That's a typo... the official list has January 22nd instead of Jan 12th, which is when the movie is _really_ opening in those cities. You can tell since the Jan 22nd list is _before_ the Jan 19th list, and I know Austin's showing it starting Jan 12th.
Um... it _is_ a Miramax release. I haven't seen the original Japanese version, but according to anime sites I've seen it's not been edited at all. There are indeed scenes of decapitation, severed limbs, etc.
You're thinking of Grave of the Fireflies. _Very_ different kind of movie from My Neighbor Totoro. Though they were both made by Studio Ghibli (Totoro by the great Miyazaki, Grave by Takahata). For a lot of really good information about all Studio Ghibli films, check out www.nausicaa.net
Um... distributed.net is always running. By default, it runs at the lowest priority, so it won't interfere with any of your real work. Whenever your computer is idle, the client kicks into high gear.
Er... that's exactly what they do. The whole point of a patent is so that some method can be disclosed to the public without fear of the idea being stolen.
You're confusing theory with theorem. Theorems are solid. They must be proven from axioms or other theorems. There are occasional misnomers, such as Fermat's Last Theorem was really just a conjecture until about 5 years ago, but in general theorems, which are mathematical, are much more ironclad than "laws" which tend to be about observed physical phenomena.
Who's the "you" that you are referring to?? Nobody's said anything about id's IP. The people that are rumored to be trying to stop this are the people who make Dragonball Z.
Where did I say that games like Quake 3 are "kiddie games"?? I like playing mindless shoot-em-ups a lot of the time as well. And if you think being anti-war, anti-nuke is "right-wing extremist" then I seriously doubt you know anything about politics.
So all game developers should just pander to the lowest common denominator?? There's plenty of mindless games out there if you want them. Maybe some people prefer games that are a bit more sophisticated.
Lemme count the ways... Irulan is _not_ supposed to be a major character until the end of the book. Herbert did this for a very specific reason. Note that her name is an anagram of 'Urinal'. Chani is apparently a member of the household staff??? wtf. It's never explained what Suks, Mentats are, which would make this miniseries very hard to understand for anybody who hasn't read the book. Duncan Idaho gets pulverized by a missle???? Again, complete nonsense. Yueh's role is made very minor even though his actions are _very_ important to the development of the novel. And Paul is _not_ supposed to be whiny and stupid. At the beginning of the book he is already very well-trained. And the costumes were pretty uniformly ridiculous. The CGI was also quite bad, no better than Babylon 5. You can say I'm just nitpicking, but John Harrison stated in many interviews about how he's following the book faithfully, blah blah blah. He's either lying or he never read the book. I guess I never should have expected more from a Sci-Fi Channel production. The Irulan scenes are just unforgivable.
The thing which makes me laugh the most is your inane attempt at trying to connect the success/failure of Linux with some stocks in a currently _very_ bear market.
Since the story you cited is clearly about a different book (in fact the predecessor to the book under current discussion), the answer is no.
Dune Chronicles completely bastardized by BH & KJA
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First, I just have to say that even though many think the Dune sequels were not very good, I find the entire DC quite good. Though Dune Messiah was somewhat thin, I thought Children of Dune was very good, setting up the rest of the Chronicles perfectly. God Emperor was a bit slow, but had lots of good philosophy. The last two, which are really just one book (Heretics & Chapterhouse), are superior to the original in my opinion. I think the original Dune didn't really even start to expound upon the main themes of the DC, mainly what it means to be _human_ and the constant need for change in order for humanity to survive. It's not until after CoD what we get to the Golden Path, the Scattering, etc, which are essential to DC's overall theme. And the last two feature the Bene Gesserit, who have become less than human in order to save humanity. Very very good stuff.
As for the prequels... blech. Not only are the characterizations paper-thin, there's huge inconsistencies with the rest of the DC. Yes, FH had some within his own world as well, but none so glaring. The BG as protrayed in the prequels have powers way beyond what was presented in the DC. Not to mention there was no such thing as no-technology (no-ships etc) until the time of the God Emperor. There's also many other events such as characters meeting in H:A and H:H who meet for the first time in Dune. Maybe there'll be some kind of time- warp in the next prequel.:-P If you're a real Dune fanatic, just check these out from the library if you have to. Don't give money to BH and KJA for bastardizing FH's works.
Have you read the linked articles? I don't think anybody has been able to, since advogato seems to be slashdotted. I would assume in one of those articles, lilo mentioned that the perpetrator actually is a kid, therefore Taco made that comment... (since he was able to read it before it got slashdotted, obviously:-P )
Since the entire post was in quotes, I don't think you can say either way about what words Timothy likes, now can you?
There was an article yesterday on/. about using the PS2 as a DVD player... look it up.
Since slapdash.org is simply an alias (CNAME
record) for slashdot.org, I really don't see how
logging in would be a problem. The reason you
don't become logged in is because the domain name
doesn't match the cookie domain name. If you log
in, it'll simply create an identical cookie to
your slashdot.org cookie, but with slapdash.org.
Now, I suppose if whoever registered slapdash.org
decided to all of a sudden change the DNS record
to point to his own site, he could start
harvesting slashdot cookies... But then, I don't
even see how slapdash.org is a "typo" for
slashdot.org!
Is CmdrTaco supposed to answer this? If you did a whois, you would have noticed slapdash.org is registered by somebody in London, who felt like pointing it at slashdot.org. Maybe you should ask him?
Hate to follow up my own post, but looking at the Google cache of the MathWorld FAQ, it seems that Weisstein did retain all rights to it! So either he didn't read the fine print on his contract carefully enough (doubtful) or CRC is trying to bully him and Wolfram based on nothing.
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Er... there was extensive "wire-fu" in Romeo Must Die.
That's a typo... the official list has January 22nd instead of Jan 12th, which is when the movie is _really_ opening in those cities. You can tell since the Jan 22nd list is _before_ the Jan 19th list, and I know Austin's showing it starting Jan 12th.
Um... it _is_ a Miramax release. I haven't seen the original Japanese version, but according to anime sites I've seen it's not been edited at all. There are indeed scenes of decapitation, severed limbs, etc.
She was the voice for Moro, the wolf god.
You're thinking of Grave of the Fireflies. _Very_ different kind of movie from My Neighbor Totoro. Though they were both made by Studio Ghibli (Totoro by the great Miyazaki, Grave by Takahata). For a lot of really good information about all Studio Ghibli films, check out www.nausicaa.net
Um... distributed.net is always running. By default, it runs at the lowest priority, so it won't interfere with any of your real work. Whenever your computer is idle, the client kicks into high gear.
I'm pretty sure similar products have been made before. My boss at IBM back in January had a combination Sprint PCS + Palm device.
And... trademarks are related to patents how?!?
Er... that's exactly what they do. The whole point of a patent is so that some method can be disclosed to the public without fear of the idea being stolen.
You're confusing theory with theorem. Theorems are solid. They must be proven from axioms or other theorems. There are occasional misnomers, such as Fermat's Last Theorem was really just a conjecture until about 5 years ago, but in general theorems, which are mathematical, are much more ironclad than "laws" which tend to be about observed physical phenomena.
Who's the "you" that you are referring to?? Nobody's said anything about id's IP. The people that are rumored to be trying to stop this are the people who make Dragonball Z.
Where did I say that games like Quake 3 are "kiddie games"?? I like playing mindless shoot-em-ups a lot of the time as well. And if you think being anti-war, anti-nuke is "right-wing extremist" then I seriously doubt you know anything about politics.
So all game developers should just pander to the lowest common denominator?? There's plenty of mindless games out there if you want them. Maybe some people prefer games that are a bit more sophisticated.
Lemme count the ways... Irulan is _not_ supposed to be a major character until
the end of the book. Herbert did this for a very specific reason. Note that her
name is an anagram of 'Urinal'. Chani is apparently a member of the household
staff??? wtf. It's never explained what Suks, Mentats are, which would make
this miniseries very hard to understand for anybody who hasn't read the book.
Duncan Idaho gets pulverized by a missle???? Again, complete nonsense. Yueh's
role is made very minor even though his actions are _very_ important to the
development of the novel. And Paul is _not_ supposed to be whiny and stupid.
At the beginning of the book he is already very well-trained. And the costumes
were pretty uniformly ridiculous. The CGI was also quite bad, no better than
Babylon 5. You can say I'm just nitpicking, but John Harrison stated in many
interviews about how he's following the book faithfully, blah blah blah. He's
either lying or he never read the book. I guess I never should have expected
more from a Sci-Fi Channel production. The Irulan scenes are just unforgivable.
Konqueror has preview of graphics and text file types, at least. Not sure about others.
The thing which makes me laugh the most is your inane attempt at trying to connect the success/failure of Linux with some stocks in a currently _very_ bear market.
Oops... you're right... doh!!
Since the story you cited is clearly about a different book (in fact the predecessor to the book under current discussion), the answer is no.
First, I just have to say that even though many think the Dune sequels were not
:-P If you're a real Dune fanatic, just check these
very good, I find the entire DC quite good. Though Dune Messiah was somewhat
thin, I thought Children of Dune was very good, setting up the rest of the
Chronicles perfectly. God Emperor was a bit slow, but had lots of good
philosophy. The last two, which are really just one book (Heretics &
Chapterhouse), are superior to the original in my opinion. I think the original
Dune didn't really even start to expound upon the main themes of the DC, mainly
what it means to be _human_ and the constant need for change in order for
humanity to survive. It's not until after CoD what we get to the Golden Path,
the Scattering, etc, which are essential to DC's overall theme. And the last
two feature the Bene Gesserit, who have become less than human in order to save
humanity. Very very good stuff.
As for the prequels... blech. Not only are the characterizations paper-thin,
there's huge inconsistencies with the rest of the DC. Yes, FH had some within
his own world as well, but none so glaring. The BG as protrayed in the prequels
have powers way beyond what was presented in the DC. Not to mention there was
no such thing as no-technology (no-ships etc) until the time of the God
Emperor. There's also many other events such as characters meeting in H:A and
H:H who meet for the first time in Dune. Maybe there'll be some kind of time-
warp in the next prequel.
out from the library if you have to. Don't give money to BH and KJA for
bastardizing FH's works.
Have you read the linked articles? I don't think anybody has been able to, since advogato seems to be slashdotted. I would assume in one of those articles, lilo mentioned that the perpetrator actually is a kid, therefore Taco made that comment... (since he was able to read it before it got slashdotted, obviously :-P )
Since the entire post was in quotes, I don't think you can say either way about what words Timothy likes, now can you? /. about using the PS2 as a DVD player... look it up.
There was an article yesterday on
Check here
Since slapdash.org is simply an alias (CNAME
record) for slashdot.org, I really don't see how
logging in would be a problem. The reason you
don't become logged in is because the domain name
doesn't match the cookie domain name. If you log
in, it'll simply create an identical cookie to
your slashdot.org cookie, but with slapdash.org.
Now, I suppose if whoever registered slapdash.org
decided to all of a sudden change the DNS record
to point to his own site, he could start
harvesting slashdot cookies... But then, I don't
even see how slapdash.org is a "typo" for
slashdot.org!
Is CmdrTaco supposed to answer this? If you did a whois, you would have noticed slapdash.org is registered by somebody in London, who felt like pointing it at slashdot.org. Maybe you should ask him?
Hate to follow up my own post, but looking at the Google cache of the MathWorld FAQ, it seems that Weisstein did retain all rights to it! So either he didn't read the fine print on his contract carefully enough (doubtful) or CRC is trying to bully him and Wolfram based on nothing.