In the Matrix 3 Smith apparently overwrote his program onto every human and program in the Matrix.  If the humans continued to supply energy to the machines in this state, why wouldn't the machines have done something like this since the beginning (but keeping it under their control)?   I understand that the machines needed a Matrix to foster biological and neurological activity, but it seems like the same thing can and was achieved with the administratively assigned personality of Agent Smith overwriting the more problematic independent minds of humans in the Matrix.  Wouldn't that have been far less problematic for them, if they could get the electricity without having to deal with all of the potential escapees, the "balancing of the equation", the building and rebuilding of the Matrix, etc, etc?
Agent Smith, in the first Matrix movie (The Matrix) talks about how the machines originally created a paradise setting and humans didn't accept it, so it went back and created a more realistic one that humans would accept.  The human bodies, as we've seen, are kept in tanks and the body is kept asleep.  But why did the Matrix need to provide any kind of simulation for the brain to experience?  Why couldn't it have just kept all humans in a medically induced coma?  Or performed something equivalent to a lobotomy on every human?  Why did the Matrix need to spend the resources to keep the humans in good mental shape?
antonym for beneficiary Is there an antonym for beneficiary that is not simply "giver" or "payer"? I'm looking for a word that roughly mean someone who loses financially in the case of an event. trigger AccountReplicate on Account (after delete, after insert, after update) {     if ( trigger.isInsert ) {         for ( Account acc : trigger.new ) {             AccountOne__c ac = new AccountOne__c();             ac.Fax__c = acc.Fax;             ac.Phone__c = acc.Phone;             ac.Name =acc.Name;             insert ac;         }     }      if ( trigger.isUpdate ) {         integer  i = 0;         list&lt;AccountOne__c&gt; a2 = new list&lt;AccountOne__c&gt;([SELECT Id                                                         FROM AccountOne__c                                                         WHERE Name =: trigger.old[i].Name ]);         for ( AccountOne__c c1 : a2 ) {             c1.Name = trigger.new[i].name;             c1.Fax__C = trigger.new[i].Fax;             c1.Phone__C = trigger.new[i].Phone;             i++;         }         update a2;     } }   I tried bulk trigger for the update operation, but it's not working can anyone help me? How do I find out a name of class that created an instance of an object in Python if the function I am doing this from is the base class of which the class of the instance has been derived?  Was thinking maybe  might have helped me out here, but it doesn't seem to give me what I want. And short of parsing the __class__ member, I'm not sure how to get at this information. Since we're all into this OpenID thing, I think it would be really useful (and quite easy) to implement a friend invitation feature that grabs a list of friends from one's webmail contact list with an option to choose who to invite to SO, SF or SU. Something in the line of Facebook's friend invitation and recommendation feature. How can I know if a branch has been already merged into master? Can QGIS open KMZ files? I know I can add KML files once I have unzipped the KMZ files, but is there a way to open KMZ files directly?   When I try to open a kmz file on QGIS 1.8.0 on Windows XP, through the all files filter, it does not accept it as a valid format.   Am I doing something wrong?   Does this all depend on OGR support? Is it possible to add new predictions/autofill in Overleaf? For example, when I use the command (in Overleaf/ShareLaTex):  \begin{figure}[H]     \centering     \includegraphics{some_graphic}     \caption{some_caption}     \label{fig:some_label} \end{figure}   the \includegraphics{} comes without the [] parameter to change the size of the image, and \begin{figure} without the [H] option by default.   Is it possible to renew the command to make it default? By that I mean that when I type the \begin{figure} command it adds the [H] and [h] as well as [width=\textwidth] in the \includegraphics command, rather than making a global change in the preamble e.g. If $f$ is bounded and $\lim_{x \to c} g(x) = 0$, then $\lim_{x \to c}g(x)f(x) = 0$ What is the shortcut for opening a new window (opening folders). for that I have to go to folder options and right click and then need to click on open new window.  or I have to make focus on the folder icon or open a folder then press  Ctrl+N  for opening a new window is there any direct command spcific to open a new window in ubuntu. Straight lines - product of slope of perpendicular lines. Let $l$ be a line with slope $\frac{1}{0}$, and $m$ a line with slope $0$.  Now, line $l$ is perpendicular to line $l$, therefore the product of the slope of line $l$ and the slope of line $m$ equals $-1$. This implies that $\frac{1}{0} \times 0 = -1$! Let $X$ be an infinite dimensional Banach space. 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Can I keep the Rueful Axe and get Clavicus Vile's Mask? Is there a way to keep the Rueful axe and get Clavicus's Mask?  I thought you could kill Barbas after receiving the mask, but he is a statue now.  Did I miss my chance? What is the default PATH environment variable setting on fresh install of Windows 7 What is the correct name to use with /give for Lapis Lazuli? Why is $\Gamma\left(\frac{1}{2}\right)=\sqrt{\pi}$? It seems as if no one has asked this here before, unless I don't know how to search.  The Gamma function is $$ \Gamma(\alpha)=\int_0^\infty x^{\alpha-1} e^{-x}\,dx. $$ Why is $$ \Gamma\left(\frac{1}{2}\right)=\sqrt{\pi}\text{ ?} $$ (I'll post my own answer, but I know there are many ways to show this, so post your own!) Novel from 50s or 60s - Good vs. Evil I'm not sure I recall enough of this story for a good identification, and the below is definitely out of story order, but...  The POV character goes to his home town and finds it different. He later finds that he's trapped in the town; there are two young people who turn out later on to be ... avatars ... of Ormazd and Ahriman, and the town is a battleground; what he is seeing of the town is Ahriman's effect on the town, and he turns out to have some limited ability to see the original town, which is more-or-less Ormazd's version of reality. In the end, Ahriman's avatar is destroyed, and the town restored.  I read this in the '80s or earlier; it was part of my father's collection, and the book was showing its age; I think it more likely to be the '60s rather than the '50s, and was probably by a prominent name in SF, but not one of the Masters.