How much of the content could possibly be retained in a stage show that runs about a quarter as long, and made interesting and comprehensible to a general audience?
There was hardly any character development, so I'd recommend reading the books or seeing the movies before going to see the stage version.
Aside from that, it was pretty amazing just to see how much they actually were able to retain from the books in only three and-a-half hours. Gollum was one of the highlights; they succeeded in making the audience sympathize with him (he secretly sings along with Frodo and Sam as he remembers being Smeagol). And the Balrog scene alone was well worth the price of admission.
However, there were a few major changes to help with the flow of the story.
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Faramir is gone, and Eowyn's role is reduced.
The Battle of the Pelennor Fields is combined with the battle in front of the Black Gate.
They didn't, except for a mention at the end when Gandalf said he was going to see an old friend of his.
Although it would have been one of the easier parts to translate into a stage musical... the lyrics had already been written for you. Too bad it would have added another 20 or 30 minutes to the length of the show.
That's true; I had forgotten that MJ split the rights with Sony. I guess your post could have been taken in two completely different ways depending on whether one knew that or not...:-P
What are you pointing out Toronto's weather for? They're the ones who, seven years ago this week, called in the Canadian Army when they got a light dusting of snow...
[Steven Page] said he believes if someone purchases a CD or a download, then they should have the right to copy the music to cassette for their car, to CD for their home stereo, or to their iPod.
"I think largely the paranoia about people sharing music is a construct of the music business trying to find a way for itself to stay relevant."
BNL didn't always feel that way. In 2000, the band sent out fake songs over the Internet to thwart downloaders. Instead of getting BNL music, people who illegally obtained the songs discovered pitches from the band to purchase their latest recording.
However, that last paragraph isn't exactly accurate. What you could download was the whole song, but into it was spliced (and not mixed, so it was easily undone) several of the band members encouraging people to go out and buy the album. One segment was an outgoing answering machine message...
And in 2003 they put instrumental versions of most of the songs on their then-current album on the P2P networks. Not that encouraging karaoke is that great a thing to do, though...
Did the same developer(s) look directly at the GPL'ed driver code,
and the write a BSD implementation?
Pretty much. In the case of the Ralink driver the Linux code contained its own 802.11 layer (along with the hardware access layer). OpenBSD already had a generic 802.11 layer so it was probably easier to sort through the code and figure out how the hardware was being accessed, then write new BSD code based on those findings.
Although I'm sure the *BSDs have used clean-room design in other cases, too...
No, but a GPL driver can be used as a reference when writing a BSD-licensed one. This happened when the OpenBSD project reverse-engineered the Ralink 802.11 driver from Linux, for instance.
But people still get excited when the moon gets dark for a few seconds.
Consider the distances involved: a 12800km wide object is almost completely blocking the Sun from reaching a 3500km wide object that is 400000km away. The fact that this happens at all is the reason some of us are excited.
And although this is a partial eclipse, it's going to last more than "a few seconds". Probably closer to an hour...
What you may see instead is the Copy Protected Disc logo, as seen here.
I bought one of those by accident yesterday. Fortunately the copy-protection is completely software-based, and I have autorun disabled on all drives. EAC read it just fine. Presumably it had a data track with WMA files on it, or something...
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You work and take classes seven days a week?
There was hardly any character development, so I'd recommend reading the books or seeing the movies before going to see the stage version.
Aside from that, it was pretty amazing just to see how much they actually were able to retain from the books in only three and-a-half hours. Gollum was one of the highlights; they succeeded in making the audience sympathize with him (he secretly sings along with Frodo and Sam as he remembers being Smeagol). And the Balrog scene alone was well worth the price of admission.
However, there were a few major changes to help with the flow of the story.
They didn't, except for a mention at the end when Gandalf said he was going to see an old friend of his.
Although it would have been one of the easier parts to translate into a stage musical... the lyrics had already been written for you. Too bad it would have added another 20 or 30 minutes to the length of the show.
They might; it broke down twice when I was there...
You must live in Canada.
Take off, eh!
That's true; I had forgotten that MJ split the rights with Sony. I guess your post could have been taken in two completely different ways depending on whether one knew that or not... :-P
It's Sony. This is about par for the course for them...
Don't worry, he'll get to it once HURD is done, any day now! No point in writing printer and video drivers if there's no free operating system, eh!
The Americans think 100 years is a long time, while the British think 100 miles is a long drive...
Guess who the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Creative Commons is?
Yeah, but she was the first thing he ever checked out at a library.
Who's ever heard of London, Ontario?!?!
That's what the BSD license is for...
What are you pointing out Toronto's weather for? They're the ones who, seven years ago this week, called in the Canadian Army when they got a light dusting of snow...
This just in: someone doesn't understand the GPL! Dog bites man! Details at 11!
Good luck in figuring out what the uncommented code does after the programmer is gone, then...
Swap is now encrypted by default in OpenBSD 3.8: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=1111 85331505174&w=2
From another article:
However, that last paragraph isn't exactly accurate. What you could download was the whole song, but into it was spliced (and not mixed, so it was easily undone) several of the band members encouraging people to go out and buy the album. One segment was an outgoing answering machine message...
And in 2003 they put instrumental versions of most of the songs on their then-current album on the P2P networks. Not that encouraging karaoke is that great a thing to do, though...
Pretty much. In the case of the Ralink driver the Linux code contained its own 802.11 layer (along with the hardware access layer). OpenBSD already had a generic 802.11 layer so it was probably easier to sort through the code and figure out how the hardware was being accessed, then write new BSD code based on those findings.
Although I'm sure the *BSDs have used clean-room design in other cases, too...
No, but a GPL driver can be used as a reference when writing a BSD-licensed one. This happened when the OpenBSD project reverse-engineered the Ralink 802.11 driver from Linux, for instance.
Consider the distances involved: a 12800km wide object is almost completely blocking the Sun from reaching a 3500km wide object that is 400000km away. The fact that this happens at all is the reason some of us are excited.
And although this is a partial eclipse, it's going to last more than "a few seconds". Probably closer to an hour...
I bought one of those by accident yesterday. Fortunately the copy-protection is completely software-based, and I have autorun disabled on all drives. EAC read it just fine. Presumably it had a data track with WMA files on it, or something...
Wow! Did you notice your system's clock is off by almost 5 years?
Have you seen Richard Stallman? I don't think he should take his shoes off, EVER.