The parent post is *not* a troll. People, stop modding something troll/overrated/etc simply because you don't *agree* with what it's saying. The poster has a very good point and he communicated it well without insulting anyone. Now why the fuck is it modded into oblivion???
> Personnaly, even if the book says that the ents speak slowly, I don't start reading slowly.
Exactly my point! I agree with the other posters that it is hard to portray the ents the same way they were in the book without the turtle-like pace, but I still don't think we need even *more* of that in the extended edition.
The ent scenes might have been great in the book, but they were just as entertaining as having my fingernails removed in the movie. It took 10 minutes for a sentence to be spoken, I think it completely ruined the pace of the movie. I exclude the last ent scene from this, of course.
Having graduated in the not-so-distant past, the one advice I can give you is to try to do a whole lot more than read a book in that month and live it like it's your last. You can always read a book again, but your brain will be blindsided by the time you've been working for 6 months and you'll wish you had taken a loooong vacation before you started.
To stay on topic, if you like fantasy and can stand a few too many Tolkien-isms (read: plagiarism) try the Belgariad and the Malloreon series by David Eddings.
I was more intrigued by the "1.8 GHZ per second" claim.
1.8 Billion instructions per second per second. It's about time that somebody made an accelerating chip - way to go, IBM!
If you'll be picky about other people's stuff, you might as well proof-read your own posts.
GHz != Billion instructions per second. GHz is the frequency the clock runs at, and that's all. Depending on the architecture, a single instruction may take several clock cycles. IIRC, Motorola 68HC12 has a few 7 cycle instructions.
I'm writing this on a Lifebook C-6630 running Slackware and having reinstalled both W2000pro and Slack on it, I can say the latter was much, much easier and smoother.
The one and only glitch I have with it is to have to resample sound to 48k, because the sound card can't handle anything else. The crossfade plugin does this for xmms and mplayer resamples itself.
Unless the FCC works with the FTC on this, we will keep getting calls from the latter three you listed.
I don't know about everyone else, but 99.99% of the telemarketing calls I get are from those six types of companies/organizations. I hope the FCC does cooperate so at least my telemarketing call traffic would drop a bit.
Thanks for the information, I wasn't aware of the ability to use free listings.
My question now is, since TiVo licenses its technology to hardware manufacturers for free and ONLY makes money from the subscription service, how do they expect to make a money with the possibility of a popular free listing site popping up..?
While this obviously is a misinterpretation/hoax, the risk of something like this happening is why I never considered buying a TiVo. If the company goes under, who guarantees that they will be able to provide the listing service for as long as you have the box? Even if they make such a claim when you buy it, if they file for bankruptcy they are not bound by it anymore. I just don't like the idea of a $300-400 doorstop. And since Time Warner worked out the bugs in the Scientific Atlanta Explorer 8000, I love their DVR service.. $5/mo box rental and already built-in guide to digital cable, I just love it!
If anything you'd get slapped with DMCA suit if you "upgrade" the drive.
You would not be circumventing a copyright protection mechanism and hence DMCA wouldn't be involved, unless they have some sort of protection mechanism built-in to prevent HDD upgrades.
You're probably not worth replying to, AC and all, but I will anyway.
I didn't say this technology was revolutionary anywhere in my post. The only point I made (or tried to, I guess it didn't get through to you) was that spitting out numbers in your predictions is stupid. It's like predicting that a new car accessory will only be used in cars $45k and up. Maybe the technology will get a lot cheaper? Maybe a breakthrough will be made in the way they work or are manufactured..?
Lastly, re: "RTFA!!": It hurts to point out that I *quoted* the article in my post...do you want me to read it again or something?
I used SMS extensively with 2 different networks in Istanbul for a while before and I don't recall a single lost message. The US networks are already overloaded with stuff like camera phones etc, I wonder if SMS just isn't reliable under load..?
Donations are an option for die-hard fans who really don't want to see Mandrake go under, or for people who really really appreciate their work.
I think buying a boxed set every once in a while is enough help from an average user. If everyone who uses Mandrake yet never purchased a boxed set goes out and buys one now I think Mandrake would be in a much better shape.
RedHat survives because of their corporate strategy and partnerships (with IBM etc). Apple's survival has absolutely nothing with the free software projects, it's an absurd example.
Mandrake is mostly a Joe User distro, and as much as I don't like it, I can see that the people maintaining it (even if it was 3-4 people) need to get paid. When everyone goes and downloads the iso in under an hour with their broadband, they see no money in their hands. THAT's the problem.
Once you start doing that, eventually you get to a point where you don't block certain IP's but you start only allowing certain ones. And that's where the fun begins.. When I'm on a machine not explicitly allowed through my home firewall I sometimes have to hop through 2-3 machines to get to a machine that my home network knows and allows.
Then there is the fact that not most networks don't have the freedom to go to a whitelist from a blacklist.
*utopian vision* a world without script kiddies *utopian vision*
"Founded in 1984 and headquartered in San Jose, Calif., Xilinx employs approximately 2,600 people worldwide."
" Publicly traded on NASDAQ o Symbol: XLNX Fiscal Year 2002 revenues: $1.02 billion; net income, $52.2 million"
May I have some of whatever it is you're smoking?
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Kevin goes to prison for 5 years plus 2 years of strict probation where you'd better believe he's being watched like a hawk. The poor drunk spends 1 year + 1 day in jail (9 months with good behaviour) and gets to go out and celebrate by getting tanked and driving a car that night.
But the DUI offender probably didn't lead the FBI on a 3 year manhunt. Doing something like that and then asking for bail should get a person thrown in jail for longer for reasons of stupidity.
Clapping in theaters is stupid. Seriously.. Who are they clapping? What's the point of clapping if the people you are showing appreciation for by that motion are *not there*?
Clapping is for performance arts, not for motion pictures. Unless you are clapping the projector operator for his outstanding work.
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The parent post is *not* a troll. People, stop modding something troll/overrated/etc simply because you don't *agree* with what it's saying. The poster has a very good point and he communicated it well without insulting anyone. Now why the fuck is it modded into oblivion???
> Personnaly, even if the book says that the ents speak slowly, I don't start reading slowly.
Exactly my point! I agree with the other posters that it is hard to portray the ents the same way they were in the book without the turtle-like pace, but I still don't think we need even *more* of that in the extended edition.
The ent scenes might have been great in the book, but they were just as entertaining as having my fingernails removed in the movie. It took 10 minutes for a sentence to be spoken, I think it completely ruined the pace of the movie. I exclude the last ent scene from this, of course.
-bm
Having graduated in the not-so-distant past, the one advice I can give you is to try to do a whole lot more than read a book in that month and live it like it's your last. You can always read a book again, but your brain will be blindsided by the time you've been working for 6 months and you'll wish you had taken a loooong vacation before you started.
To stay on topic, if you like fantasy and can stand a few too many Tolkien-isms (read: plagiarism) try the Belgariad and the Malloreon series by David Eddings.
-bm
I was more intrigued by the "1.8 GHZ per second" claim.
1.8 Billion instructions per second per second. It's about time that somebody made an accelerating chip - way to go, IBM!
If you'll be picky about other people's stuff, you might as well proof-read your own posts.
GHz != Billion instructions per second. GHz is the frequency the clock runs at, and that's all. Depending on the architecture, a single instruction may take several clock cycles. IIRC, Motorola 68HC12 has a few 7 cycle instructions.
-bm
I'm writing this on a Lifebook C-6630 running Slackware and having reinstalled both W2000pro and Slack on it, I can say the latter was much, much easier and smoother.
The one and only glitch I have with it is to have to resample sound to 48k, because the sound card can't handle anything else. The crossfade plugin does this for xmms and mplayer resamples itself.
-bm
Hi, I'm editor timothy, you may remember me from other articles such as "The World is Round!" and "Fire is Proven to Be Hot!"
Mixing the Unmixable:
Any country song and Mauro Picotto.
I can see the decks bursting into flames when you try THAT mix.
One product is addictive, the other isn't.
Yes, they are different.
$45/mo for some memos that I'll laugh at for about 10 seconds....?
They need to reevaluate their business model..
-bm
Unless the FCC works with the FTC on this, we will keep getting calls from the latter three you listed.
I don't know about everyone else, but 99.99% of the telemarketing calls I get are from those six types of companies/organizations. I hope the FCC does cooperate so at least my telemarketing call traffic would drop a bit.
-bm
Thanks for the information, I wasn't aware of the ability to use free listings.
My question now is, since TiVo licenses its technology to hardware manufacturers for free and ONLY makes money from the subscription service, how do they expect to make a money with the possibility of a popular free listing site popping up..?
While this obviously is a misinterpretation/hoax, the risk of something like this happening is why I never considered buying a TiVo. If the company goes under, who guarantees that they will be able to provide the listing service for as long as you have the box? Even if they make such a claim when you buy it, if they file for bankruptcy they are not bound by it anymore. I just don't like the idea of a $300-400 doorstop. And since Time Warner worked out the bugs in the Scientific Atlanta Explorer 8000, I love their DVR service.. $5/mo box rental and already built-in guide to digital cable, I just love it!
My all-time favorite IOCCC winner has been savastio.
It's been up on my cube wall for a while. If anyone complains about my code here at work I threaten them to code like it.
Always works!
If anything you'd get slapped with DMCA suit if you "upgrade" the drive.
You would not be circumventing a copyright protection mechanism and hence DMCA wouldn't be involved, unless they have some sort of protection mechanism built-in to prevent HDD upgrades.
You're probably not worth replying to, AC and all, but I will anyway.
I didn't say this technology was revolutionary anywhere in my post. The only point I made (or tried to, I guess it didn't get through to you) was that spitting out numbers in your predictions is stupid. It's like predicting that a new car accessory will only be used in cars $45k and up. Maybe the technology will get a lot cheaper? Maybe a breakthrough will be made in the way they work or are manufactured..?
Lastly, re: "RTFA!!": It hurts to point out that I *quoted* the article in my post...do you want me to read it again or something?
From the article:
"He predicted the new multimedia windows will end up only in houses priced at $1.5 million and higher."
From 1943:
"I think there's a world market for maybe five computers." -- Thomas Watson
I used SMS extensively with 2 different networks in Istanbul for a while before and I don't recall a single lost message. The US networks are already overloaded with stuff like camera phones etc, I wonder if SMS just isn't reliable under load..?
-bm
Donations are an option for die-hard fans who really don't want to see Mandrake go under, or for people who really really appreciate their work.
I think buying a boxed set every once in a while is enough help from an average user. If everyone who uses Mandrake yet never purchased a boxed set goes out and buys one now I think Mandrake would be in a much better shape.
-bm
RedHat survives because of their corporate strategy and partnerships (with IBM etc). Apple's survival has absolutely nothing with the free software projects, it's an absurd example.
Mandrake is mostly a Joe User distro, and as much as I don't like it, I can see that the people maintaining it (even if it was 3-4 people) need to get paid. When everyone goes and downloads the iso in under an hour with their broadband, they see no money in their hands. THAT's the problem.
-bm
Once you start doing that, eventually you get to a point where you don't block certain IP's but you start only allowing certain ones. And that's where the fun begins.. When I'm on a machine not explicitly allowed through my home firewall I sometimes have to hop through 2-3 machines to get to a machine that my home network knows and allows.
Then there is the fact that not most networks don't have the freedom to go to a whitelist from a blacklist.
*utopian vision* a world without script kiddies *utopian vision*
Last time I checked, a 33% failure rate was worse than a 20% failure rate. :-)
But not worse than 80% (re-read the post the parent was referring to).
From the Xilinx corporate information page:
"Founded in 1984 and headquartered in San Jose, Calif., Xilinx employs approximately 2,600 people worldwide."
" Publicly traded on NASDAQ o Symbol: XLNX Fiscal Year 2002 revenues: $1.02 billion; net income, $52.2 million"
May I have some of whatever it is you're smoking?
Kevin goes to prison for 5 years plus 2 years of strict probation where you'd better believe he's being watched like a hawk. The poor drunk spends 1 year + 1 day in jail (9 months with good behaviour) and gets to go out and celebrate by getting tanked and driving a car that night.
But the DUI offender probably didn't lead the FBI on a 3 year manhunt. Doing something like that and then asking for bail should get a person thrown in jail for longer for reasons of stupidity.
Clapping in theaters is stupid. Seriously.. Who are they clapping? What's the point of clapping if the people you are showing appreciation for by that motion are *not there*?
Clapping is for performance arts, not for motion pictures. Unless you are clapping the projector operator for his outstanding work.