UIUC still has some of the greatest minds in computer science, including Michael Heath, probably one of the most brilliant computer scientists of our time.
I agree with the comment about Heath, and want to add that he is also an excellent teacher. His advanced numerical methods course was one of the more enjoyable classes I took (hey, I love math okay).
Languages such as Hebrew and Arabic also make use of vowel points. The markings are different from Elvish, but the basic idea is not original to Tolkien.
Sorry, I wasn't clear. "Oddly enough" was in reference to his joke that welsh has no vowels. I didn't mean to imply that Tolkien was original with his ideas for vowel markings.
When you write the language, the vowels do not (usually) have their own character. Based on the "mode" you are writing in, you mark the vowels on the character before or after the vowel sound.
No, no; not genderless. It is common gender, which is something different. If you wanted genderless, then go with "it". For english, we use the masculine as the common gender.
e) Sauron is not defeated by force of arms but by a combination of luck (Gollum falls into Mount Doom) and heroism (Frodo and Sam). The interesting thing is that Frodo is not a messianic pure strong hero, at the end he betrays the trust in him by wielding the ring. Gollum seals Sauron's doom.
Okay, slightly offtopic here, but I'm going to comment anyhow...
To call the ending "luck" is simply not fair to Tolkien. The ending was setup way in advance. Several factors come into play:
Gollum has been completely warped by the ring and can only serve it. His many, many years with it has made him a slave to its power. And you know he is going to try to retake it before the end. Any other sequence simply wouldn't make sense.
Gandalf himself said, in Moria, that Gollum may yet have some important part to play. Also, despite his seemingly evily nature, he may be a force for good.
Frodo invokes the binding power of the ring when he swears that if Gollum ever touches the ring again he will be cast into the fires of Mt. Doom. This creates a small paradox -- Gollum is certainly going to try to save the ring, but in the same token this will destroy it.
So really, call it fate/invervention of the gods/whatever, the end sequence of events was forshadowed -- not just luck.
Did you migrate to OpenLDAP from some other DS? I wouldn't. Don't get me wrong -- for small stuff OpenLDAP is fine. I run it at home (just something to play with). But for a business I wouldn't touch it. Why? Couple reasons.
You have to reload the server to change ACL's. And ACI's are too experimental; for OpenLDAP they are still a moving target.
You can't do schema updates w/o restarting the server
Hell, you can't do much of any administration to the thing w/o restarting. Replica management is the other one that comes to mind.
At work I used NDS/eDirectory, and I love it. I wouldn't trade it for anything.
Ungoliant was the great spider creature that helped Melkor destroy the two trees of Valinor. She hungered for light, and when Melkor wounded the trees she sucked the light out of them (if you read the Lost Tails, you see that Tolkien thought of the light as a kind of liquid). It was this and her venom that causes the trees to wither and die.
After her and Melkor escaped from Aman, she hungered for still more light, and Melkor fed her the gems of the Noldor. But she was still not satisfied, and wanted the Silmarils. Melkor denied these to her, and him and his balrogs droved her away. She ended up in the end starving, and died trying to consume herself
Now, Shelob was one of Ungoliant's children. She was the one that ended up in the mountain pass, and tried to kill Frodo and Sam.
I use the Windows version, and have the MS IntelliMouse Explorer. In version 5.6 gvim would do what you described, but in 6.0 I have had no prolems using the scrollwheel.
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Euler was a cool guy... among this formula he was also the first iirc to prove that:
sum( 1/n^2, 1, inf ) = pi^2/6
of course, now adays that isn't too hard, as long as you accept that fourier series are valid, you can choose the propper function, expand it, and then evaluate it at a certian point to get the same result. But Euler didn't do this... he did an infinite factoring of polynomials! I can't remember which one at the moment (dohh...) my notes are at home, and I am at work
Of course, pi isn't my favorite number, gamma (euler's constant) is. It is defined as...
gamma = lim( sum( 1/k, k, 1, n ) - ln( n ), n, inf )
if you spend a little time you can prove to yourself that this limit does indeed converge. The cool thing about it is that there arn't any algo's that can calculate its digits, so proving that it is simply irrational is a hard task (i don't think anyone has done this yet). Although I must say, it isn't as useful as pi, but I still think it is cooler:)
What is your history with computers? By this I mean, what hardware did you start out with, and also what programming languages were your first?
I am 19 (almost 20), but even I had to start out on Apple ][e's, and an old IMB XT with BASIC, I would be interested to see if 4 years made any difference.
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I agree with the comment about Heath, and want to add that he is also an excellent teacher. His advanced numerical methods course was one of the more enjoyable classes I took (hey, I love math okay).
CITES (runs the majority of computing services for the campus) has already started its takeover of DCL.
Sorry, I wasn't clear. "Oddly enough" was in reference to his joke that welsh has no vowels. I didn't mean to imply that Tolkien was original with his ideas for vowel markings.
When you write the language, the vowels do not (usually) have their own character. Based on the "mode" you are writing in, you mark the vowels on the character before or after the vowel sound.
No, no; not genderless. It is common gender, which is something different. If you wanted genderless, then go with "it". For english, we use the masculine as the common gender.
Okay, slightly offtopic here, but I'm going to comment anyhow...
To call the ending "luck" is simply not fair to Tolkien. The ending was setup way in advance. Several factors come into play:
So really, call it fate/invervention of the gods/whatever, the end sequence of events was forshadowed -- not just luck.
To be fair, MAC IE has had a Download Manager for years (before I remember Mozilla adding one).
The popup-blocker was an inovation that MS borrowed however.
- You have to reload the server to change ACL's. And ACI's are too experimental; for OpenLDAP they are still a moving target.
- You can't do schema updates w/o restarting the server
- Hell, you can't do much of any administration to the thing w/o restarting. Replica management is the other one that comes to mind.
At work I used NDS/eDirectory, and I love it. I wouldn't trade it for anything.bahh... real fan(atic)s would know this by heart :) I did cheat a little with the book though... had to lookup the names for spelling in the appendix
Wow... grab a book guys
Ungoliant was the great spider creature that helped Melkor destroy the two trees of Valinor. She hungered for light, and when Melkor wounded the trees she sucked the light out of them (if you read the Lost Tails, you see that Tolkien thought of the light as a kind of liquid). It was this and her venom that causes the trees to wither and die.
After her and Melkor escaped from Aman, she hungered for still more light, and Melkor fed her the gems of the Noldor. But she was still not satisfied, and wanted the Silmarils. Melkor denied these to her, and him and his balrogs droved her away. She ended up in the end starving, and died trying to consume herself
Now, Shelob was one of Ungoliant's children. She was the one that ended up in the mountain pass, and tried to kill Frodo and Sam.
Hope that clears it all up
I use the Windows version, and have the MS IntelliMouse Explorer. In version 5.6 gvim would do what you described, but in 6.0 I have had no prolems using the scrollwheel.
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Euler was a cool guy... among this formula he was also the first iirc to prove that:
sum( 1/n^2, 1, inf ) = pi^2/6
of course, now adays that isn't too hard, as long as you accept that fourier series are valid, you can choose the propper function, expand it, and then evaluate it at a certian point to get the same result. But Euler didn't do this... he did an infinite factoring of polynomials! I can't remember which one at the moment (dohh...) my notes are at home, and I am at work
Of course, pi isn't my favorite number, gamma (euler's constant) is. It is defined as...
gamma = lim( sum( 1/k, k, 1, n ) - ln( n ), n, inf )
if you spend a little time you can prove to yourself that this limit does indeed converge. The cool thing about it is that there arn't any algo's that can calculate its digits, so proving that it is simply irrational is a hard task (i don't think anyone has done this yet). Although I must say, it isn't as useful as pi, but I still think it is coolerWhat is your history with computers? By this I mean, what hardware did you start out with, and also what programming languages were your first?
I am 19 (almost 20), but even I had to start out on Apple ][e's, and an old IMB XT with BASIC, I would be interested to see if 4 years made any difference.
My bad... 10^-8 cm, which would be 10^-10 m
Isn't an angstrom 10^-8 meters?