I am embarassed to think that I didnt notice for a full day!
Nah, don't be embarrassed. Aqua is really good with palettes. You probably wouldn't notice any difference at all for awhile... unless you had a desktop with a major gradient or something in it.
One giveaway is the metal theme - you can see a funny stair-stepping effect in Safari and iTunes with Thousands of colours set.
The cross-fading desktops feature has a new bug (on a 12" PB anyway) where the secondary monitor - in my case a Sony 17" CRT - screws up the transition effect.
The PowerBook is running at 1024x768/32bit on its main display, and 1280x1024/32bit on the secondary (NOT mirroring).
During the crossfade the first picture suddenly appears to squish to have the horizontal resolution, pushed to the left, and the palette gets munged (purple). It snaps back to normal after the fade but it ain't pretty.
Installed 10.2.8 on a 12" PowerBook (aka 'the footlong'), no discernable problems so far.
An odd thing was that it reset my monitor settings back to 16bit colour ('Thousands'), so you may want to watch out for that. Aqua does such a good job of dithering you probably wouldn't even notice at first.
Another odd thing was that my display went a little funky when doing the cross-fading desktop pictures just a second ago. Fixed itself after the transition was complete, no idea what that's about.
If you're superstitious like me don't forget to do the Repair Permissions trick - its the new Rebuild Desktop - although I had no issues there either.
One last thing, be prepared to have your frickin Keychain pestering you for the next week....
That's strange. Either the '17 MB folder' troll is trying a new tactic, or someone else thought there should be a pro-Apple troll to go along with the haters. The plot thins.
You come talk to me when you've read something about the sad, sad debacle that was Half Life for Mac. 99% ported after months of delay and sandbagging, then.. blammo, Cancelled, never to be seen again.
I swear it was like watching your dog get hit by a car as he returned from the pound.
I've read all about the resveratrol studies, but tell me if you have a similar reaction...
When I read:
they have demonstrated that in yeast, flies, and likely in mice a particular class of polyphenols (resveratrol being the most effective thus far) can be used to stimulate the same system in eukaryotes and extend lifespan some 30%...
... all I see is:
resveratrol... blahblahblahblahsciencemubly drink more red wine gogglydoddlyscienceblah
I agree. That's the biggest problem with so called "innovations"... they don't help you do anything better. How does seeing someone increase the effiency of using a telephone?
While I agree with the sentiment often, I don't agree in the case of 'videophones'. It helps for the same reason that the phone is sometimes better than email. Subtle nuance and expression is lost in the translation.
Humans are best equipped to interact with another human face because of millions of years of evolution. Sure, I don't always want to use a videophone for every situation... most of the time I don't even want voice, just email (or time-shifted text message, if you will) is fine.
I use the phone when I want to convey something a little more complex emotionally. Those things get totally lost in email.
I use iChatAV to do videoconferenced meetings essentially when I need telepresence. That is, when I require not only voice but actually seeing the other person's face. This is good for clients or other brainstorming-type meetings where you need to kind of witness another person's thought process and facial ticks. You get a lot more out of what they're trying to say.
I figure game development is in a stage of creativity right now somewhat akin to that of film in the 1940s. It needs time to evolve beyond that first blush of commercial success and acceptance.
Some basic structures, or 'language' of the medium has been worked out now, and has proven to be popular with the masses as an accepted entertainment medium, especially ever since someone noticed that games revenue had outpaced that of the film industry. So naturally there is some rabid capitalism going on insofar as people know a few formulas that work... i.e.
- the first person shooter
- the role-playing game (which is generally not really roleplaying, but whatever)
- the racer
- the fight game
- the simulators (and all derivations thereof)
.. and so on. We can name them just like that.
And yeah it gets pretty boring. (For instance I've pretty much given up on all FPS shooters until they do something different. They're all Quake to me.)
I want a game like Memento. Or Jacob's Ladder. Or imagine some game that used one of those realtime 3D shaders like grayscale pencil-sketch throughout, in some kind of Poe-inspired adaptation... We will see these kinds of things someday but it'll take 'Directors' (do we still call them that?) to do daring things with the medium and push the boundaries of the game's narratives.
Interactive storytelling is a real bitch to get your head around in any appreciable way. Currently I lean towards really open-ended titles like GTA as leading the way in that sort of gameplay, that tries new mixtures of nonlinear play with prescripted events. Or Molyneux's stuff - damn him for going all Xboxy on me - those guys are really thinking about new kinds of games.
Again, sorry if I missed the sarcasm, but if I didn't set it straight we'd end up with all sorts of silly Americans wandering around the Eastern Townships wondering where the fuck Newfoundland is.
Well you had to spoil it didn't you...
(Actually it was a total brain-fart, I got my wired crossed. Didn't really expect such a stupid post to go up either, but there you go.)
I'm a Canadian (oh uh... eh? That's what you wanted me to say right?) so I'll respond as best I can.
1) Thanks to that sumbitch George "Government do take a bite, don't she?" Bush, I can no longer afford to move (anywhere).
Yeah, I hear he can be a dick.
2) It get's COLD up there. I don't mean just cold, I mean cut-through-the-bone painful cold. At least I won't have to worry about a cooling system on my PC, I guess.
It's pretty cold, its true, but many parts are warmer or the same as the states.. don't forget a good chunk of Southern Ontario is below the 49th parallel (lot of Americans get very confused by the idea of any part of Canada being south of them...)
3) Quebec.
Point taken. Counterpoint: Quebec women.
6) No Tex-Mex food that I know of.
Huh?!? That's not true...
7) High tax rates.
Yup. Gets you stuff though. *ahem*medicalcare*ahem*
8) Quebec. Again. I really don't like Quebec. Nor does the rest of Canada, I suspect. I could be wrong, but every time Quebec wants to secede, I bet the rest of Canada is muttering under their breath: "Go ahead. Please. Do it. For the luvva Bobby Hull, just do it. Now!"
Welll.. its sorta true. Sorta. My solution was to let them secede, then invade immediately. Conquer 'em fair and square like we used to.
On the plus side - 1) Real snow
You will re-evaluate that plus side. Or, move to British Columbia where snow is totally optional.
2) Politeness. Canada may be full of assholes for all I know - but you never hear about them. Maybe they all live in Quebec. That would explain a lot, really.
No comment.
3) Vancouver - never been there, but I hear it rocks.
Vancouver does indeed rock other than the fact that it rains 90% of the time. But yes.
4) Quebec - all the pleasures of France right next door. It's hard to type with a straight face.
Nonono, you've got it wrong - it's 'All the Snobbiness and None of the Culture of France'
5) Hockey
Hey! You guys know about hockey???
6) Newfoundland - when you want solitude, I hear they got it by the bushel.
Well you've got that right - Newfoundland is basically the area surrounding the highway between Quebec and Nova Scotia.:)
Some other bonus points you may be interested in include topless women, pot smoking, and drinking at 18 but I won't bore you with the details.
To me the GUI looks more web like than current windows versions.
That's more right than you know. To me, it looks like a super-mutated version of MSN.
And I say this as someone who spent 6 months not too long ago doing freelance design work for that same company... trust me, those aqua-like buttons, all the gradient mayhem, drop shadows on absolutely everything... it's all MSN.
Used to drive me nuts, too. MSN, a web company, chooses nothing short of the entire spectrum of colours in gradient form for all their branding, right down to a logo that incorporates that same spectrum. So much for 'web safe colours'.
(It's like the iMac all over again. The idiots looked at it and thought 'i guess transparent computers are popular now', without pausing to realize how the iMac's transparency was just one facet of the design. You slap a semi-clear enclosure on your old product and it'll just look like the Princess Phone Radio Shack garbage that it really is.
In the past MS has packaged EULA updates along with software updates. I really wouldn't have too much trouble with this as long as they don't try to push EULA changes along with the update.
Actually that is an excellent point, as no matter how 'automagic' they want their updater to be, at some point, knowing MS, they will want to flash an updated EULA agreement across your screen so you can actually, you know, agree.
I don't think I'll agree.
Unless they do something sneaky, like 'by clicking the Start button you agree to all EULAs sent by Microsoft'... in tiny type the same colour as your desktop, of course...
Fucking canadians... first they fucking contaminated our meat supply due to their incompetance of dealing with mad cow disease. Then THEIR stupid power system overloads OURS and they blame US for it....We should just turn canada into a nice sheet of glass and be done with it, that would also elminate the terrorists they protect too.
Well as a person with dual citizenship, living in Canada, I feel compelled to give two answers to this.
AmericanGuyWhoIAm:
Dude that single cow came from the US, and it was your fuckin' transformer, so take that back before I ventilate your face. Commie.
CanadianGuyWhoIAm:
Uh huh. Hey buddy I hear you, eh? Take a hit off this, you'll feel better. You from Texas?
Dude, people everywhere are speculating that their own personal boogeyman is responsible. Here in New York, Mets fans are blaming Yankee fans, Brooklyn is blaming Manhattan, and everyone is kinda suspicious of Jersey...
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The pictures on the iGo page are hilarious. Can you see the way the woman has to sit in order to use the computer?
Well I thought the pictures were very well done, but the shot of the woman is indeed hilarious, because the photographer (while talented exposure-wise) doesn't know a feckin' thing about computer desks unfortunately.
Look at the chair they put her in, and look at the height of the monitor. This was clearly done so we could see the screen better but no one in their right mind uses a screen that is 16" higher than their nose.
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It is so many errors with the workspace that I don't even what to go into it.
Please, go into it. Because I can't see WTF you are talking about.
Crucial ergonomics issues with computer workstations: height, position and adjustment of chair; height and position of keyboard/mouse area; appropriate swivel and tilt controls for those surfaces; having the top-edge of the display adjustable to neutral eye-level resting naturally straight ahead.
This desk, while definitely short on 'extra' space, seems to fit the bill on all of these (I mean, it's designed around a stem; thats a cool idea). So I'm curious as to what you mean.
Just look at all the air around that desk. Complete waste of space!
See, I said that about your 42"x30" desk you linked to!
Remember, Mac people like to show off their fancy hardware... they don't need a massive slab of wood to hide the hideousness and noise of their PCs behind.:)
Which is great for desktops (I'm typing on a Mac desktop now) but I will not but an Apple laptop until they fix this one button insanity. I should not have to carry an external mouse around with me wherever I go.
You should actually try the control-click thing on a Mac laptop. It sounds totally hokey, but it works strangely well. I find that my left hand tends to 'hover' over there anyways (for cut/copy/paste/close etc) so I actually find control-clicking faster than glancing down to see if my thumb is over the right button.
Just an opinion. BTW, contextual menus are not 'necessary' for executing certain commands in OS X like they are in other operating systems.
As an Apple service man and systems technician all I have to say is...
"Dude, I don't believe you."
And I don't. Not for a second.
I mean, spurious logic like this: OS X is not ready for the enterprise, period
Oh, period. You said period, so damn, I got nothing on that.
If you really were an Apple service guy then you'd know damn well that Apple does not target large (2000+) corporate installations. You'd know the Xserve is an entry into small business admin servers, you'd know that OS X server is aimed precisely at the small creative type of business that the Mac is strong in. They do not compete with Dell or Hpaq. They don't even try.
I mean, come on! Hpaq competes with Apple? Hellloooo? Totally different beasts.
(BTW, The propensity for posters to say 'I have a Mac at home so its cool if I whinge on uselessly about 'em" is becoming far too common.)
Another update, another reboot. Sigh.. When is Apple going to stop requiring reboots?
Yeah, you know what else sucks? I have to turn off my car to work on the engine. Its a huge pain in the ass, you gotta get out and walk around....
In seriousness, OS X is sooo much better than OS 9 in this regard. Device drivers don't usually need a reboot, just security updates and really low-level stuff... and these are things you want to reboot for, to take advantage of the improvements!
Besides, if you want to, you can force-quit the installer. Just keep working and shut down when you're done - tomorrow your update will be there.
'Running like a dream' and 'sure its a little slow' are completely contradictory statements on the planet which I dwell opon....but it's 266 frickin' megahertz, what do they expect?
...
I remember ads. They had turtles with Pentiums on their backs. Other ads had words like 'Supercomputer' and 'Megaflop' in them. I thought slow, way behind the times PPC chips were many times faster than their x86 cousins? Now is that not true?
No, its not true. They were snails with Pentiums on their backs.:)
And, at the time, there was a pretty good case for it. Macs were running on par with PCs in Mhz and sometimes pulled a bit ahead (remember Power Computing? Yeah, real fast. Sucky, sucky boxes quality-wise though).
Also, for the record, the 'supercomputer' label didn't come until the G4, which did briefly qualify as a supercomputer technically, until they realised that PCs and Macs were supercomputers now and re-qualified the definition of 'supercomputer' to mean 1 teraflop instead of 1 gigaflop performance.
Although, if Jet Li stopped making movies with lame rappers he'd be faring quite good - The One was great fun...
I like Jet Li as well, but as proof of his (or his agent's) bad career choices, check this out: he turned down the role of Seraph in Matrix Reloaded, a part that was pretty much written for him, to do that stupid film with DMX or whomever. How lame.
You can't be serious. Where did you hear that?
Saw it on the IMdB. I know, I couldn't believe it either.
Trivia from The Matrix Revolutions
Interesting Facts from IMDB.com - The Matrix (1999)
The role of Neo:
Ewan McGregor was offered, but turned down, the part of Neo.
Will Smith was approached to play Neo but turned it down in order make Wild Wild West (1999).
The role of Morpheus:
Val Kilmer was at one time attached to play Morpheus.
The role of Trinity:
Carrie-Anne Moss twisted her ankle while shooting one of her scenes but decided not to tell anyone until after filming, so they wouldn't re-cast her.
The role of Seraph:
The role of "Seraph" was originally written specifically for Jet Li. When Li declined, the role was then changed to a female and offered to Michelle Yeoh, who turned it down due to scheduling conflicts.
Just goes to show you the crazy roulette-like decisions some of these actors make.
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Nah, don't be embarrassed. Aqua is really good with palettes. You probably wouldn't notice any difference at all for awhile... unless you had a desktop with a major gradient or something in it.
One giveaway is the metal theme - you can see a funny stair-stepping effect in Safari and iTunes with Thousands of colours set.
The cross-fading desktops feature has a new bug (on a 12" PB anyway) where the secondary monitor - in my case a Sony 17" CRT - screws up the transition effect.
The PowerBook is running at 1024x768/32bit on its main display, and 1280x1024/32bit on the secondary (NOT mirroring).
During the crossfade the first picture suddenly appears to squish to have the horizontal resolution, pushed to the left, and the palette gets munged (purple). It snaps back to normal after the fade but it ain't pretty.
An odd thing was that it reset my monitor settings back to 16bit colour ('Thousands'), so you may want to watch out for that. Aqua does such a good job of dithering you probably wouldn't even notice at first.
Another odd thing was that my display went a little funky when doing the cross-fading desktop pictures just a second ago. Fixed itself after the transition was complete, no idea what that's about.
If you're superstitious like me don't forget to do the Repair Permissions trick - its the new Rebuild Desktop - although I had no issues there either.
One last thing, be prepared to have your frickin Keychain pestering you for the next week....
That's strange. Either the '17 MB folder' troll is trying a new tactic, or someone else thought there should be a pro-Apple troll to go along with the haters. The plot thins.
I swear it was like watching your dog get hit by a car as he returned from the pound.
Why do I get the feeling that this particular thread will hvae a few mroe snpellig eorers tehn uusal?
iYoko
I've read all about the resveratrol studies, but tell me if you have a similar reaction...
When I read:
they have demonstrated that in yeast, flies, and likely in mice a particular class of polyphenols (resveratrol being the most effective thus far) can be used to stimulate the same system in eukaryotes and extend lifespan some 30%...
resveratrol... blahblahblahblahsciencemubly drink more red wine gogglydoddlyscienceblah
Maybe that's just me.
While I agree with the sentiment often, I don't agree in the case of 'videophones'. It helps for the same reason that the phone is sometimes better than email. Subtle nuance and expression is lost in the translation.
Humans are best equipped to interact with another human face because of millions of years of evolution. Sure, I don't always want to use a videophone for every situation... most of the time I don't even want voice, just email (or time-shifted text message, if you will) is fine.
I use the phone when I want to convey something a little more complex emotionally. Those things get totally lost in email.
I use iChatAV to do videoconferenced meetings essentially when I need telepresence. That is, when I require not only voice but actually seeing the other person's face. This is good for clients or other brainstorming-type meetings where you need to kind of witness another person's thought process and facial ticks. You get a lot more out of what they're trying to say.
Some basic structures, or 'language' of the medium has been worked out now, and has proven to be popular with the masses as an accepted entertainment medium, especially ever since someone noticed that games revenue had outpaced that of the film industry. So naturally there is some rabid capitalism going on insofar as people know a few formulas that work... i.e.
- the first person shooter
- the role-playing game (which is generally not really roleplaying, but whatever)
- the racer
- the fight game
- the simulators (and all derivations thereof)
I want a game like Memento. Or Jacob's Ladder. Or imagine some game that used one of those realtime 3D shaders like grayscale pencil-sketch throughout, in some kind of Poe-inspired adaptation... We will see these kinds of things someday but it'll take 'Directors' (do we still call them that?) to do daring things with the medium and push the boundaries of the game's narratives.
Interactive storytelling is a real bitch to get your head around in any appreciable way. Currently I lean towards really open-ended titles like GTA as leading the way in that sort of gameplay, that tries new mixtures of nonlinear play with prescripted events. Or Molyneux's stuff - damn him for going all Xboxy on me - those guys are really thinking about new kinds of games.
Well you had to spoil it didn't you...
(Actually it was a total brain-fart, I got my wired crossed. Didn't really expect such a stupid post to go up either, but there you go.)
1) Thanks to that sumbitch George "Government do take a bite, don't she?" Bush, I can no longer afford to move (anywhere).
Yeah, I hear he can be a dick.
2) It get's COLD up there. I don't mean just cold, I mean cut-through-the-bone painful cold. At least I won't have to worry about a cooling system on my PC, I guess.
It's pretty cold, its true, but many parts are warmer or the same as the states.. don't forget a good chunk of Southern Ontario is below the 49th parallel (lot of Americans get very confused by the idea of any part of Canada being south of them...)
3) Quebec.
Point taken. Counterpoint: Quebec women.
6) No Tex-Mex food that I know of.
Huh?!? That's not true...
7) High tax rates.
Yup. Gets you stuff though. *ahem*medicalcare*ahem*
8) Quebec. Again. I really don't like Quebec. Nor does the rest of Canada, I suspect. I could be wrong, but every time Quebec wants to secede, I bet the rest of Canada is muttering under their breath: "Go ahead. Please. Do it. For the luvva Bobby Hull, just do it. Now!"
Welll.. its sorta true. Sorta. My solution was to let them secede, then invade immediately. Conquer 'em fair and square like we used to.
On the plus side - 1) Real snow
You will re-evaluate that plus side. Or, move to British Columbia where snow is totally optional.
2) Politeness. Canada may be full of assholes for all I know - but you never hear about them. Maybe they all live in Quebec. That would explain a lot, really.
No comment.
3) Vancouver - never been there, but I hear it rocks.
Vancouver does indeed rock other than the fact that it rains 90% of the time. But yes.
4) Quebec - all the pleasures of France right next door. It's hard to type with a straight face.
Nonono, you've got it wrong - it's 'All the Snobbiness and None of the Culture of France'
5) Hockey
Hey! You guys know about hockey???
6) Newfoundland - when you want solitude, I hear they got it by the bushel.
Well you've got that right - Newfoundland is basically the area surrounding the highway between Quebec and Nova Scotia. :)
Some other bonus points you may be interested in include topless women, pot smoking, and drinking at 18 but I won't bore you with the details.
That's more right than you know. To me, it looks like a super-mutated version of MSN.
And I say this as someone who spent 6 months not too long ago doing freelance design work for that same company... trust me, those aqua-like buttons, all the gradient mayhem, drop shadows on absolutely everything... it's all MSN.
Used to drive me nuts, too. MSN, a web company, chooses nothing short of the entire spectrum of colours in gradient form for all their branding, right down to a logo that incorporates that same spectrum. So much for 'web safe colours'.
(It's like the iMac all over again. The idiots looked at it and thought 'i guess transparent computers are popular now', without pausing to realize how the iMac's transparency was just one facet of the design. You slap a semi-clear enclosure on your old product and it'll just look like the Princess Phone Radio Shack garbage that it really is.
Actually that is an excellent point, as no matter how 'automagic' they want their updater to be, at some point, knowing MS, they will want to flash an updated EULA agreement across your screen so you can actually, you know, agree.
I don't think I'll agree.
Unless they do something sneaky, like 'by clicking the Start button you agree to all EULAs sent by Microsoft'... in tiny type the same colour as your desktop, of course...
Well as a person with dual citizenship, living in Canada, I feel compelled to give two answers to this.
AmericanGuyWhoIAm:
Dude that single cow came from the US, and it was your fuckin' transformer, so take that back before I ventilate your face. Commie.
CanadianGuyWhoIAm:
Uh huh. Hey buddy I hear you, eh? Take a hit off this, you'll feel better. You from Texas?
"Those damn topless legally-married lesbian pot-smoking hippies! Shut 'em down!!!!
(a proud Canuck)
Well I thought the pictures were very well done, but the shot of the woman is indeed hilarious, because the photographer (while talented exposure-wise) doesn't know a feckin' thing about computer desks unfortunately.
Look at the chair they put her in, and look at the height of the monitor. This was clearly done so we could see the screen better but no one in their right mind uses a screen that is 16" higher than their nose.
Please, go into it. Because I can't see WTF you are talking about.
Crucial ergonomics issues with computer workstations: height, position and adjustment of chair; height and position of keyboard/mouse area; appropriate swivel and tilt controls for those surfaces; having the top-edge of the display adjustable to neutral eye-level resting naturally straight ahead.
This desk, while definitely short on 'extra' space, seems to fit the bill on all of these (I mean, it's designed around a stem; thats a cool idea). So I'm curious as to what you mean.
See, I said that about your 42"x30" desk you linked to!
Remember, Mac people like to show off their fancy hardware... they don't need a massive slab of wood to hide the hideousness and noise of their PCs behind. :)
I kid! (sort of.)
Boy, that sure shut them up. :)
Nice one.
You should actually try the control-click thing on a Mac laptop. It sounds totally hokey, but it works strangely well. I find that my left hand tends to 'hover' over there anyways (for cut/copy/paste/close etc) so I actually find control-clicking faster than glancing down to see if my thumb is over the right button.
Just an opinion. BTW, contextual menus are not 'necessary' for executing certain commands in OS X like they are in other operating systems.
And I don't. Not for a second.
I mean, spurious logic like this:
OS X is not ready for the enterprise, period
Oh, period. You said period, so damn, I got nothing on that.
If you really were an Apple service guy then you'd know damn well that Apple does not target large (2000+) corporate installations. You'd know the Xserve is an entry into small business admin servers, you'd know that OS X server is aimed precisely at the small creative type of business that the Mac is strong in. They do not compete with Dell or Hpaq. They don't even try.
I mean, come on! Hpaq competes with Apple? Hellloooo? Totally different beasts.
(BTW, The propensity for posters to say 'I have a Mac at home so its cool if I whinge on uselessly about 'em" is becoming far too common.)
Yeah, you know what else sucks? I have to turn off my car to work on the engine. Its a huge pain in the ass, you gotta get out and walk around....
In seriousness, OS X is sooo much better than OS 9 in this regard. Device drivers don't usually need a reboot, just security updates and really low-level stuff... and these are things you want to reboot for, to take advantage of the improvements!
Besides, if you want to, you can force-quit the installer. Just keep working and shut down when you're done - tomorrow your update will be there.
No, its not true. They were snails with Pentiums on their backs. :)
And, at the time, there was a pretty good case for it. Macs were running on par with PCs in Mhz and sometimes pulled a bit ahead (remember Power Computing? Yeah, real fast. Sucky, sucky boxes quality-wise though).
Also, for the record, the 'supercomputer' label didn't come until the G4, which did briefly qualify as a supercomputer technically, until they realised that PCs and Macs were supercomputers now and re-qualified the definition of 'supercomputer' to mean 1 teraflop instead of 1 gigaflop performance.
I like Jet Li as well, but as proof of his (or his agent's) bad career choices, check this out: he turned down the role of Seraph in Matrix Reloaded, a part that was pretty much written for him, to do that stupid film with DMX or whomever. How lame.
You can't be serious. Where did you hear that?
Saw it on the IMdB. I know, I couldn't believe it either.
Trivia from The Matrix Revolutions
Interesting Facts from IMDB.com - The Matrix (1999)
The role of Neo:
Ewan McGregor was offered, but turned down, the part of Neo.
Will Smith was approached to play Neo but turned it down in order make Wild Wild West (1999).
The role of Morpheus:
Val Kilmer was at one time attached to play Morpheus.
The role of Trinity:
Carrie-Anne Moss twisted her ankle while shooting one of her scenes but decided not to tell anyone until after filming, so they wouldn't re-cast her.
The role of Seraph:
The role of "Seraph" was originally written specifically for Jet Li. When Li declined, the role was then changed to a female and offered to Michelle Yeoh, who turned it down due to scheduling conflicts.
Just goes to show you the crazy roulette-like decisions some of these actors make.