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Bill Gates as Morpheus? Steve Ballmer as Neo?

Hmm if I recalled in the Matrix they did not use any OS like MS but it did look like a version of Linux or Unix.

In Matrix Reloaded they actually used command line commands when Trinity tries to hack the sys.

If the red pill means being in MS wonderland then I take the big blue pill any day and just chop it up!
 
Ironic

Actually, this "take the red pill" business is rather ironic...

Remember, in "The Matrix," the red pill was a traceroute program which allowed Morpheus and crew to exploit a security vulnerability and perform a denial of service attack against Neo's connection to the matrix.
 
Originally posted by deejemon
That could very well be the most lame-a$$ parody I've ever heard of. Microsoft and Bill aside, parodies only work if they're actually funny.
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Did you ever nail that one! This example is sort of an incestuous humour where you have to be "in" to be "in"-- if you catch my drift. Bill and Ball-mer would be a good name for a sit-com but, by its very nature, it could not possibly be funny except in a melodramatic "Windoze sucks" sort of way. And that overly used statement is not really funny, nor is it entirey accurate, as the verb, in this case, could be quite positive. Still, only Windows paramours would get the humour and all the rest of us would be left shaking our heads in utter disbelief that so-called humans had reached such a level of cognitive impairment and pseudo-empathy --lower than any of our primate predecessors could have ever imagined.
 
Microsoft and the Matrix, hmmm... I made a post about that last week...

I'll be back...

*searches high and low*

ahhh yes here he is :D

The thread...

and Mr. Funk-o-matic, just because you didn't understand or appreciate the immense symbolism and have no respect for religion, don't bash the Matrix. But let's PLEASE not turn this into a thread of "I like the Matrix"/"It blew" I'm tired of that cheap whinny bull-****. It's a ****ing movie, either you liked it or you didn't, so what!
 
This give "Kill Bill" a whole new meaning.... :mad:

Originally posted by techne
can't wait to heard about the next troyan/virus causing havoc and ruining windozeheads endless fields: "red pill virus".. hehehe
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Yeah, "maybe" the next big virus should be named the "Red Pill", or maybe, "Big Blue Pill". But hopefully that won't happen. *wink wink*

Note: If the Matrix ran on a MS product, it would have crashed long ago, and the Architect would have been some poor, overworked IT techie. ;)
 
if you see pic http://images.tabletpctalk.com/pictures/comdex2003/billgkey/01280044%20(Small).JPG there are some big macs :D
 
Originally posted by ITR 81
Hmm if I recalled in the Matrix they did not use any OS like MS but it did look like a version of Linux or Unix.

In Matrix Reloaded they actually used command line commands when Trinity tries to hack the sys.
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The command line environment in the matrix is, in fact *NIX, but which flavor is unknown. The hack Trinity performs is real. She uses Nmap version 2.54BETA25 to find a vulnerable SSH server, and then proceeds to exploit it using the SSH1 CRC32 vulnerability, which was discovered in November 2001.
 
Originally posted by Abstract
Yeah, "maybe" the next big virus should be named the "Red Pill", or maybe, "Big Blue Pill". But hopefully that won't happen.
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Sure. With at least a malware item (virus, troyan, exploit, etc.) surfacing almost weekly in Winderland, that won't never happen. Sorry to disturb your sleep but that had happened since a long time ago, buddy.
 
Great Comparison

Yeah great comparison:
Matrix- 6 months between sequels
Windows- 5 maybe 6 years between sequels (er, upgrades)

Yea I see the resemblance.
Go Away Bill!
 
Typical.

The chumps at MS can't even figure out one original thing.

[100% apolitical]
And Bill Gates revelling in the Matrix fantasy is a bit like how Western society adopted the moniker of "capitalism" even though that was coined by Marx as a derisive term.
[/100% apolitical]
 
Is it any coincidence that Microsoft is trying to be as 'cool' as The Matrix at the same time the third movie is flopping so bad they're already talking about sending it to DVD? (See below) They may as well do a mock video of "Who Let the Dogs Out" while they're at it. Nothing's more pitiful then watching fundamentally uncool people trying to be cool, especially when what they think is cool has become a joke for anything but.


According to FilmForce sources, The Matrix Revolutions may be released to DVD earlier than expected. If the reports are true then we could possibly see a release before this Christmas.

Worried that the time to make money from the franchise may be running out faster than expected, representatives for Warner Home Video contacted some of the major video retailers and rental outlets on Monday to let them know that Revolutions may be coming home a lot sooner than expected. Early January was mentioned but if the box office continues to drop at its current pace, Matrix Revolutions could hit DVD before Christmas.

Adding insult to injury, a possibility was mentioned to one video dealer that the studio may try putting together a 3-movie boxed set for Christmas if Revolutions is released in time to show up in your holiday stocking. According to one video dealer that spoke to IGN FilmForce on condition of anonymity, "Warners is afraid that Revolutions won't sell very well because of the word of mouth on the movie. The only way to make the money on sell-through is to package it with the other two." The retailer went on to say that the number of requests for the film have dropped significantly since the film's opening day.
 
i don't see a bright future...

for Microsoft.

I'm a student in Software Engineering and almost no one is using Server 2003 or any high-end Microsoft products for their work (Ya, some Computer Engineering people actually have to set up complete networks with about 500 computers as "homework").

And the development we Software people do is on Linux, or using jGrasp. Of course, it's all tested on Visual Studio before deployment...
I don't know too much about it though, since we do most of our work on paper and on drawing boards ( for flow charts and class lists )... After all, we're engineers.
Any programming or Computer Science students in these forums ?? What do you guys use ??

And "nobody" in our generation (if you're 20 or younger hehe) is not knowledgable in computers. I think times will get rougher by the year for Microsoft, since more and more people will be able to use something else.
 
I can't wait to see a parody of the pardoy (ala Steve Ballmer). I feel there is something terribly, terribly pathetic in this. Something that makes me feel very dirty. Ugh.
Maybe if what they were saying made sense, or made me look at things differently - but gosh Bill, you're calling the kettle black.
 
Re: i don't see a bright future...

Originally posted by From Win to Mac

Any programming or Computer Science students in these forums ?? What do you guys use ??
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I am an Interactive Digital Media - Computer Science concentration here at Northwest Missouri State University, "The electronic campus since 1987" and we have 2500 Gateways POS boxes bought in 2001, and like 4 macs in the video department. It seems to me that Windows is a shriveling dying breed. Like it was a great thing and the only option, but now it's just a shell and we use it only because that's what we have and that's what the business world is clinging to. I think that the only sinking ship today is MS. However they are so bloated that they have a great deal of bouancy (sp?) and it'll be quite awhile before they go down, but I have not heard any tales of "latest and greatest" anything from the Windows world. They seem to be a stagnant giant with no forward energy left, coasting on years of dominance until they collapse from the inside.
 
I always pictured Steve Ballmer as a good fill in for that monkey in 2001: A Space Odyssey. You know the one at the beginning with the music blaring smashing a skeleton with a bone. Yeah, the monkey is Ballmer, the bone is MS, and the skeleton are smaller companies.
 
Wow . . .

As though the computing world needed anymore proof that Bill Gates is the king of nerds.

Remember Apple owns the integration of movies and computers but even though you will never see Steve Jobs dressed as a 2' tall muppet with a lightsaber. This is more sad than anything.

BTW, they keep mentioning the Microsoft smart phone, where's apple going with the iPhone? We copyrighted that name, didn't we?
 
haven't seen it yet? you better get on that :) Personally, I liked it. But the general consensus seems to be that it wasn't worth the time, much less the money.
 
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