games support. People trying to maximize performance, (either they were getting just a few fps and wanted it to work right, or those picky ones who are getting 40fps and want 80+ cause they have the new video card out or somethin). The people im talking about here think its a good idea to protect their gaming system with the norton system suite (which comes with like.. 8 norton programs, most of them doing active scans all the time). Couple that with kazaa downloading 30 songs at a time, and people are not going to be happy with much multimedia type of stuff on their machines. I would teach them that if you want to play games, and have them run fast, its a good idea to shut down all this stuff. This ties in quite a bit with lack of knowledge in my opinion, but the reason that they had called was because of just too much crap running in the background. This really didn't come into play at all doing OS support, but the occasional call would still come in where someone couldn't move their mouse across the screen without it being choppy because of mcafee or somethin like that running int he background..
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From what I understand, the first version of the Matrix was a perfect world, but it did not work out in the end because humans are not perfect, and they were not able to live in a perfect world. They then had to create a not-so perfect world (one that would not be bound by the confines of prefection i believe the architect put it). By creating this not-so perfect world, they also created the math anomoly known as neo, which also becomes something that the people can put faith in.
This goes with the Architect saying that the "mother" of the matrix determined how to make people happy within it on the second go-round.
I believe the way he put it was that the "mother" of the matrix found out a way to make 99% of the people content, just by giving them a choice, no matter if that choice was buried deep within the subconcious. This in my opinion kinda relates back to when the first matrix (the perfect world) people didnt need choice because everything was taken care of, because everything was perfect. In a non-perfect world people would want something to hope for (be it a religous deal or just to be able to live a happy life) and Neo represents that. I think the machines aren't smart enough to understand that (the architect saying that neo was a math 'mistake' that he has not been able to figure out, but they dont understand that by creating a non-perfect world the people of that world had to have something to belive in (the one))
The real question is if the design had him going into the core or back to rescue Trinity. Did he do what they expected or not? The architect says he was supposed to go into the source.
I think what happened here is that all the neo's were just anomolies in the system, but the neo we are watching in the movies is an anomoly of the anomolies (the other neo's were not / didn't fall in love) so at the end he was able to chose to save trinity, where as the other ones were just corralled back into the matrix by chosing to restart zion. What im wondering is if what the architect is saying is all true. I am almost guessing that maybe he is just another control put in place to stop anyone from destroying the machines. Neo chose something that the machines didn't expect (they wanted him to just go play around with restarting zion again) while he chose something else (go saving trinity) which from what I gather, will lead to neo actually being able to destroy the machines. This was not something that the other neos were able to do because they were fooled into thinking that they needed to restart zion.
Of course I can say this is a fairly deep movie, at least for being a movie and I could be wrong on all this, but its what I gathered from when I saw it just about 5 hours ago.
I agree with you saying that the next one is going to rock, I can't wait to see it.
Anyone care to give any ideas on why Neo can now stop sentinals? My guess is that when he left that building at the end and blew it up, he somehow gained some control over the machines, or part of the "source" is now inside him.. just a big guess though haven't really given it too much thought.
My statement you replied to said that a T3 line consisted of 28 T1 lines. I still believe this to be true. Your reply really has nothing to do with what im saying. Let me pick it apart =)
From the SONET Reference
Thats nice
Transmission standards in the U.S., Canada, Korea, Taiwan, and Hong Kong (ANS) ads the rest of the world (ITU-T) evolved from different basic-rate signals in the non-synchronous heirarchy.
Thanks for the history
ANSI Time Division Multiplexing (TDM) combines twenty four 64 kbit/s channes (DS0) into one 1.544 DS1 signal.
Alright some good information here. What this is saying is that a T1 line (or a DS0) is 24 channels that are 64kbps each. Good info.
ITU multiplexes thirty 64bit/s chennels (E0) into one 2.038 Mbit/s E1 signal (an extra two channels provide frame alignment and signalling, making 32 total).
Ahh some more good info, got to love that =). This is saying that an E0 line (which is pretty much europes equivalant of a T1 line from what I can see) is 30 channels that each run at 64kbps each. Good stuff to know, but this really has nothing to do with a T3 line.
Now for my good info =). A T3 line is actually 672 channels that run at 64kps each. Ya, thats right, 672, not 30. So, if we were to look at that good info above, we would see that a T1 line is 24 channels of 64kbps each. If we now take that magic number 24, and multiply it by 28, what do we get.. 672 =). Here are some of my links.
Link 1
Link 2
I hope it helps..
Hmm this is strange, because when I coded that little gba app, I didn't have to do anything with a logo of any sort, but like I said it was an emulator that I was testing this on, as I did not have a kart writer.
I thought that any CG scenes in the movie were done pretty much perfectly, because I can't really remember seeing any CG, so hats off to them in that respect.
If the 2Fast2Furious trailer played before the matrix in your theater, then you will see what cheesy CG is =).
Original Matrix rating: 10
Matrix Reloaded rating: 10
I read the patent and i'm not sure if its really that big of a deal. It might cause a bit of problems, but the patent is pretty specific on how its done.
Search is started
Multiple requests are sent to DNS servers
Information is sent back
Information is formatted for the user (this has to be formatted in hypertext markup language according to the 2nd and 10th claims, probably others)
Add in many other things that I couldn't really understand, but it seems to be pretty specific.
So, its kinda like me patenting a method of searching for a hotel room on the third tuesday of every odd month, but skipping every 7th month.
If I made a page that had 10 buttons on it, with a box at the top for me type a domain name into, and each one of the buttons searched a different DNS server, but I had to hit these buttons manually, would that be part of this patent?
Its just too bad that it takes the patent office 6 years to approve of a patent, especially when it comes to the computer industry, where things can change drastically in much shorter times then 6 years..
Hmm...
I dont think the gameboy really cares what it runs. I have written a gameboy advance game in assembly (ok, it wasn't a game, it just moved a box around) but it definatly wasn't "signed code" nor was there anything that I had to code to get around any code checking. I was using an emulator to test it, but from what I understand I could copy that file to a blank cart and run it with no problems.
Put the conspiracy theories away =).
Modding a Promise ATA-100 controller to support RAID
Unlocking the multiplier on an AMD CPU
Try 28 instead of 30..
Lurr: We demand to eat one human for each Omicronian that was eaten.
Zapp: Fair enough. How many is that?
Kif: 198 Billion, sir.
Lurr: Very well. You will provide us with 198 billion humans. And, uh, small fries.
Ndunda: Lurr!
Lurr: Oh, all right, cottage cheese.
Kif: [Whispers to Zapp] Sir, there aren't that many human beings.
Zapp: A thought occurs: There aren't that many humans.
Lurr: We'll wait a few weeks while you shore up the numbers.
Zapp: Hmm? 198 billion babies in a few weeks. We'll need an army of super-virile men scoring 'round the clock! I'll do my part. Kif, clear my schedule.
Kif: [Sighs, turns over and shakes an Etch-A-Sketch]
Funny, I was under the impression that "Thunderbird" and "Firebird" were muscle cars and the preferred car of many fast-car owners which resembled the feel of a real muscle car, but not quite approaching the quality of such fine cars like a Hemicuda.
I was going to write a big reply to you, but I re-read this line and figured it was enough. Just remind me to never buy your cd if the only reason you do it is because you EXPECT to get money back. Thanks, but no thanks, and rather listen to musicians who do it because they love music, not money =).
I think the problem with sega is that they were throwing the punch before anyone was there =).
Here is a page that describes the fact that Dolby supports AAC, but it doesn't look like it has anything to do with "Dolby Digital Surround sound".
I think the people at ID like to think that they make thier money without really a lot of dependancy on Microsoft. They use OpenGL, and are pretty much pushing the limits of technology with each release of a game. My bet is that they wouldn't take the money from them =).
I once saw a toyota pickup truck that had a chevy 350 in it, with a blower and all. The blower kinda gives it away but im sure the truck was able to pickup and go pretty good.
I think the porshe engines are a bit more common in vw's, as the engines are pretty much swapable as far as i know.
I dont think our shuttle has any sort of ejectable cabin. The russian shuttle that they copied from nasa (dont remember the name) had an ejectable cabin, and a few other nice features, but I do not think nasa has incorporated any of that.
The reason I see this being of help is that were dealing with human lives up there, and having the ability to check out the shuttle before going back to earth is going to help make things much safer I think. In the article it stated that the national imagary and mapping agency approached nasa to see if they wanted any shots taken of the shuttle, but nasa declined. That shuttle then came down and exploded, as well all know. I know that when we look at this now, we can pick out all the little things that weren't done right, and say that these certain people are bad, but it happens. Putting this extra step into checking the shuttle out should make it safer though, and having the ability to get shots of the shuttle from satellites, and having an easy way to do so can only be good.
I used to work for a company who flew small planes for FedEx, I was the computer guy who made sure all the pcs worked in the main office as well as all the maintenance stations littered along the west side of the U.S.
We just bought a box of video cards from someplace, they were pretty cheap, and came like 20 to a box or somethin, no driver disks or books or anything. I was installing one of these cards in one of the computers, and when I turned it on, *smoke*.
I pulled the video card out, and for some reason every memory chip on the card had burnt up, and left a whole thru the pcb. Never seen that before, I hope to never see it again (of course it'll happen when I go buy a new radeon 9700 or somethin).
I used to also ship the computers I built to these maintenance stations, at first we used just cardboard boxes and some sort of padding, but when they got down there, it was just a big jumbled mess. They would then send it back up here, and it would be in even worse condition, but I was able to get most of them fixed. A few times we even had the cpu fall out of the socket some how, and I had to go thru and straighten every pin to get it to work again. We finally had to buy these aluminum boxes (looked like some of the cases that people who play music store their instruments in when touring or whatnot). They seemed to work pretty great but added quite a lot to the shipping price (which incidentally was with UPS, even though we were contracted by FedEx, it was still cheaper to ship stuff UPS).
Well, up here in the northwest, I think ive seen about 2 or 3 days where there was snow on the ground for a whole day. Usually we have snow from thanksgiving to middle february.. Bad year to buy a pass to go snowboarding =(
And sell soon as it hit its high, then enjoy your vacation =)
Id have to agree with what your saying here, luckily the last couple years of me doing support there I was not doing OS support, so I didn't have to worry too much about the cryptic errors that win2k/xp have, but your right. The knowledge base that is available online to the public seems to be a bit different then the internal tool we used, we would get different hits by searching on the same string. I never really used the one on the web, it has always been unhelpful I think.
I believe on those errors you refer to, you can scroll thru the mumbo jumbo and at the bottom there is a link that says "view technical information" and I think it gives you a modname / appname that you can use to figure out errors.
Well, partly yes / no. The biggest place I saw drivers being a problem was doing game / multimedia support. They would be using a video driver that was made for dx6, and they would want to play a dx8 game. I wouldn't really consider the driver not knowing about directx8 a bug at all. There were other times where the driver had a bug (or it just didn't do something right, intel i810 comes ot mind here) where we knew that it needed at least x version of the driver to work properly, but once again I wouldn't call that a bug, its a *known limitation* of the software =P
This has actually changed quite a bit in the past 4 years or so as well, at least when it comes to my experience. When I left the company, we had a policy that if I got a call, I had to solve it, even if it involved calling the customer back x amount of times, either the problem was unsolvable, I would fix it, or it would be escalated. You don't find that really anywhere else at all.
Actually no, I should have been a bit more specific, but this came into play much much more when I did games / multimedia support. A lot of the games I supported were 3d, and a lot of those calls were about performance (probably the worst was the flight simulator series) and it would just be that they had too much crap running in the background for their computer to actually render all that it needed to, and they would get choppy graphics. I do find it amusing the tangent you ran off with right there though..
Im assuming that you were talking about the online kb that microsoft has on its support.microsoft.com website.. and id agree its slow, and hard to find stuff.
The program we used just was a fairly basic program that searched text files, so it was pretty fast. You could customize the query to only search certain databases (there was probably 60-70+ databases I could search thru). For some real strange reason though you get different hits if you search the webpage vs. the internal tool. This was all done with servers that were 300 miles away also. It did have its problems but overall it was a very nice and helpful tool. Nowadays I find google to be much more helpful (I dont work for that company anymore)
This happened a lot more often when I was doing games support. People trying to maximize performance, (either they were getting just a few fps and wanted it to work right, or those picky ones who are getting 40fps and want 80+ cause they have the new video card out or somethin). The people im talking about here think its a good idea to protect their gaming system with the norton system suite (which comes with like.. 8 norton programs, most of them doing active scans all the time). Couple that with kazaa downloading 30 songs at a time, and people are not going to be happy with much multimedia type of stuff on their machines. I would teach them that if you want to play games, and have them run fast, its a good idea to shut down all this stuff. This ties in quite a bit with lack of knowledge in my opinion, but the reason that they had called was because of just too much crap running in the background. This really didn't come into play at all doing OS support, but the occasional call would still come in where someone couldn't move their mouse across the screen without it being choppy because of mcafee or somethin like that running int he background..