"The Matrix" made $170 million domestic and $270 million international up to this point. Now that people have tasted the fruits of the Wachowski brothers of Chicago (sweet home) "Reloaded" will top that mark. Personally I think I am making a bold statement because it is impossible to make a sequel to the first movie, depicting the birth of the hero (Messianic as it is), which can be as insightful and fuel the creation of 1100 fan sites across the world.
But I believe the followers will cause the sequel to break the initial record because they all know, as do you, that you cannot see everything in a Wachowski movie the first time around. They are too smart. Take for example the references fromthe aarticle posted here at/. Some of those (like room 101) I would never have figured out. (101 in George Orwell's 1984 is also the room in which resides the "worst thing in the world").
Just look for the "Cirrus" logo on any of those machines and you know you're home free. As a visitor and/or resident of 21 countries, this advice does not come without reason.
No, PR doesn't matter, they rule the business OS world. They need to get their shit together on building future systems that are more stable with less DRM. Yesterday I spent all day staring at my desk because 2 servers that contain my DBs went to hell (Windows 2000 Server).
What I most admire about this movie is that it served as a proponent of free thinking. For the past few years now, 90% of movies leaving Tinseltown are ridiculous, dum-minded farces, (even the action flix and the dramas) filled with product placement. Seeing movies today is as good an experience as cleaning your toilet. The matrix on the other hand, left its audience divided. Some just scuffed it off like an of the wall movie beucase they didn't understand anything that happended in it (except for the line hwere Neo goes: "I used to eat there. Good noodles.")Others lved it for the mind-boggling philosophies it entailed, with no real message to sum it all up. I remeber walking out of a huge theater aftter seeing The Matrix, lookied up at the sky and said...whoa.
True, but it was in 1937 that this scientist made his "discovery", but the information was not spread until after the Cold War. In the 1930s, Lenin was in power in Russia and he started the gulag camps in Russia, which after only a few years grew to some 4800 camps throughout the USSR, enslaingmillions of "traitors". This scenario was followed by Stalin, who upheld the gulags under his regime, as well as severe control over the flow of information.
We should thankful that this piece of scientific history was uncovered, sugnificant or not, since here in the Western world we take our liberites for granted.
I wonder howthe Wachowski brothers got talked into doing this with their movie? It totally will distort the experience and create two opposite sets of fans (movie-goers; IMAX viewers v. regular viewers) who will debate which is better for the contect of the movie. From what I know, the Wachowski bros. are very much into fantasy and all that cool stuff, but don't they think that IMAX will distort or at least transform their production...entirely. Who wants to enjoy a dramatic moment of two people's faces on IMAX (compared with the usual fast-moving landscape)!?
If they actually buy the company, I'm interested in seeing what stance they will take in the fight against p2p networks and media company's current fight against free sharing of media, knowing M$ can be very rough in the courts.
Weel isn't this interesting, since above there is a discussion on the security problems associated with M$'s Java, the MS Virtual Machine, which is found on many users' XP machines today. Pinnacle seems (need more research + facts) similar to the technolgy used for blackboard.com, an "online classroom" that serves to compliment the in-school classroom for assignments and the like. Blackboard.com has ahd problems since it started, prompting many teachers to abandon the system. Now you have Pinnacle, threatening the work, and no-work, of students in Marin (or whatever the fuckking place is called) County. Idiots!
In March of 2002, Sun Microsystems sued Microsoft, alleging in part that distributing the Microsoft VM in Windows XP to customers who wanted it via the Web was not authorized by Microsoft's license and therefore constituted copyright infringement. - Source M$ built VM so that customers shoudl not have to turn to the web directly to have to find the Hava download, and they neglected to make Java a part of WindowS Update. Instead they built their own version so that it could still use the name Window$. This is where the bug is.
Oops.
Look I think you're forgetting how important communications infrastructure wll be in flooding their country with western ideas. Sure they're happy they got rid of a dictator, but they are used to a way of life none of us can relate to, and will provbably start to move in "the wrong direction" unless we can quickly influence them.
btw. That article on the post beneth or above meine from arabnews.com about America controoling the world is bs. Think broad man, that is a very temporary situation.
I don't think that you can set limits on a company's agreement, until you convince a judge there is reason enough to do so. In legal proceedings there are limits on replies, interrogatories , responses, etc. since people only have a certain amount of days to answer them. In your case, someone should petition the company (first) or a legal entity (second) to see what can be sone about this, because there may certainly be some tricks in their bag (agreement) in favor of stockholders, like what rights they have to terminate your service (leaving you with a $150 early cancellation/termination fee).
O please, save your breath, If you think any PC Gamer using a 21" flat screen with surround sound is going to be impressed by N-Gage, unless they are stuck on a bus-stop at midnght in the rain, think again.
I agree, I run a 500Mhz HP from '99, that's 4 years old, loaded with Win2K and it never crashes. Sure I've added some fancy video upgrades and additional HDs, but its still the same old board. My necessity for a handheld would be to have something to store information on, or to load those key-chain storage plugs, which I need to keep from breaking a disc in my pocket every time I try to hold in a fart at the office.
In 4 years I think the typical workstation may be going out the door at offices worldwide, being replaced by "screen stations" with the network server acting as a hub that you "plug into", just like loggging on at work. THe same could apply to the home, where families of 5 can buy one mainframe box with 4 stations (monitor, kbrd, mice, cam) and each person has their handheld carrying person-specific info. While this modifies the form of PCs as we know them now, it certaily does not suggest that PCs will leave the market in 5 - 7 years.
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"The Matrix" made $170 million domestic and $270 million international up to this point. Now that people have tasted the fruits of the Wachowski brothers of Chicago (sweet home) "Reloaded" will top that mark. Personally I think I am making a bold statement because it is impossible to make a sequel to the first movie, depicting the birth of the hero (Messianic as it is), which can be as insightful and fuel the creation of 1100 fan sites across the world.
/. Some of those (like room 101) I would never have figured out. (101 in George Orwell's 1984 is also the room in which resides the "worst thing in the world").
But I believe the followers will cause the sequel to break the initial record because they all know, as do you, that you cannot see everything in a Wachowski movie the first time around. They are too smart. Take for example the references fromthe aarticle posted here at
Neo reluctantly accepts his mission to free the human race.
Ooooh. If only i could I would fly out of this godsforsaken cubicle on the 39th floor and free the rats of downtown areas everywhere!
Then proceed to toture my boss...
Maybe I'll just stick to entreprenuership.
And you are a loser for doing so, proving that you are an unitelligent seed plugged into the destructible Matrix. Your days are numbered fiend.
Just look for the "Cirrus" logo on any of those machines and you know you're home free. As a visitor and/or resident of 21 countries, this advice does not come without reason.
If this concept ever becomes a relity, IT staff will have nowhere to hide from the helpless screaming employees.
Bill Gates rethinks his strategy: Introducing the Microsoft iUrinal Just For Men, (and women willing to experiment). Think
No, PR doesn't matter, they rule the business OS world. They need to get their shit together on building future systems that are more stable with less DRM. Yesterday I spent all day staring at my desk because 2 servers that contain my DBs went to hell (Windows 2000 Server).
What I most admire about this movie is that it served as a proponent of free thinking. For the past few years now, 90% of movies leaving Tinseltown are ridiculous, dum-minded farces, (even the action flix and the dramas) filled with product placement. Seeing movies today is as good an experience as cleaning your toilet. The matrix on the other hand, left its audience divided. Some just scuffed it off like an of the wall movie beucase they didn't understand anything that happended in it (except for the line hwere Neo goes: "I used to eat there. Good noodles.")Others lved it for the mind-boggling philosophies it entailed, with no real message to sum it all up. I remeber walking out of a huge theater aftter seeing The Matrix, lookied up at the sky and said...whoa.
True, but it was in 1937 that this scientist made his "discovery", but the information was not spread until after the Cold War. In the 1930s, Lenin was in power in Russia and he started the gulag camps in Russia, which after only a few years grew to some 4800 camps throughout the USSR, enslaingmillions of "traitors". This scenario was followed by Stalin, who upheld the gulags under his regime, as well as severe control over the flow of information.
We should thankful that this piece of scientific history was uncovered, sugnificant or not, since here in the Western world we take our liberites for granted.
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I wonder howthe Wachowski brothers got talked into doing this with their movie? It totally will distort the experience and create two opposite sets of fans (movie-goers; IMAX viewers v. regular viewers) who will debate which is better for the contect of the movie. From what I know, the Wachowski bros. are very much into fantasy and all that cool stuff, but don't they think that IMAX will distort or at least transform their production...entirely. Who wants to enjoy a dramatic moment of two people's faces on IMAX (compared with the usual fast-moving landscape)!?
I see it now,
another two seasons and people will take advantage of theIMAX "Experience" to let you experience a movie and ommercials at the same time! YAY!
Boy to mother: "Look mom! Oscar Mayer did exist when there were gladiators"
It's a plane! It's a bird! It's a flying vibrator!
Wonder what the 12% that answered "Other", to what non-users would use the internet for, were thinking of?
I want a job. THis is a test
If they actually buy the company, I'm interested in seeing what stance they will take in the fight against p2p networks and media company's current fight against free sharing of media, knowing M$ can be very rough in the courts.
Actually you have to use IE to view it, I'm looking at it now.
Weel isn't this interesting, since above there is a discussion on the security problems associated with M$'s Java, the MS Virtual Machine, which is found on many users' XP machines today. Pinnacle seems (need more research + facts) similar to the technolgy used for blackboard.com, an "online classroom" that serves to compliment the in-school classroom for assignments and the like. Blackboard.com has ahd problems since it started, prompting many teachers to abandon the system. Now you have Pinnacle, threatening the work, and no-work, of students in Marin (or whatever the fuckking place is called) County. Idiots!
In March of 2002, Sun Microsystems sued Microsoft, alleging in part that distributing the Microsoft VM in Windows XP to customers who wanted it via the Web was not authorized by Microsoft's license and therefore constituted copyright infringement.
- Source
M$ built VM so that customers shoudl not have to turn to the web directly to have to find the Hava download, and they neglected to make Java a part of WindowS Update. Instead they built their own version so that it could still use the name Window$. This is where the bug is.
Oops. Look I think you're forgetting how important communications infrastructure wll be in flooding their country with western ideas. Sure they're happy they got rid of a dictator, but they are used to a way of life none of us can relate to, and will provbably start to move in "the wrong direction" unless we can quickly influence them. btw. That article on the post beneth or above meine from arabnews.com about America controoling the world is bs. Think broad man, that is a very temporary situation.
The huge Wintel centrino banner at the top of this page doesn't help.
I don't think that you can set limits on a company's agreement, until you convince a judge there is reason enough to do so. In legal proceedings there are limits on replies, interrogatories , responses, etc. since people only have a certain amount of days to answer them. In your case, someone should petition the company (first) or a legal entity (second) to see what can be sone about this, because there may certainly be some tricks in their bag (agreement) in favor of stockholders, like what rights they have to terminate your service (leaving you with a $150 early cancellation/termination fee).
O please, save your breath, If you think any PC Gamer using a 21" flat screen with surround sound is going to be impressed by N-Gage, unless they are stuck on a bus-stop at midnght in the rain, think again.
If you ask me, any machine that plays both Half-Life and porn.
I agree, I run a 500Mhz HP from '99, that's 4 years old, loaded with Win2K and it never crashes. Sure I've added some fancy video upgrades and additional HDs, but its still the same old board. My necessity for a handheld would be to have something to store information on, or to load those key-chain storage plugs, which I need to keep from breaking a disc in my pocket every time I try to hold in a fart at the office.
In 4 years I think the typical workstation may be going out the door at offices worldwide, being replaced by "screen stations" with the network server acting as a hub that you "plug into", just like loggging on at work. THe same could apply to the home, where families of 5 can buy one mainframe box with 4 stations (monitor, kbrd, mice, cam) and each person has their handheld carrying person-specific info. While this modifies the form of PCs as we know them now, it certaily does not suggest that PCs will leave the market in 5 - 7 years.
Actually..three syllables: na-tu-ral