A couple of the reviews I read didn't quite grasp what was going on, especially the end. I found it quite clear and straightforward: the movie gives you plenty of clues so there shouldn't be any doubt left in your mind when the credits roll. Admittedly I approached the film with substantial knowledge about the book, but... it should have been clear to anyone.
Are you calling those revewers idiots, or what? Obviously they wern't able to tell what what was going on. Unless they were robots, it couldn't possibly 'be clear to anyone'. Moron.
In china, you can get all the abortions you want! They don't even cost anything!
(note: that was sarcasm)
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Both super cops, both betrayed by their perfect systems, both out for justice and go against the system.
Tom Cruz's Character wasn't a super-cop, he was just a regular cop that happened to be pretty good at what he did. And 'the system' in the two movies is totally different. In MR, the system was designed to prevent murder, in this the system is an evil orwelian system designed to suppress emotion.
CPU time costs money, the more CPU time they burn on the server, the more money it costs them in terms of CPU time.
OTOH, client machines have tons of CPU cycles that they aren't using or don't really need. The more you can offload to them the better.
Cheaters can ruin a game for a lot of people, and people upset at cheaters leave and cost sony money.
So it becomes an optimization problem, (in the statistical sense, not the computational one).
Do enough to prevent cheating so that you wont lose more customers' income then the cost of the server load that's caused by your anti-cheating software.
Throwing monkey wrenches into the cheater-coder's work is a very cheap way to prevent cheating that changes the equations around.
It depends where, not every nation has a wonderful constitution like the US and not every nation follows the UNs thingy about human rights.
Interesting example, since the US doesn't follow the UN thing about human rights...
But in any event, if a nation doesn't follow the UN thing on human rights, then they can simply make 'usage licensing' on software illegal: IE anyone can use software if they pay for it. They can even remove software copyright entirely for the government. Either of those two things would make this clause useless.
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Other then that the main character is in law enforcement, and it takes place in 'the future' I don't see much similarity at all. I guess you could say they were both fathers, but one still has his kids and the other does not. You could say they were both on drugs, but in MR drugs are looked down oppon, while in this they are required. They are hugely diffrent movies.
Oh, they explained that
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They combined humans with 'a special kind of fusion'. Why they didn't simply use 'a special kind of fusion' and skip the humans is beyond me.
Actualy I'd never seen a video banner ad like that. A few box ones though. Flash can have sound in moz, so I don't see why that would protect you.
of course, we'll have much larger hard drives.....
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220 gig hard drives are already on store shelves. You can easily build a 1tb raid array today if you want to. Think about the size of hard drives in 1992. What, 120 megs? If the triend continues we'll have half petabyte hard drives by then.
Of course, they will run at 400 degrees and last a week, but tradeoffs always need to be made...
I could see it being more elite and underground, too.
Well, certanly not if current trends continue! If anything/. has become much more boring and mainstream. People like alan cox and linus used to post on here, you know.
"Riker to Picard- you should come up to the bridge,"
The computer just waits untill it hears 'picard' and then sends the message with a lag. The real question is what happens if two people have the same name...
As far as the computer, well, we could always tell when they were talking to it, and in 400 years a computer would probably be at least as sensitive to contextual cues as a person.
I mean at the very least the computer should be able to interact as well as any character on the holodec.
Actually, I somehow read 'eastern' rather then 'western', making my rant rather foolish in retrospect. In any event, my main point, that the matrix was praised for it's visual beauty, not it's philosophical underpinnings, is still valid.
Can you name one quality, intresting film based on modern philosophy? I mean, I suppose you could call Austin Powers post-modern, but that's beside the point.
And eastern or western, I still don't see any giant robot overlords in anything 100 years old or so.
You said western philosophy, not eastern. What an odd mistake for me to make.
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Why is a re-hashed version of ancient Western Philosopy, a philosophy that's been around for thousands of years, considered innovative and fresh?
Well, I don't remember many people saying the philosophy backing the matrix was anything particularly revolutionary, just that the film was incredibly refined visually and beautiful. I also don't remember anything about living inside giant computers and robot overlords in eastern phil. Maybe I took the wrong class, or maybe illiterate morons such as yourself ascribe any kind of 'deep' thought to 'eastern philosophy'.
What eastern phil you might be referring to is beyond me. What does the matrix have to do with the Dao or natural way of the universe which should be followed? What does it have to do with reincarnation or karma? What does it have do with meditating and given up earthly desires to reach enlightenment?
The only 'eastern' thing about the matrix was the bad-ass fight choreography. That, along with it's visual style was what was 'revolutionary and fresh.' Not it's scatterbrained philosophical underpinnings. It's an enjoyable light movie, and as such, it succeeds widely.
But what am I talking to you for? You wouldn't know a Zen koan from a Confucian saying, from a <p> tag.
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However, The GPU and processor are totally different.
Yes, thats correct. But the Nintendo 64 had a 64 bit processor (and a 128 bit graphics bus)
Well, I don't know about germany, but here in america we certanly driver closer then 170 meters! Perhaps 170 decimeters :P
bleh, well it really dosn't seem like 'the same story' to me. Anyway, why is this the copy? It was made long before MR came out.
A couple of the reviews I read didn't quite grasp what was going on, especially the end. I found it quite clear and straightforward: the movie gives you plenty of clues so there shouldn't be any doubt left in your mind when the credits roll. Admittedly I approached the film with substantial knowledge about the book, but... it should have been clear to anyone.
Are you calling those revewers idiots, or what? Obviously they wern't able to tell what what was going on. Unless they were robots, it couldn't possibly 'be clear to anyone'. Moron.
In china, you can get all the abortions you want! They don't even cost anything!
(note: that was sarcasm)
Both super cops, both betrayed by their perfect systems, both out for justice and go against the system.
Tom Cruz's Character wasn't a super-cop, he was just a regular cop that happened to be pretty good at what he did. And 'the system' in the two movies is totally different. In MR, the system was designed to prevent murder, in this the system is an evil orwelian system designed to suppress emotion.
CPU time costs money, the more CPU time they burn on the server, the more money it costs them in terms of CPU time.
OTOH, client machines have tons of CPU cycles that they aren't using or don't really need. The more you can offload to them the better.
Cheaters can ruin a game for a lot of people, and people upset at cheaters leave and cost sony money.
So it becomes an optimization problem, (in the statistical sense, not the computational one).
Do enough to prevent cheating so that you wont lose more customers' income then the cost of the server load that's caused by your anti-cheating software.
Throwing monkey wrenches into the cheater-coder's work is a very cheap way to prevent cheating that changes the equations around.
It depends where, not every nation has a wonderful constitution like the US and not every nation follows the UNs thingy about human rights.
Interesting example, since the US doesn't follow the UN thing about human rights...
But in any event, if a nation doesn't follow the UN thing on human rights, then they can simply make 'usage licensing' on software illegal: IE anyone can use software if they pay for it. They can even remove software copyright entirely for the government. Either of those two things would make this clause useless.
Other then that the main character is in law enforcement, and it takes place in 'the future' I don't see much similarity at all. I guess you could say they were both fathers, but one still has his kids and the other does not. You could say they were both on drugs, but in MR drugs are looked down oppon, while in this they are required. They are hugely diffrent movies.
They combined humans with 'a special kind of fusion'. Why they didn't simply use 'a special kind of fusion' and skip the humans is beyond me.
They're called 'genitals',
Seriously though, how would pushing this so-called happy button be any diffrent then masterbating?
And if they made you truly happy, they'd be illegalized just like Ecstasy and heroin are today.
How many of you have houses with ethernet near the wash machine? How many will drill holes through your walls to get ethernet to your wash machine?
Ah, but you forget the WiFi. The device I'm writing this comment on has no material connection to anything.
Actualy I'd never seen a video banner ad like that. A few box ones though. Flash can have sound in moz, so I don't see why that would protect you.
220 gig hard drives are already on store shelves. You can easily build a 1tb raid array today if you want to. Think about the size of hard drives in 1992. What, 120 megs? If the triend continues we'll have half petabyte hard drives by then.
Of course, they will run at 400 degrees and last a week, but tradeoffs always need to be made...
Receiver fails to detect CC ID chip - customer gets hassled by security/alarms go off.
Or, reciver fails to detect product ID tag. You get your stuff for free.
Not that anyone would have a bag with an aluminum lineing or anything...
I could see it being more elite and underground, too.
/. has become much more boring and mainstream. People like alan cox and linus used to post on here, you know.
Well, certanly not if current trends continue! If anything
Isn't it obvoius?
"Riker to Picard- you should come up to the bridge,"
The computer just waits untill it hears 'picard' and then sends the message with a lag. The real question is what happens if two people have the same name...
As far as the computer, well, we could always tell when they were talking to it, and in 400 years a computer would probably be at least as sensitive to contextual cues as a person.
I mean at the very least the computer should be able to interact as well as any character on the holodec.
If we have flying cars and inexhaustable electricity sources, what do we need zeplins for?
If nothing else, RFID could have spared Winona Ryder her recent and very embarrassing shoplifting arrest.
I'll say, just stick your in a conductive bag and they'll never know.
erhaps Frits Hollings will introduce the CRFIDTPA which will illegalize bags and pouches made from electrically conductive material.
Actualy, I think a good title would have been "Operation TIPS". Cleric was a meter-reader, and you could dress the black guy in a UPS outfit.
Actually, I somehow read 'eastern' rather then 'western', making my rant rather foolish in retrospect. In any event, my main point, that the matrix was praised for it's visual beauty, not it's philosophical underpinnings, is still valid.
Can you name one quality, intresting film based on modern philosophy? I mean, I suppose you could call Austin Powers post-modern, but that's beside the point.
And eastern or western, I still don't see any giant robot overlords in anything 100 years old or so.
Blood splattered across a babies face. How can you beat that?
You said western philosophy, not eastern. What an odd mistake for me to make.
Why is a re-hashed version of ancient Western Philosopy, a philosophy that's been around for thousands of years, considered innovative and fresh?
Well, I don't remember many people saying the philosophy backing the matrix was anything particularly revolutionary, just that the film was incredibly refined visually and beautiful. I also don't remember anything about living inside giant computers and robot overlords in eastern phil. Maybe I took the wrong class, or maybe illiterate morons such as yourself ascribe any kind of 'deep' thought to 'eastern philosophy'.
What eastern phil you might be referring to is beyond me. What does the matrix have to do with the Dao or natural way of the universe which should be followed? What does it have to do with reincarnation or karma? What does it have do with meditating and given up earthly desires to reach enlightenment?
The only 'eastern' thing about the matrix was the bad-ass fight choreography. That, along with it's visual style was what was 'revolutionary and fresh.' Not it's scatterbrained philosophical underpinnings. It's an enjoyable light movie, and as such, it succeeds widely.
But what am I talking to you for? You wouldn't know a Zen koan from a Confucian saying, from a <p> tag.
I can search kazaa for divx's of movies, and if I like them, I go out and buy the DVD.
.vob files and burn them to DVD-ROMs?
Yeah, but will you still do that when you can download them to