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I'm not a movie buff, probably watch a grand total of 3 three movies a year, so the Matrix is definitely up there in my book. However, I am aware that it borrows quite a lot from other sources, from anime to eastern philosophy, to even classic love stories. So I understand your point of view, but am personally not enough of a film connoisseur for it to matter.
Not sure if this has already appeared on/., but check out Wired Magazine's cover story on the making of Reloaded. A few spoilers, plus some really cool info on some new movie-making techniques being used:
"If the dojo fight in The Matrix was a kung fu sonata, the Burly Brawl is a symphony. Neo tears the sign from the ground and wields it as a kendo sword, vaulting pole, and battering ram. A woman walking by can't believe what she's seeing; suddenly her body is hijacked, she drops her grocery bag, and another Smith charges into the fray. Whole battalions of Smiths arrive, mount assaults, attack in waves, scatter, regroup, and head back for more. (At ESC, one massive pile-on was dubbed the "Did someone drop a quarter?" shot.) In the thick of it, Neo is dancing, chucking black-tied bodies skyward, pivoting around the signpost, and using shoulders as stepping-stones over the raging river of whup-ass.
Fans will wear out their remotes replaying the scene on DVD, but what they won't see, even riding the Pause button, is a transition that happens early on. When Neo and Agent Smith walk into the courtyard, they are the real Reeves and Weaving. But by the time the melee is in full effect, everyone and everything on the screen is computer-generated - including the perspective of the camera itself, steering at 2,000 miles per hour and screaming through arcs that would tear any physical camera apart.
This is virtual cinematography, but the most impressive thing about the Burly Brawl is that it doesn't look virtual at all. The digital faces of Reeves and Weaving could get past a flank of security guards, and the buildings surrounding the courtyard look dreary and lived-in - the grimy, unmistakable patina of the real."
As a programmer, I don't understand why anyone cares about preserving the legacy of 32-bit architecture by expanding it (yet again) for 64-bits.
As a programmer, how much would you charge to reprogram all those apps from 32bit to 64bit? As a CFO, how much would you be willing to spend in one lump sum on converting all your 32bit apps to 64bit ones b/c your new hardware wouldn't support all your old apps? In aggregate, that's a lot of money spent on an essentially non-productive endeavor. AMD's solution may not be technologically ideal, but it is finacially appealing, especially in an economic downturn. It allows a gradual upgrade to cheap low and mid-range 64bit technology. And Opteron and Athlon 64 are not without significant performance improvements either. It's quite competitive on a price/performance basis with the other major 64bit players.
I'm a student of Japanese too and find your question very interesting. I have the Japanese IME set up on WinXP, but am also currently looking into language support on both Linux and PDAs. Thanks for asking the question, I've bookmarked the thread for future reference.
No, I didn't either. I read the whole article thinking, wtf doesn't he clearly state what "Second Superpower" is, and what it has been "googlewashed" to. It took me a minute to figure it out.
Originally, "Second Superpower" referred to the only force in the world that could stand up to America's political (and by inclusion, economic and military) power - world public opinion. The Soviet Union vanished, to be replaced by world public opinion in opposition (how reassuring that is). However, "Second Superpower" was Googlewashed by some noobie blog to refer to a vague, borderless, leftist utopian ideal.
Given the fact that the leaders of anti-US world public opinion are the same leftist idealists who pine for such a utopian ideal, the distinction is not very clear, especially not in Andrew Orloski's article. Unless of course, you are one of them.
The main problem MS faces in competing with Google is that Google is part of the world zeitgist. Nobody is going to go on a date, then come home and "MSN her". To "Google" someone is actually a verb. Even people who don't know jack shit about the internet know to type in www.google.com when they need to look something up. Google's immense power, completely unthreatening simplicity, and unique style have combined to make it more of a global phenomenon rather than just another internet search engine. MS may be able to copy some of Google's features, like the clean interface, the huge index, the nice extra features, etc., but making it into the zeitgist is as much a matter of being in the right place at the right time as it is about having the right product. Google has mindshare on a massive level, and that is what MS will have to compete with. I don't see them succeeding at it any time soon.
Just b/c you don't like him, or disagree with his current point, doesn't mean that one of the most successful tech entrepeneurs in history has "zero credibility". Don't forget, your own credibility is at stake here as well.
Since last year Acadia Research has sent hundreds of letters to various porn web sites to arrange royalty deals, picking on the small fry before trying to take on well-heeled companies such as Disney.
So Disney is into porn now? Is that hentai, or hardcore?
We failed in Vietname and Cambodia. If we had succeeded, things would be most different there. So instead, why don't you ask, How is South Korea doing? How is Japan doing? How is Germany doing? How is Russia doing? How is all of Eastern Europe doing? I try to be even-handed and recognize that America is no angel, but neither are we the utter villain you make us out to be. You can take your biased bs elsewhere.
Well said. I knew there were significant reasons for preserving human languages, but as this is not my field I was unable to articulate them. Thanks for providing such a thorough answer to those who would so thoughtlessly and carelessly discard such important human knowledge.
Uhm, what about Raed?
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Here's a blog updated daily by an Iraqi living in Baghdad. The UN must have made an exception for him, right?
I think you overstate the case. The Nforce 2, for example, provides a superb upgrade path. It will take everything AMD spits out the fab in the foreseeable future, except Hammer.
I just upgraded to an Abit NF7-S Nforce2 mobo, with an AXP 1800+ and 512MB of PC2700 for less than $300 (from Newegg). My next immediate upgrade was to OC the CPU bus to 166 to synchronize CPU/RAM at 333. That provided a decent improvement, according to Futuremark. And my next upgrade will be to replace the CPU and RAM with a Barton 3200+ and PC3200/3500, running at 200/400 FSB (which Nforce 2 is capable of), once the price comes down a bit. I also plan to add dual SATA drives in RAID 0 config to boost that hdd performance. Dual SATA is included on the mobo.
In fact, I can't remember a time since I started building my own PCs in '97 that one mobo has provided such outstanding upgrade potential. Of course, if you're rich and can buy that NF2, Barton, PC3500, and dual SATA all in one fell swoop, more power to ya. But for those of us with only a few hundred to spend at a time, Nforce2 provides a very nice upgrade path with plenty of longetivity. At least until we start lusting after K8 mobos...
I beg to differ. You're assuming that b/c Xbox uses DX, a future version will be backwards compatible as long as it uses DX.
However, that may not be the case. I'm no game developer, but I understand that Xbox exposes the hardware directly to the coders. If many games actually "code to the metal" on Xbox, these games may not run on Xbox Next with its different hardware.
The only way to guarantee backwards compatibility is for Xbox Next to include Xbox's XCPU and XGPU, the way PS2 includes the PSOne IOP. The console recognizes when a PSOne game is inserted, and transfers control to the onboard PSOne hardware. Whether MS can afford to put 2 extra chips on Xbox Next is in question. I seriously doubt Nvidia and Intel will agree to combine their P3 and GF3 chips into one, as Sony did with EE/GS recently.
No, I read in Star Wars magazine a few months ago that the reason the Sith use red lightsabers is that the red crystals that generate the blade are stronger yet inherently more unstable than the other color crystals. Sith must use their dark force powers to reinforce the red blade to keep it stable enough to fight with. It takes more concentration, but the benefit is that the red crystals produce a slightly stronger blade. Occasionally, a Sith blade will "burn through" a Jedi blade, snuffing the Jedi blade and giving the Sith a killing opening. Lightsaber burn-through is, obviously, one of the Jedi's greatest fears. Unfortunately, only the Dark Side has the power required to reinforce the red blades, so Jedi can't use them.
Instead of ranting at the bloggers and posters, Mrs. Garrett should simply have said something along the lines:
"That email was private and intended for a only a few friends. I am sorry it has been exposed to the world, it was never meant as perfectly accurate, peer-reviewed report of the Davos forum, but rather my quick impressions. Please take it as such, and do not base any business or investment decisions on it. Ciao."
The fact is, she was naive and unthinking to fail to realize the possibility that one of her friends may forward it, and that the email would get out. Yes, she should have a right to privacy, but the possibilty certainly exists, and instead of relying upon a nebulous "right", she should have taken steps to minimize or eradicate that possibility instead. Both she and her friend made a mistake, and the email got out into the news-hungry metanet where it snowballed. But ranting at random people for that only made matters worse.
Something for us all to keep in mind.
Very interesting idea. Sony would have to figure out how to deal with people shutting down their PS3 for evening, or would they? Maybe they expect to have enough online players at any particular time to have a complex, compelling game world. If you want to play with friends, you issue them an invite and schedule an online meeting time.
Scary thought, though. You thought Evercrack was bad, having the Sims on PS3 in such a manner would ten times as addicting.
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I'm not a movie buff, probably watch a grand total of 3 three movies a year, so the Matrix is definitely up there in my book. However, I am aware that it borrows quite a lot from other sources, from anime to eastern philosophy, to even classic love stories. So I understand your point of view, but am personally not enough of a film connoisseur for it to matter.
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.05/matrix2.h tml
Not sure if this has already appeared on /., but check out Wired Magazine's cover story on the making of Reloaded. A few spoilers, plus some really cool info on some new movie-making techniques being used:
http://www.wired.com/wired/
Excerpt:
"If the dojo fight in The Matrix was a kung fu sonata, the Burly Brawl is a symphony. Neo tears the sign from the ground and wields it as a kendo sword, vaulting pole, and battering ram. A woman walking by can't believe what she's seeing; suddenly her body is hijacked, she drops her grocery bag, and another Smith charges into the fray. Whole battalions of Smiths arrive, mount assaults, attack in waves, scatter, regroup, and head back for more. (At ESC, one massive pile-on was dubbed the "Did someone drop a quarter?" shot.) In the thick of it, Neo is dancing, chucking black-tied bodies skyward, pivoting around the signpost, and using shoulders as stepping-stones over the raging river of whup-ass.
Fans will wear out their remotes replaying the scene on DVD, but what they won't see, even riding the Pause button, is a transition that happens early on. When Neo and Agent Smith walk into the courtyard, they are the real Reeves and Weaving. But by the time the melee is in full effect, everyone and everything on the screen is computer-generated - including the perspective of the camera itself, steering at 2,000 miles per hour and screaming through arcs that would tear any physical camera apart.
This is virtual cinematography, but the most impressive thing about the Burly Brawl is that it doesn't look virtual at all. The digital faces of Reeves and Weaving could get past a flank of security guards, and the buildings surrounding the courtyard look dreary and lived-in - the grimy, unmistakable patina of the real."
As a programmer, I don't understand why anyone cares about preserving the legacy of 32-bit architecture by expanding it (yet again) for 64-bits.
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As a programmer, how much would you charge to reprogram all those apps from 32bit to 64bit? As a CFO, how much would you be willing to spend in one lump sum on converting all your 32bit apps to 64bit ones b/c your new hardware wouldn't support all your old apps? In aggregate, that's a lot of money spent on an essentially non-productive endeavor. AMD's solution may not be technologically ideal, but it is finacially appealing, especially in an economic downturn. It allows a gradual upgrade to cheap low and mid-range 64bit technology. And Opteron and Athlon 64 are not without significant performance improvements either. It's quite competitive on a price/performance basis with the other major 64bit players.
http://www.realworldtech.com/page.cfm?AID=RWT0126
Perhaps a little. AMD as a company has no experience in 64bit, after all.
I'm a student of Japanese too and find your question very interesting. I have the Japanese IME set up on WinXP, but am also currently looking into language support on both Linux and PDAs. Thanks for asking the question, I've bookmarked the thread for future reference.
No, I didn't either. I read the whole article thinking, wtf doesn't he clearly state what "Second Superpower" is, and what it has been "googlewashed" to. It took me a minute to figure it out.
Originally, "Second Superpower" referred to the only force in the world that could stand up to America's political (and by inclusion, economic and military) power - world public opinion. The Soviet Union vanished, to be replaced by world public opinion in opposition (how reassuring that is). However, "Second Superpower" was Googlewashed by some noobie blog to refer to a vague, borderless, leftist utopian ideal.
Given the fact that the leaders of anti-US world public opinion are the same leftist idealists who pine for such a utopian ideal, the distinction is not very clear, especially not in Andrew Orloski's article. Unless of course, you are one of them.
The main problem MS faces in competing with Google is that Google is part of the world zeitgist. Nobody is going to go on a date, then come home and "MSN her". To "Google" someone is actually a verb. Even people who don't know jack shit about the internet know to type in www.google.com when they need to look something up. Google's immense power, completely unthreatening simplicity, and unique style have combined to make it more of a global phenomenon rather than just another internet search engine. MS may be able to copy some of Google's features, like the clean interface, the huge index, the nice extra features, etc., but making it into the zeitgist is as much a matter of being in the right place at the right time as it is about having the right product. Google has mindshare on a massive level, and that is what MS will have to compete with. I don't see them succeeding at it any time soon.
Larry Ellison has about zero credibility.
Just b/c you don't like him, or disagree with his current point, doesn't mean that one of the most successful tech entrepeneurs in history has "zero credibility". Don't forget, your own credibility is at stake here as well.
Since last year Acadia Research has sent hundreds of letters to various porn web sites to arrange royalty deals, picking on the small fry before trying to take on well-heeled companies such as Disney.
So Disney is into porn now? Is that hentai, or hardcore?
You better come to work wearing kevlar body armor and a flame-retardant chem-bio suit!
I'm waiting for quantum optical storage cubes. Solid state seems so crude. ;)
We failed in Vietname and Cambodia. If we had succeeded, things would be most different there. So instead, why don't you ask, How is South Korea doing? How is Japan doing? How is Germany doing? How is Russia doing? How is all of Eastern Europe doing? I try to be even-handed and recognize that America is no angel, but neither are we the utter villain you make us out to be. You can take your biased bs elsewhere.
Well said. I knew there were significant reasons for preserving human languages, but as this is not my field I was unable to articulate them. Thanks for providing such a thorough answer to those who would so thoughtlessly and carelessly discard such important human knowledge.
Here's a blog updated daily by an Iraqi living in Baghdad. The UN must have made an exception for him, right?
http://dear_raed.blogspot.com/
I think you overstate the case. The Nforce 2, for example, provides a superb upgrade path. It will take everything AMD spits out the fab in the foreseeable future, except Hammer.
I just upgraded to an Abit NF7-S Nforce2 mobo, with an AXP 1800+ and 512MB of PC2700 for less than $300 (from Newegg). My next immediate upgrade was to OC the CPU bus to 166 to synchronize CPU/RAM at 333. That provided a decent improvement, according to Futuremark. And my next upgrade will be to replace the CPU and RAM with a Barton 3200+ and PC3200/3500, running at 200/400 FSB (which Nforce 2 is capable of), once the price comes down a bit. I also plan to add dual SATA drives in RAID 0 config to boost that hdd performance. Dual SATA is included on the mobo.
In fact, I can't remember a time since I started building my own PCs in '97 that one mobo has provided such outstanding upgrade potential. Of course, if you're rich and can buy that NF2, Barton, PC3500, and dual SATA all in one fell swoop, more power to ya. But for those of us with only a few hundred to spend at a time, Nforce2 provides a very nice upgrade path with plenty of longetivity. At least until we start lusting after K8 mobos...
The XBox should allow reverse compatibility
I beg to differ. You're assuming that b/c Xbox uses DX, a future version will be backwards compatible as long as it uses DX.
However, that may not be the case. I'm no game developer, but I understand that Xbox exposes the hardware directly to the coders. If many games actually "code to the metal" on Xbox, these games may not run on Xbox Next with its different hardware.
The only way to guarantee backwards compatibility is for Xbox Next to include Xbox's XCPU and XGPU, the way PS2 includes the PSOne IOP. The console recognizes when a PSOne game is inserted, and transfers control to the onboard PSOne hardware. Whether MS can afford to put 2 extra chips on Xbox Next is in question. I seriously doubt Nvidia and Intel will agree to combine their P3 and GF3 chips into one, as Sony did with EE/GS recently.
That's assuming that lightsabers and turbolasers are created in the same way with the same crystals. That I do not know.
No, I read in Star Wars magazine a few months ago that the reason the Sith use red lightsabers is that the red crystals that generate the blade are stronger yet inherently more unstable than the other color crystals. Sith must use their dark force powers to reinforce the red blade to keep it stable enough to fight with. It takes more concentration, but the benefit is that the red crystals produce a slightly stronger blade. Occasionally, a Sith blade will "burn through" a Jedi blade, snuffing the Jedi blade and giving the Sith a killing opening. Lightsaber burn-through is, obviously, one of the Jedi's greatest fears. Unfortunately, only the Dark Side has the power required to reinforce the red blades, so Jedi can't use them.
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despite Congress passing bills to halt it. America is going to hell in a handbasket.
Instead of ranting at the bloggers and posters, Mrs. Garrett should simply have said something along the lines:
"That email was private and intended for a only a few friends. I am sorry it has been exposed to the world, it was never meant as perfectly accurate, peer-reviewed report of the Davos forum, but rather my quick impressions. Please take it as such, and do not base any business or investment decisions on it. Ciao."
The fact is, she was naive and unthinking to fail to realize the possibility that one of her friends may forward it, and that the email would get out. Yes, she should have a right to privacy, but the possibilty certainly exists, and instead of relying upon a nebulous "right", she should have taken steps to minimize or eradicate that possibility instead. Both she and her friend made a mistake, and the email got out into the news-hungry metanet where it snowballed. But ranting at random people for that only made matters worse. Something for us all to keep in mind.
Very interesting idea. Sony would have to figure out how to deal with people shutting down their PS3 for evening, or would they? Maybe they expect to have enough online players at any particular time to have a complex, compelling game world. If you want to play with friends, you issue them an invite and schedule an online meeting time. Scary thought, though. You thought Evercrack was bad, having the Sims on PS3 in such a manner would ten times as addicting.
heh. looks a mod must have read our sub-comments...