Ya, i can see the movie start out with a really hot sex scene like in Basic instinct. Neo and Trinity going at it like rabbits..
Then an AGENT (In his T1001 body, of course) bursts in and takes them into custody. (Neo is too tired from copulating 10 gazillion times to do anything.) They go to court and the whole movie is like, "YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!"
The two protaganists get sent to jail for incest.
Man, i see the christian coalition having a FIELD-DAY with that one.
I think that the new movies will blow just for the simple fact that what made the first movie fun was Neo starting just like any hacker.. and becoming a god.
The next movie will start with him as a god. Uhm, where to next?
And, of course, there will be lots of frivolous sex. Because they *can*. I mean, trinity already LOVES Neo..
Oh boy.
Then again, there were other damn good sequels out there.. Aliens comes to mind. [I don't consider the 4th movie part of the series.. it was blatant marketing and vomit-inducing trash.]
I know. Originally, when NSCP/AOL was still Mosiac, they were trying to find out what to call the new Unix client that they were developing. JWZ prompted 'Mozilla'.. and the rest is history.
But!.. leave it up to marketing shmo-heads to screw everything up.
You can't get a tarball of Navigator or communnicator as far as i know...
See the problem is that if they had a poll that said, "Is Linux buggy?" If the respondants were answering honestly (HA!) they would have to say, "Yes".
Let's get real here people, ALL software has glitches and/or bugs. It's a fact of life. You just cannot feasibly find all the problems with software within the given time that MARKETING idiots through at you.
Man, you thought regular flies were annoying? While until you get BORG fly buzzing around your head. You swat at him.. hit him.. and he burns a friggin' hole in your hand.
"Buzzzzz... resistance is futile. We *WILL* fly up your nose and annoy the beegeezus out of you until kingdom come. (Buzz.)"
Ok, so you scratch the wheels and replace them with giant spider-like legs. So now you have this giant mechanical spider that feeds on the slugs it hunts.
My first upgrade from my IBM 86 was to a PB. Man, was that ever a mistake. The memory and chip were SOLDERED to the board. Not manufactured like that, but done just to make the machine unupgradable. What kind of moron company does that kind of thing?
Yeash. Next machine was a hand-built clone. Hehe.
On a side note: Compaq make trash machines too. My neighbor bought a Compaq presario p100.. guess what was soldered to the board? You got it, the CPU. At least they listen when you attempt to complain.
I was just thinking about how computers are falling and falling in price. With windows staying a static price (and now *growing* in price) and it becoming a larger percentage of the total price of a PC.
How will this affect the price of a computer with w2k? Will it really cost more than an identical machine with win98?
The thing is, in today's day and age, if you use the internet in any way other than as a passive surfer you and your personal life are out there.
Very few of us have been so careful as to never let a name or tidbit of traceable information slip out. How many of us can actually honestly say that we have NEVER gotten a piece of spam? I don't know about you people, but i have a mailbox at hotmail *just for spam*. I use it whenever anything needs an email address.. and i actually care to recieve it. Needless to say that i get about 30-40 spamails a day.
If some company out there wants to know about you, they will find out about you. Where you live, what your phone number is, perhaps gather information about your interests (newsgroups people, newsgroups!). The only way to avoid this is to *not* be on the internet. For the large majority of us, that statement is not only fantasy, but also heresy.
Personally, although i found this alarming, i did not find this particularly surprising. How many other companies out there do you believe are doing the same thing?
Did it strike anyone else as odd that throughout the entire article, every instance of the word 'Linux' was enlarged and, in fact, a colored bitmap?
Can you boys and girls say 'hype'? I knew that you could!
Seriously though, isn't about time that people stop worrying so darn much about the operating system that the application is running on.. and worry about the actual application?
As for the actual article, kudos to Model Technology Inc. I know that this will make quite a few people happy.
It's been a few years since i dropped out of school, but i DISTINCTLY remember having to sign a quite large pamphlet the first week of each school year that pretty much revoked all 10 of the bill of rights.
It was so enforced that if you didn't bring the pamphlet in the first week, you were automatically suspended until you did. Sound like horseshit?? Welcome to my highschool.. and MANY all around the country.
Uhm, when was the last time that you tried to upload 4.6 Gb worth of files via LPT or Serial connection? Think LAPLINK. It's very slow.
Now, i know that some moron out there is gonna say, "Who would be so stupid as to move THAT much music at once?" It would probably be the same moron that spent all that time DOWNLOADING it from the internet. Some dumb rich kid with a fast internet connection.. there are PLENTY of them out there.
Slashdot Mirror
oh ya? oh ya?
:)
why don't you, uhm, log in and say that?
hehe.
[never deprive a geek his movies.]
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This MS hardware.
That means they pay someone else alot of money to design/ develope the system.
Think MS mouse. Logitech designed them.. does Logitech get credit? HA!
Personally, I know that the biggest market for consoles is the 13-24 year old market. Wow, aren't a lot of MS-Haters that age-group too? woo.
Since this is a free market(uhm, don't make me go marxist now..) I believe that no amount of MS FUD and marketing genius will sail this ship.
Long live Sony. Long live the Playstation.
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For more literary depth on the lines of the Matrix (yes yes, it has mayhem too!) see DarkCity.
It's story was strikingly similar.. and different enough/ dark enough to be cool.
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Ya, but i don't see it mentioned anywhere in the article that Anne Rice is writing the script to the next two movies. :)
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Ya, i can see the movie start out with a really hot sex scene like in Basic instinct. Neo and Trinity going at it like rabbits..
Then an AGENT (In his T1001 body, of course) bursts in and takes them into custody. (Neo is too tired from copulating 10 gazillion times to do anything.) They go to court and the whole movie is like, "YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!"
The two protaganists get sent to jail for incest.
Man, i see the christian coalition having a FIELD-DAY with that one.
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The first movie ended with Neo *flying*.
I think that the new movies will blow just for the simple fact that what made the first movie fun was Neo starting just like any hacker.. and becoming a god.
The next movie will start with him as a god. Uhm, where to next?
And, of course, there will be lots of frivolous sex. Because they *can*. I mean, trinity already LOVES Neo..
Oh boy.
Then again, there were other damn good sequels out there.. Aliens comes to mind. [I don't consider the 4th movie part of the series.. it was blatant marketing and vomit-inducing trash.]
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I know. Originally, when NSCP/AOL was still Mosiac, they were trying to find out what to call the new Unix client that they were developing. JWZ prompted 'Mozilla'.. and the rest is history.
But!.. leave it up to marketing shmo-heads to screw everything up.
You can't get a tarball of Navigator or communnicator as far as i know...
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"The announcement of the Hamilton Group, which begat OS/F, which killed UNIX's viability as a commercial desktop"
Ok, call me a dunce.. but what is the Hamilton group, and when did they make this announcement?
Funny, i kinda thought that *I* was running UNIX on my desktop.
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technically, you can't. since the tarball at Mozilla.org is for MOZILLA.
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See the problem is that if they had a poll that said, "Is Linux buggy?" If the respondants were answering honestly (HA!) they would have to say, "Yes".
Let's get real here people, ALL software has glitches and/or bugs. It's a fact of life. You just cannot feasibly find all the problems with software within the given time that MARKETING idiots through at you.
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Man, you thought regular flies were annoying? While until you get BORG fly buzzing around your head. You swat at him.. hit him.. and he burns a friggin' hole in your hand.
"Buzzzzz... resistance is futile. We *WILL* fly up your nose and annoy the beegeezus out of you until kingdom come. (Buzz.)"
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In the article, they also mention the Robopike. Here is a link to the robopike page at MIT.
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http://web.mit.edu/towtank/www/pike/
And robotuna! A full-size craft for humans on the same foil concept.
http://web.mit.edu/towtank/www/tuna/brad/tuna.h
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Nightmares. That's what i'm gonna have tonight.
Ok, so you scratch the wheels and replace them with giant spider-like legs. So now you have this giant mechanical spider that feeds on the slugs it hunts.
It doesn't sleep.
It doesn't tire.
It just
eats
eats
eats.
AHHH!!!
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Let's give this some thought: A robot that feeds and recharges itself from it.
Very quickly we can make the connection that this is a possibility for a very frightening future.. or a really bad B-rated sci-fi flick.
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Is this another one of those inventions that will lead to greater innovations in the field of robotics and miniaturization?
I guess this is much preffered to pesticide. How many of these SlugBots(tm) to you need for a huge field?
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My first upgrade from my IBM 86 was to a PB. Man, was that ever a mistake. The memory and chip were SOLDERED to the board. Not manufactured like that, but done just to make the machine unupgradable. What kind of moron company does that kind of thing?
Yeash. Next machine was a hand-built clone. Hehe.
On a side note: Compaq make trash machines too. My neighbor bought a Compaq presario p100.. guess what was soldered to the board? You got it, the CPU. At least they listen when you attempt to complain.
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I was just thinking about how computers are falling and falling in price. With windows staying a static price (and now *growing* in price) and it becoming a larger percentage of the total price of a PC.
How will this affect the price of a computer with w2k? Will it really cost more than an identical machine with win98?
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The thing is, in today's day and age, if you use the internet in any way other than as a passive surfer you and your personal life are out there.
Very few of us have been so careful as to never let a name or tidbit of traceable information slip out. How many of us can actually honestly say that we have NEVER gotten a piece of spam? I don't know about you people, but i have a mailbox at hotmail *just for spam*. I use it whenever anything needs an email address.. and i actually care to recieve it. Needless to say that i get about 30-40 spamails a day.
If some company out there wants to know about you, they will find out about you. Where you live, what your phone number is, perhaps gather information about your interests (newsgroups people, newsgroups!). The only way to avoid this is to *not* be on the internet. For the large majority of us, that statement is not only fantasy, but also heresy.
Personally, although i found this alarming, i did not find this particularly surprising. How many other companies out there do you believe are doing the same thing?
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That was fast. I was expecting a true PR meltdown of epic proportions.
Uhm, now, should i be relieved that they did this so fast, or should I be disappointed that it happened in the first place.
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Ya, i see that.
I bet whomever found this, did so through some kind of search.
Yay. Scratch one comment.
Did it strike anyone else as odd that throughout the entire article, every instance of the word 'Linux' was enlarged and, in fact, a colored bitmap?
Can you boys and girls say 'hype'? I knew that you could!
Seriously though, isn't about time that people stop worrying so darn much about the operating system that the application is running on.. and worry about the actual application?
As for the actual article, kudos to Model Technology Inc. I know that this will make quite a few people happy.
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we also get a lot of 'sweet lovin' words from the greek god eros.
-erotic
-eroticism
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It's been a few years since i dropped out of school, but i DISTINCTLY remember having to sign a quite large pamphlet the first week of each school year that pretty much revoked all 10 of the bill of rights.
It was so enforced that if you didn't bring the pamphlet in the first week, you were automatically suspended until you did. Sound like horseshit?? Welcome to my highschool.. and MANY all around the country.
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I wonder if they would incorporate this kind of technology into LapTops too. Have they already? --
Uhm, when was the last time that you tried to upload 4.6 Gb worth of files via LPT or Serial connection? Think LAPLINK. It's very slow.
Now, i know that some moron out there is gonna say, "Who would be so stupid as to move THAT much music at once?" It would probably be the same moron that spent all that time DOWNLOADING it from the internet. Some dumb rich kid with a fast internet connection.. there are PLENTY of them out there.
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