I'm sure Microsoft will save the day. They'll integrate a keystroke logger, packet sniffer, and disk imager into the Longhorn kernel, with an added feature that it sends all data gathered back to a centralized Microsoft database (running on BSD of course) every hour. That way there will always be a pristine, completely unadulterated record of everything everyone did on their computers, in case the courts need to get involved. And politicians who look at kiddie porn can have that part erased from their data for a small (infinitely recurring) fee.
Nvidia won't go out of business anytime soon. Their workstation cards are very good, as are their Nforce motherboards. They're diversified enough to weather this particular storm, and they haven't forsaken all their OEM partners to make their own cards as 3dfx did. People keep trying to make this comparison b/t NV and 3dfx, but it just isn't there folks.
Actually it's a little more complicated. The scene in Reloaded where Neo meets the Architect is definitely not God meets Jesus, it's more God meets Lucifer. The two are bitterly opposed, and Neo exits heaven in a massive conflagration (the fires of hell?). Of course, to the humans, Neo is the Christ figure, but to the machines he is the Antichrist.
The messiah you're not. That should have been modded as funny, considering it's one of the more asinine theories I've heard and doesn't take into account the philosophical underpinning of the trilogy that actually does explain how the machines are able to program humans. Read up on the Materialist philosophies of Hegel, Marx, and Lenin for starters.
What so many people don't seem to understand is that many of the explanations we seek are available in the philosophy of the past ~400 years (since the Enlightment). There's a reason the Oracle, Merovingian, Morpheus and Architect spend so much of their dialogue speaking philosophically. Just b/c you can't be bothered to educate yourself doesn't mean the movies are flawed in that respect, and theories you pull out of your ear with no relation to the philosophical clues in the movie are utterly specious.
How about all of us legimate email users get together and spam the FCC and maybe we can piss them off anough to do something about it.
Probably a good idea as the spammers just might have their own, secret "Do Not Call/Spam" lists that records the numbers and emails of anyone powerful enough to put a stop to their spamming. All Federal politicians, at the least. Maybe that's why it's taken so long for Congress to start doing something about this problem, they just haven't been getting as much spam as the rest of us.
"It teaches me that only governments who have not backed and in some cases installed fascist dictators and military regimes, and also launched repeated unilateral wars against sovereign states get to go around preaching about peace, democracy, and non-aggression."
It must also teach you to completely ignore causality. Name me the "fascist dictators and military regimes" and "unilateral wars" of which you speak, and I will explain to you how the US took these actions during the Cold War to prevent Communist Domination of the world. Remember the "Dictatorship of the Proletariat", the "Commintern", and all that old Communist stuff? Yeah, it was real, and many times the US sided with bad people for no other reason than that they were against Communists and there was no one else strong enough to work with. From the Shah to the Taliban to the South American dictator of the day, the one thing they all have in common is that America used them to check the advance of the Communists. A dirty business, but we should all be glad it was done, given Communism's unmatched bloody record.
Look, a majority of Americans believed Iraq had WMD's, including nuclear weapons.
Perhaps that's b/c Iraq had WMD's, at least before GW1. Instead of getting your news from equally left-biased sources, try it from the horse's mouth instead: UNSCOM:
Before the start of GW1, Iraq was only 6 months from fielding a nuclear weapon. UNSCOM and IAEA inspectors estimated that once UN inspections ceased, Iraq could rebuild their entire nuclear program within 3 - 4 years, and if they were able to obtain fissile material on the black market, they could field a nuke within 1 year.
I even heard on NPR a few months ago (at 3am in the morning, go figure) that Bill Clinton was considering invading Iraq in '99, for the same reasons Bush did - potential WMD proliferation. He sent Albright to Egypt, Jordan, Israel, and Saudi Arabia to garner their support for just such a thing. Unfortunately for him, the Lewinsky scandal erupted just a few weeks later, sapping the political capital necessary for him to proceed.
The only silly word game being played here is that of the left attempting to a destroy Bush for doing what everyone in the know knew had to be done.
while most Windows apps seem to be designed for exclusive, one at a time use.
No, most Windows apps are designed for Alt-Tab use, or at least taskbar task-switching use. You maximize all your app windows, then rapidly toggle through them with Alt-tab (or if you're a noob, with the Taskbar buttons). Both multitasking paradigms are more efficient than Apple's "dig through a pile of haphazardly stacked windows to get to the one I want, repeat as necessary" design. That's why Windows users are so peeved about such a seemingly minor thing as iTunes not maximizing.
Sounded to me that the scientist meant this event is an outlier in the collected data. A single outlier is nothing, and most are lopped off before making models anyway. Is this event really that big a deal?
Considering that everywhere Communism has been instituted it has led to dictatorship, it is arguable whether there is any difference. Marx himself called for "the dictatorship of the proletariat." Socialism is simply one step in the progression toward Communism/Marxism, hence the self-applied term Progressive. Basically, any society that does not expressly protect the rights and property of individual citizens leaves open the door for government control of society, essentially a dictatorship of the elites.
Not being an american, I lack the general "feeling" on the workings of the american economy.
FYI, the general "feeling" re the American economy is that we don't want any more taxes. Furthermore, we especially don't want the government looking at the economy with the mindset that all the money in it belongs to the government, which it doesn't. The EU countries forgot that a long time ago, and here we're struggling keep our own government in check.
The sad thing is, by all accounts you Marines do a better job than the Army anyway. Maybe we should just get rid of the Army and thier gadgets, and keep the Marines and Special Forces. Use all that $$ from Landwarrior to give you guys some much deserved pay raises and better housing and what not...
The article states that the price could get pushed up as high as $100 billion in an auction - for a company that makes $150 million a year??! This is complete.con madness.
Yes, so maybe it will actually force investors to base their bids on an objective standard of value for Google. In fact, I don't see how it couldn't. Average Joe investors will want to bid, but investment banks and mutual funds will be able to out-bid them. But how high are the financial institutions willing to push the price, since they know that in this case their newly purchased shares won't be so easy to "flip" if they've pushed the price too high? The IPO value of Google shares may not go as high as everyone expects in a public auction, as there seems to be more incentive for the buyers to bid rationally.
... which could be very beneficial for a family computer:
Cleverkeys http://www.cleverkeys.com/
Very cool program that runs in the background in the system tray. When you come across a word on the Net that you don't know, highlight it and hit Ctrl-L, and it will popup a browser window that looks the word up at Dictionary.com.
Additionally, if the real world is simply another Matrix within a Matrix, then why can't Neo sense it? It was made very clear in The Matrix, and additionally in one of the Animatrixes that people like Neo (and Morpheus, and that annoying kid Popper) can naturally sense the unreality of the Matrix, even though they don't understand it until they are physically removed. Popper asks in the Animatrix, "Why does it feel more real when I dream than when I am awake?" Clearly, if Neo cannot sense that he is in a matrix-within-a-matrix, then he isn't.
You may go on to argue that perhaps the machines have made the matrix-within-the-matrix in such a way that Neo can't sense it. But if that is the case, then why didn't they simply make the original Matrix this way and avoid the entire The One problem in the first place? That would have been soooo much easier and would have negated the entire reason for the movies in the first place. They didn't b/c they couldn't, and the real world is actually the real world. There is no Matrix-within-a-Matrix.
The explanation for Neo's real-world powers lies in something the Architect said: "...although the process has altered your consciousness you remain irrevocably human..." Eg, Neo is physically human but his experience as The One has somehow altered his real-world consciousness, giving him a connection with, or power over, the machines in the real world. How this plays out in Revolutions will be interesting for sure.
You sure hit the nail on the head with your prescient analysis of my flippant remark, Coward. Glad you didn't miss the forest for the trees. Luckily for us all, there are sharp folks like you out on the internet, spending your valuable time policing us intellectual wannabes.
What makes a virus a nanovirus? Is it just the speaker's desire to sound cool by throwing around meaningless pseudo-technical terms?
Sounds like something out of the mouths of the wannabes at Wired.
The actual movie was pretty much T2 Redux with a badder evil terminator and same old Arnold, and I'm getting reeeaaally annoyed that just any old liquid-metal-covered machine can zip through the supposedly organic-material-only time machine as easily as a human can. But I did find a few things interesting in T3:
****SPOILERS****
One is that Skynet is not the product of any one human or unique technology (eg, the computer engineer Miles Dyson, or the chip from the first terminator which was destroyed in T2, or even Kate Brewster's father in T3), but rather it is the result of the evolution of AI. Skynet is the product of unavoidable historical forces set in motion long ago by the Industrial Revolution, or perhaps even longer ago when man first learned how to make and use tools. Admittedly this is an old and recurring theme in many sci-fi movies, from 2001: A Space Odessy to Matrix/Reloaded, yet I am always interested in seeing different takes on it.
Further, it is interesting that Skynet is not hardware, it is self-aware software that uses the entire Internet as its corporal host, so to speak. I doubt the script writer was the first to come up with that idea, I'm sure its been floating around AI circles for some time now, but it was nevertheless a new concept for me to ponder. Talk about distributed computing... Are we all doomed to domination by a massive network of PS3's running Linux and infected by a self-aware nanovirus?
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I'm sure Microsoft will save the day. They'll integrate a keystroke logger, packet sniffer, and disk imager into the Longhorn kernel, with an added feature that it sends all data gathered back to a centralized Microsoft database (running on BSD of course) every hour. That way there will always be a pristine, completely unadulterated record of everything everyone did on their computers, in case the courts need to get involved. And politicians who look at kiddie porn can have that part erased from their data for a small (infinitely recurring) fee.
Well said. Second that.
Nvidia won't go out of business anytime soon. Their workstation cards are very good, as are their Nforce motherboards. They're diversified enough to weather this particular storm, and they haven't forsaken all their OEM partners to make their own cards as 3dfx did. People keep trying to make this comparison b/t NV and 3dfx, but it just isn't there folks.
Actually it's a little more complicated. The scene in Reloaded where Neo meets the Architect is definitely not God meets Jesus, it's more God meets Lucifer. The two are bitterly opposed, and Neo exits heaven in a massive conflagration (the fires of hell?). Of course, to the humans, Neo is the Christ figure, but to the machines he is the Antichrist.
Hollywood, I am your messiah and I'm unemployed :)
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The messiah you're not. That should have been modded as funny, considering it's one of the more asinine theories I've heard and doesn't take into account the philosophical underpinning of the trilogy that actually does explain how the machines are able to program humans. Read up on the Materialist philosophies of Hegel, Marx, and Lenin for starters.
http://www.marxists.org/glossary/terms/m/a.htm#ma
What so many people don't seem to understand is that many of the explanations we seek are available in the philosophy of the past ~400 years (since the Enlightment). There's a reason the Oracle, Merovingian, Morpheus and Architect spend so much of their dialogue speaking philosophically. Just b/c you can't be bothered to educate yourself doesn't mean the movies are flawed in that respect, and theories you pull out of your ear with no relation to the philosophical clues in the movie are utterly specious.
How about all of us legimate email users get together and spam the FCC and maybe we can piss them off anough to do something about it.
Probably a good idea as the spammers just might have their own, secret "Do Not Call/Spam" lists that records the numbers and emails of anyone powerful enough to put a stop to their spamming. All Federal politicians, at the least. Maybe that's why it's taken so long for Congress to start doing something about this problem, they just haven't been getting as much spam as the rest of us.
"It teaches me that only governments who have not backed and in some cases installed fascist dictators and military regimes, and also launched repeated unilateral wars against sovereign states get to go around preaching about peace, democracy, and non-aggression."
It must also teach you to completely ignore causality. Name me the "fascist dictators and military regimes" and "unilateral wars" of which you speak, and I will explain to you how the US took these actions during the Cold War to prevent Communist Domination of the world. Remember the "Dictatorship of the Proletariat", the "Commintern", and all that old Communist stuff? Yeah, it was real, and many times the US sided with bad people for no other reason than that they were against Communists and there was no one else strong enough to work with. From the Shah to the Taliban to the South American dictator of the day, the one thing they all have in common is that America used them to check the advance of the Communists. A dirty business, but we should all be glad it was done, given Communism's unmatched bloody record.
"Matrix finale could put you back in a coma,"
Uhm... does that mean they think it's good or bad?
The similarities between VMS and Windows are quite astonishing.
Isn't that b/c Dave Cutler designed both VMS and NT?
Look, a majority of Americans believed Iraq had WMD's, including nuclear weapons.
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Perhaps that's b/c Iraq had WMD's, at least before GW1. Instead of getting your news from equally left-biased sources, try it from the horse's mouth instead: UNSCOM:
http://www.thebulletin.org/issues/1998/mj98/mj98a
Before the start of GW1, Iraq was only 6 months from fielding a nuclear weapon. UNSCOM and IAEA inspectors estimated that once UN inspections ceased, Iraq could rebuild their entire nuclear program within 3 - 4 years, and if they were able to obtain fissile material on the black market, they could field a nuke within 1 year.
I even heard on NPR a few months ago (at 3am in the morning, go figure) that Bill Clinton was considering invading Iraq in '99, for the same reasons Bush did - potential WMD proliferation. He sent Albright to Egypt, Jordan, Israel, and Saudi Arabia to garner their support for just such a thing. Unfortunately for him, the Lewinsky scandal erupted just a few weeks later, sapping the political capital necessary for him to proceed.
The only silly word game being played here is that of the left attempting to a destroy Bush for doing what everyone in the know knew had to be done.
while most Windows apps seem to be designed for exclusive, one at a time use.
No, most Windows apps are designed for Alt-Tab use, or at least taskbar task-switching use. You maximize all your app windows, then rapidly toggle through them with Alt-tab (or if you're a noob, with the Taskbar buttons). Both multitasking paradigms are more efficient than Apple's "dig through a pile of haphazardly stacked windows to get to the one I want, repeat as necessary" design. That's why Windows users are so peeved about such a seemingly minor thing as iTunes not maximizing.
lmao. Hope you don't mind if I save that and borrow it from time to time to fend off the occasional rabid political poster...
Sounded to me that the scientist meant this event is an outlier in the collected data. A single outlier is nothing, and most are lopped off before making models anyway. Is this event really that big a deal?
Considering that everywhere Communism has been instituted it has led to dictatorship, it is arguable whether there is any difference. Marx himself called for "the dictatorship of the proletariat." Socialism is simply one step in the progression toward Communism/Marxism, hence the self-applied term Progressive. Basically, any society that does not expressly protect the rights and property of individual citizens leaves open the door for government control of society, essentially a dictatorship of the elites.
albeit perhaps in a different form. People will listen to it for live news and talk shows, if not for music anymore. RIAA on the other hand...
Not being an american, I lack the general "feeling" on the workings of the american economy.
FYI, the general "feeling" re the American economy is that we don't want any more taxes. Furthermore, we especially don't want the government looking at the economy with the mindset that all the money in it belongs to the government, which it doesn't. The EU countries forgot that a long time ago, and here we're struggling keep our own government in check.
The sad thing is, by all accounts you Marines do a better job than the Army anyway. Maybe we should just get rid of the Army and thier gadgets, and keep the Marines and Special Forces. Use all that $$ from Landwarrior to give you guys some much deserved pay raises and better housing and what not...
The article states that the price could get pushed up as high as $100 billion in an auction - for a company that makes $150 million a year??! This is complete .con madness.
Yes, so maybe it will actually force investors to base their bids on an objective standard of value for Google. In fact, I don't see how it couldn't. Average Joe investors will want to bid, but investment banks and mutual funds will be able to out-bid them. But how high are the financial institutions willing to push the price, since they know that in this case their newly purchased shares won't be so easy to "flip" if they've pushed the price too high? The IPO value of Google shares may not go as high as everyone expects in a public auction, as there seems to be more incentive for the buyers to bid rationally.
... which could be very beneficial for a family computer: Cleverkeys http://www.cleverkeys.com/ Very cool program that runs in the background in the system tray. When you come across a word on the Net that you don't know, highlight it and hit Ctrl-L, and it will popup a browser window that looks the word up at Dictionary.com.
Second that. Best tabbed browsing, best interface, best features, and faster than IE.
I do a lot of things no one else does too, like not use IE.
That guy's name is "Bane", FYI.
Additionally, if the real world is simply another Matrix within a Matrix, then why can't Neo sense it? It was made very clear in The Matrix, and additionally in one of the Animatrixes that people like Neo (and Morpheus, and that annoying kid Popper) can naturally sense the unreality of the Matrix, even though they don't understand it until they are physically removed. Popper asks in the Animatrix, "Why does it feel more real when I dream than when I am awake?" Clearly, if Neo cannot sense that he is in a matrix-within-a-matrix, then he isn't.
You may go on to argue that perhaps the machines have made the matrix-within-the-matrix in such a way that Neo can't sense it. But if that is the case, then why didn't they simply make the original Matrix this way and avoid the entire The One problem in the first place? That would have been soooo much easier and would have negated the entire reason for the movies in the first place. They didn't b/c they couldn't, and the real world is actually the real world. There is no Matrix-within-a-Matrix.
The explanation for Neo's real-world powers lies in something the Architect said: "...although the process has altered your consciousness you remain irrevocably human..." Eg, Neo is physically human but his experience as The One has somehow altered his real-world consciousness, giving him a connection with, or power over, the machines in the real world. How this plays out in Revolutions will be interesting for sure.
But he wasn't even a candidate!
You sure hit the nail on the head with your prescient analysis of my flippant remark, Coward. Glad you didn't miss the forest for the trees. Luckily for us all, there are sharp folks like you out on the internet, spending your valuable time policing us intellectual wannabes.
What makes a virus a nanovirus? Is it just the speaker's desire to sound cool by throwing around meaningless pseudo-technical terms?
Sounds like something out of the mouths of the wannabes at Wired.
The actual movie was pretty much T2 Redux with a badder evil terminator and same old Arnold, and I'm getting reeeaaally annoyed that just any old liquid-metal-covered machine can zip through the supposedly organic-material-only time machine as easily as a human can. But I did find a few things interesting in T3:
****SPOILERS****
One is that Skynet is not the product of any one human or unique technology (eg, the computer engineer Miles Dyson, or the chip from the first terminator which was destroyed in T2, or even Kate Brewster's father in T3), but rather it is the result of the evolution of AI. Skynet is the product of unavoidable historical forces set in motion long ago by the Industrial Revolution, or perhaps even longer ago when man first learned how to make and use tools. Admittedly this is an old and recurring theme in many sci-fi movies, from 2001: A Space Odessy to Matrix/Reloaded, yet I am always interested in seeing different takes on it.
Further, it is interesting that Skynet is not hardware, it is self-aware software that uses the entire Internet as its corporal host, so to speak. I doubt the script writer was the first to come up with that idea, I'm sure its been floating around AI circles for some time now, but it was nevertheless a new concept for me to ponder. Talk about distributed computing... Are we all doomed to domination by a massive network of PS3's running Linux and infected by a self-aware nanovirus?