I think the best explination i've heard, or at least the one I like the most, is someone said Neo is really just a computer program too. The purpose of Neo, and the whole reason 5 different versions of him have existed alreay, is to try and find the "perfect" AI. The Matrix is really run by humans, the the humans are trying to find a version of Neo that will truely be human enough to be considedered actual AI.
If you remember where Trinity types in her password to crack the power system, Z1ON0101, the binary 0101 translates to 5. Is Trinity aware of this being the 5th incarnation through the fact that she too is just a computer program or is this just odd coincidence?
For the people who say the 2nd was too much action, and not enough plot i think it was twice the plot and action... This second one raises a lot more mindfuck questions.
err... he's not trolling
yes, he is. look at his recent posts and you'll get an idea of how often he trolls
I have at work bunch of Macs running 10.2.6 with GeForce 2MX cards and a motley collection of PCs fitted with Matrox G450 cards running Win2K - irrespective of CPU speed, the Win machines are more responsive for most UI tasks - they're just drawing much simpler things on the screen, and that's all there is to it.
They are drawing simpler things on the screen using CPU power, not the almost always idle GPU. If you're trying to tell me win2k with a matrox g450 draws things like transparency, anti-alias, and shadows, and vector window animations as fast as win2k on a g450 then you're sorely mistaken. do i have to get out a stop watch for you guys? my powerbook running 867mhz redraws faster than my athlon 1700 desktop with a gig of ram in win xp.
I spend my OWN money on Apple PCs - I'm no Win troll.
i'm not sure what that's supposed to imply in the context of this situation.
wow, spoken like a true troll who's probably never run OS X. With about $600 you can put together an 800mhz g4 that i guarantee would run faster than a PIII 700 anyday.
If you knew anything at all about OS X, you'd also know that it offloads all the visual interface processing to the graphics card, thus leaving the cpu free for processing which would make it even faster than your windows 2k desktop. since it's a g4, an 800 mhz machine will run comparable to an intel 1.6ghz.
To be honest, the easiest way to solve such a thing is with a dual CPU setup.. Which is why if you've ever used a dual powermac you're blown away by the responsiveness of the system even when doing heavy processing tasks. It's a shame more cookie-cutter hardware manufacturers haven't realized this like apple has, and released dual cpu ready machines to the consumer. Despite popular belief, they're not that expensive to build and the benefits are noticable to the average user.
Dual cpus, and Ram are the most overlooked things in a computer. A dual 1ghz will *feel* faster than a 2ghz just due to multiasking the UI and applications, and a machine with 1ghz and 1gb of ram will *feel* faster than a 2ghz with 128mb of ram.
I figured that was a major problem getting ogg running on small mp3 processors. Good to see that someone is trying to tackle it. I just hope your effors are BSD licensed so that businesses can use it. I'm normally a GPL person, but GPL isn't going to benefit businesses releasing ogg support. It's a chicken an egg problem. No one will put ogg on the portable music players, so I (as well as many others I'm sure) won't switch to straight ogg on their desktop.
I have an iPod.. I know the cpus they use in these are pretty beefy compared to the other mp3 players -- does this one have the raw power to do tremor?
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that's not elitism, it's true. if you can't figure out how to install a program as complex as mysql, which isn't that hard to install in osx, there's a good chance you can't use it.
Ok, you're an organization that sends UNSOLICITED emails, and you're attacking an organization who keeps a list of ips? No one is forced to use spamhaus's list -- they use the list because they don't want to receive your crap.
I know I called fujitsu in several occasions, and I even emailed them asking for them to support Linux as an operating system with their laptops, or to at least offer a laptop for sale that doesn't provide an operating system.
The downside is I already sold my fujitsu laptop out of frustration and bought a powerbook.
If I was going to develop a new Windows app, I'd be doing it in.NET, no question. But when it comes to cross-platform or enterprise level development,.NET is not ready for prime time.
why go that far? That's why we have SWT from IBM. Think AWT, but not crap. It's native windows/gtk2/cocoa/motif, and it's cross platform. It's by far the best windowing toolkit i've seen. If you haven't seen it before, download eclipse to see what i mean.
It's already ported to a slew of platforms so you're never locked into one operating system (Windows). It's proven, and reliable, and has a huge backing already. Anything that can be done in.NET can already be done in Java (Web Services, Programs, Applets).
But then i found out about this site: www.purchaseprogram.com.
I haven't bought a system from there yet, but even after you pay the $250 fee, and tax, and shipping, you can still get a kick ass dual 1.25ghz powermac for less than the spare parts that corecrib offers.
Why wouldn't it be a War? It's fairly evident that corporate america's view of competition is war. Particularly when they try and use tactics like forcing government places (i.e. schools) to use things like Windows over cheaper and more secure alternatives.
You people just won't understand until someone hits you over the head with a large blunt object?
Computers are getting so fast now that speed is no longer an issue. A 1Ghz pIII with 256 ram today is fast enough to run every piece of linux software under the sun, and I'm sorry but if you can't afford to put together a machine that is that cheap (and that is cheap). For people with commodity hardware who want to run BlackBox there will always be a distro around like Gentoo or BSD that can build and optimize from source, but for god sakes linux *NEEDS* a unified desktop. I'm even going to venture as far to say that either gnome or kde needs to go away -- and right now KDE is a heck of a lot more full featured than gnome, in configuration, integration, and most important application consistancy. Gnome has it's good points -- at one point i ditched gnome for kde and didn't come back to kde until 3.1 came out, but evended up back at KDE just because Gnome is so fragmented.
I've had a powerbook for only 2 months, and guess what? I'm buying a powermac as soon as i can afford one. Want to know why? It "Just Works." Everything is constistent, polished, usable, and friendly.
Apps are installed with a drag and drop. I can click on the dock and get a terminal. I can xforward apps from my linux servers, and I the development tools all come free from apple, plus Safari is the most amazing browser currently on the market (I'm even going to say better than mozilla right now and that's sad considering how long mozilla has been out compared to safari).
In order for ALL of this to work, choice MUST be limited.
The beauty of the old iPod design was that it doubled as a Firewire hard drive AND an mp3 player. I praised apple for sticking to a non proprietary interface for docking, and then look what they went and did.
To make matters worse, they switched from an intelligent radial design, which if you know anything about good interfaces you know that radial designs kick ass, to this 4 button shit. Why apple, why?!
The Itanium had a lot of good ideas, but no matter how much you want to drop an old architecture and start over from scratch like the goal of that project was, you've got to provide a transition period. Athlon's doing this with the Opteron, Apple is doing this with OS X using the Carbon Toolkit, etc etc. The *key* to getting a user base to switch from an older architecture to a newer one has to be a compatability layer.
Perhaps that is what doomed Itanium 1 to failure form the start. (Well that combined with the horrible heat output and power consuption of the Itanium 1).
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Nothing is truely good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.
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What about VMWare which lets me install windows and run it inside linux?
What about VirtualPC which lets me run windows on my powerbook?
Those aren't even technically emulators for windows. VMWare is a virtual machine emulator: it simply lets you boot an opearing system inside another. It doesn't have to be Windows. Likewise VirtualPC is an x86 emulator. I could just as soon install BeOS in VirtualPC last i checked. And now the final response, WINE (as we all should know WINE Is Not an Emulator, it's an application translation layer). That means it just translates win32 to linux. Emulation is a totally different ball game.
no offense but, there are so many solutions to edit word documents in OSX that I've yet to even consider abiword. OpenOffice, or Micro$oft Office have word doc editors with integrated graph & spreadsheet programs. Abiword is fine for *nix, but it's got little use in a largely commercial based operating system (at least it has for me thus far, and I used to use abiword in linux).
Besides, if i really want to run abiword that badly in osx, i'll just run the gtk version through fink/x11.
no AC, the problem is mostly that a lot of the options provided are file system functions, not web based functions. If konqueror was written properly, it would switch to "web mode" whenever it goes to a webpage, and "filesystem mode" whenever it goes to a file folder (kind of like IE does). options like up are a FS function, don't need it. Back and forward i can see staying. create data cd is a FS function, not a web function. view source and view doc info could be combined. there shouldn't be 3 ways to open tabs, there should just be 1 open in tab, with 3 options in the preferences dialog about which one you want to occur, open with is a FS function, preview with is a FS function, move to is a FS function, select all is actually valid so it could say, stop animations is useless and should be moved somewhere else because no one would ever use it often enough to warrant it's use in the right click menu, which people will see ALL the time, security and encoding are preference options and don't belong in the right click menu either. i've just knocked out about 3/4ths of the menu items just because they either a: belong only in a file browser, or b: belong in the preferences dialog.
not sad at all. i'm a long time galeon/mozilla/konqueor user from linux, and the moment i tried this browser i was in heaven. It's the most simple, powerful browser i've ever seen and it's the fastest to boot. It sure would be nice if the rest of the interface community would get a hint.
which is nicer to see when you right click on the background of a webpage, this:
Safari
view source
save page as
or
Konqueror
up
back
forward
reload
open in new window
open in background tab
open in new tab
add to bookmarks
open with...
preview in...
create k3b cd
copy to
move to
select all
stop animations
view document source
view document information
security
set encoding
mind you, i see all that crap EVERY time i rightclick on the background in konqueror. why do i see create data cd? why do i see open in new tab? i'm not even right clicking on a link!
If browser makers reduced half this clutter it wouldn't even be nearly as useful and powerful as safari.
It would be a shame to see mplayer lose maintenance, but I'm sure someone will step up to the plate. Xine never could cut it quite like MPlayer as far as stability, customizability and the number of file formats supported.
Why if it wasn't for mplayer i wouldn't be able to play divx files on my powerbook without trying to configure the heck out of QuickTime (which i never managed to get DivX working in).
*Hears the sound of a thousand geeks screaming with joy*
The question is, with dvd burners, can this bad boy play a DVD burned full of ogg/mp3s? Can it play DVD full of DivX movies? I can fit between 5-6 movies or more on a DVD.
i classify anime as big bulging eyes with ity bity mouths, and spiky hair. the first one didn't have too much of thi -- so i'm more willing to classify it as animated, not necessarily anime.
or am i stereotyping based on japanimation?
It's important not to exaggerate when you're advocating something. In this case, exactly how many thousand of these Qt/GTK apps are useful, unique, and stable?
Considering that i've used linux for the past 6 or 7 months and had few problems, the majority of the apps are stable.
As far as useful: most *nix apps have the problem of being *too* functional with usability problems.
As far as unique: i'd rather have 4 apps that do the same thing slightly different so that i can choose which one i like the most (Gentoo, Debian, Slackware) than only 1 choice (Windows).
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I think the best explination i've heard, or at least the one I like the most, is someone said Neo is really just a computer program too. The purpose of Neo, and the whole reason 5 different versions of him have existed alreay, is to try and find the "perfect" AI. The Matrix is really run by humans, the the humans are trying to find a version of Neo that will truely be human enough to be considedered actual AI.
If you remember where Trinity types in her password to crack the power system, Z1ON0101, the binary 0101 translates to 5. Is Trinity aware of this being the 5th incarnation through the fact that she too is just a computer program or is this just odd coincidence?
For the people who say the 2nd was too much action, and not enough plot i think it was twice the plot and action... This second one raises a lot more mindfuck questions.
err... he's not trolling
yes, he is. look at his recent posts and you'll get an idea of how often he trolls
I have at work bunch of Macs running 10.2.6 with GeForce 2MX cards and a motley collection of PCs fitted with Matrox G450 cards running Win2K - irrespective of CPU speed, the Win machines are more responsive for most UI tasks - they're just drawing much simpler things on the screen, and that's all there is to it.
They are drawing simpler things on the screen using CPU power, not the almost always idle GPU. If you're trying to tell me win2k with a matrox g450 draws things like transparency, anti-alias, and shadows, and vector window animations as fast as win2k on a g450 then you're sorely mistaken. do i have to get out a stop watch for you guys? my powerbook running 867mhz redraws faster than my athlon 1700 desktop with a gig of ram in win xp.
I spend my OWN money on Apple PCs - I'm no Win troll.
i'm not sure what that's supposed to imply in the context of this situation.
wow, spoken like a true troll who's probably never run OS X. With about $600 you can put together an 800mhz g4 that i guarantee would run faster than a PIII 700 anyday.
If you knew anything at all about OS X, you'd also know that it offloads all the visual interface processing to the graphics card, thus leaving the cpu free for processing which would make it even faster than your windows 2k desktop. since it's a g4, an 800 mhz machine will run comparable to an intel 1.6ghz.
To be honest, the easiest way to solve such a thing is with a dual CPU setup.. Which is why if you've ever used a dual powermac you're blown away by the responsiveness of the system even when doing heavy processing tasks. It's a shame more cookie-cutter hardware manufacturers haven't realized this like apple has, and released dual cpu ready machines to the consumer. Despite popular belief, they're not that expensive to build and the benefits are noticable to the average user.
Dual cpus, and Ram are the most overlooked things in a computer. A dual 1ghz will *feel* faster than a 2ghz just due to multiasking the UI and applications, and a machine with 1ghz and 1gb of ram will *feel* faster than a 2ghz with 128mb of ram.
I figured that was a major problem getting ogg running on small mp3 processors. Good to see that someone is trying to tackle it. I just hope your effors are BSD licensed so that businesses can use it. I'm normally a GPL person, but GPL isn't going to benefit businesses releasing ogg support. It's a chicken an egg problem. No one will put ogg on the portable music players, so I (as well as many others I'm sure) won't switch to straight ogg on their desktop.
I have an iPod.. I know the cpus they use in these are pretty beefy compared to the other mp3 players -- does this one have the raw power to do tremor?
that's not elitism, it's true. if you can't figure out how to install a program as complex as mysql, which isn't that hard to install in osx, there's a good chance you can't use it.
Ok, you're an organization that sends UNSOLICITED emails, and you're attacking an organization who keeps a list of ips? No one is forced to use spamhaus's list -- they use the list because they don't want to receive your crap.
I know I called fujitsu in several occasions, and I even emailed them asking for them to support Linux as an operating system with their laptops, or to at least offer a laptop for sale that doesn't provide an operating system.
The downside is I already sold my fujitsu laptop out of frustration and bought a powerbook.
If I was going to develop a new Windows app, I'd be doing it in .NET, no question. But when it comes to cross-platform or enterprise level development, .NET is not ready for prime time.
why go that far? That's why we have SWT from IBM. Think AWT, but not crap. It's native windows/gtk2/cocoa/motif, and it's cross platform. It's by far the best windowing toolkit i've seen. If you haven't seen it before, download eclipse to see what i mean.
It's already ported to a slew of platforms so you're never locked into one operating system (Windows). It's proven, and reliable, and has a huge backing already. Anything that can be done in .NET can already be done in Java (Web Services, Programs, Applets).
But then i found out about this site: www.purchaseprogram.com. I haven't bought a system from there yet, but even after you pay the $250 fee, and tax, and shipping, you can still get a kick ass dual 1.25ghz powermac for less than the spare parts that corecrib offers.
Why wouldn't it be a War? It's fairly evident that corporate america's view of competition is war. Particularly when they try and use tactics like forcing government places (i.e. schools) to use things like Windows over cheaper and more secure alternatives.
You people just won't understand until someone hits you over the head with a large blunt object?
Computers are getting so fast now that speed is no longer an issue. A 1Ghz pIII with 256 ram today is fast enough to run every piece of linux software under the sun, and I'm sorry but if you can't afford to put together a machine that is that cheap (and that is cheap). For people with commodity hardware who want to run BlackBox there will always be a distro around like Gentoo or BSD that can build and optimize from source, but for god sakes linux *NEEDS* a unified desktop. I'm even going to venture as far to say that either gnome or kde needs to go away -- and right now KDE is a heck of a lot more full featured than gnome, in configuration, integration, and most important application consistancy. Gnome has it's good points -- at one point i ditched gnome for kde and didn't come back to kde until 3.1 came out, but evended up back at KDE just because Gnome is so fragmented.
I've had a powerbook for only 2 months, and guess what? I'm buying a powermac as soon as i can afford one. Want to know why? It "Just Works." Everything is constistent, polished, usable, and friendly.
Apps are installed with a drag and drop. I can click on the dock and get a terminal. I can xforward apps from my linux servers, and I the development tools all come free from apple, plus Safari is the most amazing browser currently on the market (I'm even going to say better than mozilla right now and that's sad considering how long mozilla has been out compared to safari).
In order for ALL of this to work, choice MUST be limited.
The beauty of the old iPod design was that it doubled as a Firewire hard drive AND an mp3 player. I praised apple for sticking to a non proprietary interface for docking, and then look what they went and did.
To make matters worse, they switched from an intelligent radial design, which if you know anything about good interfaces you know that radial designs kick ass, to this 4 button shit. Why apple, why?!
The Itanium had a lot of good ideas, but no matter how much you want to drop an old architecture and start over from scratch like the goal of that project was, you've got to provide a transition period. Athlon's doing this with the Opteron, Apple is doing this with OS X using the Carbon Toolkit, etc etc. The *key* to getting a user base to switch from an older architecture to a newer one has to be a compatability layer.
Perhaps that is what doomed Itanium 1 to failure form the start. (Well that combined with the horrible heat output and power consuption of the Itanium 1).
Nothing is truely good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.
What about VMWare which lets me install windows and run it inside linux?
What about VirtualPC which lets me run windows on my powerbook?
Those aren't even technically emulators for windows. VMWare is a virtual machine emulator: it simply lets you boot an opearing system inside another. It doesn't have to be Windows. Likewise VirtualPC is an x86 emulator. I could just as soon install BeOS in VirtualPC last i checked. And now the final response, WINE (as we all should know WINE Is Not an Emulator, it's an application translation layer). That means it just translates win32 to linux. Emulation is a totally different ball game.
no offense but, there are so many solutions to edit word documents in OSX that I've yet to even consider abiword. OpenOffice, or Micro$oft Office have word doc editors with integrated graph & spreadsheet programs. Abiword is fine for *nix, but it's got little use in a largely commercial based operating system (at least it has for me thus far, and I used to use abiword in linux).
Besides, if i really want to run abiword that badly in osx, i'll just run the gtk version through fink/x11.
no AC, the problem is mostly that a lot of the options provided are file system functions, not web based functions. If konqueror was written properly, it would switch to "web mode" whenever it goes to a webpage, and "filesystem mode" whenever it goes to a file folder (kind of like IE does). options like up are a FS function, don't need it. Back and forward i can see staying. create data cd is a FS function, not a web function. view source and view doc info could be combined. there shouldn't be 3 ways to open tabs, there should just be 1 open in tab, with 3 options in the preferences dialog about which one you want to occur, open with is a FS function, preview with is a FS function, move to is a FS function, select all is actually valid so it could say, stop animations is useless and should be moved somewhere else because no one would ever use it often enough to warrant it's use in the right click menu, which people will see ALL the time, security and encoding are preference options and don't belong in the right click menu either. i've just knocked out about 3/4ths of the menu items just because they either a: belong only in a file browser, or b: belong in the preferences dialog.
which is nicer to see when you right click on the background of a webpage, this:
- Safari
- view source
- save page as
ormind you, i see all that crap EVERY time i rightclick on the background in konqueror. why do i see create data cd? why do i see open in new tab? i'm not even right clicking on a link!
If browser makers reduced half this clutter it wouldn't even be nearly as useful and powerful as safari.
It would be a shame to see mplayer lose maintenance, but I'm sure someone will step up to the plate. Xine never could cut it quite like MPlayer as far as stability, customizability and the number of file formats supported.
Why if it wasn't for mplayer i wouldn't be able to play divx files on my powerbook without trying to configure the heck out of QuickTime (which i never managed to get DivX working in).
*Hears the sound of a thousand geeks screaming with joy*
The question is, with dvd burners, can this bad boy play a DVD burned full of ogg/mp3s? Can it play DVD full of DivX movies? I can fit between 5-6 movies or more on a DVD.
i classify anime as big bulging eyes with ity bity mouths, and spiky hair. the first one didn't have too much of thi -- so i'm more willing to classify it as animated, not necessarily anime.
or am i stereotyping based on japanimation?
wine compiling cygwin compiling wine compiling cygwin compiling....
It's important not to exaggerate when you're advocating something. In this case, exactly how many thousand of these Qt/GTK apps are useful, unique, and stable?
Considering that i've used linux for the past 6 or 7 months and had few problems, the majority of the apps are stable.
As far as useful: most *nix apps have the problem of being *too* functional with usability problems.
As far as unique: i'd rather have 4 apps that do the same thing slightly different so that i can choose which one i like the most (Gentoo, Debian, Slackware) than only 1 choice (Windows).