I don't think Ian Holm will be able to be cast as Bilbo... they made him look younger for a brief shot in LOTR, but from what I remember it involved stretching the skin on his face, etc, and wouldn't be workable for a full movie.
Ian McKellen and Andy Serkis I believe have both said they'd be very interested in coming back for a Hobbit movie as Gandalf and Gollum. The only other cross-over character bookwise would be Elrond; I don't know if Hugo Weaving has said anything one way or the other. (I suppose there was some guy in the FOTR movie who was ostensibly Gloin at the council scene, but I don't think anyone would notice if he came back or not...)
They could sneak in cameos from other actors I suppose; there's nothing saying Legolas wasn't hanging out with his father in the Elves' home in Mirkwood. I don't know that I want Legolas showing up at the Battle of Five Armies to surf on an eagle shooting down wargs though.
(Hey, so about 7 years in between accepted Slashdot submissions. Roland, I'm catching up!)
If I can't find what I'm looking for, I don't care if nobody knows about it.
Heck, I can put up a search engine that I guarantee will not record anything you search for. Also, every result will be the "badger badger mushroom" song.
Unless you were in the market for a B-2 Stealth bomber In which case the Northrop Grumman Corporation had a monopoly on the holiday shopping season.
Of course in 1985 it was just Northrop, they hadn't merged with Grumman yet. (Also the B-2 wasn't ready until 1989, so you would have had to take a raincheck.)
If he's a troll, what does that make the hundreds of "Free software" promoters who bash Microsoft at every turn? It's fine to have your favorites, but you don't need to play into the double standard.
Trolls require context. Saying "i love teh xb0x!!1 it r0xx0rs!" is not a troll at an XBox site, but is at a Playstation site. Saying "I support the troops!" is a troll at dailykos, but not at freerepublic or something. And bashing FOSS here is more of a troll than bashing Microsoft here, but the opposite would be true on a MS developer blog. It's not a double standard; the whole point of trolling (from the troller's view) is to generate angry responses, and the statements required to do that vary based on the audience.
"Bergstein said the device offered a false hope that consumed his wife and robbed the family of precious remaining time with her. A retired Microsoft manager, Bergstein looked at the source code in the EPFX's software. It appeared to generate results randomly."
Bergstein went on to say, "and as a Microsoft employee, I'm extremely familiar with software that generates results randomly."
I'd put MD in the loss column, and DVD was not Sony. (Sony and Phillips abandoned their multimedia disc idea and switched to Toshiba et al.'s version, which eventually became DVD.. so Sony supported it eventually, but it wasn't their format.)
3.5" disks, the CD (split with Phillips, who's no stranger to failed formats themselves *cough* cd-i *cough*), and Betacam they get, though.:) Disks and CDs are pretty good successes, admittedly.
GH3: Coming out for the most popular current console (Wii).
Rock Band: Not. (At least not any time soon.)
Well, guess I know which one I'm getting.
However great Harmonix is, they completely missed the boat there -- music games like this are certain to appeal to Wii gamers more than others.
In any case, looks like a pretty good track list. I'm just hoping they get their shit together as far as downloadable content for the Wii, so I can play some of the songs from the older games. (And better pricing than what the 360 GH2 had would be nice; that was a bit ridiculous.)
Obviously this is a stifling of patriotic dissent by Chimpy McBushitler, who stole the election and now is planning to declare martial law! Soon he will be rounding up all gays and old people and black people (not to mention old gay blacks) into internment camps! It all started when he used his evil genius (which he is, except when he is stupid!) to pull off 9/11! Now is the time to fight back, and...
Same as some other commenters -- I save in ODF for myself (actually still have a couple SXWs from older OO versions), and if I need to send it to someone else I use PDF. On the rare occasion I'd need to send it to someone else to edit (and I know they don't use OO), I'd use RTF if possible, though occasionally DOC is unavoidable.
At work we all have MS Office anyway, so it's all DOCs here.
Possible new nerd fight: those who learned on BASIC vs those who learned on LOGO.
Of course I suppose that's somewhat generational... the older ones among us will instead fight between FORTRAN and COBOL, and the younger ones will fight about... whatever it is that they're teaching kids now. MS Visual Clippy ("I see you're trying to write a function!") or something, probably.
Anyway, I was in the BASIC camp, specifically GW-BASIC. Might have seen LOGO once in school, but never did much with it. Really didn't do much with BASIC in school either, but my dad taught me some and I learned on my own after that.
this week's Blu-ray releases of 'Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer' and 'The Day After Tomorrow' won't play back at all on at least two Blu-ray players
That's awfully nice of them. Maybe they'll extend the service to the complete works of Uwe Boll next.
I just last week switched my home server from FreeBSD to Debian... mainly just to learn something new, and get some hands-on experience. I last tried any Linux flavor about 7 years ago, and have been on FreeBSD since then, so I figured I'd try something else.
In any case, I really don't care about licensing as a user. As a developer, I'd prefer the BSD license, but that doesn't mean I care what my OS and other programs are licensed under... I just want something that works.
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For some reason or other the Gov't and people in general frown on swindling.
Unless they're the ones doing the swindle...
Jokes about DNF taking "forever" were common seven years ago. At this point, you almost can't even joke about it anymore.
I don't think Ian Holm will be able to be cast as Bilbo... they made him look younger for a brief shot in LOTR, but from what I remember it involved stretching the skin on his face, etc, and wouldn't be workable for a full movie.
Ian McKellen and Andy Serkis I believe have both said they'd be very interested in coming back for a Hobbit movie as Gandalf and Gollum. The only other cross-over character bookwise would be Elrond; I don't know if Hugo Weaving has said anything one way or the other. (I suppose there was some guy in the FOTR movie who was ostensibly Gloin at the council scene, but I don't think anyone would notice if he came back or not...)
They could sneak in cameos from other actors I suppose; there's nothing saying Legolas wasn't hanging out with his father in the Elves' home in Mirkwood. I don't know that I want Legolas showing up at the Battle of Five Armies to surf on an eagle shooting down wargs though.
(Hey, so about 7 years in between accepted Slashdot submissions. Roland, I'm catching up!)
If I can't find what I'm looking for, I don't care if nobody knows about it.
Heck, I can put up a search engine that I guarantee will not record anything you search for. Also, every result will be the "badger badger mushroom" song.
Just change the 'n' in inventor to 's'.
I just sat here for about 10 seconds thinking "isventor? what?"
Did not get enough sleep last night, apparently...
Unless you were in the market for a B-2 Stealth bomber
In which case the Northrop Grumman Corporation had a monopoly on the holiday shopping season.
Of course in 1985 it was just Northrop, they hadn't merged with Grumman yet. (Also the B-2 wasn't ready until 1989, so you would have had to take a raincheck.)
If he's a troll, what does that make the hundreds of "Free software" promoters who bash Microsoft at every turn? It's fine to have your favorites, but you don't need to play into the double standard.
Trolls require context. Saying "i love teh xb0x!!1 it r0xx0rs!" is not a troll at an XBox site, but is at a Playstation site. Saying "I support the troops!" is a troll at dailykos, but not at freerepublic or something. And bashing FOSS here is more of a troll than bashing Microsoft here, but the opposite would be true on a MS developer blog. It's not a double standard; the whole point of trolling (from the troller's view) is to generate angry responses, and the statements required to do that vary based on the audience.
"Bergstein said the device offered a false hope that consumed his wife and robbed the family of precious remaining time with her. A retired Microsoft manager, Bergstein looked at the source code in the EPFX's software. It appeared to generate results randomly."
Bergstein went on to say, "and as a Microsoft employee, I'm extremely familiar with software that generates results randomly."
I'd put MD in the loss column, and DVD was not Sony. (Sony and Phillips abandoned their multimedia disc idea and switched to Toshiba et al.'s version, which eventually became DVD.. so Sony supported it eventually, but it wasn't their format.)
:) Disks and CDs are pretty good successes, admittedly.
3.5" disks, the CD (split with Phillips, who's no stranger to failed formats themselves *cough* cd-i *cough*), and Betacam they get, though.
That would have required effort on the part of the submitter: the summary is cut and pasted right out of TFA.
So I'm not sure if it's a Slashvertisement, or a PCMagvertisement + lazy submitter.
GH3: Coming out for the most popular current console (Wii).
Rock Band: Not. (At least not any time soon.)
Well, guess I know which one I'm getting.
However great Harmonix is, they completely missed the boat there -- music games like this are certain to appeal to Wii gamers more than others.
In any case, looks like a pretty good track list. I'm just hoping they get their shit together as far as downloadable content for the Wii, so I can play some of the songs from the older games. (And better pricing than what the 360 GH2 had would be nice; that was a bit ridiculous.)
More like 'bad joke' than 'troll', really...
(Also, the 'troll' expression really refers to fishing, not Scandanavian folklore, so references to bridges aren't really appropriate.)
Obviously this is a stifling of patriotic dissent by Chimpy McBushitler, who stole the election and now is planning to declare martial law! Soon he will be rounding up all gays and old people and black people (not to mention old gay blacks) into internment camps! It all started when he used his evil genius (which he is, except when he is stupid!) to pull off 9/11! Now is the time to fight back, and...
Oh, wait. Italy. Never mind. Carry on then.
Games like "Trivial Pursuit" and Karoke CDs has errors on purpose simply for copyright protection.
The answer is "the Moops"...
Same as some other commenters -- I save in ODF for myself (actually still have a couple SXWs from older OO versions), and if I need to send it to someone else I use PDF. On the rare occasion I'd need to send it to someone else to edit (and I know they don't use OO), I'd use RTF if possible, though occasionally DOC is unavoidable.
At work we all have MS Office anyway, so it's all DOCs here.
Possible new nerd fight: those who learned on BASIC vs those who learned on LOGO.
Of course I suppose that's somewhat generational... the older ones among us will instead fight between FORTRAN and COBOL, and the younger ones will fight about... whatever it is that they're teaching kids now. MS Visual Clippy ("I see you're trying to write a function!") or something, probably.
Anyway, I was in the BASIC camp, specifically GW-BASIC. Might have seen LOGO once in school, but never did much with it. Really didn't do much with BASIC in school either, but my dad taught me some and I learned on my own after that.
It's only worthwhile if it's backed by something valuable, such as gold-pressed latinum.
this week's Blu-ray releases of 'Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer' and 'The Day After Tomorrow' won't play back at all on at least two Blu-ray players
That's awfully nice of them. Maybe they'll extend the service to the complete works of Uwe Boll next.
Ironically, I was considering global site licenses of this product for our public relations agency. Thanks for dropping out of the running!
I hope you actually read the article, and put some consideration into it, and aren't basing a business decision on a flamebait Slashdot summary.
Must be a U.S. citizen between 5-foot-2 and 6-foot-3 in height
As a 6'4" person (that's 0.384 rods for those of you not used to measuring in feet!), I think I am going to sue for height discrimination.
First I find out that government safety regulations in cars only apply to people 6'3" and under, and now this...
Well, guess we'd better find both Zune owners and give them the bad news.
Can we put this frickin' laser on a shark?
I have developed an algorithm to efficiently decrypt ROT-26. You will need to use it to read this encrypted message.
The joke is on you: I've already upgraded all my encryption to ROT-52.
The more one person gets, the less someone else can have. ....
This is almost entirely false. Minus the almost.
Economics is not a zero-sum game.
I just last week switched my home server from FreeBSD to Debian... mainly just to learn something new, and get some hands-on experience. I last tried any Linux flavor about 7 years ago, and have been on FreeBSD since then, so I figured I'd try something else.
In any case, I really don't care about licensing as a user. As a developer, I'd prefer the BSD license, but that doesn't mean I care what my OS and other programs are licensed under... I just want something that works.