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*looks around* ... I'd buy it.

Unless god is interested in his creations' creations. he might leave the tape running to see what happens next, even if his grandkids have already proven to be worthless scum. Unless someone creates a mechanism for transplanting memories. Been done in sci-fi before(in fact, it's a staple of many clone stories). Though there's no really plausable way to do it that we know of, there's also no really plausable way to time-travel, so it balances out. There's a finite number of terminators that can be sent back. At least in the pre-Terminator 1 timeline, Skynet was making a desperate gamble. The tables had turned and humanity was pushing it back. From there it's only a matter of time before someone unplugs Skynet. This was credited to John Conner's leadership, so why not keep him from being born? Of course, it's possible that if not Conner, someone else would've risen to the role. Perhaps one of the aides that were being killed off in T3, perhaps someone that never became noteworthy in the eixsting timeline(s). And there's apparently severe limits on time travel, since Skynet didn't send a team of terminators back at any point in the series. Of course, I seem to recall the humans taking over the time travel facility as Skynet sent the original terminator back in time, which explains the first one. But T2 and T3 mean Skynet had more facilites, built new ones, or never lost them in the new timelines. And we're back to either limited range or massive power usage, which would slow your cycle times down a LOT(not long enough to prevent a counter-strike, but long enough to limit how much mechpower you send back). Things are more difficult post-T2, since the new Skynet is a decentralized network now(I doubt it would give this up and move into a centralized computer, because it makes it far more vulnerable). But each individual instance of the Skynet client is relatively stupid. It's only the network as a whole that is smart. Disconnect a computer from the network, and Skynet as a whole gets dumber. The disconnected computer gets VERY dumb. It will be virtually impossible to totally eradicate this incarnation of Skynet, but humanity knows what to look for and can maintain it at the mild nuisance level. You could inject a virus into the network to destroy it, but it would have to be as adaptive as Skynet itself, which humanity would (understandably) be somewhat hesitant to try. The upside is... If you can isolate a factory from the network, you can seize it for yourself and retool to serve your purposes(if nothing else, you need to wipe the computer to eliminate the currently-running Skynet app). The factory probably deletes hardware plans if it looks like humanity's gonna take over, so don't expect to get anything but what you can feed it. But that's still going through at least the T800 series, and likely more if you can yank samples off the assembly line. Then you can fight fire with fire, and steel with steel. ... This may be why the 'bot in T3 has the capacity to reprogram other terminators. If the resistance is making an army of Arnolds, the ability to "brainwash" them would be a valuable asset. ANYWAYS... once you have the capability to produce mecha, you can use that to reinforce your own forces. Even an older terminator like the Governator is far more effective against Skynet's forces than a human, simply by virtue of increased speed and durability. That boosts your chances at the NEXT facility. And you need another facility, because in the T3 version of the future every last tank, hoverjet, and terminator is part of Skynet's "brain." Seizing or destroying all the factories is the key to victory, though. Deny the capacity to make new parts. You might not be able to destroy Skynet, but you can paralyze it. Remove the arms and legs, and it can't do much. ... Unfortunbately, termiantors can be used to build new factories. But if you can smash and grab faster than they can build, you win eventually.

Terminator's continuity isn't that solid to begin with. John Conner is born because of a predestination paradox. Kyle Reese goes back in time to stop the terminator from killing Sarah Conner, mother of John Conner. In the process, they have sex and he winds up being John conner's father. Meaning that the rebel leader Skynet attempted to prevent was only created BECAUSE the terminator was running around in the past. A predestination paradox requires a rigid and unchangable timeline, at least with regards to the events responsible for the paradox. There is also the perspective to time travel which says that if you change something, the timeline forks, but without destroying the alternate timeline. So we have: Timeline 1: Sarah gets pregnant from some other guy, John is born, apocalypse happens, John is the great leader and the terminator and Kyle are sent back in time. (But in this timeline, neither Kyle nor the Terminator appear in the past.) Timeline 2: Kyle and the terminator appear in 1980-something. "Terminator 1" happens. The future John of this timeline is different from the John who Kyle remembers - but based on things said in T2 this John's history must have been similar, at least including sending Kyle back. Timeline 3: "Terminator 2" - John (son of Kyle) sends back Schwarzenegger to fight Robert Patrick. The result is that the apocalypse doesn't happen. In each case, the people who come from the future change the past - but not their own past, rather they create a new past, sort of like an alternate reality in the "Sliders" vein. The world they came from could still exist, but its connection with the altered world is broken. From this perspective, sending anybody back at all seems a waste of time, in the sense that it won't change one's own world - but there's no way anybody involved would know that unless someone actually succeeded in returning to their own future. (I always liked how "Bill & Ted" and "Back to the Future" played with the notion of time travel paradoxes, though...) 344253[/snapback] Messy. But workable. The branching timelines could ALSO explain why the 'bot in T3 was less advanced than the 'bot in T2. IMO, indestructable liquid metal > liquid metal over a conventional and destructable skeleton. ... And from there you could tap the idea of closely related timelines being able to influence each other(the whole reason a multiverse concept exists), and render Skynet's temporal attacks rational. If the new timeline is close enough to the old one, it could have an impact on the original. I still don't like T2, though.

I would but what is 4chan? Ah Firefly good show better movie. Serenity had to have been the best movie of the summer, since Batman was a remake I think it was the best original summer movie. 343718[/snapback] It's just a fan message board. Upload images or drawings for other fans to enjoy. www.4chan.org 343759[/snapback] And you will never find a more wrteched hive of sucm and villianry.

I was thinking it's because marines are better knwon for on-foot, and the army is better known for runnign poo over in tanks.

But didn't Birds of Prey bomb?

Meh.

You'd be surprised. ... You know, it's not actually POSSIBLE to extrapolate your e-mail address from an IP address. The people extracting and using it are getting it from things like bulk forwards and progams taht look at webpages for e-mail addresses. That's why you see sites where peoply type their address out as "yaddayaddaATsomethingsomethingDOTcom" It confuses the spiders, which don't recognize it as a valid e-mail. Aside from which... EVERY site you visit knows your IP. It's required for the internet to work. AND the spammers aren't the ones passing viruses around. I've also never seen a database of malicious websites. And wouldn't trust the accuracy of one for 5 seconds. Again, there's no substitute for common sense. Least of all firewalls.

John being hunted down by whoever witnessed the t800 from the second movie I suppose. Notice how in the third movie he has to live off the grid? Why is this? Maybe his mom senses he will be in danger from the humans trying to get whatever information they can about what happened to the terminator? It's military hardware that could be used in wars against others. Given that he hacked an atm to get some money, (he uses an atari ) I can see him as being seen as a threat to many companies using this hacking ability, and many people would want to find the kid. (not just terminators) Perhaps the series will cover how his GF's dad began development of those early prototype machines in the third movie before they finally got out of control from the virus? 344054[/snapback] They mentioned in the 3rd movie that neither of the Conners really QUITE believed it was over(remember Sarah's coffin full of guns?). So he stayed out of the records "just in case."

I think we can all agree that Major Kusanagi's body is by far the sexiest mecha ever produced.

There's no comment made about needing a soul. Just organic matter, and presumably anything encased in organic matter. Remember, the flesh of a terminator is living tissue. ... At least it is on the Arnie-bots. They don't even TRY to explain how the liquid-metal ones worked.

For gradeschool kids... Any adult seen by me with a Yugioh deck in his hands, unless he is shoving it down some 10 year old's throat, will be made fun of with loud report. ... and anyway I thought even the gradeschool set was beyond the CCG stuff at this point, aren't they? 343995[/snapback] I know some adult people that are heavily into the Yugioh thing. I let it slide, 'cuz they're good people otherwise. anyways... PROTOCULTURE GO! SHADOW ALPHA, I CHOOSE YOU!

Heh. Yes, but Yugioh and Pokemon resurrected them.

Terminator's continuity isn't that solid to begin with. John Conner is born because of a predestination paradox. Kyle Reese goes back in time to stop the terminator from killing Sarah Conner, mother of John Conner. In the process, they have sex and he winds up being John conner's father. Meaning that the rebel leader Skynet attempted to prevent was only created BECAUSE the terminator was running around in the past. A predestination paradox requires a rigid and unchangable timeline, at least with regards to the events responsible for the paradox. They stop Judgement Day in T2. Which means the future is changable, John Conner's dad was never sent back, the predestination paradox doesn't work, and he doesn't exist. Which means there was never a Kyle Reese chasing a terminator back in time, Sarah Conner never found out about Skynet, John Conner was never born, and Judgement Day wasn't stopped. And we're back at square one with a timeline that has now been bent into a mobius strip of broken causality. Then they do Terminator 3, which says they just moved the date, and didn't cancel the show. Which doesn't do poor John any good, since his dad STILL wasn't sent back in time due to the diffrent timelines. There may be another Kyle Reese, and he may've been sent back in time in his version of the timeline, and may've even fathered a child, but the Kyle that we know won't exist anymore, which means it's impossible for him to go back in time and relay the orginal, now-inaccurate information about Judgement Day to Sarah. If the elements future is changable, predestination paradoxes CANNOT function. And if predestination paradoxes can't work, the foundation of the entire franchise is invalid. The only way for continuity to hold is if T3 is rewritten so Judgement Day happens on the timetable originally laid out by T1. Besides, Terminator 2 was like Aliens. They took a perfectly good sci-fi horror film and stripped out all the scary bits.

Running any application on Windoze eats system resources. It is computer suicide not to have some sort of protection while on the internet. 343891[/snapback] Runing any application on ANYTHING eats system resources. How many depends mainly on how well the app was coded. Sadly, much commercial software manufacturers figure that they can just rely on upgrades to make their sloppy bloated code run acceptably, and if it has issues, they can just point and laugh as Windows gets blamed for everything.

LOL. Yeah, if only that were true. And JB0, lose the pic(s) when you reply to other quotes. 343862[/snapback] The pic was directly relevant to my quote both times. Removing it would harm my posts. And it's not costing anyone any bandwidth because it's already being downloaded and cached for the intial post. While I can the point with quotes of quotes of quotes, I see no reason for a single level to bother anyone. ... You know, unless it's ManFaye, or one of those worse things.

Because I hate cats. Also... if you hate image quotes so much, don't use images as a major part of your post. Nice try, though.

*sighs* I wanna build a new comp. Don't even really care that much if it's modern(obviously a plus, though...). Mainlyt I just want an excuse to run around poking at computer innards.

No, it doesn't. Firewalls are NOT to protect you from viruses. Aside from a agood antivirus, the only thing that can REALLY protect you rom viruses is good sense. If you recieve an e-mail from Angelina_Jolie@yahoo.com entitled "I WANT YOUR COCK!" with an attachment entitled "naked pictures of me.jpg.vbs" and you run it "just in case" you deserve everything you get. Sadly, that's what MOST virus propagation amounts to these days, is people running every piece of crap that falls into their inbox without ever thinking about it. They turn their brains off when they sit down to the computer, they see an attachment in their e-mail box, they click an attachment, then they bitch about how crappy computers are because their's has self-inflicted problems.

I sank a good bit of time in the arena. Forget what I cleared endurance mode with, but I DID do it. Pr'ly Dias, since him and Rena were like 2x my closest character's XP and Rena's not well-suited to endurance-mode arena. Highest XP level was 180s, I think. Grotesquely overpowered weapons and armor help. I cleared several fights solely with star guard relatives.

They don't care. You bought a new copy, because you had to to get a code on the system in the first place. Maybe. It'd almost certainly be a far more elaborate modchip than the devices available today. As far as I know, current modchips feed the system a valid security/region code to replace a fixed code that can't be copied(non-standard addition to the CD/DVD-ROM format) and is the same across all disks for a given system and region. If I'm right, the setup described in the patent would have a code that varied with game content. Either way... Most systems will likely remain unmodded, and thus unable to play used games.

Yeah I too love the difficultly of tri-Aces games. Still haven't beaten SO2 yet, since I keep tripping the damned games difficulty level every game. Indalecio forced me to run through the Cave of Trials. I was gonna just blitz him and be done with it, but after he mopped the floor with me a few times, I figured some level building may be in order. And as I HATE just running in circles hunting enemies, I went to the only place left on the map where I could engage in something productive while I got pumped up.

To me, it doesn't sound very online. There's a security code on the disk. When the disk is stuck in, the PS3 registers it(presumably on internal flash RAM), then deletes it. No security code = no boot. So you can't pirate software, loan out software, rent software, or buy used software, because the code is gone. If they use a magnetic track, it also introduces a lot of room for farting the game up in shipping. ... Wasn't security one of the reasons they were going to use BluRay in the first place? So this proprietary extension means one if its primary supporters doesn't think it's really as secure as claimed. ... Either that or they just want to crush used game sales.

They need to do more of the R-series. Maybe I'm shamelssly new-school, but I thought some of the Delta and Final ships were way sexier than the original R-9.

I haven't beat SO3 yet. But I DO need to point out that it's a tri-Ace game. Square has nothing to do with it. Nor Enix(a more logical assumption as they are tri-Ace's traditional publishher). The currently-existing SquareEnix(as neither Square nor Enix exist anymore) is involved solely as publisher. But yes, tri-Ace loves their hard bosses. There were a couple of points where SO2 kicked my ass. Repeatedly. With steel-toed boots. Valkyrie Profile wasn't a lot nicer. ... I love tri-Ace.