Bill Gates as Morpheus? Steve Ballmer as Neo?

[Gabriel]

This is really funny, just in a sad and ironic sort of way.

If anybody in the computer industry is imprisoning our minds while they turn us into their tools its Microsoft. The fact that Gates and Balmer would have the chutzpah to paint themselves as subversives fighting the machine and looking out for the fate of humanity is just sad.

However, this does say something very interesting about Microsoft. First rule of marketing, if you're competitor is trying to steal marketshare away from you you don't make them look like a serious threat and make yourself look like you're scared, especially in front of thousands of your customers and the rest of the industry. Either Gates, Ballmer & co. are just absurdly arrogant, which will hopefully lead to their downfall, or they really are desperate and do see themselves losing to Linux.

Very Interesting.

 

[leet1]

Dang! yall are getting into this waaaaaaaay too much. Its just a freaking parody, for ****s and giggles. lol

 

[SeaFox]

Originally posted by deejemon
Why, what's wrong with Revolutions? I haven't seen it yet (so don't spoil it for me), but I thought it was described as having a very satisfying ending.

No exactly the opposite. The ending was very dissatisfying. We're all built up for this final battle and conclusion during the last two movies and it all gets screwed up.

I never really got the Neo-Smith thing. Shouldn't Smith have been thankful to Neo for freeing him from the Matrix?

 

[Ja Di ksw]

Originally posted by cesar
Steve Jobs should be Morpheus and Ellen Feiss should be Neo or Trinity !!

That would be hysterical! I can completely see Ellen saying "whoa" with her pothead voice after Morpheus (Steve) jumps over the building.

 

[SeaFox]

Originally posted by Gabriel
This is really funny, just in a sad and ironic sort of way.

If anybody in the computer industry is imprisoning our minds while they turn us into their tools its Microsoft. The fact that Gates and Balmer would have the chutzpah to paint themselves as subversives fighting the machine and looking out for the fate of humanity is just sad.

Maybe that's why Bill isn't a geek. He obviously never went to see the Matrix (or is too stupid to understand it) and doesn't realize that his company is the Matrix and simply doesn't fit into the movie any other way.

I'm gonna go see if this is on Slashdot. I wanna see what the Linux heads had to say about it.

 

[SeaFox]

Originally posted by Ja Di ksw
That would be hysterical! I can completely see Ellen saying "whoa" with her pothead voice after Morpheus (Steve) jumps over the building.

and then when she realizes she's "the One" during the fight with the agents she'll go "beep bop beep beep" and make them self-distruct!

 

[chewbaccapits]

Why is this in the front page of the news?

 

[LethalWolfe]

Re: Great Comparison

Originally posted by DDMaKeeg
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!

Well, it was a lot longer than 6 months between The Matrix, and Reloaded, and Revolutions wasn't a sequal to Reloaded but the 2nd half of a single story. So yer anti-MS out lash kinda falls flat.


Lethal

 

[etoiles]

Originally posted by Abstract
This give "Kill Bill" a whole new meaning....

LOL, Steve Jobs wearing a blonde wig, cutting off arms and legs off M$ agents, and then at the end of the first episode shortening Ballmer by a few inches.

Now THAT would be something.

 

[stoid]

Re: Re: Great Comparison

Originally posted by LethalWolfe
Well, it was a lot longer than 6 months between The Matrix, and Reloaded, and Revolutions wasn't a sequal to Reloaded but the 2nd half of a single story. So yer anti-MS out lash kinda falls flat.


Lethal

Actually May to November... 6 months

and I would consider the service pack to be a continuation of the same ****ty story...

so it look like your attempt to prop up that flaming pile of dog **** (a.k.a. MS) has fallen even flatter. Sorry.

 

[tYNS]

a little off topic

This is a little off topic, but I just discovered today an easter egg in VirtualPC 6.

You can bring up a picture of (I assume) the develop(nerd)s.

Put in the VPC6 disk. let it mount.. then double click to open the VPC disk.. This should open in a new finder window.
It will have the big picture made out of icons of a PC with 3 windows screens inside the finder window..

If you double click on the Icon piece that makes up the green XP start button of the front foremost Windows screen it will open a picture of the developers.

nifty.

 

[LimeiBook86]

HAHA...

Ok I got mad and then I laughed because the screenshots I saw made this movie look very cheesy. This is what you didn't see behind the scences!! Enjoy!

http://homepage.mac.com/ibook238/.Pictures/gates_matrix.jpg

 

[Wombatronic]

Re: Re: Re: Great Comparison

Originally posted by stoid
Actually May to November... 6 months

and I would consider the service pack to be a continuation of the same ****ty story...

so it look like your attempt to prop up that flaming pile of dog **** (a.k.a. MS) has fallen even flatter. Sorry.

And flattest of them all:

your parsing of the nice L. Wolfe's post

The second comma should not exist, and once it is removed the post becomes inarguably accurate.

cheers, though

 

[faustofernos]

Um, the Wachowski brothers HATE Microsoft

Um, the Wachowski brothers HATE Microsoft. They are big time MAC lovers...

I need to ask a personal friend, but those guys do NOT like Bill Gates, or what M$ represents. They either got paid a TON of money (they hardly made anything from the first Matrix film) or they are going to be suing M$ for using their stuff.

IT will be very funny if a big settlement comes out of this.

 

[AmigoMac]

<--- Ballmer ? .... It's really sad...

No way... Should that be humor? Should that impress the crowd?... "Take the blue one, and you'll be fired" "Take the red one and you will stay as CEO a bit longer"
...

Pretty embarrassing...

 

[MorganX]

>>When you're having a go at something as monumental as The Matrix, it's going to have to be brilliant or you're better off just not doing it. <<

You mean like the two sequels? Yeah, brilliant is the word I was looking for.

 

[MorganX]

Re: Um, the Wachowski brothers HATE Microsoft

Originally posted by faustofernos
Um, the Wachowski brothers HATE Microsoft. They are big time MAC lovers...

I need to ask a personal friend, but those guys do NOT like Bill Gates, or what M$ represents.

That would be the same Wachowski brothers that released Reloaded and Revolutions this year. Rushing them out, destroying the story, to cash in on DVD sales?

Excuse me while I go puke.

 

[stoid]

Re: Re: Re: Re: Great Comparison

Originally posted by Wombatronic
And flattest of them all:

your parsing of the nice L. Wolfe's post

The second comma should not exist, and once it is removed the post becomes inarguably accurate.

cheers, though

Ahh yes. When people completely misuse punctuation and sentence structure (no offense Mr. Wolfe) the meanings become a bit confused.

Originally posted by Wombatronic
Well, it was a lot longer than 6 months between The Matrix, and Reloaded, and Revolutions wasn't a sequal to Reloaded but the 2nd half of a single story. So yer anti-MS out lash kinda falls flat.

My translation based on closest approximation of punctuation.

Well, it was a lot longer than 6 months between The Matrix (Original) and Reloaded. Revolutions wasn't a sequel but the second half of a single story. So your statement bashing Microsoft has no bearing.

This translation also actually makes sense, however it does not support his claim. I would agree that Microsoft has been releasing new versions more frequently than the 5-6 years as stated by DDMaKeeg, so I am thinking that this whole train of thought is utterly flawed from it's conception and should be altogether dropped. If a moderator feels so I think they would be completely justified in wiping all record of this conversation out of existence entirely.

 

[zync]

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.

When you're having a go at something as monumental as The Matrix, it's going to have to be brilliant or you're better off just not doing it. About the only parody I've seen recently that actually worked was Jack Black and Sarah Michelle Gellar's performances in a take-off of Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring.

And computer jokes are just really not funny; even in a room full of computer geeks, they have a sad pathetic quality, coupled with a dismal realization that very few people outside the room would understand the (so-called) joke, and those who didn't wouldn't care enough to have it explained to them.

I know this is probably like ten pages too late and someone else has probably said it already but check out Justin Timberlake, Sean William Scott, and Will Ferrell on the Reloaded DVD oh and that "Wanda at large" lady....where did that show come from BTW? It was so left field...

 

[stoid]

Originally posted by zync
I know this is probably like ten pages too late and someone else has probably said it already but check out Justin Timberlake, Sean William Scott, and Will Ferrell on the Reloaded DVD oh and that "Wanda at large" lady....where did that show come from BTW? It was so left field...

Actually, and surprisingly no one mentioned it yet, I enjoyed that parody a great deal. They even got the guy who player the Keymaker to come back. Great stuff!!

 

[zync]

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.

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

Technically Microsoft really took off when Gates purchased DOS (bet that guy killed himself...can't remember his name now though) which was command line...granted they don't use it now, but they have used command line before...

 

[tychay]

The problem I see...

I saw nothing wrong with the internal VW parody which they eventually showed at PDC (note to Mac users: think of PDC as Microsoft's version of Apple Developer's Conference). The target of the ribbing that time was Sun and there is no intersection between Sun and MS, especially at the time.

This one is in poor taste. In fact, it's borderline taunting.

Look at how Microsoft portrays Linux in the movie and how the CEO now calls it open-source "insecure" (pot-kettle-black) changing from his previous tact that open-source was "un-American". At the same time, Microsoft sends their reps to open-source conferences all the time saying things like, "Tell us how open source and us can work together" and tries to form a nascent "community" around some releases of code examples built on their platform. Also, they start handing out copies of their OS, or Visual Studio and other multi-thousand dollar software.* This stuff is believable? The disconnect between upper management and these MS reps is amazing.

Or maybe it isn't a disconnect. At large technology conferences, I've seen people being badgered about various products by a person concealing their badges. Invariably that person turns out to be from Microsoft. *sigh*

IBM is a business partner. In fact, it's hard-impossible to get their ThinkPads without the (Microsoft) OS installed. They also support a lot Microsoft products from their mobile devices all the way up to their servers and enterprise. Taunting them is not just unamusing, it's immature.

My perspective can be summed up in this parable:

Once upon a time a certain young co-founder of a Hot Browser Company told the press and the world how they'd crush the Big Bad Monopoly using the Internet as a tool to end the nascent GUI monopoly.

Big Bad Monopoly read the article and realized that it had used this GUI in the same manner to establish an Operating System monopoly just a few years earlier by ending all competition in the Operating System--including the guys who actually invented the Operating System and later sticking it to their former friend, Big Blue Business Partner.

So, Big Bad Monopoly reversed it's position about the Internet and conned a third party who had access to Hot Browser's original source code, which they then bundled with the GUI/Operating System. After doing so, a vice president of Big Bad Monopoly sent to Hot Browser Company's board the following e-mail: Boy waves large red flag in front of herd of charging bulls and is surprised to wake up gored.

And Big Bad Company continued to extract monopoly rents happily ever after.

The difference is nobody, not even IBM, is in the position to "gore" these two taunting boys.

Therein lies my problem with this video.

On another note, I don't vote about the articles because I'm not too sure what voting means: Does it mean how believable the rumor is? Does it mean how happy I am that it was reported? Does it mean how good this is for Apple? Does it mean how happy does it make me feel?

But, consider this a vote for being happy that MacRumors is reporting this. It's interesting and many might find it amusing.

* On a side note, one should look at the lastest quarterlies from Microsoft. Especially their OS division. $2 billion profit on revenue of $3 billion?? That's printing money. Get me some of that action!

 

[LethalWolfe]

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Great Comparison

Originally posted by stoid
Ahh yes. When people completely misuse punctuation and sentence structure (no offense Mr. Wolfe) the meanings become a bit confused.


My translation based on closest approximation of punctuation.

Well, it was a lot longer than 6 months between The Matrix (Original) and Reloaded. Revolutions wasn't a sequel but the second half of a single story. So your statement bashing Microsoft has no bearing.

This translation also actually makes sense, however it does not support his claim. I would agree that Microsoft has been releasing new versions more frequently than the 5-6 years as stated by DDMaKeeg, so I am thinking that this whole train of thought is utterly flawed from it's conception and should be altogether dropped. If a moderator feels so I think they would be completely justified in wiping all record of this conversation out of existence entirely.

It's late, and I'm a bit confused, but I think my sucking at grammar created a temporary problem...

I didn't intend for my post to have anyting to do w/MS. I just wanted to be a PITA , split hairs, and point out that Revolutions wasn't a sequel to, but a continuation of, Reloaded. Any meaning beyond that was unintended.


Lethal

 

[zync]

Originally posted by stoid
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!

I wholeheartedly agree...hell, I'm even agnostic...though I kinda found an irony in the multiplicity of the religions presented...so I took it with an agnostic slant in that they present so much and let you decide...if effect they're saying "we don't know"....just my view...posted it on some matrix forum previously...though it is mostly christian...

 

[zync]

Originally posted by stoid
The "Mr. Smith" would be the best. It writes itself over every file in your drive turning them into copies of itself.

That would be cool....lol....

BTW, Steve Ballmer looks exactly like my World Religions teacher from High School three years ago....