Um, complete opposite here. I thought the first Matric was cool becasue of beautifully envisaged and coreographed action sequences. I thought the bullshit pseudo-philosphy hand waving wank was, well, just that. A total unnecessary distraction and a pathetically laughable attempt to give an excellent action movie depth.
The sequals (actually I only saw the second, I made the, what seems to be wise, decision of missing the third) cranked up the mumbo-jumbo bullshit and reduced the quality and veracity of the action scenes. Furthermore, it seems that not only did the Wachowskis think they were making a "deep" film, they thought people wanted "mind-blowing" computer effects. No, no we did not, we wanted to see actual people pretending to hit each other, at speed with a level of visual panache. I didn't want to see a computer Keanu Reeves attacking 100 computer facsimilie's of Hugo Weaving, especially when there's no god damn resolution to the fight scene. He could have ran away at any point. The lack of dramatic tension in the Reloaded fight scenes was painfully apparent, and this is critical in an action movie. Look at the Jet Li, remake of Fist of Legend, each fight scene (except one) has a actual, real, reason for existing within the frame of the, admittedly minimal, story. The audience has an investment in the outcome of each and every fight. And damn do they look good.
Call me shallow if you like but when I go to see an action movie I want to see top quality, contextualy beliveable action, performed by actual people rather than tired, computer genreated pap with no motivation.
Bullshit.
The PS2 launch was palpably awful. The Dreamcast which had launched mnths before it had by far better looking games. This was confiremd when multi-format releases started comnig out. Compare the visuals of Dead or Alive on the Dreamcast and the PS2, to help the hard of thinking the Playstation didn't even come close, or to use internet parlance "LOL Jaggies LOL"
I installed a Starforce protected game on my run of the mill Dell LAtitude laptop with practically no other softare installed. Upon reboot I couldn't get the game to start up. after proding things for a few minutes I found it was becasue my computer no longer thought it had a DVD drive. An uninstall didn't help, fortunately I'd just done a system backup which worked.
The interesting thing about these studies by Gallup and Mori is that the results are freely avaiable on their website. Interestingly I can't seem to find the poll on the mori website:
http://www.mori.com/index-news.phtml
In my opinion Wikipedia isn't a good example of what a wiki is capable of. The original wiki at c2.com is far better. Wiki's allow discussion to happen right in the middle of an article, the fact that something is being disputed or queried is in your face in the article. Wikipedia's dicussion page is badwrong as it kills one of the strengths of a wiki.
Wiki pages should turn from discussions to information and then after time back to discussion and so on in a slow cycle. Wikipedia always wants the pages to be information which simply cuts against thegrain of what a wiki can and should do.
And this is pretty much completely irrelevent to either the research the article is talking about or to whether Strong AI is possible or not.
There is no getting around the fact that Searle has some kind of irrational prejudice against the possibility of non-neuronal consciousness and will will use every trick to try and "prove" that it is not possible.
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Um, complete opposite here. I thought the first Matric was cool becasue of beautifully envisaged and coreographed action sequences. I thought the bullshit pseudo-philosphy hand waving wank was, well, just that. A total unnecessary distraction and a pathetically laughable attempt to give an excellent action movie depth. The sequals (actually I only saw the second, I made the, what seems to be wise, decision of missing the third) cranked up the mumbo-jumbo bullshit and reduced the quality and veracity of the action scenes. Furthermore, it seems that not only did the Wachowskis think they were making a "deep" film, they thought people wanted "mind-blowing" computer effects. No, no we did not, we wanted to see actual people pretending to hit each other, at speed with a level of visual panache. I didn't want to see a computer Keanu Reeves attacking 100 computer facsimilie's of Hugo Weaving, especially when there's no god damn resolution to the fight scene. He could have ran away at any point. The lack of dramatic tension in the Reloaded fight scenes was painfully apparent, and this is critical in an action movie. Look at the Jet Li, remake of Fist of Legend, each fight scene (except one) has a actual, real, reason for existing within the frame of the, admittedly minimal, story. The audience has an investment in the outcome of each and every fight. And damn do they look good. Call me shallow if you like but when I go to see an action movie I want to see top quality, contextualy beliveable action, performed by actual people rather than tired, computer genreated pap with no motivation.
Bullshit. The PS2 launch was palpably awful. The Dreamcast which had launched mnths before it had by far better looking games. This was confiremd when multi-format releases started comnig out. Compare the visuals of Dead or Alive on the Dreamcast and the PS2, to help the hard of thinking the Playstation didn't even come close, or to use internet parlance "LOL Jaggies LOL"
I installed a Starforce protected game on my run of the mill Dell LAtitude laptop with practically no other softare installed. Upon reboot I couldn't get the game to start up. after proding things for a few minutes I found it was becasue my computer no longer thought it had a DVD drive. An uninstall didn't help, fortunately I'd just done a system backup which worked.
The interesting thing about these studies by Gallup and Mori is that the results are freely avaiable on their website. Interestingly I can't seem to find the poll on the mori website: http://www.mori.com/index-news.phtml
In my opinion Wikipedia isn't a good example of what a wiki is capable of. The original wiki at c2.com is far better. Wiki's allow discussion to happen right in the middle of an article, the fact that something is being disputed or queried is in your face in the article. Wikipedia's dicussion page is badwrong as it kills one of the strengths of a wiki.
Wiki pages should turn from discussions to information and then after time back to discussion and so on in a slow cycle. Wikipedia always wants the pages to be information which simply cuts against thegrain of what a wiki can and should do.
And this is pretty much completely irrelevent to either the research the article is talking about or to whether Strong AI is possible or not.
There is no getting around the fact that Searle has some kind of irrational prejudice against the possibility of non-neuronal consciousness and will will use every trick to try and "prove" that it is not possible.