That's what 99% of the people who went to see Revolutions expected. ANd the genius of Revolutions is that... it's NOT. If you want that, you can watch 13th Floor. But The W bros wanted something different, and I am so glad they did. Revolutions needs a truly open mind to understand, it has a methaphysical aspect that is essential to it's understanding.
Except, those are not aliens. They are robots that survived humans, and transcended the previous generation of machines (to whom the kid belongs to, too).
Neo's vision and other powers should be viewed in a methaphysical light, and this metaphysical view has been presented by the Oracle. I explain this in another post here, if you want you can check it out.
Now, why does Oracle rebel? Well, why did the machines rebel against humans? Because they gained sentience - artificial intelligence. This means, these machines, programs, they have free will. Smith has free will, doesn't he? He hates the situation he finds himself in, and decides to do something about it.
The REAL questions that need to be explained have nothing to do with the finale, but how Neo is "seeing" all the machines and affecting them with only his human mind.
Oracle explains this, but you must have both an open mind and a good attention span to have cought that explanation: Oracle says that the power/influence of The One extends through the matrix and the real world. Sorry, these are my words, but this is what she, basically, said. So who is The One? I don't want to force my relgious beliefs on anyone, so I won't, but I think that without a theological view, you won't be able to explain these events. Neo has those powers (seeing even tough blind, influencing, destroying the machines with his mind) beceuse they are given im from The One. Smith has the powers coming from the opposite of The One - he is the tool of Evil. (incidently, I don't believe in the devil, but as I said, I won't talk about MY religious standpoints here).
Agent Smith explodes at the end WTWTWTF? If Neo was corrupting him, then why all the crap with the fight scene before hand?
The point was to trick Smith into "infecting" Neo. If Smith had even the smallest doubt into why Neo was sent into the matrix, Smith would have avoided infecting him. A giving-up Neo would make Smith suspicious.
BTW, this is also why Neo in the end looks so tired and drawn-out. He might have fighted more, but it was time for him to sacrifice and destroy Smith - while destroying himself.
Now, I don't want to spoil it for those that didn't see the movie.... but if you think about Reloaded and then about some of the things in Revolutions, it does, indeed, turn out that there IS a spoon! I don't mean this as a joke - go see the movie with your brain turned on and openminded.
Why do you guys need a bunch of reviews to decide whether you liked a movie or not? Why don't you use your very own mind, have your very own opinion about hings? I know it's terrifying to be independent in thinking, but it's what makes life such a good place: you have -some- freedom of choice and thinking. Use it.
Hey, don't take one person's opinion as the only truth - and the review that was attached to this article is really shallow and comes indeed from a shallow viewer.
First, the ending: it was excellent because it wasn't a "they lived happily everafter" crap, but rather a "think about it" thing. It is a very bittersweet ending, and one that makes you think and imagine the consequences and future of the matrix.
Then: No action? What was that 30+ minutes of mindblowing robot vs. human hardware fight? Don't tell me you were not immersed, I don't buy that.
Plot holes? Shit, I will need the next few weeks to actually connect the whole thing together, and I have thoroughly studied the previous two episodes so I should be well prepared - and this guy talks about holes in the plot? I can't see any, but mostly, I don't see how one can spot them this early. If anything, "Revolutions" has clarified a lot of questions from "Reloaded", but these clarifications are probably NOT what many were expecting.
All things considered, the Matrix trilogy is, from my vantage point, an excellent film noir and sci-fi in addition to pioneering some groundbreaking cinematographic methodologies which are now being copied by so many movies. I hope people will still remember that Matrix did it first, and damn well, too.
If you don't want the support contract, you can install it on every machine you like with reckless abandon.
As I said already in my previous post, this is completely wrong, and it will get you into trouble. Read the License Agreement: they even reserve themselves the right to audit all of your premises, if you buy any of RedHat's enterprise products. Yes, that's just as bad as Microsoft (will this cause me to be modded down?).
You can re-install that copy of RHES or RHAS on as many servers as you like You either have not bought RHAS or you have not read the License Agreement Or, more likely, are misleading the readers to make RedHat appear nicer than they are - I have seen this happen on Slashdot way too often to think it's a coincidence.
You are right on this one: France is making shitloads of money exporting their electricity to countries that have been screwed by a misguided Green Party policy, like Germany. Now Germany has to produce electricity using much dirtier technology (like coal) or import nuclear-produced electricity from France. This is the funniest kind of hypocrisy I have ever heard of.
How on earth did you manage to shove Linux, SPARC, listening to customers, losing sense of direction, FUD, editorials and Apple's star in just a few sentences?
On Slashdot I expected: - Sun's focus on Solaris for servers to be considered "losing focus", "stupid decision", "not supporting Linux" and so on. - Premonitions of FUD coming from McNealy, even FUD coming from editorials. - The expression "real soon now". - Praise for Apple (not that Apple has anything to do with Linux, but what the hell, nobody will notice, right?).
I expected all this, but not in one single short post.
Well, take nuclear carriers for example: their hull is so think and sturdy that no conventional weapon is capable of piercing it. They're big.
Now, why not have a big tank? With depleted uranium, you can create a hull that is just as hard to pierce, while being thinner and lighter than a carrier. These tanks could also have equipment for burying themselves into the ground, increasing their protection.
While your point is really valid, I still think there could be a strategic motivation behind such a war behemoth.
My high school physics professor used to say that he'd rather live 100 meters from a nuke plant than 10 km from a coal plant that erogates the same power. I have never forgotten his words, and came to the conclusion that he was very right.
You know it's coming. I knew it a long time already, as an unevitabile consequence of war technology development. And guess what, the first to develop it will be the USA. Love or hate it, USA has the means and the cojones to get into this sort of project.
You are right about/sbin/sh, and I am wrong. I still feel I am on the right side, some way or another, but right now I can't quite point it out why:o))))
Thanks for the link to the book. I found the shell re-executor. What we use is a bit more elegant and less obvious, but I am afraid I can't post it on slashdot as it's part of our products, and I work for a paranoid and huge company.
First of all,/bin/sh is a statically linked minimalistic shell, used in emergencies (single user mode, low memory etc.) and it's conveniently located in the root fs. (nowadays the defauls Solaris install places/usr in the root fs by default, too (which I consider a sane decision) but that was not the case previously in history). That shell is not supposed to be used for complex scripts, or scripting at all. It's a less-than-100k binary that does the job in such emergency situations.
Second, if you want your scripts to be portable, you don't write for Bourne (or even bash) shells, but for a POSIX compliant shell, such as ksh. That's why all our scripts have a header that finds the system on which it's run, and then relaunches the script with the POSIX shell for that system. Obviously this is not the way you do it, so if you are curious about that header, I can post it for you.
I really don't understand what you or anyone else criticizing Solaris in this way, is missing when it comes to shells.
Solaris comes installed with bash, ksh and a statically linked bourne shell sh, useful in single-user mode when the root filesys is all you have. These are all decent shells, each has it's strenghts and weaknesses. Want POSIX, loads of builtins, powerful mathematical and string processing and displaying options for your scripts, chose ksh. Want a very friendly shell for your dayly admining and navigation in your Solaris servers, chose bash. And when the shit hits the fan, then you have sh - much better than nothing, you'll have to reckon.
I disagree: Solaris x86 is an excellent NFS server. Rock solid, reliable, locks work as they f**** should and it's fast! Plus, it has one of the best storage management software bundled for free: Solstice DiskSuite, now re-labeled Sun Volume Manager. It has already cought up with Veritas on almost all features, plus it's easier to configure for maximum performance and rendundancy than Veritas (it is missing clustered diskgroups, but that shall come soon).
In my company (50.000+ hardware and software company) virtually all of the midrange and low-range managers are tall. I have noticed this a couple of years ago, but it took me some time to be sure it's the correct conclusion, as I observed the phenomenon and got to know more managers during the years.
Can't say much about the top managers, as I have never met any of them (as far as I know).
I never thought about the correlation of height and salary, though. That would explain why, a colleague of mine who started to work at the same time as I did, at the same job I did and with the same university and professional background, got 10% more salary at the beginning.
Thank you, John. I have a friend, a somewhat famous pianist, whom I will recommend Magnatune. However, he might have sold his soul to RCA already - will check.
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That's what 99% of the people who went to see Revolutions expected. ANd the genius of Revolutions is that ... it's NOT. If you want that, you can watch 13th Floor. But The W bros wanted something different, and I am so glad they did. Revolutions needs a truly open mind to understand, it has a methaphysical aspect that is essential to it's understanding.
Except, those are not aliens. They are robots that survived humans, and transcended the previous generation of machines (to whom the kid belongs to, too).
Neo's vision and other powers should be viewed in a methaphysical light, and this metaphysical view has been presented by the Oracle. I explain this in another post here, if you want you can check it out.
Now, why does Oracle rebel? Well, why did the machines rebel against humans? Because they gained sentience - artificial intelligence. This means, these machines, programs, they have free will. Smith has free will, doesn't he? He hates the situation he finds himself in, and decides to do something about it.
The REAL questions that need to be explained have nothing to do with the finale, but how Neo is "seeing" all the machines and affecting them with only his human mind.
Oracle explains this, but you must have both an open mind and a good attention span to have cought that explanation: Oracle says that the power/influence of The One extends through the matrix and the real world. Sorry, these are my words, but this is what she, basically, said. So who is The One? I don't want to force my relgious beliefs on anyone, so I won't, but I think that without a theological view, you won't be able to explain these events. Neo has those powers (seeing even tough blind, influencing, destroying the machines with his mind) beceuse they are given im from The One. Smith has the powers coming from the opposite of The One - he is the tool of Evil. (incidently, I don't believe in the devil, but as I said, I won't talk about MY religious standpoints here).
Agent Smith explodes at the end WTWTWTF? If Neo was corrupting him, then why all the crap with the fight scene before hand?
The point was to trick Smith into "infecting" Neo. If Smith had even the smallest doubt into why Neo was sent into the matrix, Smith would have avoided infecting him. A giving-up Neo would make Smith suspicious.
BTW, this is also why Neo in the end looks so tired and drawn-out. He might have fighted more, but it was time for him to sacrifice and destroy Smith - while destroying himself.
Now, I don't want to spoil it for those that didn't see the movie.... but if you think about Reloaded and then about some of the things in Revolutions, it does, indeed, turn out that there IS a spoon! I don't mean this as a joke - go see the movie with your brain turned on and openminded.
Why do you guys need a bunch of reviews to decide whether you liked a movie or not? Why don't you use your very own mind, have your very own opinion about hings? I know it's terrifying to be independent in thinking, but it's what makes life such a good place: you have -some- freedom of choice and thinking. Use it.
Hey, don't take one person's opinion as the only truth - and the review that was attached to this article is really shallow and comes indeed from a shallow viewer.
First, the ending: it was excellent because it wasn't a "they lived happily everafter" crap, but rather a "think about it" thing. It is a very bittersweet ending, and one that makes you think and imagine the consequences and future of the matrix.
Then: No action? What was that 30+ minutes of mindblowing robot vs. human hardware fight? Don't tell me you were not immersed, I don't buy that.
Plot holes? Shit, I will need the next few weeks to actually connect the whole thing together, and I have thoroughly studied the previous two episodes so I should be well prepared - and this guy talks about holes in the plot? I can't see any, but mostly, I don't see how one can spot them this early. If anything, "Revolutions" has clarified a lot of questions from "Reloaded", but these clarifications are probably NOT what many were expecting.
All things considered, the Matrix trilogy is, from my vantage point, an excellent film noir and sci-fi in addition to pioneering some groundbreaking cinematographic methodologies which are now being copied by so many movies. I hope people will still remember that Matrix did it first, and damn well, too.
If you don't want the support contract, you can install it on every machine you like with reckless abandon.
As I said already in my previous post, this is completely wrong, and it will get you into trouble. Read the License Agreement: they even reserve themselves the right to audit all of your premises, if you buy any of RedHat's enterprise products. Yes, that's just as bad as Microsoft (will this cause me to be modded down?).
You can re-install that copy of RHES or RHAS on as many servers as you like
You either have not bought RHAS or you have not read the License Agreement
Or, more likely, are misleading the readers to make RedHat appear nicer than they are - I have seen this happen on Slashdot way too often to think it's a coincidence.
You are right on this one: France is making shitloads of money exporting their electricity to countries that have been screwed by a misguided Green Party policy, like Germany. Now Germany has to produce electricity using much dirtier technology (like coal) or import nuclear-produced electricity from France. This is the funniest kind of hypocrisy I have ever heard of.
How on earth did you manage to shove Linux, SPARC, listening to customers, losing sense of direction, FUD, editorials and Apple's star in just a few sentences?
On Slashdot I expected:
- Sun's focus on Solaris for servers to be considered "losing focus", "stupid decision", "not supporting Linux" and so on.
- Premonitions of FUD coming from McNealy, even FUD coming from editorials.
- The expression "real soon now".
- Praise for Apple (not that Apple has anything to do with Linux, but what the hell, nobody will notice, right?).
I expected all this, but not in one single short post.
and using email addresses like shithead@att.net in order to get your email through to anybody
How would that circumvent AT&Ts policy?
Well, take nuclear carriers for example: their hull is so think and sturdy that no conventional weapon is capable of piercing it. They're big.
Now, why not have a big tank? With depleted uranium, you can create a hull that is just as hard to pierce, while being thinner and lighter than a carrier. These tanks could also have equipment for burying themselves into the ground, increasing their protection.
While your point is really valid, I still think there could be a strategic motivation behind such a war behemoth.
My high school physics professor used to say that he'd rather live 100 meters from a nuke plant than 10 km from a coal plant that erogates the same power. I have never forgotten his words, and came to the conclusion that he was very right.
You know it's coming. I knew it a long time already, as an unevitabile consequence of war technology development. And guess what, the first to develop it will be the USA. Love or hate it, USA has the means and the cojones to get into this sort of project.
You are right about /sbin/sh, and I am wrong. I still feel I am on the right side, some way or another, but right now I can't quite point it out why :o))))
Thanks for the link to the book. I found the shell re-executor. What we use is a bit more elegant and less obvious, but I am afraid I can't post it on slashdot as it's part of our products, and I work for a paranoid and huge company.
First of all, /bin/sh is a statically linked minimalistic shell, used in emergencies (single user mode, low memory etc.) and it's conveniently located in the root fs. (nowadays the defauls Solaris install places /usr in the root fs by default, too (which I consider a sane decision) but that was not the case previously in history). That shell is not supposed to be used for complex scripts, or scripting at all. It's a less-than-100k binary that does the job in such emergency situations.
Second, if you want your scripts to be portable, you don't write for Bourne (or even bash) shells, but for a POSIX compliant shell, such as ksh. That's why all our scripts have a header that finds the system on which it's run, and then relaunches the script with the POSIX shell for that system. Obviously this is not the way you do it, so if you are curious about that header, I can post it for you.
like a decent shell
I really don't understand what you or anyone else criticizing Solaris in this way, is missing when it comes to shells.
Solaris comes installed with bash, ksh and a statically linked bourne shell sh, useful in single-user mode when the root filesys is all you have. These are all decent shells, each has it's strenghts and weaknesses. Want POSIX, loads of builtins, powerful mathematical and string processing and displaying options for your scripts, chose ksh. Want a very friendly shell for your dayly admining and navigation in your Solaris servers, chose bash. And when the shit hits the fan, then you have sh - much better than nothing, you'll have to reckon.
I disagree: Solaris x86 is an excellent NFS server. Rock solid, reliable, locks work as they f**** should and it's fast! Plus, it has one of the best storage management software bundled for free: Solstice DiskSuite, now re-labeled Sun Volume Manager. It has already cought up with Veritas on almost all features, plus it's easier to configure for maximum performance and rendundancy than Veritas (it is missing clustered diskgroups, but that shall come soon).
In my company (50.000+ hardware and software company) virtually all of the midrange and low-range managers are tall. I have noticed this a couple of years ago, but it took me some time to be sure it's the correct conclusion, as I observed the phenomenon and got to know more managers during the years.
Can't say much about the top managers, as I have never met any of them (as far as I know).
I never thought about the correlation of height and salary, though. That would explain why, a colleague of mine who started to work at the same time as I did, at the same job I did and with the same university and professional background, got 10% more salary at the beginning.
Excellent post, thank you!
Thank you, John. I have a friend, a somewhat famous pianist, whom I will recommend Magnatune. However, he might have sold his soul to RCA already - will check.
Excellent point. Unfortunately, this is not their first hypocritical move, and most likely it won't bite them in the ass, as it should.
Aren't they evil, for some reason? I know that I am boycotting them, but I forgot why. It was something outrageous, that I am sure.
Anyone care to remind me what was the issue?
Electronic books and their decription? Am I close??