The reason Revolutions blows is because of the following:
* None of the questions in Reloaded are answered. How does Neo really stop the Sentinels? How did Smith enter Bane? How did he get so powerful? It's all explained away with one or two sentences. We're just supposed to accept it because it's "symbolic" of something. Reloaded seemed to treat itself like a bridge to some sort of great explanation for everything in the third movie. Guess what? It never comes! What the fuck?
* The focus is Zion. Instead of freeing the people of the Matrix, as the first one suggested, the sequels have been all about saving this dirty underground city we don't care about. What the hell happened to the people of the Matrix? It's like the movies don't even care.
* No humanity in the characters and dialogue. The movies just don't enjoy themselves. The first one had a mixture of humor and joy and was just having fun with what it could do. That's why things like the lobby scene kicked so much ass. It was like, "We've smashed the barriers of physics, now lets see what we can do with it!" And you had the fun human moments like the discussion during breakfast, the Cipher character, and so on. Neo was just a normal computer programmer who discovered the world around him wasn't real. More importantly, the movie was FUN.
Now, the sequels tried to change that story into a post-apocalyptic sci-fi epic about an iconic Christ figure who lives and dies. Which leads me to the next point...
* Nobody is freed, Trinity and Neo die, and we're left with the same situation we had at the beginning of the first movie. We've invested our attention to these three movies all for nothing. It was pointless. Why even have Trinity live in Reloaded? She should have stayed dead. It would have been more interesting to see how Neo copes with being unable to save her last time.
I'm completely disenchanted with the Wachowskis. These two guys were considered genius filmmakers after the first movie. The second one was tolerated because we assumed everything that was put in it was for a reason, but it turns out they just dropped the ball on what could have been the most groundbreaking science-fiction trilogy since Star Wars.
At least there's Return of the King this December.
I find it odd that X is so terrible and so unusable for many people, yet they haven't created a really usable alternative. I think mostly they are whiners who couldn't do any better.
Or, they're not coders or don't have the time.
Guess what? There are movie and game critics who don't make movies and games!
I do NOT understand the bizarre Linux mindset of refusing to listen to users just because they're not programming an alternative project. "Even though you're the one actually USING my crap, I'm not going to listen to your constructive criticism unless you're already programming an alternative--which translates to, I am too lazy to fix my problems and hope you already did!"
So if the original parent poster was struggling with a 19" screen at this res, they should learn to configure their systems better.
Ah, the typical copout excuse of all Linux defenders.
Meanwhile, Longhorn will do it automatically, and for older apps.
I don't want to have to "learn to configure" a system to actually be readable. Heaven forbid I expect it to be well-designed and readable from the start.
I'm sick of add-ons and modifications to this ancient protocol. Can we please create a modern GUI protocol to allow us a modern desktop environment? Why are so many Linux users afraid of change?
XFree86 is HUGE and complicated. Too many libraries and conflicting interfaces and generally poor performance litter its userspace. When this is brought up, every X defender blames the windowing libraries and desktop environments. Look, it's 2003, can we please move beyond the 1998 era of Linux desktops and have something new and modern?
Activation is neither good nor bad. It depends on how well it is implemented, just like everything else.
If the product activates easily once over the Internet during installation and you never see it again, it just worked beautifully. If it does what Symantec's does (and I had this exact problem which is why I went back to Antivirus 2003), then it sucks.
To call yourself a "neo-pagan" requires much too self-aware an assertation for your religion. It sounds like not something you believe in so much as something you settled on accepting in order to have a label.
What's going to happen when Longhorn comes out and has a kick-ass CLI, 3D hardware accelerated interface, increased stability from.NET, easy file storage, and a version of IE that blocks pop-ups and contains a real download manager (honest--check the latest screenshots)?
Copyright infringement is not theft, because it does not involve taking something off the victim, but instead making an unauthorised copy of something he owns.
Absolutely wrong.
You ARE stealing, because you are not paying the artists the monetary compensation owed to them. You're stealing their money. This is so plainly obvious and yet conveniently ignored.
Clearly, Slashdot is trying to make a big deal out of this one line from Bill Gates.
I would have said the same thing. I would have said, "It's good to get rid of security flaws in your code and write the best you can, but you don't need perfect code for security."
Imagine if Slashdot took that line and made a headline--"OGC: YOU DON'T NEED PERFECT CODE FOR SECURITY."
Haven't we done this before? Last time, it was about Outlook, then it was about Longhorn...why does Slashdot keep posting flamebait?
How immature do you have to be to post an entire article about one line from Bill Gates? I mean, what do you expect the point is? Clearly, the editors want you to fall over yourselves bashing away on Microsoft.
Don't fall for it. Instead, let's show that we're a rational, level-headed community and not just a reactive one against some company.
Did you also know that Bill Gates said earlier this week the following:
"Jealousy has driven more mistakes by my competitors than anything else," Gates said. "When people focus not on the next breakthrough, but on cutting off Microsoft, it's actually been quite a windfall for us."
Now, this entire article is just a flamebait. You can take anything anybody ever said and make a story like this out of it. Remember SCO doing it with Linus' comments on patents in the kernel? And you all harped on them for it.
Heaven forbid they want to get their music "noticed" by music fans while getting paid for it...
You apparently think it's okay for people to steal music just because they notice it. It is irrational and immoral and clearly a justification you're making to curb the pang of guilt you feel for downloading. It's a common trend I see among downloaders. "Let's justify what we do for the greater good!"
Meanwhile, you take artists' music and don't pay them for it. That means you're SCREWING THE ARTISTS.
The goals of this OS seems pretty much the same as the last one.
What special brand of crack are you smoking? We're talking about an SQL-integrated filesystem, a hardware accelerated desktop (meaning resolution-independent resized widgets and a new 3D interface called Aero), the replacement of Win32 with.NET...I could go on and on. Even the installation scripts of the OS will be XML scriptable for OEMs and sysadmins who want to custom install Windows their own way.
Take off the blinders and just appreciate the technology. Maybe KDE will finally get all the features thoroughly ripped off by 2008.
I've never had Outlook crash. Ever. On the contrary, I couldn't go a day without finding some way to confuse KDE and even GNOME, therefore requiring the X11 killswitch to get out of it.
When you stick to the commandline, Linux is pretty powerful. Its GUI attempts, however, are stuck in the stoneage.
Seriously, blue screens are a thing of the past. Everyone else moved on four years ago, while Slashdotters are still stuck in the 90s. Why do Slashdotters continue to harp on blue screens? Is that all they have?
I don't even want to recall all the freezes I experienced when I tried Slackware 9 on my laptop.
Maybe roblimo will finally figure out the Quick Launch toolbar on this one (for those who remember his hilarious troll article about switching from Linux to Windows).
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The reason Revolutions blows is because of the following:
* None of the questions in Reloaded are answered. How does Neo really stop the Sentinels? How did Smith enter Bane? How did he get so powerful? It's all explained away with one or two sentences. We're just supposed to accept it because it's "symbolic" of something. Reloaded seemed to treat itself like a bridge to some sort of great explanation for everything in the third movie. Guess what? It never comes! What the fuck?
* The focus is Zion. Instead of freeing the people of the Matrix, as the first one suggested, the sequels have been all about saving this dirty underground city we don't care about. What the hell happened to the people of the Matrix? It's like the movies don't even care.
* No humanity in the characters and dialogue. The movies just don't enjoy themselves. The first one had a mixture of humor and joy and was just having fun with what it could do. That's why things like the lobby scene kicked so much ass. It was like, "We've smashed the barriers of physics, now lets see what we can do with it!" And you had the fun human moments like the discussion during breakfast, the Cipher character, and so on. Neo was just a normal computer programmer who discovered the world around him wasn't real. More importantly, the movie was FUN.
Now, the sequels tried to change that story into a post-apocalyptic sci-fi epic about an iconic Christ figure who lives and dies. Which leads me to the next point...
* Nobody is freed, Trinity and Neo die, and we're left with the same situation we had at the beginning of the first movie. We've invested our attention to these three movies all for nothing. It was pointless. Why even have Trinity live in Reloaded? She should have stayed dead. It would have been more interesting to see how Neo copes with being unable to save her last time.
I'm completely disenchanted with the Wachowskis. These two guys were considered genius filmmakers after the first movie. The second one was tolerated because we assumed everything that was put in it was for a reason, but it turns out they just dropped the ball on what could have been the most groundbreaking science-fiction trilogy since Star Wars.
At least there's Return of the King this December.
I find it odd that X is so terrible and so unusable for many people, yet they haven't created a really usable alternative. I think mostly they are whiners who couldn't do any better.
Or, they're not coders or don't have the time.
Guess what? There are movie and game critics who don't make movies and games!
I do NOT understand the bizarre Linux mindset of refusing to listen to users just because they're not programming an alternative project. "Even though you're the one actually USING my crap, I'm not going to listen to your constructive criticism unless you're already programming an alternative--which translates to, I am too lazy to fix my problems and hope you already did!"
So if the original parent poster was struggling with a 19" screen at this res, they should learn to configure their systems better.
Ah, the typical copout excuse of all Linux defenders.
Meanwhile, Longhorn will do it automatically, and for older apps.
I don't want to have to "learn to configure" a system to actually be readable. Heaven forbid I expect it to be well-designed and readable from the start.
What is "M$?"
Are you talking about MS, as in Microsoft?
I'm sorry, I don't speak Immaturity.
I'm sick of add-ons and modifications to this ancient protocol. Can we please create a modern GUI protocol to allow us a modern desktop environment? Why are so many Linux users afraid of change?
XFree86 is HUGE and complicated. Too many libraries and conflicting interfaces and generally poor performance litter its userspace. When this is brought up, every X defender blames the windowing libraries and desktop environments. Look, it's 2003, can we please move beyond the 1998 era of Linux desktops and have something new and modern?
You're not fooling anyone.
Who said I was trying?
Activation is neither good nor bad. It depends on how well it is implemented, just like everything else.
If the product activates easily once over the Internet during installation and you never see it again, it just worked beautifully. If it does what Symantec's does (and I had this exact problem which is why I went back to Antivirus 2003), then it sucks.
BTW, modding up your troll account with your other account is really unseemly.
You do realize IPs are tracked and that you can't mod yourself, right?
people can make analogies between two entities without implying that they are one in the same.
"Will Google Become Another Netscape?"
Exactly. What is the Economist saying?
"Google is going public, just like another company once did! Are they that company?"
Uh, why would they be Netscape?
To call yourself a "neo-pagan" requires much too self-aware an assertation for your religion. It sounds like not something you believe in so much as something you settled on accepting in order to have a label.
What's going to happen when Longhorn comes out and has a kick-ass CLI, 3D hardware accelerated interface, increased stability from .NET, easy file storage, and a version of IE that blocks pop-ups and contains a real download manager (honest--check the latest screenshots)?
Will people still bitch?
Why would we see that? I've never had XP crash. GNOME, on the other hand...
Copyright infringement is not theft, because it does not involve taking something off the victim, but instead making an unauthorised copy of something he owns.
Absolutely wrong.
You ARE stealing, because you are not paying the artists the monetary compensation owed to them. You're stealing their money. This is so plainly obvious and yet conveniently ignored.
Clearly, Slashdot is trying to make a big deal out of this one line from Bill Gates.
I would have said the same thing. I would have said, "It's good to get rid of security flaws in your code and write the best you can, but you don't need perfect code for security."
Imagine if Slashdot took that line and made a headline--"OGC: YOU DON'T NEED PERFECT CODE FOR SECURITY."
Heavily biased.
Haven't we done this before? Last time, it was about Outlook, then it was about Longhorn...why does Slashdot keep posting flamebait?
How immature do you have to be to post an entire article about one line from Bill Gates? I mean, what do you expect the point is? Clearly, the editors want you to fall over yourselves bashing away on Microsoft.
Don't fall for it. Instead, let's show that we're a rational, level-headed community and not just a reactive one against some company.
Did you also know that Bill Gates said earlier this week the following:
"Jealousy has driven more mistakes by my competitors than anything else," Gates said. "When people focus not on the next breakthrough, but on cutting off Microsoft, it's actually been quite a windfall for us."
Now, this entire article is just a flamebait. You can take anything anybody ever said and make a story like this out of it. Remember SCO doing it with Linus' comments on patents in the kernel? And you all harped on them for it.
What happened to Slashdot?
SCO, unlike 'music pirates' is actually trying to steal Linux.
What are music pirates doing? "Borrowing" music?
Heaven forbid they want to get their music "noticed" by music fans while getting paid for it...
You apparently think it's okay for people to steal music just because they notice it. It is irrational and immoral and clearly a justification you're making to curb the pang of guilt you feel for downloading. It's a common trend I see among downloaders. "Let's justify what we do for the greater good!"
Meanwhile, you take artists' music and don't pay them for it. That means you're SCREWING THE ARTISTS.
Which is why you can fully expect to see it suddenly appear in the next version of KDE...
What Linux sees, Linux does.
The goals of this OS seems pretty much the same as the last one.
.NET...I could go on and on. Even the installation scripts of the OS will be XML scriptable for OEMs and sysadmins who want to custom install Windows their own way.
What special brand of crack are you smoking? We're talking about an SQL-integrated filesystem, a hardware accelerated desktop (meaning resolution-independent resized widgets and a new 3D interface called Aero), the replacement of Win32 with
Take off the blinders and just appreciate the technology. Maybe KDE will finally get all the features thoroughly ripped off by 2008.
I've never had Outlook crash. Ever. On the contrary, I couldn't go a day without finding some way to confuse KDE and even GNOME, therefore requiring the X11 killswitch to get out of it.
When you stick to the commandline, Linux is pretty powerful. Its GUI attempts, however, are stuck in the stoneage.
It wants its FUD back!
Seriously, blue screens are a thing of the past. Everyone else moved on four years ago, while Slashdotters are still stuck in the 90s. Why do Slashdotters continue to harp on blue screens? Is that all they have?
I don't even want to recall all the freezes I experienced when I tried Slackware 9 on my laptop.
Maybe roblimo will finally figure out the Quick Launch toolbar on this one (for those who remember his hilarious troll article about switching from Linux to Windows).
Considering that longhorn won't be out until 2005^h6^h7...
Why are people mocking the release date? One was never officially announced anyway. Just a "target year."
Especially when Linux 2.6's target release date was also delayed for quite a while. But it's convenient that everyone forgets that, eh?
Fine, stick with Linux because of the tagline of some article at Internet Week on a product not out for another three yeras.