You know, Linux 2.6 simply outperforms XP on similar hardware. I have an old Pentium IV 1.6 with 256 megabytes of DDR SDRAM. And I did some really cruel torture on it (in Gnome 2.4 with all the fancy effects, opened up Mozilla, Evolution, compiled gaim, turned on XMMS and watched a DivX in Mplayer... ALL AT THE SAME TIME). The OS didn't bat an eyelid. No XMMS skips, smooth video... let's see WinXP try that:)
I tell her to ask me about the origins of superheroes so I can go off on a long, rambling, tanget-laden story about the Flash(es), or Cyclops & Havok, or how Aquaman lost his hand, etc. It's a lot of fun, and it feels good to share. And my girlfriend is very amused.
She was amused because... she's thinking "Who the hell cares about Aquaman? He is the lamest superhero ever."
The casual moviegoer sees LOTR and The Matrix as just action movies. A lot of my friends just say "I saw the Matrix, cool kung-fu but I didn't get it".
LOTR is also another movie simply loved by the masses because it's so hyped up. I flipped through one of those popular culture mags and found all sort of Return of the King promotional stuff for sale or contests you can enter, with posters etc. Do you think they'd have John Howe paintings as posters in those magazines if LOTR was simply a dusty old book instead of never being made into a movie franchise?
More worrisome is if this project takes too long to get off the ground - McKellan might become too frail to play Gandalf, which would greatly trouble the marketability of this as a "prequel", as Gandalf is a central character to both "The Hobbit" and "LOTR".
Get Sean Connery to play Gandalf. Now that's one tough old guy.
Although it's a delightful children's novel, the Hobbit is inevitably a terrible disappointment after the scope and depth of the LOTR.
I wouldn't put down The Hobbit like that. Even though the details are simplified, it doesn't mean they aren't there. I read The Hobbit, and then LOTR, the Silmarillion, then going back to reread The Hobbit I found that it's remarkably consistant with the materials from the other books (granted, Tolkien did a bit of revisionist history with "The Hobbit", but I digress).
The Hobbit also introduces us to the hardy race of halflings which at first seem unlikely that little Bilbo could even survive the dangerous journey with the dwarves, but later he turns into the most resourceful and most heroic character in the book (very convincingly too).
The only way it would work would be if it was deliberately filmed and marketed as a movie for young children.
I'm not sure it'll be terribly suitable for young children. It's going to have giant spiders biting the protagonists, and the battle of five armies is rather bloody indeed.
You forgot Ian Holme as Bilbo Baggins! And Gandalf was always *old*, so it doesn't matter. And theres Elrond and Gollum too (we can forget the Gloin cameo, but Bilbo has to be the same).
I wonder if they can all get Ian Holme, Ian McKellen, Hugo Weaving and Andy Serkis to reprise their roles as Bilbo, Gandalf, Agent Elrond and Gollum. It would be cool if it were kept consistant with LOTR.
I defy you to find anything that matters at zdnet.com. It is a place "where technology means business." It's oriented toward tier three managers who fire their IT staff and buy "editor's pick" hardware and troubleshoot network problems by reading the letters to the editor.
Like I said, you should feel right at home there:)
Nobody put a gun to my head and ordered me to buy Windows XP. I believe I made a rational decision based on the price, quality, and usability that I chose Microsoft.
Is it Microsoft-apologist day? I can't believe anyone can type that with a straight face.
This web site's tagline is 'News for nerds. Stuff that matters.' I'm sorry, I seem to be missing where "Linux" appears in those two sentences. I know it's six words, but please show me.
Well, Windows appears quite a lot on Slashdot too. Not favourably, but hey, life's not fair:)
I am a nerd. I want to know about things that matter.
I reiterate, Slashdot isn't the only place for "things that matter". Have you tried zdnet? It should cater to your tastes better.
Your words reveal your extreme arrogance. You think only Linux users can be nerds.
What can I say, I'm evil and cruel. But don't take it personally, it's all part of my grand plan to become a tyrannical overlord.
It's bad that enough nerdy Microsoft Windows users must endure the incessant rudeness of Linux users to get their 'news that matters' on Slashdot. But for CowBoy Neal to permit a discussion topic that implies we are slaves to Microsoft is just plain offensive. Did you ever once consider we might feel liberated to use Microsoft products? It's like looking out into the ocean, seeing a swarm of sharks feeding in the surf, and then choosing to paddle out to ride the waves. It's an adrenaline rush.
Why do you come here then? There are other places where you can get your tech news you know. Slashdot has a rather vicious anti-Windows slant to it, and doesn't apologize for it. If that bothers you, go elsewhere. Personally, I love it here for the exact same reason you hate it. I'm surrounded by idiotic Microsoft apologists in real life, so this is one place I can be comfortable.
Jean Piccard is also Betrand Piccard's grandfather.
After furthur digging, I found that Bertrand is his grand-nephew. Jean was the twin brother of Auguste Piccard. Auguste's son was Jacques Piccard and Bertrand is Jacque's son. A whole generation of balloonist-adventurers! How cool is that?
Re:Why aren't pre-emptive and low-latency merged?
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Because a patch like preempt makes intrusive changes into the kernel, and that is unacceptible in the "stable" line.
Among the contenders, we had stuff straight out of sci-fi : a invisible camouflage suit, a wearable robot suit which augments your strength (just like in those cartoons), glasses with a built in screen and camera, and the winner for coolest invention was... iTUNES? WTF??
In the chance that ten years from now hackers everywhere will refer to this slashdot article as the origin of their symbol, I just wanted to post in it.
Even though I think the logo is a dumb idea, I thought I would too.
Slashdot Mirror
How do you "make" senders do anything?
hussein@gandalf:~$ uname -a
:)
Linux gandalf 2.6.0-gandalf #2 Thu Dec 18 13:07:49 MYT 2003 i686 unknown unknown GNU/Linux
W00t! It rocks!
That article..... Looked just like another one just before it...
Put down the porn mag and GET OUT OF THE BUILDING NOW!!!!
You know, Linux 2.6 simply outperforms XP on similar hardware. I have an old Pentium IV 1.6 with 256 megabytes of DDR SDRAM. And I did some really cruel torture on it (in Gnome 2.4 with all the fancy effects, opened up Mozilla, Evolution, compiled gaim, turned on XMMS and watched a DivX in Mplayer... ALL AT THE SAME TIME). The OS didn't bat an eyelid. No XMMS skips, smooth video... let's see WinXP try that :)
I tell her to ask me about the origins of superheroes so I can go off on a long, rambling, tanget-laden story about the Flash(es), or Cyclops & Havok, or how Aquaman lost his hand, etc. It's a lot of fun, and it feels good to share. And my girlfriend is very amused.
She was amused because... she's thinking "Who the hell cares about Aquaman? He is the lamest superhero ever."
The casual moviegoer sees LOTR and The Matrix as just action movies. A lot of my friends just say "I saw the Matrix, cool kung-fu but I didn't get it".
LOTR is also another movie simply loved by the masses because it's so hyped up. I flipped through one of those popular culture mags and found all sort of Return of the King promotional stuff for sale or contests you can enter, with posters etc. Do you think they'd have John Howe paintings as posters in those magazines if LOTR was simply a dusty old book instead of never being made into a movie franchise?
No offense, but have you ever heard of IBM? Or DEC? Or Intel? Or Texas Instruments?
I think the word he was looking for was "Microsoft".
the reality is that vast chunks of the developing world will be dumped in 2003 with little or no sustainable technology future.
Bill? Is that you?
More worrisome is if this project takes too long to get off the ground - McKellan might become too frail to play Gandalf, which would greatly trouble the marketability of this as a "prequel", as Gandalf is a central character to both "The Hobbit" and "LOTR".
Get Sean Connery to play Gandalf. Now that's one tough old guy.
LOTR opens with Bilbo celebrating his "Eleventy first birthday", so it would be 111.
Although it's a delightful children's novel, the Hobbit is inevitably a terrible disappointment after the scope and depth of the LOTR.
I wouldn't put down The Hobbit like that. Even though the details are simplified, it doesn't mean they aren't there. I read The Hobbit, and then LOTR, the Silmarillion, then going back to reread The Hobbit I found that it's remarkably consistant with the materials from the other books (granted, Tolkien did a bit of revisionist history with "The Hobbit", but I digress).
The Hobbit also introduces us to the hardy race of halflings which at first seem unlikely that little Bilbo could even survive the dangerous journey with the dwarves, but later he turns into the most resourceful and most heroic character in the book (very convincingly too).
The only way it would work would be if it was deliberately filmed and marketed as a movie for young children.
I'm not sure it'll be terribly suitable for young children. It's going to have giant spiders biting the protagonists, and the battle of five armies is rather bloody indeed.
The Hobbit story happens before the Rings story, so maybe they could get Ewan McGregor to play Obi-wan.
Sir Ian McKellen is still alive for the role, you insensitive clod!
You forgot Ian Holme as Bilbo Baggins! And Gandalf was always *old*, so it doesn't matter. And theres Elrond and Gollum too (we can forget the Gloin cameo, but Bilbo has to be the same).
I wonder if they can all get Ian Holme, Ian McKellen, Hugo Weaving and Andy Serkis to reprise their roles as Bilbo, Gandalf, Agent Elrond and Gollum. It would be cool if it were kept consistant with LOTR.
I defy you to find anything that matters at zdnet.com. It is a place "where technology means business." It's oriented toward tier three managers who fire their IT staff and buy "editor's pick" hardware and troubleshoot network problems by reading the letters to the editor.
:)
Like I said, you should feel right at home there
Nobody put a gun to my head and ordered me to buy Windows XP. I believe I made a rational decision based on the price, quality, and usability that I chose Microsoft.
Is it Microsoft-apologist day? I can't believe anyone can type that with a straight face.
This web site's tagline is 'News for nerds. Stuff that matters.' I'm sorry, I seem to be missing where "Linux" appears in those two sentences. I know it's six words, but please show me.
:)
Well, Windows appears quite a lot on Slashdot too. Not favourably, but hey, life's not fair
I am a nerd. I want to know about things that matter.
I reiterate, Slashdot isn't the only place for "things that matter". Have you tried zdnet? It should cater to your tastes better.
Your words reveal your extreme arrogance. You think only Linux users can be nerds.
What can I say, I'm evil and cruel. But don't take it personally, it's all part of my grand plan to become a tyrannical overlord.
It's bad that enough nerdy Microsoft Windows users must endure the incessant rudeness of Linux users to get their 'news that matters' on Slashdot. But for CowBoy Neal to permit a discussion topic that implies we are slaves to Microsoft is just plain offensive. Did you ever once consider we might feel liberated to use Microsoft products? It's like looking out into the ocean, seeing a swarm of sharks feeding in the surf, and then choosing to paddle out to ride the waves. It's an adrenaline rush.
Why do you come here then? There are other places where you can get your tech news you know. Slashdot has a rather vicious anti-Windows slant to it, and doesn't apologize for it. If that bothers you, go elsewhere. Personally, I love it here for the exact same reason you hate it. I'm surrounded by idiotic Microsoft apologists in real life, so this is one place I can be comfortable.
Jean Piccard is also Betrand Piccard's grandfather.
After furthur digging, I found that Bertrand is his grand-nephew. Jean was the twin brother of Auguste Piccard. Auguste's son was Jacques Piccard and Bertrand is Jacque's son. A whole generation of balloonist-adventurers! How cool is that?
Because a patch like preempt makes intrusive changes into the kernel, and that is unacceptible in the "stable" line.
According to the wikipedia, Jean-luc Picard was named after Dr. Jean Piccard, another balloonist!
That reminds be of The Grinch who stole Linux:
It's hilarious
...when Bill Gates didn't say "content is king", or something like that.
I'm reminded of this site when I recall all the personal websites I've seen.
Among the contenders, we had stuff straight out of sci-fi : a invisible camouflage suit, a wearable robot suit which augments your strength (just like in those cartoons), glasses with a built in screen and camera, and the winner for coolest invention was... iTUNES? WTF??
In the chance that ten years from now hackers everywhere will refer to this slashdot article as the origin of their symbol, I just wanted to post in it.
Even though I think the logo is a dumb idea, I thought I would too.