Again, don't get me wrong - I liked a lot of the additions; the dynamite was nice touch.
By the way, the dynamite was mentioned in the book, though just briefly. "Some new devilry from Orthanc," refering to it as a blasting fire.. I think that's about right, just from memory.
So they butchered that and put it in the wrong place, and I think it made a much bigger statement standing in front of the real Saruman in Isengard. Now maybe this scene will be in RotK, because TTT (the movie) ended before TTT (the book), but it's been ruined at the premature meeting.
I think this gives the RotK the opportunity for a little flow.. starting with the fall of Saruman and ending with his death. It's an interesting idea.
The part with Faramir really bothered me.
It bugged me too. Faramir was supposed to be Boromir's wiser brother, but Boromir was portrayed beautifully in the Fellowship movie, while in the TT movie, he's reduced to being merely a plot device. Faramir's entire purpose in the TT movie was to pull Frodo away from Mordor for awhile. I hope they flesh him out a bit more in the DVD release.
On a side note, I was really surprised the the extended cut of FOTR didn't fee longer than the theatrical cut. I was quite pleased.:)
I thought Jackson improved the flow of the movie enough in the extended edition so that it actually didn't feel as long. The scenes that lagged before didn't seem to lag as much now. Perhaps it was part of the illusion caused by the presense of an intermission.
I had never heard this before. To verify, I typed "ring around the rosie" into google, and this [ualberta.ca] is the first hit. here's [snopes.com] the third hit from snopes.com, an interesting website which I would be inclined to believe.
Be careful, snopes has a page or two full of intentionally false stories with the intention of teaching the reader (yes, they explain it) that no site should be blindly trusted as having definitive answers.. even snopes. They are pretty reliable though.
This, I agree with, and it needs to be pursued. If I'm not exceeding the bandwidth you sold me, then you should have no say over what I do with it.
So you agree then that if a spammer uses his cable/DSL connection to send a bazillion spam messages all over the world, that the ISP would be unjustified in terminating service? After all, the spammer isn't exceeding the bandwidth allocated to him, and the cable company should have no say over what the spammer does with it...
So if I buy a goldstar 12" b/w tv at the local walmart and by some slight of hand, convert it into a 52" sony tivo, am i guilty of theft?
Nope. But if, say, you smuggled some more equipment out of Walmart without paying for it that let you convert the tv to a tivo.. that would be stealing. In the case you mention, you're only depriving Walmart of potential revenues. In the latter case, you're depriving them of actual revenues. (It's a crappy analogy, I know, but the original analogy wasn't accurate either). Bandwidth is not free, it is not even cheap. A 1.5Mbps connection costs less money for the ISP than a 10Mbps connection does. If the ISP could provide more bandwidth to everyone at no cost to themselves.. then yes, you could make the point that there should be nothing wrong (or at least illegal) with uncapping your modem. But that's not the case, and that's what differentiates this situation from, say, overclocking your Celeron or copyright infringement. Now I'm not convinced that the FBI needed to be involved, and I do think they were overzealous in confiscating equipment. But there is actual monetary loss here, and this isn't the madeup BS that the record companies put out either. There's no difference between this case and, say, filling up your car's tank with gas and driving off without paying for it.
Nobody will work hard if they know that all of that work is going to others who may not be working as hard; very few people are sufficiently motivated by altruism in that way.
I do hate what's going on. But save the Hitler references for the major league -- this guy doesn't have what it takes (thank god). President Bush is just not that good, er, bad.
President Bush may not be, but I'm more scared of the supporters in high places, the people who give them advice.
Wasn't the budget for each Next Gen episode up to a million dollars, at least towards the end of its run? I can't see that as being low budget in the television world, especially in the late-80's, early 90's..
(Though some early TNG episodes do have a low-budget look to them. (Stop-motion animation!))
Hmm.. Does anyone know if there's a good WinTool that can do file searches including inside archives, and doesn't have any obnoxious habits? Ideally, it should also allow one to extract the desired file, once found.
No idea, I only use my Windows box for games and video capture. If you installed Cygwin, I'm sure it wouldn't be -too- hard to do as a shell script.;)
You fit perfectly into the category of "Slashdot Apologist".
In five years, you could be saying, "It was linux's fault. It was too hard to install."
No, I'm saying that to ignore Netscape's glaring flaws while saying "Oh, it's all Microsoft's fault" is ignoring reality. I'm sure, though, no matter what Netscape did, Microsoft was going to find a way to drive them out of business... but Netscape sure made it easier than they could have.
I dunno what your XP is doing, but mine was showing ZIPs as if they're already open. At first glance it's not evident that they're not files loose on their own.
Does XP search through zip archives when you select a find file or find in file? That would be an interesting, though slow feature...
I still can't get over the fact that pornography is considered "inappropriate" for children, but movies containing people being killed are -- see the TV. Where, *where* is the logic here?
Logic has little to do with it. As a whole, we are carrying around a lot of baggage from the puritan days, where pleasure was an evil, and hatred for those who were different was a more acceptable moral than love (at least physical).
Nice post, but two points:
Here's the problem: Again and again, Larry Rosen says that we will have to be "vigilant" and so on about enforcing the terms of this behavioral remedy. But all the vigilance in the world is doomed to fail because Microsoft is an incorrigible scofflaw. And this was well-known when the anti-trust case began.
Yes, but this doesn't really have to do with technology. The above situation doesn't occur because the judges and lawyers " don't know jack about software." It happens because they could have an overly optimistic view of the enforcement of laws, and a company's willingness to comply with legal remedies. It doesn't have anything to do with understanding technology, it could have happened in any field to any company guilty of monopolistic practices.
, and after seven years, and after the nearly total elimination of Netscape from the browser market, the court system is still
True, Microsoft did help to drive Netscape out of the market. But they also received a great amount of help from other sources -- Netscape themselves. Microsoft's browser got better with subsequent versions. Netscape's browswer just got worse (1.1 to 3, to 4.. bleugh). While we can rant about MS as much as we want, it's not like Netscape isn't blameless. Any company whose products only get worse isn't likely to succeed.
Yes, Micheal Moore has it right: Democrats and Republicans are essentially the same. They're two groups who control our government with the backing of big business. The difference is the extent they're willing to sell their souls to industry.
And also which industries they're willing to sell to.
At the moment, yes, unless Pixar does a lot of hiring for the things that Disney does for them now. It's hard to appreciate the marketing blitz that helped make Monsters Inc an incredible financial success, both in the movie theaters and the home, until you see what a marketing failure can do to a good movie (like the Iron Giant). And when it comes to marketing, really no one is better than Disney.
and *none* for Dell, whose market share is nearly six times that of Apple [com.com])
Wow, there are no categories for McDonalds, who are a much larger company than Dell either. Then again, maybe it's because there's really nothing exciting or newsworthy about Dell. They're a reseller. There's nothing particularly exciting about VA either, which is why we so rarely see stories about them.
If there were enough worthy stories about Dell, then it would have its own category. But it doesn't really deserve one.
Look more closely. Sorenson v1 is supported. The page doesn't mention anything at all about Sorenson v3, supported or unsupported. It doesn't work in mplayer.
Jesse Helms? I never would have thought a High Ranking Republican would get involved like this- and on the side of the smaller guy.
The Republicans are generally not friends with Holleywood and the music industry. The Democrats are traditionally those industries' allies. So while it's just a -tad- bit surprising, it shouldn't come as a complete shock. I never thought I'd see the day though when Jesse Helms would actually fight on the right side of an issue and be anything other than an embarassment of a senator.
No, for the average person, #4 is a pretty good reason. Most non-techies don't want to screw around with their computer, they have the reasonable requirement that things "just work." Things just work for them on AOL, and past experience has taught them that a switch like this to something else will result in things "not working," for a very long period of time if they don't have a tech friend to help them out. The average user doesn't see this great golden Internet beyond AOL, and the only benefit they see to switching is an extra few bucks per month. Perhaps they feel the drawbacks outweigh the benefits?
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By the way, the dynamite was mentioned in the book, though just briefly. "Some new devilry from Orthanc," refering to it as a blasting fire.. I think that's about right, just from memory.
I think this gives the RotK the opportunity for a little flow.. starting with the fall of Saruman and ending with his death. It's an interesting idea.
The part with Faramir really bothered me.
It bugged me too. Faramir was supposed to be Boromir's wiser brother, but Boromir was portrayed beautifully in the Fellowship movie, while in the TT movie, he's reduced to being merely a plot device. Faramir's entire purpose in the TT movie was to pull Frodo away from Mordor for awhile. I hope they flesh him out a bit more in the DVD release.
I thought Jackson improved the flow of the movie enough in the extended edition so that it actually didn't feel as long. The scenes that lagged before didn't seem to lag as much now. Perhaps it was part of the illusion caused by the presense of an intermission.
Be careful, snopes has a page or two full of intentionally false stories with the intention of teaching the reader (yes, they explain it) that no site should be blindly trusted as having definitive answers.. even snopes. They are pretty reliable though.
So you agree then that if a spammer uses his cable/DSL connection to send a bazillion spam messages all over the world, that the ISP would be unjustified in terminating service? After all, the spammer isn't exceeding the bandwidth allocated to him, and the cable company should have no say over what the spammer does with it...
Nope. But if, say, you smuggled some more equipment out of Walmart without paying for it that let you convert the tv to a tivo.. that would be stealing. In the case you mention, you're only depriving Walmart of potential revenues. In the latter case, you're depriving them of actual revenues. (It's a crappy analogy, I know, but the original analogy wasn't accurate either). Bandwidth is not free, it is not even cheap. A 1.5Mbps connection costs less money for the ISP than a 10Mbps connection does. If the ISP could provide more bandwidth to everyone at no cost to themselves.. then yes, you could make the point that there should be nothing wrong (or at least illegal) with uncapping your modem. But that's not the case, and that's what differentiates this situation from, say, overclocking your Celeron or copyright infringement. Now I'm not convinced that the FBI needed to be involved, and I do think they were overzealous in confiscating equipment. But there is actual monetary loss here, and this isn't the madeup BS that the record companies put out either. There's no difference between this case and, say, filling up your car's tank with gas and driving off without paying for it.
Seems to be the way unions work these days.
President Bush may not be, but I'm more scared of the supporters in high places, the people who give them advice.
Wasn't the budget for each Next Gen episode up to a million dollars, at least towards the end of its run? I can't see that as being low budget in the television world, especially in the late-80's, early 90's..
(Though some early TNG episodes do have a low-budget look to them. (Stop-motion animation!))
No idea, I only use my Windows box for games and video capture. If you installed Cygwin, I'm sure it wouldn't be -too- hard to do as a shell script. ;)
In five years, you could be saying, "It was linux's fault. It was too hard to install."
No, I'm saying that to ignore Netscape's glaring flaws while saying "Oh, it's all Microsoft's fault" is ignoring reality. I'm sure, though, no matter what Netscape did, Microsoft was going to find a way to drive them out of business... but Netscape sure made it easier than they could have.
Does XP search through zip archives when you select a find file or find in file? That would be an interesting, though slow feature...
Logic has little to do with it. As a whole, we are carrying around a lot of baggage from the puritan days, where pleasure was an evil, and hatred for those who were different was a more acceptable moral than love (at least physical).
These are the people who think that quoting Monty Python and the Holy Grail all the time makes them funny, so it should come as no shock.
Maybe they haven't actually proven anything, but merely come up with two competing theories, each of which has some evidence to back it up.
Here's the problem: Again and again, Larry Rosen says that we will have to be "vigilant" and so on about enforcing the terms of this behavioral remedy. But all the vigilance in the world is doomed to fail because Microsoft is an incorrigible scofflaw. And this was well-known when the anti-trust case began.
Yes, but this doesn't really have to do with technology. The above situation doesn't occur because the judges and lawyers " don't know jack about software." It happens because they could have an overly optimistic view of the enforcement of laws, and a company's willingness to comply with legal remedies. It doesn't have anything to do with understanding technology, it could have happened in any field to any company guilty of monopolistic practices.
, and after seven years, and after the nearly total elimination of Netscape from the browser market, the court system is still
True, Microsoft did help to drive Netscape out of the market. But they also received a great amount of help from other sources -- Netscape themselves. Microsoft's browser got better with subsequent versions. Netscape's browswer just got worse (1.1 to 3, to 4.. bleugh). While we can rant about MS as much as we want, it's not like Netscape isn't blameless. Any company whose products only get worse isn't likely to succeed.
And also which industries they're willing to sell to.
Do you *really* think so?
At the moment, yes, unless Pixar does a lot of hiring for the things that Disney does for them now. It's hard to appreciate the marketing blitz that helped make Monsters Inc an incredible financial success, both in the movie theaters and the home, until you see what a marketing failure can do to a good movie (like the Iron Giant). And when it comes to marketing, really no one is better than Disney.
Wow, there are no categories for McDonalds, who are a much larger company than Dell either. Then again, maybe it's because there's really nothing exciting or newsworthy about Dell. They're a reseller. There's nothing particularly exciting about VA either, which is why we so rarely see stories about them.
If there were enough worthy stories about Dell, then it would have its own category. But it doesn't really deserve one.
clicky. [mplayerhq.hu] about 12 down.
Look more closely. Sorenson v1 is supported. The page doesn't mention anything at all about Sorenson v3, supported or unsupported. It doesn't work in mplayer.
Neither is a corporation, or its shareholders.
The Republicans are generally not friends with Holleywood and the music industry. The Democrats are traditionally those industries' allies. So while it's just a -tad- bit surprising, it shouldn't come as a complete shock. I never thought I'd see the day though when Jesse Helms would actually fight on the right side of an issue and be anything other than an embarassment of a senator.
No, for the average person, #4 is a pretty good reason. Most non-techies don't want to screw around with their computer, they have the reasonable requirement that things "just work." Things just work for them on AOL, and past experience has taught them that a switch like this to something else will result in things "not working," for a very long period of time if they don't have a tech friend to help them out. The average user doesn't see this great golden Internet beyond AOL, and the only benefit they see to switching is an extra few bucks per month. Perhaps they feel the drawbacks outweigh the benefits?
Michael Jackson treatments for everyone!