you forgot step 4, Repeat. Like with the movie Battlefeild Earth, where they were told that they needed to go see it three times, you'll have $cientoligists buying one of these books every week or so and shipping them back to be sold again.
This guy will say video games are not covered by free speech, but he would defend someone's right to post pictures of crap in a toilet. I've never actually understood how some people decide what is speech or art, and what isn't. Exactly where do you draw the line? I've seen some romance novels(which anybody can buy) that were worse than some of the letters to Penthouse(which you have to be 18 or even 21 depending on where you live). If you ask me, the visuals in any of the newer games completely out does some guys ability to take a paint enema and spray it on canvas. While I don't think that it is a good thing for little kids to get their hands on explicit material, I think that the way that they are deciding what is good and what is bad needs to be looked at a bit more closely.
Um, ok, you realize that all we're doing is conjecture.
I know it's all conjecture, I just happen to enjoy these kinds of talks about movies. But that doesn't mean that I'm wrong in saying that the Matrix AI isn't all that intelligent. It just shows that it falls into the same trap that all villians do. The only difference between the AI and Dr. Evil from Austin Powers, is the fact that the AI doesn't have a sense of humor.
Um, what other ship captains?
I believe that the lovely Mrs. Smith plays a captian in the next movie.
You're imagining AI to be this godlike presence
no, I am saying that the AI, should do what any good network admin does and monitor the users. It(and by "it" I mean whatever runs the matrix)should do things like detect unwanted logons, and disconnect them. It should register when people are accessing forbidden software (bendspoon.exe for instance) and log the users off when they access it.
What Oracle?
Exactly why it should monitor the Matrix
Would you fumigate your whole house if you found some ants?
If I these ants were as sophisticated as humans were, if I found out about the ants weird religion that talked about "The One" who would free all the ants that I had hooked up to my computer, where there was a very real possibility that they would succeed, and the fact that they were as difficult to kill as these guys were goes to show that possibility exists.
Oh brilliant. So, while the entire machine race depends on humans for energy, You make sure to screw up the Matrix as much as possible by adding bizarre elements to it. This causes disbelief, then chaos, then "Entire crops were lost."
Sure, grandma turning into a knife weilding man in a suit is more believable than some one dieing from a spider bite. When little billy looks up to see his mom turn into a man, pull a gun and shoot it into a crowd of people, he isn't going to go into shock. But if he sees someone die from what looks like a heart attack, he'll of course realize that his life is a lie and wake up in a tub of green goo with tubes stuck up his backside.
That would be a very short movie with no kung-fu whatsoever.
I would love to see a movie about those squid robots and their daily habits. Besides, since they have tentacles, I'm sure that they could perform much cooler martial arts than any human. I think they actually used them in blade II for the some of the fight scenes. Plus I'm sure that a squid robot would be a much better actor than Keanu.
I never mentioned the plot, I actually thought that the base story was a good one. I liked the version shown in Dark City a whole lot better though.
However I did mention that the AI was a moron, sure he knew that he needed to get someone who knew the codes into Zion. Of course Morpheus(please note the correct spelling, so next time you try to show someone how dumb they are, you don't come off looking stupid yourself) is the only person that has these codes. He alone knows the location of the city. They couldn't capture any of the other ships captians, or any of the other people that have been freed from the matrix that would have that information. The only person that can give them the information is only the second biggest bad ass alive.
My next question for the inteligence of the AI is this. Why doesn't it monitor every person in the Matrix? If it is so much smarter than me, why didn't it know to kill the Oracle? Sure it wouldn't have stopped destiny, but it couldn't hurt could it? I mean, here is a woman that is teaching kids how to bend spoons and break the laws coded into the Matrix. If I were in control, she would have been the first to go.
Third, in order to enter and exit the matrix, the guys use hardlines, weather they mean an actual physical cable that they plug into the main system, or they use it as a reference to locations withen the matrix, you would think that these holes would have been covered up, or at least guarded more heavily.
Which brings up my next point, why only three agents. If I had people breaking into my system as much as they did, I'd have a heck of a lot more agents. And they wouldn't be insane ones like Smith was, these would be cold emotionless killing machines. Also, they would not have their own face and recognizable features, that way, the victims would have no clue who was going to kill them, until after they were dead. In fact, why even have the killers take human shape? Why not have a swarm of bees live in the city, or even agent bacteria?
Or why even have the matrix? since it has no biological needs in and of itself. Nuclear reactors would supply all the power it could need. And the waste products could be strewn about to kill off the last of the pesky humans. Since no one lives on the surface, the whole planet could be covered with windmills, there may be no sun, but there is still wind. With no need for breathable air, it could burn just about anything to produce the heat needed to work most turbines. So really, if it is so smart, why does it need the huge complex nesscessary to store all of the people in the matrix. Why would it waste the time and effort to grow people in little pods and set up a virtual place to keep them entertained?
Tell me now, what makes the Matrix AI so smart?
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What I want to know is why, if the matrix can change its self to seal all of the windows to keep everybody inside of a building while the cops storm it, didn't it just sheath the whole building in titanuim, then fill it with acid. Not only is the Matrix full of more security holes than an unpatched Exchange server, but it also has the dumbest AI in existance. I mean, the villians on my old NES games were tougher and harder to beat.
The problem with your take on the sequals is that the matrix powers the robots, or at least the computer that controls the robots. Destroy the matrix, the people either wake up and leave or die, either way, no more evil machines.
Of course the entire movie was BS, do you think that they were actually making a serious movie. Think about this for a minute, they made a cyber Jason that was worse looking than the Super Shredder(TMNT 2 anyone?), the best lines of the movie were "We love premarital sex" and "He only wanted his machette back", and the coolest death consisted of Jason beating one camper in a sleeping bag with another camper in her sleeping bag. The whole movie was a joke, which you appearently didn't get. Spider-man; however should have ended about an hour earlier than it did. Halfway throught the movie I had to stop making jokes about it because the only thing I could think about was how much I had to pee, and that if I got up to go, whether or not it would be worth it to come back.
Actually, I would say that Jason X was a much better movie than Spider-man. Why do I say this, well for one thing, I never much liked spider-man, I liked Ghost Rider, Punisher, and Venom(but I never read the comics where he fought Spider-Man). I also feel that the Punisher movie from way back when was much better than Spider-Man. Why, you may ask, well, for one thing, they didn't feel the need to CG everything the Punisher did. I was increadibly disgusted by the amount of CG in spider-man, I mean was it really nesscessary to CG him when he is just hanging motionless under a ledge. Was it really nesscessary to CG him pulling on his mask before he walked off camera. The whole movie had the effect of looking into the lifeless eye's of one of the Final Fantasy movie's characters.
The Bible has always been vague, not just now, but always, it has not changed much(other than different translations) over the past several thousand years, unlike science, which changes it's mind about every few years.
Find me one place where science doesn't change it's opinion ever decade or so and I'll be a rather astonished individual.
I have to agree completely, especially after watching blade 2. The animated fight scenes were horrible, and, having seen trailers and previews for Spiderman, I am not liking the CG look of the web slinger, especially since they could have done it so much better with camera tricks.
as heard over the police band radio
"Attention all units, I'm in hot pursuit of a red station wagon... make that a blue... no green... ok now it's plaid... well at least it's a station wagon."
The only other improvement I would want, is an LCD liscense plate...
I saw one that said "By breaking this seal, your are accepting the liscense inclosed in this package" So you had to cut the sticker and accept the agreement that you couldn't read, because it was inside the package.
I kept the seal intact and cut the side of the box, I wonder if that keeps me safe?
The problem is though, is that when I play Quake, my eyes are moving all over the screen, looking at everything that is moving around me. And if my character changed his orientation everytime I tried to look at what my team mate was doing while running along a platform or shooting down a hall way, I'd probably die a lot more.
However I must agree that it would be wonderfull for locking on to targets in apache. As a secondary system for pointing it would work wonders.
It could work for the lazy person's web surfing made lazier, but I don't see many practical uses for it.
I mean, say for instance, you are playing Quake, normally you use the mouse for turning and looking up and down. Well with the eye tracking, if you see something at the edge of the screen, then look at it, it would be read as moving the curser quickly to that side, which would turn you rather fast until you stopped looking at that part of the screen. Or even if say, a dog barked to your left, you would turn to look at the dog, which would be read as moving the curser...
Nor do I see it as being practical for people that do lots of programming, or even any typing in general. Say you want to put the curser in a specific spot. The sensors would have to be very good to get the curser into the proper location rather than five letters to the left or right.
If all you need to do is hold your focus on the third tentacle to the left in order to see Sailor Jupitor take it all off, well, this would be ideal(I mean, how hard is it to focus in on pr0n?) and it would free up both hands...
Now the problem is if I uninstall it without your knowledge.
That is true. As long as they say that they are doing the uninstall, and allows you to cancel cancel(whether or not it allows you to go through with the install process)is where the problem lies.
What I would like to know is that of the 750,000 people that downloaded the software, howmany actually installed it, and how many, like you, canceled when it started to remove adaware.
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it's called "bait and switch", and it's no different that a gas station with sign's that say $.59/gal, and then tell you it's $1.59 when you're done. They can't force you to pay the higher price, and they have to change the advertised price when notified of the mistake.
ok, given not all novels use color, but I could do with something other than that horrid green color.
And if you happen to be reading maps or some other reference book, color would be rather handy.
It's not like we won't notice the Russians building a large missile with a gravel warhead. It's not like they can use a catapuly, can they? Also, a properly working interceptor system, should be able to take out the gravel missile before it has a chance to do it's damage.
no, it's mostly about a touching story about a bot and his dogs. The story doesn't pick up until chapter 3, it's when he switches to creamy instead of chunky peanut butter...
What this actually comes down to is that you are PAYING them and getting service you don't like. The answer is simple, tell them that you don't want ads, if the keep the ads, then stop PAYING them and get your news somewhere else.
Had he wrote a story about an author that published his story via the web entirely, or started some kind of open ended story project on his website. Then I could see this as being tech news or possible an "open sourced" story. However this comes across as "I bought a banner ad, buy my book", so no, you didn't really miss anything. Perhaps it's time to stop reading posts by mr Katz...
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So that when Xenu returns to Teegeeack, he'll be far from those pesky H-bombs...
you forgot step 4, Repeat. Like with the movie Battlefeild Earth, where they were told that they needed to go see it three times, you'll have $cientoligists buying one of these books every week or so and shipping them back to be sold again.
This guy will say video games are not covered by free speech, but he would defend someone's right to post pictures of crap in a toilet.
I've never actually understood how some people decide what is speech or art, and what isn't. Exactly where do you draw the line? I've seen some romance novels(which anybody can buy) that were worse than some of the letters to Penthouse(which you have to be 18 or even 21 depending on where you live). If you ask me, the visuals in any of the newer games completely out does some guys ability to take a paint enema and spray it on canvas.
While I don't think that it is a good thing for little kids to get their hands on explicit material, I think that the way that they are deciding what is good and what is bad needs to be looked at a bit more closely.
I know it's all conjecture, I just happen to enjoy these kinds of talks about movies. But that doesn't mean that I'm wrong in saying that the Matrix AI isn't all that intelligent. It just shows that it falls into the same trap that all villians do. The only difference between the AI and Dr. Evil from Austin Powers, is the fact that the AI doesn't have a sense of humor.
Um, what other ship captains?
I believe that the lovely Mrs. Smith plays a captian in the next movie.
You're imagining AI to be this godlike presence
no, I am saying that the AI, should do what any good network admin does and monitor the users. It(and by "it" I mean whatever runs the matrix)should do things like detect unwanted logons, and disconnect them. It should register when people are accessing forbidden software (bendspoon.exe for instance) and log the users off when they access it.
What Oracle?
Exactly why it should monitor the Matrix
Would you fumigate your whole house if you found some ants?
If I these ants were as sophisticated as humans were, if I found out about the ants weird religion that talked about "The One" who would free all the ants that I had hooked up to my computer, where there was a very real possibility that they would succeed, and the fact that they were as difficult to kill as these guys were goes to show that possibility exists.
Oh brilliant. So, while the entire machine race depends on humans for energy, You make sure to screw up the Matrix as much as possible by adding bizarre elements to it. This causes disbelief, then chaos, then "Entire crops were lost."
Sure, grandma turning into a knife weilding man in a suit is more believable than some one dieing from a spider bite. When little billy looks up to see his mom turn into a man, pull a gun and shoot it into a crowd of people, he isn't going to go into shock. But if he sees someone die from what looks like a heart attack, he'll of course realize that his life is a lie and wake up in a tub of green goo with tubes stuck up his backside.
That would be a very short movie with no kung-fu whatsoever.
I would love to see a movie about those squid robots and their daily habits. Besides, since they have tentacles, I'm sure that they could perform much cooler martial arts than any human. I think they actually used them in blade II for the some of the fight scenes. Plus I'm sure that a squid robot would be a much better actor than Keanu.
However I did mention that the AI was a moron, sure he knew that he needed to get someone who knew the codes into Zion. Of course Morpheus(please note the correct spelling, so next time you try to show someone how dumb they are, you don't come off looking stupid yourself) is the only person that has these codes. He alone knows the location of the city. They couldn't capture any of the other ships captians, or any of the other people that have been freed from the matrix that would have that information. The only person that can give them the information is only the second biggest bad ass alive.
My next question for the inteligence of the AI is this. Why doesn't it monitor every person in the Matrix? If it is so much smarter than me, why didn't it know to kill the Oracle? Sure it wouldn't have stopped destiny, but it couldn't hurt could it? I mean, here is a woman that is teaching kids how to bend spoons and break the laws coded into the Matrix. If I were in control, she would have been the first to go.
Third, in order to enter and exit the matrix, the guys use hardlines, weather they mean an actual physical cable that they plug into the main system, or they use it as a reference to locations withen the matrix, you would think that these holes would have been covered up, or at least guarded more heavily.
Which brings up my next point, why only three agents. If I had people breaking into my system as much as they did, I'd have a heck of a lot more agents. And they wouldn't be insane ones like Smith was, these would be cold emotionless killing machines. Also, they would not have their own face and recognizable features, that way, the victims would have no clue who was going to kill them, until after they were dead. In fact, why even have the killers take human shape? Why not have a swarm of bees live in the city, or even agent bacteria?
Or why even have the matrix? since it has no biological needs in and of itself. Nuclear reactors would supply all the power it could need. And the waste products could be strewn about to kill off the last of the pesky humans. Since no one lives on the surface, the whole planet could be covered with windmills, there may be no sun, but there is still wind. With no need for breathable air, it could burn just about anything to produce the heat needed to work most turbines. So really, if it is so smart, why does it need the huge complex nesscessary to store all of the people in the matrix. Why would it waste the time and effort to grow people in little pods and set up a virtual place to keep them entertained?
Tell me now, what makes the Matrix AI so smart?
What I want to know is why, if the matrix can change its self to seal all of the windows to keep everybody inside of a building while the cops storm it, didn't it just sheath the whole building in titanuim, then fill it with acid. Not only is the Matrix full of more security holes than an unpatched Exchange server, but it also has the dumbest AI in existance. I mean, the villians on my old NES games were tougher and harder to beat.
The problem with your take on the sequals is that the matrix powers the robots, or at least the computer that controls the robots. Destroy the matrix, the people either wake up and leave or die, either way, no more evil machines.
Of course the entire movie was BS, do you think that they were actually making a serious movie. Think about this for a minute, they made a cyber Jason that was worse looking than the Super Shredder(TMNT 2 anyone?), the best lines of the movie were "We love premarital sex" and "He only wanted his machette back", and the coolest death consisted of Jason beating one camper in a sleeping bag with another camper in her sleeping bag. The whole movie was a joke, which you appearently didn't get. Spider-man; however should have ended about an hour earlier than it did. Halfway throught the movie I had to stop making jokes about it because the only thing I could think about was how much I had to pee, and that if I got up to go, whether or not it would be worth it to come back.
Actually, I would say that Jason X was a much better movie than Spider-man. Why do I say this, well for one thing, I never much liked spider-man, I liked Ghost Rider, Punisher, and Venom(but I never read the comics where he fought Spider-Man). I also feel that the Punisher movie from way back when was much better than Spider-Man. Why, you may ask, well, for one thing, they didn't feel the need to CG everything the Punisher did. I was increadibly disgusted by the amount of CG in spider-man, I mean was it really nesscessary to CG him when he is just hanging motionless under a ledge. Was it really nesscessary to CG him pulling on his mask before he walked off camera. The whole movie had the effect of looking into the lifeless eye's of one of the Final Fantasy movie's characters.
I agree, I saw more ads for The Scorpion King than I did for Spider-Man. The only "hype" I ever saw was when they took out the twin towers.
Find me one place where science doesn't change it's opinion ever decade or so and I'll be a rather astonished individual.
I have to agree completely, especially after watching blade 2. The animated fight scenes were horrible, and, having seen trailers and previews for Spiderman, I am not liking the CG look of the web slinger, especially since they could have done it so much better with camera tricks.
The only other improvement I would want, is an LCD liscense plate...
I kept the seal intact and cut the side of the box, I wonder if that keeps me safe?
However I must agree that it would be wonderfull for locking on to targets in apache. As a secondary system for pointing it would work wonders.
I mean, say for instance, you are playing Quake, normally you use the mouse for turning and looking up and down. Well with the eye tracking, if you see something at the edge of the screen, then look at it, it would be read as moving the curser quickly to that side, which would turn you rather fast until you stopped looking at that part of the screen. Or even if say, a dog barked to your left, you would turn to look at the dog, which would be read as moving the curser...
Nor do I see it as being practical for people that do lots of programming, or even any typing in general. Say you want to put the curser in a specific spot. The sensors would have to be very good to get the curser into the proper location rather than five letters to the left or right.
If all you need to do is hold your focus on the third tentacle to the left in order to see Sailor Jupitor take it all off, well, this would be ideal(I mean, how hard is it to focus in on pr0n?) and it would free up both hands...
That is true. As long as they say that they are doing the uninstall, and allows you to cancel cancel(whether or not it allows you to go through with the install process)is where the problem lies.
What I would like to know is that of the 750,000 people that downloaded the software, howmany actually installed it, and how many, like you, canceled when it started to remove adaware.
it's called "bait and switch", and it's no different that a gas station with sign's that say $.59/gal, and then tell you it's $1.59 when you're done. They can't force you to pay the higher price, and they have to change the advertised price when notified of the mistake.
ok, given not all novels use color, but I could do with something other than that horrid green color. And if you happen to be reading maps or some other reference book, color would be rather handy.
Tell me about it. I support NT servers with Win 95 workstations. It gets to be a nightmare.
It's not like we won't notice the Russians building a large missile with a gravel warhead. It's not like they can use a catapuly, can they?
Also, a properly working interceptor system, should be able to take out the gravel missile before it has a chance to do it's damage.
And let's not forget that the chance for re-entry would also rise, which would remove the debris from LEO altogether.
no, it's mostly about a touching story about a bot and his dogs. The story doesn't pick up until chapter 3, it's when he switches to creamy instead of chunky peanut butter...
What this actually comes down to is that you are PAYING them and getting service you don't like. The answer is simple, tell them that you don't want ads, if the keep the ads, then stop PAYING them and get your news somewhere else.
Had he wrote a story about an author that published his story via the web entirely, or started some kind of open ended story project on his website. Then I could see this as being tech news or possible an "open sourced" story. However this comes across as "I bought a banner ad, buy my book", so no, you didn't really miss anything.
Perhaps it's time to stop reading posts by mr Katz...