They went on and on about code and rules and "do you really think that your muscles have anything to do with how strong you are...in this place?"
Yes, they did go into that... but did they go into why Neo had superman like powers, as compared to, say, Morpheus? No... it was simply because he was 'The One'...
Also, I gleaned from the Architects speach, that he was not a 'standard' human soul, that he was slightly modified to balance an equation to suit the Matrix, and that this is what caused the 'anomaly'... it was this that gave him extra powers over the machines in the real world, I suspect, because he was part of them due to said modification...
So, you accepted "the powers of 'The One' extend beyond the machine world, all the way back to the human world." as explanation of why he can use his matrix powers outside of the matrix?
Well yes... are you insinuating that there was better explaination of his powers inside the Matrix? All I seem to remeber is him being told he was 'The One', and could therefore perform some truely funky manuvers inside the Matrix... why then is it not satisfactory that they tell him that 'Your powers are far greater than anyone had really known'? He's 'The One', and yes, that was enough explaination for me...
The Architect speech? Forget it, he doesn't know what he's talking about, he's just an adding machine
Well, I can see why you were disappionted... I got ALOT of things from his speech, so much so, that without it the 3rd one wouldn't have made sense in alot of areas.
Neo's out-of-Matrix powers? Not explained...
Ahh, yes they were... at least no more than his in-the-matrix powers... The oracle told him that the powers of 'The One' extend beyond the machine world, all the way back to the human world. How could you miss that?
Overall I can say I am very satisfied with the Matrix trilogy, something most people would never admit.
Here here...
I think the biggest problem with the Matrix trilogy, is that the second 2 movies were different in scope to the original.
When I first saw 'The Matrix', I had no idea what to expect. The way they showed you what the matrix was, and how Neo came to wake up from it, was one of the most mind boggling scenes to ever grace the movie screen. After seeing the first one, and proclaiming my love for it, I heard that there were sequels in the making. At first I was expecting the same sort of jaw dropping 'OMFG!' reaction that I had to the first one, then I realized that there was no way that the W. Bros. would be able to pull off the same slight of hand as they did with the first one, because everyone already knew what the Matrix was and why it operated. That is the crux of my argument, when people saw the first one, they didn't know what the Matrix was, and were presented.. acctually make that thrust into, a fresh new fantasy world unlike any other in recent years.
The second and third movies, were different, in that they didn't start with a Mr. Anderson searching for answers, and in the end finding out he was the 'Chosen One', they began with the expectation that people knew what the Matrix was before they saw it. Hence, there was no easy way for the W. Bros. to present that same 'OMFG! the life he was leading wasn't real' kind of surprise. All they could really do was to use the dynamics developed in the first one, and apply them as a continuation of the same story.
I believe people were expecting the 'OMFG!' factor of the first to be common in all 3 films, and when that didn't happen they cried 'THIS MOVIE SUCKS!', because they were expecting to be blown away in the same fashion, when really, if they hadn't held that preconception they would see that all 3 are very good movies (IMHO), albiet in different ways.
Wow, way to contribute to society and the economy.
excuse me? are you trying to say Linus has contributed to neither the economy or society? pardon me while a go red in the face with laughter...
Get this, Linus has given years of virtually free labour to Linux, which is doing quite well as a server OS in many businesses that make money via its functionality...
could you please enlighten me as to how this equates to zero contribution to society?
Would you also care to inform me, how having an OS that is monitarily free (keeps money in peoples pockets), and creates jobs for sys-admins and training organizations (not to mention hundreds of other businesses using Linux in their business plan) is not contributing to the economy?
I'd like to know if there are any kernel developers out there who are planing to persue SCO for violation of their copyright, and if so, are they planing on filing their claims as a collective suit with other infringed upon developers, or will they persue it individually?
Maybe a project for the FSF or OSI, could be to organize a single law-suit on behalf of all willing, contributing kernel developers... of course, there would need to be funding, and I, for one, would give $50 towards SCO's destruction (and I'm not even a kernel developer) if such an initiative were to materialize.
when trying to push in one of the diagonal directions, you are pushing 2 buttons as opposed to having them joined under your thumb, which makes for much cleaner HADOUKEN type d-pad maneuvers.
I'm getting this no matter what any reviews say about it... firstly because Soul Calibur was so awesome, secondly because of Link... oh.. and the arcade stick peripheral... mmmm:)
2. less perceived market. this could affect the animal crossing decision specifically.
I think you're wrong about that... The GameCube, to my woe, is selling quite badly here in Australia. So the fact that they are releasing it here suggests that it has nothing to do with Nintendo perceiving less of a market for it.
I think it has more to do with Europe being so culturally diverse... They'd have to make so many localization changes (holidays and such) for every country they released it in Europe, that it just isn't feasible...
It's due to the timeouts (sporting sense, not in the network sense) that they have in American football... it can sometimes take an hour to play the last minute of the game...
where as Rugby League/Union don't have this inconvinience, once the game begins, it doesn't stop (save for penalties) until the time runs out...
I'd estimate that at least 80% of all games sold for GCN are either 1st or 2nd party titles... they're the reason why people like myself bought a gamecube... since they directly profit from every 1st/2nd party game sold, this niche can easily keep them afloat...
to hell with the flood of 3rd party crap that owners of other consoles have to wade through to find a decent game... once again, I'll take quality over quantity any day...
1) When SNES games sold for $50/each, the extra cost of the SuperFX chip was high enough that it only ended up being used in a few games, only one of which was a 3rd party game. GBA games are only $30-$35 each, so there's less room to make money.
It's also very old technology, and wouldn't be anywhere near as expensive as it was back in the days when StarFox first hit the shelves...
1. Develop software and place it under an OSS license 2. Distribute said software, and promote to gain market presence 3. Sell support contracts, run certification courses , develop custom features by request... 4. Profit!!
very interesting... you'd think that doing such a thing would be protected by free speech laws... I guess it shows that MS preys heavily on these young malliable minds, and holds them as an asset...
I'd say it's the university and college IT faculties (teachers mainly) that need to be exposed to Linux/OSS, aswell as the students. If they were shown the benefits of OSS over closed source software, maybe they would weigh in and attempt to block such anti-competitive acts, since they may hold some sway in the methods/products used to teach the various aspects of IT...
BitTorrent is one of those apps that proves that P2P does have legitimate uses... and everyone I know who uses it, doesn't use it for distributing/obtaining warez...
The *AA can't have that, or their argument that "P2P has no other use than to distribute pirated media" becomes moot when it is clearly shown that THERE ARE legitimate uses for P2P software...
Well, apart from the fact that they get keep churning out the same games and characters that is.
Yeah but their games are good... Most other gaming companies do the same thing(Turok, Spyro, Crash Bandicoot, Lara Croft, etc...)with mixed results, Nintendo are VERY consitent with their quality...
Infact, the most innovative console games these days come from Nintnedo and their 2nd party developers, IMHO... Eteranl Darkness? Pikmin? new ideas executed marvelously...
being that you're so averse to Socialism in all it's forms, I hope you stand by your ideals and never send your childeren to a public school, or ever use public transport... I mean, that would make you a communist!!
Socialism is everywhere... people just don't call it as such...
the authors of any GPL software are free to sue anyone who is not abiding by the license
I've always wondered, if OSS developers decided they were going to sue someone for misappropriation of their code, what would they be sueing for??
I mean, it's not like they've incurred any financial damages by their code being misused (unless you consider that they could have taken royalties or a licensing contract for use of the code)... can anyone tell me how an OSS developer would go about extracting money, and what damages they could claim from the code theives?
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They went on and on about code and rules and "do you really think that your muscles have anything to do with how strong you are...in this place?"
Yes, they did go into that... but did they go into why Neo had superman like powers, as compared to, say, Morpheus? No... it was simply because he was 'The One'...
Also, I gleaned from the Architects speach, that he was not a 'standard' human soul, that he was slightly modified to balance an equation to suit the Matrix, and that this is what caused the 'anomaly'... it was this that gave him extra powers over the machines in the real world, I suspect, because he was part of them due to said modification...
So, you accepted "the powers of 'The One' extend beyond the machine world, all the way back to the human world." as explanation of why he can use his matrix powers outside of the matrix?
Well yes... are you insinuating that there was better explaination of his powers inside the Matrix? All I seem to remeber is him being told he was 'The One', and could therefore perform some truely funky manuvers inside the Matrix... why then is it not satisfactory that they tell him that 'Your powers are far greater than anyone had really known'? He's 'The One', and yes, that was enough explaination for me...
mmmm, better usb... *droolz*
The Architect speech? Forget it, he doesn't know what he's talking about, he's just an adding machine
Well, I can see why you were disappionted... I got ALOT of things from his speech, so much so, that without it the 3rd one wouldn't have made sense in alot of areas.
Neo's out-of-Matrix powers? Not explained...
Ahh, yes they were... at least no more than his in-the-matrix powers... The oracle told him that the powers of 'The One' extend beyond the machine world, all the way back to the human world. How could you miss that?
Overall I can say I am very satisfied with the Matrix trilogy, something most people would never admit.
/rant
Here here...
I think the biggest problem with the Matrix trilogy, is that the second 2 movies were different in scope to the original.
When I first saw 'The Matrix', I had no idea what to expect. The way they showed you what the matrix was, and how Neo came to wake up from it, was one of the most mind boggling scenes to ever grace the movie screen. After seeing the first one, and proclaiming my love for it, I heard that there were sequels in the making. At first I was expecting the same sort of jaw dropping 'OMFG!' reaction that I had to the first one, then I realized that there was no way that the W. Bros. would be able to pull off the same slight of hand as they did with the first one, because everyone already knew what the Matrix was and why it operated. That is the crux of my argument, when people saw the first one, they didn't know what the Matrix was, and were presented.. acctually make that thrust into, a fresh new fantasy world unlike any other in recent years.
The second and third movies, were different, in that they didn't start with a Mr. Anderson searching for answers, and in the end finding out he was the 'Chosen One', they began with the expectation that people knew what the Matrix was before they saw it. Hence, there was no easy way for the W. Bros. to present that same 'OMFG! the life he was leading wasn't real' kind of surprise. All they could really do was to use the dynamics developed in the first one, and apply them as a continuation of the same story.
I believe people were expecting the 'OMFG!' factor of the first to be common in all 3 films, and when that didn't happen they cried 'THIS MOVIE SUCKS!', because they were expecting to be blown away in the same fashion, when really, if they hadn't held that preconception they would see that all 3 are very good movies (IMHO), albiet in different ways.
Because MS hasn't signed a contract with SCO containing a non-compete clause.
Not that I think any of SCO's claims hold water...
... A Beowulf Clod of Insensitive Soviet Russians ...
Wow, way to contribute to society and the economy.
excuse me? are you trying to say Linus has contributed to neither the economy or society? pardon me while a go red in the face with laughter...
Get this, Linus has given years of virtually free labour to Linux, which is doing quite well as a server OS in many businesses that make money via its functionality...
could you please enlighten me as to how this equates to zero contribution to society?
Would you also care to inform me, how having an OS that is monitarily free (keeps money in peoples pockets), and creates jobs for sys-admins and training organizations (not to mention hundreds of other businesses using Linux in their business plan) is not contributing to the economy?
Didn't think so troll...
I'd like to know if there are any kernel developers out there who are planing to persue SCO for violation of their copyright, and if so, are they planing on filing their claims as a collective suit with other infringed upon developers, or will they persue it individually?
Maybe a project for the FSF or OSI, could be to organize a single law-suit on behalf of all willing, contributing kernel developers... of course, there would need to be funding, and I, for one, would give $50 towards SCO's destruction (and I'm not even a kernel developer) if such an initiative were to materialize.
PLEDGE YOUR MONEY NOW!
Yes, but...
when trying to push in one of the diagonal directions, you are pushing 2 buttons as opposed to having them joined under your thumb, which makes for much cleaner HADOUKEN type d-pad maneuvers.
I'm getting this no matter what any reviews say about it... firstly because Soul Calibur was so awesome, secondly because of Link... oh.. and the arcade stick peripheral... mmmm :)
How the name of fuck, did this AC get modded +2 informative?
truer words have never been spoken...
It's good to hear that Sega has made some money (indirectly) from the N-Gage, cuz I'm pretty darn sure Nokia wont see a cent...
I think you're wrong about that... The GameCube, to my woe, is selling quite badly here in Australia. So the fact that they are releasing it here suggests that it has nothing to do with Nintendo perceiving less of a market for it.
I think it has more to do with Europe being so culturally diverse... They'd have to make so many localization changes (holidays and such) for every country they released it in Europe, that it just isn't feasible...
IMO anyway...
It's due to the timeouts (sporting sense, not in the network sense) that they have in American football... it can sometimes take an hour to play the last minute of the game...
where as Rugby League/Union don't have this inconvinience, once the game begins, it doesn't stop (save for penalties) until the time runs out...
I'd estimate that at least 80% of all games sold for GCN are either 1st or 2nd party titles... they're the reason why people like myself bought a gamecube... since they directly profit from every 1st/2nd party game sold, this niche can easily keep them afloat...
to hell with the flood of 3rd party crap that owners of other consoles have to wade through to find a decent game... once again, I'll take quality over quantity any day...
It's also very old technology, and wouldn't be anywhere near as expensive as it was back in the days when StarFox first hit the shelves...
Example of an OSS Business model:
1. Develop software and place it under an OSS license
2. Distribute said software, and promote to gain market presence
3. Sell support contracts, run certification courses , develop custom features by request...
4. Profit!!
very interesting... you'd think that doing such a thing would be protected by free speech laws... I guess it shows that MS preys heavily on these young malliable minds, and holds them as an asset...
...
I'd say it's the university and college IT faculties (teachers mainly) that need to be exposed to Linux/OSS, aswell as the students. If they were shown the benefits of OSS over closed source software, maybe they would weigh in and attempt to block such anti-competitive acts, since they may hold some sway in the methods/products used to teach the various aspects of IT...
*sigh*
I know I didn't RTFA, but...
BitTorrent is one of those apps that proves that P2P does have legitimate uses... and everyone I know who uses it, doesn't use it for distributing/obtaining warez...
The *AA can't have that, or their argument that "P2P has no other use than to distribute pirated media" becomes moot when it is clearly shown that THERE ARE legitimate uses for P2P software...
Yeah but their games are good... Most other gaming companies do the same thing(Turok, Spyro, Crash Bandicoot, Lara Croft, etc...)with mixed results, Nintendo are VERY consitent with their quality...
Infact, the most innovative console games these days come from Nintnedo and their 2nd party developers, IMHO... Eteranl Darkness? Pikmin? new ideas executed marvelously...
Also known as 'Recursive Slashdotting'
being that you're so averse to Socialism in all it's forms, I hope you stand by your ideals and never send your childeren to a public school, or ever use public transport... I mean, that would make you a communist!!
Socialism is everywhere... people just don't call it as such...
I've always wondered, if OSS developers decided they were going to sue someone for misappropriation of their code, what would they be sueing for??
I mean, it's not like they've incurred any financial damages by their code being misused (unless you consider that they could have taken royalties or a licensing contract for use of the code)... can anyone tell me how an OSS developer would go about extracting money, and what damages they could claim from the code theives?