I'm sure if humans and chimps could produce an offspring, I'm sure the production of them as a slave population would have been well-entrenched 10,000 years ago (and would infiltrate all writings like the Bible, etc., and be long decided as culturally acceptable.)
1. There's nothing like a powerful motor vibrating the whole car when you're out on a date. Many nerdly enviromentalists wouldn't understand this, though.
By the way, lest someone think I am one, I am for the complete Trantorization of Earth. A powerful, throbbing, free society with millions of engineers and scientists will advance human society and cure any environmental issues a lot faster than they crop up, and a hell of a lot faster than would happen were more draconian environmental laws passed. Counter-intuitive, but true. Two parallel worlds, one with Kyoto, one without. With will lag further and further behind in quality of life for people.
1. Power generated elsewhere -- even if its burning hydrocarbons, you can have better filters on plants than you can on a combustion engine = less polution entering the environment overall.
2. Pollution exitting power plant pollutes one area. This is much better than cars constantly polluting everywhere.
3. Probably it's more efficient (don't know though) even burning hydrocarbons
4. As mentioned, many places can use wind or hydro (if the god damned environmentalists would get the hell out of the way instead of playing contrarian everywhere they can. Ironically, it's a lack of understanding the bigger picture...)
> My question - If these cards are getting so > powerful at computations then why do we need a > Intel/AMD processor at all?
I do believe Intel is having secret shitfits about this. The NVidia guy, IIRC well over a year ago, stated his GPUs had many more transistors than a P4. The day is coming when a Pentium core can, and will be tucked in the corner of a GPU, then Intel will not be needed anymore, at least for the big iron.
Intel realized years ago there wasn't much need for faster Pentiums for normal applications. Not counting small applications of number crunching, the last thing besided 3D that needed a powerful CPU -- real time DVD software decoding -- was passed without a hitch four or five years ago.
Now that GPUs include not just scene rendering, but lighting and even physical transformations all in hardware, the need for the Pentium almost disappears. Why not have the GPU handle that, too, with a little Pentium core?
> On an off-tangent note i'm not so sure about > defining it as a rave
It's not a rave, it's Saturnalia.
Societies that want to build population fast have such ceremonies, for obvious reasons. Spread the gene pool around randomly, nine months later a whole new crop pops out.
Then Christianity & friends come along and fuck things up.^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^ H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^ H^HThen the future is wonderful!
You're thinking about "his little brother, Dozer".
Tank died, Dozer survived. They didn't hire the guy (too bad, he seemed to be the one guy who could act) for the second film for a reason I don't know.
To the best of my knowledge, Dozer is still alive, and is just taking some mini courses while living with his girlfriend behind the storage room where the giant, mechanical ents are kept.
> (For example, the Agent jumping on the hood of > the car would look bad at normal film speed.)
This was the same reason they almost never showed Steve Austin running at normal speed. They tried it and it just looked stupid. As a 10 year old, I watched every episode of The Six Million Dollar Man (back in the "...one million dollars!" days) and only saw him running in non slo-mo once, as a farmer watched him run across a field from a distance.
> So what if the fight scenes were unnecessary. > They were still way better than anything that's > been put on the screen since the original > Matrix.
Ahh, therein lies your error. There were very few "WOW" moments. As comparison, the fight scenes in the ripoff "The One" movie were a lot better than all but a few brief moments here and there in this one.
Hah! My wife (who wanted to come) said exactly the same thing! The Neo/Trinity love story was there for all the girlfriends who got drug along to this movie.
She looks like the love child of Traci Lords and Jaime Pressly. (Which, of course, would be a good thing, as would watching the union that created such a creature.)
The animal dances were certainly not part of the world most of the Zionites came from.
Evidently the major export from The Matrix are not nerdlings (Morpheus' crew is thus the exception rather than the rule) but California actress/model/spokespeople/waiters.
At the end you see some sentinels getting into Zion at night while it sleeps. Then someone talks about how everything was destroyed, then they keep boring deeper into the earth.
What did I miss? Did Smith let them in? How did they get ahead of where Zion thought they were, so much so that they were just sleeping normally? Or was that not Zion but just looked like it?
> "You're not here to make a choice, you've > already made it, you're here to find out why > you made that choice"
When the Oracle started talking about this, I started thinking back to the mentor superhero in Mystery Men with all his stereotypical words of wisdom that they all kept making fun of.
"You're not here to make a choice, you've al..."
Then Ben Stiller cuts in, "Yeah yeah, I know, you're here to find out why you made that choice."
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No shit.
Grow up, children!
It's not like Monica Belluci demanding to kiss me in The Matrix, for god's sake.
I'm sure if humans and chimps could produce an offspring, I'm sure the production of them as a slave population would have been well-entrenched 10,000 years ago (and would infiltrate all writings like the Bible, etc., and be long decided as culturally acceptable.)
I'm sorry, it sounded like it was.
> OK, but only if ALL public servants submit to
> it first, for a test period of 5 years
Will never happen.
Imagine:
Scientist: Ok, Mr. Johnson, low level functionary of the Health and Human Services Department...
Johnson: Farm Bureau
Scientist: Sorry, Farm Bureau. Anyway, let's see what you've been up to these last five years. Hmmm...
Scientist: Well, pretty typical. You are, after all, a government worker.
And their mathematics uses x, y, and zed, which everyone knows is much more evil, too. Damned Saddam.
Oh, I forgot the downside:
1. There's nothing like a powerful motor vibrating the whole car when you're out on a date. Many nerdly enviromentalists wouldn't understand this, though.
By the way, lest someone think I am one, I am for the complete Trantorization of Earth. A powerful, throbbing, free society with millions of engineers and scientists will advance human society and cure any environmental issues a lot faster than they crop up, and a hell of a lot faster than would happen were more draconian environmental laws passed. Counter-intuitive, but true. Two parallel worlds, one with Kyoto, one without. With will lag further and further behind in quality of life for people.
There are advantages to an electric vehicle:
1. Power generated elsewhere -- even if its burning hydrocarbons, you can have better filters on plants than you can on a combustion engine = less polution entering the environment overall.
2. Pollution exitting power plant pollutes one area. This is much better than cars constantly polluting everywhere.
3. Probably it's more efficient (don't know though) even burning hydrocarbons
4. As mentioned, many places can use wind or hydro (if the god damned environmentalists would get the hell out of the way instead of playing contrarian everywhere they can. Ironically, it's a lack of understanding the bigger picture...)
> My question - If these cards are getting so
> powerful at computations then why do we need a
> Intel/AMD processor at all?
I do believe Intel is having secret shitfits about this. The NVidia guy, IIRC well over a year ago, stated his GPUs had many more transistors than a P4. The day is coming when a Pentium core can, and will be tucked in the corner of a GPU, then Intel will not be needed anymore, at least for the big iron.
Intel realized years ago there wasn't much need for faster Pentiums for normal applications. Not counting small applications of number crunching, the last thing besided 3D that needed a powerful CPU -- real time DVD software decoding -- was passed without a hitch four or five years ago.
Now that GPUs include not just scene rendering, but lighting and even physical transformations all in hardware, the need for the Pentium almost disappears. Why not have the GPU handle that, too, with a little Pentium core?
> what if neo is statically linked?
.dll action (Dynamic Link Laying) going on with Trinity.
Can't be. There was some
> On an off-tangent note i'm not so sure about
^ H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^ H^HThen the future is wonderful!
> defining it as a rave
It's not a rave, it's Saturnalia.
Societies that want to build population fast have such ceremonies, for obvious reasons. Spread the gene pool around randomly, nine months later a whole new crop pops out.
Then Christianity & friends come along and fuck things up.^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H
> They fixed the problem in 10 minutes, but only
> missed 2 minutes of the movie?
"Don't worry about it. You just missed Morpheus almost falling off the truck 6 more times."
You're thinking about "his little brother, Dozer".
Tank died, Dozer survived. They didn't hire the guy (too bad, he seemed to be the one guy who could act) for the second film for a reason I don't know.
To the best of my knowledge, Dozer is still alive, and is just taking some mini courses while living with his girlfriend behind the storage room where the giant, mechanical ents are kept.
> so what is outside the outer matrix? reality?
Dwane Dibley? Dwane Dibley!!?!?!?
> (For example, the Agent jumping on the hood of
> the car would look bad at normal film speed.)
This was the same reason they almost never showed Steve Austin running at normal speed. They tried it and it just looked stupid. As a 10 year old, I watched every episode of The Six Million Dollar Man (back in the "...one million dollars!" days) and only saw him running in non slo-mo once, as a farmer watched him run across a field from a distance.
Dang, what they could do with that show nowadays.
> Top geek/hacker moment:
>
> Trinity uses SSH!!!!!
Top geek/hacker anti-moment:
Trinity and Neo having sex!!!!!
> So what if the fight scenes were unnecessary.
> They were still way better than anything that's
> been put on the screen since the original
> Matrix.
Ahh, therein lies your error. There were very few "WOW" moments. As comparison, the fight scenes in the ripoff "The One" movie were a lot better than all but a few brief moments here and there in this one.
> as the 45-minute credits scrolled by
Evidently they had to list the names of every one of the 275,000 extras for the Zion scenes.
I thought they took out all the disks. I understand the symbolism of it, but yeesh.
> The fleet was massacred, but they weren't
> exactly defending the front gates. Zion is
> still there, at least for the time being.
That makes more sense than that Zion was destroyed, then "they started boring downward again."
HOWEVER, what was up with all those sentinels sneaking into Zion in the middle of the night?
Hah! My wife (who wanted to come) said exactly the same thing! The Neo/Trinity love story was there for all the girlfriends who got drug along to this movie.
Who was the girl in the cake scene anyway?
She looks like the love child of Traci Lords and Jaime Pressly. (Which, of course, would be a good thing, as would watching the union that created such a creature.)
The animal dances were certainly not part of the world most of the Zionites came from.
Evidently the major export from The Matrix are not nerdlings (Morpheus' crew is thus the exception rather than the rule) but California actress/model/spokespeople/waiters.
> ? And if I were a sentient being from a race
> that...reproduced by budding, what "*meaning"*
> would I ascribe to dancing or sex?
I've often wondered if salmon pornography would involve pictures of eggs instead of females.
Would make a good Farside cartoon.
At the end you see some sentinels getting into Zion at night while it sleeps. Then someone talks about how everything was destroyed, then they keep boring deeper into the earth.
What did I miss? Did Smith let them in? How did they get ahead of where Zion thought they were, so much so that they were just sleeping normally? Or was that not Zion but just looked like it?
> "You're not here to make a choice, you've
> already made it, you're here to find out why
> you made that choice"
When the Oracle started talking about this, I started thinking back to the mentor superhero in Mystery Men with all his stereotypical words of wisdom that they all kept making fun of.
"You're not here to make a choice, you've al..."
Then Ben Stiller cuts in, "Yeah yeah, I know, you're here to find out why you made that choice."