I believe the point is that as machines don't generally understand emotion or free will - that heavily implies that machine consciousness is incompatible with human consciousness.
But as the cute indian family says in the train station says, they are all but words. It is the connection they describe, and I think that is clearly described early on in the movie.
the 'how' is the philosophical leap as to why Smith can suddenly do this in M2, but it never occurred to any agent before then to do so or even try (and kill the Runners where they are most vulnerable, on their ship, asleep). If smith could have uploaded himself in M1, wouldn't he have just killed Cypher and loaded himself onto the Neb to clean up the rest?
Clearly it has something to do with his ability to take (even unplugged) people over in M2 - but that is never explained.
This is also clearly explained in M2, as Smith in the Many Smiths scene in M2: "some part of you copied onto me, something overwritten, duplicated."
This also explains how Neo is able to destroy smith in the third movie, when smith takes him over neo gains access to smith's code, yet remains himself, and is able to destroy.
I think people are too busy bitching about M2 and M3 to stop and think about what really happens, and to understand it fully. Almost every complaint I've seen here so far I've been able to answer to myself and even quote a few lines from M2 if applicable.
Stop and think a minute? Oh, that's right, I must be new here...
Anybody know which root servers Verisign doesn't control, and therefore doesn't use this stupid wildcard?
Or do I just not get it and this is a fact of life for now?
until we get gator-type forced advertising (not just incidental unrelated ads on the page) whenever you make the slightest domain mistake? I get the feeling this doesn't bode well for the continued freedom of the internet, if one company can unilaterally do something of this magnitude. (But then again, Mr. Bush seems to get along fine.)
From the article:
any substance that is designed or has the capability to cause death or serious injury
It doesn't matter that it's not designed to do harm. According to the Patriot Act, people who make gasoline/cigarettes, etc. (because it is possible for those substances to do harm) are terrorists and should be prosecuted as such.
Prosecutor Jerry Wilson says he isn't abusing the law, which defines chemical weapons of mass destruction as "any substance that is designed or has the capability to cause death or serious injury" and contains toxic chemicals.
If I chug enough gasoline, I'll die. Let's put the Oil companies away for 12 years to life!
For that matter, drink some bad water from a lake and you'll die. Put the Big Bang away for 12 - life!
Now that's all well and good, but the way it stood, such a site could be blocked quitely and instantly without any sort of appeals process nor warning.
If you're a business doing, say, $1000 of sales a day on the web to customers in PA, and they accidentally block you, what do you do when sales all of the sudden drop by that amount. You wouldn't know anything about your server's IP address being blocked by ISP's, nobody would have told you. Then it takes 2-3 days to find out. Goodbye $3000. A few more days to get a court order to unban, $2000. Then all the ISP's have to go back and un-ban your server, another $1000-5000. There's a possibility of $10,000 of lost sales there, not to mention lost customers who took their purchase elsewhere when they couldn't reach you.
No, if you want to institute some sort of banning, fair notice must to be given to the owner of said IP address, who can then alert their customers to the coming events, and try and appeal. But, whoops! Now the pornographer knows all about it and jumps ship just as soon as they have a backup to $media.
Now we're back to the beginning again. The Child pornagrapher is on another site, another IP address to get banned then appealed. I don't see any way a pre-emptive ban like this could work without harming innocent business.
Umm, no. The Mac vs. Dell comparison was done using one instance of the AE renderer. It was only using 1 CPU. Thus, he was comparing a 3GHz P4 to a single 1.25GHz G4.
That's kind of interesting, considering that the Mac scores were (usually) only 5-20% slower than the Dell, even though the Mac CPU was running 60% slower.
I would like to see the results of the test if one were to use both CPUs (2 AE Rendering Instances) in the Mac. Perhaps the 'Puts it to shame' comparison will be pointing the other direction.
Thats great (changes my outlook on DRM entirely) if the system allows the end user to set rights on each piece of information. But the vibe I got from the article was that the network provider (and content providers through the network provider) set the permissions on the message, regardless of the intents of the end user.
Coporate (or home even) PBX's. They're just like NAT, except for telephones. Now every phone terminal at work has to have it's own phone line purchased from the Telco.
Slashdot Mirror
nothing further needed...
An address that appears 14 times is still one unique address.
No, the idea is that at cooler temps you can run at faster speeds (which generate more heat, which is why you need the cooling).
Or Doofusen?
Moisture (as well as pollutants) in the air. Just like with a keychain laser you can see the beam where there are specs of dust.
And a jammer's not illegal?
As would I.
(goodbye karma)
It isn't already?
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I believe the point is that as machines don't generally understand emotion or free will - that heavily implies that machine consciousness is incompatible with human consciousness.
But as the cute indian family says in the train station says, they are all but words. It is the connection they describe, and I think that is clearly described early on in the movie.
the 'how' is the philosophical leap as to why Smith can suddenly do this in M2, but it never occurred to any agent before then to do so or even try (and kill the Runners where they are most vulnerable, on their ship, asleep). If smith could have uploaded himself in M1, wouldn't he have just killed Cypher and loaded himself onto the Neb to clean up the rest? Clearly it has something to do with his ability to take (even unplugged) people over in M2 - but that is never explained.
This is also clearly explained in M2, as Smith in the Many Smiths scene in M2: "some part of you copied onto me, something overwritten, duplicated."
This also explains how Neo is able to destroy smith in the third movie, when smith takes him over neo gains access to smith's code, yet remains himself, and is able to destroy.
I think people are too busy bitching about M2 and M3 to stop and think about what really happens, and to understand it fully. Almost every complaint I've seen here so far I've been able to answer to myself and even quote a few lines from M2 if applicable.
Stop and think a minute? Oh, that's right, I must be new here...
CowboyNeal works for Satan
I Am Satan, you Insensitive Clod.
Same, I wonder how long it will be before some other big company decides to sue Verisign for some kind of unfair business crap.
Anybody know which root servers Verisign doesn't control, and therefore doesn't use this stupid wildcard? Or do I just not get it and this is a fact of life for now?
until we get gator-type forced advertising (not just incidental unrelated ads on the page) whenever you make the slightest domain mistake? I get the feeling this doesn't bode well for the continued freedom of the internet, if one company can unilaterally do something of this magnitude. (But then again, Mr. Bush seems to get along fine.)
From the article: any substance that is designed or has the capability to cause death or serious injury
It doesn't matter that it's not designed to do harm. According to the Patriot Act, people who make gasoline/cigarettes, etc. (because it is possible for those substances to do harm) are terrorists and should be prosecuted as such.
Prosecutor Jerry Wilson says he isn't abusing the law, which defines chemical weapons of mass destruction as "any substance that is designed or has the capability to cause death or serious injury" and contains toxic chemicals.
If I chug enough gasoline, I'll die. Let's put the Oil companies away for 12 years to life! For that matter, drink some bad water from a lake and you'll die. Put the Big Bang away for 12 - life!
Now that's all well and good, but the way it stood, such a site could be blocked quitely and instantly without any sort of appeals process nor warning.
If you're a business doing, say, $1000 of sales a day on the web to customers in PA, and they accidentally block you, what do you do when sales all of the sudden drop by that amount. You wouldn't know anything about your server's IP address being blocked by ISP's, nobody would have told you. Then it takes 2-3 days to find out. Goodbye $3000. A few more days to get a court order to unban, $2000. Then all the ISP's have to go back and un-ban your server, another $1000-5000. There's a possibility of $10,000 of lost sales there, not to mention lost customers who took their purchase elsewhere when they couldn't reach you.
No, if you want to institute some sort of banning, fair notice must to be given to the owner of said IP address, who can then alert their customers to the coming events, and try and appeal. But, whoops! Now the pornographer knows all about it and jumps ship just as soon as they have a backup to $media.
Now we're back to the beginning again. The Child pornagrapher is on another site, another IP address to get banned then appealed. I don't see any way a pre-emptive ban like this could work without harming innocent business.
Don't forget:
iSub (the world's fastest nuclear submarine) (and a helluva lot quieter than previous models)
And that 80% of all statistics are false?
It would really suck to have to switch back to IPX after all these years.
Yeah, what would we do without the evil bit?
The same thing PHP does in "PHP Hypertext Preprocessor"
Umm, no. The Mac vs. Dell comparison was done using one instance of the AE renderer. It was only using 1 CPU. Thus, he was comparing a 3GHz P4 to a single 1.25GHz G4.
That's kind of interesting, considering that the Mac scores were (usually) only 5-20% slower than the Dell, even though the Mac CPU was running 60% slower.
I would like to see the results of the test if one were to use both CPUs (2 AE Rendering Instances) in the Mac. Perhaps the 'Puts it to shame' comparison will be pointing the other direction.
Thats great (changes my outlook on DRM entirely) if the system allows the end user to set rights on each piece of information. But the vibe I got from the article was that the network provider (and content providers through the network provider) set the permissions on the message, regardless of the intents of the end user.
Just turn off the audio bell and use the visual one.
Coporate (or home even) PBX's. They're just like NAT, except for telephones. Now every phone terminal at work has to have it's own phone line purchased from the Telco.
mysql.com. Don't even have to boot and worship acrobat.