Fellowship of the Ring, Chapter 8
For each of the hobbits he chose a dagger, long, leaf-shaped, and keen, of marvellous workmanship, damasked with serpent-forms in red and gold. They gleamed as he drew them from their black sheaths, wrought of some strange metal, light and strong, and set with many fiery stones. Whether by some virtue in these sheaths or because of the spell that lay on the mound, the blades seemed untouched by time, unrusted, sharp, glittering in the sun.
'Old knives are long enough as swords for hobbit-people,' he said. 'Sharp blades are good to have, if Shire-folk go walking, east, south, or far away into dark and danger.' Then he told them that these blades were forged many long years ago by Men of Westernesse: they were foes of the Dark Lord, but they were overcome by the evil king of Carn Dùm in the Land of Angmar.
'Few now remember them,' Tom murmured, 'yet still some go wandering, sons of forgotten kings walking in loneliness, guarding from evil things folk that are heedless.'
The hobbits did not understand his words, but as he spoke they had a vision as it were of a great expanse of years behind them, like a vast shadowy plain over which there strode shapes of Men, tall and grim with bright swords, and last came one with a star on his brow. Then the vision faded, and they were back in the sunlit world. It was time to start again. They made ready, packing their bags and lading their ponies. Their new weapons they hung on their leather belts under their jackets, feeling them very awkward, and wondering if they would be of any use. Fighting had not before occurred to any of them as one of the adventures in which their flight would land them.
At last they set off. They led their ponies down the hill; and then mounting they trotted quickly along the valley. They looked back and saw the top of the old mound on the hill, and from it the sunlight on the gold went up like a yellow flame. Then they turned a shoulder of the Downs and it was hidden from view.
Though Frodo looked about him on every side he saw no sign of the great stones standing like a gate, and before long they came to the northern gap and rode swiftly through, and the land fell away before them. It was a merry journey with Tom Bombadil trotting gaily beside them, or before them, on Fatty Lumpkin, who could move much faster than his girth promised. Tom sang most of the time, but it was chiefly nonsense, or else perhaps a strange language unknown to the hobbits, an ancient language whose words were mainly those of wonder and delight.
On the contrary, It's from Tom (and the tomb where he rescues the hobbits) that they get the swords with ancient magic which can kill Sauron in the end. It is important for that point, if nothing else.
Yes, socialism is a dirty word, since it and communism have the same end goal, just different means of getting there.
The problem with Unions, IMHO, is that they concentrate power, which in turn gets corrupted. Once a factory goes union, is there an option to "opt-out"? Do I have the "freedom" to not be union while my co-worker is? Since there isn't, that power tends to corruption. A classic example is teachers unions. The teachers are paid from property taxes (here in the US anyway), which they then pay Union dues. Then, if a lawsuit comes up, the state uses more tax money to handle a lawsuit which is being defended by money that came from taxes in the first place. The system just feeds itself.
As a final point, you said "Is it un-American to disclaim the class system, and ensure that one's neighbours do not starve or suffer ill-health?"
Well, the difference is we (speaking broadly here) would rather deal with a starving neighbor on a personal level through personal generosity and donations/gifts than to have the money taken by us through taxes, and then paid out to other people that might or might not deserve it or use it wisely. If I knew that an honest neighbor was starving to death, I would go to the store, by $100 worth of groceries for example, and give them to them. However, I would not do the same for a neighbor that is a drunk and is wasting his money on booze. What happens in socialized welfare is the government does not/can not make a distinction between the two and take $300 from me (the government programs are expensive to administer, right) and give $100 cash to each of my neighbors.
Ultimately, it boils down to the individual being responsible for ones own actions, having both the ability to succeed (like Bill Gates) and the possiblity of failure. You can't have one without the other. In a Union (at a factory level) or socialism/communism (a national level), a safety net is erected to prevent failure. The same mechanism also stunts success.
The reason why americans are driving SUVs is because US goverment is subsidizing personal driving, by not taxing car owners the cost that are associated with using cars.
Just stop and read that statement again. I haven't laughed that hard in a few weeks. The US government is subsidizing driving by not taxing car owners. Subsidizing by not taxing. What side of the world did you wake up on?
Try Visual SlickEdit. It has a Vi keybinding set built in. A lot of software guys here where I work use it. The guys on unix just use vim (including myself).
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No, laws NEVER, I repeat, NEVERassign rights to individuals. Rights should be protected by laws, from encroachments by the respective government or other individuals, but can not be "assigned".
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. --That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
FB-DIMMs are going to be used for servers (initially). (I think I read somewhere that he new Socket-F 1207 pins for the next Opteron will be FB-DIMM based.)
There is the extra cost of the controller chip, per module, plus the added latency for parallel-serial-parallel data translation. For servers needing huge amounts of memory, they can deal with extra latency, but not for desktop applications and games where latency can mean the difference between 30 and 60fps.
How much memory is chewed up by this to just diaplsy, say a 3"x3" square window, with a table and some text? For Mozilla/Seamonkey, it's something like 15MB. Same, less, more?
Also, like a browser, if you open a second "window", you only have a small memory hit to add the extra page (plus rendered objects). Is this the same here?
I have a Sony RM-AV2100 remote control which, when programming it, requires you to hold the reset LCD button down while touching a second button, to reset the second button's function.
From the second page of that review, here's this: You may remove pre-programmed buttons from view by holding it and the RESET button at the same time...
From what I've read of the patent, isn't this exactly what they are patenting?
I use Folio Views for a lot of text database storeage and retrieval.
I wrote a perl script that converts mozilla mail into a Folio infobase, with full field searching such as you specify.
It's easy to say '[Field Date < "string"] && [Field Date > "string"] && [Level Subject:party]'. I have the email addresses hyperlinked, message thread hyperlinked, etc. The only thing it doesn't let you do automatically is include the text of the message if you hit "reply". I use it to archive my old email, so it's not a problem for me.
Folio Views isn't used by a lot of people, but it is in a class of its own when it comes to searching up to gigabytes of structured or unstructured text.
I also have a perl script that generates a hyperlinked database of my.mp3 collection (searchable by artist/album/keyword/etc).
It uses an SGML-derivative proprietary format called Folio Flat File, which is very easy to mess with in Perl.
I have a Microtek 6800 and a Fujitsu grayscale duplex scanner right now. I've owned Umax too and helped install HP scanners for others.
Epson and Microtek are probably the best 100-400 scanners. You get what you pay for if you go less than that.
I don't like Epson's drivers. They didn't give me as much control over the scan as the Microtek ones do. The Microtek drivers have a few annoyances, but are full-featured.
Overall, for a good average user, a $150 scanner from Microtek or Epson would be a good investment.
It's also the classic "guilty until proven innocent". From what I remember, in Germany, any CD-R disk you buy has a tax on it that goes to the local music cartel (for redistribution to the artists, right).
With this, you are assumed guilty of "enjoying" copyrighted entertainment and are taxed as such, whether you do or not.
The difference is patents are used (abused) more by industry and not individuals, and so the business players don't try to lengthen it, as it is a good balance for them.
Now, when it comes to screwing individuals, business will lobby government hacks all day long to get what they want (ie longer and more stringent copyright terms and enforcement), since there isn't the same type of competetition to worry about.
to somewhere by an old dry lake bed, where they are guarded by a warden with a chip on her shoulder, who is in search of old, stolen booty, and makes you dig a 5' hole every day.
If only we could have this type of commentary on the BS politicians feed the press, that ripped apart a lot of their stupid arguments, just as you did this wild claim.
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Check out the iRex then. It's an E-ink based reader from England (650 Euros though), but you can annotate right on the screen with a stylus.
Can I borrow a few CDs/DVDs? I'll bring them back tomorrow.
Fellowship of the Ring, Chapter 8
For each of the hobbits he chose a dagger, long, leaf-shaped, and keen, of marvellous workmanship, damasked with serpent-forms in red and gold. They gleamed as he drew them from their black sheaths, wrought of some strange metal, light and strong, and set with many fiery stones. Whether by some virtue in these sheaths or because of the spell that lay on the mound, the blades seemed untouched by time, unrusted, sharp, glittering in the sun.
'Old knives are long enough as swords for hobbit-people,' he said. 'Sharp blades are good to have, if Shire-folk go walking, east, south, or far away into dark and danger.' Then he told them that these blades were forged many long years ago by Men of Westernesse: they were foes of the Dark Lord, but they were overcome by the evil king of Carn Dùm in the Land of Angmar.
'Few now remember them,' Tom murmured, 'yet still some go wandering, sons of forgotten kings walking in loneliness, guarding from evil things folk that are heedless.'
The hobbits did not understand his words, but as he spoke they had a vision as it were of a great expanse of years behind them, like a vast shadowy plain over which there strode shapes of Men, tall and grim with bright swords, and last came one with a star on his brow. Then the vision faded, and they were back in the sunlit world. It was time to start again. They made ready, packing their bags and lading their ponies. Their new weapons they hung on their leather belts under their jackets, feeling them very awkward, and wondering if they would be of any use. Fighting had not before occurred to any of them as one of the adventures in which their flight would land them.
At last they set off. They led their ponies down the hill; and then mounting they trotted quickly along the valley. They looked back and saw the top of the old mound on the hill, and from it the sunlight on the gold went up like a yellow flame. Then they turned a shoulder of the Downs and it was hidden from view.
Though Frodo looked about him on every side he saw no sign of the great stones standing like a gate, and before long they came to the northern gap and rode swiftly through, and the land fell away before them. It was a merry journey with Tom Bombadil trotting gaily beside them, or before them, on Fatty Lumpkin, who could move much faster than his girth promised. Tom sang most of the time, but it was chiefly nonsense, or else perhaps a strange language unknown to the hobbits, an ancient language whose words were mainly those of wonder and delight.
So, it was not in the Hobbit. I stand corrected.
Sorry, Which they use to kill the captain of the ring-raiths, not Sauron.
On the contrary, It's from Tom (and the tomb where he rescues the hobbits) that they get the swords with ancient magic which can kill Sauron in the end. It is important for that point, if nothing else.
To be a true "geek" your passion must also negatively effect your interpersonal relationships. If it doesn't, then he's not trying hard enough ;)
Isn't that what a ctrl-z in vim does too?
Yes, socialism is a dirty word, since it and communism have the same end goal, just different means of getting there.
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The problem with Unions, IMHO, is that they concentrate power, which in turn gets corrupted. Once a factory goes union, is there an option to "opt-out"? Do I have the "freedom" to not be union while my co-worker is? Since there isn't, that power tends to corruption. A classic example is teachers unions. The teachers are paid from property taxes (here in the US anyway), which they then pay Union dues. Then, if a lawsuit comes up, the state uses more tax money to handle a lawsuit which is being defended by money that came from taxes in the first place. The system just feeds itself.
As a final point, you said "Is it un-American to disclaim the class system, and ensure that one's neighbours do not starve or suffer ill-health?"
Well, the difference is we (speaking broadly here) would rather deal with a starving neighbor on a personal level through personal generosity and donations/gifts than to have the money taken by us through taxes, and then paid out to other people that might or might not deserve it or use it wisely. If I knew that an honest neighbor was starving to death, I would go to the store, by $100 worth of groceries for example, and give them to them. However, I would not do the same for a neighbor that is a drunk and is wasting his money on booze. What happens in socialized welfare is the government does not/can not make a distinction between the two and take $300 from me (the government programs are expensive to administer, right) and give $100 cash to each of my neighbors.
See the reports about the money that went to Hurricane Katrina victims. See this article for a quick example: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la
Ultimately, it boils down to the individual being responsible for ones own actions, having both the ability to succeed (like Bill Gates) and the possiblity of failure. You can't have one without the other. In a Union (at a factory level) or socialism/communism (a national level), a safety net is erected to prevent failure. The same mechanism also stunts success.
The reason why americans are driving SUVs is because US goverment is subsidizing personal driving, by not taxing car owners the cost that are associated with using cars.
Just stop and read that statement again. I haven't laughed that hard in a few weeks. The US government is subsidizing driving by not taxing car owners. Subsidizing by not taxing. What side of the world did you wake up on?
Try Visual SlickEdit. It has a Vi keybinding set built in. A lot of software guys here where I work use it. The guys on unix just use vim (including myself).
No, laws NEVER, I repeat, NEVER assign rights to individuals. Rights should be protected by laws, from encroachments by the respective government or other individuals, but can not be "assigned".
Blizzard.
3 year development cycle. Sure there are patches, but overall, the best games I've played, when looking at them from a UI/functionality standpoint.
FB-DIMMs are going to be used for servers (initially). (I think I read somewhere that he new Socket-F 1207 pins for the next Opteron will be FB-DIMM based.)
There is the extra cost of the controller chip, per module, plus the added latency for parallel-serial-parallel data translation. For servers needing huge amounts of memory, they can deal with extra latency, but not for desktop applications and games where latency can mean the difference between 30 and 60fps.
How much memory is chewed up by this to just diaplsy, say a 3"x3" square window, with a table and some text? For Mozilla/Seamonkey, it's something like 15MB. Same, less, more?
Also, like a browser, if you open a second "window", you only have a small memory hit to add the extra page (plus rendered objects). Is this the same here?
I have a Sony RM-AV2100 remote control which, when programming it, requires you to hold the reset LCD button down while touching a second button, to reset the second button's function.
From the second page of that review, here's this: You may remove pre-programmed buttons from view by holding it and the RESET button at the same time...
From what I've read of the patent, isn't this exactly what they are patenting?
No, since you can't cut a pinhole with a 'cutting edge', it never was or ever can be considered such. Sorry to burst your bubble.
If Apple loses their hardware business to clones and their software business to CheapBytes, how exactly are they going to keep making OS X?
Why not ask Microsoft how they can stay in business without selling the hardware (besides keyboards/mice/accessories)?
I use Folio Views for a lot of text database storeage and retrieval.
.mp3 collection (searchable by artist/album/keyword/etc).
I wrote a perl script that converts mozilla mail into a Folio infobase, with full field searching such as you specify.
It's easy to say '[Field Date < "string"] && [Field Date > "string"] && [Level Subject:party]'. I have the email addresses hyperlinked, message thread hyperlinked, etc. The only thing it doesn't let you do automatically is include the text of the message if you hit "reply". I use it to archive my old email, so it's not a problem for me.
Folio Views isn't used by a lot of people, but it is in a class of its own when it comes to searching up to gigabytes of structured or unstructured text.
I also have a perl script that generates a hyperlinked database of my
It uses an SGML-derivative proprietary format called Folio Flat File, which is very easy to mess with in Perl.
No, I don't want it Super-Sized!
I have a Microtek 6800 and a Fujitsu grayscale duplex scanner right now. I've owned Umax too and helped install HP scanners for others.
Epson and Microtek are probably the best 100-400 scanners. You get what you pay for if you go less than that.
I don't like Epson's drivers. They didn't give me as much control over the scan as the Microtek ones do. The Microtek drivers have a few annoyances, but are full-featured.
Overall, for a good average user, a $150 scanner from Microtek or Epson would be a good investment.
It's also the classic "guilty until proven innocent". From what I remember, in Germany, any CD-R disk you buy has a tax on it that goes to the local music cartel (for redistribution to the artists, right).
With this, you are assumed guilty of "enjoying" copyrighted entertainment and are taxed as such, whether you do or not.
It sets a very ugly precedence.
The difference is patents are used (abused) more by industry and not individuals, and so the business players don't try to lengthen it, as it is a good balance for them.
Now, when it comes to screwing individuals, business will lobby government hacks all day long to get what they want (ie longer and more stringent copyright terms and enforcement), since there isn't the same type of competetition to worry about.
to somewhere by an old dry lake bed, where they are guarded by a warden with a chip on her shoulder, who is in search of old, stolen booty, and makes you dig a 5' hole every day.
If only we could have this type of commentary on the BS politicians feed the press, that ripped apart a lot of their stupid arguments, just as you did this wild claim.
Here, here!
At some point in the past, I found a binary with Athlon-optimized .dll files, that claimed 30% frame-rate improvements.
Now that the source is available, can this be investigated, as far as Intel compilers generating slow code for AMD processors?
Or did Id just put out some code that the Athlon at the time didn't like?