There were two main reasons why they avoided Minas Morgul.
1) attacking there would cause Sauron to direct all of his attention and all of his troops there. This would virtually assure that the ring bearer would be caught--even though he has already made it through the pass he was still on the Mordor side of the road from the pass.
2) Minas Morgul can be thought of as 'haunted'. It would drive everyone mad to try to fight there due to the long corruption and presence of the Nine.
As far as Adobe is concerned their student versions are identical to the retail versions. I know this because I own most of Adobe's software because I purchased the student versions when I was in college.
Each program cost between $150 and $200, not too bad for what it does for you. And don't even get me started on the GIMP-vs-Photoshop--the GIMP sucks.
All told the software wasn't the expensive part of my college education, the computer, ram and HD were much worse, though that may not be the case now.
It is not likely that dell would even try to provide drivers or support for a machine that old for Windows XP at all, so you are still better off than if you were on the "other side."
I would not call the beige G3 recent. It was last sold in what 1998?
I do agree with you however that if they say it is supported, that it should be FULLY supported, I just think that it was silly to try to support that machine.
I don't know about you , but I recently purchased a dell laptop for 4500 (fully loaded I8100), it is not the processor that counts on price, but what is in the rest of the laptop. I am kinda wishing that I had put that money into a TiBook instead.
Stop comparing the low end stripped down dell to the high end fully loaded large screen apple, it just isn't fair to the Dell:)
Dell is great on indiviual problems, it is when the whole system is hosed and they have swapped out every part (with 25 hour turnaround on shipping each part seperately) that they fail.
They told me that it would be 2 months for them to ship me a laptop when they had allready swaped out the HD, Motherboard (twice), CDRW (twice), display, and Keyboard (twice). That is where dell sucks.
See my post earlier. Send it back and demand a new one. Talk to customer service, not technical support. I finally got me I8000 replaced with a I8100 with a bigger HD, faster proc, and better video card (the geforce).
I think that the I8000 has has heat management problems and toasts itself. The 8100 looks identical, but does not seem to run nearly as hot.
I purchased a Dell Inspiron 8000 (at the time the top of the line) at the end of Jan 2001. I have owned it for approx. 8 months. For four of those months it has not been working correctly.
I have had the following parts replaced:
--1, HD
--2, motherboards
--2, CDRWs
--1, Screen (the same on that the poster has)
--2, keyboards
For the last two months I have not even been able to get the thing to boot, or (on the rare occasions that it does boot) the keyboard to work so I can log in.
Finally, Dell said that they will replace it, but then they said that it would take 2 months to get me a new laptop. I went from tech support to customer service and had a new I8100, with a bigger HD, better video card, and faster processor at my house a week later.
The moral of this story is to buy IBM or apple, or at least to go directly to customer service and not to technical support.
I could swear that I just saw CmdrTaco post another article on the Mandrake based supercomputer cluster. I clicked on the link to mod him down as redundant and a man in black told me that there was "nothing to see here."
On returning to the home page, I find the posting gone and this Matrix one in its place. Too strange.
... And it does not force the WMA standard. Mod Taco down for trolling.
The music industry cannot force the adoption of any standard--only the government can try to do that, and it is doubtfull if they could actually do so. Consumers determine what standards are adopted by spending their money.
This proposal doesn't hurt anyone any more than the already bashed-to-death, non-standard CDs, that don't play in standards compliant CD players.
I personally would love it if the music industry would provide high-quality, pre-ripped versions of CDs that I purchase. That way I wouldn't have to take the time to rip them myself, and I wouldn't have to take special measures to backup the 30+ gigs of music that I own. It is well within their rights to do this in any format that they want.
Now, I personally don't use WMP files because I am cross-platform (W2K, WXP, MacOS X.I, SuSe Linux), but this proposal doesn't hurt me. I am against any scheme to limit what devices that I can use to read the files, but THEY CANNOT STOP ME FROM DOING THIS. I just won't use their files, and will continue to make an analog recording to MP3 when I buy a CD. Besides, I often find that analog copies sound at least as good as the digitally ripped versions. It just takes longer.
I loved the idea of MP3.COM of providing MP3s of songs that I could demonstrate that I owned by inserting a CD. I think that the record industry made a big mistake when they killed it. I have never traded or downloaded MP3s of songs where I do not already own the CD.
Since I started using MP3s my music buying has increased form about 3 CDs a year to 40+ a year. All because I can rip the CD to my server, stuff the CD in a crate and never look at it again. I hate carying arroung CDs because the break and get scratched. Now I don't have to. I just need to get that new 48gig laptop HD so I can take my whole
1) Started: Silmarillion
2) Started and completed: Hobbit
3) Started and completed: LOTR
4) Tolkien Died
5) Christopher Tolkien and Guy Kay compile Silmarillion
Actually, I am a Windows 2000 Admin, busy teaching a Windows 2000 Active Directory class right now. I don't have a single linux computer at home (though I do have a MacOSX box for my unix fix.)
I just get a kick out of reading the religious zealots.
There are three problems that I have been having that I consider inexcusable.
1) The game displays a black screen on most ATI cards due to a problem with fog being set at 100%. There are temporary fixes, but most of them only work until you do something like walk out of the room that you were in. How can you not test a 3D game without testing ATI, NVIDIA, and the departed 3DFX?
2) The install and patch process was terminally broken and their "downloadable.EXE patches" only made things worse by corrupting the base install. I finally made it work by downloading the first patch (11.0-11.3) installing it, then letting the auto update take it the rest of the way to the current version.
3) The insecure credit card processing on their registration site--which has been fixed.
I can live with the scaling and other problems because they are just part of the nature of the beast. If Sony and EA have scaling and lag problems how is a small development shop supposed to be able to do better. It is not like EA and Sony shared notes with FunCom on "how to scale your MMORPG."
I always thought that there were two stories in the Silmarillion that could be made into good movies after the LOTR:
1) Beren and Luthien
2) Turin Turambar (though it would be a dark movie seeing how everyone dies unhappily).
I think that Beren and Luthien especially could stand on its own with a minimal amount of changes.
These are the two stories that Tolkien himself wrote several times as standalone stories in many diferent formats (prose, poetry, elvish, etc)
I find it amazing that a website that is partially devoted to Open Source could possibly say that Metalica is wrong by trying to protect their songs/business in this manner.
Essentially, what John is saying is that because he doesn't like the record industry, that we should all be able to pirate their IP, and that if they try to stop it then it is just an invasion of our privacy.
If this were Open Source software being appropriated and then distributed in binary only format the Slashdot community would be justifiably outraged because of license violation. The license is there to protect the work created by the authors and their work.
Metalica has made the decision to issue their songs in a closed format manner. It doesn't matter how much you don't like that because you did not create the work.
It would be just as wrong for Red Hat to take leaked code from Sun, SGI, or Microsoft and incorporate it into their product--even though they don't like closed source development, and even though getting the code was easy to do.
Users of Napster are breaking the law in broad daylight, in full sight of everyone, and then braging about it. It is not an invasion of privacy to stop them. What Metalica and the recording industry do or don't do does not change this.
If you don't like it then change the law. Until the law is changed then Metalica and the record industry are right and most napster users are willfully.
Speaking of trolls, I just got the deluxe edition Star Wars I, which comes with 5 frames of film from the movie. The 5 frames that I got in my copy all have Natalie Portman looking, well.. erm... petrified.
The reason is because Sauron was so much stronger than they were. Any attempt at matching him force to force would certainly end up in disaster. The Council of Elrond determined that the ring could be disposed of stealth much easer that by force. Also, to take the ring from Frodo would probably cause him to go insane.
Microsoft has not tried to hide this in any way. I learned about it last April in a W2K class and it is in numerous whitepapers on their site.
It is my understanding that this sort of extension is allowed in the kerberos spec and that MS is not the first implementation to take advantage of it.
If you are going to bash MS, don't bash them for following the rules. With W2K, Microsoft is finally making a fair attempt at following and using the standards.
...but then it would no longer look much like the internet the we all know/love/hate/whatever today.
To use the open-source analogy, the Internet is like a free, open bazzar, but it is possible for a colusion of large international companys, the protect-our-children crowd, and big government to build walls around the bazzar and regulate trafic and turn it into a fake, controled, "safe" 24-hour shopping mall.
It would probably destroy most of the good things about the internet, but I think that many of the above-mentioned Big Three would not mind a mindless shopping mall of "Good, Wholesome Capitalistic Americal Values"
Why would Microsoft, Jerry Falwell, or the Chinese government need free-speach??
DTP has not made gutenberg-syle printing obsolete. The printing press is still around, and I do not see it going away any time soon. DTP has just replaced some of the most tedious parts. The only are that DTP has surpassed gutenberg is in one-off, customized printing. Charles Bartley
The coverage of the WTO protesters on all of the local channels (I live in Seattle) has made me want to go play a cut-throat game of Alpha Centauri, and to play for the ecconomic victory. (This is where you win by accumulating so much cash that you can buy all of the other cites). I will have to make sure that the Gian's and the Drones are ivolved so I smash them flat.;)
My wife has an illness that prevents her from leaving the home most of the time. She can also be awake at all hours of the day/night. With UO and ICQ she has friends world-wide who are awake when she is and that value her virtual companionship.
UO and Everquest have become the dominate forum for her social life. She jokes that this makes her a looser, but I think that it is great.
Just a couple of years ago she would have been basically cut off from most human contact. Now she has friends from many other countries and backgrounds. Wonderfull!!! I would pay a lot of money for anything that could enhance her experience.
She recently quit UO and switched to EQ. Too bad she did this before I found out about this bidding. She had a multiple grandmaster character with a good reputation and a lot of money.
Slashdot Mirror
There were two main reasons why they avoided Minas Morgul.
1) attacking there would cause Sauron to direct all of his attention and all of his troops there. This would virtually assure that the ring bearer would be caught--even though he has already made it through the pass he was still on the Mordor side of the road from the pass.
2) Minas Morgul can be thought of as 'haunted'. It would drive everyone mad to try to fight there due to the long corruption and presence of the Nine.
As far as Adobe is concerned their student versions are identical to the retail versions. I know this because I own most of Adobe's software because I purchased the student versions when I was in college.
Each program cost between $150 and $200, not too bad for what it does for you. And don't even get me started on the GIMP-vs-Photoshop--the GIMP sucks.
All told the software wasn't the expensive part of my college education, the computer, ram and HD were much worse, though that may not be the case now.
It is not likely that dell would even try to provide drivers or support for a machine that old for Windows XP at all, so you are still better off than if you were on the "other side."
I would not call the beige G3 recent. It was last sold in what 1998?
I do agree with you however that if they say it is supported, that it should be FULLY supported, I just think that it was silly to try to support that machine.
I don't know about you , but I recently purchased a dell laptop for 4500 (fully loaded I8100), it is not the processor that counts on price, but what is in the rest of the laptop. I am kinda wishing that I had put that money into a TiBook instead.
:)
Stop comparing the low end stripped down dell to the high end fully loaded large screen apple, it just isn't fair to the Dell
Dell is great on indiviual problems, it is when the whole system is hosed and they have swapped out every part (with 25 hour turnaround on shipping each part seperately) that they fail.
They told me that it would be 2 months for them to ship me a laptop when they had allready swaped out the HD, Motherboard (twice), CDRW (twice), display, and Keyboard (twice). That is where dell sucks.
See my post earlier. Send it back and demand a new one. Talk to customer service, not technical support. I finally got me I8000 replaced with a I8100 with a bigger HD, faster proc, and better video card (the geforce).
I think that the I8000 has has heat management problems and toasts itself. The 8100 looks identical, but does not seem to run nearly as hot.
--frey
I purchased a Dell Inspiron 8000 (at the time the top of the line) at the end of Jan 2001. I have owned it for approx. 8 months. For four of those months it has not been working correctly.
I have had the following parts replaced:
--1, HD
--2, motherboards
--2, CDRWs
--1, Screen (the same on that the poster has)
--2, keyboards
For the last two months I have not even been able to get the thing to boot, or (on the rare occasions that it does boot) the keyboard to work so I can log in.
Finally, Dell said that they will replace it, but then they said that it would take 2 months to get me a new laptop. I went from tech support to customer service and had a new I8100, with a bigger HD, better video card, and faster processor at my house a week later.
The moral of this story is to buy IBM or apple, or at least to go directly to customer service and not to technical support.
I could swear that I just saw CmdrTaco post another article on the Mandrake based supercomputer cluster. I clicked on the link to mod him down as redundant and a man in black told me that there was "nothing to see here."
On returning to the home page, I find the posting gone and this Matrix one in its place. Too strange.
... And it does not force the WMA standard. Mod Taco down for trolling.
The music industry cannot force the adoption of any standard--only the government can try to do that, and it is doubtfull if they could actually do so. Consumers determine what standards are adopted by spending their money.
This proposal doesn't hurt anyone any more than the already bashed-to-death, non-standard CDs, that don't play in standards compliant CD players.
I personally would love it if the music industry would provide high-quality, pre-ripped versions of CDs that I purchase. That way I wouldn't have to take the time to rip them myself, and I wouldn't have to take special measures to backup the 30+ gigs of music that I own. It is well within their rights to do this in any format that they want.
Now, I personally don't use WMP files because I am cross-platform (W2K, WXP, MacOS X.I, SuSe Linux), but this proposal doesn't hurt me. I am against any scheme to limit what devices that I can use to read the files, but THEY CANNOT STOP ME FROM DOING THIS. I just won't use their files, and will continue to make an analog recording to MP3 when I buy a CD. Besides, I often find that analog copies sound at least as good as the digitally ripped versions. It just takes longer.
I loved the idea of MP3.COM of providing MP3s of songs that I could demonstrate that I owned by inserting a CD. I think that the record industry made a big mistake when they killed it. I have never traded or downloaded MP3s of songs where I do not already own the CD.
Since I started using MP3s my music buying has increased form about 3 CDs a year to 40+ a year. All because I can rip the CD to my server, stuff the CD in a crate and never look at it again. I hate carying arroung CDs because the break and get scratched. Now I don't have to. I just need to get that new 48gig laptop HD so I can take my whole
1) Started: Silmarillion
2) Started and completed: Hobbit
3) Started and completed: LOTR
4) Tolkien Died
5) Christopher Tolkien and Guy Kay compile Silmarillion
Actually, I am a Windows 2000 Admin, busy teaching a Windows 2000 Active Directory class right now. I don't have a single linux computer at home (though I do have a MacOSX box for my unix fix.)
I just get a kick out of reading the religious zealots.
...cuz, I sure spend a lot of my time at slashdot.
Q: If .4 frame per second != .4FPS what does?
.4 Foolish Postings at Slashdot
A:
There are three problems that I have been having that I consider inexcusable.
.EXE patches" only made things worse by corrupting the base install. I finally made it work by downloading the first patch (11.0-11.3) installing it, then letting the auto update take it the rest of the way to the current version.
1) The game displays a black screen on most ATI cards due to a problem with fog being set at 100%. There are temporary fixes, but most of them only work until you do something like walk out of the room that you were in. How can you not test a 3D game without testing ATI, NVIDIA, and the departed 3DFX?
2) The install and patch process was terminally broken and their "downloadable
3) The insecure credit card processing on their registration site--which has been fixed.
I can live with the scaling and other problems because they are just part of the nature of the beast. If Sony and EA have scaling and lag problems how is a small development shop supposed to be able to do better. It is not like EA and Sony shared notes with FunCom on "how to scale your MMORPG."
I always thought that there were two stories in the Silmarillion that could be made into good movies after the LOTR: 1) Beren and Luthien 2) Turin Turambar (though it would be a dark movie seeing how everyone dies unhappily). I think that Beren and Luthien especially could stand on its own with a minimal amount of changes. These are the two stories that Tolkien himself wrote several times as standalone stories in many diferent formats (prose, poetry, elvish, etc)
If the GPL is the gospel for OSS, does that make the BSD licenses heretical Apocryphal gospels?
I find it amazing that a website that is partially devoted to Open Source could possibly say that Metalica is wrong by trying to protect their songs/business in this manner.
Essentially, what John is saying is that because he doesn't like the record industry, that we should all be able to pirate their IP, and that if they try to stop it then it is just an invasion of our privacy.
If this were Open Source software being appropriated and then distributed in binary only format the Slashdot community would be justifiably outraged because of license violation. The license is there to protect the work created by the authors and their work.
Metalica has made the decision to issue their songs in a closed format manner. It doesn't matter how much you don't like that because you did not create the work.
It would be just as wrong for Red Hat to take leaked code from Sun, SGI, or Microsoft and incorporate it into their product--even though they don't like closed source development, and even though getting the code was easy to do.
Users of Napster are breaking the law in broad daylight, in full sight of everyone, and then braging about it. It is not an invasion of privacy to stop them. What Metalica and the recording industry do or don't do does not change this.
If you don't like it then change the law. Until the law is changed then Metalica and the record industry are right and most napster users are willfully.
Speaking of trolls, I just got the deluxe edition Star Wars I, which comes with 5 frames of film from the movie. The 5 frames that I got in my copy all have Natalie Portman looking, well.. erm... petrified.
I immediately thought of Slashdot!
The reason is because Sauron was so much stronger than they were. Any attempt at matching him force to force would certainly end up in disaster. The Council of Elrond determined that the ring could be disposed of stealth much easer that by force. Also, to take the ring from Frodo would probably cause him to go insane.
Microsoft has not tried to hide this in any way. I learned about it last April in a W2K class and it is in numerous whitepapers on their site.
It is my understanding that this sort of extension is allowed in the kerberos spec and that MS is not the first implementation to take advantage of it.
If you are going to bash MS, don't bash them for following the rules. With W2K, Microsoft is finally making a fair attempt at following and using the standards.
...but then it would no longer look much like the internet the we all know/love/hate/whatever today.
To use the open-source analogy, the Internet is like a free, open bazzar, but it is possible for a colusion of large international companys, the protect-our-children crowd, and big government to
build walls around the bazzar and regulate trafic and turn it into a fake, controled, "safe" 24-hour shopping mall.
It would probably destroy most of the good things about the internet, but I think that many of the above-mentioned Big Three would not mind a mindless shopping mall of "Good, Wholesome Capitalistic Americal Values"
Why would Microsoft, Jerry Falwell, or the Chinese government need free-speach??
But W2K does have a FTP server included in the standard install.
DTP has not made gutenberg-syle printing obsolete. The printing press is still around, and I do not see it going away any time soon. DTP has just replaced some of the most tedious parts. The only are that DTP has surpassed gutenberg is in one-off, customized printing. Charles Bartley
The coverage of the WTO protesters on all of the local channels (I live in Seattle) has made me want to go play a cut-throat game of Alpha Centauri, and to play for the ecconomic victory. (This is where you win by accumulating so much cash that you can buy all of the other cites). I will have to make sure that the Gian's and the Drones are ivolved so I smash them flat. ;)
My wife has an illness that prevents her from leaving the home most of the time. She can also be awake at all hours of the day/night. With UO and ICQ she has friends world-wide who are awake when she is and that value her virtual companionship.
UO and Everquest have become the dominate forum for her social life. She jokes that this makes her a looser, but I think that it is great.
Just a couple of years ago she would have been basically cut off from most human contact. Now she has friends from many other countries and backgrounds. Wonderfull!!! I would pay a lot of money for anything that could enhance her experience.
She recently quit UO and switched to EQ. Too bad she did this before I found out about this bidding. She had a multiple grandmaster character with a good reputation and a lot of money.