Well that depends on how you look at it. I remember WebTV commercials used to advertise "The internet on your TV!" when all it was, was a web browser. So according to that analogy, they're the same thing, hence, both #1!!! For real, ask WebTV.
Except states have a right to aquisition. So they can say "We're building a big road and your house is in the way. Here's a check for what we think it's worth. Don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out." Houses don't mean anything to them when they're building highways.
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Only a few posts and the site has already been slashquestioned? What is this world coming to when people ask > 10000 questions in the first few minutes of a post!?!
Ohhh, they don't want their competitors to know because they might have said items on sale for even less? So I probably shouldn't say anything about every DVD in the store being on sale for $4.99? Or maybe that 250gb 7200rpm drive's black friday price of $99? What about their one day only sale of XBox and PS2 for only $79.99? And of course, don't forget the 100 DVD-R free after MIR! Don't tell any of their competitors about those or they might have comparative sales!:)
Well, first let me start by saying I'm a HUGE Matrix fan. I dressed up like Neo for the earliest showing of Reloaded (on the extra early opening day at 8pm or whatever is was). That's how big of a fan I am. And I actually did like Reloaded. Not as much as the first one, but I enjoyed it.
With that said, Revolutions was a huge step down. Unlike most of the people posting here who are so dedicated to the 'geekdom' that they have to say the movie is awesome just because they can't bear to admit they have their doubts about its quality, I will speak the truth in my mind. And I probably love the first two movies more than most people.
The Zion battle scenes were excellently done. Breathtaking! The rest of the movie was on the brink of sucking.
They introduced too many characters and tried to make them all so important (which confused the viewer). They already had enough characters to make the story work and possibly the time to close the stories on them by the end. (Keep in mind the producer or someone important posted on the official site that they believe this definately ends the story and there will not be any more sequels--we shall see how that holds up in time).
They totally lost focus that they're supposed to be saving the people IN the Matrix too. Why didn't they ever even act like they cared about the "blue-pills"? Did it become only about Zion now? I'll talk more of this at the end of my post.
Almost all of the sub-plots were never finished. For example...
What happened to the Merovingian and Persephone?
Where were the twins? They seemed to be alive when their SUV blew up in Reloaded.
Why did the real-world Smith throw Trinity down a hatch and close it instead of slitting her throat? There was no reason to keep her alive. Other than she was needed in the movie after that (I guess, she really wasn't IMO).
Why were the indian people in the subway station if they were programs? Why would they need to be in the path between the real world and the matrix? They can't leave the matrix. What were they smuggling?
And many many more.
Why the hell did the 'King of the Machines' or whatever that thing was, have the ability to form a face on itsself when it would never have a need to do that? It wasn't supposed to ever be near humans since it's so well protected. So why have an ability to make the face of one and speak? On top of that, why do the machines have a leader? Wouldn't they be a collective mind? They're apparently not since the architect didn't want peace.
And where's the famous helicopter flying through the streets of Australia that we heard so much about during the filming?
Trinity's death took way too long. It was kinda boring. Enough that I don't even remember what she said.
All the kung-fu we've come to love wasn't anywhere to be seen except for 5 minutes near the early part of the movie. And some good CGI of Neo and Smith which mostly wasn't even kung-fu.
Why did Smith become stronger than Neo? He beat the shit out of 100 of them the day before. In 20 hours or so he became more powerful than 'the one'? I know he was becoming more powerful and all, but wasn't that because he was able to replicate?
It goes on and on. I liked some parts of the movie. The ending basically sucked and didn't give any real closure. It basically put us right back where the first movie started with a little difference of not needing to go through that whole blue-pill red-pill thing.. 99% of the people in the system don't know they're even in it so the machines still get their power. Almost no one is free. The only thing Neo really succeeded in doing is saving some of the people in Zion, temporarily apparently. He didn't show the people in the Matrix "a world without you". He temporarily saved Zion and allowed a few hundred more people to be released from the matrix easier than before.
With where they ended the story, you have to assume at some point a human will make an error and piss off the machines breaking their peace deal and everything will be back to slavery. While that's fine for an ending. It doe
I personally loved T3. But that may be because I don't sit there and pick every little thing apart like most people do. But there is one thing that just immediately jumped out at me and does bug me (but doesn't take away from the rest of the movies which I love).
The first event happened in 1984 which resulted in Sarah Connor becoming pregnant with John. One has to assume he was born in 1985 then. So why in the second film is he 13 years old before 1997? If he was born in 85 he'd be 13 in 1998. But the second film was still about 1997 being the end-of-the-world time. Plus we now know (based on info in T3) that the events of the second film take place at LEAST 3 years before 1997 making John Connor 13 years old in 1994.
Is he super-human and able to age quicker than normal humans? Possibly! Especially since he can dream about a future he has never seen. The Connors are super-human!
Actually, the real issue isn't that you don't like CGI even though it may seem that way. The problem is you know they're CGI. When you get used to a certain method of something, in this case, special effects, you simply get used to them being done the way they've been done for a long time. Miniatures, lots of makeup, real explosions. With all of those things, you don't get a grand feeling of "Wow, look how big and badass this explosion is" because it's simply not that big of a deal. When you see modern specical effects, they're so solid and in-tune and grand that you sit there and are like "This is new to me, I can't handle it, I know it's CGI and fake, it doesn't look like the miniatures I've gotten used to, I don't accept it". And you don't like it. All of this happens on a sub-consious level. That's simply how it is. And in 15- 20 years when there are not many more real actors, people will take some time to accept that as well and the old CGI crap we have now will be accepted.
And if you can afford to lose your security deposit money must not be all that important so you can probably afford to move to New Zealand and pay outlandish prices for internet connectivity! There go your extra PCs.
Did anyone here even see Reloaded? The architech basically told Neo everything they know isn't true. Neo realized it and said either no one told me, or no one knows. Maybe that same thing applies here. Maybe the machines just want them to THINK they're being used as a power source. When in reality, they're being used for something else. It's just another form of control you know.
Yes, I do consider it a crime for a company to try to force me to buy something new when I can save some money and make it better myself. I didn't mean to insinuate they shouldn't want to make a profit. That's what a business does. But if I go out and a buy a 1.5ghz processor. I damn well have a right to overclock it if I want to. I bought it, it's MINE I'll do what I want with it. Why should they be allowed to force me to buy a new one when I can take my chances and force this one to run faster?
And on that same note, why am I a loser because I made a comment? I'll whine all I want. And I won't sit and post shit-talk anonymously like you just did. Grow up.
Come on now. How many shops actually do that? I don't know of any that have done that. For one, it's fraud. I think the real agenda here with Intel is they're worried about losing profits plain and simple. I don't think it's about their reputation or people trying to warrantee an overclocked chip (which they won't). They know that John Doe will buy a better fan for $30 and jump his processor speed up rather than spending five gazillion dollars on a new chip. It's all about the money in the industry. The funny thing is, barely anyone actually overclocks except us geeks. Intel should rethink this move.
Dude, you've just given the parents a target for the reason their kids do drugs! Now every time some kid does shrooms they're going to be boycotting Nintendo! Oh no, he crushes small creatures as well! We're all done for!
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Apparently it NEVER rains but it snows every 20 years. Yeah, makes a lot of sense.
Well that depends on how you look at it. I remember WebTV commercials used to advertise "The internet on your TV!" when all it was, was a web browser. So according to that analogy, they're the same thing, hence, both #1!!! For real, ask WebTV.
Except states have a right to aquisition. So they can say "We're building a big road and your house is in the way. Here's a check for what we think it's worth. Don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out." Houses don't mean anything to them when they're building highways.
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They better be careful or SCO may sue the judge.
Only a few posts and the site has already been slashquestioned? What is this world coming to when people ask > 10000 questions in the first few minutes of a post!?!
Why not just tax people who send say 1000+ e-mails a month, or something like that? Some number any normal person wouldn't send during a monthtime.
Ohhh, they don't want their competitors to know because they might have said items on sale for even less? So I probably shouldn't say anything about every DVD in the store being on sale for $4.99? Or maybe that 250gb 7200rpm drive's black friday price of $99? What about their one day only sale of XBox and PS2 for only $79.99? And of course, don't forget the 100 DVD-R free after MIR! Don't tell any of their competitors about those or they might have comparative sales! :)
Well, first let me start by saying I'm a HUGE Matrix fan. I dressed up like Neo for the earliest showing of Reloaded (on the extra early opening day at 8pm or whatever is was). That's how big of a fan I am. And I actually did like Reloaded. Not as much as the first one, but I enjoyed it. With that said, Revolutions was a huge step down. Unlike most of the people posting here who are so dedicated to the 'geekdom' that they have to say the movie is awesome just because they can't bear to admit they have their doubts about its quality, I will speak the truth in my mind. And I probably love the first two movies more than most people. The Zion battle scenes were excellently done. Breathtaking! The rest of the movie was on the brink of sucking. They introduced too many characters and tried to make them all so important (which confused the viewer). They already had enough characters to make the story work and possibly the time to close the stories on them by the end. (Keep in mind the producer or someone important posted on the official site that they believe this definately ends the story and there will not be any more sequels--we shall see how that holds up in time). They totally lost focus that they're supposed to be saving the people IN the Matrix too. Why didn't they ever even act like they cared about the "blue-pills"? Did it become only about Zion now? I'll talk more of this at the end of my post. Almost all of the sub-plots were never finished. For example... What happened to the Merovingian and Persephone? Where were the twins? They seemed to be alive when their SUV blew up in Reloaded. Why did the real-world Smith throw Trinity down a hatch and close it instead of slitting her throat? There was no reason to keep her alive. Other than she was needed in the movie after that (I guess, she really wasn't IMO). Why were the indian people in the subway station if they were programs? Why would they need to be in the path between the real world and the matrix? They can't leave the matrix. What were they smuggling? And many many more. Why the hell did the 'King of the Machines' or whatever that thing was, have the ability to form a face on itsself when it would never have a need to do that? It wasn't supposed to ever be near humans since it's so well protected. So why have an ability to make the face of one and speak? On top of that, why do the machines have a leader? Wouldn't they be a collective mind? They're apparently not since the architect didn't want peace. And where's the famous helicopter flying through the streets of Australia that we heard so much about during the filming? Trinity's death took way too long. It was kinda boring. Enough that I don't even remember what she said. All the kung-fu we've come to love wasn't anywhere to be seen except for 5 minutes near the early part of the movie. And some good CGI of Neo and Smith which mostly wasn't even kung-fu. Why did Smith become stronger than Neo? He beat the shit out of 100 of them the day before. In 20 hours or so he became more powerful than 'the one'? I know he was becoming more powerful and all, but wasn't that because he was able to replicate? It goes on and on. I liked some parts of the movie. The ending basically sucked and didn't give any real closure. It basically put us right back where the first movie started with a little difference of not needing to go through that whole blue-pill red-pill thing.. 99% of the people in the system don't know they're even in it so the machines still get their power. Almost no one is free. The only thing Neo really succeeded in doing is saving some of the people in Zion, temporarily apparently. He didn't show the people in the Matrix "a world without you". He temporarily saved Zion and allowed a few hundred more people to be released from the matrix easier than before. With where they ended the story, you have to assume at some point a human will make an error and piss off the machines breaking their peace deal and everything will be back to slavery. While that's fine for an ending. It doe
What's really funny is a linux.com ad loaded right below this news brief.
I personally loved T3. But that may be because I don't sit there and pick every little thing apart like most people do. But there is one thing that just immediately jumped out at me and does bug me (but doesn't take away from the rest of the movies which I love). The first event happened in 1984 which resulted in Sarah Connor becoming pregnant with John. One has to assume he was born in 1985 then. So why in the second film is he 13 years old before 1997? If he was born in 85 he'd be 13 in 1998. But the second film was still about 1997 being the end-of-the-world time. Plus we now know (based on info in T3) that the events of the second film take place at LEAST 3 years before 1997 making John Connor 13 years old in 1994. Is he super-human and able to age quicker than normal humans? Possibly! Especially since he can dream about a future he has never seen. The Connors are super-human!
Actually, the real issue isn't that you don't like CGI even though it may seem that way. The problem is you know they're CGI. When you get used to a certain method of something, in this case, special effects, you simply get used to them being done the way they've been done for a long time. Miniatures, lots of makeup, real explosions. With all of those things, you don't get a grand feeling of "Wow, look how big and badass this explosion is" because it's simply not that big of a deal. When you see modern specical effects, they're so solid and in-tune and grand that you sit there and are like "This is new to me, I can't handle it, I know it's CGI and fake, it doesn't look like the miniatures I've gotten used to, I don't accept it". And you don't like it. All of this happens on a sub-consious level. That's simply how it is. And in 15- 20 years when there are not many more real actors, people will take some time to accept that as well and the old CGI crap we have now will be accepted.
And if you can afford to lose your security deposit money must not be all that important so you can probably afford to move to New Zealand and pay outlandish prices for internet connectivity! There go your extra PCs.
yajacuk, I think it's wonderful that you've found the lord. Your altruism just amazes me to no end. [cough]bullshit[cough]
Did anyone here even see Reloaded? The architech basically told Neo everything they know isn't true. Neo realized it and said either no one told me, or no one knows. Maybe that same thing applies here. Maybe the machines just want them to THINK they're being used as a power source. When in reality, they're being used for something else. It's just another form of control you know.
Yes, I do consider it a crime for a company to try to force me to buy something new when I can save some money and make it better myself. I didn't mean to insinuate they shouldn't want to make a profit. That's what a business does. But if I go out and a buy a 1.5ghz processor. I damn well have a right to overclock it if I want to. I bought it, it's MINE I'll do what I want with it. Why should they be allowed to force me to buy a new one when I can take my chances and force this one to run faster? And on that same note, why am I a loser because I made a comment? I'll whine all I want. And I won't sit and post shit-talk anonymously like you just did. Grow up.
Come on now. How many shops actually do that? I don't know of any that have done that. For one, it's fraud. I think the real agenda here with Intel is they're worried about losing profits plain and simple. I don't think it's about their reputation or people trying to warrantee an overclocked chip (which they won't). They know that John Doe will buy a better fan for $30 and jump his processor speed up rather than spending five gazillion dollars on a new chip. It's all about the money in the industry. The funny thing is, barely anyone actually overclocks except us geeks. Intel should rethink this move.
Dude, you've just given the parents a target for the reason their kids do drugs! Now every time some kid does shrooms they're going to be boycotting Nintendo! Oh no, he crushes small creatures as well! We're all done for!
Does Slashdot simply like to remind us of what's going on at least once a week? :)