A Russian scientist Kirill Yeskov wrote a book "The Last Ring Bearer" which is a take on the trilogy where the
Ring of Power is most likely a much-altered heroic retelling of a major war - but what was that war really about?
The result of this re-appraisal was the publication in 1999 of The Last Ring-bearer - a re-thinking of Tolkien's story in real-world terms. Dr. Yeskov, a professional paleontologist whose job is reconstructing long-extinct organisms and their way of life from fossil remnants, performs essentially the same feat in The Last Ring-bearer, reconstructing the real world of Tolkien's Arda from The Lord of the Rings - the heroic tales of the Free Men of the West written in that world. We have a pretty good idea how well heroic tales map to reality from our own world.
The work was published with great acclaim in Russia and Europe, but no attempt was made at publishing in the US due to the litigiousness of the Tolkien family. It is available as a free download in both the original Russian and in English.PDF at Live Journal
a fix for a memory leak that kept Firefox consuming RAM even without opening new tabs.
Which is why I switched to Chrome browser (which I haven't been all that satisfied with either because of slow rendering on pages with heavy Java usage)
So I'll download and try the beta and try Firefox again which had been my fave for more years than I care to count.
Remember Mr. Phelps if you or any member of you Impossible Mission Force is captured, the secretary will disavow any knowledge of you mission and all your e books will self destruct in 5 seconds.
I don't think so. DRM yes, but Gutenberg doesn't have much in the way of popular 20th Century titles. BTW the same Adobe Reader Software is used by all the Library Systems in NY State to lend e-books with the same terms as Open Library. It's a great money saver.
Totally agree. I'm calling shenanigans on this BS. It smacks too much of:
Cue James Bond Theme:
Do you expect me to talk? No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to die! Besides, there is nothing you could possibly tell me that I don’t already know.
Look at us, here's the stuff we're letting you see so you wonder about the stuff You Can't See
Then there's (FTFA) that flying insect robot from the 70s and I just saw on /. and a lot of other sites this hummingbird that I wouldn't mind playing with myself. (Coming out this year before the holidays from Wowee ?)
If a piece of software is available somewhere for free, it's to the buyer's advantage to be knowledgeable and investigate before buying it from somewhere else. How many times have you seen the warning "Don't pay for this software it is meant to be free at...". As far as legality is concerned This from the GNU GPL site explains it all:
The licenses for most software and other practical works are designed to take away your freedom to share and change the works. By contrast, the GNU General Public License is intended to guarantee your freedom to share and change all versions of a program--to make sure it remains free software for all its users. We, the Free Software Foundation, use the GNU General Public License for most of our software; it applies also to any other work released this way by its authors. You can apply it to your programs, too.
When we speak of free software, we are referring to freedom, not price. Our General Public Licenses are designed to make sure that you have the freedom to distribute copies of free software (and charge for them if you wish) , that you receive source code or can get it if you want it, that you can change the software or use pieces of it in new free programs, and that you know you can do these things.
I'mma let you finish... but I just wanna say... Stargate is the best show of all time!
Besides, I thought everyone knew that Babylon 5 is the best show of all time.
I'm sorry, but you are both mistaken. Farscape was far superior to both.
You are all wrong it was Lexx that was the best.
I'm not sure what universe you're in, but in this universe Sliders was the best.
Get a grip. Nothing has ever come close to Mork and Mindy.
Boys, boys, you're all right (except maybe Mork and Mindy). Now if they would get rid of the crap like "Punkin Chunkin" (?!) et al, they would have room to fit these into the schedule and SyFy might just die the slow painful death it deserves.
It's the school's, teacher's, violent video game's, too much TV, social site's, texting, too much cell phone use's fault. But never, ever the parent's fault
I've always been a proponent of AMD because I always look for bang/buck performance. Intel has the reputation for exploring the bleeding edge and AMD is trailing, but not by much. In years past Dell was a leader in PDAs with various iterations of its Axim, now with Android tablets such as the Streak and a link with AMD, perhaps the Android tablet would come down to a price point agreeable to normal people.
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And, just in case you were wondering if you are an otaku here are ten really good signs.
Yeah, you know the Japanese are really turning freakazoid.
I'll wait until they make on like this so I can call 900 numbers.
A complex/intricate design makes one tend to strip screws and leave ZIF sockets open? Sounds more like a lazy assembler to me.
Lazy? Some poor guy in China passed out from lack of sleep and food.
The result of this re-appraisal was the publication in 1999 of The Last Ring-bearer - a re-thinking of Tolkien's story in real-world terms. Dr. Yeskov, a professional paleontologist whose job is reconstructing long-extinct organisms and their way of life from fossil remnants, performs essentially the same feat in The Last Ring-bearer, reconstructing the real world of Tolkien's Arda from The Lord of the Rings - the heroic tales of the Free Men of the West written in that world. We have a pretty good idea how well heroic tales map to reality from our own world.
The work was published with great acclaim in Russia and Europe, but no attempt was made at publishing in the US due to the litigiousness of the Tolkien family. It is available as a free download in both the original Russian and in English .PDF at Live Journal
The bad news is that the tech industry has to compete more with itself which means its scrambling over a smaller total of dollars available.
This is bad news? An industry competing with itself for consumer dollars leads to better products to compete with. Fuck, that's the American Way!
a fix for a memory leak that kept Firefox consuming RAM even without opening new tabs.
Which is why I switched to Chrome browser (which I haven't been all that satisfied with either because of slow rendering on pages with heavy Java usage)
So I'll download and try the beta and try Firefox again which had been my fave for more years than I care to count.
Remember Mr. Phelps if you or any member of you Impossible Mission Force is captured, the secretary will disavow any knowledge of you mission and all your e books will self destruct in 5 seconds.
I'm not exactly sure of the terms and conditions because I'm not an UK resident, but isn't there a tax on TVs and radios for usage?
I tried this method, putting everything into memory palaces When I tried to access them, I got back an "Error Code 404 Site Not Found"
I guess everyone posting hasn't even seen the show.
I don't think I'm crying "The Sky Is Falling"
I don't think so. DRM yes, but Gutenberg doesn't have much in the way of popular 20th Century titles. BTW the same Adobe Reader Software is used by all the Library Systems in NY State to lend e-books with the same terms as Open Library. It's a great money saver.
Cue James Bond Theme:
Do you expect me to talk? No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to die! Besides, there is nothing you could possibly tell me that I don’t already know.
Look at us, here's the stuff we're letting you see so you wonder about the stuff You Can't See
Then there's (FTFA) that flying insect robot from the 70s and I just saw on /. and a lot of other sites this hummingbird that I wouldn't mind playing with myself. (Coming out this year before the holidays from Wowee ?)
If a piece of software is available somewhere for free, it's to the buyer's advantage to be knowledgeable and investigate before buying it from somewhere else. How many times have you seen the warning "Don't pay for this software it is meant to be free at...". As far as legality is concerned This from the GNU GPL site explains it all:
The licenses for most software and other practical works are designed to take away your freedom to share and change the works. By contrast, the GNU General Public License is intended to guarantee your freedom to share and change all versions of a program--to make sure it remains free software for all its users. We, the Free Software Foundation, use the GNU General Public License for most of our software; it applies also to any other work released this way by its authors. You can apply it to your programs, too.
When we speak of free software, we are referring to freedom, not price. Our General Public Licenses are designed to make sure that you have the freedom to distribute copies of free software (and charge for them if you wish) , that you receive source code or can get it if you want it, that you can change the software or use pieces of it in new free programs, and that you know you can do these things.
All emphases are mine
Prosz panu, Jak si Pan/Pani miewa? Jak si Pan nazywa? Nazywam si .Tomasz Jan Sobieski III, Nastpca tronu polskiego (LOL)
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since Firefly is the best show of ALL TIME!!
I'mma let you finish... but I just wanna say... Stargate is the best show of all time!
Besides, I thought everyone knew that Babylon 5 is the best show of all time.
I'm sorry, but you are both mistaken. Farscape was far superior to both.
You are all wrong it was Lexx that was the best.
I'm not sure what universe you're in, but in this universe Sliders was the best.
Get a grip. Nothing has ever come close to Mork and Mindy.
Boys, boys, you're all right (except maybe Mork and Mindy). Now if they would get rid of the crap like "Punkin Chunkin" (?!) et al, they would have room to fit these into the schedule and SyFy might just die the slow painful death it deserves.
It's the school's, teacher's, violent video game's, too much TV, social site's, texting, too much cell phone use's fault. But never, ever the parent's fault
The FBI needs to have easy access to everything - to keep up safe. All sites need to provide the FBI with all user data.
Because after all, if you're innocent, you have nothing to hide
And the horse they rode in on. They are against every freedom that gamers can aspire to
Why do I get the feeling that Prof. Moglen has read Doctorow's "Little Brother" ?
I've always been a proponent of AMD because I always look for bang/buck performance. Intel has the reputation for exploring the bleeding edge and AMD is trailing, but not by much. In years past Dell was a leader in PDAs with various iterations of its Axim, now with Android tablets such as the Streak and a link with AMD, perhaps the Android tablet would come down to a price point agreeable to normal people.
And does any body remember Ricin ?
As a pharmacist, I know that IVF is already a fact of life. It works people, therefore this is really not a problem
Quite poetic, but I've heard it before