So far I am able to run 64 bit framebuffers through the flex capacitor and find myself scoring 130,000 3dmarks.
That's "flux" capacitor, not "flex" capacitor. Everybody knows that. Now the truth comes out and we see you for the fraud you are. By the way, if anybody would like to buy my new 256bit 500,000 3dmark VPU, I'm selling them for only $500 per. I built it in my garage in Finland and have named it the Glaze3D. You can find it on Ebay.
Over here in America we say "bullocks" as a side swipe at The Worst Actress In the World Who Thinks She's God's Gift To Hollywood, Sandra Bullock. Combining her last name with the etymologically similar British expletive to form "Bullocks" effectively doubles the nastiness of the curse. FYI.
Star Wars peaked during the first trilogy, and went downhill with the next one. The Matrix peaked with the first movie, and went far downhill on the next one.
No, when Star Wars first came out it peaked after the first movie and went downhill on the second one. Further, Lucas has admitted the Ewoks were a mistake that almost ruined the third. It's too early to judge whether the Matrix will follow suit or not.
The Matrix was never intended to be original. Add to your reading list Simulacra and Simulation by Jean Baudrillard. That postmodernist philosophy heavily influenced the Wachowskis.
What the Matrix did for philosophy is not so much get people into it as to demonstrate it. The truth is, most people do not have the time to devote to a thorough understanding of the subject, and if they get into it, it will be temporary and on a "ohhh are we really dreaming...!" level. But the Matrix series has taken philosophy and demonstrated some of its classic quandraries in a compelling, believable (to a modern audience of the Information Age) scenario. Whether it gets people into philosophy or not, it should still be lauded for its creative approach to demonstrating philosophical ideas.
but an EMP was primarily denoted - which would have the effect of shutting down all of Zion's systems and causing some structural damage (electrical fires, mostly) - at which point the Sentinels came through and massacred the people since there were no defense mechanisms.
No, the premature EMP did not damage Zion, it only disabled the hovercrafts that were gathering to counterattack the drilling Sentinels. That's why sentinels slaughtered the humans and destroyed the hovercrafts - they were defenseless. The traitor, the human with Agent Smith downloaded inside him, was on board one of those ships, not back in Zion. He was the first mate of one of those ships, as can be seen when he questions his captain's orders at the council meeting in which two volunteers are requested to find the Nebachudnezzar.
The traitor prematurely discharged the EMP while the hovercrafts were in too close vicinity to each other, disabling all the hovercrafts. However, the hovercrafts were well away from Zion, so far away that machines still had several tens of hours to drill to reach Zion after destroying the hovercrafts. The battle for Zion has yet to occur.
That Caddy STS sure had a shitload of body-roll on the freeway chase scene. I was considering buying one till I saw that scene, now I'm very skeptical. I'll probably just stick with my tried and true Beemer.
Talk about a backfire...
Yes Zion was destroyed in the previous six iterations the Architect explained to Neo. No Zion has not yet been destroyed in this iteration. The sentinels are still digging, but they haven't reached Zion yet. Neo has chosen a path previously unchosen by all other "The One's", and Revolutions will be about whether that choice will ultimately save Zion and humanity, or whether that "choice" was only another layer of the illusion.
Three, Neo was able to destroy those sentinels by THOUGHT outside the Matrix.
It occurred to me then as well that there might be several layers of the Matrix, and Zion was only a separate layer.
However, what also occurred to me at that scene was Lawnmower Man. In that movie, Job's mind is trained by computers to such an extent that his virtual powers become real powers. Might not this same thing be happening to Neo now? In Revolutions, might we see Neo master his real powers as he has his virtual ones, and bring the war to the machines in the real world? Of course, that "real world" could still be simply another layer of the Matrix, nothing more than a very elaborate hoax of the machines.
You would be equally correct in assuming that the notion of a virtual reality world created and maintained by a computer-based intelligence reflects actual work done by artificial intelligence researchers. Which is to say, you wouldn't be correct at all.
No, he is perfectly correct. All of the Matrix philosophy is a rehashed mishmash of various Eastern and Western philosophies and religions. The primary theme of the series is derived from Jean Baudrillard's postmodernist work, Simulacra and Simulation, in which Baudrillard postulates that everything in modern life is simply a copy of something that came before, which in turn is a copy of something that came before, ad infinitum. Nothing is original, everything is simply a modified version of a predecessor, and there is truly nothing new under the sun.
This can be observed in just about every aspect of the movies, especially in Reloaded, from Agent Smith being recycled (so to speak), and creating multiple copies of himself, to the "upgrades" of the other agents, to the Architect explaining to Neo that he is actually the sixth "The One", that Zion has been destroyed and rebuilt six times in a never-ending cycle, and that Neo's destiny is to follow in the footsteps of his predecessors and complete that cycle again. The small band of outmatched rebels fighting the tyranny of evil. The paradox of man against machine + man dependent on machine. Even the strange, raining Matrix code is simply Japanese Katakana and Hiragana script mirror-imaged. Nothing is truly original.
On a deeper level, all the movie's philosophy is simply a combination of Eastern and Western religion and philosophy. Neo the Christ figure, Morpheus with his unshakeable faith in an unproveable prophecy, Neo as the Buddhist epitomy of enlightenment/nirvana (being at one with the universe) enabled by the Western Judeo-Christian ideal of romantic and/or unconditional love...
In fact, I can't think of single example, either of the plot or the underlying philosophy, that is not a copy of something else. That's b/c the Wachowskis wanted it that way, and have essentially said so in public, in reference to their interest in Baudrillard's work.
The paradox is that, as a movie, the Matrix series is turning out to be much more than the sum of its parts. In creating this epic out of pre-existing ideas, the Wachowskis have created perhaps the most compelling fictional world since Star Wars or Dune. Is it possible that the Wachowskis have created originality from unoriginality? That's a whole nother argument...
I disagree. Feature for feature, modern computers are much more reliable and easy to use than their vaccuum-tube, punch card, or even command-line predecessors. How many mom and pop technophobes do you think could hope to operate such a machine? Nowadays anybody can operate a computer, even my 85 year old grandmother who has never touched one until a few months ago. Don't mistake feature-overload for feature-complexity.
Second that. GTA3 & VC have trained my subconscious to hit pedestrians, sucker-punch policemen with brass knuckles, and ram cars that cut me off till they burst into flames and explode. If only they made games that trained me how to invest like Warren Buffet, instead of behave like a fucking maniac, I'd be set.
Frankly, when it comes to individuals they generally act in the most self improving way possible. If I owned a few hundred acres of trees I may be tempted to sell the rights to log them to someone for a few million. After all, they're my trees, and I can do what I want with them.
Funny you mention this. My family owns a tree-farm in southeast NC that produces about $150,000 worth of highly profitable construction-quality hardwood every 3-4 years. It's divided into three sections that are farmed on a rotating schedule (b/c it takes about 9-12 years to grow the trees). We also loosely manage the wildlife on the property so it's actually a nice wilderness to visit and explore during growing season.
I personally don't believe the problem is a matter of private property rights vs. government ownership/stewardship. The problem is a matter of recognizing that sustainable development has greater long-term economic value than exhausting your resources. This was not always an easy realization, especially when faced with the immediate wants and needs of individuals and society. But I think our more scientific, technological, and empirical modern civilization has a leg up on our less advanced precursors in recognizing how to obtain maximum value from resources. Perhaps the Easter Islanders and others failed simply b/c they didn't realize trees were renewable resources, or how to renew them, or that it was even worth renewing them. Who knows. But once the realization is made, people tend to figure out ways to do it. (http://www.treefarmsystem.org/)
They're spending all that $30 million bribing kiddies to buy Xbox (and suing all thousand Linux-on-Xbox projects the world over). There's nothing left over for Windows Server, so this really is their last chance!
Then as I talked to people about the movie I found that the realness of the Matrix isn't half as interesting as the ethics of the machines. No where is it established that the machines are "evil" and the movie, in my opinion, purposely shows the humans as fanatics as the machines as benevolant dictators.
Interesting you should mention that. There is one scene in The Matrix that deals with machine vs. human ethics: Agent Smith interrogating Morpheus. Smith's comparison of humanity to viruses suggests the machines have achieved a state of equilibrium with the world (spurious, but that's what it suggests) and therefore the machines are the morally superior race of the two.
Additionally, if you've seen Animatrix 1, it's obvious that humanity's natural prejudices and xenophobia are the root cause of the man/machine war in the first place.
Uh, they can't name it Phoenix so they name it after the dictionary definition of Phoenix? That's like renaming "Windows" to "Transparent Walls", or "Opera" to "Italian Musical Performance". They're trying too hard to keep the theme of "great bird that consumed itself in fire,then rose again from the ashes". Time to move on and find a new theme, fellas.
A high profile assemblage of well-known thinkers, such as Steven Pinker, Lee Silver, and Marvin Minsky, were invited to speak at the 3 day conference to examine what 'Human Nature' would be like in 50-200 years.
I want to be a well-known thinker too. I sit around thinking most of the day anyway. I want to be invited to conferences and get paid lots of money for speculating on random future issues that are so far away that I'll be dead before being proven right or wrong. So what do I have to do to enter the profession of Well-known Thinker? I'm applying to econ graduate school right now, but if there's an easier way to get into this, I'm all ears. Perhaps somebody can enlighten me.
AOL in best Dr. Evil voice: "I've decided to sue spammers for... ten miiiiillion dollars!!!" [deviously puts pinky finger to corner of mouth].
No. 2: " Ahem...well, don't you think we should maybe ask for *more* than ten million dollars? Ten millions dollars isn't exactly a lot of money to spammers. They make hundreds of millions of dollars each year."
AOL: "Really?"
No. 2: "mm-hmm"
AOL: "That's a number. Okay then. We sue them for.....One hundred..BILLION DOLLARS!!"
Oh well, I guess AOL doesn't have a No. 2 working for them...
With ubiquitous PCs throughout Africa, hopefully it won't be long before those Nigerian spammers and their ilk start accidentally sending their emails to each other.
Honestly, what's the alternative? Stopping with the technology we have because it's good enough? I think not. Even if there is no immediate need for more FLOPS and whatnot on the desktop, it's better to advance the state of technology than not. As Edward Gibbon observed, "All that is human must retrograde if it do not advance."
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So far I am able to run 64 bit framebuffers through the flex capacitor and find myself scoring 130,000 3dmarks.
That's "flux" capacitor, not "flex" capacitor. Everybody knows that. Now the truth comes out and we see you for the fraud you are. By the way, if anybody would like to buy my new 256bit 500,000 3dmark VPU, I'm selling them for only $500 per. I built it in my garage in Finland and have named it the Glaze3D. You can find it on Ebay.
Over here in America we say "bullocks" as a side swipe at The Worst Actress In the World Who Thinks She's God's Gift To Hollywood, Sandra Bullock. Combining her last name with the etymologically similar British expletive to form "Bullocks" effectively doubles the nastiness of the curse. FYI.
Star Wars peaked during the first trilogy, and went downhill with the next one. The Matrix peaked with the first movie, and went far downhill on the next one.
No, when Star Wars first came out it peaked after the first movie and went downhill on the second one. Further, Lucas has admitted the Ewoks were a mistake that almost ruined the third. It's too early to judge whether the Matrix will follow suit or not.
The Matrix was never intended to be original. Add to your reading list Simulacra and Simulation by Jean Baudrillard. That postmodernist philosophy heavily influenced the Wachowskis.
What the Matrix did for philosophy is not so much get people into it as to demonstrate it. The truth is, most people do not have the time to devote to a thorough understanding of the subject, and if they get into it, it will be temporary and on a "ohhh are we really dreaming...!" level. But the Matrix series has taken philosophy and demonstrated some of its classic quandraries in a compelling, believable (to a modern audience of the Information Age) scenario. Whether it gets people into philosophy or not, it should still be lauded for its creative approach to demonstrating philosophical ideas.
but an EMP was primarily denoted - which would have the effect of shutting down all of Zion's systems and causing some structural damage (electrical fires, mostly) - at which point the Sentinels came through and massacred the people since there were no defense mechanisms.
No, the premature EMP did not damage Zion, it only disabled the hovercrafts that were gathering to counterattack the drilling Sentinels. That's why sentinels slaughtered the humans and destroyed the hovercrafts - they were defenseless. The traitor, the human with Agent Smith downloaded inside him, was on board one of those ships, not back in Zion. He was the first mate of one of those ships, as can be seen when he questions his captain's orders at the council meeting in which two volunteers are requested to find the Nebachudnezzar.
The traitor prematurely discharged the EMP while the hovercrafts were in too close vicinity to each other, disabling all the hovercrafts. However, the hovercrafts were well away from Zion, so far away that machines still had several tens of hours to drill to reach Zion after destroying the hovercrafts. The battle for Zion has yet to occur.
That Caddy STS sure had a shitload of body-roll on the freeway chase scene. I was considering buying one till I saw that scene, now I'm very skeptical. I'll probably just stick with my tried and true Beemer. Talk about a backfire...
Yes Zion was destroyed in the previous six iterations the Architect explained to Neo. No Zion has not yet been destroyed in this iteration. The sentinels are still digging, but they haven't reached Zion yet. Neo has chosen a path previously unchosen by all other "The One's", and Revolutions will be about whether that choice will ultimately save Zion and humanity, or whether that "choice" was only another layer of the illusion.
Not sure why you did this, but you left out a couple generations:
350 *0.5 *10 = +1750 ppl.
1750 *0.5 *10 = +8750 ppl.
8750 *0.5 *10 = +43750 ppl.
43750 *.5 *10 = +218750 ppl.
218750 *0.5 *10 = +218750 ppl.
Three, Neo was able to destroy those sentinels by THOUGHT outside the Matrix. It occurred to me then as well that there might be several layers of the Matrix, and Zion was only a separate layer. However, what also occurred to me at that scene was Lawnmower Man. In that movie, Job's mind is trained by computers to such an extent that his virtual powers become real powers. Might not this same thing be happening to Neo now? In Revolutions, might we see Neo master his real powers as he has his virtual ones, and bring the war to the machines in the real world? Of course, that "real world" could still be simply another layer of the Matrix, nothing more than a very elaborate hoax of the machines.
You would be equally correct in assuming that the notion of a virtual reality world created and maintained by a computer-based intelligence reflects actual work done by artificial intelligence researchers. Which is to say, you wouldn't be correct at all.
No, he is perfectly correct. All of the Matrix philosophy is a rehashed mishmash of various Eastern and Western philosophies and religions. The primary theme of the series is derived from Jean Baudrillard's postmodernist work, Simulacra and Simulation, in which Baudrillard postulates that everything in modern life is simply a copy of something that came before, which in turn is a copy of something that came before, ad infinitum. Nothing is original, everything is simply a modified version of a predecessor, and there is truly nothing new under the sun.
This can be observed in just about every aspect of the movies, especially in Reloaded, from Agent Smith being recycled (so to speak), and creating multiple copies of himself, to the "upgrades" of the other agents, to the Architect explaining to Neo that he is actually the sixth "The One", that Zion has been destroyed and rebuilt six times in a never-ending cycle, and that Neo's destiny is to follow in the footsteps of his predecessors and complete that cycle again. The small band of outmatched rebels fighting the tyranny of evil. The paradox of man against machine + man dependent on machine. Even the strange, raining Matrix code is simply Japanese Katakana and Hiragana script mirror-imaged. Nothing is truly original.
On a deeper level, all the movie's philosophy is simply a combination of Eastern and Western religion and philosophy. Neo the Christ figure, Morpheus with his unshakeable faith in an unproveable prophecy, Neo as the Buddhist epitomy of enlightenment/nirvana (being at one with the universe) enabled by the Western Judeo-Christian ideal of romantic and/or unconditional love...
In fact, I can't think of single example, either of the plot or the underlying philosophy, that is not a copy of something else. That's b/c the Wachowskis wanted it that way, and have essentially said so in public, in reference to their interest in Baudrillard's work.
The paradox is that, as a movie, the Matrix series is turning out to be much more than the sum of its parts. In creating this epic out of pre-existing ideas, the Wachowskis have created perhaps the most compelling fictional world since Star Wars or Dune. Is it possible that the Wachowskis have created originality from unoriginality? That's a whole nother argument...
But operating them is much more complex.
I disagree. Feature for feature, modern computers are much more reliable and easy to use than their vaccuum-tube, punch card, or even command-line predecessors. How many mom and pop technophobes do you think could hope to operate such a machine? Nowadays anybody can operate a computer, even my 85 year old grandmother who has never touched one until a few months ago. Don't mistake feature-overload for feature-complexity.
Imo it's more likely that OmniMegaCorp will ban P2P file sharing on its machines, rather than initiate huge lawsuits.
Second that. GTA3 & VC have trained my subconscious to hit pedestrians, sucker-punch policemen with brass knuckles, and ram cars that cut me off till they burst into flames and explode. If only they made games that trained me how to invest like Warren Buffet, instead of behave like a fucking maniac, I'd be set.
It also appears that if you declare the document as XML, it doesn't crash IE either.
is to get rid of Rick Berman. He abdicated key aspects of Rodenberry's vision when he took over the franchise, and it's been downhill ever since.
Frankly, when it comes to individuals they generally act in the most self improving way possible. If I owned a few hundred acres of trees I may be tempted to sell the rights to log them to someone for a few million. After all, they're my trees, and I can do what I want with them.
Funny you mention this. My family owns a tree-farm in southeast NC that produces about $150,000 worth of highly profitable construction-quality hardwood every 3-4 years. It's divided into three sections that are farmed on a rotating schedule (b/c it takes about 9-12 years to grow the trees). We also loosely manage the wildlife on the property so it's actually a nice wilderness to visit and explore during growing season.
I personally don't believe the problem is a matter of private property rights vs. government ownership/stewardship. The problem is a matter of recognizing that sustainable development has greater long-term economic value than exhausting your resources. This was not always an easy realization, especially when faced with the immediate wants and needs of individuals and society. But I think our more scientific, technological, and empirical modern civilization has a leg up on our less advanced precursors in recognizing how to obtain maximum value from resources. Perhaps the Easter Islanders and others failed simply b/c they didn't realize trees were renewable resources, or how to renew them, or that it was even worth renewing them. Who knows. But once the realization is made, people tend to figure out ways to do it. (http://www.treefarmsystem.org/)
They're spending all that $30 million bribing kiddies to buy Xbox (and suing all thousand Linux-on-Xbox projects the world over). There's nothing left over for Windows Server, so this really is their last chance!
Then as I talked to people about the movie I found that the realness of the Matrix isn't half as interesting as the ethics of the machines. No where is it established that the machines are "evil" and the movie, in my opinion, purposely shows the humans as fanatics as the machines as benevolant dictators.
Interesting you should mention that. There is one scene in The Matrix that deals with machine vs. human ethics: Agent Smith interrogating Morpheus. Smith's comparison of humanity to viruses suggests the machines have achieved a state of equilibrium with the world (spurious, but that's what it suggests) and therefore the machines are the morally superior race of the two.
Additionally, if you've seen Animatrix 1, it's obvious that humanity's natural prejudices and xenophobia are the root cause of the man/machine war in the first place.
Uh, they can't name it Phoenix so they name it after the dictionary definition of Phoenix? That's like renaming "Windows" to "Transparent Walls", or "Opera" to "Italian Musical Performance". They're trying too hard to keep the theme of "great bird that consumed itself in fire,then rose again from the ashes". Time to move on and find a new theme, fellas.
A high profile assemblage of well-known thinkers, such as Steven Pinker, Lee Silver, and Marvin Minsky, were invited to speak at the 3 day conference to examine what 'Human Nature' would be like in 50-200 years.
I want to be a well-known thinker too. I sit around thinking most of the day anyway. I want to be invited to conferences and get paid lots of money for speculating on random future issues that are so far away that I'll be dead before being proven right or wrong. So what do I have to do to enter the profession of Well-known Thinker? I'm applying to econ graduate school right now, but if there's an easier way to get into this, I'm all ears. Perhaps somebody can enlighten me.
AOL in best Dr. Evil voice: "I've decided to sue spammers for... ten miiiiillion dollars!!!" [deviously puts pinky finger to corner of mouth].
No. 2: " Ahem...well, don't you think we should maybe ask for *more* than ten million dollars? Ten millions dollars isn't exactly a lot of money to spammers. They make hundreds of millions of dollars each year."
AOL: "Really?"
No. 2: "mm-hmm"
AOL: "That's a number. Okay then. We sue them for.....One hundred..BILLION DOLLARS!!"
Oh well, I guess AOL doesn't have a No. 2 working for them...
With ubiquitous PCs throughout Africa, hopefully it won't be long before those Nigerian spammers and their ilk start accidentally sending their emails to each other.
Honestly, what's the alternative? Stopping with the technology we have because it's good enough? I think not. Even if there is no immediate need for more FLOPS and whatnot on the desktop, it's better to advance the state of technology than not. As Edward Gibbon observed, "All that is human must retrograde if it do not advance."
PC HP calc emus:
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Or check out all the other emu goodies at that site:
http://www.hpcalc.org/hp48/
Or just search http://www.handango.com for "HP 48" for more emus for all portable computing platforms.
And when Google has wiped the site from their cache.