Problem 4: Wrong direction. In my opinion the real important projects right now are ones that are removing the distinctions between OSs. Cross platform tools like Python, Chandler, Mono and Mozilla. Using standards-based DHTML as the UI. Why add another platform to the mix when the real goal is to become platform agnostic?
What good is being platform agnostic if all platforms are completely homogenous? Clearly Plan 9 isn't going to take over the world, but that was never the point. What is important is that the best aspects of Plan 9 can be incorperated into existing platforms like Linux and *BSD and generate some real innovation without too much disturbance to the existing software base.
Because it sure looks like the deeper innovations coming out of Plan 9 are more helpful to me than the more superficial stuff coming from Gnome/KDE.
And those FUD-scared AIX and Linux customers will run where...SCO Unix? Naaah. Windows 2003 maybe?
I think Microsoft is hoping that might happen. But in the Real World, Unix stuff stays in Unix land and Windows stuff stays in Windows land. There's simply too much invenstment in each particular infrastructure to replace one with the other just for the helluvit. So, if AIX and Linux vanished in a puff of logic tomorrow, existing customers are far more likely to turn to something like Solaris, FreeBSD or even MacOS X simply because they're a better fit to support existing Unix software and support.
I don't really understand how sco can cancel AIX licenses when the issue is IBM and Linux. What am I missing? Ignoring the fact that the whole thing is ridiculous to start with.
I think it goes like this: SCO licensed Unix code to IBM. IBM incorperated said Unix code into AIX. IBM takes up Linux. Rise of Linux threatens Unix. SCO gets notion that Linux steals code from Unix, and places blame on IBM. SCO tries to revoke license to Unix code from IBM, thereby revoking it from AIX - all while suing over supposed stolen code in Linux.
Here's a very preliminary one. Of course, any current console requires *much* faster PC hardware than is currently available in order to emulate it properly. Even the existing N64 emulators use lots of "accuracy optional" HLE hacks in order to achieve decent speed. I'm sure by the time Gamecube emulation becomes viable, acquiring hacked ISOs of the mini discs won't be necessary - and Nintendo won't care quite so much since most everyone will have moved on to far better consoles than are now available.
rwen would probably be able to sail to the West if she decided to do so - Gimli made it, as did Frodo and Bilbo. Whether Aragorn was right and she still had the chance of immortality, or whether even in the West she would die, is something we'll probably never know...
But Elros didn't go back, and neither did LÃthien. It seems the West has a "guests allowed" policy, but no ex-firstborn. Perhaps once someone decides to accept the gift of men, they can't give it back again or go to the West. Still, that's just my interpretation.
that brings to mind the fact that this entire darned thing is elrond's fault. why he didn't just kill the king and dump the stupid ring into mount doom after sauron's apparent destruction eludes me.
If Elrond had killed Isildur and taken the ring from him, he wouldn't have chosen to throw it in either. That's just the corrupting nature of the ring. In the movies Elrond is a lot more bitter about its non-destruction, but I'd wager that's because he knows he couldn't have destroyed it either.
she says that the only reason she cannot is that there are no ships to take her back, and she is stranded. But we know that Legolas sailed with Gimli into the West after the death of Aragorn, so there was at least one sailing available.
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Arwen actually says there are no ships that will sail her home, surely because she's chosen to live as a mortal and has no business sailing to the undying lands in the west.
</pedant mode>
So, getting both sets (about $40 worth, IIRC) gets you all the extras (3 discs worth) and both cuts of the film. New Line announced this release strategy last year and have stuck to it, so folks shouldn't feel too surprised by it.
wow, i always assumed 7-zip had a command-line interface for linux and cygwin.
it does not.
7-Zip is GPLed, but the source is so Windows-specific that no one has had success in porting it to non-Windows platforms. That lack of portability makes it something of a non-standard, in spite of its remarkable compression ratio. And judging by the sourceforge 7-zip message board, a portable version isn't coming anytime soon.
All of these formats compress better then ZIP, yet you are hard pressed to find ARJ/ACE/JAR/UC2 files on the net, RAR files you may find here and there.
RAR files are quite common on Usenet, actually. Any file of great length is typically split with rar into more manageble chunks and often accompanied by a few par files (in case one or more of the RARs doesn't make it). In Unix-land, the same thing could be done using the handy "split" command combined with a tarball (and then re-combined using "cat file.* | tar xvj") but I've never seen that in the wild - even on Linux binary groups.
RAR is the standard for split archives, even though Zip has had that functionality for a very long time.
Who will liberate us from the liberators? Now there's a concept that'd make a V sequel interesting...
I wonder if there'll be more mouse-eating...
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Or perhaps the Visitors will start chowing down on lemurs or perhaps a pygmy marmoset. In any case, while the original was entertaining enough when I was much younger, my tolerance for forced allegory has waned in recent years. But as long as there isn't any more "star children", perhaps there's hope for it.
I've just noticed that myself, and have checked the thread in bugzilla about MNG. And though there are a few reasons listed for its removal (large library size, little seen in the wild, etc.) the biggest is that there isn't an active maintainer to keep the code up-to-date. If someone comes on board to maintain and better integrate the MNG code, I'm sure it'll return. But it's looking grim for MNG right now in Mozilla-land, particularly since the format isn't yet w3c recommended.
I don't know about other browsers, but MNG support has been dropped from Mozilla in recent builds.
I'm not sure what recent build you're using, but my recent build of Mozilla 1.4 (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030530) supports MNG just fine from this test page - and it's only a couple of weeks old.
Technically, it is not true that the book "The Silmarillion" predated The Hobbit"
That's not true either. There isn't a single "Silmarillion", though Tolkien continued work on it throughout his life. After "the Hobbit" turned into a big success, Tolkien tried to get the Silmarillion into print. But after being convinced by his publisher that it wouldn't sell, he basically melded aspects of the Hobbit and Silmarillion (along with the fall of Numenor) into Lord of the Rings and got that published instead. Afterward, he continued to work on the Silmarillion until he died.
Later, Christopher Tolkien took the most viable "cross section" of his father's continuous Silmarillion work and got it published and then went on to put all the pre-existing stuff into print as well as part of the "History of Middle Earth" series.
While I own it and have read it a couple of times, it's not a great book. It's very useful as a reference to learn about the things you mentioned, but it is not a compelling story and I doubt it would have sold very well if it had to stand on its own merits
That's debatable, to be sure. The Silmarillion is a fine tale of good intentions gone awry and the ends failing to justify the means (strangely apropos, these days). It tends to be quite dense, featuring huge chunks of explanatory text rather than the more reader-friendly descriptive text. But, when one looks at the tale(s) and themes as a whole (especially after a second reading, or third), it's clear Tolkien knew what he was doing in terms of storytelling.
Of course, it could've been better had he buckled-down and finished it properly. But I've come to appreciate the work itself more with each reading.
And, of course, if you loved "the Silmarillion", it's good to check out "the Book of Lost Tales" 1 and 2 (especially 2) and the "Lays of Beleriand". All of them tend toward the serious, but they also feature more epic grandeur and fantasy than the more down-to-earth Tolkien works like "Lord of the Rings". I highly recommend them, but they're definitely not light reading by any means.
classicgaming.com is actually fairly light on Apple ][ games and software. A better bet is the
asimov archive, which contains not only games but also a lot of other Apple ][ software. And, one occasionally sees Apple ][ stuff posted to usenet. Though I suppose the lot of it is a big heaping copyright violation, most of the original companies are defunct - which makes the stuff difficult to buy nowadays.
Doubtful. Investing in SCO is like betting $1 on the lottery. Most likely it's a waste of cash, but there is that one in a billion chance it'll turn out big.
I believe Microsoft is the largest software company (though they have tried diversifying to hardware in recent years). IBM, which is a hardware/software/services company, is much larger than Microsoft. In effect, Microsoft is the "big fish in a small pond". But because Bill Gates is very rich (on paper, at least - I'm not sure how much of his wealth is tied up in stock) people tend to assume Microsoft is larger than it really is.
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What good is being platform agnostic if all platforms are completely homogenous? Clearly Plan 9 isn't going to take over the world, but that was never the point. What is important is that the best aspects of Plan 9 can be incorperated into existing platforms like Linux and *BSD and generate some real innovation without too much disturbance to the existing software base. Because it sure looks like the deeper innovations coming out of Plan 9 are more helpful to me than the more superficial stuff coming from Gnome/KDE.
I think Microsoft is hoping that might happen. But in the Real World, Unix stuff stays in Unix land and Windows stuff stays in Windows land. There's simply too much invenstment in each particular infrastructure to replace one with the other just for the helluvit. So, if AIX and Linux vanished in a puff of logic tomorrow, existing customers are far more likely to turn to something like Solaris, FreeBSD or even MacOS X simply because they're a better fit to support existing Unix software and support.
It doesn't have any competition in that regard...
I think it goes like this: SCO licensed Unix code to IBM. IBM incorperated said Unix code into AIX. IBM takes up Linux. Rise of Linux threatens Unix. SCO gets notion that Linux steals code from Unix, and places blame on IBM. SCO tries to revoke license to Unix code from IBM, thereby revoking it from AIX - all while suing over supposed stolen code in Linux.
At least, that's how it looks from here...
Here's a very preliminary one. Of course, any current console requires *much* faster PC hardware than is currently available in order to emulate it properly. Even the existing N64 emulators use lots of "accuracy optional" HLE hacks in order to achieve decent speed. I'm sure by the time Gamecube emulation becomes viable, acquiring hacked ISOs of the mini discs won't be necessary - and Nintendo won't care quite so much since most everyone will have moved on to far better consoles than are now available.
But Elros didn't go back, and neither did LÃthien. It seems the West has a "guests allowed" policy, but no ex-firstborn. Perhaps once someone decides to accept the gift of men, they can't give it back again or go to the West. Still, that's just my interpretation.
If Elrond had killed Isildur and taken the ring from him, he wouldn't have chosen to throw it in either. That's just the corrupting nature of the ring. In the movies Elrond is a lot more bitter about its non-destruction, but I'd wager that's because he knows he couldn't have destroyed it either.
<pedant mode>
Arwen actually says there are no ships that will sail her home, surely because she's chosen to live as a mortal and has no business sailing to the undying lands in the west.
</pedant mode>
- The short theatrical cut of the film
- One disc of shorter extras
The second release of the film gets you:- The extended cut of the film
- Two discs of completely different, longer extras
So, getting both sets (about $40 worth, IIRC) gets you all the extras (3 discs worth) and both cuts of the film. New Line announced this release strategy last year and have stuck to it, so folks shouldn't feel too surprised by it.7-Zip is GPLed, but the source is so Windows-specific that no one has had success in porting it to non-Windows platforms. That lack of portability makes it something of a non-standard, in spite of its remarkable compression ratio. And judging by the sourceforge 7-zip message board, a portable version isn't coming anytime soon.
RAR files are quite common on Usenet, actually. Any file of great length is typically split with rar into more manageble chunks and often accompanied by a few par files (in case one or more of the RARs doesn't make it). In Unix-land, the same thing could be done using the handy "split" command combined with a tarball (and then re-combined using "cat file.* | tar xvj") but I've never seen that in the wild - even on Linux binary groups.
RAR is the standard for split archives, even though Zip has had that functionality for a very long time.
Who will liberate us from the liberators? Now there's a concept that'd make a V sequel interesting...
Or perhaps the Visitors will start chowing down on lemurs or perhaps a pygmy marmoset. In any case, while the original was entertaining enough when I was much younger, my tolerance for forced allegory has waned in recent years. But as long as there isn't any more "star children", perhaps there's hope for it.
Sounds like FreeBSD will be hearing from SCO's lawyers any day now...
But apprently the GBA isn't used for much (skip to the last paragraph). If Square has a brain, they'll axe the requirement.
I've just noticed that myself, and have checked the thread in bugzilla about MNG. And though there are a few reasons listed for its removal (large library size, little seen in the wild, etc.) the biggest is that there isn't an active maintainer to keep the code up-to-date. If someone comes on board to maintain and better integrate the MNG code, I'm sure it'll return. But it's looking grim for MNG right now in Mozilla-land, particularly since the format isn't yet w3c recommended.
I'm not sure what recent build you're using, but my recent build of Mozilla 1.4 (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030530) supports MNG just fine from this test page - and it's only a couple of weeks old.
That's not true either. There isn't a single "Silmarillion", though Tolkien continued work on it throughout his life. After "the Hobbit" turned into a big success, Tolkien tried to get the Silmarillion into print. But after being convinced by his publisher that it wouldn't sell, he basically melded aspects of the Hobbit and Silmarillion (along with the fall of Numenor) into Lord of the Rings and got that published instead. Afterward, he continued to work on the Silmarillion until he died.
Later, Christopher Tolkien took the most viable "cross section" of his father's continuous Silmarillion work and got it published and then went on to put all the pre-existing stuff into print as well as part of the "History of Middle Earth" series.
That's debatable, to be sure. The Silmarillion is a fine tale of good intentions gone awry and the ends failing to justify the means (strangely apropos, these days). It tends to be quite dense, featuring huge chunks of explanatory text rather than the more reader-friendly descriptive text. But, when one looks at the tale(s) and themes as a whole (especially after a second reading, or third), it's clear Tolkien knew what he was doing in terms of storytelling.
Of course, it could've been better had he buckled-down and finished it properly. But I've come to appreciate the work itself more with each reading.
And, of course, if you loved "the Silmarillion", it's good to check out "the Book of Lost Tales" 1 and 2 (especially 2) and the "Lays of Beleriand". All of them tend toward the serious, but they also feature more epic grandeur and fantasy than the more down-to-earth Tolkien works like "Lord of the Rings". I highly recommend them, but they're definitely not light reading by any means.
classicgaming.com is actually fairly light on Apple ][ games and software. A better bet is the asimov archive, which contains not only games but also a lot of other Apple ][ software. And, one occasionally sees Apple ][ stuff posted to usenet. Though I suppose the lot of it is a big heaping copyright violation, most of the original companies are defunct - which makes the stuff difficult to buy nowadays.
That shouldn't be surprising, since C++-style comments are C99 compliant. Thus, any compiler implementing the C99 standard should support them.
Doubtful. Investing in SCO is like betting $1 on the lottery. Most likely it's a waste of cash, but there is that one in a billion chance it'll turn out big.
I believe Microsoft is the largest software company (though they have tried diversifying to hardware in recent years). IBM, which is a hardware/software/services company, is much larger than Microsoft. In effect, Microsoft is the "big fish in a small pond". But because Bill Gates is very rich (on paper, at least - I'm not sure how much of his wealth is tied up in stock) people tend to assume Microsoft is larger than it really is.
Kindof gives a whole new meaning to "Microsoft Patch", doesn't it?