If you believe in free will and a more traditional concept of consciousness, there are some very disturbing experiments that show people acting on decisions and only afterwards making the conscious "decision" that "causes" the action. In other words you (sometimes?) do things before you have decided to do them.
Hey, don't give us intellectual blue balls like that... what are these experiments?
What are you talking about? Trinity was ssh'ing to 10.2.2.2 in the matrix -- a simulation of present day society. She wasn't using an ipv4 address outside of the matrix in the "real world" which is allegedly hundreds of years in future.
I do agree with your second point, though... It was a great scene.
They fixed the problem in 10 minutes, but only missed 2 minutes of the movie? Sounds like something out of the plot, with the Matrix out of synch, I guess the Matrix has to be some kind of distributed network with multiple clocks...
Umm, so much for Occam's razor... The bulb probably burned out and they weren't able to stop the platter for 2 minutes... Then it probably took them another 8 minutes to replace the project bulb and crank it up again. Not that complicated to reason out...
I agree with you... I thought the orgy/dance scene was relevant in that it showed that humans were living creatures with an animalistic drive to reproduce.
In the last Matrix thread, someone reasoned that it was possible for 23 people to produce 250,000 in only 100 years. Also keep in mind that not all inhabitants of Zion would be direct descendants of the original chosen 23. Some, like Neo, would have been freed from the Matrix and brought to Zion. In fact, at one point, Morpheus mentions that they had freed more people from the Matrix in the last 6 months than they had in the previous 6 years.
...I have a patent pending on sticking flyers under the windshield wipers on peoples' cars to notify them of sales and such. Soon I plan to pattern the technique of having a number or blinking light flash on an answering machine to notify people that they have messages waiting. Now I'll just sit back and wait for the licensing fees to pour in.
Not sure what Marconi's first ever broadcast was, but I remember reading a lot about his first ever transatlantic transmission (from England to the U.S.) which was simply the letter "s"... baby steps, I guess.
One more thing... I remember this issue coming up at a faculty lunch one day, and a few of the long-time BBN employees remarked about how they thought it was interesting they still had the same email address for almost 30 years (minus the.com part, which came a little bit later)....
I interned up at BBN this summer, and although I never got a chance to meet Tomlinson, I have a friend, still at BBN, who works in the same dept. as Ray, and had this to say about him...
Yeah, it's kinda funny how Ray did that -- I've talked to him a couple
times about it.
Basically he took an existing FTP-like program and wrote the email service
around it. He wasn't exactly "authorized" to code it up (i.e. no job
number), and as usual BBN didn't capitalize on the invention (i.e. no
big $$$s). He had pretty much forgotten about somebody tracked it down
around when the web started getting big ('93 or so). All the sudden
people got interested in the history of email -- what was the first email,
etc.
The first email was either "QWERTY" or "12345" or such; just a debugging
test that Ray has completely forgotten. People get all excited, like
it was "That's one small step for [a] man,...", but the first email
wasn't nearly as poetic.
I know for a fact that Lockheed Martin uses Exchange for it's LM-Xpress email program that handles 175,000+ users. How's that for capable? The two important characteristics that they were looking at when selecting an email system were security and reliability (i.e. no lost emails), and Exchange has been a real success.
On a related note, anyone who says, "Don't use Exchange because Micro$soft sucks," really needs to be a little more open-minded. Sure, they're not a perfect company, that they do produce some solid products... exchange, office, and internet explorer come to mind. If only there were linux ports...
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FreeBSD is *genetic* Unix
FreeBSD, which is genetic Unix
OS X is also genetic Unix
I know the 't' key is right next to the 'r' key, but c'mon... three times in one post?
Oh man, that's exactly what I need 'cause right now my pubic server is anything but secure.
After assing the movie
The sad thing is, I have no idea what verb you were actually trying to use.
If you believe in free will and a more traditional concept of consciousness, there are some very disturbing experiments that show people acting on decisions and only afterwards making the conscious "decision" that "causes" the action. In other words you (sometimes?) do things before you have decided to do them.
Hey, don't give us intellectual blue balls like that... what are these experiments?
What are you talking about? Trinity was ssh'ing to 10.2.2.2 in the matrix -- a simulation of present day society. She wasn't using an ipv4 address outside of the matrix in the "real world" which is allegedly hundreds of years in future.
I do agree with your second point, though... It was a great scene.
They fixed the problem in 10 minutes, but only missed 2 minutes of the movie? Sounds like something out of the plot, with the Matrix out of synch, I guess the Matrix has to be some kind of distributed network with multiple clocks...
Umm, so much for Occam's razor... The bulb probably burned out and they weren't able to stop the platter for 2 minutes... Then it probably took them another 8 minutes to replace the project bulb and crank it up again. Not that complicated to reason out...
Feldy
I agree with you... I thought the orgy/dance scene was relevant in that it showed that humans were living creatures with an animalistic drive to reproduce.
In the last Matrix thread, someone reasoned that it was possible for 23 people to produce 250,000 in only 100 years. Also keep in mind that not all inhabitants of Zion would be direct descendants of the original chosen 23. Some, like Neo, would have been freed from the Matrix and brought to Zion. In fact, at one point, Morpheus mentions that they had freed more people from the Matrix in the last 6 months than they had in the previous 6 years.
Feldy
...I have a patent pending on sticking flyers under the windshield wipers on peoples' cars to notify them of sales and such. Soon I plan to pattern the technique of having a number or blinking light flash on an answering machine to notify people that they have messages waiting. Now I'll just sit back and wait for the licensing fees to pour in.
sigh...
If they've designed a new, supposedly better web langugage, then why did they build their website using Java Server Pages?
j sp
j sp
http://www.curl.com/html/index.jsp
http://www.curl.com/html/technology/technology.
http://www.curl.com/html/products/products.jsp
http://www.curl.com/html/developers/developers.
http://www.curl.com/html/partners/partners.jsp
http://www.curl.com/html/about/overview.jsp
...
Not sure what Marconi's first ever broadcast was, but I remember reading a lot about his first ever transatlantic transmission (from England to the U.S.) which was simply the letter "s"... baby steps, I guess.
One more thing... I remember this issue coming up at a faculty lunch one day, and a few of the long-time BBN employees remarked about how they thought it was interesting they still had the same email address for almost 30 years (minus the .com part, which came a little bit later)....
I interned up at BBN this summer, and although I never got a chance to meet Tomlinson, I have a friend, still at BBN, who works in the same dept. as Ray, and had this to say about him...
...", but the first email
Yeah, it's kinda funny how Ray did that -- I've talked to him a couple
times about it.
Basically he took an existing FTP-like program and wrote the email service
around it. He wasn't exactly "authorized" to code it up (i.e. no job
number), and as usual BBN didn't capitalize on the invention (i.e. no
big $$$s). He had pretty much forgotten about somebody tracked it down
around when the web started getting big ('93 or so). All the sudden
people got interested in the history of email -- what was the first email,
etc.
The first email was either "QWERTY" or "12345" or such; just a debugging
test that Ray has completely forgotten. People get all excited, like
it was "That's one small step for [a] man,
wasn't nearly as poetic.
Also, it's quite possible that the "@" key on the keyboard might have been
lost without email, like the cent key (""). At the time I don't think
it's placement was standardized, and without email it's hardly used by
most people. Businesses might use it (e.g. "10 apples @ 5 cents each"),
but more likely they need the copyright symbol ("©"). Anyways, another
funny implication.
BTW, he insists the correct way to write email is "email", not "e-mail".
Rays' glory includes being listed as a "PBS Nerd":
http://www.pbs.org/opb/nerds2.0.1/cast/page6.html
There's a picture there in case you didn't get a chance to meet him.
That article might have been a little better had it not been prepended by a 4-page Warez Primer for Retards. At least I know what an ISO is now...
Also, I didn't see a link to The Keep, which is chock full of abandonware.
I know for a fact that Lockheed Martin uses Exchange for it's LM-Xpress email program that handles 175,000+ users. How's that for capable? The two important characteristics that they were looking at when selecting an email system were security and reliability (i.e. no lost emails), and Exchange has been a real success.
On a related note, anyone who says, "Don't use Exchange because Micro$soft sucks," really needs to be a little more open-minded. Sure, they're not a perfect company, that they do produce some solid products... exchange, office, and internet explorer come to mind. If only there were linux ports...
Dave